the national propaganda machine. a compelling portrait of the privileged lives of the country's elites rewinds north korea cinema of train and i'll just 0. 0. 0 i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha with the latest on the coronavirus pandemic of the u.k. government's announced another 621 deaths and warns of tougher measures to keep people indoors as sunny weather draws them alps. back to work for sol iran's president announces low risk occupations will resume despite fears of a 2nd wave of infections also. if it were me i might do it anyway i may take it

ok i may take it on the us president continues to tout a medication that is not proven to treat coronavirus and poses potentially dangerous side effects. and will explore the idea of immunity passports for people who for cover even though questions do remain about resistance. and sport can be bright reseize one of basketball's highest honors a former n.b.a. superstar who died in a helicopter crash earlier this year is been inducted into the league's all say. the beginning europe or crown of virus numbers are giving some cause for hope spanish officials say another 674 people have died there and yes that is awful but it's the 3rd day in a row that the death row has all in from 100. but that all and by $135.00 from the

previous day the infection rate is also slowing it has announced another $621.00 deaths which like spain is fewer than the day before warmer weather though is drawing people out of their homes in the u.s. president donald trump says americans should prepare for the toughest week yet let's go to the web tracker now from johns hopkins university it says the u.s. has by far the most cases more than 312000 globally 1200000 have been infected almost 253000 have recovered about 66500 have died so right now we have mark to herero standing by in madrid we'll go to her in just a moment 1st let's go to john hall who is in london so jonah what is the latest with the numbers what the trends are and the possibility that restrictions may be tightened. well i mean look the daily increase in the death toll announced an hour or so ago in this in this

country is $621.00 which of course is an enormous figure but it's worth noting that the day before was 780 to the 2 days before that when the lake 600 steadily increasing setting new records each day this is the 1st time this week the number has actually gone down it's not a trend of course it's also worth noting that the way these figures are calculated is interesting they refer to deaths in the previous 24 hours but not necessarily deaths that have actually happened in that period but have been recorded in that period and some time has taken been taken perhaps to notify relatives and so on so it doesn't provide an absolutely accurate timeline of the rate of increase but nevertheless it is of course a good thing rather than a bad thing that the numbers have come down you know on this day john hall with the latest there from london thank you very much so let's go to mark to herrera who is in madrid so marto what are the numbers there in spain what are the trends that we're seeing. well the spin figures reflect

a slow down trend the figures released today by the home ministry reflect a total of 10130000 infections from corona virus and 6000 new positives in the past 24 hours based in the case that we are entering a phase a phase of this i believe sation and this prime minister better santa quoted yesterday the country is quote close to passing the peak of infections we have a death toll of 12400 with sept 674 new fatalities seems yesterday and this is the lowest number in the past 10 days yes that it was time to get announced a 15 day extension of the state of emergency law down and to april 25 these mean that this doesn't mean this would be the end of the love down because this will be accented but they are studying how these are going to start lifting progressively does lock down you have to see the terms and conditions of how they're gonna

believe in that don't look down but it was something also said that this london has how to start to do to stop the outbreak of the pandemic and has it's also helpful to to contain this outbreak and to help health care workers to to sorry to to to recover from the hope the health care services so marta where do things stand with with health officials having the the proper equipment that they need. well today we know that we have received over $1000000.00 trace masks they were planning minister was planning to to to make mandatory that use a face mask but we're running out of face masks and test kits which is very very important to indicate what people are infected without coronato symptoms and now the focus the spanish government is focused in facing and trying to to to

detect who is infected of coronavirus and their planning how to in several in different regions of spain how to isolate all these people we've grown up virus that have present symptoms of symptomatic so they can isolate them in hostile hotels in exhibition centers so the main focus right now the spanish government is bringing many to spain face much disbelieving face masks and test kits and detect which people have the ground which have which people are infected by corona virus with without him seem to ok with the latest there from spain at madrid marta herrera martha thank you very much iran is reporting another 151 deaths but also a decrease in new infections for the 5th day in a row or another positive development some iranians are being loud to go back to work next week same as robbie has more from tehran. we've heard from health officials over the last few days and weeks that things can go back to normal too

