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very much here in germany government economists now say it recession is inevitable because of the konavirus shutdown they're predicting the economy will shrink by anywhere from 2 to more than 5 percent this year last week lawmakers passed a 750000000000 euro relief package to help ease the pain small business owners are already starting to apply cocktail as one of the many small softs in the heart of poland joe deliver to open it almost 10 years ago with a corona crisis he doesn't know if he can keep it up he's trying to apply online for government a half an hour ago he was totally proud. to get through but there are 35800 people in front of. first small businesses and self-employed people like joe the government has promised immediate aid depending on the size of the business up to 15000 heroes not as a credit but a cash grant. still these for me quite unclear who is funding what and i think especially for self employed people it's going to be particularly tricky because we are sort of out of the system. and that's one thing that's causing a lot of panic i think amongst the self-emplo

as several of the world's most cash strapped countries are particularly threatened by the kona virus and argentina 2 years of economic recession has put unemployment rates at almost 10 percent now the country has imposed some of latin america's strictest locks and measures life noted see buenos aires and so we can speak with to raise a poor and series a before we get to the situation in buenos aires itself there is another cruise ship situation which has been developing over the past few days ship that indeed set off the well as they are is where you are just tell us a bit more about that if you would. well what we know right now it's called the cruise ship and it belongs to the whole in the america line and has around $1200.00 passengers and over $500.00 crew members it left to argentina on march 7th it went towards the south towards patagonia the southern part of chile and later on it begun going up it's currently off stop off the coast of fine and are stuck in limbo off the coast of panama 4 people have died in that ship because of coral now virus and around 140 people have flu li

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last and you can still see this line of cloud which extends all the way down towards the southeast in kona some really heavy rain coming across that western side of queensland outback seeing some really big downpours as we go on through the next couple days chance of some flooding certainly a possibility in that cloud and rain extends down in sin the south wales across a.c.t pushing into that eastern side of victoria behind that it's generally going to be troublesome rooty wet weather there just swirling away across tasmania that all mesas where little further research as we go on through friday but as they slushy fine and dry for new zealand. full of struggles full of pleasure. for our own use of the know the evil done with the closed mind when time is just going to put on pieces you do and with. a fresh one i get our an intimate look at life in cuba. taught. me when i came out of it was not at all people why me hanging my cuba this time on al-jazeera. the on the floor. welcome back let's return to one of our top stories this hour a resurgent joe biden has won texas and 8 other states on

support russia dispatches doctors and medical equipment to help italy to battle the world's deadliest kona virus but also coming up german authorities banned gatherings of more than 2 people to these restaurants are also ordered to close it comes after germans were warned to stay indoors over the weekend to avoid stricter coronavirus control.

but clearly the 1st order rubi a very big negative in on china as well as many other asia pacific kona mees weather region then progress to the situation of a scenario global recession really will depend on how much this epidemic spreads globally clearly now we have a very substantial escalation in south korea iran and also italy so it's certainly a growing risk that we could see this escalating into a pandemic and affects the whole world economy and that could destroy the global consumption and in that kind of scenarios there is certainly a risk that it could evolve into global recession but at the moment our. world growth in the order of 2 percent is what we're going to have this year below to central banks have the file. power the wherewithal to at least cushion any sort of recession interest rates already have about as low as they can go up to now that is indeed true i mean obviously we've seen this past week there's been a coordinated central bank action from numerous central bank notes meet the fed they cut rates by 50 basis points markets have responded on balance then favorably

like samsung electronics lose 4 percent so we're seeing now this ripple the economic effects of the kona coronavirus ripple throughout the south korean economy frank what lessons if any you think other countries credit learn from the way that south korea has handled its outbreak. well i think you know a couple of things need to happen so 3 is really communicating quite well they are engaging in some public outreach to let people know how they how they should behave and trying to get the public to cooperate they're also using some new technologies such as drive through testing and messaging emergency messaging regarding the whereabouts of of previous corona virus infections to prevent people from going say through those subway to stations or to those various destinations and they're trying to remove you know maintain this kind of open transparency about how they deal with the crisis to maintain again public support which is so vital to battling the the coronavirus here in south korea correspondent frank smith reporting for us there thank you very much and for all the latest on the coronav

