play an important role in judging you in. ringback the in the the on the on. al-jazeera. alone can that al this is the news on life coming up in the next 60 minutes the unemployment line keeps growing longer 36000000 americans that are jobless through the economic shutdown from crown of virus. some science has raised early warning signals that were overlooked a top us i mean ologist testifies before congress that he was fired it using science of the politics. avoiding the mistakes of the past world leaders called for

any covered 19 vaccine to be free and available to everyone. rotavirus has entered the world's largest refugee camp with 2 cases reported among the remainder population in bangladesh. but in this news all with jobless figures out of the united states there are 3000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the last 7 days and brings the nationwide figure to more than 36000000 since coronavirus lockdowns began and mid march our white house correspondent kelly holcomb joins us now live so kimberly these numbers are really painting an increasingly grim picture. yes and the numbers are expected to rise for a few more weeks at least we're in the mid 30000000 mark of the number of americans

that are filed jobless claims it's supposed to go at least 10000000 higher once all of these claims have been processed because what we're seeing initially was the 1st wave in the areas of restaurants and retail but as businesses other businesses sort of realized that this economy is not going to open quickly that we've seen the 2nd wave of americans filing for unemployment benefits so this u.s. president has tried to put a positive spin on it fact he's just landed in pennsylvania where he's going to continue to make the case that the really way to resolve this is to reopen the u.s. economy but make no mistake about it the president is also looking for someone to blame he has pointed to the world health organization arguing that it didn't do enough to warn the world about the spread of the pandemic calling it a global emergency much too late in fact the u.s. president saying just before he left the white house that he expects that he may

have an announcement on the withdrawal of u.s. funding to the world health organization soon even as early as next week well can you stay with us kimberly we want to talk for a moment about a whistleblower who says he was sent for raising concerns about the u.s. coronavirus response is the former head of the u.s. agency responsible for developing a vaccine for the virus he's been giving evidence before a house of representatives panel has some of what he had to say. our window of opportunity is closing if we fail to improve our response now based on science i fear the pandemic will get worse and be prolonged there will be likely a resurgence of code 19 this fall and be greatly compound it by the challenges of seasonal influenza without better planning 2020 could be the darkest winter in modern history. back to kimberley so that was a great prize he has made some dial warnings have we had from president trump about

all of this. that we've heard from u.s. president trump we've also heard from rick writes boss the health and human services secretary alex aides are now dr bright has been particularly critical of the health and human services secretary saying that he was dismissive of my dire predictions for example he knew the stockpile was insufficient and alarms were sounded but there was no response to his request for action well the health and human services secretary was appearing alongside the president as that part of the white house he said that everything dr bright is complaining about was itchy for example he cites the lack of ventilators that were short and there chalet but now have been topped up according to the white house but the u.s. president for his part really tried to undermine dr brights credibility here's what he had to say i watched the guy for a little while this morning to meet nothing more than

a i really want. an happy birthday and i'm not to go get about alec with allocated globally but there are a lot of people that do not like the job because i don't know i've never met him i don't want to meet him but i watch him and he looks like it and we just run those employees the brightly 40 some people that do a very good. now dr bright says that part of the problem with the u.s. response this far has been the issue of is lack of a coordinated central response in terms of not only resort says but getting those resources out to the various states now he says there is a prescription for all of this he says it's to let the scientists peek and allow them to speak without fear of retribution i think that that is a wise host correspondent kimberly thank you meanwhile the head of the u.s. senate intelligence committee is stepping down amid an insider trading

investigation richard the allegedly sold stocks just before markets plumbs don't think is of an economic crisis from coronavirus the f.b.i. seized the phone on wednesday with more on the state's go live now to mike hanna who is standing by in washington d.c. mike this is not a good look for it to his pharmacies on wednesday and he resigns on thursday. indeed yes when he stepped down temporarily he says the head of the senate to mitch mcconnell saying that this is a temporary measure but certainly it doesn't look very good at all 1st of all for the f.b.i. to get a search warrant to serve on a sitting senator there has to be the very highest levels of the justice department involved in this particular case obviously a judge would have had to sign off on the warrant they have now serve the warrant they have taken the cell phone now it's understood that investigations into berger

