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$20.00 nations try to shore up an industry ravaged by the coronavirus. hello authorities around the world are warning people to stay at home and abide by tougher strictures to movements as the coronavirus pandemic reaches a significant point so the official global death toll has now passed 100000 with more than 1600000 confirmed cases but experts believe the number of deaths attributed to the virus is deceptively low the u.k. has recorded europe's highest ever number of hospital fatalities in a single day with 980 deaths in spain the government says it's beginning to see results from its strict locked out as its daily death rate comes down but it does remain europe's most affected country after italy with nearly $16000.00 dying from the disease now despite the success being seen in some countries the world health

organization has warned governments against prematurely rolling back restrictions aimed at containing the 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 lifted as much as anyone i've the same time lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence the way down can be as dangerous as the way if not money properly and the us president all trump is among those taking an optimistic view of the statistics is daily briefing on friday he said the number of infections a slowing down suggesting the country is getting closer to the peak we're seeing hospital admissions declining very substantially as i said

a nationwide the number of new cases per day is flattening substantially suggesting that we're near the peak and our comprehensive strategy is working overtime or guidelines to slow the spread or decreasing the rate of new cases very substantially and will result in fewer hospital admissions and we're seeing that it's. incredible i think with with no exceptions it's looking like it's slow let's get an update from john hendren is joining us via skype from chicago so the president sounding optimistic about opening up business as an ending lockdowns across the us john. that's right the president has been touting those high numbers saying that fewer than 100000 people could be the ultimate death toll here that sounds peripheral it's more than all of the wars the us has fought since korea but he points out that the original estimates were 2200000 if the

united states did nothing new hotspots like detroit and new orleans are beginning to stabilize their rapid swing of this death toll and even talked about numbers as low as 526-5000 americans killed still again riff it number but the president has been focused on this in part we are told by people in who are close to the administration because he's been focused on how the economy is him is helping his presidency and his electability and the news on that score has been very bad the washington post reported that a group called oxford economics says that it is hurting his popularity that it's dropped from as high as 55 percent to now numbers more like 43 percent that the gross domestic product would drop 4 percent over the course of the rest of the year and that unemployment which is now between 12 and 13 percent of

a number we have not seen since the great depression here in the united states that it could remain above 10 percent in the fall and of course that election comes in november so these are things that the president has been focused on one of the things he wants to do in response to that is to create what he calls an opening our country council which he announced today in his news briefing this is friday here in the u.s. of course and then that would be announced on tuesday so the president desperately wants to get the economy up and moving there is talk that he wants to have that happen on may 1st he had originally talked about easter this coming weekend but there are there are. medical forecasters who suggest that might not be a good idea and there's also a report john that says that the u.s. government predicts a spike in deaths of this summer if those stay at home orders are lifted what's that report about what's. that's right it's a new york times report and it summarizes the views of the department of homeland

security and the department of health and human services which say the essential either about $100.00 to $150.00 days after the the lockdown orders that for most states here in the u.s. came in mid march that is when the peak death rate would hit and for most states here in the u.s. that is late summer. essentially that report says those numbers would have been substantially higher 300000 deaths here in the u.s. and 195000000 infections had nothing happened no lockdown orders no businesses closed with this steady state you're looking at 200000 deaths and 160000000 still infected that is about half of the country in a country of 362380 1000000 still a dire prediction in some medical officials are suggesting that those orders be extended past may 1 to more like early june all right john thank you john 100 reported from chicago and those positive signs are starting to increase in spain

and italy but it's higher prime minister says restaurant since there will be extended for mccain has more from berlin. it's a stark example of what the coronaviruses done to this continent the traditional good friday papal passion service in rome and pope francis forced to preside over a ceremony with almost no congregation because the pandemic continues to kill thousands of people every day we are particularly concerned by the large number of infections reported among health workers in some countries there are reports of up to 10 percent of poles would go to being infected this is an alarming trend. when health workers are at risk we are all trees but just as corona targets populations so it attacks their economies which is why late on thursday e.u. finance ministers agreed

