they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. revealing eco friendly solutions to comeback threats to our planet on al-jazeera. spain has the worst day yet of the coronavirus pandemic over 700 more deaths as it surpasses china's toll. of arms around you watching al-jazeera life my headquarters here and also coming up india's streets are emptied the nation of more than 1300000000 people is knocked down a move the prime minister says is necessary to save the country from the virus.

also u.s. lawmakers reach a deal on a 2 trillion dollar rescue package to help people and businesses deal with the economic strain of the pandemic this is a wartime level of the past and you are no. and dozens of hostages are freed at least 20 killed after a siege at a secret center in the afghan capital is brought to an end. welcome to the program spain has now surpassed china in the overall number of krona virus deaths latest figures coming in so that $738.00 people have died taking the total to almost $3500.00 more than 42000 people are fighting the virus the country the death toll is 2nd only to italy is live for us in madrid real concerns about this sharp rise in the spanish death toll.

yes of course. we remember that there are santa warrants years these days we can say the wars was still to come so this is becoming true because spain jams to $47610.00 coronavirus cases and the death toll of our 3434 being madrid again the region more affected 573038 people have died in the last hours and things still remain the same not other measures some part of the got from the government we only know that today despite not punished by them and will approve the extension of these the state of alarm 15 days more that the authorities have obviously the help of the military in place to maintain the lockdown how is the public reacting to all of that of course the the daily death toll that they are

being informed about through the media through social media television newspapers about what's going on. well we have a daily presser from the health ministry every day where we get all the figures and the ones who are just reading what we were talking about i have to tell you that this morning i went out to buy some groceries and just so around the corner i saw what police check checkpoint there were stopping every car they were asking everyone whether we're going the snuffing nothing you can tell them but to show if you've been shopping the actual for your seat where you have you been that can tell you which supermarket to go or they can ask you for this the mission from your company to to allow you to move around or to go to to deploy to your to your work or whatever people are quite scary and i think figures they were aghast that there was was going to happen people are really concerned so let's see today today health

things are valid and how everyone reacts the cause this is quite serious already indeed for the in madrid thank you for joining us. now the largest lot done in the world this wednesday is in india where 1300000000 people have been told to stay at home the prime minister there and remotely made the ordeal which is expected to be enforced for the next 21 days ports roads railways services and ports are being closed in an effort to stop the virus from spreading through the dense population it's feared or that 1000000 people could be infected by mid may and that's with problems as the lock down is driving a panic buying amongst the middle class and leaving the poor indians without. most of the country is quiet today that after the scenes we saw after prime minister modi announced the lockdown when lots of people around the country were rushing to grocery stores panic buying and you know even though prime minister modi said that

people would still be allowed to go out to get essential supplies and we had delhi's chief minister had our press conference a few hours ago saying that it's the government's responsibility to provide for people and that by crowd in places people are defeating the point of a lockdown asking people not to do that and so things are quieter today but it's so important to remember that you know panic buying and hoarding it's a very middle class thing and there are so many people in india who aren't middle class and in fact the places that we are seeing crowds today are homeless shelters that can no longer you know we've been hearing from homeless shelters that they they only have about 2 days' worth of supplies left and that's because they're not just looking after the homeless now but by the very low many india who are daily wage earners who live a hand to mouth existence and because they can no longer work i mean they can no longer look after themselves and news just coming out of the united kingdom where

the to the throne prince charles has been tested positive for corona virus a spokesman from clarence house says that the 71 year old is showing mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health lawrence who is our correspondent in london this news just coming out from the british capital lawrence and will reverberate across the united kingdom. well you know in fairness it doesn't sound like it's basically serious at the moment. the but interest charles who will be king of england's 71 that puts him actually in the age group where the government's advice is that he should be self-motivated with 12 weeks anyway but clearly as a public figure he's been out and about giving speeches and people over over the last few weeks before the bigger restrictions came in. and says contract they say that they had no idea how how how he got it but he's not in a hospital he's self isolating at a constant stop and his wife camilla the. is not got the

