let me this is the founding of climate back then and that is why the palookas must pick. up. on al-jazeera. borders businesses and schools closed around the world as tens of millions more people a placed under lockdown to cub the coronavirus pandemic. hello i'm maryam namazie and london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program it's leap of has more makeshift hospitals as its coronavirus death toll jumps by another 345 people. to iran is warning the virus could kill millions of people in iran if they keep traveling and ignore health guidance. trump

administration is saying it wants to send checks to americans giving them cash to spend during the coronavirus crisis. and u.a. for the euro 2020 football championship which had been due to take place across the continent. restrictions around the world are becoming more severe as countries step up their efforts to halt the spread of the coronavirus iran has issued one of the most dire warnings yet saying millions could die if they keep ignoring advice and moving around the country malaysia has imposed some of the toughest restrictions seen in asia outside of china closing its borders and comping down on movement on the same day it recorded its 1st death there as well france has ended nationwide lockdown thousands of police are on the streets to find people if they can't prove that

buying food or going to work and the euro 2020 football tournament which was due to be held in 12 different cities across europe has been put back by a year fulbright and begins our coverage with a look at the situation across europe. as the noon deadline passed the normally bustling shaun's elisei was almost deserted the famous shops and pavement cafes of paris shuttered by orders of the french president only essential movement is allowed now and non-essential activity is being punished with a fine of more than $50.00 across france $100000.00 extra police are enforcing a lockdown which extends beyond the streets and into the home of every citizen but we do need. to give you some examples a family lunch dinner with friends a football game with friends a game of cards all of that which might not normally seem important is now off the beaten not just discouraged but for the little let's not downplay it each one of those meetings is a moment when the virus can be transmitted. the north

a talian city a brasher is in lumber the epicenter of europe's covert 1000 outbreak the grave concern across europe stems from the hard lessons being learned here going to get any impression or what is really shocking is something we have not been able to forecast and brought us to our knees is how quickly the epidemic spreads within 2 weeks now 3 weeks since the beginning of the epidemic we put a total of 1200 patients in lumberton in intensive care. and so the freedom of movement enjoyed by europeans for decades has abruptly ended this was the traffic jam at the franco swiss border a 4 hour queue affecting even essential workers like this nurse the question is at dawn can look legs at all our patients are waiting for us our colleagues are also waiting for us these are still human beings they are in their beds there waiting for blood tests they're waiting for us to feed them and here we go we're stuck.

national borders are being slammed shut or very tightly controlled on the spain portugal border portuguese citizen silver was one of many turned back by spanish police the last several days it was it is a lot the la familia it is wrong because we live in france now we have a family there we have health problems we have appointments with doctors we've specialised i lose everything here in portugal we do not even have a family doctor. the u.k. is poised to follow the rest of europe's example by this weekend people have been urged to avoid bars restaurants and leisure venues and work from home where possible the government is now offering 400000000000 dollars of loan guarantees to support affected businesses the prime minister has appealed for national unity yes this enemy can be deadly but it is also beatable and we know how to beat it and we know that if as a country we follow the scientific advice that is no being given we know that we

will. but the prospect of a compulsory lockdown is looming but it worked in london for 40 years and see this is shocking to me it's not one of those. in the movies you don't see me i'm concerned it's only with more than 2000 coronavirus deaths is the worst affected country outside of china and with more than 3000 new infections in it's an every day the burden on hospital capacity is almost overwhelming but the rate of infection has slowed slightly in the lumber the region epicenter of the country's outbreak there at least there is a frame to the to quarantine measures are starting to show results. al-jazeera. china has reported just one new case in the last day in who pay the province where the outbreak began but elsewhere numbers a still spiraling despite the tough measures being taken in italy for example another 345 people have died in the past 24 hours that takes the total death toll

to more than 2 and a half 1000 and more than $31000.00 confirmed cases the death toll in spain is reach 491 after jumping by 182 in a single day it now has more than 11000 confirmed cases the virus has killed another 135 people in iran raising its death toll to $988.00 and more than $16000.00 confound cases but will tear on is issued its direst warning yes about the outbreak suggesting that millions could die if the public keeps ignoring the health guidance over this lack came from a journalist on state t.v. who the public to listen to travel restrictions iran has also temporarily freed some 85000 prisoners in response to the pandemic and that includes the british iranian. garri ratcliffe on monday crowds of conservative iranian stone 2 major shrines that have been closed because of the virus same as into iran and explains why some people haven't been listening to the official warnings. this is really

