hard hitting to face with our front on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. come on peter dalby you're watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes checkpoints and curfews in the philippine capital restrictions imposed on 12000000 people to stop the spread of corona virus . china ramps up checks on international arrivals was the virus epicenter alludes to europe. france goes ahead with local elections despite facing what the president's called the biggest health crisis in a century. campaigning in the time of coronavirus how the global pandemic is

changing the race for the white house. i'm going to go just past sports around the world continues to be called off all played behind closed doors including this couple match a brazilian matic in a stadium once famous for holding nearly 200000 fans in a world cup final. more and more countries imposing restrictions and they are getting more drastic in the fight against coronavirus within the last hour austria banning gatherings and ordering restaurants to close while kazakstan has declared a state of emergency earlier on sunday the philippines began sealing off its capital manila $12000000.00 residents in manila being told to stay at home for a month schools are closed and mass events are banned australia has joined the country's ordering travel. into self quarantine as of midnight on sunday they have

to isolate themselves for 14 days iran has perspire on the 2nd round of parliamentary elections more than 600 people have died on the road more than 12000 confirmed cases but despite concerns and a ban on gatherings of more than 100 people local elections are continuing in from this we'll get the latest on europe from the barber in london in a moment sarah clarke is standing by for us in hong kong 1st to manila and our reporter barnaby lo barnaby what's the latest from the philippine capital. hi peter it is sunday here in the philippines and usually you have millions of people milling around the many shopping malls here in metro manila the philippine capital you also have millions of people going out to churches to attend sunday

worship service but that is not what is happening right now here in metro manila with 17 subsidies the streets are empty but the story is different in borders between metro manila and nearby provinces because that is where things are getting a little confusing there are exceptions to this what they're calling community quarantine the government doesn't want to call it a lockdown you're saying this is a quarantine a soft lockdown if you will but again there are exceptions 12000000 people here in the capital manila are encouraged to stay at home but they are allowed to go out to buy basic necessities they are allowed to go out to go to work public transportation remains operational and then you know there are 2 to 3000000 people who live outside metro manila who work in metro manila and they are exempted from

this from this lockdown or this community quarantine meaning they will be able to get in and out of metro manila for work purposes but they will have to present proof of work proof of employ with or proof of business and this is where it's getting a little bit confusing because the government really has not specified what kind of proof of this they have to present what are the required i.d.'s really that they have to present and people are also worried that because there are 2 to 3000000 people. we'll be able to get in and out of bed for manila in the next month that this can be a cause of the virus spreading because you have this movement of millions of people in addition to that there were 48 hours between the announcement of the lockdown

and the implementation of the lockdown where millions of people went back home to their respective provinces and so you had all these people lining up in bus stations crowding the airport and this is becoming a point of concern for a lot of people where you know these people may be bringing maybe a symptomatic or meet may have mild symptoms and they meet made me sick reading now the virus to other parts of the philippines and so a lot of things still up in the air right now a bit confusing but we will probably have more clarity in the next few days and the government is saying that they will be reviewing guidelines day by day peter barnaby thanks very much for the countries around asia have been implementing tough measures to stop the virus from spreading the number of countries within a jump in new cases including malaysia which reported $190.00 new infections so it

has the details new restrictions every day across the well as each country fights its own battle against the corona virus in australia has strict travel measures are being implemented anyone arriving from abroad must self warranty for 2 week cruise ships entering australian relatives will soon be banned from docking 30 days. prime minister scott morrison says the restrictions are necessary and has called for an urgent meeting of the g 20 promised the modi is carrying to organize i link up between all the g 20 leaders i think that's i think that's a commendable initiative a struggle obviously supports that and even more originating that would be needed would be a further meaning of the g 20 finance ministers and central bank governors this is a health crisis but it has very serious economic impacts. in new zealand the number of people infected has gone up after a person traveled from australia despite having tested positive for corona virus itself isolation period of 2 weeks to travelers entering new zealand has come into

force but those coming from small south pacific island countries with no reported cases are exempt we're going to step out there of course meant things like spot checks to ensure people are self isolating and if you don't stand there are quarantine powers to us and on new zealand's east coast passengers on a cruise ship docked in akko to town are not allowed to disembark 3 people on board are quarantined with one showing symptoms also in the pacific region the philippine capital manila has begun a month's lockdown thousands of police to sealing off the city by blocking major roads the quarantine means domestic travel in and out of miller is suspended with a few exemptions one morning to hear that there's so much traffic the containment measures are disruptive but it's ok it's for the good of our own health. from monday minute his 12000000 residents will be under a nightly curfew and are encouraged to stay it's time during the day schools are

