we'll bring you the latest developments from around the wilds. with updates about travel restrictions and how to protect yourself. coronavirus pandemic special coverage on al-jazeera. this is al-jazeera. santa maria this is the news hour from al-jazeera. imposes more restrictions after nearly 800 deaths are reported in one day the highest toll yet in the coronavirus pandemic also more than a 1000000000 indians are ordered to stay indoors after the prime minister imposes a 14 hour curfew to combat coronavirus and i'm nicholas hawke in the car synagogue

where the air land borders are shut public gatherings are banned find out next why . closer to a full lockdown as a coronavirus continues to spread. go online to entertain their fans tearing up challenging time for millions of. australia's major sports leagues look to be heading towards a shutdown the aussie rules season has now been suspended but football and rugby go on. well everyone has just gone 10100 hours g.m.t. coronavirus cases being reported around the world indonesia and thailand reporting new infections in fact thailand has seen its biggest jump yet and europe sunday morning there well still appears to be the epicenter. of the pandemic in fact

perhaps the most shocking number so far came on saturday when they reported nearly 800 deaths in a single day so when we start with the snapshot from john hopkins university tracker it tells us where we're looking at well over 300000 total confirmed cases with now 13000 deaths all over the world don't forget the bottom number there 92000 upwards of 92000 people who have recovered but then you look at the world map and it's very easy to see that there is not a single part of our world that has not been infected in some way or affected even by coronavirus so here's our team this allocating us across developments zain bizarre reason teheran lizabeth piron i'm in new delhi starting though with rory chalons in london sunday morning looking pretty quiet. yeah this is the another day of a very low economic. and cultural and social activity everything is pretty much

closed at the moment here in the u.k. it's very desolate indeed it was desolate yesterday desolate today it's a picture that is being repeated across europe though you were talking about italy just then the italian prime minister just set the conti is calling this the worst crisis for his country since the the 2nd world war in cities across italy the police are out making sure that anyone on the streets has a very good reason for being there but that is not enough that the italian government thinks that there needs to be tougher measures so they have essentially suspended all non-essential business activity till at least april the 3rd the russian government is saying that it will send medical and military assistance to its anita to help them deal with the corona virus outbreak and as i explained in

my report now it's a country that day by day is continuing to break new records with his death toll this military convoy in northern italy is carrying a grim cargo 30 coffins with the bodies of 30 coronavirus victims headed to a small village for christmas and because there are too many covert 19 dead in the nearby city of bergen and with italy recording its deadliest day of the outbreak yet with another nearly 800 deaths that could be more convoys like this needed. spain now has the 3rd highest number of infections worldwide with around 25000 the death toll has passed 1300 now to help madrid and barcelona are converting exhibition centers into field hospitals for the sick germany has had a spike in confirmed cases up to more than 16 and a half 1000 and there are now temporary fences on its border with switzerland the

german government is considering whether to bring in a full nationwide ban on going outside where much of europe has already gone with its lockdown and social distancing measures the u.k. is following economically culturally and socially this is a country that has been transformed in just a few days. by order of the governments the u.k. is now pretty much closed pubs cafes restaurants gyms museums nursery schools and universities all shut for the foreseeable future the capital's buses and metro system are empty don't use them unless your job is critical people in london are being told this usually teaming metropolis is quiet. i think it's good news that is good news in terms of that they're looking after people that lesion on their wages the fact that they're stopping hopefully all spreading by closing down the restaurants i think i think they've done the right thing we went out last night for the last. sort of tipped up

a little bit harder than we should have i suppose so i just sort of people going along and it said for the small businesses but hopefully the government to kick in and sort of support people along the government is trying to stop a wave of panic buying that has stripped supermarket shelves bare this week. just be responsible when you shop and think of others buying more than you need means that others may be left without and it is making life more difficult for those frontline workers such as our doctors and nurses and n.h.s. support staff who are working so hard in such difficult circumstances. to prevent total collapse the government will propped up businesses and guarantee 80 percent of all wages it's an unprecedented temporary nationalize ation of the u.k.'s economy. just another quick word with. rory is there a feeling that information is still not quite sinking in enough i mean we hear from