soon but the president when he made this announcement president rouhani began by saying that all branches of government are onboard with the plan that they have moving forward so making it clear that the government is according to him speaking in one voice despite the warnings of normalizing too quickly from health experts saying that that could bring on a 2nd wave here president hassan rouhani did say that in terms of the details of what is considered low risk and high risk those announcements will be made over state t.v. in the coming hours but we can surmise that what they consider low risk is anything that doesn't compel too large of a crowd to form people can work from home they can open small businesses remember this country is a place where the majority of businesses are small to medium so really those environments will begin to see life coming back to life returning to some kind of normal he said that even though those shops and other organizations may begin to start their engines again they have to observe health protocols social distancing

that still has to be the key element of how to go about doing this it's always been a balance between fighting a public health crisis and making sure the country's economy does not go bust and he also acknowledged that iran and iranian people are still operating in unknown territory they don't know whether or not this will continue for a long period of time whether the country will become a kind of reservoir for the virus so he said things will be taken one step at a time but we have to remember that the country's main concern all along has been that the virus might do what sanctions could not which is bring the country's economy to a standstill and that's really what they're trying to fight against at this time i thought of the day as professor of moral studies at the university of tehran says the government is trying to strike a balance between health measures and avoiding economic ruin. illegal sanctions that iran is facing from the united states is hurting iran's economy and one thing the government wants to make sure is you don't want people hurting economically so

much that are not going to be able to recover from it so the basic idea is to find that balance of making sure the economy functions at limited level and at the same time you're not in danger in people's lives finding that balance and answering that question is meant to be a disagreement on these issues in all countries in. the united states and europe expats who disagree with each other and they have the same thing you don't have disagreements it is not a king them people disagree they object you never know tomorrow all day after tomorrow the president could come and say that extend the current situation for one week this is this has happened before he has done this before said he's going to ease restrictions then he didn't do it so i think you have to

wait and. iraq's extending its nationwide curfew for 2 weeks the streets of baghdad remain unusually quiet most public places are closed and soldiers have been deployed to enforce the law police have arrested hundreds of people for violating the restrictions early 60 deaths have been reported and more than 800 infections in the libyan prime minister mahmoud jibril has died from the virus he's been quarantined in a cairo hospital since being diagnosed late last month to reel at the anti-government protests that ousted longtime leader moammar gadhafi in 2011 he was later appointed prime minister and head of the national transitional council. malaysian authorities say they are concerned that people smugglers are still operating despite the coronavirus pandemic after more than $200.00 were injured refugees arrived illegally on the island. they say they were taken there by a human smuggling ring the men accused of taking them escape before arriving and

malaysian waters a 2nd refugee camp has been quarantined near athens after a 53 year old man tested positive for grown up iris about 1800 people living in the last camp are being screened john's raw place is in athens and says the greek government is incredibly worried about the number of refugees and migrants who could become sick. this is the 2nd camp that's been placed and locked in a space of just 3 or 4 days as a result of a positive test the great concern here is to the greek government is to move with speed because this camp holds about 1800 people the entire that's more than the entire infected population in greece right now which stands at 1673 so you can see how that such a camp with people living in close quarters might very quickly overwhelm medical authorities by doubling the number of infections and the fact that this is the 2nd

camp is also of concern the 1st one proved to produce about 24 cases 24 infections partly because all sources were lucky the 1st case was a pregnant lady who gave birth in athens hospital and was diagnosed by a stroke of luck while she was giving birth speed therefore with the camps is key so that you can quickly isolate the families that are affected and prevent it from spreading to the entire camp by jerry has confirmed 4 deaths and more than 200 cases of cron-o. virus it's place people like me in camps across the northeastern region are particularly vulnerable as the outbreak spreads the u.n. says it's working with nigerian officials to develop a merchant response plans and not address is a nigeria's capital of asia where he tells us about the difficulties authorities are facing. the major problem is the absence of enough

testing kits only a few with 1000 people have been tested so far and the government as we speak now is tasting after thousands of people came in contact with people who have been infected with the coronavirus in nigeria suck the government may have defeated it borne some years back when there was an outbreak in west africa some of these struck just asked in place but a major outbreak not because of the virus in nigeria that was felt unless the government has some assistance outside the country the government told us just yesterday that they expected some chinese medical experts to come in to help with the with the with the with the with the control of the of of the current of the outbreak in nigeria and there's been some fumigation efforts going on in major cities in nigeria some states have locked down the states from travel from people coming in either by road or by at will by sea but the federal government imposed

