traveling the extra mile where are the media go go we go there and we give them a chance to tell their story. the. we made a life saving move with early action in china now we must take the same action with europe. donald trump's announcement draws a sharp response the e.u. warns that drastic measures to tackle coronavirus could cause economic disruption. in india too imposes stringent travel curb suspending all visas for a month after the w.h.o. declared covert 19 i'll break a pandemic. alone give it all thank you for joining us this is on this there live from doha also coming up a rocket attack on an iraqi base kills 2 americans and

a british soldier. the senior most catholic cardinal convicted of child sex abuse makes a last ditch effort to clear his name we'll have a live update. it is the world's biggest health crisis of the decade the corona virus outbreak has now officially been labeled a pandemic as the disease continues to spread around the globe countries around the world working to limit further spread including the u.s. which has imposed a travel ban to clear most of europe for a month president donald trump blames the e.u. for the situation but he downplayed warnings of a potential recession. taking early intense action we have seen dramatically fewer cases of the virus in the united states than are now present in erupt. the european union failed to take the same precautions and restrict travel from china and other

hot spots as a result a large number of new clusters in the united states were seeded by travelers from europe. india has also taken a dress to step suspending almost all these to the country 62 confirmed cases there will also quarantine all arrivals from 7 virus hit countries there are now more than 126000 cases across 6 continents take a look at this this is from johns hopkins university in the u.s. which is tracking the spread of the virus you can see there the total number of confirmed cases this these are live numbers 126258 over in this column in the whites we have the total number of deaths 400 sorry 4638 in the green there the total number of people who have recovered 68266 we've also got over here by country the top number of total confirmed cases coming from china than

italy iran south korea france spain germany and then the u.s. ok i believe we have correspondents in 2 different locations we're going to have more a little later on trump's unprecedented announcement shortly but there we have it is with piron i'm standing by for us in new delhi where brought mcbride and sol 1st though let's go to elizabeth piron of the who is as i say it is in new delhi for us just run us through what is happening there in india what measures are in place. so came after the world health organization classified coronavirus as a pandemic the indian government took the unprecedented step of suspending all existing visas to foreign nationals barring just a few exceptions so as of 12 g.m.t. on friday and on to april the 15th no foreign nationals can enter india apart from

if their diplomats work for the united nations or have. employment visas the indian government has also said that all incoming travelers including incoming travelers indians haven't been to any destination. coming from any destination but having been to china. south korea france germany and spain will be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and all indians whether they hear or board to avoid. essential travel in saying that they might be quarantined for a minimum period of 14 days upon their return to india now india has $68.00 confirmed cases so far 14 of them italian tourists and as well as the latest precautions that are being taken by the government which have seen headlines around the country saying india quarantines itself you know essentially closing itself off to the world we have had all primary schools and shot at least for the last week there are 5 cases in delhi and all educational institutions have been close in

indian administered kashmir where there is where there is one case the indian government is also evacuating its nationals from something like 2000 indians who are $58.00 back at the end of last of just a few days ago actually but before it does that and whether it's from iran it's also planning to bring back nationals from italy it actually has to send medical teams to test them to see if they have a virus before bringing them back now all of this is going to is already seeing an impact to the economy which has seen a significant is experiencing a massive slowdown and both of india's 2 main stock indices are in freefall but the government feels that it has to take these proportions to stop people from people who might have coronavirus from entering a country because once they do it will be hard to limit the spread amongst

1300000000 people i think that with for on the very much cross developments from new delhi financial markets tumbled again as mentioned response to the economic threat posed by the virus joins us live from seoul. so talk us through how the asian markets are reacting. that's right well there has been throughout the day a massive selloff across the asian markets as donald trump was making his address from the white house seemed almost as though the selling actually speeded up for a time. there was a stream of concern here about the imposition of this travel ban between europe and the united states and then the need for clarification that it wouldn't affect the shipping of goods and cargo but there's still a real concern here that it's going to impact further on the global economy so

that's where investor sentiment was and basically all of the trade was going in the same direction in markets throughout asia the biggest markets here the nikkei in japan and south korea's 'd kaspi both of those early trades lost more than 5 percent each there has been something of a recovery by the close of trades with the nikkei down 4 and a half percent the cost be down nearly 4 percent it's close behind that the hang seng index in in hong kong down more than 4 percent in the shanghai index down 2 percent so these are the biggest markets in asia it takes an awful lot of selling to move these markets by these percentage points and of course that amount of volatility causes absolute havoc with some of the smaller markets in bangkok for example a full 9 percent has been wiped off the value of shares there we have seen various people looking at taking measures to try to put stimulus back into some of the asian economies the governor of the bank of japan has held an emergency meeting

