and suspended flights to and from italy the country has 16 coronavirus cases qatar is adding germany france and spain to its flight ban list taking the total number of districts of countries to 18 the government schools are all that old cinemas museums and gyms to close until further notice schools and universities are also closed the gulf state has recorded 320 cases of the virus. disney is holding production on all its live action films the studio says it's in the best interests of cast and crew it will affect movies like the little mermaid remake which was due to begin filming in london next week disney's also shutting its u.s. and european theme parks on monday it's got some other news now turkey and russia have agreed on the details of a cease fire in syria as it liberal the plan was finalized after 4 days of talks in ankara under the agreement turkish and russian forces will carry out joint patrols from sunday along the critically strategic m 4 highway linking syria's east in the west a ceasefire brokered last thursday is largely holding but the u.n. says the ceasefire hasn't done muc

other, but we realize that with the enlargements, the changes and dynamics, it is not because france or germany will be agree that everything will be okay and done. we are on each side, trying to create different alliances. diplomatic word new biological work we are undertaking. we realize typically, carbon neutrality, france and germany agreed. we were green. i just asked for things to become unanimity choice. what we also realize is now after brexit poland germany and france will represent 70% of reduction. if you look at this and this is why i took the decision to have a new landmark summit french german poland as soon as january. there will be a new summit at the level of states poland germany france will meet at the highest level. typically i think it's very important to create now that the brits are no longer -- me in germany at the moment leaving a different synchronization. we are in the middle of the mandate of five years. we are in a stable position. the president isn't a capacity to be in a freedom of movement agility. in germany, it is the end of a cycle. we see a lot of internal qu

2000 of them in facilities on greek islands now a 7 nation coalition of the willing including germany france and portugal wants to take 1600 of them in. a sign of how we can help greece you know not just with money but with actions we thought. e.u. ministers met in brussels to work out the details and to try to convince more countries to join the coalition co way she and lithuania are in talks e.u. commissioner over johansson went to greece to discuss mounting a coordinated response but most you states have refused to take in any more refugees even if they are unaccompanied minors. sweden welcomes to some member states now are discussing to take a broader responsibility before minors that is good the netherlands is willing to give every support to greece which is necessary registration identification etc the 2 are not willing to take over children. the difficult job of choosing which children get to leave the camps for countries in the coalition will be the responsibility of. the united nations and on site aid groups. you're watching the news from berlin next stop shift visits the lab of one

similar to measures proposed in germany france has alsoo announced up to 300 billion eueuros in loans. that is s going furtheher than germany did. the country's gdp. businesses, whatever their size, can apply to a state loan for up to three months worth of revenunue. they do not h have to pay -- rey it for an entire year and when they do, t they can pay it in installments for five years. he added that large companies that do not pay theheir supplies on t time will not b be allowed access to the scheme.e. this is on top of previously announunced measures such as defeferred tax payments forr companies as well asas the company's partial unemployment scheme, whicich gives a percentf a a workerer's salary even if ty are nowoworking. 720 thousand employees have requested to receive this. for musicical fans. mamanu dibango has died from coronavirus. the 86-year-old cameroonian star best known for afro -- his afro jar -- his afro jazz career. he was one of the pioneers of afro jazz. the cocreator and illustrator of the famed c comic asterix and aa legs has died at his home. -- asterix and obe

but you have to wait at least 30 minutes until you can and from france to germany you have to get to this checkpoint which you can see behind me here the police is stopping every kano checking if the germans in the car of a mission is germans can go on the right lane they can enter germany of cause others have to go to another checkpoint close to me have a 20 policemen asking people what are you doing in germany what's the purpose of your visit and only if you're a commuter if you have your workplace in germany then you're allowed to enter all of those have to turn around and go back at 2 fronts you know it's a trucks can enter deliveries of goods is not to have but by this effort today so the border is not completely closed but it's difficult to get into germany right now now of course we're way used very much to open borders by now how well prepared police doing that is checks. but police is present he has since midnight already as i said there are 20 people here on the ground of course it's difficult to tremendous posed it's not only this one of many checks checkpoints along the f

