the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. is room in the wound on al-jazeera. italy shuts down its schools and universities in the u.s. approves more than $8000000000.00 to fight the coronavirus of the world reacts to the rising death toll. on down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. and i hope you will join me here working to make it right. billionaire mike bloomberg ends his race for the white house and joins joe biden after the former vice president's convincing super tuesday the trix. tensions

boiling over in turkey's parliament over its offensive in syria politicians are angry after another 2 turkish soldiers die in the. bombing from crossing a bridge from turkey to greece refugees are risking their lives for a chance at a new life and your. welcome to the program italy has announced it will be closing all schools and universities until mid march as it battles to contain the spread of the coronavirus officials have decided to still allow sporting events to continue but they will be held without spectators the number of dead across italy now sits at $107.00 that's the largest death toll outside of china in the united states the number killed has risen to 11 several are connected to an elderly care home in seattle new cases have also been reported around the 2 most populous cities that's new york and los angeles in the past few hours the u.s.

house of representatives approved an 8300000000 dollar bill that will fund the fight against the virus is expected to pass in the senate and be signed by president trump later this week john hall 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 it's not going to get to you and you can't just shut down the world and 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 a rising death toll japan did the same last week and france has also ordered the closure of some schools affecting an estimated 35000 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. the corona 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 a 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 handshake be replaced by the indian greeting no mistake while italians have been asked to stop kissing and hugging with the 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 i don't know how al-jazeera and shabba townsend joins us live now from washington d.c. shabbes how worried are u.s. officials then about these latest figures because there's a growing controversy over a lack of testing and medical resources to deal with the outbreak this issue of

testing is one of the key problems because frankly so few tests have been conducted in the u.s. we have no idea how far the virus has spread and the the vice president might parents accepting that there is a problem just a few hours ago he's in charge of the white house task force he says he hopes that will change thousands more kids containing a movie or a half testing kits will actually be distributed to health care providers by the end of the week he says and he says that the regulations for testing will be relaxed up to now even people who show symptoms have been refused the test that apparently will has now been has now been relaxed on the other problem this being a for profit health care system which is why it's become such a big issue on the campaign trail right now is how people afford these tests even if people do get a test they have to pay thousands of dollars to their insurance company in order to pay for the test mike pence this is now being called an essential tasso it will be covered fully covered by insurance or by medicare or medicaid which is for the poorest americans however that still leaves millions potentially or people in

between who might not be able to afford a test but even as vice president pence admits there's still a ways to go in his words president trump's message has been constant. 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 siobhan congress is looking to pass legislation on $8000000000.00 to tackle the virus toko so what's been agreed yeah that's another point the trumpet ministration initially asked for 2 and a half $1000000000.00 from quote from congress of which only $1200000000.00 was new money the rest is going to be taken away from the preparedness to stop other pandemics like boehner and so on the house of representatives there has now passed

by in a bipartisan fashion an $8300000000.00 budget for the current virus of which $3000000000.00 will be for r. and d. and vaccines and diagnostics one point $3000000000.00 to usa id to help the global fight against the virus that's interesting i mean again it's interesting because the top administration is going to cut some of these programs anyway also just to get into that that issue of whether people can even afford the vaccine if there is one found $300000000.00 to help ensure the vaccine is available regardless of whether someone can afford it to have administered again this is a particular american phenomenon because of the for profit health insurance industry that was a sticking point with republicans but it did get $33000000.00 which means that they radically everyone who needs a vaccine can get one. thank you. well the number of known coronavirus cases in india has risen sharply from 6 to 28 india's health minister says the new cases include 16 tourists from italy europe's worst affected country experts have

raised concerns about how the country would cope with a widespread outbreak the virus has prompted india's government to limit the export of certain medicines leading to fears of global shortages of some common drugs. iran has announced another 15 deaths raising the total to $92.00 terence taking drastic measures like calling off friday prayers and all major cities for a 2nd consecutive week iran's health ministry has confirmed more than 2900 cases since the outbreak began. now the democratic field of candidates to take on donald trump in november presidential election has narrowed down to just 4 former new york mayor mike bloomberg has pulled out a surge in support for joe biden made him the big winner on super tuesday putting him ahead of bernie sanders in the battle for the democratic nomination elizabeth warren came a distant 3rd and towards the government even further behind bloomberg who spent heavily on his campaign is now backing biden. if you remember in the race

what did 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 different culture achieve that goal i've always believed that the truck starts with uniting 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. joins us live now from los angeles robs a very good night there for joe biden last night he was speaking earlier with more detail. well joe biden had a kind of brief appearance here today deron a couple of hours ago he basked in the his victory listing all of the states that he had won on super tuesday including maine where the results came in somewhat late

