don't waste it became another obstacle to peace in a 4 part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm richelle carey in doha you're watching the news hour which will be dominated by our coverage of the corona virus pandemic a doctor gives a glimpse of the frantic struggles inside an intensive care unit in italy which now has more deaths from grown a virus in china. we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately as president of france is pressing regulators to fast track

potential treatments including a medication currently used for malaria. traumatized by war now terrified of the virus we'll look at efforts to prevent an outbreak in the camps of northern syria. and while more glimmers of hope are emerging from china infections and other asian countries are still climbing. on a virus has now killed more people in italy than anywhere else its death toll of more than $3400.00 surpassed that reported by china where the virus 1st emerged iran spain and germany each have more than 15000 cases worldwide according to johns hopkins university more than 242000 people have contracted the illness almost 85000 of them have recovered all more than 9800 have died as president trump says he is pushing regulators to fast track run a virus treatments including an anti-malaria drug but his own officials later

talked that down more on that in a moment will began with the situation in italy paul brennan has this report. the head of the world health organization has called coronavirus the enemy of humanity in this intensive care unit in the italian city of baghdad it's easy to see why this footage filmed by the head doctor gives just a glimpse of the life and death struggles taking place across italy and across the world all 80 beds here occupied it's a crowded frantic overwhelming place the system is on the brink. of the. 100 percent saturation normally at 80 beds for your for a cuppa and can leave in a particular day and normally we identify with to bring in for you or for others we have a very precarious and difficult balance. isolation is a cold hard necessity family members cannot visit here they cannot comfort or support covert 19 brings

a solitary death. or to have any cause if you will this is perhaps one of the saddest thing in epidemics the only way to say day throughout saudis to not allow contact we try where possible to let them sell phones or video course but sometimes they die when they are still intimidated that cannot happen we need to isolation is a very important sacrifice but it is needed so that people outside will not get sick. temporary field hospitals try to relieve the pressure the epidemic is roaring through the population here and the doctors are struggling to keep up the widespread shortage of medical supplies is having fatal consequences for the staff . a doctor who was forced to work without wearing gloves has now died of the virus in back of our province alone 110 of the 600 medical staff have fallen ill we are in full emergency with this coronavirus anemia a lot of personal nurses and physicians are working round the clock countless are

were these incredible situation. we do not know how wrong these funding will last under current measures it's only 60000000 people are only allowed to travel for work medical reasons or emergencies most shops except groceries and pharmacies are supposed to remain closed until march 25th you see very little if all around we are following on. in. it we. are on the other end we try also not overwhelmed by. it today. elsewhere the restrictions have not been so strictly observed and faced with no visible slowdown in the pace of infections a lockdown is set to be tightened further and the deadline of attack stand this crisis has been compared to a war at the moment the virus is winning. a story is

not much better elsewhere in europe or governments are finding new options few options rather better response or curfews and lockdown. a nightly tribute in space to help workers on the frontline of the fight against covert 90 these madrid residents may be shot indoors but they're well aware of what's happening at hospitals around the country oh. and as spain struggles to stop the spread of the corona virus despite tight restrictions on people's movement the local media is reporting a growing number of unregistered deaths in care homes people like this woman's 87 year old father who she wasn't allowed to visit for a fortnight before he died and he buried. on my father's death certificate the cause possible coronavirus and that's why we haven't been able to look after the body we can't do anything just bury him and we still don't know if we'll be able to do a tomorrow. emitter tike in southern germany they've been enforcing the country's 1st

curfew the governor of various says this could be extended statewide if people don't follow official advice nationally the number of confirmed cases jumped by almost a 3rd in one day going past 11000 now the german army is getting ready to be deployed to help treat the sick and ensure vital deliveries after border closures lead to long delays on the roads. in paris the tourist sites are deserted in the city's quiet partly because of 150 dollars fines for people without a strong reason to leave home i've been working since 6 am and i've seen the entire city is really empty there's no one about people are trying to respect the rules it's good that it's working except for a bit worried because we don't know how long it's going to last but city authorities say too many people are still showing up at some markets and safe distance guidelines aren't being respected in london many underground stations are closed and people are being urged to stay off public transport but as the prime

