Hello governments across the world continue to restrict the movement of their citizens as they try to reduce the spread of the corona virus spain which became the 2nd european country to impose a nationwide lockdown has now confirmed 2000 new cases and the number of reported deaths there as doubled iran has announced more than 100 people have died in the past 24 hours confirmed cases there are nearing 140021 says its fight is being severely hampered by u. S. Sanctions and in the philippines the capital manila is sealed off 12000000. 00 people have been told they cannot travel for a month schools are closed and large events banned over in the u. S. Increased screening measures for people returning from europe have caused chaos at airports the u. S. Has imposed a ban on non americans traveling from the European Countries including the u. K. And ireland lets bring in paul brennan his joining us here in the studio and speaking of the u. K. Paul authorities here under pressure to introduce stricter measures and new numbers point to the red rise in the number of deaths in the u. K. What are you hearing. Well weve been speaking about spain for most of the morning but were going to look at the u. K. Now because 1st of all were sitting here and 2nd of all they just published the latest statistics as to how many people have died how many people have been infected and how many tests theyve been doing and the statistics show an upward trajectory its continuing to rise here another 14 deaths which takes the new total to 35 deaths here in the u. K. Some 40200 people have been tested and the confirmed cases have risen from 114213721 the death side thats a 66 percent increase its not good news particularly at a time when the government is as you say under intense pressure because its essentially an outlier compared to the other countries in europe in relation to its policy towards trying to control the coronavirus they havent introduced lock down they havent shut down schools they havent closed universities they havent insisted shops close preferring to wait and see on those measures with a bill thats going to go before parliament on thursday which could force quarantine on vulnerable groups for up to 4 months but the holding off on that at the moment and theres a lot of debate a lot of discussion a lot of disagreement as to whether the advice that the government is getting from its scientific advisors is correct or not but we see these strict measures imposed over in spain for example as well as a National Lockdown so how are authorities there explaining the jump in the number of cases that well you can compare and contrast the 2 different approaches as far as the figures in spain go we were looking at pictures a little earlier of the may or where Police Officers are periodical cruising through that massive square in the center of madrid talking to the hunt for the people who are there asking essentially why theyre there as far as the increase institute in fractions goes there are multiple different possibilities as to exactly why that is still happening but what the spanish authorities. Have chosen to do is reduce social contact as if its all possible imposes states of emergency so 47000000 people that they need to just stay at home unless theyre going to a pharmacy or to the food Grocery Store it remains to be seen whether or not that will be effective in curbing the numbers the trajectory of numbers of increases for the infections that weve seen all right thank you very much for that update now irans death toll has risen to at least 724 and almost 14000 people in the country are infected many iranians have ignored official advice to stay at home in an effort to contain the outbreak hosts the senior officials politicians doctors and clerics have all contracted the disease and the iranian president Hassan Rouhani says u. S. Sanctions are severely impacting the countrys ability to stop coronavirus well get an update from same bus ravi hes joining us from the iranian capital tehran and the same question surrounding the governments transparency in reporting the extent of the epidemic and its actual ability to contain the virus what are you hearing. Well irans government has said over and over again that part of the reason it is struggling to stop the spread of the virus throughout the country is because it doesnt have enough money to throw at the problem and that they say is because of u. S. Sanctions unilateral and illegal u. S. Sanctions that they say are hampering efforts now and are having a compound in effect at this time when the country is going through a Public Health crisis 2 days ago if the foreign minister of the country sent a letter to the United Nations imploring them to step in and press the United States to remove sanctions yesterday president Hassan Rouhani in an open letter published on his website to World Leaders made that point as well saying that if you dont help iran now it may become a problem that continues to perform in the country in the region and throughout the globe and earlier today the foreign minister once again sent letters to ambassadors of countries represented here in tehran imploring them to step in and understand that it is time to push the United States to drop these sanctions so that iran can go on about the business of trying to deal with covert 19 in the country here in tehran earlier today the task force set up to combat the coronavirus announced that the death tolls had spiked a number of cases that spiked tragically another record setting day in this country to iran remains the worst affected part of the country yet the government here trying to find a balancing act between the economy and Public Health crisis says that they still will not quarantine this city weve also heard that a number of cases of those who died were actually younger people 15 percent of the deaths so far have been of people around the age of 40 so in a virus that was thought to affect largely older people now a worry for a country where the median age is 31 and the majority of the population is considered young all right says amos robin thank you. While soldiers have been clearing the streets of the philippine capital manila were mandatory quarantine is now in place several Asian Countries have seen a jump in new cases including malaysia which reported almost 200. 