bloated in egypt and everything changed episode 2 of the family as iraq. it's only about this drastic measures to limit the spread of crow to virus up to 60000000 people in the north are under lockdown. also the virus spreads to washington d.c. an attendee a top conservative political conference test positive for covert 19 but organizers say the person did not make contact with president trump. follow up so robert you want your heart is there life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes reports that a falls of senior prince from the saudi royal family has been tamed as the crown prince looks to tighten his grip on power. and women in the philippines take to the

streets to demand better treatment and equal pay. to the program italy has announced an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the north to help contain the spread of corona virus up to 60000000 people and now forbid from entering or leaving lombardy and 11 other provinces they badly treat locked out includes the cities of billard and venison will last until april the 3rd many public facilities are now closed but restaurants and cafes will remain open almost 6000 people across italy are vectored with covert 19 is the largest cluster of infections outside of asia the tory because the latest. in casual in northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city before it was put into lockdown but it took the truck i read 2 hours ago that they

may be putting out an urgent decree putting paddle in the red zone because i'd like to return down south to my relatives i decided to go earlier. prime minister just said picante has signed a decree to impose an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the. the region home to 10000000 people to limit the spread of coded 19 there's. now we have restrictive measures for a much wider area because it wasn't making any sense to say a lot of small red zones while infections have spread all over a longer day and in the provinces we listed the decree tells people not to enter or leave lamberty or 11 nearby provinces and tell at least april the 3rd including the country's financial capital mainland 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 prayers to crowds at the vatican by live stream and the leader of one of his least 2 ruling parties has announced that he has coronavirus. so it is arrived i have coronavirus today obviously i'll be monitored like everybody else in the situation i feel fine so it was decided that i'll be isolated at home also my family is falling all the protocols for 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 malta slovakia's and serbia have confirmed that

1st infections victoria gayton be al-jazeera. now argentina has reported its 1st death in latin america several countries in the region including paraguayan colombia chile and peru also announce that 1st cases meanwhile in the u.s. $21.00 people on the cruise ship banned from docking in san francisco have tested positive for the virus vice president mike pence says the ship is carrying 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew around 50 have been tested so far the grand princess will be taken to a commercial port where more tests will take place at this time the risk to the american people's low in most areas 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 being prepared we are tracking this the where these cases are confirmed and when we

see evidence of sustained community transmission then that tips into us recommending mitigation strategies. particle haters in washington d.c. where there's been a significant development in the current virus outbreak linked to 2 political conferences held a 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 with 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 apec organization and all

of the 800000 attendees that were in that giant conference center so this is obviously going to become a great concern for political leaders we expect that 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 that a few days a few days ago a lot of private labs to come up with their own test well they sent 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 in 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 well at least 4 people in china have been killed after a hotel used as

a core and center collapsed rescue workers pulled 47 out of the 70 people from under the rubble but more than a dozen people are still trapped let's get the very latest from correspondent treaty you're in beijing yes so there's mixed messages and fortunes for china at the moment. that's right so this hotel we know that the landlord of the hotel has been arrested for questioning we know that in the upper levels were hotel rooms about $60.00 to $80.00 hotel rooms that in the lower levels it was a supermarket which was undergoing refurbishment and that from the state media this one of those pillars in the supermarket gave way in this potentially cause the collapse and of course in this hotel was being used as an isolation ward for corinna virus patients they were not themselves infected with the corner virus that they were associated with people and they were being really quarantined there and monitored for their own health and safety so this is really

a disastrous and tragic accident but the government is doing its best this morning to divert attention away from that to some better news some good news this morning that they were substantially lower amount of new cases 44 in the last 24 hours and $27.00 deaths and yesterday there were $99.00. previously so this weekend has been the 1st time that new cases here in china have dropped below 100 and that's significant because just 2 weeks ago we were seeing about 2000 cases a day and the government is really latching on to this downward trend and saying that look. we're winning the battle against the current viruses according to them because of our heavy handed measures which have included hooted looking down $60000000.00 people and really restricting the activity of $100.00 millions of more people so the government is really trying to push this positive propaganda that they've been able to contain the outbreak in a way that no other country has and that they're willing to share their experiences with other countries which are struggling but of course this is all really to

divert attention as well away from the criticism of how this was handled at the beginning of course that there were at the beginning at the end of january that there was a potential cover up by local authorities information wasn't widely shared and that that was really what led to this. growing to the scale that it has but so far the government here is really trying to push that so for what they have been doing has been working and they're trying to really boost the the public's confidence and their ability to really continue to bring those numbers down. well for their victory to you thank you the tensions are continuing to escalate on the turkey greece border over the flow of refugees and migrants to again this has been fired by riot police on both sides people have been trying to cross into greece instead he declared its borders with the e.u. opened just over a week ago president reza di bergdorf is expected to travel to brussels on monday to discuss the issue. of the advance of refugees heading for the greek islands as

