E. U. s borders and a spate of Chemical Attacks across sandy as the president blaming Community Leaders. Across the world from asia to the middle east and europe coronavirus is now forcing governments to further tighten their restrictions it is even raising tensions between some countries and its head through the developments region by region shortly but the global picture has changed in the last hour or so were using the Johns Hopkins university tracker on covert 19 which takes figures from the World Health Organization and theres the headline figure right now 100003 130. 00 infections in total around the world the 100000. 00 barrier crossed in just the past few hours while most of the infections as we know are centered in china and asia it is actually infections elsewhere in the world which are driving things right now for example iran the large red dot in the middle has been a lot. A number of infections there in the last 24 hours well talk about that in the moment of course through europe as well basically is the main place there but we will be looking at developments in france i always stress though as we look at the numbers in the top right hand corner 3408 which is the number of people who have died but 55694 is the number who have recovered so its around a 55 percent recovery right from corona virus at the moment now i mentioned iran right in the middle of it there and at least 1200. 00 of the new infections have happened there in just the past 24 hours which is irans biggest jump since the outbreak began the Health Ministry says 124 people have now died there and police are also in forcing road and highway closures as they try to contain the spread of the virus also we are learning about 200 new cases confirmed overnight in france and well talk to john hall in our european news center about that in a moment just sit tight for a moment john i want to stop with the same bus ravi in teheran those numbers i mentioned out of iran saying that is a big jump in just 24 hours. Thats exactly right its the biggest jump weve seen so far ever since this Public Health crisis was made public and during the Daily Briefing which has become a staple part of the day here in iran the Health Ministry spokesman expressed his frustration with the public 1st of all he said that there is no province that is now spared theres no province that hasnt contracted the virus in some capacity and yesterday just a day the the Health Ministry a couple of days ago put out a map to show where the virus began and how it spread it began in a home a big red blob in the middle of the country with red lines going out all across the country like the tentacles of an octopus and that really does give us a sense of how this is transferring the public Health Ministry spokesman said that the public is not listening to government guidance or government advice not to travel and move around freely he said that the reason that schools and universities and other institutions were shut were so that people would stay at home to a limit the spread of the virus during the occupation period but he said people continue to travel and he suggested that the government may start using force to compel people not to move in between cities he didnt elaborate with that would be but we already know that there are checkpoints military and Police Checkpoints between major cities on major highways to try and control the flow of people to try and stem the flow of this virus as it transfers across the country major tourist sites are now saying they will not accept travelers from anywhere around the country or obviously from outside the country and this is a time of holiday the persian new year is coming up so this is a very Big Development friday prayers remain closed and if you walk around on the streets you can see Fire Fighting and health units in full technical gear in full protective gear spraying in disinfecting city streets what you see when you look up from those streets that are being disinfected. Is that in many areas life is going on as normal now there are 2 things really to consider here the country the has been suffering greatly economically and so people feel that despite the threat of this virus they cant stay home they have to go out they have to participate however they can in the economy or at least whats left of it after sanctions to try and keep earning some money they simply cant stay at home and wait for things to better the other thing is iranians are very resilient when they face any sort of big problem as that has come in handy during sanctions by the United States and other difficulties that they faced at this point in time there was illions and their refusal to. Agree and follow the guidelines from the government is actually working against the Public Health effort to try and stop the spread of the coronavirus here in iran thank you same bus ravi in teheran and now back to jonah focus in europe has been so much on italy throughout the corona Virus Outbreak but youve got news out of fronts. Yes a big jump in the infection numbers in france you mentioned in the intro there theyve gone up 200 in the last 24 hours from 3772577 so a pretty significant jump in that country 2 more deaths confirmed as well in france taking their total to 9. 00 and 1. 00 member of the parliament the National Assembly has been hospitalized with coronavirus to stuff members also down with suspected cases and parts of that building the National Assembly in paris have been closed down president macron popped up during the course of the morning in a retirement home in paris telling people on television that as difficult as it is they should try to limit their visits to elderly relatives in Retirement Homes and other places like that of course the other most vulnerable to the effects of this virus because of their depleted immune systems that make it hard to fight the virus off so anxiety their anxiety elsewhere in europe and across the the 1st case is reported in in serbia in the vatican city in bosnia a 2nd suspected foot fatality were fatality suspected of being caused by Corona Corona virus here in the u. K. Theyre waiting for results on that to be a stuff members 5 Staff Members have gone down with the virus that will cause a ripple of panic. In the flight world adding to economic woes among airlines Boris Johnson has pledged the Prime Minister here to invest some 50000000. 00 into the search for new vaccines and faster testing the methods to improve the speed with which the infections are identified up to now it can take up to days for that to happen which is why be thought to be far too slow at the moment big countries with developing outbreaks in the e. U. Are very much going their own way doing their own thing to deal with the kind of the issues that they face thats something the e. U. Has tried to rectify today with a meeting of health minister. Trying to come up with a coordinated approach instead the pier d in brussels to have come away big karim with small countries accusing those larger ones of of acting not in the spirit of the e. U. By hoarding and banning france and germany the export of personal protective gear widespread concerns about shortages that. China how with that update from our european new center in london thanks jonah coronaviruses also spread to bethlehem and now the Israeli Military isnt allowing people in or out palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas they declared a state of emergency after 7 cases were confirmed tourists and pilgrims are banned from the area for the next 2 weeks church of the nativity revered among christians as the birthplace of jesus christ is among the sites that have been closed since last hour we spoke to our agent mood arden activist in bethlehem who says cutting off