heaven tell me to get in wednesday passionate words from kobe bryant s widow at a memorial for the basketball legend and her daughter giana killed in a helicopter crash along with 7 others last month. welcome to the program the world health organization says it s deeply concerned by the sudden increase in corona virus cases outside of china 3 main clusters of infections are growing in the middle east europe and asia iran has confirmed 12 deaths there and has denied reports that the toll could be much higher kuwait is also among several countries in the region reporting their 1st infections kuwait civil aviation authority says it s temporarily barring flights from dubai in sharjah as a protective measure kuwait national day celebrations scheduled for tuesday have now been cancelled. in europe meanwhile 7 people have now died in northern italy which has more than 220 cases the highest concentration outside of asia and the u.s. and south korea say they re considering scaling bac
and merican vote it s. we begin with breaking news out of new york hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been found guilty of sexual assault and 3rd degree rape but he s been acquitted on the most serious charges christensen he is live for us in new york kristen just tell us a little bit more about these charges and about the verdicts. right well as you mentioned the 2 most serious charges predatory sexual assault he was found not guilty but he was found guilty. rape in the 3rd degree and a sexual assault a criminal sexual assault those 2 charges relate to allegations of 2 women one an actress one a production assistant who said that they were forced into this relationship with harvey weinstein the defense had argued that this was a consensual relationship and they pointed to e-mails and other evidence that showed that both women maintained a relationship with harvey weinstein after the alleged attacks occurred even at times of flirtatious relationship and a sexual re
the reason a from her opponents who want others off the brics it or don t want to break cities that may keep saying you can t have another referendum because it would be a betrayal of democracy and yet at the same time she s perfectly happy to keep bringing back her votes to parliament having having having lost it by record margins and so there s no shortage of people trying to come up with alternative suggestions which will be put to vote say in about two hours from now let s walk you through them with entering human from open europe for the first time henry there is going to be a vote on whether or not to have another referendum these are the chance at this point of succeeding absent you know i think what s interesting is that the labor party are not even supporting this we heard from the labor party over the last few weeks they had moved their position to totally and unequivocally back a second referendum yet just last night on the television senior labor front bench as wa
women s rights activists have gone on trial in saudi including prominent figures in the campaign to win saudi women the right to drive activists say they ve been subjected to torture and sexual assault the saudi human rights commission left the u.n. leaving a whirlwind of questions there is a growing feeling among so many human rights council members the saudi has a very did scrutiny for far too long now it should be the role of the international community to hold saudi to account new park al-jazeera geneva. algeria s new prime minister has been addressing the public for the first time since taking office noted in but three says he s forming a government of technocrats open to all protests and cites a desperate attempt to quell the mass rallies planned for friday well from victoria gay to me. prime minister nuri is under pressure to end weeks of antigovernment protests at a news conference in the capital algiers he set out his plan to bring the nation together he promised to
but the saudi delegations failure to provide any names all the details hasn t inspired much confidence of the human rights council the un s repeatedly called on saudi arabia to cooperate with the un led investigation into shorty s murder but the kingdom s refused calling it an internal matter saudi arabia operates pursuant of international law and does so in all transparency therefore what is being conveyed by certain media regarding the need for us to internationalize some of these matters is something we do not accept because such demands amount to interference in our domestic affairs and in our domestic judicial system this activist disagrees if you was the international independent investigation that s mean they are hiding something and what they are hiding very hiding very name for a pair of son or daughter all of this operation of the person who ordered this operation he is still safe and he is still leading the country the saudi crown prince continues to face tough