installed in some cases but to do that we must transform our relationship with. spain reports a spike in corona virus cases $1500.00 new infections in just 24 hours. hello i'm adrian from again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the number of dead in iran due to the coronavirus is now over 600 as the government asks the i.m.f. for an emergency loan. the u.s. president's travel ban on $26.00 european nations comes into effect hours after he declared a national emergency. and more misery for venezuelans colombia shuts its borders to

contain the spread of the virus. the coronavirus pandemic is forcing countries around the world to take extreme measures affecting all aspects of life a billions of people here's the news we're following this hour spain is reporting 1500 new cases in 24 hours the prime minister is due to speak after meeting with his cabinet right now iran is seeing a rise in the number of deaths 97 reported on saturday are now it's ordered the closure of religious sites in combe and colombia has shut its border with venezuela a crucial crossing for people to get food medicine and work before we go to our correspondents let's take a look at the global picture right now this is the johns hopkins university virus tracker as you can see 147746 confirmed cases of the virus totaled.

that's $5539.00 but the total recovered $71714.00 you can see that big cluster there in italy but also look at spain right now big red blob of madrid there confirming that spike in cases in madrid let's go live to sania gago who's in london for us and following the news out of the u.k. and europe starting with that big spike in cases in spain. absolutely and this was what the spanish government had feared would happen they realized that they could come across a situation as badly as had hit italy so fast and so soon really has taken people by surprise so with that they are moving quite quickly with the clamping down and they are supposed to be or the prime minister better sunshine this

supposed to be announcing a nationwide lockdown that would mean spain a country of 46000000 people would affect would in effect be restricted to being at home and only be allowed out to work or in cases of emergency when you consider that the cases of covert 19 have gone up 10 fold since sunday this has been a cause of great alarm for the country and they do not want to see a similar situation taking place in spain as has been seen in a city in northern italy where you've had hospitals beyond capacity where you've had one time tree asure a practice is put in place where people have been allowed to die because simply there isn't the means or all the all the equipment to be able to save every single case as possible a situation that serious hopefully is what the spanish will be looking to

avoid whether they will be able to do so given the sudden rise in the spikes in numbers is another thing that they can have said ok and what developments we have to report from the rest of europe in the u.k. where the situation is is changing rapidly. well you've had also another spike in cases in the netherlands as well with now 959 cases. going in present in the country but also interesting enough the outlier in this whole situation the u.k. surprised many in the international medical bodies for taking a distinctly different approach to what other countries were doing he the prime minister boris johnson faced quite a bit of criticism for what was being perceived as a sort of light touch approach with using for example plans such as herd immunity in a bid to try and push the cases along further down in the year so as to avoid peaks

in the health care system that there have been arguments for this but there are also been increasingly over the past few days since this announcement arguments against it and now it appears that the prime minister the british government is somewhat bending towards those down in the face of that criticism as well he's preparing a review to see how they can ban mass gatherings something which he and the other 2 medical professionals who he's been alongside with have said that didn't need to happen because. contracting the virus would normally happen in smaller groups but they are considering this and now emergency legislation is being passed is due to be passed in parliament in the coming week to try and ban events such as wimbledon and the horse races that ask it and even the glastonbury music festival so many thanks needham's there is something very good reporting live from london it's been a steep rise in the number of people who died after contracting corona virus in

iran iranian state television says that a further 97 people have died that raises the death toll to 611 state media says that shops streets and roads have all been emptied countries dealing with a lack of life saving medical equipment it's asking for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the international monetary fund to 0 samus ravi is in turn around and says the impact of the us sanctions on the economy are making it very difficult for enough storage fees to effectively deal with the outbreak. numbers continue to go up every single day $97.00 dead in just 24 hours bringing the total to $611.00 and the overall new number of cases in 24 hours 1365 confirmed cases of corona virus the total edging closer and closer 213000 specifically $12729.00 cases in all since the beginning of this outbreak these numbers while in the grand total of the population of the country remain small they are very

significant in terms of tracking the spread of the corona virus in iran which since the beginning the government has struggled to get to come to grips with and surely what one of the things one of the points that the government officials many leaders across the border trying to make now is that they are struggling to cope with this virus because of the impact of u.s. unilateral u.s. sanctions that been placed on iran and you have to look at the fact that this is a later oil producing country if left to its own devices if it was able to trade with world markets normally this is a country that would have had an enormous financial buffer and lots of money to be able to throw at a problem like a public health crisis like this coronavirus but the fact is that it is struggling to do so we have seen help come from countries like qatar one of its closest and one of the few closest allies it has in the middle east iran has also received help from china russia the world health organization by way of medical supplies but the fact is that this is effective only in the short term it's like putting

