the all the the all the all. australia becomes the latest country to impose strict straddle restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus ordering all international arrivals into isolation. play watching al-jazeera live from doha with the fully back t. ball also ahead. the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united kingdom and ireland no more exemptions the us brought into this european travel ban to stop the spread of coronavirus spain's prime minister meanwhile causes a spread of the virus and quizes that requires extraordinary decisions concerning his whole country will go into lockdown and checkpoints on the streets of manila as

the philippines capital goes into a corner by a slow. thank you for joining us australia has joined a growing list of countries imposing south isolation for international arrivals to try to curb the corona virus outbreak as of midnight on sunday people going into the country are asked to isolate for 14 days australia will also ban coup ships from foreign ports for 30 days. what we've seen in recent in recent waits is more countries having issues with the bars and that means that the source of some of those transmissions are coming from more and more countries bans have been very effective today and what this measure will do is ensure that particularly a stridency who are the majority of people coming to struggle now on these plots when they come back to. this so far civilization reporter and guys will do an

effective job in flattening this as we go forward the u.s. has expanded its european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland and in europe spain's prime minister is putting his entire country into iraq than 46000000 people will be ordered not to leave home unless it's absolutely necessary france's shutting down restaurants cafes nightclubs and cinema yes for more let's go to our clock in hong kong sarah let's start with the restrictions in australia for us what will it mean for the country. well threat is prime minister scott morrison has made this announce in the last hour and a half or so all international travelers as of midnight tonight on sunday they'll be forced in self isolation this is for 14 days the promise is also encouraged distancing social distancing rules this means encouraging people to stay about one major a part is also bad as of monday or midnight on sunday

a gathering of people more than 40500 people that will now be banned and he's also said no handshakes now this is all part of a stretch to try to lift or limit curb the spread of the krona virus outbreak which is spreading globally but certainly the strain of these rules that follow the new zealand rules yes you mention the cruise ships will now be banned from docking in australia from midnight tonight for 30 days now basically is also ruled that the mask closure of schools this is a restriction that's been put into place a number of countries but it's ruled that out the strategy of simply saying that by pushing the students out into the community that could be seen as a negative and could increase the risk of a fix infections so been $250.00 cases so far in australia and 3 deaths so far and as i mentioned their prime minister just seem to understand as of midnight tonight all international travelers arriving there will also be forced into self isolation for 14 days this does exclude pacific islanders because this region at the moment

appears to be void of the virus meanwhile in china where the outbreak began the numbers are still going down and interestingly the new cases of coronavirus say a coming from outside of china. well the latest numbers from china's health commission indicate that there were 20 new corona virus infections reported on saturday and all of those 2016 of them were travelers coming in from other countries from italy iran and saudi arabia and they're saying is their greatest concern now is the importation of the virus into china now 10 deaths were reported on saturday taking the total death toll to $3199.00 so as the rest the world continues to go into lockdown china seems to be showing a rosy picture they were actually looking to partially lift a lockdown in the who by province this is the lockdown that's been in place since january so a few months now and basically the saying that partial travel will be resumed for some of those residents who are considered in the green category and that's

considered a low risk category so businesses are starting to resume business again in that particular province and of course we'll have to see if the center of this outbreak in china but some of those residents will also be allowed to partially travel and return to life as normal overcoming this coming week sarah clarke in hong kong thank you. and the u.s. is expanding its european travel ban to the u.k. and ireland from tuesday in a bid to some stop the spread of coronavirus a 30 day ban on travelers from mainland europe is already in place my kana has more from washington members of the coronavirus task force walked 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 chitral to leave the briefing and another surprise he confirmed teach submitted to

a test for the virus last night i also took the test yesterday. and i decided i should based on the press coverage yesterday people were asking did i take the test change 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 the people are thinking about it more and more we have to think about it it's important for your temperature don't expect there 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 arlen 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 my kind out al-jazeera washington don thompson doctor says the president has tested negative for all coronavirus has potentially been exposed to it while meeting a brazilian delegation who later found out they were infected alan fisher has more on this from washington. on friday after the news conference there was a discussion about testing for covert 19 and the president agreed to undergo the test no he said on saturday he didn't know how long it would be before the results

