storytelling around the biggest issues done by ed today is i do it again. 0. hello 1 i'm maryanne demasi you're watching the news hour live from london coming up in the next 60 minutes spain follows a chilean ordering a lockdown for its 46000000 people as the death toll from corona virus rises to 193 . iran's president says his country's fight against the virus is being severely hampered by u.s. sanctions. and then the united states and britain and ireland to its ban on travelers from europe. south abrasions and

china's hu by province where people are venturing out says that 50 day lockdown starts to ease. and global schools who's facing unprecedented upheaval with the most major events now councils all of the leading european football competitions have been suspended. hello welcome to the program our top story spain becoming a 2nd country now to order its entire population under lockdown to stop the rapid spread of the coronavirus 46000000 people is subject to the new decree which orders everyone to stay at home unless they need to buy food or medicine or go to work 193 people have now been reported dead with more than 2000 new cases in the last day another 97 people have died in iran taking the death toll in that country to 611

with nearly 13000 confirmed cases a growing list of countries are also closing their borders including colombia it's shot its border with venezuela making it harder for people crossing for supplies they can't buy at home and then nepal has said that it's. the spending climate permits for mount everest this as public events big and small continue to be canceled from east to procession zz to sporting events the dean baba begins our coverage now and begins with the situation across europe. it's only spain 2nd state of emergency since becoming a democracy and this is what it looks like it comes after the country reported a jump of $1500.00 in coronavirus cases in 24 hours people will only be allowed to leave their homes to buy food and medicine to get to work hospitals or the bank or to care for the young and the elderly in the capital madrid people are still venturing out but with many businesses already shut the city's unusually quiet and

even sentimental stuff can grow i live in the city center and i like to say it empty i like to say that i think people are being responsible and the people who have to stay at home are doing it. because the owner of this hotel is offering hundreds of rooms to madrid's regional government so it can treat coronavirus patients while in seville the man has canceled all easter week for sessions just the latest setback to its tourist industry. in the italian capital rome people stuck indoors have been showing their appreciation of doctors and nurses fighting against coronavirus theirs is the worst hit country off to china and the death toll is well over a 1000 already. with the entire country in lockdown normal life has come to a halt. germany with europe's largest population has recorded just a handful of deaths so far now the government's urging people returning from italy switzerland and austria to self isolate for up to 2 weeks on saturday spain bound

planes belonging to a low cost british airline actually turned round midair now the u.k. government seems set to do its own about turn reacting to moves already made by business and public pressure with all elite football in england suspended until at least early april and the london marathon perspiring to october the cabinet set to ban mass gatherings in the coming week. and garion prime minister viktor orban seen here being checked off to flying back from moldova is set to announce europe's latest school closures you know if the new process. really you state including poland and the czech republic totally or partially restricted nutri to foreign nationals with the consulate now the epicenter of the pandemic more drastic measures look inevitable debugger al-jazeera. or sonic a go is following the story and joins me in the studio now sonia 1st of all these measures that are being taken in spain tell us more about what it means for people there and what the restrictions involve well really what they are designed to

involve is to prevent the rates of infection that has taken place in italy if you look at both what's happened in italy and spain both countries actually fail to tackle those regional hotspots when they occur in italy it was lombardi in spain it was the basque country in madrid as well which is accounting for around $3000.00 of the cases of corona virus so with that in mind and to prevent a scale of devastation which has been seen in italy as well this is what the spanish government are trying to do to try and stem the spread of it as much as they possibly can we're not seeing anything like that in the u.k. just yet what are we seeing with a doubling in the number of cases in the past 24 hours well yes certainly certainly the number of deaths resulting from coronaviruses been seen now a total of $21.00 deaths being seen in the u.k. as well and so now you have a total of at least $1140.00 cases of corona virus that's up 342 in the

