to make a better choice you should challenge donald trump in the presidential election join us for american super tuesday special coverage live on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm kevin l. this is the news our live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes coronavirus just it's the u.s. stock market is on track to record its worst weekly loss since the global financial crisis. turkish backed rebels and syrian troops fight for control of a key town in the northwest of syria civilians have nowhere to hide. i'm not in london with the top stories from europe including we will make straight away our sovereignty ready to walk away britain gives just 4 months to avoid no

deal as it sets out its breaks it redlines. scarred for life victims of delhi's worst communal riots in decades trying to rebuild their lives. and in support of a joke which is just going through to the semifinals of the 3 point championships world number 6 the final sits a pass is also into the last. trade routes have been carved global supply chains are disrupted and stock markets a falling economies worldwide is starting to feel the pressure as the corona virus spreads all street stocks down again and are on track to record their worst a weekly losses since the global financial crisis of 2008 european shares fell on thursday to with travel stocks bearing the brunt. footsie $100.00 index fell by

nearly 3.5 percent losing more than $150000000000.00 over the last 4 days shares fell in asia to japan's nikkei index lost 2 point one percent christian salumi is live for us in new york christian walk us through these stock market losses in the u.s. . well stock prices remain down across all 3 major indices although they have recovered slightly from their lowest point which at one point saw the dow falling more than or nearly a 1000 points $960.00 to be exact putting the markets into what's known as correction territory that would be their lowest point a 10 percent low temp or cent drop from the high point which was registered just last week but as i mentioned things have improved slightly since this morning but are still down for the 6th day in a row 6 days of markets and prices falling and the worry is that the corona virus continues to spread internationally in europe of possibly affecting production

there and even in the united states we had a new case where health officials don't know the source of the contamination where this person contracted it spreading fears of community spread people outside of china coming in contact with the virus and contracting the disease even though the president has attempted to allay fears and say that the risk so relatively small for americans investors are worried about the impact this is having on corporate earnings and the economy globally in general we have companies like microsoft who have downgraded their revenue projections for the quarter saying that supply chains are coming back more slowly than they expected and that has investors worried they're worried that the united states could eventually be pushed into a recession that something far on the horizon still but it's reflected in their purchases or their sell is selling today they're selling stocks at

a rapid pace and putting their money into safe havens like gold and treasury bonds to reflect that uncertainty kristensen the way they live from new york thank you the i.m.f. has responded to the effects the coronavirus is beginning to have on the global economy here's what spokesman jerry rice had to say. a lot just depends on. the speed of recovery in in china and in other countries the spillover effects. the effects on supply chains and. the extent to which other countries maybe significantly affected. well our economics editor our bit early joins us now live on set we heard from the fed from the i.m.f. what does this mean for the global economy going forward well just think of it like this there is 3 engines of growth in the world you've got china europe and you've

got the united states we know that china has been disrupted is paralyzed the factories are shut and its exports have absolutely tank that's affected the supply chain. every single point every single percentage point of growth is really crucial to china so economists now believe that the economy might shrink to back 2 percent in the 1st quarter now. over the overt of the trade war it lost $4000000.00 jobs and every single year 8000000 young people come onto the market so it needs to grow to create jobs for all these young people now considered europe as well europe is pretty anemic growth currently germany may skirt recession and then that leaves just the united states as the final engine of growth now the possibility of that falling into recession is somewhere around about 30 percent

some people have a lot less it all depends on just what happens with this pandemic on how how how hard it hits so capital economics has come out with a forecast that if it's a mild pandemic you know we could see just a growth hit by not point 5 percent which is global growth he said by not point 5 percent but if it was it to get even worse we would see the economy shrinking by another 1.5 percent so what does that mean in in layman terms what couple economics and river bank both believe that this could be on a par with the financial crisis now been looking back through records to see exactly you know what the financial crisis cost the world. numbers that we have is just for united states and that was $22.00 trillion dollars so it's kind of a massive impact on the global economy it's been interesting and also i guess slightly worrying to look at all the ways that the current virus is having an impact i mean you have the obvious things like the company death toll which makes

all these wipes it is struggling to keep up with demand but then you've got things that businesses like microsoft and apple saying bag are not going to meet their targets goldman sachs has just come out and said u.s. companies it believes will have 0 profit growth in 2020 i mean is there any way of knowing how long this is going to go on for and you know does the world need a healthy china to help with a recovery absolutely so remember when we had the financial crisis and the great recession it was china but help the global economy out of. the great recession we need china to be healthy just to make sure that you know everybody gets the bits and pieces that they need to do for exports and imports and so we've got japan which is saying you know it's most likely going to hit a recession it was in trouble before hand with lots of internal problems in the economy they introduced and raised a tax on goods and that had a knock on effect because consumers just tighten the belts singapore which is

