thank you watson a comparison for us twenty four the headlines this hour. french president emmanuel maccoll makes a call for calm of the spread of the corona virus as the cases hearing from so move closer to two thousand offer meeting. with the twenty seven leaders of the pda michael said that would be a coordinated european response to the outbreak which is now present. in every state. in china signs of a return to normal life presidency jim paying visits the city of wuhan where the outbreak began china has recorded. a significant drop in

new infections. analyzed on the state of michigan as benny sanders and joe biden go head to head to the next round of the democratic primary school the vice president biden. is hoping to extend his lead in the state the saunders won against hillary clinton four years ago. french president emmanuel macron has issued a call for calm over the spread of the corona virus says the cases he moved closer to two thousand dr meeting all of the twenty seven leaders of the eighty eight micron said that would be a coordinated. european response to the outbreak which is now present in every e. u. st. the phone will get this time we have to face up to the consequences links to both the corona virus and the destabilization of

global markets and you'll first assistant in order to tackle this there must first of all be a national response that we're carrying out of course. to help our health service in its response to the crisis i think he's newsome played. upon the lead this europe is ready to take the necessary and vital decisions to tackle this epidemic. and also to response to all of its consequences. and avoid all manner of financial that do you date phenols yeahs it couldn't. as america's area and remind us thirty three people have died here in from the west affected european country off to italy that had been an expectation the government might raise the alert level warning to three but it it's- keeping it at level two for now anyway well joining me now. is john jack and some broad ski a physician in a hospital in the city o leon thank you very much indeed. for joining us- and festival have you had to deal with any cases of coronavirus

yourself. yes indeed- because nowadays to viruses most everywhere in the country. and most of us have heard people i've seen people were at least was suspected. and what what are your thoughts on the virus on how it affects people will are how serious is it because a lot of people say that it's just a bad case of the flu what would you say to those people. well actuay they are wting most of his vast majority of that some people have no symptoms at all. some people have the symptoms of the flu. and it's just like the flu the vast majority of people with the flu have. mild sympts and recover after a couple of days was just a set of nina fan. well what call in france paris at the mall. and a few of them who have co morbidities step into our- somehow with the diabetes or- bad kidneys but drugs but hot- disease of the

heart and so on. would have a more severe- case and we need to go in in the intensive care unit. but of course as some of them would unfortunately die. but the vast majority of them. have nothing but a little generous slough that's correct clinicly speaking it's much like the flu the question is. that eight- as- the continued. rate more than the flu and is it globally more severe- these other two question for which we don't have precise answers for the moment. but again the vast majority of people have no symptoms at all 85% of. between eighty and 95% of people have no symptoms at all and- those who have symptoms i have most of them the symptoms of an ordinary fluwhy is. this making such a splash around the well why is this making global headlines why governments taking such drastic actions if it is and i was in the food. ny

tv news channels speak that much about here well. before that is that the virus is not what you know but you definitely right to do so you you ought to do so and the people watching- from twenty four around the world. well you too to give details becauset still globally unknown we don't know everything about this rus well we know the flu virus for years. you know the flu virus kills a few thousands of people in france for example and hundred thousand throughout the world. but we do know we cope with it we're used to it we have a vaccine against it and we try and develop drugs. that treat the virus we don't know yet everything about this car on the virus and so there isn't. a legitimate anxiety about how she video will the infectn be how long will it last we needed to be when the sun. the times come this is.

normal there is no. to do nder about if it's normal that. until we know morebout this virus- we can't precocious and the european. the measures that are taken- the- ought to be taken as president micro just to do a declared today as exactly what we do to doake precautions until we know who is this enemy so. are you are you are you satisfied then firstly that the government is right to keep the threat level at level two. i'm not raise it three and secondly are you satisfied tt the hospitals in france a well equipped to deal with this virus however many thousands of cases we might see over the next few weeks. well the difference between level two and level three is only the fact that when it comes to level three it doesn't change the evolution of the disease. it means that since the disease is spread all over the country. we doesn't try and- identify

very very precisely who was patient zero in each contamination queue so is on that it means that. doubt cases everywhere and there is no need to search for the one who brought the disease into a given c. d. o. region that's the ly difference between. a stage twond stage three so there's nothing to. worry about and when will come to ste three which is quite probable one of these days. it doesn't an that it's more see it only means that we won't be searching anymore for case zero in each of the address. though the french hospital system seems to be well adapted as well as d. a private physician as well as all the healt care professionals. and for the moment provided that people don't rush to the emergency rds whicis the most to thing do. it can cop witht we are ready. it out most of

