with the eco friendly solutions to combat threats to our planet on which is iraq. this is al jazeera. hello i'm still raman you're watching the al-jazeera news our live from our headquarters here in doha our top stories the death toll from corona virus in spain doubles to 288 as the country goes into lockdown. iran is warning the pandemic could overwhelm its health system reporting almost 14000 in factions. including passengers are forced to wait for hours in several u.s. airports as the trumpet ministration is accused of mishandling a travel ban on new europe and checkpoints and curfews across the philippines

capital restrictions are imposed on nearly 12000000 people. i'm peter simmons says sport around the world continues to be called all for play behind closed doors including this football match brazil's merican our stadium once famous for holding nearly 200000 fans in a world cup final. your company welcome to the news hour the toll from the coronavirus pandemic continues to grow as countries try to stop the spread of the disease the number of people who have died in spain has more than doubled to 288 making it the worst affected european country after italy 46000000 people there are now on lockdown told to remain in their homes except to go to work or to buy food and medicine in the middle east iraq. there's also reported

a jump in deaths bringing the total there to $724.00 there are nearly $14000.00 cases and to iran says its response is being severely hampered by u.s. sanctions in the philippines the capital manila has been sealed off $12000000.00 people though have been told that they can't travel for a month schools are closed and large events are bound and airlines continue to scale back their shuttles american airlines is parked at most of its big jets suspending 75 percent of its international flights until at least ne well mike hanna is standing by in washington d.c. zain is into iran for us but 1st let's go to paul brennan who is in our european news center in london and paul let's just begin with spain another spike in figures there. a little muddied in terms of how those cigars have come to the public forefront. yes a dramatic spike as you say more than doubling the death toll from the corona virus

in spain the spanish health ministry saying 153 new deaths in the past 24 hours but we've spoken by telephone with the spanish health ministry the smalling and what they actually told us was that the smaller a certain proportion of those deaths. that statistics came because the hospitals were haven't been particularly speedy in giving the ministry the latest figures and so it may be that the 153 are not all deaths in the last 24 hours it's just that the statistics have come out in the last 24 hours that said it's still a very big increase on the previous days figures and as you say it puts spain in the position of being the worst apart from italy in europe and the government no doubt will see it as ample justification for the state of emergency in lockdown but they've imposed as i said earlier there's a camera that is above apply or in the center of madrid and on

a spring day like today you'd expect tourists and locals to be milling around and joining the mild temperatures it's almost deserted apart from a police car which is cruising around challenging the handful of people that do pass through as to what they're exactly doing there why are they home so in a the it's having a massive impact and certainly day by day we're hearing more of the european countries certainly those within the e.u. block are closing their borders closing their borders is a statement was which was unthinkable months ago weeks ago and now it's actually happening in reality. indeed and it's happening and perhaps unexpected quarters well reports that are emerging in the last hour are that germany could from tomorrow close its borders with austria its only and with the czech republic as well and switzerland that's kind of the southern edge of the southern perimeter of

germany no mention of what they're going to do with the borders with netherlands luxembourg and denmark by the way it's appears that they're looking at the southern perimeter that said that hasn't come officially from the german government that's reports in dispute and built by contrast though look at cyprus which in the last hour and a half the president has come out and said basically anybody going to cyprus will need a medical certificate saying that they're clear of coronavirus and even if they do have a certificate if they arrive they're going to be put in for 14 days into a government administered quarantine center. the different countries across europe are ripping up the schengen freedom of movement principle and for reasons of national security the saying and. invoking states of emergency are brought bringing up the drawbridge and effectively trying to seal themselves off from the outside world believing rightly or wrongly that that is the best way of trying to limit the spread of the coronavirus of course here in the british capital

and sunday gives the opportunity to politicians both on a range of local television programs and in the media itself the newspapers to explain their position it's been a very confused position from the british government and the clear on sunday. yes our health secretary matt hancock has been doing the rounds of the morning television political shows and he is talking about a bill which will put it in front of the u.k. parliament on thursday he says which among the items enclosed in that bill could be a request. force forcing of anybody over 70 to actually self isolate in their home for up to 4 months plus powers he suggests that the police could be given in order to arrest and forcibly quarantine anybody found to be out and about while suffering from symptoms no quite clear how that would actually be applied in practice but

