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The number of coronavirus deaths recorded in a chile has risen 25 percent in the past day to just over 800 as europes worst outbreak of the deadly virus continues to expand its only has the highest number of cases outside of china 25000. 00 governments around the world of stepped up restrictions on the movement of their citizens to reduce the spread of the corona virus spain became the 2nd european country to impose a nationwide lockdown its confirmed 2000 new cases and then the number of deaths have also doubles iran announced more than 100 people have died in the past 24 hours confirmed cases there are nearing 14000 but turan says that their ability to fight the virus is being severely restricted by the effects of International Sanctions and then in. Philippines the capital manila is sealed off 12000000. 00 people have been told they cant travel for a month schools are closed and large events banned in the United States increased screening measures for people returning from europe have caused chaos at airports there the u. S. Has imposed a ban on non americans traveling from European Countries and that was expanded to include the u. K. And ireland so paul brennan is following all of this joins us live now lets start with the u. K. Because we havent mentioned that yet in the list which is going through government plans to protect the vulnerable and the elderly that those are going to be brought forward yes what we have is the Health Secretary the Health Minister for International Viewers doing the rounds of the political programs on television this morning outlining exactly what the government is planning for the week ahead and on thursday of this week the government will introduce a bill to parliament laying out a whole series of emergency measures that they want to put into legislation and among them are some very strict restrictions on peoples liberty but among them perhaps could be a an instruction for people over 70 aged over 70 to self isolate for up to 4 months in their own homes another possible measure the could be included are for to give police the power to arrest anybody and forcibly quarantine anybody that is found to be a covert 19 infect person with an infection the full details wont be issued until tuesday but whats interesting when you talk about the Elderly Population is the statistics that have been released this afternoon for the u. K. Deaths theyve gone up to 35. 00 thats a 66 percent increase on the previous day and a ring around of the hospitals where these are taking place gardens and thomas it was a woman in her ninetys with Underlying Health problems with im sure spittal him in manchester managed 91. Patients in her ninetys the there in the ninetys the eightys the seventys the youngest was 59 but the predominant age group are the elderly and you can see why the governments putting such priority. Trying to protect those elderly vulnerable patients but of course elsewhere like in italy and spain weve seen lockdown coming into effect and then also mentioning in space theres been a doubling in the number of deaths there and then also a sharp rise in infections well i mean we started the program looking at italy and lets look at its lead because in the last hour and a half the authorities the issued the latest update figures 368 new coronavirus deaths in the last 24 hours thats not just a record for italy im told by our mathematics its actually the highest one day increase to date and worse than the worst day of deaths in the original place where the center in europe becoming the epicenter is actually turning into a worse situation in the only store in china our thank you very much paul brennan want to move to iran now because the death toll there is also risen we have seen the latest figures stand now at 724 almost 14000 people in the country have been infected many iranians though of ignored official advice to stay at home a host of senior officials politicians doctors and clerics of contract of the disease iranian president Hassan Rouhani says u. S. Sanctions are severely impacting the countrys ability to stop the coronavirus. Joins us live now from the capital tehran and as a do we is there an accurate understanding then of this scale and scope of the outbreak in iran. Well we got a sense of that in the early days when the Health Ministry put out a map on twitter the Health Ministry spokesman put out a map you tweeted a map showing that home was the epicenter a large red dot and then tentacles of an octopus so most of thats exactly what it looked like sort of taking hold of the whole country and thats really whats happened now to iran is the new epicenter ensure the government is truly struggling to control the spread of the disease we see the number of deaths continuing to take up tragically today was another record breaking day and the overall number of cases continue to go up leaders in iran are taking this opportunity to illustrate how u. S. Unilateral u. S. Sanctions are bad for anything like this happening if you have a compound in effect on a Public Health crisis like this 2 days ago the foreign minister divides weve sent a letter to the United Nations asking them to intervene to get the United States to back off rolled back its sanctions against iran yesterday the president Hassan Rouhani sent a letter to counterparts in capitals all over the world he also published a letter online on his website and he implored the International Community to understand that sanctions are hurting irans ability to conduct the necessary steps to stop the spread of the coronavirus here in iran and earlier today. Once against the foreign minister sent letters to embassies all over the capital telling those representatives of several nations here in teheran that again the sanctions need to be lifted if iran is expected to get a hold or control the spread of covert 19 here in the country earlier today we also heard from the Coronavirus Task force set up by president Hassan Rouhani in the early days of this outbreak that the numbers continue to go up and to how wrong remains the new at the center for the virus in iran however the government again saying that it will not quarantine the capital and that it will not stop the flow of Traffic Control the flow of people it will not be able to lock down the capital really this is about balancing economic health. With this Public Health crisis now we did hear for a during that briefing that they will carry out temperature checks they will carry out temperature screening for passengers in cars outside city limits