And the material is needed to make them solving this problem requires political commitment and political coronation at the global level this week i will be addressing heads of state and government from the g 20 countries among other issues i will be asking them to Work Together to increase production of void export buns and ensure equity of distribution on the basis of need we need unity in the g 20 countries who have more than 80 person of the global g. D. P. Commitment political commitment at the g 20 level means. A very strong solidarity that can help buyers to move forward and fight this pandemic in the strongest terms possible. So while asking this person was the severe issues i said the most important. To g. 20 leaders is solidarity to be one and to art as one because they have the biggest stick in the world in all respects we also recognize that there is a desperate need for Effective Therapeutics there is currently not treatment that has been proven to be effective against. 19 its great to see the level of energy now being directed to research and development against. 19 small object vision and none of my studies will not give us the answer is we need using untested medicines without the right evidence could raise false hope and even do more harm than good. And cause a shortage of essential medicines that are needed to treat other diseases thats why deadly joe has launched the solidarity trial to generate robust high quality evidence as fast as possible. Im glad that many countries have joined the solidarity taran that will help buyers to move with peed and volume the more countries that sign up the solidarity travel and other large studies the faster we will get results on which drugs work and the more lives we will be able to say salute solidarity travel we will move faster and we will do bigger and of course with good quality faster bigger and good quality so i would like to end by reminding everyone that although 19 is dominating the world this attention there is another but a spirit or a disease that was preventable and treatable but which kills 1500000. 00 people every year and that disease is the oldtimer hubert of closeness as you know tomorrow is world tb day i dont put unity to the mine would leaders of the commitment they have med to and the suffering and death caused by this i mentioned and terrible diseases the world is rightly responding to 19 with urgency and purpose we call on the Global Community to harness that same era jency and purpose for the fight against evil kilo sis. And for a healthier safer fairer wallet for everyone there all of the game to kick. 19 out as we have agreed with my brother johnny is to kick it out and that gave me solidarity so myself and my brother johnny asked for saudi daddy to kick out this. Virus i thank you you are similar game a brotherhood joining today so that is the chief of the World Health Organization. Debris yesus telling us that the corona virus is accelerating but were not helpless he said we can change the trajectory of the virus he emphasized the importance of defensive measures such as social distancing but said that we need to attack testing every case isolating quarantine quarantining we need unity in all the g 20 countries who have more than 80 percent of the global g. D. P. Lets cross now to james bays whos been listening to that our Diplomatic Correspondent james the chief saying that the virus is accelerating and we must attack. Yeah its pretty grim picture when you listen to the statistics that he gave out that to get 2100000 cases took 67 days and to get from 2000023000 extension 00 has just taken some 4 days showing that this is accelerating and he says the also that nearly every single country in the world is affected now he talked about the need to do all of the things that weve been told in recent weeks and talked about Global Solidarity to try and preach that message of Global Solidarity in countries helping each other at this time he will later this week be addressing the g 20 those are the most powerful countries on earth in terms of their g. D. P. Theyre having a special Virtual Meeting and dr ted ross will be addressing that meeting saying that they need to collaborate and they dont even dont dont only need to address the cases in their own countries they need to think about some of the poorest countries on earth clearly here at the u. N. Where i am in u. N. Headquarters they are particularly concerned about some of the poorest places on earth about places that are conflict zones and about refugees because clearly Something Like the coronavirus in some weather isnt great sanitation already is going to cause very many victims right and this call for unity in the fact that hes going to address the g. 20 how much unity or otherwise is there. Well i think everyone is so occupied by this everyone is even where i am un headquarters in new york that is certainly the center of the disease in the United States people are struggling to cope here in the place that is the work capital of the worlds Financial Markets and everyone is focusing nationally on their National Response were going to hear in the next few minutes from the u. N. Secretary general antonio good terrorist who is going to encourage them to think more internationally this is a disease that does not respect borders he will be giving dr ted rosss virtual News Conference continues from geneva but the secretary general of the u. N. Will be speaking about 5 minutes time and other virtual News Conferences where i am actually hes in a couple of floors below me in u. N. Headquarters but reporters will be sending him questions electronically again because they are no longer doing any face to face press conferences in the u. N. System obviously its very different from some National Governments for example at the white house where reporters and the president and Vice President get out together every single day right days leave it there for a time they will speak to again shortly as james saying theyre the Inspector General judy to speak in in a few minutes time and our virtual News Conference from their u. N. Headquarters will join that just as soon as that happens ok germany has announced a trillion dollar support package to help its economy the new aid plan bolster the nearly 500000000000. 