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KQED BBC World News Today July 12, 2024

The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuingerolutions for as neglected needs. And hi contributions topbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. This is bbc w newsh the latest headlines for viewers in thu. K. And around the world. As europe records over 100,000 new coronavirus cases, spain declares a state of emergency in madrid to contain an outbreak. There is a fresh confusion over when president tru will return to the campaign trail following his hospital treatment for coronavirus. In the u. K. , an extension to the countrys job support scheme at the government said it will pay to third of workers wages for businesses which are forced close. Wedaill our response as the situation on the health side at that. I think health side adapt. The world food programye wednesday s nobel peace prize. It the dirtor tells us he stunned. I was like who won it . I was like, he got to be kidding hello and welcome. I am nancy. New Coronavirus Infections in europe have passed 100,000 in a single day for the fst time. New restrictions have been brought inl in seveuntries in an attempt to control the spread. This graph shows the number of cases per 100,000 people. The u. K. , france, and spain have more than 100, while germany and italyse have fewer in spain there is disagreement over how to get the disease bac under contro the government has imposed a two week state of emergency i madrid to contain the outbreak. Overwriting a court restriction that previous restrictions were illegal. It is the beginning of a bank holiday weekend, but wh poe ce stopping people from leaving madrid, it is not a catyone. The centr government has announced a state of emergency in the madridegion, preventing l nonessential travel in an out ofhe capital. These restrictions were already in place f several days until a court struck them down on thursday. Saying they violated the rights the state of emergency overcomes that legal obstacle, but it has further inflamed a dispute between madrids regional authorities and the Central Government, which wspried that thad of the virus in the capital was out of control. President of the region has decided to do nothing. Last week 63 people died in the madrid region. Er right now are00hundred 61 people hospitalized in madrid. There are 498 peoplen e icu fighting between life and death. We can either cross our arms, or we can stop the virus. The local government disagrees. Insisting that existing measures had already started to irove the infection rate. Making the state of emergency unnecessary. Some locals take a similar view. It seems the measures are intended to ointment because hiere are so many regions going through the same as us and they havent done that. I amt not all in favor of what the Central Government is doing. In recent weeks, madrid has been spains biggest concern, pr oiding rou third of the countrys newest infections and, says, spreading the virus to neighboring regions. During this second wave of coronavirus, Spains Health care system has managed to cope. Whether that continues to be the case could depesd on how succul measures like this state of emergency are in stabilizing the pandemic. Nancy her in the u. K. The countrys finance mr. Has announced new measures that businesses could be forced to close because of restrictions. Its is thought that bd restaurants in the worstts affected pf england may be told to shut next week. The nationwide scheme will begin on the first of november and last for six months. As the bbcs Consumer Affairs correspondent reports. Local lockdowns and reduced opening hourare already hurting hospitality. On the edge of raider manchester, this has been under tighter rules since jy. The prospect of pubs and restaurants being forced to close has angered business owners. It isisastrous. The moment you have the top cap turned off, you have no ability to generate income. Hospitality indust being slighted. The prospect of further closure is terrifying. There will be more help. Staff working for firms told to close will get 67 ge of their paid for by e government. Announcing a expansion of our support scheme, specifically to protect those jobs areeople who work inha businessesmay be asked to close. Will receive twohirds of their wages. Listening closely to that is william rinson,hose brewery runs 260 pubs. I think there is a relief. He says if some are told to shut, wages support and an increase of business grants will take some of the pressure off. The closure of a business, when that happens and if that happens, will be very expensive businesses. And large have a lot of costs. The level of grant they get will depend on whether it covers their expenses or not. He hospitality sector has a raft of Safety Measures and says it is being singled out. For those who may have to close their doors, the bigger known is whether this natural support will make enough of a differesue for them tive in the long term. Theof landladhe bulls head in trafford faces aff ult winter. The future is uncertain and quite scary. We have done a beer order. Do i need the beer . Dont know. Mayors representing cities in the north of englanday the chancellors measures dont go far enough. Labor once more to be done to prott jobs. And other countries those schemes are working to incentivize people in work. The chancellors scheme is not doing that sufficiently and we are seeing the impactn the levels of unemployed people. The era support will only apply to businesses told to close by the government. All of this at the start of what shouldlu be thative christmas. Hrtmas period. Nancy letstay in the u. K. We are getting breaking news from westminster. And plans for an announcement from Boris Johnson on stricter strict shins in england. Lets get now more from our respondent jonathan blake. What can we expect to hear . We ca confirm what we have beenti exp. On monday for us johnson, the Prime Minister, will make a