this is g.w. news one for from berlin tonight a nation under lockdown italy's radical measures to fight the coronavirus the entire population of 60000000 has been told to stay at home and restrictions

imposed on travel and public gatherings will bring you the latest on the outbreak and around the world also coming up president for life russia's parliament backs vladimir putin's plans for the constitution clearing the way for changes that will allow him to stay in power until the year 2036 and it's a super tuesday realm to win the race for the democratic party's presidential nomination in the u.s. can juggle i deliver the knockout blow to bernie sanders and we'll introduce you to a tiny polish horse named paul who's just made it into the guinness book of world records. viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world. well it is an unprecedented move

italy has expanded its response to the corona virus outbreak the entire country is now under a lockdown restrictions were originally applied only to northern regions now they are nation wide to tell us have been told that they should only move around for work urgent health needs or in emergencies and they also need to carry documents declaring their reasons for traveling to italy is currently confirmed more than 10000 cases and more than 630 deaths from the virus. a rare sight in rome the coliseum with few visitors it was so silent you could almost hear the ancient romans cheering on their favorite gladiators modern day romans seemed willing to accept the government's anti-virus lock down regretfully. i've seen the government directives they are quite precise they must be followed and everything must be done to ensure that they are respected. if i had to do it of

it bang and. i live here and it's always full of people but this morning there's no one it's not nice this reality. show yeah. the government's measures to restrict people to all but essential travel commuting for work is allowed if people have documentation proving it's necessary the measures will stay in place until at least the 3rd of april as he announced the national lockdown italy's prime minister had a message for young people. it still put a few mad i'm about to sign a decree that we can such laws. we've seen the images photographs with the not life is the fun way people drinking outside. it's no longer possible for us to allow this because of the risk of infection. then we'll focus in the. across town in the vatican pope francis urged catholic priests

to have the courage to go out and help those afflicted with the coronavirus perhaps he had seen the photo of a nurse exhausted by the battle against the disease the picture has gone viral on social media. for more now we want to go to the italian city of naples where journalist alex matthews joins us alex is going to have you on the program i mean the whole country under lock and unprecedented in sounds dramatic what's it like. being a very big change its leader in naples where i am. then you sort of how bad the situation has been in the northeast 70 spreading down in that favorite way out trying to leave as we've heard very restricted so you can't move very easily region you need to say in your own community here in the close that means check that all the people going to islands it's crazy across it as well as some people getting on

the trains to go long distance and everything out about normal life these are slowed down but the axe is a very and see now there aren't many people in restaurants or any tourists. the nightlife right now if i look out of the window is very very well there's nothing bad because everything has to close down from 6 am and i want to see from october you're going to die i don't want to make sure that people could keep a distance of one meter away from each other that they would take it some people so you would give it a number and then 15 minutes you wait around outside the stall and only then when you are allowed to enter into the supermarket to buy your goods well you know people are being told that they should stay at home at least for the time being but what about people traveling to be at least can people still travel to the country. can they face if they can prove that they have

a radio. emergency or really needs to be that but it's very ill advised i'm from the german government as well as many other governments that are saying unless you absolutely need to travel to it's least should not it's becoming increasingly difficult very. cancelling that flights are easing to fly now until the beginning of april at least but if i can government such as germany follows the lines of advice that you're getting from the italian government as well which is. travel unless you absolutely have to alex mathews joining us tonight from naples italy with the latest on a country under lockdown alex thank you for the european union is earmarking 7500000000 euros to help cushion any economic shocks from the corona virus outbreak the u. commission chief from the alliance says that number could increase to 25000000000 euros or today european council president charles michel chaired

a rare virtual get together of e.u. leaders by video conference the e.u. is coming under fire for its noticeable silence since this outbreak began. 3. well the coronavirus is said to calls unprecedented disruption to german football with some matches being played without fans for the very 1st time and that's going to hit one of the biggest clashes in the german bundesliga the darby between dortmund shaka which will now take place behind closed doors on saturday before that bloodbath will play cologne tomorrow also in an empty stadium. german football is known for a track to a sea of supporters last week some fans that glove bought took precautions against the coronavirus but the same seats will be empty during their next home match against rival cologne setting a historical precedent for the top flight in germany. 15 ethylene you know to

