i a witness documentary on al-jazeera. told the number told stories from asia and the pacific on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. hello i'm adrian finighan this is the live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes banks under attack in lebanon troops patrol the 2nd largest city to stop more protests against the financial crisis. a moment of silence in britain to remember health workers who died after contracting covert 19 new statistics say the number of dead is much higher than the government has been reporting. francis prime

minister says the lockdown to save lives as he lays out plans to ease restrictions to boost industries like fishing. and missing out on vaccinations unicef says that millions of children aren't getting critical care. soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanon 2nd biggest city where there's been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis that at least one man died in tripoli as thousands to fight the coronavirus lock down al-jazeera is so hot it was hard top story. hunger and hopelessness are driving lebanese to the streets the economy is close to collapsing protesters vent their anger at banks for preventing people from accessing their savings and a long serving political elite is being blamed for mismanagement and corruption in recent days the local. currency has sharply devalued against the dollar there were

casualties among protesters and soldiers during confrontations that began monday night that's news that went to the streets because there are no jobs children are asking the parents for food and they don't have money to buy them any the young man who has mounted it was a father he had nothing to lose if you store to us for food what will you give he had nothing to lose calls for a change in leadership are not new a protest movement began in october but the ruling elite has clung on to power. apart from a few we have $128.00 criminals in palomas they stole public funds and transferred billions of dollars outside lebanon even the army soldiers oppressed like this salary is now worth $300.00. officials acknowledge inflation has increased by 50 percent and 45 percent of the nation of 6000000 people live below the poverty line but they haven't presented any plan to restore trust in the economy and fight

corruption. we are hungry the revolution is against corruption all official say there is corruption but what have they done we don't see any thief in prison instead they are shooting at the people then rival politicians who have been in power for decades deny allegations of corruption and are blaming each other for the state's near bankruptcy government leaders are accusing their opponents of trying to topple that by tampering with financial stability that fuels the anger of anti-government protesters the leadership the opponents say those in power are trying to hold them accountable for years of corruption. the state's finances are under immense pressure lebanon has a huge debt to pay and not enough foreign currency the government also doesn't have many friends abroad the scenes could be a warning of what's to come. tripoli. lisander mentioned lebanon's

economy has been in freefall for months now with jobs in short supply and the government struggling on the massive debt over the past week the currency is rapidly lost its value forcing the central bank to set an exchange rate of one u.s. dollar for $3200.00 lebanese pounds the government is in talks with the international monetary fund over a bailout the 5 year proposal aims to boost growth to 2 percent by 2024 and requires some $10.00 to $15000000000.00 the money is desperately needed with the i.m.f. forecasting lebanon's economy is shrinking by 12 percent this year rami khouri is a senior public policy fellow and journalism professor at the american university of beirut he joins us now live via skype from beirut good to have you with us again . is it seems like what it was just a few months ago you and i were sitting here. talking about protests in beirut what do you make of what's going on in tripoli today. it's very predictable this was

clear about a year ago that the economy was gradually collapsing because the central banks simply could not maintain the levels of foreign exchange that were needed to run the economy that created a lot of a lack of confidence in the banks depositors were not able to take most of their money out of the banks starting about 4 or 5 months ago the people lost their jobs. people would not learn very much to anybody there was no real investment in productive industries so the whole chain reaction happened and all of the worst part of it now and what you're seeing on the streets in tripoli and love and beirut in sidon in the south and other places are desperate people do really desperate young people who don't have a job we don't have money don't have savings don't have any social protection insurance the government can't help them out there they're desperate they're on their slogan is we are hungry were. the this was very predictable it's really

a sign of financial mismanagement and political core poor governance who's to blame you say it's been it's it's political mismanagement and poor governance understandably people are angry to what extent do they only have themselves to blame the. well the blame goes really to everybody the central bank was the central actor in this financial engineering scheme which some economists have called the ponzi scheme which eventually ran out of steam and couldn't be maintained as the banks themselves were very complicit they were making huge amounts of interest on loans that they were giving the central bank the central bank was taking that money financing the government spending a huge government deficit year after year with a lot of corruption as well and depositors who are putting their money in the banks were also making a lot of interest so that's why this went on for so many years everybody was

