by. chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian on p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. first johnson and his government are accused of wasting crucial time and sleep walking into the u.k.'s coronavirus crisis. and our intel of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up as the number of deaths in the u.s. passes 40000 governors in the hardest hit states tell president trump it's too soon to reopen america last. year when he left it up to that emir putin says russia has

the coronavirus situation under control despite reports its health system is stretched to the limit. and south korea reports just 8 new cases news its president says gives hope to other parts of the world. under the british government has denied reports that it wasted time and botched its response to the coronavirus pandemic with prime minister boris johnson directly to blame a damning report in the sunday times newspaper says he ignored scientists warnings and skipped 5 emergency meetings as the crisis group this is the u.k. recorded 596 more deaths pushing its total past 16000 paul brennan reports from london. the accusations of complacency a misjudgment to spread across 4 pages the headline a damning assessment of government failure to prepare the quotes alleged 5 weeks of

missed opportunities and political in nashua the british government's national crisis committee is called by the acronym cobra prime minister boris johnson's failure to attend any of the 1st 5 coronavirus cobra meetings is singled out for particular criticism government ministers reject the sunday times allegations the idea that the prime minister skipped meetings that were vital to our response to the drain of us i think is protests and the truth is that the other meetings across government so much richard by the health secretary some chaired by other ministers but the prime minister took all the major decisions and i think anyone who considers what happened to the point is just a little while ago nobody can say that it's some throwing heart and soul into fighting this virus an unnamed senior advisor to downing street is quoted in the sunday times as saying this is no way you're at war if your pm isn't there he liked his country breaks he didn't work weekends there's

a real sense that he didn't do crisis planning and a senior source at the department of health is also quoted saying yes a pandemic was always at the top of our national risk register always but when it came we just slowly watched the prime minister from the moment that it became clear that there were challenges in terms of coronavirus developing in in china has absolutely been leading our nations that combat the coronavirus making sure that resources and money is not an issue or concern for any department especially health service in terms of dealing with this. as britain start their 5th week of partial lockdown the government is firefighting criticisms from several angles concerns are growing the frontline medical staff are running desperately low on supply. as a protective masks and surgical gowns. national health service providers warm on friday the stocks may run out within 48 hours the government said $84.00 tons of

that equipment would arrive on somebody from turkey the shipment now won't arrive as planned. home groups are also saying that on lack of testing the true scale of deaths and infections among the elderly are being seriously underestimated by the government with more than 4000 fatalities not officially accounted for paul brennan on jazeera westminster there's cautious optimism in europe's 2 worst affected countries spain and italy have recorded their lowest daily death tolls from the dreaded virus in about a month with 433 and 410 deaths respectively spain's top health official says the latest numbers give the country hope and sure it's on the correct path spain has some of the strictest lockdown measures in europe and they're set to be extended until the 9th of may but there's relief for families after the prime minister signaled that from april 27th children will be allowed out for fresh air for the 1st time in weeks. the number of people killed by the corona virus in the united

states is now past 40000 and that makes america's death toll almost double that of italy the 2nd hardest hit country the number has increased by 10000 in just 4 days during that time president donald trump has continued to argue that states should reopen their economies governors in the worst hit states say it's too soon for that they want more tests to detect new infections before they can reopen. the test as a place to fake body bags outside buildings belonging to the president's business empire including the trump international hotel in new york the demonstrations are angry over trump's handling of the outbreak process took place hours after trump criticized the democrats but clashing with his administration over its response to the pandemic and he got a joins us live from miami andy the latest death toll is pretty stark isn't it. it is there are several agencies and institutions that monitor these things that the 3 that we've been relying on over the past few days say that figure has now

