Bars former movie producer Harvey Weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison this is what justice looks like 20 plus 3 years. Sentenced. Weinstein had been convicted of rape and Sexual Assault in a case that gave momentum to the need to commit. Im serious oh my god its good to have you with us u. S. President donald trump has banned nearly all travel from europe to the United States that ban will last for 30 days but it excludes the u. K. And ireland and a few other countries outside the shang in the passport free travel area trump said clusters of corona virus infections in the u. S. Were traceable to people coming from europe and he blamed the European Union for failing to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the disease. So far the u. S. President had made light of the corona crisis but now donald trump has taken drastic measures by fellow americans. To keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to the United States for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight and these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade in cargo but various other things as we get the approval. For the travel ban will affect 26 European Countries and is set to come into force at midnight on friday trumps move seemed to take u. S. Allies as well as the markets by surprise it was quickly followed by another dramatic announcement the n. B. A. Said they would be suspending the basketball season fans at a game in oklahoma was sent home before a ball was bounced it later emerged that a player had tested positive for the coronavirus officials fear that rudi go bad may have been spreading the virus through the league. On monday he appeared to make light of hygiene concerns when he touched reporters recording equipment at a press conference. Then oscar winner tom hanks revealed he and his wife had tested positive to the couple are in isolation and following Public Health advice in australia. In an Instagram Post the actor said they were taking one day at a time and told his fans to take care of themselves. Our Political Correspondent been looking at all the latest developments for us i need a this travel ban essentially from donald trump from the u. S. President what are the reactions here in germany hows germany taking all of this well donald trump his Office Actually later corrected the message saying that it would not. Target cargo and goods so that is basically good news for the German Economy in a sense but of course this is a huge step and its a drastic measure to take and here in germany. 2019 alone some 5600000 people travel to the u. S. By plane so it is going to affect a lot of people germany of course being a member of the European Union will assess the situation very closely thats something that the e. U. Council president tweeted as a response but so far you Commission President also left on the line for example she has been quiet on the issue and that is also a sign in itself she hasnt reacted thats a very clear reaction and then of course donald trump calls this a foreign virus you have to keep in mind that this is an extremely delicate situation that can be exploited for political purposes so we have to always look at measures and numbers by governments we have to look at them very carefully indeed whether they come from china or the u. S. They can be exploited the situation well we have seen the w. H. O. Calling for more drastic measures and we have seen some countries that restrict travel could we expect more drastic measures you think youre in germany as well well germany is a federal state that means a lot of the competencies lie in the regions they lend germany has 16 regions and of course a measure of what it comes to Health Policy when it comes to education policy when it comes to decisions like cancelling Mass Gatherings for example theyre taken at regional level some of the most affected regions have already implemented those bans on Mass Gatherings for example. More than a 1000 people but whenever we speak to politicians here in berlin even when the microphones are switched off is that border closed as im not an option yet and everybody is saying the situation is extremely volatile and dynamic a lot of attention was paid to the fact that the chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday based on information from Senior Health officials that she expects 60 to 70 percent of the population here could be infected with this virus and how are people reacting to that well of course it took a long time but i think it is beginning to dawn on germans that the virus is coming closer and people really do need to change their behavior and so people are rethinking whether they really need to travel whether they need to meet their friends in these dynamic times or we saw the czech Prime Minister and we should say the Czech Republic sharing a border with germany are saying yesterday that merkel is spreading panic with this and this announcement of 60 to 70 percent of people could be infected i mean what does that tell us about the European Court nation the approach to this crisis well of course it shows us that europe is not speaking with one voice when it comes to the Coronavirus Crisis and it took until they sweet for the e. U. Leaders to actually get together in a Video Conference and to decide that the Health Ministers would from now on be talking to each other on a daily basis but that is also due to the fact that some of the e. U. Countries have just not been as affected and so you know it takes some time to get that operation going but it also clearly shows under machall statements clearly show that she is a scientist who believes in experts opinions and that is also not something that you can say of everybody who is currently leading a government in europe all right our Political Correspondent nina there with the very latest for us thank you. Now equities and oil prices plummeted again on thursday after the World Health Organization classified the outbreak as a pandemic and donald trump announced that travel ban from europe to the u. S. Germanys dax index of 30 Blue Chip Companies fell by 5. 5 percent in opening trading dropping below 10000 points for the 1st time since mid twentys 16 it a solid leads from wall street and later asia tokyo dropped more than 5 percent while hong kong finished down 3. 8 percent and sydney collapsed by almost 7 percent. And lets go right to our financial correspondent Chelsea Delaney standing by at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange shall see weve really seen a dramatic move on the dax today what are things like where you are right now. Its a very somber and tense atmosphere atmosphere here in frankfurt the moves that weve seen on the Financial Markets not just here in frankfurt but and stock exchanges around the world have been some of the most dramatic days certainly since the financial crisis but really and and recent memory investors are just increasingly worried about the financial cost of the virus which continues to spread and continues to force governments to take really painful actions including the virtual walked out of it leave but also the news overnight of the ban on travel between the u. S. And europe thats really raising the prospect of a Global Economic recession particularly in countries that were already facing a lot of weakness such as italy and germany and the broader euro zone so this is all just really putting a lot of pressure on stocks including the docks here and frankfurt. Chelsea dylan the reporting for us from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange thank you. Well italy as weve heard has tightened restrictions to try to stop the spread of the virus after limiting freedom of movement nationwide at the government has now ordered the closure of all shops except food stores and pharmacies they are hoping that these measures will eventually contain the disease and alleviate the pressure on hospitals the Health System in the north of italy is struggling to cope hospital beds and intensive care units at full capacity medical staff working around the clock especially in lumbered like at milans serco hospital at the moment and luckily none of our nurses or doctors are in quarantine