Prison 2 weeks after he was convicted of rape and Sexual Assault. And a teenage boy is killed when Israeli Forces try to break up Palestinian Protesters. And install thousands of prairie sun german fans gathered for that same Champions League match supporters massing outside the stadium for the game which is being played behind closed doors its a crime of ours. Thank you for joining us the Coronavirus Crisis has been declared a pandemic making a declaration World Health Organization officials said the number of cases globally is just going to increase 118000 people have now been infected in 114 countries as the number of cases outside china increased 13 fold in the past 2 weeks trying to handle it begins our coverage. This is daily life under lockdown in italy people employing Patient Protection and distance all Good Measures that countries should practice according to the World Health Organization but not enough as a declared covert 19 is now a pandemic. Has been has just seeing this outbreak around the clock and were deeply concerned by the alarming level of spread series d. And by the island i mean the level is an action. We have that for many of the our system and that. Can be contacted are used as a pandemic what started in china has now spread to more than 100. 00 countries and 90 percent of cases a spread over just 4 nations iran is one of them where more than 300 people have died south korea is another efforts to stop the spread of the virus have so far failed it seems the world has missed the window of containment in italy the government is not ruling out further restrictions beyond the nationwide quarantine to slow the spread of the disease this is a crisis not just for the countrys creaking Health System but also its economy and italys Prime Minister just epic kaante announced more efforts to prop it up a been a deliberate we decided to allocate the exceptional amount of 28300000000. 00 as we are aware of the difficulties the country is facing in this emergency there is fear too in france as the number of cases creep up children Students School are encouraged to wash their hands by the Health Minister himself but the virus has already reached the heart of the government the culture minister is infected and 5 others are being tested president back home avoided shaking hands as he prepares to move the country to phase 3 of its response closing more schools and risk to transport across the continent classrooms are emptying spain france and germany have shut schools in their most affected regions while italy greece romania and ukraine have sent home their entire student populations. As germany confirmed its death from the virus the governments message was that people must make sacrifices to their social lives to protect the elderly wanting covert 19 will test Health Care Systems across europe in the us view will start. When the virus is out that the population has no immunity in north or be exist and 60 to 70 percent of the population will be infected as long as this situation continues to exist in the u. K. A Health Minister has tested positive and is self isolating despite being in contact with her last week Prime MinisterBoris Johnson says he does not need to be tested his message its business as usual and to help the annual budget promised 39000000000. 00 to ward off a coronavirus recession the w. H. O. Says countries still have the power to change the course of this pandemic but what is inevitable is that cases will continue to climb charlie angela. Longer terraces spokeswoman for the World Health Organization she joins me now via skype from geneva thanks very much indeed for being with us now earlier on in the News Conference there was talk in the dark great show of inaction from governments where do you see an action and what do you want those particular governments to do. So its very important that we know that we havent actually declared a pandemic what weve done is characterized this as a pandemic and what thats that the message thats being sent here is weve gone from get ready weve been saying get ready weve been saying get ready to governments all around to now get serious act now so what we want governments to do is to get serious about finding every person whos affected in everybody whos been in contact with somebody whos infected and ensure that those people in quarantine self isolate and do not continue to spread it in your communities in in your population because theyre starting in easily but she has enough people get ill you have very severe cases now you mention italy other lessons to be learned because it does seem that there are different approaches taken by Different Countries and somebody doesnt seem to want to say what is the right approach is why is that i mean that in italy they have some of the more draconian measures right at the start and yet theyve seen some of the biggest problems do you think that other countries need to do more than italy did what specifically needs to happen. Well actually weve only seen the what you would call draconian message. Approaches very recently in italy and were not saying that every country should take draconian measures approach is what were saying is do your surveillance properly do your testing engage the Community Help the community to understand what to look for what may be a concern how to socially distance and make decisions about maybe working from home about changing the way we behave so that people are not in close contact so that you can stop the spread of this thing before it overwhelms your society and when you get to a point where you maybe do have to take this draconian