>> to ministry first. >> i'm the daughter of a pastor. my father who recently passed in december was dr. nt thompson. he pastored not as a ministry missionary baptist church in berkeley for 40 years. i have grown up the church grow my whole life and went through the things that girls go through. questioning faith and theology and how it lines up with things in your life and things ina dee relationship with god. i started teaching in west oakland. >> sorry for what they're going through. >> we need to be in protest about that and protest about that. but i encountered some kids that i realized that my desire, which was to go into law and politics was not enough. that they needed a transformation that was deeper than anything external. so the only thing i could impart to them besides what we did in the classroom was what sustained me up to that point. that was my faith. and my understanding of who god was. and that sense of hope. i decided to start a gospel choir. because legally you are not supposed to say the name or have bible study in pu

they seem to suggest there is a kind of a lag in data being transmitted from the hospitals to the ministry nevertheless it's a worrying. rise in the death toll there and gives evidence as to why it is that this state of emergency that's been declared by the spanish government by the prime minister hadra sanchez is necessary this 15 days where shops restaurants shops which aren't selling essential items that is bars they're all closed for 15 days and people are being to stay at home as a live camera that the reuters agency is providing giving an overview of profit away out in the center of madrid and it's deserted apart from a police car which is cruising around challenging the want to handful of people who are strongly across it as to why they're actually there it's sunday that should be that should be busy on a spring sunday in madrid it shows you just how much of an impact the restrictions are going to have and various e.u. states paul a closing the border it's really an unthinkable scenario just a few months ago those member states really do feel perhaps now that they've got no other al

the health ministry briefing was happening in which the health ministry spokesman was saying to people that if they take precautionary measures prescribed by the government seriously that they could see the numbers of cases leveling off in a matter of 2 weeks the incubation period of the virus at the same time as that briefing where the government was complaining about not getting the public to cooperate there was another minute public health ministry meeting happening at the provincial level in gillan province the special representative of the health ministry in that province muhammad hussein gore bonnie during this meeting said that the number of cases of death from coronavirus in his province alone was 200 that's more than the overall number being provided by the government officially nationwide now the provinces in the north of the country it's by the caspian sea it's on the coast it's on the border with john and this is a report in a local paper so with the political situation here the way it is this could be retracted it may never be confirmed but the fact is these cases these re

over the ministry of interior and that control over these ministries is seen as a way for these political parties to wield their power and also to get access to resources and what allow you try to do is appoint candidates who aren't from these political parties who aren't beholden to their interests and that's something that was not accepted across the entire political spectrum we had the kurds and the sunnis who are very early on rejected that idea because these are already minorities and for them having those cabinet positions is seen as a way to try to hang on to whatever political power to have here in baghdad but also fail to get the support from the shia political parties we saw in the past to parliamentary sessions that there was no quorum that was reached and that was what eventually forced him to withdraw his candidacy. peeper judge has ended his bid to become u.s. president he told his democratic party supporters in indiana he no longer store a chance of winning the former small town mayor was the 1st openly gay presidential candidate he defeated bernie sanders in the iowa caucu

china a number of infections new infections has increased close to $1000.00 cases iran's health ministry is dismissing claims the totals are much higher u.s. vice president mike pence says clinical trials for a coronavirus virus will start in 6 weeks but has warned vaccine won't be publicly available for some time president trump is calling for calm after announcing the 1st corner virus death in the u.s. in the u.s. is banning all travel to iran and blocking entry to anyone who was visiting there in the past 2 weeks do not travel warning soon for south korea and parts of italy in terms considering closing the border with mexico which has 4 confirmed cases those are the headlines want to any says next on august there. when chinese authorities clamp down on what they see as a wanted or a legal activity. they knowingly make the must they pressure the accused to confess until it is all lawyers will come to see to. it even the right of the state media. often before any formal conviction on this episode of one of one east we investigate china's public confession of a real or just to show. thei

