Afternoon live im simon mccoy. Today at 2pm. Trading on wall street was halted immediately after stock markets crashed creating an automatic cutout. No need to panic buy the government says it remains focused on containing the spread of the coronavirus as the Prime Minister chairs a meeting of the governments emergency committee. There is absolutely no need for anybody to stockpile or anything like that. We are in Constant Contact with the major retailers. Italys Prime Minister says his country is facing its darkest hour with 16 Million People in quarantine. The trial begins of alex salmond former first minister of scotland on charges of Sexual Assault and attempted rape. Coming up on afternoon live all the sport with jane dougal. It has been confirmed and added the six nations match between france and ireland has been postponed because of fears of the coronavirus sewing the tournament into disarray, but as it stands, wales against scotland a man in cardiff will go ahead. Thanks jane,
Meeting today of the cardinals before they head into the conclave and start the actual voting process. This process has been described in many different ways, an interesting one tweeted a while ago by greg burke, the vatican spokesman, who said life is like baseball, tomorrow is opening day in vatican city. To continue that metaphor, the question on all our minds is how many innings will this all take. Over the weekend, the pipe, the chimney pipe that will offer the smoke to give us our indication of the voting was affixed atop the Sistine Chapel. We can show you a picture of the papal balcony where the scarlet drapes have been hung, where as soon as tomorrow a new pope could greet this city and greet the world. This morning, cardinals are reflecting over the task at hand after a weekend spent celebrating mass at their assigned parishes all across rome. Tomorrow, it all begins with a special mass together, the 115 voting cardinals gathered here at the vatican will then file into the Si
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