all. the early in the evening. 0. hello i'm fully back to this is in use our live from audible headquarters in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes joe biden extends his lead over bernie sanders in the u.s. democratic presidential race winning the big prize of michigan and to other states coronavirus containment zone is put in place around the city in new york states with troops sent in to help. you keep health minister tests positive for calling a virus she recently attended an event with prime minister boies johnson. also this

hour police in venezuela used tear gas against untie government protesters seeking to oust president went to. the edge we begin in the u.s. where joe biden has cemented his front runner status in the democratic presidential race is projected to win the big prize of michigan on a day that was billed as super tuesday to the former vice president is also expected to win in mississippi and missouri 3 other states are still voting it's a boost to biden's already dominant lead over the mon senator bernie sanders let's bring in david and his own bill who is in detroit michigan forests michigan of course was the big prize tonight saying a crucial victory there for biden who's expanding his lead in the delegate count.

yeah make no mistake about it this has been a huge night for joe biden make no mistake about it as well joe biden is very much clearly the sole front runner now for the democratic nomination we're here in detroit and this was supposed to be a bernie sanders watch slash victory party however is pretty early on in the evening that it was a pretty clear that bernie sanders was not doing as well as his supporters had hoped here in michigan and is so they're pretty much consoling each other now and trying to figure out where where they go from here for the bernie sanders campaign but again this was a huge night for joe biden won the state of missouri won the state of mississippi which was expected but this was the big prize with 125 delegates at stake here in the state of michigan joe biden there getting a very big victory up now with the about 60 percent of the vote in he's got about a 13 percentage point lead so he's going to win and win pretty big here in the

state of michigan this is big because a big black. voter base here in the state of michigan but also very much a white working class. base of voters here as well and so this shows that the joe biden could win with the black city stone before and also with working class whites this was a state that bernie sanders i thought that he had to win to have any chance moving forward what to see what happens coming out now this set was being described as a make or break state for bernie sanders and he won michigan back in 2016 he beat hillary clinton in michigan in 2016 what is what is it do you think that made the difference will by been you mentioned the african-american votes of course but what made the difference for biden in michigan over many samples. 2 things number one african-americans came out and they voted in huge. numbers for

joe biden why i asked many of them after they voted today they said we trust joe biden because he was brought to bomb a spice president that's a message we've heard over and over so i think that's number one number 2 talking to white working class voters who said that their biggest issue was they wanted someone they could beat donald trump in november those people mostly voted for joe biden as well and so that's i think you add those 2 factors up and that's why you saw this very critical state go so big for joe biden you see right and normally of course he would have been a victory rally or a rally speech on a forum by biden but it seems that the corona virus outbreak has been playing into this campaign. right that's right both joe biden and bernie sanders both canceled their campaign rallies they had scheduled for this evening to state evening in a neighboring state of ohio why because of coronavirus they didn't want large

numbers of people in gymnasiums they could potentially transit pass corona virus along so joe biden we think will be giving some sort of speech tonight from pennsylvania from philadelphia pennsylvania but of just be in front of cameras you won't be having any sort of rallies at all really unprecedented as these campaigns are having to deal with other grown a virus threat and by canceling their rallies that they had scheduled for this evening and it wasn't just the democrats voting today they were some republican primaries and no surprise president winning dallas. no surprise at all there is going to be president donald trump he's got overwhelming support within the republican party and so it's really just the democrats now fighting it out to see who will be the person who goes up against donald trump and now that we're really down to 2 joe biden for. the sanders that's

why tonight was so critical because this was a chance for bernie sanders to regain some momentum and it would have happened here if you would have won michigan but he didn't so the more bent jim that joe biden had from super tuesday has carried on through this tuesday with these big wins this evening it is becoming increasingly clear that most likely we're going to see his joe biden the former vice president to barack obama up against donald trump in the general election. thank you very much for that game really elizondo live for us there in detroit michigan and as gabe mentioned the corona virus outbreak is dominating somewhat this campaign u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a city in new york state now thought to be the epicenter of the corn a virus outbreak in the u.s. near a shell north of new york city has been sealed off it has a not just known cluster of cases in the u.s. troops will be sent there to help disinfects areas and quarantine people in the

