one of the most expensive commodities sent from had an hour just 0. this is al-jazeera. alarms the whole raman you're watching the al-jazeera news our life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes travel bans and warnings across the european union with every member state affected by the coronavirus outbreak but china says it's closing temporary hospitals and will hurt as president xi jinping makes his 1st trip to the virus at the center. also the oil price slump forces africa's largest economy nigeria to scale down its already approved budget. and democratic presidential primaries are underway in 6 u.s.

states as bernie sanders tries to stave off joe biden's momentum and i'm p. dissimilar of italy issues a complete sporting ban and all games in spain's lower league are not to be played in empty stadiums as countries try to stop the spread of coronavirus. good to have you with us here on the news europe is on high alert to stop the spread of the coronavirus italy imposes unprecedented restrictions on its entire 60000000 population all 27 european member states have confirmed that coronavirus cases e.u. leaders are expected to hold an emergency meeting and the european commission is calling for tougher measures. member states must still focus on efforts to

aggressively contain the virus particularly where there are few cases slowing down the virus must be our greatest priority in order to gain time for our health systems to function effectively and for research and development to advance. stocking up on basic supplies with the government strongly advise and everyone to stay home shopping malls are closed and companies are asking stuff to work from home major football matches are being played in empty stadiums 463 a tally and have died so far the highest number of cases outside of china but there's some optimistic news from there because president xi jinping visited the epicenter of the global outbreak sick media says the number of new cases is continuing to fall and all temporary hospitals hardly open to treat patients are closing elsewhere many countries are taking drastic precautions such as israel's government ordering everyone visiting the country to solve colon teen for 14 days

we have correspondents in several regions covering the outbreak in a few moments we'll be getting updates from london but 1st let's speak to francesco bari who joins me now via skype from bartow in northern italy francesca you've been showing us throughout the day various areas of where you are and how the restrictions are really impacting on the everyday lives and movements of italians where you are what's it been like a where you where are you right now i mean the mall or yes this is the entrance of the mall and you will see in these few minutes we will spend together no one is getting in italy no one. and while everyday life. right now duties nor my everyday life she had i would say that from this morning really i want to buy how. seeing and this is not always the only

igor style nothing is open anymore i mean no nothing nothing in terms of the way that people will now be able to get food stuffs because obviously they are within their own homes that is the new reality yes and that out of these volunteer of the civil protection. bessie kelly deliver food to or mother to whoever asks for it of course they are already there leaving so i mean by law to whoever is infected the. doctor you know medicine and everything behind the door the don't even open doors but now all of us we can ask you know. basically to have it torn to have the scenes sand the advise of the niece here all of these east stay util much better we

know x. actually all of you stay here for a we don't know for how long yet because. it's everybody's a little bit you know. i don't want to see a shock because you've be too much really but the number of that is not decreasing not yet so we haven't yet reached the peak of the crisis not even here for just a what happens if people do need to move around if there is a medical emergency what provisions have been made by the authorities to allow people to move legally around the area. well if there is a medical emergency of course you call an ambulance there are not enough 1st saw. 2 hours there isn't any cost that now because there are no enough. and their point is that out of nor enough beds already saw

a legally you have to call you nor the emergency number only if you can't breathe anymore basically the only issue are you know or near death for anything else you have to stay at all and you have to wait and you have to hope . in terms of the contacts you've heard with people and the authorities today who've you actually managed to speak to a lot what level. well dear again is a chinese i mean the city only the powerful organization that this norton need only saw everything works here so you have to leave the city for affections for believing them medicines then you have the military but the kind of b.s.e. you know which is a spatial military police of italy's like maybe in france and then the tough equally together the tough equally and the out of need and the kind of being reaped

around the checkpoints so a basic idea in charge of the movement restrictions of course you know the armies basically trolling the highways and they will stay shown saying they have ports. for normal the streets in normal roads like do c.s. i mean this morning the checkpoint here was set up by by the local credibility by the the control set checked for instance are really strict controls they control all cas they check all the 1st and the reality check the motivation that you have to be out of your home so they don't fit then just ask you where are you going and why i mean do you think it's not enough to say you have to work i mean must be really something that you can't cross corner in in terms of you as an

