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dangerous air pollution levels are reducing. the philippines puts in place some of the strictest antivirus measures in asia will have a report from manila. also ahead the execution of 4 men brings to an end a rape a murder case that shocked india plus. i'm alexia brown in the wet sunday islands the gateway to a stray is great barrier reef to find out why some tourism operations psycho mining is putting the race and their livelihoods at risk. and then school despite mounting criticism and japanese officials have welcomed a limpet flame. i'm alexia brown in the wet sunday islands the gateway to a stray is great barrier reef to find out why some tourism operations psycho mining is putting the race and their livelihoods at risk. and then school despite mounting criticism and japanese officials have welcomed their lympics leymah today. country

organizers say they're determined to hold a safe and secure tokyo games. but corona 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 infection rate slowing just over $3400.00 people have died in italy so parsing the figure reported by china where 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 donald 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 more than 18000

people have been infected with the illness almost 1300 people have died president hassan rouhani is calling on iranians to stay united to tackle the crisis we begin our coverage with paul brennan of the reports on the medical staff who are fighting 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 are occupied it's a crowded frantic overwhelming place the system is on the brink. of the. 100 percent saturation. in a particular day and normally we have to bring in free or for our kids 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. you perhaps one of the saddest thing you know to cure an epidemic the only way to say day through outside is to not allow contact we try where possible to let them. but sometimes they die when they are still intimidated to the core 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 these coronavirus anemia our personal nurses and physicians are working round the clock countless are were these incredible situation we do not know are wrong these funding 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. around we are following. in it we. are on the other end we will not do well by. it they. 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 on the deadline over text and this crisis

has been compared to a war at the moment the virus is winning. al-jazeera. lived out to our european news center in london and to our correspondent lawrence leigh lawrence what lessons can be learned from how italy has handled this crisis. well look let's just do the figures for says let's go 3400 deaths already for 2 days in a row well over 400 people have died and if this car is only going to get into 3000 deaths a week you know it it really is as serious as that and that's what people mean by exponential rise in infection rates that that the problem in italy now seems to be the because as paul was saying in that report the hospitals are full people are getting sufficiently ill at home that by the time they get to hospital it's too late to do anything for them and that's when things really obviously are completely out of control. as we know what happened with italy is it didn't act quickly enough

at the start in nouns months of what passes for lockdown even there people are still able to go to work was botched by the government some people fled from the north of the south and spread the virus around the country now if you look at where other countries are behind it's really the u.k. for example in the us in the netherlands huge spike in germany as we're seeing. the rates of rai's in the u.k. the equivalent point where it's really was a few weeks ago is now higher than where italy was then and so if you extrapolate it forward then you have to assume that since there is no lock down whatsoever happening in the u.k. you can buy a freezer for love nor money in london people up panic buying all over the place and preparing for things but still out on the streets and that's happening of other countries too you have to assume that it's going to be worse potentially in some of these countries than it even is in italy now. and people like that there the

chinese are now saying that it's really got it all wrong because the lockdown is just so if it is not sufficiently serious california which is now ordered everybody inside is seems to be a much. harsher but better model to follow of and not only are those on the front line of health care under extreme pressure right now the scientific community as a whole is on the pressure to come up with some sort of treatment a vaccine how close are scientists to that. well they're very early stages in a number of different countries but they're trying desperately to get something in play when these peaks in all these other countries start to happen which is assumed to be may june in sin into the summer months here in the u.k. it's been reported this morning that there's a team diversity working with porton down which is a chemical weapons testing laboratory they they are trialing

a vaccine that involves injecting a non harmful viruses reported into the body which disables corona virus there are other interpretations of it as well and similarily has been tried in some places we know there's a vaccine on the way potentially in germany and others in the states but it's a massive rush because they've got to potentially bypass some of the usual clinical trials and things they would do and start testing on just this on people really in the coming weeks with a view to rolling it out potentially in the hospital early possibly as june. al-jazeera is lawrence lee reporting live from london lawrence many thanks indeed let's take a closer look at how italy became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in europe the 1st 2 cases that were reported at the end of january and involved a chinese couple who were visiting from han the government immediately if you cleared a 6 month state of emergency and banned all direct flights to and from china more

