Some people to start traveling again. And the render modi is to address the nation as india expands along down to the viruses spread. Now the worlds biggest sporting event has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic the tokers some a olympics would begin in july however japanese Prime Minister shinzo says he and the International Olympic committee have agreed on a postponement of up to one year in order to safeguard the health of athletes and everyone else involved vassal follows weeks of insisting that it would go ahead as planned if i go the whole. First of all once again i confirmed with the i. O. C. As President Park that there will be no consolation at the Tokyo Olympics or paralympics furthermore i was the host of the take your lympics. Taking into consideration the Current Situation for the athletes for the athletes of the world for them to be able to compete in the best environment and also for the games to be one in which it is safe and worry free for spectators i asked if it would be possible to consider perspire only games for approximately one year time done in the. Im sorry about it and i regret it but in a way its also a sigh of relief Prime Minister and president barak had a call on short notice and it gave us a sense of direction so thats a relief but it doesnt solve everything and this could be a good pretext for us to go forward and we can prepare for an even better olympic and Paralympic Games than what we planned for this year well our Sports Correspondent me wellings joins us now live only weve been seeing International Pressure mounting over the last few weeks so why this decision now what finally pushed so i bear the line. Well the International Olympic committee had publicly said that the games were going to be perspiring to cancel it of course also indicated that there was a chance of that they were sticking to it there was a head injury like the private late we knew that all considerations were going through the i. O. C. Say they were starting to look ahead to next year and i mean they had realized that there was no wind these games could take place in july so why not come out and say well this is the way that the International Olympic committee tends to operate with other crosses that im not actually been anywhere near as important or bad as this one but also substances the word cancellation that opens up the insurance that i thought they needed rather than actually a perspire which leaves a lot of doubt would it be down to the japanese organizers design something 1st so it was like an adult that was taking place that was becoming increasingly controversial pitches there was cheap junk science in the public cannot theyve been picked isnt just a sporting event its a measurable and so many Different Levels it was the one big sporting event that wasnt cancelled and people needed to know where i stood and therefore when the i. O. C. Had not said both weve got 4 weeks and we have to make a decision ive stated that this is it would come this way and does fly on the phone between the japanese Prime Minister. And the i. O. C. President thomas bach had to type and they had to make that decision and they were even talking about the last time the take care lympics were postponed and that was back in 1040 because of world war to and at the time they were moved to hell thinking but then eventually they were cancelled and it went on the at catherine could with say that potentially happen here. These games will not be cancelled and i never thought. That word was mainly darren i was in them but dick pound used to be very powerful now not so much and it kind of threw a few people and one of the reasons it was out there as well as biggest crowds the i. O. C. Did they did consider the insurance and labor. Bit the more you think about it the more perspective makes perfect sense of course it presents she challenges of course it affects the calendar disposing of the broadcasters the stakeholders but we are in a crisis the world has never seen before so why wouldnt the i. O. C. Just come out and say i know we can do this but we can do it next year we know that its going to have a effect on athletes and how they prepare to actually. Well. As is hoped to be expected in the next. Day there will be a very different outlook of what happened this is shouldnt take too much time to get out there not. Quite as big as we can. Find a place in the candidate. In the summer in the same sense that. They have to say well theyve got your child and he. Has been going to say it would more likely replace that exchange. Which is the United States. They wellings their Sports Correspondent speaking to us live thank you very much they welsh and so are they has been saying that the games would mark a victory over the coronavirus amount lets move to the epicenter of that pandemic to europe where there has been a rapid increase in the number of cases spains death toll has sagged another 514 people have died the countrys highest daily increase so far in total nearly 2700 people have died in spain with almost a 40000 confirmed cases and all those cases more than 5000 of them are Health Workers who are trying to fight to contain the outbreak the country is under lockdown and foreigners have been barred from entry while soldiers in spain who have been sent to help during the crisis have also found elderly patients in Retirement Homes abandoned and in west cases dead in their beds the military was sent to disinfect care homes and one of europes west hit countries and now an ice rink in madrid has been converted into a temporary mortuary for coated 1000 victims while not a hero is alive for us in the spanish capital loss lets start with these very disturbing numbers of Health Workers getting infected