many people here. but does it make you feel nice you feel like a murderer we have created an enormous amount of mental disaster. and investigation south africa toxic city on al jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello again i'm peter w. watching the news live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.s. overtakes it's silly to have the highest number of coronavirus deaths worldwide. i'm sorry if people feel that there have be fame in. the u.k. government facing more criticism over equipment shortages false warning the peak is

yet to come. africans in southern china say they're being targeted by coronavirus racism. more you'll lose the movie. also had a very different easter sunday for the world's catholics this year as the pope's holy mass is streamed online. and i'm piece able to do sports in a summation $1900000000.00 has been wiped off the value of english premier league squads as the coronavirus threatens long term financial problems for football. we begin this news with the u.s. which has now surpassed its elites a half the world's highest coronavirus death toll more than $20600.00 people a known to have died since the outbreak began public health experts are warning that figure could reach 200000 within months if stay at home orders are lifted too

soon. you can see that the numbers somewhat. stabilizing but it is stabilizing at and horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and paid one from the us kristen salumi reports on new york's worsening economic situation it's been called the crossroads of the world but these days no one is going anywhere just ask taxi driver nicolay hent here people talking. about it he says his few customers are mostly hospital workers now that all but essential workers are expected to stay home 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 our 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. 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 the city and state officials have lashed out at the federal government for not doing more to coordinate the response on bidding on a machine that illinois is bidding on california is betting on and florida is big and we were bidding up each other while social distancing appears to be slowing the spread of coated 19 nearly a month of school and business closures are taking a toll leaving thousands of small business owners struggling to survive like jeff george who owns a martial arts studio the biggest thing is continuing to be able to pay the rent and pay the deliveries and pay the employees right we want to we want to be able to sustain them as much as we can and will help 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 so i cannot wait to have a big party after this 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 russia is reporting more than 2000 new coronavirus cases that's its biggest daily increase he gets more than 15700 infections have been reported across russia the government says a 130 people have died. the u.k. government has responded to more condemnation that it hasn't done enough to provide protective equipment for medical workers in the u.k.

unions of one doctors and nurses are putting their lives at risk about 19 health care workers have died after contracting the virus was treating people the total death toll is nearly $10000.00 the home secretary pretty patel was asked if she would apologize to health workers and their families i'm sorry if people feel that the have the failings i'll be very very clear about it but at the same time we are in an. unprecedented global health pandemic right now it is inevitable that the dumond and the pressure is p.p. and the demand for p.p. are going to be exponential they're going to be incredibly high and of course we are trying to address that is the government and i think that is right that is our priority now in barbour is our correspondent following that story for us out of london this pretty purcell where she been for the past 3 weeks. good question peter lots of people were have been asking that question and were slightly surprised to see

a chairing that daily briefing she says she's been carrying on holding virtual meetings with officials and talking about the problems which she referenced there but really i don't think her performance has gone down very well there have been a whole host of cabinet ministers chairing these daily briefings on different topics with different angles to them if you like this was supposed to really be addressing partly the lack of protective equipment for frontline health care workers there was a direct question from a journalist from a british broadcaster which he followed up a couple of times asking pretty patel if she would apologize for those failings specifically some families of n.h.s. workers who have died say that the lack of the right equipment contributed to their deaths she didn't want to give a clear answer as you heard she said i'm sorry if people felt that there were failings we know that people felt there were failings so i think people have

reacted across the political board really that she was being rather mealy mouthed than it was just 24 hours after the health secretary matt hancock at a briefing had suggested that health workers should use their p.p. their protective equipment more sparingly so that it would last longer that was deemed rather insensitive when many of the front line workers are saying that they're reusing masks and they prinz and the like which shouldn't be reused there was a shipment on friday of $250000.00. individual pieces of kit that has to be distributed around the country pretty patel's says the government's doing all they can but in terms of their messaging i think they really need to change the tone if they going to get the public on their side the public that have been applauding health workers every thursday evening here in the u.k. but also hearing these rising problems and rising demands from the people most

