it's hard to treat everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a lot right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection on how to 0. 0. hello again i'm mr and this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes delivering more dead to a makeshift morgue spain's coronavirus toll surges again and infections now topped 50000. u.s. unemployment skyrockets with more than 3000000 people filing for benefits as the economy takes a hit from the coronavirus south africans are preparing for

a complete lockdown following a surge in the number of covert 19 cases and the wilds west humanitarian crisis the u.n. calls for an immediate truce in yemen 5 years after a saudi led coalition started the war. on bumpy disturber to do sporty trillion officials believe a champions league football match could be courtly responsible for the spread of coronavirus in one of the oldest cities we'll hear from. people who gave 0. now the european union's chief says the coronavirus is too big for any one country to handle alone the comments from us live on the land come as spain and france struggle to cope with another surge in cases the e.u. is calling for unity saying that saving lives has to remain the top priority now spain has had more. more than $600.00 deaths in just 24 hours g.

20 leaders are holding a meeting through a video conference in order to step up the fight to contain the spread of the virus and despite the u.s. senate approving a 2 trillion dollars package unemployment has now shot up to $3200000.00 across the country while not a hero is in the spanish capital in the dritte for us the numbers are clearly not going down in spain so where are we now in terms of the curve of spread. despite the grim figures today from spain with more than 8500 new cases of corona virus infections and the death toll increased by more than 600 people we can see there's a small window of hope for the 1st time in spain the number of people infected and death has the greased so i mean of the reducer thought or just keep saying that we're reaching the peak of the curve that's the same thing we are jester day so we

cannot make a balance so we cannot predict anything we will have to wait another 24 hours to get the new figures who are saying these very grim pictures from this this makeshift morgue and the health system is clearly under strain how the medical staff they're coping. well or 'd as we've been talking about the best of health care workers and also the army and police officers that are the ones that are combating these coronavirus in the front line are lacking not protecting gear they don't have blogs they don't have ghouls they don't have maps and they keep demanding the government the central government or even regional regional governments to supply or to provide all this equipment in order to to to develop their work or deploy their work in safety conditions not a herero there for us in the spanish capital madrid thanks very much for that update. well prime minister is warning that the coronavirus will cause what he

calls a hard severe recession in europe she said because it's a addressed parliament and roman said that europe would only be able to face the shock with exceptional measures with italy and locked down for the last 2 weeks contains promised around $27000000000.00 worth of emergency measures if lee now has the highest number of virus deaths in the wild at more than 7500 well let's now speak to french jim but tony he is in milan francesco we have been hearing from the prime minister and he's also been accusing other european nations of not doing enough to support if he is that something that the a sentiment that other italians share. yes for sure especially at the beginning of the outbreak it seemed. countries didn't do march to help italy many many things that were needed by the professionals like masks were not sent to italy even though italy wanted to pay to buy them

but there was no corporation so today he asked very firmly new help for from italy from from europe new financial rules and also more support from from the european union to try to reduce the negative economic impact of the pandemic on all the continent and the need to lead to he said as you were saying the. government will allocate more than 25000000000 euros to sustain families companies and to increase the efficiency of the health system with a new decree. so on this topic of parliamentary debate has started. francesco we speak every day and we keep looking at these numbers and they seem to be getting worse every time we speak how are people that type thing. well it's

difficult to say because after almost 20 days off a lot down are getting used to it somehow they are also becoming tired of the situation especially for who is losing relatives or friends the lockdown is very tough they cannot assist. familiars at the hospital and if a family member die most of the times he dies alone and funerals are not allowed so sometimes bodies have to be taken to other regions because many pregnant or even here in the northern regions are full so this is just to give you. a picture of how this is the situation here in the north yesterday the number of the new infected and deaths started going down again a little bit 683 people died in one day less than the 743 recorded tuesday but the death toll is still very high with 7500.