here in the capitol to try to make sure people who are coming and going arent showing symptoms for the coronavirus another thing we heard from this Health Official at the Coronavirus Task force is something relatively unusual younger people are among those that are dying 15 percent 15 percent of the people that have been killed by the coronavirus in iran are around the age of 40 so an illness that was affecting mostly elderly people here in iran there are signs that younger people are also being affected certainly something that is of great concern to a country whose median age is 31 the majority of the population in iran are actually young people yet that is very worrying that thank you very much same ron. Well in the philippines soldiers there have been clearing the streets of the capital manila where a mandatory quarantine is in place several Asian Countries have seen a jump in new cases and that includes malaysia which reported on this 200 new infections on sunday sara has. The philippine capital manila has begun a month lockdown thousands of police sealing off the city by blocking major roads the current team means Domestic Travel in and out of manila this is suspended with a few exemptions from our need to but i mean theres so much traffic the containment measures are disruptive but its ok its for the good of our own health. From monday manilas 12000000. 00 residents will be under a nightly curfew and are encouraged to stay its time during the day schools are closed most government jobs will be suspended and large gatherings are to be banned. The philippines has taken some of the toughest measures yet in the region theres also been a jump in the number of coronavirus cases in malaysia most of them a link to a 4 day event that was held in february at a mosque near kuala lumpur among the 16000 attendees there were nearly 1500 foreigners who went back to their countries majority of cases found in neighboring brunei and now linked to that gathering in australia has strict travel measures are being implemented anyone arriving from abroad must self quarantine for 2 weeks cruise ships entering Australian Waters will soon be banned from docking for 30 days Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the restrictions are necessary and has called for an urgent meeting of the g 20. Promised to my views kerry to organize i think up between all the g 20 leaders i think thats i think thats a Commendable Initiative a struggle obviously supports that and even more urgent maybe that would be needed would be a further meeting of the g 20 finance ministers and Central Bank Governors this is a whole crisis but it has very serious economic team. In new zealand the number of people infected has gone up after a person traveled from australia despite having to stay positive for corona virus itself isolation period of 2 weeks to travelers entering new zealand has come into force with those coming from small South Pacific island countries with no reported cases of exempt we going to state that of course meant things like spot checks to ensure people are self isolating and if you dont stand for isolate there are quarantine powers available to us and all new zealands east coast passengers on a cruise ship docked and i could a town on whats allowed to disembark 3 people on board a quarantine with one showing symptoms while Peoples Movement is being restricted if you choose hope it will prevent a bigger spread of the virus. He is a professor at the department of immune immuno biology at Yale University joins us live via skype from connecticut i want to start by asking you about some of the latest figures from italy and of course this information just coming in are so much that we dont know but its only has recorded its largest number of fatalities in a day since the start of the outbreak and we already had warnings from the World Health Organization about the the severity of corona virus in europe perhaps in the end being worse than what weve seen in china now from what we know so far is that could that be related to mutations or the potency of the virus or could it be more about demographics that you have an older population in European Countries and so therefore theyre more susceptible to this. Yes so the spread of the coronavirus in italy we are fortunate i think what happened is that there was not sufficient social distancing from the very early stages of infection and so this is a very important things to consider that we need to practice it social distancing before the. Epidemic becomes prevalent throughout the population is it too late for that now because weve seen this whats called Community Spread in the u. S. Its already happening in europe you have countries coming into lockdown in the u. K. There now considering additional measures to protect the vulnerable but is it too late for social distancing is it already there. Well in some countries it may be a little late but in countries like the u. S. Where where the epidemic is just starting to take off every day matters we need to really be practicing social distancing as soon as possible what do you mean when you say every day matters what lessons can be learned from countries have been more successful and are more what more can people do to to mitigate the effects of this. So the virus spreads exponentially in the absence of any preexisting immunity we have no vaccine zone therapeutics against this this virus so this means that if we can stop the spread from happening so quickly the health care is able to deal with the number of patients that are coming down with this virus whereas if the spread happens very quickly the hospitals are not equipped to deal with such number of people who are coming with severe diseases and require respirators do you think were going to its a really difficult when were looking at numbers in so many different places but again do you think that when you you see the trend in italy in spain and then just the rate at which were seeing infections and deaths rising elsewhere that there will that maybe they wont be very successful flattening the curve so in other words we are likely to see a spike in the number of hospital admissions that will that will overwhelm the resources of in European Countries. Yes thats right so the quicker we can implement social distancing measures the better it is so in china when they were rapidly detecting viruses they were able to quarantine you know millions of people in their cities to stop the spread of the wires whereas in other countries such measures may not be possible and so the best thing we can be doing right