Countries around the world are struggling to keep up with the coronavirus pandemic Global Stock Markets have had a turbulent week with some of the worst losses in over 30 years so whats the economic fallout and can a global recession. Story. Hello again im James Burrows its the worlds Biggest Health emergency the corona Virus Outbreak is now a pandemic and there are fears it could lead to a catastrophic Global Economic crisis sweeping containment measures have disrupted markets around the world including the u. S. A travel ban on 26 European Countries came into effect on friday and the unprecedented move sent stocks crashing to their worst losses in over 30 years on wall street the Dow Jones Industrial average sank 10 percent on thursday its biggest plunge since the black monday crash of 1907 while european markets showed some signs of recovery on friday throughout the week Global Stock Markets saw their steepest decline since the 2008 financial crisis wiping out billions across the e.
Thank you for joining us the u. S. And Afghan Taliban have signed a preliminary deal that could eventually end americas longest running war its the result of 18 months of talks but theres still a long way to go before peace returns to afghanistan the 1st stage of the agreement means that there should be a 135. 00 day period of whats called a meaningful reduction in violence that 1st stage also includes the exchange of about 6000. 00 prisoners the deal is being described as a precursor to a Peace Agreement between the warring sides within afghanistan its hoped it will lead to talks between the taliban and the government in kabul as well as the withdrawal of foreign troops well some of the reports. We destroy a new chapter move opened for afghanistan the United States has agreed on a deal that could see the complete withdrawal of its troops from its longest running war in the next 14 months. We recognize america should fight in perpetuity in the graveyard of empires if we can help afghan
Election campaign on al jazeera. Hi im Steve Clemons and i have a question as coronavirus challenges society and spreads across america whats the domino effect of keeping millions of students at home lets get to the bottom line. Across the u. S. So far about 5000 cases of coronavirus have been recorded and restrictions are going into effect one of the biggest decisions has been shutting down schools from coast to coast people are more than happy to do what it takes to protect themselves and their families but no one knows how the School Shutdown will affect this generation of students and their parents what happens if the School Closures go beyond a few weeks does the entire term get written off what happens if it least one parent cant stay at home with the kids what happens to folks who depend on the free lunches and the breakfasts offered by the Public Schools and with all the talk about Distance Learning is america competent at scale to pull off such a feat so many questions today a
Germany and the latest racially motivated attack the interior minister is adding a fight against what he calls the poison of extremism so how will the government tackle this growing problem bases inside story. However and welcome to the program im the stasi attain germanys leaders are promising a strong response to these latest racially motivated attacks a gunman killed 9 people the 2 sheesha cafes on wednesday night in the city of hama now and he chose places that are popular with turkish and kurdish communities the 43 year old suspect who was later found dead with his mother had posted documents with racist and far right views online politicians are calling this a terrorist attack now more police are being sent to protect mosques and synagogues as well as airports and train stations the interior minister says such attacks are a mind of what he calls the growing threat of extremism in germany. Look sudden i want to say and repeat clearly once again right extremism anti semitism and ra
Intelligence suggests moscow is trying to help his campaign. Voting in togo where the president s expected to extend his familys 53 year long grip on power im joined again with your sports heavyweight boxer day and while that anticivil here have weighed in ahead of their much anticipated title rematch both of them later in the fall its. The sudden spreads of coronavirus to host of new countries is concerning the World Health Organization in the last hour or so the w. H. O. Chief has ours all countries to invest urgently in preparedness and the number of people have contracted the virus is more than doubled in size korea 229 new cases have been reporting taking the nation while 2. So its a 433 with 2 fatalities the government says urgently sends in medical help to the city of daegu Health Authorities in iran have also reported another death bringing its total to 5 People Killed with nearly 30 infections there largely centered around the muslim holy city of whom were infected travelers f