A belief that it meets the crisis is spreading families many will. Use these before that time and its getting worse by the military coffee honest. Also coming up has the world forgotten its biggest humanitarian crisis. Our commitment to deliver humanitarian aid continues unabated youll meet a german navy officer whose job it was to make warriors talk peace. And to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with the world struggling to cope with the coronavirus pandemic and one leader doing and saying seemingly everything to turn that struggle into a crisis and that is how much of europe is describing the corona Virus Outbreak and us President Donald Trump today after weeks of downplaying the viruses threat and trumpet last night appeared on television to declare war on what he called a foreign virus that had reached u. S. Shores due to the failures of the European Union he then announced a new travel ban saying all flights from europe would be suspended for one month that announcement sent stock markets plummeting to new depths for a 2nd time this week and it left americas european allies feeling blindsided saying the white house had told them nothing of the president s plans. Weve taken some bold steps we took the original baldor step of all when we close very early with china that help us save thousands of lives and we went very early with europe where they have some hot spots that are really bad but get them better germany i guess has some problems now france some problems some pretty big problems and italy of corpses. Probably record setting in terms of what theyve been through it would have been a very hard time and what we think were established very quickly is this and and its just a question of time. Are those what the president said today the white house spent much of today walking back what the president said last night and we learned today that the ban does not apply to u. S. Citizens permanent residents or immediate relatives of u. S. Citizens ireland and the u. K. Are exempt completely the ban does not apply to trade and goods. None the less the move will have a huge impact on european and u. S. Airlines that regularly cross the atlantic nearly 40 Airlines Operate around 560. 00 passenger flights daily in both directions between the u. S. And europe that equates to nearly 17000 flights and 4800000 seats in any 30 day period while on both sides of the atlantic stock markets they could not escape the gravity and today for the 2nd day this week the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for 15 minutes after stocks plunged after the opening bell the dow finished 10 percent down thats its worst day since the crash of 1987 record losses on european indices as well germanys dax shrank 12 percent marking its 2nd biggest one day loss in history its the 1st major test for the new president of the European Central bank Christine Legarde and she is warning that the economy is facing a major shock. Governments and all other policy institutions are called upon to take timely and targeted actions to address the Public Health challenge of containing the spread of the coronavirus and mitigate the economy impact. In particular and ambitious and coordinated fiscal policy response. Well the financial losses are getting a lot of attention but on the ground this is about Peoples Health and lives being threatened thats true here in europe as well as the United States and there are many things that we dont know about the virus so lets talk to the voice of reason and the voice of call John Campbell is a doctor and hes been educating the public about the outbreak on his you tube channel dr campbell its good to have you back on the show we spoke last week and i mean im sure youre agree with me it is a completely different world today than it was just a week ago when were talking about this virus absolutely theres no question now this is unambiguous lee a pandemic is been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organization and we started to see an increase in cases in new up and in the United States and actually seems to me that the european epidemic well al a section of the pandemic is that a similar stage does not in the United States we being quite a bit ahead on the could of so cases ago to be increasing quite dramatically over the next few weeks unfortunately well over all over a year of theres no ambiguity about that now that we are at the start of the epidemic and we can you think now is to delay things as much as we can we need to delay this up until the summer months on the late summer months by preventing as Much Community spread as we can. We want to pull up a graphic for our viewers dr campbell and one curve if you can look on that graphic well pull that up you can see that one curve shows the infections without any restrictions in society the other shows a much flatter curve with restrictions would tell us why flattening the curve is so critical. Yeah absolutely and the normal course of an epidemic is that the cases will rise quite dramatically and that means theres going to be an awful lot of cases all at the same time now from all the data we have from china and subsequent studies we believe about 12 percent of people that get this condition are going to get quite a severe form of the disease theyre going to be quite poorly with it and that means the probably going to need some form of medical support whether thats intravenous antibiotics intravenous fluids certainly supply mentary oxygen but about another 5 percent of the people that get it or 5 percent of that the total people who get the infection are going to become critical and this means that basically their life is going to depend on the quality of medical care that they receive and we have limited amounts of provision for medical care it doesnt matter what country in the world that where we are in we can treat huge amounts of people all at the same time with this high intervention medicine is going to be needed so the lower the peak of the epidemic the lower the amount of