this is. from berlin a black monday for global stock markets the share prices tumble and the price of oil crashes trading on wall street was temporarily halted after the dow plunged by 7 percent wall street marking its biggest one day loss today in more than a decade as traders react to the impact of the coronavirus on the global economy also coming up the european union and turkey trying to find a way out of the standoff over my grades at the border between turkey and greece will have the reaction from brussels.

i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us fears of the coronavirus have left a trail of losses around the world share prices plunging today with billions being wiped off the value of global indices for the 1st time in a decade trading a wall street was suspended after the dow jones nosedive more than 7 percent immediately after the opening bell. was things went down hill right from the opening bell the dow jones plunged nearly 7.3 percent. energy company shares took an especially hard beating prices threaten to plummet so low the trading was suspended for 15 minutes for the 1st time in more than 10 years. prices nosedive all over the world on monday starting in asia mainly due to fears about

the economic fallout of covert 19 in tokyo the nikkei index lost 5 point one percent. in the markets a crashing and economic activity stops that means trouble on the field. over the weekend the oil price fell to 30 percent the biggest drop since the start of the ninety's i'm melissa around the world are deeply worried about the impact of this kind of a fall. yeah i think the timing could have been worse so we are already in a. worst sent in ever things to stop crime crisis consumer confidence but dampened the global growth outlook has been caught a few times because i'm the trade were last year and could be 19 days yet this trading room in paris was also filled with red numbers people are asking are these the harbingers of a global financial crisis or are we in the grips of one how will the markets pan

out over time through previous and it's always a very difficult people are panicking right now so there's bound to be an exaggeration but nobody can say exactly when it will come down you can speculate and there are different techniques to estimate what the low point might be but nobody knows for sure. but and on this you know. cutting interest rates could offer some relief investors expect the u.s. federal reserve to cut the key interest rate by another full percentage point next week in a bid to bring the markets under control. and we do have some breaking news now all of italy is about to be under a lockdown italy extending its emergency anti coronavirus measures to cover the entire country italian prime minister and yourself they call says that from tuesday morning travel restrictions will cover the entire country he says the right thing for people to do at the moment is simply to stay at home all sporting events in italy will be called the corona virus has killed more than 460 people in italy.

or germany has recorded its 1st 2 deaths from the corona virus both victims died in the country's most populous state north rhine-westphalia which borders. and the netherlands germany has also imposed its 1st mass quarantine of that is in the state of brandenburg which is right outside of berlin and the health ministry is urging people to help slow the spread of the virus by following medical guidelines which include washing hands with soap and water. are for more on this now we're joined by our political correspondent han's brunch here in berlin good evening to you so what more do we know about the well the situation here in germany. well as we've just heard the 1st 2 cases of people dying from the virus were reported today both of them were elderly people with preexisting conditions a man and a woman and also there is that school about 100 kilometers east west of berlin west

of here where one person was a firm to be infected and as a result everybody connected to their school parents of the people of the pupils there and so on the students there everyone connected to the school was put into quarantine into isolation that concerns about 5000 people at the same time the health minister today said that he urges all. the regions in germany to restrict the gatherings of more than a 1000 people this is something that the health minister himself cannot impose it's got it's something that has to be done by the federal states or by local authorities and in fact varia has no knowledge that it will ban all gatherings of more than a 1000 people and that concerns amongst other things. soccer matches buy and move munich the very famous soccer club from bavaria from munich is impacted by this

several games of by munich in the recent in the coming weeks 4 weeks or so are likely to be taking place in empty stadiums so the number of measures being taken in germany is certainly increasing at the moment it's increasing. would you say germany is doing nothing. well compared to italy obviously germany has not done as much as italy has done but the authorities here say that they have been tracking the virus from the edges that are being taken also becoming more severe for instance the health minister also today appealed to people to stay at home of possible not to go traveling if they don't really need to and not to use public transportation if they don't absolutely have to all of these are measures that are intended to not to as a say prevent the virus from spreading but simply to dom the spread of the virus americal the chancellor said today what's important in all of this is the time that is gained by slowing down the spread of the virus that's time that is necessary for

scientists to try and identify the virus to get to know it better to look for cures possible back scenes but there's also a time that's necessary in hospitals where the people that are severely affected by the virus are being treated there also time is needed to actually. get them to you know to to improve that's right that's why we go to statistical today saying at least 70 percent of people with the virus fully recover from the virus which is good news reporting tonight here in berlin homes that very much. and here's a look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world a blast from a suspected rocket attack interrupted a ceremony in kabul today in which afghan leader he was sworn in as president a gun he won the race by a slim margin however wible leader abdul abdullah also declared himself the winner of dual was sworn in as president at the same time at

