easyjet has grounded all of its flights due to the coronavirus pandemic joining airlines which is quantasand at the same grounding its entire fleet the company says it's currently unclear when flights will resume the airline will pay staff 80 percent of their wages for the next 2 months and the 2020 tokyo olympics will now officially kick off on july 23rd 2021 japanese organizers and the international olympic committee settled on that day today according to japanese media a week after the games were postponed because of the global pandemic. oh south korea was one of the 1st countries to be hit hard by the corona virus but in recent weeks the daily number of new infections has been fairly steady suggesting that seoul is having some success in flattening the curve while the government response has been swift vulnerable groups can still fall through the cracks leaving many relying on volunteers for support. judge. has been cooking free meals for those less fortunate since 1992 becoming the charity kitchens manager 3 years ago these days rather than offering soup and side dishes inside buddhi

easy jet has grounded all of its flights due to the coronavirus pandemic joining airlines such as quantasgrounding its entire fleet the company says it's currently unclear when flights will resume the airline will pay staff 80 percent of their wages for the next 2 months a hospital in the german city of wolfsburg has stopped taking in new patients after several staff there tested positive for the coronavirus new patients will be sent to facilities nearby the number of registered coronavirus cases in germany has risen to more than 57000 according to official figures. also in germany the so-called wise men panel of economic experts believes that measures to deal with the coronavirus will slash growth this year by over 5 percent a recession starting in the current 2nd quarter is unavoidable according to these experts in the best case scenario similar to china where the situation appears to have stabilized germany's economy would rebound strongly in 2021 the economists say that the government's priority must be funding the health system to provide adequate care to patients and to limit the sp

posing an existential threat to the entire interview and industry in the most recent developments quantas told much of its $30000.00. staff to stay home india is preparing a $1600000000.00 aid package to support i carry errors and effect causes for the c.e.o. of lift ons i says well we're fighting for survival here it's not just about move tons of it's about the entire industry because the counter measures that have been put in place to tackle the virus to address it are likely to stay in place for for a long period of time and the business of the airlines is equally long hit during that period of time so for now it's not you know it's about saying staying alive staying afloat for that matter that is not said that the planes are needed because look times and other airlines in germany. i have planned and are conducting scores of relief flights repatriating stranded citizens across the world back to germany an operation that has been described as the biggest of its kind in german history but despite the current crisis at least look tons apparently is in good shape do the numbers confirm tha

of the hardest hit at the moment because no one wants to go anywhere or is allowed to go anywhere quantas telling most of its 30000 stuff to take leave and look tons of saying if they don't get state aid and this goes on for a long time there are going to be a whole lot of failings it is really unbelievable and we're hearing time and time again this week you know do home office do home office is it enough though to keep the businesses from going bankrupt and everything afloat it won't be enough for me it's a godsend i was never allowed to have office. and i've been baking cookies for the crew. with plastic gloves on of course you're also getting into some godling i was at one of the god centers here and was picking up some seeds for vegetables and. tomatoes and there were a heap of other people doing it as well because they're worried they're not going to get enough food from the supermarkets which are allowed to be open at the moment but it's a real challenge getting ahead of them they're not respecting those social distancing measures either as well actually it's a godsend when i move f

world easy jet has grounded all of its flights due to the coronavirus pandemic joining airlines like quantasd grounding its entire fleet the company says that it's currently unclear when flights will resume the airline will pay staff 80 percent of their wages for the next 2 months. the 2020 tokyo olympics will now officially kick off on july 23rd 2021 japanese organizers and the international olympic committee settled on that date today a week after the games were postponed because of the global pandemic and a hospital in the german city of wolfsburg has stopped taking in new patients after several staff there tested positive for the new coronavirus new patients will be sent to facility is nearby the number of registered coronavirus cases in germany has risen to more than $57000.00 according to official figures also here in germany government economists say that a recession is now quote inevitable because of the coronavirus shutdown they are predicting that the economy will shrink by between 2 and 5 percent this year last week lawmakers passed a 750000000000 euro relief package to ease the p

