face. fighting talk from britain's prime minister as he returns to work after his personal battle with coronavirus. this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor. at a time the club is out there alive from doha with more developments on the pandemic including tourist hot spots that have been life as for weeks now it's only is days away from this news reached. to find lockdown orders

a mass return to work by bangladeshis desperate for an ink up. and a broadcaster in pakistan that's playing a critical role in getting information out about and. so then britain's prime minister has returned to work vying to lead from the front in the fight against coronavirus johnson was diagnosed with the virus a month ago he spent 3 days in intensive care and in his 1st speech since leaving hospital he says the united kingdom starting to turn the tide in tackling the outbreak johnson has pledged his government will outline plans for easing restrictions but warns the risk of a 2nd way. if these virus were a physical assailant an unexpected and invisible mug. which i can tell you

propose to recruit idiots then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor i know it is tough and i want to get this economy moving as fast as i can but i refuse to throw away all the effort and the sacrifice of the british people and to risk a 2nd major outbreak and huge loss of life and be overwhelming of the n.h.s. well as great now as a report of the political news website politics home that is john johnston john interesting to hear the prime minister back at the helm as it were in typical colorful form talking of the virus as a mugger and how he'd been mugged by it but basically it's extolling the british public and british businesses to stick with the restrictions yeah this was very much a kind of strong speech after his return his recuperation from the virus i think

the overwhelming message was that the lockdown restrictions in the u.k. are going to continue for the forseeable future but i think importantly what he was trying to set out there was that there is a plan in place or discussions happening behind the scenes on how the u.k. exit the lockdown and that's something that he's being its government has been criticized for in the last few days that there has really been no public discussion of what that looks like and obviously he says in forward that in and over the next week that they will start making these discussions public and trying to bring in opposition parties as well so that they can reach a consensus on how we do this you wonder about whether the transparency or the transparency he was talking about if you know him the parties talked about how good the n.h.s. has been but there's been no mention of the p.p.a. crisis in the issues of testing and so forth. yeah absolutely and over the last few weeks while he's been absent you know that his ministers have come in to you know

a lot of criticism for their handling of p. p. e. getting this out to any chance workers and care workers and also this big issue in the u.k. of testing. hancock he's promised that the u.k. will be conducting 100000 tests a day by thursday now at the moment they remain very short of that number and they will come in for a lot of criticism if they don't leached up but that is really one of the key things part of the government's 5 tests for easing the lockdown is getting testing to high enough number so that we can kind of keep track of how this virus is spreading to the country you read a lot of criticism in the british press that you have the of the government response to coronaviruses any indication from your end of the popularity of boris johnson how popular his return will be. i think you know the prime minister was

this polling numbers were very good in the 1st couple of weeks of the crisis the government's response was you know that was kind of widely accepted they were doing a good job in the last few weeks that has slipped as the kind of p p crisis has unfolded testing numbers not reaching where they were wanting them to be but i think his return has given them a good job opportunity to kind of reset all of that and for him to try and get a grip of and push things forward i think crucially from his statement there is that he is coming up with a plan for business and trying to get the economy moving at least a little bit as he says when we leave the kind of 1st phase of the virus but very clear in his message that the kind of overriding strategy at the moment is just to kind of hold the line keep these self isolation measures in place to try and avoid a kind of 2nd peak of the virus because as he and his ministers have said that

would cause a big spike in deaths and also probably cause a bigger impact on the economy than the car unlocked that this address that we saw was easy but if you like because he's going to have to face questions already of the labor deputy leader angela raina is saying that the community in care homes have seen the worst of this crisis and the most catastrophic effects of the lack of preparation for the virus. yeah absolutely that the kind of care home issue has been one that kind of brewing into into a bit of a scandal and a lot of people saying that this could be the kind of overwhelming negative effect of the of the coronavirus is that there wasn't enough attention paid to care homes and other kind of front line care services outside of hospitals there's been a lot of focus on protecting the n.h.s. on ensuring that the frontline doctors and nurses have the personal protective equipment that they require a lot of care homes kind of feeling that they've been left out that they're not