another export led economy you know they say they're expecting a recession and it's all because of the crown of florida so we need a healthy chinese economy to help the rest of the world pull out of this but the u.s. could possibly do that by itself because it's a dynamo and the only time he hasn't helped the global economy was during the financial crisis of 2008 thanks so much for that analysis making it all make sense there is economy editor of it ali thank you. among the countries struggling to contain the spread of the virus is iran there's been a sharp rise in cases there in a short period of time so far these 28 people have dies the w.h.o. is warning that the spread of the virus there may be worse than 1st thought let's bring in a said beg who is in tehran and joins us now by skype so as if they're w.h.o. has spoken about the high death rate in iran and compared it to the number of

confirmed cases saying that it could be that mild cases gone undetected what are the containment efforts like there in iran. well president rouhani has just signed off on a number of decisions made by the counter carona committee now some of those are that schools will remain closed from for 3 further days from saturday night some schools have been closer at least a week universities will be closed for another week public events such as cultural events concerts film showings will still cancelled most significantly friday prayers tomorrow have been canceled in at least 23 cities now that's very very significant even at the height of political assassinations in the early 1980 s. but some of those that's nations are taking place in mosques friday prayers were not cancelled even when iran is at war with iraq and iran iraq war and saddam hussein was bombing cities here in iran friday prayers were not cancelled so this shows how important or. how risky iran sees

a chronic crisis in the spread of that fire is that they're prepared to close down friday prayers it's the weekend it's quite significant and important for many people here but we're also hearing that a lawmaker the vice president of women and families has been diagnosed with a chronic virus that's for lawmakers and also the former ambassador to the vatican he was 81 he said he was diagnosed yesterday and today they've announced that he has died said bag there with the latest from tehran thank you and neighboring iraq health authorities are imposing strict measures on public spaces some on fault and is in the capital with more. coffee shops are still open here in but a day after the ministry of health issued a decree banning public gatherings and ordering the closure of coffee shops cinemas and clubs to prevent the spread of the coronavirus here but business is clearly down you can see that there are many empty tables here this is on a thursday just before

a week and where you would usually see large numbers of customers coming to this mall which is one of the biggest malls in the capital and of course business owners are not happy about this we spoke earlier to the director of this small who complained about this directive that has been issued by the ministry of health criticizing the ministry for not consulting the private sector would certainly have a lot of negative impact as a result of these decisions the director did tell us that the mall itself has taken its own precautions to try to mitigate the spread of the virus by for example procuring devices to measure the temperature of customers coming in we can also see that some of the employees as you can see here are wearing plastic gloves to prevent the spread of the virus and the director also told us that for example in the cinema which is further up stairs that they would be limiting the numbers allowed into the halls to make sure that people were not sitting too close to each

other now it remains to be seen how exactly the ministry of health will enforce this decree we actually overlooked an argument between business owners and ministry of health health officials with come to inspect the mall and to try to force the closure of some of these coffee shops and it's unclear whether there would be penalty certainly there was a threat of penalties but it's unclear exactly what these penalties are and how far authorities will really go to enforce the closure of public spaces like these the death toll in italy has risen to 17 years in milan with more on the outbreak and the impact it's having on a sleaze economic hub. in the data that was introduced by the civil protection agency it was also revealed that 40 people who were initially diagnosed with corona virus have since recovered 37 of those people are in this region of the lumber the region and they are in that red zone that containment zone close to the epicenter

of this corona virus outbreak the town of could don't you know now all that being said we should also mention that there is a debate that has been going on for the last few days between various italian health officials there are those here some hospital officials who feel that not every confirmed case of the virus should be reported because they believe that that leads to more concern and perhaps panic and we are now in the piazza the woman this is one of the most famous where is in all of italy especially in northern italy and it's basically almost empty this is a square that normally on a day like today would be full it would be full of tourists it would be full of residents who come here to perhaps get a coffee or a meal and then go back to their place of work in the people that we're speaking with are also expressing concern about how these numbers are being reported because they say that business is off tourism is off and they're very worried about what this is going to mean for what is the economic hub of all italy and what this means

for their businesses going forward all that being said though people are trying to remain calm they are trying to heed the advice of italian officials the past few days who have said it is not reasonable for people to panic south korea has confirmed another 505 cases meaning it's of a taken china and new delhi in fiction now this sarah contra ports on the situation in southeast asia. so it is a sanitized and so government employees are sterilizing public transport is a south korean government stepped up efforts to stop the spread of the current. joint military exercises with the united states have been postponed after american soldiers stationed at a base today tested positive for the containment efforts of covered 19 and the safety of rock and u.s. service members were prioritized in making this decision the largest daily increase in the number of infections has been in

