nicky's of cultures across the world. zone no matter what. al-jazeera to bring you the news and current affairs that matter to the. al-jazeera . new prime minister wants to enact measures like this the u.k. becomes the latest country to impose a partial lockdown as the number of coronavirus deaths in europe continues to grow . fully back to boyer watching al-jazeera live from doha with continued extensive coverage of the corona virus outbreak including as u.s. cities appealed for more medical supplies to deal with a spike in cases donald trump says he wants to reopen the country for business soon

. australia experiences its biggest rise in mass unemployment in nearly a 100 years because of the corner virus outbreak. the bunbury queues accelerating and the world health organization wants a pandemic is getting worse but says there is still hope it spread can be braindead . thank you very much for joining us all 66000000 people in the united kingdom have been ordered to stay home for 3 weeks in a bid to halt the spread of coronavirus prime minister boris johnson says exceptions will be allowed for certain activities and for some people to go to work meanwhile elsewhere in europe the death toll in italy has declined for a 2nd straight day but continues to rise sharply in spain rocka has an 8. it was an announcement no british prime minister has made since the 2nd world war

unprecedented restrictions on people's way of life you must stay at home because the critical thing we must do to stop the disease spreading between households that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home for the volleying very limited purposes shopping for basic necessities as infrequently as possible one form of exercise a day for example a rum walk or cycle alone with members of your household any medical need to provide care or to help a vulnerable person and travelling to and from work but only where this is absolutely necessary and cannot be done from home. following the example of france germany spain and italy police will now have the power to issue fines and enforce closures britain's been watching developments in mainland europe with growing

unease but while london landmarks are deserted this was the scene on the city's underground on monday. the advice is clear and so are the risks but crowds are still gathering at this east london market while they're still demand store holders say they're left with little choice but to carry on selling and shoppers people buying. the local authorities are painting footprints on the tarmac to help people maintain physical distance but like many of the guidelines nobody's paying any attention this is one of the cheapest places in the area to buy food shutting it down could have dire consequences on people's lives and livelihoods it is a difficult decision to make but every infected person runs a risk of infecting several others the domino effect could be catastrophic. in italy's along with the region cemeteries are struggling to keep up with the dead on monday the death toll climb to more than 6000. is the 2nd straight day the number

of dead edged down and the rate of infection slowed it's too early to say whether it's at least turn the tide on covert 19 but the figures offer some hope the government measures are working. a day after italy shut down all non-essential economic activity now more restrictions a ban on all internal travel the virus has distorted everyday life buying food can take many hours. the streets of the german capital berlin are also empty and the country's chancellor angela merkel forced to quarantine but there's a glimmer of hope new data suggest the spread of the virus is slowing despite a high infection rate there are relatively few deaths in germany the country was quick to introduce widespread but i was testing more to. one cool element is the ability to keep track of contacts. of contacts are kept for 14 days and the

isolation of infected people these measures must be kept up and strict it is for the coming weeks and months for they are important and will remain important. 2 weeks into its long term spain is now considering extending it further the fiver says swept through dozens of nursing homes many of the residents didn't stand a chance soldiers are now battling to contain the spread. country after country governments are controlling the lives of citizens like never before and then effort to save lives the coronavirus has pushed a continent into confinement leave barca al-jazeera london. now president donald trump says he's considering how the u.s. could reopen for business has soonest possible despite a rapidly growing rate of infections economies in turmoil with millions of americans under shutdown orders and u.s. politicians on monday again failed to pass a trillion dollar stimulus bill. has more. the streets of

manhattan are empty reminiscent of the days after 911 but within new york's hospitals doctors say they're under siege the number of cases across the country has soared and we don't get control of this in the next 2 to 3 weeks our hospital system to be overwhelmed under mounting pressure from state governors president trump says his administration has shipped 8000000 respirator masks he's also signed an executive order to prevent the hoarding of critical medical supplies but if you are sitting on it on a warehouse with masks. surgical masks you will be hearing a knock on your door for more than 100000 americans are under orders to stay home despite the growing number of cases trump says he hopes to reopen the country soon we're not going to let it turn into a long lasting financial problem started out as

