the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from had an hour just 0. this is al-jazeera. over there on the cloud this is a new life and coming up in the next 60 minutes it's early reports 368 deaths in 24 hours the highest number of coronavirus fatalities in a single day so far. the u.s. federal reserve drastically cuts interest rates to near 0 as the president makes a plea about and it by. the by more than the by christmas relax by doing great but all will pass. their own blames u.s. sanctions for impeding the fight against the coronavirus is the number of

infections that nears 14 found. and israel's president to ask the opposition leader betty guns to form the next government to end a year of political style. so then it's italy has recorded the 25 percent increase in coronavirus deaths its largest single day uptick 368 people died on sunday putting the total past 1800 that's nearly a week after a nationwide lockdown was declared on 16000000 people restricting travel and banning public gatherings italy is the worst affected country outside china journalist julie unlikeness explains the strain on the health system in northern italy. biggest emergency is still quite contained to the north of italy the region lombardy especially. and it's slowly spreading south thanks to the

emergency measures that the government has put forth but lamberti is there for me every day ask for help because their hospitals are overcrowded they have been moving some of their patients to sow than hospitals because they do not have any more beds for people with coronavirus conditions especially respect to a conditions so definitely the northern health system is taking a toll in the south is trying to prepare their best and in the general sense is that this is what we're supposed to do and there will be consequences the economy many people have to stay at home from work and cannot work all the obviously annoyed travel. the service sector of italy tourists it's all shut down but i think you time population understands that this is very important to follow we've

seen in less than a month an incredible outbreak so people actually agree with what the government has put forth as measures and actually think that should be enforced even a little more that's why in the last couple of days mayors have also closed down the parks asking people to stay in the house as much as possible with the other was affected countries that spain and france have recorded their highest death tolls in a single day as well countries across europe looking down to try and stop the spread of infection businesses are being closed and borders such as people to stay at home not involve a has this report not. the latest tool in the fight against coronavirus police drones in madrid flying over public spaces urging people to stay home whenever possible. the country's now under a 2 week state of emergency and as the death toll more than doubled even people out exercising were ordered. in france schools bars and restaurants are closed

gatherings of more than 100 people are banned and people are being urged to work from home public transport is still running but more measures are on their way as of them at this stage in urban areas we will maintain public transport to allow french people to commute for strictly necessary purposes and regarding long distance travel by train between major cities by bus or by plane this will be gradually reduced. in the u.k. the government's been accused of not acting quickly enough to contain the spread as people stocked up over the weekend almost emptying supermarkets in some areas hundreds of scientists queried the government's strategy the health minister now says water time style measures are coming he's asking british manufacturers to make more ventilators soon everyone over the age of 70 will be asked to self isolate for up to 4 months and this week should see new measures including a ban on large gatherings we will change the law so that we take the power to be able to close math at mass gatherings if we need to and and take other

action that you just normally wouldn't but we might have to in order to have a response to this to this virus italy's record is another dramatic rise in the death toll there have been more than $20000.00 coronavirus cases there in the vatican with some peter's square empty pope francis delivered his weekly sunday prayers a fire live stream you know what i mean that you know i want to renew my proximity to all the 2nd those who are nursing them and for the many volunteers helping people unable to leave their homes but everyone meeting the needs of the poorest and the homeless as of sunday night the czech republic's borders with poland closed a move designed to slow the spread of the virus and in poland they've shut the border with germany temporarily. this is a historic moment we have just restored an internal european union border between poland and germany for the coming 10 days germany has confirmed its borders with austria switzerland and france will be closed from monday although commuters and

goods vehicles are to be allowed through another sign of how europe's turning inwards as the number of corona virus infections continues to grow the dean barber al jazeera. well the u.s. federal reserve has announced emergency measures aimed at containing the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic it's cutting the benchmark interest rate to near 0 the same rate. place during the 2008 financial crisis meanwhile travel restrictions of course kelso the airports across america with those arriving forced to wait hours for medical screening elevation has more now from washington. from the president of the united states was aimed at comforting americans relax they're doing great it all will pass moments later from the man heading the drive against the virus a starkly different message the worst is yet to head for us it is how we respond to that challenge the number of confirmed cases in the u.s.

