al jazeera. this is al-jazeera. hello malcolm i'm peter double you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.s. president donald trump has announced he will suspend immigration saying he has to protect americans from coronavirus and save jobs. markets in asia and europe fall after u.s. oil prices turned negative for the 1st time in history. new data shows the

number of coronavirus deaths in england and wales could be 41 percent higher than the government has been reporting. a dire warning from the u.n. the number of people going hungry around the world could double because of the pandemic. chortle for you cheers citizens is to differ on earth to choose to do what we can. also this will need the volunteers helping to boost iran's response to the pandemic. and i'm piece them to the sport huey for and its member associations are holding a teleconference on tuesday to try and work out a way to finish the football season. us president donald trump declaring that he will suspend immigration into the united states via an executive order the u.s. president on twitter said that's in risk. of the coronavirus pandemic referring to

. the invisible enemy added that he has to protect american jobs the announcement drew swift condemnation from some in the u.s. democratic party the who accused mr trump of distracting people from what they described as his full response to the outbreak john hendren has more from chicago 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 tweet late on a monday night he gets the morning news cycles where the newspapers 'd in the morning shows talking 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 the pandemic that order allows them to send people back summarily no court hearing no chance for asylum they're sent back automatically and now the president is expanding that to include any immigration from anywhere ok let's bring in thomas gifts he specializes in u.s. politics he's a lecturer at university college london thomas welcome back to the news here on al-jazeera so he wants to see if it's 22000000 jobs that have already disappeared what's the safeguarding. well i think this is more about optics than it is about economics there's certainly a conceptual difference here between shutting down orders from x. for all travel to many countries of course that done to ice league team the spread of 19 now actually new can substitute reforms to immigration policy trump does

insist that suspending immigration is meant to protect jobs in the u.s. as unemployment has escalated economists can debate about but i think largely what trump is trying to use exploder political opportunity here of course and stricter immigration policy has been one of the president's remarks he issues since he entered the white house as reflected by well his national emergency that he knew where to go the us mexico border wall is that her to temporarily ban immigration from muslim majority countries and so on and so i think that this effort very much plays into that narrative and thinks that it's a political winner a mom's conservative base he tweets it's in the middle of the nights his time washington time does that mean that we will see a not dissimilar process through a process we've seen before say when it comes to foreign policy on twitter there is a distinct rowing back and somebody will give us clarity on this over the coming couple of days that's very possible i mean there is a lot of uncertainty about what he actually meant by the substance of it it's

tweets and oftentimes these tend to be so cryptic so we may see either a lot of this. officials with him in his administration or he may decide to just press ahead with this as he intended and so at this point there's just a lot of one certainty n. a lot of parity that hopefully will be getting more in the coming days how do you think this will get on with his base. well i think that this will go well with these base because again spirit wants to get into the broader political narrative of a skeptical more hardline stance toward immigration but of course it's also going to elicit a lot of criticism from democrats that they are going to portray this as an instance the zenith moving blame shifting there or in suggesting that this is an example trying trying to find a scapegoat for what they perceive as that mishandling of the crisis so far and so it probably is going play well among conservatives and i think it's going to play

less well among the impulse which is consistent with this polarization i'm cintra president forgive me thomas if my next question sounds slightly naive and quite tabloid i guess in a way but you know the pictures that are coming out of america now yesterday looking on social media we have nurses wearing face masks and their i.c.u. nursing uniforms squaring off against demonstrators protesters in trucks wearing paramilitary fits shouting and pumping their horns all the parts of america where americans are beginning to lose the plot over this. well i think that's a really apt description at the same time you know you're hoping that some of the. instances are more isolated than not and of course that leaves more intense and kind of focus on leads. on these particular picture particular images but certainly

