this reality has a long exposing 6 try and if the rhetoric but they cannot manipulate the listening post your insight going to the media to 0. donald trump sends out a late night tweet the says he will sign an executive order temporarily banning all immigration into the u.s. to protect the country from coronavirus. this is out there live from doha also coming up. this is a great time to buy oil and would like to produce prove it damage control of the white house as fallout from the coronavirus pushes us oil prices into negative territory for the 1st time in history. meanwhile so much oil but where to put it

that's the question of the global lockdown shows only a few signs of being lifted. strain your 2nd largest domestic air carrier loses control of its company because of a lasting effects of the pandemic. welcome to the program as coronavirus cases in the u.s. continue to climb president trump says he's now planning to temporarily suspend immigration in a tweet he said it was necessary to stop the outbreak and that it would also protect american jobs trump previously suspended travel from europe china and other nations because of the virus let's talk to john hendren now he joins us live from chicago john so a rather ominous tweet from the president saying immigration to the u.s. will be temporarily halted what more can you tell us.

that's right daryn this is a surprise in the sense that it was delivered late at night not in his news conference where he could be questioned about it and that just happened hours ago here in the u.s. but this is fully in character for donald trump you remember that he had the ban from immigration from muslim countries that was overturned by a court and modified and of course this is the president who has made his whole theme stopping illegal immigration and now in this case he is stopping illegal immigration you can bet that he'll be asked about that in the news conference tomorrow we expect to hear a little more on that when that happens but this is after all the president who said he was going to build a wall to keep out illegal immigrants but he's getting a little heat already from those people on twitter and elsewhere who point out that he is the president all along who has been saying that things are actually getting better that the number of cases the exhilaration is slowing that the u.s. is getting ready to open up for business and then now all of a sudden you sending

a really mixed message saying that things are so dire we need to absolutely halt immigration this is really a trump policy one of his priorities that we might have expected to have seen earlier in this crisis but i suspect that it required some vetting from white house lawyers and that it will see challenges when all is said and done yeah i don't know how is this like to play out then because of course immigration is a hot political issue in the u.s. . that's right and you're going to have technology companies and pharmaceutical companies people who need scientists from india and other countries for their businesses to get to continue those people are going to be very upset so one of trump's constituencies is of course business is they are going to be pushing back on this because they need that legal immigration so i suspect what will happen is in the white house briefing tomorrow the president will come out with a plan there will be people who challenge that it will certainly be challenges in

a phobic as many of his policies have been by the democrats. by his administration will come out with a plan and then there will likely be legal challenges to that plan not just here from people in the u.s. but a lot of criticism as well from people in those other countries that have been doing the legal immigration here to the u.s. we are told that the white house is not commenting this this evening we put in a call they had no comment but said that we should be hearing more about the president's plan at the briefing on tuesday or to john hendren in chicago john thank you for the updates. now for the 1st time in history u.s. oil prices crashed below 0 dollars into negative territory on monday it's just rebounded in asian markets to around $2.00 a barrel a drastic reduction in global energy demand because of the pandemic and lock down measures means the world now has more crude oil and it can stall is on the ballot. at the beginning of 2020 a barrel of u.s.

crude oil cost around $60.00 then came the coronavirus pandemic forcing states toward a lockdown emptying streets closing businesses and shuttering factories across the nation demand dried up and the price fell to $18.00 on monday things took a catastrophic turn for the 1st time in history u.s. oil went into negative territory a doomsday scenario for the entire industry president trump called the drop interesting despite the crash hitting the stock market were filling up our national petroleum reserves through dziedzic you know the strategic reserves. and we're looking to put as much as $75000000.00 barrels into the reserves themselves that would top it out that would be the 1st time in a long time it's been tapped out would get it for the right price capacity though both online and see in the united states is filling up since march stockpiles in