people who lost the lives it's still early to see a new positive or negative trend experts warn every day not to look for tendencies based just on one day or 2 we'll need more time to say something more accurate but at least there has not been an except an exponential growth in cases in the last days so we're waiting for a peak that italy has not reached yet of course the latest news are not very good few minutes ago the longer the governor and dissipated new figures the new positive cases could be around $2500.00 today just in the hardest region of lombardy so he explained that we have to understand now if it was something exceptional but he said he is very worried francesco jampacked tiny of air for us in milan thank you francesco. well as we've been saying the e.u.

chief has criticized european nations for what she calls a lack of a coordinated response in the fight against the corona virus live on the land says the commission has now created europe's fastest stockpile of medical supplies and it will serve as a bank of crucial equipment to help its 27 member bloc fight one of the world's west outbreaks well let's now go to lawrence and he who is in london lawrence my understanding is that the e.u. is previously had limited powers to tackle this pandemic as as the e.u. itself because member states oversee their own health responses but now it seems there is some kind of unified position imagine well i mean obviously individual countries have their health care systems and you know i don't suppose you could do any individual country to think about what they might have to do for anybody else in the in the event of the pandemic because it's never happened before but clearly philosophically the point of the european project is that individual countries oppose without help each other and that's where on the land said it it completely

fell on the pulse in the decisions that countries took in the last few weeks she's really talking about a period and mauch when cases initially started to rise exponentially and countries started to close the borders because that meant that countries which was stuck on stockpile things like mechanical ventilators and protective equipment for doctors and nurses started to hold them and inform the lns view what they should have been doing at that point was to actually give them to italy but they but they other were issues because they do want to keep themselves or they said they couldn't get them across the borders the lens of the things were now improving and told everybody off in no uncertain terms in this speech but she employed effectively that these countries which suppose were supposed to be friends if italy and spain had in the sense betrayed them when europe really needed to be there for each other too many initially looked out for themselves. when europe really

needed an all for one spirit too many initially gave only for me response and when europe really needed to prove that this is not only a fear whether union too many initially refused to share their umbrella but it was not long before some felt the consequences of their own uncool ordinated action of wonderland today also spoke about the economic ramifications of all of this what kind of action is the e.u. taking to try to address this. well and this and this is another fault line really in the european union you know. very well ventilated saying things are not getting better and comes on to worse together on the financial level a they've they've proved unable to do that as well in certainly inside the euro zone a number of different countries wanted the creation of these these things called corona bones very long term debt repayment vehicles to try and prop up in

particular this the poorer southern european countries but the richer northern european countries the netherlands and germany austria those who are saying no we don't want to do that thank you very much they said it was too ideological whatever that means in the time of crisis so while the european finance ministers couldn't get an agreement on that in steps the european central bank in states with a thing called the pandemic emergency purchase program which is worth over $800000000000.00 and so it is now going to buy government debts off some of these countries instead so that that now has been very pleasing to the markets because that's such a lot of money and there's no upper limit crucially on the amounts of debt that the e.c.b. can have by individual countries and so there is no it sounds a little bit of a lifeline and are unfair there for us and on them thanks very much for that lawrence or let's dig into this a little more with oracle broken a he's a political analyst and a professor and european studies at stanford university and balin and he joins us

now on skype from there all right what do you make of all of the criticism we've been hearing today both from the on the land and also from just that a concept of this lack of unity amongst e.u. member nations. it's all a role player and we shouldn't. go as far as the critics from their speakers for example in germany that criticize the european union for not being union and was a local underlying this also highlighting that either it is only one member states after all it's a club of states 4 states and when we look at the federal republic of germany one could apply the same criticism to the different lenders responded and no one would come up and say that's the end of the federal republic of germany well all right here in you say a club of states full of states surely that entail some kind of support for each other in times of crisis so how do we move on then in order to as wonderland put it

