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- Coronavirus live news: Trump calls catching Covid 'blessing in disguise'; Brazil cases pass 5m
- Germany fears spiralling Covid spread as cases rise suddenly
- UK coronavirus live: delaying new restrictions creates risk of 'party weekend', ministers warned
- New Zealand whole again as Auckland lockdown ends
- Kamala Harris and Mike Pence clash over coronavirus response in vice-presidential debate
- Italian PM urges UK to do right thing on Brexit deal
- Trump calls Covid diagnosis 'blessing from God' amid false treatment claims
- 700-year-old drunken princes scroll fetches £32m in Hong Kong
- Italian women take legal action over foetus graves marked with mothers' names
- Russia explosion and fire at munitions depot sends 2,000 fleeing
- Anaesthetist goes on trial in France over death of British woman
- Minority of Europeans think US election will be free and fair – poll
- Half of Nagorno-Karabakh population displaced by Armenia and Azerbaijan clashes
- Iranian musicians help out in secret on Israeli singer's new record
- Behind China’s ‘pork miracle’: how technology is transforming rural hog farming
- Scotland residents: how are you affected by the latest Covid restrictions?
- West and central Africa's closed schools putting children at risk, Unicef warns
- Kamala Harris and Mike Pence debate reaction, Trump calls Covid diagnosis 'blessing' – live updates
- 'We're being massacred': Colombia accused of failing to stop murders of activists
- New Zealand National party leader yearns for the star treatment
- Coronavirus Australia live news: Anthony Albanese unveils Labor childcare and energy plans in budget 2020 reply speech
- Sabrina Dhowre Elba: ‘The old idea of aid is dead’
- World’s garment workers face ruin as fashion brands refuse to pay $16bn
- 'Moria 2.0': refugees who escaped fire now living in 'worse' conditions
- Turkey and UAE openly flouting UN arms embargo to fuel war in Libya
- Women's health organisation president resigns following bullying and racism investigation
- Looks speak louder than words as Harris makes quotable case against Pence
- Pence-Harris vice-presidential debate: six key takeaways
- Charges against UK-born Isis pair shed light on brutality of terror group
- Why herd immunity strategy is regarded as fringe viewpoint
- 'They're coming for you': Harris slams Trump and Pence on healthcare – video
- 'I'm speaking': Kamala Harris reins in Mike Pence during VP debate – video
- Russia explosion: 2,000 villagers evacuated after blast and fire at munitions depot – video
- Fly that landed on Mike Pence head becomes VP debate star – video
- Harris calls Trump's Covid response 'greatest failure' of any administration – video
- Donald Trump says catching Covid-19 was 'like a blessing from God' – video
- CNN reporter fends off White House raccoon before live cross – video
| Coronavirus live news: Trump calls catching Covid 'blessing in disguise'; Brazil cases pass 5m Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:34 AM PDT Trump returns to Oval Office against CDC's isolation guidelines; France sees record one-day rise in cases; one in seven people tested in Belgian capital is positive
New record highs have been reported in Austria and Croatia, Reuters reports. In Croatia, there were 542 new infections, against a previous record of 369. There have been 310 fatalities in the country in total. In Austria, meanwhile, there were 1,209 new cases in the past 24 hours, surpassing a record which has stood since March of 1,050. More than half. of the new cases were in Vienna.
The Associated Press has filed a dispatch from Stebnyk, a town in the west of Ukraine, where nationwide daily cases have just risen above 5,000 a day for the first time (see earlier post). Dr Natalia Stetsik, chief doctor at the town of 20,000 people's only hospital, says that the facility - which is only supposed to be able to accommodate 100 patients at a time - now has more than that many Covid-19 patients alone. Early in the pandemic, Ukraine's ailing healthcare system struggled with the outbreak, and authorities introduced a tight lockdown in March to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed. The number of cases slowed during the summer but began to rise again quickly, prompting the government at the end of August to close Ukraine's borders for a month. Overall, Covid-19 infections in the country have nearly doubled in the past month, topping 234,000. "The number of patients is rising, and an increasing share of them are in grave condition," Stetsik said. "The virus is becoming more aggressive and more difficult to deal with." Continue reading... |
| Germany fears spiralling Covid spread as cases rise suddenly Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:13 AM PDT Rate of new infections reaches 4,000 with predictions it could soon exceed 10,000 a day Germany's leading public health body has warned that the country's coronavirus infection is in danger of spiralling out of control, amid a significant overnight rise in new cases to 4,000, and predictions the figure could soon reach more than 10,000 a day. Lothar Wieler, president of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), said: "It is possible that we will see more than 10,000 cases a day and that the virus will spread uncontrollably." Continue reading... |
| UK coronavirus live: delaying new restrictions creates risk of 'party weekend', ministers warned Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:30 AM PDT Latest updates: government warned people will seek 'one last blow out' if new restrictions on pubs in England are delayed until next week
Lists The number of people having to wait more than 18 weeks to start hospital treatment in England stood at 1.96 million in August of this year, around three times the number for August 2019 (662,043) and the second highest total for any calendar month since current records began in August 2007.
