and adapt it's easy to assume that cities are fertile ground for spreading viruses and diseases millions living working and 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 worst coded 19 death tolls after new data pushes the number of u.k. deaths past 24000. my. an architect of this is al jazeera live from london also coming up lebanon braced for more protests after the economic impact of the groan of ours fuels anger against the government. and senegal trials

a quick and simple one dollar testing kit to help it remain the country with the highest recovery rate in africa. or while president trump continues to focus on the u.s. economy the toll the coronavirus is taking on americans worsens more than a 1000000 people in are confirmed to have been infected there more than any other country that total has doubled in a little over 2 weeks with more than 57000 people dying need to sit in the u.k. show the number of deaths to the middle of april were 50 percent higher than 1st thought once those who died outside hospital were included it pushed the total above 24000 germany has been held up as a model of how to control the disease but as it tries to return to normal life it's reported a slight increase in the infection rate and france is setting out how it will begin

to open up a he masks mandatory on public transport but only allowing freedoms if new infections a kept to a minimum when i stop by there live to our white house correspondent kimberly help get the committee those confirmed infections passing a 1000000 put that figure into context for us. yeah i think it's always important when you're talking about infections in the united states remember the population in the united states is very large that's not under play a 1000000 infections that certainly number that nobody wants but when you're talking about a population of upwards of 330000000 in the united states and starts to give it a little bit of context now some are celebrating the fact that the infections are only 1000000 given the fact it was predicted to be even higher but of course there's been street social distancing in the united states for some time and so there is this conversation now even as this number begins to climb about really

opening the states and that is something that the u.s. president talked about as he met with florida's governor rhonda sanchez in the oval office earlier again another state that is very populated that many predicted would have very high infection rates in fact did not but still this reopening that's taking place around the united states is one that is taking place very gradually the florida governor saying that this would be based on data metrics that this would not be something that could happen quickly and that might have a lot to do with the fact that georgia nother state that is controlled by republican governor very rapidly and got significant criticism from the u.s. president so it's safe to assume there was a bit of an attempt to kind of get the president's blessing in this oval office meeting that took place even as the president has also outlined a blueprint for reopening the states and the testing that needs to take place putting very much the responsibility on the states something that has been

controversy all the provider of sort of last resort being the federal government so this is something that is sort of uncharted territory that is now being explored by governors all around the united states including the florida governor who was just meeting in the oval office and committee we're expecting president tom to sign an executive order to help prevent food shortages. yeah we're specter to see the president again in the coming hour from the east room of the white house and what we're expecting is that the president's going to talk about the paycheck protection program but the other which is a program that is the socially to help keep small businesses open as keep people on their payroll that might otherwise lose their jobs having said that there is another big headline that we expect may be discussed in this appearance by the president and that is this executive order that is being talked about in the works we understand where the president is expected to utilize the defense production act to essentially get the meat supply in this country back on track there have been

a number of outbreaks at packing plants all around the united states and this is starting to cause some shortages what we've seen in some cases is that there has been a culling of the herds animals have had to be euthanized so this is now something that is the catch the attention of the white house realizing this is becoming a critical issue so we're watching very carefully to see whether the president will talk more about that whether he will talk about the paycheck protection program which we expect and also we should talk about very quickly the economy another thing it's going to get questions on because we're hearing today from the white house that there have been officials talking about the need for another stimulus in addition to that $1200.00 that each american gotten a check there may be a need for more because the economic pain it's starting to be understood in the united states is going to be realized for quite some time committee how could thank you very much indeed now in europe both france and spain have outlined how they

plan to ease restrictions if they can keep a handle on new infections meanwhile the u.k. appears to be a long way off lifting the knock down as people paid tribute to front line workers killed by the virus so you're going to have a report. a moment to remember them by the key workers all those who worked in frontline services and died in the service of others the prime minister boris johnson recovered from covert 19 also paid his respects forward. but that has not dampened criticism of the government's failure to provide health care workers with adequate personal protective equipment and the death rates in england and wales reaching a new high way above previous government daily figures which count just deaths in hospitals the office for national statistics said on tuesday that 22351 people died in england and wales in the week ending april 17 and

a growing number of deaths the elderly in care homes where doctors warn the pandemic has not yet peaked from tomorrow we'll be publishing not just the number of deaths in hospital but the number of deaths in care homes and in the community to this is something that wasn't previously possible with the guidance from british scientific advisors there is little appetite from the government to relax lock down measures yet but in france with a similar sized population to the u.k. and the 4th highest recorded death toll from covert 19 in the world preparations were announced to ease the restrictions on daily life. never in the history of our country have we seen this situation not even during the war nor during the occupation nor cheering previous epidemics never never has the country

