devon african i couldn't be more proud to be part of it. if you want to help save the world. this is a crisis like. a 9 trillion dollar economic hit the international monetary fund warns that the coronavirus pandemic will cause the worst recession in a century. but i may dream forgetting this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up it keeps getting worse for the airlines the industry warns that carriers will lose $314000000000.00 in revenue with 80 percent of flights now grounded.

jobless and hungry as the result of a lockdown thousands of migrant workers in india storm a closed railway station desperate to return to their home states. and we've used it since ancient times to ward off disease find out how coppa is being made into an even more powerful tool against the current violence. 9 trillion dollars that's how much the international monetary fund says could be lost from the global economy over the next 2 years as a result of the coronavirus pandemic that means global growth would shrink by 3 percent which is 30 times worse than the 2009 global financial crisis the i.m.f. chief economist says that it's the worst economic shock since the great depression of the 1930 s. . flattening the spread of coal with 19 using lock downs allows health systems

to cope with this crises which then prove permits a resumption of economic activity in the sense there is no tradeoff between saving lives and saving livelihoods countries should continue to continue to generously support their health systems perform widespread testing and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies the world's airlines are also suffering they stand to lose more than $300000000000.00 in revenue this year that's the latest forecast from the industry's representative body i ourselves and the u.k. economy could shrink by a staggering 35 percent over the next 3 months that would more than double unemployment and take public borrowing to its highest level since the 2nd world war we have charlie angela in london to talk about the u.k.'s economic challenges in just a few moments but 1st let's go to alan fischer in virginia on the i.m.f. some grim projections out of the i.m.f.

and saying that global growth could fall by 3 percent of the economic shock that's greater than the g.d.p. of both germany and japan combined. it's a lot of money they're talking about and just 3 months ago the i.m.f. image january prediction was saying that $160.00 countries will experience growth before the end of the year clearly the covert virus is just real to skate to such a degree you know they're making some assumptions there they're making an assumption that things will get back to normal quite soon and that the economies across the globe will bones but with about 5.8 percent growth in 2021 but the admit the situation could still change that if there is a 2nd wave of the virus if countries reopen too soon and we see more infections if the economy stays close for longer than we expect even though we are seeing some signs of recovery in some spots all of those could change these predictions quite radically what it does mean is that millions of people are unemployed lots of

businesses have closed down many industries the amount of train lines have stopped and so they i.m.f. is saying there has to be a global response to this well many countries have closed their borders and understandably so it's not the time to do that economically to try and provoke a global recovery the say there can't be de globalization there has to be a concerted effort and then perhaps the world economy meet go through this but certainly for many people 'd who are hoping that things were going to get better soon economically this is a real sobering morning from the i.m.f. as alan fischer reporting live there from home in the genea many thanks indeed as we reported the u.k. is facing a big economic contraction and an increase in unemployment because of its measures to stop the virus spreading britain's finance minister rushing so on access he believes that measures he's already brought in will mitigate some of that impact we

can't protect every business and every household. but we came into this crisis with a fundamentally sound economy powered by the hard work and ingenuity of the british people and british businesses so while those economic impacts are significant the o.b. are also expect them to be temporary let's get some analysis from our series charlie angelo at home in london so charlie the u.k. economy could shrink by as much as 35 percent due to the pandemic that's one government agency saying that the chancellor says but. yes he was very quick to stress that this is not a forecast from the office for budget responsibility this is just one possible scenario and he said it is very important to be honest about the damage that this lockdown will do he says he's been honest from the start there will be

a considerable contraction of the economy but as you heard him say that the country was in a strong economic position before we entered this crisis he expects it to bounce back quickly know what the o.b. art is is modeling is that the the country's real g.d.p. will contract by 35 percent in the 1st quarter unemployment will rise to 2000000 at the moment it stands at 1300000 so that's more than a doubling now that scenario is modeled on 3 months of full lockdown funded by 3 months of partial lockdown that's not what the government has announced but it's not outside the realms of possibility because the government has said we can expect 12 months of varying levels of social distancing so they. obviously are receiving some some pretty tough questions there because if this scenario does play out as the o.b. are forecasted that would be a bigger contraction than we saw during the spanish flu the 2008 financial crisis

