across the board to have you take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. oh i'm maryanne demasi you're watching the news hour live from london coming up. are usually terrorists treat troops. warning for countries to be vigilant as global restrictions tighten on the coronavirus kills another $475.00 people in italy. the u.k. or discos to close until further notice as as its death toll rises to $104.00. malaysia closes its borders and races to track down thousands who attended

a religious event but just spread the virus to other countries. and trading is suspended on wall street a stocks plummeted again that despite the announcement of massive stimulus plans. hello welcome to the program the world health organization is saying it's concerned some countries still are not doing enough testing to prevent the spread of the corona virus more than 8000 people globally and now confirmed to have died after catching the virus the number of reported cases as poss 200000 italy is reported at 475 new deaths the highest death toll for a single day of any nation since the 1st case was detected in china late last year malaysia is racing to track down potential coronavirus carriers that after its confirmed cases jump to $790.00 nearly 2 thirds of those are. a religious gathering

which took place late last month and that has spread the virus to at least 6 other countries and then although many governments and outs massive stimulus packages asian european and u.s. markets have plummeted again as well as oil prices u.s. markets were even suspended for 15 minutes this for the 4th time in a month well al-jazeera said in baba begins the coverage with the latest from europe as the number of recorded coronavirus cases soared past 24 hours and the world health organization has announced the 1st trial of a vaccine is on the way the start of a long battle this virus is presenting as we zone president to it but it's also an unprecedented opportunity to come together as one against a common enemy an enemy against humanity in the german city of one foot they've been queuing to get a free test because it 19 they're losing patience but here in frankfurt is

a socialist organ is it so badly organized as the man behind me who waited for 6 hours yesterday when he actually belongs in bed. in some parts of europe the health service is just can't cope because of a surge in cases in eastern france 6 coronavirus patients had to be flown by military plane from bellew's to the south of the country for treatment across france there's a big incentive not to be out in public if you don't have a certificate allow you to leave home the police can find you up to $150.00 thank you they've already arrested dozens of people for going out since the lockdown started at the weekend but it's not stopping these housebound madrid residents from protesting they're demanding for mccain quote carlos deflates millions of dollars he reportedly received from saudi arabia to the spanish health system. in london it is quieter than usual but nobody's big told to go home for

some in the british capital the incremental approach is right i think the steps have been put in place a very wise. place once again trying to avoid the panic if it's a government to fall in love down in bad things it's going to be a bit of a lot worse for people's well being as it will be isolation away from people he says like this option where you can still be with people in such allies but in parliament prime minister boris johnson face demands to take a more proactive stance when we're only waiting so lonesome us testing and right are social distancing measures maybe just suggestions on wednesday johnson did make one long expected announcement after schools shut their gates from friday afternoon they will remain closed for many peoples for the vast majority of pupils until further notice so different stages in the outbreak and different responses but the

challenge for the medical world and for societies in general is immeasurable. al-jazeera. so let's get some more from paul brennan he's following this story so today seems to mark a real sea change in the u.k. government's response with the possibility of a lot down here in london and then also nationwide school closures announced it's certainly a tougher stance than the british governments have approached this crisis with so far that said it's still far short of what's being implemented elsewhere in europe you know we've got lockdowns in italy in belgium in france in greece we've got border closures elsewhere the. policy from the british government remains advice you know the advising people to say home and self isolate they're advising the people to try and work from home if possible so the level of the amount of compunction is simply not there and as you heard in parliament concerns about testing and exactly why testing wasn't maintained throughout it seems it's an issue

of capacity capacity we go was around 4000 tests today the government are very keen to ramp it up to around 25000 a day but at the moment they're only still testing those who present in hospital with a serious condition and so what you've got is front line health workers having to stay at home for 7 days on government advice when actually they may only have a minor cold they could be on the coalface actually helping people in the hospital they can't because they can't they don't know whether or not they actually have the coronavirus of course europe is the epicenter of the outbreak now and we've seen governments scrambling to close their borders and save their economies from recession recession and yet no nation wide no you region wide strategy i should say yeah i mean they that there is an effort by the european commission that is the executive body of the european union to 1st of all open the borders internally within europe important because of trade you know there's

