Hello welcome to the program the restrictions in many countries around the world are set to get a whole lot more extreme in the coming hours in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus malaysia will roll out some of the most drastic rules at midnight on tuesday no one will be allowed to leave for 2 weeks and its borders are being sealed and thats led to panic buying in malaysia and in neighboring singapore in the middle east iran has temporarily released 85000. 00 prisoners and its closed off access to religious shrines much to the anger of many worshippers much of europe is going into lockdown as well frances sealing its borders now president manuel now says the nation is at war with the coronavirus. Well in a few moments well be speaking to natasha in southwest france but 1st lets go straight over to lawrence Florence Louis who is in kuala lumpur force of course the crisis seems to originated from just one event just talk us through what seems to have happened and how its impacted
Lawmakers pushing for a cross party rescue deal to try to save the economy there as the pandemic leaves markets dealing with their worst week since the 2008 financial crisis. Hi there very good evening thanks for tuning in to our Teams International live from our h. Q. Here in moscow is kevin owen here for the next half hour with our usual weekend recap of the big stories as reported by us to you for the last 7 days i was starting with iran in croatia earlier today a 5. 3 quake and then 2 aftershocks struck north of the capital zagreb local media say that a 15 year old who was found in the rubble of a building there is in a Critical Condition in hospital several other people are reported to have been hurt. What you seeing there the moment the 1st tremors apparently kicked in caught by c. C. T. V. Inside the shop we think streets across the city have been littered with debris theres been significant damage to several buildings reported to the quakes reported to be the strongest in the r
Today the Circuit Breakers were down 7 . A day where oil had its first decline, down 31 . The treasury went below. 15 a record low which tells you the bond market is terrified its also a day where you probably lost a lot of money its probably what happened to you. Thats because, of course, the dow plummeted 2014 points. Its worst point drop ever. The s p plunged 6. 7. Nasdaq 2. 159 now the dow was at 2. 14. It lost that much. Okay it happened. What the heck got us here . Where do we go next . First todays sellers fear we are going into a coronavirus induced recession and theyre trying to get out of other people who want to sell. Just trying to get aahead of them that may sound fanciful that we had six cases in this country and 22 deaths. In the end, it seems like a super food than the playing. As the president tweeted earlier, 37,000 americans died from the flu last year yet nothing is shut down life and the economy go on, end quote. But the marks were not reassured, not the bond marke
To. Grab your tuning in from a right across the world this hour welcome to moscow. For the company. President trump said he is invoking wartime powers to force industry to tackle the cove would like to break Senate Republicans are also pushing for an economic stimulus package worth up to a trillion dollars but the drastic measures have so far feel to count the markets as you can see here kill up and goes further into. As everything seems to be called a native and quite a crisis we have donald trump invoking the defense production act now that is a law that was 1st invoked during the korean war gives the government the ability to have industries aska late production the hope is that with the government invoking this act there can be an escalation and rapid production of masks medical supplies and other needed materials now donald trump has got a lot on his plate because the stock market took a very dramatic plunge we saw at this point what people are calling a historically unprecedented
Hello and welcome to rewind. Back in 2014 liberia was locked in a desperate struggle to control an epidemic of the ebola virus journalist Sorious Samura is from neighboring sierra leone and in a remarkable documentary he followed liberias poorly paid and ill equipped Health Workers as they risked their lives to treat the infected and recover the bodies of the dead and were talking with sorious in a while 1st here is his powerful film liberia living with ebola. Ebola is named after a river a force of nature it flows through countries and it feeds like we had drawn me. The border outbreak in west africa claimed its 1st victim in a small village in cells on guinea. Fish and 0 was a 2 year old boy but how he caught the disease is still a mystery for morons us the disease for it no one knew what it was in march the war Health Organization or w. H. O. Announced that the disease was ebola but by then its had already infected almost 100 people and was. Its weird to neighboring liberia and sier