the death toll has risen to 34,000 germany and france have started lockdown with germany. the number of deaths in italy has fallen for the second straight day tough restrictions remain in place. elsewhere china says it has posted a drop in new cases for the fourth consecutive day as beijing battles against a second outbreak of the virus. how are the markets reacting to it >> markets are trading on the back foot in europe. we are seeing some pretty substantial losses coming together in the early hours of trade. ftse 100 down 2.6% in the germany the dax is holding up a little better, down just 1.4%. a few sectors are getting a particularly hard hit this morning after some analysts weighed through the impact of the virus and what it could mean on the sectors in particular aerospace and defense. let me take you to these stocks. you can see substantial moves lower. airbus shares down 9.4%. aig down 8%. and tala down 0.7% jpmorgan has come out in the last couple of hours and slashed their ecb saying it will take two years to recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic in

with the large mend, changes in dynamics, france and germany would be agreeing. o we are each side trying to create different things. this is what i told you about the new bilateral words we are undertaking. we realize typically, france and germany agreed after the summit. then things become a choice. what we also realizes poland after brexit, 47% of people so if you look, poland will play it is playing -- this is the decision for france, germany, poland, there will be a new level, poland, germany, and france will meet at the highest level and important to create new trials now that they are in the new resolution. as i said, it is a different synchronization. we are in the middle of the mandate of five jurors, we are in the middle of the stable position, the president has the capacity in the freedom of movement area. agility. in germany it is the end of the cycle, we see a lot of questioning on the priorities, political dynamics and discrepancy. you have moments, very -- waiting for the french to respond, for the french to tell and respond to initiatives. and that

germany's fault. virtually no one blamed england or france or poland. it was germany's fault. they are the ones who started this. there is a clear-cut aggressor in this war. this is not a case of both sides. germany is at fault. germany is the aggressor and germany and france are defending the victim. so we don't feel neutral about that. the two sides are not the same. there is significant difference here. once it was an actual war instead of a theoretical war, american opinion shifted a little bit. they still don't want to be involved in the war. they still want to avoid most of the mistakes that took place in the first world war. but they're not completely neutral. not really. they favor britain and france. they oppose nazi germany. but they don't want to fight. they don't want to be actively involved in the war. and, in fact, opposition to becoming actively involved in the war grew after the war began. if you look at the interviews dates for this poll, august 30, so a couple of days before the war actually began, a lot of people saw it coming but it was before the war began

down over across europe in terrible shape, the ftse100 was down over 7% this morning, markets in germany, francebut a dramatic impact there in the united states and new york, wall street halting trading after the opening bell because of the losses. more on that once we have it. well, later this afternoon, we're expecting to hear more from the government about measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus — including social distancing and self—isolation. one woman who is currently doing both is 75 year—old maddy rijndorp . she started isolating herself two days ago. maddy appeared on the victoria derbyshire show and discussed her situation with a range of experts — who looked at what it could mean for over—705 to stay at home. maddy began by explaining why she chose to self—isolate. because i feel extremely vulnerable and because i am alone and i have no family. i just don't want to be in that position where i don't know what to do and i can't breathe. having had pneumonia several times and asthma all my life, which is regulated, i know what it feels like to not be able to breathe. and i dont wan

the commission is setting up a member fund and will increase -- economies,o biggest germany and franceve pledged hundreds of billions of dollars in guarantees to protect individuals and small businesses. the world health organization now says europe is the epicenter of the world coronavirus pandemic. asia is scrambling to prevent the virus from coming back to where it first erupted. the spread of the disease is stabilizing and much of asia and sizable ones and south korea and japan. those three countries have tightened border controls. china, which faced an equipment shortage, is now donating supplies to italy, iran, and south korea. china reported just eight new cases of the virus in the previous 24 hours. a month ago the daily figure was in the thousands. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on quicktake by bloomberg, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. vonnie? vonnie: a little bit of breaking news. louisiana is postponing its primary because of the coronavirus, according to a report on cnbc. louisiana pos

