when you see big groups of people walking through your they're all individuals with children the likes you have to deal with them and to treat them with some dignity and respect. this is al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finighan this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes cause for optimism in italy's fight with the corona virus the number of people dying falls to a 3 week low. the number of dead in the u.k. tops 10000 there's growing anger at a shortage of protective equipment for health workers. the federal government really needs to step up again i day had not been doing what we all needed this is

true all of the country new york's mayor criticizes the trumpet ministration over a lack of virus testing kits. and other hears the taliban releases 20 state prisoners hours after more of their faces a set free by the afghan go. more than 75000 people died in europe after being infected with the coronavirus it's the worst affected continent but there are signs of hope it's only has recorded its lowest number of new deaths in more than 3 weeks although more than 430 people died on sunday that was a drop of almost 200 from the day before in spain the number of new deaths has risen but that's off the 3 days of declining fatalities officials there say it's evidence that lockdown measures are working when i'm dead in the u.k. has continued to rise crossing 10600 from minister boris johnson has been released

from hospital he says his 3 days in intensive care could have gone either way. in the last 7 days i have of course seen the pressure that the n.h.s. is under i've seen the personal courage not just of the doctors the nurses but of everyone the cleaners the cooks the health care workers of every description physios radiograph was pharmacists who kept coming to work kept putting themselves in harm's way kept risking this deadly virus it is thanks to that courage that devotion that duty and that love that our n.h.s. has been unbeatable we have 3 correspondents this are keeping track of developments for us in europe are in the masses and london is in but dread but 1st let's try and francesco jump attorney and melana francesco there are signs of hope in italy that

at last the corner may have been turned. yes it's hard to imagine that 431 that's in one day can be a good news but actually it's close since this is the lowest daily number of fatalities in the last 3 weeks the total toll is almost $20000.00 around one 5th of the entire world latest italy's data confirm a slight growth in positive cases 2 there are $4000.00 more than yesterday for a total of 156000 since the outbreak but experts and scientists warn that these numbers done make much sense anymore here where the outbreak has gone to faster than the possibility of testing have or want needed the actually infected could be 10 times more than confirmed cases and stories of people with covered 1900 times died without been tested are hundreds specially here in the northern and hardness

in regions so the most important and reliable data we have at the moment concerns of patients in intensive care units it's an encouraging figure as they've been decreasing for a week now hospitals are breathing again an italian see glimmer of hope even though the emergency is not over the government 2 days ago accented the lockdown until the 3rd of may when it will be almost 2 months long the president of the republic sentiment that iowa yesterday addressed the nation and invited everyone to stay home for easter too with these words we glimpse the concrete possibility of overcoming this emergency efforts we have been doing for a month our pain after what we can stop now francesco jabatan a reporting live from the man many thanks indeed francesco let's cross through matter had 0 in madrid for us to the number of dead in spain in the last 24 hours

has risen but the infection rate has dropped significantly. yes the investment before our sustaining has we just did 609000 new fatalities from call it 19 to 3 days lowering and has recorded all of all the 1000 new positives the lowest number of infections in the last 3 weeks so we're seeing how these the slowdown trend is reflecting that all these look down measures taken by the government of the of reflected in the in the into trend so tomorrow thousands of spaniards are going back to work we have to remember that 2 weeks ago the government he post to a lot o. measures due to the collapse of the healthcare system such as trying to avoid these collapse they have bad non essential workers our economy meaning that only supermarkets will be does of those fantasies people related to to food delivery or public transport many months services were able to to be operational that was

called the economy a better nation economy hibernation economy and tomorrow they're going to start lifting this measures only people that cannot work remotely and people that have not been in touch with other people to have been infected or relatives have to stay at home of course and other people are will have to go to work by their own means adding case that take that public transport because this is one of the hot spots of the spread of the current of ours are going to be handing out masks they also the government has said has given the protocol of the guidelines of the companies in order to from corporate their workers tomorrow so they need to supply to the workers. protecting it with meant i'd have to do montagne a social distance of 2 meters between each worker based leaved of the of the lockdown has caused a lot of controversy here between where i'm on and experience and other political