be confined as it is today and evidently it cannot be so for long term. in spain a drop in the daily death and infection rates has also prompted the prospect of an ease in its lock down deaths from coronavirus fell once again on choose day now the government has set out a framework for regions to start phasing out one of europe's toughest lockdowns. the most important thing is to protect public health and whatever they leave to save the lives of our citizens it's a simple i stopped them from their own words we want to kick start spraying every territory and every city but amid the easing of these restrictions the shadow of corona virus still persists while there is no vaccine it will be up to the public to continue social distancing measures a far cry from the familiar in its place a new detached normality sunday agel al jazeera germany is seeing

a rise in corona virus infections after some of its restrictions were in its current reporting about a 1000 new cases each day john mccain in berlin has more. 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 infections 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 that they know by doing that and with the are not back in one there is the distinct possibility of a 2nd wave of infections. russia's president has extended his country's knock down until may the 11th saying the coronavirus is not yet reached its peak measures would huge be lifted at the end of this month but the country saw a record rise in the number of new infections on tuesday with more than 6400 cases confirmed that a mere putin has given the government one week to come up with ways to support the economy during the pandemic is also asked for recommendations on how to ease the restrictions. british airways says it plans to cut up to 12000 jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic the company is already furloughed around half of its 45000

strong workforce. it's parent company i.a.g. said the cuts will because passenger numbers will take several years to recover from the pandemic be a also reported 1st quarter operating losses of heart $580000000.00 as the airline industry struggles. lebanese troops are braced for more violence after one protested died in clashes with security forces of the country's deteriorating economy violent demonstrations started in october and led to prime minister saad hariri is resignation in january a new government headed by his sunday was formed tossed with reversing the worst economic downturn in decades and this week protests intensified in beirut and the 2nd largest city tripoli triggered by a crash in the national currency and if the surge in food prices so what the

reports from tripoli. 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 the 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 in soldiers during confrontations that began monday night in the us is that follows model went to the streets because there are no jobs children are asking the kurds for food and they don't have money to buy them any of the young man who was martyred was a father he had nothing to lose if your daughter asks for food what will he give are he had nothing to lose. calls for a change in leadership. a protest movement began in october but the ruling elite has clung on to power. apart from a few we have $128.00 criminals and palmer thanks to all 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 by tampering with financial stability that fuels the anger of anti-government protesters the leadership 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 these scenes could be a warning of what's to come. tripoli. still to come this half hour new zealand is king from burgers and coffee as infections wane and their strict lockdown is slowly lifted. and something to celebrate in italy the final piece of a new bridge is weaved into place in genoa today is offering the prettiest as a collapse. of. hello a bit of good news for a change that is and there's plenty of clatter around all wanting it from the west under storms in the western med and this complication here this is the good news it

tends to suggest rain wherever it is and that rain is spreading from france into austria to germany to poland the czech republic all places which have been suffering with lack of rain technical drug for the last month so this is good news of course is as a good news if you were to be outside in the sunshine but it kind of it all that sun shines in spain and portugal the rain as this example suggests in vienna last until the end of the week so we are going some way to make the ground wetter after the dusty start and there's a picture for thursday night raids but it's pretty widespread across through denmark and towards southern sweden it's really treading through north misty leaving the sudden parts of italy and almost really really chilly fine and sunny which is now the case in north africa we see the last few showers going through the atlas battens and through northern tunisia on wednesday then on thursday should be a dry and quite a warm picture nurses draw a warm or hot so at this hour of course and then you come down to meet the showers

coming out with the sun they're making good progress there got to sierra leone and i got to go further. ramadan a time of spirituality reflection and gratitude raise the flags all the flags every color in our. al-jazeera world well how we are how we reveals the stories behind some of the arab world songs and chants for the holy month this song touched the hearts of all arabs for ramadan songs on al-jazeera.

