A Court Showdown with the anticorruption chief. But to the program italy has closed schools and shopping miles rolled out checkpoints and told 60000000 people that they should stay at home the unprecedented restrictions have been announced as it tries to stop the spread of coronavirus the economy minister has even announced mortgage payments will be suspended in central rome people are staying away from one of the couples most famous Tourist Spots the coliseum as the Peters Square has nearly empty this morning with just a handful of people visiting vatican city people are staying away as coronavirus virus cases rises lets take a closer look at the measures coming into effect italy well everyones been ordered to stay home unless they can justify their lead to travel for work or for Health Emergencies public and private companies have been asked to put their stuff or leave all forms of public gatherings are banned all Sports Events and centers have been closed. Bars and restaurants will be opened but nightclubs silvers theaters and to see those have been shut while supermarkets will remain open large Shopping Centers will be closed on weekends and Public Holidays schools and universities of it closed religious institutions will stay open but marriage baptism and the Funeral Services have been banned. For just a brit as natalia journalist she joins me now from hours on the lombardo in northern italy i believe your now francesca in a supermarket what are you seeing there. As you can see yes im in a supermarket and thats why im keeping my mask on because riyadh i mean theyre inside and this is actually one of the. More aust risky places because of course you have to touch objects so what you can see behind me you can see i mean everybody is in everybody that is not yet in the one in line you have to stay a one meter at least usually its more than one meter a way from each out there and everybody these wearing a mask and gloves and now that is i mean i was coming here there is a meeting in the municipality with a group of ts and of the suit protection and probably from to morrow it loose in this town and in the town nearby supermarkets would be not shut down i mean would be open but bessie kelly food would be carry you know or. You would you will get all your food for everybody there trying to understand if you know its feasible so theyre out of talking about that right now so indeed in terms of the logistics of people trying to survive joining this lockdown is one thing but obviously the numbers of those that have died or have been confirmed to have the virus still continues to rise what is the situation in the red zone where you are right now. You know i serve here no one is reading the number of sense that the sticks that everybody has that hes reading because you know most of the seek out a tall man so outside of the official doubt and thats why no one is really hearing anymore the number. The more these are you know its quite strange because somehow the got to use that to heat i mean they are starting really to react at the same time they are all all talking of the day all the time its impressive i mean if. You are speaking with the foreign readings you can be sure that its you know in new that and when you walk the only people you know the 3 early you see the scene from to funeral announcements everybody stops in front of you know or the waltz with funeral announcements to check the new that or just of course well continue to monitor events with you through the day continue to join up with you as the day progresses for the moment thank you well italy may be bearing the brunt of the outbreak in europe but many other countries in the region are also feeling the impact from all this that circus overton leave barking in our london news center and leaving as you heard from francesco a very odd mood in italy in this lockdown but you know everybody really looking at how italy deals with this they could in directly have the answer. They could and whats happening at the moment across the rest of europe is that people are watching whats happening in italy with great concern great consternation but also seeing what may unfold it may be viewed as something as a cautionary tale of what is to come in other parts of europe we know of course italy france germany are the worst affected by the coronavirus so far and the feeding within the European Union at least is that perhaps its now time to coordinate efforts so later on choose day it will be an unprecedented Video Conference meeting of e. U. Leaders trying to do exactly that to coordinate efforts to try to mitigate the impact of the coronavirus about that meeting by via video link up very much a sign of the times and also the European Parliament too will be debating on shoes day the role of a Coronavirus Task force and later on of the week on thursday they will vote on exactly what role that task force should should take Going Forward whether that means tighter controls on the borders of course if youre in the e. U. Youre able to cross borders very very freely what does it mean for the future of that fluid travel for the movement of people so important. To the e. U. When it comes to a founding cornerstone of what the membership is all about but beyond the individual countries are taking their own option as well moldova not an easy you member has banned the arrival of all foreigners on all flights from all countries affected by the coronavirus the Czech Republic has followed france and germany and banning large gatherings of more than several 100 people we know the coronavirus cases have been reported on