we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas crossing the high peaks of the arctic circle to investigate people in power at the edge of the earth on al-jazeera. the earth the the earth. the w.h.o. says africa has yet to see the worst of the corona virus outbreak and hundreds of thousands could die if immediate action is not taken. you're watching out to 0 live from london i'm daryn obligato also ahead the pandemics hidden crisis hundreds of elderly people dying in care homes and italian facility is investigated markets react positively is a drug developed for ebola shows potential for treatment of patients with covert 19

and han where the outbreak began and the number of virus deaths are revised up by 50 percent. below africa has so far escaped the worst of the coronavirus pandemic but the united nations warns that won't last long it says that at least $300000.00 people will die when the virus takes hold there and that's unless hundreds of billions of dollars are spent the world health organization says the situation there is probably worse than thoughts in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent africa and a 60 percent increase in the number of reported does. with the current challenge of obtaining testing kits it's unlikely that the real numbers are higher than

reported but here are there are growing calls for more clarity on care home deaths that says italian police broaden their investigation into dozens of deaths at the country's largest rest home but there was good news from germany where the health minister announced the outbreak there had become controllable and china announced a drastic profession to the number of people killed 50 percent more in the city where the virus was discovered but that number has still been questioned including by the us president himself he's continued his fight against state governors to reopen his country's economy that's despite a staggering 4 and a half 1000 more deaths in the past day and he begins our coverage with the latest in europe. disinfecting a nursing home in both remote in the region at the center of this it is called big 98 outbreak these pictures show russian military doctors helping out their italian colleagues but a scandal now surrounds italy's largest nursing home in nearby milan where at least

143 people have died since the beginning of march families of residents there are demanding answers following reports medical staff was stopped from using protective gear prosecutors are now investigating that facility and more than a dozen others italy's officially recorded over 22000 coronavirus deaths but most care deaths are not included in some doctors suspect the real figure could be twice as high. in spain the government ordered the 17 autonomous regions to unify their criteria on counting the dead the official toll stands at almost 20000 but it doesn't take into account the deaths of people who had covered going to symptoms but were not tested including thousands of people who care whose. meanwhile in germany dramatic footage has emerged along with hopeful news here medics who grisoft to take to the coronavirus patient transport him by helicopter to a special isolation chamber nationally new figures show the number of people

infected by every person who called to going to school and from $1.00 to 0.7 in just a few days meaning transmission is slowing markedly germany has the world's 5th highest caseload but has kept fatalities relatively low thanks to early and extensive testing that was all this time toit or the outbreak has as of today become controllable and manageable again i believe the very encouraging figure is also that as of the 12th of april more people recover and get infected we currently have more than 80000 people who are recovered out of some 130000 who got infected based on figures from the robert caution to choose. while in portugal where the death toll is lower than 700 parliament has approved the president's request to extend the national state of emergency for another fortnight but will he has a can present extension of the state of emergency set in such a way to give time and room for the government to decide on criteria to study and

prepare for the gradual opening of society and the economy after the end of april. over in belgium they've also extended restrictive measures for 2 weeks in the capital brussels as part of a europe wide initiative the head chef an up market restaurant conscious work has been cooking meals to give to hundreds of homeless people not the regular dishes that cost up to $300.00 but they're welcome a small sign of how people are trying to make a difference and trying to cope with life under lockdown but al-jazeera so that's the situation in europe let's now bring in our white house correspondent kimberly halkett for an update from the united states 1st can really give us a sense of the scale of the coronavirus problems and care homes over at the u.s. . it continues to be a problem so much so that there are an increasing number of calls for the federal government to begin isolating their data with regard to krone virus deaths and infections to specify just how many of those are coming from care homes you have to

remember that the outbreak in washington state. where corona virus really started to take hold in the us occurred in washington state in a care home they went on to have dozens of deaths and we've seen that as recently as in new jersey where there has been a case even of bodies piling up and being discovered in fact sort of an effort because many of these care homes are in fact privately run and for profit there's been an attempt to kind of conceal now there have been efforts to mitigate all of this at the national level in terms of banning visitors to care homes even discouraging group activities but at the same time this still seems to be one of the most vulnerable populations the hope being if there could be transparency and data this could just sort of shed some daylight on the problem that really goes even broader than just krone virus but to the culture of kind of the western notion

