spectate of a netflix journalists announces iraq. this is al-jazeera. this is a new life and coming up in the next 60 minutes european leaders announce emergency talks on coronaviruses italy reports a big rise in the death toll and the fear and fallout spreads. prisoners in italy protest over restrictions imposed on them to contain the spread of current. and fears of the economic fallout rising oil prices for around 30 percent. sudan's prime minister survives a car bomb blast arrests were made following the assassination attempt.

explosions ahead of the swearing in for afghan president ashraf ghani his rival of dylan has held the secretary to integrate himself. and joining us go with the sport asian well cup qualifiers at the spine and tennis is biggest tournament outside the grand slams indian wells is called off over corona virus. so now it's only has reported a big jump in the number of corona virus cases as a lockdown of a quarter of its population comes into full force 133 new deaths have been confirmed the number of infections has doubled since friday to nearly 7400 more than 111000 cases are confirmed globally 62000 have recovered so far

so when you go begins our coverage. a city deserted a region under lockdown milan italy is economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls it's famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this country's recent history will look as that's richard in 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 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'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 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 is a 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 locked out 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. let's bring to join the whole who is live in london and join or extraordinary scenes in about the rest of europe. well you're going to see similar kinds of scenes differing only in the nature of scale from country to country i think in the days and weeks to come as numbers rise all over the place the why the european union institutions struggling to get a grip on what's going on struggling to come up with some sort of coordinated response without news that the european union leaders are due to gather for a meeting perhaps on tuesday not in person though in the council building that being a handful of cases detected of coronavirus in that building and all meetings have

been limited as a result they would do it on teleconference separately parties in the european parliament are meeting to discuss whether to cancel the e.u. parliament session due later this week that's already been moved from strasburg to brussels and the european central bank is going to be meeting later in the week following dramatic falls on stock markets across europe that begin to approach the sort of levels of falls that we saw during the financial crisis in 2008 they want to know that european banks are healthy there are widespread concerns about the impact the economic impact country to country but also across the event globally with some signs pointing to the possibility of a global recession italy of course that were the worst hit still you saw all of that in in saunas report there a quarter of the population on effective lockdown nobody gets in or out of the long body region in the north which includes with 14 other provinces which includes venice and the financial capital milan without exceptional sort of reasons health

related or in some cases work related so a substantial amount of pain being felt there economically and among the population here in britain we await word from the government they've been in emergency meeting during the morning about the possibility of stepping up this government's response the british government has so far been quite relaxed relatively so in the face of rising numbers here no crowd distancing measures have been introduced yet that could change. soon and in spain the socialist government of pederast sanchez we think is about to make announcements along those lines following germany following france following other countries with possible school closures with limits on sporting fixtures being played in front of a crowd or in front of an empty stadium as others have done the sorts of things i think are going to be happening all the time now right yes there repercussions are wide and varied and we're hearing back it in either is problems in italian prisons yeah i mean this is a sort of nightmare scenario isn't it of this virus getting into places like

prisons and which are locked down of course already and and because of the nature of the way prisoners live inside prisons would potentially spread like wildfire well among the italian government to create measures those dramatic measures that were announced last week has been measuring clued in the limiting of visits face to face visits to prisoners in italian prisons and they haven't taken kindly to that news they're allowed to talk to people on the phone or see people in more remote ways on the internet and skype and so on but no face to face visits until march 22nd would have sparked a number of riots across the country in a bunch of different prisons 6 deaths have been reported although it we should note that these deaths have not been the direct result of the riots themselves but appear to have been the result of prisoners who've broken into the prison infirm an infirmary in a prison in modern or in the north and taken a load of methadone the heroin substitute that has resulted in overdoses

