graeme abbott arrived into heathrow after a two—week holiday in sri lanka.ondon. what was the holiday like? all sorts of restrictions were being bought in in sri lanka while you were there. you're right. it was kind of like, you know, leaving home and we didn't realise the extent of what was happening at home and abroad. basically the restrictions were tighter and tighter as the time progressed. how well looked after we re progressed. how well looked after were you , progressed. how well looked after were you, though? how much information where you given? we were pretty lucky i think because we spoke to some long—term residents who had been living there and if the sri lanka government had laid out terms then they would follow through with them. the lockdown on the friday of the 21st at 5pm, that was enforced by the police and army troops, immediately. they did what they said they were going to do, basically. how touch and go was it for you to get a flight? it was fine, we stuck to the original schedule. people we knew that were away, they decided to cut shor

they say it is 0k to travel to sri lanka.there, but it is really getting back that people are worried about. what happens if they are quarantined while they are over there or if they were quarantined when they came back from sri lanka is much we have been giving everyone advised that if you can cancel your flights and hotel rooms and get your money back, then do so. how does it work in terms of refunds? are people getting refunds? if you have gone on and official travel package such as ours, and official travel package such as oui’s, you and official travel package such as ours, you will get a full refund as you are protected, but if you go independently which a lot of our members will have done, it will be down to who you booked with and who you travel with to see if you can get a refund, but sadly the cost don't like it wasn't the government cancelling the event but it was the ecb and trying to cricket, there is refu nd ecb and trying to cricket, there is refund from the hotels and the airlines, which is a real shame from r

the riots broke out as a jail in northern sri lanka over a suspected coronavirus case inmate said the new rods opera prison were angry that patients suspected of having the virus were still being kept at the jails hospital but this comes after sri lanka's government imposed a nationwide 60 hour curfew on friday so far sri lanka has reported $65.00 cases $26.00 of them people who has recently returned from italy or an elephant and this has the latest now from the capital colombo. engine had been building with a suspected case of corona virus within the prison population and there was a lot of concern that this particular image or the or the suspect of the coronavirus patient had not been moved out of sight so things had been bubbling and they reached a head from the riposte hearing during the course of the day today there was a sort of a faceoff between the prison authorities and prisoner reports indicating the prisoners had busted out of some of the cells some of them had sort of got on top of the roof of the prison and there was sort of chaos reigning in the prison obviously the spec

elsewhere, west indies beat sri lanka by 25 runs in the 1st t20 international in kandy.he match after taking 5 for 28 in sri lanka's reply. the home side were bowled out for 171 as west indies won by 25 runs. from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello. 0verall, thursday i think will not be too bad of a day across the majority of the uk. there should be decent sunshine and a few showers here or there. a chilly start though with patchy frost and fog. one major exception is the far south of the uk. we have an area of low pressure ploughing into the continent bringing very heavy rain and that willjust glance southern counties of england through the first half of the day. looking pretty wet as that low works its way to the south. certainly i think from the latter part of the rush hour into the lunch time period across the southeastern quadrant of the uk. the rain could get as far north as essex. it should gradually clear come the afternoon. in contrast, look how quiet it is elsewhere. a chilly wind following on behind that area of rainfall and some showers g

sri lanka.t is all still to come. ♪ for the first time in three months, there have been no airstrikes in syria's idlib province. a cease-fire used to be holding for now. there have been reports of fighting in southern parts of the province. many syrians believe the fragile truce may not last for long. >> how am i supposed to believe there's a truce if i'm listening to the sound of jets and bombing? there's no real truce. >> i'm not at all hopeful. i'm not expecting anything from it. agreement, wehe don't feel at all reassured. it won't hold because there have been many agreements that the regime hasn't respected. russia saykey and they will establish a security corridor on the highway that cuts across rebel strongholds. there are doubts about how far they can cooperate in syria. reporter: the rebels were hoping that with the backing of turkey they would be able to regain those areas. that didn't happen. this explains their frustration over the terms of the agreement. turkey said in general this

