And the discovery of oil in congo has environmentalists concerned about what drilling will do to the rain forest. And in sports olympic organizers insist the cancellation of julys tokyo games isnt being considered the torch relay through also set to start this month despite the coronavirus so. We begin this news hour with the latest on the diplomatic tensions due to turkeys intervention in the syrian conflict and the European Union Foreign Policy chief joseph brellier is an honor to meet with turkeys foreign minister. They are there and to president richard type bell says he told turkish officials the situation at the border with greece was unacceptable turkey and greece a trading accusations about the growing crisis there thousands of refugees and migrants at. Trying to cross into Greece Athens has dismissed reports its Border Security shot dead a migrant on the battlefront Turkeys Defense Ministry has confirmed 2 of its soldiers were killed in syrias if the province Turkish Forces re
A fast flowing river. And billionaire businessman Mike Bloomberg drops out of the democratic president ial race and gives his backing to joe biden. Is schoolin pick organizers insist the cancellation of joys so kill games isnt being considered the torch relay through japan also set to start this month despite the coronaVirus Outbreak. A very warm welcome to news our top story italy is closing all schools universities and cinemas until march the 15th as it battles to contain its corona Virus Outbreak the death toll there is jumped to 107 now this is the largest number of confirmed deaths outside of china Public Events have also been cancelled across parts of europe asia and the middle east also the International Monetary fund has issued a warning that the outbreak is likely to slow Global Economic growth this year there is john hull begins our coverage. Contagion is spreading quickly across europe and the world and that means anxiety as much as the covered 900. 00 virus itself staff at
Woman drawn or trying it means that china has effectively covered the spread of the outbreak well beyond our borders. And for that we have made extraordinary efforts. And a heavy sekret for Global Public Health Security which will be richer for that chinas not fighting alone all danger National Community has given us a valuable moral and a multirole support in this joint fight is strengthening the friendship between the Chinese People and people across the world Russia Belarus and the owl k. Swiftly delivered badly needed medical supplies to hand through a chartered lies pakistan apollo iron clad sent us virtually all the mosques in this stark. At the peak of the outbreak Prime Minister hun son of cambodia paid a special visit to beijing to offer his staunch support for china through a specially made video try mr pryor chano china of thailand convey the message to thailand and china a while family committed to fight the epidemic to get Prime Minister. Rajapakse out of sri lanka played
Court ruling his suspension of parliament was unlawful. And nigeria seeks to help local Dairy Farmers but theres a danger that the move could backfire. Now u. S. Democrats are opening a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump over claims he sought political help from ukraine House Speaker nancy pelosi made the announcement to trump acknowledged a phone call with ukraines president in which he discussed democratic president ial hopeful joe biden now trying to admitted to withholding aid to ukraine but denied using it as political leverage. The actions of the Trump Presidency reviewed dishonorable fact of the president s betrayal of his oath of office betrayal of our National Security and betrayal of the integrity of our elections therefore today im announcing the house of representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry and directing our 6 committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella of impeachment inquiry the president must be he
Hello a little tropical depression that made landfall 2 days ago and vietnam pretty huge amount of rain some like 5600 millimeters has now gone offshore its hard to see it was in that massive cloud there and its Still Producing vast amounts of rain for this part of vietnam and just on the very edge of your screen is what is now developing into a typhoon running up 3 q. Chain of japan toward south korea so thats where all the rain is falling which takes a lot of it away from China Hong Kong will still be in the rain mix i think in iran through for jennas well and to some degree union at least the southern part of sichuan the yangtze valley looks largely dry the moment the monsoon is retreating but he is doing it in sort of jerky stages and its more or less rebounding for it goes back again but you see with the main thrust is in the last 2 days from mumbai towards the congress the bangor you got typically one to 300 millimeters of rain 40 now thats a good bit of rain out of the monsoon t