and. this is al jazeera. alone. and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes. so much death has been caused by their mistakes donald trump cuts off u.s. funding to the world health organization saying it's badly mishandled the coronavirus demick. the u.n. says it's not the time for a funding cut as countries show support for the global health agency. russia

has reported a records rise in new code with 19 infections for the 4th day there were all tally now heading towards 25000. and south korea's governing party makes huge gains in the 1st national elections be held during the pandemic. and in sport california's governor believes the chances of a sporting events taking place in the next few months. gavin newsome believes mass gatherings in his state won't be possible for months. it's 10 g.m.t. and we start in washington d.c. where donald trump has halted u.s. funding for the world health organization the u.s. president. is accusing it of mishandling the outbreak and failing in its tootsies

he also says the agency covered up how the virus was spreading out of china well the u.s. is the biggest donor to the w.h.o. contributing their 15 percent of its budget mike hanna reports from washington. and what has become a pattern president trying to use his podium to parade reporters if you keep talking i'll leave and you can have it out with the rest of these people if you keep talking i'm going to leave and you can have it out with them yes just allowed me to introduce a number of prominent members of big business the construction labor workforce international union of operating engineers jim callaghan north america building trades union sharon mcgarvie is a lot of friends of mine laborers international union of north america terrio sullivan and to sharply criticized the world health organization announcing his administration would suspend funding had the w.h.o.

done its job to get medical experts into china to objectively assess the situation on the ground and to call out china's lack of transparency ironically president trump is on the record praising trying to perth transparency in dealing with a virus having what was described as a friendly phone conversation with president xi at the end of march and subsequently tweeting we are working closely together much respect once again president trump appears to be ignoring the principle of the separation of powers legal experts argue that he does not have the right to suspend funding that has already been approved by congress another constitutional crisis is looming. and despite repeated cautions by the country's health experts president trump insisted mitigating measures could be eased or lifted in a number of u.s.

states by the beginning of next month but he walked back an earlier contention that the decision was his to make by com perming that the question of lifting restrictions or not would be left to individual gov the white house would still provide guidance we're going to pick a date we're going to get a date that's good but it's going to be very very soon sooner than the end of the month the sun a day that new york city announced its most dramatic rise in the fatality rate so health officials for the 1st time included the deaths of those presumed to have died of the virus even though they have not tested positive this increase the death toll by more than $3700.00 in a single day driving up the number of people killed in new york city to more than 10000 and increasing the overall u.s. death count by 17 percent to more than 26000 thank you all very much stock figures that not even the president's action against the world health

organization can distract from mike hanna al-jazeera washington the united nations says it's the worst possible moment to cut funds to the world health organization and countries around the world have echoed that sentiment china is urging washington to fulfill its obligations to the w.h.o. beijing says the decision to cut funding will affect all countries trump accuse the agency of favoring china as the world battled the virus new zealand's prime minister is in there and says her government will continue to support the health germany says strengthening the world health organization one of the best investments. our diplomatic editor james bays joins us now from the united nations in new york and james how much of a hit with the w.h.o. take from any u.s. funding cut well certainly the w.h.o.

and the wider u.n. system have been shocked by this they've gone into crisis management mode straight away after president trump's comments it took a couple of hours for the secretary general antonio good terrace to put out a statement where he didn't criticize president trump but he did stress the importance of the w.h.o. and why it was needed at the time of a global pandemic i can tell you the backdrop to all this had been slightly more positive diplomacy in recent days we're coming up to a meeting on thursday of the g 7 which you know he chaired by president trump i'm told a lot of work behind the scenes on some more concrete measures from the g. 7 and a communique proposed for that meeting the u.n. security council has been paralyzed by this crisis also coming together and looking closer now that they'll come up with a resolution and of course they are idea that there might finally be some global leadership up ended by president trump's comments i don't think any ambassadors are all that surprised they've seen the way that this president works over the last 4