triggered a backlash against aid groups who supported them around he was held in support of the aid agencies who say they're facing abuse from locals by council the island overcrowded but he residents say they can't cope of called on the greek government to help john psaropoulos reports from the island of les paul's. rock is in greece after escaping from an abusive husband in iran and religious persecution in her native afghanistan now that she has asylum here right how wants to help other women living on lesbos refugee camp we're doing here no cars in a car and a police we're doing here free but it's make 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 home and she's one of 40 refugees

helping other refugees at the hope project many of their 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 come here they take all the money everything couse the refugees are getting 400 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 a tired of protecting europe from irregular migration those who live near the refugee camp at moria are upset about the loss of security and property but only

blushed 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. 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 well still ahead here on al-jazeera machismo in mexico we look at the culture that's led to a rise of violence against women also water shortages on to the many hardships the bar have to go through as the country experiences its worst drought in the years

the stories after the break. how the weather is not looking too bad across the middle east now. we have some flooding rains into parts of the live at lossie draw and quiet for the time being we got some wetter weather into the eastern side of the mediterranean then that will slide its way down across greece and eventually pushing across into turkey and heading over towards that eastern side of the med for much of the reason that it is fine and dry few showers there to southern parts of iran pushing over towards pakistan easing up towards afghanistan as well that may well produce some lovely weather across northern parts of pakistan and india as we go into the early part of next week a few showers coming through here the

a few showers to just around the therapy and highlands you can see bits and pieces of plant right across the tropics so into the gulf of guinea heaviest downpours likely to be across the congo bisons and very big showers are running through here as they should see these others of course the seasonal rains and probably a shower standing across uganda into kenya these showers here really becoming a little more intense as we go on through a monday we'll see some very heavy showers that just extending the way into what has a northern parts of mozambique could see some showers also into madagascar but it's fine and dry for south africa. but. the u.n. fact finders accused of burma's military genocide this is a political alert if you think there. do you believe the underbody is a fascist or a kid don't have all gone they. don't want the recognize that both sides have legitimacy grievances against the other climate this is the foundation of climate

back then and that is why the president has must face hard hitting debate creep up . on al-jazeera. book about what you all deserve it means a whole robin a reminder of our top stories italy has imposed an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the north to help contain the spread of corona virus up to 60000000000 people are now a bit ill from entering or leaving lombardy and 11 other provinces they've had to treat locked up will last until april of it also a person who took part in one of the largest political congresses of the us has

tested positive for corona virus the patient had no contact with president trump who also attended the event last month and tensions that continue to escalate on the turkey greece border over the flow of refugees and migrants thousands have been trying to cross into the e.u. says turkey declared its borders opened just over a week ago. but a force to see the a saudi prince is reported to have been detained did what may be a view power battle in the kingdom the new york times says the former head of teligent france drafted and with is being held along with 3 others alexia brian explains. 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

that there is term born 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 soma known as 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 anti corruption drive rights groups disagreed. hundreds of activists including women's rights campaigner luzhin i'll have to are also in prison. he's not worried about people trying to make a cool 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 between 18 killing of saudi journalists. in the kingdom's consolation a stand. she was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomon's personal entourage his body dismembered and of a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. as the most senior 3 and. actually overseas for many years came back. ears 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 say 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death brian al jazeera . this story is. just silly. there's also reviewed fighting the north the u.s. 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 $70000.00 people have been displaced leaving families without food shelter and access to medical care. protesters in the philippines are calling on the

government to do wall for the rights of women hundreds of marching through the streets of the capital but a lot of what is international women's day. is with the. what activists you are saying is that the country is a country of conch 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 years old are 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 being poured into these measures to make it effective across the country and what activists are also seeing here is that the culture of me sergeant 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 . well billions of women across mexico will balk international women's day with a strike against debased financed government figures show bad kill at least 10 we did that every day trying to hold reports from banks a case city. of a sort of. dinner meant to mean leave it an emotional outpouring on this state university female students reporting professes students and even relatives but they

say have harassed or attacked some of us was it screws attorney general who said that more than 10 women they killed that day but behind the no. some say it's a culture of machismo male chauvinism which in the end helps lead to the violence. around 20 professes just from mexico state university and now under investigation this student is one of those who complained this was common so compelling bessemer he started asking me are you a virgin what have you done with your boyfriend have you done naughty things yet his conduct is normalized enough in society she says that she didn't know who to turn to from the every argument you aren't as men's are his mrs but i saw his messages i felt alone i didn't know who to talk to in my family or in the police or the student committees even my boyfriend who asked for help just accuse me of starting it all. the submissive objectified woman is

a current the runs through popular culture in mexico is a complete this is another barrier and they are these are the weather reporters of the 24 hour news channel. and it's a constant on the country too popular telling novellas screenwriter and the. story as good as always seeing storylines in which the women are victims or hysterical bossy and annoying convinces all that yes women are annoying and bossy and sensitive when they're having a period and it's not true. but in the last year more and more women have been rejecting how they're seen and the violence against them through protests and even street monuments like this one it's actually being cleaned in a box of a march that's going to go through mexico city's main avenue this sunday to mark international women's day i'm. a monday there will be

