the listening post your insight go to the media which is the era. this is al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from our headquarters here in doha coming up the u.k. prime minister boris johnson in the last hour has been discharged from the hospital where he was treated in intensive care for coronavirus. the u.s. now has the highest number of fatalities in the world having overtaken it to the. easter sunday services strike a somber tone during what's usually a celebration for christians. one other international news story taliban prisoners are released by afghanistan's government raising new hopes for

a delayed exchange deal. and i'm here to stay with your sports british motor racing legend stirling moss has died at the age of 90 there and more later this news hour . let's get going in the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has in the last hour or so been discharged from some thomas' hospital in london he was there being treated in i.c.u. for corona virus in a statement mr johnston said he was hospital staff his life he's not going straight back to work he'll continue his recovery at his official country residence checkers now meanwhile spain's reporting a rise in deaths for the 1st time in 3 days 619 people have died in the past 24 hours and the united states has surpassed italy so have the world's highest death toll from coronavirus well. 20600 people are known to have died

since the break began we'll speak more about that with mike hanna in washington shortly we also standing by for us in madrid and idris in a budget he'll tell us about reports of racism against african students and ex-pats in china live to london with the developing story this hour our correspondent. he's on his way to checkers we understand. that's what we're hearing from his official spokesperson from 10 downing street that prime minister boris johnson is or will shortly be heading to his countryside residence known as checkers here's the full statement from number 10 the pm has been discharged from hospital to continue his recovery at checkers on the advice of his medical team the pm will not be immediately returning to work he wishes to thank everybody at st thomas's but the hospital on the banks of the thames where he's

been for the brilliant care he has received all of these thoughts with those affected by this illness now we've also heard in the last half an hour that his fiance kerry simmons who's expecting their child in the summer and who also had symptoms of coronavirus she's been expressing her gratitude to the national health service staff who've looked after the prime minister and she also said that in the last few days or in the time since last sunday evening when boris johnson went into hospital there have been some dark times probably hinting that in fact he was feeling extremely ill and in fact the prime minister himself on sunday has said that or in the last 24 hours has said that the n.h.s. saved his life so lots of gratitude there there will be a lot of relief within his cabinet that he is getting better of course he won't be back to work any time soon having been in intensive care but certainly the message

is that he's getting better and given his personality nadeem offset against what his father stanley was saying a few days ago which is he's got to you know recuperate properly given poor who boris johnson is i guess he'll be champing at the bit however to get back to work because there are issues there aren't there i mean whether it's dominic robb or matt hancock or pretty patel the home secretary none of that triangle of people have exactly covered themselves in glory when it comes to the fight against for different issues granted the fight against coronavirus in the u.k. . interesting point peter i mean certainly boris johnson knows that the government is under pressure even from its own supporters right now in terms of its response on things like p.p. personal protective equipment for health workers and there have been criticisms by the families of some of the at least 19 perhaps more health workers who have died either in horses after working in hospitals or clinics and on saturday the home

secretary pretty patel was asked if she would apologize to those families for the lack of provision she really didn't go there she said i'm sorry if people feel that there were failings well we know that people feel there were failings many health workers tell us there were failings and in fact some cabinet ministers have hinted as much in terms of the speed at which protective equipment was supplied around the country they're saying that they're now getting hundreds of thousands of pieces of kit to where it needs to get to urgently after arrival of a flight from turkey on friday they're also under pressure on their messaging matt hancock you reference the health secretary will be holding a daily briefing in the next couple of hours he on friday suggested health workers should be using their equipment sparingly so that it could go around better where they've been saying we're having to use it to sparingly having to reuse our equipment when it's just for a single use and we're putting our health at risk their unions have certainly in no

uncertain terms told the government that their members are taking their lives into their own hands now by turning up for work so there does seem to be a growing swell of call from the medical sector from the health workers that there really needs to be a better response in terms of equipment but also let's not let's not forget still in terms of as the government puts it ramping up the number of tests for those on the front line not him thanks very much we'll talk to you later i'm sure. well russia reporting more than 2000 new coronavirus cases there that its largest daily increase yet more than 15700 factions have been reported across the country the government says 130 people have died turning attention to spain where the daily death toll has trended up again martyr herero joins us live from madrid hi there why are the numbers again going in precisely the wrong direction. well

