a great deal to find out the truth in very complex situations that include major global players we've been told to you sarber touch from russia there are dangers to reading. troops in the posts troops weren't on 00. 1 month on from the declaration of a global pandemic to go back to where it all began the wet to markets of asia that have been blamed for this crisis. or again i'm a star in this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a rush to the shops in turkey ahead of a lockdown taking effect across the country. cameroon launches nationwide testing officials brace for

a surge in confirmed cases. and google and apple are developing an alert to let you know if you've come into contact with someone who's infected but does that infringe on your privacy. well it's now one month on from the coronavirus being declared a global pandemic the crisis is engulfing the united states it's reported the highest number of dead in a single day more than $2100.00 half a 1000000 americans are infected and the situation is expected to get while before it gets better the virus is why it was believed to have started in a market that was trading on wild animals and china has now banned the sale of wildlife for food but the animals remain on sale for medicinal purposes u.s. politicians are among those calling for what markets to be permanently closed but as jessica washington explains it's not that simple

a warning viewers may find some of the images in this report to staffing. before his customers arrive palace ponto spends the morning preparing his most popular dish it's called a traditional best meat curry popular in some parts of indonesia he's followed this recipe for decades but the recent outbreak of covert 19 has got him worried so the beginning of a i've been reading the news about this virus i wonder is it the same type of bat that we use i've never worried about disease until now maybe it has to do with how we prepare the meat. the trade of live wild animals for food medicine clothing and more has gone on for years but as the world grapples with the outbreak of coma 19 the risk it poses to public health is now under scrutiny. it's believed the virus most likely emerged from this market in ruhani probably involving bats but also possibly other animals such as penguins. the market in rouhani is still closed and

the beijing government has issued a temporary ban on similar live wildlife markets elsewhere in china but there are many similar markets around asia trading wild animals like this one in indonesia north so the way i see province that's snakes and other wildlife as well as dogs and cats are all sold here alive in cages stacked on top of each other. when you have different animals in such close contact it is possible for cross species infections to happen other diseases can also be transferred between species and then infect a human. ending the exotic wildlife trade completely is almost impossible many people with livelihoods depend on it and the trade goes on in many corners of the well animal rights activists say wildlife conservation isn't just about saving animals live but humans tune. people have exploited nature and

wildlife they catch them from spaces where they should be free when you combine that with poor hygiene markets it is a risk a lot is still unknown about this virus and exactly how it began but what is clear is that this isn't just a global health crisis but an environmental one to jessica washington to sera jakarta well stephen golf is the founder of frail and a counterattack trafficking organization and he explains how viruses can be transmitted to people from animals it's not just wet markets but markets remember are basically outdoor super meat markets people go there to buy fish also chickens ducks etc but in china until now anyway there have been wild animal sections in those markets so you can also buy in addition to the big some chickens you could buy you know maybe turtles snakes bats or other kinds of animals but really all kinds of wildlife markets across the region even across the world are ticking time

bombs they all have the potential of transmitting a virus it just takes one infected animal to jump to a person and then we get something like hope at 90 it's a global issue people tend to look at this as a china iris or a china problem china is the number one consumer of wildlife in the world but united states is the number 2 consumer of wildlife who are of the european union is 3rd so again any kind of wildlife market even online platforms could be hosting animals that have a buying privilege we have no immunity. well in some encouraging news the number of daily deaths in spain has now fallen for the 3rd day in a row $510.00 people died that's the smallest jump in $1000.00 days this takes the total number of fatalities that to more than $16000.00 full turkey has now put its most populated areas under

a 2 day lockdown to try to contain the spread of the virus there people rush to grocery and convenience stores after that announcement 31 provinces are affected including the biggest cities istanbul and ankara but bakeries hospitals pharmacies and workplaces making medical equipment are exempt and the lockdown is due to end on sunday at midnight turkey's confirmed 98 more deaths from the virus on friday bringing the total number to more than 1000 so then closely earlier is live for us in istanbul it seems that this has been a long time coming and local authorities pressing for a lockdown on pushing back what finally got him over the line. well done has a strike to to avoid any major lockdown across turkey because they want to contain a possible fallout on the economy that's why add on the has sat since the beginning that the economy worlds of the country must keep were late and that was the idea that's why since the 1st case was reported

