from serbia and the hungry the what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they are going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible. here and i just you know we believe everyone has a story worth hearing. it's a layover takes china as the country suffering the most cold a virus to us. i love them telling me donald this is sound as it were live from london also coming up the toll rises in speed with claims of unregistered deaths in his care hold us. we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately donald trump tells americans a malaria drug could offer a separate peace for the fire. from baghdad desh to northern syria around the world

the virus brings added misery to refugees already struggling to survive. hello there good to have your company it's elise overtaken china as the country which has suffered the most deaths from the coronavirus italians have recorded surer than half the number of infections us china but now has a big death toll 427 people died in italy in the past 24 hours taking italy's toll talk to 3405 that's a 156 more deaths than china will spain's numbers are rising rapidly to more than 100 dead in the past day while the rons health minister said that over the past 24 hours on average one person die from the virus every 10 minutes or michel barnier the european union's chief breaks it negotiator has tested positive for coal that

19 the 69 year old said he's doing well and following the necessary instructions i'm on a positive note china has recorded its 1st day with no person to person infections colbran and reports now on thursday's grim news from a city. the head of the world health organization has called coronavirus the enemy of humanity in this intensive care unit in the italian city of baghdad it's easy to see why this footage filmed by the head doctor gives just a glimpse of the life and death struggles taking place across italy and across the world all 80 beds here occupied it's a crowded frantic overwhelming place the system is on the brink. 100 percent saturation 80 beds for your for a cuppa and can leave in a particular day and normally we identify have to bring in for you or for our case

we have a very precarious and difficult balance. isolation is a cold hard necessity family members cannot visit here they cannot comfort or support covert 19 brings a solitary death. because if you please perhaps one of the saddest being an epidemic the only way to say day throughout saudis to not allow contact we try where possible to let them talk and a cell phones or video calls but sometimes they die when you into bait aid. we need to isolation is a very important sacrifice but it is needed so that people outside will not get sick. temporary field hospitals try to relieve the pressure the epidemic is roaring through the population here and the doctors are struggling to keep up the widespread shortage of medical supplies is having fatal consequences for the staff . a doctor who was forced to work without wearing gloves has now died of the virus in back of our province alone 110 of the 600 medical staff have fallen ill we are

in full emergency with this corona anemia a lot of personal nurses and physicians are working round the clock countless are were these incredible situation. we do not know are wrong the spending year will last under current measures it's only 60000000 people are only allowed to travel for work medical reasons or emergencies most shops except groceries and pharmacies are supposed to remain closed until march 25th you see very little if all around. we are following on the internet. about on the other i will try also not order well but i made it a danger there. else where the restrictions have not been so strictly observed and faced with no visible slowdown in the pace of infections

a lockdown is set to be tightened further on the deadline of a text and this crisis has been compared to a war at the moment the virus is winning or brennan al-jazeera. or cases have surged despite stricter restriction on people's movements and. a nightly tribute in space to help workers on the frontline of the fight against covert 90 these madrid residents may be shutting doors but they're well aware of what's happening at hospitals around the country. and as spain struggles to stop the spread of the corona virus despite tight restrictions on people's movement the local media is reporting a growing number of unregistered deaths in care homes people like this woman's 87 year old father who she wasn't allowed to visit for a fortnight before he died he. was on my father's death certificate they put

possible coronavirus and that's why we have men able to look after the body we can't do anything just bury him and we still don't know if we'll be able to do it tomorrow. in italy where more people have now died from covered 19 that in china the total number of cases is growing faster again in some places like parma police are now carrying out coronavirus tests themselves. well emitter tike in southern germany they've been enforcing the country's 1st curfew the governor of the various says this could be extended statewide if people don't follow official advice nationally the number of confirmed cases jumped by almost a 3rd in one day going past 11000 now the german army is getting ready to be deployed to help treat the sick and ensure vital deliveries after border closures led to long delays on the roads in paris the tourist sites are deserted in the city's quiet partly because of 150 dollars fines for people without a strong reason to leave home i've been working since 6 am and i've seen the entire

