al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian said again this is the news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the pandemic that threatens to lead to global turmoil countries resort to extreme steps to combat the outbreak. europe it's back at donald trump for banning almost all flights from the continent. the crew is a global crisis not limited to a continent and close cooperation rather than unilateral action and the world health organization calls for an easing of sanctions on iran to help

it fight the virus outbreak. and sport team mclaren pulls out of the formula one grand prix in australia after a team member task positive for corona virus meanwhile spanish football side around the trade are in quarantine as the league suspends all matches. sweeping travel bans countries under lockdown economies in trouble the coronavirus pandemic is threatening to cause global turmoil countries around the world are putting in place drastic measures to fight the spread of the illness in spain the death toll has jumped by 84 almost double yesterday's reported deaths nearly 3000 cases there and the prime minister will now hold meetings 5 video conference suffer a minister contracted the disease while the u.k. as well. to limit the spread scientists there have recommended

a travel ban on soft of the u.s. restricted most travel from europe on wednesday britain's prime minister boris johnson is set to hold an emergency meeting in the coming hour and is asking for billions in loans from the international monetary fund to fight the virus the health ministry says the number of infections is suppost 10429 people have died this is the current level of infections around the world john hopkins at johns hopkins university in the u.s. has been tracking the global spread more than 127000 cases across 6 continents of those more than 68000 people have recovered we've got correspondents in tehran washington and london let's begin with the worsening crisis in europe and joined lawrence lee in the u.k. lawrence other european nations are beginning to follow italy's lead of bringing in more stringent measures to contain the spread of the virus tell us more. yeah

that's exactly right italy has now closed down to all intents and purposes with the exception of food stores and pharmacies. and that's now become the example for for other countries to to begin to follow spain as you said has now seen the call to its health ministry arise the last 24 hours from 47 to 84 deaths leader that the football league's now been suspended they're talking potentially about putting madrid on lockdown big gathering schools are all are all bound and closed and other countries are now sunder for the same thing. and denmark poland malta all european union countries which donald trump said and been doing enough of all now said that they're closing their schools and colleges with more or less immediate effects and of course there are enormous economic and social

consequences to all of this people are now clearly having to make decisions about whether they can go to work or whether they stay at home with their children there's enormous impact on the economy as well which explains why the stock markets across europe of been falling like a stone but they are obviously now a standard thing that if italy is anything to go by and they want to get ahead of the situation if you now finds itself in and flatten the curve as people talk about limit the number of cases and limit the some of the stress on the hospitals then they have no choice but to do these things i know that the u.k. is an island off the coast of northwestern europe why isn't the u.k. doing the same thing. well that's a very good question as you said the government's emergency committee is meeting just at the moment and while they are very widely expected to be moving to be announcing the moving into the next phase which is potentially starting to close

things down and tell people to work from home it doesn't look like they're going to start with school closures the arguments against closing down schools is that 1st of all children seem to be very good carriers of it even though they don't get ill and if they carry it to their home and maybe they don't hang out with their grandparents they get on a bit of a verse in the making the grandparents are very ill or even dead and as well as that the argument goes if you put children at home and then people for example emergency services money not be able to go to work and that creates even more stress for the health care system so so all of these counter arguments from playing clearly you don't have a joined up set of thinking for example between the u.k. and other european countries and plainly and it's a cliche but only times going to tell which of these 2 approaches turns out to be more successful or serious laura slade live in london let's go to washington d.c. mike hanna is there for a certain mike what's behind the president's announcement the plights from some

parts of europe will be banned for a month. well the president appears to view the virus as some kind of foreign attack that's the way he cultured his announcement in office travel ban the morning has been spent in unpacking exactly what the president said and what the president meant he has had to walk back some of the statements he made in that speech for example that cargo traffic will continue american citizens abroad will be able to return the ban does not apply to u.s. citizens or permanent residents but the situation is there has been much criticism of the president's travel ban in specific in effect why the area the 26 european nations where no action is taken some more than 20 other european nations many describing it as a political act maybe even cynical so certainly there has been a lot of discussion about that in the course of the morning now what is deeply

disturbing as well while the trumpet ministration continues to insist that it is ramping up testing for example is that the c.d.c.'s the center for disease control official website shows that a number of tests have dropped substantially in the past week the c.d.c. website itself reveals that it has no recorded testing over the last 4 days alone now the vice president mike pence was asked about this he says there is problems with getting the website up to date he says there is work being done on this he continues to insist that anybody who needs a test will be able to get one but when asked directly whether he knew exactly how many tests had been done the man who's in charge of combat in the virus had no whatsoever he said let's leave that to the experts so great concern not only about the impact of the travel ban but also about the trumpet ministrations ongoing apparent inability to roll out an effective testing program which may be why the u.s. at the moment is showing

