to deal with a pandemic the following weeks will target the police and mounts movement of people will accelerate the spread of the coronavirus from indian cities to its rule hot. this is al jazeera. but it was the whole raman you're watching the al-jazeera news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the economic side of america's coronavirus struggle jobless numbers up by more than one point $4000000.00 in a week as a trillion dollar rescue package is prepared. a powerful lineup of west african leaders is meeting here in mali to try to end weeks of violent protests against an unpopular president. by the eastern mediterranean is becoming

a new sea of tension and the french president is talking about sanctions from turkey. also talk to farmers in sudan's blue nile state worried about the flow on effects from a mega down that's filling up and i'm peter salmon with the sport has once again tokyo marks one year to go to the delayed lympics. could have you with us welcome to the news hour the krona virus crisis is causing even more pain for workers in the world's biggest economy more than 1400000 people in the u.s. have claimed the unemployment benefit in just the past week it's the 18th week in a row that the number has topped to 1000000 economists estimate 25000000 people are now out of a job the white house says there's a fundamental agreement on a new coronavirus stimulus package so the rip. set to unveil the one trillion

dollar aid bill $8.00 to 0 well the searches infections has seen some businesses and schools closed for a 2nd time there in all those $4000000.00 cases in the u.s. and about 143000 it's going to a white house correspondent kelly standing by with the very latest and could be how is the white house going to react to these fluctuating numbers that we've seen over these past several weeks. yeah well it's certainly not good news in the u.s. president has just added to his public schedule that was otherwise empty coronavirus task force briefing to happen in the 21 g.m.t. hour where is no doubt he'll have something to say about it he's not going to be encouraged that's for sure because this is an election year in the u.s. president was counting on historically low unemployment to allow him to cruise to reelection but of course all that was devastated by coke at 19 now in terms of those infections you talked about the numbers and it's some states where we're

really seeing some problems california and also just out of sight of washington d.c. the u.s. state of virginia what we're seeing is as you mentioned businesses closing for a 2nd time school saying now they may not reopen they'll have to reopen to online learning and what you see are those residual spin off affects of businesses surrounding also not being able to reopen as well so with that happening there are increased numbers of americans now filing for unemployment claims this certainly isn't the high that we saw back in march of 6 point 9000000 in one week but the worry is that with the cases spiking that we could go back in that direction it didn't completely i mean over the past week or so we've seen the house sort of put forward that stimulus package now we're seeing the senate do that is is this the same package or is this politics play on the victims themselves or the american public waiting for politicians to get that act together. it's a little bit of both the big problem is that democrats are insisting that there

needs to be money for state and local governments and that's a big point of contention between the house of representatives and there bill that was passed to the one that's being unveiled in the u.s. senate controlled by republicans now the argument from republicans is look at states that had some fiscal problems before covert 19 you're not going to solve the what they say is mismanagement by using these federal funds that this is for ordinary individuals and specifically those that are out of work so there is some disagreement to that is going to have to be resolved and it's going to have to be resolved before the end of next week when congress takes and will recess now in terms of the republican bill what we're hearing from the treasury secretary who spoke here at the white house just before he headed to capitol hill he said the priority is going to be on schools and also on unemployment that is what this white house sees as the most pressing issues what we're hearing might happen is some sort of kind of a short term deal to allow for direct payments to continue for ordinary americans

so that they can continue to put food on the table well they work out these broader and bigger issues for the update thanks very much can we hope that all washington white house correspondent thank you. people added to the jobless tally many who spent months out of work and still waiting for official help from new york. before sunrise hundreds of people lined up outside an unemployment office in midwest city oklahoma they've all lost their jobs amid the economic recession caused by coronavirus and are now waiting to get help and be laid unemployment checks dieter blakely used to work at a hotel casino in milwaukee wisconsin she was laid off in march and has yet to receive for unemployment benefits it's been over 3 months with no income and been really stressed lately. bills are piling up i

worried all the time. sometimes i went it got to be a little bit of a habit too when i woke up in the morning to look at my front door and see if there was an eviction notice on there but deidre blakely is just one of more than $50000000.00 americans who've lost their jobs since a pandemic hit the u.s. in march congress passed a pandemic aid package that included an extra $600.00 a week for anyone left unemployed by the pen demick the problem the money still hasn't reached many who need it so why are so many americans still waiting for their unemployment money i posed that question to jesse rothstein the former chief economist at the u.s. department of labor he said the federal government and state governments are facing an tidal wave of unprecedented demand and that the systems set up in the 1970 s. to distribute unemployment money simply have not been updated and can't keep up

