Live coverage from the hospital where the victim passed away, coming up. A curfew snapped down in new delhi. The second day of unrest over a controversial citizenship law marking the worst violence in decades. It also comes as donald trump wraps up his visit to india. Bernie sanders takes the brunt of the bruising as u. S. Democrats hold their final debate before the South Carolina primary. Next weeks supercritical tuesday boats. Also coming up, the man who married Luke Skywalker and mickey mouse. The boss of disney hands over the keys to the Magic Kingdom after 15 years in charge. A former french Prime Minister in court today. Wife onef paying his Million Euros in government money for a fake job. The details on the way. First, our top story live from paris. Genie a 60yearold man has become the first french victim of the coronavirus in this country. The man died overnight after being rushed to a paris hospital in serious condition on tuesday. Two people have now died from coronavirus in france. The first victim was an 80yearold chinese tourist. France has confirmed four more 4 hours,s in the past including two returning from italy. For more on the situation, lets bring in chris moore. You are at the hospital in paris where this first coronavirus victim has died, what more can you tell us . The first French National to die of coronavirus, a 60yearold man. Understand a teacher from just outside paris was rushed to the hospital in the city center for emergency tests, passing away overnight. A number of other new cases announced in france today. One man is not thought to be in serious condition but had just returned from northern italy. He is in hospital in strasberg in the eastern part of the country. Be in seriousto condition. Authorities in france are working to establish who these people have come into contact with before falling ill. A widening of the preventative measures they have put in place. Genie talk more about the preventative measures and how wellprepared france is for the coronavirus. Was already a plan including the at risk italyto include northern and people returning from there. Takehave been advised to their temperature two times a they develop a fever or breathing difficulties. Family members, for example, french authorities also say there are number of Testing Services available in the country and expanding the number of hospitals and places capable of dealing with coronavirus cases. In terms of general preparedness the director, france worldwide dealing with all this. Example suggest that tonights football match between , from northernes italy should be canceled. Some are about saying that is going too far in this is not about spreading panic to the public. Warning has been called tomorrow morning. Genie thanks for that. That is our chris moore reporting on the first french death in france from the coronavirus. Still european nation that has been worst hit. 12 people have now died from the coronavirus. Situation, with bringing our reporter, talk to us about the situation at the moment. Are things Getting Better or worse . Services in rome are confirming 12 are killed, 12 people have been infected. Ae latest death is 69yearold who was compromised in terms of the Health Situation , died in the region of romagna. , the infection number is twot four children have been sent home while the other two are under observation. There is over 9000 tests that have been done. 95 of them have come back negative. Most do get cured. Ofis unfortunately the case elderly or have situations in terms of their health that are most affected. Ofare hearing of reports efforts to disinfect public transport in rome, venice, in order to be sure these spaces are clean. Being set tents are up outside hospitals to make sure people who come to the hospital are looked at to see if show signs of the infection. Theyre concerned about spread in the hospitals. The rest ofabout italy . Today is Ash Wednesday, whether any changes made to services at the vatican . Thea what we know is vatican and a lot of parishes event is not a good idea, though Ash Wednesday is a day a lot of people come for mass. There are streaming Services Online and so forth. You can still participate in the eucharistic celebration but not put themselves at risk. The vatican has announced they certain areas that they believe are humid that they believe could cause the spread of the virus. Every wednesday he has his saying heeventually prays for those who are sick and trying to fight the spread of this virus. Economically. Ct the city of milan has been postpone the internationally renowned furniture fair. It is being pushed to june because of concern that people will not turn up. The Tourism Sector italy does rely on has been heavily hit. We are hearing stories of up to airlinestels and deciding not to fly to the northern part of italy. The ideas that they need to contain the spread of the virus. Genie thank you for that. India, at least 20 people have been killed in three days of clashes in new delhi. The violence broke out between hindus and muslims angry over a new citizenship law that discriminates against muslims. They marked the worst spec terry spectator violence. We hear more now from the site of the riots. Reporter where i am standing is the spot where the majority of the violence took place yesterday. There is a huge military president s today along the north. The locals