Saudi arabia has reportedly arrested 2 senior members of the royal family the wall street journal says crown Prince Mohammed bin nayef and the kings younger brother prince ahmed been a glass out saudis are being held overnight edged coup attempt alexia brian reports. The saudi crown Prince Mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef is age of the throne and 27. 00 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seen him and his brother detained as well as the saudi kings youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes dead terrorist or more within the family in the form of criticism but that doesnt justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass Security Forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin soma known as has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an end to corruption dr Rights Groups disagreed. Hundreds of activists including womens Rights Campaign allusion ill have to are also in prison. Hes not worried about people trying to make a call he doesnt want any independent voices that dont agree with him and its not worth it ive been ive lived here is a womans of 3 people on the council of royal members in saudi arabia that decides the succession he was one of the 3 who didnt vote for him had been some man to become the crown Prince Mohammed bin solomons most notorious legacy so far is between 18 killing of saudi journalists. In the kingdoms consolation a stent. She was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomons personal entourage his body dismembered and of a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. Who is the most senior thats re and. Actually overseas for many years came back. Ears ago to to kind of try to calm things down. After b. S. Took over and there were some. Kind of turmoil within the royal family prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i see 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death elixir Brian Al Jazeera well much as wary is the director of the Gulf Studies Center at Castle University and he says the arrests reflect a crisis within the saudi royal family. What we see today is actually has a great link to what happened in 2015 since a concern man came to power and then he signed his son the crown prince of we know that for example and been out there as he came back from london in 2018 with the guarantee of the british and european guarantee and he will not be they will not have a new role in politics we know that mohammed bin nayef and really you know house arrest so it it doesnt make sense to speak about actually sort of anything what happened reflects a crisis within the house of saud that number 7 man is not sure about was the legality of the family and that that is takes us to the other where basically if man or he is in a situation to pass to pass away this means he needs people and he doesnt need any. I would say war against him and those are the most important figures in the family so far i think its important to see that 100 percent man and the severe depression since the killing of 2 my heart because basically the United States. You know had the support time he has he lost the credibility is that his little communication with him personally with the americans as he used to have so there is severe pressure on him and also there is severe pressure inside saudi arabia about you know the economy is not moving in a good in the direction that im called project is fading apart you know theres a lot of criticism about the entertainment policy hes basically promoting saudi arabia all of this to do that with him under severe pressure. Now the lebanese government is meeting to decide whether or not to default on 1200000000. 00 worth of debt by monday and lebanon has one of the largest debt burdens in the wilds with 91000000000 dollars thats more than 150 percent of g. D. P. More protests are expected in beirut following months of unrest over the governments handling of the economic crisis well for more on this lets speak to the anahata who joins us live from beirut then id seen what time is ticking down for this deadline and it looks like there just isnt a way to pay. The government in the coming hours will decide whether or not it will pay or default on its what we understand from statements that have been made by ministers sources close to the ministers the government will decide not to pay and this will be the 1st time in 11. 00 and history Uncharted Waters that it just shows how deep the economic and financial crisis is in this country 1200000000. 00 may not seem like a big amount but before the end of the year levanon needs to pay back up to 5000000000. 00 and like i said 1200000000. 00 its not such a big amount but its but at the end of the day lebanon has. Foreign Exchange Reserves and it needs whatever it has in order to import basic supplies wheat fuel medicine that is going to cost 10000000000 dollars this year alone so a shortage of dollars means that the lebanese government doesnt have much of a choice though there are those who are against this move the Banking Association they want the government to pay that debt but guys have a stake in this because they own more than half of the debt and they dont want their capital to be wiped out already there is a liquidity crisis you cant walk into the bank and just withdraw your savings there is a cap on withdrawals so a dire economic and financial situation of the country in the words of the Prime Minister we are facing immense difficulties well then you say immense difficulties talk us through the ramifications of this what happens now