yes i'd like. to hear really invest that's a problem as a journalist. isolate test treat and trace. another warning for countries to be vigilant as global restrictions tighten on the coronavirus kills nearly 500 people in italy. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the u.k. orders schools to close until further notice as its death toll rises to 104. malaysia closes its borders a race is to track down thousands who attended a religious event and spread the virus to several countries. trading is suspended

on wall street as stocks plummeted again despite the announcement of a massive stimulus plan. the world health organization says it's concerned some countries are still not doing enough testing to prevent the spread of corona virus more than 8000 people globally are now confirmed to have died after catching the virus the number of reported cases has passed 200000 italy has reported 475 new deaths the highest death toll for a single day of any nation since the 1st case was detected in china late last year malaysia is racing to track down potential coronavirus carriers after its confirmed cases jumped to $792.00 thirds of those a link to a religious gathering late last month that spread the virus to at least 6 other countries and despite many government announcing massive stimulus packages asian

european and u.s. markets have plummeted again as well as all prices u.s. markets were suspended for 15 minutes for the 4th time in a month and. as the number of recorded coronavirus cases soared past 200 thousands the world health organization announced the 1st trial of a vaccine was on the way the start of a long battle. this virus is presenting as we president to it but it's also an unprecedented opportunity to come together as one against a common enemy an enemy against humanity in the german city of one foot they've been queuing to get a free test because it 19 and they are losing patience but here in france it is a social it so badly organized as the man behind me who waited for 6 hours yesterday when he actually belongs in bed. in

a televised address to the nation chancellor merkel appealed to the public not to underestimate the crisis as is. this is serious take it seriously we have not seen a challenge like this in our country since re-unification know since the 2nd world war which depend so much on us acting together and in solidarity with each other. in some parts of europe the health service is just can't cope because of a surge in cases in eastern france 6 coronavirus patients had to be flown by military plane from bellew's to the south of the country for treatment across france there's a big incentive not to be out in public if you don't have a certificate allow you to leave home the police can find you up to $150.00 thank you displayed they've already arrested dozens of people for going out since the lockdown started at the weekend but it's not stop these housebound madrid residents from protesting their demanding former king kwan carlos to makes millions

of dollars he reportedly received from saudi arabia to the spanish health system. in london it is quieter than usual but nobody's big told to go home for some of the parties capital the incremental approach is right i think the steps have been put in place are very wise. let's face once again try to avoid the panic if it's a government to fall in love down a bad things it's going to be a bit of a lot worse for people's well being but in parliament prime minister boris johnson face demands to take a more proactive stance when well i'll be waiting so lonesome us testing i'm wrong i asked social distancing measures may be just a gesture and on wednesday johnson did make one long expected announcement after schools shut their gates from friday afternoon they will remain closed for many peoples for the vast majority of pupils until further notice so different

stages in the outbreak and different responses but the challenge for the medical world and for societies in general is immeasurable nadeem al-jazeera. or for more on the situation in europe paul brennan joins me live now in the studio paul what we've seen announced by number 10 basically around ping up of efforts to bring the coronavirus under control the closure of schools there's talk of now rolling out mass testing some though will regard this is being perhaps a little late in the game to be joy doing all of this yes is certainly a stiffening of the restrictions that boris johnson and his government have introduced the closure of schools until further notice was announced with great gravity that news conference in downing street but you heard in an audience report there the debate and the pressure that the government is under in parliament for example and also out on the streets in discussions when you compare and contrast

what is happening in other european countries france belgium greece which is imposed total lockdowns compared to here where it has been it's remained guidance and voluntary and advisory there's a big difference and there is criticism that perhaps the british government hasn't yet been tough enough and the latest death toll which is risen by 32 in the past 24 hours to now a total of $104.00 people dead here in the u.k. is continuing on an upward trajectory and obviously the closure of schools is going to have a human impact on many many levels of workforce is on the front the parents have to now stay at home to look after their children not just in the u.k. but across the whole of europe but every country that implemented this kind of measure that's got me an awful lot of pressure an awful lot to ask of people yes and people are going to lose their jobs millions of people are going to lose their jobs the world i think as we know it has effectively been turned upside down into whole industries have been impacted by this car plants are being shut airlines are

