this is the news live from berlin donald trump changes his tone on coronavirus the u.s. president announces sweeping new guidelines to control the spread of the disease it wants a recession may be on the way also coming up we are at war with the words of front page the french president mccraw as he announces drastic new measures to contain the coronavirus across borders the closure of france's borders and a nationwide lockdown beginning at midday. germany also to toughens its tactics to slow the virus spread chancellor merkel announced the closure of its borders with 5

neighboring countries and all nonessential stores will stay closed localism rising journalists to stay. i'm told me a logical welcome to the program weld leaders are taking sweeping measures in response to the corona virus in the u.s. president donald trump says he expects the worst of the pandemic could be over in july and august he's urging americans to avoid travel if they can to engage in schooling from home and to not visit bars or restaurants he says people should not gather in groups larger than 10 people let's listen to what trump had to say. therefore my administration is recommending that all americans including the young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible avoid gathering in

groups of more than 10 people avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating and drinking at bars restaurants and public food courts if everyone makes this. change or these critical changes and sacrifices now we will rally together as one nation let's go now to correspondent stephanie simmons in washington stephanie talk us through these guidelines that trumps and what else is he asking americans not to do. well let me 1st say that this is a different donald trump from what we had yesterday yesterday you'll remember the president said the coronavirus is under total control nowadays absolute think it change of what we had before from the president and heard before from the president so those guidelines recommendations not orders and that is to avoid and national a federal lockdown so to speak or or you know

a measure like this that's why the recommendations is do not mingle in larger groups than 10 people stay at home work from home shelter in place if you like and well there's only one other piece of federal action needed now and this is more testing kids and more tests we said that $100.00 times because it's the problem still not enough testing that's what the governors and the states wait for from the government from the federal government and trump didn't dismiss the chance of a recession either. no you did not that is also the. well basically a roller coaster right with mr trump with the president before today everything was manageable the market will be fine you know the fed put $800000000000.00 in bond buyback programs lowered the rate to 0 percent and the president was happy about

this now well you have to admit this coronavirus crisis may take till july or august maybe even longer and that is what the markets of course don't like so yes a recession very likely he's a little bit behind the news because there is the u.s. c.l.a. anderson management school and they have a poll out they have a study out this say we are already in recession they don't expect the u.s. economy to grow at least until september so recession very likely markets down briefly deafened that's from the fragile federal level what about the states how they responding the states are actually doing a very good job on of the circumstances and that's why they had a conference call today with the president a video conference call where they try to coordinate even more what they're doing so there is where the brains are basically the states the communities the counties there at the forefront of battling this virus with lockdowns with shelter in place

orders 'd and so on and there is where the money has to go remember $50000000000.00 federal funds now available as emergency funding for those states to be able to fight the coronavirus even more ok we'll leave it there half an hour stephens inman's in washington thank you. french president commando mccraw announced a nationwide lockdown telling all residents to stay home the new restrictions begin midday and she's day and remain in effect for at least 15 days in a televised address macross said people should not go out except for essentials anyone breaking these rules he added will be punished. we're out of war. we're in a public health war and we're not fighting against an army or another nation but the enemy is here invisible elusive and advancing enemy and god requires general

mobilization our correspondent mr lewis follow that address for us here's a summary in several measures for 1st of all obviously the 15 day lockdown people should not go out otherwise they would face sanctions he also said that the 2nd round of voting in local elections 1st on took place on sunday and the 2nd round it would be pushed back would not happen next sunday as planned parliamentary work will be suspended and the government will govern by executive orders but you know the underlying tone is really reflected in that sentence we are at war which he repeated not once but several times and he openly appealed to the sense of responsibility of every french person and said you know you can't go on meeting your friends and hanging out in parks when it's sunny such went on sunday like like on sunday actually it was sunday and you saw people in parks and crowded together here in paris as well and he said you really need to understand how serious the

situation is you need to start actually meeting and seeing people getting close to other people in order to stop this rival virus from spreading. a 2 week lockdown is already in place in spain and may be extended the government has also imposed controls of the country's land borders for the 47000000 people inside spain the advice and order from the government is stay indoors. spending an entire day at home together is something the erkki thoughts family haven't done for a long time before trying to make the best of a difficult situation amid madrid's coronavirus lockdown indigo is employed as a bank and can therefore work from home while his daughter is able to access her schoolwork via the internet but it's his parents in bilbao that worry him. more you have not been going outside i hope here in madrid police drones with loud speakers are telling us to stay home. to. tell you to stay inside that's what you have to