cases any one time then the less people are going to be severe or critical and you want time and that means were much more likely to be able to manage it and manage these people effectively and if we can do that were going to greatly lower the case fatality rate because well be able to support these people through it but now were trying to actually treat virus sorry if you are just going to say in order to get that curve to be flattened in order to extend this alex longer does that mean that social distancing has to be kept is that means schools have to be closed indefinitely i mean are we talking about some very uncomfortable realities here. Well what were talking about is a complete change in lifestyle for the next 3 months 6 months and maybe even longer we just have to realize all over the world that we are now in a pandemic this is unprecedented weve never had this in our lifetimes before and were going to have to live differently now we will get through this things will go back to normal but for the next 6 months were really going to have to accommodate to preventing and delaying the spread of this virus and yes that will mean lots of social distancing that means meticulous hygiene it means avoiding crowded places especially indoors it means things like staggering the way the times we go to work so that is not lots of people crowded together on public transport it means working at home as much as we can and of generally avoid going out it means stopping shaking hands it means stopping hugs and social kisses we have to have this social distancing because this virus only survives inside human cells its only goat going to go from one persons response or system into another and if we can break not chain of transmission in as many cases as we can then were going to greatly delay that curve push push the pate back into some of preferably back into late summer where we have less people with influenza and other chronic winter related diseases in our hospitals and flatten that curve down so that less people are going to be sick at any one period of time that is now the aim that we can but me ask you before we run out of time and you as a medical professional what do you make of the u. S. President suspending flights from europe to the u. S. Is that effective at this stage in the game. Its very hard to say unless unless theres complete isolation in the countries hes probably not but to actually answer these questions is quite sophisticated epidemiological mathematical models that take a lot of things into account so its quite hard to give a definitive answer to that question but given that the so many exceptions and the american citizens for example is still going to be flying but its only going to apply to the shang in zone as far as we know its not a complete shuts off its not complete closed down so i would imagine the efficacy of this is going to be really quite limited unfortunately at this stage. Dr John Campbell as always we appreciate your insights tonight dr campbell valuable information that the world needs right now thank you welcome our broken where the world is seeing a cascade of containment measures the announcements coming almost too fast to keep up with this week india took the step of canceling almost all visas for foreign visitors Health Experts say india a country with 1300000000 people has a huge potential for a rapid spread of the virus and yet the country has fared better than most with only 80 no cases and only one death but if the worst is ahead how bad will it get our correspondent john wall reports. New debt is jump but market is usually a populist all put child memorabilia. Now its life does a. Lot of mock and squarely blames the could or know why this in 6 years of running the shop he have never seen a slum this big over the last 2 weeks his sales have dropped by 80 percent doris what fought in an indian off of market places like this one. From aachen taking precautions can get in the way of keeping up appearances but the op shop oh who does not. Run credit as if we have hand sanitizers for employees in the shop but we cant wear masks because of people c. E. O. s wearing them though wonder whats wrong with us oh thank lets stay away from him were going to tourist and enter the shop whats the point at. Which some store owner was desperate for business. Travel im public spaces on the subsidy part of noir but with scores of nucleus is reported across india this month the Indian Government is taking no chances india has a walk the result of all foreign nationals delhi if the 15 indians adorning home from affected countries will be quarantined for 14 days and the party is on that even though its coming back from other countries can be quite a deal. Though the onset of formal wear though means delis chronic evolution is finally clearing up mosques often every bit. The soldier in could or know why discuses has set off massive buying of votes mosques and funded by. Pharmacies are running out of stock. Multiple masks and sanitizers so that others can get them to many or stockpiling these items but they shouldnt do that they should think about the others to ask the government if actually its more indians from affected countries the doctor count of cases is nearly certain to write. In dead many dissidents already and are following all the protocols. Of the spread of the virus was limbs will have to stop going out its going to get up because it does it but if people take the right precautions i dont think things will get that bad and it was. The government should hand out free masks and install sanitizer stations everywhere they need to educate people about this disease. Theyre going to have indians wait to see if and how the current artist can be. Interested in such a densely populated country many are hoping the coming months will provide better in youth. Yemen is in my view at a critical juncture. We will either silence the guns and resume the political process. And we will slip back. Into a large scale conflict there was a warning from the un that yemen