some locations have risen by 50 percent in some places the price of fuel is now at a 10 year low demand is down to 0 certainty when states will reopen and all this comes as a severe blow to president donald trump he's gone to great lengths to protect the oil sector working with both russia and opec to reduce production now the entire global industry is another president in crisis the historic deal to slash production by millions of barrels a day involved saudi arabia russia and other oil producing nations but experts say another global effort is needed. we're probably down a 1000000 from our normal 10000000 barrels down to about 9 that probably needs to come down some more but all the other oil producing countries need to do the same until the the economy recovers the plunging price is a driven by trading deadlines oil is traded on its future price contracts are due to expire on tuesday why is it virtually nonexistent some trade is now paying to

get rid of oil instead of buying it but president says the industry will bounce back they got caught and there are a lot of people that are not too happy because they got caught so if you take a look at it you'll see it's more of a financial thing than an oil situation but because you take i believe in a month or so and go a little bit out it's a $25.00 and $28.00 or so it's largely a financial squeeze. if there is a silver lining those on the front lines of the coronavirus will pay less to fuel because a recovery in demand for oil is now dependent on a crisis that in many parts of the u.s. is far from over and to gallacher al-jazeera miami florida. al-jazeera some been just saying it has more from doha now on the impact the oil price drop may have in the middle east. it has a number of repercussions for the gulf economies a predominantly foreign leaders such as saudi arabia which have been trying to

control the way the markets have been acting to the amount of oil that it has been getting in the last few weeks you've seen saudi arabia going from a production cut to a lot to cut again and now you see that this massive drop in the we are at a point in oil prices which wasn't seen in the last time we saw the likes of it was in 1946 that was right after the 2nd one war is going to have an impact on economies such as bahrain and oman which do not have the kind of deep sovereign funds that other countries have it is going to have an impact on opec 2nd largest producer of such as iraq which has been struggling to pay salaries for its employees and these are state employees which have not been paid in full it is going to have an impact on the soldiers on the front lines that iraq is going to have to find money not just to continue its fight against isis but also to continue its fight against the crew in a virus pandemic you have to remember that iraq is already asking for donors to

chip in to help it meet this crisis so it is going to have impact which is going to be far and wide in terms of economics but it also going to have an impact on the political economy of saudi arabia which is seen as a regional leader because of its currency that it has and not just with america and the russians but also in terms of how it dominates the region. some european countries have started taking the 1st few steps to ease coronavirus lockdowns in norway children have been allowed back to nurseries and small businesses have reopened in denmark but as more and more countries begin to ease restrictions the world health organization is warning against complacency is in the box. morning one of their own medical staff at a hospital in madrid the chief of surgery contract to the virus whilst treating patients. after the silence of. these medics is spain's best hope in the battle to save lives to fight the country

believes it's slowly starting to win thank you arriving in the capital 2000000 protective masks purchased from china by the spanish government they'll be shared across the country helping parts of spain's economy to reopen. builders are back at work some heavy industries operating again. these are carefully controlled steps spain's infection rate is now stable but the number of people diagnosed with the virus passed 200000 monday 2nd only to the us. the world health organization urged countries to act fast on limiting the spread of the virus without national unity and global solidarity classed as the worst is yet ahead of us let's prevent this tragedy. it's

a virus that many people still don't understand the slowdown in deaths in spain and italy has returned some optimism to europe's financial markets share prices edged higher on monday from their lowest since the 2008. but businesses are bracing for a lengthy global downturn. in russia the crisis is deepening with a lockdown entering its 4th week chairing a video meeting with the regional officials president putin when the worst is still to come. the peak incidents is still ahead and now we need to do everything to flatten this pete. the french government says it's making progress restrictions remain in place until at least may the 11th but there are social consequences to france's strict lockdown rules over the weekend police in new this clashed in paris his poor suburbs mediators have been sent in to soothe tensions.

