portraits of the privileged lives of the country's elites rewinds north korean cinema of. an al-jazeera. the. al-jazeera. hello there i'm a star and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the us has the world's worst day of the coronavirus pandemic almost 1200 people die in just 24 hours a warning to people and will hunt to stay indoors amid fears the virus could be making a comeback. a spike in cases forces israel to seal off the city dominated by ultra-orthodox

jews after residents flout curbs on public movements. and taiwan accuses the world health organization of not sharing coronavirus information due to chinese pressure . i'm going to go with the sports european football focuses on a restart in july plus. everybody needs to play their part in this national effort and that means premier league football is to the pressure grows on millionaire players in england to take a pay cut as current virus leaves some numb playing stuff out of work. now the united states has suffered the world's worst single day of the corona virus pandemic with close to $1200.00 deaths on thursday the total number of fatalities there has now surpassed $6000.00 the number of reported infections worldwide is now

also more than a 1000000 wartime powers are being used in the u.s. to get needed supplies to hospitals president donald trump has invoked the defense production act ordering private companies to make masks ventilators and other medical equipment well our white house correspondent can be helped it has more on the range of new measures announced by president. as the number of corner virus cases in the united states continues to rise so does historic unemployment as a result the u.s. president announcing 350000000000 in small business loans to help small businesses retain employees who are staying at home right now as a result 1 of social distancing the u.s. president also saying americans can expect guidance soon and whether or not they should be wearing face masks when they leave their homes now there is in the midst of all this still strict social distancing guidelines and stay at home orders in a majority of u.s. states that is something that is in place to try and help stop the spread but it is

not just the united states that to struggle in with the increasing number of coronavirus cases iran of course is also being hit hard ask the u.s. president whether he thought this might be a time to ease tough economic sanctions on iran in order to help the people fight the virus he said. eva braun in your presidency will continue to stand with the people of iran given the fact they're so hard hit with chronic fire they're very hard hit so they're here in a lot of ways they're hard hit them. with their economy with their military and with obviously the virus they very hard it would you consider easing sanctions to allow medical supplies to get in there even if just to get it but we know that sanctions hit the people not the government will have to they haven't even asked us to do that if they want to read word love 'd to me and would love to settle the whole thing out but i doubt they'll be it's a realistically how does

a person in tehran pick on a colleague i think they love america i think the iranians love america i think they'd love to be free i think they'd love to have just some of the things that we have you know i remember many years ago friends of mine were always in a room they were doing real estate deals in a room they were building beautiful buildings. well over in corporate houses it was they were very successful and then one day there came to an end but you know one of the people of the 'd red they remember that was a long time ago but not so long ago they remember it and i'll tell you they love america they love what we stand for. and we're not looking for shit we're not looking for government to take over government changing no this country's been through that many times it doesn't work people do encourage other countries to poor me has certain you know what i write is what i do this you know i put it out very publicly with respect to iran and said if they need help with respect to the virus we'd love to sit with the greatest medical professionals in the world would let

their cities are you encouraging perhaps to to lend their support because there are many countries that he only encourages his kids and. they've been a very hostile country they made a deal that president obama should have never made it was a short term deal giving a $150000000000.00 giving them $1800000000.00 in cash greenfield there's room for him to go up and more responsibility. he's even going to. have a moral responsibility to help them if they ask if they if they needed help i would certainly consider different anything she says they need help with us up to the united nations i'm talking about us and what happens is if they want to help because they have a very big case of virus a very very big case it one of the worst on earth if you believe what you're reading and i happen to believe what i see and what i know and if they wanted help we give them help even as president trump pushes back on the suggestion of easing

sanctions the calls to do just that are growing in the united states the latest coming from former vice president joe biden who insists that now is the time to ease sanctions in order to make sure that the people of iran get the medical supplies they need. on our spain has recorded more than 900 new covert 1000 deaths for a 2nd day in a row health authorities say that 932 people died in the past 24 hours at slightly lesser than the number on thursday when spain announced its largest single day death toll road joins me live now from the dread not of these latest figures where does that leave the trajectory of this outbreak are what are the still hopeful that a peak is approaching yes of storage is are very very very hopeful but the figures show something else. there's a 2nd day in a row that we have 900 new fatalities from 19 living of the death toll

