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. >> that's financial planner james mcbride. he's telling his investors as hard as it may be they should stay the course and that the market will go back up over time >>> president trump is asking congress to pass payroll tax relief. care line shively reports from washington. >> president trump says he'll give us more details today. >> going to be working with companies and small companies, large companies, a lot of companies so that they don't

lucy mcbride is an internist here in washington. her practice is based on the concept that mental health and physical health are connected. so dr. mcbride, let's talkthat. how does our mental health affect our physical health? >> norah, i'm so glad you're drawing attention to this very important issue. as you know, we're dealing with an enormous crisis of physic think of thiscrisist'y import o treat people's coughs, colds, and their symptoms of coronavirus as it is to treat the associated fear that i think we all feel at some point. >> o'donnell: and on that note, what are you telling your patients? >> well, there are things you can do. the good news is you can help yourself with your own anxiety. first of all, if you're anxious, that makes you normal. it is normal to be anxious. we are wired as human beings for survival, and so our natural stress hormones are activated when we are faced with a threat. and this is a big threat. this is big. my job as i see it as a doctor is to replace fear with facts, and to preach that gospel to wh

24 hours by switching to the emergency operations system in till we are out of the crisis of rob mcbride joins us now live from seoul and rob ed practical terms what exactly does a declaration of war on the virus mean. this declaration by moon g.a.m. effectively it almost puts the country on a war like 14 in dealing with what is a national crisis now and if the wartime analogy holds up then as we know the main battle front is still daegu this city in the southeast of the country and this surrounding towns and villages that's where we are seeing these big clusters of cases the most of the new cases that are being reported and again figures that have been released show that in the time since since just midnight sunday through to monday's about's less than 2 days we've had a further nearly 1000 new cases we know that the emergency service is there the medical services are being stretched they are using community treatment centers these are hastily converted government or community centers to work as makeshift hospitals if you like where people can go there they could be treated they can be

rob mcbride joins us now via skype from saw rob in practical terms what exactly does a declaration of war on the virus really mean. this is the fighting talk from moon j. and it's reminiscent i think of the stance taken by china. china also declaring war that this is such a crisis it takes a war like 14 to deal with it if the war analogy is correct then that the front is still daegu this city in the southeast of the country and its surrounding villages and towns where we are seeing the most clusters of new cases again another 600 in the past day or so and it's so the measures being taken will put various agencies of the government on a 24 hour standby alert basis to be to use their resources whenever they are required also at this meeting of the cabinet where he made these statements mungy and also announced various measures to try to stimulate the economy this is having a crippling effect on the south korean economy you do get the sense that parts of the economy parts of the country are in this kind of a slow motion coming to a holds with the airlines canceling flights some factories

what we have 3 correspondents in the region across this story for us a rob mcbride is in seoul sour clock in hong kong we begin with florence we in kuala lumpur malaysia where it's day one of the things going how are people being affected florence well it's relatively quiet on the streets of kuala lumpur the capital and the nation's biggest city but there are reports on social media and local media that not everyone is heeding the government's orders to restrict their movements people have been queuing at restaurants which are allowed to open to serve deliveries and takeaways police have also been going on patrol to warn restaurant owners and customers that the not allowed to dine in there was also chaos just hours before the restriction on movements came into effect there was very heavy traffic going into singapore these 2 countries are separated by a very narrow strait many people work in singapore and they make that daily commute so there was a rush to get into singapore before the border closed and within malaysia as well where there were large crowds at bus terminals there was very h

with the mcbride group. you here. a lot to go through here with the markets and what's going on. let's start with this emergency rate -cut from the fed. why do you think it didn't do enough here to calm investors? >> well, the business was that the chairman came out and said the economic fundamentals are good. and he did, i think, a good job of reassuring businesses that the bases of the economy are good. but what he can't do is assure consumers and raise consumer confidence to raise an overnight interest rate. our economy rises and falls based on the consumers. and the consumers are reacting to what's going on with the coronavirus. particularly in the travel industry where people are cans lingz vacation, flight, cruises, things like that. >> yeah, it's fear, it's uncertainty that's driving the markets at this point. does this point to that we're in the middle of a correction? >> very clear. because the market doesn't know how to interpret what's going on, now it's being driven by the worst emotion of all wh

