With us. Hello im Adrian Finighan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week war games in the South China Sea washington sends an Aircraft Carrier is as beijing use its economic might to expand its territorial ambitions. Big oil gets ready for a post covert world with billions in nigeria gets ready to export gas to europe. But no money to send home families struggle to pay for food and rent as global witnesses to the pandemic. In the himalayas in disputed territory china has been exerting its presence to deadly effect 20 indian soldiers were killed in hand to hand combat the standoff between the 2 Nuclear Neighbors is just the latest move by an aggressive beijing to use its growing economic might in territorial disputes from taiwan to its control over hong kong but its president xi is reach across the South China Sea that we want to look at closely this week to do that its defense spending is inching higher and higher from 14300000000
Florida everglades Flight Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 has been found. And 25 years since Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. We begin in gaza with these developments. The Security Council is set to hold a meeting. Israel confirmed that 13 soldiers have been killed in an overnight operation. The military wing of hamas claimed it captured a soldier. The israeli army are looking into the claims. 60 palestinians were killed in one neighbourhood. 469 have been killed in 13 days of israeli attacks. The wounded have been streaming into hospitals. There are severe shortages. Nick schifrin joins us live in gaza city. The past 24 hours has been violent. Where do we stand at this hour . Yes, good evening. The strikes that we first saw last night into shajia to my left 24 hours later the violence has been high, for his rail and the palestinians more than 60 dead, a few hundred wounded. So many that nobody knows quite the actual number, and for anyone who saw the images today in that neighbourhood a
Accelerates very fast, it decelerates much more slowly. The uk is told not to expect its lockdown to be relaxed yet, despite hopes that deaths from the virus are slowing. Meanwhile in france, president macron announces schools will begin to reopen in mid may and says people will gradually be able to return to work. Welcome. As countries around the world count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic in human lives and economic damage, theres increased pressure on governments to ease some of the restrictions in place. In the uk, the government is warning that the country is still not past the peak of the coronavirus emergency, and the number of deaths is expected to increase further this week before they may start to plateau. Well have more updates from the uk in a moment but first lets go to the us. Where the number of coronavirus deaths in the state of new york has risen to more then 10,000. Thats almost half of all deaths so far across the country. This is the latest from new yorks gover
The uk is told not to expect its lockdown to be relaxed yet, despite hopes that deaths from the virus are slowing. Meanwhile in france, president macron announces schools will begin to reopen in mid may and says people will gradually be able to return to work. And well tell you why the current restrictions are proving good news for the Natural World at least. Welcome. As countries around the world count the cost of the coronavirus pandemic in human lives and economic damage, theres increased pressure on governments to ease some of the restrictions in place. In the uk the government is warning that the country is still not past the peak of the coronavirus emergency and the number of deaths is expected to increase further this week before they may start to plateau. Well have more updates from the uk in a moment but first lets go to the us. Where the number of coronavirus deaths in the state of new york has risen to more then 10,000. Thats almost half of all deaths so far across the count
Announced later today. Businesses and government deparments in australia are hit by what its Prime Minister calls a sophisticated, state based cyber attack. Facebook removes ads by Donald Trumps campaign containing a symbol used by nazi germany the latest setback in a bad week for the us president. And coming up, we return to the northern Italian Region of lombardy, which became the global epicentre of coronavirus when it saw the first major outbreak in europe. Hello and welcome if youre watching in the uk or around the world and stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. Hello, good morning and welcome to bbc news. Im Annita Mcveigh and you can in touch with me on twitter about any of our stories Annita Mcveigh. Our top story today primary and secondary schools in england are to get a £1 billion boost to help children catch up on months of lessons that were missed during lockdown. The uk government has pledged that a third of that cash will go towar