of cultures across the world. so no matter where you call. al-jazeera to bring you the news and current affairs that matter to the. al-jazeera. al-jazeera. i'm richelle carey this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes spain reports its lowest daily death toll in nearly 3 weeks as the government prepares to allow some economic activities to resume. curfew imposed in $31.00 provinces across turkey including the biggest cities of istanbul and ankara . cameroon launches nationwide testing officials brace for a surge and confirmed cases it's. a google now or developing an alert to let you

know if you come in contact with someone who is infected it doesn't infringe on privacy. and on peter stand with your sports with prosecutors dropped one of 2 cases against a form of fee for prison sick that's what. it is one month since the world health organization declare the coronavirus crisis a pandemic more than $1700000.00 people around the world have been infected and the death toll is now above $103000.00 but there is cautious optimism in spain where the number of daily that says fallen for a 3rd day in a row still 510 people died in the last 24 hours but that is the smallest jump in 1000 days with 16000 deaths it's one of the worst hit countries in europe. along

with italy where more than 18000 people have died a nationwide lockdown has been extended until early may and people had been urged to stay home over the easter holiday turkey is now imposed a 2 day curfew in 31 provinces that does include istanbul and ankara the death toll has surged above 1000 and the u.s. they have recorded more than 2100 deaths overnight the highest single day told anywhere in the world more than half a 1000000 cases have been reported making it the worst affected country after the virus emerged in china the epicenter of the disease soon sifted to europe overwhelming hospitals and forcing tens of millions of people into lockdown and there are questions about whether the european union will survive because of what critics say was a muddled response lawrence lee reports jeffrey i'm not sure. if you cast your mind back to the days before everything changed these extraordinary

how badly things were misjudged how it all went wrong these video was shared by the mayor of midland on february 27th when politicians in northern italy where are the 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 the old these politicians had to apologize for the. more than a week before the facts tens of thousands of football fans had 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 suspect it's 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 italy peaks of just under a thousands. there was no s. but the bodies they used an ice rink in madrid the spanish capital absolutely on its knees by now europe was in a flap 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 and employment 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 am to the consternation of much of the european union. france began the same grim should actually have cases as italy had a few weeks before and the u.k. to where the country's 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 gotten. granma 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 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. now as we mentioned the us has reported the highest single day toll anywhere in the world more than half a 1000000 cases have been detected the largest number globally despite that president and his team continue. to express optimism you can see for the 1st time that in the united states we're starting to level on the log rhythmic phase like

italy did about a week ago and so this gives us great heart not only in specific places but we're starting to see that change obviously a lot of that is driven by the improvement in new york city remember for a long time they were over 50 percent of our cases and 50 percent of our new cases that is dramatically changed because of the impact of what the citizens of new york and new jersey and across connecticut and now rhode island are doing to really change the course of this pandemic and really change the trajectory of new cases i think are some us show that minority communities have made up a higher proportion of cron-o. by respect him compared to their share of the population that's being attributed to greater levels of poverty and lesser access to health care system a crisis i'm a top u.s. health officials now warning that people of color are a greater risk in new york city hispanics represent the majority of death

and milwaukee county blacks are 25 percent of the population but almost 50 percent of the cases in 75 percent of the deaths. so what's going on well it's alarming but it's not surprising that people of color have a greater burden of chronic health conditions african-american the native americans i mean excuse me develop high blood pressure much younger ages and less likely to be under control and does greater harm to their organs puerto rican have higher rates of asamoah and black boys are 3 times as likely to die bathroom as their white counterparts. i canot joins us live now from washington d.c. so. might donald trump in the republican party historically are the party of states' rights but donald trump is spoken for weeks about his personal ability and desire to just open up the country he had wanted to do it for a stir that that's not going to happen but he still wants to do it soon but mike explain how this works who really has the power to decide what will be open and

what will be closed. well that's a fascinating question that's likely to play out in the weeks and months ahead a short answer to that question well the states have the right to decide what to do the president cannot constitutionally insists that the states for example impose social distancing if they don't want to he cannot put an end to social distancing if the states decide they do not want to that's the short answer to the question the long one is far more complicated the president has many cars under the constitution some of which have not been tested and of course this is a situation which we have not seen before but the point that must be made to is that from the beginning of this pandemic the president has insisted that it's up to the states to lose the battle against the pandemic saying that the federal government is there to back them up he's left it all to the states to be on the frontline against this the states have complained about this saying they need much

