still rewind begins with mohammad at the time with i was in the i was the global the floods here. and the other student i was very fortunate to be awarded a local scholarship rewind on al-jazeera. england records its highest daily school i can corrode a virus deaths in the last 24 hours while u.k. prime minister abbas johnson remains in intensive care. i'm convinced this is just there a live from doha also coming up. long lines and traffic jams in china as rouhani as thousands are allowed to leave the city for the 1st time in months. they called it wrong they call it war. president donald trump's latest target is the world health

organization is criticism out of his response to the coronavirus can demick. ethiopia declares a state of emergency and warns of grave legal measures against anyone who undermines the fight against the pandemic. the death toll in the u.k. continues to surge with figures just released confirming that 828 people have died in england alone in the past 24 hours from corona virus nearly 56000 people have been infected across the country among them prime minister johnson who remains in intensive care parce johnson was given supplementary oxygen cabinet ministers say he's in a stable condition and is in good spirits. joins us now live from london outside the hospital actually live archons and is being treated 1st let's talk about these

numbers rory 828 that's the death toll just in england so likely it's going to be a very bad day for the u.k. as a whole. yet if you add up the numbers that have been individually released by the english health authority by the welsh health authorities scottish northern and eccentric then the total it gets for the u.k. as a whole at the moment is $936.00 deaths now let's just put a massive have yet in there which is that these figures are likely to be undercounted but they're also likely to be slightly over what the u.k.'s department of health puts out later in the day is the aggregate number for the whole of the country just because of the way that all these numbers are counted up there's always a bit of variation and it always looks a little bit confusing. they are likely to be undercounted because we know that these are only the deaths that's taking place in hospitals and even so there are

other hospital deaths are going to be pushed into the numbers eventually over time they're going to be many more deaths happening outside of hospitals in care homes etc but swore we know i think from this is that the trajectory of the u.k.'s epidemic is still on the upwards. incline it's going up and up and up day by day with a few variations but yes this is still a situation that is getting worse and worse and worse in the u.k. on that side of things on the hospital admissions and the new cases side of things well then there's a bit more optimism there because that the chief scientists and the chief medical offices are saying that they all. i think starting to see some leveling off they've been saying that for a few days now a leveling off in the number of new hospital missions and new cases and rory do we know any more about how bars johnson is doing other than he's in good spirits.

well we basically beginning the same updates for a day and a home office now every time the spokesperson for the prime minister comes out or a government minister and talks about his health the message is pretty much identical he's stable clinically stable was the most recent way of putting it that he's been given oxygen or is being given oxygen he hasn't been put on a ventilator he hasn't got pneumonia and he's in good spirits that's the that's the scripts. and what we've been told that is i think new in the last couple of hours is that he seems to be responding to treatment now we don't know what treatment he's getting other than oxygen. so i suggest he's not get any worse thoughts were also not being given any indication that he's leaving intensive care and the time soon we have been told that he is not working and so you know we

knew that that means that dominic rob is acting as prime minister but prime minister but here we're getting i think that the 1st signs of cracks in this situation with. the decision announced by dominic robb recently to defer the review of the of the u.k.'s not which was supposed to be taking place at the beginning of next week by april 16th latest botched in the last few hours to the prime minister's spokesperson said hold a 2nd note this. review is going to be taking place as shut you so yes what mixed messages coming from the government at the moment as you might expect with boris johnson being sick in a hospital bed behind me and someone else deputising for him in the moment as i think we get some clarity i believe there is a briefing due in the next few hours from now thank you rory chalons live from london. now the 3 months after it was sealed off from the world has opened its

doors again tens of thousands of people have been allowed to leave the chinese city which was once the at the center of the corona virus outbreak but it remains on the close watch with tight help for strictures in place to avoid a 2nd wave of infections sarah clarke begins our coverage. packed and ready for departure tens of thousands of people from the city of woo han are on the move after 76 days holed up in their home was when i wasn't here when i planned to go home during the chinese new year but because of the epidemic i didn't get to do so my family asks me every day when i come home the lockdown has been gradually lifted over the last 10 days with inbound travel allowed but no departures on wednesday all major highways were reopened so too was the city's airport at least 55000 people trying to gets to travel to other parts of china. i haven't been out since

