into negative territory. counting the cost on al jazeera. played an important role. for. the. the. global death toll from coven 1000 tops 200000 as the world health organization warns there is no evidence that having had the virus prevents reinfection. hello again i'm a star and this is al jazeera live from also coming up. fed up with the coronavirus lockdowns protesters in parts of europe demand an easing of restrictions. the mystery about the health of north korea's leader deepens after he

was a no show as a key anniversary celebration 2 weeks ago and hasn't been seen since. and growing concerns that the pandemic could set back the fight against malaria one of the wilds of deadliest infectious disease. 200000 people have now died from the corona virus and the world health organization has warned that people who recover from the disease may not be immune to reinfection and says there is no evidence that people who did who developed antibodies were protected from getting it a 2nd time around now without that guarantee the agency says plans by some governments to roll out so-called immunity passports could be risky chile has announced it'll be the fast country to hand them out so that people can return to work and other countries are looking at tests for the presence of antibodies to try

to help work out when to end lockdowns and lift other restrictions while the u.k. is among them that has reportedly ordered to millions of antibody tests from london laurie chalons hazell. the u.k. is one of many countries that has been looking at the idea of immunity passports this would be a way for people or some people at least to go back to work if they could prove that they already have had covert 19 and therefore it's assumed that they have an immunity i would be able to get it again or pass it on parts of the w.h.o. the world health organization is not keen on this idea for this reason well we do certainly understand the intention of trying to see who can go safely back who were who be of french truly risk free or other people but unfortunately from the scientific point of view we simply don't know for

a person who has been infected with. 90. 2. gets this immunity and if it gets the immunity how long this immunity is lasting now there are always problems with the immunity passport idea to start with for one thing it's very divisive if you have some people who are allowed to go back to work and some people aren't at a time when most governments are trying to unify their populations and say we're all in this together but this verdict from the w.h.o. that people don't necessarily have immunity anyway and also saying that the testing to prove this or not is a bit sketchy at the moment at the best well i think that kills the immunity passport idea for the moment at least until the science can suggest otherwise. well the number of people who have died from coronavirus in the u.k. has exceeded 20000 by more than 800 just in the past day britain is now the 5th

country to pass that milestone and prime minister bias johnson has been recovering from the virus will return to work on monday and embargo has more on the situation across europe live who are very. near all the bethel long live the 25th of april long live freedom the words of a former resistance fighter jaring in world war 2 some type of a nazi who stuck at home in the italian capital rome. the nationwide looked means on the 75th anniversary of liberation day more to the end of fascism the hanging fly eggs from their windows up and down the country instead of holding parades and the 196 year old former parties and who fought in the salinas forces that's heartening to me yeah. right now depend is more important an anti-fascist demonstrations between must also keep them alive especially at this time because a dismemberment we might destroy everything of the italian democratic state in the name open demick that is very dangerous and very uncertain. it's that uncertainty

that's behind belgium's approach as it plans to gradually lift restrictions despite having the highest coronavirus death rate per capita europe from the 4th of may when the 1st shots reopened everyone aged 12 or over will have to wear a mask on public transport the government's promising to help the government for their lives or to put it in federal government and a different entities are implementing a common strategy to guarantee that every citizen will receive for free at least one protective mask covering both the mouth and the nose bars and restaurants across belgium will start reopening in june but the government says it will bring back restrictions if the medical situation worsens it's not an easy question can release. everything from their heart don't think so because i think we we will have a huge problem on the intensive care. he gets

or almost full. in britain where the number of people recorded as dying in the hospital from cop it 19 has gone past 20000 people are being urged to be patient and stick to the stay home guidelines the 5 tests we have laid out must be met before we can easies life saving restrictions we must be sure that we can continue to protect the n.h.s. that there is a sustained and consistent forward in the daily rates of death. that the data shows the rate of infection decreases that the operational challenges on met and of course that there is no risk of a 2nd peak of infections. meanwhile in the french capital where restrictions are even tougher this neighborhood cinema is projecting films onto its walls for anyone living near enough a simple way of bringing people together until they're allowed to socialize once again the dean barber al jazeera. well the u.s. state of new york has begun antibody tests for frontline health workers that the

