and the extent of the damage isn't clear. for those who do survive it's a long and painful road to recovery. travellers as president trumps 30 day ban on flights from europe to the u.s. goes into effect. hello i'm down in jordan this is down to 09 from doha also coming up. and i am officially declaring a national emergency president trump ramps up his response battling to show he's addressing the outbreak after playing it down for weeks. on his europe has declared the epicenter of the pandemic a state of emergency has been already taking effect in spain as other european countries shut out foreign assistance. and more uncertainty for sports fans the english premier league is the latest coronavirus casualty all games are off until april at the earliest.

a 30 day ban by the u.s. on old flights from europe excluding the u.k. and ireland is now in effect that been reports of long queues at some european airports as people try to beat the deadline president trump announced the ban on wednesday in a bid to come about the spread of coronavirus he says the e.u. has been too slow to react to the outbreak and blame travelers from europe for infections in the u.s. let's go live to rob reynolds joins us now from los angeles rob so you're there at one of the busiest ports in the u.s. tell us what's been happening. well things are quieted down a little bit here at l.a.x. so we're standing in front of the of the day unfortunately we've been talking to people who've told us some really interesting stories one man said that he flew in from paris he got the last flight out he put it and then spent some 6 hours in the . customs and the immigration area people were being charitable. having their

temperatures taken and so on he said it was a real mess another minute came out we were talking to him he was about to get on a plane to australia to visit his family and essentially had some sort of a premonition or a thought better of it he said do i really want to be in a plane for you know more than 10 hours 15 hours all the way to australia possibly be getting infected and then possibly infecting my elderly family members and he just said i gave up and left the line i don't know if i'll get my money back but i don't care so speaking of money is some of the figures the there are about $550.00 flights from this part of the e.u. to the u.s. every day that translates to $125000.00 passengers per day this is going to wipe out tens of billions of dollars in. ticket sales for airlines there's 'd a 2000000 estimated 2000000 empty seats over the course of 30 days then there's

knock on effects with rental car companies travel agencies restaurants hotels you name it you know travel business in the united states employs 15 to 16000000 people so all those people are going to be affected and one of the biggest airlines here in the united states is delta. they told their employees today that they're going to start offering them. time off without pay. to avoid layoffs they're idling 300 of their aircraft and they're trying to reduce capacity by 40 percent just to stay in business so on day one of this travel ban there are a lot of worries both personal worries people worried about their families and big companies worried about staying in business all right general brunell's the los angeles airport rob thank you. aviation analyst cause baby 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 here in the u.s. and the government will have to take care of them if they come down with meyer so you know i think a situation 200 cases there. i wouldn't be surprised if we did we do see a person 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 lights for a 1000000 passengers and a u.s.

loss of about $3400000000.00 in revenue from tourists here in the u.s. president trump has declared a national emergency freeing up 50000000000 dollars to address a growing virus crisis in the u.s. comes as he's been accused of previously playing down the pandemic i'm fishing has more on the new steps taken in washington d.c. from the u.s. president a dramatic announcement and i am 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 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. 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're seeing 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 and capitol hill the house of representatives passed 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. the senate is not expected to vote on the bill until monday the president has indicated he will sign it president was forced to take action as public life across america was being impacted with sports events canceled schools closed events. it's a remarkable step from a man who initially claimed coronavirus was being hyped to politically damage him and his reelection efforts alan fischer washington well after 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 4100 initially surged 8 percent but gains subsided in afternoon trading finishing up around 2.5 percent but there wasn't any balance back in asia tokyo's nikkei entry to most foreigners while other states are imposing border checks they would 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 bars restaurants and shops are being told they'll have to shot only promises in supermarkets will be open from saturday across spain a state of emergency. and as though there are emotional needs to mentor them with a 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 all of these the desperation to not help us we must have hope we must be strong and white experts from china have arrived in italy to help bring 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 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 life's 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 stop jobs will go as it prepares to deal with fewer people traveling attempting to put the brakes on this piracy it seems

