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good we need documentaries from around the world. 0. coronavirus restrictions and travel bans they global markets into their biggest falls in more than 30 years but there are signs of a slight rebound in europe. from doha when i'm kemal santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera growing concern in the u.s. over the inadequate testing facilities as more than 40 people die from coke at 90 the english premier league team chelsea goes into self isolation after a player tests positive and sporting events worldwide are taking your hits a look at life on the lockdown as well how europeans are coping with more cities
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going under current. global financial markets back on the rollercoaster this friday as the fallout from corona virus persists stocks went into the kind of negative territory haven't seen in 3 decades in fact u.s. markets took their biggest one day hit since $987.00 then asian markets dipped as much as 10 percent on friday before rebounding and so far trading in europe is going into positive territory meanwhile governments are taking ever tougher measures to stop the spread while trying to calm fears of people facing layoffs changes in travel plans and children who aren't going to school but skoda lawrence in london the latest from europe what can you tell us lawrence. well i mean 1st of all come on in relation to the markets which have been sorting about though it's it has been a much more positive day in london frankfurt and paris i think seems to be for
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a number of different reasons the markets seen relatively reassured in different ways the european governments are doing what they they should. particularly in some sort of promises of what they call injections of liquidity that means basically throwing money at companies for example in france france which obviously struggling because people aren't flying the french government saying they'll support very big companies like this there was a stir was a bad overnights in some places on short selling that's the practice by hedge funds and the like of deliberately trying to force the markets down that got that got banned overnight so to try to shore things up. and i think as well as that there seems to be a view that the falls were so catastrophic 2000 points or more in london the real blue chip companies particular all companies and the like and that being a really quite undervalued and so they're trying to recoup some of their big losses
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at least in the short term but there are still some warnings that for this you know 4 percent across across europe at the moment some more bad news because they'll go down again so there's still a rollercoaster more widely lawrence in both the u.k. and europe than you and i was sort of discussing this yesterday the different approaches being taken by the u.k. as opposed to the rest of europe they seem to be becoming even more stark and boris johnson spoke yesterday though that's the that's right there they're becoming very much more explicit in the u.k. that it is a different strategic way of looking at the coronavirus clearly what they're trying to do across almost every european union country now having looked at italy which they think didn't quickly enough it's the thing ok what if accords on everybody more or less as much we kind of the shorts and we might try and stamp. doubt. that the u.k. approach basically says that's not going to work. we're going to be living with this is going to become seasonal like the flu and based on that there is not that
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they want people to get it is just they think this is science he actually has to guess it's in large numbers to create some sort of collective or what they call herd immunity and so then they're now openly saying that the government's advisors here that about 60 percent of the u.k. needs to get the corona virus in this what was for most people are relatively mild form in very very many cases milder than the flu. just in case if we could have those comes back at a different time and has mutated into a stronger form there's some built in immunity in the system so it's a very much more hard headed approach frankly and there's lots of concern that in the u.k. even national health service is of bit of a national treasure in this country there aren't enough intensive care beds to look after people boris johnson said yesterday people in the delhi. think they frankly seem to be thinking that that may have to be a price extraordinary lawrence thank you for that we'll talk again to lawrence lee
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later on on friday wide not for vo and look at asia we spoke to him in the a little bit early a c.e.o. of charts pundit which is an indian capital markets analyst firm he explained how the economic impact will likely be felt in india i mean on the ground when he people because night from abilene lady shindle anybody any little back. left content is going impact on a lower class malt simply because these will be covered. and so it indexes like cutting interest rates is not going to create good on demand but genes which in dramatically especially if emblem of investments if we've had it cut but they haven't been passed on completely and even if they work fast i'm not sure and i don't know if you're going to demand audience to. demand from the barn if you saw 1901 with it for the love of some sort of book your order or
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tool the got or not made instrument to give the effects but i think the bank simply want to delete but what i feel is china did a good step there bangash are telling 800 necklace i mean it's one of the mob made by taking them to the extent you see london topics that's not in stocks so frankly speaking if you don't get the back to the minimum and we would have wouldn't have had a selloff of such a huge quantum thank you. now thousands of people are making their way from europe to the united states before new restrictions come in there will be a 30 day travel ban on visitors to the u.s. beginning friday midnight which is our 400 hours g.m.t. saturday some countries there are exempted occludes the u.k. arland and ukraine it's estimated more than $7000.00 flights will be affected the
