Team about their progress. Live from our studios in singapore and london, this is bbc world news. Its newsday. Good morning. Its 9am in singapore, and one oclock in london. Around the world, governments are introducing new measures and recommendations to fight the global coronavirus pandemic. On tuesday, the European Union will discuss closing its borders to incoming travellers. In the uk, people are told to work from home and avoid congregating. In the us, President Trump says a recession is possible. Weve got more on all of that in a moment, but first heres the latest from the head of the world health organization. All countries must take a comprehensive approach, but the most effective way to prevent infections and save lives is breaking the chains of transmission. And to do that, you must test and isolate. You cannot fight a fire blindfolded, and we cannot stop this pandemic if we dont know who is infected. We have a simple message for all countries test, test, test. Test every sus
Side. Independent senator angus king of maine is our get. And congresss Approval Rating plummets to its near death. The news isnt that its so lowers its that 5 of the public still thinks congress is doing aok. To quote seinfeld who are these people . This is shutdown showdown. Welcome to this special half hour of cnn shutdown showdown. Im jake tapper. We are an hour away from this partial government shut down going into double digits. At midnight it will be ten days. Also at midnight marks one week until we hit the debt ceiling after which the u. S. Government will no longer have all the money it needs to pay all its bills. I just want to point out at Universal Studios orlando this evening a bunch of people got stuck on a roller coaster. They all got off safely after an excruciating 2 1 2 hours. Is there a better metaphor for whats going on in washington . There is however some incremental progress to report this evening. Earlier this evening in a closed door meeting with house democra
And connecticut. Bernie sanders won rhode island. Clinton looking to you knunify tonight. Whether you support senator sanders or me theres more that unites us than divides us . We all agree wages are too low and inequality is too high. That wall street can never be allowed to threaten main street. We should expand social security, not cut or privatize it. She may face an uphill battle as she works to win over supporters for sanders. On the republican side, donald trump walks a narrow path to the republican nomination. He scored a decisive victory tonight in connecticut, maryland, pennsylvania and rhode island. Mr. Trump now says he has delivered knockout blows to senator cruz and governor kasich. I use the analogy of the boxer. When the boxer knocks out the other boxer you dont have to wait for a decision. Thats what it is. And thats what happened tonight, last week in new york and thats whats been happening throughout. We have millions more votes, millions more than cruz. We have mill
And why is donald trump there at all . Hasnt he locked up the gop nomination . Tropical storm warning just in time for memorial day weekend. It could be hitting the Atlantic Coast as early as later today. More on weather headlines. Waiting game. Did the tsa pass a big test at airports as the Holiday Season kicked off . Details next in a report from a busy new york hub. And we begin with protests in california outside of both of Donald Trumps rallies, the first in fresno, then 350 miles to the south in san diego. Demonstrators clashed with supporters at both of them although it was more chaotic outside of the rally in san diego. Insults and punches were thrown. Some protesters threw eggs and bottles of water at police who declared Unlawful Assembly and pepper sprayed those who refused to leave. In the end, 35 people were arrested. Despite the large number of latino protesters, trump again called for a border wall and even chanted along with supporters at a rally in san diego, just 20 mi
Taking aim in all directions targeting the clintons as well as leading members of his own party in his own words this morning says it is so nice that the shackles have been taken off me and i can now fight for america the way i want to. Lets focus on what the candidates are doing today with our team spread out now. Kelly odonnell checking out her digs on the pence campaign. Alley vitali outside trump tower and Kristen Welker covering the Clinton Campaign. We might hear from the flight attendants. I will get to you right away with the trumppence strategy keeping up the criticism of paul ryan in a new twitter tirade this morning. Exactly. Reporting to you from row 20, seat c, peter. I can tell you that the strategy is about donald trump trying to fire up the grassroots and the very active voters who have gotten him this far by being critical of the Republican Leadership. Thats not something donald trump has shyness about doing. One of the things he tweeted was disloyal republicans are mo