with injuries. the at the end. the end. coronavirus deaths in the u.s. past 80000 but donald trump says the country's well on the way to defeating the outbreak. fully back to where you're watching al jazeera live from doha also ahead the world health organization sounds caution as fronts and spain side lifting some of the toughest coronavirus restrictions in year and. were wiping down 3000 to be in a truck and with steroids and every time we get in and out of the truck canadian

truck drivers tell us why the pandemic has made life on the road even more dangerous and in other news and unusual sight in the democratic republic of congo the president's chief of staff goes on trial for the option. thank you for joining us we begin with another grim milestone in the global coronavirus pandemic the death toll from covert 1000 in the united states has now surpassed 80000 the u.s. has by far the worst hit country in the world but president donald trump says america is now on track to defeat the virus speaking at the white house said his administration had now pulled a $1000000000.00 to boost coronavirus testing capabilities. this afternoon i am announcing that my administration is and and we've got this all approved it's all done is sending $1000000000.00 to america's states territories and so this is all

been approved we've got it done completed the money is going out this major investment will ensure that america continues to conduct more tests than any country on earth by 4 while the president also claimed the u.s.'s testing capacity is unrivaled saying 9000000 people have been tested for the virus so far and he also promised that federal agencies will be delivering nearly 13000000 testing swabs to states nationwide and the money announced by president trump isn't new and had a ready been approved by congress last month white house correspondent kimberly hocket explains. there's a bit of electioneering going on here because even as you listen carefully to the president's own statement there that money that he was talking about and by the way he blundered his own announcement he said 1000000000 for testing but what he meant to say was 11000000000 that was actually clarified later in the press conference the amount of money that he is announcing if you will was already approved by

congress late last month in fact the u.s. president signed it into law under another piece of legislation one of the very large among the many coronavirus packages that have been approved by congress this u.s. president in this white house they can't just drum up the money on their own that's something congress does the president signs it into law so in terms of this money that he says already been done yet has already been done there really isn't anything new here from what i can see in fact i reached out to the press office to double check that and i didn't hear back but i think that underscores that essentially this money was already approved by congress it allows the states the various governors to ramp up their testing their lab capacity and this is the president pushing back in an election year to say look at we may have been criticized at the beginning early on in this virus because there wasn't enough testing available but here's where we are right now the president touting it as

a success saying that soon every american will be able to be tested but right now that is currently not the case when i speak to dr marcus he joins us on skype from atlanta georgia he is the chief medical officer of the association of satan territorial health officials sank you so much talk to pressure for being with us. let's start with some of the claims that president trump made during his news conference earlier 1st of all is the u.s. really testing more people than any other country as the president claims 9000000 people tested out of a population of 330000000 it's a long way to go. well it is a long way to go i mean these are good steps in the right direction it's great to see that there's more resources coming to pay for testing and there have been a lot of challenges with testing from from the beginning and then unfortunately now with 'd you know everybody's everybody's looking to make more tests and and you

know the world is competing for what's out there for them gently for some of the reagents and depose they go into the tests but the announcement is good this is what states that meeting we need to scale up our testing testing is really the backbone for our entire effort to control this epidemic the president also said that anyone who wants a test can get one is that the case to we know who can get a test who needs to be tested can people who are going back to work for instance get tested even if they don't have symptoms well that's not been the case so far we have a shortage of tests and we've been having to prioritize people who are at higher risk or people have special needs for tests but that is what we need we need to get to a place where testing is far more commonplace and we particularly need to be a good place where anybody who has symptoms that might be code can be tested because that's important for other infection control efforts one of the things we're really starting to put an emphasis on now is context racing finding people

who are sick with isolating them and then finding out who they've been in contact with so we can contact those people and monitor them as well that's the way we're going to get ahead of this epidemic right dr pascha 80000 americans are now confirmed to have died from kovi 1002 months ago they were 13 deaths where 80000 not how i mean it's just an imagined in a unimaginable how this has just skyrocketed the number of fatalities do you think really the top administration is doing enough to prevent more americans from dying . well i think we have all of the things in place that we made from the administration from other federal sources like the sun mr aziz control and then ultimately 'd this the response has increasingly become a state public health response. you know our focus is looking for our focus is how do we keep this from happening and king forward some projections are not are not

