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Boiling over in Turkeys Parliament over its offensive in syria politicians are angry after another 2 turkish soldiers die in the. Bombing from crossing a bridge from turkey to greece refugees are risking their lives for a chance at a new life and your. Welcome to the program italy has announced it will be closing all schools and universities until mid march as it battles to contain the spread of the coronavirus officials have decided to still allow sporting events to continue but they will be held without spectators the number of dead across italy now sits at 107. 00 thats the largest death toll outside of china in the United States the number killed has risen to 11 several are connected to an elderly care home in seattle new cases have also been reported around the 2 most populous cities thats new york and los angeles in the past few hours the u. S. House of representatives approved an 8300000000 dollar bill that will fund the fight against the virus is expected to pass in the senate
And in the us Elizabeth Warren and her campaign to be for the democratic president ial nomination will have a look at how the progressive senators departure could reshape the race. On my arc thank you so much for your Company Everyone turkish president red chip Tayyip Erdogan and russian president Vladimir Putin are holding talks at the kremlin on the spiraling violence in northwestern syria turkey and russia have troops on the ground there but theyre supporting opposite sides russia supports the Syrian Government while turkey has backed rebels fighting the regime of president Bashar Al Assad well as you arrived in moscow area one phrase would you called. It relations with russia turkey wants both sides to agree to a cease fire during the meeting to ease the situation and live. And we can take you now to do. Is in the moscow monitoring those talks for you emily what are these leaders trying to signal with this meeting well ahead of their talks both leaders talked about the importance o