it's hard to treat everyone has a voice tell us what you think and you're going to say he could be a right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progress and not perfection on out to 0. 0. hello again i'm the star and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes economic pain from coronavirus a record 6600000 americans filed for unemployment benefits just one week. no response to spain as its records the biggest jump in daily deaths from car that 19. the british prime minister vows to ramp up coronavirus testing after

a wave of criticism there. and with south africa in the middle of a 3 week lockdown we hear from a johannesburg resident about how people are cared. about peter simmons with the sport of argentina instructed carlos tevez has cooled and his father football is to open up their wallets and help during the current coronavirus crisis. now the economic devastation caused by the current of our us outbreak is becoming clear what the united states once again announcing skyrocketing rates of unemployment a record $6600000.00 people have now applied for unemployment benefits that's 3000000 more than last week it's a similar story in spain strict quarantine measures that have now led to 800000 jobs being lost in march 3 point 5000000 people are now without work and the race

of people applying for benefits in the united kingdom is 10 times the normal almost a 1000000 people have claimed universal credit in the past 2 weeks despite a stimulus that's meant to prevent layoffs. welcome to how katrine's us now live from washington kimberly 6650000 filing for benefits that's huge but not unexpected . yeah it's not unexpected the numbers bear repeating as you point out 6600000 filed in just one week and we add that to the previous week 3300000 filing for unemployment that puts us at 10000000 people finding themselves out of work asking the government for help in just a very short time frame and what we're seeing is that this is across all sectors that has hit healthcare it has hit hospitality it has hit entertainment this means that the impact of the shutdown on this economy as a result of social distancing to spread coronavirus has really hit all sectors of

society particularly when you're talking about those income earners at the low end of the wage scale now in the midst of all of this the question becomes what sectors are going to come back when they're finally are these restrictions that are lifted they're going to be many people that are nervous about taking cruises for example getting on an airplane to go on a trip or stay in a hotel fearful that the virus has not been completely quassia as a result the question becomes whether we'll see any of these jobs coming back but i want to make one more point this is why we see the u.s. president now making the argument that there needs to be another economic rescue package bringing in infrastructure jobs there is an awareness already that these jobs are coming back in there will need to be new jobs created to put america's workforce back in the workforce and to me as we've been saying this crisis is likely to continue for some time what more are we hearing from the white house now about how they're going to deal with the pandemic itself especially with such

equipment shortages that we keep hearing about. what we're seeing is a striking shift in tone by the white house the president has adopted a very somber tone he is acknowledging that there are going to be an enormous number of americans that are likely to die 102200000 are the projections but he's also trying to focus on the number of americans that will be saved as a result of these radical and direct kone and approaches to social distancing it has all we've already discussed has really hurt the economy but we're starting to see some milestone numbers not only do we have 270000 infections in the united states 5100 deaths but we're approaching that 1000000 mark in terms of the factions worldwide in the united states and all around the world we're seeing these stockpiles of equipment that are slowing or are running low so what we're seeing from this white house are promises are intimations that we're going to see even

more harsh measures he has not ruled out the u.s. president perhaps putting a ban on some domestic flights what you can see here what you can gather is that this is a white house that's uncertain as we see this sort of uncertainty around the economic and social impacts getting ever worse every day. there for us in washington d.c. thanks very much kimberly a lot of uncertainty too and spain joins me live from madrid march as we were saying almost 900000 people more out of work but i'll get to that in a moment because we've also been seeing some other sobering figures today a new record death toll for spain and the wild. yes and $150.00 coronavirus dead in spain in the last 24 hours again the deadliest day with more than $10000.00 in total writing the death rate to $9.00 or 7 percent it's another day with more than 800 new infected cases of corona virus

reaching 110000 of people infected from call it 19 health minister reported today that with the current might be used to have a life and we were might be witnessing now a slowdown the health ministry also reported that now they will focus on the unit in the intensive care units they don't want they want to prevent them to be overwhelmed of being collapsed. even though the curve may be reaching its peak it also seems there is no responded to spain talk us through the economic situation there now. while in spain since the corona virus outbreak 900000 jobs have been lost since march 12th meets meat market 2 weeks ago 2 years of job creation had been lost and there are 4500000 unemployed insane the region's most affected are the south and then feel. dollars that leave up on tourism and the sectors

that have been more devastated our construction and tourism of course spain has already committed huge sums of money to support companies. and workers and european union limits and budgets have been more relaxed to borrow to borrow more but this is not enough and 9 countries of the eurozone including spain italy and france are calling the rypien union to issue debt today there's a european commission that might approve an economic plan to help unemployment in spain and italy. are there for us in the spanish capital thank you marcel. well british prime minister barak johnson has vowed to massively increase testing after the u.k. reported a record jump in its daily coronavirus deaths well johnson himself has been in self isolation since friday when he confirmed he has the virus his government is on the increasing pressure to ramp up travel restrictions and to provide widespread