nevertheless dramatic scenes in italy as i say this is a particularly bad scenario that i think every country will be worried about coronavirus running loose in places like prisons are presenting problems that many in very general thanks very much indeed you know there in london. well china is reporting a for the number of new cases is just 40 new confirmations a month continues a steady drop over the past few days true to you is in beijing to 40 new cases and 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 a 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 of 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 wu honey airport and 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 one hon 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 would airport is starting to think about getting up and running again which is a very big sign. katrina you that now the spread of current of ours to more than 90

countries has brought concern about the effects on the global economy and now adding to that uncertainty there's a plummet and oil prices they fell around 30 percent on monday most of biggest fall in almost 30 years and 3 decades that some made 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 they've continued to fall continuing the sell off the began 2 weeks ago and billions of dollars have been wiped off the european markets just hours after opening with the u.k.'s foot sea market $100.00 index losing almost 9 percent of its value more in the market's reaction in europe in a minute but 1st it's called height has this report on how the trading day played out in asia the stock market trading week in asia off to a rough start because of coronavirus fears all main asian stock indices nosedive as

concern at the economic fallout grows and that it may trigger a recession some experts see monday's market reaction is just the start we will have the market correction of at least 20 percent globally so. hang tight because it will be a rough it will be a roller coaster ride. but the difficult day for asian investors partly countered by some positive news about how the virus is being contained china's leaders saying victory in the war with the coronavirus is within sight with the number of cases dwindling some of the purpose built hospitals for the virus are closing and patients discharged indications that normal life might soon slowly restart in parts of the containment areas in a province where the virus 1st appeared in december cautious optimism to in south korea the number of new coronavirus patients slowed for the 3rd successive day

a new mass distribution program has started aimed at ensuring better distribution but at the same time more countries and territories join the list imposing restrictions and quarantine on people coming from south korea it's got hotter al-jazeera bangkok well that's a picture in asia lawrence lee is following the market plunge in london i spoke to him earlier and he says investors a blaming saudi arabia. it's carnage nick on the markets at the moments and everybody is blaming the saudis for a lot of hostility towards their actions over the saudis worried that people aren't flying people out that people aren't buying enough 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 oil going up and are losing loads of money on that innes and bought 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 as i said you know the consent of

the oil markets is that people aren't getting on planes. and that's why i think that they want to increase supply on top the price but more broadly i think it's fair to say given the scale of the selves in the financial markets are not talking about comparisons with 2008 anymore when the banks went down there talking about 997 which is called black monday in the u.k. that's how serious this is and there is this general sense i think in the business world that things are completely out of control at the moment an explosion if it a convoy carrying in sudan's prime minister and what the government is calling an assassination attempt. on her by the roadside blast in the capital khartoum the vehicle he was in was damage to along with several of this investigation is underway to determine who was responsible affiliated with it i'll be the prime minister and the convoy members were not injured they are all safe except one person who fell from a boat a cycle of the prime minister is doing his job now from his office advice to go

shins under way 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 its path will have a morgan is following the story in khartoum and she says the attack has raised questions of how security has been managed. at the moment what we know is what we heard from the government spokesperson the minister of information for someone with saleh 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 nearby 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. to the news germs facing co 2 joins us live from the a welcome to the program at this point in time do we have any indication of who may have been responsible for words. yes actually what happened is very serious it's a new incident of time in sudan since maybe the independence of the country in 96

actually so than this by the civil wars and there are a lot of polarization and division but sudan was literally. mean and then political assassination and. so if you want to if you want to try to identify or track. i mean the identity of the packers we supposed to look to who is benefit from from this attack so i think the. government itself. to the to the former regime. also the political coalition of the forces for freedom of your mind games. this creates. all the streets and they're almost there are. about the fingers of the old regime. standing behind the incident right given the circumstances of what happened and how this this car that exploded was so close to the convoy you'd

imagine roads would have been cleared beforehand there is speculation of course that the security services have been involved in some shape or form. yes now actually the investigation has already begun and. i mean we have to wait but indians are in terms of the benefits of the i mean the enemies of 100 although his popularity in sudan you know it's very big right now but he have also a lot of enemies i mean enemies who have no interest in his. office and. the transitional period to go i mean even the 'd. agents of the former regime. may be the components of the military component of the transition periods in the transition government is