we were suspecting this numbers going up and down before they system l.a. sation phase that they were they were talking about would be who were that this would happen today in the past 24 hours saying is that the tool has gone as increase has risen seen since for 3 days going down and we were just more than 600 new fatalities and more than a full 1000 people positif from 19 the tide a lot of the measures have been reflected in these figures was saying they were going down to morrow thousands of spiny as a going back to work we have to remember that march 27th prime minister better santa decreed tougher law down measures until april 11th and this was going to embrace the easter holidays and all the people traveling around and non-essential workers or economy going to work meaning only fantasies supermarkets delivery were

able to go to work so tomorrow these tough a lot of the measures are going to be lifted many criticism and many people that are not expecting say that's very soon to lift all these measures so thousands of us one is going back to work tomorrow with what the government guidelines to the companies saying that they have to drop provide. protective equipment they have to keep the workers have to keep at least to me to meet a social distancing among them and also they will be distributing face masks in the subway and public transport they are asking everyone to go to work in their own of they will bicycles and the ones that are not able to they will be delivering facemasks so tomorrow we will see another another scenario we have to remember that we reduced our unemployment figures and 910-0000 jobs were lost in 2 weeks reaching the worst economic a scenario in spain in the spanish civil war so this measure of some sex sectors.

some experts are saying that are necessary you know into recovery point me and others are very very critical like this like the president of the union saying that this is very early too soon for spain and eat anything out anything goes wrong he will be blaming central government motto thanks very much. he'll say governor andrew cuomo is giving his daily briefing let's take you live now to new york last night we lost hundreds of new yorkers to this terrible disease. it's been disorienting everybody is suffering on a lot of levels people are afraid people are anxious their own distress everywhere they turn normally you go home for solace you go home for peace. but it's even difficult at home in this period with so many questions so a lot a lot of pain a lot of suffering. but also when things are at their worst sometimes

people are at their best and sometimes just when you need it people can really show you how great they can be in the middle of the situation we were worried about the hospital capacity especially in downstate new york that we would overwhelm the hospital system and a key piece of equipment that we needed were ventilators this disease attacks the respiratory system so people need ventilators and they needed many more ventilators than we actually had so we talked about sharing all ventilators among different hospitals different parts of the state because the virus doesn't attack the entire state didn't tax. with more intensity in certain places

and out of the blue one day i got a call. that said there's a nursing home in upstate new york that wants to lend 35 ventilators to downstate new york it was unsolicited nobody called in asked. in some ways it was the last place that you would think would come forward because it was a nursing home nursing and rehabilitation center and where most worried about nursing homes because the vulnerable population they are in nursing homes and that a nursing home would come forward unsolicited gratuitously and say we want to lend 35 ventilators in case our neighbors downstate need them what an incredibly beautiful generous gesture

and i want to say thank you on behalf of all of the people of the state the family of new york we talk about that we're a family upstate downstate we're all of one family and that family is there to support one another and i want to say thank you on that behalf but i also want to say thank you personally. i also want to say thank you on a personal level because this hasn't been easy for anyone but i want to be the team here and the people of pathways to know that they gave me an inspiration and they gave me energy and they didn't they gave me resolve their gesture was so beautiful and so kind and so

symbolic of everything we want to be at our best. everything we aspire to be everything we're all trying to be listen to our better angels be better be more generous more gracious more loving get to god love. that's what pathways did and they did it for me and i want to say thank you very much thank you god bless your. new governor andrew cuomo the. through a demonstration of generosity and i guess on the part of various people dotted around the state let's go to mike hanna who joins us live from washington so mike your reading of those comments there from mr cuomo. well he is speaking from a tiny new york state town of miscue unit and why he was there is because the local hospital had donated ventilators to hospitals further afield where they believe

there is a greater need the governor of the state taking this opportunity this easter to express thanks to all of those who have given up so much in order to help the state of new york as a whole remembering as well that new york state is the epicenter of the pandemic continues to be so of all the deaths throughout the united states of new york state has suffered nearly hoth of the total amount continuing to fight against the spread of the pandemic the governor holding these daily news conferences but on this particular day going to the very heart of new york state small town in new york state to send a message of thanks to all of those who helped to state during this time. just sit tight for us for a 2nd because in the past couple of hours we have received via twitter the thoughts and comments from the u.s. president donald trump he's put an address in effect on twitter during which years