when you triple or quadruple the volume of claims that come in the system the computer systems can't keep up and to the extent that people need to be involved we don't have enough people to keep up. and so that all all mechanism of the system is set up for a time that's very different from now and that leads to difficulties in getting out in times like this and with the pandemic still spreading across america and more states closing down again after reopening it's feared the unemployment lines could grow along with the frustrations of those still waiting for help he rose and oh al-jazeera new york now 5 west african heads of state are meeting in mali to try to resolve its deepening political crisis 6 weeks of mass protests have demanded the resignation of president. at least 14 people have been killed in recent days the m 5 movement of opposition activists leads the protests accusing the president of

corruption mishandling the economy and failing to improve security now they've rejected a unity government proposed from the regional organization eco us instability in mali has helped rebel groups like or linked to al qaida an eyesore gained strength using mali as a launching pad for attacks in neighboring nations well nicholas haq is following the story for us from senegal's capital nic let's just start with quite a delegation that arrived in bamako the discussions are ongoing we do expect a final communique at the end of the day but where are we now in terms of this timeline where regional leaders know that what happens in mali affects them too. well you know they have quite a challenging task almost mission impossible which is spend a day in mali to bring back peace to a country that has been in

a crisis ever since 2012 where armed forces invaded the north of the country and where french and u.n. forces intervene despite 14000 u.n. troops and 4000 french troops and kate being in power for the last 7 years it seems that this year at least there's been an uptick in violence some of it according to u.n. investigation perpetrated by the u.n. 1000000 forces themselves attacking. unprotected civilians so there's a lot of anger towards the fact that the country hasn't found peace despite this promise met made by. to bring back to bring peace to the country and to the corruption allegations that you mention the purchase of chew airplanes that led to the i.m.f. blocking aid temporarily to the country we saw on social media last week videos of

the son who is also an elected m.p. who chairs the defense committee in the national assembly holidaying in spain while half of the population in mali is need of humanitarian aid and so all of this compounded means that the opposition protest movement has really garnered support throughout the country and this is an opposition movement made out of trade union is members of civil society and the political opposition as well as you mention mahmoud eco who has who has some moral cloud over mali in the absence of the opposition leader some other sisi who was abducted during the last parliamentary election so there's a lot to discuss for this for this mission on the table though will be the echo us recommendation which is to nominate a new constitutional court to. to deal with the the fallout of the parliamentary crisis as well the future of a national unity government can the prime minister the current prime minister

boosie say lead that that government that's one of the questions that they will have to answer and talk about in this mediation effort so for the moment because our thanks very much for the update from santiago. plenty more on the news hour including trying his 1st solo mission to mars is well on its way we'll have all the details on the race to explore the red planet. what long term consequences might there be after kobe 19 has torn through the body affecting not just the lungs but the kidneys the heart and even the brain and join a whole of him as hospital of scotland where they're trying to find. little celebrates with the trophy chinese state television take the english premier league off peter with the details this fall.

france's foreign minister is visiting lebanon to push for economic change is all evil it says the government must urgently enact reforms to get the international support it needs to deal with its ongoing economic crisis then a hotter. he's the 1st high ranking european envoy to visit lebanon since the formation of the current government in january france's foreign minister didn't come to show support for lebanon's leaders who are asking for an international bailout to deal with the unprecedented economic crisis instead schon evil adriane delivered a firm message politicians will need to reform the state and end corruption. to live in these of strongly express their legitimate aspirations through demonstrations since october and took to the streets to emphasize the need for change transparency and to fight against corruption and unfortunately this call is not being heard what is needed is to carry out reforms this is not just france's

demands but the entire international community lebanon's economy is on the brink of collapse the currency has devalued more than 80 percent on the black market businesses are closing unemployment is rising weeks of discussion. so the international monetary fund for much needed aid have not made any progress because politicians won't fix state corruption we need to get it well the i.m.s. and get it. because that's the only way this country's going to be able to look the needed financial or immediate. friends the former colonial power in lebanon has repeatedly tried helping by hosting donor conferences levels leadership but here's the thing when you're they need money to stop the country from going bankrupt but the reforms the mandate by the i.m.f. would weaken them and deprive them of sources of funding leaders have long been