years he likes to have an adversary clearly the invisible enemy as he called it for the virus wasn't a suitable adversary he's picked on the press now he's decided to pick on the w.h.o. but as you heard in mark's report it's interesting he's picking on the w.h.o. for not being tough enough with china when we have president trump's own comments and he's not particularly tough at any point in recent months with china either now james i'm being told. this is just dropping now what do you know about any moves by russia to push through a proposal for a global ceasefire. well that's what i was just alluding to a moment ago so i mean that's the long drawn out negotiations of the main going on at the u.n. security council are not even taking place with the whole 15 members of the u.n. security council they have for

a very long time be taking place just among the 5 permanent members to try and get a resolution that supports the secretary general's call for a cease fire to try and suck end some of the worst conflicts around the world during the time of covert 19 there's been a lot of problems in that grouping of the 5 permanent members the u.s. and china had some initial problems the trumpet ministration trying to in the in the text of the resolution call it the will hand. russia though had some problems as well the word coming from the french certainly came up with the latest draft text is that it's looking much better now i spoke to the french ambassador in the last few hours and he was hopeful in the next few days they could finally get that resolution the last bit of the peace is getting russia to agree to the text but that is looking more likely now i'm told or i think so much james bays there the virus now appears to be spreading fast in russia health authorities there have

recorded a 4th day of a rise in new infections more than 3300 cases have been reported that brings the total to nearly $25000.00 the government says at least $198.00 russians have died top e.u. leaders they in law were there calling for member states to work together before easing any lockdown measures the european commission has issued a number of recommendations it's warning that moving too quickly could have devastating effects. all of this comes as sweden which has resisted the national lockdowns of other countries is now seeing a sharp rise in deaths another 114 are confirmed on tuesday up from 20 the previous day overall nearly 11000 people have tested positive and more than a 1000 have died there will speak to poor recent stockholm shortly on these developments in sweden but 1st let's go to lawrence lee he's live for us with the

latest so is lawrence is the commission's president resonating so that message of cautiousness least the people in the must be reflecting some of that sentiment. well what the european commission is trying to do is to put the wheels back on a car for want of a better method or when the crisis started you'll recall a few weeks ago there was a match across the continent and not unusual you know actually closing the borders . and on the lead at the time it should have very very with a ring response to the one in which she said european countries well who are in protective equipment are not dealing properly with each other only you know for an organization and a body a country that prides itself on things to do with you. it's a terrible look and politicians in countries like italy started raising questions about that saying what's the point of the european union if we can't agree on things so they're now in this massive attempt to regain some ground and get back

on the front foot and with us in mind on the way and gave a press conference this morning in which she said that there's going to be some it's. time when they'll have a massive video conference presumably and talk about financial mechanisms to get through it looking like a unified party countries started maybe the european union wants to host a pledging summit for the whole world. to raise money for a vaccine so again trying to make a lot of european union is on the front foot and as a bloc the countries can respond the problem that got obviously is what they call an individual countries do is move out of lot and at the same time because the pandemic is hitting different countries at different points so denmark the schools are going back today spain construction work started austria shops are open yet at the same time germany france the u.k. are extending the lockdowns there's nothing that the european commission can do

about that except to say when you all all in a position to come out of lockdown can we try to do it in steps because at some point they've got to reopen the borders and get the single market back going again and they can't do that if the response continues to be a haphazard as it has the or over thinking about going in the opposite direction now in russia where the number of cases again rising so are the restrictive measures right. yes and it's been the case for some time that since a rush of people aren't allowed to go outside except for a very good reason they try to enforce a travel ban or restrictions on travel or permits it in moscow this morning which sounded fairly chaotic with long queues of people outside metro stations and the like but that this is the biggest problem frankly that russia's got is the dilapidated face of itself which is years of under-funding as the rich in russia

took over money and left public services to slowly ross and as well as that clearly there's an indemnity problem in russia with with people with massive underlying health conditions vast amounts of alcohol isn't huge number of smokers these are all issues that are very very dangerous for the restaurateur infection of is one thing it's all about and so i think russia really is is probably in some trouble that there are very high number of cases and very low death rate that they're issuing at the moment. seems very old i have to say but even if you take it at face value i think the worst days yet on production. good stuff there from non-civilian london. the number of new cases in germany has risen again after declining for 4 days another 2400 infections were afforded on wednesday bringing the total to more than 127003200 people have now died.