parties saying it's very early to leave this long down but the government is saying that they are there. attending what the walker health organization has said and they're being cautious that still we have to say that's a nice economy's in a really dangerous situation of a critical situation we haven't seen this big scenario seems since the seamless panacea were we have to remember that we lost 900000 jobs in just 2 weeks at yet a march and it's been the biggest loss of jobs since the civil war as i've said to lower the sectors that have been more damage talk obstruction and manufacturing 2 of the sectors that tomorrow are going back to work so many criticism for the spanish government for lifting this that down so early not at 0 joining us live from madrid let's go to london then and now to syria's met him the muslim merriam despite the number of coronavirus deaths rising above 10600 the country's health minister says that the u.k.'s health system is not being overwhelmed.

well they have spare capacity so they have critical care beds they made a big that before this point in the crisis to add more and more intensive care beds they've been building makeshift hospitals but people who work inside hospitals are unprecedented pressure right now this is the greatest challenge the n.h.s. has faced in a century professor stephen powers the n.h.s. medical director made that remark just yesterday and amidst all of this you have continued concern over the lack of personal protective equipment that these people met people who work in hospitals are constantly speaking out about this you had a stark warning from the british medical association saying supplies in some places mentioning specifically london and yorkshire in the north of england these supplies are running dangerously low just when you merges he is about to get worse so this continues to be an issue they've even been reports of hospital workers purchasing

their own protective gear online from china or on e bay hospitals trying to acquire gear themselves so there is a great deal of pressure at the government to say that it's doing everything they can they've purchased millions of bits of kit and then they even use the military to try and expedite those deliveries but it seems as though it's just not getting to where it needs to be and then obviously because there is a great it's a model health service in this equipment has probably been used at a faster rate than it otherwise would be so you do have a situation where gallons of goggles and face masks are running low and the health secretary was pressed on this issue today. daily with delivering millions of items to the front line now i know that the big questions also about gallons in the last 2 days 121000 pounds have been delivered around the country and more are going out today and in the week to come up. so we're working very hard to resolve all of

these individual the just sickle challenges some are in prime minister is out of hospital but he will be going back to work any time soon. now i think there's broad agreement that he needs to take some time out now to really try to recover from this infection but it is positive news for the for the country that he has been discharged now from hospital and of course you're running a clip of the message that he posted on social media there a very emotional heartfelt message interesting that he was mentioning the names of some of the nurses who were taken care of him and made a point of mentioning that background that some of those nurses were from originally outside of this country of course now in terms of how government is going to work dominant rob the foreign secretary will continue to deputize for the prime minister so that there have been some real debate about this earlier in the week when boris johnson was admitted to hospital we kind of scope an extent of

dominic robb's authority and whether he would be able to make decisions on things like the lockdown which is something the government is obviously very much focused on right now because it has been 3 weeks of lockdown now and it has come at a massive economic financial and social cost and of course to get out of this situation while continuing to contain the virus to suppress the virus is a crucial decision and a dilemma awaiting the prime minister when he gets back to work out a serious mariner magazine reporting live from london many thanks indeed ma'am. as we've been hearing there is growing concern about the lack of equipment for health workers in the u.k. the royal college of surgeons says the daily 2 thirds of its members report shortages of personal protective equipment all p.-p. aids one in 3 surgeons say they lack the equipment they need especially in scotland and the north west of england overall half of surgeons doubt the paid have access

to a covert 19 test if they needed one and more than 70 percent say the government will be unable to end the lockdown until widespread testing is available royal college of nurses has asked its members to stop treating patients as a last resort if they're not adequately equipped. health care workers have died after contracting the virus while treating patients talk to emma coom is an n.h.s. pediatrician she told us that despite the government's assurances the protective equipment is being delivered she and her colleagues still don't have what they need . i think it's been really damaging to n.h.s. morale this week to hear ministers trying to shift the blame for the lack of supplies of p.p.a. to the n.h.s. and was still suggests the plane may lie with n.h.s. staff misusing the p.p.a. and i think what they said in the briefing certainly will be no condolence to the families of the n.h.s.