grounding the planes the leisure industry for example has is going to be absolutely decimated by the advice to stay away from pubs and bars and restaurants and leisure facilities. there is assistance that's being put forward by governments billions of dollars are being put forward by governments all across europe to try and cushion the blow but yes we're going to be living in very different circumstances for many months to come and what we what kind of world we live in after that after this subsides well it's anybody's guess a huge amount of uncertainty thank you very much the united states and canada have agreed to temporarily close their border to non-essential travel in an effort to combat the pandemic at almost 9000 kilometers it's the world's largest land border between 2 nations and about 200000 people cross it every day the move will not affect trade between the 2 countries all 50 states in the u.s. have now confirmed cases of the virus the u.s.

president says he's invoking legislation to accelerate the production of equipment needed to fight the coronavirus to hospital ships of also being deployed as the number of infections across america passes 7000 we are sending. upon request the 2 hospital ships are being prepared right now to the massive ships the big wave ships with the red cross on the search one is called the mercy of the other is called the comfort. in tip top shape they were 2 will be they're getting ready to come up to new york i spoke with governor cuomo about it he's excited about it. let's get more from our white house correspondent kimberly how kimberly was more measures did the president announce. those are the big headlines the fact that the u.s. president is pushing forward the use of these comfort ships and that's a bad sign because what it means is they're ramping up the capacity in the

hospitals in terms of bed space and they know they don't have enough so as the number of coronavirus cases continues to spiral in the united states every day it is a new and higher number and now in all 50 states this is action that is being taken because the signs are alarming adding to that the invocation of the defense production act this is a sign that things are already a little troublesome in terms of the 1st responders and the supplies that they need what this sort of $950.00 s. era law does is it allows for increased production but also frees up some of the reserves that are in place the defense secretary telling reporters at the white house briefing today that that means up to a 1000000 masks that these 1st responders need will be put into the market so that they can use them immediately so those are some of the top headlines coming from the press conference as well as the cross border

a fact that the now sort of that joint closure of the united states canada border significant there because this does cut down on the possibility of transmissions from country to country and can please also address the controversy about calling it the chinese virus what's been said yeah the u.s. president is defending what some are saying is a very racist term to call this the chinese virus not the krona virus in fact the president was asked about this in the briefing and he defended saying that this is justified take a listen. it's not racist of the letter comes from china it's what comes from china would it be accurate that's raised here please john kerry is he behind you are you have a great great love for all of the people from our country but as you know tried to say at one point maybe this stuff down that it was caused by american soldiers

that can't happen it's not going to happen that is what is a president it comes from china it's important to know that other members of the trumpet ministration like the vice president the health and human services secretary alex is are they are not using this term in fact they have discouraged it but the president says these are exceptional times even said today he believes he's a wartime president fighting an invisible enemy can be hard and washington thank you very much. now trading on the u.s. stock market has been suspended for the 4th time in a month off to shaz plunged more than 7 percent shares dropped as much as 10 percent and are now trading at around 8 percent or prices of also plummeted to an 18 year low as the pandemic heads demond the selloff follows a slight bounce on choose day after president donald trump pressed for an economic stimulus package worth one trillion dollars. let's go straight now to kristen

salumi in new york kristen around an hour's more trading left wall has been going on. yeah another massive selloff on wall street today all 3 of the major indices are down at one point the dow. the s. and p. triggered my automatic shutdown of sales for 15 minutes once it went below 7 percent and it's just remained down all day as the market process's the widening impact of the coronavirus on the economy every time you turn around there's a new headline about a new business or a new industry taking steps to deal with this we heard in the last hour about the national restaurant association reports that they have written to the president saying that they can lose $225000000000.00 in the next 3 months restaurants in the united states with so many of them closed or reducing service that could be $5.00 to $7000000.00 jobs lost the state of nevada is closing down its casinos that's

