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A very different story in the original at the Center Chinese media showing images of people starting to venture out and have a province. Spains Prime Minister is putting his entire country into lockdown just like italy before it 46000000 people will be ordered to stay home starting monday unless they need food medicine or require to work frances shutting down restaurants cafes nightclubs and sentiments more europeans are being blocked from entering the u. S. Now the trump ministration has expanded its travel ban to include the u. K. And ireland and lets take a look at the the Global Pandemic picture this is from Johns Hopkins university more than 156000 people are infected 72600 of them have recovered the number of deaths is heading towards 6000 there is a lot of ground to cover lets begin with mike hanna and washington d. C. Members of the coronavirus tossed force walk into the Briefing Room in terms of a new protocol all in the president s proximity must have the temperature taken including the journalists present. Unexpectedly President Trump walks in with his Vice President who had the chitral to leave the briefing and did another surprise he confirmed teach submitted to a test for the virus last night i also took the test yesterday. And i decided i should based on the press coverage yesterday people were asking did i take the test i dont know whatever it takes a day or 2 days for a change when he also acknowledged that hed made a mistake by shaking hands during fridays briefing with Corporate Leaders and others in the rose garden and somebody comes up to you they put their hand out you probably tend to shake it and were all getting out of it shaking hands is not a great thing to be doing that and i agree but people put their hand out sometimes ill put their hand out you dont think about it the people are thinking about it more and more we have to think about it its important for temperature no sense there thank you the president then left the briefing leaving his Vice President to officially confirm that the travel ban would be extended the president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the United Kingdom and ireland effective midnight monday night Eastern Standard Time again americans in the u. K. Or can come home legal residents can come home but as the secretary will detail they will be funneled through specific airports and process the center put Disease Control has stopped publishing testing figures on its website but statistics collected by an independent group indicates as being a shop rise in the number of tests being conducted for the 1st time since the crisis began the number of tests conducted in a 24 hour period approached 20000 my kind out aljazeera washington. Ellen fisher is live for us in washington d. C. So. It seems that unfortunately pretty much every time the president has made public statements about this pandemic he has often said something that is either and correct or something that requires some sort of clarification after one thing that he talked a lot about the other day was this web site that google was going to be working on there was almost like a landing page a home page for for so much information about coronavirus thats not exactly true what we learned since he made that statement. Well people got excited by this idea and certainly the impression that people got from the briefing was that this was very close to being completed probably within days donald trump talked about how quickly had been put together and the idea was that people could go on to this website enter in their symptoms it would then say do you is it possible you have coronavirus new or yes you click on yes there is then a series of secondary questions all geared to find out whether or not you do have an issue and then if the answer was yes at the end it would point you in the direction of remote testing where you could just drive through and get it done the problem is google are saying theyre not close to developing the sort of website what they have is something that may be available soon for testing in the bay area around their headquarters in california and it is not in a position to rule out nationally as yet no mike pence was asked about that specifically at the briefing because people went to google and said tell us more about this web site and they essentially said what web site. Said look there will be more details on sunday at 5 oclock washington time so we should get more of a briefing then its going to be interesting what he says because the markets actually reacted very positively to that dont tell me the point of coming into the briefing today which was a surprise and saying look the markets went up best the weve had in history and that is true but they were responding largely to the fact the dont trumpet said weve got this under control and we have this website if he doesnt have this website then the markets might not react so well on monday when the open ok a lot of people outside of the u. S. Allan have learned a lot about how sickly works in the u. S. And how its actually pretty rare to have sickly at a time like this it could really make such a difference for people and their families what we know about specifically how sickly was addressed in the coronavirus bill that seems to have bipartisan support in the house. So just to clarify you can have sick leave if youre l. You can take time off work the problem is here in the United States and many Many Companies have this you dont get paid for the sick leave comes off your vacation or that is unpaid time so youve got to sit at home no earning any money now what we were told is that the the bill that was going through the house would address this and certainly my parents at the briefing said look if youre off sick you will get paid but on closer examination of the bill it would appear that there are a number of ghetto clauses for a number of Companies Like big Companies Like amazon who earn a lot of money and others wont have to pay sick leave there also be exemptions for Smaller Companies people employ less than 50. 00 or possibly 500. 