investigating the use and abuse of power across the al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. this is news our life and coming up in the next 60 minutes it's only quarantines a quarter of its population towns and cities including milan and venice are locked down over the current of our. iran reports a sharp increase in corona virus deaths bringing the total to $194.00 but one government official says that number could be much higher. silence from saudi arabia as more arrests are reported to the detention of 2 senior princes and reports the struggle. between and turned away we speak to refugees and migrants

attempting to cross into greece from turkey. in sports fans are banned from bahrain's formula one race of the coronavirus and australia successfully defend a women's t 20 world cup crowd against india in front of a packed melbourne cricket ground. so that and italy is imposing tough restrictions on a quarter of its population locking down its 2nd largest city and more than 16000000 people to try and stop the spread of coronavirus it's just had its biggest rise in cases since the outbreak began with more than 1200 confirmed on saturday well the lockdown includes the entire region of long body where the italian outbreak began. and where the most deaths have been recorded home to 10000000

people no one will be able to move in or out of the area and that includes the country's economic capital of milan the lockdown will also impact several other provinces including venice and haiti another 6000000 people over the restrictions is set to remain until early april so as the very latest in padua in northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city before it was put into lockdown but it's too good to talk i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting up putting pedal in the red zone because i'd like to return to my relatives i decided to go earlier prime minister just at the county has signed a decree to impose an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the long body region home to 10000000 people to limit the spread of covert 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 lombardi 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 in. the head of the catholic church pope francis is fighting a cult has cancelled public appearances he delivered his regular sunday prayer to crowds at the vatican by lifestream. and the leader of one of italy's 2 ruling parties announced on saturday that he has corona virus. 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 and serbia have confirmed their 1st infections were let's speak to live joins us from london so tell us more about this is a pretty radical measures that it's only carrying out now involving millions of people. well it is and one of the authorities have determined that it is the only course of action to be done right now in order to try and stem the spread of covert $1000.00 across the country of course that is the most restrictive use of trying to contain the virus outside of china as well in that. basically have the schools in the universities which closed last week still remaining closed until april the 3rd alongside museums cultural associations gym soaring pool everywhere that people can sort of congregate or members of the

public would be able to congregate interesting enough they've also put restrictions not just on cultural events as well but also on ceremonies such as weddings and funerals of course any kind of situation where you have large numbers of people congregating is provides a perfect scenario for the virus to spread particularly amongst sort of older people that for whom the virus seems to be more or deadly as well without as well even though there's been sort of. a direct appeal from the head of the italian football association has made appeals to the prime minister saying that they should be the games from now should be suspended there's also been another plea from the italian sports minister saying this should be suspended out right so no games in for that for that time while there is this lockdown in place so all in all there is

a sense that every everything is is really gradually grinding to our hold here to try and stop this spread but the question is is this too little too late and will this really be able to stop the spread which has really engulfed the country so far nick or is all your thanks very much to do you know from your. to iran which has reported a sharp increase in the number of corona virus deaths bringing the total to $194.00 and there are now more than $6500.00 infections right across the country after hundreds more were confirmed on sunday let's speak to dr who joins me live now from tehran and zain what's behind this sudden increase. well nick we've seen another record breaking increase in the number of corona virus deaths in the last 24 hours 49 confirmed cases of deaths from the infection and one of the things that the government has struggled with since the outbreak began last month since it

was made public is getting the public on word getting iranian people to cooperate with precautionary measures that the government is telling the people to follow during the health minister briefing earlier today the spokesman said once again that the number of cases we've seen announced today yesterday and days passed are from infections that have curt occurred over the last week over the last 10 days and he tried to explain to people and he has expressed his frustration over the course of the last few days that if the people begin to pay attention and take seriously the precautionary measures that the government has announced then they will begin to see the situation improve in the next 2 weeks or so the incubation period of this coronavirus one of the reasons that it might be that the people aren't following the rules is because there is a loss in trust of the government of the public messaging over the last few months one of the reasons might be a scenario that played out earlier today in geelong province just a few hours ago the special representative of the health ministry and gillan