something that the government has been struggling with since the beginning iranians are so frustrated with their economic circumstances so frustrated with experiencing one crisis after another that when it comes to following the government's guidance regarding the coronavirus the government simply hasn't been able to get everybody on board now it has to be said slowly but surely you can tell the difference there are fewer iranians that are out on the streets there are more people that are following the government guidelines but this idea that millions of people could be impacted as we saw the news reader on state t.v. say earlier today this is part of the kind of fear that government officials have been trying to instill in people of the consequences of not following through is this fact or fiction well we don't really have any health official or government official quoted here are standing behind this but medically speaking if you follow the epidemiology if the government is not able to get a hold of the spread of the virus throughout the country it could become a hot zone it could become a long term area of risk in which case there there is

a chance it could affect millions of people the u.s. government is considering sending checks to americans so they have cash to spend during the krona virus crisis so the amount of tax payments that can be deferred more on this now with our white house correspondent can really help is there much reaction coming in to this these measure seen as being sufficient. well certainly ordinary americans especially those who are finding themselves suddenly without a paycheck as a result of these cutbacks on employment to stem and curb the outbreak here in the united states of provirus or likely to welcome this but at the same time the price tag for all of this is certainly raising some eyebrows initially there had been a package that was passed in the house of representatives that would have provided for things like unemployment insurance mercy food assistance but now that this legislation has reached the senate it's morphed into kind of a 2nd package that is much larger in terms of the price tag $1.00 trillion dollars

and the white house is justifying this not only is it going to provide cash payments for americans but also it's going to help bail out some industries that have been hurting like the hotel industry even the airline industry still the white house says it's necessary to flood the economy with cash in order to offset already the feeling of the impact of provirus here in the united states if we do this rate in a country and the world frankly but our country can be rolling again pretty quickly pretty quickly. we have to fight that invisible enemy that. i guess unknown but we're getting to know to let better today the senate is taking up coronavirus legislation that includes free testing for those who need it as well as paid sick leave and family medical leave for work is affected by the virus. but the u.s. is not just dealing with an economic crisis there's also

a public health crisis the task force here the white house saying the next 2 weeks will be critical to blood the spread of coronavirus in the united states that's why they're urging young people especially who perhaps feel that they made up be affected by all of this to heed the public health warning stay home if they can in order to make sure that they don't spread the coronavirus to more vulnerable americans thanks very much from the white house committee held thank you kimberly well in the news in terms of the commercial impact of all of this the global aviation industry trade body saying the airlines could need up to $200000000000.00 of help from governments the international air transport association all i ottis at that companies are running out of money and decisive action is needed a european airlines called on governments to let them defer tax payments as demand for travel has slums singapore airlines and emirates were among the 2 the airlines who cut more flights on choose say well better news on global markets today after several days of dramatic losses let's get that from kristen salumi in new york

what's the latest there it seems as our markets are rallying on news of government intervention and the prospect of stimulus and support for households and businesses . yeah the stock market's mostly been in the green today the dow jones now up about 3 and a half percent recovering slightly from yesterday's dramatic losses yesterday was the worst day since 987 with markets falling more than 12 percent so this is just recovering a portion of what was lost than but you're right the news of that stimulus package moving forward ongoing negotiations on that in congress are reassuring investors a bit for the day we've heard about possible tax payments being deferred not possible that is something that the president announced that people don't have to pay tax bills right away they won't be penalize for that that's a move to keep money in people's hands we've heard about cash payments to americans

