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 00. british prime minister bars johnson remains in intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsen. sami's a than this is al jazeera live from also coming up japan declares a state of emergency in the capital and other regions to tackle the outbreak. saran looks to relax its down fear is the outbreak may be far worse than previously reported plus. doctors

in pakistan arrested during a protest over the lack of safety equipment while treating coronavirus patients. u.k. prime minister boris johnson already one of the most high profile current virus patients yet is in intensive care in london he was transferred after his symptoms got worse on monday night johnson was admitted to hospital on sunday he was moved as a precaution in case he needs a ventilator over the prime minister out of action foreign secretary dominic robb is stepping in to lead the government. already chalons correspond in london this hour he joins us live from the british capital was the latest word on his condition . or the most up to date information we have has

come from michael gove the cabinet secretary a man who incidentally since he gave out that information has said that he is isolating himself after a member of his family started showing symptoms of 19 and what michael gove said about the prime minister's condition is that it hasn't deteriorated significantly since he was admitted to the intensive care units of since i was off the hospital last night that boris johnson was given oxygen supports but he hasn't been so serious yet that he needed to be put on a ventilator with a tube into his lungs michael gove also said as far as he knows for a strong man hasn't been diagnosed with pneumonia. but this is obviously still a big shock i think to the whole country it's

a big shock to. friends and family and it will most likely be a big shock to the prime minister himself because as friends have been saying in the british media today this is a man who has usually enjoyed pretty robust health but he battles on through the hardest colds he doesn't really have much time for the illness and we've seen that ourselves over the last 10 days with boris johnson. diagnosis with 19 in self isolation in downing street but still working pretty hard still trying to show that he is prime minister so this admission to intensive care unit will come i think is a big blow to the man himself and i can explain now in my report about how all of this is unfolded. 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 and 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 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 micron 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 i mean 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. and it's still not known when the peak of coronavirus will be in the u.k. . it still begs the question there are a how's the government now functioning to what extent does the foreign secretary take over decision making. well there are people inside the conservative party people inside the british political establishment

asking for more clarity about exactly this set up now this or assumption is pretty much out of action yes dominic rob is stepping in and deputizing we're being told as necessary boris johnson though is still technically the prime minister in the u.k. is constitutionally a little bit on this issue it's not like the united states where you have a clear chain of command and if the commander in chief is out of action then you have a vice president who who assumes all of the roles in the u.k. the prime minister he leads a government a cabinet. the cabinet has lots of autonomy that is going to pretty much carry on dominic rob is going to be doing some jobs but most of them i think you're going to be. because the key decisions it seems when it when it comes to cope with 19 have been taken and most of what on iraq we were doing is actually making sure

that those are implemented properly one decision that is coming down the track. in about a week's time there's a review of. the united kingdom is going to carry on with the kind of social distancing restrictive measures that it has been for the last few weeks and some decisions will have to be taken about whether that's to continue or not but of course boris johnson would need to be still ill in i.c.u. for dominic rock to be taken that one. would leave it there thanks so much rory chalons. spain has recorded an increase in daily corona virus infections and deaths for the 1st time in 5 days the health ministry says 743 people succumbed to the virus in the past 24 hours compared to $637.00 reported on monday the rate of confirmed cases also increased slightly go now to mark in madrid with the latest from spain so put all the numbers together for us because the last

2 days marty we've been talking about the number of cases declining in spain what is the overall picture that is emerging now well we have 5478 new cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours leaving a total of $148500.00 in 10 lost cities some for a virus in spain in 24 hours a 4 percent increase since yesterday despite these figures we have been this increase in the figures we have seen these decent aleutian every tuesday this is so cold to see effect and it's because of the adjustment of the data during the weekend so we will see how increase in the numbers of infections and in the number of fatalities today we have 991-9400. people or steal all health care workers infected that this means that 14.4 percent

the new number of fatalities today and since yesterday 743 and a death toll has increased up to 13800. or i will leave it there thanks so much martin. trans prime minister shinzo alba is the cloud a state of emergency after a surge of infections in major cities in the last one month more than 100 people have died there have been more than 4500 confirmed cases of mcbride is monitoring developments from seoul in south korea. it basically allows the governors in those places a number of governors including the governor of tokyo ripping us king shinzo out a full these powers to try to force people to stay indoors that allows them to request people to stay at home unless they have exceptional reasons for going out but it has to be pointed out that this is still very much based on all and freak

