well just in. the news and current affairs. russia reports another recall daily rise in corona virus infections pushing its total beyond $20000.00. times sam is a than this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up china proves to experimental covert 19 vaccines for human trials. when somebody is the president of the united states here 30 years total. donald trump declares he'll decide

when the u.s. economy reopens the state governor say nothing will change until it's safe. as the infection rate slows in australia business groups push for restrictions to be lifted. we begin in russia where officials have announced another recall daily rise in new code with 19 infections and more than 2700 cases were confirmed in just the last 24 hours the government says 170 russians have died and there are now more than 21000 cases a spade loosens its lockdown measures the death toll this apart state 100000 with another 567 fatalities reported overnight there are signs the infection rate is slowing because it's seen the lowest increase in new cases in nearly

a month. we've got 2 correspondents with us this hour not there oh is in the dritte to talk about the numbers there but 1st let's go to leave barky joins us live from london so neve another day another big rise in cases in russia how much of a lockdown though is in place there. there's an incremental jump every day where hearing of more more infections and more more russians dying according to the kremlin the number of infections is going up roughly between 16 and 18 percent a day and is now currently when it comes to new infections 2774 president vladimir putin has been very open and somewhat stark with the russian population themselves saying that the worst is very much yet to come particularly in the russian capital which is thought to be days if not weeks

ahead of the rest of the country let's not forget how big the country is 11 time zones for bloody for stock in the east of the russian capital moscow in the west rolling out restrictions rolling out standards high standards in health care is going to be extremely difficult nevertheless 8 new hospitals have been commissioned to happen 95000 beds ready for any influx in numbers when it comes to restrictions of course shops are shuttered in big cities like moscow and st petersburg people altered to stay at home we know that there is some sort of plan in moscow to introduce digital permits to allow certain people to access their cars but there are also the threats of heavy prison sentences of up to 7 years for people flouting the rules and regulations that house that's how seriously the russian government are treating this also reports of but help some very robust surveillance measures being introduced the human rights watchers are concerned about remaining in place

long after this pandemic is over. now leave stay there for a moment because we need to move things a gear along with or come back to in several european countries now slowly lifting some restrictions thousands of shops across austria are pre-opening for example on tuesday authorities say it's the 1st phase of a gradual process to restart the economy austria's strict social distancing rules will remain in place the go back to london and this is happening in a number of places in europe it kind of feels a little bit early neave what are authorities saying. yes every single country in europe seems to have a different response to dealing with the crisis let's not forget that austria was one of the 1st countries to act very quickly when it came to sealing its borders to closing down shops to forcing people to stay at home now looking at data a flattening of the curve or an incremental decrease in new cases new infections

people ending up in intensive care they have decided to ease the pressure a little bit of course all of that will have a positive impact they hope on their economy as well so tentative steps from austria similar moves from denmark as well children under the age of 11 will be able to return to kindergarten and school from wednesday although the borders of denmark will remain closed their markets reduced its restrictions 12 days ahead of the u.k. a similar situation but very tentative in spain where heavy industry workers are allowed to go back more that i'm sure we'll hear later on in the program in italy also reports of children's stores clothing stores being allowed to open some bookstores also hardware stores may return to being open as well completely different response though we're hearing from bella russo and sweden

which is pretty much been business as usual there the russian leader alexander lukashenko even suggesting that people drink vodka to keep covert 19 a day for a different messaging in sweden where there's been an awful lot of trust in swedish people to follow advice without the need for regulations different story here in western europe in france the lockdowns extended for a month warnings of a deep recession to come have been announced by the french government a message from the french president emmanuel mccrum that we have to hold tight and that when the easing does happen it will happen very very slowly but not any time soon. thanks so much for the update there from neves barker let's continue this theme of well credit arse in europe because another country that's lifting some restrictions is spain of course now martha or joins us live from madrid via skype

