we should not have to change our culture for oil and gas crossing the high peaks of the arctic circle to investigate people in power at the edge of the earth on al-jazeera. european nations go in different directions and relaxing restrictions to control covert 19 but the world health organization is warning of any hasty action. this decisions must be based 1st on foremost on protecting human health. hello i'm adrian forgive this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up. fighting intensifies in libya the internationally recognized government says the

troops have seized control of 3 cities from the war coming from. a sailor on board a u.s. navy ship at the center of a coronavirus controversy has died. with infections rising russia's president forms the outbreak is getting worse and says that soldiers may be deployed to help contain it. over half of the $115000.00 people who died worldwide in the coronavirus pandemic a from europe but the rate is slowing in parts of the continent and some country countries a cautiously beginning to ease restrictions some non-essential businesses have reopened in spain after all this 3 week shut down a further 517 deaths linked to the virus were also reported but that's fewer than on sunday the loosening of the lockdown is being criticized by people who are worried about

a resurgence in the disease. italy is also taking tentative steps towards reopening parts of its economy although it's just announced more than $20000.00 people have died and germany's government is being encouraged by scientists to consider easing restrictions if the infection rate stabilizes there or the world health organization says that countries must be careful and put people's health asked some countries are considering when they can lift these restrictions are there is considering whether and when to introduce them in both cases these decisions must be based 1st on foremost on protecting human health and guided by what we know about the virus and how it behaves while called 19 accelerates very fast it decelerates much more slowly in other words the way down is much slower than the way up that means

control measures must be lifted slowly and we scoundrel it cannot happen all at once. but tony is standing by for us in milan with more on italy's response but 1st let's go to marian the man who is with us live from london to talk more about a number of things starting with the world health organization we saw the director general merriam the organization has said that even though some nations are beginning to loosen restrictions this by no means means that it's over now is the time for vigilance now is the time to double down. yes that's right they don't want to countries moving too quickly because this dilemma of when and how to ease restrictions is really weighing on some governments right now and quite simply that's because we have seen these lockdowns imposed across many countries and that

means the economies of these countries affected meat ground to a halt we know from mornings from the i.m.f. than other organizations that the world economy will be plunged into a recession because of this and one that will be worse in the financial crisis a decade ago so countries are now looking at options for easing the lockdown to really try to mitigate the similarity in the length of the recession that's coming but as you were hearing there a risk that we're hearing from from the world health organization is that if they ease restrictions too soon they risk a 2nd wave of infections and really the message from the world health organization was that if you are going to loosen restrictions now you better make sure that your health system is prepared you better make sure that you have a a comprehensive system of case finding and contact tracing that can be activated so

that your health system has the resources to find clusters of cases before it turns into a 2nd wave of infections and this is the thing with this with the covert 1000 meyer's obviously countries are dealing with a national epidemic but the way in which it affects a country the variations within the geography of the segments of the population means that actually you're dealing with it's always like not a little epidemics happening within a country at the same time as well health organization is saying that you better make sure you are prepared to deal with this and if you do ease restrictions it has to be gradual and what's the conversation right now there in the u.k. about the easing of restrictions the of the country's foreign minister who's deputising for the prime minister said earlier that there are positive signs from the data that with the we are beginning to win this battle. yes well the government wants the public to. think that that social distancing measures they want them to continue to add here to those measures they want them to know that

they are making a difference to the spread of the virus but we're really seeing this divergence in europe right now because countries like spain and italy at their infection rates are slowing down the number of deaths reported each day the number of new registered cases are also declining and then you have countries like denmark and austria that are looking of company looking at possibly emerging from their lock downs opening some businesses kindergartens and schools but the other thing that dominic rug make clear in this briefing today was that it was far too early for the u.k. to commit to anything like that if we let up now the virus will only take full advantage it will spread faster and it will kill more people if we refuse to give in to it if we keep up this incredible team effort we will beat this virus and we will come through this national test a plan that is working please stick with it and we will get through this crisis

