closed and to the far right. if you don't like you can both turkey why i'm doing what i'm most people in power investigates western thrice contested space on al-jazeera. you're. welcome to this news hour hour shall carry with continuing coverage of the coronavirus and emic u.k. government announces another 621 tests and warns of tougher measures to keep people indoors as sunny weather draws them out. all in the u.s. epicenter governor of new york says it's too early to tell of the crisis has peaked after a slight fall and the death rate also if it were me i might do it anyway i may take

it ok i may take it. i'll chuck continues to tout a medication that is not proven to treat the illness and poses potentially dangerous side effects. or another rocky week looms for oil markets can saudi arabia and russia reach a truce and their price for. began in europe or crown a virus numbers or giving some cause for hope spanish officials say another 674 people have died there and that is an awful number but it is the 3rd day in a row that the death toll has fallen infection rate as also slowing the u.k.'s announce another $621.00 deaths which like spain is fear of the day before warmer weather though is drawing people out of their homes and in the u.s. new york state's had almost $600.00 further deaths taking the total to about $42000.00 came. is there and that the u.s.

has by far the most cases of coronavirus more than 324000 the online tracker of johns hopkins university also shows that globally about 1200000 people have been infected almost 2 153000 africa covered in just under $68000.00 have died as our live team coverage we're going to start right now this hour mike hanna is in washington d.c. to know lakas in toronto of report on a 20 percent jump in debts in canada in just a moment 1st it's going to marry intimacy in london so she said i'm marrying 621 is the latest number of deaths that we have heard about suppose that it's some sort of perspective for us and and what the government is still trying to do about this. yes will those later those figures that you mention are very much in the expectations of the anticipation is that the number of new cases of the virus and the number of hospital admissions sadly also the number of deaths are expected to rise in the coming days and weeks as the virus as the epidemic is expected to reach

its peak in the country but of course that is something that the government is trying to suppress suppress through social distancing measures so course the idea is that you don't have a sudden surge of people all getting sick at the same time and overwhelming the capacity of the health care system and that is why we had another a very robust message from the government today about respecting social distancing measures because as the weather starts to improve the fear is that you're going to have more people coming out also as the the easter holidays are upon us that you will have more people venturing outside and that means that the progress that we have seen might be lost because there has been a dramatic pull in the use of public transport the government has been showing us these slides all week showing that there are fewer people out also the health secretary matt hancock saying that by and large these social distancing measures are being respected but it appears as though there is a very clear minority of people who are ignoring the rules and that could be on the

rise it's very difficult to know whether this is happening on a large scale it's very difficult to know how widespread this is but the government was concerned enough today to say that if this continue to happen that they would have to look at taking further action. can you also tell us what what you know about what's happening in italy. yes well so just as the u.k. and the u.s. is about to enter very tough weeks ahead there might be some signs of recovery in italy as you were saying the number of new and the number of deaths recorded on sunday stood at 525 and that's actually the lowest level for that figure in about 2 weeks so perhaps some sign that the situation appears to be getting better but really you can't underestimate the toll this crisis has taken on a chile has been the hardest hit country in europe by the coronavirus that suffered the most deaths from coma 19 than any other country in the world so while it's

positive that contagion is slowing we're not likely to see these restrictions being immediately left it and certainly the health minister in its he has made it clear that some form of social distancing is that likely to remain in place and that will eventually be supplemented with things like contact tracing with the use of smartphone apps and digital technology in this is going to be very important going forward in really isolating and identifying specific cases of covert 19 to stop it to try and identify those cost as a cases before it becomes a wave of infections so really it's going to be a transition into a new normal because of that fear that there could be another wave of infection until of course there is a vaccine for those and there's no way of knowing when that might be ok maryanne demasi with the wrap it there from london mary thank you now to new york state and the u.s. which has reported nearly $600.00 deaths and over

a 1000 new infections the governor andrew cuomo gave this at the. number of its is up that's the bad news it's $44259.00. and we pray for each and every one of them and their families. and that is the worst news but the number of deaths over the past has been dropping for the 1st time what is the significance of that. it's too early to tell ok mike hanna joins us live now from washington d.c. so mike tell us give us a broader picture of what the governor is saying about what is happening in new york or the new york state governor saying there that the death toll once again an acceptable however as he points out it is for the