spain's daily death toll from coronavirus has fallen again after a one day rise on tuesday the total toll is now more than 18500 the number of new infections rose by over 5000 after falling for almost a week this week the government loosened some restrictions on businesses. as a lot to wrap up in europe let's start with sweden now and let's head over to poor reese he's in malmo in sweden so is the government coming under some criticism now for its initial more relaxed approach to restrictions on lockdowns. certainly is some me as you mentioned there was a total of $140.00 new deaths reported on tuesday from 20 or so the day before as he said there is a bit of context to that that tends to be

a lot fewer deaths reported over a weekend certainly a lot fewer were expected to be reported over the easter weekend so the normal at the moment rate of deaths per day is around $100.00 mark will no more up the the next press conference of the the health agency that meets in a couple of hours time. now is the health agency that's really been steering this in sweden unlike in a lot of places where the government's taken the lead and they came in for lots of criticism on shoes day 22 researchers publishing a letter in one of the the leading national newspapers calling for the government to take the reins in this crisis from the health agency saying. essentially didn't know what they were doing they've they've hit back at that saying of course we do know what we're doing but there is a lot of concern as you mentioned sweden has had a more relaxed approach to this generally based on recommendations there is

a lot of social distancing but people can go out in the evening to bars restaurants lower schools are open unlike in denmark just about 20 kilometers behind me over the city where they're thinking of opening things up again soon. now one of the concerns is that the the mortality rate is twice in sweden what it is in denmark the health agency says well they're taking a different approach that they think is sustainable that they think will serve them better in the long term but that's based on 2 pillars really one of them is that 10 years ago here in mali they had a large scale pandemic. simulation. which is largely guiding their policies this time around and the 2nd is based on actual experience pandemics have hit sweden before and one of the 8 particular peculiarities of sweden is that although it has population concentrations house

a lot of isolated places as well and in previous pandemics those places were extremely isolated because transport wasn't what it is today and they know to start when the 2nd wave of a pandemic hits those areas were really ravaged because they hadn't had any buildup of immunity in the 1st wave that's no consolation for the people who've who've had family members friends die as you much there's more than a 1000 and sweden has recognized it's failed to protect people properly and elderly homes a huge number of deaths there and also the some molly community and the rink be area of stockholm i suppose what american viewers would say is a project have got say a very high number of deaths there so there are people who are being badly affected . in the coming months as other countries open up whether this more relaxed approach has been correct or not all right and that was pulled from sweden.

the international energy agency is warning all produces no cuts in output can fully offset recent falls in the market the agency has forecast a drop in demand of 9300000 barrels a day and it says oil demand favor will fall to a 25 year low the world's largest oil producers agreed to the biggest output cut in history on sunday amid falling demand. plenty more ahead on the news hour including fears that covert 19 is spreading through palestinian neighborhoods undetected plus . an urgent plea undocumented immigrants in u.s. custody call for help as virus cases spread in detention centers. and it's called boxing bosses target some creative ways of holding title fights without fans

will be here with that story. south korean president jane's ruling party is projected to win a majority in the parliamentary election early exit polls suggest the party could secure up to $177.00 seats out of $300.00 final results is expected around midnight on wednesday moon support has been helped by his government's handling of the covert 19 outbreak south korea has more than 10000 infections and over 220 deaths from mcbride joins us now from a polling station in the capital seoul so rob what's the latest you're hearing on how the vote results are shaping up. that's right well this was always seen i think as a referendum on how president moon j.n.