jumped to more than 40000 by father highest death toll from the coronavirus in the entire world if you look at a place like new york they are all trending very slowly down but they're going from 700 the height dying in one day to 500 so however way you look at it those figures are simply horrendous and of course you've got governors across the state now under intense pressure to get the economy rolling again here in florida yesterday the mare of jacksonville decided to open the beaches people flooded on there ignoring all the social distancing warnings you've got places in texas which want to reopen but the real truth is many governors across the country both republican and democrat saying to the president look we don't have the testing we don't have the ventilators we're not ready to reopen this economy so everything now 'd is becoming a political sparring much but the decisions now being made by the governors who've been told they're the ones that decide when the economy's reopen and they're going

apology we seem to have lost and again i go there live from miami thanks to and if that update from miami. me on to japan with a number of corona virus cases has doubled in just 10 days as a new wave of infections threatens to overwhelm hospitals 568 new cases have been confirmed bringing the total number to move 11174 people have died from the disease with a state of emergency expanded nationwide on thursday but the actual number of infections is expected to be far higher as japan's testing is limited. by contrast south korea's number of new daily cases has fallen to single digits for the 1st time in 2 months it's confirmed 8 new infections with the total number of cases standing at will and 1060234 people have died from the disease south korea previously had asia's highest number of infections outside china but has been praised for its widespread testing and has now started easing restrictions president when jean says

he hopes his progress will give hope to other parts of the world. russia's president has used his easter sunday message to reassure the nation the corona virus outbreak is under full control despite a record daily rise in new cases as she did in front of a rural fire with easter eggs traditional sweet bread and a big part of teen x. to him got to be a putin insisted russia has everything it needs to tackle the virus it live to work in your us go where you will not we have everything a strong healthy economy scientific capabilities the necessary material and professional foundation in the health care system you know when you go through. all the halls of government working with thought at least smoothly and responsibly the situation is under complete control all our societies are pulling together in front of a common threat meanwhile russia has reported more than 6000 coronavirus cases over the past 24 hours that take the country's total to more than $42000.00 its official

total of $321.00 deaths is relatively low compared to other countries but concerns about russia's ability to deal with the outbreak linger with reports from local officials of a lack of hospital beds and supplies maria lipman is a senior associate at the institute for european russian and eurasian studies at george washington university she joins us via skype from moscow thanks very much for being with us so president bush is giving a very upbeat message there is is everything is rosy as he suggests. i'm afraid not and it's hard to tail of course but i'm afraid that his statements today may have sounded discordant to how people feel these days of course this is easter and the most important religious holiday for christians but still what people are who we concerned about at this point is the economic situation and imminent unemployment declining incomes the mood has seriously deteriorated the

number of if so far from coronavirus is not very high it is $360.00 half of. those in moscow so at this point people are more concerned about economic concept quinces but of course people in there will kill it is ears storage is. insufficient beds insufficient doctors insufficient resources insufficient protective gear not all over russia but some regions are certainly worse than others in i think that those people pollutants miss it sounded sounded discordant how they're getting on with things like testing. was there was a suggestion that early on perhaps there wasn't the kind of perhaps one other country that was initial lack of preparedness but they're now saying that they have their moment in the top 3 countries are testing is that is that your impression. well i don't have any impressions based on the same official numbers of course it

is impossible to check that out independently they have been conflicted reports on how reliable those deaths are the government coins they are almost a 100 percent reliable berkeley over 90 some experts are saying 70 or 80 sounds more like it but it is true that more and more people are getting tested in russia in general. boasts that praises itself for. actually flipping the curve as they say these days it remains to be seen whether they are will succeed in doubt but what is certainly true is rusher is far from its peak yet and it's not even clear here after the cases peak will they will be well rounded peak oil will actually reach a plateau you mention that people are concerned about the station economy is there any public discussion of the way ahead and have no managed to come to come down we

know if. state television is them the most important source of information for many russians or still a majority of russians but we'll still have quite if you offer alternative sources especially online in there you find a lot of criticism from the russian economists and lots of criticism about how the up to to make is ambled this is where you find reports about insufficiency is about doctors being overwhelmed about shortages all protective gear it said in the end of course this is where you find discussions about the economy many littman thank you very much indeed for talking to us for pleasure. still ahead this half hour. was one of greece's largest refugee camps as badly damaged by fire after unrest

