this is v.w. news live from berlin for the 2nd time this week coded 19 fears sparking a global stock sell off markets in asia europe and the united states plunge as the coronavirus sweeps the globe trading on wall street was halted after stocks dropped 9 percent also coming up u.s. president trump announces a 30 day ban on travel from europe blaming failures of the european union for an

increase in corona virus cases in the u.s. and medical services in europe's coronavirus epicenter italy struggled to deal with the spiraling number of patients will find out how the italian coast here system is coping and the olympic torch is live in greece but will the flame make it to tokyo the code 19 pandemic is fuelling concerns that this summer's olympic games in japan could be delayed or even canceled. i'm burnt off it's good to have you with us fears over the coronavirus pandemic are hammering stock markets around the world shares on wall street plunged on thursday triggering a stop 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 of the selloff comes amid growing uncertainty over u.s. and global measures to contain the economic damage from the coded 19 pandemic it follows the announcement of a u.s. travel ban on flights from europe and mirrors tough trading sessions in asia and europe where investors that signaled dissatisfaction with stimulus measures so far . over the european union is criticizing u.s. president donald trump's decision to ban nearly all travel from europe to the united states the 30 day ban affects countries inside europe's showing and passport free travel area and it excludes the u.k. as well as ireland the european commission says that the decision has been taken unilaterally and without consultation president trump has accused the e.u. of failing to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the coronavirus until

now thi u.s. president downplayed the coronavirus but in a sudden escalation donald trump has announced new trusting measures 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 he suggests charm cool the disease a foreign virus claiming that cases reaching the u.s. was seeded by european childless. the a us lashed out at the president's decision but says it's not taking any immediate action in response. the european union. isn't in the habit of shooting from the hip and as you know we believe. good policymaking requires reflection is required is internal coordination and

therefore we are going to analyze obviously the consequences of a long hose. and reflect on what the possible next steps need to be. as well as making political waves the travel ban is a huge blow to holiday makers in europe and to airlines operating routes across the atlantic its 3 european airports into chaos as u.s. citizens scrambled to return harm before the friday night deadline. it's being handled in such a shotgun fashion that nobody knows what's going on and one thing changes from minute to minute we actually just got here 2 days ago and we spoke with. one of the agents downstairs and she said there'd be no more flights after tomorrow so we're trying to get back home to san diego well we were. not sure if we would be able to

get back in something was canceled so i spent $3000.00 for another flight. as more and more countries around the world tighten restrictions and close their borders people are thinking twice about whether to travel at all in these uncertain times. it's. all of this i'm joined now by the. he's on the story for us in washington and even to you i guess if the u.s. president was trying to reassure a worried nation he didn't do too good of a job did he and then just looking at the stock markets now what's the latest there . historic failure no he didn't do a good job at all actually the common sense and unifying judgment here is that it was a deval call what the president delivered last night his address of the nation

nobody had this band of flights or travel from europe seen coming that was not in the books and you could almost hear collective jaw dropping when this happened here in political washington so across the board across the political spectrum even from republicans and political friends people were shaking his hand their heads but now you know the bigger issue right now is tests tests tests because the united states is miserably prepared for what is experts saying coming our way in terms of coronavirus with or without a travel ban from europe and says the president said anything today i mean has he shed any more white on why he made this sudden decision to ban these flights from coming into your. yeah in his view europe is basically the new china and he had to do it he said because european travellers were. initiators

off clusters of coronavirus concentrated corona virus infections and cluster c. in the united states and that's why he had to. step on the brakes there that's what he said now nobody really believes that because again there is no telling of how many corona cases coronavirus cases we in the united states already have because we don't have any tests and that is actually what the political opposition holds in on criticizing the government of the administration of being totally unprepared and having no plan yet having a plan to meet the target ministration under fire for how it's handled the corona virus outbreak so far. what other steps is the government taking to stop the spread of the virus other then this travel ban. yeah good question again when the vice president promised the public and last week that

a 1000000 tests were available for population don't forget that all 320000000 people give or take but we don't have a 1000000 tests now now it's supposed to be 4000000 by the end of the week but nobody has seen 4000000 tests available to the public to health authorities and agencies testing people either so that's a little bit murky what is actually the plan and one ball mall here joe biden had the democratic contender for the presidency had a gave an address or a speech today and of course he used the opportunity to basically perform a job interview for a position in the white house coming for november in november a presidential election he ripped into the president and into the administration as exactly having no plan and delivering basically nothing and what they have too late . 17 months on the story for us in washington sobering news today stefan thank you