is no more than 3000 states are shutting down bars and restaurants curfews are starting to be introduced the face of america is changing at airports chaos as the extended european travel ban kicks in here that. staff carrying out health screenings have been overwhelmed the governor of illinois blamed the trump administration for a lack of planning and poor sight he didn't get the response he wanted well here's what i got i got a call at about 11 o'clock last night after that tweet from a white house staffer who yelled at me about the tweet the administration at its no daily briefing admitted mistakes were made the lines again that we saw overnight at a limited number of airports including chicago are unexceptable we've adjusted our processes we continue to surge personnel at the same briefing when asked how many ventilators the u.s. had to help patients with breathing difficulties and about the government secretary in charge said this we don't disclose concrete numbers on particular items for

national security purposes but we have many ventilators thousands and thousands of ventilators and a quick internet search reveals one study says the number is their own 160000 america's central bank has also cut interest rates to almost 0 to try and protect the economy the most dramatic intervention since the global financial crisis in 2008 there's a clear warning that even when the medical recovery begins the financial shock will be felt for a very long time. let's bring in alan fisher who is in washington d.c. this week live right now so allan as you say there the economic impact is going to be extraordinary but now the fed has acted to cushion the blow and donald trump very pleased about that in fact that's what he opened his appearance at the briefing with not the fact that was a national day of prayer for victims and those who are attending to them but the fact that the fed cut interest rates to almost close to 0 and the impact will be

that it will make money cheaper and therefore companies that are struggling over this period will be able to peel less or may be able to refinance their debts we all know that in business one of the watch things you can have is uncertainty and certainly there's a great deal of uncertainty about how long this crisis will last however if this was aimed at trying to generate some sort of consumer confidence that might be more difficult the reality is that people aren't going to buy houses at this point they're not going to look to take loans from the bank simply because consumer confidence has created and many people are spending their time at home rather than going out and spending any money. in the conference held by presidents and vice president we had initially donald trump himself being bullish and then my pence came on to talk about us prepared us well there's been a problem with the number of testing kits that the united states has had people have said it should have been a lot more

a lot quicker in fact at the end of last week the c.d.c. the center for disease control was carrying out less than a dozen tests a day what they're saying no is that there will be somewhere in the region of $1900000.00 tests these will pop up at various locations around the country the vice president mike pence thinks this is a significant step forward. we will now have access in the days ahead to more than 2000 labs across the country that have the equipment today to process coronavirus this much more rapidly in a much higher volume for the american people in terms of delivering those services more than 10 states in addition to c.d.c. labs public health labs and labs that states can now authorize in their states more than 10 states of implementing their own drive through testing sites so in the coming days we should see more of those drive through testing sites popping up all

over the united states now here in washington just in the last hour or so the 2 candidates who would like to win the democratic nomination for president have been debating if there was no studio audience both men joe biden and bernie sanders were kept 6 feet apart because that is the medical requirement at the moment both of those men were highly critical of the way that the trumpet ministration has handled this that was a recurring theme one other piece of news coming out of that joe biden has said that if he wins the nomination he will definitely appoint a woman as his vice presidential running mate when asked the same question bernie sanders said that is the way that he was leaning to. or i don't thanks very much indeed alan fischer there washington d c let's take all of this song we can speak not of peter matthews is a professor of political science at cypress college and author of dollar democracy with liberty and justice for some he joins us on skype from los angeles peter

matthews welcome to the program we're going to talk about actually things as i say bill is talk about 1st of all the impact of this crisis on donald trump himself and perhaps is a reelect ability or otherwise because looking in from afar you see these kind of daily contradictions between what the president says and and what the his deputies say. as we saw just now a confident bullish the other is more realistic and you would think that that would damage his reelection chances but these are strange times it really will hurt him because of credibility and when his own experts are saying something different on the same day the same time he says quite opposite that's a credibility issue a matter of fact right now is that he was at 45 percent approval rating just a week ago before the crisis became a big news now it's become big news and the numbers to be going down below 45 percent and most presidents at 45 percent this time at a reading do not win reelection just quite a warning for the president right now for the president you say in a credibility issue but really

a credibility issue amongst his base 2nd place is it really a credibility issue amongst his base that people who didn't vote for him whatever happens. well there is a solid base that he has about maybe 35 or 36 percent but other than that the other people are swing voters who have come to his side for different reasons in this last election and the electoral college put him over the top but that's really crucial because in those 3 states where you won the electoral college votes you only won by less than one percent of the vote and if even one percent switches over and says sir presidents didn't react properly to this crisis that could hurt him actually has not been top of this right now and i'm not sure things are taking up like this should the other trying i mean it's getting better but look at what south korea did immediately in the excess of 300000 people were driving through test sites in the u.s. refused under president trump refused testing kits for that were double double nature which are protesting its early on and said look at our own testing it's well taken a long time right and then the fact that he disband adulterant disbanded the white

