to get a nation that doesn't allow someone to fetch you know you are there if you have to in the us and then there will be very frank with you no matter what if you don't think it was going to begin to fit you want to talk about you and i just i just got back on flight a long flight he's a great gentleman a great leader it's an incredible country and we were treated very very well and we really enjoyed it a lot of tremendous progress was made in terms of relationship our relationship with india is extraordinary right now and we're going to be doing a lot of business with and so you're watching live pictures there from the white house briefing room president has given a press briefing on the response to the corona virus outbreak he talked about the u.s. has already closed borders to flights coming in from corona virus hotspots he said the number one priority for him and his administration is the health and safety of all americans he said the wrist americans from the virus currently is very low he

said there are 15 confirmed cases of infection in the us with 42 cases coming from the japanese coming from that cruise ship in the japanese harbor of york a hama he said as good bipartisan spirit in congress and the white house for 2500000000 dollars in contingency funds to fight the virus he said he has spoken to the chinese president who's working hard to contain the virus let's just go back to the president from down here what more he has to say happens we're totally prepared to push for funding he talking earlier about the other 3 measures that you put in place in the trial which are just replacing burned at this point as a virus france italy south korea are you planning that in those countries what you should use if you know i'm the president of the united states i'm not the president of other countries other countries some of on the list that are very respected in what they do in terms of what we're talking about but i really want to be responsible for this kind of. if it means placing very strong very strong situation

on the border so people can come into our country from a country that is infected that's we're doing that we've already done it with numerous countries but we have to focus on this country and only gets right to impose ourselves on others but if others aren't taking care or we think they're doing it incorrectly you know we were dealing with world health and we have to reflect people and c.d.c. does go around to help other countries give them recommendations as what to do but they're working on their countries and we're working on our countries and so far from our simple and it's really worked out very well. this is all of that for any player why are you considering restricting travel to and from south korea italy and other countries that don't affect a right that we may do right now it's not the right time but it is right time and we are checking people as they come through specifically for the problem the problem that we're dealing with so we're checking a lot of people have that coming from south korea's been hit pretty hard italy's

been hit pretty hard china is obvious what's happened in china but again the numbers seem to be leveling off and going down in china which is very good news so we'll see what happens from there. into day 9 and they are going to the point of this are to buy point on the crime irises thoughts today the secretary is or testified that he didn't think one is necessary they were going to run it out of h.h.s. and you yourself have been downplaying this so watch now selecting the vice president right is on his or his vice president is in the administration but i'm having everybody report to mike mike's been very good very adept anybody that knows anything about health care they look at the indiana model and it's been a very great success it's been a tremendous model in terms of health care and this is really an offshoot of that so this isn't as our oh i don't view my kids as our mike as part of the administration but i'm having them report to my life well report to me they'll also be reporting in some cases to both i'll be going to meetings for the bit depending on what they want to do and what message we want to. now but we've done really an

extraordinary job when you look at a country this is with so many people pouring in with the number one in the world for people coming into a country by far. and we have a total of 15 cases many of which almost much within a day out i will tell you most of whom are fully recovered. i think it's really a pretty impressive mark now we did take in 40 people that were americans and they're also recovering but we brought them in so i call that they have a different group but we felt we had an obligation to american citizens outside of the country that we're trying to get back and we thought it was very right the stock market has taken a big all right so president from talking again about the response to the coronavirus he went on to say that he thinks the u.s. can develop a vaccine fairly rapidly for the virus he says the u.s. is ready for any corona virus outbreak and he actually showed a list from the johns hopkins medical that showed the list of countries in terms of

ranked in terms or prepared nests which point to point out that the u.s. was number one let's listen to what president trump said earlier about how ready the u.s. is for the virus but we're very very ready for this for anything whether it's going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not where you know we're at that very low level and we want to keep it that way so we're at the low level as they get better we take them off the list so that we're going to be pretty soon at only 5 people and we could be at just one or 2 people over the next short period of time so we've had very good luck all right i'm going to joins us live now from outside the white house kimberly so a long and detailed press conference there by the president and various health officials from the c.d.c. on the health secretary what do you make of it and why did the administration think it had to speak now. yeah well the big headline from all of this is

