that dog will sit down and the entrance to the city was horrific they killed people in the streets in their houses and in. the crusades an arab perspective at the sold one shop. on a. form. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a dan this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes today i'm instructing my administration to halt. funding of the world health organization while donald trump accuses the w.h.o. of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic and covering up the way it spreads from china the u.n. says it's not the time for

a funding cut countries show support for the global health agency. and russia reports a record rise in a new code with 19 infections for the 4th day of the u.n. security council edges closer to backing a cease fire in global conflicts that will tackle the pandemic. and unsporting day after it was a new day it's have been announced for the tour de france the world's biggest cycling race war now will start at the end of august. that's 1300 g.m.t. and we begin this news hour with the world on the brink of reaching 2000000 confirmed cases of covert 19 well this is the tally by the u.s. based johns hopkins university according to its count about 500000 people have recovered more than 128000 have died as governments continue to grapple with the

growing pandemic president donald trump has halted u.s. funding for the body leading the fight the world health organization he accuses it of mishandling the outbreak his critics say he's deflecting blame for his own failings. here's our live coverage team we have white house correspondent kimberly healthy live in washington d.c. diplomatic at the james bays at the united nations in new york. oxana brown is in moscow we also have lawrence lee in london who report on the e.u.'s call for member states to work together and pull race is in sweden where infections and deaths are rising well 1st this report though from mike hanna on president trumps w.h.o. decision. in 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 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 prove 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 tran prepares 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 confirming that the question of lifting restrictions or not it would be left to each individual governor though 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 this on a day that new york city announced its most dramatic rise in the fatality rate

health officials for the 1st time included the deaths of those presumed to have died of the virus even though they had nothing to says 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 president trump action against the world health organization can distract from mike hanna out to sea or washington let's go live now to kimberly halkett joins us from washington d.c. so what is the bottom line kimberly will u.s. funding be cut or not the seems to be little bit of a constitutional argument going on. yeah there absolutely is a constitutional argument because it is congress that controls the purse strings so

it's unclear what mechanism the u.s. president believes that he can use in order to try and not only suspend these payments but perhaps cut them off altogether following his review now this of course is a decision that has been met with puzzlement anger criticism the u.s. is the largest donor to the world health organization accounting for about 15 percent of its budget but there has been criticism from bill gates of the gates foundation also a major donor calling this dangerous and a member of the crawler virus taskforce dr robert redfield has also commented saying that there has been a long history of the world health organization working well with the united states t.d.c. and jones had a long history of working together in multiple outbreaks throughout the world as we continue to do in this one and so we've had a very productive public health relationship we continue to have.

now it is important to note that the president have already proposed in his budget to congress every day action in payment of approximately half to the world health organization for the next fiscal year but again it was already speculated that that would not be agreed to by congress once again it is the u.s. congress that controls the purse strings in the united states not the u.s. president so many are scratching their head in washington right now trying to figure out what magnetism the president intends to use to try to cut off these funds as he's threatened or i can believe how to get there in washington d.c. the united nations meanwhile says it's the worst possible moment to cut funds to the world health organization sentiments echoed by many countries around the world actually now china is urging the u.s. to fulfill its obligations to the w.h.o. saying the decision to cut funding will affect all countries the european union

says there's no justification for washington's decision at this moment when quote their efforts are needed more than ever germany says strengthening the world health organization is one of the best investments and the african union chief says trump's decision is deeply regrettable not all leaders are so critical though straining prime minister scott morrison said in a radio interview that while he wouldn't follow in transferred steps he sympathizes with the president's criticisms of the world health organization including he said the delay in the clarin the pandemic we call this thing which before the w.h.o. did if we were relying on their advice then i suspect we would have been suffering the same fight that many other countries currently are we were calling it a pandemic back in early january and we generally i should say. let's bring in our

diplomatic editor james bays he joins us from the united nations and james just how disruptive would a cut in u.s. funding be to the u.n. agencies. there is shock exasperate shin here at the united nations because the world health organization is a big part of the u.n. it's the part of the u.n. that is the technical agency dealing with global health care at the time of a global pandemic you need the world health organization there is only one world health organization there's also some book reviews from and from officials i've spoken to who say that president trump is here blaming the w.h.o. for not being tough enough on china and when you look at president trump's own comments and he is actually praised for its transparency it's also worth telling you that he says the w.h.o. wasn't telling the world enough about the spread of all of this while i was in