benefiting and people thought it would go on forever but like most illusionary ponzi schemes it doesn't go on forever at some point it collapses the smart people got their money out early and most of the people didn't those huge suffering the poverty in lebanon is now probably over 50 percent inequality is rising unemployment has there's up to a $250000.00 people possibly have been unemployed in the last few months it's just a huge economic implosion and the government has been very very slow to address it they're supposed to meet tomorrow to finalize a package of of decisions and that's still going to take you months to actually get things moving if they do move yeah how does lebanon extricate itself from this mess and will people tolerate the fix. people will tolerate the fix if it

is a serious one that promises ending corruption retrieving billions and billions of stolen money and corrupt money. and giving a promise that the economy will get back to some kind of even keel so it's a problem that many countries of greece out of cyprus that it has been as well it says we're not the 1st country to go through this all you have to do is reestablish confidence in the banking system. get investors to start investing in productive industries produce economic wealth that you then spend and the economic cycle then goes into positive instead of negative this requires probably $15.00 to $20000000000.00 of foreign grants and loans and investments which will which will come if there is that critical change which requires serious credible non-corrupt accountable governance and this is one of the things that lebanon has lacked really gets 30 rami many thanks indeed rami corey the professor

of journalism at the american university of beirut. the coronavirus pandemic the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. has just passed $1000000.00 that's a 3rd of the world's total number of infections president donald trump is promising to expand testing some states begin to ease lockdown measures and he's met florida's governor who wants to ease restrictions in his state let's go live now to washington our white house correspondent kimberly how could is with this committee the president tweeting. once again today he's been repeating these claims these inaccurate claims about levels of testing in the u.s. . yeah the u.s. president is really bristling at the suggestion that the united states may not be

a leader when it comes to testing something that he has wanted to claim now certainly the united states has caught up in some cases in testing but in terms of being a leader that is certainly a fact that has been widely disputed another fact that we should talk about as you said there at the start of the segment the number of infections in the united states now hitting the 1000000 mark it's important to put this into context that in a population of 330000000 even maybe as high as 360000000 if you count many of the people that were not included in the last census but the number of infections might be considered comparatively low but you have to remember that strict social distancing has been in place for many many weeks now and those numbers were projected to be much higher so the fact that it has gotten to the 1000000 mark is something that many are celebrating if you can imagine certainly not a good number but at the same time it had been expected to be so much higher and so

that's why there still is this conversation that's taking place about reopening states but at the same time you brought up testing you can't reopen states unless you have 8 vailable tasks for people in order to do that and when it comes to the testing well some of the numbers have been put that there are available tests in the 5400000 mark when again you're talking about a population of over 330000000 that certainly does seem to be a bit of a shortage when you're talking about getting all of these millions of americans back to work and that is something the president continues to push back on but the facts certainly speak for themselves the president expressed his disapproval of georgia's plans when it. looked on restrictions at the we count florida plans to do the same it's go but it has been at the white house today. yeah ad many sort of suggest that this meeting might be something about getting the president's blessing for opening up his state it's

a populous state one that people like to visit very big in terms of tourism but fearing that he might get the same sort of public humiliation rebuke that georgia's governor got late last week when it ignore the guidelines of the white house that you should have a bit of a flattening of infections for 14 days before opening about lead to the president strongly criticizing georgia's republican governor so now we see florida's governor here in the oval office that meeting house wrapped up and they are sort of celebrating the fact that the infections again in that state were not as severe as expected many had thought it would be like into new york even italy but in fact because they were able to put these measures in place very quickly the numbers stay low the concern now reopening the economy and making sure it stays that way so this is something that was a topic of conversation in the oval office i should also quickly say the other thing that was just gust was a potential executive order by this president in order to address the shortage of

