when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you'll be in to go build united states of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on how does iraq. this is al-jazeera. it's 800 hours g.m.t. i'm come all santamaria welcome to the news hour on al-jazeera from the largest daily death toll in italy 627 people killed in a single day from cove it 19 with over $40000.00 italians now infected also the u.k. announces all shops and restaurants will be closed the latest country to take its stream measures to battle the spread of the virus. you are not invincible this

virus could put you in hospital for weeks or even kill you that's a warning from the world health organization telling young people don't be complacent in the fight against the pandemic and the u.s. has announced it is limiting non essential travel across the border into mexico and want to force a new statute to block migrants from entering illegally. in my increasing the mandates because the numbers are increasing and as a lockdown in new york state the governor announces tighter restrictions and calls for all nonessential workers to stay at home. for we got a lot of developments to take you through with regards to the coronavirus pandemic the number of deaths continues to rise rapidly especially in europe it is now considered. the epicenter of this crisis we start with the news out of italy where

the death toll has climbed to more than 4000 we have seen the largest single day rise in the number of fatalities 600 and $27.00 people died there on friday as we say that total now up above $4000.00 since the contention began a month ago tens of thousands more are sick hospitals are overwhelmed the army has been brought in to enforce lock downs in certain areas to the u.k. which has taken the very serious step of ordering the closure of all cafes pubs and restaurants an announcement which did come with a financial package as well offering to pay workers' wages if businesses keep them on staff we've also heard the world health organization head using his latest update to deliver a message to the youth of the world that message hugh are not invincible he's asked them to stay home for the sake of others health today i have a message for young people you are not invincible this virus could put you in

hospital for weeks or even kill you even if you don't get seek the choices you make about where you go could be the difference between life and for someone else i'm grateful that so many young people are spreading the word and not the virus as i keep saying solidarity is the key to defeating. 19 and this was a few hours ago as well another news conference at the white house where the us said that mexico and the u.s. have agreed to shut their borders are all nonessential travel also new york state is ordering everyone not in an essential role to stay home we need everyone to be safe. otherwise no one can be saved we've studied all the other countries we've talked to people all across the globe

about what they did what they've done what worked what doesn't work and that is all informed this policy to basic rules. only essential businesses will be functioning people can work at home god bless you but only essential businesses can have workers commuting to the job or on the job 2nd rule remain indoors to the greatest extent to protect physical and mental health let's start talking to our correspondent starting with me in london now your opinion center those numbers out of italy take us through them again because i think you know that the impact on them is an extraordinary. yes $627.00 deaths in a single day that's the highest death toll anywhere in the world since the outbreak of the corona virus in a single day in the past few days have been roughly around 400 or 450 deaths

a day just to put this into perspective of the height of the crisis in one hand in china the average death toll there was around 150 the situation just seems to get worse and worse by the hour by the day and it really is also critical in the north in long body where the financial capital milan is the troops are now on the streets and forcing a lockdown of what is to be described as a red zone that's how they're categorizing it the nationwide lockdown continues more than 60000000 people affected by that but the advice coming form the chinese red cross is that more needs to be done total economic lockdown is needed if they really want to try and bring this situation under control but we do know that in places like burger moet is a town northeast of milan hospital wards are overwhelmed by people suffering from severe respiratory problems as a result of the coronavirus the italian authorities had hoped to lift restrictions

at the start of april that most certainly it's not going to happen other countries drawing lessons from italy and one glimmer of hope we've seen coming from germany is that their situation seems to be significantly better more managed as a result of whatever situation they're implementing there on the ground the death toll there is around 30 although the infection rate is quite high around 14000 people have been infected we believe the reason why germany seems to be on top of this is because they were very very quick to roll out testing allowing people to contact trace where the virus has gone and to isolate and it's really seems to be having an effect just very very quickly and very last see the fatality rate in germany is naught. point 22 percent compare that to 8 percent in italy and 2.2 percent here in the u.k. lessons to be learnt from germany most certainly yeah clearly let's talk about the u.k. then where you are in london the chancellor and the prime minister announcing some