past 24 hours now a lot of people have criticized the prime minister boris johnson for taking a sort of slightly lighter touch although he has been a lot of reassurance from his scientific advisors as medical devices that the chief offices that this plan they have in place to try and sort of put in this herd immunity to try and delay the peak of the coronavirus epidemic in this country so it's not a stress it's not stressing out the health service as much here. but unfortunately the also the other or voices which are being made which are saying that this is not really the right tactic to take in order to do it to move directly in towards mitigation actually need to have a lockdown now there already is a bit of a turning back from that now with basically announcements going to be made in the coming year in the coming week to try and shut down mass public events which hopefully should try and stop some of the spread of numbers of which we've seen here in the u.k. thank you sonia thank you. well

a lot down is also coming into effect in manila seeing almost sealing almost 12000000 people into the philippine capital this was the scene there on friday as people rushed to leave before all domestic travel in an out of the city was suspended residents have been asked not to leave the house except for work and emergencies nighttime curfew is also being imposed now and shopping malls have been urged to close measures at some of the strictest taken in asia and city officials hope they'll help stop the spread of the virus philippines so far has reported 8 deaths and 98 infections. and then iranian president hassan rouhani says the country's fight against the coronavirus is being severely hampered by u.s. sanctions iran is the hardest hit country in the middle east with $611.00 confirmed deaths and almost 13000 infections overall earlier china said it would step up cooperation with iran in a bid to help deal with the virus security forces have been sent out to clear the

streets and many iranians are actually ignoring government calls to stay at home interior ministry is now ordered the closure of all religious sites in the holy city of rome where the virus was 1st detected. was a must ravi joins us live now from iran's capital tehran and we've seen these are escalated efforts on the part of the government to try and fight the spread of this virus but it seems as though people are ignoring calls to stay off the streets. yes that's exactly right what has happened what's transpired here is that earlier this afternoon the interior ministry issued an edict an order for specific sites in houma to be closed a shrine and a mosque that are major attractions that attract a large populations of people visitors from around the world as well as inside iran and they've ordered those to be shut down though it has to be said that order said that they would be closed soon tonight they remain open as of now from what we

understand those sites are still open the controls have been put in place far fewer people are visiting those places they're still open and the fact of the matter is it's not a bad step to close them now the peak of the virus experts say is coming up in 2 weeks but critics will say that this should have been done one month ago that to do it now is simply a half measure that it should have been done much earlier because these locations were known vectors for the virus and at the time that home was the at the center of the outbreak in iran these sites remained open and things were business as usual in terms of visitation into iran the municipality has announced that all road all all building works and construction work will be halted for at least 2 to 3 weeks again something that many critics say should have been done much earlier on in the terror on government as well as the federal government the president's office continues to say that any quarantine mechanisms that people are talking about in terms of the capital those are untrue and the government will not shut down the capital will not

quarantine the capital so certainly further steps being taken but critics will say that these continue to be half measures at a time when the country's government is struggling to control the spread of the of the virus even weeks into the outbreak the government is struggling to control this fragile says struggling in their response particularly in light of sanctions which are limiting their soul says access to medical supplies and now what do we been hearing about this today. well many political and military leaders have continued to say that the biggest problem they're facing in terms of combating the coronavirus is the unilateral u.s. sanctions that iranians say is illegal if you think about iran it's one of the largest oil producing countries in the world if it had been for years able to sell its oil freely on the open market it would have had a large financial buffer to be able to throw money at this problem but the fact is that's not the case president hassan rouhani in an open letter to international

leaders to his counterparts all over the world has said that this is a dangerous and widespread virus that iran cannot handle itself and he has warned that if the international community doesn't step in and do something that the virus doesn't recognize any borders its victims are chosen regardless of political ethnic and religious beliefs really drawing a line under the fact that if the international community despite disagreements with iran doesn't help now this could continue to be a problem not just for the country but for the region and possibly the world thank you very much the same. elsewhere in the region saudi arabia suspending all international flights for 2 weeks from sunday the kingdom reports that 17 new cases of the coronavirus on saturday raising the total number of infections to 103 kuwait has also canceled all international flights indefinitely and a major terrorism and cultural centers have been shot and as well. and then the united states is expanding its european travel ban to the u.k.