a vast new credit package for those worst affected fast loans for governments and short term aid to companies which might otherwise go under they had up to around the trillion euros a step change in the economic order nice and we did in our union this emergency plan we'll see all our economic and social fabric as we dive into a recession. but it's not enough for several stricken european states italy has long argued for wealthier countries to guarantee the debt of the poorer ones which this deal does not approach valid but the main battle that italy must carry on the european tables concerns a fund that must be finals with the real economy of the airport such as with in europe bonds yes the famous euro bonds the font must have a power proportionate to the numbers and with sources that are required by law or economy. i because the impact of the lockdown across southern europe is clear

in spain the beaches are empty with no prospect of this changing anytime soon on any normal good friday afternoon you could expect this area of central berlin to be packed with tourists and berliners alike all enjoying the sunshine and yet corona means they can't those who are here doing the exercise there are allowed to do that many of the shops around here are shut down even the most iconic hotel in berlin and very low occupancy at the outline right now all because of corona which is why the staff inside have taken to baking easter themed cakes to provide to the homeless of the city but such gestures alone cannot bring anything but a temporary or spite in a pandemic that shows no sign of stopping dominic kane al-jazeera burnin. as we saw earlier the death toll in the u.k. is growing rapidly but the government says there are signs the lockdown

restrictions are starting to work they warned it is vital people continue to adhere to the rules and stay at home jonah hill has more 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 23rd just before he went ill it's the easter weekend of course lovely sunny spring weather and if ever lock down for tea we're going to set in with 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 it's the 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. battling day and night to keep desperately sick people breathing and we've heard in the last 24 hours from sir patrick vallance the chief scientific adviser also from dr paul cos for medical director of public health in them both pointing to 2 very important metrics at the moment the rate of transmission 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 were 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 are 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 lack 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 or torn yemen has confirmed its care 1st case of the corona virus prompting fear is that an outbreak had ravaged the country's already decimated health care system the case was confirmed in the region of hazare moats on the 12 hour curfew has been implemented there to prevent the spread of the virus the united nations says an outbreak would be catastrophic for a burden monthly reports. streets deserted a 12 hour curfew imposed it's a moment many feared yemen star support a case of covert 19 in the southeast import city of us to have yemeni medical officials in 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 half of all facilities have been destroyed by 5 years of war for the north in the city of say une doctors a perry moods to isolate anyone who shows signs of the illness damage to the market as a bad decision i say when i am an isolation center was open that said you general hospital as a precaution against the virus and for any sudden cases the center has 4 rooms it also has 10 beds but the number can be increased to a care unit has an artificial breathing machine and other intensive care equipment . 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 lost to cease fire by the saudi you

a led coalition it says the poison is to help stop the spread of the corona virus. both sides of accuse one another of violating the cease fire. but a spokesman told our desire they consider the cease fire announcement a media and political stunt i want a comprehensive deal. 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 yemen too weak to fight the pandemic we didn't say that the cease fire 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 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 good terrorist says he wants to work towards a cease fire and 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 about among the al-jazeera. more ahead including war plans to mark the end of world war 2 was renewing tension between poland and russia. the printout. reopens for an intimate good friday service.

hello that kind of warm weather across western areas of australia but plenty of cloud around for the tools the south now the good news a cool such a cool site and how is well out of the picture but not before of course some damage into tong was moving pretty rapidly at this point it did bring the heavy rain and also some strong damaging winds and you can see the damage that was done but luckily it was moving very quickly so no more signs of that it's not affecting any areas a land where we will see areas affected so there is a victoria the southeast of new south wales and certainly tasmania we've got some strong winds again through the bus straights and heavy amounts of rain and also beginning to work their way across tools new zealand some warnings in place in new zealand for just that and then there's a warm weather out across the west a bit of a drop as we head into sunday those showers continue across northern sections of western australia on just in and around darwin as well it does carry away on sunday away from southern areas of australia but at the same time we are left with a fairly county conditions but as a side up how much in perth well above the average but it dips down by sunday and

monday back down to the average what we should be seeing this time of year and then in asia a very mixed picture we've got more cloud streaming its way across much of honshu the rate is very heavy saturday across southern areas of china but not a bad day to start the weekend across much of japan. counting the cost from a health emergency to economic disaster could the world be heading for another financial crisis and as workers lose their jobs at a faster pace in the great depression what can the governments do to help and who is falling through the cracks. counting the cost on al-jazeera. unprompted and uninterrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center.