now is to close down schools and prevent Mass Gatherings and just working from home if possible now theres been a lot of debate about the concept of herd immunity this idea that if enough of the population is infected with the virus that will protect society at large there was a very interesting case in japan of a woman in her fortys contracting the virus in january recovering and now shes tested positive again what are the implications of that. So because this virus infection is so new we are starting to learn of about how this virus is contained within the infected people but its our knowledge is very limited so in this case the woman who contracted the virus may not have fully recovered even though her symptoms were better when she was sent home from hospital and so its possible that she actually had a reservoir of buyers that then reactivated to cause the disease again or it was a truly a case of reinfection where she acquired a virus from another source after coming home from the hospital so its very unclear how well the immune system can protect against this virus once you develop the immune immune response to the wires and also how long it lasts so these are all questions that we dont understand yet so relying only on the development of herd immunity from natural infection is a very dangerous proposal. Thank you very much for helping us to understand it a bit better i think information and Accurate Information is extremely important right now thank you very much professor a key call it was sucky the Largest Airline in the United States American Airlines is slashing its International Flights by 75 percent until may the cuts were announced hours after the u. S. Government restricted travel from more countries that was to include the United Kingdom and ireland as a precaution against the Coronavirus International airports across the u. S. Already in chaos with incoming travelers forced away hours for medical screening before being allowed to pass through customs mike hanna joins us live now from washington so some scenes of chaos and queuing at u. S. Airports is traveling scramble to to beat the travel ban how much destruction is all this causing mike and then what are the risks from that. Well essentially many of the airports are in complete chaos there are 13 assigned airports to deal with flights coming in from the banned countries the 26 members of the sharing then alliance in europe and these airports are completely overwhelmed that would seem the reason being the intense screening processes that have been implemented in the past 24 hours since the band took effect now it would appear that theres been very little preplanning in this critics contend that President Trump has once again instituted a procedure without thinking it through just as he did with the muslim ban on travel some 2 years ago airports complete chaos at the moment the governor of illinois chicagos Ohare Airport is the worst hit tweeted out in the course of the night that the governments got to get its act together the white house responded by an official phoning him and shouting at him angrily for sending out the tweet no signs yet of the situation easing at the airport President Trump himself has tweeted in the course of the morning apologizing for the delays in a way but saying that safety must come 1st and of course my hair is still a political cycle to think of this is an election here there in the u. S. And its already having an impact on the primary season. Well very much indeed now for example there is a debate going on tonight between the 2 democratic president ial contenders the last 2 remaining contenders but that has been moved to take place in an empty studio in washington d. C. Primaries should jeweled for this coming week are going to go ahead 4 states will be holding primaries however theres going to be added measures introduced to try and make the situation more healthy for example some polling stations were at Nursing Homes which obviously in the sort of current scenario not really a good idea from Health Reasons but 2 primary used to take place in march have now been postponed they will take place 2 months later thats in louisiana and georgia so this is now having an impact on the selection season as the weeks go ahead as the virus continues if it does then certainly is going to have a massive impact on the Election Year already voters officials are talking about implementing earlier votes implementing postal votes starting to examine ways in which an election process can still be happen in the wake or even in the in the face or even in the wake of this virus thank you very much mike hanna in washington we go to france now present a manual macron has defended his decision to proceed with local elections across the country the government has issued guidelines to polling stations asking people to stand at least a meter apart from each other a partial lockdown is in place in france right now which has at least 4 and a half 1000 cases of the virus its ash butler is at a polling station in the capital paris. Well here at this paris polling station as in polling stations across the country people coming to photo have been told by the french government to take very particular precautions they have to stand a metre apart they have to use Hand Sanitizer when they go in and out to clean their hands where mosque where possible bring their own pen to sign the register and there of course the french government has put these regulations in place because all of the coronavirus epidemic in the country but really this policy is taking place an extraordinary context you have a country in virtual lockdown with nearly everything shut except for essential services but the french government has insisted that these elections must go ahead now while french people are voting for about half a 1000000 local councils those local councils will then elect there may as well for the people who did choose to come to vote they said that they felt that the risks were minimal largess of initial count i wasnt worried about coming here because we have to keep our distances we have to take precautions. It was normal to do it and i think if we take precautions its not a problem well a number of french political leaders and Health Experts had called over the past few days on the government to postpone these elections saying it wasnt necessary at this particular time and to really put so many people would risk in the midst of a Health Crisis the french government though says that the risks of been minimized the care is being taken and they also say that it is important