our relationship with. this is al-jazeera. elephant harvey went on to mall santa maria and this is the news hour from al jazeera desperate times and drastic measures european leaders of unveil their plans to tackle the devastating impact of the corona virus outbreak but the contagion continues to spread on wall street the markets are still nervous about the outbreak in the u.s. . in other news a teenage protester was killed after israeli forces on the tear gas and live fire to disperse palestinians fending off illegal settlers in the occupied west bank. to come back to the soldiers station. joe biden wins more states in tuesday's

primaries as he takes a dominant lead over bernie sanders in the race for the democratic nomination and in school coronavirus threatens the opening race of the formula one season 3 f one team members placed in quarantine in melbourne ahead of sunday's race. so coronavirus to start off and the fears that europe may in fact slip into a recession countries are trying to limit the damage resorting to sweeping measures to fight the epidemic germany 1st of all with a chance less as health care systems will be tested she is warning it is likely the majority of the population will become infected and so i'm glad merkel has urged european governments to implement measures that will slow the spread of the. iris

as germany now reports nearly $1300.00 cases but time was one 1st in the north of you will start the have to understand the virus is here there is no immunity in the population against these vitals there are no injection possibilities north head of peace and it means that. a high percentage 60 to 70 percent of the population can be infected if this is the situation continues like that it's a disease why we have to work so very intensively to find the right medication for it right so that's germany now italy has unveiled a nearly $30000000000.00 plan to tackle the growing crisis this is just a day after the government there imposed a national quarantine italy has the highest number of infections and deaths outside of china in britain the finance minister pledged to do whatever it takes to protect the economy from coronavirus there he is presenting the annual budget to the u.k.

parliament and in the united states as well an increase in cases more than a 1000 confirmed infections and also the national guard sent out to one particular suburb in new york state where a cluster of cases has been found so we'll take you around the world in a moment but we'll start in london here is nice barker and i said this to lawrence the earlier is only it's not often that we would so closely watch a u.k. budget but how the u.k. spends its way out of this is becoming quite crucial. and spending its way out of it is exactly the message that we've received from the chancellor of the exchequer this of course just to remind you it's the 1st budget from the british government since departing the european union so it was off a lot of attention focused on it anyway but perhaps nobody expected it to be primarily dominated with having to deal with the coronavirus and the message from the government is that a lawful lot of money will be thrown out to dealing with the problem to the tune of $39000000000.00 that money will go towards insulating large and small companies

form the short term effects of work forces being forced to self isolate whether they're sick or not it will also go towards helping people in the get color me cultural workers on on on contracts that aren't fixed term those people that were perhaps most vulnerable to being affected by self isolation because of course if these people don't work they simply don't get paid the message from the government is that the welfare system that exists in this country will be able to be accessed by these people but it does of course raise huge questions this system of the social welfare system is meant to be a safety net here in the u.k. what happens if all of a sudden you have millions of people desperate to help signing on for support these are big promises that really need to be tested in practice ok thank you for that update that is need barker in london we move now to washington d.c. here's kimberly how could at the white house. we're going to talk to kristen salumi

about this later about the markets i mean they're still reacting very badly what is the u.s. government offering as a response to falling markets and even falling confidence. yeah well there are a number of remedies that are being discussed right now the lead on this is being taken on capitol hill house speaker nancy pelosi putting forward a number of proposals like long term paid sick leave even making sure that children who often got their meals at school will if they have to quarantine at home will still be fed a broad package being discussed along with the support of the treasury secretary steve minutia this is because the house speaker nancy pelosi and donald trump simply don't get along so as they discuss those different remedies we are also hearing from the top democrats in the u.s. senate that they are considering requesting in drafting up a letter to send to the white house possibly requesting that donald trump declare

a national emergency this would free up more than $50000000000.00 or rather $40000000000.00 of emergency funds to try and put in place some sort of national response but there is a lot of push back here at the white house towards that given this could really create a national panic one year saying national or months move what i mentioned before can leave out the national guard in one suburb in new york state can you maybe explain for an international audience what that means when the national guard is called out in this manner. yeah the national guard is a really a branch kind of a local level branch of the u.s. military so make no mistake about it well they're being careful with the language in new york state there is a one and a half kilometer radius around a suburb of new york city known as new or shell that rate now is a containment zone but this is an enforced quarantine now again the language used being very careful by public health officials are saying the military is being used to bring medicine to bring food what that means is these folks can't leave their homes if they do they'll be faced with perhaps armed resistance so very draconian