u.k. meanwhile the health minister has become the 1st british m.p. to test positive for corona virus doris' is now self isolating is reported she met hundreds of people in palm and last week and attended a reception at the residence of prime minister boys johnson meanwhile the slowdown of cases continues in china who by a province the epicenter of the outbreak reports 13 new cases today let's bring in was in jordan in washington d.c. ross tell us 1st about these measures that are being implemented in. new york state . well new a shell is one of the many suburbs just outside new york city and many of the people who live there all work or go to school inside new york city it also happens to be the epicenter at least here on the east coast of the united states of the corona virus outbreak at least 109 cases have been diagnosed as of tuesday

it's very likely that number is going to go up on wednesday when the reporters next meet with the governor andrew cuomo mr cuomo declared on tuesday that there would now be a 14 day period where basically people who live in a 3 columns 3 square kilometer area of new rochelle will not be able to go to massive gathering places for the public namely public schools houses of worship sporting stadiums and that the national guard would be brought in to make certain that people comply with that order over the 2 week period following there's going to be a massive scrub down as it were and disinfection of the public places all in an effort to try to stop what has become a very rapid spread of the coral a virus in that bedroom community of new york right and of course so there is

concern about the economic impact of all this we saw the effect on the markets yesterday president trump expected to announce a krone virus econ economic stimulus plan but this is not a done deal yet. no it is not a done deal the president 1st floated the idea of taking steps to try to keep the u.s. economy on track because of the loss of business in the travel and tourism sectors in particular but also because of the spill on impact of the ongoing fight between saudi arabia and russia over oil prices all of that is having a devastating impact at least on the u.s. stock exchanges and economists are now worried about the potential of a recession so some of the ideas being floated folly include cutting up payroll taxes for people that money goes into social security the retirement money for senior citizens as well as into medicare or medicaid again to government run health

care programs one for seniors the other for the very poor the idea is to keep money in people's pockets so that they a stone simply will continue spending money in the u.s. economy is 70 percent based on consumer activity and the president who is very keen to try to get reelected in november wants to keep people focused on what he says he has done for them economically certainly if people are being made to stay home if there's an outbreak of coronavirus in their community and movement is restricted you're not going to see people spending money the way they had and so what the president is trying to do is to one make it easier for people to keep spending money and to he's trying to work out a deal with members of congress to help those people who don't get paid sick days that's very common here in the u.s. and that is certainly something where the congressional democrats might be interested in striking

a deal with the president on this issue thank you very much for that roslyn joined my force in washington d.c. . european union leaders meanwhile have paid should do everything they can to protect the bronx economy from the corner virus outbreak they're setting up an investment fund of up to $20000000000.00 to support health care and small businesses cases of the virus have been reported in all 27 member states with at the forefront of the crisis paul brennan has our report. upon your opinion 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 are the people with the highest risk is if 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 be given your silly story think the job over paul brennan al-jazeera wallace find out more about the situation in china and speak to us our caucus in hong kong for so it seems that the slowdown continues in china give us the latest numbers. well sadly the good news does continue the downward trend is ongoing in mainland china now and cheese day the latest numbers of confirmed that there were 20 new 22 i should say any different 24 new cases of the creative arts in fiction now the