americans to stay at home to defeat what he described as quote a plague. this used to will be much different than others because in many cases will be separated physically only from our churches we won't be sitting there next to each other which we'd like to be and soon will be again but right now we're keeping separation we're getting rid of the plague it's a plague on our country like nobody's ever seen so many of those comments there from the u.s. president donald trump which clearly do not chime at all with what he was saying even just 2 weeks ago. indeed yes well president trump sending his easter message there from outside the white house and he has been very urgently attempting to get the country open again either in the hole in the sentara t.v. or in certain sectors he's been talking about this for weeks now to get back to

work at the is pressure on him from his corporate business leaders who want to get the economy open to soon as possible but this is being counted by the health professionals who insist that opening up the country now would lead to a massive spike in infections but it was only 2 weeks ago as you said that president trump was saying the country could be open easter i'm also hope for all to have americans working. again by their easter their beautiful easter day . but rest assured every decision we make is grounded solely in the health safety and well being of our citizens well the president will be watching online the service from his favorite church the baptist church in dallas and there the preacher is robert jeffries a man who is opposed to same sex message who is marriage who has described the

former president barack obama as the anti-christ well that is president trump's choice of preacher on this particular day mike thanks very much. city leaders in southern china denying allegations of coronavirus racism insisting foreigners are not being discriminated against and africans living in one job say they're being kicked out of their homes and they're facing paris mint as health workers step up testing for imported infections the african union nigeria and ghana a calling on the chinese government to address those concerns and interests joins us live now from a butcher just walk us through the nature of these accusations. well basically there are reports that africans have been chased out of a rented apartments and the been kicked out on the streets some were beaten and of course passports were seized we've seen. images online of i get an official

confronting chinese officials about seized nigerian passports which they demanded which he demanded to be returned anyway racism racist attacks in china and now against africans it didn't start during the coverage 1000 infections of course there were incidents before the cup in 1000 in infections and now as china emerges from these disease looks like the attacks have been ramped up a bit and that is a major source of worry for thousands of africa's living in those countries african countries like nigeria like he said god. but the african union of demanded explanations and afshin from the chinese or for just yet in nigeria on thursday the foreign minister summoned the chinese ambassador to nigeria to tell him the opinion or what nigeria feels about it and demanded action on the part of the chinese

authorities now the fear actually right now is not what african countries can do in retaliation because the chinese involved tens of thousands of chinese actually spread across a for. doing business construction and all and i looked up because feel that the governments may not take opinion of actions against chinese businesses in africa because big needed those activities those loads from china those development projects be executed by chinese on the continent however the real fear is what citizens will do if you look at the social media platforms you'll see the amount of hate which africans say is in retaliation for the discriminatory attacks and the racial slows against africans living in china so the fear now is that these africans may take the law into their hands and start attacking chinese in retaliation that's the warri african governments are facing right now thanks very

much. well our coverage of the coronavirus pandemic continues shortly why isn't bob way has eased the nationwide lockdown imposed 2 weeks ago. after spending so long trying to have a jolly old for minnesota routine you'll be able to get her words was devastating. devastated by being separated couples worldwide struggling to cope with being so far apart. and on the way in the sports news we'll look at how the virus threatens the long term financial health of english premier league football clubs. ok let's turn our attention to one of the top stories for you here on the news hour the taliban saying it's releasing 20 afghan government prisoners on sunday as part of an agreement with the united states the announcement coincides with the release of a 3rd group of 100 taliban prisoners by the afghan government last month the president

ashraf ghani signed a decree to release 1500 taliban prisoners to help launch direct talks with the armed group. as a national security analyst he joins us from kabul hobby good to talk to you again so does this mean that the deal as signed in the cattery capital doha is back on track. i would say no absolutely not because the statement that has come from the caliber is. that they are releasing 20 prisoners but it does not say why we have had about 200 prisoners released from the government site the african government has released 200 taliban prisoners they are about to release 100. but this did meant that has come from the government is the it's based on age health conditions and it does not refer to any us the taliban. was signed on february 29th of this year so none of these sites or don't actually need. to be

