cricket's regional because they say the people have little for using the justice system. arrests in saudi arabia a number of high profile members of the royal family have been detained including former crown prince mohammed bin nayef. ironically this is a live from doha also coming up. it absolutely could be a catastrophe i mean absolute devastation and you concerns about the coronavirus off the number of cases worldwide tops 100000. long lines in south korea as the government regulates how many mosques you can find protection against the virus. 24

hours of an easy calm as a ceasefire in syria is a good lives still hold. but so we begin in saudi arabia where crown prince mohammed bin solomon has detained some of the most high profile members of the royal family and that includes form a crown prince mohammed bin nayef as well as a prince of bin abdul aziz al saud the younger brother of the saudi king report suggests that they have both been accused of treason so many gods have also arrested one of my haven't been brothers and now likely to be under the threat of life imprisonment or possible execution both could have rivaled crown prince mohammed bin salim to throw in if king solomon dies out 0 senior correspondent jim spain's what these detentions mean for the kingdom and their impact on saudi politics. in terms of his significance it's huge because we're talking about true

of the most senior members of the saudi royal family and true that up until now have not been seen as supporters of crown prince may have been someone in the direction that he's been taking the country both domestically and in terms of foreign policy what's printed it is very difficult to ascertain needless to say because saudis are very close culture in terms of back of transparency and no media freedom there but also what's peculiar about it is that these are 2 figures who have they've been under house arrest they haven't been able to move freely for a very long time so the idea that maybe they were trying to hatch some sort of coup is very far fetched and difficult to see considering the restraints they were under already more likely than not what's a lot of analysts are talking about is that the current king solomon is somebody who has been reportedly suffering from dementia for many years he's unwell his health is very frail so is this a sign that he has either passed or is about to and now for the crown prince needs

to ensure that there are no obstacles in his way in terms of succession so now have been some man was able to get the u.s. true ditch its long term ally in if the person he's arrested and supports him and he's got unconditional support from this current u.s. administration he's managed to sideline the religious institution either by co-opting them onto his side or by arresting many of them including people like some others but the royal courts the royal family he has failed to exert his total control over even after he managed to do things like rounding a lot of senior members of the world family in the ritz carlton that famous case in the end of 2007 there were still those figures like the only other child of the founding king abdul aziz that is a human being somebody who didn't support him as well as his cousin and the nephew of the current king mohammed bin i. well it is not from just shon who's executive

director of the center of washington he thinks the detention is seen like an attempt by the crown prince to consolidate more power. who is the most senior that's 3 and has actually overseas for many years came back couple of years ago to kind of try to calm things down. after b.s. took over and there were some. kind of turmoil and we didn't go you know family. and of course the the previous crown prince and his brother were also involved in these 3 other arrests the accusation of course. or the implication is that there was an attempt at a coup i don't think the possibility of a coup is even. feasible at this time in terms of where the military is and its potential point dissipate in and out i think this is another 10 but i meant

been some amount to kind of exert in a paranoid way has full control over the kingdom that finitely there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes done to his term or within the family in the form of criticism but that doesn't justify 1st of all the accusation itself that day concert you just read in the form of a coup and to justify this type of step you know being arrested like criminals with mass security forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences so this is this is not the saudi arabia we all knew for 56 or definitely 10 or 20 years ago now the number of cases of coronavirus worldwide i suppose the 100000 mark more than 3000 people have lost their lives in china is reporting 28 new deaths on friday it's only has a 2nd highest number of deaths followed by iran and the outbreak has led to travel

restrictions diplomatic standoffs and the global economy is also feeling the pinch gentle as this. the global infection total since the start of the corona virus outbreak has soared past the $100000.00 mark while there are positive signs in the slowing rate of infections in china and south korea elsewhere it's speeding up iran recorded a dramatic rise of a 1000 new cases in the 24 hours since thursday with the authorities said to be preparing travel restrictions between cities to add to widespread school closures and bans on public gatherings among the more than $3300.00 lives lost around the world so far most have been among the elderly whose less efficient immune systems make it hard to fight off the virus in france where new infections jumped by $200.00 on friday president emanuel visited a retirement facility. i am asking all fellow citizens to act responsibly to make their sacrifice i know it is sometimes