switzerland in geneva in february at the time when president trump in washington was playing down the virus even comparing it with the flu dr ted ras the head of the w.h.o. in february was having almost daily briefings telling the world how worried he was about the situation or while some countries are pulling out of joint u.n. efforts others trying to push forward particularly with the idea of a global ceasefire where does that stand. well we do have some positive developments as well you're right we have the g. 7 meeting in 24 hours time the time current chair of the g 7 is president trump i'm told the behind the scenes some efforts have been made there and they've got some some material for a communique some quite concrete developments to be announced in about 24 hours time that's positive the other thing as you say the u.n. secretary general antonio good terrace called for a global ceasefire the u.n.

security council's been looking at that to not acting very fast in part because it's been difficult for them to meet they didn't have procedures for virtual meetings they've got that now underway but still difficulties among some of the members particularly the permanent members initially problems between the u.s. and china with the u.s. saying any resolution had to have the words will hand virus in it will have got past that and it seems that a french draft may now have the approval of most of the permanent members possibly not yet russia but we believe president putin is going to be speaking to president mccraw about that as i said it was a french draft and i spoke to the french ambassador to the united nations about it everybody know that there are different views on the pandemic i think we are doing really really good try to race now i really hope that reach out and be in a position to take action in it coming days in

a secret to concede 15 men 1st to get there and make sure that we are greedy on this station of a student visa in it countries on the edge and other can see that and agree on other humanitarian truths to be able to fix it and in it you know all these countries. so a resolution potentially sami in a couple of days the french ambassador saying that another diplomat i spoke to said they thought that perhaps it wouldn't be until early next week but we could soon have a u.n. security council resolution asking for a cease fire for all the conflicts that are on the security council's agenda and that's the situation with jane space at the u.n. headquarters the virus appears to be spreading fast in russia more than $3300.00 new cases have been reported bringing the total to nearly $25000.00 the government says at least $198.00 people have died moscow's launch the system of travel permits

as it desperately tries to slow the spread but it created massive delays in public transit on wednesday causing long queues critics say the crowds created a dangerous situation to help the virus spread. oksana brown joins us now live from moscow and oksana i knew the president was supposed to speak have we heard from him and his message. no not yet the meeting with the government which is scheduled for today is delayed. earlier and to me to describe this president's spokesperson said that we should expect putin to address citizens in the beginning of that meeting so we're still waiting for that it was due to start about an hour ago but for now yes we have seen such a spike in numbers and it's mean going on since let's say last week end of last week when the tone of. the message the government says changed

a little bit. so. the government says that the figures are raising now about 18 percent per day and we have seen that the worst cases here in moscow we happen but $25000.00 cases in the country and almost $15000.00 of them i in the capital so moscow thora to saying that they're lacking beds in the hospital already and the peak is far away so they have to start implementing new measures and starting from today they did they imposed implemented this new coup our system under stand has been you install restrictions put in place and in some cases that's causing a bit of confusion right. well true this is a very new system so now from starting from today if you want to travel by any type of transferred if that's your personal car or metro or taxi you need to apply for

this special q.r. code and this morning it was so huge crowds of people who were trying to go to work trying to go into the metro and they couldn't because policemen were checking their q.r. codes individually each of them personally that cost must have of rage on social media position a position figure is and lots of other people were blaming the government for actually making the situation worse the spread in the infection and government responded quite quickly the banyan said that yes this intuition is critical that shouldn't be happening at the time of the epidemics and he asked the head of the police department to sort it out as soon as possible later he said that the crowds were eliminated and they will think about automatic ways of dealing with their so hard to control this but. other programs with this q.r. code so it started being tested few days ago and yesterday about

