how does seem to bring you the needed current things that matter to you. i'll just you know. this is al jazeera. hello i'm sam is a than this is the news hour live from coming up in the next 60 minutes. away evolve anger in lebanon one person is killed in clashes during anti-government protests over the failing economy. spain's unemployment rate jumps to 14 percent is the government proposes a plan for easing restrictions new figures show deaths from cope with 19 tripled in

care homes in england and wales and 3 weeks suggesting a much higher death toll than official figures show a new report warns of a coronavirus catastrophe in syria's last. we speak to the author of the study. at the sports including doubts over the tokyo lympics has been postponed for a year but japan's top doctor says that it will still be difficult to hoist without a vaccine. now lebanon is bracing for more anger on the streets as the economy sinks further due to the current virus outbreak. 3 variables are on patrol in tripoli after a night of demonstrations against the government's handling of the economy turned violent. a 26 year

old man was killed in clashes with security forces in tripoli beirut people define the coronavirus long throwing petrol bombs and vandalizing banks so holder is in tripoli for us in northern lebanon joins us from there so i can see behind you looks like some smoke looks like some people on the streets of things he thing up again. yes things are heating up again chaos in the streets of this northern a city anti-government protesters trying to block roads they have been vandalizing banks that's what they did really last night as protesters of protests turned into riots the lebanese army out in force they are responding with tear gas and us is why we have to move away and at the same time some of these protesters are quite violent because they don't want us to film their faces as they vandalized public and private property so the situation is quite terrible people here are saying that

nothing to lose economic hardships that they're facing it has been worse said in recent days as you can hear rubber coated bullets are being used by the lebanese army in recent days the lebanese lira lost lost its value it deep reshaped to at least 60 percent so people here the majority of people here are in their salaries in the lebanese liras so they've they've lost the value of their money and many others here are unemployed tens of thousands of people have lost their jobs in recent months this economic crisis is not new it was made worse by the lock down the containment measures to battle the coronavirus but this problem this crisis has been going on for months now a protest movement began in october that protest movement now revived as the situation of the economic and financial situation worsens by the day. all right if you need to take cover i'm not sure. if you can still talk so you know feel free to

tell me if you need to but i was going to say is you know a lot of the reporting talks about the long haul making things even worse economically for people that the pictures we're looking at now doesn't look like a whole lot of long down there's a lot of people out on bikes in cars standing around burning things. yet they see that the lockdown has been eased to a certain extent the government realizes that at the end of the day people have to return to work a lot of these people rely on the daily wages to survive and according to the authorities in many ways they've been able to contain the fire risk some 700 cases 24 deaths on a daily basis approximately 10 new infections but at the end of the day there's not a lot of testing being done but you talk to anybody here and they say coronavirus well we're dying from hunger our children are asking us for food our children are

hungry and we cannot afford to buy food inflation more than 50 percent increase of more than 50 percent and that is according to the economy minister so officials are acknowledging this crisis but they haven't come up with any plan to solve this crisis levanon it needs cash it needs hard currency there's a shortage of dollars and it doesn't have many friends in the international community so the government really has little options to solve this problem and in the interim you're seeing people becoming more and more poor and finding it really difficult to survive. as we're all talking the. the black smoke is really bellowing now what exactly is on i assume something's on fire down there right can you tell us what exactly are we looking at down at the end of that story i mean the banks that time so that's a bank on file obviously the allies banks right then they're not happy i

guess with the fact that this is a common get the most money i. no capital h o's informal capital controls have been in place since november so you have really no access to your savings this is 8 but many of these people here do not have bank accounts these are the impoverished people of lebanon cannot find work if they don't work today then they can't feed their children but yes banks have imposed control of the banking association says they have no other choice because they don't want capital flight and that there is a liquidity crisis in the country and that they lent the money to the states and the politicians wasted public funds and the states defaulted on its debt and couldn't pay some back so many people blame the bonds and even if you have a dollar account on just one of those where you can see the army deployed in force

