Im phil gail welcome to the program well still no winner in the race for the white house and votes are still being counted in several key u. S. States democratic challenger joe biden is closest to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to secure the presidency the Associated Press agency has called arizona for biden even though the count there hasnt finished if true that would put joe biden to 64 College Votes other agencies are reporting that the arizona contest is still open meanwhile the campaign has launched legal actions are claiming fraud and hes trying to stop the count in 3 states. Frustration spilling out onto the streets in new york and trump protesters demanding every vote be counted. In other cities like here in seattle a similar story. In portland a sign that many here have had enough of u. S. Politics all together. But in phoenix arizona pro Trump Supporters making their voices heard outside an election center. This is a country divided. I believe personally as a republic
Make moment bed each count against the club from istanbul. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us the number of confirmed corona virus cases worldwide has passed 40000000 with well over a 1000000 deaths the u. S. Brazil and india are reporting the highest numbers europe is also facing a surge in coded 19 infections with record daily highs in many countries let me give you a quick overview of how the situation has developed on march 1st this year Health Departments across europe registered 401 new cases keep in mind that testing was not as widespread then as it is now so actual numbers could have been much higher but you can see a clear. Trend of rising daily infections in the spring peaking at the end of april and early may well by then most of europe was in lockdown and you can see the effect of that here with new infections dropping to a low point in mid july but since the numbers have been creeping up again with new cases rising steadily since august on friday more than 1370
Count against the club from istanbul. Hello im terry martin good to have you with as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 48000000 with well over a 1000000 deaths the u. S. Brazil and india are reporting the highest numbers europe is also facing a surge in coded 19 infections with record daily highs in many countries let me give you a quick overview of how the situation has developed on march 1st of this year Health Departments across europe registered 401 new cases keep in mind testing was not as widespread as now so actual numbers could have been much higher but you can see a clear trend of rising daily infections peaking at the end of april. Getting it may at by by then most of europe was in lockdown and you can see the effect of that here with the new infections dropping to a low point in mid july but since then the numbers have been creeping up again with new cases rising steadily since august on friday more than 137000 daily cases were registered across
Home advantage count against the clock. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us the number of confirmed coronavirus cases worldwide has passed 48000000 with well over a 1000000 deaths the u. S. Brazil and india are reporting the highest numbers europe is also facing a surge in coated 9000 infections with record daily highs in many countries heres a look at how the situation has evolved here on march 1st of this year Health Departments across europe registered 401 new cases well testing of course was limited back then so actual numbers could have been much higher but you can see a clear trend of rising infections in the spring peaking at the end of april. Early may well by then most of europe was in law and you can see what the impact of that was here with new infections dropping to a new low point in mid july but since then the numbers have been creeping up with new cases rising steadily since august on friday more than 137000 cases or registered across europe one of the europea
And for more lets bring in our very own they are mattis who is joining us from brussels they are why has belgium been hit so hard. Well sarah a big issue here is of course the book mortality rate the 3rd highest in the world but to explain that you need to understand the broad criteria that belgium uses to get to these numbers and the reason is that only 50 percent of the cases are actually confirmed caray corona cases the other ones of possible cases that have not been confirmed whether coronavirus test and the reason is that in the 1st wave of the pandemic here in belgium the country was so hard hits that they wanted an easy way to to count deaths and that is why they installed the system that now makes the numbers of the death rate look really bad on the other hand youre right of course numbers here i stream the high with belgium having a small population extremely high numbers 2 possible explanations one is that the tracking system has been rather weak its not been running smoothly