the ministers in your report who is saying don't hoard it the supermarkets don't go out but it does keep happening doesn't it. it does yeah. i think the government is his trying at the moment to people to stay indoors people to socially distance themselves from others but it's not in the moment forcing them to do that but the indication of the hints are from from ministers that if they're getting the idea that people are continuing to do things that the government doesn't want them to do then they are going to be considering tough measures measures that we have seen in other parts of europe like italy where this is basically now it's not lore in the u.k. but we might be heading that way if social distancing advice doesn't seem to be sinking in it's mother's day today in the u.k. but this is a very different mother's day to a normal that the prime minister put out

a message saying don't go and see your mum this mother's day that's unprecedented as far as i can remember you know send her. some well wishes give a speech on the phone but to but don't go to see her the i think there is certainly a. feeling in the u.k. and i'm. the figures of of coronavirus cases. bury much lower than the actual number are you know people most people know people who this week have been ill with something they feel very similar securing the virus but because the testing is not widespread the testing is only being done in hospitals we have no way of knowing what the real figure coronavirus is around the country but everyone believes that it's much much higher than the official numbers are giving. in london thank you so much for that update as rory alluded to russia says it will be sending minute tree medical assistance to italy to help

fight the out there that's after a phone call between vladimir putin and the italian prime minister decepticon day the death toll initially has reached nearly 5000 it's a credible number russia itself has reported 306 cases most of them in moscow there has been one death there as well move to asia now and the number of infections and deaths also rising there most of the cases are said to be important not locally transmitted in other words thailand is reporting its largest daily increase with 188 new cases its total is now nearly $600.00 m. with this update now from hong kong. let me start with thailand 30 percent rice in a single day now that's according to the health ministry attributed to a boxing match earlier this month where thousands of people had attended people had been infected at the infected people had attended that match that says spread

across the nation but the thai health ministry says most of the infections we are seeing a recent infections are in bangkok and are mostly young people who have not heeded the calls for social distancing and carry on carrying on with their social activities despite the fact that the thai government has put down a partial lockdown on the country the thing is thailand had from very early on been aware of the possibility of imported cases and so had very heavy border restrictions but they hadn't put the lock down said to be seen in other countries and that seems to have somewhat backfired meanwhile singapore is one to get battling with their calling imported cases saying that 80 percent of the new cases that they have seen in the past 3 days are from overseas singh singapore's a transport hub a very popular tourist destination to singapore is now restricting any passenger or any international arrival that is not

a resident or citizen or permit work permit holder so if transit whether transiting or just traveling for a short stay in singapore you will not be allowed to come into the country meanwhile in china once again same issues imported cases they had a lengthy battle with the outbreak from which surface there at the end of last year 81000 cases to date the managed to bring them the rise to the forty's over the past few days of the past 3 consecutive consecutive days all the cases were from overseas but for the 1st time today there is a domestically transmitted case apparently connected to an imported case and so china is also stepping up the defenses along its borders. let's look at the india we mentioned earlier the government of india imposing a nationwide curfew now again just using the johns hopkins trying to start us off if i have a look at the numbers there they're only talking 332 confirmed cases with 4 deaths

so thoughts are comparatively low numbers but we are talking about a country with a 1000000000 people as well so let's talk to elizabeth brown our correspondent in new delhi what's the government thinking here is a 1000000000 people under lockdown for half a day. come all that's a very good question so on thursday promise and then the more do you request of the nation 1300000000 people to stay indoors and credibly india is the streets eerily quiet you know most people in the country staying inside from 7 o'clock in the morning till 9 pm tonight but what happens after that so already we've had a number of states in fact all the states which affected have decided to extend the curfew so states like punjab raja's thought addition haven't got the just to name a few they've extended the curfew in the $75.00 districts in the country which have

confirmed cases so that's around 10 percent of the country and we've also had other states closing their borders go with much appreciation and search and move east and states shutting their borders now this is all on to saturday saw the biggest jump in the number of confirmed cases something like 341 so far 41 are foreign nationals and i think the death toll has now gone up to 6 people while most of the country has been quiet we have seen some very busy scenes at certain train stations like in the state of bihar where many michael into labor isn't india from they can't work wherever they are anymore so they're rushing back. to the villages that they are from and that led to 1st of all state leaders asking people not to do this to try and you know not. flood buses and trains to limit the spread of the corinna