screening as the number of infections that rises rapidly oh we're also massively increasing testing and i want to say a special word about testing because it is so important and i as i've said for weeks and weeks this is the way through this is how we will unlock the coronavirus puzzle this is how we will defeat it in the end and what we need to do is massively ramp up not just tests so that you can know whether you've had the disease in the past the so-called antibody test because that will enable you to go to work in the confidence that you can't be infected or infectious whole that's not going to join a whole who is in london for us joining us in such controversy over the lack of testing facilities in the u.k. and i believe you're standing in a repurposed ikea coppock tell us a little more about what's happening where you are. well it's part of what boris

johnson says the testing is to be enormously stepped up but all sorts of efforts are being undertaken to achieve that and in the face of huge political controversy as you say the government repeatedly being austin failing adequately to explain why there are only something like 100 up 210000 tests a day being conducted here in the u.k. well in a country like germany there are 70000 tests a day being done now arguably the group that most needs that testing of frontline health care workers with the approaching peak of the epidemic possibly less than 2 weeks away this is an ikea cup uk here a drive through testing facility now there are 5 of them around the country it's not very busy as you can perhaps see we have seen long lines of cars during the course of the day but pretty intimate and that may be some teething problems in the system here people are going to turn up with an email from public health england inviting them to come to this facility but we spoke to a paramedic a short while ago who is self isolating at home with symptoms of the disease but

doesn't know whether he's got it hasn't got an email doesn't know how to get one he was asking us how to get one sickly there are some problems in the system here but all of this aimed at frontline health care stop the government existing they are ramping up testing expecting to hit 25000 tests a day by the end of the month that's for people sick in hospital and frontline health care stocks and up to hundreds of thousands a day in the weeks following that but really with as i say the peak possibly a fortnight away expected death toll to hit a 1000 a day possibly as soon as this weekend the water is that the u.k. is overwhelmed by coronavirus long before they have the sort of testing they need to deal with it and as we've been waiting for this peak we've been watching these unemployment figures climb how people are bracing there as the economic situation continues to deteriorate. yeah well you know britain no less of a hit with hurt by all of this by coronavirus than any of the other countries

you've been told me to spain in the united states the latest figures suggesting that some 950000 people almost a 1000000 people tried to sign on in the last couple of weeks to the government's universal credits benefit system that's according to department of work and pensions 10 times the normal number of the a 2 week period and they've drafted in thousands of extra stuff to help process these applications and another grim statistic coming out of the office of national statistics suggesting that a quarter of all british firms are in the process of or have made decisions to lay off staff their headline one at the moment british airways the national flag carrier in talks with unions possibly to lay off some 36000 people 80 percent of its workforce now a lot of those people will be furloughed they'll be caught by the government's job retention schemes that will pay them up to 80 percent of their salary to a fixed limit while this crisis goes on but quite a lot of people up to 2000000 hours contract workers for instance who simply don't earn enough to be eligible for the government's scheme or became self employed to

soon too recently will simply fall through the cracks and many of those of course some of the least well off in society turn a whole there for us in london thank you for that update turner. well speaking of figures turning to infections u.s. president on trump has once again tested the relationship with chinese president xi jinping doubling down on his accusation that beijing is under reporting cases that the numbers seem to be a little bit on the lights and i'm being nice when i say that relative to what we witnessed and what was reported but we discussed that with him not so much the numbers as what they did and how they're doing and we're in constant communication correspondent katrina you has this update from beijing. china's foreign ministry spokesperson what union called u.s. accusations that china wasn't being accurate in its coronavirus data shameless watching also said that washington was politicizing this pandemic in order to

divert attention away from its own bad handling of the crisis in the u.s. and that it would do better to focus on the health and safety of its own people now these are the these strong comments of course following trump's comments as well as a leaked report from the u.s. intelligence community as a reported by bloomberg that bitch that china was basically fudging its core in a virus numbers that these numbers were basically fake and that it wasn't true that fewer people in china have died from covert 19 compared to people in the u.s. now china and chinese state media has been on the defensive about its coronavirus datta for the past few days saying that the u.s. is engaging in china's smear campaign blaming china in order to sort of focus the attention away from its handling men away from political squabbles over the outbreak but it's true that china's counting of the coronavirus the coronavirus does say here in china has changed over the past few months