that's one of the proposals that the health secretary is putting out and as you say there is some well of disagreement and certainly debate as to the differences between the british approach to this coronavirus crisis and the european countries britain choosing not to immediately close schools shut down universities close shop for example prefer instead to try to reduce the spike but allow people essentially to become infected in the hope that there might be some kind of herd immunity built up so that a longer term strategic outlook is being applied here that said they are coming under intense pressure politically because of that stance and there are no rights and wrongs in this different advisors different medics different experts will advise different strategies for the moon paul of course will continue to monitor what goes on in europe and there in our london news center let's cross over to the middle east now where we get her round the worst affected country in the middle

east is our correspondent in tehran and zain another spike in figures from iran and a real concern that the authorities there really haven't got a handle on the situation and how grave it is becoming. yes that's exactly right it's tragically been another record setting day to run for not just the death toll but also we're seeing a rise in the overall number of cases and the government to struggle to strike a balance between trying to maintain the health of the economy and do the needful to maintain closure of cities a shutdown of the movement of the population to be able to get a grip on the spread of the coronavirus in iran now what we know is that from the numbers that have come out today to one province the capital city to her on continue to be the epicenter of the virus it started in a home but now to her own is the most heavily affected city in terms of corona virus infections and what we're hearing from the government is that despite the fact that the military was said to be headed out into the streets to try to control

nascar going to try to control the flow of people in and around cities in and around the country but the government says that iran the epicenter will not be quarantined and the efforts most efforts will be made to maintain as much of a normal condition in the capital as possible now the one of the spokesman of the members of the coronavirus task force set up by present house and rouhani said today that they are moving forward with some new measures there is a next phase to how they're going to handle trying to control the spread in the capital and he said there will be checkpoints set up at city limits to monitor the traffic in and out of the city and what will be happening now is temperature screenings and a large scale of all of the car passengers that are coming in and out of the capital but again despite the fact that he said the advice from the government is to stay at home he also made the point that closing offices and closing down streets that's not going to happen in the capital and of course the demographics seem to show

a very different trend in iran compared to the rest of the world where we're being told that the virus affects the elderly the infirm the ill something was taken out of today's press conference which is a bit of a concern. that's true that has to be said we haven't seen the sort of medical research or the evidence or the verifications of this but what we're hearing from today's briefing. health officials that's a part of the task force to come back earlier this year in iran said that the virus in iran is quote deadlier and wilder than other other instances of the virus that have been seen around the globe he's not the 1st official to suggest that what's happening in iran is more very real and is more dangerous and what we're seeing is that among the dead 15 percent of those that have contract at the buyers and sadly died from it are around the age of 40 now what were their health conditions like the official said that they didn't have any pretty exhausting respiratory conditions no other illnesses and that really is the worrying thing when this

outbreak happened it was already a major concern for the aging population of this country but it's a country where the youth population makes up the bulk of the 81000000 people who live here the median age here is 31 so certainly if this development gathers any steam with this isn't an anomaly it's going to be something that's going to be a greater concern for a greater number of people here in iran. ron thanks very much now the largest u.s. airline american is to slash 75 percent of its international flights until may now the cuts were announced hours after the white house was strict to travel from more countries including the u.k. an island. across the u.s. were already in chaos with incoming travelers full sway housefull medical screening before passing customs mike hanna who's following events for us from washington d.c. and joins me now i mean mike line slashing routes and costs democratic primaries being perspire and on a medical professional industry very concerned about sort of government clarity on

how to actually deal with the pandemic where do we start. well indeed yes it is a long process remembering back on january the 22nd president trump insisted there is no crisis is only one case that managed to get in from china and it's all going to go away as soon well on friday he finally declared that state of emergency in imposing various restrictions releasing a number of funds but also earlier he just announced that travel ban on 26 countries from europe that has been extended as you mentioned to the united kingdom and ireland from monday night however the effect of that ban has already shown a massive results at u.s. airports there are 13 assigned airports to deal with travelers coming in from europe and these airports are absolutely throbbed from being with people people reporting waits of up to 10 hours to clear customs but more importantly is

