War on the mosquito, but is the zika virus really causing a surge in birth directs. Plus. Four miners trapped under ground for 36 days are rescued in china hello there, im robin adams, Manchester United in f. A. Cup action. Well have the latest, and andy murray through to the final of the Australian Open. The action from Melbourne Park coming up as well. Talks aimed at ending the war in syria starts in switzerland. After a fashion. The u. N. Syrian envoy met a delegation from the Bashar Alassad government. It all started the civil war in syria, five years ago, and since then, as weve been reporting daily, no way has been found to end the fighting. Human cost is massive, according to the u. N. , 250,000 have been killed. More have been left as refugees. One obstacle that they have been deciding, who will, who wont representatives the Syrian Opposition, which is fragmented into dozens of groups, oven with conflicting interests and aims. Diplomatic editor, james bays is in geneva. Hes bee
Four miners trapped under ground for 36 days are rescued in china the longawaited u. N. Brokered talks on how possibly to end the syrian conflict have started. With one side present, the representatives of the Syrian Government the main Syrian Opposition group says it had delieded to travel to geneva after being given assurances by the u. N. , james bays pass been following costs in geneva. On this, the first day of the talks, only one of the main parties actually turned up here at the u. N. Headquarters in geneva. The Syrian Ambassador to the United Nations in new york, is heading his countrys delegation, and came here to set out his case to the u. N. Special envoy. It was during their meeting that word came through from saudi arabia, that the main opposition block, which for days said it will not come to geneva, unless its demands are met, said that they would finally make the journey here to switzerland. When he spoke to reporters, stefan de mistura said he couldnt confirm the news
Price rises as the government announces tax increases. Im in india where the government is announcing a new Railway Budget to modernize its 160yearold train network. Hello, there, thank you for joining us. Six israelis are in custody this hour, suspects in the killing of a palestinian teenager. Benjamin netanyahu said everything is being done to find those responsible. The 16yearolds burned body was found in a forest. His cousin was later caught up in protests and beaten by police. He has now spoken about his ordeal. We off the from occupie report t jerusalem. The 15yearold will spend nine days under house arrest. He says he was innocent. I was brutally attacked when i was just watching what was happening. Israeli police say the u. S. Citizen was arrested on the scene of the protest, together with five others. He was wearing a kafia. Three of them out of the six were armed. The family said this mobile phone footage show the israelis beating him when he was arrested. He was arrested on
Nigeria. Im felicity barr. The vatican faces more claims of child abuse. A Vatican Committee against torture. A pro russia rebels have shot down an eastern ukrainian helicopter, the crew survived but their condition hasnt been released. Earlier 4 Ukrainian Police officers were killed april a shootout. In that same city. Nick spicer reports. The Army Operation to dislodge prorussian militia, push past the roadblocks which ring this staunch separatist town and push on towards the center. There was gun fire and multiple explosion. Brought down by heavy machine gun fire, crashing into the towns river. The ministry of defense said the two pilots survived and evacuated to a military hospital. Braved the cross fire to bring the injured to the towns hospital. By midday the fight was over. The tactics of Ukrainian Army changed over the morning, prowrgprorussian elements are l in evidence. We were told the army had cornered a group of separatist fighters. Translator from the 25 of us that went i
Good to have you with us. We start with the novel coronavirus. Its infected more than 108,000 people worldwide and killed at least 3,800 and the number of deaths in the u. S. Has now risen to 22. The outbreak is also triggering a new crash in global markets. Heres a look at where things stand. U. S. Futures down as the number of infected here tops 560. The markets have also been hurt by u. S. Oil prices hitting a fouryear low, and we will have details in just a minute. Meanwhile, italy is taking extreme measures as it confirms more than 7,300 cases of coronavirus. Its putting around a quarter of its population on lockdown to contain the outbreak, and we will have more on italy in just a moment. But first we go straight to the toll the virus is taking on global markets. And journalist is in tokyo with more on market reaction. A lot of nervousness with frightening numbers. What are you seeing and what might this mean when u. S. Markets open in just a few hours from now . Well, i think a