to continue with the democratic process while there is supposed to be a 2nd round in these municipal elections in one weeks time well have to wait and see if that goes ahead. A very different story in china the downward trend in the number of cases that is being celebrated by the government as a major victory beijing had initially concealed the outbreak before putting millions of people in quarantine and as sarah clarke reports those lockdown restrictions came at a cost. On his 1st trip to the epicenter of the krajina Virus Outbreak chinese president xi jinping went on what commentators called a victory lap visiting members of the communist party and Health Workers on the front line he congratulated the people of one hand for defeating whats now a Global Pandemic the places he went to or was a very choreographed for everything was stepped in a way so they were and it was on message so that it maps to also the signaling in the newspapers t. V. Media is partly winning the battle but partly its also signaling to people. Who were there when its a mass lockdown across here by province came into effect at the end of january as well as strict contain and travel restrictions across china 60000000 people were forced to stay at home including 11000000 from the city of the World Health Organization has raised beijings response but not everyone appreciated the robust can time it measures with in fiction numbers for the house tag when will who buy blocked was read more than 100000000 times on chinas social media platform weibo the shutdown may have worked but some say that success could also come at a cost i didnt feel like i was like oh maybe. I sensed safeways the place you know what because well nobody can tell me what. I think. We dont. Luke has been separated from her father since january hes in the city woo han for work shes chosen to hide her identity in fear of a safety being associated with a resident at the epicenter of the upright i just cant help feeling feeling worried for his health and we because we dont know anything about. Whats happening how people life are going in. The government in who by province is now introducing a mobile Monitoring System with residents given a rating based on the health those considered low risk would be allowed to resume travel officials in other countries including italy are following chinas lead putting the country in lockdown hoping the spread of the virus can be slowed or even reversed as a result the outbreak now threatens Global Growth all eyes will be on china as it attempts to return to business as usual sarah clarke aljazeera hong kong. Well the coronavirus pandemic has led to School Closures in many countries its estimated more than 420000000 children in about 60 countries are affected many teachers are conducting lessons online there are challenges even for that Priyanka Gupta has more on that side of the story. At a time when the elderly seem to be most at risk of the coronavirus pandemic. The young are being told to stay at home to stop the infection from spreading now but. Were worried about this corona virus but were also pretty relieved because theres not much chance of dying from more scared of transmitting it will feel it. And were more scared for the elderly grandma and grandpa. Dozens of countries around the world have ordered schools to shut down its impact being felt on the daily lives of more than 400000000 children what they know. In a matter of days educators and. Situations are being forced to adapt innovate on a scale and never seen before draw a shoe that looks the way you teachers and students are trying to use Online Learning to with usher in the new era of Digital Learning this coronavirus situation gives us a great object lesson where we can say well how are we going to design for survival under these pretty new circumstances and online teaching is an exact. Response to. The problem and we get to innovate with our teaching how to respond to the crisis but in a world where nearly 40 percent of the population dont have access to internet the new coronavirus has also exposed the deep Digital Divide that exists between countries. And communities where low income families depend on schools to provide the children with safety at a tradition closure of schools mean inciting and hunger for some in many countries including the United States i schools play a vital function in providing or food which organ we have over 50 percent of the Children Public School United States who qualified to receive free lunch and prerequisite School Every Day and if theyre not in school means some of them will not be eating there are many parts of the world including United States where people do not have access to the internet and that so to rely on Virtual Learning Remote Learning i during this period is going to exacerbate those inequities as most cities and towns go under lockdown and government leaders scramble for response it seems like its taken a pandemic to view the existing inequality made much was Priyanka Gupta dizzier. With the news hour live from london more still ahead were going to look at the cease fire in serious trouble stronghold of turkey and Russia Holding that 1st joint patrols on that and then special prize are held in new zealand to remember those killed in the Christ Church mosque attack. And the lengths some sports are going to as they try to play on through the coronavirus pandemic. Welcome back lets start by looking at weather conditions across the levant and middle east here in the Arabian Peninsula weather conditions are looking great 29 the high for doha on monday higher than in just 28 degrees but we are going to see an area of low pressure developing significantly over the following 24 hours this area of rain and snow over turkey is going to develop into a system across the mediterranean so we will see very strong winds developing along the coast lebanon beirut 17 parts of syria seen some wet weather developing during the course of the day likewise for israel so its move across into northern and central parts of africa much as youd expect here if cool weather in recent days become a bit warmer for a trip through towards chouest a few showers across ethiopia now beginning to develop on a scattering of showers expected across the gulf of guinea regions through into west africa but generally few and far between is not looking too bad the main feature across southern portions of africa remains our Tropical Cyclone herald which continues to move away towards the southeast and looks should move towards the northeast. So merces will miss the worst effects