staff members who have lost their lives after becoming on well with cope with 19 nobody in the n.h.s. you know who wants to come to work to use more protection than they need we just need to keep ourselves safe last we do our job and it's the job of government to make sure that we have the equipment we need to do our job safely and i'm sorry if ministers feel that they have supplied adequate p.p. n.h.s. staff but that's simply not the case of what we are experiencing on the ground and don't want to be seen as heroes we're not monsters we don't want to die in the line of duty we just want to be protected so that we can do our joke has been and get into an f. in the n.h.s. to rearrange the way we work to rearrange our hospital wards to redeploy start and train them differently and everybody in the n.h.s. has been so flexible to enable that to happen and to be fair to government that is you know one area where we have had the backing that we need to reorganize the

system so that is positive news. in the news hour from our series still to come on the program we'll hear from african students in china who say they're being targeted because of the coronavirus. a very unusual easter sunday for christians around the world the service is a streamed online. some breaking news now the world's largest oil producers have agreed to the biggest ever cause in oil production demand for oil has plummeted amid the coronavirus crisis and with the price per barrel in response opec russia and oil of the oil producing nations of made a deal to reduce production by around 10000000 barrels a day in may and june our economics editor joins us now live via skype from

london i mean they have to do this it's in their own self-interest to do so the kind of shot themselves in the foot really up. hagen you're absolutely right they didn't need to do something but the pressure really came from the united states which once is the cut in production and a cut in production between 10 to 15000000 barrels a day why because the shale industry in the united states he's under under threat there is there could be up to about 70 odd companies that could fail because oil prices have dropped to $20.00 a barrel currently we're at about $33.00 a barrel but that still isn't good enough for the shell producers they need shell a shell they need prices at between $40.00 to $50.00 a barrel there are $10000000.00 jobs associated with this shell industry in the united states and that's a huge constituency for president trump present trying doesn't need any more job

losses in the last 3 weeks alone we've seen 17000000 jobs lost because of the pandemic so there really needs to be a bottom to this now the unite the saudi arabia and russia could have sustained. price war for another 23 years maybe you don't because they have huge wealth which they have stored away in their cap in the in they bought foreign currency reserves and so they could have sustained this but the pressure was coming from other opec members as well you got to think of places like nigeria nigeria had set up but it will $59.00 a barrel and so they have just turned to the i.m.f. and the world bank can request the 7000000000 dollars to see them through these and then it so is getting really crucial for those other nations in a similar position as well our business editor a bit earlier reporting live from london many thanks indeed ibid.

new york has reported a further 758 deaths linked to the corona virus that's new york city mayor bill de blasio announced plans for new community testing sites but he says it's contingent on supplies from the federal government we pleaded for weeks and weeks for the federal government provide testing up front in the kind of quantity that could have helped us contain this crisis and change the whole course of that we never got that help we continue to plead for more testing still has not come any in anywhere near the numbers that we need but we will not stop we're continuing the conversations with the white house with fema demanding the testing we are the epicenter of this crisis we must have the testing to help us move towards that next phase where we get out of widespread transmission across a virus and move to a low level transmission on to something better let's go live now to washington and here as mike hanna joins us both new york's mayor and the state's governor highly critical of the federal government today. indeed yes

well president trump has stated repeatedly that the u.s. is doing really well in testing saying that more than 2000000 tests are being conducted however you heard there from the mayor of new york saying that there is a massive shortage of testing kits and pleading to central government to make good their promise to supply a sufficient amount now the issues not only about the testing kits it's also by about the diagnostic test that is diagnosing those who may have had the disease and looking at that now these figures are essential to produce a set of data within which the country as a whole and states individually can plot the path of the virus and it's been made very clear by health experts that without a full rollout of an effective testing campaign both testing for the virus and testing the diagnostic side of that then there cannot be any clear decision on when

