living in beijing these days means spending a. all of your time at checkpoints our driver is getting worried about being able to return hard. we try one what interests. me and if. i think of the next i mean. since the crisis began the number of local committee workers has risen volunteers as they call themselves a swelling in the ranks in the nation's bid to fuck the bar. in reality they opined by the state to ensure that everyone a base the routes. the summaries the less you. can but i don't watch i would tell you. that i would i translate. like everywhere else the streets the desert. it's hard to find anyone to talk to. except that this man is outside for the 1st time in days. the mother. read her. book here. would you not for mental matter well the fire was a bunch. if. that if. we stopped at another checkpoint this time in the middle of the road. i want to imagine what their temporary home but when i. got to. it as well as i do what you have to learn. then you're. trying to. miss out. there's a surprise waiting for me when i g

normally on a friday beijing looks like this. it's nice to have more breathing room for a change but it does start to feel a bit long. to make this tense situation works at temperature is checked every 300 natives with. the sort of. the shopping mall is empty is the straits. luckily the basketball court still open to liven things up. i'm surprised they still allowed to play without masks. we can still find some hand sanitizer but who knows for how long. there's another temperature check at the supermarket at least there are a few more people here. since we've been quarantined we do a lot more kooky. it's a relief to see 4 shelves in the supermarket. everyone in beijing saw the peaches on social media of the empty stores in on the situation in the at the center of the epidemic with tamer the thousands of people infected is on everyone's mind. but the situation here is nowhere near as severe as woo han. nevertheless the city is in lockdown. i'm a genius lee my translator in beijing subway. the temperature is checked as she enters t

and beijing would look like this. it's nice to have a bit more space but we're feeling a bit lonely. and what makes things worse is getting our temperature measured every 300 metres. but is it really such a good idea to be pressing these devices on to dozens of different people's wrists . in the mall is almost empty too. usually we have to wait half an hour to get a coffee but people don't feel like going out. at least there are a few young guys playing basketball bringing a bit of life to the place. but i'm surprised they aren't wearing masks. at the moment they're still disinfectant to clean our hands but for how much longer. at the supermarket entrance another checkpoint. at least there's a bit more life here since being in choir and teen cooking has become our main activity the side of the supermarket shelves is almost comforting but only almost. we've all seen the images of empty shelves in the city of ohio and on social media . the situation at the epicenter of the outbreak where thousands are sick is ever prese

for weeks now in beijing there hasn't been any point in getting up early. the only reason to do so is to check the latest number of new infections. right after waking up. have you found the fact is there almost always are 5000 confirmed cases of the illness. i came to work in china as a journalist in 2007 and got married to lulu from beijing we have one son and live in a housing complex in the north of the city i travel around china a lot making reports but now i've been grounded and the niagara i need to base is still ok. cordons have been erected around cities but also around entire provinces as well as city districts and even every housing complex. outside my neighborhood block uniformed men check everyone's comings and goings. the neighborhood committees are important cogs in the communist party security apparatus there to monitor residents political and social behavior. now they're functioning as health police. temperature checks enforced quarantines upon leaving the city mandatory face masks beijing's residents have bit by bit disappeared from the fac

based correspondent i live and work in beijing i have been in beijing in february and undergoing koren ting there but then i had to come to the states for every and important events that i was supposed to take part in so i thought oh obvious maher and come early so i came to washington d.c. and underwent a not a 2nd part of gene in disease self administered only to emerge into a world where everyone was going to quarantine and so it just so happened that my own cycle it's been like contagion meets groundhog day if you want to use a cinematic analogy it's it's remarkable how the world the individual countries have watched other countries go through this and they're having a sort of a state of denial and saying oh look at how tragic that is and not taking on that but happened there so now i'm in washington d.c. and i'm seeing some of the exact same reactions indeed some of the exact same next steps happening here that i have seen happening in beijing 6 weeks ago does that mean melinda when you were in beijing 6 weeks ago was was it about was it about saving lives or was it about social s

