minorities of cultures across the globe so much i take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. world health organization says the corona virus outbreak has become a pandemic the government still are not doing enough to control. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up president has to give a national address he's expected to outline the u.s. government's response to the coronavirus outbreak. rockets in an rocky base housing u.s. and coalition troops killing 2 american 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. a

groan a virus outbreak has been labeled a pandemic by the world health organization. says he's 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. puts worldwide infections at well over 125000 china has the most followed by italy iran and south korea almost 67000 people have recovered from the illness but more than 4000 have died and as weighing ramping up travel restrictions as president ronald trump will be addressing the country in the next hour. at our white house correspondent is covering this so kimberly what do we know about what the what the white house is trying to do with what the president's comments in the last few

weeks to say the least and they've been mixed messages the president says something is medical experts say something else he says something else on twitter what can we expect in the next couple of hours from him. well i know that most americans are hoping for clarity whether or not they can expect that based on so many of the mixed messages in recent weeks leaves many americans doubting they're going to get that but remaining cautiously optimistic even this address was a bit of a surprise we didn't know about it until the u.s. president was meeting with wall street executives here at the white house to discuss some economic proposals to try and help deal with and mitigate some of the fall out from the rattled markets with regard to coronavirus it was then that the president was asked about travel restrictions whether or not there would be any sort of public health declarations made and it was then that the president stead of answering those questions said look i'm going to talk about all of that in my

primetime address so now we await that primetime address as you point out it is due to happen in the next hour we know that some of the things that are being discussed are potentially declaring a national emergency this would free up about 40000000000 in funding to deal with some of the fallout of this as we now know that a majority of u.s. states have been affected more than 1100 cases reported and that number increasing by the hour we also know that there are legislative remedies that house speaker nancy pelosi has been discussing with treasury secretary steve minutia in terms of trying to help those workers who maybe have to stay home and won't get paid how to help alleviate some of the financial strain that is expected for so many americans as this continues to broaden throughout the united states so these are the things we're watching for whether or not we're going to get the clarity still unclear and speaking of clarity less to this make it clear for our viewers this is a statement from the president this is not going to be an event where some of the really can porton questions will be put to him correct. yeah that's right this is

coming from the oval office the last time we remember the president having a similar address was more than a year ago when he was announcing that he would be getting money from the pentagon for the border wall one of his big campaign promises this is something that presidents usually reserved for a very somber serious occasion trying to restore calm in times of crisis in this country often we have sort of referred to the president any past president who has done this is the consoler in chief it's not clear that this president feels comfortable in that role so we're really kind of leaving things open in terms of what we can expect from donald trump as you've pointed out in many cases even today he was looking at this almost as a political crisis versus a public health one referring to democrats on the tweet today from the president that he didn't think that they were taking this seriously certainly top democrats

on capitol hill would counter that and say that's exactly what they've been doing so many are looking to the president to have sort of treat this is other presidents have as a very somber occasion whether or not he'll resist the temptation to point the finger at his critics we have to watch for that ok what the wrap up there from the white house kimberly thank you very about the coronavirus have continued to pummel stock markets new york's influential dow jones index is now 20 percent lower than its recent highs a figure which can signal a recession might be coming for some salumi reports from new york. red alert on wall street as the prolonged coronavirus induced a sell off reached a new low on wednesday after monday's record points plunge the dow jones index ended the day with another huge slump officially pushing stocks into so-called bear market territory meaning that new york's main indices are now 20 percent lower than

their recent highs although most companies took a beating some were hit particularly hard. airplane manufacturer boeing saw a sharp fall in its share price a reflection of the pain the coronavirus is already putting on the travel industry or oil prices also took a hit after saudi arabia again decided to increase production in its price war with russia this is the 1st caused by a quarter numbers but with the world health organization officially declaring coded 19 a global pandemic worsening infection rates across europe and the united states and no clear plan in sight from the white house by the closing bell it was a day when again fears about the coronaviruses impact on the world's economy weighed heavy on investors' minds i think there is definitely another leg to go with regards to this fear and it happens more often than not investors tend to shoot 1st and ask questions later so obviously seen that pan out as as we speak

a bear market doesn't always mean that a recession will follow but with some financial institutions lowering their forecast for economic growth market watchers say it is a worrying sign christine salumi al-jazeera new york people have now been infected with corona virus and 114 countries around the world the number of cases outside of china increased 13 fold in the past 2 weeks in parker continues our coverage. 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 nicer seeing this outbreak around the clock and we're deeply concerned most may be alarming levels of spread and severity

