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and all because our isn't it would it be hard 'd. the result the. well you've been listening to iran's supreme leader ali come in a delivering a live address to the nation on state television on one of the most important shia religious occasions well iran as you know is the worst hit country in the middle east by the coronavirus pandemic the supreme leader has said it's been a test for people society and the government a test that he says the nation has shown through he's paid tribute to medical staff as well as individual community initiatives to help others during this time but he's also been calling on people to respect islamic values and also to maintain order well let's bring in our correspondents and he's on skype for us from tehran saying this is an annual religious address and the supreme leader spent a substantial part of his speech today talking about the coronavirus did that come as a surprise. not at all it is very much the immediate issue that this country is

facing now let me tell you really little bit about the significance of the speech it is an important religious occasion that celebrates a rich religious islamic past for people who live here in iran it throws forward to the prophecies of a divine future for religious people here in iran for the muslims in iran but it also has a very significant role to play in the president he took this opportunity to speak to people about how they should feel with regard to their current circumstances this was a speech directly addressing the more raw in this country that's really what we're looking at here he clearly pointed out religious reasons for why people should take faith be patient and turn to their spiritual belief system to to be more patient and strong in the face of a problem that they've been facing for many months and why would he make a speech to address moral now keep in mind that this is a country that has been reeling from the global pandemic of the coronavirus for the

past 2 or 3 months of depending on who's a projections or estimates you look at and there is a large number of the population now in quarantine conditions people are social distancing the country has been suffering greatly economically it has been sanctioned mon multiple occasions so the supreme leader took this opportunity to try to address the anxiety no doubt that the people in the country are feeling this is a place where by the latest count 728 people have died from consuming industrial strength alcohol 30 percent of the population of the han thinks that they can't sustain these difficult economic conditions anymore another 30 percent say they can only go one or 2 months and the predictions are that it could remain difficult for the next year so really what he was doing here was highlighting all the good that iran has been able to do despite being isolated he said that iranian people should take pride in the fact that the health workers have stepped up in such a meaningful way he acknowledged the health ministry he acknowledged religious

volunteers and. people in the public for helping each other's neighbors and helping to feed each other so really turning to the iranian people and saying to them that we do not need the west he said this in his speech we don't need to react in the ways that the west did we don't need them to deal with the coronavirus we can do it on our own he even pointed to domestic production capacity and technological achievements of younger iranians that have come to light since the corona virus outbreak to help deal with the spread of covert 19 just looking at the numbers here more than 67000 cases at the moment in iran and there's already been over 4000 deaths i say how many as you said spoke a great deal about patience and hoped the importance of upholding islamic values but also very much an emphasis on maintaining public order was there a public health message in that. absolutely that one of the main concerns for the government here has been all along that while that little spread of the virus they have to balance it against not just the public health but the health of the economy the government here knows that it is the economic circumstances that the countries

people face that brings them out into the streets or not when economic conditions are good there is stability socially when there is not that is when we have seen protests and the government here knows that if they're going to deal with this in the long term which it seems that projections are that this may be a problem for the next one or 2 years i think medical professionals here have said over and over again president and romney himself has said that people should be prepared for a new normal in the long run the government knows that it will need the cooperation of the public and the patience of the public to deal with not only the medical requirements for a large number of those that are infected but also the economic strain on the country that comes from social distancing from slowing down the pace of cities like that iran that are the piggy bank of this country's economy so in doing so he certainly telling people that iranian values islam and values that is the way forward patience kindness tolerance you know this is the kind of thing that will

help in comparison to what he said we've seen in other countries he even referenced the u.s. outbidding. france and canada for medical supplies that were shipped to the united states instead of those countries pointing to the fact that western values are perhaps not the way forward he talked about hoarding in u.s. and western grocery stores a shortage of toilet paper he even addressed that he also said that the sale of guns had gone out pointing to the fact that the iranian social system is perhaps a better way of dealing with it than we have seen in other places around the world then you say and on e.s.p.n. talking about a new normal i think he's also said now that and i reckon i'll make activities will resume from this saturday april 11th is around ready for that that's expected. well whether they're ready or not it seems that there is a political will at the highest levels of government to move forward and we've seen the government in real time do this cost benefit analysis between trying to track