measures being taken in new york state to try and spread and could tear rather to stop the spreading contain coronavirus in the united states you know more than a majority of u.s. states now affected and those numbers are being told by public health officials only expected to increase extraordinary stuff thank you that's complete with the latest from the united states she's at the white house and now in the. in paris to tell us more about what emanuel mccrone has got planned for the french response. well the french president has announced that he will be giving an address to the nation on thursday night he'll be talking to french people about the situation with the coronavirus how they can help protect themselves better with simple things like hand washing but also more on the french health services response what we have seen from him and omar cross over the past 2 weeks is really he's cleared his share jule he has focused nearly soley on the coronavirus crisis in france there are more than

a 1700 cases here more than 30 deaths and of course those numbers are rising all the time now the french president also held a cabinet meeting today the 1st cabinet meeting without the french culture minister because on monday he was diagnosed positive for the coronavirus he is in isolation we understand that he's not in a grave condition he has what he described it feels like a very strong flu those are some of the messages we've heard from the french culture minister but as you can imagine that made many other ministers nervous we know that others have been tested they're also 5 m.p.'s in the french parliament that have coronavirus they've all tested positive they're all in isolation again none of them in a critical condition but it just gives you a sense of how the coronavirus really is touching also a segment of the population here natasha butler part of our team coverage of coronavirus this news hour which i should thank you for that now let's go back there i mentioned this before that massive stimulus package which has been

announced to help deal with the are a total of $28300000000.00 allocated to address the economic impact of the virus only less than half of that would actually be available straight away it'll be partly used to support the hill system and civil defense services the rest goes on protecting jobs and propping up businesses. we'll get the thoughts now of nicola bodie who is an economist at the universe stays on skype from rome for us thank you for your time so what's your take on those sorts of measures that have been announced i know that's a very broad look at it but doesn't sound like the italian government is going in the right direction. i think so i think this is a package that it was so much needed that and even you need to mention it's about one percent that's part of what we don't get the. size it needs are much bigger much larger than what people expected. it's true that only of this package will be

available immediately but i think it's important to know what he said we should know the source is available the economy people are basically oh i'm not working so in your economy you know situational stars so it's important to stay in and ward cares for that in the next weeks will face some difficult time i also think about the tourism factor we're just looking at some pictures from milan i think it is of i mean it's empty squares there we've seen the trevi fountain in rome completely empty is well the coliseum tourism song important to a city as well. absolutely to the cinema makes about 13 percent of italian g.d.p. and clearly it's a sector that not always the working and the next minute months when the war because of the situation immediately and probably. also in the situation in other

countries that like the u.s. what are you looking at countries that might find themselves in the same situation . currently now so this is a big problem and hopefully in a situation will be a sort through a clear and a secular city eat in fact part of the economic package injection of money by the government is. warfare say in this sector how would you describe the hi jennifer it's the mood of the italian people but the result of them they know that there is a very stark reality for them that is basically a lockdown of the whole country how do you think people are really coping so it's a it's a better student really out situation. desolated there nearly anywhere he said are on that web where people are of our own and that is care. but at the

same time that is full court give up its measures so even though an example you don't find any or much control in this city is by police when of course the cesspit measure that prevent people one example where i don't know what nobody set out and everybody's. as much as they can take on a body thank you so much for your insight on what's going on in his family right now we do appreciate it thank you very much. and more on the economic impact of coronavirus coming up a little later an update from wall street as i mentioned trading opened a little over an hour ago and also the rest of the day's news and how queuing up for bare essentials scrolling anger in sit down amid an economic crisis and what that could mean for its new governments and sport us soccer balls has kicked off a huge argument with their own world cup winning team and we will have your sport at about 10 to the hour. some breaking news right now though the former hollywood

mogul harvey weinstein has just been sentenced to 23 years in jail for rape and sexual assault you'll remember weinstein convicted of rape also 2 counts of sexual assault in new york last month since 2017 dozens of women have come forward accusing the 67 year old of sexual misconduct including right there weinstein who has consistently consistently denied any wrongdoing patty callahan following this one from washington d.c. hi patty how did all this unfold today. well i think it's 1st important to remember that this article about harvey weinstein really launched the meat to movement people who are asking how is this going to end well we know how it ends for harvey weinstein he's likely going to die in prison he has been sentenced to 23 years he's a 67 year old man in bad health let's not forget he had to go to the hospital for her procedure after he was sentenced he's now been moved to the prison where we