with shinzo rb the prime minister of japan the japanese of course have already put in place various stimulus many measures for its economy that was already suffering well before this. virus related sell off there isn't that much they can do to further intervene because of course interest rates in japan are at 0 despite. the japanese are still upbeat about one of the big things for 2020 which is their summer olympics. suger the chief cabinet secretary in his daily news briefing on thursday insisting that preparations for the olympics are still going ahead no plans for them to be scrapped or even delayed from mcbride there with a licensed from sol thank you well as we heard earlier in the show the u.s. is suspending travel with europe the e.u. is warning the move could cause economic disruption and his national address trump accuse the bloc of not responding quickly enough to the virus

a white house correspondent can they help with this report. and with the number of u.s. corona virus infections continuing to rise president donald trump made our rare oval office address to announce new travel restrictions to blunt the spread of the virus to keep new cases from entering her sure's we will be suspending all 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 precautions 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 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 trump has 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 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 kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house saudi arabia has also suspended flights to europe residents and citizens have been barred from traveling to europe as well as parts of africa southern asia and southeast

asia the kingdom has $45.00 confirmed coronavirus cases neighboring kuwait will close its international airport for 2 weeks from friday the gulf states is also shutting down all but essential parts of the government and banned gatherings in markets cafes and gyms it has 72 confirmed cases so far. the number of cases here in qatar has jumped significant they from 24 to 262 the health ministry says infections are among foreign workers who live in one residential complex and then it was out of the sun. 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 the new confirmed cases have been subject to quarantine as part of the precautionary measures since the discovery of the 1st 3 cases. dr eric toner is a senior scholar at the johns hopkins center for health security he says the worst

is yet to come the most people have a mild illness much like influence. and they're not going to come to the attention public health authorities it's not until you get hundreds of cases that there's any chance that a country record cases as probably not until there are thousands of cases they were really become quite obvious i think they'll be a different peak in every country so china r.e.c. not speak. like maybe south korea has well. so it will be it will probably be an outbreak within each country that lasts for a couple months and they don't move on yet it may come back again later. this will continue to spread until most people eventually are infected. still ahead on i was just there on i feel joyous survivor's great right sentence given to

disgraced hollywood mogul harvey weinstein. and he's been dead for 8 years the fight against his conviction for the lockerbie bombing 3 decades ago is still a lot. of. hell of a story continues the atlantic still feeding cloud wind and rain across most of know in europe they still march says it's cold enough for snow for the scottish highlands for process sweden and norway but mostly we're talking rain that rains edging dancer germany through pound and better reuss surface of it is an induced warming trend so the temperatures that are just whopper of it as a potential background on this red bloom here of the hungarian platys is quite extensively with 15 degrees above where it should be for this time of year however

that disappears as that frontal system the cloud band goes south during friday giving some to really inspire a bit of our principal for the telling helps at least in the austrian alps but it's not extraordinary for this time the should be changed weather this however is a little bit strong remark like this developing storm system that's produced a cold northerly wind or then through libya and through egypt is extending its reach right into chad and sudan the potential how to 41 degrees so also a storm develops and produces not really horrible weather for egypt and the levant so the cold to spread away then draw attention to the tune for 41 time to 29 but this is the worst. frank assessments. one thing about these bushfires usage really wiping out the whole climate she informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping down

the truck afloat right now critical debate sequel of those 2 school children don't want the noise on a bogus argument is astonishingly patronize an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning for a new iraq of the new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. you're watching al-jazeera reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. suspends all travel from most of europe for 30 days of the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic president donald trump blames the european union for not contending it

spread quickly and. india imposes stringent measures by temporarily canceling all terrorist bases the government says it will also quarantine travelers arriving from 7 virus the countries in an attempt to contain the run a virus. saudi arabia has also put a number of restrictions on flights residents and citizens have been barred from traveling to europe as well as parts of africa southern asia and southeast asia. front of virus the pandemic has now affected 114 countries and the number of cases outside of china increased 13 fold in the past 2 weeks they've baka 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 has just seeing this outbreak around the clock

and we are deeply concerned by the a lot of mean 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 so that 19 can be contacted are used as a pandemic was started in china has now spread to more than $100.00 countries but 90 percent of cases are spread over just 4 nations iran is one of them where more than $300.00 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.