the u.k.'s lockdown remains in place with the government saying it's waiting for the right data before easing restrictions the country hopes to start clinical trials for a vaccine next week. as countries consider their options here in portugal a reminder of how virulent coronavirus is a total of $138.00 refugees out of $175.00 house at a hospital in lisbon tested positive there are concerns about infection spreading quickly in other hospitals where social distancing is difficult. europe's shuttered societies on very different paths relaxing things too soon too fast could risk a 2nd spike in cases governments are struggling to balance the health of their economies with the health of the people needs barca al-jazeera. south korea's

yonhap news agency says the government in seoul things. kim jong un is not seriously ill a clarification follows u.s. media reports that suggested that the north korean leader was in grave danger after surgery there's been speculation about his health since kim missed the birth anniversary of the founder of north korea kim il sung earlier this month. it's time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back. brazil's president joins a rally against isolation measures put in place by state governors and we report from kenya right flash floods struck a region just a gear after communities were devastated by another disaster one of those are on the way. to. have the latest though to have severe thunderstorms tornadoes should be out of

the way to this is them on their way out to the eastern seaboard the forecast in toronto represents the next delta whether you don't really want to be in it's getting cold again cold enough for some snow flurries on tuesday and temperatures by night are subzero and it has been so warm recently but that's a cold area now in the u.s. and in canada it represents or shows itself as showers but not big ones running through the eastern side once again otherwise it's quiet for the time being but next belt of thunderstorms developing in the texan panhandle as you feed invoiced you're from the south again still cold air sitting over the mountain states that could be developing system that runs through the southern states and this time it's less than a week's time so we need to keep an eye on that is such a time of the year after all now we've got big showers to come in the northern bahamas florida and cuba a result of that frontal system that was so active over the u.s. that also prompt showers in hispan yola otherwise it's a fairly quiet picture in central america further south the wettest weather's been

recently in guyana and that's really more or less stay temperatures in but us areas are on the way down. they say to really know someone you must walk a mile in their shoes follow in their footsteps as they forge their way in the wild. outages ila shares these personal journeys. inspiring stories of people persevering on their chosen path. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. the target.

welcome back a quick amount of the top stories here on al-jazeera president trump says he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the u.s. he says it's to protect american jobs after the coronavirus pandemic left at least 22000000 applying for unemployment benefits. for the 1st time in history u.s. oil prices a crash below 0 dollars has produced a fast running out of space to store that oil early trading in the asian stock market has seen a rise likely sitting at just $2.00 a barrel lockdowns in response to the virus and then they could produce a massive slump in demand for energy and excess supply of oil in the markets. the world health organization is warning against complacency is some european countries ease restrictions nurseries in norway have reopened and small businesses are trading again in some parts of germany and denmark. now the pandemic has

forced australia's 2nd largest domestic carrier into voluntary administration after the government refused to bail it out that means the day to day running of virgin australia were placed in control of another company while a review of its assets is carried out the airline asked for an $800000000.00 emergency loan off a travel restrictions left more than $3000000000.00 in debt virgin has already stood down most of its workforce one nickel again joins us live now from sydney nicholas how this is australia's 1st big corporate casualty of the pandemic how significant is it and why did the government refused to help virgin with a low. well this is a significant development but unfortunately it's not true surprising virgin australia is billions of dollars in debt and most of its fleet has been grounded due to cohabit 19 and for weeks it's been urging the government to assist it with

lawyers of hundreds of millions of dollars to get through this process and the government has consistently rejected that so on monday it was placed into voluntary administration and deloitte administration administrators have taken over to try and refinance and restructure this company at the moment there are no redundancies but the big question is whether administrators will be able to make sure that this company continues now the government has received some criticism for not helping virgin australia one of 2 of the shelley is main airlines but citing the fact that this company is 90 percent foreign oil and it says that it doesn't really want to be bailing else large companies which have big pockets and says that they should be doing this as well and they want a market solution here but this is obviously not the on so that it's many workers

would be wanting on monday nearly $10000.00 people are employed by virgin australia in this country and another 6000 in directly and this will be a huge loss to a strike if this company does falls there are already concerns from consumer groups and local politicians but unless virgin is resurrected the national flag carrier quantas will have a new monopoly in australia which of course is bad news for customers and passengers. of course that is bad news no one wants to see a monopoly in the airline industry of course there would be many questions about whether that would lead to flight process going up or the cancellation of of different routes around. of course this comes as unemployment is rising to 2 shutdowns of coronavirus and the government will be looking to restart the economy as this country or back up the government has been quite certain the strategy it

