Streets of chiles capital venting their anger over rising inequality. We begin in saudi arabia where crown Prince Mohammed bin samana has detained some of the most high profile members of the rule family that includes former crown Prince Mohammed bin nayef as well as prince ahmed but not the less hes outside would the youngest brother the saudi king reports such as theyve both been accused of treason saudi guards of all her arrested one of mohammed bin nayef brothers they are now likely under the threat of life imprisonment or possible execution or tomato salad joins me live on set you now jamal so what do you think prompted this move by mohamed bin solemn on the Saudi Crown Prince and how significant is this development in terms of his significance its huge because were talking about true of the most senior members of the sort of saudi royal family and true that up until now have not been so. Seen as supporters of crown prince may have been someone in the direction that hes been taking the country both domestically and in terms of Foreign Policy whats printed it is very difficult to ascertain needless to say because saudis are very close culture in terms of lack of transparency and no Media Freedom there but also whats peculiar about it is that these are 2 figures who have by all intents and purposes down theyve been under house arrest they havent been able to move freely for very long time so the idea that maybe they were trying to hatch some sort of coup is very far fetched and difficult to see considering the restraints they were under already more likely than not whats a lot of analysts are talking about is that the current king solomon is somebody who has been reportedly suffered from dementia for many years hes unwell his health is very frail so is this a sign that he has either passed or is about to and now for the crown prince needs to ensure that there are no obstacles in his way in terms of succession and whats this telling us then jamal about the consolidation of power because the rules family are telling us earlier seems to be the one area where he didnt have 100 percent total control for sure so if you look at the different power bases within saudi arabia as a country you have the. Royal courts of the royal family you have the religious institutions and then you have support from the International Community namely the United States those are the 3 main power bases as well as the tribes that exist there but mainly those 3 power bases you need to control that country up until now may have been some man was able to get the u. S. Troop ditch its long term ally in from a benign if the person hes arrested and supports him and his kind of unconditional support from this Current Us Administration hes managed to sideline the religious institution either by coopting them onto his side or by arresting many of them including people like someone older than others but the royal courts the royal family he has failed to exert his total control over eve. After he managed to do things like rounding a lot of senior members of the world family in the ritz carlton that famous case in the end of 2007 there were still those figures like the only other child of the founding King Abdul Aziz that is a human being somebody who didnt support him as well as his cousin and the nephew of the current king hamad bin i just a final thought from before we go to our guest i mean you were telling us earlier that there hasnt been a single tweet or any online posting anywhere from any saudi journalist in the kingdom whats this telling us about how afraid the media is about is phenomenal because you would assume that Something Like this the least you would have is some sort of confirmation or even a rejection saying that this isnt the case this is what happened as you saw with your case you remember daryn in the beginning all of these different saudi outlets said no he wasnt killed he left and so forth there was at least some sort of dealing with the matter but after so many times of actually pushing the line and then coming out deny its later and being proven that what has been said man has done to the media institutions and saudis essentially transform them into institutions that operates with a Remote Control right they will only ever speak if theyre given directives of whats to say and up until now there has been nothing the only thing that theyve been posting funnily enough are videos or pictures of the crown prince pledging their support true him which leads us to the 1st point of what we were trying to assume why this happened could very well be support that theory that this is to help pave the way even more and make it a lot easier for his succession jamal thank you so much for sharing your thoughts with us tomorrow shall. Join me now for more on this is barak barfi hes a Research Fellow at the north America Foundation so what do you think was behind this move by the Saudi Crown Prince and how important a development is this. This is a very Important Development usually in the past you had the star you were family would have when hes everything within the tent they would have essentially didnt and they wouldnt let it spill over into the public but when mama bin saw him and took over he changed the equation he changed situation i was your model send troops out in 70 with the ritz carlton affair mohamed bin najaf. Conference and minister of interior mohamed bin samon removed him and he put a lot of pressure on him now the fact that hes arrested him and incarcerate him produce shows that hes very scared that that might have been possible influence that he had when the minister of interior it shows that this man is taking a different path with what what we would historically believe me the freedom of q. And these