understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound so no matter when you. encounter for that matter. this is al-jazeera. they're on the clock this is a news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes italy's starts to reopen after nearly 29000 coronavirus deaths but also some countries lifting restrictions all too fast. and the blame game continues the u.s. claims the virus came from a chinese lab china dismisses it as groundless accusations. as nigeria eases lockdown restrictions in some places fears of

a new outbreak emerge in the country's north. israel's political future in the banks the top court hears the final arguments to a new power sharing deal. and on time how much now have all the sport. for those in its top division is syria back in training following permission from the country's government. so from italy to india a new working week has begun with the lifting of many of the restrictions imposed to fight the coronavirus but some are questioning whether it's all too soon italy has recorded nearly 29000 deaths that is the worst toll in europe but it has begun easing lockdowns allowing people to return to work and visit family many businesses there are also reopening and across the world there have been more than 3 and a half 1000000 infections and. some health experts fear the reopening of many

countries will lead to a 2nd wave president donald trump says he's confident of a vaccine by the end of the year the u.s. is not joining a european led conference which is aimed at raising more than $8000000000.00 in a worldwide effort to speed up vaccine research or let's begin we can speak now to francisco attorney who joins us on skype from milan and francisco it interesting day isn't it i read one of one residents who said that we're feeling a mix of joy and fear which summed it up really tell us more about how it's done in philly and what elements are returning today. well of course the feelings of the italians today makes they're all a lot of people on the straights more than 4000000 people went back to work this morning in all the kountry well he is trying to restore the economy without pushing the curve of the infractions up again but of course there is hope that the worst

has passed but there is also concerns about the possible 2nd wave of infection of cases the government was really hit hard criticised for not explaining how it will handle the health system in the 2nd phase but what is happening in this 2nd phase well factories building sites and wholesale trade reopened today there was also a lifting on the restrictions on personal freedoms people are now allowed to go out for a walk and to go to visit their parents or their family but in these meetings they need to wear a mask in the hardest hit region of law but the where i'm speaking from that the mask is mandatory every time outside and that's why i'm wearing it social gatherings are still bans and it's not possible to move from region to region sporting activities can now be practice also far from home in fogs that wear open today but they are open just to walk or run errands for children remain closed while schools will not resort until september as shops museums and libraries will

reopen from may 18th so that there is really high attention on how these 2 weeks will work. as things open out what is the strategy to prevent a potential 2nd. well this is what the government has been criticized on because it didn't explain march and it doesn't seem to have a very clear strategy very different from the face one there are no new big measures to control the virus except from a protective. asks mandatory on public transport and new distancing groups that's why many people are worried nothing was said about the possibility of increasing the number of tests and february and march were not enough for heavy one for everyone who needed to be tested there was also a public debate on the contract tracing that the government is working on but it's

not ready yet and so the authorities didn't even decide to isolate infected people in facilities like hotels to avoid infecting family members it's not easy to understand why some regions are making immunity immunology immunity tests and some are not so of course much has been demanded to the responsibility of people in this in this 2nd phase and now many are asking the authorities to implement new strategies to try the possible 2nd. wave of contagion if it happens we hope not of course of course that's the picture in italy as it's least also if not we can francis because you know it's really thanks very much indeed. well as we mentioned earlier 2 southeast asian nations are taking cautious steps to lift coronavirus restrictions thailand is allowing restaurants sons and pet shops to reopen no new deaths have been reported in days international flights have been banned until the end of the month malaysia will permit the majority of businesses

to reopen large gatherings are still not committed but enough was called hyde lee who's in bangkok and he explained some of the restrictions lifted by thailand. this is the 2nd day the 1st business day of the relaxation of these restrictions that were imposed back in march you know 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 we'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 dying 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 up public transportation still have to wear a mask now 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 it that's why we're here in this neighborhood of old bangkok this is really a touristy area called zone area there are 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 in tourist numbers that's going to be even bigger for the 2nd quarter and again that's a 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. most businesses