A hike in coronavirus fines and extending the places where face coverings are mandatory will be considered by Stormont ministers later. As PA Media reports, the justice minister, Naomi Long, is due to present the outcome of a rapid review into penalties and enforcement of the Covid-19 regulations at this afternoon's executive meeting. It is understood a proposal to increase the fine that accompanies a fixed-penalty notice for a rule breach from £60 to £200. The executive office is also due to present proposals around extending the public settings where face coverings should be mandatory. If agreed, this would see the law widened to cover places such as office spaces, banks and building societies. Coverings are already mandatory in shops and on public transport. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand whole again as Auckland lockdown ends Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:43 PM PDT Biggest city is once more free of curbs on gatherings and social distancing in restaurants and bars after beating second wave New Zealand is again a country united in its response to coronavirus, with Auckland joining the rest of the nation on the lowest alert level. Auckland was freed from restrictions on gatherings and social distancing requirements in restaurants and bars at midnight on Wednesday. That day three new cases were announced, bringing the total of active cases to 37. Key to lowering the alert level was the absence of active cases in the community, meaning all current cases are in quarantine facilities or managed isolation at home. Continue reading... |
| Kamala Harris and Mike Pence clash over coronavirus response in vice-presidential debate Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:27 PM PDT Pence defended the Trump administration's handling of the pandemic while Harris called it 'the greatest failure of any presidential administration' Kamala Harris accused the Trump-Pence White House of presiding over the "greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country" in its handling of the coronavirus pandemic during the first and only vice-presidential debate of the 2020 election. Vice-president Mike Pence forcefully defended Donald Trump's handling of the crisis that has killed more than 210,000 Americans, as Wednesday night's debate in Salt Lake City unfolded in the shadow of the president's hospitalization for Covid-19, which has thrown the government into upheaval and upended the presidential race four weeks before election day. Continue reading... |
| Italian PM urges UK to do right thing on Brexit deal Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:00 PM PDT Giuseppe Conte under pressure from Italian exporters to ensure favourable outcome on withdrawal agreement Italy's prime minister, Giuseppe Conte, has urged the British government to come good on a Brexit deal but admitted it was currently "difficult to feel optimistic" amid legal wrangling over the withdrawal agreement. "Obviously the legislative move in the UK creates tension," said Conte, referring to Boris Johnson's tabling of a bill that violates key elements of the agreement reached with Brussels last year. Continue reading... |
| Trump calls Covid diagnosis 'blessing from God' amid false treatment claims Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:11 PM PDT President returns to Oval Office despite concerns he should be self-isolating as virus spreads in White House Donald Trump has called his Covid-19 infection "a blessing from God" as he returned to the Oval Office on Wednesday despite concerns that he should be self-isolating, as the virus continued to spread among senior White House figures. In a video message posted to Twitter, Trump said that an experimental drug cocktail from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals was key to recovering from his infection. He said it was his suggestion to be treated with the drug, which has rarely been used outside clinical trials. Continue reading... |
| 700-year-old drunken princes scroll fetches £32m in Hong Kong Posted: 08 Oct 2020 01:21 AM PDT Painting by government official Ren Renfa bears seals of several Chinese emperors A 700-year-old Chinese painted scroll from the Yuan dynasty has fetched HK$306.6m (£32.2m) at an auction in Hong Kong. The 2-metre (6.6ft) Five Drunken Princes Returning on Horseback is by Ren Renfa, a renowned Chinese artist and government official. Continue reading... |
| Italian women take legal action over foetus graves marked with mothers' names Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:36 AM PDT More than 100 women launch action as activists say practice is serious violation of human rights and privacy A group of more than 100 Italian women have asked prosecutors to investigate who is behind the burial for nearly a decade of foetuses in graves marked with the names of their mothers in a cemetery in Rome. The practice only came to light last week after one of the women, whose curiosity was sparked after reading about so-called "fields of angels" in local newspapers, discovered a plot with a wooden cross bearing her name and the date on which the foetus was buried at Prima Porta cemetery. She subsequently posted about her experience on Facebook. Continue reading... |
