on the defensive with hindsight this is seen as a breakthrough is a revival of the joke in the muslim near east the crusades an arab perspective the pursuit to revive on a just. this is al-jazeera. you're watching the news hour live from london i'm coming up in the next 60 minutes bracing for the outbreak the w.h.o. warns the coronavirus has yet to show its hand in some of the world's most vulnerable countries. in the u.s. and europe thor it is facing a major challenge how to ease lock down restrictions without triggering a 2nd wave of infections on the launch starts blasted iran's 1st military satellite

into space washington says to haunt must be held accountable. on the 50th anniversary of earth day how lessons learned from the pandemic help focus our minds in the fight against climate change. fellow more than 2600000 infections and over 182000 deaths the coronavirus pandemic has shut down country's ruling livelihoods and raised fears of a global recession but as the outbreak shows slows rather in some of the worst hit countries the world health organization is now warning that the virus is only just beginning to take hold in other parts of the world of particular concern is africa where the european union is aiming to set up a humanitarian air bridge to help move aid and equipment. most of the epitome

exceed in western europe appears to be stable or declining although numbers are low we see warning upward trend you know central and south america and eastern europe most countryside is still in the early stages of their peter max and that we are affected only in the fundamental got to know starting to see a resurgence in cases as u.s. states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies there are new warnings if a 2nd wave of corona virus infections in the winter the director of the country's centers for disease control and prevention says the situation will be far more severe because it's likely to coincide with the start of the flu season and having to some outbreaks would be a massive burden on the health care system individuals who develop antibodies it will have protective immunity the question is how long but this is going to be the critical question that we will answer between now and next year when it's very

likely that we're going to have another. wrestling match with this virus as it comes back and we're going to have another battle with the you know front aggressively next next winter when the u.s. presidents do to sign an executive order to temporarily suspend immigration saying he needs to protect american lives and jobs from coronavirus meanwhile tens of thousands of migrants among them asylum seekers are waiting along the country's southern border with their paperwork hoping they will be able to cross into the united states they fear they will have to wait longer for their cases to be heard from spann is the latest in a string of moves made during his administration aiming to curb immigration one of his longstanding election promises let's get an update from mike hanna joining us from washington d.c. so where are we on that executive order mike. well we're not quite clear at this particular point it was tweeted out on monday night by the

president he said at the briefing tuesday that he would be signing a tither later that night or in the course of the day as year to no progress on that particular issue it's believed that officials in his that ministration are still rushing to try and draft a coherent version of what the president actually means and that is still unclear to we do know that president trump has said that the order will be in force for 60 days and will then be reviewed and it will be decided whether it will be extended or the actual provisions will be extended as well at this stage it does appear that the order would apply to those wanting to move to the united states as permanent residence the president has said very specifically the order would not apply to those visiting the u.s. on a temporary basis so very unclear at this particular point remembering to travel has been very restricted to the united states the northern border has been shut for a number of weeks the shutting was extended earlier this week the southern border

with mexico well that has been completely sealed off for a period of time of the extension of the shutdown order has been extended there as well so during this time the rate of travel rate of immigration to the united states has dropped dramatically so it's not quite clear to see exactly who president trump is going to be stopping or how it would change what is the current situation where the country is largely in a state of lockdown with regard to people coming in from the outside and of course mike the other big piece of news coming out of the u.s. is that warning by the c.d.c. chief saying that the corona virus combined with the seasonal flu could be much worse next year. well indeed yes the c.d.c. director robert redfield saying exactly that that next winter the u.s. could be facing an even fierce pandemic than it is facing at the present now very

warning is obviously dire but the reaction of the president is a particularly interesting some would say he's pushing back against what revealed said very strongly saying in a tweet that the director of the c.d.c. was misquoted said the president on the c n n well that for a start is incorrect the initial interview was actually given to the washington post which c.n.n. reported but this is another example of the president pushing back against the opinions of scientists because they do not coincide with his own vision of being as he has described himself the cheerleader for america always saying that we are on top of this that we are going to defeated we saw this earlier back in february the president was furious at a statement by a senior c.d.c. official that it was necessary at that stage to start considering closing schools because of the looming pandemic the president according to several sources was absolutely infuriated he heard about it on his way back from india meeting that was

