Patients are having to get their own supply. Its a world famous landmark thats considered sacred by both muslims and christians now in turkey spectacular huggy a sofa is back in the religious spotlight these are the scenes right now in istanbul where fighting prayers are taking place at the building for the 1st time in nearly 86 years turkeys president. Declared last week that the structure originally built as an awful dogs christian procedural will once again be converted into a mosque following a court ruling. Now yes a fetus has changed several times since it was built 1500 years ago it was originally the Largest Church in the eastern roman empire in the christian city of constantinople which is now called is town hall in 453 the city. Fell to the ottomans after a 50 day 55 days siege i guess if it was converted into a mosque almost 500 years later in 1905 it became a Secular Museum reflecting the inclusive vision of istanbul after the fall of the Ottoman Empire turkeys highest Cour
The first friday prayers at his temples hagia sophia after its change from the museum into a mosque. In sports, football has returned to france after a fofourmonth break caused by coronavirus. A limited number of fans in the stadiums. We look at the french cup final. Welcome to the newshour. More than six months since the coronavirus was first suspected in china, it is still living for the road at record rates. There is a record rise in infections, according to the World Health Organization. Nearly 10,000 people have died in that same period, the biggest spike since the end of april. Across the planet, the virus has killed more than 635,000 people. More than 1 5 of those fatalities are in the u. S. , the worlds worst hit country. New hotspots in the south and west have pushed the infection count past 4 million. Latin america also recorded more than 4 million cases. More than 176,000 people have died. We will get more on the outbreak in latin america with john homan in a moment joining
Secretary of state mike compares in afghanistan to help salvage the deal between washington and the taliban. Hundreds more people have died in spain and thousands more have been infected as europe struggles to contain the corona Virus Outbreak more than 460 people have died in spain in the last 24 hours pushing the death toll there to nearly 2200 a state of emergency has been extended and foreigners are barred from entry well Singapore Airlines has grounded nearly its entire fleet and follows decisions by emirates and Turkish Airlines to hold nearly all passenger flights many major travel hubs are closing down hong kong is banning all tourists from entering including those from Mainland China and india is looking down major cities to slow the spread of the virus curfews and. In place nationwide with International Flights banned for a week and in the coming hours the u. S. Senate is set to vote on a trillion dollar stimulus package but democrats say that republican proposals favored cor
Crisis. Class violence and guinea ahead of a controversial referendum that could extend the president s term in office. And wont be dissembled schools its beginning to look more likely the Olympic Games will be postponed as countries announce they wont be same big teams a bit of will definitely its also cool not to take place. Now hundreds more people have died in spain and thousands more have been infected as europe struggles to contain the corona Virus Outbreak more than 460. 00 people have died there in the last 24 hour as pushing the death toll to nearly 2200 a state of emergency has been extended and foreign as a band from entry Singapore Airlines has grounded nearly its entire fleet it follows decisions by emirates and takesh airlines to hold nearly all passenger flights many major travel hubs are closing down hong kong is now banning all tourists from entering including those from Mainland China india is looking down major cities to slow the spread of the virus curfews are in pl
Good morning from moscow its friday the 27th of december. International with the world news were going to start with breaking news from kazakhstan in central asia 1st though a passenger plane has crashed shortly after taking off from port killing at least 15 people dozens more seriously injured including 9 children across this force is our correspondent. Welcome back. To you know if you i was on from when this crash happened. One called what a tragedy just a few days before new years eve but if there can be a case in which the words good news are appropriate after a plane crash well this is the one because its been confirmed by doctors that the majority of the passengers on that. Which apparently means that this cant have been. A High Altitude so what happened was at about 20 minutes past 7 local it was still dark and thats the biggest city in kazakstan this plane took off from the airport but then started quickly. Hit a concrete wall before crashing into a small boy. Only 2 floors in