province muhammad hussein go bonnie during that meeting he said that the number of cases in his province were $200.00 deaths that's more than the government's official total for deaths nationwide provinces in the north of the country it's on the coast of the caspian sea it borders are by john and this was reported by a local news agency but these stories tend to take on a life of their own they tend to go viral another case happened in the wrong province where the told a number of cases of affected people in a medical university their figures were 30 percent higher than the official government statistics now things like this discrepancies like this that we often see when we're collecting numbers this erodes the public trust it may not be by this. it may be that the numbers simply haven't fed back enough to the headquarters here in the capital either way the people tend not to see these cases they tend to see these anecdotal stories and they lose trust in the government message for what they should or should not be doing

a government poll taken just earlier this week suggested only 50 percent of the population of the country actually takes the corona virus outbreak seriously or as they were living there for now thanks very much indeed those embers ravi well at least 10 people have died in a hotel that collapsed in china's southern infusion province the hotel was being used to quarantine people to prevent the spread of the corona virus meanwhile the chinese government has reported the lowest number of new infections since january katrina you has this report now from beijing witnesses say it sounded like an explosion in this hotel in china's southern food jan province collapse on saturday night trapping 70 people most people being quarantined because of the coronavirus the hotel was designated as a virus isolation ward as imagine people from the rubble authorities and defended the strict quarantine measures who would know. if there is

a class of infection workers have to go into families and communities for details investigation to know every patient's history of activities and track all of the people who had contact with the patient so they must be quarantined for 14 days. the government says tough measures have stopped the spread of the current a virus outside of the epicenter who on sunday china recorded its lowest number of new cases since january or only 3 new cases were recorded outside the province and these patients were infected not in china but abroad state media are declaring victory in the country's battle against the outbreak in a makeshift hospital known as the one han living room has suspended operations jus to a lack of patients. if you like we already one we're so happy to see patients discharged one after one more than 80000 people have been infected nationwide some 50000

patients have recovered at least 5000 are in critical condition in for jan authorities are investigating the cause of the building collapse the hotels are in a is being questioned katrina new al-jazeera aging. well let's say across the united states where the head of one of its top infectious diseases choose the vice people to think twice before attending large gatherings in the u.s. military has restricted travel to and from italy and south korea after 2 additional service members tested positive for the virus we can speak straight away to political high in our correspondents live for us from washington d.c. so patty the numbers are on the rise and important advice coming out and i'm wondering how all of this with what's coming out of the white house too. there are so many mixed messages it's really hard to keep track of this now we've seen the president come out u.s. president and say there are tests everything's perfect he put out a tweet saying that this was the perfectly coordinated and fine tune plan and then

he went on to blame the fake media fake news media doing everything possible to make us look bad sad here's the reality the centers for disease control came up with a test they send it out to state labs found out that it was broken it didn't work so then they took a little bit more time to come up with another test the other agency that was supposed to be working on this the food and drug administration didn't give permission to outside contractors to come up with their own test so all of this meant there were delays in figure it out who had the coronavirus when they did get tests out they put a criteria that you couldn't just say i have all of the symptoms you had to have traveled to an affected area to get the test so what did that mean that meant the people had the virus couldn't get tested likely went out in their community and now we're seeing community transmissions so they say they have the test but at the same time the 1st time ever the centers for disease control will not tell the public how many people have been tested and what those results are so we think that it is

spread in the media has been trying to track this we believe there are 460 cases 33 states we believe there been 1000 deaths but again we're not seeing the federal government tell us exactly what's going on so as you mentioned the head of the national institutes of health anthony who is very respected he seems to be doing something that most people in this administration don't want to do and that's contradict the president who says it's a perfect response a perfect test everything going well. the tester out there there was a misstep early on with regard to the test namely a technical difficulty but right now about $1100000.00 tests are out there now they'll be an additional about 640000 on let's say monday and then at least another $4000000.00 particularly now that we're engaging the private sector now when you say that they're out there if you go to a doctor it's up to the doctor to order the test and if that happens