due to be held on his return to brief him on that fishel statement was canceled and it was 3 weeks it's reported before president trump actually engaged with the information that the c.d.c. official was imparting at that time we are seeing once again a repeat of that president denying a statement made by his most senior c.d.c. official pushing back against it and saying it actually was a misquote all right and i can i thank you. well new york the epicenter of the u.s. corona virus outbreak is ramping up its testing capabilities to better understand how many people have been infected and who can safely go back to work governor andrew cuomo said that restrictions could remain in place until they know more about the virus christmas salumi reports. with strict social distancing measures in place new york has seen its corona virus infection rates slow the state has recorded about a quarter 1000000 cases overall a 3rd of all of those in the united states governor andrew cuomo says more testing

will be necessary to safely loosen restrictions you don't know how many people were infected you don't know what is happening on the infection rate spread all you know is the hospitalization rate so testing will give you 1st of all more data on how fast the infection is spreading and how fast it's spreading we're going to for a while diagnostic tests like this reveal an active infection blood tests can reveal who's developed antibodies thought to offer some immunity for the disease to recent studies in california suggest exposure to the corona virus and therefore immunity may be more widespread than thought but scientists caution it's too soon to draw conclusions it's really important and if we're going to be making conclusions about the prevalence in a larger population that we have to sample that population without introducing extra bias so while that say is important we should not take that as a i am

a word for true prevalence in our communities new york has begun ramping up its capacity to be able to process $40000.00 coronavirus tests per day this week the department of alba also began approaching people outside of grocery stores like this to randomly collect 3000 blood samples and test them for antibodies in the rush to do more testing the accuracy of some brand. has been called into question and experts from the world health organization as well as the top administration say the antibodies themselves need further testing nobody is sure but with antibodies it is fully protected against having the disease or being exposed to get some of the tax. issues or sensitivity that may give a false negative result but as the economic cost of fighting the disease continues to mount state authorities are under enormous pressure to find a pathway out of the lockdown as safely and as quickly as possible kristyn salumi

al jazeera new york. virus cases are still on the rise across europe as countries grapple with measures to contain its spread spain is debating whether to extend its lockdown but other nations have taken small steps to ease restrictions here in the u.k. the government's facing criticism over its testing strategy as the official death toll crosses 18000 sunday ago has more on the situation across europe. the house of commons normally rowdy for wednesday's prime minister's questions resumed its business with social distancing firmly in place without boris johnson at the helm in his place the foreign secretary since the start of the outbreak we delivered 1000000000 items of personal protective equipment and tens of millions have been distributed vavi devolved administrations but the government has been under fire over its coronavirus condemning strategy by the end of the month the

health secretary had promised the u.k. would be conducting a $100000.00 tests a day it is currently carrying out $18000.00 per day with a capacity of $40000.00 here stopped fact seized on by the new opposition labor party leader of the pattern emerging here we were slow in to look slow in testing slow and protective equipment are now slow to take up these offers from british but i don't accept this premise that we can slide we're being joined by the scientific advice the chief scientific advisor the chief medical officer i think every step along this way the number of deaths in the u.k. continues to rise with more than 800000 recorded at hospitals around the country the health secretary has said that the country has reached the peak of the pandemic but no one is clinton plaiting lifting the lockdown soon in spain officials in madrid gathered to close a makeshift morgue set up

a rice rink in the capital the country has seen the 2nd highest number of deaths from kovac 1000 in europe during the worst face to date the military had been transferring bodies here on a daily basis. now the government is about to loosen the lockdown to allow children accompanied by parents to go out for the 1st time in weeks but this is not a rushed maneuver to restrictions will remain in place until the middle of may and if the epidemic worsens the government will impose them again but the worry of a financial meltdown here is still prevalent with the prime minister better sanchez calling on the european council to get financial aid to countries like. the european council must boken the financial package approved by the euro group and demand the completion of the proprietary work so that the instruments are implemented by june the 1st this is the key for europe and consequently for our country but i look at sweden's decision to stay open had been criticised by its

