play out the your approximate your goal the park the stars that is what is happening in every d.b.'s. the empire. basically prepares drastic new measures to limit the spread of coronavirus reports say up to $50000000.00 people in the north will be put under lockdown in the us an attendee at a top conservative political conference test positive took over 1000 but organizers say the person didn't make contact with prices and truck. i am. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with back to people also coming up reports that a 4th senior prince from the saudi royal family has been arrested as a crown prince looks to cement his grip on power and women in the philippines take

to the streets to demand better treatment an equal pay or an international room instead of. the at. the end. italy is reportedly set to impose an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the north of the country to contain the corona virus outbreak more than 10000000 people will be forbidden to enter or leave the long body region as according to a draft decree seen by italian media almost 6000 people across italy are infected it tory gates and he has more. soldiers are to checkpointing castillian e to add one of 11 towns and villages on the coronavirus slope down in northern italy such restrictions are reportedly set to be extended to the entire region home to 10000000 people to limit the spread of coded 19.

region is a particular area the data shows an increase in some places more than others in number g. there have been more cases of people who tested positive a drafter creasy by italian media tells people not to enter or leave lamberti or 11 nearby provinces until at least april the 3rd including the country's financial capital milan and the city of venice there's going to be. many things that again to be closed like jinns cultural centers. all sorts of areas where people get together in large groups restaurants and bars however appear it appears they will be kept. this comes after italy reported more than 1200 new infections in one day pope francis he's fighting a cold his council public appearances and will deliver his regular sunday press to crowds at the vatican by live stream and the leader of one of italy's 2 ruling

parties has announced that he has coronavirus don't have you so it is arrived i have coronavirus today obviously i'll be monitored like everybody else in the situation i feel fine so he has decided that i'll be isolated at home also my family is falling all the protocols to the situations italy is the worst affected country in europe but france germany and the netherlands have all reported a rise in the number of cases while multi slovakia's and serbia have confirmed that 1st infections victoria gate and be al-jazeera. argentina has not reported its 1st death the 1st in latin america several countries in the region including power why colombia chile and peru have also announced their 1st cases meanwhile in the u.s. $21.00 people on a cruise ship ban from docking in san francisco after us a positive fall coronavirus vice president mike pence says the ship is carrying 3 and a half hours and passengers and crew around 50 have been tested so far the grand princess

will be taken to a non commercial port where more tests will take place the centers for disease control director robert redfield downplayed the risk of american citizens catching up on a virus but this time the risk to the american people's low in most areas of united states we do have a few areas of significant community transmission one thing we can all take pride in is that this nation has the best public health infrastructure really driven by the backbone of the local and state health departments and florida is no exception to being prepared we are tracking the sea where these cases are confirmed and when we see evidence of sustained community transmission then that tips into us recommending mitigation strategies. i would encourage people to go after their their regular daily lives i did say i want people to all use common sense and do

their role and responsibility and basic i-g. in products that we talked about but i would not encourage anyone to change their plans at this point based on what the epidemiology is here in florida they should enjoy disneyland they should enjoy the rest of florida patty kahane is in washington d.c. where there's been a significant development in the corona virus outbreak laced suit to political conferences held there in recent weeks. there is news coming out of washington d.c. that is going to have political leaders very concerned there were 2 big conferences in the capital in just the last couple of days one was the conservative political action committee that's basically a republican lobbying organization they had a huge group the american israel public affairs committee or a pac they had their annual conference in washington d.c. now we are hearing reports that the attendees at both of those conferences have been detected to have the coronavirus so the big concern is going to be did it

spread among that group the conservatives and the organization and all of the $18000.00 attendees that were in that giant conference center so this is obviously going to become a great concern for political leaders we expect the numbers in the united states are going to rise dramatically here's why there really hasn't been very much testing for the corona virus in the united states because at 1st the federal agency that was tasked to create the test sent it out it didn't work they just then a few days a few days ago allowed private labs to come up with their own test will they send out their test to the public health agencies so there just aren't a lot of test kits out there now u.s. president said anyone who needs a task can get a test but we're hearing from other health officials on the ground and also within the administration that that is simply not the case they hope to ramp up the testing a lot by hundreds of thousands in the next couple of days perhaps by the millions so we should see a pretty sizable increase in the number of coronavirus cases here in the united

