al-jazeera. well i walk into this news hour with me richelle carey at our headquarters in doha coming up at the world health organization says the corona virus outbreak has become a pandemic the government's still are not doing enough to control. all countries could change the course. also had rockets hit in the rocky base housing u.s. and coalition troops killing suman eric and personnel and one from britain. disgraced hollywood mogul harvey weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for

rape and sexual assault a punishment praised by his accusers. the corona virus outbreak has been labeled a pandemic by the world health organization. says he is alarmed by the spread and severity of the flu like disease and the lack of action to combat it johns hopkins university in the u.s. but worldwide infections of well over 125000 china has the most followed by italy iran and south korea almost 67000 people have recovered from the illness but 4615 have died and stocks have taken another hammering on wall street the dow jones and s. and p. 500 indexes have fallen roughly 20 percent and just 3 weeks christen salumi is in new york she will tell us more shortly we're also going to speak to white house correspondent kimberly how had a national address by u.s.

president donald trump 1st though this report from neve barker. this is daily life under lockdown in italy people employing patients protection and distance all good measures that country should practice according to the world health organization but not enough as they declared covert 19 is now a pandemic. has been licensing this outbreak around the clock and we're deeply concerned by the alarming level of spread and severity and by the island to mean a level is in action. we have that for the med be our system and that 19 can be. used as a pandemic was started in china has now spread to more than 100 countries but 90 percent of cases are spread over just 4 nations iran is one of them where more than 300 people have died south korea is another where 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 has imposed further restrictions closing all stores bar food shops and pharmacies this is a crisis not just for the country's creaking health system but also its economy. italy will still remain a unique region and italy can find but now we also closing down all commercial activities except for grocery stores and pharmacies there is no need to run to buy food in supermarkets there's fear too in france as the number of cases creep up children still in school are encouraged to wash their hands by the health minister himself but the virus has already reached the heart of government the culture minister is infected and 5 others are being tested president micron avoided shaking hands as he prepares to move the country to face 3 of its response closing more

schools and restricting transport. across the continent classrooms are empty in spain france and germany have shut schools in their most affected regions italy greece romania and ukraine have sent home their entire student populations as germany confirmed its 3rd death from the virus the government's message was that people must make sacrifices to their social lives to protect the elderly warning kovac 19 will test health care systems across europe in the us if you will start this we have to understand the virus is here there's no immunity from it 60 to 70 percent of the population could be infected if the situation continues in the u.k. health minister has tested positive for cope with 19 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 is business as usual and to help the annual budget promised 39000000000 dollars 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 he barkha al-jazeera and the white house correspondent kimberly halkett so since this all started and there have been mixed messages coming from donald trump he'll say one thing publicly he'll contradict a medical official then i'll say something different on twitter he is going to address the nation in a few hours what do we expect him to say. it's not clear what the president is going to say specifically we 1st got indication that he would be giving this oval office address in prime time in the united states what he was meeting with bank executives he was asked if there would be travel restrictions it was also asked if there would be any sort of health or economic and now smith that would be coming down that's when the president said that he would be talking about all of that in the upcoming primetime address so that was the 1st indication this

was coming down but no specifics have been given now we do know that lawmakers on capitol hill have been taking the lead in terms of trying to put together some legislative remedies in terms of trying to help ordinary americans potentially who may have to stay home who normally don't get paid for sick days also children that need to be fed that we're counting on getting those meals at school how all of that is going to be addressed so we suspect given the fact that there have been discussions between the u.s. congress and also the treasury secretary steve mission that perhaps some sort of deal has been worked out but we have not been given any specifics in the midst of all of this we do know there is a possibility that this white house has been mulling over and that would be declaring a national emergency to free up disaster funding some $40000000000.00 in that regard as well we also know another idea being floated is to delay the day or the deadline for americans to pay their taxes but again these are all rumors there has

been nothing concrete awaiting specifics from the president who as you point out has been rather confusing if not contradictory in terms of the message about coronavirus when he said one thing coming out of the oval office or even on twitter in contradiction to public health officials. with the latest on the white house can really welcome back to us and thank you. kindly reference to the markets an economy let's check in with chris and salumi who is live on wall street or it's been an incredibly stressful day for all for a lot of people what's the latest there. yes stressful day after a stressful week if there's one thing that markets don't like it's uncertainty. we are now officially in the united states in what's known as bear market territory that means that the markets have dropped 20 percent from their highs in february ending an 11 year bull market or period of growth so pretty stressful day things started off lower amid the uncertainty over how the united states was going to

