today. on the beach is declared an essential activity and a u.s. state that moves to ease coronavirus confinement branded dangerous. hello again i missed on here today and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up turkey overtakes neighboring iran as the country with the highest number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the middle east. a rush to boost testing in france as it's just weeks away from loosening lockdown ordinance.

and music with a serious message how global stars are helping health care what kids must lose we need to strengthen. the systems in the world. now the vexing question of when to ease coronavirus down restrictions is dividing the epicenter of the pandemic us president keeps pushing a positive message saying there are signs that that 19 has passed its peak but experts warn that moving too fast could be disastrous and you got a guy is in florida with that story. after weeks of stay at home hundreds flocked to the reopened beaches in jacksonville florida the medical of this country. move

as essential activity even as a state hit more than 27000 coronavirus cases it's what authorities call a pathway back to normal life. but in other parts of the u.s. the scenes a very different across the country a small but growing protest movement is calling for restrictions to be eased from utah to wisconsin in both republican and democratic led states people are taking to the streets urging a return to normal life we are still a free country at least for now and people have to make a decision and that's their personal decision if they don't want to be 6 feet apart or 7 peter peter parker i can't i can't dictate to that to them despite declaring that individual governess are in charge president donald trump seemed to encourage the protests in a series of tweets on friday all 3 states have democratic governor as his tacit support is seen as deeply political in a time of crisis i know it is there are

a lot of protests out there and i just think that some of the governors have gotten carried away you know we have a lot of people that don't have to be told to do what they're doing they've been really. doing everything we best and in new york the epicenter of the pandemic measures to ease restrictions still far off the state's governor says this is no time to play politics how does the situation get worse and get worse quickly if you politicize all that emotion we can not go there. that's where works so hard when anyone raises any political agenda to me i work so hard to distance myself from it. some states are beginning to ease restrictions many are still battling the coronavirus and testing is in short supply the desire to get back to some kind of normal is clear the careful approach to doing so vital

thank you very much a nation divided it was perhaps inevitable the politics would play a part no matter what challenges lie ahead throughout this crisis the mantra has been we're in it together but any sense of unity now seems to be falling apart conservatives believe the cure is worse than the disease others and used to be a more science based approach the fact remains many states a yet to peak in their coronavirus cases the decisions governors make now will be crucial but that hasn't stopped some trying to score political points gallacher al-jazeera miami florida well donald trump is also accused of stoking islamophobia after raising questions about social distancing and mosques during the holy month of ramadan white house correspondent can be happy as has. there are increasing questions about a retreat by u.s. president trump on saturday accusations he may be stoking islamophobia in the united states the reach we reads let's see if authorities enforce the social

distancing orders for mosques during ramadan like they did churches during easter i asked the president about this retreat here's what he had to say i didn't put him back on this monster to follow so i think i just had a call with a mom so i just had a call with ministers rabbis we had a tremendous call with the faith leaders no i don't think that at all i am somebody that believes in faith and it matters not what your faith is but our politicians seem to treat different faiths very differently and they seem to think and i don't know what happened with their country but. the christian faith is treated much differently than it was and i think it's treated very unfairly now when it comes to enforcing social distancing the department of justice did take on the case of at least one church in mississippi where worshipers attended in their automobiles with

the car windows rolled up the department of justice said that these worshippers were simply exercising their right under the 1st amendment of the u.s. constitution now many in the united states watching very carefully to see if this same effort will be applied when it comes to those who may want to celebrate during ramadan which begins in the u.s. on thursday. well now turkey has overtaken iran as the country with the highest recorded number of 1000 cases in the middle east the latest figure has pushed it up to the ape highest in the world just off to china coronavirus and taki has also killed nearly a 1900 people more than 82000 and factions have been confirmed nearly 3800 of those cases but diagnosed just in the past 24 hours a lockdown there has now been extended for 15 days for having traveled between fasc of takis biggest cities and allie aspect of meth is the managing editor of daily