states now to tell being used as a koan a virus quarantine center in china as eastern food john province has collapsed dozens have been rescued from the rubble in kwan so rescue workers are doing all they can to help the 20 people still trops let's get the natives from katrina you in beijing for us so or how are the rescue efforts going katrina what do we know about that hotel and the people who are trapped there. we know that in the heart tell there were about 80 rooms and aside from the hotel in the lower levels there were also stalls and it really looks like this is a really big building it's 5 to 6 stories a steel structure and we know so far that true people have lost their lives in that accident and that the authorities are working hard to rescue more still no details as to exactly what caused the collapse of that we have new hearing reports on social media that perhaps one of the stores in the bottom level were doing some

renovations which damaged the structure so that this store we're still waiting to hear more information about that of course it's a tragedy because we know that this hotel was housing some people who were being isolated because they were trying to in wanted to wanted it for their conditions in relation to the coronavirus and this is really terrible news for the government and what we've seen this morning just a few hours ago in beijing is china's really trying to sort of push the attention away from this horrible collapse to some good news yes morning and that's about the virus figures i was going to tell you ask you about that in fact some good news china recording its lowest number of deaths since the outbreak began on january 20th. that's right so we've had $44.00 new cases announced in the last 24 hours and $27.00 new deaths and the vast majority of those new cases and those deaths happened within who bay province and those outside

of a province seem to have been cases imported from overseas now for the chinese government they're taking this and and really using this as evidence if you like that their heavy handed measures have worked to try to contain this outbreak we have to remember the government in early january or late for early for very sorry locked down the who a province that's 16000000 people were not allowed to leave the area and the movements of hundreds of millions more were restricted so the government is really using this figures that have been going down for some time as as i guess playing into this narrative that they have been able to move efficiently strongly and put into measures to contain the corner virus that no other government has been able to do but we have to remember that really early on there was it was really the opposite there was served much criticism as to how there was mishandling of this outbreak early in the early days that there was a possible cover up so the government is really trying to use this as sort of play into this propaganda that they're sort of i guess not quite triumphant yet but

they're really winning this so-called war against the coronavirus and really that is their interest because what they want to do is 'd really not only dodge this criticism but also get the economy again going in china the score in a virus has had a huge impact on the economy and i think for she jinping and his administration that is even potentially a bigger threat to his power than the current virus itself thank you for that katrina you live for us in beijing. in other world news tensions are continue to escalate on the turkey greece border over the flow of refugees and migrants to gas has been fired by riot police on both sides thousands of people have been trying to cross into greece since turkey declared its borders with the e.u. opened just over a week ago but greek authorities have moved bulldozers an armored vehicle so the border to stop them president is expected to travel to brussels on monday to discuss the issue. now the influx of refugees heading for the greek islands has

triggered a backlash against aid groups who support them a rally was held in support of the aid agencies who say they're facing abuse from locals migrant camps on the island are overcrowded many residents say they can't cope and have called on the greek government. still ahead on. shortages add to the many hardships zimbabweans have to go through the country experiencing around. how the weather squatting down across eastern parts of the u.s. cloud of rain pulling out of the way to some places of sleet and snow but the next system that's rolling across central parts of canada another clip of pushing through his fair bit of cloud over towards the northwest down across that western side of the country pushing down into california but also some wet weather south of

the border just into the off west corner of mexico russia showers here when she showers over the rockies a little bit of snow there just into central parts of canada back ontario has seen some of that over the next couple of days and it really gathers together as we go on through monday some heavy rain right steady across a good part of the plains up towards the lakes snow pushing through back over towards canadian maritimes but some warmth ahead of that not bad and they see temperatures getting up to 21 celsius in the top temps that we will see in l.a. around 21 degrees before clouds and rain tumbles in through here was he some cloud of rain making its way on this band of cloud across cuba easing down towards hispania over the next as i caught a rash of showers that keen wealthy steel wind continues to feed its way through i will continue to make as well of the south which needs with as we go through the next couple of days but dry for the east not ends.

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a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera it's only set to impose an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the north of the country to contain the corona virus outbreak more than 10000000 people in the number adi region and nearby audiences will be locked down in the us a person who took part in one of the biggest political conferences has thus a positive for corona virus the patient had no contact with president donald trump who also attended the event last month and tensions are continuing to escalate on the turkey greece border over the flow of refugees and migrants thousands have been trying to cross into the e.u. since turkey diplomatic borders opened just over a week ago. the protesters in the philippines are calling on the government to do more for the rights of women hundreds of marching through the streets of manila on what is international women's day i mean linda gun is the. what activists here are saying is that the country is a country of crunch additions contradictions when it comes to women's causes this