biggest concern now that china has the invitation of the virus to the new infections confirmed cases on tuesday were important no were travelers from italy and the united states as a result of china has increased its quarantine regulations and tightened its restrictions on those travelers coming now into mainland china but the region of the province which is where we're headed is the epicenter of the krajina virus outbreak it's starting to see a number of these crime scene facilities and the temporary hospitals that were set up to deal with the huge numbers in the early days they're now starting to close at least 16 of the quarantine facilities have now shut there were confirmed to be closed on tuesday and we had china's president xi jinping he traveled to han for the 1st time on tuesday and he came with a message of victory sign that china has a can now controlled the spread of this particular outbreak and he's visited a number of the hospital patients he's talked to some of the medical staff on the front line and the ongoing message to all these people was that china has had

victory with regards to how it's dealt with this that's told the people of china to fight on given the this downward trend in infections when's the government likely then to lift the lockdown in who they promise. well the government is now studying ways to roll out of a mobile monitoring system across the province and this is the area where the number of people here in this particular province is 16000000 people 11000000 at least in we've had and they've been in lockdown for months since the the outbreak or the beginnings of this epidemic and now this particular mobile monitoring system it will all be conducted by mobile phones and the health of all residents will be assist and once the helpers assist each person will be categorized or put into a particular category the green area the green code is considered the low risk in those for to people who've been categorized as green will be able to travel once again they'll be be given limited travel across the province those in yellow will

be the ones who are considered or so she added with people who have had the crown of us their travel will not be allowed and those in the rig they're the people who have actually got the crowd of us infection and they were mine endorser certainly and we're seeing some movement or some kind of the partial lockdown lifted by province for those people who are now declared with a good health status thank you for that dates are clark live for us in hong kong. plenty more ahead on this news hour including australia's high court is hearing a final appeal from a catholic cardinal convicted of child sex abuse we'll have a live report from canberra. talian football federation admits it may not chrono champion this will have a look at the effects coronavirus is having on global sport that's coming up later with the. first returning to our top story in the u.s.

a big night for former vice president joe biden in the democratic race for the white house has one primaries in mississippi and missouri and the big prize michigan these are live pictures of a biden campaign event in philadelphia way is expected to speak very soon and we'll bring that live to you when it happens in the meantime let's speak to bill schneider 'd who is a political analyst and public policy professor at george mason university he's live from los angeles bill always good to have you on al jazeera so biden winning big tonight mrs if they missouri and michigan the big prize michigan which was a make or break state for bernie sanders do you think it's all over now as will be and he be under pressure to drop out of the race. well there is pressure for him to drop out i don't think he'll do it until joe biden has a clear majority of the delegates for the 1st ballot that means he'll be the nominee he's on his way but you need 1991 nearly 2000 delegates to have

a majority it'll take a few weeks before you'll get to that number what is it that's how biden secure these crucial victories. one word trump you know in the 1st couple contests the very small wins early in february new hampshire iowa sanders did very well and then he won a big sweep in nevada which had a court which had caucuses when voters democrats around the country saw that they said oh my god we're on our way to nominating bernie sanders to run it gets donald trump he'll never beat donald trump he's a socialist americans are not going to elect a president who calls himself a socialist now the fact is most democrats know democratic voters did do agree with what bernie sanders wants in national health care system a tax on wealth those are things they like and they did vote for sanders at 1st but then the democrats said oh no we can't nominate him we better stick with someone who can be trouble that's joe biden but isn't this going to be an issue for the

democrats come november this disunity within the party i mean sanders supporter is a likely to back biden if he wins the nomination. there is a division in the party and somewhat of a division over issues but it's equally a division over tactics can they really nominate a hardcore liberal and someone who calls himself a socialist most democrats are very reluctant to do that what's uniting the democratic party is even stronger than what's dividing them what's uniting them is one word trump trump is uniting democrats they're rallying to the candidate that they see is most likely to defeat donald trump in the michigan today in the dome voters there were polled and asked which candidate has the best chance to defeat donald trump 55 percent said biden 32 percent said sanders that's the reason biden is winning interesting now sanders lately has been attacking biden on issues such

