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Global markets continue to reel from coronavirus impact

European shares sink to their lowest level in four years.

Governments around the world take increasingly drastic measures to manage the coronavirus pandemic. More countries have announced that schools will be closed temporarily and Australia will ban mass gatherings from next week. With no end in sight to the crisis, will further shocks hit the global stock markets?

Also in the programme: US launches retaliatory strikes against pro-Iranian militias in Iraq following the deaths of US and UK personnel; and New Zealand鈥檚 attempts to crack down on far right groups, one year on from the Christchurch mosque shootings.

(Picture: Pedestrians wearing face masks walk past an electric board showing the Nikkei 225 index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on 13th March 2020. Credit: Philip Fong/AFP/ Getty Images)

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Fri 13 Mar 2020 10:06GMT

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