and again among the top stories here now jazeera well than a 1000000 people are now confirmed to have been infected by corona virus in the u.s. more than any other country more than 57000 people have died from the disease that . and the city straight to the white house where president trump is talking about the current mars i want to work. thank you everyone for being at the white house a very special house a very special place no matter where you go in the world i love the white house and being here in the east room of the white house in particular where so many important functions of taken place over the years and today we're really celebrating american workers and small businesses and we've done a job for you and we're going to make it so as we open up our country you're going to be in good shape as opposed to be in the losing your business or how do we get some people to work here especially since your employees were so good over the

years and those are the ones you wanted so we made that possible for you we're delighted to be joined this afternoon by representatives of several incredible small businesses from across our country also with us treasury secretary steven minucci steve thank you very much and s.b.a. administrator you've been busy city by the way and little bit rent broke every record in the book and s.b.a. administrator jovi did carotids i think you. have you got to sleep you know less 2 weeks at all the next hour and you broke every single lending record numbers of loans amount of loans small business sexually a very big business when you think about it thank you very much of it great job as our nation battles against this terrible scorch we continue to pray for the victims as well as for those americans who are grieving their lost ones and their loved ones it's never been anything like this we suffer with one heart but we will

prevail we're coming back and we're coming back strong we built the greatest economy anywhere in the world 2 months ago and we're going to build it again we're going to build it fast it's going to go very quickly and larry thank you for being here very much it's you see what's going to happen i think you have the same feeling as i do it's going to come back very fast now that our experts believe the worst days of the pandemic are behind us. americans are looking forward to the safe and rapid reopening of our country throughout this ordeal millions of hardworking americans have been asked will to really make tremendous tremendous sacrifices sacrifices like nobody thought would even be possible nobody thought would ever be talking about something like this is a virus has inflicted an enormous and painful toll on our nation's workers and small businesses that's why less month they ask congress to pass the paycheck

protection program giving small businesses emergency economic relief to keep workers on the payroll 4 weeks ago i was proud to sign it into law we did that at a great ceremony with many of the people here in the officials here and it was something and i can tell you i'm going to steve to say viewers but the kind of numbers in the kind of jobs they've done in the kind of jobs that have also been saved it's incredible you'll be seeing that in the coming weeks the treasury department and the small business administration launched the program in record breaking time just one week and in the 14 days following its launch we processed as many loans as the s.b.a. would typically process at over 14 years so in 14 days they did more work and more loans both in terms of applications and in terms of dollar amount than they did in 14 years 14 days 14 years easy want to remember right now at some record the 1st

round of funding provided more than $1600000.00 small businesses with over $340000000000.00 so that american workers can retain their jobs receive their paychecks and help our economy take off quickly once america reopens for business which is happening right now as we sit we're going to be all set you already by can i know you i took you back that you're ready you folks are. they are swift action supported or saved $30000000.00 american jobs at least and last week congress answered their call to replenish the program and i was honored to sign an additional $320000000000.00 for american workers into law at least $60000000000.00 are reserved for community financial institutions including those that serve minority and distressed communities and that's also when you think it's

african-american communities it's hispanic american communities asian american communities we began accepting applications for the 2nd round of funding yesterday demand is extraordinarily high and there are already twice as many users accessing the system as on any day under the 1st round and one of the things that the sequitur the treasury told me is that the amounts are much more loans and it's much smaller amounts and we like to hear that because we're looking at the small amounts of smaller businesses and that's what we want nonetheless we're processing loans at a pace never achieved before in the 1st 24 hours of the 2nd round of funding we've handled over 30 percent more loans than any previous day of the program so far we've processed that amazing 450000 loans totaling over $50000000000.00 that's in phase 2 that's incredible along with administrator current secretary knutson

of aka has played an essential role in spearheading this important program incredible world that's what she wants to do she wants people. from the beginning of my administration of iraq has used her experience as an entrepreneur to fight for the american worker she's created many jobs it's what she did when she 1st came in she just wanted people to be able to get jobs and job training went to the biggest companies anywhere in the world that are located in our country and they would take hundreds of thousands of people and train them and i think you got up to almost 15000000 people right 15000000 she started off with a goal of 500000 she wanted to get 500000 she. is now on almost 15000000 people and i'd like to ask if i might of are going to say a few words as to what's exactly happening today what success what's happening over the next week and what her views are for what's going to happen over the next period of time it's going to be something i think it's going to be very special and