. they are deploying yeah so if you have a dollar account then the banks are dispersing your money and lebanese leader out which has lost value so there is an under clear haircut but it's not just the banking sector people are upset that people are upset that the political elites which they blame really for years of mismanagement years of corrupt i'm for it and now the state is close to bankruptcy and micro said levanon needs pass the international community will not provide money but make this very very clear on the politicians and the men much needed structural economic reform and politicians are reluctant to do that why because if they do that then they lose access to the states resources which many accused of using exploiting political gain so there is a real crisis the state is under pressure the new government says well we're all technocrats we were we were you know we took office and salary we're not responsible for this

crisis but their opponents will say well those who appointed you are political. parties who have been governing for decades and now what you have is political tensions worsening between the government and the opposition. just to take in what's happening because this looks a little so real i guess to view as perhaps more around the world on the left side of the screen down there we've got a bank on file on the right side of the screen we can see soldiers just over your shoulder milling around and everyone just seems to be a little bit relaxed about all of this i mean what kind of. measures are they trying all they trying to take back control of the situation or they just resigned to what seems to be a country and not just an economy almost in free fall at this point. well lebanon is a country which is a new to violence years and years of conflicts political instability so for many lebanese what is going on here today is not unusual but there is no doubt this is

a very dangerous situation the country is out across the road people are growing hungry the state trying to it's oppose its authority on the ground the army will say we allow you to be a protest you can gather but we will not allow people to destroy public and private property we will take action and it seems this is what the lebanese army is trying to do now take control of the streets try to restore calm they are deploying on main roads as we noticed a lot of the protesters have now left on their motorcycles people are worried about you know being arrested last night there have there were a number of arrests at the same time there were injuries not just among the protesters you mentioned earlier one protester was killed but there were injuries among the army soldiers as well and the army releasing a statement not too long ago saying that they will investigate the shooting

incident that resulted in the death of the protester because this is this wasn't the intent so there must. to launch an investigation will it call the st it's hard to say because we've been talking to people here and what they tell you is that the army shouldn't be shooting at us the army should be taken action taking action against politicians who they call corrupt politicians they say that these politicians should be taken to prison instead of you know the states using their weapons against the lebanese people so it is. what we're seeing now really is a warning or a sign of what's to come if there is no such. force from a crisis this country is facing in decades the leader is still at the official rate of $1500.00 and if you were draw money from the bank that's how much they give you against the dollar but but there are no dollars sometimes so you exchange it in the street that's now $4000.00 be around so you can imagine what it means for people

who earn in the lebanese pounds and with they said skyrocketing more than 50 percent zain so if they want to see what we can hear you on the show so i think that was gunshots just tell us what's going on no need to so you take cover if you need to. know this it seems like the army is using rubber coated bullets in order to as well as tear gas to disperse protesters that are trying to clear this square this square is really symbolic because when the protest movement began in october this was where people were gathering this was the main protest site so the army is trying to clear the square close the roads that lead and the bank the streets you can see. the army we can ask them any presence the army will not speak to us but it's clear what they're trying to do they're trying to take control if you can see the tear

gas there lobbing tear gas so yeah we can see why the smoke are assuming there's gas. right the but it's not clear you know that looks like the pace of play at all snow at this point not sure who they shooting to guess. whether they want to clear clear the square you can see some some young men still on their motorcycle the biggest question is what will happen in a few hours time the people who just returned to the streets is this going to stop them. yes they they were really the very fact that they all this person ran away a lot of them are are afraid of being arrested so i'm a little bit is a that so just to clarify then the guys that we're seeing on motorbikes all day the protesters has this protest movement transformed the disorder of mobile motorbike protest movement. you know but a lot of a lot of people from tripoli used motorbikes because it is

a very impoverished city people cannot afford cars. and that's why so you know what we saw throughout the day and last night were people in the streets demonstrating gathering in the square as well as targeting and vandalizing that so this is you can clear the square now but the biggest question like i said what happens and then in the next few hours. if the economic crisis is not resolved the problem is the lebanese government was in session a short while ago they just finished their meeting we didn't hear any anything about an economic rescue plan this is what the government calls it a rescue plan on how to deal with the crisis nothing presented so far they did the tests touching. people's deposits and bonds to try to. so really the state but there was an uproar and people

went against the odds so what is the government going to do it is close to bankruptcy. and people are only getting angrier and the 10s of thousands have lost their jobs in the process and the past few months hundreds of restaurants have closed hotel occupancy down to 10 percent and that was even before the coronavirus lockdown the tourism sector has been hit hard many sectors have been hit hard by this crisis so it is really levanon has been at the crossroads many many many times in the past it has reached a turning point many many times in the past since the end of the civil war in 1998 but never before has the situation been. the spot where like i said a states close to bankruptcy and very little friends in the international community nobody seems interested in just bailing levanon out unless there are only 4 of us