screening program will examine whether doctors and nurses working with infected patients have been contracting private 1000 without showing any symptoms castro reports on his every hamburger and an anesthesiologist and saying this new york anesthesiologist recovered from covert 19 a month ago now doctors i.v. hamburger is among an important group of frontline medical workers who hope they're immune from reinfection center here in europe that center to meeting homeless by the blood plasma he's donating is also being studied to treat patients so if we give these this plasma to someone who is acutely infected with corona virus be in the bodies that are in the plasma for me can hopefully start attacking the virus health care workers are a significant portion of confirmed coated 19 in that sense in the u.s. the federal government reports more than 1000 doctors and nurses are among those

who tested positive and the number is likely an underestimate given occupation information was missing from 80 percent of those tracked cases they are folks that you know by by default they take time to rest they know that when they go into health care right so they don't run away from the fire they go to the restaurant that this is actually bringing in one of our ventilators dr hamburger is now a member of his hospital's covert rapid response team performing into beijing's on critically ill patients this is the procedure that is one of the scarier procedures in the krona virus era because this is one of the virus can be aerosolized he's volunteered to spare coworkers who've not been infected but the w.h.o. says reinfection cannot be ruled out through anti-body tests alone the question of potentially munity needs more study. meanwhile in maryland

a parade of police cars have come to say thank you to hospital workers soon you will be back inside waiting patients and a virus we still have a lot to learn about castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland. to other news now and the 5 year fight for control of yemen has taken a new turn the southern transitional council based in agent has declared a state of emergency and says it will establish self rule the session his movement blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of yemenis the government's foreign minister mohammad al hadron he says the move will have serious and catastrophic consequences for an agreement signed back in november aimed at uniting the 2 sides now there are signs that north korea's leader may have traveled to his beach resort speculation grows about his health a monitoring group has released these satellite images believed to show a train at a station in one sound which is reserved for the family of kim jong il rumors over

his health have been swelling since he failed to appear at the commemoration of his late grandfather's birthday on april 15th reuters reports that china has sent a team of senior doctors to treat kim jong un to haunt procedure well we can speak to jim walsh he's a senior research associate in the security studies program at the massachusetts institute of technology and he joins us on skype from boston jim there's been so much rima and speculation so so let's start with what we know for sure kim jong un hasn't been seen in public since april 11th where's he been. well i don't know and that's what the world wants to know now is that a possible indication that he has poor health yes but but we have to underline that we played this game before with him and with previous leaders where we've said oh he's disappeared for 2 weeks he's disappeared for 3 weeks you know it does that

mean he might die similarly with the supreme leader in iran there have been numerous rumors about imminent demise that never came true but whether whether he's in trouble or not whether he's in trouble or not in some ways that this gives us and it gives the world community and the policy community a chance to think what happens if this is true because if it were to be true maybe it's not maybe it happens a month from now maybe to happen 6 months from now but given the conditions we haven't been talking about what that means for north korea and for the region and so gives us a chance to say oh my gosh maybe we ought to think about this and i understand that can tell a lot has also disappeared from public the fallback in 24 told he was absent from the public eye for 40 days so this isn't unprecedented why such exactly speculation now was that as 5th the last time out well 1st of all it's a cottage industry you know so and i how could you not speculate i mean it's

natural for people and people in the media to do that but obviously there's there are some other things going on. you know i'm not a doctor his physical appearance does not suggest. you know healthy lifestyle let's just be honest and then in addition you know it's a pandemic right in north korea where does north korea live right next to the country where the corona virus originated now north korea's did not get it has any cases i find it hard to believe i'm not saying he would. have contracted it obviously course johnson did so you know a do we have a smoking gun here that something is a raw you know should we expect that something will happen tomorrow probably not but again i want to emphasize because of the focus on 1000 which is totally appropriate and all the things that means we haven't been thinking about north

