health insurance for their work in exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus and receive messages on the scene that we all you know say i was a nurse back home what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. this is al jazeera. cell robin you're watching the al-jazeera news on line from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes seeking a vaccine and treatment for anybody anywhere leaders unite with the world health organization and a plan to fight coronavirus. but the u.s.

won't be part of it instead of president trump is under fire for suggesting sun and disinfectant could be treatments. also how far has the research progressed we speak live to one person taking part in human trials and. muslims around the world are urged to stick to social distancing guidelines at the start of the holy month of ramadan. also we meet the toy doctor of teheran bringing broken toys back to life. into the news the aim is to develop a coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible and i'm sure everyone gets it leaders from around the world are joining the w.h.o. in what's being called a landmark collaboration to pull together billions of dollars and ongoing research but the u.s. with the death toll now of over $50000.00 will at this stage not be part of it we

begin our coverage with this report from diplomatic correspondent james bays. it's just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u.s. leadership in a global crisis and world leaders coming together with a response not the idea of this event to coordinate the search for a vaccine testing and treatments for covert 19 and to make sure all the widely available the world needs distorts and it needs them fast. but the experiences has stored those that even when tools are available they had been not been equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen and what feedback we may deem require is the most massive public us efforts in history data must be shared production capacity prepared

resources mobilized communities in gauged and politics separate sites. i know we can do is we can put people 1st and leaders spoke from all regions of the world technically bringing them all together was a bit of a challenge you know excellence you have can you hear me now yes yes we can hear you back in germany one of the members of the g. 7 a group of countries that were represented. we're now going to continue to mobilize all countries of the g. 7 end the g. 20 for them to back this initiative i hope that we will be able to reconcile the sinister of china and the us because the fight against covert 19 as a common good for humanity this shouldn't be any divisions between countries we need to join forces to win this battle the fact that the world health organization was the host of the event explains why the u.s.

didn't take part president trump cut all new funding to the w.h.o. because he claimed the global health body had not been tough enough on china the w.h.o. failed in this basic duty and must be held accountable it's a spokesperson for the u.s. mission to the un in geneva where the w.h.o. is based told al jazeera they'll be no u.s. official participation we were informed of this event last week and we look forward to learning more about this initiative as soon as possible following this event the next phase will be led by the european union in 10 days time they'll be trying to raise $8000000000.00 to make sure that vaccines testing and treatment are available to everyone james pays out 0 at the united nations dr john l. bio is a professor of medicine at the george washington university school of medicine she says despite its shortcomings the world health organization's mission is crucial to

tackle a global health crisis. the w.h.o. is essential and it has been a world leader for decades i think that the crisis of covert 19 underscores the importance of having a holistic global international approach with putting the best minds from all over the world together both in the public health the main the clinical domain and of course the research domain and that cannot be separated from issues of poverty or even of climate change you must have a holistic view because these issues are interconnect that they'd all be a chose leadership has while imperfect in some cases but certainly admirable i completely support their mission so the u.s. not part of the new initiative in the hours after the launch in geneva general trump was instead focusing on the economy signing another aid package this one worth nearly $500000000000.00 but he's under fire for his suggestions about how to

fight krone virus including evade law you turn to injecting disinfectant his alexy o'brian. 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 us st is 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 by that we haven't studied we don't do that within that lab 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. the z.

pack i think is a combination probably is looking very very good and bad according to early trials in china the drug 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. well a white house correspondent kimberly how could joins me now from d.c. kimberly what response has been now in the u.s. to those theories of u.v. light and disinfectant remedies. that the u.s. president has been talking about this in the oval office and he insists that he was being sarcastic when he suggested that potentially this in fact an internally or even u.v. light inside the human body could potentially kill kogut 19 the president says that you know he believes and he said at the time and he says it again though that anyone should consult with their doctor before any sort of medical treatment essentially what the white house is doing and the press secretary has also spoken on this is is that they're accusing the media of taking the president's comments out of context and in fact saying that the president emphasized that there should

