audience why it's important how this could impact the lives at the height of the storm the water was so high it would get above my head this is an important part of the world people pay attention to what is going here now to do is very good to bring the news to the world from here. the. war the war. or. the u.n. says the world is losing the war against the coronavirus as the number of new deaths jumps again in spain and italy. to 0 live from london and to navigate also ahead and make sense u.s. unemployment surging to 3300000 the highest number ever recorded south africa goes into a 21 day nationwide locked down its case there os 900. in other news the u.s. charges venezuela's president nicolas maduro with narco terrorism.

hello the un secretary general has told leaders of the world's 20 major industrialized countries that humanity is at war with a virus and we are not sweating and trying to get terrorists called for a global response at an emergency virtual g. 20 summit to plot a way out of the crisis where leaders vow to do whatever it takes to combat coronavirus he said the numbers of confirmed cases which have now passed half a 1000000 are only the tip of the iceberg and the real number is believed to be many times higher well the number of new deaths has surged in spain and they remain high in italy where it's fear of deaths are now rising in the poorer south of the country as economists predict a deep global recession the u.s. saw more than 3000000 people make new jobless claims last week its biggest jump

ever made barker begins our coverage with this report on the situation across europe. this is how spain is hoping to win the war on the coronavirus police are among the 1st to be tested but it's hazardous work for the medical staff a large number of those testing positive health workers. in madrid where an ice rinks been turned into a makeshift morgue hearses arrived on thursday the death toll has risen to more than 4000 overtaking china. and italy still europe's worst affected country the dead have been temporarily stored in churches before being sent for combination by army truck in a deserted european parliament chamber the commission president urged europeans to show solidarity several you countries including germany and france have banned exports of protective gear to avoid shortfalls at home ursula von deland warns the

practice undermined europe's joint response to the crisis we all share this responsibility none of us can do it alone and certainly no member state can handle this crisis on their own and because in this crisis and in our union more generally it is only by helping each other that we can help ourselves in paris health workers are conducting drive through testing in the streets france's death toll rose by 28 percent on thursday tracing the spread of the virus is vital for controlling it president mccrone is one of several world leaders joining g 20 talks remotely hoping for a global approach to the pandemic on the same conference call the russian president vladimir putin he believes russia can defeat the virus in less than 3 months with tough measures the country will suspend international flights from friday

a moscow will close all shops except pharmacies and grocery stores a day later. in the british capital works continuing to convert a massive exhibition hall into an emergency hospital the number of people in the u.k. who have died from the pie was just jumped by more than 100 in a day for the 1st time. the british vacuum cleaner make a dyson has now joined a growing number of technology companies developing ventilators to help the country's health care system. too great. british woman stark account of having the virus has been shared online cara mannering is 26 weeks pregnant. and then. the british government's promise to ramp up testing by the end of the week with

hospitals in london told to expect a continuous tsunami of patients scientists are warning many countries in europe that the worst is yet to come. out 0 of france's president has told european leaders of the very survival of the european project is at stake as it deals with the virus french hospitals are struggling to cope with its rising number of corona virus infections there are more than 25000 cases there and more than 1600 people have died and it's also about the reports from western france. high speed trains converted into mobile hospitals health workers in eastern france load coronavirus patients into t.g.v. carriages stopped by doctors and nurses and equipped with respirators the region's critically ill patients are being evacuated to hospitals in western france to ease pressure on the alsatian region's overwhelmed health services on wednesday the

french president arrived at a new military field hospital in the eastern city of new lose a facility usually seen in conflict zones but for a man or macro not out of place in peacetime 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. 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 this instructor with pilot to be able to help a 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. at night for bells across for all those rang out to thank the nation's health workers for macro it's imperative that people unite 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. al-jazeera western france while 100

people in new york state have died from corona virus in the past 24 hours alone governor andrew cuomo says officials are scouting for additional locations to expand hospital capacity but warns the state isn't prepared to handle the rising number of cases almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the current health care system we have approved the technology that allows one ventilator to serve 2 patients what they call splitting which is where you add a 2nd set of tubes to a ventilator to do 2 patients it's not ideal but we believe it's workable. and even though the city is under lockdown new york is struggling with a lack of police stuff nearly 3000 staff called in sick on wednesday just under 200

officers and 39 civilian employees have confirmed coronavirus cases the number of people off work is nearly 3 times the daily average a new figure so 3300000 americans applied for unemployment benefits last week that's 5 times more than the previous record set nearly 40 years ago it's the latest sign of just what effect the coronavirus is having on the economy businesses across the u.s. have been forced to close the city's imposed lockdowns to stem the spread of the outbreak and in the past few minutes president donald trump has said g 20 leaders discussed the importance of sharing information on covert 19 in the united states is working with their friends and partners around the world to stop the spread of the virus and coordinate our efforts we discuss how vitally important is for all of our nations to immediately share information and data and we've been doing that to a large extent but we'll do it even more so in to inform or i guess you could

