exploitation of species through over fishing and hunting climate change caused by our greenhouse gas emissions. pollution and finally the how for creaked on local ecosystems by invasive species reports according to say the decline can be slowed even stopped in some cases but to do that we must transform our relationship with. the current. this is a crisis like no other as the i.m.f. warns the coronavirus pandemic will cause the worst recession in almost a century which could cost the world $9.00 trillion dollars. on the intake this is al jazeera live from london also coming up.

migrant workers storm a railway station in mumbai protesting over the extension of india's lockdown just left the jobless and hungry class. get past yourself and preach about society's new york's governor accuses donald trump of spoiling for a fight over claims the president has betrayed and how to lift knockdowns. and why u.s. farmers a dumping rivers of milk all shop shelves are empty and millions of americans of all agree. to the huge cost of the coronavirus pandemic has been laid out in a dramatic prediction from the international monetary fund it expects global output to shrink by 3 percent this year which sounds small but would be the worst year since the great depression of the 1930 s.

this equates to a 9 trillion dollars cotton world production this year and next a loss greater than the combined g.d.p. of germany and japan italy's economy is expected to be one of the worst hit shrinking by 9 point one percent but the i.m.f. thinks less developed economies will fare better latin america is being warned to expect a comparatively small 5.2 percent drop and there is hope on the horizon with the i.m.f. predicting a 5.8 percent global rebound next year alan fischer has more. from the international monetary fund a stark warning this is a crisis like no other which means there is substantial uncertainty about the impact it will have on people's lives and livelihoods as unemployment lines grow around the world as manufacturing grinds to a halt in many sectors as businesses are forced to close the economic impact of the covert crisis is biting the i.m.f. issues regular reports on the global financial situation 3 months ago they were

predicting widespread growth for one of us has radically changed the landscape we are projecting global growth in 20224 to minus. 3 percent now this is a downgrade of 6.3 percentage points from general 2020 a major division over a very short period of time this makes the great lockdown the worst recession since the great depression and far worse than the global financial crisis one of the biggest drops will come in the european euro zone which is expected to take a hit of 7.5 percent the u.s. where the president is pushing to reopen the economy is looking at a contraction of nearly 6 percent japan 5.2 percent down the same as latin america in china where the pandemic began and has begun to reopen its economy it's expected to record growth of just over one percent. the i.m.f.

is predicting that if things don't deteriorate there will be a rebound for the global economy in 2021 that one economist warns that might be short lived i think he's going to run into a lot of headwinds in terms of the kind of the drag that's going to come from all of that the big shock that's happened over the past quarter in terms of bankruptcies in terms of lost jobs and that is going to weigh quite heavily on demand and that is why governments and central parents in stepping up stimulus to try and give the economy this extra boost when it comes out of this shock this didn't used by the shutdowns when you're seriously impacted the airline industry it seems passenger numbers drop by half globally airlines now i think will lose more than 300000000000 dollars this year much more than expected the i.m.f. is urging countries to walk together to beat the pandemic saying there is no tradeoff between saving lives and saving livelihoods alan fischer al-jazeera

virginia. the u.k.'s finance minister says bleak predictions that its economy could shrink by 35 percent over the next 3 months is just one possible scenario the office for budget responsibility says the u.k. could be set for its deepest recession in 3 centuries with an employment more than doubling to 10 percent by june the figures were based on their sumption of a 3 month lockdown followed by a 3 month partial lockdown. after weeks under lockdown businesses are reopening in some european countries but social distancing and other measures are still being enforced and nations in the e.u. are being urged to coordinate their efforts and relax restrictions gradually who read and has more. after more than a month from the government imposed closure the shutters are starting to be raised europe is taking its 1st cautious steps out of lock down many italian bookshops stationery stores and children's clothing shops were allowed to reopen on tuesday

