It also allows biden and vicepresident elect Kamala Harris access to National Security briefings. In a tweet, President Donald Trump said gsa administrator emily murphy and her team should do what needs to be done with regard to initial protocols. He said he had instructed officials in his administration to do the same. The gsa announcement came shortly after officials in michigan certified biden as winner of the battleground state in the november 3rd election. Biden has been moving quickly to form his cabinet. Hes now unveiled nominees for several key posts, including Antony Blinken for secretary of state. Blinken was National Security adviser during Barack Obamas first term as president. He served as deputy secretary of state during obamas second term. Biden says former secretary of state john kerry will be a special president ial envoy for climate. Linda thomasgreenfield will be ambassador to the united nations, and alejandro mayorkas, Homeland Security secretary. Avril haines, form
Translator the legislalatio to safeguard National Security and an enforcement mechanism are entirely necessary to uphold and improve the institutional framework of one countrytwo systems principiple of hongg ko. Analyst say beijing has decided National Security cannot be guaranteed if it is left to hong kong. Multiple Hong Kong Media say the Chinese Government will likely press ahead with establishing National Security legislation at the upcoming parliamentary session. Prodemocracy lawmakers from hong kongs legislative cououns aree strongly protesting the introduction of the draft resolution. They say the one countrytwo systems role would be and here in japan, the government has lifted the state of emergency for three western prefectures and says it may do the same for the tokyo metropolitan area and the northern prefecture of hokkaido next week. Translator tokyo, its three neighbors and hokkaido, will remain under the state of emergency. We will ask experts to evaluate the situation e
Weekly magazine reported on may 1st and 13th, he visited the tokyo home of a newspaper reporter, where she suspected of gambling on mahjong, after the government requested people to refrain from nonessential outings. The resignation is called for if the report is true. Translator i have to say thatat he is disqualifified as leader of the organization. I think he should resign immediately. Prosecutors plan to hear from him on the media report. Some at the Prosecutors Office say the report comes at the worst possible time as lawmakers are debating the enactment of a bill to extend the mandatory retirement age of public prosecutors. He is an essential figure and delayed his retirement by altering the conventional interpretation of the law, the first time a prosecutors retirement was extended. Pop siciopposition parties have criticized the move saying the cabinet wants to make him the general, and that hes easily controlled by the government. The japanese government plans to formally endor
Inquiry that looks at what has occurred here so we can learn the lesson. Morrison said he will put the invevestigation at next month annual meeting of the world health assembly. He urged all member nations to support a review. The european leaders appear more reluctant, with Germanys Angela Merkel calling the w. H. O. An indispensable partner, and britain and france saying now is not the time. Its a bid that will likely gain support in washington where President Trump has said his government is conducting an examination of its own into the pandemics origin. He said he would cut off funding for the w. H. O. At least temporarily, after criticizing it for being what he called china centric. The t Trump Administration is calling on china to allow access to its labs in the city of wuhan to see whether virus there is are being handled properly. This comes as Media Outlets have raised the possibility the virus originated in a lab in wuhan. Translator american politicians are trying to brush a
Europe appear to be stable or declining but he expressed concern that africa and central and south america are seeing upward trends though the numbers are low at this stage. The executive director of the w. H. O. Heaealth Emergencies Program michael ryan highlighted the potential for catastrophe if the virus spreads in countries with weakk medical systems. He said the w. H. O. Has seen an increase of 250 to 300 in just one week, alone, in some african nations. He said we are at the beginning in africa. Data compiled by u. S. Universities show the number of confirmed Coronavirus Infections has topped 2. 6 million worldwide. Johns Hopkins University says the death toll has now exceeded 182,000. The United States has the most fatalities at over 45,000. The governor of new york state has announced plans to launch a largescale program aiming to trace the contacts of people infected with the coronavirus. Once you trace and find more positives, then you isolate the positives. Theyre under qua