Sanctions on iran to help it fight the virus. And players with the Spanish Football Team real madrid are in self quarantine now its not legal suspends or matches. Its just gone for 300 hours g. M. T. Thursday afternoon across europe where the coronavirus pandemic is forcing authorities to urgently decide just what to do to protect the public arent in norway they are now shutting schools finland is warning people against large public gatherings the Czech Republic has declared a 30 day state of emergency affection rights are also jumping in spain germany and the netherlands poland has reported its 1st step so much happening there we start with a look at europe through the virus tracker from Johns Hopkins university in the United States youre familiar with this one it gives us the best snap. Short of covert 19 infections at any one point and the main snapshot right now if it works is that one headline number of 127863 people infected all over the world now have a look at europe and i know all those circles do look largely the same size all the big ones too but just let me go through a few of them germany just over 2000 cases only 3 deaths france same sort of number of confirmed cases but 48 deaths and then italy of course we know well about with its 12462 confirmed cases and 827 deaths as always though i would draw you to this number up in the course of the green number a total of 68000. 00 people plus who have recovered out of those 126000. 00 infections ok off to london we go lawrence lee has been following developments all day take us through some of these developments in europe because theres a whole slew of them at once and they will affect well every day life in a big way. Well yeah i mean and clearly the starting points obviously is italy which is now shut about from food shops and pharmacies you mention a very high death toll in italy because a lot of the villages in italy the young people went away and theres only old people been living there and thats why theyve been so vulnerable to this because it does affect affect older people or people with preexisting Health Conditions but if you cast your mind back so artfully was say 34 weeks ago when there were little outbreaks in the villages in and in long body in northern italy and it was just starting at that point because italy didnt shut itself off and didnt start closing the schools and hence it was able to spread and consequently all these other European Countries are looking at that and thinking maybe we need to have time to get ahead of where its really was then spade of course is the next country on the list but the biggest number of cases that its in the government now the governments suspended one of the cabinet members has got its theyre talking about potentially locking down the trades so its a very serious situation there but just a random number of other countries which in the last 24 hours or so theyre closing all the schools arland poland ulcer if you were in your slovakia just to name a few and the reason obviously kemal is because theyre looking up where italy was a few weeks ago and think well if we can possibly get ahead of that then we might not get the massive outbreak it but its but he says the strategy of closing schools is that there are some people who disagree with that because they get much of their own way around lawrence can i ask you about the United Kingdom as well just again as i look at the Johns Hopkins track a baby but numbers are very different in the u. K. 456 confirmed cases 8 deaths in fact here weve got it in the wall just now so obviously its a different sort of picture in the u. K. And the u. K. Not taking some of the steps that weve seen other countries take. Its yes exactly and the u. K. Is going the other way at least at the moment the Emergency Committee meeting in government at the moment they are going to move into what they call a delay phase and thats going to involve telling people to work from home and at some point they will close schools the easter holidays are only a couple of weeks away and some people say well just close the schools now then youve got these holidays coming anyway and the kids will be off for 4 weeks the counterarguments against close to schools is quite an important one is that if the kids are home and the parents have to work then the grandparents look up but might look after the kids if the kids are infectious they can end up killing their own grandparents or alternatively some people argue if emergency workers have to go home and look after their kids because the kids are at home then they come in the hospitals. And so you know if that but also they havent been looked on large gatherings here yet the whole horse racings about to starts people are banned from from doing things in ireland but they will be over in chelton watching the horses so its a different sort of approach and you know clearly both the european approach and the british approach they cant both be right can they but we might only know in a couple of months time which of which of them proves to be the more efficacious thank you lawrence lee in london with a bit of update from your fare were going to talk United States now and again using the tracker to have a look at things you can see infections right across the United States i just draw your attention to this side of the graph where we see 1000 there is 1323 infections in the United States and as we mentioned earlier u. S. President donald trump wants to keep the numbers down he announced on wednesday a ban on flights from europe heres mike hanna to take us through some of this at the white house for us hi mike. Clarity i think is what we need 1st of all we always need clarity but particularly over what this ban on flights really means. Well many spent much of the morning and