new york state accounts for almost half of the country's confirmed cases. and europe remains the epicenter of the corona virus pandemic because the number of infections and deaths across the continents continues to soar spain has registered hundreds of new deaths while the death toll in italy has surpassed 11000. security forces have been deployed across the way to enforce a 3 week lockdown which came into effect on sunday night to prevent the spread of the coronavirus health workers went on strike last week over concerns the health system will not cope with the likely outbreak. a cruise ship carrying sick passengers has made it through the panama canal after days of uncertainty at least 4 passengers have died 2 others have tested positive for corona virus and almost $200.00 say they have flu like symptoms the ship's operator hopes to let passengers disembark in florida the governor of rhonda some to says they will not be allowed into the states those are the headlines walls of shame is up next on al-jazeera.

one of the most highly regarded journalists in the philippines is facing charges of saliba libel what impact will the trial have on journalism in the digital age of the philippines the trial of journalist maria ressa on al-jazeera. 2016 was the deadliest year on record for migrants and refugees attempting to get into europe. over 5000 people died between libya and italy or turkey and greece. the following film was 1st broadcast in 2007 well before today's conflicts in the middle east. then many european migrants were using another less publicized route to

a better life. this is the southernmost outpost of for chris europe. to. get it's on mainland africa opposite the straits of gibraltar. the mediterranean enclave is one of the last vestiges of spanish rule in northern morocco. it's been european for more than 500 years and madrid insists it will never relinquish control. to the. recent visit by the spanish monarch highlighted the ongoing tension over the status

and future of soldier. spain has also cordoned it off from playing comparison with another war in another place so your me i. see that. the list. like one of them which is. the crossing between morocco and spain has become a magnet for tens of thousands of workers and migrants legal and illegal. but this is the back door into the prosperous european union and the hope of a better economic future. but within the town of so it is another divide

a social division that is religious and economic that when the wealthy christian spaniards and their poor a muslim compadre it's off moroccan to send. to . the town of so is a geographical anomaly parts of mainland africa but belonging to europe. even its geographical position it's no wonder that one of the foremost map makers of the ancient world was born here in $1099.00. helped make possible the great voyages of discovery which led to colonize ation and as in the case of soto the presence of europe in africa. once again economic opportunism is the prime mover but now the migration is in the opposite

direction. as those who were formerly colonized head north riven by war wound and oppression. ending up here at the gate of europe. africa. can still tell a group who are. second center to little problematic. what the migrants find is a double fence. most of it paid for by the european union. 4 meters high 6 kilometers long. cable dental dollars on the said. in this article the only. effective are they are they not of their own model i mean a few new york. which what the migrants also find is a holding center for their status as refugees is decided that typically takes

months it's not a frozen but there are straight. to tunisia to do nice who. wants to longest walk. to commute on city of. him or lose more yet. him off the path to. suit our city to city as we see is if. you. google to look good or merely. remove the market. for those who arrive often come from far further afield from other continents even. i came here from india

kashmir because of economical problem. in india. and. there are people who are allowed into from africa and it takes them only a few minutes every day thousands of moroccans trudged past the deserted guard posts that separate the spanish enclave from morocco. the bundles of soap clothes and oil they carry home for resale in morocco and not entirely legal traffic. but the spanish authorities turn a blind eye knowing how profitable this trade is to the city. this cross border trade is along with an old relationship built on mistrust and suspicion between spain and morocco over say.

it goes back to the collapse of muslim rule in spain at the end of the 15th century which for some gives the issue a religious dimension. and . here's a. little more thought. if you know a little. north. africa

be more you know one of them went. you know. they want to come in. on the surface say it sure appears to be a harmonious cosmopolis of the city. but through the middle of it runs a mob over. the invisible. but defied 70000 inhabitants along religious lines. around the theater. and then let's see. a shadow for them again it's a. beautiful souls and then. you have.

them. and. this is the impoverished hillside neighborhood of principally alfonso. disaffected inhabitants cite examples of official neglect contributing to their poverty and despair. this is well hard to say which is muslims live. and those muslims who feel marginalized make no secret of where their allegiances lie. we want to know what. they pray for the health and prosperity of the king the king of morocco.