a person should have a test available but it's no doubt chris you have to be realistic early on there was some missteps that delayed it you know we're seeing a lot of reports too on social media people saying that they tried to get the test and they couldn't find a doctor's office saying they can't do the testing so given the fact that most people haven't been tested we expect those numbers to increase exponentially that said the president was asked are you going to stop with your rallies we know that there were 2 major conferences in washington last week conservative and the israeli apec conference and people have tested positive who are there so that is a potentially dangerous spread the president says no nothing to see here and keep doing the rallies we're going to keep having a big big gatherings where one person can in fact hundreds of others so definitely seen mixed messages from this administration the uproar i probably will meet with if i'm right thanks very much indeed kill him reporting from washington d.c. we'll speak known to dr peter hutto says the dean for the national school of

tropical medicine at the baylor college of medicine joins us now from houston via skype peter thanks very much indeed for joining us it's see the best way to tackle this is through stringent we saw its effectiveness i think in china for it to be carried out by the chinese authorities but how straightforward when it be carried out in a similar way in a democratic country like italy or any of the europeans they do what's. well you've hit on a right i mean this is unprecedented core western democracy to put a part of the country on this level of unprecedented lockdown so it's going to be a very interesting experiment and we'll see how it goes you know it's not the optimal country b. to be doing this there is. it's a fragile economy as it is as we as we all know about it only the new york times

this morning called italy's government already a forget the exact term they said either it's wobbly or shaky to begin with there's already a high level of government distrust so this is going to be this will not be easy almost certainly it's also there's a lot of questions about how whether the italian government in the local government will actually be able to enforce the these measures and recommendations and whether the people how much the people will will it will accept doing this there's as i mentioned there's a high level of distrust so so this is going to be this will not be an easy ride i'm or i'm afraid i recognize the urgency of the matter italy possibly next to korea and china has the largest numbers of cases globally i think it's around 1500 cases they've already had 200 deaths we've also seen a pretty steep should check during the number of new cases up in the northern

lumber northern italian region so i think that's what's alarming officials and i see how ramadan they are is accelerating they feel they have to make to intervene right and given that increase peter how important is it to contain the spread in this way. well i think i think it is important not only just for italy but for its neighboring countries you worry of course about this rapidly moving into austria into. france and and and switzerland and so this epidemic has the potential for destabilizing all all of europe and so the stakes the stakes are quite high and imo i would hope that the european union and that and italy's neighbors will help in this effort in terms of contributing financially to this cause us not only in it as will seem pretty soon it's not going to only be an italian problem. in many ways it seems

that the fear of this virus is spreading faster than the virus itself how dangerous is that when it leaves the things that kind of bind. well you know it's an interesting virus in the sense that it's not the most fatal virus we've ever seen by a long measure and it's not the most transmissible by a long measure but both of those are pretty high and that combination creates a perfect storm that gives us a lot of pause for concern let me give you 2 examples well one the virus as i say it's not as transmissible as measles but it seems to be quite a bit more transmissible than influenza we use a value called the reproductive number to assign the number of people that will likely get infected if you have this fire and other people that would be infected if you have this virus in the numbers around $3.00 to $4.00 and that's about 2 or 3 times higher than flu for instance and also even though the overall case fatality

is probably going to turn out to be around the one percent level and that may not seem very high in fact that's about that may be an order of magnitude more fatal than flu number one and number 2 if you start parsing it out by different age groups what we're seeing is 10 to 20 percent mortality among older individuals or those with underlying chronic conditions so and we've seen already in the u.s. how this virus tore through a nursing home of about 100 people and caused 1112 deaths so far and i believe the number of deaths is klar climbing so it has the capacity to cause great destruction among certain age groups it's also a big problem on health care workers because we saw in will han a 1000 health care workers became infected and for reasons that we don't understand about 15 percent of them became severely ill more sicker than you might expect have

