And borders china gets increasingly worried about a new wave of infections from outside. And will take years to greece where aid agencies say unsanitary conditions at a refugee camp are risking life. But we begin this hour in the United States where corona virus infection and fatality rates are rising fast and the countrys foremost Infectious Diseases expert is reminding americans of just how bad things will get dr anthony found she says there could be between 10200000 deaths in the United States and millions of cases his warning comes as the federal government considers rolling back some containment measures while in europe spain recorded another 838 deaths on saturday thats a new high its infection. However was low and in the u. K. Theres been 209. 00 deaths just in the past 24 hours raising the total to 2118. 00 and not long ago a cabinet minister said the u. K. Hasnt experienced such emergency measures since world war 2. Our Live Reporting Team spans 4 continents this news hour fra
Rescue, is it really going to do very much about the problem . Futures pricing in the fed rate cuts at three for the rest of the year but of course this as more governments are taking action and coming to the rescue with fiscal measures. Speaking nowr abe saying japan will take bold measures if needed. He is also saying he will soon announce policies tackling school closures. Schools are in hong kong and now japan will follow suit from march 2. Let us get a quick check of the markets. Equity markets are giving into the rest of the global selloff. The cfx 300 is often the low of the day. But still down by more than 1 . The hong kong hang seng also testing the of trend that had been in place since august. Japanese equities bearing the brunt of the selling. In a correction position. Off by more than 3 just today. As np futures are rebounding just a bit. Up about 0. 5 after the worst day since 2011 and a decline of more than 4 . I want to take a look at some of the risk propositions. Repre
A very warm welcome to the program on this friday morning 8 am here in the russian capital lets get started with your live news update. Turkey says it will begin consultations with nato on the situation in syria on friday earlier the countrys officials said turkey would conduct attacks on the syrian army in northwest syria it follows the reported deaths of 33. 00 turkish soldiers in the province. Of looks at the sudden escalation. Situation in the northeastern syrian province of idlib has been hated so far and lately turkey has been saying that more than 30 of its troops have been killed they say that the fire has originated from the syrian army now again just a disclaimer all that we know so far comes from the turkish side the syrian army is yet to comment but he is adamant i mean they hold no punches they are saying that its the syrians who have killed the troops and theyre saying that essentially now they are designating all syrian soldiers as animes turkey is determined to continue
Election meddling moscow says stop the blame game. And i want to say here in moscow my name calling for a welcome to world news from r. T. International 1st the World Health Organization is warning of a potential pandemic as cases of the deadly coronavirus spike across europe and asia italy iran and south korea have now emerged as infection hotspots. This is a time for all countries communities i release and individuals to focus on preparing. We do not believe in a binary black and white world its not either that all we must focus on containment why do we have everything we can to prepare for a potential pandemic. Italy has quarantined a dozen towns in the north of the country after more than 200 cases and 7 confirmed deaths neighboring nations have called emergency meetings to discuss preventing the spread of the virus with concerns that freedom of Movement Across the e. U. Should be suspended heres our europe correspondent peter oliver. Tens of thousands of people a lot down in quara
Here in the russian capital. News this hour a 1st for you then the World Health Organization is now warning of a potential pandemic as cases of the deadly coronavirus spike across europe and asia. And south korea have now emerged as infection hotspots. This is a time for all the countries communities i mean lease and individuals to focus on preparing. We do not believe in a binary black and white world its not either or we must focus on containment why do we have everything we can to prepare for a potential pandemic its only has now quarantines around a dozen towns in the north of the country after more than 200 cases and 7 confirmed deaths in neighboring countries according to emergency meetings to discuss precautions to stop the spread of the virus with concerns that freedom of Movement Across the e. U. Should be temporarily suspended heres our europe correspondent peter all over. Tens of thousands of people a lockdown in quarantine in north and its only because of the virus with one