just era. form . northern italy in lockdown as the number of people infected with corona virus. i'm compelled this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up global oil markets plunge in saudi arabia slashes prices in a dispute with russia. it was a political spectacle full of pomp and ceremony but did trump or modi walk away the window. marches around the world mark international women's day but in several cities the protests met with violence.

there's been a major spike in deaths caused by corona virus in 133 people died on saturday alone and the number of infections there more than doubled putting the scale of its outbreak on par with south korea this comes as any put a quarter of its population that 16000000 people under lockdown no one is allowed to enter or leave the entire long body region as well as 14 provinces until early april and there's been a major spike in deaths in iran the health ministry confirmed more than 6 and a half 1000 infections and nearly 194 people have died more more countries are imposing restrictions in a bid to stop the virus from spreading front span to all gatherings of more than a 1000 people saudi arabia close to all its schools and universities and oregon has become the latest u.s. state to make an emergency declaration we begin our coverage with sunny gables

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 and then i mean what is happening in my city is worrying me and it's also saddening 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's 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 is 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 1000 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. al-jazeera. is a journalist in milan's the capital of the lombardi region she says italy is being seen as a testing ground for western governments looking to impose large scale quarantines . absolutely unprecedented the new and difficult to adjust 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. us to feel closer because i mean human interaction

is fundamental and we cannot really do that you can walk up but you have to keep it nice. so yes we are stealing you know adjusting to eat there and it won't be easy also because it won't be. weak i mean i think we need. a couple of weeks of these kind of lockdown which is not a quarantine like the one we had they had in. but. there are very many restriction and i think we italians also a test for 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 more of the more i think it's a little bit different. mainland china has reported 40 new cases of the virus and another 22 deaths all apart from one within the epicenter who by the number of people affected by the virus in mainland china has been steadily dropping in recent

training you has the latest from beijing. to 40 new cases in 22 deaths that's the lowest some of the lowest numbers we've seen since this outbreak really started to pick up steam at the end of january in china more than 80000 people have been infected but health authorities say that most of those people have been cured and there are only about 20000 people now who are being treated for the current virus in hospital still 5000 people or so are in critical condition but it's definitely a positive picture and we're starting to see real concrete evidence of the change in this positive improvement in the epicenter of who bay province itself now there was at one point thousands of people being diagnosed every day about 2000 people on some days and of course because of that huge demand on the hospital system in will hand they had to create all these makeshift hospitals with 14 makeshift hospitals were created including one called the living room which accommodated 1700 patients

now 11 of those have now suspended operations or have been closed because there are not enough patients so obviously that's a good sign we've also heard today that there was a leak to document from ruhani airport and the using stuff to be ready to go back to work on march 10th now we have to remember there was a complete lockdown in the city of will han nobody could get in and out that means no trains and no flights so this is a sign that they're not necessarily going to stop flights on march 10th but would one airport is starting to think about getting up and running again which is a very big sign. kind of the plans to fly citizens on board the virus stricken grand princess cruise 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 corona virus was barred from docking and san francisco has been directed to the nearby port of oakland passages to be screened there and then to be sent been sent to medical and quarantine sites elsewhere. a top health official in the united states has admitted there were

mistakes made virus testing disease experts anthony felt she says the government may have to take steps to keep people away from crowded places if the virus continues to spread this why the concerns president donald trump says he'll continue to hold political rally the tester out there there was a misstep early on with regard to the test. a technical difficulty but right now about $1100000.00 tests are out there now will be an additional about $640000.00 on it 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. concern of a coronavirus has continued to take

a toll on global stock markets all major indices across asia dell tokyo and sydney plunging by more than 6 percent this is also just a rebound an oil price for oil markets have fallen by around 20 percent saudi arabian oil giant but it's crude at unprecedented discounts and signaled it might increase output comes after a group of leading produces and russia failed to agree on a cut to oil production on friday. colgan is the author of petro aggression when oil causes war he 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 once of 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 deep in them in response to the the we can 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 upside 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 was in their interests that lower 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'd be interested in. you know gratian all the afghanistan's president musharraf's ghani is expected to take place in the coming and some will the rest of his vision rival abdullah abdullah to september's polls the to pick a dozen who really won amid allegations of voter fold i think concerns the spec could derail talks between the government and the taliban women's rights groups in particular. what will happen if the taliban regains. reports from kabul. it's a little bit tucked away in a basement in kabul away from prying. this was the 1st gym for women only to open here sic you know mohamedi chose to name it bore no one but start or elite women in the local dialect that were that they. forget their own it's been 2 years now