an island from choose day restrictions are being imposed to stop the spread of the virus a 30 day ban on travelers from mainland europe come into force of the night games for 7 night but worse than an island of previously exams american citizens can still return home the u.s. has more than 2200 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and 47 people so far have died so those are the figures from the u.s. so far and mike hanna joins us from washington of course might there was already a travel ban in place for the $27.00 european countries in the shang going free traveling area and now it's been expanded to the u.k. and ireland as well indeed yes this was confirmed by the vice president who had addressed the briefing president trump also spoke to that particular briefing and revealed that he had been tested overnight this just a matter of hours off his personal physician said that he did not need to be tested but the president confirmed he had taken the test not sure when his the result will

be made public he said it could be a day 2 days is what he actually said but that briefing was held after a meeting of the coronavirus task force of government leaders talking about how they are going to implement the strategy against the spread of the virus we mentioned there at that travel ban that forced confirmed by president pence and this is what he said president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united kingdom and ireland perfective midnight monday night eastern standard time again americans in the u.k. are arlen can come home legal residents can come home but as the secretary was detailed they will be funneled through specific airports and process. now in the last couple of hours the death toll within the united states has in fact risen to 50 the most recent victim being being an elderly woman in new york city

that's the 1st fatality in new york city now the c.d.c. the center for disease control is no longer publishing testing figures on its with web site but an independent group is doing so collating figures from throughout the country and it's indicates that there has been a rapid increase in the rate of testing which had been lagging slowly behind in the past 24 hour period it reveals that there have been some $20000.00 tests conducted now in those tests there were some 303000 people folk who tested positive the proportion indicating that the trajectory of the pirates remains on an upward track within the united states thank you very much from washington mike hanna well united states presidential primary campaign has also been hit by the coronavirus with mass rallies now out of the question the leading democratic party contender biden tried

to get around this by holding a virtual town hall meeting for illinois via facebook from a 1000 kilometers away in delaware the experiment lasted just 5 minutes before hitting technical problems. well then in latin america the pandemic has prompted colombia to shut its land border with venezuela it's a crossing used by thousands of venezuelans every day who are looking for food and medicine during their devastating economic crisis alessandra p.s.e. is monitoring the situation from. and the president they say they shut the border with venezuela starting at 5 am on saturday it was a bit of a surprise we knew that this could have been a possibility given how worried the colombian government is. the possibility of this thread of the current virus inside when you swear left given how ill equipped to the health services are in the country in the neighboring country given the fact that it's been going through

a very severe economic crisis for you years now it's also suffering from the effects of the u.s. sanctions things of thousands of venezuelans depend on crossing on a daily basis to colombia for basic food for health services for medical appointments and we are already getting reports there of hundreds if not thousands of people who are trying to cross through dirt paths illegal crossings that excesses of a porous border the colombian police trying to stop them so this is a very aggressive measure on part of colombia but it shows just how worried they are about what could happen inside a venue. well chile has announced new measures against the coronavirus and use in yemen is a latin america editor joins us now from santiago of course they had confirmed cases of the crown of ice i think they've already banned public events and large

gatherings but what further action to they plan on taking. it's indeed there are at least $63.00 confirmed cases thousands more are being tested and so the president has announced what he calls an aggressive campaign now that chile has officially entered into what's called phase 3 that means people are being intercepted with the virus that did not have direct contact with people who came from abroad now that the army's setting up special tent hospitals will be 700 beds the government would start building one on monday as well for at least a plan with at least a 1000 beds they're giving out and asked does expecting a metro there are. just 2 cruise ships here in chile that have been quire 801 of them has. discovered to have a 83 year old british passenger on board this isn't having ghalia who has now been taken to hospital and the rest of it got under quarantine while another ship. was tested apparently not us infected they're being taken to the center out of hospital

now so that the passengers the dark majority for germany can be sent home because as of not lights in europe or asia will be allowed into the country it'll for a little notice as well so these very very aggressive measures because judy says that it's only a matter of days not weeks before those of full fledged epidemic here in the captive thank you latin america to tell you see any human reporting to us from santiago or dozens of south africans are patra to from the chinese city of ohio have been moved into quarantine in the northern limpopo province they were working in stunning and well when the coronavirus was 1st discovered and the city placed under lockdown but residents in the area say the government's putting them at risk for me to minna reports from an improper. for the $114.00 south africans on board this plane it's been a long 14 hour journey home from the chinese city of will hand

