60000000 people quarantined in italy as the government blocks down cities including billard venice over the coronavirus. only place hot on the outskirts of the capital the car senegal with several cases of corona virus across the continent find out next what the governments here are doing to tackle the outbreak and why people are scared. fellow so robert you want your knowledge is there a lot of my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes silence from saudi arabia as more arrests are reported after the detention of 2 senior princes and talk of

a power struggle. also beaten and turned the way we speak to refugees and migrants attempting to cross into greece from turkey. welcome to the program italy is imposing tough restrictions on a quarter of its population locking down its 2nd largest city of more than 60000000000 people to stop the spread of coronavirus it just had its biggest rise again since the outbreak began with more than 1200 confirmed on saturday at the center of the unprecedented quarantine is the region of love barty home to around 10000000000 people and this is where italy's outbreak began people off a bit for a trickle leaving globe bardi which includes the economic capital the land as well as above they bring provinces but the largest will also affect another $6000000.00 people in other provinces across the north 6 a. the big clearing the city of venice restrictions are set to stay in place until

april the 3rd victoria day because the latest. in casual in old in italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city before it was put into lockdown because it's too good to talk i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent to cream putting in the red zone and 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 long bloody region home to 10000000 people to limit the spread of coded 19. 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. this comes after italy reported more than $1200.00 new infections in one day 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. 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 italy's 2 ruling parties has announced that he has coronavirus all caught on so it is arrived have coronavirus to obviously all be monitored like everybody else in the situation feel fine so it was decided that i'll be isolated at home also my family's 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 and serbia have confirmed that 1st infections victoria gate and be al-jazeera. at least 7 people in china have been killed after a hotel used as a coronavirus quarantine sensical or rescue workers pulled 47 of the 70 people from under the rubble but more than a dozen people are still trapped in beijing katrina wu says the disaster has angered the local community. they're still investigating the causes of this collapse the landlord of the hotel has been taken into the police station for questioning the central government has sent additional forces to help with the emergency rescue we're still trying to find out what caused this exactly but we do know that the hotel occupied the upper floors of this building it was only 2 years old so not a very old building but we do know that the ground floor of this hotel was being refurbished and that possibly had something to do with the reason that the structure gave way what else we know is that this hotel was being used to actually

house people who were being quarantined because of the coronavirus about 50 or so people were being quarantined and what's extremely frustrating is that these people we've just been told all tested negative for the current virus so they were being held there to monitor their own health but also to keep them away from the community presumably to keep the community safe but there is a lot of frustration about this because it's an example of these heavy handed restrictions being used to protect the community from the crown of ours but at the same time having devastating consequences for the people in this hotel who are waiting to go through their one to 2 week quarantine period of being there before they could be released well in the u.s. a cruise ship with break of coronavirus on board has been allowed to dock in the city of oakland in california but that's just across the bay from san francisco which refused to let the ship talk 21 people on board have tested positive for corona virus the grand princess is carrying 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew around 50 have been tested so far. at this time

the risk to the american people is 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 to 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 icicle haney's in washington d.c. where there's been a significant development in the kind of virus outbreak linked to to political conferences how to 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 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 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. countries in africa have so far escaped the worst of the current a virus outbreak put there has been new cases in cameroon and togo and at least $45.00 infections have been confirmed elsewhere in the continent the proportion often something well it's always a trying to stop the outbreak from spreading. the corona virus is spreading in africa on tuesday a french couple with flu like symptoms tested positive for the virus in this hospital with multiple new cases many of the nursing and medical staff have been sent home hundreds are in self-imposed quarantined pharmacies are running out of masks and sanitizers some are even resorting to traditional remedies in the hope of

fighting off the virus has been in development you need to eat garlic at least 3 times a day and that will stuff carone of ours especially older people have been coming to me hoping that this will protect your family i mean don't count on that remedy though the world health organization says there's no evidence that eating garlic has protected people from the new coronavirus so far all the cases on the african continent are not coming from china like experts predicted but from europe the outbreak that began in the north of italy is quickly spreading beyond european borders we are not far from the pandemic most of the continent is not enough for example for intensive in senegal an emergency crisis cell has been put in place similar to the one during the 201416 bull outbreak over 11000 people died from that virus mostly in west africa. the government does not want to see the

virus spread in neighborhoods like this where there's a shortage of water frequent power cuts and the sanitation systems are not up to scratch people here live in close proximity and this is a virus that's highly contagious so help authorities say the way to stop the outbreak is early detection this is where blood samples of suspected cases are being tested. a facility few african countries have and so for professor county avoiding contact including handshakes is the best way to prevent the virus from spreading we need to explain. that they don't need to be afraid they guess before or prevention aspect while fear of the virus is spreading faster than the virus itself so with the misinformation on social media rumors that africans are immune to the virus so that heart where there are local remedies can destroy it with something that covert 19 is a western invention it's