from i was it was katrina you who joins us live from beijing tell us more about what the health ministry was saying about this pandemic exposing shortcomings in the global health system. that's right well the chinese government has really been on the defensive about its handling of the current virus outbreak i mean 1st we saw the outbreak originate in the city of wine in china scoobie province and there was a lot of international criticism about china as a alleged cover up of this epidemic not sharing information of silencing whistleblowers and since then china's propaganda department has really been on or average arrive really sort of trumpeting the virtues of its response since then we saw the walk down of who the province tens of millions of people unable to leave their homes this move was heavily criticized by human rights organizations around the world but since then china has really said that these moves were necessary they were necessary sacrifice not only for protecting the public health of its people but the populations of the people around the world so it's been extremely sensi

the ministry of defense of turkey and the ministry of presho will decide to conditions of the space . on the spot on 15 march that all of. this. get us to call. it libel as soon as he signed and it is. it's going to be illegitimate now on the 5th of march and it's signed. so they were looking at tax president at a time i want shaking hands with russian fellas a circle of afghanistan finest have a shoulder that they tells to come out there. adding some things out.

also i think i'm the ministry of foreign affairs has agreed on a unique program with commercial airlines which will bring back german travelers from particularly affected areas within the next few days. on monday drastic steps were announced to beat the virus shutting many shops apart from essential businesses such as food stores and pharmacies. civic life is shutting down schools the answers in museums are being closed nationwide as even children's playgrounds a deserted many parents are having to stay at home to look after their families the government is offering them extra support that's just here for endings in what we're seeing is that many families are wondering about money issues they want to know how to deal with a drop in income this is a huge concern it's not a private matter it needs to be resolved and the state has to help itself that if you're interested. politicians continue to search for the right responses to this rapidly evolving crisis so who exactly is eligible for these homecoming take a. political correspondent with a crane she posed that question and more to german

the ministry added that it had to take the steps because of unreasonable u.s.ure on the chinese media. u.s. secretary of state mike pompeo said he hoped china would reconsider its decision. >> i regret china's decision today to further foreclose the world's ability to conduct the free press operations that frankly would be really good for the chinese people. >> last month the state department required five chinese media outlets, including the state run shin juan news agency to provide personal data on their journalists saying they're under beijing's control. the department also announced the plan earlier this month to limit the number of chinese citizens allowed to work in the u.s. offices of the outlets to 100, down from the current 160. >>> it is time now for world weather with our meteorologist sayaka mori. hello. >> hello. >> so here in tokyo, on wednesday, we had very warm april-like warm weather, how long would the warm conditions last? >> it is the mid-april-like weather will continue, at least for the next four days, yes. today's high was 18 in tokyo. m

turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's edler province in an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets 59 turkish soldiers have been killed in it live since uncorrupt began its military campaign last month also he's president has voted to continue the offensive on low. or shaky none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic. and russia is accusing turkey of breaking an agreement to create a demilitarized zone in northern syria and helping board it calls terrorist groups in the province where turkey hasn't yet coleman says on that accusation it comes 24 hours before turkey's president is jus in moscow for talks with lots of new putin with the turks and russians have conclusive than ever to direct confrontation in syria in the past few days let's get more now from c.n.n. cause she joins me live from the turkey syri

on wednesday last week, the ministry issued a level one alert. the lowest level advisory calls on people to be careful about traveling outside japan. now, the ministry has raised the level, as there are concerns that the infection will spread in countries and regions where it has not yet been confirmed. in a briefing, the foreign minister touched upon countries that are shuhutting down airpor anand suspending flights despit not having many cases. >> translator: there are concerns that once people go to such countries, their mobilitit will bee restricted or they wont be able to fly home. we wanted to make travelers aware of that. >> this is the first time a level two alert has been issued covering the entire world. the government is also expanding quarantine rules for those entering japan to include travelers from the united states starting thursday anyone arriving from the u.s. will be asked to self-quarantine for two weeks and refrain from using public transit. the measures now apply to 40 countries, including china, south korea, and european na