getting the supplies they need and that they've essentially been overlooked in the planning for this and you know we see thousands of care homes across the country have got cases there's been problems with testing care workers and care home residents so that is really something is going to have to get on top of very quickly or it could become you know a really major issue in the days to come right john johnson the pretty open spokesman this thanks very much indeed john johnson's begins there from london. on to italy now which is preparing to emerge from the longest coronavirus lockdown in the west the daily death toll in the hardest hit european countries has now fallen to its lowest level in more than a month and italy which has seen the 2nd highest number of deaths in the world after the united states will loosen its not done from early may people will be allowed to visit relatives and some businesses will reopen we'll go to my job at the. from a for the wholesale sector will restart but it is obvious that we'll need

a market and therefore from 18 if we expect to reopen the retail sector from then we are also planning to reopen museums exhibitions and libraries and sport teams can resume training we also hope that june 1st will be the date for the reopening of bars restaurants beauty salons and hairdressers basically all personal care activities so let's hear from sabina council franco who's a journalist based in rome and she says that people are eager for the look down to be lifted sooner than the government intends. many italians weren't exactly happy with what the prime minister had to say to them yesterday they felt many of them that more restrictions could be lifted and in fact they just see it as a very very long process the. prime minister made it very clear that this was going to be a gradual reopening and this is extremely gradual because even the head

dressers will not be open before june 1st and schools will not be pinned or reopened didn't till september many parents wondering what they're going to do with all their children at home while they have to start going back to work people here are suffering financially they are suffering and they really do need to get back to work and it seems that every time it becomes a lengthy approves says they were expecting that this lockdown that was meant to end completely by may fools was going to be sell and in fact. it appears that now a lot of retailers will be opening until may 18th and certain other businesses can't open until as i said june 1st. from italy to germany which is come back to

these spread of corona virus by making the wearing of moths compulsory while on public transport free masks have been made available in cities nationwide for the past week germany has the 4th highest number of confirmed cases in europe a fewer than 6000 have died which is far lower than neighboring countries let's cross over to berlin straight away we can speak to across where the dominant k. it doesn't tell us more about us. yet so the mosque ordered these in place across germany in all the states the 16 states that make up the federal republic but the enforcement of it differs from state to state so in berlin for more on both austin right now the border relates surely to public transport so if you use buses like bus station i'm standing outside now or trains or the metros then you have to wear the mask but the moment you step off public transport you can remove the mosque so if you want to go to one of the shops that have reopened in the course of the last few days you don't need to wear the mosque

elsewhere in germany you do need to wear the mosque the point here is that the decision making by the relevant state governments and by the federal government is informed by the science by the numbers being tabulated by grab a coffee institute which has the authority in this area and right now it is thought that something around 2 and a half 1000 people are in intensive care perhaps 75 percent of them are on ventilators but equally fewer than 6000 people have died from corona virus in germany despite the fact that it has. amongst the highest number of infections in europe and one other key statistic which is informing government decisions is getting up to around 3 quarters of all the confirmed cases of coronavirus have an aerosol to in the patients concerned recovering which explains why you see the mask order in place but loosening of restrictions in from from state to state so any indication dominick of what the next move will be.

the point is obvious from a governmental position they can't afford to have their country in total lockdown for a prolonged period of time without there being serious economic damage and that point is being made at a federal level by some cabinet ministers but specifically by prime ministers of several important states notably the states of north rhine-westphalia where the prime minister of that state is a christian democrats an ally of angle a knuckle but he wants to replace when the time comes and put our men lash it has been agitating for a loosening of restrictions wherever possible and yes one interesting points to to reflect on is that a school in north or invest failure which reopened last week has have to close again today because of an infection of a student now that's just one school but it shows you the same nice that angle americal says germany is treading on right now that they want to reopen weapons

civil but the danger of coronavirus this. and get a mouthful is the one who says let's wait let's see what the effect of loosening restrictions has been before we loosen any further there is potentially going to be a decision on the 4th of may that clearly everyone is watching what happens in germany right now. all right daryn thanks very much that's the picture in berlin dog. el salvador security officials have been authorized to use lethal force against gang members following a surge in violence during the pandemic prisons have been ordered to place members of rival gangs into shared cells in a bid to break up lines of communication it's also imposed a 24 hour lockdown in correctional facilities the country suffered $24.00 homicides on friday and another $29.00 by late sunday the united arab emirates says it stands against a decision by a separatist group in yemen to declare self rule over the areas it controls the

