This is the only News I m David for Chinese state television reported Sunday the death toll from the Corona virus has risen to 304 that announcement came after several countries announced Rick travel controls Saturday on foreigners who have been in China but as Lisa reports the World Health Organization is advising against closing borders spokesman Christian Lindenmayer says closing borders will not keep out the virus but the only way to control the check fever for example to identify travel history to try to monitor who s coming across the border and to see whether they have any signs of infection is through official border crossing points China is taking draconian measures to stop the spread of the corona virus on City the epicenter of the disease in 15 other cities have been quarantined placing an estimated 50000000 people under lockdown Despite these efforts the virus continues to spread at a rapid pace the line for v.o.a. News Geneva u.s. Secretary of state Mike Pompei o was in B
In fact on the b.b.c. News is read by Alan Smith the United Kingdom will tonight s n.x. The most profound constitutional legal and political change in its recent history as it formally ends 47 years in the European Union and its predecessor bodies there will be celebrations and protests reflecting the divisions Breck s it has created Boris Johnson is to hail a horse he will call the dawn of a new era but the Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn will say the u.k. Is at a crossroads where the 1st Minister of Scotland tickler sturgeon is to argue her country is being forced out of the e.u. Against its will his Our political correspondent the curtly after years of polarized political debate during which point it seemed almost impossible that parliament would endorse any version of Bracks it at 11 o clock tonight the u.k. Will formally leave the European Union in immediate practical terms little will change with trade and travel roosting the same until the implementation period expires at the end of
I minister Benjamin Netanyahu but more restrained Sar is married to one of Israel s best known t.v. News anchors recently sorry said he is challenging Natanya predicting a better chance of forming a majority government turnout was low partly because of a winter storm sweeping through Israel most analysts expect Natanya who is still popular in the party to prevail even if Natanya who prevails as expected it s not clear if he will win the 2020 general election Linda Gradstein for v.o.a. News Jerusalem riot police stormed shopping malls for a 3rd day of Christmas protests in Hong Kong on Thursday and detained a number of people after masked protesters roamed through shops some throwing paint and disrupting restaurant services Christmas in Hong Kong is usually bustling with commercial activity but this year streets and malls and shopping districts are filled with tension police a fire tear gas rubber bullets and pepper spray at protesters and beaten and arrested many of them they also con
Of a short trial that s long enough to show the American people that. Senate is taking its responsibilities seriously but they do he doesn t want to drag it out he apparently has concluded that for his endangered Senate incumbents who are up for reelection this year like a Cory Gardner in Colorado or Susan Collins of Maine that it s better to have a short trial rather than a spectacle N.P.R. s Mara Liasson reporting a key witness in the impeachment inquiry the acting ambassador to Ukraine is being called back to the United States Senator Bob Menendez the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee is expressing a long arm more from N.P.R. s Michele Kelemen in a letter to Secretary of State might pay 0 Sen Menendez says he understands that Bill Taylor is being recalled just before the secretary visits Ukraine he calls that quote highly irregular and perhaps unprecedented the State Department has not commented Taylor was brought back from retirement earlier this year to run the
Straits the reforms own tyrannical enough they want to overthrow the entire political system a study published in the long medical journal Warners an increasing number of low income countries are facing both under nutrition and obesity similar timi Asli sometimes even in the same family the research sponsored by the World Health Organization blames a lack of access to affordable and healthy food and the rise of processed and fast food New Zealand has held a minute s silence to mark the exact moment a week ago when a deadly volcanic eruption to place on Point Island 18 people are known to have died in the explosion including 2 whose bodies have not yet been recovered 26 survivors are in hospitals in both New Zealand and Australia some of them still in a critical condition b.b.c. News Hello you are listening to the newsroom from the b.b.c. World Service with me I mean you re some predator we begin the program in Seoul where the u.s. Envoy to North Korea is meeting South Korean officials