accused of exploiting the state's resources for personal gain allegations they deny the prime minister has found his government is committed to reforms but the french and boy apparently isn't convinced led 3 and went even further to criticize the state's inability to control its territory in clear reference to the armed group the iranian backed hezbollah whose growing role in lebanon and influence in the region has hurt ties with traditional allies in the west and the gulf has been well here from us like we have hezbollah is committed to keeping this government and therefore talking about reforms is impossible. hezbollah controls it and will give it cover from us sanctions as well as keep illegal crossings along the border with syria open them up to where you and more of them all the while the economic implosion accelerates and nearly half of lebanon's 5000000 people have already sunk further into poverty center for their own beirut. french president has warned

turkey against maneuvers in the eastern mediterranean and is calling for the e.u. to consider sanctions it follows ankara's move to send ships into the waters of an energy sourcing mission the conflict in libya has also proved to be another source of tension between the 2 countries turkey backed see and recognized government of national accord in tripoli while france has been accused of providing military support to the warlord khalifa haftar. on it he. said but he let me danny. in this part of the mediterranean which is vital for all of our country's energy and security issues are seem chill today and they are at stake in the power struggles of turkey and russia in particular which are increasingly asserting themselves and against which the european union still carries too little weight it would be a serious mistake to leave our security in the mediterranean in the hands of other players this is not an option for europe and it will not be something france will it happen to secure well untouchable has more from the french capital. the french

president emmanuel micro was meeting his counterpart from the republic of cyprus at the lease only made some statements before the 2 leaders went in for their discussions now he said that he believed that the e.u. needed to respond more strongly to what he called provocations in the eastern mediterranean and he was talking about turkey's continue drilling for oil and gas off the coast of cyprus the republic of cyprus is part of the e.u. the north of cyprus the breakaway north is pro turkey now the e.u. says this oil and gas drilling is illegal it has called on turkey in the past to stop and there are e.u. sanctions on ankara for this france would like to see more sanctions imposed and tensions flared even further just on wednesday when turkish warships actually accompanied a turkish submarine being used for this oil and gas exploration in the area again

violating what michael said was violation i should say of maritime law piece ability for british ambassador to libya between 20152018 joins me now on skype from london good to have you with us mr miller on the program how much sway do much words have considering the e.u. as a whole but needs to take a collective stance towards turkey at this particular instance. well i think the president is right to say the turkish actions around the waters of cyprus are provided turkey doesn't recognize the lord of the sea which is an international law which is accepted by most countries and therefore drilling for energy drilling for oil and gas in what are widely regarded as cypriot waters is a miss is a potentially confrontational approach by turkey and the present macra is also right to say look to europe doesn't have a strong voice at the moment but part of the problem there is france's own position

in backing her in for have to are in libya which has split the european voice because many other countries regard him as a person who is just out for a power grab in libya. and not the recognized government in tripoli there's been mounting tension has there not really with turkey because it's not just about the maritime issue that's going on right now if we just take slightly another maritime issue of course with southern cyprus and israel and greece also searching for energy resources in the eastern mediterranean that's also turkey you've got the whole syria conflict and the potential for turkey to open its gates and its migrants go into turkey giving another headache to the you these are all little spats little spots generally but a larger picture of the way turkey and european nations are really just not seeing eye to eye on so many issues. yes that's right and i think all of those issues are

potentially hugely damaging and after all turkey and france are both members of of nato they should be trying to resolve these issues by diplomacy rather than by by threats and i think there is a serious risk of miscalculation by taking on the part turkey but also on the part of france and other countries by continuing to ratchet up the language and in a way which could lead to further contra confrontation and could escalate the situation not only in the eastern mediterranean but in libya as well because i think turkey now turkey now with its relationship with the government in tripoli can also turn on the migration tap from the west of libya so that's quite a strong and powerful leverage that turkey has on an issue which is so massively sensitive to many european countries are talking of sensitive you touched on the

fact of the nato alliance turkey is part of nato yet it's set its nato partners earlier last year when it bought the russian s. $400.00 missile system it got thrown out of the the european f. $35.00 stealth fighter jet program as a consequence it seems that turkey is pulling it's sometimes pulling itself away from its allies and when it really needs it sort of heads towards europe again i mean where does in your opinion where does turkey lie in terms of its sort of long term allegiances. well here in turkey has always looked to nato and looked to nato as a and as a partnership which was important and i think nato and the e.u. wanted turkey to be a european partner rather than. the sort of oh eastern facing country which is which is it at risk of becoming i think turkey has got very

dangerously embroiled in syria and they've now got him broiled in libya but there i think do and can show that he has a victory in libya but i think i think this is an area for stronger american diplomacy the united states as a key partner in nato and a key partner in the f. 35 program i think they can have a strong role in working both with ankara and with other nato partners to avoid this risk of miscalculation and the risk of an escalation in the eastern mediterranean people always good to get your input on this thanks very much for joining us from london thank you of god as those ministry of defense has confirmed courier strike that killed at least 45 people a district governor in the western province of herat says at least 8 civilians were among those that the government says taliban fighters were targeted and civilians weren't in the area victoria fulton is a professor of peace studies at the american university of afghanistan she says the

