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free and reinstate his presidency you know is that the true is forged by and we call it the number goes for french position is the total inaudible no true change goes for return of a president on al-jazeera. you know most have just been released by the u.k. more than 200 people have died in the last 24 hours as a result of coronavirus. hello again i'm come out santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera another unwanted record in spain the death toll has risen by another 838 people in the single worst day the country has seen. also a warning from china of a potential 2nd wave of infections from travelers returning from abroad. or.
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of who will be. in love in the time of coronavirus we will see what's being done in the u.s. to help reduce the risks for the elderly. in the last hour the u.k. is reported more than $200.00 further deaths as a result of the covert 19 coronavirus that's another shock after another shocking day in spain which reported $832.00 fatalities in 24 hours put that impressed into perspective we're now talking $6500.00 deaths in spain since the start of the outbreak nearly $79000.00 confirmed cases spain is now the 2nd hardest hit nation after italy where more than 10000 died different picture in china
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authorities are now warning of a possible 2nd wave of corona virus infections they reported more than 300 cases new cases in the past week but they say most of those actually came in from overseas and in would harm the city where the pandemic began well restrict. ns are easing people are going back onto public transport they'll even be able to leave the city from april the 8th and in the united states as well this sunday more than 124000 people have not tested positive more than 2100 have died and residents in 3 states new york new jersey connecticut they are being told we're vised at least to avoid all non-essential travel for the next 14 days ok let's check in with our correspondents this hour. to her in madrid will be with you shortly martha i do want to start with nadine these numbers out of the u.k. nadine barber in london out of the u.k. officials. increases day on day here and they are in the grand scheme of the numbers there quite significant. come on they all significant they'll be
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consenting for many people but sweeping ones following the experts in those daily briefings the numbers would actually draw as we've seen those graphs from other countries this week and off to what some people have called a look down is nothing like a real lockdown what we've seen in countries like india but those restrictive measures on people's movements those were introduced just a week ago and we were warned then that there would be 2 week period before we actually saw any kind of effect so at the moment in 24 hours up until 5 pm local time on saturday here in the u.k. the number of deaths the number of new deaths record it was $290.00 as you said the previous 24 hours the rise the new record of deaths rather was $268.00 but the important thing is that the that it's going up all the time we've got
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a total number of people have tested positive at 20000 the total number of deaths now well over 1200 but with being warned by a senior figure in the national health service that in his words if we if the country limits the number of deaths to 20000 we will have done well so there's a long way to go yet prime minister boris johnson who of course is in self isolation off to testing positive he is writing to everyone in britain 30000000 households and to receive a letter not just repeating advice on distancing it handwashing and the like but warning him that things will get worse before they get better and then he says kept one of his cabinet colleagues michael gove has been in the media telling everybody that these measures could actually be in place for some time as well as being tightened further as we've seen in countries like spain and it does to the we're seeing that some people still are not paying attention to the advice one. foresee
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in the midlands in england saying that on saturday night they had to disperse a party of 20 following the adults and children who had gathered i think it a property i'm not sure about i've heard of other instances where people have also reported incidents like that to the police but the police don't always have the resources to respond most people are staying at home there's still a debate though as to who should be going to work also about how long people can actually continue to stick to their measures because of course the most vulnerable people are being told to stay at home for a matter of months not weeks and all the time people are worrying about the effect on the economy. but with that update from london thank you now dame and now to her are in madrid you know not a façade along we kept asking with italy how could these numbers be so big every day now we have to ask the same thing about spain $800.00 plus 2 days in a row. yes there's these are the new figures we have reach
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a debt all of it 100 and then we have surpassed 832 people of fatalities yesterday to have 838 and we have a death toll of 6500 nationwide and 79000 people affected with grown up virus in spain the 50 percent of the death toll just belongs to my troops region and coming not far that alone yeah we've seen how many regions a health minister sources have said that alerted that many regions in spain at least 6 of them there are reaching to the limits of their emergency units services so this is so it was starting to see what happened already in madrid which is the region that has become the epicenter of the of the whole endemic since the outbreak of the ground iris in spain and we've seen how hospitals where all the while we've seen how the funeral homes were all the 12 and they had to set up these ice rink
