Were excluded. And the window to contain the coronavirus is narrowing a warning from the w. H. O. As an outbreak in northern italy gets worse. Welcome to the new agreement that supposed to usher in peace in afghanistan has come into effect the taliban and the u. S. Will begin what theyre calling a reduction of violence if the 7 day deal is a success both sides will sign an accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups the u. S. Says it wants to pull its troops out of afghanistan. Now americas longest war began in 2001 the u. S. Presence in afghanistan came a month after the 911. 00 attacks it launched air strikes and a Ground Invasion to remove the taliban from power more than 12000 american soldiers are still in the country thousands more from nato allies and partners countries are also there some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began and the u. S. Is estimated to spend more than one trillion dollars in it
Chinas president says his country faces the biggest Public Health emergency in its history as it battles to contain the deadly coronavirus she told high ranking officials that measures taken to counter the virus were effective but despite that nearly 650. 00 additional cases in the past 24 hours has taken the total to just under 77000. 00 more than 2400. 00 people have died iran is now another major hotspot with 48. 00 cases and 8 deaths the highest toll outside of china several neighboring countries have close their borders but its a city that has the largest outbreak outside asia in a matter of days confirmed cases jumped from 3 to 100 3083. 00 people have died and a cluster of cases is confounding scientists as it has no link to china meanwhile south koreas president says the next few days will be critical for an outbreak that struck more than 600 people 6 have died in the country is now in its high. Best possible and that reports. The worst affected areas in southeast korea the cit
Be announced power has been in the same family for more than half a century. Welcome to the news are iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over the coronavirus outbreak for new infections have been recorded in the capital tehran 7 in the holy city of qom to learn province and one each. Province and town a car bomb in a bid to stop the spread neighboring pakistan has closed its border with iran on sunday as have armenia and turkey in the northwest ankara has also halted all incoming flights afghanistan has suspended all road an air travel to its neighbor 3 afghans. Currently being tested for the virus after entering from iran and iraq is counting arrivals over fears that hundreds of thousands of iranian visit visitors visiting holy sites could bring the virus across the border door such a bari is a correspondent term ron with more how the authorities are responding the number is of course significant because they are worried that the containment process is rea
Conservatives back to to hold on to power after moderate and reformist candidates were excluded. Welcome to the program an agreement thats supposed to usher in peace the afghanistan has come into effect the taliban and the u. S. Will begin what theyre calling a reduction of violence is the 7 day deal as a success both sides will sign in accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups the u. S. Says it wants to pull its troops out of afghanistan well john 100 is following the story for us from washington d. C. What wonders really what except a bill level of violence really is for this agreement to work. Hell that is the biggest unanswered question about this whole process this is after all not technically a cease fire its a pause in hostilities but none of the parties involved in these discussions the United States the government of. Afghanistan or the taliban has publicly defined exactly what a violation of this pause in hostilities i
Parliamentary election with conservative expected to hold on to power after a moderate and reformist candidates were excluded. Hello welcome to the news the number of new coronavirus cases in china dropped on friday the government says it recorded almost 400 new infections thats a fall of more than half from the previous day but numbers are on the rise in other countries italy has confirmed its 1st death from the virus public spaces have been shut down in 10 towns in lombardy province after 15 new cases were found there south korea has the most cases outside of china and theyve had their largest spike in infections over half of those a members of a religious sect in the city of day. The virus has killed more than 2000 people and infected more than 76000 others as the number of deaths outside china continues to rise the World Health Organization chief has issued this warning about the virus outbreak. Although that window of opportunity is a no no we need to contain the outbreak we still