hello there i'm hala magazine and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up california declares a state of emergency over the coronavirus congress steps up efforts to tackle the outbreak. and former new york mayor mike bloomberg endorses joe biden's white house bid after withdrawing from the presidential race. that the leaders of russia and turkey are expected to meet in the coming hour as the 2 countries have recently come close to direct confrontation in northern syria as italy province turkey is trying to push back syrian government forces who supported spy russia when moscow has accused ankara violating a 20 deal to create a demilitarized zone and help in port it calls terrorist groups well inside it live witnesses have told al-jazeera that russian air strikes have killed at least 15 people and farms sheltering displaced civilians many more are injured will shortly will speeches that fasten who's outside the kremlin in more schooled. 1st let's go to the turkey syria border where we have seen them course you allude there soon the turkish military have sustained casualties civ

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we meet the fraternity spokesman that stein and hala. what i want is for peoples and populations to preserve their relative homogeneity their traditions. how is that different from nazi racial theory. well racial theory is based on something very different ethnicity doesn't mean everyone is blonde everyone has beautiful straight teeth or a particular shape of skull people is made up of a variety of qualities that have evolved organically over the centuries and i'm asking about this tradition of racial theory because it also involved this fear of intermingling. well as i've explained it's all screwed up kinship and identity along with language and religious confession and are some of the things that define a nation. and of course kinship in identity include some things that have nothing to do with racial theory but just with forms of expression with human forms form as a this is like what. well take a look around this. it's pretty easy for me to see that you're a german or european. of one so it's pretty clear that certain physical charac

the task of meaning we haven't really touched the core of what it means to be a human being well dr halas it's been a great pleasure great privilege for me to talk to you thank you very much for your time i'm pleased to be with you and thank you and thank you for watching see you again next sunday and while the party. so. today's. story. is here. to be reached. the biggest stories of the week here on our team nations worldwide close borders and businesses and livelihoods suffer because the credit pirates is a fish need to. stop the oil prices took a major hammering to severe travel restrictions when more widely imposed we take a look at the ramifications. and looking ahead the democratic party's 2 hopefuls power head to head splash and sunday night's debate with joe biden on the front foot stop to be team funny saunders.

prison doesn't mean that our rights and our citizenship stopped at the gate that i say everything right hala let me check with sam sam had that same. road. that you think i could be a public information officer went to. giving prisoners the opportunity to report their own stories isn't just a means of earning ravening the complex truths of prison life it provides a rehabilitation catharsis for some journalism as a way of life behind bars at the end of the day i guess. i would say i'm a storyteller and i look forward to telling stories and i will say you know i may live in prison but i'm no longer a criminal. it gave me an ability to think of myself outside of the box of just a prison that. i could put out through this medium of a product that could change the face of how people are viewed in prison or even how we view ourselves in prison. when you've been deprived. of talking for years on end and someone says i was a man i'm going to tell your story there is where the magic we've got the might never. and finally remember all of those headlines about saudi arabia's crown prince mohammed bin p

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also has been suffering from a dire economic situation of course while these are going inside syria hala there is a delegation from the united states here right now they are meeting with the turkish officials. and local governors building the turkish officials are giving our briefing the u.s. delegation about the latest military conditions inside the about the problems health conditions and the dire situation that the i.d.p.'s have been facing since the syrian government forces have intensified their attacks towards the civilians beginning from last december and they will be crossing by us very soon and they will be meeting with some n.g.o.s mainly the white house are presented to us which is the main rescue organization inside along with some representatives of the local government of. ok simcoe c.e.o. who live for us on the turkey syria border thank you very much for that update. well greece has denied turkey's allegations that its border forces fired on refugees and migrants calling it deliberate misinformation that greece has increased its border security after turkey declared with n

the task of meaning we haven't really touched the core of what it means to be a human being well dr halas it's been a great pleasure great privilege for me to talk to you thank you very much for your time i'm pleased to be with you and thank you and thank you for watching see you again next sunday on a while to party. but . he's gonna demystified so political space if you weren't clear before like these folks are no better than us so you know i you know you can reach out to friends say you know take responsibility maybe run for office at the end of the day you know i don't see how we roll out a system where these people get away with you know misrepresenting us why not step up and do it yourself. the biggest stories of the week here on are to international nations worldwide closed borders and to businesses and livelihoods suffer as the coronavirus is officially declared a pandemic. stocks and oil prices take a major hammering as severe travel restrictions are more widely imposed we look at the ramifications. and russia and turkey carry out their 1st joint patrols along a highway in syria