i think if anything the 900 is further and trenching a lot of the polarization that we've already witnessed in the united states in the past we have mirrors over the trunk presidency and i think going forward these movements and i don't see anything except for the i mean this mr trump do you think can he can he maintain his position which he seems to be squaring off against individual states govern as well he certainly seems prepared to signal to them that he will you know talking about time to liberate i think it was 3 states that he mentioned on twitter what 4 days ago that's very strong language very authoritarian language it is quite provocative to say don't we stand trial continues to insist essentially that yes fall of the war here over when and how the various states open up in the coming. months the reality however is that under the federalist u.s. system a lot of these situations the. for those kinds of choices are actually left to the

individual governors so there's also going to be very much a local battle but we didn't questions as well so muskets told us 70 thanks thank you bill. for the 1st time in the history of the united states u.s. oil prices have crashed below 0 and into negative territory the futures figure has since come back to about $2.00 per barrel while brant crude the international benchmark has fallen to just under $20.00 a barrel we have 3 correspondents covering the story for us here on the news our economics editor of it ali will have more about what that means and what could happen next o'sullivan's of aids and doha with the impact on the gulf region untypical pollens in hong kong looking at the asian markets and their reaction will speak to them all after this report from the u.s. and our correspondent there and alex. 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 lock downs 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 to to negative territory a doomsday scenario for the entire industry president trump called the drop interesting despite the crash it in the stock market we're 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 on land and sea 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 there's no certainty when states will reopen and all of this comes as a severe blow to president donald trump is going to grow. lengths to protect the oil sector working with both russia and opec to reduce production now the entire global industry is in a not precedented 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 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 they cause 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 we gallacher al-jazeera miami florida ok let's bring in the 1st of our correspondents covering the story our economics editor of it ali joins us from london up at what has to change will shift for the price to go back to some place where it's less astonishing than is at the moment. you know peter let's just

discuss the baseball a moment just think back to friday if the price of crude was $18.00 a barrel now each contract is worth $1000.00 barrels of oil so that would have been $18000.00 in the hands of traders but they can't sell those on to anybody and i having to give that away right to this at this moment they have to pay $3000.00 force people to take that contract off them they can't sell their oil to anybody and. the situation will only change if opec and the united states get back together and they start to think seriously about how they're going to reduce the amount of oil that they reason out there at this present moment there's more than $35000000.00 barrels in circulation which have which which are not useful to anybody at this present time and so we need to figure

out how to get rid of those $35000000.00 barrels that would me russia united states and saudi arabia shutting down production but that's not practical because if you shut down pratfall you can damage wells so it needs a collective help from from everyone around the world the other thing that the united states can do is is that offer up the strategic research to allow corporations to actually store away their oil in those corporate in those that are in the strategic reserve and that's something that they're going to consider and the u.s. is also considering haying oil companies to keep oil in in the oil well so that they don't pump it out that's just some of the ideas that of being floated at this present moment looking a longer timescale perhaps a bid for the past month or 6 weeks or so we have been talking about the impact of coronavirus possibly pushing the the world's towards a global recession could this situation with the cost the pricing of oil

pushed the global economy not from recession but into a depression. you're you're absolutely right we could be headed in that direction some of the numbers that we have got from governments from the i.m.f. suggesting that so you know contraction in the economy in the 2nd quarter alone could be about 35 percent that's a stranded staggering fault for any economy and going forward to try and get economies going it's like turning around a supertanker it's a slow process to get everyone working in the same direction to get all that conks going in the economy so we are looking. at an economic recession down the line could be did depression that all depends on how well what governments do at this present moment and they're doing massive not so mired in specially in

the ritual but just think about those poor nations think about nigeria it may be the biggest economy in africa but right now with oil prices at $20.00 a barrel it needs to balance its budget at $8.00 a barrel needs oil prices 80 dollars a barrel it's having to forest $7000000000.00 wrong the i.m.f. and the world bank to see it through the krona pound only a bit out in london thanks very much let's go to a summer binge of aids here in doha so there's always a ripple effect what's the effect in the traditional oil manufacturing areas. well the middle east and north africa region especially here in the gulf cooperation council a you've already begun to see the impact of the crash at its lowest point since after the 2nd world war in 1946 we've seen the saudi stock market which is the

