for me is one country al-jazeera world meets foreign fiji's has come to us touched people's lives and made a difference. the hard road from home photographers and activists on al-jazeera. the u.k. records more than 900 hospital deaths from groan of ours for the 2nd day in a row concern grows about the government's handling of the crisis. this is out there live from doha also coming up the number of people who need hospital treatment is dropping in new york state which is taking the brunt of the pandemic in the united states. cameroon launches nationwide testing officials brace for a surge in confirmed cases. and one month on from the declaration of

a global pandemic we go back to where it all began the wildlife markets of asia the being blamed for the crisis. so yes the u.k. is closing in on the grim figure of 10000 kroner virus related deaths as we go to where it's the new hot bed of the pandemic in europe and the number of casualties just keeps on climbing another $917.00 people have died of the disease in hospital taking the total to almost $9900.00 health officials have warned the outbreak is yet to reach its peak and the british home secretary says police will use new powers including fines to enforce lock down measures the start figure is highlight the gravity of this national emergency. the devastating impact of this virus and

the unprecedented but necessary action that we are taking to tackle it is affecting every aspect of our daily lives but my message to anyone still refusing to do the right thing is clear if you don't pay your part our selfless police who are out there risking their own lives to save others will be unafraid to act of fear british interior minister let's speak tomorrow to mars you joins us on skype from london. 980 fatal it is yesterday friday 917 today these numbers are still very high. the numbers are still very high and they're expected to increase further in the coming days and weeks actually this is in line with expectations as the emergency starts to reach its peak you can see the daily death toll reaching the 1000 level just there abouts here in the u.k. and in fact the last few days the u.k. already surpassed and spain for recording the highest number of daily deaths now interestingly you also hear in

a from the director of and it chaps england stephen power and he was saying that there has also been a flattening in the number of confirmed cases and also in the number of hospitalizations and that is really important so and that's not just in london but also in other parts of the country but he did say that it will take some time for us to see the effect of that in the death tolls that goes because of this time lag with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then those again in time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly they might die and so because of that timeline you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week. the british interior minister pretty big tells us his story of health workers think there have been failings to get personal protective equipment to that has been a big problem in the. yes this is been

a big issue over the past few weeks and we have seen another raul actually playing out today with the health secretary matt hancock saying that frontline n.h.s. staff should over the use the equipment and that is something that has really not gone down well with doctors and nurses in this country now that the government has conceded that there have been issues with the supply of personal protective equipment and then also issues with deliveries getting that supply to where it's needed and they've been doing things like using the military to expedite those deliveries that have been a sense that perhaps the situation was improving but we have had today another warning from the royal college of nursing and the british medical association saying that there is still a shortage of supplies and that doctors and nurses are being placed in a very unfair position as to be said it's not just those people that are working inside hospitals it's ambulance workers that it have to go out and deal with

suspected cases of covert 1000 of the people working inside camps let's talk thought to be a real crisis a hidden crisis in some ways inside right now because we're seeing a lot of people affected and it's not the death toll in the community within gallons is thought to be quite high but that's not yet feeding through into these daily government figures because these death toll figures that we're getting from those deaths that take place inside hospitals and so you had these associations and trade unions saying that doctors and nurses are being placed in a very unfair position because they are having to continue to treat patients while putting themselves at risk and also while a putting possibly their families at risk if they contract the virus so yes they're having to continue doing their jobs as some of them in a situation might want where they might end up contract ing and spreading the disease all right thanks. in london. well after the virus immersion china the epicenter of the disease soon shifted to europe the

overwhelming overwhelming hospitals and forcing tens of millions of people into lockdown there are questions about whether the european union will survive now because of what critics say was a muddled response or honestly as this report try jeffrey i am not sure. 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 a repeat 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 italy and 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 boned 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 weather countries under funded health care system was feared to be under such strain of 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 delivering. 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 company. in some ways has brought out the best in people to share trauma east slightly above communities spirits on every european balcony. people try to find the positives like cleaner air will clean a war so everyone knows the day will come when the police won't fine 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. the united states is on the brink of overtaking it to me for the highest number of coronavirus related deaths on the planet in new york state though the spread of the virus is showing signs of slowing with hospital intensive care missions declining but new yorkers are now bearing the financial brunt of the book as kristen salumi reports. it's been called the crossroads of the world but these days no one is going anywhere just ask taxi driver nicolay hand hear people talking. about it he says his few customers are mostly hospital workers now that all but essential workers are expected to stay home in the city of nearly 9000000 taxis are essential to make you know. least easy $300.00 a day plus now. if i make

a 100 times. i can be lucky. new york the center of american culture and commerce now has more coronavirus cases than any single country even the famously busy grand central station is eerily quiet during normal times 3 quarters of a 1000000 people would pass through here each day now as empty as public spaces are hospitals are full and overflowing. public hospitals in particular have been overwhelmed statistics show that while the elderly or those with preexisting conditions make up most faith tallies minority communities have been hit disproportionately hard me. and doctors and nurses are under tremendous pressure a shortage of protective gear like masks and gowns is only adding to the strain for nurses like sara dowd who came out to demonstrate being kind of thrust into the situation without everything we need without the resources we need to do the best

