Hello governments across the world continue to restrict the movement of their citizens as they try to reduce the spread of the corona virus spain which became the 2nd european country to impose a nationwide lockdown has now confirmed 2000 new cases and the number of reported deaths there as doubled iran has announced more than 100 people have died in the past 24 hours confirmed cases there are nearing 140021 says its fight is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions and in the philippines the capital manila is sealed off 12000000. 00 people have been told they cannot travel for a month schools are closed and large events banned over in the u. S. Increased screening measures for people returning from europe have caused chaos at airports the u. S. Has imposed a ban on non americans traveling from the European Countries including the u. K. And ireland lets bring in paul brennan his joining us here in the studio and speaking of the u. K. Paul authorities here under pressure to introduce
Logical what 1st ending the presence of Foreign Forces as an emergency measure and making arrangements for that secondly to go back to the draft decision that was put forward to the parliament before the current government took office. But all kurdish representatives boycotted the session and most of the sunni m. P. s were in there the emergency session of parliament is a reminder of the deep ethnic and sectarian divisions in iraq being so nice shias and kurds at least one commander of the. Group has said that if the Parliament Fails to cause a decisive resolution against the u. S. Presence in iraq on sunday all future sessions will be worthless. A powerful cleric who heads one of the leading blocs in parliament criticized the decision as a weak one so theyre called for the shutting down of the u. S. Embassy on socalled resistant groups inside and outside iraq to form urgency battalions similar sentiments were echoed by other shia majority political blocs. This is a real test for loyal
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The worlds biggest economy. Also, the very latest on the markets. Bitcoin took a bit of a hammering overnight. Elsewhere, spanish stocks weighing down, banks leading the charge lower after separatists claimed the narrow victory. And well be getting the inside track with our Business Editor, simon jack. Taking a look back on a week in which the Oil Giant Shell faces major allegations of corruption. And, first we had the plastic bag charge, but how about the plastic bottle charge . Mps are calling for a introduction of a deposit scheme in an attempt to protect the seas from plastic pollution. What do you think . Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello, and welcome to business live. We start in the spanish region of catalonia, where separatists have won a crucial election victory in a poll that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy had hoped would see off the crisis. Instead, it has made it worse, plunging one of europes biggest economies into further uncertainty. Catalonia is hugely important for