European Union Leaders meet to discuss ways to compete with the u. S. And china. On in sport title holders of political face an uncertain future in this seasons Champions League beats and war mill in spain by a Flintstone Woodridge in the 1st leg of their last 16 towing. Efforts to end the fighting thats torn libya and to have suffered yet another setback the internationally recognized government in tripoli has now suspended its involvement in talks in geneva after the capitals port was attacked on tuesday at least 3 people were killed when rockets were fired by forces of world Khalifa Haftar now the port is the main entry point for supplies into libya have to Us Forces Say their target was an arms depor their leader has been trying to capture the capital since april tripoli is government is now insisting the talks cannot continue until the wild family responds to what it calls have violations our diplomatic editor james bays begins our coverage from geneva. The port in the libyan capital tripoli under attack general half his forces carried out the rocket strikes about the same time the talks were resuming in geneva and immediately put the fate of the peace efforts in jeopardy its now 10 months since general haftar appended the International Communitys peace plans by ordering an offensive to try and seize tripoli the operation launched defiantly just hours after he met u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorist who was visiting libya at the time in the months since the death toll has mounted as weapons have continued to pour into the country despite the latest attacks when he spoke to reporters the secretary generals envoy was determined to push the diplomatic momentum forward is your plan back on track my plan is not back on track my plan has never left that that it is being implemented was patience and determination this by the many of the key you need a ceasefire before next week ill bet there have a ceasefire in order to implement all the rest but this is not the precondition but hours later sporadic indiscriminate attacks on tripoli continued the government to fire is issued this statement. There were needed violations of the truce with the targeting of civilian facilities this time the tripolis seaport which is the life of archery for many libyan cities where they get basic medical and Food Supplies in this context were now its the suspension of ongoing talks in geneva the president ial Council Reaffirms that without a permanent ceasefire there is no point in any negotiations the u. N. Is now left struggling to see if it can save the geneva process wider talks involving all the political factions in libya would use take place next week once again or day shifts military action by general haftar has derailed peace efforts on james basis at the suspended talks in geneva james where to from here now. Well i think the u. N. Finds itself in exactly the same place it was 10 months ago it had an International Plan it thought it had all its diplomatic ducks in a row having had a Security Council resolution last week having had all the Foreign Ministers of all the countries that have a stake in this some that was supporting the government in tripoli some that was supporting general have to get them all behind these talks and what has happened well things have repeated themselves general have to again has launched or day shifts military action at the key moment as they were sitting down here 24 hours ago those rocket strikes started all new port of tripoli they will try i think to repair the damage we dont yet know if the delegation from the g. N. A. T. The government of national caught the internationally recognized government have left geneva if they havent then i think theyll be pressure behind the scenes from the u. N. And some of the key actors to try and persuade them to stay and pressure on general have to to stop his military action remember what they were trying to do in these talks was convert a truce that doesnt really exist into a durable cease fire and of course the representatives of the government felt that if that was the aim of the talks and they were coming under attack while they were talking then really this was not being done in good faith. I only saw this i hope of course said and these talks we check she will resume mississ pickiness possible who said i mean the what is just started to engage the military community which is the most important scene for the ceasefire and then i supposed for the political director. To start sometime in the near future to set the there was the hope that step they will return but to take. Those 2 ambassadors ones that have had different views on this in recent days in fact the Russian Ambassador you just heard there was one of those who abstained on the most recent Security Council resolution but they are united in wanting these talks to get back on track so certainly from new york from the political side of the u. N. Security council pressure on the parts hes here to resume these talks its worth reminding you that these were ceasefire talks taking place trying to get a durable cease fire on the plan an ambitious one was 4 more comprehensive talks a week from now talks involving all the political factions trying to get a peace plan for libya and eventually get elections in the country is there following all the developments for us and an event thank you very much james. Well e. U. Foreign ministers have agreed to launch a new naval and m. Mission to enforce the u. N. Arms in bhaag or in libya but reaching consensus in any talks is complicated by the number of countries and the warring factions involved 1st says the government of National Accord based in tripoli