Under the daily tally of new coronavirus cases is now bigger outside china where the outbreak began thats according to the World Health Organization emphasizing the global spread of the epidemic europe in particular has seen a spike in cases in the past days of the continents Top Health Official says panic must be avoided and a coordinated approach agreed as france recalled its a 2nd death and italy its 12th meanwhile that italian outbreak has spread further a man who visited the area where cases have been recorded returned to brazil becoming latin americas 1st diagnosis the highest death toll outside china has been in iran where 19 people have died the countrys president said there are no immediate plans to quarantine cities globally just over 81000 cases of crude a virus have now been discovered in 42 countries some american Officials Say its a case of when not if its declared a Global Pandemic iraq has announced drastic new measures to contain the spread of coronavirus banning all p
Hello welcome to the program top story nearly a quarter of a 1000000 people have fled their homes in syrias last rebel stronghold in the past 2 weeks as caping a relentless of bombs and asked strikes Syrian Government forces in that russian allies have sworn to retake it live and the United Nations is warning of devastating consequences for civilians parts of the province of being on a daily aerial bombardment of thousands of families reportedly too frightened to move authorities in tukey meanwhile of close the border to syrians fleeing the violence in hama dough is in the tucker city of and says many refugees on now heavily dependent on charities to survive. Most of these people have. Fled their homes heading to cities such as set our kids on the couplet all of the province others have gone to government held areas of aleppo province but the vast majority of them and from the areas where the Syrian Armed Forces have been. Putting most of the hogs. And the strategic city that sits on t
Of a new citizenship law. And hit by Corruption Cases and to repeat election failures israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a primary challenger from his own party. And im were harding with sports it was a basketball battle in l. A. With le brons lakers falling short against the clippers we have that and more christmas in the action coming up this hour. Itll be with us here on the news hour we begin with breaking news in turkeys president recipe the one says that he will be sending troops to libya after a request from the internationally recognized government turkey says it wants to support the tripoli based administration which has been under a months long defensive by forces loyal to the warlord Khalifa Haftar president and also says that hell present a bill on the deployment to parliament when it reconvenes in january. From the beginning we have objected to the coup perpetrated by the retired general against the lawful government we provided and are still providing assista