Situation under control by. Ultimately the goal is to ease the guidelines and open things up to very large sections of our country as we near the end of our historic battle with the invisible enemy to go on for a while but we when and when. I said earlier today that i hope we can do this by easter i think that would be a great thing for our country and were all working very hard to make that a reality but top u. S. Health official anthony found he downplayed the president s. Timeline. Thats really very flexible we we just had a conversation with the president in the oval office talking about you know you can look at a day but youve got to be very flexible and on the on it literally day by day require week basis you need to evaluate the feasibility of what youre trying to do you need to know more about what the penetrance is there so if we do the kind of testing we were doing and testing will always be associated by identifying cation isolation and contact racing and you find after a pe
Of 139. 00 thats the official number being told to us by the iranian government the death toll has also gone up from 15 to 19 still far shy of what the member of parliament in home in recent days has said was closer to 50 and more people continue to pass away that was according to a member of parliament from whom they are expecting the number of cases to rise now the government was accused of not taking this seriously enough not reacting seriously enough in the early days of this corona Virus Outbreak but since then in the last 3 days about 3 days ago president Hassan Rouhani formed what he is calling the headquarters to combat corona and that is in tehran it is. A group of leaders brought together to try and centralize resources and the response the Health Minister the tour im a minister the roads and transport minister as well as a representative of the armed forces and other senior members of the government comprise this body and today in his Cabinet Meeting president Hassan Rouhani
Koreas dirt springs we look at young people trapped in the lowest social class despite being highly educated. So the u. S. Defense secretary has had to clarify that there has been no decision to pull troops out of iraq. And other military figures set the record straight after a draft letter from the top general was in their words mistakenly circulated the confusion followed a vote to Iraqs Parliament pushing for all Foreign Forces to go after the assassination of the top iranian command the cost and so many iraqis also urging the United Nations Security Council to condemn the killing of so the money and militia leader who died alongside him and while some of his coffin has arrived in his hometown of kind of man he will be laid to rest later on tuesday there the Supreme Leader ayatollah hominidae wept as he led the funeral prayer a day earlier in teheran. Well more from iran shortly but i want to go back to this lesson and what it said about u. S. Troops in iraq here are some of the lin
Raging red glow the scene is confronting Emergency Service workers as they continue to battle huge. So that the u. S. Defense secretary says theres been no decision to put american troops out of iraq this comes after a draft letter by top u. S. General in iraq revealed that forces will be repositioning to respect bank that sovereignty the confusion in the pens can follow sundays nonbinding vote in the Iraqi Parliament calling for the removal of all foreign troops in response to the u. S. His assassination of irans Top Commander custom sort of money. Iraq has as the u. N. Security council to condemn the killing of sort of money and i would have. Had to rein in back to recchi paramilitary groups it wont swirled leaders to ensure that bank that is not dragged into international and regional crises here in sexual general hunton you could terraces also calling for restraint ive been following the recent rise in global tensions with great concern i mean Constant Contact with living officials
More now from the iraqi capital. Its pretty clear from the events yesterday and also today that it was the Popular Mobilisation forces and their leadership who were calling the shots what is difficult to say is how much support these events had from the Iraqi Government of course in the Public Domain we heard statements from Prime Minister condemning the attack on the u. S. Embassy in asking for those crowds to leave but its difficult to say whether that is the actual stance of the government or whether this is just an official statement to appease for example the United States presence here or whether this is actually something that the government really believes in because from what we saw on the ground was Iraqi Security forces standing down letting these crowds of members and supporters of Popular Mobilisation forces pass right through the checkpoints and enter the fortified green zone and attack the u. S. Embassy but any intervention whatsoever now even today we could see an incre