Welcome to the program the u. S. President has declared a National Emergency over the coronavirus pandemic Donald Trumps announcement frees up 50000000000 dollars to address a growing crisis that hes been accused of previously playing down well hours earlier the World Health Organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe where italy has the highest number of infections and deaths spain is declaring an emergency as other e. U. Countries closed their borders to and in less than an hour a u. S. Travel ban from most of europe will come into effect it stops people from 26. 00 European Countries from flying to the u. S. For the next 30 days well alan fisher has more on the new steps taken in washington d. C. From the u. S. President a dramatic announcement officially declaring a National Emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the vir
Thank you very much for joining us after days of denials iran has admitted its military shot down a ukrainian passenger jet by accident killing all 176 people on board but ukraines president says quote for admission of guilt and an official apology us still required the plane crash only after takeoff from tehran on wednesday after iran 5 missiles saw getting u. S. Forces based in iraq we begin our coverage with this report from catch and opus haya. Iran has admitted its military unintentionally shot down the street crimi in plain killing all 176 people on board president Hassan Rouhani has described it as a great tragedy and unforgivable mistake irans foreign minister to votes the reef express his condolences human error he wrote at a time of crisis caused by us adventurism lead to disaster. This i say to readiness the fact that everybody is expecting some sort of retaliation from the us that some low level operator sitting in a missile battery ole miss its all blip and launched a miss
As africans swine flu decimates pork industry and the 1st is a tax that could escalate. Counting the cost on aljazeera. States military. Cop cars or houses. That all strike targets. You know ive. Got to tell you that that after all the money he was killed in a strike by. Hello im Richard Burton youre at the listening post here are some of the stories were covering this week the u. S. And iran after the assassination the media are playing their part in both countries just not the one they are intended to for anyone concerned about this conflict turning into world war 3 twitter has some handy ideas about how to dog a possible draft india bollywood is giving Prime Minister modi the Cold Shoulder as his government struggles to sell its new citizenship law and fed up by how theyre covered by brazils mainstream news outlets the people in rios favelas have taken to telling their own stories. A little more than a week ago most americans had never even heard the name Qassam Soleimani now irans
Haiti is increasing with people struggling to feed their families without help from aid agencies. But everyone sudans government says its cost an armed revolt by members of a disbanded Intelligence Unit were angry at the terms theyve been offered on their dismissal 2. 00 soldiers were killed and 4 injured the 1st major challenge from within the security ranks for this Transitional Government to back in August Morgan reports now from cotton. Tuesday in hot sun started like this. Members of the Operations Unit of sudans general Intelligence Services opening fire in the capital there rejecting a severance package offered to them after the unit was dissolved months ago and they opted to retire rather than join the military tensions were high as people came out to see what was going. On the number some clubs are firing their weapons what are we waiting for where are the Security Forces to stop this. Sudans government only months old deployed soldiers to try and contain the situation tanks p
Prisons. Only setting out its plans for a new era in Space Exploration europes space agency sets its sights on the moon and must. Have all your sporting clothing police in london stopped by and on track frankfurt france and getting into also the emirates stadium ahead of the Europa League details coming up. In iraq at least 33. 00 people are reported to have been killed after Security Forces opened fire on antigovernment protests in the Southern City of nasiriyah earlier the army dispatched commanders to provincial areas with instructions to restore order were also hearing of 11 People Killed and 800 injured in the city of najaf a protest to set fire to the iranian consulate on wednesday iraqs foreign minister has called his iranian counterpart to apologize over the incident. Reports from baghdad. In iraq a dramatic escalation hundreds of antigovernment protesters storming the compound of the iranian consulate Late Wednesday in the Southern City of measure setting parts of the Diplomat