from asia in the pacific on al-jazeera. a country on lockdown that elise prime minister orders unprecedented restrictions to try to stop the spread of coronavirus. and richelle carey this is out as her life from doha also coming up. chinese president xi jinping travels to woodhall in the out the center of the outbreak after the country reports another significant drop in new cases. the white house confirms president trump has not been tested for corona virus despite flying with the congressman who is now in quarantine. and a day without women the mill worker strike in mexico to show what the workplace is like without them.

italy is expanding travel restrictions to the entire country locking down 60000000 people to contain the corona virus outbreak and president and move follows another spike in deaths from the virus despite a strict orange teen imposed in the north of italy the troika the reports. it's a nice curated virus that demick already the 2nd most deadly after china has taken another dramatic turn with more than 60000000 people the country's entire population under lockdown from tuesday. prime minister is that they contact says he's extending restrictions on movement after another spike in deaths from the coronavirus all public gatherings all banned and schools and universities closed until april the 3rd. there will no longer be a red zone there will no longer be a lawn and zone 2 in the country there will only be it's only

a protected zone so across the whole peninsula people should avoid all movement unless they are for 3 specific reasons for work emergencies or health reasons. 60000000 people in the north of the country have been under lockdown since sunday riots in 2 dozen prisons across italy followed restrictions on face to face visits a modern a 6 inmates died after they broke into the prison infirmary and overdosed on stocks of the heroin substitute methadone. as a warning they posted someplace to switch say we can only go inside when a mosque. because it's of one family member at a time. this was a hint of what chaos might in see you with the virus were to enter the confines of the prison system it is almost everywhere else in italy these were arrest scenes

filmed inside a hospital in the northern town of cremona and also on lockdown the financial capital milan one of the engines of the economy europe's major stock markets problem and then to frankfurt paris and london all suffered dramatic falls on monday with share prices plummeting as the infection rate saw the economic impact of the coronavirus is already substantial and will only grow there are discomforting comparisons being made to the 2008 financial crisis with concerns for the preparedness of european banks and businesses. on tuesday elite is will meet to try to come up with a unified response but they won't meet here in person in brussels with it steadily growing infection rate instead they'll be holding a tele conference the circumstances of this unique crisis continue to evolve although not yet into a pandemic says the world health organization in which transmission of the virus is

uncontrolled now that the virus has a foothold in so many countries the threads of a bunda meek has become very real. but it would be the 3rd spondon week in history that could be controlled there are signs of success against the virus in china south korea and singapore but not yet in europe spain looks set to launch what's being described as shock therapy measures possibly following france and germany with school closures and restrictive public gatherings these are moves the government in britain is not yet prepared to make keen apparently to defer the enormous social and economic costs of fighting the coronavirus but that will likely be no avoiding them victoria gay to be algis there are a couple is overall just at the university of florida and a former italian politician she says italy has one of the world's biggest aging

populations making it more vulnerable to this outbreak. i think that the system of reporting that is used in italy is very very different from systems that are being used in other countries i think that it is likely that infection from asia to don't reach italy only but it reached a series of european countries and that there have been intramural pm the circulation of the virus and italy is one of the countries infected by the corona virus it certainly has. had a significant number of hospitalized patients but it's only has. a significant aging population we are one of the all the countries with. the longest life expectancy plus the public service will take on any case and therefore i think that this is quite

a unique situation compared to the rest who are i don't think that the virus when it left before they will have locked down went only to italy. there are as i said many many connections in europe with china but also in africa with china and so i suspect that the infection might be more widespread than what is it is currently believed to be chinese president xi jinping has arrived and will han where the crown a virus originated it was his 1st visit to the epicenter since the outbreak began in december it's ironic dr who is insulza tell us more about this this visit rob. that's right it is a big development this tuesday and nobody seemed to know about this visit until it was actually taking place about yes as you mentioned there this is the 1st visit by she jumping to. province the epicenter of china's outbreak