210135 the effects of the number of infections has increased 577400 reaching 117-771-7700 spain now is still passing easily in the number of infections the spinal thora does have say about we have been seeing a slowdown of the infection since that past week and that we were reaching the peak of the curve we will see based figures a stab a live seeing a slow slowdown we will see a slowdown things that are this is how things look soul who will have to wait again and see what happens tomorrow. not i believe there will be a decision made soon on whether to extend this lockdown. yes well tomorrow standish premise that person who saw in a meeting with this extra 2 scapin that there has been tracking since the beginning

of the out corona virus outbreak and it will have a meeting that will study the actual situation in spain and that would decide whether to extend the use lockdown the use of state of emergency if you today it's more agile. with these it's everything looks absolute as this is going to happen but. we will have to work tomorrow and see whether they be approved or not and will be bringing you all of that as it happens there for us in the spanish capital thank you martha well china's government is warning people in the city of han to stay indoors because a resurgence of infections is feared the warning follows the imposition of a lockdown 160-0000 chinese in neighboring one on province in hong kong the government has reimposed restrictions on bars and clubs following an increase in infections linked to them and all tourist arrivals and transit at hong kong airport was banned last week let's get more on this from sarah clarke who's in hong kong

for us sarah china's been very keen for a long time to declare victory over this pandemic that was will her and nearby areas perhaps given the all clear to soon. potentially cities that were hands communist chief has turned around and warned the people of were to strengthen their efforts to protect themselves against a 2nd wave of infections coming back into the city so we've seen the partial lockdown lifted as of last weekend we had 60000 people returned to the city on the 1st day and that was via train of buses and cars that you could arrive but you can't leave at this stage the the full lockdown will be lifted on i pull the but as a result the government there has warned people that they are concerned about this 2nd wave of infections what many are considering the new battleground of the importation of the virus now on friday the latest figures we had 31 new cases of the crowd a virus infection we had 29 of those 31 were imported cases and we had 4 deaths

reported as well and this all came from the province is of course being questions about the calculations of the accuracy of the numbers coming out of china of course china is denying its concealing those figures and that's something also else we should note is on saturday the national day of mourning across china flags will be at half mast and they also have a 3 minute silence and encouraging everyone to participate in this particular ceremony to remember those are the number of people who died in china as a result of the krona virus infection sarah i see that singapore another country that thought it had things under control is also getting worried about a potential 2nd wave of infections in hong kong to. if the prime minister in singapore has done a national address softer noon on friday and he's seeking to reassure basically the people of singapore that they have got the situation under control but they have seen a number of cases increase of the last week and as a result they've introduced a number of tough new measures to try and stem the spread of the crown of us

infection they've set up measures including schools we closed from michael the ice restaurants will still be open but for takeaway only at the workplaces and most workplaces are banned courage to be closed as of next week and they're telling people they should wear masks in the past that said that masks are not necessary but they change their mind on that and encouraging given the the ice of dramatic conditions that people might have this can prevent the infection or the spread they're telling people that the surgical masks should be left for medical stuff for the frontline is and the government will also distribute real usable masks to every single household in singapore and as for the cases in singapore we have more than 1100 confirmed cases we have 65 new cases were confirmed on friday as well as the 5th death in singapore sarah clarke that for us in hong kong thank you very much for that update sara. speaking of further restrictions israel has put the city have been a back on lockdown after a big spike in cases health officials fear that some 75000 of its residents are

already infected it's one of israel's ultra-orthodox neighborhood such have been criticized for not observing without restrictions or social distancing hairy forces reports. as movement restrictions across israel are tightened in response to the coronavirus in ultra-orthodox neighborhoods the message has struggled to get through few here have a television the internet and many rely on community newspapers for information last week a mass funeral procession for a rabbi in the televisa birthday brock caused nationwide anger a public flouting the rules banning mass gatherings after weeks during which some rabbis were contradicting government orders encouraging schools and synagogues to carry on as normal police toughened their response making several arrests some of been abused called nazis one ambulance crew was attacked with rocks what we are dealing with is a small percentage of ultra religious extremists who are not paying attention and not listening and also receiving the information in

a delay their week behind israel's 1000000 strong ultra-orthodox community lives and often parallel life with turnitin government may be met with distrust large families often subsist on welfare payments to men whose sole task is to study religious texts and who also receive exemptions from serving in the army. video showing extreme behavior by a minority within the community has stoked a resentment already present among the mainstream there may question 2 wars the future is where there are within the community will be voices that now we don't hear enough that we. or we want to protect our community but we also err belonged to this day authorities talk about a growing acceptance of the seriousness of the situation in communities such as this one and that improvements in the here. so the new rules certainly this major junction inside me assure him an ultra orthodox neighborhood in west jerusalem is far less busy than usual but they also talk about the delay in the community's

response and the damage already done as a result labor awkward just 2 percent of israel's population accounts for 14 percent of confirmed infections nationally one health care executive estimates nearly 40 percent of its residents have the disease and who we have decided to reduce to the minimus a city excess and egress from been a brac and the easiest to avoid infection the prime minister himself is now back in isolation after the ultraorthodox health minister tested positive for the disease and you know who'd only just been cleared after his advisor on ultra-orthodox affairs contracted the virus through a recent video sparking anger one has been welcomed and ultra-orthodox man the rating a pro group for breaking the rules calling them murderers the fear is that this community whose leaders treated the disease most likely is now the one awaiting the heaviest toll ari force it out west jerusalem well now the mayor of turkey's