00 already set aside for loan guarantees Small Companies in the selfemployed hit by closures are to receive up to 16000. 00. Markets so open down on new yorks wall street starts off another morning of falls right across asia the bell rang on a quiet night traders were allowed into the New York Stock Exchange start or the market trading has been done electronically because of the shutdown of new york meanwhile president obama trump hes posted a video online of people to stay at home to to try and have the spread of the virus as the total number of cases in the United States reaches 35000. 00 its called the invisible enemy and thats what it is its an invisible enemy but were doing tremendous work the truckers the doctors the nurses everybody theyre just doing tremendously and of course youve heard it a 1000 times wash your hands good hygiene all of that but social distancing keep away its going to have no place to go while the u. S. Senate is set to vote on a trillion dollar stimulus bill and helping the economy a jury in this crisis take a look at live pictures now from the senate floor will they be voting soon politicians have been divided on what the final package should look like democrats say republican proposals favored corporations rather than work because that speak to White House Correspondent complete lie for us in washington d. C. And to me theres been a huge up. In efforts to try and save the economy from freefall. Yeah there certainly been efforts but within those efforts there have been some serious concerns raised by democrats and capitol hill that this enormous rescue package that is set to flood the economy with cash also does another thing and that is allow for a rescue package for banks for example other Major Industries like the airlines with almost no limit and no oversight well the same time not affording those same opportunities to hospitals to households Even Health Care providers so thats where these negotiations are going on right now not only to ensure that theres more oversight in this legislation but also we understand that the airlines in particular are a Sticking Point what the democrats are concerned about is that ordinary americans are going to feel like they got the short end of the deal the that really this was another bailout for those who may not need it as much as the ordinary americans struggling with cope with 19 so were watching very carefully we know there are negotiations going on between the treasury secretary steve mission they were at the wee hours of early this morning as expected to continue he is really pressing for a passage of this he says and we need to have this happen as of monday because of course those markets very nervous in fact they had hoped to have this done over the weekend in time for that wall street Opening Monday morning but that did not happen so a lot of urgency on capitol hill right now right. But if you would about the overall situation its the number of cases continues to rise. Absolutely i mean the epicenter now is new york broader sort of new york city we have just had a briefing from the governor there and he has continued to say that there is no cause for alarm but at the same time that there is certainly very much not a panic situation but. Very much heavy concern over the shortage of supplies so what theyve done is to increase hospital bed capacity for example theyre looking at upstate new york making sure that this is all one state all the hospital beds are being utilized but this is very much a different United States than it was just a week ago re now have very serious shelter in place or some sort of formal quarantine in about one 3rd of the United States in terms of the population and whats most curious about this is in the midst of warnings from Public Health officials like the Surgeon General that things are going to get worse this week we have the u. S. President tweeting that in fact he thinks it may be time at the end of this 15 day period were into the 2nd week of that to really evaluate whether it may be time to let some of the healthier workers go back to work that is going to be highly controversial so were watching very carefully as the crowd of virus task force briefs at 2130 g. M. T. To ask more from the president about what exactly he means by that or a Committee Thanks very much to me thats a picture from washington d. C. Can be how can a proportion so had her dog 0 we take a closer look at how the fallout from growing market specific to Small Businesses in the United States. Congress should mind prison his relatives in colombia off to iraq come to my fears have deepened and the girls more than 20 didnt think its. Ok lets cross over 1010 to get terrorists who is addressing a Virtual Press conference. Can we start again please. Sort sorich you very much were going to swear going to start this statement again thank you very much for your patience or old faces a common enemy covey of 19 the virus does not care about nationality or ethnicity faction of face its effects all relentlessly meanwhile