Mislead and misinformed italy is now more than a month into its National Quarantine we speak with journalists there about the hits and misses in their coverage of covert 19 the latest social media platform taking steps to stop the spread of coronavirus misinformation is whats at its laying down some new rules plus our new call of duty can you hear me yes the Conference Call and its no video game. Covert 19 is a news story driven by the numbers how many countries have been infected how many people have it how many have succumbed to the virus what is the recovery rate and is the curve flattening and how quickly the data helps journalists quantify the scale of this pandemic and allows news consumers to assess the risk the numbers also inform governments on what measures they should take but the next time youre looking at the numbers consider this statisticians say that the way. In which coronavirus data is collected interpreted and reported is inherently flawed were not talking about misi
Postbrexit foreign and Security Policy with former British Defense secretary liam fox. His remarks came a few days after the u. K. Officially left the European Union, after 47 years as a member state. Held by the center for strategic and international studies, this is about 20 minutes. Good afternoon, everyone. Welcome to the center for strategic and international studies. My name is heather conley. We welcome you. This is our first fullfledged event in the new year. And i couldnt think of a better way to start our programming with, in some ways, the way we ended it, with a conversation on brexit. On friday, it was an historic day for both the European Union and the United Kingdom, and a new day has dawned for the United Kingdom, and were so delighted to have dr. Liam fox here, a frequent visitor to washington, and i think no one could argue a great transatlanticist to help us understand the Foreign Policy imp cakes of thes implications of the u. K. s withdrawal from the eu and what a
The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor ethan magness, First Christian church, johnson city, tennessee. The chaplain let us pray. Gracious god. We come to you in need of your sovereign love for your power exceeds our human power. Your authority exceeds all human authority. Your government will stand when all human government have passed into history. We come to you in confession of our weakness and sin. For we have sought too often our own power. We have fought too selfishly for our own glory. We have clung too tightly to our desire and to our faction and our plan. We come to you seeking the strength to repent. Turn us to your wisdom instead of our own. Turn us to honesty instead of falsehood. Turn us to humility and service instead of pride and selfseeking. We come to you for a blessing. Like jacob, we cling to you and will not let go until you have blessed us for you are good and gracious and loving and in you we put our trust.
Within that county officials held a News Conference on the situation earlier today we have Live Team Coverage tonight from the new information on how the outbreak is affecting the local communities and we begin with kron fours dan thorn who is live in san jose with the latest and. Well pam as you noted Santa Clara County Officials Say that they now have 3 confirmed cases of coronavirus but this case is different from the other 2 because this person got it from an unknown origin meaning that they didnt get it through travel and they didnt get it through contact with an infected person. Its another mystery coronavirus case in the bay area. Santa clara county Health Officials confirming friday they have a 3rd case similar to what was discovered earlier this week in Solano County. Like the california case reported 2 days ago. Our 3rd case did not recently traveled overseas or have any known contact with the recent travelers are an infected Person Health Officials Say this patient and older
Borders of europe are open to migrants. Innovations can appoint a new Prime Minister but the power struggles may be far from over. And the fight for which u. S. Democratic president ial hopeful will face off with donald trump turns to South Carolina which is holding its primary. In sports 5 top league games in italy have been postponed because of coronavirus restrictions the olympics are also interrupted and will be in senegal where africas best boxes off still trying to qualify for tokyo 2020. 5 to more than 18 years of war a deal between the u. S. And taliban has put afghanistan on the path to what many hope will be a Permanent Peace assigning to place here in qatar a few hours ago and in 18 months of talks one of the key components of the deal plans for a complete withdrawal of all u. S. And nato troops within 14 months if the taliban sticks to its parts the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei o flew in for the signing he says the agreement is a crucial 1st step toward peace. This