mike you. on al jazeera. really understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world so no matter what we've been using kind of for that matter. britain's prime minister barak's johnson is admitted to hospital 10 days after he was diagnosed with corona virus. i want to reassure you that if we remain united and resume you then we were never coming and rallying her people queen elizabeth makes a rare address to the nation as the u.k. fights to control the pandemic. from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria with the world news from al jazeera. we

see light at the end of the tunnel. that u.s. president i want from striking an optimistic tone on the virus but a leading medical official is warning americans the hardest moment of their lives is yet to come and in australia a criminal investigation into whether a cruise ship operator downplayed potential coronavirus cases causing deaths after people disembarked. so the news out of london is that britain's prime minister boris johnson has been taken to hospital as he battles a corona virus infection a spokesman said he had been admitted as a precaution because he still has symptoms 10 days after testing positive earlier though britain's queen elizabeth made a rare address to her nation the 93 year old monarch urged people to remain united and resolute to overcome the virus are in the us the top surgeon there has told people to prepare for. the hardest and saddest week of their lives already more

than 9000 people have died and over 1200 of those were on saturday alone which was the highest in a single day but we should point out in europe's hardest hit countries there is some risk by italy it is in the lowest number of single day deaths in more than 2 weeks it's down to 525 fatalities out of spain are down as well and the infection rate appears to be slowing well let's start with that address from britain's queen elizabeth to the nation as we said the 93 year old monica urging her people to remain united jonah how small 2 weeks into the u.k. is locked down and deserted city scenes are testament to a new way of life most people staying home for as long as science and the government decide they must also on lockdown in windsor castle her residence outside london the queen 93 years old reminded britons that this crisis too would

pass we should take comfort that while we may have more still to endure better days return we will be with our friends again we will be with our families again we will meet again but the government is worried about isolation for tea and a minority of people embracing the warm spring weather to picnic and sunbathe in the parks on prominent and beaches the more people follow the rules then the faster we will all be through it so i say this to this small minority of people who are breaking the rules or pushing the boundaries you're risking your own life. and the lives of others and you're making it harder for. banning all this the ability to go outside to exercise in public as the health secretary has said he might have to do would be intolerable to many particularly those who live in cramped apartments with no outside space only compounding the effect isolation has on physical and mental

health but the argument goes that if people aren't going to change their behavior themselves well then they might have to be forced to in order to save lives best friends in meal and gabriel a keeping in touch at a safe distance through the fence is still our best friend and we're very good friends so i think that's one of the hardest things about it so where do i responsible and we just come for a walk once a day but this is really difficult as far as i know like and this is what the government has recommended you you know outside and you get as much sun and fresh air as you can obviously stay away from people so i think we're doing the social distancing quite well with the police exercising emergency powers to move people on it's expected that britain will get a pretty good idea where the lockdown efforts have helped reduce the peak when it comes in the next week or so but even then

a way out of this crisis involving eventual widespread community testing and contact tracing to manage a 2nd wave is many weeks away yet jonah how al-jazeera lumbered it's early morning in london and we've got lawrence later talk us through some latest developments hi lawrence let's start with the prime minister there saying it's a precautionary measure but my goodness the prime minister in the hospital during a pandemic it's not a it's not a good look shall we say. no not no it really isn't you know you assume they're being straight as they can with everybody. but you know if the point is that you're supposed to get over in a week and if you're not and it's 10 days into this now or if johnson. clearly he still has a high temperature. and worry obviously that he might get pneumonia so that they'll be testing things like his oxygen levels white cell counts liver and kidney

function all that source of things the main problem i think i'm also the absolute once about is that he kept working doctors keep saying this you know it's because people think well i'll get over it in the wake of just pretend i'm working from home and get a 6 and do the video conferences and carry on as normal that's what makes it worse and doctors keep saying you've got to take it seriously and put yourself in bed and try and sleep as much as you can and you made a big point of the last 10 days of saying that he was still in charge ignored sunday the health secretary on the television saying that for a chance and very much at his hands on the tiller so he's been trying to work and lead the country through this and now he's paying a price and really it will become clear i think that later on this morning when they announce whether he's going to be sent home or whether he's going to stay in a longer exactly how serious it's become because if he does that the state is going to have to have some support with brute. the message from the queen laurence i mean gosh it's been the monarch for so long she's only given i think 3 or 4 of these