a competing inauguration ceremony sudan's prime minister says he has survived a bomb attack on his convoy in the capital khartoum abdullah has been in office since august he was he has promised to cooperate with the international war crimes investigations no group has claimed responsibility for that it's asked britain's prince harry and his wife meggan have made their final official appearance as royals the couple attended a service at london's westminster abbey under an agreement reached with the palace back in january they will stop using their war titles from the end of the month and they will no longer receive public money. the head of the european commission commission and alliance says a 2016 refugee agreement aimed at stemming the flow of migrants to europe via turkey is still valid and is still in place turkey's president richard tell you a better one today joined the talks in brussels aimed at solving a dispute with the e.u.

over migrants on the turkish border everyone wants more help from brussels for the 4000000 syrian refugees who were living in turkey thousands of people have massed on the greek border ever since turkey opened its border with the e.u. to them 2 weeks ago in violation of that 2016 agreement. our let's go straight now to our correspondent york much as he is on the story for us tonight in brussels so georg did president ever to one did he get what he wanted from the europeans. judging from the fact brand that he left via the underground parking without giving any statement my presumption is he did not get what he wanted at least not on the condition c. mentioned earlier when he arrived here in brussels concrete to help with the refugee crisis in turkey and help from the nato alliance as well and we have to say georg this latest acute crisis started when president to one

basically told the refugees and migrants you know you can go into europe now the border is open so we're at are one in the were they able to find common ground here . it was quite interesting to listen to the press conference given by was left on the line the head of the european commission and the head of the european council sean michel and the language they used is a constructive engagement they shared different opinions and if i may translate that diplomatic language to you it basically means 0 movement what was enough on the line however said is that the turkey refugee deal is still valid and that there is now a fact finding mission spearheaded by the diplomatic chief of the european union jobs of perella and his turkish counterpart so those 2 men all supposed to single out now up to map out areas where they will check whether the turkey refugee deal

holds or web potential problems are and what does this mean then for the situation at the border between turkey and greece. that's really hard to say was enough on the line said that the talks were good and there was a starting point and so for the situation on the border it doesn't mean i would say for the moment not much not much change she said there is a move forward is possible provided it's recip broke will that we'll have to see really to what extent this really pans out and to what extent. now refrains from further provocations and sending people to that border we will see gay monsters in the story force in brussels tonight new york thank you as we said the most recent focus of the migration crisis has been the greek turkish land border but tens of thousands of other migrants are currently living in overcrowded camps on greek islands berlin now says it wants to help greece by taking up to 1500

migrant children to other european countries and it says it's looking for a coalition of the willing among the e.u. states to do so. sick and defenseless. of all the people feeling the greek refugee camps the children perhaps suffer the most. but now some of them have a glimmer of hope germany wants to help. as humans we feel a sense of mutual responsibility for protecting these children some of whom are at risk unaccompanied or in a difficult situation and need our help greece can't deal with all of this without support that's why germany will play a fair part in a coalition of volunteers. but. up to 1500 children could be taken in by europe in this way right now they are stranded in refugee camps on the greek agent islands in maria alone on the island of lesbos there are about 7000

children many are there without their parents many are traumatized psychologically and physically sick. at the moment there is only a small team of doctors taking care of them. the german government wants to show its humanitarian side and help greece get through this crisis the greek government is under a lot of pressure videos of life on the greek turkish border are upsetting since the end of february when turkey opened the gates to europe tens of thousands of refugees have been making their way to greece once they're they're stopped from crossing into territory by border guards armed with tear gas and rubber bullets. in the last 10 days we have shown that we are capable of defending national and european sovereignty greece and europe will not stand for extortion by anyone.

up with excitement. mit's otaki welcomes the german initiative and considers it the 1st step towards an easing of tensions but it is not enough and it's monday gold medals we are talking about over $5000.00 children. greece can keep and take care of a significant number of them but the rest must be distributed amongst the european countries should be documented the potential to cope with because for some children a coalition of european volunteers would be the answer to their problems but only if it comes in time. and here's a reminder of our top story italian prime minister do sepic on today has ordered the extension of emergency anti coronavirus measures to cover the entire country the nationwide restrictions target travel and public gatherings.

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