is once again at a crossroads Government Troops and shiite who the rebels have fought a civil war there since 2015 with devastating consequences for the people tens of thousands have been killed and millions displaced in what the u. N. Calls the worlds worst humanitarian crisis in december 28th team the u. N. Brokered a cease fire agreement for the city of how data yemens gateway to outside aid the u. N. Also dispatched a mission to support that cease fire a team that included a german navy officer in a moment hell join me here at the big table to talk about his mission but 1st we have this report. Endured 5 years of civil war the people of yemen are despairing theyre the victims of a conflict that extends far beyond their countrys borders yemen is witnessing a conflict between shiite whos the rebels and Government Forces saudi arabia backs the government while the rebels are supported by iran but tribal and political tensions further complicate the situation it would be even worse if the un hadnt brokered a cease fire around the port of whole data so aid can keep entering a special u. N. Commission monitors that troops. Germany contributes one soldier to that group until november last year that was commander sebastian h. His duties included reporting on how the truce was being observed and negotiating deescalating keeping the 2 sides talking. Children are under the greatest threat millions face starvation their psychological suffering cannot be calculated in all 80 percent of yemens population depends on international aid. Its a crisis that sebastian h. Witnessed firsthand as he tried to prevent it from worsening even more. And were pleased to welcome commanders bastard h right here at the big table tonight and we want to let our viewers know for security reasons we cant disclose the commanders complete name so were going to survive with commander committed going to have you on the show if you were chosen out of all of germanys military personnel to help oversee the cease fire in talk to me a little bit how did you prepare for this. Mission specific preparation last a couple of weeks prior to actually going there but also in the choosing of the personnel that you send to such a mission you have a look at that they have a certain set of training my case for example was a u. N. Stuff as course which teaches you to work and un stuff. That was a couple of years ago but still you have the training for this mission the training included a week of medical training with a paramedic and a doctor. Driving training driving in difficult conditions driving under fire driving an Armored Vehicles and one week of a land survival course so basically like to survive and get to somewhere when youre cut off or Something Like that is important for a navy man right exactly yes also the riving course if i had been in a an army officer they would not have sent me to that driving course but on a navy officer and for that reason it was necessary to do that when we hear the name yemen and we know about the humanitarian crisis there was this a mission that you looked forward to. Oh yes it from the start it seemed to be very interesting to me very thrilling in a sense. And therefore despite the fact that of course you have certain. Negative feelings as well if youre afraid of something or you think you dont know what its going to be like but of course its interesting to go there and its my profession as an officer to do such things we just heard in that report that yemen is the worlds worst humanitarian catastrophe i think its more than 14000000 people face hunger and starvation how important is the port of data for alleviating that suffering the poor of what it is critically important to that its the one port in yemen that 1st of all has the right infrastructure to handle a lot of cargo and has a good connection to the. Population centers in the highlands around santa the 2nd port addon in the south and is too far away and of course its in the government of yemen is territory so youd have to cross a border or a front line between the parties and that is more difficult was the whole data is in the hands of the. Who feel some call them party and therefore thats where most of the population live that makes it easier to use for the data you you had you were in brokered cease fire agreements there that it was you were tasked to implement that how did you implement it i mean talk to me about the practical challenges because youre trying to get groups that are rouer to come in sit and talk peace yes indeed exactly so one element of this is going on patrols and being present and having a look at whats going on and then reporting for example to the United NationsSecurity Council to have some presence on the ground and see whats going on but in terms of changing things in yemen. I think the part of bringing the parties together to talk was more important and that was a critical element of the mission. So every 6 weeks 5 weeks maybe the parties would meet on board of our ship you seen the ship in the small trailer and we would sail outside in International Waters so that theyd have a ground to talk and they would do some talking. And you were the only german on this mission correct. Yes the only german official there was one German National who was a part of the United Nations. She was there for a while but from the German Military of the German Government so to say. I was the only was an advantage for you when you were trying to bring these people together to talk. I think. Generally speaking yes germany is a country that is respected by both parties in that conflict. And therefore are probably why it was germany respected by the parties. There is little of the colonial past of germany germanys not very much engaged with. Some things that people think negatively about the west and in that region. Many people in the region connect germany to football mercedesbenz and things like that so generally speaking i would say that in the middle east people have a positive attitude towards germany and they think the