also. have some troubles with. with the civilian components in this and this is a government that by. so many sides inside sudan and inside the government maybe if it's the removal of hundreds from the sea you know just today then. a high delegation from the from the u.s. . does it in sudan in order to to call to hold talks with the sudanese officials about the list after them from the list of countries that sponsor terrorism and you know the sudan. is something very important for the for the sudanese economy so ok there is need in actually all these reports and all these of course some bad things that. stand against. this movement

are standing behind what happened today mohammed. made sudanese journalist go to thank you very much. but i'm all still ahead on news hour including seeking justice over the shooting down of a malaysian airliner the trial begins in a dutch court without the 4 men accused. in south africa makes a bold move on gun control but will it be enough to reduce crime. and in sports fans were watching in the stadium but didn't stop the football instead a break 2 months or so and it's not. so explosions from a suspected rocket attack have interrupted the inauguration ceremony of afghanistan's president ashraf ghani. the blast didn't appear to take place in a sermon he done his political rival of dinner held

a parallel swearing in both men and laying claim to the presidency after a disputed election back in september and it's joined up to how much life for us in kabul so are all manner of chaotic scenes in kabul today. and it was certainly i think full of controversy and violence because. first of all there was a lot of delay in this inauguration people had been told to arrive quite early in the morning all of the guests and the media and then when we arrived there we were told no it was delayed by 6 hours and then it was been delayed by another additional hour during that time you had a u.s. envoy zalmay khalilzad shura shuttling basically between these 2 political rivals president any and. trying to find a compromise where he couldn't find a compromise and actually both of them went ahead with the presidential

inauguration and both the integrations was interrupted by this rocket attack. and what are what is the source of the dispute between the 2 and to what degree could there disagreement d. rail talks between the government and telegraph i can't hear the question because it's very the line is very bad and what i can tell you is that during his speech during the inauguration he actually. said that by tomorrow he will issue a decree for do release of these taliban prisoners that's one of the that's one of the articles of the agreement between the u.s. and the taliban but he said that that would take several months actually to release up to $5000.00 prisoners he also said that there will be a that the delegation that will go to do so in track after talks which are

considered crucial here to bring any kind of peace and stability will be ready in the coming days but then you have the problem of. don't know where he during his inauguration was saying that russia had he was illegitimate that the election that happened in september was marred in fraud and he actually called for a 2nd round of presidential elections so you distend off is still there now in the middle you have the violence we still have to hear from the taliban if indeed the taliban are to ones behind this attack on the presidential compound then that would be a clear violation of the agreement but so far they haven't violated that agreement have been many many attacks more than 80 attacks in one week alone but none violated the terms of the agreement so we'll have to wait for the claim of responsibility for does attack on the presidential palace and also we'll have to wait for a statement of denial of the taliban if indeed it's not them so

a lot of balls in the air the moment here in kabul indeed her and only left my thanks for mustard on a 100 in kabul. south africa has one of the highest crime rates in the world much with due to illegal firearms and other government is offering an amnesty but many are skeptical that this will make south africa any safer for minimal or reports now from sweater german. this is the reality of gun crimes in south africa on average there are $58.00 murders every day one of the highest violent crime rates in the world according to government statistics and experts say that's largely down to half a 1000000 illegal firearms on the streets buying an illegal gun can cost as little as $50.00 as very it is ago because it's very easy to buy a gun in their hostels or you can get it by breaking into houses in the suburbs sometimes you mark someone who has a gun it's very easy to get a gun here in south africa these gang members in the johannesburg township of

