Coronavirus lockdown but will the rest of germany follow its lead. And by living queues and scoring goals and stopping them on their way to 2nd place in the bundesliga fulfilled and how they stand it had remarkable unbeaten streak. Of a math me how to welcome venezuelans have voted in the in a parliamentary election designed to consolidate president Nicolas Maduro his grip on power Opposition Leaders boycott of the voters day and many western nations have condemned it as a fraud the pandemic has deepened the countrys long running economic and political crisis and with no upturn in sight venezuelans are growing more and more pessimistic about the future. A humble turnout few venezuelans came out to cast their votes on election day perhaps because there was so little to choose from with many opposition figures banned from participating the ruling socialist parties victory was all but assured that would give president maduro control of a congress the only institution not yet in his hands
And then move. On that shows that this is a very generous support package and i want to say i think it is absolutely justified he does if you are absolutely. Retailers and consumers what they are facing in these last couple of weeks of the year it will be an exceptionally quiet Holiday Season but the hope is that that will also be true for hospitals. Well for more on this im joined by our Political Correspondent. As you reported there. State of almost full lockdown has been announced as expected at one of the main takeaways. I think one really has to emphasize how quickly and comparatively smoothly this agreement was reached between chancellor merkel and the 16 regional leaders that is unusual because in the last 2 or 3 months they have met several times and these have been meetings that have been characterized by real infighting by acrimonious exchanges by trying to push through or to encourage strict measures and by the regional leaders refusing to accept those measures and wanting e
Toxic chemical. What you need to watch out for just ahead. Breaking overnight. Federal agents use tear gas on protesters in portland, oregon. Among them, the citys own mayor. While the president announces federal forces are being sent to other cities, like chicago, to deal with the surge in violence. Well have the very latest. Wild weather. Damaging wind and rain up and down the east coast. Thousands without power. The statue of liberty struck by lightning. This morning, a Tropical Storm watch for the texas coast, with another storm in the atlantic poised to become a hurricane today. All that, plus, the boys of summer are back. Didnt miss that one. Watched that one sail over the fence. Baseball fans coast to coast getting set to celebrate opening day. Today, thursday, july 23rd, 2020. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hey, everybody. Welcome to today. So happy that youre joining us on this thursday morning.
Im sumi so lets got to thank you for joining us we start with a meeting that could decide the fate of syrias kurds turkish president rajapaksa one is meeting with his russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in sochi for talks on Northern Syria now turkey launched an offensive there 2 weeks ago to clear the area of Kurdish Militias and carve out a socalled safe south a u. S. Brokered cease fire to give the kurds time to withdraw is due to expire late today more now on the region in Northern Syria and the players who want a stake in it. Its a fight turkey has been spoiling for for a while. Conqueror is determined to expel Kurdish Forces from an area close to its southern border over the syrian. It is helping turkey on the ground told e. W. They will stop at nothing to make sure the operation succeeds. We will not stop no matter what International Decisions pressured nothing will stop us were moving forward we came for this mission so we have to finish it out of the. President added once a ser
Kicked off last night, with hosts france easing to a dominant 4 0 win over south korea. A new law to protect Service Animals comes into force today. Nicknamed finns law after a police dog who was stabbed, well be meeting finn in the studio in the next half hour. And at 10. 30, the travel show follows tony giles an independent blind backpacker as he heads to ethiopia. One of the frontrunners in the race to become the next prime minister, michael gove, has admitted taking cocaine on several occasions, 20 years ago. In an interview with the daily mail, mr gove said he deeply regretted his actions and insisted it shouldnt rule him out of the contest to succeed theresa may, which begins next week. Dominic raab, who is also running to become conservative party leader, said he thought mr gove deserved a Second Chance. Im not sure i want to be in the business of commenting on other candidates, but i think michael set out that he made a mistake, it was a long time ago. People willjudge it as it