tv NEWS LIVE - 30 Al Jazeera March 12, 2020 7:00am-7:34am +03
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and die fast range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of the network's journalists on al-jazeera. we will be suspending all travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days president donald trump blocks travel from europe to the u.s. saying it will protect americans from the corona virus outbreak. given albus is on says there are live from doha also coming up the world health organization has labeled the break a pandemic and warned governments are not doing enough to control it. also ahead rockets hit an iraqi face housing u.s. and coalition troops killing 3 and injuring many more. disgraced hollywood mogul
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harvey weinstein is sentenced to 23 years in prison for right and sexual assault punishment praised by his accuser it's. u.s. president donald trump is suspending travel with europe for 30 days to combat the coronavirus pandemic the unprecedented restrictions won't apply to the united kingdom and it won't affect u.s. citizens or pendant residents and his national interests he accused a you of not responding quickly enough to the virus house correspondent can the help of reports and it would with the number of u.s. corona virus infections continuing to rise president donald trump made out a rare oval office address to announce new travel restrictions to blunt the spread of the virus to keep new cases from entering our shores we will be suspending all
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travel from europe to the united states for the next 30 days these restrictions will also not apply to the united kingdom truck justified the strict measures by blaming european leaders now dealing with a mass outbreak of cases. the european union failed to take the same proportions and restrict travel from china and other hot spots with financial markets falling and a rising number of americans staying home from work trump also urged the u.s. congress to put in place measures to provide financial relief if we are vigilant and we can reduce the chance of infection which we will we will significantly impede the transmission of the virus us corona virus infections now number more than a 1000 prompting local governments around the country to cancel large public gatherings closed schools and even ban fans from sporting events late wednesday the
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n.b.a. suspended its season after a utah jazz player contracted the virus and in another stunning announcement hollywood superstar tom hanks and els t.v. and his wife also tested positive in recent weeks trungpa sought to calm public fears by downplaying the severity of the corona virus likening it to the common flu even as his own public health officials continue to say just the opposite i think if you count all the cases of minimally symptomatic or asymptomatic infection that probably brings the mortality rate down to somewhere around one percent which means it is 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu despite this dire prediction trump stopped short of declaring a national emergency a move that would free up more than 40000000000 in emergency funds to help local
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officials struggling to contain the virus last week congress approved just 8300000000 for treatment and supplies just after his address the white house announced president trump is taking his own precautions canceling trips to the u.s. state of colorado and nevada can really help at al-jazeera the white house. financial markets tumbled again on wednesday as investors fretted about a perceived lack of action by wall davis to respond to the economic threat posed by the virus let's take a look now at how asian markets markets are doing right mcbride is with us from seoul rob so we've had the longest bull market in history now it appears we are in bed market territory what can you tell us. that's right this selloff has been continuing across all asian markets throughout this thursday morning if anything the selling seemed to speed up as president trump was speaking
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from the white house everybody here all investors seem to be spooked by this draconian measure of stopping all travel from your up to the united states it's really underscored for people here just how severe this situation is there was some relief that a similar ban was not ports on travel from south korea and japan to the united states but there is i think an awareness here that as this continues to be felt in the united states that that remains a possibility so certainly a lot of uncertainty here all that uncertainty has fed into the market sentiment and we've seen all the markets basically heading in the same direction that the nikkei index in japan that is down more than 5 percent of the kaspi is now down by 5 percent as well that's the index here in south korea and close behind them is the hang seng index in hong kong losing nearly 4 percent of its value and across in
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shanghai that is also down the composite index there by more than one percent and you have to remember that these are all markets that have taken a real battering over the past few weeks as this coronavirus has played out here in asia the nikkei index for example is no shed nearly 25 percent of its value the kaspi is off 20 percent to where it was just a few weeks ago robbie you are in south korea and had been one of the hot spots in the early days of this outbreak what are the numbers like there now. they continue to show this downward trend here in south korea and also in china where the outbreak 1st began cross something of a milestone in kuvo province this is the epicenter in china where they have reported for the 1st time 8 new cases thursday this is the 1st time they've had
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a single digit rise in new cases across china as a whole they've had 15 new cases some of those been cases that have been imported and of course china has been looking at introducing quarantine measures now on people coming into china from more infected places than china itself though obviously trying to stop a resurgence and more outbreaks in china from south korea we're seeing a new number of new cases reported 114 for thursday that again is this continuing decline but health officials here are warning they're cautioning against over optimism that what they don't want in the last thing that they want is people letting up on all of these preventive measures that are being taken across south korea and having a further cluster or a further outbreak meanwhile across in japan. he is the japanese cabinet secretary has announced that despite of the pandemic being announced around the world there
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are still no plans to delay or even cancel the tokyo olympics drawled for july preparations for those olympic games he says will continue as normal thank their drug mcbride there live from salt. and a lead and a half $1000000000.00 stimulus package has been unveiled in australia a minister scott morrison says he hopes it will start the economy from slipping into recession most of the money will go to small and medium sized businesses especially depends heavily on imports exports and tourism china. the back reports now from london on the w h o's pandemic announcement gives us the latest picture out of europe this is daily life under lockdown in italy people employing patience 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
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a pandemic. has been has just seeing this outbreak around the clock and we are deeply concerned by the alarming level of spread and severity and by the island 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 impose 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.
