Conflict escalating even more this morning, israeli airstrikes have targeted 140 hezbollah sites in beirut including weapons storage, and missile facilities embedded beneath civilian buildings. Thats according to the idf, the strikes are part of an ongoing campaign by israel to degrade hezbollahs military capability. The lebanese government, responding to the widespread destruction calling for intervention on an international basis, the country has recorded more than 100,000 people have been displaced by the conflict. Authorities claimed that number is actually much higher. Our chief national Security Analyst, Jim Sciutto in Tel Aviv with the very latest jim, tell us first, who was this . Hassan Nasrallah Hassan Nasrallah was a defining figure in hezbollah in the region for more than three decades. Leave getting the terrorist organization, going back to 1992. And we making it over the course of that time into a formidable force, certainly plead with irans help with many Tens Of Thousan
Over the weekend. We are inching closer to that alltime high when it comes to laterchina that was set september. Of focus. Was one those are the biggest movers here today and in particular, they may be looking at that emergency in tokyo and some of the surrounding areas as well as hokkaido. Those are holding amid some of and we are tensions watching currencies as well. We are obviously watching dollar china and dollaryen. You are seeing some of these china proxies following the ram be lower. Forward markete with plenty of action. Citigroup saying we are not bullish. Someg that there should be caution on these simmering tensions. Ringgit inthe particular are ones we should be focusing on. Be closed later on. End ofsed as we mark the the ramadan festival. Asiahief north correspondent is watching development for us. Where does hong kong stand . Questionsa lot more to the power play by beijing invoke its own security laws, basically being rubberstamped, to impose that on hong kong, bypassi
Reaffirming its redline over taiwan. Coronavirus claims more deaths as cages cases approach ive million. U. S. Closing travel from brazil. Protesters to announce chinas security law in hong kong. Washington says it could be the death knell for asias leading financial center. How is that playing out across these markets . Declines from last week, there is a little bit of trepidation and caution across futures now. Your getting brent crude, pleasant surprise from the upside, nothing screaming higher. 29. 65. 2965. 34. 72 brent crude. Coming off weeks of sharp gains. Looking ahead you have more data that perhaps would give us more visibility on the path. We could get consolidation as we were talking about earlier in the program. Lets talkoned, about the renewed tensions between the chinese and the americans here with the foreign minister of China Morning the u. S. To give up warning the u. S. To give up Wishful Thinking about changing china. Saying some in america are pushing relations to
And medicine after columbia closes the border because of coronavirus. The number of countries imposing drastic new restrictions to curb the spread of the coronavirus is growing the police and soldiers in the philippines are sealing off all entry points into the capital city manila its 12000000 people have been told to stay at home for a month with schools closed and Mass Gatherings banned australia has joined the countries imposing self isolation for arrivals as of midnight on sunday people entering the country must isolate themselves for 14 days and in the United States President Trump has expanded the european travel ban to include the u. K. And the republic of ireland it comes into force on tuesday the restriction already includes 26. 00 european nations sarah clarke is live for us in hong kong so sara just take us through what theyre doing in manila. Well millers a starting to go into lockdown as of sunday evening will be a night curfew so no ones allowed to leave their homes from
Health crisis in a century. Good to have you with us welcome to aljazeera more and more countries are imposing restrictions and theyre getting more drastic in the fight against coronavirus austria has banned gatherings and ordered restaurants to close while kazakhstan has declared a state of emergency earlier on sunday the philippines began sealing off its capital 12000000 manila residents told to stay at home for a month schools closed and mass events banned irans Just Announced that 113 more people have died to the highest single day figure yet in one of the worlds worst affected countries more than 700 people have died so far and there are nearly 14000 confirmed cases australia has joined the countries ordering travelers into self quarantine and as of midnight sunday they have to isolate themselves for 14 days but despite concerns and a ban on gatherings of more than 100 people local actions are continuing in france. Below is live for us in the philippine capital manila and of cours