the cause of home needs 3 after all the inquiries and with military brass now on trial for the people of this island paradise series a glimmer of hope but the truth might finally see the light of day. the number of coronavirus cases keeps going up in europe and spain alone nearly 400 you deaths reported in just a day. montreal santamaria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera saying good bye a team of cuban doctors heads off to italy to help treat coronavirus patients locked down in the occupied west bank the prime minister tells people to stay at home for the next 2 weeks i'm also in other news of the un president drought making

life difficult for millions of people in chile. 400 hours g.m.t. which is 6 pm in the united arab emirates which is just announced a large stimulus plan to help ease the economic fallout from the coronavirus but there is a big casualty as well one of the world's biggest airlines emirates based in dubai will suspend all passenger flights from wednesday they've just announced it on their twitter page 25th of march 2020 cargo will continue they call it a painful but pragmatic move to give you an idea this is where emirates flies to gosh i had it they remember that's their destinations all over the world looking at something like a 100 and huge and 30150 destinations 270 planes 3500 flights a week said this. it's just going to be a have

a huge impact i think on the aviation what i'm going to talk more about that a little bit later also i want to look at spain where nearly 400 people are reported to have died in the past 24 hours. and indonesia singapore thailand all reporting new infections as well and iraq has extended its nationwide lockdown for another 6 days that all means when we look at the overall picture 311000 almost 312000 total confirmed cases with nearly 13 and a half 1000 deaths when you look at the overall world map you can very clearly see that the epicenter has shifted to europe still obviously a lot of cases in asia but things have really centered now on the european region gives you a closer look of where it is across the continent so for the latest on that and the u.k. as well we're starting with rory chalons who is in london's piccadilly circus which would usually be packed on

a sunday afternoon or. yeah you can see behind me at the moment the fires but there are still people on the streets and that is because although the government of the u.k. has shut down many businesses restaurants cafes museums gyms except for. advice for people to stay inside in socially distance themselves at the moment is not a now right order to do so but it looks as if things might be heading now way the government is suggesting that unless people take this seriously then they are going to perhaps have to step in and do things a bit more stringent really they're essentially saying look we are about 2 or 3 weeks behind italy and unless you want the scenario that you're seeing play out in italy the moment to happen in the u.k. as well then do take. seriously i'm behold the advice that we are getting you to

stay inside now i'll get on to italy in a 2nd but i'll go through a few of the other updates around here we have spain as you mentioned with $400.00 extra debts of the 24 hours. 15 days more of a state of emergency it's looking like spain is going to be going through health workers wateringly make up between 10 to 12 percent of the confirmed cases of coronavirus germany is reporting more deaths as well 8 more deaths there 2000 more cases that bring in the numbers up to about 18600 confirmed cases in germany carmakers are being asked to step in and help make medical equipment going back to italy now though we have wars prime minister just becomes the cause the grave crisis since world war 2 all non-essential business is being closed now until april

of saturday we have those. headline breaking numbers $800.00 new deaths there's a press conference that's going to be taking place in about 3 hours time from the health ministry basically updates us on what the latest figures are so all eyes will be all vats in italy to see whether a new grim milestone a new grim record is going to be breaking on sunday thank you for that update story challenge still a bit of noise there in london on sunday afternoon but certainly a lot fewer people now russia has said it will send military medical assistance to italy to help fight the outbreak there that was after a fun call between vladimir putin and the italian prime minister. the death toll in italy is nearly reached 5000 now russia itself 306 cases most of them in moscow and there has been one death. violent protests as well of a number of prisons across colombia as panic this spreads over coronavirus prisoners fear an outbreak of the virus behind bars the government of stop visit is

in recent days as it tries to stop the spread of the illness his other son. in bogota now comparatively at least to the rest of the world. very few cases in the whole of colombia i think it's about 200 and yet sparking all the son rest in prison. absolutely just shows how worried everybody here is the possibility of an outbreak going the way what we're seeing in italy or in spain the government here is decided that it's time to take no chances that's why we are already in what was supposed to be a 4 day long a trial of a lockdown in the capital and in other parts of the country but that has been now extended or or it will essentially continue throughout the 9 day 19 day luck

