this is al-jazeera. hello from doha everyone i'm kemal santa maria this is the news hour from al-jazeera video emerges showing the strain on spain's hospitals as the death toll there from covenanting rises another 812 deaths in 24 ounce. but it is back to work for people in the chinese city who hired me with a corona virus outbreak originated. in the us president donald trump extends

restrictions on people for another month to contain the spread in the united states i will find out how nearly a 1000000 rethink of the refugees in bangladesh are coping during this hour. and i'm on santa how much now have all the sports including a look at how the world's top pro wrestling companies are still putting on the shows this by the global pandemic. monday morning in europe and spain is where we are starting this hour with new numbers just released and again the death toll is rising at an alarming right 812 people have died from corona virus in the past 24 hours that means we are looking at over 7300 deaths since the outbreak began also the number of infections is rising steadily there are now more than 85000 confirmed cases in spain. in china

there was a different story look at this people starting to head back to work where the virus was 1st detected this is where harm which has been under strict quarantine for 2 months now and in the united states president donald trump says these social distancing guidelines will stay in place for another month that is a reversal remember from his comments just last week when he predicted things would return to normal possibly by easter also some numbers from the united states the number of deaths linked to the virus in new york state has risen above 1000 ok so we've got 3 correspondents for you this hour there is how do we toss a in zimbabwe with an update on how lockdown measures are going there lawrence lee is in london as well to tell us about the mobilization of people trying to tackle the outbreak got to start there with. in madrid with more on those numbers this is $800.00 plus deaths at least 3 days in a row. yes as you were saying at the beginning up there were 85000 sign years have been infected 5 coronavirus at this time this is the

toll we have and another day another 24 hours with with more than 800 tallaght east from corona virus at 27300 a step till so these numbers are quite alarming numbers keep increasing and the situation is quite critical and i think we'll just stay there for a 2nd not because i want to get away actually from the numbers just briefly and look at some pictures hospitals in madrid which are overwhelmed with these thousands of new infections these pictures have come from one such hospital the hallways filled with patients people being transferred to other hospitals but then you have all these new arrivals coming in as well spain's government says it is testing more than ever before but some doctors insist they are still not getting everything they need to look at some of the joy when this government crisis committee comes out to say we have everything it is not true when they say we have

300000 test kits well that's all very nice to have 300000 kids but those kids must be tested by professionals who know how to do it if not why do you need them so we also have this problem when they say we have 300000 kids daily i can tell you that it is not true so this is the reality isn't it most of these pictures they're important for us to see what is actually happening in the hospitals contrasting with what the government to say. yes quite true because we seen how these was taking plays in madrid madrid region became the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in spain we've seen and we've seen here how hospitals have been overwhelmed the funeral homes but specially the most 2nd the sector most damaged or which of the coronavirus had impacted more at least the health care workers with the nearly 16 percent of all these people infected from the total amount of people around next nationwide and these people are lacking of the proper equipment there to dealing in the frontline there and the battling the coronavirus in spain and

they keep claiming they keep asking for the proper equipment they don't have laws that don't have glasses there they're doing themselves their aprons with plastic bags shopping bags i mean we've seen really dramatic situations in the hospital they haven't got testing cutes and we've got these people but ling in the frontline of the coronavirus maybe being infected not knowing and even being dangerous for for spreading the virus so the situation in madrid was all these top hospitals although well especially hold that hospital. that built a tent so they could keep some patients out there and in 24 hours did built a field hospital with 150 beds for all these people coming over which seem like all these health care workers have been calling retired doctors to go back to work retired nurses to go back to work last year's students are many saying they're helping because they're overwhelmed they're overloaded but the situation right now

is that we know that it's not only moderate we've got 7 regions in spain that are reaching the limits of their imagine c. units so this situation what we will see how it happens in catalonia ability are the yellow montana and laryea hot so we need to have to keep this bear this in mind because we think that is the principal and main problem of this battle against chronic virus in spain. well to her getting us started on this new south. and now to london here is lawrence leigh lawrence i want to continue on this theme of impact on people tell us about these national if it's now in the u.k. to come together as much as people can to fight this. yes it's a bit more encouraging kemal today having been told yesterday by the brother ted chief medical officer that the lockdown in this country might last 6 months or more encouraging news to do with the supply of ventilators and breathing operators