. and particularly for the business community something that they're interested in is efforts to prop up short term lending the fed announced more actions today to help businesses weather the storm on that front with this short term lending initiatives so all of that reassuring investors a bit i think but so lots of uncertainty lots of concerns going forward in those major industries that kimberly was talking about that have been suffering the most like hotels and airlines those stocks all remain down oil prices remain down and. people are waiting to see exactly what kind of a bailout the government will come up with for these major industries the airlines we here in the united states airlines are asking for some $50000000000.00 which would be more than they received after 911 but money that they say they desperately need so still a lot of uncertainty indeed thank you from new york kristen salumi well in on the developments in the u.s. 3 states are holding democratic primaries on tuesday despite health officials

encouraging people to stay at home. to vote but polling stations have opened in a florida illinois and arizona election officials say they've done enough to safeguard the health of voters bunny saunders and joe biden are fighting for the party's nomination to take on donald trump in november. you're watching al-jazeera life from london much more still ahead and alasia sealed its borders provoking panic buying there and in neighboring singapore and then iraq's president names a new prime minister doesn't it doesn't it but can he break moms of political deadlock to form a government. hello the knots about where the picture generally throughout much of central europe but a bit of a different story to the northwest and indeed across the southwest now the worst of

the weather it really has carried away now from northern spain but this is a picture just a day or 2 ago some fairly heavy snow of course coming down really when we should be thinking. about the start of spring there plenty of snow which led to a few problems but look at this through wednesday it really is a cute picture and to the south of leona magickal the temperature on the rise quite steadily 20 degrees celsius more rain pushing in across more western and southern regions of the u.k. rain to the northeast could also still tons of snow across the mountains and who will see some more snow and rain across into areas of norway you'll also notice what a blanket of snow to the north and the east coast particularly of turkey and elsewhere as to say the time it is not too bad and it's mostly dry and fine for the next couple days and certainly beginning to feel like spring it is of course just a few days away but more rain really just sitting there or the south coast of. elsewhere the northern africa has seen some pretty strong winds and shot through the eastern end of the med that is clearing but really it's going to be morocco

through wednesday and thursday when we see showers low temperatures and also some snow developing tools the end of the week. for. the want of what do i overdosed. but my sister saved me. a lot more or less you share with your family your god the reality of addiction in the arab wilds and the struggle of recovery another looking towards just me is a drug. al-jazeera wells goes inside a rehab clinic in the nile delta. rehab egypt edge of addiction on al-jazeera.

but look at the headlines now much of europe is going into lockdown in the coming hours as restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the corona virus have become more extreme france has sealed its borders just as its neighbor spain reported 2000 new cases. iran's state t.v. is issued its most drastic warning so far saying the coronavirus could kill millions if people keep ignoring health advice also temporarily feed about 85000 prisoners and closed 3 of its holiest sites. and after a difficult few days for world stock markets asian and u.k. markets closed up slightly the dow jones in new york has been trading at around 2 percent and green. malaysia has rolled out some of the most dramatic restrictions seen across asia to stop the spread of the virus there it's borders

and now closed interests and malaysians them selves can't leave for 2 weeks country has more cases than anywhere else in southeast asia there's concern about undetected cases that might still be in the region as jessica washington explains from jakarta. daily life is changing in malaysia with coronavirus cases soaring in southeast asia the government is introducing drastic measures closing its borders almost entirely no locals can get out and no foreigners can get in. corinth teams for those who just returned they need to do a health check on a silver quarantine for 14 they'll be restrictions on the entry of tourists and foreign visitors. businesses schools and universities will be shot only essential services like supermarkets will operate the late night announcement from malaysia's leaders sparked panic buying in neighboring singapore authorities say there's no danger of food supplies running out as the border between the 2 countries would

remain open for transporting goods. in indonesia where cases are also steadily rising the president urged people to change their behavior. with this current situation it's time for us to work from home to study from home and to pray for her . it's a suggestion not an order the president says the time isn't right for a national lockdown yet in asia has tested around a 1000 people for the virus in a population of more than 270000000 the world health organization has urged authorities here just scale up their testing to get a better understanding of just how widespread the virus is in hong kong you travel restrictions will start later this week all foreign arrivals except those from taiwan will undergo quarantine for 14 days all medical surveillance. the.

whole we are doing this to make sure the achievements with made from now if it's over the past 2 months don't go to waste. in who bay where the outbreak began authorities say the peak of the epidemic is over some 40000 medical workers are deployed to the province on now leaving. well you know from our government now we are returning home and i'm excited that we were victorious against the epidemic we have all happened while china edges closer to the end of this crisis it's doctors are offering advice to countries yet to see the worst of the outbreak test early and test aggressively jesica washington al-jazeera to counter. now the german chancellor angela merkel has been speaking in the past half hour neve parker has been following this and she has now confirmed a lockdown for the shang an area what does that mean leave yes that's right it's an area that covers the schengen area which is a common travel area within europe and also the e.u.

