many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. holding the powerful to account as we examine the us his role in the world on al-jazeera. our personal nurses in physicians are working round the clock life and death on the front line of italy's corona virus outbreak more people have no died there than anywhere else in the world. peter dhabi you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up another 2nd day of optimism in china no new domestic cases of qubit 19

and dangerous air pollution levels are going down. devastated by fighting traffic juicer the virus libyans are coping with a new crisis plus another had. a mix of around in the woods on their island the gateway to australia's great barrier reef. find out why some tourism operators say it's putting the rate. at risk. virus has now led to the deaths of more people in italy than anywhere else in the world and at the moment there's no sign of the spread of the virus slowing down just over 3400 people have died and it's only suppressing the figure reported by china where the virus 1st emerged china's death toll stands at more than $3200.00 but for a 2nd consecutive day it's reported no locally new transmitted cases and in the

u.s. there are now more than $14000.00 confirmed cases and $205.00 deaths president donald trump says he's pushing regulators to fast track qubit 19 treatments including an anti malaria drug but his own officials later talk that down in iran over 18000 people have been infected with the illness and almost 1300 have died the iranian. president hassan rouhani is calling on iranians to stay united to tackle the crisis will get more on that in a moment let's begin our coverage with paul brennan and his report on the war like efforts in italy to overcome the pandemic. 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 or 80 beds here occupied it's a crowded frantic overwhelming place the system is on the brink. 100 percent saturation 80 beds for your 4 recover and can leave in a particular day and normally we identify we have 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. is perhaps one of the saddest things but you know to cure an epidemic the only way to say don't throughout saudis to not allow contact we try where possible to let them. but sometimes they die when they were intimidated that it cannot happen we know the 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 our personal nurses in physicians are working round the clock countless our word to fight these incredible situation we do not know are wrong the spending year will last under current measures it's at least 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 the internet

if we. are on the other end we probably will not be overwhelmed by. it to date or there elsewhere the restrictions have not been so strictly observed and faced with no visible slowdown in the pace of infections and lockdown is set to be tightened further and the deadline of a text and it is crisis has been compared to a war at the moment the virus is winning. al-jazeera. just say a few moments we'll take you live to tehran our correspondents in basra via standing by for us there this hour 1st to hong kong and our correspondent there. good news on the face of it out of china another day of no new locally transmitted reported cases. that's right peter no new domestic cases and also no new cases in who bay province if you remember that's

ground 0 that used to be the epicenter of the virus that's where for surface the china is saying that they are tackling any cases or locally transmitted cases but the problem here now is imported cases it has seen an increase of 39 cases overnight and most of them or all of them actually are from overseas or china is now. increasing it's locked down and overseas travelers passengers coming from abroad in beijing they're not going to make the anyone who comes from abroad whether they're residents or not before they could be quarantined at home but now they're all going to have to go through a 14 day quarantine in a designated facility hong kong also struggling with imported cases it had tackled a number of cases it had been going down hong kong had been very careful or taken all kinds of precautions the people here also were very vigilant unfortunately we're seeing cases rising here to the dozens overnight also we're hearing although

that is yet to be confirmed by the health ministry melanie due to once again imported cases people coming in from abroad so hong kong has said the hong kong government has set out what they call a red alert which means that anyone who comes into the territory will now have to go into a 14 day quarantine singapore is also facing the same problem and doing the same thing the issue now in this region is southeast asia in indonesia we saw the number of deaths rise 6 people died in the past 24 hours because of corona virus the government is saying now the total number of people have died is 25 that makes it the most in southeast asia indonesia seems to be struggling to control the spread and any kind of for lockdowns malaysia the philippines also trying to keep a lockdown on trying to encourage people to continue social. i'm saying to maintain movement as little as possible but that is proving hard in these countries with

large populations and high densities meanwhile thailand talent has been very vigilant from the beginning even blocking hong kong people from the very start of this virus putting them in quarantine or not even allowing them to come into the country and now they are asking any visitor at all to do to have a medical certificate this is going to be a huge blow for the country's economy which is already suffering because they rely on tourists but thailand is vigilantly trying to keep people out of the country and control the situation within meanwhile i need to mention that the olympic torch has arrived in japan this is officially the start of the olympic ceremonies and olympic celebrations the relay which is due to start the traditional relay is now going to be still going to be run but the government is telling people to watch it from their screens not to try and go outdoors there are many questions of whether this olympics will happen the olympics 2026 will happen but the chip japanese government

