al-jazeera. i think you know. this is 0. and i'm richelle carey in doha welcome to this news hour which will be dominated by developments in the coronavirus pandemic. i am officially declaring a national emergency. as president ronald shop ramps up his response trying to show he's addressing the outbreak after playing it down for weeks. a state of emergency is already taking effect in spain as other european countries shut out foreign visitors. europe has now become the a.p. send over the pond to me. more uncertainty for sports fans the english premier

league is the latest coronavirus casualty all games are off until april at the earliest. the us president has declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic and says likely he will soon likely be tested after possibly being exposed announcement for his a $50000000000.00 to address this growing crisis that he has actually downplayed hours earlier the world health organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe or italy has the highest number of infections and it's spain a sickly are in an emergency as other e.u. countries close their borders and in 2 hours from now u.s. travel ban from most of europe will come into effect let's begin our coverage with alan fischer who is in washington d.c. so allan donald trump a spent weeks trying to say that this isn't that big of a deal he's used the term hoax he's tweeted

a quick turnaround how effective might this be to really get things done. well with more than 40 deaths with more than 2000 cases they cleared donald trump really had to do something because this disease this virus is changing the face of everyday life in america the experts told them that if they wanted to stop the peak going quite as high as expected he had to do something and he decided this was the step that had to be taken from the u.s. president a dramatic announcement officially declaring a national emergency. 2 very big words with more than 40 dead and the number of infected growing the president has opened up funding include states to take important steps to blunt the spread of the virus some urging every state to set up emergency operation centers effective immediately i'm also asking every hospital in

this country to activate its emergency preparedness plan so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere the hospitals are very engaged but the president refused to accept the crisis is know much greater because testing wasn't more widely available no i don't take responsibility at all because we were given a. a set of circumstances and we were given rules regulations and specifications from a different time wasn't meant for this kind of an event with the kind of numbers that we're talking about. the trumpet ministration is planning to introduce drive through testing there will be a website to tell people if they need the test and we have to get it what's missing is when these new measures will kick in the government's top expert says he hopes these steps will shorten the epidemic speaker what you seen now with this order is that we're going to be able to remove the constraints so that people at the state the local level the individual physician all the way up through the federal

government will have as many constraints as possible removed for them to do everything they possibly can so that we can implement the things that we've been talking about across the city on capitol hill the house of representatives is working on a relief bill to help people impacted by the virus it will provide paid sick leave for those who have to skip work and provide free widespread testing the 3 most important parts of this bill are testing testing testing this legislation to sell a taste for a coronavirus testing for everyone who needs a test including the uninsured. president trump was forced to take action his public life across america is being impacted with sports events canceled schools closed events postponed it's a remarkable step from a man who initially clean coronavirus was being hyped to politically damn each him and his reelection effort thank you very much so alan as you mentioned in your

story there there is a relief bill that the democrats have been pushing where things stand on making this actually happen on both parties perhaps hopefully getting on the same page. well we're told that there was a number of discussions between nancy pelosi the speaker of the house she's a democrat and steve who is the treasury secretary part of donald trump's cabinet we spoke around 13 times during the course of friday at one point don't talk was asked at his news conference is there a deal and he said no the democrats have gone back and things that they had agreed to and he didn't offer any proof to support that but we know that discussions were ongoing between palosi and minutes in for most of friday and then just a couple of hours ago we were told that a deal had been agreed that the house is currently in recess it will be called by the speaker to come and vote we're expecting there to be a bipartisan support for this deal that will go through this is after nancy pelosi

said look if we don't get republican support we'll do this with her own numbers and she has the majority to do that so what happens next well it goes to the senate you would expect that to happen tomorrow but the senate is gone they disappeared yesterday they're off for the weekend the earliest there can be a vote in this is some point on monday mitch mcconnell the republican leader of the senate is jubei in his office then it is up to him to call the vote the good news for him is that don't trump has already acknowledged on twitter in the last couple of hours that he would support any bill what is it going to say what we suspect as nancy pelosi said is going to talk about testing is going to give extra help to people who might lose money because they have to stay home because of coronavirus and they're going to introduce testing that we mentioned testing and then of course donald trump well he wants to see some support for industry he would put particular believes the hotel industry cruise liners airlines they need

a little bit of help and it's also been talking about payroll tax although that seems to fall away in the last few hours we should get more details we're also going to get a vote on at some point in the next few hours ok alan fischer great effort there thank you very much. the u.s. markets rally during president trump's announcement the dow jones closed up 9.4 percent were cooping some historic losses from the day before and london the $5100.00 and michelin surged 8 percent but against it subsided afternoon trading it finished up about 2 and a half percent there was no bounce back though in asia tokyo's nikkei index fell another 6 percent christian salumi rounds up things from new york speaking less than an hour before the end of the trading day president trump sought to reassure americans and investors that his administration was on top of the coronavirus crisis the markets were already in positive territory and remained there throughout trump's news conference at the closing bell all 3 major indices were up more than 9

