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1300000000 people have been ordered to stay home to slow the spread of 19th and in the united states warning from the governor of the state at the center of the outbreak lord of the forecasters says to me we were looking. for were now looking to. produce those numbers are growing quickly. governor andrew cuomo sounding the alarm as new code 19 cases skyrocket the world health organization expecting the u.s. to become the new epicenter of this pandemic. in madrid shocking images patients lying in hospital hallways and elderly people felt abandoned in spanish nursing homes some of them dead in their bit.

i'm burnt off to our viewers on p.b.s. in the united states and all around the world welcome it is one of the biggest disruptions so far from the coronavirus pandemic today japanese prime minister shinzo abi announced that the summer olympic games in tokyo are being postponed into 2021 japan and the international olympic committee reach the decision after weeks and weeks of pressure from athletes across the globe to delay the games. the tokyo lympics are off the decision came suddenly but was not unexpected after weeks of debate and speculation. the more i suggested to the i.o.c. president thomas that the games be perspiring for a year and he was 100 percent in favor of that will you for that matter it's a decision that was not taken lightly or willingly but pressure had been mounting from athletes and sports federations. canada had already announced it would not be

sending competitors if the games took place. we have agreed with the i.o.c. that we will stay in close contact to make sure that the elim pick and paralympic games will be able to take place eventually then we can send a message that humanity has overcome coronavirus because of the situation of that. this is the 1st time the olympic games have been postponed and it's a mammoth logistical task contracts need to be renegotiated tickets for sold out venues transferred all returned and post-game sales of apartments in the olympic village will have to be put on hold. no new date has been set for the tokyo and picks. and for more i'm joined here the big paper now by my colleague chris harrison from our sports desk me chris the decision really everyone expected it was just a matter of time yes it was a matter of time on sunday the i.o.c. said it would take 4 weeks to decide whether or not to postpone the

a lympics well that turned into 48 hours and it all makes sense because you have to look at the teams that already notified the public they would withdraw canada australia even usa track and field on sunday also share that sentiment and britain i think were expected to follow as well and then when you factor in you know just the idea the athletes and have proper places to train and so forth i do give credit even though it's a little late to give them credit thomas the president he did come out and say this is pretty much about saving lives you know sport is not the most important thing right now preserving human life is and i think that's a common denominator across the globe right and the reaction from the you have fleets i heard that they're still going to call the games the 2020 olympic games even if they take place in 2021 yeah i think that's a branding issue but in terms of the athletes of course they're heartbroken but related in the end or stand you know the circumstances canada admission one of the 1st team so withdraw well a canadian military wrestling champion erica we came out and said we'll be more

ready than ever for 2021 and wearing the maple leaf with more pride than i thought possible so it kind of shows that there is going to be anticipation you know any years' time you know in next of this summer because i mean i guess it's good if you are not getting up in age but if you're younger you've got an extra year to prepare if you're at the lycée at the end of your career checking on another year or 2 it could be make or break for some have fully qualified is going to be a concern also they don't know of to actually keep those places on hold or you know force athletes to qualify once again i've even heard some interested to know about drug cheats their suspensions and so forth maybe those. it's pensions expire they're allowed to compete but nonetheless we have to wait til 2021 to watch it all play out great for us here it is always chris thank you ok. in india a 3 week walk down to combat the spread of the virus has just begun the country's 1300000000 people are now barred from leaving their homes across the nation people

have been scrambling to get home ahead of the measures taking effect the travel restrictions hit some of the country's poorest workers hard due to be used as wall reports from the capital delhi. these people are while eating lockdown delhi has closed its borders no buses trains all flights can leave yet these migrant workers don't want to get home. many on just a day to each and with businesses shut they cannot afford life in the city anymore . with public transport reduced the vote has walked many kilometers with his family putting them at risk of exposure. he's scared but he says he has no option on the little guy they aren't letting me work that's the problem i have young children they're hungry who do i ask for help we've been struggling for 4 days of all though

that. the delhi government has announced some relief measures for the poor but these workers don't feel reassured or intemperate like that i couldn't wait to find out if the government will give me money but how am i supposed to eat until then and what if they don't. ovi from the bus stop the city lies deserted those who can't afford to are staying home checkpoints like this one have been established across the city the police is ensuring that only those who are entering a pension services are allowed to be out the government has also said that violators off the lockdown can face legal action. grocery stores remain open some are only allowing a limited number of shoppers in this one says mosques on the says city as a sign that ties in your hands before entering. india has been battered lies by these measures but health experts are throwing their weight behind the lock down if

india can fight this to get done for 2 weeks we definitely would have prevented that from going up and made it so that all that we need to do is to prevent that from going that it leaving because if that happens in india the results will be much worse than what happened in. the indian prime minister has appealed to migrant workers to stay put and avoid infecting their families back home. but for many that risk is far more distant than being trapped of the from home during this lockdown. and here are some of the other latest developments in the corona virus pandemic the number of global cases of the infection has now surpassed 400000 doubling in less than a week italy's death toll from the virus has surged yet again 743 registered new deaths on tuesday broke 2 days of successive declines and the world health organization is warning about