| Russia explosion and fire at munitions depot sends 2,000 fleeing Posted: 07 Oct 2020 04:59 PM PDT Villages in Ryazan region south-east of Moscow cleared after grass fire reaches military facility Russia has evacuated more than 2,000 people from nearby villages after a wildfire set off explosions at a munitions depot in the Ryazan region south-east of Moscow, officials said. More than 400 firefighters were battling into the evening on Wednesday to extinguish a blaze that broke out at the depot that day, with the authorities saying five people were injured but there were no deaths. Continue reading... |
| Anaesthetist goes on trial in France over death of British woman Posted: 08 Oct 2020 01:11 AM PDT Xynthia Hawke, 28, died in France in 2014 after alleged error by drunk anaesthetist Helga Wauters An anaesthetist has gone on trial for manslaughter in France, accused of botching a caesarian after drinking that left a young British woman dead. Xynthia Hawke, from Somerset, suffered a catastrophic cardiac arrest after the medic pushed a tube down her oesophagus and not her windpipe and then failed to realise her error despite Hawke vomiting and crying out in pain. Continue reading... |
| Minority of Europeans think US election will be free and fair – poll Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:00 PM PDT Exclusive: majorities in seven countries favour Joe Biden and rate Donald Trump poorly Fewer than one in 10 Europeans expect next month's US presidential election to be completely free and fair, and an overwhelming majority say they would like Joe Biden to triumph over Donald Trump. According to a YouGov tracker survey in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden, in only one of these countries – Italy – are more than a tenth of voters confident that the American electoral process will prove irreproachable. Continue reading... |
| Half of Nagorno-Karabakh population displaced by Armenia and Azerbaijan clashes Posted: 07 Oct 2020 07:34 PM PDT As mediators prepare to meet in Geneva, officials say up to 75,000 people have been forced to flee fighting in breakaway region Clashes between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces have displaced half of the population of the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, according to its rights ombudsman, as international mediators were set to hold their first meeting in Geneva. Russian president, Vladimir Putin, urged an end to a "huge tragedy" in an interview with state-run television on Wednesday, as new strikes hit Karabakh's main city Stepanakert and Armenia said the fighting was raging along the entire frontline. Continue reading... |
| Iranian musicians help out in secret on Israeli singer's new record Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:00 PM PDT 'I don't agree with anything that comes with seeing Iran as our enemy,' says singer Liraz Charhi An Israeli singer of Persian heritage is set to release an album she made by working in secret with Iranian musicians, her long-held aspiration for artistic collaboration despite bitter animosity between the two states. Using encrypted instant-messaging apps like Telegram and by wiring money through third countries, such as the UK and Turkey, Liraz Charhi said she spent months of sleepless nights fearing those who associated would be in danger. Continue reading... |
| Behind China’s ‘pork miracle’: how technology is transforming rural hog farming Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:00 PM PDT As Chinese demand for pork grows and grows, traditional small-scale farms are being replaced by vast, AI-assisted operations that feel more like smartphone factories than bucolic countryside havens In November 2018, I travelled to Guangzhou, a city of about 14 million people in southern China. Late autumn is the time for making lap yuk, a type of preserved pork that is a local speciality, and across town I would often spot slabs of meat hanging from high-rise apartment balconies, tied up with string and swaying next to shirts and sheets left out to dry. To make lap yuk, a piece of raw pork belly is soaked in a blend of rice wine, salt, soy sauce and spices, then hung out to cure in the damp, cold autumn air. The fat becomes translucent and imparts a savoury-sweet taste to any stir-fried vegetable dish. A relative of mine claims that only southern China can make preserved pork like this. The secret is the native spores and bacteria that are carried on the wind there. Guangzhou was the first stop on a journey I was taking in order to try to understand how artificial intelligence is transforming China's pork industry. The country is the world's largest producer of pork, and the story of how it has ramped up production in recent years to feed its growing middle class is sometimes described as "China's pork miracle". While overall meat consumption still trails behind countries such as the US, China's annual pork consumption of 54m tonnes – the highest total worldwide, though some countries still consume more per capita – is only expected to grow in the coming years. Now, in a bid to satisfy this growing demand, farmers are turning to AI. Continue reading... |