together. now couple of other things that we heard in that briefing the chief medical officer chris witty saying that testing in care homes should be increased because right now testing is a big problem in the country you have to either be very sick and you need to be admitted into hospital to get a test now also looking at scaling up testing for health workers so that doctors and nurses and other people who are at the national health service that to sell ice like because they or someone in their households have show symptoms of the corona virus can be tested and if they're free of the virus they can get back to work and that's really as the emergency is expected to reach its peak but we have no way of gauging how badly this is affecting gallons and we know that all the people are especially vulnerable to this virus and there was a report out today about possibly up to 50 percent of the deaths taking place in europe are happening in camps so we know there is so much we don't know about how

this virus is affecting parts of population particularly in can't homes the other thing dominic rob said is that the u.k. is not past its peak so it is expected to get much worse than we can expect that death toll number to continue to rise and then the government is also continuing to face pressure over the lack of personal protective equipment this is the shit that frontline n.h.s. staff need to prevent them from contracting and spreading the virus this continues to be an issue there is this inconsistency in supplies in hospitals across the country with the british medical association morning just recently that supplies in some hospitals are running dangerously low. even as a reporting live from home in london area many thanks indeed let's cross live then to italy francesco day is live for us in milan how do people there feel about restrictions beginning to be is now francisco. well the shins will be on the ground region significantly and they will be

very slightly in the rest of italy starting from from tomorrow let's let's begin from the latest italy's figures that are a little bit worse than yesterday there are $566.00 new ridges so that's more than sunday but in line with the with before now the total toll is over $20400.00 the new confirmed cases are a little more than 3000 there has been a decrease in the last 24 hours but this figure the pens march on the number of tests made according to the civil protection agency this number has increased in the last days the positive cases since the outbreak are now almost 160000 confirming italy as the 3rd most affected country by infections after the united states and spain fortunately the hospitalized patients and those in intensive care

units keep decreasing and this is the best news as of today these numbers are considered every day more 'd meaning less and for now they will not change the government's plan few days ago the prime minister does appear continence there a few non essential activities such as book shop and baby stores will be allowed to open again in all italy from tomorrow but they will have to impose customers to respect distancing rules and let a few people in a time of this measures will not be implemented anyway in the harvested bridgend it is here in the lobby of the. one i'm speaking from the walk down here remains the same and according to the president to be a fun time now at the risk of undermining india for its done so far is still too high by this other regions are going in different directions for. simple beneteau the complaining region of lockerbie which has

a number of bets 10 times lower the local government just signed an ordinance that will open air markets return to work and will allow people to practice boarding activities without the 200 meters limit so this new original soft lockdown 'd will be implemented invented so even though it will not include factories and firms so italy is still 20 days far from phase 2 which should begin on the 4th of may that's the time when many more activities could go back to work. but the discussions on which ones should have the priority and how this process will work are still ongoing and we'll still have to see what's going on what will happen francesco jabatan a reporting live from milan many thanks to francisco turkey's president says that a new lockdown will be imposed there next weekend as the country struggles to

contain the coronavirus anger imposed a 48 hour curfew on all major cities last weekend the government is stopping short of imposing a full lockdown due to concerns over the economy and as you're assuming of course you explain. turkey wants the economy to be functioning this is why president sadat has said before the economy will stay should be whirling the government encouraged to staying at home encourages the companies for a home office working a year's money for on paid leave gives. some extra money for the companies who who need it to pay for their employees not very very large numbers but at least something but the main idea is here to keep the factories working not to cut the supply and logistic lines as turkey is also a trance transitional council for international logistics as well and especially for istanbul which has at least 15000000 population it is the fickle to keep people

inside homes because there's a there's a huge number of young population inside this stumble and the weather is going better and better every day that's why the lockdowns only cover the weekends for now but i have to say that the lock down was 4 major cities 31 cities across turkey which meant 6 almost $6.00 to $3000000.00 citizens among $18000000.00 whole population across the country and all said that as long as the government feels it necessary they will come to me imposing we can't lockdowns but it was sure that there will be no week they locked on for turkey at least for now. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then south korea reports more than $100.00 people who were initially cleared of the coronavirus of tested positive again plus we have a pandemic is heading food aid to many in desperate need in uganda. but

