40 children agree that it's this is my q. one i'll just see. significant developments in global aviation due to coronavirus singapore airlines is grounding almost all of its fleets the u.a.e. is suspending all passenger flights and italy's daily coronavirus death toll falls but exceed $650.00 production as of a standstill and all internal travel bans. well you're watching al-jazeera i'm richelle carey live from doha.

anguish among the families or prisoners after a coronavirus triggered riots behind bars killing more than 20 inmates. more doubt about the tokyo olympics talks began about whether the games should be postponed. singapore airlines and its regional and local aust arms around the 96 percent of their fleet aviation is reeling from collapsing passenger numbers of border closures because of the chronic virus pandemic and the united arab emirates home to international hub dubai is suspending all passenger flights including transit travellers and the viral at the epicenter that is italy another $651.00 people have died the government has imposed new lockdown measures so let's look at the global snapshot now this is from us face johns hopkins university about 333000 and texans since this outbreak began almost 99000 people have recovered more than

14600 have died because pollen joins us live now from hong kong so davey a this is a significant development from singapore airlines what else do we know. that's right richelle and it's not surprising considering the fact that singapore just sent a new directive saying that no new short term passengers transit visitors are allowed into the country now as they tighten their border controls now singapore airlines as you said is dropping its capacity or grounding 96 percent of its flights this follows cappie pacific who did this earlier and announced that 90 per 5 percent of that capacity would be dropped meanwhile you have airlines like quantize those trailing in the national carrier that has said that the grounding of all flights bangkok airways too has grounded all flights and it's expected that many other countries and that carriers will be following suit as these travel

restrictions start targeting across borders now other things that airlines are trying to do also is for their remaining remaining flights for instance cathay pacific they're trying to instill social distancing within the flight so if you do get on a cathay pacific flight you'll have the seat be guaranteed that the seat next to you will be empty air new zealand is doing the same thing meanwhile taiwan airways airways all airlines in taiwan will not allow any passengers that have a temperature of more than 37 degrees to board that flight and they will definitely not allow passengers on that flight if they don't allow their temperatures to be checked ok go paula with the latest there on what's happening with singapore airlines to thank you very much as we mentioned the united arab emirates home to the world's busiest international airport in dubai suspending all passenger flights transit flights will also be suspended for 2 weeks affecting travelers worldwide as

dubai is a major hub connecting europe and asia the ban is due to start within 48 hours may bring saudi arabia will impose a curfew from monday night state media says it will be in place between 7 pm and 6 am for the next 3 weeks the kingdom saw an almost 25 percent jump in coronavirus cases on sunday pushing its total to $500.00 that is the highest number in the gulf . italy's daily toll has fallen but the country still reported $651.00 deaths on sunday as countries around europe are putting in place increasingly strict measures or challenge reports it is a mark of the severity of italy's situation when its latest coronavirus daily death toll can be viewed as good news $651.00 new fatalities more than anywhere else in the world but still fewer than the nearly $800.00 italian dead announced on saturday. unfortunately today we

register a death toll of 651. numbers are lower than what we reported yesterday but we must not lower our guard. prime minister koizumi is calling it the country's toughest crisis since world war 2 all non-essential businesses are being shut for the time being russia is dispatching call go planes of military medical aid to italy germany is banning gatherings in public of more than 2 people chancellor angela merkel is in quarantine to contact with an infected doctor. spain the state of emergency is being extended till april 11th after the government's announced nearly 400 new coronavirus deaths and the pandemic appears to be taking a particularly high toll on health workers. but another figure that is what are going out on the one that is affecting the most people

involved in the crisis response is the number of health care professionals affected these are 3475 and it represents 10 percent of all cases. that greece with more than $600.00 cases is to impose a curfew on monday in the united kingdom as you can see it's quiet but there are still people out on the streets and that's because even though the government to shut down many businesses it's advice to stay inside and socially distance yourself at the moment fall short of an outright order but boris johnson is hinting that if people continue to ignore this tougher measures could follow a take this is vice seriously follow it because it's absolutely crucial and as i've said throughout this process we will keep the implementation of these measures under constant review and yes of course we will bring forward