of this system which is given a huge amount of rain across parts of south africa is looking fairly wet well you see some rain developing in johannesburg but its expected to stay dry. Counting the cost we go behind russia and saudi arabias oil prices. Oil prices will go down default on its debt for the 1st time we can on the bailout and chinas great facial recognition. Counting the cost of. The shocking treatment of disabled people in Eastern European state run cap. Or and the bureaucratic indifference to their plight she has his hands and she states. Fine. Years after 1st highlighting such abuses people in power returns with a 2 part investigation to continuing mistreatment and neglect europes recurring shame part 2 on aljazeera. Investigating the use and abuse of power across the globe on down to see. A comeback youre watching the news hour live from london a look at the headlines italy has recorded 368 you coronavirus death in the past day take you number fatalities to just over 8900 thats a 25 percent increase in 24 hours its only has the highest number of total cases outside of china 25000. 00. The number of people with the virus in iran is nearing 14913 people have died there in the past 24 hours to iran says u. S. Sanctions are severely hampering their ability to fight this and then in the u. S. Increase screening measures for people returning from europe of caused chaos that there are at ports washington extended its ban on all americans traveling from europe to include the u. K. And ireland. Elsewhere cast ours in else drastic measures to contain the spread of the virus country will ban all inbound flights from wednesday for 14 days except for cargo and transit flights or public transport will stop operating from sunday night and workers over the age of 55 pregnant women and people suffering existing Health Conditions are being asked to work from home qataris stopped issuing visas on arrival to several european nationalities in addition to that. Africas president cyril rama poser has confirmed 61 cases there and want that number is expected to rise he also announced new restrictions to curb the spread of the virus travelers from high risk countries including iran south korea and italy will be banned from the country airports for implementing new screening measures and schools have also been closed for at least 2 weeks and then kenya has banned all travel from countries with confirmed cases of the virus present or who are kenyatta says kenyan citizens will be and will still be allowed in on the condition that they isolate themselves afterwards for 14 days at home or in a government facility there are now 3 confirmed cases in the country all 3 patients though are in a stable condition i want to take a closer look then on iran because there are concerns that the corona virus pandemic could really overwhelm the Health Facilities in the country and place an even larger burden on an already struggling economy sunday march irans single biggest jump in deaths rising more than 102724 overall there are now 14000. 00 confirmed cases iran is believed to have 110000 hospital beds 30000 of those in the capital tehran country was already under pressure because of u. S. Sanctions and with the outbreak placing further pressure on medical services the government has asked the International Monetary fund for 5000000000. 00 in emergency funding also president Hassan Rouhani has offered low interest loans and cash handouts to ease the financial burden on millions of households so for more on this we can speak to trita parsi the executive Vice President of the Currency Institute joins us live via skype from reston virginia 1st of all the figures in iran were talking about the death toll there of 72414000 confirmed cases of the real numbers likely to be higher. It is highly likely that the numbers are higher how much higher we of course do not know in the beginning the iranian governments response to this was quite inadequate if not completely incompetent as of late youve seen them taking much more drastic measures but they have and this channel challenge which other countries do not have which is that because of the impact of sanctions on the economy at large as well as when it comes to their Health Care System their ability to test and verify cases is going to be a bit more limited than what it is in other places and that will contribute to the undercounting i definitely want to get into the effect of sanctions but i mean as you say there is a shortage of testing kits and medical supplies and they face this awful pressure this pressure from u. S. Sanctions but what more could the could the government do in terms of domestic policy what could they have done and what can they do now to believe the 8 the impact from that. Well the 1st things that this should have done in the early stages which is of course a little bit easier to say in retrospect because now we know how devastating this virus can be and how quickly it can spread but they did not for instance postpone the elections they did not cause for some of these events that take place there are the opposite of social distancing and they seem to have not taken the virus seriously enough and that appears to have created a scenario in which it spread much faster inside of iran than he otherwise would have and as a result now they have a much more massively difficult situation than most of the countries now of course when you take a look at it italy is pretty much in the same situation although they have taken very drastic measures as a plague but it shows that even in countries in which the response would probably have been better and also they are not facing these type of difficulties such as an hosking event about the sanctions because you have these you have European Countries not selling supplies of testing kits to iran they fear the impact of sanctions and then im sure youve seen the story about google removing irans Coronavirus Diagnosis app from there from that store from their online still what what does that reveal about the impact of politics and the fight between washington and tehran on the fight against the virus. Well it means that when trump is talking about pursuing Economic Warfare we should take him at his word this is Economic Warfare this is impacting the entire population in clearly impacting poorer segments of the population and it is indiscriminate you cannot have sanctions on entire Banking Systems and all Financial Transactions and then claim yes but medical supplies are exempt well even if the specific medical. Items are examined it doesnt mean that