a sense of relief after months of lockdown for the corona virus that has now been partially lifted we spoke to english teacher amy put to way before she left to hand she told us she hadn't left her apartment there for more than 50 days. as the passengers left the plane health officials made sure restrictions were followed roads are blocked off to make the bus journey from the airport and pull kwame to the quarantine sites outside the city as smooth as possible as the bus passes the group appears in good spirits the convoy carrying the south africans have been repatriated from who hand is passing through this road to the quarantine site just outside the city of kwame the government's emphasize this is a military operation wanting to assure us all that frequents they're being kept

safe despite the government's assurances that they've been multiple screenings and none of the people who came home have tested positive for covert 19 there's been mixed reaction from people here to what many of us a risky plan and i shall escape the situation because i'm not sitting back yet having been free not even showing the fear that the virus so we welcome them in will of the one thing that our country is helping them by asking that feeling we can hear of the group will be quarantined for $21.00 days officials say as a safety measure at this hotel in the limpopo province should anyone develop symptoms of the covert 1000 virus they'll be removed from quarantine isolated and treated at hospital for me tamara al-jazeera limpopo south africa. alf authorities in the democratic republic of congo have had to correct themselves over details of

the country's west coast coronavirus case heightening concerns about their ability to handle an outbreak health ministry initially said the patient was belgian and quarantined on arrival in the capital kinshasa it later clarified that the infected person was in fact a congolese citizen who contacted health services 2 days after returning from france. it was the news hour live from london still ahead. italians appalled that doctors and nurses and seen from their balconies to keep best spirits. and another set back on the pasta talks between the afghan government and the taliban we'll tell you about that also a sport coming up to organizers of the tokyo lympics remain upbeat a bomb possibility of holding this is games on time. will keep going on all those stories making news around the world and iraq's

military says to add defense servicemen in 3 coalition members of been critically injured in an attack on taji base north of baghdad it's not yet known who is responsible but it comes a day off the u.s. air strikes on multiple sites in iraq the pentagon says it targeted those behind the killing of 2 american troops along british soldier in an attack on wednesday iraq's president called the u.s. strikes of violations of its sovereignty and the iraqi military's calling on american forces to withdraw from the country some on a false and has more in this in capital baghdad and looks at why this attack seems to represent another escalation. well it will certainly come as a surprise and one thing that is particularly remarkable is that today's attack occurred during broad daylight which is not what we've seen in the past usually these rockets these rocket attacks on military bases that house u.s. personnel occur at night time so it is a particularly bold move and one that shows that the strikes that we saw early morning on friday against positions of iranian backed groups were not as effective

as the pentagon portrayed them to be and one thing that is also certain is that we've now had several days of these tips for tat attacks and they're resulting in an increased number of casualties in total we now have 16 people who were injured and 9 who were killed as a result of these 3 incidents that occurred since march 12th and what is particularly not for a few days most of these casualties don't really have anything to do with either side their needs are part of the coalition and their needs are part of that uranium back groups and this is exactly what has infuriated many people here in iraq that the iraqi security forces or even civilians are being caught up as the u.s. and iranian backed group are settling the score is. now to afghanistan the government has delayed the release of taliban prisoners over disagreements on the number and then also guarantees about whether they would return to fighting earlier

this week president bush afghani agreed to free 1500 prisoners on saturday before beginning talks with the taliban the government said $5000.00 would be released all together in phases once conditions in met but the taliban wants the move freed at once the release was part of the us taliban agreement which was reached last month and the dealing created the release of those $5000.00 prisoners it is saying by the afghan government in exchange for a 1000 afghan security forces that are being held by the taliban well that was to lead to the start of cease fire negotiations between the taliban and the afghan government and then the u.s. was to begin with withdrawing down forces from about 120-0288 half 1000 and the closure of 5 bases by mid july all troops would be out by may 2021 that is the plan as it stands at the moment joining us now via skype from dublin is professor michael semple from the queen's university belfast is the chief for the study of conflict transformation and social justice there were already signs of trouble one

