review 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 targeted by cyber attacks from russia they're all dangerous to do this kind of reading. truth and approach truth weren't 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. hello i'm 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 extent of the pandemic on the world health organization and leaving china's who by province after more than 2 months only to face quarantine in beijing. hello welcome to the program the u.k. prime minister boris johnson will spend a 2nd night in intensive care as he battles covert 19 foreign secretary dominic robb who has stepped in to lead government has confirmed that johnson is stable and has been given oxygen but is not on a ventilator in the us a medal has surfaced showing that a senior white house advisor warned that senior officials in the trump administration about the coronavirus as back as january france as become the 4th country to surpass 10000 corn a virus from

a to deaths with 3000 people there have died in care homes since the start of the outbreak and the u.k. and the state of new york in the u.s. have also both recorded their highest number of deaths in one day 731 people died in new york while the u.k. has registered 786 that's and it's from the u.k. that means barker begins our coverage. this is where the most powerful man in britain is on the close observation downing street say the prime minister who is 55 is stable and a good spirits he is conscious and does not have pneumonia he's been given oxygen but hasn't been put on a ventilator as one nearby if needed. the foreign secretary dominic robb will stand in for jobs when necessary leading the government's daily coronavirus cabinet meeting and a briefing in downing street he's an experienced politician but he's had little time to prepare 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 our boss he's also a colleague and he's also our friend so all of our thoughts and prayers are with the prime minister at this time with carry on 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. this was johnson a week after being diagnosed applauding health workers for their efforts he's shown persistent symptoms for 2 weeks. soon after arriving at a hospital he 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 his

symptoms worsened on monday evening there was clearly much more cause for concern. messages of support have been flooding in for the prime minister across britain's political spectrum including the newly elected leader of the labor party we will support the government where we can do that but we will challenge the what is necessary but the purpose of the challenge is to make sure that all mistakes they can be put right or things need to happen more quickly that can happen more quickly world leaders have sent messages of support on twitter with the italian and french presidents hoping for a speedy recovery speaking from the white house total trumps describe johnson as a good friend i found boris to be a fantastic person just like a fantastic warm strong smart guy he loves his country to see that i mean a ford like like hell for his country. and intensive care is big stuff. this

is a challenging time for johnson's family is fiance kerry simmons is recovering from the virus herself she's pregnant with their 1st child they haven't been able to see each other for several weeks. johnson's personal battle with the virus has shaken the government and the country just as scientists say britain is entering one of the most deadly weeks of the pandemic neave barca al-jazeera. france now has the 4th highest current virus test hole in the world the government has confirmed more than 10300 people have died while the 1400 deaths were announced on tuesday alone paul brennan takes a look at how france and other european countries are coping. 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. nonetheless 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 month and we must give all we have because we're going to win we are going to beat the s. and the french capital paris city authorities are now banned outdoor exercise between the hours of 10 am and 7 pm amid concern that too many people were just using it as an excuse to go outside police are stepping up in force once. we have unmarked cars that are less noticeable but also marketplace vehicles because we're trying to mobilize as many officers as possible in the capital hirshman i think

frankly it's starting to feel long i think it's starting to really weigh down on people mentally apart from that well we know we don't have any choice this is what must be done we ask ourselves why these measures weren't taken earlier 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 we pulled it i'm ashamed that i'm sharing the 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 done to power coronavirus. generated new respect and affection for the medical staff on the frontline of the outbreak and on tuesday world 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 brennan al-jazeera. let's go to the u.s. now where the president has criticized the world health organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic trump says the agency is china centric and issued bad advice the outset of the pandemic meanwhile a leaked memo reveals new details about warnings that trump administration received on how and on how bad the outbreak in the u.s. could be well our white house correspondent kimberly halkett joins us live now from washington kimberly let's start with the memo now from one of trump's top aides actually what can you tell us is in and crucially when was it sent. well what makes the significant is the point you just made the fact that this is

