this is deja vu news live from berlin the u.s. bans nearly all travel from europe to fight the spread of the coronavirus president donald trump blames new infections in the u.s. on a lack of action in europe the restrictions will remain in force for 30 days also coming up italy orders non-essential shops to stay stay closed after unprecedented limits on travel and public gatherings the prime minister chief of the country says the country has to take one more step to fight the coronavirus. he would shy and behind

bars former movie producer harvey weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison this is what justice looks like 20 plus 3 years. sentenced. weinstein had been convicted of rape and sexual assault in a case that gave momentum to the need to commit. i'm serious oh my god it's good to have you with us u.s. president donald trump has banned nearly all travel from europe to the united states that ban will last for 30 days but it excludes the u.k. and ireland and a few other countries outside the shang in the passport free travel area trump said clusters of corona virus infections in the u.s. were traceable to people coming from europe and he blamed the european union for failing to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the disease. so far the u.s.

president had made light of the corona crisis but now donald trump has taken drastic measures by fellow americans. to keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight and these prohibitions will not only apply to the tremendous amount of trade in cargo but various other things as we get the approval. for the travel ban will affect 26 european countries and is set to come into force at midnight on friday trump's move seemed to take u.s. allies as well as the markets by surprise it was quickly followed by another dramatic announcement the n.b.a. said they would be suspending the basketball season fans at a game in oklahoma was sent home before a ball was bounced it later emerged that

a player had tested positive for the coronavirus officials fear that rudi go bad may have been spreading the virus through the league. on monday he appeared to make light of hygiene concerns when he touched reporters recording equipment at a press conference. then oscar winner tom hanks revealed he and his wife had tested positive to the couple are in isolation and following public health advice in australia. in an instagram post the actor said they were taking one day at a time and told his fans to take care of themselves. our political correspondent been looking at all the latest developments for us i need a this travel ban essentially from donald trump from the u.s. president what are the reactions here in germany how's germany taking all of this well donald trump his office actually later corrected the message saying that it would not. target cargo and goods so that is basically good news for

the german economy in a sense but of course this is a huge step and it's a drastic measure to take and here in germany. 2019 alone some 5600000 people travel to the u.s. by plane so it is going to affect a lot of people germany of course being a member of the european union will assess the situation very closely that's something that the e.u. council president tweeted as a response but so far you commission president also left on the line for example she has been quiet on the issue and that is also a sign in itself she hasn't reacted that's a very clear reaction and then of course donald trump calls this a foreign virus you have to keep in mind that this is an extremely delicate situation that can be exploited for political purposes so we have to always look at measures and numbers by governments we have to look at them very carefully indeed whether they come from china or the u.s.

they can be exploited the situation well we have seen the w.h.o. calling for more drastic measures and we have seen some countries that restrict travel could we expect more drastic measures you think you're in germany as well well germany is a federal state that means a lot of the competencies lie in the regions they lend germany has 16 regions and of course a measure of what it comes to health policy when it comes to education policy when it comes to decisions like cancelling mass gatherings for example they're taken at regional level some of the most affected regions have already implemented those bans on mass gatherings for example. more than a 1000 people but whenever we speak to politicians here in berlin even when the microphones are switched off is that border closed as i'm not an option yet and everybody is saying the situation is extremely volatile and dynamic a lot of attention was paid to the fact that the chancellor angela merkel said yesterday based on information from senior health officials that she expects 60 to 70 percent of the population here could be infected with this virus and how are

people reacting to that well of course it took a long time but i think it is beginning to dawn on germans that the virus is coming closer and people really do need to change their behavior and so people are rethinking whether they really need to travel whether they need to meet their friends in these dynamic times or we saw the czech prime minister and we should say the czech republic sharing a border with germany are saying yesterday that merkel is spreading panic with this and this announcement of 60 to 70 percent of people could be infected i mean what does that tell us about the european court nation the approach to this crisis well of course it shows us that europe is not speaking with one voice when it comes to the coronavirus crisis and it took until they sweet for the e.u. leaders to actually get together in a video conference and to decide that the health ministers would from now on be talking to each other on a daily basis but that is also due to the fact that some of the e.u. countries have just not been as affected and so you know it takes some time to get