percent recouping most of their losses from the day before europe's markets also up on the day perhaps most relieved energy companies on the announcement that the u.s. energy department would buy up oil for the country's strategic reserves pushing up crude oil prices as well as energy stocks well a relief rally and also i think the concerns that we all had yesterday i mean the fear and anxiety and the worry that we wouldn't see another day but then here we get this today is is just proof that this market is resilient we will get past this there will be more up days ahead. it was a sharp contrast from earlier in the week when the president's ban on travel from europe with only a vague promise of economic relief for affected industries sent markets spiraling downward more than 20 percent below market highs into what's known as bear market

territory a positive and what has undoubtedly been one of the most tumultuous weeks in wall street history but there's more uncertainty ahead congress has yet to approve a financial package for those affected by the virus and perhaps more importantly new cases in the united states are still on the rise kristen salumi al-jazeera new york brazil's president says he has tested negative for corona virus terrible sorrow was screened after one of his aides contracted the illness the president's communication secretary was part of his entourage during a visit to the us which included meetings with an all trump and vice president mike pence a 30 day ban on by the u.s. on all flights from europe excluding the u.k. and ireland is due to come into effect at 4 g.m.t. that's just under 2 hours from now there been reports of long lines at airports in europe as people try to beat the deadline president trump announced the ban on wednesday he said that you had been slow to react to the outbreak and blame

travelers from europe for infections in the u.s. speak to a channel is kyle bailey who's a former pilot he joins us via skype from butler in the u.s. state of new jersey that is pretty close to a major virus hotspot and the city of new rochelle so before we get to all these aviation questions 1st let me ask you being only 70 kilometers from where new rochelle this town is basically under quarantine what have you seen and experienced . you know i'm 45 miles away from the us the center here you knew russia was pretty much under lockdown in a particular tight radius around the city there there's a although around here in the new york metropolitan area is kind of like reminiscent of 911 it's everywhere there's a lot of uncertainty and fear in the air and it pretty much brings back the feelings we had back on september 11th quite frankly. that's difficult for a lot of people to go through so these these restrictions these travel bans and it

seems to a lay person that yes tribe let's let's close borders let's let's try to get to some sort of containment but it's actually not you know really settled in the medical community whether travel bans make a big difference with something like this what is your opinion you know my take is that all the all the imbalance flights for all countries additionally should have stopped for a short period of time because there is just so much uncertainty every passenger that comes in on an airline flight inbound to the country during this crisis or we're going through you know could potentially be a liability you know here in the u.s. . the government will have to take care of them if they come down with meyer so you know i think all the borders all the inbound flights to the country should you know should have been stopped and micheline. and quite frankly i think you know with the u.k. situation 200 cases there i wouldn't be surprised if we do see the restriction

you know as mr trump is debating right now but isn't isn't a big flaw in the system that you know even at every airport they're not screening i mean i know president trump has said that people are getting screened as they come into the u.s. that's absolutely not the case so isn't this only as effective as if people are screened as well this is going to be a multi-pronged approach. and you know i think this pretty much pretty much took the whole world by surprise this virus we have gone through numerous other types of viruses in the past 20 or 30 years and this one pretty much just popped up and surprised everybody and i think we really don't know what's ahead they say in the next couple weeks is when we're really when it when more tests are out there there could be many more people out there who just aren't tested who actually do have the virus that we're that we're not aware of and that's where the uncertainty is so

what's going to happen in the next 2 to 3 weeks i think is the case and it will be very interesting to see what actually does transpire but like i said i strongly believe that the less people we have in balance the better. you know as the health care system will be strained in the next upcoming weeks we reference how some of what you're just seeing anything experiencing in new rochelle and how quiet things are actually harkens back to 911 quite frankly the thing that hit that the airline industry took after 911 has never been repeated might it might not happen now if this goes on for a long time the economic impact on the airline industry you know i think when this blows over there you know early estimates are saying probably in september this will all be behind us. once it's behind this i think it will be back in full motion and less there is great economic impact where there is

a lot of very high unemployment rates other than that i think it will it will be pretty much resilient and bounce back fairly quickly just from this ban alone you know we're talking $13500.00 flights $4000000.00 passengers on a u.s. loss of about $3400000000.00 in revenue from tourists here in the u.s. kyle bailey aviation analyst kyle thank you very much. thank you. european governments are pulling out draw bridges in denmark as blocking entry to most foreigners while other states impose border checks as in the hayward reports in spain as occurred a state of emergency. closing for the foreseeable future spain is in the grip of the coronavirus crisis and didn't madrid restaurants and shops are being told they'll have to shot only pharmacies and supermarkets will be open from saturday across spain a state of emergency. it is though that. the state of emergency is