a city in the southeast where church at the center of the outbreak is like tight it as the virus spreads the government has postponed some annual school exams and is asking people to avoid large crowds around 40 countries and now restricting travelers from south korea. if the government feels very sorry that our citizens have gone through the inconvenience in the process of entering foreign countries due to the country's sudden entry restriction measures the epicenter of the outbreak remains under lockdown while cities in the rest of china a slowly returning to work china reported the last death toll in a month on thursday the number of infections rose slightly. the 1st case happened in china but that doesn't mean the source is in china the foreign prediction of when this will be contained says and it may or june we think it will be the end of april. but some countries are not taking any risks a study has gone one step further than the world health organization declaring the

coronavirus a global pandemic and electing an emergency response plan we believe that the risk of a global pandemic is very much upon us and as a result as a government we need to take the steps necessary to prepare for such pandemic schools here in hong kong have been closed since january and were mine shut until at least the 20 the by japan to us announced it will shut all schools until march china may be optimistic it can contain the outbreak by boat with the virus spreading faster outside many countries and i'm not taking any risks sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. played to more head on the news including london heathrow as expansion hits the brakes we'll tell you why a multi-billion dollar plan has been crowned it. and why a prominent rights group is calling the americas the most dangerous region. in

sports india maintained their unbeaten record of the women's team 20 cricket will come. to syria now rebel forces a desperately trying to hold out against a government offensive in a key town and the province a stream of turkish military reinforcements to support the rebels is moving toward such a cape opposition forces captured saddam of an ice reversing one of the main gains of the government's devastating russian backed offensive in the region there is no doubt father has in the outskirts of the city of saddam with more. not a lot but it in for all of you about whether or not they love the figure we are exactly on the m 4 highway connecting aleppo with latakia this highway leads to the meeting going to the international them 5 highway connecting aleppo and damascus so i could see these the point where both the highways connect but in the circle of the. site i keep to our right was captured this morning by the armed opposition

having seized control of the city the armed opposition is now in total control of both the strategic highways however airstrikes are still carried out by both the russian and syrian regime's fighter jets targeting the city and its outskirts. of the family of a false as you have just seen it was an air strike on the city the armed opposition who is now in control of sarek of city and both the highways say they killed a large number of the regime forces inside the city we can also see that plume of smoke as a result of the airstrike aerial bombardment has not stopped on the contrary it has intensified as i said earlier both the highways are now cut off by the armed opposition but it is a big win and a massive advance for the opposition to seize control of seraglio along with a number of its neighboring villages. sarcasm portent and if we look at the bath

we can see why whoever controls the m. 4 and m. 5 highways gains critical military and economic advantages the m 5 in particular links with damascus in the south is going red areas are controlled by the government is shrinking green is rebel territory yellow in the north and the west is controlled by the kurds. has more now on the fighting from on turkey's border with syria. this is job on the streets of stark for the rebel commander this is just the beginning of a long push to recapture lost territory after the end of the rocket is back on the old control we have managed to evict syrian army russian ally and pro-government militias from socket i want to reassure our people that we will liberate all the cities of syria and defeated the theater. but for the rebels to hold ground may be challenging the city is located on 2 highways in for

an empire which linked damascus to a north eastern syria. so in government troops and russian fighter jets are striking rebel positions preventing them from reinforcing their lines of defense. moment of triumph for the rebels this is their 1st significant military gain in months. to get the opposition has lost many strongholds and retreated north allowing the syrian army to advance to work it live city and as government troops close in thousands of civilians flee the offensive has displaced almost 1000000 people and created the worst humanitarian situation since the start of the conflict in syria 9 years ago. turkey insists its military intervention is so little ensured a cease fire is implemented and syrian troops pull back behind the demilitarized

zone in it globe the developments on the ground in our favor but on the other hand the regime's losses are very big 3 of our soldiers have been killed let them rest in peace but there is no time to deal with this now negotiations with the russians will continue however we are operating in it with the donut agreement along with the 911 kilometer border we are safeguarding our country we will continue to operate in syria backing syrian rebels and told we win the war turkish officials are in talks with russia to get access to the space in northwestern syria a demand that has been so far brushed aside by moscow which accuses un kind of undermining peace efforts it's unclear at this stage of the rebels that is part of a large scale military campaign backed by turkey in the province of. rural. but the

capture of saddam is likely to create momentum among rebel fighters who have suffered a series of setbacks recently asked about al jazeera. the concept is fueling a humanitarian crisis they are harming has more on the situation and it. the united nations says nearly a 1000000 people have been forced from their homes since december they're trapped between heavy fighting and the closed border with turkey. as the army comes close to us here and we have pressured the people here in the camps. we're all going to turkey even if they kill us we want to go to turkey and the turks should be prepared to welcome 5 to 6000000 people coming all at once. according to the u.n. more than half of the internally displaced are children and this winter has been unusually cold some infants are reported to have frozen to death or suffocated in tents with their parents as they all tried to keep warm this is the worst wave of

