and. desperate times drastic measures european leaders unveil their plans to take on the devastating impacts of coronavirus whatever extra resources our n.h.s. needs to cope with coronavirus it will get. the u.k.'s finance minister announces a $39000000000.00 package to tackle the outbreak is the health minister tests positive for the last. hour from doha everyone i'm kemal santa maria with the world news from al jazeera the other headlines israeli forces using tear gas and live fire to disperse palestinians trying to fend off illegal settlers in the occupied west bank.

to come back to the soldiers station. joe biden wins more states in tuesday's primaries to take a dominant over bernie sanders in the race for the democratic nomination. and queuing up for the bare essentials growing anger in sudan amid an economic crisis and what that could mean for the country's new government. coronavirus 1st up and the fear is that europe may in fact slip into a recession as a result countries are trying to limit the damage and are resorting to some sweeping measures to fight the epidemic germany's chancellor says health care systems will be tested she is warning it is likely the majority of the population will become infected angle a miracle urged european governments to implement measures that would slow the spread of the virus as john. many reports nearly $1300.00 cases then we've got

israeli which says it will spend nearly $30000000000.00 to tackle the growing crisis a day after the government imposed a national quarantine italy does have the highest number of infections and deaths outside of china you are britain's finance minister has just pledged to do whatever it takes to protect the economy from coronavirus he was presenting the annual budget to parliament whatever extra resources our n.h.s. needs to cope with coronavirus it will get. so whether it's research for a vaccine recruiting thousands of returning staff or supporting our brilliant doctors and nurses whether it's millions of pounds all billions of pounds whatever it needs whatever it costs we stand behind our n.h.s. . and in the united states there's been an increase in cases more than a 1000 confirmed infections in fact the national guard's been sent to one new york

suburb where a cluster of cases was found so there's a lot to talk about we will get the latest developments from the united states in a moment with kimberly help in washington starting though with lawrence lee in london not often we would follow a u.k. budget quite this closely lawrence but given coronaviruses happening right now what is the british government promising. well foreign money assets you know this seems to be the response certainly across europe the u.k. it's early as you mentioned the european union more broadly setting aside very large amounts of money because they're just desperately concerned that everybody's going to go into recession and there's a keep saying this is obviously contradiction between trying to make the good or the conditions right for business while parades while simultaneously signs of people of the probably going to stay at home the 2 things just don't work together and you heard the british isles the rich assume that it's all in very confident about the health services ability to cope when very very many people think that

it's really creaking badly already and in the event of a big way of cases basically of elderly people who might need things like ventilators or intensive care the hospital system in this country simply won't be able to cope and the u.k. could home do what china did and build a hospital from scratch in a in a week or 2 it's impossible so you know they're trying to put a brave face on things lots of measures to help businesses and people in the greek economy who are living hand to mouth anyway and if they have can't pay their rents the government in lots of noises about saying we will help you there won't leave you in dire straits but of course until there is a massive wave of cases as has happened in italy you don't know really how 100 going to be able to deal with it lawrence let's just pause for a 2nd because i want to have a little listen to angela merkel just widen things out a little bit here's what the german chancellor warned a few hours ago. but time was one 1st in the us if you will start we have to

understand the vitus is here that is no emu niti in the population against the dividers there are no injection possibilities north head of peas and it means that higher percentage high percentage 60 to 70 percent of the above elation can be infected if this is that if the situation continues like that. it's a disease why we have to work so very intensively to find the right medication for . our back to lawrence lee now lawrence to the sort of coming in of angela merkel there but talking about some pretty high infection rates potentially. yeah i mean the background generally 8080000000 inhabitants aging population she said before and she repeated that you know 6070 percent of people who get it that that's a 5050000000 people it's i mean it's really a loss even for a country as well organized as as germany and so what what she in the health

minister been trying to do is say to people in germany which is a very well organized society you know even though this is coming it's up so all of us to to recondition our behavior to try to to try to limit the damage and so and so they're saying to young people do you really need to go to nightclubs have people football fans you really need to go to that football match you know what do you watch it at home instead and do something for the for the public good because you might be all right you might get over it but if you pass it on to your granddad then you know he might die and so it's that sense of reconditioning behavior that countries are now getting into and the the other thing of sages very briefly after she spoke and mention these figures the czech prime minister came out and accused her of in some ways are trying to create a panic well to some degree i think that is actually what they're trying to do now is not if not flat panic put a lot of fear in people's minds to try to get them to change the way they behave

