the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what we need to cling to for that matter. this is al jazeera. and i'm a cloud this is a new life coming up in the next 60 minutes a car bombing hits a convoy carrying sudan's prime minister his office calls it an assassination attempt. a big jump in the coronavirus death toll in italy as the lockdown begins on more than 60000000 people in the country's north. and amid fears over the economic fallout oil prices plunged around 30 percent. seeking justice over the

shooting down of a malaysian airliner trial begins in a dutch court without the 4 men accused of murder. by joining us you're still with the sports tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams is called off as all the nicest cancel indian wells overthrowing a virus. so that we begin with the breaking news coming out of sudan's capital where an explosion has hit a convoy carrying the prime minister abdullah was traveling through khartoum when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in was damaged as well as several others the prime minister's office says it was an assassination attempt and let's cross straightaway to khartoum where we find here but more going to him but what more do we know. well what we do know at the moment nic is that it was a car bomb explosion that was targeting the convoy of the prime minister according

to his office members we've spoken to the office of the prime minister and they say that he is not injured and that they are all safe as well as the people who are on the conway with him now they're saying that this was an assassination attempt and they've termed as a terrorist attack not just the prime minister but their evolution but the prime minister's social media pages of just tweeted out and put out on social on facebook that he is ok and that he's not injured we've also seen tweets from the sudanese professional association and the forces of freedom and change coalition condemning the attack and calling on people to take to the streets so sure there is support for the prime minister now this is something that is quite significant the fact that it was a car bomb explosion the initial reports are that the car was loaded with explosives that something very unusual doesn't usually happen and sudan and it does raise questions about how secure is the convoy why was a car that was loaded with explosives very close to the convoy and the more tecate

of the prime minister who usually has security details around his convoy and are on his mortar kate right and have been i dislike for us if you would the context of this given the recent history. while this comes at a time where sudan is going through for lack of better words would say tense times there is an economic crisis we've seen people lining up for fuel people lining up for bread the economy is in turmoil there is a high inflation in this incident currency has been devaluing or rather in a downward spiral for the past few weeks so people are frustrated with also seems statements from the former ruling party condemning this transitional government which is just 6 months or so there are many sides that could be held responsible but so far nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack right now there is an emergency meeting for the security and defense council that's a council that's usually up to date with the security situation in the country and

they are currently meeting to discuss this attempted assassination but it comes at the rather tense times and it shows how fragile this partnership between the security system and especially the military and the civilian is and shows how weak this protection around the prime minister is if a motorcade or rather a car can explode around the motorcade of the prime minister or who are really there for the moment to hear morgan there in khartoum let's go to him going to speak now to have his mohamed who's the director of justice africa joins us on skype mr mohammed no claim of responsibility at this point in time but there would be plenty of people who would like to destabilize the situation in sudan. yes i thank you for having me on actually got its own equipment damage. which is. the best thing to spend is. there a public went on politics we haven't had 5 or. that since that kim's or political

coming into that kind of show it's been introduced by james which is you know using what it what it was mom who i came alive to suppress people i think already people have been a bit wobbly c.j.d. i describe. a cat and 3 years in the can be at the remnants of that you and they are. functioning properly. but i think what i do see the listen for everyone that we need to do we need to do them. according to the law what we need to do that we need to do and get ice at the source but that allow them to expect you to consume art and to be you're in a gloomy right as if you'd like we need to actually live in the security and the army and to be sent to the men and women and sort of that you know that is in there that people general and these are the people in these programs and now they want

out actually introduce new culture which is not absolute part of the spin is a culture i'm at the job that's a mission and i think we have to be asking didn't any sort this all of the government up the chain in dealing with it i mean if you can ensure this that or since but look it up again right let's have our reporter was just alluding to just now i do wonder about the proximity of this car to the convoy nami expect roads to be cleared and so forth what does it say about the relationship between the prime minister's office and the see his security detail that. i think the problem is that the primate back up north or some of you overseas i'm sure you've been here how about a new duty i'm going to appoint you but actually the. only plan or. amount of this is i'm only going to get it right. it would be fair to say you would have to be admitting i didn't read it 3 members of. the prime