that large numbers of people being kept in tight circumstances together the whole idea of social distance surely completely not being imposed now the governor of illinois which is one of the most hard hit airports at o'hare he tweeted out last night it's time for the government to get its act together though he didn't use the word act used as slightly stronger word the response he says was a furious call from the white house official who shouted at him for having tweeted this out so certainly there is a feeling once again that the trumpet ministrations measures have been carried out without sufficient planning to impose his travel ban and this a had 3 days to prepare for it to impose it without getting extra screening without getting extra star thing has led to immense chaos and also created a number of picture a dishes for further dissemination of the virus so certainly there is an awareness of the fact that once again you've got an administration travel measure being

implemented without sufficient planning without sufficient forethought. so there is this element going on and obviously great concern the issue of primaries as you say well primaries are going to go ahead in 4 states this week but the 2 at the states where the primaries were due to take place in april they've been for sperm for 2 months so certainly this is now beginning to have an impact on this election year the 4 states that will be voting in primaries this coming week saying extra precautions are being taken trying to get a greater degree of people sending in mailing in votes trying to cut the number of people at polling stations trying to move the polling stations some of which were at nursing homes obviously that increases the risk so there is going to be a massive impact on this election year and americans coming to terms with the fact that once again we are seeing absolute chaos resulting from what many contend is an

ill conceived and ill executed travel ban like hannah in washington d.c. thanks for the update now other countries have been implementing tough measures to stop the virus from spreading malaysia's prime minister will have a special meeting on monday to discuss what needs to be done after $190.00 new infections were reported it has more on how asia is responding. the philippine capital manila has begun a month lockdown thousands of police sealing off the city by blocking major roads the quarantine means domestic travel in and out of manila this is suspended with a few exceptions one might do but i mean 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 $12000000.00 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

in. the philippines has taken some of the toughest measures yet in the region there's also been a jump in the number of coronavirus cases in malaysia most of them a link to a 4 day event that was held in february at a mosque near kuala lumpur among the 16000 attendees there were nearly 1500 foreigners who went back to their countries majority of cases found in neighboring brunei and now linked to that gathering in australia has strict travel measures are being implemented anyone arriving from abroad must self quarantine for 2 weeks cruise ships entering australian waters will soon be banned from docking 30 days prime minister scott morrison says the restrictions are necessary and is called for an urgent meeting of the g 20. promised to my views kerry to organize i link up between all the g 20 leaders i think that's i think that's a commendable initiative the struggle obviously supports that and even more urgent maybe that would be needed would be

a further meeting of the g 20 finance ministers and central bank governors this is a whole crisis but it has very serious economic impact. 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 in force and things like spot checks to ensure people are self isolating and if you don't stand for isolate there are quarantine powers to us and on new zealand's east coast passengers on a cruise ship docked in akaroa town are not allowed to disembark 3 people on board are quarantined with one showing symptoms while people's movement is being restricted if yours was hope it will prevent a bigger spread of the virus. but the leaders of countries are hold

a video conference to discuss the region's response to coronavirus india pakistan bangladesh are amongst the group of nations trying to work out how to beat covert 19 there are at least 109 confirmed coronavirus cases in india followed by 53 in barca star and 16 in afghanistan. well as the infection is around the world the downward trend continues in china where the communist party is hailing its efforts as a major victory beijing conceal the initial outbreak and is now trying to promote its latest success through propaganda at home and abroad but the blanket lockdown and heavy quarantine restrictions came at a cost for tens of millions of people as sarah clarke explains. 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 with stepping away so ever and it was on message so that are also the signaling in the newspapers t.v. . media is partly winning the battle but partly it's also signaling to people. who were winning 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 worked but some say that success could also come at a cost i didn't like i was like oh. so

