And in fact karim make the long awaited return to the n. B. A. Is going 23 points from the Golden State Warriors and its 1st game since injury left him out of action for the one line. From asia to the middle east and europe coronavirus is forcing governments to further tighten their restrictions this friday and in some places it is raising tensions between countries going to take you through all those developments this news hour but we are going to start with the global picture covered 19 as the virus is officially known as being tracked by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Using figures from the World Health Organization this is what they say at the moment were looking at upwards of 98000. 00 succumbing out 4100000 total infections globally and you can see where the concert. Of course we know through europe the most of them are in areas around the middle east youve got that large dot there in iran but dont forget these smaller dots on the other side there were looking at iraq saud
Of the be a sponsor it for the ancient connections to todays court for. My. God were going to begin with some breaking news out of she messina theres been a blast near the u. S. Embassy in the capital tunis these are some of the the latest pictures that were getting a local Radio Station was a huge says at least 5 people have been injured it also says it was a Suicide Attacker were going to keep across that story for you for your the very latest as soon as it comes in. Now a political storm is brewing between south korea and japan over coronavirus quarantine measures japans Prime Minister has imposed a mandatory quarantine on all visitors from south korea and china so pushed back and asked for it to be revoked warning it may launch countermeasures well mcbride reports from seoul in the sometimes strained relations between japan and south korea the coronaVirus Outbreak has exposed the animosity that exists below the surface south korea says it wasnt consulted before japanese Prime Minis
On the borders. And in sport step curry makes his long awaited return to be a scoring 23. 00 points for the Golden State Warriors and his 1st game for money. From asia to the middle east and europe coronavirus is forcing governments to further time in their restrictions this friday and in some places it is even raising tensions between countries we will take you through all the Global Developments shortly but lets start with a global picture covert 19 as it is officially known is tracked by the Johns Hopkins university in the United States using figures from the World Health Organization and the headline figure this hour is that 100055 confirmed infections from corona virus worldwide that milestone passed just in the last hour or so by the official numbers driven not by all of this in china and asia obviously that is where the main number of infections but it is new infections in other parts of the world here through the middle east iran and also of course through europe as well the fo
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The bona the end of the year. We begin to breaking news out of israel its military says one of its as strikes has killed the commander of the armed Group Islamic jihad the group and. Was killed in gaza city gazas Health Minister says a man and a woman have been killed in the strike israel has accused the iranian backed Palestinian Group of carrying out recent rocket attacks inside israel israel has now shot all of gazas border crossings lets go live to how the foresaid in western used them how are you just bring us up to date with these airstrikes what more can you tell us. Well we knew what you just said that the Israeli Military has claimed the strike that has killed. They say is a senior Islamic Jihad commander in the northern part of the gaza strip and as you say they have been blaming Islamic Jihad for the recent rounds of rocket attacks that have come out of gaza in recent months the kinds of escalations that weve seen which have led to israeli retaliatory strikes in the lead isr