so what does the day after the zing of restrictions look like there in spain. well today isas is one month stays one month of the onset of the state of emergency lockdown in spain in the past 24 hours we have reduced to 516 new fatalities and more than 3000 new post is of call it 19 this is was in the last 24 hours we've seen how our how the crevice flattening and we are entering these face of us that realization but we're best very much keep in mind that spain has a very high death toll of 18 month 1000 people and 117-0000 positive it is one of the country's worst damage by a guy from coming 1000 in europe and an sorry in what worldwide to do between yesterday and today a 1000 are spaniards have a drone to work we're talking after 2 weeks of economy here but hibernation we're

talking about manufacturing and construction sector mainly we have 1700000 people related to the construction sector this by all the guidelines given by the spanish government all of these people going back to work between yesterday and today of of the owners of these companies providing those not protective equipment and keeping this social distancing stuff to the meters between. workers and supplying in the in the main subway metro stations of these police officers worse were handing out masks this is the big picture today in spain girlies officers handing out match for all the people taking the public transport people are very very very upset and acceptable that these measures were taken on time and that anything that it will lead to very early this has prompted plenty of criticism of amongst but it it'll parties and even work is that what they were interviewed on the way to work there was saying that they wouldn't provide with these people his or they want and it

wouldn't but jane this this social distancing of to me just specially people working in the construction only news construction. and so this has looked a lot of project lot of criticism even even not following. what her the organization's guidelines to leave these measures that's the situation fank so much of bringing us that update for china has approved human trials for 2 experimental coronavirus vaccines as it tries to prevent a 2nd wave of infections state media announced one vaccine is being developed by a biotech firm and the other by the china national pharmaceutical group countries now trying to contain imported cases especially from neighboring russia sarah clarke is in hong kong she says china wants to fast track the production of vaccines. these vaccines where vaccines will be developed in partnership number one with a biotech group based in beijing and the 2nd partner is one based out of this is

a pharmaceutical group and as i mentioned has been confirmed by china but china's already got a vaccine or trial in place and that particular trial its audience at 2nd phase the 1st phase of that trial looked at the safety scenario of that vaccine and the 2nd one is now introduced by perceived control groups or certainly it's got enough at this stage 500 volunteers have signed up but we can now confirm we've got 3 vaccines in place in china but the national health commission said it can't pass must pass various conditions before they can enable mass production certainly they're trying to fast track this and china certainly has an advantage as the 1st nation to be able to map the genome status of the corona virus and we have some latest numbers coming out of china we're looking at a particular area now russia province in china that borders russia and we've had $409.00 infections coming from russia into china over the last few weeks the current number of cases in china is 89 as of today and this particular province accounts about 79 of those cases as of tuesday and as a result these cities put in

a number of border protection controls checkpoints in that area that healthy they get health checks on those people coming from russia into china we've also got mandatory coronavirus testing from all those chinese nationals coming from russia into china they've also set up a hotline to allow for those people in this particular province to report the illegal arrivals coming from russia china is also deployed a number of extra resources and medical teams from will hand the south to that area and it seems that particular region is now the focus of what they could believe might be a 2nd wave of infections into china. now u.s. president donald trump has used his latest krone virus briefing to play a campaign style video meant montage he declared he alone has the total authority to decide when the economy reopens the u.s. death toll is approaching 24000 and is the world's highest but trump says he's encouraged by signs the numbers the flattening out john hendren reports.

president donald trump is determined to open american homes and businesses even over the objections of some states when somebody is the president of the united states the authority is total and that's so it's got to be home 36 total it's talk of the states closed the governors of new york and illinois dispute that saying they want to end shelter at home orders based on science and they say the science isn't clear on that yet we want to get things back to more normal as soon as we can but one thing that we have to pay attention to is what direction are these curves going and what are the what is the advice that we're getting from again the scientists and the doctors who know more about immunology and about you know all the issues of covert 19 then you know than an elected official is not a doctor in a fiery 2 and a half hour news conference president trump excoriated journalists you know you're a fake so whatever they're doing it smirked as he showed