italian in the area where you are that you know very well it's hard for us on the outside as a global community to look at what's going on in italy right now and appreciate the gravity what does it feel like what's the mood like. well see a shirt today there is also i mean finally i think the residents about. feel proud somehow because they are acting. really reacting to to the crisis and they're basically showing all are there a 1000 how you can not not yet defy the virus but at least you know engage the virus in a but the the point is that in the rest of the telly we can see you know because we are reading newspapers you know we are on social networks there are steves so many who think that this is an accepted ration even now there are so many thousands who

are just outside as nothing is as nothing is happening and the key that for some unknown the results you can see that a cop that's not one is going to take you to hear probably is going to take a patient. and basically they think that there is something something's something spatially syria maybe you know a high number of us old people or are there some environment conditions and that's why there are so many debts and and now yes now we have it up there's well it's obviously a very worrying situation we will be speaking to you again through the al-jazeera day for the moment francesca barry thanks for joining us well it's early may be bearing the brunt of the outbreak in europe but many other countries in the region are also feeling the impacts the european commission has met to discuss with an urgent response. i asked the coronavirus response team this morning to look into further tools that the commission can mobilize in order to address the overall

impact. coronavirus outbreak has on the economy throughout europe many sectors are already suffering. and we will need to look for ways to support them for instance and this is just one example every ation the coronavirus outbreak has a major impact on the european and international education industry we see that the situation is deteriorating on a daily basis. journalism motoring events for us while london is a draw and jonah you know we were waiting for european leaders not only to meet but also to state what they were going to do because the public at large needs clarity and they need clarity across the european continent. well we'll hear more from them within the hour i think as they start to give press conferences after these

meetings via video link not in person in brussels but at a distance european leaders on the block as a whole grappling to deal with the enormity of this crisis italy's outbreak may be well advanced for many of them it's just starting they will be talking about money they will be talking about what sort of measures could be put in put into place to help each other they may be talking about if not now in time tampering with europe's precious freedom of movement its famous open borders that would presumably allow this virus to move around quite freely above all i think they'll be looking back and simply looking augusta at what is going on in italy all 27 european union countries have registered the presence of crude coronavirus none so dramatically as italy 60000000 people essentially being asked to stay at home these leaders will be wondering what happens if this happens in my country how will our economy cope who will help us italy of course suffering enormous economic costs that they will all be registering tourism brought to an effective standstill countries within the

european union neighboring italy and elsewhere pulling up the drawbridge is essentially airlines british airways ryanair have cancelled flights to and from italy austria austria and spain doing likewise so among the questions that they'll need to be asking themselves now and as an ongoing process is is this sort of thing sustainable different economies throughout the e.u. are more efficient operate at different levels of efficiency and are able to withstand this or not there are all sorts of unknowns here it doesn't even work they simply don't know they won't know it's far too early to tell the world ill health organization says that this is exactly the sort of thing we need to see happening across the board but even we can't say whether it will work or not so i think some very big pressing issues bearing down on these 27 leaders and that this is just the e.u. this is a global problem indeed of course you know kind of a uniform solution be sound within that group because at the moment that has been

ad hoc advice from countries such as french and germany and spain to their own people. well i mean i think a unified solution is probably unlikely and that isn't necessarily the way that the e.u. work or terms it seeks to him impose on its members i i'm sure that ad hoc measures will continue to be imposed country by country because of course that the outbreak is happening at different paces at different times and in different places so no one size fits all solution exists they will be catch all efforts to try and help of course but as i say different countries dealing with different things france now seeing its death numbers climb the 2nd worst affected after italy president has warned the french people that its outbreak is only at its beginning spain also beginning to grapple with the effects of this germany as well nobody knows where

it's going for the moment journey thanks very much joining us from london. well now to the u.s. for congress is holding hearings in washington d.c. on the current virus alan fischer is live for us on topical hill how will proceedings in the house work today with regards to really what's going on globally . and this is really a subcommittee meeting of the budget committee so this is where they normally go to discuss how each part of government will feel when it comes to setting the budget for the year ahead no the reason that this is important is because the head of the c.d.c. is actually sitting down in front of members of congress now you remember or you me nor the donald trump and his administration wanted to cut 700 $1000000.00 from the c.d.c. in the budget everyone including republicans on this committee are saying that is simply not going to happen you'll remember also that congress here put about $8000000000.00 towards a supplemental increase in the c.d.c. budget to deal with the brick of the coronavirus what is interesting is that there