| Scotland residents: how are you affected by the latest Covid restrictions? Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:21 AM PDT We want to hear from people living and working in Scotland about how new coronavirus restrictions will impact them A ban on drinking indoors in pubs, bars and restaurants across Scotland for 16 days is set to take place from Friday at 6pm. Places will have to operate a food and non-alcoholic drinks only service between 6am to 6pm, but can still serve alcohol outdoors until 10pm. The harshest restrictions in the UK will affect central Scotland where licensed premises will be closed fully. Areas include Greater Glasgow and Clyde, Lanarkshire, the Lothians, Ayrshire and Arran, and Forth Valley. People are still banned from visiting one another in their homes. Continue reading... |
| West and central Africa's closed schools putting children at risk, Unicef warns Posted: 08 Oct 2020 01:38 AM PDT Only seven out of 24 countries have reopened classrooms with Covid-safe measures, leaving millions unable to access education Only one in three countries in west and central Africa have reopened their schools, leaving children at risk of child marriage, early pregnancy and recruitment by local armed groups, Unicef has warned. Six months after schools across the region closed under lockdown measures, just seven out of 24 countries – Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone – have been able to put measures in place to make classrooms safe for reopening, including hygiene stations and social distancing. Continue reading... |
| Kamala Harris and Mike Pence debate reaction, Trump calls Covid diagnosis 'blessing' – live updates Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:25 AM PDT
One of the factors that has raised talk of climate change up the agenda in American politics is the extreme weather that both coasts have been experiencing this year – whether it is the searing wildfires on the west or an historic hurricane season on the east. People in Louisiana today are once again preparing to hunker down as the state faces its sixth hurricane of 2020. All who live in South Louisiana should be preparing for Hurricane #Delta and plan to be in place by Thursday evening as we prepare to weather yet another strong hurricane. #lagov #lawx Tonight, I announced that @POTUS has approved my request for a federal emergency declaration in advance of Hurricane #Delta, which is forecast to make landfall along Louisiana's coastline. https://t.co/HS6DQFShir #lagov #lawx
Reuters have just snapped that the Taliban have welcomed Donald Trump's tweet on withdrawing troops from Afghanistan by Christmas. We should have the small remaining number of our BRAVE Men and Women serving in Afghanistan home by Christmas! Continue reading... |
| 'We're being massacred': Colombia accused of failing to stop murders of activists Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:00 PM PDT At least 223 social leaders have been murdered this year as Amnesty International report condemns government inaction Activists in Colombia have warned that they continue to face extermination despite the coronavirus pandemic, as Amnesty International accused the country's government of doing little to protect them. At least 223 social leaders – community activists defending human, environmental, and land rights – have been murdered this year, according to local watchdog Indepaz. Continue reading... |
| New Zealand National party leader yearns for the star treatment Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:31 AM PDT In the election Judith Collins is up against one of the most popular PMs in recent times "I've been having an awfully fun time, can you tell?", Judith Collins, the leader of New Zealand's centre-right National party enthused, to a campaign trail meeting packed with her admirers outside the South Island city of Dunedin. "I can't stop grinning." It was true; she could not. Collins, the country's opposition leader, is running in the 17 October election against one of the country's most popular prime ministers of recent times, Jacinda Ardern, who is mobbed for selfies wherever she goes – with such large and closely-packed crowds that security and Covid-19 precautions often appear to be cast aside. Continue reading... |
| Posted: 08 Oct 2020 02:40 AM PDT Opposition leader says Australia has 'once-in-a-generation chance' to rebuild economy, while new Sydney locations linked to Covid and Victoria reports no deaths. Follow all today's news
On that note, we are going to close off the blog. We will be back very early tomorrow for the last day of the Senate sitting. And of course, we'll have all your Covid news as well.
