beside the child afghan you know on al-jazeera. if you want to help save the world. new york streets remain largely empty as the bill for fighting the effects of the corona virus outbreak rises to nearly 3 trillion dollars. this is out there live from doha also coming up president trouble comes under fire again for touting more unproven treatments to fight the coronavirus. muslims around the world urged to stick to social distancing guidelines of the

start of the fasting month of ramadan. and the biggest shipment in years of saudi oil is heading to the u.s. will tell you why it may not get there. well it's a figure that is as extraordinary as it is vast the amount of emergency funding the united states is now heading towards as it tackles the fallout from the coronavirus and another stimulus bill is set to be approved by president donald trump and that will take emergency spending to nearly 3 trillion dollars the latest relief package was agreed in congress it's a 4 day package so far and will support small businesses at the pandemic has made more than 26000000 americans unemployed in the last 5 weeks from those says the economy will bounce back quickly despite the number of cases and deaths continuing to rise some states like georgia are preparing to reopen their economies later on friday. economy will start to pick up very substantially as soon as the states get

open and that's happening as we speak and it's actually very exciting and. people are just they just thrilled to see it because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work you see that whether it's a demonstration or just in talking to people they going to get back to work and they're going to get back to work very fast well it's an hour from roseman jordan has more on the millions of jobs lost 4400000 u.s. workers filed for unemployment last pushing the country's unofficial jobless rate to nearly 13 percent it's more evidence the coal that $1000.00 pandemic has damaged the u.s. economy i long can stop. me and with my. hat in hand is very well you know. the gentleman from ask congress is voting this week to spend another half a trillion dollars to help small businesses and hospitals but when it comes to

helping state government reeling from the loss of business and personal tax revenues the republican leader of the u.s. senate says that's not going to happen yeah i'm a i would certainly be in favor of allowing the bankrupt route it saves some so there's no good reason for the bay of vailable my guess is their 1st choice would be for the federal government to borrow money from your generation to send it down to them now so they don't have to do that they are going to be in favor of more money if the governor of new york state who is a democrat called mitch mcconnell's comments outrageous yes airlines are important yes small business is important so of police and fire and health care workers who are the front line workers and when you don't fund the state then the state can't fund those services fiction or sense them. what's more new york's economy is the 3rd largest in the u.s. and in the top 15 worldwide which means its survival as

a financial and cultural center is key and u.s. president donald trump's decision to suspend immigration for 60 days on economic grounds could hurt the u.s. is ties with other countries indian officials are closely studying the order since hundreds of thousands of their citizens many who work for u.s. firms could be affected all that matters though to connie boyd in north carolina is her own economic future and say we're going to go back through we don't know issue next you know name especially in that job you just don't know the only certainty right now the economic pain is worsening rosalyn jordan al-jazeera what it's all produces code for an abundance of supply with an abundance of supply and low demand caused by the global pandemic and the biggest saudi oil shipments in years is making its way to the united states but u.s. politicians are calling for the tankers to be turned around because domestic oil

storage in the u.s. is expected to be filled up soon and there are reports the kingdom is trying to work out where those tankers can go if washington does protect prevent them from docking john 100 has this report. a flotilla of saudi oil tankers is slowly steaming toward the united states and into a chilly welcome for a u.s. ally it's indicative of how desperate these petro states are to sell their oil to find a place physically to find a place to plant their oil with the coronavirus driving all prices to historic lows all u.s. oil storage is expected to be filled in the next month the saudi move to occupy much of that precious storage space on the u.s. gulf coast has been called by some industry insiders an economic pearl harbor a hostile attack on u.s. soil a coalition of 13 u.s. senators from energy state goes even further calling it economic warfare texas

senator ted cruz writes on twitter 20 tankers filled with 40000000 barrels of saudi oil are headed to the u.s. this is 7 times the typical monthly flow my message to the saudis turn the tankers the hell around cruz says the longtime u.s. ally is exploiting a pandemic to kill the rival american shale oil industry some analysts say he's right what the saudi arabia rightfully doing as any other oil producer is to get rid of the competition and competition in this case is expensive oil shale oil expensive but use u.s. leaders have longer chewed strong bonds with saudi leaders even since the rise of shale oil helped the u.s. overtake saudi arabia is the world's largest oil producer $3000000000.00 the fact that saudi leaders are now willing to risk the anger of their american allies suggests they believe the world's oil glut won't end anytime soon with much of the

