holding the powerful to account as we examine the u.s. role in the war on al jazeera. al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey you're watching the news hour which will be dominated by our coverage of the corona virus and demick fatalities search and france pushing the country's total death toll beyond $10000.00. and new high for death rates in the u.s. at the center but there are further signs the new york state's outbreak is nearing its peak. there's one thing i know about this point minister he's a former. british prime minister's deputy says he is confident or sansom all pull through after going into intensive care for running virus sentence. and rumor home

remedies and political conspiracies how misinformation into nial are complicating sudan's fight against the pandemic. france has become the only the 4th country to register more than 10000 deaths and the coronavirus pandemic its health ministry says its latest fatality count as 1417 almost 80003 actions have been reported across the country joins us now from southwestern france with more on this in a to show what else do we know about these numbers. yes of trump's passing that $10000.00 death toll mark of course a very sad news indeed for the country and for all the health workers that are battling to try and save lives on a daily basis ever since this

a coronavirus crisis and how it's pandemic began now the director of all public health and fraud scheme and he's daily briefing it's and it's a briefing each time in the evening french time and he says that in the past 24 hours france has registered another 100-1400 cases now it's important to understand those figures because in fact that doesn't mean that 1400 people have died in france over the last 24 hours in fact let me give you a bit of the breakdown it's more than 600 people that will hospitalized in intensive care have died not the other some 800 people people who died in nursing homes linked to the coronavirus however those numbers those 800 people didn't necessarily died the last 24 hours they may have died of a few days or weeks ago but what has happened since province is that decks in nursing homes are not the camps cities outside the main hospitals of only started compiling that dos and now and that doctor is getting added on slowly each day here

in thoughts which is why we're seeing such an enormous death toll in the past 24 hours 1400 but as i said schools not all of those deaths took place in last 24 hours every single one of them so high the significance anyway and on target tell us again remind us what are the what state of lockdown is france and right now. well france is going into its 4th week of knocked out meets very strict confinement rules the french government has been very clear that the only way to stem the corona virus from spreading further meant for onsen from to ease the pressure off health workers not hospitals is for people to stay indoors and those restrictions as i said a very tight so if you want to go out in france you have to have a written permit you have to have a particular reason it might be to buy food or a very urgent medical need or to take

a little bit of exercise to be not allowed to go out small than an hour in a day and those rules have just become tighter to some people in different parts of frauds in the south of france in some regions it's now magic treats when mosques in paris in the paris region the met of paris today said to that all exercise is bound between 10 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock in the evening french time that people can only exercise outside of those hours of going for a run this is to try and minimize the number of people in the streets because at the moment we are in the school break if you like schools closed but people have school subpoena homeschooling many works are taken some time off as they go into this holiday season period and what the government doesn't want is would be able to be encouraged by the school break by the holiday time by the better weather and sunny go after the bit more break some of those wills of confinement because the government say that all the good work this collective efforts all of the nation

people staying indoors would be on darkness we would see of course if those coronavirus cases were rising. right natasha butler live for us with what is happening in france natasha thank you very much. so another 786 people have died from krajina virus in the u.k. it's highest daily fatality numbers since the pandemic began our minister boris johnson remains in intensive care in a london hospital fighting symptoms that have become part restively more severe burns actor dominic broad who is deputising for johnson says he's convinced he'll pull through it comes as a shock to all of us he's not just the prime minister for all of us in cabinet he's not just a boss he's also a colleague and he's also a friend so all of our thoughts and prayers are with the prime minister at this time with kerry and with his whole family and i'm confident he'll pull through because if there's one thing i know about this prime minister he's

a fighter and he'll be back at the helm leading us through this crisis in short order. our challenge is our correspondent in london right now also rory what's the latest update we have on the prime minister's condition. one the last few minutes the prime minister's spokesperson that has given a very short update states not any different really from the same information that we've been given throughout the day by domenic rob by michael gove's this morning by the promises bikes bus here on and on that's basically that he is stable is boris johnson stable in the intensive care. the most recent update is this he's staying there for quite small misfiring that if there's any change they will let us know about it but only one of the day we were told he has been given oxygen he has me put on a ventilator i think he has not received