insists it well despite the logistical hurdles we're going to face and the fact that the whole world now is facing the coup spread of coronavirus thanks very much robbie joins us live from the iranian capital tehran we've heard that address from mr rouhani what did he say. well peter this morning president hassan rouhani as well as supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei delivered speeches as part of the persian new year now they wished everybody happy new year they addressed what they said was various hardships that the country had experienced in the previous year and they addressed the coronavirus defending the country's response to it the government's response to it despite the fact that this government has been criticized for not taking it seriously enough soon enough but perhaps the main thing that iranians as well as people all over the world watching would have been looking for is reaction from the iranian government to american sanctions especially after late last night the united states introduced new sanctions

sanctions against 5 companies based in the u.a.e. in terms of iran related oil trade so we can't really talk about anything else without addressing what these men said about sanctions these sanctions were the 2nd in the last week earlier this week on tuesday we saw the united states play sanctions against companies and individuals associated with pakistan russia china and the u.a.e. with relation to iran's nuclear program and now we're seeing sanctions announced late last night against 5 entities in the u.a.e. with regard to iran spoil industry certainly the united states is sanctioning companies and individuals that they see as cozying up to iran now these are all countries that have helped iran in terms of the coronavirus providing some measure of aid and assistance and now it seems the united states is making it clear if there was any question about whether or not they would ease up sanctions at this time of a public health crisis in iran the answer is resoundingly no that's something iranian leaders have said or certainly been watching for and complaining about ever

since this operate began the supreme leader said of sanctions trying to put a positive spin on it he said sanctions have made us better and force us to improve and benefit from self-reliance and boost domestic production he said come in the coming year that should be something we should continue to focus on more is very similar to messages he. given in previous narrow speeches from president hassan rouhani we also heard him saying sanctions have forced iran to be less reliant on oil and expand non oil sectors he also said as a result economic growth in this country has been positive now it's difficult to see how he's arriving at that conclusion when so many iranians are going through incredible economic hardship only made worse by the introduction of the corona virus in this country zain thanks very much. well covered 19 as it's officially known as being tracked by johns hopkins university in the u.s. is using figures from a number of sources including the world health organization and the census for

disease control in the u.s. and europe 1st let's look at this number where the number in red top left on your screen there that shows the number of cases has now topped more than 244000 worldwide on the other side in white the number of deaths is now surpassed 10000 sitting at just over 10010030 but we got to look at that number in green that shows more than 86000 people have recovered from cove it 19 well the governor of the most populous states in the u.s. has told everyone to stay home as the virus spreads across california governor gavin newsom issued that warning against all nonessential movement pharmacies and food stores will remain open but many other businesses are closed mr newsome warned that almost 20000 people there may need to be hospitalized that's far beyond the capacity of the health care system more than 1000 cases have been reported so far in california president trump urging health regulators to fast track the approval of drugs that might help treat the virus there are now more than

a confirmed 13000 cases in the united states 200 people have died as a white house correspondent kimberly halkett. well thank you very much. 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 tapped 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 to severe 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 am i is this the united states of america where a hospital treating people in a global pandemic cannot get

a mass and i get a swab and i get a test as opposition critics in congress question trumps handling of the crisis the u.s. president continues to blame china with the virus originated while there 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 had. the world is paying a big price for what they did all $50.00 us states now report corona virus 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 coronavirus could still be 3 to 6 months away can really help at al-jazeera the white house still to come here on al-jazeera. on. hospitals are adopting military strategies borrowed from nato and made fears of

a big spike in coronavirus cases. hello was about to get cold in about this part of europe where you see some spring rain coming to portugal and spain the circulation just off the coast there which is significant or will change the weather in next couple days particularly porch go for the north westerly breeze but the blue is rain of course that's coming out of the same system which will bring help for rain probably drop temperatures prosper crosses part of europe but we'll show you that in a 2nd a bit more detail this could be significant rain having had the snow recently 10 to madrid dropping again and when you talk about snow here we are talking about rain to ruin your day to fear around the mediterranean coast now the cold stepping down a bit a temperature of night let's take vienna out as

a full cost $20.00 on friday down to 9 northerly winds rain and then down to forces a high temperature on sunday as cold up to bring him snow back to terrilyn mountains and his that's cold has been generating in regenerating areas of low pressure in the eastern med for the last couple of months here's another one that northerly breeze will take time for dying kaross 16 degrees in the breeze does extend beyond that but of course it's further west of the coast of morocco algeria where what's happening in spain portugal will affect you too cold cloudy. frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really well going on the politics of climate change informed opinions economy i think is actually what's keeping damo trouble float right now critical debate sequel on those 2 school children know what the law is all about this argument is astonishingly patronize a in-depth analysis of the day's headlines this is the beginning of

a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on al-jazeera. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera live from doha a reminder of the main news so far more people have no died in italy from coronavirus complications than anywhere else in the world including china where it originated frontline health care staff say hospitals are struggling to cope. for a 2nd day no new domestic 1000 cases have been reported in china but there are still concerns about infections coming in from overseas. iran's supreme leader has