we have 2 correspondents reporting on the story true to you is in beijing but let's go 1st to rome mcbride who is in seoul rob as we said more than 10 days of slowing infections and now this new uptick in the number of cases why. that's right there is cause for concern with these latest numbers especially as you say after more than a week of gradually declining daily cases being reported it was really leading to a feeling here that south korea had got this under control and then we get this spike and it is due in large part to a cluster that has sprung up here in the capital seoul and based around this call center now where people start to do detect a trends that call center workers were falling sick they started to do widespread testing and have discovered a $93.00 cases now at this one call center either workers or their immediate family or acquaintances and friends and the concern is that this is the biggest cluster that we have had in the soul area and the soul greater soul metropolitan area which includes the capitol but also surrounding cities such as insurance is an area that compri

to the virus but it's passed on lessons to the rest of the world on how to control it spread rob mcbride reports from seoul south korea. with close economic and diplomatic ties to china communities in east asia were among the 1st to face the spreading corona virus. and all were experienced in dealing with previous outbreaks most notably sars in 2003 so while hong kong's government wavered over closing its border with mainland china its people were already donning face masks and companies were taking measures to stave off infection taiwan acted even earlier in late december and began screening arrivals from the wu han epicenter before beijing admitted the scale of the crisis. singapore relies on vigorous containment with each new case being rapidly investigated to trace any other possible infections then quickly informing the rest of its citizens to see if they are also what risk and this shot contact tracing. our us. so far the majority of secondary transmissions from their initial conditions so in some ways this is. singapore strategy transparency to in south korea accompanied by wholes

performing this tuesday rob mcbride in seoul for us so the markets in asia opened about 3 hours ago now how are things looking. a mixed picture this tuesday morning the volatility carrying over from yesterday monday with seeing some early drops but again rebounding possibly as a result of technical rebound because of course monday's drops were so big we've saw the nikkei in japan that opens down a big 4 percent but recovering very quickly it's down now one and a half percent the hang seng in hong kong that opened one percent down but again making back that ground and now at the moment flat here in south korea the kaspi index is down half a percent it is possibly a confidence has been restored here slightly by measures taken by the government to restrict the amount of short selling that's basically betting that bad news will send the market down further there's been some restrictions put on that sort of trading so generally i think the markets here continuing to take a lead from wall street overnight are continuing to have concerns about the global recession as a result of the coronaviru

announcement shortly but there we have it is with piron i'm standing by for us in new delhi where brought mcbride and sol 1st though let's go to elizabeth piron of the who is as i say it is in new delhi for us just run us through what is happening there in india what measures are in place. so came after the world health organization classified coronavirus as a pandemic the indian government took the unprecedented step of suspending all existing visas to foreign nationals barring just a few exceptions so as of 12 g.m.t. on friday and on to april the 15th no foreign nationals can enter india apart from if their diplomats work for the united nations or have. employment visas the indian government has also said that all incoming travelers including incoming travelers indians haven't been to any destination. coming from any destination but having been to china. 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 t

-rob mcbride reports a move live for us in seoul thanking and the 300000000 students are being affected by school closures world wind and countries impose strict measures to contain the spread of the virus $22.00 countries of unknowns the suspension of classes to varying degrees bands form school across parts of asia europe and the middle east some probably a few days others for several weeks the united nations says the global scale and speeds of the current educational disruption is unparalleled. well we'll have more on the corona vibrate kora virus outbreak coming up and that includes no one and all i says still in palestine seal of bethlehem will be mine in ramallah plus. pensioners protest of the republic of congo open the government will start dancing to their choosing. hello and welcome to international weather forecast the weather situation across europe isn't looking as bad as it was in recent days with all the storms but we still got some unsettled weather moving in long the bay of biscay along the north coast of spain and into southern parts of france more snow for the pyrenee

