even start in some cases but to do that we must transform our relationship with. travel bans and warnings across the european union as every member state is affected by the corona virus outbreak. but china says it's closing temporary hospitals in rouhani and the us president xi jinping makes his 1st trip to the virus epicenter. alarms the raman you're watching al-jazeera live my headquarters here in there are coming up in the next 30 minutes turkey and russia agreed to implement a key part of a cease fire deal in syria's it live province. plus the u.s. starts withdrawing troops from afghanistan after a deal signed with the taliban last month.

welcome to the program europe is on high alert to stop the spread of the coronavirus and italy imposes unprecedented restrictions on its entire 60000000 population all 27 european union member states have confirmed coronavirus cases e.u. leaders are expected to hold an emergency meeting and the european commission is calling for tougher measures well italians are stocking up on basic supplies with the government strongly advising everyone to stay home shopping malls are closed and companies are asking staff to work from home major football matches are being played in empty stadiums 463 italians have died so far the highest number of cases outside of china but optimistic news from their president xi jinping this. the

epicenter of the global outbreak now state media says that the number of new cases continuing to fall and all temporary hospitals her it open to treat patients have closed elsewhere countries are taking drastic precautions such as israel's government ordering everyone visiting the country to solve koren teen for 14 days francesco bori is a journalist she joins me now on skype from lombardo in northern italy of course you've been monitoring the events of the last few days just bring us up to speed on what you've seen so far now that those more restrictive measures have been put in place by the italian government especially in the red zone where you are. yes what we have seen now is serially hour by how are the everything is changing on the ground the government decree. is quite flexible interpretations quite flexible so it's all. a left or nearly all are

left to look at these which means that especially d.c. area that at best of the red zone is becoming like a test ground in our. true for for the rest of it only. because the number of the that is still increasing is not easy in r. and probably makes little sense now to try to give numbers because it's not easy most of the time i am speak you not that died because of more than one he sees so it's not very clear you know if the violence was the main reason sort of not but what of what they see is an increasing number of that and that's why you know that is also increasing sector of may shoes i'm now as you can see norbit behind me that's the log of the civil protection the civil protection is best

to force. the they were to know when there is an hard quake something like that and what they are doing now here in all the year they are not all in this little town of course you know they are believing the home to the festival. day they dropped it you know in front of the door they don't give a knock you know the door because everybody scare you know of opening a door and of course they deliver medicines. but then i we were talking now and they said that most of all we are delivering information everybody's. here because basically we know little about the virus and we know little about you nor the decisions which are changing by the so basically town by town the out of fixing on the wards all the information they can about 1st of all

how to try to keep c over just give ari thanks for the update course will join you through the day thank you. it's only may be bearing the brunt of the outbreak in europe but many of the countries in the region are also feeling the impact let's join jonah hill who is live for us in our in our london news center and journey european leaders expected to meet via video links real clarity required from politicians at this moment in time for a very nervous and worried public on the european continent. yes i think that's probably very high on the minds of these european leaders who will be meeting in person as you said there will be a meeting by of by video link but still trying to get a sense from each other of what's going on in their respective countries and how they might all in a coordinated way go about helping each other all $27.00 nations of the e.u. now registering the presence of coronavirus some to greater extent than others but

on the strength of available evidence all likely i think to catch up italy of course the worst affected as we've been hearing there the remember back in the eurozone crisis they got together and put together a massive part of money to help the ailing banks and economies they may need to start looking at something like that they're talking to the i.m.f. as well and the european central bank will also be involved in that meeting but above all i think at the top of everyone's minds will be these dramatic events in italy this massive upscaling of the restrictive measures that had already been in place an entire country 60000000 people being essentially arsed to stay at home now like this is happened in peacetime in europe and the cost of it after certain loosely immense the tourism industry $1.00 imagines it must be grinding to a halt countries in europe and elsewhere vincent's instituted travel restrictions austria and spain have become the latest to essentially block flights to and from italy other industries that are massive earners for the government