only italy will still remain a unique region and italy can find but now we're 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 or italy greece remain here in 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 north 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 promise 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. a barrage of rockets fired at a military base in iraq has killed 2 americans and british other personnel are

being treated for their injuries that camp taji north of the capital baghdad now one has claimed responsibility for the camp as a former iraqi republican guard base used by the u.s. since its capture in 2003 reports amount of whole team in baghdad says this concern this latest attack could lead to an escalation of violence. 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 of forces very shortly after the attack on the party 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 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 a serious escalation to very dangerous levels that many people did not really expected and race fears especially here in iraq of an outright war between the u.s. and iran has also since been a vote in the iraqi parliament to demand to the departure of foreign troops and those negotiations are still ongoing for all of this will affect the extent to which the u.s. will respond to this deadly attack but of course we have u.s. officials repeated on a regular basis 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. australia's high court has delayed a final verdict on an appeal by roman catholic cardinal george pell who is fighting to overturn his conviction for sexual abuse the 78 year old former archbishop of

melbourne is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 quiet boys in the $990.00 s. pal is the highest ranking catholic church official ever convicted of child sex crimes but like age joins us for more on this from outside the court and can. the court has delayed a final verdict what more can you tell us. yeah that's right it's been a very long day another very long day of arguments here in australia and it's all been based around the prosecution so the courts lawyers have been trying to convince 7 justices here that this appeal should not be considered and that george pell should remain behind bars the prosecution does believe and has been urging the orse that post conviction should die as it is and that. these fiction should remain full of sexually abusing to live boys in the 1990s in

a mill been cathedral now all of the arguments today have really been based around of course seeing some of the issues that that event surprised yesterday the defense really questions the credibility and reliability of one of the form a choir boy is was sexually assaulted by the other one died in 24 tane of a drug overdose but the prosecution today told the court that there's no reason to not believe this witness he did come across as well liable incredible the jury sold that and there's no reason why the like what should not believe him live up now obviously these 2 days of hearing has come to an end now it's been very very significant case in this trial but this appeal process is very far from all that's because the justices decided to reserve in on making

a decision on this case and that means that we may not hear back from them for months so essentially many things could happen here but getting to the crux of it 7 justices now need to decide over the coming months whether they will uphold the conviction or allow george pell to walk away a free man mcconaughey frost's from canberra thank you. describes hollywood producer harvey weinstein is being sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault the allegations against him helped spock the global me too movement pedicle him 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 he saw there. any potential for it's going to. work. so i clearly think 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 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 me. 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. scotland is to allow it appeal by the family of a libyan man convicted of the $988.00 lockerbie bombing former libyan intelligence officer. my god he died in 2012 a commission looking into the trial has found

a posthumous appeal should be allowed and reports abdel baset told 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 1908 it was on route from london to new york and most of the 270 victims were american the us relatives were satisfied when in 2001 former libyan intelligence officer abdul basset 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 abdel baset behind the scenes a lie the needs of $25.00 of the families in applying for a further appeal 31 years after the event itself we need the truth again i will 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 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 al mcgraw he dropped his appeal and was allowed to fly home on compassionate grounds he had terminal cancer

he died in 2012 we grow his family have always described him as 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. results there and these other top stories the u.s. suspended all travel from most of europe to 30 days after the world health organization declares the coronavirus a pandemic president donald trump blames the european union for not containing the spread quickly enough saudi arabia has also cancelled flights residents and citizens are barred from flying to europe as well as parts of africa and southeast asia. and india has imposed stringent measures by temporarily canceling all tourist visas the government says it will also quarantine travelers arriving from 7 virus

that countries in an attempt to contain the corner virus lizabeth promise a new delhi with the day's headlines. as of 12 g.m.t. on friday and until april 15th no foreign nationals can enter india apart from their diplomats work for the united nations or have. employment as the indian government has also said that all incoming travelers including incoming travelers indians haven't been to any destination coming from any destination but having been rather to china the iran south korea france germany and spain will be quarantined for a minimum of 14 days and all indians whether they here or abroad to avoid known essential travel to americans and a briton have been killed by a barrage of rockets fall out of the military barracks in iraq other personnel at camp taji north of the capital baghdad are being treated for their injuries no

one's claimed responsibility for the latest in a series of attacks where foreign forces. described hollywood producer harvey weinstein has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for rape and sexual assault on state was convicted by new york court last month the allegations helped to spark the global need to movement strategies high court has delayed a final verdict on an appeal by roman catholic cardinal george pell who is fighting to overturn his conviction for sexual abuse 78 year old former archbishop of melbourne is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. hell is the highest ranking catholic church official ever convicted of child sex crimes the news continues here on al-jazeera after a inside story stay with us. 2 of the biggest problems facing and they all the endemic corruption. we listen so if you replace china's enemy of the with that's really vendors we meet with newsmakers and the stories the

back to 0. zeroing the plant full bladder may have putin new legislation paves the way for him to be president for life putin argues staying in power after his term ends will be good for russia but how convinced are his critics this is inside story. hello again i'm james pays 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.