into the global emergency sand rules at this time on al-jazeera. tightening borders in europe germany imposes new controls on 5 of its neighbors to fight the spread of coronavirus at the economic impact begins to bite china has its worst manufacturing month in decades major u.s. cities shut down restaurants and bars. hello i'm adrian for get this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up israel's president turns to the opposition to form the next government and end the year of political stalemate plus the 1st person ever convicted by the international criminal court is released from prison in the democratic republic of congo.

new border restrictions are being rolled out in europe as it becomes the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the past 2 hours germany has increased controls with 5 of its neighbors it's just gone 10 am this is the town this is a town at the border with germany and austria france and spain are also reported to be considering shutting their borders this after hundreds more deaths were recorded in italy it confirmed 368 on sunday its worst single day its death toll is now past 1800 let's go live to london 0 as long as al-jazeera is lawrence lee can tell us more border about these latest border controls across the continent. yes sage and obviously the greatest prize the european union ever achieved thus of the move between countries. is now under severe strain because of the virus and as

of 8 o'clock central europeans on this morning the germans announced that their borders because they'd there go 5 countries that border all stress whistlin france luxembourg and denmark so the north apos hamburg. if you're freights or you or your commute. crossing borders and you can prove that the police with the appropriate documentation you can still pass but if you do travelling between countries you can't you know to get turned around and there are pains to say on this that that's actually done in conjunction with all those other countries so it's the same both ways that's that's implication of it and obviously for all the accusations that states about acting in isolation and have been doing this for the joined up thinking it is now starting to look given the europe is now the epicenter of the virus that they are taking the most draconian measures you can possibly think of to stop its transmission by people moving from country to country you

mentioned france and spain ireland them given understand skin tone some are going to a similar sort of lockdown at some point in the next. day or 2 and of course the the problem with all this is that one thing is one thing trying to contain the virus is another thing trying to insist everyone stays at home while a moment moving sure they spend money and keep the economy going all the main indices across europe and out another 5 percent or more today in business is very very aware that it might collapse completely because this you call it's impossible to weigh these 2 things up keeping business going and trying to stem the spread of the virus by locking people down and what about the situation there in the u.k. lawrence the guardian newspaper has published what it says is a leaked public health england document which says nearly 8000000 people could need to be need hospital treatment if the virus reaches full scale. yeah it isn't in some ways i mean it's very alarming obviously at 1st glance it's

not particularly different to the reasonable worst case scenario that the government in this country has been saying for some time but the thing is a very stark i mean in a country of 65000000 people if the supposition is that 80 percent of those people will get it. then even at low point 6 percent mortality rather than one percent you're talking about about $300000.00 deaths of that one percent mortality and up to nearly half a 1000000 and for all the arguments about the underfunding of the health service in this country for for a decade a law there is absolutely no way that any health service can cope with over the course of a year half a 1000000 people mostly elderly anyway with preexisting conditions slowly dying in hospital and that explains to some degree where the government here is now about to roll out a plan to keep anybody over the age of 70 at home for 4 months coming just to try to protect them and ease the burden on the health of this in if this is anything to

go by obviously as this isn't a british problem it's the same in every sort of country but the theory that the pressure on health services across europe and beyond is going to be enormous if this does carry on as the suspicion is not through this year and into the stars of next year before a vaccine emerges out of there as lawrence leamer reporting live from london lawrence many thanks indeed the united states is stepping up efforts to combat the spread of the grown a virus and its economic impact 2 of its largest cities new york and los angeles have already ordered bars and restaurants to shut down and the federal reserve bank has stepped in to provide relief to businesses but officials are warning that the worst is yet to come alan fischer reports. from the president of the united states words aimed at comforting americans relax we'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 kiosk as the extended european travel ban kicks in here the. staff carrying out health screenings have been overwhelmed the governor of illinois blamed the trumpet ministration for a lack of planning and foresight 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 a quick internet search reveals one study says the number is around 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 a new 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 on the my. 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 trump it would not be a significant election issue alan fischer. china has reported its lowest number of new infections but the pandemic is having a major impact on the country's economy at the world's 2nd largest figures just out show that production in its factories fell by a record 13 and a half percent in february and the regional shutdown of shopping malls and other businesses as led to a 20 and a half percent drop in retail sales economists warned that the recovery may be slow as the outbreak is likely to hinder any rebound in imports what mcbride is in south korea's capital seoul where the infection numbers are also dropping but 1st let's go to beijing atlanta serious katrina you know surprise then katrina coronaviruses