than 2 weeks further on on february 18th the 1st italian national went to a hospital in the lone body region showing symptoms but an alarm wasn't raised because he hadn't been to china 36 hours later the provincial government said that he tested positive for the virus but by then he'd infected 5 health workers one patient and his pregnant wife among others days later the italian government imposed restrictions in parts of the lone body and bodies were regions 50000 people were cut off and in the same week 900 people were detected as having the virus 21 people died that on march 8th flown the day the business heartland of italy was placed under quarantine 2 days later on march 10th the whole of italy 60000000 people came under an unprecedented nationwide lockdown to slow what had become europe's worst corunna based on a virus outbreak that seems it was all too late on thursday is lisa past china with

the highest number of deaths linked to the corona virus in the world now dr mary louise because it is a professor of epidemiology health care infection at infectious disease control at the university of new south wales she joins us now live via skype from sydney thanks for being with us i'll put the same question to you as i put to a correspondent a moment or 2 ago what lessons can other nations learn from italy's experience with the virus what did it really get wrong and what is it done right. is that the time line that you can say gave us a big hint that when they lock down the country and the long body area they should have actually put in place social distancing instead the community good restaurants coffee shops between 6 am and 6 pm but they should have done is lock it down and prevent anyone from going out socialising let them go to the

bank and to get their food but that's it so could nations like the u.s. and the u.k. be looking at a situation like it's only as in the very near future. absolutely and i think france is on a precipice of becoming like italy. you know italy well i did have the same numbers france has now just on the 11th of march and now of course it's an unprecedented increase so france needs to take note of this and make sure that they keep to their. determination of having social distancing and no socializing adjourning the day is there any reason to think that dial the numbers from is something that it is asshole near the peak of its infection right that the measures that it's introduced now will be at les's will see the infection rate and the number of deaths i think begin to decline from here

on. look the numbers that we have in an epidemiological could move usually 7 days late because the incubation period is about 5 to 7 days and in the last day italy's hand 7840 odd cases that's 7000 nearly a 1000 so that some 7 days ago people were getting very very sick so while i don't think we're going to see a decline yes other nations that terrorism you were particularly single out for praise for the way in which they have handled the crisis is anyone getting it right . well we have to keep on where honor is jew and china has done. in 1st they've had no new cases their current cases

a 20 percent of italy's case and they understand that they are very vulnerable to import cases and so they're doing a lot of checks at the border allowing people to come into china and roam around within china so they are doing temperature checking and asking people to put themselves in isolation but they understand they're very vulnerable so i think we need to give them a lot of praise for what they've done a time one has done a very good job but sadly they're starting to have again some increases and i think this reminds us that the individual can play an enormous part in making or breaking . the outbreak and i think that we need to remind citizens global citizens that what they are doing for their country they will be doing for the rest of the world as well and when they travel please don't travel

outside their own country because the americas now finding imported cases. and we need to learn from this we put on a very strong border in astray and it strengthen today as well will nations who eventually see numbers begin to decline because of the measures that they put into place while they continue to have to isolate themselves if you like from the rest of the world as as the pandemic. continues to rampage elsewhere. that's a really tough question isn't it because. they either keep their borders time while others are finding their increase in numbers or they relax their borders but if they relax their borders around in no rules going to god. into other countries i mean i think we're all new in this together i don't know w.h.y. isn't very. they don't favor quarantining or large countries but at the

moment we have many countries in europe not being able to control the increase in numbers so i think we're all in this together and it should be keeping our borders strong until all of the country's been numbers are starting to decline and where petering out in northern and southern hemisphere professor really appreciate you taking the time and trouble to be with us today many thanks indeed dr mary louise mccloy's there in sydney. germany has just announced 20 more deaths of an increase in cases overnight by almost 3000 sites raised the total 214000 germans are being urged to keep that distance from other schools to the pandemic.

