A challenging time for millions of people and in other headlines the. Violence in guinea as anger grows over a controversial referendum critics say the president is using to extend his term. Welcome to the program corona virus infections have surged to over 300000 across the globe with more than 13000 deaths so far italy has become the epicenter with nearly 800 deaths reported on saturday alone so more countries are putting their people under lockdown such as india where one of the Biggest National exercises is now in place more than a 1000000000 people have been asked to stay indoors a 14 hour nationwide curfews in place as confirmed near 300 people there the government has also ordered a week long ban on all International Flights as of sunday australias Prime Minister is also warning of strict restrictions closing down all beaches to implement social distancing some states and territories are closing borders more than 1000 cases have been reported as a ban on entry for nonresidents a
Public gatherings are banned find out next why senegal is edging closer to a full law down at the corona virus continues to spread. In other headlining stories the unprecedented drought thats making life difficult for millions of people in chile. As get going the numbers get more alarming by the day more than 300000 people around the world now the coronavirus with 13000 the epicenter its only reported nearly 800 on saturday alone more countries are ordering lockdowns such as india where more than a 1000000000 people have been asked to stay indoors a 14 hour nationwide curfews in place as confirmed cases near 300 australias Prime Minister is warning of tighter restrictions closing all beaches to end for. Social distancing some states and territories shutting their internal borders thailand is reporting its biggest daily increase with 188. 00 new cases taking the total to almost 600. 00 the capital bangkok is under a partial shutdown from sunday we have standing by for us in hong kong fo
Air borders public gatherings are banned. And. Difficult for millions of people. And. Major league to be heading toward town. Hall and go on for now. While the numbers get more alarming by the day if not every region of the world is affected by corona virus this sunday we have indonesia and thailand reporting new infections thailand with its biggest jump yet europe remains our focus the most shocking numbers came in on saturday when they reported nearly 800 deaths in one day spain has just raised its death toll by nearly 400 this is how it looks on the overall track which you know from Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. Over 307000 confirmed cases with 13000 deaths and as i always say dont forget the well its coming on for 100000 people isnt it whove actually recovered from coronavirus look at it on the map. You get the feeling yes it has hit every part of the world now but very much you can see that cluster of red in europe which is very much the epicenter now were going to look at
Life difficult for millions of people in chile. 400 hours g. M. T. Which is 6 pm in the United Arab Emirates which is Just Announced a large stimulus plan to help ease the economic fallout from the coronavirus but there is a big casualty as well one of the worlds Biggest Airlines emirates based in dubai will suspend all passenger flights from wednesday theyve Just Announced it on their twitter page 25th of march 2020 cargo will continue they call it a painful but pragmatic move to give you an idea this is where emirates flies to gosh i had it they remember thats their destinations all over the world looking at Something Like a 100 and huge and 30150 destinations 270 planes 3500 flights a week said this. Its just going to be a have a huge impact i think on the aviation what im going to talk more about that a little bit later also i want to look at spain where nearly 400 people are reported to have died in the past 24 hours. And indonesia singapore thailand all reporting new infections a
President ial campaign, and the crisis in flint, michigan. This is 40 minutes. Let me start with a few preliminaries about todays news. My named is david anderson. A longtime member of the club and member of the clubs newsmakers committee. Im an attorney. Years ago i was washington correspondent for the cincinnati herald. There may be a lot of folks that were not journalists in here, so do respect the members of the media who may be here and asking questions. And many of those around you may be working journalists. So, please, understand that theyre here to do a job. Now, after our guest makes his opening remarks, youll have to chance to ask these questions. When you do, please identify yourself, name and affiliation. Before we get started id like to mention some Upcoming Events here at the club. On march 21st, there will be a panel on the South China Sea dispute. That will include various security, economic and legal issues. On the 22nd, the club will also have a newsmaker on millenia