range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of the networks jan. announces iraq. shelves are empty to out in malaysia is preparing for border closures and a ban on all travel after a big rise in corona virus cases and the shutdown in europe is intensifying new restrictions are now in place in france. the whole romany watching out is there a lot of my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes 2 explosions rock a government office in southern thailand. also a 2nd term to and months of political uncertainty in iraq a former regional governor is named as prime minister designate.

hello welcome to the program the restrictions in many countries around the world are set to get a whole lot more extreme in the coming hours in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus malaysia will roll out some of the most drastic rules at midnight on tuesday no one will be allowed to leave for 2 weeks and its borders are being sealed and that's led to panic buying in malaysia and in neighboring singapore in the middle east iran has temporarily released $85000.00 prisoners and it's closed off access to religious shrines much to the anger of many worshippers much of europe is going into lockdown as well france's sealing its borders now president manuel now says the nation is at war with the coronavirus. well in a few moments we'll be speaking to natasha in southwest france but 1st let's go straight over to lawrence florence louis who is in kuala lumpur force of course the

crisis seems to originated from just one event just talk us through what seems to have happened and how it's impacted on the whole country. that's right now in malaysia has now recall reported $120.00 new cases on tuesday bringing its total to more than $670.00 cases now more than 60 percent of the total cases are linked to one single event that is a conference of muslim missionaries that took place at a mosque just outside of kuala lumpur between 28th of february and the 1st of march now $16000.00 people attended this event 14500 malaysians malaysia has now reported its 1st deaths 2 people died and one of them was a man who had attended this conference now out of the 16000 people attending this conference a 1500 are foreigners they've also and in fact this new cluster was 1st reported after a man had returned home to his country of brunei and tested positive for covert 19

in other countries singapore indonesia and cambodia also reported new cases of covert 19 from the single event in fact in cambodia its number of cases double to 24 and out of the 12 new cases all but one are linked to this religious conference the government has been under pressure to implement some sort of measure to restrict the movement of people to limit mass gatherings and it has now been said that this movement control order as it's known in malaysia is well come into effect on wednesday now what this means is that government offices businesses that don't provide essential services will have to shut now a few categories for and essential services including telecommunications water electricity broadcast transport food so restaurants will be allowed to remain open but they won't be allowed to serve dine in customers only for takeaway and delivery . stops in soup supermarkets and markets are allowed to remain open but there was

some confusion so that triggered a spate of panic buying in supermarkets in malaysia but the most stringent of the measures has to do with its borders now even interstate travel the police chief has now come out to say. malaysians who want to travel into state will have to seek permission from the police no malaysians will be allowed to leave malaysia for the next 2 weeks until the 31st of march and foreigners will not be allowed to come into the country unless they work in one of the essential services now these measures affect not just malaysia but also singapore neighboring singapore which is just south of malaysia now this is a country that does a lot of trade with malaysia imports a lot of food from malaysia so the announcement triggered a spate of panic buying people streamed into shops in supermarkets to buy essential is that singapore prime minister had to reassure people that the movement of freight and goods between singapore and malaysia will not be affected what will be affected however is the movement of workers and that could potentially destruct the

singapore economy so slowly in call of thank you all on to europe now where spain has just revealed really 2000 new cases of coronavirus as infections the top 11 phones and and france is closing its borders natasha butler joins me live now from in southwest france natasha the french really waking up to a new reality on tuesday yes that's the it's in fact i've midday here local time in. the french presence about omar or as news director measures. is in lockdown after a few days and weeks we've been looking from here and fogs late what's been happening there with the empty streets and people standing in choose a meter of pots but few here really understood so imagine some signal or bonds of being in the same position here we are the same situation indeed people having to stay in their home or government is that they must mistreat

all men but you can only go out it was something essential so to them by going and or if you have a job that means what you called a work from home such as being a health worker of course people can go for walks and things like that but they are not allowed to have any contact in the street they must be alone at all times and in battle michael says that this is necessary to stop the spread of the coronavirus already is such an unprecedented health crisis in france he has said that france is at war with this health crisis and that the only way we can deal with it is by all take not only responsibility so right now streets across the country of forney eerily quiet and people as you said i mean people are really coming to terms with what will be their reality at least for 60 days according to michael and of course i know you live in the urban area of paris your own glam it's a very beautiful part of france on it well myself very for you say people have to

