On books is last night is taking. It again in china where the head of a hospital and will han the center of the epicenter that is of this corona Virus Outbreak the doctor has now died from the disease lesion meaning the director of the rouhani shang hospital died this morning Chinas Health authority says over 3000 Health Workers have now contracted the virus and 6 have now died and total coronaviruses killed more than 1800 people 98 people have died in the last 24 hours in China Mainland who have a province thats the epicenter of all this the illness is affecting the countrys economy and chinas finance minister says theyre offering tariff exemptions on nearly 700. 00 u. S. Products including medical equipment. Lets go now to beijing rocketry is reporting live for us so katrina that the death of this. Doctor whos the director of the hospital obviously thats got to be raising concerns for Health Workers and if they dont have a handle on dealing with with their own health how difficult mu
And after an intense gun battle sudans military puts down a revolt and members of a despondent spicer. Irans president says u. S. Troops in the middle east are not secure and should leave the region along with other Foreign Forces a son rouhani once again called on the u. S. To return to the 2050 nuclear deal washingtons departure from the deal in 2018 heightened tensions between the u. S. And iran a setback joins us live now from the reagan capital so i said the president rouhani has been speaking in tehran about the future of foreign troops in the region what was even saying. Well it was a very wide ranging speech or statement this morning and he spoke about the insecurity in the region he blamed the United States for that insecurity he said why are you putting the iranian people under so much pressure and in the face of that pressure what iran needs to do is have maximum unity but he said that because of the insecurity in the region and speaking specifically about the sustentation o
A closer look at legal attempts to shut it down. Syrias president Bashar Al Assad says he is committed to continuing his governments offensive in the north of the country until the very end his forces have made Massive Gains in the last rebel held areas in recent days capturing dozens of villages in aleppo province u. N. Figures show 875000 syrians mostly women and children have now fled the offensive by syrias government and its russian allies since only december of those 40000 have fled in just the past 4 days said made his comments in a rare appearance on t. V. We fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war or the end of plots or terrorism either this liberation does not mean the enemys will surrender this liberation means that we put our enemies pride and nose in the dirt as a primary step to defeat them completely sooner or later. On the turkey syria border with more on Bashar Al Assads comments. This is a delicate moment for the Syrian Opposition but al
Union oks a new sea and their patrols in the Eastern Mediterranean and russia has big plans for facial recognition we take a closer look at the legal attempts to shut it down. And far as small have all the days sport including its 2 wins from 2 from holders our hell out of saudi arabia and the group stages of the Asian Champions League. Welcome to the program more than 300 americans have been flown home after 2 weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship as the fight to contain the coronavirus continues the diamond princess which is docked in yokohama has become the biggest single cluster of infections outside china with more than 450 people unwell in the epicenter of the outbreak more than 70000 people have been confirmed to have the virus in china with nearly 1800 deaths among them the peoples daily newspaper reports that the high ranking director of a 100 hospital has died from the virus well the lockdown in chinese a cities is continuing and one of the countrys most important political ga
Now on bbc news, its time for electioncast with adam fleming. Electioncast from the bbc. We are in the selection because of exit. We wa nt the selection because of exit. We want to be buying our christmas presents. If anybody comes up and says they know what is going to happen, cochrane eyebrow, smile politely and turn your back. Hello, and welcome to the latest episode of oui and welcome to the latest episode of our daily election pod cast, electioncast. Busy on the campaign trail, loads to get the end ill be going through it all with our Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg and chris mason. Much of the data then was spent in a nightclub in north london because that is where the liberal democrats leaderjo swinson unveiled her partys 90 page manifesto. But first, Boris Johnson seeming to blurt out a centrepiece tory policy that had not been announced yet. It was all about National Insurance. And they come out of your pay packet. The reason he blurted it out was thanks to somebody called c