had a huge impact on china's economy. yes and we're beginning to see how huge as you mentioned industrial output has plummeted by 13.5 percent that's an unprecedented drop the biggest drop since records began fixed asset investment has also plummeted at 24.5 percent we didn't even see a drop that big during the global financial crisis our retail consumption no surprise is that a slump by about 20.5 percent and unemployment in china is up from 5.2 to 6.2 percent and that doesn't even take into account migrant workers and they've been severely impacted by this virus outbreak so it's likely that the unemployment number is nuts higher no surprises that this virus outbreak brought china to a standstill people were staying home they were not working they were not gathering and they were not spending and this is supposed to be a time of great spending and celebration because it is the chinese new year holiday

the chinese government has seen these numbers and they're trying unsurprisingly to downplay it saying look this is big but we can recover and we will recover in the next quarter the government has also to this effect rolled out some protective targeted economic stimulus measures they're going to try to support businesses by for example allowing them to take out lorne's at very low rates or giving them delays in terms of paying their rent and president xi jinping has said that he is quite confident that china can still reach its target of 6 percent economic growth in spite of this outbreak but many analysts unsurprisingly are quite skeptical of that seeing as how big this this economic kid has been according to these numbers now the infection rate there in china has slowed right down authorities that are concerned about the virus being imported back into china from elsewhere what sort of measures are they putting into place to do with that. that's

what the chinese government has to all but declared victory in terms of containing the domestic outbreak now the chinese foreign ministry has said that the biggest threat to china's containment strategy comes from abroad and now we had in the past 24 hours 12 new cases of people who brought the virus from abroad and now we've had reported in the last few hours 6 cases 6 more cases in beijing 4 people bringing the virus from spain and 2 people bringing the virus from the u.k. . to really try to combat the number of people bringing the virus were abroad the chinese government has ramped up some of these measures for example now if you're flying into the capital beijing from another country have to undergo a compulsory 2 week korean teen period in a designated government hotel or quarantine center and you also have to foot the bill for this in shanghai it's slightly more flexible you can undergo this courting period at home but you will be met by

a police or official escort at the airport they'll bring you to your harm and they'll make sure that management all the compound staff know that you're not supposed to leave for 2 weeks the government has also introduced some criminal charges that if your court circumventing this restriction is trying to bypass them you could face criminal charges up to 6 years in jail and that includes if you try to take medication before boarding a flight when you know you have a fever to try to artificially or temporarily bring down your fever to escape monitoring from the authorities so the government is trying very hard to contain this as you mentioned earlier they're trying to bring the economy back on line trying to get people go back out into work and the last thing they want to see is the numbers go back up again of 0 as katrina your reporting live from beijing many thanks indeed katrina 2 words soul 2 were rough macbride so south korea also has a slowing infection rate robot there too they're concerned about the virus

coming back in from outside the country what measures the south korean authorities take it's doable. that's right i mean the last thing they want to see is really infection from more contagious parts of the world so we are seeing more stringent health screening points of entry here in south korea now these more stringent measures were already in place for certain european countries well they're now been extended to all arrivals from europe and depending on how things go these these new measures might be extended to all arrivals the south koreans take a slightly different approach to many other countries in the world instead of having blanket bans or telling people you can come into the country but only after you've done 2 weeks of quarantine in this designated place they take a more flexible proactive approach that depends more on technology as well as extensive health screening at the airport when you 1st arrived you also have to download an app on your device which monitors your health over that crucial to

weaken cube ation period to make sure that you don't get sick and if you do get sick then with south korea's extensive testing you would be identified and isolated and treated very very quickly so because of the extensive testing they have here in south korea they're able to have the confidence to do this and it's all a way of rather than closing borders trying to keep them open at least the other thing that people have been looking at this monday here in south korea is how the markets are going to react to the ongoing crisis of course last week was a wild ride as all of the markets extended huge losses across asia it is the start of the week and even after the u.s. fed's rate cut which has been followed by other central banks here in asia all of the markets have gone extended heavy losses all heavily into the red the nikkei ending 2 and a half percent down the cost b.

