iran bans group prayers to try to curb the spread of the corona virus just 21 more deaths are confirmed in a single day. i'm adrian from again this is out of syria live from doha also coming up 3 members of the saudi royal family including the king's brother arrested after reports of an alleged coup attempt. billions of dollars in debt lebanon heads towards a default after its leaders say the country can't afford to make repayments that are due within days. and one of the worst droughts in decades is forcing many in zimbabwe to use untreated will sell.

an iranian politician has died after contracting the coronavirus health authorities there reported $21.00 new deaths in the past 24 hours it brings the total number of fatalities in iran to $145.00 while nearly 6000 infections have been confirmed across the country but iran's mosque authority has postponed all group prayers and gatherings until further notice let's go live now to teheran 0 same is for us same talk us through some of the the main challenges for iran as it tries to combat the coronavirus. well we've discussed so many of the challenges that have come up ever since this outbreak was 1st reported last month but the main problem with the health ministry and many government officials keep talking about is that people simply aren't listening to government advice as they try to stop the spread

of the virus throughout the country and many government officials continue to implore their people to stay indoors to observe social distancing to observe personal hygiene not to go outside but the fact of the matter is that many iranians continue to say that life must go on and the country was already in economic dire straits well before this latest outbreak and there is a potential for the decisions that the government may have to make hurting the economy even further and one local government poll estimates that at least 50 percent of the population simply is not concerned about this virus that points to 2 things the resilience of the iranian people but it also shows that they're simply not trusting the government enough and another statistic is that many people here simply consider the government's advice not to be something that they can abide by because of their economic conditions many iranians we've spoken to have said that they have to go open their shops but they have to pay their rent men 40 percent of the country's g.d.p.

is made up of small and medium businesses and those who are at risk of collapsing the government has received guidance from many unions around this around iran saying that this could have the potential to debilitate many industries and much of the country's business interests is the government the same considering a least putting travel restrictions on people in iran to stop the spread. that's exactly right we've already seen many restrictions in place travel to at least 15 provinces has been effectively banned ahead of the persian new year that's coming up and what we're hearing the government say is that they might extend that yesterday the health ministry said that it may be. resolved to use force to keep people from traveling in between cities and provinces the health minister today saying that he was simply dissatisfied with the pact the fact that iranian people are not heeding government advice and that is force their hand to implement quarantine conditions inside cities and towns as well as in between cities and

towns and he's encouraged people to cancel anything like weddings or funeral rites and services as well as any other public gatherings now president hassan rouhani was speaking earlier today and he struck a much more open and transparent tone and he said that precondition a precondition to winning the battle against the coronavirus is for all people in iran to cooperate with the government really imploring the people to believe what they're saying and to trust them now why not simply shut cities down much like china had done in the government over the last few months due to a number of other crises a number of other decisions to shut down the internet to clamp down on demonstrations has lost the public trust and government officials here know that if they force the country to do anything if they force their people to submit to quarantine conditions that could destabilize things here in the country even more al-jazeera same reporting live from tehran saying many thanks indeed will governments around the world are introducing new measures to limit the spread of

the corona virus in south korea the sale of mosques is being restricted to 2 pope person per week or more than $7000.00 cases the most outside of china it's only the number of deaths has risen to $197.00 off the biggest daily increase in the tell us he's since the outbreak began schools universities and cinema have already been ordered to close the others consider the story after it was revealed that a doctor who has the virus treated 70 patients the doctor had recently been on a trip to the us and returned to work while showing symptoms. the doctor from that direct clinic in mulvane roads consulted approximately 70 patients for 5 days between monday the 2nd of march and friday the 6th of march look i have to say i am absolutely flabbergasted that a doctor who has experienced flu like symptoms has presented to work u.s.

