Increase in corona virus cases in the United States and here in europe as coronavirus epicenter italy doctors and hospitals struggle to deal with the spiraling number of patients who find out how the italian tell care system is coping and the olympic torch is lit in greece but will it ever make it to tokyo the code big 1000 pandemic is fuelling concerns that this summers Olympic Games in japan could be delayed or even cancel. Our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome fears over the coronavirus pandemic hammered markets across the globe again today shares on wall street plunge triggering a stop in. For the 2nd time this week the Dow Jones Industrial average was down more than 2000 points almost 9 percent shortly after the start of trading the sell off comes amid growing uncertainty over u. S. And global measures to contain the economic damage of the coded 19 pandemic it follows the announcement of a u. S. Travel ban on flights from europe and it mirrors tough trading sessions in asia and europe where investors have signaled dissatisfaction with stimulus measures so far. The European Union has criticized u. S. President Donald Trumps decision to ban nearly all travel from europe to the United States the 30 day ban affects countries inside europes xing and passport free travel area and it excludes the u. K. As well as ireland the European Commission said the decision had been taken unilaterally and without any consultation President Trump is accusing the European Union of failing to act quickly enough to prevent the spread of the coronavirus until now 3 us president downplayed the coronavirus but in a sudden escalation donald trump has announced new trustee measures to keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all travel from europe to the United States for the next 30 days the new rules will go into effect friday at midnight. In his address charm cool the disease a foreign virus claiming that cases reaching the u. S. Was seeded by european child lives. The e. U. s lashed out at the president s decision but says its not taking any immediate action in response. The European Union. Isnt in the habits of shooting from the hip and as you know we believe. Good policymaking requires reflection is required is internal coordination and therefore we are going to analyze obviously the consequences. And reflect on what the possible next steps need to be. As well as making political waves the travel ban is a huge blow to holiday makers in europe and to airlines operating routes across the atlantic its 3 european airports into chaos as u. S. Citizens scrambled to return home before the friday night deadline. Its being handled in such a shotgun fashion that nobody knows whats going on and one thing changes from minute to minute we actually just got here 2 days ago and we spoke with. One of the agents downstairs and she said thered be no more flights after tomorrow so were trying to get back home to san diego well we were flying on saturday we were not sure if we would be able to get back in something was canceled so i spent 3000. 00 for another flight. Because more and more countries around the world tighten restrictions and close their borders people are thinking twice about whether to travel at all in these uncertain times. The story of course in washington and even. I guess if the u. S. President was trying to reassure a worried nation he didnt do too good of a job did you mean just looking at the stock markets and whats the latest there. His take failure no he didnt do a good job at all actually the common sense and unifying judgment here is that it was a debacle what the president delivered last night his address of the nation nobody had this band of flights or travel from europe seen coming that was not in the books and you could almost hear collective jaw dropping when this happened here in political washington so across the board across the political spectrum even from republicans and political friends people were shaking his hand their heads but now you know the bigger issue right now is tests tests tests because the United States is miserably prepared for what is experts saying coming away in terms of coronavirus with or without a travel ban from europe and says the president said anything today i mean his he should any more white on why he made this sudden decision to ban these flights from coming into your. Yeah in his view europe is basically the new china and he had to do it he said because european travellers were. Initiators off clusters of coronavirus concentrated corona virus infections and cluster c. In the United States and thats why he had to. Step on the brakes there thats what he said now nobody really believes that because again there is no telling of how many corona cases coronavirus cases we in the United States already have because we dont have any tests and that is actually what the political opposition holds in on criticizing the government of the administration of being totally unprepared and having no plan yet having a plan to meet the Top Administration under fire for how its handled the corona Virus Outbreak so far. What other steps is the government taking to stop the spread of the virus other then this travel ban. Yeah good question again Vice President promised the public and last week that a 1000000 tests were available for population dont forget that all 320000000 people give or take but we dont have a 1000000 tests now and now its supposed to be 4000000 by the end of the week but nobody has seen 4000000 tests available to the Public Health authorities and agencies testing people either so thats a little bit murky what is actually the plan and one ball mall here joe biden had the democratic contender for the presidency had a gave an address or a speech today and of course he used the opportunity to basically perform a Job Interview for a position in the white house coming for november in november a president ial election he rift into the president and into the administration as exactly having no plan and delivering basically nothing and what they have too late. 17 months on the story for us in washington sobering news today stefan thank you as. Italy has further tightened restrictions to try and hold the coded 1000. 