but of the different experiences school seward asian nations concern. the world to reach out to this group. coronavirus that seems to be on a just you know. the in. the world. a taste for business again 2 major southeast asian countries getting back to work after weeks of coronavirus. hello again i'm the star and this is al jazeera live from our wells headquarters here and also coming up projecting a message of care from brazil's revered statue as coronavirus cases keep rising and the president's flouts distancing guidelines. more u.s.

states balance of pressure and reopen protests continue in several cities. and the race is on to find the formula for immunity against the virus but it's an expensive and difficult process. now to may just southeast asian nations are taking tentative steps to lift coronavirus restrictions thailand and malaysia have spent weeks in lockdown boss at the start of a new a human week malaysia is allowing the majority of businesses to reopen large gatherings off still not allowed schools and universities remain closed and people have been asked to continue social distancing while thailand's also allowing restaurants salans and pet shops to reopen no new deaths have been reported there in days but all incoming flights have been banned until the end of the month while we'll hear from scott hyla and bangkok shortly but fast front story isn't

malaysia's capital kuala lumpur. many businesses and offices are now allowed to reopen putting retailers in shopping malls like what you see behind me but they have to implement certain safety measures including temperature screening and making sure there's nothing space within the premises that people inside to practice physical distancing and people also allowed to exercise outside their homes and play sports except for contact sports and sports which involves big groups of people and we saw several drug us out on the street that's morning but employees have still been advised to as far as possible lets people continue working from home and it seems many are heeding that advice the streets on monday morning in kuala lumpur are busier than they have been in the last 6 weeks but no way a regular week day and schools and universities are still closed and crucially malaysia's borders have not reopened and interstate travel is still not allowed on the malaysian prime minister described this as a cautious and controlled we go plenty of economic activity and malaysia has lost

14 and a half $1000000000.00 since the cubs were put in place 6 weeks ago but not everyone agrees with the government's decision to relax restrictions several local governments have said they will not be following suit and they will not be easing restrictions just yet even a petition online urging the government to reconsider and as of 9 am on monday morning it's got about it's got more than 470000 signatures now but malaysian health officials say malaysia has managed to flatten and that its health care system is able to cope with any small spikes that this country is likely to see going forward. the 2nd day the 1st business day of the relaxation of these restrictions that were imposed back in march now it's a slow and steady process according to the government you know it's going to be every 2 weeks where they re evaluate how things are going and then they'll decide if the move forward in lifting some of these restrictions right now some more shops are allowed to open up restaurants are allowed to have people dine in but

distancing very strict social distancing measurements within those restaurants that we've always had a and encourage work from home directive from the government here never really fully enforced that remains in place also when you look at the public transportation here in bangkok very critical for this very very crowded city people riding on public transportation still have to wear a mask when it comes to the future of a big contributor to the gross domestic product here in thailand how thailand makes its money comes from the tourism industry and there have been a couple of announcements about how things will be moving forward we know that there is a a ban on inbound international flights that will stay in place until the end of may that is in place the airports here in thailand will only be open from 7 am to 7 pm to further curb the air traffic if you will some domestic flights restarted at the end of last week but still very limited at this stage now when you look at again the importance of that's why we're here in this neighborhood of old bangkok this is really a touristy area called zone area there is still very few tourists here obviously

that is going to remain the case for several weeks if not months to come you know we're looking at projects in numbers coming out from the government down at least 40 percent the 1st quarter of this year into his numbers that's going to be even bigger for the 2nd quarter and again that's very very important for the economy here so obviously the government is rambling to try to figure out other ways for the nation here to make money. well and i spoke with thailand's deputy prime minister who's also the public health minister. says the majority of the population has been following the government's recommendations. we have done all the best we can we have limited resources so we have to utilize our resources in the area that we are. out through that it might have been. not safe but all in all really quite satisfied with what we have been doing and.

the most important thing is we have been keep in our stupid corporation with some other people they have followed the. recommendations and they have to abide to all the regulations that we have. requested them to follow and i say now with the easing of restrictions international incoming flights are still banned other than repatch reaction to the thai citizens but now people i believe can also travel between provinces are you concerned about a potential 2nd wave of infections as we saw in singapore. we we have we are concerned in every possibility that's why we. seek incorporation and furthermore from the people who make sure that we can point.

