al-jazeera. right. down to. the end of the hour. historic to charity in dollar package to fight coronavirus clears its 1st major legislative hurdle as the u.s. death toll passes the $1000.00 mach. fully back to go this is out just there live from doha with in-depth coverage of the coronavirus pandemic including spain asks nato to help with medical supplies and equipment as this death toll surprises china is. the cost $7.00

pounds protests against brazil's president who continues to downplay the coronavirus crisis a crisis that is only one gas that is necessary if you think it's a war against foreigners the u.n. secretary general tells out just their war countries need immediate support as he appeals $2000000000.00. we begin in the u.s. where a historic 2 charlie and dollar coronavirus rescue package has passed its 1st hurdle after getting approval from the u.s. senate as the money is for helping frontline medical workers in keeping the waltz biggest economy afloat the number of coronavirus cases in the u.s. is approaching 70000 and more than 1000 people have died my count every 4 some washington. after days of wrangling the senate votes on the bill. the political divide for once bridged as democrats and republicans support the package the senate

is going to stand together act together and pass this stark relief package. like all compromises this bill is far from perfect but we believe the legislation has improved sufficiently to warrant its quick consideration and passage the treasury secretary was at the center of negotiations that led to the bill's passage how do we make sure that american workers who needed to keep getting paid this is no fault of their own that businesses have been shut down the president and vice president want to make sure those hardworking americans got money and this was the most efficient way of doing it president trump says he'll sign the bill a soon as possible expressing the hope that it will speed up a return to normality and an easing of the shutdown and really claiming that some opponents are using the crisis to harm his election chances late to the c.m.

i think there are certain people that would like it not to open so quickly i think there are certain people who would like it to do financially poorly because they think that would be very good as far as defeating me at the polls the democratic mayor of the city at the epicenter of the pandemic says new york needs a far greater slice of funds from the stimulus package blaming the republican senate leader for the shortfall so it should have been one of the easiest no brainers in the world for the u.s. senate to include real money for new york city and new york state in this stimulus bill and yet it didn't happen new york city only gets $1300000000.00 from this package. that is a drop in the bucket. and both mayor and governor are seeking the support of fellow democrats in congress greater funds for new york state and city is likely to be just one of the amendments that will be demanded when the bill goes to the house of representatives for a vote and where the senate's job is now done another standoff is looming that

could further delay the stimulus bill going to the white house was signature. mike hanna al-jazeera washington and canada's spot aminta's passed a $57000000000.00 package just simulated sea khana me a 1000000 canadian sapphires jobless claims in a week prime minister justin trudeau spoke about the financial aid outside his home whereas in south 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 are not means doing things that government hasn't done before and scaling up our processes extremely quickly europe now and doctors in spain say they're struggling to cope with the rising number of corona virus infections many say they're overworked and

under protective with the country facing a severe shortage of medical supplies along with italy the number of deaths in spain has now exceeded the total in china paul brennan reports on the situation across europe. that's a vet oh 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. you are afraid for yourself and you are afraid of bringing the virus home because of your family to give us 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 caught 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 32 were. something people at 1st we thought it was just a simple flu it 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 usually in 3 days we

can fine 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 in all gatherings in bombs during the persian new year as it struggles to contain coronavirus the tougher restrictions were announced after another rise in infections 2000 more cases and another 143 deaths were confirmed on wednesday government officials say many rainy and have

ignored advice to stay home during the new year period which began on friday there warned the country could see a 2nd wave of cases now latin america's 1st coronavirus case was diagnosed a month ago in brazil since then most governments have shut down borders and taken extreme measures against the outbreak but brazil's president insists it's a media hoax despite more than 2400 people being infected and 57 deaths traceable reports. cemetery agents began disinfecting against coronavirus in need they don't have a lead just outside religion nato. says she welcomes the municipality said for it's to protect the population. that. everyone's inside their homes when anyone leaves the house they do so out of necessity got it and the street is empty before this i'd wake up and there'd be a lot of people. actions here have the support of rio's governor like many others

in the south american country are calling for people to remain in their homes. on tuesday the governor of so paulo brazil largest city ordered all non-essential services and businesses to close for 2 weeks. most of brazil's governors are openly challenging president. who minimizes the risk of covert 19 calling it a little flaw. mr president as i told you in a respectful manner this is not just a little cold or a little flu we already have 46 victims up till now and this coronavirus crisis hasn't even peaked yet. also not assess sustaining economic growth is a priority in spite of the enormous risks of infection millions of brazilians face today or 3rd the livelihoods of families must be safeguarded we must return to normality there are a few stated municipal authorities that must abandon policies like

a battle transportation closing businesses and mass confinement although the last 2 opinion polls early this week suggested widespread discontent with also not a surprise. and that's why pots and pans against his administration have become a daily occurrence in brazil as many are disappointed with a leader they believed would keep them safe. the 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 bay secretary-general antonio tara says it's in everyone's interest to help the world's for as nations as specially in areas of 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 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

