President assad and bashir is due in court this hour for a hearing on dar for war crimes allegations the former u. S. Vice President Joe Biden battles for a much needed victory if you hope to keep this race for the white house alive. Hello the number of new cases of coronavirus in china has slowed for the 3rd day in a row more than 2000 new cases were reported on sunday thats down by more than 600 on the previous day but there are still serious concerns over the spread of the owners the World Health Organization is warning that other countries must step up their preparations to fight corona virus thats now killed more than 1600 people. Its impossible to predict which direction this week will take we are concerned about the level of rumor and misinformation that. The response will concern it by the continued increase in the number of cases in china we are concerned by reports from china used to be above the number of those workers who have been infected or done well the virus has claime
We find out about the impact on passengers. A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think of the stories were covering just get in touch using the hashtag bbc the briefing President Trump has been angrily defending his decision to pull american troops out of Northern Syria a move that opens the way for an attack by turkey on kurdish fighters, long time American Allies in the fight against the Extremist Group the Islamic State, but regarded by the turks as terrorists. Mr trump has repeated his warning to turkey not to take advantage of the withdrawal, threatening to decimate the turkish economy if they go what he called off limits. Orla guerin reports from the turkey syria border. A pullout at dawn. Us troops leaving observation posts along the syrian border. Washington says only a small number of troops were moved a short distance, but Kurdish Forces fear they are
Exactly here. We will keep you updated on that. Elsewhere, it looks like the further north you are, it is sunshine and showers again. And just to give you a flavour of what happens for part two of the weekend into the start of next week, there is one area of low pressure moving, and another one is poised to come backin and another one is poised to come back in from the atlantic. What does that mean . It means it is staying u nsettled. That mean . It means it is staying unsettled. So, for the weekend, and it looks like into next week as well, it will be wet at times. Remember, its not all the time, blustery conditions, and occasional sunshine. If we are going to move from this type of autumn weather, we will let you know as soon as there is any sign of it. Hello, this is bbc news with rachel schofield. Well be taking a look at tomorrow mornings papers in a moment. First the headlines new figures show knife crime offences in england and wales have increased by two thirds. Whats going on
This agreement was made years later. Spending nt defense level was made in 2007 at the regus summit, ip formal agreement to spend at least 2 gdp on defense spending. This was a decrease, pack in been 3 , because of end of the cold war, they downht the threat his gone and the alliance could have less defense spending. 2 of their own defense spending . Guest absolutely. Establishes the criteria and nato secretary general produces a report and tabalate what the country members spend on different parts of military spending, and things pension like that and give a report. Host how much money dot itself tosend to nato fund nato, how does that compare o what they are expected to spend on the military . Guest that is a separate budget, common funding pays for evere infrastructure, integrated command, there are three funds for that, one thing least well known is that about that funding for the alliance itself comes from european allies. United states has a cap, we pay 22 to 23 of overall fundin
Gold medalist returned to North Carolina were rio police could requestion him. On thursday after speaking with police for a second day connor bents and jack conger, as for jamie feigen he is only swimmer to sill in rio. His lawyer said he will pay a 10,000 fine and leave brazil today n that instagram statement lochte says he wait todd comment on that instance until the legal matter was handled and sure his teammates would be arriving home safely. Olympic organizers and rio mayor say that they expect, lochtes apology. Meantime Major League Baseball has cleared ryan howard of any wrong to go in connection with allegations of Phillies First base man used human growth harmone. Doping claims were made by pharmacist charlie sly in an aljazeera documentary last winter. League also considered Ryan Zimmerman of the washington nationals. Both players, filed defamation lawsuits begins aljazeera in january. And the president ial race, is there another major staff change, in Donald Trumps campaign.