A march for their rights on International Womens day. In School Friends a ban from bahrain one race of the coronavirus. From the womens teacher if you walk upright against india in front of the packed vote in progress. Hello welcome to the news hour our top story its only a suffered another shop spike in deaths from coronavirus this on the day of 60000000 people thats a quarter of its population under lockdown 366 people are now known to have died from the virus an increase of 133 from saturday making it the country with the highest official death toll outside china more than 7000 infections have also been confirmed. Well the lockdown includes the entire region of a long body where 267 of the deaths were recorded home to 10000000 people and the Financial Capital milan no one can move in or out of the area the lockdown has also been imposed on 14 other provinces including venice affecting another 6000000 people those restrictions are set to remain in place until early april sonia begins our coverage a city deserted a region under lockdown milan italys economic heart is almost unrecognizable hardly anyone in the shopping malls its famous squares as the army keeps watch over an almost surreal situation this is an unprecedented crisis in this countrys recent history look at stuff which are the internet i mean that what is happening in my city is worrying me and its also because milan is a lively city and to see it like this today is almost a defeat for me i never would have thought this would happen milans my pencil airport has now suspended all flights its neighboring airport now restricted to running only domestic flights but that hasnt stopped people attempting to get away. Fearing further contagion leaders of italys southern regions have warned hundreds of thousands of its citizens who went to work or study in the north of the country not to return home but groups of people continue to arrive from milan arriving with their masks on but there was no one to test them for covert 19. The harsh restrictions are designed to slow down the spread of the disease but there are fears that it may be too little too late hospitals in the affected region have been inundated and sick residents are now being asked to stay at home stretched Health Care System is struggling to keep up with the increasing numbers there are no more valuable butts in hospitals and actually the current hospital which serves about 500000 people in all the area of course is little thought on doctors got infected so there are nor more intensive care beds available away from italy there were further increases of the virus all over the continent in france at least 900 people have died from the virus with more than 1100 cases recorded in the country and there are nearly 800 people infected in germany one German National diagnosed with covert 19 has died on holiday in egypt last italys lockdown is the most stringent outside of china containment may have come too late for some areas slowing down the virus is spread may be the best option for now so on a diagonal aljazeera. Well joining us now via skype is. A journalist at the korea sara newspaper in milan the capital of the region as youre hearing in sa news reports the epidemic has really brought life in milan to a standstill with people being quarantined in flights and transportation grounded and restricted describe to us what what life is like there at the moment. So 1st thanks for having me and of course we are in there its unprecedented. I feel none of ours as the leave through in the war some most of the people alive today havent and so this is absolutely unprecedented the new and difficult to adjust that but on the other hand its absolutely necessary. So we try you know to work from home and organize work differently we try to do a lot of skype calls just to feel closer because i mean Human Interaction is fundamental and we cannot really do that you can walk about you have to keep it nice. So yes its we are stealing you know are adjusting to eat there and it wont be easy also because it wont be quicker i mean i think we need a couple weeks of these down which is not a quarantine like the one we had they had in hand. But its there are very many restriction and i think we if that is also a test the for western counties countries all over toward because in china i dont want to retire a regime and it was easier you know to make people comply to all the restriction and for a democracy i think its a little bit different and so how are people coping with these new rules and restrictions it obviously as you say communication is limited because of this isolation. Of people accepted that life is going to change. Yeah i think it i mean its the 1st they hold the real lock down so i like a one for a walker and i can see that there is i think there is still too many people that havent really understood what they need to do because walking is ok but you cannot really stay close to other people and there were still you know in some parks there were groups of young people of course they feel that they are not affected by the virus but the problem is of course people that have other clinicians and older people so its always better to to be safer so i think well slowly we will we will understand what we need to do already and i mean its already different from a few days ago all. The more square was almost empty and the saw many other you know. Its very interesting you saying that you know maybe younger people are a bit more complacent because this is a virus that really affects those who have preexisting conditions and also the elderly has there been any any special more targeted measures to to protect the elderly. Not really i mean they they are just recommended to to stay home and not only in the lockdown harry are but like everywhere need to leave because we need to understand you are