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and the pandemic could double the number of people going hungry around the world. and finding ways to stay in business how small shopkeepers in iraq is survival in the coronavirus restrictions. now with the pandemic throwing world all markets into turmoil donald trump says his government will bail out the u.s. industry the president told his energy and treasury secretaries to formulate a plan to make funds available to ensure the survival of american oil and gas companies well that follows an unprecedented collapse in u.s. prices because of a plot in supply the u.s. futures market dive deep into negative territory for the 1st time ever on monday the lowest the price of the benchmark u.s. w.t.r. blend sank to minus $37.00

a barrel the international benchmark brant crude is trading at around $20.00 a barrel but that's still its lowest price since september 11th attacks in 2001 we have gay. real amazon though on wall street tracking the fallout of the us oil crash but 1st our white house correspondent kimberly how kimberly so do we know how much money the trumpet ministration is going to throw the oil industry what shape it's going to take and for how long this bailout may go on for. more left trying to determine if this is an existing program or something new it's really unclear just how much money oil and gas companies could receive when they could receive it which companies could receive it we do know in the past the u.s. president had spoken to both as energy secretary treasury secretary had said that

there would be the option of for oil and gas companies to tap into a program called the keris act that was put in place in that rescue package by congress that it was known as sort of phase 3 or this could also be special loans coming through the federal reserve it's really unclear what the president is referring to what is clear is he is trying to calm the very nervous market and kimberly this is basically the ministration trying to meet the liquidity crunch which these companies are facing and try and stop them from closing right. absolutely there is no question that there are many oil and gas companies that are on the smaller side particularly with the fracking industry in the united states many of them are in small towns they have a limited number of employees and they're really hanging on trying to keep these businesses open and alive waiting for the economy and the oil markets to stabilize and bounce back so this is no question this is an effort by the u.s.

president who has a jobs for as event to try and sort of stabilize the job market in this sector given the fact that tens of millions of americans have been losing their jobs in recent weeks and the bigger picture is this is the administration and the president trying to keep america as the number one on oil producer in the world. this is something that's really important to the u.s. president campaigned on it in 2016 when he took office he made it a priority in 20172018 he achieved this energy independence for the united states making it one of the top producers you know sort of above russia saudi arabia it was a significant achievement one that the u.s. president in his view wants to maintain now in the midst of all of this the u.s. president is trying to sort of cast an optimistic tone about these plunging oil market prices that in fact he says this is something that short term it's based on

demand the fact that people are not traveling they're not driving once this is up and running that this will turn around but at the same time he is also trying to put in place his own prescription he has suggested and that congress should approve the purchase of topping the domestic petroleum reserve some 75000000 barrels but here's the problem with that the oversupply is estimated about 20000000 barrels a day in other words this purchase would really only solve the problem i have with my mouth for about 3 and a half days so even if congress approves that it still is a very short term solution for what is looking to be a more long term problem there's a warning scenario that's fine kimberly how talking about looking at the. the scenarios emerging on the markets who got to go over now to gabriel and his on the on wall street gabriel 1st of all are they tell some where the price stands for both the u.s. spend w.t.r.

as well as the international benchmark brant maybe explain to viewers the difference between the 2 for those who want very familiar with all markets. yeah it's important to point out because not all oil is the same and not all oil costs the same amount of money or is being priced the same right now brant crude oil as oil it's used on the international market by 3 fourths of the world uses brant crude is really the benchmark international standard that's crude oil that comes excuse me from the from the north sea area then you have what's called w t or west texas intermediate that's american oil from texas north dakota and primarily louisiana as well it's a w t that's the one that has had this historic and unprecedented drop in price on monday and it's now going for about 9 dollars a barrel or so so it's gone up

a little bit but it's still a century the price of to capture you know here in new york city if you will to put it in very simple terms in terms of brant crude that said a little under $20.00 now so 2 very different oils both are important both are monitored very very closely of course but it's important point to point out the differences of them as well the different prices of where they're coming in at the but the bottom line is that the crude oil market around the world is definitely continues to be in historic low levels so oil is down and we've been focusing we should explain perhaps of you is the way the oil is priced is depends on the month of delivery and when we spoke about in the last 24 hours of the crash in the benchmark u.s. . price that was from a delivery but now looking at june delivery july delivery it's also heading south right in terms of the price. yeah that's right this looks like it's going to

