just sometimes i feel like i'm following i meet are going up in 4 under the illusion. al-jazeera world goes in search of the truth about the 2 new zealand independence fighter the last hush rating. on al-jazeera. holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. is role in the world on al-jazeera. britain's prime minister boris johnson has moved into intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms was. hello i'm adrian finighan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a grim milestone for europe over 50000 dead due to corona virus linked illnesses

but there is respect for the worst hit countries. empty streets and shops closed to the pandemic forces the democratic republic of congo shut down its capital and commercial home. at a new attempt to treat covert 19 trials begin in the us using plants but transfusions from recovered patients. britain's prime minister has been moved to an intensive care unit with west wing coronavirus symptoms boris johnson was admitted to hospital on sunday night after being ill for more than 10 days foreign secretary dominic robb has been asked to deputize as there was worry chalons reports the news came after a day of scant information and repeated lines the prime minister's hospital stay was just a precaution said downing street boris johnson himself tweeted i went into hospital for some routine tests as i'm still experiencing coronavirus symptoms i mean good

spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we work together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe but the reality was his condition was worsening later on monday doctors moved him to the intensive care unit it's in thomas's hospital in london during the course of this afternoon the promise his condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team who's moved in to a critical care unit so in light of those circumstances the prime minister asked me is for the secretary to deputize for him when necessary in driving forward the government's plans to defeat coronavirus. support for the prime minister has come from across the british political spectrum and beyond terribly sad news tweeted keer starmer the new leader of the u.k.'s opposition labor party my thoughts are with you and your family so the brakes it negotiator michel barnier and from france's president macron all my support to boris johnson his family and the

british people in this difficult moment here's a view inside one of britain's covert 19 wards bournemouth on the south coast of england doctors and nurses are fighting to save lives here every day and. that. we still have to do. it in. between getting out of the way then also and that my thesis can test the u.k.'s patient deaths rose by 439 on monday but many more deaths are happening outside hospitals in london specialist teams of police fire and health services have been set up to respond to these we are anticipating about 30 percent of the mortality in london will be involving deaths within the community government scientists a stay at home measures do seem to be working to limit hospital admissions but it's

still too soon to say how much we need a good long time series of data on on all of these stages of infection in order to be able to tell what the impact or the measures that came in on the 23rd of march are going to be we it's too early to tell yet when we need we need people to carry on following those instructions so that we can work out 3 weeks later what actually happens in hospitals. now it's still not known when the peak of corona virus will be in the u.k. we're returns now to 0. live data london and i was there as the name barber the name what's the latest on the prime minister's condition well you know we're not expecting any sort of hour by hour dates right now but of course things didn't suddenly change in terms of tearing the seriousness of his condition on monday because as we were hearing in corey's report the prime minister himself early on monday tweeted that he was in good spirits in st thomas' hospital in central london

and then dominic rugby's foreign secretary at that daily briefing after cherry in a cabinet meeting on monday morning dominic rock said that the prime minister continues to lead the government and to receive regular updates in his message was that he'd only go into hospital as a precaution because he still had symptoms of coronavirus but it was no suggestion that for example he'd had breathing difficulties he was pressed dominic rock was pressed daily briefing by reporters some even asked directly whether in fact it was possible the prime minister had pneumonia don't rob didn't want to go there or neither did the chief medical officer for england this is what he had to say the majority the clear majority people who do end up i'm going to ospital all the they end up going into a general bed they may or may not need oxygen or other things and they don't need

to go further than that but that is absolutely not a comment on his personal situation which would be completely inappropriate for me to comment on it's just a general comment on how things tend to progress in hospital so where does the prime minister's incapacitation leave the u.k. is covert 19 response study. well to an extent it depends on how long he is in hospital and how serious his condition really is we know that he's got access to a ventilator in intensive care if he needs it well. there are scientists ticks which suggest that a high percentage of people who do go into intensive care units in england and wales eventually do need a ventilator even if it doesn't so obviously he's not a well man right now he's designated dominic. to deputize for him in rob's own words when necessary if it goes on for a long time i mean there's no written constitution here in the u.k.

