they have on both sides walls of shame on al-jazeera. really i'm just stunned the differences comes in the cultures across the world so no matter what we do to the news and current affairs that matter to you. for the 1st time during the pandemic the daily death toll here in the u.k. it's a passes $900.00. 78 of this is our jazeera live from london also coming up a stark warning from the world trade organization but global trade may fall by one 3rd because of the pandemic. police gone to politicize this one's ahead of the response to president trump's claim that his organization has failed

in its response to the pandemic. and the national investigation into the use of chemical weapons in syria says the evidence points warily towards one place the assad government. around the globe the number of dead continues to rise and here in europe there are fears the continent is still a long way from the peak of its corona virus outbreak is some of the day's headlines as the pandemic unfolds the u.k. has recorded another 938 victims the largest single addition to its total the government has promised to parse johnson's condition is improving but he remains in intensive care we know of the 2nd straight day the number of dead in spain has increased 14 and a half 1000 people have now died but the health minister says the outbreak is slowing in the u.s.

evidence suggests minorities are being hit hardest new york's mayor says more than half of his city's dead were black or hispanic the head of the world health organization has rejected president trump's criticism of his handling of the outbreak saying the world shouldn't waste time pointing fingers and he further ahead the world trade organization says global growth will plummet this year down by up to a 3rd result it says will be ugly begin our coverage with new parker on the situation here in the u.k. . the british prime minister's personal battle with coded 19 continues with him still in intensive care for the 1st time in days though some positive news on boris johnson's condition the latest from the hospital is that the prime minister remains in intensive care where his condition is improving i can also tell you that he has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team the prime minister is not only my colleague and my boss but also my friend and my thoughts

are with him and his family the 55 year old tested positive 2 weeks ago he was admitted to hospital on sunday evening with a persistent high temperature and cough he was later moved to a specialist unit where he is conscious and has received oxygen scientists say the u.k.'s entering the deadliest phase of the outbreak in east london an exhibition center converted into a 500 bed hospital and only 9 days has admitted its 1st patient and this london hospital medics are handling a surge in sufferers but there are worries about the availability of lifesaving equipment we've got enough people that's difficult because inevitably we've had staff go off we have currently got enough oxygen our current problem today is having enough great ventilators some of those admitted are young and fit with no underlying health problems you don't know. how bad it is until it actually hits you

and so i would absolutely. everybody to listen to the government guidance and stay away from people this is the hospital where johnson is under close observation just across the river thames from the houses of parliament the scene of so many of johnson's recent victories only a few weeks ago he was telling journalists how he was still shaking hands with people some of them patients in hospital but that was before current restrictions before the death toll started to accelerate and now johnson like so many others across the u.k. have to put their faith in one thing modern medicine in his absence johnson's designated deputy dominic rob and the rest of the cabinet are debating when to lift the lockdown is costing british businesses billions of dollars after facing criticism for failing to impose restrictions quickly enough there's now a danger of the government lifting things too soon

a risk known all too well by london's transport workers 14 have done it after contracting with 19 most of them bus drivers the price of keeping our cities moving barker al-jazeera london. with us is taking its toll not just on europe's people but its economies to talks between finance ministers broke down on wednesday as they discussed a multi-billion dollar rescue package and he has more. reminding people to stay indoors in space. was the military drafted in to disinfect nursing homes and public transport despite a slowing down in the country's rated coronavirus transmission the world health organization is warning the european governments to think carefully before relaxing their lockdowns or social distancing measures one new report predicts plays economy will shrink by between 5 percent and 9 percent this year that could leave up to