a purely medical problem and it's not going to go beyond that we're just not going to allow that to happen meanwhile congress remains at a stalemate over a nearly 2 trillion dollar economic rescue package the republican plan stalled by senate democrats the bill still includes something that most americans don't want to see. large corporate bailouts with no almost no strings attached the government is also fast tracking experimental drug treatments one endorsed by president trump as a possible game changer against the corona virus has not been a proven effective in a clinical setting and in arizona a man who self medicated with a drug to treat his corona virus has died heidi joe castro al-jazeera maryland. australia has seen a jump in reported cases with more than 1700 people now infected authorities in the

city of new south wales where nearly half of the cases are have warned of the pandemic is at a critical stage and they say they'll be harsh penalties when for self isolation they can to gauge reports from sydney about the pandemic how it's wreaking havoc on australia's economy. it's been a very incredible 24 hours in a strike. since the government announced the closure of many non-essential businesses including paul hotels cinemas we have seen the biggest mass unemployment so huge a strike since the great depression in the 19th thirty's and the government is estimating that about 1000000 a stray lost their jobs or did not from these changes and another 1000000 could be out of work in the coming days and weeks ahead now this has led to tens of thousands of people flooding into wolf is sent to us to try and work out how can

they afford their rents and bills in the future how they can feed their family the australian government has announced an economic stimulus package which is provide extra money for those who will be out of work but i spoke to an economist just a short time ago and he was painting a very dire picture indeed he said that similar to the united states in the u.k. australia could be heading for an unemployment right with up to 20 percent or higher depending on what happens but while we haven't been seeing those mounts shutdowns lock all the countries it is really hitting the economy hard and at the same time the rights of the spread of this virus increasing a lot of the new south wales premier gladys berejiklian has said that further restrictions could come into place in the days ahead so we'll just have to wait and see if they'll be more social isolation measures here. the head of the united

nations is calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to focus on the fight against the current of aras and demick diplomatic as james space has more from un headquarters in new york hello welcome to this the u.n. is deeply concerned about the spread of coronavirus in countries already dealing with conflict and that's why at a virtual news conference the secretary general made this call the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war that is why today i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world it is time to put armed conflict on lockdown and focus together on the to fight of our lives the world health organization is the part of the un that's been leading the global response it's directed general expressed his alarm at the speed of the spread of new cases the pandemic is accelerating it took 67 days

from the 1st reported case to reach the 1st 100000 cases 11 days for the 2nd 100000 cases in just 4 days for this that 100000 cases the secretary general we launching a global humanitarian appeal on wednesday he's asking for 2000000000 dollars he's also written to the richest countries on earth the g 20 saying there needs to be more coordination and more help for the developing world later in the week the leaders of those g. 20 nations will be holding an online summit meeting james out jazeera at the united nations. now china has tightened the rules for people arriving in its capital anyone entering beijing who's been overseas in the past 2 weeks will be quarantined

and tested for the virus those measures come as the government reopened a section of the great wall a spot of efforts to show life in the country is returning to normal 78 new cases have been reported on tuesday the majority of those were brought in from overseas. still ahead on al-jazeera pressure mounts on japan to cancel the 2020 and them pigs because of the kona virus christs plus. indonesia is one of the world's largest coal export has but declining water quality is proving a challenge i'm jessica washington in bali where local farmers and harvest is a working out a sustainable approach to revive the industry that story coming up. how i would have some rather nasty weather in the forecast for northeastern parts of