heartbreaking but we must visit as much as possible. the european union with its open borders is proving a haven for the spread of coronavirus italy remains the worst affected country but germany's catching up across europe a tiny vatican city has reported its 1st case as has serbia and in britain prime minister boris johnson has announced a $50000000.00 investment into vaccine research and faster testing methods. early signs of the virus continue to spring up in africa and the middle east cameroon and senegal join nigeria and south africa in registering their 1st cases this week the head of the un's will program sounded a stop warning if coronavirus continues or create panic around the world and as an economic downturn i've been telling the european leaders and leaders around the world you don't have enough money set aside to address the needs in africa east

africa west africa and the middle east right now and if there's a neck an economic downturn on top of the economic downturn that exists now in syria and lebanon it absolutely could be a catastrophe i mean absolute devastation but european health ministers meeting in brussels have problems of their own there are concerns about a shortage of medicines and protective equipment because of disruptions in the supply chain from china not helped by larger countries like france and germany banning old exports jonah how al-jazeera. well in the united states at least 15 people have died from the virus the number of confirmed cases on the rise in more than 250 among them a 21 people aboard a cruise ship off the coast of san francisco when jordan has this report. as the coast guard flew in a supply of corona virus test kits to the quarantined cruise ship grand princess passengers and crew wonder if they'll be leaving any time soon but u.s.

president dahl trump said if it were up to him the 3400 passengers and crew would have to stay in quarantine if i dread that the people stay but i go with them i told them to make the final decision i would rather because i like the numbers being with they are i don't need to have the numbers double because of one ship that was our fault trump said this while visiting the centers for disease control and prevention the agency that tracks infectious disease outbreaks in the u.s. the president and the agency have been criticized for downplaying the severity of the crisis some patients and health care workers accuse the c.d.c. of making it harder to confirm coronavirus cases the head of the c.d.c.'s lab denied the allegations and no time during this response has c.d.c. ever denied a request that came from a public health official either state or local to test the patients out of all the patients who needed to be tested and the opinion of the public health officials

have been tested but officials also struggle to answer has the corona virus in the u.s. been contained we're going to see more cases because we're getting more diagnostics out there but i would say that you know what i said before that at the present time general receiver public remains slow but also on friday new cases were confirmed in houston minnesota colorado and maryland and while sanitation workers try to scrub the gritty subways of new york the arts and cultural festival south by southwest which brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to austin texas every year has been counseled more than $8000000000.00 federal dollars will now be spent on urgent research and treatment of the disease from coast to coast it seems more americans may be deciding to not take any chances until they know it's truly safe to be out and about roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. south korea is reporting $174.00 new

cases of corona virus bringing the total number of infections to more than 6 and a half $1044.00 people have died from the virus so far people there have been frantically buying masks and stocks are running low and that's prompted the government to limit sales to 2 per person each week let's speak to robert reich joins live from south korea's capital of seoul and robbers almost as if people's fears are spreading faster than the virus itself and that's having all sorts of. impact it's not lee's economic. you know i think the reality is here south korea is running out of things like face masks these are pretty severe measures that are being brought it brought him but the country is going through some severe times how this rationing will work is that everybody has an identity card in south korea and depending on what the last few digits of your id number are you are a lot it a certain day of the week when you will be allowed to visit

a pharmacy trying to limit to basically one visit per week per person and from monday on that one visit you'll be able to pick up your 2 disposable face masks that's the limits that the government here is setting now optimally of course you should be getting a new face mask every day and then throwing away at the end of that particular day the government believes it simply doesn't have the quantities of face mask to allow that but is giving advice about how you can make your 2 faced must last of the whole week the government's also bringing in other measures like completely stopping now any export of things like face masks to other countries south korea simply can't afford to be sending any out of the country it's also we're hearing about various raids on some companies that maybe are unscrupulously trying to hoard things as the prices of these things go up like face masks and so on people here are not happy about the situation but grudgingly they have to accept it they have

