International push for solutions and the game on south koreas baseball season restarts as the country eases restrictions on professional sports. India is launching one of the Worlds Largest repatriation missions to help hundreds of thousands of its nationals stranded across the world by Coronavirus Travel restrictions passenger jets and warships will be used to bring workers home back in late march india had suspended all flights into the country elsewhere the u. K. Has recorded another 693 deaths taking its toll past the 29000 that means it has now overtake initially as the country with the highest number of deaths in europe in home call restrictions are being lifted with cinemas and bars is set to reopen and secondary schools due to restarts later this month meanwhile in russia cases are continuing to spike more than 10000 infections have been reported now for 3 days in a row we start our coverage in india with Victoria Gate and. There are an estimated 70000000 indians who Work Overs
Japans ruling party says the coronavirus will hit harder than the financial crisis. The global stocks rallied after the u. S. Opened the fiscal taps to the tune of a billion dollars. Thats on rate cuts for major Central Banks surge. St. Louis fed president tells bloomberg, dont assume that will be another cut in two weeks. Rate to thee policy right place for now. Given the information that we have now. We took out some insurance against the possibility that this will cause a growth slowdown in the u. S. Matt division in vienna. Agreement over output cuts proves elusive for opec plus delegates as they look to counter the impact of the coronavirus. We are live on the ground for a crucial meeting there. Lets take a look at futures, getting across europe right now. More than 0. 5 . Up 0. 75 . S are futures. In u. S. We finished up more than 1 yesterday across european forces. There was a major surge in u. S. Stocks as a result. You are seeing futures down for the west stocks. Risk on for e
Bridge. Its slow. Im just looking at this and showing you that there is no break today. Traffic is going to be slow driving across here. And it has been slow getting into marin. And well talk about marin in just a moment. I can also show you the traffic on the eastshore freeway. 30minute drive right now coming in from the carquinez bridge to the macarthur maze and at the bay bridge, we have a 25minute drive. New accident in san bruno. Well talk about that and some of of these other commutes when we come back in just a few minutes. Straight to new information this morning about a fire at a highrise Apartment Building in the south of market district in San Francisco. Firefighters are now telling ktvu an electric scooter was the source of this Early Morning fire. Flames broke out before 5 a. M. Inside a building on clementina street and gallagher lane. One person was hospitalized with moderate injuries. Looks like firefighters also rescued a dog from that burning building. Time is now 7 0
Im slowly dying. I feel i. Have a headline this new year new protests for hong kong after a massive turnout for 2021st rally turns Violent Police lawyers to disperse protesters. From moscow welcomes the weekly on r. T. International im Daniel Hawkins thanks for joining us on the program. This week and the year got off to a troubling start with tensions skyrocketing over the middle east south that i saw massive rallies and thousands turned out for the funeral procession of irans most senior general who was killed in a u. S. Airstrike in baghdad on friday iran swiftly vowed to avenge the death of. Relations with the United States plunged to a new low in both countries exchanged threats. The st of hormuz is a vital point for the west and a large number of american destroyers and warships cross their crucial american targets in the region have been identified by iran some 35 u. S. Targets in the region as well as to leave are within our reach let this serve as a warning that if iran strike
Reflecting on what happened the Russian National memorial jailed at the height of russian great scandal and what moscow called a politically motivated case. From moscow thanks for joining us on a weekly or r. T. International im Daniel Hawkins welcome to the program before we go to our other headlines news just coming in from italy where 6 tourists are been killed in the northeast of the country after a car crashed into a group of 17 holidaymakers all the victims are thought to be german nationals it happened just after 1 am local time in the south are all region which is popular with visitors all year round and the Emergency Services plan to hold a News Conference later this hour well update you when we do get more details. The week and the year got off to a troubling start with tensions skyrocketing over in the middle east following the United States assassination of irans most Senior Commander it seems sort of manis body has now arrived in iran these are live pictures we are bringin