Closed shops the Pandemic Forces the democratic republic of congo to shut down its Main Commercial hub in the capital kinshasa. The. Staying connected in chile we look at some of the creative ways that people are socializing and keeping in shape a lot of them. Thank you for joining us less than 2 months after a chinese tourist in france became the 1st coronavirus fatality in europe the continents death toll has passed 50700000 people across europe have now been diagnosed with the virus but there are some signs the mortality rate is leveling out if not falling in europe spain and germany and the u. K. Of all recorded their lowest number of deaths in days meanwhile the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson remains in a London Hospital johnson said he was in good spirits he will stay under observation after several tests for persistent symptoms and in the United States new York Governor Andrew Cuomo says the state Health Care System is at Maximum Capacity but a daily decline in the number of
Pizza gains World Heritage status. World heritage status. And coming up in the sport on bbc News Premier League clubs make history in the Champions League with 5 teams from england reaching the knockout stages for the first time. Good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. The leader of hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group, has called for an uprising or intifada in response to president trumps decision to recognise jerusalem as the capital of israel. Palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip are today holding a day of strikes and protests and israels military has used water cannon against protesters in bethlehem. Traditional allies of the United States, including saudi arabia and france, have condemned president trumps decision, but israel has hailed it as historic, and mr trump himself insists his plan will help to promote peace in the middle east. Heres our correspondent tom burridge. Tension is again simmering here in the Israeli Occupied west bank. Israeli soldiers confr
Tell the story of the weather. This has been the story this morning in the Northern Isles but for scotland tomorrow i suspect we will have seems like this with blizzard like conditions and frequent snow showers tonight but how far south will they go . Stay watching and i will tell you in half an hour. Thank you. Well be talking to tvs nick hewer about why 80 of the worlds orphans arent actually orphans and what hes doing to help them. We might talk about that other apprentice presenter, dondald trump, as well. Hello. The leader of hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group, has called for an uprising or intifada in response to President Trumps decision to recognise jerusalem as the capital of israel. Palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip are holding a day of strikes and protests and israels military has used water cannon against protesters in bethlehem. Traditional allies of the United States, including saudi arabia and france, have condemned President Trumps decision but israel has
Creditors what he called terrorism. Meantime, greek banks remain closed today. The atms are running out of money. The ecb is holding a Conference Call today tole try and decide how long to keep a life live at the banks. Meantime Germanys Angela Merkel will meet with Frances Francois hollande today. And theres a meeting of creditors today. We were talking before the show it just is confounding to me just watching it happen. It almost looks like you get so defiant at some point, youd almost rather inflict your own demise, than have it inflicted by somebody else. And i think thats part of what happened here. Merkel saying by the way, she thinking the greek Prime Minister basically drug his people into a wall. If youre a creditor if youre a socialist and smart money like thought that would never happen. Once it happened i guess all bets are off. You cant assume that theyre going to have some sort of all attitude about in the middle east, about democracy, no longer do i think we can expect
The middle class has been crushed with taxes, how much they have to spend just to file their taxes, 75,000 pages of tax code. Somethings got to be done. There are people in this country that work for the month of july just to pay their first dollar. More money in peoples pockets means more savings, more spendings and a better economy. Corporations are not competitive because of how much they pay in taxes. We have the second highest Corporate Tax rate in the world. 39. 1 . Thats where the money is. If youre going to do anything, cut Corporate Taxes. There will be more jobs, better paying jobs. We have fewer people working in fulltime jobs today than we did at the high point before the recession. Thats job one. I love that, too, because its diametrically opposed, opposite of what Hillary Clinton is saying, we need to snatch the money from the corporate balance sheet, tax them more, get their income and redistribute it. But when i listen to donald trump, who, once again, i really like and