a number of times and at the moment china has just over 80000 cases and chinese health experts have been saying look the reason it's much lower comment other countries compared to the u.s. is because china acted quickly it locked down much of the country quickly and the role so saying that the fact that asymptomatic cases were not included in the official tally until wednesday is more of a matter of statistics and data and not a matter of transparency and accuracy whole nearly $3000.00 sailors on board a u.s. aircraft carrier will be taken off the vessel and by friday as navy officials struggle to quarantine crew members around 100 sailors on board the theodore roosevelt have tested positive so far victoria b. reports. the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt docked in guam the us territory in the pacific ocean for days the captain of the aircraft carrier has pleaded with the pentagon to allow $4000.00 sailors off the vessel because the corona virus has been spreading uncontrollably

through the ship's cramped accommodation the pentagon is now planning to evacuate the ship after initially saying the situation was under control there have been a 1000 sailors there that have been taken off the ship approx as a certain percentage of those are in isolation because they are as positive according to split or as like symptoms and they are in the process of being ousted another percentage of that is 'd in quarantine locally on able base want groups of sailors will fly in and out of the naval base on guam those who test negative will spend 14 days in quarantine in a hotel anyone testing positive will be placed in isolation are conditions was that they had to be in their rooms they cannot get out of their rooms they can go to their balconies but they cannot wander around the hotel premises 18 not go to the beaches the sites closed all beaches. and they cannot go outside for

a core group of about a 1000 crew will stay on board to be replaced after 14 days by those who have already undergone quarantine they'll maintain the ship's weaponry and nuclear reactor some sailors onboard the roosevelt told the san francisco chronicle of their admiration for their captain phillips king out for their interests rather than their mission i spent 24 years in the navy and i know you command a carrier you're almost guaranteed. to make out i go on outside of chain of command there were opportunities he put them welfare are the men and women who work for him ahead of his own career. navy commanders have refused to comment on whether the ship's captain will be punished for speaking out but among the sailors on board there's a sense of relief that the measures he was asking for are finally happening the turia gays and be al jazeera. now the sheer scale of the pandemic means feral traditions are being broken in iraq some cemeteries are refusing to accept the dead

which is traumatizing and infuriating families who are in mourning some are felt and reports from baghdad. a desperate plea for help posted on facebook from the confines of a government run quarantine facility. we pay over to the higher religious authorities to find a solution the body has been at the morgue for $4.00 or 5 days now god can not accept that this is the family of. a 67 year old baghdad resident who died on march 21st from covert 19 in the line of muslim tradition body should have been laid to rest within 24 hours but no grave yard would accept to bury him the ordeal has further traumatized the grieving family who spoke to them after they were released from quarantine. the people in tribes that live around the graveyards refused to allow the burials they said this is a pandemic and it will spread through the ground but i blame the government because

the graveyards are under their responsibility nobody came to bid their respects during the 3 day mourning period instead people sent banners with messages of condolences there is a widespread stigma associated with covert 19 and some of it stems from fear of being buried in a way that goes against islam religious leaders have tried to clarify which burial rights can be waived well. we believe that any dead person should be honored by a suitable burial except in one situation if a normal burial could hurt the living people at that point we can view some conditions like washing the corpse but it's important to preserve honor by bringing the body. school religious authorities and the ministry of health have appealed to graveyards not to turn away covert 19 victims one of them to me always out of the world health organization and health minister issued instructions on how to deal

with the bodies by sterilizing them wrapping them insert ice cover and bring them to meters below the ground all the experts say they'll be no risk associated with those bodies. but the message had little effect and the government has now allocated designated covert 19 burial sites in the desert the popular mobilization forces and umbrella of mostly iranian backed per military groups agree to carry out the burials or definition we are not varying from random i would do anything line with islamic law 1st we put his right cheek on the soil facing mecca the shrouds are available and we can also bathe the bodies if the health ministry allows it still convincing families to let go of deeply rooted cultural and religious beliefs has been a challenge ultimately they had no choice was. 8 days after his death security forces scored the family to the desert to bury his body

there was nothing to mark the location to help the family return for prayers and little assurance they say that his soul would rest in peace. now the president of the philippines has ordered soldiers and police to shoot anyone who violates the mandatory month long lockdown or to go to ted he issued the warning after a protest by villages complaining about the lack of food. if you want shooting sure if you want i want he said to use my orders of for the police the military and the villages in case these trouble end is an occasion with a fight and if your life is 3 since shoot them so let this be a warning to follow government at this time because it's really critical that we have order. to melinda going as in manila for us and she says rights groups are warning the government against relying too heavily on law enforcement to try to contain the virus. this comes after

