this is the w.'s line from berlin covered 19 fears global stock sell off markets in asia europe us plugged as the coronavirus sweeps the globe we'll see what countries are doing to minimize the economic damage also on the program us president donald trump and ours is a 13 days ban on travel from europe blaming the increase in new u.s. infections on the lack of action by the e.u. . italy struggles to contain its mass outbreak of corona virus a doctor that has this advice for the rest of the world. but most importantly

prepared. once you have the nation's credit they needed to change their behavior to reduce. welcome to the program fears over the spreading corona virus a hammering markets around the world shares on wall street plunged on thursday triggering a stock in trading for the 2nd time this week the dow jones industrial average was down more than 2000 points almost 9 percent shortly after the start of trading the selloff comes amid growing uncertainty over u.s. and global measures to contain the economic damage off the pandemic and follows the announcement of a travel ban to the u.s. and nearest tough trading sessions in asia and europe were. investors of signal do

sometimes function with stimulus measures so far. let's talk to correspondent. chelsea delaine. see how significant. declines. we've been talking a lot about some of the biggest stock selloff since the financial crisis we're getting to the point where this selloff we're seeing are going to exceed financial crisis level stock to clients here in frankfurt the docks fell about 10 percent that would be a 2nd worst day ever and in the u.s. the dax as you mentioned is down about 9 percent but if you put that into perspective given that there's just extreme volatility we've seen it's on track to overtake its financial crisis level worst week ever so we're really seeing a continued pattern of extreme volatility and it doesn't appear to be letting up anytime soon be well the european central bank measures to limit the impact of

corona virus how is that going down in the balkans. it's been a pretty big disappointment a lot of investors had expected that you see the european central bank to come in and 1st off to cut its key lending rate that banks that banks lend to take loans that they did not do that they did implement a couple different types of liquidity measures for banks and ways to get cheap loans to the real economy but investors have been hoping for something bigger and they just haven't gotten it and that's one reason why the stock softens really excel aerated here and at the end of the day in frankfurt. do governments and central banks actually have the tools to prevent a recession at this point. yeah i think that's a really good question what we're hearing from central bankers and governments and you know it's not really a one stop. they have to really work together central banks can keep things keep

keep it system coming under but governments also have to step in here and really support the economy support consumers through out of work support businesses like the travel sector that are really getting getting hit with things like tax cuts that even and that case it's very unclear at all about it's going to be enough to stave off recession particularly in areas that are already quite weak like italy and germany. to chelsea a delay made. in frankfurt thank you. meanwhile the e.u. has criticized the u.s. president donald trump's decision to ban nearly all travel from europe to the united states the 30 day bond affects countries inside europe's schengen passport free travel zone and so excludes the u.k. and ireland the european commission said the decision have been taken unilaterally and without consultation president trump accuses the e.u. of failing to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the coronavirus until now

the us president had made light of the can run a crisis but in a surprise statement donald trump announced new drastic measures as well americans to keep new cases from entering our sure's 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. the travel ban will affect $26.00 european countries but will exclude britain the nala and exemptions will be made for u.s. citizens. these spanish travelers at madrid airport are some of the last europeans to be allowed into the u.s. . but if the u.s. have to take those measures let them take them we need to be prudent and careful but there's no need to get desperate for i mean enough to cover it affects me because i work in the u.s.

i had to change my ticket and bring the trip forward because if not i would have found the border closed the new u.s. rules mark a sudden escalation and trump's response to the virus and they seem to catch u.s. allies and the markets off guard as well as making political waves there will be a huge blow to travelers and to airlines operating routes across the atlantic the tourism industry has already been hit hard by the virus as governments tighten restrictions and travel is think twice about whether to go on vacation in these uncertain times we get more on this from the capitals at the center of the story d.w. our correspondent back to regard to joins us from brussels and stephan simmons is in washington welcome both let's start with you banned in russel's explain to us what this travel ban means in concrete terms. the practical implementation of this plan is still very unclear as says the e.u.

commission him brussels $26.00 countries will be affected the so-called shagun zone not all european countries are in the 2nd zone for example romania bulgaria great britain island are not in the zone but switzerland and norway are in the rest of the e.u. countries and it's not clear how it will work because if you fly to london 1st and then think i did states maybe then you can enter the united states it's not clear what the what the real the conditions are in this travel ban is not only a particular for european citizens it's also valid for canadians always trade ins who've been in the schengen zone and now want to fly to the u.s. it's still very unclear and also lift on the biggest carrier in germany said they don't know exactly how it will work but for sure they will cancel a lot of flights in addition to the 23000 flights they already canceled in the last weeks and bad so what have a year later it's been saying about the decision you know they are disapproving of