there's a whole consortium of companies including airbus be a which is because british aerospace for rolls royce and siemens have come together in a consortium and come up with a ventilator and they think they're going to get thousands of these manufactured in fairly short order and as well as that and this is a really remarkable achievements in the space of just over a week it's seen from university college london and must say it is the formula one car maker have designed a prototype machine called a c. pap which stands for continuous positive airway pressure is basically much smaller and more agile than a mechanical ventilator which is extremely invasive you have to heavily sedated patient and then put chub down a c. part usually are used for people who have sleep apnea when you stop breathing in your sleep and it basically forces air down someone's throat to keep that as

a mixture of air in oxygen and obviously when when when the virus collapses someone's lungs that's exactly what you need and so this team of u.c.l. and the sadie's of come up with a prototype for this reverse engineer it and reckon that they can make a 1000 a day which will take a huge amount of pressure off the hospital so that's an absolutely amazing achievement and this obviously is coupled with the manpower numbers the prime minister from his own self isolation said the 20000 retired n.h.s. doctors and consultants of said they're going to go back to work and the 3 quarters of a 1000000 volunteers behind them propping up the health service from from the general population so in that sense it's all it's all very good news what the u.k. doesn't know yet because the testing hasn't started properly is what the numbers of infected people are like and whether the country is actually managed to avoid the horrendous situation in italy and spain you're right there lawrence good encouraging news out of the u.k. thank you for the bat. amelle zimbabwe which has begun implementing its 3 week

lockdown to prevent the spread of code 19 security forces now deployed to enforce the restrictions i will check in with automatons and in harare for more on the strikers through development partner. well supermarkets pharmacies and fuel stations are open people have been allowed to go there to stock up on basic commodities but they've been told to try and get back home as soon as possible that's typical 5th market baby heinie the lines very sometimes they become long as it becomes short but the key thing is look at them they're standing really close to each other they're not exactly practicing social network distancing and then on this side it's people boys just came out and started for play football and more people from the community are coming in to watch them play so they are not concerned about how aware is the general public about keeping their distance another concern of how do we be is the bobbies public health care system when it

comes to dealing with coronavirus if there is an increase in infection doctors and nurses for years always complain that the sort of just drug gloves boss the government says it's working with charities to try to make sure that these people actually get the equipment they need to not just to take them faster to also treat people who may be sick but we have 7 confirmed case of coronavirus one person died that person was a problem internist yes my pretty influential family and he came back from the united states and he managed to still go out clubbing he went to the bank he went to government offices and then he got sick and was taken to welcome postell in harare a quarantine facility his family said when they got to say they felt that some of the most the doctors what's you afraid to approach him to help him because they didn't have the mosque in the glove they said they would know ventilators at that time the family tried to get a very good at a private hospital that didn't happen they say they approached the president. they

say they even approach to help the public good and getting help for the. poor and struggling who have to live in public. if a problem person with so much connection can not get the help they need what more so for the poor people but the government and the that they are a beat and they can be able to deal with an increase in infection if that should happen. so with that update from in zimbabwe thank you how to ok how to look at china because life is actually starting to return to normal in the epicenter of this business is getting up and running again in. katrina you has our report now from beijing. foot 2 months 11000000 people living in what they've been confined to their homes and residential compounds were literally barricaded up now some of those people are starting to leave their homes they're giving permission if they have a job and some essential industries have also started operations for example the

car industry the cement in the steel industry and roads have opened up as well as morals and stores people are able to go inside as long as they have their temperature checked 1st and they're wearing masks the subway has also reopened as has the train station they have been thousands of people streaming into 100 city starting from the weekend but outbound travel is still restricted until april the 8th now since the beginning of the epidemic more than 50000 people in city have been infected and there have been more than 2500 deaths and as a result the chinese government implemented some of the most draconian measures in that city and now in recent days we've seen almost 0 new local transmissions and the government says that those measures have been working it's also brushed aside any fears of a 2nd wave of infections saying that one city is actually one of the most safe cities in china because people have been locked down under quarantine for such a long time but of course there are still persistent fears that the government

could be under reporting cases because there are just so much pressure to get the local economy going again south korea is the latest country to announce cash payments for people affected by the boers brought has more on that from seoul. this disaster relief fund is similar in the amount that it hands out to other schemes that have been announced by other developed countries it basically means that for a family of 4 they're entitled to a one off payment of the equivalent of $820.00 us dollars now to qualify for that it's only families below a certain income level so this is very much aimed at some of the poorest sections of society some of the poorer families who've been hit hardest by the economic impact of this outbreak in announcing these details the finance minister has reiterated basically what everybody here in south korea has known for weeks now that the economy has really been slammed by the coronavirus all sections of the

