this and the jihad. on al jazeera. joe biden extends his lead of the bernie sanders in the u.s. democratic presidential race winning the big prize of the night in michigan. and can put al this is al jazeera large from also coming up a crowd a virus containment zone is put in place around a city in new york state with troops sent in to help. a u.k. health minister test positive for corona virus she recently attended an event with prime minister abbas johnson. and it's usually a burst of cholera but coronaviruses dulling india's holy celebration it's.

joe biden has cemented his frontrunner status in the democratic race for the u.s. presidency he's won the big prize of michigan in the latest primaries bill this super tuesday to the former vice president also took in mississippi and missouri 3 more states are being counted it's a boost to biden who's extended his lead of a month senator that makes and it's i want to speak to you from philadelphia where we announced turkey and p. at the front we did our final note. to all those who have been knocked down all those have been counted let's be frank this is your campaign just over a week ago many of the pundits declared that this can be used. now we're very much alive. thank. god has more now from detroit

and michigan black voters here in the state of michigan came out in overwhelming support for joe biden that was very clear he also based on exit polls seem to win a lot of the working class white voters in michigan as well which was pretty cool you add all of that up and that's what you saw with this pretty dominant win by joe biden here in the state of michigan it's been a terrible night for bernie sanders this we're at right now was supposed to be a bernie sanders sanders victory party it clearly turned into nothing like that a lot of dejected people here that were his supporters and volunteers this was supposed to be the night that bernie sanders revived his campaign and regained momentum neither happened of course speaking to some of his bernie sanders supporters here they weren't in much of a mood at this juncture to talk about supporting joe biden they still some of them

say that they still want to continue on there waiting to hear from bernie sanders to see what's happening in the future what he's going to do bottom line though i think it's going to be hard at least initially for joe biden to win over a lot of bernie sanders supporters but listen it's still it's still very raw at this point the results are still coming in but bottom line this was an absolutely terrible night for bernie sanders. u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a suburb in new york city now thought to be the epicenter of a major coronavirus outbreak you richelle has been sealed off as has the largest known plaster of cases in the u.s. troops will be sent in to help disinfect the areas and to quarantine people in the u.k. a health minister has become the 1st british politician to test positive for corona virus doris' is now in isolation it's reported she met hundreds of people in parliament last week and attended an event with prime minister barak. meanwhile the slowdown of cases continues in china who by

a province the epicenter of the outbreak is reporting just 13 new cases and speak now to sarah clarke who is in hong kong for us sarah china's local transmission is slowing down but it's now keeping an eye on cases imported from elsewhere what can you tell us. if that is the case the numbers certainly seem to be stabilizing across mine and china and the downward trend in not just the infections but the death numbers also continues looking at choose say the figures that came out from china's approval to the health commission there were 22 deaths reported on tuesday and 24 new cases of the current a virus infection but as you mentioned of the new infections a number of these have been imported into china there were travelers coming from italy and the united states the biggest concern now china has is that the importation of these fires is that so they are now focusing their efforts on the quarantine restrictions and tighter regulations on arrivals coming back in to mainland china so basically the region of we've got to number of closures of the

quarantine centers is that these are the hospitals that were set up temporarily to treat the crowd of ours infections or the increasing number of cases in the who by province they've now been close and this is an indication that china is trying to spread to the rest the world that they are getting themselves under control yesterday on cheese on tuesday we had she didn't paint china's president he visited hand in who by province for the 1st time and the signal he was trying to get to the rest of the world was that china is fighting this epidemic and doing a good job sara are we likely then given all of that to see a return to normal life in her any time soon is it likely that we'll see the lockdown lifted. well state media is suggesting that the government is considering rolling out a basically it's a mobile a monitoring system across the who by province of course we're talking about 60000000 people in that province that have been locked down for months now that's just a live in 1000000 alone and now this particular monitoring system it's based on the