bigger and better than anybody really understands let's see if i'm right about that evocate police. thank you everyone and thank you mr president for convening this debate so herring some the details there from president trump about the assistance for businesses hit by the pandemic he said that the economy would come back strong eventually let's bring in our white house correspondent kimberly hellcat so can really a lot of detail about the loans and so on but the headline here is is is is help for businesses isn't it that's what seems to be the key for him. yeah but we should also take into account that this is a president who is trying to sort of promote some of the programs that we've been talking about for a while this was a headline from late last week and we certainly have had this program in place now for some time in fact it was so successful you heard the president talking there the money ran out so it was topped up by congress and so you have to ask why is the

president holding a press conference from the east room right now as it has a lot to do with the fact that there is a strategic decision on messaging with regard to this president they're not holding the daily coronavirus task force briefings anymore at 21 g.m.t. as we've had for many weeks now because of a bit of a public relations disaster for the president last week when he suggested that it might be a good way to treat covert 19 by injecting reve and digesting disinfectant or sunlight and since then there has been a strategic decision by this white house in terms of messaging to have the president talk not about public health where things can go so horribly wrong but instead about the economy so that's what we've seen we've had 2 media availabilities this being the 2nd one today where the president is discussing what he feels most comfortable with and that is trying to bring back the economy why is he trying to do that this is an election year and as you pointed out this is not

going to be easy for the president because even as states are opening. they're not going to reopen to where they were the president was enjoying historically low unemployment many jobs have been created he thought this would propel him to a 2nd term but there's no question that it's almost impossible to bring this back by election day in november as the president keeps talking about and members of his administration have talked about but i should point out in the oval office today some members of the president's administration were being much more front about the realities on the prospects of returning to an economy saying it's very bad we're doing what we can saying they. believe this might be temporary but at the same time also say there may be a need to give americans not just the help of support from in the realm of small businesses we're hearing them talk about in the east room right now but also in direct cash payments we already know that congress had released of the white house request $1200.00 per individual and now they're discussing that there may be

a need for even more given the fact that this economic pain is expected to last for some time can be how could thank you very much indeed. just 3 new cases of covered 19 have been reported in new zealand on the same day the country relaxed its street knock down measures some businesses have reopened and people are allowed to spend more time outside off to 95 weeks of shutdown and death toll remains under 20 with more than 4500 infections when a report from oakland. after 5 weeks at the highest corona virus alert level new zealand has worked 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 it was just 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 corona virus 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 work and 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 clint. at least $42.00 people have been killed in a suspected truck bomb attack in the syrian city of a free in 3 of them children 30 of those were injured in the blast which is thought to have targeted an oil tanker the turkish defense ministry has blamed the kurdish y p g which it considers a terrorist group a freeness been under the control of turkish backed troops for 2 years workers in

italy of course and to place the final section of a new bridge in genoa almost 2 years after 43 people were killed when the previous one collapsed at a small ceremony italy's prime minister's african to hail the new bridge as a rare symbol of hope in italy where nearly 27000 people have died from the corona virus the bridge is expected to open in the 2nd half of july. or one of the top stories on out as there are more than a 1000000 people in are confirmed to have been infected by corona virus in the u.s. more than any other country on 57000 people have died from the disease in all president donald trump has held talks with florida's governor as the state looks to lift lockdown restrictions other states have already started to reopen in the u.k.

tributes have been paid to front line workers who've been killed by the virus it comes as new data reveals the number of deaths to the middle of april were 50 percent higher than 1st thought putting it on track to being the worst affected country in europe but once those who died outside hospital were included it pushed the total above $24000.00 russia's president has extended his country's lockdown until may the 11th saying the karuna virus has not yet reached its peak measures were due to be lifted at the end of this month the country saw a record rise in the number of new infections on tuesday with more than $6400.00 cases confirmed. you believe at the day the number of identified new cases of the disease is relatively stabilized but it shouldn't be relaxed the situation remains very complicated permed be in touch with scientists and specialists according to our plans and actions to say the peak is still ahead we are currently facing a new and probably the most challenging stage of the fight against this epidemic

more violent protests are expected in lebanon after one person died in demonstrations over the country's collapsing economy as anger at the government and banks stopping people withdrawing money earlier this week protesters gathered in beirut the 2nd largest city tripoli angered by a crash in the national currency and a surge in food prices. at least 42 people have been killed in a suspected truck bomb attack in the syrian city of afridi 3 of them children 30 others were injured in the blast which was thought to have targeted an oil tanker the turkish defense ministry has blamed the kurdish y. p.g. for the attack which it considers a terrorist group a freeman has been under the control of turkish backed troops for 2 years. there's a top stories do stay with us there at the stream is up next i'll have more news for your after that thanks for watching.

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