Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centers. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega has more on the reports from beirut. There has been a sharp increase in the n
The attacks left craters several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted, including scientific research centres. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites in the city of masyaf was housing pro iranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. But israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Frank lowenstein served as united states special envoy for middle east peace under president
Delay. Thank you very much for watching us on many social media platforms. Offer the regular. Ress briefing on covid19 just to remind you that we will have an audio file from this press briefing immediately available with a couple of links to news that has been issued by different who offices as well as advisors for media briefings that will be held by our regional offices, so you will get that after the briefing. Thank you, and i would also like to apologize for the delay. Good morning, good afternoon, and good evening, whatever you want. The fourth month since the start of the covid19 pandemic, im deeply concerned about the rapid escalation and global spread of infection. Over the past five weeks, we have witnessed a near exponential growth in the number of new cases. ,eaching almost every country territory, and area. The number of deaths has more than doubled in the past week. In the next few days, we will reach one million confirmed deaths. D 50,000 numberslatively lower of confirm
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