1st time that this death toll has dropped in the 24 hour period he makes very clear as you heard that it's too early to draw any clear conclusions from those he says the statisticians tell them that he what they want to the details from the days ahead to be able to understand what is happening now he said that it may well be a 8 picks in the infection with the new york state possibly even a plateau as he puts it stressing though that this is still too early to tell however he did provide another statistic that may well prove a significant and that is that 78 percent of those who had been admitted to hospital with the virus have now been discharged so that rate is climbing as well so although it's a major epidemic within new york state and indeed neighboring states like new jersey the governor of new york cautious in terms of seeing perhaps

a change in the pattern that the state has been suffering under for so many weeks ok so mike tell us about the patterns and some of the other hot spots in the u.s. . well the u.s. surgeon general has issued a bleak warning in the course of the day saying that this could be the people's pearl harbor moment the 911 moment he says that this could be will be the worst week in the lives of many americans and that is once again looking towards the apex of the pandemic hitting in a number of areas at the same time areas like louisiana there's been a 20 percent increase in infections the new orleans has a higher death rate per capita than new york city in illinois once again the struggling the governor there saying there's simply not enough testing being done it's unclear exactly what the trends are without that absolutely essential testing

the governor once again being very critical of the federal government for not providing enough test kits not providing enough equipment very sickly saying that the states are being left to fight this pandemic by themselves the federal government has been insisting that yes state governors are at the front line of combating the pandemic the federal government is there to back up but hearing from the governor of illinois there there's simply not enough backup happening and certainly not enough to be able to establish trends to be able to gather enough data to see where this pandemic is going what geographical location and the rate of infection in particular places all of these as the governor of illinois absolutely essential to be able to understand how best to counteract the spread of this virus ok mike hanna with the wrap up their friendly last in washington d.c. mike thank you. other never people killed by the crime the virus in canada has just by 20 percent to 258 and one day canada has appealed to volunteers to support

frontline health care workers and is offering full time jobs to reservists and on saturday the prime minister just announced millions of medical masks would be arriving from china lacked joins us live now from toronto so daniel how are official that in canada reacting to these these new numbers what they did earlier last week late last week was prepare us for this if you will they released modeling that they're acting upon to encourage social distancing to test and everything else and that modeling did lay out some stark numbers of deaths so when you get these one day jumps like this people of course are shocked and it's tragic and it's acknowledged it all but we've been warned is what officials here would say the other thing that's happened is that canada has also managed to ramp up its testing rapidly it's now got one of the higher testing rates in the world one in every 100 roughly 100 people has been receiving 1000 testing so the data

that canadian officials are working with is pretty good they say they're using this to tell us they are everywhere else stay home don't be in touch with each other except over technology and try to minimize shopping trips and exercise so you don't go where other people are socially isolated they're saying but basically this one day increase is something they'll be very concerned about a lot of it's happening in elderly care homes and when news of that comes out it does have a very sobering effect on people who are reading it and possibly worried about their elderly relatives absolutely the prime minister just in print he has said he is determined to get president trump to lift export restrictions on medical masks how can he do that. well at 1st there was some indication they might retaliate against the united states in some sort of trade

related way or stopping nurses travelling across the land border to work in u.s. hospitals thousands of nurses and other medical personnel do that in certain border communities but he's backed off on that and said they're going to use diplomacy work their contacts in the united states and also with at the same time wide no candidate is personal protective equipment procurement policies it emerged today that canada has rented a large warehouse in china that is being run by canadian officials accumulating masks and other things and trudeau as you reported has said that millions of masks are on the way we'll be here within 24 hours to 48 hours it's not yet overwhelming the health care system here social isolation does seem to be being observed quite widely but officials are sensitive to all aspects of this and are working you know probably as intensely in heart as all of their counterparts around the world on this daniel lack the latest thank you very much daniel former libyan prime

minister but major breal has died from the virus he had been quarantined in a cairo hospital since being diagnosed late last month to pale at the anti-government protests that alstad longtime leader more market off in 2011 it then became head of the national transitional council iran is supporting another 151 deaths but also a decrease in new infections for the 5th consecutive day another positive development some iranians are being allowed 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 on board 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 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. that's part of the crime a virus has been relatively low an africa but the african union predicts the pandemic could lead to the loss of more than 20000000 jobs a study shows that continent's economy could shrink by one percent this year and foreign investment gets up by 15 percent trade their fair made to buy up to 35 percent which would lead to a loss of more than $270000000000.00 and the tourism and oil industries could see losses in the billions of dollars in our case for nigeria close to $2000000.00 people living in camps heart risk of infection they've all been made homeless by years of war with the armed group okocha rob many reports from a boucher. a sprawling county for the displaced in my degree it's one

