one of the most expensive commodities sent from had let. my. millions of people order to stay home in spain and nationwide lockdown to come into effect soon as cases dramatically increase. my. numbers here on live from london under the top of it 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 for 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 connect during the virus outbreak and that's good news for profits.

hello spain has become the 2nd country to order its entire population under lockdown to stop the rapid spread of corona virus 46000000 people will not be 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 are reported dead there with some 2000 cases just in the last day and another 97 people have died in iran it taking the death toll there it's a $611.00 with nearly $13000.00 confirmed cases a growing list of countries are closing borders including colombia it's shut its border with venezuela making it harder for people crossing for supplies they can't buy at home and the pole is suspend. in climbing permits for mount everest this

public events big and small continue to be canceled from easter processions to sporting events now begins our coverage with the situation across europe. it's only spain 2nd state of emergency since becoming a democracy and this is what it looks like the countries reported a jump of more than 2000 in corona virus cases in 24 hours now 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 shot the city's unusually quiet and even sentimental stuff can throw i live in the city center and i like to see 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 of the 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 he did he cross several e.u. states including poland and the czech republic and totally or partially restricting entry to foreign nationals with a consonant now the epicenter of the pandemic more drastic measures look inevitable at the barber al jazeera. and speaking of more measures let's bring in sunny go she's joining us here in the studio because we've just heard that the french authorities are announcing new measures over in france that's right basically now france will shot up most of its shops restaurants an entertainment benny's this follows. the latest total cases having doubled in 72 hours now the total amount of cases of coronavirus is now up to $4499.00 with the death toll now up to $91.00 the french prime minister filipe for said that people would

be allowed to conduct to go out just to go food shopping to go to pharmacies and other sort of gent tasks like that but the whole point i guess is to follow that italian model of trying to lock down as many as possible to try and stem that spread this is also something which is going to be taking place in in spain as well as of monday that comes after spain's toll of coronavirus cases shot up as well really now these countries are now looking at really what to do to try and stem the spread of this virus and lock down seems to be the preferred method that they're going to use a lot of challenges ahead sonia thank you for about updates. on the lockdown has gone into effect in manila sealing almost 12000000 people into the philippine capital all domestic travel in and out of the city has now been suspended and residents have been asked not to leave the house except for work around emergencies

night time curfews will also be imposed and shopping malls have been urged to close the measure as are some of the strictest taken in asia and city officials are hoping they will help stop the spread of the corona virus the philippines has so far reported 8 deaths and $98.00 infections. the iranian president hassan rouhani says the country's fight against the coronavirus is being severely hampered by u.s. sanctions iran. as the hardest hit country in the middle east with 611 confirmed deaths and almost 13000 infections earlier china said it would step up cooperation with iran and a bit to help dealing with the virus security forces have been sent out to clear the streets many iranians though are continuing to ignore government calls to stay at home and the interior ministry has now ordered the closure of all religious sites in the holy city of rome where the virus was 1st detected. has an update from . 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 does he step in and do something that the virus doesn't recognize and 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 earlier this afternoon the interior ministry issued an edict an order for specific

sites in which to be closed a shrine and a mosque that are major attractions that attract large populations of people visitors from around the world as well as inside iran 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 epicenter of the outbreak in iran these sites remained open and things were business as usual. the u.s. president is expanding his european travel ban to the u.k. and ireland from choose day in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus a 30 day ban on travelers from mainland europe is a ready in place and during the news conference donald trump also revealed he's waiting on the results of a coronavirus test himself mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . members of the coronavirus toss of course walk into the briefing room in

terms of a new protocol all in the president's proximity must have the temperature taken including the journalists present. unexpectedly president crump walks in with his vice president who had been scheduled to leave the briefing. and did another surprise he confirmed he submitted to a test for the virus last night i also took the test as you know. and i decided i should based on the press coverage yesterday people were asking did i take the test i don't know whatever it takes a day or 2 days i change point you also acknowledge that he'd made a mistake by shaking hands during friday's briefing with corporate leaders and others in the rose garden and somebody comes up to you they put their hand on you probably tend to shake it and we're all getting out of it shaking hands is not a great thing to be doing it and i agree but people put their hand out sometimes i'll put their hand and you don't think about it but people are thinking about it we have to think about it it's important for your attention i don't expect that

from. the president then left the briefing leaving his vice president to officially confirm that the travel ban would be extended the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united kingdom and ireland effective midnight monday night eastern standard time again americans in the u.k. or can come home legal residents can come home but as the secretary will detail they will be funneled through specific airports and process the center put disease control has stopped publishing testing figures on its website but statistics collected by an independent group indicates there's been a shop rise in the number of tests being conducted for the 1st time since the crisis began the number of tests conducted in a 24 hour period approached $20000.00 some $3000.00 people tested positive a figure that indicates the trajectory of the virus within the u.s.

