to europe or to korea or japan or other countries not tested significantly at all ok did you stephan simmons in washington thank you for that. italy has ordered the closure of all shops apart from food stores and pharmacies all bars and restaurants are main shut as part of efforts to halt the spread of the corona virus it only has the largest number of infections outside of china more than 800 italians have been killed by the disease. a major airport in milan missing its travelers. silence at the heart of room as its elisa passes $12000.00 coronavirus cases the government is tightening its restrictions. now we are closing down all commercial activities except for grocery stores pharmacies and drugstores. then if there is no need to run and buy food in supermarkets. we will close shops. pubs and restaurants. other european capitals are struggling to avoid a similar fate close schools across the country the czech government found all public gatherings of $100.00 or more people. to world health organization warns the spread of the respect to treat illness also known as 19 has become a pandemic

capitals at the center of the story d.w. a correspondent bags rigger to joins us from brussels and stephan simmons is in washington welcome both let's start with you banned in russel's explain to us what this travel ban means in coal creek terms. the practical implementation of this ban is still very unclear says the e.u. commission here in brussels 26 countries will be affected the so-called shagun zone and not all european countries are in the 2nd zone for example romania bulgaria great britain island not in the zone but switzerland and norway are the rest of the e.u. countries and it's not clear how it will work because if you fly to london 1st and then think i did states maybe then you can enter the united states it's not clear what the what the real conditions in this travel ban is not only a plea could be for european citizens it's also valid for canadians australians who've been in the schengen zone and now want to fly to the u.s. still very unclear and also lift on the biggest carrier in germany said they don't know exactly how it will work but for sure they will cancel a lot of flights in

correspondent stephan simmons is there to give us more on what this means for the democratic presidential nomination stephanie elizabeth warren had no choice but to quit right. yeah she had no choice she got squeezed politically and in terms of numbers in terms of delegates in terms of office support in the primaries as you pointed out she started out hopeful and as a top runner last year and this all went away. starting in iowa are she may 3rd place there then in new hampshire and nevada 4th place there then came south carolina 5th and now super tuesday she didn't carry her own state message juices so that was over bernie sanders capitalized on the more progress is younger 30 and below crowd she could match that and joe biden came from the moderate angle 'd combining all support of the african-american democratic vote on him there was no space for. elizabeth warren anyone and she did not offer an endorsement to bernie sanders or joe biden can we read much into that. well i think i think she's doing the right thing there is a lot of soul searching now going on with elizabeth warren and sh

well day deadly correspondent stephan simmons has taken a look at the measures president trump announced to increase the number of testing kits and he gave us his thoughts from washington d.c. . this was president ultram 2nd chance and effort to calm and comfort the american public as a whole the president had been on the immense pressure and ridicule for what many called a disastrous performance when addressing the nation from the oval office just a few days ago donald trump also announced what he calls an unprecedented federal partnership with private sector foremost with the pharmaceutical and tech industry because of this partnership according to the president hundreds of thousands if not millions more coronavirus tests will be made available across the country no word from the president though on how quickly those tests will finally be available of course it is the profound lack of available testing kits and testing itself that has health experts doctors as well as the average american worried and frustrated for weeks and from stefanski moments in washington is a look at more of the

will rally together as one nation let's go now to details any correspondence death and simmons in washington stephan talk us through these guidelines that trumps analysis what else is he asking americans not to do. well let me 1st say that this is a different donald trump from what 'd we had yesterday yesterday you'll remember the president said the coronavirus is under total control nowadays absolute think it will change of what we had before from the president and heard before from the president so those guidelines recommendations not orders and that is to avoid and national a federal lockdown so to speak or or you know a measure like this that's why the recommendations is do not mingle in larger groups than 10 people stay at home work from home shelter in place if you like and well there's only one other piece of federal action needed now and this is more testing kids and more tests we said that 100 times because it's the problem still not enough testing that's what the governors and the states wait for from the government from the federal government and trump didn't dismiss the chance of a reces