both sides of cyprus and the turkish side and the Greek Cypriot side as well and also reports in france that frances culture minister has joined several lawmakers in. Testing positive for the coronavirus so great concerns there and perhaps also an indication of how it simply challenging it is to follow the advice from Health Advice as mark rutter the dutch Prime Minister has advised people in the netherlands to try to resist shaking hands and promptly after giving that advice he turned around and shook the hands of one of his Health Advisors its certainly not easy to follow the advice that people are being given indeed of course well continue to monitor events with you as well from london thanks me for. Chinas present xi jinping is visiting with the epicenter of the coronavirus to inspect epidemic control efforts its the 1st time hes visited the region since the outbreak began in december china has announced that all its temporary coronavirus hospitals and have been shut down the visit is seen as a sign that the government feels its gaining control of the outbreak sarah clarke is in hong kong and says trying to find me has some good news on the virus. His visit has been seen as a signal being conveyed from china to the rest the world that the country has now seen the worst of the epidemic were seeing a vision from released by chinas state media showing shooting pain visiting with him which of course is the epicenter of the a corona Virus Outbreak now the vision shows him visiting the hospital that was built in about 10 days that shots of him talking to the medical staff the hospital authorities and those patients in that particular hospital and the message that hes sending to norway and passing on to those particular people as well as the rest the world is is one of victory hes telling those people that china can fight and contain this epidemic of announce the closure of all those hospital pointing centers in will hand and those are the centers that were testing in and monitoring those people who are showing symptoms of the krajina virus so certainly some good news out of china on tuesday state media is releasing some details suggesting that the government there will start to lift that lockdown for passionately that lockdown and thats by means of a particular Monitoring System its by phone where the residents within will have will be able to get some friends of freedom returned to the people whove been locked down for months now now its its going to be by a q. R. Code the patience of the people the residents there will be given a Health Status of their health as will be assessed and theyll be a q. R. Code assessed or dedicated those particular people through a color system if youve got the red that means youve got the infection if youre yellow it means that you could have the infection because youve been linked to associated with people who have had the corona virus but if you got the green color this means that you will be able to leave your home. But the crow Virus Outbreak is worsening in the occupied west bank where the Palestine Health ministry has confirmed another infection bring the total to 26. 00 tourists have been burned from batley home for at least 2 weeks starving to be country stopping the economy probably of an important source of revenue holy sites are being disaffected and schools closed there is that it but he was in ramallah he says among the latest cases is a palestinian who works in israels parking concerns about how of the workers will be attacked. This is an important issue because we are talking about tens of thousands of palestinian workers who go into israel every day for work they go through checkpoints that are usually very crowded which could mean that some of them will be corrected or we will discover that they have been infected in the next few days now currently the way the occupied west bank is on the closure by israels border cajun of the jewish holiday of so so far for the past 4 days none of them have been able to go but it remains to be seen really whether the Palestinian Government is going to be banning those both the new workers from going there it has no repeat no way of implementing that mechanism these checkpoints and mandan monitors monitored by the israeli themselves so the Palestinian Government spokesperson said that its a wait and see at this point and he threw the bowl in israels court if they were going to be banning those palestinians was it from going now the post an economy is going to be suffering from this crisis as per the palestinian Prime Minister mohammed that you he says hes expecting the crisis to last for 4 months he says that the losses could be estimated at 100000000. 00. All the 114000 cases worldwide with infections reported in 115 countries all regions she had and in china the number of new reported case cases continues to slam all the stuff alexei braun. The corona Virus Outbreak began in december last year in the chinese city of about 11000000 people. Just so scientists who study epidemics have traced the source to a Seafood Market where they think the virus was initially transmitted from animals to people and on the 13th of january the 1st case of the new corona virus outside china was reported in thailand and now almost 2 months on this shows how far the virus has spread those big red circles are the hot spots china of course but also south korea iran and italy a team of Johns Hopkins university in the United States started tracking the numbers of cases deaths and the people whove recovered the totals are always changing but this is how they looked about 9 g. M. T. On Tuesday