arrests in saudi arabia a number of high profile members of the royal family have been detained treating former crown prince mohammed and you know. this is. also coming up. it absolutely could be a catastrophe i mean absolute devastation new 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 buy for protection against the virus . that's running dried some sudan farms say their livelihood is under threat from

one of the largest dam projects in the world. so that we begin in saudi arabia where crown prince mohammed bin salman has detained some of the most high profile members of the royal family and that includes former crown prince mohammed bin nayef as well as prince made to bin saudi the younger brother of the saudi king a report suggests that they have both been accused of treason saudi galatz of also arrested one of the had been brothers they're now likely to be under the threat of life imprisonment or possible it's accused and both could have rivaled crown prince mohammed bin salman to the throne when king solomon dies al-jazeera seen across bunch of explains what these tensions mean for the kingdom and the impact on saudi polity. in terms of its 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 farfetched 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 suffered 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 digits long term. if the person he's arrested and supports him and his kind of unconditional support from this current us 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 them as well as his cousin in the nephew of the current king mohammed bin i. now the number of cases a coronavirus well why it is a policy 100000 more than 3000 people have lost their lives in china is reporting

28 new deaths on friday italy has the 2nd highest number of deaths followed by iran and the outbreak has led to travel restrictions diplomatic standoff in the global economy it's also a feeling that. this report 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 speeding up iran recorded a dramatic rise of a 1000 new cases in the 24 hours since thursday with people 30 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 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 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 as the head of the un's world food program sounded a stark warning if coronavirus continues or create panic around the world and

there's an economic downturn i've been telling the european leaders and leaders around the world you don't have enough money. to address the needs in africa east africa west africa and the middle east right now and if there's a next 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 all exports jonah how al-jazeera. well italy is the worst affected country across europe almost $200.00 people have died there is 2nd only to china where the virus of course originated and there be more than $4600.00 confirmed cases in italy there right across. says it's receiving 500 calls a day from people with symptoms or concerns about infection. chinese

citizens living in italy and calling us because they're a fright and requested by the counselling or medical advice whether corona virus outbreak is china's exports and imports hard causing severe disruption to manufacturing worldwide customs data shows exports have shrunk by about 17 percent in january and february compared to the same period last year imports of china fell 4 percent analysts predict the situation will get worse in the coming months. well the economy is also an issue in south korea where $174.00 new coronavirus cases have been reported bringing the total to more than 6 and a half $1044.00 people have died from the virus so far people that have been frantically buying mosques and stocks are running low and that's prompted the government to limit sales to 2 person each week let's speak to rob mcbride our correspondent joins us now from seoul in south korea and rob it's interesting this

on moss's now because the world health organization advice is that they are not necessary unless you actually have the virus or treating somebody with it. absolutely but it seems the people of south korea as elsewhere haven't been told that yet everybody here it seems believes the masks are providing a degree of protection you go into the streets here in seoul and it's very difficult to see anybody not wearing them yes there is various advice about when you sure do and shouldn't wear masks but the optimally if you are wearing disposable mask you should be disposing of them every day well south korea simply hasn't got the stock of mass to alone allow that to happen this is why we are now seeing this rationing and the way it works is everybody here has an identity card and depending on what the last few digits are of your identity card number you will be given a particular day of the week when you can go and visit

a pharmacy and at that pharmacy you can then get your 2 masks that are meant to last the week and the government is giving all kinds of advice on just to make those 2 masks last for a full week it's also taking other pretty severe action it is stopped completely now the exports of any masks outside of south korea and we're also hearing about raids on warehouses and trading companies that apparently have been stockpiling millions of marks than the government forcing those marks to be distributed through pharmacies so everybody can at least have access to masks and these restrictions of people are going along with it they're not very happy about it but as we said everybody here believes masks are protecting them and they're willing to stand in line. okimoto 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 war 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 also big regional implications are there not least for japan who've got their own problems with the olympics coming. all the countries of east asia are trying to work out almost on a daily basis just the impact of this thing as it goes on for japan that big concern at the moment is the tokyo summer olympics coming up we have weather that's going to be impacted that must be causing sleepless nights for prime minister shinzo are also this was going to be his big year when he was going to be hosting this big visit by xi jinping of china well that's been postponed it may even have

