A hit squad to kill a former intelligence officer. The leaders of 2 west african nations ivory coast and guinea are expected to run for controversial 3rd terms in october. And new yorks attorney general sues the National Rifle association in a bid to dissolve the gun lobbying group. The search for bodies continues in the aftermath of lebanons deadly port explosion and so does the search for answers 16 port officials have now been detained but many arent blaming the people running the port instead they say the people running the country are responsible protests are being held in central beirut calling for a complete overhaul of the political elite theyve been backed by french president emanuel mccrum hes been touring neighborhoods devastated by the chemical explosion the death toll from tuesdays blast. It is now at 149. 00 and its expected to go up by nick smith as the latest from beirut. On the streets of beirut on thursday frances president Emmanuel Mccomas essentially moment by peopl
A deal in israel today as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the lead in a unity government to end a long running political crisis. We begin in latin america which is emerging as a global coronavirus hotspot crumbling Health Systems struggling economies and political divisions are making matters worse in some countries and brazil which is the worst hit in the region with the 4th highest number of cases in the world president jabil tomorrow has been a rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown and reopen the economy of the game according to the president we will change brazils destiny even with this crisis affecting the entire world thanks to mr spicer the wonderful people here we are together brazil is ours. Well brazil has recorded over 15000 deaths more than all other latin american nations combined 230000 people are known to be infected there but limits on testing experts say are likely hiding the true much higher figure in chile one of the regions other major
Know if you come in contact with someone who is infected it doesnt infringe on privacy. And on peter stand with your sports with prosecutors dropped one of 2 cases against a form of fee for prison sick thats what. It is one month since the World Health Organization declare the Coronavirus Crisis a pandemic more than 1700000. 00 people around the world have been infected and the death toll is now above 103000. 00 but there is cautious optimism in spain where the number of daily that says fallen for a 3rd day in a row still 510 people died in the last 24 hours but that is the smallest jump in 1000 days with 16000 deaths its one of the worst hit countries in europe. Along with italy where more than 18000 people have died a nationwide lockdown has been extended until early may and people had been urged to stay home over the Easter Holiday turkey is now imposed a 2 day curfew in 31 provinces that does include istanbul and ankara the death toll has surged above 1000 and the u. S. They have r
A majority. Turkey has shot down a syrian warplane of adlib in the northwest as Government Forces try to advance deeper to capture the last major rebel held area the 3rd syrian fighter downed in 3 days turkeys escalating campaign is threatening to bring it to direct confrontation with the Syrian Governments ally russia the violence is taking an increasingly heavy toll on civilians 8 people were killed by an explosion and it lip city elsewhere fighting is on intensifying in the south thats happening in iraq despite a cease fire thats been in place there since 2018 there are reports of at least 5 people have been killed those fighting continues u. S. Special envoy for syria James Jeffrey and u. S. Ambassador to the u. N. Kelly croft visited the border area with syria and met with members of the syrian white helmets. Those hills over there. The Turkish Military and the Syrian Opposition are 1st of all fighting to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe millions or millions of refugees that the
A 2nd life in Washington State in the u. S. Where its feared the disease has been spreading undetected for weeks. Now russia says it cant guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria moscow which backs the damascus government is heed the warning after the Turkish Military shot down 2 syrian fighter jets over ad lib this latest escalation follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in it live on thursday and then ultimatum from turkeys president the syrian troops to pull back from the opposition held parts of the province or face a military backlash. Bar reports now from have time on the turkey syria border. But you arent turkish and syrian fighter jets faced off in an encounter in the skies above aleppo and that with 2 syrian warplanes down the confrontation marked in u. S. Collation in the conflict between turkey and syria turkeys defense minister warned that turkish troops will retaliate against and if air that attack. Also announced Operation Spring shilled and your campa