overcrowded refugee camps you can't stay overcrowded it's often our interest in the fight against kona and that was green party m.e.p. and eric mark art well as more and more countries impose lockdowns because of the corona virus india faces a bigger challenge than most it's 1300000000 people have been ordered to stay at home since last week but for the informal workers who form the backbone of the economy that means losing their income overnight leaving many without enough money for food and those hardest hit by the lockdown may also be most at risk of catching the virus. social distancing is a privilege that these people cannot afford all across india daily brás rush to transportation hubs carrying whatever they could. to nationwide lockdown has put millions out of work and started a mass exodus from the cities. for these people who are leaving new delhi for their hometowns the fear of starving is currently greater than the fear of infection with the coronavirus. if we had food why would we have left we're not enjoying this we know that a pandemic is spreading but we are forced to le

a world without plastic trash by 2030 that small country kona has promised to accomplish. our objective. is also financing some regulations aimed to protecting the environment. plastic tied. in 45. next on d.w. . the global corona crisis you can find more information online at d.f.w. dot com and on t.w. social media channels. what secrets lie behind small. discover new adventures in 360 degree. and explore fascinating world heritage sites. p.w. world heritage 316 you get enough now. it's no secret that our planet's resources are doing lee on the climate crisis is real that's why i'll show. off as ideas on how we come protect our environment welcome to the show i'm now tie in lagos nigeria and a one welcome for me sandra tino giffen compiler here in uganda the pond.

still ahead on al-jazeera pressure mounts on japan to cancel the 2020 and them pigs because of the kona virus christs plus. indonesia is one of the world's largest coal export has but declining water quality is proving a challenge i'm jessica washington in bali where local farmers and harvest is a working out a sustainable approach to revive the industry that story coming up. how i would have some rather nasty weather in the forecast for northeastern parts of the u.s. at the moment so a lot of cloud just pushing around the middle and 6 days sweeping up into new england eastern parts of canada something of a nor'easter here just pulling its way through nudging further north as they'll be some snow in the northern flank of that particularly around that east the side of kind of the 30 centimeters of snow for a time all of that area cloud of the right down into central parts of the u.s. and here comes the next system some very heavy rain pushing through the deep south pushing up towards kentucky was tennessee easing a cross those little antic states virginia maryland seeing some wet weather

european union leaders have pledged to do everything they can to protect the blocks economy from the kona virus outbreak they're setting up an investment fund of up to $28000000000.00 to support health. and small businesses cases of corner virus have been reported in all 27 member states when it hit me at the forefront of the crisis paul brennan has our report. upon european crisis would normally see e.u. leaders racing to meet in brussels but concern about possible infection meant an emergency video conference instead the outcome of this rare virtual meeting a multi-billion dollar european investment fund to support health care jobs and small businesses. we will bring forward a corona response investment fund directed at the health care systems directed at as a s m e's and as a labor market at the labor markets and other vulnerable parts of our economies the instrument will be sizable and reach 25000000000 euros quickly all 27 e.u. nations have now registered the presence of the virus and there's a keen awareness that the crisis in italy may happen elsewhere for the next 3 weeks at least

some flooding lots of really heavy rain there into the society of queensland for the southeast in kona also heavy rain is pushing through here as well colder a cold subtle sweet 3 big drop in temperatures there for how parts around 14 degrees celsius is that rain just makes its way towards southern parts of new south wales just want to show us that in place there for east and also as we go on through saturday 10 in quasi roberts was in northwest but notice quite a bit of right making its way into southern parts of wy. but. the shocking treatment of disabled people in eastern european state run caverns in these cages you can not have access to a toilet or water and that bureaucratic indifference to their plight she has his hands and she states tied to the bed 5 years after fast highlighting such abuses people in power returns with a 2 part investigation to continuing mistreatment and neglect europe's recurring shame hot one on al-jazeera. move. or. this is. the main news this hour the u.s. suspended all travel from most of europe for 30 days after the world health organization declared

