viruses and diseases millions living working and commuting in such tight conditions but one expert says it's about much more than just density it's about how all this was put together and how it's run. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter w. watching the news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes iran's revolutionary guard says it has successfully launched the country's 1st military satellite. more heavy rain and flash flooding turns the southern yemeni city of aden into a disaster area. spain's parliament prepares to extend its nationwide lockdown but

the prime minister says an end is in sight. so if africa deploys 90 percent of its army to enforce coronavirus lockdown measures. and it's for one of the premier league's main broadcast partners wants to block the saudi takeover of newcastle united cats as the saudi government and illegal channels are still games and it's threatening the league's financial future. iran says it's launched its 1st military satellite into orbit it is likely to increase tensions with the u.s. in the past washington has blamed iran of using its space program as a cover for missile development iranian leaders deny that iran has spent a decade trying to improve its rocket technology it fired its 1st successful satellite into orbit in 2009 but in recent months it's had several failed launch is

the latest came in february when iran failed to put it zaphod a one communications satellite into orbit last year it had 3 failures including a rocket explosion in august the united states called those actions provocative but iran has maintained that its satellite program did not a military component let's get the latest on this al-jazeera. joins us live here on the news out of tehran zain what more do we know about the launch. well we know that this is the 1st time that iran's government its military has called this the launch of a military satellite this morning we heard something news that came as a surprise to most iranians and to most of the world that iran had launched its military satellite to nor over 400 kilometers into thermosphere now any time the country the country's revolutionary guard do something like this that from time the country's military flexes it is generally to project some strength and more likely

than not it's safe to assume that the united states is the target audience for that flexing in the immediate immediately following the successful launch of the satellite into orbit we heard from the commander of the revolutionary guard corps major general hussein salami and he made a couple of very very specific points he said that it's unnecessary for a powerful military like the r.g.c. to possess specifically military use satellite technology he also said that no armies defense plans are complete without the strategic advantage that satellites can provide and i'll read you a direct quote from a statement he said today we can monitor the world from space and it means a boost for the strategic data that the i.r.g.c. has access to putting the satellite in orbit is a technological advantage for battlefield intelligence so a clear clear message from the commander of the r.g.c. there that this is a military satellite and will be used to strengthen the i

r g c s forces in the field on the ground what's it going to be used for. well we're likely to see this being used largely for things like reconnaissance for the navigation for military forces in the field likely to gather intelligence and things of that nature but it has to be said iran's satellite program of space program has been multi-pronged in the past we can't get away from the fact that there are financial applications here as well telecommunications is a major it uses satellites as a major form of. of its sort of capacity to provide data and bandwidth for users on the ground iran has become now one of only a dozen countries with an indigenous launch program to be able to put satellites in orbit elbowing its way despite economic isolation into what is essentially an enclosure and we are likely to see the i.r.g.c. as well as iran's government tried to benefit from this from

a financial point of view as well it can say that we can for our own rockets and satellites in space we can do so for other companies in other countries and just to be clear briefly when we talk about it being indigenous parts of a broader program i guess did they buy it off the shelf or off somebody else's shelf or did they make it themselves from scratch well what we're looking at now is iran's pride in what it calls its own domestic resilience a messed economy now iran has been working for some time on trying to make sure that it can sort of go on its own in terms of developing these types of technological advancements it's something major general a sense alarming also addressed saying that this is also an example of iran being able to accomplish complicated advanced technological feats that give it a bright horizon now whether or not there was cooperation of other countries iran's government iran's military certainly taking the credit for the successful satellite launch saying thanks very much. a disaster area has been declared in yemen southern

port city of aden after it was hit by flash flooding the prime minister is asking for foreign help 8 people including children were killed when heavy rain inundated streets and homes in shala palace. it was a desperate attempt to stop this couple being swept away strangers mixed into the streets in central aden fighting to proofread the current. thinking. it is rainy season in yemen but with neglected infrastructure the water makes its own path through the city and inroads into rivers many with poor sound had to be safe from movie because i was at these boys trying to cheer up a woman they risk use by singing to her compound in the trauma is that this also happened a month ago then u.n. had to bulldoze thousands of tons of rubble and model to the streets almost

