Elections for a year with the blame laid on the pandemic. Zimbabwe sends out the military to enforce a ban on antigovernment protests in dozens of people around. Im catherine soy. And found the kenya where hundreds of thousands of depends on making that on your migration then more tourists to see them ill be telling you why. Im joining us trust her with the sports as more teens report positive current virus cases strain the Major League Baseball season into jeopardy. So once in a Century Health crisis thats how the head of the World Health Organization is now describing the coronavirus pandemic director general total scarborough yesus has told a meeting of its Emergency Committee that the effects will be felt for decades his comments were made as u. S. Health officials were facing congress over the response to the virus that the countrys top Infectious Disease expert says he is now hopeful that a vaccine by early next year well the pandemic has left the eurozone reeling from its largest economic drop on raw. Called despite the reduction affecting the entire blog Member States remain divided on how to address the crisis and restrictions have been reimposed in parts of Northern England after a rise in infections that scotland has even warned its citizens not to travel to parts of the country unless absolutely necessary or it will have more on the situation in europe in just a few minutes for instance towards mike hanna whos in washington d. C. And be monitoring. The Health Officials facing congress over the government response to the virus there so what have they been hearing. Welnick essentially right from the beginning it became a very political hearing indeed the chairman of the committee a democrat saying that the purpose of this hearing is to create a National Program that prior art of prioritizes science over politics immediately we heard from the ranking republican member insisting that President Trump has provided a program demonstrating a whole series of notes that were in fact guidelines issued by bodies like the centers for Disease Control so certainly it has been a contentious hearing to date and a dramatic moment when the chair of the committee. James why cliff produced a set of graphs which show the massive discrepancy between the level of infection in europe as opposed to the United States showing the massive peak in the United States while the trend in europe went dramatically down now clearly President Trump is watching this hearing in real time because as that graph went out and President Trump was treating out and this is what he had to say somebody please tell congressman clyburn who doesnt have a clue that the chart he put up indicating more cases for the u. S. And europe is because we do much more testing than any other country in the world if we had no testing or bad testing we would show a very few cases well dr to me fine. She was asked about those particular graphs and he said look at the conflicts. In terms of these different reactions or different developments in the in the spread of the disease but he said specifically that what happened right at the beginning of the pandemic europe shut down 95 percent the United States shut down some 50 percent of its capacity then he continued a number of the 50 states did not respond appropriately opened up too early so there are a myriad of details why the spike within the United States but certainly no reference whatsoever to the spike in the United States occurring because of more testing in fact Health Experts contending its very much the opposite theres not enough testing going on and also cautiously optimistic that a safe and as you put it effective vaccine could be available in the near future. Well dr quality spoke about 3 different platforms that are under development at the moment talking about how they are working together collaborating both in terms of the source data and in terms of their results he expressed optimism very cautious optimism about one of these platforms which is now in its final stage trials that too will now go to be tested among a group of some 30000. 00 people dr fox is saying that the initial 1st and 2nd phases of this particular vaccine were promising he says that there could be results within the next few months perhaps before the end of the year but touching it very very carefully this is what doctors had to say. The response that was induced was really quite favorable and as ive said often and ill repeat it for the record now theres never a guarantee that youre going to get a safe and effective vaccine but from everything weve seen now in the animal data as well as the early human data we feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end of this year and as we go into 2021. Well dr poetry was also extensively grilled by republican congressman jim jordan who constantly awestruck to fox you with the protests should be outlawed given that crowds spread the virus dr fox he would not be drawn on this at all repeatedly on swearing that any form of crowd without a mosque is dangerous he is not going to apply in on the nature of the crowds but he would recommend generally against being careful in crowds that schildt the committee then came to talk to fire chiefs defense being put in an awkward position by congressman jordan saying that crowds are a generic jeanette general whether they are crowds of protesters or crowds of those who attend political rallies without mosques so certainly theres a lot of contention in this hearing and as i said right from the beginning it is already politically divided in terms of what is actually happening mike thanks very much indeed my kind in washington d. C. Well lets head east across the atlantic to europe and a closer look at how the pandemic has hurt the euro zones economy i can tell you its shrunk by more than 12 percent over the past 3 months thats the biggest drop on record for the bloc of 19 nations spain being the hardest hit its economy contracted by 18 and a half percent italy and portugal have also seen big downturns european leaders trying to counter the effects with massive stimulus packages at both national and e. U. Level and that includes an 850000000000. 