indeed millions of miles. and feel is generalism from around the world for many coming to this place if the only chance they have to leave at least once a day. the death toll from corona virus in the us crosses 40000 as governors in hard hit states warn it's too early to leave stay at home orders. but i wonder in jordan this isn't a 0 live from doha also coming up oil prices plummet again as global demand is decimated by the coronavirus pandemic. brazil's president joins protests calling from lifting of restrictions to stem the spread of the virus. and at least 16 people are killed in

a match shooting in canada's nova scotia police say the suspect is also dead. donald trump is being accused of making dangerous statements as the death toll from corona virus tops 40000 in the united states many democratic and republican state governors insist they're not ready to lift restrictions but trump remains optimistic antibody testing will help get people back to work and gallica reports now from miami. as the u.s. accounts for a 3rd of the world's confirmed coronavirus cases and president don't trump held up swabs claiming no nation has tested more people he says more than 4000000 people have already been screened and that's now expanding to millions more is it. does it remind you of something remind you of this threat. once a swap once a q-tip it's actually different. it's very sophisticated actually but it's

a little bit like so this is the straw. and. the water a lot of them they have a lot of them some of them some of the states they were shipped to states and the states don't know where they are. at sunday's briefing the white house showed favorable comments from democratic new york governor andrew cuomo in what could be seen as an attempt to heal a growing political rift over trump's determination to get people back to work in new york where cases are falling but remain dangerously high governor cuomo says this is no time to slow precautions or reopen too quickly it's no time to get cocky and it's no time to get irene right we still have a lot long way to go and a lot of work to do and this virus has been ahead of us every step of the way we have been playing catch up from day one in this situation in other parts of the

nation though small groups of protesters egged on by the president continue to call for an easing of restrictions the desire to kick start the economy is growing but problems persist republican governors who really have critical words for the president said this still facing major hurdles and i could probably double maybe even triple testing in a while burchill overnight if the f.d.a. would prioritize. companies that are putting a slightly different formula together for the extraction reagent kit and that's if the f.d.a. would do that we have a shortage worldwide shortage of some of the materials that go into that so we really need help money from the payment protection program designed to keep businesses afloat has now run out even as more than 20000000 people are out of work it's now 4 u.s. lawmakers could meet as soon as wednesday to consider expanding the program but

that's already running into political arguments despite the president's optimism that the u.s. will be back and greater than ever the just tickle issues political infighting and a shortage of essential equipment persist at this point the daily briefings given by president don't trumpet becomes. somewhat repetitive and increasingly political these blame states governors for a shortage in testing talked about the thousands of ventilators being made and weighed in certain states to be liberated the death toll here is now by far the highest in the world and for many this crisis is far from over gallacher al-jazeera miami florida well as cautious optimism in europe's 2 worst affected countries spain and italy have recorded their lowest daily death tolls from the virus in about a month spain's top health official says the latest numbers give the country hope and shows is on the correct path spain are some of the strictest lockdown measures in europe and they're set to be extended until the 9th of may but there's some

relief for families after the prime minister signaled that from the 27th of april children will be allowed out for fresh air. u.s. or prices have dropped to their lowest level in 2 decades as concerns over coronavirus eclipse the deal to cut output the benchmark dropped below $15.00 a barrel at one stage before crowing its way back above that mog global demand has plummeted as lockdowns and travel restrictions reduce the need for oil well the crisis was compounded in march by a price war between saudi arabia a non opec member russia riyadh and moscow draw a line under their route earlier this month when they and other countries agreed to cut output by almost $10000000.00 barrels a day to boost virus hit markets but despite an historic cutting production the world is still oversupplied with oil stoking fears the prices could fall even further well the buddha's visiting professor at the national university of singapore middle east institute he joins us via skype from there now we saw this

historic cuts in oil production by opec plus but prices still remain at rock bottom is this all down to the cove with $900.00 pandemic which is pushing down demand. yes of course i think to begin with the cats themselves as was already indicated by many observers were too little and too small and you know there was a lot in the oil market anyway and because of the fewest economic but the really around the world because of carbon one thing but also because of the oil price war. and the guts came out you know less than expected sometime so all are there is a gap in the market though it's an awful lot of if you like supply at the moment the start of globally are about build up and the mine where oil is decreasing and obviously this is going to pressure on the oil prices to come down i don't know

