aside from china, japan has -- japan, singapore, thailand, h south koreae the most cases.n japan, some cases reported cruise ship. it is in the port of yokohama, but it is quarantined and has 135 cases confirmed on board. another over 3500 passengers and cream, all of whom have to wait for at least two weeks to pass before they are allowed to t off -- 3500 passengers and crew. inhailand, passengers have been prevented from disembarking from a dutch cruise ship in bangkok. here it is. no confirmednfections on board. initially ibeen allowed entry into port. but after reaction to protests on social media in thailand, that decision was reversed. the ship is experiencing a saga because it has been turned away from ports in japan, taiwan, and the philippines already. for more on why the thai authorities are so concerned about this sp, our reporter from the bbc's thai service. >> it seems the thai authorities have changed their mind after an outcry on social media on monday. the big concern for authorities is this, they are afraid of a repetition of a situation in pethailand look

quarter but production beyond that could be hampered by difficulties importing from suppliers in china japan and south korea china provides more than half the materials for it noms garment industry textiles represent vietnam's 3rd biggest export earner after smart from. its. u.s. presidents donald trump is wrapping up his 2 day visit to india today trade ties between the 2 countries have been strained in recent years with terrorists flying in both directions now despite mr trump and india's prime minister modi agreeing on major arms deals that doesn't seem to be enough to east engines now that snot a comprehensive trade agreement signing not yet at least the us president put his name to the visitor book at the memorial to mahatma gandhi in new delhi before being presented with a bust of the much revered independence leader however that was not the only place where donald trump left his presidential mock. i know prime minister modi will agree that this has been a very productive visit for both of our countries earlier today we expanded our defense cooperation with agreements for india to purc

quarter the production beyond that could be hampered by difficulties importing from key supplies in china japan and south korea is that a british clothing company prime och said it may have to speed up or up production in countries outside of china like vietnam to counter supply problems but it sounds like vietnam has problems of its own. it's all shows how intertwined global businesses have become and how vulnerable they are for conoco told from the german association for supply chain management says some companies a shifting operations away from china but that it's tricky to read the situation adds react this is something where how our companies see that risk management is getting more and more important. and that this is of these entire supply chain and analysis of the entire supply issue and supply a portfolio to see where can we shift some issues attorney to root of transport an issue so all these aspects putting all together. under a concrete evaluation and lettuces also for the future to be even better prepared if such kind of situation should ever cure again especially from the chinese

outside of mainland china and japan, a count by nhk shows more than 850 people have been infected in different countries and territories. there are dozens of cases in the united states and health officials there warn more will be coming. there are concerns over how well prepared the country is to deal with it and if there are enough test kits. the director of the country's centers for disease control and prevention told congresess it wl be expandiding the scope of its inspection. >> the recommendation should when a clinician or public health individual suspects coronavirus we should be able to get a test for coronavirus. >> fears grew on thursday after the cdc confirmed the first case in the country with no known links to another patient or trtravel abroad. the patient is from california. >>> next, the president of the international olympic committee has reiterated the organization is fully committed to holding the 2020 tokyo olympics as planned. reporters asked thomas bock on thursday about a possible cancellation, postponement or alternative to holding the summer games due to the c

delays in shipments from china to japan factories. lays in shipments from china tojapan are factories. delays in shipments from china to japan are now unavoidable as revealed by nintendo. and when results revealed today is that the closure of the casino those in macau has cost them 2.5 million us dollars a day and that damage is, for the most part, not due to the virus itself so much as efforts from to prevent it from spreading. the city of shanghai has 2a million people and is normally a bustling hub. is oui’ and is normally a bustling hub. is our correspondent reports, things are unusually quiet right now full. this is my journey are unusually quiet right now full. this is myjourney to work this morning and it has been like this every day. this metro is empty. i'm used to several million journeys a day but no—one is here. i have my mask on my gloves on and when people do trickle back to work, the government were worried about this sort of environment because in close quarters like this there is a heightened threat of the virus spread