Mike Bowers was in the chamber: Continue reading... |
| Sabrina Dhowre Elba: ‘The old idea of aid is dead’ Posted: 07 Oct 2020 11:30 PM PDT The Canadian model and Ifad ambassador explains how she and husband Idris Elba hope to make a difference to rural communities in Africa Since her marriage to British actor Idris Elba last year, Sabrina Dhowre Elba has found her love of Africa being rekindled. But it was her mother who persuaded Elba to take up her new role as an activist. The actress and Vogue cover model is being credited with convincing the Canadian government to be the first to pledge $6m (£3.5m) to a UN agency Covid fund for struggling farmers after a persuasive Zoom chat with ministers while the Elbas were themselves in isolation with mild cases of the virus. Continue reading... |
| World’s garment workers face ruin as fashion brands refuse to pay $16bn Posted: 07 Oct 2020 11:15 PM PDT Analysis of trade figures reveals huge power imbalance as suppliers and workers in poorest parts of the world bear cost of Covid downturn Powerful US and European fashion companies have refused to pay overseas suppliers for more than $16bn (£12.3bn) of goods since the outbreak of Covid-19, with devastating implications for garment workers across the world, according to analysis of newly released import data. Two US-based groups, the Center for Global Workers' Rights (CGWR) and the Worker Rights Consortium (WRC), used previously unpublished import databases to calculate that garment factories and suppliers from across the world lost at least $16.2bn in revenue between April and June this year as brands cancelled orders or refused to pay for clothing orders they had placed before the coronavirus outbreak. Continue reading...This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| 'Moria 2.0': refugees who escaped fire now living in 'worse' conditions Posted: 07 Oct 2020 01:51 AM PDT More than 7,500 people living in tents on squalid settlement, with two other camps on Lesbos set to close Thousands of people who fled the fire that destroyed the infamous Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece, last month are living in dire and unsanitary conditions in a temporary settlement with little access to water or basic sanitation. Just over 7,500 people are now living in tents among the rubble and dust of a former shooting range in an informal settlement that has become known as "Moria 2.0". Continue reading... |
| Turkey and UAE openly flouting UN arms embargo to fuel war in Libya Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:00 AM PDT Guardian joint investigation finds both sides send military cargo planes to region, in blatant violation of agreement to end conflict Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are carrying out regular and increasingly blatant violations of the UN arms embargo on Libya, fuelling a proxy war that is evading political solutions, a joint investigation by the Guardian has found. Flight data and satellite images show both nations using large-scale military cargo planes to funnel in goods and fighters to forces or proxies inside Libya, routinely violating the 2011 UN arms embargo despite political promises to abstain. Continue reading... |
| Women's health organisation president resigns following bullying and racism investigation Posted: 06 Oct 2020 11:15 PM PDT Françoise Girard and two others cleared of racial discrimination but report finds culture of fear and intimidation at IWHC The president of a women's health charity has resigned following an investigation into allegations of racism and bullying within the organisation. The findings of the independent investigation cleared Françoise Girard and two other senior managers at the International Women's Health Coalition (IWHC) of unlawful racial discrimination or retaliation against employees. Continue reading... |
| Looks speak louder than words as Harris makes quotable case against Pence Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:56 PM PDT The vice-presidential debate was more courteous than last week's horror show but still showed two contrasting faces of America It was always going to be about the two faces of America. One: white, male, midwestern, evangelical Christian. The other: Black, female, coastal, progressive. Continue reading... |
| Pence-Harris vice-presidential debate: six key takeaways Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:25 PM PDT Coronavirus was the key theme, but Harris also warned of the threat to Obamacare as both candidates dodged questions The vice-presidential debate on Wednesday was less openly hostile than the Donald Trump-Joe Biden debacle last week – but provided a further insight into the state of both campaigns ahead of November. Related: Kamala Harris and Mike Pence clash over coronavirus response in vice-presidential debate Continue reading... |
| Charges against UK-born Isis pair shed light on brutality of terror group Posted: 07 Oct 2020 12:33 PM PDT Hostage-taking and multiple murder among charges levelled against Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh The grisly allegations of hostage-taking, brutality and multiple murder in the lengthy charge sheet against Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh represent more than just a summary of US case against the British-born Isis followers. It amounts to an indictment of Isis, the brutal terror organisation that drew murderous strength from adherents who came from around the world, and its dead leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. Continue reading... |
