Best . Plus find out what has got farmers all fired up in greece. First, the World Health Organization has warned the zika virus could affect up to four Million People in the americas within a year. A global alert has been raised as the virus is suspected of having already caused birth defects in thousands of babies. Our correspondent reports from santiago on what is being done to limit the spread of the virus. Reporter the Health Minister arrives at the International Airport to distribute leaflets alerting travellers to take special precautions against the zika virus as they embark on their summer holidays. She advises pregnant women not to travel anywhere the virus has been reported in keeping with the World Health Organisations directives. The possible links only recently suspected have rapidly changed the risk profile of zika from a mild threat to one of alarming proportions. The increase incidence of microcephaly is alarming as it places a heart breaking burden on families and com
Defects infects thousands and is in 23 countries. Im an maniac and everyone on the stage is stupid, fat and ugly and then you are a terrible surgeon and now we got the donald trump portion out of the way. Reporter president ial rivals talk about donald trump for boycotting the Republican Debate in iowa. But first syrias opposition insists it wont be attending talks at ending the war despite the u. N. Saying the talks will indeed go ahead on friday. Opposition leaders say representatives will not travel to geneva unless certain conditions are met and these include a lifting of sieges, a halt to air strikes and the release of what they describe as wrongfully detained prisoners of conscience, a syrian delegate led by the foreign minister had already said that it would attend. We can go live now to geneva, our diplomatic ed tore james base is there for us and james who is there and who is not . Well, no one is actually here yet. The United Nations for talks that were supposed to take place
Reporter im with all the days sport at the world top two tennis players are battling it out. Andy murray is hoping to overcome his nemesis and six time champion Novak Djokovic just hours after arriving for talks aimed at ending syrias war, the main Opposition Group is threatening to walk away. Delegates from the High Negotiation Committee wants prisoner released and an end to the bombing of civilians before they will sit down at the table. Were live in geneva in a moment. The United Nations wants the negotiations to last for about six months and the First Priority would be a ceasefire. They would later work towards a political assessment to a war that has killed more than 250,000 people. Ultimately they want a Transitional Government which would lead the country to free elections. The opposition also wants aid convoys to be given all rebelheld besieged areas where tens of thousands of civilians are suffering in dire conditions. We have full coverage with our diplomatic james bays in ge
Making their final arguments before the Iowa Caucuses, the republican president ial candidates took to the stage in des moines last night but attention was on the one person who was not there, welcome to your world this morning, im stephanie sy. And im delve and we are three days away from the first contest in the election itself and trying hard to focus on issues but as al jazeera tells us their attention kept turning back to the frontrunner. Reporter im an maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly and ben you are a terrible surgeon. Now that weve gotten the donald trump portion out of the way. The big elephant wasnt in the room but it didnt stop them from taking shots at the missing frontrunner. I miss donald trump and he was a frontrunner and had a loving relationship and in between the tweets i kind of miss him and wish he were here. With that out of the way it pivoted to who would make the best president and newer sierran ben carson tried to make the case before th