down throughout the country that will start at midnight on tuesday referring to what you were saying that happened in the prisons there were riots throughout the night in at least 6 of the main prisons across the country most of them male prison in what seems to have been a coordinated approach to some part of inmates in all these different facilities that there were fires we saw videos with shots ringing out at least the and the 2 main prisons here in. court that there are reports of escapes. many among guards an inmate there being injured possibly at least one guard that might have died but so far there are no there's no official confirmation of that part pick which is the prison agency here in

colombia and part of the government we've also seen reports of there are protests happening for example this morning in the southwest of the country but there's a lot of confusion there so it's probably too early for us to confirm what we know is that at least 6 prisons through the night they've seen riots this is because they're all quite overcrowded. this sanitary conditions are very bad the prisoners are worried about what could happen to them and they're demanding more and part of the government there are so pressure coming from a number of human rights groups saying that nonviolent offenders should be let go to cry and to try and make this situation better from health point of view inside these detention facilities thank you other son in bogota colombia let's go back to that breaking news about emirates airlines from dubai which has said it is stopping all flights from wednesday we're going to talk to him about this aviation

journalist and air transport world and aviation week he's in salzburg in austria i know there are limitations on on travel anyway at the moment all over the world brought in by governments but an airline the size of emirates shutting down all its passenger operations is a huge step. well that so officers and this demonstrates again that no big airline is immune to about the current crisis it is the biggest crisis for invasion in its history and even emirates that's the fault of this plane flow trends to cancel flights throughout the world i'm sure they would say they also assume it had the obvious canceling more flights in your region in the middle east so it's just the latest big trends big what's to expect that actually that emirates will also cancel a lot of flights or even all flights it will have a massive impact on people won't it i'm just looking at the flight right out $24.00 map which shows it's it's reach i mean from dubai to the rest of the world and it's

not so much just an aid to be airline isn't it it's a to b. to c. it takes people in transit through the u.a.e. it will have a very big impact on the a lot of people. absolutely yes or no no the middle east them especially dubai that changed the traffic for those that want to grow old globally over the last 30 years so in dubai it became one of the most important ups worldwide 'd and every interruption often hot like this frankfurt dubai paris whatever but dubai a specially grades a big impact for the global travel system so this is quite a big news in this challenging days for the division business smaller airlines must be quite worried seeing this sort of news of a big and line as you point out like emirates which will have support from its host city and from its government if it can have this sort of trouble then smaller

airlines must be the risk of them some actually going to the wall in this in this crisis which is well who knows how long it will be. yet that the problem is we don't know how long it will take and you have to expect this crisis motivation takes quite a lot that will be done a lot of travel ban still a lot of flight restrictions and at the expect in the next few weeks or even months that something will go back some things that normal too many airlines grounded there were about fleets and emirates is the latest prominence victim on this and as you said all right show the many smaller airlines which getting deep troubles but you also see we also see now more airlines request and for requesting for aid from the governments even stronger of terms of one of the richest the airlines in the world is looking for state aid from their governments extraordinary times aren't they thank you kurt hoffman aviation analyst talking about emirates grounding all its flights from wednesday so you haven't. wish we go now the

occupied west bank the palestinian prime minister's announced a curfew there all non-essential travel between cities towns and camps and prime minister mohammad shtayyeh says the restrictions will apply to everyone except for health workers bakeries and grocery stores. must be we all share the same social responsibility if we all shoulder it together we should provide it is a critical moment in history a global pandemic which we must confront to minimize our loss we have passed the 1st phase to give the citizens business bridgeman and civil society we need stricter measures and the 1st cases have been confirmed in gaza as well the health ministry says 2 palestinians who returned from pakistan on thursday are under quarantine all restaurants coffee shops and mosques have been ordered to close we have gotten a day param of us this time from ramallah in the occupied west bank just a quick word on gaza 1st needed this is always been