sorts of the addresses but where in sort of different times now i wonder how much impact it might have or do people still you know rally around the monarch. good question i suppose i mean people don't watch the queen's speech or chris on christmas day very much anymore in the way these 2 passed a generation ago but she's you know she's extremely popular i have to say all the polling suggests that 88 or 90 percent of the public are very fond of her. and you know she deliberately you heard in that sound bite in joe's report will meet again i mean she's channeling dame their role in their you know the 2nd world war i think it's all very deliberate it's trying to get the blitz spirit going and get the country a bit more positive about things the only problem still is is is these small amounts of people mostly young men these 1824 year old demographic that people keep

saying are just refused to obey the rules and are meeting in groups and going out and they're making it versus what everybody else as a whole world of difference quality going for a role in the morning going back out against the park and lying down on somebody for several hours and that's the thing that's really irritating everybody so you know the queen is trying to rally the troops the police are trying to get society to police themselves without having to really heavy handed about it and you know everybody knows that this week is going to be the peak that the next week or 10 days are going to be the peak in cases and the hope is obviously that are that you see what's going to happen now in europe which is things slow down. thank you lauren flee with the updates from london to another quick word from europe france where 41 severely ill coronavirus patients have been transferred by train from paris to brittany some of the patients are intensive care in the plan where there is less demand for specialist beds in paris and the surrounding areas that have

been overwhelmed and more than $500.00 people have been moved to the other regions almost $8000.00 people have now died from corona virus in france since the outbreak began. let's move to the u.s. where president obama trumpets from today's daily coronavirus briefing with some optimism he says an end to the outbreak his insights as we mentioned earlier deaths are approaching 10000 and most experts are actually warning the worst is yet to come and if you're castro has more. conflicting messages from the president of the united states we see light at the end of the tunnel things are happening these are happening and the country's top health officials but next week is going to be our pearl harbor moment it's going to be our 911 moment and it's going to be the hardest moment for many americans in their entire life the u.s. surgeon general warns many more people will die in the coming days the expected surge adding urgency to the cries of state governors asking the federal government

for deliveries of life saving equipment so we governors republicans and democrats have been urging the president to do what he should which is if he wants to be a wartime president be a wartime president show some leadership mobilize industrial base united states that's what we need. trump says ventilators from the federal stockpile are in route to several states and claims the u.s. has conducted more coronavirus tests than any other country per capita though testing in the u.s. is still far behind south korea and germany trump says the u.s. has stockpiled 29000000 doses of the anti-malarial drug that is being used experimentally to treat kovac 19 the president says he has so much personal confidence in the treatment that it was his idea to have patients waiting for the right to sue if the drug ends up doing them harm that's hydroxy clerical and.

there's rhythm eisen. and again you have to go through the medical people get the approval. but. i've seen things that i sort of like so what do i know i'm not a doctor so when reporters later tried asking the doctor anthony felt she the government's top infectious disease expert trump stopped him from answering and was able to weigh in on this issue hydroxy for going what do you think about this is one of the one of the limitations you know i maybe of his doctors 15. meanwhile doctors and nurses across the country continued to plead for donations of more masks and gallons bracing for the apex of cases still to come castro al-jazeera maryland so as you hear in that report from heidi donald trump is from noting the use of medication that is actually not proven to treat coronavirus and

could in fact endangered people's health. by unni is the executive director of the rodham institute this is at george washington school of medicine and health services and she says it is dangerous for trying to give the public a false sense of hope. we are used to sort of the double talk from the president so that he always leaves himself an out so that is something not being true that he can kind of say why didn't i say that or something is true then he can get the credit but yes and another aspect of giving people the idea of a false sense of hope that there may be a treatment and i've seen this with aides and the aids epidemic is that people then start to not take the preventative practices seriously and so there are many unintended consequences and of course that's why you have the scientists the public health officials the clinicians the health care system that's really supposed to weigh in and talk about unintended consequences and one of the unintended

consequences with the hydro hydroxy chloroquine drug itself is that it initially started as an anti malarial it's not really being used that much because there was resistance so it is just so in my mind arrogant if not outright criminal to make these statements where we're talking about people's lives. the u.s. navy captain removed from command of a coronavirus stricken aircraft carrier how's now tested positive himself captain breck started showing symptoms of the virus before complaining about the lack of action to stop it spreading among his 5000 strong crew more than 100 sailors on the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt tested positive and captain crozier asked for permission to isolate other crew members he was then removed for what the navy described as demonstrating poor judgement. coverage of coronavirus continues in a moment we'll look at viral stems and hiked prices how prosecutors in the u.s.