came back they came back just a few hours later and he was told that everything was all clear who clearly was at risk because he sat down in mara lago his home in florida last weekend with a brazilian delegation and some of those actually tested positive for the virus so clearly his physicians really wanted him to to get a test done that was done on friday all clear on saturday the white house's issued a proclamation saying that to morrow will be a national day of prayer 1st of all for the victims of the disease and as we see the number of cases increasing in the united states and the number of fatalities is also rising but it's also for the people who are involved in the fight against the disease not just the task force but health care workers right across the country at the moment are wondering whether they are going to be overwhelmed in the next week or so with the number of cases coming to their door in europe spain has now

followed italy and is putting the entire country in lockdown has more on how people are responding. it's only spain 2nd state of emergency since becoming a democracy this is what it looks like the countries 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 or to care for the young and the elderly and the federal and. 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 me when 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. 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 the cabinet set to ban mass gatherings in the coming week. garion prime minister viktor orban seen here being checked off to fly. back for moldova is set to announce europe's latest school

closures you know if you can we call several e.u. states including poland and the czech republic and totally or partially restricting entry to foreign nationals with the consulate now the epicenter of the pandemic more drastic measures look inevitable. al-jazeera police in the philippines a blocking major roads into manila as a star sealing off the capital to stop the spread of coronavirus as 12000000 residents have been told they should only leave home for work and emergencies for the next month travel in and out by land sea or air is suspended. still ahead on al-jazeera a new crisis for venezuelans now cut off from desperately needed food and medicine after columbia closes the border because of coronavirus and in other news we'll tell you what's behind kenya's blood shortage and the impact it's having on people waiting for treatment.

her there well look at weather conditions across the middle east and levant that the major storm which affected egypt has sort of blown itself out but the still a lot of dust in the atmosphere and come by the moment as far as the rain from the system is concerned there's still a little bit showing up over parts of iraq eastern areas into western parts of iran we've still got some sand blowing up through the tigris and euphrates river valleys but it has had on through into sunday it will see a lot of sand blowing out of the empty quarter saudi arabia so i think in doha we could see very poor visibility for a time things becoming much quieter head on through into monday should be drawing fine for most places fred korematsu cloud but much of the dust will begin to settle as a should be dry with temperatures looking pretty good though how 29 degrees lovely as you head into eastern and southern parts of africa plenty of showers here across tanzania but you notice that circulation look at that tropical cyclone herald that

is moving away towards the southeast now it should we think go just to the north east of us so hopefully not too much impact there but it has got potential to give huge amounts of rain across northeastern parts of madagascar maybe as much as 400 millimeters of rain house where it looks as though it should be a showery for parts of south africa highs of $23.00 cape town. for. a journey both dark so if you know there's a very for everybody there's a lot of corruption and beautiful lake a beautiful lady you have to be very patient and to it is also the same as a cinder because i was introduced to it when my father and my mother on working for king for her personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from had.

in the. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera australia is imposing a 14 day self isolation period on all arrivals from midnight on sunday to stop the spread of coronavirus it will also ban who ships from coming from foreign ports for 30 days u.s. president trump has extended a european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland to try to stop the spread of the virus meanwhile trumps doctor says the president has tested negative for corona virus he met a brazilian delegation recently and several of his spent was later became sick and police in the philippines are blocking major roads into minin as

a stop sealing up the capital to try to contain coronavirus it's 12000000 residents have been told they should only leave home for work and emergencies for the next much. now the pandemic has prompted colombia to shut its land border with venezuela thousands of venezuelans cross every day looking for food and medicine they can't get a home infections as elsewhere are rising across latin america and they are concerned it's not well prepared to deal with the outbreak that is a bovary for someone a status. 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 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 acceptable standards 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. 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 by. president j.