albeit with strict conditions but in a country which has seen more than 20000 fatalities from the virus the relief is mixed with fear. and i think the right thing is to prevent every possibility of infection obviously one needs to balance this with the need for normal life to resume but always remembering that the risk is still very high. the. better to be alive and poor if the shops that reopen are totally safe for both workers and customers than i am in favor i worry that there will be a lot to do to get to that stage though italy is not made up of just large companies with big space as they can easily be organized shops in austria are also reopening for the 1st time since mid march and although shoppers are being urged not to stampede to the sales there is a sense of optimism among vienna's retailers they can listen to your offerings for yes actually we're in good spirits the people have been locked up until now you

know. we have already received some requests by phone and email the flipper in the mood for some addresses yes we are hopeful want to indian our approach over the coming months is going to be very clear as much freedom as possible as much restriction that is necessary but let me add should take this develop in the wrong direction we will of course hold the emergency brake which we have in place should it become necessary. accurate data is crucial in knowing how and when to apply that emergency brake the virus is ripping through the continents care homes where elderly residents are particularly vulnerable to infection but in the u.k. the government's daily death and infections to to stix only include hospital patients and new data suggests the real totals are much larger care home providers say the suggestion that u.k. government statistics are under estimating coronavirus deaths by some 15 percent

are themselves under estimates hit c $11.00 of britain's largest operating $329.00 homes including the one behind me said the virus is now present in 2 thirds of its residences and that the deaths of one 3rd of its residents in the past 3 weeks of involved coronavirus that's more than 300 people. britain's coronavirus restrictions are being reviewed this week with a decision by thursday on the current evidence there is no possibility that the u.k. will be joining its early austria and spain in starting to lift its coronavirus confinement orders paul brennan sorry. sweden has reported a sharp daily rise in coronavirus deaths as criticism of its approach to the crisis continues more than a 1000 people in the country have died and there are over 11400 confirmed cases sweden is not impose the strict lockdown orders seen in other nearby countries to stem the spread of the virus authorities are instead jesus to take upon themselves

to observe social distancing. be another record day rising infections in russia for them 2700 new cases have been recorded bringing the total known cases to more than 21000 the government says at least 170 russians have died in the capital moscow is the worst affected area health authorities say they could run out of hospital beds to treat the rising in front of the virus patients over the next few weeks police armed with battens have charged at protesters in mumbai this after india's prime minister extended the nationwide lockdown of 1300000000 people to make the 3rd hundreds of migrant workers crowded a railway station to protest against measures and the lack of aid from the government and they want to return to their home states india has reported 1350 deaths and 10 and a half 1000 cases go up when there are hard

those who will not let the areas become a hotspot to have a low possibility of turning them into a hotspot these places will be allowed to carry out important activities from april to 20 if a detail god line will be released by the government tomorrow on this friends from april the 20th the provision of this limited belief in specific sectors has been made in keeping in mind with the livelihood of our poor brothers and sisters. the governor of new york has refuted president trump's claim that he alone has total 40 to reopen the u.s. economy andrew cuomo accuse donald trump of spoiling for a fight but said he wouldn't engage with him in a competent white house press briefing on monday trump told reporters only he could decide to lift restrictions governors had imposed a came several said violates the constitution 10000 of the more than 20000 coronavirus deaths in the u.s. have been in new york 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 week 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 the top infectious disease expert on the u.s. coronavirus task force says the country does not have the testing procedures needed to reopen its economy the thing we absolutely have to have in place we better have in place is the capability of very efficiently identifying 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 officiant and that we have rely on and we're not there yet well as close to our white house correspondent can we help get to in washington can really take us through that the spat between cuomo and and trump where is that heading you think. yeah well for his part andrew cuomo says he does not want a fight he does not want to engage but essentially we've had all morning here in washington into the afternoon of back and forth between these 2 currently andrew cuomo saying he's calling for a spirit of cooperation but the u.s. president was particularly irritated by comments made by andrew cuomo where he said that if the president ordered me to really open the country in

