and. the old. al-jazeera the arab. term fully back to go this is a news hour live from our global headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes a new york suburb is sealed off amid fears it's home to the largest class of coronavirus cases in the united states as the death toll from the disease surges in italy e.u. leaders pledged $28000000000.00 to shore up struggling economies also this hour a 6 u.s. states are holding presidential primaries including michigan where bernie sanders is hoping to stop joe biden's momentum and vladimir putin moves closer to extending

his presidential power in russia after lawmakers approved changing the constitution . i am. the end thank you for joining us u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a containment zone in new york state now thought to be the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak in the country the city of moore shall north of new york city has the biggest known cluster of cases in the u.s. troops will help disinfect areas in quarantine people meanwhile the chump administration is drafting an economic stimulus package to ease the burden brought forward by the coronavirus outbreak that is expected to include a payroll tax relief and paid family leave for small and medium business sized businesses let's go live to austin jordan in washington d.c. so ross the number of cases in the u.s. jumping significantly and a suburban new york community with the largest cluster of cases possibly what more

do we know. well at least 100 cases were diagnosed as of midday tuesday according to the governor andrew cuomo he said that number is expected to rise and rather than just trying to close an individual school for example for 24 hours so that it can be cleaned he said that the spread of this virus has to be stopped in its tracks and the really the only way to do that is to impose a quarantine as it were on an area 1.6 kilometers in diameter in order to what keep people from moving about and possibly transmitting the virus from one to another this of this means they're confined to their homes they could face criminal penalties if they leave their homes the national guard will go in starting on thursday march 12th they will be delivering food and medicine and supplies to people and in their homes workers will be brought in to us

specially scrubbed down not just schools but all public facilities the governor said this is a drastic measure but he said in order to save lives this has to be done and it has to be done now and president ross expected to announce a coronavirus economic stimulus plan but this is far from being a done deal. it's far from being a done deal in fact there was just a briefing at the white house daily a coronavirus task force briefing and reporters kept raising the question so what is in the plan larry kudlow who is the president's chief economic advisor wouldn't say anything more than perhaps there might be a payroll tax holiday for all workers in the country through the end of the year that is of congress goes along with that but that's potentially nearly 2 trillion dollars in revenue for the federal government at a time when it's trying to find money to cover

a $4.00 trillion dollar budget in the coming fiscal year so how would the u.s. government be able to carry out its operations if it's willing to give up half of its revenue in order to operate mr cutler didn't have any answers for those questions they're also looking at trying to provide help to small businesses and medium sized businesses as well so that they can then pay their workers who currently don't have sick pay so that if they get sick they can stay home and not worry about losing any income but that also has to be worked out with congress they're also looking at other ways of trying to help industries that are being affected because of the spread of the coronavirus these are the u.s. airlines which up perhaps most famously or infamously infamously were hurt quite badly after the september 11th attacks 1000 years ago as well as the cruise line industry but none of this has been actually cost it out as they say in budget

circles none of this has actually been proposed to both parties in congress the president was on capitol hill on tuesday but he only met with congressional republicans it's not clear whether a congressional democrats are going to go along with the president's proposal thank you for that ross wasn't enjoying life for us with an aide to sam from washington. and news just in now and a u.k. health minister has revealed she has tested positive for corona virus made in dorry's is now in isolation it's reported she met with hundreds of people at parliament in the past week and also attended a reception at the residence of prime minister boris johnson leaders have played should do everything they can to protect the blocks economy from the corona virus outbreak is setting up an investment fund of up to $20000000000.00 to support health care and small businesses cases of the coronavirus have been reported in

over $27.00 member states with italy at the forefront of the crisis paul brennan has reports upon european crisis would normally see e.u. leaders racing to meet in brussels but concern about possible infection meant an emergency video conference instead the outcome of this rare virtual meeting a multi-billion dollar european investment fund to support health care jobs and small businesses. we will bring forward a corona response investment fund directed at the health care systems directed at as a s m e's and as the labor market at the labor markets and other vulnerable parts of our economies the instrument will be sizable and reach 25000000000 euros quickly all 27 e.u. nations have now registered the presence of the virus and there's a keen awareness that the crisis in italy may happen elsewhere for the next 3 weeks

