Italy has reported a big jump in the number of coronavirus cases has a lock down a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed and the number of infections has doubled since friday to nearly 7400 on the gay begins our coverage. A city deserted a region and a lockdown milan italy economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls its famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this countrys recent history where look as thats richard internet i mean what is happening in my city is worrying me and its also saddening because milan is a lively city and to see it like this today is almost a defeat for me i never would have thought this would happen. Milans my parents the airport has now suspended all flights its neighboring airport now restricted to running only domestic flights but that hasnt stopped people attempting to get away. Fearing further contagion leaders o
Ukraine. Im. All right lets begin with that breaking news coming out of sudans capital where an explosion has rocked a convoy carrying the Prime Minister abdullah one dog was traveling through khartoum around an hour ago when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in was damaged as well as several others a short time ago the Prime Ministers office said it was an assassination attempt and lets go straight away to have a morgan he joins us by phone from khartoum what more do we know at this point. Well ive been woman make what we do know is that what we have from the office of the Prime Minister which was that it was and is happy mission and time now to keep current ongoing wars in the area called cobra which is not. Just about if you can on the way and he was on his way into his office when a car right in front of the convoy exploded now this is raising a lot of questions one of them being why is the car you dont want to date and because of the Prime Minister people know that you
The number of deaths initially from coronavirus has risen sharply alz offer a lockdown started going to fix a quarter of the population 133. 00 italian deaths are reported raising the total to 366 as the epicenter of the crisis shifts to europe as infections continue to rise stock markets and oil prices a suffering steep falls or the 110000 cases a confirmed globally 61000. 00 have recovered so far so new gago begins our coverage. A city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy is economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls its famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this countrys recent history where look is this richard in then i mean what is happening in my city is worrying me and its also saddening because milan is a lively city and to see it like this today is almost a defeat for me i never would have thought this would happen milans my parents or airport has now suspended all fl
So that an explosion has hit a convoy carrying sudans Prime Minister and what the government has described as an assassination attempt adela was traveling through called to when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in was damaged as well as several others government says it was a targeted attack investigations are underway to try the term in who thats responsible. For that was that ill be the Prime Minister and the convoy members were not injured they are all safe except one person who fell from about a cycle of the Prime Minister is doing his job now from his office and investigations underway we know that there are people who are trying to target the revolution of the sudanese people and to attack the gains of the revolutionaries but we stress that revolution is going on at the revolution will continue its path. Lets speak to him organise life in khartoum what more do you have for us. Well at the moment what we know is what we heard from the Government Spokesperson the minis
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