and treat the spread of covert 1000 in the country while at the same time making sure that the country's economy the bottom doesn't fall out from the country's economy and it seems as though despite a number of lawmakers at the parliamentary level as well as at the ministerial level in the health ministry former members of the government have been critical of this decision but it seems that the decision has been made that the country's economy must be slowly opened up once again on april 11th we are going to see several provinces begin to normalize their activity normalizing traffic and and operating hours for businesses and then we're expecting a week later around april 18th or 19th for those decisions to then make their way to teheran province and the capital here and to iran but at the same time the government knows that there is risk here they've done the cost benefit analysis they know they need to move forward they know they need to protect the country's economy as much as they do the public health but they've also been telling people that they should continue to abide by medical requirements by health requirements

with social distancing rules as much as possible large businesses large shopping malls football stadiums cinemas different venue for events those will largely remain closed anything that creates a mass gathering will be controlled but at the same time this is a country where the majority of the economy is run by small and medium businesses those businesses will be given the option of opening up again then backdrop our correspondent and karen thank you very much for that. well now moving over to the united states which has now recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the coronavirus for a 2nd day in a row as officials warn that the outbreak is yet to peak there the total number of fatalities is now 14817 surpassing spain to become the 2nd highest in the wild off to italy now even as the death toll mounts president trump yet

again criticize the world health organization mike hanna reports. a long line of ambulances queued outside a new york hospital and officials say the peak of the pandemic has still not been reached it's not expected to hit the city for several more days. against the backdrop of the most deadly days since the virus hit the u.s. president trump continued his feud with the world health organization accusing it of initially minimizing the threat of the virus and responding sharply to that agency's director general who said that politicizing the virus could lead to more body bags please don't politicize this virus it exploits the differences you have at the national level if you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more. body bags

then you do it if you don't want many more body bags. then u.-t. frame from politicizing it is we're losing more body bags i think we would have done. and he would have been much better serving the people that he's supposed to serve if they gave a correct analysis and everything was i said china centric everything was going to be fine no human to human keep the borders open he wanted me to keep the borders open i close the borders despite him and that was a hard decision to make at the time we're all together made a decision against the world health organization i can't believe he's talking about politics when you look at the relationship they have to china so china spends 42000000 we spend 450000000 and everything seems to be china's way that's not right it's not fair to us and honestly it's not fair to the world president trump continued to endorse the use of the anti malaria drug hydroxy korak when ignoring

the warning by many specialists that unsourced medical advice could prove dangerous zinc they say is ink the shit is zinc so as to be recommended by doctors physicians but they say zinc i want to throw that out there because that's where they seem to be having the best. result and while the president was volunteering anecdotal medical advice new york city continued its preparations for what is to come fall and setting up a field hospital in a downtown church hoping against call predictions that it will not be needed mike hanna al-jazeera washington. now but can a faster has one of the fastest infection rates in sub-saharan africa with millions at risk that the u.n. refugee agency is warning that the pandemic is now fair the aggravating what is already

a complex crisis in the country nicholas hack reports. a little call may be the least of the worries of these villagers and yet it's the biggest concern of aid workers it could be a sign of the coronavirus a threat these villagers fleeing attacks from armed groups have not heard of until they arrived at this food distribution center where extra precautions are being taken by heat. our habits have changed because of this disease now we wash our hands more regularly we so before eating or drinking we strictly follow the sanitary rules that they taught us to avoid the spread of the virus. next to this relief center is an international gold mining operation where there are number of infected workers but production hasn't stopped the value of gold is rising with so much uncertainty in the global market traders are investing in gold and bric enough also as one of the world's the biggest exporter but it has little to show for all the wealth created bric enough ah so as just 11 ventilators for 20000000 people and

is ill equipped to deal with the outbreak hospitals and clinics are closing down after threats of attack by an al qaeda affiliate in the slum of state in the greater sahara 2 groups which have stepped up their operations despite the pandemic the few 100 doctors left are abandoning their posts leaving the people of brick enough us alone to deal with a virus that's rapidly spreading. work enough also is a ticking time bomb this crisis is revealing how fragile vulnerable and weak some countries in west africa are joining up in their make more specifically this is faced with the challenge of armed groups. the united nations is calling for a global ceasefire so countries like brickies and its people crushed by the violence of armed conflict hunger and poverty can better fight a virus that is quite lee gaining ground nicholas hawk al jazeera.