further measures if we think that is that is necessary the u.k. with 281 deaths could be just 2 or 3 weeks behind italy says the prime minister. al jazeera london. having spent weeks insisting the tokyo olympics should go and will go ahead and september as planned japanese prime minister shinzo are they now concedes postponement must be considered expanding the international olympic committee will spend up to 4 weeks discussing whether or not to delay the games athletes and national bodies have been pushing for that or for just outright cancellation however the i.o.c. says calling it off altogether set up the question why cough is a professor pacific university and author of power games a political history of the olympics he joins us from portland oregon via skype we appreciate your time so much so one of the latest developments as apparently the athletes from canada say that they're not going to go unless these games are

postponed for at least a year how much are our athletes demands driving this we're witnessing a remarkable surge in absolutes speaking out against the international olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus situation and in that sort of leadership vacuum you've seen athletes and sport bodies rise up and what canada has done just moments ago is absolutely remarkable basically it's a defacto boycott they're saying they will not attend the olympics in tokyo this summer if they happen this summer absolutely remarkable anticipate that that the dominoes will start to fall and even more athletes will start to speak up and say these things. well prediction is tricky business as we've seen for those of us following this over the last few weeks but i think it reasons to say that canada is leading the way here and that other sports bodies other countries will say we're

not going to send our athletes either i mean beyond the fact that obviously there's so much that goes into the olympics of so much money there are so many things at stake beyond that though why does it seem that. the i.o.c. has been and japan have been resistant to really get out ahead of this. well for starters there's a lot of money that's plunged into making an olympics happen start with the broadcasters who fork over billions of dollars to get rights to the games and they happen it's in a specific pocket of time in the summer july and august when there's not much else happening on the sports calendar so postponing creates problems for that potential sport calendar unless you push it back an entire year within japan prime minister shinzo hobday has made the olympics essentially his pet project and he's been pushing it from the beginning from way back in 2013 when he stood in front of the international olympic committee and told them that everything was under control at

fukushima even though it really wasn't under control the i.o.c. bought it and gave tokyo the olympics and shinzo obvious plunged a lot of political capital into making these games happen another factor is the international of the committee itself it kind of lived under the monitor the games must go on whether it's a terrorist attack as what happened in 1972 in munich or what we've seen recently with these olympics that in the face of coronavirus the olympic committee has basically been saying the games will go on until just recently when they've opened the door to a potential postponement ok so let's look out a year ahead and i think. pretty much nobody knows what life is going to be like once we come out of the other side of this be really really don't know but let's just say a year from now we have come out the other side of this how do you up how do you see this affecting the alleged fix whether it's crowds or people may be hesitant to be in crowds or what does this do to some athletes training schedules i mean just what are the effects of postponing the severe. right well the athletes training

schedules have already been thrown into disarray the international olympic committee has been suggesting to athletes just keep on training as if nothing's happening and keep your eye on the olympic prize and athletes have said back to them well how can we possibly train for example i'm coming to you from the united states where the u.s. olympic and paralympic training centers are closed in colorado springs and also in lake placid so athletes don't have a place to go their olympic aspiring athletes same for other countries around the world and so postponing for a year raises big questions about qualification for the olympics what about the 57 percent or so of the athletes who have already qualified for the olympics will they have to requalify that will make them happy the olympics thrive of having the best in sharpest athletes in the field at the games and so if you qualified a whole year before that would be very uncommon for the olympics they want people that are at the top of their game so it's very complex do you anticipate that this

will potentially affect crowds. well it depends on how the corona virus is corralled or isn't but at this stage many people are giving the olympics a 2nd thought in terms of attending it it all depends as you say on how it proceeds that the pace of the coronavirus right now there are cases of coronavirus in japan itself are still rising and so who knows what'll the case will be a year out hopefully everybody starts practicing social distancing in a very rigorous way and we can work collectively to get this under control you know i've said that people within the olympic movement can show a sense of global solidarity by canceling these olympics and not holding him this summer and it looks like that maybe is what's going to happen angelus as a matter of fact while you and i were talking war dominoes are starting to fall we're hearing that the athlete the australian athletes have actually been told to prepare for the 2021 alleged acts just to prepare for that possibility and perhaps

