new york state trickles over $5000.00 new coronavirus cases in a single day as congress continues to debate a 2 trillion dollar plan to fight the pandemic. welcome to our desire live from doha i'm martin janet's also coming out. spain asked nato for help with medical supplies and equipment as the number of deaths

surpasses china's. indian police crackdown on people violating a curfew is more than a 1000000000 people are put down put into lockdown for 21 days. there is only one wars that is necessary if you think it's a war against foreigners and the u.n. secretary general tells our poor countries need immediate support as he appeals for $2000000000.00 in aid. there warning from the world health organization that the u.s. is poised to become the next coronavirus epicenter has leaders including the president focusing on its biggest city there are now 30000 cases across new york state most of them in the city where the number of people in hospital with coded 19 rose to nearly 4000 on wednesday and that's led to the construction of temporary

hospitals and a morgue or president trump says he's working closely with leaders across the country particularly in new york state. we're also as you know building numerous hospitals and medical centers. throughout certain areas in new york it's at the convention center the javits convention center. we're doing 4 hospitals and we're doing throughout the state for medical centers they're somewhat different i want you to know they're doing everything in my power to help the city pull through this challenge i'm working very hard in new york it's really by far our biggest problem maybe it will be maybe one plea but there's a lot of good capable people working on it with us where the senate is due to vote on a deal for a 2 trillion dollars package to help fight the virus the funds are aimed at keeping the world's biggest economy afloat and helping frontline medical workers from his

days of ogmund between the democrats and the republicans and how the money should be used well as we said new york has 10 times more cases than any other state in the u.s. governor andrew cuomo says dealing with the pandemic has proven expensive and therefore is appealing for a big accounts of the proposed stimulus 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. all right let's go live now to our correspondent in washington mike hanna mike c.c. andrew cuomo they're appealing for a largest slice of this stimulus package but is he likely to get it.

well that's very unclear at the moment in fact the whole fate of the care of the package itself is in the balance that stalled in the senate despite intense optimism overnight following an agreement between the white house and congress about the contents of the bill but now it's being stalled by a group of republican senators who are arguing that the unemployment provisions actually provide more money for those who are unemployed than those who are employed they say this is a drafting error and want this part of the bill to be amended so that debate is carrying on in the senate meanwhile democrats of course as you mention are looking to that phone call with the governor of new york he's asking for more money perhaps once it goes to the house remembering that the bull has to be passed by the house as well as the senate their way be more discussion more argument about some of the provisions of the bill so even if it does pass the senate which may happen in the

hours ahead it still has to go to the house of representatives where you are likely to see further argument in terms of various factors various sectors wanting more of this 2 trillion dollar pie for what about interest they may have at one any particular time and meanwhile we've been hearing from the president and his co that 19 team and the president himself seem to emphasize that testing is now taken off in the united states he said the u.s. is testing more than anyone else in the rest of the world. but once again it's very difficult to fact check this type of statement given that they is no clear central record of exactly how many tests are being done president tramples so said that these are the best tests in the world now the fact is is that it took a long time for tests to be rolled out the initial rollout was defective those tests made by the center for disease control they had to be withdrawn and new test

kits had to be obtained and put out into the field certainly testing has picked up in pace in recent weeks however the simple fact remains too that with the population more more than 330000000 people then the us certainly should be testing more people than a lot of other countries with far less populations president trump choosing not to take that particular point into account but certainly what's been made clear by the president's health advisers is that testing is absolutely critical in terms of establishing any kind of timeline whatsoever to start easing the shutdown president trump once again reiterated he wants the shutdown to end within a matter of weeks however his health advisers pointing out that this simply cannot happen at the moment given the lack of data given the lack of testing being conducted throughout the united states as

