just as think russia's foreign policy is too soft going to be a last russian goals hardly a treaty not peace a more full russia on al-jazeera. are at. war. we don't want to die in the line of duty we just want to be protected so that we can do our job. front line health care workers say the government is letting them down as the number of dead surpasses 10000 the u.k. . given al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up global leaders in oil production agrees a low output its demand falls you're the damage. beat is in new york call out the trump administration for continued lack of support in providing much needed testing

kids. about 4 months that's gone around the world this is to sunday the voice of italy's a drip charlie runs out across the lands empty to him a cathedral square. we begin with another grim tally of the coronavirus pandemic more than $140000.00 people have now dollars with over $1800000.00 infections worldwide in the u.k. the number of dead has now surpassed 10000 prime minister prossed johnson is recovering from the virus and is out of hospital after spending 3 nights in the intensive care he thanks health workers for saving his life the critics say his

government is letting down frontline staff by failing to provide them with the right protective equipment united states has more confirmed cases and deaths than anywhere else new york state alone has reported 758 more deaths and its leaders are also criticizing the white house for failing to do enough testing more than 20000 americans have died so far. and the world's largest oil producers have agreed to the biggest production cut in history to protect the industry from the impact of the outbreak saudi arabia russia and several other oil producing nations made a deal to reduce production by nearly 10000000 barrels a day from may and june. and in the past hour china has released figures that show no new infections in who by province that is where the initial outbreak was 1st detected sarah clarke is in hong kong for the latest so sara just tell us more about these new numbers coming out of china. well the latest

numbers we've got coming out of china as of monday so these are the figures coming from the national health commission it's $108.00 cases of the infliction reported across china and of course most of these the health commission says are imported cases now this is the highest number of daily cases that we've seen in china in 6 weeks now we have 3 deaths new deaths as of monday now it's a small increase up as of from the day before we had 99 the day before and 108 on monday but we're seeing this ongoing downward trend we're seeing a number of the cities reopen across china we've got the traverse frictions lifted for domestic travelers across the country but this is ongoing concern about a 2nd wave of infections and as china says it's those cases being imported back into the country as chinese foreign nationals or visitors come to the country to visit the questions however ongoing about the calculations or the accuracy of the accounting measures being used in china last week we had senior british government who go he questioned china's transparency of the infectiousness of the disease we

also heard us present donald trump questioning the number one he said that the death toll certainly seems light on is the way he described it looking at those latest figures the overall tally coming out of china we have to only $3343.00 deaths and that's of course according to johns hopkins university and the latest or the infection numbers of the total tally is 83134 so if you look at those numbers they're extraordinarily low when you compare them to the rest the countries as their tallies rise and meanwhile serra the economic devastation i guess you call it continues in south korea i want to talk about kenya mosts it's now talking about closing down a few of its plants what more can you tell us. well this morning we've had keer talk to its union members and of course here is one of the largest of the camera factories in south korea it has around 53000 employees it's

talking about suspending the operation of 3 of its factories and that's obviously as they cried a virus a ways on the exports its exports to europe and the united states it's a suspension only not closing its operations and the union is let's yet to agree to those negotiations but those negotiations are continuing between the in part players as well as the unions looking at generally south korea's exports its released its data for the 1st 10 days of april and it shows that the its exports have tumbled that's the 1st 4th largest economy and the 1st major exporting nation to release its monthly data trade in exports for the 1st 10 days of the month fell by 18.6 percent compared to the same period last year and analysts say clearly south korea's economy is contracting for the 1st half of this year as a result of the current a virus outbreak thank you for that update there sarah clarke live from hong kong. as you mentioned leaders from across the u.s.

as worst affected states are continuing to blame the federal government for a lack of testing resources among other things early on sunday new york's governor andrew cuomo spoke about how difficult it's been for his state to cope with the situation. 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 large a lot of pain a lot of suffering. but also when things are out their worst sometimes people are at the abbess. those same sentiments were echoed by new york city's mayor bill de blasio 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're 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 virus and move to a low level transmission on to something better well disney world in the u.s. state of florida is planning to stop paying wages to about $43000.00 workers because of the pandemic the temporary layoffs are set to begin on april 19th and part of an agreement between disney world and the service trades council of union all employees are expected to be called back to their jobs eventually and will keep their benefits for up to a year and across europe cities were empty this easter weekend as the pandemic grips the continent and the hayward reports on the situation there and in the u.k.