displacement we've seen during the syrian conflict with the harsh winter conditions and we see people trapped isolated and running out of ways to cope. in recent days russian backed syrian airstrikes have increased hospitals blood banks and schools have been destroyed turkish president recep tayyip or the one has not suggested that the border will be reopened. we are not going to take even a little step back in the ad lib we will push the syrian regime forces out of the areas that we've designated and let people return back to their houses many have lost their homes in the u.n. estimates some families have been displaced 10 times those trying to flee across the border with turkey face a concrete wall topped with barbed wire. to move a good out of the people are taking refuge in the turkish wall but why is the wall here is it to prevent families from entering their women and children their elderly people why don't they allow children in the main can stay here and fight but the

children the women let them in. many people like these are desperate to escape the fighting and if a safe passage is not created they will remain trapped. al-jazeera. the united nations emergency relief coordinator has addressed the u.n. security council on the humanitarian situation in syria she is appealing for an immediate ceasefire last week i spoke. with 14 syrian women in northern ireland what is happening in northwest syria these said is beyond imagination it is not humanity tolerable echo the secretary general's renewed call for an immediate cease fire to end the humanitarian catastrophe and avoid an uncontrollable escalation the british government has set out its red lines for trade talks with the e.u.

there's a deadline to find a deal it is closer for more on that let's cross now to our european new center that is kim is a senior cabinet minister said prime minister boris johnson would walk away from trade talks with the european union as early as june if he sees no hope of a compromise in particular the government says it won't commit to following rules in a post trade deal this comes 2 days after the ministers approved their own joint approach to the negotiations britain officially left the block in january and now has until the end of the year to agree on a trade deal and agreements on everything from fishing rights to transport turn to hell in london says the e.u. thinks britain wants the best of both worlds. the government has here given notice that the political declaration is no longer the blueprint it intends to follow the blueprint will be rather the election manifesto that boris johnson won so handsomely on in december that commits the government to seek what's called a canada style free trade arrangement 0 tariffs 0 quotas and enough

regulator a divergence from the rules and laws to allow britain to do trade deals with other big economies like the united states the e.u. simply see this see this as the u.k. trying to have the best of both worlds both preferential access to its markets and watering down its laws and regulations and i think in the months ahead this is a problem that is going to be difficult. to square there are different schools of thoughts on on this there's a sort of good case scenario or best case scenario and a worst case scenario in the end remember that the canada deal so-called was struck over many years these things take time time is something that isn't on the table the best case scenario here is that they reach some sort of basic trade deal by the end of the year covering goods or some sectors of goods at least with other deals to come in months and years ahead in other sectors of the economy the worst case scenario as some see it is that there's no deal in december 31st the end of the transition period that there's no extension to that period and therefore the to

break up on w t o lines world trade organization rules tariffs structures are put into place immediately that will be bad news for british manufacturers and exporters but a price the government here says it's worth is worth paying in the interests of being able to. get the holy grail if you like trade deals with other economies. climate campaign is a celebrating after u.k. caught ground and plans for a 3rd runway in europe's busiest airport expanding london heathrow was deemed to breach britain's climate change commitment and as implications for many other infrastructure projects currently was at court in london. that described this is the most important environmental decision in a generation and so it was no surprise they were cheering there seems no way back for the expansion of london's main airports for the foreseeable future but the judge said that the government had been given a notice to appeal so it doesn't they are so where we go from here i don't think

that's a right back faith wrote my message to the government is rather than tinkering or tweaking with plans for a 3rd runway abound in these plans because it's quite clear there are serious consequences of a new runway on climate change on air quality or noise pollution on the road a real network but also the quality of life of people live in this city the expansion would have been vast destroying entire villages rerouting rivers as well as london's orbital motorway but it was in the last days for the governments and the airports it was the court's ruling that the governments have broken the law the crucial part of the ruling was of the government was found to be in breach of its international climate change obligations that not only means that heathrow now won't happen it also calls into question all sorts of other big infrastructure projects in boris johnson's post breck's in britain. and that's the much bigger issue raised by this ruling how do governments and industry balance their demands