a relative lack of infectious cases or whether this may be because of lack of testing rather than one prevalence of the. iris there as mike hanna live in washington mike many thanks indeed let's go now to one of the worst hit countries in the world iran al-jazeera same bus ravi is live for us in tehran as we say in the country one of the worst hit it's now appealing for help from the international monetary fund why. that's right adrian we are several weeks into this global pandemic in many countries in asia and middle east are already talking about the gains being made to contain covert 19 but here in iran there continue to be signs every day that seem to illustrate that iran is struggling to contain struggling to stop the spread of the coronavirus earlier today we learned that the foreign minister zarif sent a letter to the u.n. secretary general in tanya gets here is asking the united nations to bring to bear

its pressure whatever it can do on the united states to end what iran describes as illegal and unilateral sanctions that are hindering its coronavirus response in a tweet just about an hour ago he also listed 30 types of medical supplies that 1st responders medical care givers desperately need to track to identify and to continue to treat patients who have contract of the current virus disease and a little bit before that he also tweeted about the 5000000000 dollars that the that iran has requested from the i.m.f. to help it as part of emergency relief for the coronavirus saying that the i.m.f. should be on the right side of history and help iran when it is unable to do this on its own really it is too expensive for a country that is already struggling economically well before the coronavirus began well before before the outbreak came to run its economy struggled due to u.s. sanctions placed on its on its oil sector on its banking sector and really the

coronavirus has exacerbated an already difficult economic situation and all this as the worst is yet to come experts here say that the peak of the virus in iran is likely to happen in the next 2 weeks i'll just be live and say many thanks indeed the roller coaster ride for the asian stock markets continues comes a bad day on wall street on wednesday the announcement from president trump shutting down travel to and from europe due to the coronavirus meanwhile china has announced the peak of the outbreak the house postes school hyla reports. another big selloff in the asian stock markets investors reacting to events in new york and what's called the 1st a bear market there in 11 years that's the term used on wall street for more than 20 percent fall in market value from recent highs the major asian indices followed suit with steep declines on thursday asian traders also reacted to president donald

trump's travel ban from european countries but not the u.k. an automatic 5 minute trading halt was triggered in the south korean market at one point the main japanese and south korean markets were down more than 5 percent but rebounded slightly by the end of the trading session australia's government announced that is falling other nations by injecting money into its economy to offset the impact of the coronavirus $6.00 and a half 1000000 australians will be getting a check for $750.00 now so for us to tell those trends how to spend their money but what we do know from experience is that they will spend that money and that money will encourage economic activity in south korea the number of new coronavirus cases being reported is decreasing after infection cluster at a call center in the capital seoul was discovered earlier in the week all call center operations are being closely monitored but the government warned against premature optimism as the highest alert level remains south korea has the 4th highest number of cases behind china italy and iran. as major sporting events and

large audience of ants are cancelled around the world the governor of japan's capital says the tokyo olympics will go ahead the games are due to start in july made on the quiet he must get at them while i know there are various opinions but the tokyo government has been preparing for this everyone is looking forward to the games although the high school baseball tournament is being cancelled i don't think there's an option to cancel the olympics and paralympics. china's government announced that the peak of the corona virus outbreak there is officially over. and in the province where the virus that triggered the global pandemic was initially discovered recorded new cases are in single digits for the 1st time. the majority of them travelers returning from abroad a positive sign that the containment is moving forward. al-jazeera in india our correspondent elizabeth 4 on him says that the government hopes that its emergency measures will contain the spread among one of the course

a 1000000000 indians. as of 12 g.m.t. on friday and on to april the 15th no foreign nationals can enter india apart from diplomats work for the united nations or have certain employment visas the indian government has also said that all incoming travelers including incoming travelers indians haven't been to any destination coming from any destination but haven't been to china. south korea france germany and spain will be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and all indians whether they hear or board to avoid. essential travel and saying that they might be quarantined for a minimum period of 14 days upon their return to india now india has $68.00 confirmed cases so far 14 of them italian tourists and as well as the latest proportions that are being taken by the government which have seen headlines around

the country saying india quarantines itself you know essentially closing itself off to the world we have had all primary schools and shot at least for the last week there are 5 cases and delhi all educational institutions have been closed in indian administered kashmir where there is where there is one case the indian government is also evacuating its nationals from iran there are something like 2000 indians there were $58.00 back at the end of last of just a few days ago actually but before it does that and whether it's from iran it's also planning to bring back nationals from italy it actually has to send medical teams to test them to see if they have a virus before bringing them back now all of this is going to it's already seeing an impact on the economy which has seen a significant is experiencing a massive slowdown and both of india's 2 main stock indices are in