minister talked of turning the tide against corona virus within 3 months there was a warning from medical experts even if everybody does all the things we hope and really really would ask they did the numbers will continue to go up over the next 2 weeks because it continues it takes a while for there to be a lag there's a lag until things start to improve meanwhile a leading swiss firm is warning britain faces a massive shortage of ventilators after failing to invest enough in intensive care equipments how damaging that turns out to be could depend on whether more people follow the social distancing guidelines nadeem barber al-jazeera. there are now more than $10000.00 cases in the u.s. and about $150.00 people have died president wants health regulators to fast track the approval of drugs to treat the disease including up malaria medication as white house correspondent kimberly hawk reports that may not be an option. well thank you

very much it was great having. u.s. president donald trump visited the federal emergency management agency or fema to speak to the nation's governors as he struggles to project he's managing the corona virus outbreak. the president has been eager to promote any positive news at his briefing earlier in the day trump announced he was pushing the food and drug administration to fast track treatments for coronavirus patients including making available and anti-malarial drug they've gone through the approval process it's been approved and they did it they took it down from many many months to. immediate so we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription but minutes later the food and drug administration commissioner tap down on trump's message telling reporters the malaria drug was not yet ready to treat culbut 19 it's already approved as the president said for the treatment of malaria as well as

an arthritis condition that's a drug that the president has directed us to take a closer look at as to whether an expanded use approach to that could be done to actually see if that benefits patients the f.d.a. is also working on clinical trials for rem disappear an experimental drug but is the f.d.a. works to speed up therapies the number of coronavirus cases in the u.s. now tops more than 10000 some supplies to treat patients remain in short supply u.s. hospitals are also asking for more than 100000000000 in direct financial assistance from congress for supplies to respond to the pandemic. where i am by is this the united states of america where a hospital treating people in a global pandemic cannot get a mask can i get a swab cannot get a test as opposition critics in congress question trumps handling of the crisis the us president continues to blame china with the virus originated we really were much

better if we had known about this a number of months earlier it could have been contained to that one area in china where it started and certainly the world is paying a big price for what they did all $50.00 us states now report coronavirus cases but the white house task force says half of those cases come from just 3 u.s. states and even with fast track testing new therapies to treat corona virus could still be 3 to 6 months away can really help get al-jazeera the white house alive to hide her past from washington d.c. so heidi the travel bans for various countries have a change they evolve it seems that the u.s. has elevated their warning about travel to americans to the highest level what are they saying now. that's right richelle the u.s.

state department has elevated the global travel travel advisory to the highest possible category that is a level for normally reserved for places like syria that finds itself at war but now the u.s. state department telling americans to avoid travel abroad period and for those americans who already find themselves overseas to either return to the united states immediately or to plan to stay in place now that coming even as the c.d.c. the federal agency that's giving guidance to health care workers is also issuing its own dire warning telling those frontline workers that if they run out of masks to protect themselves that they reuse those masks that they already have or in the worst case scenario to use bandanas or scarves to cover their faces and you can see the u.s. congress also taking more emergency measures senate republicans now unveiling details of the 3rd legislative package aimed at addressing the economic damage done

to this far by this virus with a plan of of sending individual taxpayers and united states checks of $1200.00 which is a plan that is supported by the president ok heidi castro with the latest there from washington on that global travel warning from the u.s. state department thank you dr gregory poland is editor in chief of the scientific journal vaccine he's also a professor of infectious diseases at the mayo clinic he joins us via skype from our chester in minnesota dr thank you for joining us again we appreciate it so this this anti-malarial drug that could potentially be a treatment for crowe what do you know about it. you know it's a drug that's been used in a variety of conditions primary primarily room with the logic but also infectious like malaria and the drug works by basically making or creating it and byrom and it's inhospitable for viruses and parasites like malaria now where this is coming

from is a very small non randomized 9 controlled trial that was carried out in france with 24 patients and they found some positive results the key thing is we the medical literature is littered with case studies of drugs that were thought to were based on small initial studies but which failed once the larger control trials were done so the key thing here with the data that we have so far is do the proper trials and know that we're helping and not harming the overwhelming majority of medical experts have said that that at this point testing testing testing is the k. there has been at least one former head of the c.d.c. that said that that was important but it wasn't necessarily the most important thing where do you think that that what do you think the significance is testing being the top priority. well if you're referring to testing in order to make

