told stories from asia and the pacific on al-jazeera. a car bombing hits a convoy carrying sudan's prime minister his office calls it an assassination attempt. this is. also coming up a big jump in the coronavirus death toll and it's only as the lockdown begins on more than 16000000 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 man lazy an airliner a trial begins in a dutch court without the 4 men accused of murder.

so that an explosion has hit a convoy carrying sudan's prime minister and what the government has described as an assassination attempt adela was traveling through called to when there was a roadside blast the vehicle he was in was damaged as well as several others government says it was a targeted attack investigations are underway to try the term in who that's responsible. for that was that i'll be the prime minister and the convoy members were not injured they are all safe except one person who fell from about a cycle of the prime minister is doing his job now from his office and investigations underway we know that there are people who are trying to target the revolution of the sudanese people and to attack the gains of the revolutionaries but we stress that revolution is going on at the revolution will continue its path . let's speak to him organise life in khartoum what more do you have for us.

well at the moment what we know is what we heard from the government spokesperson the minister of information someone might solve it who gave more information about the attack we know that there was an explosion from a car bomb that was next to or nearby the convoy of the prime minister and that he was an injured along with his staff except for one of the members of the more to kate now we also heard from the government spokesman spokesperson that there was shooting at the convoy following the explosion and this is raising a lot of questions about the security that was with the prime minister during his movement from there which is not very far from his office just a few kilometers people are wondering why there was a car that was loaded with explosives mirrored by the convoy we know that usually the motorcade is there's usually a traffic police officer that goes ahead followed by a convoy and there's usually some distance maintained between the motorcade and the

convoy of the prime minister and that no other car is allowed near it so people are wondering how this security breach happened and why was the idea of the security detail of the prime minister very slow to respond but we've also seen the office of the prime minister tweeting out pictures of him in the office and him with several members of his cabinet there is currently an emergency meeting of the security and defense council that's the body that is responsible for the security situation in the country and they're holding an emergency meeting to discuss the attack which the office of the prime minister says isn't assassination attempt and deemed it as a terrorist attack. clearly being a time of great instability and huge amount of pressure on the economy given the context of this war. well over the past few weeks think we've seen people lining up for fuel we've seen people lining up for bread as well and we've seen the economy in a downward spiral the inflation has been rising the value of the sudanese pound against the dollar has been dropping making it very hard for many people to afford

basic commodities that has resulted in a lot of frustration now what's not clear is if that frustration is enough for anyone to try to attempt to take out the prime minister who's just 6 months in his job so people are wondering who is responsible especially because no side has yet claimed responsibility but there are a lot of people in the country who are currently discontented with the situation there is also the former ruling party were repeatedly put out statements saying that this transitional government does not represent sudan and is illegal and that they will try to oust it in any ways or means possible so a lot of questions about who could be behind the assassination attempt of the office of the prime minister and the government's book says that they are investigations currently ongoing but so far north side has claimed responsibility and nobody has been accused or have of thanks very much indeed who are more than reporting. it's only reported a big jump in the number of coronavirus cases. a quarter of its population comes

into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed the number of fractions has doubled since friday to nearly 7400 so in the year you begin to recover. a city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls it's famous square as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this country's recent history we're not because that's what you're going to me what is happening in my city is worrying me and it's also saddening because milan is a lively city and see it like this today is almost a defeat for me i never would have thought this would happen. me 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 bats in hospitals and actually the current hospital which serves about 500000 people in all the area of course in this little 1000 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 last italy's lockdown is the most stringent outside of china containment may have come too late for some areas slowing down the virus is spread may be the best option for now on a diagonal al-jazeera. we just heard from for interest the border who's an italian journalist. let's hear from her again and i was on a long border which is in lockdown explaining how the quarantine is affecting locals. well now i'm in front of one of the 2 bake it east which are still working as you can see probably behind needs start early empty and according to the new city particularly you will see only 3 customers can enter the time so if i stay inside bicycle the i'd lock the entrance because we must keep away from each

other i mean one metre from each other this is the minimum safety distance so whatever it will be harder we should wear a mask if we speak to each other and we should stay when needed it least from each other and then you know everything is closed bicycle about easy size and just really signal i was waiting for your call and then ambulance came and just you know just to take your way in all the man in this street and less suddenly you know everybody everybody's looking from from the windows you know everybody's scared and the average age of the day we have soared so that's the main issue i mean we continue to speak about this rate of the virus but it seems that out west to say you know what's more than one mortality rate the according to to the age of