address this growing issue this spreading virus it got worse when the w.h.o. called this a pandemic and that's where we ended up the markets lower across all 11 sectors indicating just how widespread the concern about the economic impact here is not surprisingly airline stocks are down boeing down more than 18 percent today said that it would be not hiring any new people and taking other measures to preserve cash amid this crisis tech stocks financial stocks also going down considerably energy as well oil prices remain a big concern less people traveling means less demand for oil and also we've got this price war going on between saudi arabia and russia that's driving down prices as well so that's

a concern and midst all that financial institutions like goldman sachs and now and saying that they're going to lower their growth forecast all of this weighing on investors and leading to this very down day on wall street i should point out that a bear market does not guarantee that a recession will follow it's not the same thing it's not automatic but it's a bad sign and that's what has a lot of people concerned and investors no doubt will be looking for some reassurance from the president when he speaks later ok. christen salumi with the latest there from wall street kristen thank you robert scott is with the economic policy institute a think tank based in washington d.c. we appreciate your time very much so 1st let's talk about there are so many huge events that are being canceled i mean massive events where there are people's budgets to rely simply on that one event happening with these events being canceled

are there a lot of small businesses that just won't survive this that may be the case i think much much bigger concern is the fact that there are tens if not hundreds of thousands of workers who are going to be affected many of these are minimum wage jobs and industries like travel and tourism and restaurants they're going to be left without wages they don't have any reserves to fall back on unlike many small businesses so. this is the 1000000 dollar question that perhaps no one really has the answer to how likely is this to drive us into a global recession. i think it's quite likely we're going to see a downturn i think though it's important to point out that this is very different from the great recession 20082009 in this case i think the downturn will be short and sharp will last as long as the epidemic does and it's ringback sort of more like a hurricane than a great recession we're more likely to come out quickly as spending resumes in the

economy but that depends in part on how governments respond around the world if we get the right resources to the right people so that we can recover quickly and what of that the show has been very critical saying that they don't think that governments are doing enough to stop this so this really remains largely open ended we don't know when this is going to end how much does it matter what governments do and actually just the words and leadership in language that they use as well. well i think there are 2 key dimensions to the response 1st we have to provide all necessary resources for medical care and more importantly the public health response there is no buyer there is no a vaccine available there are no treatments known all we can provide is basically palliative care to make to treat the symptoms for people who are very sick but 'd we do need 'd to get out public resources to practice so for example

quarantines and to isolate people who track lead to disease this is the best way to stop the spread right now on the economic side we really need to get resources to those who need it most the things we can do right off the bat we can require companies to provide paid sick leave this does 2 things it gets resources to the low wage workers who need it those who don't have sick leave and the 2nd thing it does is it take it tells workers if you're sick stay home we don't want you spreading the disease around so requiring paid sick leave is critical the other thing that we can do is directly inject cash into the economy the president's proposed things such as payroll tax holiday but that will just dribble out into the economy over the next few months we need a big injection of cash now what president bush did in 2008 was issue cash payments $800.00 for family and $300.00 per child we need something like that but

larger today especially for the low income workers who are going to be hardest hit absolutely they will be the hardest at they really feel like they can't take it robert scott thank you so much france i really appreciate it thank you. and kuwait is closing its international airport in response to the virus it'll suspending all commercial flights for 2 weeks starting on friday it is the latest in a series of steps for the gulf state shutting down the government as well as gatherings and markets in jem's kuwait has 72 confirmed cases and the number of confirmed cases in qatar has jumped significantly from 24 to 262 the gulf country's health ministry says the infections are among foreign workers to live and one residential complex and it was one of the so had on. the contrary health minister confirmed today that 238 new coronavirus cases have been registered among residents you mix with the 3 cases announced positively last sunday as they all live in the