has been a number of questions to the head of the c.d.c. saying look where we behind in the response not something that he's ready. to admit at this stage but he says that testing is know very much getting up in the united states and there are soon will be a number of lives online that contest thousands and thousands and thousands of these testing kits every single day so that will move them beyond the situation we are at the moment where they're getting criticism for being high nations such as south korea which is already testing tens of thousands of people every single day what is also very interesting in the exchange literally just as we were about to come on here one of the congressmen stay ahead of the c.d.c. look the president said anyone who wants a test will get a test and that certainly hasn't been the case over the last week or so the head of the c.d.c. says that is no the case if you go to your physician so if you go to your doctor and present with certain symptoms they will order that test it's not quite clear

quickly the results will get back but certainly something that the administration is keen to push know given that donald trump said that about a week or so ago or so this isn't really a meeting to hear the latest on the coronavirus but this is certainly something that is being addressed with the see the head of the c.d.c. because it's not often congress people get him sitting right in front of them of course will monitor what happens in the coming hours for the moment allan thank you there are his reporting 54 new coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours it's the highest single death toll since the start of the country's break to iran remains the worst hit province iran is one of the worst hit countries outside of china with $291.00 deaths and more than 8000 confirmed cases the un special rapporteur on human rights in iran is urging the government to release all prisoners as the virus spreads. now the corona virus outbreak is worsening in the occupied west bank where

the palestine health ministry has confirmed another infection bringing the total to $26.00 tourists have been banned from bethlehem for the next 2 weeks starving the economy of an important source of revenue holy sites being disinfected and schools remain closed. there are also for now more than 116000 cases worldwide with infections reported in 116 countries all regions but as you heard earlier in china the number of new reported cases continues to slow down more now from the alexy o'brien. 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 safe food 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 have 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 or the country should experience of a brick. 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 amount brake 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 festive it's

about personal hygiene and they also paid attention to environmental hygiene made sure they cleaned the places deep cleaned 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 would 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 he could have but they flatten the curve and yes we want to see that happen in other countries nigeria has been feeling the impact of coronavirus because of its close trade ties with china and the destruction to supply chains and that's on top of the escalating oil price for between saudi arabia and russia which sent the price of crude tumbling on monday the fall in prices has forced the ministry of finance to downsize its $34000000000.00 budget it

was passed in december based on the price being $67.00 per barrel address joins me live from a beach i mean it seems that the sort of saudi russians oil prices has reached as far as nigeria and the government are trying to find a solution to its what could be an economic for disaster. absolutely and in the talking about economic disaster this is a country that's just emerging 2 years ago emerging from a recession the warst in 40 years or more than 4 decades in in this country so for for one idea the options are limited financed from china loans from china construction as well as. oil exports to china have all slowed down now because of the corn of wires and the only option probably is to pump out more crude oil to

willing buyers although the demand on the international market has also slowed down the government is trying to come up with a quick solution to this problem right now there is a 5 member committee set up by the nigerian president that include the minister of finance the governor of the central bank minister of the of planning all these people are coming together to talk or look at the options before for nigeria and this is a country that has been dependent on oil revenues for more than half a century for them to get funding or to get access to money when their source of revenue is drying up is a very very important thing for the government and for the people of this country min while this is a country that in the past few years has been borrowing have the need to finance projects in this country or for the update have a thanks joining us from a pigeon thank you. and the society russian price war could damage the u.s. shale oil industry it needs prices to be at around $50.00

a barrel just to break even a much higher to make a profit bob katter specializes in the oil and gas industry joins me now from houston in texas good to have you with us live on al-jazeera i mean it really is the perfect storm isn't it aside saudi trying to sort of punish. the u.s. and trying to bring the russians into line all at the same time and it's hurting the global economy. it's exactly right it's really the perfect storm in the u.s. because you've got. the saudis trying to bring russia into cooperating with them with with opec to control supply and control price but then you also have the the the lowered demand because of the coronavirus because exports are and are down around the world so that creates this this perfect storm and the u.s. industry is already capital short already having a difficult time and out of favor with investors so it's almost a triple whammy on the u.s.

