slavering routes starts march 9th d w. i am. this is d.w. news live from berlin italy locks down one quarter of its population in a drastic move to try to contain its coronavirus outbreak prime minister just epic ontario to 16000000 people in northern italy into part untainted imposing travel restrictions in the country's wealthiest and most populous rage and also coming out

girls and young women fighting for equality in a deeply male dominated society we visit a club in pakistan that's using sports to help women break traditional roles to keep them out of sight. and dortmund jumped to 2nd place in the bundesliga after winning the battle of the brasil old faces and out doing things last back as they slid to 6. i'm rebecca ritter's welcome to the program the italian government has put about one quarter of its population under quarantine in a bid to stop a rapidly expanding outbreak of the coronavirus prime minister signed a decree after midnight the lockdown affects the region of long body and other northern provinces including venice and italy's financial capital it's the most.

rustic measure yet taken in a european country to try to contain the virus and follows the example set by china's initial response to the outbreak. the news of the imminent lockdown sets off a rush to beat the clock in milan and in other northern cities affected by the quarantine people raced to train stations trying to get out before it's too late. but because i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent decree putting in the red zone and because i'd like to return down south to my relatives i decided to go earlier. number d. is italy's most populous region with 10000000 inhabitants its capital milan is italy's financial heart it attracts professionals and students from around the world and from all parts of italy this is where the corona virus has hit the hardest leaving hospitals unable to cope with a growing number of cases italian authorities say they could not wait any longer

and had to take a drastic measures to curb the outbreak part of the. body and for the other northern regions that i have listed. there will be a ban for everybody to move in or out of these territories and also within the same territory. the exceptions will be allowed only for proven professional needs special cases and for health issues. as the regions affected prepare to implement the decree norden italians get ready to see their lifestyle change drastically at least for a few weeks those who do not respect the measures could face jail terms and fines across the country businesses are growing more and more concerned the virus is already taking a toll on italy's economy easter one of the peak times for terrorists is about

a month away and reports are that as many as 90 percent of visitors have cancelled their trips. of more on the story we're joined by correspondent philip whelan and ryan phillippe why is it telling government taken such drastic measures. well the numbers of people affected by the corona virus have been a growing inexorably and there's a new spike on saturday so there's been a sense that measures in place up until now have not be. really effective and i think there's also a very strong concern that if the disease moves search strongly out of the north which is wealthy and well organized and has a very good health that system to the south which is much less well organized and where the else service is very patchy at times the yet problem could really

slip out of control in a major way so i think that that's a key consideration to try and confine the disease in the north where it has been concentrated so far why has why is it only been so badly affected with so many more cases than in other places in europe. where i think there are a number of reasons for this there's been a high number of deaths more than 200 at this point because italy has the 2nd oldest population in the world after japan i think also where italy began testing early and tested very widely and so found a large number of cases which possibly have existed in other countries but her be detected and then of course it lists country that lives from tourism and so it has a lot of exchanges with the rest of the world and a lot of exchanges with her china yet on that tourism thing what about terrorists

that are still in the country. it's not. absolutely clear what how this decree affects. i think the assumption will be that they will be allowed to leave the government just said that there will be exceptions to the ban on travel if people have 1st serious work or family reasons for leaving the area and i imagine that tourists wanting to return her to another country would qualify as something of a serious reason and good reason for wanting to leave we're actually looking at live pictures now of rome at tahrir not rhyme milan central station absolutely dead nobody they what's the mood amongst italians that i support these measures. i think here i think people are. very worried naturally about the situation and the

government has been very open in communicating and saying as every day it's been a sort of relentless tally of new cases and new deaths so people are a very worried and i think people throughout the country. instinctively following the government's guidelines are to stay at terminal. unnecessary contact with other people and that's i think people are doing that almost automatically because they you have fear it it is great and it is growing i think everyone believes that the strongest possible measures needed at this point in time and they fill up when i'm in ron thanks very much they have to. let's turn now to some of the other stories making headlines around the world at least 6 people have died in the collapse of

a hotel used for quarantining coronavirus patients in the chinese city of gong show more than 20 are still missing he said emergency services have rescued about half of the 70 papal who were trapped inside the building. more than 100 migrants were rescued in the mediterranean sea on saturday as they attempted to cross from morocco to spain spanish rescue services found 2 boats adrift to malaga in southern spain carrying 100 migrants including 29 women and 2 children form a brazilian football star rono right now dana has been ordered into pretrial detention in paraguay i after a judge deemed him a flight risk and his brother were arrested on friday for allegedly entering the country with falsified documents. over a sea of dortmund where the big winners in the bundesliga on sunday when the fans behaved up to a point cargan from asphalt if they for more mock tell us what happened well it