i just sent safe place. because nobody. when you. look is being separated from her father since january. he's in the city woo han for work she's chosen to hide her identity in fear of a safety being associated with a resident at the center of the upright i just can't help feeling feeling worried for his health and because we don't know anything about. what's happening how people's life are going and. the government in 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 well in europe the french president has defended his decision to hold local elections despite the coronavirus pandemic the government has issued guidelines to polling stations and asking people to stand at least a metre apart from each other partial lockdown is in place and friends which has at least 4 and a half hours and cases with. powers. well here at this paris polling station as in polling stations across the country people coming to photo have been told by the french government to take very particular precautions they have to stand a metre apart they have to use hand sanitizer when they go in and out to clean their hands where mosque where possible bring their own pen to sign the register and there of course the french government has put these regulations in place because all of the coronavirus epidemic in the country but really this policy is

taking place an extraordinary context you have a country in virtual lockdown with nearly everything shut except for essential services but the french government has insisted that these elections must go ahead now what french people are voting for about half a 1000000 local councils those local councils will then elect there may as well for the people who did choose to come to vote they say that they felt that the risks were minimal largess of initial count i wasn't worried about coming here because we have to keep our distances we have to take precautions. it was normal to do it and i think if we take precautions it's not a problem well a number of french political leaders and health experts had called over the past few days on the government to perspire in these elections saying it wasn't necessary at this particular time and to really put so many people would risk in the midst of a health crisis the french government though says that the risks of been minimized

the care is being taken and they also say that it is important to continue with the democratic process while there is supposed to be a 2nd round in these municipal elections in one week's time we'll have to wait and see if that goes ahead. the vatican's council public easter celebrations because of the outbreak worshippers will be able to follow prayers with pope francis online or on t.v. the leader of the roman catholic church has already canceled some public audiences after catching a cold now there will be a full shutdown until easter sunday on april the 12th one of the most important days in the christian calendar. and lebanon's president has announced that he is to clone a state of emergency over coronavirus concerns and michelle is urging people to stay at home the cabinet is now holding an emergency meeting to discuss new restrictions to stop the spread of the virus so far the country has $99.00 confirmed cases including 3 deaths. the coronavirus pandemic has led

to school closures in many countries unesco the un educational conversation estimates more than 421000000 children in around 60 countries are affected many teachers are using virtual learning to ensure children don't miss their lessons but there are still several changes or challenges pardon me as priyanka gupta reports. at a time when the elderly seem to be most at risk of the coronavirus pandemic. the young are being told to stay at home to stop the infection from spreading but. we're worried about this chronic virus but we're also a bit relieved because there's not much chance of a diaper or more scared of transmitting it will feel. and we're more scared for the elderly grandma and grandpa many. dozens of countries around the world have ordered schools to shut down its impact being felt on the daily lives of more than

400000000 children once they know they are. in a matter of days educators and institutions are being forced to adapt at innovate on a scale never seen before draw a shoe that looks the way you teachers and students are trying to use online learning tools are surely new era of digital learning this coronavirus situation gives us a great object to us americans say well how are we going to design for survival under these pretty new circumstances and online teaching is an exact. response to. the problem and we get to innovate with our teaching how to respond to a crisis but in a world where nearly 40 percent of the population don't have access to internet the new coronavirus has also exposed the deep digital divide that exists between countries. and communities where no income families dependents schools to provide

the children with safety added titian closure of schools mean inciting and hunger for some in many countries including the united states schools play a vital function in providing or who were children we have over 50 percent of the children public school united states qualified to receive free lunch and prerequisite school every day and if they're not in school it means some of them will not get it there are many parts of the world including united states where people do not have access to the internet and so to rely on virtual learning remote learning during this period is going to exacerbate those inequities as most cities and towns go under lockdown and government leaders scramble for response it seems like it's taken a pandemic to view the existing inequality made much worse priyanka gupta is here.

well david alexander is a professor of risk and disaster reduction at university college in london joins me now from the british capital via skype good talking with us on the program so we've sort of looked at the way the world has unfolded on sunday to see where the current virus is and how it's actually impacted on various societies and cultures is it fair to say that for example in the e.u. for example the member states that are just looking out for themselves at the moment it's a situation so unique to each country that they're acting and reacting to a situation as it develops within their own borders without thought of the neighbors. well this is a medical problem but it's also a civil protection problem and what that means is that you have to look after people's basic needs and by and large e.u. countries european countries do that in different ways partly because they have different administrative systems and partly because they have different histories of developing this field. it is however rather sad that there isn't more direct

