In a newncanguage like spanish, fh, german, els 10 to 1s are available as an more information on, babbel. Com. The freeman foundation. By judy and peter kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from viewer you. Thank you. Announcer and now, bbc world news. Off the coast for a of days. It is coming into port in san francisco. All of the people on board will be quarantined. We will look at the president ial response to the crisis more broadly d update you on what the w h who has been saying. They said that the outbreak has been close to a pandemic. This coronavirus outbreak is now testing, economialth systems and governments arounde pdates from italy, the u. S. , ireland,hina, the u. K. And elsewhere. The number of cases worldwide in more than 110,000. The death toll is close to 4000. 60 people have recovered. Hewe will haveatest on the virus spread ia moment. This is not just to health crisis, it is an economic crisis as well. Av sharesfallen the most since 2008 this is the s p 500. Down a percent within monts. The dow jones index is down 6 initially. Ckprices fell so q that trading had to be paused. When it was resumed, there was no let up. The last few weeks have been really dramatic but what happened today was something i ver seen on the floor o the new york stock exchange. Shortly after openg saga, the dow dropped by 2000 points. N automatic sto to trading. If there isor a drop of 7 more the, se trading will stop for 15 minutes. It gives traders, investors everyone and opportunity to stop, take a breath, take stk of where they are. We saw another go live. This ithe 100 biggest was also. Worstince may of 2008. Germany and france were also down by 7 . Look at bloombergs index othe milan exchange, straight down. Another 11 . Price of oil. Is the it is being driven by the standoff with saudi russia, the second and third biggest oil producers. Opec suggested reducing supply because demand is falling. They asked pressure to do the o since saudi arabia started a global crude price war and howeve you want to describe it, this is what happened to the price of oil. Down by0 thats have a look at f these huge shifts in oil and ftock markets will impact all o veliher many people save dirr indirectly in the stock market. People do by stated vestment fu and ao pensions. If you have anccupation nsion, it will almost some of it will be invested in company debt but Company Shares are a very important part. If you were to have a sustained frame of poor performance, the pension fund may have a problem. It may nd to deal with it by either rucing the pension benefits or by asking for more plwao tctions from the membersso hiwhngst thinking there has been a dramatic day. Andnkme people may be watching dramatic day. What goes down must come up. What will drive it more than how quickly tis p shi effectiveoof governments and businesses are ate containing onomic consequences. Lets focus on lets focus on what happens in the ure is te ig flateare 607 cases in americi there have been 22 deaths but the president is still tweeting that the Fake News Media is doingverything to inflame the coronavirus far beyond what the factwould warrant. The president also said this when visiting the center for Disease Control for the wkend. Mclugt m. I. T. For a Record Number of years. He was a great superenius. I like the stuff, i really get it. Everyone of these doctors said how do you know so much about this . L abity. Maybe i should have done that instead of running for president. But what they have done is very incredible. I the president s saying scientists have been impressed admitting that he did not know that people died from the seasonal flu. He also said th about the availability of testing kits. Everybo tt needs a st kit, th are there the tests are beautiful. Anybody that needs a test getse enough tests. T more than 5000 tests have been conducted but we know that som tests need to be used or than once on an individual. Saying 5000 does not mean 5000 individuals have been tested. A recent tally by the atlantic magazine estimated 1900 people have beetested. For comparison, south korea is testing 10,000 velepeay. ,ry t en a attention on this cruise ship. We 2 know there a td boou thousandits onts way to. We know passengers will be able to disembark but then they will be taken into qutine. These pictures coming and show the docking taking place in all the necessary facilities. All of this is happening despite President Trump saying this yesterday. Er sp out there ritow,g that is a decision. But we are going to bring all those ople on. That but i dont like that idea. This xactly what is going to be happening. Chris is there. Cked at the part can you give us more on the process of getting these people off the boat . The ship docked a short time ago. Just behind me, there are tents set the whole idea is to get those that are sick with the co afte that, it will be a pretty long process. Abit will pr take a couple of days. The californian residents are going to stay here, they will go to a military base. Other americans will be t tak military bases in texas and georgia and then there is the