a diverse range of stories from across the globe from the perspective of our network's journalists on al-jazeera. the arab. the as. the battle continues but the data suggest that they should what we have passed the peak or new cases president trump insists many u.s. cities will reopen soon despite a record 2000 more americans dying from coronavirus in the last 21 years. a watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back also ahead. this is going to come in waves and it's getting more and more mutations it's affecting newborn

suspecting younger people we speak to a frontline doctor in the us where the death toll has now climbed to over 28000 plus back to class but with caution denmark becomes the 1st european country to reopen schools but some parents at concerned and how long will we need to keep social distance measures in place one study suggests much longer than most of us would like. to thank you very much for joining us donald trump says the number of new corona virus infections in the u.s. is slowing that's despite a record number of 2300 americans killed by the virus in just 24 hours trump says he'll unveil plans to reopen the economy on thursday and that some states may be back in business before the end of this month. putting euro to no will be opening up states some states much sooner than others and we think some of the states can

actually open up before the deadline of may 1st and i think that will be a very exciting time indeed governors are looking for their chomping at the bit to get going again not all states are the same they're very different some are having very little problem some of done such a good job that they have very little problem and they're ready to go our president trample so continued his attack on the world health organization suggesting it deliberately misled the world in the early stages of the outbreak causing many deaths on wednesday he announced a halt in funding to the w h l which is leading the global response to the pandemic tragically other nations put their trust in the w.h.o. and they didn't do any form of ben and you see what happened in italy you see what happened to spain you see what happened to france w h o's guidance had failed to control their borders at

a very crucial phase quickly unleashing the contagion around the world there was a horrible tragic mistake or perhaps they knew i'm sure they didn't know the gravity of it but perhaps they knew because if they knew the gravity that would be an even worse offense well the u.n. agency has responded to trump's criticism with a call for unity when we divided the virus exploits the cracks between us we are committed to serving the will of his people and to accountability for the resources with which we're interested in due course w. chose performance in tackling this pundit mic will be reviewed by w 2 as member states and the independent bodies start our employees to each will try to spot and see an accountability. but for tomorrow our focus my

focus is on stopping this virus and saving lives while nearly 640000 people in the u.s. have been infected with cove it 19 and over 20000 have died new york is still on the frontline of the pandemic with the highest number of reported infections and deaths and even though you infections seem to have slowed in recent days hospitals they're a stretch to breaking point. so it's 5 am i'm still on my overnight shift and we're seeing plenty of khurana virus cases some some people as young as in their twenty's. and people as world is in their eighty's. a couple of people who've been enmity intensive care unit i think the best success story that we've seen this evening was somebody who had an oxygen saturation. that

was 48 percent when the ambulance got there and it's on the patient is not doing much better is going to go to intensive care but doing much better so. it's a relief to get to seed stories like that i think the most. interesting or bizarre presentation was somebody who came in with a leg cramps. and it turns out they're coronavirus so we were just seeing people with all kinds of symptoms. just so so a wide variety of the thing was we had to watch change or visit our policy this week so previously it was no visitors were allowed because we're worried that we were protection even to spread the disease. and. we decided to change it or patients where. they're very near the end of life because we want to give them the numbers the opportunity to be with their patients on them and so we're we're making some some changes and trying to accommodate and so on. so that

people don't have to die alone i think that that's one of the most tragic pieces of this disease is because it's so contagious. but people do end up just dying alone and we're really trying to do whatever we can to to make it a little bit better. parikh penny is a doctor of internal medicine in new york city he says more efforts need to be made to protect health workers and contain the outbreak. one thing that really stuck out to me is that and i try to you know tell my colleagues and how contagious this was that you needed ebola level of quitman like hazmat suits respirators that purify the air meaning that you know the big contention is this droplet or airborne and clearly we're seeing some airborne component because this is how contagious this disease was and it was spreading and unfortunately been affecting hospital health care workers and such we need the cill these are only kogut only right because the

level of the quitman and protection for our health care workers needs to be at lat level i think you've seen videos out of china and italy they're wearing like spacesuit level stuff and in order to do that like you need to have a dedicated floor facilities dedicated like basically hermetic style quarantines right space that you need negative pressure ventilation you need sliding doors like they see in star trek right it seals it because this thing is so contagious it gets out that you can breathe it in you can take it in your eyes you know all these sorts of things and i think opening economies too soon the other update they had given me was that you know we need to continue this for several more months at least 3 months to even 8 months because if people go soon if you go back this is going to come in waves and it's getting more virulent more mutations it's affecting newborns inspecting younger people you're not going to have an economy that no one's going to want to go out. year now in france has reported