affected that they be given the right kit and russia we're getting a clearer picture of what's going on there. we're starting to peter the kremlin had already admitted to growing rate of infection across russia was putting strain on hospitals particularly in the capital moscow and incent petersburg and now the latest figures state that the recorded deaths over 24 hours have risen by $24.00 to a total of $130.00 that's a relatively low death toll there could be many others who have died outside hospital and whose deaths from covered 19 of not being counted but the important thing is that the number of cases the infection rate is increasing went up by around a 3rd in 24 hours to sunday up to 2186

confirmed positive cases so the trend is worrying people there we have seen a big discussion here in britain about how our performance and how the graph of how the curve compares to countries like germany where there's been mass testing and contact tracing the government here has admitted but lessons could have been learned from germany earlier on that promising a total of 10100000 tests per day by the end of this month germany's already well over one $100000.00 per day and their death toll is noticeably smaller the british government say that they're really trying to get on top of this but also a discussion right now about when the restrictive measures might be lifted will the the european commission chief to have on the lion is given an interview to the german press on sunday saying that for the elderly and the most vulnerable they may have to stay in isolation until the end of this year she hopes they'll be

a vaccine developed in europe by then but certainly for the most vulnerable she is saying it is not just a matter of months but many many months to go now to thanks very much. allegations of coronavirus linked racism have been made by africans living in the chinese city of long as they say they're being kicked out of their homes and they're facing public harris meant nigeria kenya and ghana are among the countries demanding china address those concerns one jew says it treats foreigners and chinese nationals equally when interest is standing by for us in a puja to bring us the reaction from africa 1st let's go to sarah clarke in hong kong for the latest on this story sara what's the central accusation here. well the reports over been saying on a number of social media platforms for members of the african community in one joe and there's the platforms of of weibo we chat and twitter at the complaints of mistreatment our rests. and africans being denied entry to restaurants and hotels

we've had some students claiming they've been thrown out on the streets and been denied access to food and we've also seen a cartoon it shows an ex-pat african in front of trash cans and that's depicting foreigners as breaking rules and experts being labeled as trash that needs to be sorted and all of this is escalated over the last week or so after we had a number of cases about 114 cases of the crime of arson fiction reported on thursday in one joe and 16 were africans in the big claims in the of the local community in one jo that a number of africans have ignored the quarantine restrictions and as a result there's been anger in the community and there's concern about the risk of infection being increased as a result of this and as you mentioned we've had a several african countries including a ghana zimbabwe nigeria and kenya they've complained about the treatment of their citizens in the city of gone joe which is in the southern part of china and got as foreign minister was actually summoned china's ambassador in the country to complain of the mistreatment and demand that action is taken at the u.s.

state department has also issued a travel warning to its citizens the african americans living in one joe as a result and that china's foreign ministry it's acknowledge there's been some sort of misunderstanding within the african community and says it will follow up a bit of background about one joke in 24 saying we had about 100000 africans living in that city travel restrictions have reduce that number up to around 10000 but we have a large number of students living in that city at universities and international schools but certainly at the next we expect this this particular story to develop as the governments of africa take action and we see more of these complaints emerge understood ceremony things that need addressed joins us live from a budget committee was the reaction where you are. well the reaction is not of anger and disbelieve the nigerian government in particular called the chinese ambassador to explain the situation we've seen video

cycle eating on social media platforms here in nigeria and across west africa and other parts of africa as well about how nigerians and africans are being treated by the chinese or just in one of the videos for example a consular official from the nigerian embassy had a very long and heated discussion an argument with a chinese official regarding the seizure of nigerian passports and how these nigerians i've been chased out of their homes threatened by another loads it up in the streets and some of them in fact or actually lying on the streets now the nigerian government said it's demanding spanish from the chinese authorities why this is happening and officials privately many of the ships in african countries worried that they could be abducted it remember there are hundreds of thousands of chinese if not millions living in africa china tried to make inroads into african markets developing infrastructure investing in