a whole all right mike thanks for that my hannah live in washington now we can speak to dr marcus pleasure is chief medical officer of the association the ses and territorial health officials he's joining us now via skype from charlotte north carolina thank you for talking to us. the president in his latest address to the nation emphasizing as i said earlier the the amount of testing that is now taking place in the united states he says is more than anywhere else in the rest of the world following on from the w.h.a. prescription for dating with this which is test treat and trace how do you think the u.s. is doing at this particular moment. well i think we're having improvements now in our ability to test for the corona virus but we got up to it wasn't a very smooth start there's a lot more testing now i think we do have enough tests test people at least people who are at higher risk and we hope that more tests will continue to come out and

how vital would you say is this stimulus package that is currently being being wrangled in in congress how vital is that to the united states effort to deal with the pandemic well i think that having adequate resources is going to be very important for dealing with this endemic situation we're in to build up capacity in our hospital systems and we're having we're doing well but much of the rest of the world's been doing with social distancing and having people spare arm and that's taken a toll on you commie and on those people's ability to get by pay their bills right and now we've we focus. on the situation in new york state we've also looked at the other the other side of the country on the other coast the west coast where there are quite large numbers of cases what's happening in the rest of the country in the in between of the united states impacts where you are in north carolina.

well initially the greatest number of cases are california washington and now in new york and new york city but we're starting to see now much more cases being reported throughout the rest of the united states really up and down the east coast which is where i am is strong where we're seeing a number of cases in some of the bigger cities and several of the cities now put in place much stricter social distancing requirements the the middle of the country there are still less cases although we're really starting to get what we're seeing at the everywhere and all these other parts of the country are the little slow it is all they working ahead of the curve if you like or are they waiting until the cases are presented before putting in place measures that might help to spread there are taking it very very seriously and beginning to take to make interventions depending a little bit on their on their situations locally and across the state but we've

seen we've seen every state take some kind of. some kind of social distancing is been put in put into place in every state and i know that all of the hospitals across mission are beginning to look at their capacity and their ability to deal with the numbers if we start same large numbers in severely 'd ill of at the hospital was. marcus plessy i thank you very much indeed for to intice live from north carolina and of his in spain say they're struggling to cope with the rising number of coronavirus cases along with this really the number of infections in spain has exceeded the tally in china paul brennan reponse. that's a vet a 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 chance 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. yes you are afraid for yourself and you are afraid of bringing the virus home because of your family to hear that much that 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 italy and surpassing china's death toll from corona virus and the upward curve of the infections shows no sign of slowing. the 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 $21.00 elderly residents became fatalities but he too would it be. something 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 or phina 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 production the document warms the traditional supply chains can only provide 10 percent of what's needed the european union leaders meet in

a video summit on thursday to consider that issue and more with one proposal for a special you cry says center to be established paul brennan al-jazeera. iran's government has banned domestic travel and or gatherings in parks during the persian new year is it struggles to contain the virus the tougher restrictions were announced after another rise in infections 2000 additional cases and 143 more deaths were confirmed on wednesday government officials say many iranians have ignored advised to say home during the new year period which began on friday they've warned the country could now see a 2nd wave of cases. and india is under the biggest lockdown in history with 1300000000 people ordered to stay home while mers most are observing the restrictions homeless shelters are filling up with people who've lost their livelihoods lives were thrown and reports from 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. but police in mumbai were seen conducting roadside checks as it appears those found flattened the walls 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're bringing me they aren't even allowing us to sit anyway. others decided to walk home migrant labor

sunday started walking 800 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. very much the caretaker of one center in new delhi told al jazeera their supplies will only last another 2 days. because. 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

in balance 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 a promise to 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. i mean united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with our diplomatic editor james bays the secretary general antonio tatar says it's in everyone's interest to help the world's poorest nations

especially if there is a conflict. well this is exactly an appeal for that it is a humanitarian appeal for those countries in conflict for those fragile states for refugee camps it's always placement camps that have that emetic humanitarian needs that need to go on being met but on top of that 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 else care facilities are extremely rugged mentary so we need to boost to the response capacity in those areas that's why we have asked and we mobilized 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 packed in 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 we have other arms movements in other parts of the world saying that they would be ready to abide by it all especially believes and invoiced everyone in the world are pushing to make sure that these it believes there is lady

