and there just one color. exactly. i very much thought i was going to get shot in the movie studio unscripted on al-jazeera. 'd mass burials in new york as morgues run out of space the city suffers a record high of almost 800 dead for the 1st successive day. this is al jazeera live from coming out. of winning the battle against coronavirus south koreans cast their ballots in the head of next week's general election. european leaders agree on

a 590000000000 dollar rescue plan to help countries hit by the pandemic. resurrecting the. special good friday mass a year after the iconic cathedral devastated by a fire. now the death toll from the coronavirus across the u.s. has now passed 16 and a half 1000 in new york there are signs of improvement with a drop in hospital admissions but it's still the worst affected state had a record number of deaths for a 3rd straight day or pictures have emerged of mass burials as morgues run out of space kristen salumi reports. hart island is new york city's potter's field

where those with no family or means to arrange a funeral are laid to rest they used to bury 25 people a week here in the age of the coronavirus it's about that number every day counting the dead is now part of the daily routine for the gov 911 was supposed to be the darkest day in new york for a generation we lose 2753 lives on 911 we've lost over 7000 lives through this crisis. that is so shocking and painful and breathtaking i can't i don't even have the words for. as the daily death toll continues to reach new heights and the state builds more temporary hospitals like this 350 bed the syllabi there are signs that the spread of the disease is slowing thanks to mandatory social distancing measures that have

all but shut down the city of nearly 9000000 those measures will remain in effect for the forseeable future as the number of new hospital admissions has gone down for the past 3 days if we're not careful it we're not strong if we're not disciplined in fact this is a disease that can really us surge resurge you should be very worried about resurgence we all are. the last thing we can afford is to let down our guard and let this disease back in the door even more and then see the numbers spike up pressured to lift restrictions and let people return to work has been growing along with the unemployment rate the number of new yorkers who have filed for unemployment claims in the last 3 weeks has more than double but there's one industry where they can't get enough help funeral homes. the governor says new york state will be bringing in additional funeral directors to help people like a sous pujols who's been working long hours 7 days

a week and still can't keep up right now money is not worth it it's not worth it it's not worth it i would give up my job any day for like a normal normal job and every much rather be quarantined in my house right now and the bodies are expected to continue to stack up a grim reminder of a silent killer kristen salumi al jazeera new york some positive signs are being seen in parts of the u.s. it's top infectious disease expert anthony felt she says fewer people are requiring hospital treatment at the same time as we're seeing the increase in deaths we're seeing rather dramatic decrease in the need for hospitalizations like i think yesterday was something like 200 new hospitalizations and it's been as high as 1400 at any given time so that is going in the right direction i say that and i always remind myself when i say that that means that what we are doing is working and

therefore we need to continue to do it. for the 1st time in weeks no new cases have been reported in the south korean city of daegu at the heart of the country's current virus outbreak the number of new infections across the country continues to decline just 27 cases were confirmed in the past 24 hours south korea has reported more than 10000 cases so far more than half of them in daegu south korea is the 1st major country to hold a general election during the covert 19 crisis president cast his ballot while suitably protected has been praised for getting one of the world's worst outbreaks under control that's helped his democratic party of career regained support following an economic slowdown corruption scandals and tensions with north korea. rob mcbride has more on how the measures taken by the south korean government are

impacting the president's popularity. 1st of all industrialists scale screening literally thousands of tests being carried out just to get the authorities here a real good picture of exactly where the infections are and where it must direct its resources that has been it has also been very good at introducing her missing new technology for example people arriving at ports of entry here into south korea have had to download apps are led to vices which keep tabs on their location within south korea and also they have to interact with that application to say that they are healthy and if you don't interact then you are followed up by officials it is all very labor intensive work but it is all very necessary and seems to have produced results and we are likely to see that in the elections that are now going to be taking place in the next week or so it has to be said with under extreme precautions that people's health is not impacted people have to wear disposable

gloves when they go in to handle ballot papers to keep their distance when lining up and so on we have to wait and see if this is going to be transferred into support for the parties and politicians in the national assembly who support moving jay in the country's president because his popularity has stats steadily climbed during the weeks of this crisis and his approval rating now stands at a very high 57 percent in the news years government has announced tighter social distancing measures after a sudden surge in cases public transport has been reduced to half capacity gatherings are banned the new rules are in place for 14 days the capital jakarta accounts for many half of the more than $30000.00 infections jesica washington is in jakarta she says there's growing public concern of the lack of testing being done. a lockdown.