and those in power are clinging on to got power so sammy it is quite. a precarious situation. the same point that you mention about the cabinet was meeting today one of the things which was reported that they would be looking at is a potential what's called a haircut of up to 70 percent on bond holders do we have any idea if they've gone for those kinds of missions. you know the prime minister realised how much opposition he face when that was leaked to the meat a few weeks back the prime minister even have to make a televised address and make clear that if there's any haircut on fact deposits it would only affect 2 percent of deposits. that means those who have millions of dollars and they're believed to be the politicians the big businessmen who are

friends with the politicians and that's why you saw every politician suddenly suddenly raise their voice and say no we are not going to accept this and the people of course say and some of the politicians even said that we're not going to pay the price for the government. the way that they've mismanaged the economy all these years so that's doesn't seem to be on the table any longer at least at least not 90 percent of the deposits in the banks but some a haircut has already happened because when you're not allowed to withdraw your dollar deposits in dollars and you would draw it in lebanese liras at the official rate of $1500.00 then that is a 60 percent haircut on your deposits and a lot of lebanese work abroad so they send their money back home and the banks were really providing people with high interest rates trying to lure hard currency in

the country and that is why the central bank governor has been criticized for his monetary policies it is a very complicated situation the government says it's going to fight corruption the government says it's going to enact laws to take politicians to courts but the biggest question is can it do that yes maybe it. is calls himself an independent and all his ministers are independent images that were jumping that it would look you know pictures with a camera angle to the right of. some things on file. an a.t.m. machine yes this is a cash machine. yes this is a cash machine been vandalised cash machines the facade of. last night in tripoli but a few days 2. bank branches in other cities that 11 on have been vandalized. we've seen this happen before at the beginning of the when the protest movement

began in october a lot of the banks were vandalized because of those capital controls because of the fact that people couldn't access their savings so how serious is it is this is this is insane or to see images like this in a place like tripoli i mean lebanon is no stranger to violence but for so much of its recent history that violence has been so attached to factions ethnic religious divides we saw tripoli at the beginning of the syrian revolution wrapped up in some of that but this is different right now correct. to a certain extent yes it is about poverty people from all sects coming together. and demanding a change of leadership that's what we saw in october but at the same time there was at least half of the population still supporting the mainly sectarian political parties there's definitely the what people here call their uprising their

revolution did not have the support of the majority of the lebanese people many lebanese still supported their parties for a number of reasons they were benefiting from them they gave them draw or for ideological reasons for that matter and that is one of the reasons why the protest movement was not really able to achieve much and then there was of course the fact that the states fought back they clung on to power those in power have been in power for decades they know how to hold on to power they control the army they control the internal security forces so the people who are up against the militarized state and there was a lot of arrests and violence we've seen scenes like this back in december and in january so a lot of people were really discouraged from returning to the streets they felt that even if we returned to the streets it's not going to achieve much it's not going to change the leadership there must be other ways to do to do that and

a lot of people have been calling for early elections the politicians are are not heeding the call either but you say tripoli and you say 6 terry in politics that's where it is quite dangerous because this is a city a majority son a city which feels that they know they have no say in the government. according to lebanon's power sharing sectarian system they should hold the post of prime minister and yes has is the son name but he was not appointed by the sunni community he doesn't have the. support of the sunni community so they feel other sects have taken over their constitutional powers so that's another layer to the to the conflict in lebanon but as you can see the army is now out in force there blocking roads leading to the banks street. they are now in control of this of this area of tripoli but the biggest question we have to see is whether or not they will

be able to maintain. control in the next hours or days to come. or i could suffer from. a thing also on a very dynamic and fluid situation in the northern lebanese city of tripoli and as we've been saying lebanon's economy has been in free fall for months with jobs in short supply and the government struggling under massive debts over the past week the currency has fallen rapidly forcing the central bank to set the selling price of dollars at $3200.00 pounds for money transfer firms the government is in talks with the international monetary fund for a bailout a 5 year plan aims to boost growth to 2 percent by 2024 it requires $10.00 to $15000000000.00. on the money is much needed with the i.m.f. forecasting that lebanon's economy shrinking by 12 percent this year will lead for