detentions come at a sensitive time for the kingdom dont they because the Crown Princess holds it all visits to mecca because of the coronavirus and his his plans to modernize the saudi column has shown little progress so far on the had been rumblings in the kingdom have of that so its not only what days domestic policy is Foreign Policy has been a colossal failure specifically the war in yemen decided to go into a war in yemen to fight there who these who are normally shia groups and the allied with iran has now got iran on the border gotten iranian proxies firing missiles at at the kingdom you have the big attack by oil facility that has met its Foreign Policy has been a failure d is the message policy theyve never had the rhetoric is never ringback suited up with the reality big kingdom has if hes not going to modernize a very conservative society so he has fared both in the master track and the former and thats an interesting point you make about the Foreign Policy because i mean how will this be seen by saudi arabias key allies in the capitals of those countries washington london paris how will they be looking at this in terms of stability in the kingdom. Its an excellent question theres only one person. Or powers from president america and from this moment sound mind and you love the king here close knit his son in law was married. Daughter as an amazing relationship with mom and mom and as long as their kids and the saudi you were average americans want nobodys going to intervene nobodys going to raise your voice no ones going to protest barak barfi thank you very much indeed for sharing your thoughts with us thank you thanks for having me now the number of cases of coronavirus worldwide is now believed to have topped 100000 almost 3 and a half 1000 people have died most of them in china where the virus was 1st detected italy has the 2nd highest number of deaths followed by iran the outbreak has led to travel restrictions diplomatic standoffs and the Global Economy is also feeling the pinch is going to help. The global infection total since the start of the corona Virus Outbreak has soared past the 100000. 00 mark while there are positive signs in the slowing rate of infections in china and south korea elsewhere its speeding up iran recorded a dramatic rise of a 1000 new cases in the 24 hours since thursday with people 30 said to be preparing travel restrictions between cities to add to widespread School Closures and bans on public gatherings among the more than 3300. 00 lives lost around the world so far most have been among the elderly whose less efficient immune systems make it hard to fight off the virus. In france where new infections jumped by 200 on friday president emanuel visited a retirement facility. I am asking all fellow citizens to act responsibly to make their sacrifice i know it is sometimes hard but we must visit in our elders as much as possible. The European Union with its open borders is proving a haven for the spread of coronavirus italy remains the worst affected country but germanys catching up across europe a tiny vatican city has reported its 1st case as has serbia and in britain Prime MinisterBoris Johnson has announced a 50000000. 00 investment into Vaccine Research and faster testing methods. Early signs of the virus continue to spring up in africa and the middle east cameroon and senegal join nigeria and south africa in registering their 1st cases this week as the head of the uns will program sounded a stopped warning if coronavirus continues or create panic around the world and theres an economic downturn ive been telling the european leaders and leaders around the world you dont have enough money set aside to address the needs in Africa East Africa west africa and the middle east right now and if theres a neck an economic downturn on top of the economic downturn that exist now in syria and lebanon it absolutely could be a catastrophe i mean absolute devastation but European Health ministers meeting in brussels have problems of their own there are concerns about a shortage of medicines and protective equipment because of disruptions in the supply chain from china not helped by larger countries like france and germany banning all exports jonah how aljazeera. In the u. S. At least 15 people have died from the virus the number of confirmed cases is on the rise and now sits at more than 250 among those are 21 people on board a cruise ship off the coast of San Francisco was in jordan reports. As the coast guard flew in a supply of corona virus test kits to the quarantined cruise ship grand princess passengers and crew wonder if theyll be leaving any time soon but u. S. President dahl trump said if it were up to him the 3400 passengers and crew would have to stay in quarantine if id rather have the people stay but i go with them i told them to make the final decision i would rather because i like the numbers being with they are i dont need to have the numbers double because of one ship that was our fault trump said this while visiting the centers for Disease Control and prevention the agency that tracks Infectious Disease outbreaks in the u. S. The president and the agency have been criticized for downplaying the severity of the crisis some patients and Health Care Workers accuse the c. D. C. Of making it harder to confirm coronavirus cases the head of the c. D. C. s lab denied the allegations and no time during this response has c. D. C. Ever denied a request that came from a Public Health official either state or local to test the patient so all the patients who needed to be tested and the opinion of the Public Health officials have been tested but officials also struggle to answer has the corona virus in the u. S. Been contained were going to see more cases because were getting more diagnostics out there but i would say that you know what i said before that at the present time general receiver public remains slow but also on friday new cases were confirmed in houston minnesota colorado and maryland and while sanitation workers tried to scrub the gritty subways of new york the arts and cultural festival south by southwest which brings hundreds of thousands of visitors to austin texas every year has been counseled more than 8000000000. 