i believe its 5400 is this because they dont have the protection that they need. Yeah huh this is the reason why all these nearly 1440 Percent People are infected of corn a virus Health Care Workers are demanding immediate delivery of the liberty of protecting equipment against coronavirus like gowns masks protective glasses and they want that to less than 24 hours and we have to remember that these people are the ones that are fighting in the front line of coronavirus on dont have enough equipment or the proper one and also weve also been hearing about these discoveries of bodies and can homes by the military what steps are we now saying taken to prevent this happening more broadly well as you mentioned the leave the spanish army has been deployed nationwide to take over certain tasks but is this impacting train stations airports and care homes while the word this in fact in some of these care how holmes they found out that there were dead bodies. In the same places other people that were left the bodies as were left hello so off to the Tent Ministry made the statement yesterday during that interview to the Spanish Television the Prosecutors Office in space is launching an investigation to find out what the real situation of these care homes and loss as weve been saying these numbers just keep growing and with the change of this ice rink into a more train a government to scale the bracing for and even fathom upset what kinds of other preparations of even seeing. Well of madrid becoming the epicenter of of the spanish outbreak. All these hospitals are overwhelmed that cannot cope with any more of patients theyre diverting all these patients to improvise hospitals like the one we happy semi that is one of the. Is a one improvised hospital that im in madrid exceed the issues center that instituted for hours the spanish army be getting built a Field Hospital with dry 1000 beds and theyre also taking obese people to medicalize hotels part for what you mention markets move municipal funeral home have closed down because they havent got. The protecting a quick money and this is the reason why they have an aid enabling enabled this ice rink block of their yellow to store all these bodies because of the low temperatures lost a hero that life for us and the transplants are very very much wanting to stay safe yourself. Well france is now entering a 2nd week of lockdown as coronavirus cases and deaths there continue to rise the french government is adding people to be more disciplined and to stay indoors to stop the spread 100000 Police Officers have now been deployed to enforce the various restrictions that ash about the reports from one are all sense a bad in west and from. French Police Officers patrol the beach on the french caribbean island of guadalupe as french authorities tighten controls in their overseas territories to stem the spread of the coronavirus. Weve been through a lot in the police force whether its the bombings the yellow vests whether Something Else i never thought that one day id have to check people on the beach or ban people from swimming or Walking Around for a virus its incredible in mainland France Police of increased patrols to crack down on people who venture out on necessarily checking people on the ground and sustain them from the air and this is the latest weapon in what french prison to man woman the school wore on the coronavirus drones urging people to stay indoors. We need to send a message to people that they shouldnt stay on the street this is about prevention not repression were not here through just a people issue fines it is to tell them to stay in your arms. Police officers have been deployed to enforce the confinement rules people may only leave home to buy food or medicines travel is allowed for essential work a permit is needed for each trip. So this is the permit it is that you have to print off every time you leave the house you can hand write it as well and it gives your name and address on the reasons for you leaving the house so that could be to go food shopping or it could be to go and buy medicines but if the police stop you and check in you dont have this letter or you they can find you and for multiple offenders that find can be the equivalent of up to 4000. 00 u. S. Dollars and 6 months in jail you. Cross says that unless people are paid rules and stay home the government will impose tougher restrictions nighttime curfews have already started in a number of cities nationwide one is being considered giving up freedoms clearly isnt easy but is coronavirus cases and deaths rapidly climb and france the government says people must accept that their actions can help save lives. Aljazeera west and france when moving on to other news and at least 171 gerry and soldiers have been killed in an ambush on their convoy by an armed group in the countrys north east military sources say an men fired grenades targeting the truck near gorgie village in borno state a rescue operation is currently still underway lets get more from our correspondent at madras hes in nigerias capital a bridge or i mean we know there are a number of different armed groups that operate in this region what more do we know about this attack. Well basically security sources are confirming only 47 at a press. That ended about 20 minutes ago the coordinator of defense information who coordinates all information from various security agencies. And then to confirm that 47 people were killed in that attack and it suspected that book or arm as as the culprit what exactly happened according to military authorities here was the convoy was a tool of delivering bombs and other i mean ition to troops in the field when the attack or the vehicle delivering that i mean ition was hit and the