save for me each of us on the flight that we've got going one way or the other it's a little bit different but we're handling it a little bit in different ways. but there is great uniformity i think we had a it was a terrific meeting let's remember brunell's on what more the u.s. president had to say rob is joining us from los angeles so what was the take away message from the president. well he had a great deal more to say but i think the most important thing was that the president repeated many times his desire to get the country back to work in short order city thinks it can happen very quickly he says that the american people want to get back to work and they are clamoring to get back on to work and he sort of indicated that he is going to move ahead with this

desire to speed up the timetable for getting people back to work this has been contradicted in the past by his experts notably the national institutes of health dr and fogey who said it is the virus that sets the timetable not policymakers and many experts and of people epidemiologists have indicated that to go back in an early just a couple weeks from now and remove the sort of social distancing that has been imposed across the country will result in more infections with corona 19 and more deaths but the president repeated that this is the united states of america we must work and we'll do it in the proper way interestingly he did not mention this april 12th easter. date that he had floated

last week as the date for everybody to get back to work but clearly he still wants to do that he also talked at length about this stimulus package and recovery package that passed the senate $2200000000.00 trillion $1.00 to $2.00 trillion dollars. and is now heading towards the house of representatives. and will probably pass that quite easily on friday. so president again putting the mystic spin on the cruel and 18 pandemic and saying that he thinks things will be moving quickly in terms of work vaccines treatments and that everything should be. back to normal sooner than most people have been saying they think it will all right rob reynolds thank you for that update from l.a. well the past few minutes south africa has gone into lockdown for 3 weeks as it

suffers a dramatic increase in corona virus infections a 6 fold rise in cases has been seen in 8 days taking the confirmed number of infections to more than 900 and that's the highest in africa police on the military have been deployed to enforce the lock down which includes bans on dog walking and alcohol sales from a similar joining us from johannesburg so now that the lockdown is in plays how people reacted in the lead up to it. well catherine as been some confusion as to exactly what the lockdown means and what the restrictions will be we've seen government ministers spend the last couple of days trying to explain to south africans what the restrictions are * and this is really important at this time that it's just you know a couple of weeks ahead of easter usually you have large church congregations you know you also have people take time off work a travel outside the provinces where they live moving to rule areas not all of this has to change so africans have welcomed this lockdown they do understand that it's

necessary but i imagine that it will take a couple of days for many people to abide by the restrictions because there is a lot to get used to there are police and soldiers on the streets ogust are expected to support police activities but even as we headed to the slope down at midnight south african time there were a large number of cars on main highways like the in floor this is a highway that leads to neighboring mozambique the government has said that transportation services especially with regard to goods like food will continue but that not anyone else can be on the road no one but essential services of people who work in the medical field to distribute food so they continue to be some confusion police have said that they will arrest people who don't abide by these restrictions possible a 6 month jail time or perhaps

a heavy fines so the coming days really will be a test for south africans with regard to just how well they abide by these descriptions all right thank you for bringing us that update from johannesburg. up next on al-jazeera americans paddick fight to defend themselves against the coronavirus and more traditional phone this. many gets selected speaker of israel's morning once parliament sees me in a surprise move that could lead to an alliance with benjamin netanyahu the way. the. hellish hours big they were in new south wales and queens in the more or less going off shore there will be a few more i suspect in the next day or so but they're not particularly widespread so you're more likely not together not to get them sydney's temperatures at $24.00 degrees so it's come down

a bit with the onshore breeze in fact has warmed up in adelaide and melbourne and had a drop from what didn't turn out to be an equal record volume person down to $29.00 in the forecast on friday also stay low was still snowing show breeze brings a few showers into that part of western australia we've still got coastal showers in queens and track records in particular is not as west it maybe should be but here's what's all the same and in new zealand you see the rain is curling up through wellington still fairly cloudy picture with a southerly breeze so we're feel that warm significant rain is coming out of china various koza plaza gestes active so the system will bring proper rains through south korea more especially through japan all of japan it gets quite heavy the blue center there it tails all strew hong kong more or less the forecast for hong kong will be occasionally a sundry one but much of china at least until later on saturday will see sun's told this is specifically hong kong's forecast fairly humid and turning windy by sunday .