believe he's had at least one concussion from a fall so harvey weinstein was facing between 5 to 29 years in prison for those sexual assault charge criminal charges that he was found guilty of the judge went with 23 years again he's $67.00 in bad health this will likely mean he will die in prison if he doesn't get any sort of special treatment and this is the only case he's facing and he's also facing potential charges in los angeles so for the man who launched the me to movement apparently not coming to grips quite yet with what he is now convicted of doing according to the associated press in court he said to the judge he doesn't really was confused by the rape charge and said thousands of men are losing due process i'm worried about this country so that might have been a factor in why the judge lobbied such a very stiff sentence on harvey weinstein we're not sure more will come out of what's just been breaking news out of new york right now but again harvey weinstein launch to me to move in people wondered all around the globe would there actually

be accountability the answer for at least harvey weinstein is yes he's going to likely die in prison maybe tell us a little bit more if you don't mind patty about the meter movement i know people be well aware of but how much momentum i guess that jabot as a result of harvey weinstein in the moment meant it still has today even if it's not totally in the headlines. well i think it's still very relevant and i think what you saw as the election of donald trump we saw the largest protest march in the history of this country which was the women's march it was absolutely massive it was across the globe it across the united states for sure then you saw some really dedicated journals come out the new york times and the new yorker wrote in faro the new yorker and they did this exposé in weinstein and keep in mind he was considered untouchable in hollywood he won his movie studio launch careers want to ask he was the big man in hollywood well these allegations were that he had raped

dozens and dozens of women and some of these women very famous women were brave enough to go ahead and give their names and so then it went to twitter and we saw actresses say if you've actually had this happen to you if you've been harassed if you've been assaulted retreat with me too and it exploded it was everywhere and all the sudden came to the public consciousness just how widespread of an issue this is it's not just in hollywood we've seen lots of men in the media be brought down because of all their own allegations of impropriety sexual harassment in some cases sexual assault you are seen as much though moving to other industries at least not as publicly but there is much more awareness of it there are women who have created a fund so that they can help lower income women for such as maids in hotels be able to get the assistance they need to be able to repel their own me to movement so it was the 1st case it was by far not the last but it does send

a message to predators out there that there can be punishment. with the update on the sentencing of harvey weinstein to thank you patty. now 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 they were trying to fend off illegal israeli settlers who were using the location to attempt to establish an outpost of 100 people of an inch treated for injuries from the abraham now in ramallah in the occupied west bank she says palestinians are vowing to continue protecting the area from illegal settlements of the near post saying 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 car on live from the 2 families and then turn it into a settlement of course also are considered under it to clash in the law and being a mountain or a hotel is expected to be one of the reasons why is that lawyers want that specific area in indeed and many palestinians say that they've been eyeing it since the eighty's they remember of clashes that happened actually in the same mountain so for postilions it's a way to defend the law and as we've seen it has been very. came at a high price another postin is in a critical condition and palestinians are vowing to return to that area to try and defend. any we spoke to eunice r.-a who is the director of international relations for the colonization and wall resistance commission that is affiliated with the palestine liberation organization he told us he witnessed israeli forces shooting

people in the face. at about 5 am all of a sudden we have found i was. surrounded from all sides by. vision forces. who have gone the area where we have been sitting. in a group sitting around fire because it was a very cold night and they did not need even a small warning nothing at all started with extreme power they have used live ammunition they have used what it with a bullet they have used 60 gas clouds of tear gas. grenades and they were shooting at people face to face 'd i have seen many people were shot directly the gun was at a certain kind of the body or part of the body and shot immediately and i don't know whether it was. about quite a bit of bullets or

a. lot i mean 2 very critical health conditions and now i have seen a soldier put that gun point on the head of the palestinian teen called islam is 22 years old and he shot him twice in the head israel's president is set to begin consultations to decide on a new prime minister benjamin netanyahu is center right bloc failed to win a majority in last week's election which was the 3rd in under here and sir political parties now put forward their recommendations for prime minister the president inside my mouth 17 it's hard for some in west jerusalem he says the opposition's bid to beat netanyahu has become a lot more difficult. if benny gantz can shore up the support of all those within his own luck plus the support of all 15 of those palestinians ready parties from outside the government not join a coalition but support