freefall but the government feels that it has to take these proportions. to stop people from people who might have come on a virus from entering our country because once they do it will be hard to spread among 1300000000 people. let's take a look at the situation in south africa now which reported its 1st case of local transmission on thursday al-jazeera is from a tamil is that. despite the government urging people in south africa to remain calm panic is certainly sitting in especially given the amount of disinformation out there and also that 1st person to person transmission when the corona virus was 1st detected in south africa it was within a group of people who were travelled to italy for a skiing holiday on their return some of them experienced some terms and that's where the 1st cases were detected now when this person to person transmission it's in a different province in the free state and what is concerning for people is that it

appears that the spread of control is something that can't be avoided and that's certainly a reality for many people in south africa but what's also making millions here anxious is the government's plans to repack tree 8 about a 122 south africans from all who has been to south africa and there is a lot of debate around just where this group will be quarantined no president has repeatedly said that none of those people have the coronavirus they will be screened in china they'll be screened on their arrival in south africa this is also being reiterated by the ministry of health but despite these recent reassurances people in south africa are concerned about what this will mean for their health and this goes as far as even the agencies the african national congress the governing party and south africa it's only youth league has promised to stage

a march if indeed this group of people is quarantined in a specific area in the province of limpopo sports events around the world are being postponed cancelled or even played in empty stadiums chooser the pandemic our sports correspondent and the richness here to tell us more about a some of the the main events that have been hit by the coronavirus the n.b.a. being one of them yes moving so fast when i want to let. this office in the small way out of last night's situation was that one scene he decided to play warning game behind closed doors in the n.b.a. within a few hours the entire league has been suspended the holding images of player from the utah jazz really go bear he's tested positive for corona virus and he was in a press conference on monday trying to make lights of the crowd of are saying it's not that serious not to panic he was in a press conference room he decided as a joke to wipe his hands over the microphones in defiance of the journalists of big wave to them all thought it was all a great big job he's tested positive for the coronavirus and now

a lot of players having to work out how much concept they've had with him a lot of the teams having to self isolate that league has been suspended f one as well hanging on by thread after the team members tested positive i mean it's always more interesting the events that are still going on lewis hamilton the reigning world champion saying was asked directly that question why is formula one still happening when so many other events of been cancelled he said cash is king in any in his opinion it was shocking that it is still going on we're expecting around 300000 fans to go to the. streets are going to melbourne i've a qualifying practice and race day itself and at the moment the race is going ahead the mclaren saying one of the 10 seems taking part in the race this year just pulled out of the race one of their team has tested positive for corona virus you can't really see how the season is going to progress as per normal but there's a huge financial pressure for if one to carry on a course which we're talking about sporting events that are happening now or in the

next few days course the big one this year will be the olympics taking place and then all the hemisphere winter i mean is that going to go or do you think it's some peculiar with the olympics it's almost as if they're sort of existing in some kind of parallel dimension at the moment we've got the light single of the olympic flame going on in greece and that is going on as normal as no spectators there the flame is then going to japan in a couple of. time they're saying the torch relay will take place and despite the fact that it was officially declared as a pandemic the governor was asked the really the question will that have an impact on the olympics happening they said it's absolutely impossible that it can be council that starts in july recess so many financial pressures on not advance it's a place dealing picks effectively bankrolled by american cv money they don't want to see it pushed in so later on in the year they need to have it's happen in july august perhaps hoping that the weather may change the conditions of the forest and it will be a deploring that time but at the moment so i'm willing to qualifying events are

being called off but they're saying the games will go on you've got real madrid going into self isolation at the coroutine the affectively athletico played in the u.k. last night in the champions league as we go to a sport that was a we're going to have to get used to not being able to go to these games for a while we just don't have to watch on t.v. or when is that going to happen but we're expecting an update on the english premier league which is one of the few european leagues which is still carrying on as normal of the model which is in the next couple of hours about what will happen there. not just seemed surreal we had 3000 fans marching through liverpool 50000 liverpool fans at that game last night at a time when virtually every other game is either being played behind closed doors or has been suspended the real madrid c. one of the basketball players who plays the rounded basketball team they share the facilities with a real madrid football team and he's tested positive there in self isolation can't you see how the champions league or many of these european leagues get finished on

