President has challenged on his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Talks go late into the night in brussels as e. U. Leaders remain divided over how to implement a massive covert 19 recovery package. And the show must go on but it will be a tough year for hollywood as it tries to produce television and films during a pandemic. Hong kong is tightening coronavirus linked restrictions after recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures after more than 100. 00 ear infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign that its coming under control lets go live now to hong kong i was there as adrian brown is there adrian until now on kongs low infection rate made it the envy of the world whats gone wrong. Its interesting isnt it adrian if we were talking about india or the United States recording more than 100. 00 new infections in one day that would be seen as
Leaders come back for a 4th day as they debate a massive covert 19 recovery package. The show must go on but it will be a tough year for hollywood as it tries to produce t. V. And films in the midst of a pandemic. Hong kong is tightening coronavirus think restrictions off recording its highest one day increase in cases since the pandemic began the territories leader kerry lamb announced the measures softer more than 100 new infections were confirmed on sunday she described the situation as critical and says theres no sign of it coming under control aljazeera has adrian brown in hong kong outlines the possible reasons behind the recent spike in cases. Up until a few weeks ago hong kong was recording a 0 infection rate but now in the past 2 weeks weve had more than 500 new infections now as to why that has happened well there are different interpretations certainly some commentators are suggesting that its complacency hong kong that its guard down after social distancing rules were relax
Any books are sold. We return now to the topic of school and university reopenings. Our guest is sidney mcphee, president of middle Tennessee State university. Viewers mightve seen you when you participated in a Panel Discussion at the white house last week to talk about reopenings and how it might happen. What did you tell the president and the Vice President at that Panel Discussion . Good morning and thank you for having me on your show. I told the Vice President and the president that our university was being very measured and had taken great preparation to safely open our university for our students and our employees this fall. There were a number of challenges that we had to address in order to make sure the campus is safe and that we were ready for the onset of 22,000 students and 3000 faculty and staff at one of the top universities in tennessee. You announced that middle Tennessee State university you were the first to announce that you would open in the fall. How do you plan
Last week to talk about reopenings and how it might happen. What did you tell the president and Vice President at that Panel Discussion . Guest good morning and thank you for having me on your show. I told the Vice President and ourpresident that university was being very measured and had taken great preparation to safely open our university for our students this fall. There were a number of challenges that we had to address in order to make sure the campus was safe and that we were ready for the onset of 22,000 students and 3000 faculty and staff at one of the top universities in tennessee. Middleou announce that Tennessee State universityunivet to announce that you would open in the fall. How do you plan to do that, and what changes does that mean for how your students will experience school . Yes, we were the First University in the state to announce in april that we were going to offer inperson, oncampus courses, and bring our students back. At that time, the curve was flattening,
This half hour how could with 19 will mean higher costs and longer production times for the movie business. Who begin in brussels where e. U. Leaders are meeting for an extended day to hammer out their budgets and a coronavirus bailout package the budget is an unprecedented amount of money about 2. 00 trillion u. S. Dollars look at all those zeros that includes 857000000000 to help countries recover from the pandemic but the leaders can also agree on how the funds should be distributed to countries who need them the most live now to any barker who is following that story for us this half hour so neve is it beginning to look as if no ones going to blink 1st and say yeah we can all get go with this and get on to the same page. Well i mean thats the hope. In the last 20 minutes or so the austrian chancellor suggested that he did feel that some progress was being made and the possibly by the end of the day this the 3rd day of talks they might well be in agreement but all of that is very mu