Around the world countries are ramping up their response to the virus imposing increasingly drastic measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic italy has strengthened its lock down closing bars restaurants and shops other than pharmacies and shops selling food the rising numbers in europe are also led to a u. S. Ban on arrivals from mainland europe from friday several more countries have announced full School Closures such as norway which has seen more than 600. 00 cases and even arland which has 43. 00 infections so far and a move to stop large gatherings is led to major restrictions on sporting events the National Basketball association in the u. S. And spains top Football League have suspended all games for now. Well europe continues to be a major center of the virus with a number of different approaches in Different Countries the british Prime Minister or as johnson is right now hosting an emergency meeting with some the countrys chief scientist is expected to announce stricter containment measures in the coming minutes meanwhile greece austria and poland have confirmed their 1st deaths and entire Spanish Government is to undergo testing but despite the number of cases continuing to rise the e. U. Has hit back at u. S. President trumps decision to ban travelers from 26 European Countries or the crew of those is a Global Crisis not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action the European Union disapproves of the fact that the us decision to impose a travel ban was taken unilaterally and without consultation. Do you pin unions taking strong action to limit the spread of the virus. Or the European Central bank has warned of a considerable worsening in growth thanks to the pandemic as a Global Markets of battle through another day there was a dramatic start to the day in new york the Stock Exchange forced to halt trading automatically for 15 minutes after the s. And p. 500. 00 index fell 7 percent on opening in london the 4100. 00 has dipped by 10 percent during trading with every share losing value the index closes in the next half hour and asian markets plunged for a 2nd straight day hong kongs hang seng index dropped more than 4 percent at one point before closing down 13. 00 and a half percent. Lets get more on a situation in europe from our correspondent barkha in a moment is the kind of the impact on the markets and so on but initially whats the situation within europe well things are moving very very quickly indeed across the board most countries now accept that things have gone beyond the point of containment and now is the time to aggressively start thinking about how to delay the onset of the virus to order the summer months where Health Systems across the whole continent may be better poised to be able to deal with significant numbers of people looking for help its only there of course significantly further down the road is introduced very stringent measures most such shops are now closed the only things that are open are pharmacies and food stores are that we believe the banks are still open in the country the Prime Minister saying that within 2 weeks time there reassess the situation and schools across many many countries in europe are also closing in denmark norway with us island Public Institutions private institutions are closing their doors to mitigate the effects of the coronavirus so multiple countries introducing very very stringent measures to do what they can and in the meantime in an attempt at least is trying to shore up confidence in a way from that from the sort of Financial Institutions well its a huge worry because clearly not only is this a Health Crisis its a political one its an economic one as well and weve seen a huge impact here in the United Kingdom where 5100 is reporting that its down by 10 percent that is the lowest since the financial crash in 2008 and comes off the back all of measures by the chance of the exchequer the finance minister here in the u. K. To release 39000000000 dollars worth of Financial Support to help deal with the coronavirus also the bank of england here in the u. K. Has cut Interest Rates as well to try to insulate the country from the potential financial shocks of the virus thank you very much. Lets get more on the Market Reaction in the u. S. From kristen sumi in new york said it had to use that Circuit Breaker again when they. Thats right shortly after the opening bell. Plunged more than 7 percent and that triggered an automatic response to stop selling for 15 minutes sales have resumed and stocks continue to be down across all sectors of the market theyre down about 8 percent now on the s. And p. And the Dow Jones Industrial average i want to bring in a gas that we have with us to discuss whats happening max walls hes a Market Strategist with multivariable thank you for being here to try to help us figure out whats going on. What would it take to common busters right now the president spoke last night people were hoping that would calm things down or what it what are investors looking for i think investors like other families other people around the world watching you know thinking about this want a reassuring sense that theres a plan that its being put into action that it makes sense that its flexible and powerful and that their future here is in good hands because its a scary moment scary moment for the future of earnings for the future of your family for all your plans youve made or trips youve just canceled they they really want to feel like theres something they can rely on to fall back on because these are just times that spider fear and fear is never the friend of wall street president trying to suggested a payroll tax to put more money in the pockets of workers and their lawyers is that something that you think would satisfy investors or what are they specifically so its not the worst idea of his that he shared with us nor does it seem terribly targeted i think this is a very bad moment to wheel out Campaign Promises and pillars of your Election Strategy although its probably tempting to politicians around the world this is a moment to transcend because fear and viruses transcend political opinions and immediate motivations so i think folks really do need to believe that nothing but their security is your priority and nothing but a solution is on your mind and anything else youre talking about or pushing is going to weaken the message youre going to see. The failure is cascade which we have now seen for 2 weeks and if you want to be the leader you got to lead one its hard not just when its convenient when another thing weve been hearing a lot this week is its the worst week for the markets since 2008 that of course was the start of the financial crisis and