♪ anchor: a very y warm welcome to france 24. it is 1:00 p.m. in the french capital. here are the headlines. democrats in 14 states have been choosing who they want to take on donald trump in the november election. joe biden wins texas, giving him the second-biggest delegate prize of super tuesday. bernie sanders was widely expected t to win that state.

covid-19, deaths in china exceed those in the country for the first time since the outbreak. in iran thousands of prisoners are temporarily released from jail to help stop the spread of the disease. we will have more from our correspondent. greece is called europe's shield and the migrant crisis after a visit from the chief to the greek-turkish border who plans to send millions of eururs wortrth of aid too a athens. also c coming up my from paris with me and the team m as the french government steps into control the high price of antibacterial gel. how they are trying to battle this, especialllly those tryryio profit from m the cororonavirus outbreak. ♪

anchor: thank you for watching france 24. we start with super tuesday, where results are trickling in from the u.s. a surprise victory. joe biden has won the texas democratic primary. states, the former vice president has secured 9 wins. are carolinas and maine considered too close to call. reporter: the night started with a comeback for joe biden sweeping the south and causing upsets of north and the biggest test so far in the race for the white house. tuesdayit got to super it would be over.

it may be over for the other guy. people are talking about a revolution, we started a movement. we increased turnout. reporter: in southern states he shored up support from african-american and older voters. he secured a victory in texas, the state with the second-biggest number of delegates. bernie sanders who started as the front runner is still very much in the race. he took the top prize of california, winning big among young and latino voters. he traded blows with his opponent, speaking in his home state of vermont. >> you cannot beat trump with the same old, same old kind of politics. but we need is a new politics that brings working-class people into our political movement. reporter: b biden took nine states, including north carolina, virginia, and

massachusetts. sanders' winning california helps him compensate for h his rival's southern success, but the number of states won does not secure nomination. the eyes are the number of delegates. biden has edged ahead with the lead of around 70 delegates. it could be days or weeks before we know exactly where the pair stands in the rankings. 1199are far off of the needed to win. it is clear this is shaping up to be a two-man race. it was a disappointing night for mike bloomberg. the former new york mayor said he will be reevaluatingg after his multimillion dollar campaign machine failed to win over voters. it was rough for elizabeth warren, who lost in her home state of massachusetts. candidates are looking ahead to the primaries next tuesday in six states, including michigan, missouri, mississippi, and washington. inhor: i would like to bring

our correspondent in washington, d.c. many expected bernie sanders to have what is being referred to as an earthquake lead. the results are still coming in, but that's not where we are at? >> no. definitely not. the night went totally for joe biden. as we hearard in the report, the sweep started in the southern states. that was the goal for joe biden after the victory in south carolina, which kicked off his comeback. and all of the endorsements that paid off in super tuesday. he was hoping at best to repeat that good showing in the southern states. he delivered on that. a big win in north carolina, huge in alabama, good in for kenya. virginia.- good in he sweet the southern states.

it is surprising how well he did in the midwest and california. in massachusetts ahead of neighboring senator from vermont bernie sanders and ahead of the home senator elizabeth warren. was surprising. the biggest surprise of all was the victory in texas. everyone was definitely expecting bernie sanders to come away with that largely tino population that was supposed to vote his way. everybody was looking to see how close joe biden could stick to bernie sanders. he came away with the big victory. the key in those victories for biden, compared to those for bernie sanders, is the 15% threshold, the magic number.

that is the threshold to get actual delegates. in the win for joe biden, he has with berniens sanders a distant second and no one else qualifying for the 15%. bernie sanders in the states he has won, for example colorado, there are four candidates vying for delegates which means the split is between four candidates instead of two. moremeans joe biden wins than bernie sanders. california is still being counted and we have to see how big bernie sanders' win can be in the biggest state of all. anchor: it might take some time before we get that. you spoke about the latino vote. vote hasve how that been split over racial lines. >> yes. it is always in the united states, you have to look at the community of vote.

that was definitely the case for joe biden. early on in the race we were theing a lot about african-american vote. joe biden really counted on their support. we saw it in south carolina. i think the numbers were 60% of african-americans voting for joe biden. numbersted those great in some of the super tuesday states that i mentioned. north carolina, alabama, tennessee. the latino vote is usually more thet along candidates than african-american vote. that was the real question. how would latinos vote, especially in texas and cacalifornia where the latino ve is a huge share of the total population. it seemed initially coming out of nevada, which was the first state with a largely tino vote,

vote,at -- large latino and that went overwhelmingly to bernie sanders. they expected the same in texas and california, but it seems the latinos were more split originally starting between the progressives and moderates. the fact that joe biden came back strongly in the race, looked more presidential after south carolina, means some moderate latino voters, who might have been splitting their votes between pete buttigieg, amy k klobuchar, michael bloomberg, who invested heavily inin texas, at the end at the lt minute went for joe biden. there were a lot of early votes, but a a lot of people madade thr decision in the last couple of days. that is what the exit polls have been saying. the undecided voters until the last minute went overwhelmingly to joe biden. anchor: the latatest round up on

