the covered 19 point to me because highlighted the need for compelling and creative communications about public health last year doubly sure announced our 1st held for all field festival the volume quality and diversity of interests far surpassed our expectations we received more than 1300 interviews from 110 countries and today we're announcing a shortlist of 45 excellent short films about white held topics we're also announcing a distinguished panel of jurors who will judge the shortlist with their we know this to be announced in may we will be showing all the shortlisted films in the coming weeks on our website and social media channels in this difficult times

feel another media are a powerful way not only of communicating important health messages but of studying one of the most powerful medicines hope i thank you thank you got to take us now and that is the world health organization chief adopted ted ross. calling on all countries who have introduced so-called lockdown measures to use this time to attack the virus to find every suspected case he said and the concern that some health care systems may collapse particularly in poor countries let's cross to our diplomatic editor james bays who's also been listening in he joins us from the united nations in new york and james worry of course is that when restrictions are eventually lifted the virus might come back says essential that these restrictions stem place.

yes passing on a message i think to leaders around the world don't open things up too early because you might get a 2nd wave i do somewhat wonder whether that message is in part directed to where i am the u.n. headquarters of course is in new york and president donald trump has said that in a couple of weeks time by easter he is hoping to reopen parts of the u.s. economy now that certainly has been greeted by some medical experts with concern that that's just going to spread the disease and i think it's worth pointing out the doctor said you can have a lock down but you need lots more as well as the knock down and part of that was the testing that needed to take place and certainly the u.s. and some other countries have been well behind on the testing he's speaking as earlier on a couple of hours ago he with the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrorists and other key humanitarian figures

launched an appeal for $2000000000.00 for saw some of the most vulnerable countries on earth and tony good terrorist told me in an interview for our jazeera that he thought millions potentially could die if this money was not produced at this time but they do see a window of opportunity the way this has struck at the moment is the countries that are really struggling right now as we speak are developed countries that's the place where there is what is known as a community spread where it's basically spreading everywhere among the community and other places he says a 150 countries and territories there's still good under 100 cases that means you can do the testing you can do the contact tracing and you can try and isolate those class theirs and bring it under control r.j. is never there for the man thanks very much as reporting from the united nations. spain has recorded its worst day yet of the corona virus pandemic with more than

700 new deaths and that means more people have died in spain than in china where of course the virus began in the past 24 hours a number of deaths a surge to almost 3500 nearly 48000 people have been infected only italy has seen a greater loss of life and in italy 683 more people have died in the last 24 hours taking the toll there to 7503 let's bring in francesco jennifer turney who's in milan it's still a high number francisco but it is a drop on yesterday this number of fatalities. yes. telen sort of protection held today another press conference to communicate the figures of the virus are break as you were saying to number of new infected and that started going down a little bit again today 683 people died that is

a little bit less than 743 recorded yesterday the death toll in the count tree hits 7500 in highest in the world so far the total number of confirmed cases rose to more than 74000 with an increase of 5280 that is the same number as yesterday it's still 'd the to see in new positive trend experts warned not to look for tendencies based on just one or 2 days we will need more time to say that something is really changing but at least there is there has not been an exponential growth in cases in the last week almost half of today's losses come again from long here in the north of italy where the care system is a huge pressure today the 1st 2 patients were moved abroad to deceit of leipzig

and in germany after america's government offered help to italy and more will be transferred in next days right now and what about the restrictions are presumably given the state of. yes everything will be like this for we don't know how long to day prime minister consummate a statement for the 1st time after weeks in front of the parliament that has not worked in the last days because it was closed because of the current virus outbreak . explained the reason that brought the government to take the hardest decisions in this moment. but so he said it was forced to reduce for freedoms that are basically guaranteed by the constitution the constitution because it was the only thing that the government could do here now instead $500.00 nurses will be moved from south bend regions to. like lumber d.