virus easyjet has grounded its entire fleet because of the coronavirus joining airlines which is quantas and. the company says it's not sure when flights will resume but it will pay staff 80 percent of their salaries for the next 2 months. a painting by the dutch master vincent van gogh called spring garden has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands thieves broke into the. museum which is near amsterdam the 884 painting is valued at up to 6000000. you're watching t w news is still to come a bit of clarity and certain times as a new date is set for the 2020 tokyo olympics the games were postponed last week because of the pandemic. well an estimated one 3rd of the global population is living in a coronavirus walked down with restrictions on public life and a ban on gatherings of people this is a serious problem for protest movements around the world from the fridays for future climate strikes to hong kong's pro-democracy protests but organizers they are experimenting with online demonstrations trying to voice their demands without gathering together my colleague our reporter i mean a

because of the major fall in passenger bookings australian airlines quantas is joining other major carriers in grounding aircraft canceling flights and delaying an order for new planes we are taking 24 percent of capacity of our international operation and 5 percent out of our domestic operations it will mean that we are grounding no 10 of the 12 a tree 80 s. in fact we're grounding around $38.00 aircraft in told here in thailand the government announcing a mentor is traveling from 6 risk countries will have to present to help certificate proving that they don't have even before they get on the plane checks are also being put into place that water inland entries and once in thailand tourists from china hong kong macau italy south korea and iran will have to submit a daily health report on a smartphone app or to a local health official scotter al-jazeera bangkok still to come on al-jazeera a south african court clears president. sleeping. in finance it's a learning the lessons of the past to help understand the future archaeologists sift through history to find the secrets of climate change.

many other airlines in asia are doing cathay pacific dropped its capacity about 95 percent last week quantas has grounded the as trillian carriers grounded most of its flights meanwhile those flights that are still up in the air are off the ground are now introducing social distancing measures for instance cathay pacific has said that every passenger will have an empty seat next to them on their flights so has air new zealand and virgin virgin atlantic 2 so yes across the board we're seeing airline carriers hit by these heightened risk trick sions these tightening borders across the asia pacific and this uncertainty over a coronavirus dva is continuing to affect asian markets. very much so fully across the board we've seen drops in stock markets in the asia pacific particularly also on the back of the fact that the u.s. congress could not agree on a stimulus package that is affecting stock markets here too i'm going to start with one of the worst hits markets that as trail usa our 2nd benchmark index that's dropped for a 5th week heavy losses for a 5th consecutive week with banks leading the

flights and we're seeing this happen across asia to cathay pacific grounded 95 percent of its flights quantas also grounding almost all its flights budget airlines home express bangkok airways all of them grounding their fleets this is a trend that's set to continue as more and more countries tighten the borders top visitors from entering mainly due to concerns of coronavirus cases that are imported fully and the end 70 over this outbreak is continuing to affect the markets in asia india. absolutely the uncertainty and the fact that the u.s. cannot agree on a 2 bit a trillion dollar stimulus package to prop up the world's biggest economies affecting markets across the asia pacific let's start with the stray u.s. markets the a.s.x. dropped plunged 9 percent on opening that's clawed back some of those losses around 6 percent down now it's also reeling from the fact that the government is putting in strict closures to implement social distancing businesses pubs restaurants all shut down its borders also tightened astray and so are going to be locked into their cut into the country for the time b

well these huge heavy hitting travel restrictions globally are clearly affecting the airlines and quantas the chief executive alan joyce in an e-mail to his 30000 staff said this is the single biggest shock the global aviation industry has ever experienced that it's not announced a cut of 90 percent of its international capacity and 60 percent of its domestic capacity and that's a done to at least the end of my any zealand's also cut its capacity or flights to australia due to australians new travel restrictions from any travelers arriving in australia 14 days of self selection they've cut their flights by i.v. percent and that's from march to june and cathay pacific which is one of the biggest international airlines bias in asia it's also cut its capacity by 90 percent in april and if this these travel restrictions continue it will continue extend that cattle cutting capacity to mine now the only positive for the airline industry at the moment appears to be the cargo rights continue to surge and one particular flight airline company said 2020 is fast becoming the year of the freighter sa