largest in the region drop we've seen the value of saudi aramco the largest oil company drop we've seen blips in divorces across the g.c.c. so yes yes it was w.t.r. yes it wasn't brant crude which is the international brant bug but yet that ripple effect has already been felt and it is worth noting that these this region specifically in the g.c.c. is dependent on hydrocarbon exports they run their budgets are based on hydrocarbon there's just too much oil too for for them to sell everybody wants to sell and nobody wants to buy and that is primarily because of a global slowdown be people are not driving people are getting on planes and need an industrial sectors are shut. the biggest buyer of the world in the developing world that is trying in india are not buying as much oil as people had and dissipated and adds up with the sea that we are seeing in excess of 30000000 barrels now being floated around that nobody wants it is going to be

a very difficult had to pull a trick to pull out of the hat for these economies to balance themselves and it's not just a traditional economy that here we're talking about is the 2nd largest producer among nations is iraq and it is going to find it difficult to pay salaries it is being hit by a double whammy the contraction economy because of the could on a virus it is having to borrow money for that in addition to that if it cannot sell oil on the price that it had projected it will not be able to be basic salaries salaries of people who are not just switching on the light and bringing water to people salaries of people who are on the front lines fighting against isis. so it is going to have a major ripple in effect if prices of oil are not standardized and stabilized and opec plus isn't dissipated to come into action we're already hearing reports about the saudi government which had agreed to cut about $10000000.00 barrels of oil from

the global oil supply chain among with opec plus the asians are planning to push ahead its reduction earlier but again big because there is so much glut and there's so much reduction in demand all of these nations will have to do a lot more if they want to balance their budgets and see if their economies was on offense very much. european trading day of course well up and running european stock markets opened lower today after the u.s. oil price crash last night overnight the pan european stock $600.00 fell about one percent of the start of trade london's footsie fell down dipping their 1.7 percent well frankfurt's dax and one of the main exchanges in paris well they both said 2 percent this was the worst day for about a month for asian stocks tokyo's nikkei finished almost 2 percent hong kong sydney and seoul dropping about one percentage point each loss is 2 in shanghai and singapore live now to hong kong and our correspondent following those crucial asian

markets did you go parlance or did you have they rallied a tall today during the course of the trading day. well peter they have all ended the day in the red it all in negative territory and what they're reacting to is not necessarily just the price of oil those historic lows they're also reacting to the narrative the message that the u.s. the world's top crude oil producer is sending its economy has already been hit by the pandemic and now it's saying that it's going to be a massive uphill battle to get the economy back on its feet and the reverberations for of that on the global economy is making investors here in asia very nervous so it sent stock markets. plunging not necessarily massive amounts but enough to make investors here very uncomfortable now one of the stock markets that i've been watching closely throughout the day is china's markets the shanghai composite in

the index and the shenzhen composite index and what's interesting is that has dropped of course throughout the day but it's ended the day just under one percent and investors are saying that the main reason for this is that it's been boid by shares not necessarily that stew directly to or oil but due to the distribution of that has to do with storage or transporting oil and that's because china seems to be taking advantage of the situation and shoring up its oil stock piles china's very guarded about its inventory oil imagery but analysts estimate that it's trying to double all of the it's intimate 3 take advantage of these bargain prices we are seeing now going on a buying spree and generally indicating that it is sending a positive message about its economy that what we're seeing the kind of purchase they're doing is not necessarily going to prop up oil prices across the world but what it does is give confidence to the chinese community that they are on the path

to recovery after suffering from you know the corona virus outbreak and the major lockdowns thanks very much. a developing aspects of the corona virus in the pandemic coming to us out of the u.k. this the coronavirus death toll in england wales is 41 percent higher than government figures indicate according to the u.k.'s office for national statistics that's the o.m.'s saying it's recorded just over 13000 deaths over april the 10th but the government's death toll for those who died in hospital up until that date was around 1000 we'll get you a live update on the developing story as i say just as soon as we can here on the news hour the pandemic could leave tens of millions more people hungry the u.n. has released a report that highlights the number of acutely food insecure or people in the 4 years since the report's been published that number has never been higher and says the outbreak will push more than a quarter of a 1000000000 people to the brink of starvation unless they get help 55 food