initially people had different views towards sports because we're a conservative society but those who came here have seen good results and felt the benefits of working out so no they're encouraging us. most of her clients are young women who are part of a new generation enjoying freedoms their mothers never had but they are the minority this is a country devastated by 40 years of war and women have always been the biggest victims not only of the taliban kidnapping and rape were rampant during the civil war 2 there's also the high number of afghan widows estimates vary from 600000 up to 2000000 cannot be lost her husband wouldn't 20 years ago when we arrived to interview her she told us that her 4 month old grandson had died that same morning but being the only breadwinner in a family of 8 she couldn't afford to take the day off she has to work hoping that every stroke of the broom will take

a little of the grief away. you know. i'm really tired of life because i don't have a father or son or husband over a brother i'm alone and i have 8 daughters i'm upset because after i wake up i start sweeping i need medicine but when i buy a car my family when i feed my family i can't get treatment i really don't know what to do. women gained equal rights in the 2004 constitution but nothing is guaranteed if you look at the political atmosphere now you see different groups are talking with each other about sharing of power and political arrangements women are not there actually we have inside afghanistan probably even inside the government but i see the government i mean the 2 institutions of government who would think and believe the same way as taliban do navigating through social restrictions is not easy for medina i met her family doesn't know about her workout schedule nor do

they know she's a gifted artist shirt. which i don't blame them because of our society she worries what people will say but we think differently i was born here and need to rebuild my country women must be strong and contribute to society these are challenging times $500.00 stand the prospect of peace is on the horizon again and there is fear that women could lose out but there is also a new generation willing to fight to protect their rights put up that hamid al-jazeera kabul. still ahead on al-jazeera the field of democratic presidential hopefuls narrow street to main contenders bernie sanders and joe biden prepare for the next round of primaries.

and there's a fairly quiet picture across much of the middle east on the arabian peninsula the candidates to the north you'll notice quite a bundle of chad on its way towards turkey it is bringing some rain but in actual fact it's heavy really all monday just as a sitting offshore said beginning to push those showers across but then much easier it tends to fall apart we have one or 2 scottish isles across into iran and once again by cheese they will see more in the way of rain and snow a bit of a mix really throughout much of off ganesan on towards pakistan so a cool day in kabul with a high of just reach agrees to say those showers into turkey that very lightly scott says and then is pretty warm as well on into syria 24 celsius in damascus but fitting a big cooler in doha with a high of 23 but some good sunny skies now know that madagascar is where the shells are continuing to the east as well again it could be seeing some heavy amounts of rain and then really angola up towards the north as i was saying really the usual seasonal scattered showers and thunderstorms and again on monday we could see one to 2 washout just on these coastal areas of south africa temperatures are not too

bad 25 degrees celsius in capetown but john is there a little bit mile 28 degrees it stays at about $28.00 for the next couple of days it also stay dry meanwhile the show's continuing to coastal areas and again as i say more showers across more than at least in madagascar. joined by listening post as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news channel on a provocative and focused on. they report on the stories that matter the most to the states misleads the public the state media reflects the center for us climate change a cold air editorial show it's a dark believe they have anything to apologize for their listening post on al-jazeera. on the end

to end. a at. georgiadis there are a matter of our top stories in sol italy has become the worst country to be affected by corona virus outside of asia the number of infections has surpassed 7370 reported a largest daily jump and deaths. iran has reported its highest number of call on a virus deaths within 24 hour period bringing the total to $194.00 but one provincial official are suggesting the number of deaths could be much higher than what's been reported. concern over the economic impact of the corona virus outbreak has seen all major indices across asia plunge as much as 6 percent oil prices also fell heavily after saudi arabian oil giant around cost slashed prices signaled it

might increase output. women latin america commemorated international women's day to demand an end to widespread gender violence and inequality one of the largest marches was in chile where feminist activism is sending echoes throughout the region and beyond the sea and human reports from santiago. 54 year old marie antoinette ascent divine yes it's 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 the stacey sr their choreographed chant a rapist in your path has become a feminist montra the world over women of all ages occupations and economic standing filton tablets largest avenues falling to fight gender inequality stereotypes and much more sure but they could actually lead a state 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 females to do. 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 stayed to say enough mothers and daughters marched together to you know us out of this image and i'm proud and unafraid to be a woman when my mother was my and 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 win next month's referendum. but the carnival

atmosphere was marred by sporadic clashes with riot police and the security forces began early we've got a few blocks ahead of where we are right now we're not sure what provoked it but it did send thousands of women being in the opposite direction on this avenue is that . i doubt. if you can see i've been turning in the direction of the presidential palace and they will not be deterred. in front of the palace some women dragged away the barriers security forces responded with tear gas and water cannon well groups of young men and women stones at them a game 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 women's day protests turned violent words police firing