$5000.00 families were displaced the water also harbors an invisible danger human is battling a cholera outbreak a disease spread through. some 400 kilometers north in the capital sana residents to sell waging what they can from floods a week ago our heavy winds and rain killed 7 people injured dozens and damaged 16 refugee camps and the neighboring government of marine. cyril the heavy rain destroyed everything they weren't expecting it and it came from the mountains and swept everything away without warning running took out codes busses everything in its path. and yet there is a potentially more ominous disaster on the horizon yemen has had just one case of coronavirus the u.n. has we warned it would be catastrophic if it catches hold here only half of yemen's medical facilities a functional the population is acutely moen nourished in about 80 percent to

24000000 people. need aid to survive mostly national companies including ticha pac and unilever and donating tens of thousands of virus testing kits to human the shipment will arrive next week. a devastated health system and neglected infrastructure a symptoms of yemen's 5 years civil whether it will continue isn't a negotiation we've all noted continued violence where mr griffiths is doing is trying to get parties to agree to a nationwide. he's far as the stain of the schwarz's far those discussions are ongoing obviously challenge the circumstances. but that's that's what he's trying to do challenging circumstances prove that yemenis are is a lucian can't come soon enough shelob alice. ok let's go back to that earlier

story iran saying a successfully launched its 1st ever military satellite joining us here on news on the stuff cost chesham he's an iranian affairs analyst he joins us from tehran must have a question how can iran afford to do this you and i have had several conversations over the past year or so talking about what a bad state the economy is in how much the country is suffering because of u.s. led sanctions so where is the financing coming from. on thanks for having me well up as mother of fact this is the miracle of all work in iran actually it costs one sometimes 100 or sometimes 1000 of you know a similar job in a rival country in a western country this is nothing new of course this is the product of 2 any years of hard work by the civilian and then this it will you know space agency as well as the g.c.c.

and the rainy and scientists as well as academic centers like science university so they've been working hard in order to you know send a satellite into space i didn't flare stime several years ago they launched they had to run and they could place a mock satellite in space there successfully but the next 2 efforts by that civil sector failed unfortunately at a time when they launcher was separating from the satellite the satellite didn't was not placed into the correct orbit and it fell down but this time the i.r.g.c. itself as embarked on doing that and this has been a major breakthrough actually pushing the defense not just the defense but also this impulse that there are a lot of full war in area of science because they think that the light is not just going to be working for the military is ok but for the military this makes the

military actually and really much more powerful than they were and that's the thing surely that will raise eyebrows in washington and of course in jerusalem. sure sure this is a major breakthrough as i said there lee aired this satellite is going to provide to you know purposes it's a multiple purpose satellite actually for both the civil sector as well as the military but in the military sector there it will help iran in or is of id it will help iran in wars of intelligence and information against enemies but more importantly it will help iran with its ballast crews and drone missions very much it will make i.r.g.c. and iranian military forces independent of any foreign assistance with regard to satellite navigation and g.p.s. systems it also helps the country more this is probably the most important

achievement of the day 40 i i g c n iran it will help iran withdrawing its comprehensive defense plan strategy as a matter of fact those countries that do not have a military satellite in this space they fail to draw such a strategy such as strategy the comprehensive defense plan needs you know access to space and this is their main goal an objective and you know the main achievement of the day 40 i.r.g.c. so iran has been effects joined a rather exclusive club the symbolism of this will not be lost on anyone side of iran indeed across the middle east across the region and as far as the united states and i guess europe as well what happens if this in effect increases the tensions between the united states and the leadership in tehran.

well i believe we have all witnessed in action in the last 4 decades that more pressures by the and out of the states with drive to iran to move forward in all areas a science. iran was on there much sanction you know growing getting true billing sanctions when it achieved this achievement and could successfully launched a satellite and place it into the orbit iran was on their harsh sanctions and crippling cruel sanctions when it developed its nuclear technology and mastered the nuclear technology so it seems to me that the sanctions are driving to iran for war and making phil run more results on that path towards the violent men and independence and standon fareham against israel and the united states if they had you know that they're on with lots of air force fighter jets like what they did at

the time of shot i don't think that i mean at a time of war it's going to iran and iraq if they supplied you know spare parts and planes i don't think that they're on would be driven towards that path of development about us that messiah technology so well as a matter of fact the pressures are backfiring on washington and its allies ok we'll leave it there mustapha question thank you very much. thank you thank you very much. still to cover for you here on the news hour including we'll tell you why in nigeria's hospitals are suddenly seeing an influx of rich patients. as many of us stay at home environments getting a bit of a break just in time for the 50th birthday we'll tell you more coming up in the sports news 2 of the n.f.l. top stars are said to be reunited and he will have all the details later in the sports games.

