news weibo problem brylin. tonight the coronavirus outbreak could be declared a global health emergency the world health organization is meeting this hour in geneva and it's due to announce its decision suit it comes as the total number of cases approaches 8000 despite widespread lockdowns and public screenings the virus is now in all mainland regions of china. also coming up on this breaks it even count down to departure.

and meet some hard travel amazon workers this is your d w business report i'm stephen beardsley in brylin good to have you with us. global markets are watching closely as tensions rise in the middle east following the u.s. killing of a top iranian general of special concern or oil the persian gulf is home to some of the world's biggest oil producers and they're now in the middle of an escalating crisis. the u.s. air strike has sparked concerns that regional tensions could escalate further but tension disrupting crude supplies the strait of hormuz located between a man and iran connects the persian gulf with why does the ways some 20000000 barrels of oil pass through this choke point every day any hint of trouble in the region since the price is climbing the persian gulf is home to 3 of the world's top 10 oil nations when measured by oil reserves iran's mainstream exports have already been squeezed by u.s. sanctions but iraq has become one of the region's biggest exporters and now it's ground 0 for the current crisis. news of the nation pushed brant crude up just over 4 percent on thursday

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implementation of the arms embargo do you think this is achievable in the current context i mean will brylin succeed where moscow failed last week. unfortunately do not think so i don't think anyone should have theirs oh truly if your ghosts were limbs of was going to be the conference was initially you had agree that was essentially focused on actually tapering interventionism by foreign states and also in forcing the arms embargo unfortunately now it's become really bad and also it seems to have completely altered its goals from what was initially envisioned so it's no longer about forcing the arms embargo it's no longer about focusing on tapering interventionism it's actually almost the reset maybe of a political landscape that would be essentially legitimizing the status quo and sweeping under the rug the fact that a lot of this offensive 10 months ago on the un back government ahead of a national conference in the presence of the secretary general of the united nations i think this has really tanked europe's quite the bill that the stated unfortunately the dynamic is that no one wants t

analyst marwan bashar marwan i know the draft communique for this conference is already out will brylin succeed where moscow failed last week it seems like it's almost designed to it seemed like what we we're missing in moscow was a bit of a warm up or. $2.00 to $2.00 berlin or 2 words were lin and that's why we find prism put it in both places so we're basically the warm up was in moscow talking about the various needs for a cease fire and now putin for a reason i would like to discuss maybe later is a wording merkel that little victory over a ceasefire in tripoli to be done in berlin rather than moscow is easy though i mean why why would he do that well this is i think i mean i think we there's a lot to talk about in terms of libya my sense up and that we have the final real communique what's really interesting about what's going on and berlin 40 is is anything but libya and i think 80 percent you know i'm seeing random number 90 percent of the reasons why most of these participants are there has nothing to do with libya so what is it about and it doesn't have a number of countries a