this decision today and said we've been not contacted this is very unilateral that doesn't make sense because the coronavirus is a global threat now we have to cooperate and not to seek confrontation as nobody in the knows exactly what mr trump the president wants to achieve with this than not well let's throw that question to shaphan the same as in washington welcome so why has the president taken this aggressive move now. i wish i could shed some more light on this and explain exactly why he did this but the confusion in washington across the political spectrum and everywhere in the country is as big and large as it is perhaps in brussels and in european capitals nobody really knows why that measure was taking and as you know mr trump really with this beach or address to the nation cost even more havoc more confusion in the american public and

businesses as you pointed out the markets are down this whole address to the nation is now basically just absolute debacle creating more confusion and more suspicion about his ability to lead through this crisis on top of that on top of that not only can i not tell you why this that was taken because the coronavirus is every expert says that already in the united states the united states is in really really bad shape to actually tekel this because we don't have enough tests to make public or to give to the public to test 11000 tests has been made until today 11000 in a population of 320000000 plus so talk us through that and some of the reaction to the president's statement well as you said as i said the markets are down nobody understands why that was a good idea to. come up with this travel ban for europeans or for some of the

europeans most of the maybe. they are. democrats who are now saying like look let's focus on what's going on here in the united states where i have to come up with new measures helping families who will be. impacted by the coronavirus the less fortunate poor people now do you have political infighting between democrats and republicans about how much money should be spent on top of the 8000000000 congress and the white house agreed on spending for this crisis last week the only person i guess who thinks there's no confusion about anything right now is mr pence who was on cable television this morning and said there is no confusion he doesn't see him anywhere everybody here had a collective jaw drop yesterday and yes confusion is right all over the place in terms of how does this government how does the trumpet ministration tech all this

in the future so. countries in europe are already at closing borders limiting flights to italy how far is the you from considering similarly drastic measures to contain this contain this pandemic where there are no immediate plans for retaliation let's put it that american travelers can come to europe to set the you commission they will check the situation and make maybe make a decision in the coming weeks but not immediately and the spokes person has said we are not shooting from the hips like others in the white house do and also the allegations very jack to you is that europe has brought this virus to america this is not been taken seriously in brussels good talking to you have both bad bigots in brussels chef and seamen in washington.

scotu italy that. tightened restrictions to try to halt 19 pandemic after extending a north and travel ban to the whole of the country the government is not ordering the closure of all shops except grocery stores and pharmacies they're hoping this will help to contain the disease and alleviate the pressure on hospitals the health system in the country's north 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 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 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. you know we know 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 changed the bit of. the toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of supermarkets food stores and pharmacies. at the economic level this is dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. see the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses been a daily. we'll decided to allocate an additional 25000000000 euros to help the country cope with the difficulties of this ongoing emergency. basis the full intent of of course the magenta. it's money heavily into government can hardly afford. that some will get the science behind all these controls that will go

places with the identical williamson d.w. science welcome derek well you. know my self isolate it from the day today ok scientists have described these moves as flattening the curve explain that to us well hopefully we've got some graphics coming up on this but you have to understand it on the x. axis of this graphic then that's you can see time to score it on the y. axis at this graph and the one pointing out that you're going to see the number of cases now if you look at the curve which is in is in red that is projected so-called spike which is a large number of cases happening 0 in a relatively rapid period of time so it's the statistical spiking if you look at this dotted line it kind of cuts halfway across the graph represents the sort of finite health resources better available we're going to keep that's that it's at

that point that the system would begin to collapse so if you get everyone getting sick one time buns but shutdowns like it's only for instance only a plan for days a week so how effective can measures like that baby. well the short answer is actually we're we're really in uncharted waters right now we don't really know your ratio is as said that different you know we've seen that different countries are handling things and in very different ways china seems to have gotten on top of things but the question is obviously this is for how long if there's going to be a 2nd wave of infections there once they get everything up and running again south korea also seems to have been getting on top of things it's got it's got a system in place it's called the 3 t.'s that strays test and and treat with its mobile centers in its testing over you know tens of thousands of tests every day and then at the same time we've got situations like in italy or what people are

predicting for us that it's we might quickly reach a point where systems are overwhelmed so right now to put this in europe is going to be on as we just said in the last in the last question flattening that her scratching this out it seems a little bit counter-intuitive in a way that you want that you actually want the epidemic to go on longer but doctors and epidemiologists are convinced that that's the best way to save lives and china where this break you saw to have a big on the bad health commission says that the outbreak that has peaked so what makes them so optimistic well i think that it's a question of they feel like they've managed to overcome it once and if they're forced to then they can overcome it again but you know all of humanity is going to be affected by this and that in the 21st century we the movement of them both people and goods is pretty much on stoppable even if we shut shut it down we're going to be living with this for quite some time and so st that china is on top of