so not only was it a good night for biden yesterday it was a good morning for him today especially with that bloomberg nomination now biden is had a lot of trouble raising money his coffers have been very low compared to his opponents like bernie sanders and with the bloomberg dropping out of the nomination and promising to help biden with his organization that will be a big boost and more good news for joe biden over the past 42 hours or accumulated $7100000.00 in online donations these are usually small donations you know 20 dollars 5 dollars here and there from from supporters so all in all a pretty good period of 48 hours for the former vice president here's some of what he had to say today. in his remarks to the press. we welcome all those who

would use only those who want. to build a movement and this is a movement. we need to be done to indigo the future we all use possibly you know especially proud of our campaign it is generated so much enthusiasm driving a voter turnout all across the nation this idea that we never move look at the results of the many voters see biden as the only person who can beat donald trump so what's next in the race. well the next some questions revolving around elizabeth warren derren her campaign did very poorly on super tuesday she didn't manage to win in the state that she represents in the senate massachusetts so her campaign says she is now assessing the path ahead which is political speak for deciding when to get out of the race i believe there will be 6 states voting next tuesday march 10th including an important

state michigan this is a big industrial multi-ethnic multi-racial state in the industrial northwest it was carried by donald trump in the election that he beat hillary clinton there in 2016 so this is one of the states that the democrats dearly want to win back and they hope that they can do so in november and defeat trump so biden i think will be focusing a lot of his attention on michigan there are a number of other states involved but michigan is the by far the biggest in this upcoming round and then there will be yet another debate 1 we haven't had enough of those i guess the democratic party thinks that will take place on the 15th of march in phoenix arizona and that just might be bernie sanders versus joe biden one on

one dares to runnels that line for us from los angeles rob thank you. well bernie sanders didn't exactly have the super tuesday he would have liked but he's still vowing to fight on that anybody in this room thought that a year ago we began our campaign 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 prison industrial complex. and most of the one percent of anybody here thought that a year would come and go and we would be even tarred for 1st a few votes of a few votes down the road salt without a doubt is a pretty amazing achievement. for a short break here how to 0 when we come back in a tourist mountain taking the fight against coronavirus coming to new heights on that state is.

headed airplanes and wintry weather all the way across into the same time this storm system will work its way into western areas of honshu quite a stream of cloud as you can see and of course the cold air is where we're going to see the snow so 2 celsius in support on thursday with this very unpleasant make some pretty strong winds as well it will be pushing across into western areas of honshu mostly care across the korean peninsula and also. much of china some showers across into taiwan but really that rain across the center is becoming more widespread as we go through friday pushing further to the south and the east and likely down as far as hong kong 21 a degree celsius but it does caraway that when she system away from by friday and also clearing skies generally throughout much of japan now the rains mean very heavy across into java no change there on thursday some very heavy downpours not cheap out then across into some of the men a peninsula say want to scout of showers friday it is a dry day generally and in fact even across borneo and java the showers beginning

to ease off but the rain is back in the 4 consequence northern indiana as we go through thursday we can see cloudy skies in the chance of showers pushing. pradesh very wise but rain is snow through much of pakistan or all of that meeting east north as we go through friday so a dumb day new delhi and cool it 23. al jazeera well charts remarkable refugee journeys from the treacherous path of sudanese singer emmanuel job in planning this case just child soldiers and the only 16 people in the music is the place where you become my child this is where i get to the london design are from syria creating play there is the one thing that i know that god has gifted there is a hard road from home music and fashion on al-jazeera.

welcome back a program out of our top stories here this hour the number of people killed by corona virus in the united states has risen to 11 new cases have been reported in the 2 most populous cities doing york and los angeles is the house of representatives approved a $8300000000.00 bill to fund the fight against the virus meanwhile in italy which has the highest death toll outside of charter schools universities and cinemas and all been shot until mid march officials of decided to still allow sporting events to continue will be held without spectators one of the dead of course at the may now sits $100.00 msec. and billionaire mike number has dropped out of the us democratic primary race mentors to former vice president joe biden bloomberg

performed poorly on super tuesday despite spending half a $1000000000.00 on television advertising for his campaign. back to our top story now as countries grapple with infections the spread appears to be slowing in china the world health organization says the number of new coronavirus cases is 15 times higher outside china than within the country between the u.s. more now from beijing. patients critically ill with the corona virus being helped by the thought official lung machines in china setting. 6000 are in serious condition but the government says numbers of new cases are falling the world health organization says other countries must learn from china the experience that china has had it's to be shared and this is the this is an excellent example of that that direct interaction is what is what we want is what we want to see more and more happen more than 100 people from hong kong have arrived home on the 1st