largest city says time is running out there to halt the spread of the virus after record of the highest amount of cases across the country istanbul has 60 percent of techies confirmed cases and their criminal oh is calling for a full lockdown but president reza type out of one has resisted so far and stared calling on businesses to stay open in an effort to protect the economy turkey reported 79 more deaths on thursday taking the number of fatalities that to 356 but our correspondents and joins us now live from istanbul and 60 percent of current cases in istanbul and more than 15000000 people live there so why has it taken so long for authorities to even move towards a lockdown. well actually in a sense that the government is not willing to impose and a lock down for 4 for turkey in general because thinking about this some will with 15 plus 1000000 population and millions of syrian refugees living in a cell is some will is the heart of the turkish economy because the industriously

of ghost traders here and on march 30 presents add ons that tricky you must keep in must keep whirling so the economy should should continue to function and operate turkey should continue to produce the business life after the main economy the production line is shouldn't be cut according to present are done and his cabinets members and many experts have been saying that a locked on a proposal locked down especially for cities like istanbul is made and the capital ankara it's necessary as the numbers are dropping but this is what the government believes right now but they have urged people for south korean sign i have to tell that yes they're not imposing a full lockdown but turkey households of everything for the last couple of weeks it turkey turkey stopped flying abroad to turkey is stopped bringing people to inside

'd even that the mess the fights are limited and based on this based on some specified permit unless it's as it is not so much necessarily they don't they don't allow you to fly from once the to another also the bus transportation between the cities the limits of as well however an employment rate is very high in turkey and the turkish economy let's be honest has been it has been suffering for some time especially the border last one and a healthier the grinding turkish lira has been one of the major problems of the church economy and the unemployment among the youth is very high that's why in a big giant city like in istanbul you can see many people in. responsible but also there are lots of people who are working in factories they are working in their medical companies and they need to bring food to their homes so it's the u.s. the government has provided some options for the public employees smith and made

them. urge them to work from home but urged private sector employees to work from home but there are many other low profile workers that need to bring food to their homes and some of them have been posting on social media if you stay at home it means we're going to die from hunger so base they either we're going to die from hunger or because of course on the virus so that's why the people are saying that the experts also the mayor of istanbul are saying that a proper lockdown should be imposed in istanbul and because experts have been saying that the used following one and 2 weeks are very important because turkey must contain the number of the best and number of the diagnosed cases the wise it's going to be like italy or america this is what the experts say that's why since they can't stop people voluntarily imposed lockdown and must be working must be in place this is what people are calling for. that live for us in istanbul thank you senator of the united states is now being accused of paying up to 3 times the price

to redirect medical supplies bound for france to its own hospitals and america a regional health boss in france says several 1000000 mosques headed for their intensive care units were sent by china to the u.s. instead let's pick an attack in the west of france for us natasha what are you hearing from french authorities about all this. well this is a region ated from its 3 heads of 3 regions they all belong to the conservative the republican party and separately they have all come out to the french media and say that sources have told them that shipments consignments old masa to be ordered by frauds bullfrogs the work being prepared in china ready to be flown to france were in fact effectively hijacked if you will by american officials on the tarmac at the airport and what they are saying is that some american buyers

came along to these chinese airports and effectively and you don't throw cash to chinese officials in order to be able to buy these masks that had been destined for ordered by the french government now because the french the authorities in the united states are denied these claims they say that they're completely untrue we don't know who the source is of all these stories from the 3 heads of the french region see it but they say that they have verified the themselves but of course it does lead you to wonder exactly what is happening in china in terms of the shipments of must we do know however that's one consignments of mollusks ordered by the french government did arrive in france a few days scarcely summit certainly getting through even if absolutely the masa getting through to the oed. in the west of france for us thank you for

a month's natascha well canadian prime minister just introduced says he is very concerned about reports that medical supplies meant for canada have also been diverted to the us i've heard reports on this issue and of course there are concerning we need to make sure that the equipment that is destined for canada gets to and stays in canada and i've asked ministers to follow up on these particular reports we are working. not just here at home but overseas as well to ensure that the equipment that canada has ordered makes its way to canada well let's dig into this a little more with broken eye he's a political analyst and a professor in european studies at stanford university bell and he joins us now on skype from there all right just how dya is this global mosque shortage and what it then as we're seeing already potentially lead to when as a new uses when in the 1st reaction it's perfectly understandable if governments tried to care only for their people now it seems as if we are in