a montage of news reports that he said underplayed the threat of the virus. and denied he had any problem with his point man on the pandemic even after retreating a twitter post saying fire found not everybody's happy with anthony not everybody's happy with everybody it happened one day after the man at the center of the controversy anthony said fewer people would have died if the u.s. administration had acted sooner it was found she said that was it but who are choice of word as i did on earlier you know i'm doing. everything i do is voluntarily please don't even imply that the president was especially irate over a new york times report saying he ignored warnings of the pandemic in bungled the early response for 80000000 americans there was good news in the white house briefing with more of them out of work than in any time since the great depression treasury secretary steve menuhin said they could expect long awaited stimulus

checks of up to $1200.00 apiece direct deposited in their bank accounts on wednesday. the spectacle eclipse the results of the wisconsin election announced one week after the state forced voters to gather at polling places despite the pandemic. the man the president assailed throughout his news conference his chief rival joe biden won handily john hendren al-jazeera chicago. well still ahead in al-jazeera how greece's dependency on tourism is proving a weakness during the pandemic libya's internationally recognized government makes gains against all of the $34.00 halftime capturing 7 towns. because see dry weather now pushing across japan we got this far yet the weather

system now in the process of pulling out of the way caught on tape area of low pressure still some strong winds just rattling northern and eastern parts of the country for a time but high pressure will dominate the region for the next couple of days we are going to see some wet weather gradually pushing in across northern parts of china having said that a few showers just creep in the way towards beijing on wednesday that become a little more widespread as we head into the 2nd part of the week i'm heavy we'll see them sliding down towards the yellow sea as we go on through thursday south of that generally fine and dry east of that and we find it dry much just catch your right shower it's east and parts of honshu lots of dry cross the good parts of india as well little more cloud now started to push into the far north of india through pakistan spilling out of afghanistan some wetter whether they're strong the far north just pushing up towards the foothills of the himalayas the main story course is that pray monsoon heat which continues to build temperatures in new delhi at 40 celsius to 41 therefore not poor similar values this week on into thursday as

you can see largely dry or maybe we'll see some showers coming into bangladesh the far north east of india could also catch the odd shower into sri lanka. russia has jeopardized the united states' security interests we know what you are doing and you will not succeed perceptions from the outside looking. but what's the picture from the inside. as think russia's foreign policy is too soft to us russian goals have been achieved not peace and more diffuse full russia on al-jazeera. forward.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time take another look at those headlines now russia has reported another record daily rise in new infections with more than 2700 the government says 170 russians and dies the total number of cases now more than $21000.00 spain has reported the lowest increase in new cases in nearly a month that brings hope the infection rate there is lowing authorities reported another $567.00 deaths on tuesday pushing the total past 18 hours. china has approved human trials for 2 new experimental vaccines against the corona virus as it fights to prevent a 2nd wave of infections. in libya the u.n.

recognize government has recaptured 7 towns that were under warlord khalifa haftar is control most of. his forces will continue their advance afters forces of hauled back to an airbase in the south west. mahmud is live for us in libya has a brother one of the captured cities so mahmoud i want you obviously tell us about what's going on there but also explain to us the context this is 7 towns in 48 hours after weeks of pretty much deadlock between the 2 sides want to turn things around. well sami 1st of all it was a swift takeover over the past 24 over the past 2 days as you know that the government forces manage it to recapture civil cities in the west of libya including this key city of. we're understanding now it was

a swift take according to the governor. into military sources partly because of the turkish air force supply with the government forces you know that the gun forces have been targeting gadhafi forces the cations and the city of so broad and many other locations in the west of the country ahead of this operation as you know sami that the government forces say that they're surprised this city suburb out there is a key city because whoever controls this city can control the whole west of libya and now the government forces. on the southern outskirts of city joining with other forces from the embassy a little bit about forces and the city of aswat up and the plan is to move towards a woods yet to be solved of sobre as you know so i mean that and what's your has been used to but have. to get the government forces locations in southern tripoli