closed most government jobs will be suspended and large gatherings are to be banned . the philippines is taking some of the toughest measures yet in the region while people's movement is being restricted if you choose hope it will prevent a bigger spread of the virus so to hide out and just. correspondent sarah clark joins us live here on the news bureau in hong kong so this is a complicated jigsaw i guess malaysia 1st what's the latest from there. or seen a huge jump in the know a number of corona virus infections on sunday in malaysia 109000 new cases on sunday and most of these infections have been linked to a religious event that was held at a mosque was attended by more than 10000 people including a number of different people from different countries and other new cases now brings the total to 428 cases in malaysia now to take some trying to restore some

kind of restrictions in malaysia they've canceled all massive events but this new tally makes malaysia the worst affected country in southeast asia and the chinese authorities still very much of the leading edge of the fight against the coronavirus. well state media in china is now confirming that all international travelers coming to beijing will be forced into a quarantine but that will be run by a government body until now people travelers into beijing have been doing self isolation this cannot be in a hotel or someone's home but this will now be monitored and questioned and followed by the the government or 40 certainly ramping up their controls trying to cope with curb the spread of the outbreak across china now while the infection numbers have been growing globally the downward trend in china continues china concealed the initial outbreak but now they're trying to promote this exist and controlling to curb the spread across the country but the mass lockdowns may have come with a psychological and potentially an economic cost for those millions of people

who've been kept in their homes for months on end. on his 1st trip to the epicenter of the krajina virus outbreak chinese president xi jinping went on what commentators called a victory lap visiting members of the communist party and health workers on the front line he congratulated the people of one hand for defeating what's now a global pandemic the places he went to the very choreographed for everything was stepped in a way so that every night was on message so that it maps to also the signaling in the newspapers t.v. all over try these media is partly winning the battle but partly it's also signaling to people. who were there when it's a mass lockdown across e bay province came into effect at the end of january as well strict contain and travel restrictions across china 60000000 people were forced to stay at home including 11000000 from the city of the world health organization has raised beijing's response but not everyone appreciated the robust can time it measures

with in fiction numbers for the hash tag when will who buy blocked was read more than 100000000 times on china's social media platform weibo the shutdown may have worked but some say that success could also come at a cost i didn't like i was like oh. oh. but i just sensed safety is the price. because nobody can tell me what. i think. when you. look has been separated from her father since january he's in the city we had for work she's chosen to hide her identity in fear of a safety being associated with a resident at the epicenter of the outbreak i just can't help feeling worried for his health and we because we don't know anything about. what's happening how

people are going. into. the government and who by province is now introducing a mobile monitoring system with residents given a rating based on the health those considered low risk would be allowed to resume travel officials in other countries including italy are following china's lead putting the country in lockdown hoping the spread of the virus can be slowed or even reversed as a result the outbreak now threatens global growth all eyes will be on china as it attempts to return to business as usual sarah clarke al-jazeera hong kong. ok let's get you up to speed on the picture from europe spain beginning a 15 day nationwide lockdown spaniards are being told to stay at home unless they're going to work buying food and medicine or in the case of an emergency on other parts of the continent countries are closing borders and imposing checks for the 1st time in years is one of the latest it will deny entry to foreign travelers

march the 17th is live for us in london so 19 was the picture from spain. well peter there have been large queues outside some supermarkets in big cities ahead of the official start of the measures under the state of emergency on monday but generally if you go around places like madrid city center barcelona city center is very quiet business is had in some places already shut down but now there are these new restrictions on people's movements spain of course is the 2nd hardest hit country in europe by the coronavirus of the italy they've got more than $6000.00 cases now later on sunday pedro sanchez the prime minister holds a video conference with the various regional governments but on saturday he held a cabinet meeting which lasted 7 hours those measures that they came up with as you were saying include only allowing people out of their houses for essential reasons although that does include going to work and going to the bank things like that so

perhaps not as restrictive as as people might have feared or in some cases people might have hoped for it as again italy is the largest is the worst hit country in europe their cases rose they soared by 20 percent overnight between friday and saturday and their medics have been issuing stern warnings to their colleagues around europe about how to get ready not least to the u.k. now austria is now as you were saying restricting entry for. non nationals including britons and now the u.k. has been added of course to the u.s. bound as well so a lot of eyes on the u.k. right now and also when we talk about countries like austria and all something. understandable siege mentality is kind of moving across the continent because some of those countries on the periphery of europe you know those peripheral edges of europe they're taking these quite draconian measures as well. i think they are

