President wraps up his 1st visit to india. And 19 people are killed as government airstrikes reportedly targets schools in northwest syria one group says civilians must be given safe passage. And in schools a senior olympic officials says the spread of coronavirus is now a threat to this years tokyo games and believes organizers have a 3 month window in which to decide the fate of the july events. The World Health Organization has warned of the coronavirus epidemic is escalating rapidly and action must be taken quickly to prevented from becoming a pandemic this says the global reach of the virus continues to expand emergency talks have been held in italy where the virus has spread south from its epicenter included all new to tuscany and even sicily there are also confirmed cases across the border in croatia austria switzerland and germany the number of cases continues to rise in iran as theres concern over the governments handling of the outbreak after the countrys Deputy Health minist
Government ministers travelling to the ivory coast in mourning after an alqaeda attack and we will have the latest on that. The Russian Defense Ministry Says they have a partial we draw from syria and pictures shown on Russian State Television as u. N. Brokered talks of ending the fiveyear conflict enter the second day in geneva and Carolyn Malone has more. Reporter russian air strikes in syria have allowed the Syrian Government to regain lost ground while also killing hundreds of people. Now it appears they are coming to an end. Russian president Vladimir Putin says they achieved what they came to achieve, back in december that was helping Bashar Alassad what they call terrorists. Translator i believe that the goals with the ministry of defense and armed forces have over all been fulfilled and i order the minister of defense as of tomorrow to start a pull out of the military grouping from the syria republic. Reporter they were told about the decision a statement from assad said it was
Reporter where russia co carries the political process with the u. S. , which is a dram theic increase in power and influence over this process. The military pull back from russia does not mean there will be Real Progress in talks on syria. There are many other players in the war and many of them are still on the ground willing to fight the u. S. Department of defense says a senior operative in the Islamic State in iraq and the levant has been killed. He died in raqqa. I. S. I. L. s base of operations in northern syria. He was wounded in a u. S. Air strike in a town in syria last week. He was called i. S. I. L. s minister of war. Voting is underway in myanmar to pick the companys president. Aung san suu kyi is barred from the role. Her party won overwhelming majoritys in both houses in novembers election. The pick is a long time confidente of Aung San Suu Kyi and expected to beat the other candidate who is from the military. Live to bangkok. Wayne hay can tell us more. Who is likely to
His human rights. Thank you for joining us. We start with a developing news story coming out of belgium. Three Police Officers have been wounded in a shooting in the capitol brussels. It happened during a raid linked to the investigation into the paris attacks in november which left 130 people dead, and hundreds injured. Police have blocked off road theres the citys southern suburb where events are still unfolding. Major of the area where the raid has taken place says it is centered on a building in the suburb. Translator shots were fired this afternoon, and there were two people hiding in a building. The security perimeter was set up by the police, and then the Security Forces arrived. Operations are still ongoing. The situation is calm. There is a police presence, and the local residents have been staying in doors. There is a [ inaudible ] nearby and this building is now totally secured. Parents are waiting to be reunited with their children. We are in contact with them, and everythi
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