i think russia's foreign policy is too soft. russian goals to be achieved not. russia on al-jazeera. lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence a warning from the world health organization as governments look for ways out of coronavirus lockdowns. and i'm a count this is out there live from doha also coming up the world's biggest economies try to finalize a deal aimed at boosting oil prices. also yemen records its 1st case of coronavirus leading to fears for how. we're. fighting

back we look at what small businesses in the us are doing to combat the effects of the disease. so the world health organization has warned governments against prematurely rolling back restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus pandemic says that while the rate of infection has been slowing in some countries others seeing an alarming surge in cases i know that some countries are already planning the transition out of stay at home districts sions w.h.o. wants to see distractions lifted as much as anyone i disable time lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence. the way down can be as dangerous as the we're if not

money properly for more on this let's bring in our white house cross one can be how could in washington d.c. and kimberly the messages keep those lockdowns going. it keep those lockdowns going even as the u.s. president has considered lifting some of those restrictions in the face of contradicting public affairs health officials here in the u.s. who say that it's important to keep those stay at home restrictions the world world health organization chief there for the 2nd time this week taking the moral high ground refusing to engage in the kind of tit for tat we saw from president trump as he continued to point the finger at the world health organization this week accusing it of being too china centric of not sort of a notifier being too slow to declare a public health emergency across the planet we saw there from the chief of the world health organization instead speaking almost directly to the united states as

you heard there in that sound bite saying that it would be a mistake to lift those restrictions too early that this could lead to a dangerous resurgence he also spoke to the issue ongoing issue of a shortage of personal protective equipment around the world and also in the united states saying that this is in fact alarming revelation one that needs to be addressed we are particularly concerned by the large number of infections reported among workers in some countries there are reports of up to 10 percent of those workers being infected this is an island trend when homes workers are at risk we have a truce. now the world health organization announcing that it's going to use its world food program chains to address this shortfall that could be as high as 30 percent of the countries that are at risk of not having the proper

equipment they are already using funds that are in existence to help move some of this but urging donors to contribute more this is notable again given the fact that the u.s. president once again doubled down on his threat to withhold funding u.s. funding to the world health organization this is significant given the fact that the united states contributes about 15 percent of that budget and is the organizations biggest donor. kerry thanks very much indeed i know you're going to stay around because we will be speaking to you about this which is the scene at the white house right now we are awaiting president donald trump to give his brief you know it takes place $21.00 g.m.t. which is about 4 hours from now but it's coming early today this suit is to good friday he'll be there alongside and he felt she almost certainly is coronavirus task force man and vice president mike pence

stay in the united states or assigns the spread of coronavirus in new york is slowing despite the state reporting more cases and the country outside of the united states the number of new hospital admissions statewide has been trending downwards the u.s. is fast approaching harf a 1000000 infections and in new york mass burials that taking place says morgues run out of space more than 16000 people have died nationwide and that is 2nd now to italy. energy ministers from the world's largest 20 economies are holding an emergency meeting on how to protect oil markets damage from the fallout from the coronavirus crisis their video conference follows a record breaking deal by opec and into lies to cut production to try to boost prices reducing output by $10000000.00 barrels a day is also aimed at countering the collapse in demand caused by the pandemic earlier i spoke to geoff colgan who's a professor of political science at brown university and author of true aggression when oil causes war and he says it's unrealistic to believe the deal will stabilize

the old markets overnight. oil markets have actually fallen on news of the deal as opposed to rising as opec plus had hoped that it would happen they were looking for a boost of up to $15.00 a barrel and in fact prices are going into reverse and that's striking because i think there's really 2 things that are happening because of what's happening here one is that while the deal does contain some substantive cuts most of what's being announced are so-called market cuts meaning that these are the kinds of things are going to happen deal or no deal these are decisions made by individual producers reacting to the change in market conditions that are you know ramping down because of lower oil prices so in some sense that this is more hype than real substance and the 2nd thing that matters for the prices is the