Morning just over 4000 deaths 114544 cases and just over 64000 patients have recovered that means there are about 50000 active cases remember these are confirmed cases because in countries such as iran its thought far more people are infected then the government said missing and scientists believe most people will only have mild symptoms so they could be many Walking Around in our communities not feeling sick or knowing they carrying the virus but lets go back to where it all began china this graph shows us how many cases are reported daily with a spike in mid february when there was a brief change in how patients were diagnosed china still has by far the most cases about 21000 but thats been leveling off in recent days with only 19 cases reported on tuesday however scientists warn that it may take months if not years for the full impact of the corona Virus Outbreak to be known. For the World Health Organization she says other countries should learn from chinas experience of the outbreak. We cant necessarily say what happens in one country always helps and happens in another country but there are really really important things that china has taught us they had an enormous sum break vast numbers of cases and they took very very strong measures they asked everybody not to move they asked everybody to distance socially that stay at least a metre away from each other they asked everybody to be absolutely festive its about personal hygiene and they also paid attention to environmental hygiene make sure they clean the place deep cleaned everywhere and as you say as were talking about the numbers are extraordinary the thing that you can really see when you look at the epidemiological curve and i dont have it with me unfortunately but it was it was going up like this the numbers and then it starts to flatten when they took those actions and has come down very very steeply and thats what you want to see in a really bad outbreak youll see a very very high point he could have but they flatten the curve and yes we want to see that happen in other countries also had him on aljazeera turkey and russia agreed to have been a key part of the latest cease fire deal in syria well have those details coming up. Digging up the past to shine a light on the future we join the search that evidence of our ancestors experiences of rising sea levels. Welcome back lets start by look at the weather across northeastern parts of asia and see this weather system which is move right up through into japan has given some very heavy rain taipei youre seeing some decent rainfall last 24 hours and some of the Southern Islands of japan likewise well that system is now moving away into the pacific so clear weather following behind still some showers into. Western parts of japan but general seeing a change in wind direction is a slightly model conditions expected sapporo seeing a thaw which could become more significant with time so thursday friday we could see a fire of a fairly high avalanche risk developing across the island and now as further south it should be decent there for tokyo north korea saying some brace of rain and snow Higher Elevations but for solace should be relatively mild with highs of 13 you also notice is area of rain across southern parts of china extending into northern parts of taiwan so taipei again seeing the potential for heavy rain but for hong kong just a few light showers expected across into south asia and another westie disturbance is pushing into northern parts of pakistan those in parts of india to system heavy rain into the Higher Elevations some heavy snowfall expected if you have the showers across more eastern areas too but heading for the towards society just got a few showers the Western Ghats that should be largely dry and fine and ensure lanka. The consequence of more i got through 6 russia will be served in the ring for for 929095 that just doesnt go away. For a living out of true for the last couple years his home was 0 follows a group of u. S. Army veterans traumatized by war. As they struggle to get their lives back shelter. Jazeera. War. Talk about your charges are of means a whole rather a reminder of our top stories 60000000 italians will have to stay home unless they can justify travel as the government extends coronavirus emergency measures nationwide the government has banned all public gatherings as the number of dead jumped from 463 on monday. Meanwhile the European Commission says all of its 27 Member States of mark of a credible as cases its calling for aggressive efforts to contain the virus especially countries where there are few patients and china has announced the total of all temporary hospitals treating coronavirus patients who heard president xi jinping visited the epicenter for the 1st time since the outbreak was discovered there in december the number of new reported sections of china continues to slow. Turkey and russia have worked out the details of the security cordon around the m 4 highway in northwestern syria is it live area turkey says it will patrol 6 kilometers to the north of the highway and russia will patrol the Southern Side they have a highway has significant strategic importance that connects the government stronghold with the taqiyya with syrias largest city of aleppo the move comes after the turkish and russian presence agreed to a cease fire deal last week as im a bit of it joins me now from putting turkey not far from the Syrian Border and. The Turkish Foreign ministers comments well do they mean theyre sort of theyve made this arrangement with the russians that it. Was well this is the turkish