After several days of declining figures the number of new corona virus infections in china has risen again only 2000 more people were reportedly effect infected on sunday the virus has now claimed 1770 lives on chinas mainland forcing some cities to tighten controls even further south than a city with more than 2500 cases of the virus has gone into a complete lockdown it comes as the u. S. Is getting back to waiting hundreds of people from the diamond princess cruise ship and japan 14 of those evacuated or put in containment on the flight to the United States after they were confirmed to have the virus and hong kong or spend reports of panic buying and one instance Armed Robbery stole hundreds of toilet paper rolls starr clark joins us now from hong kong so sara days 14 cases that i mentioned 14 u. S. Citizens that reported to have coronavirus what else can you tell us about that. Yes an extraordinary and unfortunate situation for those passengers on board that chartered aircraft the u
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Jazeera. Is the thoughts of. Advocacy manager in yemen for the Norwegian Refugee Council she told us the fighting is forcing foreign aid operations to shut down. Our main concern was that the fighting paralyzed humanitarian operations aid organizations and theyre stopped where i that affected by the violence or they were hiding in their basements because they were scared for their safety so what else it did was that the fighting cut off i told infrastructure so there was a pool to tank which was damaged which cut off the supplies the Drinking Water for the civilians. So really what they are fighting has done its mean has meant is that it stopped the movement of humanitarian workers in i didnt but also the longer it went on for more it was also shutting down aid operation in other areas of the country we would like to continue to provide food fuel to shelter i was just an odd and recently and visited a camp and people are living in terrible terrible conditions and they need help so real
Media we dont know the truth we are seeing a lot of different and very strikingly different words coming out which one is the. Picture its very difficult to say with certainty the government says the restrictions are temporary and are aimed at ensuring law and order in the region but the Editors Guild of india say its concerned that they are making it difficult to report accurately from the region and people here say that that vacuum is being filled by mr porting and what they call fake news on the internet Fact Checkers of the quaint and indian online news websites say they have found 13 instances of fake news flooding the internet in recent days so there is no communication we dont know whats happening so i think when you talk about propaganda other thing isnt easy but anybody actually on board decides to just read or whatever they want to read greek news be the kind of me was that they want people who believe in. Back in srinagar through those finally manages to get one injection fo
Have there some fairly brisk winds pushing through much of iraq on it towards kuwait as actual wind again which is picked up a pace now the same time we have got winds but weve got more rain in the full cost the corruption across much of pakistan those monsoon rains that back in the fore call some heavy thunderstorms at times meanwhile temperatures very hot indeed in baghdad up to 48. 00 celsius on tuesday and although of course that is typically hot this time of year that is about 5 degrees above the average for this time of year now those winds will work their way further south across into areas of assad you baby on into cattle but at the same time we have seen some showers but in particular to mt not typical for this time of year 34 minutes of rain fell in less than 24. 00 i was also a huge amount but a lot for here because that is actually almost half the year the total as i say less than 24 hours the pilgrims managing to stay dry under that umbrella but theres more showers in the