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if you bought is the global expert you were going to let the planet go through it because we're not who we are just open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on the road to 0. the on. spain records its worst single day death toll from coronavirus with $849.00 paid teletubbies and just the past 24 hour winds. hello again i'm the star of the attack and this is out of there alive from dar also coming up. a minute's silence to all of the thousands who have died in the pandemic. france germany and the u.k. send medical aid to run under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u.s.
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sanctions. and a lockdown in senegal but with limited access to clean water there are fears about how far infections could spread and. now as we've been saying spain has recorded its worst single day death toll so far with 849 deaths in just the past 24 hours it's the 4th day that the country's announced the deaths of more than 800 people this brings the total to more than 8100 spain as the 2nd west heads country in europe off to italy most iraq joins me from madrid now i know every day we look at these figures and we speculate about the trajectory of all this but is there a sense of where and when the peak might be in spain. well mr. live this fast street is due to do
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a baloo sion of the number of infections which had decreased or drop in the past 3 days we went from a 13.7 percent down to a 9.3 percent yesterday but today those figures have increased again we have reached $9200.00 people infected newly infected new infections in spain out of a net of a total of $94000.00 the death toll has reached $8100.00 with more than $849.00 more debt which is the worst since that since the whole of the damage is started here in spain so we don't know or have sorry had the minister sources say that these this increases is because due to the weekend but still we don't know we have to wait a little bit to see what happens next and martino that health care workers make up a significant amount of the people who are infected there how are the health care workers coping. well the situation of her coworkers in spain has been really
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dramatic here in spain medical resources to combat the pandemic had been running very very low and one of the sectors though there was more more effective with those was a health care are the health care workers they represent a 14 percent of the total amount of people infected in our country in spain affected of coronavirus that have tested positive so they were demanding at least their protective gear to to to develop their cats were due to use in bed in good conditions because all these people are are battling against the war and i was on the front line and there's a big response of conditions are or even being infected and conducting their own families so right now these past few days we have been receiving some a tiriel from the health minister some things are getting a little bit better. martha herrera there for us in the spanish capital madrid thank you very much melissa well it's really has held
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a minute of silence to remember its victims of corona virus. 812 new deaths were reported on monday reversing a 2 day downward trend now the country is the hardest hit in the wild with over 11 and a half 1000 deaths and more than 100000 people still infected. but tony has the details from the law. yesterday 812 people died. but the confirmed positive cases are now more than $100000.00 where the growth that appears to be a little slower than last week the daily increase in is constantly under the 8 percent now and the recovery is have never been so many so there is again a ray of hope even though we know that these numbers are not completely accurate and as i was listening to martin herero it seems there is pain is happening something really close to what would happen here and immediately especially long
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body according to the latest forecasts based on different researches italy could reach its peak in 7 to 10 days and see the new cases hitting 0 in the 1st 2 weeks of may of course there is still a long way to go we know that the restrictive measures are working because are probably saving thousands of lives new studies are confirming this but we probably all italian people expected the curve of the contagion to flatten earlier 'd than this when all of this began the lockdown when the lockdown was implemented we thought that 2 weeks would have been maybe enough to see some huge result but actually 23 days after the beginning of the lockdown we're still very far from from seeing. a solution. well the united
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states now has more cases than any other country in the wild more than 3000 people have died there at least a 1000 of them in new york state alone in the west affected area across the country nearly 165000 people are infected now after dismissing the dangers posed by the virus in the early stages of the outbreak president donald trump now says his administration is ramping up testing bob's doctors nurses and paramedics across the country growing increasingly desperate for more face masks hospital gowns ventilators and other medical equipment companies in the u.s. are overhauling factory lines to try to speed up the supply of all these lifesaving items reynolds reports. as medical professionals struggle to treat thousands of coronavirus patients donald trump has repeatedly and inaccurately assured the public that vast amounts of vital supplies are readily available or will be
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provided soon we have tremendous numbers of ventilators been the masks and numbers of masks are incredible but the promised supplies aren't getting to many people who need them one indiana hospital begged anyone with a sewing machine to start making masks makes you feel less helpless and it empowers you and heizer bush the world's largest beer maker is making medical grade hand sanitizer as is the much smaller alabama craft distillery yellow hammer the processes are pretty similar to what we were doing before so it wasn't a difficult swap the global haynes brand makes underwear and sports clothing now under contract with the government it's also making masks really. early manufacture so there were some socks and underwear the t. shirts sweatshirts so we can we can really create a gun to school we need to so we expect to make between 50000000 and 75000000 mass