what about after coated 19 i mean we've seen a shift towards alternative energy sources like wind and solar as countries tackle climate change so what do you think will happen then to prices in the short to medium term. well i think the age of oil is. kind of changing we have seen. whole lot of the ios the. alternative energy more sustainable energy is coming to the market is becoming much lower cost than it was before and it is now and challenging that additional oil. business and ali is moving more and more towards the transport sector and of course the transport sector is not badly affected by cover the natives are up there got it 19 you're going to get it i think you know the oil will come back but it will never be the same as it used to be in the past because of can we do should be from her

energy sources deeply the advantage of energy and think it is not only good it's becoming much cheaper now to produce and much more will only efficient and also much more environmentally friendly and i think also gathers another of. oil and i think we're going to have a standard dog at the end of. the oil age the let me get a final thought from you i mean how much are these low oil prices affecting countries that depend exclusively on oil i mean many gold states for instance have talked about diversifying their economies but that really hasn't happened the big way has it. well that was getting has always being a motto looked like for many companies especially in the god of. obesity that has been some steps that they can place towards that but it's not enough because they have become so i think that oil and it was and that was not acquired as part of the city and then not really quiet as. i did pull up the economic ladder look at these

political level as the level that it is not easy bake of politicians so it was easy to whine all you did was abundant. and expensive as well it was easy for them to rely on that and got me addicted to oil so i think that was it is going to take a long time it's not going to change the equation now because that was good and that is why on time and are we talking about the caves so will the gulf states are going to be shot and now to meet about it because we have now seen we've seen that there are you know coming down of them and they're like good and they're still are lions and all despite all of the clock about that ok it's not just the chain of oil but also the export of oil that has that is you know that they're much more prevented on and that you know that maybe the government is going to be much more dependent on other than the g.d.p. the senate would use also and another way to also get better than others so. that

it's going to be that for the long time unfortunately we have to leave it there thank you very much indeed for talking to us thank you let's get some other news at least 16 people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote part of eastern canada police say the 51 year old male suspect is dead after a series of attacks in the small coastal town of port a peak in nova scotia has daniel left. police say this was the most horrifying crime they've seen in this morning the quiet part of canada just before midnight saturday a gunman was reported in puerto pick a remote seaside village where the suspect 51 year old gabriel borkman owned property for the next 12 hours along nearly 100 kilometers of highway police fielded dozens of emergency calls about house fires gunshots and other incidents heavily armed officers pursued the suspect who at one point was dressed as a policeman and driving an apparently homemade police car just before noon sunday i

witness has said they saw the suspect lying on the ground surrounded by police at a petrol station near nova scotia's international airport visibly shocked senior officers said one of their own a 23 year veteran of the royal canadian mounted police was among the victims countless families are in mourning today each person who lost their family and friends. and they too will need their support the impact of this incident will extend to one end of the province to the other. police expect more victims will be found as multiple crime scenes along the highway and elsewhere are investigated several other police forces are involved in this massive operation were not fully aware of what the total may be because as we're standing here the investigation continues into areas that we've not yet. explored across. these sorts of mass shootings are rare in canada which has much stricter gun control than the neighboring us police say they have no idea yet about motive and that many of the

victims appear to have been targeted at random it will take days possibly weeks for a full explanation to emerge about one of the worst mass shootings canada has ever seen daniel lak al-jazeera. police in nigeria are blaming armed bandits for the deaths of $47.00 people the attacks happened in several villages in the northwestern state of could seen a gang related activity in the region which include kidnappings and robberies continues despite large troop deployments nigeria's army says it's killed $105.00 boko haram fighters in the country's northeast according to the military the fighters were allied with a local ice lawfully it and attempted to infiltrate the town of bani gary on saturday government forces say they chased after the fighters and found a cache of weapons and ammunition after a gun battle. time for a short break here now to 0 when we come back boris johnson and his government are accused of sleepwalking into the u.k.'s coronavirus crisis and 10 years on from the

deepwater horizon disaster we ask of lessons have been learned one of the worst oil spills in history more than that status. however most people consider this a big desert so to see crowd and rain over it is maybe unusual has been hanging around eye for what seems like weeks in the last couple days and the next couple it will be quite noticeable the blue bits here are suggestions where the showers will be so middle of saudi arabia stretching to bahrain to qatar again where those higher ground in yemen and in western side you do get thunderstorms and flash flooding we've seen flooding in some recently as well there was this continues it's dry in iraq it might be cloudy of a little bit in syria but generally speaking the event is far and the temperatures are rising as even true in southern turkey where you follow

a system down actually from yemen through the horn of africa to what is developing now see on the shore breezes the seas no rain has produced recent flooding and landslides in kenya will do again it's tanzania kenya ethiopia and somalia the normal. involved with countries to the west getting equally seasonal rains but market issue could be involved here as well and it doesn't rain that often in mogadishu tanzania is how the worst of it and kenya more recently and i think that will continue to be the case further science is a generally dry picture. but on monday there could be a few showers. but . in uncertain and isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise leaving looking at another side of the story not so much the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact this reality has to

reach the lockers exposing the optics try and for manipulating their rhetoric and playing but they cannot manipulate the fire listening post your insight guide to the media on al-jazeera. moving little or. the number of people killed. across the united states has exceeded 40000 new york state. but it's reported.