essentially that the president has now appointed the vice president mike pence to be in charge of all of this in essence he has become the czar if you will of coronavirus although you have heard the president there saying that he's not calling him a czar but essentially that's what he's doing he will be in charge of coordinating the resources the state local and federal level to see that they are all flowing smoothly but in terms of why the administration is holding this press conference now there was there were a lot of hints as the president talked as the officials talked you noted that they all seem to praise the president's leadership a lot of this seems to have to do with the fact that the president well he was traveling in india was getting a lot of criticism about his handling of the crisis so far that perhaps there were a lot of people that felt they were in the dark in terms of public health information that they weren't sure that the resorts had been allocated so every speaker that went up continued to kind of talk about and praise the president while

also talking about the sort of necessary public health information and you also heard there kind of an. intentional effort to keep the public calm and i think that the other aspect in all of this is that there was a growing sense of alarm among americans the absence of information and so we heard repeatedly officials saying that in fact the risk remained low but buried in all of that is the question of money how is all of this going to be paid for the president again deflecting some of the criticisms they used maybe not ask for enough money but has said that if congress decides to give more than the 2500000000 he would be interested in that as well take a listen to what he had to say. we have very good bipartisan spirit for money we were asking for 2 and a half 1000000000 and we think that's. a lot but the democrats and i guess senator schumer wants us to have much more than that and

normally in life i say we'll take it we'll take it. if they want to give more we'll do more we're going to spend whatever is appropriate hopefully we're not going to have to spend so much because we really think we've done a great job in keeping it down to a minimum and probably so trump and his team says look you know america's ready for this virus but i mean this all comes at a very sensitive time politically doesn't it i mean we have the start of the primaries we have a presidential election in november is that likely to be any kind of political impact here at this very sensitive time. there's no question because even as the officials on the one hand were saying no sent there are needed for panic no reason for alarm they would follow that up immediately with having said that we expect that more cases are going to to occur in the united states that's not going to reassure the public and even if that is the reality that is continuing and will continue to cause exactly in the united states they also said that it's time for

businesses for schools for other sort of public health officials or just public officials in general to be taking into account prepared this pandemic was the word that was used at one point so a well they're trying to calm sort of the sense of alarm this is going to have an impact we've already seen this with the stock market level and they're already i can tell you in the american public at large questions about whether or not people should attend major sporting events whether or not they should travel people are considering canceling their travel plans so whether this has an impact say on the general election campaign rallies is still not clear but i can tell you from sort of the at the grassroots level that already the ordinary american is deciding in the absence of any sort of direction from officials at the federal government the local level even the city level many are starting to make those adaptations on their own or it's a committee held at the white house complete for the time being thank you well

countries of the middle east are bringing in strict new measures to combat the spread of coronavirus saudi arabia has temporarily halting visas for the poor and pilgrimage known as the euro for tourists coming in from affected countries well the highest death toll outside china has been in iran where 19 people have died $130.00 are infected including the deputy health minister saying bus ravi has more now from tehran. during a weekly cabinet meeting iranian president hassan rouhani struck an optimistic tone saying that the reports about containing the coronavirus in iran are promising a taskforce set up earlier this week by the president including senior members of the government and armed forces he said are making gains in controlling the spread of the disease something that has become a major public health crisis here in the country he also addressed public concerns about whether or not the information coming from officials could actually be trusted this after a member of parliament representing the city of home where the 1st case was

detected said the number of cases and deaths from this virus are far higher than official figures reported by the government here's what the president had to say about that and i don't mean. i emphasize that we don't manipulate the figures we know the increase no decrease them nor do we exaggerate or downplay them i've told the health ministry to announce the figures they have this is a plot we see today in foreign propaganda recently a high ranking u.s. official made a comment about coronavirus in iran that it themselves are dealing with the flu 16000 died because of that the cea but they don't talk about it and now they are turning their attention to corona virus in iran earlier this week president hassan rouhani also said that the situation in the country could begin to normalize as early as saturday just a matter of days now but during a briefing by the spokesman for the country's health ministry he said that government officials are expecting the number of coronavirus cases in iran to go up

in coming days. the 2 most affected regions and it's in these north currently on the lockdown where some 50000 people live there are increasingly worried but i tried to stay positive mama john reports now from the lab. in less than a week life in the small town of lingle has completely changed the corona virus outbreak in northern italy slumbered the region is what did it forcing checkpoints to go up and keeping residents from getting out. since we're barred from accessing areas under quarantine as we speak to volunteer medic mark on skype. he worries about what will happen next but also tries to stay calm ready. i don't live alone so every time i go back home i think about it because maybe i've been in contact with someone that has it but i'm without symptoms and we're constantly checked. marco says he doesn't want to diminish the gravity of the crisis but he also likes looking on the bright side and tells us there are surprising benefits to living