at least 60000000 italians will be encouraged to remain behind closed doors as much as possible with restrictions on travel and group gatherings sure to affect their daily lives few will go to work none will go to school or university or will hope that if they get the virus they can recover at home without having to make use of italy's vastly overstretched health system the costs a clear from the tourist sites roads near empty and impressive piazzas deserted how sustainable is all this for a country already on the edge of recession how effective are these measures anyway 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 outbreak vast numbers of cases and they took very very strong measures when you look at the epidemiological curve it was going up like

this the numbers and then it starts to flat when they took those actions and has come down very very steeply and yes we want to see that happen in other countries after it's only france's europe's next worst affected country president macron urged calm but said the country's epidemic is only just beginning france and germany have been relatively restrained in the measures they've imposed so far some school closures and restrictions on sports events and public gatherings spain has closed schools in the capital madrid. and suspended its lower house of parliament after an m.p. tested positive and greece has closed all schools and universities for 2 weeks. we're now taking care of the children and the grandparents who the people with the highest risk things get complicated because we have to combine our personal life without work life it's complicated everyone must prepare to incorporate coronavirus into the daily lives now it's not easy if you're the prime minister of the netherlands who announced an official policy of no hunt shakes before promptly

leaning over and shaking hands. over brennan al jazeera. iran meanwhile is reporting $54.00 new coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours is the highest single day toll since the outbreak started there iran is one of the worst hit countries outside china with 291 deaths and more than $8000.00 confirmed cases the u.n. special apatow and human rights is in iran is urging the government to release all prisoners as a virus spreads now as the numbers of new cases continue to surge across europe things seem to be returning to normal in china president xi jinping made his 1st trip to the virus at the center of war han and many of those who are infected have recovered and some are going back to work scott heide every for some bangkok. 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 in order for new planes we are taking 24 percent of capacity of our international operation of 5 percent out of our domestic operations it will mean that we are grounding no 10 of the 12 a tree 80 s. in fact we're grounding around $38.00 aircraft in told here in thailand the government announcing adventurers traveling from 6 iris countries will have to present help certificate proving that they don't have. even before they get on the

plane checks are also being put into place that water inland 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 scotland al-jazeera bangkok. or fear over a coronavirus has led to panic buying in many countries joining us to discuss this is. associate executive director. of the american psychological association she is live from silver spring in man and thank you very much for being with us so we have people stocking up on this in fact tent wives toilet paper walking around in surgical masks and washing their hands all the time and in many countries how do you explain this behavior and the way people have been responding to this outbreak. yeah it's hard because it's a new disease that we don't have a lot of information about so it evokes more anxiety and fear individuals because

they don't have a framework to understand it so they're doing whatever they think they should be doing could be doing in order to protect themselves but the information that we have really as is the washing their hands regularly with soap and water is important disinfectant can be important if there's the potential for somebody with corona virus in your vicinity to keep things clean but stacking up on bottled water in many parts of the world is not going to be necessary. things you might need for a few weeks at home versus extended. talking up on things like pasta toilet paper why the spot buying what you know needing to this costing the right so it's possible that individuals will be asked to stay at home for a period of time up to 2 weeks so having a reasonable amount of supplies on hand if that instance occurs makes sense but to who are them and to the point where people who actually need things like alcohol wipes to sterilize before providing themselves insulin injections is really going

to be a problem so we need to think about ensuring that the resources are there for the individuals who truly need them as opposed to hoarding things that really are not to be necessary in the event of staying home for a period of time do you think all the precautionary behaviors in the general population that we're seeing right now it is going to limit the spread of the virus . so really what's going to limit the spread of the virus is good good hygiene good infection control practices and minimizing our social contact with others so whether that's having more distance between us when we're with each other i'm not touching shaking hands things like that or having periods of time where people really do stay home from school stay home from work so that they're not in as direct contact those are going to be the kinds of things that will hopefully limit the transmissibility and virus what about consumer behavior and then do you anticipate a psychological change in consumers will it negatively impact consumer behavior

will negatively impact in terms of people are probably shopping now for things they think they might need some of them really not necessarily in this we hope that actually to reduce transmissibility people won't be spending as much time in public places crowded settings things like that but that should be time limited it should not be ongoing so we will have a period of time where individuals are less likely to be out spending money in restaurants going to movies things like that thank you very much for talking to us both is with the american psychological association joining us there from silver spring maryland thank you for your time. sure things are the spread to more head on this al-jazeera news hour including it's usually one of india's biggest celebrations but corner virus is dimming the only festival of color. talian football federation admits it may not clown a champion this year we'll have a look at the effect a corner virus is having on global sports as coming up later with beats.