and china so pushed back and asked for it to be revoked warning it may launch countermeasures well mcbride reports from seoul in the sometimes strained relations between japan and south korea the coronavirus outbreak has exposed the animosity that exists below the surface south korea says it wasn't consulted before japanese prime minister shinzo abbay announced the new measures local car new visitors from both china and south korea will be required to be quarantined for 2 weeks at a location designated by the quarantine director and asked that they refrain from using public transportation in the country. that brought a swift response from seoul the japanese ambassador was summoned for an official reprimand there was one particular thing that we find this very regrettable that the japanese government to withdraw such an excessive and reasonable measure immediately our government will devise a proper counter measure against japan's measures. opponents in south korea accuse the japanese government of trying to deflect criticism of its handling of the corona virus outbreak in particular the at

between poor and rich the post coronavirus world may not only be more divided but also more unequal mcbride al-jazeera sold. with hundreds of millions of people around the world forced to stay indoors entertainers especially musicians are finding it tough to reach the masses so they going online saying they hope that beats can ease the pressure of isolation rows jordan has that story. at a tell him of contagion and physical isolation the. musicians who thrive on the energy of the crowd are feeding that energy back via social media hi my name is chris is this on chris martin of coldplay raising money for the w h o's global pandemic fund so i thought it would be nice to be to check in with some of you out there and see how you're doing and where you are and what i can do for you. the famous pop stars such as pink. pavement and a long cool favorites like washington d.c. is just untrue and are reaching out mainly because they want to ease people's minds you know we're going to the grocery store and people are people are fighting over you know the last remove toilet paper people are a little bit

more than 68000 people have recovered from the illness in a moment we'll get an update from rock mcbride who's standing by for us in seoul but 1st let's go to lawrence lee who's in london for us with the reaction out of europe lawrence so this announcement about travel to the u.s. being restricted it doesn't affect the u.k. how does that work. well yes quite. in the european union there which obviously the u.k. is now no longer a part of since bret's it's happened the the the e.u. is absolutely furious about this and bewildered. and trying to work out what the ramifications and implications are they were completely blindsided they weren't consulted apparently before trump said all this in the middle of the nights european time. and it doesn't help at all the trump initially seemed to suggest that it affected both people the movement of people and the movement of trade and then seemed to do of sort of all fastened and then said it didn't affect trade and so they're trying to understand exactly what it means and obviously there are enormous concerns about about the impact on trades between

fears south korea strongly protesting the move which it says is excessive and extremely or gravel mcbride has the latest from seoul a real sense of anger here at this move by japan seemed to come out of the blue people here are saying look there was absolutely no consultation about this before this decision was taken we know that south korea has a very complicated relationship with japan most of last year the 2 countries were locked in a diplomatic spat of that spilled over into a trade dispute and both countries have been making moves in recent times to try to build bridges and this seems to threaten to undo all of that once more elizabeth warren has ended her 2020 bid for the white house the massachusetts senator was considered a front runner for the democratic nomination but failed to win a single state tearing a primary. israel's military has demolished 2 palestinian homes in the occupied west bank and the army says the residents who were targeted played a role in a bomb attack that killed an israeli teenager last last august that is some reportedly for rocks at the soldiers who then

mcbride is in south korea's capital where the infection numbers are also dropping but 1st let's go to beijing to see this katrina you can tell us more and no surprise really that the coronavirus katrina is having a huge impact on china's economy. oh i just studied see the extent of that impact as you mentioned earlier industrial output is down by 13.5 percent that's the biggest slumps as records began another big important figure that we've just heard is 6 invest a fixed investment and that is down 24.5 percent that number has not slumped by that much since the global financial crisis retail consumption is also down about 20 percent and unemployment is up now we knew this was going to have a big effect because essentially this corner virus outbreak brought china to a standstill for the entire month of february this is really supposed to be a time of celebration and a time of spending it and it was anything but the chinese government are under a lot of pressure understandably to kick start the economy get things going again and they ahd downplaying these numbers saying that the chinese