as support for the war in iraq but also his gaffes he's prone to gaffes and there was another one i think today these are issues for joe biden could could this flaw doom his campaign it could be a problem if he makes a very serious gaffe can but let me tell you something about joe biden joe biden appeals to voters because he's normal his issue his real appeal is a return to normalcy he's not exceptional you know there's an old saying that democrats when they vote democrats fall in love with publicans fall in line well democrats had 28 candidates this year and they didn't fall in love with any of them really so they're settling for joe biden because he looks like the best candidate to beat donald trump that's the bargain they're making but they agree with sanders on a lot of issues but they what they're desperate to be trump and trump is organizing the democratic party he's unifying it and he's providing the impetus the momentum

behind joe biden's nomination let's see if it works come november i thank you very much bill schneider for talking to us as always good to have you not just there. now in other news australia's high court is hearing a final appeal from the disgraced cardinal george pell who wants to overturn his child sex abuse conviction the 70 year old former treasurer of the vatican was jailed for 6 years for sexually abusing 2 teenage 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 that gets let's get the latest from nicolay gage who's live from outside the court in camera so what's been happening what's the latest from there. well it's been a long morning of label arguments in a strangely as high school what a pool bench of 7 just an justices has begun hearing to watch pills legal chains argument to finally see if these convictions can be only be to now it was

in light 20 a chain that a cheery found guilty of sexually abusing 2 quiet boys in a mill been a kid and he's been sentenced to 60 years in prison he's already. so to one of them in a milton prison now tell has protested his innocence ever since the beginning but he's not here at the high court to hear these arguments today but many of his supporters have been outside the court room they still believe in his innocence but there are also been many abuse victims here as well abuse. survivors at the kids saying that they do not want the high court to order to end this decision and it was lost that so chose lawyer lawyers try to fight against this they went to the victorian court of appeal but they were actually not back in that appeal the

judge's a great with the jury and found that the conviction should be up held and that's why we're at the michael today and the defense's arguments have really been based around the reliability of one of the witnesses and whether he was telling the truth going on. so what are the potential outcomes then from this 2 day hearing nicholas . well there are quite a few options of things that could happen here as you know in the audience we know is not a lot of cases to come to the high court so it's even though if we all are having a sitting day over the next 2 days here. the high court hasn't actually officially ringback said that they would grant special leave to see this appeal so what could happen then these cells to noon or tomorrow they could completely throw out this case and george go who would remain in prison for the rest of peace and

since now the other option is that they could grant special waved to this appeal and in that case it could go either way they could say it's the victorian court of appeal in its judgment. to believe that yuri and up hold the conviction they could say well look we looked at the facts some we believe that he should be exonerated so i think a really other interesting point to make. is this george show be a convicted sex offender who is now in prison is also still a cardinal and the part as of today still hasn't made a comment about george pils case he has said that he will comment on it. to tell has exhausted all avenues of appeal well that doesn't seem far away now it'll i thank you for that nic and again try for us in camera. in venezuela security forces

have dispersed an anti-government march led by opposition leader he had called on his supporters to revive a campaign to oust president nicolas maduro meanwhile at the united nations high commissioner for human rights the united nations high commission for human ice i should say has raised concerns about the worsening crisis in venezuela. police fired tear gas of demonstrators and get back as on tuesday the demonstration was organized by venezuelan opposition leader of one going door to her out of my door attempted to negotiate with police who blocked demonstrators from marching to venezuela's national assembly building exercise mobilization social action symbolic acts of protest overwhelming protest actions with everyone united today in the fight for a free venezuela this is ben as well as moment thousands attended the demonstration in the venezuelan capital to protest against worsening economic conditions in the country you know it was

a comment that came 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. at the united nations in geneva the un 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. 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 the as well as 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. still ahead on the news hour it's usually one of india's biggest celebrations about coronaviruses naming the home festival of the. past zambia's women on a 5 afghanistan example tournaments these are having on sports. hello the rain is just about stops now in japan the last befalling hole card as this storm system disappears and it was heavy rain would have produced quite rapid saw in hock right over the temperature dropping down again the wind coming out of the interior of siberia still call would so 4 degrees 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 of that we still got very rainy seasons right into the sea of the heavy showers recently have been sort of y.c. but they're drifting slowly north of the forecast 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 cumbered is just as well as who shows on the coast of vietnam once again is sunny. the shocking treatment of disabled people in eastern european state run cabs in