world who won all world war 2 so it would be crippling for this country's economy. but as he said the most important way the most important way we can to protect this country's economy is by protecting the country's health and to do that we still need to stay at home i was there as charlie angelo reporting live from london charlie many thanks indeed. new york's governor has called for more cooperation from u.s. president donald trump that's all to trump said that he alone has the total authority to decide when the economy reopens and said that's not accurate and the trump is trying to start a fight the president will have no fight with me i will not engage it i've sat here every day for 44 years asking new yorkers to remember that this is not about me it's about we i understand your personally can intervene i

understand you're frustrated and stressed and anxious and you're feeling pain think about week think about get it get past yourself and think about society and think about your family think about interconnection and act responsibly for everyone else this is no time for politics and it is no time to fight all that came after trump and tweeted earlier saying that coelho has been calling daily even alley begging for everything most of which should have been the state's responsibility such as new hospitals beds ventilators etc i got it all done for him and everyone else and now he seems to want independence that won't happen but top infectious disease expert on the coronavirus task force says the infection rates will increase whenever communities across the u.s. it begin to open and the public must be ready to take precautions the thing we

absolutely have to have in place we better have in place is the capability up very efficiently. identify isolating contact tracing getting people out of circulation if they get infected because once you start getting clusters then you're really in trouble so to me we have to have something in place that is a fish and and that we have rely on and we're not there yet but ultimately the virus is going to determine when we really can safely reopen not only in general but in a particular location so you know you see those curves that are shown all the time at the press conference know new yorkers way up new jersey is way up now we're starting to see boston and d.c. doing that then there's a whole cluster of them in the bottom of communities states cities with there's

a degree of infection but it hasn't done that exponential increase yet i think how you reopen if you want to use that word the economy in those communities is going to depend a lot on the ability to contain what we know will happen i'll guarantee you once you start pulling back there will be infections it's how you deal with the infection that's going to count that's suffering and i was house correspondent kelly how to joins us live now from washington andrew cuomo the governor of new york state is right can believe he says that the president is looking to start a fight here the question is why. well it comes down to president trump's reelection effort and the fact that he wants to win on a strong economy that's what he was hoping would bring him a 2nd term the u.s. economy was in historically good shape but now it has been obliterated we have tens

of millions of americans filing for unemployment lost their jobs overnight we've seen businesses shuttered we see instability in the financial markets this does not bode well for a president who wants to tell his successes in the economy he's always been a deeply divisible president but the one thing even those who didn't like him could sort of look past was the fact that they had jobs they could put food on the table that's not in the president's favor right now and that's why he continues to try and push for an early opening of this economy some people say even may 1st now we should say and point out that the president says he's listening to the advice of public health officials if they tell him he can't open the country on may 1 that he will listen and dr pao she said he's listened twice before so hearing the doctor found she the top infectious disease specialist in the united states speaking there just moments ago it's pretty clear that it's not going to happen and that's not going to sit well with the u.s. president he's already putting in place a coronavirus task force

a 2nd one to deal specifically with the u.s. economy and how you can get back to this on track but as dr fauci also said it's not going to be the flick of a light switch because the reality is this pandemic is hitting different parts of this very large country in different ways that means you may be opening one section as another is seeing a tightening down of restrictions in order to combat the spread of coronavirus in the united states a white house correspondent kimberly reporting live from washington many thanks indeed kimberly. we'll get a weather update next here on al-jazeera then is the world one step closer to a coronavirus vaccine will take a look at the global developments as china moves to human trials. adjusting to a new reality south korea prepares for elections amid the pandemic. however

the last couple of days to say some rather lively weather into central and southern parts of the arabian peninsula still see this large band of cloud which stretches across yemen saudi arabia. into iran and it's down so was yemen where we've seen some very heavy rain recently we've had some flooding here in the capital in sana'a and it has caused a major disruption as one would expect the wet weather is set to continue across southern there was a saudi arabia through us here in kata we saw a couple of millimeters of rain yesterday i think tomorrow going on into wednesday we will see more in the way of some very heavy showers with some thunder rumbling away and that will stretch his way into that western side of iran as well still there on thursday gradually clearing away as the day goes on but i wouldn't be surprised if we do see some localized flooding as