the hospitals have prepared. a special plan. they are i have people ready data have had the equipments they have at the and you can and in order to cope with it so i have no anxiety whether it's in big cities like paris on your- must y or in smaller cities. i think that we can face the sir i have been a mix until it ends which normally ought to come into- let's say two monthsecause in that in china. what started its indie- decreasing face it started a couple of days ago with normal cases or a reduced number of new cases every day. so this. with a two month delay between china and europe- it would normally happen in in our continent in a couple of months so we have to cope with too faced with to be prudent we have to take those measures which are being. explained by the health authorities and the government we have to support

our european friends who are in in the most difficult. situation like. colleagues and normally tt will be nothing memories in a couple of months all right it. would be ready for next time good to have some some reassuring words from you add up to them first he thank you very much. well that it is today the entire country remains on lockdown after the government announced a nationwide ban on public gatherings last night people are being advised to stay at home and avoid over the most essential journeys. after yet has this report. transport can trolls ineffective rooms term any rail station. as police check travel documents. they made a sign the self certification form we detail reasons for traveling for providence and destination in my case i came from greece where i'm staying for work. with the whole country affectively a marked down

anyone traveling in italy for at least the next three weeks must have a document declaring the reasons. calling it the stay at home directive the italian prime minister is hoping these new measures will help slow the corona virus outbreak. rome normally packed with tourists was eerily quiet with major sites like st peter's square closed off. your bill i live here and it's always full of people. this morning there's no one. it's not nice this new reality at all. those few tourists who did venture out we're being told by police to return to their hotels. it was the same story in milan travel checks at the train station and deserted streets. the one place that has been busy supermarkets in milan in other cities people have been lining up to stock up on essentials. across the country cultural attractions schools and universities will remain

closed until april third. bars and restaurants my shot by six pm and people need to leave their houses are urged to keep at least one meter away from each other. with the largest number of cases in europe italy is the first country to impose emergency quarantine measures across its entire territory. well the european commission president specially funded ally and has been speaking following- that set conference cold off e. u. leaders- europe seeking to have a more unified and coordinated response to the spread of the virus. and she's in now so that will be a seven point five billion euro fund made available to help you out deal with the economic fallout from the virus status. i also spoke on the phone with prime minister first and foremost we must act at the macroeconomic level. and to be very. from my part to. we will use all the

tools at our disposal to make sure that the european economy weathers this storm. well we can go to brussels now and our correspondent dave casing isn't that day tell us a bit more about what was agreed on that conference call. yeah the biggest announcement to come out of this was financial and that's seven point five billion euro fines and that's money that's going to be available right away- through this vehicle the corona response mechanism- and that can actually be leveraged up to twenty five billion- once matching private funds are involved but it's a little unclr where that funding is coming from right now. it looks like it's probably coming from the e. u. budgets cohesion funds which bizarrely those are really for the countries that are right now least affected. by corona virus that is- territories in europe east and- extremists out so that the real extremities of europe where

this is not- which is not as seen court of iris cases to the same extent as areas in right in the center of europe- no the- twenty seven leaders did also talk about the health situation and they had a lot to. digest because there's been a lot of napa measures over the last two days the mr mat to. i'm from los which- closed the school you know. band all bands must come. it its other border italy it's a old allow a coming for to the kind unless they have a new from doctor. said in good how now commissioned by found was asked to this to a press. to she said look i is doing the right things be on the- that we have right now she's. right now no the buyer in our countries and going spread the point right now is to low this. so that not everyone to the hospital at the same time and that this type of social do distaing an event

cancellation policy is right in line with what experts are saying when it comes to the border issue officials are looks. asked about what street did today because of course if the virus is now in everything you country and most of j. are coming within country is. in this room you know and in closing borders and so there's worry here in brussels from u. officials. that austria's policy is diverting a lot of money and resources toward a border policing that is actually useless. and that's money that should be spent on just quarantining measures- and particularly in equipment- now on that equipment question leaders also also agreed- to have a public procurement at e. u. level to get. all of those face masks and respirators in particular that are going to be needed and that there's been huge concerns about a shortage of. throughout the european union- they're going to try to also the commission will identify where that equipment is right now and how much of it