food supply here in the united states that's starting to be evidence particularly when it comes to outbreaks in meat packing plants that is another thing the president is likely to talk about looking ahead as he addresses the media at 900 g.m.t. in the east room for his 2nd public appearance of the day we should note but there is no coronavirus task force briefing as we have been accustomed to taking place at 21 g.m.t. for many many weeks those have now been canceled and it's the 1000 chianti that we're now looking ahead to as the number of confirmed corona combiners cases in the u.s. process 1000000 that's white house correspondent kimberly howard reporting live from washington in another blow for the airline industry britain's national korea is set to slash up to 12000 jobs that's nearly a 3rd of its workforce british airways has notified trades unions of plans to restructure the company and says that it will likely take years before passenger

capacity returns to prepare and then think levels it's suspended 96 percent of its flights for april. the british government says the people who died from corona virus outside of hospital were now being clued in its daily fatality numbers the decision comes after the independently run office for national statistics published the number of care home and community deaths that figure was higher than what has been provided so far by the government. the proportion of coronavirus deaths in care homes is around a 6th of the total which is just below what we see in normal times i want to make sure that we bring as much transparency as possible to unfortunate information like this and so from tomorrow we'll be publishing not just the number of deaths in hospital each day but the number of deaths in care homes and in the community to

this is something that wasn't previously possible. more on what the figures demonstrate from observers john hall in london. but if anything they reinforce the government's position that it is too soon to start talking about easing the lockdown but they also expose the fact now that the actual death toll from covert 19 in england and wales at least and by extrapolation the rest of the u.k. is quite substantially higher than the official numbers suggest the numbers released from the n.h.s. and put out by the government to take into account only the deaths taking place in hospitals versus the owen s numbers that take into account the much wider picture of deaths from 1000 taking place in the community at home also in care homes also in hospitals tuesday mornings figures up to april the 17th there's an 11 day lag here that 21284 people died of related causes up to april the 17th at the same time the official number was 13917 there's

a difference there aged a 52 percent an enormous difference when you consider. that the numbers coming from the government it puts britain ahead of france and spain in their relative epidemics not quite yet ahead of italy but certainly since she says gives the lie all the tests the contention of the government that britain is turning the tide on this thing in a very worrying picture emerging as well from the care home industry that augments that difference potentially even further. living on a lockdown is inspiring many people to try to grow their own fruit and vegetables in their backyards and the u.k. demand for seeds is soaring charlie angela reports now from southern england and the latest in our series on how the pandemic is affecting farming and food security . watering her crops hilary pav it has repurposed hoegaarden 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 solid stuff for the winter so hopefully in about 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 amount britain's wartime generation were told to dig for victory and responded with enthusiasm having 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 shelves are often still bare 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 liz and rio at sea has now decided to stop selling chickens anxious that some might regret their impulse buys when the lockdown is lifted a love never had so many people kotex an email like i said it takes me a good month to say how the stock that i get in and within

a week i had sold all my some of my left over 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 that lengthy quarantines could disrupt food supply chains starting to the soil rather than the supermarket for fresh produce could ease that burden charlie and al jazeera hampshire in the next report in our series predictions of a tough road ahead for britain's dairy farmers system on from restaurants and cafes evaporates you can see that throughout the day on wednesday here on al-jazeera. spain's prime minister has outlined his plan for a return to normal life in 2 months time the easing of restrictions will happen in 4 phases the 1st will see restaurant terraces open with reduced capacity and set times for people over the age of 62 children were allowed outside to play for the

1st time in 5 weeks on sunday let's go live to out of madrid motörhead is with us more to tell us more about the prime minister's deescalation plan. yes world spain has just started this transition towards the new normal prime minister for their son to announce old today all the details of these deescalation plan he announced it will be very slow it will last between 6 and 8 weeks it will be gradual it will be divided in several faces that will last 2 weeks each and it will be meaning it won't be the same nationwide all the regions the 17 regions would have will have the same rules but different speeds their region since spain that hasn't been affected at all by the coronavirus so they will start these faces before others and it will be coordinated from the central government and supervised by the health ministry where we're talking about these full faces there will be evaluated. each phase will be evaluated at the end of each phase so we will start

