And Sexual Assault in a case that sparks the global need to movement. Im Barbara Starr in london with the top stories from europe including crowds gather outside a high Security Court in london as we keep leaks founder Julian Assange begins his fight against extradition to the u. S. And its 4 mourners are gathering in los angeles for a service to remember the life of basketball great car b. Bronze the other like his legend was killed alongside his daughter jonah and 7 of us in a Helicopter Crash last month. The World Health Organization is sending a medical team to iraq where the coronavirus emergency is growing Irans Health Ministry says 12 people have died of the disease and deny that the total is closer to 50 afghanistan bahrain kuwait oman and iran. Are all reporting infections of travels from iran to more people have died in northern italy raising the total there to 6 almost 200. 00 cases are reported in italy the highest concentration outside of asia stock market indexes plundered on monday as traders sold shares of reaction to the coronavirus News Companies doing business in china as well as tourism and airlines south of the heaviest falls in share prices and the National Peoples congress in china has been perspired for the 1st time in decades training here begins our coverage now from china where more than 2 and a half 1000 people have been killed across china the coronaVirus Outbreak has closed shops restaurants and now beijings great hall of the people. Every much the venue puts the countrys most important political event the National Peoples congress but chinas top lawmakers have voted to delay the parliamentary gathering urging its 2000 delegates to stay home to fight the epidemic protecting the capital from a major outbreak has also become a priority beijing reported to shop increasing cases over the weekend bringing the total to about 400 many are still too afraid to return to work. Thats their 100. 00 employees. We already have iraq to people working in the office. I thought the subway to work was going to be packed but there actually werent many people also announced the banning of trade in illegal wildlife the virus is thought to have originated in a 100 wildlife and seafood market. New coronavirus cases and to tell it is have been concentrated. 24 of chinas 31 provinces reported no new cases in the past 24 hours 6 have lowered Emergency Response levels. President xi jinping has described the epidemic as a crisis and a major test and hes encouraging manufacturers and other industries to restart operations where possible. Industries which of the National Economy and peoples livelihood hinges and prices accelerating operations resumption and working in a foolish way to increase production its the 1st time chinas National Peoples congress has been delayed in decades so far no new date has been set but analysts say when the recent is rescheduled that will be the biggest indicator that china has finally won its socalled war against the corona Virus Outbreak. Aljazeera aging. Well the virus is taking an increasingly heavy toll on the Global Economy stock markets in asia europe and the us fell on monday following the surge in cases and deaths across the globe christensen is live for us now in new york Kristen Soltis tell us how is the dow responded. Yes stocks continue to take a battering here in new york and u. S. Markets particularly those with exposure to china like apple which is trading 4 percent below what it was on friday thats because apple manufactures a lot of its products in china it also sells a lot of i phones in china so it is particularly vulnerable to any hiccups in the manufacturing system in china but this is happening across the board all of the major indices are down more than 3 percent the dow is down more than 900. 00 points more than 3 and a half percent s. And p. Is down now stack is down as well as i said across all sectors airlines for example seeing a bad day or oil prices are down one bright spot if you will the safe haven of gold where people tend to put their money when theyre worried about a market sell off gold prices are now at a 7 year high as these concerns about the disease spreading have come back and worrying investors about the impact on the Global Economy of course china is the manufacturing hub for much of the worlds Global Supply chain then we had this news that there are new cases in south korea another important country economically italy reported new cases a spread there that. Also saw its stock market close much lower at 4. 9 percent its last week we saw u. S. Markets hit an all time high with this coronavirus fear in the background there was some thought that china maybe had seen the worst of it d and new cases were peaking investors were shaky but confident by the end of the week last week stocks started sinking again and today weve seen this major major route the United States following on europe and european markets also down considerably the flood see closed 3. 