hundreds of millions of people in india have now been told they must wear face masks when going outside the order applies to people and it's true biggest cities new delhi and mumbai as well as the most populous state of water pradesh now with masks and short supply worldwide the health ministry has given instructions on how people can produce their own india has nearly 6000 cases of infection with at least 178 deaths well let's now speak to elizabeth pradhan who joins us live from new delhi liz how strict all these new mosque guidelines and could people be punished for not comply. well that's what authorities and certainly some cities and states are saying the stasi as you mentioned the biggest cities of mumbai and delhi in fact the whole territory of delhi was to predict the state of which is home to more than 200000000 people and must. have all made wearing face masks compulsory as you mentioned there's also

a shortage of face masks and india so authorities have said that people can wear homemade masks so even a piece of cloth but it has to be doubled up that a piece of cloth will do and we've had increasing concerns and india that with the number of coronavirus cases rising that there's a lot of spread happening from asymptomatic peoples of people without symptoms passing on the virus without knowing and authorities think that wearing face masks will help mom by has said that anyone not wearing the face mask will be punished with a minimum of 6 months and prison meant that might be because mumbai and the state that it's the capital of maharashtra have the highest number of cases cases in the country now i can tell you no stars here that any time i've gone out for the last 2 weeks to say buy groceries i've been stopped by every police officer who have come across and i've been told to put on a face mask of course 3 stores won't let you in unless you're wearing

a face mask and some even gloves so this was already something that was happening in a lot of places but now authorities have made it compulsory and punishable to liz i say we're also now less than a week away from the end of the nationwide lockdown there which has been already so hard on so many people is there an expectation that it will be extended. you know that is the expectation of starts here there are more and more restrictions coming in every day as well as the face masks we now have an increasing number of containment zones being created around the country this 20 containment zones in delhi is more than $200.00 in bombay the large parts of mother provisions put the large parts of its 3 biggest cities including the capital ballpark has declared them containment zones that means that no one can leave their homes and only government workers delivering essential supplies are allowed to end to these areas we've had at least 6 states the worst affected saying they want the

lockdown to continue problems that in the more he has said that he doesn't see how it's possible to end the lock down when it was supposed to on april 15th and they're going to announce a final decision on that on saturday and is about per anum with all the latest there for us from new delhi thank you very much less. well it's really has suffered a higher death toll than any other country with more than 17000 people losing their lives to the virus now speaking to al-jazeera prime minister just said they can say so that italy was simply not prepared for the extent of the outbreak the worst for him and we're talking about a national health system among the best in the world we provide treatment to all citizens and foreign residents an immigrant over the health system is not qualified for this type of emergency we did not have enough beds to respond to this pandemic and we to few weeks to adapt the situation nor was it possible to purchase ventilators at the required speed limit well british prime minister barak johnson remains in intensive care but his culture minister says he is improving and is now

able to sit up and talk to medical stuff they have now been almost a 1000 deaths in the u.k. in the past 24 hours and have backup reports. the british prime minister's personal battle with covert 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 in only 9 days has admitted its 1st patients in 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 starr go off we have 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. 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 robb 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 know all too well by london's transport workers 14 have done lead after contract to cope with 19 most of them bus drivers the price of keeping our cities moving leave barker al-jazeera london well new zealand is set to

toughen its border restrictions just in the next few hours sending all citizens arriving home from overseas into quarantine facilities for 14 days prime minister just under order and says the lockdown measures are working with just 29 new cases announced on thursday it's now the 4th straight day the new cases have for them foreigners were banned from entering the country on march 20th and the country has been shut down for 2 weeks in the face of the greatest threat to human house that we have faced in over a century kiwis have quietly and collectively implemented a nationwide all of defeats as a government we have pinned it notices we've had powers that come with being in a mission will emergency or you have the greatest power of all you made the decision to give we could protect one another and you have you have saved lives.