with face 0 where it will start may 4th we are already in this decision period this these measures that you mention lifting this lockdown measures allowing children to go all to exercise and adults in coming week and may 4th will begin this face. and make $1115.00 days later once it is evaluated and we are adjusting to the parameters that the government will be setting we will go to face one when all the small shops and terraces at the 30 percent of the capacity always respected social distancing measures and keeping mass. possibles will be phase $115.00 days later we will go to face to work well restaurants and hotels could be open at a 50 percent of the capacity and then face 3 were big malls shopping malls could be open to the public at a 50 percent of the capacity and that will go to the new normal these means that

the new normal will be the new normal hopefully by the end of the year all of this will be in the frame of the state of emergency lockdown that would have to be extended as needed. joining us live there from madrid most of many thanks indeed in france prime minister edward felipe says the lockdown has helped to save $62000.00 lives this month but keeping it in place could lead to economic collapse plans to ease the 6 week blocked out in france are being discussed in the national assembly politicians are trying to weigh growing frustration from the millions stuck at home against the risk of a 2nd wave of infections but on brave new daily cases has fallen after 165000 infections. we feel that a prolonged toll to production and entire sections of our economy a lasting disruption to the schooling of a large number of children the interruption of public or private investment the

prolonged closure of borders the extreme restriction of the freedom to come and go to meet to visit relatives or parents would present the country not only with the painful disadvantage of confinement but in fact with the much more terrible risk of collapse. has been a paris based journalist and president of reporters without borders he says that life in france won't return to normal for quite some time. the good news is obviously that there is a prospect of ending or loosening the lockdown on may the 11th the bad news is as the prime minister said we will have to learn to live with the virus as long as there is no treatment or vaccine and that will be several months over if not years ahead so the prospect of having this new life where we have limited freedom where our cultural life sports life social life will be limited were working will be subjected to many adjustments and limitations this is

a very grim prospect for many people may be thought to be too too quickly that's bill evans would be a return to the world before we have 2 hot spots in the country the east where it all started and the paris region which is the most populated area and more densely populated area the rest of the country has actually very limited or low rates of infection and they consider that being looked down in the same way as those who have very high rates was a bit unfair and so there will be these different situation where between the regions where things would be more loose and more possible and the regions where it won't be so fast the price to pay for that difference is that we will not be able to travel within the country the limitation is a 100 kilometers with other serious reason to go french fishermen are monk or many

waiting to get back to work out of here in a trash bottle has more on a multi-billion dollar industry that's desperate to get back to see. early morning in france's biggest fishing port billowing silk male fishermen returned to dock to unload their catch when they look down began 6 weeks ago the city's wholesale markets closed prices plunged and fishing started to survive financially the fisherman had to come up with a plan the prices of the auction hall were. really low. and the fisherman decided actually not to go at 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 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 the part of the fisherman says ok we are going to have a wooden bust and also toured to try and find a solution for all this is small scale fishing is in financial turmoil too in the southwest 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 flaws but are now hard to find a way to sell her fish with a market shot 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 a royals wholesale market for its infrastructure fridges ice but we've learned that we also need our own local fishmongers and customers workers in the countries fishing industry hope that the situation improves off to 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 at least it's on the horizon. al-jazeera why all fronts. residents of a care home in belgium's capital have been given a lift in more ways than one the owner of a crane company offered the use of his equipment so that people can visit their loved ones from a distance in brussels friends and family have just 15 minutes to go out the window of a loved one to say hello face to face for the 1st time in more than

a month. we'll get a weather update next here on our syria then the u.n. is talk human rights representative from a.m.r. the press to step down leaving a damning assessment on the plight of the window plus. one nicholas hoult indycar senegal find out next why this country with a small health budget has the biggest rate of recovery in infected patients in africa. had a few more shots like you know the actions of the middle east meanwhile of course across the south the temperatures have been on the high side but they've also been a few shots in scott thunderstorms across as a soggy across into castle you can see some pretty strong winds through the interior. dust on wednesday and there shout scattered really throughout areas of

the turkey and on again it's a western areas of iran and all the way. in the day certainly more evident on the rain fairly heavy too as it sits across the southwest region but the temperatures up again 36 across into riyadh the same on as a say the winds are pretty strong coming out from the south as we had tools and over the week and then down into southern africa the rain very heavy silicones these coastal areas of tanzania pushing down into northern areas of mozambique up and uganda and also southern sections of ethiopia but for the next couple of days a conditions are going to be dry generally throughout much of south africa and will start raining cloud play as we go to warm a day in johannesburg with a high of 21 degrees some scattered showers the particularly heavy lighter than we have seen let you close much of madagascar but really across the central regions will see the usual way of and of course turning to havea thunderstorms and it later on in the day.