in the capital beijing shoppers voiced confidence in government measures to reduce imported cases by isolating a rifles from abroad there's just so with you that so many people here i don't feel savory because right now this is standard approach to korean teaming the imported cases of corona virus and those who have come back from abroad so i'm not that more heat with that i would have the character mara. everyone is being very vigilant about those returning from overseas we absolutely must not let talk god down we cannot allow rebound in case numbers and so put to waste the achievements we've made and the battles with one. visual. as the pandemic gulfs the rest of the world seems like this for a glimpse of how life can recover from the crisis. let's go to china now correspondent fog and crush my is standing by for us he is in beijing fabiani it sounds like little by little beijing and maybe the entire country starting super turn to normal is that fair to say. yes it's fair to say i would call it not normal but maybe the new normal i mean the streets are filled by people now i mean i

capital here in beijing they have to go to a centralized parenting station. hotels you cannot teach your room there and that's how they try to keep the country of virus free but we also know that there are many. asymptotic cases in persons who don't show any symptoms and they are not counted in the statistics so actually it's only a metal time until the fire was. also in china right the other regions of the world in long time in china is assisting the event with medical supplies what does that tell us. but the. looks like we're having technical problems there with a crash in beijing perhaps world resent him at some stage later in the day moving on now to the a limb picks the 2020 tokyo summer olympics in july have been for spode on tuesday the japanese prime minister shinzo abbott announced at the games would be pushed back to 2021 the decision follows months of debate and pressure from athletes around the world. the turkey lympics are off the decision came suddenly but was not unexpected after weeks of debate and speculation in order to safeguard the health

capital here in beijing they have to go to a centralized station the. hotels you cannot see if your room and that's how they try to keep 5 the country virus free but we also know that there are many so-called as i'm told. cases in persons who don't show any symptoms and they are not counted in the statistics so actually it's only a matter of time until the virus might also in china again. i think credible basic don't forget you can always get data of the news on the go just download it from google play out from the still and give you access to all the latest news from around the world as well as push notifications for any breaking news and if you're part of a news story you can also use it to send us photos and videos of what's going on. a full coverage of the corona virus or crisis on our website of course at state dumping dot com i'll be back at the top of the hour i'm going to. come bearing the corona pandemic. where does research stand. what are scientists learning. background information and news. our daily corona update. coded 19 special next on d

we can't go back to beijing yet there are many of us who live and work in beijing but stocking. our health is the priority we absolutely have to listen to the government of this with imported infections now the government's main focus beijing is tightening restrictions historic areas popular with overseas visitors are heavily monitored by police this possibly is usually full of tourists but today as you can see it's pretty quiet and behind me a barrier has been set up preventing nonresidents from entering these small streets community volunteers check entry permits and for high temperatures in the central business district many employees have returned to work checkpoints have been set up at every commercial and residential compound new arrivals to the city are rigorously questioned airport traffic is down 80 percent but roughly 1000 people are still flying into beijing every day local incoming travelers could spot a 2nd wave of actions. so i do worry about the supported cases some of my friends and colleagues returned to china recently it's concerning the local cases and the con

another measure that has been taken in beijing this week is the fact t tt flights s coming into the beijing capital airport will be rerouted to 12 regional airports. sort of may beo make sure there are not too many people in one place and to make sure there are notot more infections. some people who were hopingng to get to beijing will firsrst arre in a airports that c can be -- s far away as inner mongolia where they will have to go through screening and quarantine for 14 days before being allowed to continue towards beijing. inette:e: some major airlines the u.s. are preparing themselves for a voluntary shutdown of essentially all passenger flights according to a report in the wall street journal. it says american government agencies are believed to be ordering -- considering ordering airlines to stop flights. several more u.s. governments have joined the procession of states ordering millions of americans to stay home. president donald trump seems to be signaling he is considederina move in the opposite direction.. u.s., the federal reserve has unveiled in unprecedented bond buying progr

but i would have to imagine that the the government in beijing is a bit. curious and disturbed that you hear the president of the united states say something then you see the speaker of the house palosi say another thing and they're squabbling and then you have a medical professionals giving us kind of the hard news this is going to be hard to contain a lot more people will probably catch it and we have to hold learn a whole lot more but you have this political level and then you have this expertise level and they're not talking to each other at least that's my perception of it go ahead john. well 1st of all let me say a few words about conspiracy theory i think there's also a fish out of conspiracy theory here in china as well but i think it's a bit different our united states and you know the fact that the conspiracy is through usurer sells it's like sacks of yourselves very well it's a business actually other than that there's also a group of people who knew that if states that are into vaccine and these people had a political agenda they used as you kn