but the procedure would be that as 1st secretary of state don't want to rob does take over but if that goes on for many weeks perhaps many months then something will have to be done in terms of choosing a new leader one way or the other but right now many people are just wishing for is johnson a swift recovery as we heard in rollers report and also i don't want to robin his colleague saying that they're going to get on with implementing the plan that johnson was leading to defeat covet 19 which now involves trying to rapidly increase the numbers of tests that are carried out in the general population and for national health service workers and to make more beds available now deserves not a melbourne reporting live from home in london the team many thanks indeed dr any spyro is an emergency and critical care physician she's also a professor of health science and policy at mount sinai hospital she says moving

the prime minister to an intensive care unit was a sensible move if they were uncertain that he's been living there critical care back to spend time at this stage of the disease 1011 and. it's encouraging that he's not on a ventilator already because we would really expect to see at this stage if he was in. the other gathered you know i would say that is great and not impossible that he has a 2nd ring texan which we think quite probably environment is in fact that was almost certainly responsible for you know how to do this in spanish influenza and so it could easily be a secondary bacterial as far as we know it is no co-morbidities. he's just being or pretty much any of donkey which we know that that is not necessarily a great factor and but a problem that he's not 60 which it's also very protective he is however male and we do know that in america's do have was outcomes for reasons that we don't

entirely understand but as you say he doesn't quite fit the profile and i think that's reason to be encouraged and the better he's not been pledged to it and that is that here very smartly to militant into i.c.u. if you consider. that there is a risk that he may need it because the last thing he wanted to do is have to do that at the crèche goal you want to be up to do that in a controlled setting where you can injure beijing or ventilate him in a controlled manner and certainly he may not even come to that he could go on as just a continuation of them who. here's a reminder of how the virus is spreading around the world right now according to the johns hopkins university tracker there are more than 1300000 confirmed cases more than 270000 people have recovered from the virus and that but over 74000 deaths a majority of those in europe france is one of the european countries countries with a rapidly growing number of fatalities the country recorded its highest number of

virus related deaths in a single day taking the total number to almost $9000.00 but there are signs in other parts of the continent what sanity rate is beginning to slow paul brennan reports. 2 0 europe passed another significant number on monday as the continent's death toll from corona virus exceeded 50000 people that's the vast majority of the 70000 who died globally so far but while the infection is still on an upward curve in some european countries in others there are signs that the contagion is starting to stabilize austria hopes to allow small shops and garden centers to reopen on april the 14th with restrictions potentially lifted on larger shops and hairdressers on may the 1st. but speaking from behind a protective per spec screen the austrian chancellor warned that everything depends on the infection rate the also double could be done in 2 weeks of a star will be a deciding week for us and it will be a week which will decide whether the resurrection up to 8th which we're all hoping

for can actually happen as planned. the spanish government is also studying how to gradually ease the lock down it's imposed since march 14th movement restrictions have left poor and vulnerable residents relying on charitable groups like this one in seville to bring them food parcels. but on monday spain's or 4th consecutive days drop in the number of new deaths and the number of new infections rising just 3.3 percent offers some cause for hope relaxing the restrictions can't come soon enough for those living. beside lake constance the barbed wire which once separated the german town of constance and its swiss neighbor crippling and was torn down after world war 2 and residents mingled freely ever since now a new fence has created a coronavirus no man's land separating friends relatives and lovers pierre and his german girlfriend is a very well thought. we've been speaking to each other on face time in recent weeks

and that's ok for a while but after 2 or 3 weeks you realize that that's not good enough we needed to see each other and hear each of this voice there was no the way but to meet here at this fades in it's elise long body region despite reductions in both infection and death rates or forty's of actually tightened restrictions and residents now have to cover their mouth or nose whenever they go outside it's an order intended to prevent complacency but a shortage of face masks is creating a problem because of a no we cannot find protected mass i haven't found them so i made one myself which authorities say mass will be available in 3 days but they've been thing that for a month restrictive measures are having an impact on the spread of the virus and collective discipline and a sense of civic duty are helping to save lives and canberra. and more people like this woman living intensive care are surviving but there are many thousands who will not make it to this stage of recovery and avoiding

