Contain the spread of the virus. The coronavirus pandemic is forcing countries around the world to take extreme measures affecting all aspects of life a billions of people heres the news were following this hour spain is reporting 1500 new cases in 24 hours the Prime Minister is due to speak after meeting with his cabinet right now iran is seeing a rise in the number of deaths 97 reported on saturday are now its ordered the closure of religious sites in combe and colombia has shut its border with venezuela a crucial crossing for people to get food medicine and work before we go to our correspondents lets take a look at the global picture right now this is the Johns Hopkins university virus tracker as you can see 147746 confirmed cases of the virus totaled. Thats 5539. 00 but the total recovered 71714. 00 you can see that big cluster there in italy but also look at spain right now big red blob of madrid there confirming that spike in cases in madrid lets go live to sania gago whos in london for us and following the news out of the u. K. And europe starting with that big spike in cases in spain. Absolutely and this was what the Spanish Government had feared would happen they realized that they could come across a situation as badly as had hit italy so fast and so soon really has taken people by surprise so with that they are moving quite quickly with the clamping down and they are supposed to be or the Prime Minister better sunshine this supposed to be announcing a nationwide lockdown that would mean spain a country of 46000000 people would affect would in effect be restricted to being at home and only be allowed out to work or in cases of emergency when you consider that the cases of covert 19 have gone up 10 fold since sunday this has been a cause of great alarm for the country and they do not want to see a similar situation taking place in spain as has been seen in a city in northern italy where youve had hospitals beyond capacity where youve had one time tree asure a practice is put in place where people have been allowed to die because simply there isnt the means or all the all the equipment to be able to save every single case as possible a situation that serious hopefully is what the spanish will be looking to avoid whether they will be able to do so given the sudden rise in the spikes in numbers is another thing that they can have said ok and what developments we have to report from the rest of europe in the u. K. Where the situation is is changing rapidly. Well youve had also another spike in cases in the netherlands as well with now 959 cases. Going in present in the country but also interesting enough the outlier in this whole situation the u. K. Surprised many in the International Medical bodies for taking a distinctly different approach to what other countries were doing he the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson faced quite a bit of criticism for what was being perceived as a sort of light touch approach with using for example plans such as herd immunity in a bid to try and push the cases along further down in the year so as to avoid peaks in the Health Care System that there have been arguments for this but there are also been increasingly over the past few days since this announcement arguments against it and now it appears that the Prime Minister the British Government is somewhat bending towards those down in the face of that criticism as well hes preparing a review to see how they can ban Mass Gatherings something which he and the other 2 medical professionals who hes been alongside with have said that didnt need to happen because. Contracting the virus would normally happen in smaller groups but they are considering this and now emergency legislation is being passed is due to be passed in parliament in the coming week to try and ban events such as wimbledon and the horse races that ask it and even the glastonbury Music Festival so many thanks needhams there is something very good reporting live from london its been a steep rise in the number of people who died after contracting corona virus in Iran Iranian State Television says that a further 97 people have died that raises the death toll to 611 state media says that shops streets and roads have all been emptied countries dealing with a lack of life saving medical equipment its asking for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the International Monetary fund to 0 samus ravi is in turn around and says the impact of the us sanctions on the economy are making it very difficult for enough storage fees to effectively deal with the outbreak. Numbers continue to go up every single day 97. 00 dead in just 24 hours bringing the total to 611. 00 and the overall new number of cases in 24 hours 1365 confirmed cases of corona virus the total edging closer and closer 213000 specifically 12729. 00 cases in all since the beginning of this outbreak these numbers while in the grand total of the population of the country remain small they are very significant in terms of tracking the spread of the corona virus in iran which since the beginning the government has struggled to get to come to grips with and surely what one of the things one of the points that the government officials many leaders across the border trying to make now is that they are struggling to cope with this virus because of the impact of u. S. Unilateral u. S. Sanctions that been placed on iran and you have to look at the fact that this is a later Oil Producing country if left to its own devices if it was able to trade with World Markets normally this is a country that would have had an enormous financial buffer and lots of money to be able to throw at a problem like a Public Health crisis like this coronavirus but the fact is that it is struggling to do so we have seen help come from countries like qatar one of its closest and one of the few closest allies it has in the middle east iran has also received help from china russia the World Health Organization by way of medical supplies but the fact is that this is effective only in the short term its like putting a bandaid on a gaping wound and that gaping wound is the economy on the macro scale iran doesnt have enough money to throw at bolstering Health Services that are under dire pressure from the from the corona virus spreading so quickly on a smaller scale in peoples homes in Small Businesses shops they dont have the financial buffer to be able to shut down and close up and commit to the guidance for health care that the government is putting on these people so truly its a case of sanctions making it very difficult to manage this Health Crisis by having a compound in effect and the fact is people just dont have that financial buffer to be able to withstand dealing with this Health Crisis. To the us now where president s donald trump has put the country under a National Emergency which frees up money to fight the coronavirus to unleash the full power of the federal government that this effort today i am officially declaring a National Emergency 2 very big words the action i am taking will open up access to up to 50000000000 dollars of very importantly for important and a large amount of money for states and territories that look out of these in our shared fight against this disease after that address a 30 day ban on all flights from parts of europe to the u. S. Came into effect and the u. S. House of representatives has passed a bill which will provide paid sick leave and free testing to citizens now has to sign it in order for it to one take effect lets go live now to washington i was there as mike hanna is on the saturday morning shift then whats the latest mike. Well as you mentioned there President Trump needs to sign that bill passed by the house of representatives but even before that its got to go through the senate it is a sweeping bull indeed and late last night President Trump indicated that he would support it he would sign the bill when it gets to him this is likely to influence those in the senate to describe the bill as below however the senate will be convening in the next few days and its likely now given President Trumps indorsement that the senate will pass it that this bill will go into effect certainly its a bill aimed at easing the social and economic hardships being experienced by americans that 50000000000. 