a legal tool recognized in our constitution to confront a crisis as extraordinary as that which now faces the entire world and our own country in italy where public life has come to a standstill an entire nation some 60000000 people remain under quarantine. is the desperation to not tell us we must have hope we must be strong and white. experts from china have arrived in italy to help bring in 30 tons of vital equipment from shanghai and experience on how they battle the outbreak. europe has now become the epicenter of the pandemic with more reported cases and is done the rest of the world combined apart from china across the rest of europe measures to stop the spread of the corona virus are being ramped up a ban on public gatherings of more than 100 people is being introduced in france

schools universe is a nursery as well from monday in the u.k. top flight football including the permian has been suspended until the beginning of april after several players a manager has tested positive for corona virus who aren't so nice elation and in a continent which prides itself on being borderless some european union member states and now imposing tight restrictions on. introducing border checks all as in the case of the czech republic stopping power and travel together of course we all want to protect our citizens from the spread of advice so let's look together at how we can do that and how we can do it most effectively. certain controls may be justified but general travel bans are not seen as being the most effective by the world health organisation it's no surprise then that businesses are already taking

a hit the airline british airways says one stop jobs will go as it prepares to do with fewer people traveling attempting to put the brakes on this piracy it seems is getting harder every day emma haywood al-jazeera our own security forces have been given 24 hours to clear the streets of major cities and a renewed effort to fight the spread of this virus state media says shop streets and roads are being emptied are honest with the country's worst affected by the pandemic with the death toll of $514.00 and more than a level $1400.00 infections. more from tehran. the fact is here in iran ever since the outbreak began the country's government a struggle to bring the spread under control you can observe it on a daily basis as the death toll and the number of cases continues to rise president hassan rouhani president rouhani is government has taken criticism over and over again from across the political spectrum and most recently earlier this afternoon

100 members of parliament sent him a letter saying that he should take direct control away from the health ministry into his own hands to try to combat the spread of cold at night in iran there's a real loss of trust in the government's ability to take this on alone last night we saw that the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei issued a command to the chief of the armed forces major general mohammad the battery now he will lead a parallel task force with a much more military slant after their 1st meeting on friday morning mr bahari took to the airwaves of the state news machine and told the public some of what they intended on doing and most importantly within 24 hours the plan is that the military will begin to crowd control to try to stem the flow of large populations gathering at bazaars at supermarkets that shopping malls basically population denson vironment the outbreak has forced new zealand to cancel memorial services

for the 50000 victims of shootings at 2 mosques a year ago on friday hundreds gather for a special prayer service in the city of christ church where those attacks happened on march 15th that with even larger crowds expected at sunday's planned events the government decided it was to risky. russia started building a new hospital in moscow ill be able to treat up to 500 patients russia's accorded 45 infections so far but no deaths as hospital project though has raised suspicions that the true figures are not being made public. and tunisia has suspended all prayers and mosques and banned public gatherings it's also closed its maritime border sense of spending flights to and from italy and qatar is adding germany france and spain to its flight ban list taking the total number of countries to 18 the governments also ordered all cinemas museums and gems to close until further notice schools and universities are also closed the gulf state has recorded 320 cases of the virus. and the world of sport has found it is far from the new and

especially football premier league has suspended matches until the start of april and there are no guarantees that the season will ever be finished reports. it was the health update from this premier league manager that finally forced the world's most lucrative league to take action just hours after was announced that off the boss mikel arteta had contracted coronavirus an emergency meeting was held in london it's a very good decision we've got great league management they made the right decision on the t.v. we. got it in for you put it in the premier league. after they put the full none of us know will see our tete a wasn't the only case callum hudson a dog was the 2nd e.p.l. star to announce he tested positive and like otto to the teenager is currently in isolation as you may be aware for the last couple of days which i've recovered from . everybody for a week. and

a picture recent the move to suspend football could cost the league millions but the decision is receiving support from those within the game what happens if. a contract this problem and unfortunately in the last 24 hours so. i can't see any alternative than to suspend him. and see where we are in a few weeks the list of suspended competitions which already included the top divisions of spain and italy got even longer on friday with the announcement that germany's blunders league. early next month while france's league also announced a halt to their season. training sessions will continue because we don't have a date yet know when the chamber trip will resume but we have to continue training while taking precautions for the players and the people who are still here at the club. games had been due. to be played behind closed doors in front of the problems