be a consultation with medical professionals before you start any sort of treatment but as you heard in alexei o'brien's package there just a moment ago it didn't appear the president was being sarcastic in this maybe the white house now trying to do some damage control we should also point out though that there is a concern in the united states that many have taken the president's comments to heart so much so that the u.s. surgeon general has also sent out a statement saying that you should talk to your doctor before any sort of treatment and we should point out that the food and drug administration has also put out a statement saying that when it comes to the use of hydroxy cork and that it could cause heart rhythm problems so there is a great concern that there is some misinformation coming out of these white house briefings that are intended to help the public indeed tell us a little bit more about what the president's been signing because the sort of financial stimulus package is going to benefit a certain group across the country. yeah it's

designed to help small business owners and so that's the reason the president was talking when he made those comments about the treatment for coke at 19 but the point of the signing of the bill is something that's just been passed in the senate of the house of representatives signed by the president just now into law that will allow for hundreds of millions of dollars actually $370000000000.00 to help small businesses keep americans on the payroll who otherwise would be losing their jobs you remember 22000000 americans have filed for unemployment and that number continues to climb actually i believe it's even a little bit higher than that so the white house is arguing that we're saving 30000000 jobs in the united states as a result of this legislation so they insist that this time around it will help minority owned businesses it will help women own businesses it won't help the big businesses that the last package did and that was a bit of controversy for example national happen or chains like shake shack or even

harvard university benefited enormously from a similar package last time around they've since given that money back this time the white house says the criteria will be in place to make sure that those are intent that in this package is intended for small business owners will actually get this money can be held in washington d.c. thanks for the update now the new stimulus bill however does not include money for states so local governments new you'll quit has been hard hit by the virus is now seeing its numbers go down but governor andrew cuomo has warned reopening businesses too early would be dangerous if you say well we're done houston house anymore let's just reopen just. start business tomorrow and let's go what happens that's what happens all the progress we made is gone and. or experts

or virtually all experts will say not only does the virus spread increase but it increases to a higher point than we had increased the 1st time. new york is still closed but people in the state of georgia are preparing to return to work or not despite warnings from the medical community and president says georgia's decision to begin easing its lockdown is a violation of guidelines released by the white house and b c news correspondent jake gray joins me now from marietta good to have you with us jay some relief for businesses way you are hoping really to get back to normal be it one step at a time. yeah and so well i think those there are going to be very slow steps good to talk to you this trip stopping center in georgia really highlights the businesses at the center of the controversy here you've got a nail salon and spa there right behind us

a gym as you keep moving across you've got a hair salon and then even a chiropractor these are all places that are open now and places where it's difficult in some cases impossible to maintain proper social distancing so that has a lot of people who are frustrated concerned that the numbers of infection or going to climb dramatically because the governor is decided to open things too early there are a lot of business leaders who have said regardless of whether we can open the doors or not we are going to stay close for the next couple of weeks these businesses did open and we did see people today several people working out at the gym a lot of people coming to get their hair cut the chiropractor had patients as well look to governor brian kemp of georgia along with the business owners who are opening say they can do this slowly and safely and really starts a step toward getting back to some sense of normalcy you're the rest of the nation watching this area very closely right now you've got oklahoma is trying to reopen

you've got tennessee and other states who are making their plans as well and then you've got just as many other states saying no we're going to extend our stay at home warnings we're going to keep businesses closed a bit longer so this is a real testing ground right now you could say we won't know the results for the next few weeks when we find out how many people have been exposed and in fact infected by covert 90 there are some models though 'd as a warning that say they won't reach their peak here for at least another full week and that's a week that these businesses will have been open for the update thank you jay gray's there with n.b.c. news poll in marietta georgia thank you. people rushing to book coronavirus tests in the united kingdom have overwhelmed the website taking applications a new program lets essential workers register for a test if they or a relative have symptoms but 3 hours after launch new bookings were suspended

because of exceptional demand the government's hoping to have capacity 410-0000 tests a day by the end of the month oxford university says it's already started testing a possible cave at $919.00 on humans the british government is funding 2 clinical trials the other one is at imperial college in london well scientists say a bomoh in a few months if it works well edward o'neill is one of those he's recently received a trial vaccine joins me now on skype from oxford good to have you with us on the program just tell me why you decided to be a human guinea pig for this potential cure. yes i wanted to basically help out as much as possible and i think by contributing my arm in this case because i was able to help to figure out whether or not we can use a vaccine like this to come back and prevent the disease so it in physical terms