because they're saying that there's no coa concerted response and notably britain is the outlier and on sunday morning the health secretary matt hancock's been on national television trying to reassure people they know what they're doing because there's been 2 letters from hundreds of scientists asking the government to release their modeling as to why they have been delaying drastic measures which we've seen elsewhere and now the health secretary confirms that in the coming weeks they will be asking people over 70 years of age to self isolate perhaps up to 4 months a huge step which will be very very difficult indeed they've been on the back foot if you like because businesses have already taken measures like shutting down operations sports organizations have counseled events and so on so now the british government is trying to get on top of their messaging and the prime minister is set to call on money factor it's a ventilators to join what is calling

a national effort the health secretary saying we can't produce enough or we can't produce too many ventilators a sign of how seriously they see things in the weeks and months to come. thanks very much ok that's the picture from europe it's also the picture from asia east asia australia and australasia jordan in the middle east announcing 6 new cases of the virus while lebanon's president and cabinet will meet in just a few hours time to discuss what restrictions they should be putting in place libya's un recognized government has already declared a state of emergency land and sea crossings as well as schools have been ordered closed for 3 weeks libya does not yet have any reported cases and then how the party or we are now seeing a nationwide emergency to tackle this continuing threat and ellen sure 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 porters and crossings including airports and ports for 3 weeks starting monday show at the. a top iranian health

official in iran has warned the pandemic could overwhelm facilities in the country as the hardest hit nation in the middle east with nearly 13000 factions and 611 confirmed deaths the health ministry says 15 percent of those killed were under the age of 40 the iranian president hassan rouhani says the fight against the illness is being hampered by u.s. sanctions. ok let's wrap up some other top stories for you here on the news hour russia and turkey are set to begin joint military patrols in syria to monitor a cease fire it leaves province the latest plan to try to end violence as the last rebel held area it was finalized on friday after 4 days of talks in ankara they'll be patrolling the strategic m. 4 highway linking syria's east and west the 2 countries back opposing sides in the

syrian war conflict started 10 years ago in 2011 for more on this live now to istanbul and my colleagues in him because solar system how will this function do we think. peter actually this joint patrols thing for today is kind of complicated because both turks and russians have been scheduled to begin giant joint patrols around 4 to 5 minutes ago yes they gathered and serach up the key highway town that connects m. 4 and m. 5 highways both turkish and russian military were there however since yesterday there have been demonstrations by the it activists and the opposition area that every jacked idea that russians should patrol and for highway and today those sit ins continue they have even built up tents there by the way they want this joint patrol to stop and they are protesting that's why the joint patrol has been

relatively cut short it took only 3 kilometer is the cricket one of the critical towns near up which has been a battleground between the syrian opposition and the syrian government and the russians and nonstop that because of the civilians blocking the m 4 highway they have shortened both turkey and russia decided to shorten the route for the joint patrol and i have confirmed this with the turkish military sources as well but we still have no idea whether the joint patrols have actually defacto begun or has it been cut short already within 3 kilometers we will be updating your with more it is ok stay close in him in the meantime thanks very much well the war in syria began as a protest against the government of bashar al assad way back in march of 2011 and the conflict and humanitarian crisis that followed has now entered its 10th year according to the united nations refugee agency 5600000 people have fled syria the

majority of them are now in turkey where more than 3 and a half 1000000 are registered as refugees a further 6600000 syrians are displaced internally the u.n. says almost a 1000000 people have fled in the last 3 months during the government's recent offensive to retake the last rebel area many of those people have traveled north towards the border with turkey that's led to the turkish government opening its previously guarded borders for migrants to europe. reports the u.n. says more than 11000000 syrians are in need of aid. the 2011 uprising had been brewing for decades in the suppression and exploded during the arab spring. people from all walks of life protested in their thousands and seeing a possibility of overthrowing a government they saw as undemocratic back then they were syrians undivided forward

in this city religion or sectarianism. but the government to use force against the protesters those opposing it when labeled terrorists. opposition leaders professionals activists are all targeted those who weren't executed but arrested tortured or rent placing that's when the uprising turned violent 2 machine guns replaced by tanks and rifles by airstrikes. when the government's use of indiscriminate bombs failed opposition areas were targeted with chemical weapons hundreds were killed. world leaders at peace in meetings tried to find solutions the un security council has since passed over a dozen resolutions but russia blocked many of them while maintaining its support for the assad government what is important is that the governments in the region

