Stepping up efforts to tackle a disease that has infected tens of thousands but is not coronavirus. To begin with the corona Virus Outbreak that spread to more than 100. 00 countries now across 6 continents italy remains the worst affected country outside asia with a nationwide lockdown in effect south korea is also hard hit more than 200. 00 new cases are reported there many of them at a call center in the capital the crisis in china though seems to be easing with fewer new cases and deaths being reported there the government is allowing some companies to reopen in wu han the epicenter of the outbreak in the u. S. The number of infections has increased with more than a 1000 confirmed cases the National Guard has been sent to a new york city suburb where a cluster of cases was found and a British Government Health Minister has been infected shes 19 doris shes put herself into quarantine she attended an event hosted by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson just last week. Al jazeera as lawre
The good morning just going to clock here in moscow you watching r. T. International now over 6 hours of talks between the turkish and russian leaders have resulted in the breakthrough on the situation in Northern Syria the ceasefire was extended by 150 hours with Kurdish Forces expected to leave the area during this period or maria financially joins us now in the studio for more on this so maria a lot of a long talks there between the leaders yesterday just run through the main points that they agreed upon all year after more than 6 out of between russia and turkey a very important document or sign known as memorandum and has 10. 7 to go through the most crucial of them number one both sides agreed to hold political unity and territorial integrity of syria that is very important as you remember there are areas in syrias north not exactly totally controlled by the Syrian Government or not at all controlled by the Syrian Government like in the case of the in the province and that is. No
, etc. , this new aspect that they are directly participating in the developments of the war, it is not possible that the red line accepted by both sides means that nato was not supposed to enter the war directly, and if i followed it, this would be ruined and there is a possibility of a direct conflict. Between russia , by the way, you have mentioned a good thing, your excellency. This is exactly one of the reasons for the popes message. The popes concern is that this war will widen its scope and lead to threats that russia has recently faced. Especially from the language of mod and mr. Putin himself in his recent interview, in any case , they will not allow nato to enter the conflict directly, if Something Like this happens , russia will use its other capabilities, which are nuclear capabilities. It is also possible that he will use a new article just yesterday and today , which was designed for example in 2022, maybe a Nuclear Attack was claimed by the americans. And now mr. Pope ha
Talk about planning to attack the crimean bridge with german missiles. The bridge that connects the island of crimea with russia. Without denying this issue, the German Ministry of defense is now working on how to leak this file. This incident is more than a wiretapping or broadcast of an air force conversation. This is a serious mistake and it should not have happened at all. The leak of this file is a short distance from the position a hundred thousand germany about the nonpresence of nato in ukraine. Neither nato countries nor eu countries will send their Ground Forces to ukraine. The position expressed in response to the french president s controversial statements about the possibility of sending nato military forces to ukraine. There is no consensus on this yet. But this issue cannot be completely ruled out. However, many people in france, one after the other, deny the military deployment , everyone knows that western special forces are currently present in ukraine and they just d
Thank you, everyone for coming today, thrilled to be with these wonderful writers. We will be talking about the relationship between the United States and china and thinking about that under the paradigm of a second cold war whether thats helpful or not helpful way of looking at that relationship. Let me tell you about the people up here. The author of the book we need new stories, ece temelkuran is a writer, a turkish novelist and journalist and grateful to have her here. Mohsin hamid is a novelist and author of many books. Its wonderful to have him here. And anne appelbaum, historian of the soviet union and the cold war, and her books include iron curtain, great to have you here. When we are done, you should get notecards at some point today and if you have any questions, pass them to the end of the island we will read those in the last halfhour of the event. I want to start with you, mohsin hamid. What do you think of this idea of a second cold war with china and specifically how it