Zimbabwes president defends the crackdown on protests against his government will be live in her. And in sports the l. A. Lakers have secured top spot in the n. B. A. s western conference for the 1st time in a decade but bron james his Team Clinching the number one seed with the win also did you. See. We begin this news hour with the continuing battle against the coronavirus countries around the globe are grappling with the surgeon cases the u. S. Remains the worlds epi center with at least 155000 people dead and of a 4700000 people infected and despite the ads President Donald Trump is insisting that schools reopen a call he once again made on twitter on tuesday but that push has attracted a lot of criticism teachers marched through new york on monday they are angry at a plan for mayor bill de blasio to open schools even with restrictions. Well democratic president ial hopeful joe biden has tweeted attacking trumps handling of the pandemic he said that at the beginning of july donald
Teens, whether they are ailing and need some time to recover from the knocks that come about over the season, it is a perfect opportunity for a team that is having a hard time, losing a lot of games, to turn things around and take the weeks to prepare for the next big opponent if one is coming up. Opportunity for teams. There is some benefit to momentum. Where you see some teams going on a winning streak, they have that two week lay off and then the momentum has died down. So you could look at it from both perspectives. But it is not an advantage, overall. He talked about things go in different places. You look at the miami dolphins, who are going to nine different time zones. How difficult is a make up for them, but also, from the perspective of the american people, habgood has been that they are pulled together to help these clubs out . 0h, that they are pulled together to help these clubs out . Oh, yes. The Human Element you cannot ignore. When fans and an entire city works together
Routes as they start to close their land borders to refugees. I have all the sport including the return of a convicted cricket sheet and with pakistan after a fiveyear ban for spot fixing. Searching for a man who is a suspect in attacks and indonesia with attackers with i. S. I. S. In thursdays explosion and gun battles and we have more on the investigation in the center of jakarta and following a peace rally taking place there and tell us what the message is that the people are trying to send out. Yes, people have come to the very place where the attack happened on thursday morning, the intersection where those attackers came to has been reopened, the roads are open to traffic and many people have been coming all day to pay their respects and also as an active defiance in the peace rally that started about an hour ago certainly designed to do that as an active defiance saying they will not be afraid or deterred from going about their business and living their lives as they have always
Anger in spain after a nurse becomes infected with the ebola virus. Hospital staff demands answers and call for the resignation of the health minister. Kenyas president arrived in amsterdam to appear before the International Criminal court on charges of crimes against humanity. Isil fighters are now press on the ground in to the besieged syrian town of cuban i despite opposition from kurdish fighters and the aerial bombardment from some of the 60 nation that his have signed up to battle the group. The town is right on the border with turkey. Pictures here picture here in kobane purporting to show fighters in the counsel. Thats against the isil onslaught as well as battles street to street and shelling we have been told something that has been going on now for weeks. To help push back sizal fighters there have been fresh assaults by members led by the u. S. Coalition. Here we can see the aftermath of the strikes around the town. Alternatively some suggest it could be isil forces themsel
Helping tourists at the eiffel tower to see paris in a completely different way. Fighters from Islamic State of iraq are shelling the center of a town of kobane as fighting intensifies and there is air strikes on isil positions on forces and we are on the turkish side of the border near kobane is on the phone right now. What more can you tell us about the Coalition Air strikes and what more have you been seeing on the ground . Reporter air strikes are started and so far we have four air strikes entering in kobane and especially targeting in the past they were targeting east point of kobane but this morning we have seen they are mostly targeting northwest of kobane. And kobane by isil forces three parts, the north part of kobane is Turkish Border and we came from Turkish Border after air strikes we see the black smoke on turkish side. And so far after especially after air strikes we also seeing isil forces shelling mortar inside the city center and they are targeting there is one in the