fact that there is a can persistent overhang in supply so the expected shortfall in demand over the next 2 months is something like $25.00 to $30000000.00 barrels a day and this deal is $10.00 to $15000000.00 barrels a day so it only goes part of the way to addressing that massive demand shock work and continuing to see oversupply and that's going to drive prices likely downwards as inventory continue to build it is significant in the sense that saudi arabia and a few of the gulf monarchies are changing their strategy to certain degree but much of what's happening here as i said is market cut this is going to happen anyway especially in the united states. yemen has announced its 1st recorded case of

coronavirus in the eastern region of hydromorph a curfew has been imposed in markets and mosques ordered to close as war in yemen enters its 6th year many fear hospitals will not be able to cope with an outbreak or bird manoli as this report. streets disaster to a 12 hour curfew imposed it's a moment many feared yemen's 1st reported case a call that 19 in the south is in port city of. yemeni medical officials and 100 region have tweeted that the person is in a stable condition in hospital. health care workers know how dangerous the virus is in a country where hall of all facilities has been destroyed by 5 years of war no. where with the governor of how drawn to inspect the patients examination and diagnosis at the feet a hospital in follow this same time has been established and ready to receive as many patients as necessary. the world health organization says it's assessing who

may have been exposed to the virus and the charity save the children says there are 700 intensive care unit beds including 65 children and 520 latest for a population of about 30000000 people confirmation of the virus came at the start of a 2 week he'll have to cease fire by the saudi u.a.e. led coalition it says the poison is to help stop the spread of the corona virus. but the spokesman told al jazeera they consider the cease fire announcement a media and political stunt and want a comprehensive deal and lead to deal. with we were very clear before the krona pandemic we wanted the world to stop completely and the siege to be fully lifted the siege makes human to wait to fight the pandemic we didn't say that the ceasefire is rejected but we expressed doubts about the intentions of the saudis who have proved that they haven't committed themselves to date unilaterally announced truce. analysts believe the saudis and the emirate isn't looking for

a face saving way out of war they can't win the pause in fighting in yemen started as the united nations security council held an emergency closed door meeting by video conference un secretary general antonio terence says he wants to work towards a cease fire in all conflicts during the pandemic many fear in a country where millions face famine and lack access to clean water it's impossible to follow simple rules to prevent the spread of the infection you're about the money out is there are efforts to eradicate a bowler in the democratic republic of congo have suffered a setback the world health organization had planned to declare the outbreak over on monday but had to call off the announcement after a new case was discovered 20 month long epidemic has killed more than 2000 people. so head here or not is there a european leaders agree on rescue on a rescue plan to help countries hit hard by the pandemic we'll have the details.

plus in the media crackdown imposing a series of restrictions after a surge in corona virus infection. hallo's turned quite hot quite quickly in some parts the arabian peninsula qatar in particular where the forecast of 39 or even forty's accompanied by quite a stiff southerly breeze of the n.t. quarter that's usually a dusty or sandy what i saw in contrast a much lower temperatures from the eastern med inwards the histories of the 14 for example coolish weather comes right down into northern side use a strong breeze is still probably dusty breeze a result of yet another system which is progressing east was taking rain into iran the following breeze and will bring a few showers in all the way from northern egypt right up to sudden turkey not an

unusual thing just maybe a little bit disappointing but i may get to sunday i think the showers are mostly gone the tensions start to rise the breeze is less strong the temperature has dropped in doha to 33 the same is true in riyadh as more of a northerly breeze gets in rattled not stiff and hot southerly for north africa the breeze is still quite strong there you can see from the satellite picture but here it is run down through egypt and sudan has taken the temperature down in khartoum for example and or down through this soho there are few showers the south of course you'd expect of nigeria's a good case in point and so indeed his camera with some storms for the next 3 days .