sab an english language newspaper in taki and he says that residents are complying with lockdown measures and a broadly happy with the government's handling of the crisis majority of the people regardless of what 'd court or party they come from even if they do have some sort of criticism they support the way the way the government has handled this this issue in fact the trust for for the for the health minister for example has been. skyrocketing like no other ministers before how he has handled the information sharing the transparency with regards to that has been largely supported by the public and in fact the reason why. you know of course the numbers are rising in turkey and this has a lot to do of course with our population with the numbers of testing and you know it has passed u.n. our neighbor but if you look at the testing numbers we have done tookie has done double the tests in iran so far and the measures prior to the 1st case in

turkey are significant post 1st case and treat when it comes to treatment for example 'd the situation of the health care 'd system in turkey is not comparable to its neighbors. in the neighboring region. so yes there there 'd is there will be some criticism regardless or the government is . there maybe it's a role for a project to do but i think overall if you look at the big picture 2 years and all this. in a successful way well health care centers and latin america's worst affected countries are being pushed to the limit hospitals in the continent's largest country brazil under increasing strain and the health care system is collapsing and ecuador's biggest city tourism reports. coffins laid one next to the other in what jackie the capital of war yes province called weed 19 has left

thousands of people dead here in the past few weeks that we just father was one of them but when he went to the overwhelm or to recover him he opened a body back to find the person inside wasn't his father. i told them type the name of that man that's not my dad where is my father i asked they told me it's impossible to find him so come inside the morgue and see if it's him we open the body bags and some of them are women but my dad wasn't there. coronavirus has cost the health care system in was a queue to collapse the government revealed this week that almost 6700 people died the 1st 2 weeks of april when there is normally 1000 the problem is that most of those who died were not tested experts say that figures in latin america may not be realistic because there is not enough testing accessing testing kits it's a major challenge for most governments in the region more data is what will allow

countries in latin america adapt to what is happening on the ground. an investigation carried out by a consortium of universities and researchers revealed that brazil he's likely to have 12 times more cases of the new corona virus than he's being officially reported by the government this video from a mouse in the state of our shows bodies lying next to patients being treated for coleridge 19 hospitals in brazil's major cities are struggling to cope. but i came to the hospital with my brother and after that i did not receive any other information the clothes he was wearing were the clothes he kept a lack of hospital beds intensive care units and medical gear has been a major cause for concern not only in brazil but also in the region that's why experts say testing needs to increase to prevent the spread of the virus. i think testing needs to be more aggressive than in europe or southeast asia because we

have a population that has preexisting conditions like diabetes high blood pressure and it's not only affecting their lowly testing is what allows you to plan accordingly if not it's like driving in the dark. most governments in the region say testing is a major challenge because of lack of logistics and resources and with cases on the rice it's a struggle that for most countries has just begun. when a site is a senior british government minister has called suggestions that prime minister barak johnson skipped critical coronavirus meetings early in the outbreak quote grotesque questions emerged about the government's preparedness during the build up to the pandemic following a report from the sunday times the conservative leaning british newspaper wrote that johnson did not attend a series of emergency meetings they article says the government missed opportunities to try to nessun the impact and february and march. now

a growing number of private clinics and a bar trace in france are offering coronavirus tests but public hospitals are a long way from offering widespread screening and that could delay government plans to loosen the lockdown in the middle of next month that reports in the northern french city of this private laporte 3 tests for corona virus using blood samples the equivalent of $30.00 people without a prescription can find out within a week if they are or have been infected the test measures antibodies that are created to help the immune system fight infection or be detected the body is in a phase of active infection which means the virus is present and antibodies are developing if the test is negative the person is either not infected all there in the incubation period so it's too early to see the antibodies the test can also show if you came into contact with the virus a few weeks ago because the body has developed specific antibodies some health experts say the blood tests can help track cases but

a less reliable than the nose and throat swab tests favored by the government and while private testing is growing in france it's not enough to fill the shortfall in the public health system the french health minister says france tests are 150000 people a week half the number in neighboring germany since the beginning of the health care crisis in france there haven't been enough testing kids in the countries that means that only people in hospitals like this one or in care homes for the elderly are being tested for coronavirus presence emanuel macro admitted france wasn't prepared for the crisis that said the country will be in a position to test widely in a month when the government plans to loosen its lock down. me. our capacity to buy may live and we will be able to test everyone who shows symptoms we're not going to test everyone in france that would make no sense but everyone with the symptoms needs to be able to be tested that way people with the virus can