are now allowed to reopen including retailers like that's one and shopping malls but they're going to have to implement certain safety measures including temperature screening and making sure there's enough space within the premises for people to maintain a practice physical distance thing now employ its however have been advised to allow people to work from home as far as possible and we're seeing that on the streets on monday morning it seems the busier than they won the last 6 weeks but no way regular day not schools and colleges remain closed malaysia hasn't reopened its borders and interstate travel is still not allowed the prime minister has described the easing of restrictions as a controlled and cautious reopening of economic activity 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 making on even though i think it's still a bit unsafe the virus is invisible i'm just here to get a bit of banking done and then i'm going to head home as soon as possible. that's

a petition online urging the government to reconsider its decision to ease restrictions and as of 9 am on monday morning in malaysia that petition has gone more than 470000 signatures but malaysian health officials say the country has not acted lax in that and that's very much a sense that what the government is trying to do is strike a balance between protecting lives and preserving jobs. now there are multiple efforts underway all across the world to try and find a formula to create immunity against the virus that's enough from stephanie deca. the world is desperate for a vaccine against covert 19 and the race is on to find one that's been developed in many countries i think in largest number in the usa followed 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 bad news is that the usual crime rate the development vaccine is a problem the initial discovery who actually having a 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 follow probably 1000 people on a person. we have a 3. people 3 shop working group and for 24 hours several are at the stage of human testing including this trial the 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 it's 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 it's going to take quite some time before one is available to

all of us and that means that partial lockdown and social distancing could remain part of our lives for a very long time stephanie decker at al-jazeera headquarters in doha let's explore this further in places say we can speak to only while the smith who is professor of emerging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine joins us on skype from geneva professor welcome to the program before we discuss this critical this crucial issue of finding a vaccine i just want to ask you all the easing of restrictions that we're beginning to see how comfortable are you with. every country has a different speeds and criteria for easing that knocked down as you know china had very strict criteria and that meant they had to see is 0 new cases for 4 weeks before they list it most other countries have have now decided to go for a compromise and to lift when they see

a decline in cases of sleep as long as the virus still circulate as we all know there is a risk to the world then continue to that increase again and could cause a 2nd. peak right so it's all a calculation the risk occupation isn't that it is and it's weighing up at the tween the economic cost and and and the. challenge to the to health care systems and lives lost all right is a problem the world faces and also a key issue the world faces is the finding of a vaccine 1st on you might think from what you hear that finding a vaccine will definitely happen but is that actually right can we be certain that a vaccine will be found. i think we should have guarded optimism and and prepare for the fact that we may not have a vaccine for quite a while because just waiting for a vaccine may then end up as not really taking older because.

so so we are there is an incredible speed and president the speed in developing this vaccine and president amount of resources and money to indeed invest in this vaccine this is probably the most important and that scene and the highs that need vaccine. because it's not only about life saving lives there's also about saving our economy and the optimism of finding a vaccine within 12 to 18 months is exactly that is that optimistic is it overly optimistic. i actually remain optimistic we are going in parallel so so you know we are investing in various platforms in parallel and that will increase the success rate but we have to pee pee pad that vaccines may also feel this is a novel pathogen and b. and and and therefore we must be prepared that that

a vaccine may feel right as you say we are moving faster than ever before what is the time lapse between the the you rico moment of finding a vaccine and then making it globally available. so this depends on the on the manufacturing capabilities obviously behere need billions of doses to cover all people around the world and to have equitable access and i think this is the bottleneck so to already address this bottleneck for example oxford has now has gone into it to the extreme trials probably with a lot just a phase one phase 2 trial. as a ready setting up mechanisms so already now prepare scaling up manufacturing this is a risk that is a risk i think the world needs to be prepared to take we need to be pat to pay now into an investment to scale up manufacturing even if we don't know whether this