go on a while a you're right on monday we were we were looking at the may prices but now what's going on is is that june in july what we're seeing there is it's priced ahead of time each month is we're now seeing in june and july also dropping and june now is under $10.00 a barrel that was just in the last few minutes or so so what you're seeing traders here on wall street looking at is the immediate term may but they're also looking at june and july seeing the prices dropping there as well and that is why the stock market continues to be suffering all 11 of the s. and p. sectors are in the red on tuesday the dow has lost about 552600 points last time i checked a minute or so ago that's where it's been hovering about all day so the market selloff is in direct correlation to not only the current oil situation but also

looking to her towards june and july with the u.s. economy the biggest economy in the world shut down now and shut down probably probably for the forseeable future because on wall street it's becoming increasingly clear that when the u.s. economy gets started again when u.s. economy reopens it's not going to happen with the flip of a light switch it's going to take weeks perhaps even months on us thank you for breaking it down so clearly and succinctly for people to understand thanks so much gabriel good job. oh mrs from some of the world's top oil producers have been meeting by conference call the opec representatives believed to be discussing how to implement those agreed to all production cuts immediately rather than waiting until may the 1st saudi arabia in the united arab emirates taking part in the meeting the go now to assam a binge of aids and give us a regional perspective on what's going on so just bring us up to speed with the

extent of the revision that. being this cast to the old carts. they are not being revised by opec nations at least by the ones who met these are not all opec nations and did not include the opec upness which is russia and as you mentioned the love of the big players the saudis in the air are these were not that essentially the feeling is that opec is doing all it can to try and remove the glut from the market excessive oil that is available but it is not going to be possible for them because it is a difficult position that they find themselves in their problem is that they have had to cut and essentially 10000000 barrels of oil that that's about nearly all the capacity of saudi arabia have been or back in opec plus but that hasn't really made a dent in the oil prices. that is the reason is that nearly $30000000.00 barrels of

excessive oil is a vailable in the market for opec in opec last produces so it is going to be a difficult balancing act for these nations to come together who came together on the request of algeria they say that there might hold more consultative meetings in in the future but opec plus is waiting for countries like canada and the united states in norway for instance to try and balance the market because they would have to chip in it was not going to be up to individual countries they need to be a collective effort to get rid of the glad and bring the prices up so short doesn't sound like it's very good news that the saudis and the moralities are in this meeting why. are we obviously having some problems there with us. thank him. it's time to shift gears just a little bit because donald trump is declaring hill suspend all immigration to the

u.s. to protect american lives and jobs from coronavirus which he's calling now the invisible enemy the move announced via twitter is in line with what he's tried to achieve throughout his presidency the one the white house you remember in part on a promise to build a wall on the us mexico border his administration has since cracked down on both legal and illegal entries under that executive order back in 2017 the u.s. president banned travel from several muslim majority countries this was later modified after some legal challenges since february and march traveled to the u.s. from china parts of europe and the u.k. has been blocked due to corona virus we on frescoes an immigration attorney and the former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration at the u.s. department of justice he says this would be one of trance most significant moves to close off the country yet. but what's new is that it's

a formalization of what it been an ad hoc process of closing embassies and consulates around the world and so the 1st step is to the extent that this order actually provides that they certain and actually closes all embassies and consulates around the world that will be a new barrier to allowing people day enter the united states that also needs to be withdrawn before people enter the united states all that's new and what's not clear and what will need to wait to see the order about is will there actually be people in the united states who are not allowed to remove or change their visa as part of this order while that probably would be illegal it's unclear whether that will still be attempt to be included in this order if people are told that the united states is now closed for business that is going to be a dramatic change and it won't just be the kind of change that the president is in visioning which would be what he views as sort of

