Turkey into greece. Now a quarter of italys population 16000000 people are now under lockdown following an emergency government decree to contain the coronavirus the illness has spread rapidly there with almost 6000 infections confirmed in 233 deaths and austrias chancellor says its only a matter of time before more European Countries adopt the same aggressive measures as italy or the lock down includes the entire body region where the most deaths have been recorded home to 10000000 people and the Financial Capital milan no one can move into or out of the area the lockdown has also been imposed on 14 other provinces including venice affecting another 6000000 people the restrictions aimed to limit gatherings and Curb Movement are said to remain in place until early april sonia go go has more now. In northern italy people rushed to the train station desperate to leave the city it was put into lockdown but wanted to talk i read 2 hours ago that they may be putting out an urgent decree putting how to lie in the red zone and because id like to return down south to my relatives i decided to go earlier. Prime minister just a pick on today has signed a decree to impose an unprecedented large scale quarantine in the long body region home to 10000000 people to limit the spread of covert 19. Now we have restrictive measures for a much wider area because it wasnt making any sense to say a lot of small red zones while infections have spread all over a longer day and in the provinces we listed this comes after italy reported more than 1200. 00 new infections in one day theres going to be. Many things that are going to be closed like jinns cultural centers. All sorts of areas where people get together in large groups restaurants and bars however appear it appears they will be kept in. The head of the Catholic Church pope francis is fighting a cold has canceled public appearances he delivered his regular sunday prayer to crowds at the vatican by lifestream. And the leader of one of italys 2 ruling parties announced on saturday that he has coronavirus italy is the worst affected country in europe but france germany and the netherlands have all reported a rise in the number of cases while malta slovakia and serbia have confirmed their 1st infections. Well so news here with us now to talk about whats happening in italy and elsewhere in europe an enormous move this in italy is that almost unthinkable hows it going and what else is happening with the spread of the virus well to say that people are in more in a state panic in that lockdown area is not really exaggerating it a tall and there is also a fear of those people because of course dont forget that the bulk of it is a northern italy where you have a lot of migrants from the south now the fear is that from the governors from southern regions theyre worried that theyre going to be coming back down to their own home regions which then could spread coronavirus there so that that is their fear but also across europe its also another issue big numbers elsewhere britain france everywhere seems to be going up absolutely and youre seeing also huge numbers also in france as well where you have 949 cases confirmed there and at least 16 people have died there interestingly enough though in germany although there are 684 confirmed cases there are still no deaths that have been. From from coronavirus that have been confirmed yet all but also the u. K. As well has also seen another jump the biggest jump in 24 hours and you have now 273 confirmed cases now there is quite a lot of pressure now on the governments theres a budget thats going to be coming out in the coming week and the chancellor of the exchequer is saying that its going to have to be reconsidered to take in any possible further jumps in the incidence of the disease ok thanks for joining us for the latest. Saudi arabia has placed one of its eastern regions on the lockdown because of the outbreak state media says most public and private sector work is being suspended in qatif but Vital Services will continue running commercial supplies will continue to be delivered to the area with protective measures to keep people safe iran is the hardest hit in the middle east with a sharp increase in infections reported on sunday the Health Ministry says more than 6500 people have the virus and 194 people have now died ravi joins us live from teheran nice to see you know how to reliable do we think these numbers actually are. Well jonah according to the government its been another record setting day here in tehran 49 confirmed cases of death from people who contract of the current virus in the last 24 hours bringing the death toll to 194. 00 nationwide now at the same time that the ministries the Health Ministry briefing was happening in which the Health Ministry spokesman was saying to people that if they take precautionary measures prescribed by the government seriously that they could see the numbers of cases leveling off in a matter of 2 weeks the incubation period of the virus at the same time as that briefing where the government was complaining about not getting the public to cooperate there was another minute public Health Ministry meeting happening at the provincial level in gillan province the special representative of the Health Ministry in that province Muhammad Hussein gore bonnie during this meeting said that the number of cases of death from coronavirus in his province alone was 200 thats more than the overall number being provided by the government officially nationwide now the provinces in the north of the country its by the caspian sea its on the coast its on the border with john and this is a report in a local paper so with the political situation here the way it is this could be retracted it may never be confirmed but the fact is these cases these