Its proposed conditions to the government on thursday morning. Later, participants, including cabinet ministers will discuss whether it is appropriate to lift the emergency state for the region. Prime minister shinzo abe will make an announcement in the evening. 39 prefectures are expected to have restrictions lifted, including five of the 13 prefectures under special alert. Tokyo and its neighboring prefectures were among the first to introduce stay at home measures and will almost certainly see those continue. An early draft of the governments plan suggests criteria for reopening. It says prefectures will need to have reported fewer than 0. 5 infections per 100,000 people within the most recent week. That means tokyo, for example, would need to see a drop to fewer than 70 new cases a week. The minister in charge of japans Coronavirus Response says even prefectctures with lor infection rates must keep at least some antivirus measures in place. Translator there could be further outbrea
Of infections outside main land china has surpassed those confirmed within that country. The w. H. O. Says as of monday at least 167,000 people have contntracted the virus worldwid. More than 6,600 have died. As i italys outbreak contininuo grow more European Countries are boosting efforts to isisolate themselves. French president Emmanuel Macron says his country is at war against an invisible enemy, hes ordered people to stay home for the next 15 days, only leaving when necessary. Anyone who violates the lockdown will face punishment. Britisish Prime Minister Boris Johnson told people to avoid nonessential travel. He is pressing people to avoid Public Places including pubs, restaurants and theaters. The European Union is looking into a 30day entry ban for anyone entering the region as member countries move to further tighten border controls. Germany has barred people from five nations, including france and switzerland from crossing g the e border. The ban does not affect daily commute
The techheavy nasdaq and the broader s p 500 plunged about 3 . The japanese yen is strengthening against the u. S. Dollar as investors seek thehe safety of t the currency. In the yield on the tenyear treasury note, briefly fell below 1 for the first time ever. Analysts say investors believe there are limitations to what the fed and other Central Banks can do to mitigate the effects of the crisis. Senior Economist Says that tuesdays plunge was probably a case of buying the rumor, selling the news. And fed announcement has the effect of stoking concern about the Economic Outlook making investors even more risk averse. He says that given the spread of the Coronavirus Infection in the u. S. , i investors likely wantt additional easy measures. Now in tokyo, heres how the nikkei is reacting. They opened the session 200 points lower than tuesdays close. And looking at other markets in the asiapacific region. South koreas kospi and australias benchmark are all trading in the negative. Ahead of
Dollars than the other president ial candidates. Well dive your strategy to win the presidency . Former new york mayor and 2020 president ial candidate Mike Bloomberg speaks at a press event here at the climate conference, but refuses to take questions. Democracy nonow didnt gigive. Well t take you on the chahase. Then more e than 100 climatefueled wilildfires are ravaging australia as plumes of smoke in sydney have pushed air quality levels to 12 times hazardous levels. Well speak with australian environmental scientist bill globalout a a new study on warming. Eightare morning of we are wanting of a warming. Current policies push us a little bit over the level by about 20 degrerees to threee degrees. In general terms, we have not seen much improvement. Amy then, back in the United States, the house has introduced articles of impeachment against presesident trump. In service to our duty to the constitution and to our country, ise House Committee introducing two articles of impeachment
We speak to the indigenous scholar and activist nick estes. Then to the acclaimed writer Arundhati Roy on the crisis in kashmir and growing authoritarianism in india and around the globe. There is no voice thats coming o out of kashmir. Thats why i said the silence is the loudest sound. Everyone, whether its the major politicians, whether its boys who throw stones on the e stree, whether it is businessmen, lawyers everyone is in jail, even now. You u know, thenen they cut t off phones. They cut off the internet. I mean, can you imagine . When has it been done before, 7 million peopople, communication lockdown . Amy all that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. I am amy goodman. In this special broadcast, we begin with the indigenous scholar r and activist nick est. He is s a coffounder of the indigenous Resistance Group the red nation and a citizen of the lower brule sioux tribe. I talked to him earlier this year about his book our h