Could have you with us welcome to aljazeera the tolls on the corona virus pandemic continues to grow as countries try to stop the spread of the disease spain has Just Announced more than 100 deaths and 2000 new infections 46000000 people that are now on lockdown told to remain in their homes except to go to work or buy food and medicine in the middle east iran has also reported a jump in deaths bringing the total to 724 nearly 14000 cases into iran says its response is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions in the philippines the capital manila has been sealed off 12000000 people have been told they cant travel for a month schools are closed and large events banned and lines continue to scale back their shared jewels American Airlines as part. Most of its big jets suspending 75 percent of its International Flights until at least may. Be his following developments from tehran the 1st lets cross over to paul brennan in our european Broadcast Center in london and of course paul the re
This is happening in broad day light during a busy time on the streets of month. It is bringing up in gun issue. It is bringing up whether or not we are safe in new york city and deblasio. Everyone is speaking about it this morning. Greg we are going to the shooting this morning, whats going on teresa . Reporter good morning, we have updates from the commissioner and the chief of detectives that is telling us what they know, the people inside of the mcdonalds and enjoying a hot cup of coffee and a guy approached them, some type of argument, altercation, the men enjoying the coffee left the mcdonalds and made their way down to the subway station, a c e on 35th and 8th. It is unclear if they knew they were being followed and they were shot in the subway stakes. Four shots were fired, the deceased man shot in the head and died here. One shot in the torso and the other in the leg. The police are saying they are looking for the shooter who may be with two other individuals. They are also at
Touch each other but we chose not to. Lets talk about what is going on when it comes to policing in this country. A lot of sobering up. We need police and people look around and say they do protect us and maybe we can reform for 2020 and thats why the attorney general is working with senator tim scott. They were in South Carolina yesterday and reviving some Police Reform and Law Enforcement reform in this country. There is also a sense, among others that we need to maybe disband the police and black lives matters philadelphia representative is making it clear that when it comes to accomplishing the police. It doesnt have to happen today but it has to happen. One of the things that were demanding is the defunding over five years to complete abolition. We dont want to see any police in our community and over the course of those five years. The five years gives time for the community to begin to build what is needed instead of police. And at the same time, build Restorative Justice practi
The number has tripled. We have the assessment that covid19 can be characterized as a pandemic. Tucker as of now the official count in this country is 1100 cases of coronavirus, that figure is growing quickly. In italy which experts say its only a few weeks out of where we are in the development of the outbreak, the entire nation is in lockdown. The disease is called a most arent people in italy in just the past 24 hours. Markets are responding to this. The dow dropped almost 6 today. Ncaa announced that march madness, the basketball tournament, will be played without fans in attendance this year, that ought to tell you something. Schools are closing across the country and so on. The graphic on the bottom of their screen with the closures and cancellations already in effect. You would be wondering could be an overreaction, all of itself are relatively few people have died in this country. But before you reach that conclusion consider this. The average annual flu, the one that was aroun
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