have been underway for a period of time he and a couple of other members of congress were accused of insider trading some of them have shown stock movements around the time of january february at the time when the congress was being briefed on the coronavirus issue now as head of the senate intelligence committee a bird would have had unique access to the information he would have received briefings that other members of congress did not because of his very senior position so certainly this is an issue that the f.b.i. is now investigating has stepped down from his position as head of the intelligence committee but one must point out as well that a number of the senators a lot of members of congress as i mentioned have been accused of insider trading the records have shown of suspicious stock movements in january and in february however burris the only one who's publicly being investigated at this particular point it must be pointed out to that birkhead that the senate intelligence

committee which recently issued a report backing the intelligence services assessment that russia did involve in the 2016 election that is something that president tried to dismiss as he dismisses as a hoax but that came from the senate intelligence committee of which raymond burr was the sitting leader so certainly president trump has not been particularly satisfied with this particular senator f.b.i. continuing their investigations thanks that that is there as mike hanna. well as have been reporting on employment in the us has risen rapidly through the pandemic the she had to tons of reports thanks loads the people fighting the virus . it hasn't gone unnoticed that even as the u.s. salutes frontline workers in this case with military flyovers at a conservatively estimated $60000.00 an hour over at least 22 cities health care

workers are being fired at alarming rates due to a lack of foam and that's despite 100000000000 dollars in funding post by congress specifically to help medical providers preliminary estimates for april showed a loss of 1400000 health care jobs with 135000 hospital stuff such as revenue rich elective surgeries and routine visits were canceled his data report on the situation as of the 12th so what we're seeing today is what was going on in and around the middle so i certainly think i would not be surprised to see more losses when we see next month 317 stoffel 5 at this hospital in san diego those who remain say some of those were frontline kovan stone as with millions of others in the u.s. then without their employer based health insurance when they may need it most everybody was still devastated were reeling from that. everybody demoralized

on the or is that right now and of course there were. a lot of. or nurses and now they're worried that after a 14. day between 2 to 14 database in fear what if they get infected and that we don't have insurance so. it's easy for a lot of. executives. you know these health care workers and there's a hero and then they can really just drop it like nothing but palomar health which runs the hospital said it had no choice not only is revenue down in areas not connected to the pandemic it isn't treating high numbers of patients on either meanwhile health care workers who remain acing that hours on wages cut while fearing job loss and that's particularly so it would have been a little noticed but a growing sector in u.s. medicine hospitals and medical style thing controlled by private equity firms wolf street spent 100000000000 dollars on health care assets in 2018 aloon private

equities financial bubble is based on profits for investors that beat the rest of the market and that's made these assets particularly vulnerable now those emergency rooms are the ones that have been at the forefront. of cutting salaries and cutting doctor salaries it's the extreme form for profit says they are reacting quickly in order to get their money our to repay their investors before the organizations collapse private equity blames medical insurance companies for forcing them to make cuts and it's true insurance companies are already seeing and projecting healthy profits as a result of the pandemic but as the emergency continues while many flaws within the us health care system have been revealed increasingly there's debate as to whether it's the system itself that is brute can she have written see al-jazeera. well leaders have made

a plea for the eventual covered 19 vaccine to be distributed free of charge to all countries and an open letter more than $140.00 current and former big this nobel laureates and academics called for the global sharing of data and technologies related to the virus and that when a vaccine is developed that is distributed equally fast and according to need and they has also called on the policy setting body of the world health organization to rally behind the cause when it meets next week. has more from london it's the point of this letter is that it reflects concerns among developing nations some of the countries the world's poorest countries the so-called global south that if and when a vaccine emerges it will likely emerge in the global north in one of the richer countries of the world and the concern is that it will be used preferentially among you know richer populations before it makes its way down to the poorer countries but many of whom of course will need it most don't have the finances the resources

to be able to carve out their own share so this letter has emerged it's talking specifically about a vaccine when it comes being patient free not a property of any particular country or company quickly produced then at scale to be made available to billions of people around the world at no cost. as a sort of gesture of global public good we cannot afford says the load of old monopolies crude competition and near-sighted nationalism to stand in the way of a global vaccine that will end this great pandemic now of course the race to achieve that vaccine is well underway there are more than 100 clues clinical tests going on at the moment in europe in the u.s. and elsewhere one of the most advances here in the u.k. at oxford university and the best guess that scientists seem to be able to reach for the moment is that there may be a vaccine that is shown to work a little later this year possibly by september is a date that's been mentioned but it'll be a lot longer than that before production is scaled up to the levels that will be