economy and in particular this is a good time to help some of the more vulnerable parts of the economic activity here such as restaurants such as family owned stores small businesses all aimed at trying to revive the economy it comes to a total of just over $10000000000.00 and at the same time that this has been announced president moon j.n. of south korea has also announced that there will be a supplementary budgets to try to help the economy at a national level now there was earlier this month a 2nd supplementary budget was passed now there's going to be another one that wasn't enough and so in total that with this latest announcement this means tens of billions of dollars are now being directed by the south korean government as it now looks beyond the health emergency trying to tackle some of the economic fallout of all of this. in iran 117 people have died in the last 24 hours those latest figures

pushing the number of corona virus linked deaths out to 2757 officials have committed though one 5th of the national budget to fighting the virus there are nearly $42000.00 known infections in iran and actually that is. correlated to one of the highest mortality rates in the worlds. coverage of the pandemic continues on this news hour we'll look at the challenges facing health workers in the philippines the number of coated 19 texas rides it's. going to be a hand because we can't give out yet because i know you're not because at the time you know a desk out. there out tracking teddy bears a simple game to keep children entertained during the pandemic has become a hit around the world. and the organizers of the tokyo unpick games make some progress on finding a new time to stage that events the details but some a little later.

to the u.s. where president trump has backed away from his initial comment about trying to reopen the country for business by mid april he also suggested the shortage of mosques and other equipment is because doctors and nurses taking them from hospitals or reynolds reports. empty beaches are a sign of the times in southern california as most residents follow a statewide stay at home order. more than half of the 50 us states are now under those orders intended to slow the spread of coronavirus the federal government extended until april 30th it's guidance that people maintain social distancing with the number of confirmed cases and deaths rising one of the country's top infectious disease experts says the final toll could be very high looking at what we're seeing now you know i would say between 10200000 cases but i don't want to be held to that

because it's deaths i mean we're going to have millions of cases but i just don't think that we really need to make a projection when it's such a moving target governors like new york's andrew cuomo painted a sobering picture i don't see how you get. pass that kerr without seeing thousands of people pass or louisiana is already running short on hospital space and we're on a trajectory currently to exceed our capacity in the new orleans area for ventilators bob out april the 4th and all beds available in hospitals bob out april the 10th. michigan's detroit auto show is canceled and the convention center where it's usually held will be converted to a field hospital we see this astronomical rise we've got hospitals that are already at capacity illinois governor said he desperately needs more testing kits the white

house has promised millions of tests for weeks now and they're just not here in a briefing president donald trump made the shocking an unsubstantiated claim that the shortage of masks and other protective equipment in hospitals maybe because nurses and hospital staff are stealing them they've been delivering for years 10 to 20000 masks ok it's a new york hospital very it's packed all the time how do you go from 10 to 20 to 300000 to 10 to 20000 masks 230-0000 even though this is different something's going on. and you ought to look into it as reporters were the masculine are they going out the back door i don't think it's hoarding i think it's maybe worse than hoarding earlier trump tweeted with evident pride that his daily briefings were getting great television ratings higher than some popular reality shows robert oulds al

jazeera. australia is again ramping up its efforts to contain the virus even as its infection rate slows from midnight public gatherings will gatherings will be restricted to just 2 people and some states bringing in new penalties for disobeying social distancing rules on a scot marston's also announced an $80000000000.00 package to help save jobs at least $4000.00 people have tested positive in australia and 18 have diamonds. activists are warning that conditions at the crowded camps of southeast bangladesh leaving a 1000000 refugees at risk of contracting the virus and internet shutdown in and around the thames is making the situation even more dangerous as a judge in the reports. in the world's largest refugee settlement anxiety and alarmed as the 2 clutches her prayer beads she also clings to her

faith. we had the corona virus has occurred in malaysia mecca and thailand now we've heard it has spread in bangladesh and we're praying to god to save us around $1000000.00 refugees live in these informal settlements in cox's bazaar where sanitation has always been an issue and living conditions are so crowded that social distancing is impossible. authorities are using loudspeakers in some parts of the camps to give advice on how to prevent the spread of coby one team but humanitarian groups say it's not enough the running the medics organization warns a coronavirus outbreak in this community could lead to an enormous loss of life all right and that if we do get those and it's been producing informational videos in the working the language and posting them online but last september bangladesh's government shut down most of the internet and telecommunication networks in and around the camps unfortunately the door you have the axes so we are doing our best

