Hes now tested positive for the virus. This was delhi today. At least 13 People Killed in clashes over a new citizenship law. It grants amnesty to immigrants from neighbouring countries, as long as theyre not muslims. As another humanitarian tragedy unfolds in syria the director of the White Helmets travels to the uk to ask for help. As syria is in the grip of another humanitarian tragedy there arent words in length arabic language that can describe the catastrophe happening there. There are now over 80,000 cases of the coronavirus in 36 countries. Of the coronavirus in 37 countries. Well bring you the latest on how the virus is spreading, how countries are combatting it, and how many people have died later in the programme. The coronavirus outbreak has sparked sharp falls on stock markets for the second day running the New York Stock Exchange has closed in the past few minutes it was trading down nearly 3 in the closing minutes. Earlier, paris, london and frankfurt all ended the day about 2 lower. Samira husain is in new york. Help us understand why traders are so help us understand why traders are so concerned. Traders are really worried about some of the things that we talked about yesterday, the provisional spread of the virus and how thats going to impact the global upon me. There are other things that happened today. Global economy. We heard from Health Officials saying that americans should really prepare for a possible outbreak of the coronavirus and that it will be bad. That really sent markets trading a lot lower today. 0ther markets trading a lot lower today. Other things that have markets really worried, rather investors really worried, rather investors really worried, rather investors really worried, theres this general sense from some investors that it is possible that the number of cases in the us, although it remains low, were talking about very few cases, some people are finding it very hard to believe. Now that were hearing from the cdc we should prepare for an eventual outbreak of coronavirus in this country, that certainly has people quite spooked. Another particular sector under pressure for the stock market. A lot of sectors are being hurt by it. In particular, they are looking at airlines. Basically, any company that has anything to do with china. If you sell to china, if you buy Raw Materials from china to make your own goods here in the us, all of those companies are being impacted. So its a variety of things from apple to walt disney to american airlines, it is really because what happens in china touches so Many Companies that operate in america. We are seeing such a widespread impact. Lets pick up on some of those issues. However the coronavirus outbreak develops from this point, we can already say with certainty that the economic conseqeunces are going to be enormous. Already, efforts to contain the virus have disrupted supply chains, air travel and a range of cross border activity, and kept millions of workers at home. Heres our International Business correspondent theo leggett. There of in these huge lockdowns, there have been factory stoppages, factories in china are still at 50 60 . People arent able to go out and spend money, so the car industry there has taken a tremendous knock thats affected International Companies which sell in china, so theres a lot of damage being done there. Then theres the supply chain, so goods that are manufactured in china would normally be crossing the ocean and arriving in europe and in the United States a few weeks later. Now we know that a lot of those sailings havent happened because of restrictions in the ports because there arent enough goods to fill the ships, so sailings have been cancelled. Aviation is under severe pressure. This firm cirium logs air Industry Data reports that more than 200,000 flights to and from china have been cancelled since the outbreak began. And it says the number of flights scheduled to fly from and within china in february is 80 on this time last year. And while china is bearing the brunt, this is a global issue. Today bahrain suspended all flights in and out of dubai. While passenger and cargo flights from the uae to iran have also been cancelled. This is the analysis of simon calder of the independent. China southern, china eastern, particularly suffering, but hong kongs airline cafe pacific is having a terrible time as well in terms of the number of people who no longer wish to trend it through hong kong are really important. But other airlines, whether from the us, whether from south asia, air india for example, whether from europe, they are trimming back their asian operations, particularly into the peoples republic of china. As a result of which air traffic on some routes has been cancelled completely on many others up by 80 . One way to assess the possible economic damage of this virus is to look at sars, another deadly virus which emerged in china in 2002. Factories and businesses closed, and it slowed the chinese economy by 2 . But chinas economy and the Global Economy have changed an awful lot since 2002. According to the new york times, while sars stung the Global Economy, coronavirus poses a greater menace because of chinas increased economic power. These figures explain why. According to the world bank, chinas gdp has increased almost tenfold since 2002, to 13. 