leadership and guidance and more exchanges that are shutting the porters at least for civil protection really to be considering what can we do to help each other in this matter indeed i mean it does need a continent wide coordination and guidance as you mentioned the problem is the mainland europe some countries are part of the e.u. some other not and therefore it's all about communication as well is it not to try and get everybody on the same page. it is it a there is a great need to share information expect tazer also to across today international movements richest still going to have to take place despite the fact that there are shutdowns of lines and transportation airports and so on and social there will still need to be it to national exchange or so in order to get this under control and in order to share the vital information we need you know to know how of the

matter is going out and how it's proceeding i mean it's only seems to be sort of taking the most drastic measures as we've seen in the past sort of 7 days and the united kingdom taking a sort of a wait and see approach despite the criticism it's received home can any one nation afford to sort of wait and see i mean where is dare i say it the happy medium. well my opinion nation kind of photo right at this time we really do have to cross the nettle and take the measures whether or not we have a high or a low death toll present it simply is not adequate and not sufficient to do nothing or to do little i'm afraid that the time has come by really to use social distancing to close friend use to reduce the number of meetings and to ensure that mass counterfeiting simply don't take place because social distancing is effective as a means of getting this under control it may not stop the spread of the virus but

it certainly can help to limit it now that's to reduce the odds for root race but it so terry gross said it to consider what the needs of people who do have special beats are or who are or who are particularly vulnerable at each country to society or not to look to that and hopeful so that there will be share your reverberations between countries don't want to tear down the progress. is measured said the most successful they valleys and it's good to have your insight thank you very much for joining us from london thank you thank you pleasure still ahead here on the al-jazeera news our well it's hold we look at what to expect from turkey and russia as a ceasefire in syria is it live providence. and the lengths some sports are going to as they try to play all through coronavirus those stories after the break.

welcome back let's start by looking at weather conditions across the levant and middle east here in the arabian peninsula weather conditions are looking great 29 the high for doha on monday higher than in just 28 degrees but we are going to see an area of low pressure developing significantly over the following 24 hours this area of rain and snow over turkey is going to develop into a system across the mediterranean so we will see very strong winds developing along the coast lebanon beirut 17 parts of syria seen some wet weather developing during the course of the day likewise for israel so to move across into northern and central parts of africa much as you'd expect here if cool weather in recent days become a bit warmer for a trip through towards chinnis a few showers across ethiopia now beginning to develop a scattering of showers expected across the gulf of guinea regions through into west africa but generally few and far between is not looking too bad the main

feature across southern portions of africa remains our tropical cyclone herold which continues to move away towards the southeast and looks as though it should move towards the northeast. so immerses will miss the worst effects of this system which is giving a huge amount of rain across parts of south africa is looking fairly wet well you see some rain developing in johannesburg but cape town is expected to stay dry. with a plummeting bath rate and families moving to the cities south korea's rule schools are shutting down one on one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools finally getting an education on al-jazeera. of struggles. with not only the army. from one to the bottom of the fall of pleasure.

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stories spain has reported an additional 2000 cases of coronavirus and more than a 100 deaths there's a nationwide lockdown in place with residents told to stay at home and coronavirus cases have risen in iran with more than 14000 infections it's one of the hardest hit countries with more than 720 deaths and long queues are being reported at airports in the u.s. as travelers wait up to 4 hours for medical screenings the airlines are scaling back their share jewels after the u.s. extended a european travel ban to include the united kingdom and the republic of ireland. the alex a mosque the 3rd holiest site in islam has also been closed interim measure aimed at stemming the spread of coronavirus religious authorities say the gates to the compound will remain open but the mosque and the dome of the rock will remain closed muslims recognize the site as where the prophet mohammed ascended to heaven . israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu corruption trial has also been proposed

for at least 2 months due to concerns about the virus meanwhile efforts to form a new coalition government in israel have resumed but the discussions are expected to last only a day because of the virus outbreak harry forsett has the latest from west jerusalem. what could happen by the end of the day is that the president ruben rivlin having judged how many recommendations he gets from the news that the newly elected members of the israeli parliament the knesset for each of the rival candidates for prime minister he could decide which of those 2 men either benjamin netanyahu or benny gantz to give thirst dibbs to try to form a coalition government now benny gantz has been awarded one bonus today in the form of the mainly palestinian israeli joint list of policies all 15 of them all 15 of the members have recommended benny gantz the prime minister that didn't happen