minister have no thought and that is the form and that is that the prime minister must ask for sort of orders to order but he must be part of the government and if he's running the government it is one of those people of his want to get it and i think that's something not to be you know that's something not to be i mean he ought to be now. we appreciate your perspective on this thanks very much indeed that's how his mohammed director of things i think it was. maybe on italy has reported a big jump in the number of coronavirus cases as a lockdown of a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed that the number of infections has doubled since friday to nearly 7400 so i think begins our coverage a city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy is economic heart is almost unrecognizable

hardly anyone in a shopping malls it's famous square as as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this country's recent history where look is the future of the internet i mean that what is happening in my city is worrying me and it's also saddening because milan is a lively city and state like this today is almost a defeat for me i never would have thought this would happen. lance my parents are 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 stretched health care system is struggling to keep up with the increasing numbers there are no more valuable beds 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 beds 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 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 sunny diagonal al-jazeera. news pieces and we saw francisco bora who's an italian journalist and she was speaking to us from arizona which is where she is joining us right now it's a place which is in total meltdown in the red zone franziska we spoke maybe 16 hours ago something like that and you were speaking from a square which had all the appearances of a ghost town tell us where you are now and how people are feeling well i mean one of the. working as you can see probably behind me. and according to new sheets particularly you only 3 customers can and 39 so if i stay inside but. the entrance because we must keep away from each other i mean one meter for me. this is the minimum security distance so

wherever it will be harder we should wear a mask if we speak to each other and we should stay one meet that it least from each other and then you know everything is closed but their bodies each side and just 3 days to go i was waiting for your call and then ambulance came and just you know just will take your way in all the man in these streets and suddenly you know everybody everybody says looking from from the windows you know everybody's scared and get it out j.j. of the day. we have saw all the saw that's the mean he sure i mean we continue to speak about it like that if you're late of the violence but it seems that out of this to say you know more than one mortality rate according to to the age of the population solely yelled at least particularly stung by those. extreme pressure on

people living there in the similar places especially how you operate socially are people pulling together what's the sense. well yes in north there is a much oddity here for sure. but it is sort of my not easy i would say 80 and 20 percent there is an 80 percent of the population who are really you know trying their best. tool to stay as much for selected as they can because now you know here is not an issue anymore lost trying to treat the sheik the point he's trying to protect not yet seek. and it is not that way i mean that if you get sick you will there is just hope you must be lucky because there is no treatment and the other 20 percent and it's impressive is like you know challenging the virus and you see in other places in this town along the rebirth where better get especially

young people are staying together there's nothing happens and they say oh you know even if we get the via we are going to survive and they really don't care that it's a minority here but it is an impressive my not even you know the situation we are living in and it's more than 20 percent out of yet in the house of lumber to be so it's like you know he got us yet they're stunned because from outside. of the from outside the area you really don't get how c.t.o. says he's an infection the numbers for me in the numbers that impressive everybody seek francaise we do appreciate your time eh francisco bori speaking to us from others on a long border which is right at the heart of an area which has been hit hard very hard by the coronavirus well as the cases climb in europe china is reporting a fall it's just 40 new conformations and that continues

a steady drop over the past few days katrina you is in beijing. to 40 new cases and 22 deaths that's 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 that 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 patience so obviously that's a good sign we've also heard today that there was a leaked document from ruhani airport. vising 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 start flights on march 10th but it would put a starting to think about getting up and running again which is a very big sign. well the spread of the credit virus to more than 90 countries has brought concerns about the effect on the global economy and now adding to the uncertainty a plummet in oil prices they fell around 30 percent on monday which is the biggest fall in almost 30 years for 3 decades and that's amid a price war between saudi arabia and russia refusing to join a plan by major oil producing nations aimed at cutting output and maintaining

prices and stock markets across asia have continued to fall continue that sell off that began 2 weeks ago and billions of dollars has been wiped off european markets as hours after noon with the u.k.'s footsie $100.00 index losing almost 9 percent of its value let's speak now to lawrence he joins us live from london lawrence so you're following this global trend. yes carnage nick on the markets at the moments and everybody is blaming the saudis for a lot of hostility towards their actions of say the saudis worry that people in flying people other people are buying of oil so they said we're going to increase production that collapses the price as you said and traders who have bet on the price of all going up and are losing loads of money on that innes and box and a massive sell off of shares to try to cover their losses and it just shows you how these domino effects work because the coronavirus said that you know the consent of