3 percent down again in italy a big many. Factoring center the new case is there a quarantine in effect not far from milan the Major Economic hub for italy this has investors across the globe worried and certainly were seeing that one of the worst days in months here in new york and things dont look like theyre getting any better today but well keep what keep an eye on it thanks that kristens let me across things there live from new york. Well as christine mentioned italy is dealing with an al break of the corona virus and it has killed 6 people lets go live to mohammed in milan mohammed as as was mentioned there milan is an economic hub how is the outbreak being felt there. Well ill tell you kim here in downtown milan its impure than it usually would be this hour of the day on a weekday we are in front of the central train station right in downtown but theres not really a sense of panic at least not yet yes people are concerned there are some people we are seeing that are wearing the masks but many of the people that are Walking Around in their skateboards around here as well and there are vendors that are selling newspapers and other items they are open for business now all that being said though there are precautions that have been put in place churches are closed schools are closed gathering places are closed major tourist landmarks like the scala opera house and lead warm cathedral they are closed for the time being and this is something that is concerning people weve heard from officials throughout the day reiterating the message that we keep hearing from italian officials which is that they want to try to contain the spread of the virus that they are expecting that more cases of will be revealed in the coming days not because its getting out of hand but because there are more Health Officials here that are proactively trying to diagnose new cases another another festival that was canceled actually not canceled it was shortened was the. Venice carnival that came to it in 2 days earlier than expected and you had the governor of venator a region who told the press earlier in the day i never thought i would have to sign an order to shut down the venice carnival i never thought wed have to close the schools churches museums and all Public Places i know im asking a lot from our citizens but i know that when things get hard we can pull together we just need to think of a. Our health and thats something thats being echoed by other officials who are speaking out and it will be us remember that just since last week last week you had just a handful of coronavirus cases in northern italy and just several days later this week now you have over 225 and many people believe that number will grow in the coming days kim think that thats my have agenda in their lives from the law as. Well as we had earlier the number of deaths and iran has increased the Health Ministry there has to be transparent with the situation we need to be honest we need to be transparent in the face of those people who are trying to distort the situation regarding other regions id like to say we are dealing with the cases and the symptoms and we have all the capabilities to spot this virus if we have a case that is suspected we will move them to a better place to be hospitalized we have the full capabilities to deter or to treat and we will say everything in a clear way as it begs in tehran and says the number of cases rise theres disagreement over how bad the situation actually is in iran. Theres been an extraordinary exchange in clash a war of words between a member of parliament and the hes a member of parliament for the city of qom the epicenter of this virus here in iran and the Health Ministry now he said he puts the number of dead from the virus at 50 now he acknowledges not all of them may be from the krona virus but he says that the governments performance on the issue has been 0 he says that nurses dont have the correct uniforms on off scared of treating patients he says that the government isnt really concerned and the virus has been present in iran for 3 weeks but their names meant was delayed by the government he also said that he knows of 2 children that have been infected by the virus and has called upon the Health Ministry to impose a curfew on the city of call now the Deputy Health minister has come out and as has denied that figure of 50 and said that even if it was half that number he would submit his resignation now about the responded to that and he said he sent the names of those that have died from the virus to the Health Ministry and he expects a resignation now the Health Minister has come out in response to all of this and he said that the government is dealing with the situation. Led to more head on the news all including. The Israeli Military pounds Islamic Jihad sot says rockets are fired from gaza. And in love with India Donald Trump announces a 3000000000. 00 weapons deal but can the u. S. Bridge the trade differences. In support the hosts in term of favorites get the campaign back on track at the womens team 20 world cup. Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein has been found guilty of 2 charges at his trial in new york hes been convicted of criminal Sexual Assault and a 3rd degree rape however hes been acquitted of the most serious charge which could have meant a life sentence. Once this is a vicious serial sexual predator who used his power to threaten rape assault trick humiliate and silence is victims he has been found guilty of criminal sexual act in the 1st degree and will face on that count the state prison sentence of no less than 5 years and up to 25 years. Well the guilty verdict feels the fall from grace for a man who was one of hollywoods most celebrated produces observes gabrielle and is on the reports from new york. Harvey weinstein was not just any producer but maybe one of the most powerful ever many of the greatest actors or actresses over the past 40 years have worked with him in some capacity either directly or through his movie studios throughout his career weinstein has 81 Academy Awards to his name and his power extended into politics at the very highest of levels from bill and Hillary Clinton who called him a personal friend to brocken Michelle Obama one of their