Its six in the morning in singapore, and six in the evening in washington where President Biden is expected to announce that federal workers will soon be required to confirm they are vaccinated orface more testing. The numbers of coronavirus cases are rising with the director of the us national public health agency. The cdc, saying cases have increased over 300 nationally since mid june. President biden has renewed his call for people to get vaccinated. So many people all over 630,000 americans have lost their lives because of Covid 19 will stop and the press keeps wanting me to talk about Covid 19 but im going to mention this one thing, we still have a lot of people not vaccinated. In the pandemic we have now is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. So, please, please, please, if you are not vaccinated, protect yourself and the children out there. It is important. Meanwhile the problem for many countries in asia which are experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases, is that many people just d
the world health organization has reported a record daily total of global coronavirus infections. nowhere has been hit harder than the united states. the country s top health official for infectious diseases now says some us states should delay ending their lockdowns. this graph shows the number of daily cases since the start of the pandemic. the number had been falling towards the end of last month, but now there s a steep rise, topping 60,000 in recent days that s the highest single day tallies for any country since the pandemic began. the states in darker blue have had the most cases per head of population in the last week, with the worst hit being south carolina, with an average of 305 daily cases per million people, louisiana with 321, and florida with 423. but the state with the most cases is arizona, from where our correspondent, sophie long reports. music plays. when the governor of arizona lifted the state s stay at home order, people partied, pre pandemic style. i
hello. president trump has commuted the prison sentence for his friend and advisor roger stone. mr stone had been due to start a three year and four month prison sentence for lying under oath during the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 us election. the white house said mr stone would have been at serious risk of covid 19 in prison. our north america correspondent david willis has the latest. well, roger stone, james, is a political operative, someone who has almost rejoiced in the reputation as a dirty trickster. now, he hinted during the 2016 presidential election campaign that he was in touch through an intermediary with the wikileaks founderjulian assange, and boasted that he was knowledgeable about the release to wikileaks of thousands of e mails hacked from the server of the democratic national committee. he was sentenced to more than three years in jail and been due to report to prison in georgia before next tuesday. well, now, he won t be going t
plus, 30 years ago today saddam husseing invaded kuwait. we have a special report on how that conflict has helped shape the world we know today. and one of britain s most acclaimed film directors sir alan parker has died at the age of 76. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. i m nancy kacungira. the head of the world health organisation has said the effects of the global coronavirus outbreak will be felt for decades to come . tedros ghebreyesus was speaking to the who s emergency committee meeting to assess the covid i9 pandemic six months after first declaring a global public health emergency. the emergency committee is discussing what more can be done to control the virus. the pandemic is a once in a century health crisis, the effects of which will be felt for decades to come. many scientific questions have been resolved. many remain to be answered. early
the biggest daily rise in cases since the outbreak started. officials say 36 more people have died in the last 2a hours. the authorities are preparing a major escalation of controls, blocking all but emergency travel to and from the entire region of lombardy, including the city of milan. the decree being prepared this evening would also extend to 11 northern and eastern provinces, as well as the cities of parma and venice. the measures will see schools closed for several weeks along with all museums, swimming pools, and ski resorts. the number of cases in lombardy is already causing problems for hospitals. some are running out of spare beds, according to the head of the civil protection agency. translation: lombardy, as you know, is facing a tense situation in its hospitals. we expect that we will be asked to transfer patients to intensive care services in other regions. we will win this battle, this war, if our fellow citizens adopt responsible behaviour. we have to change o