today share the same umbrella when when we all face in a crisis what is important is to exchange information and since to solve them for we have a european agency that it was established to provide sufficient information to predict where will the spread of the virus hit whom and how to respond and how to use the facility is as wise as possible i don't think it would have been possible to send nurses and doctors immediately once it popped up in italy from one country to italy not knowing what the situation in the different member states are but we certainly need a lot of information about the health system as we will see a much stronger discussion about what to do with the economic consequences of the crisis that will be much bigger than anything we have experienced so far well clearly europe is heading into a recession

a very deep recession what do you think this might mean for european integration is it just going to make the fault lines and disagreements between countries do. well we are in a different situation than in 2008 when the financial crisis started when no one had a clue that something like this could happen with the hard learning of the crisis ever since we've prepared a lot in terms of more regulation but one of the big problems of the money terry union that we have a centralised monetary policy but still a decent her last fiscal policy hasn't been sufficiently addressed if we increase the act of solidarity in terms of a fiscal union that would pay for the countries that are hit harder than ever before that would then mean that the political nature of the european union would change because as we know from the beginning of parliamentarism no taxation without

. without representation would need a stronger european parliament and that would change the nature of the european union that it is not just another club of 7 member states but the quality of serenity of the european union would fundamentally change so all well rick during the 2008 financial crisis i mean the banking center itself is the center of the crisis and so the european central bank could then support markets and banks but the e.c.b. can't build hospitals or produce ventilators i mean as you say these are all individual fiscal decisions now they're launching the pandemic emergency program that is that going to be enough for the survival of the year is art. well it is enough for the moment but since we don't know how big the problem will become it will be too early to throw around even bigger numbers like this is the size of the germans who car and this is the sponsor of the french one what the german

government announced is that this is just of her step and as they used to drive that side in previous crisis they would try to do the same what would that mean for the european union and whether we transform into something like a liability union where countries can borrow money on behalf of the european union without any conditionality it remains to be seen oric a political analyst and at stanford university and balun thanks so much for your insights on al-jazeera it will come well in the french region of alsace coronavirus patients are now being transferred on specially equipped trains to hospitals and other cities now 20 people 4 of them seriously ill left from the main station and stroudsburg the region has reported more than 500 deaths so far 99 in just the past 24 hours the number of confirmed cases in france has now passed 25000 and more than

1300 people have died there french president emanuel has called in the army to help even withdrawing troops from iraq well our correspondent joins us now from southwest france natasha what more do we know about exactly where these trains are going and especially given that some of these patients are in really serious conditions how they'll be cared for on board the trains. well it is a very creative solution if you like to the problem of the coronavirus crisis in some of these regions of france in particular in this case in eastern france where the number of cases and deaths is enormous in fact a 3rd of all deaths in france happened in the alsatian region up in the northeast close to the german border and what the hospitals the doctors and nurses have been saying is they are struggling to cope they are completely overwhelmed and they've been calling on the government to come up with a solution and this is it you have t.j.

the high speed trains from the outside of course they look like normal trains but inside they have been converted into mobile clinics if you like onboard in each carriage you have a doctor and some nurses and respiratory acquit him and they are rolling in intensive care units so critically ill patients from eastern france will be demoted onto these trains the 1st ones of ready god and they will be taken to hospitals elsewhere for now in western france where some of the cases are lower they'll then be able to be transferred and have beds and treatment there but it is a creative solution it's one of the many solutions that's been found to try and ease pressure off this region another of course is a bit of european solidarity as we've seen germany switzerland and knox and all offering to take coronavirus patients from france from just over this border region and on wednesday the french president a man omar actually visited

a military hospital that's been built very rapidly also to try and help those doctors nurses struggling in those overwhelmed hospitals. taking the necessary precautions the french president arrived at a field hospital in the alsatian city of may lose it was built to ease pressure on east and france's health system the struggling to cope with the country's highest number of coronavirus cases a facility usually seen in conflict zones but for a man who will mark crawl out of place in peace time he says the fight against the coronavirus is a war. when you engage in war you engage fully you mobilize together i see divisions and fractures in our country doubts people who want to divide the country when we should have only one obsession to unite to fight the virus. it took the french army 4 days to build