korea but it north korea at the leader dies in a context in which there's a global pandemic it's under sanctions and entering a recession is join an economy declines that's a big deal and we might want to think about that before it happens rather than after it happens so jim we talked out a little bit about condolence health so let me ask you what is the status of north korea's health system what sort of treatment could can john expect in a country. well i think it's mixed obviously he's going to get the best health care of anyone in that country bar none and you know there are as you read referenced reports the chinese doctors have made their way. but the health care system in general is not very good and terms of public health and so. you know that there are a lot of unknowns here and we don't know what corona virus is doing in north korea but if it did manage to enter that public health system it's not prepared to deal

with that and i have had reports from the ground that suggest that because the north koreans are essentially shutting everything down there really aren't a lot of international doctors international medical aid workers in north korea to help with that and so you know there are what 15 europeans or another dozen u.n. officials not a lot of close to help the north koreans deal with this. you know whether it's his own health problems maybe he has no health problems at all but i think this bears watching because it could lead to economic and social instability in a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons and feels like we're threatening them so maybe we should pay attention to that and we absolutely will continue paying attention to that jim wallace a senior us that has it from mit thank you for joining us on out of that thank you so much. well still ahead on out of there the u.s.

plans to turn to slot technology to fight the spread of the qur'an a virus that that is raising concerns about civil liberties clubs. already northern sweden where a rare court's victory for the indigenous saami people against the swedish state has led to a series of revenge attacks a low rate. of . hello there still a few more showers in your 4 calls across much of japan system off a system of course has been heading across blustery conditions on those showers but the good news is across central and southern china we have finally got a dry spell of what the temperature is a really picks up as well 27 and 22 in beijing and on the south coast in china where it has been a little cooler in hong kong we should see $25.00 fuel monday most secure across the korean peninsula maybe just wanted to showers and then also still want to show

lingering across areas of honshu as we go through monday april fame to ban in tokyo with your high of 80 some very heavy amounts of rain there across much of the southeast asia there is a fahy widespread and scattered across much of thailand vietnam and some heaviest rain yes again in the forecast true born here and again across into some arch about to draw a picture really again across much of java over the next couple of days now talking of dry pictures it certainly has been dry in some areas of india the interior and also down across into tom and i do and you can see just how dry look at this of course it's all ahead of the monsoon rains there always desperately needed but just look at the state of the ground meanwhile. we have seen some very heavy amounts of rain there's more in the forecast as we go through the next few days bangladesh as well seeing some heavy amounts of rain and generally widespread to the north.

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developed immunity to the virus it's urging governments not to issue so-called immunity possible due to concerns they could increase its spread. yemen subban transitional council based in a is and has declared a state of emergency and says it will establish. the secessionist movement blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of yemenis the fight for control of yemen is now in its 6th year. and speculation is growing over the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks satellite images suggest that kim jong un may have traveled to beatrice or to the reuters news agency says china has sent sent a team of doctors to treat. a police officer in somalia has been arrested after shooting dead a person while enforcing coronavirus restrictions the incident on friday sparked 2 days of protests in the capital mogadishu victoria gave the house the story.

hundreds of protesters shouted lay police no curfew is they marched through the capital mogadishu on saturday. they say the shooting of a civilian by a police officer and forcing a curfew will friday night is another example of violence and abuse by the security forces which they say happens too often. a lot this demonstration will continue until the government senior. officials listen to the outcry of the population who want the government to reverse the curfew decisions that is imposed on the residents during this holy month. the shooting happened near the headquarters of the somali national intelligence and security agency somalia's police chief fire commissioner in charge of the area on saturday the mare of mogadishu apologize for the shooting. of the 1st terrorist group that the youth of mogadishu need to express their anger for the killing of a civilian they have the right to do so secondly i am very sorry for it and i share

the same sorry you are feeling somalia has poor health care facilities and a limited capacity to trace and test those infected with the coronavirus the government introduced a look down more than 2 weeks ago was the number of people affected with covert 19 increased. but there has to be trust between the public and the police for it to work effectively and in short supply victoria gate to be al-jazeera. while hundreds of people have also protested against coronavirus lockdown measures at the polish german border many of them are commuters who live in poland and work in germany since the border close they have been unable to cross poland has been on lockdown since mid march and has also imposed a mandatory to require untying for those who enter its territory while there were also protests in the german cities of balin and start to guard against coronavirus restrictions chanting slogans like i want my life back they demanded lockdown