china japan and the u.k. and just over half of that revenue comes from domestic korean movies featuring homegrown stars like so young jong pictured here south korea's movie industry itself takes in around $2500000000.00 annually but last night's streaming giant netflix also hopes to grab a couple of oscars but it became a disappointing night for the streaming giant. in an industry worth close to $150000000000.00 annually winning one of these can have a dramatic impact on the movies fortunes parapets branding power doesn't always guarantee success this year is big winner was the low budget south korean film parasite produced by the indie studio neon it had a budget of just over $10000000.00 netflix reportedly spent 10 times that figure on the awards campaign alone its big offering the irish man directed by martin scorsese fails to win any awards and while it did secure the most nominations of any studio it took home just 2 oscars for best documentary and best supporting actress. parasites for wins gives ne on

china japan and the u.k. and just over half of that revenue comes from domestic korean movies featuring.

happening, these ford,ies like tesla, gm, they end up partnering with battery companies mostly in china, japantesla just made a partnership with panasonic, and another battery maker in china. that is the partnership that we are seeing now. it is the battery companies that are securing their supply chain for lithium. partnershipssee is we see takeovers between car companies because they need each other to basically have distribution and money, to move into this space, where tesla is so dominant. amanda: thank you so much for that. newcan tune into alix's special, "ev's: on the brink of change" tonight at 9:00 eastern. it will be airing all weekend. from toronto and new york, this is bloomberg. ♪ mark: i am mark crumpton with bloomberg's first word news. turkey's president is urging russia's president to restrain the syrian government and halt the humanitarian crisis unfolding in northwestern syria. in a phone call today, erdogan asked vladimir putin to fully implement a 2018 turkish-russian cease-fire agreement. the conversation comes as tensions between the countries escalate. into theunion na

there have been just three deaths outside mainland china, in hong kong, japan and the philippines. concerning. singapore has the most. if the virus spreads out of control beyond china, that is when a global outbreak, a pandemic, would be inevitable. as we've heard, beijing revealed the scale of infections among doctors and nurses for the first time on friday. i've been speaking to jennifer nuzzo — a senior scholar atjohns hopkins center for health security. she told me why the gradual increase in numbers of cases is worrying. as case numbers continue to climb that does not give me much confidence that we are controlling it. one thing we have to know when we hear of these cases is that it is hard to discern from the numbers when the cases occurred. we know china is in the process of including clinical diagnosis and not including laboratory diagnosis so there may be a previous backlog of cases newly discovered. it is hard to say that these are all new cases.|j understand you will testify to congress about the coronavirus and its spread. what are the key points you want to get across t

cases are developing in italy, austria, china,japan, the are developing in italy, austria, china, japan will cover that in about 15 minutes. harvey weinstein has spent his first night in detention after being found guilty of rape and sexual assault. the former hollywood producer was taken here to new york's bellevue hospital after the verdict after complaining of chest pains. he's still there, receiving treatment, but he's en route to this place, rikers island. it's home to new york's biggestjail housing a population of 10,000 inmates, it's here that harvey weinstein will await sentencing. harvey weinstein was convicted of sex crimes against two women. one is the former production assistant mimi haleyi who the jury found he sexually assaulted, back in 2006. here she is speaking to cbs news. i'm just, ijust think i'm just, i just think that we're being educated about the reality of sexual assault and victims, and what sexual assault and victims, and what sexual assault and victims, and what sexual assault usually involved. it's not always just a stranger, it is very often somebody that t