00 that will be released in terms of the state of emergency declared by President Trump will go directly to combat the spread of the virus in particular to the rollout of testing kits which is still very slow despite repeated assurances from the white house that these testing kits are being put into the field however throughout the United States and remembering now that there is only one state in which there has not been a confirmed case that is West Virginia the number of tests is still very low indeed and one of the problems is theres no central count for the Testing Process the c. D. C. No longer publishing figures so this in itself is very difficult for those attempting to get some kind of concrete data on the church trajectory of the virus so many problems remain in terms of how the administration is combating this crisis despite the ongoing assurances from the white house mike hanna live in washington many thanks indeed mike from the east to the west coasts series rob reynolds is at the International Terminal of los angeles airport one of a number of major u. S. Ports for travelers he says there was a lot of confusion surrounding the ban. Im standing outside the International Departures area at Los Angeles International airport and its fairly busy tonight you can see that a lot of travelers are Wearing Masks that does seem to be the norm for travelers these days and of course now that the President Trumps travel ban on 26 European Countries says come into effect theres a lot of questions there are a lot of questions in the travel industry and among travelers themselves the president announced this ban in a speech on wednesday it was rife with errors and misinformation and many travelers were confused a lot of people in the industry were confused as well so officials had to eventually come out and say that the ban on traveling from europe does not apply to u. S. Citizens or permanent residents they will be allowed to come home but they will be checked given Health Checks at the airport on arrival and they will be asked to go into a 14 day quarantine now lets look at some of these numbers here and theyre quite large last year there were 550 flights between the u. S. And the shame given area of the European Union thats the 26. 00 nation area that allows travel free of these as and passports within the borders of that area thats about 125000. 00 travelers each and every day and of course this is going to wipe out billions of dollars in revenues for airlines for hotels for travel agencies rental car agencies you name it anything involved in the travel industry delta which is one of the largest u. S. Air carriers and told its employees its asking them to take unpaid leave this is going to idle 300 planes out of its fleet and cut down the capacity by 40 percent over all over this 30 day period of the band from european try. Although European Union leaders have condemned the travel ban they say they werent even consulted by the white house is saying now is the time for cooperation rather than lateral action and president probes own former Homeland Security adviser thomas said that the travel ban will do little to spread. To stem the spread of coded 19 and its more or less a waste of time and effort will get a weather update thanks to on aljazeera than our coronavirus coverage continues life begins to return to normal in china after beijing to class an end to the bust of the corona virus that. The need for Broadband Internet access has never been more urgent and there is at least one industry making a profit from the coronavirus one of those a struggling to survive tell me more about that. Welcome back a star to northeastern parts of asia this time weve got one low pressure system moving away clear of japan so bright conditions for a time but then this next area of low pressure is moving across the sea of japan e. C. Into japan once again korean potential general looking fine so looking at highs of 7 degrees so to move the forecast through to monday were going to see a brace of rain across many parts of japan i think for tokyo you see some rain during the day but also with the wind coming from the northwest we get some shelter off the mountain so not too bad at times about stages should be dry for hong kong taipei also enjoying country of sunshine highs of 15 in shanghai and royce also expecting largely dry weather across northern parts of vietnam just an outside chance of a shower for annoy into southeastern parts of asia plenty of showers here across more southern portions of borneo developing during the course of the day looking pretty wet for western parts of china such a cutter could have some issues there and showers also likely in kuala lumpur and singapore away into south asia weather conditions cherry not looking too bad the showers across eastern parts of india into bangladesh should gradually weaken but we are going to see showers creeping up into southern parts of sri lanka too in the course of monday. 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And as we reported earlier colombia is shutting its land border with weather with venezuela its across a gets used by thousands of venezuelans every day as they look for food and medicine during a devastating economic crisis of home more about lets go live to zeros to rise above this in argentinas capital want us out as youve reported stories on venezuelas economic crisis and its fragile Health Care System how is this Border Closure going to affect people. Precedent and iran from colombia now is that he was shutting down the border also buying foreigners and nonresidents coming from europe from entering the country there are 16 cases that have been already confirmed in colombia on friday venezuela confirmed its 1st 2 cases of coronavirus the president appeared to showing people how to put a mask on in order to ride the metro also warning people not to attend Public Events shutting down schools among other things that you just said all of this is happening in a country that is of the middle of a humanitarian crisis the situation in the hospitals in venezuela is not a regular one there is shortages of water for example in around 80 percent of the hospitals in venezuela theres no so theres no hammett Climate Science or theres no medicine so the. Situation in those hospitals is very very dire theres also the suspicion that this situation could be even worse because weve heard from doctors right now were saying that theres not enough kids in the country in order to test those who have oil an ill so the amount of people actually infected could be much higher and thats why it could become a much bigger issue a precedent saying that the United States economic sanctions in the country are making the situation even worse because those sanctions are making it difficult for them to get supplies to treat those in need that that border between both countries its a lifeline for many venezuelans those who are in venezuela right now its actually a border areas cross into colombia to get some basic supplies some of the things that cannot get or they cannot afford in their home country and in order to continue doing that they could try to go and wed go crossing in areas that are controlled either by guerillas by paramilitary groups or others and thats why venezuela is saying that this is an extremely aggressive move by the colombian government saying that they could people could be forced into going to very very dangerous areas and. Lots of american motions dealing with the crisis. Well most countries in the region are shutting down are canceling flights from europe preventing Public EventsSports Events shutting down schools among other things in argentina for example mandatory isolation has been impo