a month ago they have gradually. impose restrict on people's mobility like suspending international flights restricting domestic flights closing the schools cafes far as restaurants those measures were all in place and they have made calls to encourage people to stay at home but the government has as i said avoided a full major lockdown especially in cities like in a city like istanbul with more than 15000000 population that is the economy is center economic capital of the country however this was the yesterday's announcement of a lockdown was unprecedented it was wanted unprecedented we know that the scientific board on the under the health ministry had been recalled mending a partial lockdown or a similar lockdown but was refusing but for the last 3 days in istanbul the weather has been perfect that's why people have been going out yes people are going to work

people above the age of 65 and below the age 20 are banned from going out but people who are working in the factories public sector they need to go they need to go work that's why especially yesterday was a very crowded in istanbul especially in the old town that we call as historical the traffic was it would have been like as if it's a regular friday that's why the authorities the local authorities mainly the science forward interior minister they have consulted with the presidency and they announced this unprecedented lockdown which was unexpected by the people that's why . they got panic and they went to the grocery stores as you have also explained but there was a temporary beginning from the early hours of this morning in many cities in a somewhat guards and other places like this quiet ever boise is at home where local authorities are bringing bread to the elderly people they are checking out by

volunteers on the elderly people as well but many expect that this. this lockdown that was announced on the floor this weekend will continue for the coming weekends because it's all of the april and the weather is going to be nicer and it's really getting more difficult to keep turkish people let's home unless there is a draconian measure that would push people in polls people to stay at home an announced by the government and be watching to see if it is extended indeed some casserly that for us in istanbul thank you santa well there's still no vaccine for kovan 1000 or any specially developed treatment and so it's spread with alarming speed around the world infecting well over one and a half 1000000 people however there has been some success in containing the spread but the w.h.o. is warning countries against lifting restrictions too early in case that triggers a 2nd wave victoria gayton the reports. an unprecedented response to

a virus unknown to the world just a few months ago now or nearly every continent country and street people's lives are being affected dramatically by covert 19. it originated in china but by march it was clear the coronavirus was a global problem. italy ordered a national lockdown 2 days later the world health organization made a red declaration deeply concerned by the alarming levels of spread and severity and by the alannah mean a level is in action. we have that for demand to be an assessment so that 19 can be contacted i used as a pandemic when the w.h.o. declared a pandemic all march the 11th there was a total of 118000 cases globally nearly 4300 people had died but 90 percent of those infected with hiv 19 were in just 4 countries china south korea italy and

iran a month later much has changed the number of known infections is approaching 2000000 across more than 180 countries and around 100000 people have died the united states has more confirmed cases than any other country wealthy nations with sophisticated health care systems have struggled to contain the virus so what chances that the millions of people in poor countries with far fewer resources. most governments have decided to now at least drastic measures on necessary to save lives no matter the cost many have implemented unprecedented lockdowns to slow the spread of the virus so health care systems are overwhelmed the aim is to flatten the curve that means preventing a huge surge of new cases in a very short period of time china has done it you can see that malt here in purple and in italy and. spain the number of you confirmed cases has been trending

downwards raising hopes the worst is compare that to the united states and the u.k. where the number of new cases has been going up almost every day governments are warning of a potential 2nd wave of infections when the lockdowns a lifted china was able to slow the spread of the virus after around $21.00 days of lockdown it appears it has taken italy a similar amount of time. is the world winning the fight against the corona virus we have to wait many more months for our lives to return to normal scientists say we're in uncharted territory victoria gate to be al-jazeera. researchers in china have now discovered airborne traces of corona virus can travel up to 4 meters away from patients that had previously been thought to travel or need to meters now this study tested surface and air samples from wards treating people infected with carbon 19 at a hospital and will harm the researchers found the virus was mainly concentrated on

the floors and that some medical staff also picked it up on their shoes well earlier i spoke to dr james trout he's a senior research fellow and head of the epidemiological modeling unit at monash university and he has more on the reception china. we've previously had the understanding that it's been predominately droplet and finite transmission which means that it can transmit on objects it can last up to 72 hours on surfaces it's possible that that is one of the reasons why it's it's spreading more rapidly and those new results from china will have to be interpreted with what we previously understood about the virus that one of the one of the biggest reasons why it's transmitting so rapidly is because it's so frequently asymptomatic we have people who are asymptomatic for a period of time up to some days before they develop symptoms or they remain asymptomatic entirely through the duration of their own ascend i think there are important factors as well we have various policies that have been implemented in various parts of the world that don't necessarily follow the w.h.o.

