Out in malaysia a travel ban and border closures are just one hour away. Also 2 bomb explosions outside a Government Office in Southern Thailand as a coronavirus meeting was taking place. And a 2nd attempt to end months of uncertainty in iraq a former Regional Governor is named as Prime Minister designate. And im peter scimitar the limburg chief hold emergency talks about 2020 and footballs European Championships have been called off by you way for as the impact of corona virus continues to be felt. Good to have you with us on the news a doctor working at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in italy has a warning for fortys elsewhere act now italys the hardest hit country in europe with 2158 deaths related to the virus makeshift hospitals are being set up to deal with the spread of the disease and doctors said a ton of says the virus has put health care under unprecedented stress. But as you know what is really shocking something weve not been able to forecast and which brought us to our knees is how quickly the epidemic spreads within 2 weeks now 3 weeks since the beginning of the epidemic we put a total of 1200 patients in intensive care in the majority the secret has been and this should be a strong message for the Foreign Countries to act early on this in order to avoid like in our case having to chase after it day after day if the spread of this epidemic is not put under control it will bring all hospitals to their knees. In the coming hours restrictions are being imposed in many countries around the world to her and theyll become a lot more extreme. In an attempt to curb the pandemic well much of europe is going into lockdown in the past few hours francis sealed its borders just as its neighbor spain reported 2000 new cases bringing its total number of infections to more than 11000. 00. Live from. Southwestern fronts weve been speaking all day really natasha about how french people have been not just waking up now but nearly have a day of this reality this new reality that theyve not experience in a country that talks about liberte. Yes and of course as you can imagine it is very difficult for people i mean one day your out sniff out fuel in a restaurant and bar you doing your shopping without thinking about it and then a couple of days later its not down effectively and the government ordering you to stay in your home to print ask a thermos if you want to go shopping for pseudo or if you have to go to work because youre out of work at for example the government warning also that the corona virus is spreading fast in the country more rapidly obviously than it is felt it could be controlled at this stage and that is why the french president is taking these really strict measures so its something that nobody felt they could have necessarily predicted all prissy a few weeks ago that was the sense of the last few days that france could go into lockdown along the same lines as italy because of course several of france be watching those pictures in italy as others have around the world but still what actually happens when you are confined its your home its a very different picture indeed so i think people are just absorbing how theyre going to work around this how are they going to have to teach their children who cant go to school theyre going to have to give them lessons at home and they can organize their routines if they live in very small spaces its going to be credibly challenging an identity areas in the city so all of these things are ahead for people and were only just beginning of course because the french president is talking about at least 15 days how was the mood chain natasha from when you touched upon it from the sort of time that france is seeing its neighbor italy go into a lockdown and seeing this virus spread to actually hitting home to french people in the urban areas and in the countryside where you are right now that its actually a reality and it can affect us no matter who we are or where we are. Well indeed you know i just think back to a couple of days ago in paris you know a sunny day was the sundays as party mood couple days ago that you know the french people were going to vote in the cool elections even though of course we are in the middle of this corona virus pandemic people were so change they felt comfortable to go out they knew there was a threat we didnt really see many mosques they were being cautious but still people alson about they were gathering in parks you know a few days later and the same population again thinking of those people in paris standing in meter parks in supermarkets people with face masks ive seen people in this reached the front row where i am really keeping their distance when they go shopping or in the street or just not in the streets all because i think people are suddenly very frightened and its not how they felt this is not how they felt a week ago thats for sure and as i said just a few days ago when i felt a difference of course there were those closures there were those restrictions but now it feels totally different when the government saying if you go right in the street and you dont have this a printed permit you have no real reason to be in the street to find 40 year olds that could get higher and you know who are going from there i mean i think thats really reinforce the message to french people the governments very serious about this and there is a real urgency that has to be faced Natasha Butler thank you very much for joining us from glen in france but spain as reported 192. 00 more deaths bringing the total to 491. 