southern transitional council announced a state of emergency from sunday accusing the government of failing to improve the lives of yemenis the government is backed by a saudi u.a.e. military coalition in its fight against the rebels the iraqis have previously supported the southern separatist group. here in algeria but school but not back to normal some students in china. we report from california where spring planting is underway. hello there plenty of heavy rain across much of indonesia seen some really strong thunderstorms in the last year as i will say a few more particularly across the middle a peninsula you can see the rains again gathering throughout much of borneo i'm particularly heavy across the and on into north maluku as well those yellow areas

indicating some really heavy downpours about by wednesday not a great deal of the change heavy rains again developing into west sumatra and again java seeing a fast spread of showers and thunderstorms but again northern borne you're picking up some pretty heavy downpours lace the end of the day and has plenty of rain on its way into australia these systems coming across the great by not some pretty strong winds in the forecast for the next couple of days you can see these big green arrows here and this will help to feed in some of these showers across areas of south australia and eventually calls through the day on shoes of this rain really beginning to push across into victoria and also new south wales and me by wednesday but 2nd see some pretty heavy amounts of rain you can see these dark blue areas say some of this rain heavy at times but also really beginning to keep an eye on this could help in areas to the southeast of new south wales where again those dry conditions still remain but these very strong winds feeding showers all the time pretty good across both new zealand and also staying fine and dry in perth with

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but again you're watching i just remind of our top stories this hour britain's prime minister has returned to work after being diagnosed with a crowbar some months ago johnson says the u.k.'s beginning to turn the tide in tackling the outbreak warns of the risk of a 2nd wave. the daily death toll from coronavirus in europe's hardest hit country says fall into its lowest level in more than a month italy plans to begin easing restrictions in a week's time. germany's making the wearing of masks compulsory while on public transport be made available for free for the past week in cities nationwide. for workers desperate for money and $1.00 of the world's biggest garment industries are defying coronavirus lockdown orders they are returning to work in bangladesh saying they have paid for months countries expected to lose at least 6000000000 dollars worth of exports to make up for some of it textile workers are selling masks medical grounds and other in demand personal protective equipment bangladesh has

recorded more than 5400 coronavirus cases and 145 deaths let's cross to joins us from the capital dhaka just outside the capital tamar i think aren't you in the in the heart of the garment industry. yeah absolutely i mean it's industrial bell out of dhaka is a big concentration of garment factory over here there's a limited number of garments factories are actually open you can see in my camera on my left side there's a factor that's actually open and workers trickling down inside earlier on. this last one week there's been a large number of protests across the country demanding for back wages many of the war on the brink of starvation many of them went home to the rule of villages and i have to come back actually walked back all the way to dhaka this happened a few weeks back that to return because the factories were in open now in a decision taken by the association and the government to open

a limited with some garment factory because that on their own it's a lot of pressure from international buyers to fulfill their obligation of alders many other bios have cancelled out auditors losing in tremendous amount of money now the workers are willing to go back to that their work but they have fear of coronavirus that fear of the safety measures that spoke to one of the leading government activists she said the main concern is safety many of them working a large number in one given floor their basic precautions been taken gloves and mosque but still they live in congested area in the slum areas sometimes 5 people in one room so an infection could possibly be a ticking time bomb if something like that happened but on the other hand they're not getting paid they need their job and if they don't come to their ward they'll be fired all be laid off so they're in a very precarious situation in a very complex way and many of them are joining and started working in

a limited way and a call across the country nic time to thanks very much the time a child reporting there from bangladesh. schools and universities in some parts of china that were closed because of the pandemic are beginning to reopen students are being welcome back to class in the capital beijing but social distancing measures will continue during lessons as students in the city will harm where the outbreak began and start heading back to school as early as next week on syria sarah clarke is in hong kong and she says that social distancing measures austin in place as china tries to prevent a 2nd wave of infractions. it is a milestone in china on the grounds that the schools have been locked down it's been a nationwide lockdown for about 3 months or so the schools in some provinces and some of the major cities are turning some schools have already opened and that was in march in the beginning of april but some of those cities that are reopening on monday shanghai beijing and one joe in the focus is really on the senior and the middle school students particularly the final year classes that are preparing for