a lot of lorry traffic that goes from portugal up through spain up to the northern regions of europe they want that. to continue at the moment that is all blocked up there are traffic jams everywhere the other concern of course is to try to have a coherent europe wide approach to tackling the virus the french from prime minister felipe criticized the british saying look if you don't have a lockdown soon we will stop allowing british people to come to france we simply can't take the risk the discrepancies between different countries different approaches many people believe is not good for combating this virus and just to finish 475 new deaths in italy today in the last 24 hours there in the 9th day of the lockdown that is the world record of number of deaths in a 24 hour period getting worse thank you very much paul brennan. is a student his travel from france to spain since the lockdowns came into effect

joins me now from san sebastian via skype and you are well you are a student and you've been studying at sales per in paris and of course we know that france joined italy and spain in imposing a lockdown on its citizens on choose day can you can you describe to me what life was like before the lockdown i mean were people listening to calls for them to get off the streets that's right mario as you were saying i'm spanish student impair our is and i was a really huge lots of stories coming from my family and friends since then and i knew it was going to just take a few days it was going to happen the same in friends but i was impressed to see that people were not really taken it's very seriously i remember people on the streets going to the bars doing sports in the park it was a completely different you're from i was cured. and then you left on tuesday did you you did you leave before the lockdown came into effect in france. that's right

us on monday busy in a corner announce that france was going i looked down and i decided to take my car good to spain on one tuesday i drove all the way from paris to my home sitting in spain on for the 1st time in my life i got stopped at the border but even stanage parties i had to show my id and i was just reminded that spain was in quarantine. tell me more about what it was like when you cross the border from france into spain and i'm struck by what you say about this happening for the 1st time in your life because of course you're a european students you're at a very international university and now this must all feel very surreal to you because we're seeing the really bringing it the strictest travel ban in its history absolutely i've never experienced is a semi you cities and i would have never imagined that i would get stopped at the border i knew that spain was going to close its borders to non-nationals so i tried

soon as possible across the border and the french authorities already told me that . their border who was close but spanish nationals could have access to spare so indeed the french border the spanish parties are for a few surges stopped me i made sure that i was astonished on national before i was allowed to get inside and what about the situation where you are in spain people complying with the lockdown are they staying indoors what's it like. absolutely it's a whole different landscape from what was was what i was seeing a 100 pounds people or even putin. to get into the supermarket only 15 to 20 people are allowed to get inside even you are late you know you are expected to pay by card instead of calling there is that police patrolling the morning train and making sure that people are staying inside their houses so it's

a different different story. right and so tell me more about how people are getting around because i understand that they can go to the supermarket or if they have to go to what but how is the lockdown being enforced on there are enough police on the streets to be able to perhaps check accreditation all all permission slips for people to be able to go where they need to go it's true that i can my dream door but if the law not the main sit is i haven't seen a lot of police cars on the streets still people are taking it very seriously and that they are very aware of the responsibility that comes with go not sight and then coming back home with your family and relatives some friends people are taking it very seriously. well thank you very much adrienne last of for joining us there in san sebastian is really good to get your view on all of this want to move on now

to the u.s. because there's been an announcement that country will temporarily close the border with canada to nonessential travel this of course in an effort to combat the pandemic of almost 9000 kilometers it is the world's largest land border between 2 nations and about 200000 people cross it every day the move will not affect trade between the 2 countries all 50 states in the united in the u.s. have now confirmed cases of the coronavirus and the u.s. president says that he's invoking legislation to accelerate the production of equipment that they need to fight the coronavirus to hospital ships have also been deployed as a number of infections across america passes 6000 we are sending. upon request the 2 hospital ships are being prepared right near the massive ships the big white ships with the red cross on the search what is called the mercy of the other is called the comfort. in tip top shape if they were to will be they're

getting ready to come up to new york i spoke with governor cuomo about it he's excited about it. let's get more from our white house correspondent kimberly. kimberly quite very significant that this cold war era act was invoked that basically allows the government to make sure that private sector companies are producing what what the country needs at this time. yeah in terms of an indicator it's not good the fact that this has been invoked in the defense production axis in 1950 s. era law that essentially will ramp up production but also free up some reserves so what this means according to the us president also the defense secretary marc as far as they were briefing there at the white house is that up to a 1000000 masks will now be made available to the frontline health workers why do they need them because the numbers continue to spike they're now finding cases of

corona virus in all 50 us states as of today so this is not only go allow for more mass is going to allowed for other per tech to gear even ventilators so this is significant the other highlight from this press conference is the fact that there's been some trouble curbing the spread of the virus because young people that the data showed are necessarily as affected by corona virus are still continuing to ignore the public health warnings they're going outside they're going to restaurants and as a result they may not be getting seriously ill but what they're doing is they're spreading it to the more vulnerable populations so there was once again a pleading by public health officials for millennia to stay home act like they have the virus even though they may not be exhibiting symptoms right and then also continuing control to see about president from calling it the chinese virus which i think he did again today yeah and he did it in a tweet early this morning so you know it's not an accident it's quite deliberate