well for more on the measures being imposed in germany and france i'm joined by william glu croft in berlin and lisa lewis is standing by for us in the french capital paris hello to you both now william i'd like to begin with you germany is now the latest country in europe to shot at least some borders what more can you tell us about the closures. yes it does appear that way that i'm going to america and met with her officials and the state premiers of the german states that border that are on the border regions around germany and came to this conclusion a few hours ago that they would be at least partially closing or restricting border crossings in france austria and switzerland starting monday now it should be noted there's yet to be an official announcement or even an official decision made but that is according to german media reports here coming later this evening but what we know so far what we think we know so far is that maybe not these what might not be complete border closures but certainly they are trying to keep non-essential people from crossing the border so as far as we

france germany and the u.k. have sent aid to iran under a trade mechanism that's designed to avoid u.s. sanctions is the 1st transaction under a new system set up for the exchange of humanitarian supplies and food after the u.s. withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal iran is the worst hit country outside of the us in europe and it's just reported $141.00 new deaths and that brings the total to 2900. india is attempting to track down people who attended a gathering of muslim religious leaders after dozens of people tested positive for the virus and at least 7 died as many as 1500 people from across the country as well as from abroad or at the meeting in new delhi. inside stories next. role coronavirus cases being reported the pandemic is spreading rapidly but some countries still don't have the capacity to test people so is that hampering efforts to curb the disease this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program the number of people infected by covert 19 is more than 700000 globally the number who have died

germany's blunders league. early next month while france's league also announced a halt to their season. training sessions will continue because we don't have a date yet know when the chamber trip will resume but we have to continue training while taking precautions for the players and the people who are still here at the club. games had been due. to be played behind closed doors in front of the problems with that post to highlight it with parasite human found the downside this stadium on wednesday for a year pretty much in defiance of the order that game was in the champions league which itself is now being suspended indefinitely europe's governing body will meet on tuesday to decide what's next for football across the continent so when malik 0 . more coverage of the pandemic and then just a bit 1st it's cover some of the other major news of the day iraq's president has condemned air strikes by the u.s. which killed 6 people the head of the u.s. military central command has defended the strike saying they targeted iranian backed fighters. b.s.s. the strikes were in response to a rocket

france was just at the same level even at a higher level than germany. we are a country receiving the highest level of secondary movements. the currency we see is not functional. afghan families when they seek asylum in france on average they have asked twice in two other countries for asylum before. we have no capacity to under the common reading of what is asylum seeking and what the rules are for europe so it creates a lot of secondary movements. we also don't have a common approach to which country is providing social means, aid, you know, subsidies. social subsidies to people so we need to reorganize this. so france will and we are not a country refusing people on our soil. after that agreement -- the question by the ministry and lots of people came to france. i just want to remind people -- all of you the number of people that were, you know, on boats and then, you know, welcomed in europe is less than 2,000. the images we have give you the impression we have this many multiplied by 10 or 100, it's 2,000 people. so many came to france, but that's al

germany closes non—essential shops, most leisure facilities and suspends religious services. francein lockdown for the next 15 days, with people allowed to leave their homes only to shop for food, go to work, or seek medical help. under the new guidance, people who should be "particularly stringent" in minimising their social contact are — people over 70, and pregnant women. we will be speaking the age uk and the gp at 9:15am about this and other issues. and then sport the grand national is the latest major eventin grand national is the latest major event in the uk to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at nine. people around the uk are today facing tougher measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus, after the prime minister urged everyone to avoid unnecessary social contacts, to work from home where possible, and to stay away from pubs and restaurants. today the government is set to announce further financial plans to help the economy during the coronavirus outbreak, as many companies warned that the latest restrictions cou

now aa seven-n-nation coaoalitif the willing including germany, france, and portugal, wants to take 1600f them in. >> it is a sign ofof how we can help greece, not just with money, but with actions. reporter: eu ministers met in brussels to work out the details and to t try to convince more countries to join the coalition. croatia and lithuania are in talks. eu commissioner went to greece to discuss mounting a coordinated response, but most eu states have refused to take in anymore refugees, even if they are unaccompanied minors. >> sweden welcomes that some member states are discussing to take a broader responsibility for minors. that is good. >> the netherlands is willing to give every support to greece which is necessary -- registration, identification, etc. but we are not willing to take all their children. reporter: the difficult job of choosing which choking get to leave the camps for countries in the coalition--which children get to leave the cans for countries in the coalition will be the response ability of the united nations and on-site in groups. phil: now to new zealand, whic