let me get you watch al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour and the world health organization is warning countries against lifting virus restrictions to quickly say it could lead to a deadly resurgence of the outbreak at the agency also expressed concern over reports of up to 10 percent of health workers being infected with hiv 19 in some

countries. key to energy g 20 energy ministers are holding a virtual meteor to finalize details to protect global oil markets damaged by the 19 outbreak that video conference follows a record breaking deal by opec to cut oil output by 10000000 barrels a day try to use prices. yemen has announced his 1st recorded case of corona virus the infection is in the city of alice shot in the eastern region of country more than the port has been closed for a week along with markets and mosques. now the world's 4th most populous nation is in forcing stricter social distancing after a sudden surge in corona virus cases public transport has been reduced to half capacity and gatherings are banned in indonesia the new rules are in place for 2 weeks in the country of more than 270000000 people just that washington is in the capital jakarta and she says there is growing public concern about a lack of testing. this isn't

a lockdown but indicate that jakarta is on its way to. these restrictions on gatherings. and reducing public transport to indicate that. the capital city is taking this crisis very seriously now some of these measures like. place but now we have. social distancing measures around 7000 us. in large groups across. different. across. is that every area. from the central government if they want to enact social distancing measures that may of course slow down the responses particular.

cases. by that point the virus had already spread well beyond china and many people were very suspicious as to why in. a single case one of the most populous nations. 170000000 the other problem is of course now with 3000. 300 deaths. so perhaps the crisis. realize well let's take a closer look at the impact it's having on. track a. number of cases $1000631.00 the total number. 110000. you see the list of countries by the united states approaching. a 1000000 deaths cufflink cases are should say and as you spall

down a long way down 37 at last count which is extraordinary for a country of 274000000 people you'll find indonesia now there it is a total number of $3512.00 cases and total number of deaths just $306.00 let's examine that further we can speak to david alexander who's professor of a risk in disaster reduction at university college london david those numbers as a say for a country of 274000000 seem extraordinarily small what's your view. well it rather depends where it is here is in the cycle of the disease it may be simply at the start of it these things don't happen instantaneously and in fact indonesia may be tracing a case where there is proliferation of the disease and that really is a challenge some years ago and into the reason cabinet minister said to me there

disasters where their top priority in government let's say that's still true but this is a very different design after that to the kind that they normally deal with which are somewhat regional areas within the country this is potentially something that the entire country will have to deal with right and that is a problem is that in the sense that they could be cases all over the country but knowing about them is the issue. well i think that's true not merely for a disease or prefer any country but it is particularly children particularly worrisome for countries densely populated and have very large populations in relatively small places how capable is in the needs you're of handling what could be a large upgrade. well they have a great deal of expertise with disasters in general and disasters cause an enormous amount of disruption in indonesia in fact they're almost weekly events and i'm talking there about volcanic eruptions earthquakes tsunamis floods and landslides

and so on unfortunately as these are rather different they are facing a situation that they probably haven't faced in any great degree before they have had it regional food shortages and regional epidemics and outbreaks of disease for example in short the areas of north jakarta however i don't think that river faced anything quite like this year in the history of the modern country right and now we're learning that stricter restrictions will be in place will there be enough and will it be possible to enforce social distancing in the way that it needs to be one of these the questions that are faced by every country you're not talking united states wherever and they are just as much close by and it easier jakarta is an enormously highly populated city it is absolutely vast and it is extremely densely

populated it takes an enormous amount of time simply to drive across jakarta as a city and hence i think there is plenty of scope for the transmission of the disease we will simply have to see whether the measures are effective at coordinating it and stopping it from proliferating if not then there will have to be more stringent measures i'm going to have to see whether those were that there really is no other choice right and what about across the region how neighboring countries very. i think they will face similar sorts of problems we will have to see how the disease performs in tropical environments as well. the philippines for example is another country that is well 1st and daily with disaster but once again the disasters it usually has to deal with which include up to 30 major tropical storms a year tend to be very regional within the country more subtle learning curve it