a huge concern gaza are already an area that's locked down 2000000 people in there under israeli control and if coronavirus gets in there could be a huge issue. indeed they were talking about high rates of poverty high it's of unemployment that caused people to live in very close proximity which makes social ringback distancing almost impossible in the gaza strip are also talking about and in caves that has been under lockdown for certain years now we're talking about 3 wars that have taken its toll on the health sector then 3 cities not working as it should we're talking about 5 to 6 hours for a day so really many people inside the gaza strip say that it would be kind of an end of the world scenario when it comes to the gaza strip dealing with it and out break we are now lucky according to authorities there the 2 people that have tested positive for the virus stayed in quarantine after they arrived the guards there and

it's a palestinian city near the edge of the border with egypt and the experience fair extols far those stories are saying that people who were just that fall that they did not go inside the enclave itself and this seems to be the feeling among people however as you said old schools and markets and the holes were asked to stop working it's a kind of control the spread of the virus and abraham with that update on the situation and the palestinian territories thank you. as our coverage continues we will look at a stray away the government towards the closure of venues pubs restaurants after many people ignored health warnings.

i know that other to find a good time which is across much of japan but but a cold off in the next couple of days we've got plenty of clouds streaming from west to east is also bring in some cool app but in the meantime look at this some very nice pictures of course coming from all the cherry blossom which is in it all the parks across the entire care from pink a to wise and some very nice sunshine to go with that so not a bad day toll on monday these time which is all still a few degrees above the average there is a chance of a passing shot but more than that into southern areas of china this is where the rain could be quite heavy at times and it tends to stay in the forecast as we go through tuesday also cool down in hong kong but a warm day on monday then dipping down $23.00 celsius on tuesday nature the time which is also being pegged back really across much of a central japan actually coming down to the average for this time of year widespread rains throughout much of borneo also somalia at the rains they are fairly well scattered across java and notice as heavy as we have seen certainly over the last week or so is a similar story really on tuesday and we could see want to 2 showers across some

and a pittance today but should be a dry day certainly up into bangkok and then india very warm through the interior the rain showers that are on the way pushing through pakistan pushing into the north. new delhi with a high of 31. joining . as we turn the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news channels warning the provocative stock and focus on how they report on the stories that matter to the states mislead the public the state media reflects the. climate change their anger toward our shows they don't believe they have anything to apologize for their listening post on al-jazeera.

there with al-jazeera continuing coverage of the corona virus pandemic and in the last hour one of the world's biggest airlines emirates has announced its suspending all passenger flights starting from wednesday to buy based carrier says the decision was made to preserve business viability and to assure there were no job losses spain's reported 394 deaths from corona virus in the last 24 hours a jump of nearly 30 percent from the day before. and as we heard not long ago the palestinian prime minister's announced a curfew in the occupied west bank all non-essential travel between cities towns and counties banned prime minister mohammad shtayyeh says health workers bakeries and groceries are exempt cuba is going to send medical staff to long body to help

italian doctors fight the outbreak cuban doctors were in the front lines in the fight against cholera in haiti and also against the bowler in west africa 10 years ago at augustine has a report from havana. over the last 50 years even doctors have saved millions of lives in latin america asia and africa now for the 1st time a cuban medical brigade is on the way to europe there are 36 doctors behind me and 15 nurses i spoke to some of them over the last couple of hours and i can tell you they're very proud they insist they're going to italy of their own free will but many of them are very nervous catalysts of course i'm scared but when we went to fight a bowler in west africa in 2014 we were scared too but we fulfilled our mission there and we all came back with what we going to do is cure and bring relief not only to the italian people but the world's population that this is a global battle and we have to fight it together it's not even ok i danced for some