agreement the government has only be to releasing $5000.00 prisoners that they were supposed to release before much time so the. dialogue could be initiated now the taliban has over no what it jacked and complain about the al hunt government and perhaps the united states of america not respecting the conditions in. of the agreement which was signed on february 29th unconscionable and we have we have seen the taliban attacking different government pools different in different districts across the country you had knighted operations that were conducted by the afghan government which claimed that it can be governor for what are programs in central afghanistan the taliban has rejected

a plea but nonetheless you see. operations despite the 1000 pandemic and i think i look at the beast still being in the limbo we are we are very much. behind these deadlines and then you have the u.s. commitment to withdraw from understand ok. in effect a guess what we're saying is on the one hand the taliban says one thing but does something completely at odds with where we think it wants to go so where is this heading next then if this is not enough to build confidence in the process what is it. well i don't know if i meant that the taliban are saying one thing doing the other thing what i'm trying to say is that the united states and the taliban agreed. on reduction in violence this signed that agreement

and agreed that they would start be in trial when negotiations on washdown but before that the partner of the united states which is the afghan government is supposed to release 5000 prisoners and which the government has not done that they have released 200 prisoners and the past one week over the last few days but the i would not call it releasing these done these clauses in the agreement they have cited health conditions over $9000.00 event gammick and not basically going to the agreement so the taliban claims that the united states and its look counterpart the up and government is not respecting the new agreement on the other side you see broadsides is trying to inflict damage to each other now if you start a peace agreement everything over there is based on need time like the united states would draw in from aquinas is based on a timetable that it is of the prisoner was supposed to be based on on

a timeline now the 20 that are released by the taliban and the $200.00 released by the afghan government no matter what citations are given one justification document but it is not enough for us what the agreement talks about the agreement ok taliban releasing 1000 prisoners the afghan government releasing 5000 is that i'm going to have to stop you there for which our tamala gys with thank you so much for joining us with your analysis of that ongoing story from kabul. israel's president is refusing to give political leaders more time to reach a power sharing deal blue and white party leader benny gantz asked for 2 more weeks to form a coalition government he's trying to reach agreement with the prime minister benjamin netanyahu following last month's 3rd inconclusive election within one year there may be a 4th if they can't come up with an agreement by tuesday. police in sudan have fired tear gas to disperse crowds protesting against high food prices and poor

living conditions crowds in the capital khartoum demanded the resignation of the prime minister abdullah duck what they say is his failure to reform the economy. libya is waging 2 battles the civil war which has split the country and the fight against the coronavirus but some communities are complaining about a lack of help from the internationally recognized government to limit the spread they're having to rely on donations volunteers or any other help they can get as a libya correspondent. had this is what lockdown looks like in tripoli the government has put a curfew in place restaurants and cafes are closed down education suspended sushil gatherings banned and movement between cities restricted but the number of couvade 19 is creeping up poor ads authorities say they're doing what they can to prevent further infections but some municipalities are critical of the government's

measures to prevent a bigger break. the law we have not received any support from the government as of today a budget has been dispersed by the central bank but some municipalities received double their portions others received nothing at all communities are trying to fill the gaps where they say the government has failed this hospital in the city of misrata has been donated by a local businessman to treat crew no virus patients. and students in the city are using 3 d. printers to produce safety gear for medical workers in tripoli these young volunteers are relying on donations to conduct. campaign. that are cleaning go home for elderly as well as markets banks and hospitals. we do it out of our humanitarian values we've also launched campaigns to raise

people's awareness especially in slums in areas where there are foreign wages the isolation of this house for elderly people which has natural ventilation makes it less exposed to infection and the vulnerability of the people living here makes them a priority in the senate haitian campaign run by the volunteers but schools that have been turned into makeshift camps for those displaced by the war create a bigger risk of infection the government is actually butin the lack of financial support to the oil blockade by forces loyal to the warlord relief or have to do so in communities across the west of libya volunteers are doing what they can to protect themselves and others from the virus. tripoli. zimbabwe's using some restrictions 2 weeks after imposing a nationwide lockdown the government says it has to support the economy but it does

acknowledge the relaxation isn't without risk so explains from harare. some relief was the barbarians who rely on relatives living abroad to send them 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 can now open but only 3 times a week they're opening a lot of creation model for families was most of these guys are relying on not just what i'm eating to switch is a big big contribution of me. comes to the desk 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 a shop always quote. coming. on the.