a band-aid on a gaping wound and that gaping wound is the economy on the macro scale iran doesn't have enough money to throw at bolstering health services that are under dire pressure from the from the corona virus spreading so quickly on a smaller scale in people's homes in small businesses shops they don't have the financial buffer to be able to shut down and close up and commit to the guidance for health care that the government is putting on these people so truly it's a case of sanctions making it very difficult to manage this health crisis by having a compound in effect and the fact is people just don't have that financial buffer to be able to withstand dealing with this health crisis. to the us now where president's donald trump has put the country under a national emergency which frees up money to fight the coronavirus to unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort 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 for important and a large amount of money for states and territories that look out of these in our shared fight against this disease after that address a 30 day ban on all flights from parts of europe to the u.s. came into effect and the u.s. house of representatives has passed a bill which will provide paid sick leave and free testing to citizens now has to sign it in order for it to one take effect let's go live now to washington i was there as mike hanna is on the saturday morning shift then what's the latest mike. well as you mentioned there president trump needs to sign that bill passed by the house of representatives but even before that it's got to go through the senate it is a sweeping bull indeed and late last night president trump indicated that he would support it he would sign the bill when it gets to him this is likely to influence

those in the senate to describe the bill as below however the senate will be convening in the next few days and it's likely now given president trump's indorsement that the senate will pass it that this bill will go into effect certainly it's a bill aimed at easing the social and economic hardships being experienced by americans that $50000000000.00 that will be released in terms of the state of emergency declared by president trump will go directly to combat the spread of the virus in particular to the rollout of testing kits which is still very slow despite repeated assurances from the white house that these testing kits are being put into the field however throughout the united states and remembering now that there is only one state in which there has not been a confirmed case that is west virginia the number of tests is still very low indeed and one of the problems is there's no central count for the testing process the

c.d.c. no longer publishing figures so this in itself is very difficult for those attempting to get some kind of concrete data on the church trajectory of the virus so many problems remain in terms of how the administration is combating this crisis despite the ongoing assurances from the white house mike hanna live in washington many thanks indeed mike from the east to the west coast's series rob reynolds is at the international terminal of los angeles airport one of a number of major u.s. ports for travelers he says there was a lot of confusion surrounding the 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

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 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 come 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 shame given 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 over all over this 30 day period of the band 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 lateral 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 coded 19

and it's more or less a waste of time and effort will get a weather update thanks to on al-jazeera than our coronavirus coverage continues life begins to return to normal in china after beijing to class an end to the bust of the corona virus that. the need for broadband internet access has never been more urgent and there is at least one industry making a profit from the coronavirus one of those a struggling to survive tell me more about that. welcome back a star to northeastern parts of asia this time we've got one low pressure system moving away clear of japan so bright conditions for a time but then this next area of low pressure is moving across the sea of japan

e.-c. into japan once again korean potential general looking fine so looking at highs of 7 degrees so to move the forecast through to monday we're going to see a brace of rain across many parts of japan i think for tokyo you see some rain during the day but also with the wind coming from the northwest we get some shelter off the mountain so not too bad at times about stages should be dry for hong kong taipei also enjoying country of sunshine highs of 15 in shanghai and royce also expecting largely dry weather across northern parts of vietnam just an outside chance of a shower for annoy into southeastern parts of asia plenty of showers here across more southern portions of borneo developing during the course of the day looking pretty wet for western parts of china such a cutter could have some issues there and showers also likely in kuala lumpur and singapore away into south asia weather conditions cherry not looking too bad the showers across eastern parts of india into bangladesh should gradually weaken but we are going to see showers creeping up into southern parts of sri lanka too in the

course of monday. the u.n. fact finders accused of burma's military genocide this is the political that you see there. do you believe there in the movie is a fascist or a kid don't have all. the recognize that both sides have legitimate grievances against the other climate this is the fallacy of climate back then why doesn't my place hard hitting debate with our. own al-jazeera. org.

