the presidential elections by postal ballots the emmy award winning faultlines is back investigating the united states and its role in the world and in the u.s. election primaries presumptive democratic nominee joe biden strives to reach the official delegate threshold made on al jazeera played. boris johnson and his government are accused of wasting crucial time and sleepwalking into the u.k.'s coronavirus crisis. our intake of us is our 0 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. south korea reports just 8 new cases news its president says

will give troops to other parts of the world plus. georgia braces for a rise in infections after bowing to religious pressure and allowing churches to open for orthodox easter. clearly the british government has denied reports that it wasted time and botched its response to the corona virus pandemic with prime minister boris johnson directly to blame a damning report in the sunday times newspaper says johnson ignored scientist warnings and skipped 5 emergency meetings in the run up to the crisis well this is the u.k. recorded 596 more deaths pushing the total past 16000 elsewhere in europe italy and spain have recorded their lowest daily death tolls in about a month with 433 and 410 deaths respectively but numbers keep rising across the

atlantic with more than 40000 people now dead in the us the world's worst affected country meanwhile south korea which once had the worst outbreak outside china has recorded just 8 new infections or more than that shortly 1st this report from paul brennan. 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 growing of us i think it's protests and the truth is that the other meetings across government some which are chaired by the health secretary some chaired by

other ministers but the prime minister took all the major decisions i think anyone . considered happened upon is just a little while ago nobody can say that just 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 nation's effort 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. groups are also saying that a lack of testing means the true scale of deaths in infections among the elderly are being seriously underestimated by the government with more than 4000 fatalities not officially accounted for paul brennan al-jazeera westminster. was cautious optimism in europe's 2 worst affected countries spain and italy have recorded their lowest daily death tolls from the coronavirus in about

a month with 433 and 410 deaths respectively spain's top health official says the latest numbers give the country hope a show it's on the correct path spain has some of the strictest knockdown measures in europe and they're set to be extended until may 9th because relief for families after the prime minister signaled that from the 27th of april 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 makes america's death toll most double that of italy's a 2nd hardest hit country the number has increased by 10000 in just 4 days during that time president on trump has continued to argue that states should reopen their economies governors in the worst hit state say it's too soon for that they want more tests to detect your affections before they can reopen and a guy who joins us live from miami to talk us through the latest figures.

you know i follow these figures on a daily basis there are several institutions and agencies that fall these and the one with the least amount of numbers 40100 the other ones say about 41000 in total so however you look at this it's pretty heartbreaking to see this number of deaths far out spawning any other country at the moment but there is this increased pressure on governors across this country to get their economies going again you know a lot of conservatives here believe that the cure is worse than the disease itself we've seen a growing number of protests in almost all the states with people gathering outside state capitals asking for the economy to get going again but many of the worst hit states there governors both republican and democrat are saying to the president it's not time yet we don't have enough testing we're simply not ready to roll back these cautionary measures and reopen the economy again so we're really facing a delicate balancing act here meanwhile president trump is tweeting out that states

led by democratic governors should be liberated the governor of washington state that she's saying he was potentially inciting violence so the president clearly has his own agenda here he watches the stock market that is in many ways the ace up his sleeve for the reelection in november when the presidential election happens but this is a very delicate balance whatever decisions the governors of each of these states make now could potentially have catastrophic consequences if they're not made in the right way using the data available. to their governors into the hardest hit states appear to be pushing back quite strongly against trunk pressuring them to reopen. yeah in particular on drew crum of the governor of new york another new yorker just like president trump and he's been getting. all of his press conferences a broadcast on a daily basis so there may be a sense of competition there but he is in the epicenter where at the peak of it

there were 700 deaths in one day that's now dropped to 500 still a horrific number for that state and he's saying look we're not even at half time yet this is not game over we do still need support from the federal government in fact i watched the press conference this morning he said the state of new york has 15000000000 dollars in debt and will need federal help to pay for schools and hospitals and keep them open so they are still very much in crisis mode there is no sign in new york of any kind of reopening of the economy no matter what the pressure is because as i said before these decisions literally have very very serious consequences and again i thank you very much indeed. in japan the number of coronavirus 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 more than 11174 people have died from the disease but the state of emergency expanded nationwide on thursday 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 delhi 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 more than 106-0234 people have died from the disease south korea previously had asia's highest number of infections outside china has been praised for its widespread as more the situation in japan and how south korea has made such a dramatic comeback. 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 and they're managed to track and trace high risk people or

