Scared. The silence from saudi arabia as more arrests are reported after the detention of 2 senior princes in talk of a power struggle. Also ahead well be live in the greek island of lesbos were a fire has destroyed a camp for migrants. With the sport just days to go before the start of the formula one season organists announced the 2nd race on the calendar in bahrain will take place behind closed doors because of coronavirus. So there definitely is imposing tough restrictions on a quarter of its population looking down its 2nd largest city and more than 60000000 people to try and stop the spread of coronavirus is just how it is biggest rise in cases since the outbreak began with more than 1200. 00 confirmed on saturday of the lockdown includes the entire region. Long body where they tell him outbreak began and where the most deaths have been recorded home to 10000000 people no one will be able to move in or out of the area and that includes the economic capital of milan the lock down will also impact several other provinces that includes friendless affecting another 6000000. 00 people restrictions a set to remain until early april Victoria Gate and b. Has the latest. In casual in northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city before it was put into lockdown but its too good to talk i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent to cream putting in the red zone and because id like to return down south to my relatives i decided to go earlier. Prime minister just said picante has signed a decree to impose an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the long bloody region home to 10000000 people to limit the spread of coded 19 theres. Now we have restrictive measures for a much wider area because it wasnt making any sense to say a lot of small red zones while infections have spread all over lombardi and in the provinces we listed. This comes after italy reported more than 1200. 00 new infections in one day theres going to be. Many things that again to be closed like jinns cultural centers. All sorts of areas where people get together in large groups restaurants and bars however appear it appears they will be kept. Pope francis hes fighting a cold his Council Public appearances and will deliver his regular sunday press to crowds at the vatican by live stream and the leader of one of his least 2 ruling parties has announced that he has coronavirus all caught on a so it is arrived i have coronavirus today obviously ill be monitored like everybody else in the situation i feel fine so it was decided that ill be isolated at home also my family is falling all the protocols for the situations italy is the worst affected country in europe but france germany and the netherlands have all reported a rise in the number of cases while malta slovakia and serbia have confirmed that 1st infections victoria gave him the aljazeera. Joins us live now from london a. Very much the focus of things in europe and extreme measures now employed. Absolutely in with more than a quarter of the population effectively under lockdown were just hearing reports also that the president of the piedmont region is also has also now tested positive for covert 19 but essentially what you have now is you have hospice you have schools gyms nightclubs all areas where sort of Public People people can congregate effectively shut down all these public venues closed until april the 3rd across the country it really is quite a Strict Lockdown that there is being imposed in the country to try and contain 1000. 00 as much as possible and of course youve got 2 major cities of it under lockdown as well and venice but of course the economic capital of italy in venice of course drawing so many tourists every year as well and while you have said he our Football Games still taking place but behind locked doors the head of the Italian Football Association has in fact written to Prime Minister conti to stop the games out right another measure that to try and stem further infections as well also religious ceremonies such as weddings and funerals are also going to be about and as well of course with the large numbers of people congregating at certain points is a prime opportunity for infection to take place across large groups of people however Health Care Workers have had their holiday and their annual leave cancelled during this time as a way of trying to be available as much as possible for this crisis that has engulfed the country. But of course its not just italy its also france as well where now 949 cases have been recorded of over 1000 us including 2 National Assembly lawmakers that there are now 16 people who died from cove at 19 as well and thats according to the head of the Public HealthService Germany there more than 680. 00 cases but still as of yet no deaths from the Novel Coronavirus or its only really there for the moment thanks very much indeed for that update so if youre there in london lets take this on we can speak to dr laura tell yani shes a professor of Infectious Diseases at the clinic of infectious and tropical diseases disciplines university of rome joins us on skype from rome though to tell jani 1st of all these measures that have been put in place is this the sort of thing that just has to happen to beat the virus. Well this seems to be very difficult to observe measures but indeed we really need them but its like a kind of war a war makes restrictions our work makes. And this is a war against a virus and the only way we know its possible to control the virus is to restrict. The spread and since we are responsible of the spread. By which the virus passes from the person to another and moved replies the number of infected people the only way we can we have to control the spread of the virus is reduce contacts