france twenty four .com. and a very warm welcome back to france twenty four times and i'm chante it's nine pm in the french capital here are top stories of the south. the race is on in the us system the spread of the coronavirus and contain the political fallout. donald t trump declalares a nationonal emergency this friday u. s. president is under incrcreasing pressure to act. with a the one thousand seseven hundred cases confirmed nationwide. europe is now the at the center of the pandemic that's according to the world healthth organization. areas countries across the continent are resorting to nationwide lockdowns in schools shut downs. as numbers of infections

continues to rise. also coming up this hour r live from parars u. s. lugers error rates in iraq on iran backed fighters all three deadly rocket attack. at comes eighteen months after a similar assault or misdirected to recommend it taken from patients. between washington and tehran. thank you for watching live from paris we start with the us what donald trump declared a state of emergency in responsese to te coronavirus crisis the us president pledged to fifty billion u. s s. dollars to boboh the funding. for the fight against the disease he also boasted about t the suspension f the entry of foreign nationals into thehe countryry which goes

ininto effecect at midnight tont local time. this address comes after trump was heavily criticized for beieing nonchalat with a for one thousand seven hundred cases repororted nationwidede does not take a listen to himm speaking on the best flight. as the hot spot right down to unleash the full power of the federal government to this effort today i am officially declaring a national emergency. two very big words. the action i am takining will open up access to up to fifty billion dollars of. very importantly veryy important and a large amount of money for states and territories- localities in our shared fight against. this disease. i'm from the speaking for more on the story i'd like to bring in again from twenty fourth international affairs editor- children on a thank you so much for being with us only running on your friday. well here we are at donald trump idea speaking about a ban on all

foreign nationals into the country is that a drastic step what does he really have to step up a given how notional he's been up until this point. it's quite that drastic by european standards as far as i know the any country doing this at the moment as the czech republic in the e. which is effectively closing its borders- on monday but other european countries have had various kind of reinforced controls for example between italy and france we've seen those big queues you know. of causing trucks trying to get between france and italy- with the u. s. i mean it's drastic but not surprising given trump's whole america first rhetoric for the lost unit three years it's a it's not surprising of course he did- i think. we have that. and a- the people come from church when it first at declared in we'll will soon afterwards and so it's not totally surprising but i think his whole- kind of nationalistic approach to say

you know up until now has been to say it's a it's a foreign virus you know is if this is somehow something that distinguishes between different countries all ethnic groups and now kind of with the reality has hit him and here he is on the white house. lawn surrounded by various public health professionals and really coming into some kind of scientificic fold which is not trumpian a tool and it's something that he's been avoiding animal his political meeting say faucet we've definitely seen a seen quite a big shift this evening i think almond he has been criticized heavily for this management comparing covered nineteen to a common flu referring to as he often does. fake news and we've really seen him step poppea potentially declaring some away cooling drastic measures yeah how would you say this mismanagement is going to play into the presidential campaign of course we saw a craze i'd that- place that didn't we idea yeah i think so i mean special

when he was talking up all the things that. he's did. you know what closer to the outbreak of the virus but the fact remains that for all the measures that he said you know this would be much with the rest a thousand seven hundred or so cases in the us and these big clubs to zero in what state for example. if you did such a great job- you know this thank you for whoever his and will submit in the jet that. but united trump i think is going to be most vulnerable if this crisis spills over into the real economy safe a few weeks down the line it's not just markets having sort of crazy days butut actual economic contraction because his big selling point

remember and he's been saying this and or his right is that we have the greatest economy that we've ever had in this country credible quitete under incrededible economy thanknks te that's what he's saying said. that rather than joe biden will but he's on his running any one of them is really going to be the thing that he will be judged so i think more of it more than anything if thatt conley g g. lee does slow which is why i think it will be interesting to see.e. from now n he he actually route at this. needless package that he wants congress to pass. which would involve mass tax relief basically kind of. preemptively injecting a kind of financial drug into the body of the u. s. economy. to make sure that it doesn't kind of going to some shop shut down. in a few weeks from now but for now he's just focusing on this fifty billion dollars which is going to go. on you know public health measures but i think there are still questions that we have to ask. off to this address at the white house this evening sun for example he said- you know

