Explosions ahead of the swearing in for afghan president ashraf ghani his rival of dylan has held the secretary to integrate himself. And joining us go with the sport asian well cup qualifiers at the spine and tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams indian wells is called off over corona virus. So now its only has reported a big jump in the number of corona virus cases as a lockdown of a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed the number of infections has doubled since friday to nearly 7400 more than 111000 cases are confirmed globally 62000 have recovered so far so when you go begins our coverage. A city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy is economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls its famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this countrys recent history will look as thats richard in then i mean what is happening in my c
Rival a dinner of donors held a separate ceremony to inaugurate himself. Bottom to the program the spread and fear of coronaviruses starting to have a major Global Economic impact on top of the growing human cost u. S. Stocks have plunged in the opening minutes in new york even forcing a temporary halt in trading as you can see and a short time ago brazils stock market suspended trading after a 10 percent drop all of this after a drop of around 30 percent in oil prices well kristen slim is our correspondent monitoring events for us in new york and of course the markets across asia and Europe Europe took a huge hit in that domino effect seems to have hit the u. S. What seems to have happened the dow jones today. Yes fears of the spreading coronavirus and plummeting oil prices sent stocks down sharply just after the opening bell at one point the dow jones plummeted more than 7 percent and that triggered an automatic shutdown of the stock markets for 15 minutes weve heard from the preside
Shooting down of a malaysian airliner trial begins in a dutch Court Without the 4 men accused of murder. By joining us youre still with the sports tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams is called off as all the nicest cancel indian wells overthrowing a virus. So that we begin with the breaking news coming out of sudans capital where an explosion has hit a convoy carrying the Prime Minister abdullah was traveling through khartoum when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in was damaged as well as several others the Prime Ministers office says it was an assassination attempt and lets cross straightaway to khartoum where we find here but more going to him but what more do we know. Well what we do know at the moment nic is that it was a car bomb explosion that was targeting the convoy of the Prime Minister according to his Office Members weve spoken to the office of the Prime Minister and they say that he is not injured and that they are all safe as well as the peopl
This is worse than almost all of those days as well. 2008. Well put it in perspective. Im connell mcshane. Melissa im Melissa Francis this is after the bell. The s p 500, the nasdaq both closing down more than 7 . President trump is expected to meet with senior officials at the white house this afternoon amid coronavirus fears. Well bring you any headlines from the president this hour. We have fox Business Team coverage. Phil flynn is watching all the action. That is where the action is, in the oil pits of the cme. Kristina partsinevelos is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and blake burman is live at the white house. Phil, im going to start with you. I have some ideas. The president could open up and fill the spr. Hey, that is a great idea. They were selling high a few months ago trying to get rid of it to pay off the budget. Now they could be buying low. That is not the first that happened. President clinton did the same thing. Bought oil from russia when they needed money.
Yes. Jason good evening, everyone. It is a pleasure to welcome you to the Bipartisan Policy Center for our virtual conversation about our nations elections, sitting exactly six feet away from me charlie cook. I think charlie is known to just about everyone as the editor and publisher of the cook political report. I is understood by everyone know to be really the most reliable protector and analyst of our nations political culture and our election outcomes. You know, we often find that we have a society in which you have democrats facts and republican facts, and then there are charlie facts. I just want to take a moment to acknowledge that we are in it hasl crisis, and created tremendous anxiety and uncertainty for all aspects of our lives. I think charlie and i are fortunate enough not to be struggling with Immediate Health crises or economic crises, and we have the ability to be able to step back and talk about the basic fabric. Leadership matters a whole lot, so we will spend the nex