a major industry for them they're gambling and tourism big 3 automakers are going to close production starting tomorrow till the end of the months a deep clean their factories and protect their work i mean every time you turn around there's a new headline about how businesses and their employees are being impacted and this is having a wide ranging effect across the markets with all 11 sectors down all 3 major indices down the losses being led though again as they have been throughout this crisis by airlines hotels hospitality they're suffering exponentially worse than everyone else for obvious reasons and oil continues to be a big drain as well oiled prices are now at 18 year lows down incredibly sad and that is a bad sign for the rest of the economy as well so the dow has now lost $10000.00 points from its high less than

a month ago and it's below $20000.00 points total that means it's lost all of the gains that it's made since president was inaugurated in 2017 so another bad day as the fallout from this pandemic continues kristen salumi on wall street thank you very much. still to come on al-jazeera. both the u.s. and chinese government blaming each other for the corona virus outbreak by councils the reporting credentials of 3 american newspapers. and u.s. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders says he's reassessing his campaign after joe biden wins all 3 of tuesday's primaries.

stop snowing in northern spain there's still plenty of plaid coming from the mediterranean coast that's been brought some rain with it but temps on the way out so we're at 19 in madrid for example this is thursday but northern europe it's a bit of a cold spell when london's back city 8 degrees and that cold will edge into other places are still warm when they should be for example berlin began to 11 degrees on friday but vienna still a warm 20 this is the warmest of europe the southeast corner warm on court foggy in for example northern italy but vienna self where the cold ones that wards until the end of friday on saturday sunday and monday back down to single things in fact is really cold probably even see some snow by the time we get to late sunday or monday and that cold air still evident in turkey the storm is running through levant and the cold wind we're going to egypt in the next couple of days taken the edge of the heat feel a little bit chilly but the cold stuff is probably has to be felt in morocco up in the atlas mountains are expecting some snow this current 11 to through that part of

the mediterranean sir cross gibraltar and that will keep going the next 2 days then rain turkey into not just morocco but the portuguese coast further south africa it's mostly dry of course. a 4 hour climb. for 4 minutes of practice. but to achieve their dream of becoming afghanistan's 1st ever winter an impi ends they will have to overcome many mountains. can be a path of hope and inspiration where the light shines witness on algiers their act of.

mind of the top stories here on al-jazeera the world health organization says isolating testing treating and tracing every suspected case of coronavirus must be the backbone of the world's response to the pandemic called in all countries to implement cohesive strategies to slow down the epidemic. u.s. president donald trump says he will invoke the defense production act special powers ensuring the private sector can ramp up production of emergency medical supplies and response to the coronavirus pandemic to medical ships are also being mobilized. major stimulus plans by world governments to fail to east stock market concerns about the impact of the coronavirus trading on wall street was suspended when stocks fell 7 percent shares dropped as much as 10 percent.

malaysia has closed its borders after recording its 1st 2 deaths it also has $790.00 corona virus infections nearly 2 thirds of the infections have been traced to a 4 day event at a mosque in kuala lumpur attended by thousands of people as this report. hours before malaysia shut its borders thousands of malaysian workers who normally commute to work in singapore every day brushed to lean students also formed long lines at bus terminals as confusion over whether campuses which shut prompted many to try to leave 2 police stations were crowded after people were told they would require permits for interstate travel only for police to temporarily withdraw the order even after the partial lockdown was imposed social distancing was forgotten as by is rushed to supermarkets to stock up on essential i mean rushing in the

lobby of. these events where they believe. we should be more infectious diseases experts have watched with alarm at what's happening here the director general of health has warned of a possible 3rd wave of infections if people don't obey the government's order to restrict their movements malaysia has confirmed its 1st decades and reported a sudden spike in covert 19 cases in the last few days many linked to a 4 day gathering of muslim missionaries at a mosque near kuala lumpur 16000 people from malaysia and abroad were there the government says it's managed to trace more than $8000.00 of them so far but already those who attended the event have carried the virus back to 6 of the southeast asian countries elsewhere astray as prime minister made an unprecedented announcement we are writing the travel ban on the strivings to level 4 for the entire world that is the 1st time that has ever happened in australia's history the