more help from central government but this argument this pulling between state and executive is going to continue and an important point to is that there's another 2 strands in president trump the size of process on the one hand all the business people who are pushing him to open the economy as soon as possible on the other hand his public health experts who are insisting that a premature opening of the economy would lead to a massive increase in incidence of the virus and then in fact those that want the economy to to open that would act that's really a false choice the one that has to be there you know that the health of the country or the or the economy so the way to get out ahead of this making medical professionals have continued to say it's testing testing sex testing are lawrence lee reported that germany has done more testing than just about anybody and has a very low fatality rate where does the u.s. stand on testing. well according to the president it's doing incredibly well in testing he has just said in the past 24 hours the

u.s. has conducted more than 2000000 tests the biggest testing protocol in the world he claims however experts point out that the president's using figures that have no real basis the way in which to gauge the amount of testing is testing per capita in other words every $1000.00 people or every $1000000.00 people how many of them are tested in a country with a population like this any figure of testing is irrelevant meaningless unless it relates to the number of people tested per capita also want to point out too that the u.s. was very slow in trotting out its testing protocol and once again the president has left that largely to the states to institute such procedures and then in the past 48 hours the federal government has stopped drive by testing sites well actually withdrawn its support for that cites the government claiming that this was always a transitional basis now the testing protocols are going through there's no need for these testing sides an absolute uproar in

a number of states which are going to be severely impacted by the withdrawal of federal support and also to one must look very closely at the fact that the states are up ahead in terms of testing by themselves they have been responding to public health officials saying that any lifting of closure any lifting of shutdown has got to be driven by science has got to be driven by the reality of the facts on the ground you cannot get the data necessary to make a decision on whether to open partially open or continue to be closed without that flow of information that is utterly reliant on mass testing and that's what many governors have been asking for my camera life for us in washington mike thank you. turkey has put its most populated areas under a 2 day curfew to try to contain the spread of the virus bakeries hospitals pharmacies and workplaces making medical equipment are exempt a lockdown is due to in sunday night turkey confirmed 98 more deaths from the virus

on friday bringing the total number to more than a 1000 some coastal explains how good weather led to the curfew. it was like a regular friday for istanbul probably many assume that because the weather would be nice for today and tomorrow sunday and also routines were afraid that more people would be going out yes the cafeteria was restaurants public places shopping malls they're all closed down but of course it is difficult to control all those people and there was a conflict between don's opinion the government's opinion and what the science board has been recommending so far and yesterday we heard from some science board members that some of the it is some of the board member so some of the doctors were for commending lockdown for the weekends a couple of days in a week but it is just for this weekend for now but many expect that it can continue

for the coming weekends as well but so far for for the present are drawn a major full lockdown is not possible and this is what the minister the mayor of istanbul has been urging for but it is good for turkey these 10 days is very critical as the numbers off the. death is rising but for yesterday for last night the reason for that couse was that this was an unprecedented announcement for a lockdown and the circular wasn't issued its simple 10 is the with the lockdown that's what people got panicked people thought all bakeries would be close pharmacies would because and they flocked to the bakeries it to get bread even though it was just a 2 day the spike turkey has suffered many military coups and many curfews what course it's not easy for people especially given the current economic tension in a cell in turkey it's not is a for people to accumulate stuff food in their home and they need to go out.

iran one of the countries hardest head back at 19 has started reopening government offices after a brief nationwide lockdown that's more than 70000 confirmed cases more than 4300 people have died they must more from tehran. weeks into the pandemic health officials confirmed what many iranians feared the coronavirus had been spreading through the population undetected since january the month before the parliamentary election there is little doubt now the election contributed to the spread of the virus days after the 1st cases were confirmed in the city of home on february 19th iran's deputy health minister showed obvious symptoms during a media briefing later confirming he was infected in the days that followed kobe 1000 spread quickly through the ranks of government still president hassan rouhani initially downplayed the crisis during the 1st meeting of a task force he set up to respond to the outbreak he predicted the emergency would

