joe biden extends his lead over bernie sanders a big us democratic presidential race winning the big prize of the night michigan. i'm kim burrell this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a coronavirus containment zone is put in place around the suburb of new york city with troops sent in to help. the u.k. health minister test positive for a coronavirus she recently attended an event with prime minister abbas johnson. and the disgraced cardinal george pell tries to overturn his child sex abuse conviction the latest from the court in canberra.

joe biden has cemented his frontrunner status in the democratic race for the u.s. presidency he's won the big prize of michigan and the latest primaries build a super tuesday to the home of vice president also took mississippi and missouri 3 more states are being counted it's opposed to biden who's extended his lead of of the month senator bernie sanders is only speak to you from philadelphia where we announced turkey in p. at the front we didn't find. all those who have been knocked down all those have been counted let's be sure this is your campaign just over a week ago many of the pundits declared that too this can be seized. now we're very much in line. i was on

a has more now from detroit 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 want a lot of working class white voters in michigan as well which is pretty cool if you add all of that up and that's what you saw with this pretty dominant window by joe biden here in the state of michigan it's been a terrible night for bernie sanders this where 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 on her going to be is an associate professor of political science at emory university and she joins us live from atlanta georgia thank you for your time i'm saying a sentence may not even pass the threshold in mississippi it's very close i think it's 14.9 percent right now is this sand is out of the race. he's probably in that out just yet but this certainly puts him at a severe disadvantage there were only about a quarter of the delegates available tonight as there were last week but joe biden's commanding performance in the 1st 3 states and the fact that he's actually

roughly even with sanders and washington state which sanders may ultimately win suggests that biden is going to widen his lead which is going to make it harder for sanders to catch up and in subsequent weeks as we've been saying michigan is important not just in terms of the number of delegates awarded there but also it was that historically democratic state that voted for trump and 2016 what does that mean that biden won this primary given that context there are a number of issues here 1st it was a big psychological blow to bernie sanders sanders beat hillary clinton in the state it was one of the states that made him very competitive and 2016 so he wanted to repeat that and he was unable to do so but the other thing that's really important is that biden's victory in south carolina could have been easily dismissed as him doing well in a part of the country that won't do well for the democratic party in the general election because the south once you add white voters into the mix becomes a solidly kind of republican region in the country and the fact that biden did well

in the rust belt suggests that he has staying power and that he's putting together a coalition that doesn't just include african-americans but that includes non-black voters from other parts of the country and so it actually shows a strength that i'm not sure people were quite aware that he had about a week and a half ago just how important have african-american voters been for biden and why do they support him. well i mean there are a number of reasons why african-american voters are so important one they make up anywhere from a 5th to a quarter of the democratic party base so they are the most loyal voting bloc in the united states and they go for the democratic party they are especially important in the south where they make up a majority of the democratic primary voters and how they go often determines who the eventual democratic party nominee is biden has won their support for a number of reasons one there's

a certain level of familiarity with them that was certainly enhanced by his service as barack obama's vice president also many african-american voters unlike the rest of the democratic party are more moderate in their ideological leanings and so they would probably gravitate towards a more moderate candidate as opposed to a more progressive candidate and then there's just the element of pragmatism so sanders was espousing new ideas and change and maybe some of the voters are not sure that that's actually what could be donald trump in a general election and so they've opted to go for a choice that you know is more tested more proven and maybe actually be safer and have a broader appeal in the general election really gets talked to that's going to be there an associate professor of political science at emory university. thank you. u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a suburb of a new york city now thought to be the epicenter of a major corona virus outbreak new rochelle has been sealed off and has the largest

known cluster of cases in the u.s. troops will be certain to help disinfect areas and to quarantine people in the u.k. a health minister has become the 1st british politician to test positive for corona virus the dean doris' is now in isolation it's reported she met hundreds of people in parliament last week and attended an event with prime minister abbas johnson at his residence meanwhile the slowdown of cases continues in china who by province the epicenter of the outbreak reporting just 13 new cases there as well and jordan has more now on the situation in new york state. new a shell is one of the many suburbs just outside new york city and many of the people who live there or work or go to school in cite 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 100 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 now for more on the situation in china where coronavirus case is dropping let's cross live to sara clockers in hong