travel advice to every astride him is do not travel abroad do not go out of the service. these straight in governments also banned all nonessential indoor gatherings of more than 100 people but from who bay province in china the origin of the corona virus outbreak more cause for optimism medical workers from other provinces who've been helping to cope with the crisis are going home as the number of new cases continues to fall south korea reported fewer than 100 new daily cases for the 4th day in a row both china and south korea apparently demonstrating how they are winning the war albeit with different methods china by placing severe restrictions for everyone and south korea with aggressive testing fluently al-jazeera. chile has declared a national emergency after the number of corona virus infections increased by a 3rd over the past 24 hours the country has the most number of cases in latin

america with 253 infections confirmed the government has closed borders and gatherings of more than 500 people to try and contain the spread. newman joins us live now from the chilean capital santiago some difficult but seemingly necessary decisions being made tell us more about what it means for people. the government had been under strong pressure both from the public and from political parties to take more energetic measures especially after the corona virus epidemic or pandemic in this country had reached stage for the 253 numbers numbers of confirmed cases is actually far less than that and there really are by tomorrow we're expecting that to go up at least by 50 percent according to the health minister and so the president called

a national state of emergency and catastrophe as it's called why is this important because it will allow him to to impose curfews quarantine and bring out the army to prevent people from demonstrating and gathering in large numbers that's something that you may remember that has been happening here in chile almost daily for the last 5 months as a as a result of a social outburst calling for social reforms in this country that is going to have to be put on hold it seems the the government will also now be able to access emergency funds to help especially small and medium sized businesses people here are not going out most offices now are closed people don't want to go to work or the malls have just closed after a lot of the workers inside demonstrated and said that their survival their health was in danger this thoroughfare where i'm standing now is usually packed you can barely walk on it at this time of day and just a few minutes ago somebody came by and gave me this and that some fruit salad from

a shop that just a few meters ahead of me that shop is going to close down now because it caters at lunchtime to office workers who are no longer here discotheques parks theaters. all of those are shocked and people are now calling for an overall quarantine in the whole city. given that some of the most powerful economies in the world that have been struggling to bring the the virus on to control how worried are people in chile about the country's ability to cope with a possible major emergency on their doorstep. exactly they're very very worried even though the president tried to reassure them that that officials are taking all the necessary measures but they know very well that in the best of times the public health sector here does not work well that there's no way that chile could do better than countries like the united states italy or spain to go to

britain to create enough beds and conditions in emergency rooms to cater to all the possible infected people and that's why the only thing that they can do is to try to prevent a wave from coming over as very quickly that will completely get out of control the peak of this virus here in chile is expected to come in around the middle of the 3rd week of april which means it's just going to get worse by the day and speaking of catastrophes that the chilean base saw has just reached an all time low and country is practically in a recession now because of this newman in the chilean capital santiago thank you. iran's government is reporting the largest daily increase of the number of coronavirus deaths since the crisis began another $147.00 dead raises the total to $1135.00 with more than $17000.00 infections reported iran's president has done well honey has defended his government's response saying they acted without delay

why that accord on our bar mounted on the coronavirus we spoke to people in an honest way do not pay attention to cyberspace and a group of people who i do not know what their intentions are dear people of iran on february 19th we learned about the corona virus outbreak test kits that have been sampled in qualm were brought to to ron and were tested and proved to us that the samples were positive the following morning the government was informed about it and subsequently the people reform too we had no delay not even for one day but pilgrims returning from pakistan from iran are complaining about squalid conditions and the lack of medical care in a quarantine camp former and current residents of the remote tough town border camp say it lacks running water and people can only wash once every few days thousands of pilgrims are staying there and it's reported that no attempt has been made to separate the sick from the healthy the tough town border was closed on monday pilgrims can still reenter subject to 2 weeks quarantine or pakistan is confirmed its 1st death the prime minister has addressed the nation calling for calm as the

number of coronavirus cases there past is 230 imran khan says the government is taking all necessary precautions to in his words win the war against the virus pakistan has already closed its borders with iran and afghanistan shrines and gyms have been closed in the capital islamabad while sin province the hardest hit region is under lockdown. turkey's president has told people to stay home for at least 3 weeks to stop the spread of the coronavirus is announcement comes after turkey confirmed its 1st death from corona virus overnight on chu say the number of cases in the country has doubled in the past 24 hours to 98 a quick look at some other stories we're following u.s. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders is said to be assessing the future of his campaign after losing the 3 latest presidential primaries to rival joe biden the former u.s. vice president scored a hat trick in tuesday's primaries biden defeated sanders by big margins in

