A deal with the taliban. And the tokyo lympics heading for a postponement to canada and now says it will not to send athletes to this team is games. Now a lockdown of indias major cities has begun and one of the biggest single government moves to slow the spread of the coronavirus its capital new delhi the Business Capital known by chennai and kolkata are among them companies that also in place nationwide and International Flights have now been banned for a week japans Prime Minister shinzo abbay now says the Tokyo Olympic games may also need to be postponed thats after weeks of insisting the major sporting event would go ahead as planned in july and dozens of cuban doctors have arrived initially to help the Taliban Health workers it is one of the countries thats been hardest hit more than 5000 p. Have died there well shortly well get the latest from london with nadine bob and Lawrence Leigh who are also update us on whats happening in europe but fast lets go to Elizabeth Piron and in new delhi lets talk us through the scale of this shutdown were talking about more almost 20000000 people alone in new delhi. In the capital alone in the stasi and as you mentioned other major cities most of the countrys major cities 80 cities and districts around india are under lockdown weve also had Indian Railways cancel all the trains no interstate buses and no Metro Services a number of states again include in the Capital Region has closed its borders and what we are seeing as a result of those border closures and also all public transport being stopped taxi at the base taxis like and all are being canceled as well what that has resulted in now a very large crowds of people exactly what the government didnt want a large crowd of my friend workers there are so many around india who dont work in the stage that theyre from they travel to other states to work who are now us stranded at transport hubs as they try to go back to their villages to wherever theyre from only to find that theyre not actually able to get this or that is a really big problem for the government right now some day saw another really big jump in the number of cases said today was the single biggest jump another big jump on sunday we have 415 cases 7 dead and the government has also really expanded its testing india was testing fewer people among affected countries than anywhere else in the world the government has now doubled Testing Centers brought in private hospitals because there are increasing concerns that the very low level of testing could be hiding the real number of cases the real scale of the problem here all is given that this looks like it could be the new normal for some time and the number of people in india who live hand to mouth daily whats being put in place to try to help them survive this. Waiting to hear in the stasia what the government is going to do for those people a huge number of indians of what are called daily wage earners they have to work every single day to survive a lot of the migrant laborers that weve seen stranded at transport hubs there are also daily wage earners and while some states have started looking into this and taking measures we are waiting to hear from the finance minister about what theyre going to do. On the Central Government level weve been speaking to Street Vendors you know its so quiet in india and its eerie the only people that ive seen out today. People that sell vegetables you know they cut their vegetables around and they said that they had to come out because if they didnt they wouldnt be able to feed their families thats what Street Vendors have been telling us thats the reality for hundreds of millions of indians who are waiting to hear from the finance minister about what theyre going to do for those for the daily wage earners for the poor and also for the many sectors like aviation to resume car manufacture and transport that stand crippled right now that are crippled right now and as with problem there for us live in new delhi will be speaking to elizabeth as we follow developments there in the coming days thank you as well europe remains the big current concern with italy taking over china as the new hotbed of the pandemic as the number of infections and deaths increase more lockdowns are in place across countries the u. K. Is seeing a significant rise with nearly 5700. 00 factions and more than 280. 00 deaths already Prime MinisterBarak Johnson says he is considering restrictive measures like other e. U. Nations lets now go to nadine barber he joins us live from london the d. M. I believe youre at one of londons busiest train stations talk us through whats happening there well what was once one of londons busiest train stations i should say. Thats right you can see behind me Liverpool Street station in londons financial district. Which earlier on. In the last couple of hours would normally have seen thousands of people arriving right now its extremely quiet trains are still running but on monday morning the government has announced that they are taking control of the finances of all of the rail franchises around england and wales basically for a short for a temporary period nationalizing the railways the the the the private operators will continue to provide the services as a set cost but the government will take on all of any losses and so this is a major step that weve seen a drop in passenger numbers of about 70 percent in recent weeks now the underlying approach is that people still needs to get about using public transport especially what they call key workers