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new measures aren't just having an economic impact they're also straining already brittle diplomatic relations between washington and brussels the white house also under fire for inadequate testing facilities the latest from the u.s. with mike hanna. the irish prime minister arrives at the white house his bilateral meeting with the u.s. president one of the few events going ahead is shared jeweled island along with the united kingdom 2 countries exempt from the sweeping travel ban which appears focused on the 26 european union members of the shingle alliance giving rise to claims that the ban has been haphazardly applied when you think of what happened to europe because it was very fast and very furious and what happened is a lot of people went from china into europe and europe suffered tremendously see what's going on and so i just wanted to stop as it pertains to the united states or public access to the u.s. capitol has been suspended but lawmakers in the house are continuing to discuss the
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bill to counter the economic and social impact of the coronavirus and also pacing questions about whether lawmakers should stay at home let's get this bill passed 1st and then we'll see where they're from there because the fact is the house is on fire people are concerned about their of course the house and the health of their challenger democratic presidential candidate joe biden added his voice to the discussion about how best to deal with this ongoing crisis and was harshly critical of the efforts by the trumpet ministration public fears may become. more pervasive like and trust in this president. why adversarial relationship with the truth that it continues to have this stall public concern about the slow rollout of testing kits this despite claims by the trumpet ministration that anyone who needs a test can get one the web site of the center for disease control records said it has not conducted any tests over the past 4 days and the number of tests conducted
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by public health lads has dropped dramatically over the same period yesterday for example across the entire united states only a. tests are reported president trump maintains he is in no need of submitting to a test but this may change following reports that a man he met during talks with the brazilian leader at mar a lago last week has tested positive for the by wrists brazil's communication minister pictured here on the president's left is awaiting the results of his 2nd test my canner al-jazeera washington might mention the lack of testing going on in the u.s. while the top official who deals with infectious diseases as bluntly described the situation as failings of any fancy who made the comments to members of congress. the system does not is not really geared to what we need right now
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what you are asking for that is a failing and they are going yeah it is a failing there let's admit it the fact is the way the system was set up is that the public health component was a system where you put it out there in the public and a physician air sacs for it and you get it the i hear of anybody getting it easily the way people in other countries are doing it we're not set up for that do i think we should be yes but we're not kenya now confirming its 1st case of corona virus that's reportedly a woman who traveled both to united states and the u.k. more on that from malcolm webb in nairobi the health minister said that they've just started the process of contacting the people that she's met over the last 8 days he arrived in the country 8 days ago that tested. positive for corona virus just yesterday the health minister announced just a short while ago. this. what's going. on the 12th which
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was last night. was the 1st one to be deported in kenya since the beginning of the outbreak in china. this is ok yes it isn't. truckload back to nairobi. from the united states of america. london you know just kingdom on the 5th of march. the health minister also said that she's now being held in i salute isolation unit here in nairobi and that unit along with the recently built new unit together have a capacity of just over $130.00 beds that's the entire capacity for the country as we know it all here in the capital nairobi and the government also announced some additional restrictions to try and prevent the spread of the virus including banning all suspending rather of public gatherings but it hasn't brought in some of
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the more stringent restrictions that we've seen in other countries such as banning all suspending flights to europe and the us and a senior australian government minister has also tested positive for corona virus days after meeting a high profile officials on a trip to the us peter doesn't was in washington for talks on security he met. the president's daughter and adviser as well as u.s. attorney general william bar and says he feels fine though although his diagnosis does raise concerns about whether other australian politicians may have been effected. well across the world sporting events are being hits the english premier league team chelsea has gone into self isolation after a forward callen hudson odoi tested positive for cope with 99 emergency meeting is being held and we are hearing that the premier league matches english football league women's matches as well will be postponed in england until the 3rd of april
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at the earliest that's a latest on we're hearing on english football also the arsenal manager. tested positive for the virus and in spain league has been suspended because rail madrid is in quarantine as well in north america sports have been canceled or postponed as well that includes the n.h.l. the hockey league major league baseball n.b.a. basketball college basketball championships have also been called off and back in australia organizers of the 1st formula one race of the year have called off the ground perri the event was due to be held in melbourne this weekend with about 100000 spectators also a member of the mclaren team tested positive for the virus on thursday and is now being treated. still more to come now coronavirus coverage on al-jazeera how the pandemic is putting latin america's ailing economy to the test.
