here in the frfrench capapital u watchingng france twenty four here are today's top headlines. tools closer benzz cancelled cruisehips q quarantine and global death tololl's rising the new coronavirus continues t to exact i its toll worldwide prompting the w world health organization to urge governments to take stronger action. saying this is no time for excuses. the fragile ceasefefire in idlib provincnce largely holds one day after taking the facts the d deal brbrokered by russia a and turky aiming to end ththe fighting that's displaced nearly a million people. the refugee crisis n now playiying out at turkey's b border w with greece amid rising tensions. and he is

on a state group clas a deadly attack in the afghan capital at least thirty two dead. after a shooting at a ceremony in kabul for several top political figures were in attendance. it's a joining us here on france twenty four i'm clear bash. this is not a drill this is a a time for pulling out alall the stops the words of the director g general of the world health organization this frfridy as h he urged g governments to e stronger action to combat the corona virus outbreak. that statement coming as the virus mamarked a new milestone the number of casess w wldwide has now papassed one hundreded thousand. here in europe health ministers met today for an emergency meeting in brussels what came out of that meeting with our correspondent dave

keating. we heard from you health ministers after they finished this meeting that the virus outbreak has really entered a new phase here there are now four thousand confirmed cases in the e european union that some twenty four. out of the twenty seven member states- contrastst that t to when they t memet in late february when they were talking about fifty cases in just a handful of countries it's really. xcelerated quite a bit and very fast and the most concerning thing- we heard from the croatatian health minisister which was leading this meeting today was that the infections. to be being. with the countntry no longer is this a situation of- somebody be cutting infected when they travel to one of the- areas and it's- or china. or actually catch this with it. which is just the travel restrictions aren't going to be very effective at this point. birka slope he asked the vice. and this today the e health mininister wasas. e

it was streamed so it w wasn't quite as candid. as i think a lot of the health minister. this particular the- to close schools and universities. given thatat health offfficials say tt itit's the eldlderly that are mt at risk here from this virus to the whole purpose of the meeting today was to betttter coordinate all of the acaction o you don't get l lots of differerent. piece meal. as thee from your couountry going i in different directions but it was alalso to learn frorom it to the experience because what we heard from t the european commission. today was that basically where. is now up european can expect to be there- ended up couple weeks.. looking at theirr future appear when it looking at it to t the o therefore title to learn lessons now. working w what's nt working really wasn't for. being one half. other if f you can learn. there running up

going inside out what works best. can also growing here france thehe number of coronavirus casases has now jumped to at least six hunundred and thihirteen with nine deaths the second worst outbreak in europe after italy tied the outbreak the government has announced drastic new measures to fight the spread that announcement from prime mininister. edouard phililippe. because of you look for the wise and high counties and for now for only these counties is automotive group with him which are the two worst hit areas so swell we arare announcing furthr measures restricting contact. the contact starting monday morning and f for the next fifteen daysys. kindergartens ad all schools will be clolosed mat down then good leads the e c. nw over the course of the corona virurus outbreak cruise ships from japan to california havave become sites of trtransmission

and now egypt is the latest country to trace cases back to such a vessel a cruise ship on the nile river. as health officials announced new cases in the country this friday we now bring into egypt correspondent ruth michaelson to tell us more ruth what do we know about these new cases in egypt. what we know that. twelve people who were on board a cruise ship that went from a few h hundred bucks tool- will sound to be carrying the virus today but what a symptomatic. it interjection official- a taiwanese american tourists on board the ship hafted cooperatative for the v virus on witch hunt if you are the home country a good twelve people who were on board the ship today have been taken to quarantine. but it does raise some questions get that- it's understood that the taiwanese tourists who returned home did it so at least a week ago in phililadelphia is appearing in court and the delay in showing

symptoms.. of feet are no b. twelve people would have come. into contact with others in the interim. now w how are egyptiain authoritieies handle this. well that's been can quickly see especially from one a kuwaiti anand p. following that are the habit but enough transparency of information and that there are likely more cases in egypt that haven't been disclosed- but it gives you a visual completely improvised- every time they've made a declaration that they are being completely transparent- that they were dealing with the case. i know i have the ministry of hehealth jeff brown statementnt just evening playing that theyey talklked to the two thousanand people are full of the virus anand that only thirty five fifteen of in mid f february- have been found to have contracted the virus. but at the same time are there multiple casases of tourists who are found after having left egypt to become. i found live