in beijing people are ready to venture out into parks to get some exercise or just to take a stroll in the fresh air joe kind of family is also worried about another wave of infections that's why he's still not allowed to meet up with his friends a normal boy in a major city that's still far from being back to normal. as a correspondent 5 years press marius in beijing we asked him whether the lifting of china's lockdown really did mean aver turn to novels. with increased traffic and also subways filling up restaurants opening again you might assume that beijing is getting back to normal but if you look closer then nothing really is normal these days you have makeshift tents in front of every residential compound was members of neighborhood committees controlling the movement of every person you're not allowed to leave the city and then come back without going into care and cheap we know that beijing has successfully suppressed the virus but you cannot really defeat it as long as it's spreading got globally and also within the country you still have so-called asymptotic cases. in fact t

we are seeing snowfall around beijing. and that is expected to develop as we go into the weekend as well. now temperatures are going to be as follows. 12 in seoul, and it's going to be warming up to double digits in beijing. sunny weather will return on saturday. and then sunny weather in bangkok. that's it for me, have a nice weekend. >>>and that's all for this hour on nhk "newsline." thank you very much for watching, and to stdo stay with for more. >>> the spreading effects of the coronavirus outbreak on the global economy triggered another sell-off in in tokyo on friday. with the benchmark ending at its lowest close of the year. the nikkei average ended the day at 20,749, down 2.7% from thursday. the index dropped more than 700 points at one stage. shares were sold across the board throughout the session. other stock markets across the asia-pacific region are in the negative. the benchmark in sydney finished the day down 2.8%. jakarta, hong kong and seoul also fell over 2%. this is "newsline" biz, i'm gene otani. the go

which are the more severe beijing if the percent of our patients are already since the 5 years old but their names the idea of you present is younger than 6. and we're measuring right here there are real. if you. basically is racing to get temporary hospitals up and running this one has been opened by a u.s. charity in the northern city of cremona. we came here because our fellow brothers and sisters our italian brothers and sisters are hurting. the horrifying situation in the north is now being replicated in the south here in naples the streets are empty but the hospitals are starting to fill up that awful mother figure is basically reflected that of lombardy 2 weeks ago she running for. president scrub all surfaces they think might be susceptible to contamination. but no matter how much they clean nothing can remove the fear of infection. well here in germany 2 states have imposed restrictions on movement in the face of mounting infections those measures begin today the states of bavaria in the southeast saarland that's in germany south west they have both announced an almost complet

as markets continue their spiral a ray of hope from china beijing claims the worst is over. and workers are returning to factories. and football club's finances taking a beating as teams play them to stadiums prime time measures. this is business as in berlin welcome. after thursday's battering of a coronavirus fears a little response for markets on friday yesterday was the largest one day loss on wall street since 980 seven's black monday however fears of a similarly brutal day for stocks today have eased asian indexes continued to fall in early friday trading before rallying the shanghai composite and the sayings all shop early losses but recovered well to lose around one percent each japan's nikkei closed down much was down 6 percent early european trading suggest some cautious optimism is returning following the massive losses yesterday the 4100 is up by 4 percent while the french the dax in paris cac currant have also had strong gains and let's go straight to correspondent for national correspondent chelsea delaney in frankfurt chelsea so not as bad as everybody is so w

in beijing and that's because they didn't receive the most international travelers i think in one day they have more than 5000 travelers flying into the capital every day so even starting to step up some of these travel restrictions if you come to beijing if you must head into a designated korean team hospital at your own expense there very serious crimp. no charges if you seem to be trying to 2nd dent these restrictions or if you still seem to be concealing any symptoms so it still remains a big challenge for china and i think definitely although we had the good news the 0 new cases there are still a long way yet before china can comfortably say that this outbreak is of a hit and says katrina you reporting live from beijing many thanks indeed katrina dr john nichols is a research into the corona virus outbreak and a clinical professor in pathology at the university of hong kong he says that china has proven that aggressive measures are effective at least in the short term before people have been talking about the i need a way to stop the process be getting the natural immunity to the