. i was saying quite a change in the weather across the arabian peninsula some rather wet weather and much cooler air tucking in behind this band of cloud push across the other side of the gulf into iran towards afghanistan pushing up towards the foothills of the himalayas we've got a line of cloud and rainy season right here recently within the last hour or so into that in the process of pulling out of the way process guys coming in behind for a time but you can see scattered showers down towards the southwest of saudi arabia into yemen maybe a little further north you might catch your shop shower here the west the weather is over towards afghanistan one of 2 showers the into iran and you can join of that law in the shabby rain as we go on into what whedon stay some really wet weather

once again just around just around the u.a.e. could see some localized flooding southern parts of saudi but further north here is 5 and drive damascus a $27.00 degree celcius plenty of dry weather meanwhile across northern parts of africa we have got some showers into the ethiopian highlands follow them across the red sea they push their way down into the heart of africa got a few showers there just for southern parts of west africa as well meanwhile for south africa is telling its side the unsettled to the east. frank assessments wise it's only struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action with them behind her and in-depth analysis of the day is global headlines inside story on al-jazeera.

save humanity by really really not getting anywhere. well again this is 0 the main news this hour spain has lifted some restrictions that allowed some people to go back to work including in the construction and manufacturing sectors the prime minister peter sanchez has warned his country is far from victory with strict rules still in place for most people. the world health organization is urging caution over countries lifting their long towns to worry your positions director general says the restrictions must be lifted slowly. turkey

will impose a 2nd 48 hour lockdown in all major cities this coming weekend the government is stopping short of introducing weekday restrictions in an effort to keep the economy moving. rockets are being fired at residential areas in libya's capital by forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar that's in retaliation the soldiers fighting for the internationally recognized government seizing control of 3 cities over the past 24 hours phone video apparently shows soldiers loyal to the government of national accord on the streets of sabotage having also entered our angela that they also control the city of some money the united nations deputy spokesperson for libya says all parties must set their differences aside and focus on responding to a rising number of covert 19 if infections in the country we are concerned about

all of the continued fighting. from whichever side including of course the latest shelling but we as you know have been asking for the parties. fighting it's very clear that right now they are the 1st group in 1000 infections in libya and we need to make sure that they can set aside their all military offense and and work together in terms of being able to allow for us to deal with with the pen demick before that comes out of control and so that is where i put priority light live now to tripoli al-jazeera put up the warhead is with us would bring us up to speed with the day's events. well adrian it seems that after us forces are not listening or responding to the international calls for the escalation today after his forces launch dozens of rockets that landed in

residential areas including this area where our bureau is being used i saw 3 explosions today by rockets launched by forces in only in this area and the government military sources say that half the forces are trying to take revenge on their capital tripoli or residential areas after they lost 3 strategic cities in the west of libya as you know adrian that has been a swift takeover of the strategic seat is there under control of her as forces for the past 3 years but that's according to military experts here that's thanks to the turkish air force supply or assistance to the government of national called specially drones as you know that by taking in the 3 major cities in the west now under the control of the government that the government now is in full control

of the international highway that's the coastal highway that's linking the capital of tripoli to the tunisian borders as you know that have to this was have been blocking that way for the past 3 years one another said to have to his forces losing these 3 it is after they lost the strategic city of a very young man last june as you know adrian that the forces in the coastal city of us who are there will be seated what have to for the best for the past 3 years and they now they say that they now can join the government forces and chase the remnants of have those forces who fled towards a world. ada base is the only stronghold for half the his forces in the west of libya and as you know adrian that from that 8 days have to his war planes were taken off to target government forces locations in southern tripoli it seemed that