been carrying virus that we raises the question. about whether they in a test. or not transparency venture. in egypt up to with. and are you just is a likee to deal with an outbrea. well i'll be the egyptian official who really tried to drive that included talking back- trying to think of ways to spread awareness- and then it hi nick they're all absolutely questions about whether the healthcare system can handle it's kind of a proboblem because the country od a hundred million people the most populous. country in the arab world- it could have been normal p population density i'm 95% of people live on roughly six or 7% of the land- and it all happened massively overstretched underfunded health care system. this lady is real questions about how countries like egypt we'll be able to cope with the spreaead f this. particular virus. right

ruth michaelson reports live from chi on the new crown of cases repeported in egypt this friday. moving on and jonathan ball is a virologist and professor at the university of nottingham he tells us that the more time you buy the more impact you have on the spread of that practice. what what it means is that. you know like manyny countntries. around the world and indeed in europe so as wasas seen in italy france. and also in the u. k. do you you have potential clusters of infection rather hot spots where the virus is circulating in the community. and so what you'u're trying to do is you knw you can't contain not but what you can do. is trying to limit the ability of the virus to spread. to other parts of the of the country and in doingng s. i was- a and talk to ted ross- from who's pointed out thehe moe titime. that you combine the mall- impact you have on the spread of the virus and it

means that your health systems. have a better chance of coping with the with the patients and the e most sererious cases when they arise. mr at the- of nottingham jonathan. uneasy calm in syria's idldlib province one day afterer a ceasefire was brokered by russia and turkey therere were some reports of clashes in the province this friday but the agreemement h has largely held elsewhere that ceceasefire c coming a aftereekf intense fighting bebetween the syririan army. russia rebel groups in sia's lasast opposition strtrongholds but w t do residentsts there think of te deal here's what some of them have to say. thank you for how my supposed to believe thatt there's a truruce if i'm listening to the sound of jets and bombingng that means there's no real truce. l listed and-- we dodon't feel reassureded adult.t didn't meet our oaks. degree montnth won't holold because the regime i was hardly respected any deals. any twinsns respect this one either. a difficult

dilemma doesn't feel nonot actie in the other. and d the soul we'll go this a- and i'm not expecting a anything fromom its- this people don't respect any commitmements. no nott. that fighting in the provivince has foforced nearly a million people to flee toward the turkish border in turkeyey who's to nearly fouour million refefugees and looking to avoid anothther influx is no longer stopping refugees trying to cross its borders into europe. t the decision has prompteted thousans of migrants to flock to the land border between turkey and greece whether camping out with the hopes of crossing into the u. r. reporter kathleen norris trent has this rereport. in the turkish greek border. this is the river whichch s separates greece from kentucky on this. highly contentious border amid the yet migrant crisis here.e. just around a hundred meters away on the other side of the river. is greasy europeann union territory and it's from this point we knoww that many of the

migrants have been. attemptingg to cross the river on small dingy is here. many of them arrested by. greek policice officers on that border not this supposed until very recently a big migrant camp and it has just been. bulldozed by turkish authorities that tryinig toto clear up makeseshift comesn this. border a area. telling people i the go to greece we'll gogo back to istanbul and they'e provididing buses to. transport the migrants. the situationon is still very tense at the border in the main at. border passage at pausasa coolly just around thirty kilomometers north o of e that still several thousand peoplele camping outut that.t. y of them saying they didn't want toto leave and i've been tensio. up again to tear gas fired as people inside that camp increasingly hungry a w week sleeping out in the cold i getting more more frustrated about the situation. reporter

catherine northh report from the turkishh for their- the islalamc state clalaimed a deadldly in kl thisis friday at leastst thirtyo peopople wee killed and dozenens more injured when a gunman opened firee at a ceremony where many p prominent afghan politicl leaders were in attendance. while the taliban says it wasn't involvedd the a attack raises questions about whether the militant groups peace deal with the us side just days ago will actually be ablble to redue violence in thee warar torn untry. entnter hillier has. i don't. k know. this was the moment when i it shifted a higih profile ceremonyny in kabul. as the gunman sprayed t the gathering with bullelets the crowd rushes for covover. one of those attending was abdul abdullah one of afghanistan's top political figures. his spokesman described the attack. the attacks started with h the

boom apparently y a rockett land in the area i'm della and some other politicians escaped the attack unhurt. but several others were killed the ceremony was held to mark the anniversary of the death of bob dylan is already a leader of afghanistan's hazara ethnic group who are mainly shiite he was killed in n nineteen ninety five after being taken prisoner by the taliban. but the group spokesperson denies being behind the shooting it's the first big attackk to hit the afghan capital seems along market troop withdrawal agreement was signed between the u. s. and the taliban. pope franciss has accepted the resigngnation of the archbishop of lille philippe abobout about hott has been caught up in a frenchch sex abuse case convictd of failing to report a paedophihile priests in his diocese. hisis convictionn was overerrned in january but t the pope s still granted the powerfl cacatholic leader's resignation charlie james has s the latest. exactly one yearr after