diagnosis that really is important remember that this is sort of like a pyramid what we know is the tip of the pyramid we don't know the broad base of the pyramid so when we look at key states ality rates and we say 2 percent i suspect when we do broader testing we're going to find it an order of magnitude less than that another words i think that there's been significant sustained community transmission particularly in the states where we're having a particular issue and we're going to find that there are many more people infected than we thought most of them a symptomatic and that's going to drive the need for increased medical care 2 weeks from now when these folks become symptomatic. there are a lot of the talk or the past few weeks has been that the people that have underlying conditions or older people are the ones that are most at risk and obviously that stands to reason however it seems that what researchers are saying

is some of the statistics show in the us that there's been a significant number of people under the age of 50 that have ended up in the hospital as well but that surprise you know no not really what we what we know is that in the 1st 2500 patients that were hospitalized in the u.s. 4040 percent of them were between the ages of 20 and 54 so i'm not surprised by hardly anything that this virus does remember that what we were operating on is tiny bits of information that over time are getting bigger and bigger and giving us a more complete and full picture of what this virus does to poland thank you very much appreciate your time the pleasure. president our boss in our has promised to take measures that will help his country pay the coronavirus he made the comments after being criticized for as lax approach in the early stages of the

pandemic for more on this is going to head on roughly he joins us now from mexico city thought what is that as saying anna in many ways richelle president bill sinatra was making an about face on the corona virus up until very recently up until even a week ago the president's changed his tone online on his rhetoric regarding the coronavirus he recently spoke to the nation once again sending mixed messages mostly talking about how. the impact on the economy and how he is a leader needs to be on the frontlines of these of the fight against the coronavirus alluding to the united states is efforts the president has been criticized quite a bit over this what many in brazil see as a relaxed tone when it comes to preventive efforts against the coronavirus each country in latin america is doing something differently some measures are seen as extremes in other cases countries leaders seem to not be doing enough that

certainly seems to be the case here in mexico with authorities also apparently taking a very relaxed tone when it comes to addressing the coronavirus take a look. health authorities in mexico are increasing measures to fight the spread of code 19 on wednesday the mexican government reported the 1st deaths associated with the spread of corona virus. unlike other countries in the region mexico has been reluctant to implement containment measures that could further impact the national economy. speaking of money it's one thing for those of us who have a secure salary is something else for the people who make their living on the streets we can't leave these people we need to support that economy in central america several countries have closed their borders outright for hunter and citizens arriving from sea or from neighboring countries quarantine sites like this one have been set up in the capital. were strict curfew has been imposed to prevent

further contagion i in brazil protesters in several major cities banked pots and pans from outside apartment windows protesting the government's handling of the coded 1000 alberich which brazil's president. initially referred to as a cold fantasy. concerns are growing over code 900 prepared this in venezuela where a 7 year long economic crisis has pushed health services to critical levels in the capital get aca as health workers at one hospital say that water no longer flows through the plumbing and. hospitals are empty because the medical personnel who work there are terrified of what of contracting the virus because they don't have adequate protection that colombia which announced a mandatory 14 day quarantine to citizens arriving from abroad will now block all entry to the country starting on monday joy i have been an outspoken advocate that

colombians colombia and we have a wide window so that what we as sang as until this weekend we're going to allow colombians from abroad to windsor and for a period of 30 days. we will suspend the entry of international travelers. in mexico criticism grows over would appears to be an overly relaxed attitude from officials until now also if isolation and quarantine efforts have been led by citizens and private businesses. despite the continued spread of covert 19 the mexican government has yet to order the closure of businesses were the cancellation of point that was shall we mention the fact that all countries in the region are doing things differently some taking measures that are seen as more extreme than others but there is a question floating around which is is latin america prepared to see a scenario like what's playing out in countries like italy and in spain and we know that latin america as a region as a whole on average spends less on health care than just about any other region of

the world less than the middle east less than north africa with the exception of chile in costa rica health spending is record low below than most other countries in the world so is latin america prepared for for the pandemic that we're seeing playing out now unfortunately i think that the short answer here is no richelle interrupt a lot for us in mexico city men well thank you saudi arabia will suspend prayers in the 2 main mosque in mecca and medina starting on friday as the expenses that the temporary measure to stop the spread of coronavirus $36.00 new cases were reported in the kingdom on thursday bringing the total to $274.00 and they are now close to $700.00 cases in israel or that 650000 people remain under quarantine very fossett has more from western islam. it's an increase of more than 50 percent in cases in less than 24 hours and so it does suggest that israel is on an upward curve fast a put curve part of that can be explained by the fact that testing is coming on stream

