We begin with the latest on the corona Virus Outbreak which is forcing people around the world to drastically change the way they live travel restrictions are being tightened millions of students are off school and the economy is feeling the pinch all those developments in a moment the 1st take a look at this global picture a covered 19 as the virus is officially known as being tracked by Johns Hopkins university in the u. S. This here is a dashboard that they have put together now if you look over to this side here in the red you can see the total number of confirmed cases as i mentioned that has now surpassed 100000 you can also see there ranking the confirmed cases by country and region at the top there by far Mainland China followed by thought korea iran and then others below that now if we take over the look of this side we have the total number of deaths that now stands at 3411. 00 now in a very important number which we should also be. Paying attention to is over there in the green thats the total number of people who have recovered from the corona virus now standing at 55753 and this information is aggregate its coming from places like the World Health Organization from twitter from media reports and also from Health Officials so this information is all coming together to this dashboard it does not of course include people who had mild cases who never went and sought medical attention and therefore were never verified as having coronavirus therefore that number there the total number of recovered could theoretically be much higher lets bring in joe home now and who is live for us in london where more than 160 cases have been confirmed in the u. K. Joe whats the latest. Yes the outbreak in the u. K. Is certainly growing a possible 2nd fatality the result of corona virus has been reported during the course of the day on friday 163 cases here as you said across the European Union other big countries also seeing the rapid spread of the virus francis seed 200 cases new cases in just the last 24 hours germany a similar sort of number italy remains the epicenter in europe 148 fatalities so far the latest number new cases reported in vatican city and serbia so a great deal of anxiety spreading across the European Union affecting not just in europe of course but worldwide the Airline Business this is the other big bit of news to bring you the already Beleaguered Airline industry facing losses as a result of cancel bookings and cancelled flights travel restrictions around the world is thought to a cumulatively lose about one 100000000000. 00 worth of their bottom lines all of those Airline Companies as a result of this virus one of them lost tons or has made a big announcement the german carrier saying it will cut 50 percent up to 50 percent of all its routes across all areas to try and stem some of those losses there was an airline a Regional Airline called fly be here in the u. K. That collapsed on thursday one imagines that tons is not going to be alone in this move thank you for that john holl there live from london. Well the us president has signed a bill providing 8000000000. 00 in emergency funding for corona virus and has more than 200. 00 cases in 13 states and at least 12 americans have died as the coast guard has delivered testing kits to a cruise ship more off the coast of San Francisco dozens of people have been sick on the ship. We do have a situation where we have this massive ship with 5000 people who we have to look at this is you know its a big decision because we have very low numbers compared to. Major countries throughout the world the numbers are lower than just about anybody because weve been very strong in the borders but when you have a ship with a lot of americans on it its got 5000 people hundreds of messages and you know who want to come in so we have to make a decision were working with the governor of california. Mike hanna is live for us in washington d. C. So mike President Trump there saying that he would be working with the governor to deal with whats happening on the ship whats the latest well that has been established that the test kits have been delivered to that cruise ship all the passengers aboard it some 4000 of them and crew are being test at this particular point they will remain at sea and told the tests are completed thats likely to take 24 hours but this is just a tiny example of how slow effectively the administration has bee in its response the shortage of test kits it took some 24 hours to get test kits to that crew to be able to test the passengers and crew abroad and this is the one point of criticism of the trumpet ministration how slow the rollout has been for testing kits in a bid to combat the song going virus and mike as weve been reporting money has been set asides to target the coronavirus will that announcement and lay some of the fares about the preparedness of the american system to deal with corona virus. Well Congress Certainly dealt relatively rapidly with this crisis a bipartisan bill being passed within 48 hours more than 8000000000. 30 of this will go to attempts to find a vaccine for the virus another. 