my career but no country has a like and it's my job to shed light on how and why. this is al jazeera i'm teddy navigator with a check on your world headlines for the 2nd consecutive day the daily death toll in italy has fallen 601 people died on monday almost 200 people fewer than saturday's toll but spain's numbers have risen again 460 people have died in the past 24 hours with a total of 2182 more of the city 100000 cases of corbett 19 have now been reported to double. from almost every country in the world that's heartbreaking

the pun demick is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases just 4 days for this. 100000 cases the u.n. is calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the fight against the pandemic that's a syria has now confirmed its 1st case humanitarian groups say a major outbreak in the war torn country would be particularly catastrophic women and children and people with disabilities the marginalized and displaced by the highest price they also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from poor feed $19.00. let's not forget that in war ravaged countries now systems of

collapse else professionals already few in number and often been targeted refugees and other these placed by violent conflict are doubly vulnerable the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war if you see why today i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world it is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the to fight of our lives. has reported the 1st death of a coronavirus patient after confirming its 1st cases this past weekend the government has closed schools and banned large gatherings but there are concerns over the country's ability to handle an outbreak zimbabwe's health system has suffered critical shortages of equipment and drugs for years and late last year the un warned the country is on the brink of manmade starvation with some 8000000 people facing food insecurity south africa's president has announced a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from thursday the army will be deployed to

enforce the restrictions there are more than 400 confirmed cases of corona virus in south africa but no deaths. this is the decisive measure to save lives of the africans from infection and save the lives of hundreds of thousands of our people. while this measure will have a considerable impact on people's livelihoods and the lives of our society and on our economy the human cost of delaying this action would be far far greater. coble financial markets continue to suffer as the coronavirus pandemic worsens the dow jones in new york is trading down more than 3 percent after another day of falls across asia and europe no traders were allowed into the new york stock exchange on monday and all market trading is happening elektra

honestly because of the shutdown off new york. meanwhile the u.s. senate has failed to agree on a trillion dollar stimulus bill aimed at boosting the economy during the pandemic this is the 2nd time the legislation hasn't passed politicians are under increasing pressure to prevent an economic collapse but they've been divided on what the final package should actually look like democrats are saying that republican proposals are favoring corporations rather than putting workers 1st. here today tz where the headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up after sound wars an ecological investigation unveils a global emergency. we

bought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. the world is running out of sand consumed by industry and construction stolen and transported by criminal mafias around the world that bought them to have them put it all got up at the foot of creativity i like the dock i'm not exactly. washed away by rising sea levels we have been in the middle of the indian ocean for the last 5000 it's become just. lost to human greed and stupidity. when we use nets and that means we loose. our life. we've never needed so much sand so badly with beaches and entire islands already disappearing pool in the sand worse.

for most of us san makes us think of days at the beach sand castles and sunshine and once the holidays are over we slip back into our busy lives. but is feeling the sand between our toes or caught in our bathing suits the whole story. does this so familiar substance play any other role in our daily lives. standard is what i like to call the unsung heroes of law it's because they're just endlessly examples. of the way in which sand intersects with daily lloyd's which we all really know commonly aware of. sand has quietly infiltrated every corner of our world melted and transformed into glass it sits on every shelf. it's also the source of silicone dioxide. a mineral found an hour winds cleaning products

detergents paper dehydrated foods hairspray toothpaste cosmetics. and an astounding variety of other products we use every day. but it's. mended such as. you. think about your computer. you know and it can be manufactured if you do not have high quality said. the minerals extracted from sand are at the core of our hyper connected society they form a basic material for microchips without which our computers credit cards bank machine cell phones and many other devices would not exist. sand even alps or supply in our airplanes the plastics lightweight alloys of the fuselage and jet engines even the paint and tires are all made with sand. it's almost become like

a the a we don't think too much about it but you can't live without it. and the industry with the biggest appetite for sand. construction. for the last 150 years sand mixed with cement to form concrete has shaped the contours of our increasingly urbanized world. because of its low cost strength and ease of use disgrace larry has become the dominant building material around the globe. the quantities used are astronomical. to build an average house it takes $200.00 tons of sand. for a larger building like a hospital around 3000 tons. each kilometer of

highway devours 30000 tons. and to build a nuclear plant the estimate is about $12000000.00 tons. of production of sand exceeds 15000000000 tons. and that is a quantity that is so huge that it's beyond imagination how much is 15000000000 you don't know because no other resource is used in such vast quantities as maybe with the exception of water. so where in the world does that much sand come from. let's just say the sand men who work in the aggregate business have not been affected by the economic downturn.