house office focusing on pandemic preparedness then cut funding to the c.d.c. again. we're going to create problems there that was unconscionable that when president obama had that in place from the obama about crisis and further on it was all the way through to the 1st 2 years of president trumpet that pandemic you know committee was there and that was disbanded by president trump's administration the name of john bolton unconscionable to do that 2 years into this term which has had tremendous rip implications are why we got a late start on this today right now we have this latest democratic debate going on biden saunders who out of those 2 is is presenting themselves as the man who should be president at a time perhaps like this. it's a crisis situation is very unusual for 2 people be debating at this time but they are and seen when i watch the debate this evening that on the health care issue when the senate has been repeating over and over it's medicare for all plan that he had in mind from way beginning and mr biden says we have to go one step at

a time and biden says now we have to take care of the media crisis in a lot of money right now to buying the kind of things that the system needs and worries that we don't have a health system we don't have a health care system we have thousands of individual insurance companies and we have some public health care in medicare it's not enough it's not a uniform system that allows us to act very decisively and quickly in a uniform way so that the 2 men have different views about health care what should be done and what should be done is crisis right now and finally you do wonder should we stop wondering the longer all this goes on should we start wondering about the election itself and the implications for the implications for all the campaigning that would have to happen leading up to the election and then for the vote itself or is it just to far away to worry about. we do have to consider that because right now is it is that these 2 men could not go out and campaign if they didn't hold a rally the capital a couple of rallies and they're changing the whole nature of the election it's all remote control now they're doing it online and that's not the way we campaign in

america generally and by the way congress is the only one has the power to change the date of the election to suddenly that the only institution the government can actually change the date of the election need be or even postpone the primaries the states can postpone the primaries individually and tuesday to marty done that george and louisiana so there's a lot of flexibility here a lot of uncertainty and it's doesn't bode well but we have to get this health care crisis under control 1st the coronaviruses just detrimental and very dangerous and troubling a lot of people this one. we will concur with that separate about these depreciate that thanks very much in the pleasure thank you. well china's industrial output has contracts in for the 1st time in decades because of the corona virus this comes as 16 more cases have been reported in the country with restrictions being tightened on foreign visitors the government says a majority of the new cases were all imported meaning when the person was outside the country when they became infected katrina you in beijing and katrina 1st of all

this economic situation just tell us more about that. that's right it's not overall surprising that this virus has had a huge impact on the chinese economy and as you mentioned industrial output contracting for the 1st time in decades and that's not too surprising we had the p.m.i. the manufacturing index come out about a week ago and that was at its lowest level since the global financial crisis in 2008 in 2009 other figures massaging to to see from the january february period is the retail consumption which has also dropped by about 20.5 percent and this isn't surprising this virus really essentially paralyzed the whole of china for late january and essentially the whole of february as well we had people staying indoors people weren't going out anywhere people weren't going to work weren't going to school and even after people didn't start going to work a lot of businesses had trouble resuming their operations because of travel

restrictions they couldn't get enough stuff to basically open or resume their operations so that's really been slow going and the chinese government here is under a lot of pressure president xi jinping has actually promise that he's going to do whatever he can to allow china to achieve its original economic goals now with this virus and a lot of critics saying that simply impossible the government has rolled out a lot of economic support plans for small businesses for medium sized businesses in terms of paying their workers delaying rents and things like that but analysts say that it just may not be enough we do know it today is much 16 and many businesses are expected to resume operations a government has said look there should be very few excuses for you not resume the operations considering that a lot of these travel restrictions have now been put down in a lot of cities have also lowered the their own health and safety regulations around this because of the dropping numbers but it still remains to be seen as to

whether the government will be successful in getting the economy started certainly it's going to take some time dropping numbers yet we have these 16 new cases and. government saying they're imported cases which is going to be an ongoing problem not just for china but for all nations around the world at what point they clear the virus and yet you still have this challenge of the virus being pulled by people coming back into the country once the restrictions were lifted. precisely i think this is one of the 1st days in china that we've seen that the number of important imported cases is much higher than the number of cases inside of china so out of those 16 cases 12 of those cases according to the government are actually cases of people being infected from overseas and bring that back into china and only 4 of these cases a new cases from inside who've a province that is the epicenter of the outbreak now for the government they've already started to really horn in on this as the main threat in china they've done

