Daily death toll of more than 830 people such a small increase on the previous day is seen as a glimmer of hope that the situation remains critical the choice. It is very likely that the outbreak is evolving properly thanks to everyones efforts having only 20 percent of our cases recovering and that is an encouraging statistic but it is true that the number of people going into intensive care units is doing creasing and there are many regions operating at Maximum Capacity and many other religions quickly getting closer to this limit yes yes autonomous. The u. K. Has recorded its 2nd successive day of more than 200 new deaths and the government has put the entire country on emergency footing unprecedented in peace time asked about the timescale for the current restrictions the answer came a could be many months so i think 3 weeks for review 2 or 3 months to see whether weve really squashed it and that about 3 to 6 months ideally and lots of uncertainty in that then to see which point we
Becomes the center of the pandemic the states and federal governments debate a broader loped and. We begin with breaking news service been getting reports of rocket attacks inside the capital riyadh according to city state television a missile was intercepted over the city on to syria cannot independently verify these images and say the meteor also reporting that a missile hit the Southern Coast in coastal city of the season on the red sea near the border with yemen well earlier i spoke see the editor of arab digest below he says its clear whos the rebels in yemen launched the attack in a strong show of force against saudi arabia. Well i think its very clear that who are behind it and who these have been engaged in a sense that over the past couple of weeks theyve just taken government which is next door to saudi arabia in the north of yemen theyre threatening another governorate matter which is the. Oil producing region of yemen and so they are running hard and fast right now so i thi
They will be doing what they say theyre going to be doing they will be killing terrorists they will be killing some very bad people that will keep that fight going weve. Had tremendous success in afghanistan and the killing of terrorists but its time after d all these years to go and to bring our people back home Gabriel Alexander is in washington explains that president trumps plans for withdrawing troops from afghanistan. Trump did confirm what we believed all along that that he in the near future will be lowering the amount of u. S. Troops in afghanistan to about 8 to 8500 he gave 2 different numbers and spoke so we think its between 88008500 in that range right now the u. S. Has about 12000 troops in afghanistan and then he went on to say that while he hopes that this moves forward successfully and he expects that it will he said that if in his words bad things happen we will go back to afghanistan if we need to this was really the president kind of the sense i got from him is that
Thank you for joining us the u. S. And Afghan Taliban have signed a preliminary deal that could eventually end americas longest running war its the result of 18 months of talks but theres still a long way to go before peace returns to afghanistan the 1st stage of the agreement means that there should be a 135. 00 day period of whats called a meaningful reduction in violence that 1st stage also includes the exchange of about 6000. 00 prisoners the deal is being described as a precursor to a Peace Agreement between the warring sides within afghanistan its hoped it will lead to talks between the taliban and the government in kabul as well as the withdrawal of foreign troops well some of the reports. We destroy a new chapter move opened for afghanistan the United States has agreed on a deal that could see the complete withdrawal of its troops from its longest running war in the next 14 months. We recognize america should fight in perpetuity in the graveyard of empires if we can help afghan
Will be spread. In order to put an end to this problem and protect the lives and health of the people of this prefecture, and to minimize the impact of thee outbreak on our lives, we are now at a critical juncture. I believe we need to take radical measures that we have never experienced before. The state of emergency will last until march 19th. 66 cases have been reported in the prefecture, the most in japan. Those infected include students, a teach, he and a school bus driver. The governor says theres a possibility of a cluster of people infected with the virus in this city. Six people, including a man in hits 70s whos in serious condition had reportedly taken part in a housing equipment exhibition. They have all been confirmed to have been infected. Authorities are trying to identify the possible source and root of the contagion. A cluster is a group of people infected with a virus in a chain. Clusters may produce other clusters. And we are now joined by the doctor from the National