outbreak outside a shop italy holds the con about in venice and locked down several towns close to milan does this mean for business in italy's most productive industrial region. also coming up u.s. president on its trump is in india on his 1st official visit and he's talking trade and. what come to the business live from berlin i want to get jones good to have you with us. the number of corona virus cases in northern italy is growing at an alarming rate with more than $150.00 cases including several fatalities now being reported in the country's financial and business capital milan major international events such as milan fashion week either scaled back or canceled outright schools and universities are closed and passengers on international trains out of milan being tested for the virus the epicenter of the outbreak is long but authorities there have put several towns under quarantine affecting some 50000 people. from let's bring in our financial market correspondent chelsea delaney who's standing by for us in frankfurt not a lot of course is what frankfurt is to germany it's italy's fi

outside a shop italy holds the carnival in venice and looks down looks down several towns close to milan but this mean for business it is most productive industrial region. also coming up is present on the troubles in india on his 1st official visit and he's talking trade. welcome to the business live from berlin i want to jones good to have you with us the number of coronavirus cases in northern italy is growing at an alarming rate with more than $150.00 cases including several fatalities now being reported in the country's financial and business capital of milan major international events such as milan's fashion week are scaled back all cancelled outright schools and universities are closed and passengers on international trains out of milan are being tested for the virus the epicenter of the outbreak is lumbered the authorities there have put several towns under quarantine affecting some $50000.00 people stocks in milan and in front for chits 3 percent and the latest coronavirus p s. a some silver lining on the business horizon comes from germany 0 institute the latest business climat

if the first half belonged to milan, the second half belonged to milan, the second half was all interrely had the celebrations died down before inter scored again. mattias with the goal that made it 2—2. midway through the second half, they went in front for the first time, courtesy of a looping header. substitute christian erickson was only the width of the cross bar erickson was only the width of the crossbar away from increasing that lead, but in stoppage time the goal that had been threatened for so long arrived. inter are now top of the table and in this form, they may ta ke table and in this form, they may take some shifting. lazio are third in the table after winning at parma where felipe caicedo scored the only goal of the game just before half—time. lazio are a point behind juventus and inter. napoli missed the chance to move into the top half of the table after losing at home to struggling lecce. gianluca la padula scored twice for the visitors. it was marco mancosu who sealed a 3—2 victory with a thunderous free—kick. the result means lecce move three points clear of the re

the famed venice convolute is cut short and some milan fashion week runway shows closed their doors. but the world health organization stopped short of labeling the illness a pandemic on monday saying the virus can still be contained. for the moment we're not regional see the uncle to look over the spread of this by this. you can see a lot of just you see here this is there is this virus part of the petition out through to me tires are we there yet from our system of the market the e.u. has pledged 230000000 euros to support the fight against the virus we stress that. for the moment. w.h.r. has not advised changing up imposing restrictions on other travel or trade italians could continue to face restrictions on them movements however with the prime minister warning residents could be in 4 weeks of lockdown. joining us now from milan italy is bound riegert and bernd i'd like to begin by asking you what measures authorities there have been put in place in order to prevent the spread of this virus. but the city is 2nd biggest city of italy milan this very empty now because all schools a

milan. one person has tested positive for credit virus and nigeria the 1st case to be diagnosed in sub-saharan africa by jerry's health minister says the patient is an italian citizen who arrives from milan after going to istanbul the minister says prevention measures will focus on the country's major ports we have started working to identify all the contacts of the patient. since the nigeria and even those who were with him on the aircraft. we have been in touch with the craft authority. to find out who you see meets with where. well still ahead on al jazeera caught in the conflict the reality of lots of people in libya's capital. scientists detect the 2nd largest blast in space since that time we speak to an astrophysicist called. hello there some rain still and calls you into central areas of china or fake out a picture on the satellite there is some rain as well with this same system work its way gradually across into western areas of japan heavy at times although most of it actually rea

what is milan like?ssandro: it is quiet. it feels like august. all of those reports from yesterday saying supermarket shelves are empty, this is a bit exaggerated in my view. guy: if we do see the italian authorities taking a firm hand with the virus and they have shut 10 towns down today, you have a quiet milan, is the risk of recession growing in nearly -- growing in italy? alessandro: i do think so, especially coming out of the fourth-quarter gdp. we are already starting from a week momentum. they have not isolated but restricted 27 million people in the north. that is going to have a negative impact on production, on retail, on consumption and tourism, which already were week going into this -- were weak going into this quarter. guy: what would it meet -- vonnie: what would it mean for the italian government which is already on fragile footing? this is another blow to the prime minister. alessandro: there are critics in terms of the how the situation has been handled. the have restricted outbreak of

