vaccine starts on a good 24 hours there are patients waiting for his mother to muster the pain life's worth risking a week ago one of the gang stops on the coastal road attacking it with what was. risking it all guinea on al-jazeera. britain's prime minister boris johnson is moved into intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsen. but from doha everyone i'm come on santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera there's a grim milestone for europe over $50000.00 coronavirus 1000 deaths but there is some respond for the worst hit countries vote despite the pandemic the supreme court in the u.s. rules the wisconsin primary will go ahead rejecting the governor's order to

postpone it and in other news a straight a's highest court overturns a former baskin treasurers conviction for sexual assaults. so britain's prime minister has been moved to an intensive care unit with worsening covert 900 symptoms barres johnson he was admitted to hospital on sunday night had been ill for more than 10 days and so foreign secretary dominic robb has been asked to deputize with the support from. 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 that's in thomas' hospital in london during the course of this afternoon the promises 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 as secretary to deputize for him when necessary and 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 care 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 and i hang them also and unless my thesis contests 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 and it's still not known when the peak of coronavirus will be in the u.k. will reach alan's how does era and since that report we've had an update from not named barbara with the latest on. we now know officially the prime minister is isn't in intensive care as we were hearing that. there is a ventilator available for him but according to officials he didn't use it or at least or we don't know that he has used it yet he was reportedly given oxygen some time before he was moved into intensive care and now the fact is that almost 2 thirds of people in england wales and northern ireland who do go into intensive

care do need a ventilator within the 1st 24 hours i think many people watching the events of the last 24 hours would have questioned statements coming out from or johnson himself and from dominic rob the foreign secretary on monday saying that he was in good spirits and continuing to lead the efforts against coronavirus and receiving regular updates because the fact that he was admitted to hospital on sunday evening it really does suggest to people who seen him on friday looking very ill in a video statement when he was supposed to come out of isolation it suggested to people that he was not not well told and that it was so serious that in fact he did he was taken to hospital even though it crashed it took attention away from that address to the nation by queen elizabeth. that's

a doctor and inspire are now an emergency and critical care physician and also professor of health science and policy and outside a hospital she says moving our sense into intensive care was the sensible thing today if they were uncertain that he's been living there critical care back to the same time at this stage of the disease day 1011 and. if encouraging that he's not on a ventilator already because we would really expect to see you know at this stage if he was in. the other there you know i would say that it's great to not be possible that he has a secondary infection which we think quite probably environment is in fact that was almost certainly response before you have to do this intervention programs and so it could easily be a secondary bacterial as far as we know it is no co-morbidities. he's a presbyterian or we might tell 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 manal and

we do know that enormous do have ways 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 fact that he's not being played to do it and that is that here very smartly to militant if you consider. that there is a risk that he may need it because the last thing you want to do is have to do that and to crash cool you want to be able 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 it's just a continuation. over tentacle run of our series in a moment but i do want to bring you some developing story a developing story out of a straight up the high court there has overturned a senior catholic cardinals conviction for child sex abuse cardinal george pell just been freed from jail had been convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the

1990 s. hell was once a treasure at the vatican and became the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse i think i just following the story from sydney forrest bring us up to date nicholas. well this has been one of the most high profile cases in astronomy is history and it's ended with a unanimous ruling by a strategy is highest of course the full bench of 7 justices they acquitted george pell of all of his convictions of those shops sexual abuse of 2 quiet boys in the late ninety's so after spending one year in prison george pell is now a free man shortly after the high court made this ruling he left victoria's barwon prison now because of coronavirus social distancing measures there were only a handful of people in the court to hear this ruling it was posted online afterwards and the judgement was really based around the fact that the high court

believed that the jury and the victorian court of appeal should have entertained doubts as to whether these offenses could have ever happened at all really it was in the late ninety's that these offenses were alleged to have taken place and the court said that there was not enough weight placed around. other alibi witnesses and people who said that there wasn't enough time for george pell to have in fact committed these offenses in the time frame that the prosecution said that they had happened so now in the eyes of the law george pell is not guilty the question now is what the public will think of this and how it will react to george pell has had many supporters who are extremely happy today with this result but for the many sexual abuse victims across the world they are devastated believing that