the philippines had already 2 female presidents the country with the highest number of female executives around the world but also a place where dubai has never been more stark where more than half of women of working age are out of the labor workforce because of childbearing and wearing where the age of consent for girls remains at 12 6 years old the only country in asia where teenage pregnancy is rising and the last country basically in the world without the boers now although there has been progress over the past few years recently the expanded maternity law has been signed giving more days for women working mothers off from work when they give birth the repr the health law was passed a few years ago but not much funding is seen for it into these measures to make it effective across the country and what activists are also saying your colleagues at the culture of ms sargent need a seeped into policies and governance and what they're saying basically that not

just an international women's day but all the other days around the year that. policymakers law makers government officials should remember really that the most important factor here to remember is that the advancement of women and girls causes a senior saudi princes reported to have been detained in what may be a new power battle in the kingdom the new york times says the former head of army intelligence prince nayef being ahmed is being held along with 3 others a wall street journal says security forces also arrested dozens of interior ministry officials senior army officers and other suspected of supporting the n.h. brought alexey o'brien reports. the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin muhammad bin nayef as edge 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 that doesn't justify you know being arrested like criminals with masks security forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin solomon known as has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him and 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 campaign allusion i'll 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. reason 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 some man to become the crown prince mohammed bin solomon's most notorious legacy so far is between 18 killing of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consolation a stand. he was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomon's personal entourage his body dismembered and the of a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. is the most senior that's really and. actually overseas for many years came back. 3 years ago to kind of try to calm things down. after b.s. took over and there were some. kind of turmoil within the royal family prince wade's 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 elixir brian al jazeera. the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen has carried out as strikes against hoofy rebels in the port district of salif there's also renewed fighting in najaf in the north the un has called for an immediate end to the military action the international committee of the red cross says its response efforts have been hampered since last month around 70000 people have been displaced leaving families without food shelter and access to medical care yemen is in my

view at a critical juncture. we will either silence the guns and resume the political process. we will slip back. into a large scale conflict and suffering that you have all ready seen here in my room president donald trump as phrase the united states' relationship with brazil but has refused to guarantee he'll hold off from hitting brazilian steel and aluminum with new levies. here. we. hear. the president and his brazilian counterpart. down for a private dinner at trump's florida resort on saturday the 2 leaders were also expected to discuss potential trade opportunities is on a 3 day trip to the united states. not to myanmar where the karen ethnic minority

has been fighting for independence was 70 years it's one of the world's longest running civil wars and has a space hundreds of thousands of people now community leaders say they are determined to be part of the peace building process and have created a park to do just that florence really has a story from young gone. the qur'an of a 2nd largest ethnic minority in myanmar they've been fighting for an independent state since 949 before changing their demand in 1976 to one for greater autonomy despite a seas fi agreed in 2012 fighting continues but in this part of state as it's now called corrent community leaders have created a sanctuary the salwen peace park covers nearly 5500 square kilometers and includes villages forest and wildlife reserves here the qur'an continue their

traditional way of life relying on nature for their needs and practicing customary land management to preserve the environment so morehead and internally displaced qur'an has known war for most of his life. in the past we had to run and hide from the me and. it was exhausting when soldiers attacked our village we had to run we took a food supply into the jungle but when soldiers found it they would steal it sometimes they would burn it the village is remote but people here seem content. you know we live self-sufficient lives we plant ross grow vegetables rice pigs and chickens if me and my soldiers join to attack us we will continue our life this way but elsewhere in state peace hasn't held the fighting still happens by the move to upgrade a road previously used for military operations qur'an community leaders say

villagers are also concerned about the military bases dotted around the pops boundary solution is easy. just withdraw you know maybe a couple of camps allowing people to come back and reassess. livelihoods and you know some interior you know kind of projects come in and see how you know things you know moving forward and then you can replicate the park is the 1st of its kind in myanmar indigenous led its founders say it's an alternative to top down development but protecting it from encroachment will be a challenge the park isn't yet recognized by the government handlers democratic transition has opened the door to foreign investors their plans to develop the area in and around the park including 2 hydro power dam projects on the south. in the

qur'an struggle to protect their community and their way of life they'll have to be prepared to take on corporations to lawrence lee al-jazeera. lebanon's prime minister says his government will make a debt payment of more than a $1000000000.00 on monday says lebanon's currency reserves are dangerously low and people's basic needs must be prioritized has more from the. businesses are closing unemployment is rising inflation is soaring and the local currency depreciated by at least 50 percent and now for the 1st time in its history lebanon is defaulting on paying its debt 1200000000 dollars is due on monday the country is facing its worst economic crisis in decades prime minister has sandia who took office in january after massive protests toppled the previous government told the nation his administration will work on restructuring the debt which has become too

