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A wave of violence in cameroon we speak to the man claiming responsibility for the attacks. And in support coronavirus threatens the opening race of the formula one season 3 team members are placing quarantine in melbourne awaiting test results as calls grow for organizers to take action in australia. Ok lets get going beginning with the coronavirus here on the news that spread to more than 100. 00 countries across 6 continents its only remains the worst affected country outside asia with a nationwide locked in effect indonesia has just reported its 1st death and south korea is being hit hard more than 200. 00 new cases are reported there many of them a call center in the capital the crisis in china though seems to be easing with fewer new cases and 3. Ported the government is allowing some companies to reopen in the epicenter of the outbreak but beijing is now tightening rules on International Flights into the capital well get you more on that in just a moment in the United States the number of infections has increased with more than 1000 confirmed cases the National Guard has been sent to a suburb of new york city where a cluster of cases was found and a British Government Health Minister has been infected 19 doris has put herself into quarantine she attended an event hosted by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson just last week in a few moments katrina you will be bringing us the latest from beijing 1st lets take it to london and my colleague Laurance Lee Laurence 19 doris theyll be clearly trying to track down everyone that shes had a meeting or a conversation with over the past 10 days or 2 weeks or so. And thats going to be hundreds of people because shes a government minister obviously part of daily job is to meet people she now said last night she says shes over the worst of it the simpsons she said came out properly on saturday when she was in her constituency north of london. And clearly for the days before that should we think the basing its during that period of incubation not only had she been voting in the house of parliament surrounded by obviously some 600 or more of the other members of parliament but on thursday as unsubtle womens day had been at an event in downing street and im being with the Prime Minister so its clearly very serious because not just the dollars a government is of the heart of the Government Department thats at the forefront of trying to organize the u. K. s response to the virus and peter one thing the other thing very interesting about it is that it is very pertinent about this case is that there seems to be a difference of opinion still in the Scientific Community between those scientists who say that you are contagious during the incubation period so the period for example when the dean diaries was with Boris Johnson last week and others who say that you cant pass it on during that period but clearly the whole thing there raises the question as to whether i mean shes not in cabinet in doris but she certainly in government will Boris Johnson will the Health Secretary matt hancock will will many other very senior government figures and Civil Servants across whites will now have to sell fire slates will be tested for this and if they do have to sell fire slate what does that do to the u. K. s Emergency Response lawrence thanks very much its good to beijing where the government is asking all International Passengers flying to the capital to quarantine themselves countering the u. Is live for us in beijing so katrina how long are they expecting people to self isolate for. There are people all travelers whove come from other countries to isolate for 2 weeks now this is a step up from a previous measure which said that only people from high risk countries that is italy iran south korea and japan had to undergo this period of corn change and thats because the government is increasingly wary of the threat of people bringing the current virus from outside the country into that country we just had a case actually reported in junk joe city not far from beijing where somebody flew into china from italy who was infected initially but he flew in via the United Arab Emirates and thats why beijing has started to really make sure that everyone coming into the capital now has to undergo this period of coroutine with the latest figures we saw that there were 24 new cases 13 in who bay one person outside of who bay but 10 percent of the sorry 10 of those new cases were actually people who came from abroad primarily italy so thats why theyre really starting to step up regulations for travelers coming into the country but if you go further south to the province of who bay where this all started they are starting to see some relief 13 people infected thats a 13 you cases thats one of the lowest numbers weve seen in recent weeks and theyre citing to really ease the lockdown and say that some workplaces into one city can resume operations now so far thats a limited amount of workplaces so were thinking were talking critical operations government offices factories involved in the production of medical supplies and also factories that are important to the Global Supply chain. Is in a way sort of chinas detroit a lot of water production happens there and we know that the column make a honda has said that they will resume operations in one hand starting from this week so far there still is quite a Strict Lockdown theres a list and negative list of businesses which have to remain closed any place where people tend to gather so james. And the edge. Detainment venues they remain shut until further notice and all schools also remain shut and people although we do have received news that they may start be able to start leaving their apartments and move around their city or their county at least still nobody is really able to exit or enter who bay province in spite of this the government is really quite keen to get the economy started around the country but it is quite a slow start at the moment only about 25 percent of the economy in china is going to train up thanks very much well as we mentioned there is concern over a new cost of cases in the south korean capital so broad has the latest. People started to detect a trend that Call Center Workers were falling sick they started to do widespread testing and ive discovered a 93. 