to me the circumcision al-jazeera examines the politics of population control. germany and other parts of europe take more steps towards resuming normal life as coronavirus death and infection numbers slowed. from doha everyone else santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera the number of people who've died from coronaviruses past 40000 in the united states where divisions are only deepening over the stay at home audience the pandemic also

playing more havoc in the energy markets striking u.s. crude oil prices below $15.00 a barrel and in other news canada's worst mass shooting a gunman disguised as a policeman killed 16 people before being shot dead. so germany is reopening some shops and allowing limited school classes parts of europe ease the lock downs that have brought their economies to a halt the number of new infections and daily coronavirus deaths in germany continues to fall the central government is now left up to leaders in each of the 16 states as to how much they want to reopen and when the check in the dominant cane he's in berlin for us hi dominic so tell us a little bit more about what we could expect even though as we say different states can do different things what might happen here. well

every state is keen to try to reduce the economic damage of corona kemal just as they're trying to reduce the damage to the population so to the economy and so as of today the 16 different states as it were can go their own way because the government has made it possible for stalls up to a certain surface area 800 square meters to reopen with very stringent hygiene precautions here in berlin those the state has chosen not to implemented immediately today but on wednesday everywhere which falls into that category can reopen but there are exemptions exceptions and if you look where i am right now this is alexanderplatz in central berlin on a busy funny april morning you'd expect this area to be absolutely full of people but it isn't clearly and people are following the recommendation to wear masks the galleria colorful to the left of the camera you can see that should be absolutely packed it isn't it's closed the point there being that they cannot follow the road

they have to follow the rules they can't open today and yet to my left some of the shops here are now open because they can adopt they can follow certain other rules so you have this sense that the federal republic has got lots of different kinds of regulations in place at the same time one other interesting thing here to point out come out is that schools can now as it were reopen for certain classes certain year groups in schools can reopen because the exams season is almost upon us and so here in berlin schools are reopening for the last year of the secondary school but many teachers are very unhappy about that they say well what are the precautions in place for us what about the children too what about the parents as well lots of questions right now and the final thoughts there is still a degree of disagreement at a federal level but also in the governing party the christian down. across saying

some people say the shop should all be open right across germany right now and morning says no the risk of a 2nd flare up of corona is so great it shouldn't happen. monday morning there in berlin with dominic cain thank you dominic europe's 2 worst affected countries spain and italy have recorded their lowest daily death tolls in about a month spain's top health official says the latest tally 400 $33.00 still tragic but shows it is on the right path spain's been subjected to some of europe's toughest lockdown measures and they will largely be extended until may 9th but the prime minister says children will be allowed outside and week from now turkey reporting more coronavirus cases than any country outside of europe or the united states with or he's of confirmed more than 86000 infections and just over 2000 deaths so the government on saturday extended containment measures including strict travel restrictions and russia's reported

a drop in new infections just over 4200 confirmed in the last 24 hours compared to 6000 the previous day 405 deaths president vladimir putin told citizens the outbreak is quote under complete control in the us though the coronavirus death toll is now well beyond 40000 and pressure is mounting to reopen the economy protesters in a number of states have heeded the call from president donald trump to demand a return to work others though say it is far too soon this report from andy gallic . 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 they're putting a slightly different formula together for the extraction reagent kit and that's it 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 trump a 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 urging 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 and to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida u.s. all prices have dropped to their lowest level in 2 decades as concerns over coronavirus eclipsed the deal to cut oil output benchmark in the u.s. dropped below 50 dollars a barrel before calling its way back up global demand has plummeted as lockdowns and travel restrictions reduce the need for oil it was all compounded if you

remember back in march by a price war between saudi arabia and non opec member russia that ended this month when they and others agreed to an unprecedented cut in output going to get rid of 10000000 barrels a day to boost the virus hit markets but despite that the world is still oversupplied stoking fears the prices could even fall further let's hear from booed he's from the national university of singapore middle east institute and says the oil well he reckons it'll never be the same again. age of the oil is. kind of changing we have to see the. whole of the us the be able to tell it of energy more sustainable energy is coming into the market in a much lower cost than it was before and it's not challenging the mission of the oil. business and oil is moving more and more towards