virus indian railways and has now canceled all trains until the end of the month all interstate buses have been cancelled and so have all the metro services now so many of these go into labor as a daily wage and as like so many people in india the government is it's a huge challenge for them how is it going to support them because it's telling them to stay at home to use social distancing when so many of these people absolutely need to work every day to support their families we were speaking to street vendors a few days ago who were telling us that if they stayed at home and didn't go out while their families would simply die of hunger so that's a big challenge for the government and of course so this doctor in corona virus from entering the community the community transmission phase they're saying that hasn't happened yet but health experts a saying that india has we know that india has performed the lowest number of tests

among affected countries and that the low level of testing is could be hiding the real number of cases and to get on top of all of that development put that in the us for this one day curfew is already extended in many parts and we're waiting to hear what the government says towards the end of the day about whether it will be extended nationwide to come on that is elizabeth peron i'm with the update from new delhi thank you iran of course we know one of the hardest hit countries as we look at the map again the latest numbers there talk about 20000 over 20000 confirmed cases and upwards of 1500 deaths though we have heard today that there have been another 129 cases added to that number or deaths i should say that number of 1556 let's check in with zain but some of the in teheran also a statement from the supreme leader what's been said. all this speech is the 2nd one that we've heard from the supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei in the last 3

days and this one on the start of the new year the persian new year is meant to be iran's political roadmap so what we heard from him was for the iranian people be patient in the face of adversity and your enemies he wants domestic production to go up whatever that takes but really if anyone's watching to understand what the future policies of the country might be in the face of the corona virus as this virus is wreaking havoc throughout the country the supreme leader wanted to be very clear that despite everything the united states of america remains the biggest threat to the iranian people and to the iranian government he called the united states the main aggressor and said quote we have many enemies but the most sinister are the americans and he acknowledged that even at the scary time of an enormous public health crisis the united states may make friendly statements may make friendly overtures but he wanted to be clear that only iran's own government could be trusted iran's people cannot trust the united states and here's some of what he said cham lot of talk on the outside or on on bucco that americans have offered

help to iranian medical support medicine but they have to make that request for help which is strange why should they ask us to make that request the u.s. is short of medicines the mayor of us city is confessing that they have shortcomings in preventing the disease the u.s. should help itself and its people. now during the speech the supreme leader who is arguably the most powerful man in the country one of the most powerful men in the region and by virtue of that arguably one of the most powerful men in the world he did a remarkable thing that it's difficult to ignore he sort of leaned into a conspiracy theory that's been floating around the country for some time he said that the united states and again he preempted this by saying the veracity of his claim it was questionable he even acknowledged that but he said the united states may have been behind the spread of the current a virus inside the country that they may have been using genetics specifically to target iranian people with

a specific strain of the virus and he said any offers of help might be to try to exacerbate the situation inside the country even more now it is really remarkable to see a leader of his stature sort of say these things but he's not the only one in the country to do so we've heard it from senior political and military leaders in recent weeks and the supreme leader said that there is 40 years of experience that has taught us that americans can't be trusted from the iranian point of view it's difficult to argue against that but why might he claim this why might he fan the flames of what is essentially an allegation or a conspiracy theory well the thing is here in iran it doesn't matter what whether it's true or not the message here to the iranian people is that all the government needs is to be able to create some doubt to be able to point to the fact that even with the corona virus outbreak and all the other challenges facing the country and its economy the united states for iran remains public enemy number one. in teheran that that up that thanks very much australian states have begun shutting their

borders as governments all nonessential domestic travel there are now more than a 1000 infections confirmed prime minister scott morrison says hotshoe measures may be brought into in full social distancing many thought still ignoring the warnings the country's 2 most populous states new south wales and victoria shutting down most businesses for the next 2 days morrison's also announced the closure of venues like pubs and restaurants from monday to securing the essential medical supplies has been made i dialled the task that the health minister has been relating to give the with the industry minister and other ministers across the cabinet. and in 40. this i should distancing caping i healthy physical distance from one another. this is one of our most if not our most important weapon against the spread of the qur'an a virus which means we can site lives and we can cipher livelihoods. in america

daily life is really changing tens of millions of people across 5 states have been ordered to stay at home while essential services stay open other businesses have shut up shop john hendren reports now from chicago illinois. the coronavirus now has one in 4 americans living in lockdown every american has a role to play in defending our nation from this invisible horrible enemy so we say stay at home and save lives on saturday new jersey joined california new york illinois and connecticut in ordering residents to stay at home and shuttering non-essential businesses to minimize transmission of the disease orders affecting nearly 85000000 americans we can no longer maintain a sense of business as usual during the submerged at sea and again i repeat just as it is no time to panic but it is time to be smart proactive transparent aggressive