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for the federal government with assembly lines shut down the ford motor company is collaborating with other big manufacturers general electric and 3 m. to produce medical face shields using 3 d. printers the companies also hope to adapt auto air filters and other equipment to make critically needed ventilators and respirators last weekend president trump falsely said the companies were making respirators right now in fact full scale production is months away efforts by companies large and small will greatly help in the crisis but all those efforts take time and as the pandemic spreads rapidly time is one thing. doctors nurses and patients have an. robert oulds 0 los angeles. while our white house correspondent can be how katrine's us now live from washington d.c. kimberly as we're watching these numbers escalate we're also i believe expecting
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some new modeling from the white house is there an emerging sense that of the scale of this spread across the country now. i think they've had this picture for a while but what we're hearing is that it's finally going to be public and we're already getting the sense that these numbers are not going to be good dr deborah burks who is one of the public health officials who's coordinating the response in the united states is expected to reveal the data that she has previously shared with the nation's governors that resulted in a large number of states more than half in the united states some 250000000 people sensually telling them just stay home because the next 2 weeks are going to be critical so we expect that those numbers are going to be shared but we already know the numbers are not good what she's going to tell us we expect is that they're going to get worse but we have almost 165000 of factions in the united states we
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believe that number is actually much higher due to the lack of widespread testing and we know that we have now ticked above 3000 deaths in the united states but the numbers are expected to hear is that the deaths in the united states could reach anywhere from 100-002-2000 extension 00 so in the midst of all of this we are hearing that these numbers are surpassing the numbers in china which many people are calling to question whether or not china's numbers were 100 percent accurate or truthful in terms of how they're being shared but we know that where these numbers are concentrated right now in the united states new york city is still the major hotspot but we see hotspots starting to pop up now in other parts of the country michigan illinois louisiana even here around the washington d.c. region we've just as of yesterday have the stay at home orders put in place so we're watching these numbers carefully they're going to be at the $21.00 she briefing from the white house and we expect that the predictions of what's about to
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happen in the next 2 weeks will likely be grim and we'll be bringing you all of that as it happens thank you so much for that committee howkins in washington d.c. . well mexico has declared a public health emergency there and imposed a series of new measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus people over the age of 60 as well as those with preexisting health conditions have been told to stay at home mexico has more than 1000 confirmed cases with 28 deaths so far now the u.k. is preparing to open the doors to a new makeshift hospital in london it's being set up inside the convention center and will house 4000 beds the u.k.'s chief scientist says he expects a surge in hospital admissions into shit 3 weeks. now still ahead on al-jazeera. showing up more business the company in gaza that's rehiring stock so it can fell a huge demand for medical claiming. and what's next for the oil industry as the
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coronavirus pandemic continues to crush to mom. and other still friends right across southern and central areas of china a bit of a break in the last few as me was given the japan to see the very heavy rain as we go through the next 24 hours but we have seen of course pulls into province and this is where we have had this landslide this was caused by the rains this train was derailed one person died $127.00 was injured a little bit of a break as a sail was over the ground is very very saturated but wednesday it is the turn of honshu to see some very heavy amounts of rain it's a very big storm system this one some strong winds as well moving fairly swiftly so by thursday it does push away from northern honshu so bring those rains but it
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should stay mostly to the east of but this is also when the rain is back in the 4 calls in the southern as the china very heavy at times sunny a cool it and hong kong as well with that rain just $23.00 degrees celsius the rains a very widespread throughout much of indonesia philippines a mostly dry maybe the old scattered showers big you see border lation that to the north and east that's where the rains the heavy sooner you can barely actually make out under the rain and also very widespread across much of sumatra meanwhile india is a quiet picture for the next couple of days that very warm high of 37 in our pool. before any official investigation into the tragedy of flight m h 70 was complete the website one citizen journalist used to have connected the dots in lay dead to one of the members are viewed by the investigations team at every count has identified the 2nd something citizen journalism investigations