2000000000 will go to the federal agencies who are directly in the front line in dealing with the virus certainly it will go away to allaying public fears certainly a demonstration that something is being done finally by this administration having been put into place by congress and this bipartisan bill in new york city for example they are very public attempts going on to combat the virus each one of the new york citys subway cars and buses is being disinfected every 3 days this is an ongoing process and an attempt to reassure the public that attempts are being made by the administration and by authorities to deal with the song going virus but the problem still is the lack of testing kits the trumpet ministration has indicated that tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of people can be tested in coming days the reality is that that number at most is in the thousands and this is a major point of concern for both the public and those attempting to lead the fight against the virus thank you for that mike had across developments in the u. S. Oil prices plunged by more than 8 percent on friday is the worlds biggest producers fail to agree on how to deal with the impact of the coronavirus solved break opec has been pushing for production cuts in an effort to stabilize prices but russia reportedly refused to support the move the development came as major stock markets in asia europe and north america all recorded losses on friday in the u. S. Sectors that cater to any public activity like cinemas airlines and hotels have lost billions of dollars and value as stockholders flee to safer ground lets bring in economist patrick peregrine he specializes in asian markets and he joins us live from london thank you for coming on the program 1st off pleasure as we mentioned there are sectors that cater to any sort of public activity we talked about cinemas Airlines Hotels have all been affected by the coronavirus does this virus then raise the risk of a global recession. Oh i think were already in one if you look at europe and japan there for a lot of growth in the last quarter of last year was effectively in recession is this whats happening now pretty much guarantees it china obviously is going to have contracted enormously in the 1st quarter hong kongs in a recession and the flip side is if you look at the u. K. And the u. S. Actually the data has been stronger look at todays employment numbers which were very very strong the problem is the course they were from february and we just dont you hear that well all these things like united to cutting domestic flights by 10 percent at least what you saying earlier on about lift answer and clearly there will be layoffs and unemployment will start to tick up and theres another point as well i think its really important to make is that countries that have been at the forefront of this and obviously thats mainly asia weve already seen quite aggressive actions on the part of the governments not only in the way they treat the coronavirus the scale of the testing i mean look at listening talking about the u. S. And their efforts quite frankly laughable career by yesterday and done over 144000 tests and its and its and it shouldnt be a case of just testing people because theyve got a cough and cold actually what you need to be doing is going testing lots of people because people dont show symptomatic symptoms and they can be Walking Around infecting others who are who are more like who could suffer more and the u. S. Is announced 8000000000. 00 well hong kong and outs 15000000000. 00 singapore about 5 the chinese have basically if you look at all their different measures together including loans its bordering on a half a trillion dollars so the efforts in the u. S. Are really perfectly honestly quite disgraceful and if theres one other thing as well that japan and the princess cruise ship tortoise is you dont want to keep people on and on a ship as well its like a petri dish and they need to be getting those people off of the u. S. Administration really is quite honestly just absolutely boggled by the by their performance so far so just coming back to to the recession issue you believe were already in a global recession i mean weve had some analysts are saying you know this could be as bad or worse then they got the financial crisis in 2008 what do you think. I think i mean no i dont think so i dont its going to be quite like that because i mean when i was listening to the governments chief medical advisor this morning on the news in the u. K. His general thoughts are not take it from someone like him rather than donald trump was that the the the cases would like peak in the next 3 to 5 weeks and then similarly as were seeing in china and elsewhere which other countries which got the disease 1st then it sort of tiles off and hopefully were also seeing generally that in warmer climates there are let you know most of the people who seem to be getting it will time as have been victims of come from travel and maybe Little Pockets so i mean the basic approach is that we get through this and then we can actually see a reason why the strong recovery i mean i think the impact on peoples concern on Consumer Confidence is going to say take some time because youre going to think twice about going on a cruise youre going to think for twice about staying in a hotel i mean my phrase this year is that 2020 is going to be the year of the staycation. The year of the staycation year you cry rob weve been talking about that here and that what china is recovery i mean and how china has dealt with this could chinas recovery the way that its contained the virus in the way that its economy is responding be a blueprint for others or or is it just too different. Well i think china is not really the blueprint i think taiwan and singapore are china obviously made a lot of errors early in the early on in when it came to dealing with the virus was far too slow and ended up having to do these draconian actions and we have to be honest about it so while we were all watching measures of activity in china even newsagent domestic News Agencies like cant see in the peoples daily or global times reporting yesterday that sort of only 45 percent of s m e s were back in business and even then they were back fully functioning and even Large Companies like Auto Companies that sort of 84 percent of large plants outside of restricted zones were back then only had about 66 percent of their workers so its coming back very slowly this is not going to be an instant rebound is this sort of this is going to last at least 1st in china for the next couple of months at the very least before things