most powerful scientists speak out. oceans manakin on a. form . that next 8 weeks are critical we can learn and we will turn a corner. on this virus the u.s. president declares a national emergency that frees up to $50000000000.00 to fight the curve at 19 outbreak washington's travel restrictions come into effect barring people from $26.00 european nations for a month. hello i'm adrian finighan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up with the chinese government declaring an end to the worst of the coronavirus outbreak life slowly starts to return to normal. but

a homecoming for south africans stranded in the chinese city of ruhani where the corona virus was 1st reported. the growth of virus pandemic is forcing countries around the world to take extreme measures affecting all aspects of life for billions of people is a global snapshot of what's been happening the united states has declared a national emergency and a travel ban is in effect for most europeans who are planning trips to the u.s. canada has suspended its parliament while prime minister justin trudeau advised citizens against any foreign travel and he himself is under quarantine after his wife tested positive now in europe which has become the epicenter of the outbreak spain has declared a state of emergency as people in italy get accustomed to living life on the lockdown it's a pretty mixed picture though in asia with a jump in cases in indonesia and the philippines but chinese authorities are

declaring the worst of the outbreak there over with only 11 new infections confirmed on friday in fact china's who bay province where the 1st cases were reported a 50 day lockdown is finally starting to ease we have correspondents around the world covering this story katrina you begins our coverage from beijing. people are starting to celebrate the chinese government says the peak of the outbreak here has passed and the province wide lockdown is easing for the 1st time in more than 50 days residents of show county are enjoying a day out for leo it feels like winter is finally over to me and her we're having our very very very happy today is a bright sunny day and the flowers blooming lockdown is over so i'm taking my dog for a walk in the park also relieved to walk outdoors recovered coronavirus patients in

on medical workers there are celebrating the closure of the city's last makeshift hospital daily numbers of new virus cases and deaths nationwide have dropped to single digits but the chinese government has been accused of rushing to declare victory to help its political image state media a working to convince the public that life is returning to normal but psychologists say the transition will be challenging. people will need time to adjust they have been inside for so long i will feel awkward both physically and mentally some people may react to this freedom by panicking saw me how potential psychological problems. citizen who they factories and businesses have been given permission to resume operations. re tongues company is one of them the hardware engineer is eager to return to the office he hasn't been able to work from home and is worried about his income. company is definitely reducing the money of course this affects our

personal income we don't know how we get paid for february not all counties have lifted restrictions millions are still under orders to stay home. he just has been making the most of her time indoors with family but is struggling to contain her excitement. oh you know on the day that's i have full freedom i'm going to feel like an excited bird flying out of his cage. for now she's getting ready for her day under the sun katrina you al-jazeera beijing let's take you live now to hong kong and i was there as sarah clarke who can bring the substrate the situation there pretty mixed picture across asia regarding the coronavirus. it certainly is but the downward trend in china and south korea continues the latest number of cases in mainland china 11 new cases and 13 deaths in the

government this is that the recovery rate is increasing now looking to south korea with another record low in the number of infections at the lowest since every $21107.00 you cases taking the total number of deaths to run $8086.00 people and 5 more people have died and the total number of deaths in south korea is $72.00 so basically the mom the philippines has got $34.00 new cases that was confirmed on saturday that takes the total to around 98 and the philippines has also put in place some quite tough restrictions on the residents in manila and particularly the president there has declared a not curfew which will start this weekend and is also said that anyone residents in manila should not leave their homes unless it's urgent that all travel to and from the capital that will now be suspended that land air and sea and basically the domestic travel scenario and the curfew will come into play this weekend i can also confirm in japan. has declared or certainly passed

a bill that will allow his government to declare a state of emergency if required now that will allow him to basically all the governments across the regional governments across japan to enforce school closures that also be able to force people to stay at home if need be live also confirm that i vaccinate when it does or if it does become available that will also be accessible to all japanese citizens under a publicly funded campaign a program that has also said it's cautious to declare this particular state of emergency but this is an old law that's been revised to try and curb or certainly control the crowd a virus outbreak in japan so far 26 people have died in japan so many thanks indeed sarah clarke reporting live from hong kong as we reported earlier u.s. president donald trump has declared a national emergency and his promise to sign a sweeping bill just passed by the house of representatives of the provide paid sick leave and free widespread testing once the bill reaches his desk trump has