100000 of them got canceled because people who apply for them didn't know how to figure it out they provide it with wrong data or misinformation also obviously there are concerns that. i thought it is who actually quite fond of digital technologists and very recently they implemented this last face recognition surveillance system that this figure that they target citizens provide them in the future when this situation is over might be mistreated and it will give a chance for the government to get even further control of the suspect was a bit of global concern in some places about i want to thank so much son of brown. top leaders are calling for member states to work together before easing any lockdown measures the european commission has issued

a number of recommendations it's warning of moving too quickly could have devastating effects lawrence lee joins us live from london with more on this so is this basically commission's diplomatic way of saying they're not entirely convinced with the level of unity right now well they're certainly trying to get back on the front foot after a very chaotic month in europe. but primarily what they're trying to do at the moment is find a way 'd of connecting the european union not not at the whole of a massive financial crisis. because the economic forecast is so bad some crises you have this sort of the shape thing goes down and then goes straight back up again what they're worried about with this year economists saying is a lot more like an l. it's crashed and it will just flat line across the bottom for months and months and months the best they can hope for is it looks a bit more like a u. shaped recovery and so with that idea remind the the european union summit

next thursday is going to be absolutely crucial that we are talking about that budget which flosser for 7 years for months because north european countries most notably germany in the netherlands want to spend less european money on the overall budget something countries want to spend more for here you have suddenly arcelor on the lead out of the european commission saying at next week's summit they're talking not about a 1000000000 but a trillion euros to try to basically kick start some sort of european recovery once once the borders are open and it's important really partly symbolically because europe's famous open borders and free movement of people who caused a lot stuff that's that's not existence at the moment but clearly it's also very important practically because even if very gently they have to try to start to open the borders and get goods moving a bit more freely to try to get a little bit of economic recovery in the system it's going to take

a very very long time because everyone's so careful about a 2nd wave of infections but they've got to make it look gradually as if they can start to restore the single markets all right so i want to talk about is it an error laura you when it comes to economics we've got a bit of a v. going on between number of new infections in germany and spain of it it's zigzagging right bring it all into perspective for us what are these numbers say about where the pandemic is heading in europe. we are well you see this is the problem trying to sit on your nose at the you know the european commission or a big control freak and they want sort of everybody's available the same way but you can't do that when the pandemic is affecting different countries different times iraq some of those saying that the peak in russia's models ahead spain italy now we know with a dipping down of its other countries it's still going up there's various different ways in which some countries are trying to ease their way out of the lot and then

markets are going back to school finland stayed there a lot of helsinki they're now opened that let traffic move a bit austria shops are opening these these things are happening in variously different places but other countries like germany as you say they said they're going to lock down going for longer so it's very difficult for the european commission to talk about some sort of sustained and unified european response to try to get things moving and you know the other thing that's really interesting sally really quickly and i've seen this report in lots of different countries now is that people who are being told you can go outside a bit more now medico the shops they don't want to do it that you know in denmark some of the parents say they don't want to send the kids back to school is that in the might be guinea pigs for the virus for saying to people you can go out again now isn't that's the same as people saying they want to do it the challenges of trying to predict not only control of human behavior or of good stuff there thanks so much lawrence lee from london to talk about people wanting to go in outdoor sweden has reported

a sharp rise in corona virus deaths another 170 were confirmed on wednesday up from 114 the previous day more than 1200 people have now died from the virus there almost 12000 have tested positive now sweden of course took a more liberal approach to the pandemic resisting the national lockdown of other countries to get more now on the situation in sweden paul reese joins us from maumelle and paul are they taking some flak there the authorities for that kind of relaxed attitude towards lockdown. well that's certainly taking some flack saami but every time they hold their daily press conference like this one in the last couple of hours they say the same thing they go through wash your hands keep your distance if you're older than 70 stay at home . if you feel a little bit sick don't go to work work from home if you can it's the same thing

today they've as you say reports of the greatest new number of deaths since this crisis began 170 however they say that this is exaggerated because there was a lower number reported over the weekend in fact opposite to it being the greatest number of deaths they say the level is actually is actually going down but they are coming in from a great deal of criticism one of the one of their harshest critics has said today that the only way to undo the damage of what she's calling a a high risk social experiment is to immediately put stock home in lockdown from to date stockholm the worst affected region with half of the cases in sweden now in terms of the general population what the health agency would say is that ok we are mainly recommending things but people are generally following them people