is available we're supposed to get that assessment. in the coming days and finally they agreed to have all of the twenty seven eu health ministers and interior ministers have a call every single day with european. mission to keep the commission updated on all the latest helps the topic. and also all their latest actions and of course the reason for loving the interior minister. is to make sure that they don't get any drastic decisions like they had in austria today about closing internal you borders dave thank you very much indicating that with everything that's been decided today. in brussels. while moving to the new states now with six states are holding democratic primaries this tuesday the races now between the former vice president joe biden. and the left wing senator bernie sanders son is looking to narrow biden's late with a focus on michigan a state he won in the primaries against hillary clinton four years ago so i was responsible. toting bernie war biden flyers voters across michigan waited in long lines of political

rallies. for both joe biden and bernie sanders across the midwest state in a final push before its primary. he's going to beat donald trump. representatives went back to united states senate join us week after joe biden's victories on super tuesday the former vice president hopes to extend his lead against bernie sanders and voters in idaho michigan mississippi missouri north dakota and washington now get to decide which candidate they think can be donald trump my point here. is to ask you to think that in a general election. which candidate can generate the enthusiasm and the excitement and the voter turnout weedy. both biden and sanders have been particularly focused on michigan of the total three hundred and fifty delegates up for grabs march tenth a hundred and twenty five of them are in the state it

narrowly went to sanders not hillary clinton in the last elections but polls show that biden is currently in the lead for sanders winning michigan may be essential michigan is something it's a place that. bernie sanders definitely needs to win- one two- blunt the momentum that joe biden started to build up with south carolina and super tuesday the backing of african american voters may prove to be a deciding factor to garner enthusiasm former canada camel heris stumped for biden. and for sanders who struggled for support he receed the endorsement of jesse jackson. well football on look to expect from the latest round of the democratic prime minutes go to washington dc joining me is caroline fredrickson from the brennan center also author of several books on u. s. politics thank you very much. good to have you with us tonight do you expect to bite into extend his lead tonight. always great. well i'm- very likely- i think- he's

certainly seems to have momentum on his side. several of these states are very right for him- and the really the big question is- how. does it turn out in michigan i think if michigan goes his way. that could be definitive that could be the end of this campaign. because mission is interesting is that because- for two reasons first the betty saunders won it. four years ago gets hillary clinton- and that was a big surprise at but also there are polls out in the last few days that shows that more. voters that would support. by did i have a trump and that is what the democratic party's israeli focused on right now is not the best candidate to beat trump. it it exactly i think i think if he in fact beats bernie- in michigan and upends what happens in twenty sixteen- and- and moves forward i think there's going to. be a lot of people who start to look at him even more seriously seriously than they have as the real

alternative to donald trump. i mean he he does exude a kind of- you know a bluff working class kind of world that- you know seems to appeal to- people in middle middle america and i. and i even though he competes with bernie and you know for some of some of those voters i think they may easily be turned to him- and then there are those people who voted grudgingly for trump because they didn't necessarily like hillary clinton. who might come back into the democratic fold but wouldn't do that for bernie sanders. and on the on the side of it there are there are signs that the so called never trump republicans. would prefer to vote for a bite and i've a bunny saunders. at but but there are concerns about the centrist candidates went on there- then the number of gaps in the number of- moments where he seems to have forgotten what he was saying he's forgot. forgot necklines. if you were about his mental. for the job. well i wouldn't say his mental fitness i you know i think- you

know joe biden's always been known to have. you know stumble occasionally when speaking but you know i think for some people that's part of his appeal he's like an average guy he's a real guy he's- he's- he's- not polished and- you know i think certainly when we look at the current president who- has been. aggressively lying who misspelled words in his tweets- who doesn't seem to- you know be able to. tell which which st city of kansas city is and- most recently- you know i think people will be pretty forgiving on that front. and what about bernie sanders okay and then that he is the candidate to fire up people up to get them out and vote because he- has this kind of. enthusiastic movement that rrounds him he's not the more ambitious. ones revolutionary policies. how you know absolutely and there's certainly a very hard core group of supporters behind bernie sanders i think you know for his the problem he faces is