so much work to try to contain the spread inside china they really are trying to really. minimize numbers of people bringing infected cases inside and what we've seen from the beijing government is that they've put a compulsory 2 we quarantine period for all travelers coming into beijing now previously travelers had to come in and they could only they only had stuff ice light in there or in harms of their own apartments or her tells but now every traveler coming into beijing must and a designated. hotel and not only that they have to foot there or in bill for this quarantine period period in previously the government has been paying for these quarantine hotels and that really gives a sense i think that the government is also trying to put people off coming back to china knowing that they're going to have to stay in these hotels for 2 weeks and there's also a very strong penalties that you can face up to 7 years in jail for trying to bypass these regulations in china so the taking that indeed very seriously but we do know that in china itself critics say they could be some more cases of people

infected inside of china especially considering that many people are going back to work including in a province itself many counties many cities in a province have started to resume work people have started to leave their apartments for the 1st time in 50 days and go back to work so the government is certainly also cautious that the spread of the current virus could jump now that we've seen a lot of these restrictions eased around the country or katrina that's a picture from bridging katrina you. south korea's daily number of new cases continues to show a downward trend $74.00 new cases were reported on monday to less than the day before the nationwide total is above $8000.00 with at least $75.00 deaths and most of the cases are concentrated in the southern city of south korea says it's considering imposing strict to quarantine measures on travelers coming into the country let's get more now from robert ride in seoul rob we have this disaster

designation tell us more about that. that's right this is more of a minister tip of a step but it's a very important one because by declaring it a special disaster zone it then. releases state level aides in the direction of daegu most notably things like tax breaks tax benefits ways of helping out take you financially because now there is a feeling i think around daegu this is the epicenter of the major outbreak of coronavirus here something like nearly 90 percent of all of the cases have been in the this city and its surrounding province and i think this is a an acceptance that as a public health crisis hopefully the coronavirus is now under control and now they've got to the governors really got to start looking at this as an economic problem looking forward because of course the epicenter that's been most affected and has been virtually been closed down for weeks now so it is looking ahead to

when things can start to get back to normal it's still of a long way from that the businesses are still closed and so on but this is a way of trying to help it. to get to that recovery phase because the numbers as you mentioned that are still falling the number of new cases is now monday down to 74 that's a 3 week low so that the hope is here that this has largely been can contains down in the southeast of the country we have seen other clusters in other parts of south korea but the concern going forward is the recovery of the southeastern part of the country and this cranking up of restrictions especially toughen screening for all arrivals from europe. that's right i mean that's the real concern here just as it is china's concern that now we seem to have had these 2 major sources of the coronavirus in asia under control there's

a real concern that you're going to import reinfection so south korea is having a long hard hard look at other parts of the world that are now considered to be more contagious and obviously europe are we know is the epicenter globally so number of countries were already facing tougher screening measures in europe but now that's been extended to all european countries and interestingly south korea rather than banning people or saying you must go to a designated place and have 2 weeks of quarantine it takes a far more sophisticated approach that maybe other countries around the world may look at adopting themselves and that's relying more on technology when you arrive at an airport a point of entry you have all the usual screening they have temperature check health questionnaire but then the authorities say let's see your app let's see your device be it's a hand phone or a tablet that it's going to work in south korea that you then have to download your app that basically you interact with for

a 2 week screening period and every day you have to fill in all of the fields to say that you're still healthy etc and if you don't fill it in then they they will call you and check up on you so it is a sophisticated way of basically keeping tabs on all people entering south korea and south korea feels it has the confidence to do that of course because they have as a backup now a very extensive testing system a medical system something like just over a quarter of a 1000000 tests for the corona virus have now been done in south korea which when you compare that with europe and the united states is a pretty impressive number and so south korea believes it has a backup an insurance policy if you like and that it can allow in people from other parts of the world that it then keeps tabs on for us important to week period. the way ahead on testing there robert reich thanks very much for the thank you. well iran's death toll has risen by more than 102 at least 720 for its single biggest

jump in deaths many iranians have ignored official advice to stay at home a host of senior officials politicians doctors and clerics of have contracted the disease and there are concerns that corona virus pandemic could overwhelm iran's health facilities and place an even larger burden on the struggling economy there are now $14000.00 confirmed cases iran is believed to have 110000 hospital beds 30000 of those are in the capital tehran the country is already under pressure because of u.s. sanctions and with the outbreak placing further pressure on medical services the government has asked the international monetary fund for $5000000000.00 in emergency funding the president has said rouhani has offered low interest loans and cash handouts trying to ease the financial burden on millions of households same as ravi reports now from terre. the statements in the briefings that come from the health ministry from the coronavirus task force set up by president hassan rouhani