the private sector will be providing. millions of tests but he didn't really explain exactly step by step how would happen. and there's a lot of questions because you. healthy system as- now it's not a quick. for every american to just go out and get a test done straight away it doesn't work like that. so how will people actually get to do this and- how quickly will the private sector to. get these millions of tests up and running how how will people know where to go have a listen. to this still a lot of questions i think- in practice how. people will deal with this if they do you. stop feeling the simpson some presumably we will have more information on that i believe on monday when donald trump is expected to speak at various. global leaders about the way that tackling. a kevin nineteen crisis one of which manages discussing. these tests of the us administration trying to what. alongside some private companies and long partnerships and deals to try and see if they can secure. tests and

provide results within an hour on the georgian. international fest this having so much of. all this evening to talk about of course that. long today. trump thank. with the story last out and to from for all schools in universities are being shot from one. with over three. six hundred confirmed cases of kevin nineteen the country has the second highest figure in europe. now in an address to the nation on thursday emmanuel michael who he spoke to trump. promised to compensate virus related salary losses 499% of luck is. on twenty four james the sena has the latest. as the corona virus spreads and thehe death tolll rises france is ramping up its measures to fight the outbreak. just hours after president emmanuel macron announced that schools and universities would propose as of monday. the governmentnt is desperate to reassure workers a a business owneners. this after persistentt markrket recorded its biggest

ever drop in history. two seven two seven employees given partial unemploymyment will not lose their job. they will keep their contract b be suspended in those who earn minimum wage will still be paid their salary. i've always had a lot of others will receive 70% of their gross salary ages was wonderful soulful sunday who what's- the new measures of bans gatherings of more than a hundred people and some of the country's most popular museums and now set to close. friends is the fourth country most affected by the virus after neighboring italy and for some the announcements or if it's you. yeah they- there is a risk. we should have done it a few weeks ago considering what's happening in other countries. i think it's a bit the lights. on the top. of the missile sending these a compulsory health matches. i understand that even though it's going to be complicated because of. this friend's attempts to limit the spreads fear is mounting some of been

stocking up on basic food items even those supermarkets are right to say that the shortage isn't likely. really now the european nation hottest hottest even hit by covert nineteen the country tighten its strict- quarantine on friday by shouting boz restaurants and made shops and banning non essential travel. they found guilty of it continuing to move around unnecessarily faces ththree month prison sentence or a fine of two hundred and six here is. now this lockdown is factoring in please fragile economy let's take a listen to the european commission chief facet of wonderland. pledging to help the european country. we are absolutely ready to helpp it's really with a what ever is necessary this is of utmost importance. this countryy iss really hit by- corona virus and- we all know that and they need help right now so what

evever i is necessary we suppor. whatever they need to we will answer. for more on thisis i'd like to welcome the fun of a lot to the program is a global health professor at the catholic university of roman thank you so much for being with us- hearing from some people. that all reports that- kevin nineteen small dangerous for the elderly and those with pre existing health conditions. should the if you can clarify for us healthy what we're referring to as on infected individuals also be self isolating or is that something that could potentially spread even more panic. yes thank you for providing me on. actually my first. issue is that. a gamee is not a matter of individual. state or nation. that's a global epidemic not the global health issue so what are you

are you for felix- strangely that each country is thinking about dififferent. of course thy can. be in a sense of work all on the epidemic with their own means but that's a global epidemic is not either your france or usa. is a global epidemic and in docks and we need to address it. as a global epidemic we had some global epidemics in the pasta like hiv for exexample that. have to be n a sense. of it together now we have a new virus coming eateries close it i agree with you yeah we had these approach. maybe he got as far. country in europe we would try to move

them to shut down the virus we are trying to keep himim away from the susceptible people. and disease h how we do it eithr itit is closed nobody isn't written on them the streets are empty and- we hope that the virus would not. find his food in a sense the food of the virus r. d. people do in fact actually. and what what i can say for eternitity is that we hope it would work. is one of the strategies- to shut down this virus it's true t that the virus hits the elderly. in terms of the death toll death toll- our mean age of the ones that died for coronavirus. he's

eighty one. mainly with cooler but it is there where already sick but it doesn't matter- life is i do i do want to talk about professors that what we're seeing in italy if i can interrupt you over the past twenty four hours it we have seen this spike in the number of cases in the country for instance. if you can tell us why he moved briefly what what can we if we can't i know there's a lot of uncertainty at the state but when can we expect to see an impact from this extreme straight lockdown that you've just been mentioning that's been put into place inside the country. the lockdown strtrategy needs. sometimes to work. sold these what i eat. tried to warn my- my- friends and citizens today is a. there will be more cases in the next few days. despite he's not there yet the strategy

