Told the chinese to shut their consulate in houston plus u. S. President donald trump cancels the Republican Party conventions main event in florida the president made the surprise announcement as florida struggles to contain a spike in corona virus infections and the number of cases in the u. S. Passes for millions and after nearly 19 years as a museum is stumbles highest o. P. O. Open today for muslim prayers we have the latest on president arafat wants a controversial decision to change the status of the worlds famous monument. Im sorry kelly welcome to the program the spokesperson for the Iraqi Armed Forces said on twitter that the military has freed german art curator helen mavis who was kidnapped. By militants earlier this week the official said that mavis was rescued on the outskirts of baghdad this morning 5 days after she was abducted by gunmen outside of her office in the capital the German National is a well known figure in baghdad where she runs an arts program for young ir
A hospital treating people in a Global Pandemic cannot get a mass. Protests against the brazilian president s handling of the Coronavirus Crisis he says his role is not to cause panic. Traumatized by war now terrified of the virus we look at efforts to prevent an outbreak in the refugee camps in Northern Syria. Has now killed more people in italy than anywhere else the death toll of more than 3400. 00 surpassed that reported by china where the virus 1st emerged iran spain and germany each add more than 15000. 00 cases worldwide according to Johns Hopkins university more than 242000 people have contracted the illness almost 85000 of them have recovered while more than 9800 have died as President Donald Trump says he is pushing regulators to fast track rhinovirus treatments including an antimalaria drug but his own officials later talked that down some more on that in a moment lets begin though in italy paul brennan has our report its just its. The head of the World Health Organization h
Couple of hours issuing a Global Travel advisory now to americans saying that any american abroad should return to the United States immediately or plan to remain in place now just to give some perspective that level of the highest level advisory against travel for american citizens is the theme that the state department would use for an area of war for example and in this case it is the global coronavirus pandemic that is being advised for americans not to travel hi joe castor there joining us live with the latest from washington d. C. Heidi thank you. For Global Markets are trading up slightly after a major losses thanks to several Central Banks scrambling to soften the impact of the pandemic the dow jones in new york and fitzy 100. 00 in london both closed almost one percent higher but trading of course remains volatile it comes after the u. S. Federal reserve bank of england and the European Central bank will that fresh measures to support the Financial Markets or cases of corn a v
Potential treatments including a medication currently used for malaria. Traumatized by war now terrified of the virus well look at efforts to prevent an outbreak in the camps of Northern Syria. And while more glimmers of hope are emerging from china infections and other Asian Countries are still climbing. On a virus has now killed more people in italy than anywhere else its death toll of more than 3400. 00 surpassed that reported by china where the virus 1st emerged iran spain and germany each have more than 15000 cases worldwide according to Johns Hopkins university more than 242000 people have contracted the illness almost 85000 of them have recovered all more than 9800 have died as President Trump says he is pushing regulators to fast track run a virus treatments including an antimalaria drug but his own officials later talked that down more on that in a moment will began with the situation in italy paul brennan has this report. The head of the World Health Organization has called c
In business, chinese telecoms giant huawei launches a second legal challenge against the us ban, saying there is no evidence it is a National Security threat. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. After the row about pelotons sexist and dystopian christmas video advert, what is the worst gift you have ever received, and why, and how did you react . Let me know. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. Commuters in france are struggling to get to work this hour as one of the countrys biggest ever nationwide strikes begins. Rail services have been severely hit and many schools are also closed as unions battle the government over pension reform. It will be a major test for emmanuel macrons presidency, as rich preston reports. 90 of high speed and regional trains will be affected, according to the countrys rail operator, meaning problems travelling and commuting for thousands of people.