a minority government from outside that would give him 62 and that is what he's trying for but to get there 1st he needs to beat netanyahu bloc of 58 by at least one seat and that has become much more difficult given the approach that's been taken very recently of the the leader of the gas ship party one of those within his bloc only levy because as she says she will not submit to a government once support a government that is itself supported by palestinian israeli parties from the outside so the president rivlin is still trying to get the 2 main parties you could invite in white to join a unity government that didn't work last time it's very unclear as to how it might work this time and one other interesting thing that the president said he quoted an arabic phrase about the virtues of patience so that there was no such thing as a citizen of israel and given what has been said by both all 11 of the crisis and benjamin netanyahu when he was talking about the support of only 47 zionist parties

supporting benny gantz essentially ruling out the vote of more than half a 1000000 you supported the anniston is ready joint missed an important message from the president about how arabic citizens of israel should also have the votes counted in the press. turkey's president has threatened retaliation if a ceasefire in italy province is broken the deal was agreed to by russia and turkey last week or 2 and 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 and compliance with our agreement and we expect measures to be taken we will keep our word until the end as long as the others show the same sensitivity but if the others do not keep their promise we will never shy away from giving a much harsher response. to the us what joe biden has cemented his front runner status in the democratic party's race for the white house and dashed hopes of

reviving his chances 6 states voted in tuesday's primaries biden one for them mississippi missouri and michigan which was the state with the most delegates up for grabs his on the reports now from detroit. joe biden at his last campaign rally michigan implored people to get out and vote for him but he did these are some of the voters that helped him win michigan making him the undisputed front runner for the democratic nomination i want to thank bernie sanders supported through their tireless energy and their passion we share a common goal and together we will defeat. will defeat you. i hope to endorsements from senators comma harris and cory booker would help him maintain his overwhelming support from black voters he worked. because right now everybody. is going to be strong. 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 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 victory but it wasn't really 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 was larger than one person is larger than one night in florida the one primary and so for me i think the dollies

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 beyond one campaign cycle so you know that was all isn't exactly what i would like to see him 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. james warren 'd with us now on skype he is an executive editor of news garden was the washington bureau chief for the chicago tribune previously hi james let's talk about for bernie sanders 1st of all is there any road back for him at all. yeah but it's it's a long and torturous one and at this point it looks as if things all went the same way for the remaining a 68 weeks that joe biden couldn't get a majority of the delegates for the convention in milwaukee in july by mid to late

may and yes it's possible 1st things 1st he's going to decide to stick in the campaign i think that's likely particularly since he's going to have his 1st chance maybe is only chance maybe his last chance to go one on one with joe biden in the debate sunday night in phoenix arizona debate which as a result of the coronavirus will be held in a sensually an empty studio what will his strategy be will now be to really niggers in the attack biden and raise the possibility of further dissension at the democratic ranks the trunk unexploited where will it be to jess. who are the passionate cry for the so-called progressive values that he holds dear what he's got a couple of tactical decisions to make pretty quickly. that's what joe biden i'm starting to wonder if there was maybe like your view on this almost a sense of inevitability about him surging to the lay i know he struggled earlier

in the primaries and when we think back to all the diverse candidates we had to have gender and race and backgrounds and yet we've ended up with this sort of safe pair of hands the guy who everyone knows. i think not necessarily come all of you just go back 2 weeks. every $27.00 he was polling in the mid teens on 1516 percent in the u.s. he was derided by much of the media elite for running a lackluster campaign he'd been creamed in the 1st few primaries his debate performances were merged on god awful so i think there was nothing necessarily inevitable fight it but this is a historic research that in the course of 2 weeks a lot of things coalesced a lot of key y. rules in a modern rivals that got out of the race and then last night in michigan this fight in this very diverse coalition came together as expected for sure

a big african-american vote but the over performed with women he over perform this nationally with a key group of college educated women and he jest crushed. sanders when it came to american voters and so i think a lot of things happened that we would not have predict that a couple of weeks ago so i defer on the well of the question ok excellent good to get your thoughts thank you james warren joining us from chicago. still ahead for you on this new wave of deadly violence in cameroon we speak to the man claiming responsibility for these attacks. also describes australian makes a final attempt to overturn his conviction for child sex abuse and that's exactly the thing i don't like to do sit here and ask you this question but why from one tree to here. the poles manager bent his frustration over coronavirus questions as one of spain's biggest teams gets ready to play in england.