attack will impact future peace talks. the trust that has been built between the different parties to the conflict is clearly broken there has been no we ducked in violence in the past few weeks quite the contrary and so after this air strike which was osa possibly targeting taliban prisoners who had been released by the government obviously after this strike this is going to further damage the potential relationship that could have been established between the afghan government and the taliban so it is not looking good for the future of the n.e.p. stops enough times that china says it's considering ways to stop the recognition of british national overseas passports held by many people in hong kong and its response to the u.k.'s decision to open a special pathway to citizenship for $3000000.00 hong kong residents starting in january the british government and china are accusing each other of breaching the commitments they made during the goetia actions that resulted in the return of hong

kong to chinese rule in 1997 you're using for the eventual move that given the british side broke its commitment 1st the chinese side will consider stopping recognition of b.n. no passports as valid travel documents and we will reserve the right to take for their actions china's 1st independent mission to mars is on its way all goes well the early next trip a rover vehicle will touch down to begin searching for water that's a necessity if the planet's ever to become an alternative home laura but mentally as well. tionne when one which translates to questions to heaven hopes to find some answers on mars where the red planet can sustain human life. lost sofas from the island of heinen in southern china the long march by brocade carrying the team when one craft it's the optimum north wind the 2 planets are at their closest for 26 months essentially shortening the journey from 9 to 7 months.

and it's a busy time for travelling to mars the united arab emirates 1st mars launch by a middle east country quote a mile or hope closer from japan on monday and now say aims to launch its most sophisticated monsoreau ever next week the u.s. has had 8 successful missions to mars so far 6 on the spacecraft are exploring mars from orbit 3 american to european and one from india considered the nature of space exploration in the fifty's and sixty's all of this is just around out with a sense of national pride or countries such as china looking to conceive in another way in which you can demonstrate the world is technological sophistication and growing sense of it being a 1st world power china's 1st man's mission includes all of the equipment needed to

survey the red planet 1st in order to be released into the atmosphere then detach a landing probe it's to take 7 minutes to touchdown in an area called utopia planet that's where the u.s. viking to craft landed in 1976 once on the surface a run pull slide open releasing china's rover vehicle the old it is carrying 7 instruments to survey the planet's geology as well as searching for underground ice did. harming a water source that could sustain life a future colonies of people from the us is so far the only country to have a rover long term on the planet's almost half of all other missions failed china's leader has more space ambitions changing paying hopes to send a manned mission to the moon in the next 10 years the last time anyone did that was the u.s. in 1972 china is also aiming to build a space station in earth orbit by 2022 if the mission is

a success china could counter its rival the u.s. in future space ambitions laura baron manley al-jazeera all still have held the al-jazeera news hour the u.n. was developing countries to support those hardest hit by the pandemic cost almost $200000000000.00 a month. plus georgia shortages of medicine and oxygen to pakistan as people run low on money to fight hiv a timetable for major league baseball is set to turn a performance suspension because of the courage the finest people because of the latest in sport. hello there are still a few thunderstorms around in pasta saudi or her mom but the main thing to talk

about this time the in the middle east is on surprises to heat iraq's always a focus of it and one of the ways of keeping cool is to spray the most precious resource fresh water that's all you freeze it is will go on throughout the summer which is another couple of months at least because temperatures are really on the high side the high forty's the low fifty's i've seen 50 or even $51.00 in southwestern parts of iran eastern parts of iraq and down towards cuba the breeze is no no longer that studies show that brings the dust as now all over the place is still dusty in places that wind direction is quite telling when temperatures are in the low forty's or the high thirty's more likely places like qatar bahrain eastern side the are humid i want to say that warm and humid it really is quite unpleasant is typical inland you find i mean in riyadh for example it's probably a draw you 44 but if you near the coast that's a pleasant zahar of course is traditionally a dry heat the sahara often more he would because of these thunderstorms are come

and go and the heaviest ones recently have been further west and there they are again in places like syria. incarcerated. in russia's toughest prisons stripped off their liberties for her and unexpected creative opportunities. as a means to yacht the singing contest like no other offers a chance of redemption and hope for the talent interview was. visiting lives inside and out a tale of fingers and murderers on al-jazeera. oh