pretty major changes there yeah that's why let's start with the chancellor obviously people are deeply worried about the financial impact of the coronavirus on people's jobs we know from just across the irish sea an island $140000.00 people lost their jobs in only 4 days we don't have any hard data around of the u.k. but we imagine similar kind of figures if not much much more so to help people weather this storm the british government is basically saying they'll pay companies 80 percent of the value of people salaries salaries up to $3000.00 a month to help them in the near future but this is only really dealing with things in the short term the long term much do deeper help to help will be needed but when it comes to restrictions here in the u.k. voice johnson has now ordered all bars restaurants cafes theaters gyms to close from midnight that situation will only be reviewed on a monthly basis so

a real ramping up of the situation here in the u.k. reports also of a intensive care unit in north west london that is reporting being overwhelmed by the number of coronavirus virus suffers there after 6 people died in that particular hospital. keeping across all the developments across europe thank you neve let's move now to new york his gabriel elizondo we heard from governor some say chris cuomo andrew cuomo a little bit earlier basically enforcing the lockdown and saying if you don't have to go to work don't. yeah he did and he was actually even stronger than that in a lot of ways he did not call this a lockdown he did not use that word he did not call this shelter in place but that is essentially exactly what he has done with an executive order that she's expected to sign later on this day komo saying that all businesses that are

non essential in the state of new york of the 18000000 people that live in this state all businesses will now need to close all employees 100 percent will be need needed to be sent home this does not include essential businesses such as grocery stores and restaurants that can still do delivery pharmacies can remain open of course hospitals but anything else beyond that must close as of sunday evening here in new york state he also said that all gatherings of any people of any size are now banned throughout the entire state as well and he announced all of this as as coronavirus cases here in the state of new york jumped to over 7000 the number in new york city making up the majority of that about $4400.00 of those $7000.00 from new york city and itself the governor saying that these are in his

words dramatic measures but that they had to be done they have started ramping up testing in new york state they did about 10000 more tests overnight so you're going to see the positive tests that come back in the number of positives increase exponentially over the coming days but again this is a state of 18000000 new york city about 8000000 there right now only doing about 10000 tests a night or a day that's a lot compared to where it was just a few days ago but they still are hoping a ramp up more tests but the headline out of the comal press conference and his announcement was as of sunday night. new york state is going to be shut down extraordinary thank you. in new york let's head across town and talk to james bays our diplomatic editor james we heard from the world health organization a little bit earlier as well thing i noticed coming out of there was a sort of change in phrasing we use used to talking about social distancing the official term now physical distancing. yes keep

your distance is one of the main messages the other main message of the day is one that we've heard from other sources in the last 24 hours but now coming from the world health organization which is a message to young people you are not invincible now i think that is true they they know that young people can get infected and can get seriously ill and can possibly die but i also think they know that young people in many places are not taking this seriously and are not practicing that social or physical distancing and in places are still going to bars still partying still socializing with one another so i think the message to young people is twofold they want to keep young people from getting coronavirus but they also want to stop those young people from becoming spreaders of the virus elsewhere in the u.n. system it's worth telling you that u.n. headquarters they've been talking again about their concern about africa as the

number of cases there get gets greater and also they say they express their concern about the 100000000 people who live in war zones or other emergency situations they fear that millions could die if the virus was to spread through some of those troubled countries on earth i'm hearing reports that potentially the security council will have meetings next week to discuss the situation we know there's going to be a g. 20 meeting coming up next week of course for the security council to meet they might have well have to do it virtually because normally they meet here in new york and this is as you heard from game one of the world hot spots thank you james bays our diplomatic as there in new york we head to latin america now and here is our son there on the streets of bogota in colombia other son to take us through some of the restrictions that are going in places across latin america.

