this is g.w. news live from berlin and the u.s. bans nearly all travel from europe to fight the spread of the coronavirus president donald trump plains new infections of the u.s. on a lack of action in europe the research and will remain in force for 30. also coming up to italy orders non-essential shops to stay closed after unprecedented limits on travel and public gatherings prime minister to 70 countries that's

a country has to take one more step to find the coronavirus. the hollywood giant 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 to 100 has been convicted of rape and sexual assault in a case that gave momentum to the need to. carry out. i'm sumi so much going to thank you for joining us the european union has criticized the decision by u.s. president donald trump to ban nearly all travel from europe to the united states the e.u. commission said it was taken unilaterally and without consultation now this ban will last for 30 days but excludes the u.k.

and ireland and a few other countries outside of the schengen passport free travel area trump said the european union had failed 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 assures 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 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 tested positive for the coronavirus officials fear that really 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 and 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. political correspondent is following the latest developments for us hi nina this is a pretty dramatic stuff step here stopping nearly all travel coming from europe to

the u.s. tell us more about the reactions here in europe well here in germany for example some 5600000 people would have been affected in 2019 had there been a travel ban because that's the number of people who flew to the u.s. from germany in 2019 so of course this is huge it took. a while to respond but then they came out with this statement you council president on the show and you commission president also love fund lyon and they said they essentially slammed this travel ban announced by donald trump and they said this virus is a global crisis that's not limited to any continent it requires corporation rather than unilateral action they also criticized heavily the fact that they were not informed about this decision and that is also going to put a massive strain on the diplomatic ties between washington and brussels that are already not in a good state what is the picture like you're in germany because the w.h.o.

is calling for more drastic measures and we have seen countries you know issued travel restrictions so do you think we could see those types of measures taken here in germany well so far even behind closed doors politicians that we talked to him saying that when not going to impose travel bans or border closes at the moment they all stress that the situation is extremely volatile that this extremely dynamic and of course that the virus needs to be contained at all costs and that the measures always have to be weighed up what is absolutely necessary to do so the virus can spread anymore but where do we have to keep public life going as well and some of germany's regions that are most affected for example they have implemented a ban on mass gatherings of. more than a 1000 people with exactly that goal to help flatten that curve so that the virus spreads over a longer period of time just so that the health care systems can cope

a lot of people are talking with a very sober assessment from the german chancellor angela merkel yesterday where she said look what i've heard from senior public health officials is that 60 to 70 percent of the population will be infected with this virus i mean how are people reacting to that well it was interesting in many ways because of course it was the 1st time that anglo-american herself spoke to the public on this issue on the coronavirus issue and she wanted to make it very clear to everybody that the german government is indeed taking this very seriously but that some measures can only be implemented a regional level that is also something that people have to understand that those decisions whether to close schools whether to ban those mass gatherings etc they're not taken at a federal level and yet says this situation is extremely serious she's a scientist by trade herself she listens to those experts she appreciates their opinions she consults them actively and then she passes on that information to the public because she believes that that is her duty that everybody can inform

themselves and draw conclusions for themselves how they can help contain the virus because it is here and it is here to stay just quickly the czech prime minister said this is causing panic by saying 6060 to 70 percent of the population could be affected what does that tell us well again it says that europe is not talking with one voice yet of course not every european country is affected in the same way as italy is for example but the e.u. leaders agreed this week that the health ministers won't be talking on a daily basis from now on all right our political correspondent nina with us thank you so much. well equities and oil prices have plummeted again after the world health organization classify the corona virus outbreak as a pandemic and donald trump announced that travel ban germany's dax index of 30 blue chip companies fell by 5.5 percent in open trading dropping below 10000 points for the 1st time since mid 2016 that followed leads from wall street and later asia

tokyo dropped by more than 5 percent for 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. well 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 in 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 a leave but also the news overnight of that 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 delineate reporting for us from the frankfurt stock exchange thank you. well italy has tightened restrictions to try to stop the spread of the virus after limiting freedom of movement nationwide 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 of full capacity medical staff working around the clock especially in lumbered like at milan's psycho hospital the mental luckily none of our nurses or

doctors are in quarantine right now they're all working 12 hours a day to take care of our 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 yet he sophie jane the bytecode i don't know met up with the mother. the toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of supermarkets food stores and pharmacies. the economic level this is dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. but it's like if you. see the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses been a deliberate. we'll decided to allocate an additional 25000000000 euros to help

the country cope with the difficulties of this ongoing emergency really difficult to get basic stuff. it's money heavily into to government can hardly afford. it. and we can speak now to dr jeff he's an anesthesiologist from the university of melanie's coordinating the network of intensive care units in lombardy dr wrestling we know you're very busy at the moment thank you for joining us here on d w can you give us an idea of what the situation is in hospitals right but right now in. yes to give you an idea i can give you just very simple numbers but before this crisis we had you no longer the around the last 800 i see you bat a little for people. to start of the day weeks or so in the last 20 days we have admitted to our i.c.u.