00 federal dollars will now be spent on Urgent Research and treatment of the disease but from coast to coast it seems more americans may be deciding to not take any chances until they know its truly safe to be out and about roslyn jordan aljazeera washington. And more deaths have been reported in iran 1000. 00 new cases in just 24 hours from tehran robert the Public HealthMinistry Spokesman said that the public is not listening to government guidance or government advice not to travel and move around freely he said that the reason that schools and universities and other institutions were shut were so that people would stay at home to a limit the spread of the virus during the occupation period but he said people continue to travel and he suggested that the government may start using force to compel people not to move in between cities he didnt elaborate what that would be but we already know that there are checkpoints military and Police Checkpoints between major cities on major highways to try and control the flow of people to try and stem the flow of this virus as it transfers across the country major tourist sites are now saying they will not accept travelers from anywhere around the country or obviously from outside the country and this is a time of holiday the persian new year is coming up so this was a very Big Development friday prayers remain closed and if you walk around on the streets you can see firefighting and health units in the full chemical gear in full protective gear spraying in disinfecting city streets what you see when you look up from those streets that are being disinfected is that in many areas life is going on as normal now there are 2 things really to consider here the country the has been suffering greatly economically and so people feel that despite the threat of this virus they cant stay home they have to go out to have to participate however they can in the economy or at least whats left of it after sanctions to try and keep earning some money they simply cant stay at home. Well oil prices plunged by more than 8 percent on friday as the worlds biggest producers failed to agree on how to deal with the impacts of the virus opec has been pushing for production cuts in an effort to stabilize prices but russia has refused to support the move the development came as major stock markets in asia europe and north america all recorded losses on friday. Greens an economist who specializes in asian markets he says the World Economy was already in trouble before the outbreak and things only got worse. If you look at europe and japan there for a lot of growth in the last quarter of last year was effectively in recession this whats happening now pretty much guarantees that china are obviously is going to have contracted enormously in the 1st quarter hong kongs in a recession and the i mean the flip side is if you look at you can the u. S. Actually the data has been stronger look at todays employment numbers which were very very strong the problem is because they were from february and we just dont you hear that well all these things like united are cutting domestic flights by 10 percent at least what youre saying earlier about look tense and clearly there will be layoffs and unemployment will start to tick up and another point is well i think its really important to make is that countries that have been at the forefront of this and obviously thats mainly asia weve already seen quite aggressive actions on the part of the governments not only in the way they treat the coronavirus the scale of the testing i mean look at the scene talking about the u. S. And their efforts quite frankly laughable career by yesterday and done over 144000 texts and its and its and it shouldnt be a case of just testing people because theyve got a call from a cult actually what you need to be going out is going testing lots of people because people dont show symptoms such symptoms and they can be Walking Around infecting others who are who are more like who could suffer more and the u. S. Has announced 8000000000. 00 well hong kong out 15000000000. 00 singapore about 5 the chinese have basically if you will where different measures together including lines its bordering on a half a trillion dollars so the efforts in the u. S. Are really i mean perfectly honestly quite disgraceful. U. S. President donald trump has announced the appointment of a new white house chief of staff republican representative mark meadows will take over from Mick Mulvaney whos been acting in the position of the past year moving he will now be Washington Special envoy to Northern IrelandPresident Trump announced the staff reshuffle in a series of tweets on friday. And well have more on that front of virus later in the program well take you to the place where the outbreak began and meet one man whos on the warranty and chinas. People are dying. Every day a woman running a hospital in war torn syria tells us why she has little hope the situation will improve despite. I would have all the support rating t 20 world champions the west indies get for me and thats also. Now for the 1st time in 3 months theres been no airstrikes or shelling in syria ziggler province a ceasefire deal brokered by turkey and russia on thursday appears to be holding for now but there have