. talk about you watching the al-jazeera news are with me is the whole wrong the reminder of our top stories new figures show 1400000 people claimed unemployment benefits in the past week it's the 18th week in a row that the number has topped a 1000000 senate republicans are set to unveil a one trillion dollar coronavirus stimulus package later on thursday. france's

president wants b.-u. sanctions on nations of violent greek cypriot maritime space it follows turkey's move to send ships into the waters of the energy source saying mission and 5 were stuck for good leaders are meeting in the fall it's time to try to resolve deep into political crisis mali seen protests 6 weeks with tens of thousands of people demanding as it became too cocky to step down. water has started to fill africa's largest hydroelectric dam even though ethiopia sudan and egypt have reached a deal on it have a morgan reports on the concern about the impact the giant dam may have blue nile state in sudan on the border with ethiopia. planting banana trees is nothing new to has been in safer don't now his family has owned these farms in sudan's blue nile state for generations has been managing some of the lands for years and has noticed changes in the landscape and. our farms

are by the bloom in about a decade ago the river was 500 metres away but since the increased highs of the day the flow of the nile river has changed and some parts of the water levels have gone down in others there's an increase in production some parts increase and decrease in others at all relies on the dam and its operation has the means farm is on the banks of the blue nile river the water is controlled by there was there is down built more than half a century ago to every great farmland it's also one of the main sources of hydro electricity the dam was extended in 2013 with the aim of increasing water levels for farmers to irrigate their crops farmers say the river which used to cost seasonal floods is more controlled now but there are concerns about the dams future . this reservoir called was there it is the 1st point where water from the territory is reserved. and experts and government officials say the feeling of the ground if you can renaissance them will have an impact on the risk there is down so

down has tried to bring together to reach a deal while it too is a stakeholder on the mile the 3 sides say the technical issues have been resolved but the legal aspects remain so dan's government is also concerned about the safety of the new dam and says if you has failed to provide any safety guarantees its resale is that just 100 kilometers away from the if you can renaissance them or gerd as it's known. sudans to be signing an agreement prior to the start of the filming of the good safety is entirely dependent on the operations of the good disagreements are currently concentrated on legal matters the degree to which the agreement is binding separation agreement to water sharing agreements and conflict resolution mechanisms as well as various other limited technical issues. analysts agree that mismanagement of ethiopia's grandam will affect the irrigation of farmland in sudan. the capacity of reserve is

a 6 to 7000000000 cubic meters but the goods is 47000000000 if the water released by the good as above or is it is capacity that would lead to its destruction another issue is that the irrigation of land along the nile will reduce by an estimated 50 percent famines need a mix of the wit and dry seasons so the agricultural patterns will be affected has a name expects any changes to the floor will further change the landscape of his home but he hopes to continue growing crops just like his ancestors have done for generations people morgan alter there are various states. the un is proposing an economic lifeline to people living in poverty during the pandemic in a report it says they should urgently receive a basic income that would cost developing nations a total of 199000000000 dollars a month to pay for this the u.n. suggests a temporary debt freeze for $132.00 nations then they can use that money to combat

the effects of covert $19.00 the u.n. predicts this could potentially help 2700000000 people globally that it means they will be forced to work and staying at home will reduce the risk of the virus the u.n. says the pandemic has been particularly devastating for poor countries. is an administrator at the united nations development program he explains the reasoning behind the debt free. as the pandemic is spreading now and it is graining in pace this but the they are also moving into the countries of the global south and there are sister agency the international labor organization estimates that certainly the 8 percent of people and their livelihoods in the informal sector so the very measures we need to take to contain the virus that each country has to put in place also had an immediate and particular in poor countries with no social safety nets or protection systems a catastrophic impact so the ability to contain the virus in the absence of a vaccine for the next 6 to 12 months is clearly a major priority and based on more be have observed quite

a number of countries in the developed world already have to improve basic incomes what we call unemployment insurance temporary furloughs that allow people to maintain their income to return to their jobs in many of the developing countries that safety system is not there so countries must now look at options of how to enable people to follow the pandemic containment strategies without having to stop because that is the prospect that you have with the millions of people face it is principally a trust or an option for countries themselves to consider this on a global fund which when a group of countries pays not destroy it down but what is important is that the fiscal space in the relevant countries get its constraint for the poor response and that's why we made also the link to global debt the developing world emerging economies developing countries will have to repay up to 3 trillion dollars in interest and repayment loans this year and that's one possible source more than 50000000 people have not been infected with coronavirus worldwide most of recovered