a direct one for one replacement foreign worker with american worker many people who come on these cortical work visas are actually coming to open companies and to create foreign investment in the united states and so if you're not doing this with a scalpel instead of a hammer you're actually causing more damage rather than less. now in the 5 months since the 1st patients infected with corona virus 4 identified everyone seen dramatic changes i think we can all agree on that some may be temporary but others well they're probably last longer in ca since the 1st cases where identified in war while in china the disease spread rapidly with more than 170000 deaths and 2 and a half 1000000 confirmed cases worldwide many countries went into lockdown for weeks even months almost all major economies are now struggling the i.m.f. well it's predicting a recession at least as bad as after the global financial crisis in 2008 or even the great depression of the 19th thirty's less developed countries where they'll

suffer the most the pandemic has also changed relations between nations borders within the european union's schengen zone of being shut out the us wants to stop all immigration and the americans britain france and nearly 2 dozen african nations have criticized the chinese government's handling of the crisis of peter franco pan is professor of global history and oxford university and author of the new silk road see joins me now by skype from oxford good to have you with us but if we can i want to focus a little bit of the idea of the globalization as a result of this coronavirus epidemic as we see countries nations fighting over ventilators and masks rather than trying to cooperate is coronavirus going to shift in particular supply chains away from china and make them more localized going forward. i think it's it's too early to tell

a lot will depend on how we come out the other side and a bubble how long that takes i mean i think there's a lot of talk right now about about moving of supply chains and that the virus has become very heavily politicized bubble in between china and i said states but in many other countries and areas too so the challenge is going to be what is the global world going to look like when we come out the other side so moving supply chain to it sounds very easy but in practice it's meaningless until we sort of have a look i think about about. what's going to happen to big economies what's going to happen in in the developing world in emerging markets what's going to happen in the global south and what's going to happen with distribution of jobs so i think it's very very hard to predict exactly what's going to exactly what i'm going to ask you to do is try and help us to predict what is going to happen to jobs to emerging economies to technology which continues to bring us closer together whatever

happens even if supply chain and production moves us apart i mean just because you might produce more locally doesn't mean you want to sell only locally right yeah ok so i'll give you 2 children it is one is that this whole policy is by relatively calmly and there's a lot of shots fired in angry words here and there but we go back to a world that looks fairly similar where there are consumers this is a kind of cardiac arrest moment that consumers get back on their feet economies start turning again and we go back to a sort of version of what was normal before that's a kind of soft soft well which i thought most of us probably on balance should probably want some formal. i thought the alternative in a worst case scenario apart from massive depressions apart of the fact that in the gulf for example there are very high levels of of known transmittable diseases there's been a well that's becoming harder and lots of ways that we see militarization but between nations but also inside nations i think that there is

a significant scope for state failure i think that's significant ability for governments when they are suppressed circumstances and long periods of time and they are not able to meet their outgoings that you can see in the 1st instance demand for regime change that sees elected governments change when the worst case you can see people take matters into their own hands with a with a form of global dissent revolutions that happen all around the world and no no system is immune to that whether your democracy a partial democracy or a tarion state and i think that the challenges in that world we should be kept what we wish for when we start thinking about decoupling global supply chains we start talking about national security when we talk about everything in new technologies through to availability of materials you know history proves in the past that kind of talk can spill very quickly into a system where global failure i weld was thought to be something significant so i think we need to be very careful what we wish for in terms of the predicting of

this nightmare case scenario but there is scope for that to happen you know right now with the oil being being paid to the people to take it away that's going to put very significant pressure on the budgets of states in some cases have very limited forms of governments to protect that not just in the gulf but in a place like venezuela has like azerbaijan where 90 percent of the the exports are through oil and energy energy resources and when that fails it dries up then well it's not it's not surprising that you know you're only 3 meals away from putting a break through somebody else's windows so i think that there is a there is it not that's an area that is really in play here and it's up to global governance through the united nations or multi not relate. these and through our politicians all around the world to try to find a way of avoiding that because history shows many cases where the nightmare scenario becomes real is in this part of the challenge of you can make the argument that there was already this trend going on before current virus towards localization where they want to call it you want to look at what the u.s.