vice president mike pence says the 21 people aboard a cruise ship off san francisco of tested positive for the corona virus the grand princess is being held offshore while its 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew are tested at least 35 people have reported through like symptoms on friday test kits were flown to the ground princess of the ship was linked to corona virus cases from an earlier voyage in china where the outbreak began the infection rate continues to decline but the economic side effects are getting worse while deserves to be a part of reports now from hong kong or how china is responding. there is a stark religious sation the china's economy is going to take a massive hit now china is provides raw materials machinery other tronic i sense and all kinds of things to the rest of the world in the fact that china's had to shut down closed down factories people can go to work and industries in general came to a halt meant that a lot of product for the rest of the world relies on it's china's part of almost

every single global supply chain meant that the effects would reverberate around the world to china's especially bad child the economy was just starting to recover from the u.s. china trade war there was a so-called face one trade deal that had just been anxious and there was seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel nonetheless you had the coronavirus hit analysts had already been talking about a slowdown in china's economy and now they're saying that china's economy will contract it will shrink for the 1st quarter this will the be the 1st time it happens in decades pretty much since 1986 and that was well before china's economy started opening up and this is a huge concern for the government so the government has been telling people to try and go back to work now since it seems that the containment measures seems to be working china's new infection rate has come down china wants the chinese government has been telling factories to reopen businesses to come back online workers to get

back onto their desks their seats in factory lines but here's the other issue many workers cannot go back to their workplaces mainly due to still their restrictions in place 3 saudi arabian princes a report has been detained by mosques man and what may be a new power battle in the kingdom one of them is the king's younger brother the although a former crown prince said to be accused of a coup attempt to syria's alexei o'brien reports. the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef is age of the throne and $27.00 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seen him and his brother detained as well as the saudi king's youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes identities term or within the family in the form of criticism but that doesn't justify you know being arrested like criminals

with mass security forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin solomon known as m.b.a.'s has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an end to corruption dr rights groups disagreed. hundreds of activists including women's rights campaigner illusional have to are also in prison. he's not worried about people trying to make a call he doesn't want any independent voices that don't agree with him and it's not for the. woman's of 3 people on the council of royal members in saudi arabia that decides the succession he was one of the 3 who didn't vote for him had been summoned to become the crown prince mohammed bin solomon's most notorious legacy so

far is the 2018 killing of saudi journalist. in the kingdom's consolation a stent. she was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomon's personal entourage his body dismembered and if a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. who is the most senior 3 and. actually overseas for many years came back. ears ago to to kind of try to calm things down. after b.s. took over and there were some. kind of turmoil within the royal family the prince of wales' return to the kingdom in 2018 came weeks after he appeared to criticize the saudi leadership during a protest in london against the saudi u.a.e. led war in yemen one of my it is you know what does the whole of the al saud family

have to do with this there are certain individuals responsible in the king to try and prince and others in the state. prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef or both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i see 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death brian al jazeera . lebanon is expected to announce in the next few hours that it can't repay more than a $1000000000.00 that's due on monday that debt repayment is just a small part of the $91000000000.00 that the country owes that's 150 percent of lebanon's economic output one of the heaviest debt burdens in the world the prime minister president and central bank governors met on such dates reach a decision this go live out of beirut. is that. how is it come to this. well years of mismanagement of the old political elite they've been governing this

country for 3 decades now even during the time of the civil war in the 1970 s. and eighty's and that's why in october you saw thousands and thousands of people take to the streets because the government to tax what calls to raise revenue and the response from the people to fight tax evasion and fight corruption that is the way forward the government spends more than it earns like you mentioned this is a heavily in debt to the nation and right now from the statements that we've been hearing from lebanese officials they are going to announce a default on on lebannon stepped and this will be the 1st time in lovenox history just a sign really of how deep the economic and financial crisis is in the country lebannon has twiddling foreign currency reserves it needs the money it has left to buy and to import basic goods like wheat fuel medicine it needs $10000000000.00 to import

those goods this year alone and so that's why. it's a formal announcement is expected in the coming hours not to pay pay its debts now there are those who oppose this decision like the banking association because they own half the debts and they want the government to pay in order not to wipe out their capital they already have lost a lot of money and they have imposed limits on cash withdrawals so people savings in banks are basically held hostage and so there's so much anger and now the government announcing debt default that many thanks indeed is there as i hold our reporting live from beirut. weather update thanks to our audience here at the end struggling to pay the price of future white helping refugees and migrants get back on their feet getting out of aid groups working in greece. the antigovernment protesters return to the streets as capital venting their anger over rising inequality.