under lockdown. it's beautiful because you see kids playing in the streets the way it was many years ago during the days of our parents and grandparents it was much more like heartedness. just up the road from cousin is the town of put on you considered the center of the outbreak because the 1st locally transmitted coronavirus case was detected there in the. audio protea runs a residential facility for patients with mental and physical disabilities he tells us staff at the center are doing all they can to keep the situation calm and to ensure the compound remains free of the virus. residents understand this is a special situation and they've adapted to it without getting too anxious even our patients who fall along the autism spectrum and usually have the most difficult time accepting changes to the routines they have accepted that this is an unusual situation. here in the regional. appel an hour's drive away the anxiety is also

evident as public spaces remain far quieter than usual for days italian government officials have been urging citizens not to panic the people under quarantine we've been speaking to are heeding that advice as coronavirus cases in the country continue to rise they find themselves growing more concerned but they say they're doing their utmost to remain calm. and a long. time for a short break here on al-jazeera when we come back. here as you know for egypt's former long time president hosni mubarak forced from power during the 2011 revolution. heavy rain from a record breaking monsoon season has thousands of flood victims but the government cannot bring the pain more than springs.

from the welcome back we begin our forecast in northeastern parts of asia where remains cold across japan in fact across many of the western coast i think will still be the risk of some snow showers but for tokyo where the general can draw and find prices stay with highs of 11 it's fine across the korean peninsula seoul they're looking at 10 degrees as a mix when we have got some rain over more sleep eastern parts of china maybe extending to just south of beijing the chance of the old flake of snow mixed in with any precipitation they get there in beijing with temperatures over 4 degrees and then heading into friday we've got an area of rain we've across eastern parts of china in across the yellow sea and eventually pushing into western parts of japan but across more central and northern areas it should be dry and fine further south into southeastern parts of asia they still looking sheriff nothing suggest at them particularly for jakarta the most weather still clearing up after all the flooding so in the shower activity on our forecast looks like nothing out of the

ordinary but still a potential. for some big storms in places looking fairly wet at the moment like to see some heavy downpours highs of 33 into south asia to be quite at the moment largely dry across sri lanka most of the showers in the east have gone should be fine in new delhi with highs of 28. of the 70 years after one tribe's and that journey from palestine to the nile delta 0 world meets the largest concentration of 914 refugees in egypt. the socially isolated community with new rights to fighting to survive and keep them honest and heritage alive in a world where there was is increasingly marginalized egypt's father lyle and on al-jazeera.

top a quick reminder of the headlines here on the al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says his country is ready for any potential spread of coronavirus he added that the u.s. will spend whatever is appropriate to combat the onus tramples appointed vice president mike pence to manage the country's response. countries in the middle east are bringing in strict new measures to combat the spread of the virus saudi arabia has temporarily halting visas for the pope image on us. and for tourists coming in from affected countries. at least 5 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the u.s. city of milwaukee the attack took place at the headquarters of the muslim cause brain company local media reporting that the shooter is now dead. india's prime

minister narendra modi has called for calm after 4 days of violence in new delhi at least 25 people have lost their lives more than 200 like injured in hospitals and there's now anger over the decision to transfer the capital's 3rd highest ranking judge after he criticised both essential and state governments as well as the local police force anybody reports from delhi. of the look after the street battle subsided wednesday was a day hindus and muslims mourn the loss of loved ones after some of the worst violence delhi has suffered in decades this is the funeral of muhammad 1st can a father of 2 who was killed when the violence began a few days ago he was on the way to shops to buy food for his kids. i received a call saying that my brother has been shot i couldn't believe it i was with him an hour earlier i rushed to the hospital but i found that he was already dead he doesn't know who was responsible. and they're both sides of the community

hindus and muslims have suffered outside the morgue of the state run hospital relatives await the completion of post malta examinations on victims so they can take the bodies for cremation or burial. this man says his nephew died from a bullet to the neck he says it was fired by a muslim. but when he was pressed he says he never witnessed the killing. the violence stopped after a group of muslim women were persuaded to abandon their city in protest that have blocked a busy road and angered hindu nationalists and the government sent in paramilitary forces and rapid reaction units to reopen the suburbs. the death toll is rising and hundreds of injured people are being treated in 3 local hospitals many of the dead are said to have died from bullet wounds it's not clear who was responsible. there was a physical cost to these of the sky. remains of muslim owned businesses in cardwell