would be and of course of a rather different nature several of us have to see how well they're capable of adapting their structures for dealing with designs to to what comes next and we also have to worry about countries like nigeria which is equally very very populous it has a very good structure for managing disasters except that when you get down to the local level it tends to thin out rather drastically so we'll see how nigeria copes as well i just have to be hopeful that somehow the west this pandemic passes these countries by their values and we do appreciate the time if i may and that is there could be a 2nd wave if we look back 219-1920 the influenza pandemic the 2nd wave was worse most of the deaths there were in developing countries nobody knows how many in fact the estimates differ by 100 percent depreciate your expertise mr alexander thanks very much indeed for that thank you. for the 1st time in weeks no new cases have

been reported in the south korean city of the at the heart of the country's current of ours 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 in daegu. well south korea is the 1st major country to hold a general election during that $1000.00 crisis for us if you join in cost his ballot well suitably protected and he's been praised for getting $1.00 of the world's worst outbreaks under control and that's helped his democratic polity of career regain support following an economic slowdown the corruption scandals and tensions with north korea a day after we called him brazilians to get back to work the president. has appeared in public in defiance of international guidelines on social distancing in a video posted by one of his sons also in our own scene visiting a bakery with his entourage in the capital brasilia with for photographs with work

and some of whom removed their protective masks his visit also prompted others to gather outside the president has repeatedly downplayed the pandemic. european union finance ministers have agreed to a $590000000000.00 rescue package aimed at propping up economies devastated by the coronavirus crisis it includes a short term employment scheme which aims to prevent millions of workers from losing their jobs funds will also be made available in loans to member states which need help with health care virus cure and prevention cause but the ministers couldn't agree on shared borrowing and perspiring tomes on how to fund long term economic recovery dominic cain has been following developments from berlin and he says the e.u. deal may have been agreed i'm alone in principle but the details are still being put and. it's really it's by i really want to see the e.u. front up with guarantees full then debts called euro vons all in the current crisis

corona bombs effectively having the germans and other northern european countries guaranteeing that debts so that they then can concentrate their economies on fights in corona that has not happened and in some ways it was probably never going to happen right now because there is resistance from the germans the finns the dutch and the austrians all are really bulking at the idea of providing this blank check as at least that's how it's portrayed by several important eminent business types in germany don't want to see that happen so what's in they have instead is solidarity they have the metaphorical equivalent of tea and sympathy for the southern european countries they're being told ok you can have fast loans you don't have to repay them right now and there's money that will help your employers keep their stuff on the payroll without them going to the wall right now but this is temporary assistance it's not something that the e.u.

can keep paying loan into next year is what this is not what's on the table right now. the number of coronavirus related deaths in the united kingdom has risen to almost 9000 that's up by nearly a 1000 on the previous day the health sector says it's vital that people respect lockdown measures it's a time of year when people normally come together but however warm the weather however tempting your local beach or park we need everyone to stay at home because in hospitals across the country and it just starts battling day and night to keep desperately sick people breathing and they need you to stay at home well jonah hole has been to london parks to see if people are sticking to the measures. well here we are almost 3 weeks now into the u.k.'s particularly restrictive lockdown measures introduced by the prime

minister boris johnson on march the 23rd just before he went ill it's the easter weekend of course lovely sunny spring weather and if ever lockdown fatigue we're going to set in where you might expect that it would happen now i'm in a london park this is a london park in which social distancing looks to be practiced pretty sensibly perhaps not the same picture in every park across the country as this sunny weekend progress is but the measure the message from the government is very simple keep doing this keep these measures up stay indoors as much as possible exercise only once a day no picnicking no sunbathing and we've heard in the last 24 hours from patrick vallance the chief scientific advisor also from dr paul cosford medical director of public health england both pointing to 2 very important metrics at the moment they rate of transmission the rate of infection seems to be plateau ing it's not going up as it was and the rate of hospital admissions i.c.u. admissions seem to be coming down just 2 weeks ago those with doubling every 3 days

