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Enjoyments seemingly endless war. By the countrys Health System is on the verge of collapse. Why. Good to have you with us. This is mondays briefing stop giving you across all you need to know in globalnews, was not in sport. Also, the uk government sets up a counter disinformation unit to protect and secure uk from interference and secure uk from interference and disinformation length to the coronavirus. We like to know, have you seen a lot of misinformation about it . Has it impacted you at all . To get in touch, use the bbc the briefing. Will begin in italy today which 110w will begin in italy today which now has the highest number of confirmed infections of covid19 confirmed infections of covid 19 outside of china where the outbreak again. Theres been a sharp rise in the number of deaths in italy up by 133 in a day. To a total of 366. Most of the victims are in the wealthy lombardi area. The news comes as a sweeping quarantine measures are enforced to try and bring the outbreak under control. The number of infections worldwide is now more than 107,000 with about 3600 deaths. The situation in italy is extreme. Authorities have done all the could to contain the spread. The governments response has been found, looking at a quarter of the population. Areas like maligns a federal would normally be full of people, both locals and tourists enjoying the early spring weather. But they are empty, schools, universities, cinemas, libraries, all closed until april. Prison visits have also been restricted, prompting anger amongst italys prison population and riots in several prisons. Local media reported that three prisoners died and Prison Guards were taken hostage. France has the second highest of cases in europe and is tightening its controls in response. A few weeks ago, its that indoor gatherings of more than 5000 people would be banned. Now, that number is drastically reduced to just that number is drastically reduced tojust 1,2. That number is drastically reduced to just 1,2. France that number is drastically reduced tojust1,2. France has seen it more than 1,200 cases. Tony has seen another rise in the number of confirmed infections to more than 900. Albania and bulgaria have reported the first cases. The British Government has launched a virus Disinformation Task force to tackle what it calls the spreading of false information and to stop people being deceived and misled. Supermarkets are limiting what people can buy in an attempt to tackle panic buying which has seen shelves tripped there. In amongst the negativity, a glimmer of hope. South korean Officials Say the outbreak shows signs of slowing in their worst hit city. Another day in a row, the number of new cases getting smaller. And in china, whether via started, lowest number of new infections a single date since january. And a phased reopening of the disneyland shanghai, limited activities, limited hours at a limited number of guests at an opening nonetheless. Around the world, modern 100,000 people are infected covid 19 and more than 3. 5 Million People have play and a half dozen people have lost their lives. The number infections are expected to rise and governments will have to take my extreme measures. Will shortly be going live to milan to speak to a director of a school they are at the measures they have had to undertake in response to the lockdown, School Closures, of course that is coming up in just a few minutes. Lets go to california where a cruise liner which has been quarantine off the coast since an outbreak of coronavirus on board last wednesday is now heading for the commercial port of oakland near San Francisco. The passengers are expected to begin disembarking later today, monday but the process is expected to take several days. The governor of california called it an enormously complex operation and we now know the grand princess cruise liner will dock at oakland sometime on monday. It is just off the points there on the San Francisco side. Is a commercial non patent report. There was no exact time but it was dependent on crosscurrents and tides and was confident it would happen at some point on monday. Then, it is in bachman process would begin. The first people to be taken off the ship would be those in acute need of hospitalisation. The next priority will be californias. There about a thousand people from california on board the ship. They will be the next off and will be taken to a facility, a military facility within the state for isolation and monitoring. The next off will be other us citizens who arent from california. Will be taken to arent from california. Will be ta ken to oakland arent from california. Will be taken to Oakland Airport and taken to Oakland Airport and taken on two facilities either in texas or georgia. Last people to be taken off that boat, we believe, could be the international passengers. Among them 142 britons. We are told they will be taken to Oakland Airport when they will be repatriated to their own, two countries. We have from the Foreign Office in london and they say theyre working very closely with the authorities here to arrange a flight to ta ke here to arrange a flight to take those 142 britons back to the uk. We dont yet know where they will go after that or how long the process will take. This whole operation of this in bachman could take several days. So brits could be on there for another few days and are not yet, they dont get snow when they will be able to get off that boat. The passengers though, more than 2500 of those, the end could be on site. They will be off that ship at some point in the near future. A different story to the more than 1,100 crew. They will be treated and quarantine on the ship on the ship wont be allowed to remain in oakland. Sophie long who of course is waiting for the arrival of the cruise ship. Logistics that are taking place worldwide for are extremely difficult. As mentioned already, north italy, schools have been closed for several weeks, in fact across the country they have been closed for a few weeks. Im joined by the founder and chief executive of century technology. Whats really interesting is priya, what you provide as a company in terms of technology for education is something