a garment industry in the north of the country will be suffering extraordinarily so they'll have to ask themselves these e.u. leaders a whole lot of questions among them how sustainable is this for a country on the edge of recession anyway how effective are measures like this in dealing with the virus i'm not sure anybody yet has those arms is because everything is so particular country to country all they can do is look at china but the dynamics are very different and they will have to wonder what happens if more e.u. countries possibly bigger economies possibly multiple countries at the same time institute these sorts of measures how on earth will they all cope of course before this meeting goes well joe you know we have heard various countries saying various things france germany spain all giving different sorts of advice to the public at large. well that's the point everybody's been open and operating on an ad hoc basis up to now everybody's been dealing with different rates of transmission different stages of the outbreak in each individual country and different countries

are doing very different things that something that presumably in a more organized and coordinated way will change but for the moment it hasn't changed we've seen france now its death toll in the last 24 hours has gone up to 30 they're scaling up for the outbreak to come present president mccrum suggesting this was just the very very beginning of it but reminding people to stay carm telling them once again as people are being told all the time that 85 percent will have only the mildest of symptoms that this is particularly dangerous for the vulnerable for the elderly and those with chronic health conditions germany and now seeing a spread across all of its states spain shutting down the lower house of its parliament where one m.p. went down with the virus here in britain things being done slightly different day i'll tell you briefly about that the very early stages of the outbreak here still in the low hundreds the infection rate the government here has resisted the urge to jump in with these big restrictive measures for fear that at the peak of the

outbreak people will be fatigued and complacent they're telling us they're telling british citizens that the outbreak will begin to scale up and scale up fast in the next 10 to 14 days well for the update gena thank you. global stocks have rebounded a day after suffering the largest one day losses in more than a decade trading in the short run during your earlier most of the major asian and european indices recovered some of the lost ground christensen is monitoring events for us in new york is very bumpy ride on monday i believe that the president is now been speaking trying to allay fears what's he been saying. yes and the markets have recovered about half of yesterday's losses yesterday of course it was a 7 and a half percent drop across the major indices the worst day for the dow jones industrial average since 2008 today things are looking better president trump spoke

on monday and promised some relief for businesses affected by the virus he talked generally 6 about that a payroll tax cut was one of the ideas that he floated to keep businesses having more money available to them when. resources are short dealing with this virus and other wage protections and so on he was not very specific he promised to give more details on tuesday but that seems to be anough to ease concerns in the investor community about the fallout from the corona virus which is taking a toll particularly on travel companies airlines cruise ships energy stocks also way down yesterday that situation was exacerbated by a price war the price war between saudi arabia and russia over oil prices those are also rebounding a bit today recovering some of their losses but just lots of uncertainty out there

in the market as businesses weigh the impact of this virus but some reassurance that the u.s. government will do something to ease those pains reassuring markets around the world today for the rest of the. well still ahead here on al-jazeera it's usually one of india's biggest celebrations but coronaviruses during the holy festival is color. and digging up the past to shine a light on the future we join the search for evidence of our ancestors experience of rising sea levels those stories after the break. hello again we've had another major weather system sweeping through northeastern

parts of asia clearing northern parts of japan far east of russia and would like to see a thaw taking place so temperatures for sapporo are on the rise and indeed we're looking at the risk of avalanches as that thought takes place elsewhere should be a fine day in tokyo should be fine across south korea north korea and see more northern areas picking a brace of rain and a high elevation some snow to we've got some heavy rain across more southern parts of china extending into northern parts of taiwan hong kong largely draw on thursday but the risk of rain will increase as we head on through the day into southeastern parts of asia looking cheri across much of the region should expect scatteration across borders not the heavy through wednesday and some bright weather at times for kuala lumpur and singapore now into south asia we've got another westerly disturbance affecting northern parts of pakistan in particular extending into parts of the south too but northern areas like to see significant snowfall developing too