that operation going but it also clearly shows under machall statements clearly show that she is a scientist who believes in experts opinions and that is also not something that you can say of everybody who is currently leading a government in europe all right our political correspondent nina there with the very latest for us thank you. now equities and oil prices plummeted again on thursday after the world health organization classified the outbreak as a pandemic and donald trump announced that travel ban from europe to the u.s. germany's dax index of 30 blue chip companies fell by 5.5 percent in opening trading dropping below 10000 points for the 1st time since mid twenty's 16 it a solid leads from wall street and later asia tokyo dropped more than 5 percent while hong kong finished down 3.8 percent and sydney collapsed by almost 7 percent . and let's go right to our financial correspondent chelsea delaney standing by at

the frankfurt stock exchange shall see we've really seen a dramatic move on the dax today what are things like where you are right now. it's a very somber and tense atmosphere atmosphere here in frankfurt the moves that we've seen on the financial markets not just here in frankfurt but and stock exchanges around the world have been some of the most dramatic days certainly since the financial crisis but really and and recent memory investors are just increasingly worried about the financial cost of the virus which continues to spread and continues to force governments to take really painful actions including the virtual walked out of it leave but also the news overnight of the ban on travel between the u.s. and europe that's really raising the prospect of a global economic recession particularly in countries that were already facing

a lot of weakness such as italy and germany and the broader euro zone so this is all just really putting a lot of pressure on stocks including the docks here and frankfurt. chelsea dylan the reporting for us from the frankfurt stock exchange thank you. well italy as we've heard has tightened restrictions to try to stop the spread of the virus after limiting freedom of movement nationwide at the government has now ordered the closure of all shops except food stores and pharmacies they are hoping that these measures will eventually contain the disease and alleviate the pressure on hospitals the health system in the north of italy is struggling to cope hospital beds and intensive care units at full capacity medical staff working around the clock especially in lumbered like at milan's serco hospital at the moment and luckily none of our nurses or doctors are in quarantine right now they're all working 12 hours a day to take care of patients. with the flood of patients pushing italy's health

care system to its limits prominent physicians have issued an urgent warning to the government. in only known i don't think we have the structures medical equipment doctors and nurses to cope with such a large number of sick people who feed jane the bit of wood out in the middle of the aisle to be. the toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of supermarkets food stores and pharmacies. even the economic level this is dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. what it's like if you. see the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses in a deliberate. we'll decided to allocate an additional 25000000000 euros to help the country cope with the difficulties of this ongoing emergency in the difficult

places though through some of jeanson. it's money the heavily into government can hardly afford. all right so italy as we see they're stepping up measures as the country tries to contain the outbreak let's bring in derek williams from science for more on the corona virus outbreak there 1st of all you are here in berlin actually but you are joining us from home we understand because you're under a self-imposed quarantine tell us what happened well yesterday to our school informed us that one of the members of staff had come back over at 19 and. they sent that out to all of the parents and announce that they were closing the elementary school and i also in combination with that i didn't have any direct contact with someone who was in fact. it's like cold symptoms for the last few days and talking together with the don't you there we had plans in place for a few weeks that were there were the 4 saw up circumstances like this and we greet

that i would sell for and in for a few days and tell either my symptoms get better or intel i test negative for over 90 you know these are precisely the precautions that health officials are advising derek and i want to ask you about this term that we keep hearing flattening curve scientists are saying this is the approach that we need to take what does flattening the curve mean and why is it so important. right but i thought that you might ask me this question so i actually made a little a little diagram for you i didn't have the resources that we have there own choice about it but i just what i think it's going to show in a picture on here on here on the x. axis you can see that that's that's the time right and here's the number of places on the y. axis now now what plenty of the curve the curve of the epidemic is going to spike and at the moment and at some point we reach this broken line here which is the number of resources that we actually have at our disposal in order to treat those