800000 people unemployed depending on when restrictions were lifted on wednesday morning european union finance ministers meeting via video conference were close to a deal on support measures for southern economies worth around $540000000000.00 but talks broke down amid a dispute between italy and the netherlands over how to apply the coronavirus recovery fund portugal's marial centeno head of the euro group of euro zone finance ministers tweeted after 16 hours of discussion we came close to a deal but we're not there yet i suspended the euro group and continue tomorrow thursday my goal remains a strong e.u. safety net against fall out of coverage 19 to shield workers firms and countries and commit to a sizable recovery plan france is now demanding the e.u. use the existing mechanism set up during the eurozone crisis with no strings attached as well as some promote the need you know most to me i would just like to

point out something obvious the european stability mechanism was created to deal with a crisis what are we facing now a crisis which is serious and profound the spanish prime minister pedro sanchez has warned that e.u. itself could quote fall apart if it fails to agree a plan to help member states deal with debts incurred fighting the pandemic. italy and spain have accused northern nations led by germany and the netherlands of not doing enough but germany has its own covered related economic worries several financial institute's expect europe's largest economy to shrink quite nearly 10 percent in the 2nd quarter that's twice as big a contraction as during the 2008 to 2009 financial crash chancellor merkel's government now plans to tighten rules to protect german firms from hostile takeovers by noni new investors. it's about tightening our very liberal foreign trade laws which permit takeovers from foreign investors in

a generous way this is in light of the significant german security interests which for me include supplying the public with vital goods such as vaccines and critical infrastructure of course coronavirus is already hitting hard germany has announced it will shut down its low cost airline germany as part of a broader overhaul warning it could take years for the industry to recover. across europe amid all the uncertainty there are moments of hope like this neighborhood in seville welcoming home a recovered college 19 patients. but recovering financially may also lead a similar show of solidarity from. the al jazeera. global trade is expected to pull up to a 3rd this year as the pandemic brings economic activity to a standstill describing future results as ugly world trade organization says the knock down of factories and retail is disrupting global markets head of the group says this may be the deepest global recession in living memory less than the

financial crisis 12 years ago. as we confront what may well be the biggest economic recession or downturn of our lifetimes we should aim to make the most of all potential drivers of sustainable growth to reverse this. governments around the world and must lay the foundations for a strong and socially. trade in international coordination more generally will be orton greedy and. more as we can speak now to international communist patrick peregrine he joins us live via skype do you agree with that he will cast you think it's not unreasonable when we look at the contraction and we've already seen in the estimates for the surge in unemployment the collapse in consumer purchasing we just have to look at cobo car for example which i mean a lot of countries are down almost 50 percent in march and that's because that's

with a lot of them actually starting a lot downs in the middle of the month and we've had other indicators already so we even before we go back to chinese new year we saw chinese imports and trade fall very sharply in january and february and for example even in march containers total containers going through both los angeles and long beach 2 of the busiest contain the ports in the world would actually down almost 20 percent year on year so actually in a way i'm afraid to say the deputy is not actually telling selling new so i mean they're saying and i'm decisions taken our time in the future shape the recovery and global growth prospects and they want to talk about the risks of protectionism what measures do you think will really make a difference to to make sure it isn't as bad as say that the great depression. well i mean that what we're seeing is in contrast to previous depressions or recessions this is literally overnight this shut down. this is in

a way you know we know we we have this this is a government system to basically have lockdowns and the problem is this is come against a background where globalization world trade is already under enormous pressure and the reality is what we're going to see going forward is actually the general forces even if we were you know when the recovery comes or still go and it's global trade so you just have to look at the moves about health security and the exposure of the weaknesses of global supply chains that and one of my concert arguments is that health security one's own production of medicines and health equipment is a greater issue than the national security issues or the likes of y.y. and this is not going to go away we're going to see relocation of production back to domestic countries japan in its latest fix impact it's allocated over 20000000000 dollars to japanese companies to bring businesses back on show we have