kong sara china's local transmission writes a slowing down it's now keeping an eye on cases imported from elsewhere what more can you tell us. that is the case the numbers certainly look to be stabilizing across milan china and the downward trend of not just in fiction but death numbers that continues on choose day national the national health commission or china's health commission reported 22 deaths and 24 new cases of the crown of ice infections and all those new infections 10 of those cases were important and there were travelers confirmed to be arriving in china from italy and the united states are the biggest concern now is certainly the focus from china is looking at the importation of the crowd a virus and certainly that they're increasing or tightening the arrival regulations quarantine restrictions for travelers coming into milan china now the ongoing impact of the implications of the downward trend in the number of cases in china as

saying a number of the corn tain facilities in the temporary hospitals in the who by province shut down as a result simply because the numbers are not there anymore certainly as they were at the beginning when the epidemic broke the outbreak in china and on tuesday we had china's president xi jinping he went to han for the 1st time to visit some of the hospitals and meet some of the people or the health authorities in the medical staff on the front line and the message to them was certainly that there is victory in sight for china's handling of the coronavirus epidemic so i guess judging being is keen to show that everything is under control of that is the case that we are likely to see a return to normal life in the original epicenter any time soon. well certainly the moment the governor is considering rolling out what it's considering a mobile monitoring system which will look to touch relief that the lockdown that's been in place in the who by province for some time we have 60000000 people in that

province 11000000 people in hand and they've been locked in their homes for quite some time now one member of the family is allowed to leave every 2 or 3 days to get key supplies but the moment the government is considering testing the health of all the residents across the province and looking at their health status and what say that health status is assessed they will be put in a category of the low risk people will be allowed to travel so that partial lockdown could be lifted now in another element of news which is just broke in the last half an hour we're looking at cathay pacific and this is one of asia's biggest international airlines it's announced its financial results for 2019 in the last hour or so it's actually that the profits have plunged but they've actually reported a $45000000.00 profit now this is much higher than many had expected but they were warning the finances and the industry that certainly given the scenario that we're seeing at the moment with regards to a drop a massive drop in travel demand in flying they do expect substantial losses by june

this year thank you for that sarah clarke there live from hong kong. iran reported $54.00 new chrono virus deaths on tuesday that's the highest single day toll since they operate started there around as one of the worst had countries outside china with $291.00 deaths and more than 8000 confirmed cases. still ahead on al-jazeera police and venezuela used tear gas against protesters trying to oust president nicolas maduro. is stepping up efforts to tackle a disease that's a victim tens of thousands of people and it's not coronavirus. 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 trial

that the air is drifting around quite a lot but drifting would be a better word now for the most part in iraq 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 shower right now it's developing area of low pressure spreading eastwards into egypt sticks a horrible day to be honest to stay in a good part of northern egypt with the wind the clouds and the rain so flooding seems quite likely it's all going to move news general direction hasn't got the yet so 27 entire hard and quiet weather 30 in baghdad in what looked like increasingly cloudy skies and most of iran is looking quiet 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 for example still in the season over land that the showers are pretty well scattered from like victoria westwards the congo and angola seem to be good focuses but more d.r.

congo than anywhere else this is exactly as it should be for this time of year. but. i was raised in france and these are my grandparents. these are my parents and this is mean. fighting both isis and as of. this 2nd of a 2 part epic tale of a remarkable family. the father the son and the jihad. team on al-jazeera.