industry that has been obviously a lot of impasse going on in opec and between individual countries why particularly can russia and saudi some of the big operates as really within opec why can't they seem to agree what's the what's the the problem at the heart of the matzoh. well russia always acts as an independent actor it's never dependent on anybody else and very seldom cooperates with the u.s. certainly and not with the saudi they're more focused on their own economy and they've been producing pretty much all they they can produce the saudis have tried to bring them into cooperation with within opec and that the russians have refused to do that so that's when the war started between when the negotiations broke down last week between the russians and saudis that's when the war broke out on oil prices the saudis announced that they're going to raise their production to $12000000.00 barrels a day which is really an unsustainable level they're probably pulling out of

storage the russians have retaliated saying they're going to raise their production by half a 1000000 barrels a day and then the u.s. is about $11000000.00 barrels a day now to say each of those producers is about the same with declining demand and so that's what's created this this crisis i don't think it's a sustainable well war but i do think it's going to do a lot of damage to the industry especially in the u.s. indeed and when we talk about the industry in the u.s. we have to talk about shale drilling there and how that actually affects the economy where you are so when they're trying to when the u.s. is trying to distance itself from you might say saudi oil and saudi reliance how does this particular perfect storm affect the u.s. economy in the way american. legislative and business but have to think about the way they produce oil at home ground. you know that this is this is very damaging the problem in the u.s. right now is that the markets have shifted the the investment markets has shifted

so that investors are looking for positive cash flow out of public companies and looking for reduced capital expenditures to raise the performance or financial performance of the u.s. companies because they've underperformed quite a bit over the last 5 or 6 years because of that capital is already short it's been crude is in the in the mid fifty's now the crude is down into the thirty's that's below breakeven for the shale plays and is in if it last more than a few weeks is going to be very seriously damaging is going to reduce production and drilling in the states but tough and it's good to have your input thanks so much for joining us from houston texas. well still ahead here on the news it's usually one of india's largest celebrations for credit aristide is dimming the holy festival of color. after nearly 2 decades of war the u.s. announced it's begun to pull its troops out of afghanistan. and the $27.00 people are charged over race whole story period treating the trade of one of the best

horses in the world as competing with peter in sport. hello again weather conditions here in the arabian peninsula remain largely fine beautiful conditions in tow temperatures of 23 degrees we've got to mostly light winds down through the gulf region divide that 29 degrees stronger winds out through the gulf of aden could be quite a squeeze here through into the southern portion of the red sea but otherwise looking fine weather very hot there in mecca 38 not a great deal of change heading on through into service day but move further towards the west wing see this area of low pressure moving into parts of egypt and i think the northern areas of light to be some severe disruption that could be some really severe flooding as a system moves in for the dust slightly lifted across more southern portions of egypt now as you move into northern and central parts of africa we've got

disturbance down through the gulf of sirte expression down through libyan if it gets quite a long way south across the country so some showers in there as you wouldn't expect to see them so again that could be some flash flooding occurring here and the general increase in winds could result in some lifted dust elsewhere we've got scattered showers from parts of west africa all the way from lagos nigeria running towards freetown in sierra leone for the north it should be largely fine intact out there with highs of 28 and for morocco a fine picture plenty of sunshine highs of 22 and robots. from algis there is london broadcast center 2 special guests in conversation the state the american state steps in and save compass unprompted uninterrupted people think that racism is having personal vitriol towards black people and there's no understanding of what is to make racism is intimately reflecting on the issues of