to have a face mask so you have to stand in line. ok it's difficult to go without a mask and living without mass is no longer the norm when i'm not wearing one i feel wore 8. this is the 1st time i queued for a mask passed by here several times but they didn't have any. for us it's not easy to make ends meet we're on the verge of bankruptcy just like we've seen in china the coronavirus is affecting the economy in south korea we've largely been dependent on exports if this trend reaches the u.s. our economy will be badly affected of course is all causing regional problems raw business especially in japan who have their own problems with the olympics coming up. absolutely all of the countries of this part of asia have their own problems as a direct result of the coronavirus we have the worsening diplomatic spat between

japan and south korea with japan imposing of course. a partial quarantine on visitors arriving from south korea just to give you an idea last year nearly hard of all of the visitors into japan were from either south korea or china so this partial quarantine that the japanese have set has caused all sorts of problems we're going to see all sorts of economic economic impact from that and is also causing a lot of confusion you have thousands of south korean students who are in rolled in japanese colleges who are on a break from their semester here in south korea this weekend running around trying to get on to flights to get back into japan before this quarantine regulations stipulation by japan comes into force but there is a continuing suspicion here that it's politically motivated by. the prime minister of japan his perspective he believes he has to take these actions now because 2020

is a big year you have not only a potential visit by xi jinping of china which is already been delayed because of the coronavirus but obviously the olympics and all eyes are watching to see whether they really have this under control because according to critics they way that they have handled the corona virus outbreak so far has been far from exemplary to put it mildly and so there is a real concern that japan simply would not be able to handle the kind of outbreak that we have had here in south korea or in china. or any of the time being rob thanks very much indeed that's a picture in seoul in south korea. well you can track the corona virus yourself by logging on to johns hopkins university is website that's in the united states it's using figures from various sources including the w.h.o. the well health organization the centers for disease control in the u.s. and in europe and as you can see in the top left corner shows there. are now more

than 102000 cases of corona virus around the world and on the other side in white there you can see the number of deaths is now just over 3400 but it's also important to look at the number of green that shows more than 57000 people have recovered just type johns hopkins university coronavirus map and find it. head here on out serve. antigovernment protesters return to the streets of chile's capital. venting their anger over rising inequality. and why dozens of displaced for whom muslims in myanmar are now facing criminal charges.

welcome back his time to look at the weather across the americas now in north america the main feature is this rapidly deepening area of low pressure off the eastern seaboard and the senate possibility of could be flirting with the southeastern parts of new england bringing some very strong winds some heavy rain possibly even some snow and you notice with the wind coming from the north that it's not protected warm for other new york or washington temperatures really struggling but as the system moves away and we lose that northerly flow then temperatures will rockets at you in the course of sunday up to 15 in d.c. should be fine in chicago with winds coming from the south will lose any chance of lake effect snow so 16 degrees brights be what we got some showers across the desert southwest should be a fine day in san francisco with highs of 15 degrees there heading down into central america well quite an interesting feature here our computer forecast picks up on the winds funneling between the mountains around the gulf will come patchy so there on the pacific side we could well see some pretty strong winds developing that could be damaging in places well so the same time some really heavy rain

across billie's all extend further south into honduras during the course of sunday so one to watch out for as for the islands of the caribbean it generally looking fine for cuba but further towards the east with some very heavy rain affecting his spaniel. dropping to fiji chinese developers are accused of destroying. up a city card i. want to when ace investigates on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. and.

we get you watch the odds are a reminder about top stories. and decided crown prince mohammed bin sultan is detained high profile members of the pro-family include former crown prince mohammed bin nayef and the youngest brother of the saudi king report suggests that they have both been accused of treason. the number of cases of the coronavirus worldwide is now believed to have reached 100000 more than 3000 people have lost their lives the outbreak has led to travel restrictions diplomatic standoffs and the global economy is feeling the pinch. and united states president don't trumpet signed a bill providing more than 8000000000 dollars in emergency funding to fight the outbreak number killed by the virus has now risen to 15 that. well for the