world markets are in a tailspin, stocks plummeting 4% in china, japan and europe in switzerland, the geneva motor show canceled the government banning all gatherings of 1,000 people or more the european outbreak concentrated in italy where four more people have died and cases spiking again, now at 821. in iran, they cancelled friday prayers, disinfecting instead. in jerusalem catholic priests being told to give communion by hand only tonight germany with the second most cases in europe at mor than 60 is considering cancelling all major international events and conferences. lester >> kelly cobiella, thanks you cannot watch what is happening overseas without saying how do i protect myself and my family? cvs saying deman for hand sanitizers and cleaning wipes and face masks could lead to shortages but how useful are those masks we keep seeing here's tom costello. >> reporter: at airports and public gatherings, they are much more common even in the ule.s. worried but trying to be safe >> i appreciate the fact they are wearing a mask whether it's coronavirus or a common cold. >> reporter:

the biggest number outside china's japan and singapore. erms of the u.k., on tuesday the government advised all british citizens to leave china. the chinese ambassador to the u.k. pushed back at that, it was disproportionate andaying sowed panic. >> it would be wise on theit h side to take professional advice, and agree with us that they will follow, the words do not match with the deeds. >> china has criticized the u.s. for banning foreign nationals ry fromg its terri chin the who's view is that it is not good to close borders because people wil still travel but they will lie about where they came from makint harder to expose the virus. >> i think it is a bit rich of the chinese to turn around and say we arect overrg. this is a country that now has 30,000 people that they ha confirmed have this. it is a probably big clinical iceberg bear, where that 30,000 constitutes the ti tip of t iceberg. there may be 100,000 people infected with it. i would say that is a pretty forceful reaction to what they tomust perceive a pretty critical threat. >

>> my colleagues in china and japan and elsewhere are working on the ongoing basis so in japan there are 100 plus us patients from diamond princess and are hospitalized we are regularly engaging in that same fashion taking professional advice some of these taking place in person was cumbersome because they had to suit up now it is telephonically i can give the chairman a copy that shows my colleagues standing as they were processing people coming off the diamond princess to be properly taken care of. >> i can see that photo from here. >> and the general concern with a report that is breaking news the veracity will be german - - be determined later but it is in the news people are reading this are there comments you would like to make related to ensuring the constituents have faith that we are handling this virus in the way it should be handled in light of what could be concerning news? >> the psychology is often worse than the pathology. we have the best medical care in the world whether ebola or corona virus the american healthcare system is ready to receive and take care of healthc

japan is the fourth biggest economy in the world united states, china, germany, japan. germany and japan kind of go back and forth if japan and china slow, mike will have a point. >> here to me is the concern and there is a chart that ned davis did yesterday that we have it shows how many times the s&p has traded over a 20 multiple of earnings now, if what happens is we do have a slowdown caused by china, japan, et cetera, and we are trading at 20 now, 20 times 2020 earnings or 21 times or 22 times -- we don't have many cases where that's true. i am bullish on the market but you have a hard time, the market has a hard time getting over the 22 for long it doesn't collapse. >> let me ask you this question. how many of the periods that he pointed out in the chart had free money. >> correct, that's the difference. >> coming into the rest of the world and zero money how many like none. can i give you that answer that's right >> so we can think about past is prolog, but in fact it is not always true. >> correct. >> it is a trite saying. >> correct. >> the ever corps report, i

hospital and this month on it's a 1st in japan cases of 2nd positive tests have been reported in china japan's prime minister has asked all schools nationwide to close until late march to help control the spread of infection large gatherings and sports events are also halted for 2 weeks. elsewhere in asian nations continuing to restrict travel and increase containment measures a sarah clarke reports now from hong kong so it is a sanitized and so government employees a sterilising public transport is a south korean government steps up efforts to stop the spread of the current. joint military exercises with the united states have been postponed after american soldiers stationed at a base today tested positive the containment efforts of covert 19 and the safety of walk in u.s. service members were prioritized in making this decision the largest daily increase in the number of infections has been and a city in the southeast where church at the center of the outbreak is low tide as the virus spreads the government has postponed some annual school exams and is asking people to avoid large crowds aro