people so flooding the current means getting the spike down under these this broken line of where our resources are stretched to the limit and that would mean that flattens the curve as you can see so that's the nifty little it's a little counter-intuitive in some ways because what you're saying is we actually want to prolong the outbreak we want to prolong the epidemic but in reality it's the only way that we see right now moving forward to actually slow it down to keep within our resources and to get on top of it just goes to show that your pen and paper are just as good as our fancy graphics here and. i would ask you about the shutdowns that we've seen in italy for example these are shutdowns that for the moment are really only planned for either a few get days or weeks at a time but we do know that the virus will not be gone by then so how effective can these shutdowns actually be. well i mean the short answer to that question is that at this point we don't really know the w.h.o. has said that we're in uncharted territory as you know different countries are

dealing with this and handling this and different ways but they're reading degrees of success china has gotten on top of it appears at some point there the number of infections has cropped dramatically the question is of course what happens if there's a 2nd wave of infections there south korea also appears to be getting things quite well in hand with a with a program that is called that they're calling the 3 t.'s which is to trace to test and then to treat and they've got all these mobile centers set up in order to test people outside where where where where health care personnel are actually safer that's much less conan than the chinese model at the same time we see places like italy where where the health care systems are at this time to be threatened with collapse so in europe as we said we have to really focus on flattening that curve on getting the number of cases down as far as far as possible and stretching out the amount of time that we have between now and when we can finally develop

effective means to combat this disease including a vaccine and of course antivirals but i do want to ask you about china because the health the mission there says that the country has passed the peak of the coronavirus epidemic what makes them so optimistic. well and none of humanity is out of the woods yet on this i mean china is a major trading partner for many many companies in the world and there are people that are going to have to be moving in and out of that country and so when you have the movement of people you automatically are going to the chances of reinfection these massive efforts have paid off for now. the optimism that i think that they're feeling their public comes from the idea that they would be in this morning's we can be to yeah our correspondent derek williams from the science thank you very much for your insights. all right let's take a look at some more coronavirus development developments now a spain is considering a lockdown of its capital madrid saudi arabia has suspended travel by its citizens

and residents and halted flights to and from several states twitter and google are recommending that employees worldwide work from home japan back olympics there to go ahead. for the latest on the corner of ours including information about what to do if you think you might be infected please visit our website that's g.w. dot com. all right let's get a roundup now of some other stories making news around the world media reports say germany's domestic intelligence agency is placing an extremist wing of the far right alternative for germany party under surveillance the group is led by a firebrand yun hota who's been accused of using rhetoric from germany's nazi past . european commission president was last on the line is postponed a visit to greece because of the coronavirus pandemic she was due to hold talks on the situation on the border with turkey where there been clashes with police as thousands of migrants attempt to cross in to the european union. and there's also

been clashes at overcrowded migrant camps on greek islands now as many as $100.00 children from those camps are being offered refuge here in berlin the children have been chosen because they are ill unaccompanied or younger than 14 years old more now on how the german capital is preparing for the young arrivals. thousands of refugees among them many children are stuck in makeshift camps in greece clothing and food are in short supply and nobody knows what will become of these people. the city government here in berlin says it wants to welcome 2000. we need the national government to help make this happen but it has categorically refused to help these people in need and said germany is not going to take any unilateral action. for months we've just been standing idly by as people perish and children suffer this is

a disaster. but then is preparing for the eventual arrival of some of these refugees empty portable housing units at the decommissioned tempelhof airport and being hooked up again to the mains they date from 2015 when germany admitted almost a 1000000 refugees back then the authorities were taken by surprise and scramble to cope the situation was a times chaotic and conditions were the new arrivals very poor. 5 years on the balance city government department that's responsible for refugees and asylum seekers says that it's now much better prepared. to have a cup at city where the posting capacity to help people who come to us 2015 we were caught off guard 50 we then have a staff of 150 here now we have more than 500 and are allowed to hire 50 more. so we have the personnel to receive newcomers register them and provide the

services they need. most of the berlin as we talk to are in favor of welcoming more refugees to their city. we were once refugees to we survived german reunification without any trouble so why shouldn't we be able to deal with this situation. if we need to talk to him so we are approaching the limit in terms of capacity but this is an extreme case especially considering the children so we have to do something you know which of us 2. there will be protests parties such as the a.f.d. right wing extremist and right. when populous groups in our society will once again protest or. but there's no reason to have right wing extremists determine whether or not we rescue people in need. of the mention in what.