the oil markets is the people getting on planes. and that's why the that they want to increase supply and the price but more broadly i think it's fair to say given the scale of the selves in the financial markets i'm not talking about comparisons with 2008 anymore when the banks went down there talking about ninety's 97 which is called black monday in the u.k. that's how serious the seas and there is this general sense i think in the business world that things are completely out of control of the moment right huge concerns clearly about what's going on what about the authorities is there a sense that they have control is there not. well there's that this is exactly the problem think i mean obviously there are lots of what people call unknown unknowns you know will the virus mutates how far is it going to spread all these sorts of things but although it is all supposed to be very good at crisis management and if you look at the worst piece across money for the last few days it was unquestionably and it's only where the prime minister tried to. bury an

announcement of corn signed quarantine 19000000 people only for its elite from all the newspapers and then people started to flee south from northern italy he lost control the situation this happened over the weekend by monday morning the stock market in milan collapses 10 percent you know if there's enormous dysfunction isn't there between between what's actually happening with the virus in the u.k. 23 people dead you wouldn't actually think it's necessary that serious and the authorities are telling people specifically don't panic don't stockpile food don't stockpile toilet paper and things like that it really isn't worth it and it's the same time that there seems to be this sense that they are creating a sense of panic by saying european capital same we're going to ban mass gatherings corn signing large parts of countries this sorts of things it is this mix messaging that i think is very very difficult for people in the public at large to understand exactly what they should and shouldn't be doing or lawrence thanks very much indeed that's a picture in london across europe thanks a lot let's speak now to danger moore who's

a senior partner in control risks in asia pacific and joins us live now from singapore markets down significantly in asia today what do you make of what's going on. well i think it's probably not unexpected given the edge of the sharp fall in the price of oil over night it's a bit kind of ironic or counterintuitive because almost every asian market is an energy importer so actually when the price of oil falls they do better their trains terms of trade improve and their cost of production drops so i suspect what this really was was kind of a delayed reaction to a fear of global economic global economic economic shock as a result of the virus we just heard. from europe about how people perceive this not so much as a comparison to 2987 months. here

and you'll see we've already seen in some markets like north america a lot of volatility in markets down quite a bit one day up the next day which is i think kind of not again not unexpected for a situation where you know it's a new situation people aren't used to dealing with it or haven't dealt with it for a very long time and so you get that kind of volatility i think one of the things that we see in this region in asia is people really companies really coming to grips with what their supply chain looks like several steps back so they now realize that oh maybe they didn't think they were exposed to china but actually they were because a key component is made there and maybe wasn't able to get out or maybe the factory has been shot for longer than they've ever experienced before and then there are also some since asia was kind of the leader the leader in this you know it hit struck asia 1st and now just sort of slowly started to come out of it there are some that are also starting to think about recovery so what is recovery look like will we be able to get the parts in the just fix that we need when these economies

start to recover it to what degree does this kind of a virus like this actually reduce the. oil around the world. well certainly in the immediate term it is reduced demand for as your correspondent was saying for air travel for hospitality for. the beverage all of those things have been really really hardly hard hit in places like china and korea and japan where people have centrally stopped you know their normal routine of travel staying in hotels business travel and stuff the big events have stopped so an immediate immediate impact is quite significant you have a number of airlines that have you know sidelined half their fleet so in the immediate term that's going to be a pretty severe shock the question is when in the medium term does it come back is it a month from now or is it 3 months from now how much pent up demand there will be and

therefore what that how that will affect the demand for energy because as i said before all of the asian economies tend to be energy intensive and energy import intensive so they will need those supplies at some point in the future. it's great to get your perspective as to appreciate it thanks very much indeed. i think we can show you some pictures no afghanistan's president elect ashraf ghani and his inauguration the problem with that is that his political rival. will also be holding competing certainly in cobol both men laying claim to the presidency after a disputed election back in september there are concerns that. this agreement could just be royal talks between the government and the taliban let's speak to joins us live now from kabul so the confusion and disagreement reigns.

