than emanuel merkel why should anyone listen when he's making such heavy weather of reforms in his own country while 1st he's been forming forms for more than 2 years with all. the countries in chaos the country is not in k. off there is no strike anymore and railways or public transportation and there will be the most ambitious pension systems for full decades. wish which will pass in the parliament in the next few weeks people have died in them stray sions paris has wreaked of tear gas for weeks on end you've had gigantic disruptions in transport so the worst transport disruption since the 1960 s. are you talking about baghdad office or is this another talk about paris you don't seem to come often to paris are i do i have my family in paris yes there with our from protests that are fresh tradition birds are 0 to 700 people injured across the country 17 and a number of policeman injured among them and some casualties were due to this yellow tackett protest movement are you see it throughout the word right now middle class is wondering whether globalization is good or bad for it for th

a mission and still denying the need for our green new deal let's talk about foreign policy emanuel merkel's phone policy because there's been a strong perception that he favors go it alone diplomacy instead of the multilateral initiatives that your was close to value one of your presidents harshest critics here in brussels the green many people philip blumberg used them of being drunk on power and said you don't shape europe by bullying europe. ship europe by building alliances this is what we saw in in previous decades but a very lively you rock well listen to on the your world stage it was so obvious that we were when en that we were united an official come on you're not united on russia your policy on russia well since our policy and russia look at the normandy form and summit that we had in paris a few weeks ago what did we get to we defended ukraine's rights we favored an exchange of prisoners which had not taken place for months and news and we are fully in line with the european position on ukraine crimea and the rest just the council on foreign relations as a lot of people claims th

political correspondent emanuel emanuel chancellor merkel in quarantine she's at home we believe after coming into contact with her doctor who had tested positive for corona virus what more do we know right now. well indeed a government spokesperson stiffens i have confirmed that angle america has been ordered to stage a home to go into quarantine after being in contact with a doctor on friday days doctor who came to give her a vaccine a precautionary vaccine against a new mechanical inspections and seems to end this doctor has been tested positive oh dear no hole current of our is. 19 so as a precautionary measure the chance of the husband will do it to go into quarantine and the government is being transparent about it since as she only found out shortly after the announcement of new us title measures to try to contain and to spread of the virus in the country and she immediately went into current seen at home the chancellor has been taking more and more of a leading role in germany's response to the pandemic how might this latest announcement of course the chancellor has not been in

trump merkel the list goes on addressing their citizens live on television to tell them exactly how serious the situation is and to try and get them on board that was really the message from emanuel mccrone despite introducing a raft of measures including the closure of non-essential public buildings the tightening of social distancing involving the shutting down of cafes and bars and restaurants the closure of schools and universities all for all children and and students apart from the children of health workers nobody i think in france could have expected these measures to have introduced been introduced a week ago but then of course micron appears on national television saying that we are at war with this virus a virus for many which is still an abstract concept despite people being told repeatedly that it's coming in your direction. very much trying to get the country on side what about the fact that the that some countries aren't doing quite as much to me the world health organization is saying it really needs to be testing testing testing that's not necessarily happening is it no but well particularly the comments made from the show a little bit earlier on the day seemed t

emanuel? julian: it is dramatic because we are waiting to see -- madame lagarde was hired into this job with the expectation that she would be a catalyst to cause fiscal stimulus to appear within the continent. merkelent about whatever it takes yesterday. plansd to see concrete and the disappointment this morning is when you look back to the president's speech, the speed of getting fiscal stimulus -- tom: it was not there. the german to year yield has gone back below 1% negative, -1.008. that is critical for madame lagarde. francine: it is. to listen to back what mohamed el-erian was saying yesterday, timing is everything so if you cut interest rates too soon, the markets still tank. there may be an optimal time. let's get straight to the bloomberg first word news. , two americansq and a coalition soldier were killed in a rocket attack and two others were hurt. a dutchr attack led to almost led to a direct military confirmation. .- confrontation life and italy is on hold. groceries andept pharmacies will be closed until march 25. italy has more than 12,000 cases of the disease and 827 people died. the national basketball association and its decision to aspend the season, after player on the utah ja