a lockdown on that he made to states the federal capital which is subject that made him a ghost which is the commercial capital of nigeria and a neighboring state in the southwest of the country where we've seen in seoul so some infectious rising so so far the you know going to governments that it's doing all it can to control the spread of this modest but it will definitely need some assistance outside. south sudan has now confirmed its 1st case of the crime of iris as president bashar said a 29 year old woman infected with the virus arrived from ethiopia and february she is now being treated in isolation it's the latest african nation to report a case during the outbreak. the public health. tested and. it is. in an individual. sense pick presented to the u.n. clinic on the 2nd 220. and

should miss. the government. members of the public who strictly. social distancing that of the roman catholic church pope francis has held celebrations in a practically empty saying peter's basilica it's a most unusual celebration of the holy week in history eventually usually held in a huge square right outside filled with thousands of people and this is how palm sunday looked in jerusalem where the traditional mass procession was also called off it was streamed online instead the cathedral itself only allowed 10 people to attend in person on sunday commemorates the time that christians believe jesus arrived in jerusalem and tens of thousands of palestinian workers in israel are returning home before the jewish passover holiday but with increasing numbers of infections in israel the palestinian government is warning of the disaster of those workers don't isolate themselves when they arrive in abraham asked for from the

occupied west bank. palestinian leaders say they've managed to control possible sources of virus infections except one tens of thousands of palestinian workers in israel. at 1st the palestinian government and israel asked those who commute daily from the occupied west bank not to do that and remain in israel for a few weeks but scenes like these angered palestinians israeli buses leaving workers showing carona like symptoms by the side of palestinian roads that and the growing number of infections in israel led the palestinian government to ask workers to return home. jobber oday a father of 6 came back to his village of their ahmad. he's in quarantine now with 8 other workers. are israeli employer was cain on having us work at 1st otherwise he would have replaced us and they would have harmed us financially lysa

he asked us to leave and the workers storms the. most workers have israeli permits and travel to israel and its illegal settlements through military checkpoints others sneak through by roads in the hills it's almost impossible for the palestinian authority to track all arrivals community based committees especially in the mood villages or helping with movement restrictions. so far the palestinian authority is trying to organize medical checkups for returning workers those who test positive for the virus are taken into compulsory quarantine centers while others are asked to self i salute. and we've asked israel to test workers for infections or that they allow them to come back in separate groups so that we can give them the medical services they need. workers in israel poor men own 20 percent of the palestinian workforce with more people now asked to stay home they are

already weak government is holding its daily briefing on crime to viruses health secretary matt hancock let's not let's listen and of course there's now the police in force against them they're not rules that anybody would want to have in place but there are rules that need to be in place and everybody must follow them and stay at home wherever possible and less for those for 'd reasons and we crystal clear about that and we have we've set those those rules when force integrates those rules and we reiterate those rules because that is the best way to be able to bend the curve down and stop the spread of the virus alex thompson from channel 4. a good afternoon to you both you'll be aware that in the last few hours an urgent directive has gone out to enter just ice you've got to sue the effect that if hospitals are using a lot of oxygen machines the entire oxygen supply to the hospital can fail

see power face mask ventilators right through to operate you think says so what is being done to address that critical problem and more widely we understand 3 hospitals in the past few days have come close indeed to running out of oxygen what's being done to increase supply street sure that doesn't happen coming days weeks when clearly the number of patients willing groups yes this is this is a very important operational question we have adequate supplies of the oxygen that's needed in hospitals we need to of course make sure that each hospital has that available we we have had an equipment failure as i think you referenced. and we therefore had to divert some ambulances but this is the normal operation of the n.h.s. when there are things like equipment failures of course interest in it is heightened because of the nature of coronavirus but the supply of the quantity of oxygen

and supply of oxygen is something that we've been working very hard on and we have a very high degree of confidence in the supply of oxygen is going to think this is just going to add actually some comments that i think professor steve powell made a few days ago which is actually to signal that this is a positive sign in most cases if you have a whole system where it's unusual in the u.k. where we have a national health service it means that we have a system of flagging where there are potential risks or problems before they actually become a significant problem and it is a strength of our system that we have these flags going off at regular intervals and i think his comment back to the questions at the time was. this is a positive thing we feel like we do with them as they arise but to reinforce the 6 estates so it is there is no no insufficiency of oxygen and i think the public should not be concerned that if they become ill the need

