Life well planned. The freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. New york city and this is bbc america. Top u. S. Health officials advise americans to wear masks indoors except at home as coronavirus cases and deaths rise dramatically. Crucial talks on a post brexit trade deal stalled. The conditions for an agreement have not been met. The clock is ticking. Really getting under 30 days and we are not sure on whats happened. Laura plus, one year on from the first cases of coronavirus and people in china are going about their daily lives with few restrictions. Laura welcome to world news america on pbs and around the globe. Top Health Officials in the u. S. Are recommending universal mask wearing outside the home, indoors and outdoors. This comes after president elect joe biden said he wants americans to wear masks for his first 100 days in offic
His absolute priority and he is getting working already in the next 24 hours hell be naming a corona virus taskforce that he will be sitting up he has been advised by various experts for a long period of time now among them ron klain who was the a boat and barack obama but we understand as well that this task force is going to be headed by beck murphy whos a former said Surgeon General appointed by obama and then fired by donald trump in 2018 as well as a former commissioner of the food and Drug Administration David Kessler so this is really a heavyweight team that will be advising biden and which will form part of his Coronavirus Task force as he and his. Vice president elect come heris go forward but biden has made very clear through his campaign and hes made very clear since he was spoke as president elect that he believes that the way to combat the pen did make is to follow the science. And to find donald trump has refused to concede defeat and is preparing for a series of legal fi
Be only doing one of those 2 and you know. Winning is easy losing is never easy now for me its not. But i think we have when we see rallies the likes of which in the history of this country probably in the history of the world nobodys ever seen before. Theres a tremendous love going on in this country and theres really a tremendous unity theres a tremendous unity nobodys ever seen that we take an airport and the airports not big enough to hold the crowds nobodys ever seen a thing like that and our opposition is you know we have a few people sitting in circles and thats ok thats not normal thats not abnormal actually i mean thats the way it is 11 f. Alan fischer in washington d. C. Monitoring all developments in that was president trying speaking about an hour and a half ago just under 2 hours how did he seem to you. Different tone isnt it i mean its not quite the bullish attack hungry donald trump that weve seen over the last 3 days on the campaign trail remember he said 17 events in t
The Prime Minister of armenia and the president of the Russian Federation signed a statement which declares a complete cease fire and of military action in the nagornokarabakh war zone starting from midnight on november 10th moscow time armenias Prime Minister described the deal as unbelievably painful. The backlash was immediate moments after the announcement furious summons traders stormed into parliament in your avant to protest the move the conflict they argue is about much more than land. But armenia had undergone a number of defeats azeri forces overran nagornokarabakh 2nd city shoe shop and they were on their way to the capital when the deal was signed some analysts say armenia didnt have much choice the prospect of conflict and its costs could be so much worse for the armenians given the current rate of momentum. So hes in a difficult position to be sure and it remains to be seen what the future holds for him more than a 1000 people on both sides have died tens of thousands are
Francine a couple of days ago. They are close in condemning huawei in china. This is over a security law that china did in hong kong with the u. K. Offering to suspend the extradition treaty with china, something that china has not taken so well. Nott punish the u. K. By doing dont touch football. It is something that actually could simmer, but we had a great story on bloomberg yesterday saying that under president xi, we could just see a china versus u. S. , china versus u. K. , as he is ready to take on the world as being the strongman back home. Tom it will be interesting to seal. I will be emailing our chinese brethren, on crystal palace, i believe, sunday. Right now, first word news with karina mitchell. Karina bloomberg has learned there is a settlement in the Goldman Sachs case and malaysia. Elation would drop all criminal charges it malaysia would drop all criminal charges against the bank. China has struck back. He has ordered the u. S. To close its consulate in the southweste