one o one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools finally getting an education on al-jazeera. 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 the drastic measure to tackle the coronavirus could cause economic disruption . india to impose a stringent travel suspending almost all visas for a month after the world health organization declared the covert 19 outbreak a pandemic. hello i'm adrian for the good in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a rocket attack on iraq e bay skills to americans at

a british soldier. the straightest high court delays a decision on cardinal pell's last ditch effort to drop his conviction in a child sex abuse case. 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 are working to limit the further spread including the u.s. which is imposed a travel ban to most of europe for a month president onil trunk blamed the e.u. for the situation and 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 drastic step suspending almost all visas to the country there are $62.00 confirmed cases there it will also quarantine all arrivals from 7 virus hit countries there are now more than 126000 cases across 6 continents johns hopkins university in the us is tracking the spread of the virus china has the most infections followed by italy iran and south korea more than 68000 people have recovered from the illness will have more on trumps i'm president of announcement shortly but 1st we'll turn our focus to asia where we have open pride standing by for us and so on to lizabeth poor autumn in new delhi elizabeth let's start with you talk us through the precautions then being taken by the indian government in

the country. unprecedented precautions adrian saw for the world health organization classified corner virus as a pandemic the indian government took the. decision it's never done this before to suspend all existing visas for all foreign nationals bar and just a few exceptions so as of 12 g.m.t. on friday and until april the 15th all of foreign nationals no foreign nationals will be allowed to enter. diplomats for the united nations a few international organizations that have certain type of employment pieces and as you mentioned all incoming passengers including indians coming from anywhere and having been to china. south korea france germany and spain will be quarantined for a minimum period of 14 days and the indian government is all indians whether here or abroad to avoid all non-essential travel saying they could be quarantined for 14 days upon their return there are 60 cases of the coronavirus in the country

16 of them are actually italian tourists for the past week here in the capital new delhi all primary schools have been shot there are 5 cases in delhi and indeed administered kashmir all educational institutions have been closed there is one case i believe in that part of the country and as well as those proportions the indian government has talked of the vacuity taking its citizens from iran there is something like 2000 there they brought 58 back a few days ago but they can't do this whether it's in a italy where they're also planning to send them to with medical teams they can't bring people back into the country until they send medical teams on board to make sure that they don't have coronavirus you talked about the closure of schools and education establishment what impact is all of this having on daily life when you do . well it's important to remember adrian that india.

already experiencing a the indian economy a massive slowdown and the tourism sector would of course be really hard hit it's going to add to its woes it grew at its slowest pace in a decade last year the 2 india's 2 main stock indices that's the nifty and the sensex have have essentially crashed and it's also having an impact on other industries india is the world's biggest supplier of generic drugs but most of the ingredients to make them come from china and since chinese imports stopped in february the production has dropped and that led to the indian government banning the export of $26.00 pharmacy medicines. including paracetamol to keep the whole market supplied and also things like you know you can't find hand sanitizer or face mosque it's very difficult to find them here but

the indian government has taken the the precautions that we spoke about earlier those big ones because in a country where they want to stop people with a corona virus who might have corona virus from coming into the country because once they do it is going to be very difficult to limit its spread in a country with 1300000000 people there is a before and i'm reporting live from new delhi liz many thanks indeed will financial markets tumble to get it asia in response to the economic threat posed by the virus let's go live now to seoul. mcbride is there as you're begins its trading day rob how markets doing there right now. we've seen selling right across the board throughout the day on all the markets here in asia soon as trade opened it took its cue from wall street overnight with selling and then it seemed to intensify as we got to president trump speaking from the white house real concern here about this travel ban it seemed to take everybody by

surprise a complete ban on travel and just what that entailed between europe and the united states even though later clarification that this wouldn't affect trade or cargo flights really didn't seem to settle nerves here lead to that kind of sentiment where people are thinking this is going to impact the global economy we saw it with the all of the trade going basically and they one direction the japan's nikkei and the kaspi that's the korean stock stock index both of those plummeting by more than 5 percent at one point during the day recovering slightly at the end but closing down by around $44.00 and a half percent the hang seng index from hong kong close behind it down 4 percent the shanghai composite down nearly 2 percent now these are the big markets in asia and it takes an awful lot of selling to create this kind of percentage swings on