towards an adult tested negative for covert 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 governments 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 ask countries try to adapt to what may come ahead. when a site is. chile's president sebastian pinera has told the country it's time to take extreme measures well in 60 cases have been confirmed there so far a lot in america and its embassy in yemen is in santiago and tells us what people

can expect. chileans are being told that more than $500.00 people cannot gather in one place added time indoors or outdoors which will clearly be a test of the government's strength and authority because as you will probably remember going protests are taking place in this country almost every day with thousands and thousands of people gather apart from that flights from europe and from asia have been canceled until further notice hospitals special emergency hospitals are being built. who heads a regional body has just called for an emergency summit via teleconference for monday with his with the other south american leaders so that they can try to coordinate tried to set parameters a common policies so that they can and also try to help each other because not every country is equally prepared to face this president nicolas maduro for example is suggesting that all they need to do is wear a face mask when there aren't any face masks or very very few of them in venezuela

and in fact in many countries including chile and argentina they've already sold out almost every single pharmacy so there are a lot of things that need to be done helping with doctors helping to set different targets to decide when it's time to close a border when when it is it a lot needs to be done especially as the south american winter approaches right now we're still in summer or getting into into autumn but when the colder weather hits things will get much worse i know a lot faster. the head of libya's u.n. recognized government has declared a state of emergency air and sea crossings as well as schools have ordered shut for have been ordered shut for 3 weeks a conflict torn nation is yet to report any infections and then. we are noticing a nationwide emergency to tackle this continuing threat and all 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. during airports

and ports for 3 weeks starting monday. iran's president hassan rouhani has again hit out at us sanctions he says are severely hampering his country's response to coronavirus as the worst affected middle eastern nation with $611.00 death and almost $13000.00 infections security forces have been sent out to clear the streets all religious sites in the holy city of qom where the virus was 1st detected have been close same bus driver he is in tehran he says mistrust of the government is also causing problems. 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 calm 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 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 now viral video from italy is reminding them of the human cost of the pandemic and not. due. to our it shows an italian man looking through obituaries into editions of a newspaper one is from february 9th when they were just a few deaths they said and the other is from friday when the man counts 10 pages of obituaries it highlights the dramatic increase in the number of deaths says the coronavirus outbreak takes its toll in italy more than 1400 people have died there . are less sake look at some of the other stories making headlines around the world now and sunday marks a year since $51.00 worship is were killed a 2 mosques in new zealand special prayers were held on friday and flowers have

been made outside the mosques in the city of christchurch coronavirus has forced the cancellation of the main memorial services that were planned an australian man is due to go on trial in june his charge with terrorism murder and attempted met. more day riyad be angry. 2 is a very emotional and when i wake up this morning it's. the speeches i can't explain what i feel this morning is. almost thinking and look at the top i said ok is 8 o'clock now. and. 5 hours later last year. going to be injured with no envelopes tiber can is founder and chief executive of could easily to ship network which supports muslim women in their communities and professionally she reflects on

whether australia has changed a year on and whether muslims in new zealand rather feel any safer. if i'm looking at change more widely and society well the answers are what's happening around the world and if you look around the world really hatred is rising edge is rising particularly for muslims when you look at india when you look at china when you look at what's happening and at rock you know so the situation isn't really getting any however it's difficult for us to be answering that question i think that is a question for everyone else how did they think things have changed where in a difficult position where if we don't seem like we are that full for all the support that we received and you get it aftermath of the attack well it seems like we haven't really paid attention to it but the reality is that being muslim and today's world isn't an easy thing to do so it's a very very loaded question we need to be asking this question you know whether