a group of residents came out and one of the bigger cities here basically had like a lightning protest saying that they had not received any food or any sort of assistance from a local mayor here that this triggered a massive arrest more than 20 were arrested yesterday here in manila and a few hours later the president appeared in a recorded message basically threatening and given clearance for police to shoot anybody that will value violate his clearance and his lockdown. rules here across the region of luzon the rights groups are saying basically that the problem with the government is that it is approaching this pandemic mainly through law enforcement but according to police more than 17000 filipinos have already been arrested since the lockdown more than 2 weeks ago many are arrested for minor offenses such as violation of curfew manipulation of prices and hoarding but you know largely this has been an accepted by the public basically what rights groups

are saying is asking the government again to not approach this pandemic the same way that the president has also approached his so-called drug war for the last 3 years through brutha law enforcement. policy apart from looking at this as a societal health issue. well to another country now where police have come under fire for being too heavy handed south africa is in the middle of a $21.00 day lockdown where residents have been told not to leave their homes and now with around 1400 infections the country now has the highest number of cases in sub-saharan africa and the government is worried it could spread rapidly in poor areas and overcrowded townships well we can speak to see her son and activist and also the youngest member of the house saying for eventually led to such as she joins us on skype from johannesburg to see her thank you for joining us i know you've been very active with encouraging people there to respect this lockdown talk us through your personal experience of how it's been so far so as much as there's

a lockdown many m.p.'s and yells public representatives we also considered essential services and we've been out and about obviously observing been a serious safety precautions the trying to ensure that communities understand what's going on the last few days we've had the payment of social welfare grants and we've seen really long lines at the payment points we've also seen very long lines just to buy groceries so we've been doing a lot of that ensuring that the social distancing used today we also in visited a number of different kinnock's and test sites also just trying to ensure that we are observing the regulations of the lockdown but also trying to ensure that the public well aware of what's going on to see her as you're saying there about about cash grants we are talking about one of the most unequal societies in the world and hugely vulnerable swathes of the community how are they coping right now. you know the lockdown has been particularly the open around the paradoxes of african society

so there are some people who are able to quarantine in their homes and they have quite an easy sort of locked down experience relatively speaking now this is juxtaposed by people who want townships in informal settlements informal housing who don't have enough access to water who shift communal bathrooms sometimes will find people in a very small shack or what we call informal residence and that's been very clear in the lock down that they experience has been fundamentally different and i think a lot of our focus has needed to be trying to support the poor and trying to ensure that we put in whatever support mechanisms and there's a certain we also have homeless shelters that we've established in the schools that have been shut down in recreational centers but of course there's there's no perfect science we're all in a state of crisis we're all in a state of disaster and i think we're doing our best to just trying to get through the day and of course to see a south africa has been grappling for years with a legacy of racism after apartheid and times of crisis can often deepen division

have we been seeing that. i think we have been seeing some of it you see a little bit about it on social media i think there was a very angry video that some people saw on twitter myself included around very wealthy white residents who had i think very problematic me to try to teach black workers how to wash their hands that was particularly problematic but i think what's particularly pertinent about this locked out is that people are not able to come together and understand that this is something that affects all of us of course it affects us in a different way to people who have access to health care with access to nutrition have a very different experience yes but we're all at risk and one of the other things we've seen is the proliferation of fake news so a lot of the fake news that has come out has been all this is not a disease for us this is a disease for foreigners for people who've traveled and it's taken a lot of look on our side to try and really remove that kind of stigma and still

will actually everybody can be affected by this and this is something in which all members of society really have to come together and fight against well speaking of division we saw south african police used tear gas and rubber bullets on nurses who were demonstrating asking for more protective gear on the front line how a people they're feeling about the level of policing at the moment. the lockdown is being policed like you said obviously not just by the police but by the army as well i think we have seen a number of incidents that have been quite problematic and those have been reported to what we call i 3rd it's the independent policing body that really investigates violations but i think over the last day or 2 the police and or at least the police are constantly on me i think have been briefed to be a little bit more or less heavy handed and i think a bit more open but that does not mean that they are not cases they are cases that are being investigated and i think my call to the public would be if you know of anything please report it please if you don't want to report it i could you are

welcome to report it to a public representative and be can take it forward just to ensure that everybody is protected during this lockdown for say a member of the cut-n. provincial legislature and a member of the a.n.c. thank you for joining us on out of their efforts here thank you. well now it's time for the weather and we're back in spain again. right now it's been miserable weather in spain for the last couple of weeks revolving areas of low pressure cloud revolving around there's low pressure means heaviest rain recently in the northeast . today and also east today is the result now that it's not exactly $74.00 millimeters which is what you saw come up with the 2424 hour total because it comes off the interior and collects runs through this city unfortunately for us today the rain is going to construct further or are in the hunt for tomorrow it will be these are as the body we've got the worst of it and then the sun comes out for there were the last i would have to say further eastern mediterranean equally is for weather

for different reasons the very cold to start over this morning in for example zagreb was near record low. of course with us 90 year record and about minus 5. year equally cold not cold air has translated to snow a bit further south we're talking about northwest donia and northern greece and you get to 40 centimeters not unique but a rare event all to say for the rest as day through bogus area north star will keep revolving overnight temperatures will drop again but not as much as they have been so subzero but we're not record luckily this part of cold europe is slowly warming up. thanks very much for that rob well still ahead on a. migrant camp 20 want to test positive for the virus displaced by conflict. dealing with the threat of corona fire.