looking good either when it comes to the number of deaths looking forward that's that's correct that's what's very concerning to us and that's why this big push to get more testing more protective equipment as the thing those are the problems of plague to some so now but we also need an infectious control infection control strategy our strategy so far has had to have people stay at home we can't maintain that in the long run we need to move to other solutions and that's why i was talking about was this context racing approach that's going to be the way that many other countries have gotten a step ahead of this and that's what we're trying to move towards ok thank you very much for speaking to us dr pascha joining us from atlanta georgia thanks for having me. i'll swear on monday france cautiously and it is locked down although many restrictions remain in place particularly in paris has not or says city is far from resuming normal service. back to work for some people in france

but not quite back to normal in the paris metro staff handed out masks that are now obligatory on public transport and distributed hand sanitizing gel but with a large number of people commuting so should distancing was clearly impossible. 20 minutes for a train some people were not wearing masks and at my station in the suburbs staff were not handing out morse like here you can't socially distance with so many people but. normally in metro we're not confined spaces it's just a shame we were advised to wear mass in the 1st began in france because maybe. staying home after 2 months of strict lockdown the french government has lifted some restrictions allowing some businesses to resume work as people began to move around paris again traffic returned to the city's famous. and shops welcomed customers many of the shops on this street are open even though it's not busy there

are clearly people out and about enjoying a little bit of freedom but the government says that unless people remain vigilant it could consider re-imposing some restrictions see the use of if the virus begins increasing rapidly again with no control and risking the health of the french people we would be forced to impose confinement measures again either in certain territories or differentiated as we did initially or even more widely if the population were in danger although some restrictions have been lifted many remain restaurants cafes sports and cultural venues a still shot as well as some parks many schools ready to open the government says that mosques are now easily available i am testing is widespread. but with no coronavirus vaccine yet they must rely on people's ability and will to helping an end to the health emergency potential partner al-jazeera paris. and spain

after nearly 2 months of lockdown people can now meet their families and friends smart a hero has more from madrid. we are at a men's clothing shop in the middle of madrid one of the busiest areas commercial areas that is just getting ready to reopen to the public next week so we've got everything ready we've got 100 ties or we have the gloves we have them last year that the owner does this in fact in all the garments in order to reopen to the costumers today in spain over a 50 percent of the regions have moved on to phase $21.00 is a part of the deescalation plan of using these lockdown measures after $57.00 days of a strict low down so people will be able to go to terraces and at a capacity of 50 percent will be able to go to hotels still to a 50 percent of the capacity mosque and church and will also be able to meet their friends and families as one of the most important things of business is singing

measures now the world health organization is cautioning vigilance it says as countries restart their economies they must. must be prepared me to re-introduce restrictions if necessary to protect lives and livelihoods a slow steady lifting of lockdowns is key to board stimulating economies while also keeping a vigilant eye on the virus so that control measures can be quickly implemented if an upswing in cases is identified. the u.k. government has released a report detailing how it pans to lead the country out of the pandemic changes this week in clover moving limits on outdoor exercise and encouraging certain sectors to go back to work but a sudden gaggle report says confusion about promise of boris johnson's latest guidance in it for the long haul and an easing of the lockdown that is conditional

on progress in fighting the virus as the prime minister sets out the new measures for england it was clear that there would be little that would be returning to normal sectors that are allowed to be should indeed be open subject subject to social distancing with a cabbie at this pandemic was going nowhere yet if you're not level begins to rise we will have no hesitation in putting on the brakes reintroducing measures locally regionally national. as the u.k. tentatively prepares for the changes to its lockdown it is a journey that will be taken slowly with many obstacles ahead some people who can't work from home of being encouraged to return to work some outdoor socialising measures have been eased but now england wales scotland and northern ireland all have different rules but leaders move wary of releasing their lock downs as much as

england i know these restrictions continue to be extremely tough and i nor that hearing talk about easing the law makes them seem probably even tougher but please i am asking you for no you to stick with that the u.k. will soon be imposing a 14 day quarantine period on people arriving from overseas apart from the irish republic and france but no detail as to when it would start and for how long it would last. the british government is only advising not mandating face coverings in enclosed spaces in other countries such as france people are required to wear them on public transport the u.k. still has the 2nd highest reported fatalities from couvade 19 in the world and the new measures have not necessarily provided reassurance to the public it's still a bit of confusion around who's to go to work and who is not to go to work and what you to do if you got children of hard who is taking care then so it doesn't appear

