on al-jazeera. moving forward. this is al-jazeera. this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up. we have that format. that are called 90 can be. used as a pandemic. the world health organization declares the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic citing concerns over its spread and severity. stock markets tumble and governments commit billions to shore up their economies as the financial impact of the virus grows. a new york court sentence has harvey we ornstein to 23 years in

prison 2 weeks after he was convicted of rape and sexual assault. and a teenage boy is killed when israeli forces try to break up palestinian protesters . and install thousands of prairie sun german fans gathered for that same champions league match supporters massing outside the stadium for the game which is being played behind closed doors it's a crime of ours. thank you for joining us the coronavirus crisis has been declared a pandemic making a declaration world health organization officials said the number of cases globally is just going to increase 118000 people have now been infected in 114 countries as the number of cases outside china increased 13 fold in the past 2 weeks trying to handle it begins our coverage. this is daily life under lockdown in italy people

employing patient protection and distance all good measures that countries should practice according to the world health organization but not enough as a declared covert 19 is now a pandemic. has been has just seeing this outbreak around the clock and we're deeply concerned by the alarming level of spread series d. and by the island i mean the level is an action. we have that for many of the our system and that. can be contacted are used as a pandemic what started in china has now spread to more than $100.00 countries and 90 percent of cases a spread over just 4 nations iran is one of them where more than 300 people have died south korea is another efforts to stop the spread of the virus have so far

failed it seems the world has missed the window of containment in italy the government is not ruling out further restrictions beyond the nationwide quarantine to slow the spread of the disease this is a crisis not just for the country's creaking health system but also its economy and italy's prime minister just epic kaante announced more efforts to prop it up a been a deliberate we decided to allocate the exceptional amount of $28300000000.00 as we are aware of the difficulties the country is facing in this emergency there is fear too in france as the number of cases creep up children students school are encouraged to wash their hands by the health minister himself but the virus has already reached the heart of the government the culture minister is infected and 5 others are being tested president back home avoided shaking hands as he prepares to move the country to phase 3 of its response closing more schools and risk to transport across the continent classrooms are emptying spain france and germany

have shut schools in their most affected regions while italy greece romania and ukraine have sent home their entire student populations. as germany confirmed its death from the virus the government's message was that people must make sacrifices to their social lives to protect the elderly wanting covert 19 will test health care systems across europe in the us view will start. when the virus is out that the population has no immunity in north or be exist and 60 to 70 percent of the population will be infected as long as this situation continues to exist in the u.k. a health minister has tested positive and is self isolating despite being in contact with her last week prime minister boris johnson says he does not need to be tested his message it's business as usual and to help the annual budget promised $39000000000.00 to ward off a coronavirus recession the w.h.o.

says countries still have the power to change the course of this pandemic but what is inevitable is that cases will continue to climb charlie angela. longer terraces spokeswoman for the world health organization she joins me now via skype from geneva thanks very much indeed for being with us now earlier on in the news conference there was talk in the dark great show of inaction from governments where do you see an action and what do you want those particular governments to do. so it's very important that we know that we haven't actually declared a pandemic what we've done is characterized this as a pandemic and what that's that the message that's being sent here is we've gone from get ready we've been saying get ready we've been saying get ready to governments all around to now get serious act now so what we want governments to do is to get serious about finding every person who's affected in

everybody who's been in contact with somebody who's infected and ensure that those people in quarantine self isolate and do not continue to spread it in your communities in in your population because they're starting in easily but she has enough people get ill you have very severe cases now you mention italy other lessons to be learned because it does seem that there are different approaches taken by different countries and somebody doesn't seem to want to say what is the right approach is why is that i mean that in italy they have some of the more draconian measures right at the start and yet they've seen some of the biggest problems do you think that other countries need to do more than italy did what specifically needs to happen. well actually we've only seen the what you would call draconian message. approaches very recently in italy and we're not saying that every country should take

draconian measures approach is what we're saying is do your surveillance properly do your testing engage the community help the community to understand what to look for what may be a concern how to socially distance and make decisions about maybe working from home about changing the way we behave so that people are not in close contact so that you can stop the spread of this thing before it overwhelms your society and when you get to a point where you maybe do have to take this draconian with measures other practical shortages in particular of things like respirators or around the world and what needs to happen without. that is certainly a big concern so we're working very hard with the manufacturers of all kinds of things mosques personal protective equipment wrist for a says

