In the city of chengdu after its all that close in a worsening diplomatic dispute. Thank you very much for joining us at least one person has been killed during antigovernment protests in iraqs capital baghdad is the 1st fatality touring demonstration since Prime Minister. To me was sworn into office 2 months ago testers are over corruption unemployment and Poor Public Services iraq has seen months of andras as it struggles with an economic crisis and political instability simona 14 is in baghdad with more. What appears to have happened last night based on our conversations with a few protesters in Baghdads Tahrir square is that a group of protesters gathered in Tahrir Square to march in direction of another nearby square which is when Security Forces and the cording to the protesters playing clothed officials opened fire using live ammunition and bird charts to wardes these demonstrators at least one person was killed though a 2nd may have died later on in the hospital according to ir
A landmark in the fight for racial justice. This after a day of tense antiracism brownlees fueled by clashes in portland between protesters and federal agents deployed by President Trump. And in Sports Events are ahead in the game that could feed down when the italian title picture on all those gold has put you say why no law against some doria. Welcome to the news hour from the beaches of spain to the streets of melbourne coronavirus cases are surging on almost every continent the global death toll is racing toward 650000 with more than a 3rd of fatalities in just 2 countries the United States and brazil or they and india account for nearly half of all confirmed infections in the world and the virus is also spreading faster its taken just 4 days for the global numbers of cases to jump from 15 to 16000000 over the past week 37 countries have reported record spikes in daily infections including me. Since once praised for its taming their outbreaks like australia and israel here in europ
And federal agents deployed by President Trump. Argentinas police are accused of using the current virus as a cover for abuses. Hello from the beaches of spain to the streets of melbourne corona virus cases are surging on almost every continent the global death toll is racing toward 650000 with more than a 3rd of fatalities in just 2 countries the United States and brazil they and india account for nearly half of all confirmed infections in the world and the virus is also spreading faster its taken just 4 days for the global number of cases from to jump from 15 to 16000000 over the past week 37 countries have reported record spikes in daily infections including nations once praised for taming their outbreaks like australia and israel here in europe one report suggests spains actual death toll may be 60 percent higher because suspected cases were never included in its total of 28432. 00 victims but spain insists it is safe despite a new spike in cases prompting the u. K. To abrupt abrup
Look at how the outbreak in africa threatens to send malaria related deaths soaring the c. S. And also perhaps. The painstaking process of restoring the acropolis in athens as the greek government revenues its call for britain to return its ancient trusts. And im santa how much not have all the support a big day for your fantasy the syria leaders have the chance to wrap up a night straight at league title. But we begin this hour with the current virus pandemic which is spreading further and faster every day now it took the wild 2 weeks to get from 1000000. 00 to 2000000. 00 infections its now taken just 4 days to make the leap from 15 to 16000000 days out from the u. S. Based on Hopkins University shows the United States. Brazil and india are leading that savage and take a look at this graph it shows the number of cases that are added daily and that curve is clearly rising with more than a quarter of a 1000000 new infections every 24 hours almost 650000 people wild wide are now known t
Country if he were to lose. And his supporters, taking their cues from him. Georgia state congressman, vernon jones, a democrat, who endorsed the president for reelection, crowd surfs, maskless, on a sea of mostly maskless people at a trump rally. The pandemic not stopping voters from turning in early ballots. The pandemic may be largely galvanizing with record turnout. This is a look of voters waiting hours to vote in georgia and across the country already, nearly 22 million have cast their ballots. With just five days until lawmakers vote on the u. S. Supreme Court Justice nominee, thousands are marching to the nations capitol in protest of the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett to the u. S. High court. We have a team of correspondents covering all of these developments. Lets begin with evan mcmorrissantoro with the rise of covid cases in the u. S. The surge is frightening. What are Health Experts warning about . Reporter well, fred, what theyre basically doing is looking at the calen