Hold talks about 2020 and footballs european championships could be called off as you wait for me to discuss the impact of coronavirus on the continent. Well the restrictions in many countries around the world are about to get a whole lot more extreme in the coming hours in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus lets take you around the world malaysia 1st of all which is rolling out some of the most drastic rules at midnight tuesday no one allowed to leave for 2 weeks its borders are being sealed thats led to panic buying in malaysia and over in singapore as well in the middle east irans government has temporarily released 85000. 00 prisoners its also closed off access to religious shrines much to the anger of many worshippers and much of europe going into lockdown there is the french president. Emmanuel micron in less than 60 minutes france seals borders the president saying that france is at war with corona virus so heres the team for this hour. In teheran Natasha Butler in the
Minutes ago out of washington dc that relief measure designed to help americans who are suffering from the coronavirus pandemic moving forward tonight, thank you for joining us at 10, im pam moore and im ken wayne. The us house just passed the Coronavirus Relief package. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi first announced the measure last night and the house took it up late this evening kron 4 grant lodes joins us in studio with latest on the bill that is now heading to the us senate indeed ken and pam desperately needed this because we need testing to be free. So that people get tested, you know what sort of data you have and this includes paid sick time for people who dont have it so that you dont go to work if you need to work to make rent. And in fact other people so critically important to get this passed and bipartisanship is a tough thing to find in washington these days, but kudos to them. They got it done the goal of course to give Americans Health care assistance and Economic Relief d
World leaders meeting in berlin agree to stop sending weapons to libya and for new talks and the civil war but on the ground the fighting goes on so will the many Foreign Countries feeding the conflict back off and who has the power to stop libyas slide further into crisis this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im dennis now libyas civil war is now in its 6th year a host of countries is involved with Turkey Russia and france just to name a 3 providing support to the 2 sides vying for power the u. S. Backed government of fire. And the wall after now on sunday at a summit in berlin World Leaders agreed to respect the u. N. Arms embargo and work towards a permanent ceasefire so dargent have to both attended the talks but they didnt even sit in the same room however german chancellor Angela Merkel believes the meeting helped lay the groundwork for another meeting in geneva later this month the only comes in and 40 soon we feel we need to work further on the process to find
Violent in lebannon anger is rising as the economic and political crisis deepens. The war Rural Communities in afghanistan finding it ever hard it survived the bits in the cold winter. In sports are rich for its economy grego schools his 1st one in the cage in more than 3 years is devastating 42nd victory but now sets were remarks against the man who almost ended his career 18 months ago. Thank you for joining as the warring sides in libyas long running civil war are coming together in the german capital for a un backed peace conference chancellor Angela Merkel has invited leaders from 12 countries a spot of a month long diplomatic drive to stop the fighting but a number of countries have been left off the guest list including morocco qatar and libyas neighbor tenacious warlords highly for have taen launch an offensive in april to take tripoli from the internationally recognized government early attempts to negotiate a cease fire have failed including a summit in moscow last week ahead
Stake as fronts for past a whole sapphic in leaders grappling with a dramatic surge in violence in the sahara which. The leaders of libyas warring sides are preparing for separate talks in the russian capital after a cease fire came into force theres no suggestion yet the 2 leaders will meet but the wages of element has raised hope of a path to ending years of civil conflict International Diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have stepped up in recent weeks that shows brokered by turkey and russia came into force on sunday morning while otani for have to offer is a ready in moscow and they you a Prime Minister of the un recognize government is expected to arrive soon meanwhile turkeys foreign minister members cash of lulu and defense minister who could see a car have also arrived in moscow for talks with their russian counterparts but discussions are expected to include the libyans and turkey and russia support opposing sides in the conflicts. Now libya has been torn apart by conflict