january 21st this is the 1st time i've left the house now i'm going back home to meet my parents checkpoints remain but for health scans those passages carrying a green coat on a government health are considered low risk and can travel. we will have a follow up this infection of passengers at the entrance and exit on the railway station with the temperature screening and the health code checking we are very strict 11000000 people live in the city known as a key industrial hub of china in december hospitals in we're had reported the 1st cases of the coronavirus with an increasing number of patients complaining of flu like symptoms in january the city was put in lockdown after it became clear that the flu like virus was highly contagious and potentially deadly residents were trapped so 2 workers on the eve of the chinese new year holiday break including player who he works and lives in beijing but my out of france colleagues

were actually found one day cancelled a plane ticket last minute but i didn't because i. chose you can. i still awake. no you really lucked out with everyone who hand accounts for more than 3 quarters of corona virus deaths in china or thora teaser warning of a 2nd wave of potential infections as lockdowns lifted across the country and people return to work today so we peeled the residents of our city not only with harper non-essential travel and continue to leave home as little as possible the recovery of we hand has been watched worldwide while the city attempts to return to normal the trauma could last for decades sarah clarke al-jazeera. katrina who has more now from beijing on how that regulates who comes in and goes

out of. if you live in one or the y. duhoux a province you must unload a mobile app and you must input all your details or your national id number your address your contact details and what that does it uses china's big data surveillance system to really check your whereabouts in comparison to a nerd cove in 1000 person's location and depending on that proximity you give you a card with 3 different colors a red code if you're high risk a yellow code if you're a medium risk and green if you're at low risk or you're healthy and in you can travel so let me give you an idea of what that looks like so that's the out there and that's the q why did that screen that's been generated there that makes makes it possible for you not only to travel within will hon but future also leave the city so all those people the 10s of thousands of people who have been leaving the city today they would have had to show that at that train stations at airports and indeed even if you go around the city for example you catch a taxi or you go into a restaurant you must present that code and at the restaurant or the taxi driver

will then scan that and absorb all your details and what that does is makes sure that for example next to get your found to have covert 19 there they can track your whereabouts and authorities can identify exactly who you came into contact with and pull them aside perhaps for testing or quarantine period so definitely it's high tech used to fight this epidemic but people are raising concerns especially rights groups that the chinese government is using this epidemic to overreach and really extend their control. the chinese city on the russian border is under lockdown after a surge of infections sway from high in the northwest saw 25 new cases all infected travelers crossing over from russia people have been ordered to remain at home with one person from each family allowed to leave every few days to buy necessities. the world health organization is denying president donald trump's accusations that it's

quote china centric and responding to his threat to cut funding for the u.n. organization said the acute phase of pendennis is not the right time for that trumps being blaming several people including his predecessors and the media as he faces increasing criticism over his handling of the crisis the u.s. has recorded nearly 2000 deaths in the past 24 hours alone of more on this let's bring in our white house correspondent kelly hellcat who is in washington d.c. so kimberly we are expecting to hear from the w.h.o. in the next hour they have been fairly restrained during this i guess burgeoning spat but that's not donald trump style is. no and there's no question that the u.s. president has the platform that allows him to make very vocal concerns about the world health organization that he has this is certainly a president this is looking to assign blame you have to remember he is running for

reelection he was hoping to run the odds a strong economy and win a 2nd term in the white house now that has crashed as a result of coronavirus and so he's looking to point the fingers but well he does have that very large platform he does pro or joined a growing chorus of not just republican lawmakers who have been pointing the finger at china and also at the world health organization but a growing number of global analysts government officials public health experts who are beginning to question some of the reporting in terms of the numbers that have been coming out particularly from china queues and potentially concealing the outbreak and also when it comes to civically to the world health organization questioning whether or not the declaration of public health emergency came too late so certainly the president has as he often does he will expose what many people may have been saying privately not willing to say publicly now donald trump has put it out there and we are as you point out watching carefully to see what the world