in greater numbers there are now more than 2000 tests being done every day and the health ministry the government is talking about increasing that still further in the coming days by several 1000 so there was an expectation that the number of cases would increase but israel also has problems in terms of the number of hospital beds per population the kind of preparations it hasn't terms of medical equipment and so on. aid agencies are sounding the alarm about how vulnerable refugees are to the growing pandemic homage amgen reports on the efforts by workers and migrants to combat the virus. a population so traumatized by violence now terrified of a virus in northern syria after 10 years of war and humanitarian catastrophe medics are doing all they can to prevent an outbreak of covert 19 masks are being handed

out parents are trying to protect their children but everyone seems to know it's not nearly enough in the south as though by think of them we have very little equipment and supplies not just right here but in all of northern syria not that if we do not we're not there that is in bangladesh where around 3 quarters of a 1000000 rohingya for me and more are in camps youth activists are teaching refugee children about the importance of proper hygiene anxiety in the largest refugee settlement in the world is on the rise and warnings from agencies are stark imagine then what it would course in densely crowded refugee camps community centers filled with said billions in the war so on displaced people fleeing to informal settlements in places where there is little or no water no washington cities little hygiene and no health care in greece doctors without

borders has urged the government to evacuate refugees from overcrowded camps they say provide the perfect storm for a covert 1000 outbreak we have why don't want to go and where 1300 people in more you know we had one doing it for 200 bieber and if we asked people today to go to the doctor if they have a problem there is no doctor to go and if we ask either of these people today to isolate them so there's no space resolution this week the united. nations refugee agency announced that due to severe travel disruptions around the world travel arrangements for resettling refugees are being temporarily suspended reality peeling 2 sites and working very closely with them to ensure the movements can still continue for the most critical of emergency cases. it's possible as panic over the pandemic spreads around the world refugees and the internally displaced are as always just trying to survive people long accustomed to uncertainty for whom

life has suddenly become an even greater challenge mohammed jim jim of. yemen has yet to officially record any cases but with a health system ruined by years of war there are fears any outbreak would be devastating schools are closed and other restrictions are being enforced as well of course in the capital sana. this is international airport once a busy serving much of yemen it has been largely closed for the past 4 years because of the conflict only recently where u.n. and other humanitarian flights of loud but now with the spread of virus those 2 have been suspended. believe the country's supreme committee assigned for eradicating the world's growing crime demick issued a set of resolutions to stem the spread of the disease from outside yemen now or you any humanitarian passenger flights would be suspended until further notice. a

month ago the world health organization lifted critically ill patients to do it at the airports general manager told all the humanitarian cargo is now allowed in. the sun our international airport has applied the same precautionary measures that are being carried out all over the world now we are assigned to only allow flights of humanitarian aid and lifesaving medicines these shipments will be kept untouched at our ports warehouses for 24 hours before any further action is taken that hold these later have also ordered the closure of schools that's despite confirmation from the w. it's that yemen doesn't have a single case of course by us. the closure of the school is a precautionary measure in case the situation gets worse similar decision has been taken during the beginning of saudi led war over the spike of with airstrikes some of the students we spoke to outside our university are not happy about having to abandon their education before an important exam they are already struggling

because of the 5 years saudi war and there is no opportunity for distance learning i've done my own you know my studies has been suspended until further notice as we are just days away from completing our 2nd semester despite the absence of any virus cases here in sana'a or elsewhere in yemen prices for. masks have soared and their ability has started to dwindle we used to buy this back at the front of the band to make by 0.6 but now after the band to make. a. 6. the short supply of protective gear is not the only challenge for the authorities here testing kits for corona virus are also scarce. we only have 400 corona tests at the central medical lab so we're urging

international organizations to step in and provide the necessary aids that will help us eradicate the threat of the virus in its early stages this internally displaced family which is forced to live in this 3 square metal shop has prioritized giving the children masks. braun of corona virus cases. where the death toll could be the high on the wall even as already struggle to contain the outbreaks of cholera diphtheria one in one flu virus how bizarre to the deaths of thousands of civilians yemenis simply cannot afford a global pandemic. so. far in the pandemic shortly including how the economic shutdown is continuing to clear china's air. and other news public hanging punishment for prime rib night's debate