the population so the elder least particularly strong vice well is a case is climb in europe china is reporting a fall it's just her 40 new conformations continuing what has been a steady drop over the past few days katrin e.u. is in 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 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 leak to document from ruhani airport and the rising 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. well the spread of corona virus to more than 90 countries has brought concern about the effect on the global economy and now adding to the uncertainty a plummets in oil prices they fell around 30 percent on monday and that's the biggest fall in almost 30 years 3 decades and that's amid

a price war between saudi arabia and russia moscow refusing to join a plan by major oil producing nations aimed at cutting output and maintaining prices and stock markets across asia where they've continued to fall continuing the sell off that began 2 weeks ago and billions of dollars has been wiped off european markets just hours after opening with the u.k. footsie $100.00 index losing almost 9 percent of its value or danger motto is a senior partner at control risks asia pacific and he says the losses on asian markets came as no surprise. i think it's probably not unexpected given the edge of the sharp fall and the major model of 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'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 i also saw 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 does recovery look like will we be able to get the parts and the just ticks that we need when these economies start to recover. so there are knowledge is there a dispute over a long standing different senators in the philippines on a collision course with the president. eleanor it does seem a little early for the spring rains you might think it not really being spring but as mass is a cloud over china there is snow confined to the funnels and most of this blue maize rain has been significant on its way through china's more significant through japan i mean tuesday is a particularly wet day and given that you're feeding a southerly wind into her car to suppose that level degrees and that blue is rain with about a metre and a half of snow on the ground there's potential for

a big fall a big flood if you like but anyway in the honshu it's still sudden grants or floods are certainly a risk and then we wrap around the cold when afterwards when the sun comes out and temperatures drop not a lot but a little bit of protein in tokyo is so nice and warm elsewhere i mean we're up to about 14 in beijing once again and the sun is in the sky the air quality varies it was pretty poor yesterday it's going to be hovering i think the next day or so throughout india the showers are starting to get going there sporadic their internal but the showing themselves we're still getting these western disturbs is that cold locally coming through which means rain in store for afghanistan for pakistan particularly seen some pretty big falls recently in kashmir and we repeated that operation on tuesday a more especially on wednesday. i

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a roadside blast prime minister's office claims it was an assassination attempt. italy has reported a big jump in the number of coronavirus cases is the lock down of a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed and the number of infections has doubled since friday to nearly 7400. global oil markets have plunged as a price war and the impact to coronavirus causes values to plummet brant crude often using the global price benchmark is down by around 30 percent in. the trial of 4 men accused of murder over their roles in the downing of malaysian airlines flight m.h. 76 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 a ukrainian are being tried in absentia but that investigation was led by dutch

authorities in collaboration with several other countries but without the cooperation of russia as neve baka explains. the dutch spearheaded the investigation they lost $193.00 people on board the flight they've partnered up with malaysia australia belgium and of course ukraine where the plane crashed and after years of gathering evidence they have concluded that 4 individuals are the main suspects 3 russians one ukrainian and they've been named as ego dedicated also known as struck off form a 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 oh leg pull lots of on 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 court in the netherlands in any way to extradite any of these 4 men 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 that the courts may need to kind of overcome at the start of this trial it could be much much longer but turkey's president is due in brussels to meet leaders typo to annan said 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 tens of thousands of refugees to the european union celek is the managing editor of the daily sub in

istanbul he believes the e.u. will soon have to make some major decisions. 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 em in the european countries and this is what president ad on 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 adult strickly of push for the support needed for establishing a saves on in northern syria and also with regards to the relocation of refugees erivedge into the currently dead deal the migrant deal which was signed in