a diagnosis that he's suffering from pneumonia and that easy in good spirits so you know i think if you look at the spread of people in sense of care with covert 19 and. the amongst the worst of them but it's still a very grave situation for in the u.k. now is while it's basically without a prime minister he's still prime minister name and he's had to divest some of his g t's to dominate rob. the u.k. doesn't really have the same kind of formalized system of chain of come ons as say the u.s. does here is a bit more ad hoc. we could i think view it as the prime minister has said has set the the course of the shape of the united kingdom as it fights against 19 but he's no longer at the times over that don't it rob rob has to keep it all not course he can do things like. ministers. when it comes to matters of great

importance to the state like a national security will then the principle of cap and its collective responsibility there is one decision though that might be coming down the line for dominic rob if he stays in this current role for any length of time and that is whether or not said loosen the u.k.'s restrictive measures the review period is coming up perhaps next week and it's all it's should be that the. measures are actually dictated by what the numbers are so what are the latest numbers. well the latest numbers 786 people died in british hospitals that takes us up the 24 hour period taking us up to 5 pm local time yesterday now that is a very bad number i think that's the number that the u.k.'s had over

a 24 hour period so far in this crisis. you know what that shows is that perhaps although the dissonance is saying that the number of new admissions starting to tail off if you had an admissions to hospital. lag between admissions to hospital death means that we're still seeing a. fairly steep increase in the number of deaths day and that might continue. sometimes they come in the press conference the. dominant rob gave a couple of hours ago he was joined by that the government's chief scientists and they were saying that because of this lag because we're only just seeing just saw and to see that the tail off in numbers of you admissions will still see an increase in deaths i think for perhaps another 2 weeks to come so the situation is going to get worse before it gets better all right all right talents live in london

or thank you very much. for the rest of europe now where spain also saw spike in the number of crown of virus infections paul brennan has wore. the arrow points down but the sign just caution after 5 consecutive days of fewer and fewer new deaths spain source sharp increase in coronavirus fatalities on tuesday. and the last the rise was attributed to weekend deaths only now being recorded and that overall the trend remains downward spanish firefighters are playing a vital role in support of the medical professionals fire crew volunteers are decontaminating ambulances and other public authority vehicles which have been carrying coronavirus patients the most important of this thirst for the most important thing we can do is give our best to the situation there are many different groups working and the most important are the public health workers who are moving mountains we must give all we have because we're going to win but we are going to be. the pandemic continues to challenge european democracy and poland's

right wing government is pressing on with presidential elections next month despite a chorus of public and political opposition the plan still needs senate approval but there were bitter exchanges in the lower chamber yes me political thicket i'm ashamed that i'm sharing the parliament floor with people like this people who are insensitive to those who are begging for help today mothers fathers entrepreneurs workers who are losing yet another day just for the sake of how down to power coronavirus has generated new respect and affection for the medical staff on the frontline of the outbreak and on choose day well health day as designated by the w.h.o. its director general urged more recruitment to address staff shortages one of the lessons i hope the world learned from quoted 19 is that we must invest in nurses and midwives. without them the world would indeed be in a very dark place right now paul brennan al-jazeera. epicenter of the us outbreak

new york state has announced some really bad numbers another 731 people have died there it's going to kristen salumi who joins us now from new york a kristen's you were listening in as the governor gave his as regular briefing what else did he say well it's not just new york actually it's new jersey as well both states have now seen their same ghosts single day death toll new york being the 731 new jersey being 229 that's now the state that comes in 2nd to new york terms of the most cases so some some big numbers there are a glimmer of hope and hospitalizations in new york while they continue to rise are showing some signs of leveling off the governor said that that indicates the spread may be slowing but the numbers again are just staggering and new york city now of

the fatalities have surpassed those of the attacks of september 11th in 2001 and that tactically 20 years ago that seminal event killed nearly 3000 people the vast majority of them new yorkers now in new york city there have been more than 3250 tallaght ease here's more from what the governor had to say that is the largest single gay increase. we talk about numbers. but that 731 people who we lost behind every one of those numbers is an individual it's a family the mothers and fathers the sisters a brother so a lot of p. . again today for many new yorkers and there are no thoughts and prayers. and while there may be signed that the rate of infection is slowing the governor

