i'm learning a lot of our culture history and. straddle extremely wary of it. this is deja vu news live from berlin the united states announces a 30 day ban on travel from europe to fight the spread of the coronavirus president trump blames the european union for an increase in american covert 19 case his decision helped send a global markets into freefall also the program. germany ramps up its coronavirus

responses cases jumped to over 2000 chancellor angela merkel warns against large gatherings but stopped short of closing schools morning comes a day after she said some 2 thirds of germans could become infected. unexposed her welcome to the program the european union has criticized 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 passport free travel area and so excludes the u.k. and ireland the european commission said the decision had been taken unilaterally and without consultation president trump accused the e.u. of failing to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. until

now 3 us president downplayed the coronavirus but in a sudden escalation donald trump has announced near 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 in his address trump called the disease a foreign virus claiming that cases reaching the u.s. was seeded by european travel is. a u.s. lashed out at the president's decision but says it's not taking any immediate action in response. the european union. isn't. shooting from the hip and as you know we believe. good policy making requires reflection it requires coordination and therefore we

are going to analyze obviously the consequences. and reflect on what the possible next that's 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 home 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 to be no more flights after tomorrow so we're trying to get back home to san diego where we were flying when. 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 closed . people are thinking twice about whether to travel at all in these uncertain times . and our washington correspondent. is on the story for us at dulles airport outside the american capital aleksandr what have you been hearing from passengers there. well it really depends who you talk to we talked to a father from germany who told us that he after learning about the travel ban he booked the 1st flight he could get to be able to enter the country before the travel bad is in place in order to see his son who lives here in the u.s. and he also told us of course that he thinks that the travel ban is. exonerated that it's not going to help to prevent the virus from spreading but we

also talked to us citizens to students who told me that still learning about the travel ban they immediately went to the airports to book the next flight because there were so confused and so concerned that they may be prevented from from entering the country folk from coming back home but they also told me that they think that any measure that aimed at preventing the virus from spreading is right and important. xander is you know trumps ben announcement caused global market chaos and consternation among our allies in europe has any member of his administration spelled out in more detail why he actually took that step. well i think that it was president trump's way of showing how he understands he's america 1st whole see i was in the oval office today as one of the reporters

covering his meeting with the irish prime minister and we asked him why the trouble then why to impose it now and why not to inform to give the europeans they have set up and he told us that europe has hot spots they're really bad he mentioned italy of course germany and france and he also added that you know he didn't give the europeans had outs because they also don't consult as he put it when they raise taxes on that so in a very strange explanation and as you mentioned he is facing a lot of criticism because of this travel ban not only in the you were the euro but also here in the u.s. with many experts saying that it's too late that the virus is already here and we have had a number of community spread situations here in the u.s. ok and apart from this travel ban as contested as it may be what other steps is the american government taking to stop the spread of the corona virus. well

the trauma administration has repeatedly said that they are intensifying their efforts to make sure that there are enough mask and enough testing kits available but we have to say that this is a very huge problem and that there are not enough testing kits available for all the people that should be tested and president seems to be focusing more on the economy he is suggesting to take a payroll tax cuts and help for the affected economy i'm sorry industries and the white house is now talking to the house democrats whether they will support a package that would require more measured sue protect the american police people ok to give you correspondent alexander phenomena reporting from dulles airport outside of washington d.c. thanks fred. and it's not just travelers who face disruption the new york stock

exchange had its worst day of trading since 987 on thursday the dow jones dropped 9 percent after the opening bell and trading had to be stopped for 15 minutes for the 2nd time this week around the world fears over the pandemic are hammering marcus a sell off in the u.s. came after president trump's travel ban announcement sparked fresh market panic in asia and europe it follows days of market drops as investors fear that governments can't contain the code with 19 pandemic. and here in germany the coronavirus death toll has risen to 5 chancellor angela merkel met thursday evening with the country's state premiers to discuss and coordinate further measures to contain the spread of the virus. she told reporters that her government accepted the advice of the country's leading medical experts merkel said there will be a coordinated effort to ensure medical facilities are properly equipped for the outbreak. she also vowed to safeguard the german economy by all means necessary.

in light of the turmoil in the markets germany will do whatever is necessary to help its economy and secure a jobs. we have agreed that tomorrow the bluntest time and the bill and it's not will begin drawing up a plan to compensate workers and companies for reduced working hours programs to provide more security to them. is pretty big shift now if you want to shed a little more light on what that all means i'm joined by hans front our political correspondent by all means necessary. what means might that involve well 1st of all one has to say that is a legendary saying it's something that hawk speck to mario draghi who was at the time the chief of the european central bank when it was a question of whether to use the euro as a currency would be able to survive and he at the time said he would do whatever it takes to save the euro that was 8 years ago and it did save the euro it made

a very important impact on markets at the time so i think that's what america is trying to do now by using that same phrase whatever it takes in other words germany is going to make finances available to german companies to the extent that is necessary even if for instance the budget should go into deficit and we have to say that here in germany a balanced budget has been something like a religious belief in recent years so for america to say that that is something that they might not stick to any longer is an indication of how important how serious the situation is for the german government and this meeting was delayed somewhat and there were rumors about tensions between merkel and the premier's what have you heard is indeed it was a meeting with all the premiers of the various of the 16 german federal states and because there is such a strong federal system in germany these states in fact have to make decisions on things like such as closing schools or a closing universities extending school holidays banning meetings of certain sizes

that kind of thing this is not something that the central government by itself can order to be done so there was a lot of bickering apparently about various states saying well in their region a certain measure was not appropriate in other regions might be appropriate and so on especially on the question of whether or not to go to close schools but several states have already indicated that within the next couple of days we may find it here announcements on that so schools i think are likely to be closed at least in certain regions and ok we'll be watching out for that. political correspondent thanks for that insight. time for a brief look now at some of the other stories making headlines around the world a u.s. judge has ordered the immediate release of former army intelligence analyst chelsea manning from prison manning has been in detention since last may after refusing to testify in front of a grand jury investigating wiki leaks manning's release order comes after she

reportedly attempted to take her own life on wednesday 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 wing of the country's far right alternative for germany party under surveillance that which is led by your hitter who has been accused of using rhetoric from germany's nazi past . an exhibition at london's national gallery has reunited a series of paintings by the venetian master titian for the 1st time in 4 centuries the 6 works depicts scenes from mythology they were commissioned by spain's philip the 2nd in the 16th century before being dispersed throughout europe.

as return now to the corona virus story and fears that the pandemic could affect this summer's olympic games in tokyo with a game 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 did leave greece for japan today but without the usual crowds of spectators it's. 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 history trouble c.t.o. for kiel. 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. but the fury might on the. whole there are many opinions out there but i believe cancellation is impossible. you know what. 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. and for all the latest on the coronavirus including information about what you do if you think you might be infected it's at our website that's dot com. and a reminder of our top story. the european union has condemned a ban on travel from europe to the united states president trump but pronounced the restrictions in a bid to slopes the spread of the coronavirus european official said the decision

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