economic threat posed by the virus let's take a look now at how asian markets markets are doing right mcbride is with us from seoul rob so we've had the longest bull market in history now it appears we are in bed market territory what can you tell us. that's right this selloff has been continuing across all asian markets throughout this thursday morning if anything the selling seemed to speed up as president trump was speaking from the white house everybody here all investors seem to be spooked by this draconian measure of stopping all travel from your up to the united states it's really underscored for people here just how severe this situation is there was some relief that a similar ban was not ports on travel from south korea and japan to the united states but there is i think an awareness here that as this continues to be felt in the united states that that remains a possibility so certainly a lot of uncertainty here all that uncertainty has fed into the market sentiment and we've seen all the markets basically heading in the same direction that the nikkei index in japan that is down more

joining us is internal medicine doctor lucy mcbride. dr.ride, first, what is your reaction to this man's death? >> hi, stephanie. thank you so much for having me on. i'm really glad you asked this question. this is a very, very sad example of the physical consequences of following misinformation and not following facts. and also a sad example of the physical consequences of what is really a mental health crisis in this country. as you know, we are dealing with an insane time where people are sick and ill in the hospitals. my patients that i'm talking to every day, some of them have coronavirus, suspected or proven, some are in the hospital, but really in parallel with this physical health crisis is a mental health crisis. so this man, it sounds like, was so anxious and worried, even though he did not have coronavirus symptoms, that he followed fear instead of facts. and it ended poorly. it's very sad, and it's important that we remember that we need to replace fear with facts and that we need to treat this pandemic not just as something tha

think of that that rob mcbride there live from seoul. almost 30 security forces personnel have been killed as an afghan military base was stormed in the self it government blames the attack in zabul province on the taliban the armed groups signed a peace deal with the u.s. last month as part of the agreement taleban was supposed to begin talks with afghan big this about reducing violence but the process stalled after a disagreement about the release of prisoners. adult court has sentenced a man who shot 4 people dead on a tram last year to life in prison judges said 38 year old cockman thomas had shown no remorse and was fully responsible for his actions despite having low intelligence and a personality disorder 5 others were injured in the attack. colombia is said to enter a national lockdown starting on tuesday follows argentina whose government has also put the count country under quarantine that means people won't be allowed to leave their homes and this is for essential needs such as shopping for food or medicine and the santa he ha

imports despite factories returning to normal well we've got 2 reporters across this say in asia mcbride is in seoul where the numbers all of these cases are also dropping but for us as sought to katrina you in beijing katrina the economic impact as we expected is already having an effect on china's economy tell us about those numbers for us. that's right follow me starting to see how big of a hit it's having so important economic indicators have been out in the last few hours industrial in output is the big one it's down by 13.5 percent and that's the biggest jump that we've seen since records began another important indicator we saw was fixed asset investment or housing investment that's down by 24.5 percent and that's the biggest other than we saw during the global financial crisis in 20082009 retail consumption is also down by 20.5 percent while unemployment is up and that's really not surprising that we're seeing that in china this current virus outbreak has had a huge impact essentially the entire country was paralyzed for the month of february even as early as late january people

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. >> that's financial planner james mcbride. he's telling his investors as hard as it may be they should stay the course and that the market will go back up over time >>> president trump is asking congress to pass payroll tax relief. care line shively reports from washington. >> president trump says he'll give us more details today. >> going to be working with companies and small companies, large companies, a lot of companies so that they don't get penalizes for some things that are not their fault. >> reporter: the president specifically spoke about helping hourly workers and the hotel airline and cruise ship industries. the democratic leaders in congress seem skeptical about a potential payroll holiday floated by the administration. >> we're more worried about the dow jones than the jones family. >> reporter: reporters asked the president last night if he'd been tested for the virus. then, last night the white house says he had not been. he'd been near some members of congress who are now self- quarantined. florida congressman