in the poem at the action bringing together the parties to the conflict for the ceasefire to become a reality we have he should lives in syria and yeah man 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 a war against the vibes you mention libya that there was already supposed to be a humanitarian pours in libya but one side has not been respecting it general half the in recent 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 the day before yesterday there was a very meaningful attack but this is the moment to stop all military action these is the moment to concentrate on fighting cause 1000 we're already seeing covert 1000 cases in garza you've been there you know it's one of the most crowded places

on earth how were you supposed to self isolate if you're someone living in a place like guards. 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 boasted. tarvaris take a look at the top stories here it out 0 president trump has warned new york has several tough weeks ahead as the state deals with the nearly half of the country's total coronavirus infections at the same time the senate's discussing a 2 trillion dollar stimulus package aimed at cushioning the economic impact of the

pandemic. italy and spain are facing the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks with death tolls in both countries overtaking that of china. the united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with al jazeera the secretary general antonio terrace says it's in everyone's interest to help the world's poorest nations. that life is slowly returning to normal for the 60000000 people living in china's hu bay province the corona virus outbreak 1st began there last year and residents have been under strict lockdown measures but now restrictions are easing in many are leaving the area for the 1st time in 2 months katrina you report from beijing. back on the road cars are 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 for 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 pay workers say they've been fired from their jobs in other cities or being evicted from their apartments. knew as 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 it was 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 are little ties and many government and commercial operations in the capital al back on track the last thing the government wants to steal is a rise of new inspections 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 welcoming customers but not everyone is free to come and go as they please. hard work is a disinfecting the train station ahead of its reopening the city where the coronavirus pandemic began. and

a lockdown to. al-jazeera. brazil's president diable sonora says concerns about the pandemic are overblown on national t.v. on tuesday he characterized the viruses only a little flu he also called on brazil cities and towns and return to normality. preserve on the livelihoods of families must be saved guarded. the normalcy of a few statements that must abandon scorched earth policy for the ban on guns predation businesses and mass confinement. but across the country residents have been protesting against the president's response to the pandemic by hitting pots and pans from the windows also now recently borate a governors and mayors are taking measures to curb the spread of the virus and that's despite more than 20 members of his own delegation becoming infected brazil

has more than 2000 cases almost 50 people have died. that russia's vladimir putin has postponed a constitutional referendum due to the outbreak the vote was intended to extend the president's time in office in his televised speech putin called on russians to stay home and he pledged economic assistance to those in need he offered assurance that the government would help people weather the storm. when you're pretty of them you know i'm not thanks to the measures already taken we can stop this virus becoming widespread our state has already been seriously affected by it if you look at our geographical position it is objective we not possible to stop it but we can do its work in a professional way our main priority is to help the lives of our citizens with medical assistance and preventative measures. and some other news that's come in within the last hour or so molly's main opposition leader has been kidnapped so

male a c.s.a. and his delegation have been campaigning in the central town of here from k. that's about 800 kilometers northeast of the capital bamako they've been missing since wednesday afternoon so far no one has claimed responsibility for the prosecutors in turkey have charged 20 saudis over the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi the u.n. investigator who led an international probe into the killing has welcomed the indictment agnes kalama again urged the u.s. to release their findings on the crime so no cause here lou has more from istanbul 18 months since the killing of jamal khashoggi in a stumble along awaited indictment turkish persecutors accused the former deputy chief of saudi intelligence ahmed our story and former royal aide subtle cattle any of carrying out premeditated murder with the monstrous intend 18 others are accused of carrying out what's called a deliberate and months or skilling of the saudi journalist and the kingdom's

