streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir this is bbc news, our top story this hour: president trump announces funding for thousands more hospital beds for three states worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic. here the prime minister urged the public again to follow the rules for social distancing and help slow the spread of coronavirus. borisjohnson said if this didn't happen — further measures would be brought in. the number of people who have died from the virus in the uk has risen to 281, with 5,683 confirmed cases. 0ur health editor hugh pym has more. outside a fish and chip shop in scarborough today, people enjoying the sun, the local streets busy. it's fair to say social distancing has been variable. this was richmond park in south—west london and in recent days there may well have been confusion over the government's messages on what was and wasn't acceptable in the new world of limiting

streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji.reckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji. onlooker: wow! this is bbc world news, the latest headlines: president trump announces funding for thousands more hospital beds for three states worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic. let's get more now on our top story: i'm joined by professor peter hotez from the baylor college of medicine's national school of tropical medicine in houston texas. let's talk about new york first. the city has 5% of the worlds covid—19 cases. first. the city has 5% of the worlds covid-19 cases. can it cope? that's the big question. it looks like new york city, who would have dreamt a month 01’ who would have dreamt a month or two ago would become one of the epicentres globally for this epidemic. we are hearing stories of 500 or more patients in the major hospitals, the big teaching hospitals, columbia and cornell, at least 2000 hospitalised so far at around 500 in intensive care units. let's just the beginning. 500 in intensive care units. let'sjust th

. >> now, a relatively students at mir ra vista. the students are now quarantined at home but the schools are staying home. the student have not been in contact with the relative for more than a week. >>> students will go back to school today at san francisco's lowell high school. they were sent home early last thursday after a parent at lowell high school was diagnosed with the coronavirus. that student has been tested and does not have the virus. all students, staff, and faculty have been told to stay home if you don't feel good. and all events have been cancelled until at least march 22nd. >>> the berkley unified school district has cancelled all concerns. and the performing art its show case on march 22nd. the school superintendent is also recommending that school assemblies, performances as well as pta events will stay home >>> more colleges are cancelling classes on campuses. cal state east bay is cancelling all classes. all lecture, discussion and seminar sessions are moving  online with the first sessions beginning on mond

and many heading to a plane to the mir ran mar naval station and many not wearing protection gear a sharp con tretrast to th helping them and some quarantined in georgia. some waving getting off the buses. it will continue through the week with many more passengers still on the cruise ship. >> we have not received any luggage tags yet or instructions but waiting patiently. >> reporter: terry risheresa rod her husband were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary. >> our bags are still packed and ready to go. we see people and know people are there. we see our helicopters and coast guard. gosh, we're here, we're on the ship still. >> reporter: the couple thankful for what comforts they do have, like fruit and water delivered to their room daily. hot meals. >> they're fabulous. it's great food. we just need more exercise. >> reporter: even the sound of news helicopters. >> it feels good to talk to you and your crew and just know that californians are really supporting us. >> reporter: an unlikely trip for so many that's not over yet. >> the plane just over my shoulder will be the next one

chants streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji.ump announces funding for thousands more hospital beds for three states worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic. let's get more now on our top story. i'm joined from california by dr krutika kuppalli, an infectious diseases physician from the johns hopkins university centre for health security. doctor, so great for you to join us. the us government is promising to do more testing, first evolved. what kind of numbers are needed and when? so, we definitely needed tests yesterday, so, that has been a problem for getting people tested. as of today, the united states has done over 225,000 has with 311,000 positive cases. however, that is still not enough. we need more patients to be tested to get a better idea of where things stand with the coronavirus epidemic. would you ideally need 300 million tests, one for every person in the country? in an ideal world. i don't think that many, as we have other tests like serology coming online, but not infected and develop and antibody response, i don't

chants streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji.e latest headlines: the death toll in italy has seen another dramatic rise — nearly 800 people have died in the last 2a hours from coronavirus, the highest total anywhere in the world since the outbreak began. in spain there's also been a big rise in the death toll — an increase of more than 300 people, bringing the total number of deaths there to more than 1,300. authorities in the chinese city of wuhan have begun removing some of the checkpoints installed to enforce a strict lockdown since january in an effort to halt the spread of coronavirus. the checkpoints started coming down after no new cases of the virus were recorded for a third straight day. other parts of china are also easing restrictions as stephen mcdonell reports from beijing. countries around the world are going through a coronavirus emergency. but in china people have been living at four months. now, with the weather turning good, and a feeling that the situation is pretty much under control, more and more of them are