a british expat who lives and works in milan. catherine, thanks for joining catherine, thanks forjoining us, just tell us what you do and how have you been affected by this? hi, i'm actually an english foreign language teacher in milan and i haven't been directly affected by it in terms of being this sick or anything, but the whole city seems to be ona anything, but the whole city seems to be on a bit ofa anything, but the whole city seems to be on a bit of a lockdown, sol suppose i might have some problems coming back to england, may be. and do you teach adults, but has the school been closed ? do you teach adults, but has the school been closed? yes and i teach also in the public sector and they we re also in the public sector and they were planning to be closed from the weekend but, on monday, there was a bit of a complicated situation because no one really knew what was happening with the private schools and at the one that i was working for on monday, they opened as usual and then they were shut down in the

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the cathedral in milan is closed milan's biggest theater is also closed you're seeing gyms closing but you are still seeing public transportation working obviously more traffic because people are trying to use public transportation less. people are still going around and going about their business trying to not get into panic mode over the weekend, of course, you did see the obvious concerns coming up for families and for people scrambling to get food supplies just in case a lockdown situation were to happen, in fact, in the middle of the city. so of course food running out, supplies running out, hand sanitizers, masks, pasta, bread. you know, all of these supplies obviously running very low e-commerce being difficult to get. it's obviously been a big pressure on the system if you are trying to use e-commerce it's been difficult to get things sent home so you are seeing this is because we're at the this becaur at the very beginning. people, probably because we are accustomed to the idea of what can happen with the virus, seeing what happened in china, people are being very careful abou

nicolo joins us from milan. you are outside italy's red zone, outside milan.s an area where it is the worst. so you are outside of that, but daily life has certainly been clearly affected for you. tell us about what you are dealing with as your sort of red zone neighbors have a 14-day quarantine and things that are obviously more extreme. what are you dealing with? >> good afternoon. first of all, i would like to send a positive message. i live in the center of milan, so the red zone is around 40 miles out. what i have to say is that the government has been taking some precautions, measures to make sure that we don't have a huge contagion as well in the milan area. obviously we're going through some restrictions, so in my area, we don't have, you know, very significant ones in the sense that at this moment, they've been closing some bars, pubs and movie theaters and theaters in general. what also the government is trying to do is to sort of avoid having people gather in places where it's quite crowded, so to make sure the contagion doesn't get worse. >> we're

well kim here in downtown milan we're just in front of the central railway station it's not really a sense of panic people are taking precautions there is a sense of alarm but there are people out and about now it's much emptier this time of day on a weekday event it would usually be but there are still out and about in a lot of them some of them are wearing masks but a lot of them are not all that being said though 'd people are 'd concerned because just in the past week you had just a handful last week of cases of corona virus cases in northern italy and just in the past few days it is spiked and now we're told just in the past few hours from authorities that number is now over 225 people who've been infected now the mayor of milan has urged people not to panic one of the reasons for that is because there have been videos going around of social media today purporting to show grocery store shelves that have been raided panic buying essentially going on the mayor of milan earlier in the day stated that people should not panic why should not read shelves here but he also stated that t

>> i am flying to milan thursday.t i think there have been a couple cancellations and people -- fear is contagious, people are going to stock up on food at the store just like they might on flights, that has a lot to do with it, just fear and spreading of fear through mass media. melissa: nobody is going to china right now, the flights have been canceled. but if you look at end of summer to next year there are great deals for package trips, would you take the chance. do you think things will be back to normal? >> i think there is a possibility it is hard to say, but, spring and early summer is peak travel season in asia, if you get a really good deal it might be worth the risk if you can get a refundable airfare and/or package deal. melissa: if you buy refund you could check and see what it is like before you go. a big fear i hear is fear of getting back, not that they are afraid they will catch it, but they are afraid they will go and say you have have a fever or something you get trapped or quarantined is that fear

