both the recognize the both sides have legitimate grievances do you believe the remote is a fascist or poor attempt to have a hard hitting debate with up front on al-jazeera. the us federal reserve drastically cuts interest rates while the president makes a play about panic buying because of the corona virus outbreak. by more than the by a christmas relax doing great it will pass it comes as major cities like new york and the scientists say they will shut down bars restaurants and cinemas to control the outbreak. plum fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha also ahead a heavy blow for the world's 2nd largest economy as china continues to feel the effects of the corner virus outbreak and it's only reported 368 deaths in 24 hours

the highest number of course of ice fatalities there in a single day so far. the 2 biggest cities in the united states are taking drastic steps to try to contain the corona virus outbreak new york and los angeles are shutting down bars cafes restaurants and nightclubs they're taking action as the federal reserve introduces emergency measures to stem the economic fallout alan fischer reports from washington. from the president of the united states words aimed at comforting americans relax with doing great it will pass moments later from the man heading the drive against the virus a starkly different message the worst is yes very good for us it is how we respond to that challenge the number of confirmed cases in the u.s.

is no more than $3000.00 states are shutting down bars and restaurants curfews are starting to be introduced the face of america is changing but airports as the. ended unity and travel ban kicks in where the. staff carrying out health screenings have been overwhelmed the governor of illinois blamed the trumpet ministration 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 unacceptable 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 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 there and 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. the 2 leading contenders for the democratic presidential nomination faced off in washington in the latest debate and audience and both make it 6 feet apart neither convinced the trumpet ministration is on top of the crisis 1st thing we have got to do but we're not on president has to shut this president up right now because he is undermining the doctors and the scientists who are trying to help the american people this is a crisis this is like we are being attacked from abroad this is something that is

of great consequence this is like a war and in a war you do whatever is needed to be done to take care of your people this is no what donald trump hoped it would not be happening in a significant election issue makes me very happy. the administration is going to unknowns its new plans for social distancing at some point on monday but the c.d.c. the center for disease control has said that it would like to see groups gatherings meetings of more than 50 people just postponed for the next weeks they're talking about conferences they're talking about even weddings those sort of things they would like to see in abeyance but this follows the lead of a number of states so we've got the likes of illinois ohio with massachusetts california and new york saying that they're essentially going to shut down their nightlife bill de blasio the mirror of new york says he will sign an executive order for that to morrow and from tuesday he expects all restaurants and bars to

close down unless they're offering takeaway food you won't be able to go and sit down in a restaurant in the city that never sleeps i'll tell you how serious this is even in the las vegas the gambling capital of the world a number of casinos have a nose that they are closing down and many of them will be opening their doors again until at least me the 1st china's industrial output has contracted for the 1st time in decades because of the corona virus it comes as 16 more cases have been reported in the country with breast reductions now being tightened on foreign visitors the government says a majority of the new cases were imported meaning there were people infected while outside of the country katrina you is in beijing for us joins us now live from there as expected katrina coronavirus having a huge impact on china's economy. that's right so we've just heard in the last few hours that industrial output has plunged by

13.5 percent and that's the steepest decline since the cultural revolution in the 1970 s. other indicators that we've just heard a fixed asset investment that's housing investment has plunged by about 24 percent now that figure didn't even move during the global financial crisis by this much so that's very significant retail consumption is down by about 20 percent and unemployment is also slightly up now we expected to see the economy take a big hit because of this i mean during february the entire country was essentially paralyzed because of the current virus outbreak people were staying home people weren't going to work people weren't gathering and this is the chinese new year period and that's usually a time of celebration and spending now the government is under a lot of pressure to restart the economy it said from today that's much 16 on monday in major cities morse businesses are expected to be back to work. unless they have some other very good reason and it's said that around the country

