Hot spots like new york seems to be flattening. Positive news thats fueling calls to reopen the country sooner rather than later. But many experts say we cant do that safely without fixing a testing system that is falling short. Heres abcs matt gutman. Hi. How are you . Im dr. Fox. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you too. Whats your name . Suselle smith. Were going to do a covid test on you. Its a nasal swab. Okay . Reporter its just before daybreak in california and dr. Katz isnt letting the rain slow him down. Donned head to toe in ppe he and his team are conducting test after test for residents here who fear they may have covid19. Im done . Thats it. Well call you with the result. Take care. Reporter and youre going to do 150 of these today . 150 today, 150 tomorrow and 150 on wednesday. They have the tests and the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test gets a test. Reporter more than five weeks since this promise widespread Rapid Testing for the coronavirus still remains pat
Other parts of the world. It is 7 00am in the morning in singapore and midnight here in london, where the british Prime Minister, borisjohnson, has suffered two major setbacks for his brexit strategy. First, a Cross Party Group of mps was successful in getting a bill passed to prevent a no deal brexit. The bill potentially forces mrjohnson to do something that he has repeatedly ruled out, namely asking the eu for yet another brexit delay unless a deal is secured. The Prime Ministers response was to call for a general election on 15 october, but he failed to get sufficient support from mps. Our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg reports on the days events. Are we through the Looking Glass now . The Prime Minister is demanding a new parliament over there, an election, yet he says he doesnt want one. The other parties say they do, but may yet stand in his way. It wont be settled until the commons closes the door on the possibility that borisjohnson could take us out of the eu next month wi
Fir withe on the four hour fire fight. Anne. This fire broke out at 6 20 this morning and theres still smoke coming off the brilding as building as you can see behind me. Half of it is destroyed. The walls of this building started collapsing after hours of firefighters spraying water from the outside. You can see in these shots from chopper 5 how this stubborn fire raged in the middle of the building so firefighters had to pull back early and go into defensive mode. Inside the building an artist collective known as moxie for 37 businesses worked with metal, wood, and bronzing materials. Some created with pieces for burning man. Part of this building, part of the warehouse orac i two sto. Laed in. He w vleor sngny 880 at the 23rd avenue ramp. Some nearby homes were evacuated because of smoke and firefighters say they were concerned about their water supply. We were tooeterring right at that point that we were going to get to a critical point and our concern was the fire spreading to add
If not yesterday, what takes us there . Well, you know, to put it in context, end of last year, i thought we were well oversold. Recession fears were overdone at the end of the year. Our narrative has been a tale of two halves rally first half, selloff second half. Why . China trade and optics around it were a big reason for rally in the first half alongside the fed pivot towards a more dovish stance i think the fed, short of new qe into the end of the year has limited ammunition to prevent what i think is a normal cycle slowdown and i think the optics certainly around trade with china have deteriorated frankly, the reason why the yuan above 7 is so important is it shows that trade wars become currency wars if theyre prolonged and trade wars, by the way, are neither good nor are they easy to win keith, you seem to think that the next round of tariffs actually is going to have less of an impact, if i read you correctly, than the first round did, though Small Business has been struggling
hello and welcome to the programme. russia has announced that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year s eve attack by ukrainian forces. they were using himars rockets supplied by the us. it s the biggest death toll acknowledged by moscow for a single incident in the war, but ukraine says the strike killed hundreds of russian soldiers. our correspondent hugo bachega reports from kyiv. in a town in eastern ukraine, rubble and many questions. this used to be a school, apparently turned into a base for russian soldiers. at around midnight on new year s eve, ukraine struck. how many were killed remains unclear. in moscow, the army claimed the attack was carried out with rockets supplied by the americans, but there was also a rare admission of casualties. translation: as a result | of the strike by four rockets with high explosive warheads against the temporary deployment point, 63 russian servicemen were killed. in russia, military bloggers were furious. they accused the ar