Helping to slow the virus spread. Good news for chancellor angela merkel. One day after starting self quarantine she tested negative for the virus. And the pressure building to postpone the Tokyo Olympics. The japanese Prime Minister acknowledging the summer games may be delayed. Canada and australia say they will not send their teams. To our viewers on pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. The covid19 virus continues to outpace efforts to contain it. Cases of the infection are accelerating. 16,000 people around the world have died from the infection. Peer is what the head of the to be way to set a few hours ago. More than 300 thousand cases of covid19 have been reported to dubya ho. To who, from almost every country inin the world. That i is heartbreaking. The pandemic is accecelerating. It took 67 days, from the first reported case to reach the first 100,000 cases. 11 days for the second 100,000 cases. And just four days for the third 100,000 cases. Brent those are
From berlin. Tonight, the United States imposes more sanctions, what President Trump calls hardhitting sanctions on iran. Cap announces the new measures, which target the Supreme Leader and top diplomats. What is the strategy behind the sanctions . To euro fighter jets collide over northern germany. The planes were on a Training Exercise. Both pilots were able to reject, but only one survived for you wins the right to host the 2026 Winter Olympics. That announcement prompted cheerful reactions at the International Olympic committee in switzerland and in the streets of milan. Brent im brent goff. To our viewers in the pbs in the United States and around the world, welcome. We begin in germany, where a pilot was killed today when two fighter jets crashed in the north of the country. The two unarmed fighter planes, part of the German Air Force, collided in midair during a Training Exercise over the state of mecklenberg western pomerania. The second pilot did survive. A stateoftheart warpl