he will be meeting we are told with hospital staff also with army units military units all the different components of this massive effort down in will hand to control the outbreak of the coronavirus his involvement xi jinping is involvement since the start of this outbreak has been somewhat controversial as many china watchers observed in the very early days of this outbreak when it was a devastatingly bad news story we had thousands of cases being detected as soaring death toll xi jinping was kept a conspicuously low profile he wasn't seen for literally days on end and the thinking being that as it was such a negative aspect such a disease unfolding disaster it didn't do well to have xi jinping his name associated with that now the more cynically minded might suggest that as china seems to have got this under control it's become a better narrative

a good news story surprise surprise you jim ping is there at the epicenter of what is going to be protracted national effort overcoming this unprecedented tragedy and she jean ping very much at the helm at least that's what we can expect in state run media in china to be portraying this but certainly the news coming out of who itself is better we are hearing even that some local officials are working out whether people who live in medium and low risk areas can actually start venturing out and traveling again and of course although it hasn't been a fish really acknowledge there are reports that preparations may well be underway to reopen and reopen quite soon will hans international airport so you're on tell us more about that and the new numbers out of china that seem to be promising. they continue to show this downward trend. much reduced today on day number of new

cases there's a handful of cases in itself and outside of who probably there's only 2 new cases have been reported in the whole of china and those are people who've actually travelled into china they've not been infected in the country itself so it does look promising in fact chinee a number of chinese provinces and cities that we've seen that some of the special hospitals in cuba have been gradually closing down some of those are emergency facilities put in place and in fact some of the stocks of masks and suits that are no longer needed in such numbers in china have actually been sent here to south korea the south koreans themselves are reporting much smaller numbers for the 1st time in 2 weeks we are down to 131 new cases this chews day so we are seeing this gradual reduction each day certainly nothing like the kind of 500 or 600 new cases that we saw last week so that is an encouraging sign and also we are

seeing. the number of tests that have been done still in their thousands they found in the last 24 hours we've had 13000 tests being conducted and out of those only 131 new cases were found which is a detection rate of around one percent or so and these are high risk groups of people associated with this church in the south where we've had some of the bigger outbreaks and clusters also people with flu like symptoms so we're having extensive testing and we're finding relatively few new cases of the coronavirus ok but that wrap up there from seoul rob thank you. the white house says the u.s. president has not been tested for corona virus after a flu with the congressman who is now quarantined in cell this comes as donald trump announced plans to soften the economic effect of the outbreak including but central payroll tax cuts the president says the possible tax relief will be

substantial and help support the economy the virus infected more than $600.00 people across $34.00 states we are going to take care of and have been taking care of the american public and the american economy we are going to be asking tomorrow we're seeing the senate going to be meeting with house republicans mitch mcconnell everybody and discussing a possible payroll tax. cut or relief substantial really very substantial relief that's a big that's a big number. we're also going to be talking about hourly wage earners getting. help so that they can. feel a position where they're not going ever miss a paycheck to be working with companies and small companies large companies a lot of companies so that they don't get penalize or something that's not their faults not their fault it's not our country's fault that this was something that we

were thrown into and we're going to handle it and we have been handling it. jordan has more from washington d.c. . the trumpet ministration is struggling to reassure americans that it has the situation involving the coronavirus epidemic under control this is what the u.s. vice president mike pence told reporters on monday evening what the president was referring to is that we will have people that test positive and then they get better that it's also important remember that people but the vast majority get better completely some some large percentage have mild flu symptoms some have serious flu symptoms but then of course for the for the americans you heard the surgeon general refer to seniors with underlying serious health conditions dr felt you referred to we're committed to lean in to make sure they have the support they need but the white house also noted late on monday

evening that in response to reporters' questions the president donald trump has not been tested for a coronavirus this even though a florida congressperson rode with the president on air force one during a campaign stop over the weekend that congressman is now in itself quarantined for 14 days because he had been exposed to a person who has tested positive for the virus again it's raising questions about whether enough is being done not just to protect the u.s. president but the american public writ large and president on for strength serious or markets after a plunge in global stock markets on monday all straight suffered its worst one day drop since the 2008 financial crisis with the dow jones falling more than 7 percent so far on tuesdays and markets have shown some signs of stabilizing athan initial drop an opening for since aluminum reports from new york. from the opening bell investors were sounding the alarm