of dozens dotting the landscape of the old east in nigeria. and some of the camps aid workers hand out soup and water to the restraint personal hygiene as coronavirus infection sent deaths reported people complained very well. as you can see the security is at the gates rides around trying to in fact i even say to somebody who wanted to get access to the calm and then to fasten actually declined. and of course he was denied access. but the residents here on the northeast with some having to wait in lines to fetch drinking water overcrowding is another major problem making social distancing almost impossible. when there's no support or any donation that will encourage hygiene and healthy lifestyles but yet they are still making emphasis on coughing executes good personal hygiene so how do you expect the less privileged in the camp to cope with this situation. we are

always praying that through we can do this is a test from almighty goat so we ought to accept it with good faith. 10 years of war with boko haram the group fighting against nigeria's army has forced more than 2 and a half 1000000 people from their homes into camps like this. the united nations and i was to make this response may just mitigate the spread of coronavirus among the most vulnerable in the northeast but organizations such as doctors without borders say the situation in the camps is dire it's made worse by the continuing bull quantum attacks not only in northeastern nigeria but in neighboring cameroon chad and issued a public. many fear a corona virus outbreak in these camps could be cut as traffic i fear that's becoming more real with health facilities crumbling across the country have a crease or just. south sudan has confirmed its 1st case of the krajina virus vice president bashar said

a 29 year old woman and facts of woman arrive from ethiopia and february she is now being treated and isolation the public health brutally tested and confirmed cases of corbett 19 in an individual the says pick presenting to the u.n. clinic on the 2nd april 220 with fever. headache and shut ness of breath the government is members of the public who strictly observed the rules of social distancing. famer audio owners have a london convention center being used as a temporary hospital have you turned on their decision to charge for it xcel center had been converted to treat 4000 coronavirus patients a report in the sunday times newspaper said the center's operators national exhibitions company were billing the u.k.'s national health service more than

$3000000.00 a month and rent the company refutes that saying it was only going to charge some operational costs which it will now cover itself professor jeffrey cyclon is a senior lecturer in public policy at harvard kennedy's school and a specialist in business ethics earlier he spoke to my colleague campanella and told her the ethical choice is 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 it in attempt to save lives from a business standpoint they ought to also have to think about what are the long term implications of trying to be a profiteer during a time like this i mean going said to down that road on the issue it of ethics i mean we've got right now the situation where every country is trying to get ahold of mosques of personal protective equipment we're talking about you know vaccine

trials and everybody's trying to look after their own stuff enough 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 where people they're 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 while governments try to keep ahead of

the out right there also planning how to get people back to work one idea cents on something called an immunity passport priyanka gupta pardon me explain how that would work. the corona virus has transformed the world where empty streets and shouted 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. 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 equip us at the protests as soon as possible antibody tests become available we could use antibody tests 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 miniature region 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 a small number. compared it had been infected and i will have both the and. we don't know for how long these and. time is and all antibodies will tend to drop off with time. at a time when government lock downs have brought so many people off their livelihoods

they're also concerns about criminals forging immunity documents this pos point 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 individuals communities urgently want to return to economic activity they're also difficult ethical questions about where the sat so difficult it's will cost more prejudice and further restrict the most vulnerable in society you can ensure that people face a lot of risks and we reduced 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 won't be the idea attractive and hopefully perhaps but also

from with uncertainties asked the wild hunk astound for yet another day of the global pandemic. go on to see are returning to the u.s. for president donald trump continues to promote the use of a medication that is not proven to treat the coronavirus and could endanger people's health if it were me fact i might do it anyway i may take it ok i may take it and i have to ask my doctors about that but i may take it i draw kora quinn is an anti-malarial drug that's also used to treat lupus arthritis but it has but actually severe side effects especially for the heart no major study has found that it's effective against kobe at 19 and the chief immunologist on tribes pandemic taskforce 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 something that you've got to do the kind of trial that you get the good information doctors also say a rush to buy the drug will create shortages for patients who currently need it all the world health organization spoken of the dangers of also using tested medicines without the right evidence could raise false hope and even do more harm than good president trump though has still asked and yet to release shipments of the drug the u.s. has already ordered that it's banned all exports so let's go down to the dr margaret harris spokesman for the world health organization she joins us now from outside geneva dr harris we know how incredibly busy or thank you so much for your time so let's pick up on this 1st point it keeps coming up over and over and over again this hydroxy hora question so let's let's and the president. seemed to