he is still guilty since this ruling was handed down george pell has released a statement saying that he doesn't want his case to be seen as a referendum on the. and that he hopes his acquittal doesn't cause any further hurt or business to any sex abuse victims around the world now there are many questions about what will happen next of course george pell is still a carbonneau will we see him back at the vatican or will that have to be another internal church process over these allegations he's also facing further allegations so now he is a free man not guilty in the eyes of the law we'll just have to say what happens next ok thank you for that update nick and to gauge in sydney a little bit more if you now on the life of the 78 year old cardinal george pell he was ordained in 1966 he was made the cardinal of the catholic church in 2003 and then promoted by pope francis to vatican treasurer in 2014 but it was 2017 this is

when he was charged with 5 charges of child sexual abuse of 213 year old boys acts which were alleged to have taken place when he was the archbishop of melbourne in the late 1990 s. the cardinals 1st trial ended in a hung jury but he was then convicted in that 2nd trial in 2018 so his lawyers appeals to a stranger as high court and now that all 5 counts of been quashed pale is walking free after one year behind bars so let's hear from gideon boas now paris a barrister and professor of law at la trobe university in melbourne he expects there will now be a national assessment of the appellate courts after this ruling. it's one of the most significant legal decisions that a criminal congress in this country. you know we viewed in 2 very different why is it to be viewed by some as being the expression of the value towards the criminal

justice system in its ability to. deal with. verdicts which constitute a miscarriage of justice it will be viewed by others as a terrible tragedy as an indictment of the criminal justice system these are charges relating to 2 complainants 5 discrete criminal charges in a discreet period of time there are as i understand it allegations against cardinal pell by 3 specked 2 that he's on conduct that is that had perpetrated sexual abuse and also that he assisted in covering up sexual abuse which is a will be the subject of supreme court proceedings in the civil jurisdiction whether any of those make their way into. to criminal charges and. coke as you know on the. still ahead on al-jazeera drawing dying alone the threat of infection is changing the way people are saying goodbye to their loved one. is

being summoned to their. very. algiers cameraman can move the story of his journey back to beijing. hello there still feeling pretty warm across much of the arabian peninsula to the north we have got a fair amount of travel want to shine as are coming in with cloud and in fact as we go through tuesday the rain really beginning to get a little bit heavier across the northern areas of iran the low voice just coming down there from the caspian sea so a wet day in tehran in just 15 celsius same temperature in kabul but it should be dry and brighter more there in the way of sunshine i want to you scott a child along the southern and western areas of turkey and then by wednesday that rain really still sitting on those northern shores of iran but beginning to work

their way east was pushing across into areas of afghanistan little bit cooler to the east and to the med just 17 jerusalem but the heat is on certain across into saudi 37 in riyadh and 35 celsius in. talk about the rather cool air in place across southern portions of south africa and that's still the case is to go through choose say we're going to see more showers you've got some fairly brisk winds here just pushing their showers rolling up there on the eastern side of the coast some more rain showers in through more eastern areas of madagascar but then really a lot of southern africa is fairly dry through tuesday we will have course the usual showers and thunderstorms as we go through the late hours in the day the rains are fairly heavy by wednesday up into the d.l.c. but warming up in cape town with a high of 23. join the global conversation to pop the bubble to the people that expand their brains maybe have a different view this is a dialogue with women in cambodia are in fact selling their hair we don't know how

much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to trace everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be a law right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection on al-jazeera. you with al-jazeera will take you through the latest developments to do with coronavirus and the british prime minister has been moved to an intensive care unit after his covert 19 symptoms worsened boris johnson was admitted to a london hospital on sunday and 10 days after testing positive for the illness the

u.k. foreign secretaries been asked to deputize where necessary for mr johnson dominic robb is the prime minister is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care and in other news the strain is high court has overturned a senior catholic cardinals conviction for child sex abuse cardinal george pell has now left jail was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the $0.99. back to the corona virus pandemic we will use the johns hopkins virus track and now just to give us a snapshot of the global situation 1300000 confirmed cases mostly as you see in the united states europe and a lot fewer in asia now more than 270000 people have recovered from the virus and have been over 74000 deaths the majority of those in europe france of course one of those countries with a rapidly growing number of dead the country recorded its highest number of virus related deaths in a single day taking the total to almost 9000 but there are signs in other parts of