the transport sector and of course there's got sick but it's not badly affected by the natives up there got it know that you're going to need it i think you know the oil will come back but it would never be the same as it used to be in the past because of conditioning from other energy sources deplete your planet of energy and it was a lot of years becoming much cheaper to produce and much more only efficient and also much more environmentally friendly and i think also look at another. oil and i think we've got to understand it on the end of. the oil age in brazil president diable scenario has backed the protesters calling for military intervention in the standoff with state governors over his handling of the pandemic his supporters gathered in the capital on sunday he has been accused of undermining efforts to contain the virus also are once the economy reopened a soon as possible brazil has the highest rate of infections in latin america

india with its population of 1300000000 is under the world's biggest lock down but this too is starting to ease people working in health and financial services manufacturing agriculture public utilities they're now exempt stayed home orders however remain in place for the areas worst affected by the outbreak there's a big peron i'm in new delhi now explaining how people are trying to navigate their way out of lockdown. as of monday there's an easing all some restrictions only in places that are considered non hotspots all green zones places where they hasn't been a rise in the number of cases and state governments think that that would be around 10 to 25 percent of the country so what is allowed a really big easing of restrictions in the farming sector and all the businesses that support it so even things like transportation roadside restaurants will be allowed to open for truck drivers to focus on farming because more than half of

india's workforce is employed in the agricultural sector and with the wind to crop just harvested it's important to get food from the villages to the cities to avoid shortages there's also going to be an easing of restrictions and and banking and public works in the social sector and construction and i t. all with specific restrictions and self employed professionals like plumbers electricians cop and repair our allowed to work and again would. as well as the specific restrictions everyone has to wear a face mask when they step out of their homes and observe social distancing norms we have heard from the government in the last few hours and they have said that there's already been violations of lockdown measures that they have been more incidents of violence on health care workers complete violation of social distancing norms and too much movement of vehicles and urban areas our coverage continues in a moment we'll look at why a doctor in kyrgyzstan has retracted his criticism most protected most.

this is a big mountain to climb these are big companies that we're dealing with you know the news google and facebook will be forced to pay australian media companies for using their content. hello there some very nice sunshine to get across will central areas of europe quite a bit of cloud a feather to the south and this is where we're seeing a very unsettled weather pattern plenty of rain in the for cost not just as we go through monday but ready through choose day as well it becomes very heavy the system this area of low pressure working its way across towards a central mediterranean so a very wet day in rome but just 18 celsius slightly better than across into madrid much of spain well be mostly dry on monday that i wanted to show but the rain the

next system pushing in across force against some very heavy amounts of rain and as i say can see that slice of clear skies some good sunshine but rather more on the way of cloud further to the east but in fact to the north finally a dry run for you over the next couple of days plenty of cloud again choose to across eastern europe and the low there as well producing some rain showers that generally to the east of moscow because rain across the south very extensive all the way really from spain and areas of france right there across towards the cape at the same time we're still seeing plenty rain across northern areas of africa it's a mix of 2 things that really it is coming from a system in the central med that is what has produced the rain monday across into algeria tunisia and then the system pushing into portugal that could bring a few showers into america and else but for the south and she say and cool things off at 70. the road temperature extremes. this is where the hard part

if you look at the extraordinary journey from the ocean to keystone. quite the ordinary joining us on what we do here you know there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasure. risking you don't get stuck on the al-jazeera. you know with al-jazeera and these are the latest coronavirus pandemic developments germany reopening some shops and allowing limited school classes the number of new

infections and deaths is falling in germany however the number of corona virus linked deaths in the us has now exceeded $40000.00 new york state accounted for nearly half of them but the rate of fatalities is continuing to slow the news or prices have dropped to their lowest level for 2 decades concerns over coronavirus eclipse the deal to cut the oil which global demand is falling as a result of lock downs and travel restrictions. china has described as groundless some questions raised by a stray about its transparency and handling coronavirus china's foreign ministry says it has grave concerns over remarks made by australia's foreign minister mary spain who's called for an international investigation into the origins of the virus and how its spread chinese authorities have been under pressure over the way they've dealt with the outbreak but beijing insists it has been open about it here's katrina you in beijing high katrina a lot of countries piling on now aren't they obviously we've heard from the united states but the u.k. now is straight here as well calling for this investigation. that's