many of them in or around milan. >> oh, look at this. we've got so many medicines in here. >> reporter: rosella's family isn't sick, but they can't leave the city limits. the usually busy town was put on lockdown. >> oh, there are people queueing over there. that's a pharmacy. a cafe. i go there with my friends. then you can see it really, really looks like a ghost town. >> reporter: italy's government is trying to clamp down on the spread of coronavirus. models walked the armani fashion show in front of just cameras. and soccer teams competing in empty stadiums. >> we feel like we're in prison. so please, please try to understand the situation we're in. because you could be in this situation. >> reporter: meanwhile, flights from italy continue to arrive in the united states. mauricio landed in new york on a direct flight from milan. he says when he arrived in lael there were screenings. but when he arrived at jfk. >> nobody asked me. >> reporter: nothing special. >> i was surprised that there wasn't nay control. especially because we fl

you see pictures of airplanes flying to milan and confirmed with 8 people onboard, and they shut down festivals in venice, then you hear about other countries. it tends to feed on its. but i want to be clear about something, at the highs last week in 14 months. the nasdaq was about 58%. and dow up 36%. that is like 5 years of gains, so, the market is supposed to be two steps up one step down, not 5 steps up no step down, i think it will happen no matter what. but this is happening because of this. events. >> china's economy of already hurting before the coronavirus emerged. and i think what is -- i think it is bigger david than just the coronavirus, i think there is a concern among investor in world that china may not be this safe haven that people thought it was. people are losing confidence that this is a reliable source in the bloc chain, chain of supply, i think you will see mere companies moving out of china, i think it is a china problem, but it goes beyond coronavirus, i heard you say, david, maybe you know communist countries don't know how to deal with this kind of crisis, i

i was flying from london to milan yesterday.hen we arrived in milan, of course, i had hong kong stamps on my passport, i had been to tokyo as well. but no one asked about any travel history and no one took my temperature. one of my colleagues, they did take her temperature. but there was some inconsistencies. no one asked my my tlafl histra history so i was able to travel here to italy without anyone asking me that many detailed questions about where i had machine and that's the big worry is that i can travel from here back to london, to paris, to frankfort. most places in europe without getting stopped. that's what european officials will have to grapple with in coming days. >> molly hunter in that absolutely beautiful square in milan. thank you for being with us today. >>> coming up, south carolina or bust, can joe biden count on the african-american vote in south carolina to push him to a much-needed victory? you're watching "andrea mitchell reports." stay with us right here on msnbc. so you can bring your vision to life and

mark lowen, bbc news, milan.r children went on trips to northern italy during half term. anyone returning from 11 quarantined towns in the northern italian regions of lombardy and veneto — is being told they must now self—isolate, at home, for 1h days. those arriving from hubei province in china, iran and some parts of south korea — all shown here in orange — must do the same. but travellers who've been to other parts of those countries — affected regions shown in yellow — only need to self—isolate if they develop symptoms of the virus. 0ur medical correspondent fergus walsh reports. this morning, myself and 90 other students from my school have been sent home to be self—isolated. bethann‘s school in nantwich, cheshire should be teeming with activity, but its entire sixth form has been closed after students returned from a skiing trip in italy, which also impacts parents... i understand that this is a precautionary measure and that the school have to act upon information given to them and guidance from the govern

supporters will be allowed in the stadium atjuventus, milan and others. correlate with the outbreak of the disease in northern italy at the moment and the quarantine towns in lombardi and the neto. the most high—profile match to be affected this coming weekend is one between two title contenders. juventus, the leaders by third placed inter and a huge game on sunday but there will not be anyone inside the grounds to watch the petitioner only sees a defining match. the fixture in the europa league for milan is going to be played behind closed doors, they lead to having zero on aggregate in that competition. also heard the la st that competition. also heard the last me for hours about two major championships which have been postponed and they both were due to ta ke postponed and they both were due to take place in south korea which has the largest number of confirmed cases of coronavirus outside of china. the road speed skating championships in seoul and the world table tennis team championships in pusan and the south the country have been called out. you se

milan, italy is not in the middle of nowhere.nd in the coming days, can stain -- constrained travel in italy, across continental europe and for that matter, in seoul, korea? dr. hotez: people are struggling with how to respond. yesterday the border with austria, the train between northern italy and austria was closed for a while and then was opened. there were discussions about whether to do this in france, switzerland, so i could easily envision that. i don't know that it would have much of an impact in terms of preventing the spread of the epidemic you can imagine the level of instability that will cause and i think it is why we declines in to see some of the european markets this morning so i am very worried, not only from a health perspective but from a global stability and economic perspective as well. francine: if we focus on the virology of this, what do you know, how do you stop this? because we are very limited in terms of data and we know that you can spread it without having any symptoms, how do we deal with it? dr. ho

