A 2nd wave of the pandemic. Anger grows in cyprus against corruption often aljazeera investigation forces the government to dump a controversial passport scheme. We begin in thailand with breaking news where a crackdown has begun against Anti Government demonstrations riot police has started rounding up protesters shortly after the government announced an emergency decree over ongoing protests it comes as thousands of protesters rallied in the capital bangkok calling for their Prime Ministers resignation demonstrators are also demanding reforms to the countrys powerful lets go straight to a correspondent on the phone from bangkok scott it is still very early in the hours of thursday morning where you are with the government clearly desperate to nip those protests in the bog whats happening. Yes exactly what did happen is emergency decree was asked about 2 hours ago 4 am local time and this was to disperse. The protesters remarks from democracy monument yesterday wednesday down to aroun
Really reopen at that stage the u. K. Is recorded almost 20000 new corona virus infections in one day its the countrys 2nd highest daily increase wednesday also saw the start of a new restrictions system in liverpool and its surrounding areas bars and gyms are closing as the region enters the highest level. Thousands of people are expected to 5 virus restrictions at a Tram Campaign rally in iowa infections and deaths continue at high levels across the state the governor issued an emergency proclamation for people to keep their distance in public places. In afghanistan tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes after heavy fighting between the taliban and Government Troops taliban fighters have been battling their way towards lashkar gah the capital of Helmand Province in recent days the government has launched a counter offensive to stop them supported by u. S. Airstrikes. To protest or leaders have been arrested in thailand an hour after the government announced
Forces battle to stop taliban fighters closing in on the capital of Helmand Province and flooding and landslides kill or least 36 people in Central Vietnam with more heavy rain forecast. We begin this news hour in europe where many countries are seeing coronavirus cases surged to their highest levels in months and with that comes a wave of new restrictions france will reenter a state of Health Emergency on saturday with weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and 8 other cities you know the 23000 new cases were recorded in the past day but president mccrone insists the outbreak is not out of control meanwhile in the u. K. A new 3 tier alert. System has come into force in england only one city is in the highest level but with almost 20000. 00 new cases in the past 24 hours other areas look set to join it is in the meanwhile has seen its highest daily increase yet with more than 7300 new cases its infection rate has more than doubled in the past 2 weeks and germany hit a 6 month high i
Find out they fight the 3500000 kenyans living in senegal will not be able to take part in the president ial election. American voters were asked to tune in to dueling televised events on thursday with President Donald Trump a democratic candidate joe biden both vying for their attention they were grilled on subjects ranging from the coronavirus to conspiracy theories the town halls were broadcast as an alternative to a virtual town hall that both candidates which trump a turndown added gallagher reports. The answers that the president gave were fairly a very. Very good there were some interesting moments he didnt really get many tough questions from the audience on the coronavirus he kept the line hes always kept that hes done a great job save thousands if not millions of lives that he acted quickly when he put travel bans in place for china and europe and once again he blamed china on his taxes which was a big issue in the last debate he didnt deny that he was 400000000 dollars in de
A cease fire between armenia and azerbaijan the us are just both sides to respect the latest truce and painting in a pandemic we look at how god could help britains economy recover from coronavirus. The end. Thank you for joining us coronavirus cases a rising sharply across europe with several countries reporting record numbers of new infections on sunday france amounts more than 50000 new cases for the 1st time while its city and spain also struggling with a 2nd wave hoaxer vaccine are growing in britain the u. K. s Health Secretary says the government is repairing for a mass rollout in the 1st half of next year but in the us to Tromp Administration has been accused of giving up the fight against 19 this after white house chief of staff mark meadows conceded that the us is not going to control the pandemic our White House Correspondent Kimberly Hockett has more from washington. The u. S. President is essentially distancing himself from the chief of staff mark read his comments but als