industrial output is back up to about 80 percent but still many businesses and many factories are having trouble resuming operations because they can't get enough stuff there so many travel restrictions in place around the country and people are century not able to go back into some cities and go back to work now chinese president xi jinping has said that he still confident that china can attain 6 percent g.d.p. growth this year but many analysts are quite critical of that saying that simply it's impossible to to hit that right in the number of new cases meanwhile still going down but now the chinese authorities seem to be concerned about the virus being imported back into the country what sort of measures are they putting in place to deal with this. that's right in recent days we're seeing more cases brought into the country from abroad then transmitted locally we had only 4 cases transmitted at the epicenter of the virus in blue 100 city and 12 cases brought in from overseas and the government is ramping up measures for people coming into the country in the capital beijing if you're flying

in internationally you must undergo a compulsory 2 we quarantine period in a designated hotel or center and you have to foot your bill for that period of time so the government is trying to discourage people from flying into the country if you're traveling to beijing from other areas in the country you have to quarantine at home for that period of 2 weeks so definitely they've identified the outside people coming from outside the country as the major threat to this corona virus containment here in china and they've also imposed possible criminal charges if you're caught circumventing those restrictions you could face up to 7 years in jail and in beijing as well they've also diverted all international flights to go to one particular airport so that they can more strictly process people coming into the country the government has said that there is a downward trend we've seen week on week a lower lower numbers of new cases of the current virus and it's certainly doing whatever it can to make sure that that downward trend continues thank you for that

update katrina you lived there in. south korea says it's also looking to impose stricter koren team measures on travelers coming into the country by this daily number of new cases continues to go down 74 new cases were reported on monday to fewer than the day before the nationwide total is above 8000 while at least 75 with at least 75 deaths most of the cases are concentrated in the southern city of di cool aid to has reported a 25 percent increase in corona virus deaths its largest single day of rise 368 people died on sunday putting the total past 1800 or so week after a nationwide lockdown was declared on 60000000 people restricting travel and banning public gatherings italy is the worst affected country outside of china journalist julia gillard makes brains 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 definitely every day ask for help because their hospitals are overcrowded they have been moving some of their patients to soudan 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 when 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 your 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 they 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 and the other worst affected e.u. countries spain and france have recorded their highest death tolls in a single day as well countries across europe are locking down to try to stop the spread of infection businesses have been closed and borders shut as people are asked to stay home reports. 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 home. 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 wartime 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 match last gatherings if we need to and and take other

action that you just normally wouldn't but we might have to in order to respond to this to this virus italy's recorded another dramatic rise in the death toll there have been more than 20000 coronavirus cases there in the vatican with some peter's square empty pope francis delivered his weekly sunday present a live stream you know let me reach 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 for monday although commuters and

goods vehicles are to be allowed through another sign of how europe's turning inwards as the number of coronavirus infections continues to grow the dean barber al jazeera. i still ahead on al-jazeera iran blames u.s. sanctions for impeding the fight against. actions continue to rise. 70 says divided a community. just. look and see bad across the middle east for the most part the center of the case across the arabian peninsula we've got this area pulling out of the way sliding through the strait of hormuz just making its way out into the open waters process guys come back in behind but it's going to stay

a little disappointing shall we say further north he will continue to see a rain sleet and snow an old monday doesn't look too bad just around the levant syria lebanon jordan will increasingly see more of that wet weather and windy weather heavy possibility some wintry weather sliding in as we go on through tuesday and on into what is a that's the next thing to watch out for as we go on through the week there will be the shabby rain just around the southern end of the rest say so southwestern parts of saudi arabia could see a few showers some showers there a possibility to that western side if you move the most fun to drive and he has a very pleasant 27 degrees celsius now the showers that we have just around the southern end of the red sea they do stretch their way across the ethiopian highlands you'll catch a few showers here again we're looking at the usual shallows where they should be straddling the equator system heavy downpours a possibility for some as we go on through the next couple of days and what's the weather there making its way into tents and there are still seeing wet weather for magic aska.