the end of the world news now in afghanistan's president ashraf ghani has signed a decree that paves the way for the release of some taliban prisoners $1500.00 will be freed within 15 days it's hoped the move will lead to talks between the taliban and afghan government decreased part of a deal signed by the u.s. and the taliban last month and will see the taliban hand over a 1000 afghan government troops in return the u.s. has started removing some of its forces she has more from un headquarters in new york. a unanimous welcome at the u.n. security council for the joint declaration signed by the taliban and the u.s. but also a note of caution that leverages not be lost too quickly over the taliban in the joint declaration it says the goal is to remove u.n.

security council sanctions against the taliban by may the 29th that's nowhere to be seen in this resolution all we have in this resolution is a resident to consider a review of those sanctions once in truck afghan talks begin as for those in traffic out towards the u.s. representative at the u.n. security council admitted they had been delayed they were due to have begun in also on tuesday that clearly did not happen however she also said because ashraf ghani has agreed to release at least some taliban prisoners some preliminary talks can begin the president got his march 10th decree on a taliban prisoner release in exchange for prisoners held by the taliban is a significant measure that brings afghans one step closer to. significantly the decree means that technical talks between the taliban and the afghan government representatives in doha as well as actual releases can start

immediately when substantial intra afghan talks will finally commence is just one reason for caution here at the united nations the other is that we currently have 2 men who claim to be the president of afghanistan and has more now from. afghanistan on how afghans feel about the u.s. troop withdrawal. 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 is 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 1st

built the airfield in the ninety's then it became to frontline during the civil war and in 1900. taliban and now to the u.s. 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 should be phased out of the country within the next 14 months should everything go to plan but in places like baghdad. the parcher 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. sucker i have worked for 8 years there he was laid off when the obama administration reduced the number of us soldiers in of understand. i had a good salary when i was working a beer base 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 the thrived at the peak of the u.s. military presence and how did downturn has hit them hard. pascha was the name when he worked at the base his salary allowed him to get married and start a family now he drives a rickshaw. the wait for clients is low he makes about $2.00 a day on a good one and the future makes him uncomfortable. but if the americans leave in the fighting goes back to what it used to be cheering the civil war what's the point i don't know if the government can protect us and wants peace without jobs then we would prefer war because at least we can earn a living what we do with peace if we cannot feed our families the taliban may be celebrating the departure of the 1st batch of us soldiers but many afghans here in baghdad and elsewhere wonder what will happen to them if all foreign chips are

indeed withdrawal but at that hamid. is being billed as super tuesday to just a few hours of voting after 6 u.s. states weigh in on the race for the democratic presidential nomination the focus is on the state of michigan which has the most delegates for major competitors dropped out last week essentially leaving a 2 man race former vice president joe biden holds a need in delegates against senator bernie sanders and speak to gable end is under who's in wayne county michigan for a sole way in the battle for midwest america and call. seems to be playing into the campaign. yeah that's right corona virus is affecting so many things around the world well now it is affecting the u.s. presidential election here with both joe biden and bernie sanders both canceling all campaign events and rallies that they had scheduled this evening tuesday

evening in the state of ohio they were there because ohio is the next state to hold primaries next tuesday big rallies planned by both campaigns this evening completely canceled because of coronavirus the campaign say that they're doing this out of an abundance of caution they say because they're following the advice of the c.d.c. and health officials here in the u.s. they say there's discouraging people from gathering in large groups and when it comes to that there's no other place that you have a lot of people crammed into a small area than campaign rallies as we saw last night at a joe biden rally here in detroit where it was top of mind they were actually. campaign workers were actually giving a hand sanitizer to people as they were coming into the rally also on monday bernie sanders actually held a coronavirus round table so all campaigns canceling all of their events and