time and that then has a huge knock on impact of the european championships the international events taking place in the summer that's meant to be taking place across 12 cities in 12 different countries is that realistically going to happen i can't say but at the moment again your wife is saying the european championships will happen our sports correspondent i mean richardson many thanks indeed. to other news now true american a british soldier have been killed by a barrage of rockets fired at a military base in iraq other personnel are being treated for injuries at camp taji north of the capital baghdad the ones claimed responsibility for this latest in a series of attacks where foreign forces are placed our correspondent some of faultiness in baghdad says there's concern that this latest attack could lead to an escalation of violence well many people fear that this deadly attack could once again result in a series of tit for tat attacks and we've already seen

a reaction not in iraq but in syria very close to the iraqi border there was a strike on positions of the popular mobilization of forces very shortly after the attack on the base now many of these iranian backed groups that operate both in syria and iraq so what is interesting is that we saw a reaction in syria the what remains to be seen whether the united states would actually strike in iraq this time around the same way it did following the deadly attack on the k one base in chemical kirkuk back in december which is what set off this series of retaliatory retaliatory attacks in the 1st place now the situation has changed quite a bit since then 1st of all there was 6 a serious escalation to very dangerous levels that many people did not really expected and raced fear is especially here in iraq of an outside war between the u.s. and iran has also since been a vote in the iraqi parliament to demand the departure of foreign troops and those

negotiations are still ongoing for all of this will affect the extent to which the u.s. will respond to this deadly attack but of course we had u.s. officials repeated on regular basis that they do reserve the right to defend its troops here especially if they feel that the iraqi government is not doing enough to do so. scotland is to an hour of a to allow an appeal brought by the family of a libyan man convicted of the 1988 lockerbie bombing the former libyan intelligence officer officer. died in 2012 a commission looking into the trial has found a posthumous appeal should be allowed to reports abdel baset tell mcgraw his family have long pushed to prove his innocence now 8 years after his death and more than 30 years after the lockerbie tragedy they got a chance the scottish criminal cases review commission has decided the conviction

can be referred to the high court for appeal for the 3rd time we had a dental fight 6 graves for referring the case to the appeal court and the commission has gone on to deliver a damning indictment of the process and they believe that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred by reason of an unreasonable verdict and the grounds of non-disclosure pan am flight 103 was blown up over the scottish town of lockerbie in december 1988 it was on route from london to new york and most of the 270 victims were american the us relatives were satisfied when in 2001 former libyan intelligence officer. he was jailed for life for the attack he always said he was innocent and some scottish victims' families have campaigned for years to clear him and find out who was involved on wednesday jim swire whose daughter was killed gave a written reaction. for me this case is about 2 families mine and abdel baset behind their name are seen to lie the needs of $25.00 other families in applying

for a further appeal 31 years after the event itself we need the truth again he 1st appeal his conviction in 2002 but this was refused by scotland's high court the next year as the west started to rebuild trade ties with libya then leader moammar gadhafi accepted his country's responsibility for the bombing he paid compensation to the victims' families but all along some believed there was stronger evidence iran was behind the bombing months after $290.00 died when a u.s. warship brought down in the arabian passenger plane. in 2009 al mcgraw he dropped his appeal and was allowed to fly home on compassionate grounds he had terminal cancer he died in 2012 we grow his family have always described to us the 271st lockerbie victim they say his last words were about fighting for justice now that fight has been given a new lease of life nadine barber al jazeera australia's high court has delayed

a final verdict on an appeal by the roman catholic cardinal george pell is fighting to overturn his conviction for sexual abuse the 78 year old former archbishop of melbourne is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. the highest ranking catholic church official ever convicted of child sex crimes charges or as michael engage is outside the court in canberra and says a decision might not be made public for months. all of the arguments today have really been based around of course seeing some of the issues that the defense yesterday at the defense really questioned the credibility and reliability of one of the former quiet boys who was sexually assaulted by shell the other one died in 24 chain of a drug overdose but the prosecution today told the court that there's no reason to not believe this witness he did come across this well liable incredible the jury

saw all of that and there's no reason why the high court should not believe him either now obviously these 2 days of hearing has come to an end now it's been very very significant case in this trial but this appeal process is very often that's because the justices decided to reserve in making a decision on this case and that means that we may not hear back from them for months so essentially many things could happen here but getting to the crux of it 7 justices now need to decide over the coming months whether they will uphold the conviction or allow george pell to walk away a free man. some pretty nasty weather on its way to bits of egypt tell us more is make sure i just have some folks that yanis right in we've got system really stormy weather bring across that northeastern corner of africa and you can see the thunderhead showing up really quite nicely on the satellite picture we've got

