yes. play an important role protecting him in the. ringback face. of the. the i am. donald trump sends out a late night tweet that says he will sign an executive order temporarily banning all of immigration into the u.s. to protect the country from coronavirus. jordan this is obviously iraq live from doha also coming up. this. and would like to prove its damage control at the white house has fallout from the coronavirus pursues pushes us all prices into negative territory for the 1st time in history.

and the asian markets react strongly to news about the collapse in old prices we'll take you live to hong kong for the latest. and australia's 2nd largest domestic airline the hands of the control 2 administrators and the struggles from the effects of the pandemic. coronaviruses cases in the united states continues 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 would also protect american jobs trump previously suspended travel from europe china and other nations because of the virus let's go live now to john hendren in chicago john so a rather ominous tweet from the president what more is he been saying. that's right there in excuse me distracting wind here but i'm in chicago and they don't call it the windy city for nothing and the president issued this tweet in the

dark of night and he seemed to do that for good reason he could have made this announcement at his daily news conference where he talks about the coronavirus and all of the actions the administration is taking but by issuing this mysterious choice late on a monday night he gets the morning news cycles where the newspapers in the morning shows talk about what he's had to say. and then in the afternoon he gets another round where he explains what his policy is and then it gets to gestate and analyzed again and the president wants to show that he's doing something the centers for disease control just a month ago in a little known action. issued an order that allowed the united states to stop people at the border who didn't have the proper papers and because of a health problem in the country because of the pandemic that order allows them to send people back summarily no court hearing no chance for asylum they're 'd sent

back automatically and now the president is expanding that to include any immigration from anywhere this after all is the president who said he was going to stop illegal immigration by building a wall at the southern border but it's definitely a mixed message because this is also the president who also said that things are getting better he has been consistently presenting a rosy picture saying that the rate of acceleration of cray's of cases is decreasing and that the united states is getting ready to go back to business states are already opening up for business so now he's saying that things are so bad that he has to stop immigration and that plays well to his base it also suggests that perhaps he's seen a hit in the polls due to the coronavirus because the economy was the big issue for this president and it is not doing well with millions and millions tens of millions of americans now out of work so this is a president who is doing what he is known for he's he banned all immigration from

china all travel from china back in february that seems to have worked well for him and now he's banning all 'd immigration this will definitely be a challenge john just briefly how is this lots to play out politically because of course immigration is a hot political issue in the u.s. . it is indeed and we called the white house in the white house said they had no comment tonight but that the president would lay out his plan tomorrow so we expect to hear details of exactly how this will be an act or to some extent how it will be enacted and there will be heavy criticism of this no doubt in the 1st shot was fired tonight by andrea flores of the american civil liberties union who sent out a release saying our nation faces an extraordinary health crisis and at this time and xenophobia and racism is not the answer expect to hear a lot more of that from democrats on capitol hill and

a lot of questioning of this policy over the coming days and weeks however it must be said that the immigration act here in the united states allows the president especially in a time of emergency to make broad decisions proclamations on his own authority so there is legal precedent to him doing this is just that few presidents have ever taken advantage of it aaron to join hands with they in chicago john thank you. 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 lockdown measures means the world now has more crude oil and it can actually stall isn't a gallon. 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 t.j. 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 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 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 frontlines 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 a summit in just saying it has more now from doha and the impact the oil price drop may have in the middle east. it has a number of repetitions 4 of the gulf economies are predominantly for 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 the production cut to

a lot to cut again and now you see that this massive drop in we are at a point in oil prices which wasn't seen and the last time we saw the likes of it was in 1946 that was right after the 2nd one war and it 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. well the pandemic has forced australia's 2nd largest domestic airline 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 control of another company while the review of its assets is carried out on how to ask for an $800000000.00 emergency loan off of travel restrictions left at more than $3000000000.00 in debt virgin has already stood down most of its workforce well nicola gage is live for us in sydney nicholas so how significant is this collapse of virgin australia and why did the government refuse to help virgin with a loan. virgin australia has been struggling for some time now with billions of dollars in debt in the grounding of most of its

slate 19 so this will not come as a surprise to many people for weeks it has been urging the government to assist it with laurens in the hundreds of millions of dollars to get through this crisis but that has been consistently rejected and now deloitte administrators are in charge of the company looking at how it can restructure and refinance to try and keep its doors open the australian government has received some criticism for not thorough the supporting virgin australia of course this is one of only 2 major airlines in this country but the trainer of josh frydenberg has said softening the fact that the company is 90 percent foreign or and that it didn't want to be bailing out a large shareholders with big pockets them so of course this would not be the news that the many work is