and maybe a lot of mean the level is in action. we have that for a 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. its elite 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 shop schools in their most affected regions italy greece remain here 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 kind we have to understand the viruses 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. a health minister has tested positive for covert 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 the al-jazeera for now in the terminology being is to describe this crime a virus outbreak which is also called covert 19 a pandemic is a disease that's spreading from many countries around the world at the same time the last one we saw was the h one n one virus that was nearly 10 years ago now it killed about 284000 people mostly

and africa and southeast asia and at the demick by comparison affects a smaller geographical area or infections for example the 2003 sars outbreak was an epidemic that killed 744 people propagate the reports on what this classification really means. caracter a is 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 $114.00 countries fits description of a new global pandemic blunder make is 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 our necessary 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 corner 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 measure is to slow the spread in your 'd own country and so some countries have. been denying in. their country that risk or scientists have no cases when that's probably not actually true so i think st 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 krona virus pandemic can be limited. to 0. a rocket attack on a military base in iraq has killed 3 of her sin l. 2 from the united states one from the u.k. about 18 small rockets fired from the back of a truck at camp taji which is 27 more of the capital baghdad a dozen coalition personnel are being treated for injuries as a former republican guard base which has been used by the u.s. since its capture in 2003 sort of altered as more from baghdad. 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 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 carrick 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 a serious escalation to very dangerous levels that many people did not really expected and raised fears specially here in iraq of an outside war between the u.s.

and iran 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. still ahead on al-jazeera he has been dead for 8 hears but the fight against his conviction for the lockerbie bombing 3 decades ago is still alive. and feeling frustration a shortage of petrol is not the only crisis confronting sudan. you've

had the rain and the saw is cool down in quieten down that's throughout all the options of japan to be a few snow showers i think briefly on the western coast of korea the not goes away as far as a 5 degrees still potential for snow on the high ground of north korea other wants is a warming trend that goes for most of central and northern china but the result the sea rain developing further south this band is going to head out into the open ocean rather help towards japan giving taiwan quarter wetting and then sitting over hong kong for a good part of friday to see you into a wet weekend good scratching and a good spread of thunderstorms right in the neic as would be expected this time of the year they come right over into the southern philippines they might show themselves more sir now i think in sumatra and potential and i see that's been the case in the last couple of days but no one place particularly stands out of the current as being at threat or risk from floods there is an increase in the chance of rain in northern india at the moment western disturbance is what it's known as

is producing but it's cloud and rain and snow from northern pakistan or in through kashmir in towards nepal this is a picture for thursday and friday and then induces rain showers in the northeast of india early in the air but still there. a journey both dog. food there's a very forever there's a lot of corruption and beautiful lake the beautiful lady you have to be very patient and would easily says the city has ascended you can see how i was introduced to the one my father and my most origin for king for how the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from heaven on out just 0.

the. washing out is there these are the top stories right now the world health organization has label but current virus outbreak a pandemic that's alarmed by the spread and the lack of action to combat it the virus has now killed more than 4 and a half 1000 people as markets dropped again on wednesday overcrowded virus fears the dow jones slid into the bear market territory after closing more than 1400 points down president trump is expected to outline a plan to stimulate the economy and the next hour that attack on a military base in iraq is still 3 personnel 2 from the u.s. and one from the u.k. about 18 rockets at the coalition base and tashi that is north of baghdad. disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in

prison for rape and sexual assault allegations help spark the global need to movement at equal he reports. 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 for the summer. any potential fingers going to take. your shoes. so i clearly think the liberating 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 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 had. but 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 rejected and likely destined to die behind bars pedicle hain al-jazeera. israel's president has urged political leaders to say compromises him against consultations to decide on a new prime minister benjamin netanyahu is center right bloc fail to lead a majority in last week's election the 3rd in less than a year or faucets and lester's on with more on the political maneuvering taking place over this thank you if benny gantz can sure up the support of all those within his own bloc plus get the support of all 15 of the palestinians ready parties from outside the government not join a coalition but support a minority government from outside that would get him 62 and that is what he's trying for but to get the 1st he needs to beat the luck of 58 but at least one seat and that has become much more difficult given the approach that's been taken very

recently. of the the leader of the gas ship r.c. one of those within his block only livia because his she says she will not submit to a government once supported government that is itself supported by palestinian israeli parties from the outside so the president riven rivlin is still trying to get the 2 main parties we 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 has been said by both lee levy at the cusses and benjamin netanyahu when he was talking about the support of only $47.00 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 of posthumous appeal for the only man convicted in the lockerbie bombing is to go ahead former libyan intelligence officer of dallas said elma cryo assange guilty of mass murder in 2001 for his involvement in the bombing of pan am flight 103 over the town of lockerbie and scotland and they are reports. abdel baset tell 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 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 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 1988 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 they are seen to lie the needs of $25.00 other families in applying for a further appeal 31 years after the event itself we need the truth. grow 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 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 look at the 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 they are from on their anwar and that report he is the lawyer representing representing them across the family it's all the evidence that was hidden from defense lawyers at the time of the trial is still being suppressed. 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 is being reported this