a hospital admission that care is available to them. great listening to everything from the u.k. government is daily briefings happening at about this time every day the latest numbers out of the u.k. are 621 people have died and the health secretary was just reinforcing that the need for people to adhere to the restrictions and stay inside as much as possible now let's go to another briefing that's happening at about everything this is governor andrew cuomo in the capital of new york state albany giving the latest briefing on cova 19 month hiatus of the point approximately 1000 personnel to new york to start to use its nurses its respiratory technicians the immediate priority is to really those people to help the new york city public hospitals the new york city public hospital system h a h was the system that was on the stress to begin with before any of this so obviously you had more stress to institutions that were under stress it only

makes the situation more difficult so we're going to deploy all the federal person now who are coming in. today 325 to the new york city public hospital system. i talk to the hospital administrators on a daily basis we get them on a conference call and we do this shifting of supplies. balancing a patient. i know that i'm asking them to do really difficult things i get it i don't enjoy being in the situation i don't enjoy putting them. in this position i know this is all over. but all i can say. thank you. to the administration of this health care system and most importantly thank you to the front line workers i mean these people. they are true heroes in

the true sense of the word what they do day in and day out under very difficult circumstances and we think. on a different somewhat lighter note there's an accompanying affliction to the coronavirus that we talked about early on that is cabin fever it is a real situation not medically diagnosed doctors are clues to medical definition for camping fever but i believe it exists it's a feeling of isolation it's often accompanied by radical mood swings resentment of people around you very. for no reason whatsoever just an up welling resentment especially towards people who are in apparent positions of authority in the situation which i've noticed irrational outbursts all right that is. that as the governor of new york governor andrew cuomo speaking from the

capital albany with the end do they leverage things he's giving and actually yeah he's talking about something that a lot of people are probably experiencing right now if they're doing what they're supposed to do which is self isolating self quarantining i've probably been inside for quite a long time and it can be a it can be a frustrating situation so he is acknowledging that also acknowledge the difficult this has been on medical workers on mike hanna has been listening to all this is actually live in washington d.c. with the latest on the situation in the u.s. broadly and obviously mike new york is the epicenter so what is the latest about what kind of help new york is going to be getting. well earlier in the governor of new york state's briefing there was for the 1st time a glimmer of hope within that particular briefing the death rate in new york has dropped for the 1st time the rate of discharges from hospitals is rising rapidly now governor andrew cuomo says it's too early to draw any clear

suppositions from this it could be a blip in the data however he says what it also could be is that the apex of the infection rate has been reached and it is on a plateau at this particular point new york state concerned about reaching that apex of the governor referring to it as our battle our war on the mountain at this particular stage he says and i must stress this it's too early to draw any real conclusions it will take a few days for full data and models to be looked at but the fact of the reported data at the moment is that for the 1st time the death rate in new york state is dropping the amount of people being discharged from hospital is increasing rapidly now this has a knock on effect obviously it's freeing up space in the hospitals this was new york's greatest concern and we also heard from the governor there is that the 1st

of those medical military personnel who were deployed by the federal government in the past 24 hours they are being deployed and they are being deployed straight to hospitals in new york city to help the health workers and doctors who have been slaving away who've been facing this absolute crisis new york being the epicenter of what has been happening but that's new york state i just want to refer to louisiana for example a 20 percent increase in infections over the past 24 hours so that's a massive increase of great great concern obviously to the country as a whole so what we're looking at at the moment is this. new york remaining the epicenter new york city in particular rising infections in new jersey neighboring new york state but at the same time the 1st glimmer of that that apex may be reached or maybe that they may be but i must stress once more the governor of new york state saying this could be a blip but it will take

a few days to actually confirm that this is a trend rob the floor within the data being received ok i can with the wrap up there for us in washington d.c. mike thank you very much immorality owners of a london convention center being used as a temporary hospital have you turned on their decision to charge for it xcel center has been converted to treat $4000.00 kroner virus patients a report in the sunday times newspaper said the center's operators national exhibitions company were building the u.k.'s national health service more than 3000000 dollars a month and rent the company refused saying it was only going to charge some operational costs which it will now cover itself presser jeffrey settlin is a senior lecturer in public policy at harvard's kennedy school and a specialist in business ethics earlier he spoke to my colleague him for now and told her the ethical choice is also often the best choice for a company's bottom line. right now because the crisis where you're looking from