to be council completely so for japan there are big concerns and hence they've imposed this fairly drastic action of having forced quarantine on people arriving from japan from from south korea and also china and to give you some idea of the impact of that last year nearly heart of all the visitors to japan either came from china or south korea so this is going to have a big economic impact here in south korea it is caused. a lot of indignation they believe that this is a politically motivated decision for all the japanese there is i think i think a feeling that their performance in controlling the outbreak of the coronavirus has been far from exemplary and there's lots of questions about how it would handle the kinds of outbreaks that we have seen coming from either china or south korea or

thanks very much the robot right there in seoul or the united states at least 15 people have died from the virus and the number of confirmed cases is on the rise and now sitting at more than 250 among them a 21 people on board a cruise ship off the coast of san francisco also in 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'd rather have 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 at 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 don't receive or probably remain slow but also on friday new cases were confirmed in houston minnesota colorado and maryland and while sanitation workers tried 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 federal dollars will now be spent on urgent research and treatment of the does. but 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. one can track the coronavirus oneself by logging on to johns hopkins university as websites in the united states it's easing figures from various sources including the world health organization in the centers for disease control in the u.s. and in europe and as you can see in the top left hand corner there it shows there are now more than 102000 cases of corona virus around the world on the other side in whites the number of deaths is now just over 340-3491 but it's very

important to look at the numbering green that shows more than 57000 people have recovered to see that this type in johns hopkins university coronavirus man. still ahead on al-jazeera frustration rising among the refugees and migrants trying to the border between greece and turkey. dozens are killed after shots are fired over a memorial service in afghanistan's capital of. hello and welcome back we'll look at weather conditions across the levant and reagan potential 1st of all here in the gulf region we've got fine conditions we've lost the wind which had been blowing down the gulf for days on end of so it seems instead we've got a light suddenly so the weather here should be beautiful 26 degrees in perfect

weather conditions i say across the rest the region still looking fine a bit of a breeze down through the red sea a fine day in mecca highs of 34 further towards the north there's a circular developing across iraq and that's going to give so the possibility of some showers but where showers don't develop we cook at some lifted dust was fairly gusty winds will speak some showers across into iran those clearing further towards the east during the course of sunday and the air of low pressure should gradually weaken so fine conditions expected in baghdad at that stage with temperatures of 24 degrees moving down into central eastern parts of africa want to share as for the far south of kenya most of the share it to vittie is a way into tanzania and that continues this head on through into sunday some heavy showers across the d.r. congo for southern portions of africa we've got a circulation of low pressure just off the coast of madagascar but it's going to give some heavy showers in this region where 2 shows could affect anton and revoked here with highs of 27 sunny in capetown eyes of 30.

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solomon just attain high profile members of the royal 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 coronavirus worldwide has surpassed the 100000 mark more than 3000 people have lost their lives in china is now reporting 28 jets flying. in the us president donald trump has signed a bill providing more than 8000000000 dollars in emergency funding to fight the outbreak the number killed by the virus has risen to 15 that. for the 1st time in 3 months there have been no strikes or shelling in syria's it live province a cease fire agreement brokered by turkey and by russia on thursday appears to be holding but there have been reports of some finding in southern parts of the province between syrian government forces and a section of the opposition botts many syrians believe the fragile truce may not

last for long. and yet i saw my supposed to believe there's a truce if i'm listening to the sound of jets and there's no real truce well i'm out of it but then what i'm not a tool 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 it didn't meet our aspirations and desires it won't hold because there have been many agreements untaught the regime hasn't respected and it won't respect this one either well take in russia say they will establish a 12 kilometer wide security corridor along syria's m 4 highway that cuts across rebel strongholds but there are doubts about how far they can cooperate in syria i said we have our stuff from her. the rebels were hoping that. with the backing of turkey they would be able to regain those areas in madison or mount morlock and the strategic city of set up that didn't happen and this explains their frustration

