Its. A deal in israel as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes the lead in a unity government to end the long running political crisis. Now the worlds 3rd largest economy is in trouble as the coronavirus pandemic hits business industry hard japans economy has shrunk by 3. 4 percent when projected across the whole year the Prime Minister shinzo had announced a massive relief package last month to help keep the economy on track japan has recorded over 16000 cases and close to 750 deaths due to the virus well rob a bride joins us live now from the south korean capital seoul rob so this is the 1st time japan has fallen into recession since 2015 clearly the coronavirus is not a huge impact on the economy. Absolutely daryn and there is worse to come for the japanese economy this was all res expected that they they would be confirm that japan is in recession weve had to now 2 quarters of the economy contract ing of course japan was already starting to go into recession in the last quarter o
Or not they had any evidence what was there evidence to suggest that iran was in any way shape or form involved in those attacks on Saudi Aramco Oil facilities he said World Leaders told him that they had no evidence of that kind they simply did not think that yemens hooty fighters were capable of carrying out an attack of such magnitude and of such sophistication irans president said his response to that was that the information about the ground reality in the middle east in that region that the World Leaders had was simply outdated. And our correspondent roslyn jordan joins us now from the United Nations so do you think were hearing a shift in rhetoric from the iranians here and if so why. Well im not sure that there is a real shift and rhetoric certainly what you saw on thursday the u. S. State department issuing yet another round of sanctions this time. Against several brainy and high level government officials and their families essentially banning them from obtaining visas to com
Wide ranging indications for the country. Wide ranging indications for the country. England cricketer ben stokes accuses the Sun Newspaper of shattering his privacy with what he calls an utterly disgusting report about a family tragedy. The trial begins of four people accused of murdering 17 Year Old Girl scoutjodie chesney in a park in east london. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport, will parry is here. The Champions League is back tonight. Liverpool are away and italy. Frank lampard is managing for the first time. Plenty more of this to come over the next few days. Dry weather, blue skies and sunshine was double the uk whether detail is coming up later in the programme we will be out into the programme we will be out into the atlantic. A couple of tropical storms currently on their own which could make the news over the next couple of days. Thanks, ben. Also coming up after a gruelling 5a hours sarah thomas becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel four time
Live from studio fourteen headquarters and im dead you know welcome to the news grid its happened catalonia has declared independence from spain the procession politicians passed the motion to turn the autonomous region into a new republic the National Government meanwhile isnt acting unprecedented measures to stop the split as these breaking developments ripple across europe and the world we have full coverage from barcelona and madrid. Thanks for joining us here with the news grid relied on air were streaming online through you tube Facebook Live and aljazeera. Unprecedented momentous shocking illegal just some of the words being thrown around right now after the parliament of catalonia declared independence from the rest of spain so they want to create a catalan republic while approval has been given to spains National Government to impose direct rule over catalonia lots of ground to cover lets start at the very beginning and the moment the declaration was made. So that move was bac
Consulate just celebrate the declaration of independence that the spanish Prime Minister responds by dissolving the parliament calling us nothing much. We are not suspending the autonomy we are returning. To that region. Im citizen this is al jazeera live from london also coming up ten years really run a president ial election is mobbed by more violence voting in four positions strongholds is postponed aquittal will get his Vice President was seen as a suspended jail term for embezzling money to fund his playboy lifestyle and the japanese speed devils burning up tokyo streets but fang to a child found. President. Palmer and hours after the raging declared its independence facing his countrys greatest political crisis in decades. Says spain is living through. An ounce to stuff election in catalonia on december twenty first and. The moment catalonia declared secession from spain a wave of euphoria across barcelona a mix of intense emotion elation and danger because of the uncertainty of