in the next 24 hours some showers extend across into northern india so delhi could well see some time force at times coming further towards the south and heavy showers across eastern parts of india but it should be largely fine in sri lanka. join the colobus conversation. half the bubble of the people that expand their brains maybe have a different view this is a dialogue women in cambodia are in fact selling their hair 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 law right here in the state we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection on how does iraq.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me so robin a reminder of our top stories european leaders are due to hold an emergency meeting to discuss ways to halt the coronavirus outbreak italy has moved to restrict the movements of its 60000000 citizens also china has announced the closure of all temporary hospitals treating prone to virus patients and president xi jinping visited the city at the epicenter for the 1st time since the outbreak was discovered in december the number of new reported infections in china has also slowed down and global stocks of rebound today after a friend of ours sales led to their biggest one day losses in more than a decade trading has been volatile but major indices in the u.s. asia and europe all recovered some of the lost ground. there are

more than 160000 kroner virus cases worldwide with infections reported 115 countries over each of those but as you heard earlier in china the number of new reported cases continues to drop water from alexia brown. the corona virus outbreak began in december last year in the chinese city of about 11000000 people epidemiologists or scientists who study epidemics have traced the source to a seafood market where they think the virus was initially transmitted from animals to people and on the 13th of january the 1st case of the new corona virus outside china was reported in thailand and now almost 2 months on this shows how far the virus has spread those big red circles are the hot spots china of course but also south korea iran and italy a team of johns hopkins university in the united states started tracking the

numbers of cases deaths and the people who've recovered the totals are always changing but this is how they looked about 9 g.m.t. on tuesday morning just over 4000 deaths 114544 cases and just over 64000 patients who've recovered that means there are about 50000 active cases remember these are confirmed cases because in countries such as iran it's thought far more people are infected then the government said missing and scientists believe most people will only have mild symptoms so they could be many walking around in our communities not feeling sick or knowing they carrying the virus but let's go back to where it all began china this graph shows us how many cases are reported daily with a spike in mid february when there was a brief change in how patients were diagnosed china still has by far the most cases

about 21000 but that's been leveling off in recent days with only 19 cases reported on tuesday however scientists warn that it may take months if not years for the full impact of the corona virus outbreak to be known. for the world health organization she says other countries should learn from china's experience of the outbreak. we can't necessarily say what happens in one country always ups and happens in another country but there are really really important things that china has taught us they had an enormous sum break vast numbers of cases and they took very very strong measures they asked everybody not to move they asked everybody to distance socially that stay at least a metre away from each other they asked everybody to be absolutely fastidious about personal hygiene and they also paid attention to environmental hygiene make sure they clean the places deep clean everywhere and as you say as we're talking about

the numbers are extraordinary the thing that you can really see when you look at the epidemiological curve and i don't have it with me unfortunately but it was it was going up like this the numbers and then it starts to flatten when they took those actions and has come down very very steeply and that's what you want to see in a really bad outbreak you'll see a very very high point but they flatten the curve and yes we want to see that happen in other countries. india has lifted 58 citizens from iran the flight from tehran landed in gaza about the passengers will be quarantined for 14 days 76 indians were flown home and one in china 2 weeks ago. the crow virus is also overshadowing celebrations in india it's a public holiday in most of the country for the hindu festival of holy but many are choosing to stay home following government warnings to avoid large crowds india has 47 confirmed cases so far elizabeth broderick reports from new delhi.