impacted 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 believes and invoiced everyone in the world are pushing to make sure that these it believes that as lady in the poem at the action bringing together the parties to the conflict for the ceasefire to become of you know it it we have he should have seen 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 a war against the vibes 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 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 this is the moment to concentrate on fighting cause 1000 we're already seeing covert 1000 cases in goals are you being that 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 gaza. well it is extremely difficult but the same applies to the slums of big cities in different parts of the lobbying 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 was that still ahead on al jazeera indian police crackdown on people violating a curfew as more than a 1000000 people go under lockdown for 3 weeks and in other news again guilty of murder the man accused of shooting dead 51 people in attacks on 2 mosques in new zealand and mr cummings. hello and welcome back as we look at weather conditions across the arabian peninsula and the levant see a fair amount of cloud across parts of man down through into yemen the still a risk of some shower at 70 here but i think with time but will tend to die away

otherwise there is a scattering of showers around across parts of turkey through syria through iran through iraq also against saudi arabia seeing the old shower and but for the most pops a lot of dry weather mecca 35 degrees rio 32 and here in doha a lovely 25 in the forecast on this a few more showers popping up but most of the brain activity looks to be across parts of turkey and again down through iran and iraq so let's head across into central and eastern parts of africa plenty of showers for ethiopia also expecting quite a bit of a shower activity down through somalia could be some flooding there for the south southern parts of kenya seeing heavy downpours and then not really heavy rain likely across the congo towards parts fungo it continues into the forecast through into friday with uganda also seeing some heavy rain at times down into the south of the continent we're looking at to find additions across namibia through into botswana and up through parts of zambia chances of showers in eastern cape here

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welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera the u.s. senate has unanimously passed a historic 2 trillion dollar coronavirus rescue package the ban is to help frontline health workers and to keep the economy afloat and will now go to the house of representatives for a final vote and spain has overtaken china to record the 2nd highest numbers coronavirus dess with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims that's half the number and it's me where the death rate is the worst in the worst hit area appears to be smelly and the united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with al jazeera secretary general antonio tara says it's in everyone's interest to help the world's poorest nation. india is under the biggest lockdown in history with 1300000000 people ordered to stay home while most are observing the restrictions homeless shelters are filling up with people

who've lost their livelihoods and as a threat as a story from new delhi. it was always going to be hard keeping india's population of 1300000000 indoors those who ventured out on the 1st day of the national locked down face the consequences of the final cut 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 late in their morty says india is at war. today the war that the country has waged against coronavirus will meet 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. 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 800 kilometers after his employer shut down operations and company accommodation in the state of the pradesh many that are not allowing us to stay very very told us to leave because the virus is a big threat of government going to. migrant workers join the growing number of homeless and poor health is no no the talk of one center in new delhi told al jazeera that their supplies will only last another 2 days. that people here have been snatching the plates from our hands 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 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 me is coming from and there's a problem al jazeera in delhi. to sri lanka now where fisherman are struggling to sell their catch as the government introduces tough measures to halt the spread of coronavirus 400 tonnes of fish could be thrown away and as me now fernandez reports

all fish laden boats are expected to return to ports or the whole financial he's worried the fisherman from chillout history book loads of fish he can't sell because of the kind of knock down. that we have returned after 10 or 12 days that see it but can't sell that amount of fish in 2 or 3 hours traders don't come we can't even sell it for dry fish they will have to throw it away sri lankans have been under knock down and curfew from last friday the curfew lifted through in the 8 hours since then there are $24.00 boats likely hands in this harbor alone and fishing families which depend on the boat income are in dire straits they say the government must do something to help. their worries or they could here in the north in just an hour less fishermen are facing similar problems now going to survive nicholas in him represents around $26000.00 fish and families are going to number

one the most of our people are in a bad state but usually pawn whatever jewelry they have to buy essential so if this goes on things will get worse the government must provide some immediate relief to all fisherman. like. the government says it's doing just that since tuesday bank catches directly from the fisherman and distributing fish around the country to seal they have allocated more than $3000000.00 to do that and to develop the infrastructure needed fishing prices have gone down. because of the. bite. and. getting. from level that the carpet. but then a challenges the government says that just 9 tons of fish can be brought in the single day because there's not enough capacity to freeze. the situation is critical because on top of the $400.00 tons on food now mobile it's not expected to return

to port any day carry even more fish thousands of sri lankan fisherman are hoping the government measures will help them with the crisis in f and then there's 0 because she lanka in thailand a month long state of emergency has come into effect as the government steps up measures to contain gold 19 people over the age of 70 are being obese just stay home and public gatherings upper habited the closure of businesses prompted tens of thousands of migrant workers to leave the country on on resident foreigners have been banned from entering thailand the country has reported 1045 cases and 4 deaths let's turn our attention to other world news now and the man accused of measuring 51 people in attacks on 2 mosques in new zealand a year ago has admitted to the killings brendan tyrant's changes plea from not guilty to guilty in a hearing at the high court in christchurch on thursday talent will be sentenced at