did in withdrawing from the t p p and so on but the challenges of the world may increasingly continue to be globalized if you think about environmental problems. you know that is there a kind of a perfect storm brewing here of more localized efforts and more international problems yes that's exactly right the perfect conditions right now for major dislocation and that's not to say that that's what's going to happen but i think a scenario where not just national international regional continental economies go up to their knees but the global economy does you know we saw what happened in the 1930 s. the rise of populist leaders in places like germany and italy but not only but laid the conditions that led to trigger happy conditions that led to war and large scale persecution with millions and millions of deaths and again in 1917 in the russian revolution likewise in the years that followed it closely connected to climate

change towards failures towards the inability to meet obligations of the governments human beings were perfectly capable of inflicting profound cruelty on each other so i think we have to work very hard to avoid that as you said there were there was a lot of discussion about this before 9000 hits there was a lot of discussion about heights and national security about redeploying into investment in infrastructure of states trying to reinvest but right now is the moment for big thinking and that big thinking that should be going on at government level around all around the world should be what's the worst case scenario how do we avoid it and what's the best case scenario and how do we sail towards that or i will leave it there that's been a fascinating discussion thank you very much peter frank pan. continuing on this topic which is kind of linked to what with we're just talking about with peter frank upin now and the u.k.'s decision on how it's dealing with

the challenge of ventilators understand we can now join paul brennan joins us from london and paul the ukase made a decision not to join forces with europe on ventilators right can you tell us what's going on there. well there is some confusion as to the motivation for the u.k. not joining the european union procurement scheme there are several procurement schemes that the european union is coordinating to prevent each individual member nation of the european union from going off and trying to do its own deals and therefore probably ended up bidding against each other and thereby driving the price up now the u.k. chose not to join some of those schemes and the reason why it was said as far as ventilators goes was because the government said there had been some missed emails and there was kind of a breakdown in communication then it was said this afternoon by apparently the

senior civil servant in charge of the foreign office simon mcdonnell's that it was actually a political decision not to join the european union and that's put the cats amongst the pigeons somewhat apparently he's issued a clarification as to exactly what he said or what he meant i haven't seen the clarification yet but there is apparently one being issued this evening that said the shortages of p.p. the shortages of ventilators initially at least. as is has been a bone of contention here in the u.k. because the global shortage is impacting all the countries and the u.k. is simply one of them i don't understand potentially potentially for maybe some good news the u.k. starting some clinical trials on coronavirus tell us about that. the interesting information that came out from the daily news conference usually done by the prime minister but this time by health sector matters hancock who revealed

that the government is putting 22000000 pounds into some trials by imperial college and 20000000 into a trial by oxford. in oxford and it seems that the trial in oxford could be at the stage of testing on humans a vaccine or a kind of draft vaccine if you like as early as this thursday of this week now hugely cautious there are huge caveat so on this very early stages the amount of money that's involved and the fact that it's happening so quickly gives you an indication of just how much effort and impetus is being put into this effort to try to combat this virus by all different means possible. all right thanks so much paul brennan i'm thinking us on what's going on with the whole covert situation in london. thouse poor was hinting to their well there is no vaccine for the corona virus and scientists say developing one well that would be unprecedented to achieve

within 12 months in the meantime researchers are looking into medicines developed for other ailments or to drugs used in clinical trials or even non-drug therapies to find a cure doctors are studying whether transfusions of blood plasma from corona virus survivors could help infected patients antibody trials are underway in china europe and the united states american scientists are also testing an anti malarial drug as a potential treatment trump has praised the benefits of hydroxy chloroquine despite warnings from health experts about its side effects and the anti h.i.v. drug is being tested in more than 20 trials world wide or previous results were not from missing but new data is expected next month dr carson is an n.h.s. physician in the u.k. and a senior lecturer at the lead school of medicine he urges caution though the hopes for a quick cure. before any treatment is given the green light to

use on people that they supposed to are going through large peer reviewed trials and we just haven't had the time to do that with the new coronavirus and yes there are multiple treatments being suggested 8 but normally yet go through those rigorous trials let's start with the anti malaria drug hydroxy couric legal career which don't trump mentioned in a meeting and he only has a one drug a hope for the future actually it probably isn't then there is research going on and a chinese trial looking at just a 100 patients suggested it was effective but we haven't seen the wrong data for the trial and it hasn't been looked at by other scientists to show that the trial was done effectively in a controlled environment for it for it to actually be effective i think it's really important to say that all the drugs you know until they're really empty hiv the

drugs that we use that the research is still very muki you know we haven't had any definite answers to say that that they are effective they all work in very different ways they all have their own side effects but we don't know yet whether they work and they are being used in small numbers but not large enough to say yes they definitely were but the race is on to find an effective treatment one of the treatment options you mentioned was plasma therapy and not simply sounds more promising than some of these drugs. still ahead i'll just hear a convict's and coronavirus how some of the most densely packed prisons in the philippines are coping no vaccine but that doesn't mean no hope we'll look at the different drugs and treatments being used to treat cope with 19.