is going up woods. my kind of al-jazeera washington well 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 cases have been rising across latin america and there are concerns the consonance is not well prepared to deal with an outbreak terrorism bo reports from what. for many venezuelans their border with colombia is a lifeline for surviving the economic crisis in their nation. but on saturday colombia's president and now say it's close to contain the spread of cool vague 19 says it right on. the border crossings with venezuela will be closed starting at 5 am it will be done as a protection measure against the situation there is also occurring in the neighboring country. on friday venezuela confirmed 2 cases of coronavirus but

many fear that number could be higher as the country struggles with a humanitarian crisis that has left hospitals without basic supplies including soap and hand sanitizer doctors in venezuela say they're not ready to cope with a common flu let alone a global pandemic. most of these hospitals are not an acceptable standard about 12 of the military hospitals are not qualified to be able to tend to patients even with the common flu. president. has suspended schools and banned public gatherings he's asked people to wear a mask when using the metro in the capital caracas siegel it's simple wear a face mask it's an order for everyone in the next days and weeks better safe than sorry. in brazil the government has announced a $1000000000.00 to strengthen its public health care system but. president tested

negative folk over 1980. tested positive after a trip to the united states where he met with president donald trump. is to remain in isolation and will be tested again even though the number of cases to latin america remain relatively no they're likely to increase in the next few weeks and that's why government are stepping up efforts to try to control it in argentina they're controlling cruel says imports they're also canceling flights and imposing mandatory isolations of those who travel to the united states europe and china. schools and public events are also being canceled last countries try to adapt to what may come ahead. i will i'll just. still to come on al-jazeera living among the dead displaced syrian families set up home in the graveyards. and

another setback on the part of talks between the taliban and the afghan government details coming up in our. welcome back time to have a look at weather conditions across europe 1st of all we're seeing significant changes here much colder air pushing in across eastern areas so just a couple days ago bucharest in romania was seeing temperatures of $21.00 degrees now struggling to reach 7 degrees they're fine conditions across much of central europe although for southeastern areas it's rain and snow and higher elevations fine across much of italy now we're seeing weather changes further towards the west the same all changes across north western areas more rain heading in towards the u.k. but most of all it's happening across the room clincher we're going to see the temperatures drop markedly and rain and she turns to snow in some places just 10 in madrid on monday and plenty of snow around parts of spain too much of portugal drive find

highs they're likely to be significantly higher for places like porter now if you look at central eastern parts of europe at that stage it certainly is looking bright chilly or but certainly looking bright for the most part and dry conditions around more southern parts of the mediterranean on the other side of the mediterranean sea weather conditions looking relatively quiet though cooler as worth quite a long way down to still only 32 degrees as a maximum car to clear the showers around the coast of west africa lagos nigeria their looks should be largely dry but i think in abidjan and they are very coasts quite a high chance of seeing a shower. he came from a wealthy background in paris and became an artist against his family's wishes he went on to bring a fresh perspective to oriental painting falling in love with some highland culture making his home and converting to islam. and just 0 world tells the

story of the city and his unique artistic work. the french oriental list. rather than the top stories on al-jazeera rather sour spain has become the 2nd country to put its entire population under lockdown to stop the rapid spread of coronavirus with more than 6000 cases spain is the worst affected country in europe after italy which has more than $15000.00 cases the u.s. is expanding its 30 day european travel ban to include the u.k.

and ireland there are more than 2000 confirmed cases with experts saying the virus has yet to reach its peak. the pandemic has prompted colombia to shut it shut its land border with venezuela which confirmed its 1st 2 cases on friday the border is crossed by thousands of venezuelans every day in search of food and medicine due to the economic crisis in their country. and chile has announced new measures against the virus let's bring in the sea a new man she's joining us from the capital of santiago how widespread are these measures and what are they. i have there yes the president held a news conference that was obligatory for it to be carried on all the networks and it said he said that they are taking very very aggressive i'm using his words aggressive steps to try to stem the spread of the corona virus already there are 61 confirmed patients and thousands more that are being tested there the army is now

building at express speed and i'm quoting again the president 8 an emergency hospital 700 beds while the health ministry is is putting together another one a 10 toss what i understand with the new stuff 1000 beds that will begin on monday evening time all flights from europe and asia have been suspended until further notice the president also says that groups of more than 500 will not of people will not be allowed to gather in chile which is very interesting of this moment because there are huge huge demonstrations taking place almost every day with thousands and thousands of people so we'll have to see how they react to this prohibition. remembered still summer here so theoretically it should not be the virus should not be spreading so quickly but the health minister announced a few hours ago that already the virus is would be in what he calls stage 3 that means people are getting sick who have not had direct contact with somebody who has come from europe and asia this whole that means that they are extremely worried and

must take all the measures possible before the winter comes here in south america all right on the scene newman thank you for that update from santiago. well governments around the world are using social distancing as one of the ways to stop the virus from spreading but health workers are urging the author already used to also look at the cost of exclusion and loneliness among the most vulnerable priyanka gupta has more. on the 2nd pandemic of the 21st century has led to the largest quarantine in human history bustling cities have turned into ghost towns millions are under lockdown in parts of asia and europe 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 valuable 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 break the barriers of isolation and loneliness to feel the enduring spirit of human

