A very warm welcome to all of you joining us from the uk and from across the globe. We are going to start in the us. New guidelines on the safe reopening of schools in the United States are to be issued after President Trump criticised the ones drawn up by Health Experts as being too strict and too expensive. The Trump Administration is making a concerted push for schools to reopen as scheduled next term. Thats despite an increase in the total number of coronavirus cases in the country, now more than three million. The bbcs david willis is in los angeles. While european nations have flattened the curve, here, the curve appears to be fattening. 3 million coronavirus cases and counting altar with infections on the increase in 35 separate states. President trump attributes the rise to increased testing and has been claiming incorrectly that americas mortality rate is the lowest in the world. His focus remains on reopening the economy, and now, in an effort to enable parents to return to w
Hello to you. It is so often called the worlds worst humanitarian crisis, and then it gets worse. In yemen, United Nations aid agencies are warning they still have nowhere near the resources needed to fight the looming threat of famine in a country already ravaged by five years of war and disease, now struggling with a surge in coronavirus deaths. With the medical system already devastated, covid 19 is spreading virtually unchecked. Nawal al maghafi has been speaking to those bearing the brunt of yemens latest crisis. There are no daily briefings about covid 19 in yemen. Allahu akbar. All allahu akbar. No accurate statistics, and barely any tests. But every day, there are the dead, buried quietly in the early hours of the morning. Among the buried on that day in sanaa was mohammed al kuhlani. A few weeks ago, we spoke to him and his friends as they worryingly followed the pandemic news. Translation if the virus reaches yemen, they wont be able to count the dead. Yemenis mix a lot. We n
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