said that it's more important than ever to enforce social distancing measures there has been a new test approved in new york state for the corona virus that could help in terms of getting people back out and about sooner but the test now has to be mass produced that needs to ramp up in order to have enough of them to test and not for people to know that enough people have recovered from this disease that can now go back to work until we have more information along those lines the governor says the stay at home waters are still very much in effect ok kirsten salumi with the latest from new york thank you kristen a memo is surfaced showing a senior white house advisor warn the trumpet ministration about the severity of the coronavirus memo outlining how much it will cost the u.s. economy and how it hit millions of american lives at risk is get out our can really

help us in washington d.c. can really there's been extensive reporting in the u.s. about when the troponin astray ch'ien knew and what they knew about the dangers of the krona virus in spite of the fact that publicly the president kept saying that this was not a big deal it was like the flu there's been reports that the intelligence community tried to tell him that is health and human services secretary tried to tell him and now there's a report that somebody else in the administration was trying to raise a red flag. yes somebody from the president's inner circle peter navarro he is the trade advisor top trade advisor to the u.s. president apparently sent not one but 2 different memos to the u.s. president one in late january the other in february an essential he was warning that it was a 2 pronged affect on the united states public health and economics saying that in the 1st memo there could be as many as a half a 1000000 u.s. lives lost he later upgraded that to $2000000.00 lives also saying that the cost to

the economy somewhere in the neighborhood of $6.00 trillion dollars now we should point out that he also asked for there should be a travel ban on china something that was later implemented and also said that there needed to be significant funds from the u.s. congress something we just got in the last couple of weeks so shows you the lag time there now in the midst of all this is we talk about that big rescue package that came from congress that 2 trillion dollar coronavirus package we're now learning that the u.s. president has in fact removed the person that was required to oversee it something that democrats demanded as both sides worked on this legislation is put in place. the specter general from the e.p.a. or the environmental protection agency but many people are raising eyebrows about this move particularly the fact that when there is a need for stability in the midst of crisis that the president has essentially up ended the body that was designed to help bring about stability at least when it comes to sort of disseminating these funds so. the president has of course been

tweeting and he seems to really be trying to point the finger at various other organizations for how the u.s. has handled this because there will continue to be questions about how the u.s. has handled this now he's been he's blaming the world health organization what did he say can really. yeah let's take a look at the tweet together the president's writing the w.h.o. or world health organization really blew it for some reason funded largely by the knighted states yet very china centric we will be giving that a good look fortunately i rejected their advice on keeping our borders open to china early on why did they give us such a faulty recommendation question is why is the president now blaming the world health organization well it's because things are going wrong and we're starting to get an additional sort of glimpse of it not just that memo we were talking about but the fact of the numbers continue to rise here in the united states in terms of

infections where 3 178000 plus the deaths of almost $12000.00 as the week is expose expected to get even worse so the president often looks for a scapegoat when he is looking for someone to blame in terms of the response this time is the world health organization but i can tell you this is yet another point of kind of difference between the president and his top public health advisors in fact virus task force briefing recently dr anthony found she one of the top public health officials defended the world health organization specifically the director general calling him an outstanding person who when it comes to chronic virus response has been all over this so again this is the president looking to blame but not necessarily getting back that from some of the public health officials who might officials who might know the most about this and the response ok can really help with the rap but there are a lot kimberly thank you. japan's prime minister shinzo abbay has declared

a state of emergency after a surge of infections in major cities as set to last a month and allow governors to call on people to stay home and for businesses to close i asked the corps has more from tokyo. many here believed japan had been spared the worst of the pandemic but an alarming rise in the number of new infections has prompted prime minister shinzo to declare a state of emergency the officer kerrick if we can reduce social contact between people by at least 70 percent or possibly by 80 percent we can ensure the virus peaks and 2 weeks and that number will decrease the emergency measures will be in foreseen tokyo osaka and 5 other prefectures but will rely on people of zircon them voluntarily residents can be requested to stay home except for essential tasks schools can be closed and public gatherings spanned land and buildings can be requisitioned for emergency hospitals along with food and medicine but some are

concerned it might not be enough. i think it's a bit late because other countries issued the state of emergency at a much earlier stage more i think japan should take tougher measures like other countries. japanese companies are suffering this time of year would normally be busy for this tour bus firm but business is down by 90 percent with only 2 of its fleet of vehicles on the road. we're asking employees to take pay cuts and early retirement so we can survive and see better days but to do that we need to government to help us. in addition to these emergency measures the japanese government has also announced a stimulus package of nearly a trillion dollars to help the economy survive that's double the amount the country spent on tackling the 2008 financial crisis already hurt by the postponement of the summer olympics the economy needs help quickly we have one negative impact after