neighboring countries pushing the economy over public health maybe 2000 people have died there from covert 19 but even without going into lock down its export dependent upon me has been hit hard state relief measures are being put in place that even with that hate it will still see a financial slump like everywhere else affected by the pandemic said it i am. all researchers around the world are racing to develop a coronavirus vaccine around 80 groups are conducting studies and some are now entering clinical trials human trials have already begun the 1st one started in the us city in seattle off seattle in march but other countries are catching up the u.k. will begin trials on thursday and germany has just granted approval to 2 companies to begin human tests and even with breakneck speed most scientists warn that a vaccine won't become available until the middle of next year trials need to show

that the vaccine is safe creates an immune response and can be developed for distribution across the globe around 60 to 70 percent of the world's population needs to be immune to stop the virus from spreading let's speak about this with immunologist and he's joining us live from geneva via skype thanks for your time with us on the news hour how promising are these trials. well i believe they're promising because not only do we move forward in the vaccine research at the next door there is speed as you just said that 5 human trials already began and around 80 candid vaccines in the pipeline but we're not starting from scratch we do know how to prepare vaccines against influenza we knew we have been preparing a vaccine against sour sauce these are cousins of the viral agent to feed 19

so i'm fairly optimistic that that research will move fast one of the trials at least the one here in the u.k. is due to last 6 months so in terms of time what's the time scale that we're talking about here and how quickly can a vaccine actually be pushed through because that's what people really want to know of course well developing a vaccine. goes through periods of time that you cannot compress 1st your good the what we call phase one that is seeing whether the vaccine is well tolerated and is safe in when injected into administered into healthy people that will take about 3 to 4 months and then you have to go into efficacy trials that they see whether that vaccine is indeed protective and that will take about 6 to 8 months so that's why i wouldn't expect any sort of positive signal about one

candidate vaccine being a big issue just before indeed the spring of $21.00 but that's not the end you then need to produce that vaccine in large amounts if a candidate vaccines proved to be safe and that's an issue because it could bring more delay the alternative is to start producing the vaccine even be. sure there is a positive signal about efficacies which would mean taking huge financial risks so that's where the discussions are at this time so you're saying that it's a possibility that some of these. companies or whatever is organizing these vaccines then could use some of the initial data how they're finding out when that be jumping the gun a little bit it's maybe jumping the gun it into a bit but that's old also conditioned to actually have a lot stocks available of vaccine as soon as possible remember you may remember the

epidemic a few years ago we did have a vaccine against but when that vaccine became available the epidemic was over. you were mentioning the the sort of manufacturing and distribution to the wider public just a moment ago i wonder if you can talk to us a little bit more about that i mean how do you then. take the virus out of the vaccine out to the wider public are there any challenges there there are huge challenges the 1st one is of course to produce the vaccine is sufficient amounts. it will probably be selecting who should be vaccinated 1st let's say for example health workers or the most vulnerable in society there are challenges around affordability of that vaccine we want that vaccine to be available for everyone

everywhere in the world and so it has to be low prices and there will be issues around intellectual property and patterns and then of course. the health community will face the n.c. vaccine movement and as you know in many countries there were around the world and here in europe we do have people who. are very afraid the vaccination and. i think at least these 3 challenges. have to be considered from now very early on ok and we thank you very much michael catch him for joining us from geneva thank you. coming up on the news hour from london at least 14 people are killed in flash flooding in the yemeni city of aides in the government says it needs international help. police crackdown on dozens of activists after some of the

capital's worst riots in decades. but 1st the u.s. has condemned iran's successful launch of its military satellite into orbit its 1st one that is on iran's revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space but washington has accused iran of the pasta fusing its space program as a cover for missile development so the reports. on wednesday morning the will to news of a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. the newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth and the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives iran's military new strategic advantages or that. it is