for continuous economic growth with the obligations to slow down climate change the politicians and leaders have got to say we really are serious about being a global trading nation in great britain because we're going through the whole process at the moment and we're seeing help capacity potentially moving elsewhere because we're for what do we do about that we grow it globally the spotlight is on the u.k. we have the climate summit in glasgow we have all of us flying in here to discuss climate change so really the prime minister now needs to show leadership he needs to show that he's taking time and change seriously he needs to really rethink all of these high carbon infrastructure projects the next target in the sights of the environmentalists will be the government's plans for a $100000000000.00 rail line from london to the north which is also loathed by communities in its path they will be cheering this ruling as well lawrence leigh

al-jazeera london. well from london later now they're back to came into exile and still ahead on al-jazeera. well. a call for unity challenges facing south sudan's made a trade trying to come together after hears of conflict. the un human rights chief puts more pressure on saudi arabia and the murder of journalists to marcus l.t. . and in sport the korean teenager setting the standards that you see a little bit. welcome back now across the levant and the arabian peninsula has been settled up the last few days particularly for iran and iraq we've seen some really bad weather some

snow many many lower elevations anyway but things are improving now the temperature in tehran just 45 degrees yesterday up to 12 in the forecast baghdad up to more typical temperatures 23 degrees here in the arabian peninsula just got the remnants of the shell wind blowing down through the gulf so just 23 degrees as a maximum on the other side of the potential down through the red sea winds cherry looking fairly light through friday that may just begin to strengthen the northern portion of the recent during the course of saturday meca fine temperatures there $34.00 degrees celsius we also notice that area of rain and snow developing across parts of turkey and that will be pushing in to know them parts of iraq during the course of the day maybe more across into central northern parts of africa it looks fine a cool day with the breeze coming off the sea at benghazi highs of 17 degrees showers expects was the gulf of guinea region but a big feature still is a lot of dust being picked up in the atmosphere by the wind blown all across

western parts of africa and much the sand had to get the atlantic all the way to south america. or if. you're watching out is there a reminder of our top stories this hour the crowd of our separate amec is being blamed for stock market losses around the world the u.s. stock market is on track to record its worst week since the global financial crash of 2008. turkish military reinforcements are heading toward a strategic town and series in the province opposition forces captured saddam of an

ice pushing back a major government offensive. the british government is threatening to walk away from trade talks with the european union as early as june if it sees no hope of a compromise ukase been setting out its red lines 2 days after ministers approved their own joint approach to the negotiations. let's get more now on our top story the rapid spread of the corona virus outbreak past our breaks of new viruses have been declared global pandemics but so far the world health organization has stopped short of doing that for the coronavirus some critics have suggested the w.h.o. is acting too cautiously shelob ellis explains. there is no one definition for a pandemic the world health organization scrapped its criteria 10 years ago after the h one n one outbreak now it's more subjective the w.h.o. says it's when a new disease spreads easily from person to person around the world now in more

than 50 countries about a quarter of all nations coronavirus all covered 19 certainly global and can spread from person to person with more than $82000.00 and fictions less than 2 months yet the w.h.o. says it still doesn't meet the standard for a pandemic our message continues to be that this virus has. no country should assume it wouldn't get cases that could be a fight the mystic and quite literally this virus does not respect borders. the tell you it shows 6 countries should be in a face of preparedness for a possible pandemic if one was declared governments would have to roll out a full scale response with mobilization down to local. level and distribution of personal protective equipment antivirals and other medical supplies it's costly and in 2009 the last time the w.h.o.

declared a pandemic some countries criticized the move for burdening them unnecessarily w.h.o. when others don't like to use the word pandemic but by the classical definition we're really teetering very very close to that because there are a number of countries outside of china that do have considerable number of cases the costs of a moderate to severe pandemic a high the world bank puts it at nearly $570000000000.00 even without meeting the threshold coronavirus has shaken financial markets but the human cost is still low relative to past pandemics the 1918 spanish flu killed 50000000 people and infected one 3rd of the world's population the most recent pandemic swine flu in 2009 killed up 257-5000 people coronavirus sits at 0.5 percent of that the w.h.o. are hoping at levels off and it doesn't have to do clear

a pen to make shallow ballasts. of all that speak not to dr of in group that he is a professor at the university of washington medical center and a former consultant at the world bank pandemic financing facility really good to have you on the program dr gupta what is keeping the w.h.o. from designating this a pandemic what are the risks that are preventing them from doing that you know the risks are purely political are this is a political decision do you say that this is a pandemic or do you not and the reason i say that is because as bush just reported w.h.o. is in a position where. there's it's a no win position if they say it's a pandemic in this turns out to not be as concerning as say h one n one was not as concerning as we thought it would be they'll be criticized for overreaction if they don't do it and there's failure to act well then why aren't

