Forces battle to stop taliban fighters closing in on the capital of Helmand Province and flooding and landslides kill or least 36 people in Central Vietnam with more heavy rain forecast. We begin this news hour in europe where many countries are seeing coronavirus cases surged to their highest levels in months and with that comes a wave of new restrictions france will reenter a state of Health Emergency on saturday with weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and 8 other cities you know the 23000 new cases were recorded in the past day but president mccrone insists the outbreak is not out of control meanwhile in the u. K. A new 3 tier alert. System has come into force in england only one city is in the highest level but with almost 20000. 00 new cases in the past 24 hours other areas look set to join it is in the meanwhile has seen its highest daily increase yet with more than 7300 new cases its infection rate has more than doubled in the past 2 weeks and germany hit a 6 month high i
Their battle and the death toll keep rising keeps rising. Welcome to the program. France will reenter a state of Health Emergency on saturday with the weeks of nightly curfews imposed on paris and eight other cities. Nearly 23,000 new cases were recorded in the past day. President macron insists the outbreak is not out of control. Natosha butler reports from paris. French president Emmanuel Macron said france was in the grip of a second wave of coronavirus. He urged people to be more responsible and announced a nighttime curfew for paris and eight other cities that could last until december. If we stick to this curfew for six weeks, if we take collective responsibility for reducing our contacts, we think we will be able to aggressively reopen. The curfew adds to a raft of restrictions already in place in the countrys big cities or cases of new infections are rising rapidly. In the past couple of weeks, qs outside laboratories like this one in the city have been getting longer. What par
A curfew is declared across parts of france as europe battles a 2nd wave of coronavirus. The rebels in yemen have released 2 u. S. Citizens in exchange for 250 of their faces those released have since arrived in yemens capital after transiting through oman the white house says that humanitarian work sandra lowly businessperson Michael Goodale could im sorry have been released are the remains of a 3rd american have been retirement. Well heres a look at how we got here the efforts to end the 5 year long conflict u. N. Brokered peace talks began in stockholm in 2018 the warring sides signed a deal to swap around 15000. 00 detainees but progress has been slow nearly 1100 detainees are expected to be exchanged on thursday that ruthies will reportedly release around 400 people including 15 Saudis Coalition forces a likely to free around 700 hooty fighters last year who thinks freed 290 prisoners and saudi arabia released 128 the war in yemen has killed more than 100000 people and millions ar
Than a 1000000 people have been forced from the area as fighting intensified over the past year has been more violence between taliban fighters and Government Troops in afghanistan parts of a military base in wardak province were destroyed in a car bomb explosion its happening as peace negotiations between the 2 sides continue in qatar israel is expected to approve the construction of more subtle homes in the occupied west bank at least 2000 of them were out of weapons today in total israels Planning Committee looks set to approve around 5000. 00 new homes the palestinian leadership has slammed the move. U. S. President donald trump is out on the campaign trail again this time in iowa a state considers critical to his reelection the president continues to downplay the virus sizing his sons recovery as proof that its not a danger to most children president trumps wife melania earlier said that 14 year old byron contracted coronavirus but the since tested negative. Parents are surprised
Coronavirus. Will start same critical stand where president sort of jeenbekov has resigned after weeks of protests and said that he would step down but only after a rerun of the parliamentary election lets take you live now to east and kurdistan is a call is where i was there was Charles Stratford is a well that charles why has the president decided to go now. Well he has been flip flopping changing his statements over the last couple of weeks over say those rigged elections that were canceled by the Central Election Commission those elections held on october the 4th we didnt hear anything from the president for a long time he was blamed as being part and parcel of those elections being rigged we then had a statement we understand as a result of pressure put on him by the russians very concerned about instability in one of the former soviet states and a country that russia has a lot of influence over we had a statement then saying from him that he was prepared to resign that changed ag