behind air and water sand is the most used commodity in the world. business is booming but meeting this demand is not always an easy task sand is not something that's easily found like you might think it is used to be that you'd have a sand and gravel deposit and you'd simply go and dig it up out of the ground so you'd have sand to make your roads bridges and buildings up but that type material has all been taken away it's gone abuse it already. with the positives of surface sand exhausted we started dredging rivers for sand but this is lead to flooding. now we've turned to the oceans for sand. to satisfy our seemingly insatiable appetite for sand we've industrialized extracting it from beneath the waves. and the workhorse of the industry is

a dredger. a giant tanker equipped with a suction arm capable of pumping huge quantities of sand to the surface. and. the right bessel in the right location can pump up to 400000 cubic metres of sand to the surface every single day. each dredger cost anywhere from $25000000.00 to $200000000.00. but the sand is free. so the thousands of tankers combing the world's oceans at every incentive to suck up as much sand as possible for their increasingly hungry clients. an astonishing example of this appetite within a few decades this fishing village has morphed into a modern architecture is

a sandbox for developers were no fantasies too grandiose. but as projects. of sand and huge volumes of sand and construction projects concrete and just making land has been doing with the with the official reconstructed island. landfills or even bigger consumers of sand and concrete with a booming economy the emirate launched an ambitious expansion project. after the year 2000 with the price of state soaring as a result of speculation developers bet that it would be cheaper to make land than to buy it. but. the world cost over $12000000000.00 and devoured more than $150000000.00 tons of sand. with a giant palm still under construction flying high in the seemingly endless supply

of money and sand embarked on an even more extravagant project. the world. the world is an island paradise would run president had opportunity can be found it is almost as resort official archipelago of $300.00 islands designed as a map of the world absorbed $14000000000.00 and $3.00 times as much sand as the palm. the. place beyond imagination. today the world is a mirage the work site has been abandoned since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008. deserted island is now parked in the sun awaiting the uncertain day when millionaire buyers will again descend on the buy and restore its glory. for new kill the corporation managing the palm of the world the crisis is more than

financial overdevelopment is totally liquidated by his natural sand resources and you think you'll find of course dubai is on the edge of that there's a they've got old asylum they need like all the gulf states dubai has sand everywhere so why doesn't the emirates simply help itself to the desert desert sand is the wrong color end of sand for building a lot of fishel islands why because desert sand all the grains have been blown around by the wind and is typically very round and very smooth if you want to use it to build an island they don't stick together you need sand that that is more angular rougher rougher age sand that naturally sticks together. see sand is perfect for island building and construction but it's in limited supply sand is not a sustainable resource. although its own stocks are exhausted dubai is far from given up.

the burj khalifa at the time of construction the world's tallest building was built with sand from half a world away. we have a saying in english this is selling sand to the arabs which is obviously. that that's actually come true in the case of the by. $3500.00 australian companies exports into the arabian peninsula their profits of tripled in 20 years accounting for a $5000000000.00 jackpot. and australia is just one small part of a global trend that reliant on importing sand from other areas and so you see is this he. trade around the world moving from one areas for another for different purposes such as construction and land reclamation. singapore is another city at the heart of the sand wars. and 30 years the country known as the

switzerland of beijing has become one of the richest in the region during this time the population has more than doubled and the 63 islands that make up the cities today are bursting at the seams singapore its were lying on the import of sand for its very existence and the land masses literally increased 20 percent over the last 40 years and that's largely been reclamation so literally pouring sound into the sea to create new land. singapore is already transformed 130 square kilometers of water into land and is planning to add another 100 square kilometers by 2030. having devoured all its own reserves its ferocious appetite has targeted its neighbor supplies. one after another cambodia. malaysia and indonesia have beach decided to ban trade with singapore but its addiction descent is not easy to restrain. singapore is being accused of expanding its