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trustees generate through transparent don't believe me here's the. truth and approach truth coming soon on 00. 0 again i'm the stars here today and let's remind you about our top stories this hour spain has recorded its west a single day death toll so far with 849 fatalities in the past 24 hours it's now the 4th day in a row that spain has reported more than $800.00 deaths over $94000.00 people that are infected. in italy flags are flying at half monster and
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a minute of silence has been observed to remember those who've died from corona virus italy is the hardest hit country in the wild with more than 11 and a half 1000 people dead and over 100000 vectors. now the world health organization is calling on asia pacific countries to stay vigilant in their fight against the pandemic the warning comes amid further travel restrictions in japan and a number of infections in singapore nearly 1000 people in the city state now have the virus story reports. whew hunt china where the virus began reported no new cases on monday it 7th day in a row and nationwide all the new cases reported when porter but the world health organization warns even for countries where the case they seem to be tapering off this is not the time to let their guard down its regional director for western pacific takeshi cousin says countries will have to adopt multiple approaches
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testing isolating and physical distancing to slow the spread of the virus even. though these measures there is no. way. louder measures can i asked. me just mission more countries are tightening restrictions japan has a citizen it's not to travel to 73 countries and regions or a 3rd of all countries in the world cases that have topped 2000 with 2 clusters emerging in tokyo over the past week last week china banned foreigners from entering the country after seeing a rise in imported cases in hong kong residents who've returned from abroad are monitored to ensure they don't break quarantine rules and also have found the mobile app sends me notifications ok janelle asks me to take
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a photo of my arm with a wristband at my home but i've no idea if anyone is really checking my response to malaysia which imposed strict measures on movement and closed its borders to foreigners to reaks ago will not require returning citizens to be quarantined at government centers instead of at home new zealand has extended a national state of emergency for another 7 days to provide the government powers and resources it needs to prevent the spread of coronavirus indonesia says it will ban all arrivals in transit by foreigners as the number of cases in deaths rinds no one knows how long the pandemic will last but even after it's over its impact will be felt for a long time the wall bangs was case scenario estimates 11000000 people in the region could be forced into poverty florence 3 al-jazeera. well now india is attempting to track down people who attended a gathering of muslim religious leaders to dozens of people tested positive for the virus and at least 7 of them died as many as 1500 people from across india and
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other countries were at that meeting in the capital new delhi 700 have been sent to a quarantine center while hundreds more are in hospital india is under lockdown with people ordered to remain indoors until april 15th fronts germany and the u.k. have sent aid to iran under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u.s. sanctions it's the 1st transaction under the new system set up for the exchange of humanitarian supplies and food after the u.s. withdrew from the 2015 new kid deal iran is the worst hit country outside of the us and europe currently and it's just reported $141.00 new deaths bringing its total to nearly 2900 more than 44000 iranians have now been infected. in the capital and he explains how that trade mechanism between europe and iran works. we know that this is the 1st shipment and it's medical supplies being traded
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through this. through this. trading system now what this is. called the. support of trade exchanges it was set up as a bypass to us saying to the u.s. dominated global banking system after the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal and implemented sanctions on iran's oil and banking sectors and the idea is it's a barter system to help european countries signatories to the 2050 nuclear deal carry on some kind of trade in food and medical supplies and other humanitarian goods with iran despite u.s. sanctions that the initial signatories to this instax were britain france and germany as you said late last year 5 more european countries from the e.u. joined up certainly something that angered u.s. officials at the time but the problem all along has been that the governments that are supporting instax to try to trade with iran have never been able to convince. businesses to do trade because those businesses and other governments have been
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afraid of secondary u.s. sanctions placed on them for doing business with iran but begs the question what is the volume going to be is this going to be good enough for future trade with iran is the wrong continue to conduct a crowing about a something that the president a few days ago said could be around for years. ramping up production of medical equipment to tackle the qur'an a virus that territory has confirmed just 10 cases health officials fear that a wide outbreak could have devastating effects. a queen takes this is anything but business is usual the company which provides clothing and blankets to gaza's health sector has largely switched from manufacturing to imported what it can get through the israeli and egyptian blockade but now it's rehiring laid off employees to make just one product medical grade covering the health workers preparing to confront the coronavirus. that if it were your god given the now we're getting an income we can buy food for our children and
