Minister heads to south africa hours before he was due to be charged in connection with the murder of his 2nd wife. And im he said with your support the u. S. Womens Football Team on 66000000. 00 in damages in a discrimination case plus a 16 year old gives india a flying start in the opening match of the womens team to win the world cup the games champions australia. Ok lets get going to afghanistan where an agreement thats supposed to usher in peace is to take effect in just a few hours time the taliban and the u. S. Will begin what theyre calling a quote reduction of violence as of midnight if the 7 day deal proves a success both sides will sign an accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups and the u. S. Has said it wants to pull it strips out of afghanistan live now to washington and my colleague our current correspondent she has she have just take us through the choreography of the next week in theory. So we have the 7 days o
Election in favor of donald trump. 18 years of war in afghanistan could end in a little more than a week a deal that calls for a 7 day reduction of violence takes effect in half an hours time and after that the taliban says it will sign a peace deal with america the u. S. Involvement in afghanistan began in 20011 month after the 911. 00 attacks washington launched air strikes and a Ground Invasion to remove the taliban from power well than 12000 american soldiers are still in afghanistan thousands more from nato allies and partners countries are also there some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began and the u. S. Is estimated to have spent more than one trillion dollars during its mission. Jordan joins us live from washington d. C. As a resident a lot resting on this reduction of violence do we know what it what will be judged to be enough of the induction lauren we dont know what is the standard for nuff of a reduction in violence and that is the rub because t
Iran is being isolated by its neighbors because of growing fears over its coronaVirus Outbreak pakistan afghanistan turkey armenia they have all closed their borders with iran which is have the largest number of fatalities outside of china the deaths all standing at 8 there in china president xi jinping has admitted they were shortcomings in the countrys response describing coronaviruses the largest Public Health emergency since the founding of communist china back in 1949 we look further afield to italy as well where 5000 people have been quarantined in the north been told to stay home 132 people have been infected 3 have died as well while in south korea the president has called for unprecedented powerful measures to control the out break lets begin in south korea this report from robert brought. The worst affected areas in so. East korea the city of daegu and neighboring chango county remain at a virtual standstill to mask clusters of infections account for the majority of cases rep
Were excluded. And the window to contain the coronavirus is narrowing a warning from the w. H. O. As an outbreak in northern italy gets worse. Welcome to the new agreement that supposed to usher in peace in afghanistan has come into effect the taliban and the u. S. Will begin what theyre calling a reduction of violence if the 7 day deal is a success both sides will sign an accord at the end of the month paving the way for talks between the taliban and other afghan groups the u. S. Says it wants to pull its troops out of afghanistan. Now americas longest war began in 2001 the u. S. Presence in afghanistan came a month after the 911. 00 attacks it launched air strikes and a Ground Invasion to remove the taliban from power more than 12000 american soldiers are still in the country thousands more from nato allies and partners countries are also there some 2400 american troops have been killed since the operation began and the u. S. Is estimated to spend more than one trillion dollars in it
On books is last night is taking. It again in china where the head of a hospital and will han the center of the epicenter that is of this corona Virus Outbreak the doctor has now died from the disease lesion meaning the director of the rouhani shang hospital died this morning Chinas Health authority says over 3000 Health Workers have now contracted the virus and 6 have now died and total coronaviruses killed more than 1800 people 98 people have died in the last 24 hours in China Mainland who have a province thats the epicenter of all this the illness is affecting the countrys economy and chinas finance minister says theyre offering tariff exemptions on nearly 700. 00 u. S. Products including medical equipment. Lets go now to beijing rocketry is reporting live for us so katrina that the death of this. Doctor whos the director of the hospital obviously thats got to be raising concerns for Health Workers and if they dont have a handle on dealing with with their own health how difficult mu