the in. the u.s. president donald trump's 16 day plan to fight coronavirus with limits on social gatherings and the elderly to stay home. fully back to bill this is al jazeera live from doha we've got extensive coverage of the coronavirus and demi including wall street suffer as its worst day in more than 3 decades as investors panic about the pandemics economic impacts a positive sign from the original epicenter of the virus china's hu a province reports just one new infection and streets deserted as the french president declares war on the virus while the world health organization has its own

battle plan. a simple message little on countries tourists there's tourists. the global response to the corona virus pandemic is ramping up but the world health organization is imploring governments to tests far more people with a suspected infection french president a man in moscow has declared war on the outbreak and is closing france's borders from 11 g.m.t. on tuesday the european union has proposed a ban on all nonessential foreign travel to the shang and so on the president of the european central bank christina god has faced to do whatever she can to stop the eurozone breaking up while the british government which has been under pressure to toughen its approach is now asking people to. nonessential travel and pods clubs

and see if his us present donald trump has issued similar advise and is edging no social gatherings of more than 10 people it comes as wall street suffered its worst day for more than 30 yet alan fischer bring us more on the latest moves by the us. if there's a cure for corona virus this might be it in seattle u.s. researchers have given the far short of an experimental vaccine developed in record time everybody is feeling so helpless right now or. realize that there was. an excited. but it could still take a year to have something for universal use back in washington the president announced dramatic new steps to reduce the chance of spreading the disease my administration is recommending that all americans including the young and healthy work to engage in schooling from home when possible avoid gathering in groups of more than 10 people avoid discretionary travel and avoid eating or drinking at bars

restaurants and public food courts the president gave himself a tentative 10 for his handling of the crisis but there was a warning from the man spearheading the medical response in the us if you think you're here you're really here because you're only getting the results therefore it will always seem that the best way to address it would to be doing something that looks like it might be an overreaction and state governors even republicans are doing the federal government to do more this is going to be much harder to take much longer. and be much worse than almost anyone is currently understanding across the country many cities and states have already instructed bars and restaurants to close but people are gathering in grocery stores and supermarkets trying to stock up on food and essential supply and it would be the end of may.

drive through testing facilities have begun to spring up in more locations the administration hopes to have 1900000 tests available by the end of the week but the president says the impact of this will last long into the summer thank you all very much allan fisher al-jazeera washington. the effects of coronavirus will have on the economy continues to cause wild swings on wall street for the 3rd time in more than a week new york's john jones index had its worst point stop in history. has more. the opening bell by another plunge in the market and hope to trading on the new york stock exchange by the end of the day the dow down 12.9 percent and the s. and p. down a leavened point 9 percent the worst percentage drop by both sides 1987 the worst dow point loss ever the previous 2 record set just last week as the

markets were closing in new york and washington president donald trump was asked if the country was in a recession well it may be thinking in terms of recession with a good in terms of the virus once we step i think there's a tremendous pent up demand both in terms of the stock market and in terms of the economy and once this goes away once it goes through and we're done with it i think you're going to see a tremendous a tremendous surge. the trading day was so bad the president of the new york stock exchange had to shoot down rumors that the trading floor might close down tweeting closing the markets would not change the underlying causes of the market decline this would only further compound the current market anxiety. over the weekend the federal reserve lowered interest rates to nearly 0 hoping it would call in the markets it did not they lower the rates on sunday market is telling us that they're not that happy with that if we're lowering it if we're shooting every good out of

the chamber of leaving i said 0 is there is there worse economic news on the horizon than we think investors say they need 3 things to happen for the market to bounce back a slowdown of coronavirus cases in the u.s. an announcement about a vaccine and a sign that things are returning back to normal on the streets unfortunately none of those things appear to be happening anytime soon as one wall street analyst put it we're watching the slow shutdown of the entire u.s. economy gabriels on doe al-jazeera new york now a bit of positive news china has reported only one new domestic car on a virus case the other 20 reports on monday where of travel is arriving from overseas the new locally transmitted infection was reported in the original epicenter of the outbreak in the capital for a province local authorities have begun easing restrictions from a 50 day lockdown 30 new deaths were reported across mainland china which brings