coast and illegally dredged from neighboring states. suspicions of sand trafficking hang over singapore and the dozens of barges still to the brim which imo daily and it's important prove that the city state has found an alternative source but where does the saying come from. tommy guns fear. guns. you come here every day every week. this is what is driving the visuals so awkward. know what. your individual. your 4th division or your. thanks to local traffic and networks

singapore and dealers with false identities working for fictional companies continue to find supplies of sand in neighboring countries. but the other company. is it just it was invisible. but this is the this place. to take your. flaunt the law with the tacit support of the government their most loyal client. the sun trading singapore's he usually have a classical as the mass of the baucus is ours were concerned it's just a is bill the south as you know leader in the region in particular the last global sun that's but their companies will brain imports of that country and should be its human rights violations environmental degradation and damage the livelihoods of local people. the effects of underwater dredging are far from

benign. much of the ocean floors rocky or covered with only a thin layer of sand. built up over tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. as you dredge up a set. of course all the the any walls and. on the sea floor they will all be dredged up as well and therefore whatever living communities are they will just be the sand is the primary link in the underwater food chain remove it and the survival of all species from the smallest to the largest is threatened. like many archipelagos many of indonesia's islands are literally made of sand and intense dredging has triggered a series of chain reactions. 92 percent in the nation's fiscal challenges

come from tension of the city because of. this we. we lost fish. livelihood. everything loss of fish habitat directly endangers the survival of thousands of indonesian families but that's only the 1st of sand dredging to adverse effects. if you have an oil made of sand it's only there because of could spirit sea of natural processes wind waves water currents time of year and so if you start removing that. then you've upset the balance of the conspiracy and waves and currents will then start to move the rest of the set. after the extraction of sand a combination of waves currents and gravity slowly fill in the back you. so the

removal of underwater sand can have a very noticeable effect on nearby beaches and islands. and so by a combination of the match will prove this is and human excavation the island can literally disappear. one of the nice stunning and pax of the trade is the disappearance of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia which have literally vanished when we use that sand. once an island disappears the international maritime boundary changes all is required to these become geopolitical issues as well as simply commercial and resource issues. 25 indonesian islands have already disappeared. like coal and gas sand is now on the frontline of the world's hunger for raw

materials. scarcity and dangers local communities and sets governments against each other. as demand builds the circle only becomes more vicious. morocco's gentle climate has been welcoming tourists for years. but its famous beaches have also been attracting some strange 4 legged visitors a constant stream of men and donkeys descend on the beaches 7 days a week. in search of. sand. the men in the donkeys have taken so much sand that some beaches now look like the surface of the moon. rock has been experiencing a construction boom spurred on by

a competitive real estate market. the builders are happy but they need plenty of sand legal and otherwise. i repair i have i don't want to give you. a bit about are you going to bend and addenda going to be mad or not do you have enough to know what coming up to no no no no my love my double got nothing. by that i mean i got them help oh yeah. look i do one thing yes i did was really i do what cigars right with their day but they didn't come but you know you're not going out your head not them have them couldn't get up at will create a video i like them i like that lap it's estimated that 40 to 45 percent of the sand used in construction in morocco has been stolen mostly from its beaches.

