[000:00:00;00] the old. a russian supermarkets in singapore is neighboring malaysia prepares to close its borders after a big leap in corona virus cases however china reports just one new infection in the very province where the pandemic began. live from doha everyone i'm kemal santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera streets are deserted as the french president declares war on the virus while the world health organization has its own battle plan we have

a simple message for all countries tears tears tears and in other news the u.s. led coalition begins pulling out hundreds of troops from bases in iraq. so we're starting in malaysia which has rolled out some of the most extreme restrictions after a big spike in coronavirus cases many linked back to a single events it is closing all its borders and says its own citizens cannot leave the country for at least the next 2 weeks malaysia's reported more than 300 cases in just the past 2 days the total there now at over 550 in europe the french president among your micron has declared war on the outbreak and is closing its borders from 1100 hours g.m.t. on tuesday which is about 3 hours away and britain the government under a lot of pressure there to toughen its approach it's now asking people to avoid non-essential travel and saying don't go out to pubs and clubs and theosis meanwhile u.s. president donald trump has announced

a 15 day plan to fight the virus and is urging no social gatherings of more than 10 people that takes you around the world with starting that with malaysia florence the quality of the nuisance florence take us through the restrictions that have been placed. right so the this is what malaysia is calling this a movement restriction order it comes into effect on wednesday and these are the 1st containment measures that the malaysian government has introduced and as you mention is linked to a single event a religious conference of muslim missionaries held between the 28th of february to the 1st of march now malaysia has reported more than $3550.00 cases and 60 percent of those confirmed cases came from this single event so the measures that are going to happen are the non-essential services whether it's government or provided by the private sector these have to be closed what still allowed to open will be shops in the sectors that are considered essential that discovers telecommunications

broadcasting energy electricity and food so restaurants will still be allowed to open but they won't be allowed to serve diet in customers they will be allowed to be open for deliveries and take away the most stringent measures come with malaysian borders malaysians are not allowed to leave the country and foreigners are not allowed to come in unless they're working in any of what considerate the essential sector is now this will affect not just malaysians but also singapore its neighbor in the south malaysia is one of the top which is the 3rd biggest trading partner for with singapore and when this announcement was made on monday night it triggered this as a spate of panic buying in singapore with many people worried that they won't be able to get essentials food our water toilet paper now and that has also been happening in malaysia many people fearing that they won't be able to go out but in fact supermarkets and shops will still be open for people to be able to buy what

they need now is also going to affect more than $100000.00 of people who are who live in malaysia but who study and work in singapore because it essentially means they won't be able to leave the country and what the singaporean government is doing is it's scrambling to find temporary accommodation at least for the next 2 weeks for affected workers now this lockdown in. asia is something that the malaysians that malaysians have been calling for ever since it 1st emerged that the . that the event the think a live event that took place in a mosque. on the outskirts of kuala lumpur was linked to this new cluster of corona virus cases emerging and in fact lock down malaysia was a trending topic on twitter on monday but on tuesday ever since the malaysian government has announced these containment measures trending to stay home challenge can i just go back quickly florence to this one of the you talking about this religious gathering because presumably thousands of people were there and it becomes a huge task of trying to track all those people. absolutely and in fact the

government has said that it doesn't have any way to track them down presumably they don't have the they don't you know they don't have the details of the people they don't know where they live they don't know the names of. these people to come forward and to be tested and that's the only way they can identify potential carriers of coronavirus and not only that there were $14500.00 nations who attend that event malaysia says they've been able to track down or at least more than a 1000 have come forward and they've been tested now and there are also a 1500 of these 16000 people who attended the event who are not from malaysia and they've since gone home to their own countries and in fact a few new cases have emerged because of the because of the think of the event we've had new cases being reported in cambodia and bruno i think of poor and so this is a worrying trend but this is worrying event this wasn't the only big religious gathering that took place this month that was also another event that took place in

