hidden away in their rooms a 1000000 japanese shun the outside world 101 east investigates why so many young men all feel lost in japan on al-jazeera. a lot of personal nurses in physicians are working round the clock. life and on the front line of italy's corona virus outbreak more people have no died there than anywhere else in the world. other than welcome i'm peter w. watching answers here alive from my headquarters here in doha also coming up another day of optimism in china no new domestic cases of covert 19 and dangerous

air pollution levels are going down. the coronavirus puts the brakes on north america's car industry will tell you what it means for drivers and the carmakers. turkey was burning ambition for the olympics to go ahead despite the pandemic the torch arrives in the japanese capital. the coronavirus has now led to the deaths of more people in italy than anywhere else in the world and at the moment there is no sign of the spread of the virus slowing down just over 3400 people have died in italy surpassing the figure reported by china with the virus 1st emerged china's death toll stands at more than 3200 but for a 2nd consecutive day it's reported no locally transmitted cases in the u.s. there are now more than 14000 confirmed cases and 205 deaths president trump says

he's pushing regulators to fast track covert 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 president there her son rouhani is calling on iranians to stay united to tackle the crisis we begin our coverage with paul brennan and his report now on the warlike 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 all 80 beds here occupied it's a crowded frantic overwhelming place the system is on the brink.

100 percent saturation 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 our case 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. because if you perhaps one of the saddest things in epidemics 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 do intimidated that it 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 corona of 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 the spending 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 try also not baby overwhelmed

by. it did they share their 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 over text and this crisis has been compared to a war at the moment the virus is winning. al-jazeera. in just a few moments we'll take you live to tehran where as in basra is standing by for us 1st to hong kong and our correspondent there gopalan so do get us across the numbers out of china. that's right peter as you mentioned earlier there are no new domestic cases now this is particularly important because that means china has put a lid on infections within it people in china particularly also of importance significance is the fact that there were no new cases in who bay province if you recall that's ground 0 the was once the epicenter of the virus where it was 1st

detected and it 1st surfaced but china's warning of what they're calling imported cases cases that have come in from abroad so they're taking huge measures they say that there and 39 new cases and all of them are from people who came in from overseas beijing is now diverting international flights to smaller cities where passengers are going to be screened once they have been deemed as possible or as. fine they will then be sent back to beijing where they will then go into a 14 day quarantine in designated facility so you can see china is really raising measures to stop the outbreak from coming in from outside so as hong kong hong kong government has sent out what they call a red alert notice a red notice which means all passengers now who come in from abroad will have to go into quarantine hong kong experts are also warning of an increase in communities spread as people have lowered their defenses here and the fact that many people

from abroad many hong kong residents are coming back now into hong kong so there was also a warning that we could see what you're calling a 2nd wave singapore it's also struggling with that mostly from imported cases they too will not be quarantined quarantining anyone who comes in from abroad now south korea some relief there the number of cases are 86 the number of new cases they're broken the snap of more than 100 a day this week they're breathing somewhat a sigh of relief but there is still a lot of danger and warning from people coming in from abroad they're also struggling to contain the spread in there they're going to not. car testing anyone who comes from europe meanwhile neighboring japan which hasn't seen the spikes we've seen in the region the olympic torch has just landed there. japanese insist that the olympics will go ahead the torch relay is due to start that's a traditional torch relay people are being told to stay home and watch it from

their screens the i.o.c. has said that there are no plans to postpone the olympics but many questions remain given the kind of logistical logistical nightmares and the spread of the coronavirus globally that we're seeing ok deborah thanks very much zain bazarov joins us now from the iranian capital tehran so zain we've heard this persian new year address from her son rouhani what did he say. that's right peter president hassan rouhani and the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei gave prerecorded speeches those were played out on state t.v. earlier this morning to wish the country a happy new year but certainly they acknowledge that there have been many hardships over the past persian year which is the beginning of this year of 2020 it's been a difficult one for iranian so far they acknowledged that the coronavirus had been a very terrible challenge and defended the country's response despite the fact that many have been critical against the government for not taking this seriously enough

soon enough but really what many people have been watching for is what they had to say about american sanctions now on the eve of the persian new year the united states placed more sanctions on iran more iran related sanctions this time sanctioning 5 entities based out of the u.a.e. accusing them of facilitating iranian oil sales are now on tuesday just a few days earlier they play sanctions on a handful of iranian nuclear scientists as well as entities based in pakistan russia china and the u.a.e. signaling that the americans are now targeting any countries or any entities that are becoming too close to iran once again it has we have to remind people that pox on russia and china and the u.a.e. were all countries that have helped iran during the corona virus outbreak iran for its part since the beginning has been saying that sanctions are impeding their efforts to respond to the coronavirus so certainly here both the supreme leader and the president of iran addressed sanctions trying to put a positive spin on the continued maximum pressure campaign by the united states