the task of meaning we haven't really touched the core of what it means to be a human being well dr halas it's been a great pleasure great privilege for me to talk to you thank you very much for your time i'm pleased to be with you and thank you and thank you for watching see you again next sunday and while the party. but. he's got a demystified to hold political space if you weren't clear before like these folks are no better than us so you know i you know you can reach out to friends say you know take responsibility maybe run for office at the end of the day you know i don't see how we move a lot of system where these people get away with you know misrepresenting us why not step up and do it yourself. so. to unleash the full power of the federal government of this effort today i am officially declaring a national emergency the u.s. has stepped up its response to the spread of the corona virus following countries across europe and asia. trump administration also seeks to restrict medical imports from china which could cause the prices in the u.s. it to surge. and a base posting at u.s. a

still ahead on al jazeera afraid to attend hala we talked to him to refugees stuck in camps in bangladesh 3 heads for a minute to crack down. how they stole jorge has spread his wings the sense to still here just west of scotland but as you can see the crowd goes old right now for the baltics takes him back through the heart of europe he's going to change the weather throughout europe as a natural for power from. seeing more snow and strong winds the british isles and a lot of snow too something passes sweden and finland and no way is going to juice rain nazarite france spain and portugal and look at this development here at the croatian coast to slovenia that is like significant rain so it's all moved around a bit is atmosphere is not quite as it was it's still not cold window into mars a temperature as extreme as they were on the high side this for example the suddenly breeze of the sudden slopes wet snow late in the season not necessary particular use of the ski is for a lot of snow the same lots of right come to come to italy flooding comes to mind where the rain is gone through spain

wants unconditional talks hala i don't want to go off. r.p. so they could have a good report for the student council i want to go entire piece to make sustainable peace for yemen and if the truth is would sign degrees sign like what they did in sweden and come back and not implement we should actually hold them accountable for implementing silva don't let your people go on dying them because you won't sit down and know that is not your setting clinician ask around are not going to be met and you're ignoring the advice of these are not innovations we're just we're just saying they have to implement what this site is that it's really hard to ask we cannot just go on by them signing our course and not implementing anything we you know what we did back in 2014 we had a piece the just a few days after the coup 2 days after the call it was the partnership and peace agreement you know what they agreed to be agreed to partnerships but the security measures they never talked about it why aren't you talking about that i mean it is there you want me to i

other than i'm hala my history and this is al jazeera my from doha also coming up the leaders of turkey and russia are to meets in moscow as fighting in northwest syria threatens to drag them into direct conflict a month's worth of rain falls in a day in parts of brazil killing more than 20 people many more are still missing. and former new york mayor mike bloomberg and orses joe biden's white house bit after withdrawing from the presidential race. my. the us state of california has declared an emergency to deal with an outbreak of the coronavirus there's been a rise in cases there arms the 1st fatality and elderly man dies after recently returning from a trip or a cruise ship the grand princess is now being docs near a california schools with thousands of people still on board she returns a reports on how authorities in california are trying to determine if other passengers are infected. this cruise ship appears to be a potentially another major vector for the coronavirus to spread this man who was elderly had underlying health problems which is what we often see in people who die from

made is in kabul for us now hala the ink is hardly dry on this agreement and already the afghan president is throwing a spanner in the works how is this going to play out. well it's good we're going to have to see how it's going to play out but i think the u.s. at this point is not very pleased with me just last night after the signature of the agreement in doha u.s. envoy zalmay khalilzad had said that he was going to come to kabul do sweet to sort of festival day to. put in place this prisoner swap and also to. help the afghans in their political bickering that's ongoing and has really brought this country to a halt but then i shoveled early this morning quite early actually. by 9 o'clock. a couple of times came out and said well hold on disagreement is between the u.s. and the taliban or we have nothing to do with this we did not agree to a prisoner swap and those detainees are in afghan jails not in american jails so he said that actually they cannot discount or be a prerequisite for the interim afghan talks but actually has to be part of the issues that would be negotiated in does in