thunder showers now just around xandra there around cairo big downpours and over the next 24 hours or so some of these places quite easily say maybe 50 to 60 millimeters of rain is the system where his wife very very strong winds as well as by gusty conditions close to those storms in particular lots of lifted dust and sand the temperatures kyra 20 celsius cottam 41 we got a keen northerly wind as we go through the next couple of days as thursday's pitch with that 41 in khartoum you see the largest shadings to the north is that they will sink further south with something i can 11 degree drop in temperatures level 12 degrees therefore cut same as that system makes its way through so friday looks like another lie the day across that northeastern corner of apes of egypt around the sinai peninsula pushing over towards the levant and yet yes to begin to see some of that wet weather pushing across northern parts of saudi arabia syria lebanon jordan all seeing some very big and gusty showers the potential for some

flooding rains that will make its way across iraq again wind pushing in behind slowly quieting down for the end of the weekend. ever so many thanks indeed still to come here on the news out of the financial fallout from the coronavirus and the make workers in the tourism industry call the drop in demand a disaster. and in stores it began as a joke about this plan to become the n.b.a.'s patient 0 far will be here with all the details a little later. from algiers there is london broadcast center 2 special guests in conversation the state the american state steps in. unsaved culpability unprompted uninterrupted people think that racism is having perth will vitriol towards black people by and there's no understanding of what the to make racism is intimately reflecting on the issues of our time and i realized i was working for something i was evil and i had been

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hello get adrian for the get here in doha with the news out from al-jazeera the headlines the e.u. has condemned the decision by the u.s. to suspend all travel for most of europe for 30 days after the world health organization declared the corona virus pandemic the e.u. has warned the move could cause economic disruption. in spain the death toll has jumped by 84 almost double yesterday's record number of early 3000 cases in the prime minister will now hold meetings by video conference after minister contracted the disease in italy more businesses are being forced to close their doors as the country tight these restrictions only pharmacies and shops selling food will be allowed to stay open. we're keeping an eye on the markets as they open in the us off to the rest of the world stocks fell sharply on thursday due to the pandemic the dow jones dropped nearly 6 percent on wednesday let's go live now to wall

street of zeroes christensen whom is with us what's the latest kristen. well adrian the markets have just opened here in new york and i'm looking at the ticker right now and stocks are dropping precipitously once again it looks like the dow is down just under 7 percent in the s. and p. $500.00 also just under 7 percent 7 percent my understand will trigger an automatic shutdown of the markets that's what happened overnight after president bush announced his plans to stop the spread of the coronavirus and mitigate economic impact futures markets dropped more than 5 percent triggering an automatic shutdown this is the 2nd time that's happened so far this week clearly investors are concerned that the plan is not enough to stem the economic impact and

mitigate the impact of economic impact for businesses the travel ban announced by president trump another concern for airlines and energy companies even lower demand for oil will result from less travel. energy companies have been taking a real hit lately on the one hand you've got less demand for oil and on the other hand this ongoing price war between saudi arabia and russia the u.a.e. and saudi arabia are ramping up production even as demand falls this is very troubling for us and energy companies which are very heavily in debt and also suffering from these lower prices president. announced other measures in addition to the travel ban but they were very general he said that the administration would provide financial relief for workers who are ill caring for others due to the virus or quarantine but there weren't a lot of specifics there yet he kind of kicked the can down the road to congress.

they still have to come up with the plan congress is due to go on recess next week so all these moves seem to be not quite specific enough for investors who are looking for a more robust response to stem their concerns and it looks like it's going to be another rough day the markets are 80 down the s. and p. at least in one major indices to end indexes down more than 20 percent from session highs in february which suggests we're now in a bull market with. a downward trend as opposed to an upward trend. growth but thanks to chris and salumi that live on wall street as we've been hearing countries around the world are working to control the spread of the virus of the economic impact too but how exactly should countries be reacting to the virus to discuss this i'm joined now by dr patrick tand is the division chief of pathology sciences at syndrome that's and we've also got dan curious is an economist and

senior fellow at the also web based global economy program of the sense of international governments innovation patrick we'll start with you we've talked a lot during this news hour about president trump's mission is to to prevent growth of virus spreading throughout the united states one of those is that he stopped all flights coming in from europe and it is that the kind of measure that seriously going to stop the spread of this virus it's unlikely to contain the virus i think that w.h.o. has argued against these wide ranging travel bans as a measure to contain the virus with spread with in the united states it's unlikely that banning travel from some of the other heavily affected countries will reduce spread within their borders and so what so what should the countries be doing it's really at the mode locking down entire regions is is that the way to go is that the way it should be done there's lots of different measures and i think every measure has to be specific for that country and they have to look at that in. crim mental