a network of tens that can receive dozens of patients in intensive care. if it's a store because it's the 1st time we've built the sort of structure that's been created specifically for covert 19. 'd lose is close to the german border it's plight is motivated its neighbors to help several hospitals in germany switzerland and luxembourg have offered to take in french coronavirus patients at a time when so many countries in the e.u. have shut borders it is a display of european solidarity on wednesday german emergency services collected critically ill french patients and flew them to a hospital in freiburg. we're proud to be able to help our french colleagues our neighbors our friends and irrespective of our location this is about our duty as humans and our desire to help as europeans. bells across

frauds rang out to thank the nation's health workers for macro it's imperative that people you know it behind him and support his actions in this moment of crisis he's convince them to stay for 2 weeks but he's now expected to ask them to stay indoors for even longer the al-jazeera western france. midnight on thursday marks the start of a 3 week lockdown in south africa where there's been a dramatic increase in infections the country recorded a 6 fold rise in 8 days taking the confirmed number of cases to more than $700.00 that's the highest rates on the african continent police in the military have been appointed to force the lock down which includes bans on dog walking and alcohol sales our correspondent for me to miller has more from johannesburg. because not seen anything like this in recent times there has been a significant amount of panic buy we've seen a hundreds of people at individual stores around johannesburg pleased as but also

across the country and this is also raise concern about the spread of the corona virus in that in many instances they haven't been a lot of social distancing iraq are the priorities are getting the goods that people need and we've spoken to the consumer council young south africans urge people not to panic by saying that the supply chain will be disrupted and there's also concern from people like essential workers who because of their duties don't have the opportunity to go out and buy the supplies they need now the government has also asked the south africans not to travel to rule areas where many people are from the taint is essentially a migrant province that's where we are it's it's the economic capital of south africa many people move from rural areas from other provinces to hearting to work and many would want to return to their homes in the government's concern is that if

that happens they would contribute to the spread of the uk overnight of covert 19 urging people to stay put and also how big that would be the fact that under the slapdown the public transport will be limited to just a few hours in the morning a few hours in the evening so if people don't make it out of the province or to other provinces of all the locked out 7 they certainly won't have a chance during that lockdown. dr michael ryan is helping to lead the world health organization's response to the coronavirus he told out of there that vaccines are coming that it will take some time. and it's going to take at least a year to bring vaccines into the fight against this white house there are at least 30 candidates actually is currently being developed are already under under under trials in fact trials were started last week in the united states and further trials will be starting in china and other countries in the coming weeks that's a massive effort it's going to require a coordinated public private partnership to do that we will get vaccines but it's

going to take time dr ryan there's a lot of conspiracy theories out there right now especially due to the rivalry between the u.s. and china has the w.h.o. been asked to investigate claims that covered 19 was manmade we tend to look for these explanations in situations when we've such a. horrific event but the reality is and this has always been the reality is that we human beings have behaved in a way over the last number of years we've globalized the planet and with that globalization have become some benefits in terms of freedom of movement in terms of economy but we have stressed the environment we have invaded the animal human interface we have allowed diseases to cross into humans and when those diseases do cross from animals to humans those diseases can amplify and poorly equipped health facilities they can amplify in peri urban slums that can amplify amongst stressed

refugee populations and then they can spread because we are connected globally so the problem we have right now is manmade the problem we have right now is that we have left ourselves vulnerable to emerging diseases who the diseases themselves are entirely natural but the situation in which these diseases are spreading because we human beings have created the conditions in which these diseases can spread and cause as you see tremendous damage to our whole systems to our economies to our social systems or more importantly deaths amongst those we love well you can watch that full interview with dr michael ryan on talk to al jazeera which as for the 1st time in a few hours at $1630.00 g.m.t. on thursday. well it appears there is more rain ahead for southern italy as the storm that continues jenny yeah you're right we've had some very heavy amounts of rain in styles and there is more in the 4 calls so let me show you 1st of all on

