the end with. the in. a coronavirus containment zone is put in place around a city new york state with troops sent in to help. lay watching al jazeera live from doha with me fully back to war also ahead a u.k. health minister tests positive for corona virus she recently attended an event with a minister boris johnson plus 6 u.s. states hold presidential primaries including michigan where bernie sanders is hoping to stop joe biden's momentum and it's usually a breast of cholera but coronavirus is india's only celebration.

i am. so u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a city in new york state now thought to be the center of the corona virus outbreak in the country new rochelle north of new york city has been sealed off it has the largest known cluster of cases in the u.s. troops will be sent in to help disinfect areas and quarantine people meanwhile the trump administration is drafting an economic stimulus package to ease the burden of the outbreak expected to include payroll tax relief and paid family leave for small and medium sized businesses as get the latest from roslyn jordan in washington d.c. ross tell us more for us about the measures being imposed in new rochelle which has now the largest cluster of cases in the u.s. . that's right foley at least 109 confirmed cases in the city of new rochelle the state governor andrew cuomo expects that number to go up and so in

order to try to stop the rapid spread of coronavirus in this bedroom community of new york city the governor has ordered a 3 kilometer 3 square kilometer zone in the city to be closed and that public spaces be closed to the public until they can be fully cleaned fully sanitized and more important when the number of cases of people with corona virus starts to drop this is a 2 week long period it starts on thursday march 12th the national guard will be delivering food and supplies to those people who have been diagnosed and who have been told that they need to stay home until their symptoms clear and they recover there's also the idea that there's not going to be any school certainly there's this is going to have an impact on small businesses in this community because there's going to be a real effort to try to dissuade people from going out in public unless they

absolutely have to right and there is concern of course about the economic impact of this outbreak rosin president trump expected to announce coronavirus economic stimulus plan but it's not a done deal. it's not a done deal in fact now the trumpet ministration has been talking about some sort of economic stimulus plan for the past 24 hours but there are very few details it's really more approach a set of proposals could they for example cut the payroll tax which pays for programs such as social security and medicare and medicaid federal programs that provide funding for retirees and for the very very poor when it comes to getting health care that's more than one trillion dollars taken out of people's paychecks in the current fiscal year where will that money come from to continue paying for those programs ministrations argument is that this will help consumers especially

middle class and low income people continue to take care of their families especially if they are told that they're not allowed to go to work because of the broad outbreak of the virus in their communities as for people who work at businesses where they don't have paid sick leave the administration also wants to find a way to pass money on to those companies so that their employees can stay home if they're sick and not worry about losing funding but congress is going out of session in the next couple of days can they negotiate with the white house and figure out a plan to not just keep the economy going but more important help people survive this rapidly spreading health crisis vanzant thank you very much for that update on live for us in washington now a u.k. house minister has tested positive for corona virus doris' is now in isolation it's reported she met hundreds of people up on ment in the past week and attended

a reception at the residence of from mr boris johnson. meanwhile european union leaders have pledged to do everything they can to protect the blocks economy from the kona virus outbreak they're setting up an investment fund of up to $28000000000.00 to support health. and small businesses cases of corner virus have been reported in all 27 member states when it hit me at the forefront of the crisis paul brennan has our report. 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

a 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 put 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 handshakes before promptly leaning over and shaking hands. should have been your silly story. over paul brennan al jazeera but he has reported $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 $291.00 deaths and more than $8000.00 confirmed cases they went special rapper tour on human rights in iran is urging the government to release all prisoners as the virus rates by in china meanwhile things seem to be returning to normal president xi jinping made his 1st

trip to the virus at the center of one on many of those who are infected have recovered and some are going back to work scott hide their reports from bangkok. china's president xi jinping visited new one 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 she 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 airline 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 for international operation and 4 percent 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 total here in thailand the government announcing it that tourist travelling from 6. 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. 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 on iran 21000 vaccines of on the world several labs of prototype vaccines which are trialing in animals human trials and you know start in april and if successful the vaccine could be widely available by

early next year one lab in london is calling on volunteers to tests but disciplines will be infected with a type of coronavirus paid the equivalent of just over $4500.00 and then quarantined for at least 2 weeks simon cockies an associate professor of insight in a microbiology at the university of reading in the u.k. he says even if scientists come up with a vaccine you have to be modified quickly as a virus mutates. seeming that. they animals experiments the animal studies give positive results though 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 they're at a challenge from the coronavirus a place naturally into unity 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're

suggesting with a $4000.00 payment where people will be affected experimentally wit a 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 distribute it 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. still ahead on australia's high court is to hear a final appeal from the most senior convicted of child sex abuse. hello

the rains just about stops now in japan the last befalling heart as this storm system disappears and it was heavy rain and would have produced quite rapid saw in hock right over the temperature dropping down again the wind coming out of the interior to siberia still call would so forty's is the heinz a power 20 there in tokyo in the sunshine but if you go to the north coast you'll find on shore breezes was plenty of cloud and rain but beyond that it's warming up and stabilizing at 14 in beijing the breeze is moving a little bit the cladistic here in southern china and once again rain is developing and it's spreading eastwards this looks interesting like the persistent spring rains to be honest and i suppose it's almost spring is in the south so that we