loaded onto trucks the sand is sold directly to unscrupulous developers but that's not where the problem ends. without proper treatment salty beach sand mixed with cement is highly corrosive make america's new buildings ticking time bombs in danger of collapse. ironically the beach is meant to lure the tourists are being stripped bare to build hotels and condos that may turn out to be death traps. in the maybe enjoy. the position of being the financial capital of the country andrea also have

a huge housing boom construction boom that's because of the influx of so many new people into the city. with the indian economy booming construction has to keep pace and like in so many other battlegrounds of the sand wars easy profits lead to corrupt practices. the value of sand is such that it's a commercial commodity that is smuggled i mean the it's a big business is smuggling the fam. sand mafia is the most powerful criminal organization in india. a lot of the people in the whole. who control of the sun mafia oh so control and a lot of the construction the construction materials businesses in bombay as well as the constructions themselves in addition to that they also control the administration through their political contacts so that just completes the whole

value chain right from the extraction to construction the the profits in each bottle fit the administration and the police. under the eyes of corrupt authorities the sand arts ply their trade in broad daylight and more than $8000.00 drugs inside scattered across the coastline river banks of the subcontinent. for the mafia's beaches are easy prey because the sand is literally within arm's reach so they had even the most popular tourist sites the places where you expect to stretch out on the beach and worship the sun. the tender calls of the mafia's however are just adding to the pressures facing the world speeches.

just 2 years ago there was a row of houses here. about i think about 8 houses from about here all the way down to the condo and those houses verano water the shoreline with going right past them so they ended up taking them out of these houses here with her on the beach front were row number 2 and i have the fact that the house won't be here and 5 here. we thought the house about 2 years ago hoping that we would be able to retire here . but from here you could see how much sand we've lost underneath the house. because it was up to level with the cement but of course it went out into the ocean . so. the beach area was about the length of a football field and over the last 2 years the scart mint is underneath the houses

so. the erosion on this part of the beach is much quicker than we anticipated or there is steam to normal. globally between 75 and 90 percent of beaches are actually undergoing some sort of retreat and that's only going to get worse. the grim consequences of mexico's bloody drug most watch the people around you mr governor you've got people who are with the narco through the eyes of the journalists determined to report the truth your government is full of narco she said that's how the article should start 6 years on we revisit the reporters still risking their lives laden in this being another are the break of violence of more of course rewind the deadly speech on al-jazeera.

from the outages there our london bureau caught that 2 special guests in conversation when you say a lie a 1000000 times that becomes the fact you then can create whatever narrative you want unprompted uninterrupted and i realized i was working for something that was evil you know being a part about recreating our maria ressa meets christopher why they the death of journalism is only the 1st signal for the death of democracy studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera. our coverage of africa is what i'm most proud of every time i travel bad whether it's east or west africa people stop me and tell me how much they appreciate our coverage and our focus is not just on their suffering but also on the more uplifting and inspiring stories people trust our jersey on to tell them what's happening in their communities and appear an unbiased way and as an african i couldn't be more proud to be part of it all.

this is al jazeera i'm sorry another gator weather check on your world headlines or take it to the u.k. prime minister and pressing britain on the growing coronavirus pandemic letting senator dick and this country is not alone all over the world we're seeing the devastating impact of this invisible killer and so tonight i want to update you on the latest steps we're taking to fight the disease and what you can do to help and i want to begin by reminding you why the u.k. has been taking the approach that we have without a huge national effort to halt the growth of this virus there will come a moment when no health service in the world could possibly cope because i won't be enough ventilators and i thin tens of care beds enough doctors and nurses and as

we've seen elsewhere in other countries that also have fantastic health care systems that is the moment a real danger to put it simply if too many people become seriously unwell but one time the n.h.s. will be unable to handle it meaning more people are likely to die not just from corona virus but from other illnesses as well so it's vital to slow the spread of the disease because that is the way we reduce the number of people needing hospital treatment at any one time so we can protect the n.h.s. his ability to cope and save more lives and that's why we've been asking people to stay at home during this pandemic and those huge numbers are compline and i thank you all the time is now come for us to to do more from the c evening i

must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home because the critical thing we must do to stop the disease spreading between households. that is why people were only be allowed to leave their home for the volleying very limited purposes shopping for basic necessities as infrequently as possible one form of exercise a day for example run walk or cycle alone with members of your household any medical need to provide care or to help a vulnerable person and travelling to and from work but only where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home that's all these are the only reasons you should leave your home you should not be meeting friends if your friends ask you to meet you should say no you should not be meeting family members