peter navarro the president's trade representative last week being very very clear about that u.s. drug companies or medical supply companies should bring their production back onshore so one of the other things that they develop here says is that a rapid vigorous rebound is possible do you think that is that is likely and does that then depend on lifting the lockdowns in a safe way and how you do that. well this is a great problem i mean i i mean i think it's pure wishful thinking on their part to be honest and it's hard to see how we're going to get through this quickly we can look at the phrasing even if we look at china which seems to now be coming out of this we're still talking about the economy estes only working at 90 percent of what it was before so put it another way around it's 10 percent down to where it was this time last year and that's with rigorous social controls and when we look at the west where if you watched you had wishy sit around and when he was asked about

how do we get past the shutdown the lockdown it's too early to talk about that and i think the problem is the scientists haven't got the antibody tests we haven't you know we're going need to move to mass and universal testing perhaps always on a weekly basis so we can properly record this and not only that the effects on consumer confidence around the world are going to be profound people are going to remain fairly cautious about their spending going forward after peregrine thank you very much indeed for your analysis thank you thank you a number of confirmed infections in the united states has now surpassed 400000 is the worst affected country in the world almost 13000 people have died there after contracting the virus at present donald trump says the u.s. will soon have more ventilators than it needs to help those suffering times also threatened to end funding for the world health organization saying it failed in its response to the outbreak and was too focused on china africa are they head of the

agency has defended its handling of the create a virus pandemic edging governments not to politicize the virus the focus of all political parties should be to save people please go on to politicize this virus it exploits the deferrals as you have at the national level. if you want to be exploited. if you want to have many more. body bugs then you do it if you don't want many more. than you'd be funny from politics sizing you and i want to ask us from a committee how could joins us live from washington can use that been any reaction there in washington to the latest remarks from the head of the.

yeah the latest person to react is republican senator ted cruz a prominent voice in the u.s. senate a republican he says and his twitter feed that actions speak louder the world words the world health organization has lost all credibility and its leadership must be evaluated he's the latest republican voice but the president added his on tuesday to a growing chorus of conservative voices on capitol hill that believe that not only was the world health organization slow to declare a public emergency but also that it maybe to china focused and there are serious questions in the united states about the numbers that came out of china with respect to infections the number of deaths many here in the united states criticized them across all of the political spectrum now having said that we heard from the world health organization leader the chief there of some very strong rebuttals to the criticism coming from the u.s. president that's been accurate but i'm a statement from the u.n.

secretary general where he says there may be a time to look back but now it's not that time now is the time for unity for the international community to work together in solidarity to stop this virus and what's the latest numbers we're seeing there in the united states. you know we've just seen the numbers spike actually in just the last few moments new reporting has the infection rate at 404000 infections in the united states and again this number is expected to be a bit low because there has not widespread testing many people are staying at home and they're not going to a hospital to get tested just sort of pushing through the symptoms almost 14000 deaths now what we are hearing from some top public health officials is look at we may have seen as a result of social distancing some success with flattening the peak or the curve as it's called in states like california and washington but don't let this be a sign that you can go back out resume normal activities on the contrary 98 percent

of the united states now under some form of restriction in order to stay home spread the contagion and as a result what they're saying and what they're fearing is that with even a little bit of positive news that the concern is that people could in fact bring about a 2nd wave much like we've seen in new york state so again a lot of caution is optimism much that we expect we may hear from the public health officials as they brief it 21 g.m.t. for the coronavirus task force daily briefing can help to thank you very much indeed. still to come on al-jazeera in china the government imposes a high tech solution to track both the healthy and the sick. and away from. us into bernie sanders the host of great pressure and his presidential campaign.

the weather cheering up quite nicely now for parts of greece but we do have some storms making their way across turkey little more cloud coming in the middle area of low pressure still causing some problems around that eastern side of the mediterranean high pressure dominates the weather across a good part of europe says lastly find a dry with lots of warm spring sunshine over towards the west so it's a very different story that's next weather system that's going to make its way through bringing some plowed and rain into spain and portugal some heavy downpours and a possibility here over the next couple of days ahead of that 25 celsius in paris as that warm sunshine still getting up around 20 degrees there for warsaw bits and pieces of cloud and rain is that east decide if you're just pushing into western russia cooling off in moscow to around 9 cells this is that system makes its way through the cloud and rain that we have into spain will tend to peter out as we go on to was the weekend but still there nevertheless as we go on through friday side