00 Recovery Fund our economics editor abbott ali breaks it all down for us. They are terrible numbers i mean this has really crushed any. Reshape recovery which some people in the markets and some economists were kind of predicting so thats the at the at the window right now and much of the recovery really depends on governments now in the United States obviously you know that come to the end of one Stimulus Program which was it quickly to 3 trillion dollars and in your they have into it going to be to use in this new stimulus that you we just spoke about which is the 7 a 50000000000 euro and so that should help the economy in europe and base a lot of money shifting away from the u. S. Markets and going to once europe and that can be seen in the dollar euro. Comparison which shows that the dollar has formed by 6 percent in probably the last month or so so theres real theres theres real hope that europe will make a stronger recovery because its healthy response to the Health Crisis was a lot better than what the United States has done and the u. S. Now we has to step up and they have to come through with another stimulus package possibly one trillion to 2 trillion dollars to really help the u. S. Economy because u. S. Economy is really useful and helpful to the rest of the world because when it rises it lifts all other counties with it because it sucks in imports so if you take take a look at germany h. M. T. German exports supported by 16 percent to the United States so. You can see that the United States is really crucial to any kind of recovery your president rather well keeping the jobless numbers really low you and thats because they have these. Programs. In process right now which are keeping about 26000000 people in jobs who might otherwise have been made to any point so this its really important and Consumer Confidence all right lets across the general who joins us now from oldham which is near manchester and join absurd local lock downs a new measures have been announced by the Prime Minister to extend to these reflects concerns about a 2nd wave which could be about to hit. Yet local lock down instructions have come into place at midnight last night here in parts of Northern England where i am around the Greater Manchester area also parts of east lancashire West Yorkshire leicester and so on affecting some 4000000 people in this part of the country but also further measures announced by the Prime Minister expanded mandatory mask wearing a rollback reduced a freeze on further easing of restrictions that had been due to take place on saturday and he made those announcements in a press conference a couple of a couple of hours ago i think reflecting concern about the possible onset of a 2nd wave although careful to say that were not quite there yet but possibly not far behind countries like france and spain just across the water who are seek steep rises in their infection rates and he and the chief medical officer making the point that there is a delicate balance to be struck between reopening the economy while maintaining stable falling infection rates and the moment that balance tips in the other direction is the moment to put the brakes on the sea said in that moment it seems is now the Prime Minister warning that we cannot be complacent we have to act rapidly because what he had to sir. Our assessment is that we should now squeeze that brake pedal squeeze that brake pedal in order to keep the virus under control on saturday the 1st of august you remember we had hoped to reopen in england a number of the higher risk settings that had remained closed and today im afraid were perspiring those changes for at least a fortnight i know that the steps that were taking will be a real blow to many people everyone obviously whose wedding plans have been disrupted or who cannot now celebrate ied in the way that they would wish and im really really sorry about that but we simply cannot take the risk. So general recall there was so much relief when restrictions were lifted so how are people now taking the new restrictions have been brought back in parts of Northern England where you are. Well you know youll appreciate were just beginning to look into that now but its very clear that the Muslim Community in particular is unduly affected by all of this as the ied weekend begins its their most important religious festival of the year the new measures that have been introduced up here announced rather chaotically at 2 hours to midnight last night via twitter took everybody here by quite some surprise cause a lot of confusion a lot of disappointment as well because what they centrally mean is that household groups car mixed together in homes in single homes or even in private gardens now this is an area with a High Percentage of black asian and minority ethnic groups within the population within those groups of course a High Percentage of multigenerational households a high number of muslim households as well during eden what would they do these families in need