and beyond work together. with this syrians to resolve this current crisis. this is a war in syria soon became a battleground for international and regional powers the dresher in iran standing by the assad government countries the us and turkey all backed opposition groups which failed to put up a united to fight. while the world lacking a meaningful response competing interests and mounting debts violent groups became dominant. and in 2014 these nomic state of iraq and the levant or eisel declared a caliphate but as its capital. 6 the countries which refuse military action in syria soon formed a coalition against isis. syrian civilians were being killed by assad's forces opposition infighting. and coalition airstrikes by then more than 200000 people had been killed in the united nations decided to stop counting the dead. russia's

active military deployment in 2015 was a game changer for damascus it was backed by should be of russian air power and iranian troops and military from iraq and lebanon opposition fighters drop at the last areas they controlled through the years activists and rights group kept reminding the world of the horrific violence syrians are facing. propaganda and abuse by government forces drew condemnations from international leaders for the military the starve or surrender tactic worked where bombs and troops did and millions of syrians were moved each year to the province and the various deals until it became the last remaining rebel stronghold. in the last 9 years hospitals have been deliberately destroyed even those who schooled in it's provided by the un to russia and syrian forces and its relentless campaign the government has started civilian buildings it would in schools universities and community centers. even

rescuers have been targeted and secondly strikes when they gather to pull bodies from the rubble of an attack over half of syria's pre-war population that's more than 12000000 people have either been killed or forced from their homes. every once in a while when a large group of refugees had to words europe the world pays some attention but a vast majority of syrians affected by the war feel abandoned by the world with no end in sight for their suffering some of it. out of there. ok let's talk to rachel sider she's an advocacy advisor at the norwegian refugee council syria office she joins us now on skype from amman jordan rachel cyber welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera before we get into talking about 10 years of death and destruction so many people killed so many people displaced these joint patrols that are kicking off today will they work do you think well it's really too soon to say the cease fire that was reached in northwest and let has been rather precarious

but has translated to any substantial the escalation in violence on the ground we are concerned about the impact this could have on civilians in the neighboring area and the millions of displaced persons that has led in the least to ports of that border region with turkey just in the past couple of months so i will be following that development rather closely and you want to reinforce the importance of protecting civilians in that area as these upwards. i notice the u.n. chief antonio terrace on twitter talking about the ruin and the misery of the last decade serious question is the war in syria ever going to end. well it's really hard to believe that we've reached this point and that violence is still very much raging across the country you have countless civilians that are trapped in a war zone in northwest syria and we're quite appalled with the interaction of

world powers that has allowed this violence to spiral out of control and allowed warring parties to kill the maim and to displace millions of syrians across the country it's impossible to imagine how much worse this could really get and we're also quite struck by the determination and resilience of syrians to survive in what has been a ruthless and absolutely senseless war are millions have been displaced within the country by 26000000 syrians are displaced in neighboring countries and they base their very uncertain future but are committed to have long white are beginning to rebuild their lives and recover from the amount of this around this and is part of the big problem or part of the foundation of one of the problems to do with the conflict in syria the way that any point during the last decade you could have picked a month a week or a year and said ok that microcosm of the broader picture of war is

a proxy conflict between country a and country b. fast forward a month and they weren't engaged with the fighting with each other quite so much but then the fighting had moved on to another combative relationship between the proxies. right i mean this has been a who are riddled with proxies we have escalations in eastern. back in feb 28th teen there really illustrates how world powers have all been involved at various places in this conflict and at the heart of this this has been a down year of the u.n. security council where all of these parties and very often convene and support solutions to the war you had 25 resolutions asked by the council alone they've met for over 2222 scuse me hours of discussions on syria which hasn't translated when and the conflict for every hour of the security council met over $20000.00 syrians were displaced inside syria alone so at the heart of this it is

a world conflict it is a conflict that has had below in the neighboring countries as well into countries in europe united states canada so every country at some point has been responsible about healing the violence and failing to provide adequate solution force the the silver bullet of a solution is it the russian president saying to bashar al assad you've got to go and go now is it. losing his life at some point when he's holed up in his compound in damascus could it be the u.n. or could it be the a stand up people saying no we've got to do something else. well there is a un led peace process that really is in doubt with a lot of these responsibilities and we're looking to that process into the leadership of the u.n. to bring parties back to the negotiating table to restart conversations that may