with that post to highlight it with parasite human found the downside this stadium on wednesday for a year pretty much in defiance of the order that game was in the champions league which itself is now being suspended indefinitely europe's governing body will meet on tuesday to decide what's next for football across the continent so when malik 0 . more coverage of the pandemic and then just a bit 1st it's cover some of the other major news of the day iraq's president has condemned air strikes by the u.s. which killed 6 people the head of the u.s. military central command has defended the strike saying they targeted iranian backed fighters. b.s.s. the strikes were in response to a rocket attack that killed 3 soldiers on wednesday to american and

a british soldier died after nearly 20 rockets were fired at a military base work west of baghdad. struck in russia have a grade on details of a cease fire in syria's region the plan was finalized after 4 days of talks and ankara so under this agreement turkish and russian forces will carry out joint patrols along the in 4 highway linking syria's east and west starting on sunday the cease fire deal has largely hell since march 5th after it was breached in moscow last week. and the u.n. says a cease fire hasn't done much to improve the dire conditions for people that are living through this we spoke to dr sean di who's a cardiologist at a hospital and limp which is supported by the charity islamic relief he described what it's like. had the situation in the past few months was in fact so much horrible because of many hospital here and many right now to care center where apple there is more than the already if for off with the macair

something that i mentioned right out of service because there were targeted and nearly completely or bar shelly the major. and there would be displacement huge amounts of the placement people going to the order where there is no health care centers who can manage to them the correct care in fact of the in struggling to make the. hospital and care and the health system better by. when we lost many health it's old and the medical staff feel that they are enslaved where in hospital they are all always unconscious and it makes them how difficult or at the where in such circumstances putting in egypt has killed at least 21 people 6 children are among the dead most of the victims are in

a rural area at cairo's water authority cut off supplies after the sewage system was overwhelmed by the town for and present the republican congress 1st family are facing growing calls to be prosecuted for corruption there he's by human rights activists alluding public funds to buy a luxurious property abroad malcolm lab reports from brazil. this is what's left of our van dam whose house if you have this and the rest of it if anybody. down here. he built a home for his retirement here in preservation erosion took it away along with much of his neighborhood. it's a serious problem i had a large family here and now i'm forced to rent but i'm not paying my pension so i have to stay with a neighbor i can't even find the money to feed myself. it's a similar story in several parts of the city the republic of congo's capital.

people say the government has done nothing the sand in the slopes around the city was once held together by trees they've been cut down as the population grows but the erosion problem keeps growing too this place is already being abandoned this one will be abandoned soon the problem is people have nowhere else to go but it's not the same for everyone. luxury apartment in the trump international hotel and tower in new york cost millions of dollars anti corruption investigators global witness say one was bought with stolen congolese public money for $7000000.00. the nearly 40 year rule of congolese president then he saw soon queso has been blighted with corruption scandals global witness says it was his daughter cloud seen here standing next to him the new york apartment a spokesman for the 1st family declined to comment on the allegations. congo

billions of dollars every year from oil exports global witness says it's traced tens of millions of dollars of stolen revenues. a mansion in the suburb of paris is among around 20 properties belonging to members of the 1st family that french prosecutors are investigating along with other purchases including more than a $1000000.00 spent on suits and shirts from their shop. in brazzaville it's easy to find pictures of presidents are suing grass on the street it's hard to find anyone who criticize. ize him or his government. but a handful of activists meet every week they try to hold the government to account for corruption and rights abuses it's risky work. this is the most recent member of their group to be imprisoned he's accused of threatening state security their leader. says it's all to hide a simple truth how would you explain that while this country is so poor it's just.

that the country. is leaving. while the president. is in power activists say through a national money laundering network that congo's wealth and being spent on luxuries abroad like the apartment in new york the trump organization says it has no connection to the deal and didn't own the apartment when it was sold to people living in brazzaville suburbs just a fraction of congo's missing millions could help save their homes from falling apart malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. we will return to the coverage of virus scans and shortly we're in new york to see how it's pretty much shut down the city that they say never sleeps also home to believe we'll look at the front of ours to narratives theories and conspiracies and it's plain to snuffed out because too many people want to see it entry and

a part of me has that story. and some of the heavy rain on its way really through eastern areas of japan over the next couple of days you can see quite a stream of cloud will be coming from these coastal areas of china so i want to see just a kid away from the south coast on saturday maybe a shower in hong kong with a high of 23 degrees but this is really where the heaviest of the rain will be now mostly to staying all sure we could see a cool some rain showers and some snow to the mountaintops but it's staying clear but cool. days in and then also not a bad couple days really across the korean peninsula and staying pretty clear throughout much of central and the southern areas over china now to the south we've got more heavy rain south of the sudden across into all central areas of borneo. at

times same story really across much of the south across java we have got shot was very wide discounted again at times you could have some heavier downpours but a nothing particularly on toward and you can see here on sunday if anything actually a little bit lighter but we will see is the rain pushing up into been called that at times could be having the temperature a bit lower as well in bangkok just 30 degrees celsius 25 working its way through eastern areas over india to the north of new delhi that it really does all die away but still some shows like you through west bengal but warming up in new delhi at 26 . full of struggles full of pleasure then i would have been on there but there still a fellow that the same demon to me may go and make a blind me funny and me who asked me how many times an intimate look at life in cuba has he got over and i don't know where to get us