the satellite this is always a subtle eyes of all of europe and this massive cloud exists but if you give us where the rain actually has be but will continue to be me want to cross much of mainland europe to the old it's actually very nice but i want to show you this because this is what they'd be doing in slovakia to protect the crops from the freezing weather we've had recently what they do they sprayed with water they freeze it instantly and this actually protect these actually apple buds it protects the fruit from any frost that does come so we've got some good clear skies across much of mainland europe to the north the northwest but this is the area we're following very closely already parts of southern italy up in the totally they have actually seen about 150 millimeters of rain there is more to come in the next few days we could be seeing easily $170.00 maybe $200.00 millimeters of rain this could well lead to some localized flooding but this is what we've got going on system a low pressure this is spinning bringing the winds bringing the rain pushing across into areas of greece on into turkey at the same time as we continue through friday

we'll have more rain to sitting through eastern sections all that space that will sit there on saturday as well another reason why we're seeing these big accumulations of rain and then things beginning to push away from corsica sardinia but still into southern areas of italy and also across into areas of greece and turkey but through saturday the 1st part of the weekend the bulk of europe is fine and dry it is sunny and it's also fairly mild and stalls are as well thanks very much jenny well still ahead on al-jazeera brazilians show their president what they think of him describing the coronavirus as a media. house 400 tons of fish a falling victim to the coronavirus in sri lanka. and we'll tell you why the naris but gamo is pointing to a champions league football match as a possible place the coronavirus spread rapidly through his community. that's coming up with peace and.

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you're. hello again i'm a strong reminder about top stories this hour spain has reported 655 coronavirus deaths just in the past 24 hours the total number of fatalities has surpassed 4000 and that's now the world's 2nd highest number off to. the e.u. chief has criticized european nations for the lack of a coordinated response to the pandemic of underlay and says the commission has now created a stockpile of medical supplies to help all nations fight the virus. while the u.s. house of representatives is meeting to vote on

a 2 trillion dollar economic rescue package the stimulus which was approved unanimously by senators on wednesday includes business loans to help the state governments and payments for individuals true it's expected to bolster the new york stock exchange where share prices have rebounded for 2 days and succession following major falls there well let's get more on all of this from can be healthy trees in washington d.c. for us kimberly we've also been hearing from steve mission the treasury secretary who has been dismissing jobless claims he says they're not relevant right now. yeah there's no question that this white house is trying to put a positive spin on a very dire situation the latest broader measure of that coming in the jobless claims the weekly jobless claims that have been filed in the united states those numbers just coming out and it shows that those the number of people in the united states looking for help has really soared just this week alone 3300000 filing

unemployment insurance claims sensually those jobs gone overnight and so what we're hearing from the treasury secretary steve minutia is an effort to try and counter that as you point out he's saying look at don't look at those numbers they're not relevant right now but i don't think that many americans are going to agree in fact they feel this is definitely something that is relevant their. ministration is trying to say that this is a plan to combat coronavirus and this is sort of a broad base plan whether republic health whether it be economic but there's no question that they are trying to downplay these jobs claims the jobless claims numbers now you were talking about that bill that was passed in the senate that 2 trillion dollar relief bill now has to go to the house of representatives and we are hearing that the vote on that could take place on friday that has to happen before the u.s. president can sign it into law something that he's really looking to do in fact after it was passed in the senate the u.s. president tweeted congratulations america once again trying to show this

administration is trying to put this positive spin on even in the face of dire economic news. the u.s. president is underscoring the highlights of this saying that those americans who make $75000.00 or less they're going to see direct payments of $1200.00 for each individual children getting about 500 dollars as well as 350000000000 in loans for small businesses 100000000000 for hospitals but again this is already being acknowledged in washington that is probably. we not going to be enough in fact we've already heard from the house speaker nancy pelosi as well as the top democrat in the u.s. senate chuck schumer saying that they believe that the odds are high that congress is going to have to pass another economic package to help hurting americans these job numbers that have just come out are just in underscoring why they feel they need they need to do that as america stays closed in so many states there are