as we reported for a 2nd day no new domestic covert 19 cases have been reported in china but they're still concerned about infections coming in from overseas the economic standstill also reduced pollution levels in the country out xerostomia the pollen reports now from hong kong it says that many people are concerned about a 2nd wave of infections. china has no new domestic cases and more significantly there are no new cases in who bay province if you remember that is the ground 0 the epicenter of the virus where it 1st surfaced late last year but china is now warning of what it calls imported cases that $39.00 new cases in one day or all of them are brought from abroad so they're stepping up screening and for the 1st time all international passengers traveling to beijing will be sent to government quarantine centers what is also a huge concern is the situation in hong kong we have seen the largest jump in cases

since the outbreak started there are $48.00 new cases 36 the of those from abroad lending to the governments warning of imported cases saying that they are now going to screen all passengers all international passengers whether hong kong residents or not will now have to go into quarantine sentence quarantine centers there also are warning of a new wave experts are saying that what they're calling community clusters now are expected to rise as people are dropping their defenses you know hong kong has been under site of vigilance for the past 2 months and many people are dropping their defenses into some international schools against government recommendations are also opening the philippines reported another death linked to the growing of viruses the country locks down to try to stop further spread the government has imposed some of the strictest restrictions in southeast asia more than half the country's population has been ordered to stay home and the capital has been blocked

off by the below reports from the. when i come home dr karen lot more anna has had to send her child away from manila for fear she might have been exposed to the corona virus while the work she sterilizes when she arrives home from the hospital . she said. her husband assumes he will catch the virus if his wife does know we. already you know i think it's already exposed so he's trying you and us. saying we're trying to work from home with a lockdown on the philippine capital as well as regions to the north and south of manila or public transport is paralyzed it's become even more difficult for people with spinal jobs to get to work some had to walk quite. big this is to get to their. houses while local governments have stepped in with mobile kitchens

and by sheer schemes for instance national government leaders say guidelines are changing new problems emerge. there may be missteps and misunderstandings confusion and conjecture frustration and fear we appeal for patience and calm as we and the whole world face an unprecedented crisis i'm in the middle of one of manila's financial districts and on a normal day right behind me there be a lot of people crossing the street but it is an empty district right now with only workers from the basic and health services sectors allowed in and out where it is busy however is the country's main international airport in manila or confusion over a flight restrictions tourists making a mad rush to leave a swell of some of the millions of filipinos who work overseas so they don't lose

their jobs barnaby law al-jazeera manila. in iran the coronavirus crisis is overshadowed celebrations for the start of the persian new year instead of his traditional greeting in public iran's supreme leader was seen on t.v. giving a prerecorded speech ayatollah ali harmony to radians to show unity in the head and an end to u.s. sanctions to allow the delivery of much needed medical supplies let's go live now to. our correspondent zain buss ravi is with us what else did the supreme leader have to say. well later in this speech and the speech of president hassan rouhani come of course on no rose on the eve of no rose the persian new year we saw fresh u.s. sanctions fresh iran related u.s. sanctions this time targeting 5 entities based in the united arab emirates for helping iran to sell its oil that's the allegation so really iranians and everyone

else watching is likely well we're like people were likely looking at these speeches to see if there was any reaction to what had happened and certainly sanctions were on the top of the list but we have to remember that on tuesday just earlier this week was another round of sanctions this time targeting iran's nuclear related activities targeting 5 iranian nuclear scientists as well as several entities in pakistan russia china and the united arab emirates and really the united states is sending a message that whether or not we can sanction iran directly will go after people that are too cozy with iran 3rd parties and things of that nature and certainly each one of these countries that was hit by sanctions on tuesday and again late yesterday they've all helped iran in terms of reacting to the corona virus outbreak here in the country and really the u.s. sanctions is something officials across the board have said is a major problem a major impediment to reacting to trying to stop the spread of the corona virus