yes well we're seeing governments across the region practically every day announcing new measures more stringent more exceptional measures that's the case again today starting with argentina the 1st country in the atmosphere to go in food lockdown for now until march 31st the and the president there are better to fit in on this said that they will be absolutely inflexible with people who need to remain in their houses there have been 128 confirmed cases so far in argentina 3 people have died there and even if this spread the virus so far has been slower than for example in europe or in the u.s. many of the presidents of nations are taking no chances as we can see in argentina this situation though is different for example in brasil the largest the more populous. populous nation and. the president there are not

of so far as avoid the lockdowns he has closed. the land borders has also that cleared a state of emergency which will free some funds to fight the virus there but we've seen some political infighting between the president also not on a number of state governors who are asking for more and instead slammed a number of governors who are trying to impose more stringent measures for example in the nato or so pollo there but a lot of that concern right now and. today on for on friday is in haiti the poorest of the more densely populated in the country and let's you know mike in the caribbean the 1st 2 cases. of the 19 have been confirmed there. there's a lot of concern because the health services there lack the ability to deal with

any sort of outbreak a lot of people for example in the capital port au prince they have informally barely make. to survive on a daily basis so the idea of imposing a lockdown there is extremely difficult yet the president as cited at least for now just because of these 2 cases to start with a lockdown and night from 8 pm to 5 am you also closed the school there borders international flights and all the factories there will also be shut down starting today and a quick wit if you wouldn't mind asunder and what's actually happening in colombia where you have been watching behind you a few people going pounced on bikes a few cars but otherwise looking pretty quiet. absolutely this is the 1st day of a 4 day trial

a lockdown this was that this issue that was made by the mayor. said this is something that we've never done but it's a huge city of 8000000 people very takes off an unruly she said we don't know how to do this we should try it out now that this situation is not as bad as it can be come she's saying it's not really a question of if we're going to need to do a lockdown is a question of when and there'll probably be sooner rather than later so she decided to essentially shut down the city for 4 days and many other cities and regions across the longer doing the same thank you and. in bogota finally we go to mexico city and his men will drop below to take us through well. before but it was a news conference which the white house announced changes to the border situation with mexico. that's right kemal and we've been expecting this announcement for some

time now even that last week we heard from mexican officials who said that a partial closure of the united states mexico border would not be off the table for containment of code 19 given that even now there are still so many more cases in the united states compared to here in mexico and an important thing to know perhaps especially for our viewers who live along the u.s. southern border is that this partial closure announced by the united states only a little more than one hour ago will affect tourism and only land border crossings and it will not affect trade it will not affect people's ability to to go to work if they work at cross the border but there are but there were a few other points where president trump may have sent mixed messages as well which specially in regards to mexico shutting down flights from europe we're still waiting to hear confirmation for the mexico from mexican authorities whether or not that's going to be true though there are

a lot of people here in mexico who would see this as a positive positive measure given that mexico has been reluctant to take some of the more serious or even extreme measures that many of the neighboring countries have taken such as canceling flights or shutting down schools come off who else gets affected by this one man well from mexico i'm wondering about because again donald trump has said a lot in that news conference but there was talk about legal immigration legal immigration the differences between the 2 in who gets affected. certainly well there's again mixed messages and a lot being said but basically the argument that we're hearing from the united states is that health officials in the united states are concerned over the potential for a quote mass uncontrolled border movement but again we're hearing mixed messages earlier in the day we heard from mexican foreign minister marcello a but i have who had said that mexico will not be accepted any asylum seekers or migrants refugees from any 3rd party countries in that press conference that we heard from president trump and secretary of state might pump

a 0 secretary pump aoe said that that element of disagreement between the united states and mexico had yet to be finalized that announced that would be made president trump chimed in saying that no 3rd party nation asylum seekers would be entering mexico so at the moment we simply don't know exactly what that policy is but to answer your question about who's going to be most effective in most affected in this case we have to have our minds on on migrants on asylum seekers are thousands of individuals from all over the continent from latin america in the case . of venezuela some 4900000 people have fled the country in the context of their economic crisis in central america countries like honduras el salvador guatemala there are thousands of migrants and asylum seekers that are in mexico that are. probably more than probably the most vulnerable people in the population so again these are policies these are agreements that are being made between the united