same compound the ministry of health made it clear that a new confirmed cases have been subject to quarantine as part of the precautionary measures since the discovery of the 1st 3 cases. as a lockdowns to listen china's obey province where the current virus was 1st found south korea has discovered a cluster of infections in the capital seoul scott heiler reports. despite ongoing disinfection efforts throughout south korea there's been a reverse in the downward trend of coronavirus cases the largest cluster yet discovered in the capital seoul at least 90 workers at a call center tested positive they worked in a building near a transportation hub in the southwest of the city home to 10000000 koreans. eppy dimmy on a just and so city officials are conducting an investigation they are also taking measures such as cell phone scene and diagnostic checks on those who are in close contact with the infected and in australia the prime minister announcing that italy joins china south korea and iran on its travel ban list australians and foreigners

with residency visas returning from italy will face a 14 day self quarantine italy itself has effectively put itself into lockdown with travel now and this largely causes that loop we already had the enhanced screening measures that are in place. and a remarkable rescue in southeast china after being buried for 69 hours a man pulled from the rubble of a hotel for virus patients in coron team 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. the rest of the day's news is ahead a 15 year old palestinian boy is killed by israeli forces defending his home against illegal settlers. still in frustration a shortage of petrol is not the only crisis confronting sudan. thousands of paris st germain fans gather to support their team in the champions league despite the

game being played in the empty stadium to stop the spread of crown of violence. the a. military base in iraq has killed 3 personnel 2 from the united states one from the u.k. about $800.00 small rockets fired from the back of a truck at camp taji which is 27 kilometers north of the capital baghdad a dozen coalition personnel are being treated for injuries camp taji is a former republican guard base which has been used by the us since its capture in 2003 scar someone holton who is in baghdad so it's been a house significant is this. well this is the deadliest and most significant attack since the escalation of us iran tensions here in iraq in december and january those tensions piled into a series of tit for tat attacks between the u.s. and iran here on iraq is for culminating in the assassination of iranian general

i'm still in money as well as. the deputy leader of the iranian backed popular mobilization forces here in iraq not coincidentally march 11th would have been the 63rd birthday of stolen money and although no group has claimed responsibility for this attack so far we've had several iranian linked groups speak in the past few weeks following the end of the 4 day mourning period threatening fresh attacks on u.s. troops also threatening attacks on iraqi security forces that work together with coalition troops and of course we have seen the several rocket attacks on either u.s. embassy or bases take place but it is quite unusual for such attacks to be this accurate we haven't really seen these numbers of people injured or even killed in these latest attacks or this is quite a significant event so what is the risk of an escalation here. well many people

fear that this deadly attack could once again result in a series of tit for tat attacks and we've already seen a reaction not in iraq but in syria very close to the iraqi border there was a strike on positions of the popular mobilization forces very shortly after the attack on the tire base now many of these iranian backed groups that operate both in syria and iraq so what is interesting is that we saw a reaction in syria the what remains to be seen whether the united states would actually strike in iraq this time around the same way it did following the deadly attack on the k. one base in kirkuk back in december which is what set off this series of retaliatory retaliatory attacks in the 1st place now the situation has changed quite a bit since then 1st of all there was 6 a serious escalation to very dangerous levels that many people did not really expect then traced fears especially here in iraq of an outside war between the u.s.

and iran there has also since been a vote in the iraqi parliament to demand the departure of foreign troops and those negotiations are still ongoing so all of this will affect the extent to which the u.s. will respond to this deadly attack but of course we had u.s. officials repeated on regular bases that they do reserve the right to defend its troops here especially if they feel that the iraqi government is not doing enough to do so. with the latest in baghdad there is not a thank you. a 13 year old palestinian boy has been shot and killed by israeli forces after they tried to forcibly break up a protest near the city of nablus demonstrators have been trying to fend off illegal settlers who are eyeing the area as a future outpost that abraham reports in the occupied west bank. made wasn't even born when the fight over his village of people started. the 15 year old was killed

defending his home. this video appears to show him being shot in the head by israeli forces witnesses say the teenager was killed from close range. another protester remains in a critical condition dozens of others were injured in the confrontations. palestinian protesters gathered at a jumble of army and mountain near the city of nablus early on wednesday protestors say israeli settlers are trying to seize control and build another illegal outpost israeli media reported that right wing israeli archaeologists were planning to tour the area but the israeli army refused them permission. palestinians say israelis used different ways to lay claim to the land and organizing tours is one of them they say the fight over germany dividing me dates back to the 1980s illegal israeli settlements are usually built on hilltops and at 890 meters generally for them is