and. public transport indicate that. the capital city is taking this crisis very seriously now. that now we have. around 7000 u.s. . across. different. across. every area. they want to and. that. particular. cases. by that point the virus had already spread well beyond china and many

people growing very suspicious as. a single case. 100 and. the other problem. has. realized. european union finance ministers have agreed to $590000000000.00 rescue package aimed at propping up economies devastated by the coronavirus crisis it includes short term employment . prevent millions of cars from losing their jobs will also be made available in the states which need help with health care. prevention costs. could not agree on. how to fund long term economic recovery dominic cain joins us now

live via skype from. basically a case of northern european countries saying. picking up the bill of the south. that pretty much yes sammy the point here is that the german government the austrian government the dutch and that since really baulked at the idea of doing what you just said of affectively allowing that taxpayers their economies to become the ultimate guarantee of italian spanish debt and indeed other countries to perhaps the portuguese as well they really fall to the idea that they don't want to do that for weeks now german governments preferred plan has been to persuade other e.u. countries to follow their example and so the elements that you are laying out in your introduction this work scheme the short term works which accounts for around

20 percent of the money that's been agreed upon that is effectively where companies are able to offset some of their payroll so a month they would be able to use state funding for a healthy chunk of it or perhaps 40 percent of their payroll could be provided by by state funded by e.u. funding in this in this guys it's what the germans have already announced and then the other elements of this again are under the auspices respectively of the european investment bank and the european stability mechanism again that is something the germans have sent use existing institutions so this am money goes directly to member state governments who can use it to deal with the coronavirus crisis that they are facing whether that means in acquiring more medical supplies or other means to to come back around that's what this is about it's pretty clear the northern europeans are saying we feel sorry we want to help wherever possible

we will extend extra loans to you we are not prepared to guarantee your debt and we are not prepared to provide some sort of marshall plan grant type financing so is this from the perspective of some of the crisis hit countries in the south of europe going to be enough is this what they need or are we going to see this conversation come back again. well the devil's in the details some a look at what was agreed last night when they talked about e.u. member states will have to come up with it but since fiscal arrangements without saying what they are we know what the italian prime minister is the concert will be speaking later today will be issued to hear what his take on what's been agreed in brussels or what's been agreed by teleconference around the e.u. capitals is because clearly at the moment and metaphorically what the european union is offering his country's tea and sympathy is not the chicken soup to fight some kind of common cold and it's certainly not exactly the type of funding he

needs to come back around or his country all right thanks so much dominic came there from berlin in mexico there's concern there could be hidden victims of the pandemic women's rights advocates say the country has a bad track record with gender based violence and the outbreak is only making things worse to home and has more. mexico already had a big problem femicide at least 10 women are killed each day according to authorities. last month tens of thousands of women took to the streets and also held a national strike to protest things were supposed to change but then coronavirus struck and after the optimism of just a month ago some believe that now things could instead he getting worse he's right that as everybody knows well has the but there's of increasing violence against. the citizens council from mexico city

a joint government and civil society initiative says calls to the helpline about domestic abuse have gone up by 25 percent they've been hiring for the last 2 months to deal with the uptick. the search. in this call center we give free help every day and we have a team of 80 psychologists and lawyers to support the victim if she wants to press charges the national network of women's shelters has also had a 60 percent increase in calls for help they say this is exacerbating an already chronic problem that. there's not been damage here apart from cope with 1000 demick that we've had for years and that hasn't been attended to the states neglected and the women who have been murdered are mothers daughters friends mexican citizens that the state has failed so. the shelters say that just when they needed it the money they get from the government has been held up if you know the head of that government doesn't himself believe that copied 19 has affected

domestic abuse in the way and said. no one should say without evidence that now that people are in their houses there is more violence that's not happening. those calling for help say differently instead of a refuge in their homes they're finding themselves facing threats inside and out john heilemann how does it or mexico city. still ahead on al-jazeera japan declares the state of emergency but it's unclear if many will stick to social distancing rules and the biggest cuts in production ever but is it enough to stabilize the oil market. and i would still argue be disappointingly coup in japan that there's

a frontal system on its way out in the still a revolving wind store source disappearing out of the way given there any 7 degrees in support of mine it is a weakening storm so apart from a few showers in the north of honshu it's sunshine and 50 degrees or thereabouts in tokyo the rain further south in china is significant much as touch hong kong but it's moving sags it's also developing on this eastern flank and that's tied up towards honshu in fact as a current of circulation off the coast of tokyo so i mean you're if you're wet starts the coming week whereas it's dried out in china and 20 degrees the drop in temperature drop in humidity for all of southern china. now we see a few showers dotted around in india recently and there certainly down the south and they're coming up back into afghanistan into pakistan but a found all 3 but still we're talking about a temperature rise over seas dupree monsoon eat not poor shows 40 or areas of the north they get hotter than that it's not a big surprise it's just

a bit hot as is the case actually in paris the arabian peninsula for example in we are approaching 40 in the dust. russia has jeopardized the united states' security interests we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. into the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft continuous russian goals have you achieved none. of you russia on al-jazeera. route.