are working from home in great numbers people are holding social distance people are not visiting elderly relatives however that's ok to an extent in a general sense but there are parts of society that can do this i was in the ring could be area of stockholm a couple of weeks ago that much like some of the hardest affected bars of new york is a place where people live very closely together often large families in the same apartment and i spoke to the somali. community there. who some of the oldest were the some of the initial people to die in the corona crisis they for now been pointed out by the health agency as one of the worst affected parts of society and as they told me they can work from home that taxi drivers their bus drivers their their nurses they have to go out to work on the front line and they are being heavily affected now

the other one is old people of homes especially in the stockade region they are being absolutely devastated by this virus at the moment huge number of deaths in elderly people's homes and the their health phase and she says we have failed to properly protect old people in those homes so even if sweden's long game is to lower the impact of a 2nd wave of iris it's no consolation for the people who are being killed in the 1st wife all right thanks so much paul reese well as the number of deaths rise the day it's been challenging for governments to figure out which cases to include in their darter in new york the told jumped by 3700 on tuesday after officials included people who were not tested but probably died of the virus in england and wales the daily figure is only 4 hospital deaths and does not include fatalities in care homes hospices or at home while in france the told jump to more than $10000.00

once they started counting the elderly dying in nursing homes this month and china has been accused of underreporting its numbers critics say tens of thousands could have died. the journal by you me is a professor of medicine at george washington university school of medicine she's also the founding director of random institute which is dedicated to improving health equity in washington d.c. joins us live from there good to have you with us so 1st of all is this a case of really you know the situation being that confusing for governments that they can't figure out whether or not to include people who died of the krona virus but died at home or you know is there more to it than that well i mean if you take the sort of take things as they as at face value i think there we are here in the united states in a situation where the health care system is completely overwhelmed and i'll give

you an example of why some of undercounting apennines i was talking to my colleague who happens to be an infectious disease and an emergency medicine physician she said that people who come in and even with a broken ankle they end up being positive for cocaine when they test them so part of it is when you don't test adequately you under estimate nieces and as your correspondent just mentioned and was reporting we are not really counting the people who are dying in the nursing home don't forget the homeless don't forget undocumented immigrants who are afraid for a variety of reasons not the japanese my question really is why i mean i can understand if people are dying and they haven't been tested and it's not entirely clear or you can't say with 100 percent certainty what they died of but if they died in a nursing home and you know that they had coded 19 why are they not being counted. well you don't necessarily know that they have coke at 19 right because they're not

being tested so we speculate just because of their clinical presentation right i think you know you can you can speculate that there may be some nefarious reasons to make that council look low i think frankly that it's more likely to the fact that there is not accurate or a robust system that actually keeps count however i will say that what i would propose is that samples be saved and so that when the time comes when testing is available we can test those samples right at a point accurate count now how accurate your numbers are has implications for how i.q. and good your policy is right and sort of a bit of about implications of those terms of policy well there's no question i mean you are talking of the future about public health allocations restarting the pandemic workforce right the task force rather you're talking about amounts of

money that are going to states to local governments there are huge implications so getting that numbers right is important we may not be able to get the numbers right now but we can certainly collect the samples so that they can be right at some future time all right. or if we leave it there thanks so much talk to you have you me my pleasure. all right let's catch up with the weather and see if the picture is looking any prettier here i'd like to think of for you some better sunnier weather sammy you always bring a bit of sun our own thing our eyes right enough of the cloud and grab some sunshine is this a 1000 clear skies there across a good part of europe we've got high pressure in charge so that's keeping it settles and sunny as i move out of the way you can see this large area of high pressure there across central parts around that we've been getting areas of low pressure bringing some disturbed weather this isn't the eiffel tower this is not

