no way. no concrete is alike and it's my job to shed light on how and why. the way. as a quarter of italy's population is put under lockdown country's coronavirus death toll jumps to $366.00. iranians have also been urged to stay at home after a sharp rise in deaths reported there. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program the saudi king makes a rare appearance after the reported arrests of 4 senior princes box room is about his health. started. and a rally to mark international women's day turns violent and care to stand off to

protest as are attacked and arrested. italy has suffered another sharp spike in deaths from corona virus a day after posting a quarter of its population that 16000000 people under lockdown 366 people are now known to have died from the virus an increase of 133 people from saturday making it the country with the highest official death toll outside china more than 7000 infections have also been confirmed the lockdown includes the entire region of long body where 267 of the deaths were recorded and to 10000000 people and the financial capital milan no one can move in or out of the area the lockdown has also been imposed on 14 other provinces including venice affecting another 6000000 people there those restrictions are set to remain in place until early april well

austria's chancellor has been speaking out saying that it's only a matter of time before more european countries adopt the same aggressive measures as italy saw a gay guy as our point now. in padua in northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city before it was put into lockdown because of the fog i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent decree putting in the red zone and because i'd like to return down south to my relatives i decided to go earlier. prime minister has signed a decree to impose an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the lawn body 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 long body 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 are going 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 canceled 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 coronavirus 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. well sana joins us live now so we've seen an

increase in the number of deaths in italy but also infections are on the rise as well as the government takes these tough new measures how people are reacting to all of this well understandably there is a real definite sense of panic now in the country especially in those lockdown areas the fact those people are going to be under those strict measures really for almost a month now alongside the whole aspect of what how one copes in that situation where there are new infections happening it's also a question of how they go about their daily lives of course has been an absolute disruption to that you've had one of italy one of milan's main airports now no longer. having any flights at all its neighboring airports is only operating domestic flights so there really is a sense that they are really being quite isolated at all but of course the question

remains is this really too late now because of the rate of infection that is taking place he's a very strong measures and of course they may have help to a certain degree but it's more to slow down anything than really to prevent what is quite reasonably being seen as as a real spread across the country all right thank you very much sonicare go well as we're hearing they're growing a virus outbreak is causing a great deal of disruption to life in italy francesco henri's an italian journalist currently based in al sunnah long bardot one of the west affected areas in the country who is saying this is the part of the country that is in under lockdown now she is saying that hospitals in the region have been have been inundated to the point where the sick of being told to stay at home. now it's sunday afternoon and this is the main square of of the guy wanted it bout 15000 people and this completely is that i read this zor not read zorn in the last 3 days there were

16 dead. i'm betting that everybody got infected everybody because it they are already sick and so they still call him because they're out of norm or if bads in hospitals and actually the current hospital which serves about 500000 people in all the area natale of course in this little town doctors got infected saw there are nor more intensive care beds available and so basically italians are asked to see a tall man 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 often look because doctors saw these star one as 10 local doctors we call them shiny dr seuss. so actually you are asked to call your family doctor but the family doctor can visit your dorm is full did the now. so basically just before

they can tell you try to understand if you got to strike you go not because of course you can get your c.v. just the normal. on out of the middle east saudi arabia has suspended all schools and universities in the country in response to the virus the country's education minister has ordered virtual schools to be set up instead during the suspension earlier place the eastern region of the tif under lockdown suspending all public and private sector work all 11 people in the kingdom have tested positive for the virus are insight which has a large shia population. well iran is the hardest hit country not just in the middle east but globally it reported a shopping craze and infections on sunday saying more than 6000 people have the virus and 194 people have died same astronomy is intact ron but he says the government is hopeful the outbreak will soon be on to control in another massive spike in the number of coronavirus related deaths 49 in the last 24 hours bringing

the total death toll closer and closer to $200.00 specifically $194.00 people have died of the corona virus since the outbreak was made public in iran $743.00 new cases overall in the last 24 hours another large jump $6566.00 is the total number of cases in this country now the highest level was in home when this outbreak began it is now into iran and to haunt in and around the capital of the country during the health ministry briefing earlier today the spokesman did say that the trend of the total number of cases does seem to be going down which is a positive step you also said the spike seen in the death toll the ongoing cases that we see today is a result of infections that have happened over the course of the last week to 10 days 'd so he said if people take the precaution airy measures that the government is prescribing seriously then within the next 2 weeks or so they will begin to see