welcome back you're watching out to syria time to recap our headlines the number of coronavirus deaths in the united states has risen to 16500 new york had a wreck or daily toll of almost 800 there are some positive signs the number of new hospital admissions has dropped for a 2nd straight day. no new cases have been reported in the south korean city of day the heart of the country's corona virus outbreak for the 1st time in weeks but amber of new infections nationwide continues to decline just 27 was confirmed in the past 24 hours. in the asia tightening emergency measures after a surgeon reported infections anyone breaking the rules can be fined up to $7000.00

and jailed for up to a year the country has reported more than $300.00 deaths. protecting global oil markets will be the main focus of a virtual meeting of g. 20 energy ministers later on friday the meeting comes a day after opec and its allies agreed to cut production the deal will see oil producing nations cut output by 10000000 barrels a day until early june the bat is conditional on mexico's approval of failed to agree on 1st day the cuts are to counter the slump and demand caused by coronavirus so i've been to 5 as a report a price war which started in march did not last as long as previous disagreements but its impact has been widespread u.s. shale oil producers filed for bankruptcy as major energy projects have been delayed or suspended in the oil industry face significant job losses the oversupply coincided with a massive reduction in demand for oil because of the global slowdown caused by

coronavirus in some markets oil was selling for less than $10.00 a barrel which spell trouble for oil drilling and economies when they agreed the market went up when they had their own differences the market went down and what is worse than not agreeing is course is competing for the c.m. limited area of demand in the world as it stands right now. the crisis began after a deal to limit production fell apart and saudi arabia increased its supply to a record 12300000 barrels a day along with russia's 11300000 barrels the markets were flooded to an extent that storage even started to run out as there's agreement is to slash or oil production at least until next year the decision will be reviewed in december iran venezuela and libya are exempt from the production cuts a few hours after the opec agreement the g 20 group of nations meet and decide on cuts from the u.s. canada norway and others some say the crisis created

a perfect opportunity for big investors to buy stakes in european oil firms or there's a cute saudis in russian's of economic warfare against the u.s. us media reports 2 senators were working on legislation to remove u.s. troops and defense systems from saudi soil if there were no output cuts the united states says its output fell because of the price for and decreasing demand but it hasn't committed to any cuts for many years i used to think opec was very unfair i hated opec you will know the truth i hated it because it was a fix but somewhere along the line that broke down and it went the opposite way and we have a tremendously powerful energy industry in this country now number one in the world and i don't want those jobs being lost but experts believe even after the record cuts but opec and other produces the gloom for oil economies may not be over internationally he says to modest russian so far has been 20000000 barrels a day i think it's probably more towards the 3035000000 barrels

a day if you look at india alone the 3rd largest consumer of oil having decreased its consumption by 70 percent i would say it is more so 10000000 barrels a day is what's so far been priced into the market and you saw the last cluster response so we probably need more to do the trick. what began as an attempt to grab a bigger share of the market is ending after 31 days with no real wins for anyone involved some of. their yemen has announced its 1st recorded case of corona virus the infection is in the port city of a shareholder in the eastern region of the remote the port there is closed for a week so are markets and mosques a curfew has been imposed too in some areas. nonessential businesses in tokyo have been asked to close to help stop the spread of coronavirus the city's governor

has been at loggerheads with the central government on introducing new measures of finally got consent to close cafes sports clubs and cinemas i asked of korra reports from. rush hour in central tokyo there's little sign of social distancing with most japanese companies working normal. that may change in the coming days as the country tries to reduce person to person contact by 80 percent but the strategy of achieving that without a complete lockdown has left many experts skeptical in the face of escalating infections this is the tip of the iceberg the decision not to impose closing shop. and set down some sort of transponders in. was about maje just asking people to stay at home is a very weak state of emergency powers now allow tokyo and other large

prefectures to asked people to stay at home and tell businesses to close a city of $14000000.00 people tokyo accounts were 20 percent of japan's total economic activity causing businesses here that will hurt the whole country and prime minister shinzo our base since the determined to limit the damage abbi has been locked in a dispute with the city's governor. about how many businesses must close beliefs more drastic action is needed and more quickly. i'm going to ask businesses to close down and appeal for their cooperation parts of tokyo are already clearly quieter the media cover family has been running this restaurant for 100 years. they continue to operate despite falling customer numbers if we got compensation we could close our shop for now but because we don't know what's going to happen we have to earn what we can not know what you can and can't do is the biggest problem

the abbott government has been criticised for doing too little too late in tackling the virus and their fears japan could be facing a much bigger hidden outbreak we're going to talk about economic policy physical financial all day long but unless we basically flatten the curve it's almost like trying to fix a drainage pipe while you still have your faucet open for many tokio there's a double uncertainty of how big a health risk they're facing and what that will do to the health of their businesses i asked out of sierra tokyo. farmers in the philippines are finding it tough to get their produce to market because of the virus long down more than 200 filipinos have died of illnesses linked to the virus there are around 4000 infections jamelle in dog and has more.

