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
Democratic president ial candidate the vital boost it needed. A deal signed between the u. S. And the Afghan Taliban may have already hit a major stumbling block afghanistans president to assure afghan he says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the accord signed in qatar on saturday the agreement is meant to pave the way for the withdrawal of all american and nato troops from afghanistan and a long lasting peace how does the maid is in kabul for us hot how major an issue is this likely to be. I think its going to be a very big issue because weve heard yesterday from the taliban saying that they expecting that release of prisoners or rather than exchange of prisoners to happen sooner rather than later and then this morning quite early. Holding a press conference was saying well that deal is between the americans and the taliban and we have nothing to do with it and we did