tear gas that. was at a protest. tens 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 east a male dominated society we want to give you a sense of what women have been saying to us over the course of the day that. we have. because we are tired of the violence that we live in every day we are not satisfied with the solutions the government is planning for us and we want that everything works perfect for all of us we 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 to 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. but xstrata democratic primaries in the united states takes place on tuesday a race that began with nearly 30 candidates is now down to just 2 serious contenders the montana 70 standards and former vice president joe biden i don't lead sanders by about 90 delegates in the race for the nomination and the right to face off against president donald trump and november's general election 6 states vote on tuesday the most closely watched will be michigan where one $125.00 delegates will be selected the day's largest total ever and is on the has latest

from detroit. 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 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. lincoln mitchell is a political science is lake track columbia university he says the race is getting tough about a sand. the race is different biden is a different candidate than clinton it helps biden frankly that he's a man among a lot of white working class voters men who went with sanders last time but was very strong with after american voters but so was clinton so this is going to be a tough race for sanders sanders has built his coalition out in 2020 largely with latino voters particularly specifically mexican american voters and there's not

a lot of them in michigan so i expect michigan to be very close to get back in this race center's has to win and he has to win by more than one or 2 points and one thing we haven't seen too much is african-americans in the industrial midwest and the northeast voting yet we don't and those are that's a different demographic group than southern african americans so so they may go more for sanders we know that younger african-american voters do lean more toward sanders and that jesse jackson indorsement is significant and i'll tell you why 1st of all jackson actually carried michigan in 1088 in a massive upset a bigger upset than sanders is when in 2016 but it's also significant because in 1908 the number of prominent jewish americans who were supporting jesse jackson you could really count on one or 2 hands and bernie sanders was among them so this is this speaks to how how cinders has been an ally to at least some parts of the african-american world that maybe

a lot of people aren't aware of so i think that could help on the other hand he's he's not close with the after american leadership in congress he wasn't seen as a kind of loyal lieutenant to obama the way biden was and it was much fanfare about the may seem between us president donald trump lent india's prime minister narendra modi last month the pads were huge crowds in india but it left some wondering who came out the one to me look at the relationship between the 2 countries. oh big as a political spectacle it was hard to beat pomp and circumstance and mutual admiration when 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. toward india is based on location geography and economic potential. if you take all these into account there's more the country an issue which can offer any kind of

a balance to china. the united states india as an essential buffer to the growing expansionism of china in the asia region. the u.s. 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 india's area of control things that 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 post 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 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 dos 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 the options are shrinking because trump is also making it a world outside the chinese influence where it is going to pull you when america has a problem with iran you will not deal with iran even the india of 2030 years of. good economically would have been able to play the russians against the americans and continue dealing with iran because we're to be a sort. of they have to produce the chinese threat and big ben have to do what they want america to quiet of them and that is actually the current situation and. 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 berkely al jazeera deli. customs officials in colombia have made an unusual smuggling busts risking 2000 baby turtles being trafficked out

of the country a sniffer dog detected the turtles during a routine check at an airport in the remote amazon us region in the south of the country packs tightly together without water $150.00 found dead. turtles are prized for their unusual camouflage markings. bizarre 0 and there's the top stories italy has become the worst tech country to be affected by corona virus outside of asia the number of infections has surpassed $7310.00 it's reported the largest daily jump in deaths. iran has reported its highest number of corona virus 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 being reported

canada plans to fly its citizens on board the virus stricken grand princess cruise ship to a military base in ontario the ship is carrying more than 3 and a half 1000 people $21.00 of whom have been diagnosed with coronavirus it was barred from docking in san francisco and has been directed to the nearby port of oakland. concern over coronavirus has continued to take a toll on global stock markets with all major indices across asia down this is are also just really about an oil price war oil markets a fallen by around 20 percent to saudi arabian oil giant around code discounted its crude and signaled it might increase output. the inauguration of afghanistan's president ashraf ghani is expected to take place in the coming hours but so will that of his rival abdullah abdullah after september's polls the 2 pick it over who really won amid allegations of voter fraud being concerns this spec could derail talks between the government and the taliban protests in mexico city turned violent

with police firing tear gas that women say marches thousands of officers in riot gear were deployed to the demonstrations some protesters damaged property the rally focused on the country's alarming rate of femicide murders of women have more than doubled over the past 5 years greek 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 this is last week when turkey declared its borders with the e.u. open turkish president richard clarke earlier one is due to meet e.u. officials in brussels on monday to discuss the issue. the headlines more news to come here on al-jazeera after the listening post. talk to al jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption and the gang we listen so if you really put place china's enemy of the

is and that's really the news we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter although 0. has claimed 33 of its troops sorry but that's not all the getting i'm. going. to get. you on. facebook by pretend hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post among the media stories that we're covering this week syria is a proxy war and the outside players turkey and russia are using their media muscle to shift the narrative in their favor coronavirus is still big news but don't believe everything you click on misinformation is making the rounds on social media pakistan wants to grow its tourism industry and to the influencers but how do they get to parts of the country that are close to pakistan it's i think it's pretty.