00 cases now at this one call center either workers or their immediate family or acquaintances and friends and the concern is that this is the biggest cluster that we have had in the soul area and the soul greater soul metropolitan area which includes the capitol but also surrounding cities such as interior and is an area that comprises 25000000 people this call center was in a part of the city that is served extremely well by subway systems by trains so there is a real concern and there you had for a time at least hundreds of calls sent to workers coming to and from work using all of these means of public transport so we can expect to see more cases its feared on the Positive Side this is happened fairly recently in the past few days so it is a time obviously of heightened awareness that there are less people traveling more people have been staying at home if people have been traveling theyre been extremely conscious about Wearing Masks about keeping distance from fellow passengers and and so on so the hope is that the authorities here the medical services and all of the testing infrastructure that is in place has moved quickly enough to contain that but we will see in the coming days but it has led the authorities here to look very closely at conditions in call centers which are often very cramped and south koreas neighbors will also be looking closely in the coming days to see whether this is going to be any kind of reversal on the progress that has being made and among those neighbors of course will be north korea which is yet to report a single case of the corona virus and is in barked at the moment on a National Effort to keep the virus out. It is a country used to being mobilized against a common enemy and now that unseen photo is the coronavirus an outbreak could be devastating for a population which is malnourished and with primitive medical services. Populations in the countryside. There are really you know i think have been left on the our own with regards to basic exercises from the start its taken tough measures like closing its border with neighboring China Foreign diplomats were puerto hundreds strict 30 day quarantine which is only just been lifted many have left. And there is a certain tension in those in the city in all of the country because people are aware. Of the crew member state run television has been showing the Global Impact of the disease and touting the north success in preventing a single case of the virus as a victory for leader kim jong un who is depicted as heading his countrys efforts kim jong un has written to his south korean counterpart expressing his sadness for the way the viruses hit the south and while the outbreak has disrupted military operations here with the cancellation of joint exercises with the u. S. And north korea it seems to be business as usual twice in the space of a week north korea has conducted short range weapons tests after a lull of 3 months some analysts say its just part of regular winter exercises while others add that with denuclearization talks in stalemate he has nothing to lose by testing and that it sends a strong message to his own people that with much of the rest of the world grappling with the viruses spread kim is firmly in control and appearing to keep them safe rob mcbride aljazeera sold. And well have more on the coronavirus later here on the news hour including as the outbreak disrupts air travel will tell you how bad the financial turbulence going to get some of the worlds big carriers plus. Come back to the soul the station. Joe biden moves another step closer toward securing the democratic president ial nomination. And in the news this. Miss the old game winning streak for the lakers details coming up later in the sports news with daryn in about 35. Israeli forces near the Point West Bank have used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse Palestinian Protesters one person has been killed the activists were camping out overnight on the mountain near the city of nablus to fend off illegal Israeli Settlers trying to use the location to establish an outpost Palestinian Health Authorities Say 17 people have been injured including a teenager whos now in a Critical Condition that joins us live on skype from ramallah in the occupied west bank what else do we know. We know that the palestinian who was killed by Israeli Forces fire is a 15 year old just named a man and he was participating in the protest that was organized by palestinians. As a way for locals to try and defend their lands from secular attacks according to medical sources theyve treated around 112 injuries on site dozens of have been taken to hospitals with one more person who means in Critical Condition now locals in the area say a job and a very elevated area one of the highest in the nablus area and that settlers have been ongoing locations here since 19 and there has been confrontations between there and the seculars usually seculars like to set a little high area top of the mountains hilltop maybe you can say that this is a way for them to keep an upper hand if anything happens including the most syrians are telling us the texans have been as such their attacks have been on the rise in the past few years just since the beginning of this year 2 in the t 20 is a uns children is ancient has recorded safety for attacks against palestinians in the west bank so this is a whole seen as a way for palestinians to defend their land from such friends when they organize in the