we spoke to said that in the last two days, while violent clashes were taking place, there was very Little Police presence. Ony are still coming in buses. We have seen them move into different lanes. The police that were deployed over the last two days, they did very little to control the situation. Journalists that have been here say it is still quite volatile. Saying the other instigated violence. It broke out on sunday evening. They were calling for a peaceful sit in protest that was being held by women to my left. Themselves as we have been seeing on the news repeatedly were betwe these two groups groups that oppose the bill and groups that support the bill. This is along religious lines. The supporters of the bill largely came from hindu dominated neighborhoods. Opposersf the bi came from neighborhoods behind me which are largely muslim populations. To the United States were democrats head to the stage last night for their final debate before the South Carolina president ial primary and the crucial super tuesday vote next week. Front runner Bernie Sanders took the brunt of the bruising. Theother hopefuls attacking leftleaning senator for being too extreme to win the race and too soft on key issues. The crucial South Carolina primary and super tuesday are getting closer and candidates fought to stay in the race, hitting out at Bernie Sanders. More moderate candidate said sanders was too radical. If you think the last four ,ears has been chaotic divisive, toxic, exhausting, imagine spending the better part of 2020 with Bernie Sanders versus donald trump. Rivals pointedrs to what he called his farleft policies and comments. They said he had no chance at beating donald trump. The last 50 polls that have been done nationally, i beat trump 47 of those 50 times. If you want to beat trump you will need an unprecedented Grassroots Movement of black, white, latino, native american and asian people standing up and fighting. 60 of democrats voting in South Carolina are believed to be africanamerican. Joe biden is counting on them to get back in the race. I will win South Carolina. Reporter South Carolina on saturday and super tuesday set for three days later are among the last chances for democrats to catch up. Did last weeke he in nevada and new hampshire, his lead might get too large to overcome. The humanitarian crisis in syria imparts continuedo escate. The obsertory foruman rigs said 19 civilians were killed, many of them children in schools who were targeted by the strikes. Said this was a major blow to syrias uprising. Reporter the frantic search for survivors as the battle for italy continues. Rebell towns in the las territory came under sie on tuesday. More than a dozen were killed in air strikes and artillery fire city. Gland idlib suddenly suddenly we heard something above and didnt know what was going on. In recent weeks the russian backed Syrian Government ha pssed a major oensive in a d to tak back the territory. World powers have appealed for them to start stop targeting schools and hospitals. Orchls shod be se chdren to arn and ay, even in a conict know taeting schools is a war crime. Forcesr pro regime reached to control towns and villages in the idlib in claim enclave. The United Nations has warned thecrisis has risk becoming worst humanitarian emergency since the start of the syrian conflict. All sides are urging to allow safe passage for civilians. Displaced nearly one Million People since december. Genie in greece, clashes broke out monday into tuesday when residents try to prevent the arrival of writing police and estimating machines. Toice fired tear gas disperse the crowds that gathered early in the day to keep police from disembarking government chartered fairies. Residents also parked cars and garbage trucks on rural roads that are meant to house up to 7000. Offrance, the fraud trial the former Prime Minister gets underway today in paris. He was the front runner in the 2017 president ial election for his campaign was brought down over allegations he used government money to pay his wife some one Million Euros in fake jobs. But wasl began monday quickly suspended by lawyers who are currently on strike over the current government controversial pension reform. She joins us live from there. This is round two. It is supposed to start in 15 minutes time, what more could you tell us . Catherine the highly awaited trial is about to get underway. Crowds of people have been waiting here to see the former wife. Minister and his he is facing charges of embezzling and misusing public money. Around a fake job scandal from him and his wife. The fictitious the employee his for many years. Untilarried on right 2013. It is said by the prosecution than one advanced more million public euros of money for work she never did. They now have to prove she did carry out actual work that was worth that kind of money. A tv interview that she was his most important eight and they will prove that by bringing in more than 500 documents to shed light. To put this in context, when this scandal broke, it really helped reshape the Political Landscape and open the door to Emmanuel Macron. This scandal back in 2017 cracked open the decades old two party system here in france, paving the way for Emmanuel Macron to become the french president. He was the clear front runner in all the opinion pollsit all came crashing down around him when newspaper