for a total of more than 100 people of these let's say 120 have been discharged about 90 have died and the remaining around 700 are still there so from these numbers again you can understand how how big is the stress of the system so we've been able to increase our i.c.u. beds capacity by about 50 percent something then he huge effort everyone we have reorganized our network in order to centralize the time dependent diseases like for example trauma stroke in on the if you hops into to free space to to to have new units dedicated we have created a network of specialized 19 a units in several hospitals and so until now we've been able to cope with these incredible amount of patients in a very short limited period of time but you know. reach. sorry one of the

region richest region in europe and still really struggling to to to deal with this incredible as it tsunami of patients was investing us here we've heard reports of nurses of doctors working around the clock working past capacity to be able to treat enough people we've also heard reports of nurses health care officials having to reach almost impossible decisions of deciding because there are so many sick people at the moment to treat who to treat and who they cannot is that true and who is reaching that choice. well. that's a very important that's a very important point and there are a lot of politics now in italy but but i have i want to make this very clear well in every day's life and mr geologist when he's called to to see a critical patient has that takes it take a decision whether i see a mission is proportion me for that patient condition i mean that we admitted to

the i.c.u. on a patient who can benefit from i.c.u. admission and indes of treatments and that if a patient cannot benefit because of a number of factors which is not only age of course but it's age plus the u.s. is more with chronic conditions and the quality of life and so on if a patient does not benefit from i.c.u. admission he will not be admitted to the i.c.u. no matter how many free beds you have ok so we are trying to do 2 to 2 to talk by the same principles even now during the crisis and until now i can say that basically almost all the patients who have been judged as candidate for i.c.u. have received an i.c.u. bad and until later clearly this cannot last forever because of an exponential increase in the number of patients so there is certainly the risk of getting to a point where the available resources will not be enough for everyone so in that

case there will be the necessity of you know prioritize as your mission for those with the highest chance of survival but this is a principle of medicine and also our you know you know we understand it's a it's a really difficult situation we're facing right now a lot of people are looking to only one thing with more than 10000 cases what is happened there i mean why has the virus spread so quickly. it's very difficult to say. apparently here in number the happen something similar to what happened in 100 probably the virus was was was around for at least has been around for at least one of our recognized and then something happened like a super spread and that like started this fire which is very difficult to turn off and. clearly we're having a huge number of patients an increasing number of patients and what's different from this was reported from china is that the number of patients in the i.c.u.

because in our in our case serious least the 10 to 12 percent of the patients of the positive patients. need i see what mission compared to let's say less than 5 percent in the either cheney's book relation clearly it's difficult to do to compare the percentages because maybe the depopulation that we are testing is different because now for example who are performing the diagnostic tests ali is symptomatic patients so it's difficult to say what we know is that it is easy extremely contagious so you know that. for a fee that about 50 to 60 percent of the entire world population could be effected by this virus and it's really going to ages and a certain number of patients need the i.c.u. admissions so what they want to make very clear and they what they want to say to tell everyone in the world is that the solution for these is not. opening new beds

and us feel bad or keep buying ventilators this is a flu shot for people who are already sick so the only way to avoid the death becomes a disaster and when i see disaster i mean hundreds of thousands of deaths the only way to avoid these is to avoid the spread of this disease and this can be done we've seen the. behavioral measures yeah so. you can increase your and your i.q. bad as much as you can but again if you are invested by this tsunami in your eyes you bet a certain point it will never be enough no matter how efficient modern said and particularly just just a cutting quickly there what you're saying there is your message to other countries that are facing what your region is facing right now is please slow the spread 1st get ready so prepare your health care who are going to the proper use of personal protective equipment for example. reorganize or pride to think how to organize your