a 2nd phase in europe which political leaders also understand that it's a time in which solidarity is of utmost importance and we have shortened shivs and greenhouse more supplies or we also have intensive care beds that should be opened for a 2nd sense who need it and not just necessarily foreign nationals to distance. you're talking about places in western countries but could this shortage potentially leave poor countries out in the cold even though there may be a time when they need mosques and other supplies the most exactly so one thing is to create a mentality that it's not only about us and beggar my neighbor of quantities but it's also something like the need for reform of global government which maybe is tool ambitions but in times like these the shortages and that symmetries in who was

affected hala are need something like a stronger coordination that should not be just left to random talk decisions and paying a higher price and those who can't afford it well then her should step into that role should it be the w.h.o. the united nations if there is a vacuum of global governance going on here how do we resolve it. well we do not have a shortage of multilateral institutions it was more a discussion in recent years that everyone tried to discuss what that we live in times of a multi-polar world in which everything is about politics or whether we can trust in institutions that once heard signs to coordinate problems that are global and a pandemic like this is a perfect example that shows that national solutions don't work anymore we are all in the same boat and relief into even smaller climate that he thought we knew started off by talking about mosques but i'm curious are we seeing the same

dynamics here in terms of short supplies and people bidding for them play out also with other critical supplies like ventilators for instance i i know the the governor of new york state was saying that trying to get a ventilator was like bidding on e bay against other states that you know we see a similar case this with basically everything that is important to save lives what we experience in europe is that these successfully balts tie him by implementing forms of social distancing and as it stands now at least in germany the capacities of intensive care beds have been increased very high and it's possible to bring citizens from other countries to german hospitals to send at least a symbolic gesture even if it doesn't really help to fix the problem at large well so let me ask you then 0 going in on your at because there was a huge amount of initial criticism around the lack of solidarity there when we

started seeing outbreaks for instance in italy so how did europe manage to deal with this how did they manage to overcome or of those barry is. well we saw an initiative by was a well funded line in the commission president to initiate something like an additional 100000000000 fund to help immediately and not to conditions like after the financial crisis when a number of commissioners are so coach troika were sent to countries in need to negotiate conditions this in a situation like this is circle insufficient and we will see more initiatives on a very short term basis and long term ones like a discussion about her own of on what we introduce something like a shared european credit card. political analyst in professing european studies at stanford university and balun certainly a time to hope for some global solidarity thank you for joining us. well

a cruise ship with hundreds of sick passengers on board has docks in the u.s. state of florida after initially being turned away and you got to reports from miami. the holland america cruise line company called the plight of its passengers a humanitarian situation but after days of uncertainty the zon dominant sister ship the rotterdam a finally docked in florida is on dom's journey began in argentina in early march but after passengers began to get sick chile and several other nations refused to let them disembark almost $200.00 people now have flu like symptoms for elderly passengers died on board at least 2 testing positive for covert 19 well good afternoon initially officials in florida cited health concerns the state's governor saying foreign nationals were not welcome following coordination with several agencies it was finally agreed to that the ships into u.s. waters there are also many other people on board who need our help maybe not the

americans that are human beings they also need help returning to their country. this is. such a great country let's hold the principles that make us a great nation and be compassionate you meet other people healthy passengers were transferred to the rotterdam those with symptoms of the coronavirus will be treated at local hospitals others are flying back to their respective countries on chartered flights in all there were around 2 and a half 1000 passengers and crew earlier this week u.s. president donald trump spoke about the stranded travelers lot of canadians a lot of british on the ship and they're coming to take the people that are on the ship back to their home and the carriage is coming in the u.k. is coming and we have a lot of and we have americas we have some people that are quite sick for these people this is the end of a nightmarish journey that was supposed to last 2 weeks saw some passengers will

remain on board while they're treated others are not so lucky crew ships have now become a symbol of fear ever since the coronavirus pandemic was announced the grand princess was stranded off the coast of california for days while officials squabbled over its fate while those on dhamma on the rotterdam have now been allowed to disembark here in florida it's estimated 9000 passengers on 10 cruise ships remain at sea and they gallacher al-jazeera miami florida while staying with chris ships and a stray is government is standing by its decision to refuse chris ships the permission to dock because of fears of importing more infections around a dozen vessels with $15000.00 crew but no passengers on board are reported to be off shore captains have been ordered to move out of astray and waters cresap infections account for nearly 10 percent of the total number of cases in a straight. well it's now time for the weather and here's jenny with a little bit of sunshine you've got quite a bit of sunshine of course i'm going to start going to is huge country and this is

where we have got a nice sunshine slightly out of the cross so these western areas not so good across the southeast and i want to draw attention to this it is our latest tropical cyclone this is how old it's actually impacts in the van was heading that way it's actually developed over the solomon islands but to all comes that in just a moment be can see here across the southeast this can continue to come in with this some very strong winds so very nice for the windsurf is that just off of brighton beach in melbourne meanwhile across into new zealand we rush the ridge of high pressure so given some very nice clear skies them good sunshine windy conditions along the coast but it should say dry but it will stay dry across the southeast more strong winds particular cost much tasmania victoria eastern sections of new south wales more rain in the 4 calls and then this you can see a pair this is our tropical slighter and harald now as we go through something on sunday this storm system we're looking at sustained winds at about 120 kilometers an hour it will continue his journey south was a say on its way to on water so this is where we can see most of the rain and also