a challenge for african states with the epidemic gaining ground misinformation has become asking tejas as the virus itself nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car. full senior prince is reported to have been detained in saudi arabia but there has been any official response from the government u.s. media reports say that the former head of the intelligence prince knife is among those now being held on the wall street journal says dozens of officials in the offices of also be the arrested alexia brian explains. the saudi crown prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef as a to the throne and 27 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seeing 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 or within the family in the form of

criticism but that doesn't justify you know being arrested like criminals with masks security forces coming to their own lives and yanking your 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 business men were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an end to corruption drive 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 worth it i've been i've lived here is one of the 3 people on the council of royal members in saudi arabia that decides the succession he was one of 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 istanbul she 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. who is the most senior that's re and. actually overseas for many. yes 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 ahmed'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 early 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 print them and others in the state mr prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were 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 . well still ahead here on al-jazeera lebanon defaults on foreign currency debt worth over a $1000000000.00 as it struggles to tackle an economic crisis and find out why there's been a rise in gender based attacks in mexico those stories after the break. hello well as far as weather is concerned it's more of the same for the british

isles in fact for much of north western europe the weather still piling in from the atlantic so wet and windy but it too was describe it but it has been a change further east we've now got a rather static situation is now over albania so fairly wet weather here for the whole of the balkans has been stoic height and rain for the south southern italy sicily greece albania it's moving on to remain here in hungary as well but also implies a southerly breeze ahead of it has 21 degrees non-corrupt and look at moscow doublethink is almost now i remind you it's still batch with double figures. most elsewhere in europe last optically outstanding is about right for anything a bit low in some places time the year in fact we got more snow to come for the outs in the next systems running slowly southwards whereas we've now got the rain transferring from greece to western turkey significant rain by the look of it from his new wife new york the eastern med showing a little bit is going to be in effect all north africa but not so much in this part

as further west most of libya and as you can see out here in tunis is going to feel the chill of that breeze coming of the north west to 7016 degrees this is the case of both sunday and monday. to. talk to al jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the endemic corruption and the gang we listen so if you really put place china as an enemy of the well and that's really that we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. a showcase of the best documentary films from across the neckline on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching all just here of these. of our top stories a quarter of italy's population is being put under lockdown as the government tries to stop the corona virus the region of lombardy home to 10000000 there's no in quarantine 11 nearby provinces are also affected at least 7 people in china have been killed after a hotel used as a quarantine center collapsed rescue workers pulled 47 out of the 70 people from under the rubble but more than a dozen people still trapped they fall seedier side the prince is reported to be detained in what may be a new power battle in the kingdom the new york times says the former head of the intelligence prison if it ever has a b. the arrested along with 3 others on friday. the coalition fighting

again but has carried out air strikes against the rebels in the port city of salif there's also renewed fighting in the north the u.n. has called for they needed add to the military action the international committee of the red cross says its aid efforts have been have heard since last month around 70000 people have been displaced leaving families without food or 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. or we will slip back. into a large scale conflict and suffering that you have all ready seen here in my room. a refugee shelter on the greek island of less bosses cleaning up after a fire late on saturday night happened at the swiss operated said to the refugees just outside the island's capital there were there would be 2 reports of injuries more that 7800 migrants of loads of those possibly 4 other and islands from turkey

over the past week or migrants and refugees trying to cross from turkey degrees of describes scenes at the border something out of a horror movie thousands of asylum seekers have gathered at turkey's western frontier after the country declared its borders open for those hoping to add to europe that i should get it has more of the border city of danny. we found home ed in an abandoned building tending to his wounds the iranian amputee says he crossed into greece twice since turkey opened its borders more than a week ago he returned with wounds all over his body. to use the wounded to you know they caught me and beat me while they took me to a cot i back to them and said i'm handicapped don't beat me leave me alone but they wouldn't listen. on the 2nd floor a temporary family has formed bound by trauma and desperation one

strangers now linked by the solidarity a feeling ostracized by other media kids as we might have come from 3rd world countries but we're not 3rd class citizens we also have the right to live and have a future for our children in. afghan refugee missier has become a kind of father figure he and his wife crossed into greece 3 times twice by climbing through a fence and once on a fisherman's boat he says greek soldiers stripped the men to their underwear tasered them and when they collapsed beat them with the sticks ignited the 11 up on the engine of all of the handcuffed a man took us to the riverbank and kicked us into the river they said now leave some of us manage to cross like a fish some like a duck to of their friends couldn't get out of the river we told turkish fishermen that we left 2 people behind they went to search for our friends and we never saw

