let's look now at some ways covert 19 is impacting the business world french president emmanuel mccrone has issued a call to manufacturers in his country and elsewhere to ramp up production of protective gear for key workers on the coronavirus front line including facemasks mccrone was visiting a plant friend of france's leading mass producer. ford and general electric said that they will produce 50000 emergency ventilators in the next 100 days joined carmaker g.m. in the race to repurpose factory lines to produce ventilators hospitals across the u.s. are urgently seeking the devices as they deal with an onslaught of coronavirus patients . let's see how the financial markets are doing now for more i am joined by financial correspondent conrad who is in who's joining us from frankfurt so we had today the end of the 1st quarter of 2020 it started out strong then came the pandemic where do we stand right now. well sarah of the german share index dax is currently trading $3500.00 points lower than at the beginning of this year which is a loss of 25 percent due to the corona pandemic whether

than emanuel mccrone why should anyone listen when he is making such heavy weather of reforms in his own country while 1st has been reforming from for more than 2 years with steady pol. pot the country is in chaos the country is not in k. off there is no threat anymore and railways all public transportation and there will be the most ambitious pension system to form a full decade would wish which went off in the parliament in the next week people have died in demonstrations paris has wreaked of tear gas for weeks on end you've had gigantic this. up sions in transport so the worst transport disruption since the 1960 s. are you talking about that office or is this another talk about paris you don't seem to come often to paris are i do i have my family in paris yes they're with are from protests that are french tradition birds are they hurt or 1700 people injured across the country 17 and hurt a number of policeman injured among them and some casualties were due to this yellowjacket protest movement are you see it throughout the word right now middle class is wondering whether globaliza

many fair new orleans could be the next epicenter of mccrone a virus outbreak in the u.s. at us that is health officials say louisiana's largest city has the highest growth rate of new cases in the world and gallagher reports this is new orleans most celebrated neighborhood now the french quarter is a shadow of its former self businesses a closed tourists are leaving and now the big easy is facing a major health crisis officials say the city is on course to become the next coronavirus at the center the rate of new cases is the highest in the world and may in the next few days overwhelm the city's hospitals what isn't a theory what is fact is what's actually happening on the ground and we know that it's serious we know the case count is much much higher than we obviously want it to be many in the medical community blame the rapid spread of the corona virus here on mardi gras the annual celebration attracts well over a 1000000 visitors from all over the world it happened at the end of last month when the virus was already present in the u.s. . indicated we're on a pass like

its worst single data will, president emmanuel macron -- single day death toll, president and man u mccrone is visiting a factory which churns out much-needed protective masks. the site is now operating 24 ithrs a day to up output medical personnel and d retiremt homes sayaying thatat 40 million masks are n needed each week and that does not include those working in supermarkets or other industries that are still operating. this, as a nation enters its third week of lockdown. a little earlier here, i spoke to our chief foreign editor and i put it to him that this is a factory visit by a president who is very much under pressure amid this health emergency. >> l like all leleaders around e struggliningybodydy is to d deal withth the csequenencf thisis outbreak. in that respect, frarance isoo different. emmanuel macron is trying to showow that his governmnment ine himself is on top of the problem, and there are many, many problems associated with it. the production, for instance, of masks which is associated with the visit to this factory, is critical because the country has an enonormous shor

a deadly virus but that didn't stop this week's protests demonstrators saying they want president mccrone to realize they have not gone away 2000 police officers have been deployed to disperse the activists but rally comes a day before french voters head to the polls to vote in local elections still they're still going ahead despite the crisis watching out internet. thank you for it too it's exactly 20 minutes past the hour ahead another whistle blower steps the shadows with allegations against the international chemical weapons watchdog more like his claims against the o.p.c. w next. join me every thursday on the alex simon short and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport i'm showbusiness i'll see you then. is your media a reflection of reality. in the world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. by. what is true what is faith. in the world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maid in the shallows. again another whistle blowers calling out the international chemical weapo