and that more of a heavy rain in the full cost across central and southern areas of china fighting to try to picture as you can see as well this is where we have been seeing rain after several days we've had a day of lighter rain and of course it gets a little bit heavy and sunny sunday beginning to push eastwards and getting quite heavy to use as tools these coastal areas but to the south of there we have a warm couple of days ahead into hong kong temperatures have come back out 27 degrees celsius most secure through the korean peninsula and some showers on their way through eastern sections of homeshare now through monday and that rain again across the south and east of china continue his journey east was very heavy pushing off. into shanghai and eventually goes on its way again into western areas of japan widely scattered showers and thunder much of indonesia really java seeing the bulk

of the heaviest amounts of rain scott and showers out towards the areas of sumatra so to se a dry day so that you know monday and also a dry day monday across the philippines got to chose but lysa that we will see on sunday but the rains becoming quite extensive again throughout much of borneo but northern india this way with seeing a caring of conditions going to the heavy rains of the last couple of days we will be seeing some scattered showers across into carola total knowledge of the next couple of days but much woman needs early with a high of 27 celsius. the u.n. fact finders accuse the bernese military of genocide this is a political if you think that. do you believe that under modi is a fascist oh poor child don't have all gone they. wouldn't go the recognize the both sides have the judum of grievances against the other climate justice is the foundation of climate action and that is why the palookas must face. to face with

up. on al-jazeera. war to. well again this is al jazeera let's remind you of the main news this hour a rainy and politician has died after contracting the coronavirus as health authorities there report 21 new deaths in the past 24 hours that brings the total number of fatalities in iran to 145 on the 86000 infections have been confirmed. 3 saudi arabian princes a reported to been arrested they include the former crown prince mohammed bin nayef and the king's younger brother prince albert been abilities on u.s.

media reports say they've been accused of a coup attempt. in lebanon is expected to announce in the next few hours that it can't repay more than a $1000000000.00 on monday the debt repayment is just a small part of the $91000000000.00 that the country is. turkey's president richard typer the one is expected to head to brussels on monday amid a border standoff with the european union last week turkey said that it would open its border with europe because it could no longer cope with the number of people fleeing conflict in syria and greek police have fired tear gas at migrants and refugees trying to cross tens of thousands of been attempting the journey of thousands more have been heading to the greek islands and that's triggered a backlash against aid groups supporting refugees and migrants of zeros john so officer force from the greek god of lies boss. rod is in greece after escaping from an abusive husband in iran and religious persecution in her native afghanistan now

that she has asylum here ron how wants to help other women living on lesbos refugee camp we're doing her cousin a car and a police every we're doing here free but it's makes me happy. because i don't my job i don't think about the money just i was i want to help them because i understand the woman she's one of 40 refugees helping other refugees at the hope project many of the donations of goods and labor come from locals but after turkey opened its borders to refugees heading to europe they saw a different reaction anger and intimidation aimed at non-governmental organizations like theirs this is being a wind up by the government as well as the local authorities everything's the ngos fault. you know the ngos come here they take all the money everything the refugees

are getting $400.00 a month and think that it is just the constant lies coming out in the press and everything counts and the constant propaganda coming out at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015 lesbos became a symbol of humanitarianism and tolerance more than half of the 1000000 or so asylum seekers who arrived in europe from turkey came here and locals and close to them 5 years on however island communities are tired of protecting europe from irregular migration those who live near the refugee camp of moria are upset about the loss of security and property but i was blessed with the house next door has been burgled 7 times we've lost count even took the roof tiles off to get in on one occasion they took what they could and destroyed everything else like you know i mean but refugees living in moria are desperate they barely have clothing and food and even less dignity that is what the hope project set out to provide seeing that

the state could not now that a ceasefire has been agreed in syria there are early signs that turkey may alleviate refugee pressure on europe but it will take time to rebuild trust in this complex community on the frontlines of an ongoing crisis jumpstart ople us al-jazeera lesbos. turkey's defense minister says that a cease fire is holding around it live province in northern syria the agreement brokered by turkey and russia ended and strikes for the 1st time in months been reports of some fighting in the southern parts of the province between syrian government forces. the 1st syrian woman to run an underground hospital in rebel controlled areas is urging the international community to stop the humanitarian catastrophe that's unfolding in it live talk to a molly ball or worked in the once besieged long eastern ghouta for 3 years until she and her staff were forced to evacuate a wall because the subject of an oscar nominated documentary. with her in paris.