individual residence health status the residents there will be tested and if they considered it in the green category they considered low risk and some partial travel would be allowed now it's a partial lockdown and as i should say it's still the government still considering this it hasn't happened yet there are some local reports suggesting that the traffic ban has been lifted and the public transport have resumed that's not the case state media is now saying the transport ban is still in place and they'll be no traffic to get allowed to go out on the roads again in the who by province but i can say that 24 minutes apart these regions and provinces across china they have lowered their emergency response level with their emergency response team or to a lower level and that certainly an indication that from china that they're starting to curb the spread of the corona virus outbreak thank that sarah clarke there live from hong kong. leaders have pledged to do everything they can to protect the blocks economy from the corona virus outbreak is setting up an

investment fund of up to $28000000000.00 to support health care and small businesses cases of coronavirus have been reported in all 27 member states with the forefront of the crisis paul brennan reports. a pound 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 $1000000000.00 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 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 their epidemiological 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 mccrone 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 you are now taking care of the children and the grandparents who are the people with the highest risk of things get complicated because we have to combine our personal life with life it's complicated everyone must prepare to incorporate coronavirus

into their 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. oh. paul brennan al-jazeera. around reported $54.00 new coronavirus deaths on tuesday as 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 confirmed cases. where the race is on to trial a vaccine for the corona virus experts say developing a vaccine at the speed required will cost $2000000000.00 the world health organization says scientists are working on around 20 covert 19 vaccines around the world several labs have prototype vaccines which the trialing in animals human trials are due to start in april if successful back same could be widely available

by early next year one bar tree in london is calling on volunteers for tests participants will be infected with a type of coronavirus paid the equivalent of just over 4 and a half $1000.00 in quarantined for at least 2 weeks. 5 o'clock is an associate professor and sat in that 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 modified quickly as the virus mutates searing that. they are animals experiments the animal studies give positive results then that's when they will move into 2 to humans and there will be a number of ways of doing that they could. immunize mass population tissue while they're at the challenge from the corona virus aviation naturally into munity and see how many people get it as opposed to a group that are treated perhaps with a perceived oh well they can experimentally infect people which is that what you're

suggesting with a $4000.00 payment where people really 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 this virus that's essentially what we see every year with the flu vaccine so 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 full of sufficient length of time it's no use giving people a backseat that only gives them a short lived very transience immunity. still ahead on al-jazeera police in venezuela use tear gas against protesters trying to oust president nicolas maduro.

refusing to give up the fight to make the protesters trying to force out gimmies president. hello there's been plenty of dust blowing around recently with the strong winds and particularly in egypt you got to get the impression from the speed of that cloud that the air is drifting around quite a lot but drifting would be a better word now for the most part in iran abia but that's not true further west in libya you just see on the edge of your chart there the northerly breeze the cloud in the sherry right now it's a developing area of low pressure spreading eastwards into egypt 6 a horrible day to be honest to stay in a good part of northern egypt with the wind the clouds and the rains are flooding seems quite likely it's all going to move nice general direction hasn't got there yet so 27 entire hard and quiet weather 30 in baghdad in what looked like

increasingly cloudy skies and most of iran is looking quite with still potential for rain or snow up in afghanistan in central africa tropical after the showers are getting big and drifting slowly north but the still potential of developmental systems around madagascar remarkably tropical soccer name rishis for example still in the season over land there the showers are pretty well scattered from lake victoria westwood's the congo and angola seem to be good focuses but more to your congo than anywhere else this is exactly as it should be for this time of year. in 20 foot teams and al jazeera and vesta geisha and revealed how anger and fear feel be m.-bone a crisis that ravaged west africa we asked our lives they didn't allow you to us with a knowing we are dying 3 years on we speak to the filmmaker the one thing that spread

a bola and caused the devastation on a sphere that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with a bow on al-jazeera. there watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories this hour joe biden has cemented his frontrunner status in the democratic race for the u.s. presidency the former vice president has won the big prize of the nice michigan as well as mississippi and missouri day of primaries and 6 states. u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a small city in new york state to help combat coronavirus new rochelle now has the