has handled the coronavirus outbreak regardless of any other issues that have been around at the moment he has been high in the given a high approval rating and that does seem to be reflected now in the results we've the polls 'd have all now closed we are getting the 1st exit polls coming through and they do predict that moon j.n. will secure his party the democratic party will secure a majority of seats in the national assembly well over 50 percent now given that the alliances with some smaller parties in the parliament then that could turn into more than 60 percent of seats which is an important threshold here because that means then you have more of an effective working with charity you can overcome things like filibusters and so on which is important for moving jay and he still has 2 years as president left to run he can be a far more effective leader and push through bills that he still wants to get through so it is good for him it is also i think good in

a wider context for south korea they have managed against advice from many not to stage their election they have staged an election a reminder of the world that we used to live in before the coronavirus came along and hopefully for many south koreans a reminder of the normal see that now this outbreak seems to be under control they are returning to we have seen a big turnout here they are still counting all of the final votes but it looks like we've got a turnout of in excess of 65 percent which already makes this the biggest election we've had here for a couple of decades it means that instead of people being taught after the deterred from going to the polls the opposite seem to have happened it seems possibly people have been more galvanized they have been through this unprecedented public health crisis and they want to be very much part of the political process once born that's why seems we have seen this take place although admittedly amongst the most incredible precautions at polling stations.

has south korea then successfully demonstrated one could say how to run a national election amidst a coronavirus outbreak. i mean possibly every country is different but people other countries the international community have looked to south korea for leeds pointers on how to deal with the outbreak there have been faults here there been criticism but a lot that south korea has done right and i think there are a lot over looking at this is how you can still go ahead with the political democratic process and hold an election hopefully safely there were various measures in place people had to not only do the usual thing wearing face masks but had to wear disposable gloves what they also managed to do is also incorporate a very special groups of people here such as coronavirus patients they were allowed to vote last week designated voting stations and also this wednesday evening the

polling stations a number of them were held open so that people who are in self isolation which number in their thousands here in south korea could get along get out of quarantine which they have to do for 2 weeks but for one day only could get along to a polling station and cast their vote all right thanks so much from right there. in occupied east jerusalem there's concern credit virus is spreading through palestinian neighborhoods undetected the number of cases shot up this week to 41 but health workers fear it may be double that figure or force the reports. at this hospital in occupied east jerusalem an improvised new ward has been set up 16 beds readied to isolate patients who test positive for corona virus already 3 patients who have tested positive have been sent to hospitals in west jerusalem after an infected man from a nearby neighborhood visited his old father here all spittle director says the

israeli government has failed to help prepare you strew slim's health system to tackle the pandemic not enough protective equipment only 23 ventilators between 3 hospitals serving 350000 people this is too little i mean the. people our population in egypt please please please because you know if there. goes out of course there is nothing we can do that he surely we can do the israeli health ministry has said $1000.00 patients from east jerusalem could be treated in the west of the city and that a major outbreak isn't expected but in recent days cases here have started to spike despite attempts by local committees to enforce lockdown measures. the israeli occupation was not happy with this and they clashed with the groups i think israel must understand that we all humanity are in a war against corona and is not the time for issues like who is sovereign here drew

slim has the highest crooner virus numbers of any city on the israeli health ministries list it's been reported that ultra-orthodox jewish neighborhoods account for about 3 quarters of them israeli officials say palestinians have largely abided by the lockdown restrictions they may also have been protected by a younger average age and fewer contacts with people who've been overseas but there's also been a large of so. weeks between testing facilities being set up in jewish areas and in palestinian ones more and more testing centers like this one are opening up for residents of occupied east jerusalem but the concern is that the delay is still preventing health authorities from getting an accurate picture of just how widespread this disease is palestinian israeli politician ahmed tb has demanded greater testing capacity now he's calling on palestinians to use it putting aside any worries about social stigma we it leadership. doctors physicians health ministry in order to convince people that it is wrong not to be tested

it is right to go and to be tested for the sake of yourself and your community this week the israeli government committed to provide testing 415-0000 palestinians living in parts of east jerusalem cut off by the separation wall after a court petition by a palestinian israeli rights group more densely packed communities where the scale of the spread has been so far unknown herefore sit out occupied east jerusalem. charter is a senior attorney for legal center she's also the lawyer who submitted a position to the israeli supreme court to set up covert testing facilities across east jerusalem she joins us now live from london so 1st of all do we know how much of a serious threat how serious is the threat that covert 19 poses to palestinians under occupation right now. fortunately it's very serious you're talking