reason why are you going on this mission if you know that cuban doctors have died on past missions because they put a warm up because we are the cuban people this is cuba and we're always going to keep fighting on the moment i don't know where you. are so far registered $25.00 cases of coronavirus substantially less than most latin american nations in the country prides itself on its preventative health care system and boasts one of the highest stock to patient ratios in the world but the country's fragile economy is highly dependent on tourism and authorities only announced they would restrict entry into the island on friday. we're not closing the border meaning what we're doing is regulating entry into the country people except those that are residents of our national territory we're not only our countrymen there are other foreigners that reside in cuba criminally were some who because of their work are here for several years. cuba is lending italy these medics at no cost but for over

a decade the leasing of doctors and nurses has been the island's top hard currency generator. with cuba's tourism sector hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic the communist party will be hoping that unprecedented global demand for doctors will help pay for the power food and running water cubans will need to get through this crisis a silver lining perhaps a dark moment. in asia the number of infections and deaths are on the rise as well most of the new cases are said to be what we would call imported i.e. not locally transmitted thailand is reporting its largest daily increase with $188.00 new cases its total is now at nearly $600.00. has this update on asia 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 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 had put the lock downs that we've seen and other countries and that seems to have somewhat backfired meanwhile singapore it's one to get battling with they're 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 folder 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 issue imported cases they had a lengthy battle with the outbreak from which i surface there at the end of last year 81000 cases to date the managed to bring them on 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's a domestically transmitted case apparently connected to an imported case and so china is also stepping up the defenses along its borders. australia's government ordered the closure all of gyms pubs restaurants as it steps up its response to the

pound prime minister scott morrison says casinos nightclubs and places of worship will also have to shut their doors from monday and they gauge reports now from the australian capital canberra. after thousands flooded sydney's popular bone dry beach in recent days defying social distancing orders on sunday it was deserted with orgies were fools to close most of sydney's main be choose to stop people breaking the rules this is not something that we're joined because where the fun police this is not something the government is doing because we want to fight law thursday this is about saving law it's the number of coronavirus cases in a stroller is rising by the day and so too with the strict measures to slow it spread days after the government closed its borders to foreigners astroland have been told not to travel within the country are the unless it's essential and this

could be the new normal the month the medical advice is very clear there is no quick solution we have to stay ourselves for at least the next 6 months and the measures that we put in place we need to be prepared to carry on for at least the next 6 months and from monday non-essential businesses across the nation to close their doors that includes hotels not clubs cinemas and entertainment the news with restaurants and cafes restricted to take away essential stores like petrol stations and supermarkets will remain open the state of victoria is closing schools the federal government has announced its 2nd economic stimulus package in just over a week including a more unemployment benefits for those who lose their jobs and payments by small businesses or cape workers on it's estimated that thousands of australians could be out of work in the coming weeks and months. this $40000000000.00 scheme

which will start in early april or provide lines of up to $250000.00 for up to 3 years for a business with a turnover of less than $50000000.00 no repayments will be required for the 1st 6 months. the economy will be here todd as strongly as government says public health is the priority and more restrictions could follow in the days ahead we can gauge al-jazeera tambora to the u.s. where huge missions underway to protect homeless people in the state of california by providing hotel rooms and shelters the state's under lockdown the people ordered to stay at home but authorities estimate as many as 60000 homeless people could contract the virus california's government as promised protections for vulnerable communities 6 days ago i was 40000 unemployment came claims the next day was 70000 days after that 80000 when up

21251352 days ago and 114000 yesterday we're waiting for the new numbers relates to the claims today gives you a sense of the magnitude of those that are struggling at this moment i hope the magnitude that we all recognize to meet this moment in terms of the federal support that has to come not only our way but to states large and small all across the united states. it is if you didn't know international water day a critical result the best of times let alone during a pandemic and it's been a real challenge for millions of people in chile who are facing an unprecedented drought latin america editor to see a new man as more. doesn't have enough water to wash her hands which is regarded as the 1st line of defense against the coronavirus what's left here is for drinking because a cistern truck won't bring her weekly ration until tomorrow her vegetable patch