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it's 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 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
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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. 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 he barkha al-jazeera. todd curtis is the chief executive of s.x. dot com an online airline safety and security size he says trump's new travel ban
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that's the banning of people coming from europe we spoke about is unlikely to curb the spread of the virus in any major way. frankly the threat in europe that is the prevalence of coronavirus in europe is not as significantly lower in. like the united states europe and most of the world as that is at the very early stages of the epidemic in fact in the u.s. the number of cases is increasing roughly about 30 percent a day meaning it will double at least place in a week and the virus in short the virus is already in the united states preventing travelers in coming in may have some effect on reducing the spread but there is already enough cases in the united states widespread throughout the united states that i'm afraid the travel ban from europe will have very little effect it's not just aviation suffering as
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a result of the virus the cruise ship industry is also reeling hundreds of cases have been linked to vessels across the wild as government struggle to contain the pandemic in florida where several major cruise companies are based elderly passages of being told not to voice the gallacher reports now from miami. the port of miami is known as the cruise capital of the world with a round $6000000.00 people passing through these facilities each year it's a huge part of florida's tourism industry and one that's been growing until now at least 5 cases of the coronavirus have been reported on vessels in south florida prompting the u.s. state department to issue new guidelines the elderly and those with underlying health problems are being told not to take cruises advice that may last for the forseeable future at brickell travel management staff remain optimistic manager gus machado says passengers are canceling their cruises but the numbers on trust ik i think the media's gotten a little more say and scaring people away more than
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a really yes i'm telling you right now our cancellations are and i'm not going to lie that but it's not crazy cancellations i would say we're down 2530 percent max so we still have 70 percent of our customers traveling. share prices in the industry have been hit by the crisis but president trump says he's committed to providing assistance without going into details and we are working very closely with cruise line industry 10 to 30 very closely taking very strong steps in terms of people going on and going off but they're spending a lot of money and they are working very hard and we're we're we're going to be telling their industry cruise lines are now putting protocols in place including deep cleaning and screening passengers disembarking from a recent trip affected by the virus say they felt safe there protecting us that probably taking the path of that yes we were delayed a day but you know what it was fine you know if i didn't feel they really took good
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care of us or didn't i didn't feel too well nothing too bad at all really vice president mike pence who's in charge of a task force tackling the coronavirus has told cruise companies to do more and with over $150000.00 jobs in the industry the stakes couldn't be higher. over the next few weeks around a dozen ships due to dock here and authorities say they're ready there are now plans in place to convert a warehouse into a medical facility if needed but would avoid the kind of isolation passengers off the coast of california experienced but the impact on the industry and florida's economy could be dire gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. let's take a look now at situation in the middle east saudi arabia has suspended flights to the e.u. residents and citizens have been barred from traveling to europe as well as parts of africa southern asia and southeast asia the kingdom has 45 confirmed coronavirus cases. neighboring kuwait will close its international airport for 2 weeks from friday the gulf states also shutting down all but essential parts of the government
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and banned gatherings and markets cafes and gyms has $72.00 confirmed cases so far . the number of cases here in qatar has jumped significantly from 242262 the health ministry says the infections are among foreign workers who live in one residential complex. alan it was at the sahara is gene the country health minister confirmed today that 238 new coronavirus cases have been registered among residents you mix with the free cases announced positive 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 still ahead here on al-jazeera taxing times once ignited farmers anger and argentina. and fueling of frustration a shortage of petrol is not the only crisis confronting saddam.