side of the story remember turkey and russia agreed last week that they will create this 6 kilometer a buffer zone and neither side of the strategic end for. It to make sure that the cease fire that theyve agreed holds and they will be carrying out drawing. Patrollers now a turkey says it would take the northern side and the Southern Side would be left for the russians and we have to see what the russians say about it because a you remember that these are joint patrols that they agreed upon the it wasnt agreed that the m 4 highway will be seen as some sort of a border line where forces on both be able to hold their ground on either side he wants the Syrian Government to fall to its word and russia to make sure that the ceasefire that was agreed on holds inside which is seen tremendous fighting in the last 3 months where as it rebels lost quite a bit of territory in hama as well as problems and a 1000000 people close to a 1000000 people who are uprooted from their homes people whove been displaced before and in the last few minutes weve also heard from the turkish president on the way back from the European Union he met leaders of the European Union and need to in brussels saying that he wants this ceasefire to hold something reiterated by the Turkish Foreign minister as well and saying that he has also spoken to president putin about other parts of syria especially parts or in rich parts where he wants the socalled terrorists to. Leave control and take did that control to be taken mutually by syria. And russia something that might not go down in washington because this is an area held by kurdish rebels who are backed by the United States just briefly sabah how is the Ceasefire Holding the real focus is there is it for for the International Community looking at whats actually happening on the ground. Absolutely the focus is this what is on there as as i mentioned earlier because of that large influx of refugees there he says it cannot afford more than 3 and a half 1000000 never use that it is already hosting and has been critical of the European Union the way it has handled the crisis so the ceasefire in in libya is holding so far there have been violations and reports of violations by both sides we heard from the fighting groups rebel groups saying that Syrian Government has used artillery and mortar shells to target their positions but by and large it is holding and it is that is the main focus here that how are they going to make sure that the cease fire is permanent and once as weve seen before then these lines of been drawn these save zones corridors and border areas have been drawn by various sides the Syrian Government backed by expression and in allies has moved forward and trying to take more areas and this is a major concern not just in public corridors in capitals around the world but also for the nearly 4000000 people who live in it who have been displaced more not more than once from various parts which are controlled by the rebels once for the update thanks very much some in how to now the United States has announced its begun withdrawing its troops from afghanistan as part of a deal with the taliban the supposed to pave the way to peace the u. S. Has agreed to reduce its forces from 120028600 been 135 days of signing the agreement on february 29th the Long Term Plan is for the u. S. To remove all american and nato troops within 14 months if security conditions are met. Kabul she says both sides are respecting the terms of the agreement so far. Our ongoing war between. The afghan government. Is going on on a daily basis with. Multiple attacks on Afghan Security forces when it comes to respecting the terms of agreements between the u. S. And the taliban that has been respected. And i think the u. S. Is a goodwill gesture because there has been a lot of talk. Government saying it will not release the taliban prisoners now says it will release them and that it will not go to the. Afghan talks if the. 2 things happening one the beginning of the pullout of foreign troops and to the release of the prisoners president has been saying ever since it was signed that he will he did he hadnt agreed he hadnt signed to release any of these up to 5000 prisoners as guaranteed by the. Well. He changed he said he was going to release he was going to sign today. That will allow the release of. Those prisoners who are all over the age of 52 number varies between a 10001800 depending on who you speak to that isnt yet. A Traffic Court in south africa president of Misleading Parliament about his election finances just wrong the findings of the Public Prosecutor were fatally flawed so we. These are some of the words that the judge used to describe that report by the Public Protector incompetent illegitimate confusing and so essentially the court has thrown out that reports president s will roam of course or had sought a judicial review of a report by the public particularly that it accused him of Money LaunderingMisleading Parliament and also had questioned some of the funds that he received for his campaign when he was running for president all of the governing African National congress now the court had also gone on to say that the Public Protector hadnt laid down any evidence as to how she had found that her president. Had been implicated in Money Laundering and also that there was no evidence that the president knew about where this donation came from essentially dismissed these accusations rather of Improper Conduct and essentially now the spotlight is on the Public Protector in that her report has been entirely dismissed and this isnt the 1st