a result of that gusty winds as well the showers there set to continue down towards the south there across yemen you can follow those showers in syria ethiopia into somalia down into the rift valley quite a crop of showers to on the other side of the continent just pushing over towards the gulf of guinea a lot of the showers there running across a good part of western africa liberia seeing some very heavy showers along with sierra leone by the middle of the week. i easily test street and trace frank assessments why is italy struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus which failure to take really aggressive action will get them behind the curve informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there's one didn't really hear very relieved in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines as india done enough to nip the spread of

coronavirus in the inside story on al-jazeera. and i guess this is out of service for much of the main news this hour the international monetary fund says the coronavirus pandemic will cost the world's economies $9.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years warning comes as countries around the world face a long coat on its. water lines stand to lose more than $300000000000.00 in revenue this year that's the latest forecast from the industry's represents to the body by ourselves. and the u.k.'s economy could shrink by a staggering 35 percent over the next 3 months if the lock down is kept in place

that would more than double unemployment but finance minister if she saw that says the economic measures currently in place will significantly mitigate the impact of the outbreak. spain has reported the lowest increase in new cases in nearly a month bringing hopes that the infection rate is slowing authorities reported a further $567.00 deaths on tuesday pushing the total past $18000.00. thousands of shops across austria are reopening as the government there loosens its lock down measures authorities say that it's the 1st phase of a gradual process to restart the economy austria's strict social distancing rules will remain in place russia has reported another record daily rise in new infections with more than 2700 reported on tuesday the government says 170 russians have died with the total number of cases now more than 21000

they've been protests in india hours after prime minister random adri the random adria i'm sorry got it wrong again extended the nationwide lockdown by nearly 3 weeks thousands of workers gathered in mumbai to protest against the measures or the lack of aid from the government modi extended the lockdown of 1300000000 people until may 3rd india has more than 10 and a half 1000 known cases and has reported over 3 and 350 deaths a correspondent elizabeth is in new delhi with more on those protests. police in mumbai say that at least 1500 migrant workers gathered at a train station in the suburb of bad drug that they were protesting about being stranded in the states that they are not from their living conditions that they don't have enough food and that they want trains to go home now all train services will be suspended until the 3rd of may that's when prime minister modi announced the lockdown will be extended to would. address the nation earlier on wednesday

mumbai police say that they tried to reason with the crowd and that's when people got aggressive and they were forced to charge them with battens local politicians say that they also tried to reason with the crowd and they were able to convince them to go back to their accommodation there was something like 600000 migrant workers in mumbai adam and by and the city that is the capital of maharashtra has the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country and we're seeing with the lock down being extended that a lot of migrant workers a reaching breaking point and also this just adds to the list of problems that mumbai and maharashtra have to deal with and fighting coronavirus people in afghanistan have lived for decades through war and now they're bracing for another challenge courbet 19 the virus is a threat to millions of people and is putting more pressure on the government which

has been criticized for its harm bling of the pandemic. reports. an operation to disinfect the city of heroes is in full swing. a task force has been sent out to clean the streets hospitals and government buildings to counter the spread of coronavirus. the west an afghan city is the epicenter of the outbreak the 1st cases were linked to people returning from neighboring iran health officials. crumbling to prevent a rapid spread of the virus that are. our biggest worry now is not the virus coming from iran but rather an increasing community of fictions inherent problems the virus is spreading fast among families were not able at this stage to trick all those infected people but so far 30 percent of those tested came up positive. in

a country where family connections are strong the authorities are struggling to convince people self isolate. allotment is among the millions of low wage workers badly affected by the restrictions imposed by the authorities to contain the pandemic after years of war afghanistan faces many challenges instability poverty and the declining economy but that by then what are the current from the last 27 days i was not able to go out to the marketplace to some watermelons because of the lockdown now we are running out of crucial food items our time such as flour rice and beans other mers wife tested positive for covert 19 a few weeks ago fatima was treated in a local hospital and she has since recover we met her the moment she was released from the hospital but. after my admission to this hospital doctors gave me medicine