the northern state of malaysia where at least tens of thousands of people attended this was organized by a hindu temple so far there are no cases linked to this but the government has said that all religious activities or places of worship have to be shut until the end of the month ok florence louis with a comprehensive up there from southeast asia will go a little further north and look at china which and this is really interesting it's reported just one new domestic coronavirus case in the past day 20 of the new infections were people arriving from overseas beijing expects its economy will return to normal in the 2nd quarter the latest government figures show industrial output cilla by a record 13 and a half percent in february and economists are warning any recovery in china may be slowed by the global economic fallout let's check in with katrina you know in beijing this is fascinating that they would be only one new infection in the place where all of the star said was is well what's the chinese government clearly doing

right here. that's right 21 new cases one new case in one as you said this is a big deal considering that in february there was one week where we saw more than 1000 cases every days or now just one case now obviously who plan is the main city the the epicenter of this virus and who be province at the peak of this outbreak the government declared the whole province under lockdown millions of people tens of millions were not allowed to leave their home to prevent the spread of this and now the government saying that those measures have worked and today 42000 medical staff that were actually flown into the city of wanted to help deal with all the cases have now been told that they can start to go home 80000 people had been affected by infected by this virus in china according to the government the majority of those people are now cured and these doctors and these nurses who came in to deal with these overwhelmed hospitals and who. have been told that they can now rest and they can leave and go back to their home province and for the chinese

government they've now said that the main threat to controlling this virus in china is actually coming from abroad after 21 cases reported last 24 hours 20 of those are people who were infected overseas and came into china and this is a big problem because every day about 100000 people come into the country more than 5000 flying into the capital beijing alone so the government is very much trying to discourage people from coming home they've lost 3 major chinese airlines to cut some of their flights coming in from overseas to help manage the risk people and according to the state media here they're saying that chinese nationals are flying home in droves because they do not trust the measures put in place by foreign governments to control the outbreak and they simply feel safer back in china where the outbreak does seem to be managed well in those numbers are going down now chinese government does seem to be on a bit of a sense of

a propaganda mission in the last few days in the just. recently last few hours they responded to a tweet by u.s. president donald trump who called code 19 a chinese virus now the chinese government said that that that tweet is a smear they've condemned that comment that follows 11 week ago the chinese government actually implied that it was possibly the u.s. military who brought the virus to china in the 1st place so there seems to be a bit of a warm words going between the 2 governments and we've just heard lots of you in a press conference the chinese health authorities have actually been boosting this message that they're in the process of testing a vaccine so analysts say there also seems to be some sort of race between the chinese government and the u.s. government to find to be the 1st to find a treatment and the 1st to find a vaccine full covered 19 very interesting developments out of china there with i could turn to you in beijing to iran which is close 3 of its holiest sites to visit

is despite strong opposition from protest as shrines in the city of. a were shut down to contain the spread of coronavirus in iran 853 people have died with almost 15000 confirmed cases more now. these are things that have been coming for some time now the government's been working up to this we heard about the shrines and the mosque and being closed a few days ago there was talk of closing the shrine outside to iran and as well as in the importance religious city of mush but there wasn't any timeline we're seeing now is the government last night taking the step of definitively shutting down the shrines what happened after that is that people with strong religious sentiment who felt the shrines should not be closed then gathered held sit ins and rallies at all 3 of those locations and in home a crowd gathered and damaged one of the doors it seems from the videos have been

posted online. the entryways into one of the shrines now these protests while certainly passionate were not that long live the crowds were in the hundreds and this is the kind of thing that really the government has been the been sort of working their way up to just to give you a sense of the significance of these shrines these are the religious sites that give the iranian government a great deal of political power through the fact that these are significant locations in terms of being burial sites for people considered to be descendants of the prophet many all 3 of the people buried in these places died as travelers so the tradition the religious belief in iran and for people who come to visit these sites is that their final resting place will never be without visitors so what we're seeing here is the government being forced to take a practical step to contain what are known vectors for the coronavirus crushing up against centuries of tradition and religious beliefs it's one of the reasons that