south african president has announced a $26000000000.00 rescue package to deal with the economic impact of covert 19 cyril ramaphosa unveiled what he called an extraordinary budget and special address to the nation about 2.6 $1000000000.00 will go to the poor in the form of financial grants south africa is under a 5 week lockdown it has more than $3400.00 factions and $58.00 deaths so far meanwhile more than 70000 south african soldiers nearly the entire standing army are being deployed to enforce the lockdown they will join nearly $2300.00 personnel already out on the streets let's bring in from either miller who is in johannesburg what kind of areas are they going into for me. well peter we haven't been given detail from the government yet as to when exactly

the army will be deployed but to give you some idea we're in history at the moment in the west of johannesburg and it's areas like this where so far those 2000 troops you mentioned have been deployed and are monitoring movements year they're patrolling the streets we've not seen any here in his so but that is also one of the criticisms from many members of the south african public at that is that there's a disproportionate use of the army in certain areas if you go to the north of johannesburg in the suburbs you will see police you won't see the army and so far we understand that the concern from the government is trying to monitor and enforce the lockdown in areas like this one just behind us there is a supermarket where there's a queue clearly the supermarket is trying to restrict the number of people coming in but outside in that queue there's very little social distancing now earlier today the minister of defense spoke on radio saying that the aim of putting more

soldiers on the street would be to enforce these very strict restrictions and at the same time in this area we've seen police patrol and they've done nothing to move anybody on the street away there are dozens of petitions walking up and down there is a normal amount of traffic so they have the implementation of the lockdown clearly for the government is one that has not been easy depending on where you are in south africa one has the social distancing message not got through to people is it that they can't get the message across or is it that people are just ignoring it. well the government has done a lot to educate people as far as possible and this was also mentioned by the defense minister earlier today that the additional the 4 elements of up to $70000.00 soldiers would be to enforce the law and also creates more awareness the fear really from the government is that south africa will reach

a peak in infections and potentially deaths perhaps orcus or september so when it comes down to that information trickling down to people there is a certain of level of people just ignoring the guidelines and not perhaps understanding the gravity of the situation or potentially what could happen in south africa peter there's also been some concern about the conduct of the army in that they've been criticized for having a heavy hand we do know at least one man was killed in the johannesburg township of alexandra allegedly often been beaten by soldiers the army has said that they're investigating this incident they've launched an inquiry but this is the kind of difficulty the south african national defense force is facing in trying to implement this lockdown and at the same time facing the criticism that it is in a very tricky situation for the governments for me to thanks very much. well the

global pandemic is driving the rich in nigeria and the powerful the local hospitals that they've been avoiding for years doctors are reporting a shop increase in the number of government officials and business leaders seeking treatment and interest has more now from the capital of culture. and. is a cancer survivor who regularly travels abroad for treatment the next appointment to see him india in may but because of the global pandemic she fears she will have to miss it she says the local hospitals here in nigeria don't offer. if you find out there's. no you can't go to the constant. because. that's. all and you can if you decide only that i mean i do. so whether you know. after we've done before and well it wasn't really. in the hands of.

our concern is echoed by many in the country there's a lot of confusion in the. south maybe any plans of making. a new not sold in this well there's not a lot of if you still does that not only are the causes of nigeria's regularly seek medical attention in other countries every year because of the poor state of the public health care system here and i'm with everyone on the travel restrictions imposed by countries around the world has now forced many including the rich and the powerful to stay home and rely on the same health system they neglected for decades where as you heard it played out just. right. now you. know.