a way that would endanger public health i wouldn't do it that's why donald trump took to twitter to say he seems to want independents talking about the new york state governor and that won't happen and that when andrew cuomo responded saying that's not an accurate statement in my opinion what are these 2 men fighting about they're fighting about what the president simply fighting with all governors about and this is where the u.s. constitution falls in terms of reopening the u.s. economy the u.s. constitution says that governors have the power over commerce the federal government has power over interstate commerce as well the u.s. president believes he has these almost like dictatorial type powers ultimate authority total authority is what he's described as because of the declaration of national emergency i can tell you already there is an independent streak that is being exercised by governors we're seeing them organized into different groups one of the left coast or rather the left. one on the west coast apologies and one on

the right i really am messing up my geography today and this is why i am a journalist one of the east coast one of the west coast and essentially what they're doing is saying look at we're going to work on our own to reopen when we feel it's necessary in our region because the bottom line is this country is not experiencing the penned all at the same time all the same way it's happening in different parts of new york is obviously a hot spot down in the south a bit of a hot spot of course we've seen the flare ups on the west coast so as a result we're seeing this independence even as the president says he has the total ultimate authority it could fall to the courts ultimately to decide how this is going to go and compete in the meantime found she's suggesting that he doesn't think that testing procedures are reduced enough yet to allow for lifting the restrictions. yeah absolutely in fact what his

concerns are and there are a number of them essentially is that you can't open the economy without sort of critical testing procedures in place there also isn't sort of this contact tracing and that's going to be necessary to reopen the country he said very clearly this is not going to happen with the flick of a light switch the u.s. president has suggested that that's how he wants it to happen profitably even on may 1st and the reason he wants that is because the his reelection chances hinge on all of this given the fact that there were historic games in terms of unemployment numbers in terms of the u.s. economy it was a very bad divided country but even those that didn't like donald trump like that they had a job and a paycheck but millions of americans tens of millions of americans have lost their jobs the president doesn't have that now to boost his reelection chances that's why he's trying to get things back on track but again public health officials are cautioning him the u.s. president so far has been listening to their advice but as that election day inches

closer in november will have to watch and see whether he continues to listen to that advice can really help to thank you very much indeed. a still to come this half hour. and that's why i'm so proud to endorse joe biden for president the united states. a familiar face lends his former running mate support for the top job. and talk taking one step at a time has helped 99 year old captain tom raise millions british health workers. hello there all the mixed picture across much of europe however the touch is a beginning to come back up across areas to the west you can see it out some clear skies in the last hours no also across the central and eastern areas that is where

the rain and also the snow continues to be this is southern poland the last few hours as you can see quite a dumping of snow actually and it's going to be very cold of course in the overnight hours now that line of rain with the some snow is on its way steadily east was a go through wednesday pushing across into western as russia tailing down across the black sea i mean more showers into these northern areas of western areas of turkey but really in the wake of that system it is beginning to come back up meanwhile to the north some very strong westerly winds pushing more rain and snow across into areas of norway and then into the southwest spain and portugal more showers possibly some strong damaging winds and even the chances and damaging hail as well by that plays throughout wednesday but then as you say some very heavy rain pushing in across these western areas of the barren peninsula particularly heavy across into portugal much of europe fine and dry few more shots to the north and also an area of rain pushing into western areas of russia moral could algeria continue to see more rain showers on wednesday but meanwhile across into egypt

warming carro. an extrajudicial killing in a north african capital. i heard someone breaking into our house. that i heard people shouting i saw 4 masked men and only their eyes and hair was showing. al-jazeera world hears rare eyewitness accounts of the dramatic story of the assassination of major p.l.o. figure was here in a secret israeli operation assassination in tunis on al-jazeera.