are taking on the pandemic profiteers in a river in pakistan renowned for its natural beauty has become a dumping ground for an swabs to find out why officials are taking action. i know that things are really warming up now across much of the arabian peninsula to the north we have got want to see bits and pieces of cloud with some showers but again pushing into western areas a turkey and also on their way towards areas of afghanistan but ahead of that some very good clear skies fairly cool skies these nomads working their way along the jalalabad to kabul highway this is to the east of kabul miles again 3 monday we could see if you wish i was generally pushing across areas of afghanistan making it to kabul later in the day just 14 celsius is the high temperature and there are those showers that will continue across much of turkey and though they can the way

across towards that the caspian sea and in fact that rain become a little bit heavier again to get the moisture from the caspian sea and really lining the shores here into northern areas of iran just 14 celsius in attire on meanwhile look at these temperatures across the peninsula 37 in riyadh and we've got 33 degrees in doha and dubai southern africa 1st of all well this has been roll the court over the last few days we've seen a lot of show. thousands of fairly stiff wind so this is really brought the time to down it's not a little bit below the average for this time it will stay unsettled as we go through monday eventually pushing further to the east but there are showers along these coastal areas and this is when we'll see some heavy rains the takeaway around cameroon and gabble on tuesday. for me out here in london to a path and time keith special guest in conversation state the american state dept

and state capitalism unprompted uninterrupted all of these these divisions of the working class of working people and they keep us from realizing our collective power money capital meet pomade then if you obey the market for 30 years you begin to worship it and believe it has power over your laws do you quit date on al-jazeera. the latest developments on the corona virus pandemic this hour in britain's prime minister boris johnson has been admitted to hospital 10 days after being died died nosed with coded 90 in his office says it's a precautionary measure because johnson has persistent symptoms earlier britain's

queen elizabeth the 2nd made a rare television address to the nation the 93 year old monarch urged people to remain united and resolute. and u.s. president donald trump has expressed some optimism that cases in some hotspots have been quote leveling off i retold 100 people died on saturday and the u.s. surgeon generals want americans to prepare for the hardest and saddest performance . in australia a criminal investigations been launched into how hundreds of passengers were allowed to leave a cruise ship despite some showing flu like symptoms 11 deaths and 600 coronavirus infections have been connected to the ruby princess it docked in sydney last month more than a 1000 crew members remain on board with reports that up to $200.00 a sick the government is only letting the critically ill and to australia incidentally gage explains now what investigators are looking into. a strategy in homicide detectives looking at whether the operators of these sheep deliberately

misled or thirty's in a stroller and downplayed the number of people who were sikh on this cruise ship it was last month that 2000 $700.00 passengers disembarked some flew to other areas of the country and since then nearly one 3rd of coronavirus deaths in a strike have been linked to the ruby princess cruise ship as well as hundreds of other cases of corona virus and if you look at the full picture industry this is very significant as of monday morning 37 people have died in australia of coronavirus and just over 5600 positive cases have been recorded across the country there are still strict social isolation and distancing measures in place across the country many businesses are closed there's still a ban on any public gatherings of more than 2 people but at the same time the government is remaining positive saying that we are starting to flatten that code

and that the right of infection is in fact that slowing in australia but authorities are also warning that all of these strict measures will remain in place for months to come to make sure that we don't see an increase in that right of infection you know. the charity is warning bangladesh will be unable to cope with any corona virus outbreak save the children is urging the international community to provide medical supplies to the country it says there are no ventilators in the corpses bizarre district of course home to 3000000 people a 3rd of the range of refugees there are fewer than 2000 ventilators for bangladesh's entire population of 165000000 most are in the cities meaning it's difficult for people in rural areas to gain any access 9 people have died in bangladesh so far the charity predicts a humanitarian disaster if the number of cases rises above the 88 currently confirmed his doctor. and now deputy country director for save the children in