the increase in the number of people using local hospitals is adding stress to a system that's already in a buy state. many here hope the pandemic will force public officials to focus on improving nigeria's health care system. and estimated 1000000000 dollars is spent by nigerians on overseas medical treatment every year in government officials in 2017 nigeria's president spent about 20 weeks in hospitals in the united kingdom although government promised to address the problems in the health system here nothing much has improved. so i'm not going to say they will avoid local hospitals for now not because they have alternatives but because they fear doing seoul will put them at a greater risk for covered $98.00 degrees al-jazeera. the spanish parliament votes on a government proposal today to extend the nationwide lot done until may the 9th madrid has already started easing some restrictions children can go for walks as of

next week and some factory in construction workers have returned to their jobs already that happened last week ily 208000 people have contracted the virus across spain and at least 21000 have died there are joins us live now from madrid martyr this vote how do we think it's going to go. well today's spanish prime minister has announced this 3rd extension of the state of emergency law down until may not 9th in the spanish congress this is extension has been the most pull to the actual as it's a law it's completely illegal to have the decision announced yesterday from a spanish government allowing children under 14 years old to go with the parents to the groceries to the chemist or to the bags these problem today huge criticisms in all the sex or subsectors of spanish society political parties n.g.o.s the parents association saying that it was it was crazy mad taking this decision up to 6 which

of lockdown just allowing children under 14 years old going to these places that were. very risky of contagious of course 19 so few hours later health minister announced that these decision has been has been amended so that these children will be allowed her next week to go after what's not to parse the thoughts with the parents or and that and just at least for one hour or so so this is the situation was set this announcement get made yesterday is what all these political parties where saying that they will approve this extension of. 2 the state of emergency law down today in the congress completely associated to this decision that was made yesterday by the spanish government the prime minister better sentence set the yes collation that would start from a 9 would be very secure and would be gradual and various no he also gave all the power to the health ministry to make any decisions regarding this. down measures

whether to to implement them or to develop whatever they sat into thanks very much. elsewhere in europe the number of new infections in germany has gone up for a 2nd day the number of new infections increasing more than 2200 cases were reported on weapons today bringing the total in europe's biggest economy to nearly 146000 another 281 germans have died from cope with 19 in the past 24 hours now earlier this week locked down restrictions were relaxed slightly some shops and businesses were allowed to reopen half a century ago the 1st earth day mobilized millions of americans to fight for the protection of the planet this year amid available pandemic the battle has particular importance his necke clock. earth day a question of survival with c.b.s.

news correspondent walter cronkite. but if you think they in american history as i live today the grainy story of the day half a century ago was fashionable 5th avenue was off limits to automobiles and april 22nd 1970 across the united states more than 20000000 americans took part in the original earth day that was one in 10 of the population of 170 in the united states pollution have become a really serious problem simply breathing in the air and many of our major american cities it's like smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day rivers are catching on fire birds are going extinct and and there was a great upwelling of protest against that and it developed into a protest movement that continues to this day empowered by its early success and it led to an era in which we passed a clean water act in a neutral species act of marine mammal protection act and toxic substances control

act we banned leaded gasoline we banned lead in paint it was just a remarkable period of environmental accomplishment. 50 years on the threats posed by the climate crisis are even more pressing. for one thing it's evident modern day pollution has made thousands more vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic we know actually the climate change is one of the drivers of condom ics as well as being a superior destruction to it is he to produce enough food to protect our cities from fights and storms and drives. now on earth day there are calls to seize the opportunity to recalibrate after the pandemic has popped. i think we're seeing a ramping up of focus within the financial and i would say some really interesting and positive signals it really in in the last few weeks from governments saying that they are going to actually come out of this crisis you know way that leads to

a green much green a much stronger economy. given the variety of threats we face much depends on how we come back from covert 19 because it's become very apparent the way humanity treats the world as a way of reflecting how the world treats humanity they knew that back in 1970 nic clarke al-jazeera. ok let's talk to cut he's the c.e.o. of african wildlife foundation he joins us from nairobi curtis opinion welcome to the news hour here on al-jazeera how much real progress has been made not just in the intervening 50 years but in the last 5 or 6 years. no i'm obviously not of the problem is i don't think that most people think that's a piece that environmental science is not more than other 3 sundays that's been discussed by prophesies 900 jobs are all you know noticeable shouldn't be right and

i don't think that it's that has changed we are more sort of sea change is in constant motion a new kind of truce even in politics i know it's one of those but in that seed that i experienced. by there must've i don't understand it it's what a new species is going to teach on i mean already you know what about if you take my own life i got the most heartless book of clouds out of these floods writing or say steve made it parts of africa these small that statistic you're talking about a species disappearing in our lifetime or at least in the next 40 or 50 years or so we've heard that statistic a lot since say the the agreements were signed in paris what 5 years ago now does that mean however that because of corona virus because the world will in spirit be