mark lowen, bbc news, milan.nning, the outbreak has sparked sharp falls on stock markets in europe and the us. in new york, the dowjones index has slumped more than 6% since opening on monday. let's get the latest from the bbc‘s mariko oi, in singapore, who's following the market reaction in asia for us. it is not looking too good at all in asia. many markets in the red. it is not as sharp as wall street but that is because asian markets have been reacting to the coronavirus outbreak for almost a month now, unlike wall street. they are extending their losses from tuesday. the nikkei fell by 3% yesterday. the japanese currency is yesterday. the japanese currency is seen as yesterday. the japanese currency is seen as a yesterday. the japanese currency is seen as a safe currency is seen as a safe currency by traders so, at a time of crisis and uncertainty, it gets stronger and that is bad news for the country's exporters because it makes them less competitive. and that is why the nikkei has been hit quite high. the

you see lots of people are still outside milling together about an hour from milan that is the red zone there are 50,000 people that have been essentially fenced in. for 14 days they can move in the red zone but they cannot get out. >> the measures taken by the italian government or regional governments is have been strong and most likely should contain this virus as good as possible >> reporter: the real concern is europe's porous border from milan you can take a train to frankfurt, paris, in a day but whose responsibility is it to check people getting on or off the train? a lot of coordination. italian authorities with their european counterparts to figure out how to both contain the outbreak in italy and stop the spread across europe molly hunter, nbc news, milan. >>> seven democratic candidates took the debate stage one last time before the south carolina primary. they got their chance to weigh in on the deadly coronavirus outbreak many of them criticized the president's response to the situation. >> the president fired the pandemic specialist in this country two years ago. so there

mark lowen, bbc news, milan.e deputy health minister, who had denied that his country had a problem with the virus, has now said he's tested positive for coronavirus. it prompted an allegation from the trump administration that the iranians were covering up the full extent of the outbreak. 0ur correspondent rana rahimpour from bbc persian has the latest. here in tehran, the authorities spray disinfectant outside the home of a man who has died from the coronavirus. 0fficially, 16 people have died and 95 are infected. but many believe the real figures to be far higher. on monday, iran's deputy health minister, here on the left, publicly denied a cover—up while he himself looked unwell. 2a hours later, he took to twitter to reveal he had been diagnosed with the virus. translation: i would like to inform you that i also have got corona. i had fever from yesterday. my primary test results came up positive last night, and since then, i have isolated myself. in the capital, tehran, shoppers have been panic buying. pharm

the region worst affected is lombardy around milan.ayor said schools are closing as well as universities, libraries and museums. "it's just a precaution," he added. "we don't want to create panic." an armani fashion show in milan is going ahead without any buyers or press. the two regions worst hit make up 30% of the italian economy. cheering. nearby venice has been lit up by its famous carnival this week. but with cases growing in the area, it will now be cut short. the priority for the government is to identify how the outbreak has jumped so suddenly and to stop the spread to elsewhere in italy and europe. with some suggesting borders should now be closed. and while the number of cases continues to rise, the message of reassurance becomes harder to sell. mark lowen, bbc news, rome. the refugee crisis in the syrian province of idlib has been described as the biggest humanitarian horror story of the century. nearly a million people have fled their homes in the latest government offensive. amjad yamin from save the children described th

inter milan are the new serie a leaders after an incredible comeback in the milan derby.em top. but going into half time it was all going wrong — zlatan ibrahimovic doubling ac milan's lead just before the break. that lead was wiped out just after the restart, with inter scoring twice in as many minutes — matias vecino with the goal that made it 2—2. inter then turned the game around with stefan de vrij‘s goal, before romelu lukaku sealed the win that puts them top — ahead ofjuventus on goal difference. in spain, real madrid remain three points clear of barcelona at the top of la liga, after wins for both teams. they had to come from behind to win after unai garcia put osasuna in front after only 1a minutes. real turned it round with goals from isco and sergio ramos in a five—minute spelljust before the break. and added two more in the last five minutes — with lucas vazquez and luka jovic completing a a—1win. you won't be used to seeing these two wear green and gold, but brian lara and sachin tendulkar were amongst the cricketing legends that came together in melbourne fo

