by. the weaving you tell their stand president donald trump's travel ban on $26.00 european nations comes into effect. the next 8 weeks are critical we can learn and we will turn a corner. on this virus mr trump declares a national emergency of the provides $50000000000.00 to fight the covert $190.00 break. hello and welcome i'm peter dobby you're watching al-jazeera live for my headquarters here in doha also coming up strict measures in new zealand nearly everyone entering the country will have to go into quarantine for 2 weeks. singing in solidarity how people are doing their bit to ensure social distancing doesn't lead to loneliness during the pandemic.

it is now much harder for most europeans to enter the united states with a month long travel ban on people arriving from $26.00 countries now in effect president trump took the drastic measure saying the e.u. was too slow in reacting to the break of coronavirus he's also declared a national emergency freeing up billions of dollars to fight the pandemic to unleash the full power of the federal government that the 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 dollars of. very importantly very important and large about of money for states and territories or look at all of these in our shared fight against this disease colombia has just announced it

will turn away visitors who've recently been in europe and asia and it's closing its border with venezuela a major crossing points of people trying to flee that country's economic crisis while new zealand has taken the step of forcing nearly everyone entering the country including its own people to go into self isolation for 14 days they have 6 confirmed cases there we must go. 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 well to serious correspondent rob reynolds is the international terminal of los angeles airport he reports now on the confusion surrounding the travel. i'm standing outside the international departures area at los angeles international airport and it's fairly busy tonight you can see that

a lot of travelers are wearing masks that does seem to be the norm for travelers these days and of course now that the president trump's travel ban on 26 european countries says come into effect there's a lot of questions there are a lot of questions in the travel industry and among travelers themselves the president announced this ban in a speech on wednesday it was rife with errors and misinformation and many travelers were confused a lot of people in industry were confused as well so officials had to eventually come out and say that the ban on traveling from europe does not apply to u.s. citizens or permanent residents they will be allowed to call home but they will be checked given health checks at the airport on arrival and they will be asked to go into a 14 day quarantine now let's look at some of these numbers here and they're quite large last year there were 550 flights between the u.s.

and the shane going area of the european union that's the $26.00 nation area that allows travel free of these as and passports within the borders of that area that's about $125000.00 travelers each and every day and of course this is going to wipe out billions of dollars in revenues for airlines for hotels for travel agencies rental car agencies you name it anything involved in the travel industry delta which is one of the largest u.s. air carriers and told its employees it's asking them to take unpaid leave this is going to idle 300 planes out of its fleet and cut down the capacity by 40 percent overall over this 30 day period of banned from european try. although european union leaders have condemned the travel ban they say they weren't even consulted by the white house is saying now is the time for cooperation rather than

interrupt lateral action and president probes own former homeland security adviser thomas boxer said that the travel ban will do little to thread. to stem the speech and weeks he says the virus could be a substantial risk for the industry many elements suffering a lot in terms of threats less cash flow and losing a lot of revenue but for example of cancer have normally $7070.00 daily flights to north america so far it's only 4 from this weekend and 2 thirds sorry one sort of this traffic is dominated by delta and united airlines so this also have an impact to the u.s. carriers and we will see very soon especially in europe shakeout kind of bankruptcies for several carriers because they're running out of money travel some roads and no one is booking tickets actually but we see now here from my perspective we had

starts we have 911 bill remember this but this is the most significant crisis for the beijing industry we've been seeing a lot of changes and eventually to print it will be of course a very important part in the future everyone people like to fly but this one going to change their vacation industry i think sustainable. well it's not just the u.s. tightening travel restrictions european countries are implementing new measures as the world health organization labels the e.u. as the new virus epicenter denmark is blocking entry for most foreigners and as emma hayward reports spain has also declared a state of emergency. closing for the foreseeable future spain is in the grip of the coronavirus crisis and didn't madrid balls 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 is the mental game of 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 or that is the desperation to not tell pass 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 universes a nursery as well as 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 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 this flood 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 has 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 emma hayward al-jazeera. indonesia's capital jakarta has announced it's closing all schools for 2 weeks after least 4 people died of the virus 69 have tested positive as it was jessica washington's in jakarta and reports it's not just schools that are being closed. we also know that this now applies to keep tourist spots some beaches around the capitol museum the national monuments people have been calling for these measures for a number of days now as this growing sense of anxiety builds up about the corona virus outbreak and finally we've seen this leadership from chicago's governor you can see that there there is a sense of growing concern and ever since there was the 1st confirmed death off

