Has passed 1000000 corona virus infections becoming the 8th country in the world to do so meanwhile youre growing has closed its borders in a bid to stop the spread of the virus. As more. The Health Ministry in colombia announced. 1000000 figure 30000 deaths you mentioned its the 8th in the world to pass that grim milestone its the 3rd in latin america. A few days ago brazil the worst country in the region has over 5000000 people infected with the coronavirus 157000 people there have died. Across the world theres been Something Like 10000000 people so 40 to 42000000 people infected 10000000 of those are in latin america so its got around about a quarter of all the cases in the world. U. S. President ial candidates donald trump and Democrat Joe Biden d are touring battleground states as election day looms opinion polls show biden in the lead nationally but its a tight race in the swing states 50 countries are signed up to a United Nations treaty to Ban Nuclear Weapons its set to be brou
Demonstrators the city is now on 24 hour lockdown while millions of people are under curfew across the country the u. S. Justice department has filed a competition lawsuit against google saying it may need to be broken up the claim alleges the tech company uses its market power to preserve a monopoly over Search Engines and advertising the company says the suit is deeply flawed the fiance of murder journalist jim outhustled jay is suing the Saudi Crown Prince the civil lawsuit was filed in the u. S. It accuses mohammed bin sound man of ordering close reduced killing he was murdered inside the saudi consulate in the stumble in 2018. I ask the United States government. And the nation that has to for justice accountability and human rights. I asked that you see me and all those who love him out and say we will support your affords to fully and cowher the truth and ensure that those responsible are fond liable in a court of law or Hong Kong Airline cafe pacific is cutting their quarter of
Normalization. From aljazeera civil more good in sudans capital khartoum. Sudan has been quite weak the economy is completely devastated and crippled and that the us has taken advantage of the sudans economy to push through now the. Foreign minister says that its not a complete normalization that they will wait for a parliament to be formed before they complete the process of normalization that this is just a thought and how deep that normalization goes will be dependent on the parliament ethiopias Prime Minister has dismissed an apparent threat from President Trump about the construction of the rene saw he suggested that egypt might blow it up if the project continues if you happy as Prime Minister says he will continue dialogue with egypt and sudan. Theres been more fighting in the going because both armenia and azerbaijan accuse each other of shelling residential areas Foreign Ministers have met separately the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh in washington the u. S. Has poste
On the senate elections. Author and Vice President ial scholar Joel Goldstein reviews wednesday nights Vice President ial debate. Nightsews wednesday Vice President ial debate. Host good morning. 6 2020. Esday, october President Trump returned to the white house after a three day hospital stay. The president declared that he felt that her than he had in decades and urged americans not to be afraid of covid or let it dominate their lives. We are asking our viewers whether the president s Coronavirus Diagnosis has changed your view of covid19. Give us a call. Republicans 202 7488001. Democrats 202 7488000. Ndependents 202 7488002 if you have had covid19, 202 7488003. You canalso the number send us a text this morning. Please include your name and where youre from. Otherwise on social media, on twitter it is at cspan wj. Good tuesday morning. You can start calling in now. When president y hemp announced via twitter would be leaving walter reed. He said, i feel better than i did 20 years a
Before the curfew in lagos we also heard from the military saying that they are going to conduct a military exercise although they insisted it has nothing to do with the ongoing protests the military has issued a statement that its forces one of the involved in yesterdays operations but protest it said that they were Security Forces involved police and military or Paramilitary Organization at least 12 women have been killed in afghanistan in a stampede they gathered with thousands of other people in a stadium in jalalabad to apply for visas to pakistan the pakistani consulate started to reissue visas that can last week after a 7 month pause because of the coronavirus. United nations sponsored peace talks for libya a progressing in geneva acting u. N. Libya envoy Stephanie Williams says that shes confident theyll get a lasting cease fire. Once we have a unified executive where you have you know one ministry of defense one ministry of interior it will be important to continue to sustain