howard dean is a media scholar and activist in beirut he says people have nothing left to lose in lebanon. what the people are worried about now is not only the lock down it's a collapsing economy and the continuous failure of the illegible government of sand the which actually did not got ever get a vote of confidence got the minority vote in the parliament less than half the parliament voted for it however due to the support of hezbollah to this governor that was formed they promised that they would come up with economic and so you share and they will get some kind of support and economical help to them and then they fail not much has been done till today there is no plan of going out of this financial crisis and the people have no other choice but to go out to the streets again to demonstrate definitely they're gonna be they're gonna be kind of violence

to the fact that people just lost over 60 percent of their income or of the value with the devaluation of the lebanese town other than that there are many companies are shutting down with a groan of virus people who are locked down so other companies aren't paying salaries. with all of this this little that has been done by our government. well to take a look at how governments are dealing with the pandemic there france and spain lifting curfews gradually relaxing month long stay at home orders in germany meanwhile the government is under pressure to review the loosening of restrictions and in the u.k. control over the new fatality numbers which are far higher than the growth government has previously announced we have 3 reporters with live reports all out of europe jonah hole is in london with the latest virus related deaths there dominic cain will join us from berlin where infections are reportedly on the rise

but 1st let's go straight to martin she's in madrid so we understand that they were looking at ways to perhaps. face bring in a new phase of the lockdown where those plans stand. yes some is spain has is entering the 2nd phase of the lockdown on today prime minister but he will announce all the details of these plans of the years collation what we know so far is that these deescalation plan will be slow will be gradual will be symmetric and that with a symmetric meaning that it will be the same in every region in spain we've got 17 autonomy's in the corner virus has impacted each. in different ways so we're starting one before the other and without the canary islands with no no death with no the there's reduced dork cases of coronavirus and we've got madrid in the epicenter. go in behind we also know that everything will be coordinated from the

central government they will all will all have the same rules but different speeds also santo before announcing this plan has asked all the all the regions to be prepared to double their intensive care units capacity and be able to isolate isolate 1000 patients in case this is needed they will be monitoring the. number of people infected and if the trend to keep score in the for the past weeks the trend has been has been decreasing and has being a stabilizing so. for example these in the past 24 hours were reduced to the lowest number of of people infected with 130300 fatalities these are the lowest number since the outbreak of 4 of our recent spain so we think if things continue these way we will know shortly all the details about these the escalation plan all right thanks martha let's continue our review what's going on in the continent bono

dominic came these in germany for us dominic if i can call it. the contagion right right there's something going on there it seems to be going up now tell us what the impact is of that those numbers. yes i mean the magic number as it were for the german scientific mind and for the government has been what would happen with the what's called the on nor the reproduction rate of the coronavirus governments and scientific advisors said the main mission was to keep it below one in other words when one infected person would infect one other person as it were if it was ever above that as it was when the pandemic started in germany well that was the point in which to have lockdowns and to reduce freedom of movement last week before that it was below $10.00 at one point then nor point 9 for several days now robert cock institute which is the

representative and authority of body on this topic says it's back at one that means that the government would angle americal in the chancery building behind me as a real problem to wrestle with she knows that many leaders in this country of different states say our economies are really hurting we need to loosen restrictions and yet the scientific data that relevant ministers plus single america have said will inform their decision well that data is now going back up again and so it puts her and her government in a real quandary they realize the economic difficulties which would be eased by easing restrictions but they also know that the relevant bodies are saying that with the rate of reproduction of the virus going up it means that a 2nd wave of corona virus is very possible. all right thanks so much dominic talking about rising numbers though we can take that sort of theme to jonah hill in

london we had some numbers come out today that also are going i guess you could say the wrong way tell us what sort of picture that's painting for us. you know these are figures released by the office for national statistics covering overall deaths numbers related to 19 in england and wales they released on tuesday last tuesday they began to set bells warning bells jangling because they appeared to present a picture that was very much worse than the official numbers that are released every day that rolling total updated daily it only represents deaths in hospital settings not in the wider community in particular not in places like care homes the oh and s. numbers do and this week they confirm that the picture is very much worse than people up to now have thought 21284 deaths recorded across all of those settings up to april the 17th that's an 11 day lag time in these figures at