one of the highest in the end of the. posting is see it's another way of projecting power and control over palestinians are around us. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu has repeatedly promised to annex parts of the occupied west bank palestinian state the only way to fight israeli expansion plans is by protesting them on the ground there breaking al-jazeera the occupied west bank. israel's president has urged political leaders to say compromise as evidence consultations to decide on and their prime minister benjamin netanyahu center right bloc failed to win a majority in last week's election the 3rd in less than a year parties have paid for their recommendations for prime minister and the president will decide by march 17th or phosphorus and lester islam with war on the political maneuvering taking place it's pentagon's can sure up the support of all

those within his own bloc plus the support at least 15 of the palestinians really parties from outside the government not join a coalition but support a minority government from outside that would get him $62.00 and that is what he's trying to get he needs to beat look at 58 but least one seat and that has become much more difficult given the approach that's been taken very recently. of ne the leader of the gas ship r.c. one of those within his block or the 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 in blue and 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 is being said by both only let me have a 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 honest in his ready joint missed an important message from the president about how arabic citizens of israel should also have the votes counted in the process. that's grace hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault allegations helped spark the global need to movement atika haim reports. that 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

a message to the government to show the sun moving. just like the sun. any potential figure it's going to take. your issue. so i clearly think the writing weinstein's attorneys are promising to appeal 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 marriage serve you know 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 they have to stop helping to show the scope of the problem and for now weinstein showing the world the potential consequences disgraced rejected and likely destined to die behind bars. al-jazeera and the news ahead has been dead for 8 years but the fight against his conviction for the lockerbie bombing 3 decades ago is still alive. a lot of the time to clear his name the most senior catholic to be convicted of child sex abuse appeals to australia's highest court as current virus spreads in california the golden state warriors took on the

1st team in the n.b.a. to announce they will play behind close doors. hello there is more rain due for california but the current rain band running up through the appalachians is this little mass here that's going east was not significant the california rain isn't in the dollars this law for the size is from san diego where i sort of area and down into the heart california but it is significant but all sydney rain here for public couple of months they may well produce flash floods up in arizona and beyond was of course the high ground and the next system then comes in just across the border expects the cascades was right on the coast of course san francisco stays dry these 2 days the rain for the size and in the states isn't particularly heavy but is a contrast here that might produce something rather nasty one to watch i think for

the panhandle of texas. we are seeing flooding as you well know in dominican republic that massive clouds going to the way nice so we should be better weather indeed it is but you're not out of the woods yet the potential for more thunderstorms anywhere and his partner is there includes puerto rico but further west as dryish picture go to scatter shot for honduras nicaragua costa rica but nothing more than a scattering the bigger ones are in southern colombia been a big hailstorm recently and still in the amazonian basin a good spread of developing thunderstorms. but. a journey both dark perceive you luckily there's a very for everybody there's a lot of corruption and beautiful lake and beautiful lady you have to be very patient and what is also the same as a symbolic is how i was introduced to it when my father and my mother on our farm

king for her the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from heaven an hour just. americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the truck parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they are on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on u.s. politics and policies a matter of fact on the world. context these are the 3 story telling of the biggest issues. you should do it again.

and these are the top stories right now they were all health organization has labeled a coronavirus outbreak a pandemic it says there alarmed by the spread and a lack of action to combat it the virus has now killed more than 4000 people this market's dropped again on wednesday overcurrent a virus fears the dow jones slid into a bear market territory after closing more than 1400 points down at present all trumps expect speaks in an outline a plan to stimulate the economy attack an attack on a military base in iraq has killed 3 personnel troops from the u.s. and one from the u.k. about 18 rockets at the coalition base in taji north of baghdad a dozen personnel are being treated for injuries. some more now on the terminology being used to describe the corona virus outbreak which is also called cobra 19 a pandemic is it is that a spreading through many countries around the world at the same time the last one

we saw was the h one n one virus nearly 10 years ago it killed about 284000 people mostly in africa and southeast asia an epidemic by comparison affects a smaller geographical area and sees fewer infections for example the 2003 sars outbreak was an epidemic that killed 774 people are going interview with the with al-jazeera spokeswoman margaret harris was keen to explain what they have announced . it's very important that we do 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 and everybody who's been in contact with somebody who's infected and ensure that those

