the council of ministers has adopted several measures in particular set aside 7500000000 euros to support families and businesses that are facing this emergency which as we have said is not only a health emergency but also an economic emergency. italy's economy was shaky even before the coronavirus arrived last year it grew a poultry point 2 percent making it a used tail light listener say there's worse to come. well let's bring in mccain a good actually he's a former italian undersecretary of state at the ministry of economic development and an economist. is the government taking the right measures you think. i don't think so i think because they are they i think they failed to understand a thing or of the. affair and understandably when you don't have a full information and you tried to chase the problem then that anticipated this will show and so they have been on a mold that basically trying to stop you know just like when you have a faulty programming issue but instead of stopping the work of her i mean you try to package here and there in even these this. package it is a it's a good

the council of ministers has adopted several measures in particular we set aside 7500000000 euros to support families and businesses that are facing this emergency which as we have said is not only a health emergency but also an economic emergency. italy's economy was shaky even before the coronavirus arrived last year it grew a poultry point 2 percent making it a used tail light and listener say there's worse to come. a little earlier i spoke to mikhail a get out he's an economist and former undersecretary of state at the italian ministry ministry of economic development and i asked him whether he thought the ito in government was undertaking the correct measures. i don't think so i think they are they i think they failed to understand a thing or the end of the. ferry and understandably when you don't have a full information you tried to chase the problem or rather then that anticipated this solution and so they have been on a mode that basically trying to you know stock you know just like when you have a faulty problem and shoot it instead of stopping the work or for coming in you

of a new governing body the state council and the constitution. sweeping changes with little forewarning equally unexpected the snap resignation of prime minister dmitry medvedev and his government ostensibly to pave way for reforms. the speed and fury with which these amendments are being rushed to parliament combined with the surprise resignation of the head of have called some to compare this to an intelligence operation one designed to sow confusion and uncertainty and give president putin the ability to retain power by moving to a new position within the russian government. russia's fractured opposition seems to have been caught on the back foot and government observers say the confusion is intentional. giving putin's allies room to maneuver as his constitutional term approaches it's at. it's appropriate these amendments essentially did not change anything this is what is most strange for the there was in the position of the constitutional court but they did not change anything in the system of the new this is a heap of strange absurd norms the meaning of which even the authorities concretely explain with the cracks in the system that's what obse

then the important moscow council of foreign ministers meeting that was the foreign ministers. the united states was represented. this thing is not working. okay. there we go. too well. then there was a meeting in washingt washington. that's very important for the post-war world. u.n. relief and rehabilitation administration fed the hungry people particularly of central euro europe. if you think about the fact in germany and austria people only had 1,000 calories a day, it would be this that guaranteed their survival. very important meeting there. then after tehran, there was a meeting in cairo for post-war planning for the far east. then, of course, the important tehran meeting. i will talk more about that in a few minutes. that was in november of 1943. then a meeting that were very important, in new hampshire, where all the important decisions were made for the financial post-war order. you see the world bank and imf was also planned. out of this meeting, the dollar became the strongest currency in the world and other currency would be picked after the war. it was important f

pushing syrian government shills out of the so-called buffer zone near the border meanwhile greece's prime minister has called a meeting of the national security council less thousands of refugees and migrants gather. and this land border with turkey this comes after president erdogan said he would not stop people from going into europe 10000 people have been stopped from entering greece in the past 24 hours u.s. secretary of state michael in palest says he's hopeful talks between the afghan government and the taliban will begin in the coming days he also says president will be actively involved in ensuring the conditions of a deal signed by the u.s. and the taliban on saturday on it earlier the agreement appeared to hit a stumbling block afghanistan's president ashraf ghani saying the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and that it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group a prisoner swap was part of the us taliban accords. toplessness should then there was a request regarding the release of told one prisoners but it can only report of negotiations and it cannot be preconditions for starting be in traffic and negotia

refugees migrants many of them who fled the fighting are continuing to gather greece's land border with turkey now the greek prime minister called a meeting of the national security council security forces have prevented 10000 people from entering in the past 24 hours and surge in numbers follows turkey's decision to open its borders to europe greek police say more than 500 refugees and migrants also arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday when the ship can enjoy your live from there danny on the turkey's border with syria and of course it's been a busy day for migrants but also for border security forces on either side most probably natasha. but i would say we're seeing an intermittent trickle definitely not thousands and we have been all over the area of a journey we've seen since the morning a group of about 1012 not more making their way slowly along this road to the official checkpoint with greece in other spots we have seen people waiting in the river where it shallow with their belongings that about 45 minutes from here we went to a wooded area along the riverbank families were gathered trying to stay warm with fires and waiting to pay smugglers t