. and it's really frustrating for us that we are not. talking to the nation aid groups and in geos are urging government officials to reverse their decision should immediately let the internet restriction so that refugees have information they are able to inform themselves about how to mitigate the risk of a crowd of virus spread in the camps the government hasn't responded to calls to restore the internet but says all measures. it's taken to prevent an outbreak have been necessary. if you have ordered the shut down of places where people usually gather including schools my classes learning centers etc only essential commodities would be continued in the camps. amnesty international says the lack of internet access. and other parts of the world is making the situation worse it's not the best time to have. communication because that's that's the

easiest and fastest source of disseminating information that needs to be provided. activists have been holding seminars to educate other refugees about a threat unlike any they faced before having escaped violence now doing all they can to evade the virus. and. phil robertson with us now deputy director of human rights watch asia asia division he's on skype from bangkok so we focus so much. social distancing and when i looked at those pictures there is that it's impossible is absolutely impossible to think about that. if you go any thoughts on what can be done well the most important thing for the bangladesh government to do now is turn on the internet for the rohingya refugees in those refugee camps so that they're able to communicate with humanitarians and with other persons about what is happening

and get accurate information i mean it astonishing the kind of restrictions we're seeing on those camps expression this time of a pandemic that's going to threaten the health of so many you know when you look at those camps that you said there's no social distancing you talk about washing your hands but you know often access to water is limited you know it's a disaster waiting to happen it's an absolute tinderbox or covert 19. so again i take your point about what the what the bangladesh government could do in the internet is very important for information and communication but i'm just thinking about sort of practical things which could happen now i know there is people trying to supply and sanitation services is there anything more which which can be done on that level. well i mean the government of bangladesh should allow for the rohingya groups to do information campaigns about how to prevent transmission of coded 1000

. what has been happening is that the bangladesh officials have been saying no to those kind of campaigns unless they're running them themselves and people need to be able to get the information but the government claims that such campaigns would what problems panic the real panic is going to come from people who don't know 'd what the situation is and they have no information about what coven 1000 is or how to stop it. you know the government is not allowing people to use the internet so that coordinated efforts could be taken under by humanitarians on public health issues you can even call the government hotline from the camps if you want to be referred to a government hospital you know they're trying to do things in the camps with both hands tied behind their back i use and other groups in direct contact with the bangladeshi government over this. the bank of the as government unfortunately has not been listening to n.g.o.s and to other governments about this

issue of the internet access and the health crisis in the camps. you know i think that there has to be greater pressure put on the bangladesh government to realise that this is a wrong headed policy that has to stop otherwise there may be a very grave tragedy that occurs in the camps of the rowing. phil robertson from human rights watch i'm glad we could talk to you about this it is very important of course to keep these issues in the spotlight in these times thank you thank you very much. time for a look at your weather on the news i have to move if you go 1st well you were talking about some cooler dry weather pushing across northern parts of europe for the last couple of mile down towards the south so very different story it's turning very wet is clouding over in spain you can see this but every a cloud is just rolling towards the iberian peninsula with a nasty little area of low pressure there's that clear weather that dry weather high pressure strong area of high pressure up tools in the northwest and that's keeping it settled ices

a little the atmosphere suppresses the cloud we have the blue skies but down suppose the southwest as i said it's a very different story and we say some very very wet weather starting to push its way in across just by going to see that make its way into port because we go in through the next few hours will see it go on into tomorrow and that west the weather will continue to drive its way right across the plain some very heavy rain pushing in here. only around 9 degrees celsius which it should be at around $7018.00 at this time of the year asked for valencia that's where we're going to see the worst of the west the weather just in and around the valencia area that eastern side of spain and over the next 3 days we could see as much as 115 millimeters of rain coming down because some wet weather also making its way on the other side of southern europe that will grassy make its way towards southern areas of the balkans if you go through the next grace turning increasingly wet the further north come out thank you everton we'll get another check on the world

weather with everton in our next news hour still ahead on this one though we're going to clear up some of the misinformation for you about who is that most risk during this pandemic. where were you when j.f.k. was shot where were you when you landed on the moon and where were you when corona virus is happening and all of my only interesting story to tell him in years to come here the global health emergency putting a lot of people out of work but not actually grounding not in this space space program just yet and in sport before he can insult in the world's best moto g.p. right. took their eyes and skills online your. eyes only test treats and trace frank assessments why is it so he's struggling to cope with the number of her own virus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging

