Epidemic claims more lives. By Barbara Sarah in london with the top stories from europe including moscows eyes in the sky we take a close look at russias new facial recognition system thats provoking fear is of big brother and far as small have all the days sport including its 2 wins from 2 for holders al heloise saudi arabia and the group stages of the Asian Champions League. But we begin in syria where president bashar assad has made a rare address on state television to promise no let up in his offensive in the northwest he congratulated his forces and their allies for their rapid recent gains which are edging closer to winning back the last pieces of rebel held lands the un. Says the russian backed campaign supported by iranian militia has displaced 875000. 00 people mostly women and children since early december so assad votes a relentless push towards in his words complete fix 3 we learn in an item and we fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war or t
A closer look at legal attempts to shut it down. Syrias president Bashar Al Assad says he is committed to continuing his governments offensive in the north of the country until the very end his forces have made Massive Gains in the last rebel held areas in recent days capturing dozens of villages in aleppo province u. N. Figures show 875000 syrians mostly women and children have now fled the offensive by syrias government and its russian allies since only december of those 40000 have fled in just the past 4 days said made his comments in a rare appearance on t. V. We fully understand that this liberation does not mean the end of the war or the end of plots or terrorism either this liberation does not mean the enemys will surrender this liberation means that we put our enemies pride and nose in the dirt as a primary step to defeat them completely sooner or later. On the turkey syria border with more on Bashar Al Assads comments. This is a delicate moment for the Syrian Opposition but al
Union oks a new sea and their patrols in the Eastern Mediterranean and russia has big plans for facial recognition we take a closer look at the legal attempts to shut it down. And far as small have all the days sport including its 2 wins from 2 from holders our hell out of saudi arabia and the group stages of the Asian Champions League. Welcome to the program more than 300 americans have been flown home after 2 weeks in quarantine on a cruise ship as the fight to contain the coronavirus continues the diamond princess which is docked in yokohama has become the biggest single cluster of infections outside china with more than 450 people unwell in the epicenter of the outbreak more than 70000 people have been confirmed to have the virus in china with nearly 1800 deaths among them the peoples daily newspaper reports that the high ranking director of a 100 hospital has died from the virus well the lockdown in chinese a cities is continuing and one of the countrys most important political ga
International arms embargo isnt the only major problem affecting peace efforts in libya in the coming hours talks will resume here at the u. N. In geneva between 5 representatives of the internationally recognized government in tripoli and 5 from general have to decide to try and get a cease fire can you give us a readout of how they went the governments representative at the u. N. In new york libyan ambassador sunny told me the previous round of talks had been far from easy and theres a lot of issues that we dont need and together but there are some parts that as mentioned from the u. N. Led process that could be a breakthrough but im still. Have to be cautious because we noticed that there are certain elements that we look into in terms of the return of i. D. P. s the area and where the withdrawal areas are these are things that are still and good discussions and are not clear yet at the Munich Security Conference the u. N. Has except the special representative of libya made it clear
Libya starting sea and air patrols and heavy clashes reported between the saudi military and tribal forces in the east of yemen. So the World Health Organization is saying the china coronavirus officially known as coded 19 is less deadly than previous outbreaks like but it is more infectious this is according to data thats been pulled from a chinese medical report it says 80 percent of those who contract the virus only have mild symptoms and will recover another 14 percent are suffering from the severe complications of pneumonia with 5 percent in a Critical Condition and for 2 percent of patients it is proving deadly older patients are the one of the high risk and although it is as we said less deadly than sobs because of the infection right its ended up killing many more people in. Similar timeframe that will make sense well the World Health Organization had said that the data is giving us a clearer picture of the impact of the virus. The did also appear to show a decline in new cases