a huge number. in the number of corona virus deaths 1400 fatalities were reported on wednesday and that's taken the nationwide death toll to more than 17000 the government says the latest figures include deaths from recent days that hadn't been reported the number of intensive care patients has dropped for a 7th consecutive day giving some signs of hope and the early 700 same as a francis shows the gold aircraft carrier have tested positive for coal that 19 many of them were on the carrier when it returned to a port in too long on monday at least 31 sailors have been hospitalized german chancellor angela merkel has extended nationwide social distancing measures until may 3rd while some small shops and businesses will be allowed to reopen starting next week she says germany has achieved a par francia will success against the outbreak knowledge public gatherings so remain bought until the end of all this elsewhere in europe sweden has reported

a shopping crease in the number of fatalities with 170 people killed by the virus on wednesday that's up from 114 the previous day so far sweden has not impose a total lockdown compared to other european countries more than $1200.00 people have died of the virus say and nearly $12000.00 have tested positive always is in mama and says the government claims the figures don't paint an accurate picture. 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 stockholm in lockdown 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 who some of the elders were the some of the initial people to die in the corona crisis. been pointed out by the health agency one of the worst affected parts of society and as they told me they can work

from home that taxi drivers their bus drivers there their nurses they have to go out to work on the frontline and they are being heavily affected now. schools and nurseries are free open in denmark as it begins to rely on restrictions it's among the 1st in europe to try a gradual reopening in order to get the economy back on track but many parents say it's too soon and i've kept their children at home see me john reports from copenhagen a long awaited reunion a school principal welcomes back his students after a whole month i have really missed my school and i'm excited to meet my teachers and friends to see them again is a very very big pleasure but much has changed social distancing is still required and parents are no longer allowed to drop off their children inside the school worried about the kids and. i'm happy on words or sometimes however excited the

kids are to see their friends again. hugging is not allowed. instead they have to wash their hands. properly calibrated and sit in the classroom 2 metres apart which requires spreading the children to more rooms been out hiring. young students to come in and supply our normal stuff so i have enough stuff apart from school no shoes are also opening today but only half of them are ready to welcome kids due to the new health requirements with extra cleaning less furniture and more outdoor classes. the rest will open in the coming days. the kitchen is closed it says this used to be the kitchen area for children having breakfast in the morning it's only ringback kids under 11 years old who are back at schools in denmark the rest are still at home and these are the

lockers for the kids their jackets and shoes are here but they're no longer allowed to be here in order to avoid them standing too close to each other. while the children here are happy being back those. thousands of parents are refusing to send the kids to school monday i'm responsible not the state not the kindergarten not i'm responsible for catching will keep the children at home from school for the next few weeks perhaps months or worried about their hours of course and we've been protecting our kids for the last months like mad and now they're supposed to go ahead of it all and i'm also worried about the scenario they'll meet based on fear and distance which is not natural for a child. back at the school it's time for a short break molly you might you might have don't get too close to each other but the children are only allowed to play in small groups of 4 and i feel bad for the kids because they want to play together and they're not allowed to play together.

see me john copenhagen. still ahead on al-jazeera. it is inspiring to see how quickly people figure out a way to do something that was needed and faced with a shortage of medical supplies and equipment new yorkers take matters into their own hands. is to go to a local who was. bullied. and meet the veteran who raised in $11000000.00 for the u.k.'s national health service by walking in his garden. hello welcome to look at the international focus on places i've got some quasi

weather now pushing into the deep south of the us still a few showers longer spells of right just around the panhandle they're in the process of pulling out of the way. spring sunshine for many we have still got some cool air to the east side of the rockies just one celsius there in denver with some rain some pieces of sleet just pushing a little further east was a little easier to wards the central plains as we go on through the next couple of days there you go abroad as guys do come back and behind not too bad over towards the the western side of the u.s. but the temperatures down to race in valleys 90 degrees want to 2 showers there to southern parts of california want to say showers towards southern parts of mexico come across the caribbean slushy fog in fraud blue skies for the most part will see a few showers developing around the grates around tilly's over the next day his banjara pushing into cuba and maybe into jamaica you catch a sharrow to here want to see showers to the nicaragua costa rica and also into

panama my say the all share over towards the words i think a little was will be settled and sunny but plenty of sunshine in between will sunshine and showers but some of the top temperature of 27. i can string him along more for. my son the interesting. name for an organization created from statements population. before fighting for their land why did the p.l.o. fight for independence from arab neighbors. chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian home p.l.o. history and a revolution. route . for.

welcome back our top stories on al-jazeera donald trump says the u.s. has turned a corner and the number of new coronavirus infections is beginning to slow he says he'll unveil plans to reopen the economy on thursday but a record number of americans more than 2300 have been killed by kovi 19 in the past 24 hours and new york is still on the frontline of the pandemic with the highest number of reported infections and das and even though new infections seem sort of snowed in recent days hospitals say are at breaking point. and france has reported a huge jump in the number of coronavirus that's 1400 fatalities on wednesday and that's taken the nationwide death toll to more than 17 fouls. now u.s.