paris this is blackpool in england is fine and sunny here lovely blue skies for you this is the eiffel tower obviously skies here as well gorgeous there just along the river side and there are costs and there's a pearl in the sun's just about coming through we got plenty of fine and settled weather here and in austria people a little closer together here but it is 5 and sunny as you can say will stay that way as we go through the next couple days this april the sun's got some strength about it so we've seen temperatures getting up to around 23 celsius in vienna 20 degrees celsius in london should be about 15 or 23 there for paris as i said got high pressure in charge in the high taxes the lid on the atmosphere you can imagine if you're just pressing on a balloon around the edges it pops up that's where you get the air rising cooling condensing form in the cloud and rain into the northeastern parts of europe down towards the southeast where we've seen some rain and snow across the turkish coast turkish mountains and the great mountains so wet weather to into western parts but

for most of the sami it's warm dry and sunny and getting warmer. all right thanks servitor now in the news ahead south korea's governing party makes huge gains in the 1st national election to be held during the pandemic. but global financial shock is threatening to one do half a century of economic growth instability in latin america and in sport despite major league baseball being suspended the sport is still celebrating the life of one of its most important players. be the hero the world needs. washing. eyes only test treats and trace frank assessments why it's only struggling to cope with the number of her own virus failure to take really aggressive action will

get them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there's one answer later 3000000 people 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. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into his own parliament that call means a lot of the country's fortunes we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in get a break sit down that was a slogan that one of the prime minister boris johnson counting the cost on al-jazeera. oh.

welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines the u.s. president is accusing the w.h.o. of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic response he's hold to his country's funding the organization special envoy says an recriminations of the sort should be left until after the pandemic is defeated. for the 4th straight day russia has reported a record daily rise in new infections only 3300 cases were confirmed. sweden has reported a sharp rise in coronavirus deaths this calls into question sweden's liberal approach to the pandemic it's resisted the long downs of all the countries south korean president mood jane's ruling party is projected to win a majority in the parliamentary election the final result is expected around midnight on wednesday by the pandemic voter turnout was the highest in decades.

more on that and the latest exit polls from seoul. this was always see and i think as a referendum on how president moon j.n. has handled the corona virus 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 the polls 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 the alliances with some smaller parties in the parliament then that could turn into and 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 the 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. well b.j. kim is an affiliate professor at hancock university of foreign studies he joins us from seoul good to have you with us as our correspondent was saying the still counting the final votes but does it seem like the ruling party is basically

reaping the political rewards of its policy towards coronavirus yes indeed but not as much as many of the analysts or or are the experts have been predicting before leading into the actual you know voting time dotcoms coming out even though we have to wait for the final results reported in some of the acute districts q competitions we see very neck and neck competition so you know that surprise that's something that not many people at the extra. anticipated they were all predicting a landslide for the ruling party but you know some of the data the surprise is down to. see it again what do you put that surprise down to how do you explain it. yeah you know that a conservative supporters turned out big time looks like and then you know it shows in the turnout rate turnout ratio as set is highest in 2030 years' time this

is a big surprise because because of the. scare a lot of people are expecting that elderly people senior voters would probably stay away from the voting places but that's not the case a lot of people came to the ballots and then they cast their vote so both the young people who tend to support the president and also the all the people tend to support the opposition conservative party date all participated so this shows very much up neck and neck race in many of the key districts even though the total number as reported it shows a big victory and maybe taking you know how much by more than half of the seats for the ruling party what do you think prompted a large turnout specially amongst the more senior citizens is it all down to the coronavirus and how people were pleased with the government's handling or something else at play you know elevate people coming to the polls means that korean people are very eager to keep the balance here for decades you know even through and even

before the full democrat is ation that in the 1980 s. korean people have been well known for their there in you know the instinct to keep balance in politics they try very hard not to give one party sweeping control over politics and i think that was in the play right now when all the predictions were saying big victory for the ruling party the opposition supporters the elderly people who support conservative opposition party they were determined to come to the polls and then cast it dead avoids which was a big surprise all right thanks so much jane kim there. countries across the asia pacific are responding to a dire economic forecasts from the international monetary fund the japanese government is considering whether to extend the cash handout and ministers in new zealand will take a 20 percent pay cut for the next 6 months lawrence low explains. a stark warning from the international monetary fund the global economy is forecast