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you're watching the news hour on al-jazeera with me for you back to boy a reminder of our top stories joe biden's projected to win the big one michigan a 6 us states votes in 2 cities democratic presidential primaries the former vice president is also expected to win in mississippi and missouri u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a small city new york state to help combat coronavirus you are shall now as the largest processor of cases in the u.s. at least $29.00 people have died nationwide with more than $800.00 infections and e.u. leaders have set up the $20000000000.00 investment fund to protect the bronx economy from the corner virus operate its unease at the forefront of the crisis and has its

home population of 60000000 on lockdown. afghanistan's president ashraf ghani has signed a decree that paves the way for the release of some taliban prisoners 1500 will be freed within 15 days the taliban will hand over a 1000 afghan government troops in return and it's hoped the move will lead to talks between the group and the afghan government the un security council has passed a resolution supporting the deal shavar tansey has more from un headquarters in new . 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 and 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 its agreement with russia on the details of a jointly patrolled buffer zone along is strategic highway in syria said late province designed to ensure the cease fire holds the m 4 highway connects the government stronghold of the takia 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 zone is hopes to keep upon the russian backed syrian forces and rebels supported by turkey after months of fighting russian president vladimir putin is backing changes that could see him say in our for another 16 years a member of his ruling party put forward the proposal which would allow him to seek another 2 terms it could mean he'd turned 83 before his presidency would end his current term limited expires in 2024 when the next election is to put in says

a court would need to approve the changes a nationwide vote is due on april 22nd. that have been more protests in guinea's capital conakry over concerns president they will seek a 3rd term in office the west african country has been hit by rolling protests since mid october they targeted. another day of fighting in guinea's capital security forces in downtown clinic we fired tear gas at protesters he responded with rocks. we are protesting so that the system can be changed everyone is ready to fight the system until the president gives up if he doesn't we're going to force him to leave the country. 2 weeks ago 81 year old president alpha condé delayed a constitutional referendum that could keep him in power for a 3rd term the vote was suspended after the bloc of west african nations and an

organization of french speaking governments refused to send observers citing 2400000 irregular entries in the electoral roll many people also complained they did not receive their voter cards the opposition accuses the government of electoral food and is demanding condé quit. asking for overcome they to leave power no later than november. presidential elections must be held at the same time they must pack his bags and go with. government leaders say people should have the option of voting to extend con days presidency they accuse opposition leaders of trying to create chaos since condé announced his plans to change the constitution human rights organizations say hundreds have been arrested. but protests to say there undeterred by the risks and will keep up the pressure on the president victoria gates be 0. 3 human

rights activists in malawi have been arrested for an izing anti-gun. and protests which turn violent demonstrators have been calling for new elections after the constitutional or not of find the results of last year's disputed all by reports. up to 5000 people marched in solidarity with timothy matunga a separate path to hand himself to police in the long way the tambour leads the human rights defenders coalition which is organized and to government protests since last year's disputed elections some have turned violent people reason decided to dispense the belief with jack actually this is the same things that have distanced our police from the people this time to this day he gets people to go in there with the police have been looking from the tamba since sunday when 2 other activists were arrested in blantyre mcdonald's and gives track and are accused of

inciting violence we got him on that from the high court in the wrong way. on a ling then these 2 gentlemen should be taken back we don't know yeah and they are based and we had alledged of things while i was commuted malawi's constitutional court canceled the results of last year's elections in february citing irregularities parliament approved a bill to hold fresh elections in may but president putin with 3 com has not signed it. metabo is vowing to keep up the pressure saying he'll call on 5000000 people to shut down the president's official residences if he refuses to act. al-jazeera. now returning to russia and president vladimir putin spam's to stay in power for another 16 years has got more on this story and speak to sophia as a macall who is a russia expert an associate research professor at george washington george