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next week with them or has a funeral home and next week we will see how these building that right now it's empty it was supposed to be a court room now it's going to be set up as another funeral home so the situation in spain into instead of satellite a little bit is still increasing day by day and so we have the prime minister petro sanchez i saw him earlier. pleading almost with the e.u. saying there needs to be more unity is that forthcoming yes well yesterday the prime minister put his hand to rescue nation and saying in the same line as other countries of the south of southern europe becky to lead portugal or france that we need more european solidarity he's asking as well for for a war economy for debt for against a core of iras he wants set up a marshall plan 2 to 5 days this this pandemic. not
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a hero with the update. from madrid thank you letters numbers from iran for you know 123 people have died there in the last 24 hours bringing the national total so more than 2600 but officials are now committed a 5th of the whole national budget to fight the virus have been more than 35000 confirmed cases there which when you compare those numbers it actually has one of the worst mortality rates in the world the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz say they've made some significant progress towards forming a unity government a deal being made really because of the coronavirus outbreak the 2 held a meeting overnight on saturday they said they'd meet again sunday to finalize an agreement after months of failed elections and political deadlock here is hairy force that with more from west jerusalem where that decision by benny gantz is dividing his supporters. they say that they will meet again during the course of
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the day and they intend to announce a unity government the various leaks that and coming out into the israeli media suggest. last arguments precisely which ministry. so yes we can expect so actually it's a couple of things that happened yes this this crisis this national emergency is benny gantz leader of the opposition former leader. because it was dismissed. and he says it is because of the situation that is previous opposition to benjamin netanyahu holding office as an indicted prime minister someone 3 corruption trials he's had to set that aside and that people may talk about broken campaign promises but his call promise support the state of israel about overstaying remains the one that he's abiding by in all of this he has taken quite a lot of flack over this not only from his former partners in the opposition but
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also from some voters and commentators center allows the the prime minister to stay in office as we mentioned china says it is concerned over an increase in infections coming from abroad last week the mainland closed its borders to all foreigners except if you are coming in from hong kong and macau several other countries across asia have taken similar measures including cambodia and thailand and so forth and sarah clarke. beach is normally heaving with tourists at this time of year empty implicate the seaside city has hundreds of resorts bars and restaurants it's now been labeled a coronavirus hotspot after reporting a rise in infections this week with the government blaming tourists and locals for not keeping their distance the city apartheid south of bangkok is traditionally a tourist haven it too has been deprived of visitors with businesses and restaurants forced to close after the government declared a state of emergency this is the worst that i have ever hit party yeah.
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during the past border 3 weeks. so much businesses has already told it has already went bankrupt closed down due to growing up iris thailand has closed its doors to all foreigners that's left many without jobs this restaurant in pitot has reinvented itself it is now a community kitchen feeding hundreds of residents struggling to cope without an income i think about hand baggage on our part we're giving out free food to people who bore the brunt of the situation at least they can save up to around $40.00 to $50.00 baht for a meal per day adding a lifeline for them on sunday or announced a temporary suspension of all visas for foreigners cambodia too will stop issuing visas on arrival for at least a month as the government tightens restrictions on travel as in a bid to combat the surge of the coronavirus cases but as countries across i close
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their borders the city at the heart of the corona virus outbreak continues to welcome new arrivals well than 60000 people returned to woo hands on saturday as train stations and roads reopened after a 2 month lock down flights will resume on the 8th of april when residents are finally allowed to leave the city if they can hold or it's of course much better now there wasn't any people on the street before. nothing on the street that was scary now it's under control now it's great right from this weekend china is banning all foreigners from entering in a bid to stem the number of important infections hong kong is doing assignment from sunday it's also restricting the number of people in public gatherings for people those who defy the law face up to 6 months in jail sarah clock al-jazeera hong kong . coverage continues in a moment to aid agencies are warning about unsanitary conditions at a refugee camp in greece putting the lives of so many at risk in the united states
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sees more deaths from coronavirus and president trump reverses his idea for quarantine in new york. but. we still have plenty of wet weather across southern parts of china more cloud just squeezing across the south of the country over towards the east china sea and that will gradually push out towards japan once again we've got one system pulling away from japan brightest guys now in the process of coming back into temperatures recovering quite nicely said we'll see highs of around well 13 selves there would take a 15 for a soccer there's that what's the weather coming out of china pushing for the race was cusick see want to 2 showers longest bows afraid as we go through each is day north of that it's not too bad getting up to 70 maybe an 18 there for