the area to be disastrous for the local economy there isnt is the number one income generating generating come to the people here so wait until reason is affected that means many people will not be able to live and make money and many things are connected to the reason they dont get shops and buses and so the Companies Even holy sites in many different sites that live and rely on some reason so that will be affected by not having interest in or many have even trying to leave and yes possible this morning you are right any action. So the life of the how is the likelihood of an airing especially and the west bank would be highly affected by this virus. On to other news in a political ceremony in afghanistans capital kabul has come under attack leaving 27 people dead the head of the Peace Council was giving a speech was being broadcast live when the shots were fired afghanistans chief executive was also. Reporting from kabul she explains who could be behind the attack within half an hour. A spokesperson here in afghanistan treated that had nothing to do with this attack now i think they were so quick in doing so because such an attack would be a clear violation of the agreement carried out between the u. S. And the taliban and was signed on saturday it would be a week but remains a question of who is behind that attack so far no claims of responsibility it could be any of the groups operating in the country could be it could be even splinter groups from the taliban they were commanders and fighters who were not happy with the deal signed with the United States some of them have actually a sworn allegiance to. Groups it could be anyone at this stage but i think what this attack really underlines is that you know with vended agreement to withdrawal of all Foreign Forces from the country over the last 14 months that would leave Afghan Security forces. Own to quell such attacks and how we have seen today how complicated that is how long it took and how many reinforcement needs to be needed to be sent there so i think thats one aspect of the agreement that really underlines that the Afghan Security forces will be left in a very fragile situation. Theres also been an explosion outside the u. S. Embassy in tennessee as capital tunis reports say it was a suicide bomber and at least one person was killed in the attack and several others were injured including at least 4 security employees syria now in a tense calm is largely holding in italy province after the ceasefire came into effect their president to egypt type of turkey environment putin of russia agreed to the deal during hours of talks in moscow on thursday there have been some reports though of sporadic fighting in southern parts of the province between Syrian Government forces and opposition groups some syrians displaced by the ongoing violence they are pessimistic about this latest ceasefire is that most. People did not return to their home what does the truce mean ok you implemented the ceasefire and i am here displaced and maybe i will not be able to go back home for 10 years or 15 years how do i build if it from this truce or cease fire. His hash. Antakya and turkey close to that border well can you say about the ceasefire now hashem their eyes reports of sporadic fighting i guess thats not totally unexpected but one of the chances of this becoming more permanent. Well it depends to be seen how the 2 key players russia and turkey would be able to further implement all the terms of the ceasefire because most of the little interconnected the reason why weve seen the sporadic clashes is because the rebels were hoping that the deal would push the Syrian Government from places like mourdock and see hone in their man and start r k but then they walk up to the realisation that territory has now come and the control of the c m if you wish came as a massive disappointment for the Syrian Opposition because it has lost more and more territory or no is it stronghold is confined to not entirely or the province of it just a portion of the place with this with the city center and the northern part of the border with turkey but him kind of his the prison spokesperson the president has a. So basically that you think this was this was a good deal with the russians saying that 1st of all it protects the border of the Turkish Border protection the soldiers who are operating in the observation post is allows for the wrist supplement of the settlement of the civilians who are stranded on the border area and then it will take some time for the 2 parties to negotiate the modalities of the joint patrols on either side of the highway in for well politically speaking the differences will continue because the president has a said one when when he was flying back to cut off from the meeting yesterday that ultimately that needs to be an International Push to implement resolution 2 to 5 for space the way for political reforms new elections the drafting of a new election that is seeing from a different perspective by the russians about buses and bus shuttle as and who say that this is it should not be enforced by the International Community it should be its just come from the political establishment in damascus so but and till we get to that point for the time being turkey feel like that they have achieved something quite significant in lip thank you for the update hash there in attacking. 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Welcome back as we begin our forecast in asia northeastern areas looking much quieter sun is far as japan on the Korean Peninsula is concerned grinch enjoying fine conditions certainly woman conditions so there are 12 degrees and temperatures set to rise over the course of the weekend for much of japan its looking fine sapporo seen temperatures coming above freezing so a bit of a thaw taking place but we have got this area of rain moving across some of the Southern Japanese islands and that will continue to extend further towards the east jury in the course of the weekend to support coming out now with a decent saw taking place and seoul seeing temperatures rocketing up to 17 degrees some heavy rain across more southern parts of china but further south into hong kong it should be generally dry and fine and it should be fine for the most part for vietnam the annoy into the low thirtys into southeastern parts of asia for central and southern parts of the philippines with might see some fairly heavy showers manila should remain largely dry not as wet as it has been across town of borneo but certainly for java but tensions still for some very heavy downpours and were looking at brices conditions for singapore in kuala lumpur but i think the risk of showers is generally increasing here across south asia weve got some showers scattered across more eastern parts of india further north the risk of showers decreasing slightly for new delhi. 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And a chance comes largely holding in syria as it did province after a ceasefire came into effect brokered by russia and turkey after days of fighting nearly pushed the 2 countries towards direct confrontation. Remembers well last week turkey opened its border with the e. U. Seen as an attempt to pressure the bloc into helping with the conflict in syria now they have been scuffles at the greek Turkish Border as refugees and migrants trying to cross authorities from both sides of used tear gas and cannon turkey has sent us 1000 special Police Officers to hold what it called push back from greece thousands of people have gathered there in the past week but athens says those trying to enter are doing so illegally with support from the. Dont go to the border. To bullish not over. Mission want. 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