Practices in thailand Elephant Training School its. The at. The end. Un secretarygeneral and 20 good ted asias urged israel to abandon its plans to an expired its of the occupied west bank calling it a watershed moment and the most serious violation of International Law members of the Un Security Council and the arab league have been meeting to discuss israels move which could be put in motion as early as next week or diplomatic editor james bays reports. With the clock ticking towards a july deadline for an accession the u. N. Secretary general made his position to the Security Council extremely clear if implemented and accession constituted of serious violation of International Law or grievously harmed the prospect of a 2 state solution and the gulf the possibilities of a new will of negotiations i call on the Israeli Government ban its an exception class Palestinian Foreign minister riad el maliki says the israel of Benjamin Netanyahu doesnt believe its bound by International Norms
Arrested and charged in the u. S. Heavy rain triggers a landslide at a jade mine in myanmar killing at least 162. 00 people plus. The. Tension still high in ethiopia as a popular singer is murder triggered deadly protests is laid to rest. Coronavirus cases and now rising in 40 out of the 50 states in the u. S. As the countrys outbreak threatens to spiral out of control florida alone has reported more than 10000 cases in the last 24 hours and the Texas Governor has made it mandatory to wear masks in public this a day after more than 50700 infections were confirmed nationwide a new daily high despite that President Trump a sort to put across the message that all is well celebrating the positive news that 4800000 people went back to work last month to him the Unemployment Rate down to 11 point one percent but he failed to point out that only 7 and a half 1000000 of the 22000000 people whove lost their jobs since the pandemic hit are back in work this is not just luck whats happening this
Europe professional sports returns to south korea but fans arent yet to be taken out to the ballgame. Hello thank you for joining us a senior washington official who was removed from his key role in the u. S. Corner virus response has attacked the trumpet ministrations handling of the crisis and accused his former agency of an abuse of authority or gross mismanagement dr rick bright of was the Deputy Assistant health and Human Services secretary in a whistleblower complaint filed on tuesday he says he was reassigned because he tried to prioritize science and safety over political expediency with more on the story im joined live by khanna in washington d. C. So mike this broke in the past hour or so what else can you tell us about dr brights complaint. Well dr bryant was a director of the biomedical advice and Development Authority otherwise known as barbara certainly a highly senior official he was a centrally in charge of developing vaccines for any virus that would hit the United Sta
Including its 2 biggest cities. And a month on from the declaration of a pandemic we go back to the one of life markets of asia to blamed for causing the chaos. So the United States has become the country with the highest death toll from corona virus according to the Johns Hopkins university tracker more fatalities were confirmed in the past day taking the u. S. Past italy which is on 19 1468. 00 deaths you can see that top right and heres the United States where the total is now 19701. 00 as you can see a confirmed cases in the worlds biggest economy have been skyrocketing in the month since a pandemic was declared and lets speak to mike hanna who joins us now from washington d. C. So mike now the United States has small fatalities and anywhere else. Weve lost our connection there with my camera well try to get it back a little bit later in the program now critics of President Donald Trump say his slow response is largely to blame for the high numbers in the u. S. Lets hear now from o
A 2nd wave of infections. I will explore the idea of socalled immunity passports for people who for cover even though questions to remain about resistance. Began in europe are coronavirus numbers are giving some calls for hope spanish Officials Say another 674 people have died there that is an awful number but it is the 3rd day in a row that the death toll has fallen down 135. 00 from the previous day the infection rate is also slowing the u. K. Has announced another 621. 00 deaths which like spain is fewer than the day before warmer weather though is drawing people out of their homes and in the u. S. New york states had almost 600. 00 further deaths taking the total to about 42000. 00 that is partly 40 percent of the u. S. Is death toll. We have 2 correspondents this half hour mike hanna in washington they say. London lets go to mary have now. Yes thats right michelle so we had from the u. K. Government today in that briefing another robust message about social distancing measures war