who do not live in your home you should not be going shopping except for essential food and medicine and you should do this as little as you can and use food delivery services where you can if you don't follow the rules the police will have the powers to enforce them including through fines and dispersing gatherings to ensure compliance with the government's instruction to stay at home we will immediately close all shops selling non-essential goods including clothing and electronics stores and other premises including libraries playgrounds and outdoor gyms and places of worship will stop all gatherings of more than 2 people in public excluding people you live with and will stop all social events including weddings baptisms and other ceremonies but excluding funerals. parks will remain

open for exercise but gatherings will be dispersed. no prime minister wants to enact measures like this i know the damage that this disruption is doing and will do to people's lives to their businesses and to their jobs and that's why we've produced a huge and unprecedented program of support both for workers and for business and i can assure you that we will keep these restrictions under constant review we will look again in 3 weeks and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to but it present there are just no easy options the way ahead is hard and it is still true that many lives will sadly be lost and it is also true that there is a clear way through day by day we are strengthening our amazing n.h.s.

with 7500 former clinicians now coming back to the service with the time you buy them by simply staying at home we are increasing our stocks of equipment we are accelerating our search for treatments were pioneering work on a vaccine and we are buying millions of testing kits that were enable us to turn the tide on this invisible killer. i want to thank everyone who is working flat out to beat the virus everyone from the supermarket stuff to the transport workers to the carers to the nurses and doctors on the front line. but in this fight we can be in done and that each and every one of us is directly enlisted each and every one of us is now obliged to join together to halt the spread of this disease to protect our n.h.s.

and to save many many thousands of lives and i know that is they have in the past so many times the people of this country will rise to that challenge and we will come through it stronger than ever we will beat the creative virus and we will beat it together and therefore i urge you at this moment of national emergency to stay at home protect our n.h.s. and save lives thank you that is the u.k. prime minister boris johnson who's been addressing britain on the growing coronavirus pandemic some of what he had to say was he is instructing britons to stay at home starting from this evening for a period of 3 weeks is also banned public gatherings and he's closed the he's announcing the closure of nonessential businesses and he did say that police have the powers to enforce these rules and he also went on to say that the governments

will relax the restrictions if the evidence shows that we are able to and they will look at these restrictions once again in 3 weeks time so just to reiterate once again that's johnson is instructive saying britain's to stay at home starting from this evening let's bring in a challenge from our analysis he's joining us via skype from lewis in the south of england rory so just talk us through what you heard and the most important messages that the u.k. prime minister just announced. well his message was very simple wasn't it and c. made this as basic as he could everyone stay at home that was the key takeaway that i think he is hoping people got from from his statement that he broke it down of course he went through the reasons in which it would be considered acceptable to go outside shopping for basic necessities going out for

some sort of medical need going out for one form of exercise per day and if you really have no alternative then going to and from work but only if you can't work from home to make all this happen he is shutting all shops that sell non-essential things he's closing playgrounds he's closing libraries he's closing places of worship is bringing a halt to weddings and christenings and that sort of thing saying that funerals will carry on and he saying the parks will stay open and crucially he says that the police are going to have the power to disperse gatherings of more than 2 people outside through fines and i think that those are the only measures that i've heard so far that. he's expressed that the enforcement measures

that the police will be able to use. i mean basically what this does is it brings the u.k. in line with the measures that we have seen being put into place in plenty of other countries around europe for much of this crisis the u.k. has been a step or 2 behind other european countries and the u.k. shot at schools in universities my. later than other european countries did there were plenty of people in the u.k. who was saying why are we not taking the sorts of measures that we can see european countries like france and germany etc doing why are we so far behind yet again the u.k. has been slow in adopting the kinds of strict controls that other european countries done but now the u.k. is pretty much in line i mean it's not as stringent as say it's too late but it is

still in the same price caps agree now as most other european countries when it comes to enforcing social distancing and enforcing this kind of quarantining of people inside their own homes and worry because just a few hours ago the british government was accusing people of being selfish spy not social distancing i mean is there something to be said about the timing of this and why do we think that has made this announcement now as you're saying the u.k. has so far lagged behind other european countries and taking these stricter quote unquote quarantine measures. well i mean well clearly the quays death toll in the u.k. is number fishel cases of coronavirus at least are no way near what you can see in italy and spain and i think the problem here isn't yet as acute as it is in those countries but the message from the government for the last.