just tell me what actually happened from start to finish in terms of getting the vaccine so in terms of getting the vaccine they have to make sure that i'm fit healthy and they takes a lot beforehand to ensure that i was in unwillingly unwittingly in fact if they can see before hand if i have any antibodies against the virus but they also then give me the virus they injected into my own and they go up just like any other model exact same way too little it just makes sure there's any and i mean it responds and then i was going to go that was about it how are you being monitored then as the days progress. so i'm being monitored by a faily log sometimes checking my temperatures and any symptoms that i might have anything that is like anything i'm going to develop specially anything that is normal that you know we expect with x. ray but i'm also getting regular blood tests to 'd actually see what is going on with my blood to say is there an immune response that it's against the virus the i

guess the antigens that would be typical in the service of the virus or whether or not there isn't a sufficient response of the type of response but also i could easily have been in the control group so i don't actually know if i was in the proper vaccine trial but all the years as a backgrounds against the alternative vaccine that is just no way available to be given to adolescents in the u.k. so it's a normal accidents it is a normal side effects of them so omics extra that is typical of a vaccine what is the timeline that you are expected to wait now for those results the why i am it's fairly going in to give blood but in terms of knowing the timeline it's really hard to tell if the is a it's a study where we actually see the safety of the vaccine itself but in terms of action understanding the efficacy of the study to see if it actually acts we need to actually just be exposed and i day to day lives just normal using the older cautions that the public health english has told us but whether or not the control

group has any sort of increase of or a virus versus the vaccinated group will then know for sure if the back scene is actually effective so i don't know which group i'm in i'm going to take every normal proportion but i do know that i'll be monitored and that if there's any symptoms they'll want to get to test me i actually need that data to know i know and shoal that is actually an effective vaccine compared to 2 groups by taking by by being part of the study group and such a you would know inhibited from much me doing your normal job. so my normal job is i'm a researcher with a development on college at the university of 'd oxford and so i'm actually working from home juggling that we will as as many people on family duties taking care of my told look at my wife but i'm also analyzing researcher from harm so i had open bunch of results so i'm i'm not actually going to buy my normal day to day life but

i would be exposed in terms of any sort 'd of exposure to the shop so ringback exercise with no additional risk of exposure but they are interested in getting on the health care workers involved because they are potentially more at risk of being exposed unfortunately and therefore they would be more suitable to that compare the 2 groups he used talked very eloquently about taking the trial talking about the process itself but just as a resident of the united kingdom can you just give us an impression of what it's like to live under these circumstances right now though you are a rational benteke such there are many nervous people out there wondering if a solution can ever be found and they found when. it is no fracking is a right now i just the consequence of for example people not getting their normal medical check checkups people maybe not being diagnosed of cancer it's actually quite already causing harm and all the medical things that we won't know until the full

'd picture of the bill is all over i think in terms of whether or not in terms of hard with or not this would work i think this is one of the best chance we have to actually using a vaccine like this or any other vaccine there around the world anything that can be to actually help give an effective in your response protection from what is a very nasty virus i think would actually be a really great relief to know that this is being done as quick as possible but as carefully as possible there is a lot of care being x. about i had to make sure this is done as quick as possible so that amazing just before like in the morning just before they gave it is my arm so they they have made as fast as they can in terms of trying to make this is false is false of all to make sure that we can get these results out and so we can start. protecting as many people as possible well actually monitoring the results very carefully with you edward thanks very much for speaking to us from oxford at anyone. well across

europe countries are at odds over when and how lockdowns should be lifted some are already sending children back to school and reopening small businesses but most industries including the hospitality sector remain totally power lies with no rest fight in sight laurence leamer reports. there is one corner of europe where you can see a reminder of what life used to be like a few short weeks ago in the spring sunshine people in the swedish capital stockholm were carrying on as if the pandemic had never and sweden has gone against the grain in not closing down restaurants or limiting people's movements much but with over 2000 dead as a worse outcome so far that scandinavian neighbors the government is starting to sound a bit worried about its own guidance you talk to me it was all in a coma from as the spring sun appears we seem to be seeing worrying reports about full outdoor terraces in restaurants people in crowded places and we have to take