primarily affects the fountains but of course it will also hit with him and. since most you can imagine there are financial consequences if you will have to see whether it's just going to be for this game full whether it's going to affect more games what is the next stage answers to those questions are left up to local health authorities and german football stadium and glove box seats over 50000 and the club says it's set to lose an estimated 2000000 euros in revenue for their upcoming match under the circumstances fans forced to miss the action understand the idea of safety 1st i know that. on the one hand i think that's good for people's health and i think you have to make sure that safety comes 1st for people the. games will unfortunately get cancelled and this is already the case and it's only games without fans are already planned it. means home match against shoko arguably the

league's biggest rivalry will be without the $80000.00 spectators normally on hand and the good clubs and byron munich both in germany's bavaria region won't have fans at their next home matches either now many fans are wondering just how long the coronavirus will continue to disrupt football in germany. well as corona virus cases worldwide cross the 118000 mark tonight we ask can anything be gleaned from the country where the outbreak began china now we all remember these scenes from late january early february 2 new hospitals built in under 2 weeks in the epicenter of the 1st outbreak all part of what the world health organization described as the most ambitious agile and aggressive disease containment effort in history. and efforts that the global

health body says worked now it's part of a reports the health experts submitted last month after a visit to china i'll be speaking to an expert who was part of that team in just a moment but 1st here's more on china's response not all of which has been without controversy. it all began here at this life food market in rwanda china a mysterious virus born in shops triggering a wave of a illnesses the internet sin failed with pictures of hospitals out breaking point and the bikes piling up on buses and brought to the world by citizen journalists risking life and liberty. you would i'm not even scared of death you think i'm a communist party. china scrambled its massive resources and the most ambitious

containment efforts ever seen. this is something all chinese people are involved in each person will play their part. health workers from across china headed to the front lines of the outbreak putting themselves in harm's way. of course. and so are our relatives. but we're nurses and will do our job as long as we wear the uniform the school of china's response is unprecedented new medical centers belt in days. universal temperature monitoring controversial strict social distancing rules that included locking down a city of millions helping to stop the spread. meticulous contact tracing and 10000 epidemiologists aggressively traced every passing. patient had been in

contact with. hundreds of thousands were tested at fever clinics like this scientists from a fact finding mission praised the efforts if this is a rapidly escalating epidemic in different places that we have got to tackle super fast to prevent a pandemic it's actually what china demonstrates is where this goes is within the control of our decisions to apply this kind of rigor and approach to this disease expect say that china is a blueprint for the world but the question is can the and will they follow it. where is a brief look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world for his president says he will not stop trying to cross turkey's border into greece but he also announced to do. a summit to take place next week is down but

with european union leaders to seek a solution to the crisis 2 months after hosting a summit on the libya conflict germany's chancellor has hosted libya's eastern commander here in berlin i'm going to merkel reiterated the importance of a ceasefire and a political solution during today's talks general khalifa haftar r and his rebel forces have been fighting the un backed libyan government for control of the capital tripoli tripoli since last april malawi's security forces have fired tear gas to break up protesters as a pro-democracy activists and handed himself into police timothy him tombo was wanted in connection with his call for fresh elections following last year's disputed presidential vote last month the constitutional court an old those ballot results citing irregularities but the incumbent president has to greenlight any fresh election. the british rock band led zeppelin had won a long running copyright dispute over their hit stairway to heaven a u.s.

