Explosions ahead of the swearing in for afghan president ashraf ghani his rival of dylan has held the secretary to integrate himself. And joining us go with the sport asian well cup qualifiers at the spine and tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams indian wells is called off over corona virus. So now its only has reported a big jump in the number of corona virus cases as a lockdown of a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed the number of infections has doubled since friday to nearly 7400 more than 111000 cases are confirmed globally 62000 have recovered so far so when you go begins our coverage. A city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy is economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls its famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this countrys recent history will look as thats richard in then i mean what is happening in my c
Hello thank you for joining us holding an emergency teleconference on the corona Virus Outbreak all 27 Member States have reported cases of the virus and efforts are being made to contain the outbreak as well as mitigate the Economic Cost of it italy of course is at the forefront of the crisis and major nationwide restrictions are now in place well initially everyone has been advised to stay home as much as possible other people are allowed to self certify if they need to travel for work can assess cities or Health Emergencies all forms of public gatherings are banned all Sports Events and centers have been closed bars and restaurants can stay open but nightclubs cinemas theaters and casinos have been shocked supermarkets as well will remain open but large Shopping Centers will be closed on weekends and Public Holidays schools and universities have been closed religious institutions will stay open but marriages baptisms and Funeral Services have been banned. But ill bet it took us to v
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Years debating over brexit in parliament. There will be crucial votes again tonight but if mps reject a proposal to speed the withdrawal bill through the commons by thursday borisjohnsons deal is unlikely to be passed by the october 31st deadline. Im joanna gosling, the other stories developing this morning on bbc newsroom live. Northamptonshire police are to travel to the us to question under caution the american diplomats wife who fled the uk after being involved in a fatal car crash. Abortion has been decriminalised in Northern Ireland and same sex marriage has been legalised after westminster voted for the changes in july. Canadas Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, wins a second term in office but loses his majority in parliament and will need support from smaller parties to carry on governing. Good morning to you. Welcome to westminster where borisjohnson will urge mps to back his brexit deal, as he launches a final bid to get the uk to leave the eu by the end of the month. Today he
Champions league group stages kick off by in munich begin their quest tonight. Im brian thomas great to have you with us the future of israels Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is hanging in the balance this morning partial results from the countrys election show the race is still too close to call with the Blue White Party of centrist benny gantz tied with netanyahu so far neither side has declared victory. Speaking to his supporters in tel aviv Opposition Leader benny gantz stopped short of declaring an election when. But his address had the tone of a victory speech for his blue and white party. If he had not sold the cording to the initial results netanyahu did not succeed in his mission. Was enough and we on the other hand proved that our idea called blue and white a project we established just over 6 months ago is a huge success and here to stay. God said that he would not get to work on building a broad unity government. But speaking to his supporters at Likud Party Headquarters