right after. the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united kingdom and ireland no more exemptions the u.s. broadens its european travel ban. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up spain's prime minister calls it a crisis that requires extraordinary decisions confirming his whole country will go into lockdown. you know. and the viral video from italy that's reminding the world of the human cost of this pandemic. and the crisis for venezuelans now cut off from desperately needed food

and medicine after columbia closes the border because of a virus. after being exposed to infected individuals donald trump's doctor says the u.s. president has tested negative for corona virus last week trump came into contact with several brazilian officials in his 4 to resort to have sense tested positive for the virus has also expanded the european travel ban to include the united kingdom and ireland in an effort to slow the spread of the virus spain's prime minister is putting his entire country into lockdown just like italy before that 46000000 people will be ordered to stay at home unless they need food medicine or are required to work france is shutting down its entertainment and social scene this is the overall picture right now of the pandemic that is from johns hopkins university more than 156000 cases globally about 72600

ever covered the number of deaths is heading towards 6000 mike hanna has our coverage now from washington d.c. members of the coronavirus tossed force 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 trump walks in with his vice president who had been churchill 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 last year. and i decided i should based on the press coverage yesterday people were asking did i take the test as cheney when he also acknowledged 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 out you probably tend to shake it and we're all getting out of it shaking hands is not

a great thing to be doing that and i agree but people put their hand out sometimes i'll put their hand out you don't think about it and people are thinking about it more and more we have to think about it it's important for temperature ok. 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. are arlan 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 for 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 my kind out al-jazeera washington alan fischer joins us live now from washington d.c. so alan the president has not at all modeled the behavior that the experts have had been pushing you know social distancing not shaking hands so people have been concerned has he caught this from because he's been around other people that have so tell us more about what the white house to say. well of course the president is saying he's felt fine he didn't feel the need to get tested until he was asked about it in the news conference on friday and then he said he would do it according to the president's physician who issued a statement through the white house says no last hour or so he said there was a discussion about covert 19 and whether or not you should go ahead with testing and the president agreed to that he mentioned it at the news conference on saturday the president didn't know when he get the results we got results just in the last

hour or so and the results are negative this comes a week after the president sat down for dinner with the brazilian delegation mar-a lago his private estate in florida a number of members of that delegation have tested positive for corona virus so it would seem that the physician is giving donald trump the clean bill of health saying everything's ok but of course he says he's also reminded the white house about the steps they need to take to mitigate exposure to those who might have it and also what they can do not to catch it such as shaking hands the way he did at the podium soo much on friday which he talked about again on saturday saying it was just a habit essentially the doctor saying. you've got to think of other ways to greet people and just think about not catching this disease at the moment so let's talk about the crowd of virus support a bill that has been approved in the house of representatives it covers a lot of things but the key thing that

a lot of people have been push polling for is is paid sick leave so that people that are told to stay home actually have the the option to stay home it seems that maybe this bill was oversold a little bit what's the fine print. well hugely important and you remember the nancy pelosi said the most 3 most important things in this bill was testing testing testing she wants to make sure that anyone who needs to get tested will get tested and it will be covered by insurance no cost to people and those who aren't insured and there's many of them in america many millions that they won't have to pay anything but she was also touting the fact and that was reinforced by vice president might pence at the briefing just a few hours ago saying look if you have to stay home because you're sick you will get paid but it turns out that's not entirely the case there are a number of exceptions and in fact only about 20 percent of america's working population will be covered by this bill now nancy pelosi marshalled all the

democrats in the house to get behind this bill passed with bipartisan support there was a lot of discussion 13 phone calls between steve mission of the administration and nancy pelosi on friday and it seems that there's been some give or take between the republicans and the democrats and there publicans didn't want to cover absolutely everyone because given that no one knows how long people will be off work for that could cause an even bigger financial problem than the u.s. is facing at the moment so it seems that that has been scaled back we will get more details in the coming hours we will probably get more details by monday why on monday well that's when the senate returns and will possibly vote on this mitch mcconnell not expected back in his office until monday they are expected to call the senate to order until monday afternoon what we do know is the president has said he's ready to sign this bill so that will certainly ease the concerns of some republicans who have been thinking that any sort of bill like this will add to the