celsius with their showers and widely scattered showers as well throughout much of turkey it is the quanta picture throughout much of southern africa some of those heavy rains that we've seen lately across into namibia they are beginning to still have some heaviest falls into the sort of the northeast area pushing of course right there cross into zambia and also a lighter rains across into madagascar for the next couple of days me one in south africa it stays dry and very warm in cape town with a high for 30 celsius. the u.n. fact finders accused the bernese military of genocide this is the political that you see there. do you believe there are no modi is a question. i just don't have all day. we don't know the recognize that both sides have legitimate grievances against the other let me just this is the foundation of climate action and that is why the palookas must face. up. on al-jazeera. you're watching officer at these are at the top stories right now the number of people killed by coronavirus in the united states has risen to 111 of them died in california where a state of emergency i

celsius with their showers and widely scattered showers as well throughout much of turkey it is the quanta picture throughout much of southern africa some of those heavy rains that we've seen lately across into namibia they are beginning to still have got some heaviest falls into the sort of the northeast area pushing of course right there cross into zambia and also lighter rains across into madagascar for the next couple of days me one in south africa it stays dry and very warm in cape town with a high of 30 celsius. as a weapon of war leaves the very deepest scars. scars so roar that the victims men and women can barely talk about it. they are the only witnesses who can help bring about justice algis 0 dollars human rights campaigners in libya investigating since the 2011 revolution. libya unspeakable crime on al-jazeera. and watching out there are these are the top stories right now a state of emergency has been declared in california after it reported its 1st death from corona virus a 71 year old man who recently returned from hawaii and crews died wednesday he is the 1st u.s. patient

restrictions come into place cathay pacific last week cut its capacity by 95 percent as truly as quanta has grounded almost all its flights many domestic airlines many budget airlines are also grounding their fleet this is something that airline analysts say is just beginning as more and more lock downs come into place as many countries battle what they're calling imported infections surveil and of course the bills that's reverberated across asia pacific and that's the markets not sold down really perhaps to a decision in the u.s. which is impacting where you are we expect what impact across europe when the markets open later in the day. that's right the u.s. is inability to come together to present a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package that would prop up the world's biggest economy is affecting markets across the board here if i had a chart here you would see is sea of red as talks tumble and almost every country i'm going to start with india where as elizabeth was saying the lockdowns are having a massive effect at the bombay sensex that's one of the main stock indexes had to activate

minutes after so clearly see not if it from both a strategy and new zealand and earlier today we had quantas announcing that it would stop all international flights at the end of the month sarah thanks very much . ok we'll have lots more all new to virus for you here on al-jazeera including these aspects of the story quality students who don't seem coals to avoid large gatherings despite the script tells morning. there's marcin to syria's syria is more serious things out there are hunger and poverty we need to address there. and there are plenty of rain still in the full cost across much of borneo and also beginning to get quite heavy at times across into the northern and western areas of the west a not a bad day friday across the philippines mostly dry want to scottish as heavy rains across areas of thailand and across into laos and again very unsettled really through much some asha and on into java the real change on south below the showers becoming a bit more widespread throughout the philippines shows to the old dying is still a very wet day particularly through southern and western area

likely to travel in times like this singapore airlines as you say grounding 96 percent of its flights quantas had done that previously grounding all of its flights kathy pacific many budget airlines yeah they reverberations are going to be felt across the globe particularly now with the talk of a global recession also coming into place not only are people not travelling people are not spending economies are hurting across the board to be a good holiday in the whole cold thanks very much. japanese prime minister shinzo has not conceded a perspiring when told the olympic games must be considered it comes as canada announced it won't send its teams to compete if the competition is held in july as planned alexey o'brien explains. after weeks of insisting the show must go on now something of a turnaround from the japanese prime minister cannot cause i suppose we hope to hold the games to mark that the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that canceling them is not an option at all but if that becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost and we may have no option but to

celsius with their showers and widely scattered showers as well throughout much of turkey it is the quanta picture throughout much of southern africa some of those heavy rains that we've seen lately across into namibia they are beginning to ease still we've got some heaviest falls into the sort of the northeast area pushing of course right there cross into zambia and also a lighter rains across into madagascar for the next couple of days me one in south africa it stays dry and very warm in cape town with a high of 30 celsius. the latest news as it breaks the syrian army seems determined to defeat the rebels and continues advance to was the city of red lip that's a red line for turkey with detailed coverage of the national policy defense of wild elephants is yet to be fully it meant to 14 years off the disease to do's from around the world well this fight will be completely transformed over the next 6 years this will be the northern terminus the phase one of the project. where they're online like probably recovering get one of the worst ground swimming through media about credit or if you j