soweto who don't want to be identified say guns make it easier to commit crimes with 4 guns between them they call themselves a small army and they say they are capable of protecting themselves. as they continue to commit crime we do a lot of things through them by a motions because really look there is attrition at all no one is ricky only hosel is nothing how is can we use a gun especially one that is not licensed we hustle and bustle the wrong we just saw we can have something to eat looking phone to someone they say they've all been arrested for crimes ranging from house break ins to vehicle theft. while there are 3000000 registered guns in south africa the government is offering amnesty to people willing to hand in guns or ammunition that are unregistered but they'll only avoid prosecution if the guns have not been used to commit crime so far police have

collected more than 2000 firearms and over 31000 rounds of ammunition at this handover in johannesburg gun shop owner crisp on the back is surrendering more than 300 firearms he says no longer have commercial value but while the government says they have been some successes in reducing the number of guns on the street some people say the amnesty program will not reduce crime would any of you hand over your own firearms. no i want to know. every year close to $10000.00 guns from handguns to a k $47.00 assault rifles are reported lost or stolen adding to hundreds of thousands of illegal firearms on south african streets the government says it's doing all it can to change that. these guns are often difficult to trace and police hope some of them will be handed over during the amnesty period but getting the public to cooperate is not the only challenge police corruption has also

contributed to the number of illegal firearms with some police officers accused of selling confiscated guns to criminals and so for many the government may still not be doing enough to make south africa safer for me the al jazeera johannesburg. all right let's get on the weather rob sam bit of a warm spell in the u.s. indeed it is early touches speaking of the smell of spring and the temperatures on in the northeast coast well in the u.s. far in canada but around the 2021 mark which may not seem extreme to you given that remark 8 to 18 way to 30 degrees above average that's a big departure from our vision as always this line. is the difference between the warms and the cold divided by a frontal system which is where the weather is a good feed of moisture in the south a good feed of cold of the plains so you'd expect rain if we were say a months later would be tornadoes is now we have seen some tornadoes just not quite

the season yet we're getting there and that will be the reason for it that's the current setup with the cloud among the rain with some big thunderstorms running across the midwest the appalachians over the next 24 hours of a key move get eastwards then you're fundamentally take the temperatures down a little bit now that's normal what has been happening look at what's been happening further west california is just about to see or just has seen some rain it should have rained all winter but january february virtually nothing to see this down the south this is lake elsinore but far from l.a. which is almost tornado is a spy for some so indicates the strength of the thunderstorms it's an interesting but it's the last month for this rain is likely and it's there for the next day running up into arizona that could be interesting fresh blood territory nick thanks very late thank you still ahead here on al-jazeera a dispute over a longstanding defense agreement put senators in the philippines on a collision course with the president. plus there was

a political spectacle full of pomp and ceremony but did trump all moody walkway that went out. we have spoken coming up to the defender who showed the strike is how it's done with a one to go in major league soccer. join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news channel morning talkers and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most the states misleads the public the state media reflects the same thing. climate change poll their editorial shows a dark believe they have anything to apologize for their listening post on al-jazeera the shocking treatment of disabled people in eastern european state run caravans in this case you cannot have access to

a toilet or water and the bureaucratic indifference to their plight she has his hands and his state's rights to the bed 5 years after fast highlighting such abuses of people in power returns with a 2 part investigation to continuing mistreatment and neglect europe's recurring shane hart one on al-jazeera. the move. how do you know what you are german to remark about top stories this hour. and european union leaders are set to hold emergency talks by video conference through poor day their response to the world of ours up with the number of new cases in the

european union continues to grow rapidly italy has the highest number of functions within 7400. global oil markets have plunged those in price war the impact of coronavirus causes of values plummet brant crude often used as a global 26 bunch more down by around 13. it's time. to see new york markets opening the. most stocks already in the red and appeared to be following. an explosion has hit a convoy carrying sudan's prime minister and what the government is calling an assassination attempt abdullah was on her by the roadside blast in the capital to. tell you what let's switch back to new york and the markets opening that

