Youre still with the sport french champions parents become the latest team to be disrupted by the coronavirus as they came to strasburg is called all. 3 Saudi Arabian princes a reported to been detained by mosque men in what may be a new power battle in the kingdom one of them is the kings younger brother the other a former crown prince said to be accused of a coup attempt well just as alexey obrien begins our coverage. The Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin solomon has moved to consolidate power since removing his cousin mohammed bin nayef is age of the throne and 27. 00 tane now 3 years on the knife is reportedly accused of trying to push out the crown prince and that seen him and his brother detained as well as the saudi kings youngest brother ahmed bin abdulaziz there are some kinds of rumors and innuendoes and there is turmoil within the family in the form of criticism but that doesnt justify you know being arrested like criminals with mass Security Forces coming to their homes and yanking him out of their private residences mohamed bin solomon known as has a reputation for cracking down on anyone who opposes him 27 tane dozens of senior members of the royal family and billionaire businessmen were rounded up and detained at a luxury hotel in riyadh the saudi government said it was an end to corruption drive Rights Groups disagreed. Hundreds of activists including womens rights campaigner illusional have to are also in prison. Hes not worried about people trying to make a call he doesnt want any independent voices that dont agree with him and its not for the. Rumors of 3 people on the council of royal members in saudi arabia that decides the succession he was one of the 3 who didnt vote for him had been summoned to become the crown Prince Mohammed bin solomons most notorious legacy so far is the 2018 killing of saudi journalist. In the kingdoms consolation a stone boat he was murdered by a hit squad made up of some of been solomons personal entourage his body dismembered and of a found the cia concluded that the crown prince must have known about the operation if not ordered it himself. Who is the most senior 3 and. Actually overseas for many years came back. Ears ago to kind of try to calm things down. After b. S. Took over and there were some. Kind of turmoil within the royal family the prince of wales return to the kingdom in 2018 came weeks after he appeared to criticize the saudi leadership during a protest in london against the saudi u. A. E. Led war in yemen one of my it is you know what does the whole of the al saud family have to do with this there are certain individuals responsible in the king to try and prince and others in the state. Prince ahmed and mohammed bin nayef were both seen as possible rivals to the throne when i say 4 year old king solomon dies reports suggest they now face long term imprisonment or even death brian aljazeera. Is director of the Gulf Studies Center cattle university he says that the arrest reflects a crisis within the saudi royal family. What we see today is actually has a great link to what happened in 2015 since a concerned man came to power and then he assigned his son the crown prince and we know that for example 100 iraqis came back from london in 2018 who did get into it with a british and european guarantee and he would not be they will not have a new role in politics we know that mohammed bin nayef and really you know house arrest so it it doesnt make sense to speak about actually sort of anything what happened reflects a crisis within the house of saud that number 7 man is not sure about was the reality of this family and that that is takes us to other where basically if man or he is in a situation to pass to pass away this means he needs people and he doesnt need any. I would say war against him and those are the most important figures in the family so far i think its important to see that 100 percent man and the severe depression since the killing of 2 my heart stopped because basically the United States. You know had the support time he has he lost the credibilities that is little communication with him personally with the americans as he used to have so there is severe pressure on him and also there is severe pressure inside saudi arabia about you know the economy is not moving in a good direction that im cool project is fading apart you know theres a lot of criticism about the entertainment policy hes basically promoting saudi arabia all of this to do that with him and theres a bit of pressure an iranian politician has died after contracting the coronavirus as Health Authorities there reported 21. 00 new deaths over the past 24 hours it brings the total number of fatalities in iran to 145 while daily 6000 infections have been confirmed across the country but irans moscow thora say has postponed all Group Present gatherings until further notice lets go by now to the iranian capital tehran aljazeera same bus ravi is the. Tell us about some of the challenges the greatest challenges that are affecting iranians right now. Well it has to be said that one of the biggest problems the government is facing while trying to address this while trying to control the spread while trying to stop the spread and treat those that have contracted the coronavirus is getting the public on board with guidance to restrict their movements and really that is the compounding problem here in iran there are really 2 tracks here there is the Health Ministry trying to control the illness trying to deal with the spread of this virus and the economy of the country and really if they dont want to bring the country to a standstill placing mass quarantines on cities and towns bringing the country to a standstill will definitely hurt the economy so the government is really caught between what how to address the Health Crisis and how to keep the country from bringing coming to a total standstill the Health Ministry during the public briefing today said that it is considering severe restrictions on peoples travel on Peoples Movement thats compound and what they said yesterday which is that they could use force to keep people from moving between cities to keep people even from moving inside their own cities but when youre out on the streets you see that there are still people going about their day theyre going to work there theyre going to their shops theyre opening their doors to customers and really thats because iranians if they stop working the economy is already struggling so much that any sort of hit economically see peoples home incomes to their to their. Income on a daily basis we could be catastrophic and that could create the instability of a different kind the interior Ministry Today taking a decision that seems to contradict what the Health Minister is trying to do announcing that all government jobs will go back to normal later this week people will begin working normal hours once again this while home the city where this outbreak was 1st detected the number of cases there continues to rise. Today the city is on lockdown as government workers sanitize city streets and during the Health Ministry briefing mr numrich you say no mickey said that we are dissatisfied with people who are not heeding government advice we were forced to tighten quarantines inside cities and towns and prevent people not from those cities and towns from entering certain provinces hes also asked people to cancel any sort of large ceremonies or weddings during the period of this crisis aljazeera same describe the reporting live there from teheran saying many thanks indeed meanwhile governments around the world are introducing new measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus in south korea the sale of mosques is being restricted to 2 for every person once a week or more than 7000 cases theyre the most outside china and its only the number of deaths has risen to 197 after the biggest daily increase in fatalities since the outbreak began schools universities and cinemas have already been ordered to close and theres concern in a straight after it was revealed that a doctor who has the virus treated 70 patients the doctor had recently been on a trip to the us and returned showing symptoms the doctor from that tareq clinic in mulvane wrote consulted approximately 70 patients for 5 days between monday the 2nd of march and friday the 6th of march look i have to say i am absolutely flabbergasted that a doctor who has experienced flu like symptoms has presented to work lets hear now from aljazeera is rob mcbride in seoul with updates on how the government there is dealing with the outbreak. Weve seen in the past few days a fairly steady increase of between 4 or 500. 