a sheer ethical standpoint of doing the greatest good for the greatest number of people it the profit takes a backseat. to to doing what's right in turn and in attempt to save lives from a business standpoint they ought to also have to think about what are the long term to patients of trying to be a profiteer during a time like this i mean going to the down that road on the issue is of ethics i mean we've got right now the situation where every country is trying to get hold of mosques of personal protective equipment we're talking about you know vaccine trials and everybody's trying to look after their own stuff off their own population i mean are we going to see more of this is this virus continues to spread around the globe well it seems like it right now it feels like it's that direction whether it's country to country even within the united states from state to state were people there trying to get hold of the equipment what seems to be needed is some kind of at least in the states a countrywide effort and then some kind of international effort to try to sort of

address it all together and work together to do it which seems to be lacking right now some of this is because for one reason or another. it happened quickly and there was nothing in place to prepare for such a a far reaching and rapidly spreading pandemic that we haven't experienced before. you know so so it's sort of the suddenness of it the people who sort of try to just get their own house protected and also they want to make sure that if they take care of other people there will be people who take care of them when that when the time comes because it's happening so quickly talk about turkey now the death toll there has now topped 500 with around 24000 and actions reported nationwide emergency measures aimed at containing the outbreak had been stepped up including the mandatory wearing of masks and shops and markets in proselytize us live from istanbul with the latest there so what do we know about the about the trends there about the numbers and about people actually adhering to these restrictions in em.

well resell yes turkey turkish officials actually haven't imposed very strict then very direct restrictions so far especially a lockdown in istanbul with a population of a more than 15000000 or so expect that this is what the sample mayor has warned many times also the opposition party but according to turkish president the the will should be whirling the which means turkish economy they shouldn't be stopped while necessary measures are taken by the government and are obeyed by the citizens so so far what what they have in fall is was that they were actually trumped in taking care of these citizens from a broad that they cancelled international international. fronts right now and their domestic flights are suspended until april 20th and. interstate transportation by bus is suspect but in turkey especially since the most of the cases are is

in istanbul is some will is concerning that's why. in its 31 cities across turkey. the government imposed. a limited curfew let me say it for young people who are younger than 20 and there's a limited curfew for people above 65 years old was also imposed you know do to protect their elderly people but so far especially in a city like a stumble. people are still travelling by public transport taishan to be able to go to they are spied some private companies and some public companies have allowed their employees to be to be working home office it's not the same for everyone so still people need to go work and bring for than money. for their family and so far. the government also impose that in public places like supermarkets

everybody should wear masks and let me just explain your the balance sheets of the corona virus in turkey saw far there have been it's 500 to one people citizens have lost their lives or to coron the virus and there are 20 almost $24000.00 confirmed cases and so far the health minister was able to run 161-8000 test of course there are patients in the i.c.u. and some of them are integrated there are there are some good news like 786 citizens have been able to recover and go back their works but. the spine the i.c.u. capacity of turkey was much better compared to italy and germany they had there is there seems to be a coming problem because all doctors all science board members are warning that these 10 days coming 10 days are very important for turkey because if this limited

curfew is not a bowl obeyed if citizens do not self isolate it then it can be a disaster for turkey because they may not be able to control the number of the set that so these 10 days are very important in order to curb down the graphic but besides these self solution efforts turkey is also trying to produce some in the genesis mental 8 years in order to support the i.c.u. and into basic units and this is the situation so far in turkey. with the wrap up there on minister thank you. countries in central asia such as kazakhstan and neighboring kurdistan have urged businesses and citizens to give money to emergency fund and while the donations are welcome some are questioning where the money's coming from alan forrester walker reports. that. a man who loves expensive things sings mellow

a rapper in kyrgyzstan last month he claimed he'd spent $80000.00 helping communities in quarantine accused on social media of publicity seeking his rent insulting the kick his public for their in gratitude landed him in jail. private donors of testing kits masks and food have had a better reception from the get go but the powerful clan behind this help campaign are unlikely philanthropists the metro emo of so under investigation for money laundering up to a $1000000000.00 jenny tell about a video widely shared on whatsapp says when trouble came all those calling us corrupt went silent it's very much ramos and you know all their. political actors like them are doing this on purpose in order to capitalize on this politically actually like a lot of people are appreciating it you know it may be saying that. there's going

to be a different time when we get you know like are going well the source will come in and the well right now are going to be mighty and we don't care who is giving that mind and that mind. donations to support the government's fight against coronavirus have totaled over $700000.00 in kyrgyzstan but in neighboring oil rich kazakstan more than $30000000.00 has been raised. and when 1st president nursultan nazarbayev appealed to the wealthy his daughter dinara and her husband to more coolly buy i have responded with $10000000.00 that's small change given their vast wealth last year swiss media reported that the family purchased this chateau on lake geneva for more than $60000000.00 there is no that's separate that really is well over the number of people who grew because their family is legal and