do you can't go around spreading the virus. your 14 year old paul is working studiously through her school exercises but it isn't always easy without the teacher. them and though they may send you on the exercises that sometimes you don't understand then you can ask your parents but they might not remember learning this stuff so they're not much help either. madrid a city known for its bustling streets and vibrant atmosphere has fallen eerily quiet never in the history of spanish democracy have such drastic measures been taken according to the government. only those shopping for essential heading to work or visiting a doctor or pharmacy are allowed out on the streets some rule breakers are treated leniently by police others are threatened with fines. for the orchy thoughts family the curfew brings its own difficulties but they're determined to comply as much as possible yako is their biggest worry for any leopard or puppies aren't exactly

ideal companions during a global health crisis that i was about he's always looking for attention from strangers and he loves getting cuddles from home till and beginning to see everybody as a potential source of interaction. you begin to go a little crazy in isolation laura tells us but then nothing here is as it should be at the moment those in madrid simply need to hold out in the hope that things will turn to normal soon. now here in germany chancellor angela merkel has announced a series of new measures in response to the pandemic nonessential stores are to close as well boz theaters sports venues gyms and playgrounds there's also a ban on religious gatherings until further notice and hospital visits ought to be restricted at least 14 people in the country have died from the corona virus outbreak and more than 6600 have been infected here as chancellor merkel then also told them via internet we still need drastic measures as has so often been said to

slow down the rate of infection. such drastic measures have never been taken in our country. but at the moment they're necessary to reduce the amount of close contact between people. to bring down the number of infections and serious cases she had an icon. earlier we spoke to detailed news political correspondent has brought here in berlin and asked him have chancellor merkel takes a more international approach to the crisis than other world leaders what i'm trying to do here is some sort of damage control i guess you could call it because what's been happening in recent weeks is that in many countries have been moving on their own countries here in europe within the european union have been imposing their own measures closing their own borders without really coordinating this with other members of the european union and obviously we know that for instance the united states imposed a travel ban on europe people coming from europe without even talking to the

european union so by talking to the g 7 within the g 7 format which includes the united states and by talking within the european union chancellor merkel is trying to reestablish some sort of international coordination some sort of international effort so that these measures that are taken in various countries do not in fact work against each other. south korea is one of the country's worst affected by the new car and a virus but business together to share the economic bad and. korean landlords and tenants are sharing the burden of weathering the decline in business caused by the corona virus outbreak with reductions in rents large traditional markets especially needed the help. we used to get an average 300000 visitors

a day. but since the corona virus outbreak began we've been seeing less than 110th of our usual number of customers. business owners here have been suffering immensely. not only domestic sales are affected as international trade has also dwindled especially for small export. as. korea has a competitive global legend the fashion industry and its products are high in demand overseas but now that foreign buyers kaante even enter korea coupled with slowing fabric shipments and fewer visitors to the market overall it's having quite a large ripple effect. in addition to the rent reductions market managers have also coordinated strict public health responses some landlords have provided up to 50 percent off in rent although smaller reductions are more common but even those providing the discounts argue for more state led measures.

complementing revenues of the merchant's biggest concern so tax remedies are needed although the government has announced new tax breaks a lower income tax means little if merchants aren't making much to begin with so many want to see a decrease in value added taxes. and in. the large traditional markets rely on both tourism and elder shoppers both of which have dried up although more assistance may be coming merchants here in seoul is an empty moon market and around south korea are soon likely to get some more help from the federal government the national assembly is set to pass a multi-billion dollar supplementary budget to support small businesses and to help contain and mitigate the qubit $900.00 break. the so-called nice landlord trend has also brought banks into the movement with low interest loans as south korea

copes with a deepening kovac 19 crisis. the world of sports has also suffered under the weight of the pandemic with many countries banning all sporting events in the near future germany's blunders leader clubs have confirmed that football matches will be suspended until early april for the postponement are expected to be announced after another meeting in 2 weeks' time the german football league convened a meeting with all $36.00 clubs from the country's top 2 divisions chief executives christian seifert said the health and financial security of all 56000 football employees was the highest priority on tuesday for a european europe's governing body u.f.o. will meet to discuss the future of the european championships. you're watching to dublin news i'll be back at the top of the hour with the headlines and don't forget you can keep up with all the latest news and information around the

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