people can still buy them because they still need to have access to the Banking System in order to be able to buy them Human Rights Watch for instance has documented this and shown that this is a by emission of the ordinary peoples of irans human rights and that is was a stunt is to happen i mean is that likely to be rectified anytime soon because obviously i mean everyone is completely preoccupied absorbed i mean countries western countries are really facing their own battles right now i mean is that likely to be any kind of political or legal clarification on the on whether iran can access money from the International Monetary fund or any kind of International Aid to deal with this. Well they have requested money from the i. M. F. Its going to be quite interesting to see what the i. M. F. His response to this is and if the i. M. F. Approves this loan it is support how will the transfer the money over to iran i mean this is the same problem that has existed for quite some time now that even when things are exempted and are approved the banks still would not touch them because of their own fears of getting sanctioned by the u. S. Government so its a test case to see whether there will be exemptions made in it whether it will be any humanity within this Economic Warfare the trump is waging right now thank you very much from reston virginia trita parsi thanks and. Well in all the stories were following this hour russia and Turkey Holding joint military patrols in syria to monitor a cease fire in the last rebel held stronghold of troops from both countries are patrolling the strategic and 4 highway linking syrias east and west despite them both backing opposing sides in the war in syria the deal was finalized on friday after 4 days of talks in ankara some conseil who has more from istanbul. Today it was for a child because of this blockade on the highway by the civilians the route was cut short are brought to the because they didnt want to come face to face with the civilians thats why a much longer route was completed about in 3 kilometers Turkish Defense ministry heard the statement saying that the 1st joint battle has been handled by the russians with the participation of the land and air forces but the russian Defense Ministry has a statement saying that they are expecting the turks to eliminate the what they call radical elements inside at that so this is again a very fragile process both for turkey and russia because the 3 really seem to be. Happy about the ceasefire that was signed but of course when it comes to the Syrian Opposition groups inside the it turkey has a critical position because it has observation posts inside of the both down below the m 4 highway and the border for highway this is going to be a tough process for to keep and so to wants to keep its ministry presence but if the Syrian Opposition groups mainly the is the group called. It continues to be against the ceasefire signed between turkey and russia turkey might need to be. Might need to make a choice between the Opposition Group and the russian side. Well the war in syria is entering its 10th year on sunday marking a decade of fighting with no real end in sight or the 370000 people have been killed millions have been displaced and as a solid reports United Nations is saying more than 11000000 syrians are in need of aid. I. Think. The 2011 uprising had been brewing for decades and the suppression and exploded during the arab spring. People from all walks of life protested in their thousands sensing a possibility of overthrowing a government they saw as undemocratic back then they were syrians and divided forward in this city religion or sectarianism. But the government of Bashar Al Assad used force against the protesters those opposing it were labeled terrorists. And. Opposition leaders professionals activists were all targeted those who werent educated but arrested tortured or rent pressing maps when the uprising turned violent to machine guns replaced by tanks and rifles by airstrikes on top. Of it when the governments use of indiscriminate bombs failed opposition areas were targeted with chemical weapons hundreds were killed on the road i will dieters at these 2 meetings try to find solutions the Un Security Council has since passed over a dozen resolutions but russia blocked many of them while maintaining its support for the Assad Government what is important is that the governments in the region and beyond work together. With this syrians to solve this current crisis. This is a war and serious soon became a battleground for international and regional powers the dresher and iran standing by the Assad Government countries the us and turkey all backed Opposition Groups which failed to put up a united to fight. While the world lacking a meaningful response competing interests and mounting debts violent groups became dominant and in 2014 the Islamic State of iraq and the levant or eisel declared a caliphate but as its capital. 6 6 the countries which are fused military action in syria soon formed a coalition against isis. Syrian civilians were being killed by assads forces opposition infighting eisen attacks and Coalition Airstrikes by then more than 200000 people had been killed in the United Nations decided to stop counting 2 the dead. Russias active military deployment in 2015 was a game changer for damascus it was backed by should be of russian air power and iranian troops and military from iraq and lebanon opposition fighters drop at the last areas they controlled through the years activists and rights group kept reminding the world of the horrific violence syrians theyre facing. I feel is propaganda and abuse by Government Forces drew condemnations from International Leaders for the military the starve or surrender tactic worked where bombs and troops did and millions of syrians removed each year to the province and the various deals until it became the last remaining rebel stronghold in the last 9 years hospitals have been deliberately destroyed even those who scored units were provided by the un to russia and Syrian Forces in its Relentless Campaign the government has started civilian buildings it would in schools universities and community centers. Even rescuers have been targeted and secondly strikes when they gather to pull bodies from the rubble of an attack over half of syrias prewar population thats more than 12000000 people have either been killed or forced from their homes. Every once in a while when a large group of refugees had to word europe the world pays some attention but a vast majority of syrians affected by the war feel