chants streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji.ines: the death toll in italy has seen another dramatic rise — nearly 800 people have died in a 24—hour period from coronavirus — the highest total anywhere in the world since the outbreak began. in spain there's also been a big rise in the death toll — an increase of more than 300 people, bringing the total number of deaths there to more than thirteen hundred. more than a billion people in india are being asked to stay at home to avoid spreading the coronavirus. reports from delhi and other big cities say a majority of people are observing the unprecedented 14—hour long cu rfew. the bbc‘s zubair ahmed is in delhi and joins us now. have been finding out, a i have been finding out, it is a complete lockdown. the city of delhi is like a ghost city and people are observing this self—imposed curfew which was requested. there was a televised address to the nation on thursday. streets, czars and metro stations, railway stations are all completely shut down. —— bazaars. stations are all compl

when the soviet union broke up into separate states but many russians including the president of the mir putin were unhappy with this. russia is determined to keep its alleged abuse of human rights away from public scrutiny. as the only indigenous group still openly opposing the tradition russia sees this muslim minority as a threat. india knocks down more than 1000000000 people ordered to stay home as the number of confirmed coronavirus cases tops 300000 worldwide. i'm caravel this is all just there a lot from doha also coming up the straightly as prime minister promises to accept a papal flocks to a popular beach despite warnings to avoid large gatherings. gaza confirms its 1st coronavirus cases threatening to taxi.

in his 7th goal of the campaign things didn't improve for cologne after the break central defender mir a attempted to clear the ball but instead fired it right past his own goal keeper to mohun doubling the lead for glove box. 10 minutes later cologne did manage to pull one back after yon summer had his own blunder the bad pass found mark who didn't waste the gift weaving through traffic in scoring colognes only goal of the match. though held on to the lead and got the 21 victory moving up to 4th in the standings. amid the coronavirus lockdown the olympic flame for the 2020 tokyo games was lit in a limpia the ancient home of the olympic games spectators were banned from the ceremony as an actress dressed as an ancient greek high priestess lift the flame using the rays of the sun the flame will travel around greece on a weeklong relay before being handed over to the tokyo organizers next week and so far organizers and the international olympic committee have insisted that the games will go ahead as planned. coming up next on news asia india's government announces new travel restrictions

couldn't run again in 2008 but he stayed center stage he became prime minister while his close ally dmitri mir feared if was president 4 years later putin returned to the presidency for a 3rd time he serves 6 years after presidential term limit was extended that victory was followed by protests alleging voter fraud after his landslide reelection victory 2 years ago his 4th term is supposed to end in 4 years' time. let's bring in our panel of guests to discuss this further in moscow we have victor all of it she's expert at the center for actual politics in paris serge agree f. is a professor of economics at the paris institute for political studies widely known as seamless poor and with me is there a mcdowell he's the principal russia analyst at the global risk consultancy various maple thought welcome to you all welcome to inside story let's start in moscow because this story is taking place in moscow victor explain to us what has happened in the last 24 hours. sensually the. new constitutional amendments were to be added to the for the 1993 russian constitution. was. new. to it with the state

chants streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji.latest headlines: the death toll in italy has seen another dramatic rise. nearly 800 people have died in a 24—hour period from coronavirus, the highest total anywhere in the world since the outbreak began. in spain, there has also been a big rise in the death toll, an increase of more than 300 people bringing the total number of deaths there to more than 1,300. brazil's largest state, sao paulo, is closing down for two weeks from tuesday to help fight the virus. all non—essential businesses and services, including bars and restaurants, will shut. the state is home to around 46 million people and is brazil's business, industrial and financial powerhouse. there are more than a thousand cases of the virus in the country. the bbc‘s katy watson has the latest from sao paulo. been a lockdown already. shopping centres have been closed, pharmacies, restau ra nts, closed, pharmacies, restaurants, some restaurants, you go out onto the streets and people, there are very few people, there are very