fueled by kevin 19 fears. and dozens missing and thousands displaced after flash floods freak street sweep through parts of western kenya. how all the weather actually in europe of the next few days will be centered in this massive cloud over the western med stock particularly frontal the cold front is keeping eastern europe code in the other ones sitting out in the atlantic just churning up moisture was mostly stay out at sea so this is a development here the blues in the cajun oranges are pretty severe thunderstorms actually but there will tend to mellow as a whole area spread so you've got all monday rain from the south of france through to it's silly that's the alps little bit anyway and some wet snow up at the top

than this little thin line across ball guerrier might develop into something more interesting come tuesday just about cold not good as snow in bulgaria all the rest on the whole it is right now it goes back to the coast of spain on tuesday where again that could be fairly heavy in the meantime central europe slowly warming up now doesn't it that's not true for kids it's not true for vilnius in this hearing there but it is true for the central part of your unfortunate the u.k. isn't except for the cold wind and it's the wind it's still the story in north africa and it's quite a strong one you'll notice it takes the heat east with it and you can imagine it's also a fairy dust he won so sandstorms through libya and then on tuesday they go through just the western side of egypt. evil western society it was a feudal society. who were appalled by what and as soon as the pope ended his

speech some people stood up and said god will see him at the entrance to the city was horrific they killed people in the streets in their houses and in. the crusades an arab perspective that the sold one shot. on a jersey or. a mind of the top stories are not just sara the u.k. government has rejected accusations it was complacent and botched its handling of the pandemic the sunday times newspaper says prime minister boris johnson missed several early emergency meetings. the number of people killed by the corona virus

in the united states is now more than 40000 as highest number of deaths in any country and nearly double that of the next deadliest outbreak in italy. in more positive news south korea reported just 8 new cases in the past 8 that's the 1st time its daily increase has been in single digits for more than 2 months. 32 migrants who were deported from the u.s. earlier this week have tested positive for the corona virus the detainees left on a flight from louisiana but it's not yet known where they were infected and now under quarantine in a hospital or tomorrow is temporarily suspended receiving my rents from the u.s. after the incident despite that u.s. president trump has pressured the country to keep receiving them. parts of that america appear to be overwhelmed by the number of corona virus victims in ecuador one city can't cope with the number of dead but it's feared brazil has far more infections than its reporting and accessing testing kits is a major challenge for most of the region's governments there's

a bill reports. coffins laid one next to the other in what aqil the capital of war yes province called weed 19 has left thousands of people dead here in the past few weeks that we guessed the just father was one of them but when he went to the overwhelm or to recover him he opened the body back to find the person inside wasn't his father. i told him 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 are in 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 kewl 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 is a major challenge for most governments in the region more data is what will allow countries in latin america to what is happening on the ground an investigation carried out by a consortium of universities and researchers revealed that brazil is likely to have 12 times more cases of the new corona virus that is being officially reported by the government this video from analysing the state of our mass on our shows bodies lying next to patients being treated folk over 1000 hospitals in brazil's major cities are struggling to cope. 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 besting 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. a fire has ripped through one of greece's largest migrant camps destroying shelters for several 100 people the bays on cures island began after a protester the death of an iraqi asylum seeker the 47 year old woman had been taken to hospital earlier in the week with a fever it was sent back after testing negative for coronavirus camp is severely overcrowded with more than 5000 people living in

a space meant for around 1000 chance or office is in athens and says coronavirus fears of increased tensions within migrant camps. it seems that a lot of the people staying in the camp were worried the woman who died had died of corona virus she had been to hospital a week earlier with a high fever she had been diagnosed negative for coronavirus evidently something else was the matter because she died days later in the camp but these facts were not known to the people who started this protest and it seems to go house of hand part of the administrative facility has been burned down mainly offices belonging to the european and the greek asylum services which have been suspended since late lunch because of corona virus so there was no activity there and no one in the camp was hurt thankfully the camp is also under strain because apart from the general anxiety refugees have about catching coronavirus in overcrowded conditions there