connection priyanka put on to see. iraq's military says 2 air defense service and 3 coalition members have been critically injured in an attack on a base north of baghdad it's not yet known who is responsible it comes a day after u.s. airstrikes on multiple sites in iraq the pentagon says it targeted those responsible for killing 2 american troops and one british soldier in an attack on wednesday iraq's president called the u.s. strikes a violation off its sovereignty simona fulton has more from baghdad on why this attack represents 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 tapes 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 noteworthy to most of these casualties don't really have anything to do with either side their needs are part of the coalition and there are part of the iranian backed groups and this is exactly what has infuriated many people here in iraq that the iraqi security forces are even civilians are being caught up as the

u.s. and iranian backed group are settling the scores of the russians her cease fire is largely holding and in 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 tends in a camp more than 200 of these camps have been set up since december but as a sum up and you have a drip or some hard time near the turkey syria border some people are 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 you are soon he says the only place you could find shelter was with the dead. for we escaped to rehire because of heavy bombardment we

ascribe to if 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 a 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 close 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. afghanistan's government has delayed the release of taliban prisoners over disagreements on the number and guarantees they won't return to fighting earlier this week president us from gani agreed to free 1500 prisoners on saturday before beginning talks with the taleban the government said $5000.00 would be released all together in phases once conditions are met but the taliban wants them all freed up once the release was part of the us taliban agreement reached last month. because

a national security analyst and founding member of transparency afghanistan he says the government wants to use the release of prisoners as leverage in negotiations we have a lot of issues so the taliban and the united states agreed in weeks back. they will go into the afghan dialogue but before they go into the afghan dialogue there were 2 things that needed to be done before that it was that it leaves of up to 5000 prisoners from the jails of the afghan government and taliban reciprocating that would be releasing of about a 1000 prisoners who were from the afghan government site now what president has done is that he has disagreed with this saying that this was a deal between the united states of america and the taliban it had nothing to do with the afghan government one of the reservation is if you were to leave these 5000 prisoners and what if they join the battlefield again what if the pick up on

was again. exactly a year or so encyclopaedia died devastated mozambique the world food programme is warning that 2 and a half 1000000 people there are still in need of humanitarian assistance. in the space of 6 weeks destroyed the 21000 harvest in the southern african nation is still desperately short of the w.s.p. says more than 3000 children under 5 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition. action is taking place but it's going very strong and the people are rebuilding the roof on their home and they are trying to replant but unfortunately last year they lost their whole harvest because of the site and this year the last of the harvest because they're fishing one disaster after the other well we've seen images of italians coping with the coronavirus isolation by singing together but take

a look at this one that's one of our favorites on a perfect way to end the show italian tenor margarito marchini on his balcony florence. and the top stories on al-jazeera spain is set to become the 2nd country to put its entire population under lockdown to spread to stock the rapid spread of coronavirus with more than $6000.00 cases spain is the worst affected country in europe after italy which has more than $15000.00 cases spaniards won't be able to leave the house except to buy groceries go to the pharmacy or go to work on friday the world health organization said europe was now the epicenter of the pandemic. the situation is complicated i would like to go to germany to be with my parents and

feel more safe because here i don't feel safe i hope they let me out. we had to close the restaurant and remain shut for 15 days but this is nothing it is just so more people don't get infected and we can recover from this we have to stay motivated be proactive and stay calm while the french prime minister has announced all shops restaurants and entertainment facilities will be closed from midnight at war from the said food stores pharmacies and gas stations will stay open public transport will keep running but the government has advised people to limit their movements the number of infections in france has doubled to 4 and a half 1000 in the last 3 days. the u.s. has just confirmed it will expand its 30 day european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland because of the virus the number of confirmed cases has risen to over 2000 with experts saying the outbreak has not yet reached its peak. the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united kingdom and ireland effective

midnight monday night eastern standard time again americans in the u.k. or ireland can come home legal residents can come home but as the secretary of the detail they will be funneled through specific airports and process the pandemic has prompted colombia to cite its land border with venezuela after it confirmed its 1st 2 cases on friday the border is crossed by thousands of venezuelans every day in search of food and medicine due to the economic crisis in their country. you're up to date with the latest headlines on al jazeera up next it's the listening post thanks very much for watching.

chronic virus has right across the world but if it is that it all started on i say but show me what you don't. know the show our chief there are now i want to know what it's going to take this new cases plus more than $100.00 countries with any points you think if you're just shocked shocked the nurse. hello richard gives birth and you're at the listening post among the media stories that we're covering this week china tries to flip the script on covert 19 it has issues with the way the international media are covering the story right down to where the virus was bore the film industry in apartheid era south africa how could it just equipment. and the subsidy that was supposed to help black south africans get into the movie business justice delayed can be justice denied but not in slovakia where the murder of.