court health organization have to say in its defense given the fact the u.s. president has leveled some pretty serious accusations against it kimberly governments around the world are planning what the 2nd phase might be with this pandemic off to the apex off to the peak easing back to normal life what's the situation in the u.s. what are the plans. well we have to remember that we are at the moment still in social distancing guidelines about 98 percent of americans are affected by some restriction in one form or fashion and that goes to live out the end of april 30th but you're absolutely right right now there are already have plans for what the united states will look like after that and we're getting our 1st signs up not only from dr burke who is one of the top public health officials but now anthony found she is well who is saying that there are plans underway to try and figure out what exactly it will look like in terms of the

economy what kind of social distancing will remain in place after april 30th so those plans we understand according to dr anthony are now under way i think that kimberly holcomb the live from washington d.c. . a report just released by the un's that chemical weapons won't dog is blaming syria's government if force facade and chlorine attacks perpetrated in 2017 let's go straight to diplomatic editor james bays who's joining us live now from the united nations james tell us more what this report has to say it seems investigators have really come out with some specifics here. and it is very much a 1st this is the report released by the o.p.c. w. based in the hague that's the part of the international community that looks at chemical weapons and stopping the use of chemical weapons as you know we've had chemical weapons attacks taking place since 2030 many people including the

u.s. government and president obama blamed the syrian government and president assad for these attacks but there's been no proof at any stage that it was the assad regime and it's been a long drawn out process to try and get a proper investigation to work out who was responsible for chemical attacks this report which is looking initially at 3 incidents is very very clear the 3 incidents that took place on the 24th of march 27th in the 25th of march 27th teen and the 30 of march 27th seen as you say chlorine and sorry no tax they say they've looked at all the possibilities and they say that the degree of based on the degree of certainty on reasonable grounds they believe that the syrian government was responsible the syrian air force were flying the planes they say they believe this would have had orders from the highest level of the syrian government so this is

something very important this has been a long saga on chemical weapons in syria but for the 1st time an international body not a judicial finding but a technical finding says the syrian government did it james those images that came out at the time of these attacks that what they were horrifying and you'll remember they are the c.w. wasn't able to say who perpetrated these attacks only that they occurred so this new team is obviously able to make that to have a say who was behind it but that's quite major isn't it this this new team that able to do these investigations and come out with these reports. yeah it's been a very very long process and the o.p.c. w. was handcuffed to begin with because of its own procedures as you say they could say that a chemical attack took place they could say what sort of agent was used they couldn't say who was responsible the u.n. then decided to set up something called the joint investigation mission the gym

which was a o.p.c. w.u.n. joint mission which was going to get to the bottom of this well that jim started its work it worked for a year or got renewed for a year and then after many western diplomats will tell you we're close to the point of apportioning blame the russians blocked the extension of that jim so all its work stopped but diplomats in the hague where the o.p.c. w been based managed then to get a new team set up of the. o.p.c. w itself the investigation and identification team it has picked up the work whether stalled the gym stopped and started its work this is the 1st of the reports it's going to carry out into incidents since 2017 and as i say 3 they've examined initially and they believe the syrian government was responsible now the problem with all of this is we now basically have

a verdict but will there be any action against the syrian government the question of accountability the question of of justice for those in syria resists head again and there i think we do have a big problem because in the past the u.n. security council is trying to refer the case of syria to the international criminal court and guess what russia is a permanent member of the security council and each time it's used its veto to stop but thanks for that james bays there are diplomatic efforts to live from the united nations. still ahead here on al-jazeera the lunar phenomenon that is gracing the night sky and lifting spirits around the worlds. hello the weather man is lousy drawing now across japan there is

a cloud right pulling out of the way but we have still got this little circulation just spinning some wet weather across the far north off the cot i for a time it will gradually push its way through without so much so whether it's in all the marius of china or cloud and rain just pushing through the elysee and make its way further east with tending to peter out as it does so long as you draw them across a good part of japan but it's also one of 2 showers for a time we have got west of weather pushing into western areas of china towards the east it's going to settle and last the sunday that sunshine stretches down into the philippines but always a chance of wanted to shout particularly close eastern side of the philippines going to see some showers once again just around indochina the wettest weather for the region that's going to be across indonesia are going to see some very heavy rain pushing its way in here heavy rains here into the far south of india at the moment we've got some showers just pushing in here the becoming a little more widespread nothing of it will stumble not due to water on the pradesh maybe even pushing up towards addition to the north of that

