Welcome to the program italy has announced an unprecedented large scale corridor to that would also help contain the spread of coronavirus at least 15000000 people and are forbidden from entering or leaving lombardy and 11 other provinces the budgetary lockdown includes the cities of bin ladden venice and will last until april the 3rd many public facilities are closed but restaurants and cafes will remain open almost 6000 people across italy are vectored with covert 19 is the largest cluster of infections outside of asia Victoria Gate and b. Has the latest. In casual in northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city before it was put into lockdown the product of the truck i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent a cream putting paddle in the red zone and because id like to return down south to my relatives i decided to go earlier. Prime minister just said picante has signed a decree to impose an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the number of the region home to 10000000 people to limit the spread of coded 19. They seem. Now we have restrictive measures for a much wider area because it wasnt making any sense to say a lot of small red zones while infections have spread all over a longer day and in the provinces we listed the decree tells people not to enter or leave lamberty or 11 nearby provinces and tell at least april the 3rd including the countrys Financial Capital mainland and the city of venice theres going to be. Many things that again to be closed like jinns cultural centers. All sorts of areas where people get together in large groups restaurants and bars however appear it appears they will be kept. This comes after italy reported more than 1200 new infections in one day pope francis hes fighting the cold his Council Public appearances and will deliver his regular sunday prayers to crowds at the vatican by live stream and the leader of one of his least 2 ruling parties has announced that he has coronavirus all caught on a so it is arrived i have coronavirus today obviously ill be monitored like everybody else in the situation i feel fine so he has decided that ill be isolated at home also my family is falling all the protocols for the situations italy is the worst affected country in europe but france germany and the netherlands have all reported a rise in the number of cases while malta slovakias and serbia have confirmed that 1st infections victoria gayton be aljazeera. Argentina has all reported its 1st death of latin america several countries in the region including paraguayan colombia chile and peru also announce their 1st cases made while in the u. S. 20 people on the cruise ship bad for docking in suffolk cisco have tested positive for the virus Vice President by penn says the ship is carrying 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew about 50 of the test of so far the grab princess will be taken to a bushel port where more tests will take place. At this time the risk to the american peoples low in most Areas United States we do have a few areas of Significant Community transmission one thing we can all take pride in is that this nation has the best Public Health infrastructure really driven by the backbone of the local and state Health Departments and florida is no exception to being prepared we are tracking this the where these cases are confirmed and when we see evidence of sustained Community Transmission then that tips into us recommending mitigation strategies. Article hades in washington d. C. Where theres been a Significant Development of the quote a Virus Outbreak linked to 2 political caucuses held in recent weeks. There is news coming out of washington d. C. That is going to have political leaders very concerned there were 2 big conferences in the capital in just the last couple of days one was the conservative Political Action committee thats basically a republican lobbying organization they had huge with the American Israel Public Affairs committee or a pac they had their annual conference in washington d. C. Now we are hearing reports that the attendees at both of those conferences have been detected to have the coronavirus so the big concern is going to be did it spread among that group the conservatives and the apec organization and all of the 800000 attendees that were in that giant Conference Center so this is obviously going to become a great concern for political leaders we expect that the numbers in the United States are going to rise dramatically heres why there really hasnt been very much testing for the corona virus in the United States because at 1st the federal agency that was tasked to create the test sent it out it didnt work they just then a few days a few days ago allowed private labs to come up with their own test while they sent out their test to the Public Health agencies so there just arent a lot of test kits out there now u. S. President said anyone who needs a task can get a test but were hearing from other Health Officials on the ground and also within the administration that that is simply not the case they hope to ramp up the testing in a lot by hundreds of thousands in the next couple of days perhaps by the millions so we should see a pretty sizable increase in the number of coronavirus cases here in the United States at least 4 people in china have been killed outright hotel used as a corridor dean said to collapse rescue workers pulled out 47 of the 70 people from under the rubble but more than a dozen a still trapped tree to you is a beijing with all the governments efforts to divert attention away from the collapsed hotel if you showed profits. We know that the landlord of the hotel has been arrested for questioning we know that in the upper levels were hotel rooms about 60. 00 to 80. 