Epidemic claims more lives. By Barbara Sarah in london with the top stories from europe including moscows eyes in the sky we take a close look at russias new facial recognition system thats provoking fear is of big brother and far as small have all the days sport including its 2 wins from 2 for holders al heloise saudi arabia and the group stages of the Asian Champions League. But we begin in syria where president bashar assad has made a rare address on state television to promise no let up in his offensive in the northwest he congratulated his forces and their allies for their rapid recent gains which are edging closer to winning back the last pieces of rebel held lands the un. Says the russian backed campaign supported by iranian militia has displaced 875000. 00 people mostly women and children since early december so assad votes a relentless push towards in his words complete fix 3 we learn in an item and we fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war or t
Libya starting sea and air patrols and heavy clashes reported between the saudi military and tribal forces in the east of yemen. So the World Health Organization is saying the china coronavirus officially known as coded 19 is less deadly than previous outbreaks like but it is more infectious this is according to data thats been pulled from a chinese medical report it says 80 percent of those who contract the virus only have mild symptoms and will recover another 14 percent are suffering from the severe complications of pneumonia with 5 percent in a Critical Condition and for 2 percent of patients it is proving deadly older patients are the one of the high risk and although it is as we said less deadly than sobs because of the infection right its ended up killing many more people in. Similar timeframe that will make sense well the World Health Organization had said that the data is giving us a clearer picture of the impact of the virus. The did also appear to show a decline in new cases
Airport in tehran. All 176 people killed. This morning, the new video that appears to show the plane bursting into flames midair and investigators searching for a cause. State of emergency. New aftershocks in puerto rico after a string of earthquakes rocked the island. Everything started jumping back and forth, like up and down. Massive devastation, millions without power today. We are there live. All that plus, break in the case . The estranged husband of the connecticut mother missing for nearly eight months now charged with her murder. Major league scandal. The red sox under investigation after a report they cheated by stealing signs during their championship run in 2018. Is their world series title now in jeopardy . While were on the subject this is jeopardy the hit game shows greatest of all time tournament kicks off with a nail biter. What a game. What a way to start. The greatest of all time tournament. Well tell you who came out on top in round one. Who is ken jennings . Today,
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Please come in and take your seats. Were ready to begin our hearing. Good afternoon, everyone. And thank you for attending todays hearing on global efforts to counter antisemitism. I would like to this our distinguished witnesses for offering their recommendations and thank you to senator manchin for securing this room for us today. The International Commission on religious freedom is an independent bipartisan u. S. Government advisory body created by the 1998 religious freedom act. The commission monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad, using International Standards to do so. And we then make recommendations, policy recommendations to congress, to the president of the United States, and to the secretary of state. Today as were gathered here for this hearing, ucerf is exercising its Statutory Authority under the law to convene this hearing. Were also very grateful to have with us this afternoon senator jacky rosen of ne
Is on of the here most unexpected and daring military maneuvers of the American Revolution. Story is that washington and the Continental Army, after having lost battles in new york and retreating across new york came to bucks county in the of december 17, 1776. Things were pretty desperate at this point for washington. The Continental Army really needed a win. Washington was afraid that the he really knew that what he needed was a bold action. After meeting with his war council, he made the decision that on christmas night he would cross the delaware and march to attack delaware. In that time a snowstorm started. It was terrible, there was snow and hail, and it was basically a bad noreaster. The weather was absolutely a part of that. General washington, can you tell us about your secret mission stop this is our final chance to make an impact on this war. The problem we have is our enlistments are expiring. Days in order to make this attack. Weatherfeel it with the behind us, we have th