job possible and. that has a psychological affect the feeling of being helpless scenes of refrigerated trucks as makeshift morgues and funeral homes struggle to contain the enormous loss of life have been traumatic even for notoriously tough new yorkers and for those who remain healthy nearly a month of school and business closures are also taking a toll thousands of small business owners are struggling to survive like jeff george who owns a martial arts studio auto the biggest thing is continuing to be able to pay the rent and pay the utilities and pay the employees right we want to we want to be able to sustain them as much as we and. that's important to me. still new yorkers like eric kerry and his wife are finding ways to bring people together from their rooftop with music even if for now they can't get close

inspired by scenes in italy and spain they've been holding a nightly socially distanced party cannot wait to have a big party after this and invite the whole lot over to our lovely roof deck and be able to have everyone there and enjoy a song and a drink together. but officials say that time is still weeks if not months away kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. well i can tell you that in the past few moments the united states has overtaken its lead to register the deaths in the world that's a total of $18860.00 and that's according to tracking by johns hopkins university so let's take a closer look at how the country got to this point its 1st confirmed case of the virus was announced on january 21st in washington state at the 1st death came more than a month later there were just $24.00 confirmed infections at that point but epidemiologists believed tens of thousands already had the virus at the time testing was limited by

the end of february fewer than $500.00 people had been screened in the past month the number of cases has soared to more than half a 1000000 that's the most in the world more than 2100 deaths were reported on friday and that is the highest single day toll or jeremy mayer is an associate professor at the shell school of policy and government at george mason university and he says that donald trump is responding to the crisis with the november presidential election in mind. i think we are seeing don't trump as we've always seen him trying to sell bad news as good news not only in politics but throughout his business career i mean we're talking about a man who went bankrupt 4 to 6 times and always declare himself a winner this is what he wanted a reality t.v. show presidency with him as the star and even though his own advisers are telling him hey ok start the briefings and then get off stage and let the experts talk he literally genetically at the molecular level can't resist being the center of

attention so americans are going to have a choice do we want more of that we're do we want something else and the other thing i would say is we're going to hear a lot about china between now and november trump just put a new ad up in the last 2 days that links joe biden to china and says the virus was china's forms he did get a search but it was a very small sort of we have this effect in america as in many other democracies called rally around the flag whenever there's a crisis of almost any serious kind people support the president but his effect was incredibly small he got to about 60 percent approval in his handling of the virus is now at about 48 percent approval and a majority disapprove by contrast george w. bush wasn't very popular up till $911.00 skyrocketed to 90 percent approval and stayed there for about 5 months so trump got a very small boost and if he fails to convince enough americans that he's doing

a good job then he could really lose a remarkably big landslide election to joe biden. still ahead here on al-jazeera curfews are imposed in $31.00 provinces across turkey including the biggest cities of istanbul and ankara. i will tell you who's developing an alert to let you know if you could be infected does it infringe on privacy. hello the nose a bad couple days ahead across central and southern areas of china finally get a breather from the very heavy amounts of rain that we've been saying however all this county can see that is an indication of where the next area of weather is heading is pushing across into key who is a go through sunday and it will work its way steadily into more southern areas of

honshu some very heavy amounts of rain coming in with this system and some very strong winds as well as fairly slow moving and it's fairly large too with some very strong winds to really funneling at a loss of moisture so a very unpleasant day to start the work we mean lot across into china it is mostly fine and dry 22 in hong kong and very warm in beijing and this case guys the high over 25 widespread shahs and thunderstorms across much of indonesia but through sunday the rains becoming really quite heavy across into laos coastal areas of vietnam and then as we go on into monday those rains working the way southward through thailand and very heavy particular along these coastal areas across into cambodia as well and the rains of course very extensive particularly across into somalia say we go through monday and then in india it's a mostly fine picture we have got want to showers into canada that also be developing into bangladesh in the far northeast still staying very hot in the interior.