chants streaking across the sky, the white—hot wreckage from mir drew gasps from onlookers on fiji.st headlines: money for more hospital beds and coronavirus tests — president trump outlines more federal help to tackle the pandemic. here in uk, the prime minister says advice on social distancing must be followed — or tougher measures will come. in germany, chancellor angela merkel has announced a ban on gatherings of more than two people in public outside work. announcing the new restrictions she made an emotional appeal to citizens to stick to the rules. translation: i'm very moved by how many people are adhering to these social distancing rules. it is how we show care for the older people and people with underlying health issues for whom this virus is most dangerous. in short, this is how we save lives. please all go along with this. do the right thing for our country, show reason and empathy. bojan pancevski is the correspondent for the wall streetjournal in berlin, germany. he told us why despite cases having risen rapidly in the country, the number of deaths had not. the primar

but our experience is mir yoorg what we have seen throughout the country.ou: with testing, there is confusion about how many tests have been put out and it's sort of inexplicable to me that there has been in some cases apparently hundreds of thousands of test kits sent out but without a way in which to report whether those test kits have been used and whether the results are positive or negative. >> first of all, we welcome the increased amount of resources coming to bear on this. the announcement of billions of dollars coming out from the federal government. that should help with the developing vaccine you just talked about with your last guest. developing medication, stockpiling personal protect youive equipment. so getting the tests available more widely. there is a disconnect between the pronouncements saying there are millions of tests out there. those of us who have our boots on the ground and having to try order tests through the community, that continues to be difficult and ponderous. there is a fair amount of bureaucracy. it's not as streamlined as

well the gentleman who passed away as you said was a senior member of the government mohamed mir mohamed he was part of the expediency council a body of advisors to the supreme leader now since the beginning of this outbreak we've seen the number of cases among senior leadership in iran much higher than you've seen in other countries much higher than would have been expected in much of the reason for this is likely because iran had just been involved in a parliamentary election and the place where this outbreak 1st began in this country is a religious city of seminaries and because of the religious government in the country it is also a major political heartland has been throughout the life of the islamic republic of iran so you saw many people from the political sphere of serious political players making their way to home around the election time electioneering campaigning for their candidates campaigning for their party's securing support from the religious establishment and that's hardly likely seen so the virus spread so quickly among many leaders now they also have access to test ki

the latest this gentleman who passed away mohamed mir mohamed he was in his seventies so at risk of certainly succumbing to the virus at risk of of passing away and unfortunately that is what's happened he was a member of the expediency council and a group of advisors to the supreme leader made up of technocrats military officers government officials and since the beginning we've seen that the government has been largely affected at least 20 members of government at least 20 senior leaders biassed and it's here in iran have come in contact with this disease have come under it have contracted the coronavirus since this began and this includes the vice president a female member of president of the on his cabinet as you said m.p.'s deputies spokespeople and one of the reasons we might be seeing this is because the corona virus outbreak happened in tandem with the timing of the parliamentary election here in the country a few weeks ago so we've seen many senior leaders many political players serious political players would have been going to clone ground 0 for the disease here in this country for

the more than a 1000000 of mir miles rangers are still afraid to return home after a 2017 government crackdown al-jazeera is florence louis was part of a small group of foreign media taken on a tightly controlled visit to parts of record state where the government says it's helping. northern rakhine is still considered a restricted area so foreign media only allowed here on trips with the government we came here with governments mind we have a hurry that we have to follow and we're not allowed to stray off the beaten path and one of the 1st places we were taken to village where the door district administrators are was here he was meeting with the villagers telling them what the government was going to do to help them rebuild their lives here the hmong district administrator seen handing out cash to villages to help them rebuild their homes then we were taken to another village near this village not far from where we were and again to me 2 of villages we had to sit in a school hall it was a town hall sort of maintain it's extremely difficult to get to speak to as candidly about what l

. >> a relative of students at mir a vista tested positive. the schools are staying open.he west contraschool district said the person has not been in contact for a week now. >>> the public defender's office will file a motion seeking the release of those 60 suffering from conditions such as lung disease, diabetes or ms. the sheriff's office is trying to prevent the coronavirus from being transmitted in jail. >>> coming up, a highprofile in in clock clock is entering a new phase. how the victim's family reacted to the verdict and what's happening today. >> we talked live with san francisco mayor london breed to get the latest on how the coronavirus outbreak is affecting her city and what measures she wants to see next. hello, i saw you move in, and i wanted to welcome you to the neighborhood with some homemade biscuits! >>oh, that's so nice! and a little tip, geico could help you save on homeowners insurance. >>hmm! >>cookies! uhh, biscuits. >>mmmm, is there a little nutmeg in there? oh it's my mum's secret recipe. >>you can tell me. it's a secret. >>is it cinnamon? it's m