greener once coronavirus calms down around the world does that mean that fewer species will be lost because of the impact of covert 19 on humanity it has a positive impact on the rest of the animals that occupy the planet. yes but that's a start. to see that house already that was getting cleaned out but i think that we know what some people's heads that impact on our environment is by human hands and especially now really saw it's all sort of going to depend on the virus that has mortgages that are almost it's going to depend on our. that's where the problem. we need to be here yes we need to change the way we treat nature and what that does where there's

a causal where we are now and thus all we need to develop now we're kind of is not. to task or management of war i mean this possibility is we now are on the way here but simply that you need something on this planet and does that mean that we have to refocus not just on say getting the global economy back up and running but within the get the green economy more up and running compared to where it was before the coronavirus took hold. absolutely we must. cause additional is not about protecting what i like so that what us can enjoy in. getting ourselves from the dangers of the environment to a great dish if the well. has more all quitting the viruses in this environment we are now patrolling this hippy in the well.

and from the one that web logs that's a big puddle conservation and that's what i'm getting to see these eat less that is the biggest growth now should be taught. and planning to be probably ducting it is especially. in such a way to compromise the well being especially here now because we have learned that from you we are telling frances to engine of wyoming. saw we can and we did we can we toll chizik the western border and that's be the source of all our own minds it wouldn't scruple and by the west it in i want to be considerations ok we'll leave it there to the bunya there nairobi good to talk to you sir thank you very much i've been filing. the weather evidence taking us to

europe evidence yeah that's right peter's a bit of a spin but i've got the kind of weather in spain which is probably rather stay indoors full truth be known we've got this big long line of cloud which extends right the way from the black sea or all the way to the bay of biscay and beneath that rain bearing cloud with saint's a big downpours in spain yet the rain is spain doesn't only fall on the plate in barcelona $81.00 millimeters of rain here in the last 24 hours the average for the entire month of april 40 millimeters so twice the monthly average rainfall it will improve as we go on through the next couple of days i am pleased to say but we have got these very active areas of low pressure just swirling away in that western side of the mediterranean big downpours as a result of this very disturbed weather further north it's warm sunshine for many of the warm oranges and reds you see on the chart and see temperatures in berlin of around 19 celsius should be about 13 at this time of the a paris getting up to 24 should be about 15 degrees here as we go on into thursday

that heat does transfer a little further eastward so you see temperatures picking up 22 in berlin 19 celsius there in vienna and it topples a little further still as we go on into friday but paris still getting up to around 26 celsius at that stage the heat get squeezed a little further southwards been a further the cold weather we have further south there we go with that cloud and rain continuing for now wait a bit and many things tortuous i'm sure still to come here on the news for you we'll have more on the economic impact of the coronavirus around latin america but the u.n. says the region is sliding into its worst ever recession plus the sports news with a new football title celebrations looks set to be put on hold in the netherlands this year and will explain in about 20 minutes here on the news. the more emotional move in. response had been inadequate but now it was time for

bible. muslims no moved from merely reacting to taking action putting the western crusaders on the defensive with hindsight this is seen as a breakthrough as a revival of the jihad in the muslim near east the crusades an arab perspective of her so to revive on the jersey or. the latest news as it breaks with no treatment or vaccine for her on a virus volunteers will continue to provide the services take out to fight the disease with detail coverage along without any planning for india's millions of lies and political. and fearless journalism from around the world for many coming to this faith is the only chance they have to leave at least once a day. welcome

back you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here in doha these are your headlining stories iran has launched its 1st military satellites into orbit it is likely to increase tensions with the u.s. in the past washington has blamed iran for using the space program as a cover for missile development tehran denies that. spanish parliament is that to vote today on a government proposal to extend its nationwide lockdown until may the 9th majority has already started releasing some restrictions put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic. disaster areas been declared and declared in yemen's southern port city of aden after this hit by flash flooding the prime minister is asking for foreign help the country has already been ravaged by 5 years of