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 withdraw from lebanon into one of the most horrific civilian massacres of modern times women children we couldn't believe our us chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe sometimes their dreams of sanctuary are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drive them home. in the 2nd of 2 films on these contrasting experiences people and power meets the returning migrants now determined to discourage others from following the same power. to gambia back home on al-jazeera.

hello again this is the news hour from al-jazeera every unforgiving here in doha the headlines soldiers are patrolling the streets of lebanon's 2nd biggest city tripoli where there's been another day of violent protests against the deepening financial crisis there security forces used rubber bullets to clear demonstrators who set banks on fire. but arbor of confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. has now passed 1000000 far more than any other country in the world but daily hospital admissions in new york are at their lowest level. it will but a month. british airways is set to slash up to $12000.00 jobs stanley

a 3rd of its workforce the airline is those of 5 trades unions restructuring plans it's suspended 96 percent of its flights for april and may. the turkish defense turkish defense ministry says that at least $42.00 civilians have been killed in 2 bombings in syria it's blaming the y p g group for the attacks in a free and in the northwest there are reports one of the explosions targeted an oil tanker the city's been under the control of turkish backed fighters for 2 years. the un's top human rights representative to me on law is stepping down after spending 6 years raising the alarm all atrocities committed against the rohingya go in her final report she says the military's actions bore the hallmarks of genocide florence louis reports. the human rights envoy to myanmar made her pronouncement visit to myanmar in january 2017 she seen here in rakhine state in august of that

year security forces attacked the mainly muslim rohingya minority there and the myanmar government has not allowed to visit since military commanders said the crackdown was in response to attacks on security posts by fighters nearly 3 quarters of a 1000000 escaped over the border to bangladesh many reported rape torture and abuse by soldiers and protest the gambia accused me of genocide against their will and launched a case at the international court of justice last november. tonight the charges and defended her country for granted pretty gambia is placed before the court and incomplete and misleading factual picture of the situation in rakhine state and. yet it is of utmost importance that the court assess the situation obtaining on the ground and rakhine dispassionately and accurate for the remainder little has changed in. the still denied citizenship are unable to move freely and

have little access to health care and education has done nothing to dismantle the system of violence and persecution and the rohinton remain in record time live in the same dire circumstances that they did prior to the events of august 2017. many have tried to escape to neighboring countries risking their lives with people smugglers but increasingly no country wants to let the men the malaysian navy recently prevented a boat carrying around 200 rangar refugees from landing and last week the bangladeshi foreign minister said 2 other boats carrying around 500 people in the bay of bengal wouldn't be accepted either. in the last 2 years the rangar have also been caught in the fighting between the myanmar military and the our economy fighters for the armed groups. the un says fighting has intensified with near daily

reports of violence tens of thousands of civilians. have been forced from their homes the myanmar government has imposed an internet blackout in several townships for months and the government's accused of arresting journalists and government critics in her final report to the united nations human rights council last month lease said the optimism she had when she started the job 6 years ago has been lost and she's watched devastation and tragedy since. al-jazeera her little boy wrongly as a visiting scholar at queen mary university of london its national state crime initiative for interest now live from london good to have you with us rona what's the significance of this report given but much of its content is already known. well it's important because it's the final report from professor yang the lady who's been the special repertory for human rights in may and man she's been an incredibly strong advocate for the interests of ordinary people in myanmar

