Involved in this stoppage as it were the United States the taliban or the Afghan Military to say that someone is complying with the terms of this 7 day pause and so there should be no signing of an agreement and doha come february 29th its a real question because this is perhaps the 1st real test of trust between the parties in this case the u. S. And the taliban with out that trust it is of fair to say that trying to get the taliban to then sit down with representatives of the Afghan Government or of the Afghan People as they would prefer its going to be very difficult to have those discussions actually take place so that an eventual peace accord can be reached within the afghan body politic. Italy has confirmed as furth death from the corona virus are 3 number of cases were quadrupled in one day 15 new infections have been reported in the wealthy Lombardy Region many of them were presented to the 1st cases of secondary infection meaning none of them had traveled to china where the ou
States im deeply concerned that we are way behind the a fondness at a hearing on capitol hill on tuesday the u. S. Health and Human Services secretary said development of a vaccine for the virus may still be a year away he openly admitted the trouble right house needs 2500000000 dollars in emergency funding from congress to fight the spread of the global outbreak so we do have in the Strategic National stockpile ventilators we have masks we have enough for part will of course not or we wouldnt be asking for a supplemental to seek more money to procure more of that for hours later a top u. S. Health official issued this ominous warning now its not so much a question of if this will happen anymore but rather more a question of exactly when this will happen and how many people in this country will become infected now even members of President Trumps own Republican Party are questioning a top u. S. Border official about whether its efforts to contain the virus are even adequate but you can
Based on the risk off the further markets. It is time now for global exchange. We will bring you todays market moving news from all around the world. Our bloomberg voices are on the ground with this mornings top stories. Where to begin in asia, the coronavirus continues to spread in china, with the number of confirmed cases climbing above 75,000. Engle. Me is Stephen Stephen for the second time in about a week, china has rejigged its methodology for how to classify confirmed cases of the coronavirus in china, that has led to this now becoming a bit of a global crisis. We are seeing more speculation that the data we are getting is we necessarily reliable, or are seeing a significant dropoff in the number of confirmed cases. In hubei province, just 349 new cases reported overnight. Is that because of the new methodology, or do they have the containment efforts under control . That is raising a lot of confusion and questions. Also, it adds to suspicion that officials in china may be prema
Downgrade recommendation by the department of justice prosecutors and as you pointed out that downgrading of the recommendation came after the u. S. President weighed in on twitter calling the recommendations a miscarriage of justice in the end the judge said that she took a look at both recommendations and felt that this should be proportional but at the same time noted that there were very few precedents for such a case involving the very close ally of the u. S. President roger stone in the end she did say that she took into account the requests for levy and see by his friends and family and she also said that she did not in any way pass judgment on roger stone as a person she said shed leave that up to a Higher Authority pretty remarkable given the fact that stone himself took aim at this judge quite literally even posting early on when he had been charged a picture of the judge would be campbell handling the case next to her image in a rifle crosshairs so this is been a remarkable
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