is demanding an apology from the world health organization over what it calls unnecessary and slanderous remarks against the island taiwan is accusing the w.h.o. chief. source of using coronavirus to gain political points when he accused of orchestrating a racist campaign against him taiwan has been critical of the un bodies handling of the pandemic and its exclusion from the group due to pressure from china. to other news now and the saudi u.a.e. coalition has announced a 2 week long ceasefire in yemen starting on thursday hours after the announcement the residents of a missile fired by the thirty's hit a building in the city center there have also been reports of raids by a saudi fighter jets now the afghan government has released 100 taliban members from prison and says it's trying to curb the spread of coronavirus and jails but this is also the 1st step in a deal signed between the taliban and the united states and ending nearly 20 years

of war in afghanistan sorry kyra reports. this is what freedom looks like after more than 5 years in afghanistan's new tourist background prison. is one of the 1st tali ban members to be released sometime at her lives in the movies for her 200 taliban were freed by the national directorate of security an attorney general's office based on age health condition and duration of imprisonment the taleban in qatar and the released prisoners have pledged not to return to the battlefield. the release nearly didn't happen 48 hours earlier the taliban the afghan government couldn't agree on the final details the taliban accused the government of intentionally causing delays and walked out on the talks an agreement signed in qatar between the taliban and the us in february paves the way for the withdrawal of american troops from afghanistan ending 2 decades of war

while the afghan government wasn't included in those negotiations it did call for the swap of thousands of prisoners as a precondition to his own talks with the taliban the personal release exercise is very significant it's a major confidence building. step. but it's one step in many steps to be taken in order to bring full confidence. the prisoner release. will also pave the way for the draft talks. of 2 weeks of pressure from american diplomats present a new greed to a phased release of 5000 taliban prisoners but despite that the face several hurdles along the way. or no wonder you visit to afghanistan 2 weeks ago u.s. secretary of state compared to live it is clear message from president donald trump to afghan leaders resolve differences or risk losing more financial aid worth

billions so i don't. know. u.s. senator bernie sanders has ended his bid to be the democratic party's presidential nominee for the month senators exit now clears the way for former vice president joe biden to become the party's nominee saunders told his supporters the coronavirus pandemic was a factor in his decision. hello again mrs al jazeera and these are the headlines the united states has recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the coronavirus for the 2nd day in a row now this comes as president arnold trump and the head of the world health organization have entered into a war of words over how the pandemic has been handled global trade is expected to fall by up to a 3rd this year as the pandemic brings economic activity to

a standstill the head of the world trade organization says this may be the deepest global recession in living memory worse than the financial crisis 12 years ago. iran's supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei air has condemned western countries as arrogant in their dealings with tehran during the pandemic he also praised the country's health sector in a televised address iran is planning to ease restrictions on saturday despite warning of a 2nd wave of infections the saudi u.a.e. coalition has announced a cease fire in yemen amid the coronavirus outbreak it's set to last for 2 weeks and will come into effect on thursday the coalition has been fighting who the rebels since the war began in 2015 the un's chemical weapons watchdog has released its 1st report blaming the syrian government for sarin and chlorine attacks against civilians the report highlighted 3 attacks where government forces used sarin bombs on heavily congested areas of hama province back in 2017. hundreds of

millions of people in india have been told they must now when mosques when going outside the order applies to people in its 2 biggest cities new delhi and mumbai as well as the stage of order pradesh with mosques in short supply worldwide the health ministry has given instructions on how people can make their own at home india has nearly 6000 cases of infection with at least 178 deaths and u.s. senator bernie sanders has ended his bid to be the democratic party's presidential nominee the vermont senator that that clears the way for former vice president joe biden to become the party's nominee saunders told his supporters that the coronavirus pandemic was a factor in his decision well those are the headlines to join me for more news here on al-jazeera off the inside story stay with us. we understand the different cities and similarities of cultures across the sentimental value taking. don't just

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