well again this is just there let's remind you of the main news this hour iran has reported 97 for the deaths related to the coronavirus pushing the death toll there to 611 the country is dealing with a lack of life saving medical equipment designed for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the instruction monetary fund a 30 day battle all flights from mainland europe to the united states is now in effect it comes as president of trump declared a national emergency freeing up billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus. and as we reported earlier colombia is shutting its land border with weather with venezuela it's across a gets used by thousands of venezuelans every day as they look for food and medicine during a devastating economic crisis of home more about let's go live to zeros to rise above this in argentina's capital want us out as you've reported stories on venezuela's economic crisis and its fragile health care system how is this border

closure going to affect people. precedent and iran from colombia now is that he was shutting down the border also buying foreigners and nonresidents coming from europe from entering the country there are 16 cases that have been already confirmed in colombia on friday venezuela confirmed its 1st 2 cases of coronavirus the president appeared to showing people how to put a mask on in order to ride the metro also warning people not to attend public events shutting down schools among other things that you just said all of this is happening in a country that is of the middle of a humanitarian crisis the situation in the hospitals in venezuela is not a regular one there is shortages of water for example in around 80 percent of the hospitals in venezuela there's no so there's no hammett climate science or there's no medicine so the. situation in those hospitals is very very dire there's also the suspicion that this situation could be even worse because we've heard from doctors

right now we're saying that there's not enough kids in the country in order to test those who have oil an ill so the amount of people actually infected could be much higher and that's why it could become a much bigger issue a precedent saying that the united states economic sanctions in the country are making the situation even worse because those sanctions are making it difficult for them to get supplies to treat those in need that that border between both countries it's a lifeline for many venezuelans those who are in venezuela right now it's actually a border areas cross into colombia to get some basic supplies some of the things that cannot get or they cannot afford in their home country and in order to continue doing that they could try to go and we'd go crossing in areas that are controlled either by guerillas by paramilitary groups or others and that's why venezuela is saying that this is an extremely aggressive move by the colombian

government saying that they could people could be forced into going to very very dangerous areas and. lots of american motions dealing with the crisis. well most countries in the region are shutting down are canceling flights from europe preventing public events sports events shutting down schools among other things in argentina for example mandatory isolation has been imposed there is little fines for those who do not respected those who came back from europe or the united states and are not staying at home but national airline for example is getting ready to repack to 8 of those who've been stranding abroad 10 planes are being set up bringing those aren't in times we're currently either in europe or in the united states in the past few days all eyes have also been and brazil with precedent will send out of being tested for corona virus after he spokesperson who went with him to the united states to see

donald trump test this fall say that when i don't tested negative on friday however we're being told that he remains isolated and he will be tested once again all of this is happening as is so so announcing more measures to cope with her on a virus a $1000000000.00 investment to strengthen its health here is systemic cases in brazil are currently around 150 but they could increase very rapidly because there are already cases of coronavirus in the states in the country are serious stories about reporting live one of saddam's stories about a sex addict. it uneasy as capital jakarta has announced that it's closing all schools for 2 weeks or for a place 4 people died due to the corona virus 69 people have tested positive one hour from observers jessica washington in chicago so. 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 tourist hot spots like theme hog museums and zoos down it's on clear how long these restrictions will be in place but they will always be standing if the virus doesn't even spread from. one of the world's most densely populated state. of north korea how can at least $96.00 confirmed cases of the virus around in tunisia among them 5 and these numbers up all the more remarkable when you consider that indonesia only confront its 1st case of the virus here across this opera péladeau just last week so those b. is that into the was under testing and perhaps under estimating the spread of these fires are still being realized south africa across carrying more than 120 citizens evacuated from the chinese coronavirus epicenter will han has landed back home to repatriate its citizens were living in the chinese city when the outbreak began

there they'll be quarantined for at least 21 days south africa has reported a total number of $24.00 confirmed cases. a positive development now to report on from china's obey province the country's coronavirus epicenter the situation has now improved enough to ease the 50 day lockdown betray you reports 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 you can have a car 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

one hon 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 the mentally some people may react to this freedom by panicking some may have potential psychological problems. says in 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 running 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. on the day that are her for 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 beaching businesses and stock markets globally are struggling to stay afloat with the rapid spread of the coronavirus but some tech companies seeing a boost in revenue millions of people under lockdown and turning to digital means to continue their daily lives. explains the coverts 1000 outbreak has

infected more than 140000 people worldwide it's forcing communities to brace for huge economic and social changes. for many staying at home may mean still getting work done communicating with loved ones or perhaps becoming more tech savvy and while businesses and stock markets forecast slow economic growth some tech companies are seeing an uptick video conferencing software companies zoom is one of the biggest winners from the crisis removing time limits for as video chats as looking to help keep business meetings and student learning afloat google and microsoft also announced they would give free access to video conferencing services and live document collaboration to 3 lay. and google's parents company alphabet says it will work with u.s. health officials on creative a tool to help protect the coronavirus clients and patients and people of interest can fill out a screening questionnaire. move down various symptoms or risk factors. demand