time. Now the king of the not says apologize for the violence this country inflicted on the divisions during close your rule its the 1st such admission by the speak your his 1st state visit to the country King Philip Alexander expressed regret for the conduct of dutch forces in the 4 years after indonesia declared independence in 1945 the dutch government has already apologized and paid compensation to survivors. In line with the earlier statement by my government. I would like to express and with. Regret and the apology for the excessive violence on the part of the ducks in the here. And i do so in the full realization that the pain and sorrow of the families affected continues to be built today. It is a hopeful and encouraging thing that country with one arm up with its side has been able to grow closer and develop a new relationship with the invention. Well as Climate Change. Scientists in the u. K. Are looking to a prehistoric past for evidence of changing sea levels and how our ancestor tried to cope just like a bolt of reports. In southern england. Low tide of thorn space on the Southern Coast of england maritime archaeologists are searching the mud flats for clues as to what life was like thousands of years ago telling into our engine parts and here we see this incredible story ongoing material from far even off 1000 years ago when just in the seabed white near where i live i find that so turns out icing exploiting. A piece of timber more than 5000 years old might help us understand what happened when sea levels rose creating an island that became britain separate from Continental Europe what were doing with the understanding the path of the train to the effect of Sea Level Rise in the past and if we can understand the long term impact of the responses of the through a lot of that crude are playing. Right into the theater on a lot of paralympic. Types arent always this low so the marine archaeologists also dive to find evidence of prehistoric activity the salty sea water is an excellent preservative scientists take their findings back to the lab at the university of southampton where they get new tests in carbon dating to figure out how many thousands of years ago our ancestors lived on this for sure it was cuttin theres evidence that the wood was worked on by prehistoric man to make a flat surface they could be a resin that was applied at the time 5000 years ago maybe to protect it protect from the water as the sea level was coming up. Discoveries of signs of prehistoric settlements artifacts and even food give the archaeologists an idea of what life would have looked like. Hazelnuts and heres a nice heres one that. We found quite a few of these i say have to bear in mind this is over 8000 years old they found d. N. A. From im corn an ancient grain dating it to 8000 years indicating early trade we dont know too much about our prehistoric ancestors and their struggles with rising sea levels but the more we learn could help in our own approach to Climate ChangeJessica Baldwin aljazeera hampshire england. Watching aljazeera with me as a whole rather abide of our top stories 60000000 italians will have to stay home unless they can justify their travel as the government extends coronavirus a budget see bashers nationwide the government has bad all public gatherings the number of dead job to 463 of bombay for just a body has more of a supermarket in the bardo above the literally according to nudity particularly only 3 customers can and dine so if i stay inside betty kelly id lock the entrance because we must keep away from each other i mean one metre from each other hes the minimum security distance so whatever it will be harder we should wear a mask if we speak to each other and we should stay when we need to acknowledge from each other and then you know everything if closed by secretly their bodies each side. Meanwhile the European Commission says all of its 27 Member States have confirmed credit virus cases its called aggressive efforts to contain the virus especially in countries where there are few patients. And china has announced the closure all temporary hospitals treating coronavirus patients and president xi jinping is the epicenter for the 1st times as the operate was discovered in december the number of new reported infections in china continues to slow and turkey and russia have worked out the details of a Security Card around the m 4 highway in northwestern syrians lip turkey says it will patrol 6 kilometers to the north of the highway and russia will patrol the Southern Side the move comes after the turkish and russian president s agreed to a cease fire deal last week the United States has announced it has begun withdrawing its troops from afghanistan as part of a deal with the taliban thats supposed to pave the way to peace the Long Term Plan is for the u. S. To remove all american and nato troops within 14 months if security conditions are. Those are the headlines here on aljazeera ill be back with more news in half an hour but next on aljazeera is inside story with james bays do stay with us. It really puts a quarter of its population into quarantine to contain the corona virus should other countries follow suit or is it too little too late to stop the spread this is inside story. Hello im james is with the number of dead rising fast the 3rd highest number of cases worldwide and 60000000 people forced into quarantine italys government has ordered some of the harshest measures outside china to try and contain the coronavirus its in his economic heart is under strain the financial and fashion capital milan resembles a ghost town