the hours after President Trump speech last night trying to understand exactly what he was saying a number of facts had to be corrected post the speech for example President Trump insisted that all travel was stopped including cargo aircraft to go to pier he himself walked that back in a tweet saying that it would apply only to people also then it was clarified in the course of the day that it does not apply to american citizens or permanent residents they will be allowed to return so much of what the president said had to be fact check in terms of what it actually meant but certainly its going to have a massive impact on the country massive impact on the economy and of course a massive impact on those who are attempting to get back now to the United States the other point of contention among many commentators is why the sudden had has a choice of those that are banned from entering the United States singling out the 26. 00 countries within the schengen agreement nor in the more than 20 other countries in europe for example and intentionally leaving the United Kingdom of the list many are questioning why this is the case and questioning how such a ban can be effective if it is not applied across the board if there are broad swathe of exceptions to this particular travel ban mike this is more of a sort of anecdotal question but maybe you can still give me an indication here about how people are reacting in the United States for so long the leadership was telling them dont panic dont trumpet even say things like oh its just kind of like the flu it will go away in most cases were and now its complete turn around. Well its actually accelerated in recent days youve had the top viral official virus official here within the United States explicitly. Going against President Trump in the addressing congress yesterday he pointed out for example that the virus has a fatality rate 10 times that of flu so any comparison with flu must be completely ruled out and certainly this type of information coming through has been lacking to the public in recent weeks in recent months indeed and now it is becoming to the strike coleman the president s speech last night it would appear far from reassuring the u. S. Public has exactly the opposite effect just anecdotal once again in washington d. C. Here supermarkets shelves are being cleared out the small means there are long lines and all the supermarkets here parents of School Going Children in the district are being told that theres a possibility that the schools may be closed and the children will have to study from home so certainly this is having now a massive impact on daily life and the ordinary american citizen becoming very clear that this is very different that something very serious is going on and of course one must remember as well the cancellation of Something Like the National Basketball league now this is a massive following among americans and this is really driving home that the situation is dire and one more thing that must be stated as well kemal is news for example that the Actor Tom Hanks knowledge that he has contracted the virus did strike home here but what struck home even more is the fact that the actor is in australia he was tested immediately as all australians are who believe they might have the virus and that has struck home to Many Americans as the complete opposite of what they are seeing within this country which tests are still not being rolled out effectively my canner at the white house where theres clearly something about to happen behind. Thank you for that for now mike finally lets look at whats happening in the middle east you see there are cases from iraq down through kuwait bahrain qatar and the u. A. E. Through a man but of course the main story comes out of iran the numbers there with 10075 infections and 49 deaths in fact that puts iran 3rd on the list after china and italy for the most number of infections following developments of course hes in tehran has a iran obviously under so much pressure already with sanctions and the like now i believe having to turn to the world bank for some assistance. Now thats exactly right you know here in iran we are weeks into what is a broad Global Pandemic in many countries in asia in the middle east are already talking about the kind of gains theyre making in containing the spread of covert 9000 but here in iran on a daily basis almost there are signs that this countrys government this countrys people this countrys Health Services are struggling to do that theyre struggling to contain the spread of the coronavirus earlier today we learned that irans foreign minister thought zarif has sent a letter to the United Nations to try to convince antonio terrorists to bring pressure to bear upon the United States to end what iran says are illegal and unilateral sanctions that it says is now hurting its ability to respond to the coronaVirus Outbreak and in a way to illustrate that earlier today of just a few hours ago he also tweeted a list of 30 medical items supplies that 1st responders Health Care Providers people working in hospitals to try to identify and track and treat patients that have come down with the coronavirus 30 medical pieces of medical supply that iran desperately needs that it cannot get access to and also a few hours ago he tweeted about the 5000000000. 