and wimbledon cancellation leaves many players in a difficult financial position will have more on that. to his supporters hungary's prime min. there is a guardian of europe's borders manning the ramparts against migrant told. to others viktor orbán is an authoritarian demagogue whose far right agenda poses a significant threat to democratic values people in power investigates the leader taking his country to extremes hungary europe's bad boy on a. one of the really special things about working for al-jazeera is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much input and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be foolish is you know it's that it shouldn't be but it is good to give because you will get people that are deployed politically should. we do people believe to tell the real story

so i'll just mended used to deliver individualism we don't feel in cuba. across the globe. the in the. the in. hello again you're watching out is there a reminder of our top stories this hour financial markets in the united states have just opened and they are slightly down now this comes as fresh figures reveal the number of people unemployed in the united states doubled in the last week a record 6600000 applying for benefits as emergency measures strangle the economy.

spain has reported a wreck or jump in daily deaths from corona virus anywhere in the wilds 950 people have died in the past 24 hours bringing the toll that some more than 10000. british prime minister barak johnson has vowed to massively increase testing after the u.k. reported a wreck or jump in its daily coronavirus deaths johnson himself has been in self isolation since friday when he confirmed he has the virus. while the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is among other politicians going into isolation after the country's health minister tested positive for private 19 of its men and his wife who is also confirmed to have the virus are currently in quarantine and us had to be feeling well but it's prompted netanyahu to return to isolation after being in contact with the minister he tested negative when another age reported having the illness. now greece has sealed off a migrant camp near athens after 21 people there tested positive for hiv 19 they

include a mother who had recently given birth in hospital she was traced back to the red sonja camp crop prompting doctors to test other asylum seekers there while john seraphina's joins us now from athens john i understand this campaign has a capacity for around 2500 people so what's happening to them all now. well the authorities are now testing people who knew the pregnant woman who delivered a few days ago in hospital i'm on the 1st of april. and was found to be positive for corona virus there so they're now testing her family and friends and they're moving outwards in concentric circles as these things generally do to zen test the people that they came into contact with and so on it's not clear whether they're going to eventually test the entire camp of about 2400 people but the tests are ongoing today and those 21 cases you talked about control the big worry of course

here in greece is not about its own account but about moria camp which is much bigger the largest increase on the island of lesbos roughly 20000 people that camp now has a field hospital placed outside it where people can get tested but as of as of yet there are no reported cases of coronavirus or on the other islands that is the major concern because the 5 in islands that have reception centers are now home 242000 asylum seekers that's almost half of the of the greek total and john as we all know greece has already had debt crisis and thousands of doctors have left the country so just how equipped is greece right now to handle the pandemic. well greece had a 8000000000 euro health budget back in 2009 when the financial crisis hit that health budget has since fall and about 2000000000 euros one quarter

of what it used to be and that's obviously means fewer stuff in hospitals fewer intensive care and so on it also means much less state coverage for medicines and the like so. it was something of great concern to the government which took measures very early to flatten the curve of infections to make sure that greece did not have a exponential rate of infections which we're seeing now for example in the united kingdom in the united states. it's. something that appears to have worked greece now has 50 deaths in the 1st month of coronavirus and about $1400.00 infections if you were to adjust those figures for population if italy had done the same thing italy would now be seeing about $250.00 deaths

total and about 7 and a half 1000 infections so clearly the greek trend line is much healthier than what we're seeing in many other european cities and countries and the reason these measures were taken to the restrictions of movement closures of schools shutting down of churches no conical festivities at the beginning of march which early on and many people were rather severe on unwarranted the reason the government did all this preventive work was to make sure that hospitals wouldn't be flooded with serious cases at the moment greece has 870 intensive care beds 90 incubated patients so there's still plenty of capacity there. because greece is seeing a race of fewer than 100 infections a day at the moment plenty of capacity for his authority to deal with the serious cases. and we hope that continues john seraph with us for us there in athens thank

you jon well in other news or oil prices have now risen by around 10 percent after donald trump talked up hopes for an end to the price war between saudi arabia and russia the u.s. president expects the major producers to reach a deal within a few days while prices have fallen into an 18 year low because of the dispute and the huge drop in demand as the virus closed factories and grounded ed travel well why well we can now speak to deliberate he is a visiting professor in the middle east institute at the national university of singapore he joins us now on skype from there we're hearing that they'll be an end to this price will but surely this is also been primarily driven by the pandemic what are we actually likely to see in the coming days. well an independent with definitely has a role to play in this but i think the oil prices and the and the oil demand that.