a lot of areas so they do start fear among african governments for example of a backlash against chinese walking on the continent because of what's happening in congo and other parts of china as well many thanks. ok let's take you live to a very different vatican city this hour here on the news because the pope the leader of the world's women catholics pope francis and christians around the world indeed are celebrating one of the most important days in the religious calendar today easter sunday but because of the pandemic and peter's basilica and the square outside it's pretty much empty millions are watching around the world on t.v. and online pope is delivering a blessing he will do that in front of the tomb of st peter underscoring the solitude confronting people around the world. this is how the service looked in occupied east jerusalem home to the church of the holy several where many christians believe jesus was crucified and in tune before the resurrection. mary

for 6 in occupied east jerusalem where he says the city is absent of pilgrims. that would be tens of thousands of people that would usually be here jews coming for passover and indeed tens of thousands of christian pilgrims coming to spend easter here that of course is just not happened and so the streets of the old city very much devoid of life if not entirely at least in comparison to how they would usually be shuts shops shut throughout the the alleyways of the old city and indeed the hotels that would usually be here open in full to the brim with christian pilgrims from around the world they just haven't had that business that i mean there is one hotel near here but just as a few dozen quarantine guests who is here coming back from abroad and have had to spend their 14 days quarantine in total across the country and throughout the the period of this lockdown it's estimated that that $1000000000.00 more than

a 1000000000 dollars is going to be lost in terms of tourism as a result of all of this. catholics in the philippines of mark the holy week behind closed doors after the president there roderigo to order the lockdown and the spread of the virus virtual masses have been held online but some filipino priests say they're finding other ways to conduct their services jamila is in the capital manila. if it is to me guys is now homeless he was a construction worker until the government imposed a lockdown to slow the spread of cruelly a virus a few weeks ago his family had already left the city and he found himself chanted and below. he was surprised when we told him it was easter sunday he said the day all seem the same to him. i prayed last night i recited the hail mary i hope things get better soon here till they leave so i can go back to work easter is usually

one of the most festive celebrations here but this is how it looks like now churches have largely remained closed and empty almost unimaginable in the philippines the last bastion of catholicism in asia the so-called enhanced community quarantined in the region of luzon has forced more than 50000000 people to stay in their homes it's a time of great uncertainty people are scared of contracting the virus and of not being able to put food on the table millions of filipinos don't get paid if they don't work the government says it is doing its best to speed the payment of cash grants to millions of people but not for those who are homeless although good friday and easter services are banned for their flabby has got special permission to hold a service at this makeshift shelters. he says their ordeal

now is a reminder of the importance of what jesus represented compassion and love. the homeless are here to give with this as a reminder that such people exist and they should never be forgotten most especially in this time of pandemic. for now the streets outside the church in manila are a sanctuary for the homeless they say they may not be able to enter its grounds but they'll continue to lift their prayers up to god hoping that there must be a better way to melinda orgon. spain is reporting a rise in the links to the virus for the 1st time in 3 days 619 people have died in the last 24 hours spain's military emergency unit has been deployed to help contain the virus even using drones to warn people to stay at home spain has one of the highest infection rates worldwide with more than 166000 confirmed cases.

zimbabwe is easing some restrictions 2 weeks after imposing a nationwide lock down the government says it has to support the economy but it does acknowledge the relaxing isn't without risk. from harare yet. some relief was the barbarians who rely on relatives living abroad to send the money for days some people haven't had to pass to buy food and other essentials it's forced the government to ease a 3 week coronavirus lucked out that means money transfer agencies cannot open but only 3 times a week they are opening it will ease a little for creation model for families was most of these guys are relying on are just part of the changes which is a big big contribution of over 720000000 us that comes through the desk water from coming into the into the country it is unusual the nationwide lockdown has affected many sectors of the economy. makes is mainly for the foreign markets he can't do

that now. as you can see police quote. was we saw the. 2 of you are. in a country facing its worst economic crisis in a decade soaring inflation storage is a foreign currency food electricity global travel restrictions have left places empty more than 2000000 visitors came to zimbabwe last year most traveled from the parts of africa europe and the u.s. the money they brought in supported thousands of locals working in the tourism industry now many families are struggling. some businesses are trying to get by in a box deliver supplies to people's houses customers order on line so they can stay at home and try to keep safe