of the med turkey starts to improve but we have still got a few showers just around cyprus has been over parts of africa where it's generally fine and dry but the west the weather that we have around the iberian peninsula will introduce a few showers into northern parts of america maybe northern areas of algeria as well about with the top temperature $21.00. for. survival for haiti's poorest depends on illegal charcoal production. but for park rangers sworn to protect the dominican forests it can have deadly consequences. witness discovers the head in worlds where the stakes for the environment and those who make their living from it couldn't be higher. death by a 1000 cuts on al-jazeera. you're

going to one of the top stories when i was there a further $900.00 people have died from the corona virus in the u.k. the largest single addition to its total or there are now more than 14 and a half 1000 victims in spain. global growth could be cut by a 3rd this year warns the world trade organization after the pandemic brings the world economy to a near standstill. and minorities appear to be worst hit by the outbreak in the u.s. the mare of new york says woman off of deaths in the city of black and hispanic people even though they feel less than half the population. a step away from

a coronavirus not to bring up to date on some other stories making news around the world the un's chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the syrian government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the report highlighted 3 attacks in northern syria in 2017 found reasonable grounds to believe the government forces used sarin bombs during the attacks on heavily congested civilian areas in hama province including a hospital and it says chemical weapons have been a crucial part of president bashar al assad's military strategy our diplomatic to james bays is at the united nations with more on the specific incident. an important report but will it be a game changer clearly the long and horrific saga of the use of chemical weapons goes back to 2013 and you remember that certainly the obama administration thought the assad regime did it they said the did it cross the red line but then president

obama. decided not to take any sort of military action at that time well all the while we've not had any technical scientific proof that the assad regime was responsible well we now have it for the 1st time the o.p.c. w that's the international body at deals with chemical weapons has produces $82.00 page report looking initially 3 incident incidents go back to 2017 they are on a town in italy and there are over a 6 day period now what they have decided and they say that this is based on on them looking at the evidence and looking at all the possibilities that on 2 occasions the syrian air force dropped bombs with sarin in them and then on the another occasion in the same town at the hospital they believe that a syrian a helicopter dropped chlorine on the hospital in an improvised

barrel bombs so pretty clear here this report pretty clear no doubt really that the assad regime was responsible for these crimes certainly the whole international system had been trying to come up with some sort of conclusions the chemical weapons use and this is the 1st time we have a definitive answer like this a truck driver has pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of 39 people found dead in the back of his work or in the u.k. the bodies of the vietnamese nationals were discovered in essex east of london last october 1st robinson from northern ireland appeared at a court in the british capital via video link among the men women and children were 10 teenagers 2 of them 15 year old boys police say they died from a lack of oxygen and overheating an enclosed space. yes senator bernie sanders has suspended his campaign for the democratic presidential nomination

clearing the way for joe biden to become party's candidate of a month senator had been the front runner in the race to take on donald trump earlier this year only to be eclipsed by the former vice president serge biden is now left as the only person running in what at one point was a $28.00 person race has told his supporters the coronavirus pandemic was a factor in his decision i know that there may be some in our movement who disagree with this decision who would like us to fight on for the last ballot tears at the democratic convention i understand their position but as i see the crisis gripping the nation exacerbated by a president unwilling or unable to provide any calling of credible leadership and the work that needs to be done to protect people in this most desperate hour i cannot in good conscience continue about the campaign they cannot win and which would interfere with the important work required of all of us in this difficult

hour of fissures in washington and says this is no surprise. he's really been politically dead man walking the same since super tuesday that was really when bernie sanders lost momentum you remember the joe biden didn't do well in the 1st 3 contests in the caucuses in the primaries but then he came back from the political dead in south carolina after that he immediately got the endorsement from people who to judge from a club of show that was significant and important for him and he did very well on super tuesday it made things very very difficult for bernie sanders but when he talks about how he has moved the political debate in the united states there's no doubt over the last 4 years he's done exactly that people are not talking about providing some sort of universal health care in the united states they're talking about free state college for people in the united states he's taught they are talking about income equality because of the issues the bernie sanders has raised