00 new infections on sunday and thats despite tough measures across the region to stop the virus from spreading sara has more. The philippine capital manila has begun a month lockdown thousands of police sealing off the city by blocking major roads the quarantine means Domestic Travel in and out of manila this is suspended with a few exceptions one might do but i mean that theres so much traffic the containment measures are disruptive but its ok its for the good of our own health from monday minute his 12000000. 00 residents will be under a nightly curfew and are encouraged to stay its time during the day schools are closed most government jobs will be suspended and large gatherings are to be banned in. The philippines has taken some of the toughest measures yet in the region theres also been a jump in the number of coronavirus cases in malaysia most of them a link to a 4 day event that was held in february at a mosque near kuala lumpur among the 16000 attendees there were nearly 1500 foreigners who went back to their countries majority of cases found in neighboring brunei and now linked to that gathering in australia has strict travel measures are being implemented anyone arriving from abroad must self quarantine for 2 weeks cruise ships entering Australian Waters will soon be banned from docking 30 days Prime MinisterScott Morrison says the restrictions are necessary and has called for an urgent meeting of the g 20. Promised to my views kerry to organize i link up between all the g 20 leaders i think thats i think thats a Commendable Initiative a struggle obviously supports that and even more urgent maybe that would be needed would be the making of the g 20 finance ministers and Central Bank Governors this is a whole crisis but it has very serious economic impact. In new zealand the number of people infected has gone up after person travelled from australia despite having tested positive for corona virus itself isolation period of 2 weeks to travelers entering new zealand has come into force but those coming from small South Pacific island countries with no reported cases are exempt were going to step out there in force and things like spot checks to ensure people self isolating and if you dont there are quarantine powers available to us and all new zealands east coast passengers on a cruise ship docks and i could a town on whats allowed to disembark 3 people on board a quarantine with one showing symptoms Peoples Movement is being restricted if you choose hope it will prevent a bigger spread the virus. A. Little Largest Airline in the United StatesAmerican Airlines is slashing its International Flights by 75 percent until may the cuts were announced hours after the Us Government restricted travel for more countries including the u. K. And ireland as a precaution against the Coronavirus International airports across the u. S. Were already in chaos with incoming travelers forced to wait hours for medical screening before being allowed through customs mike hanna joining us from washington for an update from there what more can you tell us about the effects that travel ban is having on airports. Well certainly reports from a number of airports remember there are 13 airports that have been designated as except the entrance points with screening reports are that theres scenes of complete chaos at a number of these airports some passages report waiting for up to 10 hours to clear customs and collect their baggage after arriving on flights from Europe Clearly the situation the screening staff overwhelmed by this many commentators pointing out the similarity to president trumps ill conceived ban on muslim travel shortly after he took Office Similar scenes of chaos in airports being seen now now the governor of illinois tweeted out in the middle of the night as he was getting reports of the crowding of chicagos Ohare Airport that its time for the government to get its act together though he didnt use the word act to used a much stronger word he says he was response was an angry call from a white house official who yelled at him for having tweeted this out in the middle of the night the governor insists that federal aid is needed at these airports that the situation cannot continue through the day remembering too that a nother travel ban an extended travel ban comes into effect at midnight on monday and that is a ban imposed on the United Kingdom and ireland which were left out of the original ban on the 26. 