this is the edge of the sinharaja, sri lanka's last primary rainforest. and snakes all thrive here. it is so important ecologically that there are plans to quadruple it in size. the only way to explore it is by foot. ridma used to hike and swim in the forest as a child. it is so dense. yes. only a tiny bit of sunlight coming through. he now runs tours of the jungle around the island. it is slippery. the sinharaja forest covers more than 8,000 hectares, but you don't need to walk very far to spot some wildlife. see? that's the green tree snake under the leaves. almost the same colour as the leaves. yes. it is tiny. it is. so if this snake bites me, what happens? it is quite painful. stay away! his expert eyes soon spotted another baby snake on our path. what is the name of this snake? it is the eye—catcher snake, because they used to... 0n the tree at your eye level, and this... see? he really tried to go for you then. he doesn't have venom, but he has teeth. they will bite you until some blood comes out. oh, my god, wow. you weren'tjoking, were you, when

can put a few fires in the draw and say we'll come back to you these are children all schools in sri lankaare no closed as it braces for a rise in coronavirus numbers there are usually around 3000 students coming to this school every day but fears of the coronavirus has kept them and more than $4000000.00 like them around the country at home. the authorities hope the decision to close schools will help minimize the potential transmission of the virus among children sri lanka's health chief says the sheer number of pupils interacting with each other within school grounds would make it difficult to contain the virus not that much as to how to behave in a situation like this you know can you ask your kid do you know where she hands and he did this and you and i does great so if it's not easy dr jasser his confident pupils will catch up on their studies when they return to school but is schools must engage with them while they're there we begin. a new teachers at the flub brainstorming with parents on how best to use online tools for learning the technology is going to give you. everything is

government supposed a nationwide 60 hour curfew on friday so far sri lanka has reported $65.00 cases $26.00 of them in people who had returned from italy and an alfa mantis has the latest from the capital colombo. tensions had been building with a suspected case of corona virus within the prison population and there was a lot of concern that this particular inmate or the or the suspect of the coronavirus patient had not been moved off site so things had been bubbling and they reached a head from the reports we're hearing during the course of the day today there was a sort of a faceoff between the prison authorities and prisoners reports indicating that prisoners had busted out of some of the cells some of them had sort of got on top of the roof of the prison and there was sort of chaos reigning in the prisons obviously the special task force being called in according to some reports that we heard and they obviously had been some shooting that had taken place obviously to bring the situation under control and within all of the meal a we're hearing that one prisoner was killed and up t

england's cricketers, meanwhile, are being sent home from sri lanka.ys the well—being of players and support teams is paramount in what it calls completely unprecedented times. but at horse racing's cheltenham festival today, life continued. the horses arrived on gold cup day and everything that goes with them, including tens of thousands of spectators. i was pretty shocked that this was going ahead, being a big event forfour days, but i suppose we are all glad that it was not cancelled. any concerns about coming? absolutely none at all, we are in the open air and as long as people take precautions, which we will do, obviously, it should be fine. looking ahead, what of the olympics and paralympics? tokyo presented a video of its mascots happily touring the world and japan's 0lympic minister insists there is no intention of cancelling or even postponing the summer games. well, one thing we have learned today is how quickly everything can change. joe wilson, bbc news. our sports news reporter laura scott, is here. laura, what could go next? literally com

and 400 tons of freshly caught fish is said to be thrown away in sri lanka because of coronavirus the of. us senators due to vote in the coming hours on a 2 trillion dollars package to fight coronavirus the monies for helping frontline medical workers and keeping the world's biggest economy afloat the vote comes after republican senators flagged what they call drafting issues which had to be amended before the bill can ask macca my kind of has more from washington. so we have to go back we have to go back the stimulus bill remains stalled in the senate president trump spent much of the daily coronavirus briefing extolling its many virtues it's going to be in the form alone so the money's going to come back he doubled down on his insistence that the shutdown could be ended soon in many parts of the country and angrily claimed that some of his opponents were using the crisis to harm his election chances later this year i think there are certain people that would like it not to open so quickly i think there are certain people who would like it to do financially poorly because they think

shelters to keep their distance they've been advised to self isolate for 14 days several villages in sri lanka have been sealed off after confirmation of the 1st death from covert 19 members of the military and police have been patrolling the streets of at all goma that's just outside the capital colombo where dozens had been in contact with the symptomatic patient sri lanka has arrested fisons for violating the nationwide curfew. the coronavirus pandemic has hit global airlines particularly hard with several seeking government bailouts but qatar airways group c.e.o. akbar barker believes the airline industry will bounce back. that has been difficult but we are persevering we have our passengers that are all over the place where we have to take them safely back home we have received a lot of requests from embassies and governments around the world to help citizens to be taken back to their homes and to their loved ones and qatar airways is just serving the the world community if airports around the world start closing down and airspace are being blocked it is of course natural that got there i