statement to mps setting out of restrictions at a national gland to slow the spread of run a virus. The indications are tonight that it will be tiered system of imposed region b region,ctions according to the severity of coronavirus cases inicny one paar place. We dont have the exact details of that scaleut i think we can probably expect tier one, the baseline, to be in place in england. That is a 10 00 p. M. Curfew on bars and restaurants, plus what is called t rule of sex, which allows a group of up to six people to meet a indoo outdoors at any one time. Toght mps and some of the worst affected areas i northwest of england particularly have received a letter from e Prime Ministers director orategy saying that it is now very likely that certain local areas will fa further he adds that the Prime Minister will make at statement on monday and the government is looking to fin these details as soon as possible. We can read from final decisions and details may not yet be signed off. We know now the timing, that we will get the detailser on monda. Is also an acknowledgment from those i downing street and from the Prime Minister that there needs to be more engagepont with local ticians who, over the last feways, have been expressin their frustration that they have not been involved enough in th decisionmaking process and they, and people in the areas they represent, have been left too much in the dark about what we are told by our senior government source that the Prime Minister has td ministers he wants much closer engagement with local leaders for decisio were made. Going on to say tt local peoplehere ones that will have to endure these restrictions and it is only right there leaders have a say on what they are, adding that they will also bring expertise on what will work in their regions. Nancy all right, jonathan blake, thank you very much for that update. Confirming those details about further restrictions that will be coming into force. There is renewed confusion over when President Trump will return to the campaign trail after being treated in hospital for coronavirus. Following the latest assessmenby the white house physician, the president said he may attend election rallies over the weekend. A separate Administration Official later said that mr. Trump was unlikely to travel so soon because the logistics of organizing events on short notice was problematic. But speak to monia, who is in washington. Even more confusion over whether President Trump is well enough to get back on the campaign trail . It is not that there is so much confusion, it is that we have not given a more information. We have not seen much of President Trump, b we have rtainly heard from him. Earlier he was on a radio show with Rush Limbaugh for a few hour Rush Limbaugh is aat consee host here in america. It was almost like a virtual rally. We are expected to see mr. Trump inn per later on on fox this evening. In terms of plans, he mentioned he had suggested he was going to a rally in florida tomorro rate that is not likely to happen, but we are never too sure what p thsident. In terms of his medical condition, there has been no update on that aghrt from last when dr. Sean conley had said that mr. Trump could be ready to resume his public engages by saturday. Nancy stay with us. There is Something Else i want to talk to you about. With the election getting closer, the demrats have decided to raise t issue of the 25th amendment. Which deals with what to do when a sitting president is not sickly able to fulfill his or her duties. Physically able to fulfill his or her duties. Nancy pelosi said it was time for mr. Trumps fitness for the job to be scrutinized. Congress has a constitutional duty to lay out the process by which a president s incapacity and the president of any party is determined. This honors the duty by creating a Standing Commission of top rmerve execu physicians and experts selected in the bipartisan way. A presents fitness for office must be determined by science and facts. Nancy nancy pelosi there. Lets come back to mumia. Obviously we have heard President Trump call himself a perfect physical specimen. Help us understand what exactly g inancy pelosi sett motion here, and why now . I think it is fair to say that nancy pelosi is always Donald Trumps antagonist. She is the person who started impeachment proceedings, but it is n about him specifically. Of crse,f joe biden becomes president he will be the oldest president in the office. It is worth mentioning that this is not even at a stage of it becoming a bill. She wants to assess a commission to get this gulng, but this have to go through the senate. The senate is controlled by the republicans, so it is unlikely to be considered. Nancy thank you ver omuch for comin. Still to come, free at last. A rapturous welcome or two of the hostages held captive in mali f four years. This was a celebration by ople who were relishing their freedom. They bel everything is going to be different from now on. They think their country will be respective respected, as it s before milosevic took power. The spiritual leader of tibet has won this years nobel peace prize. Two grenades exploded and aso number oiers jumped from a military truck and ran toward the president. After 437 years, the remnants of hen the eighths tragic warship emerged. The mary rose went to another heart stopping drama. I want to be the peoples governor. Want to represent everybody. I believe in the people of california. Nancy this is bbc news. Our top story. Britains pre ministers to make an address to the nation on moay coronavirus restrictions. It comes as europe records over 100,000 new cases and spain declares a tweek state of emergency in dread. Madrid. In the u. S. , 13 men have been charged with an alleged plot to kiap the governor of michigan. The fbi said the pt involved six of the men up ducting the governor and taking her to a remote location to p on trial for treason. Ms. Is what misses witmer has been strict measures that were