vaccine is going to be successful it is a space race isn't it in a kind of a way and the thing is there's a lot of disparate effort or there's all these i think is up to 90 different efforts going on around the world shouldn't they be more coordinated we can easily diluting the efforts by having all these different efforts going on. i do believe that we need to have as a team and we need some competition but we need also coordination. i want to stress that those 90 plus vaccines are mostly all still in pre-clinical trial and send some of the most important back same kinds of we need to look at those that are have and tent human human status that studies in humans are human trials and there are now 6 that have started by march april and i think we are looking forward to just seeing their results of them face one trials to see which one really has

that has has most of the prospect of success right so exhilarating a vaccine that has never been done in this way before it will be as you've mentioned pretty much a heroic achievement if we get that but if we don't you've also alluded to the fact that we need a plan b. what is that plan b. . it's going to be very hard reality of finding the a fine balance. the to mean it cannot make damage and lives lost and also saving and protecting our health care system and it's a very fine line that we need to learn. how to titrate and how to manage and every country will have different approaches but the criteria are always the same the criteria is you interrupt transmission some degree of physical does and saying well needs to continue for

a long long time but i think we're also getting better income taining at source so countries like now you zealand australia france and. other countries that have successfully. curbed the epidemic and have now in the numbers they cannot fully focus on ensuring that every time as a level spike that they immediately suppress it so testing is therefore so important so you discover a new rise in cases and immediately suppress it we have the tools in hand we just need to use and wisely so overall i think we can keep the numbers at minimum if we use the tools that we have at hand in the moment and use them wisely while still trying to protect the economy professor we really appreciate your expertise on this thank you very much indeed for that and elise while the smith thank you thank you.

president donald trump says he's confident the u.s. will have a current of our vaccine by the end of the year the president was speaking at a virtual town hall meeting on 3 questions from americans about his handling of the pandemic revelled has this report. we're joined now by president in a virtual town hall style event broadcast on the u.s. television network fox news president donald trump predicted rapid development of a covert $900.00 vaccine we are very confident that we're going to have a vaccine at the end of the year by the end of the or 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 trump went on to claim that he was not told till late january by u.s. intelligence agencies about the spreading coronavirus some reports indicate that those agencies sounded the alarm on january 3rd on january 23rd i was

told that there could be a virus coming in but it was of no really important other words it wasn't all we got to do some we got to do something it was a brief conversation trump blames china directly for the pandemic he promised a report with new information on how it originated and spread i think they made a horrible mistake and they don't want to admit it more than 68000 people in the u.s. have died from cold at 19 and the numbers are rising trump said the toll could reach 90000 a higher number than he has cited before many public health experts are warning against premature lifting of stay at home orders saying that could lead to a new surge in infections without giving any specific dates trump said the u.s. needed to restart its economy soon we can't stay close as a country we're going to have a country left the president ducked a question about safeguarding vulnerable nursing home residents and called white

house reporters questions horrible it is widely considered that the presidential election in november will be a referendum on trump's handling of the pandemic rob reynolds al-jazeera. all right let's move on to some other world news now and israel's political future could become clearer as court judges hear final arguments about the legality of a new power sharing deal 8 petitions have been filed against the coalition agreement between benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz critics argue that yahoo shouldn't be allowed to form a new government because of his indictment for corruption hari force it is in west jerusalem with more on how the supreme court might reach its decision there were clues from yesterday's deliberations and exchanges between the 11 justices and the various attorneys for for the parties involved it seemed pretty clear that the court was extremely sensitive about overstepping its bounds it wanted to make sure that the arguments were about the actual niceties and exactitude of the law

which says that a prime minister doesn't have to step down if indicted but a minister does what exactly is the status of netanyahu as a caretaker prime minister someone who is putting himself up to take on the job again properly does he hold a status a prime minister or a minister they were examining those sorts of things so that indicates that they are pretty likely to rule in favor of netanyahu on that question it doesn't necessarily mean that they will take a similar view on the intricacies of this deal we have to see how the arguments play out there is a huge amount of pressure on the high court though not to undo all this work after 3 consecutive elections which of not yielded a result there's a good deal of political pressure on that front and also there being threats on the high court that if they were. netanyahu supporters terms overstepped their mark in all of this then there could be retaliation taken attempts to try to undermine some of their powers in the future so that's the context in which they're operating