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on the news hour here at al-jazeera with continuing coverage of the corona virus pandemic new numbers just released from spain show the death toll there is risen by 812 in the past 24 hours old and 7300 people have now died since the outbreak began and there are more than 1005000 confirmed cases in china some people are going back to work with the virus was 1st detected the city's been under strict current team for 2 months now and u.s. president donald trump has extended emergency restrictions on social distancing as health officials predict deaths from the pandemic could rise into the hundreds of thousands this. let's talk information now because some of the information about this pandemic gets a bit confusing doesn't necessarily give us the full picture particularly about which age group is most at risk the world health organization says older people and those with preexisting conditions do appear to be the most vulnerable to serious

illness the data though is telling a slightly different story though in the united states for example as of march 16th it seems 20 percent of the people in hospital were between the ages of 20 and 44 and in south korea the highest number of infections are among those between 20 and 29 but we do know is that the fatality rate at the moment is 4.7 percent of that number 724000 all the confirmed cases worldwide and in the past few weeks a 14 year old boy died in portugal he is the youngest in europe there was also another teenager and france and an infant in the u.s. became the youngest person to be infected. well here is some young patients who are recovering from coronavirus urging people like them to take it seriously so you can be so many throughout the. day i've never found myself in such a condition and as a 33 year old i'm in great health and i still found myself suddenly in less than

a day and a half in intensive care for this ordinary flu if that's what you want to call it. anyone is thinking in taking any chances just take a look at me. i'm in the intensive care. i can't breathe without this. i've had to. so that into my ass. and the world health organization had this warning for younger people early this month also all the people who are the hardest heat younger people are not spared their time from many countries clearly show that people under 50 make up a significant proportion of patients requiring hospitalization today

i have a message for young people you're not invincible this virus could put you in hospital for weeks or even kill you. we've got dr pedro back with us now an infectious disease specialist on skype from oxford in the u.k. thanks for your time. so the the prevailing theory is that yes it will affect people who are older and who have underlying conditions i think the 2nd one is actually important what is an underlying condition in this case and actually can it is that actually a very wide spread of potential conditions. you know so typically conditions particularly that can affect the immune system that can be cancer of the 1st disease diabetes we've certainly seen high blood pressure and then importantly of course respiratory diseases any chronic respiratory disease like asthma would all qualify as those underlying conditions you know what's clear we're learning so much

about this this this disease every day what's clear is that everybody is vulnerable to infection and in fact in countries that have been testing a lot more aggressively they're finding that the proportion of infected people who are younger is actually quite high in well overall younger people have a lower risk of severe disease and death as your segment just pointed out and it's very clear that that anyone can be affected and in very unfortunate news in some very young people as well is it possible they and this is not to point the finger at anyone but that there was so much focus on all the papal and underlying health conditions in the early stages that younger people didn't take it seriously enough one speculation as to why we're seeing such higher rates of disease and even possible ization in western countries and actually in new york city about half of all the hospitalized patients are between 18 and 491 speculation is that younger people were less likely to abide by social distancing regulations because they felt

that maybe they were vulnerable that wasn't going to affect them and that may have actually driven more trends trends mission in those population so that absolutely is a possibility and it's really important that we correct the record ok so it becomes important then for well everyone but seeing as we are focusing on younger people here. well obviously keep themselves healthy but look off their means system take themselves fit if i give you an example of a 40 year old male who's had asshole his life and that's main i need to take this pretty seriously then. absolutely that's right and you know there are several you know cases of young people with no underlying health conditions that have also fallen into severe disease or who have died and so it's not only certainly he you know anyone with underlying conditions as we discussed these at higher risk in the it's to be extra careful but this is something that affects that affects all of our systems are times are ascent earlier and no one is offense or is there

a gender split at all i have read and maybe anecdotally that men are being impacted more part of that may be due to men who smoke more than women is that all just. say or is there some truth to that there appears to be a consistent trend now we're seeing a slight predominance of males over females amongst those infected but where really gets interesting is that men appear to have a higher death rate than women amongst those infected in that has cut across multiple different countries we don't know why yet certainly one suspicion is that for example in china in italy it's in places where a lot of these states are coming from that men are much more likely to smoke and drink and that can drive underlying health conditions and risk factors we haven't gotten to the point where we could actually tease out those data yet to determine whether whether that is the use of these kinds of behavioral things or whether there are some underlying kind of biological issues related to the immune systems

