Tries to revive its faltering economy. And Jerusalems Al Aqsa mosque compound islams holiest sites closed during ramadan because of coronavirus restrictions. So an agreement among the worlds Top Oil Producers to cut output comes into effect today friday following the collapse in global prices it was spurred by a slump in demand because of the deal to cart output came with a lot of infighting between the worlds big Oil Producers go back to early march when they met in vienna and work out how to keep prices stable but failed to reach an agreement opecs recommendation was to take 1500000 barrels a day off the market if russia agrees to cut production as well russia said no. And so top producer saudi arabia retaliated by announcing a production increase instead sparked a price war lasted nearly a month prices dropped below 20. 00 a barrel also in riyadh did resolve their differences eventually agreed to gradually cut production by 10000000. 00 Barrels Per Day but as american producers whic
A simple message for all countries tears tears tears and in other news the u. S. Led coalition begins pulling out hundreds of troops from bases in iraq. So were starting in malaysia which has rolled out some of the most extreme restrictions after a big spike in coronavirus cases many linked back to a single events it is closing all its borders and says its own citizens cannot leave the country for at least the next 2 weeks malaysias reported more than 300 cases in just the past 2 days the total there now at over 550 in europe the french president among your micron has declared war on the outbreak and is closing its borders from 1100 hours g. M. T. On tuesday which is about 3 hours away and britain the government under a lot of pressure there to toughen its approach its now asking people to avoid nonessential travel and saying dont go out to pubs and clubs and theosis meanwhile u. S. President donald trump has announced a 15 day plan to fight the virus and is urging no social gatherings
Pollution is threatening to bring down indias best known monument. A kid ally of donald trump has reversed his testimony in the peach mint inquiry now admits the us president offered a quid pro quo with ukraine to investigate the political rival u. S. Ambassador to the e. U. Golden song now acknowledges American Military aid to ukraine was contingent on care of investigating joe biden and his son for corruption hydra jocasta reports from washington d. C. The only witness to have explicitly defended President Trump on the central question of the impeachment inquiry has reversed himself that question is whether trump withheld Security Assistance from ukraine in exchange for help with his reelection campaign. Basket or gordon solomon at 1st said there was no quid pro quo but after being implicated by other witnesses he says his memory has sharpened. On lynns amended testimony released tuesday the Ambassador Says he now remembers telling you crane in officials that the security money wasnt
A power sharing deal with separatists when the conflict in the south. Donald trump has reversed this testimony in the impeachment inquiry he now admits the u. S. President offered the quid pro quo with ukraine to investigate a political rival the Us Ambassador to the e. U. Golden now acknowledges American Military aid to ukraine was contingent on kiev investigating joe biden and his son for corruption either jocasta reports from washington d. C. The only witness to have explicitly defended President Trump on the central question of the impeachment inquiry has reversed himself that question is whether trump withheld Security Assistance from ukraine in exchange for help with his reelection campaign. Bassett or gordon solomon at 1st says there was no quid pro quo but after being implicated by other witnesses he says his memory has sharpened in someones amended testimony released tuesday the Ambassador Says he now remembers telling you crane in officials that the security money wasnt comin
Best known monument some experts fear the taj mahal could collapse. At least 15 people have been killed in an overnight attack in thailand south suspected separatists are believed to be behind the shooting at the security checkpoint in the province groups carried out attacks in the muslim majority region since 2004 when hate joins us now live from bangkok so why any claim of responsibility for this one. Sami no not yes and i think its highly unlikely that we will get any claim of responsibility we dont usually get them after these attacks in these 3 southernmost provinces of thailand bordering malaysia that happen fairly regularly there are regular small bomb attacks gun attacks but its fair to say that this one was one of the largest that we have seen in recent years with 15 People Killed several more injured as well the motive well we are left to guess that but as a say this has been going on for a long time and since 2004 has really intensified the target seems to have been defense