england's cricketers, meanwhile, are being sent home from sri lanka.ng body says the well—being of players and support teams is paramount in what it calls com pletely paramount in what it calls completely unprecedented times. but at horse racing's cheltenham festival today, life continued. the horses arrived on gold update and everything that goes with them, including tens of thousands of spectators. i was pretty shocked that this was going ahead, being a big event forfour days, that this was going ahead, being a big event for four days, but that this was going ahead, being a big event forfour days, but i suppose we are all glad that it was not cancelled. any concerns about coming? absolutely none at all, we are in the open air and as long as people take precautions, which we will do, obviously, it should be fine. looking ahead, what of the olympics and paralympics? tokyo presented a video of its mascots happily touring the world and japan's olympic minister insists there is no intention of cancelling or even postponing the sum of‘s games. well, one th

of riots is broken eyes as a jail in northern sri lanka over suspected coronavirus cases and mates were angry patients suspected of having the virus from being kept at jails hospital and i'll finance us reports now from colombo. tension had been building with a suspected case of corona virus within the prison population and there was a lot of concern that this particular inmate all the or the suspect of the coronavirus patient had not been moved out of sight so things had been bubbling and they reached a head from the reports we're hearing during the course of the day today there was a sort of a faceoff between the prison authorities and prisoner reports indicating the prisoners had busted out of some of the cells some of them had sort of got on top of the roof of the prison and there was sort of chaos reigning in the prison and obviously the special talk was being called in according to some reports that we heard and they obviously had been some shooting that had taken place obviously to bring the situation under control and within all of the meal a we're hearing that one prisoner was

and sri lanka's stepping up efforts to tackle a disease that has infected tens of thousands but is not coronavirus. to begin with the corona virus outbreak that spread to more than $100.00 countries now across 6 continents italy remains the worst affected country outside asia with a nationwide lockdown in effect south korea is also hard hit more than $200.00 new cases are reported there many of them at a call center in the capital the crisis in china though seems to be easing with fewer new cases and deaths being reported there the government is allowing some companies to reopen in wu han the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s. the number of infections has increased with more than a 1000 confirmed cases the national guard has been sent to a new york city suburb where a cluster of cases was found and a british government health minister has been infected she's 19 doris she's put herself into quarantine she attended an event hosted by the prime minister boris johnson just last week. al jazeera as lawrence lee joins us live from london so lawrence 19 doris if you'll significant yes extr

meanwhile, england's test series against sri lanka has been postponed.ff will return to the uk as soon as possible following the decision which the ecb said has been taken in "unprecedented times". the two—test series was due to begin next thursday. i think it's important to stress that none of the players are ill at all. in fact, they seem to have got through this last two weeks in sri lanka very easily. it is just more of the issue of spectators coming over and there are 2,000 of those who will come. just the thought of anybody in either of the team hotels going down with coronavirus would have meant everybody in that hotel probably having to be quarantined. the chance of that, i suspect, was pretty high. that is why this tour has been postponed. and the players championship in florida has been cancelled after one round — the remainder of the tournament was due to continue today without fans but a decision has been made to postpone the tournament completely. organisers say it was "the right thing to do" in order to safeguard against the spread of the v

and supports the west indies finally get a breakthrough on their cricket tour to sri lanka and they will have that a little bit later stadiums. and their planes and wintry weather on the way across into the same time the storm system will work its way into western areas of honshu quite a stream of cloud as you can see and of course the cold air is where we're going to see the snow so to. say with this very unpleasant make some pretty strong winds as well it will be pushing across into western areas of honshu mostly care across the korean peninsula and also. much of china some showers across into taiwan but really that rain across the central is becoming more widespread as we go through friday pushing further to the south and the east and like down as far as hong kong 21 to degrees celsius but it does caraway that when she system away from by friday and also clearing skies generally throughout much of japan now the rains mean very heavy across into java no change there very heavy downpours not cheap out then across into some of the men a peninsula say want to scottish as friday it is a dr

