Indoors and 25 people outdoors at public gatherings parts of europe are following similar protocols the u. K. Is limiting the size of gatherings and is restricting social gatherings of any kind in high alert areas such as london and liverpool france has declared a Public Health state of emergency and germany and italy have introduced a number of new measures to reduce infection rates even sweden which has been praised by some for not having a lockdown is preparing to implement strict new rules as coronavirus cases rise in that country taking things to a level that most are trying to avoid wales is imposing a complete lockdown for 2 weeks this firebreak is the shortest we can make it. But that means that it will have to be sharp and deep in order to have the impact we need to have on the value of us you know to post the degree that there is grim news iran has broken single day record of digressed deaths with 337 patients dying on monday and a relatively stable africa see more cases the
Im melissa chan welcome to news asia thank you for joining us its election day in the United States and today and all this week well be looking at the impact of the vote on countries across asia one of the most important relationships for the u. S. In the entire pacific is its in gage meant with india the 2 countries together with japan and australia from part of what is known as a quad for democracies in a clear counterpoint to china the regions large authoritarian state we sat down with indias foreign secretary harshvardhan to discuss regional politics we started by asking him whether thered be any change with a biden presidency especially given president dollar trump and Prime Minister Narendra Modis great personal admiration for each other. Other relations with the United States are really based on bipartisan support you see it in congress you see it in public lives we do believe that the force that elation ship that today is had visits to the test of time is very comprehensive and
Somewhere but at this moment he was beheaded after showing cut tunes of muhammad in a class on free speech now france has 3 more reasons to moan the National Assembly held a minutes silence for the victims those in power face some uncomfortable questions in the days ahead many in this strictly secular country may ask if the official approach is the right one and whether they should fame or lone wolf attacks authorities have raised the terror alert level to its maximum. Fran our Catherine Field reporter and a parasite catherine present at the sea defiant determined what more has even say. Well you quite right it was a very defiant message from french president Emanuel Mccraw he said that this was an attack on french values and that these afraid at least freedoms of expression and freedom to believe or not believe in religion though under attack he said and i quote we will not give ground so he was pretty clear there that it is wrong once it sets the rules on freedom of expression and no
Have to be counted some of them are only or a lot of them actually starting to be counted today and thats an awful lot of ballots to be counted so an official result of that is actually quite usual for the United States here we didnt have and other elections also you official results its the t. V. Networks and the pollsters who called the winner early about official results likely not to be happening tomorrow at this time will there be a network or Many Networks and polls this calling a winner by tomorrow this time. I dont know maybe thats the best you can get out of me and maybe a solid maybe its really not clear theres a lot of voting count valid to count the vote count going on and it has to be done to really really firmly call a state or. An overall result for the elections ok and what should we expect from these these old important to swing states that a so important for these counted is. Yeah there as you said they are really important it is those states where actually the math i
Apply the World Health Organization to register 1000 maxime for emergency you. Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 International Im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. Week in france the latest to a suspect in the shooting of a Greek Orthodox priest in leon has been released by Police Suggesting the gunman is still at large the victim remains in intensive care after saturdays incident now took place as the priest was closing his church and investigation into attempted murder has been opened and antiterrorism authorities are cooperating with local police we heard from witnesses. What you dont know i live in the area i heard gunshots but at 1st i thought it was firecrackers we didnt take it seriously and then i saw the motorbikes the road blocks and the police and i realized that it was serious there was a church here and the priest who is 47 years old was shot. But i was just i live nearby i was watching t. V. At home and suddenly i heard So