the seeing it did just before the endemic itself. prices were. putting. you are on an area where they were a little kind of decreasing. slowly live in them if you added to this. of course. on its effect on the. city where especially on asia and china in particular. and this. was also all accentuated by the oil 'd price war between saudi arabia and russia and now we are in a situation where an organ that is at loggerheads with it other trying to increase production when there was not demand live this enormous beads even thought about those oil so they're not buy it and then it's more space to store and i think this is going to continue for a lot of. reviews are oil price wars that have short there's

a history of bell or something that will continue for quite a while before people get back to their senses so we are in a situation where we don't know how long it's the and delicate selling is going to last we're in a situation we don't know obvious long is this price what it's going to last and when a situation where that can be that other part of this price war out of really going to be hurt but also the whole region and the whole global industry global economy that's going to be. from the middle east institute of the national have asked if think of more thank you for your insights on al jazeera thank you. well iran's foreign minister has responded to donald trump saying tehran was planning a sneak attack on u.s. forces in iraq the us president warned that iran would pay a very heavy price but gave no details of the attack plans now since mohammad javad zarif has tweeted don't be misled by usual warmongers again donald trump iran has

friends no one can have millions of proxies he added unlike the us which surreptitiously lies cheats in assassinates iran only acts in self defense well now let speeches and bazarov who's in tehran for us then we actually seeing escalating tensions here oh is this all just a bit of an online spat. well we've been here before haven't we we've seen these sort of twitter battles between the white house and officials in specially mr zarif the foreign minister so this is not unusual however we do have to point out that these kinds of things these sort of exchanges between u.s. president and iranian officials are the kinds of things that have preceded previous shifts in policy and previous flare ups in terms of conflict we saw a similar twitter exchange preceded the u.s. pullout from the 2050 nuclear deal we've seen similar exchanges before various

escalations in the gulf region in recent months and years so what iranian people have come to expect is where there is smoke there is likely to be fire at some point i think one of the things that is interesting to point out is in serious comments he really wanted to press the point that iran in the region the actions in the region by saying you can't have millions of proxies we have millions of friends he seems to suggest that iran's presence in iraq be a diplomatic or military is something that a majority of iraqis or people in iraq millions us per his tweet would support and that's something that really does ring true from his tweet another thing that he said was that they wouldn't carry out a sneak attack whatever iran does iran does openly as the united states conducts these sort of operations if you go and then this is all happening of course in the context of the. iranians they're actually taking much notice of politics at the moment as the death toll continues to mount. well if you're ronnie and you can't afford not to really i mean between the united states and iran these 2 long term

rivals there have been lingering tensions more so since the beginning of this year over a range of issues and it seems that the coronavirus fighting this global pandemic having this common experience hasn't really done anything to slow that down these are 2 of the most affected countries from this global pandemic but the but the but the tensions have continued to ratchet up and they've both maintained their position we've seen social media chatter that suggests that iranians are talking about how the united states is targeting iranian backed militias hostile xabi how there are plans in iraq to take down iran's allies and that's something that people that support iran's activities in iraq certainly have expressed concern about but we have heard from iran's the head of iran's armed forces major general mohammad buggery has said since this tweet from u.s. president donald trump that iran is not planning any assaults on any foreign forces but he said that they are ready to retaliate against the slightest aggression in the defense forces on air land and sea are on high alert however general bother his

comments might be undercut by a statement that was circulated or has been circulating in the press and it was made just hours before donald trump's tweet it came from a former r.g.c. commander and now senior military advisor to the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei and i'll read to you what the statement that he made he said as long as the u.s. is not abiding by international laws it should accept the consequences of its adventurism occupation and illegal presence in iraq the same as having it all for us and the iranian capital thank you dan. well as india observes a nationwide lockdown one area has already been under heavy restrictions there's been a curfew and communications blackout in indeed administered kashmir since the government revoked the region's autonomy last year thousands have been detained without charge nor trial and human rights groups say they must be released elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. the tears of