that point on april the 17th the official number was just 13917 i say just but it's a lot lower 52 percent lower in fact so 52 percent worse the overall picture now that it's been than the one that has been presented to the public than the one that the government has been using as its base its base number for policy and within all of that one percent to particularly badly hit as i said the care home sector also putting up some pretty disturbing accelerating rates of fatalities there tripling in the 2 week period from april the 10th to a running total of nearly $5500.00 the care home sector care home bosses say is now the front line in the battle against code $900.00 in this country it all gives the lie of course to what the government has been saying and for as johnson in particular on his return to work on monday that the tide is being turned the peak has been reached the end of phase one is not i well it isn't in the care home

sector in this country. all right jonah how their thanks for that. french prime minister dr phillip says along down imposed in response to the covert 19 pandemic saved $62000.00 lives in a month but keeping the restrictions in place going ahead would mean of risking economic collapse he says he's speaking now in parliament explaining how the long town would gradually be eased. french fishermen are among the many waiting to get back to work natasha bottler has more on the multi-billion dollar industry desperate to get back to see early morning in france's biggest fishing port. fishermen return to dr unload their catch when they look down began 6 weeks ago the city's wholesale market closed prices plunged and fishing stopped to survive financially the fisherman had to come up with

a plan the prices at the auction hall were. really low. and the fisherman decided actually not to go out sheep station and now it is better. we're not in critical mode anymore we're not in survival mode anymore thanks to a new organization that was set up also if issues and fishermen reduce the number of boats allowed to operate to control supplies and protect prices some fishermen though haven't returned to work because of the health risks social distancing on board is impossible the fisherman says we don't want to go fishing because we are too close to try that when we go fishing so they decide to not believing the hard work and stay at home but a part of the fisherman says ok we are going to a good bust and also toured to try and find a solution for all this is small scale fishing is in financial turmoil too in the south west and poor many of the boats

a family owned and operated the coronavirus crisis has also had an impact on fisherman and women here in the port of why all they've had to adapt to the situation and come up with creative new ways to keep that business is afloat off to the lock down flawless but are now hard to find a way to sell her fish with the market shut she decided to sell her catch directly to local customers and fishmongers now she fishes in the morning and in the often new delivers his sea bass and souls by fan he said. this crisis has shown us that if you rely on one system of distribution it's a catastrophe there's no doubt we need royal's wholesale market for its infrastructure fridges ice but we've learnt that we also need our own local fishmongers and customers workers in the countries fishing industry hope that the situation improves all through the french government loosens a smoke down from a levels and once restaurant school canteens and shops

a permitted to reopen financial recovery is likely to be slow in the short term but then least it's on the horizon. natasha butler al-jazeera why are france. millions of war refugees in syria are facing what's being described as a potential catastrophe the us based humanitarian organization refugees international says they're crammed into a small area making them more vulnerable to the spread of covert 19 nearly 3000000 civilians in the province of boxed into an area which was home to just half a 1000000 before the war started some 9 years ago or so far the virus is blamed for the deaths of 3 syrians and $42.00 infections mostly in the capital damascus but doctors fear a major outbreak could result what they call a bloodbath 83 percent of the population lives in poverty hospitals in it have fewer than $100.00 ventilators to treat around 3000000 people.

is the senior advocate for the middle east that refugees international she is the author of the report and joins us by skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us so 1st of all i know the official numbers say 3 people in syria have died of the virus but doing no more actually particularly in italy. or the rate of infection is there i imagine there's probably not a whole lot of testing going on. yes exactly so the 3 people are the government number and we know that the government has tried to kept you in all things very openly so people don't really trust the numbers but if the situation is different as you say you know it's controlled by rebels and. they started they received a little the 1st testing kits in late march and the capacity for testing is very

loyal it's in the north 10 tsunamis so far so that has no cases covered $1000.00 contro but many believe it's because of the long testing capacity won't do people in live need most right now i know it's kind of a difficult question because we're not just talking about an area that is facing a quote unquote bloodbath from coronavirus but also from the horrors of war. exactly so at least for the past year and a half have been greely going through a very brutal unilateral military led by the syrian regime and backed by russia it started last year and 2001003 it escalated in april. last year 1000000 people were displaced because of the offensive then a ceasefire was. and gave a kind of arrest for people but then violence escalated again and between december