virus she's tested negative so for all of those reasons it doesn't sound like it i mean it's pretty amazing obviously but it's doesn't sound like he's in a serious condition more broadly the there are interesting things in the u.k. coming out about the response from the science behind the response leading scientists neil ferguson who's behind the imperial college team in london which did the modeling the change the government's thinking about the way in which the virus would overwhelm the health service if it wasn't contained he's currently giving evidence of that so the parliament's science committee here and he said that it was their understanding of the disaster that's now unfolding in italy and endings. and the underestimation of the number of people who would need ventilates as one hospital beds in europe printed them to say to the government you've got to do something different rather than letting the disease run rampant and on the

community and that in turn inform the government's thinking about suppression setting up this enormous place just on the edge of london because of the conference and we're going to have $4000.00 beds it's in order to try to make sure that if people are very seriously ill they can actually have a ventilator and they'll ferguson in a few last few minutes told. this committee that he now thinks the national health service in the u.k. will be able to cope and won't be overwhelmed in the way that spain and italy at the can and the reason why it's very interesting is because of the timing just very briefly because clearly those countries which were which were blindsided by this and didn't understand how many people would need medical insulation stay literally at the forefront of those on our label to code is the countries with the lag the u.k. or the netherlands by the way thinks it's no peaks. these countries which are further behind if they did the thinking now looks like if you get the measures in now you

probably won't have the same swamping and mass death that that's just been so disastrous suspended for the for the update for the moment lawrence thanks very much for joining us from london but the middle east now where saudi arabia has imposed tougher measures to contain the outbreak after one person has died it's bar entry or exit from riyadh into holy cities of mecca and medina the man has also ordered a 21 day curfew in 3 cities to start from 3 o'clock in the afternoon local time movement between all provinces has been suspended 767 cases have been confirmed moving to iran where it's recorded another big rise in the number of infections 2000 more confirmed on wednesday the total now stands there at over 27000 around half of all of government employees are staying at home in a bid to contain the spread the health ministry says the number of cases likely to rise because of testing and screening of huntsman's iran is the worst affected

country in the region and has blamed us sanctions for preventing it from containing the outbreak let's cross over to the iranian capital standing by as it does seem that the patience of the authorities now is running out a more draconian measures perhaps have to be implemented to curb the movement of people. well so help many here who have criticized the government's response would say that the government hasn't been direct kone in nuff we've seen another spike today in the overall number of cases almost 450 more cases in the last 24 hours we've seen another 143 people die in the last 24 hours so certainly the trend continues and this seems to be taking up we've been hearing murmurs from health officials throughout the week that the situation may be worse than it appears than than maybe government officials are talking about and that might be why we've heard from president hassan rouhani one of the strongest statements he's made since this public health crisis began he announced during

a cabinet meeting earlier this morning a proposal to place a ban on intercity travel a strict ban on any people traveling in between cities in this country an hour later his spokesman came to the cameras came to the media and announced that that had been confirmed that that had been finalized that it was now enforceable law that the country within the next 24 to 40 year 48 hours officials in the country the security apparatus will begin enforcing a ban on intercity travel now this is a very significant development the government officials the president the interior minister is advising people who may have traveled abroad for the persian new year i'm sorry to have traveled within the country during the persian new year they have been advised to start coming home the message is go home now don't wait until the end of the holiday you may have faced fines or restrictions so this is a very serious consideration being made by the government some would say it's too late but the government is worried about is that health officials are warning the peak of the virus that they expected this week has not come yet it's still ahead

and now the government isn't concerned with millions more continue to travel around the country once more that might bring a 2nd wave of this outbreak when the 1st wave hasn't even peaked yet before the entire own things. still ahead here on al-jazeera ignoring the warnings why the quote of hours message is not getting to many in africa's most populous nation. the prosecutors in turkey indict 20 suspects for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi those stories after the break. for the. hello beijing in fact the whole of northern china is about to lose 10 degrees from its daily maximum temperature as the air kept behind here is moving slowly science would soar as it goes through on thursday beijing is down to 11