nagar in northeast delhi some people have lost everything the major violence may have stopped at least for now but it's been so damaging the question is how long will it take communities both muslim and hindu to heal and how can they ever fully restore trust lawyers have started the legal process for those who were sponsible for inciting the violence to face justice the protests against the new citizenship law which started in december were joined by people from all religions of minorities across india there is a concern now that hindu nationalists may try and turn this into a religious issue i am seriously concerned about this is the players from very this movement is going to be given a religious shape which is in fact not. after 3 days of silence prime minister narendra modi sent out a tweet calling for calm and for peace and harmony to be restored the streets are

quiet but the death toll is expected to rise and the repercussions of what happened here are likely to affect not just the capital but also the whole of india tony berkeley al-jazeera dennie. a full military funerals been held in a cairo egypt's former leader hosni mubarak he was in power for 3 decades until being forced out of office 9 years ago as jonah hill reports the funeral highlighted his military career rather than his controversial time in office. hosni mubarak's coffin draped in the egyptian flag and a horse drawn to the sound of cannon fire a funeral with full military honors for the man who led egypt for 30 years and whose legacy divides many nearly a decade after the arab spring. he was a military man and he achieved a lot for egypt we will not look at his shortcomings only no one is perfect it is mubarak's wartime record that the government would like he remembered for these 3

decades in power brought relative stability but also economic stagnation and repression it's quite a lot of pomp and circumstance when you when you really stop and think about it for a man who only 9 years ago was ousted by a popular revolt and then a year later sentenced to life in prison we forget for ordering the killing of hundreds of protesters he was openly mocked and ridiculed. in egyptian society and egyptian media hated by millions of egyptians all we've seen over these last few years is a counter revolution in egypt they've reframed the narrative around the january 25th revolution and now they're honoring the man who was who was ousted it's really quite the change of circumstance. mubarak's rule. invites uncomfortable comparisons with the egypt of today under another former military officer who rose to be

president. c c freed mubarak in 2017 after years in jail for conspiring to murder demonstrators during the 2011 uprising the egypt of today still remembers the rejoicing on the streets after mubarak was swept from power. but a new era of democracy proved a full storm mubarak's successor mohamed morsi was deposed by sisi lasting only a year as egypt's 1st freely elected leader after he died while on trial and in detention last year morsi is funeral took place under heavy government restrictions and out of the public eye in stark contrast hosni mubarak was buried a hero for his role in the 1973 arab israeli war apparently forgiven for an era of decline and human rights abuse that under egypt current leadership critics say has only grown worse al-jazeera. malaysia's interim prime minister.

if he has enough support in parliament he resigns suddenly on monday with his party quitting the governing coalition. he wants to form a unity government which wouldn't be aligned with any specific party but his former . 3 parties are instead nominated him as prime minister. took his present russia type his forces are preparing to engage russian backed syrian forces and the killing of 2 turkish soldiers in an airstrike on wednesday could further inflame the conflict that's. syrian troops on the move it live province is the holdout the one place president bashar al assad is yet to claim but village by village it's coming within reach. we are curing on towards more villages of months are we are we are still in action stores are in spite of the turkish support to our enemies using foreign arms and ammunition these

russian backed syrian government soldiers are fighting turkish backed rebels now turkey is facing a challenge with its observation posts in the province around it and president richard type has ordered his troops to push back. russia does not want to accept humanitarian sensitivity the time that we gave to those who besieged or observation posts is ending we are preparing plans to liberate our observation posts from the surrounding forces by the end of february 1 way or another. he also warns that turkey will attack government forces anywhere in syria if another turkish soldiers injured 16 have been killed in syria this month his speech came as a russian delegation arrived in turkey to discuss the crisis and it lived with though president vladimir putin has ruled out a summit with the turkish german and french leaders the fight for control of the province has forced nearly a 1000000 people from their homes since early december the u.n.