we got a fair bit of cloud in the forecast the parts of the middle east that includes us here in qatar you see this long line of clouds struggling saudi arabia pushing through standing across the gulf not too much right on that but there will be a few showers into that eastern side of saudi arabia the west the weather will be on the other side of the gulf will see some heavy thunder downpours into a good part of iran further north by the by some showers just around the 6th time pushing out sort of parts of what anywhere between the black sea and also into the caspian sea i mean you can see some showers showers there into to keep us out of that generally try for a time northern part of iraq will see some heavy rain as we go on into thursday thursday much drop picture across the peninsula we're going to see showers there into that set western side of yemen joining up with a showers that we have still in place across the ethiopian highlands somalia some

big and thunder downpours here possibility of some flooding actually and wet weather there stretching all the way down into a good part of kenya will see heavy showers there into the rift valley big downpours certainly a possibility for much of south africa it is fine and dry there are a few showers around the eastern side of the cape these will drift that way that he sed. as the world fights the corona of time to make more about this every day. join our global community. how we come to fight. your questions can i just personally directly that's coming on on you tube as you are saying i'm concerned about the front line. keeping you up to date countries and beating back the street on 00. there's

a wave of sentiment around the world people actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories and we report on the big events that are going on but we also tell the stories of people who don't have a voice i mean when i was a child my debts will never be afraid to put your hand up and ask a question and i think that's what i'm sure really does the ask the questions to people who should be accountable and also get people to give their view of what's going on. lose. or come back you're watching al-jazeera and it's time to have another look at the headlines with the pandemic throwing world oil markets into turmoil donald trump

says his government will bail out the u.s. industry he told his energy and treasury secretaries to make funds available to ensure the survival of american oil and gas companies. will be international benchmark for oil brant crude is for them by close to $20.00 a barrel lowest price since 2001 after the price of the u.s. u.s. benchmark w.t.r. crude from a delivery crashed into negative territory on monday. and president trump says he will sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration into the u.s. because of the pandemic he also tweeted he must protect american jobs. more stricter measures have been imposed across asia as countries try to reduce covert 19 cases singapore has extended its long down by another 4 weeks mass movement has been banned in indonesia ahead of the month of ramadan there were

pollen reports from hong kong. scenes like this are the main reason japan is struggling to contain its current a virus outbreak according to the country's prime minister siniora today the medical situation on the ground is under pressure to relieve this pressure if even by a lethal weapon to protect your own lives and health we would like you to refrain from going out. the number of cases in japan has exceeded 11000 while tokyo is still reporting more than 100 new infections daily but locking down the country is not straightforward despite it being under a state of emergency. the constitution makes it impossible to legally enforced social distancing and the traditional work culture discourages remote working it's in stark contrast to hong kong which has imposed tough social distancing restrictions and encouraged people to work from home that seems to have paid off

for more than a week the city had only single digit daily increases in infections and on monday recorded none but hong kong's government isn't taking any chances despite the adverse impact on the economy is indeed a very very difficult balancing act you are right that on the one hand we want to fight the virus to keep our citizens safe but only the head of the city is that it doesn't have any business people do not have normal. at tipitina's that becomes also a very very difficult the government announced it will extend the measures for another 2 weeks hong kong people have been here before the number of you daily infections fell to 0 in early march but soon after the city was hit by a 2nd wave some blame people letting their guard down too soon and the number of imported cases rose as hong kong residents rushed to escape a growing outbreak overseas. from wednesday all passengers arriving are required to