the u.s. president insisting even as his own health and human services secretary and vice president have been avoiding this term calling it chronic virus the u.s. president is doubling down calling it the chinese virus now he was asked about this in the taskforce briefing today even asked whether or not he thinks it's racist here's how he answered. it's not racist at all no not at all it comes from china it's what comes from china would it be accurate for us when he's there place john kerry behind you or you can have a great great love poor all of the people from our country but as you know try to say at one point maybe this stuff down that it was caused by american soldiers that can't happen it's not going to happen not as well as our president it comes from china so the us president says he will continue to use this term even

as he says that he considers himself a wartime president rising to the ok asian as he says he is leading this country to defeat what he continues to call the invisible enemy. all right thanks very much with all the latest from washington it can really help at let's cross to gabriel is on there now he's standing by for us in new york and so what is the situation that because there have been further steps in new york to make sure that people leave the streets. yeah and it's quite quiet here on the north edge of times square in midtown manhattan we're on 7th avenue and 50th street just on the north edge of times square and this is probably on any given day normally on a normal day maybe the busy the busiest area of the busiest city and all of the united states was you can see it's not that right now there are some people out on the streets but nowhere even near the thousands that we would normally see in this

part of midtown manhattan on a normal day of course these are this is no normal day no normal times the latest numbers here from new york have shot up significantly there are now 2382 confirmed cases in the state of new york that's more than any other state in the u.s. and here in new york city it's jumped up 210-1339 cases here in new york city more than any other city in the united states by 4 this is now by the governor and the mayor they are bracing for what they call a health crisis they say that they need. about 37000 intensive care units to take care of the people that potentially could be sick over the coming days and weeks they say right now in new york state they only have 3000 so they are short about 34000 essentially intensive care units that they say they're there that they're going to need so it's a it's

a deepening crisis quite frankly here all bars restaurants have been closed in new york city broadway is completely shuttered museums as well the cases are going up. exponentially just in the last 3 days or so the number of confirmed cases here in new york has gone up by oh about 35 percent just conclude by saying it's having a devastating effect effect on the economy here i was just in one of the hotels behind me in the heart of times square it has more than 500 rooms i spoke to the front desk manager she said they've had a one person check in in the last 3 days i said what's going to happen when they check out she said we'll probably just close the hotel again that's a hotel right in the heart of times square in new york city yeah it is remarkable for new york city isn't it thank you very much cable is owned well also falling trading on u.s. stock markets today suspended for the 4th time in a month after shares plunged more than 7 percent she has dropped as much as 10

percent in an hour trading just under that level oil prices of also plummeted to an 18 year low as the pandemic hits demand settle follows a slight bounce on tuesday after president donald trump pressed for an economic stimulus package worth a trillion dollars well let's get more from kissed kristen salumi in new york and so markets i mean the market losses today again triggering a suspension in trading and of course this coming off an announcement that a trillion dollars would be pumped into the u.s. economy why are investors still so nervous. yeah the president announcement the crown of ira's task force did little to allay investors' fear in fact as he was speaking the markets were going down even further and fell into that below 7 percent territory where they triggered the automatic shutdown basically investors are reacting to the widening economic

fallout from the coronavirus some of the headlines we've been seeing today. the state of nevada closing its casinos for 30 days that's a major economic driver for that state tourism and gambling foreign automakers are going to be temporarily closing their production facilities starting thursday till the end of the month for a deep cleaning the economic fallout from all of this of course is just huge oil prices are now at an 18 year low below $21.00 a barrel boeing one of the major industry companies here in the united states the aircraft maker seeing its stock fall another $24.00 another 24 percent today it's had a really really bad month the really bad year airlines in general of course are suffering because of the coronavirus it's just one headline like this after another and that is really shaking investors and shaking the markets. the dow jones industrial

averages and now down below 20000 points that means it's a race gains that have been made since president trump took office it's one of many milestones that we've had in the last week not good milestones some record setting plunges on the dow and so forth as. the true price of this as more and more businesses lose money and keep their employees home and employees start losing money and have trouble paying their bills all of that is just adding up and triggering fear and panic selling on wall street. all right thank you very much for the latest from new york kristen salumi. well we want to move to asia now malaysia has closed its borders after recording its 1st 2 deaths it also has $790.00 corona virus infections overall ily 2 thirds of the infections have been traced to a 4 day event at a mosque in kuala lumpur attended by thousands of people aren't slowing has this