with measures other practical shortages in particular of things like respirators or around the world and what needs to happen without. That is certainly a big concern so were working very hard with the manufacturers of all kinds of things mosques personal protective equipment wrist for a says a lot of countries have very little capacity and its not just the hardware the hardware is really important but you need the people we have been working with the work health force issue battling with their work health force issue for years long before this we knew there was an 18000000 shortfall of helplessness around the world now is the time to really value your Health Workers do your best to support them. Tell me all you know how much progress has been made towards vaccines what stage are we up with that. Theres been a tremendous amount of progress sarah at least 20 different vaccine candidates and there are some very very promising results that the states that takes too long well it takes a long time and it must take a long time is the human safety testing stage and the reason of course that has to take a long time is you have to ensure before you give a vaccine which you give to a healthy person to prevent disease you must make sure its a safe thing to do its not going to cause untoward side effects so that that time that process must take at least 6 to 12 months so despite the incredible scientific work thats going on were not going to be a see a vaccine for another year thank you very much indeed to moderate house which will do so not just here appreciate your time but eric toner is a senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins center for Health Security he welcomes the shows move to define the virus as a pandemic i think this any ambiguity about that there are Global Situation this disease is spreading around the world it will continue to spread around the world every country will be affected and so i think this clears up any confusion that i think theyre saying to all governments you really need to get ready you really know carrying need to implement a measure is to slow the spread in your d own country and so some countries have. Been denying that their country the risk or same they have no cases when thats probably not that not actually true so i think that you are saying to them really you have to get ready pandemic literally names of people and but commonly and Public Health we talked about. A pandemic meaning Infectious Disease that spreading person a person a multiple con so thats been the case for several weeks so this disease seems to have a. 6 or 7 day doubling time that means twice as many cases each week so the most of people are sick have a mild illness much like influenza and theyre not going to come to the attention Public Health authorities its not until you get hundreds of cases that theres any chance that a country would recognize they have cases as probably not until there are thousands of cases they were really become quite obvious declaration of pandemic has hit the stock markets kristen salumi is in new york and joins me live to tell us how the markets fared today then. Well the markets have been jittery since the beginning of the coronavirus and today we officially entered whats known as bear market territory with. The major stock indices the dow jones in particular now 20 percent lower than market highs in february and being an 11 year bull run or a period of growth in the marketplace and thats. Quite a step to have taken today and markets were down from the beginning but after the show characterized coronavirus as a pandemic things went even worse the reality confronting investors that as this virus continues to spread in the United States the Economic Impacts continue to spread as well more people staying home working from home schools being closed events being canceled travel being canceled all of that having an impact on the economy businesses weve seen it across sectors in the stock market and particular airlines have been struggling boeing down 15 percent today minutely boeing has other concerns besides coronavirus but a sign of an entire sector of the economy thats struggling now Oil Prices Also down again Financial Institutions like Goldman Sachs worried about the outlook for growth lowering their expectations and that. Was also in the backdrop to the market moves today a bear market is not the same thing as a recession one does not necessarily follow the other but it is a very worrying sign and thats the worry now for investors christensen we thank you very much its going up to rose and jordan whos in washington and roseland understand we are expecting to hear from President Trump later do we have any clues about what hes planning to announce. Well the president was asked during a photo opportunity in the white house earlier on wednesday whether he would be declaring a National Emergency and all he told the reporter was youll have to wait and see but we are going to hear from the u. S. President donald trump and 01 g. M. T. Thats 9 pm eastern time here in the United States and he is going to have to answer questions we expect about the. Declaration of about corona virus and whether we are now in a pandemic state this is a National Address its not often that a u. S. President does this but usually it is a sign of a very very serious situation when the president tries to speak to the country and recent is there much kind of public concern about the way this has been handled so far. There is considerable concern laura now there is considerable anxiety we have courts have seen the videos of people going into