it's getting harder every day and he would al-jazeera meanwhile new zealand has just announced a mandatory 2 week orange anyone entering the country. we must go hard and we must go early we must do everything we can to protect the health of new zealanders there is exactly why to take on this global pandemic cabinet made far reaching and i'm preceding to decisions today because these are unprecedented circumstances is over midnight sunday if we produce an interim new zealand including returning new zealand citizens in recent will be required to enter self isolation for 14 days if everybody well that's on top of measures including the cancellation of an immoral service for the $51.00 victims of the mosque shootings a year ago on friday hundreds gathered for a special prayer service in the city of christ church. but with even larger crowds expected at sunday's event health officials called it off as

a precaution. and colombia says it won't allow entry to visitors who stayed in europe or asia in the past 2 weeks it also close its borders with venezuela from saturday its border with ecuador will remain open on thursday the last american nation suspended public events involving more than 500 people. for a short break here when we come back we'll have more news plans to patrol a crucial syrian highway as part of a cease fire deal in the province. the trump towers in new york is part of corruption investigation into the public of congo. system sitting through the east end of the mediterranean activity and this crowd

covering a wide area but it has been producing some pretty torrential downpours so much so these all the streets a car this is how it was looking on thursday many areas actually under water as you can see is some of the streets really under considerable depth the good news is it's continuing to weaken friday on into south and sunny we could just see want to but really the show is very widespread that mostly. light nature but you can see it's going on through areas of iraq they become heavier particularly to the north and east of baghdad you could have wanted to have you i'm beginning to push rolls into more western and southern areas of iran and really sunday that we see more heavy rain pushing into this same area elsewhere it is mostly dry snow showers working the way across central central and western areas of turkey and temperatures beginning to come up across much the arabian peninsula $29.00 celsius same story then i'm a riyadh doha and also across into dubai we're watching closely a possible tropical cycle and just sitting east coast of madagascar that will

produce some heavy rains over the next couple of days meanwhile showers into cape town with a high of 23. have struggled all of pleasure. i mean out there but they are down now that you seem keen that you meet. me going make me blankly funny in. an intimate look at life in cuba if he were alive and under what again is there a resume again. as a director what are the new. my cuba. on al-jazeera. or the war hurt war.

welcome back i'm out of our top stories here this hour a 30 day ban by the u.s. on all flights from europe excluding the u.k. and ireland has just come into effect is the latest step in the battle against the coronavirus. us president donald trump has declared a national emergency $50000000000.00 will be freed up for states to combat the virus part a 1000000 extra testing kits will soon become available next week. the world health organization says europe is now the epicenter of the 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 state of emergency has been declared. well as the number of new infections continues its downward trend in china other asian countries are beefing up measures to limit the effect on their economies france clearly has more now from kuala lumpur. major stock markets in

asia took a 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 of nowhere 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 cases that started. but i think you've got the biggest problem of the whole global market is the u.s. which is so darn low interest rates and so on here about you asians you know it's hard for asian markets to bounce back when there's what i would consider a pretty big overhang there beyond the stock markets more visible signs that the global economy is taking a hit singapore announced it whilst. up allowing cruise ships to dock with

immediate effect gone are the large crowds at 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 and the law would be suspended for a month. analysts say the move may weaken economic growth but many residents agree with the measure. of the virus spreading i mean fever of it because it's better to do it now 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 were here in malaysia there are concerns that could be a sudden spike in confirmed cases after at least a dozen infections were linked to an event. 2 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 thursday the lowest daily figure since reporting began in january south korea to continue the downward trend reporting more recoveries than infections on friday florence li al-jazeera quality of put. their arms security forces will clear the streets of major cities within the next 24 hours never a new effort to fight the spread of the virus state media say shop streets and roads would all be emptied iran is one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic with a death toll of 514 and more than 11000 infections the country struggling with a lack of lifesaving equipment and asked for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the international monetary fund. let's take a quick look at some other news now iraq's president has condemned by the u.s. which killed 6 people head of the u.s.