world on lockdown few drivers on the road and fewer planes and ships are using fuel . oil prices are so low they briefly hit negative territory this week at the chicago board of trade that left some sellers are actually paying buyers to take it off their hands now many producers are simply storing it and waiting for prices to rise the u.s. can hardly turn the ships away the saudi government owns them ot the oil refinery in port arthur texas america's biggest it's usually crude that a refinery you know. market well you must just buy your own oil even as american politicians lament the saudi incursion the ships sail ever closer john hendren al-jazeera chicago to the united kingdom now where millions of kids have become eligible for credit cards testing if they show symptoms of the illness

the british government has made test a key part of its strategic strategy to fight the pandemic but it's faced criticism over the slow rollout of mass testing or challenges in london he says skepticism about the government's ability to meet its talk it. testing has been has been pretty sluggish here certainly when you compare to countries like germany which is much greater emphasis on testing so there is a sense here that the government has been playing catch up it has pledged to reach $100000.00 test being done every day by the end of the month. let's look at where we are the moments the number of tests actually done in the u.k. yesterday was i think around 23 and a half 1000 the government is saying that it has the capacity to dream doing 50000 a day but then it gets into questions of some antics and that's one thing that the

government is being picked up on by the opposition when you say capacity well that doesn't really meet the number of tests you're being actually doing a day so let's concentrate on let's concentrate on the number of tests actually being performed and it still seems that the government is languishing behind we don't know yet whether it has the chance of reaching its target of $100000.00 a day by the end of the month. indonesian government has announced it will temporarily ban all travel until june to control the. almost the new measures come into effect on friday the start of the muslim holy month of ramadan government warnings of social distancing many still attending prayers indonesia is the world's most populous muslim nation. because you know this is why ship the holy reward is different if you pray in a mosque. the key is not touching other people so during the prayer i keep distance with other people not touching that we take care of ourselves so hopefully this way

we can keep worshiping and avoid infection well there are fears that infections in pakistan could rise rapidly during ramadan the government has decided to keep mosques open and people gathering to pray must follow social distancing measures they say but doctors have urged the government and muslim leaders to reverse that decision and what hyder is following developments from the capital islamabad. doctors have certainly made a play and they've said that the government and the clergy must reconsider that decision because of the threat that disband them a court spiral out of control as far as pakistan is concerned and they say they will not be able to handle that situation now earlier the buggers arnesen pulled the lockdown they closed all the mosque and told people that are stairway and prayer to home however then the cleric cleric dead took matters into their own

hands they started defying goa god does deport pressure on the government that they would not listen to the government and that of course led to our top talks between the president and the clerics the government and a buckling under pressure and allowing them to hold these congregational prayers including dharavi prayer which i held that night and in the month of ramadan and that of course attracts a large number of people that said really a is that every day's social distancing measures on your dog and what we have been able to find today and that people have not been paying any attention to that some of these religious leader to a screen and large crowds announcing the beginning of ramadan and that of course showed that there is no attention being paid to safety measures or indeed a lot of bridges there are meant as far as the people are concerned and apprehension that this could all lead to an escalation and the number of call read

100 cases here in pakistan still ahead here in al jazeera has come down some figures from venezuela's government that suggest there are a few cases because 19 the. staring into space for 3 decades we look at how the hubble telescope has contributed to our understanding of the universe. how i once again because some blustery showers affecting not japan over the next couple of days but a lot of fine weather in between we've got so this weather system well i'll say into the open water as well i suppose starting to slacken off so though the winds will generally as we go through the next couple of days but there we go want to see showers into northern parts of honshu just pushing up towards hokkaido 17 celsius

in seoul the korean peninsula looking 5 and driving getting up to 22 in beijing a little down on recent valleys but not too bad for going into sunday similar temperatures here still a few showers into western parts of japan so west the weather still affecting the far south of china but nowhere near as wet as it has been recently we've got some very wet weather meanwhile still affecting bangladesh to fall northeast of in the some showers to into the south so just around carola around tom a lot you can expect to see one or 2 showers here as we go through the next couple of days but those heavy and thundery downpours they are further north and they are going to affect parts of out west bengal pushing down into northern sections of bangladesh still seeing some very very heavy rain as we go through the next couple of days with the likelihood of some flooding for the northern plains of india he stays hot dry and sunny. for. the oppression of an ethnic minority and me and my many.