vitally important right now. Exactly in terms of education, it was a lwa ys terms of education, it was always slow to change is slow to move and weve Seen Technology disruption across the world in every sector. This is when the case injanuary when the tech can provide the next best thing in response to School Closures in terms of teaching and learning. We have the news last night about the kingdom of saudi arabia. There are 30,000 schools there. They are 30,000 schools there. They are closing. Schools, colleges, universities are closed. The way all of these people are coping is they are looking at remote technologies but i was at home, with parents, teachers, at home. Everyone is on their own isolation. Its about going online and with century, were pleased to offer it for free at the end of january so all schools closed across the world. What does the technology do . Enables Remote Learning basically . Thats right, Remote Learning. There are many ways of doing it. What this technology does is because it is built on artificial intelligence, learns how your brain loans. As a curriculum bonnet, maths, physics, geography, arabic. The arab region, we have a federal contract the united arab emirates, it learns how you learn. If youre struggling with physics, its will tell you that it because you cant calculate using a map so will give you the maths and physics. The child is not given a once size fits all taxable learning. It takes the data and then updated in real time. And have a videoconferencing session, the teacher then doesnt have to focus on did you learn x, why, z. The teacher can make timely, targeted interventions. When it comes to your business, how is this affecting business. I was working for you, working from home, was a situation . We have a meeting with Leadership Today about what were going to do. We are supporting, the 83 people now supporting vast numbers of schools, by the mob we re numbers of schools, by the mob were expecting. Havent grown our headcount and we cant. Its positive because we are social Impact Companies are helping out but its actually a huge strain on resources as well. The technology is scalable so as not as big a challenge but we got to think about fundraising. We got to think about the growth of headcount for the next year, marketing. Normally we met schools and subscribed, we go abroad but the fights have being cancelled. Businesses have been hugely affected and to prepare for it and as the black swan on 2020. Unless youre here and thank you for now. Priya is coming back for the use briefing later. In business briefing, going to look at Financial Markets which once again today are seeing massive turmoil. Oil prices plunging, about to come later in the business briefing. Lets ta ke in the business briefing. Lets take a look at the other making the news. The turkish president has called on greece to open the gates for migrants to travel to other european countries. He is to hold talks in brussels today to discuss the migrant situation with eu officials. This Democratic Force have fortified the land border with turkey other days of tension over turkeys decision to let migrants into the european union. A man has been shot dead by police in westminster in london following an incident which has not been treated as terrorism. Officers from the metropolitan police remain at the scene of the incident which occurred at around 11 30pm on sunday. Road closures remain in place as Police Investigations continue. The trial of four men accused of shooting down the Malaysia Airlines flight mh17 over ukraine nearly six years ago begins shortly in the hague. Although none of the men, three russians and what ukrainian will be present in the courtroom. There is a reminder of how the case unfolded. It was on the 17th ofjuly 2014 at that flight mh17 left the amsterdam airport bound for kuala lumpur or amsterdam airport bound for kuala lumpuror in amsterdam airport bound for kuala lumpur or in malaysia. It crashed in Eastern Ukraine. In october 2015, the Dutch Safety Board released its report into the crash, concluding the plan was deliberately shot down by a missile. Later, an International Team of criminal investigators that they had evidence that missile had been fired from an area controlled by russian duct separatists. Thatin by russian duct separatists. That in may, 2018, the dutch led Investigation Team concluded that the Missile System concluded that the missile syste m ha d concluded that the Missile System had belonged to a russian prograde. Both the netherlands and australia which lost 27 of its citizens on the flight lost 27 of its citizens on the flight announce they were Holding Russia responsible for the downing of the aircraft. Theninjune the downing of the aircraft. Then in june last the downing of the aircraft. Then injune last year, an investigation named four men alleged were involved with bringing the missile into Eastern Ukraine and charged them with the mass murder of 298 people on board. Anna has been speaking to some of their relatives. 298 people, who stole their lives . My nephew came back in 80 pieces. My brother didnt come back. Until today. No luggage, nothing was found of him. In june 2019, the investigators named four men alleged to have been a part of alleged to have been a part of a chain that delivered the missile from russia into Eastern Ukraine. And charged them with the murder of eve ryo ne them with the murder of everyone on board. There is virtually no chance the suspects will appear here at the high security court. Russia and ukraine dont allow traditions. International arrest wa rra nts traditions. International arrest warrants have been issued. If the accused dont turn up, this hearing will go ahead in their absence. The trial in this courtroom is the result of what of the most complex criminal investigations ever. The crime scene was a war zone which meant the normal process for covering clues was impossible. Instead, the evidence had to be extracted from the crash site. Pieces of the plane and bodies. They also collected radar and satellite images and masses of social media material. At the mh17 memorial site, we met a man famous for his open source investigations linked to be a disaster. I think what we will actually see is more