that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with an al-jazeera. 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. following down to this is our desire 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. and a state of emergency is already taking effect in spain as other european countries shut out foreign visitors. bureau has now become the epicenter of the pandemic.

welcome to the program the u.s. president has declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic donald trump's announcement frees up 50000000000 dollars to address a growing crisis that he's been accused of previously playing down well hours earlier the world health organization said the epicenter had moved from china to europe where italy has the highest number of infections and deaths spain is declaring an emergency as other e.u. countries closed their borders to and in less than an hour a u.s. travel ban from most of europe will come into effect it stops people from $26.00 european countries from flying to the u.s. for the next 30 days well alan fisher has more on the new steps taken in washington d.c. 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 emerging every state to set up emergency operation centers effective immediately i'm also asking every hospital in this country to activated some urgency 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. 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 as public

life across america is being impacted with sports events canceled schools closed events pushed to win it's a remarkable step from a man who initially claimed coronavirus was being hyped to politically damage him and his reelection effort reshaped alan fischer algis you know washington. when i see mention the travel ban for much of europe comes into effect shorting the u.s. aviation analyst kyle beatty believes restriction should have been imposed much sooner every passenger that comes in on an airline flight inbound to the country during this crisis or we're going through you now could potentially be a liability you know here in the u.s. and the government will have to take care of them if they come down with myer so you know i think all the borders all the inbound flights from other countries should you know should have been stopped and the chalet. and quite frankly i think you know with the u.k. situation 200 cases there i wouldn't be surprised if we do see

a part of the restriction you know as mr trump is debating right now 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 us 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 but other than that i think it will it will be pretty much resilient and bounce back fairly quickly i just from this ban alone you know we're talking $13500.00 flights $4000000.00 passengers and a u.s. loss of about $3400000000.00 in revenue from tourists here in the u.s. . we're also getting battered for days u.s. and european markets rallied on friday after president trump's announcement the dow jones closed up 9.4 percent recouping big losses on thursday in london the footsie

100 initially surged 8 percent but gains subsided enough and trading finishing up around 2 in the sense there wasn't any balance back in asia tokyo's nikkei index fell another 6 percent christians and he has more now 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 and 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 strategic reserves pushing up crude oil prices as well as energy stocks well a relief rally and also i think the concerns about we all had

yesterday i mean the fear and anxiety and the worry that we wouldn't see another up 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 well it's not just the u.s.

tightening travel restrictions european countries sitting on the continent that's the new epicenter of pulling up their drawbridges denmark is blocking and free to most foreigners while other states impose border checks as a maywood report spain has declared 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 promises in supermarkets will be open from saturday across space a state of emergency. is though there are emotional needs to mental in 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 but the spirits are important one of these 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 which is 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 universes 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 or are in self isolation and in a continent which prides itself on being borderless some european union member

states and now imposing tight restrictions on one another or 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 organization it's no surprise then that businesses are already taking a hit the airline british airways is one step jobs will go as it prepares to deal with fewer people traveling attempting to put the brakes on this piracy it seems is getting harder every day and he would al-jazeera. iran security forces will clear the streets of major cities within the next 24 hours never knew the effort to fight

the spread of coronavirus state media say shop streets and roads will be emptied iran is one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic the death toll of 514 amid an 11400 infections the country struggling with a lack of lifesaving equipment has asked for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the international monetary fund the same bus route he has more now from the iranian capital. the fact is here in iraq 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 in 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 covert 19 in iran there is

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 battery 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. lots more still to come here on al-jazeera we continue our coverage of the corona virus pandemic new york city there's news and say the virus has essentially shut down the city that never sleeps plus. house business.

and other news plans to patrol a crucial syrian highway as part of a cease fire deal in the products more not stay with us. we have some rather severe thunderstorms developing across all southern areas of the united states they're really coming out of the southern plains you can see here by this sort of mass of clouds and sunny through saturday this is where we likely to see these severe thunderstorms pushing it away out of texas across into oklahoma and then pushing on to the high valley and eventually of tools the tennessee valley but you can see here the temperature change 5 celsius in kansas meanwhile to the south into the east this system that very mild air in place 19 degrees and this is why we could well see some severe storms developing in the next 24 hours and tools

