To treating covid i9. President trumps attorney general defends sending federal officers to anti racism protests around the country. Violent rioters and anarchists have hijacked legitimate protests to wreak senseless havoc and destruction on innocent victims. Its been running in londons west end for more than three decades, but now, the phantom of the opera, has been forced to close. The british Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has warned it follows the sudden imposition of quarantine on travellers from every part of spain coming into the uk. The decision has been strongly criticised by the spanish Prime Minister calling it unjust and he is insisted it is safe cuntry for tourists. Here in the uk responding to reports about the possible reduction of the 14 day quarantine period borisjohnson said they are looking at ways to mitigate quarantine. meanwhile germany has advised against travel to three areas of spain. Our transport correspondent, tom burridge has the latest. A dose of spanish su
The spread of the virus generally in your home community. Hello to you. Joe biden has unveiled plans, if he wins novembers election, to address the economic but screening at airports disparities impacting minority is becoming more common. Communities in the united states. China found a positive the president ial contender case last week. For the democrats sharply criticised President Trump, accusing him of intentionally and one idea is to have stoking the flames of a system of double testing, a week apart, to have a Better Division and racism. Chance of spotting whos infected. In a speech in his home town of wilmington, mr biden Heathrow Airport wants promised he would spend tens to start a trial. Of billions of dollars to help i can understand that the jury people of colour overcome what he called the racial is out at the moment on having wealth gap. A single test on arrival. The us has seen weeks of racial unrest, and the pandemic has not enough work has disproportionately affected b
Hello to you. Four tech giants and their executives have been under the spotlight in the United States, defending themselves against accusations they are too powerful and that their Business Practices are anti competitive. The congressional inquiry has been looking into the market dominance of facebook, amazon, google and apple. Mark zuckerberg, jeff bezos, tim cook and Sundar Pichai have all been questioned, the culmination of a 13 month investigation by american lawmakers. Our tech correspondent James Clayton has been watching the hearing. These four titans of tech run the companies that are worth nearly £4 trillion. Today they were grilled over whether their companies are too big, and whether they stifle competition. The richest man in the world, jeff bezos, runs amazon, which accounts for around 40 of Online Retail in the states. Mark zuckerberg is the boss of facebook, instagram and whatsapp, with more than 2 billion users worldwide. Google and youtube is run by this man Sundar P
Hello to you. Joe biden has unveiled plans, if he wins novembers election, to address the economic inequalities impacting minorities in the United States. The president ial contender for the democrats sharply criticised President Trump, accusing him of intentionally stoking the flames of division and racism. In a speech in his home town of wilmington, mr biden promised he would spend tens of billions of dollars to help people of colour overcome what he called the racial wealth gap. The us has seen weeks of racial unrest, and the pandemic has disproportionately affected black and hispanic communities. More than 30 million and counting are collecting unemployment cheques. Black unemployment is at 15 , latino, 14. 5 . 40 40 of black owned businesses, 440,000 in total, have reported they had to shut down. And everything is worsened by this crisis of president ial leadership. To change the tone over the last few days, as trump has, doesnt change the facts of the last four years. Donald trum
And remembering an icon. Civil rights leader john lewis lies in state in the us Capitol Rotunda, the first black lawmaker to be honoured there. Hello, welcome to bbc news. The number of coronavirus cases around the world are escalating at an alarmingly rapid rate, with the total approximately doubling in the past six weeks. The figure now stands at 16 million, with the last one million cases, taking just four days. In the past 2a hours, there have been more than 55,000 new infections in brazil, 53,000 in the United States and a8,000 in india. Heres what the director general of the world health 0rganisation had to say. Almost 16 million cases have now been reported to who, and more than 640,000 deaths, and the pandemic continues to accelerate. In the past six weeks, the total number of cases has roughly doubled. In brazil, the pandemic is one of the worlds most severe. Health workers there have now urged the International Criminal court to investigate president bolsonaros government, ac