and also injections after a few days they took blood samples and the tests came at negative they asked me how i felt i told them i was feeling very good now i'm going home. as the virus spreads thousands of afghan refugees have returned from iran and pakistan in recent weeks. inherent officials say they are taking all necessary measures to contain the pandemic failand out of all of the plea. i want that as a yardstick we have stock in a food item so we can help 400000 people i will list to ensure enough food reserves for as long as the game continues we're also working on improving health facilities . for a country seeking to heal the scars of war the pandemic poses more challenges take government that's already struggling with shortage of ventilating masks and has set

a time. beijing health authorities have approved 3 experimental vaccines for testing on humans but experts say there are dangers in rushing ahead with any potential solution jessica washington reports. every day there's a new frontline in the fight against covered 19 this outbreak is seemingly unrelenting and many countries that had appeared to slow down the transmission of corona virus are now facing the prospect of a 2nd wave of infections in sway from her a chinese town bordering russia medics are preparing for cases to increase sharply undertaking precautions even are. when the door is closed it becomes a confined space and this machine will extract this is called negative pressure chinese cities near the border with russia tightening restrictions strict border controls are now a reality for almost every corner of the world experts say the only chance of life

returning to normal is a vaccine and authorities in beijing say they've now approved a clinical testing for 3 vaccines the working swiftly to make them a reality for me john will lead them by the year we will make if it's to do a good job in developing these vaccines so they can be used as quickly as possible . like china in the u.s. the 1st human trial of a vaccine has also skipped animal testing but experts say that could be risky when you got 70 people working on something different vaccines everyone is going to compete and say there's going to be the best and you rush a vaccine too much and you get side effects and that's going to have a really deleterious effect. well trials are happening at a rapid pace the world health organization says the vaccine is at least 12 to 18 months away jessica washington out of. south korea is preparing to hold a national election its 1st since the pandemic began despite the health risks there

are indications that the outbreak won't deter people from voting reports from seoul . how to hold an election at a time of pandemic carefully in a country already following strict preventive measures extra precautions are enforced at polling stations this was early voting last week that had a record turnout including among coronavirus patients who were provided with their own polling stations but. after learning i can vote i feel very grateful that patients like myself were given a chance to vote. this polling station was in the country's most densely populated province around the capital so. we can ask patients to give up their right to vote on but we also can't let them vote with regular citizens so we set up this facility so that patients can vote casting his vote early president. before this outbreak he

was struggling in the opinion polls with poor economic performance domestic political scandals and a stored reconciliation policy with north korea in the early days of the crisis the spiraling number of infections combined with moon's refusal to ban people arriving from china meant his approval rating plummeted further to 41 percent but as the outbreak has been brought under control so his fortunes have improved with more than half of south koreans now believing he's done a good job that could see a boost for the ruling party and its allies the popularity of the president has been searched the ruling party can really pin you banging. on the surge in popularity of the e.u. directive branch of the government and the effective management of this. in this new reality there are new norms for how candid it's campaign balancing the

need to connect with voters with a more pressing need for safety. because candidates still have to publicize themselves and meet voters we had the idea of wearing clear face masks instead of ones that hide your entire face it seems stark contrast to the mall rig zubrin style of campaigning that south koreans are used to. but as south korea has been providing other countries with lessons on how to deal with the pandemic it's also giving pointers on how to hold events like elections in the middle of one robot bride al jazeera so we have our south korea's government is sending thousands of testing kits to the u.s. following an appeal by president trump the kits are capable of up to 6000 tests a trump 600000 rather the trumpet ministration has come under repeated criticism for not testing early enough of them over $23000.00 deaths in the u.s. . uganda's president has extended the country's nationwide lockdown by 3 weeks