visitors who are coming to your pieces by offices in the south 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 fresh 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 the coming to work obviously because of the distancing. that are there. a lot of people are now using our service you know people are socially distancing and

isolating in their homes and so the delivery service business is really sort of become a lifeline for a lot of people who depend on us to bring their fresh very fresh. rather 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 zimbabwe is battling with how to stop the spread of $1000.00 without damaging an already crumbling economy. al-jazeera. time here whether his journey looking rather good in europe nobody can really really enjoy it not really but you're right it has been very nice indeed it is a nice little bit of a some areas but things are set to change maybe that's a good thing it will keep of course many more people indoors however it has been fine it's been dry but all this cloud across the north is going to start to push southwards and it's going to start to bring quite a change in the weather conditions but as peter was saying the people have been out of bounds of course and sunny in britain who are lots take some exercise this is

actually hyde park in central london people have been at but nowhere near as many as you would expect to see this is the english seaside this is down into kent broadstairs really very money very few people i should say had the very good clear skies and then if you will people actually this park in switzerland some shoot festival 50 truly a festival with over 380 different types of chips to enjoy now the weather will actually say fine there for a couple more days it will across more central and eastern sections of europe but the change is set to come as we go really through sunday on into monday time doesn't cheap out at the moment very unsettled again 3 much as spain and portugal the rain is really going to come quite heavy across the western end of the med too as we go through monday and look at the drop in the temperatures we've got some very very strong winds just falling down the north sea really impacting those coastal areas of the low countries on into germany and this is what it does do to the temperatures now the average in zurich is 13 celsius it has been well above 24 this sunday by the time you get to choose day will be at the average there's no

real rain in the forecast ians year but we will see some showers pushing into vienna and again quite a drop in the time which in fact falling below the average 10 degrees against an average of 15 then this is the forecast of cheese day you can see these green areas showing where the cool air is in place but for the most part it should be fine and dry peeta so a mixed picture not as warm as it was really overall multi-pass jenny thank you so much. sri lanka has made it compulsory for the bodies of coronavirus victims to be cremated a decision which is angered the country's minority muslim population 3 of the 7 people known to have died so far in sri lanka were muslims mel fernandes is live for us in colombo what more do we know about this decision. well soho. has been dealing with the sort of corona pandemic the we've had 7 not related deaths so far and 3 of those 7 happen to be members of the muslim

community now particularly when you look at this ruling which came in the form of an official government gaz that it is that community sensually that it does have a direct betting on the actual gadget that was brought in today dated. yesterday so it kicked in at midnight basically talks about all standing regulation and brings in any gets related caused by the could on a pandemic it says that people and fatalities must be cremated the problem obviously with that is that it does affect those in community who obviously have certain traditions and practices that have been cremation so this is something that has been an ongoing debate in the last week or 2 particularly since we had katrina related deaths 3 of the 7 couldn't relate to that here in sri lanka

have been members of the muslim community so there has been concerns peter expressed by members of that community who say that the w a chill in day international guidelines do allow for burials but under specific and strict instructions not the government of v.o.c. clamping down very strictly in terms of their own a reaction and to do justify measures that the taking peta and what's not the wider impact of the virus like across the country. because so far we're looking at something like 204 confirmed cases basically affected by the corona virus of we do have over sort of 200 people who are being observed and a few 1000 actually in quarantine in isolation and it's something that the

government has moved very swiftly we have members of the 3 armed forces the police swiftly taking action there is essential a country wide curfew this country has been under a curfew since the 21st of this month obviously there are 6 districts including the capital colombo where the curfew has only been lifted once since the 21st of march in other areas obviously it's $23.00 these are kotite game movement is strictly prohibited essential services are handling the supply of do and delivery of food items of medicine of things like that but generally there is no movement on the streets and this has in a sense you did results there is a lot of contact tracing that is going on with the medical authorities and even military intelligence has been involved in an unprecedented we in tracing those

who have come into contact with carolyn infected patients so all of those things have helped to control the sort of explosion in terms of numbers peter but things like this have sort of brought a certain amount of concern among the muslim community that obviously if you look at one year on since isa bombings and it is a sort of a solemn time to sort of reflect and there is concern that this would further an evil drill ations peeta you know thank you. easter sunday celebrations are very different this year simply just square in the vatican is usually packed with around $80000.00 worshippers because of the lockdown in italy the traditional mass is from the pope pope francis was watched by millions online and on t.v. the pontiff said the virus pandemic had suddenly changed the lives of millions and political leaders to work for the benefit of their people their mukti the money.