it's not known how many people might eventually come to. the conflict between cities offering shelter the german government and other european union countries on relocating refugees is far from resolved former hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault it was close to the maximum term of 29 years the prosecutors were seeking women outside the new york courthouse where he was sentenced greeted the announcement with loud cheers. for harvey weinstein's accuses it's an outcome few thought was possible. attorney gloria allred says justice has been done for her clients this is what justice looks like 20 plus 3 years sentence handed down by judge burke this morning. just raced movie mogul who faced his final

appearance in the same new york courtroom where he was convicted of rape and sexual assault against 2 women. since his conviction last month the former head of mare max underwent heart surgery arriving at court in a wheelchair. weinstein's lawyer has asked the judge to take his poor health as well as his age and young children into account and was scathing of the outcome. i mean i think we all know that sentence that was just handed down by this court was obscene that number was a noxious there are murderers who will get out of court faster than harvey weinstein will that number spoke to the pressure of movements and the public weinstein has denied any wrongdoing and his lawyers plan to appeal the verdict prosecutors had sought a lengthy sentence given the foreman produces abuse spanning 4 decades and lack of

remorse. old read who represents accuser just a command part of a testimony outside course she said i've never felt vengeful and going into this initially i didn't even feel anger i just felt sad sad for myself sad for everyone he hurt and i even felt sad for him for having done this to himself but i have observed and indifference a lack of remorse it seems like the final scene in harvey weinstein's fall from grace but the drummer's far from over weinstein faces further criminal charges in los angeles also for right and sexual assault that case could bring a maximum sentence of $28.00 east. sports now and in bundesliga soccer both mention gladbach beat cologne by 2 goals to one the match made history because it's the 1st german league clash to be held behind

closed doors fans were excluded in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus . but in this league the fans have dubbed matches held behind closed doors like this one goes to games but that didn't discourage thousands from gathering outside the stadium and gladbach to peek through the cracks inside only a handful of club officials were waiting for this historic match to kick off despite not having fan support the home side struck 1st patcher come on to brazil in below who didn't like peckham from inside the box the of not sure what envelope was listening for with no fans but blockbuster half cheered him on for the early lead in his 7th goal of the campaign things didn't improve for cologne after the break central defender miri attempted to clear the ball but instead fired it right past his own goal keeper t. moon doubling the lead for glove box. 10

minutes later cologne did manage to pull one back after yun summer had his own blunder the bad pass found mark who didn't waste the gift weaving through traffic in scoring colognes only goal of the match. a lot bob though held on to the lead and got the 21 victory moving up to 4th in the standings. in the champions league paris sandra mont got the better of dortmund on wednesday the french team won 2 nil on the night to reach the quarter finals 32 on aggregate thousands of p.s.g. fans gathered outside the stadium to cheer on their team after being banned from going inside in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus after the final whistle the p s j g players climbed onto a balcony overlooking the street to celebrate with their supporters. in the night's other game the current champions liverpool crashed out of the tournament they

looked set to make a comeback against atletico madrid after taking the match to extra time but unfortunately for your club side of the spaniard scored 3 on answered goals to advance for 2 on aggregate it's safe to say the club was less than impressed i've said already but very much all t.v. stations i'm really. on the average lose out to be honest at least tonight if i would say all the things i have in my mind i would look like a burst loser in the world so it ends up as a. stoppie what else do you want to say but funny i don't say that it's just about pity i think the way they play i just don't get. i don't get it but that's right when i was right that's how it. this is good news and these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump is banning travel from europe to the u.s. for 30 days it's part of a new u.s. plan to fight the spread of coronavirus trump blamed the european union for not

acting quickly enough to stop the spread of the disease. the italian government has ordered the closure of all shops except food stores and pharmacies bars and restaurants are also supposed to remain shut as part of efforts to halt the spread of the corona virus italy has reported the highest number of infections outside china. the world health organization has declared the spread of the corona virus to be a pandemic the w.h.o. said the new designation was justified since the virus is now present in more than $100.00 countries. former hollywood movie producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison following his conviction for rape and sexual assault the former producer's case was a major driver for the need to movement this is deja news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter or visit our website dot com. coming up next business news

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