still got the rainy season start in d.c. the heavy showers recently have been sort of y.c. but they're drifting slowly north of the full cost still keeps and here she has been born here maybe in parts of the philippines pretty well scattered that there's an increase i think in the risk of a chance in sumatra whereas be fairly dry recently and they creek up creep up towards singapore and kuala lumpur but for the most part thailand is strong cambodia just as well as who showers on the coast of vietnam once again is sunny. but. the consequence of war not ventures and russia he served in the marine corps for 995 just doesn't go away. for a living out of trouble for the last couple years. as. follows a group of u.s. army veterans much ised by war. as they struggle to get their lives back.

you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of our top stories u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a small city in new york state to help contain the coronavirus mueller shall has and not just plaster of cases in the u.s. at least $29.00 people have died nationwide with more than $800.00 infections e.u. leaders have set up a $20000000000.00 investment fund to protect the proxy khana me from the corona virus outbreak italy is at the forefront of the crisis and has its whole population

of $60000000.00 on lockdown. other news now in the polls have closed in 3 of the 6 u.s. states voting in the latest democratic presidential primaries montana to bernie sanders is hoping to stop former vice president joe biden's momentum so the votes are being counted now in mississippi missouri and north dakota but the focus is going to be on michigan which has the most delegates for major competitors dropped out last week essentially leaving a 2 man race speak to a game in his own door who is in detroit michigan for as a surrogate with north dakota mississippi and missouri the polls have closed there what are the early projections. there it's looking like joe biden is continuing his momentum and at least early on having a very very good night the associated press reporting that joe biden is winning and will win both the states of mississippi and missouri that's somewhat to be expected

he was expected to do very well in mississippi. particularly because it's got a high african-american population there so not a huge surprise there nevertheless a big win for joe biden there and also this state of missouri the big one though is right where i'm at and i'm in detroit michigan this is where all eyes are on here the polls are closed we don't have any significant results in yet but everyone is really looking at this state why because michigan has 125 electoral votes up for grabs that's more than the other 5 states that are voting today and that the results of be coming in from whoever wins the state of michigan particularly if it's joe biden will really jump out to a significant lead when it comes to the delegates so that's why both of the campaigns are looking very closely right now at this very hour waiting for the big

batch of 1st results to come in from this important state of michigan yeah but coronavirus it seems game playing into this campaign. yeah it sure is both biden and sanders had campaign events this evening tuesday evening in ohio why ohio because ohio will be the next state to vote next tuesday they'll have their democratic. delegate votes there they were canceled both biden and sanders campaign cancelled their rallies this evening and all of their events because of coronavirus they said it's out of an abundance of caution because campaign rallies are a lot of people brought packed in to gymnasiums in very small spaces that potentially could lead to transmissions of grown a virus so for cautionary reasons they canceled their events unprecedented for this to happen bernie sanders we're told has on a flight back to his home state of vermont joe biden is back in philadelphia where

he's going to be giving a speech tonight but only a speech to cameras not to a group of people so unprecedented we've never seen this before but this clearly is an indication that both campaigns are taking this very seriously it will be interesting to see in the coming days if they cancel more events or what they're going to do quite frankly they're caught off guard by coronavirus just as much as everyone else is and they're trying to deal with it just like all the other industries are whether it be airlines cruise industries travel industries whatever so both campaigns now no other none of them are having any campaign rallies because of coronavirus at least not this evening kate thank you very much for that update cable end is on don't live there from detroit michigan. to afghanistan now where 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 the taliban will hand over

a 1000 afghan government troops in return it's hoped the move will lead to talks between the group and the afghan government the u.n. security council has passed a resolution supporting the deal she have a time she has more from the u.n. headquarters in. 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 8 residents 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 president got his march 10th to agree 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. turkey says it's a great with russia on the details of a jointly patrolled buffer zone along its strategic highway in syria's prominence designed to ensure the cease fire holds the m 4 highway connects the government

stronghold of a takeo 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 this is the zone is hoped to keep apart the russian backed syrian forces and rebel supported by turkey after months of fighting now russia's 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 he's 83 before his presidency would end its current term limit expires in 2024 when the next election is due put in says a constitutional court would need to approve the changes a nationwide vote is due to be held on april 22nd. australia's high court is hearing a final appeal from the disgraced cardinal george pell who wants to overturn his child sex abuse conviction

a 78 year old former treasurer to the vatican was jailed for 6 years for sexually abusing 2 teenage choir boys in the 1990 s. bell is the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of abusing children he maintains his innocence. venezuela now and clashes have broken out between police and protesters government marched led by opposition leader one quite ill. called on his supporters to revive a campaign to oust president maduro meanwhile at the united nations high commissioner for human rights raise concerns about the west wing crisis in venezuela. has the details. police fired tear gas at demonstrators and get back as on tuesday the demonstration was organized by venezuelan opposition leader of one why don't let her out of my door attempted to negotiate with police who blocked demonstrators