to shrink by 3 percent this year that would make it the steepest fall since the great depression in the 19th. and asia countries are scrambling to respond to the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus. there is no doubt the pandemic has pushed down the world economy with a recognizing it's based on the fact that it is such a difficult situation as the i.m.f. points out various people are saying various things about the duration of how long these measures to prevent the spread of infection will continue going forward the japanese government announced a one trillion dollars stimulus package last week and is under pressure to hand out even more cash that package includes payouts of $2800.00 to households whose income is judged to have been hit by the coronavirus officials now say the government is considering whether to pay $900.00 to every citizen regardless of

income japan declared a state of emergency in tokyo and 6 other areas last week and urged people to cut social interactions by 70 percent. in new zealand prime minister just into our day and announced that ministers and public service chief executives would take a 20 percent pay cut for the next 6 months i absolutely accept that this is not going to change the government books but for us it was about leadership a lot of people are taking a huge hit right now i do not want the people who feel it to be the people on the front line our lower middle income in is non essential services in new zealand have been closed for the past 3 weeks and economic activity has slowed significantly the country appears to have successfully reduced the spread so far but the prime minister has warned the low number of new infections does not necessarily mean the battle is won the government is due to decide next week whether it will extend the

lockdown florence clearly al-jazeera the international energy agency is warning oil producers no amount of cuts in output can fully offset recent falls in the market the agency has forecast a drop in demand of $9300000.00 barrels a day and it says oil demand for april will fall to a 25 year low the world's largest oil producers agreed to the biggest output cut in history on sunday saudi oil giant aramco is seeking $10000000000.00 in loans to buy a 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 opposition is a crucial part of our own coast future expansion plans the oil giant raised billions of dollars last year with a record breaking debut on the stock market but all producers have been struggling

with a plunge in demand for crude after the coronavirus outbreak. so even in this is chief global market strategist for axing coal services company he says multi-billion dollar loans during this financial crisis are unlikely the timing couldn't be any worse really we're sort of knocking on wall street banks stores pretty much at the end the line here because i think the big front run by the airline industry and a plethora of us oil producers and it's just a bad time all around to be trying to ask for money in the markets right now when banks are elected to lend especially in an asset class such as oil where prices are just continue to plummet the lack of petro dollars has really devastated not only the economy but the markets there is some hope here that you know this is a huge amount of support that aramco is offering public investment funds here to take a good chunk savak off their hands is going to buttress the markets this is also

a bit of a problem in the markets are looking this is to be a bit of an intervention and perhaps a sign of worse to come but that certainly without that support the markets could quite could topple quite nourse severely in saudi arabia and that's a big concern for global markets. in occupied east jerusalem there's a concern corona virus is spreading through palestinian neighborhoods undetected a number of cases shot up this week to 41 but health workers fear it may double that figure how a force of 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 it 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 allowed of some 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 have 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 palestinian israeli rights group more densely packed communities where the scale of the spread has been so far unknown perrie force it out 0 occupied east jerusalem. let's take a look now at some other news from around the world libya's un recognized government says it now controls the west coast its forces have taken a number of towns and cities from warlord honey for hafta and now setting their sights on nearby airfield al jazeera as muhammad underwire had reports from one of the towns which was seized. 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 this city when half that its 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 have forces were driven out and lost control of many areas in the west of the country before the pulled back to a debate is so the. this is the operation of health of his forces and the city of silverado 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 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 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 is which has been used by half that as warplanes to target southern tripoli. so. the world health organization says it's extending its designation of an ebola outbreak in the democratic republic of congo as a global emergency for a new cases including 2 deaths are being reported in the eastern city of beni the country was expected to announce the end of its 2nd worst about outbreak a few days ago the epidemic has killed more than 2000 people since it broke out in august 2008 the. still ahead on al-jazeera could dots be the odds of the fans craving some live action coming here but that story.