overturneby a judge last ek. Many in the group are also accused of gang affiliation and providing Material Support to alexandra minister and his the university of michigan and author of proud boys and the white ethnostate. Ingnk you very much for jo us. Help us understand, for those who might not be very familiar with this, what exactly are u. S. Militia gros like the proud boys or the wolverine watchmen . These groups are farright extremists that should be classified as domestic terrorists. They are part of a wave of violent extremism that we have seen rising in this country over the past several years and with greaterntsification over the past year, leading us into the 2020 ection. Some members of these group the 13 men that were arrested one of them appears to be affiliated with the proud boys. More largely they are connected to the michiko militia movement. Nancy he say these groups should be classified as domestic terrorists. And also, how does president not trumps response to groups like this impact their activities and i would say that y depends on w talk to, whether they are classified as terrorists or not. The most commo iterms extremists. In fact, the department of holandecurity issued a report earlier this month and in that report it determined that 2019 was the yeaamat the highest nt of farright terrorist activity since 1995, which, as your listeners might know, was the year of the Oklahoma City bombing. Nancy in you are paia picture here of a picture that is not just gettingore attention, it is actually a phenomenon that is growing. You have been saying that politicallymotivacod violence d get worse in america. Tell us why you are concerned. Im concerned because if you look at the elaborate plot engineered by these men to kidnap the governor of my state and to take her hostakind potentiall her, this was an involved plot that had been unfolding and planned since the spring of thisear. We know there are other militia groups that potentially are devising similar plots. They are using encrypted media and also social media platforms to connect with one another and recruit. I think i would like to underscore too that this iivan incrediblyive town time in american society, with increasing militarization on the streets and a fever pit of anxiety leading into the election next month. Nancy thank youin so much for g us. Alexandra ministern from the university of michigan. The wld food program has been awarded this years nobel peace prize. The committee prays the organizatis efforts in fighting hunger and its worth work and increasing peace. David beasley as executive director of the program and t he sa news caught him totally unaware, just why he is delighted. It is amazing. I am so thrilled on behalf of the world foodrogram and all ur employees and partners who e literally i mean literally putting lives in harms way every day. In hurricanes and tornadoes and eggs of this nature. They are out there, so this prize, i hope, will be anre example for th of the world to follow. It is quite amazing, honestly. I was in a meeting here in niger. We had been in a troubled area here, so i had just come back in and somebody wald in and said, nobel peace prize. Im like, who won it . There were like, the food program. I s like, youve got to be kidding me. Fd about 100 Million People. What is breaking your heart, when you thinkrs that four y ago there were only 80 Million People on thenk bf starvation and now because of covid, conflict, climate extremes there are now 270 Million People. We are in all of those extreme situations and you can imagine with the economic deterioration taking place with covid i was watching your program. It is really, really bad out there. We need help. We need money, we need access, and we need about 5 billion in addition to what we normally get to really go out and save lives. This is a critical poin in World History and it is one of the things i am asking for the alien heirs. Llthe naires are making billions on covid. This is aorld i mean famines of biblical proportions heocking onoors. If we have the money, we can avert famine, and we avert migration by necessity. Ink this prize will do great wonders for our work because people have got to understand the relationship between hunger and conflict rey both aated. When you have hunger, you have conflictilyou have deation. When we address hunger, we address the root cause of the problems. It is much cheapern the frontend than on the backend, for examplethe syrian war. That same syrian in berlin is 50100 euros per day for the humanitarian support package. Tify dont have stability, if they dont have food, they would do what any of usrould do for children, that is leave and find a safe place where we can feed our children. Nancy that is david beasley, head of the world food program. An aid worker thought to be the last French National being held reunited wither after a been prisoner exchange. Viphie had spent nearly four years in cap and was one of several hostages, including mollys Opposition Leader malis Opposition Leader. The bbcs west african correspondent reports. Reunited at last. Sophies son has fought to keep his moms name in the public eye. I did ever ing i could. She said she was not angry at those who took her, wa im doing much better. I think the i thank the mali an authorities. Known as the last French National held hostage in the world, sophie was kidnapped by militants linked to al qaeda in 2016. French president Emmanuel Macron expressed his relief. Also freed on thursday night was politician a politician. He was abducted or campaigning ahead of parliamentary elections. I am very happy to be here for mali,y formily. I spent six months in the most difficult conditions, in the most austere climate, and very hard living conditions, in the sahara desert. Two italian nationals were also freed. These releaseser come aft politically turbulent time for mali. Inus a the former president was ousted in a military c

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