the u.s. at the moment so a lot of cloud just pushing around the middle and 6 days sweeping up into new england eastern parts of canada something of a nor'easter here just pulling its way through nudging further north as they'll be some snow in the northern flank of that particularly around that east the side of kind of the 30 centimeters of snow for a time all of that area cloud of the right down into central parts of the u.s. and here comes the next system some very heavy rain pushing through the deep south pushing up towards kentucky was tennessee easing a cross those little antic states virginia maryland seeing some wet weather as we go on into was a taboo just falling back to stay to myself just for new york and for d.c. dry weather coming in behind splash of rain there just around the midwest through the northern plains a mistal seeing some well the runs have weather at times over towards the west coast even as. south as california we are going to say it want to see showers into the caribbean over the mist but for the most part it's fun and dry lots of the

tropical sunshine coming through so essentially is set fallaci want to see showers they were towards the league was for a time showers getting driven further west was on that in when but for most of the set it's 5 and sunny. perception is validation believe 20 c. but in one life time we cannot see everything. we rely on experiences of others and the legacies that a previous generations. i think testimony we've got you know very little. witness documentaries that open your eyes on al-jazeera.

the end. welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera british prime minister boris johnson has severely restricted people's movement to slow the spread of coronavirus most people are being told to stay home with a few exceptions for work exercise and grocery shopping police will have the power to enforce the new meshes meanwhile the death toll in europe continues to grow in its city the number of dead has passed 6000 double that of china where the virus began and in spain the death toll has risen to more than $2200.00 and the u.s. president is working with republicans and democrats to ensure a trillion dollar bill to stimulate the economy and that is approved up politicians on monday failed to pass the legislation for a 2nd time donald trump says he's also considering how the u.s.

could reopen for business as soon as possible despite a rapidly growing rate of coronavirus infections are less now speak to joe who's the president of the national league of cities is joins us live from los angeles via skype thank you very much for being with us a number of u.s. cities imposing some strict measures not china's coronavirus lockdown strategy has been described as brutal but effective and in the u.s. you have a partial lockdown in many cities to counter the pandemic will it work rather than a full lockdown. we're hopeful we've seen governors and mayors across this country demand and forward towards a lockdown while we need to do is turn to our brothers and sisters around the world in china. and japan and even my family in in italy if we don't abide by these orders we're going to lose lives so in

a city like los angeles way you are right now what do what do the rest look like and people obeying them. we're not taking it seriously here in our country people still are not taking this this can demick seriously we have still seen groups of people at parks and beaches convening our young people feel that they're out still on spring break and that's not acceptable what we've done is here in los angeles in the state of california we're saying you're safer at home and we've learned what to do based on the tragedy this pandemic is caused in other parts of the world state you're safer at home our mayor here in los angeles has put that restrict order but you're only able to go to the grocery store to the pharmacy and to see a doctor now some states like new york are taking sweeping action drastic action

while taking in more name it did approach 9 know that the saints have significant powers to handle this crisis but don't you think a more uniform approach is needed here rather than a state by state approach. i believe if we're going to you know incur the platen that curve in this pandemic all this entire country needs to consider a consistent stay at home order if we're going to. that that curve that we're seeing in other parts i commend the state of new york for taking drastic efforts but if we cannot piecemeal this as a council member as a local leader i am all in favor of president trump calling on a national lockdown and to all we see these numbers flatten out otherwise we are going to see devastating losses here in america and we know

that local leaders mayors and council members national league of cities represents 1009000 cities towns and villages we know what works best for our respective cities towns and villages because we're on the ground level dealing with this pandemic every single day but and national knock down doesn't look like it's about to happen any time soon when the president is talking about reopening the country for business a soon as possible because his knocking perhaps more at the economic impact of the crisis rather than the social impact. well again we're hopeful that the federal government turns to local leaders who are dealing with issues on the ground here in los angeles we have seen increasing in numbers in the largest county in this country every single day we're seeing increases in in the whole bit 19 cases where if we as a country are going to handle this pandemic we need to do this together and lead together and urgency. states have the ability to call for state of emergency as we