the winds that could well be some flooding will keep a very close eye on bob and then as we were on a day into sunday we can see things finally begin to clear away from the southeast but that does mean dry conditions time which is a still pretty low setting in melbourne just 16 celsius more rain pushing as well later on the day and also the same across into tasmania so again are all the wet picture bought when it comes to out west across western australia look at perth 29 by wednesday up to 35 and that list is nearly 10 degrees above the average for this time of year so sunny and hot goodness thanks very much jenny that's remind you now of our top stories this hour the united states has suffered the world's west single day of the current virus pandemic with close to 1200 deaths on thursday the total number of dead has now past 6. spain has recorded more than 9. 100 new carbon 1000 deaths for the 2nd day in a row the 932 fatalities are less than the number on thursday when spain announced

its largest single day death toll. and israel has locked down a city dominated by ultra-orthodox jews after a big spike in cases health officials fear some 75000 of the neighbor ochs residents are already infected residents have been criticized for flouting restrictions on movement. moving to the u.k. and following criticism over its strategy the british government now says it will test 100000 people a day by the end of the month let's speak to join how he joins us now in london i believe you're standing outside the temporary morgue can you tell us a little more about where you are. well you mentioned the health secretary matt hancock coming out of a week of self isolation after contracting the virus with apparently renewed vigor to fight this pandemic saying money was no object a new goal of 100000 tests a day by the end of this month and warning that the peak of the epidemic in the

u.k. may be closer than people thought hence the sorts of things happening behind me as you say i'm in northwest london on the edge of london a place called hillingdon attached to a crime a tour of behind me is a makeshift morgue you may be able to see on the green fencing over the peaks of 2 refrigerated structures this is one of a number of sites identified across london as part of a local london plan the strategic resilience response for london talking to local authorities faith groups and local businesses and so on and it comes of course as the death rate particularly in the u.k. is doubling every 3 days london accounts for around a 3rd of all infections and deaths thus far thunder not the only city of course affected by this there are much bigger more structures being erected by the government including at birmingham airport for instance in the west midlands also very badly affected at the moment a morgue structure there with that will accommodate up to 12000 bodies at the peak of this crisis now will these structures are used of course people will hope

desperately not to new bits of data out on friday suggest that the size of britain's epidemic may be much larger than people had previously thought the 1st is from n.h.s. england that announced that the 1st death took place here a full week before it was officially announced on the 28th the february as opposed to the 5th of march and that will raise concerns about the speed of the government's response that only got into high gear much later in march we've only been in lockdown in the u.k. for about 13 days now and the 2nd interesting bit of data comes from government scientists in a report currently being peer reviewed who looked at the big gaps in testing up to now who looked at the big numbers of people having very mild symptoms and those thought to be asymptomatic and said. yes did that here in london and you can extrapolate more widely the current estimate the current report reported infections of just under 10000 could in fact be up to 60 times higher 600000 people one in 50 of the population here played across the country and that suggests that the

coming peak when it does arrive could be far greater than anybody currently believes or is prepared for the u.k. certainly bracing for the western hall there for us in london thank you john well in germany a chancellor angela merkel has ended her self quarantine after testing negative for the virus now even from isolation she's been held up as an example of how world leaders should manage the pandemic health officials say early widespread testing has helped to keep the death toll relatively low despite the country having the 4th highest number of cases dominic kane is with us now from berlin dominic germany has been lauded for its response to this how is the country managing to test quite so many people when others are failing. it's worth remembering that often many of the tests that take place are on the same person so the reference made to anger the magical removing a cell from current c she's being tested several times now and each time a loosely sample has come back negative so it's not necessarily the case that every

test that has been full of design different patients how it was certainly true is that many hundreds of thousands of tests being a full and weak in germany and that is allowing the authorities those who are trying to tabulate where the infections are and where the results is need to go it gives them a very good idea of where they go and what the target should be that sort of thing it's also worth remembering that there are several different genes pursuing different kinds of tests right now so only there are companies who are hoping to be able to do mass testing at the same time cooling some pills as it were so as to be able to get results on many different softballs very quickly that's one side of things and then of course this testing taking place well that's in research taking place rather into tests will antibodies which clearly is the test which everybody wants to get hold off as quickly as possible because it would be able to show those