eventuality so i'm sure we'll be talking to you again jules thank you very much thank you. 23 people had been killed during a prison riot and colombia's capitol building about spreading hatred conditions relatives gathered outside the gates. of the fate of their loved ones. has more from. throughout the night on social media showed fires raging at the. prison shots could be heard as prisoners filmed themselves trying to flee riots over corona virus panic and prison sanitary conditions broke out in this and other 8 overcrowded detention facilities across. the what the government described as a massive attempt to escape. 23 inmates in 83 were injured 7 prison guards were also wounded 2 of them are in critical condition the

minister of justice described it as a sad and painful day but denied that there was a health crisis. i really mean there is no sanitary problem that has caused this plan and these riots there is not one infection or any prisoner or custodial or administrative staffer who has coronavirus. the next morning inmates family members clashed with the police outside the prison the man the permeation the prison riots show that concern is rising over to increasing number of cases here. as a lockdown is already under way here in the capital and. which will be. square and. new restrictive measures are being imposed on a daily bases across the region on sunday believe years the interim government announced a 2 week long shutdown and the postponement of presidential elections scheduled for

me 3rd he didn't mean to shoot. from sunday at midnight we should be at home for 24 hours a day because we'll be safer. this is the best way to stop the coronavirus. police were out on the streets in argentina to strictly enforce quarantine measures. in brazil where cases of spiral to more than a 1000 to save the also called for a 2 week long quarantine and the closing of all nonessential businesses and services it follows a similar decision by a row and comes despite opposition from president. who keeps downplaying the emergency international flights have been banned in most countries and even internal flights are being restricted they're stopped altogether in a region where most governments are determined to take the most drastic decisions before the number of cases gets out of control.

still ahead on al-jazeera. viruses impacting palestinian workers living in the occupied west bank. he will not lift a finger to help his hometown york city's mayor heads out it president trump and says people will die needlessly unless hospitals can get money for supplies. hello we're still got some rather wet weather into central and southern parts of china at the moment thick cloud just pushing through here easing over towards the east china sea and beyond that will head over towards japan over the next couple of days but at the moment it's largely fine and dry hasn't spring sunshine 70 celsius for turkey and for not seep out across the korean peninsula 24 for beijing come

further south as that west the weather will say the cloud of the rank gathering here as we go on towards middle part of the week to stay on the damp side meanwhile not too bad for the good part of japan a little coley yes but brighton breezy 13 celsius for tokyo on tuesday afternoon bribery so you into work at parts of the philippines heavy showers continuing just around the equator around why should be at the moment seasonal rains rumbling away here then with some thunder and some heavy downpours from time to time so much the weather there across a good part of malaysia indonesia still seeing some showers will see want to see showers for a time to just around the malaysian peninsula but nothing much to speak of thailand is generally fine and dry the sheriff on a drive to across a good parts of in the i think a cloud now spinning out of pakistan out into the fog north of india as we go on through the next couple of days it will turn in kristie wet here midweek.

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crime a virus outbreak earlier both emirates and turkish airlines significantly reduced their operations the international olympic committee says it is in talks with japan about postponing the tokyo games and it is announced its athletes will not compete unless there is a delay at least a year and australians have been told to prepare for a 2021 the olympics. and italy's daily chronic virus death toll has risen but the cut has fallen rather fallen but the country still reported $651.00 deaths on sunday the government has increased lockdown measures shutting almost all factories and banning internal travel. and the u.s. battle between democratic party senators and the republican party rivals have prevented a coronavirus financial rescue package from advancing the democrats say it's too skewed towards helping corporations instead of workers and families as that goes on in washington the mayor of new york city has warned people will die needlessly unless a shortage of medical equipment is resolved within days of reports. new