report. always before malaysia shuts its borders thousands of malaysian workers who normally commute to work in singapore every day brushed to leave students also formed long lines at bus terminals as confusion over whether campuses which shut prompted many to try to leave 2 police stations were crowded after people were told they would require permits for in to state travel only for police to temporarily withdraw the order even after the partial lockdown was imposed social distancing was forgotten as bae is rushed to supermarkets to stock up on essential welcome the rush he will be. given as. if. we should be more infectious diseases experts have watched with alarm at what's happening here the director general of health has warned of a possible 3rd wave of infections if people don't obey the government's order to restrict their movements. malaysia has confirmed its 1st decades and reported

a sudden spike in covert 19 cases in the last few days many linked to a 4 day gathering of muslim missionaries at a mosque near kuala lumpur 16000 people from malaysia and abroad were there the government says it's managed to trace more than $8000.00 of them so far but already those who attended the event have carried the virus back to 6 of the southeast asian countries elsewhere astray as prime minister made an unprecedented announcement we are writing the travel ban on the strivings to level 4 for the entire world that is the 1st time that has ever happened in a strivers history the travel advice to every astride him is do not travel abroad do not go out of the cities. the australian government's also banned all non-essential indoor gatherings of more than 100 people but from a province in china the origin of the corona virus outbreak more cause for optimism

medical workers from other provinces who've been helping to cope with the crisis are going home as the number of new cases continues to fall south korea reported fewer than 100 new daily cases for the 4th day in a row both china and south korea apparently demonstrating how they are winning the war albeit with different methods china by placing severe restrictions for everyone and south korea with aggressive testing florence louie or little point. well chile has declared a national emergency after the number of corona virus infections there rose by a 3rd over the past 24 hours the country has the most number of cases in latin america with 253 infections that have now been confirmed government has already closed its borders and banned gatherings of more than 500 people to try to contain the spread that america and italy see and human joins us live now from the capital santiago what's the reaction there. hi there well i'm

standing in what was supposed to be one of the busiest streets on what normally is one of the most busy thoroughfares in santiago which is next to the largest shopping mall in all of latin america that was closed by order of the mary even though the parameters of the president and as of midnight every shopping center i understand in the country will be closed you may see a few people going in that's because there's a supermarket and a few pharmacies in there which are the only ones that have been allowed to remain open the president said that he was taking this measure to call a state of emergency and catastrophe as it's called here to allow the government 1st of all to forbid public gatherings and by that of course you must understand demonstrations today marks the 5th months of. protests in this country for social reforms people will no longer be allowed on the streets to protest against the government and also order hotels holmes bring out the army which is going to be

a very sensitive issue all together and call for curfews and full quarantines most people are saying that they are very very happy with this measure and that in fact the president should have done it a lot sooner and the reason is that they've been watching what's happening around the world in countries like italy what's going to happen in what we see in new york the quick spread of this disease and they know that it will be very very difficult to stop it here so they say that the least that people could do is to stay at home a lot of criticism of the private sector for not allowing many of its workers to work from a distance from their homes now that may be ordered under this new state of emergency. right and also confirmation that chile has the largest number of cases in latin america that might also be because they. gauged testing than other countries but what information do we have about how quickly it's spreading exactly

. exactly. well it is it was the 1st country that started to really energetically test people especially those who were coming from abroad asia and in europe but clearly people are frightened that the government or the president was trying to assure chileans that they're doing all that they can to prepare for this military hospitals they're bringing forward bit closer day of or the completion day of all the hospitals that were in the process of being built but they've made it very very clear that the only way to really protect chileans is for them to be all sick all that the same time because there is no way that they can provide sufficient emergency rooms for all these people and the curve and this is the most scary part of all the of the highlight the height i'm sorry of this epidemic here in chile is expected to be reach until the 3rd or 4th week of april which means it's just simply going to get worse and worse as the days press yes thank you very much from

santiago chile our latin america added to the scene human well now a cruise ship carrying more than a 1000 people has docked in cuba after it was turned away from multiple ports in the caribbean there are 5 confirmed cases of coronavirus on the m.s. braemar ship been stuck at sea for more than a week the u.k. foreign minister is the cuban government for letting passengers disembark as many on board a british citizens several flights of also been chartered to fly passengers home. it watching the news hour live from london more still ahead as governments are urged to trace and test suspected coronavirus cases some worry the damage could wipe out privacy in some countries. and as the u.s. and chinese government's blame each other for the outbreak beijing cancels the reporting credentials of 3 american newspapers.