washington university he's via skype from washington d.c. thank you very much for being with us president putin had been signaling publicly in recent months that he could leave the presidency so what do you make of this u. turn does it come as a surprise to you already think it was choreographed all along. quote a person who didn't announce this he is not a pitched across or you are great that you really are. ready to trolls in that same line of rhetoric statements however he also made a statement that if he would be asked to stay by the constitutional court for the door then he would consider running for the next election so. it's not clear i mean. for the church to believe at this point the move would have to be approved by the public in

a referendum next month do you expect any large scale opposition to this. absolutely we remember. when put in came back to. the president think 201112. protests in moscow and. that country. and russia. this is a very vulnerable moment. and. even that is 4 years to the next election. because the problem for the regime so what does the prospect. for. russia. what does it mean domestically and also what would it mean on the

international stage. when push interest came to power he was very progressive for russia and he was very near to he conducted a number of important reforms in the same. attempt to to modernize russia during his 4 years. as. the longer stays in power the less he is capable of to reform the society because he has less room for maneuver. the public gets tired of him and. 6 more years or 12 more years in power with a reality be very diverse state in the russian economy and it would

witness the same economic stagnation and as they used to call it during the late soviet times in bruges an air force over in power is well what about internationally what would it do to russia standing on a global stage. well the same applies internationally when push came to power he was dealing. with the west and he was even thinking about joining nato after 2014 russia isolated and made. international. an accession of crimea in georgia that. isolated it from the international community in its sins but. russia is in the same direction and that it now is that russia will turn around and integrate president in russian a community and equipment regime thank you very much for inside. russia joining us

from washington d.c. thank you very much for your time. now corona virus is overshadowing a colorful celebration in india it's a public holiday most of the country for the hindu festival of only but many are choosing to stay home after government warnings to avoid big crowds india has 59 confirmed cases so far and as a random reports from new delhi. sparing power to die all over each other to celebrate the festival of color holy heralds the end of winter and start of spring and these people in the capital won't let in warnings about coronavirus get in the way of their sad abrasion. and we're going to. have a very good. very good lunch. 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 of the food over jail no water 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 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 gave them a border consume less haven't been affected yet but a discontinuity the next one. the consumers 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 in the midst of street 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 the show of defiance is an indication of just how difficult it will be to contain an outbreak amongst 1300000000 people elisabeth priam al jazeera new delhi. saudi

arabia has announced it will pull said supply of crude oil in next month. in the escalating price war with russia its refusal to comply with opec's request to cut cause oil prices to suffer their largest daily fall in almost 30 years on monday the international monetary fund estimates prices need to be around $80.00 a barrel for the kingdom to balance its budget russia can balance its budget with prices around half that price war could damage the u.s. shale oil industry it needs to be around $50.00 a barrel just to break even and much higher to make a profit now than large fall in oil prices sent panic through nigeria is not only africa's largest economy but also the 6 largest oil producer in the world a dangerous has more from the capital of. all 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 growing much more from it for the 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 2020 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 whether it's 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. as climate change threatens our coastline scientists in the u.k. are looking to prehistoric times to find out how our ancestors tried to cope jessica baldwin reports. low tide at thorne space on the southern coast of england maritime archaeologists are searching the mudflats for clues as to what life was like thousands of years ago i'm telling into our engine parts and here we see this incredible story ongoing material from far even off