degrees now given that we've been enjoying 2021 that's quite a big change and it will head slowly sasa because currently it's humid and quite sherry in central china to take a look at that $120.00 degrees with the breeze a northerly as you can see and so things will change it so as you can imagine squeezing the raving towards japan as the sun comes out the temperatures drop behind it will hands down to 13 shankar's down to about the same and beijing hangs out in the sunshine but out city so it's a wet looking day this is friday we're talking about for sudden size korea and a good part of japan the rains tucking back into southern china where hong kong humidity rises with the probably the heaviest rains in just inland from you there has been an increase in the cloud and the rain for pakistan and some parts of india you can get an idea here now not all of it particularly heavy when it reaches the high grade of the kashmir for example you'll see snow and more rain falling from it and there's generally increase in the likelihood of showers elsewhere india but

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bottom up to watch al-jazeera which means the whole romney reminder of our top stories pain has now surpassed china in the overall number of krona virus deaths latest figures coming in say 738 people have died taking the toca almost 3500 more than 42000 people are fighting the fires also the world's largest lockdown is under way in india 1300000000 people have been told to stay at home for the next 3 weeks to contain the virus and the u.k.'s prince charles has tested positive he's back to the british throne a spokesman from clarence house says the 71 year old is showing mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health. new york has become the major battlefront in the fight against the crime virus pandemic it has more than 25000 confirmed cases on the number is rising rapidly but the u.s. president says he hopes to have the situation under control but east gabriel it's

all done has moved from new york. sobering news for new yorkers the situation is worse than 1st thought with the coronavirus rate of infection doubling every 3 days we were looking at a free tree coming across the country we're now looking at a bullet train. because the numbers are going up that quickly speak to the governor says the white house has not prioritized health to the state that needs it the most new yorkers 25000 cases it has an on line the problem that california hands 10 times the problem that washington state has you prioritize resources and your activity and your actions to where they are needed. new york will need 140000 hospital beds to care for the ill they currently have 50000 available new york city's largest convention center has been converted into

a makeshift hospital but it won't be enough. york is also exploring converting colleges and hotels to hospitals as well recently retired nurses and doctors are being asked to come back to help fill the need. and globally ventilators are in short supply new york now needs 30000 the governor urged the white house to send him thousands more that the federal government has in storage and that are not being used as for the streets they remain mostly empty up both people and cars new york is essentially on lockdown and given the increased cases of coronavirus it likely remain like this for at least many weeks to come. gabriel sandow how does you know your. u.s. senate leaders have agreed on a 2 trillion dollars package to combine break the funds are aimed at keeping the

world's largest economy afloat and helping frontline medical workers the agreement follows days of arguments with democrats accusing republicans of prioritizing profits over worker health. hundreds of thousands of homeless people in the u.s. are risk of contracting the virus health experts warn that if they're infected the entire health care system could be overwhelmed rob runnels has more from los angeles. there are approximately 60000 homeless people in the los angeles area many of them at heightened risk of catching cold and 19 and they already disproportionately have the underlying health conditions that make them the most susceptible to morbidity in simple terms they are the ones who disproportionately could die as a result of this crisis experts say many of the homeless are in poor health. there are very sick people in the street.

and i'm concerned and dined at the end of an emergency to burns and i'm part of the time to lose them and everyone has to that's the big fear that thousands of desperately sick homeless people will inundate hospitals which will then run out of space to treat other patients public health workers have placed a hand washing sanitation stations in almost camps and plan to do much more the city of los angeles is converting $42.00 community recreation centers like this one it's a temporary shelters that will provide space for about 6000 homeless people on a recent afternoon workers were seen bringing in cots and other supplies the city and county will also requisition high school gymnasiums and buy or lease unused hotels and motels as shelters while maintaining sanitation and social distancing inevitably though some will fall through the cracks between the.