a this generate dry and it's warming up the same temperatures getting up to around 40 celsius in that pool warm enough in new delhi with a top temperature of 34 degrees celsius on friday. join the clovelly conversation after the bubble so the people that expand their brains maybe have a different the this is a dialogue women in cambodia are in fact selling their hair we don't know how much they're getting paid for it it's hard to track it's hard to treat everyone has a voice tell us what you think and your conversation could be all right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progress they're not perfect on how does iraq. you're . or you're.

watching all just there a reminder of our top stories this hour the death toll in the u.k. continues to search with 828 people dying in england alone in the past 24 hours nearly 56000 people have been infected across the country among them prime minister abbas johnson remains in intensive care. chinese city where the corona virus outbreak began has opened its doors after the early 3 months of the long it's 11000000 residents are now able to leave but they still need an app that tracks their health and movement. and a report just released by the un's chemical weapons watchdog is blaming the syrian government air force for sarin and foreign attacks perpetrated in 2017 the attacks targeted sites and mamma including hospital. the

south african communications minister has been suspended for 2 months after she broke lockdown restrictions stella not benny i bring him so it was summoned by the president after she shared a photo of her having a meal with a colleague on social media present sarah when i'm a poser i asked her to deliver a public apology for undermining the national effort to save lives. for me to mirror joins us now on skype from johannesburg for me to how is this playing out in south africa especially given reports that police have been heavy handed in enforcing this lockdown. well it's the though the view the minister. abrahams has come under a massive amount of criticism deeply in south africa have used social media to express just how angry they are act this photograph that was put on social media by friend who's a former member of parliament showing the minister and

a few other people at the friend's home having lunch during those locked up period so the africans are saying that many people in this country have act to make huge sacrifices to settle their people who aren't earning incomes people who have lost jobs people who aren't able to see loved ones who don't live in the same space as them and at the same time you have a leader of government who is doing the exact opposite and seems to have no regard for the lockdown in place and if you look at social media following best suspension by the president of the communications minister south africans are really patting themselves on the back saying it's their voices that have pushed the president to act now so that regular is about just over a week or way from the end of his 21 day lockdown and what many people here are waiting for is some word from the president on the river not the lockdown will

continue if restrictions will stay the same place is eased and so far we've heard from the minister of health who said that until there's a clearer picture of what's happening in in highly dense areas of the country in cities and in townships he's not certain that there's a guarantee that in fact the lockdown will indeed be seen an easing of some restrictions for example informal traders are now able to get a permit to these are people who sell food on the side of the road and act small shops not big supermarkets they are allowed now to resume their business but we also know that there was. such a large amount of people who approached government offices for these permits that the office had to close because they were just too many people in that one place so everything hasn't been ironed out the government is still trying to come to grips with exactly how this is not done works it's been going quite well given that the

numbers are the inflictions has dropped to some extent there is a slow down in the number of actions but as the government just said it's still too early to say decisively if it's been successful and it was not done will come to an end in the coming week thank you for that for me to better their life from johannesburg if the obvious prime minister has declared a state of emergency to help curb the spread of the virus experts are worried outbreak could be hard to contain in a country where the health care system is already under strain ethiopia has reported around 50 confirmed cases so far and at least 2 deaths well davison is a senior ethiopia analyst at the international crisis group he says the true scale of infections across the country is unclear. not too much testing has been done but the government has steadily increased our accrediting a couple of others of our riches to do so but it's certainly not a huge amount of testing that's going on and maybe that's partly why there's not

a huge amounts of inspections that's to say there is quite a lot of uncertainty about the extent to which the corona virus may have spread so far in ethiopia but really it's a question of uncertainty we just don't know of course the african c.d.c. is hugely active in helping out where it can work with other international organizations egads the regional bloc in these parts of africa they have been donating money and collecting money to help with the cause but it is predominantly on a state by state basis and there is also that collective action from african states including african union to appeal to the international community for emergency support and things like debt relief to help african economies recover from this situation spain has announced more than 750 people have died in the past 24 als with new infections also on the rise the number of fatalities has been increasing again and recent tang's spain is one of the worst affected countries in the world