crises countries are highly vulnerable to the consequences of the outbreak in yemen and south sudan more than half of the population's facing acute food insecurity let's talk to matthew hollingworth he's the world food program's county director for south sudan he joins us from the south sudanese capital juba welcome back to the news are the people of south sudan have stumbled from crisis to crisis can they withstand this. well i think clearly the people themselves are incredibly resilient in south sudan but you're right that this we're now bracing ourselves brought another crisis upon many more than one half the population of this country and 6 and a half 1000000 people in crisis levels of food insecurity or worse crime at

19 is just yet another emergency that we're going to face but these are as i say credibly resilient people what we need to be able to do is to continue our work continued to get resources to do our work and continue the supply chain nightmare that is our work of getting through to this 6 and a half 1000000 people around this country when we look at a country like south sudan however historically a crisis generally either took place in the city and the urban areas or the rural areas because of the nature of corona virus when it morphs into being the fully fledged disease covered 19 does that have an across the board effect on those city areas and the rural areas as well. you're absolutely right our main focus for many years now has been on rural communities displaced communities who have been fleeing from conflict or from natural disasters but predominantly in the

hinterland of the country in the rural areas covered 19 is bringing back to south sudan and a new prices the urban population people who are typically average to make a living on casual employment and who suddenly because of carbon 19 are not able to do that restrictions coming in supply chain restrictions lockdowns or affecting their ability to earn enough money to buy fruit in the markets the other thing of course is that these people all rely on markets to meet their own needs and most of that food is coming in typically from outside the country. covered 19 also interrupts their supply chains it right it raises the price of food i mean maize is already gone up by 40 percent in the last month alone in price and that's a main staple of people for people here in juba so the urban population we're very

fearful that the 6 and a half 1000000 people we expect to be able to have to support in the lean season in this country are going to have another 1000000 are people added to it because of the urban populations accounted for their 3rd or get access to that and matthew when you talk there about the lean season countries literally in the area that you're sitting in right now they don't just have spring summer autumn and winter do they have the hunger season it's kind of april may time july august time so the impacts of coronavirus will compound an already appalling situation. absolutely so as you rightly said we have a full month period where in rural areas in particular the harvests the food that was harvested runs out and those of the most vulnerable population within the country typically where we try to support by pre-positioning food into these areas is the other thing that happens at the same time as the lean season of the hunger

season is the rainy season and if we don't get through to those areas before the rains star a lot of those people are just almost impossible to reach and that's when you see as having to do more and drop operations helicopter operations all of which make that much harder in a curve at 19 situation we are currently prepositioned we've got 70 percent of the food out to people 'd that will be essentially not reachable when the rains start just to give you an idea that's around 120000 metric tons already delivered into those areas but we've still got somewhere to go we've got 30 percent to go so we're really on a race against time we have to leave it there matthew hollingworth in juba the south sudanese capital good luck thanks very much thank you back to europe france stopping all flights from outside europe's open borders schengen area the french transport and environment minister and as of a thorn saying the closure is likely to remain in place over the european summer

francis registered more than 20000 deaths becoming the 4th country to go beyond that threshold off to italy spain and the united states natasha butler joins us live now from france natasha so we're talking tail end of the summertime that's what 4 months away 5 months from now. yes i was right i mean elizabeth for the french transport minister is comments or no radio earlier today here in france quite ambiguous it sounds as if she's talking about or flight stopping now but effectively what she's probably referring to is the fact that all flights into the schengen so have a segue to flee ground to hold ever since may the 17th when the european union decided to suspend any nonessential travel what that's meant for frons is only a french citizens or people traveling for essential reasons nurses doctors for example have been allowed into france the borders have otherwise been shut to

