Toefing on their efforts combat the coronavirus pandemic. Here is the director general. Evening,orning, good good afternoon everybody, and thank you for joining this briefing. We have a very special guest we are honored to have with us. Thank you very much and good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. Ago, who six months and signed an agreement to Work Together to promote health football. What weot know then know now. Emergenew virus will that would bring many parts of society to a standstill. The beautiful, beautiful game itself. Matches have stopped, but our collaboration has become even more important during this difficult time. It has given us the opportunity of working together more closely then we imagined with fifa. Football can reach millions of people, especially younger people that Public Health officials cannot. Today, it is my great pleasure , thelcome my dear brother president of fifa, to talk about our joint campaign to pass the coronavirus. Ck out thi
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Package amid disagreement on how to spend nearly 2 trillion. President trump says coronavirus measures shouldnt be worse than the problem itself. Europe tightens its grip. Leaders scramble to enforce unprecedented restrictions as 2000 more people die in italy and spain over the weekend. Angela merkel says she is self isolating after contact with a doctor who tested positive for the coronavirus. An hour awaynder from the start of cash trading across europe and it looks like it will be another risk off day as futures fall. Euro stoxx 50 futures as well as ftse and dax futures, down 4 . Futuresftse mib gaining, but i believe that is actually fridays trade, so that is not current live futures contracts. All life futures contracts are down, deep, deep in the red. If you look at u. S. Futures, we also see drops of about 3 across the major equity indexes, so s p, dow jones, and nasdaq futures all down. Its get into the markets with laura cooper, bloombergs mliv macro strategist. Laura, we hav
A deal with the taliban. And the tokyo lympics heading for a postponement to canada and now says it will not to send athletes to this team is games. Now a lockdown of indias major cities has begun and one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital known by chennai and kolkata are among them companies that also in place nationwide and International Flights have now been banned for a week japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay now says the Tokyo Olympic games may also need to be postponed thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july and dozens of cuban doctors have arrived initially to help the Taliban Health workers it is one of the countries thats been hardest hit more than 5000 p. Have died there well shortly well get the latest from london with nadine bob and Lawrence Leigh who are also update us on whats happening in europe but fast lets go to Elizabeth Piron and in
And celebrating the life of a Country Music legend kenny rogers to stein at the age of 81. Im married to evanston its good to have you with us germany is considering tightening up a toughening up against corona virus so far the government has held back on introducing a nationwide lockdown in response to the outbreak but several of germanys 16 states have already been tightening restrictions on public life in a bid to stop the spread of the virus 2 of them saarland in the west and bavaria in the south have ordered that people be confined to their homes but various public band came into effect early on saturday. There was an eerie calm and unique concept that a morning as the bavarian capital went into day one of its Public Health lockdown there were few people out on the streets restaurants bars and cafes were closed and people told to stay home there was similar scenes all over the state with public sentiment generally behind the measures. I wouldnt fit into the school i think confinem