he said it was difficult to find masks for the care professionals and he publicly thanked the doctor he promised that their efforts will not be forgotten after the emergency. he asked also for more cooperation from europe from european union especially for the possible economic impact of the pandemic on all the continent but no new measures have been announced yet and everything keeps me in lockdown for we don't know how long francisco depreciate thanks very much indeed that's francisco jim between the who's speaking to us from milan for the use in the situation in italy well the pandemic has forced the russian president vladimir putin to perspire on a referendum that would have extended his time in office in the nationwide address putin knows russians to stay at home and promised economic assistance hours after the speech russia announced 2 people have died from the virus but doctors say the

government is covering up other fatalities reports now from moscow. churchgoers kiss religious icons one after the other as if there is no cause with 19 pandemic while the russian aftershocks church has put some measures in place to improve hygiene these religious rituals continue to be performed because many here are convinced they want gapped in fact it. well in recent weeks the government maintained that russia has no serious corona outbreak recent figures are showing a different trend president putin held meetings with experts who told him there are far more than the 658 of facially reported cases in a nationwide address he told russians they can go to work next week and that is safest thing is to stay at home. i'm addressing all citizens of the country let's not rely on our russian habit to think that it won't happen to us

this can happen to each one of us the thing which is now happening in many western countries both in europe under overseas might be our near future to. put in did not mention that russian should add here to social distancing and so far churches restaurants and shops will remain open russia is praising itself for doing a better job at containing the virus compared to other countries the government says that everything is under control but people are increasingly getting worried because there is a lack of information and people this trust the official figures and the fact that hospitals like this one are quickly being built to cope with an influx of patients tells them a different story thousands of workers have been brought to this construction site outside moscow the large infectious diseases hospital should be up and running by mid april and aims to treat up to 500 patients other hospitals have been conferred

to it into pneumonia hospitals a sign that the government might be planning to treat a coronavirus as pneumonia. in our hospital to congress of funny warning a patients bill without employing the related medical personnel doctors of other specialties are being forced to go with these patients but don't have enough expertise this could lead to higher death rate. a local organization called doctors alliance accuses the government of trying to cover up the corona virus outbreak here after a 79 year old woman died after being tested for covert 19 the official reason given for her death was trumbo says the price of the car is what in this. city it is collected from many cities show us that the number of new many cases have increased and that there are certain plans and orders for example doctors are not allowed to make paste mortem diagnoses of new mania i heard it from many doctors of course no one will speak out openly about it they're all scared i'm not scared as we are at

this stage of my increasingly empty streets in moscow the largest european city show that concerns are growing the government has closed its borders for foreigners and ordered people older than 65 to stay home some are worried that if russia is faced with a large outbreak the country won't be able to cope hospitals have been closed and many doctors were laid off in recent years even large hospitals like this one would then be too little too late step fasten al-jazeera moscow and united states the senate there is set to vote on a deal for a 2 trillion dollar package to help fight the virus the funds are aimed at keeping the world's biggest economy afloat and helping front line medical workers you can see here this is the floor of the senate is they will be preparing to take the vote agreement follows days of arguments with democrats accusing republicans of party prioritizing profits over workers' health let's speak to our white house

correspondent can be how to you is in washington d.c. kimberly's i believe the vote is due to take place but we've been saying that for quite sure what's happening but lay out the details of it for us and just what it's hoped it will achieve. yeah i was trying to get details on why this is keeps being delayed the latest that i'm hearing is that republicans are objecting to some language not quite sure what the language is that they're upset about but poor republicans are they are not happy with some of the things they believe that democrats have tucked into this bill like money for performing arts centers dressing climate change issues they say that there are certain to checking off their wish list of course as you pointed out democrats are saying bit republicans have just really written blank checks to corporations so they finally did agree on this in the early morning hours here in washington between the white

house and the u.s. senate they haven't voted on it and now he says or maybe a press conference this hour by republicans to lessen the delayed even more things are really fluid i capitol hill and even if it passes the senate starts to pass the house of representatives they're going to get in session now as he closes the house speaker not sure which to stand oh she's watching the senate in terms of what's in it especially there is a lot for everybody corporations are going to get a big boost because the economy is really shut down in the united states right now airlines in particular are going to get some big grants they will have oversight and that includes of any of the sort of major corporations that are going to take these federal funds that is something democrats really want to they're also getting payroll tax cuts that employers are to their employees to help them get to the spot president term business is not going to benefit the rest want to see that there that is apparently in there however there will be some shack ordinary americans if your house will make her 70 $1000.00. you will essentially be eligible for

a family of 4 checks of up to $3000.00 again if you make more than $70000.00 that's when things get a little sticky and the health care system having 3xb1c5xb for state and local governments so again there's agreement on this so we thought i would now it seems there's a little bit of a revolt so we're not sure when this is finally going to pass in the senate they're working out that language we're watching that carefully. and when we get more on that can we how could there in washington d.c. . let's move on to new york which has 10 times more cases than any other state in the united states governor andrew cuomo says dealing with a pandemic has proven expensive and he's appealing for a big cut of the proposed immunise package response to this virus has probably already cost us $1000000000.00 it will probably cost us several $1000000000.00 when we're done new york city only gets $1300000000.00 from this

