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al jazeera. and. the u.s. president disputes a warning from his infectious diseases expert about getting back to business too quickly. hello i'm adrian forgetting this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a mystery condition related to the corona virus is affecting children causing some to die. what we think we know at this time it's something that's occurring probably . after the initial infection it's home to some of the world's top tourist
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attractions the push to reopen borders in europe. and the lengths that some commuters here go to communities are going to in mexico to enforce lockdowns in the face of a growing death toll. the leader of the country was to fix it by the coronavirus is going against the advice of his infectious diseases expert president donald trump says that he wants the u.s. economy up and running again as soon as possible his message comes a day after a warning from covert 19 task force member dr anthony fauci the rushing to open up could have serious consequences including needless deaths and suffering of serious mike hanna reports from washington. the president met with the governors of colorado and north dakota and urged them to look into reopening schools as soon as possible the country is getting it back and it's going to get back as soon as
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possible and i don't consider a country coming back and the schools are closed it's a message at odds with that given by dr antony funnell who told a senate committee tuesday that there were real dangers in reopening states too soon making particular reference to schools we don't know everything about this virus and we've really got to be very careful particularly when it comes to children presidential candidate joe biden was quick to comment i would trust the guy who's one of our nation's top public health experts he tweeted not the one who pondered injecting disinfectant into the body and look directly at a solar eclipse there are federal guidelines for governors to consider among the recommendations that the rate of infection drops for 2 weeks before mitigating measures are eased that a proper tracing procedure be established and that testing protocols be in place
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none of the states that have begun to reopen meet all these criteria and in wisconsin another denial of the concerns of medical experts the supreme court has struck down the governor's stay at home order siding with republican leaders who argue the administration had overstepped its legal authority it's an argument that has received explicit support in tweets from the white house mike hanna al-jazeera washington and a further sign that there's still much to learn about the coronavirus health officials are warning of a related condition that's affecting children in new york 3 have died from it kristen salumi a spoken to the mother of a child who's recovered from the mysterious illness. amber deen seen here with her son bobby thought she was one of the lucky ones the mother of 3 from her now in new york had a mild case of covert 19 in april and has since recovered but for bobby it was
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a different story started a what just seemed like a tummy bug so you know we're treating it as such and then it had progressed to a low grade and a heavy amount of bombing and he couldn't keep anything down the 9 year old spent last week in the hospital one of more than 100 children in new york struck down by a mysterious condition thought to be related to the virus bobbie recovered but at least 3 children in the state have died and more than a dozen other states have reported cases similar to a rare condition known as callous saki disease or toxic shock syndrome it causes inflammation in the blood vessels from what we know or what we think we know at this time it's something that's occurring probably a few weeks after the initial inspection so most likely a lot of these children were infected a few weeks ago and now there are immune system is kind of wrapping up and causing this inclination the body the leading u.s.
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public health body the centers for disease control and prevention is warning doctors to be on the lookout for the syndrome experts are also looking at a possible genetic predisposition but the man leading the u.s. medical response cautions there is still a lot they don't know i think we've got to be careful if we are not cavalier if thinking that children are completely in the in the deleterious effects with tens of thousands of people killed and millions more out of work one saving grace of the coronavirus was supposed to be that children were spared the worse now as there's new evidence of this syndrome coming to light even that is being challenged kristen salumi al-jazeera new york. the world health organization is warning that the corona virus may never be entirely wiped out it says there's a long way to go in the fight against the virus the organization's experts say that without an effective vaccine it could take years for the global population to develop sufficient levels of immunity this where is may become just another in demi
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virus in our communities and this wireless may never go away hiv is not going away we've come to terms with the virus and we have found the therapies and we found the prevention methods and people don't feel as scared. as they did before and we're offering life to people with hiv long healthy lives to people with a jury dr gregory poland is director of the mayo clinic vaccine research group a says that it's important to ensure safety in developing a vaccine. i think there will be a vaccine the question is when and my concern i just published an editorial about this is the fear that we pushed and rushed it so quickly that we compromised safety in doing so so we need to be very careful about that but w h a w h o's main point is that this is a virus with high transmissibility in fact the real number is probably closer to