legitimate there is a perception that it was grabbed that was stolen and so you couple with they can this money not legally. give them back and this is not enough. when the higher topping the list in the region is a leash it was man of was becky stands president says the billionaire has given $20000000.00 towards the construction of a new hospital in touch can't regardless of its origins private wealth in central asia is helping to fight to the virus and for some that alone is reason to be thankful robin for a steelworker al-jazeera returning to the u.s. for president donald trump continues to promote the use of medication that has not proven to treat the coronavirus act could endanger people's lives we're going to be distributing it through the strategic national stockpile. it's going into the

strategic national stockpile to create certain patients and we have millions and millions of doses of it. so hydroxy kora quite that's what he's talking about it's an anti-malarial drug that is also used to treat lupus and arthritis but it has potentially severe side effects especially for the heart no major study has found it's effective against coppa 19 and the chief immunologist on trump's head demick task force has warned against taking it many of the things that you hear out there or or what i had called anecdotal reports they may be true but they're anecdotal so the only thing that i was saying is that if you really want to definitively know if something works that you've got to do the kind of trial that you get the good information doctors also say rush to buy the trouble create shortages for patients who actually need it all the world health organization spoken of the dangers of false hope using tested medicine without the right evidence

could raise false hope and even do more harm than good and our president has asked and dear to really shipments of the drug of the u.s. has already ordered but it's banned all exports so dr patrick tang is chief division chief rather of pathology sciences center medicine he is here in doha dr thanks for letting us to continue to call on you we appreciate it what will talk in a minute about the the gravity of what donald trump has been saying well let's let's remind viewers again specifically what this drug is what it is for and what it is not for. this drug is used to primarily right now treat room until logical disorders so diseases like lupus. it's made in the past for other forms of it have been used to treat malaria and other diseases but currently it's pretty much a primary or logical disease drug. the only way they can get their hands on this

would be a prescription i assume i hope. yes i most people would only be able to acquire the strength through prescriptions that have been cases where people have gone to other sources for the drugs and maybe in other countries there are in some of the western countries you made people get out a prescription as well too so when we talk about trials and even if it's some point it is proven that maybe this potentially does have some effect on crime of ours how long of a process is it for something like that to actually be tested for the f.d.a. or any medical body to feel comfortable actually recommending something like this. right now the only evidence that we have for this drug as we've heard from other people is that it's only anecdotal evidence that i mean it's only been tried on

a small number of people. maybe have had some benefit for those people but without . when it's not in the context of the controlled trial we don't know for sure whether it works well with their might you can cause harm for a patient so to do these trials properly it would usually take many months currently there's many trials going on in china to look at various different drug combinations to treat kobe 19 but a lot of the studies have haven't been concluded yet so a lot of the evidence is still pending and a few other things i just i think it's important to get a little bit more of the flavor of what the president was saying yesterday another quote he said there's a study out that people with lupus aren't catching this horrible virus maybe that's correct maybe that's false you're going to have to check it out he also said that there is a possibility a possibility what do you have to lose take it i really think they should take it

try it if you'd like. i know sometimes doctors get frustrated that patients even google their symptoms and come in and think they know the answer to what kind of drug it is they need eccentric setter but it is the president potentially arming people with really dangerous information that requires doctors to really be gatekeepers well what we can take from that message is that there there is hope so certainly this is a drug that has proven to be a doctor taking a stand i realized i realize you're not a politician i do realize that but is that really hope that donald trump is giving that hope when he's saying maybe take it maybe not maybe there's a study maybe not is that actually hope. well i think in the medical profession we're all hoping that this drug will come through that when the randomized control trials are concluded that this drug will prove to be beneficial so there

definitely is hope and but we definitely have to wait the evidence right now is to prove the mary there is definitely a potential for causing harm we've seen other drugs that were that we were hopeful that they might have some effect and go but 19 now proven to not work when they were subjected to properly controlled randomized controlled trials so i think we have to wait for the evidence before we can make any conclusions about hydroxy cleargreen ok so just before i let you go just to be clear when the president of the united states says i really think they should take it they should not take it correct i think most medical professionals would argue against that that we should wait until the evidence it out it's too early to start taking drugs that have no proven benefit and could potentially cause harm ok dr patrick taking with her thank you very much