the total to more than $3000.00 that speak to soccer in hong kong for us an overall launch death toll sad but the good news is that the number of new cases is still going down. it's a summary of the latest numbers coming out of china $21.00 confirmed cases of the corona virus infection from monday that's up from 16 earlier another total number of cases in milan china now as id 1881 as you mentioned of the 21 you cases 20 of them were for imported cases so not local transmissions and this is the biggest or the new battleground for china trying to stop the importation of the krajina virus infection our government there has got a number of heavy travel restrictions in place in particular all international travelers arriving into beijing they were going to a quarantine facility instead of the self isolation which was proof of a previous same place now all travelers in beijing will go into

a government run quarantine facility and also have to pay for it so clearly this is a a bit of an effort to try to discourage travelers coming into china now the death toll we have 13 deaths on monday at 12 of those deaths were in the by province and 11 of them were coming from where you had this is obviously the epicenter of the community the outbreak of the crime a virus. the numbers are still on the downward trend and parts of the who by province where the crowd of are started they're starting to resume travel businesses are starting to open again now in the last half an hour or so we've also had some more travel restrictions announced in hong kong hong kong chief executive kerry lamb it's put the city on red alert this means all international travelers arriving into hong kong will now have to go to self isolation for 14 days the id exemptions she's my travels coming from a cow mainland china and taiwan so certainly heavy restrictions coming into place as of wednesday midnight so from thursday march 19th and airlines in the markets

have been struggling across the region as a result. well these huge heavy hitting travel restrictions globally are clearly affecting the airlines and quantas the chief executive alan joyce in an e-mail to his 30000 staff said this is the single biggest shock the global aviation industry has ever experienced that it's not announced a cut of 90 percent of its international capacity and 60 percent of its domestic capacity and that's a done to at least the end of my any zealand's also cut its capacity or flights to australia due to australians new travel restrictions from any travelers arriving in australia 14 days of self selection they've cut their flights by i.v. percent and that's from march to june and cathay pacific which is one of the biggest international airlines bias in asia it's also cut its capacity by 90 percent in april and if this these travel restrictions continue it will continue extend that cattle cutting capacity to mine now the only positive for the airline

industry at the moment appears to be the cargo rights continue to surge and one particular flight airline company said 2020 is fast becoming the year of the freighter sar clock in hong kong thank you sarah now france's president is describing new knock down measures as unprecedented in peacetime for 2 weeks residents can only leave their homes to buy groceries travel to work or seek medical care and the e.u. is proposing a ban on all nonessential foreign travel to the region the barker looks at what's happening across europe. covert 19 has silenced entire cities 100000000 europeans are on. paris went to its 1st business day of sweeping restrictions respected by some ignored by others. later the french president urged the country to follow the official advice restricting all gold essential movement he summed up the worsening crisis in one word. go. we are at

war healthwise not against another country or another nation the enemy is there and it's advancing and that requires our general mobilization we are at war. all the action of the government must now be focused on the fight against the epidemic by night or by day nothing must distract us. in its latest crisis briefing the world health organization urged countries to strengthen efforts to control the outbreak you cannot fly a fire blindfolded and we cannot stop this plunder me if we don't know who is infected we have a simple message for all countries terrorist. test test in the spanish capital madrid military were on the streets telling people to go home. spain's followed italy's lead confining citizens to their houses unless they

have to buy food medicine or seek medical help. germany the economic powerhouse of europe responded to the crisis on monday by restricting public gatherings and tightening its borders with austria france switzerland luxembourg and denmark several of germany's neighbors including denmark poland and the czech republic already close their own from tears. as the virus advances the global race to produce a vaccines gathering pace in germany this firm hopes to have an experimental low dose coronavirus a vaccine ready by jude or july available for human testing the company moved to deny reports that the us president donald trump offered large sums of money for exclusive access to it. in the u.k. where things have been more relaxed the prime minister announced a new raft of emergency measures without drastic action now boris johnson said cases of the virus could double now is the time for everyone to stop north central