welcome back we'll start to look at the weather across the arabian peninsula and levant region here in qatar and around the gulf states the weather is fantastic 26 degrees in the sunshine i would turn my back on that region because really this area of low pressure developing across parts of egypt is going to be quite intense and it's light to produce some extremely heavy rainfall and flash flooding in this part of the world is always a big house in these situations where you have got rain the could be a lot of lift the dust around where i think really significant accumulations of rain are going to cause some real problems across northern parts of egypt extending into the sinai and indeed the front associated with this really standard the parts of saudi arabia so expect some flooding rain here and again the could be really a risk to life and limb as that rain begins to fall down the brain itself extending

into parts of iraq during the course of the day so let's head up into northern and central parts of africa where associate of this low pressure system we've got a northerly wind which is driving there not just through the coast of libya but always down into more southern areas and into northern parts of chatter and so there will be a significant drop in temperature here and probably a fair amount of lifted dust as well developing over the next few days across parts of west africa see some heavy showers abidjan and they are very coasts of race cars here 29. of. the shocking treatment of disabled people in eastern european state run caverns in this cages you cannot have access to a toilet or water and the bureaucratic indifference to their plight he has his hands and he states to the best 5 years after fast highlighting such abuses people

in power returns with a 2 part investigation to continuing mistreatment and neglect europe's recurring shame hard won on al-jazeera in 2014 and al-jazeera investigation revealed how anger and fear he'll be in a crisis. yes that ravaged west africa we asked some of 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 and caused the devastation on a sphere that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with ebola on al-jazeera. woot. woot.

this is the news from al-jazeera and these are the top stories germany's chancellor is warning coronavirus will infect 60 to 70 percent of the population i mean really which is core and he did 60000000 citizens to stop the spread of the viruses that will spend nearly $30000000000.00 to tackle the growing crisis britain's finance minister set aside almost $39000000000.00 to help tackle the outbreak was she so not made that announcement during his budget speech to members of parliament a government minister in the health department is also a contract of the virus. and developing news this hour the former hollywood mogul harvey weinstein has just been jailed for 23 years for rape and sexual assault he was convicted in a new york court months month since 2017 dozens of women have accused the 67 year old of sexual misconduct including right. u.s. markets down amid the uncertainty over just how the white house plans to combat the financial impact of coronavirus president trump was trying to calm the markets

after a huge drop in oil prices prompted a panic sell off on monday the markets did begin to recover on tuesday with hopes the government would announce some stimulus plans but right now as we go to the new york stock exchange with christine salumi kristen was about an hour ago i spoke to you and it's fallen even further. yeah the market continues to drop amid this uncertainty over the coronavirus and its potential impact on the economy the dow is down now more than a 1000 points making up any gains it had on tuesday continuing the trend that started monday as fear of the spread heightened amid investors despite earlier today u.s. treasury secretary steve and house leadership signaling that they are working on an initial phase of economic fiscal relief for. to mitigate the impacts of the

virus on the economy we know right now that cruise lines airlines are suffering. particularly badly on the stock market as their business is down as people cut back on travel and so forth and energy sector also actually the worst performing sector of the market today as there's still concern about this price war between the saudis and the russians on oil that could affect u.s. energy companies tremendously. that's a concern and we still don't have any specifics from the government as to what they're going to offer initial talk of a payroll tax cut being pushed aside by both democrats and republicans in congress so investors are getting very very nervous and we've got economists for financial companies like goldman sachs lowering their forecast for economic growth for the year and talk about the potential moving into recession if this is not wrapped up

soon so a lot of uncertainty a lot of questions no clear answers from the u.s. government yet and that is what is driving this market down perhaps the meeting with the president and wall street leaders a little bit later will yield some headlines that calm things down a bit but right now very very uncertain the dow jones down 1050 points at the moment 4.2 percent thank you christine salumi. but hundreds of millions of people are in some form of isolation jews or coronavirus the world health organization says it's important for those in isolation to try to keep their daily routines and to stay connected to the world via social media or video chatting many of the stories coming out of corn taina perhaps more hopeful than you'd imagine and you chappelle's been looking at. a small town in northern italy with 11000 residents number is on lockdown like the rest of the country its mayor under self quarantine after testing positive for corona virus proved