to open up society and when to lift the lockdown either in the country as a whole or in individual parts of the country there is insufficient data at this particular time say the health experts to make any form of informed decision about lifting the closure mike i just got to get your thoughts on one of a video message that president trump tweeted earlier during which he urged americans to stay at home to defeat what he's now describing as a plague take a look 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 player gets a plague on our country like nobody's ever seen is this a change in tact from the president like. well it is from 2

weeks ago when he was saying that he hoped that the country is open again by easter sunday which is today april the 20 the president has been consistent in terms of saying he wants a lockdown to end this quickly as possible as do most people in the country and he has been insistent too that this has got to be weighed against economic concerns against the health and welfare of the nation's people now there has been various reports that the white house is considering may the 1st as a date to start lifting the lockdown in various parts of the country now this was asked directly to the commissioner of the f.d.a. in the course of the day he said it's too early to make any kind of timeline in terms of opening up he repeated the fact that it's the health and welfare of the country's citizens that is most important and that will dictate when the closure ends but the country's foremost health expert and to the fire chief has also made

a very strong point that it's not up to governments or presidents or governors to decide when to lift the closure it's essentially to the virus are there as mike hanna reporting live from washington mike many thanks indeed. as mike has just explained until a few weeks ago donald trump talked about churches being full on easter sunday now though he's presiding over the country with the highest number of dead anywhere and most infections to trump's been widely criticized for downplaying the impending disaster the white house received formal warning of the outbreak back in january but it took more than 2 months for the president to declare the virus more than just a harmless flu what followed was chaos as airlines grounded domestic and international flights individual states took action contradicting trump and public health officials flagged concerns about delays in testing funding and shortages of medical supplies that despite 20000 american deaths at infections rife across the country

president trump continues to weigh his options about easing restrictions well is a professor of epidemiology and medicine at the director the of icap at columbia university she joins us now via skype from new york city good to have you with us what do you make of this this disconnect between president trump and the federal government in the way in which individual states in the u.s. are handling this crisis. yes there certainly has been a disconnect and i think it's so meanly because at the state level and certainly at the city level mark in new york city there's a. mayors and governors are keenly aware of the data and keenly aware of the magnitude of this and that mc amongst their populations new york city for example close to now 100000 cases of code 19 and every day between 5007000 not to diagnose the individuals so it's hard to see it's hard to make. when

these mitigation measures but because of her i saw this and saying and other measures can be relaxed at a time when we're seeing and they're seeing the onslaught of new cases and certainly large numbers of deaths but considering the number of deaths it is the trumpet ministration at fault here i think you lay the blame at the president's dollar for what's happening right now in the u.s. . i think that we're in a lot of missed opportunities in in honesty if you think back from early january turn around meet the march there were a lot of signals and certainly warnings are be impending numbers of cases and the group of the endemic and i think this country would load to mobilize to respond to it and certainly at the federal level we're moving my eyes and missed the opportunity to be able to contain the fires and to contain transmission in the

early in the early phases of the girls of the epidemic when you could actually have a chance so i think we missed the opportunity early on and now we're trying to and actual government is trying to catch up and trying to be ahead of the virus was at the same time it meaning in a very much of a reactive not you were involved in the fight against hiv aids epidemic coming at a very different lessons when loved about that when it came to the national response and allocating proper resources for the all the other any carry of us from from from vast to this. yes there are many lessons learned from each ivy took over the one thing i think one of them is a view of course the importance of test things and i think that's been highlighted again and again is that when testing was made widely available this enabled us to know who had the virus and who did not and therefore could bring the services to