public health benefit of the measure that they're going to use and compare that to the social economic cost of these sometimes wide ranging measures that they're adopting so so in italy it might make sense for them to do these sort of wide quarantine zones but that may not make sense in other countries in the region we've been talking throughout the program as well about why the u.k. hasn't introduced the measures the places like italy have an other european nations thinking about bringing in so they go it's perfectly reasonable for england to the u.k. to do it soon thing is it what suits one doesn't suit yeah i think every country has autonomy as in how they respond to this outbreak and and maybe some countries have you know more lax measures than other countries so if you look at the response in south korea that is definitely a very strong response to the virus and if you look at the 1st country has affected china they had extremely fast and strong response or virus and now they're seeing

a lot of the benefits of that strong response or that's bring in dan. dan we were hearing just a few moments ago that the dow jones has opened what is down 7.2 percent right now off to major forces in asia earlier on thursday away at the beginning of a global recession. i think that's pretty much a report on a conclusion now we're ready the forecasts have been revised down. to start after 2020 at around 3 percent growth which is close to the threshold of $2.00 that marks a global recession he always he is or it already in his mild case forecast is a 2.4 so below that threshold and what we're seeing now pretty much is that caster tracking the worst case scenario where global growth a dips down to the one to one to have percent range so if that's that's

a pretty severe will recession i think that's pretty much now be to the numbers and that i think believe is why it you're seeing big like in the equity markets it does this this downturn any similarity to the downside in 2008 how long will it last. so that done of course is very difficult to say because much depends upon the ability to contain the spread of the virus on the medical side. what we do know right now is that in the bruce quarter we had a dip entry to declining trade across the pacific shipping numbers were down 20 percent or so and that's on the order of what we saw in terms of the declining to lead with the year in 2000 and the 2009 so this would have to be extended for the full year or 2 to me that the beer be and that present trump is just imposed may not do anything for controlling the buyers but if we take into

account that 50 percent of your freight moves in the belly of passenger planes this will cause further disruption to treat as well so what we're seeing on the trade side is a pretty bad numbers for the purse quarter missal probably spend into the 2nd quarter and then really the question is what happens to the big services sector 70 percent of our economy now services and much of the hospitality industry is being shut down patrick a lot of this turmoil that was saying all the financial markets came off to the world health organization declared the quote of our south great to be a pandemic i mean that does it doesn't matter what we call it whether it's a pandemic and all from the health care point of view out whether we call it a pandemic or a public health emergency or international concern is irrelevant i think there was there calls from the w.h.o. for different countries to take this very seriously and to take measures to control the spread and contain their outbreak

a public health care professional i know you are you personally worried and what do you make of the. if you like that that the contradiction between business with the wheels of business the with the economy have to keep turning somehow. the wise we're going to be the terrible economic mess but then again you have to prioritize public health care and you have to introduce measures that are going to keep people safe. i think it's very difficult in every every country has to take different measures to do this and and in every situations i've said before we have to balance the incremental public health benefits with the impact on the society and the economy so these measures may apply in one situation but not in other situations are you personally worried about i'm definitely concerned about the break in we're following it closely i i think for most of us that live in developed countries that have advance public health systems we can trust the systems that are in place to

protect us and also with all the public health messaging that's going around we also hope that people are taking that to heart that they are staying home when they're sick they are not going to school and go into work to spread viruses and people are washing their hands wash not touching their faces of cool if everybody did all of these things that would go such a long way and prevent so many outbreaks final questions you want should governments be doing right now to help businesses who are under severe strain. there's a number of things that i think are being put in place the 1st and most important thing is to make sure that the banks keep working capital of being able to to companies sort of big they do not have to lay off staff i think in german so that we face a unique challenge this is not a person meets a recession of this kind we're deep into the gate economy where a lot of people are casual temporary workers don't have formal sickly singapore has

done something very interesting which is to establish universal sickleave even improve economy were as i think that's something the government should be thinking about. there is a movement afoot to articulate tax filings and to accelerate a tax rebate you can approach that we have a low income rebate for a low income household rebate for value added taxes so keeping the money flowing into the hands of the low income households to keep consumption up i think is really important but he said something interesting and i know it promised to last on a last question but i've got to ask you one more does this have the potential to reshape the way in which the world does business in terms of supply chains working from home you talked about universal sick pay that's something. so i think in terms so the it has been some sense that this points to the risk of