going back to work and getting the economy moving again may take a long time in many countries but there is one idea out there that's already being worked on with the hope that it may ease the lock down it's being called an immunity passport propagate to reports. the coronavirus has transformed the world where empty streets and shuttered businesses are the norm and billions are under lockdown but researchers around the world are developing tests and conducting clinical studies to explore if people who have been infected and cured are no longer at risk the aim is to eventually allow people to go back to normal life the idea behind this is that if people get him you and natural infection they would have a similar situation to someone having received a vaccination and we could use the protests as nice proper antibody tests

become available we could use antibody test to document that immunity exists britain which is struggling to speed up testing has floated the idea of a so-called immunity passport a certificate for those who recovered and declared immune to the virus in the minetta legion of italy infected doctors and nurses are being tested to see if they have developed resistance to the virus so they can return to work. and millions more italians will be tested for natural antibodies but it's unclear just how reliable and effective the tests with. early in the pandemic that there are a small number. in comparison had been infected and i will have both the and. we don't know for how long these antibodies will last. time is and will antibodies or tens of drop off time at

a time when government lock downs have brought so many people off their livelihoods they're also concerns about criminals forging a miti documents this passport can be the equivalent of yellow fever. if it gets that allow international travel to resume if countries recognize such a certificate but there will be a problem that i see that it's wrong counterfeit certifications because individual communities urgently want to return to economic activity there also difficult ethical questions about where the sat so difficult it's will cause more prejudice and further restrict the most vulnerable in society you can ensure that people face lower risks and we reduce the death toll from this but you have to make more decisions about you know who will be allowed to work and who won't be who will

be allowed to travel who want to be the idea attractive and hopefully perhaps but also from with uncertainties as the wild hunk astound for yet another day of the global pandemic. priyanka could go on to see her. to get some other news now for government soldiers in libya have been killed in the latest fighting and the government of national court based in tripoli says 170 fighters for war after have been killed over the past 8 days i'm going to tell ahead a central player says the u.n. calls for a global ceasefire because of coronavirus seem to have gone and her military sources with the government of national called to say that house that his forces started shelling get their positions and also. it is the areas with indiscriminate. rockets rockets random rockets landed

in several residential areas in southern tripoli and also in near the city center like bruce lee neighborhood today but meanwhile the government military sources say that they have been targeting after this force litigations with air strikes over the past week and today near the. east of the city of misrata government air force targeted have to the forces positions including get a detachment military detachments and also military vehicles to the world after the government forces have lost 4 fighters today and they say that they have pulled out from. that neighborhood in southern new tripoli but meanwhile the government forces have achieved advancement on the ground in

other axes like. and what it will be a neighborhood in southern tripoli. coming up next on sport the new representing premier league footballers heads out of a plan to cut salaries. before any official investigation into the tragedy of flight m.h. 70 was complete to one side benefit of the journalist claims to have connected the dots to lay dents to one of the members are viewed by the investigations team at spelling cat has identified the 2nd subject as citizen journalism investigations trust is generated through transparent don't believe me here's the. truth for an approach truth coming soon on 00. 0 struggles full of pleasure about ourselves that i bored of being caught over on

a sunday on one side of the internet so that i'm there also as an initial test of the elephants and system an intimate look at life in cuba from a clear and mr media without a long time a 3 egg told me it was the lunokhod wanted to sort of be in my queue for. on al-jazeera. it's countries around the world grapple with new restrictions and anxieties stemming from the coban 1000 there's further concern among groups in the us who live and work on the margins of society from all supports on the plight of

undocumented workers and their families. one son tian is a day laborer. i'm with and. i work day to day so i have to work. if i don't work. i want to have enough to cover the basic necessities in a city that has nothing. at the nonprofit outreach center where something yon goes to find work staff are preparing bags with soap tissues and information packets about cope at 19 but we're really concerned specifically for workers that are elderly we're really concerned about them we like i said we have a huge population of workers that are 60 and while at work many undocumented workers can't even practice basic virus prevention workers who don't have access to running water can even wash their hands at the month senior osco romero clinic in los angeles dr don garcia treats low income families many of whom are undocumented

they live in the shadows their exposure i could very well say on an epidemiological site could even be higher than the ordinary resident or person of the united states just because of their employment standards garcia says some undocumented people ovoid interacting with public health systems for fear of being caught like immigration authorities and deported doctors say if the situation remains in which undocumented people stay in the shadows away from the health care system during the pandemic it poses a grave risk to the population as a whole they're becoming a transmission vector to all those other individuals that they're exposed to unless government policy encourages undocumented people to come out of the shadows the danger of infection could increase for everyone. robert oulds al jazeera los angeles. time for sport with our richelle thank you so much kobe bryant has

