Warning the days ahead will be e en worse. Tonight the u. S. Is shattering records set in those first unimaginable days of the crisis. On tuesday, the country reached another new high of infections in a single day, more than 136,000. Things are now so dire in places like missouri and wisconsin, at least one out of every three people tested is positive. More than 1,400 people have been killed by the virus in just the past 24 hours. E most to die in oneie in one day in months. The death toll is now growing so fast, one model says it will reach 400,000 by february. Tonight, hospitals across the midwest are running out of beds and protective gear. College Football Games are being canceled. And schools, including syracuse university, are shutting down as cases there explode. And without the president speaking out, the nations governors are now stepping in. As we come on the air, new yorks governor is just the latest to reimpose restrictions, forcing restaurants to close trictions,limiting p
Our news review of the week russian opposition figure head says he is making progress in this recovery as moscow and berlin wrangle over evidence in the alleged poisoning. Was in the weekly here on r. T. Welcome to our round up of the days news along with the headlines that shape the week just gone. Opposition crowds have regrouped across belarus and theres now a massive protest underway in minsk anger at the alleged rigging of the president ial election has been driving people to the streets for 6 weeks now are reports from the capital. This is a still gathering together in this square behind me what they do is they gather in little groups over the city in various districts where they live and then they could show all of that into it into a huge rally huge much asss happening barden knowledge crowds merging together right now its difficult to tell with the with regards to numbers for perhaps 5000. 00 people behind me more maybe joining the but the impression so far is that there are f
16000 coronavirus cases in the u. K. Go unreported for one week because of a technical failure within the data system. And the team behind the discovery of the hepatitis c. Virus and the 2020 nobel prize for medicine. We start with the intensifying fight between armenia and azerbaijan over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh the conflict is now into its 2nd week fighting is moving closer to major cities and remains intense along the line of control the regional capital stepanek yet thats come under sustained bombardment as opposed to an as reported several missile attacks on 2 of its cities in this region it says some of the infrastructure sites in the city of via were targeted nato secretary general has joined the International Calls for a cease fire yet in stoltenberg also called on turkey which has been backing azerbaijan to use its influence to calm tensions. We are deeply concerned about of the situation in on their own god but we are of course watching the situation very caref
Vast majority of the worlds population therefore did not. Follow their Morning Money as kevin i would welcome to the weekly from r. T. International a roundup of the big stories of the last 7 days as reported by us to you 1st the russian opposition figure election the valley is on the path to recovery at a hospital in berlin after coming out of an induced coma last week hes since revealed his intention to return to russia as soon as hes fighting fit again meantime the diplomatic row between moscow and berlin over his alleged poisonings only got worse in the week all monday germany said labs in sweden and france it independently verified that the valley was poisoned by a nerve agent from the group the Global Chemical weapons watchdog is also analyzing the samples russias prosecutor generals requested that information on the case be shared but so far to no avail. With their excuses are completely contrived germany says it cant tell us anything in direct says to the organization for the p
Of the u. S. Postal service pledges to deliver ballots on time as the house plans a rare saturday vote to approve emergency funding. Fires forced tens of thousands from their homes in california and governor appeals for help from canada and australia on that strike doctors in kenya say theyre stuck with substandard protective gear to treat coronavirus patients due to corruption. And joining us now with the sportscaster vs records here right in the title with a stunning comeback. Russian Opposition Leader alexina vonnie has arrived at the hospital to receive emergency treatment for suspected poisoning russian doctors had initially said he was too sick to be moved from a hospital in the siberian city of all means but they changed their position late on friday the bonnies wife yulia believes the delay in releasing him was intentional making it harder to detect any poisons remaining in his system than they fell ill during a flight to moscow thursday on xander an overage called why is stand