of course they would mix in their homes or in private gardens which they now cannot do and im very clearly getting the sense from people that i talked to up here that they are feeling unduly targeted by these measures at this time in particular as has been pointed out to me more than once today while cops are allowed to continue operating freely jenna thanks very much jenna hole reporting from oldham Greater Manchester lets take this on the bit further we can speak now to over broken up in athens hes a professor for European Studies at Stanford University in berlin nice to see that across europe now governments of scuttling about trying to prevent a 2nd wave gripping their populations im just wondering whether the individual governments and collectively or the europe can learn anything from the efforts of the 1st attempt to take on code. Well what we saw in the 1st wave for was a very mixed picture of shadow and liked what went well was how the European Union coordinated transfers within the Single Market like allowing Member States to who support companies which is against competition law so that all went quickly but some Member States got very nervous when they learned that they dont have enough heart and medical devices and and protection hardware and they stopped the transport from one country to another which sounded like a lack of solidarity so this is now much better coordinates. Travel restrictions towards 3rd countries it manages the Single Market what has been mentioned already is. Your Recovery Plan that helps countries to get back on the ground and theres a lot of coordination with research on. To help to get acts together and who are resources d to find ways out of the crisis right i guess in a sense is easier now isnt it because we know what to expect and nations up better provided with p. P. But what about different approaches to the needs of individual economies and in some countries determine to inject life into tourism others you know be a bit more restrictive. Exactly thats the flip side too on the one hand you can coordinate a lot brussels and have a federal essential approach towards a pandemic on the other hand each and every country is affected differently if we only look at Something Like that you pregnancy rate of tourism whether Different Countries than greece where i am right now has a dependency right now its more than the quarter of the National Economy that is directly or indirectly dependent on tourism so if no 1 may come or faces difficult conditions off the words and being sent to karen time and ruins the National Economy and thats fundamentally different from germany where i am like the situation with a much more industrial sector which still continues to produce under different conditions but its working and the unemployment rates typical message up its counted in. 100 thousands in a country of 82. 00 when there were young and happy times so on how countries are affected its difference a lot and that means that one size fits all policy it wouldnt work in a situation like that do you think when this is all over they will be some kind of a collective european review with you know and theyll develop some kind of mechanism with which they they can tackle future cable outbreaks like this pandemic a kind of collective response. Well it is already a permanent reflection on what have we done right and most importantly also how do we communicate what we have done right because in times of demick theres so much rules and coordinated actions to attack. Politicians and the European Union in charge and so a lot has been presented as a mis information come pain that also needed to be addressed and not only can we prepare for whatever form of demick because we are still in this trial and error updates what we do not know is this going to be a 2nd wave and what would be a better approach to keep the numbers slow. All right will even the great get a perspective this depreciate thats 100 percent not speaking to us from athens thank you it wont come. Well plenty more install ahead on the news including caught up in the battle for tripoli teenage prisoners in libya are really just after being recruited by a warlord plus. My name off the coast of normandy france 1st to break both deny them access to a war to destroy the livelihoods. There was. The n. B. A. Returns with social justice high on its agenda to use and officials nail in an anti racism protest thats coming up in support. Vietnam has its 1000. 00 related death as well as a record daily high of 45. 00 new cases after being virus free for a month vietnams Prime Minister is warning that outbreaks are possible nationwide the 1st fatality was a 70 year old man in denial well the 90 vietnamese infected with the virus in the past week in the city or connected to the same hospital for the straight in state of victoria is considering imposing a stricter lockdown as hundreds of infections continue to emerge every day more than 600 cases and 8 more deaths were reported on friday most of them in melbourne care facilities for the elderly and now at the center of the outbreak the state premier is warning the citys 5000000. 00 residents will be stuck in limbo unless infection rates come down the government is looking at the possibility of more rigorous measures like those imposed successfully in new zealand where laci clements is a professor of Infectious Diseases epidemiology at new university and he says applying the new zealand model on a bigger scale in australia will not be a problem. Government is using many of the same many of the sort of pressures that new Zealand