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about you watching the al jazeera news hour with the cell robin reminder of our top stories european leaders are due to hold an emergency meeting to discuss ways to halt the corona virus outbreak that's just italy has moved to restrict the movement of its 60000000 citizens but china has announced the closure of all temporary hospitals treating coronavirus patients in with the president xi jinping visited the city of the epicenter for the 1st time since the outbreak was discovered in december the number of new reported infections in china continues to slow down scott hardly reports of bangkok on the day's developments in asia. china's president xi jinping visit will haunt for the 1st time since the outbreak was discovered there in december china's epicenter of the corona virus will forever be remembered as the source of the illness that has reached nearly every corner of the world china's leaders are trying to change that narrative state media poured praise on sheep from the beginning of the crisis calling efforts to contain the virus

a war the media saying that fighting the virus was always his top priority but avoided topics of future prevention and previously admitted mistakes by local and central government officials during the early days of the crisis she says it coincides with the continuing decline in the number of infections and who by province and the closure of all temporary hospitals in one city people in lower risk areas will soon be able to move freely within who bay it's part of a new system in which everyone will be given a hazard rating of green yellow or red through an individual barcode the ratings based on data collected by the who by government on people's health history and location in a nother positive development passengers onboard the cruise ship costa for tuna finally being allowed to disembark in singapore they were stranded on board for 2 weeks the ship was turned away from malaysia in thailand because of coronavirus concerns the italian cruise ship operator said there were no suspected cases among

the passengers who included tourists from italy another coronavirus hotspot. because of the major fall in passenger bookings australian airlines quantas is joining other major carriers in grounding aircraft canceling flights and delaying an order for new planes we are taking 24 percent of capacity and all of our international operation and 5 percent out of our domestic operations it will mean that we are grounding now 10 of the 12 a tree 80 s. in fact more grounding around the 8 aircraft in told here in thailand the government announcing at that tourist travelling from 6 iris countries will have to present to help certificate proving that they don't have the full run of viruses even before they get on the plane checks are also being put into place that water and land entries and once in thailand tourists from china hong kong macau italy south korea and iran will have to submit a daily health report on a smartphone app or to a local health official scott had an al-jazeera bangkok. has not done major

cities and most international flights after reporting its 1st case trying to virus the government says people won't be able to leave or end to major cities for 6 days including the capital and had already sealed its border with neighboring china and banned flights from south korea and japan. the coronavirus is overshadowing celebrations in india as well as a public holiday either in most of the countries for the hindu festival of holy but many are choosing to stay home following government warnings to avoid large crowds india has 47 concerns cases so far elizabeth peralta possible 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. of.

legion creed and we're going to. have a very good time very good very good lunch also. but elsewhere indians are concerned that the dozens of confirmed cases so far from carroll and 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 covered my 900 cases outside china we are very concerned about all children more of the food or water 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 effect to india as the world's biggest supplier of generic drugs but most of the ingredients come from china without drama the in regard 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. to get him in a border consumers haven't been affected yet but a discontinuity. next 102 months the consumer 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 end i'm already 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 pran of al-jazeera 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 it led province them for highway connects the government stronghold of latakia with syria's largest city of aleppo so he says it'll patrol 6 kilometers to the north of the highway and russia will patrol the southern side of binges it has more on the refugee situation from outside of 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 night 3 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 if he has been hosting 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 turkey 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 off 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 posting through. the united states is starting to pull out its troops from afghanistan part of a deal with the taliban are not supposed to pave the way to peace. more. feel about the troop withdraw. it never shuts down. 1000. here every day maybe for one client did nearby bad air base but demand isn't what it used to be. disparate as for the afghan army at the base business was better a few years ago when there were more americans we were making much more bread now it's slowed down back graham is home to the largest u.s. military facility in afghanistan and part of the afghan national army is also based here its history is deeply connected to the success of wars in the country this is

obvious 1st build the airfield. then it became to frontline during the civil war and in 1900. taliban and now to do us military since 2001 that made them a target for the taliban it has seen many deadly attacks and people here have paid a heavy price part of the agreement is that all should be phased out of the country within the next 14 months should everything go to plan but in places like. departure will create a vacuum on more levels than one. there was a time when the base was one of the biggest employers in the country. second work for 8 years there he was laid off when the obama administration reduced the number of u.s. soldiers in of on his that. i had a good salary when i was working at the airbase now business is not good it's hard