works it takes thrhree weeks to work and there's been modelining also in in the u. s. now for the rhode island- a. p. damage they have- we need we need time- so don't worry there will be more cases and the spike i think will be. in ten days and then we may see somethingng goig down but because this is an experiment which is an a. b. d. mia logical experiment to lock down the country. it's also social experiment we hope that the county and the people undersrstand that they are. working for a public goods. and they are not discouraged by a by the numbers off to moral o or or the day after tomorrow they neneed. to keep on and stay away stay at home- and i'm i'm i'm

pretty sure that the virus when will will be- will be become hungry. it t doesn't have a- person to attack becauause there is nobody around him so. i it would work but it takes time so it takakes at least three weeks to shut down. the fun of a lot of the catholic university of ram i'm afraid that's all we have time for thank you so much for speaking to us here live from paris. thank you very much. now while these iran condemned as an ideal s ss strikes on friday saying they killed six people. the locations targeted belong to iran backed militia. have been blamed for an early a rocket attack that killed and wounded u. s. and british troops. the *-*- for tat attacks come just two months after. a similar escalation both washington and tehran. to the brink of direct

conflict. a show of force from washington aimed squarely into this militia cut type hezbollah. and iranian backedd group seen heree marching in the streets of baghdad. according to iraqi security sources u. s. forces targeted five weapons facilities belonging to the militants injure false i kerr an area just south of the capital. they struck in retaliation for an attack on wednesday that killed two americans and a a british soldir at taji air base. daily hoursrs afterr the attack i iraqi secury forces f found t this truck rigd with rockets not far fromm the base thought to belong to the militants. in a statement the pentagon warned iranian backed militant groups against carrying out further rocket attacks. and at t the white h he president trump was keen to stress iran's potential link to the group. they said that a lot

of rockets now that that's been fully determined it was a run as you know was it. was a rebel group- but most likely look like it could be backed by iran. to tyrants attacks between us forces and iranian backed shiite militia groups have become commonplace in iraq since early january. when the pentagon assassinated iran's top general qassem soleimani i thank god and fort. soleimani had been the architect of iranian foreign policy across the middle east. but he ran it struck back. firing a volley of missiles at iraqi military base housing u. s. troops. it was the closest to o both sidides gt to an outright declaration of war before tensions eased slightly. also this friday greece's first female president was formally sworn in to office the former high court judge takes the reins nearly two months after the country's parliament v voted overwhelmingy to atlanta the sixty four year

old take a religious o oath ceremony confined to a limited number of lawmakers. on handshakes were excluded this in light of the spread of the corona virus. now for a look again on the day's top business sees with fancy for his very own brian quinnnn brian quinn thank you for being with us again. pleasure starting for the interesting one the markets in the u. s. rallying off the donaldld trump madehat statemenent it's right over and we'll see it was a sluggish rally for most of the day. it really accelerated into the close as donald trump announced a public private partnership with some of america's biggest retail and health care companies. don's extensive corona virus testing all major indexes nearly recovering their losses from yesterday's 10% drop since even. dow jones and s. and p. both up around nine point 3% same for the nasdaq european indexes though not some capital gains by comparison after double digit falls for their part yesterday. this despite a raft of school spending measures unveiled

friday. one closing up nearly two and a half percent paris one point 8% in frankfurt barely eking outut three quartes of a percent all those indexed cost over 10% yesterday. on with s some solid gains over 7% but remember that's after a 17% loss yesterday though nowhere near making up for it. i'm back in the u. s. treasury secretary steve mnuchin had urged americans not to over react to the market. turmoil he looks. to have been right here is on washington friday. my comment is don't stare at the screen okay it'll be higher a year from now as i said. people who weathered the crash in nineteen eighty seven. people who weathered the financial crisis for long term investors- the u. s. is the best place to invest in the world and again i can't predict where the market iss on aa daily basis- people should. be less concerned about going up and down. well thursday steep losses on european

markets were sparked in part by way many investors saw as an underwhelming intervention by the european central bank. easing monetary policy options like corporate bond purchases and negative interest loans friday so european governments and the wider e. you bring out the physical cavalry with the range of government spending measures. including half a trillion euros promised byy germrmany to support the union's number one economy. will even that be enough allen can over reports. saving lives and the economy at any cost. thatt wasas the message from european leaders after thehe bloc's financncial markets saw their worst day in more than thirty years. e. u. commission president or slow funder lyon said this would mean not just a thirty seven billion euro investment packagege but also relaxing restrictions on deficit spending by the bloc's member states. they should be. encouraged and they should feel comfortable to take all the necessary measures they need to