dinosaur and i do say cancer problems schizophrenia bipolar and other kinds of. issues these are to me even as difficult time to lose. trying to engage widespread chronic homelessness has been a major problem in u.s. cities since the 1980 s. when the ronald reagan administration drastically cut federal funds for low income housing and many mental hospitals were shut down now in a time of pandemic the failure of policymakers and society to do more to help the homeless may put many more americans lives at risk robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. nigeria has more people than any other country in africa and that's a concern too many of them are not taking the virus seriously enough not following the 1st fate talent and the worrying rise in cases restrictions have been imposed and its 2 largest cities but streets are still packed emmet interest reports

but liberal social man and his wife are forced to work at home their city lagos accounts for nearly 66 percent of all confirmed cases of the corner virus in nigeria he doesn't think he's getting the right information about the pandemic. i will write up take my destiny in my hand on. that which. does not even have. me for 2 days al-jazeera was unable to get comments from nigerian government officials in both lagos and the capital abuja government offices have been largely deserted but not the streets and markets. more than half the nigerian population lives on less than $2.00 a day. most have to go out every day to earn a living and the most skeptical about the coronavirus pandemic in this category of

nigerians thought is that on something like this then it's enough that i never really reach me on my somebody so we have free me and who can set you free so that is this what you should know about they didn't think that was the. owner of the army but on my staff i want. to be true whether they are in room or. not it's attitudes like this that health workers say is a bigger challenge than the lack of capacity to deal with a virus that is also concerned about what they see on the street. for passengers crammed into this small taxicab. the buses also aren't any better with health systems in desperate conditions experts say most african countries i'm not prepared to deal with this pandemic and i didn't for example only 5 molecule of or a freeze for 200000000 people over the government says it's building more. the

government has announced a series of measures to contain the spread of the virus these include closing all and land borders providing more testing kits and asking residents to stay at. that has not allayed concerns and fears of a big jump in the number of infections and fatalities in the coming days and weeks . priest how does iraq object but a lengthy see that a sikh place of worship in the afghan capital has been brought to an end we were hearing from the interior ministry that at least 25 people have been killed around 80 hostages were freed unknown gunmen and suicide bombers stormed the religious complex earlier wednesday with around $150.00 people were gathered inside security forces sealed off the area and gunfire was heard over several hours i saw her claim responsibility for what victoria fontanne is a professor of peace studies at the american university in afghanistan she too

believes that i saw were behind the attack. to be the islamic state in what our santa whatever they call themselves they have a history of targeting minorities in afghanistan they have argued that she had you know ritzy. bombing of the wedding hall last august in there so it is most likely to be the end to the season of the royal mandate and when he date. and yet set policy from the state to actually to actually terrorize and antagonize all minorities in afghanistan from their perspective. supposed to be a sunni state and a caliphate and therefore just like any other minorities in iraq are or in other parts of the world they are being targeted for the fury of what they believe could become their caliphate public is exasperated by the political games that are taking place at the moment and they do want the government and the state to actually feel

their responsibilities to them and this goes with security but this also was we everybody here is expecting the tsunami to happen and they really don't know which government is going to support them in. israel's parliament has voted for a new speaker in a push to break a political deadlock adelstein resigned after the high court ordered him to allow a vote on his replacement critics accused him of power lies in parliament to help his close ally prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier this month opposition leader benny gantz was asked to form a new government after 3 elections in the space of a year no party has been able to form a working majority well following the stories hairy forces our correspondent in west jerusalem israel has really been on the brink of a constitutional crisis these last few days so one wonders does the resignation of the speaker really solve the problem. well not yet it seems they're getting closer but there is still some mileage in this constitutional crisis yet just to set the

scene the opposition parties since the march 2nd election have in alliance a majority in the knesset the parliament $61.00 seats out of $120.00 so they have under law the right to vote in a new speaker and thereby put themselves in the driving seat in terms of the agenda of the parliament start passing legislation that the likud party of benjamin netanyahu may well not like and so edelstein had been pausing the knesset had to be suspended the knesset last week then on monday he was told by the high court that he had to have a vote to see a replacement voted in by today by wednesday rather than exceed to that ruling he has instead resigned and said his resignation would only take place or be effective from 48 hours from now that means that any vote to replace him would be further delayed into next week and so now blue and white the main opposition party led by