people who were infected and be able to bring them to to get treatment for example which are going on have a treatment as of yet for group 19 but yet testing could be very valuable in 1st of all and give us giving us a sense of the magnitude of the infection in our communities particularly infection from people who have no symptoms at present in the us only those people who do have symptoms then those who cry are hospitalized patients have an opportunity to get tested so we don't have it clear number in terms of how many people are infected in our many communities around this country in addition of course we don't have a sense of who has been infected in africa and that's were so the logic the think was the very useful in terms of mapping our way forward i think another way in which each at the epidemic of the lessons learned is another engagement of the community the importance of getting the support of the affected communities

themselves and particularly communities that are that are a disproportionate group and this proportionate risk and as you might be aware in the us now realize they should then again there are major racial and ethnic. disparities in terms of the numbers of people who get covered 19 and also in germs up the mortality among those who actually have the disease so not only do we have this parity in terms of the numbers of cases but up was seeing many more deaths almost double the numbers of them in at use in new york city among latino them among african-americans so compared to whites so we must be able to also. mobilize and targets our services to the communities that are most severely affected like we did with the chevy epidemic. professor we really appreciate you being with us many thanks indeed for your time with. them thank you not to some

coronavirus news for the rest of the world city leaders in southern china denying allegations of coronavirus racism insisting that foreigners aren't being discriminated against africans living in guangzhou so that they're being kicked out of the homes and face harassment as health workers step up testing for imported infections the african union nigeria and ghana according on the chinese government to address concerns professor keith richburg is the director of the journalism and media studies center at the university of hong kong he says that has been discrimination against africans living in china for some time now. ever since she didn't being announced that the virus was essentially contained in china and they get certain reopening businesses and reopening factories the numbers of them going up but they've been blaming all of those new numbers of new cases and new deaths in china on what they call imported cases meaning that they contain china but people

coming back into the country are law it is it's max a bit of xenophobia to me because number one most of the so-called imported cases are chinese nationals who left the chinese new year and this not returning or returning from schools abroad cetera so these are foreigners these are chinese well who are bringing in the virus and secondly they've been given really notice that cystic support that real numbers of people coming in with the virus are actually foreigners and all that you know that's kind of the narrative or the story line that they'd like to say is that all of these new cases they're all from foreigners they've even restricted foreign diplomats from coming back in that they doing for example china has always had this kind of complex relationship with africa whereas you know you know officially you know they see the african countries as brothers that out lately china has a lot of development money into africa they've built the african union headquarters they built were row from kent from nairobi to hossam but and you know and as a consequence of these tens of thousands or move billions of chinese living in

africa you also have a lot of african traders african students who are over to china and so you know officially on official level is this kind of feeling of fraternity on but our local people the people the chinese said we don't like them very much there they're basically got a lot of racism i've been of long joe i've been to that area that they call little africa or were derogatory they call it chocolate city the africans tell me they feel the sermon it against the chinese. we're going to weather update next year i was 0 then. i was in bob way has eased its nationwide lockdown it was imposed 2 weeks ago plus. after spending so long trying to have a jolly old school my husband to be able to be together who is it was devastating devastating guys devastated by being separated couples worldwide struggle to cope with being so for.

the. northern areas of the middle east but also across the peninsula quite a band of cloud refunds which is working its way slowly south was however we have also had some very heavy pulls into yemen this is solid the streets are underwater because it doesn't take a huge amount of rain to actually cause a problems like this but there is potentially some more in the full cost now through monday we will see a little rain to iran working their way eastwards but at the same time this particular band will slide south was bring some fairly heavy downpours into areas of cats on across into as well we could be picking up as much as 40 millimeters of rain and again that could lead to some local flooding and again one or 2 more scattered showers and maybe some heavy thunderstorms across into yemen and it doesn't really clear by chief say some very strong winds as well coming through the

interior and we will see more showers little thunderstorms and they really become quite heavy and also very widespread damage is because of that change of wind direction and also the cloud on the showers into africa particularly to the d.l.c. will very heavy amounts of rain some the story across into tanzania those coastal areas picking up as much as 120 millimeters of rain and choosing a very wet again and again this could lead to some flooding. crossing borders breaking boundaries recording injustice fighting inequality from africa and asia to europe and use exile as a word whine over a street every very grown up for me is one country al-jazeera world meets for refugees who've come to your touched people's lives and made a difference. hard road from home. and activists on al-jazeera.