1st time in 3 months there have been no asteroids all shelling in syria's if you problems cease fire agreement brokered by turkey and russia on thursday appears to be holding but there have been reports of some fights in southern parts of the province between syrian government forces and a section of the opposition i bet many syrians believe the fragile truce may not last for long. and he's looking at it how am i supposed to believe there's a truce if i'm listening to the sound of jets and bombing with you there's no real truce in my life in my limited vocal term what i'm not at all hopeful regarding the agreement i'm not expecting anything from it those people don't respect any commitments. regarding the agreement we don't feel at all reassured we didn't meet our aspirations and desires to hold because there have been many agreements that the regime hasn't respected and it won't respect this one either while taking russia 7 establish a 12 kilometer wide security corridor along the series m 4 highway that cuts across

rebel strongholds there are doubts about how far they can cooperate syria. ports now from. the rebels who are hoping that. with the backing of turkey they would be able to regain those areas in madison or mount morduch and the strategic city of set up that didn't happen in this explains their frustration over the terms of the agreement signed between turkey and russia but took it says in general this is this was a good agreement because it will protect the borders it will protect that army operating in the area it will pave the way for those resettlement of the hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced since the start of the syrian government offensive in december and it will also pave the way for more cooperation with a joint patrols between the russians and the turks in the in 2 weeks from now on both sides of the highway in for. but then we have to wait and see to what

the what level of the russians bring their corporation as far as live is concerned that would be indicative of whether this is fire will continue to hold or will collapse of the 2 parties have signed is it the past of those deals collapse where the syrian army decided it was about time to move forward to retake the strategic city because it is the rebels last major stronghold in syria migrants attempting to cross the border from turkey and greece have been hit with tear gas as riot police from both sides tried to keep them away tens of thousands of people have been trying to cross into greece since last week when turkey declared its borders the european union open but greece has been using tear gas and water cannon to repel them saying those trying to enter the doing so illegally 1000 turkish police officers have been deployed to try to stop the pushback well the ease top diplomat has criticized turkey's actions as a political game. don't go to the border. bullish not

over. mission one tells you a jew can go because it would result in you can go freely to a russian greece or to shape. that's not true voigt situation in greek you could be in danger avoid discoloration of the creationists avoid moving to a closed door but please don't tell people that they can go home because it's not true. i still is claim responsibility for an attack in afghanistan's capital which has left at least 30 people dead the head of the country's peace council was giving a speech when shots were fired at the country's chief executive or was there but he escaped unhurt it is the 1st major attack since the taliban signed a peace deal with the united states our correspondent horrible hamad has more now from kabul. this was a very long standoff between the afghan security forces and attackers that were

holed up in a nearby building which was under construction that's actually where they based themselves to launch the attack on this memorial service but you know the attack started at $1120.00 kabul time and it was over about 5 pm so that shows you how long it lasted you had to bring in afghan security forces you had to bring in foreign forces and it was quite a situation and it happened south of kabul in an area this predominantly has iraq which is a shia minority living here in afghanistan which has come under attack a lot of times over the past years there's been an explosion outside the u.s. embassy in chinese is capital of choose 2 suicide bombers killed a policeman and injured 5 others near the embassies main gates geniuses ministry of interior has put security forces on high alert new groups claim responsibility for

the attack. and to government protesters are running again in chile with mounting anger over rising inequality demonstrators say that the president sebastian pinera has done little to address the demands for reforms protests 1st broke out in october and continued through december rest prompted heightened security measures committing the deployment of the military we said newman is in santiago and has more on what the protesters are pending. february is the it's summer here it is the holiday season so there were less people in the capital as many people had taken a break but they before they left they had warned that they would be back in force on in march starting march and this was the initiation of that really initiation if you like of the protests season here in chile not just in santiago but in other major cities throughout the country there were thousands and thousands of people here it was a very carnival atmosphere people were dancing singing at the same time hurling