that his claim to energize- youthful voters- the younger younger voters- didn't really materialize- in earlier contests on super tuesday in particular he didn't move his numbers up- and the younger voters were actually not a huge factor so i you know i think his problem is that you made big claims for energizing- you know a group of voters and getting them to the polls but the data doesn't doesn't actually support that caroline fredrickson thank you very much indeed. thank you so much thank you thank you k. spoke with business okay it's c. you have been having a look at the markets. what's happening up to black monday when the- billions were wiped off the value companies around the world well it's a mixed picture twenty four hours later laura. asian markets to get off to a strong start europe disappointed about us stocks have rebounded fairly sharply now- wall street rallying in the final hour of trading. at us investors were

boosted by the prospect of stimulus measures from the trump administration as you can see their- drums of about 4% not far from not far from five percent. across the board as wall street close just a few minutes ago the dow jones jumping over one thousand one hundred points keep in mind it had lost about two thousand on monday. monday's losses represented the worst day since two thousand and eight the major averages in the u. s. are still some 15% off their record highs which were set in february. the major european indices opened higher but that momentum faded just the footsie one hundred an in around the flat and there are counts and dax losing about one and a half percent each. while stocks in milan tumbled about twice that. over someone else's we can cross to new york and speak to mickey levy chief economist for the u. s. and asia at berenberg thanks for being with us on france twenty four. at nikki after those huge sell off the black monday we've seen wall street bouncing back. how stocks performed as you expected. i don't even try to predict the short run so i

can't say whether they move. predicted i mean. there's a it's a tremendously volatile situation- yesterday occurred because you know that yesterday markets fell because of. real concerns about plummeting oil prices and the spread of this coronavirus. today they rebounded because the market's got very excited about. the potential for a fiscal stimulus package out of washington so. the markets are bouncing all over the place and uncertainty reigns. don't ask for too many predictions because i understand it's certainly a next to impossible at the moment do you see trade going forward in the next few days. this is a turning point what will be will we see this upward momentum continuing its volatility still on the cards or do we just not know. the honest answer is we don't know. my hunch is- were certainly not out of the woods because what's really driving- the markets is. your fears and uncertainties about the spread of this-

corona virus. how it will affect the economy- how it will affect businesses in people's lives and- until those fears dissipate- we're going to. continue to have volatility. we understand that the trump administration is planning a some pay roll tax cuts among other measures. do you think they're taking the right approach to support the u. s. economy in the face of this outbreak. well keep keep in mind the trump administration is going to propose a stimulus package in income support package by cutting payroll taxes- the congress is also working on. any tax legislation has to originate in the house ways and means committee approved by that committee and then the house and then the senate has to approve it and then has to be signed. so there's a back and forth but what we can tell so far is at

least temporarily- the very rancorous political situation. the politicians are putting aside their hatred of the other party and they're saying we're facing an emergency and it looks like something will be- enacted- in pretty short order- right now the- while the trump administration has. has proposed a cut in payroll taxes which would increase- in take home pay for workers right away- democrats are looking for other- ways to. increase consumer purchasing power may be through more surgical means so but it does look like they're moving. quickly something and- you know so the market thinks that's a possible. do you think that the next step do you think that the u. s. economy really needs a stimulus to combat this outbreak. okay your yours is really a great

question- because- well we don't know how long temporary is this corona virus and its effect is temporary and if you look out beyond it a couple years- the u. s. economy will get back to normal and grow at a healthy pace- however having said that it's clear that this- spreading of this virus is going to affect the economy in and very likely- it's here it's really it's really having a big negative impact in march and will in april so it's very likely to have a negative gdp corder- employment is likely to decline a bit and there and there are a lot of people- who who. who might get laid off a lot of- a lot of what we call independent contractors uber drivers and the like- who will lose income and this is to provide income support for them. so yes it's nessary in

in in the short run- and i think- when the legislation is passed it will be it will be temporary legislation. there's also a lot of focus on central banks the us federal reserve a making that emergency rate cut last week it could even be considering another one at next week's meeting. do you think that's the right way to go or lower interest rates going to really support the economy against the effects of the outbreak. you're asking another great question- the answer is this is. the missing two had a slight problem with the connection there at two mickey levy was giving us his analysis on the state of the u. s. markets- and the pending. a support measures that we're gonna be hope to hear from the trump administration in the coming hours laura it's of course a very big week on wall street on global markets as a whole there's a l

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