the other so what is coming now is a huge fiscal package of 20 percent of g.d.p. this is totally unprecedented and comes much faster than before the government is appealing for all japanese to support its measures so that we after other cities effectively close down still bustling tokyo may finally join them i ask al-jazeera tokyo. that hands america's drastically change the global economy but some industries are thriving right now people of course are flocking to facebook instagram netflix and others while online grocers and amazon are hiring staff to meet the huge demand drug makers as well are busy trying to find treatments and stocks are up in british american tobacco and philip morris as they investigate tobacco based vaccines but the auto industry is likely to lose another $100000000000.00 in revenue factories are closed across north america europe and

asia and the trillion dollar global tourism sector which. boys 3 have a 1000000 people is in trouble airlines alone could lose more than 250000000000 dollars this year atika crane is it international economist at marco he joins us from london we appreciate your time so much so let's start with the industries that same to be thriving right now obviously on instagram netflix online grocers etc when this is all over well how will they be doing is this a moment or how do you see them. what's the pandemic what's the work our way through the pandemic. i would think about this earlier on today i think to some extent it's a moment because once we get out of the period of lockdown i think we're going to actually embrace spring and to go to the shops properly. but while we can say these things various industries such as amazon or supermarkets all

one having a bit of a boom time to the real problem is when it comes to employment is just the the the the modus boosts that they're bringing is just a drop in the ocean when we compare it to the jobs lost so in the u.k. even by the end of last week we've seen universal credit unemployment claims rise by a 1000000 obviously we saw the u.s. initial unemployment claims rise by 10000000 in the space of 2 weeks and that actually probably understates the program so. they have a short term boost in and even for the likes of facebook and google. the main source of their revenues is advertising because one of the biggest things we're seeing at the moment is the slashing about the ties in budgets so they may be getting more usage but the value of the clicks that they gets severely diminished for example w.p. pay the world's largest advertising company right over the weekend something like

17 percent of their revenues are directly related to water manufacturers so the advertising well who's buying a car in a moment who's going to be buying a car for some time i mean this is the real profound issues going on the i think. sort of ross the overshadow one of their description the the short term boost to a very small minority of businesses so some industries obviously are going to be getting i don't know if a bailout is the right word but you know perhaps something to at least help sustain them i mean particularly in the u.s. there's going to be money for various industries airlines and cetera will those types of injections of money make a difference well what they do is they start this stopping business is going bust at the moment so my my my my term at the moment is what we're seeing from governments as a whole around the world is not so much economic stimulus even though the sums are

absolutely vast is economic tree are they are affecting reacting like the dog in the room and they're just keeping these businesses going because they don't want to collapse and not be able to come back when we eventually to see america see a recovery what is our coverage look like i mean is is is everything just going to contract and i i know i know that's a question that is i do understand because we really don't know what it is going to look like if. that's really the $64000.00 question i mean the problem is. if you look at the example of china for example where we've seen a degree of recovery what we're also seeing is a needed recovery that yes the big state companies are coming back and they say. i use that to live they say that they're operating at sort of 90 to 95 percent but the s. and reads the small medium and surprises which pretty much are the lifeblood of

most economies are probably only running about 80 percent now more broadly what we're going to see when we look at the scotchman's for example austria is talking about easing is long term it's going to be a very gradual stage. probably allow things like construction to start going manufacturing but that's going to be indicted in a very controlled environment of lots of p.p.a. a social distance saying you're not going to be producing the same amount of work beforehand. we might see shops so knowing but then you you think about leisure and hospitality and it's a major as you mentioned earlier on an 8 trillion dollar industry that's was 9 percent of global g.d.p. a huge industry in the us for example out of 352000000 of non for non-farm payrolls that we saw in february 17 1000000 of those workers was in were in

hospitality in leisure. it's got it it's now and it's not dissimilar in countries like the u.k. and then you think about countries like spain where tourism is least 15 percent of global of their g.d.p. . people are really traveling through we are time travel restrictions are going to any place we may end up with like a global road there's lots of talk about global possible possible for health the e.u. are you clear what could become a globally show is going to be a very very slow. recovery unfortunately and indeed and patrick pickering thank you so much for your expertise on this paper a shadow joining us from london thank you for having me. and there are still much more to come the un and aid agencies warn of the invisible facts of the pandemic and long downs on women's lives world. also australia's high school board overturned sexual assault in the kitchen or the vatican's former treasurer.