00 employees and so theres about 80 percent of the American Workforce who wont be covered by this that people are getting quite angry at nancy pelosi because she said this was one of our goals in this but clearly this is been a negotiation to get things through such as free testing and expanded medical treatment then there had to be some give and take with republicans and it appears that republicans havent gone all in 100 percent on paid sick leave so this will go to the senate we are told donald trump has given his assent and approval were told Mitch Mcconnell was consulted very closely but clearly the senate doesnt see this is a priority theyre still away from capitol hill and will be until at least monday afternoon which is the air list were expecting a vote on this ok allan pressure from washington allan thank you very much. Dr l. A. Barbara is the chairman of the Infectious Diseases at the mayo clinic he joins us on skype from rochester in the u. S. State of minnesota we appreciate your time very much so and then im very intrigued by curious by is how is it that you can get millions of people to stay home it would seem that if you tell them that we are in a situation where something can make you sick it can make someone that you care about whos older than you potentially potentially die that people would stay home but people dont always listen how do you get people to buy it. Thank you for having me and this is a very important question. I think we have seen over the last week youre involved in an escalation of measures around this country from the National Crisis announcement. And the response as well as the suspension of. Mass gathering i think people in this country are starting to realize the significance of this. Crisis. And theyre starting to see 1st off and he says because there are pieces in most of this these right. So were seeing a shift and the community where i live this is certainly clear people are always gauged and theyre all want to help out. But to be fair you do live in a place where there are a lot of medical professionals that really get it that are up close and personal that i understand for slaves you went on social media now you will see people in new york going to bars and parties as if this is sort of some sort of Hurricane Party and and its not do you think can you see at some point it out might not ask any to to to make Public Policy but could you see at some point perhaps the u. S. Having to take some of the extreme measures that other countries have said that they said you cannot leave unless you absolutely have to. I think thats certainly possible. You know at this moment there are a lot of measures that happened this past week that are going in the direction of travel ban social distancing i think theres been the a lot more information about the disease itself and the impact the disease might have on patients especially the elderly or patients with underlying condition so we are seeing a shift you know we go with this one to be connected and i think that its really trying to go from where we are in the for. Places where were going to be more isolated and separated but we are seeing a shift certainly not for i am curious about that so there are people that started out saying that this is similar to the flu obviously we know so much about the flu theres still so much that we dont know about a question that i hear from people often is once you have it can you get it again or is this like the chicken pox or youve had it once and youre i mean. Its a good question so there are some differences between Coronavirus Infection over the 19. And the influenza. Theyre both transmitted the same way their full consent of the drop of isolation efficiency of transmission seems to be a bit more with the corona virus infection than the influenza the other differences of this seems to be more serious and the consequence is a higher mortality rate with the virus than the. Seasonal influenza action. So these are some of the causes there are a lot of things that we dont know about the disease havent we there seems to be the subset of patients that will share the virus meaning of the virus will say. Asians are not having symptoms for a long period of time and then becomes problematic there will probably be problems hes in control still so much to learn about this and dr Leigh Barbara thank you so much for your insight we appreciate it with the mayo clinic but lets turn to europe they knew at the center of the Global Pandemic spain has followed italy and imposed a nationwide lockdown following a sharp increase in infections and clearing the wife of the Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez reports. Its only spain 2nd state of emergency since becoming a democracy and this is what it looks like the countrys reported a jump of more than 2000 in to run a virus cases in 24 i was now people will only be allowed to leave their homes to buy food and medicine to get to work hospitals or the bank to care for the young and the elderly and the federal at. I would like to announce that during the period of the state of alert people will only be able to circulate on public roads for the organization of the following activities firstly the acquisition of food pharmaceutical products and basic necessities secondly visits to Health Centers services under stablish meant trips to work place to carry out your work professional or business activities. In the capital madrid people are still venturing out but with many businesses already shut the citys unusually quiet me when temperamental staff enthralled i live in the city center and i like to see it empty i like to say that i think people are being responsible and the people who have to stay at home are doing it. The owner of this hotel is offering hundreds of rooms to madrids Regional Government so it can treat coronavirus patients while in seville the mayor has canceled all easter week for sessions just the latest setback to its tourist industry. In the italian capital rome people stuck indoors have been showing their appreciation of doctors and nurses fighting against coronavirus theirs is the worst hit country after china and the death toll is well over a 1000 already. With the entire country in lockdown normal life has come to a halt. And france is now closing all bars restaurants and cinemas and asking people to work from home and avoid nonessential visits it comes after the number of coronavirus cases doubled to more than 4 and a half 1000 in just 3 days. Or places that arent essential to the life of the country will be shut these include restaurants cafes cinemas and nightclubs places of worship will remain open gatherings and ceremonies will have to be postponed germany with europes largest population has recorded