cavalierly say i may or may not take it even telling the people telling the public maybe you should take it what is the bottom line on this drug drug and what people should and should not be doing perhaps more importantly should not be doing. so the bottom line on old drugs at the moment is there is no proven drug that's proven to have the effect that we want which is stopping the virus we as a whole bunch of different drugs and different things all being tested right now but as an earlier stake is said to get that evidence you've got to compare one with another and you've got to have the same sort of people having treatment under the same conditions so you can see where the the effect the is that say if i have the drug and i'm compared with a woman of the same age being treated the same conditions with something else and there are a 1000 of maybe and a 1000 of them and you see

a difference in our clinical course that's what we call the effect size then you know is that yes it's probably a good chance this drug is a fictive at the same time you want to work out what doses effective and all this side effects for different individuals so this a whole plethora of pieces of information you need and the only way to get that information is to do really well designed trials now the good news news is those trials are underway right now we've got a big trial called the salad solidarity trial and we've got 46 countries involved but many of also the countries in europe we've got fantastic scientific institutions and researches they too are looking at many of these drugs in really good well designed trials so we should have this information fairly soon but we don't have it yet so regardless of what the president said about how he may or may not take it this is not something that a doctor would prescribe for you in that setting what you're saying is this is happening in controlled trials very specifically correct. that's correct and one of

the reasons why your doctor wouldn't be comfortable prescribing that because if you needed such a drug that would want you to be in hospital they would want you to be getting the case you need so it's not something that would be happening in a normally fat normal family doc the doctor patient relationship thank you for settling that dr harris have a feeling it may come up again but thank you for settling that ok so let's move on to another point i'm not sure if you heard but my colleague priyanka group to have a report about something called a munity passports the idea that you know countries that want to slowly get moving forward because there are economists are paralyzed can maybe figure out a way to start to clear people to go back to work based on whether or not they're potentially immune to this what do you what do you what do you know about this what are your thoughts on this. so it's it's important countries are trying to work out how indeed we can get back to a semblance of normality and us we've often discussed that what normally looks like

may well be very different given what this virus has managed to do to humanity but one of the issues here is we don't know what kind of immunity people are going to have so the tests will say yes you've got these antibodies but what we don't know is how protective those antibodies are and again it sounds like a less safe we have to do more research but to understand that you have to look at everybody's the immunity levels we've got 2 different kinds of antibodies something called i.g.g. something called i.g.m. one comes early or in the phase of the post illness the other one is later it's the later one you're most interested in because that ideally is the one that will protect you from being reinfected but we will only know that when we follow people who've got those levels and see whether or not they do develop illness again how concerned are you about the potential for this to happen to come in waves in

a 2nd wave even a 3rd wave i mean how do you see this playing out over over the next few months. so we are a very very connected world way way more connected than we've ever been in human history we can be from go from one side of the world to the other in less than 24 hours so given that once we start moving again there is a date the risk that even in countries where they've cleared the outbreak still the break that they can it can be re started reseated by people who are returning home in china or is dealing with that very issue right now is so this will take. thora thought and and cooperation we're all going to have to work so much we are working very well together that's what farces done and we're going to have to keep on working very very well together be transparent be thoughtful be kind so that we

can ensure that we really started our margaret harris with the world health organization thank you so much for your time and your information dr harris that's . and the news hour. i mean robots helping to relieve the pressure on health workers treating chronic virus victims. of weather set fire across a good part of the middle east that sending the case across iraq to potential hot sunshine doll getting up to 34 celsius over the next couple of days for the northeast out here as well $34.00 in baghdad because such a $24.00 in damascus still a few showers there just around turkey pushing over towards the caspian sea somewhat the weather there for a time also into afghanistan as well making its way further race with so we'll see

some rain creeping its way towards the north of iran across the peninsula the sunshine continue study just that could touch 40 in mecca is the heat slowly but surely continues to arise on the warm side see on the other side of the red sea a $41.00 there for katsu showers there into the heart of africa as per usual into the gulf of guinea doesn't rather lively showers just around got a pushing towards liberia maybe into sierra leone as well at least for a time some of those showers also a gathering into the democratic republic of congo wanted to show was there creeping the well little further south was on the side of the rift valley of see some wet weather there into tanzania for much of south africa was fine and dry we got some rather brisk winds pushing through the southern cape so making its way further east .