a lot of countries have very little capacity and it's not just the hardware the hardware is really important but you need the people we have been working with the work health force issue battling with their work health force issue for years long before this we knew there was an 18000000 shortfall of helplessness around the world now is the time to really value your health workers do your best to support them. tell me all you know how much progress has been made towards vaccines what stage are we up with that. there's been a tremendous amount of progress sarah at least 20 different vaccine candidates and there are some very very promising results that the states that takes too long well it takes a long time and it must take a long time is the human safety testing stage and the reason of course that has to take a long time is you have to ensure before you give a vaccine which you give to a healthy person to prevent disease you must make sure it's

a safe thing to do it's not going to cause untoward side effects so that that time that process must take at least 6 to 12 months so despite the incredible scientific work that's going on we're not going to be a see a vaccine for another year thank you very much indeed to moderate house which will do so not just here appreciate your time but eric toner is a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security he welcomes the show's move to define the virus as a pandemic i think this any ambiguity about that there are global situation this disease is spreading around the world it will continue to spread around the world every country will be affected and so i think this clears up any confusion that i think they're saying to all governments you really need to get ready you really know carrying need to implement

a measure is to slow the spread in your 'd own country and so some countries have. been denying that their country the risk or same they have no cases when that's probably not that not actually true so i think that you are saying to them really you have to get ready pandemic literally names of people and but commonly and public health we talked about. a pandemic meaning infectious disease that spreading person a person a multiple con so that's been the case for several weeks so this disease seems to have a. 6 or 7 day doubling time that means twice as many cases each week so the most of people are sick have a mild illness much like influenza and they're not going to come to the attention public health authorities it's not until you get hundreds of cases that there's any

chance that a country would recognize they have cases as probably not until there are thousands of cases they were really become quite obvious declaration of pandemic has hit the stock markets kristen salumi is in new york and joins me live to tell us how the markets fared today then. well the markets have been jittery since the beginning of the coronavirus and today we officially entered what's known as bear market territory with. the major stock indices the dow jones in particular now 20 percent lower than market highs in february and being an 11 year bull run or a period of growth in the marketplace and that's. quite a step to have taken today and markets were down from the beginning but after the show characterized coronavirus as

a pandemic things went even worse the reality confronting investors that as this virus continues to spread in the united states the economic impacts continue to spread as well more people staying home working from home schools being closed events being canceled travel being canceled all of that having an impact on the economy businesses we've seen it across sectors in the stock market and particular airlines have been struggling boeing down 15 percent today minutely boeing has other concerns besides coronavirus but a sign of an entire sector of the economy that's struggling now oil prices also down again financial institutions like goldman sachs worried about the outlook for growth lowering their expectations and that. was also in the backdrop to the market moves today a bear market is not the same thing as

a recession one does not necessarily follow the other but it is a very worrying sign and that's the worry now for investors christensen we thank you very much it's going up to rose and jordan who's in washington and roseland understand we are expecting to hear from president trump later do we have any clues about what he's planning to announce. well the president was asked during a photo opportunity in the white house earlier on wednesday whether he would be declaring a national emergency and all he told the reporter was you'll have to wait and see but we are going to hear from the u.s. president donald trump and 01 g.m.t. that's 9 pm eastern time here in the united states and he is going to have to answer questions we expect about the. declaration of about corona virus and whether we are now in a pandemic state this is

a national address it's not often that a u.s. president does this but usually it is a sign of a very very serious situation when the president tries to speak to the country and recent is there much kind of public concern about the way this has been handled so far. there is considerable concern laura now there is considerable anxiety we have courts have seen the videos of people going into supermarkets and department stores and cleaning out household supplies toilet paper paper towels tissues but that just underscores people's nervousness you have seen the residual impact people canceling their trips tourism sites not getting visitors the airline seeing a considerable drop in passenger traffic the spill on effect of people's anxieties