just a handful of deaths so far now the governments urging people returning from italy switzerland and austria to self isolate for up to 2 weeks on. Saturday spain bound planes belonging to a low cost British Airline actually turned round midair now the u. K. Government seems set to do its own about turn reacting to moves already made by business and public pressure with football in england suspended until at least early april and the London Marathon perspective the cabinet set to ban Mass Gatherings in the coming week. Garion Prime Minister viktor orban seen here being checked after flying back from moldova is set to announce europes latest School Closures you know if you do you call several e. U. States including poland and the Czech Republic and totally or partially restricting entry to foreign nationals with a consonant now the epicenter of the pandemic more drastic measures look inevitable that the barber aljazeera. And said come together to give a round of applause to their doctors nurses and other health workers. For film showing their appreciation from their balconies careful not to break a lockdown rules italy is the worst affected country in europe but almost 1500 deaths and 21000 cases are on a virus thats pushing the Health System to its limits earlier we spoke to ron resident christiana separate o. About how people are coping. We are forswear compounds to say you told me in a small space for 4 poor people me may has been my 2 daughters and one under 6 years old and in a 2nd im now 9 mts its not very simple to face the situation to organize time because time is sold long its a large its so all in our most huge to to to to face and we have to invent solution for all the date because we are not used to say almost all day long we are used to to go out and then we can realize how normal everyday life is that appreciates thing and we dont realize before we have to wait because we dont know how much time we have to wait for it so its a particular condition of ford for our minds so we are we have started to sing going outside. On the balcony that is the air freshener melba. 6 oclock in the evening and people started to singing on their balcony to to communicate to sue to remind them that we are alive at we can. Look each other and taking care of each other in a different way. The pandemic has prompted colombia to shut its land border with venezuela thousands of venezuelans cross over every year looking for food and medicine they cant get at home and the actions elsewhere are rising across latin america and there are concerns it is not well prepared to deal with this outbreak across about reports. From many venezuelans their border with colombia is alive line for surviving the economic crisis in their nation. But on saturday colombias president and now sits close to contain the spread of 19 says. The border crossings with venezuela will be closed starting at 5 am it will be done as a protection measure against the situation that is also occurring in the neighboring country. On friday vinny confirmed 2 cases of coronavirus but many fear that number could be higher as the country struggles with a humanitarian crisis that has left hospitals without basic supplies including soap and hand sanitizer. Doctors in venezuela say theyre not ready to cope with a common flu let alone a Global Pandemic. Most of these hospitals are not an acceptable standard about 12 of the military hospitals are not qualified to be able to tend to patients even with the common flu. Precedent has suspended schools and banned public gatherings hes asked people to wear a mask when using the metro in the capital caracas seaview its simple wear a face mask its an order for everyone in the next days and weeks better safe than sorry. In brazil the government has announced a 1000000000. 00 to strengthen its Public Health care system by. President jay towards an adult tested negative for covert 1009. 00. 100. 50 or a trip to the United States where he met with President Donald Trump. Is to remain in isolation and will be tested again even though the number of cases a latin america remain relatively no theyre likely to increase in the next few weeks and thats why governments are stepping up efforts to try to control it in argentina theyre controlling cruz says in ports theyre also canceling flights and imposing mandatory isolations of those who travel to the United States europe and china schools and Public Events are also being cancelled last countries try to adapt to what may come ahead they said well i just want to cite us. Chile has announced new measures against the virus including bans on big public gatherings when america had it with you know minutes in the capital santiago so tell us more about what these measures are. Hi there president stamping it addressed the nation saying that it was time now to take extreme and extraordinary measures to try to curtail the spread of the corona virus at least 61 cases have been can confirmed but thousands of others are being tested right now and many of them will obviously prove to be positive 2 ships 2 cruise ships have been put under quarantine one of them in the port city of god but are you still another one in the patagonian region of i send where one British National and 83 year old man has been taken to hospital after testing positive another 2 of the passengers are also believed to have been to be carrying the virus and the whole ship is as i said under quarantine meanwhile. Chileans are being told that more than 500. 