cooperation from people it's unclear whether government has the authorities have any powers can penalize people if they do go out so even though these measures already just been announced are just being introduced there are already questions about whether they are going to go far enough there are also other powers of the governors will have such as press stopping public gatherings closing schools and they can also do other things if things get really bad and he's take that action they are allowed to requisition buildings and lands for emergency hospitals even medicine and food that they can requisition there's a feeling they japan has avoided the kind of large outbreaks has taken place in its neighbors china and specifically south korea whether that is by luck or because already in japanese society there is already a certain amount of social distancing such as not shaking hands or wearing a mask if you have a cold so people don't catch it in the subway kongo carrying there is

a feeling that so far they've avoided mastro prate but with these recent spikes in large numbers daily of new infections there is a feeling that unless they get ahead of this then it japan is in danger of having a real large outbreak that it will eventually be chasing. iran is reporting 133 deaths on tuesday and a drop in new infections from the day before a member of its coronavirus task force has been quoted saying the number of cases is more than 8 times higher than reported iranian sets relax its lockdown matches from saturday al-jazeera saying the solve is in iran with more on that the reporting here is incredibly significant what we're seeing is the state media news site interviewed mr home in syria he's an epidemiologist on president hassan rouhani is and he corona task force speaking to the government he said that the actual number of infections is closer 250-0000 far higher than official figures and he has said that the curve has not been flattened that the virus is continuing to

spread and that normalizing control measures on public public movement too soon will inevitably make things worse however we heard from the public health ministry official the health minister himself this morning saying that the government is in lockstep that everyone's on the same page in terms of the coronavirus response this days after on sunday president rouhani said that normalization will begin as of april 11th things will begin to go back to normal in certain places and in certain provinces this week in the next week they'll continue to do the same however members of parliament at a session of parliament earlier today floated a bill to try to lock down cities to try to keep control measures in place that was voted down so there seems to be a political will to move forward to address the health of the country's economy while trying to maintain some sort of control on the public health crisis that we're seeing but we have to go back to what mr zarif the epidemiologist said in this interview he said that if the virus continues unchecked if control measures

are loosened on the public then there is a worst case scenario to look at 60 percent of the country could be infected there could be as many as 400000 people that in the dying of covered 19 in iran. well still ahead here on al-jazeera. the coronavirus victim turned away from 6 hospitals and the health system unprepared for an outbreak we report from bangladesh. am. we find out why protesters in ivory coast i agree about the facility under construction. am. finally have some dry weather across central and southern areas of china but it has steamy its way eastwards away from japan so that does mean again we've had some

will have some serious skies this mean very nice across northern china beijing more of those sunny skies it will come out as we go through the week and in fact the talent is a little bit lower than they have been you can see history wednesday 18 degrees but the rain is to the south pretty good across the korean peninsula a little bit cooler and we could just still see want to showers across into western areas of honshu but gone for time being is a very heavy rain across central and southern areas of china still want to scottish isles definitely in the forecast for the time it is beginning to recover in hong kong $23.00 celsius but this is when we could see more rain farther to the all said that does mean because if you rain showers and sunny cloudy skies in beijing just 11 celsius is your high that say one to 2 more showers again across into all central northern areas of honshu and how much is at best 17 degrees and take you again caddy skies maybe the chance of a few showers now the rain is pretty heavy across southern areas of india in particular carol est but it will expand across into tell a lot of and really work its way up the eastern side of the country so pushing up

into under oppression possibly even pushing off into addition to by thursday some sort of story the rains are not quite as heavy but very warm in our poll at 40. all i want to stay with most outstanding why why arrest internment and mass indoctrination all we were children 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 an australian investigation into china's systematic repression of the weakest tell the world on al-jazeera.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines british prime minister boris johnson is in intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worse and he was moved as a precaution in case a ventilator was needed foreign secretary dominic roberts stepped in to lead the government for the 1st time in 5 days spain has recorded an increase in daily current virus infections and deaths well over 13 and a half 1000 people have died since the start of the outbreak. japan's prime minister shinzo alba is declared a state of emergency after a surge of infections in major cities say the last one month. dozens of doctors in pakistan have been arrested while protesting against the lack of safety equipment. was. police in the city

of detained at least 50 medical staff the demonstrators say many of them are being infected while treating patients because of severe shortages and personal protective equipment pakistan recorded its largest single day spike in 19 cases on monday putting its total near 4000 meanwhile thousands of afghans living in pakistan streaming home across the border i have been closed as part of the effort to stem the spread of the virus for the pakistani government has reopened it for a few days after a quest from afghanistan in the small window to make the journey the route has become a crowded the afghan government has set up a foreign team center close to the crossing but that's causing concern among local residents. more on this let's cross over now to islamabad where kemal hi there