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you're. watching our cereal it's because of the top stories right now the secretary says he will not ban public exercise for now despite the fact that people are going outside to enjoy warmer weather ignore the government's advice to stay indoors the number of new coronavirus related deaths in spain has fallen for the 3rd day in a row authorities reported 674 deaths on sunday new york state house reporter nearly 66600 tickets pardon me and over 8000 new infections new hospitalizations have fallen by half so u.s. president on this front has warned americans to prepare for the toughest week yet

the chrono fires antenna. many mornings expected to be the start of another rocky week on the oil markets and there was also the date set for a meeting between opec producers and russia but that's been postponed until thursday it will industries in turmoil because of a double blow the collapse in demand because of the coronavirus and the price war between major producers saudi arabia and russia fell out last month when opec wanted to boost prices but the kremlin refused to cut production the saudis and the russians blame each other for the crash and prices to an 18 year low rebound this week and tong trump said he hoped for a deal he's also threatened tariffs on imported oil while lower prices are good news for people at the petrol pump or oil producing nations desperate for encumber seeing their budgets squeezed even further josh young is chief investment officer at bison interest he joins us now from houston texas appreciate your time so much so what do you expect to happen tomorrow morning. it sounds like not

a whole lot. they're talking about moving the meeting to thursday and then we'll see in terms of what sort of agreement they can come to so and the span of a next few days what do you think will actually happen i mean who was at fault here . diseases at fault unfortunately so what it looks like is a back plus was trying to come to an agreement a few weeks ago that agreement fell through the saudis blame the russians the russians blame the saudis and what it looks like was no one was really anticipating how much demand would fall off and how quickly it would fall off and so you're in this situation where no one really wants to stop producing but everyone's already starting to slow down their production so we'd actually see an agreement where people just agree to cement production cuts that they've already seen because they're not able to sell as much oil as that produces what role does the u.s. . does the u.s. can the u.s. should the u.s.

play in all of this the u.s. should play a role in this and it's been actually quite disconcerting to see in the leadership here as well as in other places not take a leading role in this there's been this idea like you mentioned that low petrol prices are good for the economy but the us is one of the largest producers of oil in the world and our oil economy employees hundreds of thousands if not millions of people directly and indirectly so i think it's been a mistake to not directly rapidly help the u.s. oil industry and it's been a mistake i think to not exert available powers to unilaterally cut u.s. production to help with the problem what does this say about opec as an entity. so i think it's interesting because i think people are saying hey this means that opec is done but this might actually be the easiest opec opec plus cut in history

because of selling lots of oil because there's. just. in production is not quantity as there's insufficient availability in storage so it's fairly easy for opec members to say that we're going to cut because their productions already down because there's no work for them but their oil so we actually could see a resurgent c. and o. back but i guess i'm not sure what that means but everyone's going to i think claim victory at some point from this because they should be able to come to an agreement quite easily over the next few days because they're already producing less than they had committed to when there are lots of acronyms josh young in houston chief investment officer at bison interest thanks thanks for your insight josh rubin that of the roman catholic church pope francis has helped on sunday mass in a practically empty same pater's basilica it's the 1st major event in the lead up

to easter and usually held at 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 streamed online instead the age old self only allowed 10 people to attend in person on sunday commemorates the time that christians believe jesus arrived into his line 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 a disaster if those workers don't isolate themselves when they arrive in a brain as far from the occupied west bank palestinian leaders say they've managed to cling to old possible sources of cool in a 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 near him a lot 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 stormed the official. most workers have israeli permits and travel to israel and it's 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 for meto own 20 percent of the palestinian workforce with more people now asked to stay home the already weak economy will suffer further damage. national income which will no longer be generated by these workers over. from their jobs and if you put instead well but rather will have the effect of reducing the overall. concept of class.