people who work in the Health Service and so on but gradually those services are being reduced to mina right minimise the spread of the corona virus another bigger announcement on monday morning all of the countries jury trials are being suspended stopped for the time being apart from those that are part way through to try to avoid the risk to Public Health so a lot of steps are being taken like that but the key thing that people have seen over the last 2 days over the weekend which saw lots of nice weather here in london has been shocking scenes really in many peoples minds of crowds in parks and at markets and now the government seems to be saying if you dont stop that sort of behavior failing to observe social distancing then we might bring in curfews in the very short in the very near future the Health Secretary on the airwaves on monday morning has been saying that its extremely unfair lots of caught people if you talk to people here in la. Didnt will tell you that they want firm action that they support some kind of or 30 whether thats the power to arrest to issue fines as weve seen in france and other countries we dont know later on monday there is an emergency bill being debated which would be rushed through Parliament Giving the government Emergency Powers for example to detain people if theyre not following the advice but for now the government seems to be saying we will do it if you dont behave thats as far as theyre prepared to go now dame do we have any indication yet from the British Government of what kind of numbers were expecting and weve seen such spread across Continental Europe and italy is the u. K. Expecting to follow in those kinds of footsteps when it comes to to that spread. Thats a really interesting question the government in their Daily Press Briefings over the last few days have actually been talking much more about practical measures and not about the Science Behind their approach and so on they were criticized originally for a delay trying to trying to favor giving it time for the virus to actually in some peoples opinion spread through the population the concept of herd immunity. Perhaps theyve been overtaken by events and looking at whats happened in italy it seems very clear that theres a correlation between where that country wards a couple of weeks ago where you the u. K. Was is right now rather in terms of numbers of cases and numbers of deaths so yes also on social media there is no shortage of n. H. S. National Health Service staff saying we are urging you to stay indoors precisely because were seeing whats happened in i. C. U. Use in intensive care in italy where beds are running out where they are having to decide who can have a ventilator to save their life and who cant and they are really really worried not only that theyre saying they havent got enough protective equipment in britains hospitals some nurses and doctors have been turning up in things that theyve had to buy themselves in Hardware Stores even been line is in some cases the Health Secretary says hes getting on top of that problem as of right now but the Health Service is really begging people to take this seriously they are saying yes that tsunami the wave of thousands of cases is just around the corner even if we moderate our behavior now its going to get worse and worse and even bob of f. I. F. A. In london following us fast moving developments thank you neal. Well lets now go to europe where spain has converted its Exhibition Center in madrid into a makeshift hospital lets go to laurin sydney he joins me now from london once it does seem that Continental Europe is a little further along this trajectory of spread than the u. K. What kinds of preparations are we seeing across the continent. Well its a mixed bag in all honesty and im just im trying to do a comparison between 2 countries spain and germany which just show how different the potential of the approaches to been in the outcomes as well spain as you said its now the 28000 cases and virtually 800 deaths very shot race of rise 400 or more deaths yesterday reported and frankly its panic stations madrid the capital is the center of the pandemic theyre trying to recruit students and with science people roadside dots and so on as you say theres a Big Convention center in the middle of madrid that looks like a. Elementary arsons of frankly now full of beds and i think increasingly in these countries which have been where the Health Services have been completely swarms they are going to have to start calling on increasing the only on the on the to help deal with this because a civilian self who simply cant so spain is in an absolute mess its only further restrictions on Movement People now cant leave the towns lots of businesses now told just to shut down completely. Germany 25000 cases needed the same numbers pain and yet fewer than 100 deaths and they have the medical experts in berlin have been saying just this morning that they think the peak might be starting to flatten out in germany now which is really amazing if you think about it its an Elderly Population in germany just like its really its tempting to think its a rich country in the hospitals are really good but you telling hospitals are really good too so the question really arises what is germany doing this difference where the places and having a much Better Success one answer seems to be according to the experts there is the policy of only allowing 2 people out of the time and completely gathering banning large group. The people from mingling together or the inside