this seriously let me be extremely clear i don't want to see any crowded outdoor restaurant terraces in stockholm or anywhere else and everyone has to take this on his or her responsibility. germany has the opposite problem under the iconic brandenburg gate in berlin restaurants staged a protest by lining up hundreds of empty chairs because the authorities across the country have refused yet to countenance the reopening despite a far lower death rates than countries like sweden. and unlike sweden germany is continuing this testing opening drive through facilities to trace more and more people ministers insist life can go back to anything like normal until the infection rates drop to the hundreds every day in terms of health care it makes perfect sense but the tension with the demands of business is growing 'd restaurant owners have run out of patience well muscled little one who would hope it's no exaggeration to say the sheer panic imagine your business which is doing. well we

shut down from one day to the next it means we don't have less revenue it means we have no revenue but leases and costs continue a lot to be a consolation but in most countries going out to socialize remains a faraway dream like enjoying the hope cuisine of the french bistro that too is almost certainly many months away reinsulate be good nothing would be worse than conducting a rushed reopening of restaurants and bars which could then force us to close again i think it would be an immense disappointment not only for the restaurant owners but also for the french people. it's also worth remembering that many of the most vulnerable like the elderly of the spanish city of. couldn't afford to go out to eat even if the option was open to them here the spanish red cross is delivering food instead of the sharp end of the virus keeping people alive remains the priority. lawrence the al-jazeera in southern greece

$470.00 asylum seekers have been placed under quarantine in a hotel nearly a 3rd of them are infected with current virus liz jones are all plus reports from puerto helli there are growing concerns over more breaks in other refugee camps. whew hew a truck sprays chemicals to disinfect the air around the galaxy hotel 148 asylum seekers and 2 staff members here have tested positive for corona virus most show no symptoms which may be how the disease a scape the authorities attention until now but that may change we saw one man taken to hospital with breathing problems the outbreak has led to concerns of infection among people from the local community here in southern greece who supply all maintain the hotel and i mean i'm the guy you can check up on and we tested 177 people who came into contact with refugees like supermarket workers couriers bank workers and pharmacists and were tremendously relieved to find out today that all

these samples are negative which means there's been no spread of the infection there have been 2 previous outbreaks in facilities housing asylum seekers but infection rates there reached one percent of the resident population or less before storage fees quarantines them here for the 1st time they have reached 31 percent it is exactly what authorities have sought to prevent and this is what they want to prevent happening in the more crowded camps only a jian islands home 235000 asylum seekers here people live in cramped huts and tents and there's limited access to running water and soap fears of a corona virus outbreak earlier this month caused a riot at the refugee camp on heroes which destroyed offices the international organization for migration which runs 30 refugee camps on the mainland including the galaxy hotel says information is vital to prevent panic.

buying a community understands. we tried to do community. knowing that we were taught. a lesson there are important to us the same thing. is to create a network of what's out so try to keep them for because if they're not informing you know they don't. make assumptions that lead. to girls the greek government has put the entire region under quarantine and it says it will stop using hotels to house migrants this year but the hilly relies on tourism for revenue and its leaders want to open up the business as soon as possible jumpstart opal us al jazeera particularly. well still ahead here on al-jazeera we look at how the 4th coronavirus lockdown has impacted people's mental health. and prisoners is argentina's stage

a protest over coated 19 fears those stories on the other side of the break. how it's warming up across the middle east now we're getting up to wards the 40 degree mark as we go on through this weekend largely clear skies loss of dry weather lots of sunshine further north weakens showers just spinning out of eastern turkey just around the coax is pushing across iraq into iran some of them on the sharp soggy must see the odd shower there into georgia maybe it as a shot of armenia but elsewhere as you can see it's largely dry caught a stiff wind blowing in across northern parts of saudi arabia into iraq for a time when those winds swing round some of a southerly direction as we go through sunday hence that rise in temperatures 39 celsius a possibility here on sunday could touch 41 in kuwait meanwhile across the other