they acting why aren't they sounding the alarm bells in some really difficult situation to be in truth is if we say it's a pandemic then things such as the stock market crash you're seeing you're seeing a correction here in the united states as we speak 10 percent decline is probably going to get worse people don't like chaos they don't like panic pandemic equals chaos it's going to equal more quarantining more bad policies from a public health ones so what's the tradeoff here maybe you're going to see more resources more government willing governments willing to cooperate because pandemic connotes so while this is an emergency that we all need to work together to take seriously so there's that delicate balance between what's right from a political lens how do you tamp down chaos how do you work together this is not an easy decision it's purely political and i guess also the pressure is mounting on the w.h.o. i want to pivot if i can because you also palmeri critical care specialist 80 percent of these cases coronavirus cases a mild. very small percent results in death what happens to the body in the other

cases. i think what we're seeing with corona virus is something really interesting geographically coronavirus sars before it frankly avian flu which is chronically a problem in southeast asia and china these flu these respiratory pathogens are taking root in places where people smoke a lot the chinese have the highest smoking prevalence rates in the world and it's not even close amongst men women get exposure to 2nd hand smoke at levels you would even believe and so what i'm what i'm getting at here is that there's poor long health op priore already in china and so you need that as a substrate i think for something like a corona virus really to take root and become an epidemic and then spread to other countries is actually quite easy when you're talking about a respiratory illness like flu or corona virus and oh by the way corona virus can be transmitted even without symptoms so that's why this is spreading so quickly

that's why people are tending to die more frequently in china you see more absolute deaths there because i think in general people are less healthy because they have a greater uptake of bad habits like smoking really interesting to talk to you we have to leave it there for now that's dr ven gupta there professor at the university of washington medical center thank you. people in india's capital are sorely returning to areas hardest hit by the communal violence earlier this week some have found their homes and businesses destroyed others have lost loved ones but as tony burke they discovered among hindus and muslims and down these town bog people still believe in harmony. after the 2nd day of calm people who escaped the violence are starting to return to their battered neighborhoods in northeast delhi in showing bag they've come back to widespread destruction and loss. and they get out that it was very stressful living here during the last few days we

were all extremely scared so scared that we moved all our women to a safer place only the main stayed. people were killed and injured here homes and businesses were burned but mohammed's fruit and vegetable shop provided a livelihood for his family for 30 years he was burnt during the riots and he's not ensured he's part of the muslim community that suffered the worst of the violence but he's not vengeful. we have to live peacefully together whatever has happened we have to treat it as a one off we have to get we can't just blame the hunters or muslims both groups where there are. 3 shops down is his neighbor ganesh who's a hindu his fruit and veg shop was also burned but even after losing his livelihood he still believes in coexistence. then there is peace speaking once again start our business we have to do it to survive to earn our living there is no other way to

earn a living. it's a seed of hope that hindus and muslims can return to the peaceful coexistence they enjoyed for years a senior police commissioner visit thursday to reassure locals the peace has been restored but it's the presence of large numbers of security forces that people find more reassuring not words alone this is a very public confidence building measure designed to show people that the security forces have control of the streets and is now safe but many people are asking the question where were they when they needed the most. delhi police have been heavily criticised over its handling of the violence which has been described as at best negligent and worse complicit families are slowly returning to this battleground feeling more apprehensive than safe. it seems to be peace and calm but we lost everything after our home was set on fire we only managed to salvage this cooking gas cylinder. but others like this hindu family have decided to leave the district

altogether. the right situation are scared us a lot that's why we're going back to our village where it's safer. the streets will be cleared the debris removed and homes rebuilt but these communities cannot fully heal until those responsible face justice tony berkeley al-jazeera shine bag northeast delhi. south sudan's warring sides partially formed a transitional government last saturday but a crucial part of the 2800 peace still uniting the armed forces facing challenges have a morgue and has this report from merited. a call to line up for military exercises is something these soldiers are used to but for the past 2 months the south sudanese troops have been training alongside other armed groups some of whom they once fought on the battlefield during south sudan's civil war that we're here we've got the. unified there's no different in all of there's no i or there's no. one. some of these fights is

gathered here are parts of the government forces others come from the main armed opposition called the sudan people's liberation movement and opposition and a few from the armed group known as south sudan's opposition alliance this is one of the 16 such camps around the country where the fighters are trying to form a unified national army it was set up after $2800.00 to end the 5 year long conflict that's killed nearly 400000 people and displaced a 3rd of the country's 12000000 population the deal states that 41500 out of the 83000 forces from the working sites are to be trained before the formation of a transitional government that's government was partially formed last weekend when 5 vice presidents were sworn in this training camp in the west of south sudan holds about 1500 soldiers from the 3 different sides but they're not in equal numbers even though they're supposed to be the opposition says transporting soldiers from their areas to the camps is difficult and that's just one of the many issues