sure we are talking about the same word about my country or about europe you're obviously very anti mccrone that's all right that's a surprise because i thought that was fair internal listen but it is not that you're right or right it's my it's my job to put the other side to your macro support i'm putting the other side to you asshole don't do the growing that's where you see things that are necessarily where other people turn a little but that's all right i don't deny and the serota learn to 1st answer at less or go to reforms in front yes they are working we are the 2nd most attractive kountry in the european union for foreign investors we have one of the highest growth rates in the european union we half the number of unemployed which is the great increasing steadily we have 3 terms in employed move germany that's right but we don't have many jobs when we talk about jobs which we talk about jobs will full pay that's a choice and we are still fighting against the employment and we are changing the rules for apprentice for instance and it is working and considering the european union you

and on your mccrone announced the plan for the army as he visited a makeshift field hospital on wednesday it's been forced to take patients as regular hospital struggle to keep up with the virus paris has also promised a huge investment for the health care system but medical workers in france feel it's been a long time coming the demands going back for more than a year already but investment speaking promised by governments worldwide on the back of mass quarantines shall i do belsky next looks at why the money wasn't injected before and how long nations can keep up the spending. economies across the world have ground to a halt kilian measures have been announced. to governments offering to pay full salaries to cannot work there is a scramble to inject amounts of money into the system to counter the economic fallout of the pandemic the costs are expected to exceed germany from economic crisis to natural disasters in recent decades as knock downs are implemented with no clear end in sight the real question perhaps is now how long could the world afford this this pandemic has brought the 3rd

spain and italy they were joined by france in calling for a grander plan of action president emanuel mccrone says his country is ready to help it's early in an interview with several italian newspapers he added europe must feel proud and strong because it is but it must indeed go much further this is why i defend budgets solidarity he said in the management of this crisis and its consequences what worries me he went on is the illness of every man for himself if we don't show solidarity italy spain or others would be able to say to the european partners where if you've been when we were at the front i don't want this selfish and dividing europe. here are some of the steps taken by e.u. countries to tackle this pandemic austria france and germany have sent protective masks to italy germany has accepted code with 19 patients from italy and france medical supplies have been stockpiled and the export of protective equipment from the block banned the e.u. is spending more than $155000000.00 on the search for a virus vaccine as well as treatment and testing the european central bank is buying $8400

stop as you can see for yourself this week's protests with demonstrators saying they want president mccrone to realize that they have not gone away around 2000 police officers have been deployed to disperse the activists that rally coming a day before french voters head to the polls to vote in local elections which are still going ahead despite. crisis exactly 20 minutes past 11 moscow time this late saturday evening ahead another whistle blower steps out the shadows with allegations against the international chemical weapons watchdog more than on the latest claims against the o.p.c. . special times require. so much of what's going down around the world a big surprise for those of you watching us here. you see every passage is a death of something all passages involve some kind of conflict between where one is trying to reconstitute the old way of doing things but it doesn't work as a therapist i'm often working with people in those in between so again i think the key is how do i find my path through all of this and where do i find innocent those moments we have to start beginning to trust

stopped this week's protests though as you can see with demonstrators saying they want president mccrone to realize that they have not gone away around 2000 police offices have been deployed to disperse the activists rally comes a day before french voters head to the polls to vote in local elections which are still going ahead despite the coronavirus crisis. and the whistleblowers calling out the international chemical weapons watchdog who can report is now the 4th person than in a matter of months all casting doubt on the o.p.c. w.'s investigation into alleged 2018 chemical attack in syria's duma the anonymous employee this time describes an atmosphere of fear within the organization. working in the organization has been eye opener and the cause of deep professional shame when i became aware of how a key element of the organization was and clearly continues to be mismanaged i am one of many who were stunned and frightened into silence by the reality of how the organization operates the threat of personal harm is not an illusion or else many others would have spoken out by now just to re

hopes to avoid becoming the next italy france is also taking some action french president manual mccrone took to twitter and announced president trump and 7 other world leaders are planning a virtual conference next week to discuss the covert $1000.00 response nepal's government announced it's shutting down mt everest and it's canceling all climbing permits through april 30th china had already canceled expeditions on the tibet side of that mountain meanwhile in greece the olympic torch always late in a limpia took place on thursday but the torch relay is temporarily suspended due to large crowds showed up but will still be delivered to tokyo organizers on the 19th of march president of the international olympic committee thomas batch said athletes are still encouraged to continue preparations for the 2020 tokyo olympics while working with authorities to take the necessary measures to contain the coronavirus. many measures being taken by years so many governments in the sororities around the world to contain the virus and now 19 weeks before the games. are also making good use of these ti