want to shares -- quantas shares, flooding. the aussie dollar, back below 60. aussie yields by about 14 basis points, both the australian and new zealand bond yields continue to steepen, but we are seeing gains for stocks wellington. sophie kamaruddin there in hong kong for us. we are just getting some news that asia has suspected their service at least until april 15th, building on a number of the actions being taken by airlines given the complete destruction and demand for air travel. in fact, we had the australian prime minister speaking to us earlier this morning. news.go to the first word >> australians have been told with theavel abroad, prime minister declaring a human by a security emergency. the level 4 advice gives authority special power to deal with the emergency. they called the outbreak a once in 100-year-old event and said it would last for at least six months. they have reported 450 cases of coronavirus in australia. >> the travel advice to every australian is do not travel abroad. do not go overseas. that is a very clear instruction. for those

its international capacity and is telling employees to take voluntary leave the australian carrier quantas is slashing a quarter of its international operations from saying the slump could cost up to $100000000000.00 and low cost airline norwegian air has cut $3000.00 flights between march and june warning of temporary staff layoffs matthew driscoll is at a asian aviation a civil aviation magazine he joins us from singapore matthew is it possible to quantify ballpark figures you know the cost of this to the airline industry say per month or per 6 months. not per month or 6 months i added the international air transport association came out about a week ago and the airline industry globally could lose anywhere between $63.00 and a $113000000000.00 u.s. dollars is the coronavirus continues. $63000000000.00 figure was the best case scenario that if it ended tomorrow. that would be the last figure in revenues not in profits but in revenues and in $113000000000.00 figure was contained in that was the extended scenario as i anit called it any particular carriers that are fiscally well enough ins

because of the major fall in passenger bookings australian airlines quantas is joining other major carriers in grounding aircraft canceling flights and delaying in order for new planes we are taking 24 percent of capacity. for international operation and 5 percent of our domestic operations it will mean that we are grounding now 10 of the 12 a tree 80 s. in fact we're grounding around 8 aircraft in told here in thailand the government announcing adventurers traveling from 6 risk countries will have to present any help certificate proving that they don't have even before they get on the plane checks are also being put into place that water and land entries and once in thailand tourists from china hong kong macau italy south korea and iran will have to submit a daily health report on a smartphone app or to a local health official scada al-jazeera bangkok with schools across the world being closed in an attempt to contain the virus efforts are being made to try to minimize the disruption to education the funny and jenny is the assistant director general of education at unesco she joins me via

international capacity and is telling employees to take voluntary leave the australian car carrier quantas is slashing a quarter of its international operations for now saying the slump could cost it up to $100000000000.00 and low cost airline norwegian air has cut $3000.00 flights between march and june warning of temporary staff layoffs well matthew driskill is editor of asian aviation a civil aviation magazine he says some airlines will be more affected by the crisis than others. the carriers that do not least aircraft are probably a little bit better off because they don't have to make those lease payments airlines that have a lot of least aircraft. there and if they can negotiate. different payment terms with the lesser wars a lot of whom are in ireland. and they might be in trouble. there are airlines like cathay 'd the big airlines. that have consolidated in recent years a lot of the american airlines is basically 3 big carriers there. a lot of those are probably going to be fine they're definitely going to take revenue they may lose money for a quarter or 2 again it depends on how

minutes after so clearly it's a united effort from both astray and new zealand and earlier today we had quantas announcing that it would stop all international flights at the end of the month. always pause for a world weather forecast with jenny. windy across our region jenny it has been you're right pages they were just saying what has been a bit cooler than no one and so it had quite a bit of rain as well let me tell you why and show you will spring going on because really it's been about these systems to the north which actually had a big spread further to the south but in particular the area this really been impacted is actually northern iraq in particular mosul 127 millimeters of rain in just 24 hours the really have you are choosing not continue through what and this is the result this is what 127 millimeters does in such a short space of time not the average rainfall for the entire month of march is only $63.00 millimeters so this is literally double that amount so no surprising at all that we've seen flooding pictures like that now there is some already the forecast friday it's not goin