revolutions revelations showed the charges against him. To be knocked out in the first round of the president ial election. The republicans, the centerright party still slandering politically to this day. Genie thank you very much. That trial is due to open momentarily at the of the former french Prime Minister. It is time for our business update. Stock markets continuing to slide today over fears of the coronavirus. Ls the fourth day of fal investors dumped stocks in favor of safer assets. Not many sectors untouched by this selloff. The travel industry among those getting hammered. Airline another 2 today. It is had a terrible day. That is the picture of the european markets this lunchtime. Lets understand what is happening in the markets. We could go to london and see the chief market analyst, thanks for being with us. The spread of this virus seems to have been what sparked this weeks selloff. Should we expect more of these as the virus continues to spread . Absolutely, that was the catalyst earlier this week. Casualties from one on friday two over 200 on monday. The fact that the virus has spread to spain, the likelihood is that we are only at the beginning of this process. If you look at the way the process unfolded in china, we were First Talking about this in early january. The cases have only started to peak in china in the past couple of weeks. This is what investors are reacting to. Getting hit the hardest, the airline stocks, we are also seeing profits from following on the profit warnings at the end of last week. Consumersility that will be over the next weeks and months. Stephen what is it about the virus that is causing such panic . The people will be spending money or the potential for a quarantine like we have seen in italy or china . Certainly quarantines dont help because they restrict people from going out and spending money. I think Going Forward there is an expectation that if you place travel restrictions, people will not travel. That is what is really playing out. The last 1218 months, the Global Consumer has been the one remaining pillar driving Global Economic growth. You take that pillar away and you have not got much left. Central banks can do certain things to mitigate some of the effects. What Central Banks cannot do is and the spread of the virus make consumers start to spend again. That is not to say this is over. There has been comparisons to sars for example. Does that give us any indication for how long markets and investors will be nervous about this issue . What do they need to spark a bounce back . What we really need to see is some form of evidence that we are getting a peek in cases being reported. That looks unlikely in the short to mediumterm. Ultimately, chinese authorities template descriptions whenever they like. In europe you have Free Movement of people. It is much more difficult to monitor. This crisis is likely to get worse in the short term before it gets better. Stephen thank you very much for joining us. We will take a look next at a in another part of the world, that is disney, the boss stepping down from his job. Chief execive bob iger was head of the company for 15 years. He was expected to go athe end of next year. Has a new role set up, that of executive chairman. Set up, that of executive chairman. Focusing on the creative side. Erica after delaying retirement four times, walt Disneys Bob Iger relents the keys to the Magic Kingdom. Inr was excited to retire 2021 said his decision to step down early would allow him to focus on the creative side of the business. In thinking about what i want to accomplish before i leave the company, getting everything right creatively would be my number one goal. I could not do that if i were running the company on a daytoday basis. Erica the chief executive for oversaw theer takeover of pixar, lucasfilms, and most recently the entertainment asset of 20th century fox. Under his leadership walt disney expanded in china. Opening a theme park in shanghai in partnership with the chinese government. His latest venture was to conquer netflix with disney plus. A project for which he extended his tenure as chief executive. Demand exceeded expectations causing launch day expectations. The platform has a comfortable 28 million subscribers. Was immediately replaced by the leader of disneys park services. We will wrap up in the u. S. Where the Music Industry is partying like it is 2006 . Stephen recorded music sales in the u. S. Jumped to their highest level in 13 years, more than 11 billion of revenue sales. The markets were boosted by a jump in streaming subscriptions. Revenues there rising by 20 . For 80 reaming accounts of music sales in the u. S. I definitely still have quite a lot of them gathering dust. Ones i only keep the old but god knows when i will listen to them. Us on friends 24, coming up in the next half hour, it is leap year. Thatare feuary 29 coming up this saturday. More on a leap year magazine coming up once every four years in france. Claudette zepedawilkins american is a relative term. What is american . Personally i think the border is, you know, just a speed bump in between two countries. As a child, i think we took tj for granted not because it was a different country to me. To me, it was just like, oh, its just tj. Its where the other half of my family lives. And even if w
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