about possibly coming into contact with those who might have picked up the virus is very real is very palpable and when you see local and state officials across the country declaring states of emergency and forcing the cancellation of everything from athletic tournaments to other public gatherings it really does sort of feed into this growing sense of anxiety here in the u.s. from jordan thank you very much because his ministry of public health has registered 238 new confirmed cases of corona virus infections were confirmed in foreign workers who live in one residential complex and had been quarantined as a precautionary measure after coming into contact with 3 other people who had the virus cut-n. now has a total of 262 cases a surge of new cases in south korea has reversed 4 consecutive days of decline the discovery on wednesday of a notch cluster of infections has dashed hopes that the country had its outbreak

under control it's got highly reports. 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. and so city officials are conducting an investigation that also taking measures such as self 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 the 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 hodler al-jazeera. and the past few minutes italy's prime minister has added strict new restrictions to the lockdown in his country i'm joined now in studio by need to need it so quite comprehensive took us through extra measures there is what we just have become too was a dressing the nation live on television in italy and we have to remember of course the 60000000 people in the country are already experiencing the tightest lockdown across the nation since the 2nd world war and now extra restrictions have been imposed the closure of all stores excluding food shops and pharmacies as want to 7 counties said he also said that bars headdresses eateries all company departments not essential for production would be closed down as well he said these measures

were essential to stop the spread of the coronavirus but the effects of these measures would only really be felt within a period of around 2 weeks so dramatic developments in a country that many other nations in europe are looking to as an idea of what might potentially happen in their countries a bit further down the line and just briefly on the restriction in italy can people move around or can they do they have to actually stay at home no indication as yet whether people are being told to quarantine within their own houses we gather from some of the red zones particularly in lombardi in the north people there have been told to stay in their houses but in other big cities like rome for instance there is some suggestion that people can still move around to access food stores and pharmacies no indication of people locked down in the homes of thank you very much for an update thank you. coming up on al-jazeera this news hour. the man convicted of the lockerbie bombing is allowed an appeal bid 8 years after his death last.

year i'll borrow it out of her. adelaide anger outside australia's highest court as the pope's treasurer fights his child sexual assault convictions. and is the golden state warriors become the 1st team in the n.b.a. announced he will play with his president in an effort to combat the spread of corona fires. rockets attack on a military base in iraq has killed 3 personnel 2 from the united states and one from the u.k. around 15 small rockets were fired from the back of a truck into camp taji which is 27 kilometers north of the capital baghdad a dozen coalition personnel are reportedly being treated for injuries camp taji is a former republican guard base which has been used by the united states since its capture in 2003. now the former

hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault the allegations helped spark the global meaty movement against sexual abuse and harassment that once again told the court he was concerned about the thousands of men targeted by the me to campaign such a heinous war. he was such an important movie producer that average people knew his name his power but now harvey weinstein will be known as a convicted rapist a criminal the 67 year old sentenced to 23 years in prison he was facing from 5 to 29 years on convictions for 3rd degree rape and a criminal sex act the prosecution argued for a tough sentence to send the message the government is just simply moving. just like he was so. any potential thing that's going to take. your issue. is actually i think the really weinstein's attorneys are promising to

appeal and that sentence that was just handed down by this court was obscene that number was a noxious there are murderers who will get out of court faster than harvey weinstein will that number spoke to the pressure of movements in the public before the sentence was announced weinstein said he found it very confusing arguing that men are being accused of things that none of us understood he's claimed it was consensual despite being accused by nearly 100 women for one accuser finally finding justice for the 1st time i can say i feel a sense of happiness i guess. because this isn't a happy circumstance to be that we're all here for. but i feel joyous actresses have taken to twitter maris or vino wrote that she cried tears of amazement from rosanna arquette prison time is not justice for rape survivors but

it's something thank you the publication of weinstein's assaults launched the me to movement millions of women took to social media to say it happened to them too and it has to stop helping to show the scope of the problem and for now weinstein showing the world the potential consequences disgraced reject. and likely destined to die behind bars. a former libyan intelligence officer. was found guilty of mass murder in 2001 for his involvement in the bombing of pan am flight 103 over the town of lockerbie in scotland all 259 people on board the flight from london to new york died as well as 11 people on the ground now a scottish review commission has referred the case to the high court reports. abdel baset el mcgraw his family have long pushed to prove his innocence now 8 years