side of the red sea we've got the usual scattering of showers there around the therapy and hot in somalia still seeing some live downpours showers not quite as widespread in places say into kenya but they are still there showers extend across the gulf of guinea into a good part of west africa as per usual we'll see some rather heavy rain for a time into the democratic republic of congo just spilling in across western parts for a time the showers seasonal rays they continue across a good part of the area that we get with the heavy rain and today i'll see further south we're going to fewer shows to the east of south africa. i'm counting the cost billions now to save trillions of lost economic output the backplane. son of all produced a covert 19 test kit for $1.00 plus u.s. oil on the line as proof sinks into negative territory. counting the costs on

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top news stories global leaders have joined the world health organization to launch an initiative to speed up work on drugs tests and vaccines against covert 19 but there was a marked absence with the united states announcing that it would not be getting involved also u.s. president donald trump or signed the latest coronavirus relief bill into law it releases almost $500000000000.00 to help hospitals and small businesses affected by the shutdown is the 4th round of pandemic really funding. and in the united kingdom millions of key workers have become eligible for coronavirus testing if they show symptoms of the illness the british government has faced criticism over the slow rollout of mass testing. people in the coronavirus lockdowns are facing extra challenges including mental health that few accessible ways to cope

there are fears that this could lead to a spike in mental disorders while italy's lockdown is the longest in europe and its death toll is the 2nd highest in the world psychologists say both are triggering triggering a mental health emergency charities have been inundated with people looking for support over in india access to medication has become an issue with no access to public transport psychiatric patients are not able to get their prescribe medications from pharmacies and in the us uncertainty isolation and economic despair have led to a sharp rise in calls to help lines as the need for mental health services rise unless fear access to adequate and timely help will decline. peter kinda is a professor of clinical psychology at the university of liverpool in the united kingdom he joins me now on skype from nearby manchester good to have you with us on the program mr can dement isolation has come with its many problems for those millions

affected globally in terms of mental health is everyone affected to a degree. yes i drowned a little when you were given your introduction because you talked about the inevitable and actually quite serious stresses that this whole situation places on this we've got economic uncertainty we've got the problems of social distancing in lockdown in isolation there are problems associated with that including domestic violence and then you've got the very understandable fear about the virus itself and i think in that context it's perfectly understandable to talk about the psychological and emotional pressures on us i think it's a little bit misleading to suggest that there's an epidemic of mental disorders is not disordered to be stressed by this situation it is however a situation of we've got to respond to it so i think definitely stressing the fact that this is something that affects us all definitely stressing the fact that this

is a very stressful time i think we should be a little bit wary about seeing this as an epidemic of disorders i don't think that was a collective trauma that was that the intention say in any shape or form but the general consensus is that everybody is anxious at this moment in time absolutely that for one wonders if if to a global audience what are the telltale signs of any sort of mild form of mental anguish illness but that we can all recognisable haps even identify to get help for . well to be perfectly honest i think we do know the side so i think we know that in ourselves and in the people that we love when people are less less than depressed and for tea and feel as if there's no point in getting out of bed in the morning we know when people are anxious and nervous and can't sit still and have trouble sleeping and those are the sort of signs that are codify it in the psychiatric textbooks if people start to get so wired that they find that they are

ruminating constantly on their future on the possibility of. developing a terrible illness you know these are things that it might be good to sit down and point this out and have a discussion with the people we love but there's no particular special expertise that mental health professionals have i think we recognise the situations as you say as being perfectly normal perfectly understandable but nevertheless things that we have to intervene in and help with and i think that help should it will at all possible be collective the anxiety exists for the community and if the anxiety can come very suddenly for example if you study in the united kingdom for example if people are under a salacious they're under lockdown as they are in several other countries relatives become ill or loved one or friend dies and they can't really be there when you would as a friend or a member of the family be there because you'd rush to get there but you're not allowed to and that is creating a sort of can i say an immediate and desire t.