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slatd mir jamal, thank you very much.ate it. >> thank you very much. >>> the governor of illinois says the u.s. government sent the state the wrong protective equipment to use in fighting coronavirus. he says the white house agreed to send 300,000 n-95 masks, but instead they received surgical masks. >> my team is sorting through the shipment of 300,000 n-95 masks the white house personally told me would be sent to our state. while we do not have a final count on this yet, i can say with certainty that what they sent were not the n-95 masks that were promised but instead were surgical masks, which is not what we asked for. >> and n-95 masks are what doctors are supposed to wear when treating patients with a virus. regular surgical masks do not fully protect someone from being iks posed to the coronavirus. the government says the state has only received a small fraction of the supplies it's asked for. >>> you're watching "cnn newsroom." still to come, saying good-bye over face time. the heartbreaking new reality for those

we saw this in mirs and sars.u look around the world, china, italy, iran, even cruise ships, these are places where the air quality is extremely poor. it makes you wonder. we also suspect smokers may be at higher risk, and that might be why the male/female distribution is different. the cdc needs to be more forthright with with demographics feel this wouldn't violate hipaa. >> laura: the privacy rule protects all individually identifiable health information. and it is information, including demographic data, that identifies the individual, or that can be used to identify. but that doesn't say if you're one particular ethnicity -- you can't identify an individual for that, correct? >> of course not. and there is public safety issue here, as well. i get a phone call about a patient, i'm expected to be forthright about the medical history, but something like this specifically, we need to be more -- more precise about what the risk factors are. people who are high risk and self-quarantine, or be much more cautious abo

prepared to stay at home and tell may 1st we heard from one local business owner who weighed in on mir breeds announcement. >>it certainly well it is inconvenient is serving probably the best thing for all of us and we just have and we certainly don't want to get people sick by coming back too soon. >>mayor breed also says that bay area health officials well probably make that official announcement tomorrow morning regarding the extension of the shelter-in-place order and we now have more than 2000 confirmed cases here in the bay area. the latest number santa clara county. >>with 848 of them to go along with 28 deaths, san mateo county 309 cases and 6 deaths. 374 cases in san francisco county also 6 deaths there contra costa county with a 187 cases and 3 deaths. alameda county with 267 cases and 7 deaths. 93 cases in marine one person has died there solano county seeing 34 cases, sonoma county with 58 cases and one death and napa county has 14 cases. drugs are now being used to treat coronavirus and they are becoming more difficult for people with other health issues who used to use th

. >> here with our lead-off discussion on a wednesday night elizabeth mir miller, assistant managing editor -- and the washington bureau chief, i knew that was going to trip me up, for the "new york times." annie karni, white house reporter, also with the "new york times." and nancy cook, white house reporter for politico. elizabeth, you get to go first. what just happened in this race and what had to happen inside democratic voters in all those states to bring this about? >> you know, it happened in four days. after south carolina it became clear that -- to a lot of democrats certainly, a big coalition of democrats, that joe biden was the best case they had against donald trump. and that is what happened across this country. you look at the suburbs of virginia, the northern suburbs. and what you see there is that biden against all the debate he expanded his map. he got the african-american vote. he got the suburban vote. especially among women. he even did well with latinos in northern virginia. it was the same with suburbs across the country. it shows you how much -- how little we

coronavirus fear obviously sweeping across the country and school districts now we have found out not the mir you. >>all rig, thanks a lot. this is happening day by day my school district was just notified ice. last night. the table players union district is often diving o they're not even in school today, so. >>offer next couple of weeks governor, newsome h issued an executive order get a better response to the coronavirus statewide addressed efforts of testing problems cover dan kerman has that angle. >>its decisions not conditions that will determine our fate and future ait relates to covid 19 at a ws conference thursday morning governor wsome said it's the responsibily of each and every californian to act responsibly during the conavis pandemic. >>to that end he'sissued an executive order direcng all cities and counties in private d public sector entities to no nger permit not essential gatherings over 250 people at month. clearly as it relates tosocial distancing. with these not essential events. this is wherwe need to go next and to make sure we fully implement those procedures and prot