. italy for their tight restrictions to try and halt the $1000.00 pandemic after extending a northern travel ban to the whole of the country the government has now ordered 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. hospital beds and intensive care units at full capacity medical staff working around the clock especially in lombardy like it mainland sako hospital at the moment and luckily none of our nurses or doctors are in quarantine right now so 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 soofi jane the bit of good i don't know medical to be. the toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of grocery stores and pharmacies. at the economic level this is dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. so the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses been a deliberate up to 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 done to the question of. its money and the heavily indebted government can hardly afford. of more now i'm joined by mohamed windier he's

a biologist at lancaster university in england bomb it is good to see you again let me ask you how far would you say is europe from a scenario like the one that we're seeing in china where they are now reporting you know a significant decrease in the number of new cases. well i think that's less really a good question because it's really important to understand what it is for coming so if you take the number of cases part of a part of country and plot it into a diagram you will see the tragic tree is similar in all of the european countries some all are already really native apps for example germany france spain and italy and other or following the same route as he has followed so after mt looking into the trend of these practice it seems like every country especially boring actually exception is also not here in the u.k. that we will be heading at who are the same situation if there are stigma years

wouldn't be put in place at the hopi at points i mean that sounds reassuring but the current shutdowns that we're seeing across europe they are only planned for days or maybe 2 weeks or such how effective are those measures going to be or let me ask you another way are they long enough to ensure that we have this this development that we've seen in china. well i think the important thing to understand is that there will definitely be a social destruction and these controlled me or that are put in place and they are calculated based on the foreseeable future and would certainly be wise to an ability to devise to as time comes out as we get closer because the thing is that is why this has come up with a lot of surprises so it's really difficult to really and he's made a sort of sort of like a mom dad so i think that overall strategy of different nations has been really to think about fortnight period and see how things work and if they carry on with that

if it don't work they move on to the next stage of contingency plan and that's how they are going to divide the whole strategy to contain it and is that the best strategy you would advise is to look at things on a 2 week basis in into the future further than 2 weeks is really too risky. based on the scientific evidence says this is not the right choice the reason is that we have to tackle such contagion in the past and if we look onto hope was more successful bold more successful based on the long term strategies because if you think only on a fortnight prospective is going to be let you down again because the foreseeable impact would be ignored so what would our strategy must be for the long term but on fortunate situation of difficult 19 as it stands now is that we don't have tariff you take it and vaccines so we think that we are relying on is on the personal hygiene and of course not to sponsor abilities and that is where that major

emphasis has been not only within the europe of the developed work well too in the developing world the countries do really delayed the spread of the infection and by the time for their critically ill and are able people moment when they are are only just at lancaster university joining us tonight with yeah good information about how to read where this virus is headed mama thank you. well here now is a quick roundup of the latest virus developments italy's death toll has surged above 1000 while the total number of confirmed cases is now more than 15000 in india and a 76 year old man who recently died has tested positive for the corona virus making him the country's 1st fe tallit and norway has also reported its 1st death from the global pandemic a top adviser to iran's supreme leader ayatollah khomeini has been infected with

the virus britain and the european union have agreed to cancel face to face trade negotiations planned for next week due to the outbreak and for all the latest on the corona virus including information about what to do if you think you might be infected you can visit our website states d.w. dot com. here's a brief look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world officials in egypt say heavy rain and floods have killed at least 4 people across the country and inundated roads in the capital cairo further south a driver was killed when his car was blown into a canal and several people were injured when floods demolished their homes germany's domestic intelligence agency is placing an extremist we have the country's far right alternative for germany party under surveillance that weened is led by buring hooka who has been accused of using rhetoric from germany's nazi past . the coronavirus plan to make his force of the e.u.