germany following on. united kingdom, brittain is expected to follow the way that france and germany is going. it's expected to potentially follow the way that italy is going, potentially very high numbers of people catching the virus. so at a medical level this doesn't entirely make sense. brittain has 459 confirmed coronavirus cases at the moment. ireland, 43. yet lithuania, who is on the list now not to be allowed -- for citizens not to be allowed to travel to the united states has only 3 recorded cases. the open area where people can travel around, yes, is an issue that is going to potentially allow the virus to travel throughout europe, but what president trump has done here is take a far bigger and far bolder step than any of the european countries have taken and they're already concerned about the economic impacts to the nations there. will be additional concern about

south korea france germany and spain will be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and all indians whether they hear or board to avoid. essential travel in saying that they might be quarantined for a minimum period of 14 days upon their return to india now india has $68.00 confirmed cases so far 14 of them italian tourists and as well as the latest precautions that are being taken by the government which have seen headlines around the country saying india quarantines itself you know essentially closing itself off to the world we have had all primary schools and shot at least for the last week there are 5 cases in delhi and all educational institutions have been close in indian administered kashmir where there is where there is one case the indian government is also evacuating its nationals from something like 2000 indians who are $58.00 back at the end of last of just a few days ago actually but before it does that and whether it's from iran it's also planning to bring back nationals from italy it actually has to send medical teams to test them to see if they have a virus before bringing t

wealth is an area that is obviously if that's fed out with freedom of movement it's going to germany france spain it's or it's going everywhere so i really do think we should be adopting both the language used by korea today and by china previously but you have to treat this is a wartime scenario and if you can go and spend hundreds of billions on saving the banks in 2008 why can't you go and spend hundreds of billions on saving people in their livelihoods in 2020 thanks very much good to get your thoughts on this story patrick peregrine journeys international khana mess that are here in london. and watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead after president tom's phone call with a taliban leader more attacks on the afghan army prompted a u.s. as strike against the group living in limbo it's no holiday for thousands of asylum seekers camped on the border between the u.s. and mexico and then later in sport will have worn a sleaze top football is facing the prospect of playing in empty stadium it's. all turkey's parliament descended into chaos after rising tensions the count

a sign for other europeans watching a foretaste if you like of things to come exactly because germany franceare all catching up in terms of the number of infections but within italy itself as you say it's caused this incredible paralysis of every day life with towns being quarantined and terrorism i suppose going to a halt so they have the resources to deal with this is there an expectation that it will get much worse but then also really situational get better i need in terms of resources if you're talking about money they've asked the the italian government to lift their budget ceiling and they'll basically throw as much money as they can at the problem there are widespread shortages of basic equipment all over europe and the world mosques goggles glad. that sort of thing in terms of the epidemiology the way that this disease works the world health organization thinks that it so the works in a few can a trough and that seems to be what's happened in china it's a big peak for several weeks $68.00 weeks perhaps and then sort of runs out of steam that's probably what we're looking at in europ

we are seeing fresh cases out of the u.s., germany, france. iran shall another spike in cases, and south korea still one of the trouble spots in asia. we saw first cases in the likes ,f cameroon and the netherlands never reporting its first fatality in that country. the fallout continues, with samsung now saying it will transfer some of its smartphone production out of one of its plants and south korea to vietnam. local media reported six of the workers in that plant tested positive for this coronavirus. saying heard from ubs, three employees in switzerland also contracted the disease. telling 1200 staff in london to work from home, after and hsbc employee had the virus visited the company. now you hear the likes of the ecb warning banks to prepare for a jump in cyber attacks as part of a fallout from this coronavirus outbreak. now the central bank warning of and collateral damage criminals taking advantage of the chaos from this outbreak. alix: thank you very much, bloomberg's yvonne man. the final story we are watching this morning is that j