recommendations countries has made decisions based on their interpretation of the evidence which is somewhat mixed the only way that they can be effective really is if the people who are unwell where and when we have such a high proportion of people who are asymptomatic it's really only when you get the entire community wearing face masks that you're preventing cases and frequent frequently what we say what i sort of say day to day i think around my community is that the people who are most at risk of the people who are wearing them and we don't have widespread use of them there's so much going on with the with the response of the public health response that it's hard to tell really what effect they having and i guess we do need we do a great clarity at the international level around how we should be using this intervention. still ahead on al-jazeera by some us king whether the european union can survive following its response to the pandemic.

hello there pretty good couple of days ahead across central and southern areas of china however things are really set to change into western areas of japan this is a system where as we go through sunday a very heavy amounts of rain pushing through. on into western areas of honshu showers all the way towards tokyo just 13 degrees celsius staying dry up into the guy to say the system is on its way also we're now seeing a few showers across the korean peninsula has been dry here ready for quite a long time sunny and warm back again into beijing as a say most of china's dying fine for the next couple of days so 22 degrees in hong kong but just look at the system winding itself up some very heavy amounts of rain or the cycle ation some very strong winds and bringing a lot of moisture. we go through monday so some very heavy amounts of rain into tokyo and pushing to those northern areas of honshu and then into india no

particular heavy rain here instead really it's about the heat the temperatures particularly into non-poor 40 celsius and then you can see one of the slow western coastal areas a carola we could have wanted to showers elsewhere all the more the way of clouds as we go through monday but generally it's a dry picture was to say these temperatures really on the rise 41 in our pool 105 degrees fahrenheit. from the al-jazeera london protocol center to special guests in conversation to see resistance and i see joy in the midst of your books do that unprompted uninterrupted why are all of our people of color and they're just one color this way there is no i don't say that shouldn't every people have no color but exactly fatima bhutto meets marc lamont hill i very much thought i was going to look at a bad movie studio to be unscripted on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm mr reminder of our top stories this hour the u.s. has recorded more than 2100 deaths from coronavirus just in the past 24 hours that's the highest single day toll anywhere in the wild more than half a 1000000 cases have been detected the largest number. and turkey has put its most populated areas under a 2 day lockdown to try to contain the spread of the virus that people rush to the shops off to be announcement 31 cities are affected they include istanbul and ankara. after the virus emerged in china the epicenter of the disease soon

shifted to europe overwhelming hospitals and forcing tens of millions of people into lockdown now the continent has almost hoff of all infections worldwide and 2 thirds of deaths and there are questions about whether the european union will survive because of what critics say was a muddled response to the pandemic lawrence lee reports. try to carry out an act and. if you cast your mind back to the days before everything changed this is extraordinary how badly things were misjudged how it all went wrong this video was shared by the mayor of melanne on february 27th when politicians in northern italy were either blaming migrants for the virus or insisting the country's financial capital had to remain open for business as a piece of politics it was catastrophic this messages had a huge impact and probably led people to underestimate what was happening here

after a couple of weeks both had all these politicians had to apologize for the. more than a week before that's tens of thousands of football fans have descended on the san siro stadium in milan to watch the champions league game between atalanta and the spanish club for landsea it's now widely suspected that this was the trigger for the virus to jump countries. as the days turned into weeks the sheer horror of the situation turned into a daily reality. 300 dead 405-6708 day it's really peaked of just under a 1000. there was no where to put the bodies they used an ice rink in madrid the spanish capital absolutely on its knees by now europe was in