people then quarantine self isolate and do not continue to spread it in your communities. to report on what this classification really means that 19 can be contacted are used as a pandemic a word that the world health organization avoided using for weeks and now for the 1st time in more than a decade the w.h.o. says the new corona virus that spread across 6 continents in 114 countries fits description of a new global pandemic. blunder make these annoyed awarded to use lightly or carelessly it's awarded a lot if misused can cause and reasonable fear or and justified acceptance of the fight is over leading to unnecessary suffering

and death the w.h.o. no longer officially declares a pandemic the label doesn't act to have serious or diseases it merely defines it as one that's spreading widely last time the world saw pandemic was during the outbreak of the edge one n one virus nearly 10 years ago. it was during the 1st world war in $1800.00 that the deadliest pandemic in greece in human history for us to period the spanish flu which killed at least $50000000.00 people and infected a 3rd of the world's population with this time the w.h.o. says even though the world has never seen a clone of virus pandemic before it's also never seen one that can be controlled at the same time i think they're saying to all governments really need to get ready really no kidding need to implement a measures to swell the spread in your 'd own country and so some countries have.

been denying that their country the rest percent have no cases when that's probably not actually true so i think you're a saint really you have to get ready and there is hope that if countries and people work together to prevent the disease from spreading the impact of the crown of our spend i make can be limited. all to 0. as the spread of the coronavirus stops travel worldwide airlines are experiencing severe financial turbulence hong kong's biggest carrier is warning of substantial losses to come if they pacific has already been badly hit by political unrest this past year now the passenger slump caused by the virus is grounding 2 thirds of its international flights asian rival korean air says it's fighting to survive cabin crew are being told to take a voluntary leave 80 percent of its international services are grounded quantas

a slashing a quarter of its international operations the australian carrier says the slump could cost $100000000.00 lost in profits and the region air has cut $3000.00 flights between now and june warning a temporary layoffs at the critical as editor of asian aviation it magazine explain why some airlines will be hit harder 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. they are 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 hit 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 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 hundreds of millions of people are and some form of isolation due to the coronavirus organizations has it's important for them to try and keep that

daily routines and stay connected to the outside world and the stories coming out of core in 10 or more hopeful than you'd imagine as reports. 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 and he can get it today on after 3 days of high temperatures and simply taking some feeble remedies i no longer have symptoms 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 need a child 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 but. 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 a 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'd prefer to stay home a week or 2 more or even longer if i could prevent anybody from getting this. 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 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 wu han 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. saudi oil giant aramco is facing a wave of criticism after photos of a migrant worker dressed up as a hand sanitizer dispenser or shared widely online on social media people call the display classis racist or even a form of slavery and the statement around co condemned what it described as

abusive behavior and said the company took strict measures to prevent it from happening again after 2 months standoff iran has agreed to send the black boxes from a downed passenger jet to ukraine that iran's delegation at the international civil aviation organization says other countries have also been invited to read the data the crimean passenger plane was shot down by the iranian military in early january killing all $176.00 people on board authorities admitted mistakingly downing the plane after initially saying they were not responsible. a posthumous appeal for the only man convicted in the lockerbie bombing is to be allow former libyan intelligence officer of tell us that. he was found guilty of mass murder in 2001 for his involvement in the bombing of pan am flight 103 over the town of lockerbie scotland and reports. abdel baset l. mcgraw his family have long pushed to prove his innocence now 8 years after his