for people to put food on the table for their families they can't afford to buy clothes there are a few weddings people just don't spend as much anymore everyone we met has a story about how did thrived at the peak of the u.s. military presence and how did downturn has hit them. so was nicknamed pinky when he worked at the base his salary allowed him to get married and start a family now he drives a rickshaw. to wait for clients is long he makes about $2.00 a day and a good one and the future makes him uncomfortable. what if the americans leave in the fighting goes back to what it used to be during the civil war what's the point i don't know if the government can protect us and wants peace without jobs then we will prefer war because at least we can earn a living what will we do with peace if we cannot feed our families the taliban may be celebrating that the part of the 1st batch of u.s. soldiers but many afghans here in baghdad and elsewhere wonder what will happen to

them if all foreign troops are indeed withdrawn. the voting has begun in 6 u.s. states at a critical point in the democratic race ahead of the november presidential election is the 1st opportunity for voters to choose the field narrowed to a 2 person race between bernie sanders and joe biden the state of michigan is the biggest prize and could determine which democratic candidate could face donald trump. well showing the 2016 election to african-americans was the lowest in decades gabriel elizondo spoke to voters in michigan largest city detroit. a protest for folks. 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 did not get out and

vote nice to see you tonight he's supposed to do this is what happened in 2016 black voter turnout was barely 50 percent the lowest in decades. trump 1st won several states with 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 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. signs of decay in detroit just outside the windows where a group of young activists are getting

a 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 can you know make an impact by talking to these. voters and get in and understand how important it is to time come turn out of or whether biden or bernie you know we can really swing the state. are you taking people to the polls you are any plans to keep knocking on doors making sure of it have a go or i'll leave this with you gabriel zonder al-jazeera detroit. simon rosenberg is the president and founder of the new democrat that work on the new policy institute he says the pressure on sunday is to drop out is quite significant.

today's a nother big day in the democratic primary contest if joe biden wins most of the states or all of the states it's just not clear that bernie sanders will be able to continue after today that his path would be very unclear biden is far ahead in terms of delegates and also in the in the polling he's now up by almost 20 points against bernie and hillary clinton for example was never this far ahead of sanders in 2016 so it looks like if you know biden has another good night tonight our race really may be coming to a close and we may be heading towards a trump biden contest this summer and fall tonight we have a variety of different states from all over the country the big one is michigan state the bernie sanders one in 2016 but he's trailing in most of the polls now by a substantial margin that's the big state the big thing to watch tonight is what

happens with michigan here in the united states we're going to get a bunch of states early in the night michigan and missouri and mississippi will are sort of more eastern in the united states will get their results earlier and that could set the tone i mean washington state in idaho which vote later we may not know until tomorrow in terms of what ends up happening so i think in the way this plays here in the u.s. if say biden has big wins in those 3 states early the national media will play it as a big win another big night for biden and i think the pressure tomorrow on bernie sanders to get out could be very significant and substantial in the democratic party russia's president vladimir putin has changes that could see him stay in power for another 16 years he said told parliament that the constitutional court would need to approve the changes 1st live it is current which i did 2020 full for the next election is to bottle cannot run again but changes could see the secret of the 2

terms feel that it. is because it's a half it has to at present so repose of of misleading parliament about his election finances judges ruled that the findings of the public to protect were fatally flawed so he will from the torah. 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 of course or had sought a judicial review of a report by the public protector that 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. has seen what life would be like without women who held a nationwide strike literally getting away with murder. killed every day last year when water polo reports from 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. in industrial designer medicine 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 my own so i guess 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. 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 riding the trains are men. not everyone could afford to join the strike but that is and says she still supports this new generation of mexican feminists that will insidiously us 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 and dammit it going on strike doesn't just mean staying away from work but rather helping to maintain the momentum of the women's movement to enjoy and you know that it doesn't but at this moment for women strides 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 file and sequenced women though any tangible political initiatives have yet to come up in mexico city all still hadn't sports of the qualifiers continue despite a host of sporting events being counseled upon makes history in the woods books that.

back it's time to support his piece of so thank you very much european football has been hit hard by coronavirus all top league games in spain and france all going to be played in empty stadiums the banks 2 to 4 weeks the same applies to some matches in germany and manchester united's europa league match in austria and it all comes off to italy announced a nationwide ban of all sport david stokes reports. this could well be the last time we see any action in italy's top football league this season already playing inside an empty stadium because of coronavirus restrictions such swallow beat 3 nil