about very dense population taking for instance 70000 palestinians in. the wall sitting on something around $1.00 square metres which is very dense which puts the community what a high risk of the spread of the 19 taken into account until yesterday they could have $1000.00 tests were not accessible to the community needs and what are called. can inhabiting about 80000 very dense but listen in a community. which was actually support supplied yesterday what part of the community depends on which health insurance they have. that the pandemic has spread and if. measures are not taking very strictly very fast in mediately it would be much spread and we were seeing much

catastrophic. results in these areas as well as others and issues of him effecting palestinians and that it would like to stress that. as well as an occupying power has an obligation to take care and the responsibility for the well being of the palestinian population wherever they are under occupation including judo's and i'm based on international human rights law international humanitarian law and israeli constitutional law this area was an external resident illegally after the war in $67.00 and is only authorities for a bit any palestinian authority. to take responsibility for the health of these people and. so then let me jump in there then what options do palestinians have if

they feel their occupier is not taking care of their health particularly in the areas like you mentioned of east jerusalem where israel has an ex the palestinian authority you know shouldn't interfere between quotation marks here yes unfortunately not much because the fear the palestinian authority. is forbidden to give any services to any of the palestinians in is she doesn't him and that is the only authorities are even confiscating you know packages that the. related organizations are trying to donate for the families and you lose a limb to that extent now not only that and not only that there is that only authority should be taking their responsibility and that i'm legal frameworks is the only constitutional and international and they're not doing that and they're basically not taking full responsibility for the palestinians especially those who

are behind the war like in krakow and. shot quite a few to come we're talking about 150000 palestinians up until yesterday had no accessibility. covered 19. and starting from yesterday they have only partially i mean anyone from this area has who had any kind of symptoms suspect that they have covered 19 iran had to go through checkpoints to be able to go travel for an hour to get to the test and what a lot of communities especially women children and elderly this is almost impossible cohen thank you so much for your thoughts on that. time for some weather let's bring evidence in the show. yeah not too bad as the was that you were so early sneaking into the office in your car last season southwest. talking about . somebody else we've had loads of rainfall here in doha round hof

a year's worth of rain 36 millimeters of fall in this morning alone you can see this long line of cloud all the way down towards yemen right the way up across year where you see how the thunder has been rolling across us here in canada as well more showers as we go on through the coming hours seemed to yemen well it's been raining here for the last couple of days things slowly but surely starting to brighten up so the clear up operation very much underway but you can see the kind of havoc the system has causes made its way through quieting down now and it produces lovely photograph this is a higher around the sun what you get when we get the ice crystals in the high cloud sunlight refracted on those ice crystals we'll still see a few showers down towards the southwest but you see that wet weather through the remainder of today passing through that eastern side of saudi arabia through us here and carter think you may well see showers on and off really until the end of today we go on into tomorrow and they will gradually clear away as we go through the morning brightening up behind start to warm up as well the city by the time we

come to friday we're back up to around 28 celsius and those temperatures will pick up further as we go on into next week could touch 35 by the middle of next week. still a few showers into the western side of yemen all right thanks still ahead on al-jazeera the invisible spread of coronavirus we take a look at how many people have the virus but aren't showing symptoms plus. this is a crisis like. the international monetary fund says the pandemic is sending the world towards its worst financial downturn since the great depression. and despite major league baseball being suspended the sport is still celebrating the life of one of its most important player. that story coming up in school. join the global conversation. people get expand their brains maybe have

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welcome back you all the time to recap headlines suspending u.s. funding for the world health organization he says the agency mishandled the initial response to the pandemic critics though say trumps deflecting blame for his own failures. for the 4th straight day russia has reported a recall daily rise in new infections 3300 cases were confirmed. in the total daily $25000.00 the government says at least $198.00 russians have died. south korean president alone j. and his ruling party is projected to wear the majority in the parliamentary election but the exit polls suggest the party could secure up to $177.00 seats out

of $300.00 it's one of the world's 1st national votes to be held during the pandemic. there's a dire forecast for the world economy the international monetary fund says we're heading towards the worst financial downturn since the great depression of the 1930 s. alan fischer reports for we from the international monetary fund a stark warning this is a crisis like no other as unemployment lines grow around the world as manufacturing grains to halt in many sectors as businesses are forced to close the economic impact of the covert crisis is by to the i.m.f. issues regular reports on the global financial situation 3 months ago they were predicting widespread growth coronavirus has radically changed the landscape we are projecting global growth in 20224 to minus 3 percent this makes the great lockdown the worst recession since the great