the howard documentary the cave follows pediatrician dr. as she runs an underground hospital in eastern guta before the enclave fell to the syrian regime in 28. dedicated exhausted and at times terrified staff battle to save lives as russian backed syrian forces relentlessly area i was afraid all of us well after. being in and we were in a hospital it's our gift of bombing we saved some lives we held and that's make us inquirers us to continue but a lot of the children we couldn't help them of them died because of a lot of them died in the chemical attack at the time in 28 the head of the united nations called eastern kuta under the bombing hell on earth i think it was like

that it was very dangerous and carrying this everywhere and it's officially in 20 a team before we. leave in last month they started to bomb every 2nd they did install their doctor mani also faced another challenge she battled prejudice for men. the woman should be in charge of running a hospital it isn't. supposed to be how did that feel there you are saving lives and then you have men say a woman's place is in the home it's really frustrating it's make me very angry but i insist to stay and to insist to sex it also because i want a brawl there that women can do or maybe like the men already better than them in. the cave was nominated for an oscar through the spotlight on dr armani she's using it to campaign for an end to the humanitarian crisis in the northwestern syrian province of it leap intensified bombing of the area by syrian and russian forces in

recent weeks has killed hundreds of people and left millions in desperate need only not optimistic and i think a lot of syrian are not optimistic we need international community to pressure on them to stop killing people and you know that the situation now in its catastrophe situation people are dying every every minute every day after paris dr armani will visit other european capitals to urge governments and people not to ignore the millions of syrian civilians particularly children trapped in what seems like an endless war. al-jazeera. the joint arab list the party that represents palestinian israelis played history in israel's election by winning more seats than ever before now the party is weighing up what it's to do with its newfound power as iran can reports from haifa. there are nearly 2000000 palestinian citizens of israel this is haifa mix between palestinian israelis and jewish

israelis the party that represents the palestinian israelis the joint arab last one a record of 15 seats in israel's knesset the parliament that gives them more power than ever before power they say will allow them to represent more forcefully the interests of palestinian israelis but what is on the immediate agenda ousting current prime minister benjamin netanyahu the prime minister is indicted in 3 different corruption cases which presents the opportunity for the opposition to pass a law if they can form a government to ban indicted prime ministers from sitting in office this is one of the tools that we can do 2nd if someone. will appeal. to you a lot of 15 seats he would. hear their man. civic demand for the arab community the joint arab list may support

opposition leader benny gantz and his blue and white polity to maximize their new found power but that comes with conditions gads must give a statement that the. legitimacy. to have a statement against. to diligent denies the votes you cannot go with forget. about. supports doesn't mean that the joint arab will join the government they've already said that they won't do that but what it does mean is that they may support a government led by blue and white leader benny gantz the palestinian israeli vote hit record levels nearly 98 percent according to official figures. as one of the people who worked on the get out the vote campaign in haifa at the beginning i think it was a little bit hard and difficult. a lot of people in the city didn't you know

somehow trust the politician. politician that much but when we so the things that happen you know. all the things that they were saying about the our society we we we we wanted to you know to raise our voice right now palestinian israelis feel that there is no opportunity to push the demands of the knesset but it still anyone's guess who in israel be able to form a government and when that might happen. u.s. president donald trump has announced the appointment of a new white house chief of staff republican representative will take over from mick mulvaney who's been acting in the position for the past year although many will now be washington's special envoy to northern ireland president trump announced the decision in a series of tweets friday. at least 46 people remain missing in southeastern brazil days after heavy rainfall caused several landslides more than 30 people are known

