Traditions around the world with some cemeteries refusing to accept the day. Welcome to the program a 6 week old baby in the United States is amongst the latest victims of krona virus as the amount of people who are infected around the world approaches 1000000 in the u. S. Theres been more than 5000 deaths and Vice President mike pence as compared the situation to italy which has been overwhelmed by cases President Donald Trump is considering limiting domestic and rail travel between hope spots but hes resisting calls for a National Shutdown even as infections passed 200000 state governors are pleading for more quick meant to tackle the outbreak but federal stocks all said to be near empty mike hanna has more from washington d. C. A number of u. S. Governors have been pleading with the federal government for more medical supplies in particular ventilators a state like new york says it needs as many ventilators as possible to stockpile for when the 8 pics of the epidemic hits which curr
And the worst humanitarian crisis the u. N. Calls for an immediate truce in yemen 5 years after a Saudi Led Coalition the start of the war. But into the program we begin in spain where the number of deaths and cases taken another big jump in the past 24 hours figures just really show 655 people have died and nearly 9000 have tested positive across spain more than 56000 people and our infected bodies of the dead and are being taken to a temporary morgue set up in a converted ice rink in madrid spain is Health Care System is feeling the strain its running short of beds space and equipment is appealing for help from an intergovernmental military alliance to fight the coronavirus the government has extended a lockdown to contain the spread of the virus well martha her there as our correspondent for us in madrid and joins me now those numbers certainly not going down in spain so perhaps their curve isnt going to flatten out quite yet. Yes that was that was what helped our authorities told u
Major stop people crossing borders to panic buy things in supermarkets as well but its one of the germany hungary said it was closing all its borders potence already done so in the Czech Republic as well. And altogether now you have a 100000000 europeans in lockdown spain is now going through the same trajectory as italy did just reported a big spike in fresh case in the last 24 hours and so increasingly these enforced stay at homes for people are being done theyre being put into place by by the police and probably in the fullness of time by the military as well and frankly i have to say that despite the fact that europe is now the center of the pandemic and obviously is a very big rise in cases they talk about trying to flatten the curve out of the virus the other thing that i think European Countries are going to have to start to address very very quickly is what on earth you do with all these people are staying at home to pay them any money so they can buy things well spain is also
A bill to limit the President Trumps ability to attack iraq. In the libyan war Khalifa Haftar rejects a call for a cease fire going against a plea by turkey and russia. And the top stories including. Trying to cash in on celebrity status public shock and anger part time. And in sports the tennis world number one makes a losing start to the new year actually barty sapper is a shock to a dinner opening match the brisbane national. So we begin this news with breaking news u. S. President donald trump says that he has suspicions about the crash of a ukrainian airliner outside tehran on wednesday all 176 people on board were killed when it came down shortly after takeoff u. S. Intelligence sources of concluded that it was shot down accidentally by an Iranian Missile a view that donald trump shared with reporters. I have my suspicions it was very i dont want to say that because other people have those suspicions also. Its a tragic thing when i see that its a tragic thing. But somebody could
Organize a list of demands sure the outcry is that you know these politicians are failing we need a new government but if you talk to people and if you look at all the News Coverage its also been about representation its also a been about we dont want to sectarian regime we dont want to regime that goes unnoticed we dont want lack of checks and balances enough corruption and this is the really the depth of the s. S. I think lebanon is much more complicated than countries perhaps with one dictator or one of the a terry invasion when we say we want to see the government down were also talking about these bad bits of politics because this government is very similar to the one before and probably similar to the one that will come later so it means very Different Things 11 on a right commons or how we thank you very much for speaking to us from beirut well happy but as an investigative journalist and hes a blogger a beirut reporter and he says 72 hours isnt enough time to even begin to fix