The most contentious debate yet. Voters will be making their final decisions. The make or break primary in South Carolina is this weekend. And tonight the person with the biggest target on his back, Bernie Sanders, will be in the center of the stage after his decisive win in the nevada. He is now the indisputable front runner. One line of attack likely to be about sanders doubling down on his comments about fidel castro. When fidel castro first came to power which was when . 59 . 59, 60. Okay. Do you know what he did . He initiated a major literacy program. I think teaching people to read and write is a good thing. And it isnt just castro back in 1985. Sanders sat down with Daniel Ortega whos accused of widespread human rights abuses. Here is what sanders said. Ortega is an impressive guy. Sanders opponents of course are seizing on those remarks. Here they are today. Why are we spotlighting the literacy programs of a brutal dictator instead of being unambiguous in our condemnation abou
Sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team. The us has also recorded its highest daily coronavirus death toll, more than 1800 people. Also in the us, Bernie Sanders says hes ending his bid to win the Democratic Partys president ial campaign clearing the way forjoe biden. Human evidence things human destruction of the natural to pandemics, just like covid 19. We will bring you covid 19. We will natural to pandemics, just like covid 19. We will bring you many more details. A warm welcome to the programme. The uk government says that the health of Boris Johnson is improving. The Prime Minister has coronavirus, and has spent two nights in intensive care at st thomas hopsital in london. He was taken there on sunday night ten days after first testing positive for the virus. The chancellor rishi sunak said that mrjohnson was receiving excellent care. The latest from the hospital is that the Prime Minister remains in intensive care, where his condition is improving. I can
The uk is told not to expect its lockdown to be relaxed yet, despite hopes that deaths from the virus are slowing. Meanwhile in france, president macron announces schools will begin to reopen in mid may and says people will gradually be able to return to work. And well tell you why the current restrictions are proving good news for the Natural World at least. Welcome. As countries around the world count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic in human lives and economic damage, theres increased pressure on governments to ease some of the restrictions in place. In the uk the government is warning that the country is still not past the peak of the coronavirus emergency and the number of deaths is expected to increase further this week before they may start to plateau. Well have more updates from the uk in a moment but first lets go to the us. Where the number of coronavirus deaths in the state of new york has risen to more then 10,000. Thats almost half of all deaths so far across the count
Kelly to give his soninlaw Jared Kushner a top security clearance. Kelly then overruled the persistent and longstanding objections of career White House Security screeners and wrote about it in a memo. Months later, the president denied any of it ever happened. Listen. Did you tell general kelly or anyone else in the white house to overrule Security Officials . No. I dont think i have the authority to do that. Im not sure i do. You do have the authority to do it. But i wouldnt. I wouldnt do it. I was never involved with the security. Thats Maggie Habermans interview with the president. The House Oversight committee has been requesting specific documents and interviews relating to White House Security clearances. For more than a month and last night threatened to subpoena them if they dont come soon. House democrats arent done yet with Michael Cohen. After three Straight Days after testimony before three separate congressional committees the president s former lawyer and confidant is co