Within 2 weeks one of the forecasters said to me we were looking at a Freight Train coming across the country were now looking at a bullet train because the numbers are going up that quickly the u. S. President though is more optimistic saying he hopes to have the virus under control by east. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but will when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter. I think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make it a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony felt she has downplayed the president s timeline. Thats really very flexible we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day reply week basis you need to ev
A huge Unprecedented Program of support both for workers and for business and i can assure you that we will keep these restrictions on the constant review we will look again in 3 weeks and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to but present the rig just no easy options the way ahead is hard and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost. Well the death toll in europe continues to grow the number in italy is now past 6000 double that of china where the virus began one in spain more than 2200 have died the u. S. President says he is working with both the republicans and the democrats to ensure a trillion dollar stimulus bill is approved politicians on monday failed to pass the legislation for a 2nd time theyre under increasing pressure to prevent an economic collapse amid an increasing number of cases the head of the u. N. Is calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the fight against the pandemic is a diplomatic editor james. Lowe welcome to this the
World but still fewer than the nearly 800 italian dead announced on saturday should the Prime Minister koizumi is calling it the countrys toughest crisis since world war 2 all nonessential businesses are being shut for the time being russia is dispatching called a planes of military medical aid to italy germany is banning gatherings in public of more than 2 people and chancellor Angela Merkel is in quarantine off the contact with an infected doctor. Spain the state of emergency is being extended till april 11th after the governments announced nearly 400 new coronavirus deaths and the pandemic appears to be taking a particularly high toll on health workers. As you can often appear but another figure that is what our ng ows and the one that is affecting the most people involved in the Crisis Response is the number of Health Care Professionals affected. These are 3475 and it represents 10 percent of all cases that greece with more than 600 firm cases is to impose a curfew on monday in the
Towards our debt we have no more prospects when are we going to make is in our lives but if you dont get that job. Also coming up tonight in the picture of modern day politics in the u. K. Apparently that was why a painting by the artist banksy with the title devolved Parliament Just sold for a record 11000000 euros. But really what hes pointing to here is the regression all of this the oldest parliamentary democracy in the world into tribalistic animalistic behavior the sorts that weve seen both kos and televisions across the world of the last months and weeks. But to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with voters and the choices they are about to make in tunisia on sunday voters in the north african country go to the polls to elect a new parliament if their recent president ial election is any indicator we can expect 2 outcomes a disaster for established parties and victory for populists who are promising everything except c
Shipping containers. And a painting of the British Parliament full of chimpanzees fetches a backordered price for the anonymous artist banksy. Im filled welcome to the Program Thousands of protesters have returned to hong kongs the streets despite Emergency Powers invoked by the government many are wearing the sort of face masks that have now been banned under a law thats just taken effect protestors could face up to a year in jail for wearing full or partial face coverings the government must act now thats the message from hong kongs in battle leader kerry lam she said the territory is facing a serious crisis as she invokes laws last used in the 1960 s. And i would say that we are now in rather extensive and serious public danger. It is essential for us to stop violence and restore calmness in society as soon as possible. We hope that the new legislation can help us to achieve this objective. But on the streets defiance protesters seemed determined to stay resolute in the face of what