a later date new zealand's prime minister says a guilty pleas will come as some relief i know that they will still be i'm sure a certain since overlay for. that the whole nation but particularly our muslim community are being speared. from a trial that could have otherwise acted as a platform. nothing will bring their loved ones back but this is a small reprieve that speak to are just there is a shot a bell is now in oakland for a shallot does this guilty plea come as a surprise at all or was it expected. it is very much a surprise that britain's parents noire the signal to the court earlier this week that his client was interested in changing the plays on the old 92 count they filed the paperwork piece today and then the hearing was held this morning just enjoyed doing and that press conference adding personally she felt a huge sigh of relief hearing that banks and parent would be changing his place on

all those come $51.00 charges of murder charges of attempted murder and one charge of terrorism now not many people got to hear this great amount because new zealand is on the look down to chicago and a fire. brenton's harris as the name threw it out to him he said emotionless fire video lincoln street guilty to all of the night and very few people got the chance to hear it 10 there are any 17 people allowed in the christchurch high court room this morning due to these coronavirus small over the muslim community in christchurch the moms of both small who are the as representatives to hear brenton's have guilty and acknowledge the crimes and the attacks in christchurch mafia. 30 now but hear that message or all of the charges we move straight we do not have a trial and jury and as expected we move straight through to the same thing and

people will have the opportunity to say the a pace unlike today where with very few people were allowed in the court were the judges say that was a great simple one that people will be allowed to give statements of people who have been affected by this personally what the movie allowed to give statements in court with seem to thing but seem to convey the. issues and to. china thank you very much for the seanad benes and my forest there often. in mali the main opposition leader has been kidnapped some minuses say and his delegation had been campaigning in the central mali and town of the end northeast of the capital bamako they'd been missing since wednesday afternoon no one screamed responsibility yet for the abduction. 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 gunmen in suicide bombers stormed the religious complex in kabul

early on wednesday when iran 150 people were inside. in israel the parliament is set to vote for a new speaker in a push to break the political deadlock yuli edelstein resigned after the high court ordered him to allow a vote on his replacement critics accused him of paralyzing parliament the caretaker prime minister venue minutes now. a court in london has denied julian assange bail the wiki leaks founder sought to be released over the risk of contracting corona virus in prison a songe is being held in the u.k. awaiting possible extradition to the us where he may face charges relating to the 2010 leaks over the wars in iraq and afghanistan. prosecutors in turkey have charged 20 saudis for the murder of journalist. the united nations investigator who led an international probe into the killing has welcomed the indictment agnes cullum are again as she us to release their findings on the crime scene and who has

more from istanbul 18 months is to killing of jamal her shuki in a stumble along awaited indictment to kish prosecutors accuse the former deputy chief of saudi intelligence ahmed goss 3 and former royal qahtani of carrying out premeditated murder with a monstrous intent 18 others are accused of carrying out what's called a deliberate and months or skilling go to saudi journalist and the kingdom's consulate. they have already been given permission by the courts to shoot us all so they have to shoot. down all our faces in the us. will have all gotten all the specials what you see here is all those people who are naming their vice. 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 cuts 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 bullets and arrest warrants provide a psychological superiority of saudi authorities claim to rock 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 hush just killing is still under way that investigation is expected to chase after who gave the order to nampa so all of al-jazeera is down. my. bad lines on al-jazeera the u.s. senate has unanimously passed a historic 2 trillion dollars coronavirus rescue package the bill is to help frontline health workers and to keep the economy afloat and will now be sent to the house of representatives for final of 4 mike hanna has more from washington. now up until this point a this is a bipartisan action both republican and democratic senators have been supporting this particular bill but in the house the governor of new york saying he's speaking

to members of the house of representatives saying that he wants them to argue for an amendment giving wall funds to new york city so going to the house what was going to be a straightforward debate is not likely to be so anymore the house speaker knowledge ng that where before it could have been possibly by a unanimous vote this may not be the case anymore spain has now overtaken china to record the 2nd highest number of corner virus dess with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims as still half the number in italy where the death rate in the worst hit area appears to be slowing the united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts worldwide to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with al jazeera secretary general antonio tara says it's in everyone's interest to help the world's poorest nations in thailand a month long state of emergency has come into effect people over the age of 70 stay

home and public gatherings are private aids the closure of businesses prompted tens of thousands of migrant workers to leave the country in other news a man accused of murdering 51 people in attacks on 2 mosques in new zealand a year ago has admitted to the killings brendan tyrants change his plea from not guilty to guilty in a hearing at the high court in christchurch on thursday tant will be sentenced at a later date mali's main opposition leader has been kidnapped say and his delegation had been campaigning campaigning in the central madeon town of now northeast of the capital bamako there's been no claim of responsibility and prosecutors in turkey have charged 20 saudis over the murder of journalist. un investigator agnes column on who led an international probe into the killing has welcomed the indictment. those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next it's witness. singapore is being accused of expanding its costar and illegally dredged

satins of some of the islands off the coast of indonesia and literally vanished it's a big business boggling sample and they will take the stand there in fill in the stand you are in paris you see this beautiful beach but behind it is something that's not so plentiful the tragedy is that people are just not aware and ecological investigation into a global emergency sound walls at this time on al jazeera. the way. the 3 issues. the were. going to the news.