expected given their age group so maybe because they're exposed to higher amounts of virus we don't really know but that's a vulnerability as well and of course if the health care workforce starts to go down. then the whole thing begins to fall apart and crumble so they're so for all of these kind of corky reasons all combining together it winds up being quite a serious pathogen paid it's great to get your perspective and expertise in this who do appreciate it peter has to consider this from houston texas thanks very much sure my pleasure well a 4th prince is reported to have been detained in saudi arabia u.s. media reports say the former head of army intelligence that's prince not been ahmed is among those now being held there has been any official response from the government likes to privatise this report. saudi state media on sunday broadcast pictures of king solomon with the kingdom's new ambassadors to euro guy and ukraine

the appearance of the monarch followed speculation about his health after the reported arrests of several princes and dozens of officials in recent days the king's younger brother prince ahmed abdul aziz and the crown prince's cousin mohammed bin nayef a said to be among those detained taken by masked men to an unknown location maybe they have. said man is that area rating or again as rumored in the past you might be considering. basically have the. the last thing i'm a been some man want to challenge there are reports of an attempted coup though some analysts believe crown prince mohammed bin solomon is further consolidating his power i understand that after the arrests of these major figures that he then demanded the other members of the family to confirm their loyalty to him and

many were expected to tweet or to e-mail him and show that they were behind him mohamed bin solomon knowing his abs has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him he replaced been naive as to the throne and 27 tane forcing him into effective house arrest n.b.s. his uncle prince ahmed was said to be concerned by the crown prince's grip on power one of a small group who voted against m.p.'s taking over. this is something extraordinary and saudi politics prince ahmed by the past rules of saudi politics should have enjoyed immunity even if he was publicly a little critical of some policy but that immunity is god there is no immunity in saudi arabia mohammed bin solomon can get you no matter who you are that's the message. and $27.00 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and

billionaire businessmen around our pen detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an anti-corruption drive rights groups disagreed one year later mohammed bin salmond's international profile was further tarnished after the killing of saudi journalist. and the kingdom's consulate in istanbul the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself we know that he is the real power it was some people calling him anecdotally the. son of the king but person it was actually some foreign power in the southeast. reports suggest those detained now face long term imprisonment or even death. and except ryan al jazeera the turkish president reza type one is calling on greece to allow refugees to make their way into europe has declared turkey's borders open for those hoping to enter the causing thousands to try to cross borders over the past week you know and start obvious now that they

do not want to stop in greece they only wanted to go through your territory to go to europe why are you preventing them we said from the beginning we would open our borders and now i say to greece open your borders and they will go through your territory to go to european countries you cannot shrug this issue aside. well migrants and refugees trying to cross from turkey in degrees have described scenes of the border as something out of a horror movie and tashi good name has more from the turkish border since you haven't had any. 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 they caught me and beat me while they took me to a cot my 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 stranger 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 of the judge and 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 had planned 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. it dirname on the turkey greece border a refugee facility on the greek island of lesbos says cleaning up after a fire late on saturday that happened at the swiss operated one happy family center for refugees just outside the island's capital writes

a california senator camilla harris is endorsing a former vice president joe biden's bid for the democratic presidential nomination harris is the latest drop out from the primaries to backbite in the bernie sanders this comes just ahead of the next contest in michigan on tuesday many for my contenders including amy pete was a judge and might bloomberg have already endorsed by. still ahead here on al-jazeera we visit mammals a piece of our creative fix for one of the world's longest running in conflicts. and this gymnast makes a strong case for a ticket to her 1st olympics and that's coming up in sport with the.