take responsibility i mean how board of a with the message that is coming from the capital do you see that they are bored whether it's in the rural areas or as you left the capital. i think the situation has really changed over the last few days i would say to you a few days ago that people perhaps once fully aware of what taking responsibility meant that they weren't practicing what we're now calling a social distancing that they were so they were still going out in crowds i mean until a few days good restaurants and bars were open once restaurants bars shock people so he became more aware that their own movements would be restricted and that it was for their own good but i think still people were gathering still people having picnics outdoors in the cities on a nice day but in the last few days and take you in the last 24 hours i've really seen a shift i've been in supermarkets where people have been standing apart something i didn't see a few days ago i have more and more people are wearing masks and there's no doubt

you know i can sense even around me that the roads are eerily quiet so i can't hear a call of the road and that is the case a few moments ago so there has been a shift people are more aware and people are becoming more scared of course because they know that the current of ours cases are going up they know because health french experts say it's not only something which affects elderly people increasingly they're seeing people next 30 s in their forty's getting a critically ill having to be put into hospital so i think people are also they're scared they're worried and they are just have to go and have to get used to the fact that this isn't very unpredictable situation because none of us know how long this will last natasha buffalo you know glen friends thank you. no iran has close 3 of its holiest sites to visitors despite strong opposition from protesters shrines in the city of mashad calm and shoddy they were shut down to contain the spread of coronavirus the government's just said that 135 more people have died taking the death toll to 988 and toronto's temporally freed about 85000

prisoners in response to the pandemic last week the un asked around to release them to help stem the virus spreads zain joins me now live from tehran via skype before we talk about the prisoners say let's just talk about these new figures more worrying figures for the iranian hierarchy to be concerned about absolutely when the death toll was in the high seventy's on a daily basis certainly people worry but now we've seen consistently record breaking death tolls day by day numbering over 100 every single time 135 new cases as you mentioned the overall death toll edging ever closer to the $1000.00 mark we've also seen $1178.00 new cases of contractions overall and that brings our total to more than 16016169 cases of the current virus here in iran we've seen a number of recoveries but certainly the overall spread of the virus keeping pace

this weeks in to this public health crisis here in the country and of course the release of these prisoners certainly raises a few eyebrows zain i mean how are they going to return back to prison will they come back voluntarily. well certainly as far as the security apparatus is concerned they would not have released these prisoners if they weren't going to be able to bring them back into custody by april 3rd that is the date for the end of this furlough this was agreed to by the judiciary by the justice system or a latent in february and they've been slowly releasing tens of thousands at a time 1st it was 35000 that around 50000 then last week it was around 70000 and now we're seeing this latest number of 85000 announced earlier today now these prisoners are generally nonviolent offenders nonviolent offenders with short prison sentences the number that has been announced today includes some political prisoners as well but they all should expect to go back into prison in april on the

face of it this certainly seems like a magnanimous decision by a government that is strict that is religious at a time of a national health crisis but we have to look beyond that and put it in context of the prison system itself that the jails generally here are considered overcrowded preventable illnesses are a constant problem and we have or heard reports from prisoners inside that there is chaos in terms of trying to prevent infections of the coronavirus in the prison system and some prisoners have even said that they've had to provide their own so certainly overcrowding remains a problem and this is certainly not something that they're doing just out of the kindness of their hearts this is a practical measure because the prison system can't perhaps provide the required medical services that the prisoners might need now the question has to be asked were these prisoners tested for the current virus before they're released well what we can go by is what the spokesman said they don't represent any sort of security or public threat and that's the only reason they have been released but we have to

look at what job in the room on the un special rapporteur for human rights in iran said last week that despite the fact that the government is taking this step it is too little too late so it was driving into her own thank you. china has reported just one new domestic front of virus case in the past day 20 other new infections were people arriving from overseas beijing expects its economy will return to normal in the 2nd quarter but the latest government figures showed fell by record 13.5 percent in february economists are warning any recovery in china may be slowed by the global economic fall and the united kingdom's prime minister has asked citizens to avoid all unnecessary contact and travel after the number of current virus just increased from 35 to 55 on monday the government has changed its initial approach based on the idea that the majority of the population would become infected to develop a so-called herd immunity that's after scientific modeling found the death toll could be as high as a quarter of

a 1000000 well still ahead here on out as there are so far bernie sanders has done well among hispanic primary voters but is expected to be a different story in florida we'll tell you why after the break. had of the sun's out again extensively in northern china that's lifting the temperatures but it's also most predominant in the sky over japan the temperatures are rising again 80 in tokyo is on shore breeze which means some rain showers in normal honshu and the saw is well underway in 8 degrees in sapporo there is rain again gathering in southern china and it will include hong kong air quality is variable with the actual haziness of the air is quite notable at the moment and that will turn into rain that streaks across into taiwan eventually through the