they intend to make sure that rangers will no longer entitled to their basic rights for citizenship brings in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the history and motives behind the systematic persecution of the ranger and me and my. exile. on al-jazeera. but again you're watching out 0 let's have a reminder the top stories this hour and the u.s. government will be spending nearly 3 trillion dollars to respond to the coronavirus

pandemic politicians in the house of representatives have passed another $484000000000.00 in relief. muslims around the world are beginning to mark the 1st day of the fasting month of ramadan the country is facing lockdown restrictions because of the outbreak when a communal practice is being done in seclusion. as saudi arabia may be forced to reroute tankers sailing to the united states filled with 40000000 barrels of crude oil u.s. politicians are calling for them to be turned around with domestic oil storage expected to be soon filled up. u.s. president donald trump has called for the controversy after discussing more possible ways to fight coronavirus including using ultraviolet light and injections of disinfectant that medical experts once again warning about the dangers of trump using his position to tout unproven treatments and accept right has this report. it was the headline they dominated president donald trump's daily news briefing and

most striking observation to date is the powerful effect that solar light appears to have been killing the virus both surfaces and in the air promoting a theory that sun heat and humidity appear to shorten the life of the corona virus that research is unconfirmed and it may prove not to be true but that didn't stop president trump broadcasting it to millions and going one step further and then i see the disinfectant but not see that in a minute one minute and is there a way we can do something like that. by injection. or almost a cleaning suggesting disinfectant could be used inside the body but it sounds it sounds interesting to me that's prompted a warning from health authorities and the make is of popular kleeneze lysol and day that no one should ingest bleach disinfectant or any other hygiene products the

u.s. centers for disease control says it saw a spike in calls to poison hotlines last month because of people's exposure to such chemicals which can be harmful even to our skin there's no serious the yaquis. is there you know i think i'm here to find that we haven't studied we don't do that within that lab in our labs it's not the 1st time president trumps used his podium to push what he calls potential cures for the virus there are promising therapies produced by gilliatt and that's. where m.d.'s are are. desart or hydroxy torak when. and. there's the pack i think is a combination probably is looking very very good and bad according to early trials in china the drug disappear has failed to treat pain and it's too early to know about hydroxy clark aim is not

a medical or public health expert and he doesn't pass on the advice of is true medical and public health experts and i think most people are smart enough to know that they should be taking medical or public health advice from president trump they should be listening to expert opinions as for trump's hate and some theory the world health organization pointed to examples where the virus has spread around the equator and southern hemisphere they evidence is not providing supporting that theory so i'm sorry we cannot but the summer is going to have the effect that many people hope it will the president is convinced he's giving hope to millions i'm not a doctor i'm here to present ideas but many health professional say those ideas could prove dangerous and brian al jazeera. brazil is reporting its highest number of deaths in a single day $407.00 people have died from the virus in 24 hours that takes the total to more than $3300.00 at least half of those are in the state of south parlor

the epicenter for the pandemic in brazil president john bolton are has dismissed scientific advice and he's led a number of anti lock down protests cases in ecuador of nearly doubled to 22000 after a backlog of tests were analyzed is now the 2nd worst hit nation in the region after brazil the government has begun storing bodies in refrigerated containers as morgues fill up ecuador has nearly 600 confirmed deaths hospitals in peru are increasingly strained after cases surged past 20000 that's double the number of last week bodies have been kept in hospital hallways health workers say they're being forced to reuse masks. well as well as robust testing and tough lockdown measures maine has one of the lowest rates of growth of ours in the world there have been just over 300 cases in a country of 29000000 people but some doctors warn the numbers are being drastically under reported histories about. they see more telesales food