super tuesday from washington, d.c. turning our attention to the new coronavirus, which continues the claim lives across the globe. for the first time since the start of the outbreak the number of deaths outside of china is exceeding those in the country. in iran authorities are wrestling with the spread of covid-19. according to the country's ministry of health and nationwide team of 300 thousand health workers and specialists have been deployed to tackle the disease. after 3000 cononfirmed cases of the ininfection in the country, among them 23 members of parliament. .ur correspondent is in tehran what is the mood where you are in tehran? a journalist at "the new york times" describing the scenes and comparing it to the scenes of a horror movie.

reporter: it is not a horror movie, but the mood is not good. people are uncertain, anxious will stop what makes things worse is no one knows where this is headed. how many people will die? how many people will be infected? these are questions many people have and no one seems to have an answer. people are trying to do the best they can to deal with it. it was february 19 when the outbreak started. every day since then the number of people who have been killed, who have tested positive, has climbed. within the last couple of hours officials say 585 more people have tested positive. 15 more people have died. that brings the number of people infected to 2900 and the death toll to 92. what is rattling people is 30 government officials and lawmakers have tested positive, more than any other country

dealing with the virus. tehran looks and feels different. the usual bumper-to-bumper traffic has suddenly disappeared. everywhere y you look you see people wearing sanitary masks and gloves. the iranians are very social, they like to get together and have fun in social gatherings. that for the most part has stopped. the people meeting are not shaking hands. when someone coughs you since other people around them are uncomfortable, and that really drives home the paranoia that's spreading. unusual,t is v very especially to the lead up of the persian new year. s ourentioned the number fast climbing. the government has come under criticism for everything from lack of transparency to

mismanagement. can you take us through the steps the authorities are taking to stop the spread? reporter: it seems they are trying to o strike a balance between n the easing people's concerns and taking specific action. they have shut down schools, universities, and cultural centers. they are trying to sanitize as many public spaces as possible. they are spring metro stations and buses. prison officials released 15,000 prisoners sentenced to less than five years to avoid the spread of the virus in close quarters. they are taking these steps. you still sense the mistrust by the people of the government. historically iranians have not trusted their government much. it did not help when two months ago the iranian military shot down a ukrainian passenger plane and waited three days before revealing that. they don't trust the govovernme, but t the government is t tryino do their best to convey they are doing what they can with this virurus.

anchor: the latest developments from the iranian capital. 120 schools shut their doors in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus with 35,000 people staying home. if students thought they were getting an easy holiday, they would be wrong. here is a report. this dining room will become a classroom for the next few weeks. schools s in the northwest of franance are closed for a fortnight. >> what did you ththink whwhat i told you didn't have to go to school?? >> scary. reporter: it is up to dad to make sure they don't fall behind. >> you have poetry and math. reporter: science lessons are on her phone and louis gets his classes emailed by his school.. the regions o of france around

120 schools have switched to remote teaching. that is 35,000 students. this collegege has scrambled to put intoto place a system m of e-learning wherere students cann access assignments andnd feedbak online. >> we are trying. we turned the high schools in hong kong for guidance on how they m manage to teach rememote. reporter: as o of this week,k, h teacher r will give c classes va videoconferencnce. >> the substitutes are n not wasting titime. reporter: this type of f online teaching has never been used at such a large scale in france before, but could become an important tool for other schools if the virus continues to spread. anchor: the european union has pledged to provide greece with all the support needed as it struggles with an influx of migrants allowed to cross from

turkey. president erdogan said millions of migrants would head to eueupe, having clclaimed greek security forces have b been shooting migrants. listen to our correspondent with reaction from brussels. he sent us the update on the plededge from the president t oe european commission. already in that visit yesterday to the turkish-greek border the president committed not just the money but forces of the eu agency that patrols the border, a ship and a couple of planes. what she was committing shows the limited resources that the eu has. it is still a small agency because member states of the european union, the national countries, have been reluctant to turn over border policing to an eu agency. the agency remains very small.

greece is on the hook with the immigration crises. yesterday we saw a real strong byport expressed not only the president but the president ofof the european council. saying greece is europe's shield at the moment. european unione president trusts the greek government and what they are doing. this is controversial because a lot of people are upset about what the greek border authorities are doing in trying to send a strong message to o te migrants, don't come, we will turn you away. greek said they will stop accepting asylum applications and the commission seems to be delaying making a ruling if that is legal. the commission is standing firm behind greece. totoday i suspect we will see a similar message from those home

affairs ministers in suppoportig greeeece. we will see if any of the ministers from other countries start to get nervous about supporting greece unconditionally. in terms of what they can offer now, money is really it. the eu border force remains so small and understaffed. anchor: thank you. we will bring you developments on that story throughout the day at 5:00 p.m. paris time this wednesday there will be a meeting of eu interior ministers on ways to discuss greece to with this migrant flux. live fromeadlines paris. democrats in 14 states have been choosing who they want to take on donald trump in the november election. texas.en wins bernie sanders was widely expected to win that state.