infection in the 1st place still remains the safest strategy. for brennan al-jazeera. a weather update banksy on al-jazeera a story of high court decides on cardinal powers child sex abuse conviction appeal we'll have a live update for you. hello there without some very blustery conditions or rather unsubtle weather conditions across areas of japan of the last few days that is now set to clear out of the picture as indeed is this rain across the fall south of china to the north it's the most to clear and dry the cloud is actually a beginning to increase as a go through this week but a pretty good case guys this is my sunshine in beijing as you can see here but as i say the tide is really in the forecast as we go through this week so 18 degrees at best on a tuesday there's that rain caring way for the south coast but it does leave things

that in pretty cold in hong kong just 19 degrees celsius pretty good across much of the korean peninsula say japan some blustery winds at times and maybe one to 2 shot just pushing as that west western side of honshu as we go through wednesday me walk across into southern i was a china wanted to show but nothing like the heavy rains we've had overlays however of course plenty of heavy rain but securely in-born years ago through tuesday on into wednesday a bit lighter nature across areas of sumatra but also some rather heavy rains at times across the areas to the north across thailand cambodia also across up into laos and also coastal areas of vietnam and certainly southern coast layers of n.g.o.s again see more rain over the next few days quite heavy along into carola state but really pushing across into much autonomy as we go through wednesday and still warm in our poor 39. now that corruption has reached a lot of hope like that people in our country. can't saeeda.

to president. but the united states. the power was in the daytime we will honor the american people with the truth and nothing else discovered. for winning the white house unfair game on al jazeera. again this is al jazeera let's take a moment to remind you of the main news this hour britain's prime minister has been moved to an intensive care unit after his coronavirus symptoms worsened boris johnson was admitted to

a london hospital on sunday will than 10 days after testing positive feels. the u.k. foreign secretary has been asked to deputize when necessary for johnson dominic rob said the prime minister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care. with amber of corona virus links deaths in europe has now passed $50000.00 there are signs that the rate is leveling off spain germany and the u.k. recording their fewest deaths in several days. making news this hour stretches highest court has overturned for vatican treasurer george pell's conviction for sexually assaulting 2 teenage boys in the 1990 s. the ruling allows the 78 year old cardinal to walk free from jail immediately we'll take you live to sydney a little later for updates. new york state governor andrew cuomo says the coronavirus cases in the state may be starting to plateau but he's warned against

complacency that extended a closure of non-essential businesses and schools to the end of april and says that hospitalizations have declined and so have admissions to intensive care more than 4700 people have died in new york the highest number of any american state if we are applied tom we we are proud towing at a very high level and there's tremendous stress on the health care system and to say to this health care system which is at maximum capacity today right this is a hospital system where we have our foot to the floor and the engine is that red line and you can't go any faster and by the way you can't stay at redline for any period of time because the system will blow the u.s. supreme court has ruled to limits absentee voting in the presidential primary in

wisconsin the decision comes just hours after the state supreme court rejected governor tony ava's attempt to delay tuesday's vote due to the coronavirus pandemic for more this let's go to john hendren he joins us live from chicago john it seems that both the supreme court in the state of wisconsin and the whole of the that the federal state court that the u.s. state court disagrees with with the governor why. that's right adrian there are about 5 hours left in this monday for those of us who live in the midwestern united states and it has been a whirlwind of a day it began with wisconsin governor tony even as declaring in any and executive order that voting would not go forward on tuesday that election would be postponed to june 9th then we had the state supreme court ruling no in fact he does not have the authority to do that and that election will go ahead on tuesday and then just within the past hour or so we hear that the u.s.

supreme court has also shot down a lower court ruling that had extended mail in voting until the 13th of april and said in fact when the polls close tomorrow that is when the last mail in ballots can be accepted so this election will not go any much any beyond tomorrow there was some question they might not even be able to call it for several days after that in fact it will end tomorrow according to the u.s. supreme court and there's a political aspect to this tony is a democrat the legislature in wisconsin is republican dominated and in the u.s. supreme court that was also a vote that happen along party lines there were 5 republican appointees versus 4 democratic justices on that court essentially the bottom line is democrats in wisconsin believe that the vote tomorrow will be suppressed in urban areas where