does need to airlines for that competition virgin australia has been quite optimistic today of course it wants that to happen so it can get people on board to buy the company but it says that there have been a number of private investors that could be willing to buy. a strongly are and it wants this restructuring to happen as soon as possible the big question is will that happen to make sure that they can keep flying and that we can have 2 airline carriers in this country of origin in their life force in sydney nicholas thank you. now across latin america the number of corona virus infections has pasta 100000 in brazil which is the region's worst affected country the president says he wants to end a nationwide restrictions this week but state leaders say the conflict isn't ready john heilemann has moved. the critics of brazilian president to you bill so now to this rally was another outrage perhaps the most serious since coronavirus began he

spoke to supporters outside of the brazilian army headquarters many of them cool for congress to be closed leaving the military intervention to get there and his wish and then to the corn to measures imposed by many state governments. and other we don't want to negotiate anything while we want the sanction for brasil. he desperate for people to get wood despite brazil already having the highest rate of corona virus cases in latin america. 70 percent will be infected if not today then next week or next month it's have a reality we have to take care of the elderly and those with health problems the rest have to be careful but have to work. there's widespread opposition to that and to him yesterday there was a a movement brazilian government governors 20 out of $27.00 governors

of brazil state governors they have signed a document in common in defense of democracy and of course repudiating also that it was participation that. demonstration showed that happened yesterday and train train is sad and this is significant still believe does the mcas there are more than $40000.00 coby cases in brazil hospitals are stretched to the limit this video shows one in the amazonian city of announced with body. beside living patient. even as the president spoke at the rally he was coughing. he's angered many with his distaste for social distancing but appearing with the crowd some of whom called for the army to intervene and support him why did condemnation. of brazil escape military

dictatorships only 35 years ago. the next day the president seemed to make you turn . we don't need to close anything what are we have here is democracy and respect for their brazilian constitution but he still repeated his call for an end to quarantine measures in brazil by next week. john home i was eager. now a service is being held in sri lanka to remember those killed in a series of bomb attacks on easter sunday last year but it's only being attended by priests due to coronavirus lockdown rules suicide bombers targeted churches and luxury hotels last april killing at least $279.00 people and injuring $500.00 lanka's former police chief and defense minister have both been charged with murder and acting on intelligence about the bombings an elephant and his joins us live now from the sri lankan capital manila so it's been a year now since those easter sunday attacks just talk us through what's expected to happen today.

today is all about remembering the dead even amid the sort of corona lockdown the facade of the church you see behind me said anthony's church a sort of very holy shrine of that catholics are drawn to and not just catholics but people of all faiths and this was one of the 1st locations that a suicide bomber hit one year ago or now for more people congregations it's a case of quiet remembrance obviously with the koran the lockdown there and people can't come together we did have a memorial last celebrated by the parish priest and sort of his brotherhood in the church behind me that was obviously gathering purely of the priests but right after that just at the point that that bomb ripped through the building behind me last year we had the priests come outside the building essentially light lamps and the

bells tolled and despite the curfew here in colombo people in the surrounding areas obviously within social distancing could not keep themselves in their homes they did gather essentially just behind here some of them clutching candles some of them clutching rosaries some of them just having their hands class of the ghetto with tears running down their faces as they remembered all those killed a year ago here daryn what more have we learned then from the investigation and was anyone punished for the attacks. sadly not yet and i mean so far we've had 2 presidential commissions of inquiry the 2nd one still going on obviously appointed by the new president go to rb rajapaksa we had the previous president have a presidential commission of inquiry that process finished there was a parliamentary select committee and essentially we saw