restrictions be eased calling them a violation of their fundamental rights police wearing riot gear and face masks detained more than 100 people. or frustration about the lockdown restrictions as also led to protests in the united states demonstrators say stay at home orders a violate their civil liberties but it's what the government intends to do when society does reopen that's concerning privacy advocates she have returned the reports from washington. with and we. of 911 the patriot act was passed in the u.s. with no congressional debate it allowed unprecedented surveillance with minimal oversight over american citizens the alternative the government suggested was responsibility for another terrorist attack the laundry list. that the taliban's community had wanted for many years at the time they were sure and says the measures would be temporary but they've been routinely reauthorized by congress yet mass surveillance proved ineffective counterproductive and the data was being used

for purposes unrelated to terrorism it was only 12 years after the patriot act passed with the whistleblowing of edward snowden that we discovered the extent of the mass surveillance and only then was the government's bulk collection of information about americans limited now with the spread of covert 19 snowden and others so there's an opportunity to learn from the past systems to monitor everyone's location at all times of being formalized in secret at the point these policies are being sought these benefits are theoretical often there is no evidence for them and they may never materialize that keep ability will exist in 3 months in 3 years and in 30 years if we allow it to be implemented today clusters of disease do need to be located swiftly and closed off and smart phone data is being used to locate those not adhering to social distancing requirements but we have few specific details on data collection facebook and google have been in talks with the

government on sharing information they collect about us online advertising companies that track our movements and discussing new covert 1000 revenue streams the firm pal into whose data collection has been key to the trumpet ministrations deportation program is creating 1000 models for the government i think all abortions a good time for companies. seeking takes. on to their education and to set themselves up to normalize it i tip ensure profits. what's been called for is full transparency exactly what information is being collected by whom how long has it been kept for and how is it being used particularly by law enforcement agencies it is traditionally the disadvantaged in society who bear the weight of surveillance right you know we talk about the color of surveillance well the color surveillance black. and that's definitely something to be thinking about when you think about data when you think about healthy you know when you think about the ways in which

could be used in a variety of particularly commercial context or to treat people differently when they should be the consequences of pandemic policy for civil liberties go beyond and the chronic surveillance and president shows a robust debate needs to occur policies are not good and not after she obertan see al-jazeera washington now a woman in ecuador who was told her sister had died of a suspected krone virus infection has found out she is actually alive and recovering in hospital 74 year old album marie was admitted to intensive care last month in the city of quiet kill health authorities maisha informed the family she died and handed over what they thought were ashes they have since apologized for the mix up the city's health system has been overwhelmed by the number of deaths from the virus. well the coven $1000.00 pandemic is also causing severe disruptions to malaria medicines that's according to the world health organization this is

leading to a weekly increase in cases across parts of africa now malaria is present in 41 countries the highest number of infections are shown here in red is because mostly in tropical climates where mosquitoes thrive and transmit the parasite to people they were nearly 250000000 recorded cases in 2018 which resulted in about 400000 deaths in the w.h.o. says that if no action is taken that the number of deaths could double well kelly is an organic chemistry professor at the university of cape town he explains the health implications if a patient is infected with both corona virus and malaria. firstly it's the impact of covert 19 on not just the malaria of the disease in terms of the clinical symptoms or the pathology eccentrics actual but it's also about the impact on the performance of malaria medicines

and terms of the effectiveness but it's also the other way around is the impact of malaria on cove 19 and or the impact of malaria medications and cause of 19 so often when you have co-morbidity one disease can in the hundreds the other disease because of the down time in the economy and of course people losing jobs of course of then malaria medications can become. very expensive and most of the poor communities can move really not afford them and that is also the impact of government apart from the fact that people who are not easily able to assist them in any cation it's also that then they could result to other measures for example health maybe ition self medication or relying on

