A quarantine. Volatility is gripping the worlds major stock markets is the crowd a virus pandemics and share values plummeting tokyos nikkei index closed friday down 6 percent thats after it plunged more than 10 percent opening along with markets in thailand and india it follows wall streets biggest drop since the black monday crash of 1987 theres another concern in the u. S. To delay in testing for the virus the Top Health Official says the Current Situation is failing but that more testing kits will be made available in the coming week meanwhile over in europe schools across much of the continent have been closed for towns and spain have gone into lockdown and the country is rolling out economic protection mischas lets take a look now at the Johns Hopkins university tracker for the global picture here it is these live numbers as you can see the total number of confirmed cases there has surpassed 128000 over here we have the total number of deaths at 4720 and the total number of peopl
World reacts to the pandemic asia closes in the red and europe so far is in the green will have a live update from the United States. The Financial Impact of the outbreak is also being felt in latin america a struggling economy as there are put to the test. Lets get going the Health Authorities in the u. S. Expect the number of coronavirus cases to pick up to accelerate as they plan to roll out what theyre calling a large scale testing operation one of the Top Health Official says coronavirus testing will increase in the coming one week it follows criticism but testing kits werent being made available fast enough in the world of sport more and more events are being counseled or perspire and english footballs premier league has now been suspended until early april while the Champions League and the. Europa League Matches have also been postponed meanwhile the markets open positively in europe so far with stocks improving in paris and in london but it does follow a rocky day across the a
Hello youre watching R T International i am or is on a lot court thank you for joining us and we start with this breaking news a ukrainian aircraft with 180 passengers on board has reportedly crashed shortly after takeoff from Khomeini International airport interferon those reports coming from Iranian State media but have not been officially confirmed yet Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was heading to kiev its a boeing 737 plane and reportedly went down due to technical reasons according to that same report so far we have no information on possible casualties but well of course keep you updated when we get further information and in separate developments in iran the Iranian Military has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles at bases housing u. S. Forces in iraq. Iran is calling it a revenge operation for the death of Major General kasim saw in money the missile strikes happened at exactly the same time of night as the assassination of sana money 5 days earlier and the secretary
A boat in stores guess what believe gangsters dont speak in politically correct. Youre watching R T International im ours on a lot of thank you for joining us and we do start with this breaking news iran has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles a basis housing u. S. Forces in iraq the Iranian Military is calling it a revenge operation for the death of Major General kasem saw the man who was killed in a u. S. Air strike last week well for more on this we can now across like to live in new york and paula slee here in tel aviv paula lets come to you 1st could you talk us through whats been happening and how is this all being viewed in israel where you currently are. Well theres been 2 d waves of a strikes target. 2 major iraqi bases where american troops are concentrated one of the bases is just outside baghdad the capital of iraq and the other one is in the north of the country in a deal the question that still needs to be answered is whether or not there were any injuries on those bases a
Shell shocked by it all trumps decision to signal the end of the war could lebanon be an anglo israeli consolation prize state mandated u. K. Media just as it did with protests in damascus and 2011 is eagerly covering the protests in lebanon but while the protesters like in syria have legitimate grievances is the coverage a little too eager you can see the sheer size of the protest here in beirut smart a square yesterday on sunday the protests were triggered in part by a plan to attack calls on whatsapp and other messaging services that have turned into a revolt against a weak government ailing services and a looming economic collapse collapse not a word youll hear on nato nation media in respect of julie xion demonstrations in france after a year of protest and of course protests can be infiltrated heres what president assad told me about protests in lebanon in the past few days after explaining the infiltration of legitimate protest against his government in. Back in 2011 of course n