The move comes after italy reported 342 new cases on monday, bringing the total number of infections there to 2,032. It said the number of deaths jumped from 18 to 52. Some towns in the countrys north have been placed on virtual lockdown to stop the spread. Portugal and luxembourg have also reported their first infections. In some parts of france, schools are closed and residents have been advised to stay indoors. Elsewhere, u. S. Authorities say the number of patients there has reached 43 while the death toll has risen to 6. New york state, rhode island, and florida have all reported their first infections. There south korea the government has announced the number of infections has exceeded 5,000. The death toll there stands at 28. President moon jaein says the government has set up a new facility to accept people with mild symptoms. Nhk calculates that outside Mainland China and japan, the number of deaths has topped 160 and more than 10,000 people have been infected in dozens of cou
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are calling on western governments to sanction the powerful revolutionary guard and to throw out iranian diplomats. now on bbc news, ros atkins gives his analysis on some of main news stories of the week. when a prime minister takes office there is no time limit, no fixed number of terms. their leadership stretches out in front of us. margaret thatcher stood down after 11 years. tony blair served ten. recently, though, we ve had four prime ministers in six years all of them conservatives. david cameron left downing street after the brexit vote. theresa may had three years before tory mps intervened. it was the same for borisjohnson. and in early september, it was the turn of liz truss. i am honoured to take on this responsibility. weeks later, at its annual conference, the tory party chair said liz truss was its greatest asset to win the next election. she is the woman who will get britain moving. that, though, is not going to happen any more. wow, one of the shortest lived
protesters in iran, the biggest ever iranians overseas.- ever iranians overseas. i ust don t ever iranians overseas. i ust am like ever iranians overseas. i ust don t like you i ever iranians overseas. i ust don t like you anymore. h and we speak to colin farrell and brendan gleeson about their new film about the end of a friendship britain s former prime minister borisjohnson and the former finance minister rishi sunak, have held face to face talks about the conservative leadership race, though neither has formally declared their intention to stand. penny mordaunt, the leader of the house of commons, was the first to formally declare, on friday. mr sunak has the public support of over a hundred conservative mps the threshold required for this leadership contest. some of mrjohnson s former cabinet colleagues have warned against his return to downing street, barely three months after a series of scandals forced him out. our political correspondent damian grammaticas
more than 100 now publicly backing him. and that sets up the extraordinary possibility he could face off against the man he helped bring down. borisjohnson, flying back from a caribbean holiday for a possible political comeback. it s just over four months since mrjohnson faced a revolt by his own mps and a confidence vote. the vote in favour of having confidence in borisjohnson as leader is 211 votes and the vote against him was 148 votes. more than 40% of his mps had no confidence in him then. dozens then resigned from his government. but some now say they want him to return. what we ve seen in the last few days is that some of the mps who resigned, some of the mps who called for boris to go at the start of the summer, have now said they would like to see him put himself forward. they ve admitted they were wrong and i know there are many others waiting to hear on if he makes the decision to run before they go public. thank you all very much for coming! those who want him bac