a great joy to me in the computer today and after 3 days of high temperatures and simply taking some feeble remedies i no longer have symptoms seen today i'm well and i have been well for 6 days so far and i'm working for my town as it's mayor. the mayor says he'll stay in isolation for 14 days his wife and son isolated elsewhere in the house. and we travel to milan for fashion week and when i arrived in barcelona i started noticing symptoms neil munro also tested positive for corona virus and was placed in quarantine in barcelona he passes the time by responding to questions on social media to reassure the public you know. i'm a young person and i'm healthy so the symptoms i'm having are like a normal cold like a flu i had little bit of fever headache general discomfort but anyone would have thought it was just a cold. corona virus affects people in different ways and most who test positive won't require medical attention denmark's 1st patient was shocked by his diagnosis

his wife showed symptoms he did not he tested positive she did not after 6 days in self quarantine he says the symptoms were gone and he didn't need any medicine i don't want to be the one that makes other people sick so that was my greatest concern and i think that is the greatest concern for everybody is 'd that we don't we don't want this thing to spread more than possible so i prefer to stay home. a week or 2 more or even longer if i could prevent anybody from getting this is. older people and those with chronic medical conditions can die from it that is clear isolation is intended to protect them from germs younger healthier people so easily spread for them the biggest gripe is probably boredom. the video sharing site tick-tock has become a favorite for those in isolation including an american teacher in will hon megan munro has provided daily updates from the chinese city at the center of the

outbreak including the day she found her apartment building padlocked others are coming up with creative ways of passing time letting family and friends know they're ok that they're following the advice of doctors who are refusing to be panicked by the new disease internship. one of the notes on the social media side of things the saudi oil giant aramco is facing a wave of online criticism after photos of a migrant worker dressed up as a hand sanitizer dispenser went viral on social media people called it classist racist even a form of slavery now in a statement iran has condemned what it describes as quote abusive behavior and said the company took strict took strict measures to prevent it from happening again. so the spread of corona virus is stopping travel worldwide and as a result the really experiencing some financial turbulence want to take you through some of them starting with hong kong's biggest carrier cathay pacific which is

warning of substantial losses to route the year already badly hit by the political unrest of course in hong kong and now the passenger slump because of coronavirus is grounding 2 thirds of its international flights and as you say 90 percent of flights through to mainland china canceled as well their rivals korea and in fact they say they are fighting to survive cabin crew are being told to take voluntary leave and 80 percent of its international services are grounded this and and down in australia quanta slashing a quarter of its international operations it says the slum could cost $100000000.00 in lost profits you've also got no wage and which has cut $3000.00 flights between now and june and is warning of temporary layoffs the thoughts now of matthew driscoll who is the editor of asian aviation magazine he told us some airlines will be more affected by the crisis than others. the carriers that do not lease aircraft are probably

a little bit better off because they don't have to make those lease payments airlines that have a lot of least aircraft. there and if they can negotiate. different payment terms with the lesser wars a lot of whom are in ireland. and they might be in trouble. there are airlines like cathay 'd the big airlines. that have consolidated in recent years a lot of the american airlines is basically 3 big carriers there. a lot of those are probably going to be fine they're definitely going to take revenue they may lose money for a quarter or 2 again it depends on how long this is going to go on the international air transport association has basically called for blanket slot relief around the world they have this 8020 rule where you have to fly 80 percent of the flights in order to maintain the slots the interesting thing is the airport

'd council international which is the trade group for the airports they say no it should be on a market by market basis because if airlines quit flying to those airports in those airports start losing money so there's a little bit of an argument going on between the 2 entities. and again if airlines just quit flying i mean that's going to be a huge problem. bread and petrol shortages in sudan are again causing long queues and increasing frustration remember it was similar shortages last year which helped fuel the revolution which eventually ended president 30 year rule and the new government is coming under increasing pressure to get the support from culture and . 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. there is no time for work we

did a cage all our 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 it was said to me as well 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. sudan 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 passengers are waiting longer and longer wait for a ride because there are fewer buses passing through they're stuck at a petrol station around the capital buying bread can also mean a long queue the currency shortage affects imports of wheat for flour and. we saw