supreme leader said sanctions made us better for system proven benefit from self-reliance and he insisted that the country continue to focus on domestic production and consumption a message we've heard in previous speeches as well president hassan rouhani for his part said sanctions have forced iran to be less reliance on oil related income saying that the economic growth and other sector. agriculture and transport has actually been on the positive trend really it's difficult to see however how the economic growth in the country could be positive especially at a time when so many iranians are going through economic hardship which has only been exacerbated by the public health crisis with the spread of covert 19 staying with this concept of the idea of the sanctions and where the country is headed next i mean there is this request for a big loan from the i.m.f. can that request exist outside of the existing sanctions or the new sanctions

well that's really a question that a lot of people are going to be pondering as well as experts and those responsible for trying to help iran we've seen the u.n. help we've seen the united nations various agencies even call for sanctions to be lifted along with echoing what many iranian leaders have been saying what this i.m.f. loan is earlier this month iranian officials reached out to the international monetary fund and said that we need $5000000000.00 in emergency aid as part of helping to respond to the coronavirus outbreak in iran one of the worst affected countries in the world and what many iranians have said all along is that they are hopeful that the international community will want to give them this aid but they are also very aware and perhaps a cynical view but a realistic one that the united states will try to do whatever it can to block iran from getting that money now these sanctions target entities based in the u.a.e. that have to do with oil but what they do tell us is they send a very clear signal that if there was any question about america's resolve to

perhaps take pressure off of iran in terms of sanctions at this time of a public health crisis those questions have been answered the united states will do whatever it can to continue to maintain pressure on iran through sanctions zain thanks very much. well coded 19 as the virus is officially known as being tracked by johns hopkins university in the u.s. it's using figures from a number of sources including the world health organization and the centers for disease control in the u.s. and in europe 1st let's look at the number there in red in the top left of your screen it shows the number of cases is now topped more than 244000 worldwide on the other side in quite the number of deaths that's a past 10000 but it's important to look at the number in green that shows that more than 86000 people have recovered. well 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 issued a warning against all nonessential movement pharmacies and food stores will remain

open many other businesses are closed and use more but almost 20000 people there may need to be hospitalized far beyond the capacity of the health care system over 1000 cases have been reported in california president trump is searching a 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 u.s. 200 people have died as a white house correspondent can really help it will 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 tamped 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 him 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. 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 the world. 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 coronavirus could still be 3 to 6 months away kimberly health at al-jazeera the white house. still ahead here on al-jazeera. would you love me for the hell of. all of these would be a man living. in a message from doctors nurses on the frontline in the fight against the virus stay home. new evidence of the tiny prehistoric chicken survive the global event wiped out the dinosaurs. got some colder air pushing into northern parts of year are now just in time for the spring equinox we should be seeing equal i was like and night time we got so

that every cloud there just straddling southern parts of england for the low countries pushing right across through the baltic states they'd say that western side of russia to the north of that that's where we got the cold arrive in places single figures here 4 celsius install calm i celsius in london on the other side of that rain band is that warm paris still around 70 degrees a line of sherry right in here that will sink its way further south was becoming a little more organized in the process of a sas day some while the showers cooler air coming in central parts of europe at that stage going to say something like a $910.00 degree drop in temperatures south of that hanging on to the sunshine but we have got some showers into central and western parts of the mediterranean that area cloud affecting parts of spain and portugal through gibraltar the northern areas of morocco will cease and shabby rain coming through here if anything the show is becoming a little more widespread as we go through friday and on into sas they can see the shastras across algeria into chu nice cool i think it will be dry with

a top temperature of 18 degrees. join the global conversation to ask the bubble people to expand their brains maybe have a difference here this is a dialogue with women in cambodia are in fact selling their hair we don't know how much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to trace everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a law right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection on al-jazeera.

we're watching al-jazeera live from the quick reminder of our top stories more people have now died and italy from corona virus 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 over 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 from aids in his person here address more than 800000 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 of our medical supplies. or governments in europe are finding a few options beyond more curfews and lockdowns to tackle the pandemic is not in baba. a nightly tribute in space to help workers on the front line of

the fight against covered 90 these madrid residents may be shutting the doors but they're well aware of what's happening at hospitals around the country. and as spain struggles to stop the spread of the coronavirus 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 because 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 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 lorry 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 hate 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 if 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 nadine barber al jazeera. in saudi arabia domestic flights in all local transportation has been suspended for the next 2 weeks prayers have also been 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 and no deaths. across the united states mexico and canada car companies are closing their manufacturing operations in reaction to the pandemic john hendren explains. the view from 10000 feet across north america the

coronavirus is idling one auto plant after another. at ford where one worker has tested positive for the virus all assembly lines in the u.s. canada and mexico shut down on thursday general motors follow suit on friday infield chrysler is staggering closures throughout the end of the month honda nissan hyundai i n tesla plants will all be closed by mid april desperate auto dealers are offering bargains to buyers willing to brave the trip outdoors in my view the best time to buy a vehicle in your life you know you hear in about 0 percent for longer terms refinancing your house you know if you're feeling confident and you know you're going to get through it don't miss a chance to really get a great deal the shutdowns of the big 3 detroit automakers came at the request of the united auto workers union which represents 150000 workers at the plants to be idled hospital managers agree now is the time for dramatic steps as