yarima 70 since the country isn't yet free of the virus despite only recording 54 cases uganda closed its borders and banned international flights on march 22nd a day after the 1st case was identified. for centuries copper has been used to repel certain bacteria and viruses a company in chile is now using the metal to combat a shortage of mosques in latin america you see a new man reports from santiago. the ancient egyptians used it to sterilize drinking water the french physicist victor bullock discovered it could stop the spread of cholera indeed it's well known that the anti-microbial properties of copper kill bacteria and viruses chile the world's largest copper producer has built an entire industry on anti-microbial copper threaded clothing and copper surfaces now a startup called copper 3 d. has taken it

a step further. this facemask is made with polymer and one percent nano copper which is extremely fine powdered copper at a nano metric scale in other words a very fine particle this increases the actually microbial properties of that copper exponentially. the mask is made with a 3 d. printer it seamless waterproof and contains 3 copper least filters on the inside and that the economic about the politicos cotton filter is reusable and can be washed while 2 others are disposable under-privileged to an end $95.00 mask they also have copper which the n $95.00 does not. the design is now available to anyone with a 3 d. printer. we lifted the pattern and published it on our website last month under the open source system and in 48 hours it was downloaded millions of times around the world we stopped counting up to $7000000.00. martina says tests in chile show it's

99 percent effective against viruses like sars the cousin of cold in $1000.00 and the u.s. national institute of health is reviewing the mask for possible certification. professor bill keevil of the university of southampton has long argued that copper ions electronically charged molecules kill viruses by destroying their genetic material and a more recent paper in the new england journal of medicine says copper is the surface on which cold 19 survives the least time these girls for medical gowns the copper or new until you have been around for years but they haven't been widely used because they're more expensive than the normal cotton but after this and the not having gowns with anti microbial properties may very well become a requisite worldwide meanwhile with the united states blocking shipments of everything from respirators to surgical masks to latin america and beyond coppers 3 d. is hoping a private or public entity can contribute to mass producing these masks for

hospitals as part of the 1st line of defense you see in human al-jazeera santiago. in libya the un recognized government as recaptured 7 towns that were on the war khalifa haftar last control prime minister a 5 star says that his forces will continue that advance. it's good to have you with us hello everyone fitting in to here in doha the headlines and i was there at the international monetary fund says the coronavirus pandemic will cost the world's economies $9.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years the warning comes as countries around the world face a prolonged lockdowns flattening the spread of coal with 19 using lockdowns allows health systems to cope with this crises which then prove permits

a resumption of economic activity in the sense there is no tradeoff between saving lives and saving livelihoods. countries should continue to continue to generously support their health systems perform widespread testing and refrain from trade restrictions on medical supplies the world's airlines stand to lose more than $300000000000.00 in revenue this year the latest forecast from the industry's representative body i asked the carriers of grounded planes and crew amid a growing number of travel restrictions and border closures the u.k.'s economy could shrink by a staggering 35 percent over the next 3 months if the lock down there is kept in place that would more than double unemployment but finance minister ritchie so knox says that the economic measures currently in place will significantly mitigate the impact of the virus spate as reported the lowest increase in new cases in nearly

a month bringing hope that the infection rate there is slowing authorities reported a further $567.00 deaths on tuesday pushing the total past $18000.00 thousands of shops across australia reopening as the government there loosens its lock down measures authorities say is the 1st phase of a gradual process to restart the economy we've been protests in india after prime minister narendra modi extended the nationwide lockdown by nearly 3 weeks thousands of workers gathered in mumbai to protest against the measures of the lack of aid from the government uganda's president has extended the nationwide lockdown by 3 weeks yarima 7 he says the country isn't get free of the virus despite recording $54.00 confirmed cases uganda closed its borders and banned international flights on march 22nd now those are the headlines this continues here on al-jazeera of the inside story which is coming up next.

what impact is corona virus having on the world's climate and with planes grounded industrial production reduced and emissions decline are the lessons the pandemic and teach us about living with nature moving forward this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm richelle carey and yes capital is one of the world's most polluted cities but its guys have turned blue and many people can see the himalayan mountains for the 1st time and italy's venice canal.