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in doha with the news hour from al-jazeera the headlines it's only as recorded smallest number of new deaths in more than 3 weeks more than 430 people have died from coronavirus related illnesses on sunday that's a drop of almost 200 on saturday. it was largest oil producers have agreed to the biggest ever cut in oil production demand as plummeted due to the coronavirus crisis and with it the price per barrel. the new york state authorities have reported a further 758 coronavirus related deaths new york's mayor has criticized the trumpet ministration for a lack of testing kits as he tries to expand testing and he says. new york and neighboring new jersey account for half of the 20000 americans who died after contracting the coronavirus many a passing away alone because friends and family a banned from visiting hospitals al-jazeera as gabriel elizondo reports. 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 fisk 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 pad 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 a 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 his 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 al-jazeera jersey city new jersey the balkans has almost 9000 cases of coronavirus the majority of those are in serbia where more than 70 people have died a 60 hour curfew has been imposed trying to keep serbs at home over the easter break the church reports now from belgrade. the curfew in serbia started on friday at 5 o'clock afternoon and it will remain until early monday morning the ban on movement doesn't apply to people who must go to work including also the farmers

everyone who is outside should have special license approved by the government through the e-mail as authorities explained it this measure was taken after the morning touring of behavior it was noticed that people especially on the weekends didn't follow recommendation about necessary social distancing and people did not stay home the result was a total ban on going out on weekends as you can see around me most of the people are respecting the lock down and streets are empty as far as numbers are concerned the number of those arrested on daily basis has increased in recent days around 2000 people are tested the daily of which about 250 are positive and we've seen the similar numbers in the last few days hospital capacities are filling up more than half of patients are in hospitals temporary hospitals have been prepared for patients with mild symptoms even for those without symptoms but core on

a positive the government is pursuing the idea on the recommendation of chinese experts that all infected should be placed in some kind of control quarantine and they say there's the way to avoid spreading the infection in india a group of men as attracts police officers who are trying to enforce curfew rules. are reported to have come the hand of one officer according to work punjab state officials 5 policemen were taken to hospital india is currently under a 3 week lockdown in order to tackle the virus outbreak. in sri lanka muslims are angry and a couple months to search and to make cremation compulsory for corona virus victims 3 of the 7 reported victims so far were muslims commissioners from britain in islam and a stance nationalism similar buddhist majority government to respect the rights of religious minorities al-jazeera as well fernandes reports from colombo the

government basically has brought in some regulations under gas that which was from the understand at midnight yesterday taking effect and announced today using a very old regulation from the 1920 s. about the prevention of disease and quarantine and brought in these new rules which deals with the sort of premeditation of all those that die of the corona virus so that's what's caused sort of reaction from the muslim community leaders of the community have called on the government to allow them to bury their dead in accordance with their rights and beliefs see that the w. which show the world health organization allows for members of the muslim community to be buried in line with their cultures and traditions obviously under certain restrictions for example burials i believe are required to be done more than 8 feet

underground and things like that but as we're hearing i did speak to a member of medical community who did point out that the w a a chill does issued guidelines that ultimately it is for the national health authority to meet and fix essential to the rules that govern that particular country so that's where the debate is at the moment. it's a week locked on in liberia got off to a chaotic start on saturday riot police in the capital monrovia used battles of the bulldozer to clear some streets as people rush to stock up on supplies many people there are angered by the restrictions saying that a lack of food is more dangerous than the virus liberia's reported 5 deaths and 50 cases. zimbabwe is easing some restrictions 2 weeks after imposing a nationwide lockdown the government says that it has to support the economy but apologise the relaxation isn't without risk. reports from harare.