after his death and more than 30 years after the lockerbie tragedy i got a chance the scottish criminal cases review commission has decided the conviction can be referred to the high court for appeal for the 3rd time we had identified 6 graves for referring the case to the appeal court and the commission has gone on to deliver a damning indictment of the process and they believe that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred by reason of an unreasonable verdict and the grounds of non-disclosure pan am flight 103 was blown up over the scottish town of lockerbie in december 1908 it was on route from london to new york a most of the 270 victims were american the us relatives were satisfied when in 2001 former libyan intelligence officer to tell the girl he was jailed for life for the attack he always said he was innocent and some scottish victims' families have campaigned for years to clear him and find out who was involved on wednesday jim swire whose daughter was killed gave

a written reaction read out by his lawyer for me this case is about 2 families mine and abdel baset behind them they are seen to lie the needs of 25 other families in applying for a further appeal 31 years after the event itself we need the truth our mcgraw he 1st appeal his conviction in 2002 but this was refuse. by scotland's high court the next year as the west started to rebuild trade ties with libya then leader moammar gadhafi accepted his country's responsibility for the bombing he paid compensation to the victims' families but all along some believe there was stronger evidence iran was behind the bombing months after $290.00 died when a u.s. warship brought down an iranian passenger plane. in 2009 al mcgraw he dropped his appeal and was allowed to fly home on compassionate grounds he had terminal cancer he died in 2012 mcgraw his family have always described to us the 271st lockerbie

victim they say his last words were about fighting for justice now that fight has been given a new lease of life nadine barber al-jazeera. is the lawyer representing the family joins me now from via skype thanks very much for being with us why has this gone through to the high court now. well we began this fight some 6 years ago and of course it's been over 31 years since a lot of people being which over 270 people from 21 countries lost their lives. mohamad out on the ground he was put under pressure when he developed cancer and was told he would never be able to see its own none to see his family and he will be left to die in prison so that was the impression left on the he abandoned his appeal and as a result went back to libya after his death we approached the british relatives. were in touch with the democratic family all of whom united and said

that they wanted a posthumous appeal and for this case to go back to court so some 6 years nearly 6 years ago this what we got and we went back to court it was refused in the 1st instance and then finally in 2017 we lodge once more the appeal that was being considered and finally today the scottish criminal cases review commission which is the only body that can refer the case back to the appeal court said today that they believe that a miscarriage of justice may have happened so what it what all the main grounds briefly for the a pale. well firstly it's a question of i mean we don't find 6 separate roads but some of those have been incorporated in to the issue of an unreasonable verdict and secondly non-disclosure of evidence the fact that it's mystic. to claim to have identified mr alba groggy some 10 years later was shown photographs wrongly identified and then subsequently to find out that something like what was being reported this $2000000.00 reward was offered as a form of reward or interest but whether you want to call it an old or if you're

dented by mr allen the great none of this was released to the defense there is huge question marks over the disclosure in that in this country you know if you are to have a fair trial then the crime the police and institutions work under the direction of the office the prosecution system this country must disclose to the defense if there is any material that would assist them on numerous occasions that the crane stands accused of hiding that material not disclosing that even though today in 451 pages when they arrived at my office this morning what i found was that large proportions of it had been redacted because the united states government the u.k. government the federal republic of germany and intelligence services i think used to consent to call the defense in this case to be able to see what material we would of course fight the obviously there are vested interest was let's be blunt about this if there was a reversal of the verdict it would mean that the united states the united kingdom that the intelligence services had lived a monumental lie for over 31 years and i didn't costly to doesn't present an

innocent man who they knew to be innocent but also published the country of libya and punished its people despite knowing that they were actually innocent of the crime which they were accused of course there are a vested interest in this you know who never wanted to see this people come and go it just briefly though how lucky you have to get to the truth of this given as you say that it's 31 years since this all happened and the macgraw is dead. well let's put it like this we have we have significant evidence that would probably fill tooth was there was this this was an appeal that had been hoped would have been successful it was working its way for the appeal courts when mr on the ground he abandoned his appeal after pressure from what is what is being speculated especially u.k. government and scottish government and other. agency and the fact remains today that it's not just simply the u.k. government it's not simply just the you know the american government that don't want didn't want to see this go ahead the fact is we are going back to school we

have a robust appeal the commission has done robust investigation that has lasted several years and found significant grounds for this case to be referred back to the people so we will fight on if the americans and the british believe in justice if they are not scared of the truth being exposed which as your reporter earlier on said the finger of blame for a long time has pointed to iran carrying out revenge attacks for the downing over the arabian airliner that killed over 300 people after the u.s. has been said spied upon it 6 months before the lockerbie attack yet for some reason based on the graph he was falsely blamed on libya was played once a by type that the out of countries the european countries and all those countries involved actually came together and said enough is enough and only place would the truth come to expose is in the courts of appeal in scotland and that will be and you. thank you very much indeed for making the case thank you. so to come on out there this news out of. the deadly fight for