. one of the goal scorer is held up a sign for fans saying everything will be fine stay at home and after the guy stay at home was the message from italy's prime minister who placed a ban on public gatherings across the whole country. until at least april 3rd. your absence point in this context there is no reason to continue with the competition including said. the ban however does not apply to italian teams playing in european competitions atalanta's champions league game in spain against valencia will take place but with no fans present as will now please game against barcelona all games in spain's top 2 domestic leagues will be played in empty stadiums for at least 2 weeks and the same applies in france until april 15th some games in germany's been this league oh will also be spectator lists all at a cost to clubs. if you round it up we're talking about $2000000.00 euros for this

game the money is not there the insurance only covers games getting canceled or postponed and that's not what has happened here so it hurts the club it's not just football that's been affected rugby 6 nations tournament has seen 3 games perspiring in italy and france because of coronavirus and the head of world cycling is concerned about the 2 biggest events in their calendar this year or to tally a road race in may and then the tour de france in june bug would be a disaster. but your winning or that of ross there is. a risk but i think that you're. away from europe this colombian football team were taking extra precautions wearing masks as they arrived in chile for a copper liver to dora's game while in north america we've already seen the cancellation of one of the biggest tournaments on the tennis circuit indian wells in california bit of a moving target for the guys at the moment of sort of working out if the miami

masters will beyond and then they move to europe for the clay court events and we've all seen what happened in italy overnight so a few challenges global sport is taking a big hit but the formula one season is set to start as planned this week with the australian. prix freight and drivers have arrived in melbourne and tens of thousands of fans will be allowed to attend unrestricted you know we've got a race and. we're going to try and you know wash my hands as much as i can and you know stay clean. looming large on the sporting horizon the tokyo 2020 olympics the games are just 136 days away now but the japanese government reiterated on choose state that they will go ahead and that a back up plan is not even being discussed david stokes al-jazeera. so as david was saying the olympics are still going ahead and so are the boxing qualifiers that were moved from move on in china to jordan it was

a historic day for olympic host japan on monday it. was the 1st female boxer from her country to qualify for a games she'll be joined by a teammate and i make it to kimi who booked her squad as well also through is india's mary coleman 6 time world champion and 2012 bronze medalist beats irish magno of the philippines by unanimous decision the 37 year old will head to sit in the olympics in tokyo. meanwhile all the major sports leagues in the u.s. will close their locker rooms and clubhouses to all but essential staff from tuesday in response to the coronavirus crisis as well as the health of the rocky bucks also have injury worries reigning m.v.p. sente to compost saturday's team's encounter with the denver nuggets because of his need and exemptions showed jamal marianne poole moves out played the nuggets and has been down to the n.b.a. leading bucs 10995. 27 people have been

charged with doping race horses in what u.s. prosecutors have described as a widespread international scheme which risked their health among them vets drug suppliers and trainers including the trainer of maximum security seen here winning last month's $20000000.00 saudi cup the most valuable horse race in the world according to the charges the horses were given performance enhancing drugs that would also mask their pain they allegedly raced across the u.s. and in the united arab emirates. p.d.'s were given to resources in an effort to increase their performance beyond their natural abilities the substance stimulated in durance nerves increased oxygen intake and reduced information. what actually happened to the horses amounted to nothing less than abuse they experienced cardiac issues over exertion leading to leg fractures increased risk of

injury and in some cases. the converse only human beings involved in the scheme continue to line their purses as they manipulated this multibillion dollar horse racing industry across the globe oil company saudi aramco has announced the long term sponsorship deal of formula one it joins other big names like karelia and rolex are also be the title sponsors of the u.s. finnish and hungary and grand prix the deal is expected to be part of the school to extensions of the gulf country with saudi arabia recently announcing plans to host its own create a newly built circuit outside riyadh. that's what will leave a phenomenal sports news coming up again a little bit later so it's very much peter you have been watching the al-jazeera news out of it had to go over to london he said to barbara starr and if you haven't started but from peter be on the news our team that's your time and your company.

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