because it may be the only way in a democratic country that you can't force people to stay at home but if you entice them into doing it because of the fear attached to it then maybe that's that's how you get it done ok thank you for that lawrence lee is in london there with developments from euro. actually stay in europe a moment longer natasha but as in paris for us we heard from her earlier about the government's plans there to contain the virus. the french president i'm out of my car as you say due to address the nation in paris on thursday evening french time he has been taking this health emergency very seriously indeed as you can imagine for a couple of weeks now the shuttle has been cleared of all known essential travel non-essential meetings and really he says he wants to just focus very much on this health crisis we've seen the french president visiting hospitals he's holding daily briefings with health experts and he just presided over france's weekly cabinet meeting which took place for the 1st time since a french minister was diagnosed

a french culture minister was diagnosed with the current virus on monday he has placed himself in so. isolation but he says that he didn't come in contact with the presence of the 4 days previous to being diagnosed and not all micros not not suspected of having been infected with the current virus from this minister but as you can imagine it's made everyone very nervous indeed all the cabinet ministers have been tested we have 5 members of the french parliament that have been diagnosed positively with the coronavirus all of the members of parliament are being tested as well because they will come into very close contact so the situation in france is very much one in which we have this coronavirus really affecting people at all different parts of society really from the very highest ranks of governments to of course people in schools and to different villages and towns across the country now as promised we go to the united states can be counted

in washington hi kimberly we've heard from lawrence and about the measures being taken by european governments what about the united states i mean i know there's been personal criticism of the way donald trump is handling things but widely what steps are being taken by the administration. things escalating as the number of cases continues to escalate in the united states a majority of u.s. states now seeing some infections and the warning from public health officials those that have not yet had infections well you will so what we see it is 5 sort of a broad range response in the sort of the public health officials of the various states taking action most notable of course is what's happening in new york state where we see in the governor andrew cuomo there announcing that there is now a containment zone as they're calling it this is an unforced quarantine where there is a concentration of outbreak in the newer shell area this is a suburb of new york city a very clear what's happening here is the national guard has been brought in that's

an aspect of the u.s. military now in forcing residents in about a one and a half kilometer radius that they need to stay indoors now we're being told that the military is being used to bring in medicine and food but make no mistake about it this means that these folks are not able to leave their home so very draconian measures as public health officials in the various states take action independent of a federal response to try and stem the spread of coronavirus in the united states kimberly how could those updates from the u.s. thank you one final note i want to bring you on coronavirus of the saudi oil giant in fact iran co is facing a wave of online criticism of the photographs of a migrant worker dressed up as a hand sanitizer dispenser went viral on social media people called the despite closest racist and even a form of slavery in a statement around code condemned what it called quote abusive behavior and said the company had put a stop to it. on to other news and israeli forces in the occupied west bank have

used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse palestinian protesters one person a 15 year old boy has been killed the activists were camping overnight on my mountain near the city of nablus on offend often legal in israeli settlers who were using the location to try to establish an outpost of 100 people have been treated for injuries it is in ramallah for us and says palestinians are vowing to continue protecting that area from illegal settlements both to me and so saying that they want to defend this area from an attempt by israelis that there is to take its is an elevated area one of the highest in the most governors and it is has been a pattern by settlers to take a piece of land stay on it bring a curve on live from the 2 families and then turn it into a settlement of course all segments are considered illegal under international law

and being a mountain or a hilltop is expected to be one of the reasons why settlers want that specific area in deed and many palestinians say that they've been eyeing it since the eighty's they remember clashes that happened actually in the same mountain so for boston eons it's a way to defend the land as we've seen it has been very. keen with the high priced another postin is in a critical condition and philistines are vowing to return to the area to try and defend still in the region israel's president is to begin consultations to decide on a new prime minister existing prime minister benjamin netanyahu his center right bloc failed to win a majority in last week's election the 3rd in under a year political parties now put forward their recommendations for prime minister for the president to decide by march the 17th. turkey's president has threatened

retaliation if a ceasefire in italy province has broken that deal was agreed to by russia and turkey last week reject type one says there's been small violations but he expects moscow to take action. whatever there have been small violations of the cease fire we are sharing these developments with russia in compliance with our agreement and we expect measures to be taken we will keep our word until the end as long as the others should the same sensitivity but if the others do not keep their promise we will never shy away from giving a much harsher response in the news ahead we will check the financial markets as the roller coaster week continues an update from wall street where trading opened a short time ago. and in australia a disgraced cardinal makes a final attempt to overturn his conviction for child sex abuse.