yes absolutely actually us journalists were asked to show up here at the presidential palace at 8 o'clock this morning where it's nearly 3 in the afternoon and the ceremony hasn't started yet it should be underway very soon we just heard that incumbent president actually of any will become again the president is on his way here certainly just not very far from where i'm standing. a lot of people have a right and then you have the u.s. envoy that may have that and you have also the need to head to the head of nature here the head of the u.s. forces here in afghanistan but you also have those who didn't come for example former president had ms currie's that and i don't quite senior official here in afghanistan it's not clear whether they will go to the other ceremony that should be starting not very far away from here and should know about an hour or so. and

part of the concerns about this disagreement is ongoing disagreement could derail talks between the government and the taliban what about a bot. well certainly there are a lot of concerns and i think one of the reasons why do you know given she was delayed not only today because it was actually set to happen but she weeks to go and then there was a lot of pressure from to us on as of the to wait until the agreement between the u.s. and the taliban was signed in doha and then go ahead with the inauguration well during that time. that has tried very hard try to find a compromise between these 2 men dr beloved and i'm sure of any and from what we know he continued with those efforts right until about an hour ago then had to give up that will have a huge impact on the country as you mentioned earlier coming into afghan talks

which should be starting tomorrow but as far as we know now that could be delayed simply because we still don't know which delegation will actually represent the afghan people once that those stocks start and then there's the fact that these 2 men have to try to a power sharing agreement in the past elections the ones of 2014 for the last 5 years well they have one was the president and was. executive of the country and that was these declared titles that was created specifically for dr i don't know well anyone you ask will tell you that what one person said yet or one contradicted and vice a versa they didn't see eye to eye on absolutely anything and by the looks of it that is going to continue and tonight maybe afghans will know that they have 2 people who are integrated as 2 presidents of the same country extraordinary things

i mean thanks very much for speaking to us there from coal. now the trial of 4 men accused of murder over their roles in the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 176 years ago has begun in the netherlands 298 people most of them dutch died when the plane was shot down over ukraine by a missile fired from territory held by pro russian separatists 3 russians and ukrainians are being tried in absentia after a painstaking investigation by dutch or thora to. speak to the park our correspondent who joins us from our european broadcast center in london what more do we know about these suspects. with a backbone of what we know comes from a joint investigations team which is the combined efforts of those countries who are most affected by the shooting down of m.h. 70 the dutch of spearheaded the investigation they lost 193 people on board the

flight they've partnered up with malaysia australia belgium and of course ukraine where the plane crashed after years of gathering evidence they have concluded that 4 individuals are the main suspects 3 russians one ukrainian and they have been named as ego to get a kid also known as strelkov which means arrow in russian he was regarded as a former colonel in russia's f.s.b. intelligence service there are also 2 other members of russia's g r u military intelligence service that are implicated too they are surrogate dubinsky and old leg pull lots of just to remind you the g.r.u. were also implicated in the nerve agent poisoning that took place in the british city of solsbury in 2018 and the 4th person is a ukrainian national who didn't have any military connections it's believed he's been named as leonid. all 4 of these men are at large they're believed

to be in russia russia has denied any involvement whatsoever in any of the supplying pro russian separatists in the east of ukraine during the summer of 2014 when the flight was shot down russia has also said that they would be unwilling because they do not recognize your 30 of the course of the medal and in any way to extradite any of these 4 men but what we do know is that at least one of the men pull lots of accused of being a g.r.u. special forces member will be represented by a legal team so he will not be tried in absentia but the other 3 it appears will be and well with or without the suspects i imagine this is going to be a long drawn out case to say the least. well yes long and drawn out firstly as i mentioned because of all of the obstacles that now face the court given that the key suspects are going to be dealt with in absentia or bar one there

is a slight possibility we gather that they could possibly appear via video link up that needs to be confirmed if this was a very ordinary case a direct straightforward case it could take a couple of years but given the resistance that the court is facing given the complications the courts may need to kind of overcome at the start of this trial it could be much much longer the court on this opening day will have to decide whether enough enough effort was made to issue the man which summons whether or not they need to set up a defense team to act on behalf of the man on top of that given the complicated nature of all the evidence this could be many many years and given that it's 6 years since the shooting down of m.h. 17 it could be another 6 years before we get closer to justice or an even tommy thanks very much indeed need back a reporting on your poll. let's move on to the weather rob is

