the back to 0. the you're the earlier. italy wraps up its battle against corona virus closing schools and universities for 2 weeks as its death toll jumps to 107. 0 i maryanne demasi are watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up. tensions over turkey's offensive in syria boil over in parliament after another 2 turkish soldiers are killed in a. week riot police fired tear gas to stop refugees crossing its land border from turkey while despair drives others to risk a fast flowing river. and the billionaire businessman mike bloomberg drops out of

the democratic presidential race it gives his backing to joe biden. hello welcome to the program our top story italy is closing old schools universities and cinemas until march 15th in the battle to contain its corona virus outbreak the death toll there is jumped to 107 now this is the largest number of confirmed deaths outside of china public events have also been canceled across parts of europe asia and the middle east also the international monetary fund has issued a warning that the outbreak is likely to slow global economic growth this year joan hull begins our coverage. contagion is spreading quickly across europe and the world and that means anxiety as much as the covered $900.00 virus itself staff at the world's most famous museum the louvre in paris shut it down for 3 days this

week demanding better protection against the virus tourists went to news to there isn't a place in the world that's not going to get to you and you can't just shut down the world you can though shut down parts of it battling europe's most prolific outbreak so far italy will close all schools and universities until mid march in an effort to stem the tide of infections and the rising death toll japan did the same last week and france has also ordered the closure of some schools affecting an estimated $35000.00 pupils. as dramatic for some italy's decision to hold all sporting fixtures in empty stadiums spain has done so to life across the globe is changing fast the world health organization continues to stress the importance of containment in places with few infections in the hope of delaying the spread of the disease and to give health systems time to prepare there is no doubt that things will get worse. and if the w.h.o.

isn't yet prepared to declare a pandemic germany it appears is. a virus outbreak said the health minister has become a global pandemic amid a worldwide shortage of goggles masks and gloves germany has banned the export of medical protective gear they want it all to be available for use at home and other shortages have provoked concern this time in australia over toilet paper. some countries are taking matters steadily further india has extended the screening of passengers to all those arriving on international flights the authorities in saudi arabia have banned citizens and foreigners from making the pilgrimage to mecca in israel prime minister netanyahu. suggested the common prem shake be replaced by the indian greeting no mistake while italians have been asked to stop kissing and hugging with the coded 19 virus reaching more and more countries each day it is

possible that no corner of the world will be spared even as european health ministers prepare to meet on friday one infection was registered inside the european council building itself not just towns and cities now but the seats of government and parliament are in its path journal al-jazeera. well at least 11 people in the united states have now been killed by the coronavirus new cases i've also been reports around the 2 most populous cities in the country for new york 6 in los angeles have been 10 deaths in the seattle area which has the largest concentration of coronavirus cases several have been connected to an aged care facility the 11th person died in california president donald trump insists the u.s. is leading the wall in containing the outbreak america's extraordinary success over the last 3 years has ensured that we are the best prepared in the world to address any threat or any challenge nowhere is more true than our vigilant and

unprecedented effort right now to protect americans from the corona virus it's. really we have an incredible team of talented people jabber tansey is following the story from washington joins us now the house of representatives has passed that $8300000000.00 coronavirus response bill what does it include and how quickly could it reach president trump's desk. we have much more detail now about what's in the bill $3300000000.00 which by the way we should compare to the 2.2.5000000000 dollars of a drop of ministration initially asked for which only $1250000000.00 was new money the rest taken away from existing programs to combat a boat and other other diseases which is apparently all new money $3000000000.00 for r. and d. into vaccines and diagnostics $2200000000.00 for the centers for disease control including $150000000.00 to support state and local health agencies $836000000.00

with national institutes for health 1.3 $1000000000.00 for usa id to help the global fight against the virus these are all so many programs are all things that were on the chopping block in donald trump's recently announced budget but this is all money now which is going into usa id the c.d.c. and others $20000000.00 for the small business administration to give loans to businesses affected by the outbreak also body to prevent shortages of medical products and this is a particularly american american bit of this bill $300000000.00 to help ensure that if a vaccine is found soon it will be made available to americans regardless of whether they can pay this has been a sticking point between the democrats and republicans the health industry in the u.s. is for profit and there is no guarantee that even if a vaccine was around people would have the insurance or need the money for the co-pays have even having the insurance to pay for the vaccine and here is about $300000000000.00 to help those help everyone get access to a vaccine if and when it becomes available. well hearing it from president he has