6 trillion in 2019. For the same period, global trade doubled. Now, many major global businesses depend on chinese factories for their production, and chinese consumers for sales. Heres theo legget again. Well, china can recover. The question is whether those people whove been burned by supplies from china being disrupted actually want to be as reliant on china as they are at the moment. China is the workshop of the world. It is a cheap place to get things made, but there are alternatives. The garment industry, for example, people can buy from bangladesh, so a lot of the companies which have been affected by this will be going, well, this has happened once. Maybe we dont want it to happen again, and maybe we should have alternative supply chains just in case, and that might hit china in the future. Chinas government is trying to counter the hit to its economy. According to Chinese State radio, banking and Insurance Firms they have injected over 100 million into the economy. Reuters reports beijing has plans to roll out tax cuts to help businesses. The ft reports chinas biggest factories offered big bonuses and city governments paid for charter flights just to get people back to work. The message from the government clear china needs to get moving again. The president xi says those in low risk areas should resume full production and normal life. But theres is a long way to go. This was the scene in beijing today. The main metro empty, streets quiet. Many shops, restaurants and factories closed. And its been like this for weeks. So what tools are available to governments to mitigate to governments to mitigate the economic consequences . Andrew walker explains. Its not all that conventional. Governments and Central Banks can do to try and provide some economic stimulant to upset a slowdown in Economic Growth. Part of the story i think will be one of consumers being more wary, be more reluctant to spend money and to some degree, those things of the conditional tools conventional tools, reducing taxes, they can perhaps help a little bit with that. If people are simply determined not to travel, not to go out, then those kinds of things will have a rather limited affect. The other point i make is about the demand side of the economy, a lot of the impact is on the other side, the supply side. Disruptions to peoples ability to get to work, to move around for business meetings, to transport goods, and stimulating demand doesnt help very much with that. I think the one thing that perhaps comes candid and can help with this, the chinese have already been doing it to some extent, is to provide some short term lending essentially to companies because many of them will still have their outgoings. They will be able to pay their staff and rent, but not getting money coming in because they cant produce and sell goods they normally would. Some sort of short term lending to tide them over, that kind of problem certainly can and will help Many Companies if not all. Some tactics are available but help me put this into context. Whats the worst Case Scenario here . How bad they could the Global Economy be affected by this single virus . Its very hard to put numbers on it and we are not looking at anything at this stage that looks like it would constitute a global recession, but i suppose if you really were to spread far enough and how that must disruption to economic activity, it could come to that. At the moment, what most people are thinking in terms of how a substantially slow Economic Growth in the first quarter, perhaps the first half of the year in china, so maybe by 2 points slower. In a smaller but still not negligible hit to the Global Economy. Is it too simplistic for me to see attention between efforts to restrict the spread of the virus at efforts to protect the Global Economy . There really is attention there. The bulk of the economic disruption i think is going to come from and has been so is going to come from and has been so farcoming is going to come from and has been so far coming from efforts to contain the spread, stopping people from travelling. Ordering factories to close down and so forth. Rather from the direct costs associated with the disease itself. Sure, there are some. China is investing quite a lot of money in this rapid building ofa lot of money in this rapid building of a new health facility. Theres also the cost of getting more supplies to deal with the virus, but the bigger Economic Impact certainly comes from trying to stop it spreading. Much more background on the bbc website. We will turn back to it and 18 minutes time. Cases are developing in italy, austria, china,japan, the are developing in italy, austria, china, japan, the list goes on. We will cover that in about 15 minutes. Harvey weinstein has spent his first night in detention after being found guilty of rape and Sexual Assault. The former hollywood producer was taken here to new yorks Bellevue Hospital after the verdict after complaining of chest pains. Hes still there, receiving treatment, but hes en route to this place, Rikers Island. Its home to new yorks biggestjail housing a population of 10,000 inmates, its here that Harvey Weinstein will await sentencing. Harvey weinstein was convicted of sex crimes against two women. One is the former Production Assistant mimi haleyi who the jury found he sexually assaulted, back in 2006. Here she is speaking to cbs news. Im just, ijust think im just, i just think that were being educated about the reality of Sexual Assault and victims, and what Sexual Assault and victims, and what Sexual Assault and victims, and what Sexual Assault usually involved. Its not always just a stranger, it is very often somebody that the person knows. You know, so. With that comes an entire other layer of processing. When it somebody that you know, theres another whole layer of processing, like emotional confusion. Why did this person do this . How could this person have done this to me . So thats what i hope that we are more realistic from 110w hope that we are more realistic from now on about Sexual Assault. So 2a hours since the verdict, how are americans reacting today . Heres nada tawfik in new york. There are a lot of discussion today about the accusers and what they we nt about the accusers and what they went through