be quarantined looked after and monitored by a doctor one of use this doctor says the testing is key but so is more research into understanding the coronavirus. what we're missing is research on infected people how people are infected the virus in different regions and how widely the virus is circulating in the population these studies haven't been done. the french government has ordered millions of tests from companies in europe and asia and boosted domestic production but unless it has the capacity to carry out widespread testing in may to track and isolate corona virus patients easing the lockdown could put people at risk of a 2nd wave of infections and it's actually popular al-jazeera france. well we have more coronavirus coverage coming up on al-jazeera plots decision time in my voting days ahead despite the kidnapping of an opposition leader.

balancing face not all chats going from a distance. ahead of their clients a north face across europe at the moment we go to break out across the north but really for the most part it's about all of this weather which is continuing to push in across the west and eventually the central mediterranean now this is has been in place the last couple of days widespread rain some thunderstorms across portugal and spain but now making its way through sunday across the southern areas over from within this rain we could have some fairly severe thunderstorms there's always the threat of severe wind gusts as well and large damaging hail so it's a very messy picture for the 2nd day over the weekend to the north meanwhile we've got most to case guys some pretty cool temperatures some nice amounts of sunshine

as well and that will stay generally the picture as we go through monday quite a bank of trad across eastern europe and the rain continue to work its way into western areas of russia moving across the black sea but look at this this is what i mean about how extensive this rain is and certainly all monday the central med italy in particular really seeing some very heavy amounts of rain not just there though we've seen very heavy rain continue to push through northern areas of algeria this will work its way north was as we go through sunday more showers across much of morocco and then all of this news to the north and it gets really caught up in the system in the central med so again very heavy amounts of rain pushing on monday across into tunisia and further to the south of there some very strong gusty winds. back to. talk to al jazeera we ask what you will force work when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you have been to go build you know

the stage of you know what we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera save humanity i really really not getting anywhere near it. you know again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour pressure is mounting on u.s. governors to ease coronavirus lockdown rules protests encouraged by donald trump have been held in several states for the 3rd day in a row the president says some states will begin easing restrictions as as monday.

turkey has replaced iran as the middle eastern country with the highest number of reported infections close to $3800.00 were diagnosed in the last 24 hours raising the total to more than $82000.00. and or thirty's in the ecuadorian city of quiet killed a struggling to bury people who died from cricket 19 the government says almost 6700 people have died so far this month. let's bring you some of the news now and 44 prisoners found dead in a cell in chad appeared to have been poisoned or was suspected members of the armed group boko haram they were arrested following the killing of $98.00 soldiers in the chaldeans army's largest one day law loss last month or top seize on 4 bodies found traces of a lethal substance also in chad 5 civilians died when a warplane on the ground accidentally fired a missile take

a look at this the rocket shot through a fuel truck narrowly missed another fighter jet and then his house next to the air base children are among the dead and the capital injured mena now polls have opened for the 2nd round of legislative elections in mali the government went ahead with the vote despite the kidnapping of an opposition leader and threats from fires as a link to al qaeda nicholas hoch reports. wanting to bring change to mali is what brought 1st time parliamentary candidate how to politics fear is what is preventing him from campaigning in his constituency in the central region where al qaeda affiliates are telling people not to vote because brother is in the moment was abducted days before the 1st round a warning to those taking part in these elections. i am scared i had to hide to visit my own constituency and i am scared because there is nobody to keep us safe i

am scared because if they have abducted our opposition leader for more than 21 days now they could even abducted president they can take anyone they want. the government's mediator was kidnapped while negotiating for the release of opposition leaders from my list you see who was abducted while campaigning in the country's north it's unclear which group is behind the kidnapping but they're demanding around some of $80000000.00 for several weeks al-qaeda affiliate thought to be someone was lean mean and the stomach stayed in the greater sorrow have been fighting each other for control of land and resources in mali's north and central region. is a full on the herder who's escape the violence joining hundreds of thousands of others displaced in the capital bamako they have turned this cattle market and slaughterhouse into makeshift camps. i am not afraid this time of day for my country and i am also elected m.p.'s to find a solution in this conflict so we can go. degree of years

