Hello and welcome to world news today. An 80 year old chinese tourist has died in france from the new coronavirus after he travelled there from hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak. Its the first fatality from the disease in europe. It comes as the head of the World Health Organization has said that the outbreak is still an emergency for china and it is impossible to tell where the epidemic will spread. More than 66,000 people are known to be infected and more than 1500 have now died in china. A who mission has arrived in the country to analyse the severity of the virus. 25 countries remain affected by covid 19. With the latest from from hong kong, heres nick bea ke. China has declared war on an invisible killer sending more doctors as well as soldiers into the worst affected area. But now the new coronavirus has claimed its first victim outside asia an elderly chinese man who had travelled to france. Translation last night, i was informed of the death of an 80 year old patien
Afternoon live from oxford, mississippi, this is a live look, dallas, where were waiting for a News Conference about the ebola patient. Well take you there when it starts. New today, state officials put four people under quarantine in their apartment, the partner and her child and two nephews. Theyre all locked inside their home after having direct contact with duncan while sick with ebola. The quarantine is legally bipdinbipd i binding. Family members can Face Criminal Charges if they do not comply. But the kids had been in school earlier this week and now locked inside the apartment with officials monitoring them. More on those kids later. Officials so are far say the relatives have not shown any simp symptoms. They say at first the family was not cooperating and thats why they needed the legal order. Theyre looking for about 100 people who may have had contact with duncan. And there is word duncan lied at the airport in liberia before he made his way to the United States. According
Tanks in its syrian offensive and having repercussions here in berlin. Precious liquid and take town is rapidly running out after more than two years of drought the authorities are close to turning off all but essential water supply. Also ahead. Of the World Economic forum in switzerland our Senior Business editor ben consume is. Down to business in davos some of the topics will be covering today containing trump women and how to pull rain out of clouds for the team here on the news i dont social media. Welcome im terry martin good to have you with us turkey has intensified its military. Campaign against kurdish militias in Northern Syria despite criticism from the International Community the United Nations says the fighting has already displaced five thousand people and left vulnerable civilians trapped chris says it will press on with its operation against the kurdish militias on its border regards them as terrorists. Attacked this town has only a few kilometers away from the fightin
It is 4 00 a. M. Here on the u. S. East coast. Thanks for being with us this day. The u. S. President donald trump, his phone call with ukraines leader. The storm clouds of questions around what he said and how it was handled appear to be taking a toll on senior white house staff specifically. Mick mulvaney. Hes on shaky ground for not containing the backlash after details of the call were made public. The white house denies hes in trouble. We have learned Mitch Mcconnell pushed the white house to release the rough transcript of the call thinking that it would exonerate the president. And sources tell cnn former u. S. Special envoy to ukraine, kurt volker, plans to appear before his deposition on thursday. He resigned his post. Jeremy diamond reports from the white house. Reporter with democrats moving quickly towards impeachment, President Donald Trump on saturday, ever a day of golf, going on the counter offensive. In a series of twists, he insists he should not be impeached because
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