others and what the french president emanuel mark carreau is talking about is perhaps extending that shannan zone a suspension of the a people being able to come into the schengen zone he's talking about the fact that perhaps i should continue until september so that's off to the european summer great other european union countries their leaders are saying that perhaps those restrictions should be lifted before but there's no doubt that there has to be a conversation amongst those a european leaders about how they wish to proceed to go forward but there are several countries in europe who are considering de confinement to a start to de confinement plans france will start looking at phasing in levels of de confinement inmates may but what's the french government is very aware of is not to end so into in a way open borders full de confinement without knowing that the health risks are minimized and tasha thanks very much. let's pause for your weather forecast is

evident by very much peter so looking a little topsy turvy across here for the moment is a north south split but the fine weather the dry weather the warm weather that's in the north you take a look at the satellite picture you can see largely clear skies lots of sunshine here if a little on the breezy side it has to be said further look at this big massive cloud that we have across so southern parts from turkey through the black sea pushing right across into southern france and all the way over into spain and portugal very deep area of low pressure swirling away across so central parts of the mediterranean and it's bringing some really heavy rainfall into that western side of the med big downpours there into where the northeast of spain for example barcelona over the next 3 days or so could see as much as 80 millimeters of rain that's around twice the a pro average rainfall is on the cool side madrid will struggle to get to around 14 degrees it will warm up some places as we go on through the next couple of days so

things will gradually improve that weather whether that will move across other parts of france into central and southern areas of italy we are going to see some showers continuing into that eastern side of turkey further north they will go the sunshine continuous that's a stiff easterly breeze still coming in across the north sea into england and into parts of scotland as well as the time we get to thursday temperatures started to pick up largely dry across the peninsula and warming up a tap evident thanks very much still to come for you here on the news hour. well come back lane are stronger and fitter the boss of australia's 2nd biggest airline puts on a brave face as his company faces turbulent days ahead. and the coronavirus could be helping before time tour de france champion be ready for this year's events peaceably explained in the sports people.

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we come back you're watching the al-jazeera news our mining's piece of dubey these are the main stories so far president trump says he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the united states because of the pandemic he also on twitter said that he must protect american jobs for the 1st time in history u.s. oil futures prices have crashed below 0 they are now in negative territory they have since come back to about 2 dollars per barrel. the coronavirus death toll in england and wales could be up to 41 percent higher than previously reported the

u.k.'s statistics office you know n.-s. has released new data in the past. 2 hours that includes deaths in old age homes and care homes those have not been included in government slashed n.h.s. data. we'll have more on that story for you just presently here on the news in the meantime service is being held in sri lanka to remember those killed in a series of attacks on easter sunday of last year the local muslim community has faced a backlash after a small islamic group claimed responsibility for the attack well fernando's reports from colombo where she met a father who lost his children some on 39 and his wife are struggling to carry on the 1st anniversary of the easter bombings their 1000 year old son and 22 year old daughter were in 1000 and these church praying for good results at upcoming public exams when a suicide bomber struck it was the 1st of 6 locations to be hit within an hour 279 people were killed and more than $500.00 injured.

when from one hospital board to the next looking for my children but i couldn't find the mini we're going the young doctor told me however reluctantly that i should look in the mortuary couldn't so it seemed a friend who was with me he came back sobbing that my son was there when i recovered consciousness we got another call that my daughter had been found in another mortuary. a little known locally slam explains who called the national poll he claimed responsibility for the attacks. investigations revealed some members of the group paid state informants that authorities were repeatedly warned about their activities and that some politicians had even intervened to release some of those arrested earlier but most troubling of all that intelligence warnings of impending attacks had been known to the families of the victims want accountability.