how of the rain that fell all maturing cares 2 days ago is this thing here it's circulating in western iran is disappearing fairly rapidly east was leaving fine weather behind in fact you re talking about turkey to get the significant runs as the sun is out now anywhere from north need ships northwards to turkey and it's quite warm in ankara and in beirut you'll notice that have breezes setting it down the gulf again said 26 the next entire half or a day or so and that breeze will push dancer's saudi arabia it's usually a dusty one but as you say it's a mostly sunny picture with temperatures now on the rise the strong winds are further west remember we have had to drive into egypt they're not going to drive more into places like tunisia western libya and now jerry which keeps attempts down here the coast weather is cool and wet there are more showers showing up now on the back of this powder for north africa so for example gonna ring up towards here earlier in the showers and more and more frequent and they could use flash floods

this time in contrast to the still dry weather which gives you attention like 40 in janina for example that's where the heat is we still got seas no rains running to rangoli east was but you can see the big clouds are increasingly further north. talked to al jazeera we heard 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's enemy a couple more years and that's really that yours we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter just 0. to culture a downs thrives here every day generations of tibetans continue to brace and need take their cultural heritage it's a reminder of who they are and where they're from this is a suburb of the capital new delhi tibet so the refugees here since 964 buttons here

have been defined as migrants are not refugees because india hasn't signed up to the 1951 un convention on refugees so tibetans here have been able to access the indian welfare system so they become self-sufficient starting a better business says and looking for work independently but for some it's not enough. 0 let's have a reminder about top stories iran has reported its highest number of coronavirus deaths within a 24 hour period bringing the total to $194.00 but one provincial official it

suggests in the number of deaths could be much higher than what's being reported. a quarter of italy's population is being put under lockdown as a government tries to stop the coronavirus the region of long body home to 10000000 people is now in quarantine including the city of 11 nearby provinces also affected well we talk about cities and towns in lockdown but what's it really like we can speak now to franziska body who's an italian journalist currently based in a body which is one of the areas in italy that is under lockdown and she joins us from there via skype francisco thank you so much for joining us describe the scenes there for us if you would and what you would normally be see. well listen passive now it's sunday afternoon and this is the main square of of the town it's about 15000 people and this completely is that i read this zor not red

zone in the last 3 days there were 16 that. i'm betting that everybody got infected everybody saw streets look and. but then you look around and everybody's behind the window and coughing so that when the little. concerned about getting the virus or you're saying that a lot of them have already absolutely because it they are already sick and so they still call him because there are no more valuable beds in hospitals and actually the current hospital which serves about 500000 people in all the area and the folly of course in this little town doctors got infected saw there are norm or intensive care but it's available and so basically italians are asked to stay you tallman when they get fever let's say that the front line is the current i mean these the

is the pharmacy if you call or you know in italy there is a system also look because doctors saw these star one as 10 local doctors we call them trying to be doctors and so actually you are asked to call your family doctor but the family doctor can't visit you at all much is for did the now. and so basically just by foreigner they can tell you try to understand if you got distracted or not because of course you can get you know see that just the normal. and so everybody's going to the pharmacy and that's becoming another glaze of infection because there's some sort of i just don't like this for a 2nd but i know i know you've got you know speaking to us via your phone which somebody is holding in front of you so we can see is it can you just get them to pan around and have a look at the square where you are and describe what would we would normally see as you can usually on a sunday ghost. yes on sunday of course you can see you know what you see behind me

is the main church the bus utica and disclose that now or nobody can enter the church and basically you see completely. the square is i mean as i'm easy to do you know a sunday afternoon you would see but he got everybody out especially because he's a son of a day and there is no one actually it's quite strange because even if he does he's basically the most dangerous sprays of italy is severely steve off and off of the population which means half of residents are really you know strictly observing all the rules. and stay a tour keeping the social these stunts which he's one meter we will show what ends and as you can see i have a mask even if it's not the proper you know assad you can mask because basically they are. out of stock you can find them asking where and how of the regulation people who are from the people are. telling panic that in panic

they don't know what to do because basically is the uncertainty that said that the sympathy for the virus of course because for example no one steals today knows that if you know and the virus can sort of vive on a star face and for a long so ok we can keep a distance one meter from each other we can then you know throughout the right to disinfect all the i don't know tables that we touch but i you know what do you do when you get your basically if you start drinking you know you realize that you're going to be infected and which is what happened here actually everybody got infected the positive news is that somehow you know the majority of the population gets divided seeing quite a light forma but you know the population over 75 if i'm in the mortality rate these is very very high. well francisco we do appreciate your time