outbreak but during their speeches both the supreme leader and the president sort of did a positive spin on these sanctions the supreme leader said that they have made the country better they have forced us to improve and benefit from self reliance and boost to mastic production and he said we need more domestic production in the future it's a constant message every year that he seems to give the president hassan rouhani said sanctions have made iran less reliant on oil and oil related income and has allowed us to improve and see positive economic growth in other sectors of the foreign minister jobs aretha recently earlier this morning has struck a much more hawkish tone he had a phone call with. his counterpart in japan and told him that the united states sanctions unilateral sanctions are the biggest threat right now towards combating the coronavirus he said he'd characterize it as economic terrorism that was threatening the health of the iranian people to 0 same disrobing reporting live from tehran many thanks same in saudi arabia domestic flights and all local

transportation been suspended for the next 2 weeks and the 2 main mosques in mecca medina closed the kingdom as reported 274 cases of no deaths so far in the u.s. the governor of california has told everyone to stay home as corona virus spreads its the most populous us states more than 1000 cases have been reported the governor gavin hughson has warned that almost 20000 people may need hospital care that's far beyond the capacity of the state's health care system pharmacies and food stores staying open many other businesses are closed donald trump has continued to blame china for the virus crisis as his critics accuse him of ignoring and politicizing the threat 200 americans died there are 13000 confirmed cases in the country the president urging health regulators to fast track the approval of antiviral drugs a white house correspondent kimberly how could reports well thank you very much it

was great having. us 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 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. let's get some weather we had some very welcome the usual rain and thunder to interrupt the sunshine here in doha this week it's just more about unsettled weather i'm guessing if yeah that's what i say for certain looking on settle we have got more cloud and rain coming through it will improve as a country really positive next week certainly looking rather to good staying in

weather should we call it that you can see this area cloud just around the levant spilling out of turkey 1st seeing further eastward that's going to continue driving its way from west to east pushing through iraq iran and for that there's a chance and that's going to affect parts of the gulf as we go on through the next couple of days in this was the same in mosul so northern iraq they've had huge amounts of rainfall over the last couple of days you can see some places the blue skies trying to appear it will gradually improve but there are still more showers in the forecast if the truth be known say some western weather around that eastern side of the mediterranean temperatures really struggling to get anywhere near double figures 9 celsius for jerusalem 12 degrees there for beirut and also for damascus western weather will make its way further east which is we go on through saturday increasing cloud and rain pushing for iraq stretching across iran up as well as into that western side of iran israel on into sunday we could see some

really heavy personal life be down poles coming in and that includes us here in the harbor the next couple of days quite a bit of rainfall that's likely to cause some flooding as i said i in good weather to stay indoors there are many thanks indeed still to come here on the news. would you love me for the. last 3 years would be a message from doctors and nurses on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus just stay home plus. on pole recent stock car while hospitals were adopting military strategies borrowed from mit fears of a big spike coronavirus cases. i did sport song football clubs all forced to stop paying salaries because of the suspension of leagues across europe so i will be here with the rest of the sport in just a few moments. playing.

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it's good to have you with us hello baby i'm sitting in here in doha with the news out from of 0 of the headlines more people have now died in italy from the coronavirus complications than anywhere else in the world including china where it all began italian health care staff say that hospitals are struggling to cope. with the 2nd successive day no new domestic covert 19 cases have been reported in china many chinese are worried by the threat of infected for those flying in and imposing a 2nd wave of the disease that iran's supreme leader has said that the country will overcome the coronavirus and the economic fallout that has pushed new year dress

really 20000 people in iraq have been infected with the coronavirus more than 1400 died he's also calling for an end to u.s. sanctions so the country could receive much needed medical supplies more on the situation in italy francesco body is a journalist joins us now live via skype from long bardot in northern italy good to have you with us and once again francesca what is the situation where you are right now what is the daily life like. i will say there is nor did he lie she is taller because this is really the epicenter of the crisis and behind me you can see one of the red cross ambulances. with their teams these days i mean a parking lot now try not to be in their way because you don't see sirens see anymore because to avoid panic they replace sirens with guys