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business leaders is both to buy no bras paul. you're. welcome back one new york hospital battling the coronavirus demick has received much needed backup. 46 nurses who came from across the u.s. were given a surprise welcome by stothard northwood health the city's largest health care provider that training to help treat cope with 19 patients. i just feel like this is a calling that i felt several weeks ago i left family kids grandchildren behind to

come up healthy people that need our help i've never been more proud to be a nurse and this is by far the most rewarding career i've ever had in my life and i'd like to thank them for welcoming us so much and no doubt sports fans around the world will now be cheering as far comes to bring us some sports news yes our fingers crossed tour de france coming back a day after it was postponed new dates have been announced for the tour de france the world's biggest cycling race will start at the end of august on tuesdays organizers said it wouldn't be possible for the race to begin as planned in june due to the french government's ban on mass gatherings and 3 week events will now start on august 29th the sports to weather grand tours in spain and italy have also been moved to slots later in the year 2018 champion gehring thomas is doing it 12 hour ride in his garage to raise money for the u.k.'s national health service he gave this reaction to the decision i think if you had

a poll last of one like what race. you know who would you like to see go ahead you know if it's between the torah and something else that i really thought the majority would go with so you know just business you know bring so much money into this fall that's why a lot of the teams are in the sport it's for the exposure they got june so i was. you know i think it's massive. let's bring in our correspondent tristan red men who is in the southwest of france interest and what are the chances that this tour actually taking place even at this later date. well new dates have been set but there's still a healthy amount of skepticism that the race will actually go ahead. i think you for the sport is very important to the race but what happened this year on thomas just said most of them on in cycling comes from the tour de france a lot of teams that go bankrupt or collapse if if the if the rated nap and also. if a moron the people in france the tour de france is a it's a very significant event and if it didn't go ahead for the 1st time since 2nd world

war i think psychologically that would be a glow for people so it's important for people in france but between reshuffling the race and it actually happening there's a long way to go 1st of all will the epidemic remain in submission for long enough to allow a large gathering of people by the size of the roads of france in september. also logistically such a huge event 30000 police by the side of the road helping with the race just just the logistics of getting that to happen. and thirdly on the sporting level you go right is in totally different places you've got karen thomas riding his bike in his carriage and then you've got the current defending champion eggen but now he's lives lumpia and he's racing his bike in colombia i mean how are you going to have a fair level playing field on the sporting side it's not totally sure cycling is is

going through the same thing that many sports are right now trying to fit a whole year's worth of events into a couple of months and it's a huge challenge to make that happen so we'll see if the tour de france goes ahead or not all right we'll leave it there for for now tristen thank you so much. 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 15th 1947 robinson became the 1st african-american to play in a major league game traditionally on this day all players from all teams where the number 42 jersey made famous during his career with the brooklyn dodgers this year the league is hosting a series of online events using the hash tag jacki 42 robert lee tao 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 but 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 it showed people that african-americans 'd basically you know if you were in sports and other things and it 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 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 f. the rest days of that nation to make it easier for the people that came by they 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 'd that we still see that 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 an expensive sport to get into i'm in the hornet they do that i think the war occlusive they will 'd become 2020 world cup encounter and 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 catch our world caps generation and mazing legacy project live sessions are being streamed online every day the broadcasts include training routines that can be done at home and interviews with and legends at the gut. it's basically for you know that the children that are at home even adults and about that also around the world that you know can and can easily get some you know advice on keeping you know that and healthy and you know

maintaining you know obviously because we're all at home right now and so so the idea is that you know we all want to be safe and we all want to stay at home. but you know we all 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 mental and. emotional as well a lot of the academy's going to touch with us from all parts of the world. and other n.g.o.s that also work in the field the you know sports for development so it's a great on a c.r. it's a good opportunity to sort of be at this time with with the current you know crisis of over 19. you know having this in gauge with online where you know we interact with different people from all parts of the world ok great staff and that is all your sport for now much more coming up later but for now it's back to you sam thanks farai. that brings us to the end of this news hour but i'm back in

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outside walls in 1978 and what are you. talking had a native language translated for us into portuguese remembers it well she says they brought diseases that decimated the community but that. we had a lot of land and we lived peacefully now you live with fear that are very few firsts the invaders are coming closer it's difficult to gauge why a place so remote so tranquil should not so so much to the rest of the walls indigenous people who live here have always realized it but now is the smoke those the skies and the ashes pollute the river the rest of the world is beginning to realize it too. when diplomacy fields and fear sweeps in our borders are wide open wide open to drugs terrorists we've proven that barriers are built to impose division and it's not effective instead of being an obstacle or tornado wastes into

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