translate 1st and foremost to an immediate escalation in violence in the northwest that's lasting that cease fire that was brokered about a week ago is a step in the right direction but we need to see something much more longer term that holds many protests of the millions of civilians in that area and now we need to see solutions that are owned by the parties that are involved in the conflict and that allows for conditions to eventually be suitable for syrians would be able to rebuild their lives and recover from that and that's going to take a tremendous amount of time and commitment 5 the international community to the peace process but also to providing immediate humanitarian assistance who will need it for a much longer and his supporters much into the longer term will allow that rebuilding continue the violence present includes. thank you very much. thank you no ok time for you weather here's richard of me talking about the dangers

of heavy rain in india yes we've had these westley disturbances sweeny through northern india and pakistan for the whole of this year so far it seems peter you know we end up with about 567 at this time the able to see in about 20 to 30 such systems swing through northern parts of india and pakistan the latest one bringing some significant landslides that to pour in the region and many other places also being affected by a similar sort of disruptions to transport causing real problems well this one for the time being looks as though it still has swung on through the weather is beginning to settle down somewhat you still a satellite imagery one system just showing now but a fairly weak a fast one we looked at your forecast weather conditions actually looking pretty good in fact we're seeing more spring like conditions there for delhi it $28.00 crunchy looking at highs of $32.00 degrees meanwhile up into northeastern parts of asia we see a little bit of wintry weather affecting japan specifically shots coming from tokyo

little bit of a dusting of snow in places where the conditions have changed since then we're looking at sort of model with another system is pushed away into the north pacific but we have got another low pressure just starting to develop over the sea of japan over the e.c. if you prefer and that system could well end up giving some snow fall in western parts of japan certainly is a move the forecast on through northerly wind picks up but for tokyo a temperature 13 i don't think we see any snow peter roche thanks very much still to come for you here on the news israel dispose of prime minister benjamin netanyahu is corruption trial over coronavirus for years. and one year on how christ church is marking the mosque shooting that killed dozens. also had the lengths some sports are going to try to play on through the run of the. he came from a wealthy background in paris and became an artist against his family's wishes he

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welcome back you're watching the news hour live from doha these are your top stories checkpoints are in place around the philippine capital manila as the government imposes new restrictions to curb the coronavirus 12000000 residents are only allowed to leave their homes for work or emergencies for the next one month. iran's preschool in the 2nd round of parliamentary elections there over concerns to do with the coronavirus more than 600 people 611 the die there are more than 12000 confirmed cases and france is imposing a partial lockdown on tens of millions of people all shops restaurants and entertainment facilities will be closed on sunday and gatherings of more than 100 people will be back. well despite those restrictions france is still going ahead

with local elections the president emanuel macro insisted the 1st round of the polls could be held safely he's previously labeled the coronavirus the worst health crisis in a century and joins us live from paris so natasha france impartial lockdown calls the selection to be for spawn what's the atmosphere like. she just had a car alarm. turned off and i have to say it is quite extraordinary because you have a country which isn't well virtual lockdown schools universities closed businesses are shut people have been told by the government to stay at home to work from home they have now closed all restaurants cinemas museums it is a bit of a ghost town i mean you don't really see many people on the streets at all people are only allowed to go to food stalls or to the pharmacy where they have to stand

a meter apart is pretty much the that the sort of scenes that we've been seeing from italy yet in the middle of all this the government has said that it's ok to go ahead with these local elections so some people are still coming out to go to their polling stations not many i have to say i don't see many people outside the few polling stations stations i walked past this morning but they are having to stand a meter apart some are wearing masks they've been told to bring their own pens to sign the register to try and stop spreading any of course possible infections the coronavirus but many polling stations haven't even been able to get enough staff to work because they have to volunteer and people simply don't want to take the risks and you've got to also say can so count but there are a lot of people who can't come because they are sick all their unself isolation there more than nearly 5000 nearly 5000 cases of the virus in france the elderly a lot down in all people's homes so of course this is a very unusual election very unusual circumstances what's at stake for the government. while many are

wondering why no it is the government continuing on with these local elections when so many political leaders so many health experts advise the government not to go ahead with them in these current conditions like you said the french president omar calling this france's worst health crisis in a century the government says though that they feel that they can keep the population safe as long as people here to these rules of it is important for fraud the democratic process continues now what some are saying is perhaps a model marco is going ahead with these elections because before the real spread of the coronavirus before we were in this so-called level 3 emergency situation here in france that so his party wasn't supposed to be doing very well mainly because many people are bit fed up with the french government in terms of their pension reforms you have yellow vest protests they could be voting against the government and also because my cross party is very new so not many people there is at the