about capital punishment. is very wintry still in the central plains states more or less really from wyoming east. it's in eastern colorado has this mass here and society is quite warm so when this junction happens when the cold air comes south you tend to inhouse the rain is a severe thunderstorms likely in the southern states during friday is certainly got cold and all that comes down to 4 degrees as a max and easterly warms up so it's be a big difference but the sun's out all the same and that rain sinks south again and goes off shore taking attention new york also down by it at about 10 degrees its spring these things do go up and down it's fairly normal is just quite extreme over this rain chilling offshore in california but california is now going dry new york

then 10 degrees on saturday down to 6 or 7 day after the possibility even of a little bit is not going to be early morning i suspect who are in the night still cold and where the caribbean that's never really a problem is very rare event to see that sort of thing we have got the continuation of showers if it's been here and quite a rico and if you follow the winds back to nicaragua as a concentration of cloud and rain here the potential for flash floods just comes to mind maybe in costa rica more like in iraq it possibly even honduras they're not as heavy as a couple of weeks ago. 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 caverns in these cages you cannot have access to toilets or water amid bureaucratic indifference to their plight he has his hands and his fates 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.

but you know to 0 let's recap the top stories right now more people have now died in italy from brian a virus that in china where it originated frontline health care staff say hospitals are struggling to cope as president donald trump says he wants health regulators to speed up potential coronavirus therapies. and saudi arabia will suspend prayers of the 2 main mosque in mecca and medina starting on friday to stop the spread of crying a virus there are 274 cases they came to. data from the space agency suggest there's been a significant drop in air pollution over china since the outbreak began this animation shows nitrogen dioxide emissions by month the gas as a byproduct of burning fossil fuels china introduced strict measures to control the spread of the virus resulting in factories and streets being closed nationwide and there are further signs that china's containment efforts are working that's

government says there were no locally transmitted cases on wednesday but a scot highly reports from bangkok the numbers are still going up elsewhere in asia . well countries across the globe continue to seal borders in lock down citizens the country that saw 1000 primary infection for the 1st time reported no new local cases in china the only new coronavirus patients were imported from abroad as construction and manufacturing resumes after months of shut down the epicenter for the virus from han city and the surrounding group a province reported no new cases also for the 1st time so that we are delighted to see the. nice this means today we have seen that do enough to say many days of hard deficit there's been an uptick of infections in south korea this after a small cluster was discovered at a nursing home to help offset the economic impact of the coronavirus the government announced a support package to help small businesses with 2 previous packages the total

financial aid now tops $39000000000.00. we should think about ways to support those who have suffered from income lost their jobs due to the car iris the asian stock markets continued to struggle as concerns over economic disruption from the virus continues south korea's kaspi led most of the region's major markets in losses thailand announced its biggest single day jump in corona virus cases at least 60 some of them were people returning from a mass gathering of muslim missionaries in neighboring malaysia thailand has closed some of its border crossings with its southern neighbor one of japan's biggest tourist draws is cherry blossom season now in full swing but because of fear over spreading the virus viewing parties and picnics are discouraged and events have been cancelled the japanese government just announced a tourist numbers for last month were down over 58 percent that's the biggest drop in 9 years since the tsunami and earthquake in 2011 that triggered the fukushima

nuclear disaster scott either al-jazeera. zimbabwe to confirm any corona virus infections but the president's declare a national disaster public gatherings of more than 100 people are prohibited as a precaution more from harare. social distancing in many parts of zimbabwe isn't easy victor check on you collect most of bobbins has a casual job but selling on the street he's afraid of catching coronavirus public washbasin being placed around the city but cuts in the council's water supply means the taps run dry for hours sometimes days i was going to come to my mission. to have a wee bit but. maybe. some. it's going to move much probably new health officials say they are ready to minimize the impact of coronavirus should they be an outbreak will consume spittle is one health

quarantine center in the capital we suspected cases are tested but it only has a few dozen beds the collapsing economy is adding to the problems of the struggling public healthcare sector. launching the national preparedness response plan on thursday president said zimbabwe has other health challenges to deal with we. use now. remember. we were. aboard. the mob and have some experience dealing with disease outbreaks more than 4000 people died from cholera in 2008 measures were put in place to contain that outbreak but the threat of corona virus has forced the government to take action and implement more drastic measures which include banning public gatherings of more