states and mexico but we have yet to see how that's going to be implemented given that when it comes to deportations that the united states wants to impose there are several countries that have halted deportation flights so again a lot of policies that are up in the air a lot of mis mixed messages but that's what we're hearing from officials both in the united states and mexico come all around. the world with correspondents thank you so much for that. we're going to switch gears a little bit and look at some advice there is a lot of advice out there were already on how to avoid catching the virus we've heard all about social distancing or physical distancing is the w h o's now saying but we want to talk today about how we should prepare for a possible infection and if you were to be infected then what should you actually do very pleased to welcome as always dr patrick tang into the studio with us division chief of pathology sciences at sadr medicine here in doha good to see you again doctor so we've got some questions lined up and we're going to starts with

this one we've got it here comes. what medication should you have in preparation at home in order to ease symptoms. so that. right now it would depend on the severity of your symptoms obviously if you have very severe symptoms then you should definitely seek medical advice in and follow whatever your doctors say but if you have a mild fever currently the recommendations would be to take something like paracetamol or there's been some controversy about taking. inflammatory such as ibuprofen but we come out from the french health ministry but other health authorities around the world would would not be you know supporting that so there's nothing confirmed of that because that was one of those things i sort of sore at them and thought oh it sounded fairly official looking but take it with a grain of salt i think that's a finding that was found in france and it probably hasn't been substantiated in

enough other places yet to make it a wide reaching sort of recommendation ok 2nd question let's go with that. and what we've talked about symptoms before you were mentioning that fever and a cough but here when should you go to the doctor or the hospital i think this is where people might feel a little confused they might think i have got a bit of a cough of a head for a few days but i haven't got a fever with it i'm actually feeling ok otherwise i'm only coughing at certain times and at what point do you make the call is that a very personal thing when you think no i rethink i should go or is there some sort of tipping point so i think that it's both a personal thing as well as what the recommendation is for the country or the city that you live in so there are restrictions on the mountain resources in every country or every city for testing or for medical care so you have to follow whatever guidelines are in your region definitely if you are having problems breathing or you're not able to take care of your daily needs then that is

a sign that you would need. medical attention so if you've got something more a venue would usually have because we all get coughs and sniffles asked every yes and in some jurisdictions where we're testing is widely reveal a bill you might want to be tested and that might be the recommendation from the public health authorities in your region right ok next question we've got through this is important because a lot of people are doing this how do you self quarantine at home and what should you ok give a have in assisting you does so at home maine i am in this room and i am in no other room in the house or does it mean i could move to another room in the house as long as i thought my mask on how strict do we have to be i think it has to be quite strict because we know that the virus is very infectious and we have to distinguish between the different terms say so so there's south isolation and then there's quarantine quarantine is the is when you're not symptomatic but because you've been caught you've contacted someone that might have the disease or you're

at some risk of having a disease and then you are required to stay at home but you're healthy the other people or people there actually sick survey have over 19 and they are under isolation so then i think we're talking ok they're not i think we're talking about self isolation specifically inherent within so. if someone in your household had to self isolate you just want to basically minimize yes as much contact as far as humanly it is almost probably impossible to not spread the virus in a family setting if we looked at china 70 percent of all the transmission that they had was in the family setting so it's extremely difficult you have be very very careful to not spread it to your family members you've talked to while we're on that subject let's have a look at the next question because it's sort of. oh no actually i was going to go to the next one let's do this one. could you go on to the next one just because i think this ties in with what we were saying about infection could an infected

mother pass the virus on to baby through breast milk and that's just one example but are there other ways that this can be passed through other than. sneezing coughing droplets on the surfaces so you're talking about pregnant women the worry would be passing on to the fetus. fetus is still in utero we don't think that that happens and then the other situation that you alluded to would be someone that's just given birth and the breast feeding their baby with the baby get it from the breast milk and we also don't think that that would happen that the mother if she's infected with the virus would have to be very careful not to spread it through her responder turi secretions so sure she would have to where a mask and make sure that she washes her hand very carefully when contacting the baby it's been a real pleasure thank you for coming in. i would usually shake hands but in the new

