Hello welcome to the program the restrictions in many countries around the world are set to get a whole lot more extreme in the coming hours in an effort to stop the spread of coronavirus malaysia will roll out some of the most drastic rules at midnight on tuesday no one will be allowed to leave for 2 weeks and its borders are being sealed and thats led to panic buying in malaysia and in neighboring singapore in the middle east iran has temporarily released 85000. 00 prisoners and its closed off access to religious shrines much to the anger of many worshippers much of europe is going into lockdown as well frances sealing its borders now president manuel now says the nation is at war with the coronavirus. Well in a few moments well be speaking to natasha in southwest france but 1st lets go straight over to lawrence Florence Louis who is in kuala lumpur force of course the crisis seems to originated from just one event just talk us through what seems to have happened and how its impacted on the whole country. Thats right now in malaysia has now recall reported 120. 00 new cases on tuesday bringing its total to more than 670. 00 cases now more than 60 percent of the total cases are linked to one single event that is a conference of muslim missionaries that took place at a mosque just outside of kuala lumpur between 28th of february and the 1st of march now 16000. 00 people attended this event 14500 malaysians malaysia has now reported its 1st deaths 2 people died and one of them was a man who had attended this conference now out of the 16000 people attending this conference a 1500 are foreigners theyve also and in fact this new cluster was 1st reported after a man had returned home to his country of brunei and tested positive for covert 19 in other countries singapore indonesia and cambodia also reported new cases of covert 19 from the single event in fact in cambodia its number of cases double to 24 and out of the 12 new cases all but one are linked to this religious conference the government has been under pressure to implement some sort of measure to restrict the movement of people to limit Mass Gatherings and it has now been said that this Movement Control order as its known in malaysia is well come into effect on wednesday now what this means is that government offices businesses that dont provide essential services will have to shut now a few categories for and essential Services Including telecommunications water electricity broadcast transport food so restaurants will be allowed to remain open but they wont be allowed to serve dine in customers only for takeaway and delivery. Stops in soup supermarkets and markets are allowed to remain open but there was some confusion so that triggered a spate of panic buying in supermarkets in malaysia but the most stringent of the measures has to do with its borders now even interstate travel the police chief has now come out to say. Malaysians who want to travel into state will have to seek permission from the police no malaysians will be allowed to leave malaysia for the next 2 weeks until the 31st of march and foreigners will not be allowed to come into the country unless they work in one of the essential services now these measures affect not just malaysia but also singapore neighboring singapore which is just south of malaysia now this is a country that does a lot of trade with malaysia imports a lot of food from malaysia so the announcement triggered a spate of panic buying people streamed into shops in supermarkets to buy essential is that singapore Prime Minister had to reassure people that the movement of freight and goods between singapore and malaysia will not be affected what will be affected however is the movement of workers and that could potentially destruct the singapore economy so slowly in call of thank you all on to europe now where spain has just revealed really 2000 new cases of coronavirus as infections the top 11 phones and and france is closing its borders Natasha Butler joins me live now from in southwest france natasha the french really waking up to a new reality on tuesday yes thats the its in fact ive midday here local time in. The french presence about omar or as news director measures. Is in lockdown after a few days and weeks weve been looking from here and fogs late whats been happening there with the empty streets and people standing in choose a meter of pots but few here really understood so imagine some signal or bonds of being in the same position here we are the same situation indeed people having to stay in their home or government is that they must mistreat all men but you can only go out it was something essential so to them by going and or if you have a job that means what you called a work from home such as being a Health Worker of course people can go for walks and things like that but they are not allowed to have any contact in the street they must be alone at all times and in battle michael says that this is necessary to stop the spread of the coronavirus already is such an Unprecedented Health crisis in france he has said that france is at war with this Health Crisis and that the only way we can deal with it is by all take not only responsibility so right now streets across the country of forney eerily quiet and people as you said i mean people are really coming to terms with what will be their reality at least for 60 days according to michael and of course i know you live in the urban area of paris your own glam its a very beautiful part of france on it well myself very for you say people have to take responsibility i mean how board of a with the message that is coming from the capital do you see that they are bored whether its in the rural areas or as you left the capital. I think the situation