Goals when live across and broke horns with glass well see who came out on top. And all i was like oh welcome to the program u. S. President elect joe biden has picked 2 prominent physicians to lead his Coronavirus Task force is made to tackling the pandemic his top priority when he takes office on january 20th and hes already putting together a team to come up with a strategy biden started his day fresh from his election victory speech by going to mass at the caf Catholic Church in his hometown well minton delaware thats where his son is buried biden also says tackling Climate Change and bridging the u. S. Political divide are key goals of his administration. President donald trump returned to the gulf coast where he was playing when u. S. Networks declared biden election winner on saturday beforehand he was he fired off a new round of tweets alleging Election Fraud so far he has produced no substantial evidence to support the allegation. Now lets bring in our washington correspondent
Capital. Was. 6 the blast essential quavers across beirut shattering windows destroying buildings. And injuring hundreds. The streets were filled with panic and confusion of course it was so you know my car was down there it rolled over i think my injuries all because of the loss the loss cut me up my car was like this im about to the front i dont know what happened i was fishing i heard there was a fire so i began to hit home then i heard something explode and then this happened i got injured this is all i know. Rescue work began quickly and emergency vehicles converged on the side of the blast. Putting out fires. And getting the injured to safety lebanons internal security chief confirmed the blast originated in the Port District in a section housing highly explosive materials. Lebanons Prime Minister has addressed the nation promising that the victims would get justice for what happened. It will not pass without accountability those responsible for this catastrophe will pay the pric
Caribbean is expected to contract by just over 9 percent this year tell us one that has more from what is aris what covered 19 pandemic has done in many ways exacerbated already existing problem problems with infrastructure with unemployment with poverty and with gross inequalities in the distribution of wealth that is thought to have got much worse during the pandemic were talking about numbers have been released today by the Economic Committee for latin america in the caribbean which talks about 45000000 more people being plunged into poverty bringing the figures up to 231000000 people across the region with a large numbers being plunged into extreme poverty as well as these unemployment figures are rising dramatically germany managed to control its coronavirus outbreak to a much better degree than its neighbors but its economy has still been hit hard dominic kane is in berlin he says the future depends on keeping a lid on infections. This is the worst quarterly performance for 50 ye
Percent between him and his rival its still too close to call. And the aid agencies are warning that russias victory in limiting syria a deliveries to just one Border Crossing will cost lives and intensify the suffering of 1300000 people. Welcome to the program from the americas to asia the coronavirus pandemic is infecting people around the planet wreck all rights the World Health Organization has reported more than 230000 cases in 24 hours the highest single day increase since the outbreak began globally the death rate is remaining steady around 5000. 00 people are dying each day but in the worlds worst affected country infections and fatalities are both rising the u. S. State of florida has shot at the National Record for daily cases more than 15000 reported on sunday thats higher than any of americas other states at the peak of their outbreaks well to put it into perspective if florida were a country in itself it would rank 4th in the world for the most new cases each day behind th
A complete end to the lockdown. Risk of infection. On the right. Good morning to you thanks for joining us of course this is r. T. International. Well lets begin as is usual now with a quick update on the latest global coronavirus figures the total number of infections that is now above 4200000 287000 lives have been lost and more the 1500000 people have recovered. So lets start in russia where the nonworking periods brought in to fight the rapid spread of covert 19 has officially come to an end the news was announced by Vladimir Putin during a video address but that doesnt mean an immediate return to life as normal the number of new cases reported in russia this morning stands at 10899 more than 43000 people have recovered in total however 2116 have died as more on this now from our correspondent. Just take us through what was announced what exactly is this going to mean for people in the various parts of the country. While in recent days of course weve seen how many european nations