night for 5 days at least has been we are only a couple of weeks behind it's the we're only a couple weeks behind space and so. these measures that we revise and you take listen to them abate them. but the signs were over the weekend that people were really doing that and there were pictures all over the news of people out enjoying the spring sunshine they were out in parts they were talking the gentlemen doing it cetera these advisories that the government was making to stay inside and not mingle with other people but we're certainly not being listened to by not a majority necessarily but a good proportion of people and that was worrying for the government. and i think that was why they have decided to take these measures because clearly the devices they were giving they didn't feel was being heeded as much as they would want it to

be and this is why we're seeing the kind of measures that were being put into place now ok thank you for that analysis thanks very much ali bacher has more on the situation across the rest of europe. in italy the region cemeteries are struggling to keep up with the dead on monday the death toll climb to more than 6000. is the 2nd straight day the number of dead edged down and the rate of infections slowed it's too early to say whether it's at least turn the tide on covert 19 but the figures office some hope the government measures are working. a day after italy shut down all non-essential economic activity now more restrictions a ban on all internal travel the virus has distorted everyday life buying food can take many hours. to warm coronavirus is intensifying

these patients from the island of corsica being treated on a french navy helicopter carrying the island's hospitals are overwhelmed. the streets of the german capital also empty and the country's chancellor angela merkel forced to quarantine but there's a glimmer of hope new data suggest the spread of the virus is slowing despite a high infection rate there are relatively few deaths in germany the country was quick to introduce widespread but i was testing. one cool element is the ability to keep track of contacts. of contacts are kept for 14 days and the isolation of infected people these measures must be kept up and straight it is for the coming weeks and months for they are important and remain important. 2 weeks into its lockdown spain is now considering extending it further country after country governments are controlling the lives of citizens like never before the coronavirus

has pushed the continent into confinement. al-jazeera. the un secretary general has called for an immediate global ceasefire so countries can focus on the fight against the coronavirus and trying to get terrorists as its civilians in conflict zones who are most vulnerable to the pandemic our diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. headquarters in new york. hello welcome to this the u.n. is deeply concerned about the spread of coronavirus in countries already dealing with conflict and that's why at a virtual news conference the secretary general made this call the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war that is why today i am calling for an immediate global cease fire in all corners of the world it is thank to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the to fight of our lives the world health organization is the part of the un that's been leading the global response

it's directed general expressed his alarm at the speed of the spread of new cases the pandemic is accelerating it took 67 days from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases and just 4 days for this that 100000 cases the secretary general we launching a global humanitarian appeal on wednesday he's asking for 2000000000 dollars he's also written to the richest countries on earth the g 20 saying there needs to be more coordination and more help for the developing world later in the week the leaders of those g. 20 nations will be holding an online summit meeting james pays out his era at the

united nations. the authorities in syria have enforced curfews inbound public transport after the war ravaged country confirmed its 1st case of coronavirus syria's health minister says all necessary measures have been taken and the 20 year old woman is in court and seen there have been unconfirmed reports of infections in the country for weeks but the all 40 is have denied any outbreak or coverup humanitarian groups a major outbreak in syria would be particularly catastrophic and zimbabwe has reported the 1st death of a coronavirus patient after confirming its 1st cases this past weekend the government has close schools and banned large gatherings but there are concerns over the country's ability to handle an outbreak zimbabwe's health system has suffered critical shortages of the quinten drugs for years and late last year the un warned the country is on the brink of manmade starvation with some 8000000 people facing food insecurity. south africa's president has announced