england's cricketers, meanwhile, are being sent home from sri lanka. the well—being of players and support teams is paramount in what it calls completely unprecedented times. but at horse racing's cheltenham festival today, life continued. the horses arrived on gold cup day and everything that goes with them, including tens of thousands of spectators. i was pretty shocked that this was going ahead, being a big event forfour days, but i suppose we are all glad that it was not cancelled. any concerns about coming? absolutely none at all, we are in the open air and as long as people take precautions, which we will do, obviously, it should be fine. looking ahead, what of the olympics and paralympics? tokyo presented a video of its mascots happily touring the world and japan's olympic minister insists there is no intention of cancelling or even postponing the summer games. well, one thing we have learned today is how quickly everything can change. joe wilson, bbc news. figures released in the last few minutes say 798 people have now tested positive for the

preparing packs for home schooling sri lanka's plan to keep students busy walk classes are out and in other news joe biden is closer to winning the us democratic party's presidential nomination after crushing victories over brady sat. thank you very much for joining us the trump administration is promising up to a trillion dollars to help the u.s. economy whether the coronavirus pandemic the proposal includes giving money to individual citizens investors responded positively to the announcement with the us talk markets bouncing back somewhat from their worst one day law since 1907 the number of u.s. cases of the virus has risen to nearly 6000 and the death toll has reached 100 a white house correspondent kimberly hocket has more. 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

control as the number of cases surpasses 302 prisoners have been killed as police stormed a jail in sri lanka where a riot broke out prisoners came out of their cells in the city of on a right of porridge to protest the handling of a suspected crime a virus case they said infected and mate was still being kept in the prisons hospital because government imposed a nationwide 60 hour curfew starting from friday those are the headlines will be back in about 30 minutes time with much more. maintaining our mental health during a global pandemic there are worrying signs of growing anxiety as people around the world adjust to a new way of living so how can we deal with this and what are the long term effects this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm a homage enjoy him our world is experiencing an extraordinary health emergency hundreds of millions of people have been told to stay home and limit their contact with others the coronavirus pandemic has killed nearly 11000 people and cases continue to rise and the situation is creating panic and anxiety for.

can put a few files in the drawer and say we'll come back to you these are children all schools in sri lanka and no closed as it braces for a rise in coronavirus numbers there are usually around 3000 students coming to this school every day but fears of the corona virus has kept them and more than 4000000 like them around the country at home the authorities hope the decision to close schools will help minimize the potential transmission of the virus among children. sure look as his chief says the sheer number of pupils interacting with each other within school grounds would make it difficult to contain the virus not that much as to how to behave in a situation like this you know can you ask your kid to you know wash your hands and . send you an ad does it right so if it's not easy dr johnson his confident pupils will catch up on their studies when they return to school but says schools must engage with them while they're the way you. know the teachers at liberty flub brainstorming with parents on how best to use online tools for learning the technologies of connectivity is available everythi

thought about suddenly a race to the ground to prisoners had been killed as police stormed a jail in sri lanka where a riot broke out prisoners came out of their cells in the same poor to protest against the handling of a suspected crime a virus case they said infected and mate was still being kept in the prisons hospital because government imposed a nationwide 60 hour curfew starting propriety and the actual numbers have been rising in south africa a country whose health system is already struggling people worry the pandemic will overwhelm an entirely new miller reports on johanna's. doctors detected the 1st case of covert 1000 in south africa earlier this month over the past 2 weeks more than 150 people have been treated for the virus as the government tries to contain the outbreak many are worried 28 year old stepson quater is one of the $7000000.00 south africans with hiv he says with an already compromised immune system his priority is to keep safe it feels like it's another. reload of a sort there actually lead in louisville written something that is good a lot of fear and words people l

know iraq has broken out of a prison in northern sri lanka and mates at the jail in the city of port are angry that those suspected of carrying the virus are still being kept in the prisons hospital sri lanka's government imposed a nationwide 60 hour curfew starting from friday that have so far in 65 cases 26 of them had returned from italy well let's speak to me now from london who's in the capital of colombo she's joining us on skype mel give us an educational thought happened and is there anywhere the patients could go. basically robe what happened was him but this isn't a the north central part of the country in honor of the proto had been sort of having issues over the last couple of days tension had been building with a suspected case of corona virus within the prison population and there was a lot of concern that this particular image of the all the suspect is the kind of out of station had not been moved out of sight so things had been bubbling and then reached ahead from the reports we're hearing during the course of the day today there was a sort of a faceoff between the pr