city is really empty there's no one about people are trying to respect the rules it's good that it's working except for a bit lorry because we don't know how long it's going to last but city authorities say too many people are still showing up at some markets and safe distance guidelines aren't being respected in london many underground stations are closed and people are being urged to stay off public transport. but as the prime minister talked of turning the tide against coronavirus within 3 months there was a warning from medical experts even if everybody does all the things we hate and really really they do the numbers will continue to go up over the next 2 weeks because it continues it takes a while for there to be a lag there's a lag until things start to improve meanwhile a leading swiss firm is warning britain faces a massive shortage of ventilators after failing to invest enough in intensive care equipments how damaging that turns out to be could depend on whether more people

follow the social distancing guidelines nadeem barber al-jazeera. u.s. president donald trump says he wants help regulate is to expedite potential therapies aimed at treating the coronavirus said one drug usually used for malaria had already been approved by the f.d.a. to be rolled out soon the f.d.a. commissioner steven hahn clarified saying a vaccine was likely a year away and there were conditions on the anti malaria drug approval that's a drug that the president has directed us to take a closer look at as to whether an expanded use approach to that could be done to actually see if that benefits patients and again we want to do that in the setting of a clinical trial a large pragmatic clinical trial to actually gather that information and answer the question that needs to be answered and asked and answered. will say castro is in washington d c hi the domo determined to deliver

a somewhat optimistic message i guess. that's right really optimistic but unfortunately in terms of this drug that we're talking about simply inaccurate trump's claim that the f.d.a. has already approved the use of this anti-malaria drug to treat coronavirus is simply false and you just heard the f.d.a. commissioner himself correct the president on that however trump went on to repeat that inaccurate claim several times over the course of the day during those press those press briefings president from also referred again to the coronavirus as quote the chinese baez and he claimed that china could have stopped it then he said that it was too bad that the whole world was now inflicted with this horrible. he said too bad quote because of the damage it's doing to the economy nor during these remarks did he say that it was too bad that now $11000.00 americans are infected

inflicted with the coronavirus and 100 $64.00 are among the dead now even as the president was trying to be optimistic about the coronavirus we saw the u.s. state department issue a warning to americans to avoid travel abroad and we thought healthcare workers in the u.s. start a social media campaign at practically begging for donations of more personal protective equipment in this lack of face masks and gallons in some areas of the country and the c.d.c. the federal agency giving guidance to those urgency and health care workers that they should reuse face masks that they run out and in the worst case scenario you scarves or bandanas to protect themselves had jocasta their life in washington d.c. heidi thank you. global markets to trading up slightly after major losses thanks to

several central banks scrambling to soften the impact of the pandemic the dow jones in new york and fitzy $100.00 in london both closed almost one percent higher but trading remains volatile u.s. federal reserve bank of england and the european central bank old-i fresh measures to support the financial markets still to come here on al-jazeera zimbabwe braces for an i wait with the health care system it's already been crippled by years of economic crisis. and you evidence of tiny prehistoric chicken that survived the global event the wiped out the dinosaurs. hello we were blessed it's the world was 30 degrees again for adelaide in melbourne at least as it sydney joined into to fairly rare event for march but you might get

a clue from this arc of clarity is not going to last the full cost has dropped things down to the middle twenty's at least for adelaide melbourne and probably count this is on friday we're a city so it's $36.00 that we're not out of because the cold air will eventually push that way and you don't about 25 by saturday they'd perth the off season is going to be warmer more humid well certainly warmer with their shows coming in to western australia whereas the rain here just straight through tasmania is on his way to new zealand and also western windy weekend on the way to you know most frustrating is back in the sunshine is still quite hot for places that are $6000.00 brings and where it should be wet where there's a hint to some decent rain south of cannes but not as much as you might want to this time of the year. so warming trends to the moment in japan china but there's still rain to come no more snow it is ignore of any significance but is a talking of colder weather a reason sapporo of the sciences athol continues and is right on the western side

of honshu tokyo's warn that should be compared with the average so is beijing at $24.00 hong kong where it. hidden away in the ever a 1000000 japanese shown the outside world one of one is still best to gates why so many young and old feel lost japan on al-jazeera. al-jazeera.