rallies on tuesday evening unprecedented we've never seen this before and i should also mention we just got word as well that there is a there is the debate on sunday they have decided to cancel the live audience and in the democratic debate as well coronavirus definitely having a huge impact in this campaign and in these primaries tell us about the states of michigan way you want gay why is it so important in this democratic race. yeah that's right we're in the city of detroit the polls close here in about 45 minutes or so why is michigan so important one reason delegates there's 125 delegates at stake more than any of the other 5 states that are voting a lot of delegates at stake here and that's what this race between essentially bernie sanders and joe biden comes down to a race for delegates to secure the nomination and that is why so much many eyes are on michigan because so many delegates are at stake we should be starting get the results in about an hour or so gabriel thank you very much for that gabe elizondo

live for us in detroit michigan. maybe a has announced it will boost its supply of crude oil next month fat's the latest step in the escalating price war with russia its refusal to comply with opec's request to cut output calls all hope license to suffer the not just daily fall in almost said he is on monday the saudis want to boost prices because a falling demand particularly because of the coronavirus crisis the international monetary fund estimates prices need to be around 80 dollars a barrel for the kingdom to balance its budget russia can balance its budget with prices iran that the price war could damage the u.s. shale oil industry it needs feiss to be at around $50.00 a barrel just to break even and much higher to make a profit many companies are already heavily in debt now in nigeria where i am a dangerous is he says the fall in oil prices has sent panic across africa's

largest economy. our voices started to make investment in agricultural production raising export none on exports of the past 2 or 3 years although still remains one of the most critical aspect of the government growing its finances from so with the poor in prices recently over the past few days there is a sense of panic among economists among government officials themselves. simply because this is a country that in the past one or 2 years has seen the rate of borrowing growing higher and higher and government drawing much more from it 40 reserves that it has been in the past few years so there is a lot of concern now that the budget the $34000000000.00 budget cannot be financed because of the falling oil prices so it's creating

a lot of worry here that means that capital and recurrent expenditures would be affected already recurrent expenditure in the 20 countries by did has surpassed what we see in a located 2 capital budget so a lot of people i worry that this will mean less jobs less investment in. construction lifting but investments in other key sectors of the economy and even raising concerns us to what the government will have to do with its huge overhead costs are they go to downsize the walks what force or they're going to create an avenue of sourcing for more funds to drive the economy. still ahead on this news hour australia's high court is to hear a final appeal from a catholic cardinal convicted of child sex abuse. digging up the past to shine a light on the future and we joined the search for evidence over abscesses experience wise in sea levels and zambians women qualify for their 1st and then big

football tournament he to have the details in sports. how the rains just swept through the plains states through the appalachians the driving force of it is this head of cloud here a big system that's dropping the temperatures on the eastern seaboard from the low twenty's to the low tens of good for 12 in washington d.c. near where it should be that there behind isn't particularly cold we're still above freezing even in the canadian prairies there's not much going on that's just a few more showers possible the rain is coming to the southwest a bit more telling it's been dry almost since beginning the year for california so this incoming stuff though doesn't that much could produce some flash flooding the market as far as canyon country and again fresh feeling is quite dangerous but it's

welcome generally speaking welcome right the heaviest stuff has been for the surface yet another front that went through it's been slow moving through some heavy rain in haiti and the dominican republic strong enough to produce overflowing rivers it's washed away one or 2 rows now it's been heavy rain for 2 or 3 days it's going away now as you can see but the still blue in the area put a record might get something from it more especially the the breezes liason but the tail end run this produced the flooding in honduras companies go still producing more rain hung juries and nicaragua and costa rica. i was raised in france. these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and us on.