if you have also been outside of milan into a small town, i gather. was that like?” went to visit a friend who just came over from brazil went to visit a friend who just came overfrom brazilfor a went to visit a friend who just came over from brazil for a couple went to visit a friend who just came overfrom brazilfor a couple of weeks, but i'm not really sure what her situation's going to be no aid. we went to see her for a dinner and we just found out there is a case there. so it is completely new information but it is a little bit worrying. and is there any information as to why italy has got s0 information as to why italy has got so many cases? no, i think that is the biggest fear, is that it's com pletely the biggest fear, is that it's completely unknown, there is no patient zero right now, so i think that fear has kind of escalated very, very fast because of that. we don't have any idea, because the patients that have been confirmed don't have any direct contact with the country that is already inflicted with the virus. is your sense that the hea

to d day life has come to a stanandstill in the quarantitine towns in the north of the tree and in milan schools have closed. thank you and i must say without exaggerating then yes crowded places i wear a mask i use my start. any case we must be careful. the city's cathedral is also off limits to visitors as well as less gonna opera house. it won't be staging live performances for the time being but streaming them via video instead. what you will develop and sell on the corona virus for you. next to trump's at the taj mahal. that's who the-- heaeadline imae of donald trump's first d day in the e in the company the first lady the us president opposing offense at indian monument all stuff. will be a trumpet adaddress to one hundred thousad crowded a cricket g ground in gujarat state he said india has a spececial place in american home. visit is very much of an offensive trump and his indian counterpart avenger moti. into the cap eyes on hold france. especially politically. what do off at the time mahal. the us president and first lady strolled around the unesco world heritage sites. a few

mark lowen, bbc news, milan.e second day running, the outbreak has sparked sharp falls on stock markets in europe and the us. in new york, the dowjones index has slumped more than six per cent since opening on monday. let's get the latest from the bbc‘s mariko oi, in singapore, who's following the market reaction. what is going on? you talked about the dow jones what is going on? you talked about the dowjones losing almost 6% since monday, that is down now nearly 2000 points, and that basically means it wiped out all of the gains from this year. here in asia as well, we are seeing japan's nikkei extending their losses today. they were down by more than 3% yesterday and all of the markets including south korea's index and the australian or lords. the tricky thing for the australian market is the japanese yen is seen as a safe haven currency. there is a safe haven currency. there is a time of crisis like this, if the currency goes up and gets stronger, that is bad news for japanese x quarters because it makes them

and now ben wedeman joins us from milan. after significant problems with italy's early containment efforts what's the latest on that? >> reporter: well, what we've seen here in milan, for instance, rosemary, is that on a normal day it's just after 8:00 a.m. in the morning this road would be full of traffic but now it is relatively quiet if not somewhat empty. what we've seen is that so far the latest statistics are that 322 people have contracted the coronavirus. there was one new fatality yesterday, bringing that number to 11. the victim was a 76-year-old woman with previous medical conditions. now, just south of here about 60 kilometers a so-called red zone has been set up where nobody can leave or enter. the police and the army have been deployed to make sure that people stay in place. here in milan we've seen a combination of sort of life as normal oddly and in other respects life completely chan d changed. the pigeons outnumber the tourists in milan's piazza del duomo. it's less than an hour's drive from one of the so-c

for more we are joined from milan by d.w. correspondent regard so back walk us through what the italian authorities are doing right now in order to extend the measures to contain the coronavirus. the government tries to restrict the movement of italians especially here in the laws and in specially in long body which is the center of the industrial production in italy and also the economic center. is a center of tourism and these measurements of measures that lead to the fact that the square behind me is more or less empty it's very it would be very crowded on a normal day you know there are only a few tourists and a few shop us here because all of the rest runs the bars the shops universities offices everything is mall is closed and locked out on the government wants to avoid the spread of the virus but it doesn't help obviously because now we have this 1st case in public at a mall in sicily and this case comes from a man who was from the north traveling to the solace and now that the cases are no longer isolated to the north

here in milan, majortourist is calling on 5700 medics to help.ist sites, like the duomo, the cathedral behind me, had been closed due to fears about spread of the virus. nothing like we have seen in the far east but these places have been shot here. today is mardi gras shrove tuesday. the venice carnival should be on its climactic day that is not happening because of fears about the disease. we had just come today from the exclusion zone, the red zone, the exclusion zone, the red zone, the towns which have been quarantined off, where people have been told to stay at home and the police are not letting them through for fear of spread, the atmosphere is very strange. people have been speaking to the bbc by phone. in towns round about, there is a real sense that pa rfaits towns round about, there is a real sense that parfaits are shut, businesses are closed and i were real fears that this disease will have a significant impact on the italian economy because northern italy is the powerhouse of italy in places like milan and the whole region are being