for lebanon and for the people of lebanon. Well the government needs billions of dollars International Investors donors they are not going to bail 11 on out this time around they made it very very clear they want the government to be committed to carrying out structural and Economic Reforms reforms like for example turning the Public Sector as you can see there are protests now in the streets they are having to the banks people really are blaming the. Fiscal policies of levon on spying for a for the crisis so International Investors are telling the lebanese government you dont carry out reforms youre not getting any money politicians are reluctant to carry out reforms because it means that they will lose power they will lose control over the states resources which they really have been using to as far as a form of patronage to keep their supporters but at the end of the day the only solution they have is the i. M. F. But the has been the lead government is refusing to go to the i. M. F. To manage the crisis. And then we can hear those protests building behind us and. All of that for us yes and then it can you tell us a little bit more about what youre seeing excuse me sir. Yes weve been seeing protests outside banks people these people are depositors they want they want their money they want their savings but since october since the protest Movement Began banks have imposed caps on the draw was as you can see theyre closing down the shutters because in the past there has been violent incidents people have raided banks vandalized banks the people are angry. And theres a shortage of dollars in the country so theres also a cap on how much dollars you can withdraw and whats worse is that the. Currency the lebanese pound has devalued in recent weeks this lawsuit is 40 percent of its value on the on the black market so the purchasing power of the lebanese the lebanese pound has the claw and. Inflation is on the rise the prices of goods is on the Rise Companies businesses theyre closing and unemployment is on the rise zain a lot of that across that story for us in beirut who are ringing more on that as it happens thank you zain well moving on and governments around the world are introducing new measures to try to limit the spread of the coronavirus now iran has just banned group prayers as it announced 21 more deaths from the virus bringing its total to 145. 00 in south korea the sale of mosques is being restricted to 2 per person once a week and there are more than 6 and a half 1000 cases that thats now the most outside china in italy the number of deaths has risen to 197. 00 after the biggest daily increase in fatalities since the outbreak began the government there has already ordered the closure of schools universities and cinemas and there is concern in a stroller after it was revealed that an a doctor who had the virus then went on to treat 70 patients the doctor had recently been on a trip to the United States and returned with symptoms or patients and clinic staff who came into contact with him and now going into home isolation the doctor from the trick clinic. Consulted approximately 70 patients for 5 days between monday the 2nd of march and friday the 6th of march the go have to start on absolutely flabbergasted the doctor who has experienced flu like symptoms has presented to work correspondent robert pride is in seoul with an update on how the government there is dealing with the outbreak. Weve seen in the past few days a fairly steady increase of between 4 or 500. 00 per day if any think its a slight decrease day on day but were told by officials not to read too much into that they continue to see spikes and could expect to see more spikes as they go through them for doing more testing especially around the daegu city area of the southeast of the country and come across more clusters of cases especially amongst the congregation members of the sheen changi church which is at the center of the outbreak down in the south of the country the other thing that the officials here remind us about is of course that the testing now is almost on the industrial scale i think Something Like more than 170000 individual tests for the corona virus have been carried out here in south korea since this crisis began its not a very enviable reputation but south korea has found itself as pretty much world experts in detecting the corona Virus Testing for it and trying to contain it and you compare how the testing is so extensive here with for example neighboring japan which despite its sophisticated medical services has been criticized for not undergoing so many tests and also of course United States which is faced a lot of criticism for its lack of tests its not surprising that the experts here in south korea are often being referred to are often being asked for guidance from other countries medical services around the world well in china where the outbreak began the infection rate continues to decline but the economic side effects are getting west palin has more from hong kong on just how china is responding. There is a stark related satan that chinas economy is going to take a massive hit now china if provides Raw Materials machinery other tronic items and all kinds of things to the rest of the world. The fact that chinas had to shut down closed down factories people can go to work and industries in general came to holts meant that a lot of product for the rest of the world relies on its chinas part of almost every single Global Supply chain meant that the effects would reverberate around the world for chinas especially bad child the economy was