between humans right because initially there was some criticism of the effectiveness of coron team but it is proved to work in china and today were hearing that china is reporting 44 new infections which is the lowest daily number since the outbreak began do you think thats because of the lockdown that they put in place there. Sure the most effective measure were in china was the parent team and its clear that in a Large Population of 60000000 people that rare the area how who are in all around. Cost reduction the firm strong attraction of an infected old number of infected person and the state of the art yesterday the number of new infections in china was less compared to the number of new infected in in italy and in means that if we really end you gently need to. To impose this kind of restriction right and all the authorities are climbing the need for respecting them and it argues that it all it depends on the attention with which italians will observe these restrictions writes a guide to learn english that italian sound much better than we majored in so i am confident we can apply these measures very effective well not to tell on a given everything youve just said is there for ben something that should have been done sooner in italy and should other cities around the world kind of preempt the spread by going into lockdown straight away. Welcome by the but as a matter of fact the current teen in some areas of lumber he started on the 23 of february so no complaints about what happened because really it appeared to be even a little bit too extreme when did the current team in d. C. Area as rare a plight but now we know that it was a very well there are. Very good decision. Dr gloria tony on is just fantastic to get your professional expertise on this to do appreciate it thanks very much indeed thank you. Lets bring you up to speed on the other crane a virus updates from around the world in the United States cruise ship with an outbreak onboard will dot now in the city of oakland off to San Francisco turned away 21 infections have been confirmed after testing kits were dropped on board the grand princess is carrying 3 and a half 1000 people Mainland China reported 44 new infections on saturday the lowest daily number as we were just discussing since the outbreak began but no new cases were were reported outside the epicenter of a province and at least 10 people in china been killed after a hotel used as a Coronavirus Quarantine Center collapse rescue workers pulled 47 out from under the rubble many are still missing well lets speak now to katrina you who is live for us in beijing lets just start with that Hotel Collapse what more do we know. Right so we know that this Hotel Collapse on saturday evening trapping about 70 people this hotel has about between 5 to 7 stories its a steel structure and its not an old building it was only built in 2018 so were trying to find out the reason for this Hotel Collapse there has been some speculation that some refer bushman being done on the ground floor was a reason behind why the structure gave way and theres been an awful lot of frustration around this because many of the people trapped in the hotel were people who were being told to stay in there to be quarantined an isolated to prevent the spread of coronavirus so they werent there by choice they were there essentially to be monitored for the sake of their health and the health of the community outside so its extremely frustrating that that protective measure has had devastating effects on the people there the Hotel Manager has been other than a lot bigger part and has been detained and is currently being questioned and we know that emergency teams are working around the clock there still several people underneath the rubble and the Central Government has also sent an additional workers to help try to rescue people but yes as you said 10 people have died so far. The flipside to the joint reporting its lowest number of new infections since in a single day. Thats right according to official figures it looks like the spread outside of hoover province has essentially been contained we had 44. 00 cases reported in the last 24 hours 41 of those cases were inside who bay but outside who were there were only 3 cases reported and of those 3 cases they were all cases where people were infected abroad not inside china so the Chinese Government is really latching on to this and and sort of declaring a kind of victory were seeing headlines was she didnt things picture saying victory is at hand at this in this peoples war against the outbreak and its definitely i mean it is a very positive sign considering that 2 weeks ago we were seeing thousands of cases reported in a single day so its definitely good news at the latched onto by the government as a as a sign that their heavy handed measures locking down 60000000 people thats the equivalent of the population of the u. K. Preventing them from leaving their homes has essentially work to shutting down public transport have been people from going to work but of course its also in a way being used to laze some of that criticism that they mishandled the outbreak in the 1st place when it 1st started early in this year wrote well thats a picture of america to you thanks very much lead swim across to hong kong where protests is taking place over a plan to set up coronavirus clinics in residential neighborhoods without consulting the locals today there are 113. 00 confirmed cope with 1000. 