the end of school exams and this well that's been happening and will happen over the next month or so with the primary schools to return in mind all schools are required to have various contingency plans in place the teachers have been trained to deal with emergency procedures to try and prevent any outbreak of transmissions the students of course have also been provided with protection as social distancing measures are in place during the lunch breaks and the canteens have also been set up almost like exam rooms to try and separate or divide the students and the reason why these schools are slowly reopening is we've seen a gradual for declining numbers in the number of crowd of cases in china and that's why the schools are reopening the national health commission on monday has reported just 3 cases in china and none of which were in the who by province of course this is the epicenter the province where we saw the initial krajina virus outbreak and on sunday the national health commission reported no new coronavirus cases in that particular city and this of course of the city there were 11000000 people i went into lockdown back in january and it's graduate reopening but i should state there

are questions still about the calculations being used by china and by the national health commission and some countries are also calling for an investigation into the modeling in the calculation of china's official figures. what south korea is considering a pre-schools m a soul has begun lifting social restrictions with large churches reopen on sunday and in the past week and a half the country has reported less than 20 new cases each day. a radio station in pakistan is holding on to a clinic so that people living in remote areas can get information about the pandemic is alexia brah. the airwaves in northern pakistan once carried lectures by the taliban one preacher was even given the nickname mullah radio but now the station in swat valley is broadcasting a very different message so i wanted to. stay home and stop the spread of the coronavirus if

a lucky man. if you made your isn't news of the people in this area is not long ago it was used by the pakistani taliban to enhance the movement we found it very useful it's easy to reach out to the masses and solve the health issues using our radio clinic. packed to inquire radio reaches further than the local newspaper and television stations deep into the foothills of the hindu kush. the radio clinics were launched last month to increase awareness about the virus educating locals while keeping them indoors programme you need to do clinic the purpose of our program is to provide life health services to patients who aren't able to go to the hospitals because of the lockdown doctors of speciality s. are invited and they give advice to anyone who needs help. from patients like hoshi who has had trouble and that makes him especially vulnerable to the virus and. i was very worried about my health but then i learned about this radio service it was

a wonderful experience for me i called the doctor and he helped me out. hoshi delhi is home with his family like tens of millions across pakistan where shutdown began last month. there being thousands of cases and dozens of deaths and it's feared a lack of taste and maybe concealing the true number of infections. doctors are angry that mosques have been allowed to stay open during the muslim fasting month of ramadan. they were warned that if the virus becomes widespread here its impact could be catastrophic overwhelming a fragile health system that has just 3000 acute care beds for a population of 200000000. in normal days hospitals were brimming with people but after the lockdown it was impossible to go to any clinic or hospital this new radio health program has helped many from their homes because they can

just call us. this one time pirate radio station now a lifeline for this community. brian al jazeera. iran plans to reopen some mosques in areas that are demeaned free deemed free of coronavirus though the government will start labeling regions either white yellow or red depending on the number of deaths or infections mostyn want zones will be able to resume services the rains have already returned to shops and bazaars as the government tries to revive its battered economy the country's president says regions will be classified on a case by case basis do have to show that 14 now. after 2 weeks is there are no deaths no new cases it is then up to the ministry of health to say according to its own criteria that this area this county this sector is white and other areas can be yellow or red so we will divide the country on the basis of white yellow and red. israel supremes court has ruled the government must

pass legislation to continue with a controversial surveillance program that tracks anybody suspected of having the virus it said the parliament must begin legislating guidelines by thursday prime minister benjamin netanyahu gave security agencies the power to track mobile data from any possible covert 900 cases the supreme court says the measure is a breach of people's privacy. it australia more than a 1000000 people have chosen to download a mobile phone tracing app was launched on sunday the software uses bluetooth technology to connect with other phones so users can be traced and contacted if they're exposed to 90. staff and airline manufacturer busts have been told to brace themselves for more job cuts than initially expected as the company fights for survival a letter to employees from the chief executive once the company is bleeding cash has reportedly lost a 3rd of its business in a matter of weeks with airlines among the hardest hit by the covert 19 outbreak.