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extensively what 15 degrees above where it should be for this time of year however that disappears frontal system the cloud band goes south during friday giving some to really inspire a bit of alpine snow for the telling helps at least in the austrian alps but it's not extraordinary for this time the should be changed weather this however is a little bit stronger you might like this developing storm system that's produced a cold northerly wind or then through libya and through egypt is extending its reach right into chad and sudan the potential of how to get 41 degrees so also a storm develops and produces nost the weather really horrible weather for egypt and the levant so the cold is for the way down draw attention to how to him for 41 dime to 29 but this is the worst. for. an hour that c. is for the blinds and a robotic arm for the disabled. a young australian engineer is inventing tools to

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among the top stories here on entre 0 the world health organization has declared the corona virus outbreak to be a pandemic that classes it as spreading globally not just an epidemic of smaller localized outbreaks officials said it wouldn't change the response that criticized alarming levels of inaction by governments on. the impact of the outbreak is continuing to be felt in the global markets u.s. stocks are foreign to the dow jones index down 20 percent on its most recent high to decline it was known as a bear market. all shops except chemists and food stores were in italy will be shot in a bid to stop the spread of the corona virus on the researchers at the county i did

that all bars and restaurants that can keep customers at least a metre apart will have to close. the profits have plunged at cathay pacific after months of political unrest in hong kong and now the airline is one of many suffering as the spread of the corona virus disrupts global travel hong kong's national carrier says it's braced for substantial losses this year its last 2 thirds of its international operations and plans to cut most flights to mainland china korean air 2 says it is fighting to survive its cutting 80 percent of its international capacity and is telling employees to take voluntary leave the australian carrier quantas is slashing a quarter of its international operations for now saying the slump could cost it up to $100000000000.00 and low cost airline norwegian air has cut 3000 flights between march and june warning of temporary staff layoffs matthew driscoll is editor of asian aviation a civil aviation magazine he says 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 'd 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 don boston is a professor of and fries and you know what geography at the university of birmingham here in the u.k. he joins us now via skype from which to share thanks so much for being with us now i gather you've been studying that the effect on the climate that some of these reductions in flying and and other effects of the coronavirus are having well why what's the biggest thing that you've noticed. so what's very interesting is that

there's a huge debate on about climate change and its impacts and we have got a very make more sorts of interesting exciting statements but nothing she has said we can see from the satellites and see from space but at the moment there's been a significant impact of covert 19 that we can see from space and from satellites as nitrogen dioxide outside levels across china collapsed from january the 22nd when transportation in various emitters began to close down and you expect any of those changes to have a lasting effect the key thing is that some people and some companies may adapt and may change so what this might mean is that responsible businesses begin to think about right shoring approaches rather than having extended and dispersed highly fragmented supply chains that link say the u.k. or germany or the united states back into china begin to bring production back closer to consumption do you think though that that needs to be a political decision because after all as you know recently defect also have

a an effect on the economy if that if air travel is down and so on you could have a kind of an effect. to continue with so that politics is going to have to come into this but dealing with the virus and dealing with climate change is both a political problem but it's also an individual household problem so individuals will need to change governments will need to change businesses will change in terms of kind of isolating positive aspects of this disease is that something that people you know want to do at this stage. we're going to see positives for a whole series of small companies across europe and i'm growing quite rapidly so there's a small company in limerick that manufactures facemasks it's currently hiring and growing and expanding because of the difficulties of sourcing such products from china so providing a key component a key provider for the european market so local firms that are providing local products that are in need that have difficulty using extended supply chains are

