Eastern on cspans q a. The numbers courtesy of Johns Hopkins university. Million cases of coronavirus, and the global death toll now in excess of 312000 in 188 countries and regions. Fromorter joining us wellington, new zealand. Good sunday evening to you, where you are at this morning. Thank you for joining us. Guest thank you for having me. Host can you give us a sense of what has happened in new zealand . I know the country was quick to respond and quick to reopen. Guest thats right. No country can say conclusively that they have [inaudible] thewe have contained Community Transmission of the virus. In march, when they realized there was a spread, there was a plan to lock down the country and new zealand was put into a onemonth strict lockdown. Some of the toughest measures globally, really, people locked in their homes for a month. It is a few factors, basically. It was decisive leadership by the Prime Minister, the geographic advantage new zealand has of being one of the southernmo
Exploiters and now facing discrimination chippies Haitian Community finds itself under attack as infection spread there also. A lot of them are even pretending to be insured. Former u. S. President barack obama once again criticizes his successes administration for its response to the coronavirus operate. And to believe in a cousin of syrias president says hes been ordered to quit his mobile phone empire and a growing rift among the ruling elite. After more than a year and a half of inconclusive elections diplomatic deal making and political paralysis a new Israeli Government has been sworn in long time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and this political vibe. Benny gantz agreed to share power spend 18 months being in charge her force that reports from western. Even after 3 inconclusive elections and being charged in 3 Corruption Cases Benjamin Netanyahu has shown once again that hes going nowhere we thought we would with our house of great responsibility binny gains and i decided to
Politics. Awaiting the mistakes of the past World Leaders call for any cause at 19 vaccine to be free and available to everyone. For Testing Facilities and examine means the number of covered 19 cases could be much higher in a country already ravaged by war. 2 vs later and still behind bars Human Rights Group calls on saudi arabia to release a group of womens rights activists. In this news hour with jobless figures out of the United States 3000000 people a file for Unemployment Benefits in the past 7 days brings the nationwide cigarette to more than 36000000 since coronavirus lockdowns began at mid march shell White House Correspondent can be how could joins us now live so kimberly how do these numbers add to the picture that were see. Well thats a very bleak economic picture because these layoffs are happening across all sectors of the u. S. Economy and what were also starting to see now is in issue only these were in sort of the Restaurant Industry or retail but now as businesses rea
Government for more transparency. This is 25 minutes. Sec. Pompeo good morning. A has been 128 days since chinese doctor shared information on the internet about a patient with a sars like virus. Shared the report online with medical colleagues. The next day, Regional Health officials in wuhan indicated they were treating dozens of patients with an unknown viral pneumonia. Within days, chinese officials detained the doctor and seven others for spreading false statements on the internet. China saw that it had an emerging Public Health crisis on its hands. China could have prevented the death of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. They had a choice. China covered up the outbreak in wuhan. The National Health commission ordered virus samples destroyed. Brave chinesered citizens who raised alarms and deployed its propaganda organs to denounce those who called for simple transparency. That brings us to today. China is still refusing to share the information we need to keep people saf
The council who have tuned in not only to today but for your strong support to the council in the past and especially in this critical time. A special welcome to everyone joining the council for the first time. Our main topic today is about the leadership challenges facing people around the globe with covid19. Both currently and in the future. We are absolutely thrilled to have with us today dr. David navarro to talk about these matters. The doctor was the special unveiled envoy for the u. N. He was also the special coordinator for the u. N. For the avian flu, the bird flew, pandemic, epidemic. He is currently special envoy for the World Health Organization for this covid19 response. History inng Infectious Diseases and Public Health. David, thank you. We are thrilled you could be with us today. Its great to be with you all. Delighted to be part of this webinar. Thank you. Lets start with giving us an update. Before we get into leadership issues, give us an update on where we are in th