really can start to get back to normal and then obviously that will feed through to the rest of the world but of course the rest the world is several weeks if not months behind china thank you for your analysis there thats economist patrick peregrine and a tense calm is largely holding in syrias if there province after a cease fire came into effect president tried to time that of air pollution agreed to the deal during 6 hours of talks in moscow on thursday but there have been reports of sporadic fighting in southern parts of the province between Syrian Government forces and opposition groups. Isnt hard time right now turkeys Syrian Border he says it remains to be seen whether the cease fire will halt its. The rebels were hoping that. With the backing of turkey they would be able to regain those areas hold Madison Norman more work and the strategic city of set up that didnt happen in this explains their frustration over the terms of the agreement signed between turkey and russia but took it says in general this is this was a good agreement because it will protect the borders it will protect the turkish Army Operating in the it will pave the way for the resettlement of the hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced since the start of the Syrian Government offensive in december and it will also pave the way for more cooperation with the joint patrols between the russians and the turks in the in 2 weeks from now on both sides of the highway in 4 but then we have to wait and see to what to what level can the turks and the russians bring their cooperation as far as live is concerned that would be indicative of whether this is fire will continue to hold or will collapse the 2 parties have signed is if the bass of those deals collapse when the syrian army decided it was about time to move forward to retake the strategic city of because it is the rebels last major stronghold in syria. Greek port a god to forge with Syrian Refugees trying to cross from turkey past week on going to open the border to pressure the e. U. Into helping with the conflict in syria authorities from both sides have used tear gas and water cannon that you can name is that a makeshift migrant camp site in turning on turkeys portal increase she describes the situation there. Were at the a during a bus station its one of the places where refugees and migrants have been congregating as they try to determine what to do next you can see people have managed to set up tents there burrowed in blankets trying to stay warm there are camp fires here its been a week since turkey opened its borders and its been a tough week for the people weve been speaking to they have said theyve been cold hungry weve spoken to many people who managed to make it across the border into greece only to be deported back to turkey and they have shared stories of cruelty people such as the man were about to tell you about says that the greek police have mistreated them we spoke to an iranian amputee who says when he crossed over the border into greece the greek Police Fired Warning Shots into the air he was a unable to run his friends did police found him he says they beat him severely and threaten to confiscate his prosthetic leg now the turkish government has deployed 1000. 00 members of its special Police Forces to the river region border with greece the turkish government says this is an attempt to prevent the greek government from pushing back migrants into turkey and turkey says its also a way to try to minimize what it describes as the poor treatment of Vulnerable People here and a possible violation of International Law still ahead on aljazeera we meet the specialist iraqi police force hunting down the remaining i saw members and well tell you why the job has become even more difficult. Jailed for a for saying i suspect a genocide spannaus government has caused more international outrage. Hello and welcome back seems weve had a wind blowing down through the gulf region for the best part of 2 weeks without we see a change taking place now the wind direction is changing round so were getting a warmer suddenly when developing so temperatures and should be a lovely 26 degrees on saturday with just a light breeze elsewhere weve got some fine conditions down through the red sea but the wind i think will increase during the course of the stuff they threw into sunday we further north towards iraq weve got a circulation of low pressure could give a fair bit of lifted dust at times on the threat of some showers which will extend across into iran also moving through into sunday those showers largely die away and that circulation of low pressure should relax so things are improving generally pretty hot and you notice at 37 degrees the northern and central parts of africa quite disturbed temperatures looking pretty disappointed just 17 degrees for tripoli and fairly strong winds still expected as we head down into southern portions of africa weve got this circulation of low pressure just off the coast of madagascar so some heavy showers are likely here and those will gradually increase so for antananarivo to well see some heavy downpours developing during the course of the day but across into south africa its looking dry and fine a bright day and here expecting a high of 29. For. Informed opinion economy is actually what you think problem right now and indepth analysis of the days headlines the protest movement is only getting stronger the more people who feel the more resilient the resistance inside story on aljazeera. On counting the cost while the most is he said great just isnt good enough to save the Global Economy from the impact of the fast spreading coronavirus scientists race to find a vaccine to stop the epidemic plus the environmental damage of drilling for oil. Well in the republic of paul johnson the cost. Got you know there are a minder of our top stories this hour coronavirus cases around the world have topped 100000. 