as well there are certain other countries that are closely associated with the e.u. like the u.k. and norway that will still be allowed access to for instance mainland europe so they're included within this area but it basically closes the external borders to all countries outside that area mirroring in many ways what the u.s. president donald trump did in the united states buying all travel from the europe from from europe to the u.s. obviously this area includes huge number of people more than 500000000 people we know also that individual countries within europe have introduced their own measures some of them completely sealing their borders to all foreigners germany being one of most recent ones to do that closing its borders to all but commercial traffic and essential workers people like the health workers who need to commute across borders seems as though more majors have been taken all the time thank you

very much. for for once gaza's isolation appears to be working in its favor it's yet to report any corona virus infections unlike the occupied west bank where the number of cases now stands at 39 but reports health authorities in gaza are preparing for the worst. cutoff from the world for years under strict israeli military control people in gaza are used to being isolated and their movements restricted south korean teen many say won't be too difficult if there's a coronavirus outbreak another. more than 11 years of blockade by land sea and sky we have no tourists to bring the virus here maybe something good came from the bad . the gaza strip is reported to be coronavirus free but the health ministry isn't taking any chances encouraging people to stay indoors and avoid crowds. gaza is one of the most densely populated places in the world adding to fears that if the

corona virus is detected here it will spread quickly border crossings with israel and egypt all closed only emergency travel is allowed how. does one hasn't registered any cases thank god i'm here to leave gaza for 4 months i need a liver transplant coronavirus are not death is death. the health ministry and aid organizations are running awareness campaigns to inform everyone about how to stop the virus spreading and their like way that this corona virus arrives we will parish i don't think the health ministry has the capacity to deal with it because of the israeli siege. the world health organization warns that people in gaza a vulnerable there's a chronic lack of hospitals basic medical supplies and testing kits. gaza will be able to deal with the thousands or hundreds of cases and that stage we would need to think of something or some response plan that would allow either

the transfer of some cases the difficult cases or to open resources or with those to deal with the virus if it is in hundreds of precaution re measures have been stepped up this week the interior ministry says it will release prisoners who serve 2 thirds of their sentences to reduce the chances of corona virus spreading in jails government buildings mosques and shared spaces are being disinfected so how about the jimmy amadie will try to cover all of the city but our resources are limited we need more efforts for this emergency involving all of the local and international health institutions. schools shut down students are choosing in say lessons on local radio. they're also listening out to keep up with fast moving developments just like all causes 2000000 residents crammed into the narrow strip of land so to hide at al-jazeera where you are 20 twentieth's had to become your own 2021 because the coronavirus foot was european championships being perspiring

for a year later sporting event be affected by this decision to push the tournament back from june and july been widely called for came after days of talks of the governing body wafers headquarters in switzerland rather than being held in a single country it was due to be played in 12 different european nations we should now think about the health the fans of the players and the players and of course we have to think about football as a whole a whole ecosystem of football that's why we have decided today that we postpone the euro and we have 100 percent full support of. all the 55 national associations. european leagues european club association and 5th pro sports correspondent in welling says the decision might allow the domestic football leagues which are also suspended to be completed in the summer this is absolutely

a decision that you want to have to judge in these circumstances is extraordinary circumstances to lead by year makes perfect sense that the resulting see how he forwards will mature minds in place the 12 cities they were ok with it remains in place but we'll see if there's a little child's 3rd down the line that they might actually consider reality into just one but that's a lot of the down the line i think what's really significant as well is a lot of talk about because i spoke to everyone who bought the european clubs the players. representatives about whether the seasons can very well in domestic scenes can be finished and one of the things about move you can change is it opens up the possibility for matches to be played in the sun but the biggest sporting event of the year the tokyo imput games in july and august is so far still

on the international olympic committee has been meeting with global sports federations in a statement they said they are not planning what they call drastic decisions and discuss changes to some of the qualifying events japanese prime minister shinzo abbay has consistently said the games will go ahead as planned. well in alan is the us secretary of state my pompei says that russia has killed dozens of turkish soldiers in syria last month an as strike killed at least $34.00 tech yourself as ankara said syrian government forces carried out that attack but pompei it didn't specify which incident he was referring to. we believe russia has killed dozens of turkish military personnel in the course of their military operations and we stand with their nato turkey and will continue to consider additional measures to support turkey and to end the violence in syria more broadly

