it's to m.o.h. on al-jazeera. i am . northern italy in knock down as the death toll from corona virus searches. am i am. well you're watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back to school also coming out of oil markets line just saudi arabia slashes prices in a dispute with washoe. marches around the world mark international women's day but in several cities of protesters are met with violence the it was a political spectacle full of pomp and ceremony but did all modi walkaway the women the at. the

end thank you very much for joining us italy has become the site of the biggest corona virus outbreak outside china the number of infections has jumped to more than 7300 overtaking south korea as a 2nd worst hit country italy also reported its largest daily jump in faith tally tease 133 people died on saturday alone this comes as much of the country's north has been based on lockdown no one is allowed to enter or leave the entire body and several neighboring provinces the move affects some 16000000 people there's also been a major spike in deaths in iran the health ministry there conserved more than 6500 infections and nearly $200.00 deaths now more and more countries are imposing restrictions in a bid to stop the virus from spreading. over the past few hours and all gatherings

of more than a 1000 people saudi arabia close all its schools and universities and oregon has become the latest u.s. state to make an emergency declaration sonja gago begins our coverage with this report a city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy is economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls it's famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this country's recent history will look as that's richard in the not me what is happening in my city is worrying me and it's also because milan is a lively city and to see it like this today is almost a defeat for me i never would have thought this would happen milan's my parents or airport has now suspended all flights its neighboring airport now restricted to running only domestic flights but that hasn't stopped people attempting to get away

. fearing further contagion leaders of italy southern regions have warned hundreds of thousands of its citizens who went to work or study in the north of the country not to return home but groups of people continue to arrive from milan arriving with their masks on but there was no one to test them for covert 19. the harsh restrictions are designed to slow down the spread of the disease but there are fears that it may be too little too late hospitals in the affected region have been inundated and sick residents are now being asked to stay at home a stretched health care system is struggling to keep up with the increasing numbers there are no more valuable butts in hospitals and actually the current hospital which serves about 500000 people in all the area of course in these little thought on doctors got infected so there are nor more intensive care but it's

available away from italy there were further increases of the virus all over the continent in france at least 900 people have died from the virus with more than 1100 cases recorded in the country and there are nearly 800 people infected in germany one german national diagnosed with covert 19 has died on holiday in egypt last italy's lockdown is the most stringent outside of china containment may have come too late for some areas slowing down the virus has spread may be the best option for now on a diagonal al-jazeera. omary lisa palumbo is a journalist a milan the capitol of the lombardi legion she says it's nice being seen as a testing ground for western governments looking to impose large scale quarantines busiest absolutely unprecedented the new and difficult to adjust that but on the other hand it's absolutely necessary. so we try you know to work from home

and organize work differently we try to do a lot of skype calls just to feel closer because it's i mean human interaction is fundamental and we cannot really do that you can walk about you have to keep it nice those. so yes it's we are steering you know are adjusting to eat there and it won't be easy also because it won't be quick i mean i think we need a couple weeks of these kind of lockdown which is not a quarantine like the one we had they had in hand. but still it's there are very many restriction and i think we italians also attest the 4 western countries countries all over the war because in china i don't want to retire a regime and it was easier you know to make people comply to all the restriction

and for a democracy i think it's a little bit different. canada plans to fly its citizens on board the via stricken grant for instance who ship to a military base in ontario the ship is carrying more than 3 and a half 1000 people 21 of whom have been diagnosed with coronavirus it was bought from docking in san francisco and has been directed to the nearby port of oakland. to be screened there and then sent to medical and quarantine sites elsewhere now a top health official in the united states has admitted they were missteps that delayed by testing disease expert on the says the government may have to take steps to keep people away from crowded places if the virus continues to spread despite the concerns president continued to hold political rallies. 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. that concerns over a corona virus has continued to take a toll on global stock markets so major indices across asia are down with tokyo and sydney plunging by more than 6 per cent investors are also jittery about an oil price war oil markets fallen by iran 20 percent after sanji arabia oil giant aramco signaled it might increase output and offered its crude and at an unprecedented discount say it comes after a group of leading produces and wash failed to agree on

a cut to oil production on fighting jeff colgan is associate professor of political science at brown university yes' says the drop in oil prices will have a huge impact on the global economy. this is a massive decrease in the price of oil that we're seeing right now is probably the biggest $1.00 says the 1930 s. it's going to have huge economic and political consequences and unfortunately this comes because of a breakdown in negotiations between opec and russia when saudi arabia representing opec asked russia to not only maintain the cuts that they've made previously but also even deepen them in response to the weekend demand from coronavirus russia said no we're not interested and that set off the price war with both of them bidding to expand their own market share this is going to be mixed news and so the 'd up side of it as consumers will see cheaper gasoline prices that might be attractive but on the downside there's going to have there's going to be big