the government has been timid about doing this step in the 1st place. venezuela's president nicolas maduro has ordered all citizens to stay home to help contain the spread of coronavirus he said the move was drastic but necessary venezuela has more than 30 of the 155 confirmed cases across latin america chile i mean why has become the latest country in the region to announce the closure of its borders a latin america edison the syrian human with the support now from santiago. schools are closed airline traffic is nearly paralyzed latin american countries are moving quickly towards total isolation but most of the 30 have it not from closing or lower borders and no one will be able to enter argentina except citizens and permanent resident. crews president but of the m.v. 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 pre-capitalist in south america

president. announced all borders will be closed starting wednesday to give tourists time to leave. oh good up oh 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 the almost daily demonstrations that protesters have been saying that they have to keep having out here on the streets because the pressure on the government and some of them in fact believe that the coronavirus 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. the rest of the world news is coming up then while we're all watching corona virus a mosquito borne disease is also gripping latin america and also while the democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders could struggle to win the hispanic votes in florida. there's still some parts of europe that are surprisingly worn some have been surprisingly cold spain and portugal for example where actually bit rates now up to 60 or will be up to 60 degrees on tuesday having been about 10 with snow on the hills on monday that's a change in fortunes now elsewhere in europe it's looking quite dry at the moment the rain still coming in from the atlantic cross and and some parts of northern england and scotland with snow for the hills and still snow to come from norway

otherwise enjoy the sunshine in what is an increasingly warm swathe up through central europe it's not university warm but also in spain portugal it's slowly will have again this is the warm flu we're still talking about high teens really this is a comparison with what is average but eastern europe particularly to northerly breeze is really cool things down in fact as another storm developing in the east and meds so that will bring a strong wind dancer eastern libya and egypt eventually dropping temperatures the converse is true over our jiri the circulation even as it's bringing warmth of dissension along the coastline we're still talking about teens for the most part starts cold in the morning but that breeze is kept the cold although brought the cold 3 chips once again than the pasta sudan and northern chad a windy dusty affair. join nicolo bowl conversation half the battle for the people to expand their brains maybe have a different the day for. this is

a dialogue that women in cambodia are in fact selling their hair we don't know how much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to trace everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a lot right here in the street we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection on how does iraq. the latest news on coronavirus from around the world now there's been a rush to buy the basic essentials in singapore after neighboring malaysia decided to close its borders and this decision follows

a spike in corona virus infections 100 $25.00 new cases of bringing the total to $553.00. china has reported only one new domestic coronavirus case the other 20 were travelers arriving from overseas beijing says it expects its economy will return to normal in the 2nd quarter. and france has joined spain and italy in ordering people not to leave their homes except for work medical care or supplies it comes as thousands of new cases were reported across the e.u. which has closed its external orders. now while we're all watching the coronavirus pandemic another medical crisis is gripping latin america dengue fever cases are soaring from mexico to chile it's become one of the most common reasons for hospitalizations one colombian city has seen a 500 percent increase in cases in just a month. with this report from tally. colombia.

a fight that's raging against think. a woman died in the neighborhood after developing the mosquito borne disease one of 11 presumed related deaths last month so the city is fumigated by home. you know it's a delicate matter we need to be extremely careful with even the smallest poor of water i change the water of the plants every day not everybody does and it's dangerous. to me geishas are just one of many emergency measures to confront yesterday making the city where cases have soared from 118 in january to more than 5000. the this is the most kito that infects people with the virus lay eggs in any of the water for sanitation bad age and climate change with both heavy rains and long periods of drought are all making the outbreak worse. the cooler climate changes no doubt facilitated the breeding grounds these mosquitoes are

endemic here but they're finding the best conditions to her oh and the geno type seems to be more aggressive. then guess been spreading throughout latin america in the past year 1300 people have died since. you all spittles across the continent are struggling to keep up with the number of new patients more than 3000000 cases of being reported into tiles in 19 that's 6 times higher than the previous year and an all time high and the trend seems to be continuing in 2020 the disease has now become one of the main reasons for hospitalizations throughout latin america little council doing it will do more than at this and. not a lot of mental in the last 3 months the numbers have tripled from maybe 1520 per week to 50 or 70 we need to do more to stop the spread of this i think that what is that exactly one method that's been helping is breathing guppy fish eat more ski to