a lot of democrats live and republicans believe it won't be suppressed so much in republican areas which are largely rural as this vote is to to get underway what alice. what does that electorate think of this summit what's this going to do to turn out given but the country is on the lockdown they coronavirus. well it's already tossed out as many as half a 1000000 vote 1200000 people requested ballots in the state of wisconsin only about 700000 of those have been returned as of today so that could mean have a 1000000 people who requested balance somewhat belatedly after a state court extended the deadline to request them until this past friday it could mean they don't end up voting at all and in places like milwaukee where half of the 77 deaths that have occurred in the state of wisconsin happen a lot of people may well simply choose that it is not worth going to the polls and that's because they have gone from one $180.00 polling places in was gone in

milwaukee to 5 that means those are likely to be crowded places people essentially just said they're not going to go and work at the polls there that they've had to call in the national guard to man some polls so the bottom line is it could end up simply being fewer people voting in wisconsin ultimately it probably won't make a difference in the presidential primary that's because joe biden has been polling well head of bernie sanders. john had been reporting live from home and chicago many thanks and they jump. back now to that breaking news we told you about a few moments ago straight as high court has overturned a senior catholic koppel's conviction for child sex abuse copple george pell will now walk free he was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. this was his final appeal is the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse let's go live now to sydney just give us nicola gage can tell us more what is the court says set about why it has overturned this conviction.

well this is quite an extraordinary day for a straggly as label system 7 justices of the high court have decided to overturn george post conviction for child sex abuse says because of corona virus and shut social distancing measures there was actually only 3 people in the courtroom so the media and everyone who have been following this case has had to go to twitter and social media platforms to find out what the course was rolling and it's actually been quite hard on the victorian court of appeal so it was 5 years ago or the form a choir boy told police that george pell had abused him and a friend of his in the lot late ninety's in a cathedral when george pell was caught 2 of melbourne and since then he was. imprisoned one year ago and he has appealed that decision to victoria's court

appeal he stood by the jury and said no your conviction will be upheld will what the high court has essentially done today is said we believe that the victorian court of appeal has heard and it didn't make the right decision the reason behind that was because they said that there wasn't enough white placed around what would be cool alibi evidence that many people said that there wasn't enough time for joy . held to commit these abuses in the span that the prosecution said that they had taken place and that the jury as well as the victorian court of appeal put too much emphasis on the accuser the former choirboy that believed his version of events and didn't listen to those alibi evidence and because of that the high court has said that there was maybe some reasonable doubt that these offenses didn't take place

after serious nicola gage reporting live to sydney diplomatic thanks indeed. the democratic republic of congo's. its capital the main commercial hub for 14 days is the epicenter of the outbreak 12000000 people live in the city cramped conditions. reports. has turned to go sleep quiet fears of the corona virus spreading has brought businesses to a standstill in the democratic republic of congo the capital is a financial and diplomatic for around 95 percent of the city's population. the situation is terrible and we don't know what to say we are praying to god they need to cancel this measure otherwise it will be a humanitarian disaster. only police patrol the streets setting up checkpoints to the entrance of a district now under lockdown as governess says it's the epicenter of the virus

teams on standby to screen patients and disinfect buildings. we are in the process of controlling the movement of people they must be surrounded which is the 1st objective of tracking down cases there were people with intense fatigue and vomiting authorities say only people with certified passes are allowed to enter or exit for medical or emergency reasons that's angered residents here who . were disappointed down is disorganized we were given special branches by the governor so that we can access the town for work but police are denying of access for those living in the district there's growing uncertainty. this was badly planned how they can call for without given us the possibility of living with our family this is not the way things should happen. inside the township it's still busy with many living in cramped conditions unable to he calls for social

distancing or isolation living. alone. you would have loved this town before the lockdown was put in place so how can we find the cost of virus in these conditions . the country's health care system has long struggle to deal with the measles cholera and ebola epidemic that's killed thousands of people president kennedy has declared a state of emergency close in the country's borders one official is trying to contain yet another crisis the mounting threat of covert 19 is adding further pressure to many living here for al-jazeera. the head of the world health organization has expressed concern over the over use of medical mosques that's after a number of countries made it mandatory to use them in public mosques should only ever be used as part of a comprehensive package of interventions there is no black or white. and no silver bullet must not stop the pandemic countries must