that needs to be resolved. yes and i think again we need to recognise and we need to understand things we need to take action to help so be being close to the people that we love being in contact with the people that we love being able to be there and share their suffering anxiety and enjoys and. play with that grandchildren and settle has to happen if we don't possible we need to find ways of doing that in in these periods are locked out now. i know that the internet and mobile technology is available to everybody but one of the things you reflect on is that in 2020 many of us have access to ways of communicating via the internet we didn't have the floor and so although we do feel isolated as i think there are things that we can do in order to keep connected with other people it's also the case that there are some very basic things that we can do that we should be doing every day but have more

difficult getting locked down like physical exercise so experiences like anxiety and depression which are of course completely understandable that much worse if you instance were not physically exercising and although it's a little bit of a pain those of us who are socially isolating are in lockdown should perhaps take 20 minutes every day to do some serious physical exercise in order to keep some of that routine of the day going and so now are things that we can do while we can recognize also that these stresses and anxieties are extremely common and very understandable it's good to have your input and your thoughts dr peter goodman thanks so much for joining us from manchester thank you. brazil's justice minister has resigned in another blow to president tribal sonorities government surgeon laura stepped down shortly after also our son the federal police chief the president is under fierce criticism as brazil struggles to cope with the krona virus outbreak is the worst affected country in latin america

with more than 50000 people infected. argentinian prisoners have staged a protest after a prison officer tested positive for covert 19 inmates of a german for designer resolve demanding transfers over worries that vulnerable to infection at one point they threw sharp objects from the roof let's cross over to our correspondent trees about who's following events for us from the argentinean capital this is been going on for several hours now to resolve what's the situation like at the moment. where that's correct several hours from very early in the morning this friday prisoners took over some areas within the 1st prison they set matches on fire started throwing some charcoal objects outside the prison and we know we're hearing now some explosions right inside the prison we don't know whether there's whether there is an exchange of fire or probably was here gas being used by security forces right over there where

you are prisoners were just talking and asking for help they're saying that one guard tested positive during in the in the past days 6 other guards have been isolated and that they're afraid many of them have illnesses like hiv our smart imo and others earlier this month a judge ordered those who have been involved in nonviolent crimes to serve house arrest and to be removed from prison as the spread of 19 has started to increase in argentina this was one of the 1st countries to post a lot down and despite that there is around $3000.00 cases of confirmed infections in argentina it have started to spread and prisons are one of the places where this is happening right now there is also a 5 from this prison 8 other prisons in the province of one aside is where around $1200.00 inmates are currently on hunger strike also they're asking to be removed from this places and we will be allowed to serve on house arrest or. for

a long time prisons in argentina have had a history of lack of thorough sanitation of overcrowding and of course the current situation the spread of coronavirus makes the situation even worse indeed looking to monitor that situation but as i was with the 3 days of the moment trees of thank you every year during ramadan more than 20000000 workers leave indonesia's capital to travel back to their hometowns before the muslim holiday of either the outbreak of covert 19 has not disrupted that centuries old tradition as indonesian authorities introduce a ban on nearly all travel in and out of the country but as jessica washington reports from jakarta many say they can no longer afford to stay in indonesia's big cities. the bags are packed and they've paid for the tickets but this family won't be traveling anytime soon nearly all domestic and international travel in indonesia is now on hold until june yeah well yeah i always travel before it's the only

time i can see my family i'm sad but there is nothing we can do we must follow the government's instructions on a normal day a station like this one would be packed with people and it would be even busier in the lead up to that won't happen this year stopping people from travelling to their hometowns should help slow the spread of the virus but it also brings new challenges but those who have lost their income and say they can no longer afford life in indonesia's big city. hours before the ban came in this was the scene at one jakarta bus depot social distancing gave way to desperation thousands of people trying to get out of the capital before it was too late barring the army because of the announcement from the president about the travel ban many people panicked here is the epicenter of the covert 900 outbreak in indonesia and these travellers could spread the virus to provinces with no proper health facilities but many here feel

they have no choice anyway is one of them millions of low income earners have lost their jobs because of the virus the factory eddie works is shot indefinitely his rent is 50 dollars each month and he can't afford that now anyway. 2 the corona virus outbreak has made this ramadan different to previous years i lost my job i'm very sad i can't live in jakarta without a job i can't afford it so i decided to go home before the ban this virus hasn't just disrupted the annual homecoming of millions but their livelihoods too just to washington al-jazeera to come to. now there are fears that infections in pakistan could rise rapidly during ramadan the government's decided to keep mosque open and people gathering to pray must follow social distancing measures but doctors of urged the government and muslim leaders to reverse that decision. muslims around