commission president to postpone a visit to greece ursula fund a lion was due to hold talks about the situation on the land border with turkey where there have been clashes with police as thousands of migrants attempt to cross into the european union. where they've also been clashes and overcrowded migrant camps on greek islands now up to $100.00 children from those camps are being offered refuge here in berlin they've been chosen because they're ill unaccompanied or less than 14 years old here's more on how the german capital is preparing for the new children. thousands of refugees among the many children 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 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 now we have more than 500 and are 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 their city. we were once refugees too and we survived german reunification without any trouble so why shouldn't we be able to deal with this situation. if we need to be armed 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. there will be protests parties such as the a f

t right wing extremist and right. wing populous groups in our society will once again protest or deviate and then. but there's no reason to have right wing extremists determine whether or not we rescue people in need. in mention in what they would and it's not known how many people might eventually comes about in the conflict between cities offering shelter the german government and other european union countries on relocating refugees is far from resolved since the end of 2016 germany has been deporting failed afghan asylum seekers back to afghanistan it is a controversial policy that's opposed by some rights groups which claim that afghanistan is still an unsafe country now through the end of last year around $800.00 are rejected asylum seekers were returned to afghanistan most were returned to kabul a city that many have never been to before and that comes with its own set of

challenges for returned asylum seekers such as. syria. this butcher shop is not people of shares a place to work and rest for 4 months last summer this was his home. that's when he was deported from germany to kabul a city he'd never been in before. he knew he couldn't live in the shop for ever for being a single man in kabul comes with its own challenges margin you know i was almost you have a room for a single person or don't you. tell us so many rooms for single people here. landlords don't rent to single people they say single people to construct. eventually his friends help them find a windowless old story near the butcher shop to live in. he now has 4 walls and not

much else to shelter him from the elements the cramped room provides him little protection from the war and the daily threat of violence and caldwell. houses when i wake up in the morning and go outside i really am afraid i don't know if at the end of the night i'll be back in this room or not. these suicide bombers have no mercy in the mosque in the schools they have no mercy anywhere. it's a life in stark contrast to his time in germany he was comfortable and worked hard he even met his fiance there but things began to change he says after his immigration lawyers failed to file the proper paperwork for his asylum application eventually a deportation order arrived when the police came for him and he resorted to drastic measures. i slit my wrists. i had to get 40 stitches.

but they still deported me in that condition. unless you know. that people laws one among thousands of afghans that has been deported back to kabul what they come back to is an overcrowded city where they don't know anybody where their families aren't where they don't have proper social networks and social support and essentially what they're coming back to is the capital of the most dangerous country in the world where more and more civilians are dying from suicide bombings from petty crime and from other difficulties. and people law knows this only too well and he's clear why sometimes there's no option but to leave. yeah joy don if we had security here who would want to go to europe we're just looking for a place to live out the few days of our lives in peace with our family and friends

but in afghanistan you don't know if you'll come home at night. while the coronavirus pandemic is making its presence felt in the world of sports european football's governing body you wave will meet next week to discuss plans for competitions including euro 2020 here are some of today's other developments the p.g.a. tour bans spectators from attending tournaments until after april 5th the a.t.p. has suspended the men's tennis tour for 6 weeks real madrid's football and basketball teams have been put into quarantine and the spanish football league has suspended play in its top 2 divisions for the next 2 weeks football's champions league is still underway but without spectators in france paris and jim on got the better of bruce you don't win on wednesday the french team won 2 nil to reach the quarter finals $32.00 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 coronavirus after the final whistle p.s.g. players climbed onto a balcony overlooking the street to celebrate with their support. are staying with the coronavirus fears that the pandemic could affect this summer's olympic games in tokyo with the games scheduled to start in less than 4 months there are concerns that it might have to be canceled or postponed despite the uncertainty the olympic flame left greece for japan today but without the usual crowds of spectators. 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 journey back to the host beatable c.t.o. field. but it's not certain exactly how hospitable tokyo will be the summer a few days ago officials announced the torch as the rival ceremony next week will be downsized. and now organizers 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 that she might on the going and well there are many opinions out there but i believe cancellation is impossible you know when you want . it's clear that officials are nervous the olympic venues are all finished ready for. well this is g.w. news and these are our top stories u.s. president donald trump is banning travel from europe to the united states for 30 days it's part of his plans to stop the spread of the coronavirus blaming the

european union for not acting quickly enough to stop the diseases spread. ban and other virus related precautions called financial markets to plunge and easing europe and in the u.s. a wall street wall says triggered a 15 minute halt in trading both the s. and p. and l. jones indices tumbled more than 8 percent today. italy's government has ordered the closure of restaurants and shops except grocery stores and pharmacies is part of efforts to halt the spread of the corona virus italy has recorded the highest number of infections outside of china. the flame for the 2020 tokyo well the big games has been lit in olympia spectators were banned from the event the flame would travel. around greece before being handed over to the tokyo organizers they've insisted that the games will not be cancelled.

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