A year. And the 1st person ever convicted by the International Criminal court is released from prison in the democratic republic of congo. New border restrictions are being imposed across europe to try to curb the coronavirus spots in other parts of the world theres a growing concern about the wider Economic Impact on monday morning germany rolled out new Border Controls with 5 of its neighbors about france and spain also considering shutdowns china has just had 16 new cases but its economy is taking a big hit manufacturing that dropped 13 and a half percent in february the most in 30 years of iran more than 129 people have died in the past 24 hours taking the death toll there to 853 lets begin with the latest in Europe Lawrence lee joins us from london lets start with those Border Control measures that have been introduced in whats supposed to be an area of free movement. Yes and i mean clearly you know the w. H. O. Says that europe is the epicenter of the of the Global Health crisis
Attack others were captured and a large cache of taliban weaponry was seized but it does seem according to various reports coming from Helmand Province including the governors office. Number of civilians were also caught up in this attack particularly from a Wedding Party that was happening nearby that was caught in this airstrike now the number of civilian casualties varies the taliban has issued a statement saying tens of people have been killed others injured other figures differ to that but what we do know it does seem as though a large number of civilians once again have been caught up in a battle between taliban and Coalition Forces and a number include colluding many women and children this comes of course as afghanistan is preparing for its president ial election in the coming saturday the last couple of days have been generally quiet here in afghanistan but we have seen generally a surge in the number of attacks taking place both by the taliban who have threatened to disrupt t
Sense of a 380 to pick up tourists stranded by the bankruptcy of trouble for thomas cook. The deaths of 40 people at an afghan wedding are adding to Major Concerns about security days out from the president ial election no one has yet certain exactly what happened in the most a color region of Helmand Province on sunday night the government says the army was targeting a taliban Training Base where they killed fighters and arrested others the question is why so many civilians died lets go to our correspondent rob mcbride who joins us live from kabul rob there seems as i mentioned that to be a tremendous amount of confusion about the death toll and what exactly the intended target was what more do we know. Thats right i mean all sides it seems are still trying to ascertain exactly what happened on sunday night what everybody is agreed on of course is that there has been a substantial loss of life part of the problem here is mr color district is a taliban stronghold deep in Helmand Provin
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Happy with a new regional framework where the u. S. Doesnt have a seat at the table. James bain sell just here is a diplomatic answer thanks very much indeed for it is the latest from the United Nations so other news now and at least 40 people have been killed in afghanistan in whats police its been an airstrike it happens in the color region of Helmand Province where people have gathered outside a local hospital where the wounded are being treated as authorities are investigating reports that the airstrike carried out spawn the u. S. Forces its a wedding celebration by mistake a correspondent moment bryant has more from kabul. This seems to have been a Major Military operation in the mussa color district of Helmand Province this is a known taliban stronghold involving both it seems Ground Forces and also an airstrike now the ministry of defense here in kabul is talking about this in terms of being a successful military operation saying a number of foreign taliban fighters as it descri