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watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you. past declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic $50000000000.00 will be freed up for states to combat the virus half a 1000000 extra coronavirus tests will also become available next week i'll tell the organization says europe is now the epicenter of the chronic virus pandemic with many countries going into lockdown denmark is the latest blocking entry to most foreigners while other states are imposing border checks and in spain a state of emergency. it has been declared in a 30 day ban by the u.s. on all flights from europe excluding the u.k. and ireland is due to come into effect at 4 g.m.t. that's about an hour and a half from now. so it's a view what countries are doing to deal with this pandemic china has been millions of people under forced quarantine particularly and who have a province that's where this outbreak began there are restrictions on movement and travel elsewhere also so italy which is has the highest number of infections and

deaths outside of china nationwide lock down there iran is the next worst affected schools universities cultural centers all closed large gatherings are banned there is no citywide cornton in places like home or tehran where most of the cases are and south korea has also imposed large scale restrictions on people and it instead rather it's focusing on testing and monitoring and as we've said the u.s. is destructing entry for european travelers and has just declared a national emergency all the u.k. has so far at least taken a more cautious approach than other european countries to clamping down schools and universities for example are still open so irene from me is a journalist and has been lobbying the region government in particular to implement a lockdown to curb the spread of the virus she joins us from oslo via skype thank you very much so as think we've all learned time is of the essence with something like this so what are you seeing that concerns you in particular with how their way

is dealing with this. sure well 1st of all i want to say that i read a sentence work which i think something's up very well which is that the virus is faster than democracy this sometimes is really good i think because this virus is so quick the way it spreads that you know this isn't making is too slow to catch up with the buyers right. basically are just a few days ago we were really not expecting this to happen so fast so the norwegian government had to make decisions very quickly and yesterday they finally implemented some measures that are definitely going to help a lot but i still think it's not enough so i have been lobbying since sunday night in order for them to close the schools completely and also tell people to stay at home and get out as little as possible right let me ask you what what are those measures that you say that you have already saying such things like way well

yesterday they decided to close all schools and basically people are now working mostly from home. or they just moved the office work from the offices to their homes but until 2 days ago they were still commuting to thing buses underground everything just as normal and that was obviously extremely risky saw. why why do you think change why do you think the hesitancy to to take more extreme measures sorry i didn't understand the question of you know problem i see no problem of course i said why do you think that the government seems to be hesitant to take more extreme measures. well at this moment i think they realize they are actually trying to do their very very best that my point is that they decided very slowly i mean they were slow at deciding but snow is not the only country you can look at germany france u.k. he mostly think about america i mean trump has changed his attitude completely over

just a very few yeas so this is pretty obvious i think that countries are sort of in denial and you know i'm from it's a living so i can see it's coming you know what i was reading the story so it right i mean we obviously saying what is happening in italy no figo by that time line it's going to get a lot worse in the next few weeks for a lot of other places what is your research showed jus about what the hospital system is like in norway and how prepared they either are or aren't and what they can do to improve. right this is actually one of the reasons why i'm so worried the fact that they've only got $400.00 grieving machines more or less $400.00 for the entire country. for the entire country that's correct and you have to consider this this goes for all countries not just norway when you look at the number of breathing machines in one country most of them already in use i mean hospitals you

know they have patients in hospital so it's not like there are 400 of these the ball breathing machines but most of them are probably already in use we don't know how many right so i wanted the government to order them right away but i also realize that the countries which produce them they don't want to export them at this point i know that germany produces them around the house but stopped exporting them and italy is another country that produces machines and you can imagine that we want to keep as much as we can because we need them in the city right now you know it's so or so i don't really know where they can order them from but i have been lobbying also in that sense i should definitely do that because 400 is nothing you know and unfortunately you're right this is going to be a crunch that a lot of hospitals across the world are actually going to face irene probably thank you very much for your insight we appreciate it. the famously busy streets of new york city have pretty much been a lot emptier than usual because of the state of emergency that is taking effect