our visit to this farming cooperative is welcomed but there are clear protocols the province of new have a see how it is considered one of the philippines biggest important food grand juries romel have years says the price of grain has more than doubled after last year's drop in prices that's being welcomed. but he says the market is bala tiles and farmers are worried about the future. about them and we are scared for what might happen next because of this law and we're still waiting for the promised machine from the government that we were supposed to get from that if they earned and they increase it last year the philippine government has imposed strict measures to clamp down on the spread of the covert $1000.00 pandemic putting the entire region of lives on under what it calls an enhanced community quarantine.

it is home to more than 60000000 filipinos and the closure of businesses has led to a sudden loss of work that is devastating families here. reland overly n.t. owns it to hack tarpaper and to me to farm and is one of those affected. by a bias don't really count on a base year to be don't want to go to day when we do they even dictate the price at least 2 warehouses they say have closed down here and now farmers have to queue for space at trading posts like this one before the lockdown this was just an empty parking lot now this has become a temporary drop off point for farmers who are desperate to sell their vegetables those who are able to sell say they are grateful to get anything and others say they end up taking their produce back to their farms or it's left to rot. some farm owners say they don't want to harvest any more filipino farmers are among the

poorest people in the philippines most are in debt and they say they're no longer able to pay their creditors and extension of the lockdown is upsetting many here who believe it will devastate them they say they need help and they need it now. jamal and doug and al jazeera there that you see how province northern philippines uganda's president has released a home workout video to encourage citizens to stay inside during the pandemic. you know your wording was severely shared the video on twitter to demonstrate how to exercise at home uganda has imposed some of the harshest measures in africa to contain the virus. a good friday service has been held in paris nasr dam cathedral nearly a year after it was devastated by a fire only 7 people attended the ceremony as paris is under lockdown amid the

corona virus outbreak of the event was broadcast nationwide as christians around the world commemorate easter many parts of the medieval cathedral were destroyed in a fire last summer including its roof and iconic belt house but. says the ceremony of a glimpse of hope as fronts for maine's under lockdown. needed but simple they can nevertheless the archbishop of paris let this very small ceremony of any 7 people in not to die cathedral that just nearly a year ago was ravaged by flames if you remember its roof inspired collapse people around the world were shocked so for catholics around rock this is really it gave them something to hope for because here is a cathedral that is so people out there in a way being revived the practice ceremony took place inside is very important it is

a symbol of life and hope inside this great famous cherished at the top and of course there is a wider context we are in and look down here in france the restrictions are very strict that is why some people were allowed into this ceremony and the archbishop or paris they crossed that he said that we had to sort of focus and think about the many people who died the promise of the suffering during this grown the virus the crisis and also think about the health workers not others who are helping each other so i think catholics and problems and those who are not capital this is quite a moving ceremony an opportunity for france once again french people to come together remember unity. let's take a look at some of the main stories we're following here now the number of coronavirus deaths in the u.s. has risen to 16500 new york had

a record daily toll of almost 800 but there aren't some positive signs the number of new hospital admissions has dropped for a 2nd straight day. no new cases have been reported in the south korean city of daigo the heart of the country's corona virus outbreak it's the 1st time this is happened in weeks the number of new infections nationwide continues to decline south korea is the 1st major country to hold the general election during with covert 19 crisis president moon j n cast his ballot while suitably protected from month rivals for from seoul has to be said with under extreme precautions that people's health is not impacted people have to wear disposable gloves when they go in to handle ballot papers sheep distance when lining up and so actually we have to wait and see if this is going to be transferred into support for the parties and politicians in the national

assembly to support moving jay in the country's president because his popularity has stand steadily climbed during the weeks of this crisis and his approval rating now stands at a very high 57 percent indonesia is tightening emergency measures after a surge in reported infections anyone breaking the rules can be fined up to $7000.00 and jailed for up to a year country has reported more than 300 deaths. protecting global oil markets will be the main focus of a virtual meeting of g. 20 energy ministers later on friday the meeting comes a day after opec and its allies agreed to cut production the deal will see oil producing nations except mexico cut output by $10000000.00 barrels rather per day.

a cease fire off the 5 years of war the saudi u.a.e. coalition in yemen begins a 2 week troops but boothby rebels say they'll continue the fight how will this affect the conflict that has already created the world's greatest humanitarian crisis this is inside story.