A recent upturn in violence in chicago. Its not too late if we can act now new fears of famine in yemen where the u. N. Says its seeing alarming levels of Food Insecurity. The selfconfessed middleman in the murder of a maltese journalist is found with severe knife wounds just hours before he was due to give evidence in court. And only well into the sports news as the tensions between china the u. S. And britain spill into the sporting arena chinas state broadcaster has announced that it will stop showing English Premier League matches. We begin the news hour with a dramatic escalation in the growing tensions between the United States and china the u. S. Government has ordered beijing to close its consulate in Houston Texas saying its to protect American Intellectual property a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign ministry has denied media reports that staff had been burning documents inside the building and accuse the u. S. Of violating International Law china is threatening to close the
Ties to extremists linked to the insurrection at the capitol still has room for liz cheney, a conservative stalwart, who had the audacity to hold donald trump accountable for the incitement of the riots in january 6th. Also on the line today, who will have the fortitude to go on the record against the real threat, a Conspiracy Theorist in its own ranks. Right now the republican conference is behind the closed doors ahead on a vote tomorrow to remove congresswoman greene from her Committee Appointments. A woman who is dubious about whether the attacks on 9 11 were real, endorsed calls to assassinate barack obama, nancy pelosi, and hillary clinton. House Republican Leaders Kevin Mccarthy, for one, is reportedly feeling torn at this hour between cheney, a former State Department official, the daughter of conservative former Vice President dick cheney on one side, and a member of congress, Claire Mccaskill refers to as the q aknown lady. Reports of what went down inside the room. Mccarthy
A surgeon coronavirus cases prompts japans Prime Minister to declare a state of emergency in some regions shinzo other urges citizens to reduce their contact with others. And eurozone finance ministers are discussing how to keep the recession at bay but theyre divided on just how to do that one proposal is especially controversial socalled corona balls. As welcome to the program well leaders have been sending messages of support to britains Prime Minister Boris Johnson who is in intensive care suffering from the coronavirus chancellor merkel from germany wish to johnson much strength and a speedy recovery while the us president all trumps all americans were praying for johnsons recovery the Prime Minister has been hospitalized in. London since the weekend after testing positive for corona virus nearly 2 weeks ago is office says johnson is not on a ventilator and does not have pneumonia foreign minister dominic robb is deputising for him where necessary. The overall death toll in the u.
A very warm welcome to the program on this wednesday morning its 8 am here in moscow lets get started with your live news update. Australian m. P. s have called on the u. K. Government to stop joining us on just extradition to the u. S. They visited the Australian Citizen in the london prison where hes being held ahead of an extradition hearing one of the lawmakers George Christensen told us about the wiki leaks founder deteriorating condition. Spike in this wake with professor nils mels of the u. N. Special repertory on torture. Come to the opinion along with a number of medical experts that Julian Assange was exhibiting the symptoms of psychological torture visited Julian Assange. And are going to side theres nothing that i saw or that actually. Discredited what those doctors and what mills melzer said he is exhibiting signs of disorientation. He did tell us about being kept in severe us a life and ongoing loss a large negative side technically within belmarsh prison the conditions o
Zuckerberg asked governments to take up some of the responsibility for fighting harmful content. Unveiling new human centric online rules. And watching our 2 international bring you your live news update from our studio here in moscow welcome to the program australian m. P. s have called on the u. K. Government to stop Julian Assange as extradition to the us they visited the Australian Citizen in the london prison where hes being held ahead of an extradition hearing one of the lawmakers George Christensen told us about the wiki leaks founder deteriorating condition. Spike in this wake with professor mills mels of the u. N. Special repertory on torture. Come to the opinion along with a number of medical experts that Julian Assange was exhibiting the symptoms of psychological torture visited Julian Assange. And are going to side theres nothing that i saw or that actually. Discredited what those doctors and what mills melzer said he is exhibiting signs of disorientation. He did tell us ab