depression and far worse than the global financial crises 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 but 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 drunk 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 are seriously impacted the airline industry it seems passenger numbers drop by half globally airlines now i think they'll lose more than 300000000000 dollars this year much more than expected the i.m.f. is urging countries to what together to beat the pandemic saying there is no tradeoff between saving lives and saving livelihoods alan fischer al-jazeera virginia. now more than 33000 undocumented people in detention centers waiting for their deportation hearing and that's they way the threat and spread of coronavirus is growing well proles explains why signs lease. cleaved from behind bars don't let us die from cold at 19.

because there's an intimacy. to. dozens of men held in close quarters in an immigration and customs enforcement or ice detention center made the video pleading to be released they are not able to. there is no screen even those who wish to employ didn't know. where the detainees say they cannot remain the recommended distance from one another and are not provided with hand sanitizer masks or gloves this is a cruel and completely out of way to deal with the crisis at hand it does not comport. medical expert advice and it actually makes sitting ducks out of detainee as isis already its legal action by the american civil liberties union of southern california has won the release of

a handful of detainees including charleston de cough an undocumented immigrant born in billy's day called agreed to speak about conditions inside but preferred not to be videotaped right now everybody everybody. and i invited her. to call said he lived in a cell block with 80 men 4 to 8 men to a cell. you know you. one. hundreds of family members and supporters held a drive by protest rally at a detention center in arizona demanding that detainees be released immediately they like in the facilities to death camps and want them everything. i mean

right and every so far the government has refused to consider a large scale release of detainees and even though most of the country is on lockdown ice agents are still busy arresting and confining undocumented people. arresting people and putting them in these dangerous conditions and facilities the a.c.l.u. and other immigrant rights advocates are asking the courts to intervene as soon as possible before it's too late al-jazeera los angeles where new dart out of china is indicating a much higher prevalence of covert 19 than originally thought the findings published in the british medical journal suggest nearly 4 fifths of cases do not show symptoms the figure is based on a sample of one $166.00 new infections reported in china on april 1st just $36.00 of them showed symptoms and they were all travelers from overseas experts say the

new evidence could imply a much lower death rate from the virus and also raises questions over the effectiveness of lockdowns from china has now increased its screening of people who show no symptoms signaling what could be a new phase in the effort to contain the virus. richard cargo is a professor at the public of public health at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine he joins us from bangkok good to have you with us now in a sense i know all that the in the obviously being and scary parts of this but it's there's some good news in that this study finds the sentence to be much milder for much more people than we previously thought. you know i think i think because there's good news and bad news but 1st 1st of all it's a report based on a news report so it's 'd

a pretty small number of people. so we don't know how to generalize all those numbers are and we don't know what the mix of people was whether they're old male or female with co-morbidities so it's a little snapshot we don't have a great deal of information about but if it's generalizable then what it tells us is that the number of people who have no symptoms or very limited symptoms is quite a lot more 'd and we estimate people who fall based on sampling and based on models would estimate something like 30 to 40 percent people had disease that without any symptomatic or to matter that if they went on to get symptomatic disease. but this chest that maybe maybe substantially more a substantially higher actually people are asymptomatic and that has implications

it tells us potentially but a larger numbers of people have been infected. and it tells us there for potentially 2 things one is that immunity to the virus may be wider. than expected. it also tells us but a new model and how we how we measure the spread of the disease is less of them perhaps we thought before. so the good news from this may be that the nudity is more widespread the bad news is that cities may have spared. her previous interest there's a lot of implications that you've covered here we could go on for an hour think about this but i'm thinking the bottom line for many people huddled down right now