regardless of ethnicity and regardless of religion at this report will give at the u.n. and the international community plenty to consider and it's a real call for racket call to action by yang healy i mean she says in the report that her all to me isn't that she had when she 1st started in her role especially the tour is gone but she's still hopeful that opportunities to make me and mom better. still exist so what's the takeaway message for you in this report. well yeah he least quite correct the last 5 years have been very bad for human rights in myanmar they've been very bad for democracy and me and much but the opportunity is not yet gone and that's i think the most important element of this report it's not too late for me and my heart to progress genuinely towards

democracy and a democracy that respects all of its residents human rights regardless of their ethnicity or religion so i think what's important is not to give up hope and the clear message from yankee lady is that yes it is certainly not an optimistic situation in me and maher and anyone who's looked at me and mar over the last 5 years could simply not be optimistic but we've got to remain hopeful that the united nations the international community will act to protect and preserve human rights in countries like me and mark and will encourage me and not to to genuinely embrace democracy you say that the report is a call to action that cheney has been a strong advocate for all of the the people of myanmar but during his 6 year tenure little has changed as she failed in any way in her mission. well she's not failed but the international community has certainly failed me and margaret it

certainly failed me and mas residents and it certainly failed as a its commitment to human rights and any commitment to democracy yang he lays been an exceptionally good special right metol she's got some i think quite important achievements send those achievements are in the areas of accountability and justice she played a key role in ensuring that issues in myanmar related to the human rights of the region were addressed at the united nations security council and i regularly address that you know that the united nations she's played a key role in the international criminal court and the international court of justice now considering actions against perpetrators of crimes against humanity with me and mine and that they are achieving that are not to be sneezed at these are these are big achievements for a special repertoire but the failure is

a failure of political will by the international community and the united nations could start to dump so many thanks indeed readily at the life of asia in latin. the u.s. government has extended a sanctions waiver allowing iraq to continue importing gas and electricity from iran waivers were granted for up to $120.00 days that's been reduced to 30 days they want some see as part of president donald trump's efforts to increase pressure on the iranian regime some of the 14 reports now from baghdad. iraq is fighting a 2 pronged battle to increase power supply the country is trying to resolve power shortages but u.s. sanctions mean it must do so without the help from neighboring iran. and 3000 megawatts the my a plant south of baghdad it's iraq's biggest it's racing to ask a pass at the head of the summer heat when demand soars and frequent power cuts

fuel public anger construction has been delayed by the coronavirus pandemic just the latest in a series of crises that have complicated the government's efforts the challenge was that was the 1st was the protests in october last year 2019 and then that the fact that the government was forced to resign. that made us lose a lot of executive authority to move on continuing and implementing or signing contracts iraq is also under increasing pressure from the u.s. to wean itself off of iranian electricity and gas imports which account for 25 percent of its power supply during peak times on sunday the u.s. extended a sanctions waiver it has been in place since 2018 allowing iraq to continue importing iranian energy for another 30 days but the shortening of the duration of

waivers has angered baghdad the last would like to see. is bullying or threaten we need support instead we need 3 to 4 years under normal circumstances. with the sufficient fund and. enough timeline and. authority to deliver the need for and basically building up the capacity to achieve that energy independence iraq is the world's 4th largest oil producer but its gas capture capacity remains limited. this power plant relies entirely on iran gas to generate electricity if that gas can no longer be imported it might need to use fuel instead which is much more costly and less efficient to avoid having to resort to domestic supplies of diesel iraq is working on developing its capacity to produce gas but in the short term analysts say it has few options to substitute

iranian gas imports the supply iraq throughout all these negotiations that hard. with its neighbors and everybody has not been answered a a price for gas or in mechanics and for getting gas as fast as possible at a price that is lower than you want increasing supply will only solve part of iraq's electricity problems proposals to remove electricity subsidies so as to cover production costs and regulate demand have faced political opposition and over half of supply is lost through poor distribution and theft with or without iranian energy power cuts are likely to remain a frequent reality for many iraqis seem wonderful to al-jazeera but the bat. the un is warning of a potential health crisis among children as vaccination programs upon hold in many parts of the world many immunization clinics are closed because of the coronavirus