distribute them to health professionals and to french people infected with the coronavirus president mccrone said on twitter. how does era. breaking news for you know 3 separate attacks in afghanistan have left more than a dozen people say it's all the raids took place in the couldn't do this region 15 soldiers were killed in an attack on a base in cat meanwhile 4 police officers were killed in a separate attack and the 3rd saw 10 border patrol officers kidnapped it's. more amat when we get sets from either emergency crews searching through the rubble of collapsed buildings for missing people after tornadoes hit the u.s. state of tennessee at least 25 people have been killed dozens of buildings destroyed charlotte dallas has more. in airy cool to take shelter for tennessee residents the siren warns of illumine tornadoes. this is one moving through downtown nashville but there were multiple tornadoes early tuesday morning throughout the state of tennessee oh my. mother building right next to us was blown off in our rough for our our wall mendoza. our real hotel below us was ripped off and it

france has become the 3rd european country to impose a nationwide walk down president emmanuel mccrone ordered citizens to stay home for at least 2 weeks saying the country is facing a public health war almost 150 people in france have died from the corona virus. researchers in the united states have begun human trials of a potential corona virus vaccine for people received injections on monday even if the trials are successful a vaccine is unlikely to be available for at least a year. european football's governing body away from has confirmed the postponement of the euro 2020 tournament until next year it hopes that the move will allow domestic leagues to complete their seasons and minimize the pandemics financial impact on football club. this is e.w. news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter or you can visit our website that's d.w. dot com all right before we take a break the world famous cellist yo-yo ma has seen many of his concerts cancelled his venue's around the world no surprise are being forced to close but while cities may slowly shut down artists like him are us

france says it's seizing stocks of facemasks as cases of the infection sort french president emanuel mccrone says authorities will redistribute the mass to health professionals and those already infected with the coronavirus now this as the world health organization mourns that protective gear supplies used in fighting the corona virus are running out globally worldwide the total number of cases is now over 92000 although over half of those have recovered more than 3100 patients have died with the majority of those in china meanwhile in hong kong the corona virus has forced people to either self quarantine or work from home on instructions of their employers tonight we look at one family dealing with confinement at home so we have some advice. about fall back surprised hours ready for a possible walk down water you know very special you know the our family have been spending a lot of time indoors as the city battles to contain the coronavirus parents have a bottle with boredom on their hands my. being read out for. a week to 2 weeks alone. with schools closed the children digging into studie

local elections as the country declared its largest spike in coronavirus deaths president to manu mccrone defended the move saying it disciplined health on democracy 100 pound. i am the guarantor of the safety and health of our fellow citizens of the democratic wife of our country i think it's important to vote at times like these to have this discipline to respect these rules because i think it is important to continue to be with the free citizens. the 1st round turnout was historically low less than 50 percent and significant drop on numbers from the previous voting 2014 now to try and calm fears of solitary measures were up to polling stations with free gel and science being regularly just infected france has over 5000 confirmed cases of the virus now and 127 deaths paris may have to close non-essential public spaces that just in the last and restaurants president mccraw and said look down is not imminent but mass gatherings have been banned across the country and left many questioning why the local elections still went ahead. i wore glasses my own i have my indeed so we'll see. if the

the production of protective gear for key workers on the coronavirus front line including facemasks mccrone was visiting a plant run by france's leading mask producer. ford and general electric say that they will produce 50000 emergency ventilators in the next 100 days they will join carmaker g.m. in the race to repurpose factory lines to produce ventilators hospitals across the u.s. are urgently seeking the devices as they deal with an onslaught of coronavirus patients . and again a is to become the 1st german city to make facemasks obligatory as of next week the new rule will apply to shops public transport and buildings with foot traffic the move was initiated by local business owners in a authorities say the key workers will be a quipped locals can use scarves or homemade masks. the tokyo summer olympics has been postponed for a year but not now a new law banning she's made but not a new law banning smoking in the japanese capitol is one of the world's last major cities where people can still smoke cigarettes at restaurants people's not much longer as it turns out because on wednesday a