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the again the top stories on al-jazeera this hour the number of new deaths from coronavirus has surged in spain in the last 24 hours by 655 bringing the total there to over 4000 in italy 712 new deaths have been recorded taking its death toll past 8000 and south africa has gone into a 3 week walk down this hour the country has more than 100 confirmed infections the highest in africa new figures showing 3300000 americans applied for unemployment benefits last week the highest ever reported number as published by johns hopkins university shows the u.s. now has more confirmed cases of corona virus than any other country in the world and we're taking you to the white house where they call on that task force is giving their daily news conference on the coronavirus pandemic and that is dr deborah burke's the white house coronavirus response coordinator let's a silly quite important if you remember that was the report that said there would

be 500000 deaths in the u.k. and 2200000 deaths in the united states they've adjusted that number in the u.k. 220000 so half a 1000000 220000 we're looking into this in great detail to understand that adjustment. i'm going to say something that's a little bit complicated but i'm going to try to do it in a way that we can all understand it together in the model either you have to have a large group of people who are asymptomatic who have never presented for any test in order to have the kind of numbers that were predicted to get to 60000000 people infected or of 6000000 people infected you have to have a large group of asymptomatic because in no country to date have we seen an attack rate over one in a 1000 so either we're only measuring the tip of the iceberg of the symptomatic

cases and underneath that are a large group of people so we're working very hard to get that antibody test because that's a good way to figure out who are all these people and are here and do they exist or we have the transmission completely raw so these are the things we're looking at because the predictions of the models don't match the reality on the ground in either china south korea or italy. we are about 5 times the size of italy so if we were italy and you did all those divisions italy should have close 240-0000 deaths they're not close to achieving that so these are the kinds of things we're trying to understand models our models we're adapting now to the react there's enough data now of the real experience with the coronavirus on the ground to really make these predictions much more sound so when people start talking about 20 percent of

a population getting infected it's very scary. but we don't have data that matches that based on the experience and then finally this is to ation about ventilator we are reassured and meeting with our colleagues in new york that there are still i.c.u. beds remaining and there's still a significant over a 1000 or 2000 ventilators that have not been utilized yet please for the reassurance of people around the world to wake up this morning and look at people talking about creating d.n.r. situations do not resuscitate situations for patients there is no situation in the united states right now that warrants that kind of discussion you can be thinking about it in a hospital certainly many hospitals talk about this on a daily basis but the say that to the american people to make the implication that when they need a hospital bed it's not going to be there or when they need that ventilator it's

not going to be there we don't have an evidence of that right now and it's our job collectively to assure the american people that it's our collective job to make sure that doesn't happen right now you can see the state these cases are concentrated in highly urban areas there are other parts of the states that have lots of then elaters and other parts of new york state that don't have any infections right now so we can be creative we can meet the need by being responsive but there's no model right now i mean no reality on the ground where we can see that 60 to 70 percent of americans are going to get infected in the next 8 to 12 weeks i just want to be clear about that so we're adapting to the reality on the ground we're looking at the models of how they can inform but we also are learning very clearly from a south korea and from italy and from spain just a final cause i know many of you will look at my number is the only people who are

over really one in a 1000. cases are people that have very small populations like monica and liechtenstein so you will see a different number coming from you when your population is really tiny one case can put you over 128000 or 2000 things. of course among them. thank you mr vice president i'm going to change the topic just a little bit because there was a questions that came up and i've been asked about this on a couple of media saying responds to the inventions that over the task force and hold their family briefing and washington at the white house in just a moment ago you were listening to a doctor in. the white house on a virus response coordinator and i believe now are going to listen in while your doctor who is also a member of the coronavirus task force may be a rebound that we get things really under control and then you pull back which ultimately we're going to have to do everybody in the world is going to have to do

that you either going to get a rebound or it might cycle into the next season so what are we going to do to prepare ourselves for that one of the most important things is one that i mentioned several times from this podium and that is to clarify a bit about the timeline for vaccines and would that have any real impact on what we would call the rebound what we call a cycling in the season certainly for sure of vaccine is not going to help us now next month the month after but as i mentioned to you we went into a phase one trial and i keep referring to one vaccine there's more than one there's a couple of handfuls of vaccines at different stages of development but they're all following the same course and the course is your 1st go in to a phase one trial to see if it's safe and you have very few people 45 people within a certain age group all healthy none at really any great risk of getting infected

the reason you do that because you want to make sure that it's. then the next thing you do and that takes about 3 months easily maybe more so that's going to bring us into the beginning a middle of the summer and then you go to a phase 2 trial or what we say to 3 which means we'll put a lot of people in there now we hope that there aren't a lot of people getting infected but it is likely there will be somewhere in the world where that's going on so it's likely that we will get what's called an efficacy signal and we will know whether or not it actually works if in fact it does we hope to russia to be able to have some impact on of recycling in the next season and i said that could be a year to a year and a half i'm not changing any of the dates that i mention but one of the things that we are going to do that you need to understand that has been a stumbling block for previous development of vaccines and that is even before you know something works at risk you have to start producing it because once you know