a country we have to wrap our heads around that except it be willing to change our daily lives for now be willing to trust the in fact zip disease communities recommendations pivot how are behaving every day as a nation so that we're ready for this even if the auto manufacturers and their workers all weather the shutdown without major problems there could still be bankruptcies among smaller businesses from parts suppliers to car washers. but the industry is in much stronger shape than it was following the financial crisis of 2008 in 2009 and where the virus started there are new signs of hope those. old dusty sneezes everyone has a cold factories in china are already opening. and i have to be seems to have started getting up there and i think that's a direct consequence of the fact that they seem to have a go by. it is under control ford and g.m.

are considering repurchasing their plans for making vehicles to ventilators for coronavirus patients. until the auto assembly lines can restart john hendren al-jazeera chicago social distancing has become a catch phrase around the world during the pandemic the message hasn't been getting through to everyone prompting some doctors nurses to get creative on social media regular moment reports. distancing from other people is becoming a new way of life for billions world wide but not everyone is heeding the advice to help contain the corona virus which is adding pressure on hospital staff the spanish doctors are worried about too many patients turning up for tests. when i bring a patient here i have to go to a special room and change my clothes carefully then sanitize the ambulance this whole process takes 3 hours but they all that they will see guys it takes 3 hours

for one patient to be moved around so please stay at home if you don't the health system will collapse because it's prompted a concerned group of health care workers to send a message on social media stay home to even. with your loved me for the hell of. a lot for me is would be relevant. if the world is. this guy because all the. doctors and nurses in many countries from germany to malaysia india to spain and the united states have come together to send that message urging everyone to stay indoors even if they don't display symptoms of the virus that means of avoiding restaurants religious gatherings and large crowds in other parts of spain doctors are optimistic. for years on my way to the hospital roads and shops were empty now the emergency room is empty which means we can attain to patients who need urgent help this is because of all of us in here thank you for

making it possible hashtag i stay home for my husband the saito movement has triggered a widespread response from celebrities and many others all sharing their reasons for social distancing because the contact with someone who makes contact with someone else that may be somebodies my. grandpa always sick every one of us as. someone who is worth staying for my mom is elderly she's up in her seventy's and i just want to make sure she's safe while nations close borders to foreigners some canadians and americans let's have their homes with christmas lights to bring chair and hope to their neighbors in isolation in northeast italy glowing colors of the italian flag were displayed in tribute to everyone forced to stay confined but assholes continue to grow louder for everyone to take the virus more seriously the threat of hospitals becoming overwhelmed

remains for you know mohammed al jazeera. ok let's pause our coverage of the coronavirus story for just a couple of moments and move on to some other news 4 men convicted of raping and murdering a student in india and 2012 have not been executed a large crowd celebrated outside the jail where the men were hanged on friday the court dismissed a last minute petition to delay the executions the men attacked a 23 year old woman on a moving bus in new delhi she died from their injuries days later the viciousness of the attack cause nationwide protests and international attention to india's alarming rates of sexual assault it forced the government to introduce tougher laws to tackle such crimes. let's wrap up this half hour with a story about a fossil the dinosaur experts a calling the wonder chicken it's 67000000 years old and it's under soko reports may help one of science's 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 big 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 unprecedented insight into how modern earth survived that extinction event that wiped out the nonny 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 enter chapelle al-jazeera. recapping our top stories for you so far this half hour more people have died in italy from coronavirus complications than anywhere else in the world including china where it originated from blunt health care staff say hospitals struggling to cope typical pollen has more from hong kong 'd

there are no new domestic cases now this is particularly important because that means china has put a lid on infections within the people in china particularly also of importance significance is the fact that there were no new cases in who bay province if you recall that the ground 0 of the was once the epicenter of the virus where it was 1st detected and it for surfaced but china's warning of what they're calling imported cases cases that have come in from abroad so they're taking huge measures iran's supreme leader has the country will overcome the coronavirus and the economic fallout in his persian new year address over 18000 people in iran have been infected with the coronavirus and almost 1300 have died is also calling for an end to u.s. sanctions so the country can receive much required medical supplies 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

from friday the kingdom has reported 274 cases and no deaths the governor of the most populous states in the u.s. has told everyone to stay home as the corona virus spreads across california the governor's gavin newsome the astute a warning against all nonessential movement. in other world news 4 men convicted of raping and murdering a student in india in 2012 have been executed large crowds celebrated outside the jail with the men were hanged on friday a court dismissed a last minute petition to delay the executions the man attacked a 23 year old woman on a moving bus in new delhi she died from her injuries several days later the viciousness of the attack cause nationwide protests those are your headlines so far today the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream i will see you very soon but. as the world battles the coronavirus pandemic we'll bring

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