today. i saw the tags in iraq over the weekend killed at least 14 security force personnel assuming a full report i saw fighters are taking advantage of political and economic instability as well as heard rifts within the security forces. these men from the popular mobilization forces or p.m.s. are the 1st line of defense in one of iraq's most dangerous areas across the river lies and stronghold yet their outpost. province has no thermal cameras not even a generator to power the lights when electricity cuts out at night. there is no support for us no cortlandt no armor no clothes no have you a printer. the formed in 2014 to fight eisel are shia led but this unit is sunni and part of the so-called tribal p.m.s. which draws its fighters from local tribes though poorly equipped they're often

deployed deep into rule areas and are easy targets for eisel 9 were killed last saturday in the most brazen attack in months when i slipped government's not up on their checkpoint at night and opened fire killing 3 instantly 3 others were burned alive 3 more were killed in a roadside bomb when they rushed to help. my art exhibit it wasn't until 6 or 7 hours after the incident that more help arrived it's because of the lack of effort and support from the security forces around here. until a few weeks ago an emergency police unit was based nearby but it was redeployed to urban areas to enforce coronavirus lockdowns eisel fried's on instability and the group has taken advantage of the political economic and health crises that have hit iraq over the past few months in addition to that political tensions and rifts inside popular mobilization forces have impeded the ability of security forces to contain the insurgency the unit commander blames sectarian strife for the lack of

or. sources and accuses the shia p.m.s. unit based on the other side of the river of not doing enough to secure the area let me i'm sure. they don't control the 7 kilometer strips facing us we also tell them that they're not covering these areas but they don't deploy forces there it's empty. the commander says his battalion enjoyed more support from the p.m.s. prior to the assassination of its charismatic deputy chief of the alamo 100 he was killed in a u.s. drone strike in january alongside it raining in general kasim solem money since then the pm has real from internal competition and not in 100. he understood. their real outreach approach after that so i knew. we knew and very much

the vision and. let him know that that too we then are they going to. ration. the killings have sparked calls for greater empowerment of the sunni p.m.s. in securing their own areas many tribesmen hope that the incident will usher in greater material support as they confront isis resurgence the want to fulton al jazeera. time for the weather now some good news for farmers in australia oh yes sadly i'm not i can't bring rain but it is a technological technological advance but briefly 1st remember yesterday we talked about a cold front went through introduced much cold weather in the victorian house 1st frost of the season in cambra doubt about minus 1.4 in the capital course this is not up in the mountains up in the mountains it's far more spectacular 80 centimeters of snow fell in victoria have no more to come so to that story to

detect rain is a radar network in every country now because it has a limit to its range that is important information not just for forecast as for far in this case in victoria if western invest in victoria there's a gap in the coverage they couldn't necessarily went to plan with fertilised now it is there something there is no more rain in the immediate future so the current retest it but there is some interesting weather coming into the western side of australia that thing winding up there is a significant storm probably the 1st significant one sees maybe the worst a decision even though it just started in that it's considered likely bring damaging rains in just damaging winds in just a few hours time with rain that could be sunday that rain and wind both will east tomorrow this is very specifically for the rest for australia and the coast it's a dry picture now at the moment nick rob thank you for that says still ahead here

on al-jazeera iran partly relaxes lock down restrictions but the government is under pressure to go further. brazil's president flounce social distancing measures again as infections keep rising in latin america as hard as it country. goes for coming up to 15 minutes or so we'll have an update on the medical condition of the netherlands for. certain. sometimes the listening post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another side of this story also marks the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact look it's reality and you have to reject the law exposing the ticks try to manipulate their rhetoric and play but they cannot manipulate the listening post your insight going to the media on al-jazeera.