the results they will begin to see the circumstances improve and they will begin to see the overall number of cases to go down and that is really the government's goal here to stop the spread to be able to contain it so as to be able to have confidence both in being able to let people continue to move around the country as they wish and being able to reopen the country's many borders and airports that have been closed to the international community since this outbreak began. well now to the united states a top health official there is a message that will missteps that delayed virus testing disease expert anthony found she says the government might consider shutting down sections of the country hit hardest by the virus in merican militaries restricting travel to and from countries like italy and south korea by the have been large outbreaks well despite the concerns president trump says that he will continue to hold political rallies so let's get the latest from patty culhane his life for us in washington and so the

possibility there of the country being quarantined what are we seeing in terms of the spread of the virus there in the u.s. . well we're just starting to get our 1st idea of where it is in the united states and you might be asking yourself how is that possible this is been out there for weeks months even well that's because they're just now starting to do widespread testing for the corona virus in the united states and the reason for that is that the centers for disease control came up with the test they were in charge of it sent it out it didn't work took a couple more weeks to come up with it then another government agency would not give approval to hospitals and colleges to come up with their own test they've now done that so basically the tests are going out but we don't have any clear idea of how many people have been tested because i unlike every other emergency the centers for disease control has always put out the information here's how many people have been tested they're not doing that now we're getting

a lot of mixed messages from the same ministration the president president saying anybody who wants a test can get a test we're hearing from doctors they know which still not able to get the tests the vice president who's in charge just 24 hours before that said we simply don't have enough tests so the tests now are going out on a widespread scale and we do expect that the numbers are going to climb dramatically we're getting from johns hopkins now the numbers of 474 confirmed cases 474 confirmed cases in the united states but this is an administration that's been trying to send the message that everything's perfect the president actually tweeted that it's a perfect response perfectly coordinated fine tuned response but we're hearing something very different from the head of the national institutes for health. 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 will 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. so the president was asked are you going to stop with your political rallies he said i'm not even considering that but that is being talked about with not just a doctor but we heard from the governor of washington state saying that's something that they may have to consider but in the lack of leadership from the government as far as that is concerned as far as restrict the movements we've seen major employers in places like seattle that's been particularly hard hit telling their workers work from home that's having a pretty big economic cost though on the people in the businesses that rely on those workers to spend money in their let's say bakeries or cafes so they're trying

to walk a fine line here the government leaders are with not taking the economy not causing panic but also trying to get a handle on exactly how widespread this is it is just the beginning and i don't think anyone in the united states has any idea just how widespread it is just yet thank you from washington. you have al jazeera live from london still ahead on the program beaten but not defeated refugees and migrants describe the violence they've been subjected to while trying to cross from turkey into greece and then a fire rips through a refugee center on the greek island of les pauls as tensions flow over an influx of new. i know that there is more wes and windy weather on his way across towards the

northwest of europe in particular calls island and the u.k. a lot of catching up and also to the north into. a more rain and also more snow but this is a story through monday this is an excess dump piling in the wind strong up through the armor say some very heavy amounts of rain not just that it could well turn to snow to the higher grounds now really meanwhile. to mainland europe we just got bits and pieces of rain again some snow in the cold air but again for the most part time it isn't too bad moscow remains very mild indeed 10 celsius the average for may is just one and a half degrees celsius some very heavy rain clearing away from greece but on its way into west and it actually begins to fall apart quite quickly so just some scattered showers again maybe some snow flurries and then we went on to say well a band of snow working its way across the line of the owls and then behind this system some blustery conditions and again the child but warming up very quickly into madrid with a high of $23.00 degrees now throughout the madrigals got

a bit of system here bringing that rain so we could well see some showers monday and tuesday really these coastal areas of algeria tunisia on towards libya and it certainly brings us temperatures down to really feeling quite cool and shipley at just 13. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is me. by them both my sis and i saw. the 2nd of a 2 part. of the remarkable family. the father. and the. 2 on 20. the is. the the the and.