benny gantz is is called on him to have the vote anyway that the counsel to the knesset says the legal counsel says he would be in breach in contempt of the law if he failed to have this vote today nonetheless he is still refusing so it may well be that there will be another action another petition to the high court one has already been lodged by an ngo to try and force this through today and get this new speaker installed so this crisis hasn't been resolved just yet and that's just the crisis about the speaker so what one does where actually this leads the formation of the government i suppose just as much of a problem. well that's right i mean one of the public reasonings that adelstein and put out was that he wanted to allow space for negotiations for an emergency unity government between could of been netanyahu and blue and white of benny gantz however netanyahu made it very clear that he would be the person to go to remain as prime minister 1st at least in any rotational deal with dance blue and white is

extremely concerned about that no matter the fact that there is obviously this massive health and economic emergency with the coronavirus here they're concerned that this might be a political ploy to try to splinter the opposition to try to downgrade gantz in the long run there are now reports that they may want to pass legislation pausing the entire political situation for 6 months allowing the caretaker administration to continue and to fight the coronavirus pandemic and then pick up all of this negotiation for governmental formation in 6 months time while 2000 more cases or more cases 5 deaths and more restrictions coming in i rethought that thanks for the update how the force that force there in west jerusalem the prosecutors in turkey are indicting 20 suspects for the killing of journalist to mark a short they include the deputy head of the saudi intelligence and

a royal court advisor they all are accused of instigating premeditated murder with monstrous intent the saudis denial occasions that crown prince mohammed bin salon played a leading role in casualties death the critic of the kingdom's leadership was killed in the saudi consular office in stumble in 28 consumer has more than a stumble. she imported meigs are in the if i oh as it was announced by the turkish officials long ago one of them is a former deputy head of saudi intelligence on the asiri and the other one is the former voile court advisor. sell their cats and they are named as having instigated 3 meditated murder what monstrous intent this is especially for those 2 people along with those 15 members of the there are other 3 people who were involved 54 witnesses have been listened to prepare this indictment also indictment

analysis was based on the mobile phone records of the suspects records of their entry and exit to turkey everybody would remember all those pictures taken of c.c. cameras at the airports and outside the consulate and the hotels that they have entered a presence they are their presence at the consulate witness statements and now this is off to moscow she does fall on a laptop and i pad this is what the indictment is based on. you. know watching all desire with me as a whole rob a reminder of our top story spain has now surpassed china in the overall number of coronavirus deaths latest figures coming in say that 738 people have died taking the total almost $3500.00 more than $42000.00 people are fighting the virus to her house wolf madrid all what action the government is taking. this week the

prime minister president. addressed to the nation and announced that he would send to the parliament this extension of another 15 days of the state of emergency and in april 11th he will propose new to the rest of the of the political party in the parliament because this is going to start in our in measure they happen to have to go through our constitution and through the parliament he already have the backing of will be political party but what we have to do of course is a respect all these measures the world's largest lockdown is underway in india 1300000000 people have been told to stay home for the next 3 weeks to contain the virus and the u. k.'s prince charles has tested positive for the virus to the british throne a spokesman for clarence house says the 71 year old is showing mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health saudi arabia has imposed tougher measures to

contain the outbreak after one person died it's barring an entry or exit from riyadh and the 2 holy cities of mecca and medina king's lone man has also ordered a $21.00 day curfew in 3 cities to start at 3 o'clock local time in the afternoon movement between all provinces has been suspended 767 cases have been confirmed iran has recorded another big rise in the number of infections to 2000 more confirmed on wednesday the total stands at $27000.00 u.s. senate leaders have agreed on a 2 trillion dollars package to combat the outbreak the funds are aimed at keeping the world's largest economy afloat and helping frontline medical workers the agreement follows days of arguments with democrats accusing republicans of prioritizing profits over worker health those were the headlines more news in half an hour with the stars here tell you next inside story with bernard smith.

as the coronavirus pandemic spreads worries the poor nations won't be able to cope health systems are weak in many of these countries and millions of people don't have access to clean water or sanitation so how can we avoid a catastrophe this is inside story. hello welcome to the pro.