the west wind subtle some wintry weather really facts on sunday this is now becoming a lot more widespread and heavier across the northern areas of california if you shout. 14 celsius on sunday and not but take you warm in the high of 80 that is a better picture across much of the south and the eastern half united states on sunday and how much is not bad 11 celsius in washington d.c. and then across the caribbean and central america very widely scattered showers nothing particularly heavy we have also more rain into areas of hispaniola also since got to much of mexico similar stories you had to sunday on a bit cooler in the bahamas 23. with a plummeting bath right and families moving to the cities south korea's rule schools are shutting down one on one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools

finally getting an education on al-jazeera. states mislead the public the state media reflects the same thing as clock child at home focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most. to. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour u.s. president donald trump has declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic $50000000000.00 will be freed up for states to combat the virus off a 1000000 extra coronavirus tests will also become available next week when all the

world health organization says europe is now the epicenter of the virus cunt demick with many countries going into lockdown denmark is the latest blocking entry to most foreigners and other states are imposing border checks and in spain state of emergency has been declared on a 30 day ban by the u.s. no flights from europe excluding the u.k. and the island is due to come into effect at 0400 g.m.t. that's less than an hour from now. where the famously busy streets of new york city have been much empty than usual as a state of emergency took effect more than 400 infections have been reported in the state from new york is government is on that. 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 and no tourists so we have to tough it out until it's all over . have you ever seen business this bad before never but it's not just the met dozens of cultural institutions throughout new york city have been affected in the z.m. 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 a ride at the airport every day every driver. because there's no passengers or. the lights have gone off on broadway to some of the world's most popular shows among those ordered to close for a month. on millions of dollars in 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. new york. meanwhile walt disney has stopped production on all its live action films the studio says it's in the best interests

of cast and crew members ill effect movies like the little mermaid remake which was due to begin filming in london next week on thursday disney announced is also shutting its u.s. and european theme parks. and the release dates of 3 disney films including have become the latest to be pushed back it's to reduce the risk of coronavirus being spread in cinemas early this month the release of a new james bond film was postponed until november. now as the w.h.o. tries to help countries manage the pandemic it's encouraging something called social distancing the idea is that young healthy symptom free people in places with no or few infections should still stay away from large events and gatherings dr lena when there's a public health professor at george washington university she says there's an important difference between social distancing and social isolation. social distancing should not mean social isolation the intent of social distancing is in

fact to protect those who are the most vulnerable in particular the elderly and those with underlying medical conditions it's also to try to reduce the rate of the spread of the disease so that we can avoid overwhelming the health care system with too many patients at the same time but i certainly understand that those who are already the most vulnerable already face the greatest barriers to care and may have limited social networks and we're asking them to limit these social networks even further individuals who depend on their faith community we're asking them to not go to worship services we're asking for people who already may go out in a limited way to reduce it even further this is a time though for us to come together to realize that our individual actions make a difference even basic things like checking on people every day helping our elderly neighbors to set up skype and face time so that they can contact their

relatives giving them rides giving them supplies all of these are really important interventions that we can do that will make a difference brazil's president meanwhile says he's tested negative the coronavirus jabil tomorrow with screening 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 donald trump and vice president mike pence. hundreds of filipinos are trying to get out of the capital manila the president announced a travel ban on the city to tatty approve a sweeping lockdown at manila's 12000000 people on thursday the restrictions will start on sunday but i thought to say it won't affect the delivery of goods the philippines has 64 cases of card a virus 5 people that have died. and russia has started building a new hospital in moscow to be able to treat up to 500 patients. russia has recorded 45 infections but no deaths so far the hospital project has raised

suspicions but the truth figures aren't being made public. let's take a look at some other news now iraq's president has condemned as strikes by the u.s. which killed 6 people the head of the u.s. military's central command has defended the strike saying they targeted iranian backed fighters. the u.s. says the strikes were in response to a rocket attack that killed 3 soldiers on wednesday. 2 american and a british soldier died up in 20 rockets were fired at a military base northwest of the capital baghdad some out of all the reports now from baghdad the calls for more action against the u.s. and u.k. for the attack. well there has been a flurry of reaction in response to these strikes from a wide range of political and military institution condemning them as violation of iraq's sovereignty of course this is then some very stark contrast to what we've

heard come out of the pentagon today where general kind of call these strikes says strikes against positions of the iranian backed groups that would help keep calling troops safe that would help deter their ability to conduct future air strikes we've heard condemnations come from the joint operations command here in iraq which governs all military activity and what is particularly infuriated them is the fact that 5 members from the army and police were killed in these strikes these are security forces that used to partner with american troops in their fight against isis of course this is unintended and something that has been raised military actors here in europe and also had a condemnation from the president's office the foreign minister has some passages from both the u.s. and the u.k. and we've also heard from some of this rain in groups who have used the casualties