that flight will be diverted and it simply will not land in beijing from from now and it's going to be diverted to change in from cities in other provinces so that passengers can be protests processed tested quarantine if needed and the government has said that if you have a connecting flight from via beijing too bad you're simply going to miss it they're really trying to put people off flying into the airport even for transit as much as possible in beijing city a lot of hotels a lot of buildings are because of this fear of imported case. we seem to have a few technical problems in connecting with katrina but of course we will be speaking with throughout the day of course on that story just coming out of china that we had and who bay the province where the quote a virus actually started may come under a reduced lockdown in the next 24 hours let's cross over to elizabeth purana our correspondent in new delhi she's on skype of course you've been listening to what katrina had to say there and of course while who bailiff's it's locked down there are strict lock downs really beginning to

that flight will no longer be able to land in beijing it has to be diverted to another city for all the passengers that to be purses through immigration and to be tested and if needed to be quarantined many areas in china because of the spread of imported cases hotels other businesses are becoming increasingly wary of foreigners they're putting in their own limitations on foreigners some hotels are saying they're not accepting any foreign guest a lot of offices are also doing the same even in restaurants even though this is not an official measure that's been put in place i think people are very much afraid and the government has certainly said that they're upping restrictions in terms of finding out of people have come from outside the country people activity is still very being very tightly monitored if you've left your city and you come back from some or else the government will nor and of course there are very strong measures and criminal charges even in place if your court to be being dishonest about where you come from and also if you're caught to be concealing any symptoms so

into china some ways that they're doing that they're saying for example if you fly into the capital beijing you're going to have to undergo a true we quarantine period in a designated hotel they've also introduced some strict rules punishing people for trying to bypass those restrictions and also punishing people for trying to hide any symptoms when they come to china for example if they take a cold and flu tablet to try to lower their temperature you could face up to 60 years in jail they're also asking chinese airlines to actually decrease the number of international flights they have coming into china to help them manage those people coming into the country. according to social media and state media 90 percent of those people coming into china are chinese nationals and the reason given is that they simply do not trust the measures taken by overseas governments when it comes to controlling this outbreak and they feel safer in china so they're trying to fly back when they do feel like things are more under control and as you mentioned earlier that does seem to be the case only one new infe

beijing's most direct attempt to change the narrative on covert 19 came just over 2 weeks ago through one of its leading scientists is. china was changing its story up until then foreign ministry spokesman. had faced the news cameras day after day after day never once contesting the idea that the city of new han where the outbreak began was also the virus his birth. it's suddenly big jailing and the media outlets it controls were saying that the virus could have been carried into china from elsewhere anywhere. in is with china's state owned english language news channel yet people assumed that it came the virus came from china because the 1st cases were kind of related to the seafood market in ohio but this was never scientifically proven there have been media reports coming out of some from credible sources saying we don't know where is patient 0 or where was patient 0 where was this case 1st erupted as china said we do not know where the virus exactly came from but we know that the outbreak started in ohio and we know that china had to take and it did very strong measures to tackle

day 20 of the new infections were from people arriving from overseas on the economy side of things beijing expects things will return to normal in the 2nd quarter the latest government figures show industrial output failed by a record 13 and a half percent in february but economists are warning any recovery in china may be slowed by the global economic fallout let's check in with katrina you know in beijing one katrina one new infection in the epicenter of the whole crisis quite extraordinary. it is absolutely especially considering that just a few weeks ago we had more than 1000 cases reported every day you china so to have it down to just one locally transmitted case is absolutely extraordinary and in kuwait province they're starting to ease the lockdown restrictions because of this tens of millions of people have been confined essentially to their apartments for the last few weeks people are starting to leave their homes also starting to leave medical workers now in february the government flew in 42000 nurses doctors and other personnel to help deal with overwhelmed staff in kuwait pro

in the past week but what they have seen is a rise of imported cases beijing government gave a press conference today saying that 95 percent of all new cases across the mainland are actually imported cases and currently there are 427 imported cases mainly people green sections from the u.k. spain italy and iran and because of this different states different provinces and different cities have increased checks for people traveling between them in beijing itself they've done diverted all international flights so international flights can no longer land in a beijing airport they're being diverted to 12 other airports around the country for people to be screened and tested and all international travelers to china must be checked for the coronavirus that's every single person traveling to china at the moment at a smaller level in beijing where they're particularly worried because at the moment we're seeing about 8000 arrivals to beijing every day alone they've increased checks that every residential compound every office you must give you details they check temperatures quite regularly an