package that is a drop in the bucket as to need i spoke to our house delegation congressional delegation this morning i said to them just doesn't do it in his speech today well it's on to his life as a new york a just doesn't do it says the governor is he likely to get the help he needs do you think. well he sure hoping for it but he's certainly not waiting for it at all and certainly new york needs it and all you have to do to realize why is look where i'm standing on a wall street in the heart of the financial district in new york city over my left shoulder there that is the new york city's stock exchange the trading floor has been closed now for the 3rd day because of coronavirus fears that's the 1st time in over 200 years they have closed the trading floor all trading is being done electronically as you see behind me right here normally this is the heart of

financial district there would normally be hundreds if not thousands of people on the streets you only see a few right now that's because new york city is essentially shut down right now we're going to pan off a little bit to my left here to give you a better sense of what it's like in the financial district of new york right now on a normal day there would be restaurants open traders coming and going to or is taking photos here these streets would be packed and as you see there is virtually nobody here right now it's very much symbolic of not only the shutdown of the new york economy but in many ways the u.s. economy as a whole now the governor andrew cuomo stating that things are getting more dire by the day here the latest numbers new york state 30800 confirmed coronavirus cases that's 5000 more than just 24 hours ago and he said the rate of infection in new york is doubling every 3 days he said it within the next 20 days

or so there will be that apex of when tens of thousands of people will be flooding into hospitals in new york and he said they do is just do not have enough hospital beds he said they need 140000 he says right now they only have 50000 hospital beds so it just gives you an idea on the streets here how quiet things are in new york symbolic of the holes much of the united states but particularly here at the epicenter in new york city right absolutely gave thanks very much new government is on the new york. to canada where the parliament has passed a $57000000000.00 stimulus package that's after a 1000000 canadians filed jobless claims in a week the prime minister justin trudeau spoke about the plan outside his residence where he's in self isolation this is an unprecedented situation with an overwhelming amount of demand by canadians to get money as quickly as possible we

need to make sure we're getting that money out quickly but also reliably to canadians and that means doing things that government hasn't done before and scaling up our processes extremely quickly windier is one of the biggest lockdown in history with all 1300000000 people ordered to stay at home while most are observing the order homeless shelters are fully up with people who've lost their livelihoods in the a correspondent elizabeth per anum reports from the capital new delhi. it was always going to be hard keeping india's population of 1300000000 in doors those who ventured out on the 1st day of the national lockdown face the consequences. of that by police in mumbai were seen conducting roadside checks as it appears those found flouting the rules faced instant justice with battens and punishing push ups prime minister narendra modi says india is at war. today the

war that the country has waged against coronavirus will need 21 days. but 3 weeks is a long time for people like this young migrant worker stranded afraid and unable to leave delhi for his home state of bihar after the government cancelled all bus and train services. the police will beat me i'm afraid they'll beat me they aren't even allowing us to sit anyway. others decided to walk all migrant labor sunday started walking a 2 kilometers after his employer shut down operations and company accommodation in the state of the pradesh. they're not allowing us to stay there they told us to leave because the virus is a big threat to. migrant workers join the growing number of homeless and poor health is. remembering the caretaker of one center the new delhi told al jazeera

their supplies will only last another 2 days. people here have been snatching the plates from our homes there are so many people now that we're finding it difficult to function and are running out of food and russians. for the millions of poor and daily wage earners in india the threat of hunger looms larger than that of the virus i am not saying that the lock down is a necessary i'm not a public health expert and if we had all that is necessary i'm willing to believe it but only if it is accompanied by mass relief measures to help people through this time and it's not just going to be 21 days for them it's going to be a long time before they get their jobs back so far only state governments have announced financial that hinata terrine assistance for people affected india's finance minister says the central government is working on an economic plan prime

minister modi has again been on t.v. to stress the importance of social distancing but that's not the priority for millions of people who are now jobless and don't know where their next meal is coming from and there's a problem al jazeera in delhi. the united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the coronavirus pandemic in the exclusive interview with our diplomatic editor james bays the secretary general and tony good tears says it is in everybody's interests to help the world's poorest nations especially in areas of conflict he says millions of people could die if world leaders don't take action now. you've launched this global humanitarian appeal tell us what he's at stake here and how many lives could be lost if the world doesn't act to help the most vulnerable countries the refugee camps and the conflict zones well this is exactly an appeal for that it is a humanitarian appeal for those countries in conflict for those fragile in states