00 in i. M. F. International Monetary Fund aid that iran has requested as part of coronavirus emergency funds to end it here in iran that many people believe that the i. M. F. Will be keen to help iran secure those funds that it needs to respond to the coronavirus but the United States will likely try to block that from happening and all of this happens as the worst is yet to come many experts here in iran say that the peak of the coronaVirus Outbreak in this country is likely to happen in the next 2 weeks ok zain thank you for the updates on skype into iran. More now on what is really the only story in town at the moment coronavirus having a growing impact on sport as well real madrids football teams in quarantine the Spanish Football League the n. B. A. Basketball seasons both suspended and the opening race of the formula one season is in serious doubt down in melbourne as well with all of that news david stokes. One of the worlds biggest football teams is in lockdown spanish giants real madrid airing koren teen after one of royals basketball players who shares Training Facilities with the footballers tested positive for corona virus it triggered the Spanish Football League to suspend all action for at least 2 weeks in australia the 1st race of the formula one season is under serious threat the mclaren team of withdrawn from the event after a member of their team tested positive for the virus in melbourne Will ChampionLewis Hamilton says he shocked the race is still going ahead and believes the only reason is that cash is king as things stand 300000. 00 fans are still expected across the race weekend in the United States the n. B. A. Basketball season is off until further notice thats after one of the leagues biggest stars of the utah jazz player rudy go bear tested positive because. Ironically it comes just days after he joked about the coronavirus in a press conference Touching Every reporters microphone as he left potentially exposing others to the virus really go bear you know you think this is not going to affect us for the n. B. A. One of our players says a coronavirus and you know who knows what that means for their team and the other teams that we know have been with their sport is taking a hit globally indian cricket fans in da mashallah were checked ahead of their 1st one Day International against south africa Going Forward theres a good chance the t 20 Indian Premier League will take place without any supporters after the government told all National Sports federations to shut out spectators in. Kenya has banned all of it satellites from traveling to International Events which could start and it could churchgate defending his London Marathon title in april and beyond that even broke him from competing at the Tokyo Olympics speaking of which the frame for take care 2020 was late on thursday in greece the home of the ancient olympics there were no spectators allowed because of coronavirus concerns today the Olympic Games are the only event that brings the end tire world to go over in peaceful competition the flame will now make its way to japan where officials remain adamant that the olympic plan is not changing as far as theyre concerned the games are still going ahead in july and counseling is not an option david stokes aljazeera. In the news ahead fear of the coronavirus springs wall street trading to a sudden temporary halt again the tries to stop the markets downward spiral and well have other news of the day as well as straight as high courts delaying a decision on cardinal pills in last ditch effort to drop his conviction in a child sex abuse case. Some quasi weather for a time now pushing into japan is a clear skies coming in behind High Pressure in charge so thatll keep things settled for time lost the clouds are just spinning out of that eastern side of china making its way further racers and eventually it will slide up towards q shoes and past palm she is seeing some long spells of rain as well for the moment whats the weather is across southern parts of china that will drift a little further east which she can see a little colder in hong kong around 23. 00 degrees celsius little cooler as well in tokyo around 12 degrees is the clouds and rain returns here at least for a time we will brighten up by the 2nd half of the we can find a good part of india china thailand pushing across into the philippines you was there across much of malaysia lives shabbas to the asia heat of the day shows nothing exceptional there just pushing into indonesia and then we take a little further west with this if the being go clear skies what is into southern parts of india maybe into the apostle sri Lanka Geraghty of the west the weather theres been a fair bit of it recently thats across northern pakistan more than areas of india thats sliding further south which is nice with as we go through the next couple of days it will help us. Join the conversation to pop the bubble to the people to expand their brains maybe have a difference here this is a dialogue with women in cambodia are in fact selling their hair we dont know how much theyre getting paid for it its hard to track its hard to trace everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a lot right here in the street we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection on aljazeera. This is al jazeera on the top stories this hour its all about coronaviruses the new measures to contain the outbreak of being rolled out across europe schools closed in norway and the Czech Republic italy is in a state of lockdown in spain the number of deaths nearly doubled in 24 hours to 84 people. Iran the number of coronavirus cases there has gone up by more than a 1000 in just the past 24 hours bringing the total number of infections in the country to over 10000 with 429 deaths in iraq. And there also has been condemnation from the European Union for the decision by the United States to suspend all travel for most of europe for 30 days after the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a pandemic the e. U. Warns the move could cause economic disruption. Speaking of economic disruption stock markets have opened and the United States and look at the state of them right now down 8 over 8 percent there have been