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something like smallpox and that gives you a sense of this virus seeking out one host after another that it can in fact i think our chances absolutely are better with the corona virus the difference is that a the vaccine hiv virus is a kind of acquired by species it's constantly mutating and changing and that is not the case with coronaviruses they mutate much more slowly hiv virus is a cause a species that means that it is constantly changing in mutating making it very hard to devise a vaccine that is not the case with corona virus it mutates much more slowly we understand what portion of the virus to make a vaccine against i think our real issue is not will we be able to make one but will we be able to make one that induces safe and long term immunity their opinion it has lead us to reopen the borders of a close chance of the pandemic tourism makes up 10 percent of the box economy and
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the s.f. and history is at risk of collapse of a terrorist attack shabaka reports from paris. a glimpse of war going on a holiday in some parts of europe will look like this summer barriers separating sun loungers on the greek island of santorini not the beach experience the most holiday makers a used to but one that complies with new social distancing rules we hope these barriers won't be the future for beaches we don't want this but if this is necessary and if people safety depends on this sort of device then so be it we just want to work we want to get going in march borders in the european union were shot and nearly all travel stopped because the coronavirus pandemic a huge blow to the tourism industry one of the blocks main economic sectors as some countries begin to ease their lock downs the european commission has presented a rescue plan for the tourism industry its recommending foul choose instead of
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refunds for council travel sanitary measures for hospitality and transport services and the reopening of some borders of course this is not going to be a normal summer not for any of us. that when we all work together and we all do our part in the ways the commission is setting out today then we don't have to face a summer struck home or a completely lost summer for the european tourists industry some countries say that they are already considering lifting some travel restrictions germany says that it wants to reopen its border with fraud switzerland and austria and britain and france say that they won't impose quarantine for now on people traveling between the 2 countries paris is one of the world's most visited cities the lockdown has been eased but monuments museums hotels and restaurants remain closed the french government has advised people to holiday in france this year after 2 months at home
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some people can't wait to travel. health risk and reward here to be able to travel abroad and outside france will be a valid i have a holiday home in spain and want to go but for now there are restrictions but i want to go we can't stop living more than $6000000.00 tourism jobs in e.u. could be lost unless the industry is revived the european commission says the challenge is to encourage the sectors recovery but prevent a resurgence of corona virus cases or risk is spreading even further across the bloke who talked about just 0 hours. thousands of former nurses doctors and care home style for answering an s.o.s. call in germany an online initiative is allowing people to register and return to their former careers helping hospitals with much needed stuff as germany locked down restrictions last month and source life wise infections. i am going out of
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business because we noticed that in this crisis situation the hospitals are problems to deal with the people they wanted to help for example make sure the ended up in the right place that's why we decided to use our processes where we always check with background of candidates to make sure they end up in the right hospital and use that invaded poland health in and then we can help the cause whittles and make sure their departments don't get overwhelmed. i wanted to make myself useful i wanted to help even just a little bit i can still do a lot of course i'm not up to date with the very latest but with many things it's just a matter of learning the new procedures new zealand has ended most of its coronavirus restrictions allowing many everyday activities to resume restaurants businesses and shopping malls have reopened and schools and years ago back from monday most gatherings will still be limited to 10 people and social distancing remains in place countries reported fewer than 1500 cases wait
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a is in the north island out of cambridge and has more on the government's efforts to ease the economic pain. the country is beginning to get back to some sort of economic activity but there is a sense that the worst could still be to come because of what the rest of the world is going through in terms of facing economic recessions this is a country that relies heavily on exports and tourism there is some estimates that say that in the tourism sector alone around $100000.00 jobs could be lost so even though the country is opening up opening up economically there is a sense as a say that they could be more pain to come the government on thursday also unveiling its annual economic budget was planned some time ago but obviously had to be rewritten quite comprehensively because of coronavirus and it's unveiled a $30000000000.00 coronavirus economic recovery plan and that is the largest single