issue of ternational passengers. They will be taken off the ship and back to their home countries. The u. K. Says in terms of passengers, they expec them to come up the ship and they will be off the ship at some stage tomor then they will be brought back to the u. K. Tomorrow. Uwi oths. Er areas of th story i wanted to talk about. The president also had time for a golfing saturday. Of theshare this video president at Trump International golf club. Theres a tweet for everything with donald trump. This is from 2014. He says president obama has aon meetinhe Ebola Outbreak the country but decided to playr golf. All of which means there are some queions about mr. Trumps leadership during the crisis. The New York Times has the trump he cant tweet away. Donald trump had jay rosen essaying this conference was an idea of the american to market american democracy. We had thetlantic saying the u. S. Is not ready for what is about to happen. The president ial response to all of this is smarizein this tweet from earlier. So much fa news. The questis do remain. It sounds like there is an intense political debate going on about how the president is handling this. Bsolely. What we are m seeing oured meomesssin cgmof fficialros whoy clearly that people must be very aware of the coronavirus. Atim the same although we have had these visits by President Trump going to facilities and talking about high concernednd hard action taken, at times he almost ems dismissive of covid19. He said nng is shut down, life in the economy goes on. At thist, momhere are 500the cot spreading. The administration is being accused by democrats of being slow to address this. Th feel that it has been slow in getting them the resources they badly need, particularly sting kits. Thank you, chris. We reprkted from new lets bring you uptodate with a number of other countries. The republic of ireland, the verngoorsy all atric state events. They were fears that if this went ahead, this could attract halfmillion people and helpsp ad the virus. From ireland we shipped to spain. The government is shift to spain. They are closing all schools. That will affect a million students. Iran has one of the biggest outbres in the world. Ere death toll there has passed 200. Are concerns that the real figure is much higher. I rans Supreme Leader is cancelingbe thihe was expected toeler forry nfth de spread of mimation has had a tragic cost in 3 ira people have died from alcohol poisoning. Drinking alcohol rumors spread ward off the virus. With all of thoseetails a with the virus continuing to spread, youd expect the message from the World Health Organization to be a little pessimistic but it has struck an optimistic tone. Has a fohold in so manyntri, the threat of a pandemic has become very real. But it would be the first pandemic in history that could be controlled. The bottom line is we are not at the mercy of the virus. The message is this could still be contain. The reason they are saying that is largely rooted in wh is happenin in china, especially in the Hubei Province where the outbreak began. Look at the numbers of cases in china. It is just about flatlining. At c new is icreatias hopese te sametr could b elsewhere in the world. Urts hear from correspondent, stephen mcdonald. Outside of one city, that is wuha if you take out people who have conto the country from four days in a row, there have been zero extra infections. It does seem to show that these strict measures being put in place by the chinese authorities are working. In terms of slowing the spread of this disease. Itherelight at the end of the tunnel. He also go from china to south korea. That was the next place to have a really bad coronavirus emergency. It also seems to be stabilizing there. Hopefully we can see a pattern that this isng goi to get it gets better. In a few minutes, we will focus on europe. Italy is the worst affected. We will bring you an update ine area that has been quarantined. Inresint has beesworn in for a second rm but his rival held his own ceremony after rejecting the ection results. Osexreio wple nnso wreports of injuries. Men held separatee ceremonies at w the a short distance away from each other. Their supporters were the a it is interesting to know that the four diplomats appear to have attended the official ceremony. S. Lsic oe h tbeavgryenin stop his messy affair from escalating. U. S. Signed an agreement, the next stage was due to begin throughout thiocwhole peace s. At the moment, it seems like the Afghan Government side is looking like it is in disarray. We are here in the bbc news room. Fearsbo the coronavirus have put shares down around the road. The main index of the u. S. Stock closed with its biggest onedays drop since the financialof 2008. Here are the main stories from bbc world service. The trial is underway. Uthree russians aainian have beecharged with shooting down a flit. Its taking place in the netherlands butone of the defendants are taking part. 298 were killed when the jet was shot down. A warehouse used by the election col has destroyed most of the voting machinethere. State prosecutors are now heoking for tause of the fire. Lots of yohave been watching this video, the dude duke and duchess of sussex making their last appearance with the common room with the royal family. To italy now, it is the worst hit country outside of china with this coronavirus crisis. 