the country will overcome the virus and the economic fallout in his persian new year address the 18000 people in iran have been infected with the virus and almost 1300 have died is also calling for an end to u.s. sanctions so the country can receive much needed medical supplies. to scandinavia some hospitals and sweet not implementing military protocols ones borrowed from nato that's in an effort to prepare for the worst case scenario brought forward by the pandemic the latest on sweden's coping with the crisis paul reece joins us live from the coastal city of malmo in the south so paul clearly nato has the toolbox to deal with a war footing type situation where people are contaminated. yes it does pay to sweden is a nazi a member of nato but does cooperate with nato and in the stockholm region they are implementing i suppose a battle strategies to make sure that their decisions are all in line and they're

not making they're not making mistakes in preparing for what could be a spike in cases over the next few days over the next week after they studied curves in italy here in malmo across sweden in fact hospitals are taking emergency measures setting up tents to sort out people with coronavirus symptoms from those. who don't. there's really a difference between how societies dealing with mainly recommendations and how the hospitals are doing it particularly to protect the elderly groups particularly with those very strong measures up in stock and. building their defenses against the coronavirus as hospitals in sweden go into a war footing tents at the entrance to emergency wards will now separate patients who have covert 19 symptoms hopefully to protect those who don't.

while in stockholm at the epicenter of the virus in sweden a rush hour without the rush reflects the caution of the people. as health authorities get ready for the worst doctors here are preparing themselves for a difficult few days in which they believe the number of coronavirus patients at this hospital could double while health care for the entire stockholm region has adopted a military crisis strategy borrowed from nato. sweden isn't a member of the north atlantic treaty organization but is making use of its expertise the 1st 10 to going up at the karolinska university hospital as studies of the viruses progress in italy suggest resources could soon be stretched were using the so-called nato system structure hold to work in time of crisis will

before crisis i am the one who decides on things but those that were closest to me are leading they work in this controls is that it's a military hierarchy or. sweden itself is not ruling with an iron fist during the corona crisis prime minister stephan levant has mainly laid down recommendations not rules. with swedes expected to maintain their tradition of collective individual responsibility it's an approach backed by the country's chief experts on epidemics. i think all motions to take in all countries need to be very much reflecting your cultures heritage and the way you usually do things we do a lot of things voluntarily in sweden and that works really very well i mean the 1st people come and work for china we've seen other countries who are locked down here we all seem to go and stay home for 2 weeks work excellently we have no transmission whatsoever from those people coming from china the guidelines are assisted by the swedish welfare state relaxed rules on sick pay and child care help

people to stay away from work and it's not all voluntary a gathering of more than 500 people can be punished by 6 months in jail but having so far a skate the worst swedes don't appear to be taking any chances health agency actually calls this approach the swedish model ai has no intention of moving away from it it doesn't believe starcom measures would stop the spread of the virus unlike denmark not by far from mile may just across the bridge there they've not closed borders in sweden of their own accord and in fact they've only followed the regulations brought in on thursday out of solidarity with the european union paul thanks very much paul reese our correspondent reporting from malmo in the south of sweden in saudi arabia domestic flights and all local transportation has been suspended for the next 2 weeks prayers of also being put on hold in the 2 main mosques in mecca

and medina as of friday a spokesman says it's a temporary measure to stop the spread of covert 19 the kingdom has reported 274 cases but no deaths. there are no reports of the virus reaching libya yet but fear of a break has sparked panic buying in food shops the government has closed restaurants and cafes at night time banned big crowds and sealed its borders all while fighting continues there in the country's civil war at least 15 fighters and civilians have been killed in the latest battles close to the capital al jazeera correspondent mahmoud heads in tripoli. renewed fighting in this a bird was of southern tripoli explosions shock there in daraa and solar haddin neighborhoods forces loyal to the internationally recognized the government here in the capital say they repealed the latest offensive by fighters loyal to her leaf or have to have at the last about 5 of those forces took advantage of the public panic

in tripoli you to coronavirus threat and launch a surprise attack but they haven't achieved any progress on the ground have to those 11 months the battle to capture tripoli is once again taking its toll the latest is collation yet another blow to the for giles sees fire broke out of the by turkey and the russia in january now i'm either here or on a side of the country that broke at this is far now in an embarrassing situation because after refused to sign a cease fire neither moscow nor in berlin the decision is not in this hands but in the hands of egypt the u.a.e. france and saudi arabia as well as hearing the sounds of heavy explosions libyans in tripoli a road about a possible i would break of covert 19. food prices are again rising and the value of the libyan d.n.r. is falling the government is advising everyone to stay at home borders are closed