people who are in quarantine from corner virus japan is exactly the opposite story of south korea at the height of the outbreak earlier this year they had managed to avoid any kind of major infection rates but now japan's infection rates are just surging and soaring and part of the reason for this is said to be the fact that they haven't been extensively testing people also japan's hospitals are said to be on the brink of collapse there's not enough ice units nodded off bed and beds more worryingly there's just not enough ventilators now that's what you need in the later stages of coronavirus also health workers are complaining that they don't have enough protective gear and the japanese government has said they will start providing all of this that extended the state of emergency across the country but the problem is because of japan's constitution they cannot and force those measures so people aren't social distancing enough despise government warnings particularly

due to the culture where people are still going to work and are not working from home. 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 seated in front of a roaring fire with easter eggs traditional sweet bread and a big part of teenagers to him but it may put an assistant russia has everything it needs to tackle the virus. it clear to work. we have everything a strong healthy economy scientific capabilities the necessary material and professional foundation in the health care system when you've left. all levels of government are working methodically smoothly and responsibly the situation is under complete control all our society is pulling together in front of a common threat when ma russia has reported more than 6000 coronavirus cases over

the past 24 hours it takes 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. or still to come this half hour the venezuelan migrants risking their lives to help colombians survive the trend of virus and emic. and dozens missing and thousands displaced to flash floods sweep through parts of western kenya. out of that is some pretty bouncy shows on the coast of queensland just north of britons but you can see them there going off shore there are more in the forecast but there to be that many and then you just look science again it's the season when

all the weather comes out of the bite just catches victoria or tasmania and sometimes catches purses were the south that's a case of the moment nothing spectacular except of course tasmania's had quite record but wetter than average starts the season and there's precious little in the way of rain for tropical queensland unfortunately bert is certainly wanted. but we have got re developing spring rain the plum rains developing in china and then running through to japan catching the korean peninsula quite a massive system this one but all the action is really over japan is running up through honshu game says the 2nd or maybe the 3rd in the last week or so so it's been a wet spell as to supporting the cold and the 13 degrees there the rain does go through but then the monday the sun comes out behind the next belt is developing slowly in southern china i will stay north of hong kong as it spreads out through see in fact you've got a sunny day to look forward to honshu especially in tokyo you're up to 22 degrees.

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come on our top stories as area 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 coronavirus in the united states is now more than 40000 as highest number at. in any country a nearly double batch of the next deadliest outbreak in a tourney. but in more positive news south korea reported just 8 new cases in the past day is the 1st time its daily increase has been a single digits more than 2 months. breaking news from canada now and more than 10 people have been killed in a shooting in a remote parts of eastern canada a police say a 51 year old male suspect is dead after the attack in the small coastal town of port of pekin nova scotia a mass shooting is relatively rare in canada which has tighter gun control laws

than the neighboring united states or joins us now donna what more can you tell us about the details of this incident. well we just heard from the police a very devastated senior police officer looking completely shocked by what had happened not least because among the 10 people at least 10 people known to have been killed was a senior police constable 23 year veteran of the force but giving very few details at this moment we do know that this began before midnight local time on saturday night and basically went on throughout the night it took place over nearly a 100 kilometers of highway it appears that the gunman the assailant stopped at communities along the way it looks like some of the victims are scattered along the highway again the police are giving very few details because they say there are multiple crime scenes probably one of the larger crime investigations they've ever

seen in that part of the world they do confirm as you said that the suspect a 51 year old man from the provincial capital from the north scotia capital our facts is dead i witness reports and some local media say he was seen lying next to a vehicle at some petrol pumps possibly after an exchange of gunfire with heavily armed police officers in the area police themselves wouldn't confirm that it's a very puzzling crime it appears that this person was was driving a fake police car at one point he was dressed as a police officer he did have a connection to puerto pick where the shootings began he owned a property there but he was based in the capital there's absolutely no clue yet as to motive or what may have been going on here and how rare is an instant missing canada. extremely rare in the navy united states every couple of days it seems there is a mass shooting war or a firearms incident that affects numbers of people very rare in canada you can go