but this ignorance of this city so broad as that it stands on the way between tripoli and the teacher borders and whoever controls the broth or can easily control the international coastal highway linking the capital tripoli to the tunisian. authorities here tell us that they are now starting procedures to bring back those who were displaced those who were forced out of their homes but how far his forces at 3 years ago from many other cities they are fighting to bring them back to the city and they are also trying to bring life back to normal as you know that it was a few spots a lot over the past 2 days between have to his forces and forces loyal to the government of national of course and now the government to say that they along with the plan to move towards

a base they're also planning to focus on. link helps us force that tax in southern tripoli as you know so i would have to force you have been taught to think it is a dictionary is in tripoli with random rockets as any action to their defeat in the west of libya. or. from some brotha thanks for that to iran now where the daily death toll has dropped below $100.00 for the 1st time in a month there are reported $98.00 new deaths bringing the total to over 4600 over the last few days the government has been easing restrictions allowing businesses to reopen some travel to resume it's the hardest hit nation in the middle east with almost 75000 infections india has extended its lockdown for another 2 and a half weeks until may the 3rd prime minister narendra modi's says restrictions

could be partially eased in areas with no infections india has recorded more than 10000 cases and at least 350 deaths elizabeth problem is in new delhi she reports there's growing concern over the long down. the prime minister tried to address some of the main issues around those concerns most people in india do agree that the lock down is necessary as he himself said there were 550 cases when india imposed a lockdown 3 weeks ago there are 10000 cases now and 350 deaths at the lock down must continue but how do you mitigate the hardships for so many in a country where so many are already poor and hundreds of millions are daily wage earners while the prime minister said that he acknowledges the difficulties that they have gone through disproportionately that the daily wage earners are his top priority but he didn't expand about how he's going to get the help that both central and state governments have promised them but aid still isn't reaching so

many people and we're seeing that the unemployment rate has gone up from 6 to least 23 percent he also spoke about the agricultural situation in the country something like a half of india's workforce actually works and farming and fathers haven't been able to have this they went to crops they also haven't been able to plant their summer props because of a lack of labor because of the disruption to the supply chain and india is facing a possible agricultural and food crisis turkey will release tens of thousands of prisoners as part of measures to stop the virus for having holliman to prove the law earlier on tuesday rights groups have criticized them saying detainees charged under antiterrorism laws are not included australia has so far avoided a large scale outbreak of coded 19 with infection rates dropping but the crisis is crippling the nation's economy many are now asking when social distancing measures

can be lifted we're going to gauge reports from sydney. come along bato has managed this the fruit shop in sydney for 3 decades and is used to seeing thousands of people pass through its doors each week now this on the head full and he's had to adapt to survive the business is still open but most of its sales the taking place on lied instead with staff delivering produce to horns those casual staff that we used to be utilized. in the retail shop we've moved them around to suit the. other businesses in the sydney fish market. some have closed others have seen revenues drop by up to 80 percent within our retail tenant to certainly there's been. concern about the job losses which is really unfortunate . but strangely it isn't in lockdown but strict social distancing measures main

shopping strips remain for the most part empty with doors shot and many out of work but keeping people at home seems to be working despite some outbreaks the strategy is in fiction right has slowed recording fewer than 100 new cases a day well down from weeks ago and it's had i relatively low death right with the economic costs rising business groups are pushing for restrictions to start being lifted and there are petitions from local people who want to return to be choose any prospect of lifting restrictions as i delicate balance for the government at this stage it says it's too early to ease any social distancing measures or that it could lead to a 2nd wife of cases similar to other countries like singapore and japan. infectious disease experts agree. to be lifted they say it would have to happen slowly with international borders remaining closed for some time.