be over in a matter of days. iran's enemies of posturing to scare our society and push the country towards a shutdown as of saturday everything should return to normal. 2 months in the government reports thousands are dead and tens of thousands infected iran has asked the international monetary fund for a $5000000000.00 emergency loan to fight the virus the government here says the white house is blocking it since day one of the outbreak iran's leaders have had to weigh shutdowns for the sake of public health against the cost to an economy stifled by u.s. sanctions. foreign minister divides the reef has described america's maximum pressure campaign as an economic siege that makes it more difficult for iran to do its part to fight the global spread of the virus something that he says could make over 1000 a forever pandemic even amid this pandemic the u.s. government has bench fully refuse to lift its on and collective punishment

making it virtually impossible for us to even buy medicine and medical equipment the trumpet ministration reimposed economic sanctions after pulling out of the nuclear deal in 2018 health experts have warned the coronavirus remains a serious public threat but by order of the president life begins to return to normal in parts of iran this week the capital to the economic engine of the country is expected to see businesses reopen by the end of april it's a country or small and medium enterprise make up a bulk of the economy and financial experts have warned president rouhani prolonged closures will make social unrest and street protests inevitable iran's government is making a desperate choice at a time of a global crisis the health and safety of its people versus the wellbeing of its economy it's a decision that many iranians say the country could afford to put off if it wasn't for the economic pressure from 2 ascensions same bus ravioli just a year after. the pandemic has cast the spotlight on asia's wet markets and the

risks they pose to scientists believe the virus originated in a market trading wild animals and we'll have a warning us and find some of the images and jessica washington's report to starving. before his customers arrive 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 code 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 soon the way sea province that's snakes and other wildlife as well as dogs and cats are all sold here and live 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's livelihoods depend on it and the trade goes on in many corners of the womb

animal rights activists say wildlife conservation isn't just about saving animals lives but humans too. people have exploited nature and wildlife they catch them from spaces where they should be free when you combine that with poor hygiene of 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 syria jakarta record 980 people in the u.k. are reported to have died from the krajina virus in just the past day that is the biggest jump in daily fatalities across europe this brings the number of dead in britain to nearly 9000 health minister says the u.k. has yet to reach the peak of its outbreak so existing lockdown measures will remain moral it's going to town hall and london so john of the government keeps driving home these lockdown measures but they were slow to get to these lockdown measures

what of that. you know these numbers of terrifyingly high 980 in the 24 hours up to good friday afternoon in the next hour or so we'll hear the numbers for saturday initial signs from the england number that's been released 823 not too dissimilar to the 866 of us they suggest that we're looking at again something very close to a 1000 and these are higher numbers than on any single day in italy or in spain prompting lots of questions i mean the big questions all throughout the last few weeks but more urgent questions about why the government was so slow and were they too slow in instituting these lockdown measures as they watched what was happening in spain and in italy and could have anticipated what was going to happen here did they rely for too long on advice from the prime minister to wash your hands and sing happy birthday twice i'm standing in front of imperial college london where researchers and scientists put together a report about

a month ago that was very influential to the government saying look if you don't institute these sorts of measures if you allow community wide transmission to run wild you'd be looking at a quarter of a 1000000 deaths eventually from this so they immediately knock the country down on march the 23rd the government is saying look we reacted to science all along the population of the u.k. is higher than italy and spain therefore by implication the numbers would tend to be higher and that we couldn't really have done more but the message very strenuously is that there are signs of a flattening out now of the transmission rate tentative signs also of a reduction in hospital admissions again tentative signs and that if the country will only stick to these lockdown measures which are likely to be extended next week well then within a couple of weeks perhaps the death toll may also start to come down john as you mentioned where you are you're at imperial imperials been deeply involved in trying to get the government the government's response to give them information to arm them in this fight against crime

a virus so i'm part of that fight is testing where does the u.k. stand on testing out. well testing is another saga and testing like the shortage of personal protection equipment like the timing of the lockdown would all form part of in all likelihood some sort of an inquiry after this to find out exactly what went wrong but something did go wrong with testing the government appears to have been unproved paired for the level of testing required that enough the kits of the mechanisms to be able to produce the kids a policy decision was taken early on just to test people in hospital and not to go for widespread community testing and contact tracing as aggressively as other countries were doing even though the world health organization was saying test test test if you want to get to the bottom of this and by the time they realized how crucial it all was the government were telling the people here that there was a shortage of raw materials of the agents the chemical agents required on the world market and surprisingly because everybody was trying to do the same thing well testing has improved they're now testing frontline health care workers more than