milan fashion week also fell victim on money closed its runway show to the crowds. leaving giorgio staring at empty seats. the venice carnival was cut short to over the weekend the italian prime minister sought to allay fears and said there were no plans to close the borders. i will start the movie so eager to moment there are no preconditions for requesting the milk turning the suspension of the schengen treaty and the suspension of the free movement of people. through a loop of sort of italy is now the european frontier of this disease whether it remains that we will depend in large part on the success of its response and correspondence in a good tent joins us now from rome seem out what's the situation in the north around milan because we're hearing that 10 towns 50000 people are under quarantine there. yes absolutely i mean he's 10 towns these it's the focus area the rich so if you like they're on lockdown they cannot eat and no one can and that means the risk if they do that they miss a fine or either a rest and we've got police on patrol around this area turni

comes from the band began to milan and comes ponton seem a good time in rome welcome both a song with better tell us more about how italian authorities are extending measures to control to contain the spread of covert 90. 3 telling government has put in place some rather drastic measures 5500 schools are closed in the regions of long body and beneteau all universities are closed many shops are closed restaurants bars carnival processions have been canceled the government tries to prevent movement and travel the population as good as can it also a big masses of people should prevent it because they're the coronavirus could spread easily also the 2nd largest city of italy right now is $1300000.00 people is affected there less people on the street people stay at home there are less tourists coming to the city but it's a kind of hibernation the north of italy is in right now so same. coronavirus same deal on. all the regions to come up with this coordinate roache as far as europe his consent do know that france germany and switzerland have to keep those board this openness to concert beli

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in an interior than usual downtown milan a sense of anxiety but no signs of panic amid the 1st major coronavirus outbreak in europe landmarks like to do more cathedral and less scala opera house have been closed temporarily. the headline screams out virus the great fear even though fear at least for now isn't all that apparent yes schools have been shut down but this vegetable market remains open. so let me up at the action you can have but i didn't i didn't see any danger is we're working a lot of the people are not leaving their houses and they call us and we bring their shopping t. them that's the way we're working at the moment milan's mayor says the main mission now is contain the possible further spread of the virus and that while numbers of those infected have indeed been going up that could be because health officials are proactively looking for new cases he also urged residents not to clear supermarket shelves but videos posted on social media like this one suggest that advice may be falling on deaf ears in northern italy the number of coronavirus cases continues to surge ev

now, the news in milan is actually pretty subdued.ore traffic than usual because people aren't taking, obviously, the public transports. there was less traffic in terms of trains. almost 40% less traffic is registered in terms of trains. but still, people were going to work the big businesses here have taken measures to allow smart work so people can stay home and work from home they have cancelled any big events as you were talking a few minutes ago about the fashion week, well, that was actually close to ending. so the last fashion shows were held behind closed doors some events have been -- some big fairs have been cancelled that they usually have this time of year in milan clearly, the concern is how long will this last what kind of impact will it have on the longer term to give you an idea about what happened with markets, we did see the markets have its seventh worst day since september 11 the strong decline over five percentage points with, of course, luxury suffering and banks, clearly gives you an idea that this is a very emo

udinese, ac milan, parma and sassuolo are also affected.ted by the outbreak. 0rganisers say they're monitoring the situation. italy's men and women's teams travel to ireland in a fortnight before hosting england in the final round. staying with the six nations, wales will be without winger josh adams for the rest of the tournament. he's having surgery on his ankle this week after picking up the injury in their defeat against france on saturday. adams was wales' top scorer at the world cup and could be out for three months. a big night in the champions league last 16 and, in two and a half hours, frank lampard's chelsea take on bayern munich at stamford bridge. the german top flight leaders are one of the favourites to win the tournament and lampard has warned his players they could suffer in tonight's first leg. bayern were last in london four months ago and beat tottenham 7—2 in the group stages. former arsenal player serge gnabry scored four that night. i think i've said it many times, i didn't expect to come back to north london and scor

inter came from behind to beat asee milan 4—2.2—nil up just before half time. that's his third goal since returning to milan but in the second half, inter fought back to equaliase, with two goals in two minutes, before they went in front. stefan de vry with the goal. then the former manchester united striker, romelu lukaku added a fourth goal in stoppage time. inter sit top of serie a on goal difference ahead of juventus. england beat south africa by two wickets injohannesburg to win the third one day international and see the series finish 1—all. england put south africa into bat and they set a target of 257. captain quinten de kock leading the way with 69 in reply, joe denley top scored with 66, but a flurry of late wickets saw england's chase wobble a little although they did make it home with 6 overs to spare. moeen ali hitting the winning runs on his return to international cricket, after taking a break from the test arena. france are the ones who sit top of the six nations table, ahead of ireland on points difference. the fr