recession how is the situation now similar or different some would say the economy is a bit stronger the banks are stronger this is an economic crisis that doesnt originate in the economy it originates in the Natural World but it really is a creature here of the d. Globalization thats going on that gave us just blas a attitude as we watched the largest country in the world soon to be possibly the largest economy in the world struggle and we decided not me dont care and we also blew off some early warnings from the distant foreign shores of seattle area that we were going to have an issue here that microbes dont respect our policies about borders and groups of people they do their own thing and if you want to fight microbes successfully you have to fight on their terms not yours and not your politics and we fell asleep at the wheel and we just woke up impaled underneath a bridge that doesnt make people all that happy and so you got to sort of tell it out and show you can do it better next time and hope that this virus gets under control soon i think the fear is probably more serious than the virus but i think both. Maxwell thank you so much for joining us i should point out that now markets are 20 percent lower than the high point in february thats considered bear market territory reversing a trend of growth that was going on for 11 years and looks like another bad day here christensen to me thank you very much indeed. The u. S. Vice president says americans returning from overseas will be asked to go into south korean team for 14 days a spot of efforts to contain the outbreak there are currently more than 1300. 00 cases in the u. S. But mike pence says he expects that number to rise he also defended President Trumps travel ban hurricane countries saying the epicenter of pandemic is now theyre not china and south korea. Well travel that only affects mainland European Countries and doesnt include island whose Prime Minister is currently meeting President Trump they are over it because annual meeting coincides with celebrations for us and patricks day but its been shortened due to the corona Virus Outbreak earlier atika announced a raft of measures including School Closures to limit the outbreak. Its going off now to mike hanna at the white house so mike was President Trump and a chance to kind of clear up any confusion that might have arisen from his words last night on the travel ban someone. Well he did virtually immediately after he finished his speech in the oval office he was tweeting that he had to clarify the fact that not all air traffic from europe is being outlawed d that call go flights will continue then other of his officials had to clarify other details in the course of the morning once again and number of points said President Trump appeared to misspeak a particular times in observers spending a lot of the day trying to understand exactly what it was that the president was saying at the moment his meeting with the irish Prime Minister is continuing thats one of the few events that is going on as should jeweled hes defended his travel ban insisting for example that the United Kingdom was excluded from the ban because it has has he puts it strong borders but critics contend that his band is somewhat haphazard focusing as it does on the 26 members of the agreement excluding island as Prime Minister is talking to now and excluding as i mentioned the United Kingdom some observers contending that the reason for this is that he has financial interests in both the United Kingdom and ireland but the president continues to insist that hes ministration is dealing well with the situation that testing is available to anybody who needs it however the website of the center for Disease Control the c. D. C. Reveals that over the past 4 days not a single test has been recorded by the c. D. C. And in addition tests by Public Health labs recorded by the c. D. C. Are dramatically dropping in the same period yesterday for example throughout the whole of the United States only 8 tests have been recorded this raises into question the effectiveness of the rollout of to skates by the trumpet ministration along with the general handling of the situation mike hanna thank you very much. Iran is asking for billions of dollars in loans from the International Monetary fund to help fight the virus the Health Ministry there says the number of infections has passed 10429. 00 people have died but there are concerns the figures could be much higher as the government struggles to manage the spread of the virus the outbreak has compounded irans economic woes with many neighboring countries ceding their borders saying mr avi has more from tehran. Several weeks into this Global Pandemic and countries in asia in the middle east are talking about the gains that are being made in trying to stop the spread of covert 19 but in iran there are daily reminders that this country is struggling to stop the spread to get a grip on the spread of the current virus throughout the country in a letter to the United Nations secretary general and tony a good sierras irans foreign minister zarif urged the United Nations to bring pressure to bear on the United States to try to get them to remove what iran sees as illegal unilateral sanctions that it says is now hurting its ability to combat the coronavirus to illustrate his point just tweeted about a list of approximately 30 bits of medical supplies types of equipment that Health Care Providers urgently need to track and identify and treat patients that have contracted coronavirus includes things like ventilators gloves masks specific medicines all things that hospitals find they are in short supply and also earlier this week iran requested from its central bank to the International Monetary fund an emergency relief package of 5000000000. 