don't you al jazeera her reminder of our top stories this hour greece's prime minister has called for a meeting of the national security council as thousands of refugees and migrants continue to gather at its land border with turkey local media says 10000 people have been prevented from entering over the past 24 hours. farsi say more than 500 refugees and migrants have arrived on it some islands posts to turkey most of them landing on this. deal signed between the u.s. and the afghan taliban may have already had to a major stumbling block kind of sounds president ashraf ghani says the government did not commit to releasing 5000 taliban prisoners and that it cannot be a precondition for talks with the group prisoner swap was part of the accord signed in qatar on saturday. let's bring you the latest now on the corona virus outbreak iran has just raised its death toll to 54 with the number of cases jumping to 978 people nationwide earlier the u.s. tyson's travel restrictions for countries most affected by the epidemic recording its 1st death from the illness president donald trump called for calm after confirming a man died in wa

the prime minister meets with pakis has called a meeting of the country's national security council greek police say that at least 500 people had arrived by boat on the islands of less false some most and kielce this is part of the eastern mediterranean route to greece which was the main gateway for hundreds of thousands of asylum seekers into europe in 201520161 the mainland further norse a group of waded across a river to the greek side at last then yes and bulgaria has announced that it's prepared to send 1000 troops to secure its border with turkey over concerns that migrants will want to cross over. that are going to aim is in the turkey's border with greece she says the situation is increasingly desperate for people trying to cross the border. for about 45 minutes we could hear sound bombs just to give you some contacts this road behind me leads to the official checkpoint with greece greek police were firing tear gas at refugees and migrants at the border who were throwing stones at them they've been caught in a no man's land able to cross the turkish official border but in between

this is an hour and a half. >> -- director of initiative years atlantic council and it's really my pleasure to host today the minister of state for european affairs of the french republic for a conversation about france, europe and the transatlantic relations. as you know here at the

follows turkey's decision to open its borders with europe the greek prime minister has called a meeting of the national security council greek security forces say they have prevented 10000 people from entering in the past 24 hours and greek police are reporting that more than 500 refugees and migrants arrived in the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday the e.u. border and coast guard agency or frontex has already deployed hundreds of its staff to greece en vogue area and is looking to deploy even more the agency says we are monitoring the situation closely and have raised the level for all borders with turkey to hi we're also monitoring the situation in cyprus we are in close and constant contact with the greek authorities regarding additional support we can provide in this rapidly evolving situation al-jazeera as natasha go name is in a day on turkey's border with greece she says the situation is increasingly desperate for people trying to cross over. for about 45 minutes we could hear sound bombs just to give you some contacts this road behind me leads to the official checkpoint with greece greek police were fir

helping local residents and the huge number of ommunity volunteers who have pitched in to help neighbors. the prime minister agree with darvish of the county council that he's turned his on the people affected by the floods? >> since the flooding began this working flats been out night and day to ensure get the this country making that they need sure they get the recovery that they need and as i just told the $2.6 billion pounds now into flood defenses four billion pounds more to come. speaker, you can't give people the word that you support turn your back on them. when i visited last week i saw t first hand the damage and estruction that these floods have caused to people's leaves, homes and have caused was he prime minister business. silent sulking in his mansion, two weeks of flooding, after two weeks of flooding, not saying where is wally, where is boris? when is the government going to stop hiding and show people that cares or is he too busy going around some other business? aybe he could send his chief all the flooded areas. i'm very proud of the result. began, there oding has been a constant stream of activity led by my honorable friends, t

minister of israel and the minister for the interior who has started taking a courageous decision but this investigation was tainted from the start for them to do this is no law some of the council of europe warn that a series of magistrates should have been taken off the case because of conflicts of interest likewise the investigating police officer force claims that sayed said were made by the minister of the interior but progress in the investigation if that's not an investigation tainted with on its own because it did give results and 11 important point in all this is that there are other services involved including the report so even if there are elements who want to cover up that information is available to the force beyond so that there is a good guarantee that the whole truth will come out the ethnic her own ability or didn't have much that was nice to say but you did see. the symbol 2016 she wrote but tolo were decent and honest with the of stuck with the labor party since the 1970 s. of course not decent and honest people left in droves when they saw what was going on she's right isn't she and i don't think so and i don't agree with her comment i respect what she had d

held province as part of a new offensive tensions flare as migrants try to cross into europe from turkey the greek prime minister convenes a meeting of the national security council a major setback just the day after the u.s. taliban deal was signed the afghan president refuses to commit.

