These are live pictures from our nbc bay area sky ranger. It seems police are blocking off the entrance to disrupt the protest. Well continue to follow the developing story and bring you updates as we get them. Just in, an update on the number of covid19 casarea. Right now there are nearly 3,000. 77 people have died so far. Santa clara county is still the bay areas hot zone with San Francisco county coming in second with nearly 500 cases. The city of fremont just opening its first free covid19 testing site. We first told you about this during today in the bay this morning. Nbc bay areas bob redell joining us live. Bob, how has the turnout been so far . Reporter marcus, weve seen i would guesstimate 40 to 50 cars so far. Its not the kind of turnout we saw a couple of weeks ago at the city of haywards test site when hundreds of people showed up on the first day. The city of fremont opened its r at stephenson boulevard at 10 00 this morning, in partnership with the city of hayward. Drivet
Your fellow citizens at risk. Pompeo also had a question andanswer session with former secretary of state condoleezza rice, his next stop will be in San Francisco late this afternoon at the Commonwealth Club in the which will include a discussion on foreignpolicy challenges and issues of economic security. Than later he will attend a private dinner with tech leaders including Larry Ellison. And iraq, as if Security Forces cracking down a protesters who are angry about the downing of a jetliner. Craig has more from kyiv, ukraine. Reporter a major crackdown is underway in iran, Security Forces firing live rounds and tear gas at protesters and straining against irans accidental shooting down of the ukrainian passenger plane. And the fact that tehran denied it for 3 days after the crash. Reporter the denial and uncovering the truth greatly added to the suffering and pain of the families. Reporter the iranian government says there was no coverup and they are ordering the protesters to go ho
Spot fires raging nearby new years celebrations get underway in sydney with a massive fireworks display over the famous harbor bridge and opera house. Last go and flees corruption charges in japan the former new chief but surprise arrival in lebanon a. Deadline to to sob times up for the gunmen blamed for an outbreak of fighting in the capital the Central African republic. And we begin with breaking news from iraq when members of an iranian backed group and their supporters have boxed into baghdads heavily fortified green zone and surrounded the u. S. Embassy the iraqi Prime Minister. Has warned against any aggression and foreign embassies and hes urging the remaining protesters to leave most of members of the iranian backed popular my belies ation forces. Reported to have pushed down a door and broken into the compound some areas were set on fire and Iraqi Security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades to disperse the crowds more than 60 people have been injured the demonstrations f
A culture and his religion. Im phil gallo welcome to the program i suspected murder cases renewing tensions between germany and russia has expelled 2 Russian Diplomats over the killing of a georgian citizen in the city in august former Chechen Rebel commander. Really was shot dead in broad daylight in a public park a suspect named only as friday and has been taken into custody prosecutors suspect russian or chechen state involvement russia denies involvement and says it will retaliate against the expulsions. German chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her governments actions at the nato meeting in london reporters asked if she discussed the matter with her nato allies. Be meeting the russian president next week and then i will let you know whether i have spoken with him and how that goes and weve taken this measure as you know mainly because we have seen that russia is not supporting us in investigating this murder and of course ive spoken with allies about this through bilateral cont
A key factor driving the world Food Shortages. Welcome to the program. International pressure is growing on turkey to halt its military action against kurdish militias in northeastern syria United States has announced economic sanctions aimed at pressuring turkey to halt its offensive and now diplomatic sources say the u. N. Security council will meet to discuss the issue for a 2nd time since the these operations were launched almost 2 weeks ago meanwhile Syrian Government forces allied with russia have also moved into the border area and the now said to be in control of the key town of man bitch these are some of the latest pictures taken from the turkish side of the border looking across to syria where exchanges of fire continue today at least 160000 civilians are believed to have fled the fighting. D. W. Correspondent delia han is in suits on the turkish side of the border while youre so whats happening behind you there on the syrian side. Well im actually very close to the Syrian B