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hell if the next day or so most of the rabid and instead will be quiet but look what is coming in over egypt that developing storm will be a pretty nasty things 1st of all it's got a cold wind with it and then it's got the potential to live 800150 minutes of rain in 24 hours that will produce flooding in maybe cairo alexandria anywhere really as a flash flood in north and egypt and it will spread its wings further east to 1st a few showers in jordan and north and saudi a strong southerly coming up to me that normally means pretty nasty weather and then it expands itself sort of north and south is for iraq to live on generally with the miserable weather all the way up into southern turkey and the concentration right likely to be moved into was western iran come saturday to say
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to the science it's mostly quiet still 35 in mecca but it's sunday 35 in about 25 and a rather quiet sadar. that was seen some big showers recently developed in lake victoria and this is one blooming interesting westwards it's a good scotch and it's around towns and there possibly rwanda the aussies certainly but this general area is seeing widespread share activity which is spreading north into south sudan and ethiopia anyway crissy flushed out for not. an app that sees for the blind and a robotic arm for the disabled. a young australian engineer is inventing tools to help people gain independence. but he's also added that we'll pull up to the ability to recognize objects all the fire and save that for well for us
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a vision we'll be able to recognise everyday objects women make science robo gals at the so for on al-jazeera. to not. got you knowledge is there a reminder of our top stories this hour donald trump says travel from europe to the u.s. will be suspended for 30 days the u.k. is excluded from the new restrictions and american citizens and planet residents want to be affected. global markets dropped again on wednesday over coronavirus fits your style joins closed more than 1400 points lower tokyo's nikkei index sank by more than 5 percent chance announcements. the world health organization has
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labeled the corona virus outbreak a pandemic virus has now killed more than 4600 people worldwide. some of news now and a rocket attack on a military base in iraq has 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 hit camp taji which is 27 kilometers north of the capital baghdad doesn't coalition personnel are being treated for injuries camp taji is a former republican guard which has been used by the u.s. since its capture in 2003. the u.s. house of representatives has approved a war powers resolution to limit president donald trump's ability to wage war with iran the measure requires that trying to get congressional approval before engaging in further military action in the drys intentions was to rock the resolution as a response to the president's decision to order the assassination of iranian
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general some sort of money january. former u.s. military intelligence analyst and whistleblower chelsea manning has tried to commit suicide 2 days before her haring she was jailed in may last year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating wiki leaks manning served 7 years in a military prison for leaking secret documents to the web site though is say she's recovering in hospital. this christ hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault allegations helped spock the global me too movement had a hand 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
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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 show. just like the story. in the potential for underage girl they. were. shocked when you think of the really 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
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a sense of happiness i guess. 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 assault 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 rejected and likely destined to die behind bars. al-jazeera. a 2nd day of hearings has begun and australia's high court where former vatican treasurer george pell is fighting to overturn his sexual abuse conviction a 7 to 60
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a sentence for sexually assaulting 2 quad boys in the mid 1990 s. hell who once helped elect popes is the highest ranking catholic church official ever convicted of child sex crimes. soybean farmers in argentina will begin a 4 day strike on monday to protest against a tax increase they say will cripple the industry the government says the measure is needed to help those struggling the most with an economic crisis that is a ball reports now from sun the last. farmers are on strike in argentina hundreds of them gathered in this assembly to express their anger against the government of l. one of the finance minister the after he announced a 3 percent increase in exports taxes on one of argentina's main crops the soybean . of their. lives in the province of some he says the government is making a mistake in the arab league not to work i don't mind paying more taxes but the
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government wants more and more in argentina you work and work in the government takes away 70 percent of your income we cannot continue like this when the government says that this strike is an act of violence in a country that is currently struggling with a recession and is on the verge of defaulting on its sovereign debt but this farmer saying that they play a crucial role in argentina's economy that an increase in exports taxes is excessive i would force many of them out of recession. argentina is one of the world's top exporters of soya and or in the government wants to increase export taxes on soya from 30 to 33 percent in what it describes as a solidarity move to help those who are suffering the most oh you have no cause you know they take money away from us and say they want to use it for those who are struggling but that's not true we already pay 35 percent of income taxes plus property tax in export texas. base of vegetable producers went to the city to
