Behind the coronavirus outbreak of China, there are thousands of nurses, mainly women, who are paying a very heavy price. Al Jazeera’s Leah Harding explains. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Coronavirus
The wife of Lesotho’s Prime Minister Thomas Thabane is due in court in the capital on Tuesday. Maesaiah Thabane has been charged with masterminding the murder of her husband’s former wife in 2017. The prime minister and his former wife had divorced acrimoniously and she had reportedly wanted to retain the privileges of the office she once had. Al Jazeera’s Fahmida Miller reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Lesotho #MaesaiahThabane
A series of air raids in northern Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition has killed at least 31 civilians. The attacks brought a rebuke from the UN humanitarian chief for Yemen, who called it “shocking”. The raids took place after Saudi Arabia confirmed one of its planes had crashed in the same region. Houthi rebels claim to have shot the plane down. Al Jazeera’s Nicola Gage reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #SaudiArabia #Yemen
Qatar’s foreign minister said recent efforts to end the blockade against the country have not suceeded. Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut all political, trade and transport ties with Qatar in 2017. The foreign minster said that talks to ease tensions ended last month. Al Jazeera’s Sara Khairat reports. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Qatar #GCCBlockade
The Saudi-UAE-led coalition has confirmed that one of its warplanes has crashed in Yemen’s northern al-Jawf province. Houthi rebels say its forces shot down the Royal Saudi Air Force plane on Friday. Houthi media is also reporting that at least 40 civilians were killed in coalition air strikes in the region’s al-Masloub district. Hussein al-Bukhaiti, Yemen and Houthi affairs analyst, speaks to Al Jazeera. Subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/AJSubscribe Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/AJEnglish Find us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera Check our website: http://www.aljazeera.com/ #Aljazeeraenglish #BreakingNews #YemenWar
Passengers from a cruise ship turned away by four countries because of coronavirus fears have finally been allowed off in Cambodia. The ship had been at sea for two weeks, and the 2,000 passengers and crew had been tested to see if they were carrying the virus when it arrived on Wednesday. Al Jazeera’s Wayne Hay reports from Sihanoukville where the ship arrived. He says the Cambodian government is prepared to let passengers into the country, even if they were found to be infected with the virus. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ […]
A cruise ship that has been at sea for two weeks has docked in Cambodia after it was turned away by four other governments in the region. There are no confirmed coronavirus cases on board, but everyone is being tested before they can disembark. Al Jazeera’s Wayne Hay reports from Sihanoukville. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Cambodia
The UK has now declared the coronavirus a “serious and imminent threat to public health”. A medical centre in England has been temporarily closed after at least one staff member tested positive for the virus on Monday. The British government has introduced new powers to deal with the outbreak. Under new measures, people with coronavirus can be forcibly quarantined and will not be free to leave, while scientists in London work on a possible vaccine. Testing on animals is set to begin, with testing on humans possible in a few months. For more on this we speak to Dr Richard Dawood, a specialist in travel medicine who joins us live […]
Doctors in Thailand are testing medication normally used to treat HIV and influenza against the novel coronavirus, which has become a global, deadly epidemic. Al Jazeera’s Alexi O’Brien reports from Bangkok. – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #Coronavirus #AlJazeeraEngish
The Arab League has rejected US President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan. At an emergency meeting in Cairo, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attacked the proposal, saying his people will never accept it. Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reports from Ramallah, the occupied West Bank. – Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe – Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish – Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera – Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #ArabLeague #DealOfTheCentury #Palestine