than $100.00 people the ban on public gatherings of exchange service is waiting and sporting events for 2 months was while there is no travel ban people from the country will confirm cases of corona virus i've been discouraged from coverage. zimbabweans are being advised against traveling abroad until the pandemic is under control mandatory sweeny has been intensified at all ports of entry the government says screening will soon be introduced at all it's offices. but with the worst economic crisis in a decade many public hospitals understaffed and lack basic equipment and medicine some worry about the lack of resources to deal with coronavirus if it spreads but government data say they are ready and on high alert. al-jazeera had. to take a look now at some of the other stories we're following for you at least 30 soldiers

have been killed during an attack in northeastern mali it happened in kent about 125 kilometers north of the city of galle no one has claimed responsibility so far as army has been targeted repeatedly by fighters in the air you have links to al qaeda and i saw. the u.s. has placed sanctions on 5 companies based in the united arab emirates accusing them of buying hundreds of thousands of tons of iranian petrol last year that follows the blacklisting of chinese and south african companies earlier this week had a kahane has more details from washington d.c. this is just the latest move just on tuesday the state department announced sanctions against 9 different companies in hong kong china south africa so what does this actually mean well if you are these 5 companies you if you have assets in the united states those would be frozen u.s. businesses and people are not allowed to do business with these 5 entities and probably the more biting sanctions is they get cut off from the u.s.

financial sector so any bank foreign bank detergent program is sending this morning any foreign bank that actually works with banks they do business with these 5 companies they could face additional sanctions so really the big bottom line here is the united states is going to round the globe to allies to enemies sanction companies sending the message that even though iran has been so hard hit by the coronavirus that the u.s. has no intentions of letting go. and industry energy industry specialist he joins us via skype from from houston texas we appreciate your time so what do you make of the timing of these sanctions that seem to be ramping up. well this is good to be with you this is one of those situations where. president truck took you know a lot of all of the decisions when he took office in 2017 to to really withdraw from the iranian nuclear deal to put what he called maximum pressure program or on the iranians and men doing so he's essential he forced their hand

they were wrong to try to raise revenue by by selling through other kind of illicit outlets in the u.a.e. it apparently has been helping them to sell crude and crude products to other countries this is part of the program but that the president trump in his ministration has has undertaken to put the squeeze on iran and continue to do that the timing is certainly difficult now with the crown of there are bars in iran having a major problem in that area 'd so what that i mean it's in the it's in the interest of the world for iran to to get a handle on this just like every other country and they have had thousands of deaths and tens of thousands of just cases in general what of the timing of putting basically your foot on the neck of a country that is that is already in such a bad way it really is

a problem and it's very similar problem to russia and saudi choosing this moment to start an oil price war that's really really squeezing the u.s. industry i don't know if that's any kind of the retaliation against against opec i don't think it is because iran is probably unrelated i do think the timing is very very suspect and difficult all over on and it's certainly something that i think is on was i'm having said that do you anticipate these these. sanctions to to continue and perhaps even to escalate since the trump ministration seems really committed to this particular strategy. i do the ministration has been really myopic when it comes to iran and the. under taken care of a unilateral position work with iran against a number of countries that are still signatories to the nuclear the nuclear deal with iran so that this is at this stage i think it's unwise to be in that position

but i don't think the top administration is going to change their position it's about half an hour thank you very much we appreciate it good to be with you thanks for being convicted of the gang rape and murder of 23 year old new delhi student jodi saying are expected to be hanged on friday attack on a city bus in 2012 sparked national outrage the court has dismissed a last in a petition to delay the hanging reports. for more than 7 years our sourcing the mother of the 23 year old girl who was gang raped on a bus and later died of her injuries has been going from one court to another she's been seeking justice for her daughter referred to across india as new power or the fearless 12 years ago india's top court upheld the death penalty for 4 men imposed by a fast track court in 2013 they were due to hang this january but that was delayed

by legal procedures. i'm on a run of the men recently asked are starting to show marcy which she refused. to name it doesn't matter to me if anyone says sorry or cries because for 7 years i've been crying tears of blood i've lost a daughter. the supreme court has dismissed review petitions filed by the convicts and are peled the death penalty but the sentence has reignited a debate in india can capital punishment reduce rape middle class father says yes. if these comments are hung if a few more are hung and others should be scared of committing rape massive protests broke out in india's capital after nearly passed death. in response the indian government introduced a tougher sentencing policy including the death penalty for rape or murder and for raping a minor under $121.00 indian politician says rapists should be lynched another