of men versus women that does it the it's friend know that when men get infected that they're more likely to get serious disease and it's on the to paint or draw back fictious disease specialist with some really good advice for all of us they thank you for your time doctor thank you. as cases of the virus rise hospitals worldwide are becoming overwhelmed and medical workers are among those of course most at risk in the philippines at least 12 doctors have died while treating the sick and the health system is struggling to handle the rising number of infections below with this report from manila. the philippine general hospital unusually empty the country's biggest public health institution treats more than 600000 patients several year now entire wards have been cleared after the government designated it the country's main role in a virus hospital certainly. just in paul is an infectious diseases specialist for

children whose been called into the front light to treat adults we have been more or less in terms of our managing that yards and then even us to get a chance. to even assess the economy in. a way for public hospitals private once in manila are widely considered to be depressed but they've stopped that meeting potential coronavirus patients after treating the 1st wave of infections so the empty road that you're seeing right behind me is what's called a facility quarantine zone basically local authorities have sealed off about a kilometer stretch of the road because inside the containment zone it's a hospital where there has been a rising number of coronavirus cases hundreds of health care workers have had to be isolated and several frontline doctors have died of the disease rate now we don't

know who has the infection on so when we go out there when we meet patients initially at that you are it's a very risky without any but that shines. it's really part of the anxiety on our part. well some of the government's limited resources are now at the disposal of the philippine general hospital health care workers from other hospitals continue to beg for help the health department says despite shortages it is still it's best to supply protective gear in the lead among . the shortage of personal protective equipment isn't in week to the philippines other countries are experiencing as shortage as well so we are purchasing and accepting donations at the same time rest assured we are working to provide hospitals in need of. the month long lockdown that began 2 weeks ago appears to be the government's preferred solution for now dr spear and outbreak the size of china

italy could mean the collapse of the entire health care system here barnaby low al-jazeera middle trying terrorists in india are now being converted into isolation units they'll be deployed across the country to reduce the burden on hospitals passenger train services have been suspended until april the 14th after a nationwide lockdown came into force last week india has more than a 1000 confirmed cases of covert 19 now security forces around the world trying to find ways to enforce lock downs and in colombia police people sort of police are resorting to some unusual methods and made they need a hearse carrying a coffin and reads it's been driving through the city broadcasting a message urging people to stay at home and in the city. using drones with loud speeches to get their message across. with more than 100000 health professionals

cuber actually has one of the highest doctor to patient ratios in the world and so the nation is sending medical teams around the globe to help with the coronavirus response and they're doing it often free of charge at augustine has the story now from havana. another early morning another ceremony to bed health workers farewell last week a troop of cuban doctors were dispatched to italy. this week medical professionals have been sent throughout the caribbean to grenada jamaica and today st kitts and nevis 29000 to cuban doctors and nurses are working in 59 countries around the world as confirmed cases of coronavirus increase so does demand for cuban medics medical services at the island's main export raising more than $6000000000.00 for the states in 2018 but the communist rule diamond doesn't charge for the thousands of doctors who work in more than a dozen low income countries in latin america and africa. the same goes for

disaster relief where cuban physicians have provided emergency assistance to millions almost a 1000 keven doctors arrived in haiti after the 2010 earthquake where they were the 1st to set up medical facilities amid the rubble. get mad there will be more than $12000.00 people willing to fight a bowler and right now there are thousands of cubans willing to complete these missions while western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the island's health system draw a different conclusion the root of it in addition to cuba's own health system which provides universal coverage in over thought access is really the belief that cuba is one of a number of developing countries that is trying to make life better for its population. from the moment we're born in this country we receive an education based on humane principles of the principle of solidarity and internationalism is

at the forefront of that this isn't about politics or ideology it's about humanity you're making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. look a man is a sea cause there are other people that need me people that are sick and dying and not isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. at augustan al-jazeera. so a 3rd of the world's population is now living under lockdown which is particularly challenging for children who have to stay indoors or go to stay away from schools and their friends and so in new zealand some are turning to teddy bears to support their young and themselves as ones. we're going on a bear hunt when not scared. from the pages of a children's book to the streets of all clint children hunting for teddy bears and people's windows the game is a way to entertain children living under lockdown we're going to be had probably

can't give out my year because i know. simon would that. these ilands coronavirus lockdown came into effect on thursday for 4 weeks citizens can only leave their homes if they were going to central services or going to the supermarket or for health care or to go for a walk with the people they love what we experience and accept that people will go for a walk they will take the children outside to get fresh air they might look for tb some windows spread if they passed people keep your distance don't talk to others just stay within your bubble and if you're in wellington and you're walking in the local neighborhood you might see one of my window her fiance followed up with this append and a beer looking down from the residence near parliament and it's not just in new zealand this was in washington d.c. and texas as coronaviruses spirit teddy bear hunts have follows from sydney to toronto and london they have started from community groups spread to cities and in