a nationwide lockdown for 21 days from thursday the army will be deployed to enforce the restrictions there more than 400 confirmed cases of coronavirus in south africa but no deaths. this is the decisive measure to save the lives of some of the africans from infection and save the lives of hundreds of thousands of our people. while this measure will have a considerable impact on people's livelihoods and the lives of our society and on our economy. the human cost of delaying this action would be far far greater. kenya is edging towards a total lockdown as the number of cases there rises to 15 or all international flights have been suspended from wednesday and pubs restaurants and places of worship pub in order to close kenyans are also being urged to take social

distancing seriously but that's not possible for many as catherine saw reports in the capital nairobi. many of the conversations in nairobi the epicenter of 1000 in kenya are about the disease the government has restricted international travel and closed schools and universities kenyans advice to wash hands regularly stay home if possible and avoid large gatherings. but doing that in makeshift slum housing is nearly impossible areas where millions of people call home many sharing single room shocks a few spaces to isolate or enjoy the luxury of walking from the house most leave on last in $2.00 a day this is one of the most densely populated areas in the city people here are not just worried about the disease and how it may affect them but also how they will survive with no money to feed their families or even enough water to regularly wash their hands. don't wash his clothes for

a living she shares 2 rooms with more than 10 oftens in this sprawling. her biggest concern right now is finding water in normal circumstances she uses 80 liters a day costing around $4.00. some nonprofit organizations are setting up water points but they're not enough. money for street to get government quarter only thrice a week which we have to go in for check for to point they tell us to wash our hands all the time we want to for without water supply what can we do. least in math are recorded the hustle and bustle in the slum for al-jazeera following the introduction of the government house restrictions he tells us disease is rife including the common flu which poses a problem. by doing. even though many people have the flu always coughing it's a common thing and difficult to tell if it's caught on or not these noire here where

we can get tested it's very hard for the response to both because beetles in town used to be self medicate. the government to step up with symptoms and their contacts as well as starting random testing targeted areas but medical experts are urging preparations for mass testing should the disease start spreading quickly we need to have a lot of people to. and on testing that is number one number 2 we also need to expand our testing facilities beyond where we got them out doctors say they hope to minimize the spread of cobbett 19 to areas such as my viral with some of the most vulnerable kenyans leave bad dejan others here want more preventative measures now to keep them safe catherine sorry our jazeera now will be kenya. into 471 confirmed infections but health experts warn

a sharp jump in numbers could be imminent the government's halted all domestic flights from tuesday and put most of its population under lockdown there were desperate scenes of bus stations after rail travel was also suspended elizabeth for autumn has more from new delhi. this is what the indian government wanted to prevent hundreds of people crowding together migrant workers in the state of bihar filled overcrowded buses some even climbed on the roof in a desperate attempt to return to their homes. so you saw this bus and came and sat here and talked the driver must be somewhere but no one was here. ever gave me are . saying that the bus will go but how will we just keep waiting. migrant workers around the country try to catch buses after indian railways cancel train services which carry more than $25000000.00 commuters a day. all interstate buses in metro service is canceled until the end of the month

the ministry of civil aviation announced all domestic flights will be suspended from wednesday promised in that interim order tweeted saying many people a still not taking the lockdown seriously even though most public places were deserted around the country many regional leaders including in the capital territory of delhi said they would take action against anyone who violates the measure is. getting now everyone from to day has to obey the law gone completely the not been started this morning maybe you had to go out for some mississippi work but from to model the government will enforce the law down and will use force to ensure it. also announced financial and humanitarian assistance to those affected in delhi as the indian government introduces more restrictions every day to limit the spread of the

virus many have lost their livelihoods or have been stranded are also hoping to hear how the government will help them beyond telling them to stay at home and as a problem al jazeera new delhi. and bangladesh has tightened its border controls banning all flights except those from china hong kong and thailand the country has 27 cases so far but a number of migrant workers recently returned home and there are fears that number will rise quickly many bangladeshis question their government's ability to handle the crisis time for child reports in the capital dhaka. there are nearly 10000000 bangladeshis working abroad many of those bangladeshis a scramble to dhaka from coby to 19 hit countries and elsewhere have not been subject to come full circle quarantine some are found roaming freely in their community and possibly spreading the virus she helped shark is frustrated it has

