A live music venue. The officials checked whether people used masks and used alcoholbased disinfectants and if they kept sufficient dus tans. The venue has installed a transparent barrier to prevent virus transmission via droplets. Translator its good that the officials were able to check everything in detail and see how our store is taking measures. Reporter the wards Health Center plans to visit about 750 locations by the end of this month. The tokyo metropolitan government is asking restaurants, bars and other establishments serving alcohol to close by 10 00 p. M. To help curve the spread of the virus. More than 1,200 new cases were reported across the japan on tuday. Tokyo has the most infections. 309 were reported on tuesday, the 8th straight day the capitals tally topped the 200 mark. Japans three major financial groups have posted huge declines in profit for the april to june period. Executives say t they have to shore up reserves as the pandemic raises the risk that loans wont
And india says 20 of its soldiers have been killed in clashes with chinese troops at a disputed border site in the himalayas. Brent i am brent goff. To our viewers on pbs, and others, welcome. We begin with what is being called a breakthrough in the fight against the coronavirus. Researchers in the u. K. Say they have identified the first drug that significantly reduces the risk of death in patients hospitalized with covid19. In a major trial, the low cost steroid dexexamethasone was foud to cut deaths by one third i patients on ventilators and by 1 5 in patients receiving oxygen. Doctors are expected to begin treating people with the drug immediately. One of the trials chief investigators is hailing this about saving people with advanced covid19. He really has quite significant effects, and it is really important, because the drug itself is very widely available. It is almost on every pharmacy shelf in every hospital. It is available throughout the world and is extremely cheap. So we
Appreciate you all being here. Tonight we are featuring an acclaimed journalist in new york author Janice Kaplan in her fascinating book. She will be in conversation with kelly the ceo the women spawned of central ohio and this is going to be an illuminating evening. I will tell you that right now. I want to thank our partner, and our Wonderful Community partners who have the school for girls. I will introduce janice and kelly just a moment the first just one ask you to silence your phones or any other noisemakers you might have read. [laughter]. So we can just hear everything. I hope many of you have visited what we mentioned. We are right in the street and we would like any of you and invite you to come and see us and him and browse. Women open for just over three years and with hosted 300 events. [applause]. Besides being a fullservice independent bookstore, we want to connect the community. Thats exactly what were doing tonight and you receive the program when he came it in order q
Only a few really recycle. Rubbish piled high in the streets of beirut after lebanons largest waste dump closed in 2015. It was already groaning under 15 million tons of excess trash. Thousands took to the streets to protest against the situation. Has anything changed since then . Repoporter the bebeaches in e lebanese c capital beirurut coue beautiful. But the realitisis they oftften half burieied under garbrbage. So thehese young peoeople ae getting ready to transform their local beach. Theyre taking part in a campaign called run and clean. Its the brainchild of eddy bitar and his ngo live love beirut. The group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter. The events draw up to 200 people. Many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. Eddy this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago. We see that people are more and more concerned witith all the problems facing the environmnmt in l
Streets of beirut after lebanons largest waste dump closed in 2015. It was already groaning under 15 million tons of excess trash. Thousands took to the streets to protest against the situation. Has anything changed since then . Repoporter the bebeaches in e lebanese c capital beirurut coue beautiful. But the realitisis they oftften half burieied under garbrbage. So thehese young peoeople ae getting ready to transform their local beach. Theyre taking part in a campaign called run and clean. Its the brainchild of eddy bitar and his ngo live love beirut. The group spends part of the time jogging and the rest picking up litter. The events draw up to 200 people. Many young people in particular are fed up of waiting for the lebanese government to take the initiative. Eddy this is part of the outcome of the crisis that we had a few years ago. We see that people are more and more concerned witith all the problems facing the environmnmt in lebanon. And we are very happy to see that all the peo