untested remedies for malaria which could have you know serious negative consequences on the disease including the development of resistance. now a group of indigenous reindeer headers in sweden have become the target of revenge attacks and follows a landmark court ruling back in january and which they won back exclusive hunting and fishing rights in the arctic region where they live paul research. the norwegian border. this is modern day reindeer herding. sweden's indigenous saw me people crossing frozen lakes on snowmobiles to feed the reindeer by hand a symptom of their disappearing pastures here in the arctic radioing so important for and disarm the culture in sweden we are struggling to you know skipping reindeer to survive ruin through and it's very costly and puts a lot of the strains on families and rainier orders the effects of climate change

and the impact of mining and dams are part of a growing list of problems adding to that strain these rains have been moved up into the mountains for the spring and summer where the spike all the dangers that face them they should at least be safe from a new on the to merged over the winter. about new danger was a spate of killings of reindeer suspected to have been carried out by swedish neighbors in retaliation for a court case that the saw me community won against the government and which gave them back the right to decide who hunts and fishes on their land. is one of those who has found his animals slaughtered in the woods. i let my reindeer loose here and a man drove up and said you don't come here with your reindeer or will shoot them we've already shot 7 or right and if i meet you alone in the forest i'll shoot you too it's been a tense winter most of the swedes are good people but we have this clique that has such hatred towards reindeer and reindeer. tensions rose in january after sweden

supremes court ruled in favor of the saw meat reindeer herding union of good whose land stretches some 300 kilometers from here near the norwegian border it could set a precedent for 50 other such areas covering half of sweden and may also hinder plans for more wind and water power plants and mines which have already decimated reindeer pastures the government in stockholm has condemned what it described as racism threats and hate against the sa me but hasn't commented on any strengthening of their rights so maybe they. saw the supreme court stated that the international indigenous rights conventions sweden is bound by must be observed in decisions affecting the saami we must see changes in legislation and see it applied not least when it comes to maining and forestry. back up north of the cases caused uncertainty both for swedish hunters who now need missions from the reindeer herd as union and you don't have membership tempering enthusiasm for what is

a rare victory for their people and while the coronavirus devastates the economy the creation of yet more industry on these lands could be a bigger party than giving the salmi a real say in the destiny of the country. vice a. looked sweet and. now again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the 5 year fight for control of yemen has taken a new turn the southern transitional council based in aden has declared a state of emergency and says it will establish self rule this is sessions' movement blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of yemenis the government's foreign minister mohammad al had rami says the move will have fear if and catastrophic consequences for an agreement signed in november aimed at uniting the 2 sides the world health organization says there's no evidence

people who've recovered from covert 19 develop immunity to the virus it's urging governments not to issue so-called immunity passports due to concerns they could increase the spread for each islands has more from london. now there are always problems with the immunity passport idea to start with for one thing it's very divisive if you have some people who are allowed to go back to work and some people aren't at a time when most governments are actually trying to unify their populations and say we're all in this together but this verdict from the w.h.o. that people don't necessarily have immunity anyway and also saying that the testing to prove this or not is a bit sketchy at the moment at best but i think that kills the immunity password idea for the moment at least until the science can suggest otherwise while the number of coronavirus related deaths in british hospitals has now surpassed 20000 the medical director of england's national health service described it as

a very sad day for the nation people are still being urged to stay at home and to practice social distancing. hundreds of people have protested against coronavirus lockdown measures at the polish german forder a many of them are commuters who live in poland and west in germany since the border close they've been unable to cross poland has been on lockdown since mid march and has also imposed a mandatory to be quarantined for all of those who enter its territory. speculation is growing over the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks now satellite images suggest kim jong un may have traveled to his beach resort the reuters news agency says china has sent a team of doctors to treat him well those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera oft at the listening post as corona virus continues to devastate the united states the race to the white house goes on joe biden has all but secured his

place is the democratic nominee but can he beat still trump joined us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. prime minister announcing that if you like best our coverage of the hour is no easy to walk down here with over an hour eric drache traveling. across the country are probably there to get their prisoners you might force them or opinion it. alone richard ginsberg when you're watching the listening post here are some of the coronavirus stories the media angles that we're tracking from home this week india and the pandemic much of the coverage is defined by politics and driven by religion reporters must choose their words carefully europe.