they were before with a goal of 100000 tests a day by the end of this month and part of that effort as you say has come from imperial college of announced what could be a very significant breakthrough it's a brand new test it's a small portable personal test that will give you a result of whether you have the virus or not within about an hour as opposed to the day or 2 that takes that it takes now no lab work required no contact with clinicians it's currently undergoing patient analysis and evaluation now and if it gets certification it will be ready for national rollout on a very large scale hopefully in the not too distant future and should be able to continue contributes sizably to those government targets and testing of course so vital in terms of managing this virus at a time when the numbers have begun to come down and also enabling the circumstances for countries this and others to come out of lockdown altogether that test really can make a big difference and thank you very much town hall live in london. a suburb of the philippine capital is mass testing residence for kovan 1000 as

a national plan and chain used to be delayed a big focus will be on people from lower income communities without access to good health care the government has been under fire for delaying plans to start mass testing nationwide the philippines has reported more than $4000.00 cases and $220.00 deaths so far a. result chief ministers in india have been holding a meeting with prime minister demential modi and some of them say he's agreed to extend a nationwide lockdown beyond april 15th and he's expected to address the nation on sunday so far there have been 239 deaths and more than 6000 confirmed cases of fraud and looks at the impact the lockdown has had on the world's 2nd most populous country. what was described as the world's largest lockdown because the largest exodus since the creation of independent india and $47.00 on march 24th promised in that in the more he announced a complete lockdown he said it was india's only option to limit the spread of the

kabul in a virus and this done and go down again it's to save india and every indian to save you to save your family. the lot down immediately highlighted the inequality in the country as many people rush to grocery stores to stock up on the shelters struggled to feed the millions of daily wage earners who lost their livelihoods off a business a shot. and hundreds of thousands of migrant workers started walking to their home states often hundreds of kilometers away before it's all done in whatever way we are taking all the precaution the government told us to we wash our hands use sign and dice rather mosques go and talk to people keep our distance but what about a government responsibility to us at least something to eat and drink at home. the government said it would spend $22000000000.00 to help $800000000.00 of india's poor province to modi apologize to the nation for the hardships the markdown had caused hardships which brought out the best and worst in indian's community

kitchens fed thousands of police officers distributed food but in many places police also beat and humiliated those they said violating the restrictions so that you couldn't we came to buy groceries at about 5 or 6 o'clock but police chased us with batons in the state of north and for the police themselves became targets as they tried to enforce the law down. while municipal workers in the same state sprayed muslims with bleach. and medical workers for not just the corona virus but also the stigma that comes with it some were physically attacked others a victim from their homes. and up to a muslim gathering in delhi led to a rise in the number of cases hindu nationalists blame the religious minority for the spread of the coronavirus leading to attacks on muslims around the country and one death. facing so many challenges promised a modi address the country again 10 days into the lockdown asking indians to turn

off their lights and light a candle in a show of solidarity there was no mention of the exponential rise in the number of cases as a result of increased testing we're starting with a very low availability of medical professionals. nurses. ospital beds ice use ventilators and so forth and that's been a massive procurement exercise that's been underway. as the number of infections follows the government converted sports stadiums and trains and quarantine facilities and created containment sones experts believe india is still at an early stage of infection but the lockdown has already created a humanitarian crisis and driven the unemployment rate up from 6 to 23 percent it's also highlighted inequality religious tensions and a health care system that isn't equipped to deal with a pandemic the following weeks will tell of the recent mass movement of people will also accelerate the spread of the corona virus from india cities to its rule heart

elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi. and in western india police made arrests as hundreds of migrant workers vented their anger at being stranded a lockdown restrictions workers in the industrial center of cirrhotic stay complain they can't get home to their villages. the 2 hard time now for weather with jenny it's supposed to be spring in the us but it doesn't feel that way everywhere it really doesn't do that if you know another winter classic film unusual already this time of year across the us a call such a massive country and we will always see such a huge difference in the weather depending of course a way you are but read on and stop by to talk about the weather way up there in the northeast east in canada been actual fact is the state of maine in the us is the snow that's been coming down thousands without power because of this snow and in fact there's a shot from the day after this massive tree can see that she resting on some power lines and that is why so many being without power because of course the weight of the snow and the trees that come down and taken out the power this is actually

further south into pennsylvania just a dusting of snow but even so again it is that time of year we should really be seeing quite so much snow and then head east to new jersey on this huge fire already 600 hectares have burned dozens of firefighters are on the ground it began thursday afternoon and the very strong winds gusting up to 80 kilometers an hour not helping the firefighters fight that fire which will not this is continuing through saturday in terms of the weather this is what we will see next we've got these severe storms developing out of texas at the same time this lightly you can see coming now with this cold air this is the snow that is on its way it's going to work its way south through sunday but at the same time some really severe thunderstorms developing across much of the southeast very very moist warm air across the south meanwhile these cold dry air coming down in this weather to me that we have this clash and we have these severe thunderstorms and this is what happens to the weather in the temperatures in denver the average is 16 down to minus 2 on sunday the snow arrives and then through the week richelle we've got more snow and it's going to stay cold as well so as you say well you know sign of

spring in many places it all. thank you. still ahead on al-jazeera ignoring all the coronavirus roles priscilla's president takes to the streets to mingle with people and just regarding social distancing. by health experts are concerned africa will be the hardest hit by the pandemic. and his robots replace touring bands at a baseball game but a day out to you peter will have all that in sports. in a country beset by poverty and lack of infrastructure. sometimes we risk our lives in taking these roads. saving lives is a dangerous job as a vaccine so it's only good for 24 hours there are patients waiting for these mothers who must be in pain life's worth risking their lives

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watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories right now the number of reported daily deaths from crossing a virus in spain has fallen for a 3rd day in a row still 510 people did die but that is the smallest jump in $1000.00 days turkey's most populous areas are all under lockdown after the government imposed a surprise curfew is to the last 2 days and affects $31.00 provinces including the biggest city istanbul. of the us have supported more than $2100.00 deaths from chronic virus in the past 24 hours the highest single day told anywhere in the world and more than half a 1000000 cases have been detected the largest number vocally. the pandemic has brought business to a standstill around the world the united states predicts the global economy united nations partly in making this prediction the global economy will shrink by up to one percent this year that's a reversal from the previous forecasts of 2.5 percent growth as

a result up to 25000000 people could lose their jobs their national monetary fund says more than 90 countries nearly half of its 189 members have asked for emergency funding its managing director has described the crisis as humanity's darkest hour she predicts its effects will be much worse than the financial crisis a decade ago and the royal trade organization is warning we may see the deepest recession of our lifetimes with the drop in world trade about 32 percent of leather senior economist at the research consultancy firm capital economics who joins us via skype from london we appreciate your time very much so yeah this is a really scary uncertain. times for a lot of people want to ask you about the different approaches that countries have there are some countries canada for example who's decided that one way to try to to weather this storm is to put money in people's hands directly for at least the next few months. the u.s. is pretty much decided one at that $1000.00 to maybe $1200.00 per individual for at

least one month but there's not really much certainty beyond that what do you think about that approach of immediately putting people money in people's hands what the advantage of doing that is it means that the people hardest they're going to get money strace wary so people who have lost their jobs that congress won't groceries at least they've got money to move into the next month the problem is that it goes to everyone in the country which means that some. money see by this is that this is expensive and it doesn't go down it's the most what about the approach that i know the u.k. and some other countries are doing or at least exploring the idea of paying salaries maybe 607080 percent of salaries to try to get companies to at least not lay people off if you like people off in many cases they're going to get unemployment benefits what about that approach. well the the whole point of this is going to such

