on al-jazeera. the old. u.s. president donald trump's 15 day plan to fight coronavirus while with limits on social gatherings and the elderly to stay home. fully back to go this is out just 0 live from doha we've got extensive coverage of the corona virus outbreak including wall street suffers its worst day in more than 3 decades as investors panic about the pandemics economic impact a positive sign from the original epicenter of the virus china's will be a province recourse just one new infection and cerise is a tale as a french president declares war on the virus while at the world health organization

has its own battle plan. a simple message for all countries terrorist there's tests. the global response to the corona virus pandemic is ramping up but the world health organization is imploring governments to test far more people with a suspected infection french fries in demand in michael 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 while the british government which has been under pressure to tough its approach is now asking people to avoid nonessential travel and pops clubs and fear his u.s. president donald trump has issued similar advice and is aging no social gatherings of more than 10 people alan fischer brings us more on the lathe. spy the u.s.

. 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 is some help . but it could still take a year to have something for universal use back in washington the president and i was 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 good and it can make you. 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 alan fischer al-jazeera washington for fears of the facts of coronavirus and what they'll have on the economy continuing to cause wild swings on wall street for the 3rd time in little more than a week new york sondos dow jones index had its west point drop in history in any sound on reports. the opening bell by another plunge in the market and a halt 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 coronavirus case on monday the other 20 were involved it involved travelers arriving from overseas the new locally transmitted infection was detected in the original epicenter of the outbreak was on the capital of hope 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 let's speak to those in hong kong for us so cyrus some good news there with the numbers of cases still dramatically falling.

here's the good news does continue out of mainland china 21 confirmed cases of the crown of virus infection on monday and that's up from 16 the die earlier but we have the 21 new cases 20 of those cases were the imported versions of the virus so what the biggest battleground now is for china is to stop the virus from coming back in with arrivals international travelers coming to china some trying to bait some the travel restrictions which have been imposed globally the death toll as you mentioned about 13 deaths were confirmed on monday at 12 of those disks were in the who by province and which is the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak they accounted for 11 of those so certainly the new battleground for china is trying to stop the importation of coming back in and they put in place some heavy quarantine restrictions all travelers arriving into beijing will now have to go into quarantine for 14 days but those quarantine facilities will be run by the government and the people in those quarantine facilities will have to pay so certainly china's trying to discourage any new arrivals in hong kong we've got some

new alerts here we got the red alert being issued by hong kong's chief executive kerry lam on tuesday she's basically saying all international travelers except for those from macau mainland china and taiwan will now have to go into quarantine or self isolation for 14 days their concern now is a 2nd wave of the outbreak we had 20 travelers arriving at the airport on monday evening all reported fever symptoms and coronavirus like symptoms and they've all now been put in quarantine so again it's the importation of the virus that cities like hong kong and now worried about so meanwhile airline sour and the markets have been struggling across the region. well as these travel restrictions are being put in place globally airlines are being hardest hit we had quantised chief executive alan joyce on monday he issued an e-mail to all his 30000 staff saying this was what will be the single biggest shock for the global global aviation industry ever experience out there now it's

a cut of 90 percent of its international capacity and 60 percent of its domestic capacity as a result of these travel restrictions and that will continue until at least the end of my now in new zealand it's also cut its flights to australia simply because a strategy now has these heavy travel restrictions on all travelers arriving into a strata for 14 days of self isolation they've cut their flights by 80 percent from march until june and cathay pacific which is one of asia's biggest airlines based in hong kong it's now cut up to 90 percent of its capacity of flights and if these travel restrictions continue they will extend that to. say that cargo flights of the cargo industry that's the one area the one positive that seems to be occurring at the moment with the cargo the right searching for cargo flights one friday line company said that 2020 is going to be the year of the freighter thank you sara for that update sara clark live for us in hong kong now france's president is describing new lockdown 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 baka looks at what's happening across europe go over it 19 has silenced entire cities 100000000 europeans of. paris woke 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 the old essential movement he summed up the worsening crisis in one word. on gas. 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 fight a fire blindfolded and we cannot stop this bundle 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 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 on necessary 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. as the number of virus cases increases in remaining