00 cases in hong kong and 2 people have died lets get more from sarah clarke who study by force in hong kong. Tell us more about why people are so upset. Well weve had a number of rallies over recent weeks the one on sunday this is in an area called typo which is in the northern part of the city it was yet another community rally in this that the people here are concerned about these Quarantine Centers or the coronavirus clinics being set up in these districts which are of got a quite a high urban density quite highly Populated Areas and theyre simply concerned because number one they worry about the risk of infection in these highly Populated Areas and theyre also and the angry about the government and not consulting the community before setting these clinics up now there are couple 100 people there the right place didnt take long to move in and then we saw a number of other antigovernment or prodemocracy groups join this rally now pepper spray was used on some of the people attending this particular rally and the police tried to disperse the crowd of certainly some chaotic scenes in the area of typo this merely rallies against a crowd of vice clinics but these particular rallies are turning into what most why the movement the Antigovernment Movement is uniting with these communities against the clinics and the police are moving in and being quite heavy handed when it came to todays rally that dispersed the crowd they declared it and Legal Assembly and move those people out now weve also had a Police Press Conference in the last hour where the police have confirmed that overnight they arrested 17 people over what was up by a number of bomb plots across the city where 2 of those bombs actually detonated and one near a hospital another one nations in so its part of a crackdown by the place to try and arrest those people who are part of this bomb plots theyve confirmed 2. 6 tons of chemical devices were found and they describe it as a bomb making factory at some of the homes where these arrests were made so certainly the government still moving in and the police are still moving in to try and make arrests of those people involved in those antigovernment protests or 0 thanks very much indeed a circle out there in hong kong. Spread across to the other side of the world to the United States pretty cold rain is in washington d. C. Where theres been a Significant Development in the coronaVirus Outbreak linked to 2 political conferences held in the city recently. There is news coming out of washington d. C. That is going to have political leaders very concerned there were 2 big conferences in the capital in just the last couple of days one was the conservative Political Action committee thats basically a republican lobbying organization and they had a huge with the American Israel Public Affairs committee or a pac they had their annual conference in washington d. C. Now we are hearing reports that the attendees at both of those conferences have been detected to have the coronavirus so the big concern is going to be did it spread among that group the conservatives and the organization and all of the 800000 attendees that were in that giant Conference Center so this is obviously going to become a great concern for political leaders we expect that the numbers in the United States are going to rise dramatically heres why there really hasnt been very much testing for the corona virus in the United States because at 1st the federal agency that was tasked to create the test sent it out it didnt work they just then a few days a few days ago a lot of private labs to come up with their own test well they sent out their test to the Public Health agencies so there just arent a lot of test kits out there now u. S. President said anyone who needs a task can get a test but were hearing from other Health Officials on the ground and also within the administration that that is simply not the case they hope to ramp up the testing a lot by hundreds of thousands in the next couple of days perhaps by the millions so we should see a pretty sizable increase in the number of coronavirus cases here in the United States but in large america its now reported the 1st coronavirus death filmy told in several countries in the region including colombia chile and peru have all of the 1st cases. Meanwhile israeli and palestinian authorities are continuing their efforts to try and contain the virus thats after 16 cases were identified in the occupied west bank city of bethlehem and tourists have been banned from entering the city and a roadblock has been put up to quarantine quarantine the area and ramallah teams in protective clothing have been disinfecting and the sites countries in africa have been till now escaped the worst of the coronavirus operate but there have been new cases in the cameroon and in togo and at least 45 infections have been confirmed elsewhere on the continent nicholas reports now from senegal where authorities are implementing measures to try and stop the spread. The corona virus is spreading in africa on tuesday a french couple with flu like symptoms tested positive for the virus in this hospital with multiple new cases many of the nursing and medical staff have been sent home hundreds are in selfimposed quarantined pharmacies are running out of masks and sanitizers some are even resorting to traditional remedies and the hope of fighting off the virus is going to individualize you need to eat garlic at least 3 times a day and that will stuff carone of others especially older people have been coming to me hoping that this will protect them when youre going to be i mean dont count on that remedy though the World Health Organization says theres no evidence that eating garlic has protected people from the new coronavirus so far all the cases on the african continent are not coming from china like experts predicted but from europe the outbreak that began in the north of italy is quickly spreading beyond european borders we are not far from the pandemic most on the continent is not enough capacity for example for intensive i