after the 2nd election last time around in september the belhaj party the constituent part of that alliance declined to recommend him so should he get them and all of the other potential people who might recommend him then he might have the edge over benjamin netanyahu despite the fact that benjamin netanyahu has the could. score more victories more scored more seats in the election than dances blue and white the key player in this really will be avigdor lieberman benjamin netanyahu as former defense minister former chief of staff former political aide now bitter rival he has said initially before the coronavirus really took off here he had said that he would support a minority government supported from the outside by the joint nest with benny gantz as prime minister since then has been calling for an emergency national unity government one that is required for at least 6 months with him in charge to tackle

the virus lieberman had initially at least supported that idea but now today he's saying that he sees that as something of a political tactic by netanyahu just to try to engineer fresh elections again in a few months time. says its profits dropped by almost 23000000000 dollars last year that's a 21 percent fall from 2018 because announcement did not mention the saudi government's new plan to increase output to maintain its market presence or prices have plummeted because of the global pandemic and disagreements amongst the major oil producing countries in recent talks russia refused to cut production russia and turkey are holding joint military patrols in syria to monitor a cease fire and it led province the latest plan to try and end violence in the last rebel held area was finalized on friday have to 4 days of talks in ankara now they're patrolling the strategic m. 4 highway linking syria's east and west the 2 countries back opposing sides in syria's war which started in 2011 cynicus sulu is in istanbul and says the patrol

was opposed by people on the ground. today it was for a child because of this blockade on the highway by the civilians the route was cut short are brought the because they didn't want to come face to face with the civilians that's why a much longer route was completed about in 3 kilometers turkish defense ministry earlier delivered a statement saying that the 1st joint battle has been handled by the russians with the participation of the land and air forces but the russian defense ministry has a statement saying that they are expecting the turks to eliminate their what they call radical elements inside at them so this is again a very fragile process both for turkey and russia because the civilian seem to be not happy about the cease fire deal that was signed but of course when it comes to the syrian opposition groups inside the it turkey has

a critical position because it has observation posts inside of the both down below the m 4 highway and a border war highway this is going to be a tough process for to keep and so to wants to keep its ministry presence but if the syrian opposition groups in mainly in the group called. it continues to be against this cease fire signed between turkey and russia turkey might need to be. might need to make a choice between the opposition group and the russian side to african our explosion near an oil pipeline in nigeria has killed at least 16 people and destroyed dozens of buildings emergency workers say it happened after a truck caught fire in their pipeline in lagos but had previously been vandalized by thieves have addressed joins me now from the capital a bureau horrible incident but what more do we know about this. well basically the explosion like you said happened after a fire on

a truck close to the all in pipeline that has been vandalized before features of confirmed that and then the explosion that followed destroyed more than 50 buildings including a school where students were actually taking lessons then the students most of them have been evacuated taken to hospitals already you might guess the workers are sifting through the debris trying to save those who they can and i spoke to an emergency official on the scene who said to me just some 45 minutes ago that they expect to put out the fire in the next 10 or so minutes it's a big explosion or destroyed a lot of homes because another. property is in that location well like you said this is not the 1st time that area has witnessed pipeline explosions were recorded several before and even this year in generally general 1000 an explosion in the

same area killed at least 5 people an operation launched by security forces an idea to include the military way back in 2017 has so far failed to end a pipeline vandalism where people were thieves break into pipelines teel either crude oil or refined petroleum products that have been transported to lagos and other parts of nigeria from the oil producing region of niger delta sale or the pictures that quite all full of course will monitor that through the day to the moment have a thank you. now iraq is experiencing its worst political crisis since the death of president saddam hussein the country hasn't had a leader of mass protests for the. mandy from office the president as you just liked a new candidate on choose day but the anti government movement says demands a radical change appears to be losing momentum simona 14 reports of backed out. gone are the dense crowds from the early days of what few here still dare to call