muslim is one measure is the change in pension funds for employees and staff in the city of minister if you have a council consciously decided on diesel and c o 2 neutral investment or avoiding child labor avoiding businesses that invest in armaments in order to point the way to climate protection and sustainability through know how to cut through that. climate protection that's a long tradition in one state since the late 1990 s. when we even had a department in the city administration devoted to the climate and energy and we engage the public in discussions on these issues issues such as wind turbines we have our own combined cycle power plant and funding programs for solar energy so it is a central focus if ministers considered a green city how much is that the result of citizen involvement. we're very interested in discussing and even deciding fundamental questions with our citizens that's also because we are very young sitting with many university students but also a very committed city which weighs in on many social issues and we're quite proud of that. are you always bike or do you have a car if yo

this is an hour and a half. >> -- director of initiative years atlantic council and it's really my pleasure to host today the minister of state for european affairs of the french republic for a conversation about france, europe and the transatlantic relations. as you know here at the atlantic council we value european allies and valued u.s. engagement in the transatlantic relationship and the initiative is precisely to make the case that the european union is a key, critical strategic partner of the united states. part of our role is to explain the developments within the european union and to engage policymakers and great bridge between policymakers united states and europe especially in times of great power competition for as you know president macron of france is laid out an ambitious agenda for reform of the european union for engagement of partners like russia, reforming the eurozone, reforming and stepping up european defense integration as well as changing enlargement policy. these are issues that are think will discuss today with the minister. let me first turn to start with initial remarks and then we will o

ministers of. foreign affairs. council and in the course of. today's more than 6 negotiations we have come to other agreements with the president. on and we believe that these kind of agreements will pave the way will be the foundation for further. cooperation and will put an end to the suffering of the civilians in syria in this terrible crisis and will create a dish and for a peaceful settlement of the syrian arab republic problem is i should like to thank the president before considering that it was necessary to come to moscow today and i'd like to look affirm our commitment to the cause and saying of all. turkish colleagues for the very tense but constructive attitude which everyone has displayed in these negotiations dreck. so. i would like to also thank you mr president and the ministers and the distinguished members of the press ladies and gentlemen. i salute you with my sincere healings and research. first of all mr putin i'd like to thank mr putin are with kind welcoming today. during this period where critical developments are happeni

follows turkey decision to open its borders to europe the greek prime minister has called a meeting of the national security council greek security forces say they've had prevented 10000 people from entering in the past 24 hours and greek police are reporting that more than 500 refugees and migrants arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday the e.u. border and coast guard agency called frontex has already deployed hundreds of its staff to greece and area and is looking to deploy more the agency says we are monitoring the situation closely and have raised the alert level for all borders with turkey to high they also say they are monitoring the situation in cyprus they say we are in close and constant contact with the greek authorities regarding additional support we can provide in this rapidly evolving situation al jazeera natasha name is intervene on turkey's side of the border with greece she says the situation is increasingly desperate for people trying to cross the border. for about 45 minutes we could hear sound bombs just to give you some contacts this road behind me leads to the official checkp

month, this is about 90 minutes. >> the director of the future initiative here at the atlantic council. and it's really my pleasure to host today the minister of state for european affairs of the french republic for a conversation about france, europe, and the transatlantic relation. as you know, here at the atlantic council, we value european allies, we value u.s. engagement, and the future of the initiative is to precisely make the case that the european union is a key and critical strategic partner of the united states. part of our role is to discipline the developments within the european union and to engage policy makers and create a bridge and dialogue between policy makers of the united states and europe, especially in times of great power coalition. president macron in france has laid out ambitious agenda for engagement of partners like russia, reforming the eurozone, and these are issues we'll discuss today with the ministers. >> let me first turn to madame to start with initial remarks and we'll open to a conversation with all of you and thank you very much. >> thank you for hosting me and thank you for taking time today to talk a

council needed to approve it tonight for it to go into effect. and the vote tonight in birmingham, alabama was a unanimous yes. >> just the other day councilman parker and several of the council people and ministers and business people from around the city, we had a conversation with our county health director and his words were we're about to be hit by tsunami, a tsunami. now, i don't know whether that ring a lot of bells to people, but he said our hospital system will be overwhelmed. he said this will be equal to world with 2. these are words i heard come out of his mouth. if they don't skaer you, i don't know what will. we have no other choice but to put legislation such as this in place and move forward. you know, i love what i do. i enjoy what i do. i enjoy representing people. but if i was just set for this time and moment and never came back again and save one life, i would be able to sleep. >> that is john hilliard from the birmingham, alabama city counsel. birmingham city council tonight voted to put in place a shelter in place. birmingham, alabama, that one city already has 18 patients on ventilators already. and so because of that city council, they have a stay-at-home order tonight ef

