i was very fortunate to be awarded another scholarship rewind on al-jazeera. unprompted and dunn interrupted discussions. from our london broadcast center. it's going to just appear one day it's like a miracle it will disappear the united states now has more coronavirus deaths than any other country in the world we examine the president's handling of the crisis. this is our live from doha with comprehensive coverage a month on from the declaration of a pandemic including the u.k. records more than 100 hospital deaths for a 2nd day the government gives police new powers to take action against people

flouting emergency measures. a lockdown is imposing $31.00 probably just across turkey including the biggest cities the festival and ankara. and 2 big tech companies developing an alert to let you know if you've come into contact with somebody who's infected but does it infringe on privacy. so then the united states has become the country with the highest death toll from corona virus that's according to the johns hopkins university tracker right here more fatalities were confirmed in the past day taking the united states past italy you can see the italy death toll right there 18849 here is the united states with a number of cases over half a 1000000 if we just bring up the u.s. you can see that they now come up with $18860.00 deaths in the united states so that's a lot. yes more than italy and of course it's climbing all the time now confirmed

cases in the world's biggest economy have been skyrocketing in the month since a pandemic was declared let's speak to mike hanna who joins us from washington d.c. and might we hear donald trump talking about getting the country up and running as soon as possible but then we have news from new york about schools remaining closed until september. yes indeed the mayor of new york as the non-self the schools will be closed for the rest of the summer that means that some 1100000 children will not have had regular schooling for a period of some 3 months but of dispute about this with the governor of new york who says it's not the mayor's decision alone it's a decision that has to be taken in conjunction with other areas of the metropolitan new york region saying that the decision cannot be one person's alone it's got to be taken in unison so that small political fights are playing their president

continued that the testing protocol is well underway in the united states saying that over $2000000.00 people have been tested but these figures are meaningless according to many experts without a per capita type figure how many are being tested per $1000.00 for example and now in the last few hours and once again the united states has surpassed any other country in the world in terms of total number of fatalities most of those are nearly half happening in new york state u.s. officials looking very anxiously to populous states like florida and texas as the next flashpoint in this ongoing pandemic so to many any talk about reopening the whole country or even parts of the country at this particular stage is completely unrealistic you mentioned testing there that's the key to ending this that's according to the world health organization and many others and it's piers to be working for germany where does this leave the u.s.

interest. well the u.s. was incredibly slow in its rollout and when it did roll out testing kits many of them proved faulty it changed its testing kits right at the beginning from those issued by the world health organization to using some locally u.s. manufactured ones which were proved to be deficient in many cases so there's still a massive shortage of testing kits out there the much heralded quick test kit which president displayed in the last week there's just not enough of them going out and even there there's not the full kit going are some governors complaining that they do not have enough valves with the testing kit so they are still massive problems in the rollout and this is very very important because the top u.s. senior health officials relating to those around the world insists that the only way to be able to decide when lock down partial or full is ended is with data the

only way that that data can be collected is by testing the u.s. continues despite president travels probably stations to lag far behind per capita many other countries in terms of the width of its testing and unless it does increase the rate of its testing increase the spread of it's testing increase the speed of the diagnosis then there cannot be clear data on which to base any decision or any discussion about the decision to reopen partially or totally or might relieve their thanks very much mike hanna there in washington d.c. well critics of president all tromso his slow response is largely to blame for the high numbers in the u.s. a white house correspondent can be how it has more. he has betrayed our national security when the us recorded its 1st coronavirus case on january 20th the united states was in the midst of another crisis the senate will convene as a court of impeachment the impeachment trial against president donald trump

something he said was a distraction for the country. but did the political drama also leave the president distracted from leading a response to the covert 19th outbreak hitting the united states trump says he took the virus seriously from the start i felt it was a pandemic long before it was called a pandemic all you had to do is look at other countries but his public statements suggest otherwise in january is the world health organization warned of a global crisis and coronavirus cases in china grew trump bad chinese citizens from traveling to the u.s. but continue to downplay the threat we have a totally under control one person coming in from china he suggested it would go away by april as lawmakers expressed fears the u.s. was unprepared i'm deeply concerned that we are way behind the fondness by late february as rotavirus group states like washington and california lawmakers on

capitol hill publicly questioned ministration the specials regarding whether or not resources have been stockpiled to deal with the crisis we do have in the strategic national stockpile ventilators we have masks we have enough for part well of course not or we wouldn't be asking for a supplemental to seek more money to procure more of that but by march tom why did travel restrictions to include some european countries also declared a national emergency in the us still as grotta virus cases expanded trump continued to downplay the problem it's going to disappear one day it's like a miracle it will disappear. he accused his democratic opponents weaponize income. on a virus for political purposes and harming his reelection chances and this is the new home it's only as hundreds of new coronavirus cases emerge to process the us to the white house and now its national social distancing guidelines it prompted closures

of most u.s. businesses overnight causing millions of americans to lose their jobs and a blitter a the once booming u.s. economy looking for a scapegoat trump blame china center a sister of the letter comes from china and contradicting public health officials trump continued to project optimism telling americans he wanted businesses reopened by easter but as cases of coronavirus rose truck reluctantly expanded public health restrictions we will be extending our guidelines to april 30th to slow the spread president trump has justified the mixed messages from his chronic virus task force arguing he's the country's cheerleader providing hope to americans in a difficult time but one analyst argues with the november presidential election on the horizon trumps response is driven by his desire to win

a 2nd term as you know the saying goes never let a good crisis go to waste this is a president who has used every opportunity this crisis to to attempt to solidify himself so little fire his base and solidify his reelection we appreciate it very much trump continues to praise white house response efforts giving himself a 10 out of 10 even his critics accuse him of failing to respond swiftly to save thousands of lives kimberly helped get al-jazeera washington. but let's take a close look at how the u.s. got to this point in the pandemic its 1st confirmed case of the virus was announced on january 21st in washington state the 1st cave in 19 death came more than a month later there were just $24.00 confirmed infections then but epidemiologists believe 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 and lack of data

left health officials flying blind the country now has the highest number of confirmed cases and as we said earlier the highest death toll in the world which i mean rare is an associate professor at the shell school of policy in government and that's 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 he's now at about 48 percent approval in 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 those 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. well u.k.