have become fairly routine weeks into this outbreak here in iran but there was a highlight today that certainly will have many younger people sitting up and taking notice the health official with the task force said that 15 percent of those that have died so far in iran are categorized as younger patients and he said that they exhibited no signs of previous respiratory conditions or any other illnesses so certainly this could be an anomaly we don't have any verification for whether or not this is the case but this official suggested he's not the 1st one to do so that the virus in iran is quote deadlier and wilder than cases that have been observed in other parts of the world so certainly a worrying trend the virus as you said was already a concern for iran's aging population but this is a country with a very large youth population the majority of the country is considered to be in the category of younger people the median age is 31 and for them this will

certainly add to the woes that iran has been experiencing as the government tries to combat the spread of this virus. but that i had hair down to 0 it's a release that's divided the community a former condo more load is freed from jail in kinshasa. ghana could be forced to import mortars and government struggles to contain illegal gold mining. good school coming up 20 minutes on the future of europe 2020 nominee peter we'll have the details. across japan at the moment we have had a rather wintry starts to the wake with some snow in place an area of low pressure now pulling out of the way not a little feature that just over the wall says towards the whole sheet was on it's

an improving feature so we're losing the snow that we've seen in tokyo for example telling increasingly to write in temperatures here as around 13 degrees still a chance of wanted to well wintry flurries just on the western side of honshu but even these will pay to rattle brighton rock not as a go in through the next couple days more sunshine and it'll sound warmer as well take a 15 degrees celsius. the so will choose day because of touch 19 in beijing some of the positron in the 2 bateson to the south will be how can see increasing areas of cloud and rain coming in that rain will be heavy at times possibility of some localized flooding now out west weather is making its way out solve in the china to the south of that general fine and dry the showers says they should do the seasonal rains straddling the equator very well what a week away from the aqueducts i would expect to see the showers on the side of the equation meanwhile for india is fine and dry with

a lot of sunshine for the most. the . americans live side by side in 2 parallel universes the trump parts of america are getting trampy or there is a poll out a few weeks ago that you had almost 30 percent americans believing they were on the cusp of civil war both sides accuse each other of doing things that are so blatantly wrong the bottom line on us politics and policies and their effect on the world. it's a tough time for the afghan security forces taliban attacks have increased their suffering heavy casualties and the prospect of a withdrawal of u.s. forces hangs over them yet young men are still joining up some for reasons for others it's the only way to get a job despite the risks. was an army bomb disposal engineer in helmand province he knew the risks he was blinded in both eyes and lost a leg when a roadside device exploded as you try to defuse it i was aware of the danger of

seeing friends wounded while working on mines i wasn't scared to lose an arm or a leg is to sacrifice we have to like to serve this country. how do you want you know is there a reminder of our top stories this italy has reported a 25 percent increase in coronavirus death with $368.00 more fatalities it's the country's largest single day rise italy is the worst affected country outside. the u.s. federal reserve has announced it's cutting the interest rates to near 0 to counter the impact on the bars but says the white house moves to expand virus testing to

more americans after receiving. the criticism for delayed. china's industrial output has contributed for the 1st time in decades because of the credit crunch becomes a 16 more cases have been reported in the country with restrictions being tightened on foreign visitors. lebanon's prime minister has announced a lockdown to try and contain the virus which ordered people to stay at home to prevent it spread the borders will close from wednesday for at least 11 days the country has 99 confirmed cases so far including 3 deaths as more. what they declared was a state of medical emergency and they called for general mobilization which means all the resources in the country is now it's now under the states this pozole they've called for the shutting down of private as well as public institutions already schools educational institutions have been closed for the past 2 weeks

that's going to be extended and they're talking about closing the airports temporarily as well as the ports and the border as of wednesday for a number of days now this will seem like a new stringent measures but many people in lebannon will say they're using big words really but not taking the right action because for example today people were supposed to be at home it is a weekend and they've been trying to raise awareness on the need for people not to gather in public places when you saw hundreds of people a stroll along beirut's cornice and at the minute the policy police had to disperse the crowd and force people to return home what people would want to see is more action by the security agencies to enforce people and to force people to stay home because just as a country yes the number of coronavirus cases quite a lot less than other countries but this is