a drone of our species a foreign national who died in bali there is a sense of concern even around the office buildings around shopping malls they're all temperature checks of both we don't know how accurate those readings are but there is concern killing a round transparency and how into these a government is handling this crisis now we did hear from president giacobbe giotto who is defending the government's approach saying that they are giving the public enough information so that they are informed without the need to worry that many questioning that approach and saying that in fact the best thing to do would be to give the public only the information they have so one example of that if the government is sticking with its policy of not informing the particular location of confronting cases and as you can imagine that information does get out anyway so many people are calling on the government to change that approach and to be more transparent with the information. saudi arabia has just announced in the last hour it will temporarily suspend all international flights for 2 weeks starting from

sunday the kingdom is reporting $24.00 new cases of the coronavirus on friday raising the total number of there of cases to 86. cassava is adding germany france and spain to its flight by analysts taking the total number of restricted countries to 18 the governments also ordered all cinemas museums and gyms to close until further notice schools and universities also closed the gulf state has recorded 320 cases of the virus so far. governments around the world are using what's being called social distancing as one of the ways to stop the virus from spreading but health workers a thorough choose to also look at the additional cost of exclusion and loneliness among the most vulnerable grantley gupta explains was the 2nd pandemic of the 21st century has led to the largest quarantine it human history bustling cities have turned into go stands millions are on the lockdown in parts of

asia and europe. public squares are 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 social isolation intend 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 in new york volunteers of local charity groups like this one are working overtime to deliver food to the elderly and poor stuck at home those who are just fog rubel to the virus but also hunger it's very serious it specially those who have the vulnerable conditions or preexisting conditions they can't get out like some of us can like you and i so for them they are affected because they cannot. 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 the 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 we also need to to really look carefully at exclusion. the

voices of how was chants of solidarity. 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 syria. still to come here on al-jazeera health officials warn mexico should prepare for a virus outbreak by looking to the past. and in other news a possible roadblock to peace as the afghan government delays the release of taliban prisoners.

hello and welcome to international weather forecast now as you look at the weather across europe it's a familiar picture really with unsettled weather out towards the west moving in towards the u.k. but finally conditions across the iberian peninsula and more southern parts of europe you see that reflected in the temperatures we've got during the course of the day on saturday so some decent temperatures showing up here meanwhile as we head into sunday that area of low pressure pushes in across the u.k. give me some heavy rain meanwhile further towards the south we're going to see brain pushing into wards northern parts of spain across portugal but central areas like to stay dry now it's eastern part so you are seeing a big change in temperatures a big dropoff here we've been into the low twenty's in bucharest in recent days but certainly falling back in the forecast there looking around south across southeastern anyway with outbreaks of snow into north africa we've had cooler air pushing down from the north over the last few days still in evidence khartoum's temps that low and you'd normally expect to see pretty heavy showers around the

coast of west africa ghana and ivory coast in particular and our tropical psycho harold continues to move away from madagascar should go just to the northeast of marshes but nevertheless we are expecting pretty stormy skies across. joining listening paste as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news channel. blockers and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the maddest the states misleads the public to still be here reflects the same thing. climate change or their it all show is a dark believe they have anything to apologize for their listening post on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter dhabi your top stories a 30 day ban on all flights from mainland europe to the u.s. is now in effect president trump has declared a national emergency printing up billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus. colombia says it won't allow entry to visitors who've stayed in europe or asia in the past 2 weeks it will close its borders with venezuela as of saturday which has announced 2 cases but its border with ecuador will remain open. indonesia is stepping up measures to fight the pandemic its capital jakarta has announced its closing all schools for 2 weeks they have been 69 confirmed cases and 4 deaths.