you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories a sol 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 night michigan as well as mississippi missouri and idaho but a day of primaries in 6 states. u.s. national guard troops are being deployed to a suburb of new york city to help combat coronavirus rachele now has the largest cost of cases in the u.s. at least 29 people have died nationwide with more than 800 infections. and e.u. leaders have pledged to set up a $28000000000.00 investment fund to protect the block's economy from the corona virus outbreak is at the forefront of the crisis and has its whole population of 60000000 on lockdown. security forces in venezuela have dispersed anti-government mobs led by opposition leader he called on his supporters to revive the campaign to

oust president nicolas maduro man while at a paddle has the details. police fired tear gas of demonstrators and get back as on tuesday the demonstration was organized by venezuelan opposition leader of one who i don't know. why do all attempted to negotiate with police who blocked demonstrators from marching to venezuela's national assembly building actually got a 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 then on. saturday 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 michel 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. 3 human rights activists in malawi have been arrested for organizing anti-government demonstrations some of which turned violent the protesters have

been calling for new elections after the constitutional court nullified the results of last year's disputed paul barbara and go purports. up to $5000.00 people marched in solidarity with timothy a separate pair to hand himself to police in the long term believes the human rights defenders coalition which is organized and to government protests since last year's disputed elections some have turned violent people recent decided to dispense to the old things with jack actually this is this something that just distanced our police from the people this time to this day here in case people did go in there with police have been looking from the time since sunday when 2 other activists were arrested in blantyre. mcdonalds and give stratton's are accused of inciting violence. from the high court in the wrong way. then these 2 gentlemen should be taken back you don't know where they have been

used and do we had the 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 has not signed it . 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. out of syria. australia's high court is hearing a final appeal from the disgraced cardinal george pell who wants to overturn his child sex abuse conviction 78 year old former treasurer to the vatican was jailed for 6 years 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. gage joins us for more on this from outside the course and can bring nickel or so this is hell's last option

a state court already rejected an appeal once so what's his argument. that's right this has been going on piggy is ever since strangely as follow commission into institutionalized sex abuse was announced by former prime minister in 2012. for advocates for abuse survivors this is been a long time coming and it's been a low day commenced as strongly as highest court as well the full bench of 7 justices has been hearing from george tells a legal team on his final hole freedom and this really is an important days not only because george pell was. the most sane catholic in a strike but one of the moist saying you think is around the world in the church as well we need to remember that he was in charge of the vatican's finances when he was charged with sex abuse allegations and as you say it was in.

the light 28 chain when a cheery. guilty of sexually abusing. quiet boys in a kid in the torah last year the victorian court of appeal dismissed his lawyer is fine but to try and quash his conviction and that's how we've ended up here in the high court so today has really been about his lawyer is saying we do not believe that the victorian quote of the people was correct in holding that conviction and they really focused on the timing of when these abuses could in the cathedral it was on the morning of sometime asked in a busy area they say and they also questioned the reliability of a witness. isn't in court today he's still in

a prison cell that many of his sort of courses. today. sexual abuse survivors have rallied behind the victims who came forward against palin and shared their testimony how are they responding to his continued appeals well they were right i mean the one thing about abuse of this is the shame of having to talk about these and that's what so many have to try it is to when i spoke to a lawyer earlier this morning who pretty represents that one of the victims in this case is father to 2 quiet boys one of them gave evidence in this case and the other one died in 24 changed from a drug overdose which is sadly a lot of the times the case in this but as we know george chose conviction is it moist senior the most prominent in the catholic church but it is not the only

one only last week more allegations were coming out. about. concerns within the church and this is happened you know right chemistry elliot's watching taina and we need to remember that george pell convicted sex offender behind is still a cardinal and that's a separate process within the church is full of that he changed it to the point so it has not just golf it's the shoe of george pell and he said we need to let the legal courts ringback run through and exhaust all appeal options before a decision is made and we nearly did i mean a decision will be made that the next 2 days of the hearing well it's unlikely that that will happen it could take months for the high court justices to come back with this one so it is still a long way for the victims who don't want to see any change which isn't going to gauge their life from canberra thank you. afghanistan's president 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 1000 afghan government troops in return it's hoped the move will they just talks between the group and the afghan government the u.n. security council has passed a resolution supporting the deal she had to townsend has more from the united nations headquarters in new york. a unanimous welcome at the u.n. security council for the joint declaration signed by the taliban and the u.s. but also a note of caution that leverages not be lost too quickly over the taliban in the joint declaration it says the goal is to remove u.n. security council sanctions against the taliban by may the 29th that's nowhere to be seen in this resolution all we have in this resolution is 8 residents to consider a review of those sanctions once in truck afghan talks beginning 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 the ashraf ghani has agreed to release at least some taliban prisoners some preliminary talks can begin the president got his march 10th decree on a taliban prisoner release in exchange for prisoners held by the taliban is a significant measure that brings afghans one step closer to ensure afghan. 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. russian president vladimir putin