some coronaviruses are seasonal but some are not like mirs and may be the fact there is no immunity toirst wave doesn't obey the season and by the time we get second or third wave, there will be a season to it. so it's not very -- the fact that it's showing up in other countries may suggest that it's not going to be seasonal, but that also may be a result of the fact that there's no immunity to it and it's easily spread. what's going to make it go down and disappear? well, hard immunity is the answer. either enough people get exposed, which is as i calculate you're going to need over 60% of people to be exposed given given its transmission, zero to transmission rate or you're going to have people exposed on board and that's the only way that you're going to get it. you have to get the transmission rate under one for it to go away. >> wow, dr. rob davidson,, thank you for joining us. coming up, our experts will take more questions and about the new normal. how are we adjusting to life in the middle of the pandemic. school closures, league and events cancelled. working remotely from home

mir breed is also prohibiting residential you vic shuns in the city. a moratorium announced today protects families who can't work because of the coronavirus pandemic and therefore can't pay their rent. the moratorium will be in effect for 30 days with an option for an extension. san jose's mayor sam liccardo issue thus a moratorium earlier this week. >>as the national effort to contain the coronavirus ramps up flights from europe are now banned from entering the united states president trump's new travel ban went into effect to spend an hour ago kron four's ellis of the morning and joins us in studio is what these new restrictions mean for one thing sfo right behind me is going to be looking a lot less busy. >>and that's because for the next 30 days most flights from 26 different european countries are not allowed to land on us soil. there are some exceptions sell flights from the uk are okay along with a few other european countries plus american citizens and legal residents will be allowed to return home. but once it gets states side they will have

. >> looks like in april in theory when it gets a little warmer, it mir ra miraculously goes away. >> we have done an incredible job. we're going to continue. it's going to disappear. one day it's like a miracle, it will disappear. >> right around the time, again, that was february. right around the time the president said all of that, the first passengers on the diamond princess cruise ship tested positive for the coronavirus. more than 700 people were eventually confirmed to have the virus, but this may be one of the most outrageous claims this president made about the virus. >> one of my people came up to me and asaid mr. president, the tried to beat you on russia, russia, russia, that didn't work out too well. they couldn't do it. they tried the impeachment hoax. that was on a perfect conversation. they tried anything. they tried it over and over, and this is their new hoax. >> the coronavirus is no hoax. ask any of the thousands and thousands of people who are sick right now, and the gaslighting continues. this was two weeks ago, the president trying to down play the mortality ra

the latest this gentleman who passed away mohammad mir muhammad he was in his seventy's so at risk of certainly succumbing to the virus at risk of of passing away and unfortunately that is what's happened he was a member of the expediency council and a group of advisors to the supreme leader made up of technocrats military officers government officials and since the beginning we've seen that the government has been largely affected at least 20 members of government at least 20 senior leaders by estimates here in iran have come in contact with this disease have come under it have contracted the coronavirus 'd since this began and this includes the vice president a female member of president of the on his cabinet as i've said m.p.'s deputies spokespeople and one of the reasons we might be seeing this is because the corona virus outbreak happened in tandem with the timing of the parliamentary election here in the country a few weeks ago so we've seen many senior leaders many political players serious political players would have been going to clone ground 0 for the disease here in this c

medical assistance to italy to help fight the outbreak there that's after a phone call between a lot of mir putin and the italian prime minister 2 separate going to the death toll in israeli's regionally $5000.00 russia itself is reported $360.00 cases most of them in moscow where one person has died an update on the situation in italy now with francesca bori who is a journalist in down along in northern italy francesca that help which has been offered from the russians can't come soon enough ghana who are today you know yesterday the government introduced new restrictions. here everything is are no completely locked down then everybody is a tall mean to ding me now. we are waiting for the dying to die there is nothing else because you know that out of nor intensive care birds there is no oxygen for a water tended to all. nothing and today the mayor here couldn't shut down the cemetery because it was the only place where you nor i should then. it was kind you know social gatherings because residents who went to the cemetery to talk with the dead since you know that are the few that outs and