millions upon millions of americans found themselves jobless overnight and you just had the idea about the new york stock exchange so we'll see how markets react to all of that thanks so much campbell. well the united nations is appealing for $2000000000.00 to support humanitarian efforts while why to fight the pandemic in an exclusive interview with had to fanatic editor james based secretary-general antonio terrace says it's in everyone's interest to help the world's poorest nations especially 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 in 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 snet of course you'd 19 and you need to do every scene to prevent the disease to come to those areas to the extent possible and that's the same time in those areas you have people sometimes in slums of big

cities audion camps it is very difficult to have isolation there is no water in the hose old sometimes no soap else care facilities are extremely rugged mountain and 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 crossed with president movement a 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 require the ventilator staffed so the 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 these 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 coded 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 it all being well 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 posted. the latin america's 1st

coronavirus case was diagnosed exactly one month ago in brazil since then governments around the region of shut down borders and are taking extreme measures against the outbreak but in brazil president also narrow insists this is all a media hoax over 2400 people have been infected there and 57 have now died 2 is about reports. cemetery agents began disinfecting against coronavirus in need after village just outside religion nato. says she welcomes the municipality said for its to protect the population of all of that only unless everyone is 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 paolo brazil largest city ordered all non-essential services and businesses to close for 2 weeks. most of brazil's governors are openly challenging president. hu minimises the risk of covert 19 calling it a little flaw don't believe. 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 was fulfilled a lot from the livelihoods of families must be safeguarded we must return to normality there are a few stated to be disciplined thorens that must abandon policies like a battle transportation closing businesses and mass confinement. to opinion polls

earlier this week suggested widespread discontent with also natus approach. 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. now a month long state of emergency has come into effect in thailand the country has reported 111 new coronavirus cases bringing that total to a 1045 on thursday people over the age of 70 are being urged to stay at home and public gatherings there are bad and well fishermen in sri lanka struggling to sell their catch as the government introduces tough measures there to help the spread of the coronavirus 400 tons of fish could be thrown away and as mel fernandez reports more fish laden boats are expected to return to port soon. anyhow fernando is worried the fisherman from chillout history book loads of fish he can't sell

because of the corona 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'll 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 boards like me house in this harbor alone and fishing families which depend on the boats 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 less fisherman are facing similar problems now going to survive nicholas in him represents around $26000.00 fish and families. that i know of 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 of media relief to

all fishermen. but. the government says it's doing just that since tuesday the 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. futilely well because of the. biter we are trying to intervene and get the fish are getting . somewhere well that the corporate fisherman but there are challenges the government says that just 9 tons of fish can be daunting single d. because there's not enough capacity to freeze. the situation is critical because on top of the 400 tons until now mobile it's not expected to return to port any day carry even more fish thousands of sri lankan fishermen are hoping the government

measures will help them with the crisis enough and then there's just the row because she lanka. now yemen is warring parties have welcomed u.n. calls for immediate truce as the conflict that enters its 6th year the u.n. secretary general has added an end to hostilities to focus on fighting the coronavirus pandemic there's been a recent escalation in violence in yemen which is already facing the wilds west humanitarian crisis. reports. march 2015 and the who are thieves pushed into central caden. and begin expanding their influence not only in southern yemen but over most of the country president i'll bet a bunch so had he fled to saudi arabia where he called for a military intervention by arab nations or march 25th

a saudi led coalition launched the military campaign to oust the who thiis. operation the size of storm further expanded targeting military installations. missile defense systems and i'm innocent people across the country. but it was yemeni civilians who were. the brunt of war the u.n. and international aid agencies accuse the sandy led coalition of indiscriminately bombing populated areas in the last 5 years thousands of people have been killed and yemenis don't have enough to eat with warnings of famine in yemen is described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world saudi arabia and the u.a.e. said their goal was to defeat the healthy rebels and restore howdy's government but the scope of their involvement raised many concerns among yemenis the u.a.e.