lockdown and some parents are reluctant to visit ones that are open out of fear of infection. gupta reports. with just a job or a job. vaccines protect millions of children while twilight from diseases such as cholera to parea measles and polio preventable infections that can cripple or kill but with airline is grounded and coronavirus lockdowns admit he country's shipments of lifesaving vaccines are disrupted vaccine and lyons has estimated that at least $21.00 low and middle income countries are already reporting vaccine shortages as a result of border closures and disruptions to travel. in many countries massimino isolation campaigns for measles and pull you for instance are either postponed or canceled to prevent large gatherings and stop the spread of

covert 19 destruction of supplies and a whole to campaigns threatens millions of children even pride. we estimate that as many as 20000000 children were not receiving their full complement of vaccine all this 20000000 approximately 13000000 were not received any any recs in at all. was another 7000000 who were receiving some but not all right so that's our starting point. now related destruction is going to exacerbate this problem polio has largely been eradicated but remains widespread in afghanistan and pakistan but prevention campaigns there are on hold. results is another preventable disease rife in many countries the world's worst outbreak is in the democratic republic of congo where more than $6000.00 people

have died since last year. congolese health workers are continuing immunization campaigns despite covert 19 infections. dilatation of light and movement between so. we have more issues to assess so our year to investigate is asked the world grapples with a pandemic and scrambles to find a vaccine the need to stop other outbreaks entirely preventable seems ever more urgent priyanka gupta is here. senegal has the highest rate of recovery for infected patients anywhere in africa and trials have begun on a coronavirus testing kit it costs a dollar and gives results in 10 minutes. reports from dakar. senegal is doing what most countries count testing everyone symptoms are not entering

a health center for the novel coronavirus it has no shortage of testing kit thanks to this lab at the best researchers are developing a one dollar quick diagnose ticket originally made to test for dengue fever patients drop blood or saliva onto the devices and wait for a blood line to appear like a pregnancy test explains researcher i do sell tests there is no need for a highly equipped it's a simple test that can be done anywhere the idea is to rip at least produce $2.00 to $4000000.00 kits not just for us but for african countries so that we can detect and isolate patients quickly the sick are administered a cheap anti malarial drug called chloroquine commonly found in sub-saharan africa where malaria is endemic while the world health organization cautions the use of it to cardboard scientists says it's an affordable treatment for poor african countries dealing with the outbreak. in its clearing is a virus from the respiratory system probably making said people on the more

contenders. no more sick. with only 50 ventilator machines for $16000000.00 people senegalese engineer using a 3 d. printing machine to produce more well imported ventilators cost $16000.00 this one is just $60.00. sinegal is counting the cost and it's paying off more than a month into the outbreak the small west african nation suffered only $2.00 death with most patients treated healed senegal has the largest rate of recovery in patients infected with the current virus in africa the 3rd in the world ahead of countries like the united states and france and while it has a tiny health budget compared to those countries it has a wealth of experience in dealing with infectious diseases and outbreaks over $3000.00 children died of pneumonia last year in senegal thousands more from malaria coronavirus is one of many deadly infections the country is dealing with

lessons learned from the aids epidemic the recent a bull outbreak were key in senegal strategy in dealing with the pandemic i'm interested because summers are already. important because coming in the country and the station of movement in confinement of people from 8 pm to 6 am i things so since. these measures were taken when there were less than $100.00 cases scientific modeling predicted tens of thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths but this has not happened early detection and african led research means senegal is so far beating the odds nicholas hawk al-jazeera the car. just ahead here on the news on new zealand eases its lockdown after 4 weeks of restrictions schools and some businesses are reopening and.

the city for its rich musical history refuses to be silenced by coronavirus.