them again. the greek government has not responded to the accusations it has stopped accepting asylum applications for one month and pledged to expel those entering illegally nazir describes what's happening to refugees and migrants who cross into greece as a horror movie. yet he and tom ed plan to make another attempt clinging to the possibility like thousands others that the next time will have a more humane ending natasha going to name a dern name on the turkey greece border while lebanon's prime minister says his government won't make a debt payment of more than a $1000000000.00 that still monday. currency reserves are dangerously low and people's basic needs must be given priority xina as the latest from beirut. 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 put 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 accused 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 has by law the power broker in government has rejected an i.m.f. bailout it says it would involve taxes and cause the institution a tool of the united states when in case has signs signs up to the i.m.f. they will lose some of the sovereignty they've won the 2018 elections the 1st election that they've won since 2005 and if they lose that power this means that they've conceded some sort of defeat to the i.m.f. and to the international community and to the united states lebanon's financial crisis has entered a new stage and there doesn't seem to be any rescue plan and as conditions worsen for the people many are warning of further unrest senator else's leader they will. present donald trump has praised the united states as relationship with brazil but refused to guarantee that he'll hold off from hitting brazilian steel and alum india with new tariffs. we have

a very very few years to carry. brazil and we want to always. trump told a private dinner for the brazilian president sonorities florida resort on saturday the other 2 leaders were also expected to discuss potential trade opportunities is on a 3 day trip to the united states. at least 45 people remain missing in southeastern brazil days after heavy rainfall calls floods and landslides 35 people are known to have died when communities were engulfed in 3 cities on the coast of south paolo state firefighters and volunteers are continuing their search for the missing earlier this week the region had a month's rainfall in a single day. millions of women across mexico or go on strike on monday to take a stand against gender based violence it's been the time to follow international women's day government figures show that attacks against women have doubled in the

past 5 years to hold the reports from the capital mexico city or one of us are allowed to continue i meant them in the us leave it an emotional outpouring on this state university female students reporting professors students and even relatives that they say have harassed or attacked them over the years. metzger's attorney general has said that more than 10 women were killed that day but behind the number some say is a culture of machismo male chauvinism which in the end helps lead to the violence around 20 professors just from mexico state university and now under investigation this student is one of those who complained this was common so. 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 area give me your answers mr 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 that runs through popular culture in mexico. another family runner these are the weather reporters of the 24 hour news channel. and it's a constant on the country's all popular telling novellas screenwriter and the. story as. always seeing storylines in which the women are victims are 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 but then rejecting how this scene and the violence against them through protests and even

street monuments like this one it's actually being claimed in advance of a march that's going to go through mexico city's main avenue this sunday to mark international women's day i'm. on monday there will be a national women's strike this movement is only gaining traction john heilemann al-jazeera mexico city. protestors in the philippines have called on the government to do more to support women's rights hundreds marched through the streets in the capital manila to mark international women's day jamil how window that was also the . what motown 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 poured into these measures to make it effective across the country and what activists are also saying 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

. because the top story on our website is of course the ongoing coronavirus the quarantines and the global but we'll continue to monitor that on our bulletins and on our website at al-jazeera dot com it's updated throughout the day. you're watching i was there with the whole rob the reminder of our top stories nearly 60000000 people it's in the air now under lockdown as the government tries to contain the spread of coronavirus the unprecedented large scale quarantine in the north of it's anyone entering or leaving lombardy and neighboring provinces the restrictions will apply until april the 3rd this is now we have restrictive measures for a much wider area because it wasn't making any sense to seal off small red zones while the infections have spread all over lombardi and in the provinces we listed

at least 7 people in china have been killed after a hotel used as a quarantine center collapsed rescue workers pulled 47 out of the 70 people from under the rubble but more than a dozen people are still trapped they were placed under quarantine for corona virus in the eastern fouchard profits. in the u.s. a cruise ship with an outbreak of provirus on board has been allowed to dock in the city of oakland california 21 people on board have been tested positive the grand princess is carrying 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew around 50 have been tested so far but this time the risk to the american people's were 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 to being prepared we are tracking this the where these cases are confirmed and when

we see evidence of sustaining community transmission then that tips into us recommending medications fred a full seanie aside the 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 the intelligence prince nathan amant was arrested along with 3 others on friday the saudi coalition fighting in yemen has carried out has tried to guess who the rebels in the poll city of cities is also renewed fighting in a draft in the north the u.n. has called for an immediate end to the military action. those were the headlines more news with nic clarke in half an hour here all al-jazeera but next it's talk to al-jazeera to stay with us the u.s. is always of interest to people all right well this is been going on for a number of them with tear gas being used pushed by other reports stories from an international perspective we try to explain to our global audience why it's

important how this could impact their life at the height of the storm the water was so high that we didn't find hey this is an important part of the world people pay attention to what was going here now to do is very good at bringing the news to the world from here all. who see. after nearly 2 decades of the longest running u.s. war the united states and now gone taleban have signed a historic agreement. with the potential to end the war in the gun is done along the way to the beam and includes a timeline of 14 months for u.s. and nato troops to withdraw a taliban guarantee that our branch oil will not be used to threaten us security a negotiation with the up on government by march 10th leading to a permanent and comprehensive cease fire. behind the signing was years of shuttle diplomacy up there played.