consequences for the stock market and for the overall economy and so that's going to play it differently in different countries but in the united states for instance this could exacerbate. a decline in the stock market that we already saw last week and the week before that and so this seems to be the kind of move that russian leaders might have actually decided what's in their interests at that low oil prices is not good for russia's economy but if it causes even more paying to the u.s. economy it might be something that they be interested in. in other world news women in latin america have commemorated international women's day to demand an end to widespread gender violence and inequality one of the largest marches was in chile where a few feminists activism is sending echo throughout the region and beyond the sea and human reports from santiago. 54 year old marie antoinette ascent divine yes is

on the metro on her way to historic women's day gathering. women from all over chile's capital are already converging at the 10s of thousands. like many here that belongs to a group called les the sea senior their choreographed chant a rapist in your path has become a feminist montra the world over women of all ages occupations and economic standing fields on tablets largest avenue vowing to fight gender inequality stereotypes and much more. but they could actually just cite belong to a generation of women educated to be servants of men i am a teacher in a poor neighborhood and i see my young female students suffering sexual abuse from us early as kindergarten this has to end. in latin america rape and domestic violence are widespread from argentina to colombia to central america women marked

women stay to say enough mothers and daughters march together to you know us out and i'm proud and unafraid to be a woman when my mother was my aunt she was abused and could not speak out because it was considered normal. chilean women are playing a key role they don't go in social protests that began last october over inequality and now they're celebrating that they see as a major political victory. for the 1st time in chile they will be gender parity to create a new constitution if of course we were next month's referendum. but the car. this fear was marred by sporadic clashes with riot police after the security forces began earning. a few blocks ahead of where we are right now we're not sure what provoked it but it did send thousands of women running in the opposite direction of this savage. as well as you can see i've been going in the

direction of the presidential palace aim it will not be deterred. in front of the palace women dragged away the barriers security forces responded with tear gas and water cannon while groups of young men and women stones at. a day of celebration and culture in taishan to be followed by calls for a nationwide feminist strike all over chile on monday you see in human al-jazeera sent out. in mexico city protests turned violent with police firing tear gas at women's day marches thousands of offices and riot gear were deployed to the demonstration some protestors damaged off any irani focused on the country's alarming rate of famine size margins of women have more than doubled over the past 5 years and that to those accused the president of failing to take the issue seriously. was at the protests in mexico city. tons of thousands of women have

descended on mexico city in what is the largest women's march in recent memory this is part of all other marches that are taking place in solidarity with women all over the world in the case of mexico this is also part of a larger movement a feminist movement that hasn't been seen before and is calling out what they call a much eastham male dominated society we want to give you a sense of what women have been saying to us over the course of the day. because we are tired of the violence that we live in every day and we are not satisfied with the solutions the government is planning for us we want. that everything works perfect for all of 3 men man and children. now as you can see these protests and these marches have been peaceful there have been a handful of the more radical elements within this movement that if you spray paint and smash windows but what they say they said to us is that they've tried going the

peaceful route they've tried speaking to government officials and this is the only way that they'll be heard the anger here so i mean from the fact that 10 women are killed every day in mexico and this demonstration this barge taking place in mexico city is really only a precursor to other events that are going to take place including in our own president to women's strike were thousands of women have vowed not to go to work on monday for a day without women. still ahead on al-jazeera the field of democratic presidential hopefuls in the u.s. now rose to 2 main contenders is going to sanders and joe biden prepare for the next round of fun it's. had a decimal rain in the calls into southern areas of the united states it's been developing into the southern plains but as we continue through the stalls of the week it

really is the central plains where we're going to see some very heavy amounts of rain but the time it has really have come up over the last few days 21 celsius in d.c. on monday that's about 10 degrees above the average but this rain very heavy in data doesn't make much progress on monday we could have some localized flooding out across the west we've got one and 2 snow flurries and as it reaches a some very welcome rain pushing into the southern as a california and across into the baja peninsula that raimi well on tuesday it does the going to weaken and also push further east was but again still feeling pretty mild even though it's not quite as woman d.c. with a high of 19 degrees plenty of showers as well these are continue its wind. tied to the same system a wall that clear the eastern seaboard of the u.s. a day or so ago so we got wise but really through. down across into nicaragua and some rather heavy spells right at times through much of haiti right there crawls tools fresh ricoh and if not it'll stay very unsettled as we go through tuesday again some of these rains could be very heavy because some very heavy downpours

meanwhile is drawing off across into cuba with the high the 26. in 2013 cases of getting great shock to asia and the world it's almost like young men take each other on al-jazeera asked men in cambodia what drove them to commit violence against women i don't know whether it's rape because a contact for the girls in 2016 has anything changed normalization of violence against women unfortunately i think is still a very common pattern around the rewind it's a man's world on al-jazeera. the the i am.