do quick memo today that one is well ok. that is how seriously you have to take it no touching just the over the top. well these are as we know unprecedented time so many health workers worldwide some of already been infected the rest are at high risk of infection and many hospitals themselves are even running out of protective gear and it's cases keep piling up so that the concerns about the stress the exhaustion on medical workers and the impact on their mental health and physical health let alone everyone else has been looking at that. exhaustion takes on a whole new meaning for these health workers. every day around the clock thousands of doctors and nurses around the world are on the front line fighting what's described as an invisible enemy. in italy where the new corona virus has killed more people than anywhere else in the world some hospital staff say they're free to breaking point another fields or stress in

my life. an intensive is that a white peers you know even in movement and choices and. people are critical and will die without any you know treatment and you make a difference but when you arrive at this point and you realize that you are not enough as these doctors and nurses soldier on coping with the unprecedented pandemic concerns are growing about the likely psychological impact of the grueling odds and dealing with rising numbers of dead health care workers real heroes premium sounds out there but they also suffer from stress anxiety. break. i refused to in hong kong where they are at the forefront of this after hours in their personal protective equipment it's uncomfortable and shortages

of critical medical supplies in many countries have put their health at risk thousands of health workers have been infected in countries such as china and italy in our own side were low on i protection and 95 masks some sights are low on surgical masks and. you know when we are not protected and. and we certainly worry about our own how our personal protective equipment or p.p. are usually used by health workers who are in direct contact with infected patients it includes gowns medical mosse clubs and eye protection. that need to be disposed off after every patient china is the biggest supplier of mass but they are in short supply so hospital workers like in this facility in the u.s.

are making their own it's the courage and resilience that gives hope for people around the world millions of are living under quarantine their work uploaded now during the crisis and hopefully after it's over to priyanka gupta and. as the world reacts to the coronavirus pandemic analysts are warning of ways the crisis can be exploited where calling this disaster capitalism basic medical necessity as you face masks and wash sanitize as they are in many cases being sold at inflated prices online as demand saws and while u.s. authorities 'd of struggle to make testing available some private companies are said to be offering home tests for those who can pay there's also a growing concern of alleged congressional insider trading after 2 senators sold stocks following a white house briefing that was before the markets crashed and there are fears governments might use the crisis to implement political agendas as well china has

already announced it will relax environmental supervision to try to boost its economy we'll talk about this with samples to get the who is an associate fellow at the institute for policy studies and scott from washington d.c. thank you for your time sir i think the 1st thing we have to. think the 1st thing we have to say is that regardless of our outrage this is going to happen is someone will always find a way to benefit from others' misfortune. yes i think benefited 2 levels you have sort of the penny ante price gouging that's going on the attorney general of michigan just brought suit for price gouging against $1.00 of the largest home supply companies in the united states so you have that sort of situation but then you also have a bigger situation where corporate elites are trying to use this disaster as they've used is their cers in the past and that is to push through corporate

friendly agendas that couldn't get through in normal times ok i'll come back to that in a moment i just want to go back to because we're actually looking at the pictures where they're from prague actually about of a costco with people lined up around the block and they probably want to go in there and buy some hand sanitizer and some whites and such things these are out of stock there are people buying up lots of the months in cases of people buying up lots of them and then trying to sell them on e bay what can be done to stop that can't it's a case of a government stepping in a platform like e bay can step in as well. yes i think there are there are a number of things that can be done but they can be done through the criminal justice system there are all sorts of statutes on the books in states across the country that prohibit that define and prohibit price gouging and so on on that front we're fairly will cover if we have the will in prosecutorial offices. to

push back against the price gougers what about the i mentioned this briefly just before we came to you this apparent insider training i mean the fact that it could be going on at a congressional level is is really quite something but it could also be happening all over the place couldn't it. yes yes it couldn't and that's more difficult. to catch and prosecute but again it can be done if there's a political will well and it be very interesting to see how congress now handles on the charges against the senator from north carolina who's been accused of look inside or trading. to the tune of millions millions dollars. sampa together joining us from washington today we really appreciate your insights thank you for that thank you our coverage continues in just a moment so it's been another day of optimism in china and no new domestic cases of