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and rob mcbride is standing by in seoul with more on what we can expect from the financial markets in asia on tuesday markets there opening about 2 hours ago how is it looking so far. that's right markets in early trade continuing this downward trend the nikkei plunging a nearly 4 percent soon after opening but bounding back quite strongly it's only down just below one percent at the moment some of this could be a technical correction because of course yesterday monday we saw such big drops in the market the nikkei down 3 percent the cost be that's the korean stock index down a full 4 percent but actually the kaspi after going down another one percentage point in early trading this tuesday morning bouncing back and it's actually now in positive territory territory by a 3rd of a point some of this could well be some of the measures that the south korean government has taken they have put restrictions on short selling that's when you bet that bad news is going to drive down the numbers further that well the government has put some restrictions on that sort of trade so that maybe has ins

netflix a prime videos one newly released series from south korea is proving to be a timely hits rob mcbride has that story from saul. kingdom is a zombie saga with a difference the holds have been infected with the mysterious plague in an uncanny parallel with the current crisis and the release of series 2 right now has been an international hades. result kemal an executive in malaysia is hawked as his country joins so many others in ordering people to work from home the people in the cities are in a lockdown you know the we had to close the ring to get leaders on beat out and i think it's a similar situation except that we're playing a game of who's who's infected instead of offering a skate prism this is one box set to remind viewers of the real world horror outside and yet like the zombies themselves they seem drawn in droves so why things which was on be films and dramas that. they're kind of high concept content you know quite easy to understand and yet there are always kind of underlying things going on as well the zombie genre is often a metaphor for deeper fears about some existenti

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china have been pushing pyongyang to return to talks on ending its nuclear and missile programs rob mcbride is in the south korean capital seoul. the difference between this test and the previous 2 tests we've had this series does seem to be more sophisticated weaponry on show the 1st 2 tests were from the east coast of the peninsula and it they appear to have been either rocket launches or low range artillery these launches of 2 projectiles were from the west coast they flew right over the peninsula 400 kilometers landing in the sea that separates the from japan and it does appear that south korean military officials here know that they were short range ballistic missiles and also they noted that the guidance system appeared to have been in use so it's led people here to conclude this is part of a new more sophisticated guided weapon system that the north koreans have been developing south korea has condemned this launch saying that it is extremely inappropriate to say the least to be conducting this sort of test while the rest of the world is struggling with the coronavirus outbreak nearl

again south korea is the latest country to announce cash payments for people affected by the virus mcbride of course in seoul. this disaster relief fund will result in payments similar to those announced by other developed countries it basically means that for a family of 4 they'll be entitled to a one off payment of around $820.00 us dollars to qualify for this the family has to come below a certain income so this is very much and some of the poorest sections of society the kinds of people who have been hit hardest by the economic impact of this outbreak in announcing the measures the finance minister here in south korea has reiterated what everything everyone has known for weeks and that is that the it common to the economy has been slammed by this disease and it's very much aimed at helping some of the high street parts of the economy things like restaurants stores owned by families small businesses all the way of getting the economy moving now in order to push this through the government is going to have to present a supplementary budget to clear they $10000000000.00 plus that will be

apologized for the 1st time south korea has the largest number of infections outside of china at 4345 rob mcbride reports from seoul. it was the 1st long awaited public statement by the founder and leader of the shin changi church lehman he prostrated himself before journalists to say sorry they're never going to. call i don't know how to apologize to the korean people i extend my deepest regret it wasn't intentional we had many new infections that we couldn't stop. the outbreak in south korea has cost new scrutiny on the church at the center of it seen by many christians as a secretive sect and turn the spotlight on its messiah like a leader who calls himself the promised prophet. it may appear christian but it's actually different with a different doctrine and system they revere leaman he like jesus a leader who is a counselor who helps former followers of changi such as and sue young who described the crowded conditions inside a typical church gathering i'm in here honeycutt the diploma you would be 5 centimeters away from the next person and you would have to say amen after every sentence the