all the way in then behind so we're seeing quite a drop in temperatures down towards the southeast kona hungary seeing some very very cold air making its way better model couple days ago we were getting up to around 20 celsius here the snow set it in this given that africa is something of a surprise in the process so temperatures well down into single figures struggling to get above 0 actually that wintry mix stays in place through tuesday going on into where the stain extends across a good parts of the balkans as well it's not just some very lively showers there because central parts of the mediterranean so that's going to have an effect on the weather that we say across northern parts of africa as well over the next diode say we got some showers along the spells of frying there cost northern possible rocka northern areas of algeria tunisia seeing some very lively weather on wednesday with some very strong winds. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires is that you really by going to the. climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping dona

the federal reserve has announced emergency measures aimed at containing the economic fallout of the kona virus and demick as cutting the benchmark interest rate to me is 0 the same rate in place during the 2008 financial crisis it's also launch a 700000000000 dollars stimulus program meanwhile travel restrictions have cost chaos at airports across america where those arriving forced to wait hours for medical screening alan fisher has more from washington. from the president of the united states was aimed at comforting americans relax but doing great it will pass. from the man heading the drive against the virus a starkly different message the worst is yet to head for us it is how we respond to that challenge the number of confirmed cases in the u.s. is no more than $3000.00 states are shutting down bars and restaurants curfews are starting to be introduced the face of america is changing at imports as the extended european travel ban kicks in weird. stuff carrying out health screenings have been overwhelmed the governor of illinois blamed the trump administration for a lack of planning a

out for our neighbor and understand the fear and stress and so many are feeling as you said andy the kona virus crisis affecting these primaries you get a sense that it could have an effect on the election process possibly into november . it minute really couldn't over the years look at ohio the governor called what's going on a health emergency that some president and they put their primary off until june but it also really affects joe biden going forward because he was expected to take this momentum into the next few primaries but states like kentucky alabama and louisiana are all for spawning their primaries as well because what they want to do is keep people safe while keeping democracy running so that it's really essentially a bit of a hot mess you've got some experts saying look we should be really focusing on mail in ballots that isn't necessarily happening people want to have the voices heard but they also don't want to go to polling stations and be among crowds and touch things that other people of touch so all that momentum that joe biden has built on tuesday night in these 3 pr

whilst ohio has postponed its primaries you know 2020 is set to become a year old 2021 because of kona virus the football championships being postponed for the year the latest big sporting event to be affected there's been a strong call to push the tournament back from june and july iraq's president has named a new prime minister designate after months of protests and political deadlock cabin ells wolf a is the former governor of najaf and has the parliamentary group of former prime minister hide a body those are the headlines coming up next it's the bottom line from the. hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question as coronavirus challenges society and spreads across america what's the domino effect of keeping millions of students at home let's get to the bottom line . across the u.s. so far about 5000 cases of coronavirus have been recorded and restrictions are going into effect one of the biggest decisions has been shutting down schools from coast to coast people more than happy to do what it takes to protect themselves and their families but no one knows how the school shutdown will

of representatives for a final vote spain has overtaken china to record the 2nd highest number of kona virus deaths with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims that's half the number in italy where the death rate in the worst hit area appears to be slowing and the united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with al jazeera secretary general antonio the terrorist says it's in everyone's interest to help the world's poorest nations. now life is slowly returning to normal for the 60000000 people living in china's hu bay province the corona virus outbreak began there last year and residents have been under strict lockdown measures but now restrictions are easing and many are leaving the area for the 1st time in 2 months katrina you reports from beijing. back on the road cars are lining up to leave and the current virus locked down behind after 2 months of empty words and closed borders government travel restrictions on most of the province are being lifted but there are strict conditions before crossing