sparing power to die all over each other to celebrate the festival of color holy heralds the end of winter and start of spring and these people in the capital won't let in warnings about coronavirus get in the way of their sad abrasion. and we're going to have a very good. very good lunch also. but elsewhere indians are concerned that the dozens of confirmed cases so far from carola in the south to ended administered kashmir to the north media parents are appealing to the government to airlift their children from universities in iran iran has one of the highest number of covert my 900 cases outside china we are very concerned the world was children more the food over the children who are stranded in iran they're gone for medical education we have the whole i mean their development of india would do

something very seriously in bringing over children back to media. 2000 and d. and they're awaiting evacuation flights from iran. and india industries are feeling the effects to india as the world's biggest supplier of generic drugs but most of the ingredients come from china without drama began to the production and that's why we have got beyond our production activities. since chinese imports stopped india's government banned the export of 26 medicines and floating power system all to keep the home market supplied. consumers haven't been affected yet but a discontinuity the next one or 2 months. the consumers definitely feel the effect and more than pricing will feel the effect of the shortage. the pharmaceutical industry is urging the government to allow imports of ingredients from countries other than china while that will take time the government has ordered immediate

measures including closing all primary schools in delhi and indeed in the midst of the street and screening all airline passenger arrivals but policing what happens in public places is easier than in people's homes despite prime minister in the in the morning saying he won't be celebrating holi this year and delis chief minister asking people to stay away from crowds the show of defiance is an indication of just how difficult it will be to contain an outbreak amongst 1300000000 people elizabeth pride of al-jazeera in new delhi. turkey says it's agreed with russia on the details of a jointly patrolled buffer zone along a strategic highway in syria's province them for highway connects the government stronghold of latakia with syria's largest city of aleppo turkey says it will patrol 6 kilometers to the north of the highway and russia will patrol the southern side the move is part of efforts to ensure a cease fire in italy following months of fighting between russian backed syrian

forces and rebels supported by turkey meanwhile talks between turkish present reza to urge one of the european union over the sate of refugees in his country have ended with no clear agreement over what should happen next. both european council president shalvey show and nato chief he had stoltenberg in brussels in a bid to drop support but left without attending a planned use conference some of a group has more on the refugee situation putting on the turkey syria border. we've heard from the turkish president saying that he's going to be welcoming the french president and the german chancellor to istanbul on tuesday and this is coming off the back of the heels of his meeting there with the e.u. leaders last lived when he spoke to them and he said he's made his point about why what the e.u. needs to do more about picking at its fair share of what he says its response

ability in terms of the refugees that he has been holding more than 3 and a half 1000000 refugees from syria have been in turkey and that is something that has been reiterated by the turkish president as well as his foreign minister that the border the southern border of europe does not start at greece but rather at the syrian border and 3rd he is an ally it is in nato member and has been facing difficulties in not just housing those refugees in providing for them but also the security situation that it has faced in the last 80 years so this is an ongoing issue in simultaneously there is a russian delegation which is in town in ankara where talks are underway to thrash out the details of the deal which was signed between the turkish and the russian president last week modalities of which as you mentioned will be the 6 kilometer buffer zone along either side of the m 4 highway the important point of contact between the syrian government side and the rebel side and more details about that

and those joint patrols are through. the united states has announced it has begun withdrawing its troops from afghanistan as part of a deal with the taliban are supposed to pave the way to peace the us has agreed to reduce its forces from 120028600 with $135.00 days of signing the agreement on february the 29th the long term plan is for the u.s. to remove all american and nato troops within 14 months of security conditions are met hot abdulhamid has more from kabul she says both sides respecting the terms of the agreement so far. our. government. is going on on a daily basis with. multiple attacks on afghan security forces when it comes to respecting the terms of agreements between the us and it has been respected. and i think the u.s. is a goodwill gesture because there has been

a lot of talk. government saying it will not release the taliban prisoners now says it will release them and that it will not go to the. afghan talks if the. 2 things happening one the beginning of the pullout of foreign troops to the release of the prisoners president has been saying ever since it was signed that he will he did he hadn't agreed he hadn't signed to release any of these up to 5000 prisoners as guaranteed by the. he said he was going to release he was going to sign today. allow the release of. those. over the age of $52.00.