over the terms of the agreement signed between turkey and russia but turkey says in general this is this was a good agreement because it will protect the borders it will protect the turkish army operating in the area it will pave the way for the 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 4. but then we have to wait and see to what to what level can the turks and 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 if the bass of those deals collapse when the syrian army decided it was about time to move forward to retake

the strategic city of because it is the rebels the last major stronghold in syria the united states has brought to u.n. security council statement supporting that cease fire supporting that cease fire need to rush ahead of the 15 member council to endorse a deal but washington called the move premature with diplomats expressing doubts about whether the deal will actually work christine salumi has been following the meeting at u.n. headquarters. russia share details of the ceasefire agreement with security council members behind closed doors but given the history of this conflict no one was ready to celebrate it just yet russia's ambassador was hoping to get a statement formally welcoming the deal but past agreements to end the conflict as have fallen through with the hope this time. but related to the split is maintaining the commitments to the political

but there is not that still does not exempt. from being targeted. u.s. secretary of state mike pale was at the united nations but had nothing to say when asked about the deal we're told by diplomats that the united states posed the statement as premature other countries raised objections as well here's the united kingdom's ambassador said it was helpful development but there are a lot of questions about how it will work in practice who will monitor it what is happening west of aleppo and critically has syrian government formally signed up and will the syrian government be following the provisions of the cease fire we're also told that russia was not willing to negotiate on the wording of the statement which made no mention of the dire humanitarian situation facing about a 1000000 civilians in the area the security council will continue to monitor the situation of migrants attempting to cross the border from turkey into greece have

been hit with to us as riot police from both sides trying to keep away tens of thousands of people trying to cross into greece since last week in turkey declared its borders with the european union open greece has been using tear gas more kind of to repel them saying those trying to enter illegally. as police officers have been deployed to try and stop the. use top diplomats has criticized actions as a political gain. bullish not open if someone tells you that you can go because their borders open you can go freely to a root of greece to cyprus that's not to avoid a situation in which you could be in danger avoid discoloration of the crisis avoid moving to a closed door. please don't tell people that they can go because it's not true what let's say an hour from a toss a good name or is it

a makeshift migrant. on turkey's border of greece and she described the situation. we're at the a during a bus station it's one of the places where refugees and migrants have been congregating as they try to determine what to do next you can see people have managed to set up tents they're burrowed in blankets trying to stay warm there are camp fires here it's been a week since turkey opened its borders and it's been a tough week for the people we've been speaking to they have said they've been cold hungry we've spoken to many people who managed to make it across the border into greece only to be deported back to turkey and they have shared stories of cruelty people such as the man we're about to tell you about says that the greek police have mistreated them we spoke to an iranian amputee who says when he crossed over the border into greece the greek police fired warning shots into the air he was a unable to run his friends did police found him he says they beat him severely and

threaten to confiscate his prosthetic leg now the turkish government has deployed $1000.00 members of its special police forces to the river region border with greece the turkish government says this is an attempt to prevent the greek government from pushing back migrants into turkey and turkey says it's also a way to try to minimize what it describes as the poor treatment of vulnerable people here and a possible violation of international law disputed explosion outside the u.s. embassy and she misses a couple of china's 2 suicide bombers killed a policeman and injured 5 others near the embassies main gate jimmie's his ministry of interior has put security forces on high. eisel has claimed responsibility for an attack in afghanistan's capital which is left at least 30 people dead ahead of the country's plea peace council was giving a speech when shots were fired country's chief executive up to the 2 little boys

there but he escaped on its 1st major attacks and says. the band signed a peace deal with the united states. pope francis has accepted the resignation of a french cardinal who was convicted but later acquitted of covering up sexual abuse within the catholic church the archbishop of leon phillipa barbara was convicted last year for failing to report a priest who had preyed on dozens of boy scouts in january he was acquitted on appeal when he told the court he was following vatican instructions in his handling of the case of brown says he hopes his departure will allow the church with a new challenge for the president's troika gaucho has been arrested in parent wire for allegedly using fake passport 39 year old and his brother were taken to a police station in the capital asuncion for questioning on friday or not the u.s. legal team is filed an injunction to free them the failure to agree on