contact with. and to stop unnecessary travel we need people to start working from home where they possibly can and you should still avoid pubs clubs theaters and other such social venues as the number of virus cases increases in remain a network of volunteers is growing in book arrests to help elderly people forced into self isolation for the vulnerable these are anxious times country after country the situation's been deteriorating rapidly europe's leaders are calling on their citizens to remain united by being further apart neve barker al-jazeera london. still ahead on al-jazeera as kenya braces for a rise in corona virus infections economists ask if it can maintain a knockdown without a proper social welfare system and an overriding concern the coronavirus threat

prompts ohio's health authorities postpone tuesday's primary folks. hello again a look at weather across the americas this time in north america we've got an area of rain across parts of the south that's going to develop the next 24 hours snow clearing the eastern seaboard temps not too bad in new york there are 13 degrees meanwhile an area of low pressure moving into the southwestern part of the united states into the desert southwest where we come more intense ahead on through into wednesday so some heavy rain likely here much of it welcome of course meanwhile that area further towards the east is heading up into the midwest with some snow on its northern edge towards the great lakes temperatures drop my little bit there for new york highs of 11 degrees down into central parts of america the caribbean

islands generally looking fine there are a few showers around but nothing to get too excited about and for much of the time it's going to be dry and sunny and so i find a an advantage in cuba with highs there of 30 degrees petitioner's through the isthmus where again nothing particularly heavy or prolonged at this stage but i think certainly for police in honduras we could see some heavy downpours at times let's have a look at how things are shaping up across south america for more southern areas we've got some heavy rain affecting parts of argentina or central areas and around the river plate's area i think for the wanted to showers here but it should be fine in power guy highs of 38 an ascension. of. perception is validation believe what he sees but in one life time we cannot see everything but we will lie in the experiences of . the legacies of previous generations. of that testimony

we've got you know. with this documentaries that open your eyes on al-jazeera. you're watching al jazeera live from doha a reminder our top stories u.s. president donald trump has announced a 15 day plan to fight the coronavirus pandemic with limits on social gatherings and he is urging the elderly to stay at home fears are growing of a global recession as the for the virus pandemic sends markets around the world plunging again the dow jones dropped 12.9 percent and wall street trading was

suspended european markets also closed down china meanwhile has recorded only one new domestic coronavirus case the other 20 on monday where of travelers arriving from overseas to new infection was reported in the original epicenter of the outbreak walk on the capital of will be father sed now venezuela's president nicolas maduro has ordered all citizens to stay home from tuesday under a quarantine aimed at cutting off the spread of the corona virus as after at least 135155 cases were confirmed in not an america that chile has become the latest country to announce the closure of its borders a latin america as in to see in human reports schools are closed airline traffic is nearly paralyzed latin american countries are moving quickly towards total isolation but most of the server knows from your close all aboard a normal be able to enter argentina except citizens and permanent residents. cruise

president but of d.m.v. scott i want to step further announcing a state of emergency and mandatory home isolation. it neighboring chile the country with the highest number of confirmed cases per capita in south america presidents have announced all borders will be closed starting wednesday to give tourists time to leave oh a good up all but that wasn't soon enough for these angry residents of that in us on the southern tip of south america they shouted no more tourists in front of a cruise ship that was granted permission to disembark passengers at least 2 british cruise ship passengers have tested positive for coded 19 you know what i mean. there are very few of us and we're all going to get contaminated but those haven't been the only protests here in santiago classes have been canceled but not here almost daily demonstrations that protesters have been saying that they have to

keep having out here on to the streets because the pressure on the government and some of them in fact believe that the current fires isn't as serious as people are saying working from home is being encouraged but not mandatory yet in fact many like real seal believe the government is reacting too slowly then yes they should have suspended classes much sooner this mall for example should still be open people are working inside with no protection. criticism against brazil's president jade includes calls for his resignation after he shook hands with well wishers and front of the presidential palace ignoring calls for social distancing 13 members of the delegation the traveled with him last week to president trump's florida retreat have tested positive to the virus. back in chile the government has taken another important preventative measure the annual influenza vaccination campaign has just kicked off 2 months early the elderly people with serious health problems and