going to benefit do you think businesses might end up being more efficient based on what you suggested or i think businesses are going to have to do at least 2 things one is work out how to deal more effectively with remote like the open market and then 6 secondly shift their productions with more on line. thank you very much indeed to professor john bryson for your thoughts on the subject thank you. now after 2 months standoff iran has agreed to send ukraine the black boxes from a downed passenger plane of the jet was shot down by the iranian military in early january killing all 176 people on board iran's civil aviation authority has also invited other countries to read the data or thought it eventually admitted to mistakenly downing the plane after initially claimed claiming it wasn't responsible turkish president richard type at one says he's spoken to russia about violations

of the cease fire in northern syria turkey and russia back opposite sides in the war and have agreed a buffer zone between the 2 sides in italy problems at a one made it clear that he would not shy away from resuming military action if the truce is not respected. whatever drill so there have been small violations of the ceasefire 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 show the same sensitivity but if the others do not keep their promise we will never shy away from giving a much harsher response the 15 year old palestinian boy has been shot and killed by israeli forces after they tried to break up a protest near the city of nablus demonstrators had been trying to fend off illegal settlers who were eyeing the area as a future outpost need to bring him reports from the occupied west bank. made wasn't even born when the fight over his village of starting. the 15 year old was killed

defending his home. this video appears to show him being shot at the head by israeli forces with this is save a teenager was killed from close range. another protester remains in a critical condition dozens of others were injured in the confrontation. as i'm covered in the blood of a young man who was shot twice in the head i don't know if he's alive or not palestinian protesters gathered a jumble of army and mountain near the city of nablus early on wednesday protesters say israeli settlers are trying to seize control and build another illegal outpost up israeli media reported that right wing israeli archaeologists were planning to tour the area but the israeli army refused them permission 1st is say is really is used different ways to lay claim to the land and organizing tours is one of them

they say the fight over judgment about me it's back to the late 19 eighties illegal israeli settlements are usually built on health tops and it is 190 meters jungle of autumn is one of the highest in the area. postin is see it's another way of projecting power and control over palestinian surroundings israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly promised to annex parts of the occupied west bank palestinians say the only way to fight israeli expansion plans is by protesting them on the ground there pretty melters you know the occupied west bank. israel's president has urged the country's opposing political leaders to come together in a unity government to avoid a further election from minister benjamin netanyahu is center right bloc failed to win a majority in last week's vote the 3rd in less than a year is main rival benny gantz also has no clear path to majority despite the

support of the left wing alliance and the joint arab list president riven rivlin has until next week to pick a candidate to form a government for a force it is in west jerusalem he says against his bid to form a minority government just became more difficult. if benny gantz can shore up the support of all those within his own block plus the support of all 15 of those palestinians really 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 leader of the good ship party one of those within his bloc only levy because his she says she will not submit to a government won't 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 couldn't do 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 half citizen of israel and given what has been said by both 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 palestinian israeli joint list an important message from the president about how arabic citizens of israel should also have the votes counted in the presence. after a series of delays afghanistan's president has issued a decree to release $1500.00 taliban prisoners inmates will stop being freed on saturday in return the taliban will hand over $1000.00 afghan troops last month the

u.s. signed a deal with the taliban and securing peace in the country the armed group promised to begin talks with the afghan government but the taliban says it won't start negotiations until $5000.00 prisoners are freed the afghan government says a further 3 and a half 1000 will only be released if conditions are met. separatists in cameroon have launched a series of deadly attacks over the past 2 weeks it's the latest escalation in a 2 year battle which we armed groups from the english speaking amazonia region and government forces they want to break away from the rest of cameroon which is largely french speaking in exclusive interview our desires nicholas haq spoke to the leader of the embers only in defense force who are claiming responsibility for the latest attacks. the moment just before sunday's attack. prison guards from the women's jail where armed separatists are locked up are marching to governor takes to the podium praising cameron's government 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 the defense force has agreed to talk to us. lucas admits his armed group is behind the killings of hundreds of cameroonian soldiers we have a right to existence with. dignity and. to me

the. human rights watch accuses camera 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 whole families 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. 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. more than a 1000000 are displaced and thousands have been killed with many others caught in

a spiral of violence because hawke al-jazeera. australia's highest court is hearing a final appeal from the disgraced roman catholic cardinal over his sex abuse conviction the 78 year old former archbishop of melbourne george pell is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 quad boys in the 1990 s. he could gauge reports. 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. in georgia the catholic church on hope approach the acquittal the fact an acquittal

of a manifest. in late 2818 poll was found guilty of sexually abusing 2 quiet boys in the 1990s 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. by many and 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. still to come. as the coronavirus pandemic stops fans across europe from attending games english clubs carry on regardless with thousands traveling through space in front of those champions league match.