military's central command has defended the strike saying that targeted iranian backed fighters. the u.s. says the strikes were a spawns 2 rocket attack that killed 3 soldiers on wednesday 2 american and a british soldier died 20 rockets were fired at a military base northwest of reaction in response to these 2. from a wide range of political and military institution condemning them as violation of iraq's sovereignty of course is that in very stark contrast to what we've heard come out of the pentagon today where general kind of mckinsey called these strikes a success 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 hearing about and also had a condemnation from the president's office 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 in syria's bridge and the plan was finalized up to 4 days of talks and uncorrupt under the deal turkish and russian forces will carry out joint patrols along and 4 highway linking syria's east and west from sunday arrangement was large the has largely held since march the 5th after it was reached in moscow with. u.n. says the cease fire hasn't done much to improve the dire conditions people are living in and we spoke to dr de who's a cardiologist at a hospital in italy which is supported by the charity islamic relief he described what it's like. the situation in the past few months was the impact so much horrible because many hospital here and many rightward care center or

there are. more than the. poor oss with the remote care center about mentioned where out of service because the there where there are gifted and nearly completely or. it's and there would be displacement huge amount of latent people going to the order where there is no health care centers who can manage to give them the correct care in fact of the in struggling to make nice hospital and care and health system better by. when we lost many hospitals and the medical staff feel that they are an safe where in hospital they are all always unconscious and it makes them how difficult for us to where in such

circumstances members of the republic of congo's 1st family are facing growing calls to be prosecuted for corruption they're accused by human rights activists of looting public funds to buy a luxurious properties abroad malcolm webb reports now from brazzaville. this is what's left of our van dandies house if you have this is the rest of it if anybody 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 saskatoon queso has been blighted with corruption scandals global witness says it was his daughter cloudier seen here standing next to him the new york apartment a spokesman for the 1st family declined to comment on the allegations. 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 the group to be imprisoned he's accused of threatening state security their leader . says. he is stealing his money while the president. is in power activists say through

a national money laundering network 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. well back to the corona virus now several countries across confidence are closing borders major cities with millions of people are on the lockdown governments around the world are using social distancing as one of the ways to stop the virus and. the 2nd pandemic of the 21st century has led to the largest quarantine in human history bustling cities have turned into ghost towns millions are under lockdown in parts of asia and europe. public squares were communities have been converging for

centuries are almost empty. in today's hyper connected world doctors and governments are urging less social contact to reduce the risk of infection but there are concerns that social distancing although vital in these times can also lead to so 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 in new york volunteers of local charity groups like this one are working overtime to deliver food to the elderly and people stuck at home those who are just valuable to the virus but also hunger it's very serious it's for them they are affected because

they cannot eat and also they're isolated from the world health organization says now more than ever communities must come together and stand with those neglected by society when we speak about that will rebuild a city we cannot forget migrants we cannot forget undocumented workers we cannot forget prisoners in prisons they may be serving sentences but they deserve no less protection under the law than others so when we talk about stigma of solidarity the spontaneous and resilient also show how in these trying times 'd people are finding new ways to break the barriers of isolation and loneliness to feel the enduring spirit of human connection priyanka put them on to see or. to have a quick check of the headlines on al-jazeera a 30 day ban by the u.s.

and hold flights from europe excluding the u.k. and ireland has just commented that it's the latest step in the battle against the current of us. u.s. president donald trump has declared a national emergency $15000000000.00 will be freed up for states to combat the virus half a 1000000 extra testing kits will also become available next week. the world health organization says europe is now the epicenter of the 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 state of emergency has also been declared while new zealand has just announced a mandatory 2 we quarantine for anyone entering the country. we must. and we must go early we must do everything we can to protect the health of new zealanders there is exactly why to take on this global pandemic cabinet made far reaching and i'm preceding 2 decisions today because these that i'm preceding to

instances is over midnight sunday evening produce an intern new zealand including returning new zealand citizens in recent would be required to enter self isolation for 14 days is where they are from saturday but its border with ecuador will remain open on thursday the last american nation suspended public events involving more than 500 people. 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 the u.s. says the strikes were in response to a rocket attack that killed 3 soldiers on wednesday 2 american a british soldier died after nearly 20 rockets were fired at a military base northwest of baghdad and turkey and russia have agreed on the details of a cease fire in syria's bridge and the plan was finalized after 4 days of talks in

un korea under the agreement turkish and russian forces will carry out joint patrols along the m 4 highway linking serious east and west from sunday. yes well those were the headlines in the news continues on the al-jazeera. station. being a refugee mean starting again her. building a new life in a new country is no easy task but like every driver who. witnessed follows one of the last refugee families from syria to be granted an american visa. from the personal sacrifices to the families try and. meet the syrians on al-jazeera.