just starting to recover from the u. S. China trade war there was a socalled face one trade deal that had just been anxious and there was seemed to be light at the end of the tunnel nonetheless you had the coronavirus hit analysts had already been talking about a slowdown in chinas economy and now theyre saying that chinas economy will contract it will shrink for the 1st quarter this will the be the 1st time it happens in decades pretty much since 1986 and that was well before chinas economy started opening up and this is a huge concern for the government so the government has been telling people to try and go back to work now since it seems that the containment measures seems to be working chinas new infection rate has come down china wants the Chinese Government has been telling factories to reopen businesses to come back online workers to get back onto their desks their seats in factory lines but here is the other issue many workers cannot go back to their workplaces mainly due to still there are restrictions in place. Well u. S. Vice president mike pence says 21. 00 people on board a cruise ship off San Francisco have now tested positive for the coronavirus the grand princess is being held off shore while its 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew are all tested at least 35 people had reported to the like symptoms on friday test kits were flown to the grand princess after the ship was linked to 2 corona virus cases from an earlier voyage. Well still ahead on aljazeera struggling to paint a Brighter Future by helping refugees and migrants get back on their feet it is getting harder for aid groups working in greece. And we look at the prospects for negotiations between the Afghan Government and taliban with talks due to start within days. Hello this of all the heavy rain in place across central and southern areas of china is also new system on its way towards western and really sort of eastern areas a home share the system is heading in to the west and that is pushing really a towards the east that will see fairly heavy amounts of rain at times but not about 10 tokyo 10 celsius on sunday but this is where the rain is central and eastern areas of china but to the south those challenges have come back up again into hong kong so for the next couple of days expect a high around 27. 00 degrees celsius but the rain becoming very extensive on monday we could well house a low class but in particularly as this rain is falling on some very saturated ground a wet day likely in shanghai and again the system really work its way once again tools Western Areas of japan but the good news in india things have been carrying out quite steadily of the last a day or so that western disturbances created as it does the temperatures on the rise in new delhi 27 celsius and scott a chance for the next couple of days further to the south very well scots really across into carola and also tell not do so much is where you are on the average for this time of year and temperatures have come back up again into the eastern end of the bed but we saw some very heavy amounts of rain is a strong wind so this is gaza has been some flooding in the streets but its a good day on sunday generally as well the winds of so warm sunny and dry and with a high of 24. Once Hosni Mubarak became president so began a story of conflict and isolation on one side a wife and son their sights set on succession on the other the president the crease in the distance from the ship should d people when his beloved grandson. Barak need to step down but then the flames ignited in tunisia exploded in egypt and everything changed episode 2 of the sound on ill just. Hello again im just. A reminder about top stories this hour saudi arabia has reportedly arrested 2 senior members of the royal family the wall street journal says crown Prince Mohammed bin nayef the kings younger brother prince ahmed been otherwise is out south are being held overnight alleged coup attempt. The lebanese government is needed to decide whether to default on 1200000000. 00 worth of debt by monday lebanon has one of the largest debt burdens in the wilds with 91000000000. 00 thats more than 150 percent of g. D. P. South korea has limited the sales of mosques to 2 per person a week and trying to replenish stocks which have been running low 2 years of panic buying over the corona Virus Outbreak the total number of infections that now stands at more than 7000. 00. Now turkeys defense minister says the ceasefire is Holding Around its a province in Northern Syria the agreement brokered by turkey and russia ended as strikes for the 1st time in months but there have been reports of some fighting in the southern parts of the province between Syrian Government forces and a section of the opposition well techies president rush up type 2 on is expected to head to brussels on monday amid a border standoff with the European Union last week he said it would open its border with europe because it could no longer cope with the number of people fleeing conflict in syria greek people greek police have now fied tear gas at migrants and refugees trying to cross tens of thousands have been attempting the journey. Well thousands more have been heading for the greek islands and thats triggered a backlash against a Group Supporting refugees and migrants for more lets be trial correspondent john throughout this whos live for us on the last boss john i understand is a bit of a gathering where you are in for the darity in support of those n. G. O. S. Thats right there are about 3 or 400. 