video conference that we had yesterday of the european council i'd like to welcome the german chancellor to talk to i'm going to matt cook the german health minister. and. the head of the robert carr institute and the chancellor would begin ladies and gentleman. yesterday evening i suppose it was late afternoon we had a conference with the european commission president of the 109 and the president of the central bank christine legarde etc. and with the heads of state government and i would like to just inform you about this conference. we obviously discussed the whole question of the coronavirus that was the focus of our video conference and just as an aside it was the 1st video conference of the heads of state government so you can see that digitization a new forms of communication have even reached as we discussed a number of different issues the 1st was the question of containment of the danger emitted by the corona virus the virus has reached europe it is here and we all need to understand this and the response that we put in place to a virus that we don't sufficiently understand so far one that we haven't got any vaccines for. so the standard

flare as migrants try to cross into europe from turkey the greek prime minister convenes a meeting meeting of the national security council. a major setback just a day after the u.s. taliban deal was signed the afghan president refuses to commit to a prisoner swap. the woman being stuck in the band no where to go and part of what you're trying to the sense of control on a husband's plea for help his wife is jailed in iran and likely infected with the coronavirus. hello welcome to the program russia says it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish military planes in the skies over syria's problems moscow's warning was made after turkey announced a full scale military operation against the syrian government and shut down 2 of its planes over the rebel held area turkey has ramped up military operations following the killing of 34 turkish soldiers on thursday and the expiring of a deadline by turkey's president for syrian troops to pull back from the rebel held province the syrian government says it's now closing the airspace over the italy breaching of reports from the turkey syria border. but you aren't turkish and syrian fig

i'm so robin in doha these are all top news stories greece's prime minister has called for a meeting of the national security council as thousands of refugees and migrants continue to gather at his land border with turkey local media say 10000 people have been prevented from entering of the past 24 hours 40 say more than 500 have also arrived on its islands closest to turkey most of them landing on less false. we're standing at the beach on the north shore of lesbos where both arrived this morning with 74 people mostly from afghanistan some of them still lingering here on the beach and the boat which has now been deflated you can see lying in the shallows there on the beach behind me this is one of 7 both arrivals recorded by the coast guard early on sunday morning roughly 360 people crossing over from the turkish coast to 3 greek islands most of those boats arriving here on lesbos 360 people doesn't amount to the threatened flood. the president. announced on thursday night 72 hours ago but more boats are expected today so we shall see how it goes this is early hours and early days in this new phase of the refugee c

francesco in the early days of this there was mixed messages from bill italy's political leaders yes they council flights to and from china at the end of january but the prime minister played it down when the italian government decided to really crack down and impose these lock downs did people start taking it seriously where you were or were they confused by the mixed messages francesca to be honest i arrived here 17 days ago so before even before the passion looked down a bit early you know or because the 1st lockdown was only for nora that nicholas and here everyone was already respecting you know or you it was already a red zorn because it was a matter of survival but it was already too late and here really all of us i mean we we're 2 pair of glasses of glass there we were masks we use you know with this in fact really everything every every 5 minutes the point is when you reach this number of you know in fact it well you have bessie kelly seek everywhere and everywhere means seen every every or when you know this in fact i'm tucker is is in fact it how do you disinfect your hands there is no way not to get sick here and you know it's just a matter of being a sy

and migrants many of whom have fled the fighting are continuing to gather at greece's one border with turkey the greek prime minister called a meeting of the national security council greece's greece's security forces have reportedly prevented 10000 people from entering in the past 24 hours the surge in numbers follows turkey's decision to open its borders to europe greek police say more than 500 refugees and migrants also arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday natasha going has more on the migrants newsman's farm and then on turkey's border with greece. migrants are on the move but we're seeing an intermittent trickle that's how i would describe it we're certainly not seeing thousands of people if you look behind me there's a road and that will lead to the checkpoint with turkey and greece we've seen groups of people maybe in i'd say 10121012 proceeding since we arrived several hours ago but not hundreds of people and certainly not thousands of people arriving the turkish interior ministry is saying that more than 76000 people have left turkey via the northwest border with greece and volga area since it opted to open its borders on friday the peo

the office of the prime minister tweeting out pictures of him in the office and him with several members of his cabinet there is currently an emergency meeting of the security and defense council that's the body that is responsible for the security situation in the country and they're holding an emergency meeting to discuss the attack which the office of the prime minister says isn't assassination attempt and deemed it as a terrorist attack. clearly being a time of great instability and huge amount of pressure on the economy given the context of this war. well over the past few weeks think we've seen people lining up for fuel we've seen people lining up for bread as well and we've seen the economy in a downward spiral the inflation has been rising the value of the sudanese pound against the dollar has been dropping making it very hard for many people to afford basic commodities that has resulted in a lot of frustration now what's not clear is if that frustration is enough for anyone to try to attempt to take out the prime minister who's just 6 months in his job so people are wondering who is responsible especially because no side has yet claimed responsibility but there are a

