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
Invited to form israels next government. Hello governments around the world have stepped up restrictions on the movement of their citizens to reduce the spread of the coronavirus the number of coronavirus deaths recorded in italy has now risen 25 percent just in the past day to over 800 as europes worst outbreak of the deadly virus continues to expand italy has 25000 cases of the highest number recorded outside china and spain became the 2nd european country to impose a nationwide lockdown its confirmed 2000 new cases and the number of reported deaths has doubled iran has announced more than 100 people have died in the past 24 hours and confirmed cases there are nearing 14000 to hans says its fight is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions and then 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 European Countries including the u. K. And ireland or brennan is joining us
Welcome to the program our top story the u. S. Federal reserve us cut Interest Rates back to near 0 in an effort to boost the american and Global Economy during the course of this and demick President Donald Trump congratulated the central bank during an announcement at the white house it lowered the fed rate. From what it was which was 121425 and its been lowered down to 020. 24 or point 24 so its 02. 2 for. A big difference its a. Quite a bit of a point. Lets go live to mike hanna now hes in washington and this is really the most drastic step taken by the u. S. Federal reserve since the financial crisis of 2008 i guess it gives you a sense of the shock the coronavirus pandemic is about to cause or is already causing in d. D. s senate also follows weeks if not months of urging by President Trump for the fed to drop its rates virtually on a daily basis the president has been insisting that the fed is airing by not dropping its rates so certainly this now is a major step in terms of cre
Forced to wait hours for medical screening an official has more now from washington. From the president of the United States was aimed at comforting americans relax but doing great it all will pass moments later from the man heading the dr against the virus a starkly different message the worst is yet to head for us it is how we respond to that challenge the number of confirmed cases in the u. S. Is no more than 3000 states are shutting down bars and restaurants curfews are starting to be introduced the face of america is changing at airports as the extended european travel ban kicks in here the. Staff carrying out Health Screenings have been overwhelmed the governor of illinois blamed the Trump Administration for a lack of planning and poor sight he didnt get the response he wanted well heres what i got i got a call at about 11 oclock last night after that tweet from a white house staffer who yelled at me about the tweet the administration at its no dealy briefing admitted mistakes wh
Turkish military patrols in syrias last rebel held province. So that its really has reported a 25 percent increase in coronavirus deaths its largest single day uptick 368. 00 people died on sunday that puts the total pos 1800. 00 and that nearly a week after a nationwide lockdown was declared on 16000000 people restricting travel and banning public gatherings italy is the worst affected country outside china journalism like explains the strain on the Health System in northern italy. Biggest emergency is still quite contained to the north of italy the region lombardy especially. And its slowly spreading south thanks to the emergency measures that the government has put forth but lamberti is definitely every day ask for help because their hospitals are overcrowded they have been moving some of their patients to south than hospitals because they do not have any more beds for people with coronavirus conditions especially respect to any conditions so definitely the northern Health System is