This poisoning rivers and drying up farm us. With sports as calls for the european football championships to be postponed and the international indignity looks set to hold emergency talks about 2020. For the 1st time since the corona out corona Virus Outbreak began there are more deaths and confirmed cases outside of china than within across the world tougher restrictions are being rolled out to try to limit the spread the latest global death toll is 6500 daily 170000 cases lets take you through the latest developments 3 hours ago germany imposed border controls with 5 of its neighbors new checkpoints are in place a most travel is banned but good. And commuters are still able to cross its the latest country in the u. S borderless shang in the area to close its doors one of irans top Government Officials has died from the virus but they go with the capitals representative to the assembly of experts iran is one of the worst affected countries with nearly 14000 cases and the philippines i
Warning that its a breaking point as thousands of migrants stream in seeking asylum. And in sport tennis well number one ashley barty has won her 1st title of the year and winning the adelaide international. Opening round slam tournaments. We begin with breaking news from lebanon where police of firing tear gas and water cannon protesters who are demanding a speedy resolution to the countrys financial and economic crisis these latest pictures from close to the Parliament Building in the capital beirut hundreds of protesters are involved in running battles with Security Forces the demonstrators are angry over plans by the ruling party to form a government from the current Political Class out of syrias zaina honda is out on the streets among those protestors in beirut shes on the line now zena how large is this demonstration of why is it turned violent. Well what weve seen really over recent days are more and more incidents of violence. A outside the Parliament Building where a few 100 p
So an iranian backed group targeted by u. S. Airstrikes in both iraq and syria is vowing a strong response but the u. S. Is also warning of further action to protect its personnel if necessary 3 camps in iraq and 2 in syria was struck that killed at least 27 fighters and injured 51. Now that if we are warning the United States as we warned before that their legal presence means they are standing against the iraqi people and the iraqi people have the right to confront them with all types of resistance a breach of sovereignty is how the iraq outgoing Prime Minister described this iran called it a terrorist act but the u. S. Says the strikes were and this is a how it describes it a decisive response to threats by iranian backed forces against american personnel well some Wonderful Team is in baghdad for us she says there is pressure by iran backed factions in parliament to expel foreign troops from iraq. Just heard a statement being released from the office of a grand ayatollah ali sistan
Hello im Adrian Finnigan this is counting the cost on aljazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week 2019 and what a year its been called the world put aside short Term Economic gain to save humankind from latin america to the middle east people took to the street to protest the unequal spread of wealth and demand that governments and staring. At a trade war between the United States and china has put the brakes on Global Growth and is reshaping globalization. The biggest story of this year and for that matter this century has to be Climate Change and the lack of will or apparently the lack of will to do anything about it with the exception of the European Union theres very little effort to reduce emissions the cost of our inaction has been put at 2000000000. 00 a day the United Nations says that 48. 00 trillion dollars needs to be spent by 2050 to avoid catastrophe for humankind that means putting survival ahead of short term profits government submitted a vi
Italian. Head yet another milestone. The longest u. N. Climate conference has come to a close in the dritte with a partial agreement but the worlds biggest polluters couldnt agree on some of the most contentious issues out the talks dragged on 2 days past the deadline countries at the cop 25. 00 summit will improve their current pledges to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions in line with the Paris Agreement but those new commitments will be presented at next years summit but the whole issue of global and Global Carbon markets has been put off until next year but concepts allows those who exceed the pollution levels to buy credits from those who dont the u. S. Brazil astray india and china have all been blamed for stalling talks on that issue for the past 2 weeks that in protest. Across the world many led by students unhappy at the lack of action on Climate Change on saturday members of the Group Extinction Rebellion dumped horsman outside the conference to air their frustration nick clock