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welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera this hour u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a small city in new york state to help combat coronavirus near a shell now has a not just of cases in the u.s. at least 29 people have died nationwide with more than 800 infections. leaders have set up a $20000000000.00 investment fund to protect the bronx economy from the coronavirus operate its unease at the forefront of the crisis and has its whole population of $60000000.00 on don't die and just a few hours of voting left says 6 u.s. states weigh in on the race for the democratic presidential nomination the focus is on the state of michigan where front runners joe biden and bernie sanders are battling for the need. now as we reported earlier the u.k. health minister responsible for patient safety hazards solved picked up corona

virus and is now in isolation nadine dorries has played a role in the government's response to the outbreak schools and universities remain open and there are a few restrictions on people returning from italy the voc are reports. the u.k.'s keep calm and carry on approach to the coronavirus is in sharp contrast to many other countries france germany and several other e.u. nations have banned large gatherings of people and as italians woke up to a countrywide lock down the tightest restrictions since the 2nd world war it was business as usual of britain's child and horse race meeting the event drawing tens of thousands of visitors the differences are stark in italy syria our football matches went ahead but without any fans while in the u.k.'s premier league stadiums were packed although players did have to forgo the traditional pre-game handshake the british government says it's putting science at the heart of all coronavirus

planning it's resisted introducing checks at airports and banning public gatherings saying there's very little scientific evidence the moves will help instead the governments promoting a phased approach contain delay with search and mitigate we remain in the contained phase of the outbreak but watching what is happening around the world our scientists think containment is extremely unlikely to work on its own and that is why we are making extensive preparations for a move to the delay phase the main strategies based on stalling the peak of the virus until the summer where there'll be less strain on the country's health service however experts now warn the virus will change pace in a matter of days requiring action so we are now very close to the time probably within the next 10 to 14 days when the modeling would imply we should move to a situation where we say everybody who has even minor tract infections or

a fever should be so faisel ating for 7 days afterwards the call for calm hasn't been entirely heeded supermarkets have been stripped of toilet paper and hand sanitizer as people stockpile for a crisis and no one has. you feel like you're getting information saying not very but then you also are wondering if people are downplaying it cause panic or think the big trouble is knowing what to believe in the government's worst case scenario 80 percent of the country could fall ill the question is whether britain will look back at this time when asked whether anything could and should have been done sooner the balkan al-jazeera london now the race is on to trial a vaccine for the corona virus experts say developing a vaccine at the speed required will cost at least $2000000000.00 the world health organization says scientists are working around 20 covert $21000.00 vaccines of on the world several labs have prototype vaccines which share trialing in animals

human trials in april and if successful the vaccine could be widely available by early next year one lab in london is calling on volunteers for tests participants will be infected with a type of corner virus paid the equivalent of just over $4500.00 and then quarantined for at least 2 weeks assignment clark is an associate professor in microbiology at the university of reading in the u.k. he says even if scientists come up with a vaccine it will have to be what modified quickly as a virus mutates. seeming that they animals experiments the animal studies give positive results then that's when they will move into to 2 humans and there will be a number of ways of doing that make it. immunize mass population particularly while there and the challenge from the ground virus a place naturally and community and see how many people get it as opposed to

a group that has treated perhaps a perceived well they can experimentally infect people because i think when you are suggesting with the $4000.00 payment where people will be affected experiments the rate they coronavirus and it will they will then see whether those one of those vaccines protects against that experimental infection there is the possibility that this fact this virus will mutate that it will change and that will end up having to have different versions as time goes on the vaccine towards what is essentially that this virus that's essentially what we see every year with the fleet actually it's not without precedent it's got to be able to produce enough of it and this should be safe easily enough and it's also got to be protective fell a sufficient length of time it's now used giving people a back seat that only gives them a short lived very transients immunity. coronaviruses overshadowing

a colorful celebration 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 after government warnings to avoid big crowds india has 59 confirmed cases so far and that's with random reports on 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 time. good lunch. but elsewhere indians are concerned that the dozens of confirmed cases so far from carola in the south to ended administered in the north media parents are repeating 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 war children more of 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 indian 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 regard to the production and that's why we have got being offered a connectivity. since chinese imports stopped india's government banned the export of 26 medicines and floating power system all to keep the home market supplied consumer the. border consumers haven't been affected yet but a discontinuity the next. 2 months the consumer definitely feel the effect and more