a country and equipped to handle an outbreak and a country and the government which is cash strapped and near bankruptcy kenya has banned all travel from countries with confirmed cases of our us president who can yes it is says kenyan citizens will still be allowed in on the condition they isolate themselves for 14 days or in a government facility run off 3 confirmed cases in the country or in a stable condition. colombia is the latest nation to block all foreign travelers from entering the country its border with venezuela is already closed and the further restrictions will it come into effect on monday residents and citizens can still enter but will have to self isolate for 2 weeks mexico is also considering shutting its border with the united states to stop american citizens spreading the virus in mexico city many says there is growing concern and that's an american may not be prepared to deal with the pandemic. well mexico has only begun to find that cases of corona virus are just now in the double digits as of last week

and what we're hearing from public policy experts is that that's worrisome that could be a sign that mexico is not carrying out its its protocols its obligations to protocols when it comes to testing there is concern over the level of preparedness in mexico and in the rest of latin america with a few exceptions such as chile and co said week of the region actually spends less money on health on their public health systems than almost anywhere else in the world less than north africa less than the middle east now every country is different every government in the region is different so the measures for containment are different we heard early on sunday from the president of colombia even ducat saying that new containment measures would be put in place for nonresidents and non-citizens coming into colombia that will they will no longer be able to enter the country and for colombian citizens returning home from abroad they will have to spend a period of 14 days mandatory self quarantine but we're seeing similar measures

being taken in central america as is the case with all solved or which last week closed its borders outright but each country is different and giving the amount of spending that this region of the world is not doing there is a growing concern to israel now where the president has to ask opposition leader benny guns to form a new government giving him the opportunity to do so ahead of current prime minister benjamin netanyahu it is the latest attempt to break the nation's political deadlock of the 3 inconclusive election results in the space of myth of a year but it's hard for us to report from west jerusalem the latest political beginnings are taking place in the shadow of course of the current of our book though we should and some of benjamin netanyahu began the day adopting some of the coronavirus measures he denounced the night before fewer than 10 ministers at the cabinet meeting the prime minister joining by video he received. confirmation of his corruption trial due to start on tuesday had been pushed back by the health

crisis for more than 2 months but the decisive moves were brewing at the home of the president reuben rivlin as he received recommendations for prime minister from newly elected factions in israel's parliament netanyahu could is proposing a 6 month emergency unity government with netanyahu in charge or a 4 year otay tional deal in which he serves for the 1st 2 blue and white opposition leader benny gantz hasn't ruled out some kind of a deal which several members of his alliance are reported to favor but he's also been working on legislation to stop an indicted politician. from forming an administration and dance his own hopes of leading a minority government would boosted by the recommendations of all 15 members of the mainly palestinian israeli joint list grouping but if dance or netanyahu decide to form a national unity government or an emergency one we will be the main objective as if gans wants to form a center left government then we will recommend gantz with the support to have

netanyahu as former ally and now bitter rival avigdor lieberman has 61 recommendations to netanyahu 58 that doesn't mean the benny gantz will now automatically be able to form a government there are some in his own party that don't favor a minority administration relying on the outside support of palestinian israeli members of parliament and there is considerable pressure from many quarters for a national unity government at a time when the country is facing a health and economic crisis in occupied east jerusalem muslim leaders of the al aqsa mosque compound close the mosque and the dome of the rock allowing worshippers to pray early in the courtyard across israel sunday was day one of a sweeping new set of restrictions entertainment venues shut down workers told to stay home if they can new digital tracking authorized to trace and slow contagion low income worried about worried about an hour late on sunday. president rivlin trying to persuade guns and netanyahu to unite in the face of the coronavirus and

prevent israel from going into a 4th election the president's prescription is clear but so far the 2 would be prime ministers remain divided how he feels that al-jazeera west jerusalem russia and turkey have been holding joint military patrols in syria to monitor it seems far in the last rebel held stronghold of the province of the spike backing opposing sides in syria's war which started in 2011 the peace deal was finalized on friday after 4 days of talks in one korea seen in course only reports now from istanbul. the syrian protesters and the town of my rob an adlib don't want turkish or russian troops in their area the 2 military powers are patrolling a section of the m 4 highway that the federation was stopped after dozens of activists who oppose the russian presence and let blocked the highway. we're here to send a clear message to the russians and the turks we will not open the road unless