the big markets this kind of volatility lety with the smaller markets in asia wreaks absolute havoc for example in bangkok we've seen share prices tumbled by more the 9 percent in a single day's trade so real real selloff on all of the markets and these are markets that are already depressed as asia has been handling the effects of this corona virus for example the nikkei index in japan almost down 25 percent on where it was just a few weeks ago similarly the cost be losing almost 20 percent of its value. to the spread of the virus itself what's the latest on the government response across the region. well as the financial numbers have been polling this thursday the numbers of the corona virus that has actually caused it and continue to be encouraging the south korean officials here were asked at their daily briefing what difference it makes now that this global pandemic has been

announced and they said well quite honestly very little because south korea has already been operating at its maximum alert level for nearly 3 weeks now ever since it got this mysterious cluster of cases down in the southeastern city of daegu that of that obviously became the massive outbreak and the continued efforts of this maximum alert level continue to be seen here again we're seeing this gradual decline that we've had for well over a week now with the thursday figure of new cases down to 114 so we're continuing to see a gradual decrease although officials are warning against complacency also in china we've had something of a milestone down in a province the epicenter of this outbreak for the 1st time we've had an increase of new cases in single digits just 8 new cases in who 15 across china and finally from china from

a couple of their ministries from the health commission they have confirmed what everybody has pretty much believed by now that where they seem to be past the worst and that they are past the peak of this outbreak. reporting live from seoul rob many thanks indeed as we reported earlier the u.s. is suspending travel to and from europe the e.u. is warning that the move could cause economic disruption in a national address president trump accuse the bloc of not responding quickly enough to the virus our white house correspondent kimberly helka reports and with the number of u.s. corona virus infections continuing to rise president donald trump made our rare oval office address to an out. new travel restrictions to blunt the spread of the fire us to keep new cases from entering our shores 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 can really help at al-jazeera the white house we're going to weather a. we don't want this thing to spread more than possibles coping in quarantine how those in self isolation helping to reassure others. taxing times will tell you what ignited fama anger in argentina. was streaming into that western side of here just rolling in from the atlantic city by as

a cloud coming through here while the system after another tightly packed ice about all came wind are rolling through and they'll be some snow on the high ground pushing across scotland as you can say that and also into scandinavia that came when that will continue to dry those showers right the way through across northern parts of europe through the baltic states that to the southeast keep close on that one some very stormy weather rolling away into that eastern side of the mediterranean over the next few days likely to cause some flooding for friday central parts not see bad bands of towns of maine they will start the way southward and east with bright skies to come back in behind you see the next system pushing into the northwest as we go on into friday down into the southwest 22 in madrid so lovely weather 22 in athens as well but said they saw a side of the med that does give course the concern as we go on through the next couple of days a lot of cloud showing up on the satellite picture just rather northeastern corner of europe pushing down so northeastern parts of africa pushing down into the

northeast of africa lots of very heavy right chance of some flooding maybe 50 millimeters of rain there into the fall of the east and beat it. join the global conversation. expand their brains maybe have a different view there is a dialogue that women in cambodia are in fact telling their here we don't know how much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to treat everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a law right here in the state we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progress and not perfection amount is iraq.

and again this is not so much of the main news this out the us spends trouble for most of europe for 30 days the world health organization to close the coronavirus and make the e.u. warns the move could cause economic disruption that india imposes stringent measures by temporarily counseling or tourist visas the government says that it will also quarantine travelers arriving from 7 virus hit countries in an attempt to contain the corona virus. or pandemic has now affected 114 countries in the number of cases outside china has increased 13 fold in the past 2 weeks to 0 steve barco 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 but around the clock and we are 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 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 the start. 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 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 hundreds

of millions of people are in some form of isolation the world health organization says that it's important for them to try to keep up daily routines and to stay connected to the outside world. reports now on how some a coping. 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 up to it on good 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 travel 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 prefer to stay home. a week or 2 more or even longer if i could prevent anybody from getting this is.