evidence that wasnt seen before. I think there is a perception from some that were just going to see the open source evidence presented in court and i dont enough going to be the case. I think thejoint enough going to be the case. I think the joint investigation tea m think the joint Investigation Team will do everything it can to avoid just using open source evidence. Like wiretapped conversations. And witnesses. Some of whom will remain anonymous. And relatives will have a chance to speak in court. We know that there are no suspects in the courthouse, they will never serve their sentence. But the world knows what happened and who was responsible and i think thats the most important thing. Russia has denied any involvement. This trial is unlikely to end with anyone being jailed for mass murder but it matters as a key to unlocking the truth based on evidence and working out beyond stouts who is to blame. Keep it with the briefing, still to come we will have all the latest sports stories, including, could it be with mixed feelings of old trafford, find out why not every Manchester United fan might be celebrating their victory over man city. The numbers of dead and wounded defied belief. This the worst terrorist atrocity on european soil in modern times. In less than 24 hours then the soviet union lost an elderly sick leader and replaced him with a dynamic figure 20 years his junior. We heard these gunshots in the gym. Then he came out through a fire exit and started firing at our huts. God, we were all petrified. James earl ray, aged 41, sentenced to 99 years and due for parole when hes 90, travelled from memphis jail to nashville state prison in an eight car convoy. Paul, whats it feel like to be married at last . It feels fine, thank you. What are you going to do now . Is it going to change your life much do you think . I dont know really. Ive never been married before. You are with the briefing here on bbc news. Our top stories italy sees a sharp rise in the number of deaths from the coronavirus, as a quarter of the population is in partial lockdown. Lets discuss that in detail now with john lockdown. Lets discuss that in detail now withjohn nichols, a co director of the bilingual European School in milliron. Thank you for being on the programme. Talk us through the logistics, your school is closed, isnt it. Milan. Logistics, your school is closed, isnt it. Milan. Our school is closed, it has been closed for two weeks and we are starting a third week now. We have the announcement first of all that milan schools were closed, and we got that two weeks ago on sunday, and the monday we had a training wreck, a holiday week, so the children we re a holiday week, so the children were off but our teachers were coming into training. Training week. We had to change our teacher training to teacher training, and then we had our school open again, only online. So we are now in our second week of children being back at school, but having to stay at home and be taught at home. So your students are e learning, and is that working . Being a pa rent and is that working . Being a parent i must admit that if i was at home with mine and they we re was at home with mine and they were supposed to be e learning, i would have a job of getting them to do anything . They are loving it, surprisingly so. First of all we have a platform we are using anyway, so the children have an ipad programme, they are used to using the ipads, and then so that has been in place already. So they are used to that. And they are used the virtual videoconferencing lessons as well, and the children have really liked it actually. And we also have done lessons with the parents on how these things work, so the stress on the pa rents work, so the stress on the parents in the last than is less then you would think. You area less then you would think. You are a feepaying international school, so you have good resources , school, so you have good resources, is that fair to say . I wonder if schools across northern italy have that a state funded, how are they doing . That is a fair point, we are very well resourced, we have ipads and also a lot of resources as well. The Italian Ministry of education sent out a document last night that was showing the expectations of the Online Learning for all italian schools. They are expecting the italian schools to do this however they are resourced. We have got to leave it there, john, thank you forjoining us, we appreciate it. John nichols, co director of the bilingual European School in milan, telling us how it is going. The war in yemen is entering its sixth year and its fragile Health System is on the verge of collapse. More than half its hospitals and clinics have been destroyed and 20 Million People lack destroyed and 20 Million People la ck a ccess destroyed and 20 Million People lack access to basic healthcare. The british surgeon doctor david nott, who has worked in many war zones, has just been there, along with International Charity Doctors Without Borders. Our chief International Correspondent met him in the Northern Highlands city of hajjah. It isa it is a battle just to survive in yemen. Every seat taken by anxious mothers and fathers at this clinic. The reliefjust to reach here. Or has destroyed more than half of the hospitals and clinics. A day in the life of every doctor, whatever their training, they have to treat everything. We saw the pressure they are under as we travelled across yemen. Good good, perfect. Today it is back to basics. With a helping hand from british surgeon david knott. And the Doctors Without Borders charity and this dummy. These doctors have not had any training since medical school, or much less. Working in the worst of times is doctor nots speciality. The nhs surgeon has helped doctors in war zones around the world, including this clinic in syria. Yemen still shook him. The issues they are dealing with is multiple civilian casualties, not just one multiple civilian casualties, notjust one or two or ten a day, they are dealing with at some times, and they understood they are understaffed. This is what you find in war zones. You find the best of humanity trying to cope with the worst of materials. And people will struggle and they will try and try to get their