a hurry said moving brady knows what best approach is in these circumstances but the whole approach she says is to make sure that otherwise healthy companies can make it through the crisis unscathed and so when lockdowns groups run and and demanding increases again that we're not left with an economic graceland where you've got 20 percent unemployment and lots of companies carrying busts and so if these look downs that's maybe a month 6 weeks then then governments are extra boring can afford this and it's quite good disaster relief and also stimulus that the economy i think is what's needed is going to be expensive but i do think it is really have a choice in and this is obviously a really an unprecedented thing that the world is going through but when you look at the u.s. specifically there the richest country in the world that richest per capita bit obviously the richest country in the world and the fact that there are literally thousands of people in the last few days that are standing in line at food banks just to get money to feed their families what does that say is that

a what type of statement does that make about the way things were in the u.s. at least wealth distribution if nothing else. well i think the one thing it does show is just how sudden this economic shock has been in a couple of weeks large parts of not just the u.s. economy but the global economy have come to a complete standstill and it's not just the u.s. here people are experiencing a $63.00 hardship it's across the world of people who were struggling before they're going to be struggling even more now and so it's not just the u.s. thing it's that it really is a global thing and that's a great point you make that that says a global thing so is the way out of this in some way need to be a global approach if that's possible. well i think what we're seeing is that some countries where that pandemic has been brought under control most notably china and other bits of east asia as well we're seeing having difficulties to end these

lockdowns and for life to return to normal search if you want you seeing example in china recently szell company canary connectivity but then there recoveries being held back by a very weak demand and also cautious it will being basically more cautious than they would do otherwise and they're not rushing back to go to the cinema so it's going to rest is this still worried about catching the virus again i think you know maybe a month's time you're almost to the us will be approaching the same down there is how to open up their economies again reduce their prevents a 2nd wave the 2nd set in cases. care thought away appreciate your expertise on this thank you thank you. brazil is the 1st country in latin america to record more than $1000.00 deaths from the corona virus but president her boss an arrow is continuing to ignore doctors' advice on social distancing it was seen at a bakery as well as a hospital where he wiped his nose and shook hands with an elderly supporter right wing leader compares the virus to a little cold that is not what it is and says protecting the economy is more

important more than 30000000 people in brazil have signed up for emergency financial relief as restrictions take a heavy toll on the economy the government is trying to streamline the payment process after thousands lined up to tax agencies this week trying to reactivate their social security numbers and former workers are entitled to claim $118.00 per month off authorities meanwhile have appealed to the public to stay home after large public gatherings were reported in several major cities. and towns have celebrated easter as the government refuses to enforce widespread restrictions or traditional good friday ceremony was held in the southern city of the tap despite moves by the catholic church to suspend all festivities international health observers are criticizing the government's inaction borders remain open and the government reports only 4 confirmed cases of the virus but president daniel ortega as a man seen in public for weeks. apple and google are 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 power 99 percent of the world's smartphones new technology uses unique bluetooth signals and if they have the tracing technology turned on within about 2 meters of each other can record anonymous information if one of the phones users then test positive for coated 19 apple and google will be sent encrypted list of phones they came close to the alerts will be triggered if there's a potential risk the kompany say they're taking privacy concerns into account and no cheap p.s. location data or personal information will be recorded or robach and as a digital rights activist he says big tech companies can't be trusted to protect our privacy let's understand that this is not a magic will no is going to cure coke at 19 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 enormous 6 things that can't be provided by silicon valley we should be looking at goes beyond that can we do this in a manner to protect privacy we could do it in a decentralized manner where there is an essential life server. a lot of this processing takes place on the phones even 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 goods and the of centralisation themselves they are these trillion dollar centers so it's not going to come from them. singapore is the latest in a growing list of countries and companies to ban the video conferencing platform zune teachers there are banned from using the app for remote lessons because of what the government describes says very serious incidents sokol media say bank cleared men showing obscene images to teenage girls during

a zoom lesson the company says it's committed to ensuring a safe and secure platform for everyone. hundreds of credit iris cases have been confirmed in cameroon but health officials fear there may be many more that are unreported so now it's launched nationwide testing many reports. health workers it comes with race to contain this point of complete 1000 infections go to go testi is underway in several regions of the country and for good reason. the virus has been spreading here and all forces here the number of infections could be higher than reported. on the fos day of this operation at least 100 new cases where i discovered. in the key. there is one a group of health workers in the field $25.00 suspected cases were 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. but imo it's the fear of death that 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 on but there are bills to pay $1.00 must earn to do that do that stance 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 you'd factions 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 they anticipate 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 comes on and. it's 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 the. african union and other regional bodies say they are 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 comedy greece al jazeera africa the effects of the virus later than other continents but many health experts are concerned it will be the hardest hit welcome lab reports from kenya's capital nairobi.