i don't think there is any question in the world that can give me justice because that means giving me my children back that won't ever happen but those who neglected their responsibilities must be punished. the archbishop of colombo cardinal malcolm ranjit also criticised the negligence of the then government and the cover up that followed addressing the tensions that came after the bombings he praised his congregation for not letting emotion drive their actions our challenge will be to work amicably with all our fellow citizens and to ensure a true acceptance and integration that's an approach to muslim human rights activist endorses she says the end of muslim sentiment which followed the bombings shook the community when this happened all of a sudden we have become terrorist actually international terrorist connected to why it's so we were really worried about existence in the country because the way

that the entire muslim community was blamed for what people did was highly problematic through say sri lankan politicians have been engaged in hate mongering feeling tensions and causing division by portraying the muslim community as the villain in recent years the past year hasn't ease the pain of losing loved ones anthony's or in the bombing most families and all those who warned of the threat of an attack see what. oddest cope with is that they think the bombings could have been prevented if only the government had kid to do so with them and then does al-jazeera colomba. let's bring in ali she is the director for human rights watch she joins us from go. where are we now one year on with religion relations in the country.

i think we might have lost the line to go we'll give it one more go meenakshi ganguly it's peter dobby here in doha can you hear us no we'll go back if we can in the coming hour or so here on al-jazeera the government in charge is opening an inquiry into the suspicious deaths of dozens of boko haram prisoners whilst in their cells $44.00 were jailed after a gun battle which killed $98.00 chaldean army soldiers in february 1st revealed lung burns from a lethal substance some prisoners suffocated others that had heart attacks because of 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 a burnt. in kenya day 3 of

a search for 22 people who disappeared during recent flooding there 12 people confirmed killed when homes shops on the market were swept away by a landslide triggered by torrential rain as catherine sawyer reports the disasters in the same area were a landslide killed dozens 5 months ago. flying over this cynic terrain in western kenya it's hard to miss the devastation on the ground which was caused by a huge margin light after 2 rivers bust their banks it's been raining heavily for days in the more mountainous areas and the impact is felt in this area the kenyan counties. and west palm 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 24 goats. all but 4 were swept away by the

torrent of. i want people to leave this area. but they would not believe. the water i would give now we have lost a loved one. to go to the property this was a thriving trading center in a town of about 3000 people mostly talk to said when they run ling up so watered down they run for safety but others were not so lucky several people have died dozens are 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 the 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. in the water was so much i just let it take me i don't know how long i was in it but he felt 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've lost everything many a 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. ok let's go back to the corona virus pandemic of course our top story new data just released in the past 90 minutes or so is suggesting the death toll in england and wales could be up to 41 percent higher than was previously reported live to westminster and our

correspondent paul brennan so paul the statistics the percentages what do they mean . well let's look at some of the actual statistics and it's important to say this is for england and wales only it doesn't include scotland northern ireland and the other thing is it relies on death certificates where because of death or contributing factors of death of actually been listed on that's a terrific it. has been that not all death certificates are necessarily giving $100.00 as cause of death even though it probably was so the statistics are as follows $13121.00 deaths according to the office for national statistics which involves coded $900.00 so far and for the same period the official government statistics show that there was $9288.00 so you can see the difference between the 2 is 41 percent effectively the government underestimating by 41 percent the figure

that the ins has come up with as far as weekly figures as well it's pretty stark 180188 half 1000 deaths in the week up to the 10th of a problem that's $8000.00 more than you would expect to see at this time of year that includes all causes of death but it's also not just over debts and what the office for national statistics is saying is that it's seeing increased mortality for non covert deaths as well. the fact is could be several it could be that people are presenting to hospital because they're fearful of getting an infection it could be because they're laboring and dying essentially because they're not seeking medical attention from their g.p. but these are pretty stark statistics and as parliament comes back here albeit largely virtually later today it will certainly be weighing on the mind of government so when we get there early evening teatime government briefing clearly the key question is put in charge of that briefing in the absence of boris johnson

the prime ministers to the check is recovering we know all that stuff will be or so you doing with the statistics because one of the central accusations levelled at the u.k. government has been why do you not put these 2 sources of statistics together so there is one place where we get an overall death toll. indeed there has been consistent and ongoing criticism of the discrepancies between the statistics that are being produced daily in the downing street briefing given by government ministers and then the lag that there is with the office for national statistics the chief medical officer and public health england yes are saying that you know there's actually good reasons it takes a while for death certificates to be processed and to be collated and to actually get those statistics together what it doesn't quite explain is why there is a discrepancy once those figures are out i mean we're compared to comparing like for like here yes you know we're not comparing this week's figures with the previous weeks on different you know it is not