supports militias in the south that operate secret prisons where detainees are tortured. the kingdom's hugely expensive military campaign has failed to ask the who are these. officials accuse iran of supporting the who are these the shia rebel group that rose to prominence in 2014 when it took over the capital with the help of former president. also known as unsubtle or the partisans of government have repeatedly launched attacks targeting the oil rich kingdom i was they have expanded their territory by taking control of the province near the saudi border and fightings intensifying in the oil rich province of mareeba forces supporting it president had with creating after suffering a series of setbacks. the un still hopes to convince the warring factions to

implement the terms of the agreement signed in stockholm 2 years ago. as a fusing science failed to reconcile their differences the stalemate is likely to play more innocent lives. al-jazeera. annabel symington is with the world food program a c.n.n. division and she says their operation as a lifeline for millions of people the level of need in yemen is huge w.s.p. is feeling over $12000000.00 people every month we're supporting 3000000 women and children with nutrition supplements we provide school snacks to nearly a 1000000 schoolchildren every day this is our largest operation anywhere in the world it is and it is absolutely essential that this level of assistance continues you know there has been for 5 years of conflict now. the situation has.

has deteriorated over those 5 years and in response we have scaled up from 1000000 people in 2015 up to 12000000 people now. it's it's staggering figures but they have the response have been essential in so far preventing famine in yemen and preventing the situation from getting even must. like the other humanitarian actors we need access we need access to them honorable the vanpool populations these are to keep typically in areas where. in front line areas it is difficult to access those areas safely. but we aren't we are there nonetheless over the last few months that we need serious escalation in some in some areas we're not are and in so many. governor and you know we have been able to. reach the newly disclosed people

but we really it's an ongoing it's an ongoing negotiation ongoing talks always with the parties to make sure that we have that access and you know yemen is just incredibly difficult operating environment frontlines shifting incredibly volatile the level of need is huge now the australian man accused of murdering 51 people in attacks on 2 new zealand last year ago has admitted his guilt brenton terrine changed his bay from not guilty to guilty in a hearing at the high court in christchurch on thursday he also pleaded guilty to 40 counts of attempted murder and one of terrorism the 29 year old will be sentenced as a later days on new zealand's prime minister says his guilty pleas are a small or a prayer for victims' families i know that they will still be i'm sure assumed since of relief 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 the loved ones back but this is a small reprieve charlotte dallas has more for planned. britain's parents lawyer apparently signal to the court earlier this week that his client was interested in changing the plays on 92 counts they filed the paperwork yesterday and then the hearing was how this morning just enjoyed doing and that press conference at a personally she felt a huge sigh of relief hearing that brains and parent would be changing his place on all those counts $51.00 charges of murder charges of attempted murder and one charge of terrorism now not many people got to hear this raid and now because new zealand is on a lockdown due to coronavirus brenton's harris as the name threw it out to him he said emotionless wire video link and yes guilty to all of the night and very few people got the chance to hear it the hand there any 17 people allowed in the

christchurch high court were this morning juice of these coronavirus lockdowns over the muslim community in christchurch the moms of both mosque who were the as representative to hear brenton's had cited guilty and acknowledged the crimes in the attacks in christchurch mafia. 30 now that he has that message all of the charges we move straight we do not have a trial and during as was expected we moved straight through to seem to think and people will have the opportunity to cite their pace unlike today where with very few people were allowed in the courtroom the judges say that was a great symbol when the people will be allowed to give statements of people who have been affected by this personally what this is movie allowed to give statements in court with seem to think but seem to can die the diagnostic issues and the lockdown is right. still ahead and scores he said will be has

a look at the mammoth task of shifting the tokyo lympics to 2021. business leaders want to buy no brown spot. in the.