1800 depending on who you speak to that isn't. present a poser of misleading. judges rule that the head of the corruption watchdog. calls her resignation. these are some of the words that the judge used to describe that report by the public protector incompetent illegitimate confusing and so essentially the court has thrown out that reports of presidents will roam up osa had sought a judicial review of a report by the public particularly that it accused him of money laundering misleading parliament and also had questioned some of the funds that he received always campaign when he was running for president all of the governing african national congress now the court had also gone on to say that the public protector

hadn't laid down any evidence as to how she had found that the president. had been implicated in money laundering and also that there was no evidence that the president knew about where this donation came from essentially dismissed these accusations rather of improper conduct and essentially now the spotlight is on the public protector in that her report has been entirely dismissed and this isn't the 1st time. that changed. scientists in the united kingdom. story past evidence of changing sea levels of how our ancestors tried to adapt just bowls of reports of have should suffer the. low tide of thorns space on the southern coast of england maritime archaeologists are searching the mudflats for clues as to whether life was like thousands of years ago telling into

our ancient past and here we see this in corona war 3 or going material from firing off 1000 years ago and just in the sea why i'm here where i live where i find so internalizing it so i turn. a piece of timber more than 5000 years old might help us understand what happened when sea levels rose creating an island the. became britain separate from continental europe what we're doing with the understanding the patterns are trying to the effect of sea level rise in the past i never get understand the long term the responses of the through a lot of crude are playing. right into the preacher. ties aren't always this love so the marine archaeologists also dived to find evidence of prehistoric activity the salty sea water is an excellent preservative scientists take their findings back to the lab at the university of southampton new

tests in carbon dating to figure out how many thousands of years ago our ancestors lived on this for sure. there's evidence that the wood was worked on by prehistoric man to make a flat surface they could be a resin that was applied. 5000 years ago maybe to protect it from the water as the sea level was coming up discoveries have signs of prehistoric settlements artifacts and even food give the archaeologists an idea of what life would have looked like. that. we found quite a few of these so you have to bear in mind this is over 8000 years old they found d.n.a. from i'm corn an ancient grain dating it to 8000 years indicating early trait. we don't know too much about our prehistoric ancestors and their struggles with

rising sea levels but the more we learn could help in our own approach to climate change jessica baldwin al-jazeera hampshire england. your child is there with me so rob the robot of our top stories european leaders are due to hold an emergency meeting to discuss ways to halt the coronavirus outbreak but says italy has moved to restrict the movement of its 16000000 citizens the government has banned all public countering something above that has jumped to 463 for just a body has been to a supermarket in. the in northern italy and explains some of the restrictions that are now in force according to a new sheet particularly only 3 customers can and that the dine so if i stay inside betty kelly i'd lock the entrance because we must keep away from each other

i mean one metre from each other he's the minimum security stance so whatever if we had a we should wear a mask if we speak to each other and we should stay well need to eclipse that from each other and then you know everything use closed but he's really a bit about the easy side. china has announced the closure of all temporary hospitals treating croad virus patients and we heard president xi jinping visited the city and the m.p. said for the 1st time since the great was discovered in december the number of new reported infections in china continues to slow down global stocks have rebounded the day after for the viruses led to the biggest one day losses in more than a decade trading has been volatile but major indices in the u.s. asia and europe of all recovered some lost ground turkey says it's agreed with russia of the details of a joy to be brutal buffer zone of a strategic highway in syria's northwest province vital it is part of efforts to

ensure a cease fire holds following months of fighting between russian backed syrian forces and rebels supported by turkey the us has announced it's because withdrawing its troops from afghanistan as part of a deal with the taliban and that's supposed to pave the way to peace the long term plan is for the u.s. to remove all american and they too troops within 14 months and a south african court ruling has backed presidents or rather a poser in a showdown with the anticorruption chief the judge ruled that a report accusing rather poser of misleading parliament about election funds is flawed those were the headlines are back with the al-jazeera news hour in 25 minutes next on al-jazeera is the stream to stay with us. as the world battles a potential new pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the world. with updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself.

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