with the plummeting bath rates 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 informed opinion its economy is. actually what's keeping the dump truck afloat right now and in jeff analysis of the day's headlines the cultist movement is only getting stronger the more people he killed the resilient the business the day will become the inside story on al-jazeera. the in the the in.

welcome back a reminder our top stories this hour on al-jazeera the 2 biggest cities in the u.s. new york and los angeles are shutting down bars cafes restaurants and nightclubs as they try to contain the corona virus outbreak they're taking action as the u.s. federal reserve introduces emergency measures to stem the economic fallout meanwhile china's industrial output has been trying to for the 1st time in decades because of corn of virus it comes a 16 more cases have been reported in the country with distinction is now being tightened on foreign visitors and italy has reported to 25 percent decrease in corona virus that's with $368.00 more fatalities is the country's largest single day rise italy's the worst affected outside of china. iran's death toll has risen by more than 102 at least 720 for its single biggest jump in deaths many rain ians have ignored official advice to stay at home a host of senior officials politicians doctors and keryx have contracted the

disease and they are concerns that corona virus could overwhelm the ron's health facilities and face an even larger burden on the struggling economy there now $14000.00 confirmed cases iran is believed to have 110000 hospital beds 30000 of those in the capital tehran the country is also already under pressure because of u.s. sanctions and with the outbreak facing further pressure on medical services the government has asked the international monetary fund for $5000000000.00 in emergency funding present hassan rouhani has offered no interest loans and cash handouts to ease the financial burden on millions of households as embers ravi reports from tehran. 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 levanon subprime minister has announced that it

all down to try to contain the virus michelle people to stay at home to prevent it spread the border as well colostrum wednesday for at least 11 days the country has 99 confirmed cases so far including 3 deaths zana hunter has more from beirut. 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 is now under the state's 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 have 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 administer the colored people each has 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 this is a country yes the number of coronavirus cases by a lot less than other countries but this is a country in a quick to handle an outbreak and a country and a government which is cash strapped and near bankruptcy. qatar has also announced drastic new measures to contain the spread of the virus it will ban all inbound tris from wednesday for 14 days except for congo and transit flights all public transport will stop operating from sunday night and workers over the age of 55

pregnant women and people with existing health conditions are being asked to work from home qatar has stopped issuing visas on arrival to several european nationalities kenya has banned all travel from countries with confirmed cases of the virus present who will kenyatta says kenyan citizens will still be allowed in on the condition they isolate themselves for 14 days at home or in a government facility there not 3 confirmed cases in the country all in a stable condition south africa's president still in syria when a pulse has confirmed 61 cases in one that number is expected to rise he also announced new restrictions to curb the spread of the virus travelers from high risk countries including iran south korea and it's really will be banned from entry for say implementing new screening measures in schools close for at least 2 weeks. other news now al-jazeera and russia and turkey have been holding joint military patrols in syria to monitor

a cease fire in the last rebel held stronghold of headley a province that's despite backing opposing sides in syria's war which started in 2011 the peace deal was finalized on friday after 4 days of talks in ankara simplicio reports. through syrian protesters in the town of my rob and i don't want her kish or russian troops in their area the 2 military powers are patrolling a section of the m 4 highway but the federation was stopped after dozens of activists who oppose the russian presence and lead 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 richest so far john during their meeting in moscow earlier this month the deal is also expected to set up

a security corps or the 16 kilometers north and south am for highway that connects latakia to surat. but since sunday is the 9th anniversary of the syrian war there is heightened tension but. it's the 2nd day of our protest honest 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 the into a better school ation zone supposedly cleared from acts of aggression most of the

people who have a scaped have now crowded at the turkish border turkey older the whole smaller than 3600000 syrian refugees the crisis nearly letter a direct conflict between turkey and russia especially after the syrian government carried out on air strike in the late last month that killed the dozens of turkish soldiers on corresponded with drone strikes in order to learn a fire that killed hundreds of pro syrian government forces and destroyed over a 100 armored vehicles many ceasefires have common gone in to some even lasted less than 24 hours turkey and russia insists they still want to preserve the latest cease fire 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 us a stroke is not using its influence to control the opposition fighters most of whom