christensen to me standing by for us right now say kristen the markets already plunging. yeah the market's intice a painted to plunge rapidly at the opening bell and they're already headed in that direction overnight in fact the futures. stocks were halted after they plunged more than 5 percent they triggered an automatic shutdown markets are extremely extremely jittery over the continuing spread of the corona virus here in the united states we're hearing about more and more schools being shut down more businesses restricting travel. this is going. on all sorts of sectors of the economy in particular travel and then over the weekend we heard that a deal to try to. rein in oil production to cut oil production to

stem the falling oil prices also fell through opec countries had hoped that russia would agree to cut oil production by one and a half 1000000 barrels per day. that suggestion that proposal was rejected now we're seeing a price war and oil prices are falling yet again now at their lowest rate since the 1st gulf war so markets extremely jittery all of this news we also have had just in the last hour an announcement from the federal reserve that they would inject. overnight short term loan money $150000000000.00 into the markets in an attempt to kind of ease concerns and keep the money flowing during this time of high stress i don't want to say panic but at this point it seems that the markets as they have been for the last couple weeks are just really really uncertain this last minute announcement by the fed coming on

just last week a rate cut an unexpected rate cut that was attempted also to calm markets and more speculation about what else the fed might do as really the long term impact of this epidemic. and its impact on global trade the economy. speculation continues to mount and how widespread that will be and clearly investors are very very very spooked this morning. worth noting that as the overnight trigger was met to stop trading that's something we'll be watching for today if things punched too quickly automatic shutdown could go into effect to limit trading and limit losses it's looking like it could be that kind of a day right a lot of. times in the world markets the world global stock markets every thanks very much lou thank you the trial of 4 men accused of murder over the roles in the

malaysian airlines flight 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 in a ukrainian are being tried in absentia after a peace taking investigation. is a professor in the department of political science at the national university. academy and he joins us live from the hague. is significant day this is not for the victims' families but the question is will there be any resolution. well there will be resolution in the sense that there's already been a very thorough investigation by the joint investigation team and by various think tanks belling cat and now we have the trial which is likely to confirm

prosecution of these 4 individuals in absentee here but of course russia is never going to transfer these individuals to the netherlands to be put on trial or be put in prison so in that sense they won't be the full range of justice no but i think the victims' families will certainly be very happy that the trial has begun today of this very tragic event right and of course russia has repeatedly denied involvement in this. well look let's put it very frankly vladimir putin is a serial liar and i think every government in the west knows that they won't say openly of course and he can't say otherwise if he was today to admit this was a russian book that struck down m.h. 17 then he would have to admit that russian military forces are involved in eastern

ukraine in an undeclared war against ukraine for the last 6 years for him to do that he would be undermining everything that russia has been saying about this war in the last 6 years including that this is a so-called civil war and that russia is not involved and if he was to go down that road he'd have to actually then admit to his own russian people oh by the way russia is that war with ukraine and then that would be you know something that i don't think he could do and therefore he has to continue lying yes given that what will the effect be of the focus of this trial on the. well various think tanks and social logical services have already shown the last few months that the international image of russia and of light in the putin is at rock bottom and this will decrease that even further we have a kind of

a very amusing situation where russia spends billions without exaggeration every year on various types of international actions and on social media in russia russia today and things like this and there's there's not very much of a positive impact that comes back to russia from this especially when you have this kind of trial which will point the finger clearly at russia's involvement it also will give the ukrainian authorities the ability to. again to press their case in international courts on various issues that they are at the moment. doing with russia such as. accusing russia of financing terrorism in ukraine and of abusing human rights so this as it were this trial and the likely outcome which will be to condemn russia will open up a pandora's box of even further negative international views of russia.