and telling us the extraordinary story of what the situation is like in i was on a long border which is effectively a ghost town we do appreciate your time talking to us thank you very much. saudi arabia is placed against east in the province under lockdown because of coronavirus the interior ministry says all 11 infected people in the country are from the province home to a large shia muslim population and say media is saying those infected if he'd a been to iran or have interacted with people who visited iran saudi state media also say most public and private sector work is being suspended. and millions of women are expected to turn out across latin america for international women's day in a region struggling with some of the world's highest femicide rights protesters in chile's capital. demanding the right to legal abortion and government action against sexual harassment and violence 42 cases of sexual abuse are reported that

every single day this week the government increase prison terms for those found guilty of from site in response to ongoing protests that speak to a lot in america it's at least in human she's right there live in the capital of santiago and this is tell us more about what's happening there. this is an extraordinary outpouring of women onto the streets now what you're seeing behind me are just a few that are walking towards the main thoroughfare i'll admit that avenue in santiago and we couldn't come to you live from there because there are so many people that are our telephone signals the bandwidth has collapsed but these are just the latest group coming women old women grandmothers babies. at hundreds tens of thousands i would venture to say hundreds of thousands of women are out of the metro system has collapsed by the number because of the rather the number of people that are ever going out here some are dressed in red as some are topless

others are carrying different signs you can see there are hundreds of different women's organizations to basically send the same message that women need to be treated equally not just be equal they need to have equal salaries then you have the right to abortion and they need that they must have equal participation in politics and this is particularly important at this stage here in chile because there will be or very likely be a new constitutional assembly and it has been a struggle to ensure that women would have parity that in other words that there would be equal numbers of representatives to write that new constitution that women as well as men that was approved by congress just a few days ago but unfortunately the president is now on the lips of most of the people that are marching in front of us and not in very complimentary terms because he said the following and i want to quote him exactly he said very often it's not just the desire of men to abuse women but also the position of women to be abused

that caused an outrage on the social networks and on the streets he said that's not what he meant that it was taken out of context but clearly a very sensitive it strikes a very sensitive chord here in chile at this point especially since the latest figures show that the stuff. that 1000 women where abuses last year alone and those are only the ones that were reported right would tell us a little bit more about that we outlined some of the problems and challenges that women face. no doubt across not in america tell us more about that and also indeed . damone for the right to leave. exactly what chile is was the last country in the region to have a legalized divorce in fact under the pinochet dictatorship it was made absolutely illegal and then at the even the laws that would allow for termination of pregnancies under certain circumstances that is when the mother's life was in

danger or the baby or the the birth was not feasible as doctors express it that was illegal or made illegal as well under the dictatorship finally last year that was made possible but women want full rights to abortion but that is only one of the things i was very impressed to see the number of women that were young girls out on the streets here with signs saying i'm doing this for you mother for your deaths because their mother the mother for example had been killed by the husband of the boyfriend the mothers and the grandmothers have you're saying we're out here marching for our children and our grandchildren we don't want them to go through what we went through illegal abortions meant botched abortions where women often die i've spoken to women who have lived through that. experience or who have had relatives who have died because of abortion so that's the sort of thing that your we hearing over and over again but also political rights that's become now it's beginning to take the forefront because women are telling us that unless we have

equal political rights that patriarchal system that exists in chile and most of latin america can never be changed it's not just a matter of attitude it's also laws the way the state treats women the list is extremely long as you know and it might they are hoping that it's going to take less time and not generations more to change it certainly important day there in santiago thank you very much indeed. well demonstrations across the region of being driven by a growing outcry over inequality gender based violence and tough abortion laws and we're just hearing about from news here in colombia protests are expected over a recent court ruling which up held strict abortion laws in argentina women are planning a national strike for equality on monday meanwhile the new left his government is promising to improve women's rights with a bill to legalize abortion in brazil for many it's a day of resistance to the right wing jab else in our presidency and his perceived