bangladesh explaining the charity's concern for in particular the refugee camps. 3000000 population in the. 1000000 illegals is contained in the. book the other show this because the goal is one of the will of the hospital where even if it is providing support to establish this in villagers we do a pretty so there has been it'll be started it will be. completed by. these week or so but the problem is that in the in the. situation is a very concentrated is a very cramped area. very system would be so if this bill is going there would be a little bit. all the number of infections in latin america has jumped sharply in

the last few days more than 25000 cases have been registered in the region brazil is worst hit without ever 11000 meanwhile ecuador's government has begun storing the bodies of victims of corona virus in giant refrigerated contains because hospital in morgues a struggling to cope the port city of has become a regional hotspot for infections president moreno has set up to 3 and a half 1000 people could die in the region in the coming weeks on a sunday ramp yet he is monitoring developments for us and says the government has had to send additional refrigerators to some areas. the city of guayaquil remains the worst off area in all of latin america sort of worst case scenario for the entire region the hospitals the health care services in the more exterior have been completely overwhelmed by the number of cases of could be 19 and the number of deaths the government is trying to do something about it it started sending these special refrigerated containers to store the bodies that were piling up in the main

hospital there or that people were storing in their houses or even on the streets also saying we're starting to send 2000 cardboard coffins and a special hotline phone has been set up for people to call if they need help or if they need the bodies to be picked up the vice president of ecuador is publicly asked for an apology for the way they've been dealing with the crisis especially at the beginning when they really haven't been able to enforce a quarantine in the city of guayaquil but the number of that keep going up another 180 confirmed cases on sunday in the government saying that the that number is probably below the real number of the victims of this virus and this you to ation an act where there is also becoming very worrisome for the neighbors of ecuador both colombia and peru have sent the military to the border to

try and stop people crossing illegally leaving ecuador even if the borders are closed street musicians in mexico city singing to cheer people up during the corona virus outbreak. the mariachis traditionally gather the plaza got all the looking to be hired but of course events of them canceled on their social distancing measures means or fewer opportunities it actually leads many who get paid by the song unable to support their families. the global demand for hand sanitizers and other hygiene products has risen of course because of the pandemic and in the us send some of the countries there's also been a surge in complaints about profiteering and opportunism john hendren looks at that from chicago. as the corona virus spreads around the globe so is a series of equally viral scams cashing in on the crisis there are dozens and

dozens and dozens of unique and difference coronavirus cyber attacks that are happening right now tor excel is a malware researcher in seattle he found this step which promises to alert android users when they're in a coronavirus hotspot instead the program locks the phone and demands a ransom from the user so far we've uncovered over $68000.00 domains and that number is growing daily there are also offers for vaccines in home tests and a $50.00 patch that immunizes you from the virus that we're in fact there is no vaccine no in home test no patch the scam artists are coming out of the woodwork very area here in michigan attorney general dana nestle tells al-jazeera she has fielded 4200 consumer complaints when people want you reserve your home. they are

desperate anger or. any kind of scare in one scam callers as consumers who are desperate for government stimulus checks to give numbers to credit cards and bank accounts which are then looted. along with other scams prosecutors say they're also seeing price gouging on vital medical supplies like masks gloves and those breathing ventilators that for very sick patients can mean the difference between life and death the u.s. government has declared making more ventilators a national priority and banned price gouging on medical products but some prices have more than doubled. they were under $20000.00 the ventilators are now over $50000.00 if you can find them the ventilators didn't change that much in 2 weeks one michigan company was selling hand sanitizer for $40.00 in up in this area you know things like facebook and sanitizer and not just that other things other items

like diapers and being a formula with gal ging in viral scams mirroring the spread of the corona virus prosecutors say for every one they find there are hundreds more john hendren al-jazeera she caught. now a tiger at a new york zoo has tested positive for cove at 19 the bronx zoo has said not a 4 year old female tiger developed a dry cough and was tested as a precaution they also revealed 6 other tigers and 3 lions also developes in terms it's believed they were infected by is 0 employee and all are expected to recover extraordinary amount more than $300.00 pilots in the czech republic a volunteer at their private planes to distribute medical equipment around the country they've offered to bring materials to any hospital clinic or anywhere it's needed within 2 hours the service is free of charge the czech republic has around $200.00 airports making it possible to serve pretty much the entire country. just