financial bill that the u.s. is facing because of coronavirus ok alan fischer from washington allan thank you. that's allie barbara's chairman of infectious diseases at the mayo clinic he believes sarah's been a shift in how the u.s. says or sponsoring to the pandemic i think people in this country are starting to realize the significance of this. crisis. and they're starting to see 1st of all and he says because there are cases in most of the states right now. so we're seeing a shift and the community where i live this is certainly clear are people are only gauge and they're all want to help at this moment there are a lot of measures that happened this past week that are going in that direction travel ban social distancing i think there's been a lot more information about the disease itself and the impact the disease might

have on patients especially the elderly or patients with underlying condition so we are seeing a shift you know we want to be connected and i think that's really trying to go from where we are and lonely for this place where we're going to be more isolated and separated but we are seeing a shift but certainly not for phyllis turn to europe now that is the new epicenter of this global pandemic spanish followed it only imposed a nationwide lockdown following a sharp increase in infections and putting the life of the prime minister pedro sanchez at the baba reports. it's only spain 2nd state of emergency since becoming a democracy this is what it looks like the country's reported a jump of more than 2000 in coronavirus 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 to care for the young and the elderly and the federal what.

i would like to announce that during the period of the state of alert people will only be able to circulate on public roads for the organization of the following activities firstly the acquisition of food pharmaceutical products and basic necessities secondly visits to health centers services under stablish months trips to work place to carry out your work professional or business activities. 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 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 road 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. and france is now closing all bars restaurants and cinemas and asking people to work from home and avoid nonessential visits it comes after the number of coronavirus cases doubled to more than 4 and a half 1000 in just 3 days. oh places that aren't essential to the life of the country will be shut these include restaurants cafes cinema laws and nightclubs places of worship will remain open gatherings and ceremonies will have to be postponed 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. garion prime minister viktor orban seen here being checked off to fly. back from moldova is set to announce europe's latest school closures you know if you do you call 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 look at sanker a barren a is a journalist based in barcelona and he says these new restrictions were expected. well the scale of the crisis is very high as you also mentioned spain is the 2nd

most hit country by the coronavirus in europe and the government has had pressure from inside and outside to. quickly decisions to try to limit the spread of the virus and the example of italy that has just seen a number of cases rise very sharply and very quickly was certainly in the head of the spanish politicians so they had to take very strong measures and the prime minister seemed to be basically saying sorry to decisions for having to take these measures and he tried to explain why it was important to do so and why all spaniards have to be together the unexpected part of it was that it would take so long for the government for the cabinet to take this issue and this was the longest ever cabinet meeting in the history of spain it less is more than 7 hours

and that tells a lot about the tensions and the difficulty of the decisions that have been taken by the by the government. the state of alert correctly pointed out before it was only decided another time. during the last years well during the whole history of repub of democratic spain so. limiting as so much movement of people was something that had to be discussed a viral video from italy is reminding the world of the human cost this pandemic or not. do. that's an italian man looking through obituaries into editions of a newspaper one is some have already died and the other is friday the highlights the dramatic increase in the number of deaths as the coronavirus takes its toll

more than 1400 people have died and italy. we have more chronic virus developments ahead on al-jazeera including trying to get people off the streets what's hampering a struggle with the virus or another is for following living among the dead displaced syrian families set up home in a graveyard. hello again we'll begin this time in northeastern parts of asia we've lost one weather system from japan that's moving away into the northern pacific but another area of low pressure is moving in towards western parts of japan later on sunday and into monday dry clothes across much of south korea so looking at sunshine highs of 8 and find conditions across much of china blue skies in hong kong and it should be fine

for the most part across fear share a few and far between here will be the forecast through into monday again risk of showers and one into parts of northern vietnam but otherwise we're looking at fine conditions for hong kong for taipei and then for japan that system moves away so we should see it brightening up later on hong tokyo not faring too badly with a high here of 14 degrees celsius now moving down into southeastern parts of asia we've got plenty of showers showing up across western parts of java again so jakarta could see some flooding rain possibly showers expected for kuala lumpur and singapore for the north into thailand to the west around bangkok at times but over in southern vietnam the city looking at highs of $37.00 and staying dry so if asia weather generally quiting down here we're losing the showers across eastern parts of india into bangladesh and the 1st stage anyway should be fine in colombia.