so are restaurants and cafes after 4 pm people are rushing to markets fearing some communities might run our thoughts it had found united you've got us into war but what we fear the most is possible infection a coronavirus prices have doubled because some people have also started shopping for the holy month of fasting some shoppers are grateful that they can still find what they need but if the war comes closer to the city center they might not be able to shop at all would have to do i hate it off tripoli. let's wrap up a couple of other top stories for you 4 men convicted of raping and murdering a student in india and 2012 have been executed a large crowd celebrated outside the jail where the men were hanged on friday a court dismissed a last minute petition to delay the executions a man attacks a 23 year old woman on a bus in new delhi she died from her injuries days later the viciousness of the attack cause nationwide protests and brought international attention to india's

alarming rates of sexual assault. some tourism operators in australia are complaining they're being silenced because they're opposed to a huge new coal mine in the state of queensland the government approved the mine last year despite warnings about its impacts on the already damaged great barrier reef alexey o'brien reports now from the white sunday islands off the eastern coast of australia. and the deep blue pacific ocean off the coast of queensland lies a wonderland of coral fish and picture perfect beaches. the great barrier reef brings in billions of tourist dollars every year so if you've got to save gaza keep . that it's in danger scientist an environmentalist say from climate change caused by the burning of fossil fuels like coal tony has been a dive instructor here for 40 years. he's watched parts of the rain die and fish disappear with climate change global warming coral bleaching he said the reef

health is deteriorating significantly and that is already affecting the tourism industry despite growing pressure to cut carbon emissions the government has approved what will be one of the biggest mines are owned by the indian company adani critics say the world heritage reef now lies under a cult shipping superhighway and the adani project could say many more like bringing coal dust and worsening climate change bleaching is underwater equivalent of a push for it's caused by extreme climatic events. spikes in temperature and it's incredibly damaging to the corals the government and mining advocates say the mine will bring much needed jobs and money to the state of queensland while adani argues it's taking steps to protect the environment the reef stretches more than 2000 kilometers up the coast and supports over 60000 jobs in the region many of them are in terrorism i'm look around me it's not hard to see why people travel

from around the world to get here. says jason lloyd recently unveiled her life a sculpture which will be sunk in the islands for tourists to snorkel around the decision by the government to back the adani home on its a matter. and it will see the destruction of the beautiful wreath she says she's been harassed about her opposition to the mine and was told by organizes not to mention it at the event and i thought to myself oh my god that's a short speech i'm not going to do that not after everything and i being curious so i thought just stand your ground say what you want. the what sunday regional council told al jazeera in a statement it backs tourism agriculture and mining saying it believes they can co-exist divers like tony disagree if you have to maintain that hope so that you can get up each day and fight for the future health of the reef many here say

a strike has tough choices to make about coal its future and what sort of country it wants to be. on al-jazeera and the what sunday islands astray. ok let's recap the headlines here on al-jazeera more people have now died in italy from the coronavirus complications than anywhere else in the world including china where it's originated frontline health care staff say hospitals are struggling to cope. life is slowly beginning to return to normal in china for a 2nd day no new domestic over 1000 cases been reported in the country but there are still concerns about infections coming in from overseas economic standstill has also reduced levels of pollution iran's supreme leader has where the country will overcome the coronavirus and the economic fallout in his persian new year address of 18000 people in iran that been infected with corona virus and almost 1300 have

died he is also calling for an end to u.s. sanctions the country can receive much required medical supplies the u.n. secretary general and turning to terrorists is calling on world leaders to work towards a global response to the coronavirus crisis if you let the virus spread like wildfire especially in the most vulnerable regions of the world it with few millions of people as we need to immediately move away from a situation where each country is in the thinking it's only our strategies to one that ensures in full transparency the core of the nature of the global response including helping countries that are less prepared to tackle the crisis in surrey arabia domestic flights and all local transportation has been suspended for the next 2 weeks prayers have also been put on hold in the 2 main mosque in mecca and medina from friday a spokesman says it's a temporary measure to stop the spread of covert 19 the kingdom has reported 274 cases and no deaths. the governor of the most populous state in the u.s.

has told everyone to stay home as the virus spreads across california governor gavin newsom is you to warning against all nonessential movement pharmacies and food stores will remain open many other businesses are closed. some of the top stories for man convicted of raping and murdering a student in india in 2012 have been executed big crowds celebrated outside the jail where the men were hanged on friday a court dismissed a last minute petition to delay the executions a man attacked a 23 year old woman on a moving bus in new delhi she died from her injuries days later the viciousness of the attack caused nationwide protests and brought international attention to india's alarming rates of sexual assault up next it's inside story i'm back after that with 30 minutes of al-jazeera will news i will see you very soon about.

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