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 bracing for impact across latin america state leaders take harsh steps to try and hold a pandemic in its tracks. the news tasked with ending a political stalemate israel's president asks opposition leader of any guns to form a new government. hello again the weather here in the arabian peninsula is largely fine certainly in

doha we're expecting sunshine and 28 degrees but look behind me and we've got this area of low pressure pushing into the eastern side of the mediterranean so all the way from lebanon syria through parts of jordan and down towards israel we can expect some pretty wet weather to develop if you're in the course of tuesday strong winds driving down as well so it could be a bit of dust around and so in a storm system is going to stir things up over the next couple of days before 24 hours and you can see that system then clearing away from the mediterranean coastline but certainly some heavy rain likely through parts of iran and iraq we're going to see some snow across as i cross mountains and we're also going to get some very strong winds so once again we could see some dust lift up through the tigris and euphrates river valleys further south a few showers possible down through saudi arabia into yemen but again a draw i'm fine for the most part here in doha with highs of 27 degrees turned into east africa we've got plenty of showers for tanzania showers affects more southern parts of kenya too i mean you notice those showers across ethiopia certainly could

see the old downpour during the course of the day across southern parts of africa a main feature remains our tropical cyclone which is harold is moving clear of marshes antananarivo should be fine highs of 26. in 2014 and al-jazeera investigation revealed how anger and fear fear will be in a crisis that ravaged west africa we asked our lives they didn't allow you to ask for to know we are dying 3 years on we speak to the filmmaker the one thing that spread ebola and caused the devastation fear that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with ebola on al-jazeera. the the in.

there watching out is there a live from doha a reminder of 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 his are aging the elderly to stay at home or fears are growing of a global recession nasty corner virus and markets around the world's plunge me again the dow jones dropped 12.9 percent and wall street trading was suspended european markets also closed down and china has reported only one new domestic coronavirus case on monday the 21 travelers arriving from overseas a new locally transmitted infection was detected in the original epicenter of the outbreak was high on the capital of her bay province. now health authorities in the

usa the heart of ohio have moved to postpone the presidential primary just hours before polls were due to open the state's health chief said it could expose voters to call a virus the decision to call off the vote goes against a judge's refusal to shut it down 50 cases have been confirmed in ohio so far john 100 is in chicago explains the debate around whether to delay the vote. 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 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 is with this special we 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 and the election would go forward

then 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 that 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 in the 577 delegates that will be handed out on tuesday but it could have increased the momentum that biden r.t. has but the truth is that they do wining has really been head of the curve we've

been closing restaurants ahead of other states and he's been very aggressive be here and he just wasn't going to take no for an answer. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has ordered all citizens to stay home from tuesday and a quarantine aimed at cutting off the spread of coronavirus after at least $155.00 cases were confirmed in latin america chile has become the latest country to announce the closure of its borders a latin america it's only seen him and reports schools are closed airline traffic is nearly paralyzed latin american countries are moving quickly towards total isolation but also the 3rd not from your close or lower borders and nor will be able to enter argentina except citizens and permanent residence. crews president but of the scott i want to step further announcing a state of emergency and mandatory home isolation. in neighboring chile the country with the highest number of confirmed cases per capita in south america presidents

have a stamp 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 if 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 the almost daily demonstrations that protesters have been saying that they have to keep having out here on to the street to keep the pressure on the government and some of them in fact believe the coronavirus isn't as serious as people are saying working from home is being encouraged but not mandatory yet in fact many like

reseal believe the government is reacting too slowly then yes they should have suspended cost as much sooner this mall for example should still be open people are working inside with no protection. criticism against brazil's president not all 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. and even one has recorded another big rise in the number of deaths 129 more confirmed on monday among those dead is a senior member of tehran's assembly of experts with almost 15000 confirmed cases the i can sense a pandemic could overwhelm health facilities and an economy struggling under sanctions he has more from tehran president hassan rouhani during his statements seem to say that the peak of the virus is over in iran and certainly he was about a week or 10 days early if experts are to be believed but it certainly struck an optimistic a positive tone hours later hours after the news spread across the country and adviser to the president's office issued a correction saying that is not actually what the president said if you listen to the translation of the audio what he said is that the figures seem to suggest that there is a positive trend in terms of combating the spread of the coronavirus but even with that seems to contradict the numbers that are in black and white another record

setting day for the death tolls on the same day earlier today hours after president hosni on spoke a member of his coronavirus task force the man in charge of the task force for the city of iran painted a much more serious picture calling it biologically different from this happening in china more complicated and if it's not taken seriously it could be something that could proliferates and becomes even worse well into the later part of this year the head of the i.r.g.c. major general sense alarm went on national television and literally begged people to stay at home saying that the virus was a chain and to break it people have to stay home so these contradictory messages will not help the government to get its people on board. now they haven't been any reported cases of corner virus in libya despite it being surrounded by affected countries that's good news because the health sector in the capital tripoli is already struggling after months of attacks by forces loyal to warlord money for have time. for some tripoli. as crooner virus