to china, and about 25% of japan's imports come from china. japan and china makes japan vulnerable to any supply chain disruptions in china due to the virus outbreak. and the secondary channel that we see will be coming from the spillover effect from the supply chain disruptions in china, because japan has been increasingly integrated into global supply chains over the past two decades. so any shocks to the global supply chain is going to have a greater impact on japan. those economic concerns weighing on the japanese yen right now? havens we see these safe move to push the japanese yen higher, but as this chart showing, we are seeing the dollar yen out of that long-term downturn that has been in place fact the-2015, in biggest today loss since 2017. jessie: right. the japanese has been experiencing ups and downs in response to the coronavirus situation. and the sharp decline that we saw in yen yesterday can be attributive to a few factors in our view. japan was seens to be in a weaker position after the surprisingly weak q4 gdp we saw earlier.

russia china japan and others now abbas did mention he was open to negotiations with israel as long as the negotiations were sponsored by what is referred to as the international quartet united states the un russia and the european union now the israeli representative got up and spoke and indicated that israel feels that in the past negotiations with palestinians have been unsuccessful here's what we heard from the israeli representative president abbas few the to be plugged. if you do this to negotiate even into this did in finding a. to the conflict because the president. let's not beat around the bush. would not be made of longer than the. reality only when he steps down. in the move fooled now according to the plan that was put forward jerusalem would remain israel's undivided capital and the united states claims it would double palestine's territory and that $50000000000.00 would be invested into a palestinian state now those are the claims put forward about what would go on and what would take place under this deal however though we have heard a lot of optimism and positive state

china, japan and the uk are among the countries where growth has been faltering.ome economists are warning that perhaps £850 billion could be knocked off global growth this year, a hit that would be hundreds of times greater than that of sars. it isn't all gloom. there are several threads to the tail of this knitwear manufacturer in leicester has picked up orders from elsewhere. a lot more new inquiries are coming through but there is a bit of concern about the kind of earlier supply chain in getting raw materials in and to make sure we are not going to run out of any of them. what can be done to support businesses? policymakers across the world could cut interest rates. but as they are already low there is very little firepower left. for authorities, businesses and investors the anxiety is set to continue. at least 50 countries have confirmed coronavirus cases so far — with the virus spreading to many of them from italy. it started in the northern regions of lombardy, around milan, and neighbouring veneto. eleven towns are in quarantine. there have been 21 deaths

russia china japan and others. now abbas indicated he was open to negotiations with israel as long as the negotiations took place under the under the sponsorship of what he called the international quartet that would be the un the us russia and the european union however in his remarks abbas made it pretty clear that in the past these negotiations had been a rather unsuccessful this is what he said. but didn't the few the to be plugged. if you do this to negotiate even interested in finding a balance to 2 the conflict is the president let's not beat around the bush progress toward peace would not be made of longer than the. vision the reality only when he steps down. in the move fooled. now under the proposed plan jerusalem would remain as the israeli undivided capital furthermore palestinian territory would be doubled and israel promised to invest $50000000000.00 into proposed palestinian state now trump and the israeli prime minister netanyahu have praised the plan very loudly however palestinian voices don't see

the virus has, of course, spread outside china. japanecorded its first death from the outbreak, and a cruise ship remains in quarantine in yokohama — after more than 200 of those on board were diagnosed with the virus. rupert wingfield hayes reports. for ten days now, the giant diamond princess has been tied up at yokohama, its 3,700 passengers shut in their cabins, allowed out to exercise only once every two days. today they finally got some good news — no new infections for the last 2a hours. and this afternoon, this bus began taking some of the most elderly and frail passengers off the boat, to be quarantined elsewhere. the japanese authorities are now finally allowing some people from the diamond princess to disembark. those over the age of 80 and with underlying health conditions are being given the choice to be quarantined elsewhere. but there are still many questions about how the japanese government has handled the outbreak on board this ship, not the least of which is why have they still not tested everyone on board 7 from their