to we can put things at at the risk for as much as we can. we really have still restricted people from coming up brought. and we have urged people not to travel close to the programs is because we have the sponge we have many long holidays so. we know that to prevent the spread of. we've received. our people. 3. to read the spirit and see the results so we can always maybe. regulation all restrictions well new zealand has recorded no new cases of covered 1000 for the 1st time in just over 6 weeks it's ended a strict lockdown which shut schools restaurants and all other public areas from

month social restrictions do remain in place with people still working and studying from home new zealand has 1137 cases in total. brazil's amazon region has become the new front line in the battle against the corona virus infections there are rising quickly leaving hospitals overwhelmed and the city of the us but president diables in our continues to play down the pandemic. reports. a face mask is projected in the statue of christ the redeemer the symbol of religion nato it's a call for awareness as the number of coronavirus cases keep rising across brazil. yes president. has been marking the disease from the start keeps hugging and shaking hands with allies and supporters. and sunday he once again led a protest in the capital brasilia against stay at home measures ordered by local governors as he fights against accusations of corruption from the country's

congress and supreme court. there so clear that we want the true independence of the 3 powers not only a fraction of the constitution we don't want that enough with interference we want to admit any more interference i'm being very clear patience has run out. last week replace the country's most popular anti corruption crusader former justice minister . who now accuses him of trying to meddle in police investigations against him and his sons but while the president is focused on his political problems the virus is spreading rapidly in the amazon state capital health services have been overwhelmed by the number of sick people the city is handling more than $100.00 deaths per day 3 times the normal average as a. mass graves to. the mayor of international plea for

help has concerns grows that the virus could have devastating effects on the. indigenous tribes. we have. of the forest. like. a call for help that so far has rung hollow for a president. seems more worried about political survival than keeping brazilians alive . well journalists brazil's president has long been working to undermine protection of people. olson always fighting for his own political survival it may be a slow. fight for his political survival but he's definitely on the ropes since his

justice minister social morrow quits last week accusing the president of trying to interfere with the country's special police this is also a president whose government has worked endlessly to reduce environmental protections and indigenous protections a person that's been openly hostile to indigenous people saying that they have too much land of the land size should be reduced and saying that you know the president has been accused of by environmentalists of encouraging illegal go white is into indigenous lands because he wants to. you know he wants to pass a bill that would allow mining on indigenous lands so when you consider all of these things together it's basically the perfect storm of precarious health systems . low environmental inforce mint and feeling encouraged by the president who is fighting for his own political survival right now he's going to go mine is feeling coverage by the president or this is basically a perfect storm for an extremely dangerous and deadly situation for indigenous

people in brazil during this code that 19 pandemic all fell on hard on al-jazeera the u.s. president talks coronavirus touring of that small town rural saying banks is to blame and when a vaccine will be ready. because that is they lost their man as our president. and game is that and roof mantles tennis stars put on a vets were set charles and. the . head of that heat is really on the increase across much of the arabian peninsula to the north meanwhile well still. saying quite a few shows in the last few as but we've also seen yet will flooding across into the southwest of yemen so the streets of sana all under water again in some areas

of course the very heavy rain of the last 23 weeks has led to a lot of damage you can see this house a this be demolished by those heavy rains about 150000 people have been affected by the rains over the last few days now as i say there is more in the 4 cars as we continue on 3 monday because it developing late in the day we could have wanted to scottish. rady through central areas a saudi even across again into castle and also across into oman but the shadows remain widely scattered across much of to he some heavy downpours at times i'm free to say a little of no pressure is working its way through the eastern and the med bring some heavy rain into southern of the turkey and eventually bringing the showers across into areas of israel and also into syria as well as how much is there still on the warm side and then down into southern africa plenty all rain of course again in the last few days across much of kenya a few more like you know monday mostly heavy rain just sitting off the coast of tons and a bit like you to make more headway as we continue through cheese day. isolating

time listening post cuts through the noise looking at another side of the story now from the information around the outbreak but. separating propaganda from fact it's reality we have to. exposing the optics try and stimulate their rhetoric and going but they cannot manipulate the fires listening post your it's like going to the media if you see iraq. the the and.