daughters briefly worked for weinstein to donald trump who often was at the same new york events but it was weinsteins influence in hollywood and his ability to make or break an actors career where he had his most power and according to prosecutors he wielded that power by sexually exploiting women. Hes been on trial in new york for allegedly raping an aspiring actress in 2013 and sexually assaulting another woman in 20064 other women testified against him saying they too were victims more than 100 other women many anonymously have come out publicly and said they too were assaulted by weinstein during the 4 week trial prosecutors told the 12 person jury weinstein was a serial rapist and manipulator his defense argued otherwise if you look at all the evidence the evidence shows consensual relationships in 2017 the New York Times 1st reported allegations of abuse against weinstein sparking women to come forward and talking about abuse at the hands of more powerful men Actress Alyssa Milano tweeted if youve ever been sexually harassed or assaulted write me to as a reply to this tweet thousands did and the movement took off. Oh then. There were protests throughout the u. S. And hollywood celebrities launched a campaign to fight Sexual Harassment in the workplace times up on the pervasive culture of silence that is unable to abusers like weinstein the me too Movement Born out of weinstein but the question now is where does it go from here as for weinstein himself its not over prosecutors in los angeles have charged him with rape and Sexual Assault of to other women gabriel is on to. New york. When i speak now to avis jones de weaver in washington d. C. She is an author and commentator on gender issues thanks so much for coming on the program im hoping you can help me understand counsels and so so once she has been found guilty of Sexual Assault but not guilty of predatory Sexual Assault and guilty of 3rd degree rape but not guilty of 1st degree rape kit can you explain the difference to me. Absolutely this gets rather complex in the sense of how our laws are specifically articulated in this country in terms of predatory Sexual Assaults it would allude to having a significant pattern of Sexual Assault of many women thats why even though 2 only 2 women were part of the actual legal case you had about 4 other women come up in testify against him specifically related to their predatory Sexual Assault. Charge. In regards to the 1st degree versus the 3rd degree all of this is rather technical in this country but the challenge the biggest challenge here in terms of proving particularly 1st degree we are in the reasonable doubt suggests that prosecutors would have really been able to make the case without it a shadow of a doubt that this was a rape that this was a sexual soul had no consent related to it at all and the challenge is that this is something that happened many years ago at the end of the day ends up in many circumstances being somewhat of a he said she said circumstance and then to further complicate matters in some instances there were Text Messages changes other sorts of evidence that the defense brought in that show that there continued to be somewhat of a relationship between the 2 posts the initial assault which some could argue might have been consensual and so all of that sort of muddied the waters which is why i believe you didnt have guilty verdicts on all counts but you at least had guilty verdicts on 2 counts obviously on the one hand one state you know this case was it was a hollywood movie producer it on the other hand it sparked a Global Movement be to meant what does this result mean for the need to movement do you think. For the me too movement it shows that even if it may take years to bring your abuser and your assault her to justice you will be believed and you will find some measure of justice i think one of the biggest sort of motivators behind that particular movement was this common belief among a number of Sexual Assault survivors that they dont come forward alternately oftentimes because they just have this belief that they will not be believed and that creates this sort of culture of silence and particularly in his case where he was able to will that silence to his advantage that allowed him to have access to literally over 100 other victims over time and so when you begin to chip away at a culture that ultimately its an initial sort of knee jerk response is to not believe women then that puts sexual predators on notice that you will not be found innocent of these charges that you will not be able to get away with it even if youre able to distance yourself years away from your initial assault a virtually justice will be found really good still to think that thats a this chance to review their life from washington d. C. The Islamic Jihad group in gaza says its ended its military response against is round after 2 days of cross border violence israel carried out another round of airstrikes on sunday injuring 4 people the military says it was a response to dozens of rockets fired into southern israel and also carried out strikes on the armed group in syria on sunday night killing 2 members damascus are a force that is monitoring the escalation from western are slim. This escalation which really began on sunday morning with an israeli fire on to pass an Islamic Jihad fighters which israel who israel said had been planting an i. E. D. An improvised explosive device near the border fence and then an attempt by israel successful one to use a bulldozer to recover the body of the one of those 2 fighters who was killed in that attack. That was vid