been accused of playing down the seriousness of the pandemic which is there as i'm fishing reports from washington 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 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 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've 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 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 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 and stand out from under serious rob reynolds who is at the international terminal of los angeles airport and here's his report on the confusion surrounding that ban. 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 country 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 the 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 visas 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

unilateral action and president probes own former homeland security adviser thomas said that the travel ban will do little to spread. to stem the spread of covert 19 and it's more or less a waste of time and effort that's going on from your opponents here is that he joins us now live from london things upright changing pretty fast there in the u.k. najim tell us more. absolutely a.j. and you just heard rob talking about the ban on travel to the u.s. will in fact the u.k. might soon be added to that list it's not on it at the moment but it's got a. large number of known cases of covered 90 roughly 800 at the moment but the government are saying that it could be as high as 10000 the real figure now they are doing something of a change in approach to see the outbreak up until friday they were resisting

calls to ban mass gatherings as some of the european governments have done but now we're hearing that in the next week boris johnson's government will do so it comes after some organizations have taken their own a unilateral action like football's premier league suspending matches like the london marathon postponing the event until october and around the country now doctors surgeries that actually telling people not to come in and actually giving them advice and consultations over the telephone in the 1st instance there is a live debate about the government's approach of trying to build up what they call herd immunity in the population to stop the virus coming back a 2nd time people are worried about the effect on the national health service the government is now talking about trying to draft in volunteers in some sectors so i think there is a realisation that the public is still quite worried but also some that people are

looking for further measures and there's talk as well that there might actually be some school closures coming in the near future here and one of the latest developments in the rest of europe again. well the w.h.o. of course is saying that europe is now the epicenter of the outbreak we are hearing that cambodia has banned flights now from italy germany spain france and the us for a month not the u.k. interesting glee but obviously a lot of concern about how governments are getting on top of it here well it's really has been the hardest hit they had the largest rise in deaths in the 24 hours to friday 2 $150.00 people dying of covered 19 and the total number of deaths is now around $1200.00 that they are struggling to cope with their health system of course they're in total lockdown several countries now have moved to close their borders to to foreign nationals including poland so there is

a feeling now that governments on their own a starting to take harder action as the days go on al jazeera is not in baba reporting live there from london many thanks indeed we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then the coronavirus death toll takes a drastic jump in iran as security forces are ordered to clear all streets. it's been yet another rocket launcher attack on an iraqi military base housing u.s. and u.k. troops. welcome back as we look at weather conditions across northeastern parts of asia you see this weather system moving away across japan and then out into the pacific so as we look at the forecast there it is clearing away so brought to conditions for

a time we have another area of low pressure moving across the sea of japan e.c. into wards western parts of japan across mainland china weather conditions the most part looking fine plenty of sunshine there in shanghai 23 is a high down in hong kong moving the forecast on the low pressure center moves across japan said looking like a fairly wet day and i think for tokyo we'll see some rain at times has moved from there into south asia cherry weather conditions are looking fine we have got this area of low pressure just working its way across more eastern parts of india and into bangladesh but it weakens as it does so so looking generally fine for the most part during sunday 27 in delhi but we are like to see heavy showers developing across sri lanka as head on through into monday here in the arabian peninsula things are still looking over and south we've had this massive area of low pressure moving across from egypt moving through into parts of iraq at the moment still a lot of lift the dust extending across iraq down through parts of saudi arabia

down on to the western side of the red sea. from. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power to. how has this radical transformation. i mean. i mean if you want to shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and their unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. on which is 0.