00 hotel rooms but in the lower levels it was a supermarket which was undergoing refurbishment and that from the state media this one of those pillars in the supermarket gave way this potentially cause the collapse and of course this hotel was being used as an isolation ward for corinna virus patients they were not themselves infected by the corner virus that they were associated with people and they were being really quarantined there and monitored for their own health and safety so this is really a disastrous and tragic accident but the government is doing its best this morning to divert attention away from that to some better news some good news this morning that they were substantially lower amount of new cases 44 in the last 24 hours and 27 deaths and yesterday there were 99. Previously so this weekend has been the 1st time that new cases here in china have dropped below 100 and thats significant because just 2 weeks ago we were seeing about 2000 cases a day and the government is really latching on to this downward trend and saying that look where were winning the battle against the current virus this is according to them because of our heavy handed measures which have include polluted looking down 60000000 people and really restricting the activity of 100 millions of more people so the government is really trying to push this positive propaganda that theyve been able to contain the outbreak in a way that no other country has and that theyre willing to share their experiences with other countries which are struggling. As a continue to escalate of the Turkey Greece border over the flow of refugees by goods tear gas has been fired by riot police on both sides thousands of people have been trying to cross into greece since turkey declared its borders with the e. U. Opened just over a week ago president reza diaper the world is expected to travel to brussels above day to discuss the issue. For syria saudi prince is reported to be detailed what may be a view power battle in the kingdom the york times says the former head of the Army Intelligence princess dis that abbott is being held along with 3 others alexi a bride explains the Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef as edge 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 seeing him and his brother detained as well as the saudi kings youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes that there is term or within the family in the form of criticism that doesnt justify you know being arrested like criminals with masks Security Forces coming to their roles and yanking your out of their private residences mohamed bin soma known as the years 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 drive Rights Groups disagreed. Hundreds of activists including womens Rights Campaign allusion all 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 for the. Woman 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 summoned to become the crown Prince Mohammed bin solomons most notorious legacy so far is the 2018 killing of saudi journalist. In the kingdoms consolation a stent. He was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomons personal entourage his body dismembered and if a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. Is the most senior thats really and. Actually overseas for many years came back. 3 years ago to kind of try to calm things down. After b. S. Took over and there was some. Kind of turmoil within the royal family prince and return to the kingdom in 2018 came weeks after he appeared to criticize the saudi leadership during a protest in london against the saudi u. A. E. Led war in yemen one of my it is you know what does the whole of the al saud family have to do with this there are certain individuals responsible in the king to try and prince and others in the state. Prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef or 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. The other side of the coalition fight again but has carried out air strikes against the rebels in the Port District of salif theres also renewed fighting in the north the u. S. Has called for an immediate head to the bill triac should be International Committee of the red cross says its response efforts have been hampered since last month around 70000 people have been displaced leaving families without food shelter and access to medical care. Well still ahead here on aljazeera machismo it mexico we look at the culture thats led to a rise in violence against women. Defaults on forward currency debt worth over 8000000000. 00 as it struggles to tackle an economic crisis those stories after the break. Hello the weather is not looking too bad across the middle east now we had some flooding rains into parts of the live at lossie dry and quiet for the time being we got some wetter weather into the eastern side of the mediterranean and that will slide its way down across greece eventually pushing across into turkey and heading over towards that eastern side of the med for much of the reason that it is fine and dry few showers there to southern parts of iran pushing over towards pakistan easing up towards afghanistan as well that may well produce some lovely weather across northern parts of pakistan and india as we go into the early part of next week a few showers coming through here be a few showers too just around the therapy and highlands you can see bits and pieces of plant right across the tropics so into the gulf of guinea heaviest downpours likely to be across the congo basin some very big showers are rolling through here as they should see these others of course the seasonal rains and plenty of showers there standing across uganda into kenya these showers here really becoming a little more intense as we go on through a monday well also see some very heavy showers there just extending the way into what has the northern parts of mozambique could see some showers also into madagascar but its fine and dry for south africa. She was black gay im from rio de janeiros her velez. She was also an elected outspoken councilwoman. Until she was assassinated. People in power investigates the killing of a vocal critic of brazils Security Forces and the legacy of empowerment she left behind the manager of Mariel Franco on out you see a. Book like you want your office there would be so robbery of our top stories italy has opposed the president had large scale quarantine at all to help contain the spread of corona virus up to 60000000000 people and are forbid from a trickle leaving the body at the level of the provinces the bad drug trade lockdown will last until april the 3rd. A person who took part of one of the largest political caucuses of the us has tested positive for create a virus the patient at the contact with president shrub who also attended the event last month. And tensions are continuing to escalate oddly Turkey Greece border overflow refugees and bike routes thousands have been trying to cross into the e. U. Since turkey declared its borders open just a week ago. Protesters in the philippines are calling on the government to do all for the rights of women hundreds of marching through the streets of the capital but a lot of water is International Womens day jamilah doak it has more. What activists here are saying is that the country is a country of conch additions contradictions when it comes to womens causes this the philippines had already 2 female president s the country with the highest number of female executives around the world