area of the morning but as they tell us theyve been pushed away by the Israeli Forces rather they played this time thanks very much. Earlier we spoke with eunice the director of International Relations in media for the colonization and will Resistance Commission its an affiliate of the p. L. O. He told us he witnessed Israeli Forces shooting people in the face at about 5 am all of a sudden we have found i was. Surrounded from all sides by. Vision forces. Who have. We have been sitting. In a group sitting around fire because it was very cold night and they did not make even a small warning nothing at all started with extreme power they have used live ammunition they have. Bullets they have used 60 a gas clouds of tear gas. Grenades and they were shooting directly at people face to face d i have seen many people shot directly. At a certain kind of the body or part of the body and shot in the get lee and i dont know whether it was. About quite a bit. I mean its all very Critical Conditions and now i have seen. That gun point on the head of the Palestinian Teen called 22 years old and he shot him twice in the head saying in israel the president is sent to begin consultations to decide on a new Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent to write blank failed to win a majority in last weeks election the 3rd in less than the Political Parties now put forward their recommendations for Prime Minister for the president to decide by march the 17th life not to western recently and our correspondent harry forces so harry we know roughly what the numbers are what do you think will happen next. Well yes no but now we have signed off mission of the exact numbers and they are as we had expected they would be that Benjamin Netanyahu and his right wing bloc have 58. 00 seats in his retirement in the knesset the blue and White Alliance of benny gantz and its partners its prospective partners have 47 but with the outside support of the nazi palestinian israeli joint list group of parties and other 15 seats they could have a majority of recommendations to benny gantz to be Prime Minister in a minority government of 62. 00 and that is the play that benny gantz is trying to make now the president region rivlin has again appealed for a year government between billy could and blue and white but the same problems still persist that blue and white does not want to see Benjamin Netanyahu faces trial on not to step in teams in 3 separate Corruption Cases maintain his position as Prime Minister even in a rotational deal in which he would go 1st netanyahu has always insisted that he must go 1st in any such deal at least that was the case after the 2nd election and that would logically still persists now what is changing though is whether benny gantz actually has the numbers for such a minority government will all of the 16 tell us in israeli seats and vote for him in a recommendation to the president on sunday and house more critically we now have an announcement from one of the left wing or at least one of the politicians who was involved in a left wing labor merits group the leader of the gas ship only levy at the cassis she says she will not support a government that is supported from the outside by these palestinian israeli parties and as well as that there are 2 right wing members of benny gantz his own blue and White Alliance who have said that they would not support such an arrangement either so we may well be in another long running standoff if benny gantz cant make these numbers work does that mean a unity government becomes more likely despite the problems that i just set out a minute ago could we be heading to another election a 4th election those are the sorts of calculations at last to be made in the coming weeks harry thanks very much. Lets talk now to akiva eldar hes a senior columnist at el monitor he joins us on skype from tel aviv so akiva eldar thats the procedural process in theory that we will find more from the president over the coming days but what options does mr netanyahu have here. Hi peter i think that what our friend just mentioned your correspondent the option of for selection is not a fantasy its becoming a reality since as he mentioned netanyahu would like to be the 1st one in a unity government to work taishan deal and this is what the elections are all about to prevent netanyahu from our moving back and forth and commuting from the Prime Ministers office to the jews and im discouraged court his trial is about to start and according to the israeli law he can still serve as Prime Minister but not as for instance the minister of defense or Foreign Affairs because there is a loophole theres a hole in the israeli law so he must come 1st and what rivlin is suggesting that he will be half Prime Minister for 2 years which means that benny gantz will be acting Prime Minister this time and he will be in a very special condition that he is half Prime Minister and a half maybe. Minister deputy mayor Prime Minister or acting Prime Minister its very complicated ok but it seems that we dont have other options ok is that because no matter how he tries or no matter what the president tries to do mr netanyahu cannot make the numbers work or d is it because he cannot work with benny gantz because after the 2nd election pentagons went public and he said look we can we can Work Together on 80 percent of the big issues that we have to Work Together on but they couldnt do it after the 2nd election they couldnt do it after it would appear in the 3rd elections so why would they be able to do it after a 4th election. You see its a very good question peter because what happens right now is netanyahu who was d the solution of the likud and people would even say for israeli interests or teach interest his becoming a problem is a he if he or you remove him from the equation it will take 24 hours even less to form a unity government which is a rotation or was out to a tension