. britain's prime minister boris johnson left hospital to continue his recovery at his country residence he was discharged after a week 3 nights of which he spent in intensive care i have today left hospital after a week in which the n.h.s. has saved my life no question it's hard to find words to express my day he paid tribute to those who looked after him. 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 the number of people who died in hospitals after being infected with the coronavirus in the u.k. has now surpassed more than 10000 the u.k.

government says record amounts of personal protection equipment is in the system but staff treating the sick say there are still vulnerable i'm sorry if ministers feel that they have supplied adequate p.p. to n.h.s. staff but that's simply not the case of what we are experiencing on the ground and it's just our don't want to be seen as heroes we're not martyrs and we don't want to die in the line of duty we just want to be protected so that we can do our job across europe people are grappling with this crisis the number of deaths in spain rose again after a few days of dropping slightly no wonder then that there's no letup in efforts to try to stop the spread of the virus and corona virus is stalking frances care homes killing some of its residents care workers here face a grim task trying to reassure the living while dealing with the deaths. at the paris funeral homes and private funeral homes are completely overwhelmed so it

means that some corpses stay 34 days in the bed. dream on the bedroom floor. this weekend should have been one of coming together to many families and friends tomorrow easter instead many of europe's capitals are empty the landmarks deserted the churches closed the pope delivered his easter mass in a much scaled down service at the vatican $100000.00 people usually gather in st peter's square to listen to the remains the epicenter of europe's coronavirus outbreak other places though of feeding the full force of this human disaster and he would. the pandemic and international lock downs have had severe impacts on the global economy reducing the need for oil with the grinding to a halt the u.s. energy information administration says demand to petrol by american drive this is the lowest in decades norway based energy research center to energy forecasts the

change in demand from april last year to now could be a sponsor's $27000000.00 barrels per day the price of brant crude oil has fallen from more than $67.00 a barrel in december when the virus was 1st detected to of a 21 dollars this month just called in is a professor of political science at brown university and author of the book petro aggression when oil causes war he says russia's compliance will be key to the deal working all eyes now turn to compliance in the past the gulf monarchies saudi arabia kuwait and others have been reasonably strong on compliance but the big question here is about russia it has promised to come to reduce its production and its record of doing so over the last few years is not as strong as what opec would like to see. president trump of course is going to claim credit for the deal but actually it's really not clear that he was

a major factor the major thing that he tried to do was to bring mexico to the table but mexico held firm and refused to be a part of it and so in fact this deal was largely done between saudi arabia and russia and president trump is doing what president trump does which is to try to claim credit for a large portion of the planet's population is now living on lockdown to many the worst part of the crisis is being cut off from the people they love sunday go has 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 a pot some because of the devastation effects of the disease. others simply because they were away from home at the wrong time. and i have just like.

19 goudey found herself stuck in ukraine with her newborn baby who was delivered by a surrogate that 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 was devastating. and you know if i learn lee because of the baby 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 or over before the family was finally reunited if england. realized conny was diagnosed with coded 19 last 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 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 could it could indicate that. 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 around this while it and you just in those moments like that's what you have to take you have to take the positive oh man oh they were up stairs maybe and she did ria 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 i egle al-jazeera london so i've come here on al-jazeera we look at the impact of the corona virus and how that's going to back down and to just communities in malaysia. and for the 1st time in decades very different to east a mass and drusilla. hello another wet spells on its way through japan not a big surprise i know however if you follow the tailend there's not much in china so we got a couple of dried days here but this is quite a significant swirl the strong winds coming on to the north coast being big way big waves the blue of course is the rain that runs right home should touch for goes off shore stock has got a couple days of rain to come disappointing 11 degrees but clearly as the rain goes

in the wind dies down and it will be up to about 70 by wednesday and the should be a bit more sunshine not might suggest certainly on the south coast of the coast of honshu sunshine behind there isn't a hint of increasing rain potential somewhere in southern china even maybe in hong kong we see a bit we'll see a bit of an increase in humidity the shots have been abundant to indonesia leaving java alone not only observe but in the forecast see in born into some good orange tops is a big thunderstorms with maybe the concentration increase is further north in thailand cambodia and sudden vietnam rather fewer showers in sumatra and even peninsula milly's but there is a massive cloud coming across the southern part of the bay of bengal towards that could be wet the next day or so but for most of india it's just rising temperatures .