not only in a lockdown area yet there are just as yet there are so close by and school all all over the county and so off course and there are people who are no one to whom we ask to stay home and its difficult for them also because their Life Expectancy in the estranged and people who are 657075 or are not really people that usually stay home you know. All right well thank you very much for taking the time to speak to us with everything happening there its a busy time for you. Thank you thank you. Of course its not just countries around the world are stepping up their measures against the virus france is banning all gatherings of more than a 1000 people and then in the middle east saudi arabia has suspended all schools and universities nationwide in response to the virus its Education Minister is older Virtual Schools to be set up during the suspension of the kingdoms interior Ministry Announced that its placing the Eastern Region of the teeth on the temporary lock down all 11 people in saudi arabia have tested positive for the virus in see if the government says commercial supplies the region will continue though but public and private sector work has been suspended and then elsewhere iran is the hardest hit country not just in the middle east but globally it reported a shopper rise in infections on sunday saying more than 6 and a half 1000 people have the virus and 194 have died the is intact ron while he says the government is hopeful the outbreak will soon be under control. Another massive spike in the number of corona virus related deaths 49. 00 in the last 24 hours bringing the total death toll closer and closer to 200. 00 specifically 194. 00 people have died of the corona virus since the outbreak was made public in iran 743. 00 new cases overall in the last 24 hours another large jump 6566. 00 is the total number of cases in this country now the highest level was in home when this outbreak began it is now into iran and to haunt in and around the capital of the country during the Health Ministry briefing earlier today the spokesman did say that the trend of the total number of cases does seem to be going down which is a positive step you also said the spike seen in the death toll the ongoing cases that we see today is a result of infections that have happened over the course of the last week to 10 days so he said if people take the precaution airy measures that the government is prescribing seriously then within the next 2 weeks or so they will begin to see the results they will begin to see the circumstances improve and they will begin to see the overall number of cases to go down and that is really the governments goal here to stop the spread to be able to contain it so as to be able to have confidence both in being able to let people continue to move around the country as they wish and being able to reopen the countrys many borders and airports that have been closed to the International Community since this outbreak began. Well in the United States a Top Health Official there is a message that will missteps that delayed Virus Testing disease expert anthony found she says the government may consider shutting down sections of the country hardest hit by the virus the American Military is restricting travel to and from a city in south korea as well whether in large outbreaks of the mentioning well despite the concerns President Trump says he will continue to hold political rallies lets get the latest now from Patty Culhane whos live for us now washington and speaking of the hardest hit areas in these restrictions that are being considered how rapidly is the virus spreading verin and whereabouts on those areas. Its really all across the country and more than 30 states and ive been watching this website from Johns Hopkins obviously the prestigious hospital theyve been tracking it and now its above 490 confirmed cases in the United States it is unusual that you have to look to a me to a private hospital for this information but the centers for Disease Control usually gives the number of people that have been tested the number of people who have come back positive theyre not given that information now so its really been hard to find concrete details and part of the reason could be is that just it wasnt until the last couple of days the tests were actually made available on a wide scale the c. D. C. Initially came up with the test sent it out it didnt work spend a couple more weeks coming up with it at the same Time Companies and labs and colleges were not actually given permission to go ahead and make their own so thats all changed in the last couple of days so we believe that hundreds of thousands of people are going to be tested over the next day or so 1000000 more after that but there is great concern that what that did was basically people werent tested and they wouldnt let anyone be tested who didnt have either traveled overseas to the affected areas or came in contact with someone with a confirmed case of corona virus if they if they couldnt be tested then they went back out in the community so what were seeing now is this what they Call Community transmission that means one person was infected didnt know or didnt get the test one about their daily life and then went to the Grocery Store maybe infected people there went to a cafe maybe infected people there so truly the scope of this in the United States we absolutely have no idea just how many people have this right and as we see an increasing number of states reporting cases of the coronavirus concerns about how it will impact the economy. Well this is a big concern for us President Donald Trump he has made it clear that he wants to keep what he calls our numbers low because it has spooked the stock market and weve seen consecutive days of massive drops in the dow industrial average its also starting to impact businesses