Controversial the chairman of the sun bellatrix giant samson has died after being in hospital for the past 6 years. But 1st to iraq are antigovernment protests are resuming across the country after a long suspension juge the coronavirus hundreds of people have been killed and injured in the protests against corruption unemployments which began one year ago well lets say had life needed to baghdads where some or not faulty in standing by for someone what exactly are these protesters calling for. Their demands have life be more over the past year when they 1st went out a year ago they were asking for a homeland which of them means to live in dignity to have access to good service. Have access to jobs and to be governed by. A Good Government that is not corrupt now of course they have achieved to some extent their demand they achieve the resignation of former Prime Minister either of them after which was the 1st time that a Prime Minister was forced to resign since 2003 but the Political
Anger and frustration in the u. S. Over the decision not to charge any policeman over the killing of brianna taylor. And protests in Southern France over coronavirus restrictions but the governments warning of tough times ahead as the flu season combines with a spike in infections. And im peter standing with the sports including a big win for the l. A. Lakers in the n. B. A. Playoffs bron james and his teammates beat the Denver Nuggets to move just one game away from the finals. Top story he served as mollys defense minister and is a retired colonel now. Is the interim president he was sworn in just within the last couple of hours or so his inauguration comes 5 weeks after the military ousted the former president and. Will serve as president for a maximum term of 18 months until nationwide elections are held in the regional bloc of West African States has been mediating the crisis they are expected to decide later on friday whether to lift sanctions imposed after that coup. Sue me. But
They hit the take and have full analyst with panel. We have the latest on the deadlock coming up. Turning to markets this morning, futures under pressure ahead of july jobs report. Take a look. We are expecting a decline right out of the gate on dow industrials, nasdaq down 55, s p down 17 after markets ended yesterday near session highs, in fact, nasdaq scoring a fourth record close in a row. Dow industrials up 185 points yesterday and nasdaq 110 and s p up 21 at 4 00 oclock on wall street. Unrest in america, portland plagued by violence and fires overnight. Federal agents headed to two more cities as part of operation legend. Mornings with maria is live right now. Global markets this morning under selling pressure. Take a look at up european indices, dax index in germany lower by 28. Germany showing some signs of recovery, 8. 9 in the month of june. In asia overnight markets were mostly lower following President Trumps executive orders. Shanghai composite down 1 , hang seng and hong
Docks in new york to help the citys struggling health care system. And lockdown in senegal but with limited access to clean water there are fears of how far infections could spread. But 1st to japan where the government is imposing a series of new social restrictions amid a recent surge in cases of coronavirus its also urging citizens not to travel to 73. 00 countries in regions thats a 3rd of the world its expected to close its borders to people coming from the us canada china south korea and from most of europe japan has so far been spared a major outbreak of the virus but the number of infections is now approaching 2056 people have died. And the world bank is warning the pandemic could force up to 11000000. 00 people into poverty across the Asia Pacific Region its expecting growth in china and developing asian economies will fall heavily warning significant economic pain is now unavoidable lets get the very latest now from across asia katrina is our correspondent in beijing so 2 ver
And well take you to one of the labs where scientists are racing to find a covert 1000 vaccine. Hello the World Health Organization has sounded a note of hope for the european nations worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic saying steps taken in italy and spain should see case numbers drop soon so despite that though the number of infections in spain passed china in the past 24 hours while it saw 800 new deaths and in italy the number of new cases continued to fall but deaths past the 11000 mark and over in the u. S. Its bracing for the outbreak there to get worse a hospital ship with a 1000 beds has now docked in new york while the top Infectious Disease expert says there will be clusters in other big cities and a 3 week lockdown has begun in zimbabwe with police and forcing some of the toughest measure a seat in africa sachs have been shut and Movement Restricted the country has seen one death so with many countries in europe in lockdown the fight continues to contain the virus paul br