00 per day if anything its a slight decrease day on day but were told by officials not to read too much into that they continue to see spikes and could expect to see more spikes as they as they go through doing more testing especially around the daegu city area of the southeast of the country and come across more clusters of cases especially amongst the congregation members of the sheen changi church which is at the center of the outbreak down in the south of the country the other thing that the officials here remind us about is of course that the testing now is almost on an industrial scale i think Something Like more than 170000 individual tests for the corona virus have been carried out here in south korea since this crisis began its not a very enviable reputation but south korea has found itself has pretty much willed experts in detecting the corona Virus Testing for it and trying to contain it and you compare how the testing is so extensive here with for example neighboring japan which despite its sophisticated medical services has been criticized for not undergoing so many tests and also of course the United States which is faced a lot of criticism for its lack of tests its not surprising that the experts here in south korea are often being referred to are often being asked for guidance from other countries medical services around the world the proportion of people who have died after contracting the coronavirus is in disputed the World Health Organization says that its around 3. 4 percent but some Health Experts believe that would be much lower if more people were tested under serious katrina given spoken to harm resident who was considered a symptomatic he didnt know he was infected until he had the test. The change and shown daily meal deliveries are the highlight of his day the 100 residents has recovered from the current of ours but he has to stay cornton at this hotel for 2 weeks he says getting infected came as a surprise. I almost had 0 symptoms i steer a few times and it was a few days thats all i always want to sleep but i was never feeling too bad ching gen is considered a symptomatic displaying few or no specific symptoms his parents also caught the virus his mother had a fever but his father also had very few symptoms after 2 weeks at a makeshift hospital and without undergoing any treatment change and tested negative for the illness former World Health Organization official do says asymptomatic patients are not unusual. Weve seen that everywhere all over the word these people test positive show no symptoms if we group them as patients after the tested positive with have too many patients they are not strictly patients but rather the virus carriers while the corona virus can cause pneumonia and lead to other Health ComplicationsHealth Officials say 80 percent of people who catch the current virus only have mild symptoms experts say this means asymptomatic patients may go untested and can spread the illness without knowing but there is good news the good news is many people who dont show symptoms can develop immunity if people develop this immunity the epidemic eventually with slowly disappear medical experts are still learning about the severity of the virus but over the age of 60 and with other Underlying Health concerns appear to be the worst affected ching jentzsch says his experience shows theres no need for people to be too alarmed. The subway is a bad thing for the whole society but as individuals we dont all have to panic for me i didnt feel much i had no fever it was a better than the cold with a week left in quarantine hes looking forward to leaving the hotel and daily food deliveries behind. Al jazeera beijing in the u. S. At least 15 people have died from the virus the number of confirmed cases is on the rise now since of more than 250 among those cases a 21 people aboard a cruise ship off the coast of San Francisco aljazeera as well as lynn 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 at 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 patients out of 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 again what i said before that at the present time dont receive or probably remain slow but also on friday new cases were confirmed in houston minnesota colorado and maryland and while sanitation workers try 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 canceled 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. This is that he was from aljazeera still to come on the program we look at the prospects for negotiations between the Afghan Government and taliban the talks to to stop within days. Struggling to paint a Brighter Future why helping refugees and migrants get back on their feet is becoming harder for volunteer groups working in greece. And how the brown jadedness helps the l. A. Lakers get the jump on the Milwaukee Bucks in a big battle the details coming up a little later in school. Lebanon is expected to announce in the next few hours that it column 3. 00 pay more than a 1000000000. 00 stew on monday the Debt Repayment is just a small part of the 91000000000. 00 that the country owes thats 150 percent of lebanons economic output one of the heaviest debt burdens in the world the Prime Minister president and Central Bank Governor met on saturday to reach a decision lets go live to beirut and to aljazeera. Has it come to that cena. Well a formal announcement is expected in the coming hours but statements that are being made by officials signal that lebanon is going to default on that this will be the 1st time in history assign a signal on how deep the financial and economic crisis is in the country 1200000000. 01 of a few payments that the lebanese government paid before the end of the year up to 5000000000. 00 until the end of the year it may seem like just a small amount but it just shows you that this country does not have enough foreign currency reserves the foreign currency reserves are dwindling so the government has to make a choice pay the debts or pay the imports that that are needed fuel medicine 10000000000. 00 just to import the basics. Before the end of the here and this is a government that does not have many friends in the International Community for 2 reasons one it hasnt showed any commitment that it is ready to carry out structural and Economic Reforms this is a demand the International Donors have made time and time again one of them is to trim the Public Sector they believe that theres a lot of waste in the Public Sector politicians use the Public Sector use the states resources to maintain support among its own among their own constituencies and thats not the only reason why some of the International Community led by the United States and its allies of the region consider this government to be hezbollah controlled the iranian backed group that they have been trying to contain theyre trying to contain irans influence in the region so they see this government is controlled by hezbollah and that is why they dont want to give it any source of funding