2019 and february 2020 another 1000000 people have been displaced so. when you talk to people inside labor or you know activist and humanitarian workers in turkey they all talk about really very deplorable condition living conditions so what we know is there's an estimated 1200000 people who live in refugee camps along the borders they are literally crammed. you talk to people they tell you we don't even have access to. 3040 from things 50 people have to share the same toilets they have to walk for long distance to access toilet they don't have access to water and shelter is one of the major issues they are facing you know because of the lack of space because the territory controlled by opposition groups is

shrinking at 21 from 7th out 1000 square meter to 50000 square meter just between last april and now people are literally crammed you know peter families to 3 families in one tent even in apartments you know families are hosting other families. what we've seen during the winter is that people had really nowhere to go but stay in the open we saw thousands of. the number is around 12. 1000 people were literally staying in the open air and it was during a very harsh winter so we even saw cases of our families or of children you know off easy to death around 10000 cases or still. shelter is one major for people inside. but of course you're not it's

a war situation so all other needs 2000000 people out of the 3000000 rely on humanitarian aid and people have basically everything in the world or so so the needs are really huge. army i guess one of the needs must be for ventilators are charities able to bring in ventilators medicine i mean how easy is it to send supplies. so it live is along the border with turkey of course and there has been the resolution 2165 that facilitated grass border you know aid coming into. so medicine has not really been an issue but ventilator is definitely in need specially now that you know the health director it and other humanitarian organization are preparing for in.

our own way apologize there we lost contact. hers move on little bit then store related to corona virus though china accusing the u.s. of telling what it calls bare-faced lives about the front of virus pandemic beijing says washington only wants to shirk its responsibility well that's after the u.s. president renewed his attacks on the country says his administration is conducting serious investigations into what happened. we are not happy with china we are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source it could have been stopped quickly and it would have spread all over the world and we think that should have happened so we'll let you know the appropriate time but we are doing serious adverse to gay should the coronaviruses change how we live and also how we greet each other the age old handshake once a sign of peace threatens to spread the disease instead some are bowing to

traditional greeting in japan and other countries or how about in the park in india putting your hands together with the greeting the last day some behavior experts think less common methods such as bumping elbows or tipping your hat may eventually replace the handshake as a way of saying hello hygenic manner. is a behavioral psychologist a professor of organizational behavior at the holt international business school he joins us from rotterdam in the netherlands so do you think this is going to have a long term impact on behavioral patterns like things how we greet each other. well i guess creaking is so cultural isn't it i mean in a sense so you know as you mentioned. coltrane it's kind of difficult sometimes these days when you know you run into someone in the you have to remind yourself ok

no shaking hands no even getting close they far away. right right and so i think what we've seen now you know we've been locked down now for about 45 days in many countries and so i think what's happened is that a lot of people have developed habits to maintain physical distancing and so for example not shaking hands waving or putting your hands together even though you've seen people tapping each other's feet and some countries around the world as a new way to develop you know as a way to still greet each other because grieving is so important for us to do that in a way that doesn't harm us you know i made the covert 900 virus but if this is going to stay that's a big question because i think as we come out of lockdown in many countries around the world you know people will tend to fall back into old patterns especially if they see other people doing so as well and as you're speaking to say we we were

running some clips of different world leaders greeting each other we may see the end of the very famous battle of the handshake between certain world leaders on a more serious note what about other things like the concept of personal space crowding when eventually everyone assumes the gets back into buses and sports stadiums are going to see changes there to. well i think we should see changes there you know for example if we if we if we look at what's happening in markets and so you tube stations when people are going back to work or going outside enjoying the nice weather we see actually a lot of people now and not hearing to the physical measurements or the physical distancing measures of like keeping 1.5 meters distance from each other it's very hard to do so just take the chook for example in london and during rush hour it's

very it's close to impossible to maintain enough distance to you know jane sure that you're living up to those measures so i think in some circumstances it's going to be very hard to do if if existing let's say facilities are not retrofitted take for example restaurants and bars as you know as non-essential businesses will start to open or across europe and across the world will start to see that though those businesses will have to retrofit their or their establishments to be able to adhere to the let's say the health requirements that are given to them so it will be it will be a challenge but i do think that a lot of spaces a lot of establishment will do so but in other places it will be very hard to to to to make that work. this is a fascinating topic is new because goes into all kinds of things like ok what does what the cafes do with costs and so on but we'll leave it there for now thanks so much to it. still ahead on al-jazeera how this referee is