a lot of coming to work obviously because of the distancing. a lot of people are using our services you know people are socially distancing and isolating their homes and so the delivery service business is really sort of become a lifeline for a lot of people who depend on us. the government has removed other lockdown restrictions. at markets but social distancing and other precautions against a coronavirus are difficult to maintain like many african countries battling with how to stop the spread of 19 without damaging an already crumbling economy. ok let's get more on the story for you joining us here on the news. he's a professor at the migration policy center at the european university institute he joins us live from. isn't it just too soon for the authorities to

ease restrictions in this way. not is very badly actually the finest mission so our bet is on going to keep our eye on the. center or it is going for information shows that most of us mission until recent times are probably not much not ours now we may see more of busy a lot of the us mission sort and to stop that country's has begun to not lock down and the destruction and. despondency which is very very core of the religion are let's spread our virus i don't know if you've seen a report but what struck me about the video contained within the report was this idea of yes officially they are trying to apply a social distancing but in our shots of marketplaces busy busy marketplaces there is 0 social distancing taking place anyway. yes i think it's

in a policy that him up because on the one hand you want socially sponsor you are physically sponsoring. to prevent the spread and i said i'm serious but saving lives in african context problems we sacrificing like me who acted any slightingly who is driving people to edit even or to precautions of the police dancing all of us implied they are trying to prioritize african states do not have a lot of chance that they can issue to live citizens elsewhere and the only thing they can do is to dissuade people to stay at home use the existing community as it is at least until east suction. and understanding on how to be. unmitigated act what's the calculation on the part of the government here i mean why not leave it

a another 2 to 4 weeks and do what other countries in africa have done which is directly approach the i.m.f. and say look we need a bailout we're good for the money our economy was beginning to turn around anyway but we will keep people at home but we do need some liquidity into our market. well that's kind of request to send him on for margaret and these are already being met and so to start is already shown but at the site you just have to choose hamas of lives but let me just decline and they may not immediately be available because the country that serves and institutions not. the line of those nations are in their own. kneejerk reaction to contain the spread of the virus and that also is on the dotted line that leaves actually up we've got us too but what we saw of course are the iraqis and then that only be done who does it go in

and be sure that that is obviously. in the absence of ice use and also people like vision and dental insurance where we don't have our own there's even the most advanced of the lines like got caught up on what i learned that i asked people like that when i see you and minutes later at last they are not going to be on common sense and they have to match up their existing company got $6.00 for at least part of their leave and short of that what do you think this potentially might do to the local economy given that the starting point for the economy it was in a precarious state anyway and now if they're going to ease these restrictions the workforce goes back to work and then potentially the workforce gets so sick the workforce can't work. yes i think if these dollars kitchens

are is there will be a spread of funds me but to me like a car and i think that is not something that by the end many of the military experts are saying that if you do malinda sassy but not so her presence in terms of the economy i do not i mean the 1st the health sector and there will be a huge investment required on. and on tuesday not a lot of the amount of money like has saved the government's not locked jets to beauty they don't sell those new blank blank checks act from our site to update you must on the health sector and you do so it would be busted in many ways obviously not to be able to raise. and that means it will affect on the public sector and the detriment of the public service and i think this be the reason why. the bar you

should be on. and then seeing the next live on the impact of the economy. and how to get the economy. up become a so horrid edmonton's and the long term on the forefront has to be that it's other since i'm liberal of i have visions of the engines actions which is the circumstance i'm not going to science it doesn't happen. thank you so much and give. well the pandemic is not expected to peak in latin america for another 3 weeks but even before the virus emergency public health systems in many countries there were overstretched many workers are saying they have no choice but to ignore lockdown orders so they can put food on the table as a latin america editor to see in human. body is decomposing on the streets or inside houses in ecuador is tropical city of. cemeteries and funeral parlors can't