largest pastor of cases in the u.s. these 29 people have died nationwide with more than 800 infections. e.u. leaders have paid to set up a $28000000000.00 investment fund to protect the flocks connally from the corona virus outbreak it lays at the forefront of the crisis and has its whole population of 60000000 on lockdown. security forces and venezuela have dispersed an anti-government march led by opposition leader juan quadro he called on his supporters to revive a campaign to oust president nicolas maduro manuel of hello has the details. police fired tear gas of demonstrators in caracas on tuesday the demonstration was organized by venezuelan opposition leader of one going door to. door attempted to negotiate with police who blocked demonstrators from marching to venezuela's national assembly building. 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 and all the time and to get him off well yeah well basically we want the whole world to see what's happening in venezuela which is a very critical situation with our production without food without medicines the country totally paralyzed and all the country's economic sectors. at the united nations in geneva the u.n. high commissioner for human rights michel but so 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. below. turkey says it's agreed with russia on the details of a jointly a patrolled buffer zone along a strategic highway in syria's if the province designed to ensure a cease fire holds the m 4 highway connects the government stronghold of the takia would serious 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 hoped to keep apart the russian backed syrian forces and rebel supported by turkey after months of fighting. there have been more demonstrations in guinea's capital conakry of concerns president alpha condé will seek a 3rd term in office the west african country is being hit by rolling protest since

mid october. reports. another day of fighting against 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 you'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 it to leave power no later than november. presidential elections must be held at the same time they must pack his bags and go. government leaders say people should have the option of voting to extend clown days presidency. position 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 are deterred by the risk and will keep up the pressure on the president victoria gay to be. of course in south africa has cleared president cyril ramaphosa of misleading parliament about his election finances the anti corruption watchdog was investigating ram apostles' campaign to become the leader of the governing party charges roll the findings of the public protector

were floored i made a 1000000 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 president. had sought a judicial review of a report by the public particularly that it accused him of money laundering misleading parliament and also had questioned some of the funds that he received always campaign when he was running for president all of the governing african national congress now the court had also gone on to say that the public protector hadn't laid down any evidence as to how she had found that the president. had been implicated in money laundering and also that there was no evidence that the president knew about where this donation came from essentially dismissed these

accusations rather of improper conduct and essentially now the spotlight is on the public protector in that to report has been entirely dismissed and this isn't the 1st time. the story is high court is hearing 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 990 s. as the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of abusing children. russian president vladimir putin is backing changes that could see him stay in power 7 for another 16 years a member of its ruling party put for the proposal which would allow putin to seek another 2 terms that could mean he'd turned $83.00 before his presidency would end his current term live it expires in 2024 when the next election is choose britain says the constitutional court would be to approve the changes and nationwide vote is due to be held on april 22nd. the king of the netherlands has apologized for the

violence his country inflicted on indonesia's indonesians rather jura colonial role it's the 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 government has already apologized and paid compensation and the current a virus might be the biggest global health emergency at the moment but during a viral disease spread by mosquitoes is also a serious health issue in many countries lanka has seen a major increase in infections in recent years with more than 100000 cases recorded last year and often and as reports from colombo. both officials like itchin mother and girl on the prowl part of a larger effort to fight against

a viral disease spread by mosquitoes he's part of the team releasing a different type of mosquito to fight it spread. the ab's egypt carries the day. which is infecting more lankans every year. the head of the national control unit says expanding cities have led to an increase in breeding say it is. a burden for. system. the cost. for the many new engine so we need to you know let's all listen for this. problem says it a primitive agrees his 14 year old daughter was treated in hospital after she got sick with dengue last year. she couldn't go to school for money she was told not to exhort but she was too weak to do that anyways. distributing