hour about the how smoothly this this prisoner swap would go down because you had the taliban wanting that prisoners released without any preconditions the afghan government wanted it to be part of a broader negotiating process can this be resolved. if the taleban really want to see political negotiations with the afghan government i'm sure that they will find a way to your agree with the government on the the release of prisoners and move towards negotiation. if they're not actually interested in the negotiations so that they will allow this to get knocked. does their actions have fostered jess that there isn't a chance to negotiations themselves the whole point of this prisoner swap was that it was supposed to build trust between the 2 sides it was supposed to be a gesture of good will to pave the way for in traffic going to go shay sions but that doesn't seem any prospect of that happening anytime soon and no i mean there is really no no trust at the moment and the other the other art picture is the

taliban military campaign they also gave an undertaking to the us at the time of signing the agreement with the us on the 29th of february that they the taliban would maintain their reduced level of violence has now broken down they would say because of course they're frustrated no prisoners but violence levels are well off and it's hard to see how you can expect who wouldn't be to be built and while you're not young offensives does that suggest the us taliban deal was premature then. well i think your comment your respect probably there are you know a wrong way of describing it as there were 2 elements to it that agreement between the u.s. and and the hope of an agreement. between the taleban and the afghan government we sort of got half a deal the taliban are sticky pretty pretty well to their to their undertakings these are the us they're also talking to us that the us i said recently here is

that if the taliban continue with their military campaign and they don't engage in a peace process with the afghan government that what that the us withdrawal is effectively allow them to regain control of a country whose people are really exhausted by years of war and violence. well i don't foresee if they if the taliban fail to live up to their obligations under this deal the though the war will continue and there will be losses on both sides the yani taliban would gain by sticking with that with raymond but they're finding it very difficult to do they they really seem i mean almost frightened frightened of losing their military campaign thank you very much appreciate your analysis on this professor michael semple joining us from dublin still ahead living among the dead displaced syrian families are forced to seek shelter in

a graveyard. claims of corruption in the republic of congo houses are washing away while the wealthy spend their money elsewhere. when. some sporting events are carrying on but not for this rally driver in mexico. welcome back now things are beginning to settle down in egypt after the severe storms we've seen over the last 24 to 48 hours the remnants that storm system still give you some heavy rain and indeed snow of the mountains there in iran q 8 still in part to buy that elsewhere would like to see some pretty dusty conditions on the eastern side of qatar jan the course of sunday so visibility like to be pretty poor

the same goes for other parts of saudi arabia on the eastern side in particular around the mediterranean sea things beginning to settle down once more looking at a brighter skies highs of 20 degrees in damascus and syria and the city by monday most places seeing quite a weather condition so we should last the dust storms which are affecting parts of iraq as you head across into northern and central parts of africa but quite now we still got cooler air moved out a long way from the north over the last few days so khartoum only just 31 degrees recent days they've been up above 40 degrees elsewhere looking largely fine certainly on sunday charlotte to pretty much more limited across parts of the west african coastline and you see there we've got sunshine and temperatures 30 in freetown in sierra leone we've got this tropical cyclone close to the coast of madagascar but that should gradually move away.

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the world. watching the news hour live from london but look at the headlines spain has now become the 2nd country to put its entire population under lockdown to stop the rapid spread of the coronavirus with more than 6000 cases it's the worst affected country in europe off to italy which has more than $15000.00 cases iran's president meanwhile says his country's fight against the bars is being severely hampered by u.s. sanctions and $600.00 people have died there and almost 13000 infections have been reported though many iranians are ignoring government calls to stay at home.

