Man babbel. ding a language learning app that teaches real life conversations and ush recognition technology. ding ding and they are at babbel. Babbel. C. Narrator fund was also proded by, the freeman foundation. By judy and Peter Blum Kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for americas neglected needs. And by contributions to this pbs station from s like you. Thank you. Uncer and now, bbc world news. The global death rate from the coronarus is 3. 4 , which is higher than the seasonal flu. Health experts say the numbers dontake into accounes unreported c the who is warning that despite the new figures, hoarding masks and goggles is putting medical workers at risk. Other Frontline Health workers, dangerously ill to care for covid19 patients. Ros his is a Health Crisis that is becoming an economic is. The u. S. Central blight bank has slashed rates citing the evolving risk from the coronavirus. Many are wondering, is it ok to shake hands . In will hand, that is what peoplere doing. In other stories, we will cover the eu offering help as thousands of migrants try to cross the border from turkey. It is super tuesday in the u. S. , the most important day so far in the democratic race ake on donald trump in this years election. Ros the wor Health Organization is are known to have bee infected with the coronavirus have died. Here there is no toll theres a total of 90,800 93 reported cases of covid19 globally. And we thousand 110 deaths. About 3. 4 percent of reported covid19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1 . Ros fa on th of it, this is a huge shift in the story. We wanted to check. This i a professor from ucl genetics institute. It is worrying to some extent, it it was it was unexpected because we had a certain number of cases, about 90,000, n certainber of deaths, about 3000, a ratio of the number of coirmed deaths. It is just another ratio of these numbers. It should not have come as a major surprise. It was shocking about this number is how high it is. It should also be tempered little bit because this does not take into account the mild or symptomatic cases that may have been missed. We can only hope that the number rowill go down. Theres a lot a focus on the mortality rate. Theres also focus on the speed of which this virus is spreading. Whats is your analy what we are learning about the Global Expansion of the virus . Yes, so, it looks like the aepidemthe global level is about doubling every seven days or so. Each case, each infection seems to lead it infections. High as a virus. S not remarkably it is kind of average. O the seasonalle flu, for instance. Ros there is another important ry inopment on the s italy. It has the biggest clustef cases in europe. In the last few hours, f ce hundred nes have been confirmed, taking thtotal to two and a half thousand. Authorities are considering a new quarantine red zone in the city of bermo. We already have two of those red zonescross veneto and normandy in the north. If we move from italy to iran, it is also facing a major outbreak. Theumber of cases has gone up by 50 for a second day in a row. There are over 2300 cases. There is evidence to suggest that the figure could be higher. We know authodities are ining a range of msures including the temporary release of over 50,000 prisoners in tehran. The idea being to stop the virus spreading in prisons. One of the prisons is a prison where there are reports of one official saying the british iranian Cherry Charity worker could be among those released. That has not been confirmed. The reason the map went on to washington is while this is a Health Crisis, it is a risk of becoming an economic crisis. In washington, the u. S. Federal reserve has cut Interest Rates. To puthat in context, the largest cut in Interest Rates since the 2008 financial crisis. This Statement Released by the fed says the rate will be between 1 and. 25 . It goes on to beci exp the coronavirus poses risks to Economic Activity. President trump wants more. Apparently for Different Reasons. He says the fed is cutting but st further ease and most important, come into line with other countries. Awe not playing on a level playing field. Not fair to the u. S. It ihetime fored to leave more easing andutting. Lets bring in our reporter in new york. We a in this curious situation where donald trump wanted cuts but he sms to want cuts for Different Reasons to the ones the fed are giving for doing this today. The Federal Reserve decided to step in andelp the u. S. Economy by making this great cut. It is important to mention how rare it is for ese kinds of emergency rate cuts to happen. Remember, they are our scheduled meetings that happen throughout ther. Y meeting ofcheduled e u. S. Federal reserve happening in a few weeks. They have decided co do this ra outside one of those scduled meetings. The last time we saw the u. S. Federal reserve do that was back inht 20072 thousand e during the financial crisis when the u. S. Was pushed intore its worst ssion since the great depression. Previous to that, the next time we saw this emergency move was shortly after the september 11 terrorist attack. It is very rare for the fed to do Something Like this. I think that underlines just what they are thinking in terms of the economic impactve this my ha on the economy longterm. Ros help me understand whyks it th a rate cut will mitigate the economic problems created by e Coronavirus Crisis . What this does is it makes it cheaper for people to borr money and i is not just individuals like you and i. It mes it cheaper for businesses as well to borrow money. The thinking is as long as money is cheap to get, people will take out loans and then go out and buy things. When it comes to the regular consumers, maybe it is the right time to buy aouse, a car. For a business, it is possible they will buy big pieces of machinery which will spur more Economic Activity in the United States and hopefully abroad. That is the idea. Of cou you have to take into account at investors are ally nervous, businesses are really nervous, and consumers are really nervous. There is a question about what kind of efficacy this will actually have in terms of spurring moreconomic growth. S thank you very much indeed. We are going to talk politics. It is super tuesday today. 