world grappling with the viruses spread kim is firmly in control and appearing to keep them safe rob mcbride al-jazeera sold. other news and israeli forces in the occupied west bank of used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse palestinian protesters one person a 15 year old boy has been killed the activists were camping overnights on a man mountain near the city of nablus trying to fend off a legal israeli settlers were trying to use the location to establish an outpost of 100 people treated for injuries there or from neda ibrahim now in ramallah in the occupied west bank the palestinian was killed by israeli forces fire is a 15 year old his name is and how much how many and he was participating in the in that protest that was organized by the palestinians. as a way for locals to try and defend their lands from settler attacks according to medical sources they've treated around 112 injuries on site doesn't have been taken to hospitals one more person in critical condition now locals in the area say that. is very elevated area one of the highest in the nablus area and that settlers

mcbride is there as you're begins its trading day rob how markets doing there right now. we've seen selling right across the board throughout the day on all the markets here in asia soon as trade opened it took its cue from wall street overnight with selling and then it seemed to intensify as we got to president trump speaking from the white house real concern here about this travel ban it seemed to take everybody by surprise a complete ban on travel and just what that entailed between europe and the united states even though later clarification that this wouldn't affect trade or cargo flights really didn't seem to settle nerves here lead to that kind of sentiment where people are thinking this is going to impact the global economy we saw it with the all of the trade going basically and they one direction the japan's nikkei and the kaspi that's the korean stock stock index both of those plummeting by more than 5 percent at one point during the day recovering slightly at the end but closing down by around $44.00 and a half percent the hang seng index from hong kong close b

or mcbride is in the south korean capital he says there are concerns the illness could spread further insult. after more than a week of gradually declining daily cases being reported it was really leading to a feeling here that south korea had got this under control and then we get this bike and it is due in large part to a cluster that has sprung up here in the capital seoul and based around this call center now people started to detect a trends that call center workers were falling sick they started to do widespread testing and have discovered a 93 cases now at this one call center either workers or their immediate family or acquaintances and friends and the concern is that this is the biggest cluster that we have had in the sole area and the sole greater sole metropolitan area which includes the capital but also surrounding cities such as insurance is an area that comprises 25000000 people this call center was in a part of the city that has served extremely well by subway systems by trains so there is a real concern of there you had for a time at least hundreds of calls sent to wor

single day of losses in 33 he is in your markets of rebound after massive losses there on thursday mcbride in seoul has more on how our economies in asia are doing . japan hasn't seen a plunge like that in 13 years it rebounded later on the to end the day down 6 percent but very much along with the other major markets of asia very much.

europe and the united states and looking with absolute horror reacting accordingly thanks for that rob mcbride there live from seoul u.s. president donald trump restrictions on european travelers are said to begin later on friday the restrictions understanding an economic impact there also straining already richelle diplomatic relations between washington and brussels and mike hanna reports. the irish prime minister arrives at the white house his bilateral meeting with the u.s. president one of the few events going ahead is sure jeweled island along with the united kingdom 2 countries exempt from the sweeping travel ban which appears focused on the 26 european union members of the shingle alliance giving rise to claims that the ban has been haphazardly applied when you think of what happened to europe because it was very fast and very furious and what happened is a lot of people went from china into europe and europe suffered tremendously see what's going on and so i just wanted to stop as it pertains to the united states or public access to the u.s. capital has been suspended but lawmakers in

or of mcbride has more now from seoul where he says the coronavirus has rekindled all disputes. increasingly south korea is feeling like a pariah nation and it puts up with it largely it does object to some of these travel restrictions but it does accept grudgingly that for a lot of countries especially developing countries they simply cannot afford 2 important outbreak of coronavirus from south korea they don't have the medical resources to deal with such an outbreak but there's a feeling here that japan is a big sophisticated country it has the kind of medical services you need to keep travel going to have in place screening rather than taking draconian measure such as a complete ban like this south korea is already struggling economically with this with this outbreak it's going to have dire consequences for later on this year putting in place bearish budgetary measures to deal with it but japan is such an important trading partner this is going to cause further economic pain this is what south korea's prime minister had to say about it. yesterday the japanese government impos