stay at a testing center or a hotel until the krona barres results are in less than a month ago singapore was hailed as an example of a success story in avoiding a major outbreak but now it has the highest rate of infection in southeast asia suffering more than 1000 new cases a day this week mostly among migrant workers making the city a cautionary tale and a lesson in what can happen when a vulnerable members of the population are overlooked the vehicle pollen are designer of hong kong. the pandemic has forced the strain is 2nd largest airline into voluntary administration after the government refer. used to bail it out but day to day running of virgin australia is being placed in control of another company while its assets of taliban up travel restrictions and border closures grounded most of his fleet and compounded billions of dollars in preexisting debt because the gauge reports from sydney. with billions of dollars in debt and most of

its fleet grounded the announcement surprised few virgin australia handed over its books to insolvency firm deloitte as board members placed it in administration it's the largest global airline to collapse or fall under the shock of the coronavirus outbreak this is not just something that is. strongly we know it's hurting the industry globally and it's the worst ideation process saying that the company will continue to operate while it's being restructured but it leaves nearly $16000.00 people in a strong uncertain about their jobs at a time when unemployment is rising due to cohabit 19 shutdowns and a global recession becoming a knee assertion reality. stars had already been stood down due to floods being cancelled for weeks the airline has been urging the government to loan it hundreds of millions of dollars to survive the crossest but it's refused saying it wants

bail out a company that's 90 percent oil and by foreign shareholders with big pockets if the airline suspends operations the national carrier quantas would have a need monopoly in a stroller which many say would be ignored but if the interest the strain got. to st. louis and they really do need to support station astray. now it's an administration. and also. virgin australia remains optimistic it will survive and says there's been interest from foreign investors richard branson who co-founded virgin and owns 10 percent of the australian tweeted this is not the end of virgin australia but i believe a new beginning the question is whether it will be an attractive investment when borders remain closed and the industry is under pressure worldwide gauge al-jazeera

. jails in the philippines are among the most congested in the world months making it difficult to manage the spread of corona virus several inmates have tested positive along with some prison staff analysts say unless conditions change cases will continue to increase. dogon reports from manila. prisons in the philippines hold more than 4 times the number of prisoners they were designed for and dozens of inmates have tested positive for corona virus. many others have been placed under quarantine health experts say the situation is a ticking bomb more than 450 jail facilities are holding over 136000 inmates according to government data and local police stations are often like this so could just said that prisoners take turns to sleep or stand

the situation with women's facilities isn't any better this week the supreme court had ordered judges to swiftly release prisoners based on a previous guideline to decongest jails these are detainees who have served longer than their minimum penalties and those of scase is have not moved it to lack of witnesses. the international committee of the red cross is training jail personnel on how to control covert 19 infections it is also setting up facilities that can quarantine hundreds of covert 1000 patients in the us on region. richard you have a 4.7 square meter sale area the site the house $1.00 to $2.00 persons but then it accommodates $15.00 to $20.00 people so droplet infection is higher in these places of detention were physical distancing is practically impossible. with or t.'s

canceled visitors early last month but that spiel to prevent the spread of infections or course on this. or precautionary measures are wearing a piece. of the ritual we have that there must. at least $5000.00 prisoners die each year due to gang violence and diseases from overcrowding tuberculosis is the most common illness and makes prisoners even more fun to ripple to the coronavirus this situation was already dire before this pandemic and now many expect it to get worse. in duggan al-jazeera manila the covert 19 emergencies expected to cause many more people to go hungry the united nations says the disease will push more than a quarter of a 1000000000 people to the brink of starvation unless they get help 55 countries

where food prices are highly vulnerable to the consequences of the virus most are in africa the middle east asia latin america and the caribbean the countries with the largest populations facing acute food shortages are afghanistan the democratic republic of congo and yemen the main reasons for their crises include war extreme weather refugee displacement and their impoverished economies more than 5000000 people in south sudan rely on food aid to survive in the coronavirus pandemic is making their lives even harder the outbreak is slowing down humanitarian operations that deliver essential food supplies here morgan reports from juba. even prior to the 1st coronavirus case in south sudan many face starvation that's the result of 5 years of fighting between forces loyal to rival political leaders the conflict ended in february with a new transitional government sworn in. really. if my children survive i want them