have the autonomy or governors are using their executive power were mayors are using their executive power to curb this 10 demick in this country thank you so much for speaking to us about this job president of the national league of cities joining us from los angeles thank you for your time thank you for having me now more than half of india is under a complete knock down as the government tries to contain the spread of corona virus and more than 460 confirmed cases and won most people are following the government's orders have been desperate scenes at bus stations as migrant workers try to return home and as it run and reports from new delhi this is what the andean government wanted to prevent hundreds of people of crowding together my good workers in the state of the house sold over crowded buses some even climbed on the roofs and a desperate attempt to return to their homes. about that of the dog so he saw his

bus and game and saturday and talked the drive home as you somewhere but no one was here. they ever gave albert thirty's a saying that the bus will go but how will we just keep. migrant workers around the country try to catch buses after indian railways cancel train services which carry more than 25000000 a can use as a day. all interstate buses in metro service is canceled until the end of the month the ministry of civil aviation announced all domestic flights will be suspended from wednesday promised in that interim order tweeted saying many people a still not taking the lockdown seriously even though most public places were deserted around the country many regional leaders including in the capital territory of delhi said they would take action against anyone who violates the measures. now

everyone from to day has to obey the law gone completely the not been started this morning maybe you had to go out for some missing to work from to model the government to enforce the law down and will use force to ensure that. also announced financial and humanitarian assistance to those affected in delhi as the indian government introduces more restrictions every day to limit the spread of the virus many have lost their livelihoods or have been stranded are also hoping to hear how the government will help them beyond telling them to stay at home elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. now the west african nations of senegal and ivory coast have both declared a state of emergency because of the current virus outbreak cosas president alassane ouattara announced a nighttime nationwide curfew and gradual confinement measures a curfew has also been imposed in senegal where all gatherings have been banned the

zimbabwe meanwhile has reported the 1st death of a patient from corona virus off to confirm its 1st cases this past weekend the government has closed schools and bans large gatherings but they are concerns about the country's ability to handle an outbreak zimbabwe's health system must suffered critical shortages of equipment and drugs for years the u.n. wants late last year that the country is on the brink of manmade starvation with some 8000000 people facing food insecurity now thousands of athletes are calling for the international olympic committee to act postpone july's a lympics until next year canada australia and norway say they will not send their teams to tokyo until the health emergencies over now japan's prime minister shinzo abi has conceded the games could be postponed alexy o'brien reports. after weeks of insisting the show must go on now something of a turnaround from the japanese prime minister. we hope to hold the games to mark

the world has defeated the coronavirus i thought that counseling them is not an option at all but if it becomes difficult we will think of the athletes 1st and foremost and we may have no option but to consider postponing. the games us it to be held in july but the virus that's caused both human catastrophe and economic crisis across the globe is threatening the world's biggest sporting event canada became the 1st country to announce its and then pick and paralympic teams want people to surprising in the games urging the international olympic committee and the tokyo organizes to push back the event by at least a year we're witnessing a remarkable upsurge in athletes speaking out against the international olympic committee who has been very slow to act in the face of the coronavirus situation and in that sort of leadership vacuum you've seen athletes and sport bodies rise up

and what canada has done just moments ago is absolutely remarkable tokyo's olympic chief is warned that the games $1000000000.00 budget and years of planning are at stake and that cancelling would be bad for both stakeholders and athletes you know got a leg or you we never intend to talk about a consolation but japan and international olympic committee will talk together about what to do postponement to only be one of the many scenarios like the increasing pressure from athletes to call off the games is not just because bringing hundreds of thousands of sportsmen and women coaches and fans together could help spread the virus but they argue that having them continue high level training is putting them and their families at risk i think again it should be postponed and i think it's the best option is the least worst option available to us no so they've got an amazing opportunity here in the games and then they will together we see the back of this bonus. just

a few weeks ago the idea of postponing the olympics was unthinkable now it's looking more and more likely another victim of these unprecedented times the i.o.c. says it will make a decision within the next 4 weeks from now the olympic torch relay is set to go ahead from thursday but without the usual fanfare with crowds are urged not to attend brian al jazeera. other news now and the u.s. is to cut a $1000000000.00 in aid to afghanistan after the country's president and his political rival failed to form a new government secretary of state mike on pale revealed the plan during an unannounced visit to afghanistan has strongly criticized both president ashraf ghani and his rival abdullah abdullah for failing to work together and potentially threatening the u.s. that peace deal with the taliban and fail says a conditional withdrawal of u.s. troops will go ahead now indonesia is one of the world's largest exporters of perth's accounting for almost half of the global supply but oyster