00 people cannot gather in one place added time indoors or outdoors which will clearly be a test of the governments strength and authority because as you will probably remember going protests are taking place in this country almost every day with thousands and thousands of people gather apart from that flights from europe and from asia have been canceled until further notice hospitals special emergency hospitals are being built the army is putting up one tent hospital with 700 beds and the government is building another one here in santiago with at least a 1000 beds that the virus has already spread now to the north the center and the south but the majority of the cases are here in santiago and particularly in the upper more affluent neighborhoods of the city you know countries can close borders if they want but what happens in one country still affects another country how much coordination is happening in the region. Absolutely said a stampede who heads a regional body has just called for an emergency summit Via Teleconference for monday with his with the other south american leaders so that they can do precisely that try to coordinate tried to set parameters common policies so that they can and also try to help each other because not every country is equally prepared to face this i was surprised to hear in. Piece that president nicolas and i would have for example to suggesting that all they need to do is wear a face mask when there arent any face masks or very very few of them in venezuela and in fact in many countries including chile and argentina theyve already sold out almost every single pharmacy so there are a lot of things that need to be done helping with doctors helping to set different targets to decide when its time to close a border when when it is it a lot needs to be done especially as the south american winter approaches right now were still in summer or getting into into autumn but when the Colder Weather hits things will get much worse i know a lot faster all right lucy newman live for us in santiago thank you. I was told 1000000 people in manila have been told to stay home as a walk down comes into effect in the philippines capital this was the scene on friday as people rushed to leave before all to mr travel in and out of the city was suspended residents have been told to only leave the house for work and emergencies measures are some of the strictest in asia the philippines has so far reported 8 and 98 infections. The head of libyas u. N. Recognized government has declared a state of emergency over the corner buyers pandemic land air and sea crossings as well as schools have been ordered shut for 3 weeks libya does not have any reported cases. Well then how that authority what we are noticing in nationwide emergency to tackle this continuing threat and i will ensure we are conforming to the w h os pandemic strategy were allocating 360000000. 00 to tackle what is a critical situation we will also close all borders and crossings including airports and ports for 3 weeks starting monday sure. President Hassan Rouhani says the countrys fight against the krajina virus is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions iran is the hardest hit country in the middle east with 611 confirmed deaths and almost 13000 infections Security Forces have been sent out to clear the streets all religious sites in the holy city of call where the virus was 1st detected had been closed same as robin joins us live from tehran zain how is it going getting people to stay home and not congregate. Well thats really been the struggle for this government ever since the outbreak began here in iran its getting the public on board getting the public to cooperate with much of the guidance coming from the Health Ministry about social distancing now what has happened today is that the interior ministry has ordered that the city of home shut down 2 very important shrines actually a shrine as well as a mosque now these are major attractions for people thousands of people visit this these sites on a daily basis and now the order is to close them down but it has to be said in that order it said that they will be closed soon and earlier this evening these sites remained open now it is a good step forward for the government to shut down these sites these was of course the epicenter of the virus in the beginning these places were known vectors for the virus and the peak of this experts say iran is coming in the next 10 days to 2 weeks so certainly better late than never but critics will say its too little too late because the damage has already been done the virus is already spread throughout the country from home into her on the new epicenter of the virus the numbers continue to go up the number of deaths the number of overall cases the government has announced a closure and a stoppage of any construction work any Building Works that are happening but again many will see this is a half measure because the government is also saying that the quarantine of the capital is a rumor that is untrue and president Hassan Rouhani has offices said over and over again that that will not happen even though experts and lawmakers are saying that it should so its a follow up on that zain and im not sure if you can answer this but it is it is one other reasons perhaps that people are not doing as theyre told us because they dont have a lot of trust and faith in what the government is telling them. Well thats certainly a big part of the problem in there have been a series of crises in iran over the course of the year so far and the governments response to several protests that happened earlier this year was to shut down the internet and theres been a great deal of loss of the public trust many iranians simply dont take the governments guidance seriously a poll conducted by the to iran municipality in the capital estimated that 60 percent of iranians living in tehran simply dont think that the coronavirus is a serious an issue as perhaps it actually is on the ground so certainly there is a problem of public trust that the government has been trying to address ever since the beginning of this outbreak another issue has been economic iranians simply dont have a financial buffer to be able to not go into work government offices actually remain open people who have shut their shops for every one person that is close to business there is another business that remains open because iranians you speak to will say that they cant afford not to pay their rent and keep their businesses open and they worry that if they close for a little while they may never be able to open again really u. S. Sanctions of also gone a long way to hurt irans economy and not really make it able to throw money at this Public Health crisis which is desperately needed to facilitate an assist the Public Health care system deal with the overload coming from corona virus infected patients president Hassan Rouhani today wrote a letter to the International Community to World Leaders that he published on his website and in that open letter he said any policy that results in undermining economic and medical infrastructure and limits monetary resources to manage the crisis will have direct impacts on fighting this epidemic in other countries really drawing a line under the fact that were all in this together were all in this together so whether or not you agree with iran the fact is