a mother worried for her only child and alone since he was detained by police nearly 8 months ago a take a big m. says finds him had gone to the pharmacy to buy her medicine when police detained him under special legislation the police found his final who worked in a shop selling water purifiers in indian administered kashmir and was involved in separatist activities but i know you said no you know why does the learner go to you but if this is not oppression then what is what have we done to deserve this why does a poor widow like me have to go through such difficult times why my subject to so much terror i have been appealing to authorities for several months to look at this case with. 22 year old files as one of more than $7000.00 kashmiris detained by the indian government since it revoked the region's autonomy last year new delhi has said the detentions are necessary to maintain order and prevent violence it now says it's looking into releasing some of the president after the supreme court

asked the government to prevent the spread of coronavirus in prisons human rights groups say the detentions without charge or trial violate both indian and international law and with many courts now closed the public health emergency should not be used to bypass accountability many of them have been simply under you know. what bloggers are not of the most shocking but actually there's no written document so the. being relieved of. the daily like strongly bob problematic extremely critical. of the government has closed all schools in the disputed kashmir region they reopened in february only to be shot again 2 weeks later after the 1st cases of corona virus were reported in the territory but you. asked about but it it definitely has a negative impact on the children studies although some schools in tutorials to them but the government didn't do anything for children studying in government schools there was also. complete communications blackout with landline mobile and

internet services cut off a month's slow speed to g. internet was only restored last month but 4 g. is still unavailable rights groups are calling for the full restoration of internet services so that people have access to health information and their loved ones during the pandemic which the setup of the i am suffering i want to see him wants but i can't afford to i don't know what to do many who can afford to have met their relatives but i can't because i'm poor i'm struggling just to live how can i even think of going to me term. attacker has had one video called finds all his friends are giving him money to get by but the lockdown means they can no longer visit her elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. now in pakistan the prime suspect jailed for the kidnapping and murder of journalist daniel pearl is set to be released a court overturned the murder conviction of british born ahmed omar saeed shaykh

but maintained he had helped with the kidnapping 3 other men have been acquitted wall street journal reporter daniel pearl was killed in 2002 while investigating a pakistani rebel group come out hyder has more from islamabad. marché was sentenced to 18 near the goal by an anti terrorist court along with 3 others he was given the death sentence were given a life imprisonment however. and ascend the high court that case has been going on for 18 years but the defense of course arguing that the prosecution was not able to prove its case that most of the rednecks that were police men and also the fact that a u.s. psychologist had mentioned that when he interviewed khalid shaikh more mud the mastermind of the september 11th attacks in 2001. he had admitted that he actually wanted war and beheading danielle so the court of course commuting

that sentence from the death penalty fall. and that of course now 7 years but because he's already. he's likely to be released along with the other 3 who were given a life sentence each day of course have also been released by this in the high court . now there are fears that the spread of the corona virus in libya will pose a serious threat to some of the 150000 people already displaced by conflict people sheltering in schools and abandoned buildings are particularly vulnerable to infection and out of a hit has more from tripoli. and her family have been living in this classroom since april last year they were risk you'd along with other families by the red crescent when the wall reach. a neighborhood in southern tripoli the family

missed their old house with they each had their own room now with they all have to sleep cook and sits in this room a highly young. our old house was ransacked and bent down and we became. i'm homeless who can make it up for us i paid a lot of money to build it we have no interest in this war no one feels are suffering we've paid a lot for this war. more than 150000 people have fled their homes in southern tripoli since forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar moved on the capital. the internationally recognized government says it's determined to defend the city international mediation has failed to put an end to the conflict development projects have been halted by the war many schools have been turned into makeshift camps some have sheltered in these abandoned they have

built up apartments with no electricity or running water the displaced families here say they used to go out in the city almost every day to have a relief from the school atmosphere. now where the 1st announcement of coronavirus and dimmick and tripoli they have locked themselves up in the school classrooms which is adding to that agony health workers have been trying to help people in the shelters by sanitizing their rooms and giving them detergents medicine we're keen to not only stress on personal sanitation of the families but also to raise their awareness about potential infection and how to take measures to prevent it with the holy month of ramadan approaching more tough days await those who live here being together is the only solace they have for now.

tripoli. hall force is next on al-jazeera and piso will tell you about the highly anticipated u.f.c. fight that's now been called off for a 5th time. business leaders is brought to you by now brown spar.