a huge number of people bring brought in to give evidence there was some startling information that came out at the end of the day what everybody realized hearing that information that it was a huge failing huge and failing on the part right up the chain in the hierarchy of people who had known who had been warned that there was fears of impending attacks but had done nothing and essentially had allowed this carnage to take place so that and i mean as far as recent as 56 days ago we had another 2 people being arrested a centrally they said that new evidence had come to light people being taken in for questioning there's over 130 people who are in custody arrested in connection with the bombings but still the pieces of the puzzle haven't all fall and together that aaron original sin and his name colomba middel thank you. a search is underway in

western kenya for at least 22 people who disappeared during a devastating flood and markets were swept away after the rain triggered a landslide killing 12 people the disasters in the same area were killed dozens of kenyans 5 months ago catherine sort of forms. flying over this cynic terrain in western kenya it's hard to miss the devastation on the ground it was caused by a huge margin light after 2 rivers bust their banks it's been raining here for days in the more mountainous areas and the impact is felt in this area the kenyan counties. and west courts. this is where markets stood until blocks came crashing down. also destroying homes shops and restaurants hundreds of people like the town market on saturday afternoon. stan correy ran a butcher's shop and was hoping to sell to. all but 4 was swept away by the torrent

of. i want people to leave this area. but they would not believe. the water i would get now we have. to go to the property this was a thriving trading center in a pound of about 3000 people to say when they. are. so watered down they run for safety but others were not so lucky several people have died. still missing rescue operations by the government red cross and other agencies still going on. among the bodies retrieved so far a 14 year old girl. the area is difficult to get to roads were swept away and bridges downed. without heavy equipment to help dig through the rubble young volunteers use sticks to look for bodies the volunteers have also rescued several

people including evelyn could toy. the water was so much i just let it take me i don't know how long i was in it ready for like an hour i thought i would die every time i found a tree branch to hold on to the water would take me back and i just don't know how i survived she's among thousands who lost everything many are sheltering with neighbors who are on higher ground the same area was struck by another mudslide killing 60 people last november the government says the community needs to move to safer ground many like evelyn tallis they have nowhere else to go catherine sorry al-jazeera just gone western kenya. now chad is opening an inquiry into the deaths of 44 boko haram prisoners in their cells on thursday an autopsy revealed the members of the armed group had burned lungs from a lethal substance and that some had died of heart attacks and this fixation that

was detained after a battle with chad's military in february where 98 soldiers were killed the army's deadliest day was over we did a head count we found that only 44 of the 58 prisoners died under circumstances that we don't know about so far the medical examiner is still proceeding with the examinations but we already have autopsy pictures some of the lungs are burnt. for a quick check on the headlines here this hour donald trump says he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the u.s. he says it's to protect american jobs after the coronavirus pandemic left at least 22000000 people applying for unemployment benefits john hendren has more now from chicago. this is a surprise in the sense that it was delivered late at night not in his news conference where he could be questioned about it and that just happened hours ago

here in the u.s. but this is fully in character for donald trump you remember that he had the ban from immigration from muslim countries that was overturned by a court and modified and of course this is the president who his made his old team stopping illegal immigration and now in this case he is stopping illegal immigration you can bet that he'll be asked about that in the news conference tomorrow we expect to hear a little more on that when that happens for the 1st time in history u.s. oil prices have crashed below 0 dollars as produces a foster running out of space to store oil early trading in asian markets as seen at rice likely sitting at just $2.00 a barrel lockdowns in response to the coronavirus pandemic produce a massive slump in demand the next supply of oil in the markets for the pandemic us forces strain is 2nd largest domestic carrier into voluntary administration after the government refused to bail it out that means the day to day running of virgin

australia will be placed in the control of another company water a view of its assets is carried out the world health organization is warning against complacency is some european countries ease restrictions nurseries in norway have reopened and small businesses are trading again in some parts of germany and denmark in brazil which is latin america's worst affected country the president says he wants to end a nationwide restrictions this week j a both an arrow has been openly critical of lock down the saying the economic cost of imposing them is much higher than the threat of the virus. and floods in western kenya have killed 12 people including policeman the rescue mission the search is underway for others till missing more rain is for call so people are being urged to move to higher ground those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera to witness statements watching. the latest news as it breaks with no treatment or vaccine for her in

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