is closing in on the grim figure of 10000 coronavirus related deaths it's a new hotbed of the pandemic in europe and the number of casualties just keeps on climbing another 917 people have died of the disease in hospital taking the total to almost 1900 health officials of one the outbreak has yet to reach its peak and the british home secretary says police will use new powers including fines to in force lockdown measures these start 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 well despite projections that the daily death toll will continue to go up there is

a glimmer of hope as merriman monthly reports now from london. 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 in the last few days the u.k. already surpassed and spain for recording the highest number of daily deaths now interestingly you also hearing from the director of chess 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 toll think those because of this time lag

with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then those again time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly they might die and so because of that time live you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week. well after the virus emerged in china the epicenter of the disease soon shifted to europe overwhelming hospitals and 14 tens of millions of people into lockdown and there are questions about whether the european union will survive now because of what critics say was a muddled response or actually as this try jeffrey i imagine. 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 tens of thousands of football fans had descended on the san siro stadium in the land 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 pete that just under

a thousands. 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. simply the ban was reciprocated business stops unemployment rockets and. 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 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 weather countries under funded 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 company. man 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. turkey has put its most populated areas under a 2 day lockdown to try to contain the spread of the virus bakeries hospitals pharmacies and workplaces making medical equipment they're exempt the restrictions are due to end on sunday at midnight seen in kosovo as 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 routines were afraid that more

people would be going out yes the cafeteria as restaurants public places shopping malls they're all closed down but of course it is difficult to control 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 because mending locked on 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 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 be close 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 fears of 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. now iran one of the countries hardest hit spike over 9000 is thought to reopening government offices after a brief nationwide as has more than 70000 confirmed cases well more than 4300 people have died has more now from. 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 covert 900 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 apos him 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 dollar 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 a bench for the 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 u.s. sanctions. well more than $30000000.00 people in brazil have signed up for merge and see financial relief is locked down restrictions in the economy the government is trying to streamline the payment process of thousands lined up at tax offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups and full workers are entitled to claim $118.00 per month. and make regular into celebrated easter as the government refuses to enforce widespread restrictions

a traditional good friday ceremony was held in the southern city of message happy despite means by the catholic church to suspend all festivities international health observers are criticizing the government inaction or does remain open and the government reports only 4 confirmed cases of the virus the president saying it will take hasn't been seen in public for weeks hundreds of cases have been confirmed in cameroon but health officials there fear there may be many more that are unreported now its loans nationwide testing on interest as it's reported. health look is income rules raised to contain the spread of copied 19 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 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. 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 on but there are bills to pay $1.00 must earn to do that 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 forties 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 come some. 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 or 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 armitage greece. let's take a look at singapore now which is the latest in a growing list of countries and companies to ban the video conferencing platform soon teaches they're banned from using the app for remote lessons because of what the government describes as very serious incidents local media say this includes men showing obscene images to teenage girls during a zoom lesson. well the big companies say that to me up to develop technology that will alert people when they're close to somebody who's infected the idea is to help government's role to run on smartphones like say a broad basis. 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 way collaboration between the american companies whose operating systems power 9009 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 in a safe it and they will openly publish information about their work for others to analyze governments worldwide are working out how technology 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 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 we'll let you know pretty said apprentice and china where the outbreak began last year. 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's opt in we're not china we never make you you know make you use this but what happens tomorrow when it's on every i was device and every android device and we start using will walk down and we say to people you

want to go back to work you can but here's a 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 to. scientists admit technology alone won't be enough to eradicate the virus instead it will need people's commitment in real life brian al jazeera. 0 these are the top stories in the united states has become the country with the highest death toll from corona virus more fatalities were confirmed in the past day taking the total to more than 18860 confirmed cases in the us have been skyrocketing in the month since a pandemic was declared by kind of has more now from washington d.c. the united states has surpassed any other country in the world in terms of total number of fatalities most of those are nearly half happening in new york state but

u.s. officials are looking very anxiously to popular states like florida and texas as the next flashpoint in this ongoing pandemic so to many any talk about reopening the whole country or even parts of the country at this particular stage is completely unrealistic the u.k. has reported another $917.00 coronavirus related hospital deaths in the past day taking its total to nearly $10000.00 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 a lockdown measures these start 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. turkey's most populous areas are all under lockdown after the government imposed a surprise curfew is due to last 2 days in effect $31.00 provinces including the 2 biggest cities istanbul and ankara more than $30000000.00 people in brazil have signed up for emergency financial relief as lock down restrictions impact the economy there the government is trying to streamline the payment process to thousands lined up at tax offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups in full workers are entitled to claim $118.00 a month health authorities have appealed to people to step. up state with headlines here and odds are got more news coming up right after inside story.

who will pay for the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic governments around the world pledged trillions of dollars to try and keep their economies afloat will a massive bailout to stop another global financial crisis this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. most economists agree the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the world into recession.