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spending package unveiled in new zealand history shelling by forces loyal to libya's warlord coming into at least 14 people in the capital tripoli shells landed near a hospital and damaged the building after us forces also struck residential areas in southern yemen fighting has continued for a 3rd day between government troops and a separatist group as they battle to control the port city of zinjibar to saudi backed government soldiers and 10 separatist fighters who supported by the us have been killed it's the 1st major battle since the transitional council to self rule over the last month a. power sharing agreement signed in with the government. we're going to weather update next here on al-jazeera then many people in britain are headed back to work but some u.k. leaders say that it's still too soon plus. i'm robert bright in south korea with the strawberry farms looking ahead to a smart future in
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a post by rest world. however show how a hot shot has been blind on the gulf for a couple of days now it ought to ease a little bit and next day or so tempers are still high side 41 in kuwait the same baghdad and not much less running through for example cuts on the u.a.e. mecca was at $45.00 a drop in doubt a force to say you could say it's a cooling trend but apart from that and the easing breeze it's just open skies really dusty atmosphere is lose some clouds around which might generate a few showers of the mountains in western saudi or yemen nothing much in iran or turkey dayana says we're coming towards the summer heat maybe the tropical showers in africa should be regeneration a pulse
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a night and i think the next lot coming on to the coast of tanzania the next day or so but every day you get pulsed showers out of lake victoria which drift west through under and into diaz sea they're not as obvious as they have been the start of the morning in those dark blue and then they tend to fade away tanzania and kenya less so somalia and the easier if you will see the showers in the next day or so the south of that lot of clouds being coming across cape town and you see the streak going trust the southern part of south africa with satellite picture but that's almost gone now and it's still a mostly dry picture. they wanted 43000000000 pounds worth of weaponry that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. there is no hope of any more because there's always a small album of people for really really good business. in essence we
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in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function your shadow on al-jazeera. again this is al jazeera let's take a moment to remind you of the main news the u.s. president donald trump has criticized his top infectious disease experts warning against reopening the economy to use to quickly doctor and stay found she says that rushing to open up could lead to needless deaths from president called on states to lift coronavirus restrictions as some countries begin to ease lock down
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restrictions the world health organization is warning that the coronavirus may never be entirely wiped out without a vaccine it could take years for the global population to develop sufficient levels of immunity it's us. restaurants businesses and shopping malls have reopened in new zealand all schools resumed on monday but most gatherings will still be limited to 10 people and social distancing remains in place. some britons of return to work for the 1st time in 7 weeks with figures showing the u.k.'s economy shrinking by 2 percent in the 1st 3 months of the year the government wants people back in their jobs but the moves been rejected by leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland to say that it's too early to relax measures the whole reports from london. has been made of britain going back to work and not much came of it it's only really england that he did boris johnson's call for those who can't do their jobs from home to return the devolved ministrations of scotland
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wales and northern ireland feel it's too soon to risky and on london's still quiet streets some workers agreed. so you don't know what that effects are it is. so for people to be going to work. at the right time. very very unsafe. construction sites and factories are some of the places that saw more work taking place many had been allowed to operate throughout the lock down among the big challenges they and other businesses will face is social distancing and transport. the government urged people to walk drive or cycle if possible. and if they have to use public transport to wear face coverings and stand back to back but it may be a while yet before tubes and trains experience a real rush hour you can still social distance on the tube on the victoria line is
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getting a bit more difficult so you have to switch between carriages if you. see. god is a consultant advising companies how to prepare for the return of busy times 60 percent of the. officers cannot be used to social distancing so that means that 40 percent can be brought back so we expect the numbers to be to be. even below 40 percent which means that in total in the u.k. more than $8000000.00 people. will have to work from home when social distancing measures are in place with damage mounting the need to restart the economy becomes more urgent every day official figures now point to a 2 percent drop in. g.d.p. in the 1st quarter that would be painful enough in normal times but the bank of england is pointing to much worse to come a possible staggering further 25 percent drop in g.d.p. in this 2nd quarter of 2020. that's the biggest economic decline in