from someone really essentially in the president's inner circle peter navarro is one of his trusted advisors on the issues of trade and what we know about these memos is there were not one but 2 the 1st one sent in january the 2nd one sent in february and they issued dire warnings to the president that many are wondering why they weren't acted on more quickly the 1st was a warning in late january that corona virus could kill up to half a 1000000 americans could cost the u.s. economy some $6.00 trillion dollars he later upgraded that concern in terms of the number of american deaths to 2000000 lives potentially so the question becomes now why the president did not act sooner. we do know that he did put in a in january early february a travel ban on the on some travelers from china but it really wasn't kind of the sort of draconian measures that we now have in place in the united states so

a lot of scrutiny on the trumpet ministration with regard to that and also a move by the u.s. president coming in the last few hours you remember that very expansive 2 trillion dollar rescue package that came out of the u.s. congress in just the last couple of weeks of coronavirus that provided not only support for americans but also for crucial needed crucially needed equipment well now we know that the person that was overseeing that something that democrats demanded is that package was put together on capitol hill will the president's remove that person instead of places put in one of the inspector general from the environmental protection agency so this is essentially barbour this was a body put in place to provide stability in a time of crisis many people scratching their heads why the president would now be ending that and really introducing chaos at a time when the country is seeking stupid. and not just the country seeking

stability of course the world really is right now and the president is blaming the w.h.o. the world health organization for the extent of the pandemic what exactly z. accusing the w. h. o. of and why do you think he's doing it now kimberly. well essentially he's playing the blame game and why is he doing it will this is standard donald trump protocol is he rarely excepts responsibility for any sort of mistake we have a rise a spike in deficit here in the united states from corner virus the number of cases continues to climb in the hundreds of thousands in the terms of infractions and the president's under the microscope as we pointed out with that memo now is looking for someone to blame and he's doing it in the form of blaming the world health organization take a look at this tweet the w.h.o. really blew it for some reason largely funded largely by the united states yet very china centric will be giving that a good look fortunately i rejected their advice i keep ing our borders open to

china early on why did they give us such a faulty recommendation and just a little bit of fact checking there from al-jazeera the top producers in london we should point out that in fact the united states is not the biggest donor of the world health organization it is the largest single donor but contributes just 15 percent of the budget look at why is the president doing this again looking for a scapegoat looking for someone to blame we should point out though when it comes to the world health organization this is yet another point of difference between donald trump and his top public health officials in fact dr anthony fauci one of the top officials on the former virus taskforce was recently asked about the director general of the world health organization he called him an outstanding person who when it comes to coronavirus in contrast to what donald trump is saying there dr anthony found she says that the director general of the world health organization has been all over this and really how care with the latest on all

those developments from washington d.c. thank you. speaking of china is actually some positive news coming from because of the 1st time it has reported no new deaths from covert 19 and in the past 24 hours only 32 new cases have been confirmed all from people who returned from overseas china is now reporting some of the lowest figures worldwide. as many around the world remain on lockdown though china is also gradually getting back to normal life al-jazeera cameraman that paying paying was among millions of people trapped in who by a province where the virus was discovered between a u. has his story. a final call for the train to beijing for these hundreds of passengers a celebratory visit developed lives and 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 feel i'm on those boarding this government organized bullet train is al jazeera cameraman pumping. is 70 since i was traveling. finally today we're going to take your brothers ready to go back to. each passenger has had to apply for that ticket good health a prerequisite fill 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 for others 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 that would cause hov off 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 stickers the city's skyscrapers can be seen from a chartered bus window but the journey isn't over yet one last stop at a makeshift health check hub for being escorted home for another 2 weeks of cornton katrina you al-jazeera beijing. still to come from acacia seeds to fruit and ginger the myths people are putting their faith in for protection from the coronavirus.

we've got plenty of warm spring sunshine across a good parts of europe now still lies showers plaguing parts of spain and portugal and down towards the southeast as well so we've got some showers still in place just around greece but they're in the process of moving away the grassy pushing ivory into turkey still a positive in particular because still see want to shop showers as we go on through the next couple days of the central part of the sunshine here 21 celsius there in pearl and we can have 222024 in paris and rising could even get up to 25 as we go on through thursday a chance of want to rock showers but essentially it is lossy fine and dry those showers will continue on the side of the mediterranean though just around sign for southern parts of turkey we'll see some question whether we'll say gradually making its way back in across the portugal i also into spain as we go on through the next day or 2 dozen we will see a little more cloud just coming into the northwest of africa much of northern

africa generally fine and dry the strong winds that we've had recently around more than possibly b.n. northern areas of egypt they're in the process of easing off temperatures in current at around $24.00 celsius they have surround 21 there are a bat says i said there is a chance of want to see showers just creeping in just around the straits of gibraltar there but a wet weather possibility then for northern pass rockaway. crossing borders breaking boundaries recording injustice frenching inequality from africa and asia to europe the use exile as it were in line of a street every very good for me is one country al-jazeera world meets for refugees who've come to us touched people's lives and made a difference. a hard road from home put all gryphus and activists on our ages era.

or. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the u.k. prime minister boris johnson is spending a 2nd night in intensive care as he battles kovac 1000 johnson is stable and has been given oxygen but is not on a ventilator this comes as new numbers suggest to show another 786 people in the u.k. have died from the virus france though now has the 4th highest death toll in the world from growing up iris infections police there are now enforcing a battle exercise between 10 and 7 pm u.s. president donald trump has criticized the world health organization calling it the

china centric this as a leaked memo reveals new details about warnings the u.s. government received on how bad the current virus outbreak there could be. different countries have taken very different approaches to lockdowns and social distancing some such as france spain and italy a strictly enforcing lockdowns others notably the u.s. and the u.k. have taken a slightly looser approach but can we yet say what works and what doesn't to the scots this i'm joined by stereo's a mouse hole sees an associate professor in cellular and molecular sciences and northumbria university and joins us now via skype from newcastle sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera now obviously there's all sorts of issues with all the numbers so i guess most of them are indications at best but knowing what we know about where the best toll is which countries are showing some signs of improvement what do you do use from the effect of social distancing and does it

only work when it's a lot stricter so for example spain italy and increasingly is receiving france. well the situation is each country from the appropriate medicine if you like case who are trying to stop transmission when you have a handful of cases as we saw in yearly that is in britain actually it's fairly straightforward to find who the person in the index cases recall it was because of the outbreak traced the people he said but you're scoring touch with time as them to make sure they are aren t. so that we do know how fairly continuous pressure if however you wish if to where we are right now where we have tens of thousands of cases where the confounder suspected the situation is dramatically different transmission is happening in some area community and then the question is how do we stop the transmission do we need

to stop the transmission. what can we do where do we take the hit so we got on a situation where we're talking about tens of thousands were pound was probably a january mid february who hand it was shut down stop. community or communication transmission between individuals and it worked we had today trying to see how many 'd more new cases so fast telling us that that's the way to do it i suppose perhaps it is harder to impose certain things on european democracies for example than than china so looking stain perhaps more focused on europe or cultural people are a bit more similar would you say that things like italy where they didn't pose a lockdown for about a month they tightened the lock that about 2 weeks ago and now they are finally seeing a decrease in the rate of contagion would you say that that works because actually

from wrong we're also seeing the rate of contagion not increasing exponentially in the u.k. like it could have been so what parallels do you draw there ok we have to be very careful about how we handle the numbers between countries so south korea for example they have the highest amount of testing or wants any developed nation and they have been very successful in identifying the individual star cd the infections so people mounted voting on transmission china more listed the same thing italy didn't start till it was firmly locked we then saw this reluctance to implement the book down the cultural disobedience that is coming to the south of the euro and from the. wish made to situation a lot more complicated but now that this is the title it works it's almost like a drip out of the top if you tighten the lot up the trickle so if you leave some

leaking manuf closed all of it will all be damaged as a result but so the question is where do you want to take it on the floor and on the top but in this case i think the jury is quite clearly obvious we do not want people to overcome i.c.u. we do not want people to go into hospitals so we need to stop the transmission. well it's no different to what we did this horrible you were suffering 5 years ago yeah of course a lot easier to transmit had the coronavirus i mean you mentioned on the night i can remember is a lot easier than a transmitter ola you need to contact the flutes from me at the going back to the social distancing i mean in the u.k. going out for exercise for example is still allowed and we've just seen that even france is now just started to limit it between certain hours so do you think that the u.k. should further tighten that now what is your idea of a lock down that works in case the 1st minister or whole story lois look at