a civil war. let's talk now to. a story spokeswoman and delegate for the i.c.r.c. in yemen she joins us from the capital sana'a. how big an area has been affected. the situation and i thought as a quite disastrous the floods that happened yesterday took the lives of 8 people among them as a child at the age of $48.00 foot you've sold $75.00 houses would fall should be destroyed this these are the reports that we see from the thirty's but this is not the 1st not that happens and yet in the last few weeks before the end there and matter of which is a betty dense naysmith population but came from that area as and certainly it's nice people also suffered from gramma not so islam and that this leads us to the way it was nice to say that yemen has not been able to catch its breath this is

a country that has been at war for the last 5 years a conflict that left even percent of the population in need of humanitarian now has 70 percent but that's not the access to clean water 50 percent off but that medical system is that is nothing a function of and this comes at the time i'll grant you have that infectious at this you see is as i say and also that you make that of the quote on our fight is in yemen after the consideration of the 1st case also on the temple event and the and how that would govern a this declaration of this region as being now a disaster area does that in effect give the government the powers to free up more money or more resources or does it increase the pressure on international donors who are already helping out it has to be said with people internally displaced

inside the country to get them to offer them more help because of this situation. of course the international humanitarian actors and humanitarian actors and yet much older joining efforts to respond to the entire situation because these flights have added in addition they get off an ability for example the international public just that have crossed and i would remain far the yemeni and at crescent has its funding at least. not by providing a sense that you can fly for the 5 things they're pulled by thinking families together who have been sent that aid to the white house and the fence and that would not it's an admission there's hygene that i think that are beyond that and this goes in line with all the measures that was taken by the yemeni people at the moment and to gates and he this an outbreak of acquittal not by this that the country has mucked up before because the infrastructure has already been so much

john and by 5 years of war and now if there's any outbreak and also use knobs are adding in addition they get all challenge that the country is not but at the fore but that can lead we are desponding we are also assessing the situation now in the other 2 and hence i would respond as if i'm not to comment on that process with i would mean part of and the national psyche of the yemeni that ok very briefly considered running out of time please what's the expectation as to how long the flooding will last for. now we are and and there is a new season in. yemen so. as it happens and i thought yesterday and 2 weeks also and to mexico which also happened then i got invited and and now in summer no one can really know if it's going to have that again and now curfews of also humanitarian affairs are their best response to that situation and there may be

some measures of prevention to make sure that happens again it doesn't mean the same impact and sound much on. relations there ok there in santa thank you very much thanks to an extension to the united states americas' senate approving a $500000000000.00 in extra aid to help businesses and hospitals joining the pandemic the house of representatives is set to vote on thursday on what would be the 4th such package since the crisis began for a total of around 3 trillion dollars mike hanna reports now from washington with many senators working from home the boat with taken by voice all in favor say aye. all oppose no fear to have it this follows intense negotiation between the white house and congress in recent days at the core of our agreement is 320000000000 more for the paycheck protection program which is already saving

millions of small business jobs and helping americans get paychecks and set a pension works. democrats successfully port to include $75000000000.00 for hospitals and $25000000000.00 for testing which had been excluded in the initial republican proposal we don't have enough tests that cry rings from one end of america to the other to urban suburban rural north east south and west we don't have enough tests. well now help is on the way because democrats stood and fought for it president trump says he'll sign the bill when it passes in the house of representatives on thursday but in coming hours his signature will 1st go on an executive order limiting immigration it would be wrong in a gesture americans laid off by the virus to be replaced with new immigrant labor flown in from abroad we must 1st take care of the american worker

take care of the american worker the details of yet another ban on immigration and travel into the u.s. is yet to be made public no visas have been issued for weeks because u.s. embassies are shuttered around the globe and this week the restrictions on travel across the u.s. has southern and northern borders were extended for another 30 days president transfers the order will not apply to those visiting the u.s. on a temporary basis but rather on those seeking permanent residence critics argue that the move would have no impact on public health or unemployment but is rather yet another intent to decide who gets to be a u.s. citizen in the long term administration officials have been working through the day and night to draft the executive order and clarify exactly what the president means mike hanna al-jazeera washington setting the differences aside at least one

afternoon president from for so stooges new york state governor andrew cuomo at the white house they agreed to work on doubling testing in the state of the epicenter of the outbreak in the u.s. more than 250000 people have been infected and 15000 have died mr cuomo and the president of recently accused each other of failing to respond properly. at least 7 people of thoughts were contracted the virus during the primary election in the u.s. state of wisconsin earlier this month they include 6 voters and one poll worker who were identified in the city of milwaukee officials say the number of election related infections could increase after more data becomes available wisconsin has so far 4620 known cases and nearly 250 deaths. australia is taking advantage of the u.s. oil crash spending $59000000.00 to buy it at a record low price of oil will help build up its emergency stockpile it'll be held