officials have infuriated the chinese government its foreign ministry had this to say well maybe we urge that u.s. official to respect objective facts and international public opinion and spend time on preventing and controlling the epidemic and strengthening relevant cooperation rather than attacking slandering or complaining about others u.s. officials have been pushing back against conspiracy theories floating around the internet and chinese media that the corona virus is an american bio weapon so we could have people in the united states dying for what appears to be influenza when in fact it could be the corona virus work over 90 some cases have been actually diagnosed that way in the united states today that testimony to congress by the director of the centers for disease control was insured by a chinese foreign ministry spokesman to support the theory that the virus may have originated in the united states. beijing has also pushed the narrative that the virus was brought to china by the u.s. military really 250 members of the u.s. military were in wu han in october last year along

a ministry panel of experts compiled a draft report on monday. it asked the government to set guidelines incorporatiti measures to help get them into schools. the report calls on local municipalities to make lists of foreign children, just like they do with japanese children. it also asks municipal officials to visit the homes of the children to gain an understanding of their situations. the education ministry aims to create the guidelines based on the panel's report by march next year. >>> the coronavirus outbreak has dominated a debate in the united states between the two front-runners in the race for the democratic party's presidential nomination. the event had been scheduled to take place in arizona. but as a precaution, it wound up being held in a tv studio in washington, d.c., without a live audience. foformer vice president joe b b emphasized he dealt with ebola cases when he served in office. >> people are looking for results, not a revolution. they want to deal with the results they need right now. and we can do that by making sure that

for an hour we want to bring you up to date with the rest of the world news and turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's province during an attack by government forces recently launched an operation to push back syrian government forces from it live and conceal the joins me live now from the turkey syria border and sin and that's another 2 fatalities 2 more turkish soldiers killed in syria want to tell us about this. well yes it was the overnight casualty number that we received from the defense ministry couple of minutes ago and yesterday there was also one soldier killed along with 9 wounded so i must tell that still the battle for sarah continues between the turkish backed opposition turkish forces and the syrian government forces. and as the time. as it is just the few hours it is just less than a day left for presents are gone and president putin meeting at the tension on the ground is still there the spite at will for a mutual understanding and solution it seems still both sides turkey and russia have don't have much in common and we can see the r

earlier this month japan's ministry in charge of the games said the end of may will bes the make or breakoment for the ioc in deciding to hold the games as planned. >>> diplomacy by phone as the coronavirus disrupts daily life around the globe, world leaders are trying to keep the lines of communication open. japanese pririme minister shinz abe and u.s. president donald trump are among the latest to discusses the spreading virus and other topics. the two leaders spopoke by phon for about 50 minutes on friday in what trump later called a great conversation. they exchanged opinions and discussed responses to the pandemic. the future of the tokyo olympics has become a hot button issue as a growing number of international sports leagues cancel events. earlier media reports suggested trump is of the personal opinion that games should be pushed to next year. but japanese government officials said the two leaders did not discuss the postponement. abe told trump japan is putting forth all efforts to hold the games as planned and talked about the global economic fallout from the pandemic and monet

dismissed reports its border security is shot dead a migrant on the battlefront turkey's defense ministry has confirmed 2 of its soldiers were killed and serious in the province turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian regime military targets the ongoing violence is also causing tension. between russia and turkey russian president vladimir putin will host his turkish counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss the developments in syria let's bring in hashem alba who joins us live from hard time near the turkey syria border hashem just 1st off bring us up to speed with what's happening on the ground there what are the on the ground kim the situation that remains quite tense with escalation in different areas there's been ongoing fighting around. the strategic city which is now partially under the control of the syrian government by the rebels that's why tokio are launching a counter offensive and they say that they are determined to take it back because the city is located on the strategic 5 an m 4 highways that links the capital damascus to aleppo and north eastern. syria and this is

beijing's response was swift china's ministry of foreign affairs issued this report all but say later you don't see szechwan what i mean pathogen within me we found out john what i found eat john what are your employment i mention your chair effects essentially. we've come to berlin to meet another accidental activist. and to look away has worked on a difficult oftentimes exhausting campaign to compel chinese authorities to free her father lamb's fellow bookseller away main high a swedish citizen originally from china. i do think it makes a lot of sense for me to continue my advocacy him as my father is a resident. family here. and he has lived here for many years yes property. away disappeared from another of his overseas properties on october the 17th 2015. close circuit t.v. footage shows him returning to his condominium in the thai resort town of put tire . a man appears to be waiting for him. then unload his car before driving off again marking the start of a bizarre saga that is still unfolding the jungle you know why that to me you would have bought off jungle whole life story