rather unrepeatable insults about the president the police the system at large and continuing to demand deep structural reforms to the economic system to the political system to it so that they can happen so that chile will have free and quality education health care better pensions better salaries the list is very very long what is also very long is the show you all for the protests that will take part that are supposed to take place here in march almost every single day and the next major one will be on sunday when hundreds of thousands of women in chile are expected to take to the streets to mark international women's day spanish coast guards of rescue dozens of refugees and migrants from the atlantic ocean 46 men and 2 children rescued from boats just off the coast of crime canaria like the north african coast the canary islands have seen a shop increase in the arrival of migrants as patrols in the mediterranean tight nexus to the country's united nations estimates 20000 people have died trying to

cross to europe from north africa since 2014. in me in mali dozens of written jim muslims including some children being charged for not having identity proves among many who have tried to escape me in montserrat hine state some have been caught on the coast while others have been picked up on the outskirts of the commercial capital young gone from snowy a small. in the 1st 2 months of this year alone more than $200.00 have been arrested for not having identification documents and for traveling illegally around 70 of those cases will be heard in they grew on the outskirts of yang gone told were brought to court on friday the myanmar government does not consider the rohingya as citizens even though many of them have lived in this country for generations and they face increasing government restrictions keep claiming like ok bacon trouble freely there's no restriction are all but in reality in the

government. the real movement is extremely restricted rights advocates say it's on likely any of the rango will be acquitted and they could face the sentence a lot to 2 years in prison for the. force of so that's why we escaped the were hanging mainly muslim minority who live in rakhine and it was in the northern part of the state where the myanmar military launched a brutal crackdown in 2017 driving nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 into bangladesh the u.n. has accused it of carrying out the campaign with genocidal intent the myanmar government denies and says it was a deal the gypsum of response to attacks carried out by working that might. now the situation that is even worse off the fighting between the myanmar military and the our economy intensified sonic january last year they are not on the new very common

you say they're fighting for more autonomy on behalf of the rakhine and not the ethnic minority mainly buddhists who make up the majority in rakhine state the rohingya who already live under apartheid like conditions without access to public health care education are being caught in the crossfire and many are desperate to escape rights workers fear that many will turn to human traffickers now over the years there have been many attempts by group. bringing it to me by boat on dangerous journey didn't climb to missiles boats that capsized people and drowned somehow taken on overland routes through thailand and into malaysia have been instances where they were kept in jungle camps along the border until their friends or relatives could pay a ransom many died of disease and starvation now even when they managed to escape myanmar rights they say many are at risk of a white haitian some sold into the sex trade or as indentured neighborhoods for the remaining god there is no easy choice they can choose to stay and face persecution

or the threat of more violence or they can try to escape but risking their lives. so this is our desire these are the top stories and the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has reportedly detained high profile members of the royal family they include former crown prince mohammed bin nayef and the youngest brother of the saudi king a report suggests that they have both been accused of treason. or explains why reports of these tensions are important it's huge because of the positioning of these 2 figures within the royal family their seniority both in terms of lineage but also in terms of positions held some form of denial of being the former crown prince being head of the intelligence before he was somebody that had great respect and commanded a lot of respect both domestically within the royal family within the religious

institutions but also internationally with the united states and other countries and obviously. being the only other son of the late king faisal and being a significant figure with respect. the number of cases of corona virus worldwide has supports the 100000 mark more than 3000 people have lost their lives and china is reporting 28 new deaths on friday. in the united states the number of people killed by the virus has risen to 15 the president on trumpet signed a bill into law providing more than 8000000000 dollars in emergency funding to fight the outbreak. for the 1st time in 3 months there have been no air strikes in syria is it live province a cease fire agreement brokered by turkey and russia on thursday appears to be holding but there have been reports of some fighting in southern parts of the province between government forces and a section of the opposition. refugees and migrants trying to cross the border from turkey into greece have been hit with tear gas is riot police from both sides

trying to keep them away tens of thousands of people have been trying to cross into greece since turkey opened its borders with the european union the greece has been using tear gas and was kind to repel them saying it was trying to enter a dude so illegally. i saw has claimed responsibility for an attack in afghanistan's capital which is left at least 30 people dead the head of the country's peace council was giving a speech in kabul when shots were fired the country's chief executive who was there but he escaped on what is the 1st major attack since the taliban signed that peace deal with the united states. that london's got more news coming here and i just want to any. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent of americans believing that we're on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so

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