Where he was staying. Massive forest fires in the Arctic Circle. We have a special report on the blazes moving across siberia. We start with coronavirus and figures from the World Health Organization showing that new weekly coronavirus cases in europe now exceed those reported when the pandemic first peaked in march. The un body has also warned of alarming rates of transmission across the region. It came as the uk government announced almost 3 00 new infections on thursday. To help prevent the spread of the virus, almost two Million People living in the north east of england will be subjected to tougher restrictions from friday. Spain recorded almost 5,000 new infections in 2a hours, up from just over 3,000 the previous day. Almost 2000 were in the madrid region, which is planning targeted lockdowns. And in france 10,593 cases were recorded on thursday the highest single day count since the pandemic began. Well have a report from our correspondent in marseille, a new french virus hotsp
Republicans have just wrapped up republicans have just wrapped up the first day of the National Convention, describing donald trump as the bodyguard of western civilisation. Crowds crammed into Conference Calls for a four day event. Instead of crowds cramming into Conference Calls for a four day event, this years pandemic means it is a much more scaled back affair. Unlike the Democratic Partys Virtual Convention last week, key figures are appearing in person including america is not a racist country. This is personalfor me. Iam country. This is personalfor me. I am the proud daughter of indian immigrants. They came to america and settled in a small southern town. My father wore a turban. My mother wore a sari. I was turban. My mother wore a sari. Iwasa turban. My mother wore a sari. I was a brown girl in a black and white world. We faced discrimination and hardship. But my parents never gave into grievance and hate. My mum built a successful business. My dad taught 30 years at a histor
Virus to threaten to cause more pain and more heartache in our country. And one of britains most acclaimed film directors sir alan parker has died at the age of 76. Hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world do stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Im nancy kacungira. The head of the World Health Organisation has said the effects of the global coronavirus outbreak will be felt for decades to come. Tedros ghebreyesus was speaking to the whos Emergency Committee meeting to assess the covid nineteen pandemic six months after first declaring a Global Public health emergency. The Emergency Committee is discussing what more can be done to control the virus. The pandemic is worse than a Century Health crisis the effects of which will be felt for decades to come. Many scientific questions have been resolved. Many remain to be answered. Have been resolved. And the results from virologist studies are painting a consistent picture. M
The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
Significance as tension between the u. S. And china escalates over hong kong and the South China Sea and a major hike of twitter fake messages appear on some of the most followed accounts including bill gates barack obama and iran mosque. China has become the 1st major economy to report growth since assad of the kovac 19 pandemic official data shows its economy grew at an unexpected 3. 2 percent in the 2nd quarter after shrinking the most in nearly 50 years while some industries are nearly back to normal Consumer Spending is still down. The epidemic is still spreading faster overseas the restart recovery of the World Economy and trade has been very difficult domestically the recovery have to modest slowed the pressures of stabilizing and surprises and safeguarding residential employment a huge katrina you is in beijing for us joins us now live some unexpected numbers katrina growth much better compared to the rest of the world in china what is driving this. Well the authorities here sa