the health ministry has taken the lead in terms of combating the coronavirus but earlier this afternoon 100 members of parliament actually wrote a letter imploring the president to take back the reins and take full charge however that may not be an issue any more the supreme leader late last night out to lead the company issued a command to the chief of the armed forces major general mohammad buggery to form a whole new task force this one with a much more military angle the head of this task force is the major general of the regular army and the man in charge of the regular armed forces not to be confused with the revolutionary guard they had their 1st meeting earlier today and shortly after that major general battery took to state media and laid out a number of things that the military planned on doing to try to help fight the spread of covert 90 in iran one of the things he pledged was that within 24 hours the military and security apparatus will start to take up some measures on crowd control try to limit the crowds and large numbers of people to gather at shopping centers or grocer

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there's a press conference that's going to be taking place in about 3 hours time from the health ministry basically updates us on what the latest figures are so all eyes will be all vats in italy to see whether a new grim milestone a new grim record is going to be breaking on sunday thank you for that update story challenge still a bit of noise there in london on sunday afternoon but certainly a lot fewer people now russia has said it will send military medical assistance to italy to help fight the outbreak there that was after a fun call between vladimir putin and the italian prime minister. the death toll in italy is nearly reached 5000 now russia itself 306 cases most of them in moscow and there has been one death. violent protests as well of a number of prisons across colombia as panic this spreads over coronavirus prisoners fear an outbreak of the virus behind bars the government of stop visit is in recent days as it tries to stop the spread of the illness his other son. in bogota now comparatively at least to the rest of the world. very few cases in the whole of colombia i think it'

the civilians that's why a much longer route was completed about in 3 kilometers turkish defense ministry we are delivered a statement saying that the 1st joint battle has been handled by the russians with the participation of the land and the air forces but the russian defense ministry had a statement saying that they are expecting the turks to eliminate the what they call radical elements inside at that so this is again a very fragile process both for turkey and russia because the civilian seemed to be not happy about the cease fire deal that was signed on march 6th between turks and russians but the russians and turks are trying to keep the cease fire holding. for future there but of course when it comes to the syrian opposition groups inside it that it turkey has a critical position because it has observation observation post inside of the both down below them for haifa a highway and a border and for highway this is a for this is going to be a tough process for turkey and took it wants to keep its military presence but if the syrian opposition groups be a main. the group called h d s

and turkey's defense ministry says 2 of its soldiers have been killed in syria's problems in an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets dozens of turkish soldiers have been killed in italy in the past month but turkey's president he is vowing to continue the offensive. or show you know one of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed in hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic here's how he is in the turkish city of time to talk more about this not only is president not backing down hashan but he seems to be or both sides in to be getting closer to this sort of direct confrontation between turkey and russia over syria indeed come out 24 hours before the question meeting between president abdullah and puts him in moscow about defusing tension what we've been seeing is basically an escalation of rhetoric but also but also an affiliation of the fighting there are 2 things happening as we speak i

than 4800 tonnes significantly more than died in china and russia stepping in to help the defense ministry it will be sending a planeload of disinfection equipment along with a teams of viral just to italy starting on sunday r.g.c. goes on i'm joined me earlier in the studio with the details. there is no other place in the world where it is as bad as it is in italy right now so amid this crisis russia is indeed going to help out so what is it doing firstly moscow will be sending personal protection to italians such things as mosques for example also russia is promising to ship mobile disinfection units truck based essentially so that italians can air assault the streets with in fact and spray also russia will be sending some medical equipment to help diagnose and treat more italians all of that will be it will be shipped through the russian defense ministry in this small school is joining beijing's efforts china has already promised to to help out italians china being the 1st country the origin country of the covert 19 so obviously they have right now they have way more experience with dea

the ministry of foreign affairs has agreed on a unique program with commercial airlines which will bring back german travelers from particularly affected areas within the next few days. we are talking above all about iraq o. the dominican republic the philippines egypt and the multi in coordination with us the airlines will make flights available for the. right hands what are we talking about here i mean how many people are stuck and where will they be transferred to. we haven't been given exact figures the foreign minister talked about 5000 people alone and morocco's if we reckon on the other countries that they were talking about several 1000 people from those countries measuring we could get through to somewhere close to $10000.00 people that will be returning in the next few days where exactly they will be coming to here in germany we don't know yet i presume that depends on where the airplanes that transport 10 will land and possibly on which regions of the country these visits these german tourists come from but it's going to be a major operation something like this is never been d