are also restrictions on movement to the government weeks ago decided to allow people in and out of these open reception senses on the 5 eastern asia and islands under certain conditions for shopping or for medicine but not to come and go as they wish and that creates an extra strain there also tents for people to be tested outside the camps in time the government wants to turn those into field hospitals for positive cases because it wants to keep the refugee cases separate from any cases from the greek population which will go to the general hospitals regionally. dozens of refugees and migrants rescued from the mediterranean have been transferred onto a quarantine ship near the talon city of palermo they were picked up by a charity vessel lemoult over the easter period but italian ports have been closed to rescue boats because of the risk of the virus and all my brinson are being

quarantined at sea they'll be housed on the ship for about a month and has a medical team and members of the red cross on board. a german brewery that survived world wars economic crises and decades of declining beer consumption is closing after 403 years because of the coronavirus venet brewery in bavaria was 1st opened in 1617 and has been owned by the same family since 861 but is now closing for good after the government ordered restaurants and to shot and banned mass gatherings in a say they've had to let go of 15 employees because their business won't be able to recover. billions of people have been told to stay home to spot stop the spread of growth of ours and that's had a dramatic effect on global and traffic this graphic by the aviation organization euro control shows how europe skies are significantly less crowded the group says the continent's largest airports now have up to 90 percent fewer flights compared

to april 29th teen people have been warned against all but essential travel and many airlines have grounded most of their fleets but it's a different picture in china the 1st epicenter of the outbreak flights fell dramatically off to knock downs were imposed there at the end of january but the skies are now reopening as the country recovers from a virus and tries to restart its economy. over the past week we've told you how a 99 year old british war veteran has raised a staggering amount of money for the country's health workers and captain tom moore has now broken the $30000000.00 barrier that's thanks to the support of hundreds of thousands of people who followed him walking 100 lengths of his garden before his 100th birthday he says he's been amazed by the kindness and generosity of the people who've donated.

in other news heavy floods in kenya have killed 4 people and left 28 missing thank you police officers who are on a rescue mission in the west pokot region schools homes and the markets are under water with more rain expected or about money reports. i read this the most sweeping 2 villages in the west of kenya. in the past. marketplaces a police station and. i. i. i in the west pocket days of heavy rains look as possible from the debris left behind. many areas the still waiting for official rescue teams to arrive at the 1st outlook which i do i just about we ran to the other side of the ridge and that's when we saw the floodwaters that came down in a big wave destroyed this whole shopping center and carried away all the animals

and 2 cars i moved through tipping cotton on a bridge just washed away the crew say they've had to carry flood victims to nearby health centers on their backs. up what did you quite believe this used to be a big market but now it looks like a river there were many shops here before yesterday this was a vibrant shopping center but everything is gone now everything has been swept away and it's very distressing the government and all relevant agencies need to come here and as we speak several people are still missing. kenya's red cross warns that once the flood waters clear of the threats loom they fear water borne diseases and a possible increase in corona virus infections. in november al-jazeera filmed tom cole village in west backcourt after days of torrential rain flooding and landslides entire families here were killed communities surrounding by flood waters and isolated days later families went out in search of their relatives

bodies. many say it was the worst disaster that the scene of a lifetime. researchers say was the oceans of course an unpredictable weather patterns in eastern africa and with more rain expected in the coming days help may be slow coming to these villages and the problems may not be for. the al-jazeera. at least $47.00 people have been killed in them lot in multiple attacks on villages in nigeria the police say the attacks took place in 3 areas of katsina state in the early hours of saturday dozens more in hospital attacks and kidnappings have continued in the region despite large troop deployments there and here is army says it's killed 105 boko haram fighters in the country's northeast according to the military the fighters were allied with a local i saw affiliate and attempted to infiltrate the town of bani gary on