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. just last year sparked protests that eventually led to the ousting of longtime president obama. 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 see the problems randi. it's an issue of politics and management of the ruling

coalition has many parties that drink 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 coups 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 al-jazeera khartoum. a corrupt coronavirus update i should say from here in qatar actually the ministry of public health has just announced 238 new confirmed cases of covert 19 in this is relating to ex-pats who have had contact with the 3 cases that were previously declared and apparently all residing in one residential complex so this would be people quarantined as

a result of the original 3 and it is now meant a large jump up to a total of $262.00 cases so far so that's coming out from the ministry of public health in qatar an additional $238.00 new confirmed cases of corona virus here. now. cameron where a leader of one of the many armed groups fighting for independence there is claiming responsibility for a series of attacks security checkpoints were fired at on tuesday following a bomb blast on sunday separatists in the english speaking regions began their fight to break away from the french speaking majority 3 years ago and create their own country called amazonia and now the leader of the amazonian defense force has given an exclusive interview to our correspondent on. the moment just before sunday's attack. prison guards from the women's jail where armed separatists are locked up are marching the governor takes to the podium praising

cameron's government and then this. panic as an improvised explosive device detonate one soldier is killed instantaneously scores are injured mostly members of the security forces armed separatists from the english speaking region claimed responsibility for the attack they want to break away from cameroon to create their own country amazonia there are more than 20 armed separatists groups active in the english speaking regions of cameroon at the moment rarely do they make public declarations very they can get detected by cameroonian security forces the leader of one of these groups amazonian defense force has agreed to talk to us. about show lucas admits his armed group is behind the killings of hundreds of cameroon little gers we have a right existence with. dignity and come. to me

the. human rights watch accuses cameron's rapid intervention brigade operating in the english speaking regions of killing civilians and burning their homes there were people who were burned alive and many of them with women and children so. like killed so it's i think is the brutality in the manner in which it happened it seems like the way have been it was deliberate is just like casualties of war. the force is trained in managed by former israeli naval forces officers stationed inside the presidency the government deny any wrongdoing. which started off as a peaceful movement against the government insisting on having french teachers in schools in the english speaking regions has turned into a violent separatist movement more than a 1000000 are displaced and thousands have been killed with many others caught in

a spiral of violence nicholas hawke al-jazeera. australia's highest court is hearing a final appeal from the described roman catholic cardinal george pell to overturn his sex abuse conviction the 78 year old former archbishop of melbourne is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. and early reports from camber. the final step in a long court process that's been followed closely across the world george pell the most prominent catholic figure to be convicted of child abuse wasn't in court he his final bid for freedom but some of his supporters and opponents were. running high and opinions divided and here. to be the voice of. the catholic church i hope resell approach the acquittal the fact an acquittal of

a man. in late 20 a teen was found guilty of sexually abusing 2 quiet boys in the 19 ninety's he served one year of a 6 year prison term and has continued to maintain his innocence. lost in appeal last year to or the turn his conviction over the next for arguing to the high court that that ruling was unreasonable his team is focused its argument on the credibility of a witness and the timing of the offending lawyer lisa flynn who represents abuse victims is concerned that if the high court overturns his conviction it might stop other abuse victims speaking out. many victims. people could come.

despite being a convicted sex offender george pell is still a cardinal but so far the pope has declined comment until all avenues of appeal are exhausted that moment may not be far away now gauge al-jazeera camera. coming up. as corona virus continues to it wants.

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we're coronavirus making its presence felt out of the opening race of the formula one season in melbourne 3 scene workers now in self isolation one mclaren staff member 2 from same house of being tested after showing symptoms organizers gave the green light to sunday's race in australia around 300000 spectators are expected suits and after practice qualifying on the ground pretty self the chinese grand prix will that's already been cancelled and the non-fans of the 2nd race of the season in bahrain we've been talking to a former journalist phillip duncan who's in melbourne. maclaren sets with us that we'll have the results within the next 24 hours so we'll know then as to whether. the team member has has tested to the coronavirus the british team of putting together a contingency plan at the moment if if that is the case but they're also drawing up plans anyway just to deal with the threats of the virus over the next coming days. this reply seems drivers will have to meet exclusion zone around them when they