smaller islands in southern japan and then start to bring some rain as a honshu come thursday heading towards tokyo probably away 10 to day for you. that further west there's no monsoon rain yet but you do see a head to the clouds coming up from the south visibly the 1st that we see so it'll be rain for strength and probably this eastern side of the delta this could scatter michel's elsewhere but it's just a scattering really and in northern india temperatures are rising up to 30 mark in delhi having had a good deluge any couple of days ago nothing in the immediate future but there will be another wave on its way through that showing itself at the moment as a depression in the eastern med deteriorating weather conditions for lebanon. but for the journey both dark perceive you know there's a very for everybody there's a lot of corruption and beautiful lake and beautiful lady you have to be very

patient and woodies also the city has ascended you can see how i was introduced to it though when my father and my mother or our chief or king for how the personal story to discover the source of one of the most expensive commodities sent from heaven on our just 0. 0. 0. 0. welcome back you're watching our deservedly so run a reminder of our top stories malaysia's decision to lock down its borders after a spike in corona virus infections has led to panic buying in supermarkets authorities have reported 673 cases. china has reported only one

domestic coronavirus case the other 20 were travelers arriving in from overseas that beijing says it expects the economy will return to normal in the 2nd quarter spain has just revealed nearly 2000 new cases of the virus and that tops to now 11 files of the infected and france is also people want to leave their homes except for work medical care or supplies. more our top story now the outbreak means that lots of words being used here on news online and in your communities that you might not of heard before his alexy o'brian to explain. the corona virus outbreak is moving fast there's always a new update new advice and it can all same a bit confusing and overwhelming so let's start with corona virus itself it's an umbrella term for 7 viruses that interfere with the way we breathe from a common colds to something real serious this latest virus causes the disease

that's been hauled 9 tain the 9 comes from corona virus disease 2019 and the symptoms often start with a cough a favor and shortness of breath most people will recover without needing special treatment but some will become seriously ill usually older people and those with existing health problems and any of us can spread the virus through tiny droplets from coughing or breathing this map from johns hopkins university shows how far it spread in just 12 weeks or so with more than 180000 cases worldwide and that's why we're all being told to engage in social distancing a term now training on twitter keeping at least an ace or a pass in some countries restaurants schools parks and places of worship are being caused to stop people gathering together because you're just putting in the beauty of these fish if you really need to stretch your legs do it on your own or with

those you live with keep your distance from others and under no circumstances see people who are not from your home. the british prime minister says that without drastic action cases can double every 5 to 6 days now is the time for everyone to stop non-essential contact with others and to stop on necessary for travel. we need people to start working from home where they possibly can and you should avoid pubs clubs theaters and other such social venues this is all to flatten the curve slowing the spread of the virus so that our health care systems don't become overwhelmed the curve represents the number of cases over time so flattening the curve means preventing a huge surge of new cases in a very short period of time delaying transmission keeps more people safe and that's

what they're managing to do in south korea which at one point had the highest number of cases outside china compare that to italy where the outbreak quickly spiraled out of control reporting thousands of new cases every day and how long is all this for scientists say that's the big question because right now where in uncharted territory in other news a car bomb explosion in southern thailand has injured at least 20 people the blast in the city of yala happened as local government leaders met to discuss the coronavirus crisis when he has more from bangkok. it's this attack took place at around 10 day morning and it was designed to cause maximum potential tactics employed by the attackers and it's at the mill you want to cut in thailand there was one explosion that took place outside that meant building clearly designed to get people to come outside to see what was going on and then a logical with some minutes later the inside

a big yalla province is one of the 3 southern most provinces in thailand neighboring malaysia and iraq and muslim groups operating in the its problems his mouth fighting for independence or greater autonomy from thailand which is mainly buddhist action troops the mylan really intensified around 16 years ago and since then we've seen around 7000 people killed we never get any claims of responsibility out at least types of attacks as a seder a syrian groups operating but in recent years it's decision and increasingly call in on the largest group in southern thailand as areason reduce the national or international rouge front being behind most of the violence so again suspicion will be out ran out of being responsible for this bomb attack iraq's president has appointed a new prime minister designate as the former regional governor. he now has 30 days to form a government it's the latest attempt to advance

a political deadlock and unrest from samina full teen invective. of nuns will say is the current member of parliament for the nasser alliance which is the party of former prime minister haidar the body and he's also somebody who served before us the governor of not just province under the paul bremmer administration following the 2003 us invasion so he's somebody who is seen as being rather close to the west rather being rather close to the united states and this is one of the factors that he's likely to face some of position from the shia parties in parliament who have especially recently adopted a rather hostile stance towards the u.s. military presence now in nominating him president barham salih a very unusual step usually is the largest bloc in parliament that puts a name for prospective candidates for the president and the president then accept or reject this name but since the political parties have not been able to come up with a candidate among themselves president barham saleh nominated