00 pandemic after extending a northern travel ban to the whole of the country the government has now ordered the closure of all shops except Grocery Stores in pharmacies theyre hoping that this will help to contain the disease and alleviate the pressure on hospitals the Health System in the countrys north is struggling. Hospital beds and intensive care units at full capacity medical staff working around the clock especially in lombardy like at mainland sako hospital the mental luckily none of our nurses or doctors are in quarantine right now so theyre all working 12 hours a day to take care of our patients. With the flood of patients pushing italys Health Care System to its limits prominent physicians have issued an urgent warning to the government. In only known i dont think we have the structures medical equipment doctors and nurses to cope with such a large number of sick people yet he sophie jane the bit of good i dont know met up with the mother the toll on the economy is also growing all shops have been ordered to close with the exception of Grocery Stores and pharmacies. At the economic level this is dramatic for us but we will make the necessary sacrifices. So the government has responded with an emergency aid package to support health care and businesses been a daily bit out to we decided to allocate an additional 25000000000 euros to help the country cope with the difficulties of this ongoing emergency really difficult to get basic stuff done to the question of. Its money and the heavily indebted government can hardly afford. Of more now im joined by mohamed near hes a biologist at Lancaster University in england bomb it is good to see you again let me ask you how far would you say is europe from a scenario like the one that were seeing in china where they are now reporting you know a significant decrease in the number of new cases. Well i think thats really a good question because its really important to understand what is forthcoming so if you take the number of cases party a poor country and plot into a diagram you will see the tragic actually is similar in all of the European Countries some all are already well in advance for example germany france spain and italy and other or following the same route to as he has followed so after entry looking into the trend of these surprised that it seems like every country especially boring actually exception is also not here in the u. K. That we will be heading at were the same situation if the us take many years wouldnt be put in place at the home be it talking i mean that sounds reassuring but the current shutdowns that were seeing across europe they are only planned for days or maybe 2 weeks or such and how effective are those measures going to be or let me ask you another way are they long enough to ensure that we have this this development that weve seen in china. Well i think the important thing to understand is that there will definitely be a social destruction and these controlled media that are put in place knee or calculated based on the foreseeable future and were certainly going to be wise to it and it will be devised as the time comes out as we get closer because the thing is that this why this has come obviously a lot of surprises so its really difficult to really and hes paid a sort of sort of like a mom dad so i think that overall strategy of different nations has been really to think about a fortnight period and see how things work and if they work to carry on with that if it dont work they move on to the next stage of contingency plan and thats how theyre going to divide the whole strategy to contain it and is that the best strategy you can yvonnes is to look at things on a 2 week basis in into the future further than 2 weeks is really too risky. Based on the Scientific Evidence says this is not the right choice the reason is that we have tackled such contagion in the past and if we look on to hope those more successful goals were successful based on the long term strategies because if you think only on the 4th night perspective is going to be let you down again because the foreseeable impact will be ignored so look at what our strategy must be for the long term but on fortunate situation of it according 1000. 00 that as it stands now is that we dont have to if you take it and vaccines so we think that we are relying on is on the personal hygiene and the personal responsibilities and that is where that major emphasis has been not only but in the europa to develop work well too in the developing world the countries to really delayed the spread of the infection and by the time for their critically ill in are able people moment when they are very far on just at Lancaster University joining us tonight with yeah good information about how to read where this virus is headed mohammed thank you. Well here in germany the coronavirus death toll has now risen too far to return so im going to marco met today with the countrys state premiers to discuss and coordinate measures to contain the spread of the body in a News Conference she told reporters that her government has taken advice from the countrys leading medical experts