on the streets of kut yeah i working class neighborhood in caracas the ongoing economic crisis and the lockdown are having a big impact in her life. but the candidate is on we're only working 3 hours a day i understand they are doing it to protect our health but i am a single mother of 2 children and my eldest daughter and his son also live at home i think the situation will get worse every day. to cuti forces on the streets are trying to enforce a lockdown to prevent the spread of covert 19 but people are becoming more and more desperate every day. on thursday reports of looting and clashes with security forces in several states around the country so how dire the situation is. covered 19 may generate fear among people but surviving every day is the main worry for many. government figures show that various will last has around 300 confirmed cases

of covered 1000 the president says the country has tested over 200000 people with the help of the chinese government is a let me tell a 1000000 plus of that is the medium term goal we have to reach a 1000000 texts at this stage we carried out 250000 but we have to reach $10000000.00 trees to comply with the complete protocol of the world health organization. there are 2 types of testing being done the b.c.r. that test the virus genetic material and the rapid tests that are less sensitive than the p.c.r. . that's why doctors like to say the virus may be severely underdiagnosed in venezuela that it seems the only. limitation of the amount of tests prevents you from doing lots of them but it may be greatly under-reported what we think the government is doing is mixing p.c.r. tests and rapid tests you cannot mix pairs with apples the numbers reflect different things venezuelan hospitals are already struggling with shortages of

almost everything only 70 percent of them have running water and so we spoke to oscar now as a doctor in the state of us what he says he supports the call by opposition leader why though to pay extra money to health care workers that fight 19 may go to school imo oh you're a doctor like me gets $1.50 a month and that's why my interim president. will use some resources to give $100.00 a month to those who qualify and work in the health sector the money comes from accounts that have been recovered from the government and will be paid as virtual money for 3 months venezuela's health care system is already stressed to the limit the spread of covert $1000.00 can easily make it collapse. i'll just say. the world health organization is warning the number of malaria deaths in africa could double this year and to malaria campaigns in the distribution of insecticide

nets and medicine have been disrupted by could be coronavirus measures the direction is governments to keep up the fight against malaria or risk seeing the worst death toll in 20 years. so that's because president says he will gradually ease a nationwide lockdown starting early next month so iran poses says some parts of the economy will be allowed to reopen and has called on people to start wearing masks outdoors he says straight quarantine restrictions will be lifted slowly to reduce the risk of a spike in infections beyond thursday the 30th of april we should begin a gradual and phased recovery of economic activity we were implementing. what we call risk adjusted strategy through which we take a deliberate and cautious approach to the easing of current lockdown

constructions a strict lockdown measures in the philippines have been extended into the middle of next month to contain the spread of the virus the quarantine moves will continue in the capital manila until may the 15th but restrictions will be eased in low risk areas president reagan to turkey has threatened to impose martial law after 2 soldiers a school to aid to villages were killed. but. if the lawlessness continues killings here and killings there and it's happening all over the philippines maybe i will declare martial law because n.p.a. fighters are primarily crapping help intended for the people plus supplies and food meant for them a morning everybody and putting the armed forces and the police on notice that i might declare martial law there will be no turning back. tens of thousands of students in hong kong sitting important academic test during the global pandemic a strict health measures are in place to ensure 52000 people are safe as students

wore masks and had their term which is checked schools have been closed for most of the year and students learning online instead of this by the precautions some say they're still concerned about the health risk because more from the testing center in hong kong. this is one of the $350.00 examination centers set up across hong kong with the final year sick of the students taking their final end of year exams these tests had been put on hold but the government gave the education bureau the go ahead just last week after decided that the number of coronavirus cases had been falling and it was safe to allow small groups together now a number of tough social distancing measures have been put in place to avoid human to human contact the students and the teachers have also been trying to deal with emergencies we would like to try our very best to do whatever we can to make sure that. the proper exam that the have been spend.

