And the discovery of oil in congo has environmentalists concerned about what drilling will do to the rain forest. And in sports olympic organizers insist the cancellation of julys tokyo games isnt being considered the torch relay through also set to start this month despite the coronavirus so. We begin this news hour with the latest on the diplomatic tensions due to turkeys intervention in the syrian conflict and the European Union Foreign Policy chief joseph brellier is an honor to meet with turkeys foreign minister. They are there and to president richard type bell says he told turkish officials the situation at the border with greece was unacceptable turkey and greece a trading accusations about the growing crisis there thousands of refugees and migrants at. Trying to cross into Greece Athens has dismissed reports its Border Security shot dead a migrant on the battlefront Turkeys Defense Ministry has confirmed 2 of its soldiers were killed in syrias if the province Turkish Forces re
President. 9 times as many new corona virus infections recorded outside china beijing reports the lowest number of new cases in over a month. And greece reinforces that sea and land borders to stop migrants crossing from turkey. Hello Benjamin Netanyahu is claiming victory in israels general election although it appears hes fallen one or 2 seats short of a parliamentary majority exit polls suggest thats an yahoos the crude party and its right wing allies have around the 120. 00 seats in the knesset so this is the 1st time israelis have done to the polls in less than a year after 2 failed attempts at forming a coalition. Well the Opposition Leader benny gantz told his supporters he was disappointed with the exit poll results but refused to concede defeat. I will tell you honestly i understand and share the feeling of disappointment in hind because it is not the result we wanted and if this will be the result it is not the result that will put israel back on the right track kerry falso i
Im ken wayne just in the last hour, oregon and Washington State each reported that case both labeled as a possible instance of Community Spread how they describe it. Those are in addition to 2 such cases here in the bay area. The first one was reported yesterday from Solano County a woman from there is currently being treated at U C Davis Medical Center in sacramento. The latest one was reported just today in Santa Clara County and thats where kron fours dan thorn joins us live with how county leaders are responding to this new case stands. Well thats right and Santa Clara County Health Officials say they now have 3 confirmed cases of coronavirus. Here in Santa Clara County this new case is now the latest in the bay area where a patient was infected through community transmission. Another coronavirus case of unknown origin is confirmed in the bay area. This coming just days after a woman in Solano County may have been the first in the country to get the virus through Community Spread l
A significant drop in new Coronavirus Infection to me breaks a piece and province. And business groups in canada want the government to stop a protest which is shut down the Railway System over a controversial pipeline. Nowhere is safe for civilians in the province that was the message at the United Nations as the Security Council met for a briefing on syria the u. N. Says almost a 1000000 people have fled since the start of december thats the biggest displacement in the nearly 9 years long conflict there being squeezed into ever smaller areas that turkeys border under her rendition conditions the uns humanitarian chief told the council at least 100 civilians have been killed so far this month in and ground strikes 35. 00 of those victims with children the presence of turkish soldiers is complicating the fighting it live and neighboring provinces along with russia was sponsoring a cease fire and the u. N. Special envoy is calling on them to find a way to deescalate the situation mike h
Yes it is a change. That began in china where the head of a hospital and move on the center of the corona Virus Outbreak has died from the disease whose dimming the head of the hospital died on Tuesday Morning Chinas Health authority says over 3000 Health Workers sept has to positive for the virus and 6 have now died and totaled the corona virus has killed more than 1800 people 98 of them in the last 24 hours in china mainly at who they province the outbreak is affecting the economy and Chinas Finance Ministry says its offering tariff exemptions are nearly 700 u. S. Products including medical equipment. Yokohama port in japan thats where a cruise ship has had hundreds of confirmed cases of the virus and there been quarantined 1st lets go to beijing worker trainee is live for us so katrina Health Care Workers dying from this now in particular this hospital director surely that scott to raise the concern level about whether or not they have a handle on this. Thats what were seeing seeing