now as we mentioned earlier the us president donald trump has declared that national emergency and he's promised to sign a sweeping new bill just passed by the house of representatives that would provide paid sick leave and free widespread testing once the bill reaches his desk mr trump has been accused of playing down the seriousness of the pandemic alan fischer has more 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 submergence you prepared this 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 to vacations 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 last thing 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 trump was forced to take action as public life across america was being impacted with sports events canceled schools closed events perspire and 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 al-jazeera washington. well mexico has just so 15 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and while the authorities say the number could go up they feel they are prepared to deal with an outbreak but some health experts are warning the country isn't applying lessons learned from the last global pandemic swine flu meanwhile repeal of reports now from mexico city. while countries around the world continue to implement containment measures in the

fight against the corona virus pandemic in mexico everything appears to be business as usual but it could be and through city for their part mexican officials seem confident in the low numbers of confirmed cases saying the country has been preparing for years applying the lessons learned from the 2009 outbreak of h one n one otherwise known as the swine flu. then the government ordered a public health emergency that led to a near shutdown of the entire country. but in the end health officials received praise from the world health organization and the u.s. centers for disease control who called mexico's response to the outbreak a model for the world today authorities say they're far better prepared than ever before they never see to see there is no need for fear there's no need for panic though it is a natural reaction we need to turn down the fears so that we can face reality and address this epidemic with the appropriate level of public health policies not more and not wastes our levy there are others who worry mexico is under estimating the

impact that corona virus could have especially in the country's poorest regions very sat. on the access to health services i mean usually the middle class and and the rich people have access to private systems in those kind of approach to . the nordic seas for most of the population most of the public hospitals in the in the country they're a crowd that long waits nawin off supply of medicines while the worst of the now global pandemic has until now largely spared countries in latin america concerns about over the level of preparedness in the region mexican health officials say they expect more confirmed cases of corona virus in the coming weeks but add that the government does not yet feel it necessary to implement containment measures like. canceling public events or closing schools. so are mexican

authorities acting too cool in the face of the corona virus pandemic we asked dr alexander messiest one of the lead scientists who helped develop public policy during the h one n one pandemic 10 years ago. as for authorities it's very difficult to please everyone because if you do one thing people ask you why you didn't do more and you when you do more others say you're exaggerating it's very difficult for thirty's to make a decision that will please everyone. the number of confirmed cases of corona virus in mexico has only recently entered double digits the government continues to urge citizens to observe basic hygiene as the best prevention against the spread of coronavirus and most importantly not to panic the panic doesn't appear to be spreading it on. mexico city. ok let's wrap up some of the top stories for you here on al-jazeera after 11 months in jail a co-founder of hong kong's occupy protest is now being released.

chen kin man says he has no regrets for his role in the 2014 protests also known as the umbrella movement that's when thousands of demonstrators shut down big parts of the city for weeks demanding greater freedoms chan was one of 9 people found guilty on charges of public nuisance. turkey and russia have agreed on the details of a cease fire and serious breach and the plan was finalized after 4 days of talks in ankara under the agreement russian forces will carry out joint patrols as of sunday along the m 4 highway linking syria's east and west the cease fire broke out last thursday is largely holding. the u.n. says the seesawing hasn't done much to improve the diet conditions that we spoke to dr his son id who's a county ologist at a hospital in italy been supported by the charity islamic relief he describes what it's like. had the situation in the past few months on the impact so much harder

because many hospital here and many right now the care center where apple there is more than the already for iraq with the macair center that i mentioned right out of service because they were targeted and nearly completely or bar shelley didn't make . and with the displacement huge amount of people yelling at the order where there is no health care centers who can manage to give them the correct care act of the in struggling to make the hospital and care and health this death up by. when we lost many health whistles and the needy phil goff feel that they are and safe where in hospital they are all all these unconscious and it makes them how