joins us live from there let's start with the situation with doctors people losing their patients with the level of equipment absolutely judge karen just on it's an international problem in pakistan which are developing country that problem is of course something to worry about the young doctor had come out wanted more personal protection. because of this particular pandemic which of course said that threat to the medical staff to their doctors then they decided to go and protest outside the chief minister's residence some of them of course then trying to cross into the premises that which time the police used force and also 50 of the doctor directed but

several hours later they were released on the orders of the provincial government and today we are told that a special military transport aircraft has carriage special equipment to baluchistan to address the issue of the young doctor who there was and because they are not really equipped and that the fact that they do get infected in large numbers that there will be no one to treat dogs who have been affected by 19 so indeed a difficult situation that the medical staff again but the government on the other hand now reassuring everybody that day will be given the p.p.a. . to what extent come all is to the re entry of afghans with the entry of afghans from pakistan into afghanistan being controlled taking place in the way in which they're making sure infections don't spread those pictures just look like a lot of people moving very closely together very quickly.

absolutely you have to understand that pakistan has the largest border with afghanistan over 2500 kilometer but there are only 2 major border crossings one is that store come through the hype of bridges in the khyber folks one province and the other one is in charman which connects to khandahar that is in the southwestern province of baluchistan so these thousands of on the road wanted to go back to afghanistan in fact according to the international organization for migration which had been keeping a tab and said that between the aid than 18th of march about almost 2000 afghans returned back to afghanistan after that there was a lockdown pakistan closed the reston border and as you mentioned there's special requests came from of one it stands to open the border to any loud gold band who are stuck inside pakistan because of the logs down to be able to return budget

would be important to see how this is all managed because pakistan is not allowing the pakistani citizens who are still in afghanistan to come back yet so indeed a complicated h.-u. but focused on doing this at the request of the afghan government to make things so much come out ahead of the. and bangladesh has reported its highest single day crease in corona virus cases 5 people died taking the total to 17 least 41 more infections were confirmed this comes as many hospitals are turning away patients with cope with $900.00 symptoms be a child has more from the capital dhaka. in a country with a population of more than 168000000 fewer than 3000 have been tested for the virus that's one of the lowest testing rates anywhere many hospitals all over bangladesh are turning away patients even the critically ill because of fears of coronavirus

infection and most of them died last week after he was denied treatment at 6 different hospitals in the capital. the veteran freedom fighter of the war of independence in bangladesh was a brain haemorrhage patient suffering from my limo look to me about it his only daughter says the health care system is failing to serve the people to harm. even after admitting him they later just charge him under a fuse treatment i could understand those who didn't have the gear might be at risk but many of the doctors had full protective equipment some of these hospitals heart karuna isolation units why didn't they admit or treat him bangladesh's health minister has issued a warning to health care professionals. this is not the time to backtrack on your duties and it is not justified at all stand by the people and serves only recently we have noticed a dereliction of duty as the warning came too little too late for shiner for those see her sister in law died recently because of what she calls medical negligence by

. my sister in law was diagnosed with gastrointestinal disease at a city hospital in cool now she had a successful surgery there put on 25th march for the treatment was denied after the surgery since there was a corner virus patient who died in that hospital the previous night media reports say more than 50 bangladeshis died recently from respiratory illness symptoms similar to corona virus but the government didn't record that as virus linked the reports say health experts expected the high number of patients during the summer. because many of their symptoms will probably be similar to that. but many hospitals in the city remain closed and refuse to admit any patients recently leaked un memo warned that bangladesh is facing up to 2000000 deaths from their pandemic if immediate and appropriate steps aren't taken down to. dhaka bangladesh. or for the 1st time china has reported no new deaths from cope with 19 in the past 24 hours

only 32 cases have been confirmed all from people who returned from overseas while what was once the epicenter was will soon be lifting its lockdown entirely sarah clarke has more from hong kong on what this will mean for people in. well looking at the scenario when i pull i think that the lockdown the full lockdown will be lifted across the city of we head of course this is a city of 11000000 people this is the epicenter of the crime the virus outbreak not the lockdown has been partially lifted over the last week and a half or so where people have been allowed to return to hand but they have been allowed to leave and the day that that lockdown was partially lifted we had $60000.00 people into the city by train buses and cars but on april 8th the airport will reopen and the people will also be allowed to leave the 1st time since january 23 that that lockdown will allow travel in and out of the city now as you mentioned this is the 1st day on tuesday that the chinese recorded no new