that this coronavirus covert 19 does not discriminate and the International Community should not either if it wants to help iran fight the virus ok its a mess from tehran saying. And the news ahead fact versus fiction we will be answering some of the most common questions about corona virus and other news were following and living among the displaced syrian families set up home and a graveyard and sports fans with plenty of precautions as turkey aims to keep its top players in action. Welcome to look at the weather across the americas no beginning in north america weve got this area of rain across the south gradually weekend for a time he said seaboard looking dry and fine optically warm there 8 degrees in washington d. C. And weather systems affecting the pacific coastline there of california so we like to see some breaks of rain at times and indeed the low Pressure Center is likely to move in and give some heavier rain as we head on through into monday how about stage across more central areas weve got to draw a conditions little bit of rain across parts of the south but that cold air persists across more Northern Areas 7 as a high in new york the caribbean is looking pretty good at the moment things have generally settled down here blue skies and sunshine and 31 degrees in kingston jamaica showers few and far between bridie among the islands there a few showers through the isthmus but again nothing particularly heavy and noteworthy should be a nice day and delays that highs of 30 in belize city heading into south america because an active weather system around the river plate area that scheme is a very heavy rain extending up into northwestern parts of argentina system is still in evidence ahead on through into monday but it gradually begins to weaken away draw across much of a power with highs of 26 expected in ascension. 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This is our desire and these are the top stories right now spain has italy and imposed a nationwide lockdown following a sharp increase in front of virus infections the Prime Ministers wife is among the latest to become sick and france is closing more Public Places including cafes restaurants and Entertainment Venues as President Donald Trump has extended a european travel ban to include the u. K. And ireland the White House Position is also said that the president has to negative for corona virus after coming into contact with the brazilian official who later contracted the illness iranian president Hassan Rouhani says the country spite against the virus is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions urana some of the worst affected countries with more than 600 deaths and almost 13000 infections. So since as outbreak began information and misinformation have been flowing around the world so we put some of the biggest questions about this illness to dr patrick tang is day vision chief of Pathology Sciences at cigarette medicine so we started by asking whether this virus is mainly a threat to older people weve heard that a lot or think proved to be deadly to younger people as well. The virus can infect people of all ages weve seen newborn babies as well as elderly people infected most of the cases have been found in adults and older people. But the severity of the illness varies according to age most of the deaths that we have seen have been people were over the age of 60 and especially people over the age of 80 have been made up most of the people have died so far about 70000. 00 people have recovered so next question is can covert 1000. 00 calls per minute lung damage that would be similar to many other infections of the lung where if you have a serious infection you can have some reduction in your lung function after he recovered in small percentage of people and a question we are seeing come up quite a bit can you get the coronavirus more than once there have been some reports of that happening heres what the doctor says there have been anecdotal reports of this occurring but most of us that deal with these types of infections dont believe that it doesnt make sense in terms of what we know about viruses and how infections that occur so most likely the in these cases people have probably tested false negative so the samples that were collected from them near the end of the recovery were probably may have been collected improperly the maybe the swab didnt get any of the virus on to it and then they tested negative falsely and then later when another sample was taken that one was actually posit so that theres still shedding the virus whether there was a book viruses at that point or infectious or not is a different story israels Prime Minister has ordered the closure of all schools and Entertainment Venues then to minute now has also announced israel employed the virus tracking system successfully used in taiwan very fosset us in leicester islam. This is the latest era of extremely strict measures israel are already all but shut down incoming visits to the country mandating all foreigners to sell cars into 14 days that was earlier in the week closing all schools apart from kindergartens and preschools as you say now kindergartens and preschools are also part of that closure as are all Entertainment Venues everything from moles to cinemas to theaters. Possibly also all nonessential shops will be closed as of sunday all gatherings of more than 10 people in an enclosed space will also be banned and while essential businesses will continue to operate albeit under some restrictions nonessential businesses have been told that they should where possible allow the stuff to work from home not an absolute prohibition on coming into the office or the workplace but told that they should wear possible to stop that work is coming in theres also this measure of surveillance now Benjamin Netanyahu in his comments talked in his words about measures that israel has been using to combat terror and that he had been reticent to use such measures on israeli civilians in the past and that this would now change and that he has got approval from the attorney general and the Justice Ministry to track the spread of the virus through things such as cell phones and other digital records so thats a big impingement he admitted on Civil Liberties its something that he said was necessary more than once saying that this was essentially a war against what he was calling an invisible enemy that as a south african free trade it from the chinese central hot have been moved into the core in tone or marking and setting and rouhani when the crown of viruses 1st detected in the senate was put under lockdown the residence now the quarantine sites have the governments putting them at risk you know reports in the province of unhelpful. For the 114. 