a bit of other news for you now untreated waste being dumped in one of pakistan's famous revisits threatening people and aquatic life there the swat river has been polluted by the local government residents and tourists and the district of $2000000.00 people officials say a lack of money and resources stops them from taking the rubbish anywhere else this report from osama bin shove it. if the northern swat valley is considered the switzerland of pakistan the iconic swap the river is its beating heart. touched by its natural beauty winston churchill once used to send his dismount just from here . but now a growing population for neglect and lack of planning is turning the river poisonous . for thousands of tonnes of untreated waste and they got here every day is quickly becoming a landfill for the 2000000 people of the district the impact is already being felt by people living downstream and all this is being done legally by the local administration miles away from the site water from underground rail has changed

color and smell that came in and. the dumping of garbage in the river by the government has wrecked our lives diseases such as hepatitis t.v. and even cancer on the rise sewage water is polluting our groundwater table our children and families are suffering who should we complain to when the government itself is dumping and polluting the river water it's not just a river bank landfill untreated sewage also flows in from homes and businesses fraud has many solid waste management issues there is a lack of funding there is no landfill site and authorities say it takes too much money to transfer the waste outside of the city provinces chief minister has admitted what he calls an alarming rapid deterioration of the environment and that there is no space for the delays but he's been in office for nearly 2 years and not a lot has changed local officials seem to have given up on government funds and are now appealing to international donors that are being said here that you. are

a levy there is no doubt that we are dumping garbage at the river site and we can't deny that this is hazardous to bite human and aquatic life and even to the environment but unfortunately we don't have any other option as well as resources to take it to any other location nor we have any technology to treat it we are definitely looking towards diana agencies of taking come forward to help us to save the environment. every year tens of thousands of visitors flock to swap locals complain that tourists disregard the hygiene and clinton ness of the river environmentalist's believe tailor made sure of them can help raise awareness even for the residents of the area unfortunately many of these places where which it tracked to it isn't we have seen these places being converted into garbage bins it is the response ability of the government to have policies where we see management would be connected to industry as well as you have to give infrastructure people if they're throwing any garbage and you cannot lift oh say that we are managing the least of these clean and green pakistan so unfortunately these kind of it

responsibly behavior added to it is never that the government level is lethal for the environment upstream the river still flows serenely but those who enjoy the clear waters are afraid of what could be to come. down to 0. plenty more online of course the live blog being updated by our online team whenever you want to see what. text is the latest developments now britain's prime minister boris johnson's been admitted to hospital 10 days after being diagnosed with corona virus his office says it's a precaution as johnson has persistent symptoms in france 41 severely ill coronavirus patients have been transferred by train from paris to brittany some of the patients are in intensive care and where there is less demand for specialist beds hospitals

in paris and the surrounding areas have been overwhelmed meaning more than 500 people have been moved to other regions with 8000 people have died from corona virus in france since the outbreak began. u.s. president expressed some optimism that cases in certain hotspots have been quite leveling off the top 100 people died on saturday and the u.s. surgeon general's want americans to prepare for the hardest and saddest week. trumpet's also said testing has been expanded across the u.s. . i can report today that the united states has now tested and given results gotten results of 1670000 people that's far more than any other country has been able to. and you remember we inherited a broken system so a lot of this has been developed by tuesday 1200 brand new rapid point of care testing kits has been produced by abbott laboratories great company and they will be distributed to all of our public health labs it's a 15 minute test even less. the number of infections in latin americans jumped shop

play in the last few days more than 25000 cases have been registered in the region brazil's worst hit with over 11000 ecuador's governments began storing the bodies of victims in giant refrigerated contains as hospital and mold struggles to cope the city of has become a regional hotspot for infections and in australia a criminal investigation has been launched into how hundreds of passengers were allowed to leave a cruise ship despite showing flu like symptoms 11 deaths and 600 infections have been connected to the ruby princess which docked in sydney last month more than a 1000 crew members remain on board with reports that up to 200 of them is sick the government is only letting the critically ill enter australia ok you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera morphy off a one on one east. on counting the cost for nations seek emergency funding from the world bank and i.m.f.

to baffle the coronavirus pandemic argentina puts people before that crisis and from a helicopter money to universal basic income what governments must do to keep the economy alive counting the costs on al-jazeera. in the 1st use of the human eye you'd see the race is on. to find the world's most will need a brewery it followed. that these are the descendants of the new cool snaking through good. good. good. good good good good prices so ferocious they took on the minds of the british army .