covert 19 and dangerous air pollution levels are going down. and we'll report from the philippines as well which is put into place some of the strictest measures we've seen in southeast asia will back him up. welcome back the weather around the arabian peninsula is looking really unsettled over the next few days plenty of thunderstorms around here but you'll notice this development taking place around iraq this circulation of low pressure is going to result in a lot of dust across parts of saudi arabia but the main concern is the risk of flash flooding for parts of iraq as a real threat to life and that system will move further towards east cheer in the course of sunday so in iran going to space and really intense rainfall so again

a threat to life as flash flooding develops so some storms across qatar u.a.e. parts of a man through saudi arabia into yemen at that stage quite to conditions falling on behind across parts the levant with the by route there looking at 16 damascus at 18 degrees celsius then into eastern parts of africa you see a typical shower development plenty of heavy showers show up across the ethiopian highlands during friday and again on into saturday so plenty of intense storms expected as looking pretty wet across parts of d.r. see i should expect into more southern parts of africa south africa south looking largely dry and find a woman in johannesburg cause of $29.00 degrees. reporting in the field means i often get to witness not just the news is it breaking but also history as it's unfolding crossing from serbia into hungary the refuge there might

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continuing coverage on the news hour of the coronavirus pandemic here are the latest developments it's really has seen its largest single day rise in the number of coronavirus related deaths 627 people have died on friday bringing the total number of dead there to more than $4000.00 since the outbreak began a month ago the u.s. and mexico have agreed to severely restrict movement between their border and shut down all non-essential travel also in the u.s. the governor of new york state has ordered anyone not in a frontline role to stay hard i'm a head of the world health organization is warning young people against complacency in the face of 19 he said they're not invincible to the illness and their movements could be a matter of life and death particularly for others. we are going to bring you some

other news from around the world and we'll start with the oas the organization of american states which has reelected its secretary general the incumbent luis a muggle was facing 2 challenges venezuela's human humanitarian crisis had been a key focus in the run up to the vote we're going to talk to catherine a little bit about this now and director at the andean information network a think tank and she's on skype from cochabamba in bolivia thank you for your time catherine 1st of all just for people i guess or maybe not being up to speed with the oas and its politics how much of a challenge was it to the incumbent and in the end why do you think he is staying in the role. well i don't think it was much of a challenge to the company because he had strong u.s. backing of the u.s. government the trumpet ministry and pressured the groovy in government which it

submitted to the term to putin that it publicly and privately were to get them to withdraw their community if you know it was not going to 1st election fear no they were not a lot of options and the us lobby behind almagro is binding erratic behavior and very problematic added to stances was the candidate in this case that doesn't bode well for reaching a consensus building in a time where we are faced with an massive health crisis political crises and in grave human rights crises the region ok so let's it's difficult at the moment i know but i'm going to try to strip coronavirus out of this and just look at the problems that already existed in the member states in latin america what do you think is so the most pressing issue or country to deal with for the oas is agenda. i think unfortunately there

are very very many countries in bolivia the issue around the bolivian elections the oas thought it. said that the next election should be. at that point in time all micro asked that morality finish is elected 3rd term and then when he has our story by protesters and violence didn't do anything to denounce that or protect its condition so we have a very volatile situation in bolivia. a lack of clarity eve where we're going to go up. for a tyrian behaviors on the part of the interim government being beyond what we see a very very small country. with an election that almost a month later it or 17 days later there's no clarity on the outcome with a small population like $700000.00 people we had to keep cases like that as well

but we also had issues that across the region in central america immigration related issues with mexico drug policy issues in terms of traffic and policies that help farmers or people affected by it you were really at a time here if you could be poor coronavirus where there's a great deal of conflict a great deal of. a great deal of renewed state by lance and review protests at a time where we're looking at a very disappointing and worrisome status quo. catherine heard of a talking organization of american states thank you so much do appreciate it thank you for having. well coronavirus iran's supreme leader says iranians will overcome the pandemic and the economic fallout in his address at the start of the persian new year ayatollah come in a call for the lifting of u.s. sanctions to allow him to live or ease of medical supplies iranian government says