the world who are healthy enough are expected to fast between sunrise and sunset but this year will present many challenges with the world dealing with global pandemic 19 which of us till have to maintain social distancing measures. dr mohammad mini is overall a just at lancaster university in the u.k. he says short term fasting does have some health benefits. my interpretation is that short term posturing and dodging have certainly i mean a stimulatory impact so again once is your capability to fight infections but rather it is done on a longer term than it would have more in a successive impact because the body is deprived refrain from essential nutrients and the water components are there for 'd the long term hosting would have more consequences in terms of immune system but also overall body condition and we know that whenever there is a fasting body acquire the energy from carbohydrate and sad that is deposited in

the body but when it comes to the water there is no reserve force in the body and the only way to keep the water level in the body at the required level is that the filtration will cool the kidney will be minimized and the sweat and those can be minimized so if someone is fasting and not having enough drinks they would be having some consequences are to the kidney. functionality as well there isn't any clear defined talking point because 1st thing is that we haven't gone through the infection and the remedy on it for the 1st washing through so there's a lot need to be explored and done but generally speaking not drinking water more than 4 hour is not considered good anywhere east let's head to the middle east because getting a new toy can be a source of joy for a child but in iran the economic sanctions are making it harder to get conceive the goods so one man's doing his best to put

a smile on children's faces saying this robbie has the story from toronto. the pieces of broken toys are put back together again. we're giving new life to old has been a family tradition for nearly 50 years if you are someone you love have a favorite toy that needs fixing there are people here who are able to help and said listen to this doll belongs to my daughter thankfully they repaired it because it was very expensive under sanctions and. if we could send it back to exchange it with a new one but here we have to bring it to be repaired. many of the toys that come through the door sentimental value for the owner but sanctions have made good quality toys. what is available is expensive so iranians also find it cheaper to repair than replace we enjoy keeping

a life back to something that is broken and it gives you a good feeling. others are often the 1st to see the broken toy they say there is no manual for this kind of work. to fix newer ones require a working knowledge of electronics circuitry online research spare parts they can't make in-house whatever it takes it disappointing a customer does not seem to be an option. starting to be a losing. 7 stone because of the virus he doesn't come into the main shop and the sun's the front end of the business well he continues to repair children's toys from his workshop and. began his career at his father's workshop in iraq. he opened his own business after his family moved to iran in the 1970 s. the money. my father used to repairing gramophone as

a kid i always spent my time with him i used to see the mechanical movements in the gears and i loved them so i used to buy broken toys and repaired them then my father helped me fix them seeing a girl or boy happy when their toys are repaired brings me joy. this room in a small house and old to ron is a sanctuary for a lost and forgotten toys once perhaps a child's favorite thing now a little worse for wear. but on sub us table they all get a 2nd chance. his work he says requires patience and creativity and from gramophone aerial drones 3 generations of the family business is a reminder of what is broken can be fixed zain busser aviel jazeera iran. well still ahead here all the al-jazeera news staring into space for 3

decades we look at how the hubble telescope has contributed to our understanding of the universe.

welcome back a unilateral ceasefire in yemen has been extended for one month and that's according to a spokesman for the saudi u.a.e. coalition the original 2 week truce was declared after the u.n. secretary general called for a global ceasefire because of the coronavirus yemen's health care system is already on the verge of collapse and more than half of the population faces acute food

shortages these are the human rights activist. has died in prison he was the founder of the saudi civil and political rights association m it was prosecuted multiple times for his work and in 2013 he was given an 11 year sentence on charges of breaking allegiance to the ruler and inciting disorder aside a human rights group says that he was transferred to hospital several months ago when his health deteriorated the group also says doctors recommended urgent heart surgery but saudi authorities returned home it back to prison and to africa now where early results from mali's parliamentary election show the governing party won the most votes but not enough for an outright majority the rally for mali party is estimated to have taken 43 seats out of 147 voting in the 2nd round went ahead last sunday despite the global pandemic the campaign was marred by violence and the