that's the south korean index more than 3 percent down and more than 4 percent of the hang seng index in hong kong so the markets. think lee underwhelmed by any of these rate cuts and possibly heralding the start of another volatile week al-jazeera as robin bride reporting live from seoul robin a thanks indeed in the philippines president rodrigo that tatay has extended quarantine measures beyond the capital manila to cover the entire island of luzon on sunday police blocked off major roads into manila to stop the spread of a corona virus the latest measures include a strict home quarantine for more than 54000000 people the regulation of food and essential health services and the suspension of major transport. got a weather update next year on al-jazeera then why illegal gold mining in ghana could lead to the government there being forced to import water.

hello it looks like the rainy season is coming to an end now throughout indonesia look at the satellite picture there's a massive sensor was basically but then not a freeway so the ways he's got away with much of borneo and java was drawing out of stock to stay that way of course to still be the risk of showers for me every day in java borneo and sort of ways but they're not quite as intense or as frequent as they were they still creeping up almost as far as singapore power for of sumatra still not much in thailand but occasional ones will produce and south of thinking cambodia once again on the coast of vietnam we are on shore breeze but we're seeing the showers become rather less frequent doesn't preclude some flash flooding. quite a weather over australia of the time being as you can see the satellite picture of the cloud is over the water is some more action around person western australia 25

degrees he was and on shore breeze and rain coming into the south there's nothing much happening in tropics down should be a talk of a proper tropical downpours nothing going on here temperature wise we're still quite tired 28 melbourne 31 in adelaide that was tuesday and on wednesday if anything we warm up in adelaide in hobart those starts very windy and wet still 24 degrees and auckland remains at 21. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop their energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power developing to the investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stigma we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and in fire mentally sound energy solutions for future generation the brush fire nearing future energy.

route. oh. i get you without is there a let's remind you of the main news this hour a new border restrictions are being rolled out in europe as it becomes the epicenter of the coronavirus that make germany has imposed controls with 5 of its neighbors france and spain also reported to be considering closing the borders restaurants and bars in new york and los angeles being closed as the u.s. steps up its efforts to curb the coronavirus sent. as for disease control's recommending against mass gatherings of 50 people. the outbreak is having a major impact on china's economy manufacturing in the past month has dropped to

the lowest level in decades and retail spending was down by more than 20 percent. in other news israel's president has lost the opposition leader to form a new government ahead of caretaker prime minister benjamin netanyahu it's the latest attempt to break the nation's political deadlock after 3 election results within a year are a force of reports from west to. benjamin netanyahu began the day adopting some of the coronavirus measures he denounced the night before the fewer than 10 ministers at the cabinet meeting the prime minister joining by video he received confirmation that 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 deal in which he serves for the 1st 2 blue and white opposition leader but he can't 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 netanyahu from forming an administration and dances own hopes of leading a minority government would boost it by the recommendations of all 15 members of the mainly palestinian israeli joint list grouping the middle of the gun if ganso netanyahu decide to form a national unity government or an emergency one we will be the main objective is if gantz wants to form a center left government then we will recommend gantz with the support to have met knows former ally and now bitter rival avigdor lieberman has 61 recommendations to netanyahu 58 that doesn't mean the. any grants 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 closed 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 rain worried about the 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 are a force at al-jazeera west jerusalem an explosion near an oil pipeline in nigeria has killed at least 17 people it happened in lagos where it injured more than 60