to be one of the. no regrets despite the 2nd precautions that have been put in place some students have told others here that they're concerned about large groups gathering in one place the risk of an outbreak of the crime but if the government records a spike in the number of cases in hong kong these exams would once again be put on hold. when it's restrictions keep people at home in australia seeing a significant increase in adoptions residents can leave their homes for exercise with many using the opportunity to walk the dogs pet owners also say their dogs and cats help them cope with feelings of isolation. it gives me company say during the day off and if i was kind of painting meetings for a while any to come over to where i'm working and kind of put these poor affan say i'd like a path now all right for 3 decades the hubble telescope has been pairing deep into the universe beaming spectacular images of distant galaxies back to earth and as

nasa mounts its 30th anniversary the harding reports on how they've changed the understanding of space 54321 and looked off they started discovering how the place called window on the universe public is the 1st major optical telescope sent into space taking energis from above the distortion of the atmosphere and light pollution nasa has called it the ultimate mountaintop when the possibility of a telescope in space opened up astronomers jumped on the idea scientists have used hubble to observe the most distant stars and galaxies as well as the planets in our solar system it's most famous photo was taken in 1995 a so-called deep field image showing areas of the universe as they were billions of years ago during 3 decades in orbit hubble has influenced many people back on earth

it's my job to make things up for a living and constantly use my imagination but hubble and the dedicated scientists behind it take all of that a step further i've been fortunate to work on shows like you are bill bennett star the actor i spent almost 2 decades on star trek a space is kind of. like you know when you look. this has been gifted to us all changes not just mine changes you. hubble orbits the earth once every hour and a half giving us a great witness in space hubble was also the 1st telescope designed to be visited in space so astronauts could carry out repairs but early in its mission engineers found a problem that shocked them the images sent back to earth were blurred. we don't. just like i think. the spacecraft just going out of its misery.

after 12 years of construction at a cost of billions of dollars astronauts were sent to space in 1903 to fix a faulty lens for your brother we're already. that mission was a success in fantastic images began to be transmitted back to earth when people talk about the legacy of hubble. i think among its greatest legacies will be. helping humanity understand that you know when things go to space we can in fact they're not it's not hopeless if there's something wrong we can service them and in many cases if we make some preparation to do that but hubble does have an expiry date scientist estimate it should last another 5 years or until it solar batteries stop working until then hubble can build on its like a c.

revealing yet more images from far depths of our universe leo hardin al-jazeera an asteroid estimated to be the width of manhattan will pass off planet next week nothis on to say it has no chance of hitting earth the flyby will be useful scientists can use it to get to that will help defend the for more fingers. so this is out there these are the top stories in the united states government will be spending nearly 3 trillion dollars to respond to the coronavirus pandemic that's off the politicians of the house of representatives passed another 4 $184000000000.00 in really a unilateral cease fire and yemen has been extended for one month according to a spokesman for the saudi u.a.e. coalition the original 2 week truce was declared off of the u.n. secretary general call for

a global ceasefire because of the current of us humans health care system is already on the verge of collapse and more than half of the population faces acute food shortages muslims around the world are beginning to mark the 1st day of the fasting month of ramadan with countries face he looked on restrictions because of the outbreak many communal practices are being done in seclusion but in pakistan their affairs infections could rise rapidly during ramadan the government's decided to keep mosques open and people gathering to pray they say must follow the social distancing measures that will hide has more now from islam that they're worried had organization had already worn their death by get started nor take the next action. over 200005 made. a very big challenge for the government which after now keep a close watch because the doctor they have been warning that it is going to board them address get it green door overburden an already in fission and the equip

medical doctor that i've cared for their own and i would be one thing that the congregation to pray. that the government should indeed board a more harsher ban in order to prevent that pandemic. so i may be forced to sail into the us filled with 40000000 barrels of crude oil u.s. politicians are calling for them to be turned around but domestic coal stories expects to be filled up there's an oversupply of oil amid low demand during to the jew to the outbreak. president roderigo to turkey has threatened to impose martial law after 2 soldiers escorting aid to villages were killed strict measures in the philippines being extended into the middle of next month to contain the spread of the fires. there's the headlines got more news here on al-jazeera right off the inside story.

how much of a threat is coronavirus to the world's food supply it's very serious warnings of a global shortage as the pandemic spread so how can the availability of food be safeguarded and can a famine crisis be averted this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. widespread of biblical proportions the u.n. is warning covered 19 could call.