was really hard for when 4 of bruce's dortmund skips them from win the title race they really love playing love the 3rd time that played them this season the 3rd when this was a different kind of win this was the one they had to go which is quite typical of bruce's dortmund either the 10th either win big or struggle so this was one that maybe they said ok the funds are b.b.c. and this was shown as we've shown the strength of character here to stay in the title race and we did also with the goals of earl and broke holland who's been on fire since he came in in the transfer window so that's another good sign that they can function without him and also for glod. their title hopes so let's take a look at how hard fought victory played. the german football association received the wrath of that supporters after a recent round of the found behavior but others were focused on not catching the coronavirus the match officials included. the game quickly caught everyone's

attention though after just 8 minutes dortmund sign told him has out from black backlash here precisely because you can do things like this one nil to the visitors a muted celebration against his own side. a big goal for this big top fall back full. book host got back hit back early in the 2nd half cut in the last standalone hands a bumbling equaliser i don't mean striker erling holland is a better go getter than don't stop or. don't mind brought on jameson show and his past such a passion for kimi to make it to one of. the moroccan is on loan from mighty real madrid but he won't have seen many better passes than that. kimi still have lots to do mind. finish. even some snow was then involved in a big bust up even dormant coach to see him suffer as he gets involved service

coach of black but the last time they were in this picture back in 2015. books it was his current employers dortmund wrecking a potential straight league win over the foals who now sleep out of the champions league places. dormand are up to 2nd and celebrated with their fans football has reclaimed the spotlight in the bond as league. along as it has had their dog and now 2nd because of a slip up from leipzig yeah that was an incident type game we just saw the likes a game against. a very drab no no really are struggling with 30 move their top scorer he was on the bench and yesterday through injury only for the last half hour and they really struggle and i think expedia. this is something that's maybe a little bit lacking for leipsic as a club for a young club with a young manager so that's maybe something that's going to come into play in the title race where they're still of the show and so it could be 5 points by the end of the day but they're still in the show still have some skin in the game

a bind play later today how do you see that battle playing out well it's the bavarian darby but it's really a darby in name only this is this is by the mighty byron hosting with a win in 4 and if that would be some shock a folk sport monies to win away their final be looking to win this they're really all minutes a very slick machine as usual and they're doing it with a even top scorer robert levin he's been injured soon as he's injured they go to hoffenheim win 6 no so this is a well oiled machine as a c. and if he be a sport today it'll be 4 points clear of dortmund 5 clear of leipzig and you'd be if you took beats off the bat against them then a after the temple initial bit i cannot corrigan thanks very much to you. to mark international women's day we're highlighting inspiring stories about women from across the world the next report takes us to pakistan where women and girls are expected to hit and hit a strict on a code conservative groups that believe women should be kept

a veiled and in their harm spot younger generations are challenging these attitudes and creating space for girls to thrive. a brave act in an ultra conservative society here in the neighborhood of kharaj females aren't supposed to do such things going out in public is considered taboo cycling brings mobility and independence to women and girls and is often met with hostility. when we started to learn to cycle we face lots of problems we had to listen to ugly comments people even threw stones a toss but gradually we've become more confident and moved forward now people consider us cyclists and it's become more normal there are still some people out there who create trouble for us we just ignore them meet us in told them so boss that there are lots of problems as some people are religious extremists and illiterate so they aren't aware that girls should do sports as they have the same

rights as men they don't know what female empowerment is. but. the girl cycling group is part of the girls cafe a space that offers training and support to women of all ages. yadi men your mother is not argument is good especially for girls because there are many who can't afford education they can't go far away from their homes to be educated so they come here and learn fighting for equality women and girls in pakistan are carving out space for themselves in a society designed to keep them invisible. this reminder of our top story basically has awarded one quarter of its population into lockdown in an attempt to contain its rapidly expanding outbreak of coronavirus the current pain of sex much of northern italy and includes the city of milan cinemas diseases and museums

nationwide are closed. they're watching daytime news from the wind up next doc film leonora about a father's fight to save his daughter from the islamic studies i'll have be back at the top of the hour with more news headlines and don't forget you can always think up today on our website that state ahmadi dot com i'm rebecca resistant and thanks very much for watching. to see in the. marvel comics started in $1013.00 on they created a vast empire of superheroes with human weaknesses. have had their share of closures in the moving story good morning stars.

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