between gantz and the successor of an attorney or anyone that the likud will pick up and offer guns for partnership but right now actually netanyahu is not willing to do this because that means that nothing can stop him from going to prison. For him the option of force election is ideal because as long as he is Prime Minister a provisional Prime Minister this can go on forever and they will not remove him because you cannot remove a provisional Prime Minister from office so it looks like you know a fantasy but it becomes everything that looks like fantasy is becoming a reality and dont forget that this can happen because the israelis are busy only was street issues today khurana Corona Corona and they would like to see a government a stable government that can deal with it and netanyahu is using it because he has got a lot of exposure that he and everything is under control and what he needs is guns to join him and they can stop the corona and everybody will be happy akiva eldar we must leave it there many thanks thank you peter. The afghan president afghani has signed a decree that paves the way for the release of some taliban prisoners 1500 will be freed within 15 days in return the taliban will hand over 1000 afghan troops hope the move will be to talks between the group and the government the Un Security Council has passed a resolution supporting the deal means in afghanistan she says the government and the taliban do seem to be abiding by the terms of the agreed prisoner swap the taliban have been they wanted all. Prisoners to be released before any negotiations start now it seems through the decree that was issued by president you will have a 1st batch of 1500. 00 that would be released starting saturday 100. 00 and after that wants to talk start then you will have 500 released every 2 weeks we have heard back from the taliban should as well a lot of negotiation going on actually. To accept. 3. Taliban have to say but they seem to indicate that they will respect their. Release 1000 prisoners as guaranteed. Its not clear at this point if they do it in one go also. But well have to wait to see their response to this degree. A leader of one of the many armed groups fighting for independence in cameroon is claiming responsibility for attacks there security checkpoints were fired on tuesday following a bomb blast on sunday separatists an English Speaking regions began their fight to break away from the french speaking majority 3 years ago and create their own country called zona the leader of the embers only in Defense Forces given an exclusive interview to our correspondent nicholas hark. The moment just before sundays attack. Prison guards from the womens jail where armed separatists are locked up are marching to governor takes to the podium praising camerons government and then this. Panic as an improvised explosive device detonate one soldier is killed instantaneously scores are injured mostly members of the Security Forces armed separatists from the English Speaking region claimed responsibility for the attack they want to break away from cameroon to create their own country amazonia there are more than 20 armed separatists groups active in the English Speaking regions of cameroon at the moment rarely do they make public declarations very they can get detected by cameroonian Security Forces the leader of one of these groups and theres only a Defense Force has agreed to talk to us. Lucas admits his armed group is behind the killings of hundreds of cameras. We have a right existence with. Dignity and come. To me the. Human rights watch accuses Intervention Brigade operating in the English Speaking regions of killing civilians and burning their homes with people. And many of them with women and children so. Like killed so its i think is the brutality. That seems like the we have been it was deliberate its not just casualties. The force is trained in managed by former Israeli Naval forces officers stationed inside the presidency the government deny any wrongdoing. Which started off as a Peaceful Movement against the government insisting on having french teachers in schools in the English Speaking regions has turned into a violent separatist. More than a 1000000 are displaced and thousands have been killed with many others caught in a spiral of violence Nicholas Hawk aljazeera. Ok time for World Weather is rich with news of wildfires in the south american weapons yeah weve been covering while far as a course in the strait i have over recent months with all the heat that youve got there and so you expect in a strange but in a wetland in the tropics well thats what you call a moment in the pants now and not to let me point on the mount the punch now is just around this sort of barren southwestern brazil is a big areas about the size of your quite twice the size of our land and this area is still a surfer entry is pretty dry at the moment and its actually generated some wildfires in the area normally this time of year is had about half a meter of rain in the area but as it is was struggling with very dry conditions it has prompted wildfires all say is directly linked to Climate Change should certainly shows how you can get wildfires in almost any part of the world of conditions are right meanwhile across more northern parts of the continent again not that unusual but certainly noteworthy in terms of the size of the hail stones a major health storm affecting the colombian capital of bogota and you can see it caused quite a few problems around the city people on the take the Motor Vehicles out from the hail and theyre starting to show some signs of slowing as we look at the forecast for the risk of more showers across Northern Areas bogota could see a few more storms around that dont think anything quite that severe at least in the next 24 to 48 hours usually russia showers across more northern parts of the amazon certainly for the south into the pants not across into