a big celebration in the number of new cases in the united states it says the u.s. could become the new epicenter of the global pandemic. or more now i'm joined by christiane lynn meier he's a spokesperson with the world health organization who joins me from geneva switzerland christiane it's good to see you the united states so it's cases new cases more than double in the last 24 hours is this the result of of more and better testing or is the situation there really getting out of hand. most likely it's a combination of 2 is the rise of cases and of course also better testing now and this is there is typical for any country in when they start testing more rigorously that they didn't want cases and it ends you have a spike in the number of course the trend on the next days will show if this trend continues or whether this was a one time spike. of a new and of

a new testing methods yeah we've got a mixed picture in the united states the u.s. president today saying that restrictions themselves could lead to deaths we've got many states under lock downs how satisfied are you with the response by u.s. authorities to this pandemic. in general i think we've seen countries where. mainly the testing the rigorous testing and tracing of contacts has led to the main results so for example south korea the republic of korea. singapore they both have not done this completely locked out of this major locked out of parts of their lives they have mainly done what we've been saying and since the beginning to test test test try to find every suspect case and test them treat those who met who need to be treated and find the contacts of those infected this needs

a lot of effort it needs maybe also a lot of. quite some money to put in a lot of resources and it needs also vamping up of the resources because not every country has those possibilities right now but the way it's possible should be done and where it's not possible it should be attempted to achieve because this is the part which gives us the best result and insight into spires these social measures the political measures of locking down cities are parts of license and preventing certain parts of life that's an add on that shouldn't be the main measure that should be an additional measure to fight the virus but it should never be the 1st. are that christiane with the world health organization joining us tonight from geneva switzerland christiane thank you very much thank you. stock markets around the world surged during tuesday trading thanks largely to the actions of the us federal reserve investors welcomed the fed's promise to buy up as many long term

bonds as necessary to keep the u.s. economy moving europe also indeed higher in germany the dax rose a hefty a one percent on the day. young visitors have been enjoying beijing zoo for the 1st time in nearly 2 months parts of it reopened this week following its closure in january as coronavirus took hold. and his muse like that and talk of the lifting of the lock down in who hand this allowed their markets around the world to be a little more bullish. the improving situation in china and the actions of the u.s. federal reserve helped stocks across asia we gained ground on tuesday in japan where the central bank has announced its own major bond buying scheme gains across the board pushed the nikkei up 7 percent during the course of the day. meanwhile in europe the new lock down in london and the rest of the u.k.

combined with the fed's actions to send the footsie motoring up more the 9 percent traders are responding to firm action where it's taken. in germany where the government has also announced a massive package to help the economy the dax is gains were in the double digits. but before we get carried away a look at the dax over the last month shows there's a lot of ground to make up and some thought daily rises on coronavirus ravaged markets have been flooded by even big drops. the positives like china's tentative steps towards normality are outweighed by the negative coronaviruses continued spread to need to mainz only sure fire signs of the crisis is past 6 pm and likely to bring an end to brutal bad markets. and for more i'm joined now by you are a financial correspondent he joins me now from new york good afternoon to you yes

so what was the situation like today on wall street you know what i'm standing here in front of a hospital in brooklyn and term is you're might see a sold a sent up party tends to tent that usually is used for the 1st day partings or a wedding but it is a bit of the calm before the big storm and everybody expects that we will see quite an increase in corona cases and when you talk to the people from the hospital they're quite skeptical if they're really fully equipped so i'm still not allowed to go on the floor of the new york stock exchange still the new every center now. the hospitals here in the united states and in brooklyn where i stand right now we know that the u.s. president says now that he would like to have the country back in business by easter that would be very fast if that does indeed happen what is the business world think of that time schedule. well i can tell you what

scientists and doctors are saying they think this is very overly optimistic so we're talking opening u.s. businesses in a good 2 weeks so that seems to be pretty unlikely to happen but what we did see on wall street was a huge rally here on tuesday i'm actually not certain if i have ever experienced something like that so the dollar jones industrial average up by more than 11 percent but if you look at what companies did best you had stocks like chevron for example the oil giant or boeing up by more than 20 percent american airlines up by even 30 percent so it was all those stocks were that were beaten down in the past couple of weeks that saw now the biggest gain so i'm not sure that this trading is really happening on the news it is more. well not based on fundamentals but you will see that again and again that after huge drops that the

market will try to recover at least them some of those losses. joining us tonight from new york thank you very much stay safe and stay healthy. well here in europe spain is one of the countries hardest hit by the coded 1000 pandemic and the situation appears to be getting worse more than 500 people have died from the onus in just the last 24 hours nearly 40000 people across the country have fallen ill especially worrisome is the high rate of infections among medical staff and that is stretching the health care system in the country to its limits. for those on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic in what has become a weekly tradition police and residents pay the respect to hospital staff. 2 weeks long battle against the corona virus has taken its toll on health care workers about 14 percent of infections in spain are among medical staff who are struggling

