Warns of the dangers of misinformation as countries fight coronavirus and on World Press Day press freedom day insists the journalists are crucial to battling. So theyve officially recorded less than 3000. 00 coronavirus cases but afghan officials are worried about just how bad the rate may really be random tests on several 100 people in the capital kabul but its painting a disturbing picture it suggests that a 3rd of the city with a population of over 4000000. 00 could be infected russias numbers there on the rise its reported a 50 percent jump in the rate of infections over the past 3 days with more than 10600 new cases recorded on sunday but the government says the mortality rate has slowed just as spaniards are enjoying the outdoors the country is reporting a decline in coated 19 deaths with 164 fatalities the Health Ministry says infections have been the lowest in nearly 7 weeks. Well the pandemic has caused tens of thousands of afghans to cross the border from iran thats the regi
To italy. Plus. Floyd mayweather, undefeated after beating, pack pacquiao thank you for joining us, we begin the programming in yemen where sources have told al jazera that they have entered and they are in the southern port city, supporting the forces of the excide president and that is being denied. In this, the fighters, loyal, to him say they regained control, and in the city, Popular Resistance forces say they have taken control of several positions. Meanwhile, the humanitarian situation continues to worsen, with medical fuel and Power Supplies all running low. The brigadier general, is the spokesman and he said, that no foreign troops have entered yemen and that option is not off the table. I assure you if troops were brought in, we would have confirmed through the Daily Briefing as was the practice. All options are open, the coalition will not spare any effort and achieve positive outcomes on the ground. No troop landings were made into yemen. Well, he is on the ground and, he h
Jail. Ready to name names the daughter of an ira murder victim says she is ready to help police in the case against the leader jerry adams. But first russias president putin criticized ukraine for launching what we calls a punitive operation in the east of the country. Kiev says its blockading the town as part of an antiterrorist operation and Ukraine Defense ministry say prorussian separatist shot down two of its helicopters in the region and prorussia groups are now occupying government offices in several other towns and on wednesday they seized government offices and prorussia separatists taken over government buildings and captured cancelled buildings and on thursday they took over the Prosecutors Office in donsq. We have two correspondents covering the story and we will bet the russia reaction and we will go to eastern ukraine, this is a moving story, jona and bring us up to date with the latest situation report. Reporter it is indeed a moving story steve and it began about 4 30 a
Leesa rice who bowed out of a college speech. And a look at journalist around the world. Tonight the focus in the northern afghanistan landslide shifts. The search is called off after rescue workers are lost in another landslide. 2,000 are feared dead. Now to helping the thousands left homeless. More from the badakhshan disaster. Reporter mass prayer for a mass grave. The afghan villages gave up on finding survivors. Now they just want to locate the bod yes of family and friends bodies of families and forehands. The focus has shifted to thousands that lost their homes. Translation im a survivor. Right now we need tents. 700 houses are under threat of flooding and rand slides. There are landslides. There are fleers of floods fears of floods because there are four valleys where water can flow in. If that happens well be underwater. Digging machines are being brought in. Seven members of my family were here. Four or survive were killed here. Im half alive. What can i do . Days ofs rain in
First a note about uncertainty. Hard times like this call for hard truths. The hard truth is that covid19 will be with us for a long time. Until theres a cure or vaccine it will pose a unique threat. Experts are talking in terms of years. No one likes this. But Everyone Needs to know the truth. The hard truth. The leads who are acting like this is almost over are not leading at all. Theyre failing to tell the hard truth. Thats irresponsible. Im looking at you jared kushner. He said the federal government rose to the challenge. He called it a success story. The hard truth is anyone who talks about this pandemic in the past tense is lying to you. This is present tense crisis. No amount of propaganda can change that but it can confuse people. It is confusing people and thats reckless. The hard truth is that shutdowns and social distancing measures have slowed the spread of the virus but the virus is still winning. Someone from america died every 44 seconds in april. The true toll is worse