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hello welcome to another look at the international forecast where is a count of great spinning out of china towards japan and we are going to see further spells of rain rolling through here when cold front makes its way out of the way now the system will push in as we go on through the next couple of days say eastern areas in japan in particular same simple heavy downpours temperatures in tokyo struggling to get to around a 9 degrees celsius as we go on into the 2nd half of the weekend it will brighten up at a warm up 30 degrees at this stage of them out of sunshine well so sunshine. some walked with a base in temperatures getting up to 16 degrees celsius fair bit of sunshine. into much of in the air but for those northern parts of the latest western disturbance still bringing the areas of cloud and rain across northern plains new delhi at
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around $26.00 celsius and the whole a similar value coming through hey we've got some showers long spells of rain some wintry weather just around the high ground for a time behind what's being go some very heavy downpours a possibility we could see some localized flooding as this system makes its way through but lots of sunshine elsewhere across the region lots of sunshine to across the peninsula but further north we have some outbreaks a very heavy rain and windy weather for the events. a journey both dark because if you don't believe there's a very forever there's a lot of corruption and beautiful like the beautiful lady you have to be very patient and what is also the same as ascended against towers introduced to it when my father and my most aware king fahd king fahad the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from had been on al-jazeera.
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let's take you through the latest developments far as the coronavirus pandemic goes so markets in asia recovering some of their losses after seeing initial drops just minutes after the opening markets in europe have rebounded as well after they took massive losses on thursday a top u.s. health official says the government is failing to account for what could be thousands of infections in the u.s. because the testing system isn't working more testing kits are expected to be made available in the coming week. and the virus is forcing sporting events to be the
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council in north america the national hockey league a major league baseball in the n.b.a. affected and a strain is growing pretty has been called off. european governments are also asking companies to show some leniency with sick leave and other benefits so employees don't struggle financially if they fall ill but it won't help people who are on part time contractual work on you're going to reports empty streets closed up shops and warning signs to keep their distance roam a shadow of its usual self no bustling crowds of visitors to help sustain its vital tourism sector directly impacting the economy and workers. the government has to help us we have to pay rent the mortgage bills we have never ending expenses just you know we're all in the same boat but for some it's worse if
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we don't work i don't know how we've. exempt from the nationwide closures grocery stores and pharmacies remaining open to provide a vital service for country under quarantine to one preparing itself for the worst in spain's capital madrid public transport remains open but buses trains and metro carriages are being disinfected every night and the threat of an impending lockdown has already affected small businesses here early record. we have recently noticed that there are fewer and fewer customers in the stall not only in the morning or afternoon but also in the evening people are more inclined to stay at home they are kind of struck by conic. in london one of the largest cities in europe and a crucial financial hub the focus has been primarily to protect any economic fallout from the pandemic new government measures to protect staff employees with immediate changes to sick leave have offered protection but it is the small
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business owners those on temporary contracts and freelances with no access to those benefits who are at risk of losing everything such as this self-employed cab driver . 'd pretty catastrophic just because it's my only source of. stuff like mortgages and. really kind of career and because you haven't got. one country after the other school and children's daycare centers are being closed and attempt to stem the spread of the virus but it's also affecting working parents with childcare responsibilities but those in the public health care sector is facing the dilemma of how they can go about their work at a time when hospitals are facing unprecedented strains are going to try to work from home. computers to work with them but i don't think you can get the
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same amount of work done. at home as we can. at the workplace the fear of what is happening in italy may be galvanizing other countries to attempt to get ahead of the pandemic but this is a waiting game with many wondering whether these measures are simply delaying the damage wrought by covert 19 or will they succeed in containing the virus as much as possible. al-jazeera. this pandemic is a big test for latin america's ailing economies could have an impact on several fronts including the devaluation of currencies the decline in tourism and the slump in demand for exports reports now from argentina's capital. exports are crucial for argentina's economy these days before in currency generated by crops the fund other products are what could help this country they are following debt. but the covert 19 is already having an impact here.