china. the united states, india, australia and japan have chosen a very strong stance towards china. the british, france, eu and canada are trying to cooperate with united states effort as u.s. as another hand -- sri lanka are worrying about china of the u.s.-china competition. how can parties fill this gap? that is my policy recommendatio recommendation. there are three policy recommendations, security, economic, and power. the first with a security. use this case scenario to demonstrate various kind of u.s. intervention in a variety of situations. these countries like vietnam, singapore or sri lanka are worrying about one situation. even if these countries choose a strong stance towards china, these countries are concerned that u.s. and other like-minded countries will not support an enough. thus, the u.s. should demonstrate this case a a to indicate what kind of intervention the u.s. might do in various situations. economy, good new economic development system is not dependent only on china. the u.s. need to assure it arrives in like-minded countries, -- will not stop the economic

china, japan and the uk are countries where growth has been faultering. —— been faltering.billions could be knocked off global markets. a hit that would be hundreds of times greater than that of sars. it isn't all gloom. there are several threads to the tale of this knitwear manufacturer in leicester who has picked up orders. more new inquiries are coming through, but is there a concern about the raw materials and making sure we won't run out of them. what can be done to support businesses? central bankers, including those in the us have tried to calm markets by saying they are ready to cut interest rates. but they are already very low and the anxiety is set to continue. crisis talks have been taking place to prevent a major international escalation of the civil war in northern syria — after a surge in fighting between turkish and syrian forces. 33 turkish soldiers were killed in an airstrike, and turkey has responded by targeting hundreds of syrian government sites. syrian government troops, which are backed by russian forces, are conducting a massive offensive in idlib pr

russia china japan and others now abbas did mention he was open to negotiations with israel as long as the negotiations were sponsored by what is referred to as the international quartet the united states the un russia and the european union now the israeli representative got up and spoke and indicated that israel feels that in the past negotiations with palestinians have been unsuccessful here's what we heard from the israeli representative president abbas few the to be plug. to negotiate even into this didn't finding their values to to the conflict. with the president. let's let the beats around the bush progress toward peace would not be made of longer than the. vision the. only when he steps down can either in the move fooled already on the very day when this u.n. security council meeting was taking place there were clashes taking place on the west bank between palestinians and israeli security forces near the palestinian city of ramallah there was conflict at this point there were jewish settlements there was tear gas dispersed against palestinian protesters rocks were thrown quit

concluded that this must be rejected fully in addition to statements issued by the eu, russia, china, japan and other countries around the world. mentioned specifically the position of the secretary-general of the united nations that this commitment the rejection of this plan is the result of the unilateral steps and the fact it violates international legitimacy and the arab peace initiative. and the legitimacy of the palestinian rights to self-determination, freedom, and independence in our own state. legitimizes what is illegal as a confiscation of land and annexation of phyllis - - palestinian land. i would like to reaffirm that this plan or any part of this plan should not be considered as an international reference for negotiations. and israeli american preemptive plan in order to put an end to the question of palestine. it has been rejected by s because it considers that east jerusalem is no longer under the sovereignty of the state of palestine which is enough for us to reject the plan. without any control of our land, air and sea and puts an end to palestinian refugees and and a pea

china, japan and the uk are countries where growth has been faultering.ions could be knocked off global markets. it isn't all gloom. there are several threads to the tale of this knitwear manufacturer in leicester who has picked up orders. more new inquiries are coming through, but is there a concern about the raw materials and making sure we won't run out of them. what can be done to support businesses? central bankers, including those in the us have tried to calm markets by saying they are ready to cut interest rates. but they are already very low and the anxiety is set to continue. so what are the chances of catching coronavirus and what do you if you do get it and how might it affect plans to travel abroad ? our medical correspondent fergus walsh has been answering some of the key questions. it's increasingly likely that we'll see outbreaks of the new coronavirus centred here in the uk. france and germany have seen their cases suddenly double. both have warned of impending epidemics. if that happens here, expect more school closures, the postponing of