mark lowen, bbc news, milan.nning, the outbreak has sparked sharp falls on stock markets in europe and the us. in new york, the dowjones index has slumped more than 6% since opening on monday. let's get the latest from the bbc‘s mariko oi, in singapore, who's following the market reaction in asia for us. how is it looking? not too good at all. all of the markets here in asia are in the red from japan, south korea ‘s kospi and the hang seng. the tricky thing about the japanese yen as it is seen as about the japanese yen as it is seen as a about the japanese yen as it is seen as a safe haven. so in times of crisis or uncertainty like this the currency becomes stronger and that is bad news for the country's exporters, it makes them less competitive abroad. that is partly why we're seeing abroad. that is partly why we're seeing japan's nikkei being hit quite hard, sharply. you talked about wall street as well, the dow lost almost 2000 points, wiping of all of the gains of this year. wall street was somewhat slow to r

now be played behind closed doors because of the outbreak across live now to mohammad june ruiz in milan for a sendmail and of course the financial center in many ways of it and certainly of the area where you are tell us a little bit about the impact there and across the northern italian region. so barbara it's an interesting atmosphere here since we arrived earlier today certainly there is a long arm but there is not a real sense of anik here in downtown milan now obviously the streets they are quite a bit today than they normally would be on a weekday and there are major landmarks and tourist attractions like the opera house and like little cathedral they have been temporarily closed it's not exactly clear clear when exactly they will reopen but we're just outside of the central train station here in downtown we're not seeing too many people with masks with facial mass walking around right now there isn't a huge sense of worry there are still shops that are open that are still vendors that are selling in their kiosks here although in the surrounding area there is more of a sense of pa

also the coronavirus takes its economic toll on the world as the normally bustling milan center of tally and fashion comes to a standstill. and you can continually. play the. migrant stories of survival job to the big screen at this year's berlin film festival. welcome to the program turkey says it's attacking all those syrian government targets after it reported 33 of its soldiers have been killed in fighting in the province syrian forces trying to take control of the last rebel held territory nato has called an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis after its chief condemned what he calls indiscriminate asterix by syria and russia and the u.n. secretary general is urging an immediate cease fire. condemn the continued indiscriminate airstrikes by the syrian regime under the shah in providence.

schools and universities are closed officials are testing passengers on international trains out of milan the epicenter of the our break is gone buddy several towns are under quarantine some $50000.00 people were affected. german business morale rose unexpectedly this month shaking off the coronavirus of the evil institute study warns that could change next month as the effects become clearer we asked the research groups team overall the soyuz or what it means for europe with italy reporting new cases i think this will definitely hit the european economy it's probably not yet in the data i mean the survey was conducted in the 1st 2 weeks of february even though at that time we have already been discussing a lot about corona especially in china and i think it will definitely hit the european economy we are very much dependent on china. lots of imports in particular especially for germany imports of intermediate goods are coming from china and if there is a production standstill in china then this would have an impact on production also in germany but also in other countries and i think we

the rest of the milan, lombardi region, right now there is no lockdown but strict measures have been put in place i want to start with the numbers because an update has just come out. the contagion is at 212 cases, so up from the 152 you mentioned. that was the number that was still going around this morning. there also has been one more death, so now the deaths are up to four, but it is important to note that these are all people that were elderly people or with pre-existing conditions. so, what is concerning is not so much right now the number of infections, but it is sort of these measures that have been put into place that are, of course, causing the concern and the reaction that we see on the markets. the measures are, first of all, that schools have been closed, universities are closed, churches have been closed, the biggest cathedral in milan is closed, the biggest theater in milan, la scala suspended all events what the government is asking is to not meet in large groups. so, while schools are functioning both private and public, the recommendation is to stay home if you fear

on to football, and it's all square after the first leg of the coppa italia semi—final between milanilan, who haven't won the cup for 17 years, took the lead after an hour through croatian striker ante rebic. but it started to unravel for the home side when theo hernandez was set off for a second bookable offence 10 minutes later. and they were denied a first leg lead when cristiano ronaldo scored a last—minute penalty forjuve. 1—1 the final score, and the 2nd leg is in turin on 4th march. in spain, real sociedad have the advantage in their copa del rey semi—final. they won 2—1, in the first leg at home to mirandes, of the spanish second tier. on—loan midfielder martin odegaard, who helped knock out parent club real madrid last week, scored the crucial second for sociedad. the second leg is next month. elsewhere, saint—etienne are through to the semi—finals of the french cup. they laboured to a 2—1 victory at fourth—tier side epinal, to seal their place in the last four. golf and matt kuchar leads after the ist round of the genesis open at pacific palisades near los angeles. he shot

