The democratic president ial race it gives his backing to joe biden. Hello welcome to the program our top story italy is closing old schools universities and cinemas until march 15th in the battle to contain its corona Virus Outbreak the death toll there is jumped to 107 now this is the largest number of confirmed deaths outside of china Public Events have also been canceled across parts of europe asia and the middle east also the International Monetary fund has issued a warning that the outbreak is likely to slow Global Economic growth this year joan hull begins our coverage. Contagion is spreading quickly across europe and the world and that means anxiety as much as the covered 900. 00 virus itself staff at the worlds most Famous Museum the louvre in paris shut it down for 3 days this week demanding better protection against the virus tourists went to news to there isnt a place in the world thats not going to get to you and you cant just shut down the world you can though shut down parts of it battling europes most prolific outbreak so far italy will close all schools and universities until mid march in an effort to stem the tide of infections and the rising death toll japan did the same last week and france has also ordered the closure of some schools affecting an estimated 35000. 00 pupils. As dramatic for some italys decision to hold all sporting fixtures in empty stadiums spain has done so to life across the globe is changing fast the World Health Organization continues to stress the importance of containment in places with few infections in the hope of delaying the spread of the disease and to give Health Systems time to prepare there is no doubt that things will get worse. And if the w. H. O. Isnt yet prepared to declare a pandemic germany it appears is. A Virus Outbreak said the Health Minister has become a Global Pandemic amid a worldwide shortage of goggles masks and gloves germany has banned the export of medical protective gear they want it all to be available for use at home and other shortages have provoked concern this time in australia over toilet paper. Some countries are taking matters steadily further india has extended the screening of passengers to all those arriving on International Flights the authorities in saudi arabia have banned citizens and foreigners from making the pilgrimage to mecca in israel Prime Minister netanyahu. Suggested the common prem shake be replaced by the indian greeting no mistake while italians have been asked to stop kissing and hugging with the coded 19 virus reaching more and more countries each day it is possible that no corner of the world will be spared even as european Health Ministers prepare to meet on friday one infection was registered inside the European Council building itself not just towns and cities now but the seats of government and parliament are in its path journal aljazeera. Well at least 11 people in the United States have now been killed by the coronavirus new cases ive also been reports around the 2 most populous cities in the country for new york 6 in los angeles have been 10 deaths in the seattle area which has the largest concentration of coronavirus cases several have been connected to an aged care facility the 11th person died in california President Donald Trump insists the u. S. Is leading the wall in containing the outbreak americas extraordinary success over the last 3 years has ensured that we are the best prepared in the world to address any threat or any challenge nowhere is more true than our vigilant and unprecedented effort right now to protect americans from the corona virus its. Really we have an Incredible Team of talented people jabber tansey is following the story from washington joins us now the house of representatives has passed that 8300000000. 00 Coronavirus Response bill what does it include and how quickly could it reach President Trumps desk. We have much more detail now about whats in the bill 3300000000. 00 which by the way we should compare to the 2. 2. 5000000000 dollars of a drop of ministration initially asked for which only 1250000000. 00 was new money the rest taken away from existing programs to combat a boat and other other diseases which is apparently all new money 3000000000. 00 for r. And d. Into vaccines and diagnostics 2200000000. 00 for the centers for Disease Control including 150000000. 00 to support state and local Health Agencies 836000000. 00 with National Institutes for health 1. 3 1000000000. 00 for usa id to help the global fight against the virus these are all so many programs are all things that were on the chopping block in Donald Trumps recently announced budget but this is all money now which is going into usa id the c. D. C. And others 20000000. 00 for the Small Business administration to give loans to businesses affected by the outbreak also body to prevent shortages of medical products and this is a particularly American American bit of this bill 300000000. 00 to help ensure that if a vaccine is found soon it will be made available to americans regardless of whether they can pay this has been a Sticking Point between the democrats and republicans the Health Industry in the u. S. Is for profit and there is no guarantee that even if a vaccine was around people would have the insurance or need the money for the copays have even having the insurance to pay for the vaccine and here is about 300000000000. 00 to help those help everyone get access to a vaccine if and when it becomes available. Well hearing it from president he has been facing some criticism about delays ministrations or spawn that the current virus. Right and actually i didnt answer the last of your question doesnt have to go to the senate and then maybe somehow will hold up to that and that itll end up on trumps desk although there may be a hold up in the senate because at least one republican the metairie republican is saying he wants an amendment to make sure that the u. S. Offsets these costs against foreign aid but developing next few days from yes we got these sort of statements that we just heard from him very wise kind of defensive saying that we were doing everything we possibly can out in the today again at a meeting with ellen executives he again said were doing everything we can at least to blame any shortfall in the a bomb in the trunk of ministrations response on the Obama Administration he was saying well the reason why testing has been so difficult is because obama changed the rules which meant that the f. D. A. The food and Drug Administration had to have 2 vets and he kind of testing before it was actually widely rolled out is a huge debate now as to whether that is indeed true whether trump is trying to trying to deflect things but yeah there is there is this problem admitting there is still this this issue of testing itself even with the congressional bill even with the state with some credit still huge amounts of doubt as to whether the u. S. Has the testing kits and the capacity to actually make sure that they even know how many people have the virus in the u. S. A lot of skepticism still that thank you very much average chancy in washington. Of course a great deal of focus on the effects could have on the Global Economy the i. M. F. Has been speaking out saying the continued spread of the current a virus will push 2020 Global Growth below last years levels a managing director Christina Gary gather says the i. M. F. Will revise its focus down once again in the coming weeks what were wrestling quiett easts uncertainty and that defines our projections which at this point lead us to state that Global Growth in 2020 will deep. The below its last years levels but how far it will fall and how long the impact would be is still difficult to predict so i respect our patrick peregrine whos an International Economist at the