Records its highest number of deaths in a day prompting an appeal to follow social distancing measures a unique look at how artists are reaching out to absent audiences to ring around the virus outbreak. U. S. President donald trump says americans should prepare for the toughest week yet in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic he says theyll be deaths in the coming days as the number of infections exceeded 310000 as of saturday nearly 8500 people have now died trump is deploying the military to new york where the outbreak is at its worst were going to be airing a tremendous amount of military. To help supplement the states thousands of soldiers out thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors and itll be a large number itll be will be telling them over the next version where theyre going theyre going into war theyre going into a battle where the u. K. Saw a Record Number of deaths with 708 people dying of the virus in one day as warmer spring weather arrives the gove
Question of is the president above the law while hes in office all right thank you for that patty kahane live for us in washington. Still ahead on aljazeera more street fighting in hong kong as protests shut down much of the city transit system. Breaks a Victory Court for british Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Hello significant rain was felt in hong kong and recorded 50 millimeters and thats what it came from its quite a big massive cloud and its under storms which is drifting slowly through Southern China will run up into the hills in northern vietnam on the western side southwest in china and it was keep forgot about the same rate other rain showers that extension from india as the southwest monsoon last gasps all of which stretched up towards sichuan otherwise its a dry picture and were now watching the northeast monsoon develop so here is the end of the southwest also has got a few more weeks to go but it will be going slowly southwards doesnt do much on the satellite picture but th
Has previously served as minister of International Development and assistant therefore multiculturalism. Mark latham is leader of the right wing first nation one nation party in New South Wales, including sydney. And hes the advocate of bring back Australian Values. We are joined by jenny lyon, the local mp for the greens party in New South Wales and shes worked in the past for amnesty international. And sami schar moved from his native pakistan about seven yea rs from his native pakistan about seven years ago, an Award Winning comedian and radio show host and also champion of free speech. Thats our panel. Audience, please give them a warm round of applause. So, for we take ourfirst so, for we take our first question we wa nt so, for we take our first question we want to bring you this brief background on multiculturalism. Before. The la kemba the lakemba district of sydney, where nearly half the population is muslim. One of the many places that shows just how multicultural australia i
Fighters die at the border of tunisia. And south sudan one year on, we report from a city slowly recovering after a civil war that killed thousands. We start this news hour in australias largest city sydney. Where the time is 4 00 in the morning on tuesday. Police say 16hour hostage crisis is now over. In the last few minutes they stormed the cafe in Sydney Central Business District where an armed man was holding several people hostage. These are live pictures coming to us live from sydney. Reporter hostages take the moment and run for their lives. Moments later police stormed the central sydney cafe. One officer appears to throw a stun grenade. In the crack what was either gunfire or explosions. Per madics were already there and quickly ran towards the building. One woman could be seen carried out. The seen began monday morning rush hour. Shpolice arrived very quickly, and she was telling hem that she had gone it go inside the cafe, and the automatic glass sliding doors that normally
Hundreds of armed police sealed off martin place, in sydneys Central Business district. New South Wales Police asked people to avoid the area. An Australian Broadcasting corporation reporter said gunfire was heard on the scene. That is yet to be confirmed. Major landmarks in the area, such as the opera house have been evacuated. Its been reported that the air space above the cafe has been shut down at the moment as Police Continue the operations. You are looking at video from channel 7 in sydney. Hundreds of armed personnel trying to get the situation under control. We are trying to confirm the affiliation of the black and white flag this witnesses report seeing with hostages holding in the window. Its the black standard, a flag with arabic writing, on display. Once again, Police Confirmed the surrounding area has been evacuating, we see a lot of personnel with federal force and local police with rifles and heavily arm, trying to get the situation under control. I want to go to anthony