i.c.u. network but most importantly prepare the population tell them that once you have the initial spread that they needed to change their behavior their need to reduce their social life i mean easier if everyone stays at home for 3 weeks this is going to handle because no one should be no new patients should be affected ok so i understand it's the beginning revision of personal freedom but the other 2 are these is going to be a disaster all right we'll have to leave it there are doctors here come aggressively and see it these are joining us from the university of milan in lombardy thank you very much you're welcome thank you let's take a look now at some of the latest coronavirus developments 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

a twitter and google are recommending that employees worldwide work from home japan is backing at the olympics however to go ahead as planned well for all the latest on the coronavirus including information about what to do if you think you might be infected please visit our website www dot com. now 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 a prosecutors were seeking women outside the new york courthouse greeted the announcement with loud cheers. harvey weinstein's accuses it's an outcome few thought was possible. attorney gloria allred says justice has been done for clients this is what justice looks like 20 plus 3 years sentence handed down

by judge burke this morning was just raced movie mogul who faced his final appearance in the same new york where he was convicted of rape and sexual assault against 2 women. since his conviction last month the former head of mary max underwent heart surgery arriving at courts 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 the 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 one state has denied any wrongdoing and his lawyers plan to appeal the verdict prosecutors had sought a lengthy sentence given the former produces abuse spanning 4 decades and lack of

remorse. old read who represents accuser just a command for 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 an 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 for right and sexual assault that case could bring a maximum sentence of 28 years. why all right let's get a roundup now of some other headlines from 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 that group is led by firebrand here in hooker who has been accused of using rhetoric from germany's nazi past. and a series of early morning raids u.s. authorities have arrested hundreds of people allegedly links to the mexican drug cartel high school new generation the gang controls up to 2 thirds of the u.s. illegal drug market authorities are hoping to capture its alleged leader one of the most wanted men in the u.s. . students in chile have clashed with police in anti-government protests now the students were participating in a day of civil disobedience to mark the 2nd anniversary of president and yes entry into office wednesday also marked 30 years since the end of dictatorship and she looked up. and palestinian officials say israeli forces have shot dead a palestinian teenager during clashes in the occupied west bank the 15 year old

recorded lee died after being shot in the head the israeli army says it was responding to a violent riot in the palestinian town of beit near nablus. all right q sports now in bundesliga soccer parisienne mentioned cologne by 2 goals to one the match made history because it is a 1st german league clash to be held behind closed doors fans were excluded in an effort to halt the spread of the coronavirus blinis league of 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 reel him below who bit it like beckham from inside the box 5 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 sitter defender miri attempted to clear the ball but instead farted right past his own goalkeeper to mohun doubling the lead for glove box. 10 minutes later cologne did manage to pull one back after johan 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. glad babo held on to the lead and got the 21 victory moving up to 4th in the standings. in the champions league paris and your man got the better of brasil darkman on

wednesday of the french team won 2 nil on the night to reach the quarterfinals 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 create the spread of the current of arts for after the final whistle to p.s.g. players climbed onto a balcony overlooking the street to celebrate with their supporters. and the night's other game of the champions liverpool crashed out of the tournaments they looked set to make a comeback against atletico madrid after taking the match to extra time but unfortunately for you can club steam the spaniard scored 3 on answer goals to advance for 2 on aggregate it is safe to say the club was less than impressed. i said no oriental but pretty much all t.v. stations i'm a radio. on the average loser to be honest at least tonight if i would say all the things i have in my mind i would look like the 1st loser in the world so it ends up as a. stop you will help us who was there you was funny i don't say that it's just about

pity at the doorway that play i just don't get it. i don't get it but it's right there when is right that's hard. well amid an unprecedented lockdown due to the corona virus the olympic flame for the 2020 tokyo games was lit in the limpia the ancient home of the games spectators were banned from the ceremony as an actress dressed as an ancient greek high priestess lit the flame using the rays of the sun the flame will travel around greece on a weeklong relay before being handed over to the tokyo organizers next week so far organizers and the international olympic committee have insisted that the games will go ahead as planned. all right let's get a reminder now of our top stories here u.s. president trump out announced a ban on travel from europe to the u.s. for 30 days he took the action to try to fight the spread of the current armors the

italian government has ordered the closure of all shops except food stores and pharmacies because of the coronavirus all the bars and restaurants are also supposed to remain closed. coming up next our show focus on europe goes on board the migrant rescue ship ocean viking please stay tuned for that.

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