as much time to me it's consistent with how the government is operating throughout the whole throughout this whole period which is not one in some way any hard and fast decisions there are still many unanswered questions resulting from the latest guidance and it is a deeply complex operation the knowledge of the virus is constantly evolving as will the reaction to it for some time to come sunday diagonal al-jazeera meanwhile fears are rising over a potential 2nd wave of covert $1000.00 infections after germany reported the disease is spreading faster just days after a slow down was eased the virus has reproduction rates which measures the number of people covered in 19 what in fact is estimated at 1.07 that means 100 people in fact 107 others on average more than 7500 people have died of over 1000 in germany which is much lower than its european neighbors chancellor angela merkel says

people must still follow health guidelines. and still ahead on al-jazeera stranded passengers in the philippines can finally go home as a country is it's bad on international flights. hello the cold air still very much in place across more northern and eastern areas of the united states also of course into eastern as account as a lot of cloud around not all of this chad has got much rain left in it or indeed some snow this is again some more pictures coming out over the months it was recently on sunday that the heavy snowfall came down 23 centimeters was recorded in some areas so it should be a better day on choose a quite a bit of cloud around and still those winds will be cool coming really throw the west and so pushing east was with all that cloud terms will begin to improve as we

go through the wee wednesday on into friday and they will see more rain developing a choose day across much of the south across the southern plains and widespread rain once again pushing into the pacific northwest and down into northern areas of california that will spread further east was throughout wednesday and we could see some heavy rains through the central plains we've got warm air in place there we may lie even have some a funnel storms as well and then across the caribbean and central america we've had some very heavy amounts of rain through central america that is still really in the forecast that particular on tuesday cuba picking up some very heavy downpours the bahamas as well it's a little me end of a front which is just trading across the region so again a very wet couple of days this could well lead to some flooding across into cuba but it's not a cold or high the of 29 in havana. but . culturally i believe that the muslims had a far greater effect all europe than europe high on the middle east. the crusaders

fought for oceans just because they failed to recognize the moment clooney you've had a ride not hot it was in the the list campaign of colonization that exploded religion in the name of the cross the crusades an arab perspective the final episode liberation on a jesse. you're watching al jazeera live from doha a recap of our top stories this hour the death toll from covered 19 in the united states has now surpassed 80000 but president donald trump says america is now and trying to defeat the virus the world health organization has advised countries

who've ease their restrictions to be cautious france and spain are the 1st in the 1st in europe to lift their lock downs although many restrictions still remain in place and there are fears over a potential 2nd wave of infections in germany after a reported the disease is spreading faster just days after the long run was easing the virus is reproduction rate is estimated at 1.07 that means a 100 people in fact 107 others on the edge. of russia will start easing restrictions from tuesday despite recording the 4th highest number of call the 1000 infections in the world over 220000 cases have been reported president vladimir putin says sectors like agriculture and construction can resume operations provided they follow safety rules which is also announced plans to further support the economy as well as welfare payouts for struggling families in the philippines international fries can land in manila again after the government reopened the

airport frights were stopped last week after the philippines couldn't cope with thousands of workers returning from overseas jamila linda and reports from manila. these foreign visitors are now able to fly out of the philippines after waiting for over a month many airlines begun cutting flights in march and a week ago manila's main airport was closed oh going big i don't much but it good be laden they know i'm going but i'm feeling we have a group who are going to go mundane and very thankful for them and also feel a breeze gomen the government temporary halted flights as it struggled to speed up testing for corona virus and ran out of room in quarantine facilities since the start of the pandemic thousands of filipinos have been returning to the philippines . philippine embassies are used to pray you are the emergency mass. but with this influx the government has had to medically tests and house tens of thousands of

people and it admits resources are stretched the government says the flight restrictions will be in effect until early next month and this hopes to ensure that the airport will be able to handle our own $400.00 passengers a day that is the estimated capacity under the current lockdown there over $10000000.00 filipino workers overseas around 10 percent of the country's population that's why the impact of the global pandemic is felt so deeply here. just borrowed money to come to manila from his home province of cebu to start to work as a seafarer he was waiting to be assigned to a ship when the lockdown began. you don't even though if you can go abroad. the philippines provides a quarter of the workforce of the global maritime industry since the pandemic