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business waiters. welcome back living on the long town is inspiring many people to trying growing their own fruit and vegetables in the back garden in the u.k. demand for the seeds is soaring charlie angela reports from southeast england the latest in our series of reports how the pandemic is impacting farming and food

security. watering her crops hilary pav it has repurposed her garden to grow vegetables to help eventually feed herself and her family during the coronavirus crisis she's one of millions of britons now sowing seeds to try and become more self-sufficient after realizing that food supply chains a fragile we've started planting potatoes with vegetables because again the solids sell for the winter so hopefully in about let's say 6 weeks we'll start to be self self-sufficient i think and obviously there's going to be a problem with how projects is going to end up in the supermarkets because you know they can't get the migrant workers to come in those lockdowns so you know in the end there's going to end up being shortages i think you know in weeks to come so hopefully we'll be alright others without gardens are using what space they have to germinate tomatoes q cumbers and herbes with very little knowledge you can get

a bumper crop of vegetables out of a small of britain's wartime generation were told to dig for victory and responded with enthusiasm hardening britain's reliance on food imports by the early 1940 s. now households with time on their hands are returning to the garden. the royal horticultural society has seen a surge in visits to its website seeking advice on how to grow your own vegetables fruit and edible plants well seed money factor is a reporting a massive rise in sales in recent weeks in supermarkets most panic buying has eased but egg shells are often still there considered a staple of the pandemic pantry live poultry breeders across the u.k. have seen their farms stripped of birds as families unable to find eggs in the shops turn to chicken keeping sussex poultry farmer lives and reality has now decided to stop selling chickens anxious that some might regret their impulse buys

when the lockdown is lifted and i've never had so many people cortex an e-mail like i said it takes me a good month to sell the stock that i get in and within a week i had sold all my some of my leftover february birds and my march so it was a huge panic i think for people to suddenly go oh my god i can't get my eggs the u.k. currently imports 85 percent of its vegetables from the european union but there are concerns lengthy quarantines could disrupt food supply chains turning to the soil rather than the supermarket for fresh produce could ease that burden charlie and al-jazeera hampshire oh in the next report in our series predictions of a tough road ahead for british dairy farmers as demand from restaurants and cafes evaporates that's on wednesday here on al-jazeera. all right sports fans joe's here to bring us up to speed with how the situation looks in sports world absolutely so

i mean yes japan's top doctor says it will still be difficult for tokyo to host the olympics next year without a coronavirus vaccine the games has been put back to a year to next july because of the pandemic and a great cost to japan which had already spent around $13000000000.00 on hosting it but the country remains in a state of emergency and a one year delay may not be enough time according to the president of japan's medical association not another. tsunami i think it would be difficult to hold the olympics without a vaccine being developed i'm not saying that japan should or shouldn't host but i expect it would be difficult to do so i want to believe that the numbers of infections in tokyo is falling but there's just not enough testing being done so it's difficult to assess our asia correspondent robert bright has more on this story and explains why postponing the olympics again why not be an option. when the japanese government last month finally made the decision to delay the summer

olympics until next year it was considered the sensible thing to do and by delaying it a full year until summer 2021 that seemed to be a pretty safe bet but now as the coronaviruses continue to spread around the globe with world leaders a medical experts warning that social distancing will have to stay in place well into this year and that in fact a vaccine won't be available until many months after that suddenly summer $21.00 is looking a lot less safe at the moment japan is under a state of emergency and will remain as such until the end of the 1st week in may gradually the numbers of new infections are falling day by day but there are still questions over the kind of medical infrastructure japan has in place the lack of testing that it is doing and about just when exactly japan will be able to declare

that it has finally has the coronavirus under control all of this uncertainty has led to your sheer and mali the president of japan's 2020 summer olympics organizing committee to be quoted in one japanese sports newspaper saying that if the games can't be held next year then they should be scrapped increasingly it is looking like for the tokyo games it is 2021 or bust. digger murdoch has managed to avoid relegation after argentina's football season was called off because of current virus argentina's f.a. president announced that teams won't be relegated for the next 2 years which is welcome news for maradona because the club he manages him last year were among the bottom 3 clubs genius clinch the title on the final day of the campaign in march. european leagues have been given until may the 25th by a way for to submit plans to restart their seasons or not these are shots of

tottenham players in england arriving for their 1st training session in 48 days the premier league. and germany's blunders league are all trying to get going again but the netherlands and belgium have already scrapped their season. the l.a. lakers say they've returned a $4600000.00 government loan meant to help out small businesses during the crisis the lakers qualify for the loan which is meant to help pay employees and rent the team says it returned it when it found out that the government's program was running out of money. meanwhile the n.b.a. has pushed back the reopening of team training facilities until at least maybe 8th and we've supported by one of the philadelphia 76 ers owners. i think 1st off everyone is in the world is anxious for sports to come back issues begin to in a way save for our players and our players family and friends and also for fans and soon as we can do that we want that to happen until it is more people stay in shape and so i think