who already have the virus in their system and have been able to fight it off so that's one way of it that the germans are saying ahead as it were of the code of say giving them a chance to fight these fires the mccain there for us and that and thank you very much dominic. well now moving on to other news and venezuela's opposition leader has refused to appear before prosecutors on attempted coup charges 5 of one associates have been detained and what the opposition says is an effort to intimidate them their arrests come a week after the u.s. charge president nicolas maduro put growing pressure on his government on human reports. this video shows the could police taking away and one of 5 people close to opposition to the law and snatched from their homes on monday it was victim c.d.o. and. and tuesday morning 2 more members of those team were taken away only and that has been released. this was the lead up to

a summons by prosecutors against why they're all on suspicion of participating in an alleged coup attempt. a prosecutor general says why they all had been summoned to appear on thursday were guarding the seizure of a weapons cache in neighboring colombia that was supposedly to be smuggled into the to overthrow the government. why do all refused to appear at the summons and tweeted that he will remain firm despite what he calls the cowardly kidnapping of his close associates the increased pressure on the opposition comes just a week after the u.s. justice department indicted president nicolas maduro for alleged drug trafficking. and now the white house has ordered enhanced counter-narcotics operations in the caribbean just off the coast of israel and to conduct these enhanced operations the president has directed the deployment of additional ships aircraft and security forces to the united states southern command area of responsibility to modernise

information minister calls it an act of aggression. that we repudiate the statements from washington meant to distract attention from the covert 19 tragedy taking place in the united states and that aims to attack us with infamies and 3 and with tensions between washington and caracas escalating rapidly one wonders how far the united states will be willing to go to keep their man in venezuela. out of prison you see in human al-jazeera well it's now been one year since hong kong tried to pass a controversial extradition bill that many feared would compromise the city's independent rule of law that proved triggered months of often violent anti-government protests even after the bell with was withdrawn the streets are quiet now but many believe that the discontent remains to the pollen reports from hong kong. this became the new normal in hong kong in

2019 almost daily violence between mosque protesters and police. the spark that eventually set the street and emotions on fire with a decision to ignore the outcry of millions of people and push through a controversial extradition bill which would have allowed any suspect in the city to be tried in the court of mainland china. and the people just when lots of people thought if we don't fight now this is our last fight and if we don't fight now we'll have no chance and we're fighting claudia moe was one of the legislators who marched with hundreds of thousands to protest against the bill. hong kong's chief executive said the bill was needed to extradite a hong kong murder suspect from taiwan but people feared it not only put them at the mercy of china's communist party controlled legal system but would also allow beijing to seize anyone who set foot in the city. the unrest continued into

july and then the protesters from race the stakes al-jazeera was one of the 1st international networks to broadcast mosques young people storming the hong kong government headquarters in an attempt to disrupt any more meetings by the legislature the bill is that and finally 2 months later chief executive kerry conceded and withdrew the bill but the unrest continued as the move in one song the focus changed to police brutality and that kind of like making people think the whole course becoming more like an authoritarian regime and that brings war people out as a result. kelvin lamb was voted into office in historic district council elections in november nearly half of hong kong 7000000 people went to the polls giving the city's pro-democracy camp an opposition parties control of the. little body for the 1st time home call will not be the same again because the anger or the discontents

of the other side is he would still be in people's minds it has been mostly quiet since the start of the year there are still sporadic protests but instead of thousands on the streets it's now hundreds or dozens and police are much quicker to use crowd control measures and make arrests the protest movement has also been subdued by the crew and a virus outbreak in the city but many fear this could just be the calm before the storm is so much hatred between the protesters. from. the review then again the protesters here say the government has made any attempt to address their concerns instead it's taking a tougher stance against dissent making people fear that it's just a matter of time before scenes like this. once again take over the streets. if you go paul an al-jazeera hong kong. we can now speak to professor case for

a check he's director of the university of hong kong's journalism and media studies center and he joins us on skype from hong kong professor a year on since the introduction of that bill where is the protest movement now. well the protest movement has kind of been hibernation as is the entire city of hong kong in some ways because of the corona virus but it's still there i mean the anger is still there the frustration is though there well we still see some smaller sporadic protests popping up but one thing that's been kind of interesting here is the present day government protest movement is now latched on to the government's handling of the coronavirus crisis and starting to make cars with people like hospital workers not getting the correct equipment trying to pressure the government to put the forums the people who are indeed the virus in residential neighborhoods that specifically criticizing the government now for not completely sealing the border with china so it's going to do to a new movement that's going to criticize the government's handling of the current

virus crisis but it's definitely still there obviously has a lot has changed on the ground with this pandemics i'm going to ask you to stay with me because i do want to ask you too about what seems to be growing tensions and evolving hong kong china and taiwan in the middle of all of this crisis now i say the hong kong government has accused a public broadcaster of breaching the one china principle for mentioning taiwan during an interview with the world health organization now when asked whether the w.h.o. would reconsider taiwan's membership assistant director general bruce l. weird appeared to not hear the question and then hung up the phone and beijing considers taiwan a breakaway province and has long objected to its participation in international organizations as a sovereign state now professor let me ask you for your reaction to all this how contentious is the status of taiwan for people in hong kong especially during these very difficult times when the world as ostensibly trying to fight this pandemic together. exactly and it just shows the kind of craziness of this position we're in