a flat panic its famous open borders were closed by march the 11th the u.s. had banned flights from the shan going to area and inevitably the ban was reciprocated business stops unemployment rocketed european unity was nowhere to be seen amid allegations of countries hoarding protects of medical equipment and not sharing it with its early in spain no member state can handle this crisis on their own. and because in this crisis and in our union more generally it is only by helping each other that we can help ourselves not only could europe not agree on ways of helping each other's economies there were enormous differences in the response to the pandemic sweden didn't go into lockdown at all germany tested as many people as it could for the virus and had a much lower death rate than other countries hungary bound elections and handed all

power to prime minister viktor orban to the consternation of much of the european union. france began the same grim should actually of cases as italy had a few weeks before and the u.k. to whether countries underfunded health care system was feared to be under such strain that the army helps build new hospitals in exhibition senses prime minister boris johnson had to be rushed into intensive care with the virus and is only now beginning to recover europe felt like it was in disarray. one of the biggest questions about the new reality is what it says about us and our ability to adapt to a situation none of us have ever known. in some ways has brought out the best in people a shared trauma eased slightly by community spirits on every european balcony. people try to find the positives like cleaner air or cleaner water everyone knows a day will come when the police won't find people for being outside and they'll be

a vaccine people in europe and beyond will tell their children about what it was like to live through the virus the problem is what happens between now and then. barnsley al-jazeera in london. well now in south korea electronic wristbands a to be fitted on anyone defying quarantine rules the health ministry says monitoring is essential for people who are self isolating after returning from abroad and mosques plastic gloves and sanitizer will be compulsory for voters and wednesday's parliamentary election some patients and medical staff have already cast their ballots and early voting polling stations have opened outside of treatment centers in hard hit areas well now apple and google on teaming up to develop technology to alert people when they've been close to anyone infected with the virus it's a rare collaboration between the american companies whose operating systems together power 99 percent of the wild smartphones the new technology uses unique

pretty truth signals and if they have the tracing technology turned on the phones within about 2 metres of each other can record anonymous information now if one of the phone users then tests positive for 19 apple and google will be sent an encrypted list of the phones that they came close to a lots will then be triggered if there's a potential risk now the companies do say they're taking privacy concerns into account and no g.p.s. location data nor personal information will be recorded while airable can is a digital rights activist and he says big tech companies cannot be trusted to protect our privacy let's understand that this is not a magic will no is going to cure code it might seem and we should be looking for that we should be looking at you know increasing testing we should be looking at getting you know the frontline workers the protective equipment they need all of these not to acknowledge. that can't be provided by silicon valley we should be looking at goes beyond human to do this in

a manner to protect privacy we could do it in a decentralized manner where there is the centralized. a lot of this processing takes place on the phones even in google and apple's proposal but it gets sent to a centralized server or we could remove that centralized server if we wanted to and only alert the people that are involved we could do that but that sort of solution is not going to come from big tech that basically are the epitome of centralization themselves they are these trillion dollar centers so it's not going to come from them well speaking of the suggestion of mass testing a suburb of the philippine capital is mass testing residents for that 19 as a national plan continues to be delayed a big focus will be on people from poor communities who don't have good access to health care now the government has been under 5 a delaying plans to stop mass testing nationwide the philippines currently has reported more than 4000 cases and 220 deaths so far well hundreds of cases have been confirmed in cameroon but health officials fear they may be many more on

reported and now it's launched nationwide testing and that interest reports. health work is kind of the race to contain the spread of complete 1000 infections go to go testing is underway in several regions of the country and for good reason. the virus has been spreading here and authorities fear the number of infections could be higher than reported. on the fos day of this operation at least 100 new cases were discovered. in the queue. there is one a group of health workers in the field $25.00 suspected cases while in the same time another group is cleaning and fumigating suspected areas every community leader is involved in the process. the number a surgeon infection seen in the 1st week of testing is raising concerns among the population. it's the fear of death it's got to everyone if you get the

virus you'll be put in quarantine for 14 days with no chance of leaving her alone but there are bills to pay $1.00 must earn to do that and that starts social distancing is the hardest of all we also fear african governments may not contain this pandemic this will result in total chaos in africa at the end of it all we may not be able to do anything but cry and lament. like many african countries cameron's health care system isn't prepared for that but the mic experts say if it fractions get out of control here it could be catastrophic. their forty's in the city of bora are moving ahead to convert the city's stadium into an isolation and treatment center there is a peek a rise in infections and not everyone in the city is willing to be tested for the virus a source of concern for health officials along with plans for testing a decontamination of public spaces is also on the way but that's not enough to come