to have died when buildings were engulfed along the coast the coast of south paolo state firefighters and volunteers haven't given up the search for the missing earlier this week the region had a month's rainfall in a single day. huge crowds have gathered in chile as capital as anti-government protesters continue their months long campaign of inequality friday's demonstration was relatively peaceful although that been several days of violence the protesters are demanding sweeping social policy reforms they say that presidents are simply mirrors actions of foreign shores. some of africa is suffering its worst drought in decades zimbabwe is one of the country's worst affected many families there are struggling with daily water shortages and that's adding to the hardships they face as the country deals with rampant inflation and a shrinking economy al-jazeera has reports. in zimbabwe thinking. the supply of piped water from the city council is unreliable that means they

sometimes had to use untreated water these women uses for washing and flushing toilets if they have to drink it they will boil it fast in some suburbs supplies are often cut off for days at a time. when the supply is turned on with lindsey make several trips to the communal tap to stock up she says a neighborhood can sometimes go a whole week without water and she doesn't want to use any that's not clean and safe getting water in the holes doesn't make us feel cold because that water is not here at the lake this person to reach so many people is suffering from storm ike so i believe it was something i don't know because some of the people they drink that water some they use it for you know so it is a big challenge that we're living in cold to patch. like other parts of southern africa zimbabwe is experiencing its worst drought in years city authorities say rationing is necessary to cities is implemented. in program to try

and have. digital that we have straight to receive enough rain as we all know and it liar is in there saying myriad region where we receive very little corner in front like this year it's really critical we haven't received the referee falls grateful for it rains. some dams have stopped operating since the water fell below pumping levels the remaining still functional a critically know the rainy season started late this year and even then has been erratic and new dam is being built about 100 kilometers from. say it will draw water directly from the river but is still a long way from being completed part of the problem is a source of foreign currency and zimbabwe's worsening economic crisis zimbabwe is already grappling with shortages of fuel medicines electricity and some basic

commodities many here say corruption and mismanagement in government and opposition by minister pellets he's is also to blame the few who can afford it buy a water privately or drill boreholes buffel millions of others that is not an option how to al-jazeera. t.v. with a salary very unforgiving here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera an iranian politician has died after contracting the coronavirus health authorities there reported $21.00 new deaths in the past 24 hours it brings the total number of fatalities in iran to 145 on daily 6000 infections been confirmed of zeros xanthus ravi reports from the iranian capital. many government officials continue to implore their people to stay indoors to observe social distancing to observe personal hygiene not to go outside but the fact of the matter is that many iranians

continue to say that life must go on the country was already in economic dire straits well before this latest outbreak and there is a potential for the decisions that the government may have to make hurting the economy even further and one local government poll estimates that at least 50 percent of the population simply is not concerned about this virus mainland china where the outbreak began a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine center in the eastern province for jan has collapsed trapping around 70 people 23 people have been rescued from the rubble. 3 saudi arabian princes a reported to been arrested they include the former crown prince mohammed bin nayef and the king's younger brother prince albert been on the lizzie's all solid u.s. media reports say they've been accused of a coup attempt lebanon is expected to announce in the next few hours that it can't repay more than a $1000000000.00 it's due on monday the debt repayment is just a small part of the $91000000000.00 that the country of. turkey is defense minister

says that a ceasefire is holding around province in northern syria if brokered by turkey and russia and strikes for the 1st time in months but there have been reports of some fighting in southern parts of the province between syrian government forces and rebels at least 46 people remain missing in southeastern brazil days of the heavy rainfall caused several landslides more than 30 people are known to have died when buildings were engulfed along the coast of south state earlier this week the region received a month's rain for a single day so those are the headlines so will be here with the news for you in 25 but it's off the up front next. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting in trouble here there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so

blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. this week on upfront we're tackling 2 big political dramas in the us the battle between bernie sanders and joe biden to be the democratic nominee for president and take on donald trump while in malaysia a new prime minister taking office in a backroom deal and controversially pushing aside mahathir mohamad in the process. super tuesday the biggest day in the u.s. electoral calendar so far resulted in a big win for former vice president joe biden and the establishment wing of the democratic party that he represents biden carried 10 out of the 14 states in play while independent senator bernie sanders who was the front runner going into super tuesday.