supermarkets and Department Stores and cleaning out household supplies toilet paper paper towels tissues but that just underscores peoples nervousness you have seen the residual impact people canceling their trips tourism sites not getting visitors the airline seeing a considerable drop in passenger traffic the spill on effect of peoples anxieties about possibly coming into contact with those who might have picked up the virus is very real is very palpable and when you see local and state officials across the country declaring states of emergency and forcing the cancellation of everything from athletic tournaments to other public gatherings it really does sort of feed into this growing sense of anxiety here in the u. S. From jordan thank you very much because his ministry of Public Health has registered 238 new confirmed cases of corona virus infections were confirmed in Foreign Workers who live in one residential complex and had been quarantined as a precautionary measure after coming into contact with 3 other people who had the virus cutn. Now has a total of 262 cases a surge of new cases in south korea has reversed 4 consecutive days of decline the discovery on wednesday of a notch cluster of infections has dashed hopes that the country had its outbreak under control its got highly reports. Despite ongoing disinfection efforts throughout south korea theres been a reverse in the downward trend of corona virus cases the largest cluster yet discovered in the capital seoul at least 90 workers at a call center tested positive they worked in a building near a transportation hub in the southwest of the city home to 10000000 koreans. And so city officials are conducting an investigation that also taking measures such as self and diagnostic checks on those who are in close contact with the infected and in australia the Prime Minister announcing that italy joins china south korea and iran on its travel ban list australians and foreigners with the residency visas returning from italy will face a 14 day self quarantine italy itself has effectively put itself into lockdown with travel now and this largely causes that loop we already had the enhanced screening measures that are in place. And a remarkable rescue in southeast china after being buried for 69 hours a man pulled from the rubble of a hotel for a virus patients in coron team the hotel in the city of change oh collapsed on saturday killing at least 26 people the 24 year old survivor is in a stable condition in hospital scott hodler aljazeera. And the past few minutes italys Prime Minister has added strict new restrictions to the lockdown in his country im joined now in studio by need to need it so quite comprehensive took us through extra measures there is what we just have become too was a dressing the nation live on television in italy and we have to remember of course the 60000000 people in the country are already experiencing the tightest lockdown across the nation since the 2nd world war and now extra restrictions have been imposed the closure of all stores excluding food shops and pharmacies as want to 7 counties said he also said that bars headdresses eateries all Company Departments not essential for production would be closed down as well he said these measures were essential to stop the spread of the coronavirus but the effects of these measures would only really be felt within a period of around 2 weeks so dramatic developments in a country that many other nations in europe are looking to as an idea of what might potentially happen in their countries a bit further down the line and just briefly on the restriction in italy can people move around or can they do they have to actually stay at home no indication as yet whether people are being told to quarantine within their own houses we gather from some of the red zones particularly in lombardi in the north people there have been told to stay in their houses but in other big cities like rome for instance there is some suggestion that people can still move around to access food stores and pharmacies no indication of people locked down in the homes of thank you very much for an update thank you. Coming up on aljazeera this news hour. The man convicted of the lockerbie bombing is allowed an appeal bid 8 years after his death last. Year ill borrow it out of her. Adelaide anger outside australias highest court as the popes treasurer fights his child Sexual Assault convictions. And is the Golden State Warriors become the 1st team in the n. B. A. Announced he will play with his president in an effort to combat the spread of corona fires. Rockets attack on a military base in iraq has killed 3 personnel 2 from the United States and one from the u. K. Around 15 small rockets were fired from the back of a truck into camp taji which is 27 kilometers north of the capital baghdad a dozen Coalition Personnel are reportedly being treated for injuries camp taji is a former Republican Guard base which has been used by the United States since its capture in 2003. Now the former hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and Sexual Assault the allegations helped spark the global meaty movement against sexual abuse and harassment that once again told the court he was concerned about the thousands of men targeted by the me to campaign such a heinous war. He was such an important movie producer that average people knew his name his power but now Harvey Weinstein will be known as a convicted rapist a criminal the 67 year old sentenced to 23 years in prison he was facing from 5 to 29 years on convictions for 3rd degree rape and a criminal sex act the prosecutio