president donald trump has faced criticism for failing to coordinate with states during the pandemic particularly when it comes to providing medical supplies and equipment for frontline health workers unable to buy enough of what is needed new york has have taken matters into their own hands as christensen army reports. at a time when most new yorkers are staying home this warehouse is bustling with workers they once made signs and displays for major fashion houses but now they have a new job producing face shields used by medical personnel treating coronavirus patients boss mike to god i couldn't be prouder there is government programs for people who are unemployed and you know there everyone can make a new choice right now and they're there making choices to come here and do something. to help our 1st responders who are doing amazing things. less than one week after the mayor put out a desperate call for supplies to gaol and partly bad luck for shipping their 1st

order it is inspiring to see how quickly people figured out a way to do something that was needed and not just do it in a small way but do it a very big way to go as one of several companies that this industrial complex alone that's retooled its operation in response to the coronavirus now the city wants to produce task kids locally as well as productive gear. experts say millions more tests will be needed to make sure it's safe for everyone to go back to work and school this lab in indiana donated 50000 to new york hospitals now it's under contract to sell that many pearl week to the city and is pumping to establish more local production facilities if you. across the country to go in major cities this country can very very easily make a couple 1000000 of these and. working in the middle. if

a pandemic does require precautions like these temperature checks when employees show up to work. they say they're thankful to still have a paycheck in addition to not wanting to spend time at home. you know i don't know it's so nice to be able to give back. giving back in getting by but hardly business as usual. christian salumi al-jazeera new york now harvard researchers are warning that social distancing measures may need to stay in place to contain coronavirus until 2022 in a study published in the journal science a team of epidemiologists said if a vaccine is not developed social restrictions such as school closures bans on public gatherings and stay at home waters would be needed for the next few years the researchers said even if it looks like the virus has been eliminated surveillance will be needed as a resurgence could occur as latest 2020 for the world health organization also warns that the development of an effective vaccine is needed to fully interrupt

transmission of the virus stephen kistler is one of the lead authors of this latest hobbit report he says a 2nd wave of infections is a major possibility. the idea is that if we have one time social distancing which i think many of us were prepared for there's a very good chance that a large number of people will remain susceptible to infection and that means that when we reduce social distancing those years those people will become infected because the virus doesn't remember that we were sort of acting against it in the past so we'll see a resurgence of cases and as that happens critical care capacity in hospitals will reach its limit again and we'll have to enter social distancing again so it seems like naturally we're going to enter into this intermittent social distancing period and in order to reach a high enough level of immunity in the population to stop that our model suggests that it could take into 2022 so i think there are 2 scenarios that could play out the less likely one is that there's maybe far more in the unity of the population

already than we realize and that would suggest that there are lots of asymptomatic infections that lead to immunity that we simply haven't detected and if that's the case then we could do the social distancing we could lead out and then maybe there wouldn't be that big of a resurgence but i think for a couple of reasons that that's fairly unlikely i think it's much more likely that that basically the scenarios we've just talked about could play out we do one time social distancing and. the resurgent pete could occur and i think one of the biggest dangers of doing only one time social distancing is that we could push that peak into the winter when we have seasonal flu circulation and when the underlying sort of characteristics of spread are sort of favorable for corona virus like transmission and we could actually end up with an even larger peak potentially depending on the amount of seasonal variation that there is interns mission but that's again another unknown in other news nigeria could be facing the worst recession in more than 30 years the international monetary fund projects that africa's largest economy well shrank by 3.4 percent this year and that's because of

the carnival pandemic and global knock downs have pushed down the demand for oil and its prices as area which earns most of its foreign revenue from oil is expected to lose millions of jobs reports. the global 1000. to war on nigeria its main resources oil demand and the market price is falling walt white adding to the crisis a dispute between major producers saudi arabia and russia which has driven prices to their lowest level in nearly 2 decades although world producers have agreed to cut production in order to shore prices there's been no significant rises yet it's not going to be easy for us and that what the president as don was the president told us is it doesn't want. development projects to solve we've taken a lot of preemptive steps and we're very confident that would be shielded from some

of these losses be an aspect that nigeria cut its daily output from point 1000000 dollars to 1800000000 before the oil producers meeting a few days ago. and the new agreement has forced another cut in production by a father 417000 barrels a day. economists say this is leading to plant closures and job losses which there is to meet to be between 15 and 30 percent for now so companies that may have a stellar record now nobody knows where that will eat. their food at the end of the object that has a lot and absolutely awesome month to be up there yet. experts say even for those able to keep their jobs that are no guarantees of doing that for long. generous assertion is projected to continue into next year though at a slower rate representatives of organized labor here are concerned entry into jobs