paraguay. Its looking pretty dry of the next few days but thanks very much still to come here on the news for you calling for change human rights activists are arrested at an Anti Government rally in malawi. And the disgraced australian cardinal makes a final attempt to overturn his conviction for child sex abuse. And in crickets Pakistan Super League one team before they had a Winning School were in a league so products. And hour that sees for the blind and a robotic arm for the disabled. I jungle straightly an engineer is inventing tools to help people gain independence. And hes all side of that will pull up to a volatile track nice object all the fire and say that it will work or better vision will be able to recognize everyday objects women make science grover gals at the search for an aljazeera in 2014 and aljazeera investigation revealed how anger and fear fear will be a bone a crisis that ravaged west africa we asked some of us in our lives who didnt allow you know us with a knowing we are dying 3 years on we speak to the filmmaker the one thing that spread it paula and caused the devastation on a sphere that was born out of ignorance rewind liberia living with ebola on aljazeera. Welcome back youre watching the auxilary news our live from our headquarters here in doha im peter dhabi these are your top stories Health Minister in the u. K. Has now become the 1st british politician to test positive for the coronavirus shes 19. 00 she is no self isolating she had been at an event of the Prime Ministers residence before her diagnosis. After days of slowing Coronavirus Infection south korea has reported a spike in new cases more the 90 come from a call center in the capital so the government is urging Many Organizations to take extra measures. Israeli forces in the occupied west bank have used tear gas and rubber coated bullets to disperse Palestinian Protesters at least 17 people have been wounded the activists were camped out overnight on the mountain near the city of nablus to fend off in the eagle Israeli Settlers trying to set up an outpost. And go back to our top story the global corona Virus Outbreak e. U. Leaders supposed to set up a 28000000000. 00 Investment Fund to protect the blocks economy from the outbreak italy of course at the forefront of the crisis with its entire population of 60000000 subject to severe restrictions on travel and public gatherings is paul brennan. A paneuropean crisis would normally see e. U. Leaders racing to meet in brussels but concern about possible infection meant an emergency Video Conference instead the outcome of this rare Virtual Meeting a multibillion dollar european Investment Fund to support Health Care Jobs and small businesses. We will bring forward a corona response Investment Fund directed at the Health Care Systems directed at as a s m es and as a labor market at the labor markets and other vulnerable parts of our economies the instrument will be sizable and reach 25000000000 euros quickly all 27 e. U. Nations have now registered the presence of the virus and theres a keen awareness that the crisis in italy may happen elsewhere for the next 3 weeks at least 60000000 italians will be encouraged to remain behind closed doors as much as possible with restrictions on travel and Group Gatherings sure to affect their daily lives few will go to work none will go to school or university or will hope that if they get the virus they can recover at home without having to make use of italys vastly overstretched Health System the costs a clear from the tourist sites roads near empty and impressive piazzas deserted how sustainable is all this for a country already on the edge of recession how effective are these measures anyway we cant necessarily say what happens in one country always happens and happens in another country but there are really really important things that china has taught us they had an enormous outbreak vast numbers of cases and they took very very strong measures when you look at the epidemiological curve it was going up like this the numbers and then it starts to flat when they took those actions and has come down very very steeply and yes we want to see that happen in other countries after italy france is europes next worst affected country president macron urged carpet said the countrys epidemic is only just beginning france and germany have been relatively restrained in the measures theyve imposed so far some School Closures and restrictions on Sports Events and public gatherings spain has closed schools in the capital madrid. And suspended its lower house of parliament after an m. P. Tested positive and greece has closed all schools and universities for 2 weeks. Were now taking care of the children and the grandparents who are the people with the highest risk is if things get complicated because we have to combine our personal life without work life its complicated everyone must prepare to incorporate coronavirus into their daily lives now its not easy if youre the Prime Minister of the netherlands who announced an official policy of no handshakes before promptly leaning over and shaking hands. Also given your silly story think it over over over over paul brennan aljazeera. Ok lets take you live now to the german capital berlin Angela Merkel the german chancellor is about to start speaking breaking down the numbers for us as we understand that germany stands as well this hour today when it comes to the fight against the coronavirus lets listen in to what shes saying give us an. Inform you about this conference. Of course. The topic was to quote on a vital. During this Video Conference and. It was the 1st Video Conference of the state heads of states and the governments. He was in that they get their lies ation actually cvs into every area of life. You know the topic was how can be a limit to the coronavirus epidemic. In europe it is here we have to understand this and the measures that we used to the