and there are plenty of warm sunshine in place across central and southern areas of the arabian peninsula the town which has been steadily on the rise meanwhile the little bit is all about this cloud with yet more rain pushing its way wednesday across many central role than areas of iran heavy at times a lot of moisture being fed in from the caspian sea but also notice really pushing further east and north into afghanistan and up into tajikistan as well but more showers impacting much of a sudden. really of turkey as we go through wednesday by thursday that had been little bit lighter but really exciting for the tools that again little bit cool but not to about 16 degrees so temperatures again beginning to improve and the messiah cross the arabian peninsula very nice 34 in doha the same across so it will rain to

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this is al jazeera let's recap our top stories for you now france has become only the 4th country to register more than 10000 deaths in the coronavirus pandemic its health ministry says its latest fatality count is 1417. minister boris johnson is in intensive care after us cried a virus sometimes or so and he was moved as a precaution in case a ventilator was needed foreign secretary dominic radice leading the government and new york's announced a new high and it's a talented count 731 governor says there is more evidence that the outbreak is peaking there. and let america brazil remains the pandemic epicenter but ecuador is also in an increasingly bad way hospitals and mortuaries are over well let's get more now from mentor rob lowe joins us now from mexico city so what is the situation in latin america. well the images out of ecuador over the past few days

certainly have been heart wrenching many families having to keep bodies of their loved ones in their homes ecuador certainly is the hardest hit country in latin america city officials there are now handing out coffins made out of cardboard to meet the demand from the population now most of these cases of the confirmed cases of corona virus have been isolated or concentrated in the city of jackie but latin america as a whole as of this week has surpassed 30000 cases there are concerns from human rights organizations obviously over the most vulnerable populations calling on governments not to forget the international obligation to guarantee the rights of people that are seeking asylum and guarantee the rights of people who are seeking humanitarian assistance we can see that with the case of venezuela upwards of 4900000 people who have fled the country within the context of the economic crisis there over the past 7 years here in mexico there is concerns over migrant detention

centers migrant shelters as they could be ticking time bombs for contagion and human rights organizations are warning that governments could be using cope at 19 as a pretext to discriminate against migrants and impose anti immigration measures take a look. closed this is the view many motorists see when arriving at the us mexico border last month the 2 nations agreed to restrict all non-essential border crossings an effort to mitigate 900 contagion under the new emergency coronavirus measures the u.s. also announced that strict new immigration policies would be imposed every week our border agents encounter thousands of unscreened unvetted in honor of the race entries from dozens of countries and we've had this problem for decades for decades you know the story but now it's. the financial emergencies and all of the other things that we've declared we can actually do something about it we're taking

a very strong hold of that and we have before but this is now at a level that nobody's ever approached. taking a very strong hold has meant the closure of immigration courts and the suspension of hearings for migrants into silence seekers most of whom come from countries like . and hunter s. illinois people by feel good on that but it's a big concern for all of those who are waiting for a court hearing it was meant to have a hearing on the 30th because of corona virus that has been postponed all over cases here everyone's it's very important. but there are now thousands of people like who are in limbo with no idea how long they'll be forced to wait in mexico's might when shelters and detention centers under the new emergency measures u.s. authorities are conducting fast track deportations and in forcing policies that have faced strong criticism in the past this amnesty international's says the kopechne 1000 pandemic should not be used as an excuse to waive any country's

international obligations to human rights. well done it is this is relevant to understand. that condemn me is not the result of my breasts and i think that these 6 through me were done precisely because goldman sachs robbed the world economically lacking a very very. i mean the i marry you know the u.s. cattle that are just starting to use the narrative about migration about refugees is stigmatized seen the split you lay shouldn't assume they were you know who's to blame about these this sunday and. since 2019 some 60000 non mexican migrants many of them asylum seekers have been denied entry into the united states under a controversial program known as remain in mexico often left with no choice but to stay at shelters with new tory unsanitary conditions. and at a time when health officials are calling for a foreign team and self isolation as the best defense against contagion mexico's migrant centers are becoming even more crowded. and mexico city

for the 1st time china has reported no new depths from covert 19 and the past 24 hours they are reporting only 32 new cases have been confirmed all from people who returned from overseas china is now reporting some of the lowest figures in the world but the accuracy of china's figures that has been questioned by many analysts dozens of doctors in pakistan have been arrested while protesting the lack of safety equipment. was. placed in the cap and the city rather a quiet had detained at least 15 medical staff and released them later tuesday pakistan's military now says it send in more personal protective equipment to the doctors who have been asking for it demonstrators say they're getting in fact that while treating patients because of this equipment shortage. while thousands of afghans living in pakistan are straining holme across the border.