a candidate on his own and of course that means that he could face some issues in trying to get the support of the parliament. let's bring you more now on the us to combat the current virus pandemic the u.s. president has also announced a 15 day plan to fight the virus and it's edging people to avoid social gatherings of more than 10 people all official has the latest from the u.s. . if there's a cure for coronavirus 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 are some. 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 supplies and when. 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 allan fisher al-jazeera washington. polls open in the u.s. state of florida where voters are choosing which democrat they want to challenge donald trump in the vendors presidential election the sunshine state is one of 3 voting on choose day former vice president joe biden appears to have a commanding lead with latino voters over his rival bernie sanders and reports from miami. bernie sanders has 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 to have this game oppressive pretty democratic strategist evil and perez vidia says talk of progressive politics may backfire on the sanders campaign but this is so has the same tent as well so nice that the company says just a light or 2 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 and also resonates

with nicaraguans and venezuelans who escaped socialist leaders in their homeland it's a kind of deep seated fear of a self avowed socialist that could spell trouble for the sanders campaign they already threw myself and 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. it's trite praising left wing governments and not understanding how raw emotions are in the community to syria to webmin says fears about socialism to make it hard to convince like to nose 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 what 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 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 he gallacher all jazeera miami florida or the world is watching the krona virus pandemic and other medical crisis is gripping latin america don't you think the case is all soaring all the way from mexico to chile i listened on p.r.t. reports and from carly. in columbia city a fight this raging against doing fever the democrats are saying is that body a woman died in the neighborhood after developing the mosquito borne disease one of 11 presumed related deaths last month so the city's fumigating home by home is only

. 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 it and it's dangerous. to me geishas are just one of many emergency measures to confront the damage in the city where cases of soared from 118 in january to more than 5000. the this is the most key to that infects people with the virus late eggs in any form of water or sanitation bad a gene 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.

your hospital is across the continent are struggling to keep up with the number of new patients more than 3000000 cases of being reported being true tiles in 19 that's 6 times higher than the previous year and then all time high and the trend seems to be continuing in 2022 disease has now become one of the main reasons for hospitalizations throughout latin america look us are doing it will do more to make 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 went i think that what is that exactly one method that's been helping is reading guppy fish eat more ski to larvae in fountains in similar places. your. we are getting results but the worry now is that people will lower the guard

because that tension is on this new coronavirus and we cannot make the mistake of forgetting bengal that can kill us if we don't keep up with it. was. a fight against time to get this outbreak under control before and not the one who arrives. i listen to i'll just cut. there with me is a whole rom the reminder of our top stories malaysia's decision to lock down its borders after a spike in corona virus infections has led to panic buying in supermarkets authorities have reported 673 cases florence louis has the latest from kuala lumpur . the malaysian government has been under pressure to put in some sort of measure to restrict the movement of people to contain or limit the spread of corona virus ever since the report of the new cluster emerged in all linked to a conference of muslim missionaries held at

a more just outside of kuala lumpur between the 28th of february and the 1st of march now $16000.00 people attend that event $14500.00 malaysian fit event and the rest are foreigners now and news of the carter 1st emerged after a man had returned home to his home country of brunei and tested positive for covert 19 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 friends has joined spain and italy ordering people not to leave their homes except for work medical care all supplies but it comes as thousands of new cases were reported across the e.u. which just closed its external borders iran has temporarily freed about $85000.00 prisoners because of the pandemic 3 of its holiest sites have also been closed to visitors despite strong opposition at least 988 people have died with around 16000 confirmed cases. see he is being named as iraq's new prime minister designate till

now trying to form a government within 30 days in the last attempt on the latest attempt to overcome months of political block. meanwhile the u.s. coalition fighting i soul in iraq says it will reach position troops from smaller bases u.s. stuff stationed at several bases could begin to leave for larger bases in iraq syria and kuwait within days. polls have opened in the u.s. state of florida which is all choosing which democrat they want to challenge in november presidential election it's one of 3 states voting on tuesday those are the headlines of back with more news of hoffman here on al-jazeera next inside story stay with us.

the coronavirus pandemic puts further pressure on some of the world's lowest paid workers with more countries imposing lock downs many people without sick leave or stable income say they cannot afford to stay at home so how should they be protected this is inside story. welcome to the program i'm maryanne demasi the world is experiencing unprecedented events right now as the coronavirus pandemic affects the lives of millions of people governments are pushing cities into lockdown and they are urging everyone to avoid public spaces and to work for.