eating grilled meat in pubs is part of daily life in kenya's capital nairobi. telling it is big business. battleground to hold when the government ordered restaurant closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. grills on this strip of closed the workers have been laid off. or is not where we must adhere to the measures but. even tick away we have neuer to turn to for help. the group traders here are among millions across africa who already lost their livelihoods because of restrictions on movement and trade. shoppers in kenya supermarkets have to keep distance and sanitize their hands and shops like this are the main of the middle class which in most african countries

he's tiny crowded markets like this are more normal simply isn't space for people to keep distance here it would be impossible to enforce it the people that trade in places like this and people that buy them here they don't come here in the daytime they go hungry in the evening and it's the same story for millions of people in cities across the continent that. the government of the democratic republic of congo has locked down the central commercial district of its capital kinshasa. to most of the rest of the city of about 12000000 people are still out and about trying to trade if they don't go out to find work and means of livelihood so that becomes a significant constraint to the containment measures the governor said it's shooting all square and in the absence of social protection you're going to see people tell me what. south africa's army has been accused of rights abuses in trying to stop any our people when it in force to lock down the country is recorded more cases of

the virus than anywhere else on the continent possibly because it carried out many more tests it's locked down seems to have succeeded in slowing the rate of infections in much of the rest of the continent hospitals and health ministries have recorded relatively low but sharply rising numbers so far. with many living in cramped conditions like the slum in nairobi health experts think the worst is yet to come if these interventions i don't testing i don't isolation i don't i didn't practice it that i was staying at school but also taking care of the social needs. i'm not going to be talked out. to see a steep price and we bring in a lot of dates. as long as markets a busy like this one in nairobi he will help the virus spread into markets meet hunger and social unrest african governments face difficult decisions in the weeks ahead millions of people who face the consequences. web

al-jazeera nairobi kenya. researchers in china have discovered airborne traces of kroner virus can travel up to 4 meters away from patients that had been thought to only travel about 2 meters the study tested surface in air samples from wards treating people infected with covert 1000 at a hospital and will han the researchers found the virus was mainly concentrated on the floors and some medical staff picked it up on their shoes now to the battle against another virus efforts to eradicate ebola and the democratic republic of congo have suffered a setback the 1st person to contract the disease in 2 months died from it 48 hours before the government was due to declare the latest outbreak over the 20 month long ebola epidemic has killed more than 2000 congolese a dam has collapsed in northern india unleashing a torrent of toxic sludge at least 2 people were killed 4 are missing as homes were

and golf and farmland aswat the dam contain waste from a coal fired power station in mid-air pradesh. flames of ash envelop into the skies above indonesia following a volcanic eruption. volcano erupted 6 times from friday night into saturday morning the ash was blown away from neighboring villages and there are no reports of any damages alastor up that in 2018 causing an underwater landslide and tsunami that killed more than 400 people. so head on al-jazeera a tropical island could be the answer to getting australia's rugby league season back underway peter will have all the details in just a bit. grease

the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks from the north east tell a different story they. believe their religious leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and the far right. if you don't like you can see why i'm turkish. people in power investigates western thrice contested space on al-jazeera.

time for sport with or michel thank you so much prosecutors in switzerland say they're dropping one of 2 cases against them a fee for president sepp blatter this was attorney general's office is closing an investigation into how the 84 year old and football's governing body of water the world cup broadcast rights in the caribbean in 2005 the case was 1st opened over 4 years ago and led to blatter is removal as fee for president after 17 years in charge and other criminal case for a $2000000.00 payment to former vice president michel platini remains open to the current fee for president journey in frontin or has warned against restarting football too early amid the coronavirus pandemic health comes 1st i cannot