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donate some of their harvest. came here to give away the vegetables to support the government's redistribution mischa's some soya produce is not thinking about the country they're only thinking about their own income even believe that back in 2008 members of argentina's agricultural community clash with a former president cristina fernandez de kirchner who is now vice president when she tried to increase taxes farmers held major. will test that force the administration to back down but the situation is different now senator have. you noticed this is a fight for survival for many producers much of the crop production happens on rented land and producers have to pay for rent on top of all the taxes also some have the added cost of transport as their farms are far away from the ports. argentina's farming community is vast and while there are large companies running the business there's also small scale producers. they are the ones who vowed to
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continue fighting against a measure that they believe is unjust that is how will. argentina. sudan's new government is coming under increasing pressure petrol shortages in the country similar shortages last year helped fuel the revolution which. points from the capital cost to. 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. 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
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tanks to be able to go around. so dan has imported fuel since the oil producer lost 75 percent of its output when south sudan became independent mine years ago all was the main source of the country's income the sudanese pounds started to lose value against the dollar now the government is struggling to pay for imports of fuel which it largely subsidizes the impact of fuel shortages can be seen at bus stations like this $1.00 in the capital 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 for flour i mean and if you know i don't know they give me less than what 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 dense cash strapped on social administration says
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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 randy has gotten a one off if it's an issue of politics and management of the ruling coalition has many parties that drink from far left to far right each with their own views and approach to the economy and management 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 coups for
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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 oh khartoum. result is there are these are the top stories u.s. president donald trump is suspending travel with europe for 30 days to combat the chronic virus endemic the unprecedented restrictions won't apply to the united kingdom and it won't affect u.s. citizens or permanent residents and his national address use the e.u. is not responding quickly enough to the virus taking early intense action we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the united states than are now present in europe. the european union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from china and other hot spots as a result
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a large number of new clusters in the united states were seeded by travelers from europe. global markets dropped again on wednesday of a coronavirus fares new york style johns closed more than 1400 points lower tokyo's nikkei index sank by more than 5 percent after trump's announcement. italy has ordered all shops except food stores and pharmacies to close to stop the spread of corona virus this comes as the government ordered a national lockdown restricting travel for the country's 60000000 people. a rocket attack on a military base in iraq has 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 tarzi is a former republican guard base which has been used by the u.s. since its capture in 2003 the u.s.
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house of representatives has approved a war powers resolution to limit president donald trump's ability to wage war with the wrong measure requires a congressional approval before engaging in further military action and rising tensions with tehran. a 2nd day of hearings has begun and strikes me as high court where former vatican treasurer george pell is fighting to overturn his sexual abuse conviction he's serving a 6 year sentence for sexually assaulting 2 quad boys in the mid 1990 s. pal who wants help elect pope says the highest ranking catholic church official ever convicted of child sex crimes. the headlines more news to come here on al-jazeera off to the stream do stay with us. latest news as it breaks the fos train service is supposed to start from early next year but the corona virus outbreak could put the brakes on the project and slow down construction with details coverage we know that 40 people were killed in the
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violence and officially 350 people were injured from around the world they wanted to create a logistical problem for the greek will sorceries but they were enough to make many of the people of lesbos aren't yours. welcome to the stream ok millions of people in zimbabwe all short of food and clean water and he's putting pressure on a government that is already battling to revive a flagging a call to me what is needed to pause involve way back from the brink you can send your thoughts through to each a of every part of today's conversation. there is little sign of an end to zimbabwe's worst drought in years and now more than a half of the country's population is short of enough food.
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