for refugee camps it's always placement camps. that emetic humanitarian needs that need to go aren't being met but on top of that now the surete of coffee at 19 and you need to do everything to prevent the disease to come to those areas to the extent possible and at the same time in those areas you have people sometimes in slums of big cities or in camps in which it's very difficult to have isolation there is no water in the households and sometimes no soap care facilities are extremely rugged mountain it so we need to boost to the response capacity in those areas that's why we have asked and we mobilize all u.n. agencies that have trust with president movement large number of n.g.o.s we mobilized all to work together and with those funds with those $2000000000.00 to make sure that we are able to. ever strong push for prevention in those vulnerable

areas and at the same time to bring the equipment to that is required the ventilator staffs suits are for the the stuff to allow for contact with people impacted mosques and then walks out and sanitation in key areas to poor people to wash their hands soap medicines and all the other aspects that are essential for else care systems to be boosted and to have a minimum capacity to respond to the needs of these peoples now if these won't happen if we allow the disease to spread. like wildfire in the developing world in general and in these parts in particular we left millions and millions of people infected we can't have millions of people dying and. even for those that sometimes up to air go east and sink why to support of the philippine countries when we have so many problems at home in our own rich countries i would

remind them that if these spreads like wildfire in the sauce there will be a mess if there's missions that makes the mutation of the fighters even more easy and so that is a risk that the virus comes back to the philip world even after vaccines have been developed when the taliban seems that's always over and then every single start again so it's in the enlightened self-interest of the rich countries of these world to do everything to make sure that we have a collective response world wife and not only response in the developed world secretary general we're both in the same building right now but we are conducting this interview remotely for obvious reasons your living in new york it's eerie right now it's worrying yet this is one of the richest cities on earth with some of the most sophisticated medical care if they're worrying about how they can cope here what chalks to some other places stand in this. all soon you attack the

coffee's 19 and if you attack covered $1000.00 soon enough you will be much more able to respond effectively then when we are already in the epicenter of the plan then yes and the pandemic and so our main concern in addition to those areas most of the mt remote areas many of them have not yet been touched is still put enormous pressure on prevention and on make sure that we control the beginning of a possible outbreak what we are witnessing now in many developed countries is that they started too late and now even relatively sophisticated l. systems are able to respond to the very that emetic impact of the disease we need to act and we need to act immediately to be able to avoid the worst you've called for a global ceasefire are in conflict zones but let me give you a couple of examples in recent weeks things have been going in the opposite

direction in some of those conflicts let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen well i am even if one of the most important movements in yemen has declared that they would accept this ceasefire or that the appeal of ceasefire and we have other arms movements in other parts of the world saying that they would be ready to abide by it all especially these and invoiced everyone in the world are pushing to make sure that these it believes those late in the poem at the action bringing together the parties to the conflict for the ceasefire to become a you know it's a we have he should lives in syria and yemen in libya in very in many other parts of the world and i hope that these appeal will be heard then that people will understand that there is only one was that is necessary today it's the war against the fight you mention libya that there was already supposed to be a humanitarian poor in libya but one side has not been respecting it general half the and. weeks seems to have intensified his campaign what's your message to him

it's necessary to stop and i believe that in the last few days there was a clear the cookies and i was the early days even if even before yesterday there was a very meaningful attack but this is the moment to stop all military action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting cause 1000 we're already seeing covert 1000 cases in goals or you being there you know it's one of the most crowded places on earth how are you supposed to self isolate if you're someone living in a place like gaza well it is extremely difficult but the same applies to the slums of big cities in different parts of the world to refugee camps it is much more difficult and that is the reason why we massively need support for those areas and we massive need to increase the capacity to respond and they all services that are so weak in those areas need to be very quickly bills that and of course water and sanitation programs programs of. all kinds of improvements that odd

that he meditated i mentioned absolutely crucial to minimize the negative impact many cities around the world are on lockdown in those places the medical advice is very consistent do you believe that citizens and for that matter political leaders who ignore that advice of being irresponsible i think we need to have a quart of the in 80th action of all countries and i believe the g 20 will be an opportunity to do so all countries need to f. a common strategy and that's that the g. is not a strategy in my opinion of mediation is a stats of suppression of the vials now for that you can combine different ways you can if you have a huge testing capacity and if you have a very strong pricing capability and quite entirely on. all the people detected like singapore has done you need less restrictive. measures relation to