vote will be rigged in the 1st round he says no one dared to vote in his constituency but local officials say there was an 80 percent turnout with the ruling party winning the majority of the votes in the 2nd round of this election millions will have to brave the threat of armed groups and the corona virus outbreak while the stakes for the country are high taking part in the vote has not just become risky and dangerous it can also be fetal nicholas hawk al jazeera. now soldiers in the series who are back in their barracks after prime minister thomas to bonnie ordered them onto the streets to in his words deal with rogue individuals they were on patrol in the capital maseru on saturday to bonnie has been under mounting pressure after appearing in court last month and denying organizing the murder of his a strange wife 3 years ago. and libya's un recognized government forces are battling to recapture a stronghold of all old cliff hafta the western city of tire who knows where many

of his men come from the government forces say they killed 10 of have to capture dozens and in retaliation have to us forces intensified shelling on residential areas in tripoli our correspondent went up there while had reports from there rockets launching point forces loyal to have to get injured civilians in several districts of libya's capital. the barrage of rockets was in the retaliation for the offensive by those backing a deal and that ignites the government in tripoli to recapture the whole now. this city around 90 kilometers south east of tripoli is have towards a major stronghold in the west of the country and the operations headquarters of the year long campaign to capture the capital. and. we've

launched this attack to cut the supply line coming to their positions in southern tripoli we advance to 27 kilometers inside the administers of borders of thought who are and are now in control of the area. where the. government forces say they killed some pro have to the fighters and captured dozens of prisoners in saturday's advance on top of whom. we had fallen from several axes we captured a number of their forces weapons and military vehicles the move was ordered by our operation room we will win the battle. the majority of have to his forces fighting in the suburban of southern tripoli come from tara who now many of them abandoned their battle to seize tripoli to return home to defend their city the pullout has helped the government forces make gains in other front lines past us forces it lost

many areas along the coast of western libya last week the battle for the horn or is seen as crucial because if it falls into the hands of the internationally recognized the government signals the dell and fall of have to as forces in the entire area. tripoli. returning to the corona virus pandemic and the number of confirmed cases in japan has doubled in just 10 days 568 new cases were reported on sunday raising the total there to more than 11000 and further rises are expected as more testing is done the state of emergency in tokyo in 6 other areas has been expand expanded now nationwide and it's a very different story in south korea where the daily tally of new infections has fallen to single digits for the 1st time in 2 months just 8 new cases were

confirmed and the government's been praised for its widespread testing program to decompile and has more on the situation in asia from from hong kong. it's been a remarkable turnaround for south korea which at the beginning of this year became the epicenter of the coronavirus after china with increase new infections increasing up at about a 1000 a day south korea's managed to get that in control by still avoiding the extreme lock downs we've seen in other parts of the region what they've done instead is aggressive testing they pioneered the drive by drive in testing centers phone booths like testings told her daughter to across the country and they've managed to track and trace high risk people or people who are in quarantine from porn a virus using technology using their credit card transactions and their phone usage so it seems to have worked rather than the lock downs and social distancing major

social distancing measures we have seen worked so well in fact in the past 2 weeks south korea became the 1st country to hold major elections during this pandemic but the government is warning that people should not drop their guard they should still remain cautious and in fact the korean center of disease control has warned that they've been seeing a number re infections about 160 people who had recovered from corona virus and now again testing positive so what's made it clear is that there is still a lot on known about this virus and the dangers still remain but also adults christians are celebrating easter the most important holiday on the calendar and a very different conditions this year but coronavirus restrictions didn't prevent the faithful from finding ways to join traditional midnight sadness is in the garry and many washed up has gathered outside the cathedral in the capital safina despite government advice to stay at home the head of the orthodox church they lead an open

air 7 ball the congregation will last and catch their distance from each other. well in greece with churches close the faithful gathered on their balconies to celebrate together nomi $2000000.00 greeks travel to their hometowns to celebrate the holiday. but it was a very different picture as you can see in georgia to believe see cathedral was packed with worshippers all standing 2 meters apart as the patriarch led to the east to set this they then had to remain inside the church until the night the curfew ended at 6 am. all music talent and hope united millions for an online charity concert in the fight against coronavirus some of the biggest names in the music industry joined forces to honor health care workers around the world the event has raised $15000000.00 so far for the u.n.