a quick reminder of our current top stories here on al-jazeera italy's become the nation will seriously hit by coronavirus with the number of deaths of passing those in china u.s. president donald trump says he's called on the food and drug administration to streamline its processes to speed up the development of a treatment for corona virus global markets are trading slightly up after major losses thanks to several central banks scrambling to soften the impact of the pandemic. in the past 24 hours israel's recorded a further 244 new cases of corona virus the increase brings the total number of cases there to 677 while more than 650000 people remain under quarantine sorry folks it has more now from west jerusalem. it's an increase of more than 50 percent in cases in less than 24 hours and so it does suggest that

israel is on an upward curve a fast up would curve part of that can be explained by the fact that testing is coming on stream in greater numbers there are now more than 2000 tests being done every day and the health ministry the government is talking about increasing that still further in the coming days by several 1000 so there was an expectation that the number of cases would increase but israel also has problems in terms of the number of hospital beds per population the kind of preparations it has and terms of medical equipment and so on well that america continues to brace for what many see as an inevitable large scale contagion there from mexico city man will read palo has the very latest. well we've been monitoring the region and it looks as though policies national policies are evolving overnight if we go down the list of countries in the proverbial global south and latin america there are countries that

have closed their borders outright that completely shut down countries in central america like guatemala el salvador honduras el salvador was one of the 1st countries in the region to adopt strong measures they only yesterday announced their 1st case of coronavirus in honduras there's a national curfew that's been imposed by that is being enforced in several cities in the country one of the biggest concerns at the moment right now is what's happening in venezuela a 7 year economic crisis there has pushed them as well as health services to a critical to a critical point we've heard from doctors in that acas in the country's capital saying that there are places where doctors won't even go because they are themselves afraid of contracting the virus worried that they don't have the necessary supplies so is latin america as a region prepared it spends less than any other region or almost any other region in the world on health services so unfortunately i think the short answer there is

no while the global struggle to contain coronavirus continues there is a dilemma of good news from where it was 1st discovered in china they reported no new local cases on weapons state the 1st time since the virus began in december but as scott high level points from bangkok a still growing in other parts of the region. well countries across the globe continue to seal borders and lock down citizens the country that saw 1000 primary infection for the 1st time reported no new local cases in china the only new coronavirus patients were imported from abroad as construction and manufacturing resumes after months of shut down the epicenter for the virus from han city and the surrounding group a province reported no new cases also for the 1st time. so that we are delighted to see this increase this means today we have seen that do enough to say many days of hard deficit there's been an uptick of infections in south korea this after

a small cluster was discovered at a nursing home to help offset the economic impact of the coronavirus the government announced a support package to help small businesses with 2 previous packages the total financial aid now tops $39000000000.00. we should think about ways to support those who have suffered from income levels lost their jobs due to the car iris the asian stock markets continue to struggle as concerns over economic disruption from the virus continues south korea's kaspi lead most of the region's major markets in losses thailand and now it's a biggest single day jump in corona virus cases at least 60 some of them were people returning from a mass gathering of muslim missionaries in neighboring malaysia thailand as close some of its border crossings with its southern neighbor one of japan's biggest tourist draws is cherry blossom season now in full swing but because of fear over spreading the virus viewing parties and picnics are discouraged and events have

been canceled the japanese government just announced the tourist numbers for last month were down over 58 percent that's the biggest drop in 9 years since the tsunami and earthquake in 2011 that triggered the fukushima nuclear disaster scott harder al-jazeera iraq's began a weeklong look in an attempt to slow the spread of the coronavirus it was confirmed 12 deaths from the virus and has more than 160 cases soldiers have been deployed in the capital baghdad with setting up checkpoints the city of new jeff a pilgrimage site for hundreds of thousands of shia muslims each year was becoming . zimbabwe's yet to confirm any corner virus infections but the president's declared a national disaster and launched a response all public gatherings of more than $100.00 people are prohibited as a precaution independence day celebrations next month our council our metacity has more now from harare. the social distancing in many parts of zimbabwe isn't easy

victor check on you collect most of bobbins has a casual job but selling on the street he's afraid of catching coronavirus public washbasin being placed around the city but cuts in the council's water supply means the taps run dry for hours sometimes days i was can't imagine what it. would be like. maybe. some. major problems. health officials say they are ready to minimize the impact of coronavirus should they be an outbreak while kentucky spittle is one health quarantine center in the capital with suspected cases are tested but it only has a few dozen beds the collapsing economy is adding to the problems of the struggling public healthcare sector. launching the national preparedness response plan on thursday president said zimbabwe has other health challenges to deal with.