of the west indies be sri lanka in their teeth when the series opener lendl simmons was a key man for the tour is having an unbeaten 67 as of when he's finished on 196 for 4 in replied the rare would do some damage with the bat for sri lanka hooking the ball into his home crowd their hope left them when andre russell ended pereira's on 66 the hosts all out 25 runs short. and they are through to the women's t 20 world cup final for the 1st time they got there in unusual circumstances their semifinal in sydney against england was washed out it is women go through after qualifying for the semi's is group winners england will runners up in their pool and are now out. ok and that is all your sport for now come all back tomorrow thank you more support from far in the 3rd you know 100 g.m.t. news are also you for that part is up next with your latest news. when the news breaks the word awful was altered with the aims of getting weapons going to presentation and economic development when people who need to be heard the top leadership world where of the potential for verity of the virus weeks

all right here's a look now at some of the latest developments in the coronavirus pandemic in sri lanka police have arrested thousands of people for violating a country why the curfew imposed as part of stringent measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus zimbabwe has announced a 3 week total lockdown that will start on monday the world health organization says norway and spain will be the 1st countries to begin testing drugs to fight cope with 19 health officials are testing for medicines that are considered to offer the most promise in combating the new disease to the u.s. now and president donald trump invoked the defense production act on friday after weeks of police by state governors and health care providers to do so now the act calls an automaker general motors to begin manufacturing life saving ventilators which are still in short supply also signed a 2 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package into law after it passed with strong bipartisan support all of that as the u.s. for recorded the highest number of confirmed cases in the world now surpassing 100000. the u.s. na

in schools the west indies cricket team a hits form in sri lanka the reigning world champion of have secured a t 20 series 3. we start with the corona virus outbreak in the number of cases worldwide is now believed to have reached 100000 italy has the highest number of deaths outside of china and the continuing spread of the virus across the globe is beginning to test diplomatic relations japan and south korea are engaged in a tit for tat battle over travel restrictions which is angered the world health organization the european union held an emergency meeting to agree solidarity among its 27 nations off to france germany and other countries blocks exports of protective equipment and concerns over a worldwide recession continue to weigh on financial markets stocks are falling and emergency interest rate cuts have been in force in the united states canada and australia journal now brings us the latest. the global infection total since the start of the corona virus outbreak has by some counts passed the 100000 mark while there are positive signs in the slowing rate of infections in chi

while england's cricketers won't shake hands on their tour to sri lanka. to affect the premier league? jurgen klopp thinks it won't. how much sense it would make two delete all the results of this season delete all the results of this season and tell me who plays next year would be really interesting. it's a nice story but but when i saw it first time i thought wow, somebody thinks something like that so. somebody thinks something like that so. liverpool fans are not silly enough to believe these things. meanwhile, doubt has been cast over whether the six nations would continue this weekend. after ireland against italy was postponed, officials decided earlier today that the other two matches this weekend, england against wales and scotland v france, will go ahead as planned. our sports correspondent, alex capstick was in paris where world rugby held their meeting. here at the headquarters, the team have been practising ahead of their game against scotland over the weekend in edinburgh where they hope to reserve their unbeaten record in this year's tourname

and there's a look now at some of the very latest coronavirus developments and sri lanka has banned public gatherings and declared monday a public holiday to help efforts to fight the virus the vatican says all the services will take place without worshipers in attendance francis is holding sunday blessings via t.v. . and the internet american airlines is cutting 3 quarters of international flights through ny and grounding nearly all of its wide body jets and the trial of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been postponed by 3 months due to concerns about the coronavirus you're watching news from perlin coming up next the film looks at the future of europe through the eyes of some young visionaries i'll be back at the top of the hour and i forget the web site is there for all the latest at the dot com for now though i'm anthony how'd thanks for joining us. to go beyond the obvious. we're all about the stories that matter to. the country that will do whatever it takes. people are running now. 15 trillion. d.w. made from a.