a revolution for 5 months protesters have demanded jobs and to corruption and sweeping political reform but the government has offered few concessions instead responding with what the u.n. has called excessive force those who remain in the protest squares are young men from baghdad's poorest neighborhoods with nothing to lose if you go i. have someone came to us and said you young why don't you work where the jobs are they waiting for us there are no jobs unless it's humiliating work many of those who remain feel like they have reached a point of no return they can't abandon the cause even if only out of fear for their own safety. good night my house is in the neighborhood the moment i leave here to go home they'll kidnap me they followed me more than once and i hardly got away. the size of the protests is reduced but not the attacks against them

anti-riot police have recently begun to use hunting rifles to fire at protesters and medics this is what they are using at the moment the ammunition they used before was smaller when this is fired it explodes into shrapnel that hits your entire body we have a lot of medics who got injured even people from the red crescent. to the injured are rushed to nearby medical tents where volunteers provide 1st aid before serious cases are taken to nearby hospitals in the our al jazeera was here we saw half a dozen gunshot injuries. in just this one tent one person had shrapnel in his chest another in his eye. those who recover vowed to keep going until the end whatever that may be iraq's protest movement appears to be struggling to stay alive and with the world's attention elsewhere the radical changes protesters want seem increasingly distant iraq's president is due to nominate a new prime minister on march the 17th but some analysts say that there is less

pressure than ever on the political establishment to meet the demands of demonstrators seem wonderful to al-jazeera but that. to europe now with thousands of protesters in ukraine have gathered outside presence alinsky is office urging him not to give in to separatists to mountains protesters shouted no surrender to zelinsky agreed to begin talks with representatives from rebel held eastern ukraine last week ukraine has refused direct dialogue with the breakaway regions for the past 6 years. the 1st man ever convicted by the international criminal court has been freed from prison in can shasta supporters gathered outside prison to welcome thomas lubanga a banker was found guilty of 2012 of recruiting child soldiers to fight in the democratic republic of congo war crimes relate to a period from 2002 and 3. and italian man and a canadian woman who were kidnapped and bikini fassero in 2018 have managed to

escape their captors and are now on their way home but to emerge safe in mali on friday it isn't yet clear how they escaped but molly's foreign minister says no ransom was paid both were planning to work on a humanitarian project in tokyo when they were abducted several foreigners have been kidnapped in the kenya faster by of group since 2050. sunday box a year since $51.00 worshippers were killed at 2 mosques in new zealand special prayers were held on friday but the coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of the main memorial services that were planned victoria gating the reports. students in christ church were united in spirit and poised in the the hour together they came to the al no mosque where the 1st attack happened to remember the victims it's more important to come shows more respect to our brothers and sisters on the last day than being scared of whatever the al know

and linwood mosques were targeted by a white extremist gunman one year ago 51 people were killed for those who survived this is a difficult day i can't explain what i feel this morning as. i was 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 9 bullets this wasn't a new zealanders wanted to remember the victims but the corona virus outbreak forced the cancellation of the main memorial services for you. know you since the attack the government has tightened its gun laws parliament quickly voted to ban military style semiautomatic weapons her but muslim leaders say much more work needs to be done to tackle prejudice what happened last year happened in large part because of the other ring of a community and how

a particular individual saw muslims us talk sic in the subway and the author and i think that we're whoever the author is in any community in any way as long as authoring continues unless that changes then the healing called take place and australia man is charged with terrorism murder and attempted murder is gee to stand trial in g. victoria gate and be al-jazeera. now the credit arms pandemic has forced the presidential primary in the u.s. state of georgia to be postponed until may there are also big changes in how to come to that succumb painting reports from los angeles. unified. 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 the joy that. they feed off of them traditional campaign

behavior could speed the spread of the disease 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 coded 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 mel functioning robot or it was just a sort of. the tech. nicol 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. well still ahead all the news we'll hear from those fighting for a place at the tokyo olympics but facing a lengthy quarantine think of home. all new counting the cost we go behind russia and saudi arabia's oil prices bust up and find out how low the oil prices will go. default on its debt for the 1st time when it's taken on the bailout china's grip on ai facial recognition surveillance counting the cost on al-jazeera. certainly al-jazeera london broadcast center to special guests in conversation people think that racism is having personal vitriol