ever it with every one else is not a question for the muslim community who were affected by the attack to ask them hey what is the change what do you think has changed is a very very difficult question where we kind of almost put in a really difficult situation at this is a societal question we need to look at what is happening around us and how we're all waiting together to improve the situation and so if you look at what's happening in terms of just some of the incidents in the last year i mean women have still had their jobs pulled off people are still being you know they still receive racial attacks they still prejudiced going on people still don't land jobs because they're of a particular race or they way the job or you know and i'm they have a bit so those behaviors with a fall much the 15th and they were not going to go away simply because we lost 51 lives this is a much more deeply embedded problem and we need to look at that as a whole not just one community. the russian turkish ceasefire is not holding 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 ten's in diala camp more than 200 of these camps have been set up since december. to kenya where blood banks set public hospitals are running dry forcing many patients to ask for donations themselves u.s. funding for transfusion services was poured last year catherine story has a story from nairobi. it has taken helen barra's a month to get 4 pints of blood from a government hospital so she can start treatment she was recently diagnosed with cervical cancer and traveled to nairobi from western kenya to begin radiation therapy sessions doctors told her she needed more blood but the hospital did not have it neither was it possible for people to donate because the national

transfusion center was shot off screening agents so. i'm just a caring and i know it will get better i have faith in what i've gone through with this disease is a nerve i have look for blood everywhere in eventually i found it i was in so much pain and stress wondering what will happen to me if i don't get the blood in september last year the u.s. government withdrew funds it almost and tiredly paid for government blood services in kenya with no donor money the health ministry appears to be struggling to sustain blood donation programs screening as well as paying staff members in centers across the country government officials say the problem is being resolved but now the police are also investigating claims that some health workers are selling the little blood available to hospitals in somalia the head of a parliamentary committee and house told al jazeera the government had made no alternative plans to. build

a financial guy up after the us cut its funding it comes in the blood that is available is what's clean then it's not available for use that's what it comes in and they hold the entire problem is tied up to the issue of resources the health ministry has no ramp top blood drives according to wild health organization guidelines a country like kenya with 47000000 people should be collecting up to a 1000000 units of blood every hour yet on average only about 864000 units are collected and mostly from schools and universities private hospitals have their own blood banks but many are not accessible to people with no money or insurance like helen barraza in the whole group or let you live up to 600 pints of blood every month dr of organized regular blood donation campaign and the screening is down right here but that help with the leak is a too expensive for many. doctors see blood is also running low because many

kenyans are reluctant to donate mainly because of cultural and religious reasons as well as possible fear is for us a ha started her radiation sessions but she knows this may not be the end and she might need more blood catherine soy al-jazeera nairobi kenya. logan i'm for the battle with the headlines on al-jazeera australia is imposing a 14 day self isolation period on all arrivals from midnight on sunday to stop the spread of coronavirus similar measures were announced by new zealand on saturday also ban cruise ships coming from foreign ports for 30 days. what we've seen in recent in recent weeks is more countries having issues with the virus and that means that the source of some of those transmissions are coming from more

and more countries afghans have been very effective today and what this measure will do is ensure that particularly a strategy and the majority of people coming to us try to now on these flights when they come back to a strategy of their self isolation for 14 days will do an effective job in flattening the scope of as we go forward. u.s. president donald trump has extended a european travel ban to include the u.k. and ireland to try to stop the spread of the virus meanwhile chum's doctor says a president has tested negative for coronavirus he met a brazilian delegation recently and several of its members later became sick at least in the philippines are blocking major roads into manila as they saw sealing off the capital to try to contain the corona virus outbreak it's 12000000 residents have been told they should only leave home for work and emergencies for the next month spain has followed italy and imposed a nationwide knock down following a shop increase in corona virus infections the prime minister's wife is among the

natives to become sick and france is expanding its restrictions by closing more public spaces including cafes restaurants and entertainment venues sunday marks a year since $51.00 worshippers were killed at 2 mosques a new zealand special prayers were held on friday and flowers have been laid outside the mosques in the city of christchurch coronavirus has forced a cancellation of the main memorial services that were planned an australian man is due to go on trial in june charged with terrorism matter and attempted met arab state would have lines on al-jazeera more news as always and i have cites al-jazeera dot com people in power is coming up next stay with us. what's behind the recent tensions between. india and we've given them the opportunity to increase but not realize it spoke to spoil the pigs it's the new can to quote and lots of people still in the foreign minister show. talks to al-jazeera.

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