iraq's president has named a new prime minister designate after months of protests and political deadlock. is the former governor of najaf and heads the parliamentary group of former prime minister hydra a body he now has 30 days to form a cabinet which previous nominees of failed to achieve simona folsom is in baghdad and she says this is an unusual move of nuns wolf it is a current member of parliament for the nasser alliance which is the party of former prime minister hyderabadi and he's also somebody who served before as the governor of najaf province under the paul bremmer administration following the 2003 u.s. invasion so he is 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 opposition from the shia parties in parliament who have specially recently adopted a rather hostile stance towards the u.s. military presence now in nominating him president barham salih took

a very unusual step usually it's the largest bloc in parliament that puts a name for prospective candidates for the president and the president then accepts or rejects this name but since the political parties have not been able to come up with a candidate among themselves president. nominated a candidate on his own and of course that means that could face some issues in trying to get the support of the parliament. at least 20 people have been injured in a bombing at a government office in southern thailand a grenade and car bomb were used during the attack which happened as hundreds of local officials and muslim clerics met a yellow province to talk about combating the coronavirus the area has seen around 70000 people killed in attacks by muslim separatists and recently is when has a has more from bangkok on the background to the separatist problem in the area. is this attack took place at around 1030 tuesday 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 bill including designed to get people to come outside to see what's going on and then a logical. minutes later i. yell or province just want to eat 3 southern most provinces in thailand neighboring malaysia and iran and muslim groups operating in those problems as mouth independence or greater autonomy from thailand which is a mainly buddhist country the marlins really intensify around 16 years ago and since then we've seen around 7000 people killed we never get any claims of responsibility up to the types of attacks as a seder a student groups operating but in recent years disposition and increasingly all in all the largest group in southern thailand is areason reduce the next now or the

national rouge front being behind most of the violence so again suspicion will be on ram being responsible for this attack. so more everything right here also you can watch us on life streaming there as well al jazeera dot com is the address plenty of analysis it will take you behind headlines to. look at the headlines again now in the past few minutes european union leaders have agreed to close the block's external borders for 30 days that comes as much of the continent is going into lockdown in the coming hours as restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus become more extreme france's sealed its borders just as its neighbor spain reported 2000 new cases. of august virulence the 1st thing that we have all agreed on is to proposal of the commission jurists

tricked and prohibit entry to europe of all nationals who don't belong to the e.u. or united kingdom with very few exceptions member states will have to implement that it will last for 30 days and germany will do this right away. a doctor working at the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in italy is warning governments in other countries to act now italy is the hardest hit country in europe with more than 2000 deaths were given to me what is really shocking something we've not been able to forecast and which brought us to our knees is how quickly the epidemic spreads within 2 weeks now 3 weeks since the beginning of the epidemic we put a total of 1200 patients in intensive care in the majority because secret has been and this should be a strong message for the foreign countries to act early on this in order to avoid like in our case having to chase after it day after day if the spread of this epidemic is not put under control it will bring all hospitals to their knees. well

the u.s. government is considering sending relief checks directly to americans it's also thinking of deferring tax payments to help mitigate the economic impact of the virus outbreak and then iran has issued its most die a warning yet about what's happening there they all suggesting that millions could die if the public keeps on ignoring health advice it came from a journalist on state t.v. teheran is also temporarily freed some 85000 prisoners in response to the pandemic and then euro 2020 will now be played in 2021 because of a virus tournament was to be played across europe in june and july it is the 2nd biggest football competition in the wild so we'll bring you more on that a bit later the stream is coming up next talking about refugees stranded on the edge of europe but more news coming up at the top of the next hour 2100 g.m.t. .

hey welcome to the stream ok turkey is hosting 4000000 refugees sheltering from war and pacification but now it is allowing thousands of people to cross its borders to greece hungaroring athens and the e.u. as a war of words continues today we are all the voices of refugees being heard you can send your thoughts from twitter. greek authorities say they have stopped sounds of refugees from trying to enter the country since the talk each government announced the opening of its western border in late february tuchis president erect chapter i had won

a wants to and i quote him here.