towards black people and there's no understanding of what systemic racism is unprompted uninterrupted success comes with opposition if you're not upsetting people you're not saying anything. there is not a family in britain i believe that has not been touched by empire studio be unscripted on al-jazeera. revealing ecofriendly solutions to come back threats to our planet on al-jazeera. but it's time for sports history to thank you sir with spain's league on lockdown

for 2 weeks valencia have announced 5 positive tests of coronavirus among 1st team players and staff the 1st to be announced was argentine defender kill he and the other 4 individuals are at home in good health and self isolated well into travel to milan last month for a champions league match at a full capacity san siro stadium. over in rio brazilian champions flamingo played a match in an empty american our stadium which once famously hosted nearly 200000 fans of the 1950 world cup final before the game flamingos players had been tested after it emerged the club's vice president contracted coronavirus on a trip to spain. 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. come portuguese 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 the players are not superheroes for mango is a team that is at risk. in turkey football continues but without spectators these are shots of gala tacet eyes stadium in istanbul being disinfected ahead of sunday's super league game against. sport events in turkey will continue behind closed doors until it least the end of april and there was plenty of disinfectant on show an australian rugby league of the melbourne storm took on the manly sea eagles bulls were cleaned with bleach every time they went into the crowd afterwards melbourne's captain cameron smith called on the n.r.l. to be suspended the u.k.

has shut down most of its top sports but horseracing is an exception that after hundreds of thousands of fans attended last week's cheltenham festival we spoke to racing journalist bell. racing's taken 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 because 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 say they are and i'm sure racing is preparing for the event you have a seat that all have to race behind closed doors and midweek meeting say it's subtle and wolverhampton you probably might not get more than 600 people there so there's not actually going to be a huge significance if these meetings are stage behind closed doors indeed they be doing that a non and france will be doing that they do have extra source is of revenue coming

in from the pitching 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 pick shop window for the sport but the the pick question mark is a meeting i think grand national meeting spread over 3 days 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 o.d.s. around the world indeed in britain 89000000 people will watch that race so i'm sure all the racing full authority will try and find a way to stage the grand 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 all seem to be too out of kilter without the sports it might it will reflect potentially badly on the sport. 130 days to go on the tokyo

2020 olympics is still on the stage the european and the big boxing qualifiers open in london on saturday belgian a former professional delphine thought so and last in the early rounds she can still make it through the bull qualifiers later this year though british lightweight caroline the bar won her opening bout but there's concern among other boxes of the whether the qualifiers should be taking place especially those who face being quarantined when they return home i saw the event would be cancelled or already a real rough day on tuesday and i thought it would be cancelled but all of a sudden they told us we are going to fight we can come come home when it's time to come home we've got unturned i think. but i'll take it it's out of obviously a bit ridiculous but we have to take our own response and do something to

keep the virus down. and it was just a few weeks ago that regular top tier cricket matches returns of pakistan with a t 20 super league but while the games continue to be played fans have been shut out by coronavirus measures karachi's national stadium was empty as the kings qualified for the semifinals and eliminated 2 time champions united some about were playing without their full overseas stars who have left the country and they were restricted 215626 karate reach that's always winning by 4 wickets. well even if not most sports news coming up again later so thanks very much peter 3 navigator my colleague at our london he sent a lot of not a full half hour of global news round up until and from a piece of the news thanks very much for your time and your company to stay with us .

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home from refugee camps. and killed during a. 1017. right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the mining companies and government. displacement between the communities the mining companies and the government has now escalated to west africa's regional. community. because they say the people are using the justice system. for a full minute of practice. to achieve their dream of becoming afghanistan's 1st ever when. they will have to overcome.

hope and inspiration. an algae. empty pauses and silent highways spanish citizens stay home as authorities confirm 2000 new cases of the coronavirus. washing out is there a live from london i'm also ahead a major jump in infections in iran a concern is growing that international sanctions are compromising the country's ability to fight the virus chaos at some u.s. airports as additional virus screening measures are boosted and passengers from europe try to beat the travel ban and the french president defends his decision to go ahead with local.