A boy caught in the votes and calling for civil disobedience in farewell to the original double 07 the scottish actor so sean connery has died at the age of 19. And in sport tennis world number one Novak Djokovic has suffered a shop defeat in vienna the serbian star was knocked out in the quarterfinals by a player ranked more than 40 places below head. But 1st to turkey were rescue workers are still searching for survivors in the city it is mere after a powerful earthquake parts of greece also felt the effects of the magnitude 7 quake on the aegean sea at least 28 people in or have been killed and hundreds more injured simcoe see all the reports from the city it is mere. This is the aftermath of a magnitude 7. 0 earthquake. Many buildings and as her province collapse within seconds killing dozens of people and injuring hundreds others were buried alive this woman was pulled out of the rubble 17 hours after the earthquake. There are similar stories throughout our province. Here a mother
Blames Community Leaders for the breakfast. And then scores steph curry has made his long awaited return to the n. B. A. He scored 23 points for the Golden State Warriors in his 1st game in 4 months. And we begin this news hour with the latest on the corona Virus Outbreak which is forcing people around the world to drastically change the way they live travel restrictions are being tightened millions of students are off school and the Global Economy is feeling the pinch now all of those developments in a moment but 1st lets take a look at this global picture covered 19 as the virus is officially known is being tracked by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Take a look at this this is how its being done so you can see there in the red this one huh. 100330. 00 cases that have now been confirmed if we come over here we can see the total death toll as it stands 3408. 00 and if we look over the we can see in the green 55694 cases of people who have recovered now this information is aggrega
Outbreak t there has peaked. Theyey say half of t those infe have recoverered and left t hospital. Staterun tv also report there are now empty hospital beds in wuhan, the city where the disease is believed to have originated. They say the number of patients released from hospitital is outpacing newly confirmed infectctions in hubebei provinc, where wuhan is located. Researchers in Mainland China say theyre learning more about why the new virus is hard to diagnose. A new paper by a team of chinese researchers analyzed data on about 1,100 patients. It found more than half did not have a fever when they were hospitalized. The vast majority showed mild symptoms. Of those, 18 displayed no abnormalities in tests such as xrays. The researchers say these factors make diagnosing the virus difficult in the early stages. Wuhan is marking 40 days since its lockdown. For residents, the restrictive reregime has become their new reality. One captured by a professional videographer who posted his popu
And because we are on air on cspan we should get moving. Ill be giving some opening remarks. I think well get started on some of our opening remarks and then very swiftly alex will be a real start a moderated discussion. But first of all issa, welcome to the middle east institute. Thank you ever so much for joining us to this extremely important event. Someone who is worked on syria and particularly on idlib nonstop for the last nine years, i can safely say that events like this couldnt come at a more important time. Im also not aware of any other events like this one happening in washington these days, so im extremely glad its taken place. The american crisis that is developed in northwestern syria in recent months is entirely unprecedented. Not just after nine years of war in syria, but in this whole world modern history. And yet despite the sheer enormity of the crisis, the world has really get to do more than issue public statements of concern. Im going to keep my opening remarks p
I want to welcome you all to todays meeting on u. S. Turkish relations, the shifting nation unto alex. Im currently the director of the International Security director at george mason university. Its a great pleasure to reside over todays discussion on a topic i think is particularly compelling. In a world where we write love letters to authoritarians and we publicly disparage our allies is kind of interesting to think where does the u. S. Turkish relations it in the spectrum from how we treat allies and authoritarians. It seems to fit into every category or maybe none and were going to try to figure out how special is the case of u. S. Turkish relations. Its at the motionless relationship one with the executive branch does not always ci to eye. Is it fundamentally Security Partnership or do we have a stake in the democratic standing and if turkey is questioning and involving with moscow what should the United States to prove this is brought out even mentioning into Northern Syria in t