affecting the training and reunification of the forces. so just say the camp lacks many basic needs making life inside hard. there is no medicine and we sleep in the open where it's cold and the needs for female soldiers and no match there is no water sometimes and there is no place to sleep and we train in our slippers and sometimes barefoot which is hard and we don't have uniforms. the joint monitoring and evaluation commission the body tossed with monitoring the implementation of the . as you quoted that since the training sites were established hundreds of soldiers have abandoned them due to poor conditions shortage of funds is another big challenge the current government made a pledge of $100000000.00 which we felt would be sufficient to do this initial training on fortunately not all of those resources are come from the government we've received about $60000000.00 of which of the $100000000.00 so we continue to encourage the government to make available those remaining funds so that we can

really see an improvement in those conditions within those training centers. a well trained and disciplined army is crucial for south sudan's transitional period and to avoid a return to were soldiers here say they want to be part of a united army but how soon that happens depends on those leaving them and the country he will morgan i'll just iran. saudi arabia has faced more criticism of its human rights record from the united nations is demanding the release of political prisoners at a briefing in geneva the un's human rights commission also pushed for more transparency around the legal proceedings related to the murder of journalist mark shakti a diplomatic editor james space isn't geneva. this is the high level session of the human rights council and michelle the commissioner for human rights was laying out what she saw as the problems around the world she had very pointed comments about saudi arabia remember saudi arabia is the only arab member of the g 20 and it's

been chosen to host this year's g 20 summit but she said with regard to human rights there were obligations that had to i encourage religious that the frameworks to uphold freedom of expression peaceful assembly and association for all and reviews of the judgments of those who have been convicted for expressing their opinions including human read the fenders religious leaders and journalist i call for the release of several women who have legitimately and peacefully demand reforms of this community policies in the country i also. call for full transparency the on going procedures and comprehensive accountability regarding the murder of journalist yaml kushal she talks about transparency clearly saudi arabia says it's pursuing judicial proceedings in that case but very limited access form any international diplomats no access from the media it's worth remembering

the un itself hasn't decided to open an investigation the u.n. secretary general said that needed to be done by one of the main bodies of the united nations and none of actually done that the only investigation has been from an independent expert who works from for the human rights council. the special rapporteur and she said saudi arabia as a state was criminally liable at the americas is the world's most dangerous region for rights defenders and journalists that's according to a new report by amnesty international the group says 208 people were killed defending human rights and 2019 with colombia accounting for more than 100 of those deaths mexico was the region's deadliest country for journalists at least 10 of them died in the line of duty the region also witnessed the worst crackdown on anti-government demonstrations at least 210 people died more than one 3rd of them in haiti venezuela was rated the most violent country recording more than 16 and

a half 1000 homicides let's speak now to erica. the director for the americas at amnesty international she joins us on skype from mexico city really good to talk to you just talk to us about some of the things that stood out 1st off colombia it's the most lethal country for human rights defenders the numbers there are very high why is that. well the reader is the most dangerous place for a human rights defender send your money send this response on the one how to the lack of political will most understands to provide mechanisms to protect the lost who are. risking their lives to protect the human rights of the entire population of the region but fortunately colombia and spacing are major setback in the elimination of the priest process where many of them are reorganized in territories of the indigenous people of a naturist and their communities who have been exposed to the consequences of

conflict that cannot get a government is not putting in place mechanisms to protect these communities and their leaders and human rights that send their group unit to be exposed to these various forms of violence including the killing of human rights defenders of those who are trying to prevent that the consequences of the our country continuously act in their communities and as we mentioned their venezuela has been declared the most violent country and that in america is that part of what is fueling the exodus of people there which have also documented. well when it's released they still have the worst human rights crisis in the entire continent that is where law they bred even more cynical us as being in causing ever oppressive milan policy against those who are very demonstrator to the streets demanding accountability and human rights extrajudicial executions i doubt it intentional so much more mature are the day to day experience for many people in their country more than just who are the

8000000 people have left the country or the last 5 years precisely because the protection because they are sitting in for ashleigh protection in neighboring countries are other countries in the region and the regime continues to quite relate to our social rights as people but also the suitably deacon price who continues to repress any form of social that will strengthen it persecutes all different forms of opposition including the former leaders of the opposition who most of them who have been incarcerated or have been sent into exile or threatened by the government are. so much more we could talk about well we hope we will have live there for time thanks for that that's erika the director of the americas that amnesty international thank you. well time now ford has at it thank you so much ken when i say me