a necessity for such powerful defense forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of the world have no comprehensive defense plan if they don't have a place in space for today we can monitor the world from space and it means boosting strategic data for the i.r.g.c. it putting the satellite into orbit gives us the technological advantages and is also a powerful asset in the intelligence war in iran has put satellites in space before but the success of the noor comes after several failures in recent years it's expected to be used for intelligence gathering secure military communications navigation and reconnaissance whatever leaders need to support from the sky iran's military assets on earth and the satellite is in the days only technological development. the difference between the satellite and previous ones is that it's propulsion the uses a combined solid and liquid fuel only

a few superpowers have this capability and only a few countries the rest are consumers of this technology. it's a proud moment for iran's revolutionary guards. the group suffered a major setback to its reputation after the accidental shoot down in january of ukraine international airlines flight 752 all 176 people on board were killed since the beginning of the 21st century iran despite diplomatic and economic isolation has managed to develop the technology necessary to elbow its way into an elite club along with rivals like the united states and israel as well as allies like russia china india iran is one of only a dozen countries in the world with the home grown rocket technology to launch its own satellites into space. well the u.s. secretary of state my pompei or has reacted to the launch calling for iran to be held accountable a designated terrorist organization launched

a missile today and leave to the part of defense to talk about the details about that but when you talk about the u.n. security council resolution 2231 i think every nation has an obligation to go to the united nations and evaluate whether this missile launch was consistent with that security council resolution i think it remotely is and they need i think iran needs to be held accountable for what they've done and the u.s. secretary of state has also commented on israeli plans to annex the occupied west bank on the move as a decision for the new government in israel to make the palestinian authority says it will strongly defend any annexation attempts by israel. that would be young man and we told all concerned at the national parties including the u.s. administration and the israeli government that we want to stand with cross hands israel announced any parts of our lands and will consider all agreements and

understanding between us and those 2 countries totally not. correspondent gary foster is following the story from western missile and he says the annexation of large parts of the occupied west bank was a key issue in negotiations between benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz while forming a unity government there is this new israeli government as of monday evening the unity emergency government as they're calling it in which benny gantz the former leader of the opposition joined benjamin netanyahu allowing him to stay in office he said because of the current emergency with coronavirus a but as part of the negotiations which led up to that announcement he gave way on what had been a key issue being the annexation of large parts of the occupied west bank it had been understood that he was seeking a veto trying to ensure that other voices were brought into the picture before any

move was made an exception in clearing israel's neighbors in the region and also european nations but that is not there in the deal that was announced indeed it says from july the 1st benjamin netanyahu can bring it both the cabinet and to the israeli parliament the knesset and so that combined with the fact that there is the signal from the united states from this very senior u.s. government figure in my palm peo does suggest that things are moving in that direction there is supposed to be still this mapping plan a joint team of u.s. and israeli officials delineating exactly which parts under the plan that was announced in january could be annexed by israel but it seems pretty clear that as far as my compos concerned the ultimate decision will be up to israel. a disaster has been declared in yemen southern port city of aden after it was hit by flash flooding at least 14 people including children were killed when heavy rain in on

dated streets and homes the united nations says dozens more have been injured yemen's prime minister is asking for foreign help and aid organizations say the country's infrastructure has all but collapsed after years of conflict. as from the international committee of the red cross in yemen she says the floods are adding to the existing crisis in the country. of course the international humanitarian actors and humanitarian actors in yemen all joining efforts to respond to the entire situation because these floods have added in addition a bit of an ability for example the international committee that cross and i would remain part of the yemeni crescent as its funding but. not by providing friends. who will bite thinking pommies the got there what happens at that age that might be in love and then. somebody in that position there's jian that i think that i've been through that and this is in line with all the measures

that he's taken by the government but at the moment and think and this up an outbreak of acquittal not by this that the country is mokhtar before because the infrastructure has already been so much john and by 5 years of war and now there's any outbreak and also he's not at the in addition and they get our challenge that the country is not ready for but definitely we are at this bombing we are also assessing the situation now in the other 2 and hence our sponsor. would mean partner and the national psyche of the yemeni that. police and into our being accused of targeting muslims during investigations into violence earlier the sear dozens of people have been arrested over the protests against the country's controversial new citizenship law elizabeth pro-ana reports from new delhi. to me calling her side to protect her identity she lives in northeast delhi and hasn't