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diagnose and treat more italians all of that will be it will be shipped through the russian defense ministry in this small school is joining beijing's efforts china has already promised to help out italians china being the 1st country origin country of the covert 19 so obviously they have right now they have way more experience with dealing and containing this disease than any other country in the world and the situation in italy is indeed for instance some italians have been massively outraged when it was revealed that their country allowed the united states to ship out of italy and into tennessee. almost half a 1000000 of covert 1000 testing kids italians saying that how can this be going on when they are dying by the hundreds in italy and there's not enough means to help the italians and their government is giving in just giving it away in the past 24 hours alone almost 800 italians have died let the let the figures sink in for a moment in just the past 24 hours now this number is particularly large because italy is stressing that they are counting not just those who were killed by covert

have watched with alarm at what's been happening in malaysia the director general of the health ministry has warned that if people don't take this order to restrict their movements more seriously they're risking a 3rd wave of infections a malicious outbreak began a religious event there the race is on now to try to down everyone who attended that event. that's right so this event took place at a mosque just outside of kuala lumpur at the end of february it stretched it was a 4 day event and $16000.00 people attended this event and it was really the recent spike in new cases over the last few days in malaysia that prompted the malaysian government to put in place measures to limit the spread of coronavirus now out of the 16000 people who attend this event 14 $1500.00 are fought to be in malaysia the health ministry says it's managed to trace more than $8000.00 of these people now that still leaves about thousands more and the health ministry the organizers of this conference have made a plea to these people to come forward and be tested voluntarily but local reports suggest that many some

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for us there in kabul thank you very much indeed for bringing us that update now turkey's defense ministry says too often salters have been killed in syria as a globe province in an attack by government forces turkish forces retaliated by striking syrian military targets $59.00 turkish soldiers have been killed in it since on camera began its military campaign last month will moments ago turkey's president votes to continue that offensive. or you know one of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as in hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic. we'll soon. he joins me live from the turkey syria border. crossing we have had another to see turkish soldiers killed in syria robust response there in the turkish parliament from president richard one what more is likely to come out it's all of this escalation within syria is that playing back with a domestic audience in turkey. well yes turkish government say is that there is a turkish military presence inside s

in the province of guillen a special representative of the health ministry to the province mr mohammad hussein who were bonnie in his statement during the meeting seemed to contradict the official total from the government he said that in his province in the north of the country on the caspian coast bordering us or by john there have been $200.00 deaths in his province alone this of course more than the total nationwide that the official government numbers would suggest now this was reported by a local news agency considering the political climate here in iran it could be retracted it could remain unverified but the fact is these reports tend to go viral these local news reports tend to be broadcast tend to be shared all around the country and things like this truly erode the public trust something the government simply can't afford at a time when it's trying to come back to this broad outbreak of the coronavirus here in the country elsewhere in most of the ron province there's a medical university that says that the overall number of cases are 30 percent higher than official statistic

. >> meanwhile, the health ministry has compiled new guidelines on ways to stop the virus from spreadingthey include allowing local governments to ask people with mild symptoms to recover at home if a hospital bed shortage appears likely. at present, all those found to be infected are being hospitalized. the updated plan says virus tests ininreas with h rampant outbreaks w will be carried out only on seriously ill patients. it also calls for setting up medical facilities in each region to cope with infected patients who are pregnant or need dialysis. >>> child care facilities across japan are facing longer working hours and other challenges after the government called for school closures to help contain the coronavir coronavirus. prime minister shinzo abe last week urged schools to close from monday until the start of spring break in late march. child care facilities are scrambling to cope with for their services from working parents. one facility opened at 8:30 a.m., five hours earlier than usual. four extra staffers were on hand to oversee children who would normally have been in schoo