00 and that is specifically to combat to help combat the Coronavirus Spread in iran jobs or if tweeted about that as well saying that it was imperative on the i. M. F. To be on the right side of history and facilitate iran as it tries to combat the spread of this virus now many here in iran do expect that the i. M. F. Will be keen to help but that the United States will try to block those funds from coming through all of this is happening as the worst is yet to come in iran experts medical experts say that the peak of the virus in this country is likely to come in the next 2 weeks and suspending nice to be as part of its new imagine some measures to contain the spread of the virus and its best burnham in new delhi has more. As of 12 g. M. T. On friday and on to april the 15th no foreign nationals can enter india apart from their 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 its in the iran south korea france germany and spain will be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and all indians whether they here or abroad to avoid known 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 tourist 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 precautions to stop people from stop people who might have come on a virus from entering a country because once they do it will be hard to limit its spread among 1300000000 people. Still to come this hoffa spalt is also hit hard by the coronavirus with the n. B. A. And top spanish Football League suspended and the 1st race of the formula one season in doubt. On the former vatican treasure of fighting to overturn his conviction for Sexual Assault strain is highest court delays its decision on whether to allow an appeal. Clear skies coming in behind High Pressure so thatll keep things settled for time low supply out there just spilling out to that eastern side of china making its way further race was and eventually it will slide up towards q shoes and possible shes seeing some long spells of fright as well for the moment the 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 degrees celsius little cooler as well in tokyo around 12 degrees as the clouds and rain returns here at least for a time we will brightened up by the 2nd half of the weekend fight in parts of india china thailand pushing across into the philippines you was there across much of malaysia lives shallowest say the usual heat of the day shows nothing exceptional there just pushing into indonesia and then we take a little further west with in the by a single clear skies what is into southern parts of india maybe into the apostle sri lanka georgia 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 was as we go through the next couple of days it wont help. And after that seeds for the blind and a robotic arm for the disabled. A Young Australian engineer is inventing tools to help people gain independence. Heavy fighting or side of that war to recognise all the fire saying that came from one vision will be able to recognise that every day. Women make Science Group of gals episode full on aljazeera. Were going to one of the top stories. Countries across europe are taking increasingly drastic measures to try to contain the coronavirus arland and norway have joined the list of nations closing all schools and universities and greece austria and poland have confirmed their 1st deaths the e. U. Has condemned the us president s decision to ban all travelers from europe excluding the u. K. And ireland for the next 30 days as president mike pence says it was necessary as europe is now if the center of the pandemic. And Global Markets again plunged as fears grow over the coronavirus nandan could see 100 has dipped 10 percent and the New York Stock Exchange was forced to halt trading at 15 minutes after the s. And p. 500 index fell 7 percent opening. Scott hardly reports on the latest developments a Market Reaction in asia. 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 kaspi 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 insured for 750. 00 now so for us to tell this trend 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 events 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 by the problems with 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. Or one sector of the Global Economy thats particularly reeling from a pandemic is the Tourism Industry with so many people canceling that travel plans and allies cafes and Street Vendors already suffering and to ship out as well. Paris no longer has its notoriously long queues at famous landmarks such as the loop businesses that depend on tours spending so the impact of the pandemic is unprecedented he said thomas if its massive for us were in an area where americans like to come and also customers who are quite sensitive to the impact of this kind of event. Were starting to feel the catastrophe its worse than the strikes worse than the yellow vest protests it was my stance of the just over the top of the Current Situation in venice going to lay is quite disastrous because there is no work. Across italy travel is restricted public gatherings banned normally one of europes Top Destinations roam streets and coliseum eerily quiet. All stores have been ordered closed except pharmacies and groceries. In the end this Health Problem will be resolved while they can omit problems perhaps will take longer i dont know how were going to get out of this. The lack of tourists in the valley of the kings in egypt is an ominous sign of how damaging the pandemic will be for the economy and the population of 100000045. 00 cases were confirmed on a nile river cruise and looks or connected to a single american tourist aboard ship a bunch of been shot at the streets of looks or empty because of the corona virus there are medical health and security checks because of fears the virus will spread from other countries to the egyptian people. Across asia the effects are apparent from 2 cats quite beaches to jai poor in India Foreign tourists are staying away from the pink city after a group of italian tourists tested positive. For glass im a small east dawn canebrake all in one and in japan where half of tourists come from south korea and china some of this we can only wait until it calms down we are all in the same boat from tour guides to Street Vendors everyone who depends on visitor spending are feeling a pinch from the pandemic. Millions in one of the worlds Biggest Industries suffering a devastating blow to their livelihoods the u. S. Travel agency expects the pandemic to deal a trillion dollar blow to the Global Economy and. Tom hanks and his wife rita wilson have been quarantined in an australian hospital after contracting the coronavirus said his wife had felt tired with colds aches and slight fevers before testing positive film stars in queensland for now was present a biopic which is now suspended production. Sports events around the world are being postponed cancelled or even played in empty stadiums because of the pandemic. Richardson joins us from doha round is a fast moving story what have been some of the big events and competitions to feel the impact in the last few. Yeah theres a lot more happening and its not happening pretty quickly were getting unconfirmed reports that the formula one grand prix in australia in melbourne has now been postponed its still the middle of the night in australia in melbourne so well probably get official confirmation from f one organizers in the next few hours but that follows on from the news that the mclaren team of pulled out of the race after one of their team members did test pos positive for corona virus in the last hour the mens tennis tour that has been suspended for the