suggest castration as punishment but while many members of parliament including women that capital punishment legal experts are divided over whether that is a deterrent some argue the real problems are a slow justice system in a patriarchal society if you look at the difference between. the points 2 recent national crime bureau figures a low conviction rate for the rape of about 27 percent but a 30 percent increase in the number of victims killed after rape from 2017 to do 2018 to destroy evidence if the penalty for you know rape for certain kinds of rape and the penalty for death is death what's the incentive to not. just back it brought our sassing says the death sentence on the 4 men who gang raped her daughter will bring her justice and work as

a deterrent. archibald al-jazeera you debbie. the u.k. government house apologized for its treatment of britons of caribbean origin who were wrongly detained or deported during an attempted crackdown on the illegal immigration an independent report said the home office showed institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness towards them when russian aeration who came to the u.k. from british colonies from secretary pretty patel said she was shocked by the terrible injustices and volved. still ahead on al-jazeera passing the torch the olympic flame begins a quiet japan amid the. end of evidence of the tiny prehistoric chicken that survived the global event that wiped out dinosaurs.

singapore is being accused of expanding its kosovo and illegally dredged sutton's some of the islands off the coast of indonesia literally vanish it's

a big business smuggling sampling that will take the city on their own through the sand is fair to say this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so plentiful tragedy is the people are just another with an ecological investigation into a global emergency sound means at this time on al-jazeera from. africa is what i'm most proud of every time i travel whether it's see still wet. time to catch people stopping to tell me how much they appreciate our coverage and our focus is not just on their suffering but also on the more i predicted and inspiring stories people trust our engineer to tell them what's happening in their communities in here and on the fire came down from africa and i couldn't be more proud to be part of the.

continuing our coverage and india's prime minister narendra modi has ordered the country's 1300000000 people to follow a one day curfew will come into force on sunday to test how people might cope with going into a full long running lockdown and is also banning all incoming flights for a week the country has already bought most foreigners from entering until mid april although not various and the coronavirus crisis is very hard to control there are many big countries that is suffering so anyone who thinks it won't affect india is wrong. acca stan is close one of the main border crossing with india and all access to afghanistan to contain the pandemic new measures come into effect as fears grow pakistan's already fragile health care system is eloquent to deal with this

pandemic to reports. there is little social distancing in this quarantine center in southwest pakistan hundreds of people are crammed in some are in small tents in an open courtyard what's up videos reveal filled the facilities and conditions so bad that people are protesting against the government keeping them there. because we need to be in the country and i'm like we don't need anything neither food nor medicine just let us go we have money with us we can pay all travel expenses the core a $100.00 center is a balochistan province near the iranian border when you least 70 percent of the population live in poverty and many don't have access to basic health care. government leaders say they are doing their best despite the limitations but we are here to provide all the facilities obviously there is a there are resource constrained this is

a border town with few difficulties in. facilities or but we are trying our level best there are more than 300 cases of the new coronavirus in pakistan schools and universities have been closed and mosque gatherings are banned religious shrines are shut local businesses are suffering but supermarkets and groceries are busy with the rush to stock up on food and other essentials if things get plus a redo of my markets and kharaj in hyderabad have already been closed due to corona virus we've heard that it's quarantine period is $2.00 to $3.00 weeks so we're buying extra rations if there's a major outbreak in islamabad at least we could have some russians are pakistan's prime minister says his country cannot afford lock downs like west. missions. were no cases 20 we thought of shutting down all cities that was a suggestion but i want to tell you that the situation in pakistan is not the same

as in europe or the us. we then thought that if we shut down the cities where people are already facing difficult circumstances we will save them from the virus but then they will die from hunger. ass cases in densely populated south asian countries such as pakistan and india continue to rise so do concerns about where the hospitals and health centers can't cope with the outbreak if it gets worse. and 0 doctors and health officials everywhere say one of the best ways to prevent the virus from spreading is so stop public gatherings that advice isn't resonating well an intern asia though especially among many people of faith jessica washington reports from jakarta. ignoring the advice of health authorities this group of muslims arrived insults a way see for mass gatherings potentially putting themselves in tunisia and