but. i mean it's everybody everybody is a tour and the every who are there is someone heal and you know here we are somehow 2 weeks ahead compared to the rest of the telly so while in the rest of the tele intensive care but it's. running out here we have an oxygen anymore so i asked outside and you know there's no place then they had a sauce to tell now if you call now these emergency number would be immediate on one hour and a half away from here right now and. nothing i mean that is not think you have to stay. and be lucky but how are people coping with the the boredom of being. at home all of the time been able to go out and do anything. psychologically is not easy not honestly because they're unable

to go out. at least not here in italy i mean it's still a us you have italians breaking restriction you know all the current and reduce is not the case here. no one is you know any i mean is not in the right mood the to get out or you just go to the grocery floor you know what you need the sort of few minutes every day. the point tease was severely scary and this is something that we are starting to realize only now. this is not you nor like he war at least you can see the woman did or did they said the last time here you know relatives said nor access it all to all speed belts and bessie kelley you know or you can't even when they have the sick person a tour they have to stay more than one meter away so when we had arrived you know

with the ambulance you see south breaking because you see in ma that a father or a song more often you know they can't even touch their relatives i mean they have to watch. by distance you know this kind of agony because it's really hard on you when you know you can't breathe or you have no oxygen and you can't even touch you know your father or your mother it's something i've never seen you knowing c.d.o. in iraq at least you can touch the dying and here you are really dying you know or it's only in front of your family francesca really good to talk to many thanks indeed for sharing that with us francesca whatever. i thought about her and all of it. france says it's trying to bring back more than 130000 of its citizens who are stuck in cities around the world because of the coronavirus it comes as the country

enters a public health state of emergency and speak to brother lynn who's a freelance journalist she joins us now via skype from paris. yesterday we saw these the video of empty streets in paris that people had begun to take the lockdown seriously at last what's it like there today it's much the same. people are again still oh being this lockdown measures people are really starting to take this seriously as news overnight came that the numbers of people who have been infected and dying have against spikes there's now been more than 108 new just in the past 24 hours and more than 10000 infections so people i think are really being shocked by this news and start to take this seriously so you can see on the streets still many people are staying away they're staying at home and they're. working from home trying to maintain their distances from people if even when they

do go outside so it again the mood is really certain to set in now that people that this virus is is here and that people need to take really concrete action in order to try and stem the flow of it so it spread of it rather people though realize that they're probably in this for the long haul now. exactly and i think even up until this weekend you could still see bars in restaurants and parks filled with people even though there were warnings from the government in from other countries but. now that the law which really forced the government's hand i think to enforce this lockdown and i think there may have been have initially a bit of resistance a bit of. grumbling about why the government is taking these extreme measures but i think now people are really starting to understand the true making today of it that it has beach france that is here it's not an italian problem or a chinese problem anymore but that this is really something that. we need to face

here in france as well so yesterday the senate passed that the state of health emergency what else could the government do now. well i think they're taking really then for some it now is the main step people who who are in lockdown needed a special document to in order to leave their home it's not quite as strict as italy where it's a total lockdown but you are still allowed to leave for 5 different purposes that the government has deemed to be essential and so when you do leave your apartment it's just a document that you can download from the government website and fill it yourself that essentially says your name your date of birth your address and you can tick off one of the reasons the essential reasons for why you need to leave your home. in the 1st day i think they were there was a fine of 35 euros if you were caught on the street without it the interior

ministry said that there are 4000 fines were handed out that 1st day and they've now increased the fine to 135 euro was. when i was walking around earlier i didn't personally see any police checkpoints or blockades but i have heard from very from quite a few people around the city that there are now checkpoints and plainclothes policemen kind of spreading out in different neighborhoods checking that everyone that's on the street drivers and pedestrians alike all have this document so it's really the enforcement now making people think twice about you know when they leave their home how they're behaving when they leave home and now just really taking again all of these precautions that they've set out and making sure that people really adopt them into their daily lives or are needed to give me a very brief answer if you can because we're running out of time here how is that all of this is going to do you are you ok yeah i'm ok i've stocked luckily stocked up before when i 1st heard of the stories coming through from china even so as long