there for example in seattle where there have been a lot of cases there you see Major Companies tell their employees to work from home dont come in so the shops around there are really suffering those are Small Businesses that dont have that much pad to make it through several months of this so there is concern what exactly how this is going to have a broader impact there are a lot of analysts saying that this could tip the country towards a recession thank you patty calling but the latest from washington. Well a story appears to be shifting in asia with the Chinese Government reporting its lowest number of new virus infections since january that positive news comes after at least 10 people were killed when a hotel being useful quarantine collapsed in the country south katrina you has the latest developments from beijing witnesses say it sounded like an explosion this hotel in chinas Southern Food jan province collapsed on saturday night trapping 70 people most with people being quarantined because of the coronavirus the hotel was designated as a virus isolation would as imagine teams freed people from the rubble authorities in beijing defended the strict quarantine measures who would know. If there is a cluster infection workers have to go into families and communities with detailed investigation to know every patients history of activities and track all the people who had contact with the patient so they must be quarantined for 14 days. The government says tough measures have stopped the spread of the current a virus outside of the epicenter who day on sunday china recorded its lowest number of new cases since january or only 3 new cases were recorded outside the province and these patients were infected not in china but abroad state media are declaring victory in the countrys battle against the outbreak in a makeshift hospital learn as the one hard living room has suspended operations jus to a lack of patients. If you like we already won were so happy to see patients discharged one after one more than 80000 people have been infected nationwide some 50000 patients have recovered at least 5000 are in critical condition. In fujian authorities are investigating the cause of the Building Collapse the hotel is being questioned katrina you aljazeera. Youre watching the news hour live from london much more still ahead for you on the program well tell you about a fire thats told through a Refugee Center on the greek island of glass balls as tensions flare over an influx of new arrivals. And then the saudi king makes a red appearance after the reported arrests of 4 seanie a princes fox room is about his health and then a transport its a case of will they one day italian football off the sports minister calls for the season to be cancelled just before the 1st kick off of the day. Greek police have used water cannon to fight off thousands of refugees and migrants who are holding stones at them from the other side of the border with turkey thousands of migrants have been camping there since last week when turkey declared its borders with the e. U. Open turkish president. To open the gates and allowed to travel further into europe is due to meet e. U. Officials in brussels on monday to tackle the issue meanwhile refugees trying to cross from turkey into greece have described scenes at the border as something out of a horror movie and sasha going to aim has more from the border city of a d. N. A. We found home ed in an abandoned building tending to his wounds the iranian amputee says he crossed into greece twice since turkey opened its borders more than a week ago he returned with wounds all over his body over to use the wounded they caught me and beat me while they took me to a cot my back to them and said im handicapped dont beat me leave me alone but they wouldnt listen. On the 2nd floor a temporary family has formed bound by trauma and desperation one strangers now linked by the solidarity a feeling ostracized by other media kids as we might have come from 3rd world countries but were not 3rd class citizens we also have the right to live and have a future for our children in. Afghan refugee missier has become a kind of father figure he and his wife crossed into greece 3 times twice by climbing through a fence and once on a fishermans boat he says greek soldiers stripped the men to their underwear tasered them and when they collapsed beat them with the sticks ignited the 11 off of the judge and of all of the handcuffed a man took us to the riverbank and kicked us into the river they said now leave some of us manage to cross like a fish some like a duck 2 of their friends couldnt get out of the river we told turkish fishermen that we left 2 people behind they went to search for our friends and we never saw them again. The greek government has not responded to the accusations it has stopped accepting asylum applications for one month and pledged to expel those entering illegally nazir describes whats happening to refugees and migrants who cross into greece as a horror movie yet he and home ed plan to make another attempt clinging to the possibility like thousands others that the next time will have a more humane ending. Natasha going to name. A dern name on the Turkey Greece border. When a fire has ripped through a Refugee Center on the great island of last boss this is the 2nd such incident. On the island in less than a week after unknown assailants torched a Reception Center for lies boss John Psaropoulos reports. The school of peace burned to the ground 3 years to the day after it opened that date and recent Political Tension caused by a far right faction of islanders targeting Refugee Charities has raised suspicions about how this fire started investigations into the cause are ongoing the school had been closed for 2 weeks because of the tense atmosphere on lesbos refugees living in th