required in the whole process could take well into next year so this is developing countries the world's poorest trying to ensure that they aren't made to wait any longer than anyone else the u.k.'s health minister has hailed a new antibody test as a potential game changer in the fight against the virus the test was developed by swiss company has now been approved for use in the u.k. germany has already made a deal with the company the tests can reveal whether someone's already had the disease and if they're developed and unity. a team of engineers and physicians in the u.s. has developed 2 devices that could transform the fight against covert 19 south of the university of michigan designed a portable helmet and a so-called negative pressure tent both devices sensually prevent if it infected air from escaping into the wide environment hospitals usually treat severely ill cova 19 patients and negative pressure rooms to prevent further infections but such

specially equipped rooms are not widely available in developing countries. is that the co-inventor of those devices and found of flex ease that's an aerospace company he joins us from ann arbor or and michigan thanks for your time this talk us through what these devices do so you mentioned negative pressure room so what you doing there is actually your exposing the widest of the entire room coming out of the what about vision reading out and then you are create you are back in the role instead what we did was to jack should be white is that the source in by actually continuing the waters by you know how do you helmet all of patients in the. back you may need to attach the helmet attached to a rock you motor to have a filter absorb this allows these projects to build good workers. and also more importantly allows the patients to be treated with oxygen supplemental oxygen to

needs to can you say it's not in this way to treat the patients as opposed to. using ventilators so you don't i was patients to be treated in this fashion which is less risky and also at the same time protecting the health care workers so really it's not in terms of benefit to the patient is it all about avoiding the risk of using ventilation or other al that patient benefits here. that's one of them because beacon weekend even the patients were on ventilators there can be more to this device in only severe cases you don't we can spend ventilators for most critical cases but i was going to say that is another relation of this negative pressure helmet which is a negative pressure chant that allows doctors to perform various procedures like cherokee and brown cus the people think that they're not doing right now and only

patients because of the fear of your dissolution there's a grave risk or health care workers but when you're treating patients the space of these negative pressure can't allows them to treat patients with procedures that they're badly need and so that way the patient can be taken off the ventilator sooner. and treated according to who was the. consumer in mind when you were developing this is it more for developing nations or ohio did you have in mind when you were developing this does it have other uses aside from coronavirus. well good question yes it does the it's not only for corona virus but also one of the infectious diseases like closes or plans that slow does helmet for instance. he die lousy don't you talk about the social distancing and so he certainly when the patient comes into mandolins or where now the people need good workers are

exposed to the virus that is if you have these negative pressure helmet on on the patient so other people around them are not infected with the virus even before entering the hospital so you could also use this in the public spaces as well but once a patient enters a hospital if the patient needs a treatment you can provide oxygen. to the helmet and treat the patient that way and for the larger procedure so i mentioned already about the chance so this is goes beyond their use for it and for other infectious diseases as well really and valuable and of ation at this time thanks so much for your time and thier work that's right there founder effect sees an aerospace company and co-inventor of the aerosol device. i did my head on the news all including hunger during lockdown entire households in south africa struggling to afford enough food. and

a starring role why saudi arabia is turning to hollywood to invest. to yemen now where a lack of testing facilities has made it difficult to assess just how badly the krona virus is affecting one of the world's poorest countries so far only 13 deaths and $72.00 infections have been reported but healthcare workers are warning that a major break will have catastrophic consequences following years of war hunger and other diseases continuing fighting in southern yemen is also complicating efforts for a much needed cease fire to help contain the spread practice gupta reports. a new military offensive in the middle of a global pandemic. the southern province of the army is the latest frontline in humans war. government forces sparked by saudi arabia are inching closer to

a surprising should capital since the bar they are fighting to end with the cold and armed rebellion by the southern transitional council the separatist movement which just backed by the united arab emirates and determined to break away from gold in yemen the breakaway fighters will want allies in the fight against the these in the north. now enemies in the battle for control in the south last month the southern separatist fighters declared self rule in the stronghold the port city of aden and now want to extend control over nearby provinces. victory is close only a few hours separate us from an aide and we are well prepared. and men are ready. to not fall from the shelf yemeni's an aide in a fight in against the civil enemy was the media corner virus the city is

reporting the highest number of infections from docs in yemen as more cases are detected elsewhere the lack of testing facilities means many infections are going on diagnosed and many deaths on group courted. directorate we've taken many steps to prevent the spread of coronavirus we've implemented an educational campaign we've implemented a sterilization campaign in streets and stores 5 years of war between who the fight is other government forces backed by a saudi you a military coalition has forced millions of yemenis from their homes. and crimes comes the running water is a luxury. we are afraid for our children we have elderly people and we are in a remote place and we are afraid the virus will spread like wildfire is spatially that the disease appeared entires and only the directorate of motor is between us