heard from her brother in 10 days she's afraid for both the 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 we all know that she was from 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 protesters complaining that all was anti muslim even though we've had reports of illegal arrests and detentions 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 recent 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 while ns while ignoring members of the hindu majority part of the jump the party who openly called for attacks on protesters picking them up jazzing them of violence looking for conspiracy and after time when all of us are fighting the enemy this is scary. scaring for

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 requests for an interview but they tweeted saying delhi police's dollars job sincerely and impartially and all the arrests made have been based on scientific and forensic evidence including video footage. sajda and her parents and many other families are still waiting to hear what the evidence charges against their loved ones elizabeth purana al-jazeera new delhi. and the government in india says it plans to manufacture thousands of response that will monitor the locations on health of coronavirus patients the country is ramping up surveillance as a begins to ease one of the world's strictest virus lockdowns the respond project aims to track quarantine patients and aid health workers india has more than 20000 confirmed and at the 645 deaths experts fear the country's peak could still be

weeks away. by the end of this week muslims around the world will begin fasting during the holy month of ramadan it's usually a time for family gatherings and prayers but the pandemic is causing new challenges in saudi arabia prayers will go ahead at the holy cities of mecca and medina but with no worshippers and in indonesia millions of people will not be able to travel to visit their families during this time but in pakistan prime minister imran khan has chosen a different path announcing mosques will remain open during ramadan this year doctors are urging the government and clerics to reverse that decision saying it could lead to more infections and overwhelm the health system. do we forcefully tell people to not go to mosques and if they go will the police put when she was in jail this does not happen in an independent society in an independent society people use the independent minds and then decide what is basic for the country and

forces not. much more to come on the al-jazeera news hour including. i'm scott highland country to bury thailand where the economic impact of covert 1000 on the critical tourism industry is hitting hard with no visitors one elephant camp is struggling to keep the animals fed. and argentineans army helps feed struggling families as the government says it counts quick pay back its creditors. hello there warm sunshine across central and northern areas of europe to the south the same time to cloud but also plenty of rain that is about to clear but to in the meantime as a sacred clear sunny skies up a lot to look at this beautiful balsam for the south across into germany some beautiful fields here full of seed and that will continue as we go through thursday

clear sunny skies nice and warm as well up to 20 celsius in london 22 across into palin still some rain across the central med it is working its way eventually on towards greece away from actually pushing on his west now as a turkey is what it will reshoot as we go through friday i will say on friday is some hours of rain pushing cross into western as russia but also developing into northern as to spain portugal on the south and west of france but the touch is a say the radio on the high side above the average loss of warm colors here showing us the warm is in place and cyprus is a good example look at this by friday 26 degrees the average high for april is just 15 so very warm indeed now as that rain clears away out of the central west a mess it does mean we will eventually see some clearing conditions across northern areas of africa. but mostly care across into tunis here but still a few more shots pushing into had to friday 21 celsius in reply.

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the. following on the top stories on al-jazeera president trump is due to sign an order partially blocking immigration to the u.s. later in a bid to ease unemployment as the country's health protection agency warns it's set to face a 2nd wave of coronavirus infections in the winter. iran's revolutionary guard has launched its 1st satellite into space it's drawing criticism from the u.s. which says it breached the u.n. resolution on ballistic missiles. and with ramadan due to begin at the end of this week saudi arabia says prayers will go ahead in mecca and medina but with no

worshippers. 31 cities across turkey have been put under a 4 day curfew was the month of ramadan begins public meals are banned and the government says it will consider closing streets if people gather at branson is joining us from istanbul so how are people responding to the announced curfew. well there is so far so good let me say people how well come the curfew decision because many of the people plus the health ministry scientific board have been advising that there should be a full lockdown especially for a city like istanbul with a huge population that constitutes the 20 percent of the whole country now we are in is still most taksim square one of the most prominent public gathering places every year also new year's celebrations are handled here and you can see the very famous street normally which is full of people you can't even find