and the u.s. is expanding its 30 day european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland are moving 2200 confirmed cases that next but saying the virus has yet to reach its peak. or the number of new virus cases imported into china from overseas exceeded the amount of local each element of infections for the 1st time there's also good news. for the virus originated as a 50 day lockdown there is finally starting to ease katrina you has more on this from beijing. in who 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 here and what we're having there are 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 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 your. 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 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. on the day that i have full freedom i'm going to feel like an excited bird flying out of this cage. for now she's getting ready for her day under the sun katrine you al-jazeera beijing governments around the world are using social distancing as one of the ways to stop the virus from spreading but health workers are authorities to also look at the cost of exclusion and loneliness amongst the most vulnerable priyanka gupta has

more on that. was the 2nd pandemic of the 21st century has led to the largest quarantine in human history bustling cities have turned into go stands millions are on the lockdown in parts of asia and europe. 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 and risen. and also show how in these trying times 'd people are finding new ways to breach the barriers of isolation i'm new to this to feel the enduring spirit of human connection priyanka took the on to see her. or you saw a tally in the singing on their balconies there and they've also come together to give a nationwide round of applause to the doctors and nurses on the front lines of the corona virus crisis.

at midday people across the country went onto their balconies to show their appreciation for the health workers it really is the worst affected country in europe with more than 1400 deaths and at least 21000 cases which is really pushing the health system there to its limits. well for more on how people and it's very humbling the lock down we can speak to christiane a separate oh a bookshop assistant who joins us live from rome hi there and thank you for for joining us it's been. me it's been a couple weeks since that 1st virus caustic came to light we've seen these unprecedented measures being taken by your government can you describe to us what life is like for you and your family right now. yeah and their images are riolo we we cannot imagine to to live this live now our life was really lucian in there in so few time and so we we are foreigners were compelled to say you told me in

a small space for 4 poor people me may has been my 2 daughters and one under 6 years old and the 2nd i'm now 9 mts assault it's not very simple to to face the situation to organize time because time is soul long it's a large it's so enormous huge to to to to face that en route we have to invent solution for all the day because we are not used to say almost all day long we are used to go out and then we we can realize how no normal life every day life is a precious thing and we don't realize before. we were allies all the things that you've taken for granted and you say you've got 2 daughters one of them is is 9 months old what's it like being in a in a small in a small space as you are how are you because like you say the day must feel even

longer than usual how you keeping your spirits up. my spirit i have to be patient i have to be patient you have to wait and we always have to wait so we have to wait outside of the supermarket because there is a queue we have to wait inside and say home we have to wait because we don't know how much time we have to wait for so it's a particular condition of ford for our minds so we are we have started to sing going outside. on the balcony that is the air freshener alber. 6 o'clock in the evening and people started to singing on their balcony to want to communicate to sue to remind them that we are alive at we can. look each other and taking care of each other in

a different way and tell me how. and grocery shopping. grocery shopping is a program i repeat there is a queue so you can enter tam people a time in a large supermarket so you have to stay and you have to. to wait for your turn and to wait for your for your time and that time analysts is then a list to add to to faces and list to spam so you have to keep this dense we have to pay attention because one meters is the minimum distance you have to take from each other so when you look there the other one and you also feel guilty i have made something wrong i. am too close to that sort of person so you can't. begin making

a lot of questions that we were as are totally unexpected well try to keep your spirits up try to stay positive thank you very can't be easy for you and your family right now thank you so much for speaking to us we appreciate it christiane a separate oh i appreciate to thank you by. the russian turkish cease fire is largely holding an adlib syria's last rebel held area nearly a 1000000 civilians have been displaced by the fighting and are now facing a new hardship a storm has destroyed more than 80 tents in job i'll daler count more than 200 of these camps have been set up since december but is a solid binge of aid reports from hatay near the turkey syria border some people finding refuge is a daily struggle. it's playtime and it led far far.

more than mahmoud this means chopping up grass and weeds but look closer and their playground becomes clearer it's a graveyard the grim reality doesn't end there it's also their home for the foreseeable future. are soon he says the only place you could find shelter was with the dead. and also for we escaped to rehire because of heavy bombardment we ascribe death we've searched everywhere for shelter but the only available space was inside the cemetery god willing he will help us and after the situation gets better we return to our homes i don't think we can stay here longer the girls are too scared . nearly a 1000000 people have been displaced in the last 3 months of the monument and advances by government troops backed by iranian and russian forces where they used to pray for the dead is now home for 65 families. and we provided shelter to the displaced families from southard lib and west aleppo in the mosque of some out of