testifying. We heard again from the silence breakers, a group of women who came out and spoke in los angeles, thinking the women, so spoke in los angeles, thinking the women, so lots of discussion on how this impacts the metoo movement. Showing that this is significant, that this does send a message not just a powerful man, that they are not immune from prosecution, but also to prosecutors and judges across the country because historically, these have been very ha rd historically, these have been very hard cases to try. Prosecutors are always worried about jurors looking at cases where there isnt much evidence and it just a at cases where there isnt much evidence and itjust a he said she said basis. So this has really changed the paradigm in that sense. This is proof to many people that it is worth victims coming forward, that they can get their day in court. We heard from one lawyer who was part of mr weinsteins team saying they were planning to appeal. Has that been confirmed . Yes, thats right. His lawyer has confirmed that they will be a feeling appealing. They have a different set of attorneys that handles the appeals process but she said she will be advising that going forward. It will bea advising that going forward. It will be a lengthy process and he still faces charges of rape and Sexual Assault. He will have to be sentence first here in new york. That happened on march 11 the white tell us happened on march 11 the white tell us about the prison. Its one of americas more famous bridges will not present. This is a prison that has been ripe with allegations of abuse, of guards hurting inmates, of inmates getting in fights with each other, a very very dangerous place. Thereve been cases of inmates committing suicide of how because of how traumatic it had been. The mayor of new york has found to shut down Rikers Island by 2017. Its worth noting that Harvey Weinstein is still in hospital, but his lawyers wa nt is still in hospital, but his lawyers want him to have a special pa rt of lawyers want him to have a special part of the prison where he can be separated from the overall population. In a few minutes when it will be talking about deli. Delhi. David steel has quit the liberal democrats after he told an independent inquiry that he had failed to act on allegations of child sex abuse against his colleague cyril smith. Tom symond has the story. It did fine deference when powerful people were accused of child abuse, details were not passed to the police in particular, to protect reputations. An inquiry uses a serial smith as an example of that. He was an mp in the 19705 but 5erial smith as an example of that. He was an mp in the 19705 but in the late 605, hes investigated by the police with allegation boys had been abused into schools. Ten years after, 5erial smith had a conversation with david steele who i5a conversation with david steele who is a leader of the liberal party. Steel gave evidence and said he didnt admitany steel gave evidence and said he didnt admit any abuse. He was accused of doing wrong. This is outside source live from the bbc newsroom. Our lead story . Shares in new york has fallen because of concerns of the coronavirus outbreak. Serious violence in delhi today. At least 13 people died in clashes between opponents and supporters of a new citizenship law that grants amnesty to non muslim immigrants from neighbouring countries, but not to muslims. Dehli Police Issued this statement calling for calm. They asked for city citizens to restore a nd they asked for city citizens to restore and normalcy. Thats not being heeded. Yogita limaye is also in delhi. Thi5 this is a factory thats been set on fire. Mo5t this is a factory thats been set on fire. Most of the shops here were owned by muslims and weve seen other signs of arson on the road today as well. What weve also seen are violent mob5 carrying 5tick5 today as well. What weve also seen are violent mob5 carrying sticks and 5tone5, are violent mob5 carrying sticks and stones, and they were chanting. It was a stones, and they were chanting. It wasa hindu stones, and they were chanting. It was a hindu religiou5 cry that has come to be associated with lynch mob5. We have been in the dominated areas, so mob5. We have been in the dominated areas, so we havent been able to go to the muslim dominated side. The People Living here are telling us that People Living in the muslim dominated areas have been throwing 5tone5 dominated areas have been throwing stones and even 5hooting bullets at them. This all started over indias controversial sentence and chip law. There was a group of people, mostly muslims, protesting the law. Citizenship law. There was a group of people supporting the law, but the clashes that broke out between the5e the clashes that broke out between these two groups have increasingly become common. What we are seeing on the ground today very much look5 like a religious riot. People from both communities have been killed and have been injured in these violent clashes. A couple que5tion5 being raised, where he saw violent mob5, there wereju5t being raised, where he saw violent mob5, there were just two policemen. Questions about whether the government has deployed enough police to break the cycle of violence which is been going on for two days now. Bbc hindi has been speaking to one man who was allegedly attacked by the hindu mob. The riot5 have overshadowed Donald Trumps state visit to india. Prime minister Narendra Modi is at the centre of the story. His hindu nationalist bjp party is being accused of stoking these religious tensions, something it denies. And inevitably, these issues came up in questions for President Trump. I will say that the Prime Minister was incredible on what he said, he wa nts was incredible on what he said, he wants people to have religious f