been facing some criticism about delays ministrations or spawn that the current virus. right and actually i didn't answer the last of your question doesn't have to go to the senate and then maybe somehow will hold up to that and that it'll end up on trump's desk although there may be a hold up in the senate because at least one republican the metairie republican is saying he wants an amendment to make sure that the u.s. offsets these costs against foreign aid but developing next few days from yes we got these sort of statements that we just heard from him very wise kind of defensive saying that we were doing everything we possibly can out in the today again at a meeting with ellen executives he again said we're doing everything we can at least to blame any shortfall in the a bomb in the trunk of ministrations response on the obama administration he was saying well the reason why testing has been so difficult is because obama changed the rules which meant that the f.d.a. the food and drug administration had to have 2 vets and he kind of testing before

it was actually widely rolled out is a huge debate now as to whether that is indeed true whether trump is trying to trying to deflect things but yeah there is there is this problem admitting there is still this this issue of testing itself even with the congressional bill even with the state with some credit still huge amounts of doubt as to whether the u.s. has the testing kits and the capacity to actually make sure that they even know how many people have the virus in the u.s. a lot of skepticism still that thank you very much average chancy in washington. of course a great deal of focus on the effects could have on the global economy the i.m.f. has been speaking out saying the continued spread of the current a virus will push 2020 global growth below last year's levels a managing director christina gary gather says the i.m.f. will revise its focus down once again in the coming weeks what we're wrestling quiett east's uncertainty and that defines our projections which at this point lead us

to state that global growth in 2020 will deep. the below it's last year's levels but how far it will fall and how long the impact would be is still difficult to predict so i respect our patrick peregrine who's an international economist at the economic analysis at macro and he told me that there needs to be a robust and coordinated response from governments around the world ticking off to some countries which you slow in their initial response important things we found is is communication identify with letting people know where there are pockets of infections they can avoid it for a start and the other side is being extremely reactive economically because cutting interest rates absolutely is put is like putting a sticking plaster on a gaping wound. they actually need to come up how fiscal measures that people have

to be assured that will i get an income how we're going to feed myself all these basic things that really really sort of support confidence not just in the short term the long term as well. turkey's parliament has descended into chaos earlier after rising tensions over the country's military policy in syria a fight broke out involving dozens of politicians after one opposition member accuse the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who have died in syria as a type one was also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conflict without air cover turkey sent thousands of soldiers into syria to try to halt a government offensive in italy province or that brawl in the parliament followed the deaths of 2 turkish soldiers during an attack and it led. turkish forces also suffered heavy losses last week when 34 soldiers were killed in as strikes 59 have

now died overall in northern syria one is due to me as russian counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss a cease fire. or show you none of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic. meanwhile greece has denied turkish accusations that it shot and killed a migrant who was trying to cross into its territory area greek riot police have used tear gas and water cannon against refugees and migrants at the border thousands have been trying to breach the barrier since last week when turkey said it would no longer stop people crossing into the e.u. the blocks foreign policy chief has been meeting on in ankara to try and defuse the situation. i had to put unity to express our understanding of would be difficult to do

a shoot in turkey is quarterly phasing but also stressed that the current developments in the european war those are not leading to any solution. we have also. asked not to encourage further movement of refugees from a grant mine migrants towards european union borders a great navy ship has arrived at the onset of lesbos to provide some relief for the hundreds of migrants who arrived there over the past few days they've been camping out at the town's port after being prevented from reaching its of a crowded camps by angry local residents but as john psaropoulos reports from les paul said let me be a briefer spite of those on board. a greek navy transport ship arrives in lesbos to pick up more than $500.00 refugees and migrants they arrived after turkey opened its borders to europe and won't be allowed to