global of globalization i see that when the dust has settled on this that we will recognize that in fact a globalized economy is more resilient even if there are supply chain shocks now as china is coming out of the. their downturn they're the ones that are able to provide the the medical masks to italy for example that's one thing on the other hand i think this is certainly going to have a long term echo in terms of things like b.-o. conferencing. universities are making courses now available online. so how how far this goes towards changing to accelerate in our move into the into a bird to a world is hard to say but certainly it think this will give it a very a sharper boost in that direction than kuria care in auto many thanks to dr patrick

tang here in doha thank you for being with us. or one sector of the global economy that's feeling major pain from the pandemic is the tourism industry with so many people canceling their travel plans airlines cafes and street vendors are already suffering and your ship reports. paris no longer has its notoriously long queues at famous landmarks such as the loop businesses that depend on tour spending so the impact of the pandemic is unprecedented you say to him as if it's massive for us we're in an area where americans like to come and also customers who are quite sensitive to the impact of this kind of event. we're starting to feel the catastrophe it's worse than the strikes worse than the yellow vest protests. and must answer these just that over the top of the current situation in venice uganda li is quite disastrous because there is no work. across italy travel is restricted

public gatherings banned normally one of europe's top destinations roam streets and colosseum eerily quiet. all stores have been ordered closed except pharmacies and groceries my god he will be missed in the end this health problem will be resolved while the economic problems perhaps will take longer i don't know how we're going to get out of this. lack of tourists in the valley of the kings in egypt is an ominous sign of how damaging the pandemic will be for the economy and the population of $100000045.00 cases were confirmed on a nile river cruise in looks or connected to a single american tourist aboard ship a bunch of been shot at the streets of looks or empty because of the corona virus there are medical health and security checks because of fears the virus will spread from other countries to the egyptian people. across asia the effects are apparent from 2 cats quite beaches to jai poor in india foreign tourists are staying away from the pink city after a group of italian tourists tested positive for business is like. more love for

glass i'm a small east on cane brake on wall and in japan where half of tourists come from south korea and china someone is someone we can only wait until it calms down we are all in the same boat from tour guides to street vendors everyone who depends on visitor spending are feeling a pinch from the pandemic. millions in one of the world's biggest industries suffering a devastating blow to their livelihoods the u.s. travel agency expects the pandemic to deal a trillion dollar blow to the global economy and al-jazeera. latin america has so far recorded runs of mean low numbers and sections of the coronavirus despite this government's they're taking strict measures to try to limit any further spread so as a bow reports from argentina's capital one assad has. the brazilian president declared and is shutting down the country for completely for at least one month

banning foreigners from entering the country the argentinean precedent here i read of the program this is imposing mandatory isolations for those quote for coming to argentina from countries that have been affected like italy spain and even the united states is also there's also been discussions about finding people that do not respect this a mandatory isolations that the government has weeks questing people to do but perhaps the biggest challenge for a region that is highly volatile economically is the possibility of the deterioration of the economic situation a latin america generally is heavily dependent on china it's the 2nd trading partner in this part of the world we're going to see i probably some courage is devaluating there's going to be as you christine tourism the drop in oil prices pretty dramatic countries like venezuela and ecuador for example that's already cutting some budgets and reducing the salaries of faith employees but perhaps the biggest impact would be in a country like argentina that is in

a very big economic crisis this country's already imposing capital controls there is a big recession here. poverty rates on the rise and it's already restructuring its boring debts we know for example that it's already several shipments of agricultural products like beef and others that have been suspended from going to china at this point and that's why many are extremely view worried that argentina could be formed on its sovereign debt once again just like it happened back in 2001 when poverty rates in this country were asked by a 60 percent on the level of the house $1000000000.00 stimulus package has been unveiled in australia prime minister scott morrison hopes that it will stop the economy slipping into recession most of the money will go to small and medium sized businesses certainly depends heavily on imports exports i'm sure isn't from china. so. here on the news hour the olympic gold rises and says the games will go on as

the flame is lit and addressed to keep head down south. business leaders as well to buy no prospal.