00 as the illness spreads to more countries more than half of those infected have made a full recovery. Oil prices plunged by more than 80 percent as the worlds biggest producers failed to agree on how to deal with the impact of the coronavirus alberich opec has been pushing for production cuts but russia reportedly refused to support. A tense calm as well she called the good serious if the province offer a cease fire came into effect was brokered by russia and turkey the days of fighting that nearly pushed the countries toward direct confrontation. An attack at a ceremony in kabul has a 30 people dead the head of the countrys Peace Council was giving a speech when shots were fired chief executive of dollar bill that was their body escaped on her its the 1st major attack since the taliban signed a deal with the u. S. To reduce violence. Theres been an explosion outside the u. S. Embassy in tunis is capitol trueness 2 suicide bombers attacked a patrol in the street outside the embassy killing one person several others were injured including at least 5 security employees to see as ministry of interior has put Security Forces on high alert. Zambian president go along who has confirmed that more than 50 people have been killed in violence since december journalist apollo meant he blames some Community Leaders for inciting the killings the unrest follows a series of attacks in which gangs used poisonous gas to target their victims leaving the unconscious last month the army was deployed after protests across the country demanding justice. Is the business killings of innocent. Of the 2 and then. Well be ready with this list reactions from citizens for these killings. For me to miller is in johannesburg she reports many believe the attacks are connected to ritual killings. It really is a strange event that has really caused the police to be concerned in that it seems as if they are gangs going around parts of zambia and these attacks have spread using a poisonous gas or some sort of chemical gas which police havent identified but using that gas in Public Places in the homes to cause people to lose consciousness become dizzy and while police havent established a clear motive speculation in zambia is that these attacks appear to be connected to what people are saying a ritual killings where the reason these gangs are attacking these public spaces and attacking people is because they want to mobilize them perhaps to attack them for their body parts for ritual killings now the police have said they are investigating the army is also being deployed to certain areas in zambia to ensure that theyre kept safe and there arent any further attacks but whats happened is that people they have taken matters into their own hands and have been a number of a violent mob just as attacks against people suspected to be responsible for these chemical gas attacks dozens of muslim who had been clearing some children have been charged with not having identity documents theyre among many who have tried to flee conflict torn Rakhine State funds lloyd has more from a town a young. In the 1st 2 months of this year alone more than 200. 00 have been arrested for not having identification documents and for traveling illegally now and 70 of those cases will be heard in they grew on the outskirts of yang gone told were brought to court on friday and yet my government does not consider the rohingya as citizens even though many of them have lived in this country for generations and they face increasing government restrictions and keep claiming like ok bacon trouble freely theres no restriction are all but in reality in the government produces the real meat and is extremely restricted rights advocates say its on likely any of the rango will be acquitted and they could face the sentence of up to 2 years in prison for the. Force of so thats why we escaped the were hanged mainly Muslim Minority who live in rakhine and it was in the northern parts of the state where the Myanmar Military launched a brutal crackdown in 2017 driving nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 into bangladesh the un has accused it of carrying out the campaign with genocidal intent the myanmar government denies and says it was a do the job summit response to attacks carried out by working that might. Now the situation that is even worse off of fighting between the Myanmar Military and the our economy intensified starting with january of last year they are not on the new very common group who say theyre fighting for more autonomy on behalf of the rakhine and not the ethnic minority mainly buddhists who make up the majority in Rakhine State the rohingya who already live under apartheid like conditions without access to Public Health Care Education being caught in the crossfire and many are desperate to escape rights workers fear that many will turn to human traffickers now over the years there have been many attempts by group. By boat on dangerous journeyed in cramped vessels boats and capsized people have drowned somehow taken over land routes through thailand and into malaysia they have been instances where they were kept in jungle camps along the border until their friends or relatives could pay a ransom many died of disease and starvation now even when they managed to escape myanmar rights to say many are at risk of exploitation some sold into the sex trade or as indentured labels for the writing got there is no easy choice they can choose to stay and face persecution or the threat of more violence or they can try to escape but risking their lives. The recent crisis between washington and tehran could have a long term impact on neighboring iraq and the effort to root out remaining eisel feiss simona faltering went to nineveh province thats where she met swat team members have been searching for us all fighters in the south of