from marching to venezuela's national assembly building suicide mobilization social action symbolic acts of protest overwhelming protest actions with everyone united today in the fight for a free venezuela this is meant as well as moment thousands attended the demonstration in the venezuelan capital to protest against worsening economic conditions in the country and on the timing to get him up oh yeah well basically we want the whole world to see what's happening in venezuela which is a very critical situation without production without food without medicines the country totally paralyzed and all the country's economic sectors. are at the united nations in geneva the u.n. high commissioner for human rights michelle bachelet said the situation in venezuela has worsened in recent months. since my last update on the human rights situation in venezuela political tensions and acts of violence by security forces and government supporters against opposition parliamentarians have continued. in

a separate rally was convened in downtown can act as in support of venezuelan president nicolas maduro. the latest political tensions in the south american nations stem from a growing violence against members of venezuela's political opposition including the arrest of several parliament members according to the latest updates from the un some 4900000 people have fled venezuela as a result of the prices went up a little. the king of the netherlands has. apologized for the violence his country inflicted on indonesians during colonial rule is a 1st such admission by the monarch speaking on his 1st state visit to the country king william alexander expressed regrets for the conduct of dutch forces in the 4 years after indonesia's declared independence in 1945 the dutch government has already apologized and paid compensation to the survivors. police in

malawi have fired tear gas at protesters who rallied against the arrests of a pro-democracy activists timothy turned himself into police after leading called government demonstrations of his supporters gathered outside the police station they're angry at the president's delay in calling a new election after the last vote was an old by the constitutional courts. about coronavirus is overshadowing a color for 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 warning so avoid big crowds india has 59 confirmed cases so far and as it were an american or some new. sparing power to die all over each other to celebrate the festival of color holy heralds the end of winter and start of spring and these people in the capital won't let in warnings about coronavirus get in the way of their sad abrasion.

and we're going to. have a very good very. good lunch. 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 appealing to the government to airlift their children from universities in iran iran has one of the highest number of covert mine 1000 cases outside china we are very concerned the world was children more the food over the children or 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 dia's are 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 regard to the production 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 gave them a border consume less haven't been affected yet but if this continues. the next one or 2 months the consumer is definitely feeling the effect and more than placing the effort to the shortage. the pharmaceutical industry is urging the government to allow updates of ingredients from countries other than china while that will take time the government has ordered an immediate measures including closing all primary schools in delhi and indeed administer the sheep and screening all airline passenger rivals but policing what happens in public places is easier than in people's homes despite prime minister in the interim already saying he won't be celebration hoey the c.n.n.

delhi's 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 fraud and al jazeera the new delhi. bad lines on al-jazeera u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a small city in new york state to help combat's coronavirus noura shall now has the largest class of cases in the u.s. and he's 29 people have died nationwide with more than $800.00 infections in jordan has more on the troop deployment the governor has ordered a 3 kilometer 3 square kilometer zone in the city to be closed and that public spaces be closed to the public until they can be full we cleaned fully

sanitized and more important when the number of cases of people with corona virus starts to drop this is a 2 week long period it starts on thursday march 12th the national guard will be delivering food and supplies to those people who have been diagnosed and who have been told that they need to stay home. well european union leaders of plates just set up a $20000000000.00 investment fund to protect the brocks economy from the corona virus outbreak italy is at the forefront of the crisis and has its hope population of 60000000 on lockdown a u.k. health minister has tested positive for corona virus doris' is now in isolation it's reported she met hundreds of people at parliament in the past weekend attended a reception at the residence of families serve or is johnson the polls have closed in 3 of the 6 u.s. states voting in the latest democratic presidential primaries with joe biden taking the lead in early results the former vice president is expected to win in

mississippi and missouri with north dakota still being counted from on senator bernie sanders is battling to some momentum in what is now essentially a 2 man race australia's high court is hearing a final appeal from the disgraced cardinal george pal who is trying 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. bell is the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of abusing children he maintains his innocence it up stay with the headlines here on al-jazeera more news on al-jazeera dot com the bottom line is up next this.

hi i'm steve clemons and i have a question is the coronavirus morphing from a public health epidemic into a full blown social and financial pandemic let's get to the bottom line. around the world factories have gone off line schools have been suspended and entire cities have been locked down in italy the entire country is now under quarantine and in america critics of president donald trump say his administration has been slow to deal with the outbreak and focused on dealing with a health crisis as a public relations battle more recently however and with 700 cases of coronavirus infection in the u.s. the administration has shifted to high gear in fact in the past few days the government set aside more than $8000000000.00 in emergency funding and started the talk about an economic stimulus package so where is the fear of the unknown taking us now fortunately we have.