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in market but may start to recover we are now seeing many of our european clients cancel the orders because nobody knows who will buy the beef and know they're already freezing some of it it's a huge problem for us because we depend on exports. this plant sells mostly premium beef to china you were up in the united states and finding clients it's not easy these days. as the cold feet 19 spreads around the world shows and public events are being suspended in argentina in an attempt to contain the virus. flights are also being canceled in a country that is already struggling with capital controls double digit inflation and this restructuring foreign debt the government have imposed mandatory isolation some people arriving from europe china and even the united states they're also considering fining those who do not respect the law imposed a threat to public health but even though many believe that argentina could succeed
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in containing the virus the spread of the virus in this country it is the economic situation that has a many people worried here. in the past 2 years most administrations have been down their hopes of economic recovery back on one of the one of the largest shale oil and gas reserves in the world but as the local economy deteriorates and worldwide markets tumble investments are being rerouted outside the country we have a common characteristic that is the lead in american countries especially south american ones we export commodities right we export of copper and mean all sin. then in the world a lot of business will be a toilet in brazil origin the you know why but i why is soybeans it's other types of food so i think we are going to feel the same but we are feeling it right now with a cline the price of commodities saw i believe this is a regional problem but it is going to be more important in the gun troops who need
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foreign help us for example the case of argentina. help that could prevent a default like the one in 2001 that devastated this country's economy people here are wary of the spread of the covert 19 virus but the faltering is what is warning the government the most serious how will defeat or when the scientists. philippines president rodriguez has announced the capital manila will go into lockdown for a month to stop corona virus spreading from sunday the city's $13000000.00 residents will be prohibited from leaving large gatherings will also be banned 2 people have died from the virus in the philippines and the country has more than 50 confirmed cases the canadian prime minister justin trudeau says he is going to self koren team after his wife tested positive sophie gregg who had been experiencing flu like symptoms after a visit to the u.k. the prime minister says he doesn't have signs of the infection but he will stay in
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isolation for 14 days. and actor tom hanks is thank people for their support after he and his wife rita wilson were diagnosed with corona virus they announced they had their diagnoses on thursday while they're not stray away hanks is working on a film the oscar winner posted on instagram we have covert 19 and are in isolation so we do not spread it to anyone else. disneyland is closing down in the us and europe after this weekend its parts in florida california and paris will safe shut until at least the end of march as will its cruise line disney's already shut down its asian parts for 2 months creating estimated losses of $175000000.00 israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called for the formation of an emergency government to confront the coronavirus crisis netanyahu made the offer on a nationally televised address saying a new temporary administration with his chief rival benny gantz would quote save the lives of citizens he also ordered most schools to be closed or 4 cities in west
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jerusalem and says there's disagreement over which party should be included in any such emergency government. benny gantz the leader of the blue and white alliance said he didn't reject such an idea out of hand indeed he said that he felt that all of the 8 factions within the parliament the knesset recently elected in the elections of march the 2nd should be represented in such a government now that of course means that the palestinian israeli policies at the lodging houses really parties of the joint list which holds some 15 seats in the still to be formed knesset should according to that rubric be part of the government now the 2 men had a telephone conversation late on thursday night during which benjamin netanyahu was understood according to local media reports to said that no government emergency or normal sides could include what he called terrorist supporters as part of it spat rick the problem for benny gantz has always been that he is really put his whole
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year long loop in korea has built it around the idea of removing from office a man he says is not fit to be prime minister of this country because he's under indictment facing 3 trials which don't think it's supposed to start on march the 17th rather one trying 3 corruption cases a much to 17 he's always said if there were to be a unity government between his alliance and we could he would have to go 1st as prime minister and mention that you know you could presumably take up the reins further down the road if indeed he had fought off these corruption charges successfully in court no sign of benjamin netanyahu is willing to give up the reins anytime soon though. we will look at some other news from around the world and iraq's military says 6 people including 3 of its soldiers and 2 policemen have been killed by u.s. airstrikes. the u.s. says the strikes were in response to a rocket attack that killed 3 soldiers on whedon's day 2 americans in