as the internet holds off and i can still keep contacting people on the outside i think we can hold that for a little bit longer and healthier and else out there it's been. around a many thanks to the underland live via skype from paris. regional hospitals in sweden are implementing military systems barred from nato to prepare for a worst case scenario the corona virus is linked to the deaths of 11 people in sweden while the country has daily 1500 confirmed cases paul reese reports from stockholm. building their defenses against the corona virus 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 from. 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 a studies of the viruses progress in italy suggest resources could soon be stretched were using the so-called nato system structure how to work in a time of crisis will be for crisis i'm the one who decides on things but those that were closest to me and 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 measures 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 coming back for china we've seen other countries who look down here we all seem to go and stay home for 2 weeks work excellently we had no transmission whatsoever from those people coming back 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 paul reese al-jazeera stockholm. social distancing has become the new catchphrase around the world but the pandemic message isn't getting through to everyone prompting some doctors nurses to get creative on social media al-jazeera is right here mohamad reports. distancing from other people is becoming a new way of life for billions worldwide 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. 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 whole system

will collapse. it's prompted a concerned group of health care workers to send a message on social media stay home to even. the world. doctors and nurses in many countries from germany to malaysia india to spain and the united states have come together to send that message 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. oh here you go out of my way to the hospital roads and shops were empty now the emergency room is empty which means we can attend to patients who need urgent help this is because of all of us in here thank you for making it possible ashley 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 the you made was someone who makes contact with someone else that may be what makes some of these mom or grandpa always sick everyone of us has 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 up their homes with christmas lights to print chair and hope to their neighbors in isolation in northeast italy growing colors of the italian flag were displayed and she read to everyone forced to stay confined but assholes continued to grow louder for everyone to take the virus more seriously the threat of hospitals becoming overwhelmed remains for you know mohammed al jazeera. now to other news for men convicted of

raping and murdering a student in india and 2012 i've been executed large crowds celebrated outside the jail where the men were hanged on friday a court dismissed a last minute petition to delay the executions and then attacked a 23 year old woman on a moving bus and new delhi she died from her injuries days later the viciousness of the attack because nationwide protests a broad international attention to india's alarming rate of sexual assaults it forced the government to introduce tougher laws to tackle such crimes i was a serious elizabeth for autumn is in delhi and reports now that despite a huge outpouring of anger and calls for change after that 2012 attack activists say that india is no safer for women. even before day crowds were gathering outside jail chanting death to rapists they were joined by a very large media and security presence to as the convicts were hanged and that's because this is a day that many indians have waited for for

a very long time along with the victims nearby as parents and it's a day that has been delayed several times the convicts were due to be hanged on january 22nd but they all used it appeals they please at different times and indeed google says that people convicted in the same crime have to be punished together this is the 1st time in india that fool people have been hanged together india does not use the death penalty the death penalty often convicts went to the delhi high court at 10 pm last night 8 hours less than 8 hours before they were hanged and then. there were the victims of a trial by media and police torture but the judges said that you know that had no no foundation women's rights activists say they recommendations about making public places safer for women and about addressing the real issues of a patriarchal system that the victim blames either in society or by the judiciary

itself that that has not been addressed and that you know until until those issues are addressed and it is not safe of women. scientists say the great barrier reef has been damaged after one of australia's hottest summers on record as they've started flying over the reef to check on how much coral has been bleached by the warming ocean environmentalist's blame the burning of fossil fuels such as coal for the climate crisis. as alexia brown reports now from the with sunday island's tourism operators say that coal mining is putting the reef and their livelihoods at risk. in the deep blue pacific ocean off the coast of queensland lies a wonderland of coral fish and picture perfect beaches. the great barrier reef bring them billions of tourist dollars every year. but it's endangered scientists than environmentalists 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 reef die and fish disappear with climate change global warming 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 owned by the indian company adani. critics say the world heritage reef now lies under a cult shipping superhighway and the adani project could see many more lodge ships bringing coal dust and worsening climate change bleaching is under water equivalent of a bush far 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 say why people travel from around the world to get here. it's just a 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 it's 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 up to everything and i being curious so i thought just stand your ground say what you want. what sunday regional council. tourism agriculture and saying it believes they can co-exist.

disagree if you have to maintain that hope so that you can get up each day and fight for the future health from the. many he. has tough choices to make about its future and what sort of country it wants to be. in the. just ahead in the force the after if or when they'll get the chance to qualify for this year it's the right.