it's a very unsettled picture across northern sections of the middle east you can see lots of clouds here on the satellite bringing rain but also it has been bringing some snow and look at this tbilisi his approve all that snow the mountains all the city covers and also this is the national park now there's possibly some more snow in the forecast not for a couple of days it's going to more to rain is fairly widespread across much of turkey be keep it. in ankara and it'll work its way across the caspian sea so they're pushing across the areas of georgia and azerbaijan and then basin pieces elsewhere but certainly very unsettled through the eastern end of the mediterranean those temperatures actually coming down for the feeling cool in jerusalem on friday just 9 celsius 11 in damascus but things are not bad further to the south across the arabian peninsula we've got 27 in doha 30 celsius in riyadh late is just a few showers there in the far south west of the saudi certainly few showers

further to the south into southern africa for again but will go through thursday on into friday they could be quite heavy at times to the north in particular so some big accumulations in the days ahead and scattered showers and possibly some thunderstorms across into johannesburg of the next couple of days and then the usual rains really from mongolia across towards mozambique. for. a 4 hour climb. for 4 minutes of practice. but to achieve their dream of becoming afghanistan's 1st ever win to win in p.m.'s they will have to overcome many mountains. can be a path of hope and inspiration where the light shines witness on al-jazeera. the shocking treatment of disabled people in eastern european state run caravans in

these cages who cannot have access to a toilet or water and the bureaucratic indifference to their plight she has his hands and his fate tied to the beds 5 years after 1st highlighting such abuses people in power returns with a 2 part investigation to continuing mistreatment and neglect europe's recurring shame hard to on al-jazeera. with the news hour live from london headlines now the world health organization says isolating testing treating and tracing every suspected case of corona virus

has to be the backbone of the world's response this is the reported another 475 deaths its biggest one day jump yet. u.s. president donald trump says he will invoke the defense production act special powers ensuring the private sector can ramp up production of emergency medical supplies in response to the pandemic 2 medical ships are also being mobilized. major stimulus plans by world governments have failed to ease don't market concerns about the impact of the coronavirus trading on wall street was suspended when stocks fell 7 percent shares dropped as much as 10 percent. well now we turn to iran the government there is reporting the largest daily increase the number of coronavirus deaths since the crisis 1st began another $145.00 dead raises the total to 1135 with more than 700000 infections reported iran's president hassan rouhani has defended his government's response saying they acted without delay more

than a quarter. of the coronavirus we spoke to people in an almost way do not pay attention to cyberspace and a group of people who i do not know what their intentions are dear people of iran on february 19th we learned about the krona virus outbreak test kits that have been sampled in court were brought to to raw and were tested and proved to us that the samples were positive the following morning the government was informed about it and subsequently the people were formed to we had no delay not even for one day. meanwhile pilgrims returning to pakistan from iran and complaining about squalid conditions and a lack of medical care in a quarantine camp former and current residents of the remote tough done border camp say it lacks running water and people can only wash once every few days thousands of pilgrims are staying there and it's reported that no attempt has been made to separate the sick from the healthy to afghan border was closed on monday but pilgrims can still reenter subject to 2 weeks quarantine in other developments

pakistan has also confirmed its 1st death this after the prime minister addressed the nation calling for calm as the number of coronavirus cases past 230 imran khan says the government is taking all necessary precautions to win the war against the virus as he put it august on has already closed its borders with iran and afghanistan shrines in gyms have been closed in the capital islamabad while sindh province which is the hardest hit region is under lockdown and then turkey's president has told people there to stay at home for at least 3 weeks to stop the spread of the corona virus its announcement comes after turkey confirmed its 1st death from coronavirus overnight on tuesday the number of cases in the country has doubled to in the past 24 hours to $98.00 also announced a fiscal package worth more than 15000000000 dollars which aims to relieve the economic burden of the virus it's not only just got a call to. repackage we call economic stability should we deploy

a $15400000000.00 produced you fix it because. it's. well governments around the world to bring in strict measures to contain the corona virus raising questions about individual freedoms and privacy rights during a pandemic israel's government has given its security agencies the power to track the mobile data of people suspected of having the virus government will use that data to force people into quarantine and warn those who may have to come into contact with infected people taiwan is used information from its health and immigration databases to track down people with the virus also it also located those who previously tested negative for the flu and retested them for code 19 south korea has tracked down potential carriers using mobile phone and satellite technology they also identify people at risk using security camera video g.p.s. tracking data from funds and cars and also credit card transactions and immigration and tree information so ali funk is a research effort freedom on the net the watchdog organization freedom house joins