welcome back we'll look at the weather across asia this time we've got some heavy rain developing across parts of southern china quite intense there for a time meanwhile further north and east we've got fine conditions across much of japan a bit of a thaw taking place across the tiger for the korean peninsula seoul is looking quite warm and 13 degrees but more subtle conditions north of the border there with some breaks of snow in places where the conditions expect to be largely fine across vietnam there with the annoyed looking at my some of 29 degrees as i move that forecasts through into friday and see the rain moving out across northern parts of taiwan but further north but have a drop in temperatures for seoul but otherwise a fine conditions for tokyo highs of 19 degrees into southeastern parts of asia and really is no change with lots of showers across border could be quite wet at times for western parts of job as a circulation to the south which could draw in some more moisture there. also

looking fairly wet into south asia the western disturbance which has been affecting northern parts of india and pakistan should gradually be weakening of the same time would like to see some showers develop across more eastern parts of india indeed those showers extending further towards calcutta as we head on through in towards friday but it should remain dry across bangladesh hisor 35 in dhaka. but. americans live side by side into parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so plainly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies and their effect on the world. diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our networks journalists on

al-jazeera. as it were these are the top stories this hour germany's chancellor is warning corona virus could infect 60 to 70 percent of the population also italy which is quarantined at $60000000.00 citizens to stop the spread of the virus says it will spend nearly $30000000000.00 to tackle the growing crisis. britain's finance minister says he'll do whatever it takes to protect the economy from coronavirus he was delivering the annual budget to parliament a parliament in session a day after it was announced a british m.p. tested positive for corona virus and the headline news today the israeli forces in the occupied west bank using tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse

palestinian protesters 15 year old boys died the activists were camped overnight on a mountain to fend off illegal israeli settlers. now u.s. markets are down again amid uncertainty over the white house's stimulus plan to combat the financial impact of coronavirus president in the markets after that huge drop in oil prices prompted a panic sell off on monday no measures or major measures announced yet at least live to the new york stock exchange with kristen salumi kristen what's the damage so far. yeah the markets are down yet again more than 3 percent for the dow more than 700 points the roller coaster ride of the last 2 weeks continuing now amid that uncertainty about the spread of the coronavirus particularly here in the united states where it hasn't peaked yet and the impact that's having on businesses and related to that the government's response which is yet to be

determined and the also related to that the ongoing oil price war all of this shaking investors there seemed to be some optimism on tuesday after the president signaled that he was considering stimulus measures for the economy to help keep businesses chugging along through this uncertainty but after a meeting with democrats on tuesday after markets closed no clear path forward as of yet one of the ideas being floated by the administration as a possible payroll tax cut that would give more money to both employees and employers at least in the short term but there's some pushback against that from democrats as that is the tax that's used to fund social security there's but also been some talk about bailing out some of the hardest hit industries like the cruise

lines that was the one that president mentioned specifically but other sectors being hit again today on the markets. energy sector. banking sectors which are highly behind the oil industry who have a lot of caring a lot of debt from the oil industry they're also seeing a shakeout so the promise of action and a phone call between president sharpen the saudi crown prince mohammed bin salmond have yet to comment vester is especially with congressional leaders signaling that they're not on board with a proposal in search. really no concrete proposal being presented a con a mist will be have been well wring their forecast for economic growth the market will be watching president later today when he meets with wall street executives to see if there's any more clarity and no doubt that's going to continue to affect markets as the day goes on thank you christine so let me with that i have a live update from the new york stock exchange and in fact just as i look at the