the birthplace of democracy but ethnic turks from the northeast tell a different story they bounce to control our religion our believe their religious leaders jailed journalists silenced schools closed and a surge in the far right they say that if you don't like police you can both hurt. i'm dirty and most of the people in power investigates western thrice contested space on al-jazeera. but again you know what she does or amount of the top stories this hour and

confirmed cases in the united states have been skyrocketing in the months since the pandemic was declared critics of president donald trump say his slow response is largely to blame. the united kingdom as reported another 917 coronavirus related hospital deaths in the past day taking its total to nearly 10000 health secretary on the epidemic is yet to reach its peak. hundreds of cases have been confirmed in cameroon but health officials fear there may not there may be many more that are unreported now it's launched nationwide testing some address reports . health workers in chemicals race to contain the spread of copied 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 all forces here 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 key. 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. but imo it's the fear of death that'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 you

defections get out of control here it could be catastrophic. their forty's in the city of bora are moving ahead to convert the city 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 come some cameroonians. would be 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 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. more than $30000000.00 people in brazil have signed up for emergency financial relief is locked down restrictions impact the economy and the government is trying to streamline the payment process itself to thousands lined up at tax offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups informal workers are entitled to claim $118.00 a month. onto turkey which is put its most populated areas under a 2 day lockdown to try and contain the spread of the virus bakeries hospitals pharmacies and workplaces making medical equipment they're exempt the restrictions of due to end on sunday at midnight cinema that's more. 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 it is were afraid that more people would be going out yes the cafeteria is 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 members some of the doctors were 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 president's address on 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 it's 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 it's simple tennis 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 that 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. one of the pandemic has caused a spotlight on asia's so-called wet markets and the risks that they pose scientists believe the crowd of ours originated in a market trading wild animals in a warning years may find some of the images in jessica washington's report

disturbing before his customers arrive pallas 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 cope with 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 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 well's 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 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 too jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta also imports the latest in a growing list of countries and companies to ban the video conferencing platforms zoom teaches there are banned from using the app for remote lessons because of what the government describes as very serious incident a local media say this includes men showing obscene images to teenage girls during a zoom lesson apple and google have announced they're working together to develop a technology that will alert people when they've been close to anybody infected with the virus has this report. for many of us technology is a major part of staying in touch during lock down from online workouts to church

services. and birthday parties. it's helping bring our communities together but take knology also has the potential to alert people when they've been close to anyone infected with the virus. google is teaming up with apple to develop apps to do just that it's a rake a lab aeration between the american companies whose operating systems power 99 percent of the world's smartphones but some fear the technology could also lead to more unwanted scrutiny of our private lives and personal data google's business model is to track google's a surveillance capitalist google makes its billions by tracking every move you make on and off the web apple and google say pretty say transparency and consent at most importance and as if it and they will openly publish information about their work for others to analyze governments worldwide are working out how to take knowledge

we can help us to identify sick people and stop the spread of the virus some countries including poland israel and singapore already use people's handsets to monitor their quarantine or send coronavirus alerts. south korea is joining hong kong and using electronic wristbands with some uses asked to send a photo of their home to prove they're in self isolation that's aimed at getting the lockdowns and border restrictions lifted as soon as possible it's very new new technology it's very interesting but a lot of people worry about it in terms of the person's freedom we're going to take a look at that a very strong look at it will it you know pretty said the kind of in china where the outbreak began last year most codes dictate where the people can leave the house and where they can go digital rights activists say such apps need to be designed so they can't be misused so today it's often we're not china we never make you you know make you use this but what happens tomorrow when it's on every i us

device and every adult device and we start using the law downs and we say to people you want to go back to work you can but here's the cab yacht you have to turn it on you have to opt into it you know but you get your choice you don't have to go to work but if you want to go to work you got a. scientist said mit take knology alone it won't be enough to eradicate the virus instead it will need people's commitment and real life brian al-jazeera. so this is out there these are the top stories and confirm coronavirus cases in the united states have been skyrocketing in the months since a pandemic was declared critics of president donald trump say his slow response is largely to blame more than a half a 1000000 americans have been infected the u.k. is reported another 917 coronavirus related hospital deaths in the past day taking

its total to nearly 10000 health officials have warned the outbreak has yet to reach its peak and the british home secretary says police will use new powers including fines to enforce measures. these stark figures highlight the gravity of this national emergency the devastating impact of this virus and the unprecedented but necessary action that we are taking to tackle it is affecting every aspect of our daily lives but my message to anyone still refusing to do the right thing is clear if you don't pay your part our selfless police who are out there risking their own lives to save others will be unafraid to act more than 30000000 people in brazil have signed up for merge and see financial relief as locked down restrictions impact the economy the government is trying to streamline the payment process after thousands lined up at tax offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups. turkey's most populous areas are all under lockdown after

the government imposed a surprise curfew due to last 2 days that affects $31.00 provinces including the 2 biggest cities system bor and ankara singapore is the latest in a growing list of countries and companies to ban the video conferencing platform soon teachers there are banned from using the app for remote lessons because of what the government describes as very serious incidents local media say that includes men showing obscene images to teenage girls during a lesson poll and google have announced working together to develop technology that will alert people when they've been closed to anybody infected with the coronavirus the idea is to help governments roll out to run on both android devices and i phone it's all right up to date with headlines here and odds are more news coming out right of the people about.

greece has a proud reputation as the birthplace of democracy of government by the people for the people but to the ethnic to kish minority of ptrace in the country's north east who say they've suffered decades of discrimination from the state that's not have it seems today we've been to investigate.