Sanctions on iran to help it fight the virus. And players with the Spanish Football Team real madrid are in self quarantine now its not legal suspends or matches. Its just gone for 300 hours g. M. T. Thursday afternoon across europe where the coronavirus pandemic is forcing authorities to urgently decide just what to do to protect the public arent in norway they are now shutting schools finland is warning people against large public gatherings the Czech Republic has declared a 30 day state of emergency affection rights are also jumping in spain germany and the netherlands poland has reported its 1st step so much happening there we start with a look at europe through the virus tracker from Johns Hopkins university in the United States youre familiar with this one it gives us the best snap. Short of covert 19 infections at any one point and the main snapshot right now if it works is that one headline number of 127863 people infected all over the world now have a look at europe and i know all those circles do look largely the same size all the big ones too but just let me go through a few of them germany just over 2000 cases only 3 deaths france same sort of number of confirmed cases but 48 deaths and then italy of course we know well about with its 12462 confirmed cases and 827 deaths as always though i would draw you to this number up in the course of the green number a total of 68000. 00 people plus who have recovered out of those 126000. 00 infections ok off to london we go lawrence lee has been following developments all day take us through some of these developments in europe because theres a whole slew of them at once and they will affect well every day life in a big way. Well yeah i mean and clearly the starting points obviously is italy which is now shut about from food shops and pharmacies you mention a very high death toll in italy because a lot of the villages in italy the young people went away and theres only old people been living there and thats why theyve been so vulnerable to this because it does affect affect older people or people with preexisting Health Conditions but if you cast your mind back so artfully was say 34 weeks ago when there were little outbreaks in the villages in and in long body in northern italy and it was just starting at that point because italy didnt shut itself off and didnt start closing the schools and hence it was able to spread and consequently all these other European Countries are looking at that and thinking maybe we need to have time to get ahead of where its really was then spade of course is the next country on the list but the biggest number of cases that its in the government now the governments suspended one of the cabinet members has got its theyre talking about potentially locking down the trades so its a very serious situation there but just a random number of other countries which in the last 24 hours or so theyre closing all the schools arland poland ulcer if you were in your slovakia just to name a few and the reason obviously kemal is because theyre looking up where italy was a few weeks ago and think well if we can possibly get ahead of that then we might not get the massive outbreak it but its but he says the strategy of closing schools is that there are some people who disagree with that because they get much of their own way around lawrence can i ask you about the United Kingdom as well just again as i look at the Johns Hopkins track a baby but numbers are very different in the u. K. 456 confirmed cases 8 deaths in fact here weve got it in the wall just now so obviously its a different sort of picture in the u. K. And the u. K. Not taking some of the steps that weve seen other countries take. Its yes exactly and the u. K. Is going the other way at least at the moment the Emergency Committee meeting in government at the moment they are going to move into what they call a delay phase and thats going to involve telling people to work from home and at some point they will close schools the easter holidays are only a couple of weeks away and some people say well just close the schools now then youve got these holidays coming anyway and the kids will be off for 4 weeks the counterarguments against close to schools is quite an important one is that if the kids are home and the parents have to work then the grandparents look up but might look after the kids if the kids are infectious they can end up killing their own grandparents or alternatively some people argue if emergency workers have to go home and look after their kids because the kids are at home then they come in the hospitals. And so you know if that but also they havent been looked on large gatherings here yet the whole horse racings about to starts people are banned from from doing things in ireland but they will be over in chelton watching the horses so its a different sort of approach and you know clearly both the european approach and the british approach they cant both be right can they but we might only know in a couple of months time which of which of them proves to be the more efficacious thank you lawrence lee in london with a bit of update from your fare were going to talk United States now and again using the tracker to have a look at things you can see infections right across the United States i just draw your attention to this side of the graph where we see 1000 there is 1323 infections in the United States and as we mentioned earlier u. S. President donald trump wants to keep the numbers down he announced on wednesday a ban on flights from europe heres mike hanna to take us through some of this at the white house for us hi mike. Clarity i think is what we need 1st of all we always need clarity but particularly over what this ban on flights really means. Well many spent much of the morning and the hours after President Trump speech last night trying to understand exactly what he was saying a number of facts had to be corrected post the speech for example President Trump insisted that all travel was stopped including cargo aircraft to go to pier he himself walked that back in a tweet saying that it would apply only to people also then it was clarified in the course of the day that it does not apply to american citizens or permanent residents they will be allowed to return so much of what the president said had to be fact check in terms of what it actually meant but certainly its going to have a massive impact on the country massive impact on the economy and of course a massive impact on those who are attempting to get back now to the United States the other point of contention among many commentators is why the sudden had has a choice of those that are banned from entering the United States singling out the 26. 00 countries within the schengen agreement nor in the more than 20 other countries in europe for example and intentionally leaving the United Kingdom of the list many are questioning why this is the case and questioning how such a ban can be effective if it is not applied across the board if there are broad swathe of exceptions to this particular travel ban mike this is more of a sort of anecdotal question but maybe you can still give me an indication here about how people are reacting in the United States for so long the leadership was telling them dont panic dont trumpet even say things like oh its just kind of like the flu it will go away in most cases were and now its complete turn around. Well its actually accelerated in recent days youve had the top viral official virus official here within the United States explicitly. Going against President Trump in the addressing congress yesterday he pointed out for example that the virus has a fatality rate 10 times that of flu so any comparison with flu must be completely ruled out and certainly this type of information coming through has been lacking to the public in recent weeks in recent months indeed and now it is becoming to the strike coleman the president s speech last night it would appear far from reassuring the u. S. Public has exactly the opposite