movement and the nation to contact but if the testing capacity is limited if the tracing capacity is limited then you really need to see here the limited movement of people you need to see if you limit the capacity of contact and not to recognize these is in my opinion putting the country is a risk of the disease spreading like wildfire and if the disease spread is like wildfire the consequences will be absolutely devastating f. course we need to understand that people are concerned with the economic impact but that is why it is so important to have a massive mobilization of financial resources that is why it is so important to get n.t. there beyond maintaining liquidity in the financial systems that is a massive support to hols holds to keep them afloat to businesses to keep them afloat and

a country like the united states for instance as you just mentioned is this causing a package of 2 trillion dollars which comes close to the 2 digit percentage of the economy that i've been mentioning several times is needed to make sure that you can combine very thus the restrictions of movement we does the same time keeping the people the businesses afloat and allowing for when you are successful in suppressing the disease for recovery and quick recovery of the economy you mention not secretary-general do it because you know what it is not your problem that if i can you mention the u.s. and you mention the g 20 president both sonora of brazil is saying there he is there is hysteria president trump is talking about opening up the u.s. economy by easter when people are passing the message doctors stay at home of these sort of messages from political leaders on helpful i sync that it is very. near death we need to be able to suppress the disease and obviously the time

framework to suppress these is might be different from country to country according to the measures that are putting into place but without suppression of the disease we risk the spread like wildfire and we will have millions of cases and with millions of cases we can have millions of people dying and these is something that we absolutely need to avoid and so my message to all the those is concentrate our efforts are suppressing the disease and concentrate your efforts in rescuing the situation of people and businesses for your economy also to be able to survive and then to recover when the time comes my final question secretary-general obviously we are currently looking hour by hour day by day fighting this disease but can i ask you to look at when this is over do you think it will change the way the world works in terms of really remote working but also in terms of the global airlines

should they continue the same level of operation or should some things change for the sake of the climate i think that there will be enormous inevitable changes 1st of all there is is becoming largely a digital world with a digital economy and i believe that there will be a huge boost in all aspects related to cyberspace sufficient intelligence to the all diverge will forms of transaction and all the virtual forms of contact and so the world it will inevitably change and i don't think we should fight climate change with a virus but i also believe that there will be an opportunity to really cover the economy with a much more sustainable and inclusive approach and that these will be an opportunity we should not miss of course emissions are not going down but if we go on in. the future repeating the same mistakes they will go up again and we'll be

facing exactly the same the domestic situation of climate change so let us make sure that when we recover our economies we think profit of everything we learned with the crisis to make. global development strategy much more inclusive and much more sustainable and to make climate change the priority that has always been that is the u.n. 6 general and 20 caetera speaking to our diplomatic editor james bays well as we outlined earlier spain has suffered its worst day yet of the coronavirus pandemic let's hear now from paul brennan who takes a look at the situation there and across here. it's a very a char hospital in madrid coronavirus patients now occupy almost every available space there are beds for 80 patients at this unit as many as 280 people at a time of being treated here and that means chairs trolleys and even floors will have to do is putting unsustainable pressure on spain's medical staff 14 percent of

whom have themselves become infected. you are afraid for yourself and you are afraid of bringing the virus home because of your family to hear the most of us we are emotionally overwhelmed because we are spending more time at work and working doubly hard because the patients are scattered throughout the hospital. spain has now joined its early and surpassing china's death toll from corona virus and the upward curve of the infection shows no sign of slowing in the sense italian prime minister is hopeful that stringent restrictions are helping to flatten the upward trajectory of the death toll but in the face of stubborn pockets of noncompliance anyone called leaving their home without good reason now faces an increased financial penalty as much as $3200.00. care homes for the elderly have become the latest battlefront in the war with the virus all of spain's 5500 homes are in

quarantine some residents are left to die in their own beds in france at a single care home near vote 21 elderly residents became fatalities but he too with . some people at 1st we thought it was just a simple flu in looked like everything with the thing before but after just 3 days of confinement we realized it wasn't at all the same as usual govinda usually in 3 days we can find and the number of cases decreases reputably that was not the case here it was the opposite after a week it was still rising. according to an internal e.u. document seen by the reuters. news agency member states are struggling with limited stockpiles of medical and protective equipment and limited capacity to scale up or production the document warns the traditional supply chains can only provide 10 percent of what's needed european union leaders meet in a video summit on thursday to consider that issue and more than one proposal for