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get them what they need before the coronavirus we could just get a bit of seasonal work. cohen a house on a one is for now at least rare in gaza someone who seen the effects of the pandemic up close he'd been living in china for 15 years sourcing the company's products when the virus started to spread he was quarantined for 2 weeks before deciding to come home. i knew the virus would reach us here because i wanted to import the suit from china but it would have taken too long so i got all the specifications from chinese friends and decided to produce it here we found the raw materials and made a prototype and i got the ministry of health approval. he says his 5 factories can produce a 1000 suits a day but gaza's market has only enough room material to make a total of $10000.00 the same blockade that has hampered the market has also slowed the entry of the virus into gaza but with a handful of cases now detected there is huge concern about the potential impact on
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a densely packed strip of 2000000 people reliant on an already struggling health system. another textile factory and more intense activity here and in 4 other restarted sister factories they're working 2 shifts a day to meet demand but these mosques aren't for gaza they're going to the occupied west bank and israel. was thought of as the day that in the past because effect she's had been working around the clock to supply israeli west bank and gaza markets but because of these really siege. says this part of the kerner virus purchasing orders from an israeli private company and then of the company in hebron in the west bank a total of $5000000.00 mosques. has rehired more than $150.00 unemployed workers to fulfill the massive orders but while he and his employees a glad of this sudden surge in demand there's also a fear that it could be the prelude to a devastating new crisis for garza's economy and the health of its people are
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a force that al-jazeera well in government has ordered cafe towns to stem the spread of coronavirus but in a country with limited access to clean water following the health guidelines difficult make us happy. in the fight against the virus senegal is deploying bulldozers. this informal market was where people came for food clothes for a cup of tea destroyed in a matter of minutes by a government which wants people to stop gathering in public spaces. vendors retrieve what they can before the market is disinfected the chemicals used are meant to protect them they're told protect them from what wonder street vendors. more threatening than the virus is the uncertainty ahead he says it's very dangerous you know people are selling. you know doing their activities because they don't want to stay at home because when they're when they stay at home they cannot actually food feed themselves in the answers neighborhood where people live in
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close proximity social distancing is a luxury confinement is not an option for those struggling to survive while president shows people how to wash their hands in a country where most people have access to running water the government is trying to impose a state of emergency and a curfew in order to limit movement of people this is the case not just in senegal but in other african countries too several infected patients have escaped quarantined in isolation units in hospitals in mauritania zimbabwe this crisis is really feeling the level of trust people have in their government and health services before the outbreak already people here were struggling with access to water and electricity now with even more restrictive measures they struggle with trying to make ends meet. half a 1000000000 people across sub-saharan africa live on less than $3.00 a day some already face war now they face a potential deadly virus save the children says cases of coven $1000.00 have gone
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up by 500 percent in just a week we need to it now and we need to maintain support. on which we're not. such are the words the cast. of. cash strapped african countries are calling for a day with even 150000000000 dollars in emergency funding with the number of cases multiplying daily time isn't on their side because hawke al-jazeera deckard well nigeria has imposed a 2 week lockdown on 3 major states that are home to almost 30000000 people take a look at the streets of lagos that's africa's biggest city the normally jammed with traffic but will almost entirely empty on tuesday nigeria's president has ordered a cessation of all movement the lagos state government has launched a program to deliver food 220-0000 households during that time well earlier i spoke
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to dr michelle yao he is a program manager for emergency response at the world health organization for africa he says the management of coronavirus in africa has to be adapted to local circumstances. when confinement miss us are taken in the african contests he said that we take into account how they a vulnerable people will continue to live in many settings we also have people suffering. from a humanitarian crisis including security we have displaced people out people dot com not the fault to live without any support and the way that the confinement may have the event side effects including having assessed to normal sentences so confinement measure would be really think designed in a way that some enabling intervention should go along with it confinement and also the confinement we really contribute to reduce cases by
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strengthening the detention by also skating up that treatment a capacity so one sought intervention like confinement is not enough to deal with you may have many side effects that's weak on even was sent they have found this on off many people not to look far to 2 men for malaria as well as that they are in many of the also fetal so they all say that all of them should be redesigning we fed 3 yards and then one tunnel going to off they could have it might not cement of a ton at keeping the of us said this is running. now saudi arabia has ordered it state run oil company around to boost output for the 1st time in a decade the move comes after a dispute over output levels earlier this month sparked a price war between russia and saudi arabia and the fall in demand juta the coronavirus pandemic has also pushed prices further down. reports.
