Thanks so much for being here tonight for one of the most contentious consequential and closely watched u. S. Elections in history thats right Democrat Joe Biden is fighting to unseat republican President Donald Trump and the world has its eyes on america tonight and well be following every twist and turn with our team of correspondents and experts and ill be keeping you up to date with all the results as they come in and this of course is an election played out with america in crisis mode the cold food pandemic is surging and theres a stark political divide and thats raising fears of unrest but turnout is set to shatter all records lets take a look now at deadline day for American Voters. This is what us to mock crissy looks like today huge lines at many polling stations in one of the worlds oldest and largest democracies from chile wisconsin in the north. Through the city that never sleeps. To tropical florida and the south voters seem to have shown up in massive numbers even during
Latest target is the World Health Organization his criticism mounts over his response to the pandemic. Ethiopia declares a state of emergency warning of grave illegal measures against anybody who undermines the fight against. A bleak prognosis for African Americans and a plea to learn the lessons from current are. So then the uns a chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the Syrian Government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons and looked at 3 attacks in 2017 in the northern syrian town of the men in Hama Province it says there are reasonable grounds to believe Government Forces used bombs containing sarin that hit heavily can jet. Its civilian areas including a hospital the report goes on to say that Bashar Al Assads heavy use of chemical weapons has been a crucial part of his regimes military strategy lets cross straightaway to our diplomats at the james base who joins us from the U
Attempting to cross into greece from turkey. In sports fans are banned from bahrains formula one race of the coronavirus and australia successfully defend a womens t 20 world cup crowd against india in front of a packed melbourne cricket ground. So that and italy is imposing tough restrictions on a quarter of its population locking down its 2nd largest city and more than 16000000 people to try and stop the spread of coronavirus its just had its biggest rise in cases since the outbreak began with more than 1200 confirmed on saturday well the lockdown includes the entire region of long body where the italian outbreak began. And where the most deaths have been recorded home to 10000000 people no one will be able to move in or out of the area and that includes the countrys economic capital of milan the lockdown will also impact several other provinces including venice and haiti another 6000000 people over the restrictions is set to remain until early april so as the very latest in padua in
A Court Showdown with the anticorruption chief well be live in pretoria. Im joined again create a virus continues to have an impact on Global Sports especially when its late but also forcing events including the top Football League has been postponed until april. So that italy has closed schools and shopping malls rolled out checkpoints and told 60000000 people have got to stay on the unprecedented restrictions have been announced as it tries to stop the spread of coronavirus the economy minister has even downs mortgage payments will be suspended its just gone 11 oclock in the morning this is central right at one of the most famous Tourist Spots in rome they would be tourists roaming around the whole time but now its empty the streets pretty well empty. Lets take a look at the close look at the new measures coming into effect into the everybody has been ordered to stay at home unless they can justify their need for travel for work or for Health Emergencies public and private companies
Countries try to stop the spread of korean virus. So then europe is on the high alert has corona virus continues to spread rapidly across the continent and italy imposes unprecedented restrictions on the movements of its entire population european leaders are expected to hold an emergency meeting to discuss ways to halt the outbreak at this stage 27 European Union Member States have confirmed coronavirus cases the European Commission is calling for tougher measures to contain the spread. Member states must still focus on efforts to aggressively contain the virus particularly where there are few cases slowing down the virus must be our greatest priority in order to gain. In time for our Health Systems to function effectively and for research and development to france and italy people are stocking up on basic supplies as the government orders that 60000000 citizens to stay at home with massive restrictions on travel and public gatherings the country has the highest number of cases outsid