and the virus meaning that is very close and we are in fear that the world health organization says the virus could flip through yemen really hard the hospitals are functioning aid agencies how border famine yemenis are caught between the pandemic and civil war with no end to their suffering so it clog up the. u.n. security council has been holding a virtual missing on the situation in yemen let's get more now from our diplomatic editor james space he joins us from u.n. headquarters in new york so james what's being said. this is the monthly meeting of the security council to discuss the situation in yemen martin gryphus the special envoy briefed ambassadors and he was clearly very frustrated as he says he's been working on trying to get a cease fire across yemen he said he's been making some progress but he certainly

can't at this stage announce that there is a cease fire he's particularly concerned about the situation in southern yemen worth reminding you that the humanitarian situation in yemen has been the worst in the world since the coalition started their bombardment in response to the who these land grab well that coalition led by saudi arabia and the other main player was the united arab emirates well in the south right now once again we have forces that are backed by saudi arabia actually fighting forces that are backed by the united arab emirates this is how the special envoy described the situation in the south i'm deeply concerned about the situation of course in the south where a perfect storm is brewing the people of them in particular facing outbreaks of perfect 19 and other diseases believe drink loued malaria cholera and

others death are writing daily but nobody knows exactly why because the health system is so ill equipped to diagnose and treat people. with regard to cohabit 19 the official statistics say across the country that 13 people have died from cove and 19 but i'm told the real situation could be much more concerning just look at some some details that have come through from save the children they've been speaking to doctors in a in the southern port city. in the last 7 days alone read reports of 385 patients dying with coronavirus type. symptoms that is a very different picture indeed and thank you for that diplomatic as had james space. qatar has recorded its highest daily increase in infections

a further 1733 people were confirmed to have the virus on thursday taking the total number of infections to more than 28000 containment measures are being stepped up from sunday with people ordered to wear a face mask in public or risk being fined. levanon has imposed a lockdown for 4 days following an increase in infections 100 new cases have been reported in the past few days a lot of down excludes the health agriculture food and manufacturing industries lebannon had begun lifting restrictions last month. the main border crossing between pakistan and iran has reopened for the 1st time in 2 months queues of people were at tough time to resume trade and travel pakistani government sealed the border as iran became one of the world's worst affected countries and a court of them it has hit or oil rich nations in the middle east particularly hard fought to ations an oil price have resulted in losses of about 25 percent of arab

stock market value in the 1st quarter of 2020 regional investments and tourism are also expected to take a big hit. well solemn is an economist with the united nations economic and social commission for western asia he joins us from beirut we should point out that those details there came from a report that your commission put together so is this report rather this this report is arab sovereign wealth funds to participate in investing in regional economic recovery i'm interested what would that look like. good evening 1st of all and thank you for having me. with. the executive secretary at the square dr olah desh he has. called previously at the beginning of the pandemic to call for a social solidarity fund. for and for our countries to tame the impact of

the current 19 the emergency impact of the carpet on maturity of other countries especially that he's developing countries and countries that are in need. are we talking about the sovereign wealth fund yes we we we are calling for a 4 for outing investment many reasons also there are lots of resources in the region that are still. countries within that region could definitely benefit from it and at the same time. sovereign wealth funds that are invested in the national markets could definitely avoid the international market risks such as what happened in the great recession as well as the current a crisis and invest there in. the arab world which will enhance region of integration and as well as prosperity in many countries around the world which as we can see there is

a mutual benefit for and implement that it in many areas given the economic structure of our country of the g.c.c. countries and that us that our stuff out of countries like a given you know relations particular i'm thinking within the g.c.c. right now how likely is it do you think that we're going to see this sort of regional economic efforts this cooperation. well if you if you look at the great recession previously you see that. the floor for fun of the t.c.c. nations and resource rich countries and specific in general you would see that these countries they tend to invest a mystically more when there is an international crisis that's happened in the great recession and this could be possibly happening right now where that these countries are going to invest significantly high in and within their countries and and if they extend that for additional. integration and then that asian and

facilitating additional foreign direct investments among different countries in the region would definitely come with a higher return relative to the international markets. thank you so much for your time that is there an economist with the united nations economic and social commission for western asia thank you for having me thank you. so to come here on al-jazeera. coronavirus changes the way you millions of people work one swedish company hopes were mostly driven the vehicles to make a truck driving a stay at home job. how the wind is weakening that hot showers been blowing out of iraq down the gulf recently there's nothing else to show you from the satellite point of you even the