illinois arizona and florida extending his lead in the race for the nomination or higher as primaries was perspiring because of the coronavirus. u.s. troops in iraq are being relocated to larger bases to be better protected from an increasing number of attacks it comes after the most recent series of rocket strikes targeted at a base north of baghdad killing several coalition personnel retaliatory strikes by the us killed iraqi civilians china has revoked the reporting credential of journalists from 3 major american newspapers the foreign ministry says it's a counter measure against what it calls unreasonable oppression from the united states in the latest in an escalating tit for tat media feud between the chinese and u.s. governments katrina you reports from beijing. to see and hear what's happening in one of the group's most powerful any country's foreign

media and china provide a window for the world that window has just been made. with the ousting of correspondence from 3 of america's best known newspaper it's the new york times washington post and the wall street journal china's foreign ministry says the crackdown is in response to unfair treatment by the u.s. . china is not one to start trouble but will not blink if trouble comes in that way at least 13 foreign journalists are affected that bad not only from reporting in mainland china but in hong kong and macau as well u.s. secretary of state mike compare is hoping beijing will reconsider the chinese will tell you that they want more information people to know more about the country yet they continue to take actions like the one you see today where they deny the world the capacity to know what's really going on inside other countries earlier this month the us government kept the number of chinese reporters working in the states for 5 state run outlets including c g t n china global television network or c g

t m u.s. based staff numbers but cut from 160 to 100 that followed the expulsion in february of 3 will street journal correspondence from beijing following an editorial titled china is the real sick man of asia that was seen as retaliation for the trump administration's decision to force chinese media firms to register as foreign entities in the u.s. there's been a desire to to get china to react to do something which will paint china in the international eyes as the aggressor as a authoritarian government china's foreign correspondents club condemned the ban saying there are no winners in the use of journalists as diplomatic points journalists eliminate the world we live in china through this action is dimming itself. in the past 7 years the chinese government has revoked the these as of at least 9 foreign journalists but analysts say the expulsion happening now is the

worst attack on press freedom says the days of nazi dolls the sound of communist china since coming to power president xi jinping has tightened his grip areas of chinese society media outlets local and international are no exception catrina al-jazeera. a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera italy has reported $475.00 new deaths the highest death toll for a single day of any nation since the 1st case was detected in china late last year the world health organization says it's concerned some countries still aren't doing enough testing to prevent the spread of corona virus. to suppress drawl the a.p. to mix canned threes most eyes will eat test treat and trace

if they don't want transmission chains can continue at a low level then research one's physical distancing measures are lifted w.h.o. continues to be common that isolating testing and treating every scientific to case and tracing every contact must be the backbone of the response in every country the us president donald trump says he will invoke the defense production act special powers ensuring the private sector can ramp up production of emergency medical supplies in response to the coronavirus pandemic 2 medical ships are also being mobilized on the country's west coast and the other one on the east . france is in its 2nd day of a nationwide lockdown but there's already controversy this video appears to show paris police arresting a woman found breaking the law down rules people are only allowed to leave their homes to buy groceries go to work or pharmacies. and italy's

interior ministry says $43000.00 people work or breaking the rules in the 1st week of its lockdown a special funeral arrangements are being made in the northern city of burger the epicenter of the country's corona virus outbreak. in other news u.s. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders will talk with his supporters and assess his campaign after rival joe biden scored a hat trick and choose the 8 primaries the former u.s. vice president defeated stunned as by large margins in illinois arizona and florida those are the top stories stay with us the stream is coming up next don't go away.

i am femi ok i am your in the stream today very important episode we are going to take a look at some of the biggest myths about covert 19 and clear out misconceptions we are joined by panel of experts to take your questions so you can send them to chad or on twitter at street. joining us on skype that's of a he was a eunice chief quality officer and chief of infectious diseases at the university of maryland chesapeake health 2nd at a science editor at national geographic and alice to reduce the digital editor at 1st thank you for with us.