its led by Prime Minister also raj his administration is backed by the u. N. With diplomatic support from cats its city and other western nations turkey also recently sent military support while the war on Khalifa Haftar power base is the government into broke thats an Eastern Libya hes supported by saudi arabia the u. A. E. Russia and egypt frances denying providing military support well lets now talk to mom about the wahid shes live for us in tripoli and on the ground there muffled whats the situation like there now after that force attack whats the level of destruction and what are people saying. Will people are very worried that the heavy fighting could ruin you at any time especially after the latest escalation by half the us forces ho targeted the main port the lifeline in the capital tripoli and also after the government of National Accord along with the High State Council here in tripoli decided to hold talks in geneva it seems that the Peace Process sponsored by the United Nations is facing a lot of the challenges especially with the conflict now intensifying get if they may say at the bag doors as you know honest here that the United Arab Emirates egypt and france are supporting the war a lot of the have to and meanwhile the art of taken part in the Peace Process which has been rejected by the government of National Board meanwhile of turkey the president of the van has stated that to he is supporting the government of National Accord and it agrees with the government in its decision suspending the talks the question now is with or not the International Community and the United Nations will put pressure on house to to deescalate and to hold the secession. To stop the hostilities on the capital of tripoli this is a pretty quiz it for the government to resume talks in geneva up the double i had there for us on the ground in tripoli thank you matt. Well moving on and turkeys president is threatening to imminently launch an operation to push back Syrian Forces and province russia talk about on once Government Troops to withdraw behind Turkish Military positions in that area and he says turkeys dumonds havent been met during recent talks with russia the kremlin says it strongly opposed to any tech military operation the Syrian Government is conducting an offensive to retake those last rebel held areas while techie says its pushing to establish a safe zone in northern syria. Well theres plenty more ahead for you on this news hour including find out why families in the philippines are worried about a cruise ship stuck in japan. Impossible for me to do my job. Anger grows about u. S. 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Off to weeks of being stuck on a quarantined cruise ship in japan over fears of the coronavirus hundreds of passengers are now finally going home theyve been deemed healthy and have left the vessel but there are still thousands left on board with criticism mounting over just how effective the quarantine was and just in the past few minutes japan has reported 79. 00 more cases taking the total to of the 600. 00 infections on board the vessel while in south korea theres also been a spike in infections with 20 reported on wednesday 15 of those can be traced to just one person who attended Church Services in the central city of daegu while hong kong has now recorded its 2nd death a 70 year old man that brings the total number of deaths now to 2012 all but 6 were in Mainland China and there have been 75000 infections globally well lets go live now to adrian brown whos in hong kong to speak about developments there and also on the mainland where were now hearing reports of china expelling 3 wall street journal reporters adrian theres been so much speculation about just how the Chinese Government is trying to control the narrative is this some sort of a crackdown. Yes i think in a way it is the chinese authorities are very unhappy with an article that was published in the wall street journal recently an opinion piece headlined of china is the sick man of asia now you know that sort of headline is like a red rag to a bull to chinese officials particularly at this time so theyve taken the decision to expel 3 respected journalists from the beijing bureau very rare to expel 3 journalists from one organization and its a reminder of just how difficult its becoming for foreign journalists to do their jobs in that country i was based in beijing for 5 years until june and towards the end it was getting more and more difficult to operate effectively the way that you would want to as a reporter in china because of the growing restrictions and the growing surveillance now here in hong kong weve had a protest today outside the Liaison Office that chinas defacto embassy in hong kong by a group of activists accusing china of spending more time suppressing freedom of speech instead of fighting the virus now thats a reference to these citizen journalists whove gone missing during the past few weeks citizen journalists whove been independently trying to give voice to what was happening in china at the moment and they havent been seen as i say now for several weeks tome kong has confirmed its 2nd death that was on wednesday morning a 70 year old man the other man to die 2 weeks ago was 39 both men it said had underlying conditions in the term in as regards a man who died on monday and wednesday or rather he had reportedly diabetes so this is a Common Thread that people who are dying from the disease appear to have often underlying illnesses Chinese Media meanwhile says that 14000 people have so far made a recovery from the virus they say that the recovery rate outside of her the province is now about. 