News in recent years, i imagine that you, like me, have found it difficult to ignore the topic of refugees. This is an image of a refugees experience fleeing communist vietnam in 1975. But in many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. It is hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing it see. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. They are crowding onto leaky boats. They are drowning. The bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years. Particularly related to the crisis in syria. But refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. Were not just talking about refugees coming from syria, but from other war torn regions. Especially in the past couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand,
Tthe nationwide total now excees 42,000, more than 1,000 people have died. Health Ministry Officials say more than 4,000 people were being treated for the virus at hospitals as of last wednesday. The figure was just under 700 on july 1st. Since then patients in tokyo have quadrupled, but in terms of increase, other pleeskts have feared mmuch worse. Patients in oh sasaka jumped 20fold. The Health Minister says jjapan currently has enough hospital beds to cope, but he also says the situation needs to be closely monitored with some hospitals increasingly under strain. Some local governments are asking residents and businesses to do their part to curb the spread of the virus. In tokyo the governor is requesting barsrs and restauran to close by 10 00 p. M. As our next story shows, its pushing many establishments to the brink. Reporter its been an anxious few months when sales plunged after the government declared a state of emergency. As rrestrictions gradually ease, business was finally st
Moment of negative Interest Rates as well. As you leave the hour, francine, the United States excuse me by theington transfixed battle between the president and mr. Bolton. It has changed overnight into new legal action by the president. Francine nothing like an injunction to sell a new book. Lets get straight to bloomberg first word news in new york city with ritika gupta. Take a coke china is vowing retaliation for u. S. Ritika china is vowing the government of the u. S. Has set , sanctions for any oppression of uighurs or muslims. John boltons book says the president meanwhile, bolton also wrote that President Trump asked xi jinping to help him we reading help him win reelection. Thevastating betrayal of president s Foreign Policy. President trump called bolton a the book tos asked stopping publish. Economists predict the central bank will expand its Bond Buying Program by 125 billion dollars. Meanwhile, investors will watch for any hint of radical policies such as negative Interest
Cases of past 10000 for the 7th consecutive day. And bars and clubs a closed in the south korean capital as dozens of new corona virus infections are linked to a single customer. Akin to the program the u. N. Mission in libya has condemned an attack on tripolis only functioning at port by forces loyal to warlord Khalifa Haftar at least 80 rockets were fired at the facility a Libyan Airways plane was hit although no one was on board 2 civilians also died from shelling near the airport after us forces that only a targeted residential areas in the capital closed to the turkish an italian embassies mama doublewide reports now from tripoli. A barrage of rockets a strike jet fuel tanks and aircraft at tripolis International Airport the latest attack on civilian infrastructure in the battle for the capital while the ground battles remain outside the city rockets are still landing in the city center. Its demitted 80 were fired at him 80 get airport that has been closed since march due to shell
2200000 people from the us we feel that the mitigation that were doing right now is having an effect if we could hold on as were saying 200000 its a horrible number. Maybe even less but 2100000 so we have between 10200000. We altogether of done a very good job nothing would be worse than declaring victory before the big 3 is one. Also coming up with billions of people social dense distain and many in self isolation how in the world are we supposed to keep it all together i get up every morning at the same time i put on my make up all day no one will see me and make myself the same breakfast and eating you know all of this just to prepend that everythings normal. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world. Well we begin the day with a new week in the worlds new corona virus endemic epicenter the United States late last week the death toll in the u. S. Hit 1000 just 24 hours later it had double the u. S. Now has more confirmed cases than any other countr