a virgin australia would want to be hearing right now the company employs nearly $10000.00 workers across a stray ilia another $6000.00 are employed indirectly and it would be a huge glory to a strong leader. and destro is economy if this business did faults there are already concerns from consumer groups and politicians that unless virgin is resurrected that quantas will have a damn monopoly in the country which clearly is bad news for passengers. that's exactly right a monopoly in the airline industry is in north bodies interests the government has said that we do need. airline operators in australia to make sure the competition is in place of course there would be concerns there with flight prices going up in the cancellation of some routes and this would be happening at a time where employment is going up because of coronavirus and the shutdowns that

have happened and when the government looks to kick start the economy those flight routes need to be in place but virgin australia has been somewhat optimistic it says that there are no redundancies at this stage in those few flew those few rather flights that are continuing will go ahead from now and it says that there are some private investors who are interested so the question now is whether it ministry has will be able to keep the doors open so with charlie it can continue to have to mine airlines and these thousands of workers will be able to keep their jobs all right to make like raise their life person sydney nicholas thank you. our time for short break here now to say right when we come back the slowdown in deaths in spain and italy are the few bright spots across europe there are some countries gradually start to realize it was. on brazil's president joins a rally against isolation message more on that stay with us. for

. hello the skies over the reagan peninsula are still pretty full of clouds and that's an extension of what's happening in kenya at $30.00 pm which is the rains coming northwards and they've been so significant rain recently causing flooding in yemen that could be a few more showers have to clean the west obviously the something around riyadh moving towards bahrain and qatar this is during choosing eventually or moves across into iran as a few showers leaving things quieter but not absolutely quiet behind but all this time through iraq in the event it's been warming up has been generally quiet now admittedly the blue here in turkey and that's fairly active sherie weather but it's not really coming south i don't think enjoy the sunshine running down and for the

same class that is produced flooding recently in kenya and interesting it is quite a lot of forecast rain in somalia including in the capital mogadishu this is been proven to produce flash flooding and this time of year it may well do so again it is the what is time of year more or less now on the next month or 6 weeks or so which means there's not much rain for the south much of southern africa is draw at this time of the year cape town's no exception is not much cloud there and the forecasts the next 3 days is pretty steady fine weather for all. as the world fights the corona pandemic we're learning more about this every day the new patent your new join our global community. how we come to be able to fight i'm sorry your question can i get on with you think this is me directly that's coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the frontline phone i

think or a question that keeping you up to date and we've seen countries retreat back and beaten back frankly the stream on 00. welcome back command at 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 people applying for unemployment but. for the 1st time in history the u.s. oil price of crushed below 0 dollars has produced a fast running out of space to store that oil early trading in asian stock markets

are seeing a rise like it started at just $2.00 a barrel lockdowns in response to the pandemic to produced a massive slump in demand for energy and an excess supply of oil in the markets and the pandemic has forced australia's 2nd biggest domestic carrot into voluntary administration after the government refused to bail it out virgin australia had asked for an $800000000.00 emergency loan. well a big drop in the price of oil and of course the coronavirus pandemic is continuing to impact global markets let's cross now to difficult pollen she's monitoring the asian markets for us there in hong kong diversity's took us through how the markets across the asian region are responding to these oil price drops. daryn the oil price has recovered stumm what's a slight bit oil futures also trending upwards that's essentially indicating the direction of all prices but that is off little comfort to the asian stock markets

here they just stock markets are listening to the message the narrative that the u.s. is sending saying that it's going to be a tough uphill battle for takeoff economic recovery and the reverberations will be felt across the global economy and you're feeling the ripple effects of that here across the asian major asian stock markets most of them are down to their hot 4th to the half percent japan's nikkei is down to an opera central cons hang seng index also dense enough percent china is markets including the shanghai composite index are of $11.00 and a half percent but analysts say that below is the blow from the oil price drop is being cushioned by companies related to or oil and the sale of and distribution of all tankers are all up all their stocks are up and it's because china seems to be taking advantage of the bargains in the oil market the moment they seem to be in a buying spree although china doesn't release official inventory numbers as their estimates saying that china is trying to double its intimate tree they are poised

for a recovery in their own economy recovering from the coronavirus and all the lock down so that is somewhat buffering the markets there in china and away from the markets hong kong has extended its lockdown for a further 2 weeks how is that being received there. that's right so the chief executive made that announcement this morning in her weekly address saying that until may 7th a lot of the social distancing measures will remain in place that includes gatherings of no more than 4 people although they are relaxing some of the other measures for instance while restaurants still have to maintain a certain distance between tables they can increase their capacity of the people on their premises they're still closing down all leisure and entertainment centers and then come government is also trying to restrict or boost the defenses when it comes to testing of passengers coming in from abroad the message here is that hong kong has been here before yesterday hong kong had 0 new infections but you know they had

that early in march 2 people let down their guard they dropped their defenses and then hong kong came into a 2nd wave and that is what the city is trying to battle now so the government is warning people that they should remain cautious and still maintain a lot of the social distancing wearing masks and sanitation that they have been to come to this point or it's a difficult part of the hong kong thank you for some european countries have started taking their 1st steps to ease their lock downs in norway children have been allowed back to nurseries and small businesses have reopened in denmark but as more countries begin to relax 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 can track to the virus whilst treating patients. after the silence of.