welcome back our top stories on our which is iraq to be has overtaken south korea as the 2nd worst hit country by corona virus outside china a number of infections has surpassed 7300 in this report of an ma just daily jump in deaths iran meanwhile has reported mistrials number called the virus test within me 24 hour period bringing the total to $194.00 but one prevention official is suggesting the number of deaths could be much higher than what's being reported 6. and concern over the economic impact of the current virus outbreak has seen no major indices across asia lines as much as 6 percent oil prices also fell heavily after saudi arabian oil giant slashed prices and signaled it might increase our books. now to afghanistan where the naga ration of president is expected to

take place in the coming hours but so will that of his bitter rival abdullah abdullah after september's polls the 2 bickered over who really want to meet allegations of voter fraud have been concerns or spot could derail talks between the government and the taliban women's rights groups in particular are worried what will happen if the taliban regains power. a fire has ripped through a refugee center on the greek island of la the 2nd facility for migrants on the island in less than a week after an unknown assailant torch a reception center 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 last post 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 mclean a don't feel safe at the moment i love to walk and i like to sit in places now he doesn't feel safe anymore when you know when we go when you know when we drive around sometimes we get stopped and we get questioned and then there are some words we cannot go 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 against the guineas i understand this and we were not prepared to deal with that but we need to ask you know for here we need to find other kind of susan this solution is lead to target the i think this was not he's not going to look. because we're getting this people do not not not should be doing and yes 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 charity 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 ople us al-jazeera less force. families of the victims of flight m.h. 17 which was a shot down over ukraine in 2014 have attended a silent protest outside the russian embassy in the hague. 298 chairs symbolize the number of people killed when the malaysia airlines plane was struck by a missile fired from territory held by pro russian separatists 4 men will be tried in a dutch on monday accused of murder for their roles in the attack setbacks and has more. for 6 years relatives of passengers on flight m.h. 17 have been waiting to find out who was responsible for bringing down the plane over eastern ukraine they hope to trial in the netherlands will give them answers it was the most deadly single incident in the war between ukrainian government forces and russian backed safra this that continues to this day up to 298 people on

board 196 came from the netherlands many of them having for holiday in southeast asia 4 suspects are being charged with murder for allegedly helping transport a russian book anti aircraft missile which investigators say brought down the plane russian former military and intelligence officers ego. and surrogate dubin ski had high ranking positions in the separatist army in eastern ukraine they've made it clear they won't attend the trial. will be replanted by a lawyer for moscow has denied any involvement and accuses the investigators of fabricating the evidence saying phone recording was released by the investigation team afaik social media analysts say the so-called sin petersburg troll factory also accused of interfering in the u.s. 2016 elections send out tens of thousands of tweets in the hours and days after the plane came down promoting the russian narrative some researchers say it was

a well organized this information campaign designed to create confusion. see this goal everything is used and they are not really bothered by the fact that they are contradicting themselves all the toys that one day they saw it was occurring in a fighter jet and to do. it is ukrainian that brought down the plane and tomorrow it will be training fighter jet again russia has offered to hold a trial here in moscow but the dutch government has rejected that for some russians this proves that the trial won't be fair but just clear that this is a politically motivated trial and from my point of view it wasn't right at the time to give away the black boxes to haul it because from the very beginning it was clear that the black boxes will be used against russia asked if he would change his mind if the evidence presented in the dutch court is convincing he satisfactory little chance of that a recent poll shows that only 10 percent of russians believe that russia was responsible for the downing of i made $75.00 times higher than what it was 6 years

ago but many say that the chances of the russian government will change its position are very slim because it has always maintained that it was never involved in the war in eastern ukraine in the 1st place step 5 al-jazeera moscow. the next round of democratic primaries in the united states takes place on tuesday a contest looks dramatically different than it did just a week ago a race that began with nearly 30 candidates is now down to just 2 serious contenders from on senator bernie sanders and former vice president joe biden biden leads sanders by about 90 delegates in the race for the nomination and the right to face off against president donald trump in november's general election 6 states vote on tuesday the most closely watched will be michigan where $125.00 delegates will be selected the days largest total sanders scored an upset when they're against hillary clinton 4 years ago and is hoping

a similar victory now will revive his campaign. has the latest from destroy us. this is a state with 125 delegates up for grabs on tuesday there are 5 other states that are also going to be voting but they don't have nearly as many delegates as this state michigan has and this is what it's all timidly come down to now a race for those nearly 1900 delegates that are needed to secure the democratic nomination joe biden has several more than bernie sanders at this point but that is why so much attention is being put on michigan also it's come down to essentially the final 2 candidates for the most part and these are the signs of the 2 candidates that you're seeing all over the state of michigan joe biden and bernie sanders but it's not only their signs you see there their selves also campaigning here in this state bernie sanders was here on sunday joe biden is