again this is 0 let's take a moment to remind you of the main news this 30 day ban on all flights from parts of europe to the united states is now in effect president on will trump has declared a national emergency freeing up billions of dollars to fight coronavirus in china authorities have begun to ease travel restrictions for residents in full bay province the former epicenter of the virus it means that healthy people will now be allowed to move within the region who bears been on the lockdown since january. there's been a huge jump in the number of deaths from corona virus in iran iranian state television says that a further 97 people have died pushing the death toll to 611 state media says that shops streets and groups of been all been emptied the country is struggling with a lack of lifesaving equipment it's asking for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan

from the international monetary fund al-jazeera same bus ravi in toronto says that iran struggling economy is making it difficult for authorities to effectively deal with the virus. these figures certainly tell the tragic story that people here in iran are facing on a daily basis now it's difficult for us to go out and to try to speak to people directly but on social media you can see almost every day people talking about losing relatives losing loved ones even nurses and doctors who have lost family members but go back to work the next day to try to help those that are seeking treatment that are seeking care and i'm certain that leaders must be asking themselves here into iran would of the circumstances here have been different had it not been for us sanctions us unilateral u.s. sanctions placed on the iranian economy now if iran had been able to continue to sell its oil it would have had more money to throw at this problem sanctions have truly had a compound an effect on iran's ability to deal with the spread of the corona virus outbreak here in the country businesses have businesses individuals and the macro

economy at large simply doesn't have that buffer of extra money that is often required to throw at a problem that is straining the health care industry that is straining people's pocketbooks that is straining the country's overall financial reserves now we've seen iran get help from countries like qatar one of its only and closest allies in the middle east from china from russia from the world health organization but even the medical supplies that are coming in are a band-aid on a gaping wound which is the country's struggling economy and it simply is a fact that sanctions are now hurting iran's ability to react to this public health crisis on a national scale we also heard from president hassan rouhani who via video conference chaired the counter carona headquarters the meeting the weekly meeting for the task force that he started at the beginning of this crisis and he said the main requirements right now is for people to remain calm and to increase public participation in the government's health care advice and guidance on limiting

movements to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus really it's been a massive problem since the beginning and that is simply because many. well here say they can't close their shops they can't limit their movements they have to go to their offices to continue to try to make money to pay rent and president rouhani also said that no other country would have been able to do what iran has done under the circumstances that it is facing a south african aircraft carrying more than 120 people evacuated from war han in china has landed back home the group has been stranded in the chinese city since the corona virus outbreak began around a serious from the mirror reports according to the government whose been at pains to stress that says these are people that are healthy that have been tested and also underwent multiple screenings while into hand so according to the government nobody aboard this flight has had a positive test for the corona virus and this is very much what south africans want

to hear the group is being transported now by bus from the pull of corn international airport to a quarantine site just further down this road that's been identified by the government and they say this is the ideal spot to ensure that people are far away from the nearest city that it is secure and you also see that there's a police cordon behind us blocking this road and any traffic on the road behind us that will carry these buses to their quarantine site so the fact that all these people the government says have not tested positive for the corona virus is an important issue for the government here for people in south africa who are concerned about what exactly this repatriation will mean for south africa which so far has recorded 24 cases of the coronavirus all of them from people who have

traveled abroad and returned to south africa. in indonesia schools are about to be closed to the outbreak 00 jessica washington reports from jakarta this is something that people have been calling for for at least weeks and now all schools around because it will be shut for at least 2 weeks it's not just schools that will be affected but also the truest hotspots like theme parks museums and zoos down it's unclear how long these restrictions will be in place but they will of course beat standing if the virus continues to spread. on one of the world's most densely populated city. authorities have confirmed at least $96.00 confirmed cases of the virus around in tunisia among them 5 deaths and these numbers are all the more remarkable when you consider that indonesia only confront its 1st case of the virus here across this archipelago just last week so those b.