even the ability of the national economy to rebound once some of these measures are but it's not clear whether israel would allow those workers back after the passing of the holy to the palestinian authority cannot fully control the movement until for jewels i've been trying to appeal to the workers sense of civic duty but it's hard to tell if that can but we're going to do that but he melt down your coupons with thing. we've reported on the plight of vulnerable people in the poorer parts of the world but many are at risk as well and the richest country on earth our reynolds is in los angeles and reports on how undocumented workers are coping in the u.s. one son to young is a day laborer i'm a sunday and. i were dead today so i have to work this is done with a lot if i don't work in the kind of a home with no i i would have enough to cover the basic necessities in a city that has bus tickets. at the nonprofit outreach center where something yon

goes to find work staff are preparing bags with soap tissues and information packets about coping 19 but we're really concerned specifically for workers that are elderly we're really concerned about them we look at that we have a huge population of workers that are 60 and while it 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 a must 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. looking at some of the other news we're following for you hit the rebels have attacked abutments present and yemen's southwest city of local sources say 6 female presidents were killed and 20 others were injured during the shelling on sunday some of the victims are being treated at this nearby hospital. 4 government soldiers in libya have been killed in the latest fighting there and the government

a national accord based in tripoli says 170 fighters for war claim for haft are being killed over the past 8 days on the tele had its entropy. military sources with the government of national called say that house that his forces started shelling get their positions and also chilling 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 the lake bruce lee neighborhood today but meanwhile the government military sources say that they have been targeting have to his forces litigations with air strikes over the past week and today near the wished east of the city of misrata government air force targeted have to the forces positions including get

a detachment of military detachments and also military vehicles to the world have to the government forces have lost 4 fighters today and they say that they have pulled out from the city that neighborhood in southern new tripoli but meanwhile the government forces have achieved advancement on the ground in other axes like. and where there will be a neighborhood in southern tripoli china has released a prominent human rights lawyer from jail bank challenging was serving a 4 and a half year sentence sarah clarke has more from hong kong. confirmation from his wife via twitter that he was released from jail at 5 am on sunday morning the family had requested that he be returned to their home in beijing however the authorities have kept him in an apartment in june and province and that simply because he'll be in quarantine for 14 days so he's yet to be reunited with his

family now he was arrested in 2015 as part of a chinese government crackdown on human rights lawyers we know around 300 or so of those lawyers were either arrested or they disappeared and interrogated some even reported torture now this crackdown has been referred to as a 709 crackdown simply because of the date as a result that was they the 9th of july now when he said 4 and a half years of job but he did this appear was incommunicado for about 3 years and as a result his wife heavily campaigned for his case to go to trial he's got the last of those human rights lawyers to remain behind bars and in 2018 he wants to finally tried his case was tried after the campaigning by his wife and he was sentenced to jail but his wife the last time she saw him was in last year in june so certainly some good news for his family of the release of this human rights lawyer on sunday in china interest has been growing globally for for our traveler from east africa

and some artists hope the attention will help them get more recognition happens were reports from nairobi. most of this art on sale at the east african orks and recently held in nairobi is a vibrant mix from the 1970 s. through to the early tan of this century. it's a rich collection by artists and collectors in what organizers say the largest auction since they started in the region 7 years ago so santa why they named his painting when god made money how was this it's his imagination of the conflict of emotions i just a lot of red. says how work represents fans blossoming flowers and devastating we saw in central kenya a few years ago you know when you put out the lead after a few days there's a lot of weed growing after a few days as a lot of seeds go so so they're from afar credo telling me how they get frustrated

. lovers and buyers alike are attracted to auctions such as this across the continent but some in the industry argue a crippling lack of infrastructure and support has limited the growth of the arts market forcing talent to look elsewhere for put unity so this is from 1977 the founder of this auction says things are changing for the better there's been an enormous boom emerging markets of the art market tends to follow emerging markets there was a boom in china there was a boom in india it's now our time we've been predicting a boom for the last 8 or 10 years but in the last 2 years we've really seen it artist clean tone of jambo hopes he'll gain more from the industry in kenya he mentors young talent in the capital nairobi at an art center in canberra it has and wanted reputation as being africa's largest slum but this children are learning to paint a sunset in the savannah on canvas most of the young artists incubator have had

their basic training here it's a place that keeps children off the streets and also not just their talent the trainers we talked to said the children they're working with have a huge potential for the embassy's he's painted since he was 7 years old his walk has helped him piece of bills but still struggles to survive. it's hard to get. a curator's come into this do you have to. train the scenery rocks and the mental both there and also it's all of the good nature of. the autistic kibera sent our optimistic up one day there are 2 also featured prestigious auctions such as this one in just a few hours most on display was sold fetching not far short of a quarter of a 1000000 dollars katherine sawyer al-jazeera nairobi kenya. coming up on al-jazeera a unique look at how artists are reaching out to absent audiences during the chrono bias outbreak. live.