are you watching out there her mind over all top stories this hour and after 8 weeks in lockdown it's only

a starting to ease restrictions imposed because of the coronavirus pandemic the construction and manufacturing sectors restarting people are also allowed to visit family members. malays are in thailand also starting to open up most businesses are being allowed to resume operations but large gatherings and travel are still being restricted. donald trump says he's confident the u.s. will have a corona virus vaccine by the end of the year the president made the prediction during a virtual town hall meeting on the fox news channel the scientists believe it will take at least a year before a vaccine is available. all right chinese state media says that the united states has been lodging groundless accusations against beijing that's off to the u.s. secretary of state said that there is significant evidence covert 19 originated in a chinese love his comments are the latest in a growing u.s. backlash against china over its initial handling of the outbreak while the intelligence committee continues to do its work they should continue to do that and

verify so that we are certain i can tell you that there is a significant amount of evidence that this came from that laboratory. that the best experts so far seem to think it was manmade have no reason to disbelieve that at this point it's 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 that ok so just to be clear do you do not think it was manmade or genetically modified i've seen what the intelligence committee has said i have no reason to believe that they've got it wrong so what's been the chinese response to this let's go live to katrina use in beijing and katrina strong words from chinese state media i think in response to my pump what are they saying. that's what there's been a back and forth between the u.s. and china on this topic for months now and this latest editorial from the global

times which is a chinese state media newspaper really just adds fuel to that fire and has some very strong words for u.s. secretary of state mike pompei attacking him really calling him a liar saying that he's engaging in filthy behavior to mislead the public and saying that he has lost his moral compass and that's in response to the comments we just heard of the secretary of state saying this significant evidence that carbon 1000 originated in a chinese lab in the wall in situ to roll a g. and beijing has a flat out denied this it says that washington is really spreading political virus by spreading this what it calls a rumor and that there is no evidence it's also denied any accusations that it's engaging in a just information campaign or a cover up campaign and in this editorial that's really demanding that mike pompei you produce the evidence that he's speaking about it's also accusing him and his colleagues of being interested and nothing more than making sure donald trump is reelected in the november elections and stalking chinese stent sentiment in order

to do that and saying that really this is all part of a larger and china's smear campaign that is really about diverting attention away from donald trump on mishandling of the crisis back home so what are your markets. well they're not happy today tomorrow today and tomorrow is a public holiday in china monday and tuesday as well as in japan so markets here are closed but in hong kong the market the hang seng by 4 percent and in india it was down more than 5 percent it was bordley down across the region and south korea down by about 2.6 percent in taiwan down about $2.00 and singapore down about 2 percent and that's because broadly investors are seeing this escalation as an additional risk to the financial markets and here in beijing the government is going to be very unhappy about that because what they want to see is

a return to regional stability so that it can get its economy growing again and get trading back up to normal pretty chrono virus levels are that's a story in china in beijing katrina you thanks a lot. nigeria a country that is also easy to look down restrictions in 3 states people in lagos. will gradually be given more freedom over the next 6 weeks or exercise and travelling to work will be allowed at schools and dine in restaurants they stay closed nigeria has 2 and a half hours reported cases at least 87 deaths let's go live to the capital of. dress. tell us more about this easy of restrictions people feeling the. well basically there are people who are happy that some of these restrictions are being lifted but that are all it's also cautious optimism but up people in fact were really really afraid that this could be premature because you're talking about

a lifting restrictions at a time when. corona virus infection rates are going high death of also going high from the time the nigerian government imposed not down 5 weeks ago to this time i think cases have nearly. multiply tenfold in across nigeria so right now we just came back from town looking at some of these places after the announcement by the government that today people should start going out where they must yes a lot of people most people are where the mosque that we sold but there are people who are actually not wearing them and talking about social distancing it's quite a big problem go to the banks you see how crowded these places are and how people were packed together we visited one of the major markets in about today and what we