market now down 800 points or 3 and a quarter a sense a drop in just in that time we were talking to christine the name of south korea has discovered a cluster of new corona virus infections in the capital seoul scott hunter has more on that. despite ongoing disinfection efforts throughout south korea there's been a reverse in the downward trend of corona virus cases the largest cluster yet discovered in the capital seoul at least 90 workers at a call center tested positive they worked in a building near a transportation hub in the southwest of the city home to 10000000 koreans. eppy dimmy ologist and so city officials are conducting an investigation they are also taking measures such as cell phone scene and diagnostic checks on those who are in close contact with the infected and in australia the prime minister announcing that italy joins china south korea and iran on its travel ban list australians and foreigners with residency visas returning from italy will face

a 14 day self quarantine italy itself has effectively put itself into lockdown with travel now and this largely causes that loop we already had the enhanced screening measures that are in place. and a remarkable rescue in southeast china after being buried for 69 hours a man pulled from the rubble of a hotel for a virus patients in coron team the hotel in the city of change oh collapsed on saturday killing at least 26 people the 24 year old survivor is in a stable condition in hospital scott heiler al-jazeera. surveiling story for you now a scottish commission has approved a request to appeal the only conviction of the only man ever found guilty of the 988 lockerbie bombing you might remember this pan am flight 103 blown up over the scottish town of lockerbie from on route from london to new york killing 270 people . he himself was convicted he eventually died in 2012 nadeem barbour following the

storm from london i remember this name where he was in prison in scotland and was eventually allowed to go back to libya because of his ill health and that was where he died but the story goes on. it certainly does this is a major development now to bust a democrat he's the only person who's ever been convicted of that $989.00. downing of the pan a plane over the scottish town of lockerbie. in 2009 he was in jail for life after being convicted of murder that was the year that he was actually allowed on compassionate grounds to go back home to libya because he had terminal cancer he died in 2012 before that the former libyan leader moammar gadhafi had taken responsibility on behalf of his country for the attack which downed the plane but had never actually gone further them mcgrath he always

protested his innocence and so in fact did some of the lockerbie families some relatives of people who died in the tragedy have campaigned to clear his name before and after his death and in the last few years his legal team have really been pushing for it to be opened up again now according to this judgement from the scottish criminal cases review commission it will they the family of abdel baset telegraphy a former intelligence officer for libya let's not forget will be able to appeal at the scottish high court now we've had reaction already according to the lawyer representing some of the scottish families at least one of them that he's been in contact with reacted with a halleluiah saying that they were still hopeful for justice he's pointed out that it's almost without precedent for relatives of people who've been killed in an

attack like that to actually campaign alongside the family of the person who was actually accused and convicted of murder so going forward what does this mean well he's the lawyer says that the commission says that there may have been a misc. marriage of justice partly through the grounds of non-disclosure of all the evidence to the defense so i think there will be now a tussle over exactly what factual out to come out in this attempt to clear up to. his name thank you for that update interesting story it is with the name but there in london thank you to the us what joe biden has cemented his front on the status of the democratic party's race for the white house and dashed bernie sanders hopes of reviving his chances in the 6 states were voted on tuesday's primaries biden won idaho mississippi missouri and michigan which was the state with the most delegates up for grabs there but i was on to has a report from detroit. joe biden at his last campaign

rally michigan implored people to get out in vote for him but he did these are some of the voters it helped him win michigan making him the undisputed front runner for the democratic nomination i want to thank bernie sanders who supported through their tireless energy and their passion we share a common goal and together we will defeat them. with the freedom to get. i hope the indorsements from senators comma harris and cory booker would help him maintain his overwhelming support from black voters he worked them all by because right now everybody's endorsed him he's going to be strong 2 men who can be true who did you vote for today joe biden. because he already was in office so he already has a fill about what goes on well leadership is what this country needs and what it

takes to be a successful country. bernie sanders campaigned heavily in michigan many on his team saw it as he must win money but exit poll shows sanders overwhelming support from young voters wasn't nearly enough and this was supposed to be a day that bernie sanders revived his campaign and regained momentum but clearly neither happened here at this bernie sanders watched party in detroit they were hoping it was going to be a victory but it wasn't his supporters consoled one another and spoke as if his campaign might be over but also trying to remain upbeat the central theme of this whole campaign is that it's this larger than one person is larger than one night in florida the one primary and so for me i think that the senator has been fighting for clean air clean water health is a human right and i think those are the you that are going to live. on one campaign cycle so you know that was all isn't exactly what are seen but i think we're