conduct their media to seize tomorrow jobs been told not to take any selfies with fans whilst there's also sessions at the drive is usually to do with fans they will see it being cancelled as destiny or feeling of amit i think in the paddock i mean you've got people from all over the world travelling here it's it's of to be it's or it's a melbourne for this weekend when most countries are advising against travel you've got members of seems from the crew ari out of story. corps also in the types of supply pirelli they've all flown in from italy and tonight the israeli government is now. travelling crummy sleep so it's not the usual sort of that sort of party atmosphere that we usually have here for this race this being the 1st groom create of the season so have to see how it unfolds obviously this news today that 3 people have been tested for it it's not anyone's mind. one bosses

who are already under a bit of scrutiny for going ahead with a race when across the world we've seen a lot of sporting events cancelled. well the presidents of tokyo's olympic organizing committee insist is not changing any plans jutes a coronavirus cherie married so who is a former japanese prime minister had been undergoing hospital treatment he left to response an interview given by one of his board members her u.k. takahashi who said the game should be delayed. there is no guarantee he will be able to use the venues again if we postpone it one or 2 years if mr takahashi will guarantee the use of the venue that would be nice but that isn't going to happen is it. wednesday's english premier league game between manchester city and arsenal how spain postponed all small players came into contact with the m.p.r. costs a minor at last week's europa league game in haze since tested positive for corona virus the club has confirmed some squad members who haven't been identified have

gone into self isolation in a few hours' time the liverpool's home stadium will be packed as the defending champions take off let's go to madrid of let's go one up from the 1st leg of this last 16 and nearly 3000 let's go fans are expected to attend liverpool manager you're going top there what he's been repeatedly asked about coronavirus in recent days invented his frustration at a journalist who travel to england from madrid. but we are not the society be a part of the society and we should all be worried in the same time and that's exactly the thing i don't like that you sit here and ask me this question but fly from madrid to here so stay there to close schools and universities but by doing that and you are obviously concerned that's that's the question but you would think no football is worth it to travel or whatever so that's the situation that's our problem our common problem we cannot solve it with football people play football it's all a part of what we have to do your job is to transport information and i hope you do

it better than you ask questions to be honest. it seems the same way one play their europa league fixtures on thursday right missing i can't fulfil ethics spain has banned flights landing from italy and spanish team gets half it refusing to travel supply in some milan in case i don't sell outs or it sends a spine afterwards we've had no official response from you wife just yet. well us soccer bosses are arguing that the women's team is less skilled than the men's team and therefore doesn't deserve equal pay for the women assuming the federation of the $66000000.00 of gender discrimination with the case set to stall so may the 5th in documents filed a federal court in los angeles u.s. soccer claims it takes a higher level of speed and strength to perform as a male player it also claims the men have more responsibility and face more hostile match day environments where the women have been not simply more successful than the men in recent years they've won the last 2 world cups while the men fell to

qualify for russia 28 c. women's team spokesperson molly levinson said it sounded like the arguments have been made by kate. the stretta women's football team have qualified for the tokyo olympics after a player fixture of a vietnam coronavirus restrictions meant there were no phones at the council stadium and surely have to kick off the lightsaber you know he's just out there tossing right there around with the still very powerful it was a load of things somewhat in one game but they did find the switch in the end australia going through to tokyo something warm on aggregates whether or not they'll get the chance to actually play the olympics we shall see. ok that is high school says looking for an outcome of my fear of that happening in here just as we can all go home place that. we're actually going to head over to london actually barbara sarah and the team in our european broadcast center will have your next bulletin of news on kimmel's santa maria thanks for joining us.

the latest news as it breaks the fostering service in some posts to start from early next year and the corona virus outbreak could put the brakes on the project and slow down construction with details coverage we know the 540 people were killed in the violence and officially 350 people were injured from around the world they wanted to create a logistical problem for the greek will soroses but they were enough to make many of the people of lesbos aren't yours. full of struggles full of pleasure

that at the moment i mean i'm there but they're still a fellow that you seem to read to me to meet you me go and make me blankly funny and me who was telling me how many times an intimate look at life in cuba if you go to london don't know where to get us a present movie again and aslan maskhadov that it would have been a movie my leave. cuba. on al-jazeera. and where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle. is this radical transformation. really that if you were shedding light on the remaining pressing for change. the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. on.

the eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on which is iraq. fighting the coronavirus governments across the world commit billions to shore up their economies as the financial impact of the virus grows. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up a new york court sentences harvey weinstein to 23 years in prison 2 weeks after being convicted of rape and sexual assault a teenage boy killed when israeli forces tried to break up the palestinian protesters. the deadly fight for cameroon our exclusive.