not remember. we were. a border. zimbabweans have some experience dealing with disease our breaks more than 4000 people died from cholera in 2008 measures were put in place to contain that outbreak but the threat of corona virus has forced the government to take action and implement more drastic measures which include banning public gatherings of more than $100.00 people a ban on public gatherings of exchange services waiting and sporting events for 2 months while there is no travel ban people from the country will confirm cases of coronavirus are being discouraged from frederick. zimbabweans are being advised against travelling abroad until the pandemic is under control mandatory sweeny has

been intensified at all ports of entry the government says screening will soon be introduced at all it's offices. but with the worst economic crisis in the decade many public hospitals are understaffed and lack basic equipment and medicine some worry about the lack of resources to deal with coronavirus if it spreads but government leaders say they are ready and on high alert. al-jazeera. aid agencies are warning that refugees are increasingly vulnerable to the virus they say their struggle to protect people in overcrowded and early clip camps where many have enjoyed years of suffering. before it's. a population so traumatized by violence now terrified of a virus in northern syria after 10 years of war and humanitarian catastrophe medics are doing all they can to prevent an outbreak of covert 19 masks are being handed out parents are trying to protect their children but everyone seems to know it's

not nearly enough the south edges are filled by thirds of them we have very little equipment and supplies not just right here but in all of northern syria not that it would you know one of their fighters in bangladesh where around 3 quarters of a 1000000 rohingya for me and maher are in camps youth activists are teaching refugee children about the importance of proper hygiene anxiety in the largest refugee settlement in the world is on the rise warnings from agencies are stark imagine than what it would course in densely crowded refugee camps community centers filled with said billions in the war so on displaced people fleeing to informal settlements in places where there is little or no water no 100 percent of these little hygiene and no health care in greece doctors without borders has urged the government to evacuate refugees from overcrowded camps they

say provide the perfect storm for a covert 1000 outbreak we have one what are going to 1300 even more you know we have one toilet for 200 bieber and if we asked people today to go to the doctor if they have a problem there is no doctor to go and if we ask either of these people today to isolate them so they. no space presentation this week the united nations refugee agency announced that due to severe travel disruptions around the world travel arrangements for resettling refugees are being temporarily suspended we are queuing 2 sites and working very closely with them to ensure the much movements can still continue for the most critical of the missions the cases where ever possible as panic over the pandemic spreads around the world refugees and the internally displaced are as always just trying to survive people long accustomed to uncertainty for whom life has suddenly become an even greater challenge mohammed

jim jim. canada's most densely populated urban area in and around 2 until has the highest concentration of the cool the virus cases in the country but the canadian government urging social distancing curbing non-essential treatment and services to support the publicly funded health care system many are worried this is science is poorest animals vulnerable are big put an even greater risk of disease dunya lack of foot stuck on toronto. is the pen demick spreads a kind gesture on the eerily quiet streets of toronto's financial district people are avoiding offices and working from home but the homeless are still here so many things we take for granted if you're working that you can take it take care of your everyday needs but the vulnerable you know they struggle day to day in a crisis you're not in a crisis so it becomes especially pronounced you're in this time and you want to

know this check and they want to know. outreach worker greg cook says individual generosity isn't enough in canada's most expensive city homelessness was soaring long before coated 19 fears a virus spreading in what shelters there are mean more people may soon be sleeping rough shelters are not safe. because you have a whole bunch of people in one room when you're sleeping you can't social distance you can't stay 6 feet apart i mean just as not a space to do that here at the country's largest food bank both donations and demands are increasing as the crisis hits those with low incomes the charity is trying to minimize contact with the public while sending out even more food and supplies to the needy so while there's a heightened sense of anxiety there's also an uplifting sense there's a sense that the city and the country are coming together and saying there are thousands tens of thousands of individuals who are vulnerable who we need to assess