started more than $20000.00 have returned a majority now stranded and jobless filipino workers they are all too aware of the dangers of the coronavirus but what they fear more is the uncertainty of not being able to provide for their families duggan manila. authorities in malaysia have began arresting undocumented migrants in a target in operation on monday just outside the capital kuala lumpur a video released by local media showed crowds of migrants lining up after the arrival of a large group of police officers the malaysian government has already carried out similar operations in what it says is an effort to help contain the spread of corona virus. let's turn to other world news now and an accidental missile strike by the iranian navy on one of its own best. it's $900.00 it happened on sunday during exercises near the strait of homeless a busy international shipping route reports. a military exercise gone wrong in the

gulf of oman resulting in the deaths and injuries of dozens of iranian sailors 24 hours after sunday's incident the navy verified the worst of the unconfirmed reports already on social media. a missile test by an iranian frigate the jumper on hit a smaller support ship the corner rock killing 19 and injuring 58 the government was quick to declare the men heroes before dawn i was informed of a painful accident for the canara vessel and the deaths and wounding of our brave service members who protect to rein in maritime security which deeply hurt my heart i don't know what to say to make it better we are all indebted to those loved ones who sacrificed their lives for our security and well being. but what happened is still unclear reports suggest the smaller ship was setting floating targets and did not clear the impact zone in time to avoid the destroyer's missile fire it happened in the iranian waters of the gulf of oman

a short distance from the strategic strait of hormuz its proximity to a major shipping corridor is likely to have world leaders concerned you could imagine that if another ship would have passed close close by it could have an accident and what is very important here is that any incident because the situation is so volatile i could actually lead to further escalation and that's that is the real issue. last month president donald trump said the united states would shoot and destroy any iranian boats found to be harassing american ships in the region. iran responded with a similar order for its own naval forces everything iran's military does in and around its territorial waters is to project power. a friendly fire incident like this hurts iran's carefully managed public image one that is still recovering from another incident involving an accidental missile launch in january the military shot down a civilian ukrainian airliner over to run killing all 167 people on board.

african in minnesota a prime minister told us to bonnie faces being ousted from office after his coalition collapse he's now officially a caretaker prime minister until a vote of no confidence takes place to ban has been under pressure to resign after being accused of involvement in the matter of his ex-wife. a rare corruption trial is underway in the democratic republic of congo the president's chief of staff has denied charges of embezzlement and corruption before the country's high court he was arrested last month and has been detained in a high security prison ever since in the capital kinshasa. reports. supporters of talca mary saying don't protect any of them they think it's all the politicians who should be facing corruption charges to marry the democratic

republic of congo's chief of staff was arrested and jailed last month prosecutors say he stole $50000000.00 of public money along with $2.00 collaborators so. police are chasing is a way because authorities don't want people to know what happened in this case all accusations against america are lies he didn't do anything wrong this is why they're choosing as a way. mary's being held in here to macau a high security prison in the capital kinshasa behaving took place inside where supporters and journalists and not permitted proceedings were pulled cost on national television camero was working alongside president felix to security until his arrest they both lead political parties which are in a coalition of arrests and trials of senior politicians room waste on herself in congo camero has denied the charges. we are not here to entertain an audience i have an important job to do i have the notoriety that corresponds to

this job and so i must act as a statesman through truth we will achieve justice if convicted comerica be sentenced to up to 20 years hard labor the trials jus to continue in 2 weeks' time . back outside police moved porters away corruption is seen as normal here corruption trials on not that's why a lot of camero supporters think his trials politically motivated mary had to deal with president kennedy to succeed him but the future of that deal and their ruling coalition is now unclear and congo's fragile politics have been thrown into further turmoil malcolm webb al-jazeera. now the u.s. president says his not in favor of reopening the go see a sions on phase one of the trade deal with china they were meant was reach early this year after successive rounds of negotiation but reports now say chinese advises would like to change it china would like to reopen negotiations on the