appeals court ruled they did not steal the songs opening riff the band members who wrote the song could have faced a legal bill for millions of dollars in damages so. you're watching the news still to come what you to me bomb the bill at less than 60 centimeters tall he's made it into the guinness book of records as the world's tiniest stallion no worse thing around. russia's lower house of parliament has backed president putin's plans to allow him to stay in office until the year 2036 he told the duma today that the changes to the constitution are necessary to guarantee the country's future stability the currently the russian president can only serve 2 consecutive terms if the changes are approved that limit would remain but would be allowed to run again by effectively pressing

a reset button after his current term ends in 2024 and with women. but you mean we are not passing amendments for a year or so or even for a decade i hope that they will be in power over a longer historic perspective. let at least 30 to 50 years time getting and in such a long run people must have guaranteed was that regular changes of power are secured and we should look at the numbers we need to think of the future generation of us so i don't think it's worth removing the number of presidential terms from the constitution. russian president vladimir putin there we spoke to our correspondent sure when in moscow earlier and we asked her for more about what these constitutional changes will mean these measures essentially if they are passed and if the constitutional court here in russia proves them they mean they they mean a kind of reset button for presidential terms here in russia after all president

putin is currently in his 2nd of 2 consecutive terms his term in office and in 2024 and according to the current constitution he can't run again after that now these measures could remove that hurdle and could mean that he can run again in 2024 now we just heard him saying that he doesn't want term limits to be gotten rid of overall but essentially since he started his term in office people have been discussing what will happen next and when he announced constitutional changes in january everyone has been here experts have been theorizing about what that could mean for putin himself what role he could take on and it seems that he does want to stay president in what observers here have been calling a kind of sting operation to keep him in power that was immature in their reporting from moscow a new report by the un's world meteorological organization who says the past decade has been the hardest in human history the report also says 2019 was the 2nd hottest

year since records began and freezing the finding was in new york today the w most secretary general said that the outlook is bleak if you look at that we have also broken records in the carbon carbon dioxide methane and the guys are so excited because it's very strange and out of those sort of carbon dioxide is the most important one that this going to be through thirds of the warming so far its lifetime is of several 100 so for years so this is a problem that doesn't go. a problem that doesn't go away well for more i'm joined now by laura peterson from the world meteorological organization at the u.n. in new york or it's good to have you on this show the magnitude and the speed of changes to the global climate. a warming what are the main findings of this report . so the i.p.c.c.

has long told is that every fraction of a degree of warming matters and essentially that is what this report is really showing us that we're continuing to see warming as he said we've seen the half the 2nd top this year on record last year and that was even without the presence of el nino which usually adds an extra warming effect and i'm sure also really seeing that this warming is continuing that it also really does matter that the report outlines a number of human factors that are being observed all that have been observed through 2019 and from increased from the majority of new displacements and being linked to weather and climate reasons far and thousands of deaths being associated with heat waves which without climate change would have really been quite a while especially unusual and also for an increased. increase prevalence of the spread of dengue fever even which is another another into really be concerned about

this i think this for courts shows nicely the fall the concerning the scientific facts of the warming and the melting of the ice but also the human factors and lord we've been told by the u.n. that we have basically about 12 years if we want to take measures to mitigate the effects of climate change does this new report does it substantiates that time horizon. i mean it doesn't it's shows that it's we really are accelerating towards towards some of the goals i'm so bored some of the limits of the paris agreement we also even signed to cater our cast from the u.k. met office in the past couple of months that said there is a 10 percent chance of us even reaching 1.5 degrees in the next 5 years so i think that overall we're still on you know it's got the same type of timescales in mind far from reaching these goals but really you know with every year that passes the pressure is really on to actually mobilize some kind of strong climate action to everybody to really tackle this more peterson from the world meteorological

organization joining us tonight from the u.n. in new york laura we appreciate your insights tonight thank you. or former u.s. vice president joe biden is aiming for a knockout blow to senator bernie sanders as the fired for the democratic presidential nomination enters its next crucial rael voting is underway now in 6 states which are holding primaries on this super tuesday to concluding that important battleground state of michigan biden and sanders are both in their late seventy's our correspondent alexandra phenomena do the voters really care. he's the current run from the former vice president joe biden at the age of $77.00 . his rival bernie sanders is watching your older of the self-proclaimed democratic socialists complains tirelessly despite having suffered a heart attack. they've both hope to oust the incumbent in the white house