me now from new york via skype so you will be very familiar with some of these measures being taken and do we just need to accept that while governments around the world try to confront a crisis of epic proportion i mean it's unprecedented in modern history that privacy and civil liberties will have to be compromised it's a great question so 1st degree any emergency or crisis government still have a responsibility to protect our human rights so while there will be undoubtedly some restrictions to fundamental freedoms during this time in order to protect public health we need to make sure those restrictions are not overall i would in disproportionate or right and so how does i mean how difficult is it then to strike that balance. yes so particularly when we come to privacy we know from a public health perspective that it can be beneficial to track infected or

potentially infected people but what we're really concerned about is that this location tracking this and the health related information is going to be used for other purposes particularly by governments who are using surveillance to track down have to mr human rights defenders or journalists or even opposition figures so if this information has to be collected which i think in order to justify the collection we have to ensure that it is scientifically supported as a way to protect public health needs to have a short to limitations on how they discuss or is a little evidence right now certainly suggests that where you have location tracking where you have data sharing where you have that health related information being captured and used in those countries like south korea have been incredibly effective in tackling the virus basically invasive measures work with this. so in some cases it might be some use of facial recognition for example how moscow is

using it or maybe china may not be justifiable in this case so if we're going to restrict fundamental freedoms like privacy we need to ensure that the restrictions are as narrow as possible and so then when we get out of this our privacy protections are still there because what's happening is these current restrictions could have a lasting effect way long after we get to operate under control i mean isn't that an inevitable scenario you can't really stop governments from doing what they can whether it's state emergency powers being invoked in western countries because it's not just in countries like russia and china it's also happening in europe and the us but i mean once particularly in certain authoritarian countries and once we see these measures being taken it will be very eminent might be a very different well that would might be very difficult to go back to you know pretty coronavirus time yeah you're exactly right it's going to be

a big challenge and it's something that we see post you know terrorist attacks or other type of crises and that's why it's very important for our tech companies who are making these tools for civil society groups ordinary citizens to really understand what type of limitations are happening now so that once we get past this really scary time we can fight again to to have our privacy rights back to us and free expression treatment association in assembly thank you really interesting to talk to you appreciate a alley fungus such a freedom on the net at freedom house now sudan has only one confirmed death from the crime virus but many people fear they won't be able to afford a doctor if they are infected governments announced a state of emergency and closed border is food prices are also rising as the shortages get wes have a morgan has more from hard to. coming from work empty handed has become the norm for you. dated labor makes little money and food prices have soared since the

discovery of the corona virus here than iceland mind then. we don't have health insurance if someone in the family gets really sick we try to get them treatment but if we don't have the money we wait for the illness to pass we rarely eat nutritious food now with this new disease i've not even thought of stocking up because i barely have money for one day. fruit prices have tripled since the virus was found in sudan several government directives have been issued aimed at containing the spread including banning large crowds but over the past few weeks fuel and bread shortages have resulted in long queues and that's not the only challenge the guy behind me a filling mosque at 50 pounds of beans that's equivalent of $1.00 using the official exchange rate an entire box is worth $50.00 health workers here say prior to the detection of the coronavirus a box of mosques was worth just $5.00. masks as well as hand sanitizers quickly disappeared from shelves in shops and pharmacies and are now sold in the streets

with have of sudan's 14000000 officially living in poverty there are a luxury many can't afford. i we're talking about thousands of infections potential infections i would say by people reacting in the streets i would say it's become more of a careless because i cannot afford that i would rather buy food. so that i can live with the virus will affect everyone so we should be working together to find and try to protect the country to make sure the virus doesn't spread. the government has also prepared isolation centers but sudan has to for 20 years of international sanctions and has less than 7 doctors for every $1000.00 people visit equipments also in short supply america. the equipment for testing the places the doctors and the kids are very limited in number but we have to centralize it to make sure that the testing for this new virus is done safely and correctly there was

a test that was negative and then a 2nd test that showed a positive this is common in many diseases and complicates matters so we have to do repeated tests and now we're working to get the support from. your highness' says he has little hope of providing for his family with the nutrition needed to help protect them but he hopes that if the coroner virus does reach his family they get the medical support needed he will morgan al-jazeera her tomb. well sport might be on hold but japan is continuing with its plans to host the olympic games which are due to start in just over 3 months time plane carrying the olympic flame from greece to japan has departed as planned although the associated ceremony didn't take place torch relay in greece was also canceled but it's still scheduled to go through in japan in 8 days time in front of restricted crowds mind you japan's government continues to insist the games will take place. so led me to bring you other stories that are still making headlines around the world u.s. democratic presidential hopeful bunny saunders says he's reassessing his campaign