standing by and let's focus on pakistan or to the north backstabber in kashmir really the winter roads are often closed and we're now into going to sprigs of course they might be if one day and close the next in fact up in kashmir was just north of it was a flood but i think this is a new low road there are many roads here which get this spring snow for makes it difficult to pass in what is known as a western disturbance which is a storm that comes from the west and produces rain anywhere for afghanistan right down to as is likely to be the case later on today banderas but we're on pakistan and so that looks fine at the moment the rain is coming in across the border and if you look at central pakistan took the milltown for presents heavy rain in the next 2 days will be quite substantial i suspect flooding will come from this that given it's colder weston's to it overcomes in the west you might be surprised at the origin and it's actually somewhere around the eastern med so typically into effect

turkey and greece then levant well there's one forming up today's weather is pretty polling in greece in the aegean in western turkey that blue again is heavy rain the chance of thunderstorms even this tornado is in the warning scenario here had a bit more in anchors 22 this one i don't see or get to pakistan these dissolving the next 24 hours in eastern europe nick rob great thank you thank you still ahead here on al-jazeera the dispute over a longstanding defense agreement with senators in the philippines on a collision course with the president. there was a political spectacle full of pomp and ceremony but did trump for modi walk away the one of. those ball coming up to of course the baseball player get in the fight by both probably at 160 kilometers an hour.

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get your watching al-jazeera a reminder our top stories are. in sudan an explosion has hit the convoy of the country's prime minister abdullah ham dog his vehicle was damaged in a roadside blast by ministers office it claims it was an assassination and. global oil markets have plunged as a price war and the impact of coronavirus courses values to plummet brant crude often used to global price benchmark is down by around 30 percent in. the trial of 4 men accused of murder over the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 70 has begun in the netherlands 298 people died when the plane was shot down if

ukraine in 20143 russians and ukrainian being tried in absentia. and that president is due in brussels to meet a unique is that russia type one is set to discuss the migration crisis on the border between turkey and greece as well as military operations in syria the e.u. has criticized the one for opening turkey's borders to allow out tens of thousands of refugees to the european union let's take this on we can speak to mehmet selleck who's the managing editor of the daily sobber a daily english language newspaper joins us on skype from istanbul. now president clearly going in demanding definitive action will he get it do you think. well i think european union has now 22 options whether to relocate or help relocate the syrian refugees in syria or make sure that it's ready

to host. in the european countries and this is what president at the un is basically offering to the european union and we'll be demanding a solution for that during his meetings today. when it comes to how to relocate them in syria particularly i think president i thought was strictly of push for. this support needed for establishing a safe zone in northern syria. and also with regards to the relocation of refugees into the currently dead deal the migrant deal which was signed in 2016 revision for that will also be demanded so whether european union officials will answer will have answers for these 2 demands i think it's something that we should wait and see for the for today but i think the president on.

today are very strong i mean we see the violence at the greek border we see the the desperate you know the need for a desperate solution. to all to accommodate these refugees flowing into euro. and also i think. when it comes to i mean it to me an aspect of the whole issue a solution in syria will be once feasible force refugees turkey. and also the flow of refugees going into europe so the european union will also need to. come to a decision whether the closeness between turkey and russia is something that they're ok with right when it comes to be the. it is an extremely difficult problem obviously and we've seen before how reticent countries have been about accepting refugees and now we see this violence and violence but certainly and to the. people

who are not happy about refugees coming to the island of lesbos and certain reticence to accept them it's going to be very challenging for president to get his ways in. well i'm there you have him very challenge and i'm going to defect that but a great deal of it hasn't been an effective is a challenge in itself because we european union wants to just give money to charity at and let the let the all other problems arise from this military and issue on turkey's side you know they want to leave all the problems on the east of greece and let tookie deal with these i think this is not something turkey visit willing to accept anymore so either a solution in syria must be supported or a proper and a revised version of migrant deal needs to be established this is something that i think is now on the european union's court because i mean tookie has

a prisoner are going to make very clear and told its officials that you know to stop the migrant flow from the sea but it's hasn't he hasn't said the same thing when it comes to the land borders particularly with greece so if if the borders remain open and we have been seeing some violence in the video footage is along the border coming from the greek side so this is something that i think european union will not need to decide whether they want to be a living with that crisis with and greece and and eventually in other european countries or whether he will support turkey for you know establishing a safe zone in northern syria i think it took he wants this kind of the problem at its core particularly for example and it oregon and other parts of northern syria because turkey doesn't find it a feasible solution to receive. migrants receive the refugees from syria and find