14 states across the u. S. Will be voting for the democrat that they would like to take on dona trumpn november. Let me show you the contenders. Heres the front runner, senator Bernie Sanders. Here he is campaigning in utah. He is the most leftwing of the candidates. s policy is a new Health Care System for all. And hes ahead in the polling. The man who was ahead in polling, joe biden, here he is in texas. His campaign derailed badly in february but a few daysgo, he took South Carolina and he had two big endorsements on the last whoust dropped out andobuchar Pete Buttigieg as well. Both moderate candi dtes, both jupped out. The Democratic Party establishment seems very much want joe biden and perhaps just as much, wants to stop Bernie Sanders. Theres also Elizabeth Warren here she is in california. Shes further to the left than joe biden. Heramign is under pressure but she is still in it. She is the only candidate with contention on eitht side who is man in his 70s. And we should mention Mike Bloomberg, heres one y his money, m commercls. He spent hundreds of millions of dollars onm. Him on t the ads have been slick, his t performance in debate have not been. We will have to see which accounts for more. At stake in all of these 14 states, 1353 delegates, more th a thirdth o total available in this democratic contest. Needless to say, do well today, d you are in iood shape. Hejames cook with more on the process. James they have been battling it out for ages but only four serious contenders now remain. The democrats will choose their candidate in july in the rk at the party convention. Statebystate,re party esentatives in the hall known as delegates cast their votes. Hillary rodjam clinton. S but who decides how they vote . That process is happening right now. It takes months and it is called primary season. This year, the first Democratic Caucus in iowa was shambolic with pete ttigieg winning it. Just. Bernie sanders triumphed in new hampshire, the first primary. And he won in nevada too. South carolina went to joe biden. Th which brings us to super tuesday, the third of march, when 14 states hold their primaries and more thaird of all delegates are awarded in just one day. Ros there are more important numbers to bear in mind on super tuesday. The first one i want to highlight is 15. Heres Christian Fraser to explain why. In a democratic primary, states award delegates the candidates based on how many votes they get. To get any delegates at all, a candidate has to get 15 of the vote. That does notake much of a difference because by that point inhe race, they are usually two candidates left. But this cycle, there are five candidates in the race on super tuesday. That makes the 15 hurdle really important. If Bernie Sanders or joe biden when a state but lots of other candidates also get over the 15 hurd, then the delegates get shared out more widely, meaning the winner gets last. If the other candidates dont get over the hurdle, the winner gets more. That is what is making this contest so hard to call. Ros the next number to rember is 170 million. A huge figure. It could have a big influence on how ople vote. Heres nick brian. Reporter 170 Million Dollars is what mike b super tuesday advertising. That small a thatmall change for the worlds ninth richest person. What it has done is carpet bombed the super tuesday states with television advertisements. It is hard to turn on the tv in places like california and virgin without seeing the face of the former new york mayor. Has money bought him political love . The polls suggest not. Many see this as billionaire entitlement. Mike bloomberg using his wealt in an attempt to buy the presidency. He entered this race because he thought joe biden was weak. He wanted to block the candidacy of Bernie Sanders. He does n want to see the vermont senator as the democratic president ial nominee. The ironys that biden has said searched and bloomberg continues continued presencec in thehelps the man he entered the race to stop. Ros th and thees this number. 1991. Lets go live to North Carolina. You are going top he on this number. Gary yeah, that ishe number you need of pledged delegates to get yourself over the top,t to majority of those delegates heading into the convention in milwaukee in july to grab the nomination and to fighting fight dona trump. It is a magic number. It is number everyone is striving to. The near you get to it, the more thely it is you will nominee. The difficulty is that i get to a poithere is still two or three people in the race where no one can mathematically get to that point, and that is when you get questions of a contested conntion convention and people argue ovet whether or a plurality ought to be the reason you give someone the nomination. Ros thanks. Dont go anywhere. We are coming back to you in the moment. Across tse 14 states, 15 of the delegates are upor grabs come from california and the west, texas in the south. Those two are big prizes. Heres the latest polling. In california, Bernie Sanders with a lead on 35 . Biden, 23 . Warren, 16 . In texas, it is tighter. Sanders and biden almost an in the late 20s. Bloomberg above 15 . Warren, just below. As you study the situation