a massive stock selloff amid growing fears that the coronavirus was evolving from a health crisis to an economic one as more people stay home cancel trips and reduce their spending walking around new york today or even the last few days one begins to see what is real economic pain to come which is restaurants and empty stores and cabs circling looking for business that doesn't seem to be there it got so bad that just minutes into trading a nosedive of 7 percent on the s. and p. index triggered an automatic shut down temporarily halting trading the market stop for 15 minutes and what does that do it gives people a chance sort of stabilize get the buyers or interested involved sellers interest involved this again from the emotionality of the a panic mode and try to get a sense of really what's going on markets open to the news that the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. had topped 508 states have declared

a state of emergency and that oil prices have dropped 30 percent after some oil producing countries failed to reach an agreement to reduce production launching a price war. new york was the last stop on a worldwide wave of sally all the main european and exes fell by more than 7 percent after asian markets also saw a sharp decline since. i made so much uncertainty the federal reserve which is the u.s. central bank has promised to make more money available for short term loans to keep cash flowing to financial markets other measures may be under consideration but so far they haven't found him not to reassure investors that the coronavirus won't take an entire economy christian salumi out to 0. still ahead on al-jazeera. here in the battleground state of michigan people are going to the polls to vote what could be the deciding day determines who runs against donald

trump in the general election i give rolls on to detroit that story coming up. hello there mostly calm conditions throughout much of the middle east on the arabian peninsula some clouds as you can see here on the satellite on his way to western areas attack it does bring a few rain showers on cheese dip but really quite nice and very well scattered and north about temperature and 16 degrees celsius where it is cooler is much further to the east in the north kabul just 5 degrees the chance of some snow flurries there and the rain developing again as we head off into wednesday beginning to push once again across in some northern areas of pakistan meanwhile it does warm up through the eastern end of the med 23 in jerusalem and 25 in a mosque is warmer than doha at just 23 degrees plenty of rain across much of

angola pushing up into the d.l.c. across into towns and years ago through choose a and once again more showers quite heavy at times through northern and eastern areas of madagascar the showers. still in the forecast as well 3 will southern and particularly eastern areas of south africa but it's a very nice day in capetown $25.00 degrees celsius and slightly warmed up in johannesburg $28.00 degrees as we go through chews day by wednesday not a huge change we still get those showers across into madagascar but the rains becoming really very widespread and heavy at times through the day i'll say but it's a dry day and a warm day in cape town at 28. join the global conversation to pop the bubble to the people to expand their brains maybe have a different view this is a dialogue women in cambodia are in fact telling their here we don't know how much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to treat everyone has

a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a lot right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection on al-jazeera. lose. much no observer let's take a look at the top stories right now italy is expanding travel 'd restrictions to the entire country locking down 16000000 people to contain the corona virus outbreak and president move follows another spike in deaths from the virus despite a strict born teen imposed in the north. chinese president xi jinping has arrived and will hong where the crime of virus originated as

a new infections continue to slow down state media says the government may ease travel restrictions on parts of kobe province which has been locked down since january and the white house says the us president has not been tested for corona virus after he flew with the congressman who's now quarantined himself up earlier announced plans to soften the economic effect of the virus including potential payroll tax cuts more than $600.00 people across the u.s. have been affected. your pain and nato leaders have met the turkish president in a bid to deescalate a growing refugee crisis last month russia type or don't want to open the borders to asylum seekers wanting to leave turkey and start new lives in the e.u. and the latest on the situation and the journey near the turkey crease forger. as leaders met the desperate pressed on seizing the opportunity while turkey's borders were still open but abdul sidon describes a harrowing journey that ended with an arrest by the greek police what i one of the

we are i'm a woman a closed road and they're going all you want to get out is not another good idea when my 3rd of our i'd rather you do die do another 31 february 28 hours after turkey suffered its greatest number of casualties since its soldiers began fighting in syria turkish president. urged awad open the country's northwest border with greece and belgariad urged once new policy or an out of frustration with what he says is europe's failure to assist it with hosting 3700000 syrians created another refugee and geo political crisis. a huge enough given amount d.c. to key has a critical role to play in handling the refute the problem and it needs the help of europe to do it but this cannot happen and i think everyone realizes it now under conditions of threats and blackmail using fling people as pawns greece may call it blackmail but some analysts say turkey's opening of the border is