a tax rate and even we're not sure the us is a community or not in the hospital being attributed accordingly to code or something else so on that note it would be cool to tighten the lot as much as possible i would support even the restriction of the exercise a lot of my wife is not listening because she most are not quantitative just for sure she'd hate me for saying this live television but unfortunately that's the reality of it we have to stop the transmission well what is going to go all who wants and that's a reality that a lot of people in southern europe for example have been living with for weeks now stereo some of us from now some very university sir thank you so much for sharing your expertise and time with us thank you you're welcome. now many people in so than are turning to traditional herb's and remedies that try to fight the virus but misinformation and the nihil of the disease even exists is making containment

a challenge so far 14 infections have been confirmed and 2 people have died the government is struggling to get citizens that take the outbreak seriously have a morgue and reports now from khartoum. this market in battery how tune 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 on the only thing that are in high demand in this market and many of these days we would say got my money i use a face mask but i've also tried it casey is seeds and sandal wood i've seen on facebook that it works against corona virus so i tried it a light 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 a cassie is also good so i burn it as incense to avoid getting coronavirus acacia 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 sesame oil 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 coronavirus infections were circulating in sudan even before the 1st case was announced 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 disease and it's not only math 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 the 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 or not. 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 they fall sick many people

are listening to meth and that seems a reflection of the desperation and fear people here have morgan all just their own heart. the messaging platform whatsapp says it's pushing new limits on viral posts trying to curb misinformation about the pandemic if a message has been forwarded more than 5 times users will only be able to send it to one recipient at a time what's up says it has seen a significant increase in forwarded messages since the start of the outbreak much of it has been fake medical advice. protesters in ivory coast's commercial capital have torn down a crew in a virus testing facility that was under construction angry residents in a district in a vision said that they were afraid it would spread the virus through their district the city has been under lockdown since a state of emergency was declared on march 23rd thousands of afghans living in pakistan have been streaming home across the border it's been

closed the spot of efforts to stop the spread of the coronavirus of the pakistani government has reopened the crossing for a few days after a request from afghanistan come on hyder is in islamabad with more on the situation at the border. you have to understand that buggiest on has the largest border with afghanistan over to 500 kilometer but there are only 2 major border crossings one is our door come through the khyber pass. in the khyber book room while province and the other one is in charm one which connects to gun the heart started in the southwestern province of baluchistan so. thousands of overruns reward wanted to go back to afghanistan in fact according to the international organization for migration which had been keeping a tab between an 18th of march about almost too tolerant of ground return back to of one it's done after that there were the log down pakistan flowed

the rest and border and as you mentioned the special requests came from of one is done to open the border to allow doors of brands who are stuck inside pakistan because of the log down to be able to return but it will be important to see how this it all managed because your standard not allowing the buggiest on effected and you are still enough one is done to come back so indeed a complicated issue but progress on doing this at the request of the oven government. i reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera the british prime minister boris johnson is spending a 2nd night in intensive care as he battles the coronavirus this comes as new numbers show another 786 people in the u.k. have died from the phylis story chalons has more now on what we know about the prime minister's condition. through tuesday the message from the u.k.

government has been pretty much exactly the same about boris johnson's health that he is stating that he is being given the best possible care he's been given but that he hasn't been put on a ventilator he doesn't have pneumonia he's in good spirits and that if the situation changes then they'll give us an update. france now has the best toll in the world from corona virus infections the government has confirmed that more than 10300 people have died police they are now enforcing a ban on exercise between 10 and 7 pm spain is also reported an uptick in deaths after 4 days of lower figures the u.s. president meanwhile has criticized the world health organization for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic fellow trump says the agency is china centric and issued bad advice at the outset of the pandemic meanwhile a leaked memo reveals new details about warnings that the trumpet ministration

received on how bad the outbreak in the u.s. could be thousands of afghans living in pakistan have been streaming home across the border it's being closed this part of efforts to stop the spread of the corona virus the afghan government has set up a quarantine center close to the border but that's causing concern among local residents and china has reported no new deaths from covert 1000 for the 1st time since the outbreak began in the past 24 hours only 32 new cases have been confirmed all from people who returned from overseas china is now reporting some of the lowest figures worldwide the government has allowed some businesses and industries to resume operations this by not having full control of the outbreak those are the top stories coming up the stream discusses social media elections and the potential threat of online online voter manipulation i'll have more news in half an hour.

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