assad forces and russian militias withdraw isn't even enough they killed displaced us. from the joint patrols are part of an agreement struck between russian president vladimir putin and the turkish later rejects a far john during their meeting in moscow earlier this month the deal is also expected to set up a security corps or that 16 kilometers north and south those dam for highway that connects latakia to surat. but since sunday is the 9th anniversary of the syrian war there is heightened tension. so it's the 2nd day of our protest on this highway it's the anniversary of our revolution for 9 years we've suffered the regime's massacres we don't care about agreement we will not allow russians here they should get out of our country the fighting going to live has been catastrophically for the people. nearly 1000000 syrians have fled their homes since the government

backed by russia began its latest offensive last december it's happened despite a deal back in 2018 that turned into what their school ations own supposedly clear from acts of aggression most of the people who have a scaped have now crowded at the turkish border turkey old red horse more than 3600000 syrian refugees the crisis nearly led to a direct conflict between turkey and russia especially after the syrian government carried out on their strike in the late last month that killed dozens of turkish soldiers on the qur'an responded with drone strikes in order to load a fire that killed hundreds of prosumer in government forces and destroyed over a 100 armored vehicles many ceasefires have common gone and of that some even lasted less than 24 hours turkey and russia insists they still want to preserve the

latest ceasefire let's fight supporting opposing sides in the conflict it is unclear how they will achieve this but the rebels are worried about losing their last stronghold in syria and flush out says talk is not using its influence to control the opposition fighters most of whom most call accuses of being terrorists see now because so little al-jazeera a stumble or explosion near an oil pipeline emerge your ear has killed at least 16 people and destroyed dozens of buildings. many others were injured in the blast and lagos emergency workers say that happened because the truck caught fire near a pipeline the previously been targeted by oil theories says more now from the capital he says efforts to tackle all thefts of failed so far this is the 2nd explosion associated with pipeline vandalism in lagos this year but by far the biggest albie deadliest with more than 15 people killed and 50 houses destroyed

along with cars and other property in that particular area all things have continuously targeted oil pipelines in that part of lagos state and other parts of southern nigeria stealing oil either petroleum products refined petroleum products all crude all itself a joint military operation has been launched since 2017 to bring the situation under control but so far it has field of issues are saying that the fire that followed the explosion is now been brought under control as a pipeline products through that pipeline have been cut off by the national oil company the of fishes on the ground especially emergency workers say they think they have saved everybody that needed saving and the injured have been taken to hospital for proper medical treatment. the 1st man ever convicted by the international criminal court has been released from prison supporters gathered outside the jail in the capital of the democratic republic of congo to great thomas lubanga he was found guilty in 2012 of recruiting child soldiers to fight in the

2nd congo war war but mentally as this report was. to his supporters thomas lubanga left macculloch person the contrast from a hero but to others he was considered one of the most dangerous warlords and what's now the democratic republic of congo. you know me better than these 3 international criminal court judges who tried to present me as a devil i remain thomas lubanga who suffered with you in 20022003 during these conflicts and it turi i remain the same to you my people and that they had not been issued just this young girl was among many for those taken from have comedy trained and forced to fight in the 2nd called let's roll there was the bomb there head to the minister called the you need of congolese patriots all the u.p.c.

one of 6 groups involved in fighting for control of the mini retore region between 199-2003 he was later found guilty of abducting hundreds of children under the age of 15 years of forcing them to fight he denied the charge. 10th of july 2012 a historic moment for the i.c.c. its 1st ever case arrest and trial and banga armed group recruit train and use hundreds of young children to kill. the ledge and rape mistily bangor is sentenced to a total period of 14 years in prison this showed no emotion as the presiding judge read out the 3rd it a 14 year sentence that would be back dated to the time of his detention. a few

years later he was ordered to pay $10000000.00 in compensation to the families affected a fine his lawyers say he could never afford. aid groups estimate the around 5 and a half 1000000 people died as a result of the congolese war between 198-2007 that's more than any of the conflict since world war 2 a possibility i can all of. you believe we do believe that the release of thomas lubanga would result in some issues related to the current security situations and it tory because he was among people who were fighting for our peace and security and he told the reason. the supporters consider his release a sign of hope and an unstable region but after being found guilty of something massacres of forcing children into war many others would not welcome his freedom.