of warehousing the elderly something that may need to be rectified in order to make sure that there are future outbreaks and and with the governor is now over in the u.s. really wrestling with how to open their states with pressure coming from the u.s. president on where we were valid and what of the governor saying. well there's been an awful lot of surprise if you will at some of the statements that have been coming from the u.s. president he's been tweeting throughout the day and he's been pointing the finger consistently at governors that they need to step up their testing specifically to andrew cuomo the governor of new york state that he asked for far more resorts is than he actually needed and most interestingly are a series of tweets that have come out sort of pointing the finger against democratic governors specifically in virginia in michigan and also in minnesota the u.s. president saying liberate those states now it's interesting for this president to

say this on a number for a number of reasons number one you remember just 5 days ago the u.s. president himself was acting like a bit of a dictator saying that he had the ultimate and total authority to reopen these economies now 5 days later he's saying let's liberate these states taking a completely opposite tact what's going on in those states essentially is that there is some protesting going on many of them are trump supporters who are protesting what they see as some of these agreed or arbitrary stay at home orders that they feel has gone too far that this is government overreach and so they're pushing back but again many people finding a bit of surprise given the fact that the u.s. president is now joining in this fight when he was making similar overreach you can say essentially himself just a few days ago. writes kimberly thank you very much for that update from the white house on the chinese city of will hon where the pandemic began the government has

now revised the number of deaths by 50 percent that's an addition of nearly 1300 victims who a provincial official said the number of deaths had been changed because of late reports from medical institutions and the fact that some patients had died at home the announcement has led to further questions from world leaders who accuse china of not being accurate about the scale of the outbreak. well the coronavirus pandemic has brought decades of extraordinary economic growth in china its warhawk its its gross domestic product shrank in the 1st quarter of this year for the 1st time since records began it comes as the government admitted more people died in the epicenter of the virus than originally thought katrina you has this report from beijing. the coronavirus pandemic has strained health systems around the world and now it's caused the uninterrupted growth of the world's 2nd largest economy to falter for the 1st time in decades for the 1st quarter of 2020 china's g.d.p.

contracted by 6.8 percent that's. the current external situation is more complex domestic demand remains comparatively weak companies still face difficulties such years insufficient demand and the drop in orders preventative measures so china's economic activity slowed to a trickle 2 months local infections have eased and some businesses and factories have resumed operations but many companies are on the brink of collapse feed this situation is dire or for disastrous for me i've got no idea how i can get through this year china's national statistics bureau says the economy the 2nd quarter and long term growth won't be affected but global demand plummeting its economy faces an uphill battle the pandemic has been spread out early so which leads to a lot of countries including the us and european countries into our recession so

our lead to the increase in demand of china's. china's central bank has cut interest rates and provided tax breaks and subsidies to businesses in need but at least say it would be enough to stabilize point finding work will be more difficult for graduates and migrant workers especially and well. economic growth has plummeted china's kovac 19 death toll has been revised upwards after a 4 movie review officials in the original at the center of increased the number by 1290 previous records were incomplete china's coronavirus count has been adjusted several times in recent months this latest change is the feeling suspicion of the accuracy of government to get as many critics believe that the official tally is about 82000 falls well short of the real numbers on the

ground between e.u. al-jazeera. now global stock markets are heading towards a 2nd straight week of gains after the u.s. president outlined his plans to reopen the country's economy it comes after indications from other countries like the u.k. that they're considering when businesses can restart its traders who are also hopeful after encouraging data on a potential treatment for a covert 19 let's get more on that from the who's joining us from jersey city that's over new jersey so the markets and investors are responding somewhat positively so hopes off a corona prospect of a coronavirus treatment. yeah that's right they've been saying actually for over a month now that there are 2 things that the markets and the traders want to see in order to get the the markets moving again in a positive direction and that's 2 things number one as a vaccine and number 2 they want the economy and business to reopen again not only