coded $1000.00 response fund the tory occasion be reports. everybody's performed for huge crowds in stadiums bought on saturday night stevie wonder sang from his living room the fans watching in that as superstars of the music world were united in a common cause in a time of crisis. must tell our leaders that we need them to strengthen the health care systems all round the world so that crises like this never happens again. the one world concert organized by lady gaga and the charity global citizen is the biggest music event says the coronavirus shut down concerts and spurred a flurry of live streamed performances by quarantine musicians who have been humbled by the bravery and selflessness of doctors nurses and other key workers. to

those in the food industry the memory workers mail carriers and sanitation who are working so that we can be safe in our homes we thank you for yourself mr. black america disproportionate belong to be's and central parts of the workforce and do not have the luxury of working. this concert is being compared inevitably to live a the 1985 benefit organized by bob geldof to raise money for starving ethiopians the question of how much concert such as these benefit the people they aim to help is always hotly debated but organizers say this concert is about entertainment and solidarity at a time when many people are living under lock downs what i'd like to do tonight if i can and just give him a permission to pharma. bring.

the concert has raised tens of millions of dollars safe for the un's cleavage 90 response fund it's also focused attention on health care workers who in many people's eyes other real stones victoria gay to be al jazeera. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines pressure is mounting on u.s. governess to ease coronavirus lockdown rules with protests encouraged by donald trump held now in several states for the 3rd day in a row and the president says some states will begin easing restrictions as early as monday florida has already started as a gallagher reports from miami well this is in jacksonville in the north of the

state and the city's mayor basically declaring that going to the beach and swimming in the ocean will part of essential services so those beaches did reopen in the last 24 hours and were immediately crowded by people who've been locked away for the past few weeks i'm not sure whether it was policed in any way whether people were staying in groups of 10 or less but this is really going to the heart of what's happening in each of these states is becoming a politicized thing turkey has replaced iran as the middle eastern country with the highest number of reported infections close to $3800.00 were diagnosed just in the last 24 hours raising the total to more than 82000 the lock down and turkey has been extended for another 15 days with travel prohibited between fasc of the largest cities. teens in the ecuadorian city of struggling to bury people who have died from covered 19 the government says almost $6700.00 people died there so

far this month. 44 prisoners found dead in a cell in chad appeared to have been poisoned all was suspected members of the armed group of boko haram they were arrested following the killing of 98 soldiers in the child the enemy's largest one day loss last month while also in chad 5 civilians died when a war plane on the ground accidentally fired a missile the rocket shot through a fuel truck a narrow mist another fighter jet and then hit a house next to the air base in the capital and to mena involved area also docks christians are celebrating easter many were supposed gathered outside the cathedral in the capital safina despite its government advice to stay at home. in greece with churches close the faithful gathered on their balconies to celebrate together while the headlines join me for more news here to talk to al-jazeera the us always of interest to people all right the world this is been going on for

a number of them with tear gas being used to stick. ugly reports stories from an international perspective we try to explain feel a little below the why it's important how this could impart be light at the height of this storm the water was so high we didn't vote by hey this is an important part of the world people pay attention to what we're going to hear not to give is very good news to the world from here it will be good to see. it's been over a month since code 19 was declared a pandemic. more than 120000 people have died and more than 2000000 are infected worldwide. the health emergency has also affected the global economy and diplomacy one of the countries that has been hardest hit by the pandemic is spain. it's had more than 80000 deaths despite the weeks long government imposed lockdown it's already weak.