right now theyre all working 12 hours a day to take care of patients. With the flood of patients pushing italys Health Care System to its limits prominent physicians have issued an urgent warning to the government. In only known i dont think we have the structures medical equipment doctors and nurses to cope with such a large number of sick people who feed jane the bit of wood out in the middle of the aisle to be. The toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of Supermarkets Food stores and pharmacies. Even the economic level this is dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. What its like if you. See the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses in a deliberate. Well decided to allocate an additional 25000000000 euros to help the country cope with the difficulties of this ongoing emergency in the difficult places though through some of jeanson. Its money the heavily into government can hardly afford. All right so italy as we see theyre stepping up measures as the country tries to contain the outbreak lets bring in Derek Williams from science for more on the corona Virus Outbreak there 1st of all you are here in berlin actually but you are joining us from home we understand because youre under a selfimposed quarantine tell us what happened well yesterday to our school informed us that one of the members of staff had come back over at 19 and. They sent that out to all of the parents and announce that they were closing the Elementary School and i also in combination with that i didnt have any direct contact with someone who was in fact. Its like cold symptoms for the last few days and talking together with the dont you there we had plans in place for a few weeks that were there were the 4 saw up circumstances like this and we greet that i would sell for and in for a few days and tell either my symptoms get better or intel i test negative for over 90 you know these are precisely the precautions that Health Officials are advising derek and i want to ask you about this term that we keep hearing flattening curve scientists are saying this is the approach that we need to take what does flattening the curve mean and why is it so important. Right but i thought that you might ask me this question so i actually made a little a little diagram for you i didnt have the resources that we have there own choice about it but i just what i think its going to show in a picture on here on here on the x. Axis you can see that thats thats the time right and heres the number of places on the y. Axis now now what plenty of the curve the curve of the epidemic is going to spike and at the moment and at some point we reach this broken line here which is the number of resources that we actually have at our disposal in order to treat those people so flooding the current means getting the spike down under these this broken line of where our resources are stretched to the limit and that would mean that flattens the curve as you can see so thats the nifty little its a little counterintuitive in some ways because what youre saying is we actually want to prolong the outbreak we want to prolong the epidemic but in reality its the only way that we see right now moving forward to actually slow it down to keep within our resources and to get on top of it just goes to show that your pen and paper are just as good as our fancy graphics here and. I would ask you about the shutdowns that weve seen in italy for example these are shutdowns that for the moment are really only planned for either a few get days or weeks at a time but we do know that the virus will not be gone by then so how effective can these shutdowns actually be. Well i mean the short answer to that question is that at this point we dont really know the w. H. O. Has said that were in uncharted territory as you know Different Countries are dealing with this and handling this and different ways but theyre reading degrees of Success China has gotten on top of it appears at some point there the number of infections has cropped dramatically the question is of course what happens if theres a 2nd wave of infections there south korea also appears to be getting things quite well in hand with a with a program that is called that theyre calling the 3 t. s which is to trace to test and then to treat and theyve got all these mobile centers set up in order to test people outside where where where where Health Care Personnel are actually safer thats much less conan than the chinese model at the same time we see places like italy where where the Health Care Systems are at this time to be threatened with collapse so in europe as we said we have to really focus on flattening that curve on getting the number of cases down as far as far as possible and stretching out the amount of time that we have between now and when we can finally develop effective means to combat this disease including a vaccine and of course antivirals but i do want to ask you about china because the health the mission there says that the country has passed the peak of the coronavirus epidemic what makes them so optimistic. Well and none of humanity is out of the woods yet on this i mean china is a Major Trading partner for many Many Companies in the world and there are people that are going to have to be moving in and out of that country and so when you have the movement of people you automatically are going to the chances of reinfection these massive efforts have paid off for now. The optimism that i think that theyre feeling their public comes from the idea that they would be in this mornings we can be to yeah our correspondent Derek Williams from the science thank you very much for your insights. All right lets take a look at some more Coronavirus Development developments now a spain is considering a lockdown of its capital madrid saudi arabia has suspended travel by its citizens and residents and halted flights to and from several states twitter and google are recommending that employees worldwide work from home japan back olympics there to go ahead. For the latest on the corner of ours including information about what to do if you think you might be infected please visit our website thats g. W. Dot com. All right lets get a roundup now of some other stories making news around the world media reports say germanys Domestic Intelligence agency is placing an extremist wing of the far right alternative for Germany Party under surveillance the group is led by a firebrand yun hota whos been accused of using rhetoric from germanys nazi past. European Commission President was last on the line is postponed a visit to greece because of the coronavirus pandemic she was due to hold talks on the situation on the border with turkey where there been clashes with police as thousands of migrants attempt to cross in to the European Union. And theres also been clashes at overcrowded migrant camps on greek islands now as many as 100. 00 children from those camps are being offered refuge here in berlin the children have been chosen because they are ill unaccompanied or younger than 14 years old more now on how the german capital is preparing for the young arrivals. Thousands of refugees among them many children are stuck in makeshift camps in greece clothing and food are in short supply and nobody knows what will become of these people. The City Government here in berlin says it wants to welcome 2000. We need the National Government to help make this happen but it has categorically refused to help these people in need and said germany is not going to take any unilateral action. For months weve just been standing idly by as people perish and children suffer this is a disaster. But then is preparing for the eventual arrival of some of these refugees empty portable Housing Units at the decommissioned tempelhof airport and being hooked up again to the mains they date from 2015 when germany admitted almost a 1000000 refugees back then the authorities were taken by surprise and scramble to cope the situation was a times chaotic and conditions were the new arrivals very poor. 5 years on the balance City Government department thats responsible for refugees and Asylum Seekers says that its now much better prepared. To have a cup at city where the