a different basis here so we are comparing like for like and yet as we've said 41 percent by our arithmetic is the discrepancy between the 2 so it certainly bears explanation and testing is certainly one reason but the fact that only testing happens in in hospital scenarios at the moment despite government promises that it would wind out a roll out to occur in areas they said that that would happen last week as far as i'm aware it certainly hasn't happened so far so yeah testing on the discrepancy it's going to put the government on the more pressure when we then factor in the figures when we get the figures paul and clearly nobody is across all the figures at the moment no reports and no analysts no statistician but we get the figures for scotland and northern ireland as well does this possibly mean as a percentage of the population the u.k. is heading towards overtaking italy spain and crucially the united states when it comes to the impact of the pandemic.

it would be difficult to compare the u.k. with the united states the graphs that i've seen that that are available show the trajectory of the united states being far steeper than any other country including italy which in europe terms is the worst affected and remains the worst affected so i think you couldn't make a comparison there as far as the u.k. and scotland and wales scotland and northern ireland yeah it's certainly the difficulty is that without getting a grip on exactly where the virus is being harbored care homes for example out in the general population is another is another potential area which is not yet being actually recorded properly is the accusation then how can you go about thinking about relaxing the restrictions the same restrictions relaxed in other areas of

europe here in the u.k. they've said adamantly it's not going to happen not yet not least for another 3 weeks but even in 3 weeks time if they haven't yet tallied up that discrepancy then you can argue that they're actually on top of exactly where they were where the virus is and if they haven't done that then how can we actually contemplating reducing the restrictions understood paul many thanks for that clarity good to talk to you as a correspondent there in london. thousands of iranians have been working as part of volunteer teens to spray and disinfect city streets to prevent the virus from spreading as it was in basra he reports now from tehran on the efforts there that have brought people together. it may not look like it but this quiet suburb is a kind of battlefield and these men and women are locked in combat with an invisible enemy so when the corona virus outbreak began months ago thousands of people like them across iran volunteered to help fight the spread of covert team

every day since they spend 5 hours spraying down public spaces with industrial sanitiser to kill because. it can kill anyone else this is just one of dozens of teens across the city. it's duty is citizens. to to. do week and. we have doctors we have engineers we bankers. call all educated people every day there are more and more volunteers coming to us. we would like to have proper equipment posts where we're trying to make as much. as possible the pen debit card world governments off guard health care providers 1st responders even militaries all stretched thin civilian volunteers have helped to fill the gaps in emergency

response. iran has a reasonably robust social services sector but the scale of this outbreak has been so massive that the government has acknowledged going for it to get the work of volunteers has been allocated to helping to fight the spread of this virus nervous spent a month in self quarantine then decided to get more involved before volunteering for a sanitizing team she was making the masks and medical gals groups like these rely on support from big aid agencies and private donations but nargis worries if the crisis goes on much longer funds will dry up much but amazon and i will post. really preferred to see places remain closed a new wave of the disease could be appealed and streetscape b.c. could be continent that people on the financial pressure they have to many a daily brands it's very sad to see so many people many of whom. covert 19 has

proven itself to be a resurgent enemy living on in people and on surfaces coming back unexpectedly right here right now these volunteers are making a stand to stop it spread but they say they know until there is a definitive cure it's a battle they may have to fight on the same streets once again. the same bus ravi old a 0. on the pandemic has forced australians 2nd largest airline into voluntary administration after the government refused to bail out we're talking about virgin australia asking for an $800000000.00 emergency loan because travel restrictions left a 3000000000 dollars in debt most of the $10000.00 employees were sent home last month another company will run version whilst its assets are assessed. it is pain and necessary decision made by a board board on boy and on fraser david weigel pandemic covert military.