but also a place where dubai has never been more stark where more than half of women of working age are out of the labor workforce because of childbearing and wearing where the age of consent for girls remains at 12 years old the only country in asia where teenage pregnancy is rising and the last country basically in the World Without the boers now although there has been progress over the past few years recently the expanded maternity law has been signed giving more days for women working mothers off from work when they give birth the repr the health law was passed a few years ago but not much funding is being poured into these measures to make it effective across the country and what activists are also saying here is that the culture of mis sergeant a seeped into policies and governance and what theyre saying basically that not just an International Womens day but all the other days around the year that. Policymakers law makers government officials should remember really that the most important factor here to remember is that the advancement of women and girls causes. But millions of women across mexico will mark International Womens day with a strike against gender based violence. Government figures show men that kill at least 10 women that every day john home and has more from mexico city or whatever sort of container meant them in the us i live in an emotional outpouring on this State University female students reporting professors students and even relatives that they say have harassed or attacked them over the years yet. Mexicos attorney general has said that more than 10 women they killed a day but behind the number some say is a culture of machismo male chauvinism which in the end helps lead to the violence. Around 20 professes just from mexico State University and now under investigation this student is one of those who complained this was common so. He started asking me are you a virgin what have you done with your boyfriend have you done naughty things yet his conduct is normalized enough in society she says that she didnt know who to turn to from the yemenia give me your answers mr his mrs but i saw his messages i felt alone i didnt know who to talk to in my family or in the police or the student committees even my boyfriend who asked for help just accuse me of starting it all. The submissive objectified woman is a current that runs through Popular Culture in mexico because. Another family run around there these are the weather reporters of the 24 hour news channel. And its a constant on the country to popular telling novellas screenwriter i mean. A story as good as always seeing storylines in which the women are victims or hysterical bossy and annoying convinces all that yes women are annoying and bossy and sensitive when theyre having a period and its not true. But in the last year more and more women have been rejecting how they see. And the violence against them through protests and even street monuments like this one its actually being cleaned in a bar thats going to go through mexico citys main avenue this sunday to mark International Womens day. On monday there will be a National Womens strike this movement is only gaining traction John Heilemann out 0 mexico city. Prison donald trump has praised the United States as relations with brazil but refused to guarantee that ill hold off from hitting brazilian steel in allegheny and with new terrorists. Here a very lazy to carry. Brazil and we want to always tell you the president and his brazilian counterpart. For private tribes florida resort on saturday the 2 leaders were also expected to discuss potential trade opportunities also norah is on a 3 day trip to the United States. We dearly 80 attacks in afghanistan since the u. S. And taliban signed a peace deal in qatar week ago despite the continued violence the taliban is due to hold talks with the Afghan Government in the coming days. Reports on the hurdles that those negotiations are likely to face. Was celebrations have been taking place in taliban held areas since an agreement between the u. S. And the taliban was signed in doha nearly a week ago that would have the goodness this is a big achievement for all afghans says the local commander they lost and now we have gained their freedom for civilians caught in the middle and welcome really. Its been very difficult there were a lot of make raids the taliban fighters were escaping and its civilians who suffer 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 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 went has been criticised within the talibans ranks and there are reports of fighters defecting to other groups like isis and. Totally. They are one thing but. There are differences there are taliban in afghanistan there are taliban leadership from pakistan they dont agree there. Clarence 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 is 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 disarm after agreeing on a ceasefire that attacks are likely to continue just as they did during negotiations with the us leaving afghans. Paying the price once i get it up it had me dizzy a couple. Lebanons Prime Minister says his government wont make a dent payment of more than a 1000000000. 00 that still on monday our son says lebanons currency reserves are dangerously low so the holder has more beirut. Businesses are closing unemployment is rising inflation is soaring and the local currency depreciated by at least 50 percent and now for the 1st time in its history lebanon is defaulting on paying its debt 1200000000 dollars is due on monday the country is facing its worst economic crisis in decades Prime Minister has sandia who took office in january after massive protests toppled the previous government told the nation his administration will work on restructuring the debt which has become too much for the country to bear. On and on without the sour hard currency reserves are at a critical record low as a result the republic of lebanon is forced to default the coming march 9th obligation on the euro bond these funds must be channeled toward securing the basic necessities for the lebanese people 2 people have been on the streets for months demanding a new leadership they have little faith in a government appointed by the old Political Class they accused of corruption demonstrators have also vented their anger at banks for imposing capital controls but bankers are blaming the authorities for looking for an easy way out restructuring the public that seems to be a way to avoid the other reforms that are necessary to jumpstart the economy and to solve the crisis which is essentially it