cope with the demand and the government can only offer cardboard coffins for the latest victims. it's already a catastrophe long before infections from cold 19 reach their peak here and there and get him when the governor putting in they wait for them to die before helping them and when their dad they hand them over to the family this is terrible since march 1st the pandemic has been spreading rapidly throughout latin america and brazil the country with the most deaths so far drug lords are imposing quarantines in slums that's because the president is still refusing to take strong measures at the expense of the economy in mexico the government and the people appear dangerously nonchalant about social distancing and testing even as coronavirus cases continue rising. by contrast in argentina chile peru colombia paraguayan and most of central america borders are closed and the army is on the streets to

enforce partial or total quarantines to try to slow the curve of contagion improve for example men are allowed to leave the house to shop on alternate days and women on the other days to keep more people off the streets but where the notable about i think it's a good idea to be able to control the masses a little bit because of the type of contagion that we're facing. but it's not enough we don't. think this place is as they develop. number one in terms of health systems and then in the system in systems. i mean i would say only 84 percent of the forest or access to ship protection there restore anything. latin america faces another tremendous handicap a very high population density in its major cities coupled with widespread poverty that fans the spread of disease. but the region faces an even bigger problem

maintaining a problem quarantine for much longer and many of these cities will likely be impossible to enforce and for a very simple reason 58 percent of latin americans like means work in the informal sector and faced with the choice of staying at home to starve or defying a forty's they would rather come out here and take their chances with the buyers. in many countries hospitals are already running out of surgical masks and ventilators at least 14000000 people are already out of work and with the peak of the pan dimia still some 3 weeks away latin america may well be facing unprecedented death and devastation. you see in human al-jazeera santiago. iran has recorded more than 100 dead. in the past 24 hours the total death toll there now stands at more than $4700.00 and that's more than $71000.00 confirmed cases on saturday the president hassan rouhani called on people to continue to

follow social distancing measures as many so-called low risk business activities reopened across the country that's wrapped up some of the top stories for you here on the news of the taliban says it is releasing a 1st group of 20 afghan government prisoners on sunday as part of an agreement with the u.s. the announcement coincides with the release of a 3rd group of $100.00 taliban prisoners by the afghan government last month president ashraf ghani signed a decree to release 1500 taliban prisoners to help launch direct talks with the armed group to end the 18 year long war. time for the weather here's jenny now if we're staying indoors it's easy in europe if the weather is a bit rubbish but it's not rubbish it's nice if it than it will head that place you're right the weather has been glorious and this has been part of the problem people being outside understandably so particular having of course where you live where you've got any private outdoor space but weather conditions how being very nice indeed nothing's all set to change you can see mostly case guys still across

much of mainland europe but the cloud is the beginning to portion from the north and the northwest but not before this glorious sunshine it will switzerland this is the 50th to that festival 380 varieties of chile as a people to enjoy and then all of the southeast coast in england this is ken's of course very empty beaches under those very nice clear sunny skies and mostly empty parks as well this is hyde park in central london want to see people out and about but for the most part things of course all fairly quiet and the say the weather is set to change this color is showing you where the warm air is in place we've had these time which is about 10 degrees above average now for several days across much of mainland europe but the cloud the rain beginning to portion from the west rather unsettled picture really across much of spain and portugal that rain will head across the country pushing through the western end of the med as we go through monday so a real a diff in the field of things than the time which is a lot cooler and very unsubtle so much of scandinavia but have a look at this because the 08 we have got another day of very nice warm weather

monday is not bad and then choose it did right the way down to 13 that is the average for this time of year but of course it will feel a lot colder coming off the back of those temperatures in the mid to high twenty's and it's the weekend for a day longer before that cool air comes down from the north and impacts the n.s.o. 24 on sunday about the same on monday and as you can see 10 celsius on she's a on the average of just 15 celsius jenny thanks so much see you later still to come here on news paying tribute to the dead we remember some of the victims of the coronavirus pandemic. after spending so now i'm kind of a general for my head. to not be able to pull together a voice was devastating people around the world struggling with being separated from their loved ones because of the pandemic. and coming up in the sports news with peter we'll look at how the loss of income for less than name golfers has affected their livelihoods. thanks.