have to his forces are intensifying their attacks against residential areas in the coming hours as any action or response to the loss of the coastal cities in the west of the country out of order to what had reporting live from tripoli many thanks indeed back now to the grid a virus pandemic one of the 600 crew who contracted the virus aboard a u.s. aircraft carrier has died the captain of the theodore roosevelt was fired for writing his commanders begging for help to stop the spread on board soon after the acting navy secretary resigned after calling the captain stupid naive and criticizing the crew for hailing him a hero our white house correspondent kimberly how could those more. in terms of the captain that was dismissed from this aircraft carrier of the u.s. theodore roosevelt certainly sadly there is some vindication that he may receive

from this at least in the realm of public opinion given the fact that he sounded the alarm he was very concerned about seeing coronavirus ripping through not just his own ship but the cruise ships around the world who had been in many cases debilitated by it so this is something that he was afraid of for his own ship of course he made this known publicly when he was not getting results from the higher chain of command within the u.s.s. within the u.s. navy and that resulted in his dismissal but his dismissal in fact was caught on video when he was leaving the ship he was cheered by the sailors who looked at him very admirably for essentially trying to save their lives but this is sort of a twist in turning story in the u.s. navy because the acting navy secretary then went made a speech to this very same crew called this captain that they revered. as stupid

and he was then in turn dismissed from his job so this is yet another sort of aspect to this case that thou that we have this death this is certainly going to bolster the case of the captain that this was a need to sound the alarm new york's governor says the curve in what is the epicenter of the u.s. corona virus outbreak continues to flatten $671.00 additional deaths have been reported but andrew cuomo says the was is now over we can control the spread feel good about that. the worst is over. if we continue to be smart going forward because remember we have the here on the ground you turn that valve too fast you see that number jump right back. but yes i think you could say the worst is over because the worst here are people dying that's the worst the worst doesn't get any bad then this worst russia's president says that the coronavirus situation there as

worsening and the troops may be called in to combat the spread of the virus flooded me a putin speaking after the announcement of 2 and a half 1000 new infections that's the largest daily increase of phone maybe gives you an mistrustful of media it's a blockage the as we can see the situation is changing almost every day unfortunately it's not changing for the better but the number of infected people is increasing and there are more severe cases as well as i've said already the coming weeks will be decisive in south korea at least 116 people who were initially cleared of the corona virus of now tested positive again 51 similar cases were reported last week it's raising concern in the government as it tries to stamp out the infection rates on she clements is a professor of infectious disease epidemiology at curtin university. firstly i don't think there is any evidence emerging that it's becoming symptomatic again if

that. was the case then that would be very concerning but i don't believe that there's any clear evidence that there is that that is. i think even with a very very large number of people being tested for a regulation but one of ours and in and in most countries that is still anything infecting a very small percentage of population you will see a high. positive right and i think that is to be expected enormous it's best to avoid that situation what the critical thing is is that people need to interpret the data correctly and so you know when you're monitoring but the question of. the 20000000 people as you do in south korea and you guessed it happen 1000000 people you will expect a number of false positives. but usually in a pandemic with things are rapidly him changing way in learning more about the bars it's to be expected that. this will have limitations the important thing is the public health response so. and then of course erring on the side of caution so it

would testing positive that need to be are isolated the concept pricing needs to happen. so much of this is the meat continue certainly recession this is the thing that for a considerable time to come the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic is making it harder for international agencies to raise money among those the world food program which has just been forced to cut rations for more than a 1000000 refugees in uganda after failing to secure additional funding into smugness from the un's world food program for east africa and says the pandemic is forcing the u.n. to relook at its plans for next year. there's a lot more that can be done as long as people have funding but the difficulty is we were $137000000.00 short what we needed to give the refugees in uganda which is the country that is hosting the largest number of refugees in all of africa. to give them