has been reduced to tiny onions what did with what's left from the rinse cycle of her washing machine but do mean that doesn't blame the lack of water on chiles severe drought they're going out with a look at the time that i would ask the government to leave some of the water there all the programs are using to us so that we can live to. in chile's robot daughter good region the contrast is striking lush green hills of a car goes for export surrounded by totally parched land it's possible because chile's water law and water code allow the state to grant free access in perpetuity to economic interests in 1980 when general i was still pinochet came up with his new constitution and water law no one raised a red flag because it was plenty of water to go around back then no one could have envisaged the impact of climate change nor the extraordinary expansion of chile's agricultural and forestry industries which are more and more leaving families who

have been farming here for generations high and dry without a drop of water coming up from the minimum agricultural engineer in dhaka leads a nationwide movement to change article 19 of the constitution which establishes that water is an economic as well as a public resource. on our visit to petaca we stumble into a large tube used to carry water up the hill to a massive oval called 0 plantation from a now dry well. this is highway robbery to capture underground water even if the river is gone dry it is illegal but the state turned to blind are. small farmers and ranchers in petaca can't afford to drill up to 200 metres to access underground aquifers these are a sign of protest hung by farmers an estimated 10000 animals have died of thirst in

the last 6 months alone. to the sentiment you know what we are saying that a new constitution must consecrate water as a public and human right and build a new hydro institution ality establishing powers of the use of water the problem isn't avocados but our distorted economic model. it's a model which. when the politicians of all political colors are taking full advantage of changing the water law has strong public support but like everything else a referendum on whether to rewrite the constitution has been put on hold until after the pandemic passes you see in human al-jazeera the dark just a final note from the netherlands of course famous for its flowers but there's been a drop in demand caused by the corona virus pandemic and it means millions of unsold blooms are being destroyed every day distributors say as much as 80 percent of total production is just being dumped in with many countries marking mother's

day this weekend well the timing couldn't be much worse. this is really the 1st time that we. have to do. the dutch already exists for more than a 100 years and this is the 1st time we're in such a crisis. now past the hour on al-jazeera and these are the headlines one of the world's biggest airlines emirates is suspending all passenger flights starting wednesday the dubai based carrier says the decision was made to preserve the airline's business viability and to ensure there were no job losses are the coronavirus headlines for you spain has reported 394 deaths from the pandemic in the last 24 hours a jump of nearly 30 percent on the day before they have been violent protests at

a number of prisons across colombia as panic spreads over coronavirus prisoners fear an outbreak of the virus behind bars the government stopped visitors in recent days as it tries to stop the spread of the illness. with more from bogota. there were riots throughout. 6 of their prison and across the country most of them male prison in what seems to have been a coordinated approach to part of. these different facilities that there were fires we saw videos with shots ringing out at least and the 2 main prisons here and. palestinian prime ministers announced a curfew in the occupied west bank all non-essential travel between cities towns and camps is banned. says the health workers bakeries and groceries are exempted.

we all share the same social responsibility if we all shoulder it together we should provide it is a critical moment in history a global pandemic which we must confront to minimize our loss we have passed the 1st phase together citizens business. and civil society we need stricter measures 1st cases have also been confirmed in the health ministry there since 2 palestinians returned from pakistan on thursday and according to well restaurants coffee shops and mosques have been ordered to close and australia's government ordered gyms pubs restaurants to close as well prime minister scott morrison says casinos nightclubs and places of worship will also have to shout from monday. you're up to date with the headlines and that's my lot for today thanks for your company the listening post is next.

this disconnect between what we're hearing from the scientists and what the president or the united states say to the democrats to try to turn a virus into a political attack president truck today the guy i'll be his ship from previous statements issued a cleric a national emergency 3 words hello i'm richard gives birth in europe the listening post among the media stories that we're covering this week donald trump dissin from ation and the coronavirus the white house and its sidekicks at fox news have been producing fake news of the most dangerous calm i feel it the more i learn about this the less terrorist worry i was about the same thing china throws out more american journalists as the media battle between beijing and washington heats up and uprising in lebannon where protesters want to bring down the political establishment and that includes the news media and the biggest captive audience ever so many people in law.