has really changed over the last few days i would say to you a few days ago that people perhaps once fully aware of what taking responsibility meant that they werent practicing what were now calling a social distancing that they were so they were still going out in crowds i mean until a few days good restaurants and bars were open once restaurants bars shock people so he became more aware that their own movements would be restricted and that it was for their own good but i think still people were gathering still people having picnics outdoors in the cities on a nice day but in the last few days and take you in the last 24 hours ive really seen a shift ive been in supermarkets where people have been standing apart something i didnt see a few days ago i have more and more people are Wearing Masks and theres no doubt you know i can sense even around me that the roads are eerily quiet so i cant hear a call of the road and that is the case a few moments ago so there has been a shift people are more aware and people are becoming more scared of course because they know that the current of ours cases are going up they know because Health French experts say its not only something which affects elderly people increasingly theyre seeing people next 30 s in their fortys getting a critically ill having to be put into hospital so i think people are also theyre scared theyre worried and they are just have to go and have to get used to the fact that this isnt very unpredictable situation because none of us know how long this will last natasha buffalo you know glen friends thank you. No iran has close 3 of its holiest sites to visitors despite strong opposition from protesters shrines in the city of mashad calm and shoddy they were shut down to contain the spread of coronavirus the governments just said that 135 more people have died taking the death toll to 988 and torontos temporally freed about 85000 prisoners in response to the pandemic last week the un asked around to release them to help stem the virus spreads zain joins me now live from tehran via skype before we talk about the prisoners say lets just talk about these new figures more worrying figures for the iranian hierarchy to be concerned about absolutely when the death toll was in the high seventys on a daily basis certainly people worry but now weve seen consistently record breaking death tolls day by day numbering over 100 every single time 135 new cases as you mentioned the overall death toll edging ever closer to the 1000. 00 mark weve also seen 1178. 00 new cases of contractions overall and that brings our total to more than 16016169 cases of the current virus here in iran weve seen a number of recoveries but certainly the overall spread of the virus keeping pace this weeks in to this public Health Crisis here in the country and of course the release of these prisoners certainly raises a few eyebrows zain i mean how are they going to return back to prison will they come back voluntarily. Well certainly as far as the Security Apparatus is concerned they would not have released these prisoners if they werent going to be able to bring them back into custody by april 3rd that is the date for the end of this furlough this was agreed to by the judiciary by the Justice System or a latent in february and theyve been slowly releasing tens of thousands at a time 1st it was 35000 that around 50000 then last week it was around 70000 and now were seeing this latest number of 85000 announced earlier today now these prisoners are generally nonviolent offenders nonviolent offenders with short prison sentences the number that has been announced today includes some Political Prisoners as well but they all should expect to go back into prison in april on the face of it this certainly seems like a magnanimous decision by a government that is strict that is religious at a time of a national Health Crisis but we have to look beyond that and put it in context of the prison system itself that the jails generally here are considered overcrowded preventable illnesses are a constant problem and we have or heard reports from prisoners inside that there is chaos in terms of trying to prevent infections of the coronavirus in the prison system and some prisoners have even said that theyve had to provide their own so certainly overcrowding remains a problem and this is certainly not something that theyre doing just out of the kindness of their hearts this is a practical measure because the prison system cant perhaps provide the required medical services that the prisoners might need now the question has to be asked were these prisoners tested for the current virus before theyre released well what we can go by is what the spokesman said they dont represent any sort of security or public threat and thats the only reason they have been released but we have to look at what job in the room on the un special rapporteur for human rights in iran said last week that despite the fact that the government is taking this step it is too little too late so it was driving into her own thank you. China has reported just one new domestic front of virus case in the past day 20 other new infections were people arriving from overseas beijing expects its economy will return to normal in the 2nd quarter but the latest government figures showed fell by record 13. 