across the 1 stes, what are the key dynamics we should look out for . Gary obviously, those results in texas and california. Going back to this 15 threshold, it is incredibly important. Ironically, if there is more people getting over that 15 threshold,f Elizabeth Warren starts to go over 15 n some of the states, if Mike Bloomberg starts to distribut the candidates. Ore evenly among that makes a contested the quicker they get down to a smaller number, the more likely it isa that you will geear winner. If you dont, you will get a bona fide for the next few months ros i can see activity behind you as people go about devoting. Tell us about the process and who gets to vote . Gary retty quiet one here i we have had 217 people vote here as of five minutes ago. That is an almost eight hours. Not exactly a flood of activity here in charlotte, North Carolina voting station. But, the proce is a primary in this particular state, you are either a registered democrat or a registered democrat or regiered republican or unaffiliated. If you are unaffiliated, you haveo choose which primary yot are going to in. North carolina, incredibly important. One of those battleground states. It was the sixth most marginal state in the last general election. Tru only won by thr points. There is a lot to fight for here in terms of the democrats. Ros thank you for taking us through it. Quite a few hours time, when the results come through, you will get full coverage. In a few minutes on outside source, we will have the latest for you on the European Unions response to the new wavef migrants who are trying to get from turkey into greec aea into the eurunion. Ros counted, Benjamin Netanyahu and hiss are on wins to win 59 seats in theeneral election. Ooweacross the result. Reporter after more than a decade and power, Benjamin Netanyahu has a reputation as a great political survivor. In this election shows he deserves it. At his likud partys headquarters overnight, he told cheering supporters this win was particularly sweet. [speaking foreign language] translator our arrival is over. What we join urrces andthe tables. We turn lemons into lemonade. Reporter that was a bitter blow for his political rivals here at the blueandwhite alliance headquarters. Mr. Netanyahus right wing bloc needed to form a coalitiony government. And much could hinge oneveral thousand votes yet to be counted, including four israelis in self quarantine because of possible exposure to the coronavirus. Ros we are here in the newsroom our lead story is that the globat death for the coronavirus has been named as 3. 4 , far higher than seasonal flu. Health experts are saying the numbers dont take into account unreported cases. The grant crisisn the greeceturkey border continues to intensify. Today, the eu offered to help increase in the number of peoe who are trying to shift from turkey into greece and so into the european union. The increase was caused by turkey deciding last week that it would not stop migrants who are trying to ach the eu. Thousands of people are stuck in an area between greece while this is resolved. Visited the area tor officials you can see just there, urszula or lion, the European Commission president and the president of the european council. Two senior firereshey were briefed by the greek army and the eu confied it is sending 100 Border Guards and sedn coast guar vessels. Heres the commission president. C we hae here today to send a very clear statement. Of European Solidarity and support to greece. Our First Priority is making sure that order is maintained at the greek external border which is also our europe border. Im fully comminged to mobilill the necessary Operational Support to the greek authorities. Ros many migrants have gathered in turkeys western province. Ityou can se there. Because of that, roads leading to a keyboard or crossing key Border Crossing the situation is tense. Lots of families have gathered on the banks of the river. Yo can see children and their belongings. The greek government says it stoppe when he for thousand people from crossing just since saturday. Thingsot tense over the weekend. You can see police being deployed. Tmigranew rocks over the border at greek police who responded with tear gas and ter cannon. You can see barbed wire has been set up. Another route inco the eu is of se by boat. That issue affects the island. That is whe these pictures are om. We know one child died monday trying to reach the island. Those who do arrive are then moved into camps on the island. Onof those is called morae are. These pictures are from theiv. People whothere criticize the overcrowded conditions and the government has said it will close this camp and transferred people to a Detention Center on the mainland. Bo and he recorded this lese earlier. Gabriel what is happening as you can see that the police are trying to push everyone away from this port area. There are a couple hundred migrants and refeesere. Some of them, some of the newcomers that have come in the last few days, many of them have been here for months if not years. They are desperate to get off this island. Ihink they thought that there was a chance of a boat to athens. That is why they came down here. I dont think that has turned out to be the case. They are being pushed on. [yelling] briel a little earlier, we saw scuffles. And tensions have definity been rising. Not just in the lt few days, t in the last month or so between the migrants and refugees in the police on the one hand. But also between some local people w have been hting these people now for five years. Foanone reason or another, maybe it is the newcomers from turkey, maybet is something else, but things have reached a tipping point. And as i say, tensions are risin