new zealand's case a nation each pull print is a geotagged beer. the psychological boost goes beyond children helping those isolating a home to feel part of the community while staying apart we've all been there on the one night he said a lot of attention and we cheering everyone from christchurch as we made it easy to get to see well just the kind of washed out place and it and it will all divisive. and if you look at washington we. shout you much expletive. i think it does help keep it going a shallowness of what we want to help each other all absolutely. lovely thing breaking out of little going around all over the world looking for j.b. . we know the medical rosen wrote the book we're going on

a bear hunt 30 years ago he said i didn't. know how does your ass for comment but was told he took the sick with virus symptoms still his words a coming to life supporting children and adults through the spending mick shelob ellis al-jazeera. lockdowns of men significantly less traffic on roads worldwide and cleaner air actually in major cities new satellite images released by the european space agency shirt dramatically lower levels of pollutants like nitrogen dioxide which is harmful to the lungs and prolonged exposure can weaken the immune system the european public health alliance says governments must take action to continue improving air quality once the coronavirus crisis is over. what does maps actually tell us is that human activities and especially transport contributes a lot to polluted air it harms our health and if we manage to get christan

then we can always saw. better at it probably did so now that we are forced to do that because if you look don't measure the messenger was visualized significantly improves german air so that tells us that change is possible and it should be done in a sustainable way we spoken a lot in recent weeks about how airlines and others in the transport industry being affected by the crisis it's also the causing delays there for space travel halting work for example on america's next manned mission to the moon and the chappelle's been looking at that. with so many aspects of our lives shutting down it can be reassuring to see some things keep going 1st mission for the united states base force a successful mission on thursday launched from cape canaveral in florida with a $1400000000.00 communications satellite on board and we have got 5 other parts of the space industry though are dealing with astronomical headaches just like

everybody else on the list and so we understand that the international space station may possibly be the safest place on earth over the next few months. the next men to leave the planet have been under heavy quarantine in russia star city forced to say goodbye to their families several weeks ahead of schedule that's to ensure they don't bring copa 19 to the international space station next week it's really interesting it's not unlike any other time in our in our lives is a generation really right like to me is this is goes into where were you when j.f.k. was shot where were you when you landed on the moon and where were you when corona virus is happening and i'll have my own interesting story to tell and in the years to come for nearly a decade the u.s. has relied on russia to fly its astronauts into low earth orbit but that will change in a few weeks if all goes according to plan. go on to for grab sample container nasa and the private american aerospace company space x. say the launch of a crude mission will go ahead in mid to late may regardless of the pandemic back on

earth there's a lot riding on the mission that giving the u.s. the capacity to send its own people into space once again. time lines for other missions will certainly have to be pushed back 3 to one ignition. nesses new ryan spacecraft is scheduled to take the next man and 1st woman to the lunar surface in 2024 nasa is also building the world's most powerful rocket to get them there and then hopefully to mars but the plant producing the rocket is just outside of new orleans which has one of the highest rates of new coronavirus infections in the world the agency shut nearby rocket production and testing facilities on march 19th and others across the country to protect its workforce when you work on a rocket a lot of people have to work very close to each other and that could of that could have really spread quickly it's even affecting spacecraft already millions of kilometers from earth the european space agency has put 8 of them in what's known

as hibernation mode because of reduced staffing and has suspended its launches indefinitely even with delays on the next. generation of their spacecraft nasa astronauts are busy performing a different public service sharing advice on how to cope with isolation at home after they survive the isolation of space some of it is just connecting you know reaching out and doing a video call with family and friends or or working on a project you know when i was on the word of it i do crossword puzzles with my boys over a video chat advice that we can all use right now no matter where we are in the universe and you should tell al-jazeera. still ahead on this news all sports news and football fans around. the world are turning to europe's only to leave for a quick sports fix.