death and more than 30 years after the look of the tragedy they 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 a dental fight 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 for me this case is about 2 families mine and bassett's behind them seem to lie the needs of 25 of the families in applying for a further appeal 31 years after the event itself we need the church. he 1st appeal his conviction in 2002 but this was refused 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. believed 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 hour 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 bread and petrol shortages and sudan are again causing long queues and a lot of frustration similar shortages last year helped fuel the revolution which ended omar al bashir starting your war now the new governments coming under increasing pressure to morgan ports in the capital khartoum. queues of cars at petrol stations are a common sight in sudan's capital drivers waiting for hours just to fill up their tanks to be able to get on with their lives. and. there is no time for work we did a cage all our time to queues either for 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 that the money is 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 had its own passengers are waiting longer and longer waits for a ride because there are fewer buses passing through there stuck at he was at petrol stations around the capital. buying bread can also mean a long queue the currency shortage affects imports of wheat flour and in and if you know i don't know they've given us that much 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 bread shortages last year sparked protests that eventually led to the ousting of longtime president already so dance cash strapped and social 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 randy has gotten a one off if if it's an issue of politics and management of the ruling coalition has many parties that range from far left to far right each with their own views and approach to the economy and management wise no one wants to take a bold decision that may fix the situation but will create a temporary shock no one wants to take any blame if things go wrong. while the government struggles to find the right approach the weeks of nationwide 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. others been a number of deadly attacks on camera in the past wait for french speaking government forces an english language separatist have been at war for 2 years i was exposed to the leader of the armed group claiming responsibility for the latest attacks. the moment just before sunday's attack. the 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 i'm visiting in defense force has agreed to talk to us. just about show lucas admits his armed group is behind the killings of hundreds of cameroonian soldiers we have a right existence with a right to dignity and life and come home. 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. 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 it is not just like casualties or. 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 nicholas hawke. high court where former treasurer george pell is fighting to overturn a sexual abuse conviction he was jailed last year offenses dating back to the 1990 s. reports on camera. 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 upright the fact an acquittal of a a man of innocent man in late 2818 poll 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 an 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. people could come and. despite being a convicted sex offender george pell is still a cardinal. 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 out and sports coronavirus pandemic stops fans from europe from attending games english clubs carry on regardless of her son's awful story in just

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time for a sport with andy thank you very much the european champions league matches on wednesday word salad see very different approaches to managing the coronavirus pandemic. i found one so out inside is perry sentiment big brush adornment apart their products but it didn't stop around $3000.00 altars welcoming the team bus before kickoff that is despite france banning meetings of more than a 1000 people she willing to mail to reach the quarter finals. in england around 3000 outlets going to dread fans when a crowd of 54000 at anfield for their match against liverpool back in spain all top level games are being played behind closed doors as yet there are no restrictions on sporting events in the u.k. athletico going through in this one after extra time wednesday's english premier

league game between manchester city and also was postponed also players came into contact with the olympiacos team owner at last week's iran pertly 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 all still being on supply english team walls like just arrived in greece to take them on in the europa league on thursday no fines will be allowed at the match in athens. if it was not the most of course it's cause what makes everything consumes of being supports in the ground us what we play for that's what we play to do too and things opposed to make sure that their votes are thus the biggest disappointment book at the same time a sort of now this could work for the whole season so. we're looking forward to in terms of the tie a bow when you look at it without our fans who were part of this was it's out of this point thing was 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 events 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 comes this 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 1st of all with no restrictions in place about the size of public gatherings last year's runner up a little 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 team workers in south 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 sporting events cancelled drivers who have to meet exclusion zone around them when they conduct their media duties to murder drugs been told not to take any selfies with fans whilst there's also sections of the drivers usually to be fans they were also being cancelled as stephanie is feeling of amit i think in the paddock coming you've got people from all over the world travelling here to it or it's a melbourne for this weekend when most countries are vitally against travel you've

got members of seems from silly ferrari out of the story. who are also in the types of supply it really all flown in from italy and tonight the israeli government now banned all. travel crummy sleep so it's not the usual sort of that sort of party atmosphere that we usually have to this race it being the 1st group create the seat and all the presidents of tokyo's olympic organizing committee has again insisted the games will go ahead in july your share of mori who is a former japanese prime minister had been undergoing hospital treatment he left his response an interview given by one of his own board members are e.u. key takahashi he said the olympics should be delayed come on you know 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. and sports men 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 starts on thursday south africa's counts and asked if his team would still be using saliva to help show in the match ball we. don't know when you know. i think we'll still on the ball think all doctors on team doctors the management to make sure the tool. don't have grown about will still and will keep people shiny ok that is always cool for now more lights and of course coronavirus is the story of the day if you go to our web site al jazeera dot com we have all the latest you need to know on the on the very front page of our website as it's you can see there the judge has declared this a pandemic within the next couple of hours for expecting to hear from the u.s. president donald trump as well we're all over the story every angle keep it here on al-jazeera had much more news for you on the other side of the break.

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