that's what basically is happening here and it's very much at the instigation of french president mccaw who was concerned about these internal border shutdowns and has been pressing hard for the external border move it as a as a as central a form of compensation but interestingly enough the chief of staff of the president of the e.u. . actually himself said you know where the closures really aren't going to be doing much for any of these countries because the fact is the virus is already here with in the european union and basically the effects are going to be marginal in stretches of the too late today we heard predictions here in europe and in the united states that this pandemic could easily morph into a global recession that could be worse than the great depression of the 1930 s. absolutely so apparently that was also a topic at this video conference of leaders this afternoon on tuesday afternoon with some focus on what can be done there too the e.u. commission has made some proposals it wants to create a fund of $37000000000.00 euros that would be used to support health systems sma

wynjones will equal the world record for test appearances — going level on 148 with all black richie mccawst start for two years while willgriff john makes his debut and cory hill comes in too. and despite the coronavirus, day three at cheltenham has just got underway. thousands are in attendance with the ryanair chase and marsh novices chase among the feature races. lots of health and hygiene provisions have been put in place, and we will be speaking to our correspondence throughout the course of the afternoon. go to the bbc sport website, a constantly updating list of events that have been hit by the virus. we will have all those updates on afternoon live and beyond. earth's great ice sheets, greenland and antarctica, are now losing mass six times faster than they were in the 1990s thanks to warming conditions. a comprehensive review of satellite data from both poles is unequivocal in its assessment of accelerating trends, say scientists. between them, greenland and antarctica lost 6.4 trillion tonnes of ice in the period from 1992 to 2017. professor andrew shepherd is the co—lead on the

france's president a man you're mccaw is describing new lockdown measures across the country as unprecedented for 2 weeks residents can only leave their homes to buy groceries travel to work or to seek medical care macross says anyone disagreeing the rules will be punished. we are at war healthwise not against another country or another nation the enemy is there and it's advancing and that requires general mobilization we are at war. all the action of the government must not be focused on the fight against the epidemic by night or by day nothing must distract us health authorities in the u.s. state of ohio have moved to postpone the presidential primary just hours before polls were due to open the state's health she said it could expose fall just a coronavirus the decision to call off the vote goes against a judge's earlier refusal to shut it down 50 cases of corona virus have been confirmed in a higher so far in other news russia's foreign ministry says find is in syria's last rebel held province breaching the ceasefire it comes after russia and turkey were forced to cut short joint patrols

the european union really needs unity in part i thank you very much the french president emmanuel mccaw is due to address his nation in the next hour let's go live to natasha in paris do we have any clues yet about what is that it's a. we got a few clues the french president tomorrow might cry as you say do to address the nation it's his 1st international address since the corona virus outbreak here in france of course it was 1st detected in france several weeks ago now since then the french president has pretty much cleared his agenda nischelle jule to really focus on the national health emergency he's meeting doctors he's meeting health experts he's putting aside all non-essential items for now at the least say earlier indicated that the french president perhaps wouldn't be coming out with any new measures but of course that could evolve because this crisis is evolving all the time a prominent french newspaper has now reported here in france that a man or marco may choose this address to perhaps bespoke in the upcoming municipal elections the local elections the 1st round is due on su