reports these anecdotal stories make their way all around the country and that really does go a long way towards eroding public trust in another province we heard that a medical university there was saying that the can number of cases overall are 30 percent higher than the official number of the government and when we look at these numbers from hospitals from medical universities from local government from the Health Ministry into iran from different reporting there are often discrepancies and many worry that those discrepancies tend to understate the importance of whats happening on the ground in geelong province Officials Say in that province where an official is said that the overall provincial death toll is 200 other Officials Say that hospitals are at Critical Mass and the deputy head of the medical University Said that the situation there is not just critical medical professionals and volunteers feel that they are in a state of war. And then tell us more about the latest measures in place to try and prevent and control this outbreak well from the outset the biggest problem has been public messaging theres been a loss of the public trust due to a number of other crises that are taking place in the months previous and so one of the things weve seen that is very public is a giant mural in downtown tehran where they had placed a mural of the killed general custom solar money thats been replaced by a mural of the nurses in full head to toe gear working on the coronavirus so really propaganda messaging on point to try to illustrate to people how seriously the government is taking this home the city where the outbreak began is finally under a situation of what we can call quarantine now thats not the word that officials are using but traffic is being halted in a people going in and out of the city thats being very tightly controlled and people are being told to stay indoors so ineffective lockdown of the place where the virus began to spread were also seeing that iran air the National Air Carrier has stopped flights to europe thats a real chicken and egg thing there are 14 destinations that it normally flies to but because of unknown restrictions being placed on that airline it seems that they cant get landing rights which is the case for many carriers that fly between iran and other destinations in europe asia as well as the middle east so those are some of the things that the country is going through but really the government is struggling most to try to get the public on board with the guidance and the measures that it is saying will help combat the coronavirus. A lot for us there in thanks zain. Now a top official in the u. S. Has admitted there were missteps that delayed Virus Testing disease expert anthony found she says the government may consider shutting down sections of the country hit hardest by the virus the American Military is restricting travel to and from italy and south korea where they have been large outbreaks despite the concerns though President Trump says he will continue to hold political rallies well lets get the latest now from patty cohen who is live for us in washington d. C. Patty so the pentagon instituting new travel restrictions the white house still under some criticism for not taking this all seriously enough. An incredible amount of criticism and that was highlighted by the different messages were seen from this administration as you mentioned the director of the National Institutes of health a very respected doctor he came out and said dont go on a cruise what weve just saw the Vice President say its fine keep going about your business but you know take sensible measures the president has been very keen to make this seem like a very minor thing he talks about he doesnt want his numbers to go up when it comes to getting people off the cruise ship off the west coast but the numbers are going up just in new york alone it was 89 its now 105 across the country we believe theres 437 confirmed cases now its interesting where were getting this information from were not getting it from the centers for Disease Control that in every other epidemic or pandemic or whatever word you want to call this theyve released a number of tests that theyve done theyre not doing at this time part of the reason could be because they messed up the test they had a test they bragged about having it within just a couple of days after china released see the genetic sequence they sent those tests out the test didnt work so then they took weeks to come up with a new test the same time a Different Agency was it allowing private companies to come up with their own tests that meant very few people were being tested when they did release the kits they had a very strict criteria so lets say a nurse said i think maybe i have this in there were examples of this they said you cant be tested in less youve traveled overseas to one of the highly affected areas that meant likely that there were people who had the corona virus coded 19 and they were simply Walking Around the community so now were seeing these community trained transmissions is what theyre called in the Scientific Community so now theyre looking to see that basically say they cant contain it anymore theyre now just trying to identify it the president had said just a few days ago that anyone who wants the task can have the test it he seemed to be contradicted a little bit by the director of National Institute of health. The tester out there there was a misstep early on with regard to the test namely a technical difficulty but right now about 1100000. 00 tests are out there now theyll be an additional about 640000 on lets say monday and then at least another 4000000. 