hello again top stories on al-jazeera global death toll of the corona virus pandemic has now passed the 100000 with more than 1600000 confirmed cases but experts believe the number of deaths attributed to the virus is deceptively low. the world health organization has warned governments against prematurely rolling back restrictions aimed at containing the pandemic it says that while the rate of infection has been slowing in some countries others are seeing an alarming surge in case it's. worth or in yemen has confirmed its 1st case of the corona virus prompting fears that an outbreak could ravage the countries are already decimated health care system cases could for and the reason of how that amount on the 12 hour

curfew has been implemented there to prevent the spread of the virus. the world's top oil producing nations have agreed on the need to stabilize the price of oil which has been hit by the coronavirus pandemic and our jim ministers of the world's $20.00 largest economies discussed. deal by video conference and agreed to establish a focus group to develop recorded response it follows there is there's agreement by the oil cartel opec and its allies to cut global production by 10 percent but the pact was stalled after mexico failed to agree to its share of the cuts president donald trump has since said the u.s. will further reduce its output to help mexico just kogan is a professor of political science at brown university and author of petro aggression when oil causes war he says it's unrealistic to believe the deal will stabilize the oil markets any time soon. 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. efforts to eradicate ebola in the democratic republic of congo have suffered a setback the world health organization had planted a quick break over on monday but had to call off the announcement officer a new case was discovered the person who was diagnosed died on thursday the

epidemic has lasted almost 2 years and has killed more than 2000 people charles president says his country's troops will no longer take part in military operations outside national borders follows the end of an offensive against the armed group. which left more than 50 soldiers dead nicholas has more from dakar in neighboring senegal. you know when it was made on national television the president of chad and then seeing that no charge in troops will be deployed outside of chad and this comes just after the president led on the ground in the offensive against books in the lake chad area days ago he announced that he was frustrated with his counterpart the nigerian president. and the nigerians troop inability to tackle boko haram in the region china is the 2nd largest contributor troops in the un peacekeeping stabilizing force in mali where armed groups such as

al-qaeda affiliates. in the greater sahara are stepping up their operation and so the country in the sahara region is at a tipping point france is struggling it has launched several aerial operation 83 in the last week to try to stem the violence but the announcement that chad is pulling out its troops doesn't bode well for the good for the region and there is fear that there could be more violence as chargin troops return home. tensions between poland and russia are rising ahead if events planned to mark the end of world war 2 warsaw is accusing moscow of trying to rewrite history is it remembers the thousands of polish officers murdered by soviet secret police 80 years ago and reports of the cats and forest where the massacre took place. in this russian forest mass graves filled with bodies of polish officers were discovered in 1943 now

a memorial site it shows the truth soviet leader joseph stalin always denied he blamed what is known as the cutting massacre on hitler's troops only after the collapse of the soviet union did russia acknowledge the estimated $22000.00 executions were carried out by stalin secret police. but leading up to the 80th anniversary of the massacre statements on russian state t.v. have again started to question this because an angry response from poland. and local activists have also demanded the removal of memorial plaques remembering the polish victims no one is allowed to tell untrue things about history and we will prove one by one moment in the mountains or other things what do you say to poland when they say you are rewriting history and changing the fact we. disagree with it because we don't rewrite anything 80 years after the

cutting massacre it still causes controversy between russia and poland russia is preparing to celebrate the 75th anniversary of its victory in world war 2 but the government is being accused of changing historical facts by promoting a narrative that always has dark truth and critics say president putin is not only angering his neighbors but is also turning back the clock on recounts alleviation when the european parliament last year stated that the soviet union was asking the as nazi germany for starting the 2nd world war president putin responded with anger he blamed poland instead accusing the polish him pastor to nazi germany of being anti semitic. this is not a question to us this is the question to them why are they doing it what do they created for what does poland have when it advances a thesis that reportedly the us is or was equally guilty in storing the 2nd world war but this is absurd. we didn't ask who made to 27000000 deaths the soviet union