larvae in fountains in similar places. up the bus your home we are getting results but the worry now is that people will lower the guard because it tension is on this new coronavirus and we cannot make the mistake of forgetting then that can kill us if we don't keep up with it also would up with. a fight against time to get this outbreak under control before and not the one who arrives. listen to them and just kind. at least 20 people have been injured did in a car bomb that exploded in front of the government building this is in southern thailand happened in the city of yellow where officials were holding amazing to discuss the spread of coronavirus wayne hay with us now from bangkok on scott wayne take us through what you know. yes well as you mention this took place in yala province in the morning this is one of the 3 southernmost provinces of thailand

bordering malaysia and in those 3 southern provinces there is an alms a muslim separatist group operating or 'd several groups operating they are fighting for independence or greater autonomy from thailand and have been doing so for years thailand is of course a predominately buddhist country so these groups regularly stage attacks in the 3 southern most provinces they are usually relatively small the nature usually gonna text more bomb attacks targeting security forces government buildings as was the case just a few hours ago and also anyone that is seen to be sympathetic to the government in bangkok as i say there are several groups operating in southern thailand but there really is in recent years anyway one main group that is believed to be behind much of the violence that is beyond ran by recent revolutionise who now or the national revolutionary front we believe that it's highly likely that they be iran was behind this bomb attack outside

a government building where there were several local government leaders meeting with military officials as well as you say talking about coronavirus and how best to tackle this situation in southern thailand what makes this attack particularly interesting is one of the bombs there were 2 bombs outside that building one of them was a car bomb which is does happen in southern thailand but they are relatively rare the 2nd thing is that we seem to invented a new round of peace talks beginning in january the thai government he met with leaders of the separatist groups in kuala lumpur that had 2 meetings so far this year what makes those meetings interesting is that the rim again the group to be believed to be behind most of the violence in southern thailand was present at the table in the past in recent peace talks we haven't seen the key leadership. the iran taking part in those peace talks so there was real hope that perhaps we were heading down and new path toward some sort of sustainable peace at peace rather so

it seems perhaps if this was be our end perhaps they are sending a message that they are not happy so far with any progress that has or hasn't been made out of those 2 rounds of peace talks thank you for that update when hey in bangkok. no the u.s. led coalition fighting in iraq says it will repay troops from smaller bases in the country u.s. stance stationed at several bases could begin to leave for larger bases in iraq syria and kuwait within days doesn't u.s. troops have been wounded in recent weeks after running bank launched a series of attacks on american bases in iraq the u.s. military says the redeployment was planned before those strikes more details now from simona 14 reporting from baghdad. for now these troops are just being represented to other bases within iraq and officials are telling us that overall

the troop levels will remain the same but there is also some talk that these replenishing measures could be a 1st step to eventually pave the way for a partial drawdown on troop of troops here in iraq over the next few months we understand that the base which is in the western unbar province will be the 1st one to be affected by this repositioning there will be a closing ceremony that will be held later today and this will be followed by a similar ceremonies in the k. one base in kirkuk as well as other bases around iraq now coalition officials have said that these movements were planned for months but of course they come right at the back of 2 attacks on the military base which resulted in the deaths of 3 quality personnel as well as several injuries and this is has led many to believe that in fact these repositioning measures could also be a way to try to protect coalition troops it's easier to protect them if they're

consolidated in fewer bases especially because the coalition recently got approval to install patriot missiles at some of the bases here in iraq to protect them from incoming rocket fire and this picture of missiles be understandable mostly be installed at the base. and bill in the northern kurdistan it's possible that eventually troops will be concentrated in these 2 bases. let's look at the latest news in the race to the white house now the democratic race at least in the days of bernie sanders winning over hispanic voters could end florida's democratic party begins its. primary the polling shows the former vice president joe biden with a commanding lead over the state among the state's latino voters son has recently praised cuba's fidel castro and describes himself as a democratic socialist which in the end the 2 things that could see him lose in the sunshine state and support from miami with andy gallacher. bernie sanders is built

