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A 1000000 New Zealanders go back to work. And donald trump and likely president ial rival joe biden try to score political points by talking tough on china but critics warn the strategy could backfire. Im sumi so much going to thank you for joining us britain has held a minutes silence to pay tribute to frontline workers who have died after contracting covert 19 of these were the scenes earlier this morning. The u. K. Government has announced it will make a 60000 pounds compensation payment to families of Health Workers and social care staff who died fighting the outbreak thats around 70000 euros critics of the governments response to the pandemic say its highlighted the crisis within the u. K. s National Health system. Our correspondent Barbara Mohsin is with us from a lot to tell us more about this event of paying tribute to frontline workers across britain. Well this could be the Prime Minister Boris Johnson making his mark hes back at work this week and he wanted to set the tone ri
And cast doubt who died fighting to turn the virus but theres growing concern criticism over a lack of personal protective equipment. And surveillance of public areas is part of life in china but a new report says a coronavirus pandemic distraught is the very doorsteps of peoples hopes. Im phil gallo welcome to the program so could the coronavirus pandemic be a chance to save the planet from Climate Change thats a question ministers from 30 countries have been debating in an online Summit Germany and britain hosting this years round of the petersburg climate dialogue german chancellor Angela Merkel said climate protection had to be considered as part of the economic stimulus programs that governments are launching to help industries recover from the pandemic. Well early in the zoo is back in business from today climate activists fear that because of the corona crisis politicians may play increasingly hard to get on their climate goals addressing the 1st virtual pieces the climate dialo
Citys largest single outbreak. Today the citys homeless shelter looked much like an emergency medical ward. Some residents were ferried to hotels the city has secured stoisolate vulnerable populations. To isolate vulnerable populations. We had plans to staff up hotel rooms as rapidly as we possibly can in case an outbreak occurs. Reporter for weeks, a number of city supervisors and helpings advocates had been pushing for broader use of hotel rooms ahead of such an outbreak. We need to move people into hotels now. It is absol inevitable that were gonna have outbreaks in all the hospitals. Reporter the Mayors Office resisted that approach, using hotel rooms on a more tactical scale, arguing the city does not have the staff for housing the homeless at large and at will. If you cant selfcare, youre still gonna come inside somewhere. But we need more care wrapped around you for that to be successful. Staff enough people, everything from monitoring to security to medical to counselo all of t
Increasingly, every waking moment in washington seemed to hang on the latest revelations from these 12 us officials, called as fact witnesses by democrats to bolster their case that President Trump abused his office for personal political gain. With impeachment all but certain and pressure building, the president rang into his favourite programme, fox and friends, for a nearly hour long interview. Mr president , you expect an impeachment vote. Do you expect to get impeached, and would you say you embrace the idea of. No, i dont expect it. You dont expect it . You dont expect democrats will vote for this . I think its very hard for them to impeach when they have absolutely nothing. Still, the president has begun strategizing with republicans and claims he wants a senate trial. But what of the key question, whether a white house meeting in us aid was expressly tied to the ukrainians announcing investigations into the bidens . Perhaps the most damning testimony against the president came