act to. Break. That to divide us that we dont know sufficiently yet we havent got any. Medication for it yet and the political steps and measures are real it is all from what the experts and the Health Professionals are going to tell us this is why its so important that the minister of health is here with us and also the president of the institute or. That of a quote from the is it a professor of the that is with us as you know the Health Minister. For you and he consults these Health Professionals and the during the press conferences you will see from week to week how the. Science actually changes and how the estimations will be more and more accurate and new measures. It will be implemented to be have to understand the virus is here that is no immunity in the population against these vitals there are no injection possibilities north end up being and it means that the. Percent percent there 60 to 70 percent of the population can be infected if this is the situation continues like that so this is why we have to work so that intensively to find the right medication for it we know. That our special specific groups in the population the elderly and people of it there probably are in medical illnesses or who have much more that the risk of getting the virus and. We have to make sure that our that our Health System is not overburdened but we are very king brady and using the possibilities of our Health System that is the most effective for 3 thing handling this case. It is of. Very significant that. We have to listen to the advice even if the advice will change that they come and they should always already and we always have the objective that our Health System is not over and while the link with the virus it means that we have to win time and we also have to set priorities it is important that to every the levels of the government of every the police the army the infrastructure the political decision so life goes on that the medical possibilities are used that the medical personnel is able to vary then would like to say a huge thank you already. They are already very much as threshed and important is that the economical life can be sustained and maintained and this is why we are asking the question how can we do what can be do how can you prioritize. So that. The Football Games sort of say is should not be the most important question better that is the audience or not when we have people who are older and that is the risk and if you havent got the right to medical treatment so this is the this is how we have to behave this is the behavior that we have to present at the moment these are the recommendations from the ministry of health that events the less than a 1000 people should also be. Cancelled. And. Know that the whole of europe. Is affected by this virus the european continent is affected to Different Levels that we have heard yesterday from this Video Conference and i would like to tell something to our italia and friends who are birds hit at the moment that imports from that the statements also from medical professionals. They are the very key to their limits and thinking a lot about them into those as well who have political responsibilities and video hope that the hard measures that they have selected and implemented will bring good results from the Video Conference its inspired that we really have to talk to each other closely both together closely. The owner and the level of the states if that is they should be in bailey contact. Very well no one Health Professionals experts of it all are just should Work Together so that they always have should be ready to give us advice how we can step ahead in a unified way. Our objective is that we find a method. That no Health System in the European Union should be. Overburdened we have. The german chancellor kind of taking the world through where germany is as of today with its fight against the coronavirus theyve just basically a huge Video Conference all you had states were involved in that she said they havent got any medications yet they will see week to week and react accordingly as the science changes there is nobody in europe nobody in the world who has a Natural Immunity at the moment that we have to listen. The advice even if the advice changes the relevant agencies she said as well theyre already pretty stretched and the only new thing that i heard there was her saying the events the Public Events football matches that kind of thing with less than 1000. 00 people should also be canceled and she also rounded off that part of. Her conversation there by telling us that she had been talking to the relevant italian authorities lawrence lee is our correspondent following that story for us out of our. Bureau in the shard in london so lawrence i mean you know the u. K. Is what a week or 10 days behind italy do we know where in the scale of how bad its going to get germany is sitting at the moment. About the same actually i think with the people seem to think the u. K. France and germany are all more or less in the same bracket as each other just to fill in the blanks i mean i agree with you completely i dont think that anything new and we need to check the translation actually of that the thing about a 1000 people whether she means more than a 1000 people fewer than a 1000 people because some german ministers in the last few days ive been actually saying to people if you really need to go to this football match you know actually do to do you you know and might you for example what want to think about cycling somewhere or walking as they can public transport theyre trying to align this really about personal choices and codes of behavior a way of stopping the spread of it but its a bit in the blanks because didnt really say anything of a new otherwise that the concern in germany which was has an asian population has all the old populations in europe 80000000 people. Call said insure a pizza just then she thought