00 people gathered behind me on the Central Square of the island in this port of media leading now and they are here to demonstrate for solidarity towards the refugees to support the work theyve been doing for years the past 5 years since strong flows of refugees started coming through this island and to remind people the rhine the world as they say that not everyone is racist here that there are still there is still a majority that does good works for the refugees and sees them as human beings as you know the open borders policy turkey adopted led to the greek government openly adopting a policy for the 1st time of repulsion of prevention of entry by land and sea borders of the refugees towards greece and that has had a political side effect here its encourage certain far right elements to try and take the law into their own hands theyve been preventing refugees from coming ashore and. People disembarking we saw that a few days ago theyve been trying to block the police and the coast guard from doing their job which is searching rescue and also identification and fingerprinting and so the all sorts of had to drop slightly different methods that keeping the people whove arrived in the last week in a separate area and the ports theyre not taking them to the refugee camp at moria and there is just as a general atmosphere of fear on the island on the part of the volunteer organizations and the refugees themselves heres the story we have filed on that. Rob is in greece after escaping from an abusive husband in iran and religious persecution in her native afghanistan now that she has asylum here right now wants to help other women living on lesbos refugee camp be doing her cause in a car and a police were doing here free but its makes me happy. Because i dont my job i dont think about money just i was i want to help them because i understand the home and shes one of 40 refugees helping other refugees at the hope project many of their donations of goods and labor come from locals but after turkey opened its borders to refugees heading to europe they saw a different reaction anger and intimidation aimed at nongovernmental organizations like theirs this is being a wind up by the government as well as the local authorities everythings the ngos fault. You know come here they take all the money everything couse the refugees are getting 400 a month and think that it is just the constant lies coming out in the press and everything counts and the constant propaganda coming out at the height of the refugee crisis in 2015 lesbos became a symbol of humanitarianism and tolerance more than half of the 1000000 or so Asylum Seekers who arrived in europe from turkey came here and locals and close to them 5 years on however island communities a tired of protecting europe from irregular migration those who live near the refugee camp at moria are upset about the loss of security and property but our people are. The house next door has been burgled 7 times weve lost count even took the roof tiles off to get in on one occasion they took what they could and destroyed everything else. But refugees living in moria are desperate they barely have clothing and food and even less dignity that is what the hope project set out to provide seeing that the state could not now that a cease fire has been agreed in syria there are early signs that turkey may alleviate refugee pressure on europe but it will take time to rebuild trust in this complex community on the front lines of an ongoing crisis. Now one solution that the government has proposed is the construction of a closed camp here on the island which would be far away from Populated Areas but obviously a close camp is a prison and that is highly problematic on humanitarian grounds and no one here can decide on where to put it so that is the terms of the internal politics will see where that goes. On the island of last past for us thank you john. Now there have been nearly 80 attacks in afghanistan since the United States and the taliban signed a peace deal last week despite the continued violence the taliban are due to hold talks with the government in the coming days her i dont need reports on the possible hurdles. Celebrations have been taking place in taliban held areas since an agreement between the us and the taliban was signed in doha nearly a week ago that i was going to miss this is a big achievement for all afghans as the local commander they lost and now we have gained their freedom for civilians caught in the middle and welcome relief. Its been very difficult there were a lot of the taliban fighters were escaping and its civilians who suffered we were the victims not the taliban the message here is that the taliban inflicted the historical defeat of the u. S. But theres another war going on one between afghans at least 80 attacks have been carried out since sunday killing dozens of people mainly members of the afghan Security Forces. The increase in hostilities was triggered by afghanistans president a 70 refusing to release up to 5000 taliban prisoners as guaranteed by the doha agreement the Afghan Government did not take part in that agreement and says this is a matter that should be negotiated during the upcoming interim afghan talks the taliban insist they must be free before the negotiations start they needed it in east to be free to sooner rather than later degree wind has been criticised within the talibans ranks and there are reports of fighters defecting to other groups like isis and. Brutally around the city there are one thing but inside there are differences there are taliban in afghanistan there are taliban leadership from fox and you