more than 400 actions have been reported so far prompting authorities to open a drive through mobile testing center from new york gabriel's under reports. just 20 minutes north of new york city this is new rochelle new york's governor sealed off the city of 80000 but more than 100 people contracted coronavirus the highest cluster anywhere in the u.s. . scenes like out of a science fiction movie a drive through testing station for corona virus the facility designed to handle 200 cars a day has one huge advantage over traditional testing methods according to new york's governor it's actually safer to keep them in their car so they can come in for the testing it's less exposure overall back in new york this city is slowly grinding to a halt the metropolitan museum of art which hosts millions of visitors

a year is now closed for those who rely on the crowds for their livelihoods like the street vendors out front it's been terrible as business is the business. museum is shut down is notorious so we have to tough it out until it's all over. i've never seen business this bad before never but it's not just the met dozens of cultural institutions throughout new york city have been affected museum of natural history but whitney museum in new york city opera and even carnegie hall hall are closed because of coronavirus fierce. taxi drivers tell us business has been slashed in half waited 4 hours for right at the airport every day every driver . and. sometimes because there's no passengers or what.

the lights have gone off on broadway to some of the world's most popular shows among those ordered to close for a month missing out on leads of dollars and revenues and there's also a scarcity the shelves of the supermarket look like the streets largely empty new yorkers rushed to stock up fearing the worst of taking measures to protect themselves gabriel's on doe. new york while disney has halted production on all of its live action films studio says it's in the best interest of cast and crew members so this will affect movies like the little mermaid which was being remade it was due to begin filming in london next week on thursday disney announced it's also shutting its u.s. and european theme parks as a number of new infections continues its downward trend and china other asian countries are focusing on measures to limit the effect on their economies and so he has more from kuala lumpur. major stock markets in asia took their cue from wall

street overnight tumble on thursday and extend their losses from the day before japan's nikkei index plunged by more than 10 percent in early trade but recovered to close 6 percent lower in south korea financial regulators imposed a half year ban on short selling starting on monday the 1st time it's done so since 2011 in a bid to curb volatility it's going to be very hard to stabilize the markets what we're going to need to see is the slowdown in the case in that start. but i think you've got the biggest problem global markets the u.s. which is so darn low interest rates and so on. you know it's hard for asian markets to bounce back when there's what i would consider a big overhang there beyond the stock markets more visible signs that the global economy is taking a hit singapore announced it will stop allowing cruise ships to dock with immediate

effect gone are the large crowds that usually busy airports across the region as people avoid unnecessary travel and countries impose entry restrictions several airlines have asked employees to take unpaid leave in manila people were stocking up on essential a day after the philippine president or 3 go to terre day said domestic travel to and from metropolitan manila would be suspended for a month. analysts say the move may weaken economic growth but many residents agree with the measure that model. of the virus spreading i'm in favor of it because it's better to do it before they let us know that there are so many cases. in indonesia the government has started a campaign to disinfect thousands of mosques to prevent the spread of corona virus here in malaysia there are concerns that could be

a sudden spike in confirmed cases after at least a dozen infections were linked to a grand held out of them often on the outskirts of one of them up to weeks ago health officials estimate as many as 16000 people attended the religious gathering but amid the gloom there is some positive news china reported 8 new cases as of the day the lowest daily figure since reporting began in january south korea to continue the downward trend reporting more recoveries than infections on friday florence. so that is trying to help countries manage this pandemic and there are encouraging what we call social distancing you probably heard that a lot in the last few days so the idea is that young healthy symptom free people in places with no or few infections they just stay away from large events and large gatherings this also applies to one on one interactions that. stay at least

a metre away from anyone showing symptoms of coughing in the sneezing the centers for disease control actually recommends double that distance 0 physical contact at all the c.d.c. also wants a visitor restrictions that care homes as elderly people are the most at risk of coded 19. the purpose of social distancing is only slightly slow down the virus so your system can cope the objectives are different and i think we have to be clear that social distancing measures are not a panacea social distancing manners are not going to stop this epidemic they're not going to stop this pandemic. purely in their own right large public events in australia including sporting matches are being cancelled with cases very chain $200.00 the government says millions may end up contracting the virus with and months reports from sydney the some had been waiting for hours before the decision was made that a strike is formula one would not go ahead it many are angry they were told.