that up to 60 or 70 percent of the population of germany could get it and that equates to something over 50000000 people in an asian population so even a country this is organized as germany with a very Good Health Care system its its so its an absolutely massive problem and as a said everyones watching what happened with with with italy with that with a massive spike introduction of the the in germany the very had 2 deaths of 1500 cases but the curve has gone from being almost nothing should just straight up like that over the last few days and the expectation in germany as very much here in the u. K. And in france is that in the next week or 2 weeks in all of these countries its going to escalate very very dramatically indeed and so in these statements and the merkel muttiah shes known for germans money and shes obviously a very reassuring figure for german shes basically setting out a position to the german people to say get your act together think about your personal choices is going to become is going to be incumbent on everybody to stop the spread when it actually hits us harder lawrence thanks very much. Ok lets stay with the story of profits a plunge to Cathay Pacific which is tied to months of political unrest in hong kong but now the airline is one of many facing severe financial sidelines as the spread of the corona virus disrupts Global Travel hong kongs National Carrier says its braced for quote substantial losses in 2028 slashed 2 thirds of its International Operations and plans to cut most flights to Mainland China korean air says its fighting for survival its cutting 80 percent of its International Capacity and is telling employees to take voluntary leave the australian carrier quantas is slashing a quarter of its International Operations from saying the slump could cost up to 100000000000. 00 and low cost Airline Norwegian air has cut 3000. 00 flights between march and june warning of temporary staff layoffs Matthew Driscoll is at a asian aviation a Civil Aviation magazine he joins us from singapore matthew is it possible to quantify ballpark figures you know the cost of this to the Airline Industry say per month or per 6 months. Not per month or 6 months i added the International Air transport association came out about a week ago and the Airline Industry globally could lose anywhere between 63. 00 and a 113000000000. 00 u. S. Dollars is the coronavirus continues. 63000000000. 00 figure was the best Case Scenario that if it ended tomorrow. That would be the last figure in revenues not in profits but in revenues and in 113000000000. 00 figure was contained in that was the extended scenario as i anit called it any particular carriers that are fiscally well enough insulated to ride the storm on this. Interestingly enough most of the carriers that do not lease aircraft are probably a little bit better off because they dont have to make those lease payments airlines that have a lot of least aircraft. They are and if they can negotiate. Different Payment Terms with a less sowers a lot of whom are in ireland. Then they might be in trouble. There are airlines like cathay d the big airlines. That have consolidated in recent years a lot of the American Airlines is basically 3 big carriers there. A lot of those are probably going to be fine theyre definitely going to take revenue hit they may lose money for a quarter or 2 again it depends on how long this is going to go alone but then you have other carriers Like Hong Kong Airlines in hong kong that is looking for a buyer right now is there anything else the people that you know the c. E. O. s that run these say the big legacy carriers you know because like grounding all their a 380. 00 s. Sas scandinavia saying look we want you to take a 20 percent pay cut a you a k. With and of course people want to hang on to that job so theyve got to say yes is there anything else but the carriers can do to mitigate the losses. Well theres a lot they can do they can fire a lot d of people they can you know capacity more and all that but then you dont have an airline. So theyre i think theyre doing everything that they can do the moment to survive and it was interesting to me when i was reading the results from cafe which reported as results today and they actually made money last year in spite of all the protests in hong kong but it was interesting to me to read in the chairman statement where he talked about the cost of the asking of unpaid leave from pilots from ground staff from everybody else he said that would hopefully keep the airline as a going concern now ive covered the securities and Exchange Commission in the u. S. Business for a long time and any time a chairman talks about the fact that we should be able to remain as they go d a concern that always wakes me up a little bit because its very interesting some people on social media of course you know if one follows hash tag aviation on twitter or instagram it would have a people saying oh i got a flight from a to b. It was basically empty and everyone is saying we know what the airlines are doing they want to hang on to the slots because theres so valuable. Line does there come a point if were having this conversation in 3 or 6 months doesnt come a point when the airlines are going to say ok yeah well lose the slots were going to ground even more that point i guess the world of aviation changes so dramatically. Well thats a possibility and thats a good point its a very good question the good news in the end again i had a View National air transport association as basically called for blanket slot relief around the world they have this 8020 rule where you have to fly 80 percent of the flights in order to maintain the slots the interesting thing is the Airport Council international which is the trade group for the airports they say no it should be on a market by market basis because if airlines quit flying to those airports in those airports start losing money