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 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 are the images which is a big big contribution of. the desk of coming into the into the country it is unusual the nationwide lockdown has affected many sectors of the economy. makes up his mainly for the foreign markets he can't do that now as you can see police quote. coming. on the. visitors who are coming to. persist 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 support of thousands of locals working in the tourism industry not many families are struggling. some businesses are trying to get by fresh in a box deliver supplies to people's houses customers order online 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 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 1st very fish into. the government has removed other lockdown restrictions farmers can produce 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 cope at 19 without damaging an already crumbling economy. for many people all over the world the worst part of the crisis is being cut off from the people by love. so we are going to go with some of the 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 got a reply from 19 who he 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. i was very lonely because it's a 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 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. 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 that 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 continue kate back with them and 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 positives oh man oh they were abstinence maybe and she did rhea still needs to isolate from her 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 some norman coronavirus related stories now the afghan taliban has released 20 afghan government prisoners ahead of a happened in kandahar province the announcement coincides with the release of a 3rd group of $100.00 taliban prisoners by afghanistan aboard aka's a national security analyst he says it's not clear whether the taliban's release of prisoners is related to an agreement that was signed earlier this year. the statement that has come from the taliban is. the deal releasing 20 prisoners but it does not say why we have had about 200 prisoners released from the government. released $200.00 taliban prisoners and you're about to release a 100. but the statement that has come from the government is that it's based on

age health conditions. it does not refer to me you have the taliban. was signed on february 29th of this year so none of these sides are actually going to be an agreement the government has allegedly beat to releasing $5000.00 prisoners that they were supposed to release before much to the interim afghan dialogue could be initiated israel's president is refusing to give political leaders more time to reach a power sharing deal learn what party leader but he gets asked for 2 or weeks to form a coalition government is trying to reach agreement the private assert benjamin netanyahu following last month's 3rd inconclusive election within a year of maybe a 4th if the count agreed by tuesday police and siddharta fired tear gas to disperse crowds who were protesting against high food prices and poor living

conditions crowds in the capital khartoum about of the resignation of private of the 100 for what they say is his failure to reform the economy. just ahead here on the news. it was just a handful of priests celebrating easter but one of the most sacred sites for the world's christians plus. rewind returns with a new series a can 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 price since the program was filmed rewind begins with mohammed at the time when i was in the living i was the global floods and know who . and the other student i was very fortunate to be awarded a scholarship rewind on al-jazeera. the latest news as it

breaks with no treatment. virus volunteers do you think they'll continue to provide the services they can to fight the disease with detail coverage along without any planning for india's millions of miles. 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. move . forward. from the r. . that's a breaking news to tell you about from turkey the country's interior minister silliman

sawyer who has resigned this 2 days after a 2 day lockdown was announced for 31 cities in al-jazeera said of course it was on the line now from istanbul said and why is the minister resigned. been almost help an hour ago he announces as a nation on his official twitter account saying that he is taking old responsibility for what happened on friday night as he also said on friday night in the late late hours interior minister and down there would be as our lock down for 31 cities is so far turkish prisons are gone has been against the ideal to lock down especially for stumble as its economic capital of the country but the weather had been very nice for the last couple of days and people were going down and even last friday was a very visit they for traffic stumble traffic as a result corinna wires threats in tricky that's why the health ministry to science

and science for the new chairman of the i have urged for this lockdown however the circular of the lockdown wasn't an ounce of 10 you see it with a little luck found that's what people something to supermarkets thousands of people to buy bread bakeries and supermarkets were cool people violated all that as social systems do but they had to obey and there it was a chaos in short and many criticized the government for not announcing it properly and for not warning the people the citizens on time that the bakeries would be open during that lockdown in those $30.00 to $1.00 city's basically he he was accused of excuse for the scales and yesterday he apologized from everyone and today in his resignation not on social media he said but the state can go responsibility and he says but the president should accept the resignation should accept his apology so