$2000000.00 reward was offered as a home over toward orange juice but whether you want to call it an old if you densify 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 the direction of the crane 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 and even know to date in 451 pages when they arrived at my office this morning what i found was that logical portions of it had been redacted because the united states government the u.k. government the federal republic of germany and intelligence services i think fused consent for the defense in this case to be able to see that material we will of course fight the obviously their own 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 down in president an innocent man who they knew to be innocent but also punished the country of libya and punished its people despite knowing that they were actually innocent of the crime which they wouldn't use of course at a vested interest in this you know who never wanted to see this people come and go it. sudan's government has coming under increasing pressure over food and petrol shortages in the country similar shortages last year helped fuel the revolution which ended omar al bashir 30 your role in morgan reports in the capital. queues of cars at petrol stations are a common sight in sudan's capital drivers waiting for hours just to fill up their tanks to be able to get on with their lives. there is no time for work we did a cage all the time to queues of a fuel or other things i've been here for hours waiting sudan is now just a country of people in queues to help him get he was such

a one as well i've been here since 8 in the morning and now it's 4 in the afternoon our lives have been mostly put on hold as we wait to fill our car tanks to be able to go around. sudan has imported fuel since the oil producer lost 75 percent of its output when south sudan became independent mine years ago owned was the main source of the country's income the sudanese pounds started to lose value against the dollar now the government is struggling to pay for imports of fuel which it largely subsidizes the impact of fuel shortages can be seen at bus stations like this $1.00 in the capital passengers are waiting longer and longer 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 we saw coming here from 7 in the morning to one in the afternoon all more just to get bread it's for our kids at home and no government official has bothered to come and

see why things are like this. just last year sparked protests that eventually led to the ousting of longtime president already so dance cash strapped transitional administration says it's working to bring in hard currency through other sources. it's put together an economic crisis management team with the power to put forward new policies favor of the idea there are other alternatives that the country can go with in terms of policies that can help or provide resources for the people part of the solution we're looking into is to restoring back the amount of money stolen by the former regime as well as getting rid of all the sham security companies that dried up the budget of the country but some analysts see the problems randi he had to get an a as a lofty it's an issue of politics and management of the ruling coalition has many parties that drink from far left to far right each with their own views an approach to the economy and management twice 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 coos for bread and fuel go on and sudan's new leaders need to find solutions before the economic crisis flares into more anti-government anger people morgan are just there a khartoum. truth that the headlines right now on al-jazeera the world health organization has labeled a coronavirus outbreak a pandemic and it's alarmed by the spread in the lack of action to combat the viruses out kill more than 4 and a half 1000 people as markets dropped again on wednesday overcrowding a virus fears that out and slid into bear market territory after closing down more than 1400 points president trump is expected to outline a plan to stimulate the economy in the next 30 minutes or so can really help it looks ahead to trump's address. we know that some of the things that are being

discussed are potentially declaring a national emergency this would free up about 40000000000 in funding to deal with some of the fallout of this as we now know that a majority of u.s. states have been affected more than 1100 cases reported and that number increasing by the hour we also know that there are legislative remedies that house speaker nancy pelosi has been discussing with treasury secretary steve in terms of trying to help those workers who maybe have to stay home and won't get paid a rocket attack on a military base in iraq is killed 3 personnel 2 from the united states and one from the u.k. about 18 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 as a former republican guard base which is being used by the u.s. census capture in 2003 disgraced hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault feinstein was convicted

by a new york court last month allegations helped spark the global need to move meant . lawyer says they will appeal israel's president has urged political leaders to seek compromises in weekends consultations to decide on a new prime minister benjamin netanyahu center right bloc failed to win a majority in last week's election the 3rd election in less than a mere. a posthumous appeal for the only man convicted of the lockerbie bombing is to go ahead former libyan intelligence officer said he was found guilty of mass murder and 2001 for his involvement in the bombing of pan am flight $103.00 over the town of lockerbie and scotland so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera much more news to come in the meantime was turned over a 10 side story. 0

in the cloth full bladder may have polluted new legislation paves the way for him to be president for life. staying in power after his term ends will be good for russia but how could vince on his critics this is inside story. hello again i'm jane spies he's russia's longest serving leader since the soviet dictator joseph stalin and if you're a russian under the age of 20 you've never known another leader vladimir putin's critics fear he's preparing to be president for life the 67 year old has backed a constitutional amendment to reset his presidential term count to 0 allowing him

to run in another 2 elections the lower house of parliament passed the legislation on tuesday russians would you to have their say in.