used as example of these strikes that have resulted in the deaths of 6 people to call for further action against u.s. troops who are present here so the backlash from iraq is quite strong indeed. turkey and russia have agreed on the details of a cease fire and serious breach and the plan was finalized up to 4 days of talks in unca under the deal turkish and russian forces will carry out joint patrols along the m 4 highway linking syria's east and west from sunday the cease fire deal has largely held since march 5th that was reached in moscow last week. well the u.n. says the ceasefire hasn't done much to improve the diet conditions people are living in we spoke to talk to the son and he was a cardiologist at a hospital in it live which is supported by the charity is comic relief you describe what it's like had the situation in the past few among saw the impact so much harder because many hospital here and many right now the care center where

after there is more than the already if for walk with the macair center and i mentioned right up the service because they were targeted and nearly completely or bar sheli been aged. and there would be displacement huge amount of latent people get into that order where there is no health care centers who can manage to give them the correct care and in fact of the in struggling to make these. hospital and care and health system that's up by. when we lost many households and the medical staff feel that they are and safe where in hospital they are all always unconscious and it makes them how difficult or at the where in such

circumstances. flooding in egypt has killed at least $21.00 people 6 children are among the dead with most of the victims in rural areas caro's water authority cut off supplies after rising waters during 2 days of heavy rain overwhelmed the sewage system. an inquiry into a scandal that led to the collapse of northern ireland's government has found evidence of many errors but not corruption the so-called cash standard stemmed from a scheme that encouraged people to switch to reduce bill fuels the applicants could make huge profits by burning as much wood fuel as possible northern ireland was left without a government for 3 years after the power sharing assembly collapsed over the scandal. members of the republic of congo's 1st family are facing growing calls to be prosecuted for corruption they were accused by human rights activists of looting public funds to buy luxury properties abroad malcolm webb reports now from brownsville. this is what's left of dandies

house. the rest of it. is 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 to 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 seen here standing next to him before 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 criticizes 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 what this country is so poor it's just. that the country. is stealing money 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. for people

living in brazzaville suburbs just a fraction of congo's missing millions could help save their homes from pulling apart malcolm webb al-jazeera brazzaville republic of congo. time for a quick check of the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has declared a national emergency over the coronavirus pandemic $50000000000.00 to be freed up for states to fight the virus half a 1000000 extra coronavirus tests will also become available next week to unleash the full power of the federal government to separate today i am officially declaring a national emergency 2 very big words the action i am taking will open up access to up to $50000000000.00 of very importantly

very important and large about of money for states and territories that look at all of these in our shared fight against this disease in furtherance of the order emerging every state to set up emergency operation centers effective immediately and we're also asking every obstacle in this country to activated submergence you prepared just plain so that they can meet the needs of americans everywhere. when u.s. stocks rallied as donald trump made the announcement the dow jones closed 9.4 percent up recouping the previous day's losses european markets managed to make slight gains but the tokyo and hong kong stock exchanges closed down for the world health organization says europe is now the epicenter of the virus and the make with many countries going into lockdown denmark is the latest blocking entry to most foreign as well other states are imposing border checks and in spain a state of emergency has been declared. a 30 day ban by the u.s. and all flights from europe excluding the u.k. and ireland is due to come into effect in about 30 minutes from now. iran's

security forces will clear the streets of major cities within the next 24 hours never knew the effort to fight the spread of coronavirus state media say shop streets and roads would all be emptied iran is one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic the death toll of 514 and more than 11 infections. and turkey and russia have agreed on the details of a ceasefire in syria's adlib region the plan was to finalize up to 4 days of talks and. under the agreement turkish and russian forces will carry out joint patrols along the m 4 highway making serious east and west from sunday well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after one of an east schooling career has grown so much but. what's behind the recent tensions between pakistan and i mean the you know we've given them the opportunity to. rise it's not just politics the new book was

a not so free pakistani foreign minister shah mehmood qureshi talks to al-jazeera. across south korea the birth rate is plummeting. as families move to the cities rural towns are losing their residence and their schools. powered in place so they are changing it in those you know you see me and i think. but some communities are trying new ways to keep their classrooms open so you want it all not at all i. would all. be one no one east meets the grandmother is finally fulfilling their dreams for an education while helping save korea schools.