00 its the worst affected country in europe after italy police at the border have turned vehicles trying to enter the country as part of strict new measures to control the virus it comes as thousands of new cases were reported across the European Union which has closed its external borders were joined now by journalist motherhood at a in madrid. Horowitz could have you with us on the program in how much has that changed life everyone in spain especially in the capital. Well. Not actually about their coming to this situation in spain is quite similar to france i mean like 4 or 5 days ago we were outside in the bars with the sunshine and we were not very concerned we didnt for the forecast what was coming but our life changed in a few days and people are really concerned were all come find out whoa what i can tell you what that what i can talk about is magic is one of the epicenters of the whole plan. And then hearing spain and we all leave him in flats or apartments and we dont go out at all and the only moment of the day that we see other people is our neighbors because we are gathering outside the balconies or outside the windows to cheer the health care the Health Care Workers and to thank them for what theyre doing sort of a dont talk a pm we all go out and we start cheering them on thanking them for the hard work theyre doing so is the only moment of the day that you feel that you are in a Community Organizer society that you have someone you know at least to to to look at and to rely on shows that youre still in a society one assumes that under the circumstances youre living in right now the information youre getting from the government comes via Television Radio and through social media how would you describe the level of communication is it very good is it what you expect right now are they reassuring to the spanish public. Yes well theyre doing a quite good job with there because every day we have a presser from the spokesperson not the Health Ministry thats dealing with a whole a major emergency situation and there we are having figures of people infected like new day every day people infected people look at death dont want people that have recovered and Prime Minister is coming out and give him press conference at about 2 or 3 days a week so i think people are quite confident we all are were all demanding a lot of information we are kind of stuck to the media alley are we are glued to media these has also we following Radio Television online news but these also has a very dark side because all these fake fake news have been expanding and many people especially and their it people trust whatever they do they get it whatever they read and discuss the fest goes a little bit of panic in the population but i think right now the government is they say is sending good messages and people are tracking a lot going on a lot on a personal note obviously youre able to speak to your family and friends not just in spain im sure broad as well what is morale like in terms of the people youre speaking to with in space your neighbors your friends your family. Well jim main concern of all my friends and colleagues is that most of them have been sent home because they have been fired on the companies so the main worry ears of whats going to happen next i mean these people were working on friday one day and all that were fired they got they got from cause and they were fired and some of them are going to be temporary but others are not dying back to work any time so theres a big big worry about the economy down mentions of the hole or another iris crisis and the already are the government is already sending messages that we have to be very aware of what the consequences are going to be and its a really critical situation still the main concern right now in spain more than running out of food that those were the main worries the 1st days right now is. Unemployment benefits its helpful for Small Companies that have to close down their businesses and whats going to happen next i mean uncertainty i think is whats damaging the whole situation right now but i have a thanks so much for joining us from madrid more now on the situation in italy where the number of confirmed cases reached almost 28000 as the nationwide lockdown remains in place hospitals are at breaking point and facing major shortages of doctors the government is scrapping final exams for this years medical graduates and letting them start work early to boost stuff numbers while the lender batali is a resident in the land and has been self isolating for 9 days now and she and her daughter matilda join us now via skype from milan will speak to mathilde in a little while but mother lane lets begin with you about how your coping under this lockdown and how youre finding sort of the communication between yourself and the government in this rather difficult scenario. Yes its a very big loss and i. Mean if you can imagine the most important being if there is not only 2 people were just going to keep their children going. Really really no reason just at the moment of course we think they may but school was all over the territory not really a lot of. Us who were mothers clause and the i mean our schooling we did as many tools we can so we will be your conference is we get our work the Academia Group chat even whats there you know that actually turned it on the computer a lot of it can be figured for now. And we only when we can imagine that might be in there she is one of the lucky ones because she has and she can hear us and shes connected every day with her class and i was not on the other hand there are. And there are only but its a matter of where and to keep their routine as it is if its as it is it hard to explain to someone like mathilde who looks a little bit sad there at the moment for shes quite happy most of the tide is it difficult to explain that the gravity of whats going on because obviously theres a much more serious note to to the conversation youre having with people that youre in touch with across italy. It exists because we are trying. To terrorize her and i am trying to court to be but the bondage that is you can imagine you being isolated you have no escape from your feelings and your fear which we have but as she said shes very shouldnt she be scared but he is good because in a way she can do what what she does and you know its even clause which is not that she doesnt know yet so we dont really