so theres a little bit of an argument going on between its amenities. And again if airlines has quits line i mean thats going to be a huge problem ok we have to leave it there matthew to school in singapore thank you very much. Coming up in the sport fears grow over the fate of this football season as the 1st English Premier League game is called off yet because of the corona virus. Or. Are we the only. Time for sports news peter thank you so much coronavirus is now threatening the opening race of the formula one season after 3 people in the paddock showed symptoms out of sundays australian grand prix one member of staff at mclaren into from team has been tested in melbourne and are now in south isolation awaiting the result. Its of when organizers had decided to proceed with the race as normal despite postponing the chinese grand prix and barring fans from the 2nd race of the season in bahrain around 300000 spectators are expected to attend practice qualifying and the greats all the races being held in melbourne but these pictures are from sydney a plane taking the skies to write the word stop f one some clear who is responsible for this but there is a growing concern in australia as the number of coronavirus cases continues to rise wednesdays premier league game between Manchester City in arsenal has been postponed as a precaution as after it emerged some arsenal players came into contact with the olympiakos team owner at last weeks Europa League game hes since tested positive for corona virus players concerned are now required to self isolate their homes for 14 days right now all of their premier league games are scheduled to take place as normal. As allien Team Atalanta reached the quarter finals of the Champions League but no fans were there to see them do it they had to play behind closed doors in spain against valencia he also scored 4 goals in a stunning individual display to lead them to a 43 win and 84 aggregate victory to reach the last state despite the stadium ban thousands of the n. C. A. Fans gathered outside and some expressed their frustration at being on able to watch the game. See if it was really for our health and safety they should have cancelled other populous celebrations here not just football he should be older nothing to do arsenal in austin if youre going to be infected by the coronavirus it could be here in the street anywhere else there are thousands of italians everywhere anyways there are so many here in valencia so why is it a problem. Last years finalist top no more knocked out they were beaten 2 nil at rb leipzig 3 no on aggregate german team reaching the quarter finals for the 1st time while jos a marine bemoaned top numbs injury problems no team in the world would cope with we didnt do this for such a long time you can go for one of 2 matches you cannot go for 3 or 4 months its too much on wednesday and field will be packed as defending champions liverpool take on athletico majority in their last 16 Champions League game the British Government says there is no reason as yet to restrict crowds liverpool coach jurgen klopp is open to it if required the problem with Football Games is if you are not in the stadium then you are in close rooms of all 2 then maybe together im not sure what is better than this case to be honest im i mean that but whatever movie decide it we will respect wednesdays other game and paris between p. S. G. And dortmund will be played with no fans need to overturn a 21. 00 deficit and they might have to do it without one of their best players. A world cup star missed the last few training sessions with a throat infection. One mil is enough but i have the feeling we are not a team that can give exactly a one nil we are a team that offensively likes to attack and were going to attack were going to try to score as many goals as possible you can at the end its one goal vs no goal conceded ill be absolutely happy. The u. S. Soccer bosses are arguing that the womens team is less skilled than the men and so therefore doesnt deserve equal pay all women are suing the federation for 66000000. 00 over gender discrimination with the case set to start on may 5th and documents filed at a federal court in l. A. U. S. Soccer claims it takes a higher level of speed and strength to perform the job of the mens team player it also claims the men have more responsibility and face more hostile environments when playing games the women have been more successful than the men in recent years theyve won the last 2 world cups while the men failed to qualify for russia 28 womens Team Spokesperson Molly Levinson gave this reaction to the latest developments this ridiculous argument belongs in the payload lithic area it sounds as if its been made by a caveman an argument that male players have more responsibility is just plain simple sexism and illustrates a very gender discrimination that caused us to file this lawsuit to begin with and to the n. B. A. In the Brooklyn Nets on western conference leaders the l. A. Lakers for their 2nd straight win spencer de windy scored 23. 00 points in the nets including this tie breaker with just seconds left in the game Anthony Davis then miss this potential 3 pointer that would have seen the lakers. Still there when you stand the nats clinching up by 2 points 1042102 ending the lakers for game winning streak. And finally its really even finished to show you in crickets pakistans super league the shower is our name may have thought 187. 00 for 7 would be a winning score as it probably is in most cases on this occasion though david beasts of the war philanders hammering the penultimate ball of the match for 6 of the 4 won by 5 wickets. And that was all your support for now peter back to you thank you very much see you later come all this here from the top of the with 30 minutes of aljazeera world news i will see you a little later on for the moment. 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