accuses of being terrorists see an anchor solo al-jazeera a stumble an explosion near an oil pipeline in nigeria has killed at least 16 people and destroyed dozens of buildings many others were injured in the blast in lagos emergency workers say it happened because a truck caught fire near pipeline that had previously been targeted by oil thieves . 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 congolese war now a burden man may reports. to his supporters thomas lubanga left mcculloch prison and. the 2 others he was considered one of the most dangerous mood in 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 who toured i remain the same to you my people. militia this young girl was among many who was taken from her family trained and forced to fight in the 2nd congress will. look on the head of the militia called the union of congolese patriots all the u.p.c. one of 6 groups involved in fighting for control of the mineral rich to marry region between 19092003 he was later found guilty of abducting children under the age of 15 and forcing him to fight he denied the charge. 10th of july 2012 and historic moment for the i.c.c.

its 1st ever case arrest and trial vanga. recruit train and use hundreds of young children to kill. the latch and rape myths of the banker is sentenced to a total period of 14 years in prison lubanga showed no emotion as a presiding judge read out the verdict a 14 year sentence that would be backdated 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 that around 5 and a half 1000000 people died as a result of the congolese war between 19082007 that's more than any of the

conflict since world war 2 little possibility. we do believe that the release of thomas lubanga would result some issues related to the current security situations and it tour because it was among people who were fighting for our peace and security in the 2 reasons. new congress supported consider his release the sign of hope in an unstable region but after being found guilty of sanctioning masochism forcing children into law many others would not welcome his new found freedom. manly out in 0. spanish king philip of the 6 has renounced any future of personal inheritance he could receive from his father the decision has been made over the alleged financial irregularities that involve the former monarch king juan carlos the 1st on saturday a british newspaper the telegraph reported that philippe was named as a beneficiary of an offshore fund that controls a swiss account with an alleged $72000000.00 it also claimed the money had been

gifted to his father from saudi arabia. again i'm fully battle with the head guys on al-jazeera the 2 biggest cities in the us new york and los angeles shutting down bars cafes restaurants and nightclubs as they try to contain the outbreak of the coronavirus they're taking action as the u.s. federal reserve introduced emergency measures to settle economic fallout despite a rising infection rate the u.s. president to short americans there's no need to hoard of course riis. you know there was so much that you see just really people going in there buying more of the remember i guess during the conversation doug of wal-mart said that to buy more they buy a christmas relax we're doing great it will pass china's industrial output has contracted for the 1st time in decades because of coronavirus

it 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 a person was outside the country when they became infected south korea says it's also looking to impose stricter quarantine measures on travis coming into the country but his daily number of new cases continues to go down 74 new cases were reported on monday to fewer than the day before italy meanwhile has reported a 25 percent increase in corona virus deserts largest single day uptick 368 people died on sunday putting the total past 1800 or so week after nationwide locked on was declared on 60000000 people restricting travel and banning public gatherings iran's death toll has risen by more than 102 at least 720 for its single biggest jump in deaths many radians have ignored official advice to stay at home qatar has

announced drastic new measures to contain the spread of the virus it will ban all in bad for inbound flights on wednesday for 14 days except for congo and transit flights all public transport will stop operating from sunday night and workers over the age of 55 pregnant women and people with existing health conditions are being asked to work from home. in other news an explosion near an oil pipeline in nigeria asking at least 16 people and destroyed dozens of buildings images the workers say it happened because a truck caught fire near a pipeline that's what you're up to date with headlines here on al-jazeera coming up next one. perception is validation we believe to be seen but in one life time we cannot see everything. we rely on the experiences of others and the legacies of previous generations.

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