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going to need. to. talk about china has revoked reporting credentials of journalists from 3 major american newspapers foreign ministry says it's a counter measure against what it calls on reasonable oppression from the u.s. so latest in an escalating tit for tat media feud between china and united states

katrina you reports on this now from beijing. to see and hear what's happening in one of the world's most powerful and any that country's foreign media in china provide a window for the world that window has just been made smaller but the ousting of correspondents from 3 of america's best known newspapers the new york times washington post and the wall street journal china's foreign ministry says the crackdown is in response to unfair treatment by the us. china is not one to start trouble but will not blink if trouble comes in that way at least 13 foreign journalists are affected that bad not only from reporting in mainland china but in hong kong and macau as well u.s. secretary of state mike compare is hoping beijing will reconsider the chinese will tell you that they want more information people to know more about the country yet they continue to take actions like the one you see today where they deny the world

the capacity to know what's really going on inside other countries earlier this month the us government kept the number of chinese reporters working in the states for 5 state run outlets including c g t n china global television network or c g t n u.s. based staff numbers but cut from 160 to 100 that followed the expulsion in february of 3 will street journal correspondence from beijing following an editorial titled china is the real sick man of asia that was seen as retaliation for the trump administration's decision to force chinese media firms to register as foreign entities in the u.s. there's been a desire to to get china to react to do something which will paint china in the international eyes as the aggressor as a authoritarian government china's foreign correspondents club condemned the ban saying there are no winners in the use of journalists as diplomatic pawns

journalists eliminate the world we live in china through this action is dimming itself. in the past 7 years the chinese government has revoked the these as of at least 9 foreign journalists but analysts say the expulsion happening now is the worst attack on press freedom says the days of nazi dolls the sound of communist china since coming to power president xi jinping has tightened his grip areas of chinese society media outlets local and international are no exception katrina al-jazeera. now u.s. democratic presidential hopeful bernie sanders says he is reassessing his campaign after rival joe biden scored a hat trick and tuesday's primaries former u.s. vice president won by large margins in illinois arizona and florida giving him an almost unassailable lead a high as primary was perspiring though because of concerns over the coronavirus and gallagher reports now from miami. at polling stations in florida arizona

and illinois wasn't just the democratic process officials were concerned about the rapid spread of the coronavirus saw low voter turnout furious cleaning and polling staff not manning the boobs over health concerns many voted early or by mail but those that turned out on tuesday were cautious so you know let's say we're here sexts a way other than us the best you can do all you can do is just try to stay clean wash your hands limit any public area action if you can i mean i'm going to go home after this i'm not going to be out hanging out with people's. officials in ohio declared a health emergency delaying their primary until june the state's governor called it an unprecedented health crisis that left some voters disappointed i really want to vote you know i want to make sure my voice is heard especially you know for more years and they're going to paris where we are you know african-americans. despite

the confusion concerns and recommendations not together in large crowds the night belonged to joe biden the former vice president now has the momentum delegate counts and is seen by many as best able to take on president trump all this together. this is a moment for each of us to see and believe the best every one of us to look out for our neighbor understand the fear and stress and so many are feeling biden now has a new insurmountable lead over bernie sanders he didn't address his losses on tuesday instead appealing for more federal help for the pandemic we need to provide a direct emergency $2000.00 cash payment every household in america every month for the duration of the crisis to provide them with the assistance they need to pay their bills and take care of their families in his remote address to the nation joe biden spoke directly to sunder supporters telling them i hear you sanders movement

is still a powerful force and biden's appeal is perhaps a sign of things to come the former vice president wants to unite both the country and the party and to do that he'll need those supporters on board to go across his era miami florida now to iraq u.s. troops being relocated to larger bases to be better protected from an increasing number of attacks comes after the most recent series of rocket strikes targeted a base north of baghdad killing several coalition personnel a tally of 3 strikes by the u.s. killed iraqi civilians a lot of fault in reports from baghdad. the body of qatar is laid to rest the 23 year old was one of 6 people killed in what the u.s. called defensive persuasion strikes on the type hezbollah in southern iraq but family says he wasn't a fighter but a daily laborer working at the airport who had nothing to do with the iranian backed group one of the lucky. few worked inside the airport getting paid $8.00 per