a successful tactic after 2 years of complaining to the european union to no avail president now has europe's attention and is back at the negotiating table for on monday president wants spoke after meeting with the nato secretary general didn't defeat they can see jenin is beyond reason and understanding that an ally in a neighboring country points towards turkey as the one responsible for the wave of irregular migration and i have expressed to the secretary general that we are not going to allow this country to use this current situation and using european union in order to obtain in just against. top officials said the 2016 migration agreement between turf. he and the e.u. is still valid however there are missing elements that need to be addressed under the agreement turkey agreed to impose strict measures to halt the flow of migration into europe exchange for of billions of dollars we have expressed very clearly to

president our commitment to move forward on these issues provided that this is reciprocal to the european council president called the meetings a 1st step leaving the question of how much longer it would take to end the crisis as thousands of refugees and migrants continue to risk their lives making their way to western europe natasha guinea al-jazeera near the turkey greece border at least 43 people are dead and burkina faso after gunmen attacked 2 villages the military has been sent to secure the area and the north region close to the border with mali the villages are inhabited by ethnic herders nobody has claimed responsibility m across argentina are expected to rally in support of legalizing abortion the strike action comes after president alberto fernandez said he wants to reopen the debate initiative has garnered broad social support but is strongly opposed by religious

groups argentine is the home nation of pope francis abortion as the country and the country rather is punishable by up to 4 years in jail. tens of thousands of mexican women are on a nationwide strike activists are calling the event a day without women as part of ongoing demonstrations against an alarming increase in gender based violence and reports of mexico city. in unusual scene played out in mexico on monday the streets emptied and many businesses closed as women across the country went on strike. in many cases businesses gave female employees the day off so they could participate in the day of action either use release in industrial design or medicine at her place of work though she was also participating in the strike as a mexican woman i have this opportunity to get united with my cousins with my mom with my friends to make a change to make a difference about bio it's against women in my country. on sunday some

80000 women marched on the streets of the mexican capital calling attention to the worsening problem of gender based violence every law that they are on average 10 women are murdered every day in mexico. the women strike was organized to pose a single question what would mexico be like without women this would normally be one of the busiest times of day aboard mexico's metro transit system but as you can see there's hardly anyone here and most of the people who are writing the trains are bad. not everyone could afford to join the strike but that is one of our oh says she still supports this new generation of mexican feminists that really is it basically just violence starts at home and it's time that it stops it's time for us to put an end to all the violence and for many women like i'm going on strike doesn't just mean staying away from work but rather helping to maintain the

momentum of the women's movement or the envoy in you know that it doesn't but at this moment for women's rights is for everyone even for women who oppose the movement the struggle has a known way to go. $3800.00 women were killed in mexico in 2019 sparking a groundswell of activism that continues to put pressure on the mexican government to do more to fight violence against women though any tangible political initiatives have yet to come up with mexico city. a mass murder trial has begun in. netherlands over the 2014 downing of the malaysian airliner 4 men are accused of helping shoot down the plane although they were absent from court in are believed to be in russia 298 people were on the mh 17 flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur it was hit by a missile while flying over a conflict zone in eastern ukraine territory controlled by russian progress and separatists the kremlin has denied involvement. it appears government is blaming

design flaws for the boeing $737.00 max crash a year ago a faulty sensor reading is said to be at fault along with the erroneous activation of an anti stall system it's implicated in both the ethiopian airlines crash and a similar $737.00 max crash in indonesia and a $46.00 passengers and crew died in both disasters and mars parliament is set to vote on tuesday over whether to amend the constitution the proposed changes include reducing the role of the armed forces but their strong opposition 25 percent of parliamentary unelected legislators appointed by the military changes to the 2008 constitution will only pass if they're supported by some of those politicians week after democratic presidential contender joe biden's victories 6 more u.s. states are holding primary votes ahead of the november general election michigan is seen as one of the biggest prizes in the 2020 voting could determine who is named the next president trump won the state by about 10000 votes in 2016 polls could