for many remaining home has been an opportunity to reflect to withdraw from the frenetic pace of life into stay with loved ones and enjoy their company for many however this is also time of worry but in uncertain future about jobs that are at risk and other consequences of the current crisis i encourage politicians to work actively for the common good to provide the means and resources needed to enable everyone to lead a dignified life. well this is how the service looks in occupied east jerusalem home to the church of the holy several cut that's where many christians believe jesus was crucified and then in tune before the resurrection. let's get a look at how the u.k. is handling easter services out to sea as correspondent john whole is outside souther cathedral in london jonah good afternoon what's the message there from catholic christian leaders this easter sunday to their congregations who they can't see close up and personal. i mean broadly speaking i think the thrust of the message would be one of fortitude

and perseverance with a lot of people i think clearly in spiritual need at this time spiritual faith leaders reported as clergy over the last few weeks of more and more turned to digital forms of broadcasting the services so more and more people have gone online to hear that more people than would ordinarily have been inside churches in person britain is not perhaps as pious and devoted country devoted to country as once it was it is of course easter sunday we know that it's the culmination of holy week it's the most important perhaps the most important moment of the christian calendar it is a day when churches would be full they're not of course they're completely empty church bells even have been silenced in many cases for the 1st time in living memory in a safe clergy have either turned to recording themselves inside those churches performing services alone at the old if they have access to them or have resorted to their front rooms and kitchens as the archbishop of canterbury justin welby did

earlier today broadcasting from his kitchen in lambeth palace using his dining table as an impromptu altar and the queen of course the supreme governor of the church of england has had an important message to put out she has broadcast for the 2nd time during this crisis a message of reassurance to britons this time an ordeal message for easter saying easter is not cancelled and in fact the central theme she said of new hope and fresh purpose is more important than ever and remember peter it's not just the christian faith that is having to adapt and improvise at this time this is a. month when there are very important festivals for some of the other major religions ramadan later this month for muslims it's passover of course for the jewish faith this week as well and the sikh festival of ice hockey begins on monday in all of these cases the temples are empty the synagogues are empty the mosques are empty covered 9000 has altered every aspect of life and religious life is no exception turner thanks very much well for many people all over the world the worst

part of the crisis is being cut off from the people they love sonja gago 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. not even hoody found herself stuck in ukraine with her newborn baby who was delivered by a surrogate that like 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 it's a baby and i was up at isolating 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 probably over before the family was finally 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. a car seat 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

anyone near me when it was one of those moments where you need someone the most the doctors and the nurses were excellent they communicated with me even if i couldn't communicate 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 elderly going home as well and and you just in those moments like that's what you have to take you have to take the positive well met up stairs 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 there for. his support in a time of need sunny diagonal al-jazeera london ok let's get more on one aspect of sonia's report there joining us here on the news natalie gamble she's a specialist lawyer specializing in international star of the sea she joins us from hampshire in the u.k. natalie campbell welcome to the news hour here on out to 0 is what we saw in that report quite commonplace now that because of the way we have to adapt and adopt to

a different way of living people who are chasing surrogacy are having a very hard time of it. yeah and we've been working with a number of families in the last few weeks who are kind of caught up in all the difficulties that happened very suddenly and it's very common for parents from the u.k. but also from many other countries as well to cross borders to find a surrogate mainly because of the way the laws work in the u.k. and the fact that surrogacy isn't entirely supported here so it's very common to go to places like america canada ukraine in georgia and of course you can't delay or deferral to hold the birth of the baby and if the baby's born in the midst of all that there and then you're having to deal with it and we're working with about 36 families at the moment who are you know either stranded in the place where their babies been born or not able to get home or they're anticipating a baby being born in the next 3 months and i'm very worried about whether they're going to be able to get there when it comes to the birth mother and the birth mother's family's well being is that potentially