1400 people have died with nearly 20000 infected it's too noisy has become the latest country to order a national lockdown the measures will stop people leaving their homes and from traveling between cities cafes and restaurants in all major cities will also be closed it was a 72 year old woman who became the 1st virus linked death in tunisia that was on thursday to jordan and a nationwide curfew will start from saturday morning to combat the spread people are being told not to leave their houses unless it's absolutely necessary all shops across the kingdom have been ordered to close and information minister says those violating the curfew will be jailed we've got iraq with security forces in baghdad have begun patrolling the streets to enforce the curfew there the country went into a week long lockdown on thursday public gatherings of banned cinemas in cafes have been closed schools and universities are also shut for at least 10 days. now libya

where there are actually no reports of coronavirus yet but the fear of an outbreak has sparked panic buying in the food stores the government's close restaurants and cafes at night that same sort of theme there they've banned large crowds of seal the borders all the while the fighting continues in the country's civil war at least 15 fighters and civilians have been killed in the latest battles near the capital mahmud has more now from tripoli. renewed fighting in this a bird was of southern tripoli explosions shock there in daraa and dean neighborhoods forces loyal to the internationally recognized the government here in the capital say they repealed the latest offensive by fighters loyal to her leave her have to have at the last about a lot 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 month battle to capture tripoli is once again taking its toll the latest

is collation yet another blow to the fraud gyal sees fire broke out of the by turkey and the russia in january that 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 the 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 dean art is falling the government is advising everyone to stay at home borders are closed so our restaurants and cafes after 4 pm people are rushing to markets fearing some commodities might try now it's a hard foul the night you got used to the war but what we fear the most is possible

infection of 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. tripoli. and also syria has yet to officially report a confirmed case of coronavirus but the war ravaged country is taking steps to stop the spread in aleppo provinces kurdish region the location of 3 large camps for internally displaced people health workers are conducting sanitizing operations and medical checks syria has already delayed the elections shot schools and suspended flights human rights groups say doctors have detected coronavirus cases but of awarded or been awarded i should say to stay quiet it's got to be some good news out there and it's coming from china where for a 2nd day no new domestic over 1000 cases have been reported but there are still

concerns about infections coming in from overseas interestingly the economic standstill is also reduced pollution levels. and the number of new coronavirus cases continues to drop in south korea but officials aren't taking any risks at the border tests on new arrivals tents a 5 will so joined a 3 way video conference with china and japan to discuss the threat of imported cases disease has now with way. diplomatic tensions have been put aside for now is south korea china and japan pledged greater cooperation to fight coronavirus boxes of protective equipment donated by the chinese government arrived in south korea to be sent to vulnerable communities. on friday the foreign ministers from the 3 countries spoke via video link you sent me you don't know what and now you do but i'm sure we all agree that we need to think about ways to prevent the spread of the corona virus as well as the need to minimize the economic and social impacts

caused by the decrease of exchanges between our people due to this incident just weeks ago south korea had the highest number of coronavirus cases outside china now the situation appears to be stabilizing and the number of new cases being recorded is trending downwards but there is no sense of complacency in south korea in fact the government is introducing stricter border controls. as of midnight on march 22nd we will conduct testing for all people entering south korea from european countries and especially for a long time stay people will be required to solve isolate or should be sent to an isolation facility for 14 days florentine measures and border closures announced by governments around the world have meant passenger air travel has slumped at an unprecedented rate new zealand's national carrier warning it may need to cut a 3rd of its staff and the government giving it a $515000000.00 loan to stay in the air we do have

a responsibility obviously to move people around the country and we take that very seriously as we do with any repatriation efforts we can through the government and obviously cargo the international air travel association says airlines will need as much as $200000000000.00 in financial aid from governments in the coming months wayne hay al-jazeera another death in the philippines means the total is now at 18 with $230.00 infections $60000000.00 filipinos have been told to stay at home which is more than half the population and doctors and nurses on the front line are struggling to even get to work this from bonneville or. 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 which you arrive home from the hospital. she said. her husband assumes he will catch the virus if his wife does know we are 8. but i think you know i