for messaging education and productivity apps are likely to grow and as more people stay at home other platforms ah benefiting the coronavirus will have an impact on streaming websites and services like you tube hulu and netflix so it's a monetize their content will see significant increases in aggregate you from increased demand on their platforms user growth across platforms will most likely be modest and demean and streaming infrastructure and internet search for vendors like horizon comcast will grow dramatically but as the global demand for such services increases so does the need for secure accessibility the need for broadband internet access has never been more and folks who lack reliable and affordable connections will be left further behind people need to be in control not less secure and the longer term we need better build out of fiber optic networks to low income rural and that risk communities need discounted devices and we need freed up

use of spectrum and more alternatives like community networking. during these times of uncertainty digital tools are proving to be more vital than ever as the shift to home office and schooling becomes the new reality for many around the world. really mohammed al jazeera now to other news iraq's military says the 2 at defense service men and 3 coalition members have been critically injured in an attack on the taji base north of baghdad it's not yet but who's responsible it comes a day off the u.s. air strikes on multiple strikes multiple sites i'm sorry in iraq the pentagon says that it tugs at those responsible for killing a british soldier and 2 american servicemen and an attack on wednesday al-jazeera some on a full team is in baghdad and says there are growing calls in iraq for the withdrawal of foreign troops. but we've just heard news that recall list members were wounded in today's attack on the tajik military base this is in addition to the 2 members

from the iraqi air force who were critically injured as a result of this latest incident we've also had. a statement come out from the joint operations command which is the body that governs all military activity here in iraq condemning these latest collations but very interesting lee also saying that in light of these latest escalations it's probably best for foreign troops to abide by the decision that was passed by the iraqi parliament earlier this year to withdraw from iraq now this is that quite significant statement to make if you recall in january they rockey parliament voted on the expulsion of foreign troops after the u.s. targeted him so the money here and by that killing him as well as. that decision was not really acted upon the u.s. made it clear that it would not be withdrawing from iraq as a result of what it called your brain in pressure and since then there have been negotiations ongoing between the u.s. and iraq on the future shape and form of u.s.

military presence here so these latest attacks have reignited the entire discussion and we now see that a growing number of actors are calling for foreign troops to leave now it remains to be seen exactly how this will play out because the currently have a caretaker government so that kind of government is usually not in a position to force very far reaching decisions such as the expulsion of foreign troops. everywhere the solo going to here in doha the headlines are just 0 iran has reported another 97 deaths related to the coronavirus pushing the death toll there to 611 the country is dealing with a lack of life saving medical equipment a disaster for the most. $5000000000.00 loan from the international monetary fund a 30 day ban on all flights from most of europe to the united states is now in

effect it comes as president donald trump declared a national emergency freeing up billions of dollars to fight the coronavirus to unleash the full power of the federal government 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. a large amount of money for states and territories that look at all of these in our shared fight against this disease colombia says that it won't allow entry to visitors who have stayed in europe or asia in the past 2 weeks it will close its borders with venezuela from saturday which is confirmed 2 cases but its border with ecuador will remain open. in china's hu bay province the country's coronavirus epicenter infection rates of slowed enough to ease the 50 day lockdown who bay has

been on the lockdown since january and other music iraq's military says that 2 air defense service men and 3 coalition members have been critically injured in an attack on the taji base north of baghdad it's not yet known who is responsible it comes a day after us and strikes 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 afghanistan's government has delayed the release of taliban prisoners earlier this week president ashraf ghani agreed to release nearly 3 and a half 1000 taliban fighters provided a reduction of violence continues as they had last month you see here an office here after an up front next. we understand the difference is in some of the writings of cultures across the land sentimental value taking. the news and current affairs.

down to 0. today on the front it's now officially a pandemic so how do you stop the spread of the corona virus and a year or 2 from the massacre of muslims in christchurch how big is the threat from white nationalism. the corona virus has now hit every continent except antarctica on wednesday the world health organization officially declared it a pandemic so how do we stop it to discuss this i'm joined by eric feingold being an epidemiologist and visiting scientist at harvard health economist and a senior fellow at the federation of american scientists eric thanks for being on the show very rarely do we have a story or.