Remembering the victims across it and watching those live pictures there from that moment of silence being observed in rome well lets get more on whats happening around the country our correspondent francesco jumper tony is in milan for us francesco yet another sobering moment today but at the same time i see some potential optimism i see some Health Experts are predicting that italy could now reach its infection peak in a week or so. Where were they thats thats where. The latest on official forecasts based on different researchers are saying that the daily could reach the peak in 7 to 10 days and see the new cases hitting 0 in the 1st 2 weeks of may but of course this is not sure yet what is sure is dead 812 people died yesterday bring in the total death toll to over 11500 and the confirmed positive cases are more than 100000 but the growth appears much slower than last week did ailing crees is now costs unduly under the 8 percent and the recoveries never been so many so there is yes
Chanting of protesters drowns out one of latin americas biggest Music Festivals. Welcome to the program the World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus epidemic is escalating rapidly and action must be taken quickly to prevent it from becoming a pandemic chinese authorities working in the epicenter of the outbreak have just released new figures the rate of new infections to remains in decline and cured patients have begun returning home. This is a rapidly escalating epidemic in different places that weve got to tackle super fast to prevent a pandemic i mean its actually were trying to demonstrate heres where this goes is within the control of our decisions to apply this kind of rigor and approach to to to this disease but within the past hour south koreas Health Ministry has announced 169. 00 more infections mostly in and around daegu bringing the total number of people with the illness to 1146 European Health ministers meanwhile upheld emergency talks in italy where the
A huge money making business. Russia has cautioned both sides in libyas conflict ahead of a highly anticipated summit in berlin on sunday acting foreign minister Sergei Lavrov urged warlord anything after Prime Minister the u. N. Backed government fires are surat to come together in burnin without adding conditions after hours counting greece ahead of those talks which are aimed at ending a 9 month conflict globality the most important thing now is that after the berlin conference if everything goes as planned and the Security Council supports the conclusions from the conference the libyan sides do not repeat their own past mistakes and start adding any additional conditions and blaming each other so as of now the relationships between them are very strange they dont even want to be in the same rooms let alone speak or meet each other. Well russia turkey and egypt are among the countries attending some bones conference but the un recognized government is also calling for qatar and tuni
U. S. Start screening passengers from china as fears grow about the spread of a new virus. Libyas stage oil from says its been forced to Halt Operations at 5 major oil ports in the east of the country interested as he is have been under attack by forces loyal to ward who have to say the ports revenues are being used by the rival chipley based government to pay turkish fight says the National Oil Corporation says 800000 barrels a day of output will be lost that amounts to 55000000. 00 per day while the uns envoy for libya says oil revenues should be used to feed the people. Leni i dont need to clear our position at the u. N. Is very clear you must not play with oil because it is the livelihood of libyans without oil libyans are starving we have to tell it like it is so we must not clear with oil we must not turn it into a weapon of war we must not allow it to become a matter of division or outbidding. Pause in operations comes ahead of a major peace conference on libya diplomats. On sun
A new virus. And china comes under fire as the water levels of the mekong river drop bringing hardships for those whose lives depend upon an. Uninstaller chinese would never want to see has won her 1st title of the year winning the Adelaide International she builds up to the seasons opening. Now less than 24 hours before a major conference on libya turkeys president has called on europe to support his countrys efforts there the International Peace conference and balin is the latest diplomatic push to try to bring an end to that conflict turkey backs the internationally recognized government of Prime Minister. Its been under attack by forces loyal to world. Hes been trying to seize the capital tripoli since april both sides have been invited to berlin diplomats are expected to push for a truce agreement and a u. N. Monitoring mission well heres what rose in a column on the web site politico to leave libya at the mercy of a warlord would be a mistake of historic proportions keeping in mi