we're we cannot recognize taiwan as a no such governing entity which is because of china's and systems that it's not a country so it can't be a member of the w.h.o. so that the e.u. h.-o. cannot coordinate or cannot even discuss taiwan and in fact pretends not to hear the question you know it reminds me of the old ronald reagan thing where he would mark to the elevator of the helicopter it's not that you're the question that he did not want to answer it but the problem is i was actually got some good sense with containing the graunt virus and we can learn from their examples of did not have 40 masts i was told 170 s. friends that anybody can go to the store and pick up 3 mask that we gave me back she managed to contain it fairly well so there are some lessons that i want because i could be up in the rest of asia with you if the w.h.o. warm up to get china's objections of you wants and self-governing entity well it's a real it's a real problem absolutely because as you say i mean it really is one of the few places that successfully responded to this virus and it still effectively remains

locked out of the w.h.o. the w h ok doesn't want to talk about it so how close a relationship does the w.h.o. have with china how is that perceived in hong kong. it's perceived that the w.h.o. is a bit of a laughing stock let me go to beijing and they praise china for their bills people have been asking how much money china must be giving to the u.a.e. joel they've been asking how much money china gives to ethiopia because the director general of the view a chosen ethiopian is the w.h.o. actually in some ways it's not that when he gets on well they were they were basically praising china's lockdown measures of which go you know millions of people locked in their arguments when people inside were saying those measures are actually quite harsh and white draconian in some ways you know it's just leaping lavish praise on china despite the fact that china was lying about its numbers and burying its numbers for a couple of months before this thing went out of control but there is still question marks about china's numbers of you know how many are really inspected here

are many it really died we have no idea what the year the view a job of china is like that sort of model citizens and that's why people in hong kong and even though you're starting here in the u.s. the u.s. congress people are starting to really question the w.h.o. has credibility in the end of this crisis when it comes to china indeed professor kay threats bag that the director of the best one comes to alison and me to study center thank you for all of your insights with us here on out of there professor thank you for having me now tens of thousands of low paid workers at flower farms have already lost their jobs in kenya because of a lack of demand due to the coronavirus many of them also in common as and many of them now don't know how they're going to feed their families out of there is now can web reports. of the the coronavirus hasn't yet reached grace the t.n.a. is community near the town of ny vasher in kenya as far as she knows but if economic impact has she earned about $100.00 a month in a job at

a nearby flower farm until he was fired last week even if that got a no you don't get me what is going to do. what is going to affect is hank yeah because if only. it would get him going to. kenya he's africa's leading producer of flowers most to export it to europe. these white roses are being harvested because they're ready they'll be thrown away not many european lovers are buying each other a bunch of these at the moment many european countries on lockdown people can't even go on dates here in kenya that means people are losing jobs this whole production line is normally full of people sorting flowers for export the industry says more than 30000 casual workers have already been sent home and tens of

thousands more workers stand to lose their jobs in the weeks ahead. industry representatives spoke to journalists from a safe distance none of the prominent workers have been laid off as we speak but. for another 3 or 4 weeks the next day. as a seasonal work of grace says she was among the 1st to go is now wondering how she will feed her children. thousands in our community who are in the same position. there aren't many jobs here at the best of times health experts say the virus could spread rapidly in these kinds of crowded settlements maybe it already is but the lock down and the economic decline could be even more crippling. the farmer say they'll keep growing flowers as long as they can they want to be ready to resume exports if and when the market recovers. in the meantime the flowers are laid to

waste tens of thousands of livelihoods with them malcolm webb al-jazeera kenya. the commander of a u.s. aircraft carrier that has been fired from his post after raising the alarm about an outbreak onboard more than $100.00 sailors on the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt tested positive and then captain red crazy asked for permission to isolate most of the $5000.00 crew acting navy secretary thomas models said the captain was removed the demonstration extremely poor judgment well it's now time for sports and joe it seems we could see some soccer this summer yet a few months phonos does here because european football leagues could restart in july and august the sports governing body you a for has sent a letter to its 55 members saying they're working on a plan to extend the current season beyond the official june 30th finish with football games canceled across the continent they have been requests from italy and the netherlands to call off the season and on thursday belgium did just that as it