think it's already exposed so he's trying you and us. saying we're trying to work from home. we don't look down on the philippine capital as well as we age and to the north and south of manila for public transport is paralyzed it's become even more difficult for people with vital jobs to get to work some had to walk quite. big this was 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 the swellest some of the millions of filipinos who work overseas so they don't lose their jobs barnaby law al-jazeera manila. a regional hospitals in sweden are implementing military systems borrowed from nato to prepare for a worst case scenario coronavirus is linked to the deaths of 11 swedes while the country has nearly 1500 cases all race 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 borrowed 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 hold to work in time of crisis will before crisis i'm the one who decides on things but those that were closest to me are leading they work in this control says 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 reflected in your head or church 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 have 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 $500.00 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 stock i'm in the us mexico and canada car companies are closing their operations in reaction to the pandemic john hundreds of thing at that. 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 well as the industrial sneezes everyone has a cold factories in china are already opening. and i typically seems to have started picking up there and i think that's a direct consequence of the fact that they seem to have gotten the lightest under control ford and g.m. are considering repurchasing their plants from making vehicles to ventilators for coronavirus patients. until the auto assembly lines can restart john hendren l.g. 0 chicago finally with all of us practicing social distancing self isolation our consumption of the internet has skyrocketed which means instructors musicians movie

studios they're all thinking out of the box now to survive his own show. while many traditional activities require face to face interactions. and his students are learning that putting a screen between them won't necessarily push them apart. a little bit because of coronavirus kids cannot go outside with adults in japan may be asked to stay indoors in the future to a culture shouldn't stop because of the virus or because just because then i started taking internet lessons because it became difficult to go out but i found it's not as inconvenient as i imagined. for musicians and other stage performers who earn all of their income from live performances the cuts to. just entrapment in the common goods live audiences on in washington d.c. bars these days they're on facebook. by taking tips on ben mo and

pay pal are making up for some lost revenue fans say they're also providing a public service and i think that we're bringing something to people that is creating a little bit of levity in their lives where they may all be a little stressed otherwise you know we're going to the grocery store and people or people are fighting over you know the last remove toilet paper people are a little bit more worked up and they are normally in life. from dance classes to rock performances church choir rehearsals and shakespeare d.j. sets. or the weekly picnic with the girls you refuse to cancel people everywhere are carrying on their daily routine online from going to work to streaming a favorite show or film our consumption of streaming content is going through the roof european regulators called on streaming giants to ease up on the burden the increased traffic puts on telecommunications networks netflix and you tube have

decided to limit access to high definition content to a consonance of customers netflix says it will reduce quality for all of europe for 30 days that should eliminate a quarter of its traffic the provider takes up nearly 13 percent of all internet traffic followed by you tube with all web streaming services combined it's estimated that demand will rise up to 60 percent because of coronavirus isolation measures netflix has lost market share in recent years to the other services who are taking their own approach disney released the latest installment of star wars to its streaming service early in d.c. universal decided to throw out the rulebook completely streaming films while they're still in theaters the industry standard was to wait around 90 days before going from theater seat to the couch at home box office receipts have collapsed the worst in more than 20 years many major blockbusters have delayed their release until hopefully it'll calms down and al-jazeera. and i

will calm down at some point but of course you can keep up to date with all the latest developments with us on al-jazeera to keep safe everyone thanks for joining us how the market is up in london in just. the u.n. fact finders accused of but i mean will it feel genocide this is the political that you see here. do you believe the undervote is a fascist or i just don't have all day. would have to go through recognize that

both sides have legitimate grievances against the other climate this is the foundation of climate back then and that is why does my face. up. on al-jazeera. there's a wave of sentiment around the world people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories and report on the big events going on but we also tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice i mean one of the child might that's never be afraid to put a hand up not a question and i think that's what our series does we ask the questions to people you should be accountable and also we get people to give their view of what's going on. on the counting the cost it's really cope with the coronavirus come demick put out a $14000000.00 auto workers in europe has been told to stay at home we talked to b.m.w. about the future of the industry plus airlines fight for their survival as

governments and homes probably. counting the cost on al-jazeera we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what we do to the news and current affairs that matter to you. 10000 deaths globally from the coronavirus the world health organization warns that a significant number of those leading hospital care are under the age of 50 i have a message for young people you are not invincible this virus could put you in hospital for weeks or even kill you. how he'd seen and this is al jazeera live from london.