but doctors are still trying to work out the extent of long term damage in the 1st part of our series we look at the research into what effects patients can expect trying to hold reports from east kilbride in the west of scotland so that's how it looks and that's a normal activity. but then when you came with a disease that was their tank it's now thought that covert 19 is far more than just a response to treat disease and that is the picture of a very unwell individual. infection and trauma can extend well beyond the lungs to other organs like the heart the kidneys even the brain psychosis stroke and chronic fatigue are all possible side effects with u.k. hospital research being run by the universities of leicester and dumb d. still at the earliest stages thankfully a lot of patients have recovered and have got all their we hope these patients will recover fully think of that's an old self but we are fearful that they may not and

they may have long term effects on their physical abilities or in their mental abilities i think it's too hard to see it's not just a disease if it's a long it's a disease that affects the whole body nason in florida sponsor the whole body we know it can affect every organ washing happens in the air i think is a little different present for those worst affected the road back to full health can be a long 180 hughes vive to a month in an induced coma and 17 days on ventilation machines kept him alive as his body ceased to function getting better still it is quite a while. just to keep what you had at this discussion medical point of view as well because it's difficult to got to what knowledge you to don't know how to discussion the doctor related to it which is we really gauges to really you know this is we don't know there's still a great deal that is not known about copd and 19 exactly how it spreads whether

it's airborne or not and quite why some people are worse affected than others and for those who are most severely affected the question of long term consequences for which the medical fraternity has very few answers occupational therapist elaine tracey looks for signs among other things of cognitive impairment before patients can be sent home to fend for themselves can they remember how to complete basic tasks like make a cup of tea do you mean in the sense of brain them. about whether that is their parent thing or where that it's a tangent we don't know my gut feeling is that i'm hoping that it's just because of the i.c.u. open that it's not anything to do with actual call that it's more the i.c.u. and bin and to beat it that's actually causing the problems sit with things it's questions heavy questions for those who've lived through the worst to cope with 19 and who now face it's uncertain consequences join

a whole al-jazeera scotland robert stevens is the director of precision that dissonance for anesthesiology and critical care medicine at johns hopkins university joins us by skype from baltimore good to have you with us on the program can we just begin again just for international audience about what we know about the virus in terms of its transmission and now sort of nearly 7 months old its potency and a vague suggestion that it may be weakening. that it may be weakening yes. yeah so i think you know we learned a great deal over the past several months we know that this is a very complex disease the virus itself has the potential to mutate it is highly pathogenic it is highly transmissible and we know that people who get infected may present in a variety of different ways from being a since about it which we suspect is the case than 80 percent of cases and people

who have mild to moderate severe or critical illness a lot of the initial focus has been on the hospitalized patients with moderates of the your code at 19 and even within that subset we can see a great deal of diversity in the presentations some patients presenting only with respiratory disease but many others presenting with the involvement of other organs such as the kidneys the liver the brain ok how is treating those with cave at 19 in the medication that's available right now to you and medics globally different from the treatment that one might have given if one was dealing with. yes so not terribly different because we are still learning a lot about the physiology the biology of this disease most of our you know efforts are focused on providing physiologic support his logic monitoring so ensuring that patients get enough oxygen that their blood pressures are stabilized that they're

able to effectively brief. and then of course preventing complications so a fair number of patients with severe cold that develop bacterial infection sections that we need to treat or they develop clots in their veins or clots in their arteries that we treat with blood thinners so that treatment is largely supportive at this stage there is emerging evidence from trials that interventions such as critical steroids for example may be beneficial recent data on anti-virals also some data on the immune modulating therapies but all of that is quite preliminary and so most of our focus right now is still on supportive care indeed how important in terms of research all those people that have survived and recovered from the virus in terms of your ongoing investigations to try and find a solution. right so this is an area of great interest to me we already know from a great deal of research carried out over the past 15 years that survivors of

critical illness independently of code it may go on to have significant physical impairments they may have cognitive impairments they have psychological disturbances and their quality of life has diminished so this is a huge problem even before co but now we have this very large contingent of people who have developed code that who are committed to the intensive care unit and the quick the big question is the vast majority of them will survive the question is how are they going to be in 6 months and 12 months in 2 years and so this is the focus of the research that is ongoing here it's on hopkins as well as a global consortium to not only try to characterize the disease but also to launch it to nilly evaluate patients to determine what their longer term outcome is and perhaps most importantly we need to think about interventions revenue but think about interventions that might be beneficial to reduce the disability that is likely to occur in a significant proportion of patience it is and i thought the this ties in with the randomized trials for example that are ongoing right now many of those are very