saturday government forces say they chased after the fighters and found a cache of machine guns and ammunition after the battle in neighboring chad 5 civilians died when a warplane on the ground accidently fired a missile or rocket shot through a fuel truck now early missed another fighter jet and hit a house next to the air base in the capital in german are children are reported to be among the dead. turnout has been very low in mali's election with voters put off by the twin threat of the coronavirus and violence from eisel and al-qaeda affiliates but those who took part in the 2nd round ballots so the country needs a functioning government in order to change nicholas hytner thought. it was an election supposed to bring peace but brought fear few millions came out to vote because of the threat of a bomb attack at holding stations for catching the coronavirus one of the voters said it was a risk worth taking. part of when we talk of peace we need

a functioning assembly that can make decisions and take action sort of our country can move forward under 2015 peace agreement signed with the armed groups in northern mali the government agreed to a parliamentary election and to change the constitution to give more time to me to regionals the election was cancelled twice because of insecurity vowing to overthrow the government our fighters linked to the g.s. and al qaeda. they called for a boycott of the elections after the kidnapping of opposition leaders to my lessons say 3 weeks ago. for a 1st time parliamentary candidate tom i do indeed. dialogue not military operations is the solution. since we are incapable of fighting them we should negotiate with them even if we have to apply sharia it shouldn't be a problem 95 percent of us are muslims why fear an islamic republic. armed groups

are pitting ethnic groups against each other such as the fall on the. villagers fight each other in central mali but after being forced from their homes by repeated attacks they live in peace side by side in this makeshift camp in bamako. would do when. in normal circumstances i would have taken part in the vote but we can have them here i would have liked have had my voice in this election. while it several polling stations were attacked by armed groups the government announced several new colonel virus infections and that hundreds that were in treatment with most candidates failing to get an outright majority in the 1st round 2 weeks ago the turnout was low in the 2nd round the ruling party rally for mali is set to win the majority of the votes the legitimacy of the results is already being questioned by the opposition and all of those that stayed at home during the vote. al-jazeera . ukraine is still battling wildfires across the country including in the exclusion

zone around the chernobyl nuclear plant officials say radiation levels in the capital kiev a normal and the fascia not pose a danger to radiation waste facilities in the protected zone really a 1000 firefighters have been deployed and also in villages military equipment is being used to stop the spread of the fire as. one of the top stories on our jazeera the u.k. government has been defending itself against accusations it wasted time and botched its handling of the pandemic promise to cross johnson i've been absent from 5 early emergency response meetings according to the sunday times newspaper it reported stocks of equipment have been allowed to deplete as attention is turned to securing breaks it and has insisted johnson was on top of things even his he recovers from

the virus himself. the idea that the prime minister skipped meetings that were vital to our response to the growing of us i think it's because the truth is that the other meetings across government so much richard by the health secretary some chaired by other ministers but the prime minister took all the major decisions and i think anyone who considered what happened upon is just a little while ago nobody can say that some throwing heart and soul into fighting this virus. the number of people killed by the corona virus in the united states is now more than 40000 that's the highest number of deaths in any country and nearly double that of the next deadliest outbreak in italy new york has seen the most victims the state's governor says the outbreak there is on the descent in more positive news south korea reported just 8 new cases in the past day is the 1st time the daily increase has been in single digits for more than 2 months the country saw

an early outbreak that has been praised for mass testing and strong efforts to trace cases. russia's president says he has the virus under control despite a record number of new infections and a t.v. address for over the uk so christian easter and amid putin said god's help would guide the country through the pandemic that will go $6000.00 new cases reported in the past day and taking the nationwide total to nearly $43000.00. a large fire has caused extensive damage to a greek migrant camp hours after the death of a woman who tested negative for corona virus and he was drafted in to quell on rest in the camp on the island of chaos after the iraqi woman died on saturday following a favorite places migrant camps have been under quarantine for weeks. both top stories do stay with us there is next with spain's foreign minister discussing the coronavirus crisis.

all. the atmosphere. it's been over a month since covert 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 economy has declined further. and despite concerns by the world health organization of workers' unions and opposition leaders the spanish government has announced a partial lifting up.