rose by 28 percent on thursday tracing the spread of the virus is vital for controlling it president mccrone is one of several world leaders joining g 20 talks remotely hoping for a global approach to the pandemic on the same conference call the russian president vladimir putin. he believes russia can defeat the virus in less than 3 months with tough measures the country will suspend international flights from friday a moscow will close all shops except pharmacies and grocery stores a day later. in the british capital works continuing to convert a massive exhibition hole into an emergency hospital the number of people in the u.k. who have died from the virus has jumped by more than 100 in a day for the 1st time. the british vacuum cleaner make a dyson has now joined a growing number of technology companies developing ventilators to help the country's health care system for a new great. british woman stark account of having the virus has been shared online cara mannering is 26 weeks pregnant. by. the british government's promise to ramp up testing by the end of the week with hospitals in lond

distribute them to health professionals and to french people infected with the coronavirus president mccrone said on twitter laurie chimes how does it. us federal reserve has cut interest rates by half a percentage point and imagine c. move to protect the economy from the impact of the coronavirus. the virus outbreak is something that will require a multifaceted response there's also room for monetary policy i'm sure policy can be an effective tool to support our overall economic activity we do recognize that recount will not reduce the rate of infection it won't fix a broken supply chain we get that we don't think we have all the answers but we do believe that our action will provide a meaningful boost to the economy. turkish government forces have shot down a syrian fighter jet over it probably it's it's the 3rd will play named downed in 3 days in a campaign which threatens to turn into a confrontation with syria's ally russia the violence in syria's last rebel stronghold is taking an increasingly heavy toll on civilians people are being killed by an explosion in a glib city dozens more we

america now has its own version of the manual mccrone ok a poster child for power for the status quo and almost no one likes them but you can do anything about it ok that's exactly what we're facing here and that's i also said in my introduction you know we're told so much about what this candidate stands for what that candidate stands for but nobody really wants to look at what the voters really want and they want a continuation of 2016 of confronting the elites ok. but you won't learn that on c.n.n. or m s n b c go ahead john. why i think the comparison with america is a very good one because. in france shows that in spite of all the rhetoric that we had in 2016 about the brits it in the rise of trump and so on it shows how strong i won't call it the political center because i don't think that's quite the right word i would say the political cartel ok strong is a good cartel remains and determined a political cartel is to hang on to power in fact i would almost say that the rhetoric of a sort of populist bricks through which some issues use on both sides of the atlantic is almost f

president warning the emergency could last into september and french president emanuel mccrone telling his country we are now at war against the virus that as the european union today shut its borders to all non e.u. citizens trying to cross measures never taken before and measures that resonate all over the world today india closed its iconic monument the taj mahal iran with the 3rd highest number of infections released 85000 prisoners in an effort to combat the viral spread and today the philippines became the 1st nation to shut down its stock exchange indefinitely germany is preparing for a major spike in new infections today plans were approved for the armed forces of the country to begin setting up a new hospital here in berlin to treat up to 1000 patients german chancellor angela merkel spoke earlier this evening after an emergency video conference with other e.u. leaders we discussed a number of different issues and sometimes at 3 day the 1st was that. have agreed with the proposal of the commission to prevent those who are traveling to europe from countries that do not and on t

$127.00 deaths paris move to close not essential public spaces such as cinemas and restaurants present mccrone has said the lockdown though there is not imminent but mass gatherings have been banned across the country that left many questioning why the local elections and still went ahead. i wore glasses i have my own plan i have my indeed some else in. life is a restaurant owner i find it a little unfortunate that we're being asked to close i was struck this months but at the same time well loud to hold elections it's completely contradictory these are 2 decisions that are in my opinion a little irresponsible on the. reasonable and follow the guidelines i think everything should be fine. critics will you sense our actions are taking place in here but i would have preferred if they were given situation we heard from paris based political commentators on brit moore who thinks it was unfair to close restaurants and 7 years while leaving the polling stations nonetheless open. it's ridiculous because what is the name of the democracy being. many people in the would because of the insane to close.