communicating at the very early and mclaren pulled out after one of its team members tested positive for corona virus formula one champion lewis hamilton accused organizers of putting money before health if the rice wasn't cancelled it which terribly disappointed that the event can't go ahead the reasons for that. spectators were banned from watching the one day international cricket match in sydney between a struggle here in new zealand which meant an empty stadium and cash registers. on thursday the government was still advising people to attend public events but in an effort to fight the virus and after pressure from health experts that quickly changed we will be advising against. organized. norm essential gatherings of persons of 500 people. the prime minister also told

us not to travel overseas if it wasn't essential with financial pressure on the ideation industry travel agent flight center is closing $100.00 stalls across the country the number of job losses isn't clear and virgin australia is cutting flights to cope with the falling demand the number of coronavirus cases in a stroller is continuing to rise and no surprise it is hitting the economy as well as the share market we have stocks plummeting the australian government has announced a 7 tane $1000000000.00 stimulus package handing out $750.00 payments to some to try and prevent a recession for the 1st time in 29 years. among those in australian hospitals with the barossa hollywood actor tom hanks and his wife rita wilson as well as the nation's home affairs minister peter dutton who now have to work from

home for a while. al-jazeera sydney. yes state department has summoned the chinese ambassador to discuss frameworks that cove in 1000 may have originated in america a conspiracy theory 1st emerged on the fringes of the internet and russian media but it's increasingly becoming an official chinese line and explains. controlling the narrative or changing it completely as president xi jinping visited this week for the 1st time since the beginning of the krona virus outbreak his government went on the defensive aggressively responding to another message coming from washington this is the one corona virus that started in china and is now spreading throughout the world as cases rise in the united states its officials are emphasizing that the pandemic was quote made in china that this virus did not originate united states originated province in china it originated some time ago unfortunately rather than using best practices this outbreak was covered up

such comments by senior u.s. officials have infuriated the chinese government its foreign ministry had this to say. move on the urge that u.s. official to respect objective facts and international public opinion and spend time on preventing and controlling the epidemic and strengthening relevant cooperation rather than attacking slandering or complaining about others u.s. officials have been pushing back against conspiracy theories floating around the internet and chinese media that the corona virus is an american bio weapon so we could have people in the united states dying for what appears to be influenza when in fact it could be the corona virus work over 90 some cases have been actually diagnosed that way in the united states today. that testimony to congress by the director of the centers for disease control was insured by a chinese foreign ministry spokesman to support the theory that the virus may have originated in the united states and. beijing has also pushed the narrative that the

virus was brought to china by the u.s. military nearly 250 members of the u.s. military were in wu han in october last year along with athletes from 100 other nations to take part in the world military games the theory has now been widely circulated by state aligned media china's new position on the origins of the corona virus outbreak appears to contradict its own assessment from january to see it and i canna from what we can see now the origin is the wild animals sold in the seafood market with the number of new cases on the decline in who bay province beijing appears to have taken control of the outbreak but it also wants to make sure the world doesn't blame china for one of the worst health crises in a decade and al-jazeera. coming out then sports and he will tell us about how the 1st 3 races of the formula one season after reading light. for.

the shocking treatment of disabled people in eastern european state run caverns in these cages who cannot have access to a toilet or water and the bureaucratic indifference to their plight she has his hands and his fates tied to the beds 5 years after 1st highlighting such abuses people in power returns with a 2 part investigation to continuing mistreatment and neglect europe's recurring shane hart one on al-jazeera singapore is being accused of expanding its costarred with illegally dredged sat and some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanished it's a big business smuggling sample it will take to send her to fill the sand in her case you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so pleasant the tragedy is that people just know with an ecological investigation into

a global emergency sandals at this time on al-jazeera. time for sport with andy. thank you very much the world's most watched football competition the english premier league has suspended all matches and so the start of april and officials are offering no guarantees that the season will have to be finished on thursday also manager macaques has a revealed he tested positive for corona virus assets and has since issued a statement via social media saying he's feeling better already it was a meeting of league officials on friday held in london all games often now the

league might resume on april 4th. is a very good decision we've got great league management they made the right decision to leave you before italy and when you wanted him you wanted in the premier league you have to pay people for none of the snow we'll see. chelsea winger callum hoods and a dog has also confirmed he's tested positive for the virus what food manchester city bournemouth and everton also checking on players with corona virus symptoms has posted this message on social media as you may be aware i had the virus for the last couple of days which i've recovered from of following the health guidelines and selflessly myself from everybody for the week. in the hope that you're going to pitch very soon. or some big decisions being made across european football this friday european football's governing body u.i. for has suspended all of its competitions including the champions league and europa league the top 2 leagues in france will i've also been postponed the have been plans to play games behind closed doors and the german bunds league has followed