is backing changes that could see him stay in power for another 16 years a member of his ruling party put forth the proposal which would allow a person to seek another 2 terms that could mean he'd be $83.00 before his presidency would end his current term limit expires in 2024 when the next election is 2 person says the constitutional court would need to approve the changes the coronavirus might be the biggest global health emergency at the moment but a viral disease spread by mosquitoes is also a serious health issue in many countries sri lanka has seen a major increase in infections in recent years with more than 100000 cases recorded last year the nelson and its reports from colombia. state 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 edis egypt

carries the day virus which is infecting more sri lankans every year. the head of the national control unit says expanding cities have led to an increase in breeding sites it is a. burden for. system. cost. money. so we need to know. this problem says it a primitive agrees his 14 year old daughter was treated in hospital after she got sick with last year. she couldn't go to school for money she was told not to. 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 mosquito and. the scent. proliferation of. being a very this is in the region so there. are going to be mosquitoes but i want to be very it is you that must be doing 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 reaching musky 2 against mosquitoes is how the project aims to combat the virus some skeptics including scientists and people in these areas say that this will increase the number of mosquitoes but 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 genitally modified organism but one that uses natural processes 1st tried in australia in 2011 the world back in a method is now being used in 12 countries which have reported reductions in the

number of infections sri lankan health authorities see they will money to the results over the next 5 years we hope it to cheever's the same success here. fernandez al-jazeera colombo. this is al jazeera and these are the top stories joe biden has cemented his front runner status in the democratic race for the u.s. presidency a former vice president has won the big prize of the night michigan as well as mississippi missouri in idaho on a day of primaries in 6 states i want to speak to you from philadelphia where we announced our campaign at the front we did our final. all. down. let's be joined this.

just to review many points to clearly do this. now rumor. us national guard troops are being deployed to a suburb of new york city to help combat coronavirus new rochelle now has the largest cluster of cases in the u.s. these 29 people have died nationwide with more than $800.00 infections e.u. leaders have pledged to set up a $28000000000.00 investment fund to protect the blocks economy from the corona virus outbreak italy is that the forefront of the crisis and has its whole population of 60000000 on lockdown security forces in venezuela have dispersed an anti-government march led by opposition leader one why though hundreds of those supporters gathered and caracas to take back congress which pro-government factions snatched in january supporters of president nicolas maduro held their own really across town. russian president vladimir putin is backing changes that could see him

staying in power for another 16 is it could mean he'll turn 83 before his presidency ends his term expires in 2024 when the next election is due putin says the constitutional court would need to approve the changes. astray of u.s. high court is hearing a final appeal from the disgraced cardinal george pell wants to overturn his child sex abuse conviction the 78 year old former treasurer to the vatican was jailed for 6 years sexually abusing 2 teenage choir boys in the $990.00 s. hell is the most senior member of the catholic church to be found guilty of abusing children. those are the headlines more news here on al-jazeera after the listening post. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that call means a lot to the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in get a break sit down that was

a slogan that one of the prime minister boris johnson counting the cost on al-jazeera. turkey has played. 33 of its troops sorry we're going to look because it almost hit a good. point. if . you want to come up with a quick by pretend hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post among the media stories that we're covering this week syria is a proxy war and the outside players turkey and russia are using their media muscle to shift the narrative in their favor coronavirus is still big news but don't believe everything you click on misinformation is making the rounds on social media pakistan wants to grow its tourism industry and the influencers but how do they get to parts of the country that are close to pakistan it's i think it's pretty.