a spot to step in now there is no one except for us and the police who are providing the security around here the shops are closed actually turkey has been implementing a partial curfew for for at least a month especially on elderly people of both 65 years old and young people who are below 20 years old in order to keep the city safe and. stop the virus spread however a full lockdown was necessary especially for the weekend and this is this is the 3rd curfew there in imposed in istanbul it is longer compared to the other previous to because it is combining thursday and friday which is a national holiday plus the 1st day of ramadan emerging these 2 days with the we can people shopping also for markets for food people were waiting in the lines

but they were happy that the curfew was announced earlier than as it was before so they had time to gather but i have to say that despite that presence is that turkey reached a plateau in terms of taking control of the disease people say the people who we spoke to say if more curfew longer curfew is necessary we will abide by it all rioters and thank you for updates from taksim square in istanbul. now health officials in france have war and the threat from the virus remains at a high level nonetheless the government is pressing ahead with plans to begin lifting the lockdown next month but as that's butler reports there are concerns about how this will work. dr baton delhomme is the head of the merchant services in a hospital in the small town of too long in northern france with limited resources staff of adapted the hospital to treat coronavirus patients. we've used plastic

sheeting separate spaces to reduce the risk of infections more than 20000 people have died in france since the start of the health crisis the death toll rises each day but the number of patients in intensive care is slowly diminishing the french government says from a 11th it will loosen the strict lockdown but dr de lorme says it will be a while until this hospital is back to normal here more. stress on the last months have been exhausting in my department 2 doctors and several nurses had coronavirus we've had no visibility on when the crisis will end or how long we'll have to work this because for us the confinement doesn't mean the end of the coronavirus emergency. the french government hasn't provided details of his de confinement plan those are expected at the end of april nevertheless some businesses are getting ready managers at this car factory have put in place protective measures for

workers in case production is permitted to resume a little preoccupied staff will have the temperature taken and if it's too high they will not be allowed onto the site diversity until the french government reveals its full day confinement strategy many people in france feel simply uncertain about their futures they don't know when they're going to be able to go back to work when schools like this one will reopen or when it will be possible to once again walk in the streets freely without a permit. well some people are looking forward to restrictions being eased others a cautious i think it might be a dancer bird because they made against to various. possible to do it only if people wear masks with a street to condition us the government says the life in france off to the lock down will not be the same as before and for months to come people will have to take precautions until

a way is found to control will stop the spread of coronavirus induna hospital staff know that the crisis is far from over natasha butler al-jazeera moamar oh france almost all of the south african army soldiers are being deployed to enforce the national lockdown more than $70000.00 will join the nearly $2300.00 personnel already on the streets of major cities the move comes after south africa's president announced a $26000000000.00 virus rescue package on tuesday there are more than $3400.00 cases of the virus in south africa and $58.00 people have died from it or millar is unlike some bird is the johannesburg and south officials are worried south africa's virus peak may be some months away. well according to what we've heard from the government so far is that there's increasing concern about just how the numbers regarding the number of infections in south africa is escalating and this is what

the minister of defense said earlier on local radio the rate at which the infections has gone up you will realize that at some point we might need the kind of human resource deployed like we've never seen before and so this deployment of more than 73000 soldiers in addition to that initial 2000 would be the largest deployment by the south african national defense force in south africa's history i mean that even goes back to the 1st democratic elections in 1904 the government here is concerned about just how bad the infections will get in south africa and estimates show that they're working on a model that indicates that so they're free because coronavirus crisis will perhaps be it in august or september the government is saying that they need these soldiers to enforce the lockdown it needs these soldiers to prepare quarantine sites ensure people are abiding by the lockdown and essentially try and flats in that curve of head of the coming months of brazil has the most than factions in latin america and