to go to school and learn to take care of themselves before the coronavirus emergency aid organizations estimated more than half of the 12000000 population would need food aid this year nearly 30 percent are women and children were forced a 3rd of the population from their homes 200000 of them are now in the u.n. camps around the country hundreds of thousands of others are in hard to reach areas for them food drops are sometimes the only way they'll get food last year we had to feed 5000000 people due to fighting and flooding already in 2020 we've had locust invasions and now there is the curve of 19 planned damage which we predict could almost double the people in the queue hunger by the end of 2020 across the world the only way we can hope this trend is if generous funding for humanitarian crises like the one here in south continues floods last year affected nearly

a 1000000 people forcing the declaration of a state of emergency in some parts of the country then a plague of locusts in the eastern part worsened an already dire situation the u.n. describes the insect threat as extremely alarming and president farmers who have relied on their crops fear another invasion as eggs hatch from the 1st wave. i've tried to chase them away but they wouldn't leave they're everywhere in my backyard in my bank or plantation the mangoes the papaya is the glovers that i plant is what provides me with food and income well i do if they're being eaten by locusts preventive measures by the government and aid organizations have been imposed to contain the spread of corona virus they include restrictions on movement making many in need even harder to reach people more going on just they are. a lot of her saying is chief economist and director of research assessment and monitoring at the united nations world food program joins us now by skype from rome good to

have you with us so as on a show you where we we constantly hear they hear the headlines about how even developed countries economies are struggling right now because of the coronavirus does the world have the capacity to help others in places of really extreme need right now. absolutely i mean the unfortunate thing is that before coronavirus came for the last 40 years we have seen increase in hungry people or across the world 40 years ago we had it in a 1000000 people who were suffering from wars and climate sharks and nomic instability today that number is 135000000 that are 70 percent increase on top of that we have got another 130000000 people which we are projecting are going to become hungry in 2020 because of the cold with these are the people we will not

assisting before and they are. people who are relying on remittances who are working we have jobs and they no longer have those jobs and many many people in the places which you are mentioning they are to begin with hand in hand to mouth so if you don't work you don't eat but bottom line is that this is a global problem which requires a global solution and till we get to that solution we need to make sure that collectively we not only save lives but also save livelihoods i mean what will then happen to people are we going to see people starve to death basically in some places. you know this is a this is this is a really really terrible situation where you know as world food program last year we assisted almost 100000000 people of which about of 3rd are people who are living in war zones if we can't cannot get to them they will

face the unthinkable and large large scale i mean think about places like yemen syria south sudan northeast nigeria working in a fire so these are places in war zones where people to begin with their arse are struggling so badly that if we don't get to them yes and they will die for viewers who are watching this let's try and present something positive what can someone do to help 1st and foremost we have to save lives. debbie if he is the frontal indigency out there working on this we need to make sure that we sustain our operations that means of course of all that we need money which is equivalent to about 10 to 12000000000 dollars in 2020 to make sure that we maintain our operations in a sister dish not people we need to that's number one number 2 we need to make sure

that we preposition food and cash and other things which people are going to need because if we don't do that and supply chains are not working a lot of people will be in jeopardy number 3 we need to make sure that we are able to move medical of equipment as well as staff medical staff across the world and for that we need about $350000000.00 so that's the 1st thing we need resources every year the resources we can do the job number one number 2 we need to make sure that the global commercial supply chains continue to work because if they start money's not enough so that is the 2nd thing which is absolutely necessary the 3rd thing is foreign countries need to be given their fiscal space so they can deploy safety nets so they can help their people before those people have to sell

their assets which they used to earn income because trust me when people are put in a position where they have to sell their assets let's let me just use to if i can jump jump in there because it sounds to me like on your 2nd point are you basically saying the world needs to come out of lockdown. basically what i'm saying is that we are in a state where people who are many many people around the world and particularly important countries who are in lockdown there have to make a choice between either they have to go to work or this start. and that's a real choice which people's i mean what do you want them to do are you saying that the lockdown should be lifted in those places i don't think it's a matter of lifting lockdowns it is a matter of making sure that we are protecting the most wonderful populations from the disease well also making sure that the really starts in the poor countries so

they can earn their living because bottom line is they're looking at starvation we are talking about 265000000 people right who are going to need. alright thank you very much out of from the world food program thank you that's iraq now where the curfew that was imposed on march the 17th to contain the spread of coronavirus was lifted partly some businesses are now allowed to open during the day though the long down remains in place at night and during weekends but even before the restrictions were eased people and found ways to stay in business so when a fault in reports from baghdad. at 1st sight businesses in iraq's capital appear to abide by the curfew that has been in place for over a month to contain the coronavirus pandemic but not on the close shutters and they will slide open just enough for visitors to sneak in like many other businesses this barber shop has been operating secretly throughout much of the curfew.