countries around the world at risk thousands came by plane and boat many appeared oblivious to the growing number of confirmed cases in indonesia and concerns about the likelihood of undetected cases. coronaviruses and china not here we're here to pray for the problems to go away. more than a 1000 gathered in the small community of goa even though local authorities didn't give the group permission the gathering was organized by the top of a global islamic missionary movement. so this preacher told worshippers not to be afraid because only god has power not the virus but local government eventually convinced the organizes to call the event off but the damage may have already been done authorities will try to isolate the foreign attendees in a hotel nationals from the philippines thailand pakistan india timor leste state bangladesh and were not a participant to

a gathering by the same group of muslim pilgrims held in malaysia in late february caused a major spike in cases around $16000.00 attended and more than $500.00 were infected at the event the virus has already spread across multiple provinces in indonesia and most of the confirmed cases are here in jakarta the pilgrims travelled from all over the country to arrive in south soloway sea and there are fears about what might happen when they return to their communities indonesia's cabinet is meeting through a video link now and the president's message is clear. the call that 19 task force and religious figures to work together to stop spreading the virus through religious events we need to evaluate religious about. despite the risk to public health there's still no talk of banning these events in west florence thousands of catholics gathered for the ordination of their new bishop authorities say they

sprayed the attendees with disinfectant and checked their temperatures but that won't be enough to stop the virus from spreading. in-joke to carter plans to hold a hindu ceremony at the prominent temple us to long for next week usually the event draws around 10000 people organizers say they'll try to limit the crowd to around 1000 it's still a major health risk all present to counter mosques and churches and they'll suspended for the next 2 weeks but is still on in most parts of the country indonesia's top muslim clerical body told the public to pray at home if they've been exposed all live in an area with a high number of cases the difficulty is with a high number of suspected undetected cases across the country no religious society in any province can or should claim to be safe jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta and secretary general intended to terrorists calling a world leaders to work together and be honest about how their countries are coping

if you let the virus spread like wildfire you especially in the most vulnerable regions of the worlds you can kill millions of people. as we need to immediately move away from a situation where each country is in the taking it somewhere else strategies one that you should see fit to spend to see more of the nature of global response including dumping companies that are less prepared to tackle the crisis and circle it now and how the ongoing impact the krona virus pandemic is affecting international sports and the premier league is extending its season indefinitely in an effort to complete all the games once they can resume legal allow matches to be played beyond june 1st the original cut off date games are suspended until the end of next month or last major european football league to continue playing has finally decided to halt matches the action in turkey super league was taking place behind closed doors with no spectators but the government is suspending the season

earlier some of the lakes foreign stars complained to a global players union they want that flame has been handed over to organizers of the tokyo games the official plan is for the summer games to take place as scheduled fans are at the ceremony in greece on the side of the 1st modern games in 896 many athletes want the games to be postponed but the president of the international olympic committee insists it can still go ahead on july 24th we were confronted with many questions concerning the qualification is the statement of the restrictions being in place now but we were also very constructive in a way that it was in consideration of the way to tokyo or mailman organizers have postponed the dutch spanish and monaco grand prix but the f one is still working on plans to reshape its calendar with the reduced number of races that mid-season break has been made from august to this month and april to

give the sport a chance of staging races later in the year opening 4 rounds of the season i've already been cancelled. well finishing a story now about a fossil that dinosaur experts are calling the wonder chicken it is 67000000 years old as enter ship teleports it may help answer one of sciences biggest mysteries of all the animals to survive an asteroid strike this may not be your 1st guess. but scientists say the common ancestor of modern day chickens and ducks did exactly that a fossil may explain how so in this area back here is where the i would have been this is where the nostril was and this is the tip of the peak the oldest bird skull ever found was in a belgian kori 20 years ago its historic value now revealed thanks to x. ray scanning technology a remarkably preserved skoal nearly 67000000 years old a few 100000 years before the asteroid impact which wiped out the dinosaurs and

much else an international team of paleontologists have published their findings which proves they say that birds existed in the northern hemisphere alongside the dinosaurs and new fossil which we like to call the wonder chicken provides us with i'm precedented insight into how modern survived that extinction event that wiped out the non avian dinosaurs we fought for a while at the earliest stages of modern bird evolutionary history took place right towards the end of the age of dinosaurs but we haven't had much direct fossil evidence of modern birds from this point in earth's history new evidence shows the wonder chicken lived close to the ground which may have been its saving grace along with the fact that it was tiny this one weighing only around 400 grams there's still more questions to answer of course more specimens need to be discovered and studied to find out how this creature was able to survive the impact and evolve when 3 quarters of life on earth could not. help al-jazeera. thanks for joining me

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