york saw a dramatic increase of nearly 5000 new coronavirus cases in one day with hospitals facing critical shortages of protective masks in new york city's mayor placing the blame on president trump the president is states is from new york city and he will not lift a finger to help his hometown and i'll get it my order limits public gathering so no more than 10 people more than 95000000 americans are now under lockdown with additional shelter in place orders issued in ohio in louisiana new york's governor had strong criticism for residents choosing not to comply it's a mistake it's insensitive it's arahant it's self destructive it's disrespectful to other people and it has to stop and this has to stop now it's

a terrible thing that's going on in the meanwhile president trump announced federal supplies are on the way to new york california and washington states whose governors have not publicly criticize the president's response but we're really backing up the governors the governors have to go out do their things and you have a lot of governors have done a fantastic job you have some that haven't usually is a once a complain that have the problems maybe in the not too distant future on capitol hill senator rand paul a republican from kentucky announced he's the 3rd member of congress to have tested positive for corona virus which for the majority leader hours later his senate colleagues fail to advance a trillion dollar economic rescue package the negotiations continue but economists say a u.s. recession is now inevitable and doctors warn current shortages in medical supplies will cost lives heidi joe castro al-jazeera maryland. mcdonald's fast food restaurants across the u.k.

and ireland will temporarily shut their doors amid the pandemic the company said its 1300 restaurants in the region will close by monday night at the latest restaurants and fast food chains around the world have been forced to limit services or close to 2 coronavirus serious health minister has confirmed its 1st case of corona virus a 20 year old woman who had returned from overseas there's concern about the impact of the virus on syria and libya loam there are already a 1000000 displaced people thousands don't have tents and conditions in the camps have been described as horrifying aid workers have warned an outbreak there would be devastating rocker's reported $214.00 cases in 17 deaths so far to prevent the further spread of coronavirus the government imposed a weeklong curfew in baghdad and other cities and canceled all domestic flights but security forces are struggling to enforce the locked out of the 7 holton reports from baghdad. oh they defied the threat of penalties roadblocks and even

ignored advice from iraq's highest sheol for a day to avoid public gatherings despite a curfew to stem the spread of the coronavirus thousands of pilgrims from across iraq flocked to the shrine in baghdad over the weekend driven by their faith reassured by the belief that it could protect them. i am not afraid my faith is strong i love the cada mains nothing can hurt us no disease or anything else god willing this will protect me and my family from corona charge this disease needs our prayers i don't see any sick people collapse in front of me i have a mosque in gloves in my pocket when i see an incident i can wear them local officials are worried the pilgrims could transmit the virus to people in this area join out on those programs kind of brought a big burden on us because the residents of the city were very committed to all the instructions of the authorities sterilize and purify all the locations touched. by

the pilgrims and maybe god will have mercy on us. this is the main entrance leading up to the shrine here in baghdad and despite instructions to penalize those who violate the curfew people here are being allowed to enter without any obstructions security forces stated it's difficult to enforce the curfew given the religious nature of the pilgrimage. but elsewhere in baghdad security forces appeared less willing to compromise as of saturday they had arrested more than 300 people and find another 4100 for not respecting the curfew in the capital. in but that's the to square the epicenter of months of anti-government demonstrations student protests as we usually gather on sunday stayed away commercial streets remained deserted as patrols and shirt all non-essential businesses remain shut down. some pharmacies and grocery stores are allowed to stay open for now but we've supply

routes blocked and customers few and far between shopkeepers are worried about how much longer they could keep going. so we should be getting help from the government they should for example give us tax cuts or pay the rent for the shop they should find a way to supply us with goods. but iraq's caretaker government is weekend after months of unrest and already grappling with declining oil prices and us iran tensions on its soil some iraqis fear that a corona virus outbreak could propel their country into an unprecedented crisis simona fulton al-jazeera bugged out tens of thousands of palestinian workers who are trapped in israel after military crossings were closed to the occupied west bank it's part of measures to control the spread of coronavirus with workers told they'll have to stay in israel for at least a month very fossil reports and lustrous on. in recent days palestinians crossing