received one of the highest honors in basketball a former n.b.a. superstar who died in a helicopter crash earlier this year has been inducted into the sports hall of fame brian headlines a group of 9 players who were elected into the 2020 class the american played his entire 2 decade career with the l.a. lakers before retiring in 2016 bryant was killed in january alongside his 13 year old daughter giana and 8 other people the right was regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time he won 5 n.b.a. championships and was an 18 time all-star he also won gold medals with team usa at the 20082012 olympics and said he was looking forward to the olympics returning to l.a. in 2028 bryant had also been racking up accolades off of the courts and 2018 his baby deer basketball won an oscar for best animated short brian is survived by his wife vanessa and 3 other daughters. accomplishment and honor and burke

street me proud of him obviously we wish that he was here with guns to celebrate. but it's definitely the. career there's some solace in knowing that he was probably going to be a part of better 2020 hall of fame class. also joining bryant in the hall of fame is tim duncan he played for the san antonio spurs throughout his 19 year career and was a 5 time and champion kevin garnett was another to get the nod one of only 4 players to win m.v.p. and defensive player of the year he claimed his one n.b.a. championship with the boston celtics in 2008. that the union that represents english premier league footballers has questioned the wisdom of reducing players' salaries the premier league and u.k. government are putting pressure on players to take a pay cut the professional footballers association says

a proposed move to lower wages by 30 percent could actually damage the country's national health service the p.f.a. claimed it would result in an annual loss in tax contributions of more than $250000000.00 in a statement the union said what effect does this loss of earning to the government mean for the national health service was this considered in the premier league proposal and did the health secretary matt hancock factor this in when asking players to take a salary cut the p.f.a. added it's our priority to finalize the precise details of our commitment as soon as possible of the chinese super league is likely to be one of the 1st major football competitions to return english clubs even discussed a proposal to finish their season in china we spoke to football writer brandon chalmers who lives in beijing he says such a plan is unlikely to happen. there was definite possibility for that

in the past before there started to be the issue of you know china's concerns about the 2nd wave before china started having these cases come in from abroad i think if china really wanted to show that humans were back to normal and one way of doing that would be having fans in stadiums and being able to host sort of this i mean if the european matches if the english matches were going to be behind closed doors anyways why not play them in china if china was able to have fans there at this point i really think china is going to be very conservative about things i don't think that that they'll wait to see they'll wait for the japanese league or the korean league to come back 1st they don't want to be the 1st league to come back and potentially have an issue right now the key is that you need to see the c.b.i. the basketball the comeback 1st they're foreigners were all requested back already

they've put together a plan where they were only going to play in 2 cities and finish up the season and they have. just a handful of games left in their season and then the playoffs and i think once that starts then we can seriously start to see football is going to start within a week or 2 of that most likely when that comes back i honestly think at this point we're looking at late may or early june for the start of the c.f.l. season. some football is continuing in corners of the world previously ignored by majority of fans the t.g. he said only began its new season as planned all matches are being played behind closed doors the central asian country is yet to officially report a single case of the corona virus infection he said and is closed at sporter since stopped issuing work permits to foreigners at that it football federation says it's

now helping to secure broadcasting deals with sports networks around the world. and nicaragua's top league is also enjoying new levels of attention games in the central american nation are being played in empty stadiums but are being broadcast on why many players are unhappy saying they weren't consulted about the decision to keep the league going there are 5 confirmed cases in the country ok and that is all your sport for now richelle back to you art thank you very much before we go police in colombia are making a song and dance to help people feel free to our narrow confinement under lockdown . officers in the capital bogota plan to keep the music going for as long as the emergency lasts as well as spirits and encouraging exercise plays her campaign reminds people to stay at home to protect themselves. trying to me on the news hour to keep it here we have much more news

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from a helicopter of money to universal basic income what governments must do to keep the economy alive counting the cost on al-jazeera. government's announced another 621 deaths and warns of tougher measures to keep people indoors as sunny weather draws them out. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at least 600 new deaths are reported in new york state but it's the 1st time there's been a decline. a 2nd refugee camp goes on lockdown in greece after a man test positive for corona virus. living on the edge american farmers are

getting nervous about the chronic virus coming to town as the spring planting season weekends.