even close as part of an effort to stem the spread of the virus that the pakistani government has reopened it for a few days after a request from afghanistan afghan government has set up a quarantine center close to the crossing but that's causing concerns among local residents the hiders and islamic bob with more on the border situation. you have to understand buggiest on had the largest border as of honest on over 2 dollars and 500 kilometer but there are only 2 major border crossings wanted the store come through the khyber bought for drugs in the khyber brooklyn while province and the other one is in charm one which connects the gun to hot days in the southwestern province of baluchistan so these cauldrons of all the guns or 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 8th and 18th of march about almost 2 taller than of

brandreth turned back to us were honest on after that there was a log down progress on board the rest in bordeaux and that you mentioned their scheduled equates game from up run it's on the open to border to endow doors of grandeur stuck inside buckets on because of the logs to be able to get done by good would be important could be how did all manage because budgets on it's not allowing the budgets on easter didn't you are still enough one it's on to come back yet though indeed a complicated issue but progress on doing this at the request of the oven government. has been reporting even higher numbers in recent days that's about 160 infections confirm so far that hospitals are already having to turn people with symptoms away 3 has more from the capital dhaka. in a country with a population of more than 160000000 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 on most of them died last week after he was denied treatment at 6 different hospitals in the capital diverted freedom fighter of the war of independence in bangladesh was a brain haemorrhage patient suffering from mine in the morning look to me about it his only daughter says the health care system is failing to serve the people to vulnerable receive enough to do even after admitting him they later discharge 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 hard karuna isolation units why didn't they admit or treat him bangladesh's health minister has issued a warning to health care professionals issue one up with well. 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 offered though see her sister in law died recently because of what she calls medical negligence. my sister in law was diagnosed with gastrointestinal disease at a city hospital including the she had a successful surgery they 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 expect that the high number of patients during the summer ward is them because many of their symptoms will probably be similar to the coroner virus but many hospitals in the city remain close and if this thread made any patients recently leaked un memo warned that bangladesh is facing up to 2000000 deaths from their pandemic if immediate and appropriate steps are taken down the

children al-jazeera dhaka bangladesh protesters in ivory coast commercial capital have torn down across the r.'s testing facility that was under construction and the residents in the district john say they were afraid it would spread the virus through their district police fire tear gas to break up that demonstration the city has been under lockdown since the state of emergency was declared a march 23rd. so move on to some other news right now hospital libya's capital has been attacked by forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar are several projectiles at the ground said the hospital in tripoli during a day of heavy fighting between have tars forces and allies have the un to recognize government the u.n. has repeatedly call for a cease fire to allow the already to respond to the challenges posed by the pandemic libya has 19 confirmed cases so far the afghan taliban says several

parties are trying to thwart its peace deal with the united states it was signed into law and february but the armed group says a prisoner exchange agreed to by washington hasn't happened yet the taliban also accuse the afghan government of trying to undermine the deal by delaying talks in order to stay in power there 3 minutes meant to pave the way for the withdrawal of foreign troops and america's longest running war. the vatican has welcomed the decision by australia's high court to overturn a senior catholic cardinals conviction for child sex abuse churchill was jail last year for abusing 2 choir boys many of these victims say they are devastated at the decision to release him but the vatican says he waited for the truth to be ascertained reports from sydney. after one year behind cardinal george pell leaves big tory is ball in prison on to touch security bought a free man is truly his highest court ordered his release after overturning his

convictions for abusing 2 quiet boys in the late ninety's his lengthy criminal case has been one of the moist high profile in australia's history and deeply divided the public polls support his side justice has finally been served but many abuse victims say they feel devastated by the room. and any herbs are. on. the high court agreed with lawyers saying the jury and big tories court of appeal should have entertained doubt as to his guilt the 7 justices were unanimous in their rulings saying not enough white was given to the evidence of alibi witnesses that they wouldn't have been enough time for george pell to sexually abuse the 2 boys in the short time frame the prosecution said it took place george pell