so far we have no idea whether the turkish president joseph played by god has accepted the interviewer but a minister's resignation but i must say that for churches that has also been fighting against the outflow could. workers party which turkey has designated as a terrorist group is not good news because from a month ago the area minister has been well known for his a very good fight against what the country called a charism and he has been harsh on the measure of sin and many thanks indeed it is there a sense here though that on to his interior minister who has resigned after curfew was announced at the last minute causing panic buying across the country many thanks to them. easter sunday celebrations have been very different this year and peter's square the vatican is usually packed with around $80000.00 washer post but because of a lockdown in italy the traditional mass pope francis was in said rushed online

by millions of faithful have a similar scenes in one of christianity's holiest sites are for support self from occupied east jerusalem. easter bells ring out from the church of the holy sepulcher in the courtyard below weight of the custody of the church key a responsibility passed down through his family for more than 850 years released. this is only the 2nd easter in history when the city has been attacked like this in 1349 a play closed the doors of the church for several months the catholic patriarch of the church arrived to conduct the mass with a reminder of the easter message that life will prevail the coronavirus lockdown as utterly changed the face of easter in jerusalem usually this square would be thronged with christian pilgrims from around the world waiting to celebrate mass in the place they believe jesus christ rose from the dead. instead the congregation this year was a virtual one the service streamed online and broadcast on t.v.

easter usually brings tens of thousands of pilgrims to the old city but now foreign tourism has been banned businesses are closed at the nearby sin george hotel the only guests are those being quarantined free of charge israel's hotel association says the pandemic could cost the industry more than a $1000000000.00 we are always there $131.00 a year. last year hundreds of thousands of images visited general selim. or at least. over this year due to their pandemic. 0 pilgrimages it's also the week of the jewish passover last year this was the scene at the western wall on sunday. the pres were strict to a handful including it was noted with some surprise the u.s. ambassador to israel. the main possible feast was marked earlier this week with family gatherings singing from balconies filled the gap that were

incredibly uplifting. with their families. but were part of a broader neighborhood a broader community of palestinian christians in the occupied west bank of also had to adjust their practices from home church bethlehem is locked down the church of the nativity of limits and. it hasn't been this sad since the israeli army blockaded the church during the 2nd intifada with help people and such isolation this ancient places borne witness to so many extraordinary religious events if you would have predicted just weeks ago that april 2020 would mark another are a force that al-jazeera occupied east jerusalem. in the philippines priests in the predominantly catholic country held virtual church services because of the long island dog and reports from. a barrister regas is now homeless he was a construction worker until the government imposed

a lockdown to slow the spread of cruel virus a few weeks ago his family had already left the city and he found himself stranded and alone 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 i will just wait here till they leave the lockdown 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 up payment of cash grants to millions of people but not for those who are homeless although good to friday and easter services are banned father flavia has got special permission to hold a service at this makeshift shelters believe. he says their ordeal now is a reminder of the importance of what jesus represented compassion and love. the whole mess out of you to give with this as a reminder that such people exist and they should never have before god and most especially in this time of fund that makes. 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 my live dog and manila time for us here to how to hand the bus on to our colleagues in london during i will get out here with a focus of the views next i'll see you again thanks for watching life and. if you want to help save the world. sneeze into your own.

we know what's happening in our region we know how to get to places that others cannot and fires instead of going out the way that you count the story is what can make a difference russia has jeopardized the united states security interests we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. into the picture from the inside. i think russia's foreign policy is too soft going to be the most russian goals to be achieved not peace in the. whole russia all knowledge is in. the usa is always of interest to people all right while this is been going on for a number of the tear gas being used pushed. ugly the report story from an international perspective we try to explain to our local audience why it's important how this could impact be allowed at the high fifty's storm the water was

so high that we did above but hey this is an important part of the world people pay attention to what is going here now david is very good at bringing the news to the world from here. over. the u.k. coronavirus death toll passes 10000 this is the government is accused of failing frontline medical staff. you're watching al-jazeera live from london i'm dead you know brigades are also a heads responding to the pandemic of the world's largest oil producer has agreed to cut global output by around 10000000 barrels a day. new york's mayor blames the trumpet ministration friends and lays in delivering.