children are 1st in line to avoid a potentially deadly scenario catching 2 serious viruses at the same time you see in human al-jazeera sent out. in the united states health authorities in the state of ohio have moved to postpone the presidential primary just hours before the polls were due to open there the state's health chief justified the decision saying it could expose photos to coronavirus it goes against the decision of a judge in ohio who earlier rejected a request to postpone the democratic and republican primaries 50 cases of the virus have been confirmed in the states that speak to john hendren in chicago for as john a lot of confusion over the last few hours over whether this ohio primary was going to go ahead or not. that's right this primary has been on again off again and it's changed by the hour in just recently in around 930 local time 1030 local time

the ohio health commissioner did what the governor and what the secretary of state were unable to do early in the day the governor said because of the c.d.c. has said that people should not gather in groups of more than 50 that it would be impossible to hold an election and that this would especially hold elderly people in a vulnerable state because of course they are the most vulnerable to the coronavirus that went to court that the state filed with the court and the governor lost that court said there's not enough time to do this thank you and the election would go forward been the governor and the secretary terry of state put out a statement saying that it would be irresponsible for them to go forward the election and then you have that statement from the health minister saying that the election would not go forward now for health reasons now that's one of the things you get when you have a governor in mike de wine who is not just a republican but also a former u.s. senator former attorney general this is a guy who knows how to use this system some cynics are saying he's

a republican he wants the democratic primary to go on as long as possible because as long as the democrats bernie sanders and joe biden are going after each other they're not going after donald trump in that postpones the real fight in a general election some people have been saying this could be bernie sanders last stand numerically it's not possible for joe biden to clinch this with a 4 states on the 577 delegates that will be handed out on tuesday but it could have increased the momentum by r.t. has but the truth is that your whining is really been head of the curve we've been closing restaurants ahead of other states and you've been very aggressive behavior and he just wasn't going to take no for an answer and he won in this case it looks like right so what does this mean then for the other primaries that are coming coming up john how you know with the coronavirus the disruption that is causing a fun right. well he's already cause the couple states to postpone those

primaries but they did it with 28 of time do one try to do it with just one day they've got 3 other primaries going forward here in illinois where i am right now you've got florida arizona all handing out yellow gets on tuesdays and within hours those polls will be opening and in those states those governments have said they're going to go forward but there are other states that are already beginning to postpone primaries that are weeks away and it's likely that more states will follow suit or what that could mean is it could be a while before we know who that democratic nominee is who will go up against donald trump and that is something that many republicans would like to see because as i said they want to see the democrats going after each other that's less time they'll have to go after donald trump all of which with the coronavirus crisis and the economy which should always be his friend and now appears like it could be as a kill he's he'll he's in

a particularly vulnerable spot so republicans are anxious to let this democratic primary stretch out of it and it looks like because of the increasing regulations on current virus that that could happen thank you thank you john john hendren i for essential. ron has recorded another big rise in the number of deaths linked to corona virus 129 were confirmed on monday among those dead is a senior member of tehran's assembly of experts with almost 15000 confirmed cases they are concerns a pandemic could overwhelm health facilities and an economy struggling under sanctions cases of corona virus have now been confirmed surat more than half of africa at least 30 countries are grappling with nearly 400 infections in kenya the president has encouraged people to work from home but as catherine so explain some nairobi many don't have medical insurance and have no choice but to risk their health. because most kenyans use public transport to get around

that's why some bus service providers are taking no chances this is one of the busiest bass stations in nairobi city center that. there were. enough for each and everyone on the road to understand. yeah. i go. along. to the next throughout the day because i want a little but it's opening the. windows. on sunday the government put in place new restaurant kitchens after 2 more cases of corona virus were confirmed bringing the total to 3 president to working out to address the nation announcing the indefinite closure of schools and universities along with a barrier of all visitors from corona virus affected nations and asking kenyans to avoid using cash among other measures government offices businesses

and companies are encouraged to allow employees to work from. many kenyans in the city rely on casual labor for their daily income and do not have adequate medical insurance they woke up to these headlines and are afraid things could get was people are bracing themselves for potential total lockdown if the disease continues to spread government officials say we're not there yet but some kenyans we spoke to here are confound about how they will feed their families if they're told to stay. out on much of a cell's treats to passengers and ses he cannot afford to stay home even for one day. a month you've been talking for that to be. recently punk way from it means to be fed needs to be paid. health officials are telling kenyans