boxes containing specially bred mosquito eggs produced with the assistance of the world musky to program the eggs from the eighty's egypt are infected with wild baccy a bacteria a bacteria found in 60 percent of insects but not the. percentage . proliferation of. this in the region so there. are going to be mosquitoes but i want to be right in the most to do with these mosquito eggs are produced by the world mosquito program using sri lankan mosquitoes the eggs are then sent back to be packed into capsules which are then distributed with the mosquito boxes filled with water to allow them to have. the 2 trial areas in the capital colombo are divided into grids and a box containing a capsule with the eggs is hung up in every 50 to 75 meters section. this

process will be repeated by teams for $12.00 to $20.00 weeks with tests monitoring the newly emerging musky to population pitching mosquito against mosquitoes is how the project aims to combat the virus and some skeptics including scientists and people in these areas say that this will increase the number of mosquitoes with those behind the project insist that those carrying the bacteria will help reduce the transmission of the virus so there will be an increase in the mosquito population while we release mosquitoes but once we start releasing them the mosquito population comes back to normal so it's a minor inconvenience for a time but the mosquito population is say dr montgomery insists this is not a gentle modified organism but one that uses natural processes 1st tried in australia in 2011 the world baccy

a method is now being used in 12 countries which have reported reductions in the number of infections sri lankan health authorities say they will monitor the results over the next 5 years we hope it to cheever's the same success here. fernandez al-jazeera. coronaviruses overshadowing a colorful celebration in india it's a public holiday in most of the country for the hindu festival of holy but may it sure is going to stay home to government warnings to avoid big crowds india has 59 confirmed cases so far they've elizabeth rather prana reports from new delhi. sparing power to die all over each other to celebrate the festival of color holy carols 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. lunch. but elsewhere indians are concerned that the dozens of confirmed cases so far from carola in the south to indeed 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 100 cases outside china we are really concerned the world was children more the food over the 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 d. and they're awaiting evacuation flights from iran. and india industries are feeling the effects to india as the world's biggest supplier of generic drugs but most of the ingredients come from china but i'll go on with you and we can

build of reduction and that's why we have got beyond our production activities. since chinese imports stopped india's government banned the export of 26 medicines and floating power system all to keep the home market supplied consumer the gave them a border consumers haven't been affected yet but a discontinuity the new. 2 months the consumers definitely feel the effect and more than pricing they feel the effect of the shortage. the pharmaceutical industry is urging the government to allow imports 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 the street and screening all passenger arrivals but policing what happens in public places is easier than in people's homes despite prime minister in the end i'm already saying he won't be celebration hoey the sierra and belize 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 prot of al-jazeera new delhi. result is there and this is the top stories for biden has cemented his frontrunner status in the democratic race for the u.s. presidency the former vice president has won the big prize of the night michigan as well as mississippi and missouri on a day of primaries in 6 states and its own door has more from detroit and michigan it was able to do it with a very impressive coalition not quite frankly black voters here in the state of michigan came out in overwhelming support for joe biden that was very clear he also based on exit polls seem to want a lot of the working class white voters in michigan as well which is pretty cool

you add all of that up and that's what you saw with this pretty dominant win a by joe biden here in the state of michigan. u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a suburb in new york city thought to be the epicenter of a major corona virus outbreak new rochelle has the largest cost of cases in the u.s. $29.00 people have died nationwide with more than 800 infections. leaders have fish to set up a $28000000000.00 investment fund to protect the blocks economy from the corona virus outbreak italy is at the forefront of the crisis and has its whole population of $60000000.00 on lockdown security forces in venezuela have dispersed an anti-government march led by opposition leader go hundreds of supporters gathered in caracas to take back congress which pro-government factions snatched in january supporters of president nicolas maduro how their own rally crosstown 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 taliban will hand over 1000 afghan government troops and return the un security council has passed a resolution supporting the deal. straight is high court is hearing 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 $990.00 s. pel is the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of abusing children those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream stay with us. to al-jazeera let me talk about 2 of the biggest problems facing and they are the endemic corruption and we listen so if you replace china as an enemy of ours and that's really bad news we meet with global

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