outside of-19 deaths china exceed those in the country for the first time since the start of the outbreak. any wrong, tens of thousands of prisoners are temporarily released from jail to stop the spread of the disease. .et's look the day thank you for being with as. you are starting with how the markets areeacting toto the ouome e ofhe superer tuesday votes? >> trading on wall street gets dederwayn n two houours. the market is setet to open significicantly h higher in the united states as investors digest the results o othe democratatic pty primamaries. the dow jones is called to open 2% higher. market watchers are translating that as welcoming joe biden's success. he is seen as a more moderate choice by investors, because investors in some sectors,

particularly health care, were concerned about bernie sanders as president and what that would mean foror their i industry. we are a lonong way from the actual election in november, but investors s are following the twists and turns of the process. the surpriseewas rate cut by the federal reserve on tuesday with a half a percentage white reduction with fears the damage the coronavirus outbreak we do to the u.s. economy. it's the biggest cut since the financial crisis. the market tumbled on tuesday, not the reaction the fed chair was hoping for. >> i don't think we have all the answers, but we believe our action will provide a meaningful boost to the economy. specifically it will avoid titightening of financial condnditions which c w weigh on acvityty and boost housesehold d businenessonfifidence. >> how european shares a trading, the opening was tepid after the ratete cut by the

federal reserve. not the usual response.. things have picked up, perhaps being a delalayed reaction to te move. london, paris, and frankfurt all of 1%. there is a broader d debate how effective action by central banks will be in alleviating the effects on the e economy frorome coronanavirus. is preparingnment to spend the equivalent of 9 billioion e euros i in emergency stimululus to combabat the effes ofof the slowdown of the econom. ththat is almost three t times e governmement spent in reaction o the e sars epidemic inn 2003. reporter: south korean soldiers on the front line. the army has spent manpower to help masask mananufacturers d dl withth heightened d demand. with 5003 hundred cases the country is the second most

impacted by the coronavirus outbreak after china, and the government is pulling out all of the financial stops. are putting all ourur policy fofocus on minimizing the econoc fallout, especially for vulnerable sectors,, medium-sizd businesses, and self-employed people. reporter: the government is rolling out emergency measures despite the virus outbreak. it's asking parliament to approve a stimulus package which would increase its record high budget by 2%. the economy minister says that the money will be channeled through the health center, childcare, and help for lower paid workers. the 12th largest economy has been hit by supply disruptions and factory closures within the country. shshares of h hyundai motorors e .ropped 17% in three weeks, an

south korea's central bank have downgraded the growth forecast for this year. president moon jae-in has declared the entire countries at war with the coronavirus outbreak as the government struggles to get the crisiss under control befefore next month's general electctions. reporter: the frerench governmet is takining steps to stop panic buying of goods linked to the spread of the coronavirus. a prescription will be needed to buy a facemask after president macron announced the government will buy all of the available stocks to supply medical staff and those diagnosed with the illness. the finance minister has announced that price controls are to be placed on antibacterial gel. prices are reported to have increased dramaticically as the virurus spread. majorilile, the world's technology compaeses arere takig sts toto address the epidedemic. amazon has r removed tens of ththousas s of listings to c cot

price gouguging on items like re masks whwhile facebobook is tryg to sp p the and d false information from spreading among its 2 billion users. reporter: empty shelves as people rushed to stock up on toilet paper. the spread of covid-19 has sparked panic buying, partially sparked by rumors online. facebook will give free ads to organizations like the who, cdc, and unicef to give out timely information. social media companies have bebn workining to take down posts and videos with bogus claiaims about the virus.s. from the oututset the who has me fighting this infoation a priority.. >> we have workrked to make sure people seaearching for informatn about the coronavirusus see

credible information at the top of their search results. reporter: amazon has removed one million products as part of the crackdown on venendors trying to capitalize on the shortage ofof hyhygiene prododucts. >> there is no place for price gouging on amazon. we are disappointed that bad actors are attempting to artificially rise products during alolobal healalth crisis. reporter: tech bands have been affected. twitter has asked staff to work from home. google and facacebook have canceleled eventnts in thehe s . become more consnscious of hygiene in p pubc places, a french company has developed an antibacterial touchscreen. of silver which the company says kills 99.99% of bacteria with the protection lasting up to five years. thecompany has patented

technology. fair later this month in paris is still going ahead. you might remember the story about the touchscreens and mcmcdonald's being disgsgusting. i will s spare you the details. we carried out the tests in the u.k.. this could be the solution. anchor: thank you for that business update. stay tuned. we will be bringing you a special program on super tuesday in four minutes. thank you for watching. ♪

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