than placing the effort to the shortage. the pharmaceutical industry is urging the government to allow a case of ingredients from countries other than china well that will take time the government has ordered immediate measures including closing all primary schools in delhi and indeed administered meat and screening all airline passenger arrivals but policing what happens in public places is easier than in people's homes despite the prime minister in the interim already saying he won't be celebration holy the c.n.n. delhi's chief minister asking people to stay away from crowds to show defiance is an indication of just how difficult it will be to contain an outbreak amongst 1300000000 people elizabeth priam al jazeera new delhi. now russian president vladimir putin is backing changes that could see him stay in power for another 16 years a member of his ruling party put forward the proposal which would allow putin to

seek another 2 terms it could mean his in his in power until 83 before his presidency ends his current term limit expires in 2024 when the next elections due put in says the costs would need to approve the changes a nationwide vote on the proposed changes due to be held on april 22nd. that turkey says it's agreed with russia on the details of a joint patrolled buffer zone along a strategic highway in syria didley prominence designed to ensure the cease fire holds the m 4 highway connects the government stronghold of lattakia 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. on the refugee situation continues to be our very critical one else that has more now from her in turkey not far from the border with syria. 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 with the e.u. leaders last lives we 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 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 its 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 a 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 8 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 those from through. security forces in venezuela have dispersed and untie government monch led by opposition leader one hundreds of supporters gathered in caracas to take back congress which pro-government faction snatched in january clashes broke out as protesters flung rocks and sticks up police they responded with tear gas and rocks demonstrators from progressing to the national assembly supporters of president nicolas maduro held their own randi across town. in malawi police have fired tear gas at protesters who rallied against

the get the arrest of a pro-democracy activist tim a theme tombo turned himself into police after leading called government demonstrations thousands of his supporters gathered outside the police station they're angry at the president's delay in calling a new election to the last vote was an old by the constitutional court. in australia the high court will hear an appeal a final appeal from the disgraced cardinal george pell who wants to overturn his child sex abuse conviction the 78 year old former treasurer to the vatican was jailed for 6 years for sexually abusing 2 teenage choir boys in the 1990 s. pal is the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of abusing children he maintains his innocence and speak to nick in a gauge in camera forest so tell us about what's happening in court today exactly nicola and what the high court will be looking at. well the courtroom is definitely full here it's just started here in the high court this is an arguably one of the

moist highly anticipated court hearings in australia's history that's because cardinal george pell was the strelley as moist senior ranking catholic in the church and this is his final chance to try and clear his name it was in light 28 chain that it surely found him guilty of sexually abusing 2 quiet boys in the late $99.00 cheese and he was sentenced to 6 years in prison now pelle has continued to protest his innocence since and his lawyers last year went to the court to victoria's court of appeal to fight against that judgement and. they lost essentially the victorian court of appeal decided that the jury was correct all of the facts with it and that he would remain in prison so now george pell spot has made it to a strangely its highest court today here prosecutors and defense laying down boy

the cement sent it's really important to note here that the full bench of the high court isn't actually determining whether the jurors were right or wrong in convicting george of these child 6 offenses but whether the court the victorian court of appeal was in fact russia wrong but george pell isn't he today he's in prison so he'll have to wait until a little later in the day to see what is happening right his fight but supporters of he is on here as well as abuse victims and their supporters as well so what are the possible outcomes then and what happens from here. well there are a number of different options essentially even though the high court is hearing this today it hasn't actually officially blonde to especially eve of appeal for george pell and his label same i know that sounds a little bit technical but that means that essentially they could hear the only

tuning arguments this morning in camera and just decided to through the case out which means that george joe would stay in prison as a convicted sex offender or they could grant special leave which means that the case over the next 3 days but the high court does work rather slowly on these issues so it could take quite a few months until they reach a decision they could either decide that they are included of the peel in its judgment to support the jury pool it could also decide to. support them sorry i guess on either side this is a really interesting case to watch and it will nor doubt be used to based on either side and all around the world that people in the catholic church and elsewhere and we'll be following the case with you nick and i thank you very much i'm going to gauge my for a sane camera. makower to south africa has created president

serial rama post of misleading parliament about his election finances the anti-corruption watchdog was investigating rama poll says campaign to become leader of the governing party judges rule the findings of the public protector where flaunt family miller has more from pretoria. 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 president. had sought a judicial review over approved 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 the king of the netherlands has apologised for the violence his country inflicted on indonesians during colonial role it's a 1st such admission by the monarchy speaking on his 1st state visit to the country king william alexander expressed regret for the conduct of dutch forces in the 4 years after indonesia declared independence in 1905 the dutch government has already apologized and paid compensation to survivors. now as climate change threatens our coastline scientists in the u.k.