trade deal to make the terms more favorable to them is this something you'd be interested in doing no not at all not even a little bit no i'm not it just that we signed a deal i heard that too they'd like to reopen the trade talk to make it a better deal for them china has been taking advantage of the united states for many many years for decades because we had people at this position right here where i'm standing sitting right in that office the oval office that allowed that to happen i'm not interested in that let's see if they live up to the deal that they signed. now to canada where truck drivers have been working overtime to keep supplies flowing across the country during the crown of crisis but with many people stuck at home those in the industry facing their own unique challenges they did a survey for some contrary. outside his shop in calgary chris standing prepares to

pick up a load of dry past his routine has changed more in the past few months than journey his 25 years in the trucking industry and with the corona virus still spreading across canada chris wants to keep his family and his clients safe we set up a company policy to make sure that that we're wiping down 3 times a day in the truck and we're sterilizing her hand every time we get in and out of the truck whether it's going into a client or just picking up a load in the pandemics early days says hauling goods was a bit like driving into a freak storm a little scary and a little exciting at the same time he feels safer now as most businesses have introduced protocols to reduce face to face contact even so today chris has to enter a warehouse to sign paperwork and with workers coming in going social distancing is a challenge but the biggest risk he says is when filling up everything in the beginning that a lot of the major spread of or 3rd out on. the board that would top dollar

guy for make sure even when are you going to be bad make sure they put their smaller gloves on so that they could still hit the numbers despite their vital role transporting essential goods truckers have faced harsh conditions since the start of the pandemic truck drivers have struggled to find open businesses to buy food use the washroom and rest but their predicament has also led to random acts of kindness and brought out bollen tears to truck stops like this one calgary sikh community is one of many groups helping truckers across canada they give out around $100.00 meals a day they're really appreciated like we have a foreign call for number set up. they used to call off ahead of time so then you show up at the truck stop even on the highway even at the beer halls where they're delivering trucking companies and associations are now worried by a huge increase in so-called empty miles this happens when there's no cargo to haul back home after making a delivery the cost of an operation is basically. increasing while the

revenue generating aspect of the truck is decreasing and you can't pass on the cost to the customers because there are clearly hurting tough times ahead for these unsung heroes who are trying to steer their country out of a pandemic david mercer al-jazeera calgary canada. this is al jazeera and these are top stories the death toll from call that 1000 in the united states has now surpassed 80000 but president donald trump says america is down trying to defeat the virus this afternoon i am announcing that my administration is and and it we've got this all approved it's all done is sending $1000000000.00 to america's states territories and so this is all been approved we've gotten it done completed the money is going out this major investment will

ensure that america continues to conduct more tests than any country on earth by far. the world health organization has advised countries that have eased restrictions to remain cautious france and spain are the 1st in europe to lift their lock downs although many restrictions remain in place and there are fears in germany of a potential 2nd wave of infections after it reported over 1000 is spreading faster just days after the lockdown lizzie's to viruses reproduction rates which measures the number of people over 1000 will infect is estimated at 1.07 that means 100 people infect 107 others on average russia will saudi easing restrictions from tuesday despite having the 4th highest number of infections in the world over 220000 cases have been reported as environment putin says sectors like agriculture and construction can resume operations provided they follow safety rules hootin also announced plans to further support the economy as well as welfare payouts for

struggling families ovaries in malaysia have begun arresting undocumented migrants in a targeted operation on monday just outside the capital kuala lumpur video released by local media showed crowds of migrants lining up after the arrival of a large group of police offices the malaysian government has already carried out a similar operations in what it says is an effort to help contain the spread of the corona virus in other news the prime minister of mistletoe faces being ousted from office after his coalition collapse to muster bonnie is now officially a caretaker prime minister until a vote of no confidence takes space the body has been under pressure to resign after being accused of involvement in the murder of his sex walk. those are the headlines on al-jazeera as always we've got plenty more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com coming up next it's people in power. we understand the different space and similarities of cultures across the land

sentimental value taking out just 0.2 that means and kind of fast that matter to you. down to 0. when the coronavirus pandemic began spreading across the world in early 2020 italy and quickly became europe's worst affected nation and soon after went into law. as its hospitals began to fold its population retreated into isolation and its economy ground to a halt we asked to throw makers from rome to document those unprecedented 1st few weeks.