saw there was shocking and lots of people hundreds of people compacted in one small area trying to get into the market which by the way as not open yet and as of the time we left that place so it's it's a bit warry for some people that this is coming at a time when these cases are rising and that nothing much is going on in terms of large scale testing what we hear from the government is a few 1000 tests can be done every day but there are more states that have in the last 2 or 3 weeks been also recording serious cases for example the case of qana where unexplained deaths have happened in the past 2 or 3 weeks now the authorities are coming to. is that these days most of these that were actually a copy of 19 related so the the the confusion still a lingers on however the government is also say that look why don't we ease restrictions we also placing additional measures in place for example confuse i

imposed nighttime countries are imposed from 8 o'clock local time to 6 o'clock in the morning and people are mandated to wear mosque interstate travel still remain in force ban on interstate travel remain in force and also a must gatherings have been banned by the government 20 people can attend a funeral but mosques and churches are still under lock and key all right thanks very much indeed ahmed interest in a bruiser in nigeria the world health organization says there is no evidence that a herbal tonic touted by madagascar's president has a cure for the grade of ours actually works but that hasn't stopped the drink being exported 1st to equitorial guinea and now tickettyboo so manly has its report. this is proving popular in the past so they can call the 19 who know who it actually was. mother against the president on the resoluteness says it so effective

he's exposing it to the other side of the continent. the south president is also in perth he visited the airport to welcome the. yes no i see this donation is a gesture in the fight against a global pandemic called cope it 19 i'd like to say with this will be seen in a very different concept of nationhood it will be seen as a country that always has good people and today the world will talk about. it's the 2nd country to then post it the harp which is used as the tonic contains the autumn is a plant which is normally used to treat malaria but the world health organization warns that the effectiveness of the house has not been proven even tested by scientists but that hasn't stand its popularity tanzania's president says he's in talks with madagascar to send a plane to collect a shipment to pick a sample we are already in touch with madagascar there ought to us an official

letter informing us about their cure we shall send our airplane to go and pick the drugs so our citizens can also reap the benefits tanzania has recorded 17 deaths for the governments be the case of failing to take the virus seriously in the campus it's business as usual schools the shots that markets most and churches remain open. and back in madagascar the army has been knocking door to door to give the tonic the most vulnerable people the country is says record a few cases and no fatalities as government actions have gone beyond the home. and social distancing rules have been enforced measures medical experts say affective even if the tonic is not nor about a minute it is there. any q.h. police have broken out what they describe as

a right by egyptian workers and some of the stride of migrants were arrested as they demanded flights home egypt's embassy in kuwait apologized to the unrest and says arrangements for repatriation are being made many migrant workers all over the gulf region have lost their jobs and many are desperate to leave. mosques of reopened in areas of iran that the government deems safe but the capital tehran remains a virus hotspot president hassan rouhani says social distancing is more important than collective press them as ravi as the latest. iran's government announced the names of more than $100.00 towns and cities across the country that they now consider safe or white stones these are places that health officials say have seen a dramatic drop in the rate of infection of the coronavirus mosques have the green light to go ahead and reopen their doors and in some cases friday prayer congregations will also go back to normal but it has to be said these are small population centers in a very big country to iran still one of the worst affected places in iran this city

remains a red zone major religious sites into one musher than home in the cities places that were considered hotspots for the virus at the start of this outbreak those remain closed for now when the pandemic began in iran the government response was about weighing what was good for public health against what was good for the country's economic health some say iran implemented a lockdown too late and reopened too early now in the islamic fasting month of ramadan the country's leaders are under pressure to find a balance between managing public health and the country's spiritual health we have to remember that modern day iran was built on the back of a religious revolution this is a country that has a large and vocal population of religious people and this is one of the most religious months of the islamic calendar it's a time of religious gatherings and the government will no doubt be feeling the pressure to reopen places of mass worship some mosques like the one behind me local neighborhood houses of god have restarted limited operating hours individuals can go inside and pray throughout the day but as long as they maintain social distancing measures it's