a full rations for the year 2020 so we had to make this cut otherwise we would have had to make more severe cuts later on in the year if we didn't receive more support so it was unrelated to covert 19 but it's since it's a symptom of a difficult situation in funding globally for humanitarian operations we saw it coming in many ways in as much as uganda is a situation where the refugee situation is relatively stable and donors find it very difficult understandably when there are of them imagine sees in the world where life need to be saved to keep giving refugees enough food to eat when other operations or other emergencies come up and they are required to also commit funds to loose so now we've covered 19 the situation is even more difficult globally for humanitarian operations and more longstanding refugee operations.

democratic republic of congo is fighting a war against disease on multiple fronts zeros muhammad i don't know reports. 12000000 people live in kinshasa couplet all of the democratic republic of congo last week the government put the city on the lockdown to kabul. for. restaurants and charges are closed public transport in and out of the capital is also restricted but people here say the closure of some food and vegetable markets has affected them most. we haven't been able to access the main market in the city for about a week now we have no way of restocking our shops i doubt will be able to survive these measures for another week. in the gombe district health workers a clinic up a government building where several people including a government minister tested positive for the virus. they say the lockdown is

necessary to stop it spreading. if you don't we can look down all of can just half an hour for all of us reasons but we do believe that the current lockdown will help control deepen demick in the city's main epicenter it seems like these are becoming . the sellers say these alternative remember does prevent quote on a virus infection and country the virus. you know never to drink some mad from leaves and roots and becoming popular with local people while there is no scientific evidence that this alternative remedies can work some here swear by that if it can see as. little pink the medicine from this plant is effective against almost every ailment this is what we prepare to use instead of going to the hospital every time we fall sick as long as we take it everything should be free from the crown if i had it. apart from covered 19 the democratic republic of congo

is also battling the mississippi demick killed more than $5000.00. and 300 children since early 2019. they're also thought to 1000 recorded cases of cholera and a 2nd link to a ball after 2 months without new cases the public health system is already weak here and with all these diseases many are asking whether it can cope. i'll just say. it is good to have you with us hello adrian fitting in with you here in doha are the headlines and i was in spain has lifted some of its restrictions put into place as a result of the corona virus outbreak some people but i want to go back to work including in the construction and manufacturing sectors but prime minister pedro sanchez has warned that his country is far from victory italy is also taking tentative steps

towards the reopening parts of its economy it will allow some small businesses to reopen most of the country there remains on strict lockdown more than $20000.00 people have died there but the rate of infection seems to be slowing the world health organization is urging caution over countries lifting their lockdowns too soon. while called 19 accelerates very fast it decelerates might move more slowly in other words their way down is march slower than the way up that means control measures must be lifted slowly and we've gone through all it cannot happen all at once. russia's president says the coronavirus situation there is worsening and the troops may be called in to combat the spread lamia putin was speaking after the announcement of 2 and a half 1000 new infections that's the largest daily increase so far. a u.s.

navy sailor has died after catching her a virus he was one of hundreds of crewmembers who became infected aboard an aircraft carrier the captain of the theater roosevelt was fired for writing to his commanders begging for help to stop the spread on board soon after the acting navy secretary resigned after calling the captain stupid naive and criticizing the crew for hailing the captain a hero rockets being fired at residential areas in libya's capital by forces loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar that's in retaliation for 2 soldiers fighting for the internationally recognized government seizing control of 3 cities in the past 24 hours phone video apparently shows soldiers loyal to the government of national accord on the streets of someone having also entered agile that. is the headlines inside story is next.

china stands accused of any humane treatment of africans during the corona virus outbreak that includes forceful testing of quarantine and addictions so is this just another form of racism or is beijing just trying to curb the pandemic this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm richelle carey they are china's key trading partners but some african leaders have been angered over beijing's reporters from a nation against their citizens and demanded.