would have club bridge the title you have said in its letter that stopping competitions should be the last resort. english premier league players have been told to take a pay cut and play their part during the current virus pandemic politicians in the country have criticised some clubs for continuing to pay players in full while placing their non-playing staff on unpaid leave leave the premier league is meeting with play union representatives to try to arrange a wage deferral but so far they haven't reached a deal. that everybody needs to play their part in this national effort and that means premier league football is too given the sacrifices that many people are making including some of my colleagues in the n.h.s. who've made the ultimate sacrifice of going into work and of course the disease and have certainly died i think the last thing the 1st thing that a premier league football is can do is make a contribution take

a pay cut and play that part let's think bring in our sports correspondent welling's he's live on skype for us the minister for health spelled it out for the players so why are we still waiting for this decision to happen when is that likely to happen. well this is actually more complicated that it seems on 1st inspection where people look at huge salaries the premier league football is are on and i wonder why they haven't already said they're defer their wages and saying. they barcelona are going to change events as a turkey pay cuts or in the case an event for the show but actually why i think it so that was blown up in the u.k. 1st of all for the premier league clubs made a decision that was questionable to try and appeal to the government. and join an escape so 80 percent of the way it is not playing stuff this is quite controversial it could describe the presidency not exactly but they're going

to have a string of criticism and most notably from the u.k. health minister not hancock clear he's talking about some obviously very grown serious issues so it's a question of him to actually decide to actually bring up if the subject of focus tight but of course he did in $1000.00 strong comments about anything to give it up and this goes against what's actually happening in the meetings going to try to resolve it profession for this union thing that they won't consensus across the board of course tarawera to criticism to the public of course they're aware of how they might look if they want to get something properly plus rather than rushing to something that might be wrong i just think the pressure is building on them to make this decision because the controversy is something that really the nation could do without a moment i just want to quickly sense also very interesting tweet from the form of a candidate of the past who has a greater scope of public violent and he made a pretty good point he said huge parts of the focus are are actually

taxed 45 percent and dumb aren't much of it but he does the big we want it to go to it's a general by just not behind him going to college is what do you actually want to do pound tax it is not complicated the. first inspection all rightly running thank you very much. well the shut down of football across much of the world has left the $50000000000.00 online betting industry with a big gap to fill its head to focus on any games gamblers can find but has also meant unwanted attention and even death threats for a lower league amateur team in sweden pull research reports from the dollar. fortunes are not usually won and lost by betting on amateur teams in sweden but with so many professional leagues shut down around the world me at practice matches in the region of scorn or have attracted the insatiable appetite subdue the online

gambling industry no liverpool to bet on it is all real madrid instead punters focused on scarborough where now this is a 5th division team they usually have about 70 people watching their games but there's such a lack of football globally at the moment they've been getting worldwide attention people betting on their practice much is which would have been nice up to a point but the point came when the team lost their training match and gamblers around the world lost money you can really believe it. well. i mean most people don't even know it's down here it's gone but there are basically people writing to a club after our training games. threatening our players there were threats it all began in friendly enough fashion. i have got messages on facebook from random people the best example is from

a guy from hungary and he asked me about 5 hours before the game hello i'm a fan from hungary. what is the expected result for today's match from the beginning i didn't knew they could bet on this game we were basically the only team the only game that you could bet on the last time we played so obviously a lot. people are going to bed and then if there is money. that's a lot of money soon revealed a dark side of online gambling so you've got one of the messages there. which says that it again you feel for the corrupt rats it's a disgrace to play football just so you complete them please fix matches let's hope you all get corona you dirty rats i feel sorry for this person no one will be losing any more money on scarborough what with even practice games now canceled

in the swedish lower divisions but if sporting action pops up elsewhere whatever the level it will attract attention and maybe hate with online gamblers unlikely to simply hang up their phones while they wait for the sporting world to get back to normal. poll race al-jazeera spade allah sweet or. now the take care lympics athletes' village could be used as a temporary hospital for coronavirus patients it's still being constructed but it's one option being discussed by local government officials the village consists of 24 buildings and was set to host $11000.00 and then pins but it will now sit on occupied for 16 months after the games was put back by a year for marathon world record holder wilson kipsang has been arrested in kenya for breaching a coronavirus curfew kipsang who was also a policeman was among 20 people detained for locking themselves in a bar and drinking alcohol earlier this year he was suspended from track and field

of a doping offenses. the new england patriots an f l team have you said team plane to fly more than a 1000000 masks from china to massachusetts one of the hardest hit states in the u.s. team owner robert kraft paid 2000000 dollars half the cost to buy the mosques. and horse racing's grand national is the latest sporty event to go virtual saturday's race in liverpool was cancelled but thanks to c.g.i. technology and algorithms the computerized version of the race will be played out live on british t.v. to give fans something to watch all right that is so useful for now we'll have more free later in the stars thanks very much to while i do remember you can always find much more on our website including all the latest from our ongoing detailed coverage of the coronavirus pandemic from all around the wild the address for that is al jazeera dot com well for now that's it for mina stars you take this news hour

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