farmers are warning their line of work is in jeopardy jessica washington reports from the indonesian island of bali. the waters are calm here on bali's east coast the ideal conditions for something special to grow beneath the surface. this is one of bali's pole farms a community initiative to help the pole industry survive environmental challenges years of rapid growth have depleted wild pull oyster populations so. at this time the oysters have been exploited through overfishing so we need to come into this area to protect the environment. this is a more controlled approach growing quality brood stock oysters and selling their seeds at a low price to fishing communities to minimize reliance on wild oysters the team here is checking on the health of the oysters and checking their gender as well and

this is just one step in a very long process but ultimately this is all about stopping overfishing and making indonesia's whole industry more sustainable. indonesia exports thousands of kilograms of south sea poles one of the world's most expensive types of poll the aim is to increase the export value with the same production rate by using sustainable methods to improve the quality of the gemstone house oysters are sensitive animals changes in temperature can create imperfect less valuable pearls . he charts or so list you know has been in the poll industry for 3 decades he says climate change makes poll farming more challenging. but if the temperature changes by just a single degree you can cause mass death it's the same in the sea so the temperature here is absolutely important to the survival of the oysters. it means

what happens out at sea is only half the picture and what happens in the lab is equally important in this hatchery the team carefully checks the development of oyster larvae and ensures the adult oysters are ready for breeding by keeping them healthy. this male oyster is ready to mate and displaying its fertility commercial brands have their own labs and processes but sustainability and quality over quantity are also in focus here when an oyster is stressed it forms a pole around an item within its shell that's called the nucleus scientists here in bali use an organic nucleus from the mississippi river to create cultured poles. we have to produce this on the right quantity because the. the cost to produce a pearl of $1000.00 or $1.00 it's exactly the same exactly the same so.

you really have to. add up your production to only produce a good quantity it's a long journey from the hatchery to harvest a single pole can take nearly 4 years to produce to make a strand for a necklace can take several harvests to find enough matching poles but the end result is undeniably beautiful jessica washington al-jazeera. clear again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera british by mr boies johnson has severely restricted people's movement to slow the spread of corona virus also being told to stay home with a few exceptions for work exercise and grocery shopping and he will have the power to enforce a you mattias. no prime minister wants to enact measures like this no to the damage that this destruction is doing and will do to people's lives to their

businesses and to their jobs and that's why we've produced a huge an unprecedented program of support both workers and for business and i can assure you that we will keep these restrictions on the constant review we will look again in 3 weeks and relax them if the evidence shows we are able to but at present the rig just no easy options. the way it is hold and it is still true that many lives will suddenly be lost now the death toll in europe continues to grow in italy the number of dead has passed 6000 double that of china where the virus began and in spain more than 2200 people have died the u.s. president says is working with republicans and democrats when choice a trillion dollar bill to stimulate the economy is approved politicians on monday failed to pass the legislation for

a 2nd time donald trump says he wants to reopen the u.s. for business as soon as possible this fight erupted lee growing rate of infections australia has seen a jump in reported coronavirus cases with more than 7500 people now infected authorities in the state of new south wales where nearly half the cases are have warned the pandemic is at a critical stage and in other news a u.s. says it will cut a $1000000000.00 in aid to afghanistan after the country's president and his political rival failed to form a new government secretary of state mike on pale reveal the prime cheering and unannounced visit to afghanistan is strongly criticized both president ashraf ghani and his rival abdullah abdullah for failing to work together and potentially threatening a u.s. led peace deal with the taliban those are the headlines on al-jazeera more news on al-jazeera dot com coming up next it's witness. how much is the coronavirus of the stock market close to the rights to the white house will it be treated by the new

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