with. business leaders his goal to buy no brush paul. now time for sports in his case that the thank you so much football clubs around the world feel the financial impact of coronavirus before modern tina striker carlos tevez has called on his fellow professional players to make sacrifices now playing a genius terry says the virus is

a disaster footballers can live without receiving a single paycheck for a few years but i feel sorry for the person who wakes up at 6 in the morning and comes back at 9 at night just to feed his family as footballers can make a difference some big clubs around the world have already cut player wages including inventors who are foregoing more than $100000000.00 and bossa lerner who have taken a 70 percent reduction but nothing yet in england's premier league with several players have stood down on the playing staff or continuing to pay players in full when british politician described it as a moral vacuum one premier league manager bournemouth city how has taken a significant pay cuts along with some members of his coaching staff the talks are ongoing with the players' union sports correspondent leigh willingness has more. well there is going to scrap throughout england and the u.k. highly paid pre-lit but that is not in a position to give up any of their wages which minister to present anyway to

during this crisis which has the country to grow it script at the same time as company probably laiki for them to mention their having go to the u.k. government and saying are not line stuff we want to follow that position so they're in addition with their wages when they get a descent. we make that assumption really thought it 'd would actually be quick to give up some of their wages but what's crucial here is they professional doctors union that appear ridge or the players 65000 around the welt. pocket if you do this in the english treasury. just flat because we want consensus here we don't want one kind of doing this and one cutting that will play doing this is what. we want to wait and see global while these talks continue and there's no

decision you'll have julia knight the chair of the digital culture medium's booker it's making those comments not only does he say it sticks in the throat but he said that there is an mo vacuum with english football in public there's often talked about the problems existed in we are now in a position process not just in the fact of the calendar in our season finishes players. gianni and fancy know the head of football's governing body fifo says the game will be changed forever by coronavirus he said the football that will come after the virus will be totally different more inclusive more social and more supportive connected to the individual countries and at the same time more global less arrogance and more welcoming. bruges have been declared champions in belgium after the remainder of the country's football season was cancelled and play was suspended by the virus last month bruges 15 points ahead of the top with one round of matches left to play before the playoffs it's not clear yet how the european

countries are planning to conclude they seasons a to time a wimbledon champion roger federer says he's devastated by the cancellation of this year's tournament because of coronavirus it's the 1st time the grass called slam has been scrapped since will 29 time women's champion martina navratilova says that it's a huge blow to the older players on to you don't know where the finish line it's you don't know when to start training for what again everybody is in the same boat but for some it's more difficult than for others the youngsters are missing a chance to really improve and match up against the higher ranked players like akoko golf and british that's where you make big improvements when you that young of the middle players you know are again kind of stuck and the older players like you roger federer quite certain evidence you know that time is not their friend i can't imagine if i was still playing and i'm in my thirty's that i want to play to go through this is like you know i'm such

a goal oriented person and now you have no goal because there is no. no you don't know what's going to happen in an hour but experiment will be in september and well sorry to interrupt the sport but let's take you to moscow now where russian state television is airing upriver coded address to the nation fully from present president is that impression that the take a. view to you can be seen so it's a whole situation usually begin with a country meeting. grateful to a medical person the. sort of interview we. read in the willows and one of the people working in another 30 years of life. did the if you like to send you a conditional statement is going to say the bank is you know the balance is. or citizen what i choose to have recognized and. responsibility

in business but i try. that's what it's. about about the health of the nearest and dearest know what you need in a few. weeks when. we. want one of the many we are going to give you region made it possible to win this time of the organ and the way to be utilize a suitable organ to increase the risk. if you give me money in my wallet despite the expected damage in the maximum perfect fit and efficient persuade you to experience the best practice principi i know what i can say this is the principle. that we owe the come the serious threats to fish in the if you. will outbreak bards in

crashes. your question cage no doubt dishman and other things but surely that is how resolution you know not when you take this going to continue and we have to take this thread to go to tell you there is a little of you do or you need special is going to get in the world of epidemics. move putting it in sharing with the many decisions have been taken that you need to prove to me since he knew this period of a non-working week to the end of the month until the 33 months that i'm with you can mean that about me plus the court the health workers with that wages situation is not changing is very simple if you reach in fact any of the different mr is. we're not sure what you want. we have. a very

big country population and you have to have the subject because the federation. where the coronavirus of the already become serious must be readily taught to put in money because the situation define the measures being taken and used to doing and. that's what regions you mean she means. before. where there has been there's not been educated single case been given and that will put you on you when you've got to do that someplace you know where they do not have to keep the regulations and others locally with them are very strict regulations. so we must bear in mind you globs of your life you know the subject and the chief subject of the federation phone you can the problem which but there would be additional powers and you don't need any by the end of the electricity there'll be

. even the preventive measures because ultimately the. economy. whether the middle but the you thing ability of the economy given you do you need to thoughtfully. on the objectives could you actually make if you do it with vision and you know regime for the federation and for them it's kind of the qualities a degree of the president of the russian federation and. what do you to them i mean you can you do that. but the security and safety of that soon will take more than a why did. nobody.