posing years ago even 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 path of the train to the effect of sea level rise in the past i never could understand the long term impact of the responses of the through a lot of that crude are paying currently writing for the period a member of parliament 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 to put on 5000 years ago 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 also hazelnuts and his allies his wallet. and 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. live to philadelphia e.u.s. where former vice president joe biden is speaking at a campaign event after winning 3 states in the latest democratic primaries expanding his lead over the mon sen joe bernie sanders less listening to joe biden this campaign is taking off and i believe we're going to do well from this point on take nothing for granted on every single ordinary single state but if you're willing. if you want to join us go to joe biden dot com the you will find out. thank you i'm sure if you can we need you we want you there's a place in our campaign for each. and i want to thank bernie sanders shrewder

tireless energy and the passion we share a common goal and together we will defeat. with the feeling that. in the highest patient that. we were regenerated the democratic base the democratic party the african-american community high school educated folks like the ones i grew up with in claymont not far from here in my own neighborhood labor suburban women veterans firefighters union members and so many more people of every economic station the poor who are struggling and they are struggling in this environment the middle class worries about where that they're going to be able to hang on to stay there maintain your economic security they're the reason john i got involved this in this campaign the 1st place and the reason why i became

a democrat so long ago and i can't tell you i really mean this from bottom on heart i can't tell you how much i appreciate the confidence they've shown in me thus far and the way they turned out to vote for me. my 1st campaign when i was a kid a long time ago i had a billboard that said one thing on at a picture my wife and children and it said for all our families that's all it was for all our families that included democratic families families of independent voters republican families everyone of every stripe for all our families and look that's were able to accomplish in south carolina. that's what we did on super tuesday and it appears a little premature it appears that's raible to do tonight. will was 11 just to

pass through somebody's mind credibly cable competitors 7 dorsami. where people are digits and recall which are better or rourke mike bloomberg cory booker and come on her us together together we're bringing this party together that's we have to do . tonight we are step closer restoring decency dignity and honor to the white house that's our ultimate goal and one tank at this moment is so much fear in the country and there's so much fear cross the world we need american leadership we need presidential leadership that's honest trust truthful and steady reassuring leadership if i'm given the honor of becoming

your president not promise you i will strive to give the nation that very leadership every day every day i have a privilege the whole office that's the reason why i'm running for president i believe you are an incredible moment in american history a phenomenal opportunity to deliver a bold progressive vision to the american people guaranteeing that every american has health care affordable health care total health care not a privilege for the little to 11000000 on obamacare providing every child access to good education regardless of their zip code. to deal with the moral depravity of our children who have to learn as they go to school little children to duck and cover zigzag down a hallway because they fear someone with a semiautomatic weapon may be coming to us we have to stand up to the gun

manufacturers and the n.r.a. and i was one that you don't want to live up to rebuild america i said this time everybody along everybody we live the lifestyle because we have to once again lead the world donald trump's america 1st policy is made america alone. you know in the fight against climate change we have to rally the rest of the world to act and act now. rejoining the parish climate accord on day one make it clear where our lives that will honor our commitments that our words can be crushed. by former vice president joe biden speaking after winning 3 states so far in the latest us democratic primaries biden expanding his

lead over the mon senator bernie sanders winning the biggest prize this evening the state of michigan where $125.00 delegates were apps for grabs biden in his speech there at this campaign event in philadelphia telling the bernie sanders supporters we have a common goal and that is to beat donald trump in november again the former vice president expanding his lead his delegate lead over bernie sanders in the race for the democratic nomination to find out who will run against donald trump in november's election will have plenty more on this of course when we speak today but in his own bill will be joining us from michigan in just a few minutes and also all the other world news right here on al-jazeera as always on our website at al-jazeera dot com i'll be back in just a few minutes with more news to stay with this answer to. my.

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joe biden extends his lead over bernie sanders in the u.s. democratic presidential race winning the big prize of the night michigan will be live in destroying this. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back t. ball also coming up a coronavirus containment zone is put in place about a city in new york state where troops are being sent in to help. a u.k. health minister tests positive for coronaviruses she recently attended an event with prime minister boris johnson and police see.