to canada's government is announcing new measures every day most notably closed borders to all but citizens legal residents and trade and generous cash payments to ease economic damage from the spread of disease and the sweeping social measures taken to slow it down. that includes near mandatory isolation for those with even the mildest of symptoms but from a call for the flu then for those who traveled abroad like me 14 full days at home stay inside or not meeting other people canada's prime minister is among those avoiding others his wife has tested positive for the virus and he's leading the country's efforts against it from inside his house with a relatively low number of cases canada is hoping social distancing and government spending can ease the impact of the crisis but helping those who can't help themselves the poor homeless the elderly and those with existing conditions is a huge and growing challenge for both government and the public and you lack

al-jazeera toronto if other news the british government has apologized for its treatment of britons of caribbean origin who were wrongly detained or deported for being illegal immigrants the home office demonstrates of course institutional ignorance and thoughtlessness so was the issue of race in the history of the windrush generation the scandal broke in 2018 home secretary pretty patel said she was quote shocked by the terrible injustices involved. and what dinosaur experts call the one to check it may help answer one of the great battles of science the almost 67000000 year old fossil could explain why birds survived the asteroid impact that killed most of life on earth explains. of all the animals to survive an asteroid strike this may not be your 1st guess. but scientists say the common ancestor of modern day chickens and ducks did exactly that

a fossil may explain how so in this area back here is where the i would have been this is where the nostril was and this is the tip of the beat the oldest bird skull ever found was in a belgian kori 20 years ago its historic value now revealed thanks to x. ray scanning technology a remarkably preserved skoal nearly 67000000 years old a few 100000 years before the asteroid impact which wiped out the dinosaurs and much else an international team of paleontologists have published their findings which proves they say that birds existed in the northern hemisphere alongside the dinosaurs and you fossil which we like to call the wonder chicken provides us with i mean precedented insight into how modern birds survive that extinction event that wiped out the non avian dinosaurs we fought for a while at the earliest stages of modern bird evolutionary history took place right towards the end of the age of dinosaurs but we haven't had much direct fossil evidence of modern birds from this point in earth's history new evidence shows the

wonder chicken lived close to the ground which may have been its saving grace along with the fact that it was tiny this one weighing only around 400 grams there's still more questions to answer of course more specimens need to be discovered and studied to find out how this creature was able to survive the impact and evolve when 3 quarters of life on earth could not. al-jazeera. the point reminds us of our top stories making the news here on al-jazeera italy's death toll from corona virus has overtaken china as the spread of the disease moves towards europe and the united states more than 3400 people in its early of night died from the disease while china's death toll stands at over 3200 spain's numbers are rising rapidly to more than 100 dead in the past day while iran's health minister said on average one person there dies from the virus every 10 minutes yes

president donald trump says he's called on u.s. health regulators to expedite potential therapies aimed at treating the coronavirus trials on potential coronavirus therapies are already in the works is also said one drug usually used for malaria has been approved by the f.d.a. expected to be rolled out at some point in the future this is being used in different forms very powerful 1 drug in different forms and it's shown very encouraging very very encouraging early results. and. we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately global markets are trading slightly up after a major losses thanks to several central banks scrambling to soften the impacts of the pandemic the dow jones in new york and c. $100.00 in london both closed almost one percent higher trading remains volatile

the us federal reserve bank of england and the european central bank of old fresh measures to support the financial markets while the global struggle to contain corn virus continues this also glimmer of good news from where it was discovered in china they were imported no new local cases on wednesday the 1st time since the virus was noticed in december in. iraq has begun a weeklong lockdown in the temp to slow the spread of the cooling of virus in iraq's confirmed 12 deaths from the virus and has more than 160 cases soldiers have been deployed in the capital baghdad police setting up checkpoints aid agencies are warning that refugees are increasingly vulnerable to the virus the united nations refugee agency says they're struggling to protect people in camps on the one east is next thanks for your company but why. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that coal means

a lot to the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we're living again breaks it down but has a slogan that whatever the problem is of course jokes and counting the cost on al-jazeera. the boom is going into lockdown and social distancing is becoming the norm. but a 1000000 japanese have been shining ceasar the year. for them as time goes on surviving at home alone is becoming hard. won a winning stix wars why so many young and old in japan are socially withdrawn.