says that germany will not loosen restrictions on public life before april 20th at the earliest in sri lanka police have arrested thousands of people for violating a country wine curfew meant to contain the spread of the virus and the world health organization says norway and spain will be the 1st countries to begin testing drugs to fight $1000.00 health officials are testing for medicines that are considered to offer the most promise and calm adding the new disease. well spain is the 2nd worst hit country in the world on friday it saw its highest one day rise in virus fatalities with more than 770 people dying overall more than 60000 people have been confirmed to have covered 19 that's and nearly 15 percent of those are health care workers. a burial in hazmat suits. one of thousands of victims of the corona virus outbreak in spain. hospital staff in madrid don't need to see the statistics to know spain does not yet have a handle on the epidemic. it has been a deadly week for the country 2nd and daily fatalities only to italy. a shortage of equipment and medical staff has left doctors and nu

england's cricketers are being sent home from sri lanka.sh cricket's governing bodies is the well being of players and support teams is paramount in what it calls com pletely teams is paramount in what it calls completely unprecedented times. looking ahead, what of the olympics and paralympics? tokyo presented a video of its mascots happily touring the world, japan's unlimited minister announced there was no intention of cancelling or postponing the summer games. well, one thing we learned today is how quickly everything can change. joe wilson, bbc news. as we heard there, these are unprecedented times. more questions than answers at this stage winsport will resume. —— winsport will resume. there are more questions than answers at this stage about when sport will resume. in terms of the premier league its supposed to be april the 11th but that could easily change. liverpool are desperately close to sealing their first league title in 30 years, they could have won it next week but that's no longer the case. tonight managerjurgen klopp has re

england's test series against sri lanka has been postponed. players are ill at all. in fact, they seem to have got through this last two weeks in sri la nka through this last two weeks in sri lanka very easily. it is just more of the issue of spectators coming over and there are 2000 of those who will come. just the thought of anybody in either of the team hotel is going down with coronavirus would have meant everybody in that hotel probably having to be quarantined. the chance of that, i suspect, was pretty high. that is why this tour has been postponed. the australian grand prix has been called off following pressure from teams and drivers. the decision to cancel the race was made in the early hours of this morning after a mclaren team member tested positive for the coronavirus in melbourne. the move throws into doubt the rest of the f1 season, with the bahrain grand prix due to take place next weekend without spectators. the players championship in florida has been cancelled after one round — the remainder of the tournament was due to conti

and zak crawley scored 91 as england drew their opening warm up match ahead of the test series in sri lankaalso weighed in with a half century. he hit 77. the first test starts next thursday in galle. the road to tokyo 2020 for britain's boxers begins this weekend with the olympic qualifying tournament at the copper box arena in london. ba ntamweight prospect peter mcg rail from liverpool says all those hoping to get to tokyo have been briefed about coronavirus. bell obviously it's everywhere. but all we need to do is just not let it affect us, just focus on our performance. it's not that it's not there, we are told to take precautions and wash our hands a lot. instead of shaking hands, we've been told to give a little one of them. but we can't let it affect us too much, because if you start thinking it, the limericks might not happen. the way i look at it as, it's still going on, it is still happening, we have to make sure we are 100% ready. next, rugby league continues to go global. first toronto wolfpack joined super league, now a new canadian side ottawa aces say they want to follow in

control as the number of cases surpasses 302 prisoners have been killed as police stormed a jail in sri lanka where a riot broke out prisoners came out of their cells in the city of on a road accord to protest the handling of a suspected virus case as an infected and may was still being kept in the prisons hospital because government imposed a nationwide 60 hour curfew starting from friday those are the headlines will be back in about 30 minutes time with much more. how much is the coronavirus on the stock market thing in the race to the white house. to find someone to secure the democratic nomination i believe we can be down the trunk. lid with developments in the u.s. election campaign on al jazeera. but i would get if it get out of the guy when i think i'm. going to hit something at that point that is because. i said you don't and you monger. he missed it. but i suppose that i see bad now about. that and this must about time stamp it's not to about them because it's about was coming to my them to just listen and not watching in fact the what of. the night suggested just. down the street bu

sri lanka and philippines are shutting their exchanges. would that do anything for us?e is a mounting case for a national and for theobal quarantine next several weeks. include the closure of financial markets. i think that might be the best eradicate this virus in a aggressive way. for thishe worst case psychology of the public around the world, certainly the worst case for the markets, is for this to drag on like it is now they after day for an extended period of time. so i am increasingly convinced that those kinds of dramatic, radical actions are justified, at least that serious policy proposal. alix: thank you for your perspective. most people would say we will never do it, so it is good to get that deeper insight. if governments were to start cutting checks to people, does that help any of this sort of demand/supply shock and keep the engine moving? or are we way past that point. if the government moves down that path, at the end of the day, how quickly can we get the money out? in some previous episodes, it took a couple of months. i fear that may be too long in