in the u.s. reserve until storage space is made available locally australia imports 90 percent of its fuel most comes from the middle east or asia. storage facilities the fast running out of space including this one in oklahoma it's at 70 percent capacity but traders say all the remaining space is already booked the lack of storage is a big factor in the falling prices. turn attention to latin america where the un says the break will likely cause the worst recession in history to see a new man has that story from santiago. venezuela has the world's largest oil reserves but you'd never know it by looking at the endless patrol coups in the capital caracas. any of them but we've been in to queue since last night and still there are more than 100 cars ahead. was already in shambles

unprecedented low production u.s. economic sanctions and low prices made it hard to import chemicals needed to produce petrol now the little money that was coming in from oil exports is gone with the collapse of the market. venezuela isn't alone neighboring colombia and ecuador which is already deep in debt depend heavily on oil exports as does mexico where the number of infections from coal with 19 is rising sharply admitting that the crash in oil prices will hit mexico very hard president and that is. try to comfort his compatriots. i want to go on t.v. and give you all the security that we mexicans will be able to feed this crisis. on the 42 the world country and of the mexican people. the crown jewel of argentina's oil industry the vaca muerta the shale gas formation is now practically

paralyzed at a time when the country needed most to offset a steep recession and debt commitments here in chile the problem is the plummeting price of its main export copper but along with the caribbean islands this is one of the seal latin american countries the practice of practically no fossil fuel which means that the drop in the price of oil is actually a bit of good. but not for long the u.n. economic council for latin america and the caribbean has. just downgraded the forecast for the region even further everybodys what we want to say is that this crisis will create the worst recession in the region since 914-1930 this is the magnitude of it a forecast the could be even worse if the price of key commodities like oil does not recover soon to see in human al-jazeera center. ok let's wrap up some of the top stories for you here on the news of the police in india are being accused of

targeting muslims during investigations into violence earlier this year dozens of people were arrested during protests against a controversial citizenship law elizabeth urana reports from the capital new delhi . we're calling her cider to protect her identity she lives in northeast delhi and hasn't heard from her brother in 10 days she's afraid for both their safety side a says that on april 10th police came to their home and asked her brother to go to the police station to make a statement about being shot during the communal violence in delhi in february. they called us at 9 at night and said we're not going to let him go because we've seen footage of him and he lied to us we asked them to show us proof but they didn't they said we'll show it in court but how can we go to court when it's shut they haven't let us see him or give him food cider doesn't know if police have charged her brother since the lockdown began 4 weeks ago he's one of dozens of

people arrested in connection with the attacks 53 people were killed in the worst violence of the delhi territory in decades it began when supporters of the government citizenship amendment at fort hood protestors complaining the door was anti muslim even though we've had reports of. even before the lockdown before the lockdown lawyers were still able to physically visit police stations they were able to make it to court to file applications needed to protect the rights of the arrestees those options are unfortunately no longer available because of the distractions on court functioning. also arrested a prominent members of the citizenship law protest movement including made on high that a research scholar at jamia millia islamia university among the charges against him rioting murder sedition and promotion hostility between religious groups. civil society organizations say police are trying to blame muslim leaders like hi there for february's weiland while ignoring members of the hindu majority of the party

who openly called for attacks on protesters picking them up. looking for conspiracy and after time when all of us are fighting the enemy this is. not democracy. the m.p. and hi this lawyer told al-jazeera the charges against him and others a baseless delhi police didn't respond to al-jazeera as requests for an interview but they tweeted saying delhi police have dollars jobson fairly and impartially and all the arrests made have been based on scientific and forensic evidence including video footage saga and her parents and many other families are still waiting to hear what the evidence or charges against their loved ones elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi. the number of victims in canada's worst mass shooting has now reached 22 they include a pregnant nurse and