announced it is banning foreign arrivals to block any more important cases the support from divvy it up hala. not long ago most of the world had shouted stores on china but now it's china that's closing its borders to those from outside it's the latest in a series of measures to prevent a 2nd outbreak in the country where the current a virus 1st surfaced last year with nearly no locally transmitted cases this week china is loosening its restrictions on movement and says the threat is now from overseas on friday the united states surpassed china as the country with the most current of virus cases prompting a phone call between the 2 world leaders. the u.s. president had initially labeled it a chinese virus but he described his 1st interaction ping since the outbreak began 3 months ago as very good as the rest of the world battles with wising cases in an unusual g. 20 teleconference the chinese president called for leaders from the major economies to work together. now is a crucial moment a time for us to rise up to challenge and act were switching us i'm convinced that through solidarity i me

that's right hala i mean for instance india now has 29 these are new cases it's very worrying it's a sect world's 2nd most populous nation behind china and the doesn't have to go back to your question of why it doesn't have the same kind of governments that can impose directives and measures and enforce them immediately like china can and that's basically why china is men managed to contain it spread of the virus and if you look at japan that's had its biggest jump in a day it now has 36 meanwhile south korea it's the 2nd most infected or stricken coronavirus stricken country behind china that also had a large number of cases on wednesday that was 438 and as of today as of right now just from today a burn 134 new cases now that is very worrying because while china has managed to maintain and lower the rate of its infections it seems other countries are now struggling to contain their rate of infections now the ones in south korea originated from china comes from most of the cases are in a city called daegu from a religious group that had traveled to one in the early days of the wars

hala is in trouble -- louisiana is also in trouble. cases are up 30%. deaths spiked 40% yesterday.al medical equipment is still running low. joining us now is mitch landrieu. and dr. michelle don head of medical center in new york. i want to start with you, doctor. we hear different sorts of things about whether things are stabilizing, whether hospital workers are able to get the protective gear they need. what's happening at your hospital? what are you seeing? >> still seeing an escalation in cases every day. every day, we're seeing more and more patients presenting to the hospital and more and more patients presenting to the intensive care unit. in terms of ppe, the hospital has worked very, very hard to get ppe to protect the health care workers. we're no different than any other institution in the united states right now. there is a dire need for them. right now, there is enough for my clinicians, my nurses. but the fear is always there about what happens next week or the week after as the number of case increase at an exponential pace. >> dr. gong, i hear you're having multipl

. >> >> reporter: i'm hala gorani in london and between two primary schools in the north part of thed today is the last full day of classes. starting monday only the kids of essential workers like doctors and nurses will be able to attend classes. that being said, pubs, bars, stores are still very much open unlike other countries. this is happening against the back drop of a stretched national health service calling on up to 65,000 retired doctors and nurses to volunteer to come back to work to fight what the nhs is calling the greatest global health threat in its history. >> i'm fred pleitgen in berlin where angel merkel is considering whether they need tougher measures to deal with the outbreak of the coronavirus. there are many in the german government who believe the current measures for social distancing are simply falling short as cases of coronavirus here in germany continue to skyrocket with thousands of new infections every day. and come sunday angel merkel might put this country on a complete lockdown. >>> i'm in shanghai. chinese health officials are reporting a second day

and a half weeks ago said that he thought this coronavirus may just disappear quote like a miracle hala. i will hardly aside from the briefing from president trump does also have a briefing from the pensacola and the us about all army corps engineers working with the city governments are just tools more of. that's right this is a pretty dramatic ramping up of the military response to coronavirus in the u.s. with the army corps of engineer announcing that by the end of today it will be working with 18 state governments to increase hospital bed space and the medical response to this pandemic now not only is the military ramping up its response but also private industry there are reports that cruise liners have offered to use their crew ships docked at american ports to be floating quarantine units or hospital of what hospitals have warranted and also private industry manufacturers have now been allowed to sell industry grade respirator masks to hospital workers if needed which frees up potentially millions more of those masks in the face of shortages that we've seen across the country you

yes really in many ways it has become the global epicenter hala because it's the number of cases here is higher than in any other single country so the situation is spotty it's a huge country some states have very few cases others like new york california washington have many more cases there are emerging epicenters terrible situation going on in new orleans louisiana where public health officials think many people may have been infected during mardi gras celebrations several weeks ago also in florida and we're seeing other hotspots in other cities around the country there is certainly a lack of equipment ventilator equipment is the key president trump says that he's going to be ramping up the production of ventilators immediately. boasted that he forced general motors to start making them right away but health experts say these are complex pieces of equipment that need parts imported from about 15 countries around the world so it's not as simple as just starting to make a generator excuse me a ventilator from scratch so there are widespread shortages we had nurses in new york city to