sexes attitude has triggered a number of mass protests since 2018 and women are expected to turn out in record numbers in mexico's capital the monday action on femicide rates there which have more than doubled in 5 years john homan explains why a culture. is being blamed. but of a certain point that good container meant to me that us leave it an emotional outpouring on this state university female students reporting professes students and even relatives that they say have harassed or attacked them over the years yes it's because attorney general has said that more than 10 women they killed a 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 professes just from mexico state university and now under investigation this student is one of those who complained this was common so compression bessemer

he started asking me are you a virgin what have you done with your boyfriend regional t. things yes this 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 the runs through popular culture mix coca leaves us another barrier and they are 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 i mean the. story as i. always sing story lines 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 and. thoughts of a march that's going to go through mexico city's main avenue this sunday to mark international women's day. on monday the wusa be a national women's strike this movement is only gaining traction john homan outas it is mexico city. well thousands of women in cities throughout pakistan have defied threats of violence to march on international women's day at their demanding toughen laws to protect women from harassment rape and domestic abuse commo haida is in islamabad. across bhagavan there have been relayed by women as well as men who are supporting these women to commemorate the international day for women and i

think we. are not getting the basic right of the coming to. do i do. again i think embodiment of. the many many i'm leaving in a very tiny bubble and now we need freedom and we need. to keep a lot of stuff. however the opinion here is divided across that line you have the religious parties who are also protesting and also obviously against the or at march which is also known as the woman march that started in karachi and green be 18 and then spread across and was a city that rarely so this year again we can see dodged a white celebrity large worn more right by the women however the more villagers and

conservative elements of society i don't foresee this is not something that is new head in pakistan and i'd have thought it's a debate that has been going on for years. now the karen ethnic minority men my. has been fighting for independence in 70 years it's one of the world's longest running civil wars and has displaced hundreds of thousands of people now a community leaders say they're determined to be part of the peace building process and have created a park to do just that. reports now from younger. 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 ceasefire 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 continues that traditional way of life relying on nature for that and practicing customary land management to preserve the environment so more hair and internally displaced qur'an has known war for most of his life. in the past we had to run and hide from the media. it was exhausting when soldiers attacked our village we had to run we took our 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 rice grow vegetables raise pigs and chickens if me and my soldiers join to attack us we will continue our life this way

. but elsewhere in the state peace has intel sporadic fighting still happens sparked by the military's move to upgrade wrote previously used for military operations current community leaders say they are also concerned about the military bases dotted around the pops boundary solution is easy just withdraw you know maybe a couple of burma's army camps allowing people to come back and reestablish their livelihoods and you know some wintery and you know kind of projects come in and see how you know things you know moving forward and then you can replicate it. 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 recognized by the government. democratic transition has opened the door to foreign investment that 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 florence doing. god. still ahead in sports everyone's favorite dog slope races back peter will have the details. full of struggles full of pleasure that they now would i mean on their their telephone at the same theme to me. make. me funny and only have me an intimate look at life in cuba if you are over and i don't know

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let's get straight on to his picks nick thank you so much on international women's day australia have again demonstrated their dominance in women's cricket they've successfully defended their t 20 world cup title crushing india by 85 runs in melbourne kevin calvert as the action. there's more than one winner in the stand i lisa healy smashing a record half century of just 30 balls while her former world cup winning has been mitchell's stock washed after cutting short his tour to south africa with the men's team i healey sharing a night in stand a 115 before holing up to 75 in the player of the match performance. was opening the big money continued on to a number 878 with a stranger a messing and imposing 194 for 4.