pauses in trading to try to stop the spiral downward so were going to talk to christine salumi about that kristen talk us through the last well what is it about an hour since the market opens and the trigger which is in place to stop markets from from falling any further. Yes markets opened less than an hour ago and shortly after they did so as stocks began to fall the s. And p. Dropped more than 7 percent thats one of the major indexes. Indices and that triggered this automatic Circuit Breaker to slow down trading and prevent panic selling on wall street trading has now resumed and its hovering the s. And p. Is still hovering around 7 percent the dow around 8 percent just another really rough day and its not just here in new york its happening all around the world asian markets are down european markets are down brazil 11 percent down today and 35 percent down for the year and their stocks so were seeing it everywhere this latest sell off. In response to President Trumps remarks on wednesday and his plan to deal with the spread of the coronavirus the president of course announcing restricted travel to the United States from European Countries and that is another hit for the already struggling Airline Industry for Energy Industry cruise lines were seeing stocks across the board much lower cruise lines some of them are down like 60 percent this year from their highs its really taking a toll and then with restricted travel were going to have lower demand for oil at a time when prices are incredibly low thats a concern for u. S. Markets and u. S. Energy Companies Oil prices now half of what they were in january thats a risk for debt ridden u. S. Energy companies all of this is playing in the minds of investors on the one hand the continuing hits from these restrictions on the other hand not a clear path forward in terms of financial stimulus investors were hoping for some indication from the president what he would do to protect businesses he did. Say in his remarks that his administration would provide Financial Relief for workers who are ill or caring for someone who is ill but still not a lot of details there were waiting for congress to come up with something theres the usual delays between republicans and democrats in congress so all of this weighing on investors with no clear path forward and looks like another down day for wall street thank you christine salumi the update from wall street there and not just in the u. S. The Stock Exchange in brazil has halted trading for a 2nd time you see there 11 and a half percent it is down now thats where its been paused it did plunge as much as 15 percent earlier in the day and the rollercoaster ride for asian markets also continues switch is being blamed on the u. S. Travel ban that comes as china announces what it says is the peak of the outbreak pulsing in china scott hardly has been another big selloff in the asian stock Market Investors reacting to events in new york and whats called the 1st bear market there in 11 years thats the term used on wall street for more than 20 percent fall in market value from recent highs. The major asian indices followed suit with steep declines on thursday Asian Traders also reacted to president Donald Trumps travel ban from European Countries but not the u. K. An automatic 5 minute trading halt was triggered in the south korean market at one point the main japanese and south korean markets were down more than 5 percent but rebounded slightly by the end of the trading session australias government announced that is falling other nations by injecting money into its economy to offset the impact of the coronavirus 6 and a half 1000000 australians will be getting a check for 750. 00 now its not for us to tell those trends how to spend their money but what we do know from experience is that they will spend that money and that money will encourage Economic Activity in south korea the number of new coronavirus cases being reported is decreasing after infection cluster at a call center in the capital seoul was discovered earlier in the week all Call Center Operations are being closely monitored but the government warned against premature optimism as the highest alert level remains south korea has the 4th highest number of cases behind china italy and iran as major sporting events and large audience of ants are canceled around the world the governor of japans capital says the Tokyo Olympics will go ahead the games are due to start in july made on the way out he must get at them while i know there are various opinions but the tokyo government has been preparing for this everyone is looking forward to the games although the High School Baseball tournament is being cancelled i dont think theres an option to cancel the olympics and paralympics. Chinas government announced that the peak of the corona Virus Outbreak there is officially over and who the province where the virus that triggered the Global Pandemic was initially discovered recorded new cases are in Single Digits for the 1st time. The majority of them travelers returning from abroad a positive sign that the containment is moving forward its got hodler aljazeera. India now where our correspondent Elizabeth Cohen says the government hopes their emergency measures will contain the spread amongst the countrys one and a quarter 1000000000 people. As of 12 g. M. T. On friday and on to april the 15th no foreign nationals can and to india apart from diplomats work for the United Nations or have certain employment visas the Indian Government has also said that all incoming travelers including incoming travelers indians havent been to any destination coming from any destination but having been rather to china. South korea france germany and spain will be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and all indians whether they hear or board to avoid. Essential travel and saying that they might be quarantined for a minimum period of 14 days upon their return to india now india has 68. 