51 year old. heavy flooding in western kenya has killed at least 4 people and left 28 missing including police officers who were on a rescue mission. to trees and washed away roads and bridges. and now. i think the focus too jonathan on the ground in the areas that are affected and he . tunisian i think people who are good days. are going to you might say that it's been raining in pop in most of the day to me some of the affected areas have been very very difficult indeed and as

you mentioned roads. think paul he had been approved we did have been. destroyed a lot of people there want. to thank him for people. who come to. our room who 100 people. who. have tried and they are stupid. or a team of government officials has been discussed to some of these affected areas to help in some of the some of the combat affected food and other basic services that happened at the border of 2 counties one of the most affected areas it wasn't even raining the water came from mountains mountainous as in one of the counties the people look at that it was there waiting that the people just the once

a flashing in vegas runs for safety the british government has denied reports that it botched its response to the corona virus pandemic a damning report in the sunday times newspaper says the prime minister ignored scientists warnings and skipped 5 emergency meetings of the crisis group and reports now 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. response to the growing of us i think it's protests and the truth is that the other meetings across

government so much richard by the health secretary so much a 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 the press 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 it became clear that there were challenges in terms of coronavirus developing in in china has absolutely been leading our nation set 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 supplies of protective masks and surgical gowns. national health service providers warned on friday that stocks may run out within 48 hours the government said $84.00 tons of that equipment would arrive on sunday from turkey the shipment now won't arrive as planned care home 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. brazil's president jaya bowles and has backed protesters calling for military intervention

as a standoff continues with state governors over how to handle the pandemic a gathering of his supporters in the capital was the biggest since lockdown measures were adopted nationwide. also naro has repeatedly undermined efforts to contain the spread of the virus calling for the economy to be reopened and ignoring guidance on social distancing. we don't want to negotiate we want action to be taken for brazil. the old way of doing things is behind us a new brazil lies ahead everyone without exception must be patriotic and believe and do their part so that we can give brazil the prominence it deserves the age of disrespectful behavior is over power to the people. on a sonder on petty has more now from bogota in neighboring colombia. remember that brazil remains the epicenter of the pandemic in latin america with the very

dramatic nonvoters of more than 38000 confirmed cases almost 2500 people that have died already in brazil yet the president both so narrow he insists on going his way he is insisting on wanting to reopen the country this pipe what 'd. meaning of health was stabbing them so much so that he decided to sack him just a few days ago and now today on sunday he showed up at a rally in the capital brasilia where dozen. 100 or more people were there holding signs asking for a military intervention to reopen the country now remember that it is unconstitutional actually to hold demonstrations asking for military intervention in brazil that's because brazil has been under a military dictatorship from 1964 to 1985

yet to the years after the start of democracy there are people there asking the military to intervene once again and the country in this case to reopen it. australia has become the 1st country to make it compulsory for web johns google and facebook to pay for news content the competition watchdog says it will release drop details of a payment plan in july. the government had attempted to operate a voluntary scheme for digital platforms to pay traditional media for news content but it didn't work well david vaile is a cyber expert at the university of new south wales he says the government has been bold in taking on google and facebook. the. essentially they are so big that it sort of too big to regulate is what our regulators conclusion moralists suggests in the quote drive from trying to step in and do this but they basically

main that. level and revenues and subscription revenues to a lesser extent for new services all around the world large and small have been addressed equally sort undermine the willingness of people to pay subscriptions like they used to be prepared to pay for their daily paper has been undermined and so you've seen the decimation of news rooms the closure of legally small regional news services in australia we've just had a whole raft of country papers sort of collapse under the additional pressure of that the virus but they're already on you know lost support because of the problems of existing you know in the environment where facebook and google in particular capture the absolute lion's share of revenue using these techniques now 10 years after an explosion ripped through the deepwater horizon drilling rig in the gulf of mexico the impact of the catastrophe is still being felt but with a trumpet ministration expanding offshore drilling to nearly all u.s.