released a statement saying i do not want my acquittal to add to the hurt and bitterness so many feel however much trial was not iraq on the catholic church has consistently maintained his innocence has released now clears the way for unpublished findings from his trial as royal commission into institutional child sex abuse to be made public pell gave evidence to the commission that his findings concerning peleg christian dyer's and that now this has prices right schools that his findings will be released. in the pale what remains a cardinal and his acquittal has vindicated the pope's decision not to strip him of his clothes. cottle's but often so much negative publicity many are questioning whether he 10 continue to hold that position or any other within the vatican the

response of the catholic church to child sexual abuse ever rule has been. sluggish and best an appalling you know at worst and it's time really for the of the catholic church to not just use the trading words protections show it's changed the high court ruling marks the end of a 5 year legal saga but the controversy is likely to continue for some time nicholas cage al jazeera sydney. michael walsh his papacy historian editor at the oxford dictionary of popes he is and london thank you very much for your time and michael 1st just your or destroy reaction to this. man this case 1st came to court market figures 917 a pretty 17 sorry it was it struck me as very peculiar i didn't think to didn't see how the evidence could add up it's taken an awful long time for the judges to come to the same conclusion that's my chief reaction to it so what do you think

the pope the vatican should do now. nothing basically i mean he's done of this say he did hold a high position in the vatican he was a vatican treasurer but he's past his retirement age. so he doubt very much whether he'll have a return to rome except perhaps as a tourist what that he can go ahead. no i said the best you can as appointed somebody else the sort of office that he had the whole structure of the vatican has changed a bit by bit under pope francis so there's no room for him as it were anyway but he is a very controversial figure i mean he's certainly not one of my favorite people but i have that if you drink wine said because he's very very conservative isn't i've always suspected but i really don't have a particular evidence about this but i always saw the when he came to his came to

rome in 2014 to take up this post he was actually be booted up says the vatican wanted him out of sydney so what confidential. but what about victims i mean is there will some that the rule some though obviously say he was an innocent man this is exactly what should have happened there are victims that are going to feel that way and and other other people are saying that the church still has so much more to do anyway. well i think that if the people of near the victims feel that those they alleged victims fans that they have been sufficiently taken notice of in the media in the legal case in the criminal case then they could take up the civil cases against him in that instance of course the burden of proof in english on that australian law is less strict and in civil cases than in in criminal ones but judges were very clear after all he was 7 to nail that. that he

was. the case against it wasn't proven what still has so aside from george pell what else can and should the catholic church and australia be doing to to to hear and listen to victims. well i'd to be honest i don't know a great deal of catholic church in australia but i'm into. the vatican has issued rules for the treatment of these things these are these cases for throughout the world not everybody is conforming to them they have very much lighting mission them american ones but they briefing from the vatican is certainly unequivocal if anybody feels that they have been abused by a priest they should or that another member of a religious organization brother or a nun or whatever. then that i feel have been abused they should deport her to the

police. they have the church has made it clear this is a criminal offense that's a change of the power of the press better by the way as a and previously it's been. rather swept under the carpet and not treated as a as a criminal offense in the legal system just one that offense against state as the church lost if i say your honesty and your expertise. not at all. coming up in just a moment what's app says it's getting the message about limiting pandemic misinformation.

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what's out says it's putting new limits on viral messages in the hopes of curbing pandemic misinformation starting on tuesday a message has been forwarded more than 5 times users will only be able to send it to one recipient at a time let's app's as it has seen a significant increase in forwarded messages sense the start of the pandemic. and misinformation and outright denial are emerging is a big problem and sudan morgan has more from the capital khartoum this market in battery how tomb is known for its vegetables and fruits it's where most people who live in the northern part of sudan's capital come to shop but groceries are in the only thing that are in high demand in this market and many of those these days. i use a face mask but i've also tried to casey is seeds and sandal wood i've seen on facebook that it works against corona virus so i tried it. i've heard from some media