here in the united states but around the world and we're starting to perhaps see both of the 1st signs of both of those 1st with the vaccine you know this company out of chicago has been running these tests of this potential coronavirus vaccine rim deaths here is what it's called an early early reports are that showing very good signs well you know of course it hasn't run through all of its trials yet this is just one of dozens of pharmaceutical companies around the world that are trying to get a vaccine but this looks to be the potential front runner so far so the markets are responding to that that perhaps we could be seeing a vaccine a little sooner than we perhaps thought they were thinking to be 12 to 16 months well keep an eye on that and also word out of washington from president donald trump and others about perhaps opening up the economy again as early as the beginning of may both of those things now have given a boost to the markets all of the main indices on the new york stock exchange are

now in the green gaining off of these both of both of these issues here and meanwhile we understand that the curve continues to flatten over new york. it does the good news is that curve is flattening we just heard from the governor andrew cuomo and within the last couple hours or so he also said that the number of hospitalizations are down the number of people going into the i.c.u. intensive care unit is down and the people that are on ventilators is down as well that's a good news the bad news is that death toll in the past 24 hours has increased 630 new yorkers just in the last 24 hours have died from cope and 1000 that's up from 606 the day before still the death toll over 12000 so while the curve is flattening the death toll is still very much in the hundreds here in the epicenter in new york right deborah thank you for that update from jersey city. still to come on al-jazeera each step worth millions britons go the extra mile to raise money for

the health service but what is a tax funded system needed it's. following the fashion kenya's tailors rushed to make millions of mosques after wearing them becomes law. and there's also a very nice sunshine across well central areas of year we house a bit more crowded also seeing a little bit of rain pushing in across the west and that will be something we will see more of over the next few days that in the meantime have a look at this this was regal mco sesson lovely kiss guys and also thought the south into berlin and germany some very nice warm spring weather and head across into switzerland look at this leavin out results the road in between those fields of rape and that's like hist obviously enjoying the warm sunshine are plenty more

of that across central and eastern areas $22.00 celsius for you in vienna on a saturday but you'll notice out towards the west the rain really is coming in it's very very scattered but within this we could have some. heavier downbursts and sunny across into portugal and spain the rain really is that fairly persistent pushing across into the western end of the med and certainly by sunday that rain becoming quite heavy most of the areas of france and pushing across a tools corsica sardinia and on into actually but meanwhile to the north it is not too bad temper just beginning to improve in london with a high of a 17 some very heavy amounts of rain developing over the next 2 days really coming through mauritania pushing up towards algeria on saturday very heavy as we go through the last part of the weekend very unsettled through morocco and cooler about just 90. a policy imposed decades ago pregnant woman thought that she could selectively

goods and help people it's changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences of creating a poor of socially disadvantaged young men so you have a system where people at every level will be get being given money money to agree distro zation or money to get other people to be the services. al-jazeera examines the politics of population control. hello again the top stories on al-jazeera the world health organization warns africa could become the next epicenter of the corona virus outbreak the u.n. says it's likely the pandemic will kill at least 300000 people on the continent and

personally 30000000 into 5 or 30 there are growing calls for more clarity on care home deaths in europe as a ta and police broadened their investigation into. dozens of deaths of the country's largest rest home near milan where the national epidemic was at its worst global stock markets have made gains following earlier reports that an antiviral medicine in the united states a care to successfully treat severe symptoms for coronavirus patients. adama cain has been following developments from berlin and he says the restrictions put in place by the government there appear to be working. the german government is cautiously and quietly confident that the measures it has put in place these past many weeks are helping it to deal with the corona virus outbreak the pandemic in their country because they look at the data they look at the many many tests being performed in this country and are able to tap you late that and it tells them which

direction the coronavirus is going in let's be clear what's being done in the building behind the robert cock institute collecting all the data and making conclusions drawing conclusions on the basis of those many tests being performed and from their perspective they believe a positive turn has occurred. beautiful children so the basic reproduction number in germany is currently an average of 0.7 there are of course regional differences but it shows that the rate has decreased further so on average it means that at the moment not every and 50 individual has infected another person. on the basis of information like that the health minister yes sharon and his colleagues in cabinet are able then to take other measures and that explains why next week the restrictions on some freedom of movement will be loosened that's why people will be able to go to certain shops certain stores but also we need to be clear here there