Economic Analysis at macro and he told me that there needs to be a robust and coordinated response from governments around the world ticking off to some countries which you slow in their initial response important things we found is is communication identify with letting people know where there are pockets of infections they can avoid it for a start and the other side is being extremely reactive economically because cutting Interest Rates absolutely is put is like putting a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. They actually need to come up how fiscal measures that people have to be assured that will i get an income how were going to feed myself all these basic things that really really sort of support confidence not just in the short term the long term as well. Turkeys parliament has descended into chaos earlier after rising tensions over the countrys military policy in syria a fight broke out involving dozens of politicians after one opposition member accuse the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who have died in syria as a type one was also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conflict without air cover turkey sent thousands of soldiers into syria to try to halt a government offensive in italy province or that brawl in the parliament followed the deaths of 2 turkish soldiers during an attack and it led. Turkish forces also suffered heavy losses last week when 34 soldiers were killed in as strikes 59 have now died overall in Northern Syria one is due to me as russian counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss a cease fire. Or show you none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god were going to build a strong turkish republic. Meanwhile greece has denied turkish accusations that it shot and killed a migrant who was trying to cross into its territory area Greek Riot Police have used tear gas and water cannon against refugees and migrants at the border thousands have been trying to breach the barrier since last week when turkey said it would no longer stop people crossing into the e. U. The blocks Foreign Policy chief has been meeting on in ankara to try and defuse the situation. I had to put unity to express our understanding of would be difficult to do a shoot in turkey is quarterly phasing but also stressed that the current developments in the european war those are not leading to any solution. We have also. Asked not to encourage further movement of refugees from a grant mine migrants towards European Union borders a great navy ship has arrived at the onset of lesbos to provide some relief for the hundreds of migrants who arrived there over the past few days theyve been camping out at the towns port after being prevented from reaching its of a crowded camps by angry local residents but as John Psaropoulos reports from les paul said let me be a briefer spite of those on board. A greek Navy Transport ship arrives in lesbos to pick up more than 500. 00 refugees and migrants they arrived after turkey opened its borders to europe and wont be allowed to apply for asylum instead they will be taken to athens and eventually deported people here hope this will act as a deterrent to more refugee crossings. The people who crossed illegally from the land border got 4 years in jail and a 10000 euro fine it serves them right and it will make others think twice the refugees have bones whatever happens here gets to the other side security around the port is high police have their hands full preventing daily attempts by refugees to board ferries to athens lesbos has been the most hospitable island to refugees but people are frustrated a year ago there were about 5000 people in the islands refugee camp and this was an olive grove the camp and tent city mushrooming around it now hold 20000 villages from morea a kilometer away say theyve been hit hard and. I no longer cultivate my vegetable garden because it will be picked clean and the chickens are gone the police say they cant do anything this store has been robbed 6 times if someone is caught red handed theyre free in a couple of hours if i do the same thing ill go to jail. Government attitudes reflect the changing mood greece has asked for emergency border assistance from the European Union the east is fast becoming militarized greece now has 52 warships and Coastal Patrol vessels at sea spotting refugee boats and preventing the other European Union countries have another 10 ships posted here and the rapid border Intervention Force greece requested will result in many more the un says that suspending asylum applications isnt legally justified and that all thirtys should avoid excess. Siv or disproportionate force but the turkish opening of borders has altered this humanitarian crisis in greece as eyes its now a National Security crisis and the military is increasingly taking over jumps are opal us al jazeera lesbos. So i have for you on the program fears of a fresh humanitarian crisis and me and maz rankine state fighting drives hundreds of thousands of people from that. You cannot make deals with physics. Why not everyone is impressed with the us and to make europe the 1st Carbon Neutral continent by 2050 will tell you why. Have there that we have a real east west split across australia and its not often we get to say that but look at this you can see across the east is where really the bulk of the weather is now all of this you can say is bringing yet more very heavy amounts of rain just sweeping across the eastern half of the country this is old still the remnants of what was the Tropical Cyclone esta now weve got various flood watches and warnings in place across much of queensland and slightly down across New South Wales we could get some heavy rain into more eastern sections all victoria as well and as well some very heavy rains is in strong winds just pushing in through more eastern and southern sections of town mania now by friday the bulk of that rain does really begin its a piece out moves well offshore but still some heavy rains in the fall calls in the brisbane area and really scattered showers all the way down the queensland coast and up into the Northern Territory meanwhile as a warm couple of days in perth but it does remain fine and dry another blast of winter on its way across into a mix of rain and snow mostly snow of course in that cold air it will have some impact into these Western Areas of hong shes certainly some snow there most of careful so Korean Peninsula and then for thursday want to show is a coastal central and southern areas of china but by friday that becoming very extensive pushing further east becoming havea and pulsating some showers in hong kong with a high of 21. 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Accused the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who died in syria a brawl followed the deaths of another 2 turkish soldiers during an attack in syrias it province and greece has denied turkish accusations it shot and killed a migrant who was trying to cross into its territory Greek Riot Police have used tear gas and water cannon against refugees and migrants at the border. All the race to challenge trump and of embassy u. S. President ial election is down to just 4 candidates now the former mayor of new york Mike Bloomberg has pulled out of the race after a disappointing showing in the super tuesday primaries a surge in support for joe biden made him the big winner. Placing him ahead of Bernie Sanders in the battle for the democratic nomination it now looks like a 2 orse race with Elizabeth Warren a distant 3rd. Even further behind but bloomberg did spend heavily on his campaign despite the fact that it didnt translate into public support or bloomberg as its admitted he could no longer win the nomination and thats throwing his significant finan