japanese are concerned planning for those games still going ahead thank you for that update there rob mcbride live from seoul. now from london on the w.h.o. as pandemic announcement and gives us a picture out of europe. this is daily life under lockdown in italy people employing patients protection and distance all good measures that country should practice according to the world health organization but not enough as they declared covert 19 is now a pandemic. has been nicer seeing this outbreak around the clock and we're really concerned most may be alarming levels of spread and severity and maybe a lot of mean the level is in action. we have that for the med be our system and that 19 can be. used as a pandemic was started in china has now spread to more than 100 countries but 90 percent of cases are spread over just 4 nations iran is one of them where more than 300 people have died south korea is another where efforts to stop the spread of the virus have so far failed it seems the world has missed the window of containment in italy the government has imposed further restrictions closing all

hours by switching to the emergency operations system in till we are out of the crisis while rob mcbride joins us now live from seoul what in practical terms as a declaration of war on the virus actually main. very resolute stance being taken by moving jay in effectively declaring war and i think almost accepting that the country has to go on a kind of a war fought for tng if it is going to beat this coronavirus in a practical terms it means that all of the government agencies that are now directed to dealing with this are put on a 24 hour alert basis so effectively they can be used around the clock and if the war like analogy holds up then there's still the main battle front is the city of daegu down in the southeast of the country and the surrounding towns and villages that's where we're still seeing the most numbers of new cases around 600 new cases alone in the past day and do you think again that j.m. is stressing that we are here in south korea as a critical juncture that if this is going to be won or lost it will be in the southeast of the country and it will be in the coming days

summer olympic games will make no sense if countries can't send their athletes to the pandemic what mcbride's has more from seoul. these comments by taro aso the deputy prime minister and also the finance minister really have raised speculation here that we are going to see some important announcement about the olympics there have of course been huge amounts of speculation that they would be at the very least delayed maybe even canceled and this is comments by mr asso saying that they would make no sense to hold the games if people couldn't send their athletes to this part of the world so that seems to be an admission a tacit one at least that even if japan doesn't have a problem by july as we're hearing the latest predictions other parts of the world may still be in the grip of this coronavirus spread until very recently the actual prime minister shinzo of a has maintained adamantly that the games will still go ahead as planned this is a huge deal for him this is almost the high point of his premiership he fought to bring the games to japan and it's a huge boost for the economy it's prestigi

with that idea of the markets and what they've been doing so was the end of the trading week rob mcbride joins us live from seoul so rob how do we unpack the numbers. well that's right when you combine friday's figures with yesterday thursday's carnage then we are ending the trading week on a very pessimistic note really extending these very severe losses the drop you mentioned in the japan's nikkei index of more than 10 percent in early trading japan hasn't seen a drop a plunge like that for 30 years is pretty dramatic stuff the markets the nikkei did recover somewhat but all of the major markets of ended up solidly in the red down 6 percent on the nikkei the kaspi that south korea's index down 3 and a half percentage points now all of this volatility has had the central banks of a number of asian countries talking to the their respective finance ministry officials about what to do how to intervene how to try to support markets maybe maybe buying bonds or reducing interest rates but of course the interest rates of a lot of the central banks are at historically low levels in any case in

and 68000 people have recovered from the corona virus live now to seoul and our correspondent rob mcbride so rob let's talk about the markets they've closed in much of where you are how is it shaping up. that's why when you combine this with yesterday thursday's carnage then the weekending on a very grim note extending these really very heavy losses that dropped by japan's nikkei of more than 10 percent in early trade japan hasn't seen anything like that for 30 years it recovered somewhat during the day it would have to that was such a big drop but still like most of the other major markets here in asia ending very solidly in the red the nikkei down 6 percent the cost me that's the south korean index down $3.00 and a half percent and so on it's had the central bank officials in a number of asian countries meeting with their respective finance ministry officials just trying to work out how they can take measures to support their own respective markets whether by buying bonds or maybe reducing interest rates but of course interest rates been the central banks here are historically low level