other people and destroyed dozens of homes emergency workers say it was caused by a truck that caught fire near a pipeline was previously targeted by all thieves are desirous of address as bought out from abroad he says the efforts to tackle oil theft of so far failed. this is a 2nd explosion associated with pipeline vandalism in lagos this year but by far the biggest all the deadliest with more than 15 people killed and 50 houses destroyed along with cars and other property in that particular area all thieves have continuously targeted all pipelines in that part of lagos state and other parts of southern nigeria stealing oil either petroleum products refined petroleum products or crude oil itself i don't believe for permission has been launched since 2017 to bring the situation under control but so far it has failed officials 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. illegal gold mining is threatening farmlands destroying the landscape and poisoning water sources leaving some communities struggling to find clean drinking water treatment plants are being shut down. mohamed reports are warning the country might be forced to import water. the river probably 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 frozen a small scale gold mines working round 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 the 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. and 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 hand cut off 2 years ago while mining he received no compensation if you're going to be granted 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 do. bandits penitently come here to take. on this these 5 miners found just a few grams and sold it for $120.00 u.s. dollars sent between them. as one of africa's leading gold export. presidents none of joe has pledged to continue his fight against illegal mining his government regulates the industry the community mining scheme. that is meant a lot more. in the community service to get people in the community who want to get more money to be able to do so badly. that will serve more up large and small scale mine you know but critics and environmental activists blame the lack of political will and corruption for government promises falling short most of the funding sources be from foreigners and that have been from the top quality car and in

this society i mean the reason why. in the government it has also been difficult one environmental groups call for tighter regulations minus say they have no choice but to continue digging for their survival for him ha meant. 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 public of congo to greet thomas the banga who was found guilty in 2012 of recruiting child soldiers war but malley reports. to his supporters thomas lubanga left mcculloch prison in kinshasa. but to others he was considered one of the most dangerous moon 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 turi i remain the same to you my people that are not militia this young girl was among many who was taken from have family trained and forced to fight in the 2nd congress will was. a head is a 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 turi 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 lights and rape the city banker is sentenced to a total period of 14 years in prison lubanga showed no emotion as the 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 food aid groups estimate that around 5 and a half 1000000 people died as a result of the congolese war between 198-2007 that's more than any other conflict since world war 2 all possibility again all sorts of if 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 it was a reason. lubanga supportive considering his release a sign of hope in an unstable region but after being found guilty of sanctioning masochism forcing children to war many others would not welcome his new found freedom laura garza manly out is there. spain's king of the 6th has renounced any future possible inheritance that he received from his father a decision was made after accusations of financial irregularities that involved the former monarch one cast the 1st on saturday the british newspaper the telegraph reported the king philippe was named as a beneficiary of an offshore fund that controls a swiss account with a reported $72000000000.00 it also claimed the money had been gifted to his father from saudi arabia. for much more raw information on

the corona virus take a look at the web site al jazeera dot com. it is good to have you with us hello adrian fit here in doha the headlines on al-jazeera new border restrictions being rolled out in europe as it becomes the new epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic germany has imposed controls with 5 of its neighbors france and spain also reported to be considering closing their borders lawrence lee reports from london it is now starting to look given that europe is now the epicenter of the virus that they are taking the most draconian measures you can possibly think of to stop its transmission by people moving from country to country you mentioned france and spain ireland i'm given understand them too and some are going to

a similar sort of lockdown at some point in the next. day or 2 and of course the problem with all this is that one thing is one thing trying to contain the virus is another thing trying to insist everyone stays at home while moving sure they spend money and keep the economy going to restaurants and bars in new york and los angeles are being closed as the u.s. steps up its efforts to curb the coronavirus the centers for disease control is recommending against mass gatherings of 50 people. the outbreak has had a major impact on china's economy manufacturing in the past month dropped to the lowest level in decades and retail spending is down by more than 20 percent in the philippines president rodrigo deter has extended quarantine measures beyond the capital manila to cover the entire island of luzon on sunday police blocked off major roads into manila to stop the spread of the coronavirus the latest measures include a strict quarantine for more than 54000000 people the regulation of food at essential

health services and the suspension of major transport routes. in other years an explosion near an oil pipeline in nigeria has killed at least 17 people it happened in lagos and the injured more than 60 others destroyed dozens of homes emergency workers say that it was caused by a truck catching fire near a pipeline that had previously been targeted by oil thieves and the 1st man ever to be convicted by the international criminal court has been released from prison thomas lubanga was greeted by supporters as he was driven out of jail in the democratic republic of congo's capital kinshasa the banker was found guilty in 2012 of recruiting child soldiers. there's the headlines with this is next. as the world battles a potential new pandemic will bring you the latest developments from around the globe with updates about travel or searches how to protect ourselves.

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