constantly. court. as well also on all. these. arrests or. last june the un special reporters was the victim of a deliberate premeditated execution and saudi arabia was responsible american intelligence concluded it was highly likely saudi crown prince mohammed bin cell man ordered the killing and that katz ernie assembled a 15 man hit squad who then flew to istanbul that's partially based on surveillance recordings obtained by turkish intelligence from inside the consulate. of all

syrian qahtani make up the political link between the other 18 perpetrators and the crown prince khatami is even like his propaganda minister saudis wanted to break this chain so it doesn't reach mohammed bin salman i don't believe the saudis will really sentence those suspects and their own investigation to death but issuing red bulletin arrest warrants provide a psychological superiority. saudi authorities blamed a rogue operation for his ship his death after several months of secretary legal proceedings asiri and catatonia were cleared however a court in the kingdom sentenced 5 unnamed people to death and jailed 3 more over the murder. say it another investigation related to hash just killing are still under way that investigation is expected to chase after who gave the order to nampa solo al-jazeera the stand. i saw has claimed responsibility for an attack on

a sikh place of worship in afghanistan killing at least 25 people the interior ministry says gunman and suicide bombers stormed the religious complex in kabul earlier when say around 150 people were inside. the man accused of murdering 51 people in attacks on 2 new zealand mosques last year as admitted to carrying out the killings brenton tyrant changed his plea from not guilty to guilty in a hearing at the. a tyrant no longer needs a trial of the sentence at a later date a. israel's parliament is set to vote for a new speaker in a push to break the political deadlock nearly adelstein resigned after the high court ordered him to allow a vote on his replacement critics accuse him of paralyzing paula meant to help his close ally the caretaker prime minister benjamin netanyahu. a court in london has denied julian a songe bail the wiki leaks founder sought to be released over the risk of

contracting coronavirus imprisoned a songe is being held in the u.k. awaiting possible extradition to the us where he may face charges relating to 2010 leaks over the wars in iraq and afghanistan. are it is time to take a look at the top stories here at out his era the us president donald trump of new york has several tough weeks ahead as the state deals with nearly half of the country's total corona virus infections at the same time the guess ations a continuing in congress over a 2 trillion dollars stimulus package aimed at cushioning the economic impact of the pandemic also as you know building numerous hospitals and medical centers. throughout certain areas in new york it's at the convention center the javits

convention center. with 4 hospitals and we're doing throughout the state for medical centers there somewhat different i want you to know they're doing everything in my power to help the city pull through this challenge i'm working very hard in new york it's really by far our biggest problem maybe it will be maybe locally but there's a lot of good capable people working on it with us. spain has now overtaken china to recall the 2nd highest number of corona virus deaths with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims still half the number in italy where the death rate in the worst hit part of the country appears to be slowing down the un's appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with al jazeera the secretary general said it's in everyone's interest to help the world's poorest nations in china travel restrictions are beginning to be lifted in who bay province where the outbreak was

1st recorded people can now leave the area for the 1st time in 2 months if they can prove they're in good health. brazilians have been protesting against the president's response to the pandemic by banging pots and pans at their windows follows a televised address by a bouncer now room which he said concerns about the pandemic were overblown brazil has more than 2000 cases and almost 50 people have died. molly's main opposition leader has been kidnapped so mail assists and his delegation have been campaigning in the central town of nifong northeast of the capital they've been missing since wednesday afternoon right you're up to date those are the headlines coming up next it's counting the cost. join me steve clemons on the bottom line for your weekly take on u.s. politics and society i'm changing but the institutions frequently don't the system

itself is set up to benefit those who understand people who actually believe things that are not true that is a crisis for democracy is a crisis of concentration the bottom line. hello i'm daryn jordan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera your weekly look at the world of business economics this week it's the 1st nation in lockdown in europe after a spike in deaths from the coronavirus maybe the world's biggest economy but growth has been anemic over the last 20 years so will it need a eurozone bailout. employing 14000000 people across europe are shutting down.