by without something on this scale in fact something on this scale is probably an event of decades we have very tight gun laws in canada quite a few guns because in the rural areas people do go out and hunt and things like that target shoot but it's very difficult to carry firearms around and handguns are quite rare automatic weapons and assault rifles are quite rare so people are hugely shocked in this very quiet part of the of the country where many right retirees have settled and people are living by the ocean it's quite a pleasant area it's really really difficult to discern what happened here and we hope that in the coming days police will be able to release some of the information they're gathering at those crime scenes along the highway where this took place that a lack of a place is there thank you very much indeed at least 4 people have died and more than 20 others are missing after heavy rain caused flash floods and landslides in western kenya the missing include police officers who were on

a rescue mission in westport caught hundreds of houses cattle and trees were swept away in the deluge also left schools homes and a market underwater roads have been cut off and survivors have been forced to carry the injured to hospital on their backs and he's 47 people are being killed in multiple attacks on villages in nigeria 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 trip deployments that. when i hear is army says its killed 105 book of her own fighters in the country's northeast according to the military the fighters were allied with a local arsal affiliate and attempted to infiltrate the town of bunia gary on saturday government forces say they clapped 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 accidentally fired a missile the rocket shot through a fuel truck narey missed another fighter jet and hit a house next to the airbase in the capital in jermyn our children are reported to be among the dead 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 fires do not pose a danger to radiation waste facilities in the protected zone nearly a 1000 firefighters have been deployed alongside villages military equipment is being used to stop the spread of the fire as. health officials in georgia braced for a spike in infections after churches were allowed to stay open for the orthodox easter areas of more than 3 people are banned in the country but that doesn't apply

to easter services and the government has been accused of bowing to religious pressure robin farsi walker reports from tbilisi. the most potent date in the orthodox calendar is also a critical moment for the spread of coronavirus the at tbilisi some may be a cathedral the orthodox church opened its doors to the faithful leave the. odds of the. worshippers who have chosen to participate in the traditional midnight eastern mass had to get here early to avoid breaking a nightly curfew and it's been decided between a church in your forty's that they can stay here overnight all together under one roof until the curfew is lifted in the morning. restrictions

including a ban on gatherings of more than 3 people have been in place for weeks but for the head of the church and his fellow as those rules do not apply. here. this satirical video illustrates what critics say a double standards. with the state refusing to intervene in matters of faith this case you subservient that the church because it sure ratings of the church and because of. this year saw the government here to directly or host a church which is encouraging each parish in years to attend their easter services to choose a prime minister has said a balance must be found between staying safe and practicing faith. i want to assure you that both the state and the church fully understand their

responsibility towards human is helpful of accordion institutions and the law and the functions of church i seriously challenge this. finally because of that all of this not that she has enjoyed a gentle in fiction curve until now with distancing largely observed at least in celebrations have the scientists worried this is the now the problem for us this for 5 days if this social distancing will be less of course they chance of the spread of the infection and increasing the rate of the new infection will be much moral the. many georgians have chosen to stay home to pray with their families and prayed for the safety of the nation robin 1st you walk out 0 tbilisi the fire has ripped through one of greece's largest migrant camps destroying shelters for several 100 people ablaze on

chaos island began after a protest over 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 coronavirus the al camp is severely overcrowded with more than 5000 people living in a space meant for around 1000. and they were once looked down on but now of an israeli and migrants a seen by many colombians as essential in the fight against coronavirus more than $25000.00 of them are risking their health to work as food koreas in bogota where i was 100 m.p.'s he said this report. on the deserted streets of bogota they've become familiar figures backpack wielding couriers on bicycles delivering food and medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants who say they have no alternative but risking exposure to the coronavirus. the day my girl

miss a mother of 4 says contagion is always on our mind but since her husband lost his job saying at home was not an option it on my face. it's not easy to go out and expose yourself to the virus especially when you have kids waiting for you when i get home i need to take full precautions wash change clothes before touching anybody. trying to be safe means context with customers have been reduced to a minimum. yet there may be a bright side people who look down on demos and skilled migrants now say they're essential in the fight to control the virus. because you know i receive messages on the app saying that we are heroes like the doctors or the policeman i was a nurse back home when you're sharp to becoming a doctor so i feel what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. delivery services had already become