a risk as well because well it's the surrogate parents maybe fit in well but in the room someplace where they don't want to be i assume there's a risk to the birth mother at the same time. yeah i mean obviously it's really important that sarah gets looked after very well and but they kind of go into this cat to carry a baby for someone else and it's not their expectation that they will need to care for that baby when it's for when it's born and so the parents do need to be there and obviously the surrogate means care that the baby needs care as well so it's a really unique situation but one that rules to be dealt with in this incredibly exceptional time when it comes to the hopeful thora and the administrative authorities in the country where the surrogate mother wants to go to to collect the baby i.e. the birth mother's country some place like ukraine does there come a point when they've got to go back to basics and do all the paperwork again because i would imagine that for the birth mother there's

a situation where they're committed to having the baby clearly but then after a period of what 2 to 4 weeks perhaps i don't know you tell me that baby then officially becomes somebody else's child so that has to be kind of frozen for a period of time very difficult to determine. so in all the countries i mentioned the sarkozy framework works so that the intended parents of the legal parents of the child from the moment it's for so there is often then a mismatch between the nor in that country in the north for example in the u.k. and that's the difficulty that kind of leads you tied up in the roxy in terms of getting the right emergency travel documents to travel home and say you know the families we've been working with we've been trying t. say the government's put in place a quick process so used to the process of getting a passport can take several months devastate the moment parents and wanting to travel right quickly because they're worried about being stranded in a country where they may not have access to health care they're worried about flight routes closing so getting emergency travel documents quickly is really

important and so you know it may take a couple of weeks but you know that's a process that needs to happen but there's also an issue around the bureaucracy of travel restrictions that are preventing parents getting there in the 1st place so what we need is for governments to talk to each other about these very unique circumstances to make sure that parents can get there to care for their child from birth and then bring them home again as quickly as possible natalie gamble there in the u.k. thank you very much thank you. $30000000.00 people in brazil have applied to the government for emergency financial aid to help them through the crisis nonpermanent workers are entitled to claim almost $120.00 per month the government says it's streamlining the payment process itself to thousands queued offices because of holdups the health authorities are appealing to people to stay home after large gatherings were reported in several big cities. prisoners of riot see it at the jail in southern bolivia complain that conditions are ripe for the spread of the virus inmates protested on the roof demanding masts and proper protection riot

police responded with tear gas the government's announced that some inmates online the charges will be released to reduce the threat of outbreaks in some overcrowded prisons coming up in the sports news a special delivery we'll show you how a football club found a novel way of delivering a prize to one of the stars in self isolation that's coming up with peter when we come back. rewind returns with a new series i can't bring your people back to life i'm sorry i'm brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries there has been a number of reforms put in try since the price graham was filmed rewind begins with mohammed at the 10 when i was in the liberal i was the top of the class and now here i'm like and the other student i was very fortunate to be awarded another

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motor sport stirling moss has died at the age of 90 after a long illness he enjoyed success across 3 decades of racing in many disciplines but will go down as perhaps the best driver never to actually win the formula one title joanna geyser of looks back on a remarkable career. known as mr motor racing stirling moss was at the top of the sport in arguably its deadliest era the heyday when there was plenty of speed hundreds of thousands of fans but little in the way of safety born in 1029 into a racing family most his father alfred competed in the indianapolis 500 while his mother was english women's champion in 1936 that came a great moment in a career that spanned 14 years stirling moss won 16 formula one grand prix in the 1950 s. and sixty's but he never claimed the world title finishing 2nd and 3rd on several occasions. but he didn't just excel in formula one most posters have

a record $212.00 wins across $107.00 different types of cars in total but they strive i misstated arguably his greatest achievement was victory in the 1955 mill media a grueling 1000 mile road race through italy where he finally beat his greatest rival 5 time formula one champion one manuel fangio by nearly half an hour. but most his career ended early at the age of $31.00 after the horrific crash in april 1962 left him in a coma for a month. quite honestly i have too much pride i suppose if you like to want to go in racing and find myself training ground at the back i just don't reckon the best thing to do i mean if you if you find your punch drunk i reckon you get out of it he later admitted he'd retired too early but was a regular in the paddock influencing. the younger generation of drivers who would themselves go on to win world championships but the lack of