a small but significant nod by the government to the country's religious identity but bigger gatherings of any kind for any sort of mass worship remain forbidden. afghanistan's health ministry says the number of infections in the capital could be much higher than limited testing has to take it's a full random test of 500 samples just 30 percent of couples 5000000 people could have contracted cavan 1000 more than 80 deaths and 83000 cases are officially recorded so far with my colleague followed by to bo spoke to mayor he's a spokesman for afghanistan's public health ministry and says the government is doing what it can with limited resources it's an alarming sign for us it is more vigilant to take more vacation early measures to implement preventive measures announced. in force lockdown and other preventive measures to reduce the spread by restaurant and units because the virus has already

been in community for this mission and the rest has getting day by day so you say that for you the priority now is to implement the stay at home measures but as you know for many afghans staying at home is not an option the economy of the country is very fragile millions of afghan children are struggling with hunger according to save the children so how do you reconcile with that it's a choice between sickness and starvation for many people. this is one of the biggest challenges for the afghan government and luckily there are 11 stakeholders there are the rescuers have been working very hard to utmost the problem of starvation and unemployment and there is a program that they distribute most not ready to take the risk and the ministry of health has been working closely with the relief. agencies for the relieve program to make it whether the. press to poor and needy and of course

there are other really programs that support needy people. you know that afghanistan besides. poverty it was besides military and besides that we have been at war for 2 decades in dayton one of our they could concerns and problem is. being attacked to work and in recent days if you calculate the number of flights that have been taken by work is more than the number of fatalities due to what 19 right now but obviously the concern about this pandemic in a country as fragile as i've gotten stan so what are your current predictions as far as a number of cases and deaths and how well prepared is your health care system to handle this crisis what's needed the most right now while we have been doing our best to its allies limited the resources that we have and we use it in

a worst of us in an admissions way but you know that. requires lots of assistance from planes national international waters. one fortunately we have received letters from world bank from mission development bank and from u.n. agencies that there will be a system now to be honest going in fighting against around outliers. japan is extending its month long state of emergency until the end of this month at least the prime minister shinzo says health experts will assess the situation in 10 days to see if a further extension is needed nationwide emergency measures announced a month ago empower local governors to urge businesses to close and people to stay at home. can you feel like you know enough japan has not experienced the explosive spread of infections like in other countries and some positive results are beginning to appear such as the effective reproduction number of the whole country

falling below but at present there is still a considerable number of new infections and the number of infections is not declining at a sufficient level. or new zealand has recorded no new cases for the 1st day in 6 weeks a lockdown has been partially eased or there restrictions remain for schools the restaurants and public areas just over 1100 cases have been reported we did then many other countries we compare ourselves to and the ongoing commitment to physical distancing and staying at home has no doubt been the biggest contributor to our rapid drop in cases for you or if it's new zealand has put us at the front of the pack and everyone should feel very proud of it brazil's amazon region has become the new frontline in the battle against covert 19 infections there are rising quickly leaving hospitals overwhelmed in the city of manassas president jaya both continues to downplay the pandemic and as

a. yeti now reports. a face mask is projected on the statue of christ the redeemer the symbol of. it's a call for awareness as the number of cases keep rising across brazil. has been marking the seas from the start keeps hugging and shaking hands with supporters. on sunday he once again led a protest in the capital brasilia against stay at home measures ordered by local governors as he fights against corruption from the country's congress and supreme court. 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 says 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 the state capital health services have been overwhelmed by the number of sick people the city is handling more than 100 deaths per day 3 times the normal average as. mass graves to bury their dead. the mayor of international plea for help has concerns grows that the virus could have devastating effects on the. indigenous tribes. we have to save the lives. of the forest for.

disaster. barbarism. a call for help that so far has rung for a president whose critics say seems more worried about political survival than keeping brazilians alive i listen that i'm. most famous for. 47 years to do it the 1st time.