difficult for us there in such circumstances. we have a developing story for you coming of the iraqi capital baghdad security officials there saying there's been a 2nd attack on a base housing u.s. troops correspondents among the full team is in baghdad simona what do we know. well we have confirmation that there has been another rocket attack on a military base in tire g. which is just north of baghdad in which houses many competition 1 troops and we don't have any details yet with out whether there have been any casualties in this latest attack but it comes just days after a similar attack earlier this week which claimed the lives of 2 u.s. servicemen and also a u.k. serviceman that attack was blamed by the united states on

a type as boller which is an indian act group under the umbrella of the popular mobilization of forces here in iraq and in response to that attack the u.s. then a couple of days later on the march 12th targeted several positions of the popular mobilisation forces here in iraq those strikes resulted in the deaths of 5 security personnel and a civilian and print then we have heard widespread condemnation from many sides here in iraq and we've also heard some of these iranian backed groups once again promising to respond to the missing to retaliate against u.s. position to here in iraq for that latest attack on target this morning could be one of those. but we're still waiting to hear more whether there have been any casualties and just how significant this latest incident is ok some are thank you. the government in afghanistan has delayed the release of taliban prisoners earlier

this week the president asked for afghani agreed to release nearly 3000 taliban fighters provided the reduction of violence continues 100 prisoners were to be let out every day but that hasn't started in return the taliban agreed to hand over a 1000 afghan soldiers let's talk now to how he is a national security analyst and a founding member of transparency afghanistan he joins us from kabul. why hasn't this happened on show joel. when we have a lot of issues the taliban and the united states agreed indoor weeks back that deal will go into the dialogue but before they go into the enter afghan dialogue there were 2 things that needed to be done before that that was that it leaves of up to 5000 taliban prisoners from the james of the afghan government and taliban

reciprocating that the releasing of about 1000 prisoners who are from the afghan government side now what president has done is that he has disagreed with this saying that this was a deal between the united states of america and the taliban it had nothing to do with the afghan government and the consensus of the afghan government was not that and he is not willing to release these 5000 prisoners and one. he's saying that he will release them on condition based and various phases the 1st phase that he will sign 2 days ago which talked about the about 1500 taliban prisoners who are older and who have health conditions will put at least that is not yet done by that but the taliban how firmly rejected saying that there will be no conditions and do want all of their 5000 prisoners to be released before the enter ivan dialogue that. supposed to happen on one dialogue just. does

that mean that the white broader deal is now in danger or is this just a bump in the road. when these are some of the deadlocks and down but obviously for the afghan government it has to do not we did deadlocks but one of the does ovation is if we are to leave these 5000 prisoners and what if they join the battle field again what if they pick up arms again because the deduction and violence phases all that we have started the often says of both parties over the last few days so what happens to that and if they get to it at least these $5000.00 prisoners they would not be much for the leverage of the government when dean meets the taliban and the dialogue and job one dialogue was supposed to start on march 10th and we had already on the 14th of march today 4 days. boss the deadline and

these prisoners were supposed to be released before march 10th march 9th not what happens the taliban have said that for the strongest you do not release these $5000.00 president as we are not going to get into the enter out for an dialogue so these are some of the dead dogs in impediments ok. in kabul thank you very much. lots more news whenever you want it of course on the web site is always there for you al jazeera dot com you can keep across all the very latest developments there on a big story dominating the news around the world this hour of course the coronavirus the one of our aspects of the story as well if you're going to new zealand you're going to be asked to self isolate for at least 14 days up next the listening post i'm back immediately after that with 30 minutes of world news. what's behind the recent tensions between pakistan and india we've given them the opportunity to. but

. it's not just politics it's the new. and not so from pakistani foreign minister mahmoud talks to al jazeera. combine that's right. but if that is. what i do but. go to show. anyone takes 2 cases more than 100 countries within the new york. hello i'm richard burton you're at the listening post among the media stories that we're covering this week china tries to flip the script on covert 19 it has issues with the way the international media are covering the story right down to where the virus was born the film industry in apartheid era south africa. and the subsidy that was supposed to help black south africans get into the movie business justice delayed can be justice denied

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