463 people have died. Nearly 8000 people are affected. I am sure you h. E seen the ne Italian Government has arantined 15 provinces. That affects 16 million people, quarter of the populatio these measures are the mostri reive in italy since the second world war. All schools are shut and only those with urgent work or family reasons can move in or out of the quarantined zone. That includes milan. Italys fincial hub. Here is one journalists account of being there. Pplus trust into wake up to happening not only because of the measures that have been taken but because thet governmen is trying to make sure that people dont pan with this but it is responsible important to be resmonsible in thint. Hopefully people wil start to home. E more responsiblstay not everything has ground to a halt. Flights are still operating, trains are still running and access to these areas is not being strictly monitored. As we dro north from rome, we expected tighter controls bur there e none. E we are coming into thstart of the new exclusion zone. You can see there is no total lockdown. Pothere are nce roadblocks. It is too big of an area to control in that way but the people have been asked not to leavor enter. We will turn around now because otherwise the is a risk of entering the new quarantined zone. Ourists are doing the same business. N. Wss of james normad by bbc tourism is a massive part of the alian econom over 60 million tourists visit hes year. The economic fallout will be the government is planning on pumping billions into the economy and is forming massive shock therapy. We dont know chque has worked. My mother has a business th one employee near milan. She feels w sheld have to closer business for a month and she was worried about her employeebut actually, she is trng to make sur that the businessan keep running. Concern because of larger only japan h an older population. Germany has the third oldest. As far as we know, all the people older people are by far at most risk. We have a double concern here. Older people being exposed to the virus and the virus impacting health serviceso ces more broadly. There have now been right in the 27 different italian prisons. The tuble began in the Northern City of madonna. Six people have died now. There was a fire in one cellblock. Erfterreg ieinthd oadmef a the infiary. Much further south, over 50 prisoners escaped although 32 have not been recaptur. Next, we will have a look at the situation here. This picture showing inmates have climbed ontroof. Their banners call for pardons tousrotect them from the vir two quite different demands there. Outside the prison, the relatives joined the prisonr prisoners. Our relatives have nothin they have no masks, no treatment, nothing. What is th situation in the prisons now . In control . E s riots are still ongoing in the south of italy. Mostly, things have been contained. Six people have died as a consequence, those inmates in the south of italy, 20 of them are still missing. Is the primary concern of prisoners that they cant be kept safe while this virus is spanning spreading question mark some of the virus is spreading . There are new quotas that have been introduced by the government. Meaning that all family visits have been banned. Inmates are veryngry and started protesting as a consequence. In the quarantined areas, how are we what are we learning about people . Are they following the rules . Fromhat i have heard, people are following the rules. People in milan are anxious and have not left home i week. T a i think people are taking this very seriously in northern italy. In the rest of the country, things are different. Lots of young people, under 30 went out, theyt wen on sunday. This goes directly a gras for the government is recommending. Ngi spoke to y people who said they want to go o with their lives as normal. They feel that the virus does not t affect them becauy are young. Nmenand the rt. To be clear,. E bars are op the beaches are open. Them down completely. Utting not in the best of italy. In the northern parts of the country, bars and restaurants have to close at 6 00 p. M. That will be really bad for business as italians have dinner at 8 00 or 9 00. Churches can stay open but masses will be cancele that is a big deal in italy. That. S a very catholic count all gyms, schools, univeities, theaters, cinemas are to remain shut. If you go for a stroll i milan or venice today, you will we have an update on story we have been covering at the beginninof the program. This is the biggest drop for the s p 500 since 2008. Confirmation that today, on the stock markets, they are plunging no a way that we havseen since the Global Financial crisis. 5200 50 down. 7 . All that follows sharp drops in the asian markets. We will see you soon. Goodbye. Presentation of thisrogram is provided by. 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