so let's update you on the top stories this hour italy has suffered another sharp spike in deaths from corona virus a day after putting a quarter of its population under lockdown $366.00 people are now known to have died that's an increase of $133.00 from saturday meanwhile iran is reporting its highest number of coronavirus deaths within a 24 hour period as well this brings the total that 294 there now more than 6 and a half 1000 infections across the country. and then in the united states a top health official is saying that was the missteps which delayed viral test virus testing in the country the u.s. military is restricting travel to and from countries like italy and south korea. we are covering other news this hour as well

a 4th senior prince is believed to have been detained in saudi arabia according to u.s. media reports the former head of army intelligence prince knife been ahmed is among those now being held but hasn't been any official response from the government alex o'brien reports. saturday's day 3 day 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 arrest of several princes and dozens of officials in recent days the king's younger brother prince ahmed abdul aziz else elbowed 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 has rumored in the past you might be considering. basically have the case and the last thing been some men want to

challenge there are reports of an attempted coup though some analysts believe crown prince mohammed bin solomon is further consolidating his power mohamed bin solomon known as n.b.'s 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 armored 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 2017 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 solomon's international profile was further tarnished after the killing of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi 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 the person who was actually the sovereign power in the southeast. reports suggest those detained now face long term imprisonment or even death. alexia brian al jazeera to libya now one civilian has been killed 3 more in hospital in the capital tripoli after a rocket hit a house close to the international airport the u.n.

recognized government is blaming forces loyal to warlord holly for have to have been trying to capture the capital for almost a year but is the only and operational airport in tripoli at the moment it has been the target of frequent attacks since have to began his campaign last april. in other news at least 6 people have died in avalanches in austria a group of walkers was swept away by falling snow on the scene at mountain range 5 bodies have been recovered in all the victims are believed to be from the czech republic and then further west a police officer on a training exercise was killed by an avalanche on the grossglockner peak. greek police have used water cannon to fight off thousands of refugees and migrants who stones at them from the other side of the border with turkey thousands of migrants have been camping nest in last week when turkey declared its borders with the open president. to open the gates and allow migrants to travel further into europe is

due to meet officials in brussels on monday to tackle the issue meanwhile migrants and refugees try to cross from turkey to greece of been describing scenes at the border as something out of a horror movie it's going to aim has more from the border city of a d.n.a. . 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 whatever to use the wounded to you know they caught me and beat me while they took me to a car 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 in a c. or 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 and that enough of them. they handcuffed him and took us to the river bank 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 the friends i 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 but. 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 home 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. well a fire refugee center on the greek island this is the 2nd such incident at a facility for my points on the island in less than a week after unknown assailants torched a reception center for rise boss john psaropoulos reports. the school of peace burned to the ground 3 years to the day after it opened that date and recent political tension caused by a far right faction of islanders targeting refugee charities has raised suspicions

about how this fire started investigations into the cause are ongoing the school had been closed for 2 weeks because of the tense atmosphere on lesbos refugees living in the island's refugee camp and moria were told not to come it doesn't feel like the same place when i walk in the state of don't feel safe at the moment i love the work they love to see places now he doesn't feel safe anymore and when we go when we did have around sometimes we get stabbed and we get questioned and then there are some words we can and sometimes. that tension came after the greek government tried to build a detention center the islanders don't want to replace the overcrowded morea camp and became much worse after turkey opened its borders to refugees who want to go to europe greece sought to defend its borders and push the migrants and refugees back many greeks see the turkish policy as a deliberate assault hundreds of people on lesbos demonstrated against allowing

turkish policy to convert a humanitarian issue into a national security issue they used people they disband of people i guess the good i understand and we were not prepared to do that but we need to ask you know for here we need to find other kind of susan this solution. lead to this was not he's not going to do what. because we're not dating this people do not not not she claims there are thousands of children among the 22000 asylum seekers at moria camp many of which have never been to school because of war and violence in their countries there is no formal school for them on the island and their only chance to have an education is in care of the run institutions like this one the school is entirely ruined steel girders and sheet metal have buckled under the heat desks and benches reduced to ashes school of peace which is privately funded says

it will launch an international fundraising campaign to help rebuild a much needed facility jumpstart openness al-jazeera lesbos. well from what is iris to mexico women across latin america's biggest cities are taking to the streets to mark international women's day in chile thousands have been marching through the capital in the wake of broader demonstrations over social inequality they are demanding justice for those women her chairing the protest movement which began last year chile's institute for human rights says more than $430.00 women were injured over 3 months. well a launch much is also planned in mexico after test is a focusing on the alarming number of women who are in the country life to money rapidly has in mexico city it certainly seems to have galvanized women and men in the region actually who are concerned about inequality and gender based violence what's the feeling when you amani. that's certainly the case