expected here on monday at a rally as well they're putting a lot of emphasis on michigan because if bernie sanders wins michigan it will show that he is back in this race and very much a contender if not the front runner where if joe biden is able to win this state and win it convincingly his lead will even increase even more and it could lead to coals for bernie sanders to step out of the race of course but we'll have to see but clearly this is the state everyone is going to be watching on tuesday. now there was much fanfare about the meeting between u.s. press and donald trump and india's prime minister narendra modi last month the pair drew huge crowds in india but it left some wondering who came out the winner tony betty looks at the relationship between the 2 countries and i did as a political spectacle it was hard to beat pomp and circumstance and mutual admiration from the leader of the most powerful country and a man who wants to be

a player on the world stage but the relationship between donald trump and india's prime minister narendra modi is about more than just complements it's about trade money and it's about china disposed toward india is based on location geography and economic potential. if you take all these into account there's more the country any show which can offer any kind of a balanced. united states india as an essential buffer to the growing expansionism of china in the asia region. the us has the most powerful navy in the world but india is the dominant power in the indian ocean and the risk concern that beijing may spread its power in the south china sea to india's area of control sees it set of models itself on america that ability to project power cross the oceans to be a global player to have to be able to influence outcomes in distant shores and

distant parts of the world so to that extent china is almost certainly going to expand its going too far into the indian ocean and the indian navy will have to contend with that. more than 40 percent of the world's oil passes through the indian ocean is the lifeline for the economies of many countries china has developed bases and ports in east africa and sri lanka it is currently operating 9 naval ships in the indian ocean but there are concerns this may increase india is an essential early warning system with a string of strategic listening posts in the region. india has just agreed to purchase a $3000000000.00 worth of attack helicopters from the us but its military capability is far below that of china which spends 4 times more on defense in addition the indian navy is in need of upgrading it has just 2 aircraft carriers for example compared to china's 10 and is scaling back plans to expand its fleet because of costs for india having a powerful friend like the united states is important but it doesn't want to make

an enemy out of china either the 2 countries fought a border war in 1982 over disputed territory and there are still unresolved issues but india is well aware of the strength and capability of asia's growing superpower to much of the indian public it seems the indian prime minister got more out of the trump visit but critic. say it was simply q.d.o.s. and indorsement real substance belongs to the us with india having to turn to an american line that previous indian governments have resisted such as how it deals with iran the options are shrinking because trump is also making it a world outside the chinese influence where it is going to pull if you will if america has a problem with iran you will not deal with iran it will be india of 2030 years of who we could fight we could economically would have been able to play the russians against the americans and continue dealing with iran because we do it to be so. they have to fear is the chinese threat and big then have to do what it would

america requires of them and that is actually the current situation in which we're operating. india is having to perform a delicate balancing act because the u.s. and china continue their battle for global dominance it's hoping it won't become collateral damage tony berkeley al jazeera delhi. hello again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera italy has become one of the countries to be worst hit by coronavirus outside of china the number of infections has surpassed 7300 and it's reported the largest daily jump in deaths in iran has reported its highest number of coronavirus deaths within a 24 hour period bringing the total to $194.00 but one provincial official is suggesting the number of deaths could be much higher than what's been reported it's a concern over a coronavirus has continued to take

a toll on global stock markets all major indices across asia are down with tokyo and sydney plunging by more than 6 percent investors are also jittery about an oil price war oil markets have fallen by around 20 percent after saga arabian oil giant aramco discounted its crude and signal it might increase output it comes after a group of leading producers and russia failed to agree on a cut to oil production on friday. protests in mexico city have turned violent with police firing tear gas at women marches thousands of officers in riot gear were deployed to the demonstrations some protesters damaged property the rani focus on the country's alarming rate of family size murders of women of more than doubled over the past 5 years. police in greece of use 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 there since last

week when turkey declared its borders with the e.u. open president recep tayyip erdogan has urged greece to open the gates and allow migrants to travel further into europe is used to meet officials in brussels on monday to discuss the issue. and the inauguration of afghanistan's president is expected to take place in the coming hours but so will that of his bitter rival abdoun abdulla after september's polls the to bicker over who really won amid allegations of fraud have been concerns their spat could derail talks between the government and the taliban those are the headlines on al-jazeera and that's it for me fully back to vote coming up next rewind it's a man's world. on counting the cost why the breakup just isn't good enough to save the global economy thanks to the fast spreading through of the virus scientists race to find a vaccine to stop the epidemic plus the environmental damage of drilling for oil in

the republic of congo counting the cost. hello and welcome to rewind we're revisiting our best documentary the pos decades this week we rewind to 2013 when gang rape hits the headlines after a young indian woman was brutally attacked on a bus in delhi research showed that gang rape was a serious problem not just in india but right across asia in the wake of that terrible event all.