not to panic maintain good hygiene and follow the guidelines being given they say that government isolation facilities are working and the country's prepared for the wost. this is at one of the government hospitals are however skeptical they say they don't have proper protective care and any way of ensuring their own families stay safe theirs is just one of the many problems the government faces as it tries to prevent its small outbreak from getting out of control catherine soy al-jazeera nairobi kenya some other news now in israel's president opposition leader benny gantz to form a new government ahead of prime minister benjamin netanyahu but there are plenty of obstacles in front of him harry fossett reports from jerusalem. they've been here before israel's president ruben rivlin last gave benny gantz the opportunity to form a government in october that time it ended in failure and eventually a 3rd election within a year now though gans has if only just

a majority of parliament members recommending him for prime minister 61 out of a 120 and he sounding confident. the time has come to fewer empty words and more big acts the time has come to set aside boycotts and saud's and reconnect again all the tribes of israel and all the citizens of israel we will beat the coronavirus we will pass through this crisis we will defeat the hatred because our hope is not gone yet days after israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu called on guns to join him in an emergency government dance returned the favor except with him not now at its head that israel's parliament the knesset cleaners disinfected the chamber the head of the official swearing in of its newly elected and reelected members a measure to stave off corona virus infection but likely to raise a rueful chuckle from voters who watched their politics dragged through the dirt this past year then another sign of these times of pandemic parliament declared open by the president in the chamber empty save for netanyahu and dance in the

knesset speaker. in democracy we may be able to replace the leadership we cannot replace the people not some one half of it and not the other half of it we're destined to live together and so have just one request to make of you give these people a government. israel's new coronavirus restrictions ban gatherings of more than 10 the members were sworn in 3 at a time there are questions how this new parliament will function under such conditions questions too about what kind of goldman benny gantz can hope to form one option is a minority government supported by the 15 mainly palestinian israeli members of the joint list but some within god's his own ranks oppose that so he may not get the votes the other option is a unity deal with netanyahu but on dances terms that would require netanyahu to give up the premiership a position he is desperate to retain ahead of his corruption trial delayed by the

coronavirus crisis until may. try to form a government within days he has 28 until his mandate expires a 4th election is still grimly possible are a force that al-jazeera westerners. the i. play again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has announced a 15 day plan to fight the coronavirus endemic with limits on social gatherings and is urging the elderly to stay at home if years of a growing global recession are growing as a pandemic sends markets around the world plunging again the dollar jones drops 12.9 percent and wall street trading was suspended european markets also cols down meanwhile china has reported only one new domestic coronavirus case the other 20 on monday were travis arriving from overseas new infection was reported in the

original epicenter of the outbreak in the capital of province france's president emanuel mccoy's describing new lockdown measures across the country as unprecedented for 2 weeks residents can only leave their homes to buy groceries travel to work or to seek medical care across has anyone flouting the rules will be punished. we are at war health was not against another country or another nation the enemy is there and it's advancing and that requires general mobilization we are at war. all the action of the government must not be focused on the fight against the epidemic by night or by day nothing must distract us health authorities in the usa to high you have postponed the presidential primary day just hours before polls were due to open the state's health chief justify the decision saying it could expose voters to corona virus 50 cases of the virus have been confirmed in ohio now the news russia's

foreign ministry says fighters in syria's last rebel held province of breaching the ceasefire it comes after russia and turkey were forced to cut short joint patrols when rebels brought to main road a cease fire deal was signed earlier this month the agreement came after direct confrontation between the turkish military and syrian government forces and russian president vladimir putin's efforts to remain in power have been given a boost find a constitutional court judges approved changes that could allow him to remain in power until 2036 by which time he would be 83 years old more than 18000 russians have signed a petition calling the reform an illegal cool. with a headline on al-jazeera more news as always on our website al-jazeera dot com witness is next. join me steve clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u.s. politics and society i'm changing but the institutions frequently don't the system itself is set up to benefit those who understand that you have people who actually

believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line on al-jazeera. 'd 'd 'd a one model of how i'm scared of one or. another and i would to my editor has it i mean assuming that. it's very hard. to lose a part of your country a part of civilization your culture. to day. stuff not an issue of. which could be.