. injury. too many already guess injury to life and they want to have insurance you both know. the national bureau of statistics report of 2900 said nigeria had 23 percent unemployment in 2018 but one official admitted that the number could top 33 percent this year and that was even before the current $1000.00 pandemic and a sharp decline in all demand and pricing the nigerian government is cutting its 2020 budget estimates by merely 40 percent with negative implications on financing development and job creation i report from the world bank predicts africa's economy will lose between $37.00 to $79000000000.00 in output this nigeria in particular is expected to account for a substantial part of that loss more bad news for

a country which only 2 years ago emerged from its worst recession since 1987. al-jazeera. a parliamentary election in south korea has resulted in a big win for president governing democratic party south korea was one of the 1st major countries to hold a general election during the global corner virus pandemic many voters see it as a referendum on the government's handling of the crisis rob mcbride reports from seoul. as soon as polls opened it became clear people were turning out in large numbers if they were worried after weeks of social distancing they didn't seem to show it. i think they're doing it quite safely i think they're taking measurements they're doing it quite right. there koreans and people around the world are equally concerned but we shouldn't cancel we should hold elections regardless 2 days of early voting last week so record numbers of voters including coronavirus patients

able to vote in specially segregated polling stations special arrangements are also being made for the thousands of south koreans currently in self quarantine to leave their homes and vote so long as they're not showing symptoms at the end of regular polling some stations are being kept open just for that. this outbreak has changed the way candidates campaign and what they're campaigning on. the issue of north korea has been significant in all elections until now tell young ho used to be the north korean deputy ambassador in london until his defection and has now won election in south korea's most affluent district gangnam everything is buried by a quiet 19 outbreak a north korean issue national security issues are no exceptions to this current situation the leader of a minority opposition party and charles to

a medical doctor by training volunteered to help out in the daegu epicenter for 2 weeks and his party's popularity has improved version 3rd. and president who in jail in was lagging in the opinion polls with domestic scandals and poor economic performance until his handling of the outbreak which has been widely viewed as a success one of them led i got more interested in the. selection because of coronavirus and i'm looking at how politicians are responding to us. new mexico not its own and can do it hoshi president moon has handled the outbreak well i'll vote accordingly. a majority of the electorate it seems agreed this ballot giving louis governing democratic party a convincing win and giving south koreans a further most stone in the long struggle back to normal life robert brought out his era so. british war veteran has raised more than $11000000.00 for the

u.k.'s national health service captain tom moore was hoping to connect around a $1000.00 by walking $100.00 laps of his garden before his 100th birthday at the end of the month but his drive clearly captured the public mood and the money hasn't stopped rolling in captain moore says he'll keep walking as long as people keep donating to his bed for those in the front line of the battle against gov it 90 the so good so too full of food from. own. good now when if you look. to through well lou call. it was a brave and. now a year after a devastating fire the great battle of paris says notre dame cathedral has rung out again.

it was sounded on wednesday to mock the ring is the resilience of the building and that of the french people battling the coronavirus epidemic while the country is under lockdown the official choir of the cathedral created a virtual tribute to notre dame with a performance from their homes to mock one year since the fire. play again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera donald trump says the u.s. has turned a corner and the number of new coronavirus infections is beginning to slow he says he'll unveil plans to reopen the economy on thursday but i reckon number of americans more than 2300 were killed by the virus in the past 24 hours. the data suggests that they should what we have passed the peak or new cases

hopefully that will continue and we will continue to make great progress these encouraging developments of put a sort of very strong position to finalize guidelines for the states on reopening the country which will be announcing we're going to be talking about that tomorrow . well the head of the world health organization says he regrets a decision by president trump to hold funding to a u.n. agency but w.h.o. says its main focus is fighting the coronavirus sean has accused the body of mishandling the pandemic response new york is still on the front line of the pandemic in the u.s. with the highest number of reported infections and deaths even though new infections seems to be slowing in recent days hospitals they're breaking points nearly 700 sale is in france's shows the goal naval group have tested positive for coal that 19 many of them were on the aircraft carrier when he returned to port

into law on monday france has reported a huge jump in the number of koran a virus that's with 1400 fatalities on wednesday nigeria could be facing the worst recession in more than 30 years the i.m.f. projects africa's largest economy will shrink by 3.4 percent this year because of the coronavirus pandemic and a global lock down sort of push down the demand for oil and its prices and other news upon entry election in south korea has resulted in a big win for president governing democratic party south korea was one of the 1st major countries sold a general election during the global pandemic many voters see as a referendum on the government's handling of the crisis those are the headlines on al-jazeera as always spente more news on our web site al-jazeera dot com coming up next it's a program p.l.o. history of a revolution stay with us. as corona virus continues to devastate the united states

the race to the white house goes on joe biden has all but secured his place is the democratic nominee but can he beat donald trump joining us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. in 1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since.