President but our correspondent tells us theyre unlikely to just launch a dynasty thats been in power for more than half a century. Im called aspen thanks for joining me the World Health Organization is warning that the window of opportunity to contain the covert 19 corona virus is narrowing the number of cases outside of china is still relatively low but new clusters of the virus have emerged in iran south korea and italy raising fears now that the virus is spreading rapidly outside of china. This plane brought taiwanese evacuees hard from a korean t. V. Crew ship in japan hit by the coronavirus. While their plane and all luggage get a full ride disinfect. The evacuees will be isolated for another 2 weeks. These precautions are the new normal in the fight to contain the corona virus. In italy top officials met after the virus claimed its 1st victim in the country an elderly man in northern italy died after being hospitalized. It could on your town southeast of milan officials shut dow
From the outbreak. Greeces Prime Minister has called for missing of the National Security council as thousands of refugees and migrants continue to gather at its land border with turkey a local media is reporting that Greek Security forces have prevented 10000 people from entering over the past 24 hours the surge in numbers follows turkeys decision to open its borders to europe great police say more than 500 refugees and migrants also arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday most of them landing on the island of lesbos John Psaropoulos is in less valse and thats the main entry point for refugees and migrants coming from the aegean sea he has this report. A single boat load of refugees is asked. Altered to the shores of less force high winds have likely prevented many others from crossing but they are forecast to die down and more boats are expected to come all who arrive and up here in moria camp there are 22000 people here 7 times what it was built for and many have to
Is pace finally coming to afghanistan the u. S. And the taliban sign a deal aimed at ending 18 years of war but the government in kabul is not involved so kandice agreement lost and will the Afghan Peoples rights be protected this is inside story. I. Now live and welcome to the program dick clark it is being called the 1st step towards lasting peace in afghanistan the United States and the Afghan Taliban have signed a preliminary deal towards ending nearly 2 decades of war its a result of 18 months of talks here in doha in qatar the 1st stage involves exchange of 6000 prisoners in whats called a meaningful reduction of violence over the next 135 days the u. S. And nato will withdraw all troops within 14 months if the taliban not holds its commitments its hopes all this will lead to direct talks between the taliban and the Afghan Government in kabul which the taliban has refused to recognize were just at the beginning. Furthering the cause of peace will require serious work and sacrific
The coast guard early on sunday morning roughly 360 people crossing over from the Turkish Coast to 3 greek islands most of those boats arriving here on lesbos 360 people doesnt amount to the threatened flood. The president. Announced on thursday night 72 hours ago but more boats are expected today so we shall see how it goes this is early hours and early days in this new phase of the refugee crisis some of the people weve spoken to at 2 sites where boats arrived have told us that they were not asked for any money they were simply put on boats for free by the turkish smugglers and they were told that they were being sent to greece at no charge which suggests that smugglers have been coopted by the turkish government although they are a private sector interest and an illicit interest theyve been coopted in this visual now turkish government policy to leverage refugees against europe in order to presumably make political and Foreign Policy gains a deal signed between the u. S. And the Afg
Taliban prisoners despite a deal between the group and the u. S. That with the support and 145 days until take your host the olympics the japanese capital holds a scaled down barrier with just 200 runners in an effort to halt the spread of coronavirus. Welcome to the news are turkey says its launched a renewed military operation in northwestern syria it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in Syrian Government strikes in the province on thursday turkeys defense minister says the operation is in selfdefense against the assad Regime Syrian state media says turkey has shot down 2 syrian warplanes and but the pilots are safe. Is our correspondent on the turkey syria border near hotter and lets just begin with this very confusing picture about planes either being shot at or shot down. While this this is because of the series of reports weve been getting over the last few hours about spectacular spike of events now in syria particularly in the province of idlib this is absolutely an in