hello again germany is saying a rise in infections easing some restrictions its reporting around 1000 new cases a day as dominic came reports. from berlin the german government finds itself in a quandary right now ever since the pandemic began ministers have stressed repeatedly that what informs their decision making is the scientific data the

numbers that are provided to them by the robert cock institute which is the responsible body for the tabulation of testing and the compilation of statistics relate to the number of factions the number of deaths and so on and while the reproduction rate of the virus was in a downward trend it meant that the ministers could start to contemplate the easing of restrictions which is what they have done but now the our north reproduction rate of the virus has reached one again that means that each infected person can infect one other person that is the point at which alarm bells ring for the ministers for anglo-american in the chancellery behind me that is they want to try to reduce the economic damage to ease the restrictions on freedom of movement but they know by doing that and with the are not back at one there is the distinct possibility of a 2nd wave of infections new zealand is relaxing some of its strict lockdown

measures introduced 4 weeks ago people can spend more time outside and some schools and businesses will reopen new zealand has reported 19 deaths and more than 1100 confirmed cases of covert 190 as well hey reports from auckland. after 5 weeks at the highest corona virus alert level new zealand does work to a partial easing of lockdown rules until now all non-essential businesses were ordered to close now some regulations have been relaxed allowing other businesses to open like restraints and cafes for pick up or delivery only i've been hanging out for this it was welcome relief for those wanting their caffeine fix from a professional communities come out and supported us which is fantastic a few hook ups with the website this morning but everyone's been very relaxed so that's good to be open again there were also plenty of people wanting a break from the kitchen as long lines formed outside fast food outlets only

a handful of new coronavirus cases are being reported in new zealand each day so the government believes the time is right to begin relaxing the rules but the message remains for most people stay at home there is no widespread undertake to community transmission in new zealand we have won that battle but we must remain vigilant if we're to keep it that way that includes safely returning more new zealanders to a neighboring more businesses to reopen not allowing some of the recreate to police we've missed and the past 4 weeks now it's a balancing act for new zealand and countries in a similar position trying to avoid a resurgence of the virus while getting the economy moving again key to that is restarting stalled infrastructure projects and as the alert level was lowered construction workers were able to pick up the tools again under alert level 3 the government expects around 400000 people to return to work which will of course provide a big boost to the economy after 5 weeks of inactivity but there is

a sense that even though new zealand has managed to control the virus so far economically the worst may be still to come thousands of jobs are linked to tourism and right now the border is closed the government's own modeling says the worst case scenario could see up to 26 percent unemployment restrictions may be easing but this country like so much of the world is a long way from being close to returning to normal wayne hay al-jazeera or clones. it's been devastated by hurricane katrina and is now being hit hard by the pandemic but the u.s. city of new orleans is turning out 21 of its heart beats music to keep it alive heidi jocasta reports. 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. to god. there's this this was this that you feel even know everybody's heart. the. 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 with people and. so i gave it a great names she called it. not touching yet touching. 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 and happens and we're going to fight through this together. covered 19 came at a bad time it's news it 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 3 $100000000.00 the festival normally generates for the economy. but. all of my income and of my revenue stream is gone now the last all were. you know all all of our local. or 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. you know. 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. all. all. 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 lauren taylor in

london next i'll see you get by for. becoming a living legend to the young age was simply not enough. he transformed his influence on the pitch into political clout the book peace to the ivory coast. hosted by eric cantona football rebels begins with a look at the life of. the football of them succeeded with politicians.

in the ibori and civil war on al-jazeera. freezing winds and rugged terrain and at times seemed impossible. but the afghan traders who braved the will concur and all that is no choice. combating the impossible to sell their goods and isolated areas. we follow that daring journeys as they overcome the extremes. risking it all afghanistan on al-jazeera. the way disease outbreaks have impacted dense urban areas like during the flu pandemic in the early 1900 has played a role in how our cities look and run urban planners reacted to that flu and other outbreaks changing how cities were zoned and led to updated infrastructure like ventilation and improved sanitation but after what's been learned from pandemics and there includes designer skylines and way of life we also need to keep pace and

adapt it's easy to assume that cities are fertile ground for spreading viruses and diseases millions living working at commuting in such tight conditions but one expert says it's about much more than just density it's about how all this was put together and how it's run. the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the u.s. pos is a 1000000 well britain is on track for one of europe's west coast 19 death tolls after new data pushes the number of u.k. deaths past 24000. 110 of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up lebanon braced for more protests to the economic impact of the coronavirus feels anger against the governor .