or outside may be crucial to this because all the experts say the virus isnt very good how solid is very good inside but its very good outside if large groups continue to gather and potentially i think one of the chiesa germany success if this becomes a state of the few days is a policy of just keeping people apart from each other while allowing them still to go outside and take in 6 russia so extreme social distancing potentially leading to some good news out of germany but the news out of italy 70 continues to be very grim indeed yes and as i was just saying. Minutes ago theyve had to take even further action than that than the source a sense of lockdown they were in before that lockdown didnt mean the people couldnt go to work but by and large it does now theres a list of companies that are allowed to stay open but other people having to stay indoors people on a level now allowed to move from town to town which is what caused this part of the virus in the 1st place and as you said in your introduction there are theres medical supplies been coming in from china and russia and doctors from cuba its completely decimated the italian Health Service lawrence lay there for us and london thank you very much charles and lines around the wild grounding their fleet says the Global Health emergency hits International TravelSingapore Airlines is the latest to cutback operations taking 96 percent of its planes out of commission now that follows decisions by emirates and takesh airlines to hold nearly all their passenger flights and major travel hubs continue to close their doors the United Arab Emirates home to the International Hub due by its suspending all passenger flights including transit travel as the International Air transport Association Says the industry stands to lose more than 100000000000. 00 in revenue this year. Well lets speak to Alex Metairie yes he is an aviation journalist and he joins us now on skype from dire alex the sheer scale of these cutbacks will the industry ever recover mean surely some of these rates will never be able to be picked up again well you know action is incredibly resilient so that is this like reassuring element to them but actually we are not at the worst of what we are seeing yet at least 5 yo shane and ons are in the process of completely closing down some of them until further notice not even outlining the time scale and thats because with the right of things on one side is because it was from linda mont so theyre trying to mount right now as finland to its lowest levels in aviation history lets be clear this is the largest prices to replicate the industry and so as a result because airlines cannot fly past and just because of the global restrictions those planes are empty and an airline can only ever make money on an aircraft is in the passengers so given thats not the case we are now seeing this wave come from you shut and work its way through to europe even here in the middle east as you mentioned the United Arab Emirates have issued a directive just that iran lines must close down at least for 2 weeks why is that significant well that you may need these firms to dubai and be to local going to places Emerson Ittihad operates in these airlines will be shut down as from wednesday along with flood to buy and how to be. A lot of work watch travel and not seeing this replicate now not just from asia but from the new europe when later this week and im johnson to do easyjet ground to the overwhelming the jets you please alex talk us through the Economic Impact because there will also be huge job losses were already saying some of those and this will also affect supply chains so how widespread are we talking. Incredibly widespread in fact its almost too much to comprehend because this really does go as far as the company mange to read that you can see you and that you use on board for your own bull mills to knowledge a scout for example production of commercial aircraft if we take a bus were located in france this morning they were actually reduce production of new backlogged well thats all very well in that they are taking new measures with social distancing on and reducing their rate of output of new aircraft but the airlines simply will not want to take those aircraft because the majority of them are grounding planes right now and thats going to have a huge effect and is already a huge effect on the global aviation waffles were seeing and i asked stahl to take unpaid leave was seeing other airlines keep me laying off passengers completely lay off start members until by the notice and its unclear whether or not that what force will return this is the most uncertain period for aviation that we have ever see and the effects on the industry and the employment and were going to be destructive i say that some governments are already trying to offer bail outs to some of the airlines is that going to be enough. The only way anons are going to be able to survive on a 711. 00 claim food is through Government Intervention and thats because their lines typically do not make very much money and we have done countless cuts your own now just erupt to talk about the elements that will financially fragile useful and if you like this Current Crisis so if you can only imagine what its doing to those airlines that will read he needs in terms of finances wellness crisis the only way forward is with Government Intervention and we are seeing more films for example in the u. K. That the government will likely bailout an Airline Giant such as British Airways one of the most