whole. oh. so mission was leaving your team in adults. who work. full time and. for no home. i met. with the to see the 3rd of us where all 6 of us will be no matter the buffeted here in europe or not a home. part of a home i'll. feel heavier medina at any corner. and the thought i felt than a city here here let's talk for. you have a few minutes that i will see mean i let you know you know. there was even home.

it's a scene of 1st communion or often played out in mainland spain the priest officiating doesn't see any divisions between say which is christians and muslims. no no you are out of control you're going to get a lot of love you need so many people sitting in the door sort of the you know will manage it all all that here and they have been a lot of that i think into only that it some we go to the olive. oil and i could you get a more that i'm all that you know this i will add nothing that i have no into the moment about my say that you know what i feel what happened in the last you know well that is what i mean you know my mind put that out you know the fat intake of a low income which i know the money that you know i you want to buy your own oil but i still favor still face but it will be some of the money that i got but i think that even better than. the city of souter is spain's footprint on the very northern tip of africa and 5

african migrants. the shortest way into europe. to stop them europe was build a double barbed wire fence it's a modern version of the great wall of china and more recently the birdland wall while those walls relied on height and guards to keep outsiders of but a spanish fans bristles with electronic surveillance gear but the purpose is the same. offensive replaced much lower was too easily breached with the result battle of the truly desperate saulteaux became a stepping stone into continental europe. under worst. moment on. their own.

right here i wonder. if i mean you know i kind of i on my own i mean i've been some in the. if you're going to do is. those who still charms their luck wait in the surrounding forests but if course they're transported back to their countries of origin by the moroccan all qualities . now though there are a growing demand for a more constructive approach to bring about a lasting solution to the problem of illegal immigration. i say. it because. i said. i see a gun i go ahead. on that i feel. this appropriate bicycle nothing i gave you that. i say.

well let's. them. to see those programs in action when asked to cross the mainland spain on the other side of the mediterranean. this is the bay of cod these. are on the 25th of october 2003 local man was shocked by the sight of 35 male corpses

washed ashore close to his home 12 of them were from the same rock and. 2 feet. the corpses of young people. here in the fistfight. for 4 hours it was a very. heavy experience. when we found the people we take our cars with our own money and we went to morrow we were to find their people from him but he made out because benny morale is up plays with our high trade or any ration and we decided to go there i'm displaying there reeks of illegal immigration adverted 10 data

he took courses back. to get me for the man. who is a schoolteacher decided to take action if founded a charity called solly that is the director to ensure that the little moroccan village of. does not lose any more of its husbands in some he's constantly encouraging others to join him. easily that you have your town we all are volunteers we spend our all money we put our cars our work with on the theft of. money public money because we've seen that people have to shamed inside when people change inside it is able to change the world. and the change that rafael and his charity is

a mean to bring about is in the minds of 100 residents who still view migration as their only salvation being lit. the tension of the well known roles. even know when to. cross a. router it was very dangerous and many of their friends and parents were dead because of that sound of their young people from one salah wanted to cross browser here. but what makes the approach of this charity so innovative is not its idealism but its pragmatism in linking the economic interests of spanish citizens with the well being of those in a remote iraq and village. it costs taxpayers in spain 2000 euros every time that a drowned man is sent back in

a coffin so far better to spend that in developing the migrants place of origin and adoption of sorts the barbers can emulate we wanted to make from wareham sila a good place to leave because it these are good places to live. we have started building a small clinic a classroom for the children. we have started to give in. just groups in order to avoid that a little children work in the in the country because we understood that that is better that literacy and remain in the school i mean because if they are working in the country there is a possibility that if they try to any rate because they don't get enough money to leave but if they are sturdy they have a possibility of developing. this

imaginative grassroots initiative is a dog's with offense. policing approach favored by the european governments of europe. south is bob why barry a may for a time at least stop the flow. but it does nothing to remove jewelry on the line causes. a different. something artificial. to our d.m. it is not going to us stop people it is not going to stop or even ration he can control illegal immigration but it is not going to a stop. in order to stop illegal immigration we have to shane our mentality of. them entirely people have to change to in africa

because they are in africa they have to understand they have to work protecting their own interest in developing their own economies. is a radical shift in our thinking realize ation. sooner or later defense in sofia is going down sooner or later because france fancies a pair of people. from many years i go up to no people pay me great. and easy going to happen this time in the future. fantasies. are not the. east i work hard because their main frames its place inside our heart.