looking at just short term outcomes encourage all the trial is to think about longer term outcomes because those are going to be the most important ones and it is a huge test going to a very long road ahead we do appreciate the time robert stevens from johns hopkins university in baltimore thank you for your time thank you. the pakistan's government has denied reports of $130000000.00 meant to fight the coronavirus pandemic have been mismanaged it insists nearly $600000000.00 from foreign donors is on the track but as reports medicine shortages and oxygen tank prices are affecting hundreds of patients. a regular bedroom turned into a coronavirus isolation room as our brother is home after nearly a week of treatment at the main hospital in islamabad he has to purchase oxygen but it cost brazil india has risen to 150 dollars 40 dollars before the virus. he followed his brother's condition as shares are drawn out of patients and money

everyone here knows a cold 1900 patients inside the isolation ward many have traveled from smaller towns for treatment. fears are only mode of communication inside the isolation ward was through video calls he says he had to move his brother because they could no longer afford to keep paying for tests and medicine that the public hospital. the public hospital that has spent nearly a $1000.00 medicine is an affordable the cost of each injection read from $800.00 to $600.00. although daily infection rates appear to have dropped in pakistan doctors say they have been struggling with. this volunteer doctor says they are expecting a surge of patients during the upcoming must in festival of weed and other religious procession. in our colleagues have been protesting outside against government policies in what they call incompetent hospital management. government because all these underutilized budget out of the 2x5w2x3w are going to surround

federal doctors some have promised millions and allowances are not being fairly distributed. prime minister imran khan's government also rejected reports that $130000000.00 meant for tackling the virus was mismanaged and fissures in the fine . ministry told al jazeera that the government of pakistan is working through relevant organizations to scale up health sector spending in the situation demand therefore the impression regarding underfunding the emergency health expenditure is not true. peace but a criticism of an adequate 1000 response and feeling to stop shortages as well as price gouging the information minister says they cannot achieve 100 percent results . as their every day's passing we are getting better and better in terms of logistics in terms of internet infrastructure and believe and we are very confident that the prime minister is is taking

a personal interest in the whole thing and we are doing pretty well compared to other international countries and we don't know me any better than in the hospital lost his father after being interviewed him he says he nearly spent $100000.00 in tests and medicines at the public hospital. he says the government statement that it is doing well just makes him angry some of the job with others there told his main opposition party has petitioned the country's supreme court for a review of the presidential election on who is an ally of the governing law and justice party won 5 more years in power but the opposition says the government broke electoral rules during the campaign accusations into a misuse of public resources which the government denies the united nations is warning that the arab world faces deep and long lasting economic consequences as a result of the pandemic the region's economy is expected to control by more than 5 and a half percent and the economies of some countries might shrink by double and that

the un warns the number of people living in poverty will rise by more than 14000000 possibly sparking more political instability. the region is blessed with tremendous diversity and but then. yet all out of countries where the oil rich me the income or least developed face difficulties in responding the global pandemic is exposed in them he challenges the regional economy has suffered multiple shocks from the vinyls as well as the sharp drop in oil prices remittances and tourism and economic forecasts than that. in a region already rife with tensions and inequalities these will have profound consequences on political and social stability well still ahead hey all al-jazeera liverpool finally get to celebrate their 1st english premier league victory in 30 years to stay with us.

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talk about his piece of woods thank you so much the organizers of the tokyo lympics are once again marking a year to go until the delayed games held a special ceremony at the main olympic stadium in the japanese capital tokyo 2020 was postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic but with the virus far from contained the games are still very much in doubt as david stokes reports. back in the pool for the 1st time in months like so many olympic athletes brazilian swimmer anna marcela kuhner has been unable to train properly because of the pandemic but with the reopening of facilities in rio she can now refocus on getting

ready for the perspiring games in tokyo a year from now i wanted to board. it's a good time for us to go back looking forward to the 2021 lympics the feel good starting over to philip dreams. brazil is the world's 2nd most infected country with more than 80000 deaths so athletes at the olympic training center must follow strict biosecurity rules but it beats training at home. yeah you don't present i came back from denmark with a knee problem in june and was in quarantine training at home is not the same as training here i'm very motivated to recover quickly and return 100 percent in preparation for tokyo a year to go but doubts and uncertainty remain about what the olympics will look like or if they'll even go ahead at all with a worldwide containment of the coronavirus seemingly some way off it will be a huge challenge to stage qualifying events and then bring $11000.00 athletes to