coronavirus related deaths now if that's the case that's the 1st time china's health commission has done this said no new deaths since i started releasing their publicly their daily figures as you mentioned as well that 50 new cases of the crown of ours in fiction reported on tuesday but of course this is all of those cases were imported cases are not local transmissions of the philippines has extended a lockdown of its main island until the end of the month or in teen measures on luzon word use when next week will now continue until at least the 30th of april it's home to more than 50000000 people many of whom work in the capital manila general and dog and has more from manila the final choice that's been discussed for the most vulnerable. there's been a promise from the government that about $100.00 to $130.00 of cash will be given to those most affected the poorest of the poor but it remains to be seen whether

some of them have already received it or whether the pilots going through the local government units are actually well on their way there was a press conference with president lee go there to and he basically just said he was inclined to approve a 2 week extension that was it could run last night but today the head of the past 4 said basically that the double check that the president and said that yes it has been extended there have been concerns about the wait communications are being handled by the government it is seen that the government itself has been overwhelmed and that task force basically leading there is just like the military basically has been doing its best to be sickly cope with the current problem the biggest issue really here is that a majority of those who are stuck in their homes i really are under a nor work ne that is which means if they don't go to work they don't get to early and there are already been complaints about people hungry at this point protesters

in ivory coast commercial capital have torn down the coronavirus testing facility that was under construction angry residents in a district of abidjan said they were afraid it would spread the virus through their district police fired tear gas to break up the demonstration the city has been under long down since a state of emergency was declared on march the 21st when the course hockey is monitoring developments from dakar in senegal he says the protest comes from a deep distrust of the government. these riots took place in a suburb of john called hugo it's a popular neighborhood where there's lots of markets and it seems that the population there don't trust the government that the health center in their neighborhood would protect them in fact they believe that that would in thank them and that would spread the virus even more and this comes at a time and the number of cases in ivory coast is spiraling there's over $300.00 cases that we know of including the m.p.

the representative and the defense minister you can hum it like a yoko so but this crisis is revealing is the level of distrust there is between the population and their health service comes on the heels of a message on social media spread by the famous ivorian football player. who condemned these 2 french scientists who had suggested that a vaccine on coronavirus would be tested on africans and that had led to a lot of governments including the government in ivory coast to make a public announcement reassuring the population that there would be no testing made on the population here in sub-saharan africa and in french speaking out. on the messaging platform whatsapp says it's putting new limits on the viral posts in the hopes of coping misinformation about the pandemic starting on tuesday if a message has been forwarded more than 5 times users will only be able to send it

to one recipient of the time on top says it has seen a significant increase in forwarded message just since the start of the pandemic launch of it was fake medical advice circulating on various platforms. and let's take you through some of the headlines now britain's prime minister is in intensive care after his crowd of virus symptoms worsened boris johnson was moved as a precaution in case he needed a ventilator foreign secretary dominic stepped in to lead the government more from chalons now there are people inside the conservative party people inside the british political establishment asking for more clarity about exactly the set up now this boris johnson is pretty much out of action there's

a prime minister he leads a government a cabinet. the cabinet has lots of autonomy that is going to pretty much carry on dominic rob is going to be doing some jobs but most of them i think are going to be administered administrative because the key decisions it seems when it when it comes to cope with 19 have been taken now for the 1st time in 5 days spain has recorded an increase in daily corona virus infections and deaths well over 13 and a half 1000 people have died since the start of the outbreak japan's prime minister declared a state of emergency after a surge of infections in major cities is set to last one month. dozens of doctors in pakistan have been arrested while protesting against the lack of safety equipment was quite a police detained at least 50 medical staff many say they're being infected while

treating patients because of a severe shortage of personal protective equipment. meanwhile thousands of afghans living in pakistan are streaming home across the border i was it had been closed as part of the effort to stem the spread of the virus the pakistani government has reopened it for a few days after a request from afghanistan. the vatican is welcome the strain of years high court decision to overturn a senior catholic officials conviction for child sex abuse cardinal george pell as been freed from jail he was convicted in 2018 of abusing 2 choir boys in the 1990 s. the high court ruled evidence from some witnesses should have raised reasonable doubt about his guilt it's inside story.

how will africa deal with corona virus the pandemic is slowly reaching the continent for public health care week infrastructure and an inability to enforce law what's the impact going to be this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i know 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.