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a soccer 18 is well into so but the rain keeps on coming showers people coming across the good parts of southeast asia will see more big down pulls their way to malaysia and indonesia not too bad into the philippines slushy fine and dryness latif on a dry course a good part of china and it stays that way as we go on into cheers they fought it right to across a good part of in the air but we have got some wet weather moves. again you can see this area cloud just driving out of iran into afghanistan northern parts of pakistan turning interesting with this western disturbance drives way further resources who go through the wait but ahead of that is 5 and sunny. joining the listening post as we tend the cameras on the media india has more than 424 hour television news channels morning talkers and focus on how they
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report on the stories that matter the most the states mislead the public to still be here reflects the same thing. clonic challenge poll their editorial show you take a dark believe they have anything to apologize for their listening post on al-jazeera . the latest headlines on the coronavirus pandemic this hour another $209.00 people have died in the u.k. bringing the death toll there to more than $1200.00 a lockdown is in place across the country with the government ordering people to stay in their. spain's death toll has surged once again though more than 800 people
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have died there in the past 24 hours. and more than 6500 have died altogether and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival benny gantz a negotiating a deal to form an emergency unity government to address the coronavirus right they say they are less than a day in a way day away from a final agreement. we're hearing some new projections from dr anthony found she you will remember him he is of course a leading member of the white house's coronavirus task force he is with the national institutes of health he has just said that will he projects possibly millions of coronavirus cases in the united states and 100-002-2000 extension 00 deaths so this is a projection from the manner you see next to president trump at the news conferences every day one of the leading voices on infectious diseases in the united states talking about possibly millions of coronavirus cases in the u.s.
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and maybe deaths in the region of 100-002-2000 extension 00 at the moment it's about 1200 deaths in the united states that line just coming from the united states that somebody from dr anthony fauci. let's move on the airline in tourism industries want to talk about those they were among the 1st economic casualties of this pandemic and as countries continue to impose restrictions many airlines have drastically cut their passenger flights we spoke last hour to the c.e.o. of qatar airways off but obama he said the end airline industry will bounce back once the. world can get past this pandemic that has been difficult but persevering we have our passengers that are all over the place where we have to take them safely back home we have received a lot of requests from embassies and governments around the world to help citizens
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to be taken back to their homes and to their loved ones and cut that i was just serving the the world community if epaulettes around the world start closing down and airspace are being blocked it is of course natural that god said it was for this completely stuff flying but for the time being we have a skeleton service that is flying around and this for the foreseeable future will continue airlines and the evolution industry plays such an important role in our lives these days that this industry will rebound like it did previously of course this time it is very serious much more serious than 911 we haven't have faced such a situation in the last $100.00 ias so now we have to wait and see but at the end it will be survival of the fittest and we want the terrorists to be one of those
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survival success stories. in the united states more than 124000 people have not tested positive for covert 19 and as i said before around 2100 have died at the c.d.c. the centers for disease control is also warned residents of new york new jersey and connecticut against all non-essential travel for 14 days this report from the u.s. with proper notes. a day of presidential mixed signals attending the sailing of a navy hospital ship bound for manhattan president donald trump said he might impose a quarantine a new york and neighboring states that i am now considering will make a decision very quickly very shortly a quarantine because it's such a hot area of new york new jersey and connecticut will be announcing that one way or the other fairly soon trump said he had discussed the idea with new york
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governor andrew cuomo cuomo said he didn't know what trump was talking about computer cord if you have any indication that's possibility from the new york or no it's going to never have to his conversation i don't even know what that means leader on saturday trump put out a tweet backing away from the quarantine plan and saying i have asked the centers for disease control to issue a strong travel advisory to be administered by the governors in consultation with the federal government a quarantine will not be necessary. houran jeanne or not new york is in during dark times nurses protested outside a bronx hospital saying they haven't got enough protective equipment were incredibly frustrated and we know that the federal government can give us these resources corona virus has killed more than 500 people in new york and infected tens of thousands all across the country more states are ordering people to. stay