grassroots local level but now it looks as if the government is perhaps hoping that their management of the health crisis the coronavirus crisis here in france might revive their party's fortunes it seems that perhaps that's what they're banking on but i have to say many people that you speak to are simply seeing this the government's actions are going ahead with this election they are saying it is the government putting people at risk and it might work against them sasha thanks very much efforts to form a new coalition government in israel are expected to resume today the discussions are expected to last for one day only because of coronavirus live to western correspondent herefore said harry when the president gives us or we learn what he's coming up with is it going to be anything other than mr netanyahu benny gantz you guys have got to work together despite political differences. certainly that's being the message that says remains his preferred arrangement as what he called for

out of the 2nd election it's what he's calling for now as well but if he gets a majority of mandates majority recommendations rather from the newly elected members of the knesset the israeli parliament for a certain one of those 2 benny gantz of benjamin netanyahu to try to form a coalition government then the understanding is that he would feel bound to do so certainly that was the case last time around and the last few minutes has been an important development the 15 members all of them belonging sizzix mainly palestinian israeli joint list of parties including the bailout party which last time around refused to recommend the former army chief benny gantz as prime minister all 15 of them have recommended that he gets along with his own party blue and white his own alliance blue and white as well so if things stack up as they may that could give benny gantz the edge in terms of the number of recommendations it depends now really on the actions of every diliman the right wing

a former defense minister and the nesson you know long time ally and now that a rival of the israeli prime minister whether he does as he had indicated earlier in supporting a minority governments potentially led by benny gantz and a coalition of parties around blue and white or whether he too switches to backing calls for a unity government he said that he wants to see a unity government as well but it depends on whether he decides to recommend either dance or netanyahu as far as white is concerned they had to the 2 said that they would not serve in a unity government goes 1st that line seems to be weakening or softening somewhat and that that could be on the table they would prefer obviously still their own man benny gantz to go 1st netanyahu is trial has been. back because of the coronavirus because of a decision by his justice minister to freeze the courts it was due to start in 3

separate cases of corruption on tuesday that's now been put back to may and that too could give them an advantage in arguing that he should go 1st this time of crisis if there were to be a unity government but does that mean a unity government harry born out of i guess being a function of the fight against corona virus or is that the president saying ok is prime minister benny gantz because of his prime minister benny gantz doesn't that put his number to benjamin netanyahu who then wouldn't be prime minister one step closer to having to engage with the legal process over these allegations of corruption. yes i mean the myth the trial itself now doesn't start until the end of may no matter what and that's just the initial postponement so depending on how the virus outbreak goes and that date potentially could even change but certainly it would be very interesting if benny gantz gets the most number of recommendations

even though his party blue and white came 2nd to he could in terms of the number of votes it got 33 in the seats in the election with a could on 36 it would put netanyahu very interesting position to test whether he really did think that an emergency unity government is the only way to respond to the crisis if he were not prime minister immediately to have been more measured by the way that it being imposed as of today sunday all leisure activities leisure venues such as malls restaurants cafes have been closed down the beaches won't reopen in terms of lifeguards we just heard and also the al aqsa mosque in the dome of the rock they have been closed to worship as they had been opened and have been constantly being watched and disinfected now the islamic woks which runs the area says that people will only be allowed to worship outside in the area on the compound perry thanks very much will keep us posted i'm sure in the meantime thank

you. the largest u.s. airline american is to slash 75 percent of its international flights until may the cuts when i was off the white house restricting travel from all countries including the u.k. and the republic of ireland ports across the u.s. were already in chaos with incoming travelers forced to wait hours for medical screening before passing through customs. the pandemic has forced the u.s. state of georgia's presidential primary to be postponed until may there are also big changes in how candidates campaigning has that story from los angeles. you know from lax campaign rallies canceled a debate without an audience personal campaigning suspended the coronavirus pandemic has swiftly changed the way the race is being run most politicians thrive on crowds and they enjoy it. they feed off of them traditional campaign behavior could speed the spread of the disease but lots of touching lots of shaking