right china's foreign ministry spokesperson gong xuan was very severe and had some very strong language around his response to the australian government's criticism as you mentioned saying that these these comments were gravely concerned in calling them disrespectful also and saying that they were completely groundless that china had maintained transparency in terms of its response to covert 19 and had worked very closely and cooperated with other international agencies in helping to warn other countries about the severity of this outbreak and this comment of course responding to foreign astroland foreign minister marie's payne's comments on sunday saying that questions about china's transparency had reached a high point and that an investigation an independent investigation was needed and of course this is not the 1st country to raise these questions the u.s. for some weeks now has been pointing fingers at beijing raising questions about

their response saying that there was a cover up that china did not act fast enough and that china was withholding information that was not being honest in terms of its figures on the ground and there's been a bit of back and forth war of words between beijing and washington for some months now since the beginning of the outbreak and china has responded to those attacks saying that they're baseless accusations that the u.s. is simply trying to shift blame a shift attention away from its own mishandling of the outbreak in the u.s. but other countries also what china raising questions and really want to dance is from beijing 3 days ago french president the manual not quite on also raised questions about china's transparency saying it was naive to think that china had responded well and also in the u.k. china's a telecom giant qual way and may have a contract that's currently in question because the government in the u.k. is also raising questions about the transparency of the so there's some discussion there about looking quite way out of the u.k.'s 5 g.

network development you know china is aware of all this it's been working. strangely hard of the past few weeks to raise its public profile to prove its image it's been sending planes of aid medical equipment even medical teams to other countries trying to really push this propaganda angle of how good a job it's been doing to try to lead the world in its covert 19 response but of course it seems like these efforts are currently still in vain thank you for that update katrina a year in beijing a government leaders in kyrgyzstan a facing a backlash for forcing doctors to apologize after complaining that they don't have enough personal protective equipment medical staff account for a quarter of the new infections they're forced to walk with this report. a young doctor. makes a forced the policy on facebook after he was interviewed by kyrgyzstan's national

security agency i wrote about the lack of quality face masks at my clinic he says actually this was false information and i apologize although his twitter feed was deleted this tweet that the mask he was given wouldn't stop musky toes let alone caught it 19 went viral like this so have other social media posts a medical workers forced to cycle to work others risking infection by using the only other transport available the state security agency website is devoted to exposing those accused of spreading rumors but one fact is inescapable 25 percent of known coronavirus cases here a medical workers. it's become a basis for parliament now to look at how law enforcement is putting pressure on the medical profession at the end of the day we're not in china and we can't put

pressure on our doctors because it will lead to them hiding information about what's happening in the hospitals and that is a crime. another popular video mocks the state committee for national apologies. we apologize the citizens say gauging the public mood the government has promised to do better you should assume . we are doing everything in our hands to protect medical workers believe your heroes. talk to beck to order hash tag toward the still trending and now his image has been popularized hailed as a medical hero for saying what's needed to be said robin 1st year was al-jazeera. let's look at some other world news now at least 16 people have been killed in canada's worst mass shooting a series of attacks on a small coastal town port

a peak in the eastern province of nova scotia a 51 year old male suspect is dead following a standoff with police often daniel black. say this was the most horrifying crime they'd seen in this 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 and apparently homemade police car just before noon sunday i witness is 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 from one end of the province to the other. the 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 u.s. 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 lack al-jazeera now

a patient who tested positive for ebola has run away from a clinic in democratic republic of congo world health organization says that any further complicate efforts to contain the outbreak in and around the eastern city of beni 6 new infections have been confirmed there in the past week or so a lot more than 2000 people have died since the outbreak began in like 2018. cities made. isaac by the gosh let's hear from him now a specialist in infectious diseases and tropical medicine at the university of toronto. that's really too bad i mean it was so close this this epidemic in the in the eastern part of the democratic or difficult public of congress been going on since 2018 it's infected about 3600 people killed about 2200 people and it's just everyone was so. you know really upset when we heard about these new