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. now that then gone to illegal gold mining is threatening farm lands destroying the landscape and poisoning water supplies leaving some communities struggling to find drinking water it's reached such proportions that treatment plants are being shut down and there are warnings the country might be forced to import water habit as

this report. the river problem in southern gonna is contaminated with mercury and cyanide and vegetation is drying off and gone as heartland of cocoa the main ingredient of chocolate. the river is also vital for fishing farming and filter. the pollution is blamed on cells and small scale gold mines working around the clock at this one boys as young as 15 and dozens of men what they're doing is illegal many mines have been here for years despite a government crackdown to close them. they operate deep in the forest hidden from the police and the military task force attracted by the precious metal minus come from different parts of ghana and neighboring countries as well as china they say is their only source of income per goddess of the risks and injuries sickness $59.00 i was able to provide money and help my family in the volta region until the government decided to ban small scale and illegal mining now police harass us all

the time some of us tried to run away and others fall into the money hits those who can't swim get injured or die. there joe had his head cut off 2 years ago while mining he received no compensation if you're going to be going to there are no decent jobs for the an educated and poor young people if we had training opportunities provided by the government it would be better. makeshift pumping stations are used to divert rivers to the. bandits. to become you can become very big on the state these 5 miners found just a few grams and sold it for $128.00 u.s. dollars sent between them god has one of africa's leading gold export. presidents none of has pledged to continue his fight against illegal mining his government regulates the industry or community mines. that is meant

a lot more. you know community service to get people in a community who want to get involved to be able to do so but. they're also more up large and small scale minute but critics and environmental activists blame the lack of political will and corruption to government promises falling short of the funding sources be from foreigners and there have been from the palm pilot the car and in this society and is the reason why. in the government it has also been a difficult one environmental groups call for tighter regulations minus say they have no choice but to continue digging for their survival for him in the hunt are just even. tougher sport now has peter thank you very much last week sorry i was put on hold because of the coronavirus and now the italian football federation has called for euro 2020 to be postponed it's really has been the european country

worst affected by the our break the federation says by suspending the euros it will also give them time to complete their current league season the idea is said to be proposed at a u.a.e. for emergency meeting on tuesday 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. he and the other 4 individuals are at home in good health and self isolated travelled to milan last month for a champions league match at a full capacity san siro stadium over in rio brazilian champions flamengo played a match in an empty medical mass stadium which once famously hosted nearly 200000 fans at the 950 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. and while there is no english premier league for the foreseeable

future manchester united midfielder paul pogba is trying to make the most of the down side in a set up a fund raising page on facebook has pledged financial aid to unicef to help tackle the corona virus outbreak man there was plenty of disinfectants on show an australian rugby league of the melbourne storm took on the manly sea eagles the boards that were cleaned with bleach every time they went into the crowd afterwards captain kevin smith called on the n.r.l. to be suspended the team travels a lot and i would travel virtually every 2nd week of the competition so you know we're going to be exposed to the airports in the air travel. large crowds a lot so there's a nice incentive to apply as i'm concerned about. themselves the concern about their families. making this issue which is already global. making it much bigger than what it is in industry. but you can't shut down most of

its top sports but the whole sree thing is an exception that's often hundreds of thousands of fans attended last week's cheltenham festival we spoke to racing journalist rupert 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 had 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 want to see that oh 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 this not actually going to be a huge significance if these meetings are stage behind closed doors indeed they be doing now the non and france will be doing that they do have extra source is of

revenue coming in from the betting that they say 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 big question mark is a meeting at the 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 they get 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 authorities 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 are seen to be too out of kilter with out the sports

it might it will reflect potentially badly on the sport. 130 days to go in the turkey 2020 alone picks is still on at this stage but the olympic flame handover in athens next week will be done behind closed doors greece has already shut down the relay through the country to avoid attracting crowds there will be an extra game in the n.f.l. regular season additional teams in the playoffs and more money for the players those are the key takeaways from the new collective bargaining agreement between the players and the league as early as the 2021 season they could be 17 games in the regular season while they will now be 7 playoff teams in each conference the players will benefit from the additional revenue as well as an overall increase in their slice of the pie as part of this new deal that will run until 2030 the coronavirus has not stopped up to a cricket matches taking place in pakistan with the t 20 super league but the games continue to be played fans have been shut out of the precautionary measure holes gadaffi stadium was empty of the calendars

qualified for the semifinals for the 1st time in their history they chased down a formidable 187 run target against the move 10 sultans crysler club 113 not out of any 55 balls as a long haul won by 9 wickets another event that went ahead and with spectators at that is the all england open badminton event on sunday the men's final was contested by the top 2 seeds in birmingham denmark's a victory lexan the featuring china's charity in chain 211321142 take the title this is the world's oldest badminton too and. we'll see you again later for more sports news. we will praise or thank you very much indeed that is it for this my colleague fully will be here with another 4 half hour of news in just a couple of minutes that's a good website. it's. join

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