this is not just something that is hurting virgin australia we know it's hurting the industry globally and is the worst i vi sion process were saying that history we're not immune to that. might a very courageous decision last not to put the company into volunteered ministration and do so quickly. still to come for you here on the news out of the triathlete training in a paddling pool pizza will have us and the rest of the sport when we come back. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such to moms as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against the stimulus we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound

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time this was used as peter peter thank you so much for holding a teleconference call with member associations today discussing how to get the season finished the countries are all at a different stage with coronavirus czech republic champion slavia prague became the 1st team in the country to return to training following the outbreak of the coronavirus the bundesliga in germany could be back by may 9th and it looks like a may 4th return to training football teams in spain is also on the cards no sign of a return for england's premier league leaders liverpool appear to be frozen just 2 wins away from the title meanwhile the u.k. government had visor did not project the theory that liverpool's champions league game against atletico madrid last month could have contributed to the spread of the virus in liverpool i think be very interesting to see in the future when now the science is done what relationship there is between the virus is that of circulated in little cooling devices that are circulated in spain has set an interesting

hypothesis for time tour de france champion chris froome could benefit from a delay in staging this year's competition that's according to the head of team any os the team from cycle 4 as it stands the 2 has provisionally been moved to an august 29th start that would give froome the time needed to recover from a broken hip among other injuries he suffered last year. it's beautiful that we're together consistently. very very close to space and throughout this period the days after the state and he's coming back to me should actually give him a little bit longer to come back so i think if we do get to a safe. and actually be very very next. with golf courses beginning to open up again across the usa this week professional golf could be the 1st major sport to return to action the p.g.a. tour has already said it expects to restart in june albeit without fans we spoke to go of commentator human murray who says that while that's great for golfers based

in the u.s. the sport should not rush back if you look at the game now it's a global. all the people from. europe australia south africa they're going to play in the majors they're going to have the wealth from where they are he's. over to the united states and be ready by june and i think that's fairly optimistic i don't think we'll be in a position to travel safely to the united states i think will be a weren't. what's happening in america a pile of money coming to all the players where when are they going to get the shop back over coco since a close here that's not the case for the united states i thought they opened the right thank they are in a i thought they did the right bank this takes us 6 months. to get it open the way we want it so we're not going to manage that if we move into september we have what

the daylight hours but you look at the masters that's different because there's 95 players around and the masters is 106 in new york and. i think the last thing would want is our major championships with no friends because sport without. too much joy there's relief there just korea everything what the fans bring to the game we want out yes we'll have to go on the blog and it will disclose up there somebody is one up and somebody has to do that but without the fans are i think he's just too much it's not just players and gulf commentators who are feeling the effects of the crisis the coach of former women's golf number one lady says those who support players are struggling to. cover 19 is basically a whole towards the way we function as a business. 3 and a half weeks ago we close the doors and all the coaches when our own and the client

state i am so we have been close for sort of 3 and a half 3 floors we have 3 or 4 weeks now. without being able to do anything basically i know that there's a lot of duke office that are their own studio being out with a simulated practice and they guy if they can hire but then the damage already has probably got nothing given the olympics has been canceled that that's a massive. part of our program we will see the chinese stock association to get its players. and seeking some of the olympics and now since it's not happening and all this is going to happen next year and go off with a game when you travel a lot specially in the elite level to play and if you're not able to travel with all those replies and that's going to change the demographics of how these events stacked up so. it doesn't just affect them you know the guys right at the top if

it's. in the middle and the bottom and the guys that are fighting to get somewhere . and those guys as well if it's their whole team you know the supporting their. psychologists physios trainers as well as the managers and the families around us players as well and they are always grinding just to get it and this you know one month 2 months 3 months i guess is definitely not going to help. the guy got it all . that's worth a try athlete in cuba who's not getting locked down get in the way of her dream of competing at the olympics this is leslie practicing her swimming technique but as you can see she's invited a small pool for the job she can't get to her usual training facility is also been working with her coach on the other triathlon disciplines cycling and running. ok we'll leave it there for most sports news again later peter peter thanks very much kamala's here from 11 gee i'm back with another news 13 gene hopefully see you then

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