Highest level on a fourpoint scale for nearly two months. A request that bars, restaurants and other establishments shorten their Business Hours will be lifted next week. Tokyo reported the highest daily tally among the countrys 47 prefectures. Across japan more than 600 new infections have been confirmed on friday. In total there have been over 75,000 cases. More than 1,400 peoplele have died. Authorities are also concerned about dealing with influenza spreading at the same time. So the Health Ministry has decided to offer seasonal flu shots starting next month. Officials say theyll give priority to people aged 65 or older because they face a higher risk of falling seriously ill from viral infections. Theyre calling for other people to wait for over three weeks to get a shot unless they have an underlying condition that makes them vulnerable. Business travel between japan and singapore is restarting as they push to reopen their economies. Shortterm business visitors will be able to sk
Well try to make this as reasonably short as possible and if you need a break, please let us know. So, people wonder what are we doing, what are we trying to accomplish . In january, the Intelligence Community unanimously said that the russians through their Intelligence Services tried to interfere in the 2016 american president ial election, that it was the russians who hacked podestas emails, it was the russians who broke into the Democratic National committee and was russians who helped empower wikileaks. No evidence that the russians changed voting tallies, how people were influenced by what happened, only they know and god knows, but i think every american should be concerned about what the russians did. From my point of view, theres no doubt in my mind it was the russians involved in all the things i just described. Not some 400 pound guy sitting on a bed or any other country. Russia is up to no good when it comes to democracies all over the world. Dismembering the ukraine, the b
Demands in court for the South African president to resume millions spent on doing up his home. Robin adams here with the sport. Plenty to update on you include liverpools replay with west ham. Thousands of fans line the streets of denver to celebrate their super bowl champions the brancos. We have the very latest from that massive victory parade coming up later on in the program. Well, russias foreign minister is now saying that his country has proposed what is being called a concrete plant to resolve the syrian crisis. Sergei lavrov said the propose is now being studied by washington but the u. S. Secretary of state has says russias airstrikes on aleppo and the crowning region are making it harder to hold talks with moscow. There is no question, and i have said this before publically, that russias activities in aleppo and the region right now are making it much more difficult to be able to come to the table and be able to have a serious conversation. And we have called on russia and
The president ial candidates. And angry protesters demand that south africas president repay taxpayers money he used for home improvements. The United Nations has called on turkey to open its borders to Syrian Refugees fleeing fighting in adepot. Tens of thousands of people are stranded at the boarder. But turkeys foreign minister has warned that if the regimes military Campaign Continues the number of refugees could reach a million. Lets take you live now to the turkish city near the syrian border. Stephanie decker is there. Stephanie why dont turkey allow these people to cross its border . Reporter well, what the officials here say is that at the moment they can handle them perfectly where they are. They say we can provide for them here as good as we can over the border. Turkey of course is also concerned because it has a huge number of Syrian Refugees already here, over 2. 5 million. And the message from the government is they sort of feel russia is putting pressure on turkey using
Pay back millions. In New Hampshire, i have been asked first time voters what do they think about the candidates. Russians foreign minister is saying the countrys proposal in what he call add concrete plan to resolve the crisis. The proposal is now being studied by washington, but the secretary of state has said that the air strikes on aleppo and the surrounding region are making it harder to hold talks. Well, there is no question, and i have said this before publicly, that russias activities in the aleppo, and the region right now, are making it much more difficult to be able to come to the table and to have a serious conversation. We have called on russia again, to join in the effort to bring about an immediate cease fire and to bring about full humanitarian access. That is what this meet willing be about, and this meet willing tell a lot about the road ahead, we are not behind to what is happening. We are all very very aware of how critical this moment is and russia needs to contrib