on the lockdowns does this mean that many of us may have already had it oh i mean without down more people have had it burn the numbers are telling us but what does that say for policy and lockdowns then going forward do you think. yes it's good it's very challenging because what it tells you is that do the measures that you're introducing were because effectively as you had to imagine now what we do know from the cases that have been reported elsewhere and the trajectories and is important to look at but the epidemiological trajectory this is what we know is the traditional public health measures like identifying people got the infection. isolating them quarantine and contacts is effective we know that in the early you do that the more effective it is the 2nd remissions such as social

distancing and closing of schools are a. comparatively. benefit compared to now the evidence is that they're having some benefit but it may be that we need to change the balance of power we focus ready on identification isolation and quarantine in comparison social distancing on the we should be very cautious because these are very preliminary data they haven't been subject to scrutiny and. they have to be period we don't know the end of fire us in the samples we don't even know what picture is all the cases in terms of sex and age and so forth so we need to be extremely cautious but they're important numbers and it'll be interesting to see if that replicated in other countries outside china as well they are very important numbers let's hope someone can stand them all up with all the additional questions you mentioned thanks so much there for your analysis on that. my pleasure sadly old

john aramco is seeking $10000000000.00 in loans to buy a major chemical company it wants a 70 percent stake in saudi basic industries corporation currently owned by saudi arabia's sovereign wealth fund according to reuters news agency the acquisition is a crucial part of aramco future expansion plans the oil giant raised billions of dollars last year with a record breaking debut on the stock market but oil producers have been struggling with a plunge in demand for crude the corona virus outbreak libya's u.n. recognized government says it now controls the west coast its forces have taken a number of towns and cities from war. and then our settling their sights setting their sights rather on a nearby airfield zero's mahmood of the $100.00 ports one of the seized towns so proctor. life is gradually getting back to normal in the coastal city of

subbranch in western libya forces loyal to the internationally recognized a government are taken control civilians who fled the city when half the forces seized it 3 years ago are now returning home. we don't want military rule we rose up against a dictatorship in 2011 not to have another one now we want a civil democratic state that's what we've sacrificed for on monday half the forces were driven out and lost control of many areas in the west of the country before the pulled back to a debate is south of subrata this is the operation of house for us forces and the city of sobriety that's been hit by a government war plain as infantry forces crossed into the city. so brought this location is important because it's along the international coastal highway that

links the capital tripoli to the tunisian border the west coast cities are also imposed and because they dominate the gas pipelines that supply your top in response to their defeat in the west of the country have to those forces have been targeting residential areas in tripoli the indiscriminate shelling of civilian facilities is raising international concern we are very concerned about. about the situation. yes collation of violence in libya i think it's frankly alarming we see in any area close to truly we have seen we've seen the destruction of health facilities and frankly for the last month for . more than a year we've been calling out of not only the destruction but sometimes the targeting of health professionals the government forces say they're mobilizing to

move towards a with a debate which has been used by half that as warplanes to target southern tripoli. so. now the world health organization says is extending its designation of an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo as a global emergency 3 new cases including 2 deaths have been reported in the eastern city of benny the country was expected to announce the end of its 2nd worst above the outbreak a few days ago demick has killed more than 2000 people since it broke out in august 2018. australia's high court has ruled a warrant used by police to search a journalist home was invalid police raided 2 journalists homes last year including that of news corps editor anika smethurst they were investigating the publication

of classified material for the court declined to order the seas material be destroyed ukraine's government says a forest fire near the chernobyl nuclear plant has been put out it was within a kilometer of the size of the world's worst nuclear accident environmental activists say the government covered up how bad things really were including the risk of radiation spiking. still ahead on al-jazeera in sports could dance be the answer for sports fans craving some live action here with that story.

