International

World News 30^th July
Germany unhappy about young people parties where they are not wearing masks or keeping the distance.  There were big problems in Majorca but now young people are going to Bulgaria where there are no rules about lockdown and the parties are pretty wild.  German government says the young people are bringing back the virus and infecting older people.
Trump says the USA is doing the most virus tests of any country.  But Bill Gates, who was boss of Microsoft, says they are wasting their money.  Why?  Because the test results are taking a week to come back to people.  This means that the person may continue to infect other people until they get their test results.  It also means that they could catch the virus between the time they get a test and before they get a result … so the test will be wrong.  The results of the test have to come back within 24 hours if they are to be useful.
Trump is to take away 12 thousand troops from Germany.  This will cost billions of dollars to move them to new places and will take years.    He says it is because Germany is not paying for its own defences.  Many people think it is because he does not like Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany.   He has been very rude to her when they met and in phone calls.  These arguments are making NATO less strong to defend against Russia.