Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us. Tonight the u. S. Is seeing a dangerous increase in coronavirus cases in the south and west that could have implications for the entire country, especially as more young people are becoming infected. As america pushes forward with reopening, half of all states are now averaging more new cases each day than they have in weeks. Tonight one out of every five new infections globally is from right here in the u. S. And with florida and texas setting new records for positive tests, the governors there are warning they may need to crack down on those who arent social distancing. Tonight more than 120,000 people have been killed by coronavirus in the u. S. , and there are more than 2. 3 million confirmed cases nationwide. The white house says those increases are due to steppedup saying he ordered testing to be slowed down as a way to keep the number of infections from looking too large. All of this in sharp contrast to whats happening in new
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And its Security Forces and overstepped the mob promising to punish those guilty of abuse. The white houses ukraine expert has testified that he felt a sense of duty to flag up a phone call thats at the center of impeachment proceedings against donald trump thats an account of alexander than men was among 4 people questioned on tuesday the trumpet ministration has dismissed their testimonies as personal opinion and conjecture alan fischer reports from washington. This could be a pivotal week in the donald trump impeachment hearings many of the shuttle to give evidence were on the controversial july call with the ukrainian president that kills a key claim the hearings are based on secondhand reports giving evidence of tenet colonel alexander vigilant a career army officer and the ukraine expert on the National Security council he was concerned by the call by President Trump pushing for an investigation into Democrat Joe Biden and his son immediately took those concerns to a white house
Antigovernment protests in iraq are affecting trade. China some of the u. S. Diplomats after the Senate Passed a bill to support human rights in hong kong following months of often violent unrest if the bill does become law top officials from the territory could be sanctioned by the u. S. In the future in hong kong a standoff between the police and the protesters on a campus shows no signs of ending is there a clock. In a city rocked by violence and months of protests every day life is carrying on the major primary and secondary schools have resumed classes after being closed for more than a week some major roads have also reopened but traffic is still congested and some raw lines remain blocked. At Polytechnic University in Central California up to 100 protesters are refusing to leave riot police have surrounded the campus ready to mike arrests if any demonstrators try to skype. All. This. On tuesday around 800. 00 surrounded 300. 00 around the idea of 18 and cant be charged with writ