hello again i'm a star and are a reminder of our top stories this hour malaysia is allowing the majority of businesses to reopen bot launch gatherings are still most allowed schools and universities also remain closed people have also been asked to continue social distancing. thailand has also eased its lockdown over the weekend it's allowed restaurants cylons and pet shops to reopen no new deaths have been reported in days but all incoming flights have been banned until the end of the month. and brazil's amazon rain forest region has become the latest from clive in the battle against the corona virus infections there are rising quickly leaving hospitals overwhelmed it's prompted an international call for the protection of indigenous communities. well more than 67000 people have now died from the corona virus in the united states despite that more states into pressure and reopening but it's not enough for

protesters who are still demonstrating in several cities meanwhile the white house is trying to angle the blame towards china as patty culhane reports. they are a minority but they are angry. only across the country from new hampshire to nevada and states in between protesters demand the government let businesses reopen it's in god's hands what happens to my me and my house and anybody else's for that matter now does give another 15 days and i believe after that he's gonna give out the not days and days that come on the. dr deborah leading the white house coronavirus effort says it's concerning so many demonstrators aren't wearing masks it's devastatingly worrisome to me personally because if they go home and in fact their grandmother are there ground there who has a co-morbid condition and they have a serious are very or an unfortunate outcome they will feel guilty for the rest of

our lives the white house recommendation to reopen business only after you've seen 14 days of decline in cases despite the fact that no state has reached the threshold about half our loosening restrictions and the trend of ministration is again trying to turn the focus to china by sending what seems to be contradictory messages that the best experts so far seem to think it was manmade have no reason to disbelieve that at this point. your office of the d.n.i. says the consensus the scientific consensus was not manmade or genetically modified . that's right i grieve that i've said i've seen their analysis i've seen the summary that you saw that was released publicly i have no reason to doubt that that is accurate the u.s. secretary of state without providing evidence arguing the virus came from a chinese lab that wasn't created by its scientists but the country weeks into quarantine tries to come to terms with what comes next and at what cost paddy

calling al-jazeera. well in just the past few hours president trump has spoken as a virtual town hall meeting and he's now predicting the death toll in the u.s. could reach 100000 that's far higher than what he's been saying so far well let's now bring in peace and mathews he's a professor of political science at cypress college and he joins us now from los angeles peter this was a 2 hour long broadcast and president trump had quite a bit to say i want to start with a narrative that it seems we're hearing increasingly from the white house let's take a listen to this it's a terrible thing a terrible thing that happened to our country it came from china it should have been stopped it could've been stopped on the spot they chose not to do it or something happened either that was incompetence or they didn't do it for some reason then we have to find out what that reason was but people are absolutely scared here this is clearly a line we're going to be hearing until election day. unfortunately because it's

much more important to say so we can do right now to fix the problem rather going back and blaming china when there is still dispute or sue for the saying that it was it was a lab produced by iris when the d.n.i. director said it's the consensus because i did a community is that it came from nature that it's not of produce are so he's going to blame china i think it's more important you should actually see what can be done now to keep people safe they should be keeping the social distance using the mask and then the economy should come afterwards or you know 1st of all you need to get people to be healthy and stay healthy in order to have a good economy later on look at denmark and germany did they had the government pay workers directly that the government put money directly into businesses that didn't go through the banks and was much more efficient in that we keep people together in those business networks for when the economy does open now which have been done it has been done that way and now he's flailing around trying to figure out what's going on and blaming china and sort of saying what should be done right and taking action well these are it seems that

a number of people agree with you because president tom's approval numbers have been falling and one of the things that could potentially help that is a vaccine now most experts say that we're looking at the middle of next year at the very earliest likely even longer than that yes let's listen to what president trump had to say about that that we're going to have a vaccine at the end of the year by the end of the have a vaccine by the end of this year we think we're going to have a vaccine by the end of this year and we're pushing very hard you know we're building supply lines now we don't even have the final vaccine johnson and johnson if you look at johnson and johnson is doing it we have many companies are i think close because i meet with the heads of them that i find it a very interesting subject because it's so important but i think we'll have a vaccine by the end of the year he's a what do you make of ass. he cannot guarantee that and he said it's a very dangerous to give false hopes i mean even dr fox he said it will be at least