with more than 146000 confirmed cases iran is urging the international monetary fund to grant a 5000000000 dollars emergency loan request of last month to help combat the virus president hassan rouhani says as a member of the i i mean i am if the organization needs to fulfill its duty the u.s. is said to block the line saying it won't go to fighting the virus but to funding the military iran is one of the countries hardest hit by the outbreak kendis called for u.s. sanctions to be lifted. the gulf state of amman has pardoned hundreds of prisoners many of them foreign is sultan bin tariq our sides approve the release of nearly $600.00 prisoners jailed for various offenses it's unclear what the reasons are for the decision at least $300.00 prisoners were pardoned in february to mark the end of the mourning period after the death of sultan. a man who's been on the run

for 25 years over the assassination of bangladesh's founding lead it will be executed prosecutors say military captain jets returned to bangladesh last month he was captured on tuesday while riding a rickshaw in the capital dhaka you saw to have fled to india in 1906 following the killing of shaikh rahman and most of his family and in 1975 coup the justice minister says the death sentence cannot be appealed. well this crisis has brought the world together in a shared experience but we can also share in a rare joy even under lockdown on tuesday night a super moon a pit it's expected to be the biggest and the brightest this year will likely be visible until thursday solid balance reports. moved under lockdown normally bustling new delhi birds sing out in deserted streets. there is no one agrees as tourist hot spots. the the only prayer echoes

across riyadh people are staying harm but if we look up nearly 8000000000 of us can share in something else a super is above us rising on tuesday evening it is expected to be the brightest and biggest of the year in china restrictions of east and a reduction in pollution means life is looking up what are the bit in the end it's really hard to see a moon this big in beijing it's been my 1st time seeing one source and there for famines and that the epidemic situation in china is getting better and better this represents something good especially in the supermoon shows up. a super moon is a full moon or in it is closer to earth than usual to us it will look about 30 percent brighter and 14 percent bigger than normal even happens roughly every food chain months some astronomers expects the moon to come closer to earth than at any

time since 1940 yet whether you're over down in your hole in central england or you're over down in your orbit suburban washington d.c. or in you know southeast asia you'll be able to see ultimately the same moon it's something that we can share globally and we're right now at this point time being something that connects us all i think is really important. and at 360000 kilometers away the man in the moon is keeping a good social distance shallop ballasts which is here. this is al jazeera and these the top stories the death toll in the u.k. continues to search with 828 people dying in england alone in the past 24 hours nearly 56000 people have been infected across the country among them prime minister boss john said he remains in intensive care. the chinese city where the corona

virus outbreak began as opened its doors after nearly 3 months on lockdown its 11000000 residents are now able to leave but they still need an app that tracks their health and movement a report just released by the un's chemical weapons watchdog is blaming the syrian government air force for sarin and chlorine attacks perpetrated in 2017 the attacks targeted sites and lots of mana including a hospital. diplomatic editor james bass has more. they say they've looked at all the possibilities and they say that the degree of based on a degree of certainty on reasonable grounds they believe that the syrian government was responsible the syrian air force were flying the planes they say they believe this would have had orders from the highest level of the syrian government so this is something very important this is been a long saga on chemical weapons in syria but for the 1st time an international body not a judicial finding but

a technical finding says the syrian government did it u.s. president donald trump has accused the world health organization of being china's centric and threatens to cut funding the w.h.o. responded by saying the acute phase of a pandemic is not the right time to suggest funding cuts a south african communications minister has been suspended for 2 months after she broke lockdown restrictions stella abrahams shared a photo of her having a meal with a colleague on social media president cyril opposer asked her to deliver a public apology for undermining the national effort to save lives. ethiopia's prime minister has declared a state of emergency to help curb the spread of the virus experts are worried an hour break could be hard to contain in the country with health care system is under strain those are the headlines don't go away the stream is coming up next. how much is the coronavirus on the stock market chaos affecting the race to the

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