tokyo. not to mention spectators and broadcasters this is a member of the task because we cannot prepare or luby games as we are used to in fact there we have to prepare for multiple scenarios of the games we have to take all these seem to work around what could happen what may happen the international olympic committee estimates the delay will set them back $800000000.00 but what's less clear is the size of the bill facing japanese taxpayers before the perspire at the games were already set to cost more than $12000000000.00 all $42.00 venues have been secured for next year but if it is stage without fans the loss of ticket revenue will hit hard despite the grim economic landscape though organizers remain hopeful they can keep hold of existing sponsors and maybe even attract new ones to think is that it businesses are in dire circumstances because of coronavirus but

still there are companies who are coming forward to say they want to sponsor the games which we appreciate very much it's a bright piece of news. tokyo last hosted the games in 164 if they do return in 2021 that unlikely to be such a grand affair with organizers already scaling back their original plan but given the global situation with $365.00 days to go getting the flame lit it all would be a victory in itself providing some light at the end of a very dark tunnel david stokes al-jazeera english premier league appears to be getting dragged into the growing diplomatic dispute between china and britain china state broadcaster c.c.t.v. chose not to show wednesday's game between liverpool and chelsea and we understand it has removed all but one of the final round of matches from its show duels china's main rights holder is p p t v with a deal with $700000000.00 making it the premier league 2nd most valuable overseas media rights markets after sub-saharan africa. simon chadrick is professor of

eurasian sport at the emily on business school he says the premier league is becoming a political pawn what we seem to be witnessing and have witnessed over the last 456 weeks is certain governments being prepared to weaponize almost their involvement swe with the premier league so we've obviously seen what appears to be an emerging story around china in the chinese government and in the broadcast of premier league games but then what we've also seen over recent weeks is is the world trade organization making. an assessment of a piracy case in which an organization called be at kew has been involved. we know that the saudi arabians and the saudi arabian government has responded to that assessment by the world trade organization in a particular way. what now seems to be happening is is is that the premier league

the saudi arabian governments. be in sports and possibly the catherine governments who are in something of an on something of a little bit of a collision course here and so what we find is is is that at the heart of this is the premier league presumably supported by the british government but the 2 of them together are having to fight 2 fairly big fires right now coming out of saudi arabia and coming out of china. meanwhile liverpool's players finally got their hands on the english premier league trophy the club's 1st league title in 30 years had been sealed a month ago with 7 games remaining after a 3 month stoppage because of the coronavirus pandemic on wednesday they held a muted ceremony following their 53 win over chelsea kenny dalglish the last local manager to deliver the title presented the players with their medals for captain jordan henderson looked at the trophy in front of an empty cup. the grave was absolutely great. maybe more special. than families could be done in

a stadium out of the game but all of trouble it was loud and so we knew the stadium but because of like we didn't know we didn't see them exactly but i knew my family which i didn't see for a very long time. which made it even more special i was never born the club was pretty special and i think it makes sense that in a moment but the people are not to be used to celebrate it with them together in our hearts. but liverpool fans fail to heed warnings from police to stay away from enfield instead they ditched social distancing rules as they celebrated the title from outside. and not much social distancing are theirs leeds united celebrated their return to the premier league for the 1st time since 2004 their fans gathered around the players who paraded in an open top bus. major league baseball is finally set to start later on thursday after

a 4 month suspension because of the coronavirus pandemic world series champions the washington nationals will start a shortened 60 game a regular season when they take on the new york yankees their fans will be in the stands as part of several covert 1000 regulations dr anthony found who has been one of the most prominent physicians in the u.s. this fight against the virus is set to throw out the ceremonial 1st pitch. well the one thing that i realized. which is very humbling when i was playing baseball ny school i was assured and i could go to the gap between short and carried pick out something that was almost in the back grass and fire it to 1st base pretty well so last night i went up with my wife to one of those the schools near my neighborhood in d.c. i live in north with the street one of the horace mann and it felt like i was throwing a brick 6 time moto g.p.

world champion mark mark is hopes to race in the end the news in grand prix just 4 days after breaking his arm this is the crash marcus suffered on sunday at the season opening spanish strong free he's almost broken after surgery here he is arriving at the paris circuit it is now possible that the spaniard could take his place on the starting grid in just a few days' time. kenya's former 1500 meter world champion a larger man envoy has been provisionally suspended for anti doping violations the athletics integrity unit claims he missed 3 tests under the whereabouts rules and envoy says he's devastated but insists he's always competed clean and that he's missed tastes have nothing to do with banned substances. well even if not most sports news again latest thanks very much peter and you have been watching the al-jazeera news out meets hell rob i'm back with more news on the other side of the break but until then full piece of myself on the news our team here and thanks for

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