receiving the initial request pope francis has granted french cardinal philippe barbarin was resignation. struggle to new rules for all of us this resignation comes as no surpririse. he announced it renounced it. but for all that we feel that we are living a very important moment in the diocese. of pages being turned. the pope had first refused barbara's request pending the outcome of an appeal of his conviction for failing to report a peta filed priest. last march by brown was found guilty of not reporting for non pay now who abused dozens of boy scouts in the nineteen eighties and nineties. after that ruling he announced he would offer his resignation. on the one on one will stop it from there regarardlesss of my personal favororites. i would like to reiterate my compassion for the victims. and the place ththey and theheir families havn my prayers for me i have decided to go to the holy father to give himim my reputation. barbara's

conviction in fact overturned on appeal in january the judges deemed he isn't criminally liable because the incidents happened too long ago. still the cardinal again asked pope francis to a allow him to resig. barbara was t twice told of the abuse by prima and by one of his victims but has maintained it wasn't his place to report it. right now has been deep oct and is awaiting a march sixteenth ruling in his sex abuse trial. and now it's time for today's business news with coal spangler joins me here in studio called markets are continuingng in europe and on wall street. three clear another very rough day on the markrkets to close out the week investors unable to shake o off worries over the impact of the current virus. worried it may significantly dent global growth shares in u. s. finished in the red for the second day in a row on friday. relativelyy positive monthly job support for very clearly overshadowed by concerns over the wires and see her dad jones down around one percent. as in p. download

or than one and a half percent actually covering slightly towards the end of the trading session but still. you're ready to see their rough day in europe as well the footsie citing more than three and a half p percent. as our account topping present here in paris- but shares taking a big hit after it said it failed to win any. new aircraft orders. last month. while prices with their worst t tumble in. years you can see here w. west texas intermediate down a whwhopping 10% latate friday. brinker internationanal benchmark tradig at around forty five dollars a barrel down all the way around sixty nine dollars a barrel back in january. there's one in particular why- price continue to plummet. because a group of oil producing countries failed to reach a d deal onow much to cut production. they're up a at the two day meeting in vienna on friday led by saudi arabibia opec had proposed cutting an extra one and a half million barrels per day to the- end of the year. russia though refused to lend it supports the move. moscow apparently content with the group's previous round of cuts those are just over two million barrels. for a day. and

only that is not stopp prices from fallen tree i think a tremendous help to me. meanwhile in china thirties have urged firms to. get back to work and while many large corporations have done just that it's a very different story for the country small businesses. on gains for reports. this beijing spa used to have between twenty and thirty customers a d day. but since the corona virus outbreak that number has plummeted. many small businesses in china are still feeling the pinch. on twitter the total number of customers t that we have a week is only about four or five. sometimes therere's only one in the morning. or sometimes no customers a toll. so we've been hugely impmpacted by the epidemic. hello hello. while some international corporations are trying to get back to business as usual. at least 85% of starbucks cafes have reopened. smaller firms don't have the resources to whether the current cash flow crisis. restaurants and cafes have been hard hit. both my lack of

customers and. by supply chain difficulties. a survey by the beijing catering industry association put the losses for restaurants and catering companies across china seventy five billionon euros. two from within to help control the biggest difficulty is money because every month therere's rental salary for the staff and the cost of supplies. we hope the landlord can scale back o o some of the rent for us after ththe epidemic finishes on the picture films at all levels. china has more than eighteen million small businesses employing more than two hundred million people the chinese government has announced support measures for these firms including lower rents and a deferral of pension and housing payments. now china has to b balance efforts to keep the virus under control withh attempts to kick start the economy. not here in france the ride hailing app uber is facing intense pushback from drivers.

