Hello, youre watching afternoon live im simon mccoy. Today at 2. State of disunion as Donald Trump Tells america how well his presidency is going Speaker Nancy Pelosi makes her feelings clear. Today at 5pm, the governments Cobra Emergency Committee is meeting now to discuss the coronavirus as chinese authorities step up their efforts to contain jobs are birmingham, incomes are the disease that has so far killed almost 500 people. Soaring, poverty is plummeting, crime is falling, confidence is sick passengers are taken off cruise ships as hong kong imposes surging and our country is thriving. A mandatory 14 day quarantine china takes further steps to control the spread on arrivals from Mainland China. Of the coronavirus as the death toll nears 500 while 10 people well be talking to a pandemic on a cruise ship test positive expert about what more is needed and hundreds of other to contain the coronavirus. Passengers are quarantined. The other main stories on bbc news at 5pm all we have b
This is bbc world news. The headlines the us has overtaken china and italy to become the country that has recorded the highest number of coronavirus cases. More than 82,000 people have been confirmed positive. Amid a surge in Coronavirus Infections in italy, leaders of the 620 countries have promised to do whatever it takes to minimise the damage to livelihoods. They say 5 trillion is being injected into the global economy. South africans have been stocking up ahead of a three week nationwide lockdown. South africa has recorded over 900 infections, the highest in africa. Hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are sian griffiths, education editor at the sunday times, and sebastian payne, the whitehall correspondent for the ft. Tomorrows front pages the Financial Times leads on the £3 billion a month rescue deal for the self employed unveiled today by the chancellor, rishi sunak. The daily mirror goes with, your country loves you, as
I do think its going to be a broader debatejust because people are changing the way they consume media. Theres a much more complicated media landscape now. And so i do think were going to look at whether the licence fee models right for the 21st century. A plane has skidded off the runway at istanbul airport and broken into three sections. There are no reports of fatalities. More than a0 people arrested in a crackdown on so called courier fraud, where people are duped into handing over money to fraudsters. And as some of the uks Biggest Companies are criticised for failing to improve diversity, well speak to a woman championing ethnic minority representation in the boardroom. Good afternoon. Our top story on bbc news at 5pm is that the governments Emergency Cobra Committee are meeting as we speak to discuss the coronavirus. The death toll from the virus in china has now reached almost 500. More than 2a,000 people have been infected, and about 18 million chinese citizens are being told
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And millions of Small Businesses like this gym, fear the government wont help them survive this lockdown. No, they are not helping financially to support our businesses. So youre on your own here . Yeah, we are on our own. But the immediate challenge here is overcrowding and hygiene. No Running Water here and a0 people sharing this toilet. If i have that virus and im using this toilet, then im going to affect 39 people. This is famously the worlds most unequal society. The virus looks set to expose that cruel fault line, that chasm between the very rich and the rest in the harshest possible way. And so those who can, try to get out of town. This family hoping for a last minute bus to the countryside. We are leaving, we are evacuating ourselves. Before an entire nation locks down. Within the last few minutes, that lockdown has got under way here. The police and the army heading out onto the streets to try to enforce it. There is so much at stake for south africa, but not just there is s