a limb pick official says the decision as to whether or not that soccer games go ahead may well be taken out of his organizations hands earlier this week dick pound admitted coronavirus was a threat to the olympics happening this year and says olympic organizers will have to listen to governments and international agencies when it comes to making a final decision he also believes delaying the games by a year is an option lympics set to begin on july 24th. we are committed to going to tokyo so that you'll be on the track at the opening ceremonies on july 24th only if there is the worst possible. outcome of this. virus and it becomes a real pandemic were. world health stake then we reluctantly have to say well that's more important frankly than the olympics and even more important than you but we'll do our very best to make sure that you get your of a picture of unity. decision has or will be taking him in the in the near term

regarding the future of the olympics we've said this regard to all mass gatherings we need a risk management approach there is no 0 risk in organizing any mass gathering at this moment in time but we needed to do for each gathering and the religious gathering star sports gatherings for business gatherings all over the world all of the type we need to have clearly a risk management approach for those events well let's talk now to professor sanjay sharma who is the medical director for the london marathon also he was a part of the medical team for the london 2012 olympics professor sharma thank you so much for your time just give us an idea as to the unique challenges hosting a huge event like an olympics is when there is something like coronavirus about potentially. well it's it's a contagious virus that's affected over 77000 people in china and it's made its way

through to the middle east and in europe and the aim is to really contain this virus in the absence of an obvious vaccine and one of the methods of containing this is to prevent large mass gatherings involving individuals living in areas where infection rates are high and this is in venice inevitably going to affect international sport as we've seen by the postponement of the chinese grand prix that was due to take place in april the table tennis and skating championships in south korea have also been canceled and more more close to our own home domestically but we can see that the syria are fixtures in football have been impeded by this surge of virus and it's really. give us an idea as to some of the put sensu contingency start here could put in place of some of the adaptations they could put in place ensure the gangs do go ahead. it's early days at the moment to see which caused this virus is actually going to take. you know it

so as as things go at the moment the games are due to go ahead and certainly the participants these are 11000 olympiads have been advised to continue to train as if they were going to compete there are several measures that could be taken and i hope it doesn't come to that but this could involve spectators the less. events which would be a bit of a shame but that's one way of preventing across infection between large groups of people coming from international areas the other possibility of course is to maybe move the olympics to other regions doesn't sound so practical at such a late stage or what other possibilities to postpone it completely until a year later but i still think that all of these strategies are slightly early to. call that i think we should wait for 2 or 3 months before knowing where we are before we can make that call obviously you're very closely involved in the london

marathon which was a huge event a huge public events and in terms of participants as well what sort of facts is a you're looking at now in sims of making your decisions about an event like the marathon. well the marathon and chief executive offices of basically going to be governed by the advice given to us by the public health emergency agencies and those things don't at the moment everything is going to go according to plan professor thank you so much for joining us plenty more on that story to come we'll talk to you again in the near future i'm sure well if the games do go ahead japan's plan to combat intense summer heat could be affected by of the global factors organizes how it plans to use snow cannons to cool down spectators at the games as temperatures in july and august could reach around 40 degrees celsius with 80 percent humidity but unknown usually warm winter means slow fall is on course to be the lowest on record so authorities haven't been able to

transport enough of it from the mountains to the capital. we had very little snow in december there were no customers because the ski resorts were closed that's very painful but now there's no snow in other resorts either so people are coming back here another joke which is just one his 16th much of an undefeated season beating russia's current catch enough to move into the last 4 of the dubai championships and retain the world number one spot also into the semifinals of world number 6 stefana sits a pass did start taking close to 2 and a half hours to beat germany's a young man and strife in 3 sets. he will next face britain's damn evidence. india are the 1st team into the semifinals of the women's t 20 world cup thanks to a 3 run win of a new zealand on thursday india's 16 year old star chef oliver again that's not the former she scored 46 of the same 133 runs and replied matty green hits new

zealand's only 6 and that allowed one indian fans share a pair of safe hands beyond the boundary rope. became his nearly 5 from their final ball but only managed a single in the safe for the top of group a new zealand next face a crucial match against australia australia will be the favorite softer of astonishing batting this by against bangladesh whose fielding didn't do them any favors beth mooney and lisa haley both passing the 80 run mark as they reached 189 for one bangladesh in reply falling 86 runs. and a 17 year old leading the way golf's new zealand open south korea's kim has the 1st round lead after a sudden on a par round of 64 the teenager became the 2nd youngest person ever win on the asian saw last year and is ranked $141.00 in the world ok that is i suppose looking for the bank that day that that from a can but out of this news our large taylor will be back in just a moment with more of the day's news.

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we are decisive point governments cancel major events shot schools and disinfect public places as they seek to stop the coronavirus spreading u.s. stocks are on track for their worst week since the global financial crisis because of the outbreak. of this is our jazeera live from london also coming up turkey sends reinforcements to help syrian rebels battling to hold on to a strategic town they took from the government overnight. and why there are small signs of hope as people return to homes and businesses.