focus point to you but the lighter winds which means jenny speaking temperatures tend to rise so you got up to 41 in kuwait in baghdad but they're higher this coming dying to 30 to mecca remains on the hot side at 45 the bit of brown he has occasional blue spots us potential for showers on the western side of society generally speaking that's not going to happen anywhere else occasional showers is the most you'll see is the hoss and dusty time of year and. so at north africa that's much the same the around the coast you can obviously have clout here which means wet and windy weather for robot and sore career drawing the walls out of the west and so hard temperatures in western libya and tunisia have been quite high same is true of sicily as the wind turns around and things do cool down to sit down to 26 for example on saturday we seen big showers recently in rwanda parts of uganda north and tanzania they're still going to be about in fact if anything we

foresee a redevelopment on the coast of tanzania and all this blue is big sherry's tough deal congo is taking a bit of a break for the immediate future and zanzibar is quite hot. apart after poverty. one dish in a town. one i want to east visit the putting school serving up to vietnam's disadvantaged and downtrodden. on al-jazeera a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state here at the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but as the poet structure that maintains the can only project does what we refuse it was one of the sound there are still for a settlement with this and it's the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and

a hard place on al-jazeera. blue and he is going to the polls for general elections . but with the u.n. concerned about the threat of violence many wonder if they can be free and fair. and what effect will phase of covert 19 have on times. in the indian actions on al-jazeera. you're watching all just there are reminder of our top stories this hour was 3000000 people have filed for unemployment benefits in the u.s. in the past 7 days that's down from previous week's group brings the nationwide figure to more than 36000000 people since coronavirus lockdown measures began. a whistleblower has told the u.s.

house of representatives panel that early warnings about the coronavirus endemic were ignored over the bright since he was removed from his government post because he raised concerns over the u.s. response to the outbreak. dozens of current and former world leaders are making a plea for free and equitable access to a covert 19 vaccine once it's developed the sent an open letter urging countries to share data and virus related technologies. there's been antigovernment protests in israel where a new unity government was due to be sworn in that's now been delayed until sunday because of last minute wrangling of a cabinet posts political rivals benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz agreed to a coalition deal last month and in more than a year of political deadlock. on bashar is there a senior political analyst and he joins us now live marwan so the swearing in is being perspire and to sunday what's the real hold up here. well

clearly the. government and is uneasy because some parties on the radical right have ended up not doing them but especially if they did mean the party and i think that's had something to do with the government's scheduled motion to move with and that station or not and i think a light. visit to israel as the american green light as the new york times said has become perhaps yellow and it does become clear that netanyahu does not have the final decision about when or how i next station of occupied areas might happen that's one thing the other thing is that everything that israel has really revolved around the 1st 5 minutes and you know as we all know by now is indicted on charges of corruption and abuse of power so we we think we think that the mess

has been going well this is going to go on for a long good while only 10 days from now the prime minister will be dragged into the courtroom they will be beginning his trial or option charges on the 4th of may and we should also get that. meanwhile a thanks to a statement from pay us extreme statement from pay a visit to israel a very quick visit many thought that it was to give the green light for those annexation plans that you were talking about but perhaps that's not the full story . it is not the full story clearly as i was. saying yesterday. he put a ban on a lot of things by phone or or or something of the cole the fact that he went to israel himself for such a short visit a 12 hour flight that mitt meant there was something more urgent than issues that

sort of going to take place in july all those things on and clearly 2 issues where on. one end is that the peace plan is america it's trumps that and hence what will transpire including annexation must happen on trump's timeline on. the on ramps can't promise not not then yeah those so if not then you know he's building up what is your government and presuming that he can go on with that station in july he needs to slow it down because one has not met suddenly made the final decision on the when this might happen why that ratio which really is really very important and as now we understand why the meeting will separate them from hello. is that is the united states is ready concern about israel's weak now logical

cooperation with china as we all know that my administration has been quite possibly china on a number of issues including the chronology and trying to infiltrate various american system what on research 'd and other. and here is john has been instrumental in some acknowledge the operation with china using american technology but it's imported from the united states so separately but plato according to some american sources basically have made it clear that that know how government that is or must not deal with china on that knowledge should break out or whatever it believes it has already signed with china on pick knowledge and any move forward which china on that knowledge must have an american or provides a should and i think that now has wiggling will resort when it comes to israel so

