Spain and italy edging towards easing their shutdowns of france could be about to go the other way. The economic fallout is hitting aid budgets the World Food Programs cutting rations for more than a 1000000 refugees in uganda also on the news or. In other news fighting intensifies in libya between the warlords after the internationally recognized government and in support professional baseball has made its 1st appearance of 2020 taiwanese hosting games behind closed doors with mannequins replacing real spectators. The russian president Vladimir Putin says the Coronavirus Crisis is worsening in russia and the Defense Ministry may have to be involved in containing it and made those remarks. After the country had its biggest daily increase yet in infections 2500 new cases the total number of infections has now gone beyond 18000 the government says 148 russians have died as cross live now to our London Bureau and correspondent covering all the european aspects of this need barkha soni for
Explosions ahead of the swearing in for afghan president ashraf ghani his rival of dylan has held the secretary to integrate himself. And joining us go with the sport asian well cup qualifiers at the spine and tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams indian wells is called off over corona virus. So now its only has reported a big jump in the number of corona virus cases as a lockdown of a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed the number of infections has doubled since friday to nearly 7400 more than 111000 cases are confirmed globally 62000 have recovered so far so when you go begins our coverage. A city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy is economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls its famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this countrys recent history will look as thats richard in then i mean what is happening in my c
Giving thanks for joining us here on r. T. International. We start this hour with breaking news because syrian militants backed by Turkish Forces have launched an offensive against the syrian army in water province but russian airstrikes have helped to repel them. Of course one thing is that an office in the studio with me is been following events for as the escalation seems pretty concerning what exactly is happened and do we know much about the situation on the ground at the moment what the situation is very concerning in some of the worst as collations in syria in years i have to say and basically what happened terrorist factions of launched an offensive on the syrian positions trying to trying to push the syrian army out of the province they were supported by turkish artillery fire too so syria had to ask russia russias air force to intervene and together the syrians and russians repelled the attack but again it was supported by the officials syrian by the official turkish army and
The groups cochairs testified on the findings of the report and how they could be applied to the Current Situation with syria and turkey. This hearing will come to order and we welcome everyone. The subcommittee testimony on the findings and recommendations in the study groups final report. Given the timing of the hearing we will have the opportunity to discuss the ramifications of the policy changes in syria and a study Group Recommendations to still address the challenges that are. For the purpose of an opening statement. Thank you very much for testifying today and for your work and the final report of the study group. Your report as a thoughtful review of the conflict and provides pragmatic recommendations for how policymakers can protect u. S. Interests and destabilize syria. Now it is well known President Trump does not like to read but i wish that he had skimmed over the executive summary before the recent phone call with the turkish president. Your assessment notes do not elimi
This hearing will come to order and we welcome everyone. The subcommittee testimony on the findings and recommendations in the study groups final report. Given the timing of the hearing we will have the opportunity to discuss the ramifications of the policy changes in syria and a study Group Recommendations to still address the challenges that are. For the purpose of an opening statement. Thank you very much for testifying today and for your work and the final report of the study group. Your report as a thoughtful review of the conflict and provides pragmatic recommendations for how policymakers can protect u. S. Interests and destabilize syria. Now it is well known President Trump does not like to read but i wish that he had skimmed over the executive summary before the recent phone call with the turkish president. Your assessment notes do not eliminate the threat to the United States. It also notes the detainee population is a longterm challenge is not being adequately addressed and