happen in other countries after italy france is the next worst affected country in europe president mccrone urged calm but said his country's epidemic is just beginning france and germany have been relatively restrained in the measures they've imposed so far some school closures and restrictions on sports events and public gatherings spain has closed schools in the capital madrid and suspended its lower house of parliament after an m.p. tested positive and greece has closed all schools and universities for 2 weeks. we're now taking care of the children and the grandparents who are the people with the highest risk is if things get complicated because we have to combine our personal life with our work life it's complicated everyone must prepare to incorporate coronavirus into their daily lives not easy if you're the prime minister of the netherlands who alongside a health official announced a new policy of no handshakes before promptly leaning over and shaking hands. with storage or told. jonah how al-jazeera. course there have been these fears that the outbreak could cause a global recession

distribute them to health professionals and to french people infected with the coronavirus president mccrone said on twitter laurie chimes how does it. the u.s. state of washington is now reporting 9 deaths from the coronavirus research as say the virus may have been circulating in the state for up to 6 weeks undetected in while the u.s. federal reserve has cut interest rates by half a percentage point in an emergency move designed to protect the economy from the impact of the outbreak the virus outbreak is something that will require a multifaceted response there's also a role for monetary policy i'm sure policy can be an effective tool to support our economic activity we do recognize that a recount will not reduce the rate of infection it will fix a broken supply chain we get that we don't think we have all the answers but we do believe that our action low crime a meaningful boost to the economy. david malpass is the president of the world bank group which is giving $12000000000.00 in aid to help with the corona virus outbreak earlier he joined me from washington d.c. i'm hopeful that mone

as it is today called likewise all of that if he can keep it all came his own mccrone started out i hope that he would present a new political vision will be kitty kelley poll on illegal p.c. it says i soon realized he didn't have a political program and citigroup is no question about it and that is one of the reasons i was drawn to the idea of fun at it because it is what i saw happening was a kind of populism even though his populism share some of my values was to open it to completely it was right. and this had moved to kansas i was opposed to late i confident that today one of us will have a seat in the european parliament whether in germany on kerry or elsewhere at the end of the day that's all that matters amy chua's i'd hope that we could stand in france and italy and defense are inevitable i will run next time we'll call it that was a fox. hi everyone i just voted in the european elections you can actually put words in 8 countries so make sure that you've got a new foods have a good day. want to control you know you have them come past and then which initiate you get to that's no

spain for the foreseeable future in france which is on the partial lockdown it sounds like president mccrone when he speaks to the nation tonight isn't going to announce a full lockdown has happened in italy and increasingly in spain as well but as kimberly was just saying there it's about a whole way of life that's really now for the time being. it's if he can't cut can't carry on there for a friend of mine is in southern spain told me this morning that somebody that she knows tried to go for a jog and was fined 500 euros on the spot by a policeman for leaving the house is it's really draconian but it seems to be anything they can think of doing. for the day that's joining us from our london broadcast center. well there are as recorded another big rise in the number of deaths 129 more confirmed on monday amongst those dead was a senior advisor to the assembly of experts there are almost 15000 confirmed cases and there are concerns the pandemic could overwhelm health facilities and the economy struggling under sanctions amos rafi joins me now from tehran zain. leader is there a saying that t

recognized government after reportedly committed to the cease fire after he met with president emanuel mccrone in paris despite a peace conference held in berlin in january fighting is increased in libya as foreign weapons flood in or oil ports are closed and rival alliances wrangling over revenues from africa's largest petroleum reserves forces loyal to half that have been fighting for control of the capital since april last year. european union leaders of war and the turkish president richard type out of the han must respect the 2016 refugee deal after a tense meeting in brussels that of that met both european council president charles mission and nato chief stoltenberg in a bid to drum up support but left without attending a planned news conference turkey contravene the 2016 refugee deal when it opened its northwestern border with greece 10 days ago saying it could no longer cope with the influx of people from syria. but meanwhile germany says it will lead a coalition of european union nations willing to take in unaccompanied refugee children to go see actions are underway to bring in $1500