into israel for work have been coming for the long haul new restrictions mean they now can't go back for a month at least in normal times about 100000 shuttled between the occupied west bank and israel another 30000 work in illegal israeli settlements israeli employers have been told they must provide suitable accommodation for workers crucial to the economy in fields such as agriculture and construction. but some are having to improvise often on the sites where they work with the palestinian economy already sharply affected by the pandemic and predicted to worsen their wages are evermore vital for family back home mohammed not his real name sent us this video of his current quarter's a 25 year old graduate with a baby on the way he's worried about losing his job working for a fellow west bank palestinian middleman if police find out how he and his workmates a living with the employer should provide us with a place to live because we are far from our families and the circumstances the hard we sleep on the ground on mattresses the food is not good there is

a miserable conditions it's cold and there is no toilet in ramallah in the occupied west bank the palestinian prime minister who's promoted a policy of economic disengagement from israel demanded human conditions be provided for workers there he also banned all such work in illegal settlements part of a 2 week general lockdown. no citizens are allowed to leave their homes as part of home confinement as of 10 pm tonight 22nd march except for medical centers in their workers workers in the following areas should show their work cards pharmacies bakeries and grocery stores. further south near hebron signs that both this internal sealing off and the israeli military closure of the crossings are being challenged with crowds apparently attempting to get into israel through unfenced areas typically it's estimated some 60000 west bank palestinians work without papers about. assuming economy is estimated to gain some $330000000.00

a month from wages and inside israel the p.a. wants to retain as much of that as possible israel still needs the labor the question is how to maintain that while still stopping the spread of the virus that's to experiment under way with these closures that it sent to tens of thousands of palestinian workers now cut off from their families are a force that al-jazeera westerners doctors in italy have penned a message of hope to the millions confined to their homes the song which takes the tune of an italian classic asked people to be patient as the crisis runs its course . you know more people. want out of. here you. mustn't. let on

a. final. moments. or. just some. down. let's take a look at some of the day's other news is opposition says least 10 people have died in violence following a controversial referendum in parliamentary election there were several attacks on polling sites voters are being asked to approve a constitutional change that opponents say is a blatant attempt by president alpha condé to stay in power. and the 1st direct

talks have taken place between the afghan government and taliban about exchanging prisoners last month washington the taliban signed a deal and that ending the 18 year conflict the agreement included the release of 5000 taliban prisoners by the afghan government and exchange for a 1000 afghan security forces personnel held by the taliban the latest talks were organized by qatar and the u.s. . take a look at the headlines right now on al-jazeera singapore airlines and it's a city areas are grounding 96 percent of their fleet in response to the corona virus outbreak earlier both their merits and turkish airlines significantly reduced their operations if you go paul and has more now from hong kong it's not surprising considering the fact that singapore just sent a new directive saying that no new short term passengers transit visitors are

allowed into the country now as they've tightened their border controls now singapore airlines as you said is dropping its capacity or grounding 96 percent its flights this follows cathy pacific who did this earlier and announced that 90 profile percent of the capacity would be dropped meanwhile you have airlines like quantize those trillion national carrier that has said that the grounding all flights. japan's prime minister says the olympics could be postponed but canceling is not an option japan and the international olympic committee will spend up to 4 weeks discussing whether to delay the tokyo games canada says its athletes will not compete unless there's a delay of at least a year and australia says it is preparing for 2021 other countries have suggested calling the games off altogether but the i.o.c. says that is out of the question saudi arabia will impose a curfew starting on monday night state media says it'll be in place between 7 pm

and 6 am for the next 3 weeks the kingdom saw an almost 25 percent jump in corona virus cases on sunday pushing its total to 500 the highest number in the gulf italy's daily coronavirus death toll has fallen but the country still reported 651 deaths on sunday i mean the total to almost 5500 the government has increased lockdown measures shutting down almost all factories and banning internal trouble. opposition says at least 10 people have been killed in violence following a controversial referendum in a parliamentary election there were several attacks on polling places were being asked to approve a constitutional change that opponents argue will let president alpha condé stay in power despite nearing the end of his 2 term limit. so the headlines keep it here talk to al jazeera its next. how much is the grown virus on the stock market thanks to the rights to the warning times. to point you to some of. the democratic

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