held province as part of a new offensive tensions flare as migrants try to cross into europe from turkey the greek prime minister convenes a meeting of the national security council. a major setback just the day after the u.s. taliban deal was signed the afghan president refuses to commit to a prisoner swap. a new president signals a new direction for europe why after 15 years of leftist leadership the country turns to the right. coming up in support of the corona virus continues to affect global sporting events we'll hear the price of a football team from wu han stuck in europe after being barred from returning to their families of the same to obey corona virus outbreak. turkey has announced a full scale military operation against the syrian government dubbed operation spring shield it follows the killing of 34 turkish soldiers in hadley province on thursday and the expiry of a deadline by turkey's president for syrian troops to pull back from the rebel held province on sunday turkish jets shot down 2 syrian army warplanes that were carrying out a combat mission in the rebel held area of reports now from the turkey syria border . turkish and syrian fighter jets

migrants many of whom have fled the fighting in syria are continuing to gather at greece's land border with turkey the greek prime minister has called a meeting of the national security council greek security forces a free vent 210000 people from entering in the past 24 hours the surge in numbers follows turkey's decision to open its borders to europe greek police say more than 500 refugees and migrants also arrived on the greek islands closest to turkey on sunday at the e.u. border agency and coast guard which is known as frontex has already deployed hundreds of its staff to greece and bulgaria and is looking to deploy even more in response to questions the agency said we're monitoring the situation closely and have raised the alert level for all borders with turkey to high we're also monitoring the situation in cyprus they say we are in close and constant contact with the greek authorities regarding additional support we can provide in this rapidly evolving situation well let's get the latest now with natasha good name who's in it d.n.a. on turkey's border with grey's natasha tell us about what's been happening where you are and just how many people have been attempting to

minister sanchez of spain. president erdogan of turkey, prime minister boris johnson ofs united kingdom. and president of european commission vander land. president of european counciluel. united nations secretary-general gutierrez. and world health organization director. world bank president david mel pass and international monetary fund director crystalina, a great group, they were all there. every one of them, we talked about the problem. and hopefully it will not be a problem for too much longer, united states is working with our friends and part of -- partners is in the world, we discussed how american it is for our nations to immediately share information and data and we have been doing that to a lrn largic tent. we'll do is more so, and inform our i guess you could say, form each of us on fight that we have got going one way or the other, a little bit different, but we're handling it different wa ways. but there is great uniformity, it was a terrific meeting, tremendous spirit among the 20 countries plus the other people that i mentioned and tremendous spirit to get this over with, after the meeting with world leaders i spoke with governors of 50 states, terr

prime minister sanchez of spain, president erdogan of turkey, prime minister boris johnson of united kingdom, president of the european commission, president of the european council united nations secretary-general gutierrez, world health organization director, dr. tedros. world bank president david malpass, , the international monetary fund managing director krista lina. so that's of the group but it's a great group. they were all there, every t one of them and we talked about the problem and hopefully it won't be a problem for too much longer. the united states is working with our friends and partners around the world to stop the fibers andhe courtney our efforts. we discussed how vitally important it is for all of our nation's to immediately share information and data, and we to a largethat extent but we will do even more so, and to inform our come i guess you could say, inform each of us on the fight that we've got going onene way or the othe. it's a lot bit different but we're handling it a little bit different ways. but that is great uniformity i think. it was a terrific meeting. tremendous spirit among all of those countries. u.s. 20 m countries plus the o

a number of political parties and the prime minister has also met with the number of political parties to reach that conclusion. a draft of a bill is currently under study by the state councilnd that will be parliamentary. last led the french president announced a number of measures. as i mentioned yesterday, a number of strict curfew measures will be by what we have in europe. i would like to go through those details yet again. they have been known to abide by all. , theules are simple overall role is probably the simplest of all, stay at home. the only way that you could help us stop the spread of the virus. medicalw you could help staff who are trying to fight the virus. you need to stand alongside us as allies in this war against covid-19. after, a time which with the current health situation, i call it you -- i call on you to stay at home as much as possible. this is how you can help us save lives. that being said, a few exceptions will be tolerated. i detailed them last night and i call on all of you to know where you fit in but to do so with levelheaded thought. obviously, all of those people who can work from home are required to do so. only those people who cannot