the globe no cases have so far been reported yet in libya or the tripoli be used the government is already taken preventive measures a state of emergency has been declared airports and border crossings will be closed for 3 weeks schools and universities for at least 2 weeks social gatherings have been restricted restaurants and cafes must close after 4 pm when this lady. for sure we are losing sales and income no one is happy with that but for us safety is more important than money. government officials are also doing what they can to reassure the public. that we have started operating swing shops to produce the masses and we're also preparing teams to spray streets with disinfectant libya so far one of the least affected countries by covert $195.00 of its

neighbors have been hit by the violence that's because it's been isolated from the outside world by war and instability. but its weak health care system could put it at risk for a possible break in. the capital tripoli has been under attack by forces loyal to warlord plea for have to for almost a year now medical facilities have been striving to treat war casualties amid a shortage of equipment and medications health officials say they are worried they might not be able to deal with people infected by couvade 19. i'm assuring all citizens that we would never hide any information about any possible cases vista geisha might take longer what worries us is that we have unrestrained borders with those countries which have the disease and still deny it

the country is suffering a financial crisis is due to the blockade of the oil exporting terminals by have to those forces and i would break of coronavirus would put even more pressure on already severely strained resources. without the word. tripoli some other news now in russia's foreign ministry says fighters in syria's last rebel held province are breaching the cease fire it comes after russia and turkey were forced to cut short joint patrols when rebels rocked a main road that ceasefire deal was signed earlier this month the agreement came after a direct confrontation between the texas military and syrian government troops. a japanese man has been sentenced to death by hanging for one of the country's most worst mass murders said oh she sat 9000 people with mental disabilities at a care home near tokyo in 2016 and 30 year old targeted many of his victims as they

snapped 26 others were injured during the attack. now russia's president vladimir putin's efforts to remain in power have gotten a bull storm the country's constitutional court judges approved changes that could allow him to remain in power until 2036 by which time he would be 83 years old has been in office twice as president and served one term as prime minister he is currently required to step down in 4 years time more than 18000 russians have signed a petition calling the reform an illegal call. israel says president has asked 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 fawcett reports from jerusalem. they've been here before israel's president riven 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 the guns has if only just

a majority of parliament members recommending him for prime minister 61 out of 120 and he sounding confident. the time has come to fewer him to words in more big acts the time has come to set aside boycotts and swords 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 grants returned the favor except with him not know that it's heard. it 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 but we cannot replace the people not some other not one half of it and not the other half of it and 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 was sworn in 3 at a time there are questions how this new parliament will function under such conditions questions too about what kind of government 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's desperate to retain ahead of his corruption trial delayed by the

coronavirus crisis until may dan says he'll 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. play again i'm fully battle with the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has announced a 15 day plan to fight the coronavirus with limits on social gatherings is also urged the elderly to stay at home or fears a growing of a global recession as the pandemic sends markets around the world plunging again a dire jones drop 12.9 percent and wall street trade in west suspended european markets also kills down china has reported only one new domestic on a virus case on monday the other 20 were travelers arriving from overseas the new locally transmitted infection was detected in the original epicenter of the

outbreak on the capital of a province france's president emanuel mccloy's describing new 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 mike ross says anyone flouting the rules will be punished. some on. we are at war health wise 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 not be focused on the fight against the epidemic by night or by day nothing must distract us. health authorities in the u.s. state of ohio have moved to postpone the presidential primary just hours before polls were due to open the safe house chief says it could expose voters to coronavirus to decision to call off the vote goes against

a judge's refusal to shut it down 50 cases of corn a virus have been confirmed in ohio so far now the news russia's foreign ministry says fighters in syria's last rebel held off and start breaching the cease fire it comes after russia and turkey were forced to cut short joint patrols when rebels brought to main roads the cease fire deal was signed earlier this month and a japanese man has been sentenced to death by hanging for one of the country's worst mass murders said oh she'll not so stabbed to death 900 people with mental disabilities at a kennel in tokyo in 2016 the 30 year old targeted many of his victims as they slept he claimed his victims were a burden to society. those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year it's a stream to say with us. talk to al-jazeera. what were your thoughts were when you saw the documents. we listen to war saying you go build you know the stage of you but. with you we meet with global newsmakers and talk about

the stories that matter go to 0. i mean ok as coronavirus disrupts life across the united states some people are criticizing president all trumps the his handling of the crisis now could his response to the pandemic impact his reelection bid in november share your thoughts with us on twitter or in our live chat and you too could be in the stream. there are now more than 3700 confirmed cases of covert 19 in the us daily life has changed dramatically as schools workplaces and other institutions close to prevent the owners from spreading after initially downplaying the virus for several weeks.