hands holding on to the rope lines and lots of crowds and lots of people that's what happens during normal political campaigns and that is unfortunately the perfect setup for a pandemic because that's how these things are spread all of the candidates have canceled upcoming rallies that could affect donald trump who gets a jolt of energy and ego boosting from packed arenas he gets a lot of. a lot of support from those crowds but he goes to his people to his base and you know he speaks for an hour an hour and a half and convinces himself that he's very popular bernie sanders also thrives on boisterous crowds and joe biden is famously a touchy feely hands on politician who loves hand-shaking on the rope line so in the age of covert 19 what's a candidate to do so to be responsible i think the candidates have to take

a step back and. start doing more campaigning virtually biden tried a virtual town hall interacting online with voters in illinois it didn't go well. technical glitches made the candidate sound like a malfunctioning robot but it's just it's. the technical details will probably get ironed out but big questions remain what happens to the party nominating conventions if the virus is still circulating in july and august and how about the november election itself long lines and crowded polling places are nobody's idea of social distancing voting booths and polling places are also places that concern me very much if the virus is still rampant at that time i'm going to recommend that we do mail in voting despite the changes that the pandemic may force candidates and their campaigns to make they can still reach the vast majority of voters through

television ads and online through social media robert oulds al jazeera los angeles . sunday marks one year since $51.00 were suppose were killed in 2 mosques in new zealand special prayers were held on friday and flowers to being placed outside the mosques in christ church the recent pandemic has forced the cancellation of the main memorial services that were planned and australian man is due to go on trial in june on charges of terrorism let's talk now to jamal greene he joins us on skype from christ church he's a spokesman for the muslim association of canterbury jamal greene welcome to the program clearly such a difficult day could you just share your thoughts with us at this time. difficult in one sense and not difficult in another. the year. we've been asked a whole host of questions around things like muslims don't do memorials and we say

well the understanding that has to be based on the motion we're on the understanding rather that we believe there's a life beyond this so on the level of faith people are able to accept this that those who are killed have gone to a better place on the personal level of course they are all sorts of issues and the we are the public. mocking of this which actually didn't go ahead because of the crowd of our aslan would have done. it would have done a couple of things because the those people in the mosque would have seen the the the support we still saw it because lots of people came along and certainly laid flowers outside are another level it's sort of stirs up again those feelings of loss you and i having this conversation today jamal because it's a year i guess it be fair to say the process of healing the process of moving on but it's not a construct however a diary dates is

a construct healing and moving on can never be a construct you know healing doesn't pick a date on the calendar and say oh by magic we're all better and i guess the outside world has to accept that people do that if they do it which hopefully of course one hopes they do at a different rate in different ways. you've you absolutely got it right you know we're off we have been asked throughout the year it's 3 months on how is the community feeling 6 months on one year on and healing doesn't as you say probably calendar. in a sense and this is where we're looking forward to what we're really longing to do is that yes certainly be marked from the remembrance because forgetfulness is the human condition and you can't allow that at the same time what people many of our community of our straw is really where do we go from here because healing my contention is what happened last year happened in large part because of the other

ring of a community and how a particular individual saw muslims as toxic in some way and the other and i think that was whoever the other is in any community in anywhere as long as other in continues unless that changes then the healing cannot take place clearly tomorrow your totally plugged in and engaged with the mosque community the muslim community the new zealand community one has to use labels which implies separation that's not what i'm doing how do you change that narrative and deal with those massive massive questions now. you're asking to big questions here. we we've got a little thing our way of this in front of you this is sort of part of what we're doing in what we call in the the crush invitation. if you've got any birthday party

out there who's nigerian they'll be familiar with the new year and night and he said stories are not innocent stories can exist to put you in a certain place so people have to tell their own story to speak in their own words and one of the things that we have done is our website one year on dot org to one word one year old daughter or how we put some of the people down in front of the camera and sip it at them speak southern they can speak uninterrupted. because it's only part of doing that that in one sense you can take some control over the narrative. and consistently what people have done and i've invited here your viewers to look at it and see some of the these these what we calling messages from the mosque and i hear people talk very human stories of paying off a complete. confounded by the savagery of hate and that whole question of the journey of hate and the sources of hate. it is

a huge question for all of us i think so that's part of what we do and we introduce this to interfaith communities which that we have had some beautiful messages from the catholics in his in from the buddhists in new zealand but what we're saying and we will what we've done is to pick up for us on 3 teachings of the prophet muhammad peace be with him when he went from mecca to medina and he was asked what do you do and he said you spread peace you feed people and you rebuild kinship tyreese and. then you pray at night when others are not sleeping well if you just take the 1st 3 what we are saying is that there are. simple acts that everyone can do and what we are going through we've had a fair sort of course here in christchurch because the earthquakes of 20102011 the fires and earthquakes up the coast in kolkata and now this have given us a lot to think about in terms of what you try to tap into what is the best in any community that can come out in the worst of times and every community across the