support people we at the european level of providing maximum flexibility. her message was addressed above all to italy then you at the center of the epidemic we're only supermarkets pharmacies and newspaper kiosks are still open. meanwhile the e. u.'s largest economies announced a major stimulus measures of their own. in germany finance minister peterer altmaier announced quote unlimited credit to businesses ranging from taxi drivers to large companies. much the same message in france finance minister bruno le maire said that in addition to compensating employees for losses and pay the country would extend loan guarantees worth tens of billions of euross to small and medium sized businesses. pretty good all supply side jealous ex has never mind and i've always been very clear on this the state is abandoning its protective role wednesday it has a role to protect to defend all companies to support the economy. and

it's going to play it to the fullest. the e. u. commission is warning though that such measures may not be enough to prevent a recession. with officials saying growth this year will likely drop below zero for the firirst time since two thousand twelve. the coronavirus crisis the already having a huge impact on people's movement across continents with h event cancellations and travel restrictions and quarantines. new industrtry figures show the travel sector could lose as much as 25% of its business in twenty twenty. thousands of international flights cancelled with insurance firms is suspending travel coverage options the world travel and tourism council says the situation is increasingly dire for the industry. their analysis shows lewis- just for the rest of this year- we are likely to lose the equivalent of around three months of traveling in central- that's going to result in a loss at our jobs at risk of between 12214% of the global workforce.

i'm not as what i was saying that just fifty million jobs are at risk in the sector. so it's a very significant impact. airlines in particular have been taking drastic measures in the face of cratering demand. british airways lining up job cuts the ceo alex cruz as the company in the industry face a crisis of global proportions. german flagship carrier lufthansa says it's planning to sixty aids to stay afloat meanwhile norwegian air says only a government bailout can keep it from going the way of britain's phil ivey. europe's largest regional carrier the went bankrupt last week shares in european airlines did rebound friday frorom thursday's selloff but remain down over 40% for the year. industry's main trade association says government intervention is likely the only hope for many firms. we are asking you know all the governments with restrictions within the us government particle in the you know to reviews of the- the decision permanently t to see whether they canan- the canned-

that leave yet all wave- the decision the sooner the better- additionally- we- we are. asking governments you know to permanently assess the economic consequences of these type of measures. need to be conscious that- of the negative impact it might have not only on the auto industry- not only on the old economy. wewell along with airlines airplane manufacturers are facing mounting challenges as well boeing shares have had their worst week since the nineteen seventies down by half from their twelve month high. disruptions caused by the corona virus are compounding its financial difficulties due to the grounding of seven thirty seven max planes. come in that'll it takes a look. already in the doldrums brings fortunes have taken another tuturn for the worse as the aerospace giant is set to fairly draw down on a loan of almost fourteen billion us dollars. i it says this is a precautionary move to bolster the company against the impactss

of cororonavirus. alliance have seen a huge drop in demand for air travel which in turn has prompted them to delay payments or push back ordrdering new planes. together so far this year boeing has had some cancellations in orders with a net loss off twenty eight planes.. the company has already taken the first seveven point five billion dollars of the loan as it tried to claw its way back into profitability. at crush is less than fivethiopa months apapart. killing. three hundred d and forty six people earlier this week families of the ethiopipia a and victims mas one year since the disaster. the plane maker has said that the crisis is likelyy to cost over eighteen billion u. s. dollars. unless put costs over one billion dollars a month. not even those boring struggles to stay afloat it's p potentialy too big to fail it's one of the world's largest aerospace companies and america's largest

exporter it's employs hundreds of thousands of people in the united states. and its suppliers account for anonother one point three million jobs. finally for business some good news as economic activity in china slowly picks back up apple says all forty two of its stores in the country will have re opened as of friday. the iphone maker closed all retail stores and offices in china on the first of february due to the chronic virus outbreak first just for a recap a week rather than staying closed for a month ms. finally getting back to business as the spread of the virus appears to be abating in its original at the center good news for apple there. is a good use for the people who work at the apple factors i don't know. i do not know that brian quinn okay much for being a privilege shelters for being with us and thank you for watching stay tuned. what is coming up for me and the team and dishonest three minutes time

03/13/20 03/13/20 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! pres. trump: anybody that needs a test, gets a test. amy: "anybody that needs a test gets a test" has the president of the united states? that simply is untrue. there have been just 11,000 tests in the united states so far since the cocoronavirus outbreak began. compare this to