explosion that resulted from that. Attack then and gulf all because most of the because in that convoy that were carrying soldiers and other equipment to the battlefront and as a result 47 of them have died so Major General john entities also confirming that the military later called in air support from the air and they succeeded in eliminating the attackers thats what the military is saying at the moment but the finger of blame at tralee is on boko haram where recently weve seen an uptick in i mean operations in the northeast of the country across the borders with the Multinational JointTask Force Energy in chad and parts of cameroon militaries of the we didnt have stepped up their operations as things started to get worse but remember over the last towards the end of last year and the beginning of this year weve seen how Islamic State in west africa probably has launched several attacks not only on civilian targets but military away military equipment and of course kidnapping people from bettors fronts in the battle against book or arm in west africa and it added just that with all the lessons from the bench that thank you very much happened. Well still ahead on mount as there are countries across africa to lock down to stop the spread of coronavirus across the continent. However was about to put an end to the roads of war in beijing has been out nicely line of play out here this is a front behind which the air is cold so they got 22 degrees on wednesday and its nice and warm so the true nature and through japan there is movement by says day temperature drops to about 10 degrees as this front goes through still cold enough to some snow in parts of northeastern china least behind about 10 degrees this dropping the temperatures in northern china hasnt made much difference in seoul youll notice and theres rain coming up with a southerly breeze a humid breeze and this of course is for thursday for south korea and some parts of japan and then over china itself the chinese mainland is showing very much his wish for springtime rains with 2 hand almost in the heart of if the heaviest stuff. Now there is further sars are going further north or west leaving in 2 days you dont completely but theres more of a concentration on these shows coming in from the western pacific to was a sudden philippines there also showers throughout throughout borneo but its the malays are not towards thailand and cambodia but this to the scattering there is significant rain on its way once again to fall and also India Kashmir maybe but also intensively for pakistan. Join the colobus conversation after the bubble people get expand their brains maybe have a different view this is a dialogue that women in cambodia are in fact telling their here we dont know how much theyre getting paid for it its hard to track its hard to treat everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a law right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progress and not perfection on aljazeera. Will remove. The i. And i again i must. Remind of our top stories this hour the worlds biggest sporting event has been postponed for up to one year to safeguard the health of athletes and everyone else involved amid the coronavirus pandemic the tigers summer olympics would use began in july. Spains death toll has surged with another 513. 00 deaths nearly 2700. 00 people have now died in total there and more than 5000. 00 of those infected our Health Workers who are fighting to contain the outbreak. Fronts entering a 2nd week of lockdown as coronavirus cases and deaths there continue to rise the french government is adding people to be more disciplined and to stay indoors to help stop the spread 100000 Police Officers have been deployed to enforce the restrictions. While many restrictions are being lifted in china other countries are preparing for the west most of india states are now under lockdown nearly a 1000000000 people have been ordered to stay in their homes nationwide coffee is are in place and domestic flights have been banned thats in addition to International Flights india has now reported more than 460 confirmed cases and 9 deaths well as weve been saying the restrictions on starting to come off millions of chinese in the province where the corona Virus Outbreak began at midnight on choose a flu bay will stop allowing some to travel just as many other countries that introducing more drastic measures now the region of more than 60000000 people has been under lockdown since late january when the government closed roads railways and airports but residents will soon be allowed to leave once they get a tracking code confirming that they are virus free the one exception is the city of who had thats the west affected area. Well in the United States president says hes considering how businesses there are to reopen as soon as possible despite a rapidly growing rays of infections he says the u. S. Was not built to be shut down the economy is in town while with millions of americans on the shutdown orders and politicians on monday again failed to pass a trillion dollar bill to stimulate the economy how does our castro reports. The streets of manhattan are empty reminiscent of the days after 911 but within new yorks hospitals doctors say theyre under siege the number of cases across the country has soared we dont get control of this in the next 2 to 3 weeks our Hospital System to be overwhelmed under mounting pressure from state governors President Trump says his administration has shipped 8000000 respirator masks hes also signed an executive order to prevent the hoarding of critical medical supplies but if you are sitting on it on a warehouse with masks. Surgical masks you will be hearing a knock on your door for more than 100000 