abandoned by the world with no end in sight for their suffering and some of the job out of their. Well were watching Political Developments in israel as well the president riven rivlin will ask Opposition Leader benny gantz if he can form a new government head of current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu evelyn has been missing representatives of various smaller parties in an attempt to assess who they would support in any coalition 3 elections in the space of less than a year a fail to break the deadlock in israeli politics are a false it is falling about forcing western says this is as close as dance is being to forming a government. Certainly not a done deal by any stretch but he does have the raw numbers as things stand at the moment 61 recommendations from todays deliberations as opposed to just 58 for Benjamin Netanyahu one of the 120 knesset members a stain abstaining and so for benny gantz he has had a mandate before after the 2nd election he wasnt able to form a government at that time there is some within his own party who are opposed reportedly to forming a minority government with support from the outside from palestinian israeli politicians as would be the case however this is a very different situation this time he does have the numbers because of those 15 recommendations from the palestinian israeli largely palace an israeli joint list and also 7 recommendations from of the door liebermans party israel tell you so that does give him least the chance is very much the high point of his political career so far there is the pressure still from the president riven rivlin and from elsewhere for an Emergency National unity government to be formed because of the current fight against the growing a virus is from 1000 now an explosion near an oil pipeline has killed at least 15 people and destroyed dozens of buildings my agency to say it happened because a truck or fire near a pipeline in lagos that previously been targeted by all the oil fields its an area that seen several fires in the past when oil things cut holes in the pipelines and that address has more from the capital and he says that effect of oil is its not an unusual occurrence. This is the 2nd explosion associated with pipeline vandalism in lagos this year but by far the biggest albie deadliest with more than 15 People Killed and 50 houses destroyed along with cars and other property in that particular area all foods have continuously targeted Oil Pipelines in that part of lagos state and other parts of southern nigeria stealing orly either Petroleum Products refined Petroleum Products or crude all itself i dont mean from operation has been launched since 2017 to bring the situation under control but so far it is field officials are saying that the fire that followed the explosion has now been brought under control as a pipeline products through that pipeline have been cut off by the National Oil Company the officials on the ground especially emergency workers say they think they have saved everybody that needed saving and the injured have been taken for spittal for proper medical treatment its been a year since a gunman opened fire on 2 mosques in new zealand killing 51. 00 wash as a special prize was held on friday but the coronavirus pandemic has forced the cancellation of the main Memorial Services that were planned to be reports. Students in Christ Church were united in spirit and pulling. Together they came to the al no mosque where the 1st attack happened to remember the victim its more important to come shows more we speak. Lost their lives today than being scared of but even. The al know and linwood mosques were targeted by a white extremist gunman one year ago 51 people were killed for those who survived this is a difficult day i cant explain what i feel this morning. I was thinking and the look at the top i said ok is 8 oclock now. And. 5 hours later last year. Going to be injured with 9 bullets this wasnt a New Zealanders wanted to remember the victims but the corona Virus Outbreak forced the cancellation of the main Memorial Services. Since the attack the government has tightened its gun Laws Parliament quickly voted to ban military style semiautomatic weapons. That Muslim Leaders say much more work needs to be done to tackle prejudice what happened last year happened in large part because of the other ring of a community and how a particular individual saw muslims us talk sic in the subway and the author and i think that were whoever the author is in any community in any way as long as authoring continues unless that changes then the healing called take place and australia man is charged with terrorism murder and attempted murder is due to stand trial in g. Victoria gate and be out there. So ahead on the program not all the sport has been stopped by the quantifiers peta will be here with action from the pakistan suit belly. Landing. Plane. Singapore is being accused of expanding its coastline with illegally dredged satins some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished its a big business smuggling sam when they go take the say im very sure the sand is there you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so plentiful the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sand was at this time on aljazeera. A good winning the programming from International Film made comes out a. Way out just the arrest sets the stage for egypt to be through here will be the life of the lives the life of the nuns dead everybody is there global expats you get it were going to let the planet go through it because were not doing these obvious things open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on aljazeera. Woohoo. Welcome back lets bring you some sport now peta is standing by for us and our. Marion thank you so much with spains league on lockdown for 2 weeks valencia have announced 5 positive tests of coronavirus among 1st team players and staff the 1st to be announced was argentine defender is. He and the 4 individuals are at home in good health and self isolated travel to milan last month for a Champions League match at a full capacity san siro stadium. Over in rio brazilian champions flamengo played a match in an empty american our stadium which once famously hosted nearly 200000 fans at the 950. 