been a week now he is still unable to get a cold in 1000 tests done health professionals say they have seen a sudden spike in a typical pneumonia where patients are coming with lung infections. but with life had a fever and serious congestion for months now i've visited several clinics and they told me to come here for a coronavirus test doctors here examined me and gave me a few tests to be done outside but they are the only ones who are supposed to do these tests health experts say poor and limited testing rate may be masking the true number of coronavirus cases the institute of epidemiology does this control and research center is the only place in the entire country of 160000000 people that has facilities to test over 19 virus they have very limited number of kids health professional i'll there's a question in governments readiness to prepare for a looming epidemic on the horizon top government health officials however say that

till now the situation is under control and it has taken necessary measures to combat the deadly virus at the beginning of the any outbreak the these has to be centralized because you need to win every case will be detected you need to follow the case you need to find out that all the contacts contain them keep them in a quote in a supervised so that's why we cannot delegate these to anything i made growing concern over the course of my virus a large number of people are leaving dhaka and traveling to rural areas. but it was the overall situation in the country is bad there's a sense of panic. my family wants me to come home by leaving the crowded city maybe i can protect myself. despite a recent ban on large gatherings a massive corona virus procession with tens of thousands of devoted is installed in bangladesh has sparked an outcry in the country witness day as a country reported its 1st from the global pandemic the bangladesh health ministry

says the pandemic spread to the level of community transmission and will spread quite rapidly though the government in says that it has taken all out preparation there is growing concern here about whether the country with the limited resource can cope with what's to come to invade chaudhry i'll just dhaka bangladesh. global financial markets are continuing to suffer as the coronavirus pandemic worsens the dow jones in new york closed down more than 3 percent after another day of falls across asia and europe no traders were allowed into the new york stock exchange on monday all market trading happened electronically because of the shutdown off new york. and the u.s. senate has failed to agree on a trillion dollar stimulus bill aimed at boosting the economy during the pandemic it's the 2nd time the legislation hasn't passed politicians are under increasing pressure to prevent an economic collapse but they've been divided on what the final package should look like democrats

a republican proposals favor corporations rather than workers. and just before we go to recap our breaking news in the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has just announced a lockdown of the country to be reviewed in 3 weeks time it begins immediately all social events including weddings baptisms and other ceremonies but not funerals are bans and all gatherings of more than 2 people are banned as well all shops selling nonessential goods including clothing and electronics stores and other premises including libraries playgrounds and outdoor gyms and places of worship are closer now and police will have the power to enforce the rules according to the prime minister including through fines and dispersing gatherings people will be allowed to travel to and from work but only if it's necessary we'll have more news coming up in just a few minutes and the al-jazeera news hour for now thanks for watching but i.

we got some right in the forecast for southeast impossible straightaway over the next couple days ago some wet weather may be making its way across south australia that will push over towards victoria and eventually have a run across new south wales as well so if you choose day that's the picture there see some wet weather just coming in much of also looking fine and dry few coastal showers you notice over towards new south wales pushing up towards southern parts of queens that as well just around the gulf coast sunshine coast as well northern parts still seeing some lively showers here as showers set to continue as you go on into the middle part of the week but as that was the weather sweeping across new south wales useful rainfall bumping into the great dividing range in the process but we will see some of that what's the weather making its way over towards sydney as well to the south of that melbourne stays on the cool side temperatures no

higher than around 80 degrees celsius is the sort of temperature you can expect to cross the zealand over the next day or 2 states lots of dry here winds easing off last you try to say we're cross a good part of more than china japan not faring too badly with us and think a clout there into central and southern parts of china this wetter weather will make its way further north which as we go into the middle part of the week some heavy rain in the forecast here the staying fine and dry for hong kong. when diplomacy fails and fear sweeps then our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and it's not effective instead of being an obstacle to tornado wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a 4 part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera.

this is al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from london i'm dead you know brigades are coming up in the next 60 minutes. from the c.v. i must give the british people a very simple instruction you must stay at home. britain's prime minister orders a sweeping 3 weeks lockdown to stop the spread of coronavirus. another 462 people have died in spain taking its debts.