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or let's get out and support his son thank you very much an equal players and it is topical division are finally back on the training field monday marks the 1st day that syria clubs can conduct individual practice sessions at having got permission from the italian government team training will be allowed to resume on may the 18th with the league suspended says march 9th it's been one of the hardest hit countries in europe by the corner virus with more than $28000.00 deaths so far. joining us now is a football author and inverted bologna electra nicholas betty nucular 1st of all our teams the pairs on other on the same page for resuming the training our players happy about it where it should be only. to restart we can say that the players are reluctant to express and. i don't see them enthusiastic but at the same time

no player really speak out against that they restart either so it seems like a situation where waiting see what about how important is it for the season to get finished i mean we heard from the head of the italian football saying if they cancel the league altogether it will be the death of italian football do you feel the same. look i think that any way anyone misplaying he's rowland's they. didn't get enough of the football federation just say ok football need to restart but these not. the government that this same time clubs are. really pressuring the government but they are kind of fun with. their responsibility for. someone to get their student body

for health reasons for doubt leggo point of view and also the government that we can say he has the power to completely stop completely restart the season but the. call has as well so seems like. kind of put out in play when everyone needs. without assuming full responsibility. what we know like football is very important in the country do you think a move like that to see players going back to training would it give some kind of a lift to talian people. i think that just seeing players going out to training indeed is not enough. moment when life today's the day when like he tried to restart that but with a lot of restrictions going on i think the real moment when. all the time

you know we understand. that pandemic is all there will be when to. restart that but that's what i want to restart that. safety measure on otherwise it will be possible ok football author and university ball on elektra and you can last 50 thank you very much for that thank you. the netherlands national team makoto ronald koeman has undergone a heart procedure the 57 year old that complained of chest pains following a bike ride and had the operational sunday details of a have not been revealed up but he will return home late on monday as a player common or was one of holland biggest stars and won the european cup with barcelona and p.s.v. eindhoven. next years are quite accept a world championships that have been

a push back to 2022 or the event which is being hosted by focal aka japan it was meant to begin in july 2021 but will instead happen the following may the move follows the tokyo olympics being shifted to 2021 because of people pandemic. 4 time tour de france champion chris froome is not sure of this year's race it can go ahead the tour has been postponed until the end of all this but mass gatherings are banned in france and till at least september speaking on a web chat with former cricketer kevin pietersen fruma said he doubts open eyes is will be able to fully prevent the large crowds which the race is famous for can we can put on the race and it could be broadcast on television you know what i mean going about now you hop in and you get from a spectator i mean you're not going to get the same scenes as you would get going through these tunnels of just people everywhere and all the rest have you know

maybe maybe that's the version of race we need to see this year i don't know yeah i mean in theory we can put the race on but i think the bigger question is would the organizers be able to keep people from from from from actually coming out and gathering in large crowds. one of this year's major championship golf courses has reopened in san francisco hearting park is set to host the p.g.a. championship which has been moved from may to august it's been closed for 7 weeks and there will still be some restrictions in place such as golf as having to stay 2 metres apart p.g.a. is one of 3 mages that have been shifted to later in the year along with the masses and us open the british open has been cancelled all together golf courses in the states also hope to restart the main p.g.a. tour on june 11th or. why it's been 47 years since the

famous race horse secretariat won the can tacky but now he's done it again he's one of the virtual version of the race after this year's real one was despondent till september because of the pandemic the contest was between all 13 winners of racing's famous triple crown secretariat did it back in 1973 and his story inspired a disney film in 2010 this time and he beat a citation in 2 seconds and seattle slew finished 3rd the computerized race raised around $2000000.00 for the coded 19 relief effort. and that's always full for me we'll have more for you later on including the italian football a play is that's on training you will see it when the cereal will be back on but for now back to son of thanks very much and they look for to see you later thank you for that so if you go to websites al-jazeera dot com is the address of the

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