day now that he's dead who is going to think about his kids his wife his mother where's their guilt. leaves behind a pregnant wife 2 children and a family consumed with grief like many other iraqis the family is angry at the u.s. and the iranian backed groups for settling scores on the iraqi soil how this conflict is between iran and america it's none of our business they should go out and fight it out between themselves. the u.s. strikes followed a barrage of rockets fired at the taji military base north of baghdad on march 11th killing 2 american and one british soldier the pentagon described the u.s. response as a success we assess that each location stored weapons that would enable lethal operations against u.s. and coalition forces in iraq we also assess that the destruction of these sites will degrade could keep his balls ability to conduct future strikes but the american reprisal was followed by a 2nd rocket attack on taji just

a day later raising doubts about the effectiveness of the us military action. total of 9 people were killed and 16 wounded in the latest 3 tit for tat attacks most of the casualties were members of the iraqi security forces who work with both sides and. we don't accept being in the middle while the 2 sides to rate their weapons against each other this is caused a lot of damage for the iraqi army the iraqi joint operations command denounced both the u.s. and what it cautiously calls the other side for not respecting its authority as the highest military body and for not giving it a chance to manage the crisis that injured when there was no chance to finish the investigation into the 1st rocket attack the american side directly reacted with a strike on a rocky facilities that included the army bases and employees and also the other side started their attacks which only complicated the situation. but the iraqi

government has never attributed blame nor has it published results of investigations for any of the 2 does. the rocket attacks the target at the coalition over the past 6 months but iraqi government appears on the willing or able to stop the groups responsible for attacks on bases that house call this an personnel instead it has called for the implementation of jan your wrist parliamentary decision to expel all foreign troops from iraq the coalition has begun withdrawing soldiers from smaller bases to consolidate them in fewer locations and although u.s. officials say that this move is not related to the latest rocket attacks it's could pave the way for a partial troop draw down over the next few months. 30 years ago 2 burglars in boston carried out what's been called the heist of the century they stole 13. including several by the dutch lost and rembrandt which have been seen since then jordan looks into one of the most intriguing cold cases

at the isabella stewart gardner museum in boston a 30 year old mystery still brings pain and questions who bluffed their way into the museum tied up the guards and made off with 13 rare paintings drawings and objects where the works now 2 of the most important works that were stolen the concert by their me are just one of 36 of his works in existence and christ in the storm on the sea of galilee by rembrandt his only painting featuring a seascape scene reports that the stolen items are worth 500 $1000000.00 or more and pragmatically that's a fear estimate however i like to to point out that the pieces that were stolen from the gardner really are the true definition of priceless because they can never be sold they can never be replaced. a few years ago the f.b.i.

thought this surveillance video could solve the case it shows an unidentified man walking through the museum after hours just one night before the heist but that and other clues just weren't enough to help investigators another problem it turns out both suspected robbers died a year after the theft the message to the public if you know something it's ok to come forward we acknowledge the fact that any or all of these pieces could be in the hands of individuals who had nothing to do with the original theft or may not even know that they're stolen 30 years on the museum's $10000000.00 reward sits unclaimed while curators and law enforcement hope these works one day will return to the gardners walls rosalyn jordan al-jazeera washington in stories we're following abortion will no longer be considered a crime under new zealand law after a landmark vote by parliament and he's passed

a bill that treats the procedure as a health issue rather than a criminal offense until now women had to prove to a doctor that their pregnancy was a danger to their physical and mental health before they could get an abortion now it's all iranian musicians critical of religious hardliners into iran have been performing in the most unlikely place this month saudi arabia. an event took place despite heightened tensions between the 2 countries it was promoted as cultural dialogue but also advocated in a subtle dig attack on the concerts in the aluna desert site where among the last big public events in saudi arabia before authorities impose a virtual lockdown to cut the spread of the coronavirus. and then the year vision song contest in may and the u.k.'s biggest music festival glastonbury in june on the latest major music event to be canceled. there's really

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a journalist. i usually test treat and trace. another warning for countries to be vigilant as global restrictions tighten on the coronavirus kills nearly 500 people in italy. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the u.k. orders schools to close until further notice as its death toll rises to 100 before . malaysia closes its borders a race is to trying to attended a religious event and spread the virus to several countries.