is structured in the Public Sector some parties in lebanon have been used to look at the Public Sector source of benefits and favors to their political constituency International Donors have made clear there will be no assistance unless reforms are carried out its not just about implementing reforms lebanons government does not have many friends it is seen by the United States and its allies as controlled by hezbollah or any iranian backed group they consider a terrorist organization and they have been trying to contain irans growing influence. In the middle east the only option to secure foreign funding and without risking further isolation is through the International Monetary fund but has by law the power broker in government has rejected an i. M. F. Bailout it says it would involve taxes and calls the institution a tool of the United States when the case has signs up to the i. M. F. They will lose some of the sovereignty theyve won the 2018 elections the 1st election that theyve won since 2005 and if they lose that power this means that they can see that some sort of defeat to the i. M. F. And to the International Community and to the United States lebanons financial crisis has entered a new stage and there doesnt seem to be any rescue plan and as conditions worsen for the people many are warning of further unrest. They will. The quran the ethnic minority member has been fighting for independence for 70 years its one of the worlds longest running civil wars that has displaced hundreds of thousands of people the Community Leaders say theyre determined to be part of the peace building process and have created a park to do just that florence slowly reports from young dog. The quran of a 2nd largest ethnic minority in myanmar theyve been fighting for an independent state since 949 before changing their demand in 1976 to one for greater autonomy despite a seas fi agreed in 2012 fighting continues but in this part of state as its now called corrent Community Leaders have created a sanctuary the salwen peace park covers nearly 5500 square kilometers and includes villages forest and wildlife reserves here the quran continues that traditional way of life relying on nature for that and practicing customary Land Management to preserve the environment so morehead and internally displaced quran has known war for most of his life. In the past we had to run and hide from the me and. It was exhausting when soldiers attacked our village we had to run we took our food supply into the jungle but when soldiers found it they would steal it sometimes they would burn it the village is remote but people here seem content. You know we live selfsufficient lives we plant ross grow vegetables rice pigs and chickens if me and my soldiers join to tackle us we will continue our life this way but elsewhere in state peace hasnt held the fighting still happens by the move to upgrade a road previously used for military operations but quran Community Leaders say villagers are also concerned about the military bases dotted around the pops boundary solution is easy. Yes we draw you know maybe a couple of. Camps allowing people to come back and reassess our base their livelihoods and you know some interior and you know kind of projects come in and see how you know things you know moving forward and then you can replicate the park is the 1st of its kind in myanmar indigenous led its founders say its an alternative to top down development but protecting it from encroachment will be a challenge the park isnt recognized by the government. Democratic transition has opened the door to Foreign Investment their plans to develop the area around the park including 2 hydro power dam projects on the. In the quran struggle to protect their community and their way of life will have to be prepared to take on corporations to florence aljazeera. With remind top stories of the 16000000 people in italy. As the government tries to contain the spread of coronavirus be unprecedented large scale koren teen in the beds and he was entering or leaving lombardi and 11 other provinces the mandatory lockdown will last until april the 3rd. Now we have restrictive measures for a much wider area because it wasnt making any sense the sale of small red zones while the infections have spread all over long and in the provinces we listed. Meanwhile in the u. S. 24 people on the cruise ship banned from docking in some francisco have tested positive for the virus Vice President mike pence says the ship is carrying 3 and a half 1000 passengers and crew around 50 have been tested so far the Crown Princess will be taken to a noncommercial porch where more tests will take place particle hate us more from washington d. C. The broader issue though is we do not know the actual number of people who have the coronavirus unlike other countries where you see massive amount of testing there were huge issues with the way the federal government dealt with this at the beginning the c. D. C. Was supposed to come up with the test they did they bragged about it held a press conference said look we came up within 3 days problem is they sent it out it didnt work so then they had to fix that again just in the last few days another federal agency has said ok private labs and colleges you can come up with a test as well so were getting conflicting messages from this administration tensions are continuing to escalate all the Turkey Greece border of the flow of refugees and migrants tear gas has been fired by riot police on both sides thousands of people have been trying to cross into greece since turkey declared its borders with the e. U. Opened just over a week ago. The full senior saudi prince is reported to have been detained in what may be a new per bottle in the kingdom the New York Times says the former head of the intelligence prince knife was arrested along with 3 others on friday those were the headlines here on our back with more news in a half an hour but next its people of power do stay with us for. The consequence of war. Ventures into russia shows the surf in the marine corps for 98995 that just doesnt go away. For a living out of the truck for the last couple years. Its home was 0 follows a group of us veterans traumatized by war. As they struggle to get their lives back. On aljazeera. In march 28th Mariella Franco a prominent brazilian human rights activist and politician was murdered in mysterious circumstances a champion of the threat is rio slum neighborhoods area and it was also a vocal critic of brazils Security Forces and the civilian casualties of a war against the citys drug gangs so who killed it and why Giuliana Rufus went to bones