business leaders as well to buy no bras paul. the only the old. fellow gentile to support his far adrian thank you so much dreads football team have been placed in quarantine the entire spanish league has been suspended for at least 2 weeks it comes after a round madrid basketball player tested positive for corona virus the basketball team shares the same training facility as the football club says it will re-evaluate after the completion of quarantine reller due to play man city and the

champions league match on tuesday. mclaren team has withdrawn from this week's season opening australian grand prix after a team member tested positive for the virus and said in a statement that the infected person is believed to be a mechanic and is now self isolating in melbourne reported total of 8 f one team members in the paddock have been quarantined awaiting test results 6 time for milan champion lewis hamilton says it shocking that the australian grand prix is being held amid health concerns fans have been banned at the 2nd race in bahrain while the 4th race of the series the chinese grand prix has been postponed. the entire n.b.a. basketball season has been suspended until further notice that's after one of the best players in the league rudy go bear tested positive for the virus it comes just days after he joked about it at a press conference david stokes reports. the stadium was packed the players were

on court but then after a conversation among officials oklahoma city's game against the utah jazz was called off after it emerged one of the jazz players rudy go back had tested positive for the corona virus an hour later the n.b.a. suspended the whole season indefinitely go bear was not at the arena however his just teammates work or in team for several hours in the dressing room but they were eventually able to leave early thursday morning. to. go but the 7 foot one frenchman is one of the stars of the n.b.a. the 27 year old has won festa front seat play it 2 years running he's currently in the care of health officials in oklahoma city rather unfortunately on monday mocked the coronavirus crisis at a press conference touching every reporter mark a phone as he left potentially exposing others to infection. before the suspension moves were already in place in the n.b.a.

to halt the spread of coronavirus hand sanitizer was handed out in dallas as head of the mavericks game against denver on wednesday and most team owners were leaning towards the idea of playing in empty arenas this was the moment courtside when the mavericks owner mark cuban received the news that the n.b.a. was postponed a decision that he fully supports this is something out of a movie and you just don't expect it to happen in real life people's lives are at stake and you know one fell up or worried about my kids and my mom is 82 years old you know in talking to her and telling her to stay in the house on then i am about when we play our next game would you talk. i don't know all the information but there just shows you how fragile everything is right now so it's a prudent thing to do really go bare you know you think this is not going to affect us where the n.b.a. it 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 them because kobe was not at the arena the

oklahoma department of health tweeted that the fans who attended the game are not at risk but the n.b.a. is patient 0 has shared the court with 50 opposition players since the start of march and 15 referees plus countless other match day staff there will be no more action until further notice with no guarantee this n.b.a. season will ever get finished stokes al-jazeera while the national hockey league isn't following the n.b.a.'s lead just yet so only one team so far the columbus blue jackets have announced they'll play their home games behind closed doors earlier we spoke to us for its broadcaster michael carlson. this could be a major step forward in terms of other events being impacted this could have a real knock on effect in american sport because the n.h.l. is paying attention obviously and probably even more crucially the college

basketball tournament the n.c. double a march madness would begin next week and it's more crucial for them than it would be for the professional leagues because it has to happen in march and finish and it's also a huge proportion of the n.c. double a's budget if steps are taken in public now and that and their fish and you could hope that the virus is contained within the safe 3 to 5 weeks and the n.b.a. could then resume the season with the playoffs because the n.b.a. playoffs remember go go into june so they could probably construct a truncated playoff season and end the season as usual and you know i would not be surprised if they haven't said anything about it but i would not be surprised if that were in their planning a right now well tennis tour is are also on the verge of being shut down until main

the miami masters was suspended making at least 3rd major tennis to bend to be cancelled following the indian wells and the sad calf which was due to be played and hungary in april. the fed cup is also an olympic qualification event so this impacts on athletes aiming for tokyo 2020 but yet again despite growing chaos across the sporting world the organizers of the olympics in japan insists it's business as usual that their plans have not changed you can't pick a new and the go to basically the plan is still on to hold the games from july the 24th as the i.o.c. president thomas baca said i know there are various opinions but tokyo government has been to pairing up for these games everyone is looking forward to it too i think there is no option to cancel the lympics and paralympics. meanwhile the flame for the olympics was lit in greece the birthplace of the games the parent down ceremony was held in front of a small group of officials as spectators were banned from the events on the 8 day

greek leg of the relay the flame will be handed over to japan on march 19th the games are set to begin on july 24th. 19 weeks before the opening ceremony we have strengthened in this commitment by the many stories and sports organisations around the world who are taking so many significant measures to contain the spread of the corona of iris. ok and that is all your support for now interim bakhtiari thanks there just before we go to show you where the dow jones in new york down now by just over 7 and a half percent earlier just a few moments ago down by 8 percent and that's after a 15 minute hold took was introduced trading just after the opening bell less than 30 minutes ago i found.

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a hard hitting debate with us. on al-jazeera. it is a new reality billions of people forced to make major changes to their lives up to the world health organization declares coronavirus a pandemic. killer on income all santamaria here. in doha continuing coverage on al-jazeera of the corona virus pandemic europe has hit back at donald trump for banning almost all flights out of the continent to the u.s. . the coronavirus is a global crisis not limited to any continent and it requires cooperation rather than unilateral action.