business leaders want to buy no brown spot. well it's time for sports and pieces here to tell us about what they're calling game games here in the midst of the mayor of one of the hardest hit cities in italy says a champions league match could have contributed to the spread of coronavirus in the north of the country pergamos top official says they're looking into a theory that atalanta's game with valencia could have caused many of the city's residents to become infected it was atalanta's biggest game in history with the

team having reached the last 16 of the competition for the 1st time a 3rd of those residents made the trip to watch the game at me land san siro stadium because atalanta's home ground was deemed too small. to speak it's the only decent among the explanations that have been put forward concerning our sad record of crowbars cases in bergen mo is the football match played at the san siro stadium between atalanta and valencia during that evening there were 40000 burger moment habitants who went to milan to watch the game they gathered in the stadium and many others watched from their homes and families in groups at the bar and it is clear that that evening there was an opportunity for a strong spread of the virus but i don't think that was really the starting point of everything. i'm sure that $40000.00 people hugging and kissing each other at a distance of one centimeter 4 times as a atalanta scored 4 times well those were an incredible accelerator for the

infection now was it something predictable no i don't think it was predictable i don't remember the date of the atalanta versus valencia match and i don't remember if this epidemic had already outburst but the people who went had no clue of what was going on in our sports correspondent lee wailings has more on the story. you can see why this example in moscow was important. in preventing. people out. initially spread and it's horribly this there are a champions league match between a. great deal of talk and if you look at what was going to be allowed to marcos achieve more just across the hall. he said there's a lot of theories i'll tell you mark 40000 trying to. cause trying this was an. unfortunate he said and of course if you look at the

comments you. have tested positive for correct clarus. fit together and also be excellent and go marco. has tested positive so we do need to treat with pollution. this affair at the head of it is a superior institutes of health it's just one of the hypotheses being evaluated the international olympic committee is being criticized after 2 turkish boxes and a trainer called coronavirus turkey's federation 'd claims they caught it during the european qualifiers in london and questioned the i.o.c. for letting the event take place boxes from 40 countries took part of the copper box arena but was eventually called off early after just 3 days but the i.o.c. has responded saying it's not possible to know the source of infection the games

themselves have now been postponed by a year and i.o.c. president thomas buck described the reorganization process as a beautiful jigsaw puzzle but a sports business professor simon chadwick explains there are huge amounts of things to sort out and not just the packed sporting calendar in 2021. certainly the olympics but even motor races cycling events football leagues there are incredibly complicated activities to put together when they are put in a state of shock when they're there. impacted by in this particular case the virus by turbulence it is amazing how quickly the domino effect kicks in and so it will require the the leadership and the good management told people at the i.o.c. at the furry you were for and many other organizations to put this rights and there are very simple things like the relationship with t.v.

companies because there will have been delegation broadcasters around the world who have put the jewels together for the summer believing that the olympic games would take place and now what they are very very quickly going to have to do is to think about how do they fill us base what do they fill it with what kind of messages do they send so in in terms of day to day operations and kind of strategy for the year it's not just a case of the olympic games having to adjust it's a case of pretty much anyone who is a stakeholder in the event having to reach a just and of course there are consequences financially of doing that so. we think about broadcasters around the world having to acquire new content possibly to to replace the content that the olympics will have provided this will have a financial impact upon them they will then have to consider what the relationship is with the i.o.c. and whether or not they choose to to take some kind of action against the i.o.c.

in turn the i.o.c. itself is going to have to contemplate its to what extent they they can provide some kind of recompense or remedy to the situation that they now face with broadcasters but this is only broadcast as you know we've got a factory in sponsors and commercial partners and athletes. and so it is just a huge huge not so much a jigsaw puzzle it's more like a huge sadar. it's going to require an awful lot of calculation or awful lot of numbers and making sure that in the end the sums come out right for everyone with the ice hockey season on hold and the equipment maker is doing what they can to help those fighting the coronavirus pandemic canadian company bauer have switched from making viruses that protect players eyes from the puck to making these full face shields for medical stuff on the frontline they're starting production on monday and hope to make around 2000 a day most of all for me again later and stuff while exciting i have to make lots

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