symmetry most of the families came from the streets they have nowhere to go in case we don't find houses or tents the families will remain here some. northern syria is the last rebel stronghold for years people from other opposition held areas were moved here and the various political deals of the opposition loses more ground there's less space for the nearly $4000000.00 people in the province the weather is still cold and most families lack basic supplies people say they have been abandoned by the world yet again for them it feels no one cares about their suffering. the loss of we left our home at 3 am under airstrikes we need everything blankets mattresses are small children are surviving only on walter rice we need milk diapers for the babies we need you to help us it's winter and it's so cold at night help us with a tender with ever just take us out of here away from dead people at night they

closed the door and i was a most of the family stay awake at night because they're scared. a ceasefire deal between turkey and syria has paused the fighting at least for now human rights watch wants concerned countries to call out russia's involvement in syria's war crimes and tell the kremlin to end its support of syria's government it says the war has taken the ball on children for 9 years their lives forever marked by the conflict more than half a 1000000 children displaced by the latest fighting are living in desperate conditions it looks fragile ceasefire is holding for now but people are scared they say agreements have been broken before and they've had to move their homes multiple times the fear now is that with government forces closing in refugees unwelcome and borders closed they're even running out of space inside syria to escape the fighting some of the job or the other they are on the turkey syria border. exactly a year since devastated mozambique welfare program is warning that 2 and

a half 1000000 people there still need humanitarian assistance to sightlines in the space of 6 weeks destroyed the 2900 and the southern african nation is still desperately short of food w.s.p. is diagnosed more than $3000.00 children under the age of 5 suffering from severe acute malnutrition say the country remains extremely vulnerable. members of the family of the republic of congo's president are facing growing calls to be prosecuted for corruption are accused by human rights activists of looting public funds to buy luxurious properties abroad in the capital brazzaville malcolm webb now reports. this is what's left of the house. the rest of it. is down here. he built a home for his retirement here impreza real 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 republic of congo's capital. people say the government has done nothing the sun 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 been 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. to 40 year rule of congolese president then he. has been blighted with corruption

scandals. global witness says it was his daughter cloudier seen here standing next to him before the new york apartment a spokesman for the 1st family declined to comment on the allegations. and 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 committing 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 grasso on the street it's hard to find anyone who criticize him or his government. but a handful of activists meet every week to 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 it's all to hide a simple truth how would you explain that this country is so poor it's just. that the countries that. is stealing. the president's. people that is an. activist say through a. national money laundering network the congo's wealth and up 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

one of the co-founders of hong kong's 2014 occupy protests has been released after 11 months in jail. chan mccann mun says he has no regrets over his role in the protests also known as the umbrella movement thousands of demonstrators shot down large parts of the city for weeks demanding greats of freedoms chan was one of 9 people found guilty of public nuisance challenges. with the news hour live from london sports coming up no fans but plenty of precautions as turkey and stick keep the top football league in action. so many al-jazeera london broke constanza 2 special guests in conversation people think that racism is having personal vitriol towards black people and there's no understanding of what systemic racism is unprompted uninterrupted success comes

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and he's here now with us for. thank you marry him global sport is facing unprecedented up evil with most major events cancelled now due to coronavirus all of the leading european football competitions have been suspended when their next game could have a liverpool their 1st premier league title in 30 years league officials are due to meet again on thursday to discuss what may or may not happen the next games or pencil ins resume at the start of april but there are no guarantees that this season will ever be finished the local manager you're going club has issued this statement football always seems the most important of the least important things today football and football matches really aren't important that's all it is a choice between football and the good of the wider society it has no concept let's

go madrid beat liverpool in the champions league last week it could be the last game either same place for some time the spanish government says announced a state of emergency more than 3000 outlets girlfriends travel to liverpool for last wednesday's game athletic as manager now has his mind on other issues. on the list from and secondly i want to send a message to raise awareness for my home that i encourage all of you to follow the instructions from the experts to take care of ourselves and to protect everybody around us and let's stay at home or the complexities of putting it dates on one foot when football may return to highlight it by telling club some doria 5 of their players as well as the club doctor have now tested positive for corona virus that seems training facilities have been closed with sorry are suspended and so april the 3rd football in turkey salt lake is still going on but without spectators this is gallup's house or a stadium being disinfected ahead of sunday's match against the ships us all sports events in the country will be taking place behind closed doors until the end of april. the corona virus pandemic also having an impact on football in africa the