continue to find test isolate and treat every case and trace every contract there are no proven drug therapies or effective vaccines for the virus yet but the u.s. food and drug administration is looking into a treatment that show promise during previous epidemics under schapelle explains. shortly after stepping on board this mobile clinic francis wars became the 1st person in florida to participate in an experimental treatment to fight coke at 19 he's also the mayor of miami who has recovered from the virus and has been symptom free for at least 14 days researchers hope his plasma can up a critically ill coronavirus patient nearby as i got 3 or 4 instagram messages that were very similar asking if i would be willing to donate blood or plasma and with the same number i was actually at my parents' house because they were

decontaminated my house and actually call back the patient right away the patient's family right away and they were very emotional they were very very grateful and are very hopeful that with this a donation hopefully he can he can be saved the american national red cross wants other recovered patients to do the same. plasma is the liquid portion of blood that's full of antibodies that fight infections blood is drawn in pipes through a special machine to extract the yellow colored serum donors then get their red cells and platelets back in a process that takes a little longer than donating blood recipients will then in theory be able to share the donors active in unity after 1st approving it for emergency use of u.s. food and drug administration has now authorized johns hopkins university and the mayo clinic to begin clinical trials to see if passive antibody therapy may shorten the duration of illness the severity of disease or prevent people from dying from it all together and to find a way to boost the immune system of frontline health workers 'd for their egos. and

banded together to try to work together for. and i think in the end science well went out the f.d.a. gave new york state's department of health permission to conduct the experimental procedure last month though it's only been used on a handful of patients die in a parent's became the 1st potential plasma donor in her state and is working to connect recover patients to opportunities to save lives through facebook we are keeping a running list of every study that we can find around the country and making that was available in acting as a matchmaker of sorts between research institutes and survivors to make the system more efficient and extradite the process because we don't have time to waste lives are on the line this treatment predates vaccines and was used to fight the 1800 flu pandemic as well as more recent outbreaks of the corona virus family like sars and mares one donation can generate nearly 4 units of plasma i could help for people however it's not known to be

a safe and effective treatment for cover 19 we don't understand a lot about the immune response to this virus we're assuming it's similar to other viruses and there are good reasons to think that. and so we think that within $7.00 to $14.00 days after the onset of an infection that people will develop an immune response. benchley make high amounts of antibodies although exactly when the peak of antibody production will be we don't know and and how long it will state permits we also don't know that either institutions in 20 states are coordinating their research through national coated 1000 program to answer those questions together they hope to discover therapeutic treatments that will help reduce the number of infections and he's pressure on hospitals and health care workers and you should help out here. it is good to have you with us hello adrian fenty going to hit in doha the

headlines on al-jazeera australia's high court as over time to see the a catholic cardinals conviction the child sex abuse couple george pell will now walk free he was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. and this was his final appeal britain's prime minister's been moved to an intensive care unit after his coronavirus symptoms worsened or as johnson was admitted to a london hospital on sunday more than 10 days after testing positive for the illness you case foreign secretary has been asked to deputize where necessary for johnson dominic rob said the prime minister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent cat during the course of this afternoon the promise his condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team who's moved in to a critical care unit so in light of those circumstances the prime minister asked me is for a secretary to deputize for him when necessary and driving forward the government's plans to defeat coronavirus. the number of corona virus links deaths in europe is

now past 50000 but there are signs that the rate is leveling off spain germany and the u.k. recorded the fewest deaths in several days new york state governor andrew cuomo says that coronavirus cases in the states may be beginning to plateau but he's warned against complacency but extended the closure of non-essential businesses and schools to the end of april more than $4700.00 people have died in new york the highest number in any american state the u.s. supreme court has ruled to limit absentee voting in the presidential primary and wisconsin it comes just hours after the state supreme court ruled that tuesday's presidential primary cannot be postponed the democratic governor told eva's has been had been seeking it to lay because of the threat posed by the corona virus pandemic the democratic republic of congo's government to shut down the main commercial hub and capital kinshasa for a fortnight 18 people have died in the country 161

a confounded thing it is the headlines more news after inside story next. what will force were when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you'll be in to go build united states of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on. how well africa deal with coronavirus the pandemic is slowly reaching the conference call public health care infrastructure and an inability to enforce law what's the impact going to be this is inside story.

hello and welcome to the program now it's taken the coronavirus longer to reach africa than other parts of the world but experts are warning of a possible large scale outbreak on the world's poorest continent of one point.