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history of a revolution just. welcome back you're watching news live from doha i'm peter dhabi you're headlining stories the u.s. is now overtaken italy is having the highest number of coronavirus the world wide more than 20000 americans have died most were in new york state but the governor says there are signs the infection rate could be stabilizing. africans living in southern china say they're being evicted from their homes and racially targeted because of the pandemic health workers in guangdong are stepping up testing for imported infections city leaders say they treat foreigners and chinese people

equally. and pope francis the leader of the roman catholic church around the world is celebrating easter sunday mass without a congregation because of coronavirus faithful around the world are watching the mass online screening and on t.v. . let's stay with that ongoing story in fact i think we can show you live pictures coming to us from vatican city gerald o'connell is a vatican affairs correspondent for america magazine he's also the author of god's invisible hand the life and work of francis cardinal arinze a he joins us from rome gerada connell welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera we are getting a sense of what was in the words delivered by the pontiff what's your reading of what he said so far. well it was a very strong message she called on the world to be united at this time as they face the pandemic is said it's not the moment for division it's not the moment for self centeredness it's not the moment for forgetfulness. he called on

the different the rulers of the different countries to take action he called for the ending of conflicts worldwide he's also talking about pardon me for interrupting you mr o'connell he's also talking about unity across europe within the european countries of course their approach has been different so that's clearly something the pontiff is aware of it's a very strong message because he's well aware that the european union especially is not able to yet come together in a united way to face the challenge and he's told them in i think pretty blunt words he said you know your own future. and the world's future depend on you overcoming self centeredness of the different nations and being united in

responding to this challenge is he talking to catholic churches and congregations around the world in another sense we are seeing of course the symbolism the is not lost on anyone you've got a pope there who's calling card has always been a desire to express the need for pastoral care on the part of himself the vatican and the church of rome wherever catholics are around the world yet on top of that we do have churches around the world saying come to church on easter sunday come and celebrate mass with us i'm thinking of some of those mega churches in the states because you'll be protected by the blood of jesus how does that square in the vatican. well the pope is obviously not of this so opinion he realizes that. your love for god must also be reflected in your love for neighbor and a love for neighbor in this particular moment in history requires social distancing

and so not making it gatherings is very very clear about this and the vatican gave instructions to churches around the world that they should not bring people together at this moment and to have and as the pope is leading by example he has very if there were not 30 people in the church today and they were well spaced out and these were essential people to enable him to have the mass broadcast on the television and worldwide is he now the right pope at the right time given the way that people are suffering around the world given the way that catholics are suffering around the world i think this is a the right pope for this moment he's a pope who's under students who's always been close to people and he is living

with the reality of people i mean he's folding people and he's told the vatican we've got thing not just of today and how to help the people who are being affected by the virus we've also got to think of tomorrow what's going to happen when the pandemic ends and people may be without jobs many businesses may be closed and he says we it's time to think now about tomorrow and he set up a special team within the vatican to give attention to this problem connell gets talks here on thanks for time thank you. thanks the u.s. new york and neighboring new jersey account the hoff of the 20000 americans who've died off the contract in the virus many a posse away alone because family and friends a band from visiting hospitals gabriel elizondo picks up the story these are some of the faces of people who caught the virus fought it and ultimately lost and are

now gone they're not numbers not statistics or part of any curves they're human beings dying by the thousands in new york or new jersey in the epicenter of the krona virus outbreak in america like sandra sent those fiske yano born in the dominican republic she came to america as a child that's her husband felix behind her sandra was a public school teacher in brooklyn who loved to bake cookies and bring them to her students this is albert. a new york fire chief his son also a firefighter was killed on 911 coronavirus took his dad last week isaac graham to be loved pastor at macedonia baptist church in harlem he and sheryl were married for 45 years his last words to her before he passed i love you in the neighboring state of new jersey alfredo and susanna pat at how both got the virus

a few days apart and were hospitalized on different floors of the same hospital alfredo died alone suzanna died a couple days later also alone they were married 44 years. this is michael yon it korean immigrant who lived the american dream hoping a convenience store before becoming a local council man in his adopted hometown now signs of thanks and sorrow to him at a makeshift memorial in his honor michael yon was well known in the community for the trademark bow tie that he wore around his neck here it is main office the door was always open he was more often than not inside serving free coffee and danishes members of the community would often just walk right in to talk to him i know because i was one of them michael yon was my councilman i live just