merkel said the government would make a coordinated effort to ensure medical facilities are properly equipped for the outbreak she also said the business with more than a 1000 participants should no longer take place. And for now im joined here at the big table by our chief political a dream because so she was supposed to speak what about 3 hours earlier tonight and she was that lee what does that tell us that there was a big fight behind the scenes particular about the issue of School Closes germany is a federal state 16 federal state premiers were sitting around the table this evening and there were 2 different camps one that wanted to see much swifter much broader School Closes kind of french saw almost parallel to this gathering we heard from french president mano mccoll have basically can order School Closes well im going to do that thats up to regional states and the outcome of this meeting in the end was that there can be regional School Closes there in those regions where we see a dynamic out break. As a scientist as well so we very much hear the language of the scientists coming through in her statements and what it means is that there are very great disparities between different regions how badly they are affected their 3 states that are mostly affected and we expect to see School Closures potentially in bavaria very soon north rhinewestphalia the most populous state and potentially also lowest saxony thats pretty much spread across the country so no. Measures no into mentation of a flat out School Clothes and beyond schools i mean what we heard basically is that people should avoid contact with people whose best you can you should wash your hands but that was about it well also any unnecessary social interaction keep one half wheezes distance from each other and we saw another stern recommendation because thats all the german chancellor can do legally and that all unnecessary gatherings not legally necessary not necessary to uphold the economy because this is also a very key aspect and the next crisis looming behind what could become a Health Crisis here to actually refrain from any such gatherings and this shift the responsibility down yet again to the regional level to those regional Decision Makers to basically ban recently any kind of gathering any School Policy any gathering that is not absolutely necessary you cover this is the political system here is that it streams or we use right now region like for example we got the announcement from france the immigrant who said schools or going to be close there and its done i think the jury is still out on whether it was more of a strength or more of a weakness in this particular situation but what it does allow the regions to do is to be very flexible in their approach to a crisis and thats the good news the negative side is that you can see fighting behind the scenes on that very issue of overarching interest which are also economic interests but that again is also a joint ister interest we also heard the german chancellor say word for word that germany will do everything that is necessary this so sounds like the back of the financial crisis to protect its economy and to secure jobs because this is the 2nd crisis behind what could become a Health Emergency here in germany who also. From the state prime yif of area saying that the states will now health each other out to build up capacity where its most needed in germany to avoid a situation like its city where decisions have to be taken yes based on the condition and the age of patients who can receive treatment or not and its getting much of the money germany does have a Budget Surplus which is a you know its a luxury position privileged position to be in when you have a crisis like this killick of thanks for your report. Are here now is a round up of the latest virus developments italys death toll has surged above 1000 while the total number of confirmed cases is now more than 15000 iran has ads the International Monetary fund for a 5000000000. 00 loan to help fight the coronavirus that is the 1st time its done that since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and a staggering admission to how fragile its economy has become israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has called for the formation of an emergency government with his chief rival to confront the growing crisis over the coronavirus and in india a 76 year old man who recently died tested positive for the corona virus that makes him the countrys 1st 3 tally and norway has also reported its 1st death from the Global Pandemic but. Overall the latest on the corona virus including information about what to do if you think you might be infected visit our website thats d w dot com. Well heres a brief look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world officials in egypt say that heavy rain and floods have killed at least 4 people across the country and inundated roads in the capital cairo further south a driver was killed when his car was blown into a canal and several people were injured when floods demolished their homes the u. S. Military has repatriated what its inspects to be the remains of airman who were lost in action in central mian mar during the 2nd world war u. S. Officials are still searching for some 500. 00 Service Members who are still unaccounted for me and mar was a key Battle Ground between the allies and japan germanys Domestic Intelligence agency is placing an extremist wing of the countrys far right alternative for Germany Party under surveillance that we get is led by buring hook up you has been accused of using rhetoric from germanys nazi past the corona virus pandemic has forced the e. U. Commission