mosul. Early morning in mosul these swat team members get a final briefing before they set out to look for eisel fighters. We accompany of the Specialist Police unit as it heads into the countryside in iraqs northern maine of a province. Forced out of mosul in 2017 by iraqi troops of support from the u. S. Led coalition and the Iraqi Government announced its territorial defeat shortly after but thousands of fighters have retreated into rural areas where Security Forces are spread thin and wear heels like these offer plenty of opportunities to hide. We got information that there is a cave that is being used by iceland members as a shelter to carry out attacks on nearby villages. We are only hundreds of meters away from the target but the vehicle struggle in this difficult terrain and so colonel rounds men are forced to advance on foot but as they approach the cave they are surprised to find the entrance blocked off probably the result of a recent airstrike. Well the unit needs a surveillance and supports from the air until recently that was provided by the american Led Coalition in iraq but since tensions between the us and iran escalated earlier this year those activities have largely come to a halt. For 2 months the operations with the coalition have stopped as far as are team is concerned in the past we had training logistics and air support but since the beginning of 2020 that support has started and we are waiting for orders in the interior ministry to resume cooperation. That corporation is now part of a broader dispute over the future of American Military presence in iraq in response to an American Strike near Baghdad Airport that killed iranian general qassam silly money and a senior iraqi officer iraqs Prime Minister and parliament have asked foreign troops to leave the negotiations are ongoing but for now u. S. Officials say they only received a few requests for airstrikes and have reduced their movements outside of their bases before you know our our our mission here was you know just in accomplishing what weve seen during this operation pause in the kompany go away. But the iraqis didnt stop they kept moving they kept rolling and they deployed their forces the field continued to fight the momentum against isis and thats thats the best thing that could have come out of all of this but some iraqis fighting isis resurgence see things differently coalition Officials Say theres been a lack of demand for their assistance because iraqi Security Forces have picked up the slack conducting missions like these on their own but theres little doubt that the absence of steady involvement is being felt on the ground several iraqi officers told us that they need american support if theyre to fight eisel effectively and both civilians and security Officials Say the fighters have taken advantage of us iran tensions to regroup and. We will see in the 2nd part of this report see one awful teen aljazeera in iraqs name of a province. This is all just there and these are the top stories coronavirus cases around the world have topped 100000 well markets are down 7 percent and the Airline Industry is forecasting big losses john hall has more from london a great deal of anxiety spreading across the European Union affecting not just in europe of course but worldwide the Airline Business this is the other big bit of news to bring you the already Beleaguered Airline industry facing losses as a result of council bookings and cancelled flights travel restrictions around the world is thought to cumulatively lose about 100000000000. 00 worth of their bottom lines all of those Airline Companies. A tense calm is largely holding and syrias if there province after a cease fire came into effect president s red chip type one and that im a person agreed to the deal turned 6 alls of talks in moscow on thursday the have been reports of sporadic fighting in southern parts of the province between Syrian Government forces and opposition groups. Greek Border Guards have fought with Syrian Refugees trying to cross from turkey last week conquered are open to the border to pressure the e. U. Into helping with the conflict in syria in the past week thousands of people have gathered there since are going to said it would no longer stop them from crossing into the e. U. An attack at a ceremony in kabul has that. Chief executive of the abdullah was there but he escaped unhurt eisel has claimed responsibility. Theres been an explosion outside the u. S. Embassy in tunis he has capital sureness 2 suicide bombers attacked a patrol in the street outside the embassy killing one person several others were injured including at least 5 security employees to misuse ministry of interior has put Security Forces on high alert zambian president has confirmed that more than 50 people have been killed in violence since december during an address to follow meant to blame some Community Leaders for inciting the killings the rest follows a series of attacks in which gangs used poisonous gas to target their victims leaving them unconscious last month the army was deployed after protests across the country demanding justice with those are the headlines youre up to date the news continues here on aljazeera after inside story so stay with us. Investigating war crimes in afghanistan the i. C. C. Has now cleared the way for an inquiry into the allegations and the u. S. Is angry so justice to be done in this war torn country and the politics at play this is inside story. Welcome to the program. The International Criminal court has authorized an investigation into possible war crimes committed in afghanistan an appeal by the i. C. C. As chief prosecutor to open sudha was approved after being rejected last year hes a sions of atrocities committed by u. S. Soldiers the taliban and Afghan Forces will now be investigated the torture prisoners said
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