a block away on march 26th he went into the hospital diagnosed with corona virus 10 days later he was dead another soul now gone like so many others taken from family and friends by an unforgiving by iris taking too many lives gabriel's on doe al-jazeera jersey city new jersey well for many people all around the world the worst part of this crisis is being cut off from those they love brings to some of their stories. life under lockdown silence and isolation and for many in this pandemic there is the anguish of being forcibly separated from loved ones all over the world families have been wrenched apart some because of the devastating affects of the disease. others simply because they were away from home at the wrong time. and i have just

like. 19 goudey found herself stuck in ukraine with her newborn baby who was delivered by a surrogate that her husband had already returned to the u.k. both of them were arranging travel documents for their son when the lockdown struck it was really heartbreaking because yeah after spending so long trying to have a child for my husband to not be able to be together with was devastated. and you know for learn lee because of the baby and i was not planned to isolate him so we were we were just in a little apartment together marooned for weeks in a state of uncertainty they eventually managed to get the documentation they needed and most importantly a flight back home stopping over in germany 1st or over before the family was finding reunited if england realized conny was diagnosed with coded 19 lost in

hospital for a pre-planned procedure she enjoyed the virus and have fears without her loved ones around able to comfort her i'm not allowed any visits. or current speak because i don't have anywhere so i don't really have a conversation with my family and i can't see them either so you know it was the hardest part was. well she's isolated in this room and you know i didn't have any one nanny when it was one of those moments where you need someone the most they don't tools and the nurses were excellent they communicated with me even if i could it could indicate back with them they kept me at ease as much as they could and and it's also you know you do see people going home as well you see out of it going i miss wallace and you just in those moments like that's what you have to take you have to take the positive well met that were abstinence maybe and she did rhea still needs to isolate from my husband for

a bit longer. really dinner is ready but now at last he can be best for. his support in a time of need sunny diagonal al-jazeera london. well the ringing of the new year in myanmar is on friday but public celebrations are already cancelled the coronavirus is being blamed for the deaths of 3 people and infecting $38.00 the governments of every want to stay home during the 10 day thing young holiday but many workers on cancelling their travel plans florence louis has more. days before the myanmar new year starts and this bus terminal is packed people are leaving yangon for their hometowns despite government advice to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus here yes i am worried about the coronavirus that's why i have to take precautions like wearing a mask using hand sanitizers and washing hands everyone's doing it myanmar has one

of the lowest number of reported coronavirus cases in southeast asia about tough it's cases i go on the biggest city and commercial capital while the government has banned public gatherings travel is allowed raising concerns about spreading the virus everywhere. they brought their tickets in advance these are the people that go home every year since the factories they work in a closed they don't have a place to stay in the are gone the owner says only half his normal number of buses are on the road fewer people are traveling this year mostly migrant workers and no tourists the myanmar new year. is usually celebrated with much fanfare and merrymaking it's also known as the water festival but they'll be no water fights public concerts or street parades this year nonessential businesses have been ordered to shut only one person from each household is allowed

to go out for medicine health care of food for many the restrictions are a financial burden for we need really wasn't you know it's not good for business as we. can't work if we can't work we have nothing to eat i get paid for each day of work others are slightly more optimistic. we have to follow the government's order during thing in festival the government made the order because the world is in serious trouble so they have to protect the country it's for all of us. like many countries around the world is relying on everyone to stay home to break the chain of transmission lawrence louis. still to come here on al-jazeera a special delivery we'll show you the powerful bungalow the way of the liberal drawing a storm of the stars themselves isolationist coming up with peter when we come back .