world that has gone through a worst has some physiological vocabulary of experience what they can turn to and how community came together ok that's part of it ok we just scratched the surface such a worthwhile conversations on this anniversary thank you so much for joining us thank you very much. still to come sports news will hear from those fighting for a place at the tokyo olympics but facing a lengthy quarantine when they get home. it is impossible to overstate the mental scarring of the survivors which peter lived in the home until the age of 4 when the nuns sold him all to yvonne and family by that time he'd lost his sister she like nearly 800 others had the name recorded in the death register for the catholic organization put parties in here

there were baptized yet to put them into on conservation grounds savages for become painters think the government is so frightened of the damage to the church that the full excavation would do that it is resisting it's so they're threatening court action i think the only way in which this will be result is through an order of the superior courts of this country i can't see any other way because there is no will there's no wish there is no appetite church and state in this country are still wedded in a poisonous pact. you're are you are.

typing sports news any sport being played at all any place it's limited but yes it's still happening sport is being called off all over the world because of current a virus but it is still going ahead in some places on saturday brazilian football champions from anger played a match in an empty american a stadium which once famously hosts nearly 200000 fans before the game from ingo's players had been tested after the merge the comes vice president contract a coronavirus on a trip to spain well from anger for from a goal down to win the match but the result didn't matter flamengo course coach george chooses to call for games in brazil to stop to combat the pandemic revealed that he'd actually lost a friends to coronavirus back home in portugal. today it was very complicated emotionally i've never played without supporters i hope this was the 1st and the last time it's a distressing thing it's bothering that's the ultimate proof that there's no way of

playing without friends also it affected the team having to be tested for coronavirus worried with what we could have. used. to buy you can put your gaze and i know pretty well what's going on in portugal i lost a friend so this is not a joke i think this tournament needs to stop we should not have the next round of games for the players and not superheroes for mango is a team that is at risk. in turkey football continues but without spectators sees a shot some stadium in istanbul being disinfected ahead of sunday's super league game against the shocked us and there was plenty of disinfecting on show an australian rugby league officials and a 1st round match between melbourne storm and the manly say goals will cain the bulls with bleach every time they went into the crowns for now this year's olympics is still on with turkey 2020 just 131 days away the boxing qualifiers continue european qualifiers open in london on saturday there was an upset spells and former professional delfin delphine soon lost in the early rounds she can still make it

through the wall qualifiers later this year british lightweight caroline dubois won her opening bounce but there's concern amongst the boxes of whether the qualify should be taking place especially those who face being quarantined i saw it there then she would be careful to already real rough on tuesday i thought it would be cancelled but all of a sudden they told us i'm going to fight we can come come home when it's time to come we've got unturned i think. but i take it it's. of obviously a bit ridiculous but we have to take our own response and do something to keep the virus down in the u.k. horseracing is continuing launching as normal lotsof to hundreds of thousands of fans attended last week's children festival. racing's taking its the heat from the government and he's basically saying while they can continue they will continue

hence the reason why we have chosen them last week with over 250000 race goes there was racing yesterday in the u.k. as indeed there is to take but in scotland racing tomorrow we can't say only 500 people will be allowed so they are and i'm sure racing is preparing for the event you have a seat that will have to race behind closed doors midweek meeting say it's subtle and over how soon you probably might not get more than 600 people there so that's not actually going to be a huge significance if these meetings are staged behind closed doors indeed they be doing now the non and france will be doing that they do have extra source of revenue coming in from the petting levy so from that point of view racing should be able to find a way to continue to operate so that people can enjoy it on television and it might be a big shop window for the sport but the the big question mark is

a meeting at the grand national meeting spread over 3 days on in liverpool they'll get 150000 people there and always see there's a wider economic impact from that bucks from a t.v. perspective think it he puja or years around the world indeed in britain $89000000.00 people will watch that race so i'm sure all the racing full authority will try and find a way to states to grab national but clearly there are going to be lots of discussions between now and then and how racing manages going forward and also there is this p.r. aspect to it because if they are seen to be too out of kilter with other sports it might it will reflect potentially badly on the sport. all right that's useful for now more later pizza joe thanks very much snow hill is here with the top stories on the other side of this short break i will see you very soon for the moment.

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