a solution for them later on ok i think this is now and you know nearly 10 years into the crisis it's something that needs to be sold at its core mad celek we appreciate that thanks very much indeed that's mimic so it meant if you had to pay somebody. senators in the philippines have launched a supremum court challenge against the president scrapping a long standing defense agree with the united states senators argue the president roderigo to turkey cannot unilaterally scrap any agreement to prove by them the philippines has been one of the closest u.s. allies in asia for decades into turkey as critics fear selling out to china a reporter jamila has more now from manila the petition today does not only cover the charges this ition to withdraw from the visiting forces agreement with the united states but also his position more than a year ago to withdraw from the membership of the international criminal court where he faces several complaints because of the so-called drug war that has left

thousands of filipinos that now it's important to remember that president of the good that there are a few weeks ago decided to and the visiting forces agreement after his former police chief and current senator but for the last us u.s. visa was cancelled by the state department for his involvement again in the so-called drug war now this is actually what senators here were telling us just less than an hour ago when they were here they said they wanted to make sure that the call equal branches of government are checking on each other that this is basically the legislative asking the judiciary to make sure that the executive position held by that there is not going above and beyond its own powers they also said basically that they're hoping in there remain faithful that the supreme court will be fair in its this issue and what they're asking for basically is for the supreme court to decide whether the withdrawal in the abrogation of all the treaties that the philippines has entered to with other countries requires a senate approval in the same way that the approval of

a treaty also requires congressional approval so basically this is what they're asking today they said this is not entirely an opposition to the president but checking on the powers that be. well it won't be another super tuesday but the next round of democratic primaries this tuesday looks dramatically different 2 weeks ago a race that began with nearly 30 candidates is down to just 2 serious contenders senator bernie sanders and former vice president joe biden biden leads saunders by about 90 delegates in the race for the nomination and to rival president donald trump november's general election 6 states vote on tuesday and the most closely watched will be michigan where the largest total of $125.00 delegates will be selected let's hear now from gabriel elizondo has the 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 $1100.00 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. trip to india last month cools much from for the u.s. president and prime minister narendra modi attracted huge crowds but it's left many wondering who benefited the most from the visit anybody has more from the day. oh big 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. 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 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 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 it's going to foray 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 dos and indorsement the real substance belongs to the us with india having to turn 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 you know you win if america has a problem with iran you will not deal with iran even the india of 2030 years of. konami would have been able to play the russians against the americans and continue dealing with iran because to do it would be a sort. of they have to face the chinese threat and big ben have to do what they want america to choirs 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 berkeley al-jazeera delhi. an international women's day

march in mexico became a battle with riot police tear gas was fired and property damage activists accuse the government of failing to take attacks on women seriously the murder rate has more than doubled in the past 5 years 14 of the 25 countries with the highest rate of femicide are in latin america journalist catalina. explains why. inequality is one of the biggest reasons. that we have to explain why space famine is eyes are so not not not only so frequent but also so dramatic because the this that the inequality of our lives us bronner about but also women's bodies are used as a way to express a message to the whole of society there's a type of feminine side that is community by criminal bands that are maybe getting territories and what's

a message to another band but there's also intimate feminists in which you can see it has been growing in cruelty and expressiveness is not just that the chill is the chillis and the terrorists recently about 15 days ago a woman was killed by her partner she was eviscerated her intestines he threw them to the toilets and then he took away her skin and left the body scan this. public space for everybody everyone to see and then the police took the pictures of this body and gave them to the media and the media made him viral and this is one of the reasons that have that have all of mexican women and all of the women there are living here. so so mad and so angry. so they are al jazeera but spoken with the defender who shows the strikers how it's

done when i won the gold a major league. again

as we want to support his drug nick thank you the biggest tennis tournament outside of the grand slams has been cancelled of a coronavirus concerns indian wells had been due to start on cheese day but a case of crying virus has been detected naval in southern california the competition regulator attracts over 470. 1000 fans over its 2 week run and many top

players from both the men's and women's sides had already arrived. we've also just heard about further delays to the japanese baseball and football seasons but for one season opener in australia will go ahead as planned this week the team's been arriving in melbourne over the last few days and fans won't be excluded that's despite the 2nd race on the calendar in bahrain shutting spectators out on the shanghai grand prix in april being for spain's what applies in bahrain via the crown prince is different to what applies in china and given to one of plies in melbourne we're obviously very very thankful for the federal government's approach to health and the border control border force and what we've got is a great opportunity to showcase formula one and showcase melbourne bring the major venture capital of the world and we're going to do so in a very very safe and responsible manner this weekend. the british government is meeting the premier league and other sports governing bodies to discuss the option