apply for asylum instead they will be taken to athens and eventually deported people here hope this will act as a deterrent to more refugee crossings. the people who crossed illegally from the land border got 4 years in jail and a 10000 euro fine it serves them right and it will make others think twice the refugees have bones whatever happens here gets to the other side security around the port is high police have their hands full preventing daily attempts by refugees to board ferries to athens lesbos has been the most hospitable island to refugees but people are frustrated a year ago there were about 5000 people in the island's refugee camp and this was an olive grove the camp and tent city mushrooming around it now hold 20000 villages from morea a kilometer away say they've been hit hard and. i no longer cultivate my vegetable garden because it will be picked clean and the chickens are gone the police say

they can't do anything this store has been robbed 6 times if someone is caught red handed they're free in a couple of hours if i do the same thing i'll go to jail. government attitudes reflect the changing mood greece has asked for emergency border assistance from the european union the east is fast becoming militarized greece now has 52 warships and coastal patrol vessels at sea spotting refugee boats and preventing the other european union countries have another 10 ships posted here and the rapid border intervention force greece requested will result in many more the un says that suspending asylum applications isn't legally justified and that all thirty's should avoid excess. siv or disproportionate force but the turkish opening of borders has altered this humanitarian crisis in greece as eyes it's now a national security crisis and the military is increasingly taking over jumps are

opal us al jazeera lesbos. so i have for you on the program fears of a fresh humanitarian crisis and me and maz rankine state fighting drives hundreds of thousands of people from that. you cannot make deals with physics. why not everyone is impressed with the us and to make europe the 1st carbon neutral continent by 2050 will tell you why. have there that we have a real east west split across australia and it's not often we get to say that but look at this you can see across the east is where really the bulk of the weather is now all of this you can say is bringing yet more very heavy amounts of rain just sweeping across the eastern half of the country this is old still the remnants of what was the tropical cyclone esta now we've got various flood watches and warnings

in place across much of queensland and slightly down across new south wales we could get some heavy rain into more eastern sections all victoria as well and as well some very heavy rains is in strong winds just pushing in through more eastern and southern sections of town mania now by friday the bulk of that rain does really begin it's a piece out moves well offshore but still some heavy rains in the fall calls in the brisbane area and really scattered showers all the way down the queensland coast and up into the northern territory meanwhile as a warm couple of days in perth but it does remain fine and dry another blast of winter on its way across into a mix of rain and snow mostly snow of course in that cold air it will have some impact into these western areas of hong she's certainly some snow there most of careful so korean peninsula and then for thursday want to show is a coastal central and southern areas of china but by friday that becoming very extensive pushing further east becoming havea and pulsating some showers in hong kong with a high of 21. she

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a look at the headlines now a chile is closing all its schools universities and cinemas until march 15th as it battles to contain its corona virus outbreak the death toll there is now jumped to 107 the largest number of deaths outside of china. turkey's parliament descended into chaos when an opposition m.p. accused the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who died in syria a brawl followed the deaths of another 2 turkish soldiers during an attack in syria's it province and greece has denied turkish accusations it shot and killed a migrant who was trying to cross into its territory greek riot police have used tear gas and water cannon against refugees and migrants at the border. all the race to challenge trump and of embassy u.s. presidential election is down to just 4 candidates now the former mayor of new york mike bloomberg has pulled out of the race after a disappointing showing in the super tuesday primaries

a surge in support for joe biden made him the big winner. placing him ahead of bernie sanders in the battle for the democratic nomination it now looks like a 2 orse race with elizabeth warren a distant 3rd. even further behind but bloomberg did spend heavily on his campaign despite the fact that it didn't translate into public support or bloomberg as it's admitted he could no longer win the nomination and that's throwing his significant financial weight behind joe biden. if you remember i did the race for duck president to defeat donald trump and today i am leaving the race for the same reason to defeat donald trump because staying in would make it more difficult to achieve that goal i've always believed that the theme donald trump starts 1000000 guiding behind the candidate with the best shot to do it and after yesterday's vote it is clear that candidate is my friend and a great american joe biden. well there are still some super tuesday votes being