patients through. These doctors know how much they are needed. We are survivors, we feel a broken heart because we see our people all the time injured and suffering. I stay in yemen because we have a shortage of surgeons and doctors in all facilities. Like yemen itself, a Health System on the verge of collapse. Doctors doing what they can to help it and yemen is survive. Lets bring you all the latest sports stories. Hello, im Gavin Ramjaun and this is your monday sport briefing. Manchester united made it back to back league wins over rivals man city for the first time in a decade as they won 2 0 at old trafford. Ole Gunnar Solskjaers side led in the first half through anthony martial, and Scott Mctominay sealed victory in injury time. The result means liverpool need just two wins to seal their First League Title for 30 years. It is fantastic, for the fans and players, the team, the whole club to be able to beat man city at home is important. We have not done it for a while so it was a big game for us. One of the games of the season in serie a was played out behind closed doors asjuventus beat inter milan to go top of the table. It was surreal atmosphere in the allianz, with no fans in attendance. Juve won the match 2 0. Aaron ramsey got the first. Paulo dybala made the game safe. The result sees juventus go ahead of lazio by a point, inter remain third. And in rugby union, frances grand slam hopes in the six nations are over they were beaten 28 17 by scotland at murrayfield. France had won their first three games, but a first half red card for Mohamed Haouas allowed scotland to seize control running in 3 tries, two for Sean Maitland as they recorded a fourth successive home win over their opponents. France remain top of the championship, but equal on points with england. After man citys defeat, third place leicester could move to within four points of the defending premier league champions. Brendan rodgers side are home to second bottom aston villa on monday, and could have jamie vardy back following a calf problem. Both sides havent won in four league games, with villa losing all of them. Olympiakos and wolves will hold talks on monday with the prospect of their Europa League round of 16 first leg match being played behind closed doors in greece. Its set to take place on thursday at the karaiskakis stadium. The greek government announced all professional Sports Events for the next two weeks will take place without supporters due to the coronavirus. There are 73 cases of the coronavirus in greece. And well finish where were started, with the coronvirus and its effect on the sporting world, but good news this time as several members of the groupama fdj team have been holed up in a hotel in abu dhabi for 10 days after the uae tour was abandoned, this is the moment Arnaud Demare discovered that he and his teammate roman sinkledam were released from their quarantine on the fourth floor of the W Abu Dhabi Hotel where theyve been since 27 february. Cue the celebrations. Pop music plays. That is one way to celebrate isnt it. All the business stories coming up next, i will see you soon. There were rainbows aplenty as the showers just kept on coming in some areas, and i think we will keep an unsettled look to the weather in the forthcoming week. It starts dry and bright and crisp with maybe one or two pockets of frost, across the eastern side of scotland, monitor spots over the east of england. But the day will change quite markedly, especially so across central and Western Areas because waiting in the wings we have a new area of low pressure with us, isobars packed quite tightly there. So there will be a combination of wet and windy weather on its way. So dont be fooled by the dry start, the rain will be all over Northern Ireland by lunchtime, by runtime ireland by lunchtime, by ru ntime mid afternoon will ireland by lunchtime, by runtime mid afternoon will be all over western scotland and west of england and much of wales as well. You a driest longest outwardly east but even there the sunshine looks decidedly hazy. I think later in the day you will get to see some of the rain as the first set of runs move on through and i say first that because here we are on tuesday and another set of fronts just keep that rain on coming. That is where the met office have yellow weather warnings, even for the amount of rainfall to fall over the Higher Ground of wales, 90 millimetres in places, and the north west of england as well, that could enhance some concerns about potential for flooding. It will also be a breezy day there, the gusts for you, but the areas streaming in from the south west and if the sun should breakthrough that cloud towards the eastern side of in particular, 14 15 16, possibly even 17, it is exceptionally mild for the time of year. That front really ta kes of year. That front really takes its time to pull away from the south of the british isles, but notice how those isobars run isles, but notice how those isoba rs run straight isles, but notice how those isobars run straight through the front, so although that is the front, so although that is the coldest front, you would expect things to get cooler behind it, because the flow is still south westerly, it will be another mild springlike day, especially so across greater england and wales, despite the strength of the wind it will feel chillier further north in Northern Ireland and scotland, the showers keep on coming throughout the day, but that is for like spring, 14 degrees, plenty of sun, very pleasant indeed. We do change the feel of the day when this set of fronts works across the southern half of the british isles, that will induce a fresher feel to the second half of the week. This is the briefing, im Sally Bundock and these are our top stories market meltdown asian shares post massive losses as Oil Prices Plummet as opec and russia face off on a price war. Despite a call to cancel all non essential travel, some conventions in the middle east are relying on super powers to fight the coronavirus. Lets show you the Financial Markets in asia at the moment. You can see the heavy losses on share markets. The n strengthening and oil prices are falling. Energy companies are seeing their shares sold off dramatically as the price of oil