2016 a revision for that will also be demanded so whether european union officials will will answer will have answers for these 2 demands i think it is something that we should see wait and see for the for for today. some of his in the philippines have launched a supremum court challenge against the president scrapping a long standing difference agree united states senate is argue the president wrote a review determined he cannot unilaterally scrap any agreement to prevent the philippines has been one of the closest u.s. allies in asia for decades to turkey's critics fear selling out to china all reported to mainland going 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 decision 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 over 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 co-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 decision 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 to a week 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 saunters by around 1000 delegates in the race for the nomination and to rival president donald trump in november's general election 6 states vote on tuesday the most closely watched will be michoacan where the largest total of $125.00 delegates will be selected carol is on the has the very latest now 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 calls 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. an international women's day march in mexico became a battle with brought police to gas was followed and property damage activists accuse the government of failing to take attacks on women seriously the murder rate is more than doubled in the past 5 years is. rallies in latin america have commemorated international women's day to demand an end to widespread gender violence and inequality one of the largest mansions was in chile and soon even reports from the now. 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 the 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 the largest avenue vowing to fight gender inequality stereotypes and much more. but they can actually lead us they 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 mark women's day to say enough mothers and daughters march together for you know us out of them ok 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 win next month's referendum. but the carnival atmosphere was marred by sporadic clashes with riot police and security. and what's coming got have early days of gas and ask a few bob 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 of. doubt as an oyster beds the i've been going back in the direction of the presidential palace same it would not be deterred. in front of the palace some women dragged away the barriers security forces responded with tear gas and water

canyons while groups of young men and women stones at. a day of celebration and culture in taishan did and followed by calls for a nationwide feminist strike all over chile on monday to see a human sent out will. afghanistan's president elect ashraf ghani and his political rival abdullah abdullah holding rival inauguration ceremonies in kabul. that he studied. and then he. went in. and has been laying claim to the presidency after a disputed election in september and well this has been happening we've been hearing that 2 blasts in the capital of thing taking place during the gratian ceremonies. at that point right there afghan president that's going to

resign on home and continue to speak off towards the suspected rocket attack in the capital. we can speak talk. on the phone who's being the events in kabul what do you know about what's happened. when i actually live we were standing by to go live and we heard just how much how much you're doing at least 2 or 3 rocket fire. in the case in the way we were with the group and it's happening none of them landed nearby but you could see some smoke not very far i would say. corey. we also heard a big fear from the crowd sometimes saying that he would remain quite the. * cool thing even if even often rocket attacks.

foreign dignitaries. leaving the ceremony growing christians to the nearby building. 'd to say that it did cause some damage because they're scared by new york sort of cock sure i'm looking to you know. 2 people actually leaving the premises. you know going. now i don't know what is happening. in wichita started more or less they are not very far from where we are back a 10 minute drive very could be that they panic that we still hear. them. all part of a chaotic day because both men of course laying claim to the presidency after the disputed election is that. if you would. actually find a compromise between these 2 men void. that maybe there is

a compromise because. they won't be a cabinet we stop vote for the next few weeks then you hope the next few weeks. could be bridge. thanks very much indeed speaking to us from kabul. this is these are the top stories i'm explosion has had a convoy carrying sudan's prime minister and what the government has described as an assassination attempt. travelling through khartoum when there was a roadside blast vehicle he was in was damaged as well and several of the government says it was a target take attack and investigations are underway to determine who was responsible. the prime minister and the convoy members were not injured they were all safe except one person who fell from about a cycle the prime minister is doing his job now from his office and investigations

underway we know that there are people who are trying to target the revolution of the sudanese people and to attack the gains of the revolutionaries but we stress that revolution is going on and the revolution will continue it. italy has reported a big jump in the number of corona virus cases as a lot down of a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed and the number of infections has doubled since friday global oil markets have plunged as a price war and the impact of growing a virus has caused cause its value to plummet brant crude which is often used as a global price benchmark it's down by around 30 percent and that's after saudi arabia signaled it might increase output after a meeting of the oil producing opec explosions have been heard in afghanistan's capital as president elect ashraf ghani and his political rival

are holding rival inauguration ceremonies both mentally and claim to the presidency after a disputed election in september there are concerns that disagreement could be real talks between the government and the taliban. the trial of 4 men accused of murder of the downing of malaysian airlines flight m h 70 has begun in the netherlands 298 people most of them dutch died when the plane was shot down over ukraine in 2014 senators in the philippines it launches supremum court challenge against the president scrapping a long standing defense agreement the u.s. senate has argued that president deter take cannot be scrapped any agreement by them. lines inside story is coming right up.

saudi arabia arrests the king's brother and all the royals accused of plotting against the crown prince is muhammad bin solomon consolidating his power and what are the implications of this latest against dissent this is inside story. and welcome to the program. saudi arabia's crown prince's had a controversial rise to power in just 3 years mohammed bin solomon has silenced nearly all voices of dissent at home critics of being jailed and even killed and he appears to be tightening his grip on power even further media.