the film you've just seen was 1st brewed cost almost 10 years ago when the number of migrant deaths from spanish territory had reached its peak. the world's media only started to take notice when the drowned bodies of african migrants began washing ashore on the tourist beaches of the spanish canary i lose your. band's response was to stiffen its border security but despite all the effort and expense spent on beefing up its buddhist migration is on the rise. migrants hoping to be among the lucky few to reach the other side have often rushed the border fence shown in the c.c.t.v.

footage released by the spanish government sometimes the consequence is a tragic. on one occasion and see you try and 2014 at least 14 african migrants drowned when trying to swim their way from morocco to spain. these pictures show spanish buddha gods firing rubber bullets and smoke canisters to would survive this as they swim across the border. those who made it a life were to put it back to morocco on the other side of the. a spokesperson from the spanish ministry of interior said that shots fired one aimed at the swimmers and claimed their response was proportional. today this is no longer an issue isolated in a faraway spanish and played. the number of people hoping to reach europe has swelled by huge wave of refugees from was in syria iraq and afghanistan.

thousands of people a testing year of buddhas by the sea from libya to its early and from taki to greece and then continuing overland to europe. affluent countries. these scenes are from hungary as refugees attempt to travel west we are humans well documented the way that what you see us look everyone here they are families we don't need anything just to close the. other human off you're just doing like on the one this is not a human being dirty joke. in response europe is building more rules today there are 5 existing fences across the continent with at least one of the 6 either in construction scheduled. most of these rules separate e.u.

nations from countries outside the union but some fences a planned between member states a move that's against the spirit of the e.u. according to the e.u.'s foreign policy chief europe was built on the idea that walls have to fold down europe was built on the idea of coming together. that are more refugees and migrants travelling around the ward within africa within asia than those that are coming to europe this to say we have europeans to put things in perspective and to realise that it is not only a european phenomenon it is a global move. starting from wars conflicts poverty natural disasters climate change it is the war that is going in that direction people move out of desperation out of hope and we have to learn how to manage this. without a political solution in sight migrants and refugees remain undeterred taking on

increasingly dangerous routes into europe. when we where in the border in the same i was standing on one leg and raising my son on the other one too in order to get him up from the water because the water was still here. full of struggles full of pleasure to play when police look at it yeah it's pretty much what i said to him through. a lot of the goodness of the way that i'm in the wrong place about the but i me the route i want to be an intimate look at life in cuba is working mom there with a like i say ok perfect but the comment that made a year of my cuba. on al-jazeera.

feels and for me the the polls good kids are renowned for their courage under fire . one o one east finds out what it tikes to join the elite brigade. on al-jazeera. i do know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. rank outsider. to president of the united states. the power was in the data we will the american people with the truth and nothing else discover the formula for winning the white house unfair game on al-jazeera. explaining terms of policy towards africa it's the challenging mission set to secretary of state mike pompei on a 5 day visit to the continent the visit comes after the white house an ounce to a travel ban on 4 african nations and

a withdrawal of troops from west africa. next think it just demonstrates the 5. $1000.00 a year once and for many station. despite trump's travel ban being extended at the end of february to take in the 4 african countries including the continent's biggest economy insisted that the u.s. is open for business. the numbers have been incredible on testing president trump says the number of tests for corona virus in the u.s. is the highest in the wallet despite many states painting a different picture. although i'm adrian finnegan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the

coronavirus infection rate continues to fall and it's only in spain but the world health organization urges them to stay vigilant.