prevent independence when dealing with china. interesting finally my when i want to ask your opinion on how you think all when you think these annexation plans may be rolled out i believe there was a july 1st date when it could all began do you think that's going to go ahead now. you know i think the their own agency for the annexation has come from the trump administration nothing of that you know about i'm sure people probably don't know their records well in the sense that that that yellow him south has not really been an enthusiastic for an extension for a long time what he was enthusiastic or is expanding but something meaning implicitly expanding the supplements and strengthening role but without formalizing get and put anything new on record he is what it is right when by this time or in but it's about egypt it was only when president firm insisted that there is

a new response so called peace but i'm a newbie to the sun chips or where it went into the mix a ship and i think this idea of the next station has become an american or iraqi when we are getting closer to the u.s. elections because apparently president obama is going to need the event jellicoe but with more than ever and eventually bulls we think christian zionists would be very happy to see israel and annex it illegally but of sydney and so it's going to really depend on what happens between now and august but it probably comparable november the american elections want us to get a clearer idea if that arm and step in the out the ball through with it or thank you so much for time that some on the side of that is there a senior political analyst a government solidarity from the south us to help palestinians affected by the

pandemic has raised $17000000.00 donations from the private sector will go to people who have lost their income to the krona virus it's estimated around 40000 palestinians have lost their jobs over the past 2 months. to $100.00 muslims inside a refugee camp in bangladesh have tested positive for cause at 19 the government says one of the infections is from inside the camp the other from the surrounding area health experts warned that the virus could race through the unsanitary camps when only 1000000 people live the camps have been home to the room to refugees since they fled the military offensive in me and mark more than 2 years ago. life in sweden has a looks too different during the pandemic restaurants shops and schools have all stayed open while swedes have been trusted to adopt social distancing the lack of a lockdown has attracted cure our curiosity and criticism the death toll of 3400 is

much higher than in neighboring countries but the damage to the economy is projected to be lower than the eurozone average staying in sweden and as many people continue to work from home one company is developing new technology that could allow truck drivers to do the same pull research forts from satellites in southern sweden. this may not be the most thrilling driving experience just yet but it could be the future of long distance trucking this is a testing site for i mean right already in commercial operation with one haulage company in sweden i mean right builds remote controlled trucks driven from a far from the comfort of an aerodynamic office chair. we just have to show the general population that the trucks are safer or safer of them the crooks that we have on the roads today they will never get tired they will never fall asleep and the reality of today is that there's

a shortage of truck drivers if you're doing trucking it's very very hard to find drivers it's hoped that some may find this less exhausting than life on the open highway now from the point of view of a truck driver taking this job instead of buckling up for a long day on the road there just arrived to the office drive the truck from here perhaps go to the gym at lunch time and even at the end of the day of the truck was hundreds of kilometers away they could be home in time for dinner. the trucks all fueled by battery operated via mobile data so it sends out in progress some measures the distance the government right now restricts them to 5 kilometers per hour so the trucking company already using them only does so at their own premises their actual top speed is still secrets but is already much closer to national traffic limits on royd say the trucks can also keep the flow of goods moving during crises such as the corona virus pandemic while the remote's drivers remain isolated . it's not an idea as yet fully embraced by sweden's existing army of

truckers here in the southern city of mile might. die you know you'll to go. i like my job you meet many people say hello sometimes 60 stops a day this thing can work and floats would mean ferry terminals but the way we drive i don't think so doing that let david make it make things easier when it works but it's hard to replace a human being who doesn't force me into retirement anyway i don't want things to change too fast the. border closures and reduced production have caused job losses in sweden stroking industry but the lack of a lockdown has helped keep it rolling remote driving may be a vital addition if not a replacement for a system that keeps people and the economy alive paul reese al-jazeera some told sweden. the number of infections in russia has a past a quarter of

a 1000000 another 9900 were reported on thursday the 1st time in 2 weeks the day me total has dipped below 10000 the government has eased the nationwide lockdown with many russians returning to work this week. the marrow of the biggest city in south africa says people in almost 1000000 households don't have enough to each johannesburg has been locked down a for more than 6 weeks along with the rest of the country from a to minute reports. candice played says she's making the most of the little food she has she lost her job at a job printing company when it was shut as the lockdown began weeks ago with no income she depends on government support to feed her 4 children will move from the log down it was really at from the flynn here times it was really difficult because it was for the whole mind we had to wait for the whole month to get like the child support money so we did was a struggle for me every day and all we received the money last week last few days