next 6 weeks the womens tennis tour yet to fully confirm anything but youd expect them to follow suit the n. B. A. The entirely has been suspended when i left in the way hours of thursday night one team decided to play games behind closed doors that situation changed very quickly the utah jazz player. Testing positive and those somewhat hold seeing images now of his press conference on monday when he was asked about coronavirus attempted to make a joke about it put his hands all over the reporters phones and dictaphones and microphones in what was an attempt at a joke 48 hours later hes tested positive for corona virus and theres a lot of work now working out exactly which players hes been in contact with a 2nd player of the utah jazz has also now tested positive for the coronavirus the n. H. L. The National Hockey league in north america theyve said they will update their sort of movements in the next hour or 2 but were expecting something similar. To come from them as well and then you have football just in the last last couple of hours word from les the city in the English Premier League that 3 of their players are in self isolation before thats we heard that the whole Real Madrid Team were in south korean saying that after a basketball player around would rid had tested positive they shared Training Facilities with ray also the whole Spanish League now has been suspended evil is very peculiar situation where the English Premier League involving less the city is the. Only major league now in europe which is carrying on regardless just how long the situation can be maintained it is is it doesnt really seem sustainable. Could games be played behind closed doors in england we saw last night in the Champions League one perry sign jamin were playing back games meant to be played behind closed doors and you still had thousands of fans turning up at the stadium to be outside and meet the team outside before and after the game sorry again not a feasible situation u. I. For meeting on tuesday we could even see the european championships this summer being delayed as well and i thank you very much indeed. The u. S. Defense secretary marcus purses the president has given him the authority to retaliate after a rocket attack in iraq left 3 people dead 2 americans and a british soldier were killed after a barrier of rockets were fired at a military base north of baghdad on wednesday the head of the u. S. Central command has suggested it tack was carried out by an iranian backed Militia Group a similar attack in december led to a tit for tat escalation culminating in the assassination of a very iranian general because some silly money train is high court has delayed its final verdict whether to overturn a senior Roman Catholic cardinals conviction for sex abuse 78 year old former archbishop of melbourne george pell is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. Is the highest ranking catholic official ever convicted of child sex crimes because again just outside the court in canberra she says a decision might not be known for months. All of the arguments today have really been based around of course seeing some of the issues that the defense raised yesterday at the defense really questions the credibility and reliability of one of the form a choir boy is who was sexually assaulted by you know the other one died in 24 tane of a Drug Overdose but the prosecution today told the court that theres no reason to not believe this witness he did come across this well liable incredible the jury saw all of that and theres no reason why the high court should not believe him either now obviously these 2 days of hearing has come to an end now its been very a very significant case in this trial but this appeal process is very far from thats because the justices decided to reserve in on making a decision on this case and that means that we may not hear back from them for months so essentially many things could happen here but getting to the crux of it 7 justices now need to decide over the coming months whether they will uphold the conviction or allow george pell to walk away a free man and a quick reminder you can always catch up with always tori recovering on our web site to address that is out is there a dot com and you can watch us live by clicking on the orange dr mike own car. On one of the top stories on our jazeera countries across europe are taking increasingly drastic measures to try to contain the coronavirus arland and norway have joined the list of nations closing all schools and universities greece austria and poland have confirmed their 1st deaths the u. K. Prime minister has been hosting an emergency meeting with some of the countrys chief scientists and is expected to announce strict new measures this hour. Global markets again plunged as fears grow over the coronavirus the New York Stock Exchange was forced to halt trading automatically for 15 minutes after the s. And p. 500. 00 index fell 7 percent all opening in london the 5100 dipped by 10 percent during trading and asian markets plunged for a 2nd straight day the e. U. Has condemned the u. S. President s decision to ban all travelers from europe excluding the u. K. And ireland for the next 30 days was president mike pence says it was necessary as europe is now the epicenter of the pandemic the travel ban that only affects mainland European Countries as we mentioned doesnt include island whose Prime Minister is currently meeting u. S. President trump live right because annual meeting coincides with celebrations for st patricks day but its been shortened due to the corona Virus Outbreak earlier he announced a raft of measures for ireland including School Closures or trump says the u. S. Is tackling the virus on a state by state basis. Were very much working with the states because you know the states are a smaller form of government they could control individual arenas an individual things better and its different for different areas some areas have no problem one in our country and others so were working with the governors of the various states and its i think its worth i think the relationship has been very well with gala fornia and some others that it particularly. Iran is asking for billions of dollars in loans from the International Monetary fund to help fight the virus the Health Ministry that says the number of infections has supposed 10429. 00 people have died but there are concerns the figures could be much higher as the government struggles to manage the spread of the virus. To stay with us or news. Real slow bob. When i was your age i read about barry bonds and i thought they were the coolest thing ever ok then you can have these things that we very. 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