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a person died in that when after nearly 20 rockets were fired at a military base in the west of baghdad the head of u.s. central command suggested the attack was carried out by an iranian backed group here is similar to fold seen in baghdad some of the ideas reactions coming out of iraq. well there has been the widespread condemnation of last night's strikes at several different positions in southern iraq belonging to the popular mobilisation forces we understand from the statement from the military death 6 people were killed in the strikes including 3 members of the iraqi army 2 members of the police and one civilian what is noteworthy here is that no members from the popular mobilization forces and specifically. the group that the u.s. blamed for the latest attack on its personnel have been killed in these strikes so this is certainly not the outcome that the united states would have expected from these strikes and it's also unclear how exactly these presumably unintended
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fatalities could have happened in what secretary of defense mike esper called precipitation strikes now usually what happens in iraq is that you find several different security forces colocated so in one particular military base you may have elements of the popular mobilization forces which were targeted in these attacks but you may also have for example parts of the army or parts of the police so the result of these attacks these fatalities suggest that these airstrikes were not as precise as the the u.s. said that they were and of course this is rather embarrassing for the united states because the iraqi army and the iraqi police these are its partners under the coalition here in iraq to fight eisel so essentially what ended up being the outcome rather than deterring the type hezbollah and other iranian ling's groups from conducting further attacks on u.s. servicemen at the u.s. in fact and that up further rupturing the relationship between its iraqi partners
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and its presence here in iraq thank you for that update some wonderful jeanne in baghdad. a 4 chief minister of indian administered kashmir has been released after 7 months in custody for bello was arrested along with other local leaders when india revote kashmir's special semi-autonomous status in august he was charged with quite disturbing the public order delhi imposed its lockdown in the majority of muslim populated territory after withdrawing its autonomy and finally a note from new zealand where special friday prayers have been hill's to remember the 51 people killed in the shootings at to mosques one year ago hundreds of people gathered in an arena in christchurch not far from one of those mosques which were attacked where $43.00 people died there is another service due to go ahead on sunday on the actual anniversary of the attack march 15th that gathering going
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ahead in christchurch despite the corona virus outbreak. half past the hour so let's take you to the headlines on al-jazeera stock markets in asia have recovered some of their losses after saying initial steep drops just minutes after the opening due to coronavirus markets in europe of rebounded as well after massive losses there on thursday. a top u.s. health official says the government is failing to account for what could be thousands of infections there because the testing system isn't working or testing kits are expected to be made available in the coming weeks the system does not is not really geared to what we need right now what you are asking for. that is a failing and going yeah it is a failing there let's admit it the fact is the way the system was set up is that
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the public health component was a system where you put it out there in the public and a physician asks for it and you get it then i hear of anybody getting it easily the way people in other country are doing it we're not set up for that do i think we should be yes but we're not. thousands of people now making their way from europe to the united states before new restrictions come in they'll be a 30 day travel ban on visitors from almost all of europe to the u.s. beginning on friday at midnight so 400 hours g.m.t. saturday a few countries are exempt them clearing the u.k. arland and ukraine in australia seanie and senior government ministers tested positive for corona virus days after amazing high profile officials on the trip to the u.s. because justin was in washington for talks on security he met. the president's daughter as well as u.s. attorney general william barr dozens been admitted to hospital but says he feels
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fine and the virus is forcing sporting events to be the postponed or canceled in north america the national hockey league major league baseball and the n.b.a. have all been affected also a story is growing pretty has been called off 7. and in other news iraq's military says 6 people including 3 of its soldiers and 2 policeman were killed by u.s. airstrikes the u.s. says the strikes were in response to a rocket attack that killed 3 of its soldiers on wednesday to americans in a britain died after nearly 20 rockets were fired at a military base northwest of baghdad you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera another check of the news right after inside story.
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can the coronavirus pandemic be stopped the world health organization because the outbreak of pandemic and donald trump finally joins all the countries in taking draconian measures to stop the spread but all travel bans enough this is inside story. hello again i'm jane spays what started in a single chinese city is now a pandemic so far infecting at least 120000 people in bold 100 countries world leaders a warning the coronavirus crisis is going to get worse but is not on stoppable the measures to limit this.

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