and it just never got going and reply was. losing wickets regularly especially to spin a just an s. and and seem a make him short who climbed the final wicket to dismiss india and 99 was a stranger lifting the trophy for the 1st time in front of more than 86000 fans just short of the world record for a woman's sporting spectacle given calvert al-jazeera. there are just a few days to go before the start of the formula one season the teams are on their way to melbourne for the opening race but organizers of the 2nd graeme free of the calendar are already taking drastic steps against coronavirus the bahrain grand prix will go ahead on march 22nd but fans will be shut out of the stands the country says it is trying to balance the welfare of supporters and race go as

italian football city are has resumed behind closed doors despite the country's sports minister calling for the lead to be stopped immediately the early game between palmer and s'posed delayed a while the politics played out later one of the biggest games of the season will take place a 2nd place you ventus host in some of them you said 3rd in a match known as italy's darby and danton are important one essential when you play football in big stadiums it is important to have the fans in the stadium but right now we are in a delicate situation and we need to pay a lot of attention so health comes before anything else for everybody's we will have to adjust to that and do things in the safest possible way. pocket genius fans have been celebrating their latest league title the brand outsiders club beat him last year one of the claims the argentine title on the last day of the season ahead of arch rivals river plate carlos tevez got the winning goal it's parker's 3rd

league title in 4 years. the football team founded by former manchester united star david beckham has reached an m.l.s. milestone they've scored their 1st goal in the league but although 4 presario opened up a one nil lead for into miami of the d.c. united 2 minutes into this one what they say can go from lewis morgan was disallowed by a v.a.r. for a handball at the other end of the page by miami defender roman thought is also got himself a straight red card d.c. united coming back to win 21. a judge in paraguay has ruled former brazilian star ronald denio must remain in jail after being arrested for entering the country on a fake passport the 2002 world cup winner and his brother appeared before a judge innocency on on saturday the pair to be released into house arrest but the judge said they posed a flight risk officials have been given 6 months to complete their investigation ronald reagan's lawyers are expected to appeal in the coming days the n.b.a.

has set a tuesday deadline for basketball franchises to have plans in place to combat coronavirus but there was no keeping a rookie german rant down for the memphis grizzlies 24 points as the grizzlies kept a hold on the final western conference playoff spot with 811-8101 win over the atlanta hawks morant wasn't even born when vince carter 1st played in the n.b.a. playing for the hoax it was the 43 year old's final game at memphis and fans gave the former player a standing ovation. terrell hatton has survived a tough day at gold's arnold palmer invitational the englishman takes a 2 shot lead into the final round at bay hill in florida after shooting a one over $73.00 he's 6 under for the tournament but in what's been called the most brutal day at bay hill for 37 years only 8 players remained on the park among them new zealand's danny hill danny leave

a big apartment chip in for birdie helping him to stay 3 shots behind hatton. despite the coronavirus threatening to postpone or even cancel the 2020 olympics boxing qualifiers for asia and oceania have gone ahead in jordan's capital amman they were moved from the chinese city of who hand where the outbreak started india's bronze medalist mary kom beat tasman benny of new zealand in the women's flyweight last 16 on the men's side lympics champion chicago within the soil of becky stannis through to the quarter finals of the winning against indonesia's albums or the run up to the circular mix continues with some of the world's best job in the us competing at the american cup which is a qualifier for the games one of those in the running to make the u.s. team is moving her to capture her 2nd all around title in 3 years the 18 year old putting in a stunning performance on the on even bars and in the floor exercises as she looks

to secure her 1st olympic trip. everyone's favorite dog slater races back the i disagree road race began with a ceremonial start in anchorage alaska on saturday this year 57 mushers are competing which is the 2nd smallest field in the past 2 decades the real race starts on sunday and will take teams 1600 kilometers through 2 mountain ranges to the bering sea coast and the old gold rush town of gnome the winner is expected be in about 11 days and will take home a prize of $55000.00 to $5.00 former champions in this race. well even if i have more sports news for me coming up again a little later like a painter we shall look forward to see you later thank you very much indeed more news coming up from london in a couple minutes and i'll be back tomorrow. i

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from a london broadcast center. on al-jazeera. the. shock in chile as a quarter of its population is put under lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus iranians are also urged to stay at home as the country reports a sharp rise in deaths taking the total to 194. hello there are jonah hold this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. thousands of women defied the threat of violence to march in pakistan for international women's day. beaten but not defeated refugees and migrants describe the file.