much for the country to bear. on and on without the sour hard currency reserves are at a critical record low as a result the republic of lebanon is forced to default the coming march 9th obligation on the euro bond these funds must be channeled toward securing the basic necessities for the lebanese people 2 people have been on the streets for months demanding a new leadership they have little faith in a government appointed by the old political class they accuse of corruption demonstrators have also vented their anger at banks for imposing capital controls but bankers are blaming the authorities for looking for an easy way out restructuring the public that seems to be a way to avoid the other reforms that are necessary to jumpstart the economy and to solve the crisis which is essentially it is structured in the public sector some parties in lebanon have been used to look at the public sector

source of benefits and favors to their political constituency international donors have made clear there will be no assistance unless reforms are carried out it's not just about implementing reforms lebanon's government does not have many friends it is seen by the united states and its allies as controlled by hezbollah or any iranian backed group they consider a terrorist organization and they have been trying to contain iran's growing influence. in the middle east the only option to secure foreign funding and without risking further isolation is through the international monetary fund but hezbollah the power broker in government has rejected an i.m.f. bailout it says it would involve taxes and calls the institution a tool of the united states in case. signs up to the i.m.f. they will lose some of. the 2000 elections the 1st election that they've won

since 2004 and if they lose power this means that they can see that some sort of defeat to the i.m.f. and to the international community to the united states level of financial crisis has entered a new stage and there doesn't seem to be a rescue plan and as conditions worsen for the people many are warning of further unrest. beirut. southern africa is suffering its worst drought in decades zimbabwe is one of the countries most affected many families there are struggling with daily water shortages that's adding to the hardships they're facing as a country deals with rampant inflation and a shrinking economy. as this report from. in zimbabwe 2nd city pull away 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 1st 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 stomach so i believe it could be quite rare or something i don't know it was some of the people they drink that water some they use it for cooking so all it is a big challenge that we're even called to. like other parts of southern africa zimbabwe is experiencing its worst drought in years city authorities say rationing is necessary to cities is implemented. to try and have.

digital that we have straight to we receive enough rain as we all know and it liar is in there saying myriad region where we receive very little for the rainfall 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 low the rainy season started late this year and even then has been erratic a new dam is being built about 100 kilometers from way authorities say it will draw water directly from this and busy river but it's still a long way from being completed part of the problem is a source of foreign currency and have always 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 when when it's a pellet 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. go again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera italy has declared a notch scale quarantine in the north of the country to contain the corona virus outbreak up to 16000000 people are in lockdown in one body and 14 other provinces the mandatory restrictions apply to the cities of milan and venice and will last until april 3rd almost 6000 people across italy are infected with 19 meanwhile in the u.s. 21 people on a cruise ship ban from docking in san francisco have tested positive for corona virus vice president mike pence says the ship is carrying 3 and a half hours and passengers and crew around 50 have been tested so far the grand princess will be taken to

a noncommercial port where more tests will take place and has the latest from washington. the broader issue though is we do not know the actual number of people who have the coronavirus unlike other countries where you see a massive amount of testing there were huge issues with the way the federal government dealt with this at the beginning the c.d.c. was supposed to come up with the test they did they bragged about i held a press conference and look we came up with in 3 days problem is they sent it out it didn't work so they had to fix that again just in the last few days another federal agency has said ok private labs and colleges you can come up with a test as well so we're getting conflicting messages from this administration tensions are continuing to escalate on the turkey greece border over the flow of refugees and migrants to gas has been fired by riot police on both sides thousands of people have been trying to cross into greece since turkey declares its borders with the e.u. open just over a week ago president is expected to travel to brussels on monday to discuss the

issue a 4th senior saudi prince is reported to have been detained in what may be a new power battle in the kingdom the new york times says the former head of amin telegin sprint's 9 have been ahmed was arrested along with 3 others on friday the saudi led coalition fighting in yemen has carried out as strikes against the rebels in the port district of sally's there's also renewed fighting in the north the u.n. has called for an immediate end to the military action around $70000.00 people have been displaced leaving families without food shelter and access to medical care those are the headlines on al-jazeera that's it for me fully back to all coming up next it's counting the costs. as the world battles potential. will bring you the latest developments from around the globe. with updates about trouble or searching the south south.

run a virus outbreak special coverage on. i'm adrian fit again this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business and economics this week recession why an emergency fed rate cuts just isn't good enough to save the global economy from the impact of the fast spreading coronavirus as the world bank offers billions to developing nations to support health care systems inside a lab that's working to find a vaccine to fight the virus at an oil companies in the republic of congo of discover.