illness having spread now for at least 19 countries on the continent african football and authorities of course following this month's qualifiers for the 2021 africa cup of nations in cameroon 48 matches have been scheduled to happen in the last week of march we've been talking so you gonna buy sports journalist gary al smith many watches believe that the confederation of african football delayed in making that decision to call the qualifiers of because i mean after us country after african country was unfair mean cases of the current of ours it seemed not quite sensible to carry on with the games especially also because a lot of african players are based in europe and in parts of the world where they were not virus is wreaking havoc the biggest question is what are we going to do with our weekends i guess i mean you have countries like morrocco like kenya like egypt like d.d.r. see and 2 others who have outrightly suspended release because of the crew numbers

guys not one of them if the european leagues are going to be off until and april are the least and the gun a premier league is able to market itself well maybe just maybe it might be able to get the converts not it has been losing today european leagues for so long so probably just the silver lining in this very dark cloud. the japanese prime minister has reiterated his determination for this year's tokyo olympics to proceed as planned as japan's corona virus outbreak is not at the stage the requires him to declare an emergency that sought relay around the games spiritual home of greece has been suspended by the international olympic committee say they'd see remain fully committed to the games starting on sign in july if you do work that we will continue to closely cooperate with the international olympic committee and of course the i.o.c. is working closely with the world health organization and and for us we would like to overcome the spread of the infection and hold the olympics as planned. or many

olympic qualifying events have been for spying but in london the european qualifiers for the boxing events are taking place the 11 day event started on saturday to the surprise of many competitors i saw the event would be canceled or already we all right on tuesday. thought it would be cancelled but all of us told us we are going to fight a lot of drama in austria. no i don't know what's going on i don't know when we're heading back home if we are able to get into austria i don't know so we'll see caster semenya says she's hoping to run in that c. 100 meters up those tokyo games the 800 meter olympic champion currently banned from running in her preferred distance the south african has refused to take to start reducing drugs in accordance to a new rule ruling but those regulations don't supply the 200 meters. and the world really championship is one of the few competitions still happening not go 1st finish driver support he laughed he made

a far away exit from the mexico rally you have been in 4th place in his car driver unharmed after this but not surprisingly can continue in the rice. i couldn't see to be honest of these 2 songs in there in the big fire because all the tinted windows are blocking the view quite well. so i was still driving by the one time to be honest and then i lost the brakes completely on and then i realized that ok this is the burning like hell and then i just jumped out. ok that is i suppose looking for my back samarium in london andy thank you so much all now we've been seeing images of italians and how they're coping with the coronavirus isolation by singing together but this is one of our favorites on a puppet way to end the program italian tenor married c.l.r. kinney on his balcony in florence oh me oh you know you know you. really know you.

7 join the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news chops. and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most the states misleads the public the state media reflects the same thing as clonic challenge poll their editorial shows they don't believe they have anything to apologize for they're listening post on al-jazeera. explaining terms of policy towards africa it's the challenging mission

such as secretary of state mike pompei on a 5 day visit to the continent the visit comes after the white house announced a travel ban on 4 african nation. and a withdrawal of troops from west africa. i think it just demonstrates the. dollars are you once and for me station. despite trucks travel ban being extended at the end of february to take in the war african countries including the continent's biggest economy compare we're insisted that the u.s. is open for business. a journey both dark. blue there's a very for everybody if there's a lot of corruption and beautiful lake the beautiful lady you have to be very patient and would it's also the city has ascended because i was introduced to it though when my father and my most holy working for king for the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from heaven an

hour just sarah. millions of people ordered to stay home in spain and nationwide lockdown to come into effect soon as cases dramatically increased. when i was here on live from london underground operated also ahead colombia joins a list of countries closing its border in response to the coronavirus that's cut venezuelans off from desperately needed supplies in the usa 30 day ban on european travelers will now be extended to the u.k. and ireland and innovation for isolation technology companies are helping people.