president donald trump is age 73 but death age really matter. i prefer younger candidate but i also really appreciate experience the wisdom and experience is definitely important but i think it's also equally important to have those younger candidates that can. relate better to the younger. younger majority now as a millennial i mean i like to see my voice represented obviously in wrestling as to mental capacities are. you know a candidate conserve to their ability older or more experienced politicians aren't on the usual in the u.s. politics but there has never been a moment in american history when so many top contenders for the presidency have been in their seventy's meaning questions about age related to concern you are taking a new volume and importance. joe biden's verbal gaffes for example have become so

regular that his critics are openly discussing whether it's fit for office. while many young voters criticize his vision for america as being to our interests to watch the past bernie send our seems popular among young voters who hope for a big systemic change but on inauguration day he will be 79 years old a year pos the average lifespan up an american male because the president of the you asked is such a powerful position it's natural for voters to be concerned with the health of the candidate sas. professor of public policy at georgetown university and the voters will also need to look very carefully at who the vice presidential candidates are it's not unreasonable to think that one of those vice president candidates may become president should the president become incapacitated or die while in office.

and the young democrats captain fairfax virginia they agree here that having a good running mate and a good team is important but what they don't seem to agree on the ad is the candidate when i prefer joe biden i think he has. been mostly doing a good job in the senate and the job in the as a vice president for barack obama i didn't agree with everything he did but i trust that. at this point he's our best option for stabilizing the government and also america's place in the world believe bernie sanders is the best chance i believe that i think he's touching into something that donald trump cuts into when it comes to the despair of the country a lot of people feeling that you know they've got to be serving us right now i'm looking for the individual who really is going to bring people to the polls i think it's really important because if we don't bring people to the polls we're going to find ourselves in the same business we were into those and that's why they say they

want to support whoever ends up becoming the nominee and challenge donald trump. we know here's a story about a tiny horse in poland but not just any tiny horse this tiny who worse is a stallion called bomb bill and he's just made it into the guinness book of records . many stud hits the big time bum bell the world's tiniest and according to the guinness book of world records the spot of appaloosa likes to strut his stuff with his friend as a rowdy maza roddy's not yet fully grown but barbell is his growth was stunted. employing him you might think that because he's a small horse he needs less kid. but it's just the opposite. because he needs a special attention because he's a small stature it's a genetic disorder you know what about the net that. that makes him susceptible to

certain health issues but overall he's perky and he's exactly 56.7 centimeters tall . bombo can trot and gallop like any other horse and he loves to meet the mares even if they tower over him. but he is a stallion he puffs is chest he wags his tail he squeals and he stops the ground with his tiny hoofs feet. go. very friendly that's why his owners patrick and bring him to visit sick children in hospitals to engage an echoing assisted therapy but they can't write him. that up yeah because if i knew each other you can see what the therapy looks like for example the children count the spots on bone and muscle. it's a happy memory and a great experience for these kids they have found the bubble which.

is so small he can go many places easily. a little car that can be packed easily and uses the elevator in a hospital he saw as a real plus. he's the pint sized pride in the barnyard in the polish city of luggage and he's already 4 years old the 56.7 centimeter stallion larger than life. well he never wanted to own in the original because never had the money think again you could this piece by the spanish master for just a 100 euros it's being raffled in paris with tickets sold to raise money for charity the paintings real value is estimated that between $2.00 and $3000000.00 the raffle will be held at the end of this month proceeds will go to the anti-poverty charity care. and here's

a reminder of that top story we're following for you italy has imposed nationwide restrictions on travel and public gatherings as it babbles the outbreak of the coronavirus of the country's 60000000 people have been told to stay at home. but forget you can get all the latest news and information about the book clock on our web site at d w dot com after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day stick around for that we'll be right back.

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