in the epicenter of the u.s. viral attack new york 10000 residents have tested positive for the virus but the governor says his state like others has a problem we do have an issue with younger people who are not complying you're not superman and you're not superwoman you can get this virus and you can transfer the virus in california home to 40000000 americans some business owners are boarding up shops to prevent looters as hoarders are emptying grocery store shelves the idea of stockpiling is a way to feel in control about a situation that fills out. control it's a way to feel like i know no matter what happens i will not run out of what i. with new transmissions and increased testing the number of u.s. cases is approaching 23000 with nearly 300 deaths more than 80000000

americans have been ordered to stay at home so for about a quarter of the united states the most common street sound is silence and to 'd the republic for which it stands on capitol hill congressional leaders hope to approve nearly 2 trillion dollars in aid to businesses and residents is soon as monday but some governors say they are making progress despite a lack of federal help the federal government is like lucy with the football and i feel like charlie brown weeks ago we were promised tests are we seeing more tests yes but not even at the numbers that were promised weeks ago with coronavirus cases rising rapidly across the u.s. state leaders say time is running out john hendren al-jazeera chicago well as countries bring in strict measures some have chosen to ignore their government's advice to stay home you probably saw these the images from sydney's bondi beach on saturday which prompted the astray the government to immediately

shut down the area similar scenes in bars and public parks around the world a little thought is to take similar action shut down some imposed police curfews and arrested violators while others called in the army and ordered all non-essential businesses to shut down. we've got ducktown the phrenic with us now a behavioral scientist and a professor of organizational behavior at holt international business school is and scott from amsterdam thank you for your time doctor. what have you for having me on the show i've spoken to other psychologist and we've discussed the issue of how people cope with their mental health they seem to be a lot of people coping by just ignoring advice do you have any broad thoughts on why people would ignore advice in such serious circumstances absolutely so 1st of all what we're now experiencing with the 900 situation is that there's a lot of uncertainty going on and when there's a lot of uncertainty going on people have to interpret how they want to react and

everyone's coping system is very different and so as we're seeing that some people are just kind of ignoring the information it can one way this can be a way of saying you know i don't want to deal with this this doesn't really exist you know it's something invisible so i don't think it's going to be very threatening so therefore some people kind of find a way to reason why they want to ignore the situation there's also other reasons why people are ignoring the situation. it could this kind of also be kind of more of a kind of a defiance in a sense so people kind of want to define define the situation and that's also another way so there's multiple reasons why people are doing this and it's not just one reason why people are not adhering to the let's say the instructions are given to them i'm going to stick my neck out a little bit here and say that it's people in many cases being selfish or maybe just not really thinking about the fact that this is not about them this is about everyone and anyone can pass on to anyone in here it's not an isolated thing for

any one person. i would definitely agree with that but also i'd like to add that there's also a lot of psychological reasons why people might do what they're doing and which is not always linked to selfishness and give you an example in terms in times of uncertainty we are very social animals so social beings let's say so when we don't know what to do in specially in these times of uncertainty we tend to follow other people especially other people like us and so social media plays a big role in that. but also the same time we also want to we derive a lot of meaning in security so we have this kind of sense of security because of the social groups that we engage with and this is probably also another reason why people are let's say going out socializing when they should not actually be doing so so do you think then it falls down to governments and there are plenty of

governments who have imposed it and said no you're shutting down your pubs clubs you'll public spaces and actually more governments should be doing that and making it an effective law well it's very interesting because i think what we've seen we've seen differences in how different countries around the world have responded to the cove in 1000 situation what we're seeing for example in europe and in the u.s. governments are taking their time they don't know how to react to this and because of this consistent way of communicating a lot of people allow themselves then to interpret what's going to happen and so in this sense. it makes it very difficult for people to know what to do so what we're now seeing basically happen is more and more people more and more countries are starting to look down in and imposing curfews and more restrictions because they see that because of the inconsistency in the communication and people not hearing to certain rules or or let's say restrictions they should see that this is the only option that they can take to ensure the safety of the citizens ok dr leigh vinocur

on skype from amsterdam with us on the news hour great to get your thoughts thank you i want to return to italy briefly as we were saying really the epicenter of the crisis at the moment and we look on the map once again just click the numbers there those numbers upwards of 4800 deaths in fact the toll of believe now over 5000 in italy francesco bodie is with us now a journalist on skype from. northern italy just is there any sort of. to the question of why why is it so bad in italy why is so many people dying in such huge numbers. and this is everywhere else question's now. even if if he can see. that is the some entity behind me and today even the 70 schools this was the last the you know got 30 plays. accidents of us on the