maryam as you mentioned there are women state demonstrations taking place all over the world in the case of latin america there taking place within this in the midst of this larger social unrest in the case of mexico it has to do with gender based violence a record number of women who have been killed in recent years due to gender based violence to give you a sense of the scale of this problem and there was a national poll recently that found that 66 percent of women over the age of 15 have experienced physical or emotional abuse 41 percent of these women polled have experienced some form of sexual assault and these are the government's own numbers and given the amount of in community that suffered in mexico the expectation the belief is that that number is actually much higher now these protests the protests that events that are taking place today in mexico city are part of a larger social movement you'll see amid the multitude of people behind me the color purple signifying that woman's movement you'll see banners and flag with the

color green symbolizing women's reproductive rights now these protests have been taking place for several weeks 7 months given this worsening problem of gender based violence in mexico and there's been criticism over the tactics that that many of the women use on the streets calling them radical but the what they tell us when we speak to women who have lost a sister who have lost a mother who have lost a loved one to to gender violence what they say is that they've tried going the peaceful route they've tried speaking to the government and have been ignored and this is the only way that they'll be listened to marion all right thank you. thank you very much from mexico city on your rap. reporting to us on a march that is planned there oversea a great deal of concern about the number of women the creasing number of women being murdered in the country there's also been around international image care just on and that's turned violent often lost men attacked the protesters demonstrators have gathered in the main square of the capital bishkek when men wearing masks and barged into the gallery started tearing ban is

a part police detained around 60 people including dozens of female activists say women's rights are deteriorating in the fullness of public there is a resurgence of right wing ideology. the patriarchy is like a judge would guilty of being cool you know the sentence to say out loud. we were attacked eggs with foreigners who physically attacked the police started intimidating and after it began the remaining radicals ran away. a day before the trial of 4 men accused of murder for their roles in the downing of fights m.h. 17 of ukraine the families of the victims have been protesting outside the russian embassy in the hague 298 chairs symbolize the number killed when the malaysia airlines flight was shot down 6 years ago by a missile fired from territory held by pro russian separatists the families are angry about russia's lack of cooperation with the investigation

right so there's much more in everything we're covering al jazeera dot com you can get comment analysis and video on demand but don't forget that you can watch us on life streaming if you prefer that. just a quick look at the headlines italy has suffered another sharp spike in deaths from corona virus a day after putting a quarter of its population under lockdown 366 people are now known to have died an increase of 133 from saturday the illness has spread rapidly since the 1st cluster of cases was discovered there with more than 7300 infections confirmed there are nor more bold beds in hospitals and actually the current cost because which says about $500000.00 people in all of the area of told you of course this little town

doctors go to affected saw there are nor more intensive care but it's available and so basically italians are asked to stay you toolman when they get fever let's say that the fault line is the current i mean these is the pharmacy meanwhile saudi arabia has announced that it's suspending all schools and universities in the country in response to the virus country's education minister has ordered virtual schools to be set up instead earlier it placed the eastern region of teeth under lockdown suspending all public and private sector work all 11 people in the kingdom have tested positive for the virus in the teeth iran meanwhile has also reported its highest number of corona virus deaths within a 24 hour period bringing the total there to 194 there are now more than 6 and a half 1000 infections across the country and then a top health official in the united states has admitted there were missteps that delayed virus testing disease expert anthony found she says the government may

consider shutting down sections of the country hit hardest by the virus. in other news one person has been killed after a rocket hit a house close to tripoli's international airport the un recognized government is blaming forces loyal to 125 to has been trying to catch at the libyan capital for almost a year great police have used water cannon to fight off dozens of refugees and migrants who were hurling stones at them from the other side of the border with turkey thousands of migrants have been camping that since last week when he declared its borders with you. that is the headlines this hour told you al jazeera is coming up next but there will be more news for you after that about 25 minutes time i'll see that bye for now.

the all. the ability. 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 degree meant includes a timeline of 14 months for us and nato troops to withdraw a taliban guarantee that of guns soil will not be used to threaten the u.s. security and negotiations would be up on government by march 10th leading to a permanent and comprehensive cease fire. behind the signing with years of shuttle diplomacy but that played a central role in the negotiations to toasted the months long discussion between representatives of the taliban and american officials in the capital doha now with an agreement.