i'm forced to go out i have to pay rent tricity food and medicine for my elderly father and mother how can i pay this is my work i don't have any order in corner. shop owners who defy government orders risk temporary detention the police turn up several times a day at these nurseries to arrest their owners this time they were let go after al jazeera arrived at the scene. normally they're taken to the police station where they must sign a statement promising in the further violations and sometimes the shopkeeper say they're pressured to pay a small bribe. this is high to some and they said we have orders from the government but even if there are just $100.00 times per day and put me in prison i will come back here to make money for food for my family a ministry of interior spokesman denied that the police extort business owners from money but security forces also appear to be using the curfew to advance their own

business interests. this is one of baghdad's main transportation hubs and despite the presence of police to enforce the curfew there's a flurry of activity. we ask one taxi driver how he manages to pass through the city's many checkpoints he spoke on condition of anonymity going on with this. it's because i'm a member of the security forces they facilitate the passing for their brother who is also a member of the security forces and life continues normally. a ministry of interior spokesman told al jazeera that security forces only function as drivers to facilitate the movement of citizens in need but many iraqis feel that those in power are taking advantage while ordinary citizens are struggling to get by. the curfew in baghdad was partially lifted on tuesday meaning that some businesses can once again operate freely without the risk of penalties but there's also concern

that the reopening could lead to a spike in covert 19 inspections we want to hold in al-jazeera that thousands of iranians have been working as part of volunteer teams to spray down and disinfect city streets van the crime virus from spreading. the reports from on the efforts which are bringing 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 19 every day since they spend 5 hours spraying down public spaces with industrial sanitizer to kill the coronavirus before it can kill anyone else this is just one of dozens of teens across this city. it's harder for you cheers citizens is to iran to

to. do we care and words in our power to do we have doctors we have engineers we bankers. all all ages good people every day there are more and more volunteers coming to us we we like the proper equipment coast where we're trying to make as much with the civil the pandemic caught 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 state of this outbreak has been so massive that the government has acknowledged going for it in full for the work the fall into has been allocated to helping to fight the spread of this fire

nervous spent a month in self quarantine then decided to get more involved before volunteering for a sanitizing team she was making masks and medical gowns 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 my thought on this accident and i would personally prefer to see places remain closed a new wave of the disease could reappear streetscape basi would become denying that people on the financial pressure they have too many a day laborer it's very sad to see so many people in need of help 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 its 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. well still ahead on al jazeera the number of people being executed has dropped around the world for another year and not for all countries.

welcome back now exit q sions appear to have dropped around the world for a 4th consecutive year however an amnesty international report shows they increased in some countries it says thousands of people are believed to have been put to death in china last year the exact number the unknown in iran at least 251 people

were executed in 20194 of them were younger than 18 when they committed their crime amnesty says there are $184.00 executions in saudi arabia that's a rise of more than 20 percent executions also rose in iraq south sudan and yemen. well watson is an international lawyer and legal advisor on the death penalty for amnesty international report on the global use of the death penalty indicates that new executions continue to decline globally we also saw a lack of transparency on the use of the death penalty in many retention is countries and there are positive signs you know it was global operation of the death penalty despite traits by some retentions countries to undermine this all the decline of global executions known executions e'squus in china decreased by our 5 percent from. 690 executions which we recorded in

28 in 2657 executions in 20 nights in these continues a year on year reduction since june of 15 and it's reflects a 10 year. it's also important soon to emphasize that it's because it's getting countries remained the same at 20 and you know this decrease accords you know despite significant increases in 2 major exporting countries iraq. and saudi arabia . in saudi arabia for example it's a 4 executions where carried out in 21000 this was an increase of 23 percent compared to 2018 when. people where it's a huge it and it's also for important to emphasize you know you know that in saudi arabia we saw an increase in the use of the death penalty as a political weapon against your dissidents. well that's it for this news hour but

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