kidnapping of an opposition leader just over 23 percent of registered voters cast their ballots. human rights watch says run doth already as of arbitrarily arrested dozens of people accused of violating violating lockdown measures without due process among those arrested are journalist trying to expose abuses by security forces during the lockdown it also says reports of rapes killings and other serious crimes by security forces must be investigated the un does defense forces say earlier this month it had detained 5 soldiers. at least 12 while alive rangers have been killed in the ticonderoga national park in the democratic republic of congo several more people were injured in the ambush the worst in the history of the park their anger is home to half of the world's population of mountain gorillas at least 20 years in the last 20 years pardon me at least 180 rangers have been killed

protecting the animals. the leader of a separate is religious sect in the democratic republic of congo has been arrested following heavy gunfire in the capital kinshasa. and then c. is the leader of an outlawed group called. congo the rest comes a week after violent clashes between the b d k members and police in 2017 the semi was arrested and held in jail after police accused of inciting violence but armed supporters stormed the prison and freed him 2 years later he was granted a presidential pardon. now for 3 decades the hubble telescope has been period deep into the universe and beaming spectacular images of distant galaxies back to earth as nasa marks its 30th anniversary leo harding reports on hubble's contributions to science and how they've changed our understanding of space. 54321 and

withdraw they started discovering how to place. window on the universe public is the 1st major optical telescope sent into space taking images from above the distortion of the atmosphere and light pollution nasa has called it the ultimate mountaintop and 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 its 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 your ville that star

lacked 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. you're we're already. hearing. 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 in 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 stopped working until then hubble can build on its like a c. revealing yet more images from far depths of our universe leo harding al-jazeera elon duffy is an astronomer working swinburne university illustrating

a lot he says the hubble telescope answered questions scientists did not even know to ask what it was created. look it's hard to overstate the importance of the hubble space telescope to knowledge discovery we think back to the the wish list that we had for hubble 2 to uncover the questions to answer and and that was before we launch and then we look and see well what were the greatest discoveries and achievements and there's absolutely no commonality at all uncovered things that we didn't even know to ask questions of we have measured the expansion of the universe itself and discovered a hidden unknown force that is driving in a part of something called dark energy we have mapped out indeed the very invisible structures that hold our galaxies together with dark matter and thanks to hubble we've even got a better view of objects in our own solar system and at that time

unknown moons around pluto we have potential plumes of water from a moon or rind jupiter or perhaps one of the best locations for life beyond earth all of these things have been achieved by hubble and none of them were even imagined when it was started to be constructed so hubble has not just answered the questions we posed it it has created entire new rafts of questions to ask and indeed it has driven the hard community for many decades and of course is possibly the most famous telescope ever created well asteroid estimated to be the width of manhattan will hurtle past our planet next week nasa scientists say it has no chance of hitting earth but they fly by will be useful it could be used to help data that can defend the earth from dangerous rocks just royd was found by

scientists in 1998 and it takes almost 4 years to orbit our sun. with me it's a whole realm of money as follows after the right to stay with us. the journey to work can be a challenge on its own. but for some peruvian villages traversing one of the world's most dangerous roads is a risk that comes with the job. we follow the journey of these people

as they get there to survive. risking it all. on al-jazeera. another early morning another ceremony to bed health workers farewell. 29000 cuban doctors and nurses are working in 59 countries around the world as confirmed cases of coronavirus increase so does demand for cuban medics medical services at the island's main export while western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the others health system draw a different conclusion you're making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go what a lot of because there are other people that need me people that are sick and dying and not isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people who can help them. for 30 years the red cross has provided a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet through remarkable people risking their lives to help the decided in war torn afghanistan

on al-jazeera. leaders around the world launch a joint initiative to speed up work on drugs tests and a vaccine for covert 19 that will be available for all. we need them soon and most importantly everybody needs them. alone barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming up on

the program as the number of covert 1000 deaths in the u.s. passes 50000 businesses start to reopen in the state of georgia. moses concert quickly kastigar a very sarcastic question.