a lot of the players and want to work at it and want to access the practice facility i will link necessarily players who want to stay in the best possible shape to join a season in any sport who wouldn't. force training in rugby league players happen fined for breaching social distancing rules by going camping australia internationals the trial mitchell and josh i do car were fined $32000.00 each for their get together at mitchell's farm in new south wales 2 others were given $6000.00 fines photos and video of the trip was posted on social media before being taken down the incident has caused embarrassment to n.r.l. bosses as the league plans to restart the end of may despite concerns over coronavirus. and a humble referee in tunisia has transferred his skills from sports so the streets of his local town 98 year old abdul haq at legally has been trespassing in his uniform and issuing red yellow and blue cards to those who have violating social

distancing rules by standing too close to the line for the supermarket all food stands it's all symbolic effort to try to raise awareness of the dangers of coronavirus all right that is a sport for now have will feel later sammy. try the supermarket next time you go to get your groceries and shop it will take me giving someone a thanks joe from the annual mardi gras celebration to its normally buzzing bourbon street the arthur music of new orleans are always brought people together now after weeks of isolation the music community is using its creativity to find an audience and keep the city's soul alive hi joe castro has more. new orleans is famous for its jazz funerals. sendoff for the dead with mourners dancing in the streets. so at a time when so many are being buried the city's silence only amplifies the pain

until you listen closer. there's this this was this that you feel even though everybody's heart. new orleans musicians margy perec is still making music for her online fans today's venue is her neighbors living room the only live clapping from the thunder outside . it's so soothing for the soul because we get. to make music and. gave it a great name she called it. not touching yet touching ok. they live in a place called musicians village an enclave that emerged from the devastation of hurricane katrina to give displaced musicians new homes. we're fairly we're going

to help each other happens and we're going to fight through this together. covered 19 came at a bad time it's music festival season in south louisiana many local artists have been booked to perform at one of the largest the new orleans jazz festival now canceled gone too are the 300 $1000000.00 the festival normally generates for the economy. all of my income and of my revenue stream is gone now the last all were. you know all of our local gigs are. stable future. to the west of new orleans in the heart of cajun country festival internationality louisiana is also canceled. miles neagle says after 10 years as an attendee he had finally been invited to perform it's going to be ok

i know it's going to be ok it was just kind of like kind of what john is or. even 80 year old al johnson a legendary musician and a mardi gras icon the. has downsized to his porch ready. but in a city that normally loses with music these notes still find their appreciation. over. we all know it is. these louisiana musicians say when the epidemic finally passes the 1st thing they'll do is play to a live audience that needs healing i do joe castro al jazeera all right bats

this news out back at the top of the hour the now the foreshadows so do stay with us. dissolute mother waits on the border between ukraine and russian occupied crimea for news of her missing son. numerous young taunter men have disappeared following her arrest these disappeared other victims of a crackdown on the top population of crimea by russia since its occupation in 2014 . before the invasion of 2014 crimea was a part of another country ukraine we formed when the soviet union broke up into separate states but many russians including the president vladimir putin were unhappy with this. russia is determined to keep its alleged abuse of human rights

away from public scrutiny. as the only indigenous group still openly opposing the tradition russia sees this muslim minority as a threat. rewind return to scare brayer people back to life i'm sorry and brand new updates on the best of al-jazeera is documentaries in libya i was the both of us and the like and the others through that rewind continues with children of conflict we'd love some peace in this world especially ingerson children do not have any rights here rewind on al-jazeera. the time had come for the p.l.o. to seek a new and peaceful solution. pursuing a path of diplomacy but what was to turn their agreed withdrawal from lebanon into one of the most horrific civilian massacres of modern times women children we

couldn't keep. chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p.l.o. history of the revolution and al jazeera. more protests and violence in lebanon 2nd largest city as people show that outrage over a direct nomic situation. and sam is a that this is al-jazeera live from doha also coming up spain's unemployment rate jumps to 14 percent is the government poses a plan for easing restrictions. a moment of silence in the u.k. to remember health workers lost to cope with 19.