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low get well will you look who's here sort of oh she's got the sport thank you very much adrian why the face of mounting criticism in japanese officials have welcomed the olympic flame to their country one member of japan's own olympic committee has now called for the games to be postponed the flame arrived in japan for a low key ceremony which involved no spectators for months at a torch relay all round the country is still set to start next week international olympic committee remain committed to starting the tokyo games as planned on july 24th. for the 1st time in 56 years the olympic torch is heading to tokyo and i hope that it will eliminate the path of hope for many people towards the opening of the games in july will work closely with the international olympic committee the japanese government and the world health organization to ensure

a safe and secure games tools park offer is the author of the power games a political history of the olympics he believes that the games should be canceled and that even a scaled down event would be difficult to pull off. well even in a lympics life i would still have to grapple with all the challenges that a pandemic brings so you'd still have folks in close proximity you still have folks coming from around the world and let's not forget that if you look at the 15 countries that have the highest rates of corona virus infection right now they comprise around a 3rd of the athletes from the rio games the last time that there was a summer olympics in fact if you talk to epidemiologists they'll tell you there's almost no better way to transmit the disease more widely and to have people come from around the world share space together be close to each other and then send them back off to their home countries postponement is something that folks have

been floating but it's quite tricky to postpone a massive event like this for starters you might have to move it into a space that's already has a lot of sports events in the calendar and so you will be competing for eyeballs and folks like n.b.c. here in here from the united states the big broadcaster that has put billions into the olympics is not overly keen to go against any other properties let alone their own football properties national football league and a football 2nd these games are already way over budget as they are let's not forget that the original price tag was $7300000000.00 but that a japanese audit recently from the government in japan said that it was more like $26000000000.00 so if you extend and postpone the games you're actually going to add more cost as you have to maintain venues you have to keep staff on getting paid and so it's complicated and that way as well. well one of the other complications

is that many of them because of fine events are being counseled skateboarding is due to make it a limb picked in tokyo but this week an asian called fi event in singapore was hold off at the last minute the international nitpicking mitty's says it will come up with a revised qualification plan for all sports next month i mean they've been preparing for this for years if not for over a decade so of course so many resources have been put into making and making it happen so i'm sure they want to still salvage it in some way or form and that's always a possibility of course you know it'll be the year the athletes came through despite the corona so if that happens we're ready for it as well but you know we need a way to qualify so if it couldn't happen here has to happen in another point. if financial impact of the coronavirus on domestic football is being felt by many clubs across europe 7 time french champions. have been forced to suspend players' salaries. and some of the other leading french clubs to take similar action

french week has been suspended indefinitely the upcoming round of qualifies for the africa cup of nations that has been postponed sudan's football team has still met for a training camp sudan were jew to play ghana later this month next month's african nations championship in cameroon as also being called off. new orleans saints to head coach sean payton is the 1st leading name in the n.f.l. to test positive for corner virus the 56 year old is nala self isolating a home base in the said via social media that he was feeling better and fortunate to not have any of the whispers she symptoms in new n.f.l. season is due to begin september. and the most famous phrase on the formula one calendar has now officially being cancelled for the 1st time since 1954 the monaco

won't be happening f one organizes are working on plans to reshape the calendar the opening of 4 rounds of the season have now been canceled. and also his fall from a 5 mile have more for you later on but for now a spectator in so many thanks dave because i'll be here next to update you on al jazeera that's it for you sir i'll see. the u.s. is always of interest to people all right the world this is been going on for

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