for. a nation where corruption is endemic now embroiled in a battle to hold the power. there's this radical transformation. i mean nobody tell me that she was shedding light on the romanians pressing for change and the unconventional methods to eliminate corruption remain people. on how much is it. the roof over her. the sound is there and these are the top stories right now doctor says the u.s.

president has tested negative for corona virus that's a week after he came into contact with brazilian officials at his florida resort and have since tested positive was also extended a european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland and spain has followed italy and impose a nationwide lockdown following a sharp increase in front of virus infections the prime minister's wife is among the latest to become sick and france is closing more public spaces including cafes restaurants and entertainment venues. and take a look at how other countries are tackling this pandemic the head of libya's u.n. recognized government has declared a state of emergency over the chronic virus pandemic land air and sea crossings as well as schools have been ordered shut for 3 weeks libya does not have any reported cases so far. well then how do you we are noticing a nationwide emergency to tackle this continuing threat and i'll ensure we are conforming to the w h o's pandemic strategy we're allocating $360000000.00 to tackle what is

a critical situation we will also close all borders and crossings including airports and ports for 3 weeks starting monday sure. running president hassan rouhani says the country's fight against the current virus 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 $13000.00 infections security forces have been sent out to clear the streets all religious sites in the holy city of cole where the virus was 1st detected have been closed same as robbie is in tehran he says mistrust of the government has also hampered efforts to contain the virus. ever since the outbreak began here iran is getting the public on board getting the public to cooperate with much of the guidance coming from the health ministry about social distancing now what has happened today is that the interior ministry has ordered that the city of qom shut down 2 very important shrines actually a shrine as well as a mosque now these are major attractions for people thousands of people visit this

these sites on a daily basis and now the order is to close them down but it has to be said in that order it said that they will be closed soon and earlier this evening these sites remained open now it is a good step forward for the government to shut down these sites these home was of course the epicenter of the virus in the beginning these places were known vectors for the virus and the peak of this experts say iran is coming in the next 10 days to 2 weeks so certainly better late than never but critics will say it's too little too late because the damage has already been done the virus is already spread throughout the country from home into her on the new epicenter of the virus the numbers continue to go up the number of deaths the number of overall cases the government has announced a closure and a stoppage of any construction work any building works that are happening but again

many will see this is a half measure because the government is also saying that the quarantine of the capital is a rumor that is untrue and president hassan rouhani has offices said over and over again that that will not happen even though experts and lawmakers are saying that it should. the pandemic has prompted colombia to shut its land border with venezuela but thousands of venezuelans cross over every day looking for food and medicine that they cannot get at home and factions as elsewhere are rising across latin america and there are concerns that it's not well prepared to deal with the outbreak traceable reports. 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 sits close to contain the spread of cool vague 19 says . the border crossings with venezuela will be closed starting at 5 am it will be done as a protection measure against the situation that is also occurring in the neighboring

country. on friday vinny confirmed 2 cases of corona virus 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. precedent. has suspended schools and banned public gatherings he's asked people to wear a mask when using the metro in the capital caracas to suit you 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. president tested

negative folk over 1000 and. 2 he communicated an officer tested positive after a trip to the united states where he met with precedent donald trump. is to remain in isolation and will be tested again even though the number of cases in 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 cruz 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 cancelled last countries try to adapt to what may come ahead. when a site is almost 12000000 people in manila have been told to stay home as a lockdown comes into effect in the capital the philippines this was