counted though we do have a clear view of the results biden won 10 of the 14 states up for grabs on tuesday texas was an important win for me also secured massachusetts the state of elizabeth warren maine and minnesota the home state of amy clothes he made strong gains in southern states as well winning are console tennessee oklahoma alabama as well as north carolina and virginia bernie sanders won the state with the most delegates though california he also won one in utah colorado and his home state of vermont while biden has the most delegates so far saunders is not far behind it followed by elizabeth warren and with mike bloomberg no longer in the race saunders remains full of confidence of everybody in this room thought that a year ago we began our care paid about a year ago. that a campaign that was taken on wall street and the drug companies and the insurance companies and the fossil fuel industry and the military industrial complex and the

president just real complex and most of the one percent of anybody here thought that a year would come and go and we would be even hard for 1st a few votes up a few votes down delegates up with them that is a pretty amazing achievement. and joe biden was speaking just a few minutes ago said that his campaign was building momentum. welcome all those who want to join us all those who want to join us and to build a movement and this is a movement we are building it is a move and we need that movement to beat donald trump and to build a future we all know is possible you know i'm especially proud of our campaign is generating so much enthusiasm driving up voter turnout all across the nation this idea that we didn't have a movement look at the results. there is rob reynolds was at that press conference that looks at what's next for the recession challenger. he has dubbed himself the 77 year old former vice president as dubbed himself the comeback kid and his

campaign has put out a statement saying the joe mentum is real of course he will need the joementum going forward because there is 'd are a series of 6 additional primaries coming up on tuesday the 10th of march those include states like idaho washington state but most crucially michigan michigan is seen as a make or break state because it's in one of those north. midwestern states that president from one in 2016 biden has been putting up public statements on the social media that are focused entirely on president trump also nothing about about senator sanders no criticism of bernie sanders at all he did thank the former mayor bloomberg for his gracious words an offer of support which could be very important

for biden who has been lagging somewhat until recently in terms of funding bloomberg of course has a huge organization and a lot of money which if he chose to. to hand it over to joe biden would would make a considerable difference in biden's campaign. when i was stories of following this hour the united states has carried out its 1st as strike against the taliban since they signed a troop withdrawal agreement last week military commanders say they were responding to attacks on afghan army positions in southern helmand province meanwhile in northern afghanistan at least 19 soldiers and police officers were killed during 2 separate attacks in congress province 10 afghan border patrol officers have also been kidnapped well the attacks happened hours after donald trump spoke with the taliban's political leader mullah baradar 35 minute phone call was aimed at reducing violence in afghanistan and it's thought to be the 1st direct exchange between u.s. president and senior taliban leadership well now fighting in northern me and mine

is raising concerns of a he knew humanitarian crisis there i'm in my army is at war in iraq and state with the ira can army a group of buddhist separatists representing the ethnic minority as foreign to me repeat its now from but you don't township the state has already seen hundreds of thousands of people driven away by violence in recent years. for these students who is now in a monastery and home is a temporary shelter in a camp for the internally displaced they had to leave their village when fighting between the myanmar military and the r. khan army and ethnic armed group that erupted in january last year got to close the enemy hardly there was an airstrike they fired on to our village homes were burnt artillery shells hit our houses. many have been here for at least 7 months and escaped with little more than the clothes on their backs your. soldiers and to our

village and we didn't want to run into them so we ran away we were scared. they haven't been able to return to their farms the shops and are dependent on the un says the near daily reports of civilians being killed or injured and child casualties on the rise last month more than a dozen students were injured when an artillery shell hit that school landmines also pose a threat according to a recent landmine monitor report by the international campaign to ban land mines the government says it's doing all it can to protect civilians but i will manage a mother we don't know where the fighting is going to happen we want know ahead of the fighting we're trying to do as much as we can we give support to the people they get compensation from the federal government and the injured are treated for free at our hospitals. it's fighting for greater autonomy on behalf of the time

i'm mainly buddhist ethnic group who make up the majority here the state is one of the poorest in myanmar and there's growing resentment towards the government we were in last lights area but we cannot and drive power sharing resources. not satisfy with this condition but for the. the conflict has disrupted 8 services the un office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs says transportation routes used to distribute food have been affected and many aid organizations have reported greater difficulties in reaching more rural areas and internet shutdown has made it more difficult to get information on civilian casualties and living conditions in the camps rakhine state is also where the myanmar military launched a violent crackdown against the mainly muslim minority more than 2 years ago. which