these medics is spain's best hope in the battle to save lives a 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 dog monday 2nd only to the u.s. . 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's when the worst is still to come. if. 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 the 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 hostel in lisbon tested positive there are concerns about infection spreading quickly in other hostels where social distancing is difficult. europe's shouted 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 need parka al-jazeera. but across latin

america the number of corona virus infections has pasta 100000 in the region's worst affected country brazil the president says he wants to end nationwide restrictions this week but state leaders say the country isn't ready to sail as john hope and as. the critics of brazilian president tell you bill sinatra at 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 called for congress to be closed leaving the military intervention to get there and his wish and then to the current team measures imposed by many state governments. we don't want to negotiate anything while we want to sacto for brasil. desperate for people to get by would despite brazil already have the highest rate

of coronavirus 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 movement brazilian government governors 20 out of $27.00 governors of brazil state governors they have signed a document in climbing in defense of democracy and of course repudiating also lauder's participation that. demonstration so that happened yesterday and train train is sad and this is significant so bill a disease like this there are more than $40000.00 coby cases in brazil hospitals

are stretched to the limit this video shows one in the amazon. city of menow with bodies resting beside living patients. 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. and brazil escape military dictatorships only 35 years ago. the next day the president seemed to make u. 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 and i was dizzy to. south korea's yonhap news agency says the government in seoul thinks kim jong il is not seriously ill the clarification follows u.s.

media reports that suggested that the north korean leader was in grave danger after surgery speculation about his health has been growing since kim missed the birth anniversary of the founder of north korea kim il sung earlier this month 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 lockdowns suicide bombers targeted churches and luxury hotels last april killing at least $279.00 people and injuring $500.00 others a former police chief and defense minister have both been charged with murder and not acting on intelligence about the bombs. now the death toll in canada's worst mass shooting has risen to 19 that's including the gunman in these are investigating a series of crime scenes scattered across the province of nova scotia the gunman had driven more than 100 shooting up people along the way and setting homes on fire reports. this was

a crime as elaborate as it was horrific police believe just one gunman was involved and that he's dead shot by heavily armed officers after a 14 hour spree of gun attacks and arson across central nova scotia among those known to be victims of the gunman a 23 year veteran of the royal canadian mounted police the r.c.m.p. others killed were a teacher 2 nurses and a family of 3 including in 1000 year old woman but the lead investigator said he feared there were other victims not yet found we've been unable to fully examine the crime scenes because for instance we have had. 5 structure fires. most of those being residences and we believe there may be that term still within the remains of those. which. in all the chief superintendent said police were working at 16 crime scenes along

more than 100 kilometers of road he said some of those killed were known to the gunman others appeared to be targeted at random so far there's no indication of motive police have not yet found a note explaining the gunman's actions it's hard to imagine a more complex challenge for police with so many crime scenes and witnesses including survivors to interview many days and weeks of investigations lie ahead canada's prime minister began his daily 1000 press briefing with promises of solidarity to communities hit by unexpected unspeakable violence this happened in small towns quarter peak true. milford and enfield are places where people have deep roots places where people know their neighbors and look out for one another now these communities are in mourning in canada is in mourning with calls are growing for justin trudeau government to introduce long promised legislation

tightening canada's already strict gun control laws this is the worst mass shooting in canada since 1989 when a gunman specifically targeting women killed 14 people at a college in montreal a country already traumatized by the pandemic is deeply shocked and wondering just what happened in nova scotia and why daniel lack al-jazeera toronto. tough a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera 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 off the coronavirus pandemic that to at least 22000000 people apply the 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 a 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 crossed below 0 dollars as produces a foster running out of space to store that oil early trading in asian stock markets soit rise slightly sitting just $2.00 about well the pandemic has forced australia's 2nd largest domestic ack area into voluntary administration after the government refused to bail it out the day to day running of virgin australia is to be placed in the control of another company one of our assessed the world health

organization is warning against complacency as some european countries ease restrictions nurseries in norway have reopened and small businesses are trading again in some parts of germany and denmark and latin america's worst affected country brazil the president says he wants to end a nationwide restrictions this week triable tomorrow has openly criticized the lockdown saying economic cost is greater and not for the virus itself. and a service is being held in sri lanka dream of those killed in a series of attacks on easter sunday last year suicide bombers hit churches in luxury hotels last april killing at least $279.00 people and injuring $500.00 the former police chief and defense minister have both been charged with murder for not acting on intelligence about the bombings well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after street station thanks so much for. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no

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