effect just anecdotal once again in washington d. C. Here supermarkets shelves are being cleared out the small means there are long lines and all the supermarkets here parents of School Going Children in the district are being told that theres a possibility that the schools may be closed and the children will have to study from home so certainly this is having now a massive impact on daily life and the ordinary american citizen becoming very clear that this is very different that something very serious is going on and of course one must remember as well the cancellation of Something Like the National Basketball league now this is a massive following among americans and this is really driving home that the situation is dire and one more thing that must be stated as well kemal is news for example that the Actor Tom Hanks knowledge that he has contracted the virus did strike home here but what struck home even more is the fact that the actor is in australia he was tested immediately as all australians are who believe they might have the virus and that has struck home to Many Americans as the complete opposite of what they are seeing within this country which tests are still not being rolled out effectively my canner at the white house where theres clearly something about to happen behind. Thank you for that for now mike finally lets look at whats happening in the middle east you see there are cases from iraq down through kuwait bahrain qatar and the u. A. E. Through a man but of course the main story comes out of iran the numbers there with 10075 infections and 49 deaths in fact that puts iran 3rd on the list after china and italy for the most number of infections following developments of course hes in tehran has a iran obviously under so much pressure already with sanctions and the like now i believe having to turn to the world bank for some assistance. Now thats exactly right you know here in iran we are weeks into what is a broad Global Pandemic in many countries in asia in the middle east are already talking about the kind of gains theyre making in containing the spread of covert 9000 but here in iran on a daily basis almost there are signs that this countrys government this countrys people this countrys Health Services are struggling to do that theyre struggling to contain the spread of the coronavirus earlier today we learned that irans foreign minister thought zarif has sent a letter to the United Nations to try to convince antonio terrorists to bring pressure to bear upon the United States to end what iran says are illegal and unilateral sanctions that it says is now hurting its ability to respond to the coronaVirus Outbreak and in a way to illustrate that earlier today of just a few hours ago he also tweeted a list of 30 medical items supplies that 1st responders Health Care Providers people working in hospitals to try to identify and track and treat patients that have come down with the coronavirus 30 medical pieces of medical supply that iran desperately needs that it cannot get access to and also a few hours ago he tweeted about the 5000000000. 00 in i. M. F. International Monetary Fund aid that iran has requested as part of coronavirus emergency funds to end it here in iran that many people believe that the i. M. F. Will be keen to help iran secure those funds that it needs to respond to the coronavirus but the United States will likely try to block that from happening and all of this happens as the worst is yet to come many experts here in iran say that the peak of the coronaVirus Outbreak in this country is likely to happen in the next 2 weeks ok zain thank you for the updates on skype into iran. More now on what is really the only story in town at the moment coronavirus having a growing impact on sport as well real madrids football teams in quarantine the Spanish Football League the n. B. A. Basketball seasons both suspended and the opening race of the formula one season is in serious doubt down in melbourne as well with all of that news david stokes. One of the worlds biggest football teams is in lockdown spanish giants real madrid airing koren teen after one of royals basketball players who shares Training Facilities with the footballers tested positive for corona virus it triggered the Spanish Football League to suspend all action for at least 2 weeks in australia the 1st race of the formula one season is under serious threat the mclaren team of withdrawn from the event after a member of their team tested positive for the virus in melbourne Will ChampionLewis Hamilton says he shocked the race is still going ahead and believes the only reason is that cash is king as things stand 300000. 00 fans are still expected across the race weekend in the United States the n. B. A. Basketball season is off until further notice thats after one of the leagues biggest stars of the utah jazz player rudy go bear tested positive because. Ironically it comes just days after he joked about the coronavirus in a press conference Touching Every reporters microphone as he left potentially exposing others to the virus really go bear you know you think this is not going to affect us for the n. B. A. One of our players says a coronavirus and you know who knows what that means for their team and the other teams that we know have been with their sport is taking a hit globally indian cricket fans in da mashallah were checked ahead of their 1st one Day International against south africa Going Forward theres a good chance the t 20 Indian Premier League will take place without any supporters after the government told all National Sports federations to shut out spectators in. Kenya has banned all of it satellites from traveling to International Events which could start and it could churchgate defending his London Marathon title in april and beyond that even broke him from competing at the Tokyo Olympics speaking of which the frame for take care 2020 was late on thursday in greece the home of the ancient olympics there were no spectators allowed because of coronavirus concerns today the Olympic Games are the only event that brings the end tire world to go over in peaceful competition the flame will now make its way to japan where officials remain adamant that the olympic plan is not changing as far as theyre concerned the games are still going ahead in july and counseling is not an option david stokes aljazeera. In the news ahead fear of the coronavirus springs wall street trading to a sudden temporary halt again the tries to stop the markets downward spiral and well have other news of the day as well as straight as high courts delaying a decision on cardinal pills in last ditch effort to drop his conviction in a child sex abuse case. Some quasi weather for a time now pushing into japan is a clear skies coming in behind High Pressure in charge so thatll keep things settled for time lost the clouds are just spinning out of that eastern side of china making its way further racers and eventually it will slide up towards q shoes and past palm she is seeing some long spells of rain as well for the moment whats the weather is across southern parts of china that will drift a little further east which she can see a little colder in hong kong around 23. 00 degrees celsius little cooler as well in tokyo around 12 degrees is the clouds and rain returns here at least for a time we will brighten up by the 2nd half of the we can find a good part of india china thailand pushing across into the philippines you was there across much of malaysia lives shabbas to the asia heat of the day shows nothing exceptional there just pushing into indonesia and then we take a little further west with this if the being go clear skies what is into southern parts of india maybe into the apostle sri Lanka Geraghty of the west the weather theres been a fair bit of it recently thats across northern pakistan more than areas of india thats sliding further south which is nice with as we go through the next couple of days it will help us. 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