key to talk to that since you know that i'm sure that i'll see more and of course you know when we talk we talk why white sitting still strong and well for sure you know all the evidence. that he supports your nation we have 2nd only to just run is not very healthy. in old put you lation and the we think of course you know all of our lifestyle i mean our social ties family that ice. skating really really seem to live at least a lifestyle. we. will to get out of these. jeanette ational you know connection it's not only a cultural issue honestly it's also because you know in the last year or so what firecat. forced the italians to be shocked that within families so basically you

have to get on products you know. taking care of songs and get on those you know and audience. i mean the media the generation you know leaving with a wee bit on pot and because you know you have no one to take care of them ron is very common for the talents for example i mean you're graham audience and really one week before dying when they at 859095 the sword that we keep them a tour because we work you know to state them we want to we want them to stay with us until the last minute and of course in this situation this is you know we think this is been one of the main reasons so much 2nd because the. you know now we are already in the 2nd stage so now the virus yet easy thing you know deuce who could survive but you know there are annoying tendency to care but as these locks are generally more i mean the cemetery that i look forward to seeing more. but to

really be the elderly where he can any impression way has been a must 2nd i mean the the really cool guy. francesca porter joining us from italy there thank you for that insight really helpful thank you. we do want to look at norm coronavirus news in the weather is always a great place to start jenny what have you got for us you know we have this also good news as well i think i'm all tuning comes the weather so let me take you 1st of all to europe because we've got a bit of a change to not think any bit colder the last couple days it is actually now believe it a lot across central europe temperatures are lower than the average because we had a brief warm spell but look at this we have got plenty of snow histories this is actually down into southern poland it is actually up into the mountains but plenty of snow so it may be the start of spring but my goodness it is still feeling like winter and then across into batteries they're going to sit in a picture if i can barely see the of the snow coming down there's plenty of snow and sleet in the 4 cause there's also a fair amount of rain but across much of mainland europe and to the north and in

particular the northwest across the u.k. we have actually got a dry a sloss in place for the next couple of days time it is all too bad where we have some very unsettled weather is across into portland spain it has been like this the several days the temperatures here a very low 12 celsius in madrid so we could actually house a localized flooding it does tend to cling to these coastal areas by monday and also you'll notice a mass of blue really developing across the balkans and here we will also have some snow so much that i have a look at it does the temperature on the weather conditions as you can see him because we go from rain on sunday which is not too bad that it dips down sleet that then turns to very heavy amounts of snow the temperatures overnight back down to below freezing and then quite a jump up and actually by thursday it will be wet but at least it will be feeling a lot better with the temperature there of 14 degrees and there's a push on a day into choosey you can see those that most guys across central europe the rain just staying to the north of the u.k. and staying unsubtle there in the southeast of your real mixed bag isn't it thank

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pandemic the death toll in israeli as surged another record high in one day nearly 800 of walls and so the government is tightening restrictions shutting down all non-essential factories and business it's more than a 1000000000 indians are under a 14 hour nationwide curfew to stop the spread of coronaviruses the government also banned all international flights and imposed self isolation for those returning from abroad and in australia prime minister scott morrison has just announced the closure of venues and put in pubs and restaurants from monday to try to stop the spread studies most populous states will also shut down non-essential businesses for the next 2 days an update now from nicolas cage in the australian capital camber nickel housel of the scone down the essential lock down that we will see because a stranger has been it seems a little slow to take up such measures. well the situation has certainly escalated now in a strictly we haven't seen the similar situation like ingle hahn but the prime

minister scott morrison is still addressing a stray we are right now and it is certainly being a very big day in politics that earlier in the day he announced a multi-billion dollar economic stimulus package as well as saying that. not only should they not be going out to save but they shouldn't be traveling domestically as well since then as a series of crimea's had come out and said we're going to be closing borders people will need to be sowne farm standing for at least 14 days and if they into the south the strelley of the open territory will western australia and victoria said that it would actually be closing schools from choose day now that's against what the bigger government has been saying so now the prime minister has come back out and he has said that it's all across the street if you are not and it's essential business like a bomb a seat for supermarket you will be closing your doors and that means that any kind