a special crisis center to be established paul brennan al-jazeera. british prime minister bruce johnson has been speaking in the past hour let's go to rory challoner's followed what the british prime minister said he joins us by skype from nurse in the u.k. and 1st up rory the prime minister applauding the response to the call for volunteers it was made yesterday. yeah and the response really has been astounding out to say there was a call but out 24 hours ago in the press conference in that same time slot it was given yesterday by a man caught the health sector and he said we need a quarter of a 1000000 250000 volunteers to come in to help this battle to come and help fight coronavirus with the n.h.s. how many they got well in just 24 hours 405000 people have signed up that's

needed twice as many as they were looking for you know very short amount of time so it really is an extraordinary mobilization really of of the normal british people who want to help out in some way he was also then talking about a couple of other. issues he was talking about well this is where he handed over to chris witty the chief medical officer patrick balance the chief science officer to talk about testing the shortage of tests in the united kingdom and both of these scientists were saying that there is actually actually a global shortage of tests and that the u.k. is largely in the same boat as many other countries in not having enough testing kits to be able to make sure that the people fighting this illness on the front

line health workers are being tested in the way that they should be there are 2 different ways you can test there is to test for that have the coated 19 disease or to test whether you have had it in the past and therefore your body might be mean to it in the future neither of these are in particularly pounds of fuel supply in the u.k. but they are hoping the supply is going to start kicking in so that at least they can give it to health workers. in the coming days it will be a little while longer before the general public can get their hands on civil supplies attests the issue that boris johnson was talking about was then a matter of self employed people there has been a raft of economic measures already unveiled to help people who have salaries but missing from that package were the 5000000 self-employed. freelancers in the country and the government has been working on

a package over the last few days to try to help those out he says hold site we'll be announcing that tomorrow so we'll have to wait and see what that announcement is and what that package bowls year 5000000 quite a chunk of the workforce or already thanks very much for a challenger. let's head over to china where government travel restrictions have been eased in who bay province where the virus outbreak began of course but after 2 months straight lockdown many residents are afraid they will face discrimination when they go to work again the treaty reports now from beijing. back on the road cars a lining up to leave and the current virus locked down behind after 2 months of empty words and closed borders government travel restrictions on most of the province are being lifted but there are strict conditions before crossing the provincial border residents must show a green card certifying good health and submit employer contact details only those

with jobs waiting for them elsewhere may leave charter trains and buses have been organized for workers. local public transport has reserved or passengers must have their temperature checked surely chine says she's happy the lockdown is over but is worried. we hope others don't discriminate against us whole people we've already gone through a hard time we locked ourselves up for 2 months the government says there have been almost no local infections over the past week but many fear the end of the hoop a lockdown could spark a 2nd virus outbreak on social media who by workers say they've been fired from their jobs in other cities or being evicted from their apartments. and those human beings from the perspective of size and epidemiology the lockdown is no longer needed and hope people should be freed i understand some are still worried as the previous situation or serious but now beijing is still imposing strict policies

which i think are too harsh the lock down in the bay has eased here in beijing restrictions on the enticement many government and commercial operations in the capital al back on track the last thing the government wants to still is a rise of new infections that could threaten a return to normal life beijing's great wall has reopened to visitors and so has the city's do restaurants are also once again a welcoming customers but not everyone is free to come and go as they please. in ruhani work is a disinfectant the train station ahead of its reopening the city where to correct a virus pandemic began. to lock down. al-jazeera. to brazil where the president says concerns over the pandemic are overblown in a nationally televised address on tuesday he characterized the virus as only

a little flu he also called on brazil's cities to end the lockdowns and return to normalcy. there the 3rd preserve what the livelihoods of families must be saved guarded. a few statements have been a part of that myth about going to. perdition businesses and mass confinement. well across brazil residents have been protesting against both enormous response to the pandemic by hitting pots and pans as you can hear from their windows recently been rated governors and mayors for taking measures to curb the spread of the virus that's despite more than 20 members of his own delegation becoming recently infected who still has more than 2000 cases and almost 50 people have died let's take this on we can speak to create. a political science professor couple of foundation joins us via skype from brasilia. great to see here on the program you

have to wonder at the president's words flying in the face of calls medical science or science all together which isn't a 1st for him you have to say but all the while people around him are getting affected and goes against what's happening in the country. well the hotel because someone didn't have to talk to all and there are there's a whole bunch of 0. brazil was facing terrible her bow debate we're going to hold her president bush from our we're assuming a gesture and on the right so you go denying all that made it quite of the basis because he's a he has a lot of coal serves up both the future economic recession here in brazil in your hand he up horizon a big old partners and they meet europe's to establish a kinds of lock down some c.d.'s and the states and across brazil sold this kind of company chumming he. can probably to coag actions.