deaths have been recorded there in the past day bringing the overall toll to 631 al-jazeera as jonah hala has our report. european union leaders are grappling with the fact that one of their own italy is under nationwide restrictions to slow the spread of coronavirus. and usually they're having to figure out what needs to be done at a distance from one another via video link the days of e.u. council summits bustling with politicians and press in brussels are over for now visit if you want to overcome this challenge we need a more engaged and mobilized europe standing beside the member states and all the players in order to coordinate actions contain and push back the virus. the virus is now present in all 27 member states and they'll be a keen awareness that what's happening in italy may soon happen elsewhere for the next 3 weeks at least 60000000 italians will be encouraged to remain behind closed doors as much as possible with restrictions on travel and group gatherings sure to affect their daily lives few will go to work none will go to school or university all will hope that if they g

things a variety of different policies that we're seeing take place across the region as you mentioned hala some more drastic than others like the case of honduras extending the national curfew we could look to all solved or almost many people see it as a model for how we a pandemic should be handled as one of the 1st countries to announce a nationwide quarantine and then you have a the other extreme to that which is countries like mexico which have taken a more relaxed approach countries like nicaragua which you could still see soccer games being played outdoors the policy there is nothing short of of leaders burying their heads in the sand while you are in mexico city. i mean they have been criticised for their somewhat relaxed that's a change containment measure as anything change there it's only that. that criticism contained continues hollow the president of mexico has been contradictory in his statements when it comes to corona virus and it was only until recently this past friday when mexico's deputy health minister asked people to stay in their homes nationwide calling for of for a

cases of the disparity illness has surged to nearly 6000 and the death toll as reached 100 family hala good has the latest details from the white house. as ordinary americans cope with the economic impacts of coronavirus the white house announced it was pushing congress to make a media cash payments to struggling americans what we've heard from hardworking americans many companies have now shut down whether it's bars or restaurants american state cash now and the president wants to get cash now and i mean now in the next few weeks congress has already put forward a bill to provide sickly as well as food assistance to children and the elderly it still needs to pass the republican controlled senate before us president donald trump can sign it into law. but the new proposed payments which also need to be approved by congress would be part of a package worth more than a trillion dollars. clude help for the airline and other industries hit hard by the slowdown in business this is worse than 911 that for the airline industry we're going big with this invisible enemy we don't want airlines go

this is the whole effort if you listen to jazz up hala will have said in the last days he said we have we need to be in the capacity to resist. we need to engage more with mr. at one. with mr. putin. doesn't mean we will be going back to business as usual. does not mean we will accept the way things are around the maritime zones. wintry gauged and processes with libya they must continue with dialog we need a line of dialog. indifference will not bring anything to the discussions which is. had >> you just mentioned the dialog with mr. putin. obviously another complicated neighbor, president macron, has launched sort of a gamble by trying to establish a new form of dialogue with moscow. it's creating -- stirring a lot of debates both here and obviously in other european capitals. can you explain to us what the president's strategy is and -- >> first it's not a gamble. it's serious. and it's the outcome of an analysis that we have that the status quo is not satisfactory. what's happening in crimea, in many foreign conflicts around in cyberspace. is not satisfactory. it means we need to ha

an indirect concert, and focusgo with the other hala military groups.disclosure is becomingracies by difficult if not impossible. in authentic behavior, for disinformation that we have been talkinget aabout here, tht line has essentially disappeared. lastlythre, to get ahead of this threat, instead of reacting to disperse attacks, we have to get on the offensive to deterale future disinformation meet operations of this nature. our response must be calibrated, to meet these future challengese as other russian and other state actors will continue to have multifaceted operations to continue this. i can go into r quite a few youy details in terms of recommendations, of the but in the interest of time i will stop here. >> ray thank you very much, you have givenis sous laws to chewn here there is so much, we will not have time today to go intocd every detail but we appreciate your constant help on the legislation specifically. both of you are helpful in you say developing it and we appreciate continued briefings, and as you say this is an evolving issue, and