all right sports 5 and scooped up does not mean no sports right fall out while you might get lucky sammy keep watching because california's governor believes the chances of a sporting events taking place in the next few months is low gavin newsome says mass gatherings in his state won't be possible for months it will have big implications for the likes of n.b.a. basketball major league baseball and the national hockey league which are all shut down at the moment at the very least it would force them to restart behind closed doors this. the prospect of mass gatherings is negligible at best until we get to herd immunity and we get to a vaccine so large scale events that bring in hundreds thousands tens of thousands of strangers all together across every conceivable difference health and otherwise is not in the cards well despite the suspension of sport in north america

baseball is still on during the career of one of its most important players jackie robinson day will be celebrated online this year on april the 15th 947 robinson became the 1st african-american american to play in a major league game traditionally on this day all players from all teams with a number 42 jersey made famous sharing his career with the brooklyn dodgers this year the league is hosting a series of online events using the hash tag jackie $42.00 robert let's how is the c.e.o. of black sports online he told us why robinson's legacy is still so important. integration was not something that happened in a in a lot of industries not to mention you know sports and i think what happened was the fact that jackie robinson just did not play or get an opportunity is that he played well he was the rookie of the year that here at the age at showing people

that african-americans basically you know if we were in sports and other things they made it easier for other teams to now integrate of the it would bring in a black players the reason being is always artists to be the 1st war so the 2nd 3rd or 4th you know he made it easier for others so he took a lot of you know a lot of backlash a lot of racial slurs half the rest days of that nature to make it easier for the people that came by they had their minorities that are in baseball 'd right now the numbers especially with african-americans you know are low just you know still treatment of minority players be it african-americans and others that we still see desk disturbing i think we really need to do just like with our country a lawless just to show there were very inclusive that everyone has the same opportunities that everyone is treated fairly in major league baseball who do need to reach out to to cities and neighborhoods that have minorities children in them

and make baseball programs affordable for all kids because it's 'd an expensive sport to get into i'm in the hornet they do that i think the war clue said they will 'd become. the president of the world boxing council says holding fights in television studios is one option he's considering tyson ferry as the reigning demi b.c. heavyweight champion but it's still unclear how or when how be able to defend his title it's forcing organizers to look at some creative ways of staging a title fight without fans one of the proposal is to do the fight at the television studio. so the production is right there don't blame you they have to stop i mean they're working and basically it's government be that the participants are not contaminated all the throughout the process we're doing the play takes place. drug the proposal and the. board

anywhere know that we will do so organizers of the 2022 world cup and catherine doing their best to keep football fans around the world active and engaged at a time when many are in lockdown as part of the katter world cups generation amazing legacy project live sessions are being streamed online every day broadcasts including training routines that can be done at home and interviews with some legends of the game. it's basically for you know the big children that are at home and even adults and other also around the world that you know can easily get some you know advice on keeping the you know fit and healthy and you know maintaining you know obviously because we're all are home right now and so so the idea is that you know we all want to be safe and well when it's their home. but you know we are we decided to offer you know some insight in different ways of you know the morning and keeping

a healthy lifestyle you know both physical and mental and you know emotional as well a lot of our academies get in touch with us from all parts of the world. and other n.g.o.s that also work in the field of you know sports for development so it's a great on a c.r. it's a good opportunity to sort of the at this time with with the current you know crisis of over 19. you know having this ng is met online where you know we interact with different people from all parts of the world. i'm a sport of darts could provide the answer for those of us craving some live action the world's top darts players are set to take part in a 32 night competition from the comfort of their own homes 4 players will feature every night in a league form the action starts on friday and the coffee will be a live stream. and that's something to look forward to sammi back to you for her exhibits all that so this news out come all is off in

a moment with another for both of you though the day's news to stay with us here at al-jazeera. throughout history humankind has come together in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world could actually save every generation has its moment this one is ours. eyes only test. and trace frank assessments why is it so he's struggling to

cope with the number coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there's one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines as india done enough to nip the spread of the out of hours in the inside story on al-jazeera one day i might be covering politics and the next i might your current photo essay from serbia the hungry the what's most important to me is talking to people understanding what they're going through so that i can convey the headlines in the most human way possible. here and i just you know we believe everyone has a story worth hearing an extrajudicial killing in a north african capital. i had someone breaking into our house because of. that i heard people shouting that i saw 4 masked men and not only that eisenhower

was showing. al-jazeera world his read 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. so much death has been caused by their mistakes donald trump cuts off u.s. funding to the world health organization saying it's badly mishandled the coronavirus pandemic but the u.n. says this isn't the time for funding cuts host countries show support for the global health agency. santa maria with the world news from al jazeera russia has reported a record rise in new code.