outlets that ginger works for immunity so i use it and we've been told by a grandparent since you were young that cassie is also good so i burn it as incense to avoid getting coronavirus seats are just one of many ideas being touted as a means to prevent coronavirus traders in the markets have been promoting them along with some fruits as remedies their source of profit in a country where inflation is above 70 percent and the currencies value seems to drop every day. i'm assuming that prior to corona virus people don't really care about some herb's we used to sell acacia seeds for about 10 to 20 pounds but now they've started buying more acacia black seeds more system meanwhile we've even increase the prices of those things because they're now in high demand but it's not only the economy that's being affected myths about how to prevent corona virus infections were circulating in sudan even before the 1st case was amounts and many people continue to repeat what they hear despite the lack of scientific proof it's

presenting a challenge to both fighting to contain the virus people are less likely to listen to their advice because some believe they're immune to the disease and it's not only meth putting lives in danger the former ruling party is among several political parties that have accused the government of using the pandemic today bred people's attention from the economic crisis it's the flood warnings against gatherings to organize a protest accusing the government of making a big systems of the virus in sudan and this sparked anger when he made a similar claim urging people to break curfew imposed by the government. this is nonsense telling us to stand a distance all of their advices are against islam and this government is anti islam and they want to distract us with a disease that is not in this country. the country of 40000000 has about 200 intensive care beds and less than 100 ventilators and the government has previously admitted that its health infrastructure will not be able to cope with the disease if it spreads its issuing warnings to those denying the virus is present and.

there's been a lot of incorrect information about the current virus going around without reliable sources media outlets can have people doubting the existence of the virus this is not an issue the government can risk allowing to spread their lives at stake and we can take steps against spreading false information even media outlets but with no cure and no means to get healthcare should be false fake many people are listening to meth and that seems a reflection of the desperation and fear people here have morgan all just their own . group of doctors campaigning for human rights and zimbabwe is taking the government to court over what it says are dangerous working conditions the group says it will try to force the government to provide protective equipment to nurses doctors and other medics also a place officers and bus drivers to have protective gear and the un is sounding an alarm about the impact the coronavirus anthemic is having on reproductive and sexual health services for women there's worry too about the health impacts born

babies to reports have a box of these final gloves julia malke is 16 weeks pregnant and working from home . she's expecting her child in september and keeping a 500 diary often life on drop down she says she's trying to take enough precaution to protect herself from 19 but she's worried i am concerned about how it would affect me. being cranky. and i am also concerned about how it's going to. impact. the birthing process and also can you working. as hospitals around the world struggle to cope. the rising number of patients many women are worried about giving birth at a time of a global pandemic in chile are we going in chile where we're out of or are saying our family member you are those that are. but then on top of that.

delivering in a place that i don't know. with someone i don't know the world health organization says pregnant women with symptoms should be privatized for testing while there is no evidence yet of transmission to the fetus new mothers who have symptoms are being urged to take precautions they should cover their mouth so remember they are infectious they can and they could put the droplets under the baby so we don't think that transferred through the breast milk but you could transfer it through the normal way that everybody else is transferring it through the nose in the mail so where a mosque at all times when you're dealing with a baby and again be. the rigid about washing your hands 80 chintzy say the pandemic and the downs may destruct access to life saving sexual act reproductive health services for millions of women worldwide especially those

in poor nations but adamic has impacts on multiple levels particularly when it comes to access to family planning and safe abortion care. when women don't have access to these services we see big rises in unplanned pregnancies as well as unsafe abortions so we can expect to see devastating consequences for women and girls around the world because of the lack of access to reproductive health care services although severely restricted life hasn't stopped because of this pandemic but it seems to have made things more difficult for women's health and their well being. thank you for joining me here and doha for this news hour we're going to hand it over now to london my colleague barbara sara will pick it up on the other side of the break. the

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similarities of cultures across the sun no matter when you go home will be in the news and current affairs that matter to you when diplomacy fails and fears we defend our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven the barriers are built to impose division which will to sixty's instead of being an obstacle or tornado wastes into became another obstacle to peace in a 4 part series al-jazeera revisits the reasons for divisions in different parts of the world and the impact they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. there are people in the world who want all forms of verification to just go away so we need people fighting against that really either trying to see if it's a fake video may be in syria but in a different time they risk a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global play as we've been told to 5 cyber attacks from russia they're all dangerous

and through this conflict kept. troops in a post truth world are now just 0. boris johnson begins his 2nd evening in intensive care but his foreign secretary says the prime minister is a fighter and will pull through. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on the program in the u.k. france and spain new figures show a dramatic rise in the coronavirus this toll in the u.s. president trying focuses on a new target blaming the.