perspective thanks very much indeed attack as president is due in brussels to meet evil leaders rest of type one is said discuss the migration crisis on the border between turkey and greece as well as military operations in syria the e.u. has criticized opening turkey's borders to allow tens of thousands of refugees to the european union. germany meanwhile has reportedly agreed to take in under-age migrants who've been trying to get to mainland europe through the greek islands thousands of asylum seekers have been trying to leave turkey after its president said the country would no longer prevent them it's increased friction between turkey and greece and has led to violence between border guards and refugees senators in the philippines have launched a supreme court challenge against the president scrapping a long standing defense agreement with the united states they argue that president roderigo to turkey cannot unilaterally end any agreements approved by them the

philippines has been one of washington's closest allies in asia for decades and eternity its critics fear he's selling out to china to mel and reports now from manila. these senators are asking the supreme court to define how much power the president has last month president a very good at there to announce the terminations of the 21 year agreement which allowed u.s. troops and she for joint training exercises this comes after the u.s. cancelled the visa overstay former police chief now sen orlando. that was because of his involvement in with their does war on the illegal drugs street senators are asking for the supreme court to rule whether deterred to can terminate any international treaty approved by the senate were simply asserting the power of the senate and we will really be infused in that in those 3 days in agreements that.

must pass through the senate the thirty's critics say maintaining the philippine us alliance doesn't mean the subservience of the united states what is unfolding before us is a national tragedy we should be resistant as a democratic and republican country we do not believe that one man alone and make this damaging joyce for our people while others are calling for the renegotiation of the terms of the agreement saying that since its signing in 1909 there have been major shifts in the global balance of power in asia and the china can no longer be ignored we are allowed to defend our country against armagh but we can and then do alliances to defend our country. and against. the. invading our already in the west philippine sea when the terror was sworn into

office in 2016 he promised a more independent foreign policy moving away from longstanding allies like the u.s. and building closer relations with countries like china and russia but critics say do terrorist actions is making the philippines dependent on china which is seen as the biggest threat as it continues to encroach on philippine maritime territories in the south china sea. the agreement to was created following the rejection of extension of us bases in the philippines in 1991 the visiting forces agreement implements commitments in the 951 mutual defense treaty which binds the philippines and us to come to each other's aid if either is attacked despite the pullout the us military continues to have joint exercises every year involving intelligence sharing as well as disaster response training dog and al jazeera manila.

the next round of democratic primaries in the united states takes place on tuesday race that began with nearly 30 candidates is now down to just 2 serious contenders and senator bernie sanders and former vice president joe biden lead by about 90 delegates in the race for the nomination and to rival president donald trump and november's general election 6 states vote on tuesday the most closely watched will be michigan where the largest total of 125 delegates will be selected as on the 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 automatically come down to now a race for those new. early 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. well

it's an hour from lincoln mitchell who's a political science is a lecturer at columbia university and he says the race is getting tougher for but he sounds. 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 was very strong with after american voters but so was clinton so this is going to be a tough race for sanders centers 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 1988 in a massive upset a bigger upset than sanders is win in 2016 but it's also significant because in 1988 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 house enders 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 the one trumps a trip to india last month calls much trying for the u.s. president to prime minister to maybe try to huge crowds but it snuffs many wondering who benefited most from the visit 20 but he has more. 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 disposed toward india is based on location geography and economic potential. if you take all these into account there's more the country any show which can offer any kind of a balance to china. the united states india as an essential buffer to the growing expansionism of china in the asia region. the us has the most powerful navy in the world but india is the dominant power in the indian ocean and the risk concern that beijing may spread its power in the south china sea india's area of control things that set of models itself on america that ability to project power across 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 post in the region. india has just agreed to purchase $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 que dos and indorsement the real substance belongs to the us with india having to tell 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 but it is going to point to you when if america has a problem with iran you win or deal with it on even the india of going to. be good to be good economically he would have been able to play the russians against the

americans and continue dealing with it on big on do it. they have to face the chinese threat and then have to do what they want america to quiets of them and that is actually the current situation in which we're operating. india is having to perform a delicate balancing act because the u.s. and china continue their battle for global dominance it's hoping it won't become collateral damage tony berkeley al-jazeera deli. still ahead here in a jaw dropping moment for this baseball player and his fans come up with this whole . business leaders as you know brass paul.