many a 5th state say their health care systems are struggling right now as a city of 2000000 people in the heart of the amazon rain forest has been hit particularly hard the number of birtles in the region has more than doubled from around 30 a day before the pandemic to 100 now the city is having to dig mass graves to cope health officials are calling for international help with intensive care beds and ventilators in short supply and colombia's government has announced that the lockdown there will be extended by another 2 weeks until may 11th the country has more than 4000 cases and almost 200 deaths and now is alessandra pretty reports people are going hungry in bogota. silent cry for help red rags pieces of cloth even shirts signaling that inside behind those windows there's a family unit. they have become

a potent symbol of the effects of the lockdown on the most vulnerable colombians a visible measure of the daily rise in poverty and hunger. of 2 young girls says the rags have multiplied across his neighborhood home to many people displaced by colombia's internal conflict like most he lost his work and so how is playing out. often we are down to eating once a day at the beginning neighbors to help us with some food but now they also run out the government says stay in stay in but we can't eat boards or tiles. the government in municipal authorities say some help is on the way a 1st payment of $140.00 for each family in need but no one here has received it yet. so some of built barricades with stones and burned tires this sign says there are starving people to death but i knew. we are hungry there are babies

dying of starvation because the aid hasn't arrived i'm here in the morning at night at all times and nothing is coming helping the roughly 20000000 working the informal sector requires a colossal effort on the part of the government and at least until now it seems like there simply isn't enough help or it's taking too long to reach many of them. the city of bogota says it spending $55000000.00 in aid delivering bags of food door to door yet despite the efforts the mayor recognizes the delay. we already sent money 228-0000 families and 1700000 bags of food and even. such a monumental operation in 3 weeks we are still missing people. and there's another national disease complicating the efforts corruption government watchdog entities

found evidence of money embezzlement and thousands of contracts meant to combat the crisis i think that what we have now in colombia is actually $3.00 pandemics the coronavirus hunger and corruption what this virus is showing us is just how quick to go on just our social and political system it's. a crisis upon a crisis this seems impossible to keep up to as the needs continue to pile up i listen to them. and argentina's creditors have rejected a government proposal to restructure its foreign debt a $500000000.00 payment was due on wednesday when the government says it will not be able to make but that's only a small chunk of the $83000000000.00 that goes to foreign bondholders and investment firms argentina has defaulted on its sovereign debt 8 times before and it's inching towards doing the same for the 9th time the country has already gone through another europe recession worsen by the coronavirus pandemic terrorism has

more from the capital. we're hearing in great one scientists with our own 10000000 people live we've come here with argentina's military they're distributing food to those in need there's long lines of people that have come here to get some help from the government to man this argentina's president has already started distributing food cash handouts halal hope for many companies that are currently struggling because of the lockdown that has been imposed in this country to fight the spread of coronavirus on this day argentina should have bade around $500000000.00 in foreign debt but argentina's president is saying that the country is not ready to do so because they have other priorities right now that the country is not ready that they need to get this country's economy back on track in order to be able to start paying the interest it also around $80000000000.00 argentina is

trying to restructure right now there's tense negotiations ongoing and if argentina doesn't pay in one month from now it will be on default once again the coronavirus pandemic affecting this country and every since it is a time when this country's economy is already struggling with recession poverty and rising unemployment on the rise and that's why the government it's saying that it needs to get its economy back on track once again for most of. the possibility of default kerry it's a story that if they have heard it over and over again and it's a situation that the coronavirus pandemic makes even worse from the canals of venice to egypt the great pyramids historic landmarks across the world have been left empty by the corona virus pandemic as countries lock down their citizens and close their borders for trade groups say the tourism industry could lose up to $2.00 trillion dollars in revenue across the world up to 75000000 tourism jobs may

be lost and 2020 the european union says its tourism sector is face. a staggering decline of up to 70 percent and that $6000000.00 people could be made redundant but it's asia that will be hardest hits where around $30000000.00 jobs are on the line and it's estimated 24000000 fewer people will visit highline this year because of travel restrictions on lockdowns the impact on elephant camps has been particularly devastating ascott haile reports from cannes chantaburi owners are running out of money to feed the animals. well the elephants of the tower we charged can't enjoy their morning river bath and washing away the dust cooling down from the searing ties summer but unaware that their future is uncertain. the mom or caretakers are keeping their routines as much as possible despite missing the last 3 weeks of the tourist high season like all non-essential businesses in thailand the government