of places of worship indorse 14 grounds there are a series of places that will be closing their doors but there are still questions and this has led to more even more panic buying in the strategy and we have seen all of those situations of violence and so the markets will people are now going into difference there was to say you know we need to find out what's going on and what do we need to kate so it's very much of a moving situation here in australia thank you for that update nicholas cage in destroying capital canberra. as a nickel a mention this pandemic forcing the closure of schools around the world it is disrupting study from hundreds of millions of students and their teachers and posing on president to challenges for parents but for some students home schooling and online education is the new reality and it's helping light to welcome from out on the day in northern spain michelle rankin who is a teacher and has some role of rubia both using a learning tools at home lovely to have both of you with us on the news our mum if

i can start with you 1st michelle you're a teacher are you teaching now from home yes we get we're doing our best to teach him her. it's very different obviously because the primary and secondary have to always reacting to it but we were doing online teaching at the at those. used to prove that poems which i learned friendly but is taking time to get parents who are less than maybe the technology then the children how quickly you able to swing into action with that because i mean this is had ever been very quickly you know we closed friday the 13th we started with the online teaching on the monday so yeah we had to do it quite a bit but we kind of saw it coming so we try to respond minted between not sounds to make sure to make sure what it is challenging role let's talk to you how is it on the other end of things for you being taught remotely. well it was

different because it's arms right now more time to look into things and more time for like when you're south or so so it's really different in a way i think it's better this way and. do you struggle to keep focus i mean when you go to school obviously you've got a structure for you there i know for my daughter that the adjustment has been actually sitting at home but having to do school work and the 2 things don't really go together. well it is like a stronghold starts to get into the habit of. get in there and you're so hard up for doing the homework are like just turning on the computer as you were at home you have to do it mostly like just there where you have to how to do this like to

do the homework is just your most of the pregnancy most of the children who we've been working with when we've spoken to the parents to give them simple or so one line that parent and lots of parents have up to but trying to give them every cue school timetable that is to do schoolwork. and the internet but also include exercise and just simple stuff like that some people are saying the thing that they're going standing on their balconies and taking 10 minutes essentially ending. yeah important isn't it i'm actually thinking as well michel you've got this unique position of being a teacher but being a mother as well do you have to sort of stop yourself from interfering with roles learning or do you want to how do you deal with that role having mum there as well . it's interesting because it is it teaches i have issues we're not going teach one line we have the students' parents listening in the stock room behind them which

makes the children not behave this way as naturally as they would if they're so and how do you find that role having them there i mean most of the time in my room . you write no war goes into it and. she doesn't appear as she how we get into how i would like. start my homework. and that's because she's a mom and she loves you and that's what parents do role. been really great talking to you both and michelle rankin in northern spain thank you very much for your time thank you pleasure thank you for that great right let's look at senegal now which is closing its land sea and air borders schools shot again public gatherings a band tens of thousands of foreigners are leaving the world health organization's fear is that parts of africa could be the next hotspot after europe nicholas

hawkeyes a report now from dakar. 3 friends as easily enjoying the way you want to buy a ball only gives $300.00 francs more than a z's and as e's gives $500.00 francs more than ali how much did each child contribution to the purchase since school shut because of the current virus outbreak t.v.'s have turned to declasse rooms school teachers like mr sack into t.v. presenters they would no longer go to school for 20 days it's a long time and what is important is not to tell them about the virus but to make crises as if they were. watching at home are the siblings they have questions for mr sec questions adults don't seem to have an answer to the article had to decline advice given to cynical and affects so many and why is it that so many adults don't seem to care how do we stop this. this is what dr bruce who heading senegal's emergency response is asking chinese health

officials there doctors from rouhani who managed to contain the outbreak more people are dying in europe now than china why i think from you know we learn that we need to trust and what we saw but when you go up. to the direction to take the decision it was too slow to contenders are brought senegal is closing its borders to tens of thousands of tourists and diplomats are being repatch redid even the united states murshid ship a floating hospital with 400 nurses and doctors on board meant to offer help is leaving senegal when the country needs it the most. meanwhile china is helping build makeshift hospitals the outbreak it is showing who senegal can count on in times of crisis and while there are relatively few numbers of cases already the beds in the intensive care unit are full and so the government is turning this all the airport into both a foreign tiny area and a makeshift hospital to treat those that have the symptoms of the virus it seems