it at this point i think it's still pretty premature right good talking to you and thanks for joining us to try and stay safe i hope to see in a couple weeks ago williams from database size. well here's a quick round of of the laces coronavirus developments in the u.k. cases of corona virus jumped to 29 percent to $590.00 of the last 24 hours and the death toll rose to 10 they check government has declared a state of emergency slovakia is banning all foreign travelers except poles you know to try and stem the virus spread saudi arabia has suspended travel by citizens and residents and holds had flights to and from several countries of course for the latest on the corona virus outbreak including information about what to do if you think you might be infected and by all means visit our website d w dot com. now we take a brief look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world starting chile where students have clashed with police during ime to government

protests and students are taking part in a day of civil disobedience to mark the 2nd anniversary of president sebastian pinera taking office wednesday also marks 30 years since the end of 2 ways dictatorship. germany's domestic intelligence agencies planning an extremist placing an extremist wing of the country's far right alternative for germany party under surveillance not parties wing is led by a hooka who has been accused of using rhetoric from its past. or coronavirus pandemic is for the e.u. commission president to perspire on a visit to greece closer to follow the line of was due to hold talks about the situation of the land border with turkey where there have been clashes with police as thousands of migrants attempt to cross into you. there are also been clashes at overcrowded migrant camp some that greek islands and now up to

$100.00 children from those camps are being offered refuge here in berlin but been chosen because they're sick or company or less than 14 years old has more on how the german capital it's preparing. thousands of refugees among the 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 of them. 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 with a 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 and we then have a staff of 150 here now we have more than 500 pounder allowed to hire 50 more. so we have the personnel to receive newcomers and register them and provide the services they need. most of the berlin as we talk to are in favor of welcoming

more refugees to the city. we were once refugees to and 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 which unrest. there will be protests parties such as the a f t right wing extremist and right. populace groups in our society will once again protest or deviate and then offered up or to steer 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 berlin the conflict between cities offering shelter the german government and other european union countries on relocating refugees is far from resolved

the coronavirus pandemic is making its presence felt in the world of sports europe's european football's governing body away for will meet next week to discuss plans for competitions including euro 2020 so here are some of today's other developments the a.t.p. has suspended the men's tennis tour for 6 weeks real madrid football and basketball teams have been put into quarantine the spanish football league has suspended play in its top 2 divisions for the next 2 weeks basketball's n.b.a. and euro league have suspended their seasons. football's champions league is still underway but without spectators perry sounds a man got the better of bruce your dormant on wednesday the french team i want to nail 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. to curb the spread of the coronavirus after the final whistle p.s.g.

play as they climbed onto a balcony overlooking the street so they could celebrate with us. and the lights up again defending champions liverpool crashed out of the tournament that they look set to they looked set to make a comeback against atletico madrid after taking the match direct a time unfortunately for your club side the spaniard scored 3 unanswered goals to advance for 2 on aggregate it's safe to say the plot was less than impressed. or it would be very much all t.v. stations i'm really. under a bridge loser to be honest at least tonight if i would say all the things i have in my mind i would look like the worst loser in the world so it's better. stop here . what else do you want. funny i don't say it's just about he acted the way they play i just don't get. i don't get it but it's right the winners write

that already. you're going to have a pandemic is also looming large over this summer's olympic games in tokyo with games less than 4 months away there are concerns that the event could be canceled or postponed despite the uncertainty you haven't picked a flame set off for japan from greece today but without the crowds. the torch lighting ceremony at the site of the original olympics in ancient greece went ahead as planned. but instead of thousands of spectators only a small crowd of officials and invited guests witnessed the torches departure for japan safe you're back with the who speak c.t.o. for fuel just but it's not certain exactly how hospitable tokyo will be this summer a few days ago officials announced the torch as the rival ceremony next week will be downsized. and now we're going to is theirs and the government are trying to

repair the damage after an official suggested the games might be delayed for a year or 2 the official quickly apologized for what he called a slip of the tongue. and the fury might on the going but the most scathing well there are many opinions out of it but i believe cancellation is impossible like you when you want that he must. it's clear that officials are nervous the olympic venues are all finished ready for athletes and spectators to open the games on the 24th of july the big question is whether the corona virus pandemic will be under control by them. this is. top stories fears about the coronavirus and resulting. markets and wall street triggered a 15 minute halted trading ass and dow jones indices tumbled more than 7 percent. u.s. president donald trump. europe to the u.s.

for 30 days it's part of american plans to fight the spread of coronavirus the european union for not acting quickly enough to stop the disease spread. his government has ordered the closure of restaurants and shops except grocery stores as part of efforts to halt the spread of corona virus has recorded the highest number of infections outside. 2020 tokyo olympic games has been lit in spectators. before being handed over to the tokyo organizers insisting the games will not be councils. this is. all followers on twitter or websites.

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