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300 years with no guarantee of a swift recovery so while you can now sunbathed play golf visit a garden center and in some cases return to work what you can't easily do is relax and look forward to normal life after covert 19 because the effects will be felt for years to come jonah how al-jazeera london. mexico's president has announced a plan to kickstart the country's economy even as it registers more than 4000 deaths and 40000 cases and some coming as he's armed groups are in forcing lock down saying that they'll only reopen when the crisis isn't it. although reports now from mexico city and the little black cloud the same on tuesday mexican health officials presented a plan for returning parts of the country to a quote new normal the plan consists of a color coordinated monitoring system that will update on which cities and states
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will be the ones to reopen 1st. spaces in moon every country faces the question of is there a possibility of advancing toward the new normal and at what speed and what could be the consequences of. the gradual reopening of the country is scheduled to begin may 18th in regions that have not been affected by the l 3 coronavirus cases in mexico are still on the rise making the reopening of the economy a controversial topic. in some communities the subject is not up for debate residents of money does that big a small mountain town in the state of good little have set up roadblocks and checkpoints to prevent outsiders from coming into their town i thought that this. was going to allow that we have this. territory controlled we don't have a coronavirus problem if we did we would need to re strategize but i ask you what's more important the freedom to transit or the right to life. little state is home to dozens of indigenous villages the fear of the outbreak reaching these rural towns
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has prompted community defense groups to help enforce a regional lockdown the moment. we decided to act and we are doing it the right way those who do not obey well we've already made a decision for them this is the law of the people. health services in this part of mexico are limited only 50 hospital beds exist for scattered population of more than 400000 local say the decision to close off villages is the only preventative measure they can take. our meeting very decided that's not a single sikh person to be there if people come they have to be healthy not seek. a debate in mexico is brewing over how the country will strike a balance between ensuring public safety and protecting the economy though mexico's president insists that no community will be forced to comply with the government's strategy to reopen the country. mexico city brazil is now the
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6 the worst affected country in the world after announcing more than 11000 new cases the government's pushing ahead with controversial plans to reopen the economy despite the record they number as president. has also been heavily criticized for his handling of the pandemic. as president says that new cases of reached their peak authorities have been going door to door looking for infected people of said medical teams around the country to combat the virus peru is one of latin america's worst affected with more than 76000 cases. chinos capital will go to look down on friday after a surge in corona virus cases the 8000000 people in santiago well the longer be allowed to go outside except for essential errands people over the age of 75 across the country of the old stay at home a bit over $2600.00 cases taking the total to more than $34000.00.
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lebanon has begun formal negotiations with the international monetary fund over an economic rescue plan for the countries in the middle of a financial crisis which has been made worse by the coronavirus pandemic or 0 say to hold a reports for. negotiations between the lebanese government and the international monetary fund are expected to be lengthy and tough the government is hoping the i.m.f. will provide it with $10000000000.00 in the 1st say an assistance program this state that is close to bankruptcy there is a need for hard currency especially since i've been on imports at least 85 percent of its needs the country is going through its worst economic and financial crisis in decades so tough negotiations that have the i.m.f. is known we leave more it's up conditions and it demands austerity measures conditions that could hurt the poor are already 45 percent of the population is believed to be below the poverty line and those conditions are also going to be
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tough on politicians because they will be asked in one way or another to carry out reforms that will diminish the control they have over this needs resources privatization for example that's on the table and the i.m.f. will likely ask the government to trim the public sector and politicians the political power parties who have been in power for decades they use the public sector to absorb unemployment they give jobs to their to their own supporters so this is going to hurt them and diminish their political power but lebannon really the government doesn't have much choice because like i mentioned they are cast crap and even their friends they entered this so-called international support group for levanon they are making it very clear the only avenue the government can take now is through the i.m.f. nobody is bailing levanon out this time around they believe that the state wastes a lot of money and they also blame corruption for the huge and. lebannon defaulted
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on it's that for the 1st time i was so tough negotiations i had that this will not be easy but if lebanon doesn't get the billions of dollars in aid it's likely to cause even more economic hardships for the people in this country straining as unemployment rate has reached its highest level since 2015 hundreds of thousands of workers have been laid off since last month due to the nationwide shut down prime minister scott morrison says the government has plans to support the economy by helping people who are out of work the key component of the plan is not just to have the supports and fight the virus but to reopen our economy and that is happening a national initiative states and territories working together to reopen our economies to get a strategy and back into the jobs to get the areas back to get the incomes back and to get the stride a commie into our covert saif environment farmers in south korea are being
