Hello and welcome. Its a sign ofjust how serious the coronavirus pandemic has become. The us center for Disease Control has urged americans not to travel during next weeks thanksgiving holiday, americas most important family holiday of the year. The number of patients hospitalized with covid 19 in the United States hasjumped nearly 50 in the last two weeks. In california, the States Department of Public Health has ordered an overnight curfew in most areas. Heres the head of Infectious Disease in the us, dr anthony fauci. Were not talking about shutting down the country, were not talking about locking down. Were talking about intensifying the simple Public Health measures that we all talk about mask wearing, staving distance, avoiding congregate settings, doing things to the extent that we can outdoors versus indoors. If we do that, well be able to hold things off until the vaccine comes. That News Conference followed one by the president elect joe biden in which he laid into President
Fighting with local forces in the Tigray Region appears to be spreading into neighbouring areas. A ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars in the uk is expected to be brought foward to 2030, a decade earlier than originally planned. And diwali with a difference the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. Everybody, in their mind, they are scared about coronavirus, but at the same time, they are kind of adjusting to the new normal. 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. Here in the uk, downing street sources suggest yesterdays sudden departure of the Prime Ministers chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, came about after relations between the two men went off a cliff edge. Borisjohnson is now said to want to move on, following a week of turmoil in the Prime Ministers top team. It comes as trade talks with th
To reset all sorts of things its relationship with parliament, the way it deals with press. Austria announces a National Lockdown of almost three weeks to try to stop rocketing coronavirus cases overwhelming the health service. And diwali with a difference the festival of lights is celebrated in a socially distanced way by hundreds of millions of people around the world. 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. Rockets have been fired at the eritrean capital, asmara, from neighbouring ethiopia, in a major escalation of the conflict between the Ethiopian Government, and local forces in the tigray region. The attacks came hours after a senior official in tigray threatened missile strikes on eritrea. There were reports of clashes along the border between ethiopia and eritrea. The Tigray Peoples Liberation Front see eritrea as supporting ethiopias federal government. In an earlier att
Moved into a care home donald trump has made his first Public Comments since president Electjoe Biden was declared the winner of the election. Despite a Record Number of new coronavirus cases, the president said he would not put the us into lockdown. Mr trump avoided any direct comment on the recent election in his speech but came close to admitting that hes leaving the white house next year. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel after a record long period of silence eight days donald trump is approaching a microphone. The News Conference has been called to talk about the search for a vaccine, at a time when coronavirus cases seem to be spiralling out of control across the whole of the us. The past nine months, my administration has initiated the single greatest mobilisation in us history, pioneering, developing and manufacturing therapies and vaccines in record time. Donald trump insisted he would not shut down the us economy again, but. I will not go this administration will not
And the soldiers best friend the hero dog awarded the canine version of the Victoria Cross for saving British Service men and womens lives in afghanistan. Hello, welcome to the programme. America is back, ready to lead the world the words of president Electjoe Biden on tuesday as he introduced the men and women hed like to steer us Foreign Policy. One by one they took to the microphone to set out a global worldview that differs shaply from president trumps America First approach. He still hasnt conceded the election, but the transition is gathering pace. Mr biden has now been given access to the white house intelligence briefing. Heres our north america editor, jon sopel. Two turkeys, corn and cob, and there can only be one winner. One could end up on the white house dinner table this thanksgiving, the other will be pardoned to roam free. Corn, i hereby grant you a full pardon. So corn lives to fight another day. If only all head to head battles connected to the white house were that e