former vice president joe biden in the lead against senator bernie sanders and the 2016 election turnout among african-americans was the lowest in decades or else on a spoke to voters in the state's biggest battleground city detroit. a protest for food it's. members of a large labor union out to encourage fellow black americans to get out and vote in tuesday's democratic primary election in michigan many did not vote in the last presidential election it was won by donald trump i know people that did not get out and vote nice to see you do not suppose to do this is what happens in 2016 black voter turnout was barely 50 percent the lowest in decades. from the 1st one several states was sizable black populations by the slimmest of margins like michigan. this ballpark is home to the detroit tigers major league baseball team

just for some perspective in the last election just here in the state of michigan 4 and a half 1000000 people voted this ballpark seats 40000 people and donald trump beat hillary clinton by only 10000 votes but when you look in the state of michigan voters have a feel they have a feel for their votes are important they thought their votes were taken for granted and when you look at the last presidential election there were not resources spent here in michigan want to give off. signs of decay in detroit just outside the windows where a group of young activists are getting last minute instructions before door knocking for votes. how important is african-american turnout in the next election. it's very important. in 2016 it was a very very very close race between trump and hillary. if we could you know make an

impact by talking to these voters and get intimate understand how important it is to come turn out to vote whether biden or bernie you know we can really swing the state. are you to get people to the polls you are any plans to keep knocking on doors making sure of it i'll leave this with. detroit. scotland's former leader is on trial for a string of sexual offenses against women alex semin denies carrying out a total of 14 sexual assaults on 10 women between 20182014 when he was serving as 1st minister the most serious count of attempted rape of legibly happened inside his official residence yes appeals court has ruled the band led zeppelin did not steal its 1971 mega stairway to heaven.

that is the acoustic introduction at the center of a long running copyright dispute abandon spirit claims it was stolen from a song they released 3 years before they went in the case has been in court for 6 years now and on monday an 11 judge panel of the previous decision in favor of. take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera italy is expanding travel restrictions to the entire country locking down 60000000 people to contain the corona virus outbreak and president the new follows another spike in deaths from the virus despite a strict quarantine imposed in the north and chinese president xi jinping has arrived in ruhani where the crown virus originated as new infections continue to slow down state media says the government may ease travel restrictions of parts of who a province which has been walked down since january and the white house says the us

president has not been tested for corona virus after a flu the congressman who is now quarantined himself earlier announced plans to soften the economic effect of the virus including potentially payroll tax cuts we're going to take care of that have been taken care of the american public and the american economy we are going to be asking tomorrow we're seeing the senate going to be meeting with house republicans which mcconnell everybody and discussing a possible payroll tax. cut or relief substantial really very substantial relief that's a big that's a big number at least 43 people are dead in burkina faso after gunmen attacked 2 villages in the north the military has been sent to secure the area close to the border with mali nobody has claimed responsibility. thousands of women across in mexico have stayed away from public areas as part of a strike called day without women after sunday's mass marches for international

women's day students and workers stayed at home to show what mexico would be like without them activists claim the government has failed to take attacks on women seriously. a mass murder trial has begun in the netherlands over the 2014 downing of a malaysian airliner 4 men are accused of helping shoot down that plane although they were absent from court and are believed to be in russia $298.00 people were on board the mh 17 flight from amsterdam to kuala lumpur and scotland's former leader is on trial for a string of sexual offenses against women alex salman denies carrying out a total of 14 sexual assaults on 10 women between 20082014 when he was serving as 1st minister keep it or more news to come the stream is next. as the world battles a potential new pandemic will bring you the latest developments from around the globe with updates about trouble or searchers how to protect ourselves.

run a virus outbreak special coverage on. ok and you are in the stream fury in the streets of the femicide in mexico protest as are all skin what they stop and for the government to take the issue seriously we want you to share your thoughts on how to address violence against women you can let us know in our life chats. i am see set up is that for mexico lawyer and journalist and you are in the street. in mexico women are taking part in the country's 1st all women's labor strike it's called a day without us no women know what school or in public these are some of the hotshots driving the conversation the.