that this country is seeking the chinese approach in tackling here. 3. mosques are closed public gatherings are banned the military are deploying mobile clinics senegal is edging closer to a full lockdown aside from isolation there seems to be no other solution to stopping the virus from spreading nicholas hauke al jazeera to car. we'll move on to other news now there has been violence in guinea ahead of a controversial referendum to decide whether the president of the conduct stays in power they say 2 m.p.'s have been arrested ahead of sunday's vote despite attacks on several polling sites the government is urging people to still take part. was the clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in guinea's capital surround a contentious referendum which could allow the president to extend his grip on power several government offices and schools that were to be used as polling

stations have been set on fire by demonstrators election material was destroyed and ballots burned to prevent people from voting this is we'll keep protesting until he respects the constitution and until he stops his plans for a 3rd term that's mandatory no matter what. president after pandey has been in power since 2010 the referendum will decide whether the 82 year old can extend his presidency potentially for another 12 years he rescheduled the referendum last month when millions of unaccounted names were listed on the electoral roll. the list dropped from more than 8000000 voters to 7700000 and now to 5000000 no one knows what methods were used or how this was done there was no participation from the opposition or from any credible international institution. now unease over the potential spread of the new coronavirus has calls for their own arrest but what the government and its opponents have mostly ignored calls to cancel mass gatherings.

so far we only know 2 cases of the virus so this does not pose a threat to the elections those who disagree should show me scientific evidence that shows otherwise. thousands of protesters have taken to the streets since october to speak out against home and his government they say the economy is weak and their leaders. corrupt. we're tired of offical and we're tired of hunger killing and threats we say no to the referendum. the divide is growing between the government of guinea's 1st democratically elected president and those who say it's time for him to step down. here with us now on skype from dakar in senegal it's francois potts well he is a senior research at covering west africa and if research consultants do you think that this election should be going ahead given everything we just saw in our report

given the level of polling stations have been attacked and yet still people are being told to go out and vote. next in the crucial remember. exactly when there is a section of the. national. what we see with president alpha condé is something which well i was going to say we've seen it in other african countries frankly we've seen it all over the world 'd as well leaders who want to stay in power. at any costs and and you can always predict how these things go there is always going to be a public. upset about it and then quite often it turns into this unrest we have seen this movie before. yes that's in the i mean in. particular person

that was withdrawing from me and that would be sent down and in the end the internet is still out the. leader. that are that close to harsh expose that they are and they've been preventing people and why we're going on the program including genitals that you cannot send to report on what's happening on the ground and we're having at. and this is just the you know the latest at 10 from the beginning a very nice tool just down on the stand to crackdown on freedom of expression as they read this event or that mom doesn't produce if they need to have been or for the reference of not to have been calling for the president to respect the constitution and you have their leaders who are you know read that for a couple of months and really people who are let them know are taken. and the same

men sometimes for months so they've been a very serious situation i mean certainly not a cause that they have an environment or an action to do to happen do you think the opposition movement which we think in the form of politicians but also less people on the straight does it have enough strengths to make a difference here. well they've been i mean the action and defense of that institution the national defense and the constitution which is a pro-democracy groups. and movements and opposition movements have been testing you know the. change of the constitution which president. paid a high price for the looting arbitrary arrests and people who have been protesting also have been exposed to. security forces who use that i mean these batons they were guests at the. protest over the. main

2920 people during the protests. and security forces and offices were building bridges so that you know the demonstration that i wouldn't. have been back and they didn't make it but. because it is ongoing i think if you don't do that you're in a lot of. security forces using women as a human shields or stealing back. on motorcycles from demonstrations you have security forces for been using live ammunition against children that have left them you know with severe injuries and children and perhaps near injury from from their home nation. while talking guinea with us important we do look at other news in the world at the moment and we thank you for your time. support is coming

