Come. And empty churches on Easter Sunday strike some by the tone in the holy land on the day of celebration for christians. The United States has surpassed italy to have the worlds highest coronavirus death toll more than 20000 people are known to have died since the outbreak began Public Health experts are warning that figure could reach 200000 within months if stay at home orders are lifted too soon. Russias announced more than 2000 new cases its biggest daily increase yet and these the sunday services in the holy land and around the world are being held in largely empty churches and cathedrals covered 19 is keeping people away. Lets begin in the u. S. New york states governor says while the death toll is a grim milestone the number of people admitted into intensive care in hospitals is dropping you can see that the numbers somewhat. Stabilizing but it is stabilizing and horrific rate. 783 people 777799. These are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and pain in china i
Years, you and your team have been charged with telling the story of the news media in society. Were going to talk today about news media and president s. When you think about that relationship from a macro standpoint, what has characterized the relationship between president s and the press throughout our history . Patty it is an interesting courtship, that relationship between the president s and the press. Early on during, the campaign years, the candidates want to woo the press. They want to put on the best face. They know the power of the press to get their message outside. But when they get in office and the confetti is down and the celebration is over, and the reality of governing comes in, and they realize that the role of the press is to be a watchdog, to be the peoples watchdog on government, to see how are they doing the job that they are doing. To be a check and balance on the president. Few president s enjoy being criticized. That is often the role of the press. So that re
Libyan people we agreed that. A comprehensive plan will be outlined and i would like to here in particular recognize and thank you mr salim 820 we believe that we from the german side have also given a contribution the foreign minister and myself but i think i can safely say that all of the participants to this conference have worked very constructively and very diligently on bringing this matter forward i think we can safely say that we are all in agreement that the arms embargo is we want to see the arms about you see respected that it will be monitored more closely and more rigorously than in the past if that does not happen we will see time and again that this military solution is not excluded but that people are trying to use military means and we were all at one in saying that the governments we adopted today. And that will be excess will need to be accepted by the Security Council of the United Nations so that there is an official international blessing for the commitments that
Have been killed during an attack on a mosque in a military academy. In london with the top stories from europe including. The bodies of 11 ukrainians on board the passenger jet accidentally shot down by iran arrives home to a solemn ceremony in kiev. And im peter stammered all your sport irish finds a condom a great guy is back in the cage after 15 months away and it takes him just 40 seconds to defeat the pope. Hello libyas warring leaders and powerful outsiders who back them are to summit in berlin aimed at ending years of chaos and conflict and were waiting for a post summit Media Conference to begin well hear from the german chancellor Angela Merkel as well as her foreign minister the u. N. Secretary general and the u. N. Special envoy to libya well the chancellor is hosting 12 World Leaders including the president s of Turkey Russia and france and the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson their priorities are to curb Foreign Military interference and solidify a cease fire Russias Vl
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