the latest news as it breaks with. viruses. continue to provide the service began to fight the disease with details coverage. and feel as journalism from around the world for many coming to this place is the only chance they have to leave at least once a day. from the al-jazeera london broadcast center to special guests in conversation as the resistance and i see joy in the midst of pain your books do that unprompted uninterrupted wire all of our people of color and they're just one color does work that is why don't they should they be people of no color exactly fatima bhutto meads marc lamont hill i very much thought i was going

to get shot but look at the bad movie studio unscripted on al-jazeera. all. the. time. peter thank you so much we start with the sad news. the death of british formula one driver stirling moss moss is widely regarded as the greatest driver never to have won the f one championship he won 212 races in his motor racing career most died after a long illness at the age of 90 an estimated $1900000000.00 has been wiped off the value of squads in the english premier league because of the coronavirus crisis those are the findings of a football statistics website with no sign of a restart

a sharp drop in revenue and transfer plans on hold the report from transfer marked makes grim reading for some of the world's top clubs manchester city have suffered the biggest estimated drop in value down by $270000000.00 top stars in the liverpool squad like muhammad salla manet and virgil van dyke are estimated to be with 20 percent less now than they were before the pandemic the website's report also warns that many clubs could face lasting financial problems and even insolvency transfer marked managing director thomas lentz told us how they came up with this value drop. we made a huge market value cut to grow necrosis well the white premier league is just one league of that but it's as if the biggest lead in. the most out of market values from all the leaks coming together discussing how the market as a whole changed it to get $200.00 you know expert interviews there's a lot of media coverage and heard of the bull market is developing this is one

thing we did in the end of the news we knew we used our huge nets for network india will industry and we conducted a survey and yard comes were pretty much the same everybody is going to be a loss right now actually between 10 and 30 percent already and so we in the end we're funding compromise don't really believe you're going to end $22.00 by 10 percent and older than 20 to 20 percent and went as if you were there through the 1st of all did you go to a higher ratio of all the players who were 22 served in the. mortgage by the 20 percent and attempts and and the other thing is they're the most relevant club in the world so if we do a general. we'll be hit and there's a lot of experts and they hear about how the transfer window and to transfer market will be like to some or if there will be

a transfer window was didn't know and i think smaller clubs will be more likely to be harmed and revenues not coming in right now and bigger clubs where you know big companies are big but a lot of billionaires. there are more threatened and so the players that are $100.00 with. are all somewhat threatened and didn't care or earliest are probably going to done. more than the top stars because top stars will get top stars every kind of football market and if there's money among the top clubs money it moving. well today would have been the final run of the year's 1st gulf major the masters at all gusting stated owing to coronavirus they has not been in the gulf for more than a month now top earners like will than one rory mcilroy should be less hit by the loss in income battle royal has already won nearly $4000000.00 in prize money but it's not the same for everybody. players on south africa's sunshine to for example

in considerably less than the u.s. counterparts i'm joined now by african news agency sports journalist michael sherman he's in johannesburg michael how are the players in southern africa coping with the lost in income. important there. and. you know world honored by the european and the. computer and. the partner. but what the bank. is a bit of financial or the port protocol. the fact. that a man named the point member and on the woman when you are. an income gold remain in the. dark. or if there are men and women. you aren't entering now you

know we mentioned earlier that rory mcilroy is one nearly $4000000.00 in prize money just the season but how does that compare to a top player on the sunshine to a for example. you know the bit about you know the comparison for example to the order of merit that many let you don't even. point $1000000.00 rand which is that about 100000 u.s. dollars and infer that. there. are no you just broken in the world and you're playing a. championship that he thought he. should opening round even under. all the risk that sentiment was canceled and. as you'd like to can help with that mission you would have. $1300000.00 u.s.

dollars if you worked at the. time what the leader of that. were being tried. all right michael sherman thank you so much for your time we'll leave it there thank you very much coronavirus may have stopped football but a club in russia have come up with a novel way to deliver their player of the month award to one of the stones. more so in a st petersburg the brazilian player malcolm is self isolating in his apartment and so he's a ward of the litter by a drone scaring the living daylights out of these cats were feeding the rest of the family by 9 points when it was suspended. ok i'll be back here again a little bit later with another sports news update peter pace and many thanks we will surely see you that last one is of course whenever you want to on the web site the address. al-jazeera dot com we'll have the latest developments worldwide for you with sammy on the other side of the break i will see you back here on

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