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the i want to go live to work another story that may not be mainstream but the fires are still ongoing i'm afraid. by a minute and the way that you carol the story is what can make a difference. roof over. the world. here with the support clash of the codes in australia as to who plays on yeah it looks as though it's all having in one direction though australia has been an oasis for sports fans around the world as its legs continue despite coronavirus that is now rapidly changing with the australian rules competition being shut down the leagues being postponed after just one round of games the opening fixtures were

played without found some with the players expected to follow a self isolation policy between training sessions and matches so it comes after state governments announced various shut down measures and border closures for now though a league soccer and rugby league are carrying on albeit in empty stadiums the national rugby league competition is charged from its own planes to take things around the country in a pits reduced the chance of players being exposed to the virus recently imposed travel restrictions don't yet apply to professional sports. many schools like being forced from the real to the virtual world one video game make it ensuring the washington wizards do finish the n.b.a. season official intelligence combine the statistics from every real life quiet to simulate whites of happen in their upcoming games and later on the sunday formula one drivers they miss and celebrities will be virtually taking to the track founds will be able to follow the action on line f one organizes a set that every subsequent race weekend will see that the spawned real world f one

race replaced with a virtual grohl pray. chris higgins has been telling us what new viewers can expect from f one is latest venture i mean a bit top flight it'll be like probably the best players that you could see playing this game it will be a little bit different from what you used to if you're just watching an f one but the cast as the commentators are really knowledgeable and i think given the fact that they're going to see an influx of new viewers they're more than likely to explain anything new is on really accustomed to seeing what you don't get really when you're playing a driving eastport is that sense of danger so they're able to take corners a lot quicker with a lot more risks. there's a little bit of variation there in. how the most ball plays out online busses in real life it helps if you have experience with the game that you're watching because then you can understand how difficult it is to pull off some of the

maneuvers and tactics that the the people playing in the matches are showing but. in general it it it can be explained to people on stream by the commentators you know if you just want to jump in pick something that you're into familiar with or you think looks exciting. there are obviously a 1000000 videos on you to help you understand what you're saying if you want to go even deeper. and here's another possible idea it's keep yourself active courtesy of 2 spanish make football is a sin it's a mite strong novice and from memory to shed this video on social media to pay all in south isolation but i've been naive as this street scene just about stays within the rules i think. that's high schools looking for and i thank you andy one final story and i know it's just for you and because he loves coldplay hundreds of millions of people around the world of course forced to stay and also entertain is

especially musicians are finding it tough to reach the masses so what do you do you go online hoping that beats can ease the pressure of isolation roselyn children with more. at a time of contagion and physical isolation the. musicians who rivaled the energy of the crowd are feeding that energy back via social media hi my name is chris is this. chris martin of coldplay raising money for the w.h.o. global pandemic fund so i thought it would be nice to be to check in with some of you out there and see how you're doing and where you were what i could do for you. the goober famous pop stars such as pink.

and along bill favorites like washington d.c. is just untrue and are reaching out mainly because they want to ease people's minds you know we're going to the grocery store and people are 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. perhaps the most inspirational. the ordinary women and men taking to their balcony right. and to their sidewalks to enjoy a melody or 2 of course at a safe distance. is a professor who studies and practices music therapy she says music helps people feel sick and in control of dairy products. even things that need to relate with each other we use eco nuts to make sense of

all well so seeing this neat this immediacy and this need to activate and ignite our artistic beings as a way of coming together to community john legend followed her place chris martin to the online stage to help raise money for covert 19 really i think somewhat her question is actually a guest on my twitter and it's a good song to start with it's by stevie wonder called love's in me. stretching hands and voices beyond the stage to soothe a worried and anxious world i hope so. roselyn jordan al-jazeera washington good morning to you and.

thanks for joining us for this news updated always up a couple minutes time with the latest headlines to stay with us. explaining chums policy towards africa it's the challenging mission set to secretary of state mike pompei on a 5 day visit to the continent the visit comes after the white house announced a travel ban on 4 african nations and a withdrawal of troops from west africa. i think it just demonstrates the fun of the guys and the by the fall of the us and for ministration. despite trump's travel

ban being extended at the end of february to take in the 4 african countries including the continent's biggest economy compare we're insisted that the u.s. is open for business. joining the listening post as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news chops morning talkers and focus on how they report on the stories that matter the most the states misleads the public the state media reflects the. climate change because their editorial shows they hate aren't believe they have anything to apologize for they're listening post. on al-jazeera. the biological chemical agents are weaponized throughout history a lot more from the 1st word it's head with me and started fighting developed by nation states there could be enough to affect every child. now within reach

of those seeking caleb's comprising the most toxic substance in the world with a man many invisible threat on al jazeera. italy imposes more restrictions after nearly 800 deaths are reported in one day the highest told yet in coronavirus and. the low and welcome on peter w. watching al-jazeera live from below are also coming up the australian government orders the closure of venues including pubs and restaurants after many people ignored health warnings. more than a 1000000000 indians are ordered to stay in.