a scene on friday as people rushed to leave before all domestic travel in and out of the city was suspended residents have been told to only leave the house for work and emergencies measures are some of the strictest in asia. now more than 72000 people have recovered from the virus dr patrick tang is the division chief of pathology scientists at sidra medicine he says many scientists aren't convinced people can contract the virus more than once. there have been anecdotal reports of this occurring but most of us that deal with these types of infections don't believe that it doesn't make sense in terms of what we know about viruses and how infections that occur so most likely the in these cases people have probably tested false negative so the samples that were collected from them near the end of the recovery were probably may have been collected improperly the maybe the swab didn't get any of the virus on to it and then they tested negative falsely and then later

when another sample was taken that one was actually posit so that they're still shedding the virus whether that was but viruses at that point or infectious or not is a different story take a look at some of the other news from around the world who are staying on top of iraq's military says 2 air defense service men and 3 coalition members have been critically injured and a rocket attack on taj a base north of baghdad it's not yet known who is responsible it comes a day after u.s. air strikes on multiple sites in iraq the pentagon says it targeted those responsible for killing 2 americans and one british soldier in an attack on wednesday when a fault us more from baghdad on why the 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 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 need are part of the coalition and their needs are part of the iranian backed 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. the russian turkish ceasefire

is largely holding it live syria's last rebel held area nearly a 1000000 civilians have been displaced by the fighting and are facing a new hardship a storm has destroyed more than 80 tents and camp or than 200 of these camps have been set up since december as on the bench of a departs from her tenure the turkey syria border many are struggling to find safety. 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 use or are soon he says the only place you could find shelter was with the dead. and also for we escape to rehab 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

special 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 i mean that. we provided shelter to the displaced families from south of 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. northern syria is the last rebel stronghold for years people from other opposition held areas were moved here and the various political deals as 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've been abandoned by the world yet again for them it feels no one cares about their suffering.

possible play out on we left our home at 3 am under airstrikes we need everything blankets mattresses are small children are surviving only your voltron 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 the tender weather 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 once concerned country used to call out pressures involvement in syria's war crimes and the kremlin to end its support of syria's government it says the war has taken the toll 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. recap the headlines on al-jazeera doctor says they are president has tested negative for corona virus that's a week after he came into contact with brazilian officials at his florida resort to have sense tested positive troubles also extended a european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland elfish as more on trump's test from washington d.c. . who would seem that the physician is giving doing a clean bill of health seeing everything zuki but of course he says he's also reminded the white house about the steps they need to eat to mitigate exposure to

those who might have it and also what they can do to catch it such as she can hines the way he did at the podium soo much on friday which he talked about again on saturday see it was just a habit spain is now followed italy and imposed a nationwide lockdown following a sharp increase in prone to virus infections prime minister's wife is among the latest to become sick and france is closing more public spaces including cafes restaurants and entertainment venues iranian president hassan rouhani says the country's fight against the virus is being severely hampered by u.s. sanctions iran is one of the worst affected countries with more than 600 deaths and almost 13000 infections the pandemic demick has prompted colombia to shut its land border with venezuela after it confirmed its 1st 2 cases on friday the border is crossed by thousands of venezuelans every day and search of food and medicine to the economic crisis people in manila have been told to stay home as

a lockdown comes into effect there in the capital the philippines this was the scene on friday as people rushed to leave before all domestic trouble and out of the city was suspended residents have been told will only leave the house for work and emergencies iraq's military says 2 air defense service men and 3 coalition members have been critically injured in a rocket attack on taji base north of baghdad it's not yet known who is responsible comes a day after u.s. air strikes on multiple sites in iraq the pentagon says it targeted those responsible for killing 2 americans and one british soldier in an attack on wednesday so the headlines keep it here on al-jazeera more news to come let's hand it over now to inside story.

coronavirus pandemic has forced many countries to close their schools it's hoped to lock a social gathering will help slow the outbreak but is the sense learning the answer and how vulnerable are children to this virus this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm going to you know obligato the global health crisis created by the coronavirus pandemic has led to extraordinary measures in an effort to contain the outbreak countries from south korea to the u.s. italy to new zealand are introducing measures that are affecting hundreds of millions of.