brazilian. and really hard to know it sends out a nice carrot about the future the government just that we shot a chorus of policies to paying the light 90 yr so why do you think he's doing this is these are just attempting to cover all bases and hope for the best. well specifically in my field president bush tomorrow has a lot of concerns about the effects of that on then me that by many and house of the kind i'm curious a shallower over a nice project of a future reelection and the nice perspective he started to blame against the current time and guess that a lot of bounce as i wait to divide any kind of. coal. or the bleeding hold that to leave the governor's 2 days specifically president

will sonar and they govern our own some polish own border they 'd richard says that which is estate which are the state here in brazil to be. really hard in not only can meeting and they just lost the focus was the call payments help to cope right 19 and they started to talk about reelection. and president bush cannot restart to blame your own daria accusation hane to doing all it takes and not not doing so and if you not bow to the so-called budget band then define them and situation here the fact ace diverse in a population praying out lots of this equation and specifically they mean no class who has the capacity to chew on. lockdown because for its days they they just lost all the confidence over the capacity of their president bill some are just so in a kind of problem and they started to protest. massively against the president

yesterday the yesterday night doing the most honored speech we've all here but now last of the phenomena when people go to that windows they started to beat their panels i guess the president was the heaviest but not war now or the story and then you know i believe president bush some are raising not use in the corridor in his like moment for these reason he started to work on your position ok. certainly not only a little flu as the president puts it that's we sure do appreciate your perspective on this to preserve a very much. thank you so much another president in latin america with a political ideology well to the left of both and has also come under heavy criticism for downplaying the pandemic and that is mexico's and that his men were lopez obrador john holeman is live for us in mexico city and john. the president seems to be as saying live life as normal.

he's downplayed that slightly from where he was up but it was this week that he was actually releasing video just saying please go out to restaurants i'll tell you when it's not safe to do so but we need to strengthen our families and strengthen our economies he hasn't brought that back but he hasn't been quite on the taxes then he was as well last week going out and sort of kissing and hugging supporters in other parts of the country he did come out and he started to say now announcing measures that he's going to take the military going to get involved in terms of their hospitals and equipment and start trying to help out with this but it's been left really to the mayor of mexico city where we are now. who's been announcing the most probably stringent measures saying that bars jim cinemas to be shut down here in the capital the restaurants knowing she's since come out there today and said

that there will be amounts of money for families here they'll be micro loans for businesses president lopez obrador talked about as well so she starts it's come out with some measures and the association of banks here in mexico has also said that it will that it's talking about freezing mortgages so people don't have to keep paying those so mitt's car is moving but as with brazil there's been a sense here that the president hasn't really been taking the lead and instead he's been sort of taking a different tack to try and help the economy rather than to deal with the problem and of course meanwhile you've got people in the country that are living hand to mouth we've heard that so much over the last couple of weeks i was in acapulco where loads of tourists meant to go usually over easter from the united states but also from mexico people are saying well if the coronavirus doesn't get us hunger is going to get us instead so a lot of people here in the of formal economy that are worried about the impact of

all of this virus and everything that goes with it on their livelihoods take a look at our report. as the coronavirus cases rack up in mexico many ordinary people a facing an impossible dilemma. how are people going to stay at home during a quarantine if they don't have money for vendors who live day to day if we don't come to work but what we eat. more than half of mexico's workforce is in the informal sector with little access to social security or the public health service many live hand to mouth. they've got to continue working many using public transport as the virus continues to spread havea moreno's worried about catching it but even more about a possible lot down when all that is in is going to live as a thank god we're allowed to work that way we can get paid and cover our living costs if we don't work it will be sad if we don't die from the coronavirus we will die from hunger. but even as they turn up customers are getting thinner on the

ground parts of mexico city look almost empty after the capital's mayor ordered bars gyms and cinemas shut yeah nationally but president lopez obrador has taken a different tack actually encouraging people to eat how some believe his mind's on the pace so it's lost almost a quarter of its value this month see if you can take your family to the restaurant ends to eateries because it's then spends a life a millions in our economy. many of cody's attitude irresponsible last week hugging and kissing supporters even as other countries in latin america have been post strict social restriction measures and now he has called in the military to help announce some economic measures promising loans for small businesses and that social programs won't stop but it's a far cry from other developed countries if you launch huge wage guaranteeing in fiscal stimulus packages it's also less in some other latin american countries. to