00 South Africans on board this plane its been a long 14 hour journey home from the chinese city of will hand a sense of relief after months of lockdown for the coronavirus that has now been partially lifted we spoke to english teacher amy put to way before she left to hand she told us she hadnt left her apartment there for more than 50 days. As the passengers left the plane Health Officials made sure restrictions were followed roads are blocked off to make the bus journey from the airport and pull a quantity to the quarantine sites outside the city as smooth as possible as the bus passes the group appears in good spirits the convoy carrying the South Africans have been repatriated from who hand is passing through this road to the quarantine site just outside the city of kwame the governments emphasize this is a military operation wanting to assure us all that ricans are being kept safe despite the governments assurances that theyve been multiple screenings and none of the people who came home have to stay positive for covert 19 theres been mixed reaction from people here to what many of us a risky plan and partially states the situation because im not certain that they are having been free not even studies of the virus so we welcome them in the middle of the burning bed our countries helping them but me asking that feeling we cant shake off the group will be quarantined for 21. 00 days Officials Say as a safety measure at this hotel in the Limpopo Province should anyone develop symptoms of the covert 1000 virus will be removed from quarantine isolated. And treated at hospital. Aljazeera limpopo south africa. But almost all of this news hour talking about lock downs travel bans and growing infection numbers but and south korea and china things are going the other way there are still concern though that new clusters could pop up jessica washington reports. In the south korean city of suwannee theres no shortage of Community Spirit for the 2nd day south korea reported more recoveries from the coronavirus the new infections the Health Authority has urged people to stay vigilant to fight against you clusters and theres still work to do these volunteers are packing relief kids for those still in quarantine product. Running this is good to monitor the people in isolation must be going through a hard time the box isnt much but i hope it gives them strength and they can cheer up. In a strangely a panic has caused fights in supermarkets shopping aisles. Thanks d so much from monday all gatherings of more than 500. 00 people will be banned as trailing his nearest neighbor isnt taking any chances eve reproduce an intern new zealand including returning new zealand citizens and residents will be required to into self isolation for 14 days if everybody. In indonesia 2000000 liters of disinfectant are to be distributed among mosques there are fears about how many undetected cases there are across the archipelago and the World Health Organization has us into the asia to intensify its monitoring corn and tracing efforts the government confirmed its 1st corona virus cases last week and as the number steadily rises efforts to contain the virus are ramping up to cut as governor has announced all schools will be shot for at least 2 weeks many popular attractions like theme parks and museums will also be closed these are strict sions could be extended if the virus continues to spread d through one of the worlds most densely populated cities its the new reality for millions around the world events canceled attractions closed as the alarm intensifies in other parts of the world lives slowly returning to normal in parts of china with authorities last week declaring the peak of the epidemic over who has reported only a handful of cases for the past 2 days these recovered patients are leaving hospital and a one step closer to returning to their normal lives it could be months before the rest of the world can do the same just washington aljazeera jakarta. People say across all of the news about the pandemic but lets remind you of some of the other. Stories were following around the world iraqs military says 2 air Defense Service men and 3 Coalition Members have been critically injured in a rocket attack. North of baghdad it is not yet known who is responsible and this comes a day after u. S. Air strikes on multiple sites in iraq the pentagon says its targeted those responsible for killing 2 american and one british soldier in an attack on wednesday when a fault and thats more from baghdad on why the attack represents another escalation. Well it will certainly come as a surprise and one thing that is particularly remarkable is that todays attack occurred during broad daylight which is not what weve seen in the past usually these rockets these rocket attacks on military bases that house u. S. Personnel occur at night time so it is a particularly bold move and one that shows that the strikes that we saw Early Morning on friday against positions of iranian backed groups were not as effective as the pentagon portrayed them to be and one thing that is also certain is that weve now had several days of these tapes for tat attacks and theyre resulting in an increased number of casualties in total we now have 16 people who were injured and 9 who were killed as a result of these 3 incidents that occurred since march 12th and what is particularly not for a few days most of these casualties dont really have anything to do with either side their needs are part of the coalition and their needs are part of that uranium back groups and this is exactly what has infuriated many people here in iraq that the iraqi Security Forces or even civilians are being caught up as the u. S. And iranian backed groups are settling the scores the russian turkish cease fire is largely holding an adlib syrias last rebel held area nearly a 1000000 civilians have been displaced by the fighting in are facing a new hardship a storm has destroyed more than 80. Cant or than 200 of these camps have been set out sense december. As a sum avenge of a reports of attainder the turkey syria border many are struggling to find safety. Its