00 World Cup Final before the game flamingos games all players had been tested after the merge the clubs Vice President contracted coronavirus on a trip to spain. Today it was very complicated emotionally ive never played without supporters i hope this was the 1st and the last time its a distressing thing its bothering thats the ultimate proof that theres no way of playing without friends also it affected the team having to be tested for coronavirus worried with what we could have. Put your gaze and i know pretty well whats going on in portugal i lost a friend so this is not a joke i think this tournament needs to stop we should not have the next round of games the players are not superheroes for mango is a team that is at risk. I know of is the English Premier League for the foreseeable future Manchester United midfielder paul pogba is trying to make the most of the down time he has set up a fund raising page on facebook has pledged Financial Aid to unicef to help tackle the quran a Virus Outbreak. And those plaintive disinfectants on show an Australian Rugby League of the melbourne storm took on the manly sea eagles the bulls were cleaned with bleach every time they went into the crowd off too its melbournes captain Cameron Smith called on the n. R. L. To be suspended the team travels a lot and i would travel and virtually every 2nd week of the competition so you know were going to be exposed to the airports in the air travel. Large crowds a lot so theres a nice incentive to apply is im concerned about. Themselves the concern about their families and. Making this this issue which is already libel. Making it much bigger than what it is in destroying. The u. K. Has shut down most of its top sports but horse racing is an exception thats often hundreds of thousands of fans attended last weeks Cheltenham Festival we spoke to racing journalist rupert bell. Racings taking its the heat from the government and hes basically saying while they can continue they will continue hence the reason why we have chosen them last week with over 250000 race goes there was racing yesterday in the u. K. As indeed there is to take but in scotland racing tomorrow it cant say only 500 people will be allowed so they are and im sure racing is preparing for the event you have a seat that all have to race behind closed doors and midweek meeting say its subtle and wolverhampton you probably might not get more than 600 people there so this not actually going to be a huge significance if these meetings are stage behind closed doors indeed they be doing that a non and france will be doing that they do have extra source is of revenue coming in from the petting levy so from that point of view racing should be able to find a way to continue to operate so that people can enjoy it on television and it might be a big shop window for the sport but the pick question mark is a meeting at the grand National Meeting spread over 3 days in liverpool theyll get 150000 people there and always see theres a wider Economic Impact from that bucks from a t. V. Perspective think it pugin 4 years around the world indeed in britain 89000000 people will watch that race so im sure all the racing full authorities will try and find a way to stage the grand national but clearly there are going to be lots of discussions between now and then and how racing manages Going Forward and also there is this p. R. Aspect to it because if they are seen to be too out of kilter with out the sports it might it will reflect potentially badly on the sport. 130 days to go on the tokyo 2020 olympics is still on at this stage but the olympic flame handover in athens next week will be done behind closed doors already shut down the relay through the country to avoid attracting crowds the rally of mexico has finished early after organizers decided to cut short over fast changing travel restrictions around the world french german. Has clinched the 6th win in mexico the former World Champion snatched the lead in fridays speed test and kept his toyota yaris on course in hot conditions the clean sheets 1st victory for the Toyota Racing Team the coronavirus has not stopped up to a cricket matches taking place in pakistan with the t 20 super league but while the games continue to be played fans have been shut out as a precautionary measure holes gadhafi said it was empty as the calendars qualifying for the semifinals for the 1st time in their history they chased down a formidable 187 runs are going to get into the bolton sultans Christian Club 130 not out of only 55. 00 balls as local won by 9 wickets another event that went ahead and with spectators at that is the all england open badminton events on sunday the mens final was contested by the top 2 seeds in birmingham denmark stick to election defeat in chinas charity unchained 211321142 take the title this is the worlds oldest badminton to it and thats all the sport merriam. Thanks very much peter well that wraps up the news hour were going to have much more in our but i said in just a couple of minutes time my colleague during a day of a gator will be with you going to bring you all the latest figures and cases on the global corona Virus Outbreak stay with us. The latest news as it breaks the fostering service is supposed to start from early next year but the corona Virus Outbreak could put the brakes on the project and slow down construction we detail coverage we know the 440 people were killed in the violence and officially 350 people were injured from around the world they werent enough to create a logistical problem for the greek will sorties but they were enough to make many of the people of less most anxious. Walks behind the recent tensions between pakistan and i mean do you know weve given them the opportunity to engage but not realise its not just politics its the new book while the not so from the Pakistani Foreign minister shop Mahmood Qureshi talks to aljazeera. Full of struggles but you dont bet on one with not only that i mean all along all the time walking up on the full of pleasure. I dont mind im going anywhere with it im not here but im not going to an intimate look at life in cuba today because it was on one of our guns that i had done you want done you know ive got a budget. Q on aljazeera. We understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. So no matter what you see aljazeera will bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to. Aljazeera. At least suffers the biggest one day increase in death since the corona Virus Outbreak began. To watch aljazeera live from london im dead in obligate also ahead iran sees a rising coronavirus case as it struggles to cope under the strain of International Sanctions chaos at some u. S. Airports as additional virus screening measures come into effect and passengers from europe scramble to beat the travel ban. And in other news benny gantz is invited to form israels next government