is a still a large degree of caution in the governmental approach schools will not reopen until the 4th of may large demonstrations large social gatherings are still by and until but basically until the end of the summer so it's clear that although the government is cautiously confident there measures are still very much in place members of the ultra-orthodox jewish community in west jerusalem are angry at coronavirus restrictions and they have been they have been hurling objects at police they responded by throwing stun grenades one of which hit and injured a child the israeli government has placed a ban on gatherings of more than 10 people and stop communal prayers the australian government is paying 2 of its biggest airlines to maintain domestic flights over the next 8 weeks qantas and virgin australia will receive $105000000.00 to keep flying critical metropolitan and regional routes but the airlines say the money is

not enough virgin australia had itself requested nearly $900000000.00 in assistance . today's $165000000.00 announcement is going to mike the world of difference for those commuters who've come in from overseas done the 14 days of quarantine let me tell you if i landed in sydney and required to get back to perth with very limited services available it's a long drop in a hot car over the nullable and so that's going to mike a difference for them it's also of course going to have in those planes defense personal medical personnel but most importantly as will people and medical equipment as we reported earlier they w.h.o. is warning that the coronavirus pandemic could have a devastating impact in africa fewer than 20000 cases have been reported across the continent to date but the world health organization is concerned there could be 10000000 in the next 3 to 6 months nearly 27000000 people could be pushed into

extreme poverty by the outbreak that's the warning from the un's economic commission for africa and while the world food program says 4300000 people in zimbabwe alone were an urgent need of food before the pandemic amnesty says millions more will go hungry as it continues to spread well textile factories and tailors in kenya are scrambling to produce tens of millions of surgical masks after the government's made it compulsory to wear them in public catherine sawyer reports from nairobi. a few weeks ago 300 tailors at this factory in nairobi made clothes most are now on enforced leave because of the corona virus pandemic was left to workers stitching around 20000 protective facemasks a day the government has ordered that everyone must wear proper masks when out in public or pay a fine of $200.00 it's a job of tailless across the country to make sure there's

a constant supply at an affordable price the local authorities have only 35 the surgical ones but those are not very comical a fulfilling to have if one of the 4 devote every day for what we came up with is the clock moth. a few textile companies have also been commissioned to make other past more protective equipment for health workers but this young people in a neighborhood backyard on the outskirts of the city tell us they too can make protective 19 respond as they all recently lost their jobs as economy continues to suffer they've already made body suits like this one which they've distributed to a local health center here they tell us this is an extra layer of protection and is akin to helping with it and it all for her award. for different. and part of the country with groups. there and marks got a fresh for that occurring

a girl standard or forewarning or some of this product. for a 4th. their walk is not yet approved by the government's bureau of standards but they hope it will be soon is just like having your house on fire anything you put it down is good enough kenya has little experience in manufacturing medical supplies in mostly realize and imports from countries like china and foreign aid hospitals have around 500 ventilators many like this a private health facility are preparing isolation units one. pasand recently died of the disease. around $5000.00 popular catholic is not to be employed in the special units and those on the frontline will be regularly tested but some say it's not enough we have been raising the issue of. to be decided after the $14.00 to see it a 14 days to ensure that. we have been raising the issues of life insurance for.

health care workers that has not been disappointed about the minister for now it's a race to have everything in place using all needs of the people to deal with a pandemic that is causing so much distress across with kathy soliah nairobi kenya. well the u.n. says at least 30 to 32 civilians mostly women and children have been killed in military clashes and be in mars since late march a further 71 people have been injured fighting between the army and the insurgents erica an army and rakhine and chin states the un is saying main amar has conducted air strikes in populated areas on an almost daily basis the erica an army once greater autonomy for the region and around a quarter of 1000000 mars prison population is being released to mark the new year almost $25000.00 inmates are due to be released as part of the largest mass pardon in years the government spokesman says the release was not because of fears over