americans are under orders to stay home despite the growing number of cases trump says he hopes to reopen the country soon were not going to let it turn into a long lasting financial problem started out as a purely medical problem and its not going to go beyond that just not going to allow that to happen meanwhile Congress Remains at a stalemate over a nearly 2 trillion dollar economic rescue package the republican plan stalled by Senate Democrats the bill still includes something that most americans dont want to see. Large corporate bailouts with no most no Strings Attached the government is also fast tracking experimental drug treatments one endorsed by President Trump as a possible game changer against the corona virus has not been a proven effective in a clinical setting and in arizona man who self medicated with a drug to treat his corona virus has died heidi joe castro aljazeera maryland now in turkey at the demand for sanitize as a Hygiene Products has cause prices that a saw the country has nearly 1600. 00 confirmed cases and 37. 00 deaths and i said of course they only reports from istanbul mens cologne is also one hides among carrying. Its important for both hospitality and hygiene in turkey its not popular because its. The moment to kidnap sam its origins for turks struggling to control the spread of corum the pirates after the 1st diagnosed case was announced earlier this month panic borders supermarkets and pharmacies demand for the germ killer who sleep to fight for the other people that often as the Global Demand rose turkeys stocks begin to melt as well and at a fixed prices we are doing our best to resist this so we dont know how much longer we can continue. Turkey is dependent on foreign suppliers for dick tooling which contains 80 percent ethanol the turkish government scrapped the requirement to add as an all to guess selling for 3 months in a bit to boost its infecting further action to help combat the spread of corinna virus all exports of this infected animal and medical fabrics now need governments approval because of the high demand thats home cologne and sanitizer producers say ill call it like gold nowadays thats why they decline requests from a road to meet the local market demand and theyre urging people not sold or buy in panic for a Fair Distribution as well in school and in other sensation products meant for face masses also wound freshers has short 70 percent there is only publicly to see the countries that were exposed to the pandemic earlier than turkey faced domestic demand too much for sanitizers and didnt back didnt their experience told us to analyze our stocks considering turkeys population and the need for disinfecting the environment our domestic stock should be well imagine under control preapproval exports is vital now turkey is friends and has told people to stay at home for at least 3 weeks to stop spread of coronets virus and announce a 16000000000. 00 Economic Relief package that includes postponing debt payments and reducing taxes in various sectors in turkey Central Banks cut suspension work Interest Rates to try and reduce the impact of the virus turkeys major Tourism Industry acts for some consumers are also suffering as the value of the iraq continues to fall seen on console of aljazeera and stumble. Well in iran now nearly 2000 people have died from the coroner virus with another 25000 infected his Health Ministry says its expecting a high surgeon cases as the numbers continue to get more alarming by the day iranians have been to follow preventative measures and tehran is saying that u. S. Sanctions are making it difficult to tackle the outbreak well jordan has introduced some of the strictest measures aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus more than 1600 people have been arrested just in the last 3 days for breaking the nationwide curfew in the country has now reported 127 cases of the 19 with no confirmed deaths guardian reporter michael sufi is based in amman and he told me that most people are respecting these restrictions he be stuck at 5 now today. Believe any reason to look for groceries no pharmacies not even luck. People under house arrest now youll have to say so foster is a high people seem to understand why this is necessary. Ive been listening to in other countries this sort of confusion over what is allowed and whats not in jordan theres no confusion nothings allowed no ones allowed out of the house everyone gets that except for those people who would be none arrested so far but at this point we simply sit and wait for the run instructions from the government about when we are allowed to eventually leave our house again theyve left questions over whether you can take your garbage out if you leave something in the copy go and get it generally they think that they can do things like that but anything that involves leaving your house to go somewhere else is completely bad i have to say those rules have started to relax today because theyve just started to trial a system to deliver things like bread water and gas to people so ive just been out to the front of my house there are people all up and down the street waiting for was a delivery trucks of bread delivery trucks you know unfortunately what were seeing here is is some crowded as these buses full of bread show up people from a neighborhood will crowd around to try to get some bread for that day because that defeats the purpose of the lockdown so its a system that were seeing has a few cases that hopefully wont be government will be able to iron out next today as well sudan has now ordered the closure of all its portents one passage has died there and 3 cases of kind of 1000 have happened confound the government has struggled to control its borders and