waters there is concern another disaster could happen is out there as mike hanna thank the devastating explosion was pulled from a coast guard vessel 11 of the crew aboard were killed and b.p.'s own spill camera recorded millions of gallons of oil gushing into the ocean over an 87 day period washing up on more than 2000 kilometers of shoreline from texas to florida. a report issued by the oceana advocacy organization to mark the anniversary draws a disk on certain conclusion a nother disaster is now more light than it was in the os that's a rather chilling thought it's terrifying to think can happen again but that's exactly what our report found as industry tells her and further offshore the risk of another storm after german marines turning in the interest and in the streets records absolutely unacceptable. and too many workers are some time has been

injured on the potential that until we actually stop what we've got in the wake of the disaster the obama administration had imposed a short term hold on offshore drilling in the gulf of mexico and in 2016 banned offshore oil and natural gas drilling in most bedroll water in the arctic and atlantica. but this was reversed less than 2 years later this executive order starts the process of opening offshore areas to job creating energy exploration. it reverses the previous administration's arctic leasing band president trump's executive order opened up 94 percent of government controlled $4.00 to $2.00 oil exploration and drilling today in the gulf of mexico alone bill some 2 and a hop 1000 and all platforms and more than 40000 kilometers of oil pipelines

instead of learning from the who didn't want to horizon disaster presents from consignment who are. going to expand offer to the areas. that. we're talking about more generally and less this is an absolute wrestle. i've done research in the gulf of mexico for 20 years and i've seen before the spill and during the spill and after it you know mexico's a treasure right in our backyard. that's been devastated and nobody knows about it because it's hidden by. mike hanna al jazeera. now the shutdown of new york has turned one of the most vibrant cities in the world into a ghost town al-jazeera is going but it is on those spent a day exploring the eerie stillness in the city that's going to see. 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. with 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 that. 7th avenue in midtown manhattan this is morning rush hour. this is new york suspended in time by a silent and deadly virus. a siren from an ambulance

off in the distance. 140 in the afternoon the surreal shutdown of the city is hard on everyone especially the elderly many of whom are alone. to 46 pm and here it's busy. people linger outside maybe waiting for word on a loved one inside. at 4 15 pm a few signs of life in this residential neighborhood in brooklyn. for the essential workers life is hard. at 6 pm there is no rush to get home from the office everyone is home. by early evening more people secluded in their apartments all day begin to come out masks are required.

this is the new normal. as another day draws to a close in a paralyzed city area minder that new york will be back but the vibrant. city that never sleeps they return to that might take a while gabriel is around 0 al-jazeera their york. times a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera the number of people killed by corona virus across the united states has exceeded 40000 new york state accounts for nearly hoffa say talent is but it reported another drop in daily deaths on saturday and he has been monitoring the president's daily briefing from miami he says donald trump's reassurance is the not much the situation on the ground at this

point he's repeating the same points over and over again saying look we're testing more than any other country we have manufacturing more ventilators than a needed we've built more hospitals that are needed but when you look at the picture on the ground particularly in states like new york and louisiana and even here in florida where the corner virus is yet to peak those kind of. posturings from the president don't really aren't really grounded in reality the death toll in new york may be dropping but from 700 in a day to 500 a day is still a rendez at least 16 people have been killed in a mass shooting in a remote part of eastern canada. police say a 51 year old male suspect is dead after a series of attacks in the small coastal town of course a creek in nova scotia. the u.k. government has rejected accusations it was complacent and botched its handling of the corona virus pandemic the sunday times newspaper says boris johnson missed several emergency meetings in the build up to the crisis brazil's president has

backed the protest is calling for military intervention in a standoff with state governors of a how to deal with the pandemic critics say he's repeatedly undermined efforts to contain the virus calling for the economy to be reopened. u.s. all prices have dropped to the lowest level for 2 decades as concerns of a coronavirus eclipse the deal to cut output the benchmark dropped below $15.00 a barrel before crowing its way back up global demand has plummeted amid lockdowns and travel restrictions. and australia has become the 1st country to make it compulsory for web giants google and facebook to pay for news content the competition watchdog says it will release the draft details of a payment plan in july well those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post station vessel watching. the hero.

i know terrible. having arching he's. black. if i'm in the right now. they call they've taken the right approach another day another politician standing at this neck tatt with. hello i'm richard gilbert and you're watching the listening post here are some of the coronavirus stories the media angles that we're covering from home this week the casualty figures are climbing in the u.k. yet most of the british media are failing to hold the government to account locked in with covert 19 across the world prisoners are trying to get their stories out israel's prime minister decides mass surveillance is the best way to check the spread of the virus.