government chartered flight from the city of la high on the epicenter of the outbreak flights up planned for this week in south korea more than 5600 cases have been confirmed. people in the hardest hit city of daegu say there's a shortage of masks and they're having to queue for hours to divert something. where the people especially here in day go are at great risk i've been waiting in line since 5 30 in the morning and haven't even received a queue ticket the south korean government has announced a 1.8 $1000000000.00 stimulus package to protect the economy in india a sudden jump in cases of wednesday fueled feels that an outbreak could grip the group's tekken largest nation almost 30 cases were confirmed after a group of italian tourists tested positive for the virus in the state of russia start but jugglers abominable and the children find it difficult to leave their houses if someone has to go somewhere like travel or the bus local to

a public place they feel scared cases of top $1000.00 in japan but limping organizers say preparation for the summer games due to start in tokyo in july is so far going ahead the chinese government says the steady drop in new cases is proof that severe walked down restrictions right but reports that some patients are testing positive for the printer virus after being discharged from hospital all raising concerns chinese authorities say these patients want them to be infectious advance those who have recovered to undergo a further period of printing before entering the. katrina new al-jazeera. for travel restrictions due to the corona virus outbreak are impacting some of the millions of migrant workers around the world many are stuck on the are able to return to their jobs putting their livelihoods at risk to be low as more money in the philippines. alicia says she would not have left hong kong during the height of

the coronavirus scare. but her mother step forced her to overcome fears and fly home to the philippines what was supposed to be a brief homecoming for domestic worker however has now turned into weeks after the philippine government announced a travel ban on china and its special administrate to reach its this time my employer just give me 7 days 14 days and then go back to hong kong but because of that. i cannot go. thousands of filipinos who work in hong kong and macau cannot go back even if the ban now exams migrant workers most of them say they would rather take the risk than lose their jobs so much so that they came together on social media to put pressure on the government and allow them to return to work we'd rather be sick in hong kong and taking care by the hong kong government instead of being here taken care of by the philippine system which is

good but it's expensive for us millions of filipinos work abroad many coronavirus hit regions but even as a virus keeps spreading and the number of cases and continue to rise they're still leaving in droves risking help for livelihood for me like i have been a 5000000 that. really need. money you know so i decided to take the race there is a risk for alisa because domestic workers have been among those diagnosed with the crooner virus in hong kong and as more than 400 filipino coup members of the diamond prince's cruise ship isolated in japan for 2 weeks return home they leave behind dozens of their colleagues who've been infected by the virus. barnaby low. middle and the man known as the french spider has climbed barcelona's our guard

tower as a symbolic act against what he calls coronavirus panic bath told journalists he wants to spread the message that fear is more contagious than the virus itself once back on the ground or bear was checked by medical staff and then arrested not for the 1st time though he often climbs well known buildings without permission including dubai's bush and the petronas towers in malaysia palestinian families whose houses are slated to be demolished by the israeli military a calling on activists to help defend their homes last month israel's supreme court rejected appeals to have the demolitions holton in the occupied west bank some of them homes of palestinian detainees accused of carrying out attacks against israelis last year israeli forces demolished 14 homes as a so-called punitive measure the aim behind this policy is to increase the number of israeli settlers either with burning on the expense of palestinians because they demolished the houses of palestinians the same time they increase and expand the

settlements for israeli settlements or settlers whose mere presence here in the occupied territory constitutes a growing. we talk about this israeli supreme court is a court. by laws in morals but in fact it's one of israel's occupation tools which implement its policies and decisions turkey's parliament descended into chaos after tense discussions over the country's military role in syria m.p.'s got into a shouting match after one opposition member accused the president of disrespect in turkish soldiers have died in syria or egypt or one was also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conflict allegedly without proper cover turkey sent thousands of soldiers into syria to try to hold a government offensive in the last rebel controlled province for the brutal fall of the deaths of 2 turkish soldiers during an attack in libya. turkish forces also suffered heavy losses last week when 34 soldiers were killed in air strikes

a total of 59 troops have now died in northern syria is due to meet his russian counterpart in moscow on thursday to discuss a ceasefire but in the meantime turkey's president has vowed to continue the offensive. 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. well greece has denied turkey's accusations that it shot and killed a migrant was trying to cross into its territory earlier greek police used tear gas and water cannon against refugees migrants at the border with turkey. thousands have been trying to cross over since last spring turkey said it would no longer stop people from trying to enter the european union blocs foreign policy chief has been meeting on. the pitch pressure plenty of being union turkey

border and you need to know actions. are not bringing any budget eventually they're not being given benefit to anyone. like a country can only create problems and made the situation worse and they want who we who will pay the price. people shooting and refugees from might as well only a fraction of the refugees have been allowed to leave turkey have managed to get into greece and chorus says more than 130000 left since last friday but the greek government says only 1500 of them have crossed over in legally al-jazeera as natasha got a name has this exclusive report. greece for. struggling to find their slippery footing they made their way across the dam barefoot stone by stone. one man slips and his bag bobs away with

