Will do more targeted testing of people with symptoms or contact a covert 1000 patients as well as nurses doctors or care recipients of. The varian state premier mark was has already made it clear that his state will stick to my test even after the Holiday Season. We were surprised that 2 weeks ago men data retests for risk areas were introduced from one day to the next and now they have to be done away with although there are more and more risk areas but doesnt make sense. The regional leaders disagree on this point but together with chancellor merkel they want to define at least one line of action where they stand united that could be higher fines for people who dont abide by the rules most people in germany are in favor of the governments corona measures others are planning to rally against restrictions but for now anti coronavirus Mass Gatherings have been banned by the authorities. When they understood to discuss this is the Political Correspondent covering this story for the 1st
Marred the city since jacob blake, a black man, was shot in the back by a Police Officer on sunday. Masks to become compulsory throughout paris. The french Prime Minister laid planse plans as part of to fight covid19. Those are your headldlines. Yoyou are for r joining us. I am genie godula. Hasfrench foreign minister announced measures for covid19. France has seen a resurgence of cases of covid19, an average of about 3000 new cases a day. That number went up to a most 5000 new cases reported on wednesday. A percentage of positive cases among those tested is growing. Lockdown,just after and now it is at 3. 7 . Statistics tell us that the virus is most active among young people, people between 20 and 30 years old test positive at a rate of 6 higher than the national average. The covid19 9 security measures are having a big effect on the france French Business community. To talk more about that, lets bring in our Business Editor stephen carroll. What were business leadeders interested in
Weather. We need 4 more years of president john old truck. Hear stories president mike pence makes his case for President Trumps reelection look ahead see what were expecting on the final mights of People Public and national convention. And they use Justice Commissioner considers taking legal action against cypresses efforts to sell citizenship a special report from al jazeera investigative units nonfan how much now have all the sport sports teams across the United States boycott matches as they protest against Racial Injustice following the Police Shooting of a take a break. Well our top story this hour a step toward closure for relatives of the victims of the worst mass shooting in new zealands history the gunman. Who killed 51 muslim worshipers last year was sentenced to life in prison without parole present terences the selfconfessed points a premises who was responsible for attacks on 2 mosques in christchurch when he has this reports attached after a harrowing emotional 4 days in
Press conference and a couple minutes from now. Before we bring you that line, here are the top stories for today. Firefighters are slowly getting the upper hand on three major complexes of wildfires that are burning around the bay area. Evacuation orders have been lifted for uc santa cruz for the czu august lightning complex fires , the biggest of fire is czu august lightning complex fires. They have burned 574 square miles in parts of the east bay, the south bay and the central valley. The lnu lightning complex fires are one third contained. These have burned 564 square miles, between sonoma and yolo counties. Protests continue into the morning in oakland, over the Police Shooting of jacob lake in kenosha, that it was mainly a peaceful protest. Hundreds of people gathered in downtown oakland, but some of the crowd set fires and smashed windows of several businesses. At the courthouse, glass doors were shattered. A fire was set inside. Oakland police say that several people were arres
Firefighters jumped into action in early july when this blaze threatened the town forest ranger is in charge of putting out the fire were overwhelmed so. Joined their effort as a local environmental inspector firefighting isnt part of his Job Description but increasingly hot and dry summers over the last few years have forced him to learn on the job some days he walks up to 20 kilometers through dense forest to map the spread of flames. The portion of this the middle. For this work is very difficult and it is a huge responsibility the fires dont have weekends or lunch breaks this year there were times when we couldnt sleep for 2 days straight because we had to locate the fire for burgers or look at is the author with of river. Of says its often dry thunderstorms and lightning that started the blazes in the tiger forest. Authours days were able to put this fire out which was burning until just a few weeks ago but every year in russia huge sections of the tiger burned and many of them ar