a 17 year old girl the gunman drove across the eastern province of nova scotia shooting people in various communities as attack lasted nearly 12 hours before he was shot dead by the police. greenhouse gas emissions from australia's devastating bushfire season this year have exceeded the country's average annual emissions a government report estimates that at least $830000000.00 tonnes of carbon dioxide were released between september and february the report says most of those emissions should be reabsorbed by forests in the coming years but it goes on to say climate change could impact the forests ability to recover. facebook's expected to buy nearly 10 percent of india's digital geo platforms for 5 and a half $1000000000.00 it is the biggest foreign investment in india's technology sector geo has more than $380000000.00 subscribers and operates broadband mobile services and online commerce the deal allows facebook to partner its whatsapp messaging service with geo as it looks to expand in one of its biggest growth

markets india is what's the biggest market with 400000000 users. business has been booming for the world's biggest internet streaming service during the pandemic between january and march netflix says 16000000 new subscribers signed up that's double the number it was expecting almost businesses have been suffering because of the outbreak its shares have gained 11 percent still to come here on the news on the sports news with andy why a pirate t.v. channel could derail the takeover of this english premier league club.

has ended so much hate so all the news premier league has been urged. by one of its main broadcast partners the block the saudi arabia let's take over of newcastle united because of piracy that's always been sports says the saudi government allows an illegal channels to steal games and is threatening the financial future of the league saudis sovereign wealth fund is aiming to buy an 80 percent stake in new castle pirate channel b. out q. has been illegally showing games despite the rights in the middle east belonging to be in sports last year the games governing body pfieffer called on saudi satellite operators to stop providing a platform for piracy in a letter to the premier league binns chief executive use of our brady wrote it's no exaggeration to say that the future economic model of football is at stake the potential acquire of newcastle united has caused huge damage to your clubs and the premier league commercial revenues

a legacy of the legal service will continue to impact choose going forward. but football association says it intends not to continue with its season the netherlands has just banned all major events and so at least september due to coronavirus i aks of the reigning champions and lead a that out by goal difference at the top of this season's standings on choose day football's european governing body wife is said some leagues could be cancelled in special cases because of the pandemic dutch f.a. house confirmed it will consult with the way for before making a final decision. now former new england patriots tight end koski has come out of retirement to reunites with quarterback tom brady the 30 year old has agreed to play for the tampa bay buccaneers alongside brady who signed a 2 year 50 $1000000.00 contract with the bucs last month concow secure its side in march 29th in after 9 seasons in 3 super bowl triumphs with the patriots. well this week's n.f.l. draft is the sale sets a look

a lot different so last year's events covered 19 has forced one of the league's biggest occasions to go virtual with the same on this potential pick staying at heart of a 3 day same select the best young college players we've seen still can say well it's out of whack sports online about why it's so important for the n.f.l. to still hold the traffic i think i think is twofold with the with the n.f.l. i ate the draft itself obviously it's not a sport that's being played you know it's basically like a conference call so they don't feel like there is the danger you don't see anyone by going to draft no one is even a plus for light or sports entertainment like a w w we still do individual horse racing or still don't want to because there has to be some people at the track or at the ring these 'd that age with with the draft is really no different and when fans do a fantasy draft you know from the comfort of their hopes i don't feel like they

feel like there's any danger in doing and they want to make sure if these guidelines to stand hold or i eased up or the restrictions are lifted other teams can have the players in place and ready to go especially their rockies and by pushing the draft back that would push the entire offseason programs back and i don't they definitely don't want to do that considering that we haven't had lapsed sports of fork over a while now this is going to be one of the of this i think everyone's going to tune into and will be real curious to see who goes where and what happens when the head of australian cricket has defended the decision to give myself and plays an 80 percent pay cuts cricket australia says it could least tens of millions of dollars if india council that sort of the country lights are on the share it's also looking at how and if it can hi steve 2020 world cup scheduled for october and november. well dealing with a situation that's hitting us unfortunately the low point of access. we

reached a point in september early september where more stocks as we've had over the last month or. in and in fact. effectively which are parts is 0 if we want drastic action on golf world number one rory macrorie says he doesn't want to play in the ryder cup if there are 9 fans the biennial tournament between the u.s. and europe is set to be held in september in wisconsin but there are doubts if it can go ahead as normal because of coronavirus restrictions ackroyd says it wouldn't be a right to cut without spectators and would rather see it postponed until 2021. ok more sport for me throughout the day but that is how it's looking and now it's only thanks very much santa maria is limbering up in the background he really use over

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