of staging events behind closed doors that's already happening in italy eventis a stadium ensuring was closed to founds to sunday's game against into milan members of the media were allowed in but only after having their temple taken at the gate sunday's games went ahead despite its least sports minister calling for the league to be suspended and it was a strange atmosphere inside the stadium for a game between 2 of the best teams that would usually be a sellout that had big implications in the title race with the event is coming out to the women's and ramsey got the 1st go. and then scored the 2nd the wind route to the back top of city and just one point they are here into now 49 points behind in birds. a major league soccer season is only a couple of weeks old but we may have already seen the goal of the year and it was called by a defender. so he's lining up for a shot to the center back jacob less this story was told.

well that was jacob closeness for the philadelphia union for both 2 yards against same well with another few looks it's the 1st ever goal in m.l.s. for the norwegian center back but despite leading 3 times in the match for his health you could only manage a 33 draw. when his football world champions the usa are closing in on the on winning that she believes cup the americans are hosting the tournament in new jersey and face spain in their 2nd match and they left at lights with judy heading in the winner just 3 minutes from time the u.s. a top of the table with one game against japan still to play. cameron in zambia as women are battling for a place at the tokyo olympics the 2nd leg of their qualify is on tuesday with cameroon lead. 32 and they want to continue to meet your meteoric rise for the waynes game over the past decade paul race reports. cameroon football fans have

become well acquainted with success on the african continent and sometimes beyond. now the achievements of the men's team are beginning to be matched by the women being a lioness is on the brink of qualifying for the 2nd lympics even if the 1st leg of their play off against zambia didn't quite go to plan i the team ranked 57 places below them scoring a pair of goals in the cameroon capital day. although cameroon did edge it with 3 of their own to give their growing army of fans hope when they watch tuesday's return like in the socket so far. on the streets of your own day putting on the green red and yellow of cameroon is a distant dream for most whether male or female but as the women's national team has got stronger so too have attitudes changed in a traditionally male the main zone with somebody we didn't used to go to watch the

girls because we thought football was only for boys but we see now that football has no social class it does not choose a tribe and many families push their daughters to play football in a way i really don't know for but the nowaday inspire us we never used to imagine that women's football could reach such a level now they motivate all of the youth of cameron. football of us here found the lionesses hard to ignore 2 world cup knockout rounds in a row from the debut and 25th dane and an africa cup of nations a year later that brought hundreds of thousands of pounds to watch them on home soil the men's success from the 1990 world cup onwards providing fertile ground for the women of cameroon is one of the greatest nation on the african continent so it was only. a matter of time reading that we men also and got up to speed. they've grown up looking at all these millions of people that they can look up to and want to be like them so great example you have to go all the way to go jimmy not some

well and so and now to think that look you can leave the gods can do this we can do it at the local stage and we can go out and sign it's obvious to a way you could make them the story on tuesday they hold cameron off in the 2nd like whoever reaches the olympics will hope to continue the upward curve for africa's female footballers once they get to take her. home reese al-jazeera. the n.b.a. in the lake has won the battle of los angeles against the clippers bron james and anthony davis combined for $58.00 points and the clippers 6 game winning streak the lakers and now $14.00 in a row and remain top in the western conference but the clock is in seconds and the n.b.a.'s number one draft pick design williamson put on a show for the new orleans pelicans plenty of trademark gallio ups and dunks for the 19 year old as they beat the minnesota timberwolves by 13 points williamson himself finishing with 23. it's spring training in major league baseball but that

doesn't mean that teams are taking it easy on each other. i that was texas rangers really calhoun getting hit in the face by a fastball against the l.a. dodgers was traveling in a 160 promises malla was eventually helped to his feet and taken to hospital for an x. ray showed he fractured his jaw. he's in his rugby sevens team have racked up their 3rd title of the season in canada they edge their close rivals australia in the final by 3 points is now the trophy to go with the ones they want to hamilton and take town easy and celebrated this one with which is usually something they do good for us. all right that is so useful for free later nick. yeah let's go to see a little bit later that's it for this news hour but i'll be back in

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