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home including in rhode island i am issuing a stay at home order for all people in rhode island the order will be in place from right now until april 13th and in kansas inza still has not received our what we need from the federal government this is used in texas and it's part of the new face of america deserted streets parking lots and public spaces part of a country under siege rob reynolds al-jazeera the virus has proven particularly dangerous for the elderly and people with underlying health conditions you know 80 percent of those have died in the u.s. from covert 19 to 65 years or older and agalloch as this report now and what's being done to help these most vulnerable of citizens who fall in law did will become police. at a nursing home in alabama john klein serenades his wife through
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a window social distancing join the coronavirus pandemic is now vital for those at risk but when you've been married for 45 years contact is equally important could you read more as. bob shallow would like many is separated from his wife a necessary but difficult time for elderly couples makes me feel bad because i. want her down with me. i know she can't the reality for seniors is frightening health officials say older adults are twice as likely to contract a serious illness from the virus than anyone else those that live in long term care facilities are among the most vulnerable. for seniors living outside the health care system tasks as simple as buying food is risky many supermarkets are now operating what they call senior hours potentially lowering the health risks for those 60 and over we try and have the store spouse before they come in they are the
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target of this virus and so we're trying to work are strong as a peer facilities like drive through test sites are slowly being set up but with an aging population the us faces worrying times as figures tick higher here in florida a quarter of the population is 60 or older making this state particularly vulnerable best testing is sporadic at worst nonexistent health care providers say they want to test more but don't have the equipment so far there have been suspected or confirmed corona cases in 1900 elder care facilities a number that may get higher here waiting for you are close to the window while the authorities struggle others are doing what they can to support the senior community i did not expect and they're just people waving in there is finally home find that she's just dancing like this in a circus saving for the elderly fear and isolation runs deep reaching out supporting and helping those most vulnerable to the pandemic has never been more
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important and agalloch raja's era miami florida. doctors without borders has warned refugees on the greek island of. a great risk from coronavirus and they need to be moved immediately in a statement a charity group said the overcrowded and horrific living conditions in the camps or hotspots on the greek islands provide the perfect storm for a coded 900 outbreak given the lack of adequate sanitation services in the severely limited medical care the risk of the virus spreading among the inhabitants of the camps in greece is extremely high. with this report now and why conditions are so bad that peculiarly on the on and of that's false. like thousands of other asylum seekers this resident of moriah camp is lighting a fire to warm himself and cook lunch and like thousands of others he's using a piece of plastic to start it fires are the only source of heat in winter aid
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groups say they cause serious respiratory problems and the burning of plastic makes them even more dangerous one of the asthmatic basins the father explained to me that one night he came back home they were heating the tent with the hold coals inside and when he arrived back none of his family members. were it was unable to wake them. and had to drive them outside they slowly recovered so most probably this was like a carbon monoxide poisoning it's easy to burn rubbish because it isn't being collected a local contractor is paid to pick it up inside the official camp and to a radius of 10 meters outside the camp fence but within that space we found this ravine filled with it greece's reception service is responsible for awarding sanitation contracts a former director says governments don't properly oversee contractors'. a great public worker who's moved from the mainland works for 475 euros and sleeps
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in the same conditions as a refugee stands in stark contrast to an ingenious sanitation worker in athens who earns 1500 euros a month this inequality explains why the final result and sanitation isn't what would light. raw sewage also seeps into this ravine where children play because at 20000 people this camp is filled to 7 times capacity and its sewage pipe overflows a pipe designed years before it was built thanks clearly the delay in building the sewage pipe was to extend the use of the sewage trucks which cost huge amounts in my view over 4000000 euros and moria and the other islands that money could have been spent on sewage treatment plants they didn't happen why not because they were interests against it i've sent this to the list prosecutor the government says it will take 10000 asylum seekers off the islands and ship them to the mainland in the coming weeks another $5000.00 will be offered
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a generous financial incentive to go home and the european union says it will take at least $1600.00 unaccompanied minors off greece's hands reducing the numbers might be a short term solution but it does not address the deeper problem of mismanagement or relieve greek taxpayers of the bills the european union may refuse to pay as a result jobs are open loss al-jazeera less force. we've got some other world news to bring you there as been more fighting across libya between government and rebel forces dozens of fighters have been killed on both sides after skirmishes in southern tripoli despite officials announcing 3 confirmed cases of covert 19 un recognized government is imposed a curfew to stop people from leaving their homes between 2 pm and 7 am and with more from tripoli he says poor living conditions are making many vulnerable to both attacks and the virus. the threat is coming not only from the