00 confirmed cases so far 14 of them italian tourists and as well as the latest precautions that are being taken by the government which have seen headlines around the country saying india quarantines itself you know essentially closing itself off to the world we have had all primary schools and shot at least for the last week there are 5 cases and delhi all educational institutions have been closed in indian administered kashmir where there is where there is one case the Indian Government is also evacuating its nationals from iran there are Something Like 2000 indians there were 58. 00 back at the end of last of just a few days ago actually but before it does that and whether its from iran its also planning to bring back nationals from italy it actually has to send medical teams to test them to see if they have a virus before bringing them back now all of this is going to its already seeing an impact on the economy which has seen a significant is experiencing a massive slowdown and both of indias 2 main stock indices are in freefall but the government feels that it has to take these proportions to stop people from people who might have coronavirus from entering a country because once they do it will be hard to limit its spread amongst 1300000000 people. And i find in a minute with this update on the situation in south africa which reported its 1st case of local transmission on thursday despite the government urging people in south africa to remain calm panic is certainly sitting in especially given the amount of disinformation out there and also that 1st person to person transmission when the corona virus was 1st detected in south africa it was within a group of people who were travelled to italy for a skiing holiday on their return some of them experienced some terms and thats where the 1st cases were detected now when this person to person transmission its in a different province in the free state and what is concerning for people is that it appears that the spread of control is something that cant be avoided and thats certainly a reality for many people in south africa but whats also making millions here anxious is the governments plans to repatriate about a 122 South Africans from all who have been to south africa and there is a lot of debate around just where this group will be quarantined no president has repeatedly said that none of those people have the coronavirus they will be screened in china theyll be screened on their arrival in south africa this is also being reiterated by the ministry of health but despite these real reassurances people in south africa are concerned about what this will mean for their health and this goes as far as even the agencies the African National congress the governing party and south africa its only youth league has promised to stage a march if indeed this group of people is quarantined in a specific area in the province of limpopo. And now look for you through images of deserted world famous landmarks empty streets initially the same which could soon be repeated right across europe as more countries follow each of these decision to close its public spaces to contend coronavirus. So all the latest news on coronavirus now thievin these headlines the e. U. Condemning the decision by the us to suspend all travel for most of europe for 30 days after the World Health Organization declared coronavirus a pandemic the e. U. Warning this move could cause economic disruption new measures to contain the outbreak of being rolled out across europe schools are being closed in arlon norway and the Czech Republic is in complete lockdown in spain the number of deaths nearly doubled in 24 hours to 84. 00 in iran the number of cases has gone up more than a 1000 in just the past 24 hours bringing the total number of infections to over 10000 with 429 dead. And Health Ministry is warning israels siege on the strip means palestinians wont be able to handle any large corona Virus Outbreak special cornton facilities have been set up to deal with the small number of cases but due to on going shortages of medical supplies the Health System there wont be able to treat palestinians properly 2000000 people live in gaza so i thought no cases reported a couple of other stories 2 americans a british soldier have been killed by a barrel of rockets fired at a military base in iraq other personnel are being treated for their injuries at camp taji north of baghdad no ones actually claimed responsibility yet for this latest in a series of attacks where Foreign Forces based. The high court has delayed a final verdict on an appeal by the Roman CatholicCardinal George pell is fighting to overturn his conviction for sexual abuse a 78 year old is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 quiet boys in the 909. With the news out in 25 minutes time here on aljazeera next its a string. The usa is always right the people all right world this is been going on for a number of tear gas being pushed. Out reports stories from an International Perspective we try to explain. Why its important how this could impact the light at the high. Water with if you can buy hey this is an important part of the world people Pay Attention to what you have now to do it is very good news to the world from here. Welcome to the stream. Millions of people in. Short of food and clean water and hes putting pressure on a government that is already battling to revive a economy what is needed to pull back from the brink you can send your full. Part of the conversation. That little sign of an. Animal than a half of the countrys population is short of enough food