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encouraged to adopt smartphone technologies to deal with a shortage of workers in rural areas the initiative is proving timely as the country recovers from the pandemic but pride discovers on a visit to the southern growing region of sun ju. in the quest to grow the perfect fruit this is one strawberry farm that is increasingly turning to smart technology every aspect of the growing environment is carefully regulated the amount of sunlight let in to the water in fertilizers used it's helping to compensate for the loss of young people not wanting to go into farming like their parents can. keep them we don't have enough workers in the rural areas but by using smart technology we can reduce the need for manpower. the farm is owned by a husband and wife team who gave up high powered jobs in large corporations to
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pursue their dream they are part of a growing trend of people with high tech backgrounds opting for a new life in the countryside and in the young people coming to rural areas these days are quite interested in smart farm technology we've hired young koreans and are training them to share our know how to grow strawberries helping to spread the smart farm message to every younger people this pilot project in seoul has been running in a subway station since the end of last year it takes a news base to create a vertical farm under artificial light that is cheap so much greater productivity than growing above ground. in the city can i hope that by exposing our children to high tech enterprises like this at an early age they can one day contribute to korea's future and smart farming excellent in fact more engineering students in agriculture students are being attracted to this life in farming got tougher when south korea lost its developing nation status at the end of last year that meant it
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could no longer use tariffs to protect its farmers it speeded up the government's efforts to harness technology in agriculture and initiative now given more urgency with the coronavirus smart technology means less face to face contact in how crops are grown and sold. after the coronavirus people need to practice social distancing and from art farm technology helps and be achieving a uniform quality it's easier to sail online. news smarter ways for a new post virus reality robin bride al-jazeera sank to south korea. a huge piece of chinese space rocket has crashed into the atlantic ocean becoming one of the biggest bits of space junk to freefall to earth just. core of a rocket that successfully launched a prototype spacecraft into war with last week the 18 ton piece was 30 meters long
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and 5 meters wide and landed off the coast of mauritania however it appears that some components also fell or tell an ivory coast it's the heaviest object to fall uncontrollably to earth since $991.00 when a soviet space station reentered the atmosphere over on tina. scripts everywhere this hello everyone from going to hear the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. president donald trump has criticized his top infectious diseases expert and his warning against reopening the economy too quickly dr antony funnell she said the rushing to open up could lead to needless deaths trump again called on states to lift coronavirus restrictions mike hanna reports from washington trump has been sending out tweets encouraging states to open up directly saying as i mentioned to
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the governors in the course of the day that they should be opening schools as soon as possible now it must be made clear to that of federal guidelines on which governors can take a decision among these guidelines among the recommendations is that there'd be a 2 week period in which infection rates drop before mitigating measures are ease that there'd be a contact tracing program in place and that proper testing protocols be established . as some countries began to slow down restrictions the world health organization is warning that the corona virus may never be entirely wiped out without a vaccine it could take years for the global population to build sufficient levels of immunity it says restaurants businesses and shopping malls have reopened in new zealand while schools due to resume on monday but most gatherings will still be limited to 10 people and social distancing remains in place the strain is unemployment rate has reached its highest level since 2015 hundreds of thousands of
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workers have been laid off since last month fears of the nationwide shutdown brazil is now the 6th worst affected country in the world after announcing more than 11000 new cases the government there is pushing ahead with controversial plans to reopen the economy despite the record daily numbers. capitol will go it alone down on friday after a surge in corona virus cases $8000000.00 people in santiago will no longer be allowed to go outside except for essential aarons shelling by forces loyal to libya's warlord khalifa haftar has wounded at least 14 people in the capital tripoli shells landed near a hospital and damaged the building and in southern yemen fighting has continued for a 3rd day between government troops the separatist group as they battle for control of the port city of zinjibar. zira after witness next. when a prime minister takes a lump of coal into. that coal means
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