dont agree there. And prior systems and all through politically there are taliban who are trained and educated in one place and groups who are educated in another area that has a difference. The group feels this now in a position of strength general direction worry says it has also evolved since the day he was attorney general of the taliban government in the 1990 s. The taliban is definitely the winner but before we rule alone that is change the taliban wants to have a government that will include all ethnicities but there are red lines one is the withdrawal of all foreign troops and their advisors the implementation of islamic law is also a red line because we paid a heavy price but whether the country is called Islamic Emirates or not is open to negotiation the government wants the taliban to desire after agreeing on a cease fire that attacks are likely to continue just as they did during negotiations with the us leaving afghans paying the price once again but at the edges even a couple of. 1000 bob way is suffering its west drought in decades many families that are struggling with daily water shortages there is how has this report from far away. In zimbabwe 2nd city the supply of piped water from the city council is unreliable that means they sometimes have to use untreated water these women uses for washing and flushing toilets if they have to drink it they will boil it 1st in some suburbs supplies are often cut off for days at a time when the supply is turned on with lindsay make several trips to the communal tap to stock up she says a neighborhood can sometimes go a whole week without water and she doesnt want to use any thats not clean and safe getting water in the holes doesnt make us feel cold because that water is not here at the lake this person to reach so many people is suffering from stomach so i believe it was something i dont know some of the people they drink that water some they use it for. So it is a big challenge that were living in cold to. Like other parts of Southern Africa zimbabwe is experiencing its worst drought in years city Authorities Say rationing is necessary to cities is implemented. To try and have. Digital that we have straight to receive in our free as your own when it is. Said myriad region where we receive very little ordinary info like this year is really critical we havent received a free falls grateful for it rains. Some dams have stopped operating since the water fell below pumping levels the remaining still functional a critically low the rainy season started late this year and even then has been erratic a new dam is being built about 100 kilometers from way Authorities Say it will draw water directly from this and busy river but is still a long way from being completed part of the problem is a source of foreign currency and have always worsening economic crisis zimbabwe is already grappling with shortages of fuel medicines electricity and some basic commodities many here say corruption and mismanagement in government and opposition one minister pellet hes is also to blame the few who can afford it buy a water privately or drill boreholes buffel millions of others that is not an option how to aljazeera. Are again mrs al jazeera and these are the top stories saudi arabia has reportedly arrested 2 senior members of the royal family the wall street journal says crown Prince Mohammed bin nayef and the kings younger brother prince are. Being held over an alleged coup attempt the lebanese government is meeting to decide whether to default on 1200000000. 00 worth of debt by monday lebanon has one of the largest debt burdens in the wild with 91000000000. 00 thats more than 150 percent of g. D. P. Then what has the details from beirut. 1200000000. 00 may not seem like a big amount but before the end of the year levanon needs to pay back up to 5000000000. 00 like i said 1200000000. 00 its not such a big amount but its but at the end of the day lebanon has. Foreign Exchange Reserves and it leaves whatever it has in order to import basic supplies wheat fuel medicine that is going to cost 10000000000 dollars this year alone the south korean government has limited the sales of mosques to 2 per person per week its trying to replenish stocks which have been running low juice a panic buying over the corona Virus Outbreak the total number of infections there now stands at more than 7021 people on board a cruise ship of San Francisco have tested positive for corona virus the grand princess is being held off shore while its 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew are tested and these 35. 00 people had reported food like symptoms on friday test kits were flown to the cruise line after the ship was linked to 2 coronavirus cases from an earlier voyage. Turkeys defense minister says the ceasefire is Holding Around province in Northern Syria the agreement brokered by turkey and russia ended as strikes for the 1st time in months but there have been reports of some fighting in the southern parts of the province between Syrian Government forces and a section of the opposition. Amnesty international is calling for the Immediate Release of protesters in algeria after a new wave of demonstrations thousands rallied in the capital algiers on friday continuing a yearlong protest calling for the removal of the ruling elite and sweeping reforms amnesty says more than 70 people have an arbitrarily arrested. Well those are the headlines and next up its inside story 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 can justice 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 of prisoners sexual violence