is that into the was under testing and perhaps on the estimation the spread of these fires are still being realized. new zealand is to require everyone entering the country including its own citizens to go into self isolation for 14 days from minister. said on saturday that only pacific island nations with no recorded cases would be exempt the been 6 confirmed cases in new zealand thus far. 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 governments around the world are using social distancing as one of the ways to prevent the virus spreading further but health workers are urging authorities to look at the additional cost of exclusion and

loneliness among the most vulnerable for goto reports. the 2nd pandemic of the 21st century has led to the largest quarantine in human history bustling cities have turned into gold stands millions are under lockdown in parts of asia and europe as. public squares 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 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 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 eat and also they're isolated the world health organization says now more than ever communities must come together and stand with those neglected by society when we

speak about the vulnerability 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 home was chants of solidarity the spontaneous addresses. and old says show how in these trying times 'd people are finding new ways to break the barriers of isolation i'm luminous to feel the enduring spirit of human connection priyanka put on to steer now to other news at least 2 members of iraq's security forces have been injured in an attack on a base housing u.s. and u.k. troops it's not yet known who is responsible but comes a day after u.s. airstrikes on multiple sites in iraq the pentagon says it targeted those

responsible for killing a british soldier and 2 american servicemen in an attack on wednesday some one a full team is in baghdad and says an escalation in attacks threatens them all down the u.s. in iraq. because just yesterday we had the pentagon give a statement providing an overview of what it's called defensive precision strikes against positions of iranian backed groups in iraq and general kind of mckinsey said that all of those strikes were successful targeting primarily weapons that pose of groups like the type hezbollah which the us is blamed for attacking its personnel earlier this week now some analysts have suggested that because there were no secondary expert explosions following the u.s. strikes on those weapons that pose it is possible that actually those the pows were potentially empty that they did not actually contain any weaponry so that is one factor the other factor is that those u.s.

strikes resulted in the 6 casualties including 3 members of the army 2 members of the police and one civilian and that is what drew widespread condemnation from the iraqi government and military but also fresh threats from the iranian backed groups to carry out fresh attacks against u.s. forces so today's attack on could be yet another response to that it is very unusual for such an attack to take place during broad daylight which is a very bold move usually these rocket attacks occur during the night so the question is whether the u.s. wants to get bogged down in tit for tat attacks here in iraq between those groups because that is something that could keep escalating for a while turkey and russia have agreed on the details of a cease fire in syria's region the plan was finalized after 4 days of talks and korea under the agreement turkish and russian forces will carry out joint patrols from somebody along the strategic m 4 highway that links east and west syria the

ceasefire brokered last thursday is largely holding. afghanistan's government has delayed the negotiated release of taliban prisoners earlier this week president musharraf's ghani agreed to stop the release ahead of talks with the taliban the government said that 5000 prisoners will be let out in phases. it is good to have you with us hello adrian finnegan here in doha the headlines from al-jazeera a 30 day ban on all flights from parts of europe to the united states is now in effect president donald trump has declared a national emergency in the u.s. freeing up billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus and he says he'll sign a sweeping bill passed by the house of representatives which will provide paid sick leave and free widespread testing to unleash the full power of the federal government this effort today i am officially declaring

a national emergency 2 very big words the action i take in will open up access to up to 50000000000 dollars of very importantly. a large amount of money for states and territories that look at all of these in our shared fight against this disease there's been a big jump in the number of people dying from the coronavirus in iran state television says that a further 97 people died pushing the death toll to 611 it comes to security forces in order to clear the streets state media say that shops and roads have been emptied the country is struggling with a lack of life saving equipment it's also asking for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the international monetary fund saudi arabia has announced that it will temporarily suspend all international flights for 2 weeks beginning sunday the kingdom has reported 24 new cases of the coronavirus raising the total number of

cases to 86. some relatively good news from china authorities there have begun easing travel restrictions for people in who bay province the former epicenter of the corona virus it means that healthy people will now be allowed to move within the region who has been on the lockdown since january iraqi security forces say there's been a 2nd attack on a base housing u.s. troops there's no word on casualties yet it comes a day off to us as strikes on multiple sites in iraq the pentagon says it targeted those responsible for killing 2 american troops and a british soldier in the attack on wednesday as the headlines more news off the inside story next.

countries around the world are struggling to keep up with the corona virus pandemic global stock markets have had a turbulent week with some of the worst losses in over 30 years so what's the economic fallout and can a global recession be a. story. it's the world's biggest health emergency the corona virus outbreak is now a pandemic.