00 members of the Schengen Union so certainly the situation could will get worse before it gets better and pointed out to the fact that where the administration is recommending social distance that people keep apart from each other its accept led to tens of thousands of people Standing Shoulder to shoulder for hours at a time attempting to clear screening procedures at the airports writer mike hanna thank you. The french president has defended his decision to go ahead with local elections across the country despite the coronavirus pandemic the government has issued guidelines to polling stations are asking people to stand at least a meter apart from each other a partial lockdown is in place in france which has at least 4 and a half 1000 cases Natasha Butler is at a polling station in the capital paris. Well here at this paris polling station as in polling stations across the country people coming to photo have been told by the french government to take very particular precautions they have to stand a meter apart they have to use Hand Sanitizer when they go in and out to clean their hands where mosque where possible bring their own pen to sign the register now of course the french government has put these regulations in place because all of the coronavirus epidemic in the country but really this policy is taking place in extraordinary context you have a country in virtual lockdown with nearly everything shut except for essential services but the french government has insisted that these elections must go ahead now while french people are voting for about half a 1000000 local councillors and those local councils will then elect their men as well for the people who did choose to come to vote they say that they felt that the risks were minimal largess of initial count i wasnt worried about coming here because we have to keep our distances we have to take precautions. It was normal to do it and i think if we take precautions its not a problem well a number of french political leaders and Health Experts had called over the past few days on the government to perspire in these elections saying it wasnt necessary at this particular time and to really put so many people would risk in the midst of a Health Crisis the french government those says that the risks of been minimized care is being taken and they also say that it is important to continue with the democratic process while there is supposed to be a 2nd round in these municipal elections in one weeks time well have to wait and see if that goes ahead. Still to come on aljazeera the says fire merely holding in syrias last rebel held stronghold turkey and russia hold their 1st joint patrols this. Special prayers are held in new zealand to remember those killed in the Christ Church mosque attack despite coronavirus restrictions. Hello again theres another big area of low pressure dominating the weather across northeastern parts of asia so its a fairly wet one in parts of japan with the threat of some snow elevation of the western side of honshu in particular but by the end of the day that system should be swinging out into the Northern Pacific tokyo looking at highs of 13 degrees following conditions across the Korean Peninsula and generally fine across much of central and Southern China although this area of rain you can see behind me that is going to develop during the course of choose to see for southern areas it does become quite wet and that rain just begins to slide into northern parts of vietnam certainly for the hills and only those should stay largely dry with highs of 28 degrees moving down into southeastern parts of asia weve got conditions for kuala lumpur and singapore there temperatures into the low thirtys but plenty of showers expected for java and also for more western parts of borneo some very wet weather is likely here into south asia pretty fine at the moment weve got to weather for delhi their highs of 28 degrees across more southern areas the chance of the old shower for sri lanka and i think as we head on through into a tuesday we will eventually see wanted to showers developing across central parts of india but it should stay dry night for high sierra or 33. With a plummeting bath rate and families moving to the cities south koreas rule schools are shutting down one on one east meets the grandmas who is saving these schools finally getting an education on aljazeera. Every. Hello again the top stories on aljazeera spain is in its 1st full day of national walked out on the 2nd country to impose such strict measures its reported more than 2000 new coronavirus cases and 152 deaths all the number of people with the virus in iran is nearing 14113 people have died there in the past 24 hours to hans has us sanctions or a severely hampering the fight and in the u. S. Increased screening measures for people returning from europe and cause chaos at airports the u. S. Has extended its ban on non americans traveling from europe to include the u. K. And ireland. All the delmar trends in the number of cases in china is being celebrated by the government as a major victory beijing had initially concealed the outbreak before putting millions of people in quarantine and a sarah clarke reports those lockdown restrictions came at a cost. On his 1st trip to the epicenter of the krajina Virus Outbreak chinese president xi jinping went on what commentators called a victory lap visiting members of the communist party and Health Workers on the front line he congratulated the people of one hand for defeating whats now a Global Pandemic the places he went to or was a very choreographed for everything was stepped in a way so they were and it was on message so that it maps to also the signaling in the newspapers t. V. All over try these media is partly winning the battle but partly its also signaling to people weve been through with the we know its a mass lockdown across here by province came into effect at the end of january as well strict contain and travel restrictions across china 60000000 people were forced to stay at home including 11000000 from the city of the World Health Organization has raised by asians response but not everyone appreciated the robust can time it measures with in fiction numbers for the hashtag when will he be on blocked was read more than 100000000 times on chinas social media platform weibo the shutdown may have worked but some say that success could also come at a cost i