april on al-jazeera. countries are imposing drastic measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic we'll bring you all the latest developments from around the world pulse and untold stories from across and asia and the pacific one i want east brings new insights from the well to my populated region has the democratic presidential race narrows how will the corona virus outbreak impact the u.s. election campaign an in-depth look at the investigated we're actually running catch a group of independent journalists and back he wrote in the global fight against faith means the u.s. will count this population and a once in a decade census with coronavirus concerns will it get the full picture a pro on al-jazeera. in one lifetime we cannot see everything with our own eyes without testimony we would know very little witness documentaries that open your

eyes on al-jazeera. no. luck. welcome back medicine is of course on the very front lines of treating people in this pandemic and eventually finding a back saying that technology is playing a role as well including robots reports. doctors and nurses in italy need all the help they can get including from tommy the robot. that robots like tommy operate in the most infectious wards staff here hope he'll

reduce the risks of catching the disease by avoiding direct contact with patients. it allows us to use less protective clothing like masks and overalls which at this time are in scarce supply the advantage is there for double the northern region of lombardy accounts for most of italy's known coronavirus cases here the robots help relay vital information between patients and doctors remotely and at any time of the day. chair your time on the top of this robot helps us monitor some clinical parameters of the patient for example heart rate respiratory rate oxygen saturation blood pressure and also mechanical aspects of respiration. in galle in belgium hospitals are testing whether robots equipped with ultraviolet lights can disinfect wards to keep patients safe even in hard to reach areas.

this infection the machine's ultraviolet light quickly kills bacteria we want to make sure that we touch every surface by the lights and this can be done by the robot as it's drive itself. in india's southern state of tom i'm not do robots and then a helping hand by delivering vital supplies that will lead to good cubans also available for the. giving yeah food and medicine to the patients so it's a very could be initiated mainly appreciatively others on security patrol intimacy is capital. this one dubbed robo cop is guarding empty streets ensuring no one breaks a lockdown imposed last month. spotting unmanned drones is slowly becoming a regular occurrence many are being deployed as part of coronavirus awareness campaigns. as well as making sure that everyone stays indoors and

maintains social distancing while the human touch remains essential in times of crisis robots are stepping in where people can't. going to the movies a concert or an arts festival that's all off limits pretty much for now so performers worldwide are out of work reports from sydney australia are bypassing the restrictions to stay in touch with their audience. inside his studio. his experiment with medium and color he's acclaimed for his brought an eye catching creations but normally there in the form of sculpture with the spread of coronavirus postponing all of his future commissions he's trying something new i think at the moment i'm just being a bit crazy and experimental i just think you know i have made all this work is meant to be shipped out and to make work in these different countries what else am i going to do some working on these massive paintings and i haven't done that before with public gatherings banned artists are searching for new ways to reach

audiences and most are turning to the internet and herschel is sullivans gallery upcoming exhibitions are still going ahead just without people physically there the exhibition will be online interviews online statements online so you really shifting the physical experience to a digital experience. musicians are also adapting strongly in orchestras have been streaming performances online but are now broadcasting previous concerts after social distancing measures titans. and bands that normally play to huge crowds holding digital music festivals live streaming from their living rooms one after the next audience members can't see each other but they can communicate through the k. board and during night to support the industry greatly as this keeps going.

we can find a way so we want it is fair to say the artist's social media communities are popping up to help artists network in isolation but right now many online endeavors have little chance of bringing in any significant long term income a story is spotty predicts that haul $5000000000.00 in revenue could be lost in the next 3 months alarmed and despite office trying to adapt without more. government support many businesses say they may not be able to survive times of crisis are really extreme i would be really surprised if we don't see a wave of cultural outputs of artists engaging with these times of isolation dealing with technology if there is any silver lining remission in the engine hopes these uncertain times will lead to more people appreciating out when they can again experience it up close nicolas cage al jazeera. that's all from me in the news

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are now in the process of reeducation or chinese assimilation forced labor and the use of high tech surveillance we're being complicit in the human rights abuses that are occurring in an australian investigation into china systematic repression of the weakness tell the world on al-jazeera. we understand the difference is i'm similarities have cultures across the world. so no matter who you speak al-jazeera will bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. al-jazeera. russia has jeopardized the united states' security interests we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. into the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too

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