as have the local reports from a refugee camp many are ferrying the virus could spread faster where they are. For nearly 10 months 16 year old sylar and her sister have been inseparable now registered in sudan as eritrean refugees the 2 fled their country with help from smugglers solera says the deal was for the smugglers to bring them to sudan but what happened next didnt go as planned. The smugglers from our country demanded more money when we told them we didnt have money they treated us to smugglers on the sudanese side of the border so lera now lives here in the Eastern States of along with other refugees according to the United Nations more than 120 refugees are in sudan most of them are in castello and unless registered refugees and Asylum Seekers arent allowed to leave the camps as a result few know about the global coronavirus pandemic but those who do our. Work right were afraid we dont know much about the virus if it comes to the camp well get infected because we live like one family here and we interact with each other since the detection of the 1st coroner virus in sudan the countrys Transitional Administration issued several directives to try to contain it this is one of the border crossings between sudan and eritrea so dense government has ordered the closure of all of its borders due to coronavirus fears which here in theyve been shut for years but away from government crossings most of the border is open making smuggling of people and goods easy most parts of the nearly 700 kilometer border look like this open land with Little Movement during the day and according to local authorities the smuggling during the night the military carries out patrol but the local government says there are challenges in keeping the border completely shut because. There are tribes in the border area that interact with each other only by preventing them from complete movement so the best we can do is raise awareness. Back a bit cam so larry says she doesnt progress leaving eritrea despite the security and Health Threats you know faeces on the other side of the border people who are going to do their own because they dont use them so damn well lets not take you through the situation across the rest of the continent zimbabwe has reported its 1st death from the pandemic just days after confirming its fast cases the government has closed schools and banned large gatherings but theyre all concerns about its ability to handle the outbreak Zimbabwes Health system has critical shortages of equipment and drugs all the governments of senegal and ivory coast have both declared a state of emergency in response to the global outbreak of war in president Alassane Ouattara has announced a nighttime nationwide calf year and gradual confinement measures and account he was also been imposed in senegal where all gatherings have been banned rwanda has announced 17 new cases its highest single day increase in the number of infections that brings its total now to 36 only one of the new patients was a locally infected well known i mean had returned recently from the United Arab Emirates 3 from kenya 2 from the u. S. And one each from india and cattle. Meanwhile guinea has recorded 2 new cases of the virus and the International Air force in the capital conakry has now been closed until further notice well in uganda there are 8 new cases bringing the total number of infections there to 9 all the new patients are ugandan citizens who recently returned from dubai. And africas most populous country thats nigeria now has 40 confirmed cases and one death from the pandemic theres a ban on all International Flights and land borders are also closed people in the biggest cities of a bridge and lagos have been told to walk from home. Well indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is believed to be about to address the nation just hours before a ban on all domestic flights comes into effect lets bring our correspondent elizabeth purana in from new delhi liz weve been really beginning to see the impacts of this lockdown now in day 2 especially when it comes to transport how are people coping with all of these new restrictions. Restrictions that have been expanded more and more since promised in that in there more the address the nation on thursday and he asked everyone to observe this 14 hour curfew he called it the peoples curfew on sunday halfway through sunday that was then extended and were now you know the 2nd day into the 2nd official day off the lockdown and today is the day that not only have we seen it you know extended now to most of the country is under either complete or partial and more so complete than partial lockdown but weve also had police out on the streets around the country and forcing it they even began the morning by dismantling the biggest or most well known protest site against the governments citizenship it all before coronavirus took over the News Headlines here and if the last few months the biggest story has been those ongoing protests again liz im sorry is that a dropship indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi is now addressing the nation lets listen in on the human. And almost all the people of india we have to get together and we have to face the long. Bar this journey back to the border just back of the floods. Then. Mohammadi theres. Been you have been thinking a little have been the grown up and go make in the new. All of you are listening to it and you are also watching one bite you i also. Think. Thats how the most. Nations in the body. They are saying this is endemic and they have become helpless. Like that are pretty awesome and the government that the nations the countries are not taking any effect. On me all they have left. About. The need. For nonviolent