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| - Duty Editor: Tanya Willmer Tel: +33 1 40.41.46.36 -- TOP STORIES -- + Markets slump as Europe extends lockdown + Biden, Sanders hammer Trump over virus response + Doubts over Olympics, Euro 2020 + Japanese man sentenced to death over mass killings Health-virus,WRAP PARIS Markets tumble despite emergency central bank measures to prop up the virus-battered global economy, as countries across Europe start the week in lockdown and big US cities shut bars and restaurants. 800 words 1100 GMT. Picture. Graphic. Video US-politics-vote-health-virus,WRAP WASHINGTON White House hopefuls Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders launch a joint attack on Donald Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic as they face off in a high-stakes debate, accusing the president of undermining his own scientists with misinformation. 800 words moved by Francesco Fontemaggi. Picture. Video Health-virus-Oly-2020-Japan-JPN,lead TOKYO Doubts grow in Japan about the Tokyo Olympics, with growing opposition to holding them as scheduled and some urging officials not to risk lives by pressing ahead during the coronavirus emergency. 650 words 0930 GMT by Harumi Ozawa. Video Japan-homicide-court-crime,WRAP YOKOHAMA A Japanese man is sentenced to death for the stabbing murder of 19 disabled people at a care home, in one of the country's worst ever mass killings. 650 words 0930 GMT by Natsuko Fukue. Picture. Video -- CORONAVIRUS -- Markets-world,WRAP LONDON Stock markets go into freefall as fresh central bank action fails to lift confidence, with analysts warning that the Federal Reserve may have reached the limits of its power to fend off recession as the coronavirus spreads. 700 words 1100 GMT Health-virus-finance-rates-G7,Q&A LONDON Can G7 leaders do what their central bankers have failed to, in arresting the pandemic panic gripping global financial markets? Analysts are sceptical. 600 words 1200 GMT by Jitendra Joshi Health-virus-sport,WRAP PARIS The European football championships set to take part in 12 countries this year are coming under intense scrutiny because of the coronavirus pandemic ahead of an emergency UEFA meeting on Tuesday, with Italy coach Roberto Mancini calling for the tournament to be postponed until 2021. 500 words 1130 GMT. Picture -- AMERICAS -- Health-virus-US WASHINGTON US nightlife capitals New York and Los Angeles order bars and restaurants to close or go take-out only as the country scrambles to contain the coronavirus pandemic and the Federal Reserve slashes rates to stem the fallout. 750 words 1000 GMT by Jim Mannion. Picture. Video Also moved: Health-virus-US-NewYork,SCENE Health-virus-US-bank-rate-politics -- MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AMERICA -- Israel-politics,WRAP JERUSALEM Former Israeli military chief Benny Gantz is nominated to try to form a government but talks go on with his bitter rival, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on an emergency alliance to confront the coronavirus. 600 words 1030 GMT by Jonah Mandel. File Picture. File Video Also moving: Israel-politics-Gantz,PROFILE Health-virus-Tunisia,FOCUS TUNIS There is no known cure for the new coronavirus, but in the medicinal herbs souq in Tunis, anxious Tunisians are consulting with herbalists and stocking up on traditional remedies. 450 words moved by Kaouther Larby. Picture. Video -- ASIA -- Health-virus-China-toll,2ndlead BEIJING China tightens quarantine measures for international arrivals as the country worries about a rise in imported cases of the deadly coronavirus and anger rages online at how Europe and the United States are handling the pandemic. 700 words moved by Laurie Chen and Jing Xuan Teng. Picture. Video. Fbl-Asia-CHN-health-virus SHANGHAI Most Chinese Super League clubs fled abroad when the deadly coronavirus hit the country but they are now rushing back again as it takes hold elsewhere. 350 words moved China-economy-industry-retail,2ndlead BEIJING China's industrial production has contracted for the first time in three decades as the coronavirus epidemic wreaked havoc on the economy, official data show. 500 words moved. Picture. Graphic -- EUROPE -- Health-virus-Germany-Austria-borders,SCENE BAD REICHENHALL, Germany Traffic slows to a crawl on Austria's frontier with Bavaria as German police stop cars to ask drivers how they are feeling, and turn back anyone whose trip is not deemed essential, in the latest dramatic measure to stem the coronavirus outbreak. 500 words 1100 GMT by Marko Cubrilo. Picture. Video Health-virus-Cyprus,FOCUS LARNACA, Cyprus On the counter of a Cyprus hotel, health questionnaires on the novel coronavirus sit untouched next to a bottle of hand sanitizer -- there is hardly a guest as tourism has collapsed on the Mediterranean island. 600 words 1300 GMT by Lisa Golden. Picture. Video Health-virus-Romania-volunteers,FOCUS BUCHAREST As cases of the novel coronavirus start to climb in Romania, a network of volunteers is springing up to make sure the elderly and those with health difficulties are able to get essential supplies. 650 words 1300 GMT by Ionut Iordachescu. Picture. Video afp
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