| Why herd immunity strategy is regarded as fringe viewpoint Posted: 07 Oct 2020 09:12 AM PDT Scientists say idea of 'focused protection' for vulnerable people is very hard to achieve and likely to lead to even higher death toll At first glance it sounds like a no-brainer. Coronavirus is most dangerous to older and unhealthier people, so why not protect them and let the rest of society return to life as normal? It would boost the economy and free the young and fit from the mental and financial burdens of Covid restrictions. In time, as the virus tears through them, they will acquire herd immunity that ultimately helps us all. The strategy proposed in the Great Barrington declaration – a letter signed by an international group of scientists – is the latest salvo in an ongoing battle of ideas for how to tackle the pandemic. It calls on governments around the world to abandon strategies that suppress the virus until we can better cope – through working test-and-trace programmes, new treatments, vaccines and more – for the radically different approach. Continue reading... |
| 'They're coming for you': Harris slams Trump and Pence on healthcare – video Posted: 08 Oct 2020 01:45 AM PDT One of the most memorable moments of the vice-presidential debate was on healthcare, when Harris issued a stark warning about the Trump administration's intentions. Trump is seeking to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, commonly known as Obamacare, which prevents health companies turning away patients with pre-existing conditions. 'If you have a pre-existing condition, heart disease, diabetes, breast cancer, they're coming for you. If you love someone who has a pre-existing condition, they're coming for you.' Pence responded by claiming the Trump administration has a plan to protect people with pre-existing conditions. Trump has spent years claiming he will release a comprehensive healthcare plan. We're yet to see it
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| 'I'm speaking': Kamala Harris reins in Mike Pence during VP debate – video Posted: 07 Oct 2020 11:54 PM PDT The vice-presidential debate was more courteous than last week's horror show, during which Donald Trump interrupted Joe Biden 71 times during the first presidential debate, but the events in Salt Lake City still showed two contrasting faces of the US. 'Mr Vice-President, I'm speaking. I'm speaking,' Kamala Harris told Mike Pence, as he again tried to interject as she discussed Trump's tax plans
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| Russia explosion: 2,000 villagers evacuated after blast and fire at munitions depot – video Posted: 07 Oct 2020 11:14 PM PDT Russian authorities evacuated thousands of people from more than 10 villages in the region of Ryazan on 7 October after a blaze broke out at an ammunition depot, sending thick smoke belching into the air. Munitions could be heard detonating in footage circulated on social media Continue reading... |
| Fly that landed on Mike Pence head becomes VP debate star – video Posted: 07 Oct 2020 10:52 PM PDT A fly that landed on Mike Pence's head has become the star of the vice presidential debate after the Republican went head-to-head with Kamala Harris. The fly was on Pence's head for over one minute, which proved more than enough time to grow its notoriety online. Democratic candidate Joe Biden used the opportunity to raise money for his campaign, while multiple Twitter account where setup on the fly's behalf
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| Harris calls Trump's Covid response 'greatest failure' of any administration – video Posted: 07 Oct 2020 08:38 PM PDT Separated from vice-president Mike Pence by plexiglass barriers, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris called the Trump administration's response to the growing coronavirus pandemic 'the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country'. Speaking directly to the camera, Harris said, 'They knew what was happening, and they didn't tell you.'
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| Donald Trump says catching Covid-19 was 'like a blessing from God' – video Posted: 07 Oct 2020 05:28 PM PDT Donald Trump has described getting Covid-19 as 'a blessing in disguise' in a video delivered outside the Oval Office. Trump described his three-night stay at Walter Reed medical center, referring to the treatment he received as a cure, and promising to make it available to all Americans. 'I want to get for you, what I got and I'm going to make it free. You're not going to pay for it,' he said. 'It wasn't your fault that this happened. It was China's fault. And China is going to pay a big price – what they've done to this country. China is going to pay a big price.' Covid-19 has killed more than 210,000 Americans and over a 1 million people worldwide in 10 months
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| CNN reporter fends off White House raccoon before live cross – video Posted: 07 Oct 2020 04:34 PM PDT CNN reporter Joe Johns was forced to fend off a raccoon on the White House lawn, moments before going to air. "Frickin' raccoons, man. God, again!" he said. "This is the second time! Jesus ... It always comes around right around when I'm about to go on TV." The incident comes after reports of increasing belligerent raccoons on the property by other media outlets Continue reading... |
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