from me out. to special guest in conversation as the resistance and i see joy in the midst of pain your books do that and from today it's uninterrupted so why are all people of color and they're just one color the way it is why don't they write. that exactly at the time meets marc lamont hill i very much thought i was going to get shot and look at a bad movie studio script dates on al-jazeera. why. the. north you all just there are reminder of our top stories this hour china has recorded more than 100 new infections the highest in 6 weeks most of these came

from people arriving from of receipts but no new cases of people who were problems the albright was 1st detected. in the u.k. the number of reported deaths caused by the virus has soared above 10000 by mr boss johnson has been released from hospital after spending 3 nights in the i.c.u. he says it could have gone either way its effect help for the kids for their care. well it's all just oil producers have agreed to the biggest production history the demand for oil has plummeted to the crown of ours crisis response saudi arabia russia and several of the oil producing nations made a deal to reduce production by nearly 10000000 barrels a day from may and june. in malaysia government restrictions on people's movements are affecting the lives of indigenous people many farmers in all able to sell their produce while others like day laborers are out of work the government has promised help but rights groups say that not everyone will receive 8 foreign story reports.

keep out the signs say indigenous communities in the laser have set up roadblocks preventing outsiders from entering their villages these are photos and videos we obtained from the center for our concerns a local non-governmental organization that works for indigenous people. which means original people in the main language are more vulnerable to disease like the krona virus because of poverty and malnutrition. like ameena think so now it's safer to return to the forest many indigenous communities live in remote areas with no access to running water and electricity. and as malaysia's tough restrictions on movement continue these communities face additional crotchets many only enough to live on and have little savings i needed my income is mostly from women grass i

have lots of plants around my house it's not a steady income i mike around $90.00 to $100.00 a month. but farmers have no means to get to the markets and have not been able to sell the produce. i can so in now my produce now eliminate. chimeric economy so prince which used to be my main produce the government has promised assistance to poor communities while the restriction order is in place the director general of the department of development told al jazeera that the agency has applied for and imagines he ground to help those in need but the center for our concerns says not old villages are officially registered with the agency and those which are not will likely be left out the n.g.o.s one of several that are now raising funds for indigenous communities the donations are paid to local community coordinators to purchase food which is then distributed to the villages it's not

a perfect system but it's one way to ensure that aid reaches those who need it most florence louis al-jazeera. as the pandemic continues to spread affecting millions of lives and the global economy governments around the world in trying to find ways to slow the spread many have turned to digital tracking initiatives to help the monitor where people go and who they interact with this includes the use of the cation doll service also so-called contact tracing apps that assist health officials to monitor the transmission of the virus however the major downside in using such technology is the potential for massive breaches of privacy if abuse role dosser could be stored and used by governments well after the pandemic is over . let's pick now to tell who's in new york she is the co-director of the liberty and national security program at the brennan center for justice at new york university thank your time 1st off what are your thoughts on the use of

technology for contact tracing. so i think there is. you know one has to 1st start with the proposition that the technology is not going to be a silver bullet for contact saying most of the technologies that people are looking at right now may not be suitable for the kind of contact trace you need to take location information for example which many people have proposed and some governments are trying to use it is not precise enough to identify individuals who are who are doing your proximity and so people are now turning for example to focus on proximity rather than location so the difference being you know the ad was not tracing where i am but is figuring out who i'm close to using a bluetooth signal location tracking generally relies on cell phone towers and g.p.s.

which is less accurate so look when you turn to proximity tracking that has some potential for you know being able to identify people who are who you are proximate to but may not be able to identify how long you're proximate to them and where they're art for example if you're in an apartment building right you could be you know within 6 feet of somebody but they could be across a lot from you so it's not exactly the same kind of proximity that we're concerned about when we're looking at contact tracing so i think as an initial matter what really has to look very carefully at whether or not the technology that's being proposed is actually going to help us with contact tracing so then that's why and you know major set of issues that we have to deal with is there anything that is being proposed right now what you think does have potential you talked about bluetooth being used i know apple and google have announced a system that may be rolled out there are various cryptographers working on ways to