playtime and ad lib for far. More than mahmoud this means chopping up grass and weeds but look closer and their playground becomes clearer its a graveyard the grim reality doesnt end there its also their home for the foreseeable future use or are soon he says the only place you could find shelter was with the dead. We escaped to rehab because of heavy bombardment we ascribe to if weve searched everywhere for shelter but the only Available Space was inside the cemetery god willing he will help us and after the situation gets special we return to our homes i dont think we can stay here longer the girls are too scared. Nearly a 1000000 people have been displaced in the last 3 months of the monument and advances by Government Troops backed by iranian and Russian Forces where they used to pray for the dead is now home for 65 families i mean that. We provided shelter to the displaced families from south of lib and west aleppo in the mosque of some out of symmetry most of the families came from the streets they have nowhere to go in case we dont find houses or tents the families will remain here. Northern syria is the last rebel stronghold for years people from other opposition held areas were moved here and the various political deals as the opposition loses more ground theres less space for the nearly 4000000. 00 people in the province the weather is still cold and most families lack basic supplies people say they have been abandoned by the world yet again for them it feels no one cares about their suffering. The loss of play out on we left our home at 3 am under airstrikes we need everything blankets mattresses are small children are surviving only on walter right. We need milk diapers for the babies we need you to help us its winter and its so cold at night help us with the tender weather ever just take us out of here away from dead people at night they close the door and has a most of the family stay awake at night because theyre scared. A ceasefire deal between turkey and syria has paused the fighting at least for now Human Rights Watch once concerned countries to call out russias involvement in syrias war crimes and tell the kremlin to end its support of syrias government it says the war has taken the door on children for 9 years their lives forever marked by the conflict more than half a 1000000 children displaced by the latest fighting are living in desperate conditions it looks fragile ceasefire is holding for now but people are scared they say agreements have been broken before and theyve had to move their homes multiple times the fear now is that with Government Forces closing in refugees unwelcome and borders closed theyre even running out of space inside syria to escape the fighting some of the job or the other they are on the turkey syria border. Afghanistans government has delayed the negotiated release of taliban prisoners potentially sabotaging a deal to help stabilize the region the government wants the prisoners freed in stages as long as the taliban reduce violence and take part in negotiations with the armed group want the Prisoners Released all at once this delay jeopardizes the deal signed last month by the taliban and the u. S. Their dream includes the release of 5000. 00 taliban prisoners by the Afghan Government in exchange for 1000 afghan Security Forces personnel held by the taliban that was to lead to the start of cease fire negotiations between the taliban and Afghan Government and the u. S. Was to begin reducing its troop numbers from 1228600 close 5 bases by mid july all soldiers will have to be out by may of next year i mean the article is a National Security analyst and Founding Member of transparency afghanistan he says the government wants to use the release of prisoners as leverage in negotiations. We have had a lot of issues so the taliban and the United States agreed indoor weeks back. They will go into the Afghan Dialogue but before they go into the Afghan Dialogue there were 2 things that needed to be done before that was that it least of up to 5000. 00 taliban prisoners from the jails of the Afghan Government and taliban reciprocating that would be releasing of about 1000 prisoners who were from the Afghan Government side now what president has done is that he has disagreed with this saying that this was a deal between the United States of america and the taliban it had nothing to do with the Afghan Government one of the does ovation is free or to leave these 5000 prisoners and what if they join the battlefield again what if they pick up arms again because the reduction in violence freezes all that we have started the often says of both parties over the last few days so what happens to that and if they get to release these 5000. 00 prisoners they will not be much of a leverage for the government when didnt meet the taliban and the dialogue and job when dialogue was supposed to start on march 10th the taliban have said that for us longest you did not release these 5000 prisoners we are not going to get into the dialogue so these are some of the drugs and impediments. Devastated mozambique the World Food Program is warning 2500000 people still need humanitarian assistance to cyclings in 6 weeks destroyed the 2001000 harvest and they said in africa nation is still desperately short of food pay says more than 3000. 00 children are severely malnourished. Coming up sport. Has stopped sport but around the globe cricket in pakistan and still going on. Full of struggles but. Full of pleasure. An intimate look at life in cuba today as it was young want to. Watch the news i got a bunch of money cuba on aljazeera. Ive worked at aljazeera english since its launch as a principal and as a correspondent with breaking news stories to hear from those people who would normally get the voices heard on the International News channel to be very proud of. The poll earthquake of 2050 a terrible Natural Disaster and the story that needed to be told from the heart of the affected area to be to tell the people story was very important at the time. Youre. The owner. Of a sport with handle. Thank you very much for the japanese Prime Minister has reiterated his determination for this years Tokyo Olympics to proceed as planned shinzo of a says japans corona Virus Outbreak is not at a stage that requires him to declare an emergency so its really around the games spiritual home of greece has been suspended for the International Olympic Committee Say they to remain fully