excited to see what what happens next. it's now clear that the scale is tipping in favor of a presidential election between joe biden and donald trump gabriels on. detroit . bread and petrol shortages in sudan are again causing long queues and with increasing frustration similar shortages late last year helped fuel the revolution which ended president obama machine as 30 year old even morgan reports now from the capital. queues of cars at petrol stations are a common sight in sudan's capital drivers waiting for hours just to fill up their tanks to be able to get on with their lives. and. there is no time for work we did kate all the time to queues of a fuel or other things i've been here for hours waiting sudan is now just a country of people in queues to help him get to a settlement is a long time i've been here since 8 in the morning and now it's 4 in the afternoon.

our lives have been mostly put on hold as we wait to fill our car tanks to be able to go around. so dan has imported fuel since the oil producer lost 75 percent of its output when south sudan became independent mine years ago all was the main source of the country's income the sudanese pounds started to lose value against the dollar now the government is struggling to pay for imports of fuel which it largely subsidizes the impact of fuel shortages can be seen at bus stations like this $1.00 in the capital how soon passengers are facing longer and longer waits for a ride because there are fewer buses passing through there stuck at he was at petrol stations around the capital buying bread can also mean a long queue the currency shortage affects imports of wheat flour i mean and if you know i don't know they've given us that much we suffer coming here from 7 in the morning to one in the afternoon all more just to get bread it's for our kids at home and no government official has bothered to come and see why things are like

this bread shortages last year sparked protests that eventually led to the ousting of longtime president already so dance cash strapped transitional administration says it's working to bring in hard currency through other sources it's put together an economic crisis management team with the power to put forward new policies favorable to the data there are other alternatives that the country can go with in terms of policies that can help or provide resources for the people part of the solution we're looking into is to restoring back the amount of money stolen by the former regime as well as getting rid of all the sham security companies that dried up the budget of the country. but some analysts say the problems run deep. it's an issue of politics and management the ruling coalition has many parties that range from far left to far right each with their own views and approach to the economy and management wise no one wants to take a bold decision that may fix the situation but will create a temporary shock no one wants to take any blame if things go wrong. while the

government struggles to find the right approach the weeks of nationwide queues for bread and fuel go on and sudan's new leaders need to find solutions before the economic crisis flares into more anti-government anger people morgan are just era khartoum. past the hour on al-jazeera these are the top stories germany's chancellor is warning corona virus will infect 60 to 70 percent of the german population also italy which is quarantined its $60000000.00 citizens to stop the spread of the virus says it will spend nearly $30000000000.00 to tackle the growing crisis and then britain's finance minister has said he will do whatever it takes to protect the economy from coronavirus that's as he delivers the annual budget to parliament . holding prime minister's questions a day after it was announced a british m.p. had actually tested positive for corona virus. what ever extra resources our n.h.s.

needs to cope with coronavirus it will get. so whether it's research for a vaccine recruiting thousands of returning staff or supporting our brilliant doctors and nurses whether it's millions of pounds or billions of pounds whatever it needs what ever it costs we stand behind our n.h.s. . for the headlines israeli forces in the occupied west bank have used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse palestinian protesters a 15 year old boy injured at the scene later died the activists were camped overnight on a mountain to fend off in the. settlers who are trying to set up. a scottish commission has agreed to a posthumous appeal against the conviction of the only man ever found guilty of the 1988 lockerbie bombing of pan am flight one of 3 was blown up over the scottish town of lockerbie on route from london to new york killing 270 people at the bus

a democrat he was convicted and eventually died in 2012 joe biden cemented his front runner status in the democratic party's race for the white house 6 states voted in tuesday's primaries and the former us vice president. mississippi missouri and michigan which was the state with the most delegates up for grabs his main rival senator bernie sanders won north dakota and israel's president is to begin consultations to decide on a new prime minister benjamin netanyahu center right bloc failed to win a majority in last week's election which was the 3rd in under a year political parties now put forward their recommendations for prime minister the president will decide by much 70 headlines the bottom line with steve clemons coming up next. 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 the rapidly changing the world we live a good break was

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