Tourist attraction in china is back in business even as new coronavirus cases are reported in with her. Back into the program lets bring you this breaking news coming out of iran that in a rainy and naval ship has been mistakenly hit by a missile fired by another ship in its own fleet state television says that at least one person has been killed and several others have been injured in the incident it happened when the support fassel got too close to a target during naval exercises in the jasc region of southern iran on the gulf of oman. In other news saudi arabia has announced tough new austerity measures aimed at shoring up state finances which have been battered by Lower Oil Prices and the coronavirus pandemic from july the 1st it will raise value added tax from 5 to 15 percent it will cut up to 26000000000. 00 from government infrastructure upgrades sink looting crown prince mohammeds solve mans vision 2030 project from the beginning of next month is suspending a cost of living all
There is just under a week to go before lockdown measures are relieved here in france, and hundreds of mayors in the paris region have called for schoooolo reopen later than may 11. A mayor on the outskirts of paris do not have does not have a problem with the timetable and president Emmanuel Macron is visiting a Primary School there along with the education minister. The schools that stayed open for children of health care workers. Makes of the government plane for schools say it is unrealistic. In this Mayors Office in a suburb, there is s one pressing matter, a man has gathered his team to discuss the reopening of schools this monday. French]king signed ayor has petition, calling on the government to keep schools as redin regions classed or highrisk for covid19. He is worried about health and safety measures. He has been given regulation to follow by the government but it is unclear who would be responsible if a child cut coronavirus. [speaking french] this mayor, in the north of pa
102,000 families being affected. President trump warns of a painful few weeks ahead for americans, with the white house estimating at least 100,000 peopople could die. And growing cononcern that supplies of certain medications are already dangerously low. Another 490 nine people losing their lives. B back to the france 24 newsroom. The first in the global death toll continues to soar. Half of the deaths have taken place in italy and spain. 50 of the planets up population is under some form of lockdown. The diseases affecting more than 860,000 people worldwide. The secretarygeneral is sounding the alarm on what he says is the e worst crisis since world war ii. We are slowly moving in the right direction, but we need to if weup and d do much m more want to supporort the people. This is not a financial crisis. This is a human crisis. Annette after a decrease in the number of daily deaths that had raised hope that the epidemic was reaching a peak in spain, the country continues to record a
By Turkish Forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in the water a little province but russian airstrikes have helped to repel them lets get more on this story now from our colleague standoff has been following events and. First inspection it all sounds very serious it sounds like it. An escalation. Just exactly how you describe events on the ground in syria well i would describe it as the worst escalation that we have seen so far in that particular syrian province because according to the statement of the Russian Defense ministry heres what happened terrorist groups launched an offensive on the positions of the syrian army in that province in that northeastern syrian province the offensive was large scale with the use of very heavy weapons and artillery so syria. Syria it has well it took its own jets into the skies and asked russias air force also to help them repel the attack. So what the did but apparently according to moore school according to the russians Turkish
Much worse from a civilian point of view on had to be simply targeted a Christmas Market using an automatic rifle we wouldnt be talking about 2 fatalities in the war 5 injuries would be talking multiple fatalities and perhaps dozens of injuries so its very telling that the attacker chose perhaps the most heavily guarded building the most heavily guarded area aside from the kremlin or the white house perhaps in moscow he very much knew what would happen and indeed the timing of this event how quickly it wrapped up how many lives were saved by the actions of the Security Service as well is something is one Silver Lining as you quite rightly say if you just look back through i mean russia had its fair share of terrorist attacks as. You know developed countries if you look back 2010 moscow metro bombings the least 40 dead over 100 injured 2011 domodedovo airport bombing 37 killed 2070. St petersburg metro bombing 15 died we were very sadly used to multiple fatalities when youre talking abo