with a lack of protective gear and masks. as the disease continues to gather strength human resources are dwindling. and that is not enough yeah i would say that the problem that we're having following the last 2 or 3 days is not so much beds for patients but the professionals. in the last 2 days you know this is a full emergency veteran's hire people with a lot of goodwill but with less experience here. it's not only hospitals that are in danger of being overwhelmed spain is in shock after soldiers disinfecting a retirement home found several residents dead in their beds infection rates have soared in nursing homes endangering the most vulnerable and slashing the number of available carers. the numbers we're overwhelmed we don't have sufficient staff we don't have a doctor or

a nurse i'm familiar. with retirement homes now effectively quarantined anxious relatives can do little but hope for the best when the lack of communication is always varying and now at times like this it is causing complete anguish because we are receiving news that does not give us much hope also we feel that they are hiding information and that we are not receiving all the information that there is and you have to add to this the fact that we can't go and visit her. the army continues to deep clean retirement homes across spain for many of the residents these measures will come too late. you know that is a grim discovery for more on this i'm joined now by correspondent for les ques in madrid is going to have you on the show what more do we know about the situation in spain's nursing homes tonight. well the situation.

is dramatic these been like these for several i would say a week or so true those bodies that may have been found residences in these. residences of retired people might have been people that can be moved because you really need the special equipment to know nobody you know not everybody can do that job so sometimes that is very alarming and it shouldn't be like that it is true that the government now has. already has already 10640000 rapid tests i'm going to be in to leavers to the health workers and also to the elderly to those homes. retirement time and homes to test all these patients. you know the to

identify those actually infected and they can be properly isolated the situation and the host beatles's they are overwhelmed with with patients and history that now field hospital in madrid with 5000 bed capacity has been put in place and this is starting to truro spread it is true that a lot of patients are arriving to this minute u.c.c. severances and so on and and this is still not enough protective equipment for all those people working in service to your in madrid which is the epicenter of the virus outbreak in spain i mean when you see images like this in the hospitals in the nursing homes do you have confidence in the government's ability to get you know to get control of this situation.

well that is the question is funny and. wondering now is the government and doing the right thing do they have the answers to those questions i would say that the government is confident that the measures that they have already foods in place may . work. just. as he was confident that dean did coming days we would start to seem to go in and out and maybe that's a bit of the music. don't respond the government's response 19 for. this very little that we can do more about. those. plays. in the confinement and there's not much we can do just wait to see if these missions are actually working and you start seeing i just same time. overseas reinforced with

more equipment and stuff well we certainly hope that the situation improves there in spain quickly correspondent joining us tonight from madrid jamie thank you very much. thank you well it has been 24 hours since britain's prime minister announced a nationwide walk down to fight the coronavirus boris johnson told the british people that the government's was shutting down non-essential shops and services and banning gatherings of more than 2 people his government has faced criticism for its perceived failure to act quickly to halt the spread of the virus here's how people in the u.k. are dealing with the new restrictions. just another day on the london underground except the u.k. is supposed to be in lockdown. jam packed carriages on the chub despite the government telling all nonessential businesses to close. we

will immediately clews all shops selling normal sensual goods including clothing electronics stores and other premises including libraries playgrounds and outdoor gyms and places of worship will stop all gatherings of more than 2 people in public . above ground confusion about who the new rules apply to. construction work continues at this site the corona virus outbreak has overstretched britain's health service the n.h.s. so the army has come to the battlefront delivering personal protective equipment to hospitals after medical staff complained of a shortage. health officials are warning of an imminent spike in the number of critically ill people boris johnson's critics say he missed a window to bring in a lock down earlier and keep the number of hospital admissions down for now the

streets have mostly emptied out and just like in many other countries this will be the new normal. are the new normal for more on the new normal a start to the shorter part she joins me now from london good evening to you show a lot so we've seen pictures of the jam packed london underground today how did the u.k. fare on this 1st day of the nationwide. well my impression is that people are finally taking this very seriously the streets were pretty empty london city and the sites were absolutely deserted and those who can do work from home or are in quarantine if they show symptoms but we also have to say there are many thousands of people that are essential to keep the city running that can't really work from home and that have to use public transport to get to their destination to get to work now the transport has been shut down and its frequency

so there are less trains less subways running and of course all these people that still have to get to work to provide essential goods for example for the people still have to crowd on that underground so it's a real dilemma you know those images of the crowded too there those are scary images we've also seen pictures of the british military having to help out is that a positive or a negative signal for what's to come well at the current state the national health service here and the u.k. wouldn't be able to cope i think with the with the number of infected people. there are not enough intensive care beds there are not enough ventilators especially in comparison to other european countries now the authorities are finally stepping up and we're seeing that british industry industries for example are producing thousands of ventilators 35000 doctors and nurses new and retired are going to join

the national health service and here in london for example a huge conference center is going to be opening its doors as a giant hospital in the next week so authorities are stepping up but at the moment the worry is that there is not enough protective gear for the staffers at the hospitals and this is why the military is stepping in to provide access and to distribute that to the hospitals around the country ok due to the usual reports on the story for us tonight in london joe want to thank you very much. you're watching the news after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day but stick with me in just a few moments after the day we want you to know that we've got extensive coverage of the crisis on our web site that is it d w dot com don't go away. i'm

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