ordered the camp closed because of kobe had 19. don't run along so cohen has run the business since he took over from his father 20 years ago when it was started as a refuge for stray elephants the revenue from the visitors mostly foreigners usually covers the 30 $1000.00 it takes to run the camp each month but now he's struggling oakley along the way i told my stop at the happiness if i can together the camp is not a sheen you can't just simply turn it off a managing living beings my stocks and my and if and i contest simply stop them wrong says that there are many other people in his community hard hit by the pandemic that he is with funds from previous tour seasons he's able to keep the elephants that for now but that might change he might need to ask for donations if he's not able to reopen the park over the next few months one way he's offsetting costs local farmers are allowing the more hoops to chop down banana trees for the 25 elephants to feed on the soft tree trunks as drought has prevented them from

bearing fruit. the camp is the only home assume kit mate he shot take own has ever known both his parents were working there when he was born he's now raising his own family on the camp and the other markets have taken pay cuts more than time cause i'm worried about many things the elephants my family how am i going to feed them how am i going to pay my bills. with little time to prepare the elephant camp has been blindsided by the corona virus and even if it reopens it's unclear if it will be able to survive. i can see when this outbreak is going to end i have no idea what tourism industry will look like in the next few months but i think it will be like this for a while i have to carry on officials estimate that the flow of tourism dollars will be down 60 percent this year so and those at the camp will have to carry on and most likely in the next few months they'll also need to find other ways to get

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again the world meteorological organization says failure to tackle global warming will threaten humanity ecosystems and economies for centuries to come as it marks the 50th anniversary of earth day the w.m.o. has warned that the last 5 years were the hottest on record temperatures are $1.00

celsius warmer than the pre-industrial era and levels of greenhouse gases are at record highs but carbon dioxide emissions are expected to fall by 6 percent this year as a result of mt skies and countrywide lockdowns and a survey of 14 countries says 71 percent of people think the climate crisis is a serious of the coronavirus pandemic half a century ago the 1st earth they mobilized millions of people to fight for the protection of the planet the cartels more. earth day a question of survival with c.b.s. news correspondent walter cronkite. good evening you think day in american history as i live today the grainy story of the day half a century ago 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 in 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 new age 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. destruction. it is he to produce food to protect our cities from flights and storms and right. now on earth day there are calls to seize the opportunity to recalibrate after the pandemic has passed. i think we're seeing a ramping up of focus within the financial world and i would say some really interesting and positive signals it really in in the last few weeks from governments. that they are going to actually come out of this crisis you know way that leads to a green much 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 and

it clogged al-jazeera. has launched an artistic competition highlighting earth's natural beauty and the damage caused by climate change they are harding as for sort our planet hasn't looked at this healthy in decades with fewer people on the road our air and water has become cleaner and clearer and the effects are visible from space now says earth observatory has been documenting our world for decades 20 years of photos show the changes in the atmosphere land air and water from the himalayas to south america. nasa has launched a competition for the public to vote on the top photos to celebrate 20 years of learning about our rounds around the sun as a way to commemorate earth day many of these images were taken by astronauts or satellites scientists say they are important in understanding our world we are. going through

a crisis also exacerbated by the fact that we have this from the me i'm now threatening human kind and making us feel really feel our friend. and then we feel now not on the opportunity but the fragility too far environment voters can choose from lunar eclipses volcanic eruptions or water wonderland the effects of climate change are also among the top snapshots of some astronomy i know the uniqueness of our environment i know that there are billions and billions of planets held there but like the earth broady not many but probably not which makes our presence here now a miracle so we have to preserve. the competition is now down to these 2 photos ocean sand bahamas from 2002 and reich ok a reps from $21.00 team the winner will be announced later this month. these images from space show us how 7000000000 people impact our planet and how it continues to

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