the u.s. depends on millions of farm workers to maintain its food supply with cramped working and living conditions of putting them at increasing risk of infection from coburg 19 but enough reynolds reports from not in california the country's biggest agricultural producer. strawberries are right dinning in the fields waiting to be picked but for farm workers like maria harvest time is a season of fear but. i am afraid of getting sick because if i don't recover i will die so i would leave for children in the all finance i am obviously afraid but i have to whack maria who is undocumented and asked that her surname not be used is one of an estimated $3000000.00 farm workers in the us all are considered essential workers like doctors nurses and law enforcement but unlike them they are paid low wages have fewer legal protections and many lack protective gear on to seem to me

the bottom line the last line think about them they are about. any form workers as a group are already among the least healthy in society poverty lack of access to basic medical care high rates of diabetes hypertension and lung problems from exposure to pesticides means that farm workers are at high risk of becoming extremely ill or dying if they get corona virus a corona virus flare up among farm workers could spread like wild fire extremely difficult to prevent the spread if there's a there's a major outbreak in the agriculture industry even a good one outbreak among say one careless finally the contractor can cause an outbreak among the whole industry many farm operators do allow workers to practice social distancing for example by working alternate rows of crops but the pay structure discourages stringent hygiene and many workers are being paid piece

$3.00 per box a lot of strawberries that get 20 seconds washing your hands can feel at this stage you're waiting in line during a break and want to get back out there in the fields to pick more california and a handful of other states have laws. laws providing unemployment insurance and compensation for injuries on the job to farm workers all of the of this united states of america do not necessary is not. an incentive for workers like maria working from home obviously isn't an option and even staying home while sick is an impossible luxury so in a couple i mean any person in my family that is ending in income so if i'm a it's either you well he. or that i have. they are essential workers putting food on the country's tables every day yet somehow they remain invisible and vulnerable rob reynolds al-jazeera oxnard california

one of the next report in our series that will be in the u.k. where the lockdown is encouraging more people to grow fruit and vege in the back gardens that's on tuesday right here on al-jazeera. get our website out desert dot com as you dress all the news we're covering right there plenty of comment and analysis to al-jazeera dot com. this is out there these are the top stories and britain's prime minister has returned to downing street after being diagnosed with corona virus a month ago boris johnson places government will outline plans for easing restrictions but warned of the risk of a 2nd wave we're now beginning to turn the tide if these virus where a physical assailant an unexpected and invisible maga which i can tell you

propose we experience it is then this is the moment when we have begun together to wrestle it to the floor. the daily death toll from coronavirus in europe's hardest hit countries has fallen to its lowest level in more than a month italy plans to begin easing restrictions in may people will be allowed to visit relatives and some businesses will reopen. germany's making the wearing of masks compulsory while using public transport 3 masks to be made available to collect for the past week in cities nationwide el salvador security officials have been authorized to use lethal force against gang members following a surge in violence during the pandemic of prisons have been ordered to place members of rival gangs into shared cells in a bid to break up lines of communication it's also imposed a 24 hour lockdown in correctional facilities the country suffered 24 homicides on friday and another 29 by late sunday. schools and universities in some

parts of china that were closed because of the pandemic are beginning to reopen and social distancing measures will continue during lessons students in the city will hand where the outbreak began will start heading back to school and that's as early as next week south korea is considering opening schools in may so has begun lifting social restrictions with large churches reopening on sunday in the past week and a half the country has reported less than 20 new cases each day and to australia more than a 1000000 people have chosen to download a mobile phone tracing up the software uses bluetooth technology to connect with other phones so users can be contacted if they're exposed to covert 90. to date with the headlines got more news here in al-jazeera right after witness. 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 donald trump joining us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. now always make sure that the story that i'm telling is impactful it's always on something simple question why should people k. . 'd killings itself. it's a reflection of the posts the state society that's boys and. heavy where sharpton and ambassador are governing.