you're going to run to the top stories here now jazeera the international monetary fund says the coronavirus pandemic could cost the world economy $9.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years it's one of economic shock maybe the worst seen since the great depression of the 1930 s. . indian police are under battens have charged a crowd of migrant workers in mumbai hundreds of cabotage the train station demanding to be allowed to travel home after prime minister narendra modi extended india's not down until may have. a new york's governor has accused the u.s. president of spoiling for a fight over who has the authority to reopen the country andrew cuomo says he pointing gauge with donald trump over claims that he alone can lift state wide restrictions. for u.s. president barack obama has endorsed his 2 term vice president joe biden in his bid for the white house in a video message obama said he believes biden is

a candidate that america needs during the coronavirus crisis he also praised his former running mates leadership skills and empathy the backing comes less than a week after bernie sanders dropped out of the race for the democratic party's nomination leaving only biden but there's one thing we've learned as a country for moments of great crisis it's that the spirit of looking out for one another can be restricted to our homes were our work places were neighborhoods or houses of worship it holds so has to be reflected in our national government the kind of leadership that's guided by knowledge and experience honesty and humility. empathy and grace that kind of leadership doesn't just belong in our state capitals and mayors offices it belongs in the white house well a pandemic threatens to leave millions hungry in the u.s. food banks are being overwhelmed as companies lay off workers yet milk meat and

fresh vegetables meant for close cafes and restaurants are going to waste particularly in explains. it's happening across the country rivers of milk dumped down drains and ponds millions of leaders wasted by farmers who say they can't sell it the reason about half of their customers are closed restaurants bars school cafeterias all shuttered but at the same time store shelves are mostly empty there's very little milk to be found and those that can find some are being limited to how much they can buy wisconsin dairy farmer marty hallock says the problem is that milk packets for restaurants is not the same as the kind they can sell in stores the. plants were sent out to our bottle now in certain containers so i.e. the schools where small computers you know a lot of people buy them small containers and earth store. and then to be honest with the. issue from storage and trucking and now

there is a new concern about the country's meat supply meat packing plants are tight quarters and his workers get sick but the coronavirus plants are closing across the country analyst steve meyer says he expects more plants to close especially as it peaks in certain states at the end of may but he says the country will not run out of meat remember that a playground does it mean that the hogs disappear. i bet is hogs are still out there they will have to be slaughtered and processed at some point. so as long as the plants are permanently down we're not running out and no this is happening while tens of millions of americans go hungry with so many out of work this is what food bank distribution now looks like all across the country from california to pennsylvania florida to texas miles of cars lined up for a box of free food we're looking at an increase of 17100000 people over the course of the next 6 months when they see that are coming into some

of them smile and some of them cry it's been an increasing trend up until now americans have spent more money at restaurants and bars their grocery stores that is what the supply chain was built for bringing the country to this point so much fresh food wasted when it's desperately needed the most practical hain and jazeera washington china has approved human trials for another 2 experimental coronavirus vaccines as it tries to prevent a 2nd wave of infections state media says one vaccine is being developed by a biotech firm and the other by the state owned china national pharmaceutical group a 3rd clinical trial got the green light last month. uganda has extended its 14 day lock down by another 3 weeks its neighbor rwanda was one of the 1st countries in sub-saharan africa to impose a total lockdown but there are concerns the security forces there being too heavy handed with campaigners accusing them of human rights violations catherine sawyer

reports. security forces are making sure people follow lockdown orders in the capital kigali anyone who doesn't can be arrested and fined. with valid reasons such as visiting a hospital in market trance for food have their temperatures checked before being allowed to proceed alone or there are people who do not understand the problem they just come here to walk around we continue to tell them to stay at home they can infect the whole population here those who come to buy food must respect the regulations were in there no undercurrent of the social distancing is critical but difficult to implement this landlocked country has one of the highest density of population in africa most of the 12000000 people here are poor at the start of the lockdown police shot dead 2 people they say the man attacked a police officer soldiers have also been accused by several slum dwellers of human

rights abuses including rape and the random military says it's investigating and has arrested some soldiers. security forces in several other countries on the continent such as kenya south africa and uganda also been accused by human rights groups of using excessive force on civilians while enforcing government restrictions. need. is different from a. security force now this is. what. soldiers only have to fight wars. volunteers are distributing food paid for by the government to the most vulnerable