know and these guys. Prove that theyre written with legal tool. Or some kind of maybe she got less than squat but in any case. I am trying to be honest theres been very good situation and she tried to follow the rules as much as she can and to do what it was her job which is learning of course well obviously youve become the tills teacher so id like to us matilda what she likes most about school right now and does she like her teacher. With that yeah. Alls excellent and whats your favorite subject at school. Present in. All math lots in my math great i think i think my hearings going i think you could teach me a few things that about math at the moment i look forward to speaking to you again young lady in the days ahead i didnt realise you could speak english and you speak it very well so thank you very much for helping me out on this program madalena well leave it there for now and of course well continue to monitor the situation with you thank you very much and to mathildes for joining us a regular thank you youre going to. Buy. It here and i must improve my italian living on the later will roll out some of the most drastic rules at midnight malaysians will not be allowed to leave for 2 weeks and its borders are being sealed and are thats led to panic buying in malaysia and neighboring singapore water from flowing in kuala lumpur. Government Services Businesses that provide essential services will be allowed to open but Everything Else will have to be shut and the few categories that fall into essential services transport Health Care Financial Services food so shops supermarkets supermarkets and markets will be allowed to remain open but that didnt stop people from. Stockpiling on food and if that show items in supermarkets perhaps for fear that this restriction on Movement Order could go on for longer than 2 weeks now but the most stringent measure has to do with malaysias borders even for people who want to travel into state theyre going to need permission from the police before they can move before they can travel and its International Borders are going to be shut malaysians will no longer be allowed to leave the country for the next 2 weeks and foreigners will not be allowed in and this is affecting not just malaysia but also in singapore malaysia is an important trade partner for Singapore Singapore imports a lot of food Fresh Produce from malaysia and despite government assurances that food items and other goods will still be able to move freely across the borders that didnt stop people in singapore from panic buying. Over to washington where the trumpet ministration is seeking an 850000000000. 00 stimulus package to protect the economy lets get more on this from our White House Correspondent complete halted hes standing by and we are expecting kimberly sort of coronavirus time to be speaking shortly what can we expect from them today. Yeah thats right this is expected to happen that briefing in the White House Briefing room in the next hour or so and that stimulus package that you talked about there certainly one of the questions its a bit controversial already weve had a bill passed in the house that would allow for paid sick leave also emergency food for children and the elderly this now moves to the senate but in the discussions between the congress and this white house there is an effort to really pad out this legislation if you will adding that 850000000000. 00 which essentially to a payroll tax cut the white house hopes would flood the u. S. Economy with cash in order to sort of combat some of the downturn that has occurred as a result of coronavirus whats controversal about this is it could include some bailouts for the cruise industry as well as the Airline Industry that of course have been very hard hit so we special questions about that but we also expect to get kind of an update on where things stand as the u. S. President has taken a decidedly different tone with respect to corona virus in the last 24 hours and this really this president really downplaying likening it almost to the seasonal flu in the last 24 hours hes now saying its bad and that the u. S. Is fighting a quote invisible enemy so were expecting to hear what the efforts are as this United States continues to try and flatten the curve if you will in terms of the number of cases but we still expect those cases to rise with the availability of testing that has still been a problem in this country something i can tell you a lot of ordinary americans are kind of scratching their heads about because they see us for. The president can get access to a test celebrities can get access to a test but ordinary americans are still being told that theyre not sure when that testing will occur for them so a lot of tough questions about that to be answered by this task force and of course that is coming up in the next hour of course kimberly you know throughout the day for us as well nearly 6 30 in the evening here in doha its just about what quarter past 10 where you are in the morning in washington weve been following this of you see through the day and over several days and through our correspondents you know we have been asking how the public at large are reacting also to questions of there are they asking what have they been asking of our correspondents i mean whats the general sense you get considering we are hearing a whole range of views from across the u. S. About coronavirus and about the way its being dealt with by Civil Society by local politicians by the federal government. Theres a lot of frustration still in the United States have bout how this is being rolled out theres this feeling that because there was a lapse in getting sort of ahead of the testing and making that available the problem is far worse than is actually being revealed as so theres this distrust of the government theres also near panic in the terms of the Grocery Store is trying to get food we have cases now here in the United States were food trucks as they had to supermarkets ar