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or in the good old sport history nick thank you sport continues to feel the effects of current virus the upcoming asian football world cup qualifiers in march and june have been perspire and well governing body fee for made the decision after meeting with the asian football confederation but they did say there's still a chance that some of the games could go ahead if both countries involved gree to it european club football has been hit to wednesday's champions league match between paris and the man abdul rasyid don't mind will be played with no fans because france has banned gatherings of more than a 1000 people that will also means this week's 6 nations rugby match between france and ireland is off is light played in october and so italy's games against england and ireland which were postponed earlier in the tournament. in the u.s. the biggest tennis tournament outside of the grand slams has been cancelled indian

wells was due to starts on tuesday but health officials in california say it's too big a risk the composition of china's new hof a 1000000 people every year. well i'm very disappointed it's a huge economic problem for the valley casa valley probably $375000000.00 cost the city of indian wells $4000000.00 this is just a very unfortunate situation. japan's football and baseball leagues have announced further delays to the seasons but the tokyo 2020 lympics is still scheduled to take place on time over this week's unpicked torch lighting ceremony in greece will take place without spectators is to what place the local my in olympia though because he wants to move the whole thing to may. well just for effect to then but for me to one's 1st race of the season in australia will go ahead as planned this week the teams have been arriving in melbourne over the last few days and fans won't be

excluded that's despite the 2nd race in bahrain shutting spectators out on the shanghai from point a probing despite. what applies in bahrain via the crown prince is different to what applies in china and given to want to play 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 being the major venture capital of the world and we're going to do so in a very very safe and responsible manner this weekend cameron in zambia as women's football teams a battling for a place in the tokyo olympics the 2nd leg of that qualify is on choose day with cameron leading 32 and aiming to continue a meteoric rise for the women's 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 much tighter women have been done much of 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. i write 57 places below the scoring a pair of goals a cameron capital day. although cameron did edge it with 3 of their own to give that growing army of fans hope when they watch tuesday's return like in the socket so far. on the streets of yon 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. 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 the daughters to play football and it's why i.

really don't know for both 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 hard soil immense success from the 1990 world cup onwards providing fertile ground for the women cameron is one of the greatest nation on the african continent so it was on. a macro time reading that we know and also and got up to speed growing up looking at all these legends people that make a new come to us and want to be like them so you have to go all the way to georgia i mean that is someone and so and now to think that look even me the gods can do this we can do it at that stage and we can go out and sign zambia's to away goals

could make them the story on tuesday they hope cameron off in the 2nd like whoever reaches the olympics will hope to continue the upward curve for africa's female football as once they get to. al-jazeera. the major league soccer season is only a couple weeks old but we may have already seen the goal of the year and it was scored by defender looks like he's lining up for a shot to the center back jacob let's talk. about this jacob closeness for the philadelphia union from 40 yards against l.a.'s one with another few let's say it's the 1st ever go in m.l.s. for the norwegian center back but despite leading 3 times in the match philadelphia could only manage a $33.00 draw. to the n.b.a. and the lakers won the battle of los angeles against the clippers lebron james and anthony davis combined for $58.00 points to end the precious 6 game winning streak the make is now one for in

a row and one top in the western conference with the clippers in 2nd. and the n.b.a.'s number one draft pick design williamson put on a show for the new orleans pelicans plenty of trademark suns dunks for the 19 year old as they beat the minnesota timberwolves by 13 points williamson himself and with 20 family. it's spring training in major league baseball but that doesn't mean that teams are taking it easy on each other. i guess that was texas rangers really calhoun getting hit in the face by a phosphor against the l.a. dodgers it was troubling manning 160 kilometers an hour he was eventually helped to his feet and taken to hospital where an x. ray showed he'd fractured his shoulder. right that people have more later nick tell you where we should be don't know that it's only for this news out of my colleagues and i want to be right here with more of the day's news and we the clock is by.

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