some cameroonians. the the if western countries with all their facilities and equipment counting huge losses what do you say of africa when infections reach a peak it is really scary for everyone i'm waiting to see but to be frank things don't seem right the more you think about it the more you want to give up. african union and other regional bodies say they're working with individual governments to provide equipment and supplies to deal with the pandemic but for institutions and states struggling to fund their operations it's hard to say if that support will come soon enough to avert a major health crisis on the continent a decrease. now to the battle against another virus and if it's 10 radek a bowl and the democratic republic of congo have suffered a setback the 1st person to contract the disease in 2 months died of it 48 hours before the government was due to declare the latest outbreak over the 20 month long

about the epidemic has killed more than 2000. fighting has restarted in the disputed kashmir region pakistani soldiers say they shot down an indian drone recently in india says 5 of its chains were killed near the unofficial border called the line of control our correspondents kamal hyder and his i'm a bad and elizabeth purana in new delhi have. normally a very heavily populated areas particularly on the budget. we've also been talking to the military analysts. where the standard for their progress that it is the other side and they say that it should be remembered that a significant number of targets on the troops have now been to go. and that did it in order in the interest of either country to escalate tensions that are time when bored are facing an existential threat or. thing that every time they did an attack on india and for an indian administered kashmir that they blame pakistan for

standing in for great however they said the norm fact is that the people in them are unhappy with their lockdown that has continued even before this make broke and that the local reaction that is happening in kashmir. the indians are saying that the pakistani army attacked indian post and villages in the district of poonch on the indian side of the defacto border between the 2 countries which is known as the line of control that this happened on saturday morning just 12 hours after more mortar shell shelling and firing into the sicht of the same district. on friday night and that this saying that the indian army responded the fishing leave without elaborating now this follows 5 indian soldiers who were killed on sunday in what the indian army calls and anti terror operation in which they say that 5 so-called terrorists were also killed and following that the indian

army yesterday on friday released drawn footage of what it said was a major retaliation that it struck again what it calls a terrorist launch pads ammunition dumps in pakistani territory a dam has collapsed in northern india unleashing a torrent of toxic sludge at least 2 people were killed and for a main missing as homes were engulfed and farmland swamped now the dam contained ash from a coal fired power station in madhya pradesh. badasses al jazeera and these are the headlines the u.s. has recorded more than 2100 deaths from the coronavirus in the past 24 hours that's the highest single day toll anywhere in the wild more than half a 1000000 cases have been detected the largest number globally turkey has put its

most populated areas under a 2 day lockdown to try to contain the spread of the virus there as you can see people rushed to the shops after that announcement 31 cities are affected that includes istanbul and ankara some coffee earlier explains why people panicked at the news. the reason for that couse was that this was an unprecedented announcement for a lock down and the circular wasn't issued it's simple to use the with the lockdown that's what people get panicked people still all bakeries will be closed pharmacies will be equals and they flock to the bakeries it's a get read even though it was just a 2 day despite turkey has suffered many military coups and many could fuse with course it's not easy for people especially given the current economic tension it is so tricky it's not easy for people to accumulate is stuff food in their home and if they need to go out but many have kids so it it was a kind of chaos last night the number of daily deaths in spain has now fallen for

the 3rd day in a row $510.00 people died that's the smallest jump in 19 days and that takes the total number of fatalities there to more than 16000 research as in china have discovered airborne traces of corona virus can travel to up to 4 meters away from patients that had previously been thought to only travel to me says the study tested 7 as samples from wards treating people infected with covered 19 at a hospital. in south korea masks plastic gloves and sanitizer will be compulsory for voters and wednesday's parliamentary election some patients and medical staff have already taken part in early voting electronic wristbands are also to be fitted on anyone defying quarantine rules the health when it ministry says monitoring is essential for people isolating. next at the inside story.

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 lockdown demand for oil has.