committed to the games starting in july. We will continue to closely cooperate with the International Olympic committee and of course the i. O. C. Is working closely with the World Health Organization and and for us we would like to overcome the spread of the infection and hold the olympics as planned. Well one of the issues is that many elim picture hours around the world have been postponed but in london the european qualifiers for the boxing events are taking place the 11 day tournament started on saturday to the surprise of many of those involved. I thought the event would be canceled or a real rough day on tuesday. Thought it would be cancelled got all of our slumber told us we are going to fight a lot of drama you know in austria. No i dont know whats going on i dont know when were heading back home if we are able to get into austria i dont know so. All of the leading european football competitions have now been suspended a win in their next game could have liverpool their 1st English Premier League title in 30 years and League Officials a jew to meet again on thursday to discuss what may or may not happen next games are pencil in 30 at the start of april but there are no guarantees that this season will ever be finished the vocal manager you know going to clubs saying football always seems the most important of the least important things today football and football matches really arent important at all if its a choice between football and the good of the Wider Society is no concept right lets go madrid beat liverpool in the Champions League last week could be the last game either team plays for some time the Spanish Government has announced a state of emergency more than 3000. 00 to go fans to travel to liverpool for last wednesdays game at lets go as manager or he now has other issues on his mind. On the list from and so here i want to send a message to raise awareness for my home and i encourage all of you to follow the instructions from the experts to take care of ourselves and to protect everybody around us and lets stay at home. The complexities of putting a date on when football may return highlighted by its hellion club some doria 6 of their players as well as the pub doctor of now tested positive for corona virus it seems Training Facilities are being closed the league is suspended and so the 3rd football in turkey salt lake is still going but without spectators this is us or i stadium being disinfected ahead of sundays game against the shits us all sporting events in the country will be taking place behind closed doors and so the end of april well the current of us pandemic also having an impact on football in africa with the illness having spread to at least 19 countries on the continent africas footballing authorities have postponed this months qualifiers for the 2021 africa cup of nations in cameroon weve been talking to the guard base sports journalist Gary Al Smith many watchers believe that the confederation of african football delayed in making that decision to call the qualifiers of because i mean after us country after our african country was very mean cases of the current as it seemed not quite sensible to carry on with the games especially also because a lot of african players are based in europe and in parts of the world where they were not where it is wreaking havoc. The biggest question is what are we going to do with our weekends i guess i mean you have countries like morrocco like kenya like egypt like d r c and 2 others who have rightly suspended release because of the crew members going to snow one of them if they european leagues are going to be off until and april are the least and the Ghana Premier League is able to market itself well maybe just maybe it might be able to get the call thats not it has been losing today european leagues for so long so probably thats the Silver Lining in this very dark cloud the paris nice cycling race did reach a conclusion albeit a day earlier than expected organizes canceled sundays final stage after the french government banned gatherings of more than 100. 00 people throughout the event the start and finish areas have been closed off to keep fans away germanys shukman won this years title. And was cricket same heading home from sri lanka after that so it was called off the 2 test series was jus to Begin Next Week elsewhere australias one day series with new zealand has been postponed for the start of this years Indian Premier League has also been delayed not all cricket is comes to a halt to the Pakistan Super League still going on behind closed doors its also been shortened because of the coronavirus uprightness some foreign players choose a cigar hung on saturday the crush of kings books their spots in the semifinals ok that is always sport for not more lights and. That is all for the news hour on aljazeera are going to take a short break play back on the other side with another bolt and also visit our web site aljazeera dot com for all the latest on the pandemic that are. Perception is validation we believe want to be seen but in one life time we cannot see everything that we would lie if an experiences of others and their legacies had previous generations. Of that testimony we would you know very little. Witness documentaries that open your eyes on aljazeera. As the world battles a potential new pandemic well bring you the latest developments from around the world. With updates about travel distractions and how to protect yourself. Coronavirus out bright special coverage on aljazeera. Singapore is being accused of expanding its coast on the illegally dredged suttons of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished its a big business bungling the sample it will take to sit there and fill in the sand is unfair to say this beautiful beach but behind it is something thats not so plentiful the tragedy is that people are just nowhere and ecological investigation into a global emergency sandals at this time on al jazeera. Aljazeera right well every week. The president has made a decision to suspend all travel to the united. In ireland no more exemptions the u. S. Broadens its european travel ban. Irish up here this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up spains Prime Minister calls it a crisis that requires extraordinary decisions confirming his whole country will go into lockdown. You know. And the viral video from italy thats reminding the world of the human cost of this pandemic