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
A pass is that of spain as the president continues his war of words with World Health Organization. Millions of indians ordered to wear masks in public including those in the 2 biggest cities do you tell me in mumbai. And on time and i have all the sporting goods. And then how cross fit actually are staying active in isolation like competing online. We begin in yemen where a unilateral ceasefire is just started the saudi u. A. E. Coalition fighting Houthi Rebels says the truce will last for 2 weeks its the 1st time theres been a nationwide cease fire during the 5 years of war the saudis state news agency reported the Coalition Wants to. Venton our break of coronavirus in yemen the un has welcomed the ceasefire it says it hopes it will be extended to pave the way for direct talks of a push to end the fighting in yemen began in late 2018 when the 2 sides met for talks in sweden a truce was reached around the port city of her day there are both sides agreed to pull their forces out of the
Up. The death toll is rising. And kenyas remote region of west 1000 people im now without food and shelter. I. Know welcome to the show the Un World Food Program is one. Crisis in booking office so they see the situation is being driven by extremist violence the number of attacks in the country has increased significantly this year with the number of civilian thats already 4 times they told the recorded scene well have more fun on this in a moment but this report. Destroyed livelihoods this is the aftermath of extremist violence that has forced these villages in Northern Book enough to abandon their homes and their fields taking with them only what they can carry. When they killed my brother. I hid in a reserve bed and came back in the morning to save my family a problem. For the ones. I left everything behind a bicycle no cords just the clothes im wearing now. A little bit. More refugees are arriving at makeshift shelters like in cairo in central book enough ah so many are malnourishe
Also coming up the 1st comment from iran on last weeks massive antigovernment protests some of the largest in decades they wanted to use the opportunity to carry out this move which was an act of destruction and this move was destroyed by the people. Of European Unions Incoming Commission president as well the parliaments approval for her new team on the line is the 1st woman in the used top job and she has set out some vicious goals including turning the bloc into a green superpower on trying to boost Economic Growth as well as should also have to deal with deep divisions amongst the Member States. Resoundingly approval from the e. U. Parliament confirming the new team of Incoming Commission president lion. Lion is the 1st ever woman Commission President and her team of 26 dont differ too much in profile from the usual brussels career politicians but her ambitions are a marked change her ideas a forward thinking as is the gender balance of her team it is a team with almost. As many wo
Call 1803558999, or visit home serve. Com im eva mckend in washington and this is cnn all right everyone, thanks for joining me. Im omar jimenez in today for fredricka whitfield. Weve got some Breaking News to start this hour. The us has begun airdropping desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza its three cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles today, they included mainly food but no water or medical supplies. Cnns Priscilla Alvarez this is in washington. Paula hancocks is in abu dhabi and the united arab emirates, which has also been airdropping aid into gaza. But priscilla, i want to start with you because were getting some news around the possibility of a ceasefire ceasefire. What are you hearing . Yeah, omar, were hearing from Senior Administration officials here in the last hour who said that israel has quote, basically accepted the framework of a hostage deal that would include a sixweek ceasefire. This would do two things and would allow more humanitarian aid into gaza,