denies committing genocide has been ordered by the international court of justice to prevent further killings of the routing. but as the conflict continues civilians whether rakhine. are being caught in the middle florence al-jazeera township rakhine state myanmar well now the european union wants europe to be the 1st carbon neutral continent by the 2050 to turn that ambition into reality violates 1st climate law it gives brussels the power to set revised emissions targets every 5 years where the member states agree or not it's n.g.o.s and the teenage time activists got to tone bug who was invited to the rolls on veiling said the target was insufficient and they've accused lawmakers of only pretending to be climate leaders or a challenge reports. if the european parliament and member states approve it the continent's path to a carbon neutral future will be enshrined irreversible the use of 1st ever climate

legislation it is a binding legal obligation. it offers predictability it offers transparency to all for example the european industry to investors to public are sorry to us and this is what they are calling for this is what they ask us to do because it gives them certainty about what needs to be achieved and it gives them certainty at what pace the climate law would commit the e.u. to net 0 greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 but there's no mention of net removals of carbon post 2050 which was in an initial draft of the law and it defers till september plans to upgrade the aim to cut emissions by 40 percent by 2030 for some this law still pushes too far too fast and some member states are objecting to the use of what's called a delegated act here is the ability of the commission to revise emissions targets

every 5 years from 2030 with limited scope for e.u. governments to object for others it doesn't go nearly far enough to live on the land welcomes teenage climate activists gratitude to the e.u. headquarters but her verdict was damning this climate is so random. because nature doesn't bargain and you cannot make deals with physics and for this criticism of them and their alleged depiction you got a standing ovation. an open letter signed by 2 other activists says the law is deferring action that should be taken today the 2016 paris accords pledged to limit global warming below 2 degrees celsius rise campaigners say carbon neutrality by 2050 is too distant to achieve this they want goals from this year and every following month the new year to come. how does iran

. so more everything right here al jazeera dot com for the latest on our top stories you can watch us on life streaming here as well. because of the top stories this hour italy is closing all of its schools and universities until march 15th and its battle to contain the coronavirus the death toll has jumped now to $107.00 this is the largest number of deaths outside of china public events have also been cancelled across parts of europe asia and the middle east the international monetary fund is warning that the outbreak is likely to slow global economic growth this year. in our other headlines turkey's parliament has descended into chaos amid rising tensions over the country's military policy in syria a fight broke out involving dozens of politicians after one opposition member

accuse the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers who've died in syria or egypt i bow to one was also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conflict without akka or the brawl in parliament followed the deaths of 2 turkish soldiers during an attack in. forces also suffered heavy losses last week when 34 soldiers were killed in as strikes 59 have now died in northern syria to on is due to me is russian counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss the possibility of a ceasefire. or you know one of our martyrs none of our veterans and none of their blood none of their drops of blood will be in vain we are going to continue our struggle as we aimed and hopefully with the help of god we're going to build a strong turkish republic. greece meanwhile has denied turkish accusations that it shot and killed a migrant who was trying to cross into its territory earlier greek riot police have used tear gas and water cannon against refugees and migrants at the border

thousands have been trying to breach the barrier since last week when turkey said it would no longer stop people crossing into the european union. and in the united states former vice president joe biden was the big winner in the super tuesday primaries he won in 10 out of 14 states who voted and has now moved ahead of bernie sanders in the battle for the democratic party nomination the former mayor of new york might bloomberg has pulled out of the race after a disappointing showing he is now throwing his considerable financial weight behind joe biden so people in power is the program coming up next examining the murder of brazilian human rights activist mariel franco to stay with us for that a bit more news at the top of the next hour from don that's it for myself in the team hearing on then. as the world battles a potential new pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the world. with updates about savile the sixpence and how to protect yourself.

to run the virus outbreak special coverage on al-jazeera. in march 28th mariella franco a prominent brazilian human rights activist and politician was murdered in mysterious circumstances a champion of the venice rio slum neighborhoods area and it was also a vocal critic of brazil's security forces and the civilian casualties of a war against the city's drug gangs so who killed it and why giuliana rufus went to such bones.