a national women's strike this movement is only gaining traction john heilemann al-jazeera mexico city. president of trump has praised the united states' relationship with brazil but refused to guarantee he'll hold off from hitting brazilian steel and our 1000000000 with new tariffs. here a very relationship you carry with brazil and we want to always tell you the president turned his brazilian counterpart. down for a private to the tribes florida resort on saturday the 2 leaders were also expected to discuss potential trade opportunities it's on a 3 day trip to the u.s. . there have been nearly 80 attacks in afghanistan since the u.s. and taliban signed a peace deal in qatar a week ago despite the continued violence the taliban is due to hold talks with the ask of government to the coming days after levied reports on the hurdles those negotiations are likely to face. celebrations have been taking place in taliban

held areas since an agreement between the u.s. and the taliban was signed in doha nearly a week ago that would have the goodness that this is a big achievement for all afghans says the local commander they lost and now we have gained their freedom for civilians caught in the middle and welcome relief. it's been very difficult there were a lot of the taliban fighters were escaping and its civilians who suffer we were the victims not the taliban the message here is that the taliban inflicted the historical defeat of the u.s. but there's another war going on one between afghans at least 80 attacks have been carried out since sunday killing dozens of people mainly members of the afghan security forces. the increase in hostilities was triggered by afghanistan's president. refusing to release up to 5000 taliban prisoners as guaranteed by the

agreement the afghan government did not take part in that agreement and says this is a matter that should be negotiated during the upcoming. intra afghan talks the taliban insist they must be free before did negotiations start they needed it in east to be free to sooner rather than later they agree with has been criticised within the taliban's ranks and there are reports of fighters defecting to other groups like isis and. they are one thing but inside there are differences there are taliban in afghanistan there are taliban leadership from pakistan they don't agree there. clarence. prior systems and also politically there are taliban who are trained and educated in one . group who are educated in another one that has a difference the group feels is now in

a position of strength general addiction worry says it has also evolved since the day he was attorney general of the taliban government in the 1990 s. . the taliban is definitely the winner but before we rule alone that is change the taliban wants to have a government that will include all ethnicities but there are red lines one is the withdrawal of all foreign troops and their advisors the implementation of islamic law is also a red line because we paid a heavy price but whether the country is called islamic emirates or not is open to negotiation the government wants the taliban to disarm after agreeing on a ceasefire that attacks are likely to continue just as they did during negotiations with the us leaving afghans paying the price once again but at that hamid edges iraq kabul. southern africa is suffering its worst drought in decades above where is one of the country's most affected but the families there are struggling with daily water shortages. horrible task reports often below where.

in zimbabwe 2nd city the supply of piped water from the city council is unreliable that means they sometimes have to use i'm treated 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 halls 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 some of the people they drink that water some they use it for. so it is a big challenge that we're living in cold to purge. like other parts of southern

africa zimbabwe is experiencing its worst drought in years city authorities say rationing is necessary it. is implemented. to try and have. digital that we have straight to receive enough rain as we all know when it is. say myriad region where we receive very little already 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 no the rainy season started late this year and even then has been erratic and new dam is being built about 100 kilometers from away authorities 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 pellet he's is also to blame the few who can afford it buy water privately or drill boreholes but for millions of others that is not an option how to al-jazeera. what you are observing me so robin a reminder of our top stories italy has imposed an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the north to help contain the spread of corona virus up to 16000000 people are forbidden from entering or leaving long body and 11 other provinces the mandatory lockdown will last until april the 3rd there is. now we have restrictive measures for a much wider area because it wasn't making any sense to say

a lot of small red zones while infections have spread all over a longer day and in the provinces we listed. meanwhile of the us 21 people on the cruise ship bunch of docking in san francisco have tested positive for crowd virus vice president by prince says the ship is carrying 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew around 50 have been tested so far the grand princess will be taken to a commercial port where more tests will take place particle hope possible from washington d.c. . the broader though is we do not know the actual number of people who have the coronavirus unlike other countries where you see massive amount of testing and 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 it held a press conference said look we came up with the 3 days problem is they sent it out it didn't work so then 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 continue to escalate all the turkey greece border of the flow of refugees a bike rides to gas has been fired by riot police on both sides thousands of people have been trying to cross a degree since turkey declared its borders with the e.u. opened just over a week ago. a full cd assadi prince is reported to be detained did be a power battle in the kingdom the new york times says the former head of the intelligence prince nice has been arrested along with 3 others friday those are the headlines about bodies a half hour here on al-jazeera that states upfront to stay with us. in 2013 cases of getting great shock to asia and the world it's almost court like young men take each other on al-jazeera asked men in cambodia what drove them to commit violence against women i don't know whether it's rape i'm doing it because i

can't afford a girl a male in 2016 has anything changed normalization of violence against women unfortunately i think is still a very common pattern around the world rewind it's a man's world on al-jazeera. this week all up front 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 east.