to go by and we lose him by going in stuff like that the wife of food like full groceries for the mind by the end of the day we still struggling the mayor of johannesburg says people in a 1000000 households don't have enough to eat the national government in pretoria has increased the child support grant and it's created a special grant of $20.00 a month to help workers who've lost a job survive the lock down government leaders say they're spending the equivalent of almost $3000000000.00 on the unemployed and the poor but even before the lockdown 45 percent of johannesburg's 5 and a half 1000000 people lived in poverty to make the crisis even worse many workers have lost their jobs since the lockdown began the government says it's handing out food parcels to about 2000 homes every day but it's simply not enough organizations like this one

a crime to help or would go up by handing out 2 cooked meals every day. neuron gain has run this food charity for 7 years but says she can barely keep up since the lockdown began. when i've started the feeding we started with about her in 50. and it's turned over in a matter of a week after the lock down to almost 4 to 500 a day saturdays i did 300 right now is standing on 1200. a secretary on the organization relies on donations and she's not received any help from the government delia jones has run this barber shop for 16 years it's been closed for weeks leaving 4 staff members with no work and d'leo without any income which is applied for a government grant but has not heard back instead her customers help her buy food with an economy largely stalled and no clear indication of when the lockdown will end many are relying on handouts to survive for me al jazeera johannesburg.

water shortages in zimbabwe are causing increased hardship for many that's on top of coronavirus restrictions on employment and a crippling economic crisis for him ahmed has more. crowds scramble to carry as many buckets as they can as a water tank arrives into agrees a many go for days without water and the town on the outskirts of the capital harare has anxiously waited for summer spite to have been on a better support others that they were about to give us lunch at the funeral but i knew i had to run the moment i heard the truck. is scarce because of the worst drought in decades forcing many to leave their homes as they just had to get their share of water it's difficult to practice social distancing covert 19 is the new threat to the area once the epicenter of a nationwide cholera epidemic graeme what do we know that they are not that yes i got the water but chances are that i also got the disease social distancing here

you can't avoid the pushing everyone wants a drop on the. in other townships aid groups are trying to enforce the rules so is that what the point is that what happens committee is that scientists will take place with the in the sixty's we see it being so what we did is well scored more still in europe. connected to training for the what happened for me to see sensitizing them on the fighters and how it speeds in any encourage that the social distancing if they want to play so that when people are fixing whatever they encourage social distancing so that these centers this what a place might become if you seem to as a people can get to fight us but some residents say it isn't enough to keep people safe and want a long term solution or we're going to deal with you as a singer we thank doctors without borders for these water points because we are desperate for water hunger is hitting us hard during these times of covert 19 we can die from malnutrition and disease we also need food where human rights watch

says more than 2 men. people in harare cons get safe drinking water or waste disposal services and is the government to improve infrastructure zimbabweans also face food and fuel shortages and a surge in malaria cases with the economy in turmoil many are forced to stockpile as much as they can and queue for hours for basic necessities risking their health in the process really mohammed al jazeera. that's more than 5 months now since the 1st known cases of coronavirus there's still a lot to learn about how it impacts the human body early on people want to watch a fever shortness of breath and a dry cough but as medical understanding of the virus grows more is being learned about other ways cause at 19 appears to attack the body we now know it can cause damage to the kidneys organs that filter waste from the blood meaning some patients may require dialysis it can also weaken the heart and cause blood clots in some

patients that can trigger heart attacks or strokes if blood clots in the brain. when they are common is a national health service doctor and a senior lecturer at the lead school of medicine in the u.k. he says some of the effects of the virus could impact patients for the rest of their lives. it's a new disease so everything is new we're learning new things about it all the time it was initially thought just to be a respect retrieve virus like the corona virus is the common cold saws and miss but we now know that the reset to the binds to the ace to reset to is it can get into the intestines in the kidneys quite easily it can travel along the nervous system as well so we're seeing all these new long term problems developing so with with adults usually get the fever cough with children it seems to have a predisposition for their intestines and they get that they gastroenterologist diarrhea or an abdominal pain in terms of long term consequences is there is

evidence to suggest that actually it can do permanent damage to the lung something called pulmonary fibrosis where the lungs don't inflate and deflate as well even after the person has cleared the virus and that can lead to permanent problems with breathing shortness of breath a minimal exertion that kind of thing we're also seeing people with chronic kidney disease at the end of the virus because what it does is a fax a tiny tiny blood vessels in the kidneys which feed the filtration system in the kidneys and once that filtration system gets damaged it's irreversible so those people can end up with chronic kidney disease and a small number again and upon dialysis and that isn't reversible they will be on dialysis for the rest of their lives. still ahead on al-jazeera a heart breaking out of a story amnesty international calls on saudi arabia to free jailed women's rights defendants.