it works you can say great it works now give me another 6 months to produce it so we're working with a variety of companies to take that risk we didn't take it with that's why you know we have a nice ziggo vaccine but we don't have enough to do it because there's no zeke around same with sars so that's one of the things we're really going to push on is to be able to have it ready if in fact it works now the issue of safety something that i want to make sure the american public understand it's not only safety when you inject somebody and they get maybe an idiosyncratic reaction they get a little allergic reaction they get pain there's safety associated does the vaccine make you worse and there are diseases in which you vaccinate someone they get infected with what you're trying to protect them with and you actually enhance the infection you can get a good feel for that in animal models so that's going to be interspersed at the

same time that we're testing we're going to try and make sure. sure we don't have a handsome and the worst possible thing you could do is vaccinate somebody to prevent infection and actually make them worse next and finally with your god i'll get you your question finally with regard to therapies i mean we keep getting asked about there are pieces a whole menu of therapies that go into clinical trials as i've told you all and i repeated again the best way to get the best drug as quickly as possible is to do a randomized controlled trial so that you know is it safe and it's effective if it's not effective get it off the board and go to the next thing if it is effective get it out to the people that need it so you're going to be hearing over the next month or more about different drugs that are going to go into these randomized controlled trials and i feel confident knowing about what this virus is and what we can do with it that we will have some sort of therapy that gives at least

a partial if not a very good protection in preventing progression of disease and we'll be back here talking about that a lot i'm sure thank you talk to them. as i hear there's a drug that you're saying that something is based in trials that if you see some form of efficacy that you may try to convince a laboratory to school production at that point there's a before you even before when i go into phase 2 i want to find somebody that's going to make it. partially the federal government i think in some respects to deal risk it but also investments by the companies a lot of companies are not shy now about doing that usually when you do that at risk john you've got to get some back up for them and we've done that we've put hundreds of millions of dollars into companies to try and make vaccines i wouldn't hesitate to do that for a moment now. but low risk i just.

heard. but there's no domestic problems or what prevents me going to lower the risk premium 1st system working for the right with our partners. this is a very important concept and it's why we've really worked on messaging to the american people about these 15 days to stop the spread because part of this will be the need to have highly responsible behavior between counties and i think the american people can understand that they will understand where the virus is because we'll have the testing data and where it isn't and make sure that they're taking appropriate precautions as they move in and out of spaces i think this will be critical for our future as we work together to really understand where the virus is and where it is. i once again you were just listening to dr brooks she is part of the coronavirus task for a son just

a few moments ago dr anthony felt she was speaking as well and he was focusing more on the parts for a vaccine to be developed and he did say that vaccines are under development for the future of this of course coming as new numbers just published by the johns hopkins university shows the u.s. now has more confirmed cases of corona virus than any other country in the world thanks for watching al-jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera numbers published by johns hopkins university shows the u.s. now has more confirmed cases of corona virus than any other country in the world meanwhile the pandemics having a devastating impact on the country's economy new figures showing more than 3000000 americans applied for unemployment benefits last week that's broken a record which had stood for nearly 40 years and several state wide lockdowns of

a brought the economy to a near halt and caused mass job losses despite the president trump says he wants the country's businesses to be back running by easter in just over 2 weeks' time well the number of coronavirus deaths in spain has climbed again hitting 4000 that's taken it past the total recorded by china italy remains europe's worst affected country with another 712 deaths reported in the past 24 hours taking its death toll past 8000 european union leaders say continent wide solidarity along with sharing resources and expertise is the only way to fight the pandemic this is why i am convinced that while we may be sitting further pout than usual we must work closer together than ever before we must look out for each other we must pull each other through this because if there is one thing that is more contagious than this virus it is love and compassion and in the face of adversity

the people of europe showing how strong that can be in other news the u.s. has charged venezuela's president to a drug trafficking the justice department says nicolas maduro has led a cocaine supply cartel working hand in hand with the fark rebels it accuses him of fusing the drug as a weapon to flood the united states. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu his main rival benny gantz has been elected the speaker of the country's parliament the surprise move is expected to help create a unity government and keep the longtime leader benjamin netanyahu in power. you have today with a headlines on al-jazeera one a one east is coming up next on beijing under a lockdown in the midst of the coronavirus thanks for watching al-jazeera but i. would winning the programming for an international film a tense. play al-jazeera sets the stage egypt in ethiopia will be

the life of the 9 is a life in the ninety's dead everybody is there global ex-pats you get it we're going to let the planet go through it because we're not doing obvious things open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on the mountains and. in the midst of a crowd of bars pending china is in the. beijing capital of the world's most populous nation stands desertion. millions of residents are forced to stay behind closed doors in moves now being replicated in countries across the planet. this episode of one of one east we report from inside the quarantine capital of beijing .