and i was about to be a bit of a chill wind blowing through northern child temperature in beijing will drop by 10 degrees as this thing's a cold front comes out of the interior the clouds the south of that is various lumps of sun the storms and rain significant in china being squeezed across to south korea and honshu so the temperature down to 11 degrees beijing is the daytime high i will be a cloudy day but that sun will tend to come by the temps has dropped the south will hands go from 20 to 30 and the humid weather has been squashed south of that so through grandaunt heavy rain seems likely in the 4 thunderstorms hong kong just on the edge of it you might get a dry day visiting the humid casual shower scene likely significant rains on its way through honshu just getting there but not reaching tokyo during friday so as of this an increasing share seems like in southern philippines as a good spread elsewhere through borneo and jobs in sumatra and occasion we see them in thailand cambodia and vietnam they develop daily of course inland not significant just yet still mostly dry as it is

the automotive parts supplier had to halt production at its facility near beijing for 2 weeks. things are starting up again but with precautions in place. we. are. we're back up to 50 or 70 percent capacity so far we don't yet know when we'll reach 100 percent because we can't get the stuff back into the factory yet. the drop in revenue and therefore the economic hit amounts to several 1000000 euros . or. international supply chains are collapsing or at risk you can't make a car if the gearbox isn't available. 8 plants in europe have to offset the production halt in china but not for much longer says the optimist fact in fact. you see. is not convinced however. it's some president i can't recall anything like it on our planet. in my view we've got through this and i hope we do deal with it sensibly i think we'll have to think about what needs to change in the future. for example will there be calls to curtail international business travel fanfan usually travels back and forth between germany and china spending 2 weeks at a time in each country she has a team of certainty in chi

in the way beijing handled this initial response to the coronavirus was nothing new. in fact, deflection and lights meant to protect the communist party as part of their standard operating procedure. they have decided norms guiding regarding and embrace innovation by defined property rights and still, intellectual property they steal it. it's a matter of course. we have used companies that have suffered for decades. by what china has done to steal, their intellectual property to infringe on their intellectual property. they define the sovereignty and then and their nations and territories and they defy what should be their role as a leader in the global economy. certainly they want to be a market economy. or so they say. look at their behavior. and it is this act of defiance that makes them just an incredibly dangerous. i have to tell you, this is been something that is been on for quite a while. though we only need to go back a decade to place the flag marking our awareness of what has become very familiar story. and over the decades started to manufacture and starte

press for he standing by for us in beijing and we hear the chinese president xi jinping knew all about the virus the outbreak 2 weeks before he informed the public what impact if any has this had well we know from a study you're from the university of southampton that it's china would have to 2 to 3 weeks earlier they could have prevented 95 percent of all cases just inside the country and it's in the chinese government it's more like a black box to many observers we don't really know the slope information but what we do know is that the 1st case of this corona virus can be traced back until it's far it's the 17th of november and in december there were already many doctors whistleblowers some media called them who would try to inform the public and also try to inform their superiors but they were silenced and we don't really know whether this decision was only made by the local government off the province all whether actually beijing knew much earlier about the victim about the virus epidemic i mean what about the narrative surrounding this outbreak we've seen beijing and washington bl

because every day about 100000 people come into the country more than 5000 flying into the capital beijing alone so the government is very much trying to discourage people from coming home they've lost 3 major chinese airlines to cut some of their flights coming in from overseas to help manage the risk people and according to the state media here they're saying that chinese nationals are flying home in droves because they do not trust the measures put in place by foreign governments to control the outbreak and they simply feel safer back in china where the outbreak does seem to be managed well in those numbers are going down now chinese government does seem to be on a bit of a sense of a propaganda mission in the last few days in the just. recently last few hours they responded to a tweet by u.s. president donald trump who called code 19 a chinese virus now the chinese government said that that that tweet is a smear they've condemned that comment that follows 11 week ago the chinese government actually implied that it was possibly the u.s. military who brought the virus to china in the 1st