50 is about 40 percent whereas inside who pay province its 15 percent so quite a wide gap there in those 2 recovery rates but certainly that is something that the media is focusing on on the mainland on wednesday adrian were hearing about these deaths in hong kong but we are also hearing that the number of new infections in china is dropping is it too early for optimism about that. Yes i think it possibly is because at the end of the day the stars you were being asked to interpret figures that may well be inaccurate wrong or simply inflated all figures that dont really present the true picture so i think its very hard to base an assessment on figures of not independently verified but certainly china continues to insist through the broad cars that were seeing on state state media that it is containing the virus it points to the fact that its building ever more hospitals outside of to cope with the number of people who have been treating and again its diplomats overseas continue to stress that one point that people are recovering its proof they say that china is containing the virus and no country on earth they continue to insist could really they have responded to this virus in the way the Chinese Government has adrian brown there for us and hong kong thank you very much adrian. Now lets also get an update from the japanese ports if you have a hama and the diamond princess here is rather a prize. It is the end of this 14 days of quarantine for hundreds of people it is finally over there has been a steady stream of coaches of buses of taxis in some cases coming in here to the port area taking people away taking them to various transport hubs to yokohama station and other stations around here to continue their journey many of them people being allowed to return home these are people who have gone through the quarantine have been declared to be negative theres been no trace of the coronavirus found so they have now been allowed to leave but they have for a lot of the japanese citizens priorities been given to some of the elderly more elderly passengers theyve been allowed to go home but with the caution that they should monitor their health for the next few days at least. Make sure there are no signs of fever meanwhile for many countries people of other nationalities who are leaving their countries have said they dont want to them to come home just yet australia the United States or the u. K. They have all said that they should take a couple of weeks before they return to their home countries or if they do go home right now then they face being put straight into quarantine so it doesnt seem to be a lot of confidence from the International Community that this quarter in team has worked and in fact headlines have been made here in japan this wednesday with an Infectious Diseases expert going online using social media to really raise alarm about the conditions he says are onboard belowdecks here he went on the ship in the last couple of days he says finding chaotic conditions and in fact had fear getting into action myself. For you well no south. Because i know how to protect myself but inside. Ever saw scared i was so scared of getting caught. Because there was no way to tell where the pharisees no green zone. Everybody could have and everybody was not careful about a. Single professional Infection Control person in a ship now this whole disembarkment process is expected to take several days your passengers are expected to leave if they have found to be negative on these tests for the coronavirus over the next coming days finally seeing a lens to this horrific journey of this odyssey for some 3000 passengers and crew who are still on the ship now were at one gate where were people have been coming out healthy passengers another gate from this port where we have been we have seen throughout the day several ambulances there sirens blaring taking away what we can assume to be further cases of people being taken sick well earlier we also spoke to who is a student from pakistan who stuck under lockdown. Hes calling on his government to help others like him. If i talk about my government pakistan theyre come theyre continuously theyre continuously ignoring us and they have this on us we are continuously in contact with them but no one and no wonder sponsible person came in contact us in yesterday some embassy those cantorian us city in the country did maybe some a few students in their mid pictures to show them on the t. V. As in newspapers but then they were contacted us and then they were had a only the Chinese Government is helping us and theyre cooperating with us in this situation but our government is completely in the good to neglecting us they are thinking like we are not pakistanis my message to pakistani government is that our countries have been acquitted their citizens from the hunt in riyadh are the only ones we are staying in no one in if they are not it was creating a soul who it will create us because we are pakistani its our constitutional right to be evacuated from here in only our families and to suffer and were due to us so its a little bit situation for us and you know for our families well perus government has declared a Health Emergency in some areas after a dengue fever outbreak there doctors say 12 people have died this year and more than 5400 cases have been reported eastern jungle areas me at the brazil and bolivia borders have been the hardest hit the outbreaks been partly blamed on an increase in the number of mosquitoes now u. S. Attorney general william vala is reportedly considering stepping down over conflicts with president onil trump the Justice Department is a locked in a dispute with an association of judges over the ha