stuff a merino. a public policy expert says his surprise to the government which is said that the full come 1st hasn't announced more measures for them who are in general but we haven't also seem other actions for the economy it's a hope and that they're pointing to him even if they're not who are only who are is there is. this consent there is floor for birds not to lay over or. other countries are doing a stimulus package packages someone so we're we're lacking those 2 and those are poor as well even if they're not directed at them specifically. with along the crisis last for mexico's most vulnerable the economic impact could be even longer lived. so there are of course other countries in latin america that have gone the other way colombia has about $48000000.00 people in quarantine at the

moment chile's agreed that it's parliamentary sessions are going to be done online for via basically video cooling technology argentina's in lockdown at the moment and also the small country that was salvador in latin america it was noticeable that it was one of the 1st to really aggressively shut down its borders and now its president president will clearly has announced the 3 months he's going to of basic utilities or will try electricity internet along with mortgages are going to be suspended and he's actually be going to be giving out a sort of $300.00 cash bonus full payment to people to try and help them get through this situation so lots of different reactions throughout latin america a continent that is yet to bear the full brunt of this in the same way that for example europe or the united states has by thinking pap's the biggest picture here is that brazil or mexico the the continent's 2 largest economies are the ones that

have been accused of downplaying and not really getting to grips with this right that's a picture from mexico city john holmes that thanks love. let's move on to other news and the president of chad is describing monday's attack by boko haram fighters as the worse yet on the army it was debbie a visited luck province to pay tribute to the 92 soldiers killed this is the latest in a series of attacks by boko haram in the late child region that covers parts of chad nigeria and cameroon on the same day a boko haram ambush in northeastern nigeria killed dozens of soldiers we want to take this on but speak to herman cohen is a former u.s. ambassador to senegal and gambia in joins us live via skype in washington d.c. ambassador welcome to the program good to have you with us. the stories that boko haram fighters now seeing seeming almost to act with impunity right across the region is it just not possible to defeat this movement i am totally amazed that

they did what they did and they and jacket chad chad is the best nari in this i held personally with anywhere about the saints and just to have such a defeat is really amazing i am beginning to feel that vocal iran is getting support from civilians from people who give them intelligence and other support and i'm not surprised in the sense p. course the lake chad region support the lake chad itself supports about 20000000 people and because of climate change and neglect by the governments these people are very unhappy and very poor so i can see where they would be tempted to support insurgents like boko or they might support insurgents like boko haram but they wouldn't be able to supply them with weapons would they where would boko haram be getting their weapons from. i think that when libya fell and there was no follow up

in the southern part of libya there is a whole cache of arms left by khadafi and these are trickling down and there's the saddle and many of the troops who fought for it that they could that we didn't have libyan troops he had troops from africa and many of them chained back with arms so there's a there's an abundance of marmes from sudden libya 'd available to insurgents it sally says me an expanding campaign what would you say are the goals of boko haram well i would say the goal is to impose sharia law to have political power they want to overthrow these governments now they're not strong enough to do that but yet they're strong enough to avoid being defeated henry kissinger used to say if the government doesn't win when they're fighting insurgents then the government loses you know this town going on for a long time so my personal feeling is maybe

a stamp of think about negotiations. it's just going to get your perspective on this we do appreciate it the best of him currently you're welcome. now recording london has denied it julian assange the wiki leaks founder sought to be released over the risk of contracting the coronavirus in prison his lawyers argued british jails would become the epi centers for the spread of the virus jews are overcrowded and so is being held in the u.k. awaiting possible extradition to the united states where he may say face charges relating to 2000 and leaks over the wars in iraq and afghanistan. prosecutors it here indicting 20 suspects for the killing of journalist. thing clearly the deputy head of saudi intelligence and a royal court advisor all are accused of instigating premeditated murder with monstrous intent the saudis deny allegations that crown prince mohammed bin salman played a leading role in the sorties killing the critic of the kingdom's leadership was

killed in the saudi consulate in istanbul in 2018. israel's parliament is set to vote for a new speaker in a push to break the political deadlock stein resigned after the high court ordered him to allow a vote on his replacement critics accused him of paralyzing parliament to help his close ally of the caretaker prime minister benjamin netanyahu earlier this month the opposition leader benny gantz was tossed to form a new government after 3 elections in the space of a year no party has been able to form a working majority thomas pock of the president of the international olympic committee says reorganizing tokyo 2020 is like putting together a beautiful jigsaw puzzle with growing pressure created by coronavirus and countries are starting to boycott the i.o.c. on tuesday was forced to push the games back one yet the exact date will now be determined by

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