00 particularly now that were engaging the private sector now when you say that theyre out there if you go to a doctor its up to the doctor to order the test and if that happens a person should have a test available but its no doubt chris you have to be realistic early on there was some missteps that delayed it so someone within the administration seeming to counter to the president whos tweeted out that this was a perfect response and blames any sort of bad news on the fake media as he calls it but obviously there have been missteps he just said there were missteps and there is a broader question about how this is going to impact life and the economy we saw 2 Major Conferences in washington with the conservatives in the israeli lobby and they both now say the people at those conventions have the coronavirus so there is concern the governor of Washington State said they may start looking at restricting large gatherings but the president was asked he said he has no intention of stopping his rallies so thats sort of again showing this very mixed messaging coming from this administration about it go and live for us in washington d. C. Many things the Chinese Government has reported the lowest number of new virus infections since january but the positive news comes after at least 10 people were killed when a hotel being used for quarantine collapsed in the countrys south katrina you has the latest developments from beijing witnesses say it sounded like an explosion this hotel in chinas Southern Food jen province collapsed on saturday night trapping 70 people. Most with people being quarantined because of the corona virus the hotel was designated as a virus isolation ward as emergency teams freed people from the rubble authorities in beijing defended the strict quarantine measures who would nonfossil. If there is a cluster infection a workers have to go into families and communities 40 to help the investigation to know every patients history of activities and track all of the people who had contact with the patient so they must be quarantined for 14 days. The government says tough measures have stopped the spread of the coronavirus outside of the epi center who on sunday china recorded its lowest number of new cases since january or only 3 new cases were recorded outside the province and these patients were infected not in china but abroad state media are declaring victory in the countrys battle against the outbreak in a makeshift hospital known as the one han living room has suspended operations jus to a lack of patients. It feels like were already one were so happy to see patients discharged one after one more than 80000 people have been infected nationwide some 50000 patients have recovered at least 5000 are in Critical Condition in for jan authorities are investigating the cause of the Building Collapse the hotels are in a is being questioned. Aljazeera aging. Still to come this half hour saudi arabias crown prince thought to be cementing his power with another Senior Member of the kingdoms royal family detained. Hallow is running again in china and in japan probably more so in japan although it looks like the clouds in the northeast this is mostly bringing just some light snow which might just briefly on the beijing area but i think not much is mostly focusing to the east of that the rain something to watch thats running through Southern China answers East China Sea in this line takes the through homes shoot and there has been supplying rain recently is more likely flooding rain coming on tuesday given that southerly breeze is rapidly warming in sapporo which represents a good part of her character given the amount of snow thats falling in her cried a recently that seems a fairly rapid thought again a flood risk behind it although theres a tin stove in north korea the suns out again in beijing the years been still of a bit 13 degrees is quite reasonable youre 25 in hong kong probably readily humid so we havent tucked into the Summer Breeze just yet. The big showers around into these are pretty well spread but i think in the next day or so you should watch these developments jobber is thought to be some heavy rain in java or beyond to the east which suggests the flooding potential has returned to that island. For india good scattered showers this time the year and more coming out towards pakistan on monday and tuesday. On tropical fiji Chinese Developers are accused of destroying a Pacific Power nice. One when they investigate. On aljazeera. On charging the cost why the buses the fed rate cut just isnt good enough to save the Global Economy from the impact of the fast spreading coronavirus scientists raced to find a vaccine to stop the epidemic plus the environmental damage of drilling for oil in the republic of congo counting the cost on al jazeera. Back heres a look at the top stories on aljazeera a quarter of italys population is under lockdown in an effort to stop the spread of the coronavirus austrias chancellor says its only a matter of time before other European Countries follow suit. Iran has reported its highest number of corona virus deaths within 24 hour period bringing the total to 194. 00 there are now more than 6500. 00 infections across the country. And a top u. S. Health official says there were some missteps which delayed Virus Testing in a country. The u. S. Military is restricting travel to and from italy and south korea. A 4th senior prince is believed to have been detained in saudi arabia u. S. Media reports say the former head of Army Intelligence prince nayef been a but is among those now being held but there hasnt been any official response from the government alexey obrien reports. Saudi state media on sunday broadcast pictures of king solomon with the kingdoms new ambassadors to euro guy and ukraine the appearance of the monarch followed speculation about his health after the reported arrests of several princes and dozens