Role coronavirus cases being reported the pandemic is spreading rapidly but some countries still dont have the capacity to test people so is that hampering efforts to curb the disease this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter davi now the number of people infected by covert 19 is more than 700000 globally the number who have died over 34000 those are the estimates from Johns Hopkins university but do those figures accurately reflect reality if were talking about pure math curves usually indicate how severe cases are in a country and they show its ability to control a crisis but there are other factors too governments denying risk facts suppressed a lack of access to poor people and limited testing but be it in the slums the townships countries suffering conflicts and those without democracy is what is unknown is whether the outbreak is bigger than politicians are admitting or theyre able to handle correspondence in beijing johannesburg and mexico city report now o
Model what impact will the trial have on journalism in the digital age in the philippines the trial of journalist maria ressa on al jazeera. Are all coronavirus cases being reported the pandemic is spreading rapidly but some countries still dont have the capacity to test people so is that hampering efforts to curb the disease this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter davi now the number of people infected by covert 19 is more than 700000 globally the number who have died over 34000 those are the estimates from Johns Hopkins university but are those figures accurately reflect reality if were talking about pure math curves usually indicate how severe cases are in a country and they show its ability to control a crisis but there are other factors too governments denying risk facts suppressed a lack of access to poor people and limited testing but be it in the slums the townships countries suffering conflicts and those without democracies what is unknown is whether th
Role coronavirus cases being reported the pandemic is spreading rapidly but some countries still dont have the capacity to test people so is that hampering efforts to curb the disease this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im peter davi now the number of people infected by covert 19 is more than 700000 globally the number who have died over 34000 those are the estimates from Johns Hopkins university but do those figures accurately reflect reality if were talking about pure math curves usually indicate how severe cases are in a country and they show its ability to control a crisis but there are other factors too governments denying risk facts suppressed a lack of access to poor people and limited testing but be it in the slums the townships countries suffering conflicts and those without democracy is what is unknown is whether the outbreak is bigger than politicians are admitting or theyre able to handle correspondence in beijing johannesburg and mexico city report now o
Around the clock across the world this is your artsy international from the team and myself you know neal hello and welcome we begin with breaking news several rocket attacks have hit a rock close vicinity to the American Embassy in baghdad and also a military base near the capital for more on that some joined live in the studio by shit down off. Tensions seemingly ratcheting up here well indeed something is clearly in the now we do not know what exactly was the target of this attack but we do know that there have been at least 3 rounds of mortar strikes and some of the some of those mortar shells they landed in close vicinity to an end to an american base right next to the rocky capital baghdad some of them landed apparently next door in the green zone now what is a green. Zone essentially it is a city within a city you have baghdad the larger area and the green zone is the extra and more carefully protected zone within the iraqi capital which is essentially home to will almost all em
Sectionalize. And i hope we get there much quicker than that. The governor spelled out in vivid detail what the blackouts and pg e long term neglect of safety investments cost the people of the state. Stake holders work swiftly as if they lost a loved one in the campfire. If a swift resolution is not reached in advance of the next fire season the governor threatened he would have the state intervene. It could be a long shot. Naerly two dozen mayors have been banded together to push for pg e to become a customer owned utility. A concept that could be costly. No taxpayer money will be involved. Live for us in a pg e substation in san jose with details of that plan. Mayor says the time has come for ideas to surface that would help make the pg e system safer. More reliable. And to do mainteance that is required. Oakland mayor and others agree with him the proposal is needed now. They havent been able to put a price tag on it. One estimate says it dould cost 50 billion. If were paying for i