A landmark in the fight for racial justice. This after a day of tense antiracism brownlees fueled by clashes in portland between protesters and federal agents deployed by President Trump. And in Sports Events are ahead in the game that could feed down when the italian title picture on all those gold has put you say why no law against some doria. Welcome to the news hour from the beaches of spain to the streets of melbourne coronavirus cases are surging on almost every continent the global death toll is racing toward 650000 with more than a 3rd of fatalities in just 2 countries the United States and brazil or they and india account for nearly half of all confirmed infections in the world and the virus is also spreading faster its taken just 4 days for the global numbers of cases to jump from 15 to 16000000 over the past week 37 countries have reported record spikes in daily infections including me. Since once praised for its taming their outbreaks like australia and israel here in europ
And federal agents deployed by President Trump. Argentinas police are accused of using the current virus as a cover for abuses. Hello from the beaches of spain to the streets of melbourne corona virus cases are surging on almost every continent the global death toll is racing toward 650000 with more than a 3rd of fatalities in just 2 countries the United States and brazil they and india account for nearly half of all confirmed infections in the world and the virus is also spreading faster its taken just 4 days for the global number of cases from to jump from 15 to 16000000 over the past week 37 countries have reported record spikes in daily infections including nations once praised for taming their outbreaks like australia and israel here in europe one report suggests spains actual death toll may be 60 percent higher because suspected cases were never included in its total of 28432. 00 victims but spain insists it is safe despite a new spike in cases prompting the u. K. To abrupt abrup
From the beaches of spain to the streets of los angeles coronavirus cases are surging on almost every continent faster and further than ever before its taken just 4 days for the global number of cases to jump from 15 to 16000000 well over the past week 37 countries reported record spikes in daily infections including the United States where the tally is going up by 60 to 70000 every day california remains the epicenter of its outbreak while florida has overtaken new york with more than 432000 infections brazil is the 2nd worst hit country after the u. S. The number of cases across latin america has surpassed 4300000 more than the United States and canada combined those top 3 hotspots the us brazil india now account for half of the worlds infections by mr Narendra Modi warned the indian public to remain vigilant saying the danger of covert 19 is far from over. Well lets see whats happening across latin america petit joins us live now from the colombian capital bogota alexandros a latin
Look at how the outbreak in africa threatens to send malaria related deaths soaring the c. S. And also perhaps. The painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government revenues its call for britain to return its ancient trusts. And im santa how much not have all the support a big day for your fantasy the syria leaders have the chance to wrap up a night straight at league title. But we begin this hour with the current virus pandemic which is spreading further and faster every day now it took the wild 2 weeks to get from 1000000. 00 to 2000000. 00 infections its now taken just 4 days to make the leap from 15 to 16000000 days out from the u. S. Based on Hopkins University shows the United States. Brazil and india are leading that savage and take a look at this graph it shows the number of cases that are added daily and that curve is clearly rising with more than a quarter of a 1000000 new infections every 24 hours almost 650000 people wild wide are now known t
Million. America saw 60,000 cases in a day for the first time. Hong kong and tokyo also reporting record tallies. Singapore heads to the polls for an election overshadowed by the pandemic. Disposable wear gloves and observe distancing roles at the ballot box. Lets get to Sophie Kamaruddin in hong kong for the latest. Sophie after u. S. Stocks closed in the red, we are setting up for a lackluster start to this friday morning. Futures are mixed. Kiwi stocks added. 4 so far this morning. S p eminis nudging slightly higher with rising virus infections in focus in the u. S. As well as in asia and on the ecoagenda today, we are watching out for japanese pbi ending acree output and the philippine trade plus chinese credit growth data for june could be released from today. Singapore offline for the elections to be held. Asian stocks could pare the weekly advance but still set for the best five day stretch given the chinese stock rally we saw this week. Flipping the board, china futures have se