stress this enough no match no competition no league is worse risking a single human life everyone in the world should have these very clear in their mind it would be more than irresponsible to force competitions to resume if things are not 100 percent say you have to wait a little longer so we must do so it's better to wait a little bit then to take any risks. english premier league club west ham united have announced their players are deferring their wages because of the coronavirus crisis. some board members as well as manager david moyes are taking a 50 percent pay cut with them say this will make nearly $40000000.00 available to help pay the non-playing staff member salaries. liverpool's club legend kenny dalglish's tested positive for corona virus the 69 year old was admitted to hospital for an infection and returned to positive tests despite showing no symptoms when the english league with liverpool as a player and as

a manager while also leading blackburn rovers to a premier league title. formula one's renault have put the majority of its british based stuff on unpaid leave because of the pandemic their drivers daniel ricardo and esteban o'con have also taken pay cuts employees at reno's engine factory near paris have also been placed under a reduced working schedule australia's national rugby league insists it has government backing to restart the season at the end of may that's despite concerns from some of the country's health chiefs who say they haven't been consulted details of how the league will restart have not been made public but they have been several proposals including basing all teams on a tropical queensland island as a form of self isolation the league was suspended on march 23rd and would be the 1st to return to action in australia if the plans go ahead earlier we spoke to n.r.l. journalist laura o'connor and started by asking why the n.r.l.

is pushing so hard for a comeback. it's really a matter of revenue fold a game it is well documented that many of the clubs are in financial difficulty should this competition not go ahead. the game is hugely reliant on broadcast riots and that means that now we're not playing games and having no clinton it means that the large percentage of revenue that the game would not only enjoying simply isn't there the other being attendance at games as well that's not possible at the moment in addition to that they want to get the game back up and running because the eastern seaboard of the strelley across new zealand there's a lot of people involved and a lot of employment wrapped up in games like in our else in our island is a really interesting concept and again it comes after the fact that we need to find a solution to be able to continue the coming season resurrect season 2020 the

n.r.l. island concept is really about closing the play is officials and the administrators the game off from the general community their day to day lives including their families placing them in a hub or a bubble so to speak sorry but tension island off queensland for example it would it would be a training everything would happen on the island and when it came to game time the place to be transported back to the mainland and playing at 2 in the manger stadiums in queensland which is quite a ways will in times of an island that maybe up to take up to $1500.00 guests it's one of the options but i think the arrows preferred option at the moment is to be able to use the precinct at sydney olympic park that was where the sydney 2003 games were held has a lot of training facilities existing and a number of hard hills or buttons at the moment so that seems a largely cool solution particularly given that so many of the clubs are already based in sydney say they have to plan succeed for preservation of sport in

australia would provide a tremendous président. well spoil it at the moment there's not really any lot of sports the opportunity here in astronomy is to provide some content that the rest of the world it's also about providing some lessons on how it's a best practice of how the sport can be re-introduced once the restrictions around coronavirus lessened hell everyone saying that it's a very fine balance for as long as a strongly would love to say some of the sport back up and running it's a really fine line because if the protocols on board is high and there was an outbreak or a cluster action around cards at 19 it would prove disastrous taiwan's to mystic baseball league was supposed to start on saturday but didn't get off the ground and for once coronavirus wasn't to blame bad weather forced the game between defending champions to record 10 monkeys and china trust brothers to be called off and it meant the drumming robots and sign holding mannequins they brought in to

create an atmosphere in the absence of the fans went unappreciated by the players. no baseball fan is allowed in here to cheer for us this is indeed too bad with this pandemic around the world we still have the opportunity to play baseball in taiwan this is already quite an achievement point as you know the thing no matter if it's robots or plastic boards i hope they all cheer for all players so that we don't get disappointed because by school fans are not allowed to be in today. this is the arrowhead stadium home of n.f.l. super bowl champions the kansas city chiefs little been glued to pay tribute to medical stuff working hard during the current pandemic not to be outdone the stadium which hosts baseball's kansas city royals got in on the act. that's where we'll leave it and i'll be back again a little bit later with more sports news for show all right more robot stories.

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than ever when i want to east investigates the battle for truth in china and beyond on al-jazeera. the u.k. reports more than 900 hospital deaths from corona virus for the 2nd day in a row. ever shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up spain reports its lowest daily death toll in nearly 3 weeks as the government prepares to allow some economic activities to resume. president says he remains optimistic despite more than half a 1000000 americans being infected with the virus.