a strong coalition with support it's been the envy of rival campaigns in nevada california and texas he decisively won over hispanic voters keen to embrace his so-called revolution. in florida though things are different like you know voters here tend to be older more moderate and wary of a candidate who proclaims himself a socialist when you see venezuelans that have escaped oppressive regimes democratic strategist evil and perez vidia says talk of progressive politics may backfire on the sanders campaign but this he says has the same tent as well so nice that in companies that's just the light it's into. so we have to be careful with messaging we have to be careful with words according to some polls sanders messaging appears to be driving hispanic voters to former vice president joe biden and in a state with 219 delegates that could mean

a knockout blow bernie sanders recently praised cuba's fidel castro saying his literacy program was a good thing that's a hard pill to swallow for a 1000000 cuban americans here who escaped the castro regime it also resonates with nicaraguans and venezuelans who escaped socialist leaders in their homeland it's a kind of deep seated fear of a self about socialist that could spell trouble for the sanders campaign they already threw myself in my has been for vote by mail democratic party activists say it's important candidates realize how leftwing politics viewed by a vital voting bloc in a must win state they are a little bit hesitant. when one of our candidates start praising left wing governments and not understanding how raw those emotions are in the community to syria to very webmin says fears about socialism to make it hard to convince latinos to vote for the democratic party i am

a very blunt person and i usually tell them. would you like the government to help you a little bit more you know would do you believe in everybody should have the same rights about healthcare and they answer yes and i said then why are you voting republican hispanic voters here aren't a monolithic voting bloc they look for a leadership varies and while many are united over issues like health care education and climate change fear of socialism runs deep potentially boosting joe biden's bid in a state that seen as a road to the white house and a gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. health authorities in the u.s. state of ohio meanwhile have moved to postpone their presidential primary just hours before the polls are due to open the state's health chief says it could expose voters to coronavirus decision to call off polling goes against a judge's refusal to shut it down but the case is a bit concerned in ohio so far. and russia's president vladimir putin his efforts

to remain in power of been given a boost from 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 he's been in office twice as president and served one term as prime minister and is currently required to step down in 4 years' time and more than 18000 russians have signed a petition calling the reform an illegal coup. headlines now and there was a rush to buy basic essentials in singapore after neighboring malaysia decided to close its borders kuala lumpur's decision follows a spike in corona virus infections authorities there reported $125.00 cases the total is now at find $153.00 more from. the measures that are going to happen about the non-essential services whether government or provided by the private

sector they'd have to be closed what will be shops in the infective are considered essential and discovered telecommunications broadcasting energy electricity and food so restaurants will still be allowed to open but they won't be allowed to dine in customers they will be allowed to be open for delivery and takeaway but the most stringent measures come with malaysian boarded malaysians are not allowed to leave the country and foreigners are not allowed to come in unless they're working in any of what considered the essential selective. but china's reported only one new domestic coronavirus case the other 20 were from travelers arriving from overseas beijing says it expects its economy will return to normal in the 2nd quarter while iran's close 3 of its holiest sites to visit is despite strong opposition from protesters shrines in the city of mashad home and shuttle ray were shut down to contain the spread of corona virus 853 people have died in iran with almost 15000

confirmed cases but as well as president nicolas maduro has ordered all citizens to stay home to help contain the spread of coronavirus he said it was drastic but necessary venezuela has more than 30 of the 155 cases in latin america chile has also become the latest country in the region to close its borders and in other news the u.s. led coalition fighting i still in iraq says it will reposition troops from smaller bases in the country to a staff stationed at several bases could begin to leave the larger bases in iraq syria and kuwait within days 2 dozen u.s. troops have been wounded in recent weeks after iranian backed armed groups launched a series of attacks on u.s. forces in iraq the u.s. military says the redeployment was planned before the strike you are up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is things. talk to al-jazeera. what your thoughts were when you saw that document story we listen to after the war

saying you're peons go build united states of you. with we meet with global newsmakers the stories that matter just 0. me ok as coronavirus disrupts life across the united states some people are criticizing president donald trump to 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 u.s. daily life has changed dramatically as schools workplaces and other institutions close to prevent the owners from spreading after initially downplaying the virus