the continent that the mortality rate is beginning to slow paul brennan looks at. europe past 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 die 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 14th with restrictions potentially lifted on largest. and headdresses 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 allstar walker we're down in the wake of a star will be a deciding wait for us and it will be a week which will decide whether the resurrection after 8th which we are all hoping for can actually happen as planned. the spanish government is also studying how to

gradually ease the lockdown it 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 craigslist 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 by sean pierre and his german girlfriend it is very well thought. out if 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 force like 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 in the future although no we cannot find protective mass i haven't found them so i made one myself and authorities say mass will be available in 3 days but they've been saying 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 campaign. and more people like this woman leaving intensive care are surviving but there are many thousands who will not make it to this stage of recovery and the avoiding infection in the 1st place still remains the safest strategy. told brennan

al-jazeera. meanwhile a french company says it's developed a coronavirus test which provides a result in 15 minutes the diagnostics firm says all that's required is a single drop of blood in order to determine whether someone is infected it wants to make $6000000.00 tests this year and has already received an order from the french army new orleans is one of the major yunis coronavirus hotspots that has a mortality rate double that of new york actually and so the city's health system is under massive strain bearing the load for the state of louisiana which now has more than 14000 cases and over 500 deaths this report from andy gallagher. on the streets of new orleans messages of support for those on the front lines of the coronavirus medical staff barely have time to read the signs the city is dealing with one of the worst outbreaks of the virus in the u.s. most of the rooms will have medical cause the strain on local hospitals is so acute

the convention center will take in those with less severe symptoms it tends to be what we call supportive care and things like oxygen and getting out of bed and walking around and staying well hydrated there aren't any specific medications that that particular somebody at this illness despite testing both in labs and at roadside locations the virus continues to ravage the city death rates but capital in the new orleans area are outpacing those of new york city officials say hospitals will soon be at breaking point and so far the virus has hit one demographic particularly hard slightly more than 70 percent of all of our deaths are among african-americans who make up about 32 percent or so of the overall population of our state so obviously this is a big disparity and we're going to try to figure out what that is attributable to and what what we can do about that as quickly as possible despite warnings some religious leaders in the state continue to hold services to london spradlin who

could decide hysteria over the virus was in new orleans from body graw where he preached on the streets up to spending 8 days in intensive care he died of cope at 19 he thought he can track the virus in new orleans in a city with high rates of heart disease obesity and diabetes the worst is yet to come doctors say they're bracing for hard times in the coming days in the hospital and slowly filling up and are waiting for that point where it's critical mass and. then dennis can be the next phase are going to have started and all that issue. dr bass and his team are doing what they can to get ready for the coming storm the next few days may prove more challenging than anything new orleans has faced before and gallacher al-jazeera voting in wisconsin's presidential primary will go ahead later on tuesday after the u.s. supreme court blocked attempts to delay the vote because of the pandemic early the

state's supreme court ruled the primary couldn't be postponed as well the democratic governor tony evers had ordered the election be postponed to june 9th scuse me more on this from john hendren in chicago who says the supreme court ruling was made along partisan lines. 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 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 even as 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 now the pandemic has limited people's ability to mourn at a time when so many a dying there often a ludd with my family around them with victims possible way priyanka gupta looks at this new phenomena during the pandemic. a cruel disease that

leaves no comfort for those dying and for those left behind. in the chaotic hospital wards around the world tens of thousands of patients are dying alone without their families by this side to avoid the risk of covert 19 in their brains are there for the patients it's been a terrible experience they have been taken away from their families many of them died we had 605 deaths and it is extremely stressful to remain in the hospital and not even recognize nurses and doctors who are hidden behind this mask and these glasses it is very stressful for the family certainly very stressful for those who cannot stay next to their loved ones who are being treated. disinfectants are spread in coffins a new reality of death in some countries. in italy where