they protested friday against pain working conditions at the company which classifies them as independent contractors not ememployees. us firm has long defended that model though earlier t this week france's top court ruled the driver had been improperly classified. decision that could pave the way for future complaints and onene this union activists agreed to take lessons. but you two are they're not independent at all from t the moment you havave gos to achieve from the moment you're told here you go you must not exceed a certain cancellation rate. from the moment you cannot defend yourself because there's been a dispute between an independent contractor and the client. that's not independence at all now it's a company that manages employees under disguise that it. and finally chinese firm quinlan has agreeeed to sell one of its mostt closely watched assets. to broadly reachched a deal to sell lgbt datating apppp grinder to a firm in the u. s s. and then came under fire when it acquired a majority ske in grander back in twenty sixteen. seven us warning it would give chinese authorities access sensitive dataa on n millions of americans. things like hiv status in private messaging. us

government even oppose it june twenty twenty deadline for comingng to sell grinder. that dina firm is now matt. kerr it's part of a growing trend washington with more andnd more scrutiny over after albers on how all that sensitive data that they that they hold. right thank you so much coastingg where for that business news update. now also in the studio here with me catalina i shunned the bro for media watch. out the code might learn whahat a dy without women could be like. what does that mean yes so this a a life of international and state this. sunday they have organized a separate protest this. march ninth on a day. to day long. woman mike where. they will demand the government's action on the ongoing side price. has ruled. these are follow by. ththe murders thahat comply shot the name. of were t the murders of twenenty five year old ingrid is scam yeah and seven year olds

fatima al jets. but at t the sae time because the country has been facing an ongoing battle with of violence against women as they have just released these- these numbers from two thousand nineteen stating that a total of. one thousand six killings were officially classified as femicides last year and this is in a 10% increase from two thousand eighteen. so thihis is the official a poster for the call of action on monday- with the hash tag on bse missile test which means one day without us the other hashtags india seem okay this which means one day which translates to one day without women. so here they are urging women to completely disappear for twenty four hours and not go to work not go to school not exercised. go to bars the- restaurants and they are even urging women not to use social media or not even use streaming services public

transportation. everything so just completely disappear this would definitely show the country how they how mexico's economy would deal without women and the company that is comprised f forty thoususand its working class conference. you percent by. so a lot of are worried about what kind. they would have if they show up work if they would be compensated or not but a recent study has showed that. more than 60% of a mexican companies award- would support this- national strike in the country- here we can see a list of the companies that- came out of support. for the strike some of the big names are walmart google mexico- scotiabank. of santander bank of mexico amongst many many others. right so drastic measurures therere in mexico for international women's day on monday let's move on to your next topic or woody allen and

mark has just been dropped following. yes so this just came in moments ago- this woody allen member was supposed to be published in april and it has just been dropped by its publishing group hatchet publishing group. out following a staff work walk out that tookk place yesterday- the- the publishing group just stated that they do not publish that they will not publish the memoir and that they- they will return all the rights to the author saying that they do not cancel books lately. so let's go back to what happened yesterday there was this walk out all the staff members from this publishing group here there's an image of what happened. yesterday there were about. more than seventy five employees who walked out and they want to rockefeller center pro testing this- the more that they were going to publish- in april on woody allen so what is the controversy behind. it this

is the same publishing group that published batch and killed by ronan farrow. into nineteen- this book is about the me too movement and- has all the cues his estranged father of. abusing his daughter dylan farrow back t the night is in wr withth the. i should have went o twitter saying that he was disappointed to learn that they would publish this memoir- and that they had concealed this decision from him and his employees while they were working on the book. and he said that he could not he he said he would cut ties with the publishing company- since you cannot work with them i in good conscious. there havee alreadydy been that reactions to the cancellation of the of this memoir with this twitter user saying i believe in due process i get that woody allen was not convicted of any thing. but

this isn't about guilt or innocence i just really believe that in order to be a good publishing partner you up it they running. it's take or pass on the title. will be in i on that publishing at another store you've been keeping an eye on for us our creative solutions to the coronavirus coronavirus dominating headlines all across the world as people get creative with their h hand sanititizers. yes o this is to add on to the corona virus news cycle many stores have been experiencing- shortage on hand sanitizer and- essential goods to- protect yourself against corona virus- so people have been getting a bit creative. using a vodka to create their own hand sanitizer at home. this treaty users- todd tito's vodka thing i made some hand sanitizer out of your vodka. and cheers to tito's vodka keep me germ free i'm feeling g good at the same titie

tito's by in. wewent onto social media at in order to suggest against this practice quoting the cdc the thing that the best practice would be to wash hands with soap. and that you can use an alcohol based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. and he does have a vodka is 40% alcohol therefore does not meet the current recommendation. of this anything. so no tito's vodka will not protect you against corona virus right yes so he is anan adviser for your hands voda and not so much still drinknking by the- fire is still for drink yes all right well thank you so much catalina i shot. that bro with me to go out and of course of course stengeger who is with us earlier or the business is we will bebecome. right after a break do stay you.

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