bethany bell in milan, thank you. the head of the french public service that there is one new death from coronavirus in france as well as one new case confirmed in the country. that news just in from the head of the french public service. if you're planning a trip to any of ii quarantined towns in italy affected by the coronavirus, the foreign office has some simple advice for you — don't go. it follows the deaths of 11 people there, making it europe's worst affected country. the italian outbreak has also had an impact here, with several schools in england and northern ireland advising staff and students to stay at home after returning from ski trips in northern italy. four schools have completely shut their doors for what's been described as a "deep clean" after pupils returned from the affected areas. one of those closed schools is trinity catholic college in middlesbrough, where a small number of pupils and staff began showing mild flu—like symptoms. hugh heggerty is the ceo of the school's trust. we are pretty muc

runs out i mean i was roaming around milan's sundown nanto district with my gang sign a policeman in civilian clothes saw us stealing a cell phone everyone else took off but it's not the motorcades i was the only one left. there's a delay or fall off the police arrested me and put me in their car. so i thought it was funny at the police station they questioned me but i said nothing. about that. and because i didn't tell them the names of all of the culprits all of the blame fell on me. to i don't touch anything. to put it so i did. order fighting hard with us for full custody. but was convicted of robbery though she says she's never robbed anyone instead of doing time in juvenile detention she was sentenced to spend 17 months at a home for troubled youths 5 without permission to go out on her own. human cells into the thinking that yes i'm going to be on there but i felt i was a disappointment to my family because they hadn't raised me to be that way. but my parents also supported me during that difficult time i was that they never made me feel like a disgrace they always said keep m

south—east of milan, a0 kilometres south—east of milan, remaining under quarantine. affecting around 55,000 people. police have set up roadblocks around the and that is where the outbreak seems to have begun. there is a lot of concern in places like milan, hotels are half empty, cafe and restau ra nts hotels are half empty, cafe and restaurants are not having very many customers and you people out shopping in the streets, fewer tourists. so there is a great deal of concern among the locals that this city and this region, which is so important for every‘s economy, could really start to seriously suffer if this carries on for very much longer. we have heard some words from health officials suggesting that perhaps when the weather starts to get a little bit warmer, which should happen soon, things could start getting better in terms of the contagion. thank you very much, bethany bell in milan. 0ur correspondent fiona trott is in tenerife, in costa adeje, which is where the hotel is where people have been full to stay for a number of days because of the outbreak of the v

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coming up on this programme: christian eriksen is officially an inter milan player and he tells the bbctottenham — they left it late — but did come from behind scoring twice in the final 15 minutes to send mourinho's men into the fifth round of the fa cup. and the kansas city chiefs are welcomed home by thousands of fans after sunday's super bowl win. hello there and welcome to the programme, where we start in italy and new inter milan signing, christian eriksen, says he was the black sheep at tottenham but insists he had to be honest about wanting a new challenge. the danish midfielder admitted to the bbc that he was looking to leave the premier league side following their champions league final defeat to liverpool in june last year. if you have a short contract you will be the black sheep, you will be the guy who — and of course they did the guy who — and of course they did the interview. i was very honest. i thought i had to be honest. i didn't wa nt to thought i had to be honest. i didn't want to hide stuff like a lot of players do stop and of course they work

milan 2 is winding down from the opera house to the cathedral cultural hubs have closed their doors. fashion week true also fell victim armani closed its runway show to the crowd leaving georgia staring at empty seat meanwhile the european union has pledged 230000000 euros to fight the global outbreak he stressed that. for the moment. w.h.r. has not advised changing imposing restrictions on either travel or trade. there was some rest bite for residents of could on you that dubbed at least. authorities open one supermarket after a weekend in lockdown. though going by the queues at me be sold out pretty fast or could earn your is in the italian region of lombardy 10050000 people under quarantine and long but it. is dawn you're welcome bad or good just outside beg your pardon let's start with news of good news news of a breakthrough or thought it is believed there found italy's patient 0 the person at the center of this particular outbreak and they found him or her in could do a new. yeah this is the last checkpoint before you enter could only and down this road there is the hospital of