5 percent in february economists are warning any recovery in china may be slowed by the Global Economic fall and the united kingdoms Prime Minister has asked citizens to avoid all unnecessary contact and travel after the number of current virus just increased from 35 to 55 on monday the government has changed its initial approach based on the idea that the majority of the population would become infected to develop a socalled herd immunity thats after scientific modeling found the death toll could be as high as a quarter of a 1000000 well still ahead here on out as there are so far Bernie Sanders has done well among hispanic primary voters but is expected to be a different story in florida well tell you why after the break. Had of the suns out again extensively in northern china thats lifting the temperatures but its also most predominant in the sky over japan the temperatures are rising again 80 in tokyo is on shore breeze which means some rain showers in normal honshu and the saw is well underway in 8 degrees in sapporo there is rain again gathering in Southern China and it will include Hong Kong Air quality is variable with the actual haziness of the air is quite notable at the moment and that will turn into rain that streaks across into taiwan eventually through the smaller islands in southern japan and then start to bring some rain as a honshu come thursday heading towards tokyo probably away 10 to day for you. That further west theres no monsoon rain yet but you do see a head to the clouds coming up from the south visibly the 1st that we see so itll be rain for strength and probably this eastern side of the delta this could scatter michels elsewhere but its just a scattering really and in northern india temperatures are rising up to 30 mark in delhi having had a good deluge any couple of days ago nothing in the immediate future but there will be another wave on its way through that showing itself at the moment as a depression in the eastern med deteriorating weather conditions for lebanon. 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China has reported only one domestic coronavirus case the other 20 were travelers arriving in from overseas that beijing says it expects the economy will return to normal in the 2nd quarter spain has just revealed nearly 2000 new cases of the virus and that tops to now 11 files of the infected and france is also people want to leave their homes except for work medical care or supplies. More our top story now the outbreak means that lots of words being used here on news online and in your communities that you might not of heard before his alexy obrian to explain. The corona Virus Outbreak is moving fast theres always a new update new advice and it can all same a bit confusing and overwhelming so lets start with corona virus itself its an umbrella term for 7 viruses that interfere with the way we breathe from a common colds to Something Real serious this latest virus causes the disease thats been hauled 9 tain the 9 comes from corona virus disease 2019 and the symptoms often start with a cough a favor and shortness of breath most people will recover without needing special treatment but some will become seriously ill usually older people and those with existing Health Problems and any of us can spread the virus through tiny droplets from coughing or breathing this map from Johns HopkinsUniversity Shows how far it spread in just 12 weeks or so with more than 180000 cases worldwide and thats why were all being told to engage in social distancing a term now training on twitter keeping at least an ace or a pass in some countries restaurants schools parks and places of worship are being caused to stop people gathering together because youre just putting in the beauty of these fish if you really need to stretch your legs do it on your own or with those you live with keep your distance from others and under no circumstances see people who are not from your home. The british Prime Minister says that without drastic action cases can double every 5 to 6 days now is the time for everyone to stop nonessential contact with others and to stop on necessary for travel. We need people to start working from home where they possibly can and you should avoid pubs clubs theaters and other such social venues this is all to flatten the curve slowing the spread of the virus so that our Health Care Systems dont become overwhelmed the curve represents the number of cases over time so flattening the curve means preventing a huge surge of new cases in a very short period of time delaying transmission keeps more people safe and thats what theyre managing to do in south korea which at one point had the highest number of cases outside china compare that to italy where the outbreak quickly spiraled out of control reporting thousands of new cases every day and how long is all this for Scientists Say thats the big question because right now where in uncharted territory in other news a car bomb explosion in Southern Thailand has injured at least 20 people the blast in the city of yala happened as local government leaders met to discuss the Coronavirus Crisis when he has more from bangkok. Its this attack took place at around 10 day morning and it was designed to cause maximum potential tactics employed by the attackers and its at the mill you want to cut in thailand there was one explosion that took place outside that meant building clearly designed to get people to come outside to see what was going on and then a logical with some minutes later the inside a big yalla province is one of the 3 southern most provinces in thailand neighboring malaysia and iraq and muslim groups operating in the its problems his mouth fighting for independence or greater autonomy from thailand which is mainly buddhist action troops the mylan really intensified around 16 years ago and since then weve seen around 7000 People Killed we never get any claims of responsibility out at least types of attacks as a seder a syrian groups operating but in recent years its decision and increasingly call in on the Largest Group in Southern Thailand as areason reduce the national or international rouge front being behind most of the violence