are looking to prehistoric times for evidence of changing sea levels and how. to cope jessica baldwin reports from hampshire. low tide at thorne space on the southern coast of england maritime archaeologists are searching the mud flats for clues as to what life was like thousands of years ago telling into our ancient hall so here we see this incredible tree or going material from far even off posing years ago when just in the seabed white near where i live i find that so turns out i only saw. a piece of timber more than 5000 years old might help us understand what happened when sea levels rose creating an island that became britain separate from continental europe what we're doing with the understanding the packers are trained to the effect of sea level rise in the past i'm never going to understand the long term impact of the responses of the through

a lot of crude are. currently writing for the creature i'm going to start in purple . tights aren't always this low 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 where they didn't do tests in carbon dating to figure out how many thousands of years ago our ancestors lived on this for sure it was cuttin there's evidence that the wood was worked on by prehistoric man to make a flat surface they could be a resin that was a ploy. on 5000 years. maybe to protect it from the water as the sea level was coming up. discoveries of signs of prehistoric settlements artifacts and even food give the archaeologists an idea of what life would have looked like.

his advice his wallet. we found quite a few of these i say have to bear in mind this is over 8000 years old they found d.n.a. from ein corn an ancient grain dating it 8000 years indicating early trade. 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. still ahead on al-jazeera and cricket's pakistan super league one team who thought they had a winning spy plane for plates upon us.

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times for scientists. thank you so much worldwide sport has been hit hard by coronavirus major events too numerous to mention are being cancelled or played without fans with the italian football federation saying on tuesday they might not be able to crowd champion this year it all comes with the biggest events of all the olympics just over 4 months away. 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 scorers held up a sign for fans saying everything will be fine stay at home and after the game 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. 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. 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 pulis leigo will also be spectator lists all at a cost to clubs. only if you round it up we're talking about 2000000 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 italy and france because of coronavirus and ahead of world cycling is concerned about the 2 biggest events in their calendar to tally a road race in may and then the tour de france in june. 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 global sport is taking a big hit but the formula one season is set to start as planned this week with the australian grand prix you know we've got a race. that's 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 at 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 zambia's women

have qualified for the olympic football tournament for the 1st time in their history they'll be taught favorites cameroon 21 in new soccer on tuesday coming through on the way golds sambir are 57 the ranking places below cameroon who do get another chance in the intercontinental olympic play off against chile we spoke to sports journalist. who said zambia was showing the strength of african football but their teams needed more support to beat the rest of the world. you know when you look at. the gulf because i can't. because you know you expect that nigeria and south africa. to come. but they are out. getting into the conversation i think. you know have some players

in the professional and the federation. and they can be. great friends. to get exported to play and that never because even when the africans go for example to the summer or go to that it's only just the round of 16 we're not talking about. the. champions league final tottenham have been knocked out in the round of 16 they were beaten 3 no at all. the east german fans packing the stadium reached the quarter finals for the 1st time but i again mandate for an aggregate in front of stands in valencia but on wednesday and field will be packed as defending champions look to come a druid the british government says there's no reason as here to restrict crowds and club is open to it if needs be the problem with football games is if you are

not in a stadium then you are in close rooms about sadam maybe together. in this case to be honest i mean that. but whatever will be decided with respect will leave you with a thrilling finish in the pakistan super league on tuesday. zomi may have thought 197 for 7 would be a winning score as probably years in most cases not on this occasion david of the long haul calendars hammering the penultimate ball of the match for 6 as a whole one by 5 wickets. will leave it there for more sports again later. b.j. thank you very much for that more news coming out very shortly on al-jazeera we'll have the natives from new as democratic presidential primaries polls are about to close in mississippi mystery and north dakota with former vice president joe biden hoping to pull away in the delegate count stu stay with us we're back in just a few minutes.

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