still ahead here on al-jazeera france germany in the u.k. send medical aid to iran under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u.s. sanctions. and a german surgeon makes people wind masks in public with examine the effectiveness of such in. across northern areas of the middle east particularly. and then more in the fall calls as we go through wednesday that rain becoming quite heavy as well through eastern areas maybe get up towards the mountains and showers elsewhere beginning to push into western areas although iran now across the raven peninsula we have got some very strong winds again this will kick up the somme the dust and make for an unpleasant day across many areas particular a towards the castle again potentially and also bahrain it should be a little bit lighter there's wind should ease off as we go into thursday but the rains that back in the forecast again very widespread across areas of turkey and feeling a bit cool the high of just 50 then down into southern africa we have these go to break in the weather conditions across into m

those countries, those european countries include italy, spain, germany and france. uk and not ireland for reasons that have not been made clear by the trump administration thus far at least. in a separate move, sally, the us state department is urging americans who are considering travelling abroad to reconsider their travel plans. hundreds of thousands of people come here to the us every month from europe and that this is bound to have a considerable economic impact, not least in travel and tourism. and also, david, how has it affected the psyche of those who watched that speech from the oval office, do you think? i think there's a lot of people sally who were looking to president trump to exhibit leadership in this crisis. he has been accused of downplaying its up to now. he said famously that people here should just stay calm and it will all go away. clearly, his own officials and medical experts and so on have been disputing that particular conclusion. indeed one during the day yesterday went on to make the point before congress that millions of americans may we

similar in all of the european countries some all are already really native apps for example germany france spain and italy and other or following the same route as he has followed so after mt looking into the trend of these practice it seems like every country especially boring actually exception is also not here in the u.k. that we will be heading at who are the same situation if there are stigma years wouldn't be put in place at the hopi at points i mean that sounds reassuring but the current shutdowns that we're seeing across europe they are only planned for days or maybe 2 weeks or such how effective are those measures going to be or let me ask you another way are they long enough to ensure that we have this this development that we've seen in china. well i think the important thing to understand is that there will definitely be a social destruction and these controlled me or that are put in place and they are calculated based on the foreseeable future and would certainly be wise to an ability to devise to as time comes out as we get closer because the thing is that is why this has com

and now we have five legal cases, prosecutions against the war crimes in syria, and it is in germany, france, norway and sweden. we have to support these cases and we have to start here in the united states, because the u.s. has more power in europe -- more power than europe and doing any prosecutions. just and germany two days ago have started their prosecutions, two guys have been arrested and they are going to start now. you guys are not doing enough when it comes to prosecutions. i don't think germany has more ability to do that than you. the u.s. is waiting for something. i don't know what. i'm not an expert. i don't know what is going on, but still the u.s. can do more than what it is doing right now. i know i have 17 seconds, when i i spent onch 215, most two years there, the guards would come every day and ask for somebody who speaks english. they take this person to the sixth floor, translate for people who speak english, and there were prisoners used to translate. i was working in the isolation room and if you looked straight was someonethere with a number in his head, and i was ta

30 to 35% daily increase rate with the number of cases that matches what's going on in iran, germany, france, also south korea. so we're no different. that's pretty uniform. once it grips and gets hold in a country, how fast it shoots up and this is a really interesting graph here i'll turn around this way. this is the cases in the u.s. by region and you can see, by far, the increase per day, right now the west and the northeast are having the most cases. the least is the south and the midwest. of course, everybody's going to wonder what's the heat and impact on this will it also, there is a pretty good area of rain that's going to be moving through the northeast as we go throughout the morning so yesterday, the growth rate in the united states was about 30%. we've been averaging about 30 to 35% per day. we need to bring that down or the healthcare system will be overwhelmed. >> and doing that, there are a lot of extreme measures being taken for all of us. everybody's got their own thing they're doing. one guy in italy is doing whatever it takes to prevent catching the virus look at this cre

the hope but of course we do know now that germany has taken in several patients that are in either severe to critical condition by from italy and from france now of course at the moment germany has the capacity to deal with these patients as the number of people in severe critical condition here in germany is much lower than in countries like it so they are friends and so on the medical front germany is able to perhaps such a precedent that when it comes to medical support within the european union but on the financial front it's a very different story some 9 of the 27 e.u. member states have now called for a joint response a joint financial responds to dealing with the coronavirus pandemic and one option would be what's being done to the corona bonds so basically a mutual debt across the euro zone countries something which germany at the moment is quite forceful they object saying along with some other more frugal states within they go over there unlike the netherlands and austria and finland for example so there is a lot of work to be done that but the european leaders are still in contact and they are still indeed working towards more c