cases emerging because it was it was thought that really this this epidemic was was over now of course this is a major setback and they really have to find any possible contact to these positive cases to really make sure that there's no further spread in the community we know how difficult some of the teams have had it working in that part of the democratic republic of congo contact tracing is challenging sometimes there are you know hostile individuals towards the health care teams the logistics have been challenging but you know fortunately the public health teams of the democratic republic of congo have tremendous experience working. with it in a bowl of virus epidemics and have excellent training and have a very good track record of getting this under control so i'm confident that they'll be able to do so but of course it will be without hurdles and and it just might take a bit more time than initially anticipated. now floods in western kenya have killed 4 people including policemen on a rescue mission the search is underway for 28 others who are missing or but man.

i was. rivers of mud sweeping through villages in the west of kenya. in the past. marketplaces a police station and schools was she. in the west pocket days of heavy rains look as possible from the debris left behind . many areas still waiting for official rescue teams to arrive at the 1st of the rich but i do i just because 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 to cars being moved through to think out of all the bridges washed away look you say they've had to carry flood victims to nearby health centers on their backs. on the eve of the day before i mean 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 floodwaters clear all the threats loom they fear water borne diseases and a possible increase in corona virus infections. in november al-jazeera filmed village in western pa caught after days of trench rain flooding and landslides entire families here were killed communities surrounded by floodwaters and isolated days later families went out in search of their relatives bodies. many say it was the worst disaster they've seen in my lifetime. we said just say warming oceans of course in unpredictable weather patterns in east

africa and with more rain expected in the coming days help may be slow coming to these villages and the problems may not be. just here. more than 100 boko haram fighters have been killed in northeastern nigeria according to the military they were forced off as they tried to enter the town of bani garri on saturday a stash of weapons and ammunition was found after the battle and police are blaming armed bandits as they say for the deaths of $47.00 people in north western nigeria they say the attacks happened in several villages in the state of katsina kidnappings and robberies are being carried out despite large troop deployments there australia is set to become the 1st country to make it compulsory for google and facebook to pay traditional media for news content the competition watchdog says it will release draft details of the payment plan in july there were previous government attempts to operate

a voluntary scheme for digital platforms but they failed to take tartans were held to account and we had genuine competition we had we have a level playing field we have more transparency and we get payment for original journalistic content david vaile teaches cyber law at the university of new south wales in sydney told us go on facebook of really hurt local media operations. the. essentially they are so big that is sort of too big to regulate is what our regulators conclusion moralists suggests and the quote drive from trying to do this but they basically main the. level and revenues and subscription revenues to a lesser extent for new services all the way around the world large and small have

been addressed equally sort of undermined the willingness of people to pay subscriptions like they used to be prepared to pay for the daily paper has been undermined and so you've seen the decimation of news rooms the closure of really 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. to take it to the headlines now on al-jazeera in germany is reopening some shops and allowing limited school classes as the number of new infections and deaths fall it's also europe's 2 worst affected countries spain initially have recorded their lowest daily death tolls in about

a month spain's top health official says its latest tally is $433.00 it's still tragic but shows strain is on the right path the country's been subjected to some of europe's toughest lockdown missions turkey is reporting more coronavirus cases than any country outside the e.u. and the united states more than $86000.00 infections are confirmed and just over 2000 deaths restrictions are now being stepped up including on travel. member of coronavirus name deaths in the united states has exceeded $40000.00 new york state accounts for nearly half of these but the rate of fatalities is lowing and gallagher with more on the president's daily briefings he says donald trump's reassurances don't match the situation at this point he's repeating the same points over and over again saying look we're testing more than any other country we are manufacturing more ventilators that are 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 horrendous india's easing restrictions on some commercial activities in areas least affected workers in sectors including farming in information technology will be allowed to return to their jobs but they'll be expected to wear their face masks and to maintain social distancing us all prices have dropped to their lowest level for 2 decades as concerns of a coronavirus eclipse the deal to cut oil output global demands fallen as a result of lock downs and travel restrictions and other news as well at least 16 people killed in canada's worst ever mass shooting the suspected gunman is dead after a series of attacks in the eastern province of nova scotia and you are up to date with the world headlines from al-jazeera risking it all is next. counting the costs

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