now barely sanders did not give an endorsement to joe biden that's not surprising because you don't give away all your cards at the table he wants to make sure that a lot of the ideas a lot of the things that he's been talking about will form the platform of the democratic convention and also the democratic election platform as they move in to the presidential campaign to the back to the global coronavirus pandemic if you know his prime minister has declared a state of emergency to help curb the spread of the virus medical officials are worried and outbreak could be hard to contain in a country where the health care system is already under strain and he appears reported around 50 kind of virus cases so far and at least 2 deaths. a man had been on the run for 25 years over the assassination of bangladesh's founding leader will be executed prosecutors say when it's the captain of the image it returned to bangladesh last month when he was captured on tuesday while riding

a rickshaw in the capital dhaka whose daughter fled to india in 1906 following the killing of rahman in a 175 coup the justice minister says the death sentence can't be appealed she would you were a man's daughter sheikh hasina is the current prime minister. and york times is reporting that as many as 150 members of the saudi royal family of contracted with 19 the paper says king solomon and crown prince mohammed bin sandman a staying in an island palace near the city of jeddah saudi arabia is reported almost 2800 coronavirus cases and 41 deaths the 1st time in nearly 3 months residents in the chinese city who hadn't been allowed to leave after its lockdown was lifted 55000 people bought train tickets out of the city on wednesday and domestic flights also resumed who hands 11000000 residents

were the 1st to be placed under movement restrictions in january inspiring similar measures around the world but the city at the epicenter of the corona virus outbreak remains under close watch with fears of a 2nd wave of infections the chinese government is regulating all movement in and out of using a mobile app to treat you is in beijing with a look at how that will work. 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 it will 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 would that screen that's been generated there that makes makes it possible for you not only to travel within will hon but 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 the train stations at airports and indeed even if you go on this issue 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. at

a tribute to medical workers america had to abandon mexico has performed a health serenade outside a hospital. and paid homage to patients and staff working at mexico city's national institute for respect to illnesses they normally play in the city's garibaldi plaza or face a sharp decline in audiences and income since the outbreak began. and one of our top stories around 0 deaths from the corona virus continue to mount across the u.k. and europe sparking fears the pandemic is not yet nearing its peak the toilet is increased in spain for the 2nd day in a row while the u.k. sortes highest single day death toll of 938 from his divorce johnson remains in intensive care with the illness the latest from the hospital is that the prime

minister remains in intensive care where his condition is improving i can also tell you that he has been sitting up in bed and engaging positively with the clinical team the prime minister is not only my colleague and my boss but also my friend and my thoughts are with him and his family global trade is expected to fall by up to a 3rd this year as a pandemic brings economic activity to a standstill describing future results as ugly the world trade organization says the lockdown of factories and retail is disrupting global markets the head of the group says this may be the deepest global recession in living memory worse than the financial crisis 12 years ago. the number of confirmed infections in the united states has now surpassed 400000 is the worst affected country in the world but president donald trump says the u.s. will soon have more ventilators that it needs to help those suffering. the head of

the world health organization has defended his agency's response to the pandemic after facing criticism from the u.s. president trump has threatened to end funding for the w.h.o. saying it was too focused on china its leader has urged leaders not to politicize the virus. in other news the un's chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report explicitly blaming the syrian government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians it found reasonable grounds to believe government forces used sarin bombs during attacks in 2017. listen to bernie sanders has suspended his campaign for the democratic presidential nomination clearing the way for joe biden to become the party's candidate of montana to have been the front runner in the race to take on donald trump and he'd be clipped by a former vice president's surge the stream is coming up next more news for you after i finish.

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