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more. thank. amnesty international is calling on saudi arabia to release several women's rights activists 2 years after they were detained the rights group says that being peacefully advocating for the rights of women in the kingdom to drive and other reforms than maluf is middle east research director at amnesty international she says the activists should never have been arrested they were accused and charged as a crime for speaking to and connecting with human rights organizations including amnesty international so they are being accused simply for doing their human rights

peaceful activism that's all they're accused of now the charges that they're facing are charges under the cyber crime cyber crime law which has been together with the anti-terrorism law these are 2 extremely problematic fuels that have been used for years now for it for the past 567 years against any form of dissent inside of the kingdom because a very vague definitions of the crimes they are being abused and specifically through the use of the of the judiciary so that one of the go one of the major courts that has been that has been a real tool in in crushing dissents inside of the country has been the specialized criminal court which examines all of the cases under the anti terror. the entertainment industry is one of the sectors hard hit by the global pandemic and

that's giving some nations like saudi arabia her chance to invest our brand on reports from a census. as the world economy staggers under the shock of the coronavirus saudi arabia led by de facto ruler crown prince mohammed bin sol mon is going up ng these are very speculative investments but it does seem like they will spend money at any place that's asking the $320000000000.00 saudi public investment fund has bought big stakes in companies devastated by covert 19 as the funds governor explained in an investor's video conference. would look and to me opportunities i mean if you look at different sectors like an alliance gaz entertainment the saudi fund snapped up 8.2 percent of carnival cruise lines some of whose passengers were sickened by corona virus in the early stages of the

outbreak carnival's stock price was in the cellar the fund also invested $500000000.00 in live nation parent company of ticketmaster and a leader in big live concerts featuring the likes of madonna they are little bit scattershot they're mostly in entertainment as saudi led group is trying to buy newcastle united football club in the english premier league for about $370000000.00 and the saudis are reportedly seeking a stake in warner music which bones and operates some of the world's biggest record labels and music publishers look i think every company that needs money is lining up in cop and calling saudi arabia and that wasn't the case a few months ago indeed the saudi regime was for a time an international business parise following the murder of journalist joe moll . inside the saudi consulate in istanbul

a killing investigations by the un and the cia concluded. it was most likely orchestrated by the crown prince but things have changed we're in a market now where if you want to survive you might have to go go into business with some partners you don't want the plays a risky if the search for a covert 19 vaccine and treatments drag on for years cruise lines and entertainment companies could go belly up leaving shareholders like the saudis holding the bag. even as the shopping spree continues saudis are being asked to tighten their belts the government recently announced it would triple the value added tax to consumers pay after state revenues fell 22 percent in the 1st quarter due to a collapsing oil prices rob reynolds al-jazeera los angeles. and you can always find much more on our web site and the address that is dot sounds is there

a dot com that's it for me. i have it out about a sailor and now is european courthouse and i don't go away. it's the u.k.'s biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 covert 19 patients built inside a london conference center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of engine is dramatically expanding the critical care bed count and other similar sites on the way the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in testing capacity that the government is now trying to close

extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider than anyone thought. the venezuela colombia border has become a stomping ground for trespasses. as desperate people transgress an illegal passage . to feed and imagine fuel trafficking markets. we follow that perilous journey unguarded through the line of fire. risking it all. venezuelan colombia. on al-jazeera. c political ideals grassroots activists and polished speech. lines takes you inside the battle for the democratic party. and asks if its base is too

polarized to take on the right there is a do actually divide that's the real you might ironically see the outsider mantle the most corrupt incumbent president ever. america's divided democrats on down to 0 . a u.s. whistleblower warns of the darkest winter in modern history unless leaders take urgent action we have the world's greatest scientist let us lead let us speak without fear of retribution. alone barbara starr this is al jazeera live from london also coming up past and present world leaders the man any corona virus vaccine be free of charge for everyone caught between

a pandemic and civil war when friday's increase the suffering in yemen and the coronavirus is the tech there in a bangladesh camp.