hundreds are dying every day funeral services are banned just the blessings of priests in empty churches. the global lock downs and restrictions have altered the way people grieve no matter their culture or religion this virus took widget out of the equation. my poor farmers the question very scary for a church the muslim families care or a mosque the jewish care go to the top. thank you have people gather. in china where more than 3000 people died because of cornell fires sirens wailed. and people came together for one day of collective expression of grief. lockdowns a changing age should rituals and funeral customs some are using video calls and

live streaming apps to bring communities together to honor the dead. and grieving and all the rituals that go into that. very social event typically and so to have. so many deaths. and witnessed or ritual in the ways that we used to think is going to be something there that results in the lack of good sense of lack of closure. the want is calling to unprecedented changes during this crisis for many it's a time of mourning and loss but perhaps hoping for better days ahead priyanka there . a bit of positive news for the 1st time china has reported no new deaths from curve at 19 and in the past 24 hours only 32 cases have been confirmed all

from people who'd returned from overseas china is now reporting some of the last figures worldwide. with many of the worlds around the world in lockdown china is gradually getting back to normal life includes a cameraman hang paying who was among millions of people trapped in who by province with the virus. had been visiting relatives for chinese new year plans funny been able to leave the province and return to beijing where he has found himself back in corn same katrina here our correspondent has a story. a final call for the train to pay for these hundreds of passengers a celebratory visit to an who became a nightmare as the province was locked down for more than 2 months now the lockdowns over bags are packed with masks on everyone's finally free to return to life in the capital. among those boarding this government organized bullet train is al jazeera cameraman pumping. is a 17 day since i was traveling very little finally today we're going

to take a stronger train to go back to beijing each passenger has had to apply for that ticket good health a prerequisite phil leaving the province. the threat of the pandemic is never far from sight many are happy to leave the lockdown behind. i'm so excited to be going back to beijing but i'm worried about my apartment because my contract has lapsed and also my job because i'm the only employee who hasn't come back to work yet so the 6 hour journey is spent counting the cost of the destruction. i'm not too happy because when i go back to beijing i have to pay for the koren see how it's how by myself thought i would course have my monthly salary the government says they support people but if they do they should support us financially. beijing's bustling train station feels like business as usual china's leaders have ordered

major cities back to work but declaring victory over the. outbreak those from are greeted by welcome signs and marked by stick it's the city skyscrapers can be seen from a chartered bus window but the journey isn't over yet one stop at a makeshift health checkup will be escorted home for another 2 weeks of court team al jazeera beating. the latest coronavirus headlines this hour the u.k. foreign secretary has now been asked to deputize where necessary for prime minister boris johnson dominic robert said johnson is in safe hands and has been receiving excellent care as he fights the coronavirus british prime minister had been moved to turn intensive care unit after his symptoms worse and forced johnson was admitted to hospital on sunday more than 10 days after testing positive in other

news the strain is high court has overturned a senior catholic cardinals conviction for child sex abuse cardinal george pell has been freed from jail he was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. he was the most senior catholic official to be convicted of child sex abuse more from nicola gage in sydney. it said that the jury and the victorian court of appeal should've entertained doubt that these offenses ever occurred the reason why is because they say that. there was too much white placed on the evidence of the former choirboy that these fences didn't take place and not enough on alibi if it isn't from people who say that there wouldn't have been enough time for this to happen that other people would have been with george pell at the time that the prosecution said that these abuses took place and that should have raised some reasonable doubt as to whether george pell was guilty or not. of

a number of coronavirus linked deaths in europe has now passed 50700000 people have been infected but there are signs the rate is leveling off spain germany in the u.k. for quite a bit fewer steps and several days venezuelan migrants in colombia are choosing to return to their homeland they're struggling to find work because of colombia's lockdown many now making the journey on foot which could take up to 2 weeks and voting in wisconsin's presidential primary will go ahead on tuesday after the u.s. supreme court blocked attempts to delay the vote due to the pandemic earlier the state's supreme court also ruled the primary couldn't be postponed the democratic governor tony evans had ordered the election to be moved back to june the 9th. you're up to date with all the headlines on al-jazeera the stream is next. we understand the different scenes i'm similarity of cultures across the world. so

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