a world title never bothered moss. and he in the exclusive position of people saying well he should have won he never did so that's gives me an exclusive or 2 from being just a one time world champion when there are other guys out there with 7 michael but the most important thing to me really is due respect to my other drivers one last lived his life in the fast lane his wife said he died peacefully at home in his sleep in london. formula one world champion lewis hamilton paid tribute to stirling moss on twitter saying he'll miss his conversations and special moments with the racing great marco formula one industry experts and new stunning most well. stirling moss really can be described as a legend he's an icon of the sport from the 1950 s. and sixty's which for many people were the kind of post-war heyday of motor racing when a group drew huge crowds hundreds of thousands of people would have attended races

in the 1950 s. and sixty's and he was right up there competing in winning at the very front of all kinds of motor racing during that time yes he didn't win the formula one world championship but that was back in a time when cars broke down we didn't have reliability we didn't have safety that we have today and also he was very sportsman like and he there were opportunities that he could have on the formula one world championship and i don't think that he lived with huge regret he lived with great satisfaction about what he achieved about the people that he had been fortunate to race against and he really enjoyed sharing the stories not just from the past days the glory days but he and your joy of sharing his life in motor racing he dedicated his life to our sport and he really added so much value to it and so much pleasure for the fans who were lucky enough to meet him and to see him race or else go to football and then an estimated

one point $1000000000.00 has been wiped off the value of squads in the english premier league because of the coronavirus crisis those are the findings of the football statistics website with no sign of a restart a sharp drop in revenue and transfer plans on hold the report from transfer market makes a grim reading for some of the world's top clubs manchester city for example have suffered the biggest estimated drop in value done by 270 $1000000.00 top stars in the liverpool squad like mohamed salah saadi a manet and virgil van dyke or estimated to be worth 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 market managing director thomas luntz told us how they came up with the value drop. we made a huge market value cut to grow necrosis white so premier league is just one league of that but it's the biggest league in a row that the most of them are values from all the leaks coming together

discussing how the market as a whole changed it to give 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 and the other thing is 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 just going to be a loss right now actually between 10 and 30 percent already and so we in the end we are funding compromise. really. going to end 22 by 10 percent and older than 20 to 20 percent and went as if you were there through the 1st of all it didn't go to higher ratio of all the players who were 22 served in the. mortgage by the 20 percent on back attempts and the other thing is they're the most relevant love 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 we still don'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 and there are more threatened and so the players that are 100 . are all somewhat threatened and didn't care or at least are probably going down. morgan to top start because stock stars will get top stars every kind of football market and if there's money among the top clubs on it moving. liverpool's club legend kenny dalglish has been released from hospital after testing positive for corona virus the 69 year old was admitted to hospital on wednesday for an infection and returned a positive test the spine showing no symptoms one the english league with liverpool

as a player and as a manager. coronavirus may have stopped what about a club in russia have come up with a novel way to deliver their player of the month award to one of their stars. zenit st petersburg melcombe is self isolating in his apartment and so is a board was delivered by drone scaring the living daylights out of his cat senate who are leading the russian premier league by 9 points when it was suspended russia is currently in a lockdown until april 30th with no football until at least the 31st of may. well even if they back again a little bit later with more sports news peter. told you later peter ok when we come back we'll take live updates from madrid london and washington all the developments on coronavirus i will see you very soon for them.

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and make a whole lot of and put it into a place where people live there is a cause. as well and so many people after this or the silent heat that doesn't 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. explaining terms of policy towards africa it's the challenging mission set his secretary of state mike pompei on a 5 day visit to the continent the visit comes after the white house an ounce to a travel ban on 4 african nations and a withdrawal of troops from west africa. i think it just demonstrates the 5. $100.00 a year once and for me station. despite tribes travel ban being extended at the end of february to take in the 4 african countries including the continent's biggest economy compare we're insisted that the u.s.

is open for business. the u.k. prime minister boris johnson has been discharged after being treated in intensive care for coronavirus. hello and welcome on peter wu watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha also coming up. when things are at their worst sometimes people are at their best. a positive message from the new york governor as the.