easy jet to finesse quantas this is a global aviation crisis you fly a lot i have not flown in a while and probably won't be what's it been like recently in your own experiences in ports around the world there are certainly a lot more mosques in the area that's for sure and i think those that are traveling with n 95 masks. more peace of mind for those passengers because we know that the n.t. is meant to be slightly better my advice to passengers have been and i've received so many e-mails that take your own measures and your own assessments in addition to the government advice just to keep your area clean at the very least ultimately let's take a low cost carrier those flights are not cleaned during the day because that 20 minutes times bring your wipes bring your hand sanitizer if you do need to travel then at least you can know that your own area is is safe and fine and healthy because airlines are under a lot of pressure at the moment and we really are seeing as you said just how vulnerable the travel process is be very careful security those charities that you put your belongings i

because of the major fall in passenger bookings astray an airline quantas is joining other major carriers in grounding aircraft canceling flights and delaying an order for new planes we are taking 24 percent capacity at the. international operation of 5 percent out of our domestic operations it will mean that we are grounding now 10 of the 12 a tree 80 s. in fact more grounding around the 8 aircraft in told here in thailand the government announcing it that tourist travelling from 6 countries will have to present to help sort. proving that they don't have little or no viruses even before they get on the plane checks are also being put into place that water inland entries and once in thailand tourist from china hong kong macau italy south korea and iran will have to submit a daily health report on a smartphone app or to a local health official scotland al-jazeera bangkok. well of course the race is all now to trial a vaccine for the corona virus experts say developing a vaccine at the speed required will cost at least $2000000000.00 the world health organization says scientists akari worki

crew are being told to take a voluntary leave 80 percent of its international services are grounded quantas a slashing a quarter of its international operations the australian carrier says the slump could cost $100000000.00 lost in profits and the region air has cut $3000.00 flights between now and june warning a temporary layoffs at the critical as editor of asian aviation it magazine explain why some airlines will be hit harder than others. the carriers that do not lease aircraft are probably a little bit better off because they don't have to make those lease payments airlines that have a lot of least aircraft. they are and if they can negotiate. different payment terms with the lesser wars a lot of whom are in ireland. and they might be in trouble. there are airlines like cathay 'd the big airlines. that have consolidated in recent years a lot of the american airlines is basically 3 big carriers there. a lot of those are probably going to be fine they're definitely going to take revenue hit they may lose money for a quarter or 2 again it depends on how long this is going to go on the int

now on monday we had a quote as chief executive alan joyce he's on e-mail to his 30000 employees at quantas he said this is the single biggest shock that global aviation has ever experienced now it's announced a cost of not accent capacity to international routes it's also announced a cut of 60 percent domestic capacity in this will continue until at least the end of my now in new zealand is also cut its flights to astrology given the heavy travel restrictions of everyone having to go into self isolation for 14 days it will cut its airline or its routes or flight capacity to australia by i.v. percent and that would be from march to june a cafe which is based in hong kong which is one of asia's biggest airlines it's cut up to 90 percent of its capacity in april and it said if these travel restrictions continue it will extend that cover those restrictions until the end of my now cargo airlines they seem to be the only positive at the moment they rights are surging and one particular large airline company said 2020 is going to be the year of the freighter or 8 o'clock there in hong kong sara t

look: coming up, a closer at quanta moving to the downside as they cut capacity further so they couldcoronavirus impact. this is bloomberg. ♪ ct. this is bloomberg. ♪ haidi: this is "bloomberg markets." i am haidi stroud-watts in sydney. expanded capacity cuts and said they could go deeper. this has escalated pretty quickly from the start of the coronavirus impacts. >> it has. servicesantas, cutting . this goes deeper than the previous two cuts. it is cutting 25% of their services on international flights. today we saw that wide reaching reduction into the u.k., into the u.s., u.s. west coast from australia. with theught up airlines the last fortnight. they said there had been a significant hit to demand in the last fortnight. things have really gotten real. european countries take hold and the u.s.. that has ended travel demand. people are concerned about flying not just in asia, but europe and the u.s. that is why we saw qantas take this action. haidi: how well-prepared is qantas to take a hit? the leader has run a pretty tight ship. isit is fair to say qantas better prepared than m