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 for 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 will hon 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 all refusing to be panicked by the new disease internship. other news to americans and a british soldier have been killed by a barrel of rockets fired at a military base in iraq all the personnel of being treated for the injuries that

count taji north of the capital baghdad no one has claimed responsibility for the latest in a series of attacks where foreign forces based our reporter some of the faulting in baghdad says that there's 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 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 care of kirkuk back in december which is what set off

this series of or tell you a 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 expect then traced fear is 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 for 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 strongly as high cost to lay the final verdict on appeal by the 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. the highest ranking catholic church official ever convicted of sex crimes nicola gauges outside the court in canberra and says a decision might not be made public for months. all of the arguments today have really been based around a questioning some of the issues that the defense yesterday at the defense really questioned the credibility and reliability of one of the former quiet boys who was sexually assaulted by hell the other one died in 24 chain 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 this reliable and credible the jury sold that and there's no reason why the michael what should not believe him either now obviously these 2 days of hearing has come to an end now it's been very

a very significant case in this trial but this appeal process is very far from over that's because the justices decided to reserve in on making a decision on this case and that means that we may not see it back from them for months so essentially many things would 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. chelsea manning has attempted suicide 2 days before the former u.s. military intelligence analyst was due in court lawyers say that manning is recovering in a hospital the whistleblower served 7 years in a military prison for giving secret u.s. documents to wiki leaks and was again jailed last year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating weekly. farmers in argentina are on a 4 day strike in protest of the government raising taxes on one of the main

exports soybeans the cash strapped government needs more revenue as it again threatens to default on its massive debts to foreign lenders as observers so there's a bow reports now from santa fe farmers walkouts merely adds to the economic crisis . farmers are on strike in argentina hundreds of them gathered in this assembly to express their anger against the government of the finance minister the after he announced a 3 percent increase in exports taxes on one of argentina's main crops this. this is their. lives in the province of something he says the government is making a mistake you'll be able to ignore your work i don't mind paying more taxes but the 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 the whole thing 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 could force many of them out of business. argentina is one of the world's top exporters of soya and or in the government wants to increase exports 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 doubt by take money away from us and cya 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 donate some of their harvest. came here to give away our 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 than it. is 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. are the ones who vowed to continue fighting against a measure a believe just. argentina in

chile riot police have battled the latest anti-government demonstrations on the 30th anniversary of democratic. protests which began in october gets higher metro fares upgraded to demands for major economic changes and president sebastian pinera us as a nation. it is terry with us hello adrian from going to here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera the u.s. has suspended all travel for most of europe for 30 days after the world health organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic the e.u. has warned that the move could cause economic disruption that india has imposed stringent measures by temporarily canceling all tourist visas the government says also quarantine travelers arriving from 7 virus hit countries in attempts to contain the corona virus more now from al-jazeera as elizabeth broderick is in new

delhi. as of 12 g.m.t. on friday and on april 15th no foreign nationals can enter india apart from if 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. 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. essential travel to americans and a british soldier have been killed by rockets fired at a military base in iraq or the personnel of camp taji north of the capital baghdad are being treated for injuries no one has claimed responsibility for the latest in a series of attacks with 4 forces based chelsea manning the former u.s. military intelligence analyst says tried to commit suicide in prison 2 days before

a court hearing into leaking secret documents more to say that manning is recovering in hospital but whistleblower was jailed last may for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating wiki leaks. the story is high court has delayed a final verdict of appeal by roman catholic cardinal george pell who's fighting to oversee his conviction for sexual abuse a 78 year old former archbishop of melbourne is serving a 6 year jail sentence for molesting to cooperate is the 1990 s. well as the highest ranking catholic church official ever convicted of child sex crimes. those the headlines of these continues here on out as they are after the stream next.

welcome to the stream i'm femi oke a millions of people in zimbabwe are short of food and clean water and is putting pressure on a government that is already battling to revive a flagging a corner me what is needed to pause involve way back from the brink you can send your thoughts through twitter as you change every part of today's conversation. there is little sign of an end to zimbabwe's worst drought in years and now more than half of the country's population is short of enough food about 5 and a half 1000000 people in rural parts involve way more than $2000000.00 more in urban regions of face regular hunger in recent months and the.