a lifeline for venezuelan refugees across the continent but as latin america hunkered down thousands of lost their jobs with delivery orders spiking so has the number of recently unemployed migron smooth lighting this careers there are now 25000 people working as a delivery man here and the company says they have a waiting list of another 45000 people none of them receive health insurance for their work in exposing themselves and very few seem to have it now. nor the companies don't offer insurance i'm here with god's blessing. this says that at times he receives masks in hand sanitizers but that he has to buy most elements on his. reports that in the united states more than 40 grocery workers have died after catching the virus worry him but he says the issue is one of survival one way

or the other. it's a blessing to simply be able to go and make some money live with what we. know work means north. even working means putting yourself at risk with little or no protection. the shutdown of new york has turned one of the most vibrant cities in the world into a ghost town it's said to stay that way until at least the middle of may. spend today exploring the area stillness in the city that's gone to sleep. the american poet carl sandburg once wrote the moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to. this is a day in the life of a lonely empty city. 6 20 am the 1st rays of sun over new york. 7 o'clock in the morning the normally bustling harlem is hushed.

the 125th street subway station at 7 45 am but the rumble of the one train cuts through the eerie stillness. a few minutes after 8 am time square the bright lights but not a soul to see them. take you straight to president daily briefing on a coronavirus response. like to begin by saying that we're continuing to negotiate with the democrats to get their great workers and small businesses all over the country taken care of i think we. are getting close to a deal could happen could happen a lot of good work has been going on in and we could have an answer tomorrow and we're going to see what. what exactly does take place we're also looking at helping

our hospitals and our rural hospitals who have been hurt very badly that rural hospitals for a long time of not been treated properly we're looking to help them and beyond so we're looking at hospitals also as part of the package and we'll see how that all comes out but a lot of good things are happening some very good negotiations just got off the phone with the secretary of the treasury and we have some very good negotiations going on right now and. i think you could have a nice answer tomorrow but we'll see. america continues to make steady progress in our war against the virus as of today we've tested $4180000.00 americans that's a record anywhere in the world the united states is now conducted more total tests then all of the following nations combined. france the united kingdom south korea japan singapore india austria or stretch

sweden and canada in our testing is expanding very rapidly by millions and millions of people so we've. done more testing than all of these countries combined france in a kingdom south korea japan singapore india austria and with. sweden canada at something right. doing a great job where. we are this team is an incredible team and that includes army corps of engineers a lot of our military people or admirals or generals one of our great admirals heroes done an incredible job you haven't slept too much in the last 2 months in the listener. but somebody said to me president you look tired i said i should be tired we should all be tired but we have to win right as tomorrow the president the vice president will lead a call with our nation's governors from fema headquarters month. to review what

more they could do and do together to develop locally tailored testing strategies working very hard with governors now on testing where help them out before the call will send them a full list of all of the large laboratory machines in the states they have a lot of machinery in the states that some are that aware of but they they're really high quality machines by the way and the potential capacity of those machines if they're fully utilize a couple of them didn't know that they could be utilized in a different manner they were only up to 10 percent and they could go 90 percent more. many governors are still relying on their state laboratories rather than the full and much larger capacity that is available to them as an example commercial 'd laboratories such as qwest and lab corps these are massive laboratories that can handle a lot more than they're being sent a few days ago is at 30 percent they're only at 30 percent capacity now i don't

know probably the same but they have a lot of capacity in addition academic laboratories big research labs. there's tremendous capacity out there. and some of them want the fast you know the instant . abbott machine which just came about due to the research during this little short period of time and it's very quick but these labs can do it very quickly also in there they're massive they can handle much more much more than the machine a small machine can handle. we continue to procure millions of swabs to test collectors i have something here just. to swap. looks innocent not very complicated anybody like to see what it looks like should they open it as everybody overdid it up i will. i will. this is what it's about. right is it. does it remind you of stuff that

reminds you of this. once a swab once a q-tip it's actually different. it's very sophisticated actually but it's a little bit like so this is the strong. and. what are a lot of them they have a lot of them some of them some of the states where they were shipped to states and the states don't know where they are. and but that's that's it. where do we give this to karen for have to take an extra. life but this is a big deal. and we're working on it and we're working with the companies and i think in the end we're going to have we're going to have a drug we're going to have a tremendous.