create. a context tracing without specific location das a big given to governments is it anything out there right now which is promising in your opinion. yeah i mean if there's a number of things that are out there promising obviously the google akhil partnership that was or an ass of the end of last week seems promising they've been very sensitive to 2 privacy issues you know the data is stored on your phone for the most part there are ways that they are making sure that it's d.n.r. am i so that a coffee re anonymous so there's actually you know potential over there but even with that. a would have to oppose all you know they're planning to release the a.p.i. in the middle of may and they're hoping that people will develop apps and can be run that you're looking at you know some period of time before even something like

the google apple partnership will be online and you also have to contend with issues around adoption so even in singapore we saw relatively low rates of adoption in the united states where you know even staying home waters have become a partisan bickering point it's easy to imagine that there will be a lot of people who won't want to actually download these apps and the 2nd thing to keep in mind is a different populations may or may not have a smartphone apps so lucky lucian's that are older who are most vulnerable to code that 19 are less likely to use smart cards and younger compilations there's some discrepancies based on income level obviously so those are those kinds of issues that you have to contend with as well but i think the other piece that the sort of privacy piece of it is that you know the data is often called anonymized and it

turns out that there's a way to d.n.r. and buys it and that does raise concerns that once that information is collected it's going to get into the hands of government and and there you know something that starts up as a voluntary scheme is going to become mandatory where there thank you for your time there is a tell life from new york thank you. for the 1st time in nearly 100 years easter mass in jerusalem has been celebrated without a congregation tens of thousands of christians from around the world would usually visit the city around this time of year but it's now in the lockdown are false reports. easter bells ring out from the church of the holy circle in the courtyard below weight of the custody of the church key a responsibility passed down through his family for more than 850 years really is that. 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 photograms 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 fully booked there are 131 a year. last year hundreds of thousands of images visited will settle.

for 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. i mean possibly the beast was marked earlier this week with family gatherings singing from balconies filled the gap that was incredibly uplifting to feel like yes of the want to go with our. lives but we're part of a broader neighborhood a broader community of palestinian christians in the occupied west bank of also had to adjust their practices praying from home in church bethlehem is locked down the church of the nativity of limits and. it hasn't been this bad since the israeli army blockaded the church during the 2nd intifada without people and in such

isolation this ancient place is borne witness to so many extraordinary religious events if you would have predicted just weeks ago that april 2020 would mark another hari force it out to syria occupied east jerusalem. a priest in brazil has gone to extreme heights to carry out his easter blessing also took a helicopter ride suffer it was an error to bless the city from the air many people in the deeply catholic country are staying home to stop the spread of coronavirus and rio's christ the redeemer statue has been less up to on the health workers on the front lines brazil has that america's worst outbreak with more than a 1000 deaths. i still form for huge crowds around the world but on easter sunday a tally antenna trip to charlie sang to silence he's held a special concerts at least famous dome a cathedral in milan to inspire hope during the outbreak it was streamed to millions of people around the world.

oh yes. this is just their own these the top stories china has recorded 108 new corona virus infections the highest in 6 weeks most of those came from people arriving from overseas no new cases have been reported in who by problems with the outbreak was 1st detected but there are concerns about a 2nd wave of infections as sarah clarke reports from hong kong as of monday so these are the figures coming from the national health commission it's 108 cases of

the infection reported across china of course most of these health commission says are imported cases and this is the highest number of cases that we've seen in china in 6 weeks now we have 3 deaths new deaths as of monday now it's a small increase as well from the day before we had 99 the day before and 100 night on monday but we're saying it's ongoing downward trend saying a number the cities reopen across china we've got the traverse directions lifted for domestic travelers across the country but this is ongoing concern about a 2nd wave of in fictions. in the u.k. the number of reported deaths caused by the virus has soared above 10000 prime minister abbas johnson has been released from hospital after spending 3 nights in the i.c.u. he says it could have gone either way as he thanked health workers for their care 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 with 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 the world's largest oil producers have agreed to the biggest production cost in history the demand for oil has plummeted amid the crowd of hours crisis and response saudi arabia russia and several other oil producing nations made a deal to reduce production by nearly 10000000 barrels a day from may in june those are the headlines the news continues off to talk to al-jazeera stay with us. for our coverage of africa is what i'm most proud of every time i travel ban whether it's east or west africa people stop me and tell me

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