says more than half of the people now living in places like this a children. we left our area about 20 days ago we left under airstrikes with only the clothes on our backs we were left out in the open and spent some time under trees we went towards the city of al-bab but we didn't find any place to live and no one who would let. stay on their land. in the 9 years since the war began many people have fled frontlines for the relative safety of it lib now the front line has come to them they're increasingly squeezed against the border with turkey the syrian forces inch food shelling residential areas otoh one has intervened worried about another potential refugee crisis. we're not going to take even a little step back in the ad lib we will push the syrian regime forces out of the area that we've designated and let people return back to their houses but for now that's not an option at least $26.00 people including schoolchildren were killed

and more than $100.00 injured this week the white helmets risky group says 8 schools and kinda gazans were deliberately targeted with cluster bombs syrian forces have captured dozens of towns and villages and any pushback by turkey may leave residents in the crossfire shallop bellus al jazeera. residents in parts of western england have been told to evacuate their homes after flood barriers were breached the river 7 burst its banks leaving many buildings partially submerged severe flood warnings remain in place and parts of the u.k. several areas are experiencing the worst flooding in the 2 decades the 2 storms hit within a week of each other. so the flooding in the nation's capital is affecting thousands of families it's been a record breaking monsoon season across the country with more heavy rains still to come people are blaming the city government for not doing enough to protect them jessica washington is in jakarta. after the rain this is

a sense of quiet resignation to work together to clean up the streets the floodwater is a frequent unwelcome presence in their homes these family members are wearing clothes borrowed from relatives the television isn't working in furniture destroyed and the bedding and clothes are ruined. we are traumatized it has happened so many times just this month things a ruined the water came in so fast we didn't have time to save them. you can't as local government is being criticized over how his administration has handled this year's floods advisors to the national government say there was a lack of preparation. the judge the general what has happened in the january floods was such massive destruction we have early warning systems to plan ahead for example they should have dedicated land for people to leave because fewer vehicles could have been damaged lawyer as us to go. is leading

a class action on behalf of those affected by floods in january when 66 people were killed in flash flooding he says more people may join the class action as the floods continue the why. there is no early warning system we have the rainy season all the time there should be more preparation but nothing has changed . governor a nice best way to end says the city is adequately prepared for the rainy season and has been monitoring and clearing got his own homes and buildings as a precaution but many say that's not enough this is now a familiar routine for people here self evacuating and then coming back to assess the damage and at least try to clean up this area has been flooded at least 5 times this month and there's more extreme weather coming hundreds have sought shelter at a local mosque after torrential rain some have begun to return home but it won't be

long before they may need to leave again more heavy rain and storms are forecast until the beginning of next month just to washington al-jazeera jakarta. time for a quick recap of the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump says his country is ready for any potential spread of coronavirus he added that the u.s. will spend whatever is appropriate to combat the of this tramples appointed vice president mike pence to manage the country's response. but we're very very ready for this for anything whether it's going to be a breakout of larger proportions or whether or not where you know we're at that very low level and we want to keep it that way so we're at the lower level as they get better we take them off the list so that we're going to be pretty soon at only 5 people and we could be at just one or 2 people over the next short period of time

so we've had very good luck i want house correspondent kimberly hellcat has more in terms of why the administration is holding this press conference now the result there were a lot of hits as the president talked as the officials talked you noted that they all seem to praise the president's leadership a lot of this seems to have to do with the fact that the president well he was traveling in india was getting a lot of criticism about his handling of the crisis so far that perhaps there were a lot of people that felt they were in the dark in terms of public health information that they weren't sure that the resorts had been allocated so every speaker that went up continue to have to talk about and praise the president while also talking about the sort of necessary public health information i mean all countries in the middle east are bringing in strict new measures to combat the spread of the coronavirus saudi arabia is temporarily halting visas for the pilgrimage known as the and for tourists coming in from affected countries and he's

5 people have been killed in a mass shooting in the u.s. city of milwaukee the attack took place the most macaws bring company local media reporting the shooter is now dead. india's prime minister narendra modi has called for calm after 4 days of violence in new delhi at least 25 people have lost their lives and more than 200. injured in hospitals and a state funeral for former egyptian leader hosni mubarak has been held in a cairo he died on tuesday at the age of 91 barak was in a power for 3 decades until he was forced out during the 2011 revolution so those are the headlines the news continues on al-jazeera the inside story that's a watching i thought.

tensions running high in india of the prime minister narendra modi's controversial citizenship lol violence between hindus and muslims has left many dead can the indian government keep control of the situation and what it consider withdrawing react this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm adrian finnegan thousands of indians have been protesting for months now against a controversial law that they say discriminates against muslims but the tension around the citizenship amendment act has taken a dangerous to the capital new delhi has seen days of violence between the communities.