him all the way in then behind so we've seen quite a drop in temperatures down towards the southeast kona hungary seeing some very very cold air making its way better model couple days ago we were getting up to around 20 celsius here the snow set it in this given that after deals something of a surprise in the process so temperatures well down into single figures struggling to get above 0 actually that wintry mix stays in place through tuesday going on into where the stain extends across a good parts of the balkans as well it's not just some very lively showers there for central parts of the mediterranean so that's going to have an effect on the weather that we see across northern parts of africa as well over the next diode say we got some showers along the spells of rain across northern parts of broca northern areas of algeria tunisia saying some very lively weather on wednesday with some very strong winds. you know louis in a good spot. when the boneless struck many died and many reste to end the epidemic. this is their story through the lens of local filmmakers we see people making sac

on that bill is aimed at propping up the country's economy joining the kona virus pandemic the funds which was approved unanimously by senators on wednesday includes business loans help for state governments and payments to individuals. and russia's prime minister has urged all 144000000 residents to stay at home as the country ramps up measures to curb the spread of the virus all international flights in and out of russia and suspended apart from russian airlines repack seats in citizens the country's huge network of state one who tells resorts and recreational facilities have all been ordered to shut down. well those are the top stories here on al-jazeera to stay with us studio b. unscripted is up next with for leap journalist russian maria ressa. oh ok. why are journalists under attack because democracy is under attack and i realized i was working for something that was evil and i had been a part of actually creating it when mark zuckerberg essentially said that it is ok for politicians to lie that spells doom. my name is maria ressa and i'm a journalist and also the message that

cloud and rain rolling in to the eastern med pushing right across actually across that both east and kona of each it this area of low pressure here that's brought some valid storms actually some very strong winds lifted gust in san visibility problems and in dade a fair bit of flooding as well this was the same in cairo yesterday afternoon very high waters there was a result of the big downpours many places say 203040 millimeters of frank coming down in next to no time and you can imagine the chaos of that caused lots of traveling problem seriously this chap with his don't be caught making his way through his everyday life now things will quiet down as we go through the next couple days friday's picture the remainder of today will see that west of weather that windy weather push its way across the levant syria lebanon jordan israel but of course are not going into seeing more heavy rain and that will continue to drive its way further east with iraq seeing some lively showers low spells of rain as we go on through saturday that wetter weather then creeping across into iraq snow over the hi

senate bill to help cushion the economic impact of kona virus has had a stumbling block democrats have been demanding more funding and will now renegotiate with republicans more than 30000 americans have tested positive for the virus and italy's daily coronavirus death toll has fallen but the country still only $4.00 to $651.00 deaths on sunday the government has increased lockdown measure is shutting almost all factories and banning internal travel those are the headlines on al-jazeera that's it for me for the battle so rahman will be with you after studio b. unscripted to stay with us. so after i married got a little in common in terms of our legal background. i really wanted to ask you about going into the barrister world when i look at it and who i was when i was younger i was always that person that was good at speaking was kind of disturbed by injustice to kill a mockingbird was a book that i read in gage to it and the whole idea of like speaking up for the voiceless and so i think i always had a lawyer in me this funeral for how long you pursued both you continue to play sport a

daily bookings have declined 15 to 20% as the kona virus starts to take a hold on the subcontinent.eported 60 cases in the past few days. that number is expected to rise quickly. shery: let's turn to sophie. sophie: futures are hinting at losses of more than 3% when trading kicks off. fell into a bear market on wednesday after closing in that space just 14 days after the peak reached back on february 20. thanks drag the most on the index along with energy and tech as we saw volatility jumping for the index. there is no sign of pain abating. cutting itsi targets for the asx 200 from 7000 points on anticipated earnings. this after a weak first half performance. with that elevated to 8% in 2021. there is no place to hide when it comes to bonds given concerns mounting over the global growth rest. a 10 year yield climbing 10 basis points this morning. halting the midweek value we saw in aussie bonds. haidi: sophie cameron with a look ahead to the start of trading in sydney. we will be speaking with the cohead of asia-pacific fixed income. we will talk about the global stimulus response t