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create is called the current crisis the glut there is so much cheap oil available they're running out of places to store it and that's on top of a catastrophic drop in demand due to the coronavirus pandemic the global oil industry is at breaking point the crisis began earlier in march at the headquarters of the oil cartel known as opec vienna a 3 year old part to cut oil production fell apart when oil giants russia and saudi arabia disagreed and further cuts the russians who were allies but not members of opec ended up refusing even to comply with previous reductions saudi arabia flooded the market with crude it also offered additional discounts to crush competition responded with a similar output increase oil prices dropped dramatically some markets trading at less than $20.00 a barrel. supertankers have become floating oil storage tanks for tens of millions of barrels of oil over $1000.00 has closed china's factories entire airlines have been grounded around the world lockdowns mean there are fewer cars and roads now
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emerging economies such as india are telling refiners the spread of the disease allows them to rip up existing oil purchase contracts but the biggest impact is on the world's largest producer united states it's not part of opec and us shell oil producers had been increasing output. cutting. some u.s. senators say saudi arabia and russia are raising economic warfare against the u.s. . the u.s. oil lobby wants to southeasterly opec to partner with the us immediately universe its high output policy longer term it's actually threatening the survival of the u.s. industry at this point these prices are so low in the states west texas intermediate crude is just a little over $22.00 right now that's below the break even price for most domestic oil and gas producers and so there's actually laid down their rigs they stop drilling and even some producers have talked about shutting in just trying to survive at this point saudi arabia has so far shrugged off u.s.
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pressure but opec is in the eye of an economic storm efforts to convene a meeting have failed the saudis aren't talking to the russians to stabilize the market that means prospects for covering prices are bleak at best oil traders fear the market is likely to worsen in coming weeks some of the job either does their. well an explosion at a gas pipeline in eastern turkey has halted the flow of natural gas from iran as happened in a town close to the border the cause of the explosion is not yet and i. know again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines spain has recorded its west a single day death toll so far with 849 fatalities in the past 24 hours it's now the 4th day in a row that spain has reported to more than 800 deaths over 94000 people that are infected with private 19 months are rare has more from madrid. this the speakers
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experts are saying that we're far from being realistic because we haven't got enough test kits for everyone we have patients going on meters in hospitals without being tested we've got we've got all these health care workers that represent a 14 percent of these 94000 people. that are of the percent or 14 percent of people infected in spain they have the symptoms to going to work to hospitals here in the med you see in the emergency units working. with a jar infected or now in italy flags are flying at half mast and a minute of silence has been observed to remember those who've died from coronavirus italy is the hardest hit country with more than 11 and a half 1000 people dead and over 100000 infected now india is attempting to track down people who attended a gathering of muslim religious leaders after dozens of people tested positive for
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the virus and at least 7 died as many as 1500 people from across india and other countries were at that meeting in the capital new delhi 700 have been sent to a quarantine center for hundreds more are in hospital france germany and the u.k. have sent aid to iran under a trade mechanism designed to avoid u.s. sanctions it's the 1st transaction under a new system set up for the exchange of humanitarian supplies and food after the u.s. withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal nigeria has imposed a 2 week lockdown on 3 major states that are home to almost 30000000 people the streets of lagos africa's biggest city and only jammed with traffic but almost entirely empty on tuesday nigeria's president has ordered a cessation of all movement well those are the headlines will be here with more news shortly. how much is the coronavirus of the stock market affecting the
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