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A deal in israel too was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the lead in a unity government to end a long running political crisis. We begin in latin america which is emerging as a global coronavirus hotspot crumbling Health System struggling economies and political divisions are making matters worse in some countries in brazil which is the worst hit in the region with the 4th highest number of cases in the world the president john bolton arrow has been rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lock down and reopen the economy out of the game according to the president we will change brazils destiny even with this crisis affecting the entire world thanks so ministers thanks to the wonderful people here we are together brazil is ours well brazil has recorded over 15000 deaths thats more than all other latin american countries combined 230000 people are known to be infected there but limits on testing experts say a likely hiding the true much higher figure in chile one of t
Its. A deal in israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the lead in a unity government to end the long running political crisis. Now the worlds 3rd largest economy is in trouble as the coronavirus pandemic hits business industry hard japans economy has shrunk by 3. 4 percent when projected across the whole year the Prime Minister shinzo had announced a massive relief package last month to help keep the economy on track japan has recorded over 16000 cases and close to 750 deaths due to the virus well rob a bride joins us live now from the south korean capital seoul rob so this is the 1st time japan has fallen into recession since 2015 clearly the coronavirus is not a huge impact on the economy. Absolutely daryn and there is worse to come for the japanese economy this was all res expected that they they would be confirm that japan is in recession weve had to now 2 quarters of the economy contract ing of course japan was already starting to go into recession in the last quarter o
Restaurants in its lee are reopening ahead of plan and dates the big part of tourism in kenya how coronavirus is affecting its Wildlife Reserve just. Thank you very much for joining us we begin with some breaking news this hour and a jewish settler has been found guilty of a 2015 arson attack which killed a palestinian toddler and his parents the family were killed after the man fire bombed their home in the village of duma so this is a landmark decision in a case which has become a test of Israeli Security forces treatment of jews and palestinians lets go straight to our correspondent Harry Fawcett at the court in law and israel so a guilty verdict an important decision remind us for us harry how we got to this point today. For us this was one of the most controversial cases of any sort of jewish attacks on palestinians or something that took place in july 25th dream followed a tribe by shooting of a jewish man the prosecutions case was always that these 2 young men one was a minor on
Supporters there backing his call to lift restrictions despite an increasing number of cases. And a sigh of relief for the u. S. Economy as carmakers send their employees back to work. The worlds 3rd largest economy has slipped into recession japan has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic its economy shrank for the 2nd consecutive quarter by just under one percent in the 1st 3 months of this year Prime Minister shinzo abhi had announced a massive Relief Program last month to keep the economy on track japan has recorded more than 16000 cases of the virus and close to 750 deaths Robert Wright is in seoul he says the stimulus announced by the japanese government may not be enough to revive the economy. Weve had now 2 quarters where the economy has contract and so it is in a recession but this started at the end of last year in the last quarter this is well before anybody had even heard of coded 19 japan had already been hit by a rise in a culture of virtual sales tax from 8 percent t