the corona virus which has led to 4 deaths in the country human rights watch has called on me in march to reduce its present population in an attempt to curb the spread of the disease stephen such as a resident representative of the international committee of the red cross in me and maher he says the prisoners release had to happen regardless of coronavirus. our teams actually were preparing for these really although it's been only announced at the last minute for quite a while already because the release which is taking place right now he's part of the annual president a minister and it's true that although we are now talking a lot about 19 these measure should have been taken in any case as far as we're concerned we are welcoming good because indeed we are passing right now from a total number of prisoners of around 100 cells 122-032-5000 less which is of course good news for the prisons because in the end not like in

many other places we know that in 3 sense conditions of access to house access to ventilation access to fresh air is usually quite challenging and these release of prisoners comes at the right time in terms of preparation of course you have to side by the authorities and to assist them to be sure that the people are returning home in a safe way which is real freeze for themselves a false in those times of potential if you damage but also free for their families and free of risk for the communities that are going back. while global pollution levels have fallen as people stay at home due to the coronavirus rampant wildfires have left ukraine's capital with the dirtiest air of any major city people in care for also worried about the threat of radiation as the blazes are near their churn noble nuclear plant sara hyrax reports. strong winds made it harder to tell these new fires new ukraine's to nobble nuclear power plant they aren't as

large as those that burned this month that's enough to push pollution levels i think you have needed 100 kilometers away making it the most polluted capital in the world right now according to the swiss monitor i.q. . another blaze that began on april 4 was finally patel to earlier this week police arrested a 27 year old man fallston these nasa images show the huge plumes of smoke from space wind blowing the smoke towards kiffen across the border into bella bruce the finds are near the site of the world's worst nuclear accident when a fire in a reactor forced tens of thousands to be evacuated from the area and so radioactive contamination spread across europe. ukrainian government insists there's no cause for concern for the forest fires because radiation levels have not spite that was a. little stances there was no threat to the nuclear power plant spent fuel storage and other critical facilities all citizens not to panic we remember the lessons of

april 26th 1906 and no one who hide the truth from the truth is that the situation is controlled via radiation background in the capital and in the key of regions is within normal limits subsidies we bounce environmental activists accuse the government of downplaying the risk of radiation and how big the fires were while forest fires a common the so-called exclusion zone near the site greenpeace russia says this month's fires have been the worst since the 1986 nuclear accident on friday. all fires across this noble area and neighboring regions around the health ministry has advised the needy 3700000 people in kiev to keep their windows closed to stop the smoke from causing breathing difficulties and other health problems. al-jazeera 3 astronauts have arrived back from the international space station to what they say is a very different planet to when they left last year the u.s.

and russian crew landed in kazakhstan after spending more than 200 days in orbit extra precautions were put in place for the recovery team who have been under close medical observation for nearly a month to ensure they were not at risk off infecting the crew now face a lengthy detour home with borders closed than countries in lockdown. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera the world health organization warns africa could become the next epicenter of the corona virus outbreak the united nations says it's likely the pandemic will kill at least 3 100000 people on the continent and pushed nearly $30000000.00 into poverty the u.n. secretary general and so on it's harris has said africa needs more than $200000000000.00 to combat the virus officials say poverty crowded urban conditions

and widespread health problems make africa particularly susceptible to the virus in the past week there has been a 51 percent increase in the number of reported cases in my own continent. and a 60 per cent increase in the number of reported does. with the current job doing . it's likely due to the numbers are high you reported there are growing calls for more clarity on care home deaths in europe. and police broaden their investigation into dozens of deaths at the country's largest rest home near milan where the country's epidemic was at its worst than the number of deaths in spain and the u.k. are also missing the total of those who have died in care homes global stock markets are heading towards a 2nd straight week of gains after the us president outlined his plans to reopen the country's economy traders were also hopeful after encouraging data on

a potential antiviral treatments for covert 19 in the chinese city of who han with a pandemic began the government has now revised the number of deaths by 50 percent that's an addition of nearly 1300 victims a provincial official said the number of deaths had been changed because of late reports from medical institutions on the fact that some patients had died at home smoke from wildfires near the church noble nuclear plant has pushed pollution levels in ukraine's capital to the worst in the world according to the swiss monitor i.q. where he have recorded the highest level of air contamination on friday giving millions of people another reason to stay indoors during the coronavirus law. you're up to date so with the headlines on al-jazeera more news coming up after risking it all that's next bike.