families across the country who towels and other businesses are shutting down and thousands of people are likely to lose their jobs problem is that there is no so security for those that we have to send a whole. there's no support financial support. already today he could percent of my staff as a whole for now the government plans to ensure transmission of the diseases leamy ted's poor families are fed and the lock down is respected randoms we talked to remain hopeful they survived the genocide in 1904 prevented their ball epidemic in neighboring democratic republic of congo from crossing the border and they say this crisis will also come to pass catherine soy al-jazeera turkey will release tens of thousands of prisoners as part of its measures to stop the virus spreading parliament approved a law to ease overcrowding and protect detainees from the outbreak but rights

groups who criticize the move for excluding those charged under anti-terrorism laws including journalists and politicians swept up after a coup attempt in 2616 in other news we're getting reports of a gun battle in egypt's capital cairo. as video appears to show egyptian security forces exchanging fire with what state television is calling a terrorist group in the near district near kyra's city center. libya's un recognized government says it has now retaken 7 towns from the eastern world wholly for have to forces loyal to have to as rival administration of the pulled back to an airbase southwest of the capital tripoli which is reportedly under attack from minister fire saroj of the tripoli based government of national accord says his forces will continue their advance the united nations is urged a deescalation in the fighting. want up to a head is in one of the captured libyan cities is the gains are significant for the

un backed government. it was a swift take over according to the government to military sources partly because of the turkish air force supply with the government forces you know that the gun forces have been targeting get half the force locations in the city of so broad and many other locations in the west of the country ahead of this operation this ignorance of this city so broad is 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 border sput 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 by half those forces 3 years ago from many other cities they are trying 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 fierce battle over the past 2 days between have his forces and forces loyal to the government of national accord and now the governor say that they along with their plan to move towards a base they're also planning to focus on the polling how for those forces that attacks in southern tripoli after his forces have been targeting get his attention areas in tripoli with random rockets as a reaction to their defeat in the west of libya. the ukrainian authorities say a forest fire and there they chernobyl nuclear plant is out the blaze is thought to have come within a kilometer of the site of the world's worst nuclear accident environmental activists say the government covered up the severity of the situation and claimed there was a radiation risk firefighters have been using helicopters to tackle

a fire which is thought to have been started deliberately. oddly enough 9 year old british army veteran has raised more than $4000000.00 for his country's national health service captain tom moore is walking laps of his $25.00 metre back garden to raise funds for the fight against the virus initially set out to raise just over $1200.00 but gained so much attention that donations have surged more says he'll keep going past his original goal of $100.00 laps before he turns $100.00 at the end of this month. armando top stories are now to syria the international monetary fund has warned the coronavirus pandemic could cost the world economy $9.00 trillion dollars over the next 2 years its chief economist says it could be the worst economic shock the world has seen since the great depression of 1930 s.

lockdowns in many countries have halted most economic activity and it's not clear when it will restart 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 u.k.'s finance minister says bleak prediction is that its economy could shrink by one 3rd over the next 3 months are just one possible scenario the office for budget responsibility says the u.k. could be set for its deepest recession in 3 centuries with unemployment more than doubling to 10 percent by g. several countries within europe are taking cautious

steps towards reopening as leaders try to restart their economies small businesses including book shops and children's clothing stores have been allowed to reopen in italy similar measures were taken in austria indian police armed with battens have charged a crowd of migrant workers in mumbai hundreds have gathered at a train station demanding to be allowed to travel home after prime minister narendra modi extended india's lockdown until may the 3rd india has reported more than 350 deaths and more than 10 and a half 1000 coronavirus cases. a new york's governor has accused the us president of spoiling for a fight over who has the authority to reopen the country and require most as he went in gauge with donald trump over claims that he alone can lift state wide restrictions 10000 of more than 20000 coronavirus deaths in the u.s. have been in new york. to stay with us on i was there at the stream is coming up

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