so. until that happens businesses are navigating a new normal is the government works on how and when life can return to what it was before the crisis we call a gauge al-jazeera. north korea has fired what is believed to be several cruise missiles off its eastern coast the suspected short range projectiles were launched from one province into the sea of japan is the latest in a series of tests conducted by pyongyang in recent weeks a large forest fire in northern new crane has reached within 2 kilometers of the ruined chernobyl nuclear plant and emergency officials says the situation is under control though and there's no risk of the reactor or storage facilities being damaged the fire has been burning for 10 days the democratic republic of congo is

recorded a 3rd new abode a case a 7 year old girl started showing symptoms after visiting the same health care center treating her previous 2 cases in the eastern city of benny the epidemic has killed more than 2000 congolese in the past 20 months this time of year greece is building towards its peak tourist season but with the pandemic keeping everyone at home all of the biggest attractions are deserted and as john psaropoulos explains it's dashing hopes that years of recession finally ending. in front of parliament is the beating heart of athens now a picture of emptiness even more extreme than that scene when the nazis rolled into town 8 decades ago the one operating hotel on the square is the plaza and even it doesn't look very open. we are operating at 16 to 18 percent

occupancy most of it international at crucial cargo flights and some people have chosen to leave in the hotel permanently. at the airport international passenger traffic has stopped only a handful of domestic flights still take off and land and that has cut off the lifeblood of the economy greece had $34000000.00 visitors last year 3 times its population they generated an estimated income of over $50000000000.00 that's more than a quarter of the economy and gave jobs to almost a 1000000 people this industry is greece's powerhouse and was key to its recovery from a decade long recession the country was set for a repeat performance this year. by the end of february we had already booked half our capacity for the year now much and i put the last on everything for the summer has been cancelled we don't even know if the airlines will operate. the industry hopes to salvage something of the season and is asking the government to lower

sales tax from 24 percent it's the highest in the mediterranean a remnant of greece's decade of austerity and it wants europe to allow vouchers valid for 18 months rather than cash refunds for cancelled holidays but demand remains a problem coronavirus is still ripping through greece's main markets. germany . and the united states so we know that there is a huge problem from the international markets and please keep. yes but it's us says greece will focus on attracting visitors from the middle east and the balkans where governments have so far successfully quelled to the spread of the virus the government is spending more than 5000000000 dollars subsidizing businesses and employees so they can get back to work again when the situation

improves it's a gamble the to return to normality will be a matter of weeks not months jumps out all close al-jazeera athens. you can get much more nor most stories and been telling you about it if you head over to our website. story the address under-served dot com. let's take you through some of those headlines now russia is reporting another record daily rise in new infections with more than 2700 the government says 170 russians have died but the total number of cases now more than 21000 from london need parker has more policing any kind of restrictions on people's ordinary and daily lives is going to be very very difficult indeed what we know about though

a kind of restrictions that are in place in the big cities like moscow and st peters where we know that people are advised not to go to work we know that also president vladimir putin in the last few days has rushed through parliament a piece of emergency legislation that would put punish any flouting of these restrictions with the possibility of a 7 year prison sentences you do get the impression that the russian leadership is starting to wake up to the reality that this could be a dire and chronic situation for the country's health services. spain has reported the lowest increase in new cases in nearly a month bringing hope the infection rate there is slowing authorities reported another $567.00 deaths on tuesday pushes the total past $18000.00 china has approved human trials for 2 new experimental vaccines against the corona virus as it fights to prevent a 2nd wave of infections it has reported $89.00 new cases nearly all of them

imported in iran the daily death toll has dropped below $100.00 for the 1st time in a month to her and reported $98.00 new deaths bringing the total to a $4600.00 over the last few days the government has been easing restrictions allowing businesses to reopen and for some travel to resume turkey will release tens of thousands of prisoners as part of measures to stop the virus from spreading rights groups have criticized the move saying detainees charged on their antiterrorism laws are not included in libya the u.n. recognize government has recaptured 7 towns that were under waldheim if i have those control after us forces have pulled back to an airbase in the southwest of cya headlines the news continues on al-jazeera after inside story.

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.