mcbride joins us now live from sol so asian markets a nosedive. absolutely kim the carnage has continued here across the border this wave of selling on all of the asian markets japan's nikkei is down now around 9 percent the bank of japan officials have been meeting with government officials to discuss the plunge closely followed by south korea's kospi index that's down nearly 8 percent selling has been so intense here in seoul the safety mechanism that kicks in to suspend trading when selloff becomes too intense basically to try to prevent an uncontrolled computerized sell off well that was triggered it suspended trading for 5 minutes to allow things to cool down but now trading has picked up again the kaspi has continued its journey southwards closely followed by the hang seng from hong kong that is now open that's down around 6 percent 2 and a half percent down on the shanghai composite so everything in completely read on the boards here and the asian markets it was only earlier this week that a lot of investors here in south korea were discuss

church in the city if they grew has been described as the epicenter of south korea's up break up mcbride reports from seoul that the church is being investigated for potentially hiding infections from authorities. this has been a long awaited event the 1st public statements by the controversial leader of an even more controversial church the man he appearing go to a news conference at one of the church's facilities outside of seoul and throughout the whole statement apologizing profusely for his church's role at the center of this outbreak saying that he it was something that he's very sorry about saying that they are taking now all possible measures to try to sort this out he never thought that this would happen that they are cooperating completely with the or thorough te's because of course more than half of all of the cases of the coronavirus here in south korea are indeed members of this church now it is regarded by other more mainstream churches here as more like acting like a sect under secretive sect at that with a number of different groups here calling on the orthorexic is calli

warned that the recovery may be slow as the outbreak is likely to hinder any rebound in imports what mcbride is in south korea's capital seoul where the infection numbers are also dropping but 1st let's go to beijing atlanta serious katrina you know surprise then katrina coronaviruses had a huge impact on china's economy. yes and we're beginning to see how huge as you mentioned industrial output has plummeted by 13.5 percent that's an unprecedented drop the biggest drop since records began fixed asset investment has also plummeted at 24.5 percent we didn't even see a drop that big during the global financial crisis our retail consumption no surprise is that a slump by about 20.5 percent and unemployment in china is up from 5.2 to 6.2 percent and that doesn't even take into account migrant workers and they've been severely impacted by this virus outbreak so it's likely that the unemployment number is nuts higher no surprises that this virus outbreak brought china to a standstill people were staying home they were not working they were not gathering and they were not spending and this is suppo

coronavirus south korea's protesting the move which it says is excessive and extremely credible rob mcbride has the latest from seoul a real sense of anger here at this move by japan seemed to come out of the blue people here are saying look there was absolutely no consultation about this before this decision was taken we know that south korea has a very complicated relationship with japan most of last year the 2 countries were locked in a diplomatic spat of that spilled over into a trade dispute and both countries have been making moves in recent times to try to build bridges and this seems to threaten to undo all of that once more a number of new infections have risen significantly in parts of europe more deaths are reported in italy the netherlands france and the u.k. on thursday several public events have been canceled and schools in italy are closed for at least 10 days elizabeth warren has ended her 2020 bid for the white house the massachusetts senator was considered a front runner for the democratic nomination but failed to win a single state during the primaries according to india'

south korea is the latest country to announce cash payments for people affected by the virus rob mcbride reports from seoul this disaster relief fund is similar in the amount that it hands out to other schemes that have been announced by other developed countries it basically means that for a family of 4 they're entitled to a one off payment of the equivalent of $820.00 u.s. dollars now to qualify for that it's only families below a certain income level so this is very much aimed at some of the poorest sections of society some of the poorer families who've been hit hardest by the economic impact of this outbreak in announcing these details the finance minister has reiterated basically what everybody here in south korea has known for weeks now that the economy has really been slammed by the coronavirus all sections of the economy and in particular this is a good time to help some of the more vulnerable parts of the economic activity here such as restaurants such as family owned stores small businesses all aimed to try to revive a great to the economy it comes to a total of just over 10 $1