that we're back with a look at sport has some thank you very much a while that his wimbledon tennis championships will be called off on wednesday according to the vice president of german tennis day called off the organizers themselves have already revealed that they are meeting on wednesday to make a final decision they've also confirmed their. no chance of the event which is scheduled to start on june 29th happening behind closed doors the french open which was meant to be happening in may has already been postponed until september hold of said the necessary arrangements have already been made and wimbledon should be counseled it is entirely unrealistic to imagine that with the travel strictures

that we currently have an international tennis tournament with hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world would be held this is unthinkable of the president of the tokyo olympics yoshiro mori says and new data for the rescheduled games could come this week the organizing committee held the 1st executive board meeting since the historic decision to postpone the games last week as they aim to work out a lot of the issues and now they'll have to face pushing back the game is a huge blow to japan which has already invested 12000000000 dollars in the run up the postponement is the 1st in the 124 year history of the more than lympics now while the current virus then democrat has forced most sport to grind to a whole to so far hasn't stopped the walls biggest pro wrestling accompanies that from putting televised show world wrestling entertainment a better known as w w

e along with rival promotion all elite wrestling have pressed ahead with their weekly programs albeit in empty venues w w e a have a converted their training center in florida into a makeshift arena and say the only necessary staff of present at filming is. the system to go ahead that with their biggest show the year the phone with a venue came as a surprise to many wrestling follow with wrestle mania it was reported the tape to their in recent days and will air this weekend at the full with meant to happen at tampa 65000 feet up and a filthy him but that plan had to be changed because of the covert 19 outbreak. well joining us now from u.k. is what culture wrestling's adam cleary adam how have wrestling promotions like w.w. been able to continue putting on shows among in the middle of this crisis well

fundamentally all have done is successfully managed to do what i think a lot of other sports initially considered that was to just move everything see empty and do your enos and when you do that obviously you reduce it from being a mass protest participation of events so just being a handful of people and i think with it being it's not a team sport as well that reduces the risk even further but i think the main decision they've made here is that this was a very good opportunity for pro wrestling because of the unique way it's structured and produced them all adaptable i think to this current crisis so they can script their shows around the problem they're not constrained or even obligated to really showcase the kind of much is that their advertising or somebody gets lost or be taken out of the situation they can do that or if you compare that to other sports like say the n.b.a. they can creatively right away to take one of their teams out of a match i think they've seen as an opportunity to be the only show in town effectively if they want to present it as a legitimate sport and there's no other legitimate sports currently on air i think

they thought they'd get a quite a large bump in the ratings as a result of what they did initially but i think people are now just more concerned about the safety of the performance speak of safety what about the oh is there any widespread health concerns among the rest of this. well the big name at the minute and i think when the zor said and done with the name is going to keep coming back to people is that of roman range one of the more high profile stars there and in october 28th he was forced to leave the company to begin treatment for leukemia he was out until february of the next year and his return was one of the you know genuine feel good moments of the sport in recent years but he's been forced to take himself out of wrestle mania just days before ford happened to health concerns of c m a covering from the universe in a far higher risk category than the rest of the roster and if the way the story's being reported is currently true which is he's out to make that decision himself and that's not going to be particularly good publicity for job when they could really do with some oluchi said he's not the only one at the moment it's quite a number of stars who for various reasons are going to be missing and to do we

don't do each credit they are quite happy to allow holmes to remove themselves from it are not comfortable performing so right now the rational media show looks nothing like the one they were trying to build to in january earlier in the air which i think leaves a lot of fans wondering why it's even going ahead in the 1st place will be very interesting to see thank you culture wrestling's adam clary thank you very much for that thank you. as alex marquez has won moto g.p. 1st ever virtual race with their season on hold the riders a took their competitive instincts on line so why does including reigning world champion mark marquez battle over a 6 lap virtual michaela circuit with a race being broadcast on the internet and on some of the world's major t.v. channels 2nd base is set to happen on sunday too after april. well cain won't be taking to the feel anytime soon with the english premier league on hold along with all other major competitions is however one league is still running

in europe where fans that can turn to for football fix matches are still happening in the by the russian premier league it's one of the continent's least glamorous divisions and his teams rarely make it past the preliminary stages of the champions league now is drawing the attention of foreign fans and organizers say they're agreeing in new broadcast deals that the russian president alexander look at in co believes that public events should continue with his country's official reporting less than $100.00 krone virus cases. and that's it for me thank you. with the latest on the belorussian premier league which i never thought would say on a sports both of them all sport from sonner in fact in the next news hour which is that 1300 hours g.m.t. it's about 2 hours from now and i'll be back for that as well in the meantime richelle carey will keep you up to date with all the latest coronavirus pandemic

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video emerges showing the strain on spain's hospitals as the death toll there from covert 19 rises by another 812 people in just 24 hours. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up back to work for the people in the chinese city of the virus outbreak originated. president extends guidelines on people for another month.