Armed Conflict rages on and on the worlds the most Vulnerable Women and children people with disabilities the marginalized and displaced by the highest price they are also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from 19 lets not forget that in war ravaged countries there are systems of collapse else professionals already few in number of often been targeted refugees and other these place by violent conflict are doubly vulnerable the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war that is why today i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world it is time to put Armed Conflict on lockdown and focus together on the to fight of our lives warring parties i say pull back from us till it is put aside mistrust and then a more city silence the guns stop the activity and the air strikes this is crucial to our create corydoras for life saving aid to open precious windows for the promise to bring hope to places among the most vulnerable to covey of 19 let us take inspiration from coalitions and dialogue slowly taking shape the among rival parties in some parts to enable joint approaches to covey of 19 but we need much more and the sickness of war and to fight the disease that is ravaging our world it starts by stopping the fighting everywhere now that is what our human family needs now more than ever. Thank you very much secretary general now going to take some questions from the press james beggs from aljazeera is asking your call for a global cease fire is obviously going to be difficult to achieve i would like to ask you to address just one conflict as an example libya where all parties are already supposed to be observing a humanitarian pause but in fact it seems that one side led by general have to has used this period to intensify his military campaign there was a truce that was more recently the gain is not holding very well and this is one of the reasons why we believe we need the global ceasefire and all my special representatives will be very active talking with the parties and trying to create a global die met a generation a Global Dynamics in order for all countries around the world to put pressure on the part of the of the conflicts everywhere to stop the fighting i believe that this is the only way to address those situations were aware of the parties have been quite stubborn in not accepting the need to a ceasefire when Everybody Knows that there is no military solution and the the fighting going on only increases suffering and makes the response to coffee at 19 now even more difficult just a quick follow up to that from maria from tass. You did mention that you were in touch with your special that is the u. N. Secretary general and tony good tears saying that the fury of the coronavirus illustrates the folly of war and he called for a global ceasefire silence the guns stop the artillery he said were the call no doubt we heard a virtual question from james bays lets speak to the man himself in person we can see right now there is a james as you put it in your question it is a worthy goal but its could be incredibly difficult to achieve. Much. Of very very difficult to achieve but the u. N. I think hoping that maybe theres an opportunity here at this time to reduce casualties in some of these conflicts that rage on in syria in in libya in yemen so they they use this as a call from the secretary general because they are particularly worried not just about those conflicts and those continuing deaths but the effects of the virus in conflict affected countries and he said doubly affected will be the refugees the secretary general used to be the head of u. N. H. C. R. He used to be the high commissioner hes worked on refugees very very closely in fact the person asking questions to one side of him is undersecretary general for Public Communications who used to be a spokesman person u. N. H. C. R. They both but i dont know care very much about refugees and are very very worried about the refugee population and the virus spreading through some refugee camps around the world this is a subject clearly that is going to be debated by Global Leaders as the week goes on the g 20 having a special Virtual Meeting coming up which will be addressed by the head of the World Health Organization i also hear that its likely that the u. N. Security council that because of fears of spreading the virus hasnt met for over a week is likely to have a meeting are either in person in the building where i am in u. N. Headquarters which is pretty pretty deserted at the moment or a Virtual Meeting is a possibility and theyve been testing out the technology for that and james are we getting any information at all from court conflict zones about the degree to which the virus is spreading in russia. No were not really getting 1st hand accurate information. And i think what concerns the United Nations is even some of the richest nations on earth for example where i am in new york where the u. N. Is based the worlds Financial Capital in terms of the stock markets and here they are struggling even here to deal with the virus with the number of cases rising huge rises in recent days and what youd normally expect is the wealthiest countries on earth to help the poor ones but right now everyone is just dealing with their own problems in their own countries and weve heard from dr ted ross the head of the World Health Organization that every country on earth is effectively affected by this now or james may be there for the moment thanks very much indeed james varies from u. N. Headquarters. General until you can terrence addresses a Virtual Press conference themselves where the World Health Organization