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sri lanka wrapped up a 3 mil one day international whitewash over the wasting days on sunday and can be betting for this person $307.00 although it's in there for fear of his that's true . he was the top scorer with 55 former captain angela matthews then took 4 wickets as the windies came agonizingly close to win by 6 rounds. now to one of the wildest winter sports you've possibly never heard of ski jory which means ski driving in norwegian was once a popular mode of travel in scandinavia it's now gaining popularity in north america where they've given it a new adrenaline fueled twist al-jazeera as david has more. it's billed as one of the fastest sports on snow with horses pulling skiers and snowboarders around the course at speeds of up to 65 kilometers per hour ski jorian started in scandinavia combining cross-country skiing and dog sledding but here in western canada home to cowboys and trick skiers it's all about the horse power and getting big air it's just about. having a good horse but you can ride into battle skeeter canada started in 2017 since then competitions have drawn

the presidents of s sri lanka a the maldives said they were worried about a drop in tourism, a main industry for both countries. >>> in south korea, the outbreak is becoming the major political issue, one month away from a general election. the country has been one of the hardest hit outside mainland china with more than 8,000 cases and 75 deaths. hkds has more from seoul. >> reporter: there's a growing sense of frustration over how the current administration is handling the outbreak. and many candidates are eager to show voters they're serious about curbing the spread. there are 300 seats up for grabs in the national assembly next month. one of the major battlefields is seoul's district. it's seen a bellwether for voting trends, and this time two former prime ministers are facing off in the district. in some of their social media posts, they're seen spraying sanitizer on the streets. the coronavirus is also changing the way candidates campaign. the streets are quiet ever since the government called for a social distancing. traditional methods like hand shakes and handing out business cards

sure that bangladesh sri lanka pakistan are just going to look after her what if one of those countries annex as us should we fight them no they wouldn't do that why not. because we'll be independent controlling our own country and they can't do anything about that. once and still these youth on the brink of militarism want to be heard. police also meet with the parents of young people. tough luck on a district police chief in south kashmir has organized a community outreach program today he's talking to a group of fathers worried about their children's arrest due to her life i don't know whether power baez has ties to the radicals but we arrested him. more names already are going to show us the motivation will stay in jail any other names. yes it is far short enough do you know him to ice us. in the same sure soften so i'll tell you straight out live you from the prophet muhammad said parents of the shepherds of their children you have to teach them right from wrong until they're adults. going to the market and go. to a symbol is welcome but if i ask them yours father what his son did

malaysia, sri lanka andarhe philippine among nations imposing strictorder controls.e is jonathan in bangkok. jonathan: the first cases wer reported on january 13 in thailand but the numbers crept up very slowly. in some countries like myanmar and indonesia and laos, they just wo't do any testing. there was spear they were -- there were cases therebe that we nog recorded. hearing tan, -- here in thailand, the numbers have crept . people are beginning to think warmeras weather the reason the virus was not spreading here as quickly as it has done in europe andd the uniates, but the numbers are creeping up fast. anchor: to africa where 30 countries have reported cases. south africa has nearly 120 cases. the government has introduced a travel bannd school closures that come into effect today. governments throughout africa are being told to prepare for the worst. >> in a poor township on the edge of johannesburg, arising since of vulnerability today. >> if the vus comes here, what do you think will happen? >> this is a world of shared toilets comef water delivered by the b

house 400 tons of fish a falling victim to the coronavirus in sri lanka. and we'll tell you why the naris but gamo is pointing to a champions league football match as a possible place the coronavirus spread rapidly through his community. that's coming up with peace and. when diplomacy fields and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division and its will to sixty's instead of being an obstacle to tell wastes it 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. a christian priest if you are a friend of the palestinians is it true. for everyone and champion of the palestinian cause. and activist who is willing to sacrifice his freedom. for his beliefs. al-jazeera world tells the extraordinary story of the archbishop and the piano. you're. hello again i'm a strong reminder about top stories this hour spain has reported 655 coronavirus