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not for sport. thank you so much sean while the european champions league matches on wednesday were very different approaches to managing the coronavirus pandemic. i found weren't allowed inside as parasang amounts of doormen in the part of france but it didn't stop around 3000 ultras welcoming the same bus before kickoff us despite france banning meetings of more than a 1000 people. heading towards the final whistle on the brink of the quarterfinals i and around $3000.00 athletes go madrid fans when a crowd of $54000.00 at anfield for their game against liverpool in spain also level matches are being played behind closed doors as yet no restrictions on sporting events in the u.k. this one's until extra time 11 on aggregate. wednesday's english premier league

game between manchester city and asked or was postponed asked our players came into contact with the olympiacos team owner at last week's europa league game and he's since tested positive for corona virus the club confirmed some squad members who haven't been identified have gone into self isolation somewhat ironically olympiacos are still being allowed supply english seem walls like just arrived in greece to take them on in the europa league on thursday no fans will be allowed at the match in athens and football's not the most of course it's cause what makes everything in seems of the supports in the ground that's what we play for that's what we play to do too and things opposed to make sure that they're right so that's the biggest disappointment book at the same time sort of numbers could work for the whole season so it's looking forward to in terms that tie a bow when you look at it without our fans who were part of this was it was a disappointing most. the golden state warriors will play in front of empty seats

on thursday as their game against the brooklyn nets becomes the 1st in the n.b.a. to take measures against the coronavirus pandemic last year's n.b.a. finalists announcing on wednesday that all vents at their chase ends at home in san francisco would then be off and so at least march the 21st californian city has banned or gatherings of more than a 1000 people it comes as team owners meet with league officials that aside overall policy in the n.b.a. including the possibility of moving teams to cities with outs confirmed cases of the virus but one of the u.k.'s biggest horseracing meets is going ahead regardless more than a quarter of a 1000000 fans will attend this week's show and festival with no restrictions in place about the size of public gatherings last year's runnerup police were exploring a surprise so when the day's feature race that was the queen mother champion chase . coronavirus is there making its presence felt ahead of the opening race of the formula one season in melbourne 3 teamwork is in itself isolation one mclaren staff

member and 2 from same house have been tested after showing symptoms organizes gave the green light to sunday's race in australia with around 300000 spectators expected to attend practice qualifying and the grand prix we spoke to f one journalist philip duncan who's in melbourne. the news today that 3 people have been tested for it is not in anyone's mind. one bosses who are already under a bit of scrutiny for going ahead of the race when across the world we've seen a lot of sporting events cancelled drivers who have to meet exclusion zone around them when they conduct their media to cease to murder drugs being told not to take any selfies with fans whilst there's also sessions at the drive is usually to fans they will see it being cancelled there's definitely a feeling of amit i think in the paddock coming you've got people from all over the world traveling here to 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 silly ferrari out of the story. who are also in the types of supply perelli but all flown in from italy and tonight the israeli government now banned all. travel probably sleep so it's not the usual sort of that sort of party atmosphere that we usually have here for this race it being the 1st group create of the season. well the presidents of tokyo's olympic organizing committee has again insisted the games will go ahead in july you're sure our mori who is a former japanese prime minister has been undergoing hospital treatment he left his response an interview given by one of his own board members or a uki takahashi he said the olympics should be delayed. but 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 all sportsmen and women are getting used to being asked about

all aspects of coronavirus the details once when a new level head of the one day cricket series between india and south africa which gets underway on thursday south africa's captain mark boucher asked if is sorry quince in the caucus to his team would still be using saliva to help shine the match ball we've been tested obviously on our way. i think will still show on the ball i think our doctors our team doctors and management have made sure to all but. don't have grown of ours so we'll still attend to that and will keep the ball shiny ok there's high scores looking for now let's get back to lauren in london. andy thank you very much indeed and that's it for me darren taylor this news hour now be back in a moment with another full round of the day's news to join if you can thanks for watching.

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