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indiscriminate shelling landing in densely populated areas until this morning as the government says that half that is false or have been shelling indiscriminately densely populated areas in southern tripoli but again the government is also concerned about a possible outbreak of the crew on up via a specially after big nose in get 3 cases at 73 year old with me a libyan hold traveled to say to be on returning to libya from tunisia and 2 other cases one in tripoli and one in the city of misrata but concerning the front lines it clashes really you would between have to this force and force of the word to the government of that national board and military source of the government say that they have targeted and operational room in the bin of shared area run by russian medicine reason according to the government and those russian most as they used to run heavy advance and artillery to target the government forces in southern tripoli
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the government sources also say that there have been air strikes from both sides not only in southern tripoli but also on another front line east of the city of misrata polls have opened in molly's long delayed parliamentary election despite concerns about security in the global pandemic the vote comes just hours after the 1st death from covert 19 was announced the election was delayed several times because of violence by armed groups and government kidnap the opposition leader so melissy said on wednesday. in the philippines an aircraft has crashed shortly after takeoff from manila's international airport killing 8 people on board the plane was operated by indonesia's based lie and witnesses say the plane burst into flames while it was taking off and crashed onto the runway the flight was on a medical evacuation mission destined for japan those onboard included medical
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staff a patient and the flight crew. who the rebels fighting in yemen have attacked saudi arabia according to the saudi u.a.e. coalition it says the kingdom's air defense systems intercepted 2 ballistic missiles targeting riyadh and the southern city of jism on saturday people living in the capital say they heard at least 3 explosions. the military spokesman says it was their largest military operation targeting the saudi strategic positions. half past the hour an update now on coronavirus and breaking news of out of the us in fact where dr anthony fauci the head of the national institutes of health says it's possible millions of americans could become infected with corona virus he is also saying up to 200000 people in the u.s. could die from it dr foundries of course part of the white house task force that gives regular updates on the situation in the u.s. in the u.k.
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another 209 people have died from corona virus bringing the death toll there some more than 1200 a lockdown is in place across the country but the government ordering people to stay in their homes. spain's death toll though has surged once again with more than 800 people dead in the past 24 hours more than 6500 have died altogether from coronavirus spain's prime minister is calling on all of europe to pull together to deal with the crisis which i think that but he says nobody it affects all countries and it does not obey borders and does not distinguish between past economic policies made by one country or another which then the response count only be national it must be a european response it has to be responsible we all rose one whether we are dutch spanish portuguese italian or german it has to be a european response isn't it the latest numbers out of iran now showing $123.00 people have died in the last 24 hours the national total there is now more than
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$2600.00 officials of committed a 5th of the national budget to find the virus there have been more than 35000 confirmed cases in iran which actually has one of the worst mortality rates in the world israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his main rival benny gantz say they've made significant progress towards a unity government the deals being made to address coronavirus the 2 say they are close to finalizing their agreements and in other news an aircraft crashed shortly after takeoff from manila's international airport killing all 8 people on board the plane was operated by indonesia's lion air witnesses say the plane burst into flames while it was taking off and crashed on the runway it was a medical evacuation mission that was destined for japan the stars it's got the news hour for you in about 25 minutes time on al-jazeera next it's a listening post. from the talk to al jazeera we ask what you will force were when
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you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you'll have been to go build you know at this stage of the would not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the edges there are. 6 strike matches to. concentrate because one of the highlights are things out. on. time. so different a very spend to make paper wait for it you know left. alone which are desperate and you're at the listening post the covert 19 and it is a news story like no other and like journalists around the world we are reporting on this from our homes our focus is on the media and information side of the coronavirus story this week we're examining the unprecedented rise in the surveillance and tracking of citizens and the long term implications for society
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we'll also look at the united states and its problem with dissin from a ship much of which comes from the very top the white house.

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