a swift current of the river. desperation and despair are growing as refugees and migrants take advantage of turkey's open border with greece and. some are taking dangerous risks for the chance to reach the european. i don't know how to swim while walking i was thinking you cross or you die those are the only 2 options earlier this week the police began blocking refugees from walking across this bridge to get closer to the checkpoint with greece now people are resorting to risking their lives by crossing this below. on the other side of the river bank cold and what refugees. were met by villagers looking to make a profit those who still had money in their pockets were asked to pay $2.00 to $3.00 for a ride with a horse and cart a tractor or a van instead of walking the short distance to get closer to the checkpoint at the

greek border. all who got it well knew what it were also poor we don't have money and if we did we wouldn't be doing this. the odds of people making it to greece and being allowed to stay looking creasing li slim the greek government says only $1500.00 migrants at most have entered since turkey opened its border gates last friday around 26000 have been stopped several men told us this was their 2nd attempt after they'd already been deported from greece but this was done just big music getting i made it to the other side and for 5 days i moved from place to place i have no food and people give me food i eat i have no money left me. despite hunger exhaustion and frustration they've summoned the determination to repeat the journey. europe has to take us because only took a is taking care of immigrants to take us there would be good others will be

following that also making the precarious track natasha good name does era a dern near the border between turkey and greece. greece has sent a navy ship to the island of lesbos to provide some relief for the hundreds of migrants arrived there the past few days around 500 people have been camping out of the town's ports and they were prevented from reaching the overcrowded camps by angry residents of the given accommodation on the ship after being sent to athens processing agree says the latest wave of migrants have arrived in england and will eventually be deported. i think 24 people have died and dozens are missing after heavy rain and landslides in southeast brazil the states of sao paulo and rio de janeiro hardest hit. reports at 71 too many of us has lost everything overnight a month's worth of rain fell in

a matter of hours in brazil palos state triggering landslides and burying homes and people with it. i lost my house i lost my daughter why doored more than anything in my life and my son in law firefighters volunteers are receiving against time to find dozens of people still missing at least 200 people are homeless and that's just in one out of 3 cities affected. by they want us to leave but we cannot guard i don't have anywhere to guard i don't have family i don't have anybody here it's summer in brazil but since january they've been unusual parts of rain floods and mudslides the regional government in sao paulo is blaming climate change overs i want to mention that climate phenomenons are taking place in the south eastern regions of the country reaching levels that were not reached ever before the clearly shows that climate change is severe and demands the attention of the

governments. but brazil's far right kristen jari both snarl has long been accused of ignoring these traits from climate change as families struggle to cope with this likely impact. on syria. time for a quick check of the top stories in al-jazeera the number of people killed by corona virus in the united states has risen to 11 new cases have been reported in the 2 most populous cities new york and los angeles the house of representatives has approved an $8.00 trillion dollar bill to fund the fight against the virus you know president trump insists the u.s. is leading the world 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 already challenge nowhere more true than our vigilant and

unprecedented effort right now to protect americans from the corona virus. really we have an incredible team of talented people in italy meanwhile has the highest death toll outside of china schools universities and cinema all been shot until mid march officials have decided to still allow sporting events to continue but they'll be held without spectators the number of dead across italy now sits at 107 the democratic field of candidates to take on donald trump and of embers presidential election has narrowed to just 4 former new york mayor michael bloomberg has pulled out he's now endorsed former vice president joe biden bloomberg perform poorly on super tuesday despite spending half a $1000000000.00 on t.v. advertising his campaign. palestinian families whose houses are slated to be demolished by the israeli military are calling a lot of us to help defend their homes last month israel's supreme court rejected appeals to have the demolitions halted in the occupied west bank. some of them are

homes of palestinian detainees accused of carrying out attacks against israelis. turkey's parliament descended into chaos after a tense discussions over the country's military role in syria m.p.'s got into a shouting match after one opposition member accuse the president of disrespecting turkish soldiers have died in syria russia typo and was also labeled irresponsible for sending troops into the conflict allegedly without. turkey sent thousands of soldiers into syria to try to hold a government offensive in which is the last rebel held province. so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story station thanks so much and i for.

a super tuesday joe biden missed the biggest day of voting in the democratic race to challenge donald trump for the white house but he's doing well in california so what does that mean for the party's nomination in the run up to the u.s. presidential election in november this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter davi super tuesday a big group of states get to have their say and it was super for joe biden the states have given him a lead in delegates he appears to be the party's front runner so far it is a remarkable comeback went.