we mentioned spain, germany, france all report something significant developments coming out of those countries. how has the rest of europe responded as they are watching italy and spain grapple with this? >> spain, germany and france have wide restriction owes people being able to go outside, people being able to go to work, schools being able to function, groups larger than ten, sometimes groups larger than two people in some of these countries are not allowed. here in the uk, however, we are frankly a prime minister who is trying to explain the situation as serious, but at the same time is urging people to work from home, is urging people not to go out in groups. it was only yesterday when we saw pubs and restaurants closed, we saw schools closed here on friday. so you have what is a vigorous debate at the very least happening on television if not a lot of anger towards the government here, many believing they're not taking the situation seriously, that they need legal restrictions, that the government needs to step in and legally restrict people from being able to go outside and g

announced that boundaries with switzerland austria denmark and france will be closed new restrictions are also being imposed between germany and france we move now to the other cove in 1000. have a report on that. every year site on the french german border german police manning checkpoints for nigh on cross border traffic will be at a near standstill. the borders today in mark switzerland austria and luxembourg will also be almost completely shut. people without significant reason to travel or not be allowed to cross the border in either direction. travel across the border. so. commuters will not be affected by the shutdown and kids will still be able to cross the border unhindered anyone just leaving symptoms of coronavirus infection will be handed over to the health authorities. there's no set time frame for these travel restrictions and the government says it might extend them to borders with other neighboring countries. vidic me it's important that as few people as possible are infected. so we have to try to slow the rate of infection. but there are really problematic areas in france . which is why we took this decisi

well germany france and britain have sent essential medical supplies to iran to help it fight the coronavirus the german foreign ministry said that it had for the 1st time activated a trade mechanism that circumvents u.s. sanctions on iran there are now almost 45000 confirmed cases in iran and nearly 3000 people have died reports say that the goods delivered could include lab test equipment body suits and gloves 6. and joining us is political correspondent nina has a sin you know we have these 3 european countries essentially trading with iran and that's in effect thumbing their noses at washington and these u.s. sanctions so how exactly does this trade mechanism work well it's called in sticks the instrument for the support of trading exchanges and basically you have to imagine it like some sort of a trading platform where you have one european company for example that wants to order something from iran and instead of paying the money to iran it then pays the money to in stakes and in stakes can then use that money to pay another european company that may for example have send cancer treatme

both russia imperial russia and the soviet union and then the west european states including germany france and so on for whom a russian threat doesn't really exist anymore but who are paying a price through sanctions and economic losses for the grand a strategy of the united states to keep russia in its box and so there is a tension about where you're going to go because if this situation of a new cold war between russia and america continues is your really benefiting from that you know if it isn't which europeans are going to make and yeah i mean just to decide to move in a slightly different direction marc makes a very good point i mean that the tensions are primary between the united states and russia and europe as usual finds itself in the middle with a mixture as marx pointed out here but that is not a proper way forward that is that that is paralysis and as i said in my interrupted introduction they have to start defending their interests or they're really going to become irrelevant because we have the rise of china the closer relationship between moscow and beijing where is europe i

we have manufacturing data out now and in addition to china we actually have japan germany france italy and south korea all of them reported a contraction and output so the i.m.f. and the world bank are now ready to extend emergency financing in order to blunt the impact so well if something like that looks like. this kind of stuff is actually very concerning for me what i kind of look at this i just say that they're just having steroids to the situation or any time that there's a little bump in the road they're going to be throwing money at it as. i said earlier it's like well this doesn't necessarily affect the little guy on the streets or the manufacturing like we need to be better prepared for individuals for individual companies to to handle and weather situations like this they need to have their own plans in place for disruptions in product supply and there are downed lines and all that but when it comes to just throwing money at the economy and just putting money in the market i think it really misses the point and isn't going to really help us bring back any kind of structure i