suit all games halted and sold early april. well governing body faith is asking for any international games scheduled for march or april to be cold off fifa say rules which normally oblige cups to release players for their national team matches won't apply world cup qualifiers in both a jd and south america they've already been postponed. the australian for me won't groom pretty hits a last minute red light the start of f one season is now being pushed back and so may 300000 spectators have been due to its handy 3 day events in melbourne a member of the mclaren seem to supposed to fit on a virus on thursday upcoming races in bahrain and vietnam also off i want to add our thoughts with those individuals that have been affected. by this. also want to express our disappointment on behalf of the fans this is a race we always look forward to great fans here we're sorry not to have it but it's been a very fluid situation i think we've made the right decisions we work well with our

partners what consolation came just as the 1st practice session was about to take place in melbourne we spoke to a foreign journalist phil duncan who explained why it's organized this sort of long some might call. the teams were told that the race was off but at the same time though the local promoters he was telling breakfast t.v. that the race was still going ahead and we were in a fast food situation where hundreds of fans or thousands of fans potentially were queuing up outside the albert park gates to go in on the premise that the race was still going ahead so it was a bad sort of position for whom we want to be in their argument will be that these things take time. that they came together in the early hours of friday morning to since the sides months it seems the stakeholders of the governing body the f.a.a. inform on itself the regs are no longer go ahead and they have to get all the bits and bobs together for that to take place and we've seen the chart the chinese going pre-canceled that was something that that was done over many days weeks and

ultimately this situation was forced on form one after the mechanics from the planet said supposed to coronavirus i think they felt they had to put all their procedures in place before they can officially say that's it we're not going to have a race and in on their defense and their defense is just to time i think the argument against what happened is that in communicating very well there weren't very many updates so we had a situation where we were going through through the night with no real official confirmation the race had been canceled and that was something that the bosses and the f.a.a. will be criticised over for their handling of how long it actually did take for them to say look this race is going head. first major of the year the masters has been postponed it has been due to tee off on april the 9th all other tournament on north america's leading tour they've been called off in the meantime as well on thursday around one of the players championship in florida did say place organizes

had intended to play the final 3 rounds without spectators but later changed their minds. it ultimately became a matter of when not if we would need to call it a day. our goal now is to focus on a plan for the near and long term and maintain the strength we've built through our organization over the past 51 years sri lanka's test series against england has been called off the series was due to begin next week some international cricket is carrying on with australia playing their 31 day internationals against new zealand behind closed doors the olympic torch relay has been snuffed out for now the flames a little the birthplace of the games in greece on thursday was judith's all the country before heading to japan but organizers said large crowds were still gathering to see the flame despite requests for them to stay away. games are still set to go ahead as planned and a sporting outlier in the united kingdom this week has been horseracing chairman

festival over 4 days more than 200000 fans have attended one of the country's most popular sporting events that culminated with friday's gold cup organizers said they were following governments advice and did all they could see roscoe recife. ok but as always sport for now more later. so the corona virus crisis has people around the world understandably worried so the best advice from medical experts is to wash your hands for at least 20 seconds so the suggestion has been if you sing happy birthday twice at a time out perfectly it doesn't have to be that song. yes the one in l.a. korea setting an example of how to survive a pandemic keep it on al-jazeera much more news to come obviously will keep you up to date on what's happening with the growing a virus and it's on our web site al jazeera dot com next hour in jordan who i'm sure knows all the words to i will survive if there.

frank assessment the one thing about these bush fires usage really the. climate change informed opinion economy i think is actually what's keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate on those 2 school board lawyers on 'd the boat this argument is astonishingly powertrain times an in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning for you iraq of the new countries on the we are. against an ethnic sectarian cult of inside story on al-jazeera. from view of the past might sound great if you happen to be a hindu but where does this leave non hindus nasiriyah room became acutely aware of the challenges facing the muslim daughter growing up in increasingly pro hindu surroundings she's written a book about one of the things you can do to protect her from this environment i

don't do all that india the map. you know you china. pakistan and sri lanka then all the neighbors and then i say what if somebody called you chinese you laugh and say right i'm an indian i'm going to tell you more to somebody called the burka. the bike is funny they kind of made it clear that you could read any of the so because of course the assumption being that the dots away that prejudice would play out there ok you're a party standing or go to pakistan that is what is happening on an everyday basis. in 24 teams and al jazeera and that's a geisha and revealed how anger and fear feel be in bone a crisis that ravaged west africa we africans are our lives they didn't allow you to us with a knowing we are dying 3 years on we speak to the filmmaker the one thing that spread it paula and caused the devastation on a sphere that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with an al-jazeera.

i am officially declaring a national emergency president trump ramps up his response battling to show he's addressing the corona virus outbreak after playing it down for weeks. follow on down to the south as they are live from doha including much more on the coronavirus pandemic in the next hour president trump's ban on flights from europe to the u.s. goes into effect. in a state of emergency is already taking effect in spain as other european countries shut out foreign ministers. europe has now become the epicenter of the pandemic.