A michael local welcome to d w special coverage of the Munich Security Conference the annual event brings together World Leaders top ministers and experts the 1st day of talks have already shown potential progress talks between the u. S. And the taliban may lead to a fresh Peace Process for afghanistan and an unprecedented meeting between chinese and vatican diplomats has taken place for the 1st time in decades one topic has dominated the conference fears that the western powers could be losing their unified front on friday germanys president warned that a lack of western solidarity was fueling global insecurity todays panel is set to tackle that topic with nato chief u. N. Stoltenberg and u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh joined by pretentiously the Russian Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov we also. Understand that mark esper the u. S. Defense secretary may also be at the talk today at the event in munich we have de w. s chief Political Editor me. And here in the studio im joined b
From beijing to new york, jersey and south carolina. We have the top stories. We begin in asia, where the spread of the coronavirus is feeling concerns it is widening the pandemic. The cdc issuing a stark warning for the u. S. It is not so much a question of if this will happen anymore, but rather a russian of exactly when this will happen but rather a question of exactly when this will happen . Me is selena. Walk me through the latest. In china, the rate of infections continue to stabilize. Fewer cases than the day before. The rest of china reported five new cases, and all of the additional fatalities were in smaller areas as well. City is not requiring people arriving from japan or south korea to go through a 14 day quarantine. The momentum is shifting outside of china. You have seen south korea becoming a new hotspot with infections raging up. Testinginitially positive for coronavirus, which would be the first infection in latin america. Italy has had more than 300 cases and 11 deat
The end we won some places with shovel showers in northwest ireland. Getting close to freezing, batch of showers continuing into the north, some heavy around, some fog to clear in Northern Ireland in northern scotland, many of the dry afternoon with a few sunny spells and here comes another spell of persistent rain toward southern england, south wales for the strengthening southerly wind is to go back into the evening. Temperatures here still double figures for some of us, mostly single, not far from average of the time of year. The sprinklers on sunday than it is sunny spells and a few showers. Hello, this is bbc news with me, lukwesa burak. The headlines mps vote overwhelmingly in favour of borisjohnsons plan to pull the uk out of the eu at the end of january. The duke of edinburgh is admitted to hospital in london for treatment, for what Buckingham Palace describe as a pre existing condition. The death of harry dunn the teenage motorcyclist hit by a car in august. Now, extradition p
This is the year we saw the first ever picture of a black hole and we celebrated one of humanitys greatest achievements. Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. There was a new treatment for parkinsons disease. It enabled this woman to walk again. There were also fires raging in australia. We saw the hottest summers on record across the globe. And Climate Change activist Greta Thunberg had this message for World Leaders. How dare you you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. What a year its been. Welcome to a year in science, where well be looking at the biggest stories of 2019. There was, of course, one issue that dominated. That was Climate Change. Not so long ago, people thought of it as a theoretical issue. But this year, we began to see the impact of a threat thats all too real. Australia is enduring a bushfire crisis that has destroyed many homes, killing several people. Bushfires happen here regularly. He needs rescuing. Blazes in New So
U. S. And iran is not the last. Irans leader, vowed retaliation tweeting the great nation of iran will take revenge for this heinous crime. The killing of soleimani send shutters through the financial world. Oil shot up stocks under immediate pressure. But that came after the best year since 2013. The dow ended 2019 up 22 with the s p 500 and the nasdaq a doing even better. Of course wall street seems to live in the perpetual state of worry. So despite overall optimism that the stocks in the economy will continue to grow in 2020, there are fears about what could finally put the brakes on the expansion we have seen since the Great Depression more where the binned unknowns of the president ial election. President of trump has gone over Strong Economy. And if it stays strong that will bode well for the incumbent. After all they famously told us when it comes to winning president ial elections its the economy, stupid. But trumps potential rival see things a little differently. They. To inc