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. >> reporter: that fear of the virus's potential invisible power has the japan's foreign ministry to set up a team to tackle the clusters. leading the team is a professor at the university who was a w.h.o. adviser on the front lines of the global sasars outbreak in 2003. >> traranslator: confirmed case are on the rise in japan, but it's's still not an explosive spread of the virus, but we really don't know how much longer we can hold out. >> reporter: the priority is gathering information on infected groups of five or more people known as clusters. as of march 17th, clusters have been confirmed in 13 places in japan. there are three common characteristics of a cluster. they occur in an enclosed space where there's poor ventilation where people gather and interactions happen at a close distance. places like this must be avoided experts say. but the professor is worried as more cases are being reported as the source is unknown. >> translator: it seems many people think things are under control in japan, but that is totally not what we're feeling based on the situation we're seeing now.

officials have infuriated the chinese government its foreign ministry had this to say. may have urged that u.s. official to respect objective facts and international public opinion and spend time on preventing and controlling the epidemic and strengthening relevant cooperation rather than attacking slandering or complaining about others. u.s. officials have been pushing back against conspiracy theories floating around the internet and chinese media that the coronavirus is an american buy a weapon so we could have people in the united states dying for what appears to be influenza when in fact it could be the coronavirus work over 90 some cases have been actually diagnosed that way in the united states today that testimony to congress by the director of the centers for disease control was insured by a chinese foreign ministry spokesman to support the theory that the virus may have originated in the united states. beijing has also pushed the narrative that the virus was brought to china by the u.s. military really 250 members of the u.s. military were in wu han in october

palestinian authorities have confirmed the 1st cases of coronavirus in gaza the health ministry says the 2 palestinians returned from pakistan on thursday and were under quarantine all restaurants coffee shops and mosques were ordered to close following the announcement. hundreds of people have been arrested in jordan for violating a nationwide curfew restriction bans anyone from leaving their homes indefinitely and schapelle has more. sirens blare across the jordanian capital warning residents to stay in their homes. tough new measures have been put in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus bringing amman to a standstill. thousands of army troops have been deployed to enforce a nationwide curfew after this warning from the government you are anyone who violates the provisions of this order and the measures issued by the prime minister under a minister of defense shall be liable to immediate imprisonment for a period not exceeding one year i don't know it's been led to scenes like this in one of the city's supermarkets they along with bakeries in every other business have been o

state department has held talks with the chinese ambassador of a comments by china's foreign ministry that the coronavirus life of the originated in the us a conspiracy theory 1st 2nd agent on the fringes of the internet on the russian media and it's now increasingly becoming the official chinese line under schapelle explains this. controlling the narrative or changing it completely as president xi jinping visited this week for the 1st time since the beginning of the krona virus outbreak his government went on the defensive aggressively responding to another message coming from washington this is the one corona virus that started in china and is now spreading throughout the world as cases rise in the united states its officials are emphasizing that the pandemic was quote made in china this virus that not a region of the united states originated on an province in china it originated some time ago unfortunately rather than using best practices this outbreak and one was covered up such comments by senior u.s. officials have infuriated the chinese government its foreign ministry had this

came out that many of them i had coronavirus and now we're seeing the impact of this the health ministry has put a partial lockdown on the capital as you said but they're warning the younger people telling them that they should be staying at home too they are not invincible and they're also saying that these are the people that are spreading the virus across the country meanwhile in singapore once again another country that managed to keep a lid on infections or rise in infections from the start has seen a massive jump they say it's due to imported cases according to the health ministry over the past 3 days the spike of cases in cases 80 percent of those were due to people coming in from outside so singapore's lock down its borders short term travelers from coming in. stopped transit passengers from coming in citizens people with work permits are people are residents are allowed back into the country but they will have to be in a 14 day. quarantine peter and was the latest from china yesterday was day 3 of no new local infections yes there were imported infections but the authorities cle