are now doubling every 6 or more days and both of these metrics they say are evidence that the lockdown is working the death toll is still terrifyingly high they point out that these numbers and largely people who would have contracted the virus before the lockdown came into place and as long as these measures are kept in place as long as the like lockdown is rigidly observed and it may well be extended next week they would expect to see those numbers begin to fall within the next couple of weeks. well small business owners across united states are trying out new methods to help them survive the virus some are turning to the internet rather than waiting on congress to decide whether to free up 250000000000 dollars to help keep them afloat in jordan has this. even before the code at 19 pandemic triggered a state of emergency in virginia forcing non-essential businesses to close upward fee thing don the owners of honest soul yoga were moving their classes online

making that initial choice right away start things right away starts free meetings i think has helped our team. and yeah and it has helped us generate a lot of content share and continue to interact i asked never fight to achieve so he says but money. a few doors down a martial arts studio has turned to videos to keep its students on track. no one can master instructor result dogs says not being hands on means relying on extra help our parents and our families have been very very resilient and creative in ways in which they train and in fact parents are even more inclined to practice the techniques with them so they do in a sense do get some sense of sparring and practice in their. lopez are concerned

the rent utilities and paychecks are still do even though our c.e.o.'s are essentially running dark right now that doesn't mean those payments go away. and yet we're still responsible to be sure that we can you are very bad to have business for people. the pandemic is also challenging arts organizations to rethink how they engage with visitors and the broader community right now the only way to experience the. the boca raton museum of art in florida is to visit its online exhibitions or take a virtual class this is causing us to do is to rethink our entire practice and the presentation that we make to the public what is our role what is the role of art in society we have to make an even more compelling case. for the mantra has to be creativity has not been canceled all of us we have no idea how this is going to end

when this is going to and so just keep supporting each other up with each other in checking in with people your neighbors for well a deep breath and deep trust that people will support the businesses and organizations that enrich their lives nell and after the pandemic is over chamber oh get out roslyn jordan al-jazeera washington. so this is out there these are the top stories in the world health organization has warned governments against prematurely rolling back restrictions aimed at containing the krona virus pandemic it says that while the rate of infection has been slowing in some countries others are seeing an alarming surge in cases i know that some countries are already planning the transition out of stay at home

restrictions w.h.o. wants to see distractions leafed it as much as anyone i descend time lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence their way down can be as dangerous as the way up if not money properly. jihad 20 energy ministers are holding a virtual meeting to finalize details to protect global oil markets damaged by the covert 1000 outbreak that video conference follows a record breaking deal by opec to cut oil output by 10000000 barrels a day to try to boost global prices yemen has announced its 1st recorded case of corona virus the infection is in the city of shot in the eastern region of hundreds more at the port has been closed for a week along with markets and mosques that there are signs the spread of creative arts in new york is slowing despite the state reporting more cases than any country

outside the united states number of new hospital admissions statewide has been trending down once the us is fast approaching half a 1000000 infections and in new york mass burials that taking place as morgues run out of space the world's 4th most populous nation is in forcing strict social distancing after a sudden surge in corona virus cases a public transport has been reduced to half capacity and gatherings are banned in indonesia the new rules are in place for 2 weeks in the country of more than 270000000 people just and this bulletin with pictures from the white house that is the briefing room there where we would expect donald trump the president to come out and give his daily briefing on the coronavirus who will be joining that just as soon as he does one use coming up right after inside story by fire.

well record breaking cuts in production be enough to stop the oil price slump crude produces led by saudi arabia and russia agree to the biggest of a reduction in oil for say so who will be most affected this is inside story. hello welcome to the program and its factories shut grounded cars and trucks off the roads in many cities on the lock down demand for oil has.