we're lucky to be next year in europe is a lot of things have to come together and it could be more than the middle of next year so we shouldn't count on the vaccine or should stick to the course social distancing the korean teen and people who are infected who widespread testing as south korea did by the way south korean model was the best the initially assume they heard about what happened in china they start testing the people white a widespread basis and they had social distancing right away and they've gone to negative growth in their in their disease right now whereas we're going up and up and your person wants to know the you know so i think it's in disingenuous for him to say that we're going to have a white vaccine by the end of january to count on that instead of really doing things that are really appropriate for this moment time peter we've also been talking about the strategy of shifting blame and it seems that president trump is now also directing some of that at his intelligence chief say he's saying that in late january he was told about the crying a virus in a briefing but that said it was presented as not a big deal and that they say he was the only one who wanted to take action and banning flights from china but as i understand it that's just basically not true.

it's just not true because 1st of all any band who place those a building can china 40000 people still had to come through and he wasn't really want to take action he should take an action much earlier when he was 1st warned about it by his own economist peter navarro gave it to him in the beginning of january there was so much of it warnings about 12 different reports in january in february from the intelligence community that this is a pandemic it's already started in china we have people the ground over there we knew was going on we should listen to the intelligence services and take an action at the beginning of february the latest shooting an act of much much later than that and that was that probably should be shifting blame right now. i say that trying to night has also been crediting him self with preventing an even west death toll insinuating that he personally has saved more than a 1000000 lives and now during that broadcast i also see that joe biden posted a video criticizing trump's handling of all of this so talk us through how is this playing out with the public well how could he think that when he said he did so

much of saving of lives and yet we're talking about us having one 4th of the world's people who died and one 4th we have 6 words in the world population and we've got 67 dead 160-0000 deaths so we should be taking advantage you know credit for that in that he should put his shoulders to the grind to start working to listen to the scientists and use reason and science to get this thing fixed right away and not go through just thinking about the next election should we worry about when he's in with the next election or not so it's a real problem joe biden i'm truly came up with something that i didn't see what he said exactly what what you mention about joe biden is that seems to make a lot of sense he's a matthews the professor of political science at cypress college could take your insights on al-jazeera thank you so much. well as president promises a vaccine by the end of this year experts are warning that it's a difficult and lengthy process a virtual conference to raise $8000000000.00 in the fight against hiv in $1000.00 will be hosted by the european union on monday there are multiple efforts underway

all across the wilds to find a formula to try to create immunity against the virus stephanie decker reports. the world is desperate for a vaccine against covert 19 and the race is on to find one developed in many countries i think the largest number in the u.s. staple it by china market is a professor of vaccine epidemiology at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine they are keeping an up to date database of all the vaccines being worked on there are over $100.00 the bad news is that they usually break the back seat is a problem that initial discovery who actually having a back seat to be given on a population level is usually about 10 to 20 years. but the urgency now means teams all over the world are trying to speed up the process we work day and night and. probably 1000 people on a person. we have

a 3. people working group and for 24 hours several are at the stage of human testing including this trial that oxford university we're told there is never been a vaccine against a coronavirus group for approval and that the success rate of vaccine trials are between 5 to 10 percent even once there is a vaccine it will take quite some time before there is enough to vaccinate entire populations and while we wait there are questions about natural immunity it is still not clear whether we can develop long lasting immunity to the virus we have never been here before this is a direct that's emerged that has changed everyone's life if you know bringing so many people to be sick to be in hospital dying it's wrecked entire economy is this is the back to that the world is desperate to have. for once the world is largely united in the desire to be able to visit and hug our families to walk the streets

to fill the restaurants to travel and for so many to be able to work again to return to a life most of us took for granted our once buzzing news room here in doha has nearly full infile and with most people working from home it's a similar picture in many places across the world now despite so many vaccines being in the works is going to take quite some time before one is available to all of us and that means that partial lockdowns and social distancing could remain part of our lives for a very long time stephanie decker at al-jazeera headquarters in doha while latest figures suggest that some of europe's west affected countries are starting to turn a corner but that's not the case and russia where another 10 and a half 1000 people have tested positive in 24 hours some reports.