a major down project on the now river has farmers in sudan worried ethiopian sudan an egypt to reach a stalemate surrounding the ground ethiopian relations dam project details now from him morgan and because there are states in sudan. normally around this time of the year i'm a blueness farm is covered with wheat ready for harvest it's his source of income normally earning him millions of sudanese pounds but he says he doesn't expect to make a profit this year because there's not enough water. there for her. the water from the river is blocked in the canals because they're covered with dirt and silt i have parts of my father that haven't even been irrigated once some have been irrigated once but by now they should be irrigated for the 5th time it's not the 1st time but this is the worst we've seen this is going to affect our harvests badly. and we're all are how much farmland is part of what is called the dizzier agricultural project established in $1011.00 during british colonial rule it

started as a $250.00 hectors farm it now covers over 2000000 hectares and it's the economic lifeline for over 100000 farmers it was once the main source of foreign income contributing to over 60 percent of sudan's g.d.p. but since the discovery of oil in the my 970 s. farmers here see the government's interest in the largest agricultural project in the country declined the dizzier irrigation system mainly relies on the sloping land from north to south to carry the water through the canal for the farms it's been like this since it was 1st established but some policy the system is now failing them thousands have reported lost harvest in the past 3 decades and they say the situation is getting worse and worse every year that can also some covers less than 36 percent of the project its water comes from the nearby in the river and for farmers in $20.00 there are concerns that irrigation issues will get to worse neighboring ethiopia is expected to start filling its grant if you dam by may 2020 the dam is being built on the blue mile which flows from the country to sudan

and egypt several rounds of talks between the 3 countries have failed to produce a deal over the duration of filling of the dam so dense transitional government says it won't agree to any deal that will impact to the livelihoods of farmers but that the problem facing farmers is one of management. the problem is not in the fort or coming through this gate is the problem game of the many men though this weather coming from the down rather than the sort it's so forth that there is no thought it is a war that ended. but there is a problem in the 4th of coming. less than 500000 hectares of the 2200000 is expected to produce harvest this year some experts say other factors also play a role in how farms that were once regarded as the bread basket of sudan have declined their farmers are using the very same technologies that have been using for the past maybe 30 years so they haven't really been trained so the seeds that they are using. a lot of genetically depleted and this will cause problems

on quality. problems on productivity on all. farmers here even with new technologies their farms are a tricycle they see if you can dam reduces the water the project gets the fear they may have to give up most of the land to farm for generations people morgan al-jazeera does the rest 8. 0 these are the top stories in saudi crown prince mohammed bin salman has reportedly detained high profile members of the royal family including former crown prince mohammed bin nayef the youngest brother of the saudi king suggests that they have both been accused of treason. explains why reports of these detentions 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 not lazy as being the only other son of the late king faisal and being a significant figure with respect to the number of cases of coronavirus worldwide has gone past the 100000 mark more than 3000 people have lost their lives and china is reporting 28 you deaths on friday south korea reports 174 new coronavirus cases 44 people have died from virus the virus so far people there have been frantically buying masks and starts running low and that's prompted the government to limit cells to to put persons each week in the u.s. the number of people killed by the virus has risen to 15 president donald trump and signed a bill into law providing more than $8000000000.00 in emergency funding for the 1st

time in 3 months the no airstrikes or shelling in syria's italy province a cease fire agreement brokered by turkey and russia on thursday appears to be holding. refugees and migrants trying to cross the border from turkey and greece have been hit with tear gas as right pleas from both sides try 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 but greece has been using tear gas and water cannon to repel them saying that saying those trying to enter are doing so illegally now today with the head headlines you've got more news coming up here and i was there right after my cuba life around. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trouble parts of america are getting trumpy 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

blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world.