lost more people during world war 2 than any other nation the defeat of the ninety's in 1945 is commemorated every year with a parade in moscow threat square but some say put ins obsession with the history of world war 2 has everything to do with modern day politics mutual russia doesn't have anything else to offer a total failure in economy social policy stagnation and destruction of our national culture therefore the only thing possible is to use some myths about outstanding achievements from the past beginning of course about the price that was paid who started it how the leadership acted and they acted awfully the russian government has not officially changed its conclusion that stalin was responsible for the captain massacre but sources have told our 0 day belief that without the support of top officials attempts to rewrite this dark chapter would not have been possible to stop fast and al-jazeera from the cotton forest

a good friday service has been held in paris. nearly a year after it was devastated by a large fire but only 7 people attended the ceremony as the french capital remains under a coronavirus lockdown as reports. the sound of a finding echoed around. the musician dressed in protective clothing because the cathedral is safe after the fire ravaged it a year ago. the archbishop of paris led a good friday ceremony meeting at an ancient representation of a crown of thorns that have been rescued by firefighters with frogs and lockdown because of the coronavirus crisis only 7 people were allowed to attend. the in the sun usual time we ask you god for all those who are victims of this terrible illness those who are grieving those who have dedicated themselves to hope love each other. the ceremony offered an opportunity for a rare glimpse inside not

a dam since renovation work began last year the fire destroyed its roof spire and some of its intricate stained glass windows the site of the medieval and gothic splendor in flames shocked people around the world nearly $1000000000.00 in donations has so far been pledged to restore the cathedral but under the french government's coronavirus restrictions rebuilding work has been halted. 'd the construction site was closed indefinitely at the beginning of the confinement like most of the construction sites in the country public authorities made this wise decision churches and other places of worship remain open during the lockdown but the french government has bound services and religious gatherings an exception was made for the ceremony not to dam the far not a dam was a moment of national crisis the brought people together one year on i don't know if the crisis is creating

a sense of national solidarity. the catholics in france this easter is clearly unusual obliged to stay indoors because the coronavirus there are unable to attend church will travel to spend time with family and friends for many the ceremony not will be a symbol of hope revival and a moment of contemplation in such difficult times. just they are frauds staying in france an orchestra is turning the tables by taking its music to health workers and their patients. 2 2 with theaters closed because of the lockdown the border opera is performing at hospitals and elderly care homes realizations are showing their support for the health care system austin district social distancing rules. a 3 man

crew has reached the international space station after an extra long pre-departure of quarantine because of the risk of coronavirus the 2 russian cosmonauts and then american astronaut blasted off and they're so used capsule towards the i s s on thursday harsher restrictions meant their families weren't allowed to attend the launch the 3 men will remain on board until october. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the global death toll of the corona virus pandemic has now passed the 100000 with more than 1600000 confirmed cases but experts believe the number of deaths attributed to the virus is deceptively low the world health organization has warned governments against prematurely rolling back coronavirus restrictions it says that while the rate of infection has been slowing in some countries others are seeing

a surge in cases i know that some countries are already planning the transition out of stay at home districts shoes w joe wants to see districts use lifted as much as anyone i december time lifting restrictions too quickly could lead to a deadly resurgence their way down dangerous. if not money properly u.s. president doll trump is among those taking an optimistic view of the statistics at his daily briefing on friday he said the number for infections is slowing down. we're seeing hospital admissions declining very substantially as i said a nationwide the number of new cases per day is flattening substantially suggesting that we are near the peak and our comprehensive strategy is working overtime or guidelines to slow the spread or decreasing the rate of new cases very

substantially and will result in fewer hospital admissions and we're seeing that it's. incredible i think with with no exceptions it's looking like it's low. energy ministers in the world's top 20 economies have met via video conference to try to stabilize prices hit by the coronavirus pandemic on thursday opec and its allies agree to cut oil production by 10 percent. the spokesman of the un recognized government forces say says her the rebels have attacked yemeni military positions 74 times in the past 24 hours u.s. had urged the armed group to respect a 2 week in a lot or all cease fire meanwhile yemen has now confirmed its 1st case the coronavirus have today took the headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up after counting the costs.

hello i'm daryn jordan this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a look at the world of business and economics this week it's been a little more than a decade since the financial crisis will the pandemic push the banking and financial industry into another meltdown more jobs.