and i learned calls for russia sunday march the full 3 quoted single day increase of coronavirus cases and the worry now is what lies ahead and how russia's strained health care system will handle it medics complain of shortages of protective equipment and testing capabilities and the high rate of hospital workers who died from the virus. russia's reported death toll remains relatively lower than other countries but it has double the number of new cases it had 2 weeks ago authorities say that is because of increased screening not only at a spur to spread of the virus is mainly caused by those have it with that symptoms taste good when the patient is detected at an early stage of infection number is rising but not the spread of the illness itself. in italy 1000 uni recruited health workers prepared to assist doctors and nurses working inside

the overcrowded prison network detention centers that have been at the heart of the coronavirus crisis from the very beginning and the fear is that it could prove to be a hub for renewed infections. this as the leader of the roman catholic church used his sunday address to call for international cooperation to combat the pandemic and importantly of hockey made to ensure me it is important to unite scientific capabilities in a transparent and impartial way to find vaccines and treatments and to guarantee universal access to essential technologies that allow each infected person in every part of the world to receive the necessary medical treatment from once is now preparing to enter its final week of strict confinement measures its health ministry announced that the number of people who have died from covert 19 rose by 166 to more than 24700 on saturday while figures for those admitted to

hospitals continues to decline it comes with a warning from the health minister if infections rise in the coming week the lockdown could go on sunday i go out to syria. well jordan has lifted all restrictions on economic activities after a lockdown there last almost 7 weeks public transport will resume normal service but universities and schools will remain closed as night curfews continue over the past 2 weeks jordan has been lifting restrictions to allow businesses back to work but with lower levels of staff and strict social distancing and hygiene guidelines it is reported 460 cases and 9 deaths. while the top tennis stars have competed in a live streamed tennis tournament. not yet. with the professional game on hold because of lockdown and social distancing

restrictions top players including the williams sisters miami or soccer and maria sharapova joined in the stay at home slam they competed as nintendo characters to raise money for charity serena williams who's usually a force on the court was knocked out in the fast round when a couple times in. a plea deal. more and. this is al jazeera and these are the headlines several countries across asia have begun lifting restrictions after weeks of being in lockdown but thailand in the philippines of still bad incoming flights and malaysia is not allowing public gatherings florence really has more. a lot of businesses shops and offices are now allowed to open but they have to implement certain safety measures including

temperature screening and making sure that there's nothing spaces within the premises for people to maintain physical distance now people are also now allowed to exercise out of their homes something they haven't been able to do in the last 6 weeks this allowed to play sports now outside as long as it doesn't involve contact and as long as it doesn't involve big groups of people we've already seen a couple of joggers out on the streets on monday morning when new zealand has recorded no new cases of code 19 for the 1st time in just over 6 weeks it's ended a strict lockdown which shut schools restaurants and all other public areas for a month social restrictions remain in place with people still working and studying from home new zealand has 1137 cases in total brazil's amazon rain forest region has become the latest frontline in the battle against the corona virus infections there are rising quickly leaving hospitals overwhelmed and that's prompted the mayor of monastic to issue a plea. you know. we have to save the

lives of 2 of the forest from the refuge. we are you fool for a disaster. seems like you want to risk russia has also seen a shop rise events number of infections more than 10000 people tested positive in one day for the 1st time in the country's outbreak lockdowns have been in place for several weeks and jordan has lifted all restrictions on economic activities after a lockdown lasting almost 7 weeks public transport will resume normal service but universities and schools remain closed as night curfews continue jordan has been lifting restrictions to allow businesses back to work while those are the headlines next stop it's the listening post do stay with us here on al-jazeera. the stories of abuse in agent homes in the west to show the world that this is not

as good as the one who when he speaks of those sending elderly loved ones to thailand to live out their data on how disease. this that shape also not official shelter something which. our sources exist not salable sinatra's still maintain rather to find it. so i am afraid i'll speak out the property to come with me actually you. hello i'm richard gere's virgin you're watching the listening post working from home here are the coronavirus stories the media elements that we're looking at this week brazil both are not all and the fake news contagion that colors the coverage of covert 19 the world health organization took too long to get the word out on the virus but the story is more complicated than it seems in pakistan a cleric tells the media what he really thinks of them live.