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gabriel's onto a new york, a place. it was once the global epa center of the covert pandemic, 3 years on. what were the lessons learned? and is this city ready for the next one? ah, i'm robot, the center. this is al jazeera alive from doe hob, also coming up a u. s. buying good funded tech stops is shut down by regulators raising fears. more financial institutions could be at risk. i'm jessica washington in hong kong where more people are buying the mentos pass as it undergoes rapid changes. ah, it's been 3 years since the world health organization declared a pandemic following the outbreak of coven 19 for signs of the virus was seen in

the chinese city of han and life. there is returning to normal. but governments of how folks parts around the world are still divided about the origins of the virus. khatri, you reports from beijing. the city of ohio to day is bustling. but the strict crude of iris, locked out, imposed 3 years ago, is clearly remembered by its 11000000 residents, including shopping will manager, mark leo. you're here since you've been a little hold off. there was a lot of information that was unclear to was we were very close to also. and how have you been coping out 0 interviewed him at the time as he did his best to keep his young son busy. one was the 1st city in the world to be locked down because at the spread of corbett 19. on march 11, 2020, the world health organization declared the outbreak. append demik and various governments demanded answers regarding its origin. in 2021, china finally allowed a team of w h o experts to visit with han,

but the trip was short and tightly controlled measures. beijing said were necessary for preventing the spread of coverage. 19 china was the last country to drop it. strict. corbett 19 rules at the end of last year. and now life in many cities looks very much like it did before the pandemic. but we're still no closer to knowing the exact source of the grown of ours. and the w h o says a plant 2nd phase of the investigation has been cancelled lighting challenges in conducting the study. politicians in the u. s. have accused paging of a cover up the f b. i says a lab leak was likely the u. s. energy department agrees, though with low confidence, chinese officials have dismissed the findings as political height. some health experts say the hunt, the patient 0 is an unhelpful distraction. we have been so distracted by trying to change the style that we're not faking the actions that we need to stop it from happening again. and so i think our focus should be on,

let's think systematically about where we can reduce risks. mark leo says he's just relieved his work and his family's lives have returned to normal or whether you turn printer or whether it's business we're studies or we're working harder than before and making up for lost time. like many living in the hon. he wants to focus on the future and not the past. katrina, you al jazeera beating, but it is covered 900 spread to the united states finale 2020 new york city. quickly became the epicenter for months. gabriel alexander reports, and what lessons were learned 3 years on the state of emergency in new york city, new york had just surpassed 7000 covey cases. the most cases in the state and 35 cove, it related deaths. this is overwhelming. the cities, hospitals, and 1st responders, the virus was spreading fast. the number of cases doubling in the new york city area overnight fear was setting in the community spread dynamic is unpredictable

and worrisome. then governor andrew cuomo had seen enough and did the unthinkable and ordered new york to be shut down completely. it was march 20th, 2020. today we're bringing it to 100 percent of the workforce must stay home. and when i talk about the most drastic action we can take, this is the most drastic action we can take. new york would soon become the global epicenter of the coven outbreak. 3 years on and 6500000 coven cases, and more than 61000 deaths later. what lessons have been learned this pandemic, as a silent pandemic associated with it. and those are the individuals that have gotten infected with cobra. 1900 are suffering from a long covey, and even those individuals that have recovered from their initial infection and now are at higher risk for cardiovascular and lung damage and liver damage and kidney

damage. but she also points to 4 other lessons. first, the strain on hospital staff and supplies, 2nd, changing people's behavior with social distancing and mask wearing. 3rd, how covert hit the economically disadvantaged, harder than others, and forth. how misinformation affected the pandemic response. there are some positive lessons before the demick. it was widely believed, it took at least 5 to 10 years to create a new vaccine and then bring it to market. but with a covered 19 vaccine, it proved that it can happen in a lot less time. it's kind of incredible to think about just how rapidly we had functional vaccines for the nation and network then able to contribute to society. new york's current governor kathy hoko last month ended the mask mandate in hospitals that had been in place for nearly 3 years. but her office still sends out

daily cove. it updates on average, around 10 people still die every day in the state. that was once the epicenter gabriel's ando al jazeera, new york lago madison. k is capital nairobi, and he explains the lasting impact the pandemic across african countries. almost half of the deaths recorded were in south africa, which was hit hard as were some other middle income countries like brazil and india, south africa, relatively good public health care system was brought to its knees and the cemetery filled up. some of its neighbors were hit fairly hard as well that scientists had predicted it would be devastating throughout the rest of the continent because of crowded city and the lack of public health care. so that didn't happen. testing rates were low, but the recorded fatalities were low and there was no overwhelming evidence of

a lot of uncounted deaths. and while vos sums were bent on researching cove, it, most of that money was targeted in rich country than the low fatalities in africa. still haven't been fully explained, but what was devastating for much of the continent was the impact of international travel restrictions which broke tourism and trade to a standstill made it even harder. people from this confidence to visit europe in america because of those travel restrictions and local law downs and curfews rule. so di, filling for trade and for the economies, many of those locked downs were in for brutally by soldiers and police. people were killed including here in kenya, and just as those pressures started to lift the conflict in ukraine, high fuel prices, high grain price, the shortage of fertilizer, the worst drought in decades is affecting east in the horn of africa. just more shocks on the economies into the state. many economies in africa, i still haven't recovered. california financial regulators have shut down silicon

valley bank. this is the largest failure of the us bank since the financial crisis of 20 o 8. it was hit by higher interest rates and then failed to raise fresh capital. silicon valley bank suspended trading auto shares plummeted, and that prompted depositors to withdraw their money creating a run on the bank. there are recent developments that concern a few banks that i'm monitoring very carefully and when banks experience financial losses it is in should be a matter of concern. cornelius hurley is a former director of the federal home loan bank of boston. he explains why this collapse will not cause a repeat of the 20 o a financial crisis. banks around the world have seen their shares planet in the last $24.00 or 48 hours. but this is really

a concentrated issue. i think the take away from this is a, is really a us issue. primarily it demonstrates that the coordination among the bank regulators in our system, which is complicated. we have so many players. we have the federal deposit insurance corporation. we have the med settle reserve. we have state thinking agencies and then lurking in the background, we have an agency that almost nobody has ever heard of. which provided massive mounts of liquidity to silicon valley bank. as much as 6 months ago. i'm talking about 1314000000000 dollars that could easily that could easily have been the warning sign with other regulators should have and could have picked up on the flaws in the bank where i think to fall number one. it's a highly concentrated business strategy involving technology. they got

caught in the time of rising interest rates and they were dependent tremendously on short term borrowing stanley deposits. and they invested those in long term investments which lost their value with lies and rising interest rates. iran and saudi arabia have agreed to reinstall the diplomatic relations and reopen embassies after 7 years of confrontation. china was instrumental and brokering to deal alexandra bias reports this deal harold a new chapter in the middle east, bitter rivals. iran and saudi arabia agreed to restore diplomatic ties all in secret with chinese mediation. susie, us that the consumer we have been here in beijing for 6 days. i held talks of my saudi counterpart that led to the agreement to normalize relations. we agreed with

saudi arabia to open a new page based on the interests of the 2 countries on and on regional security and to promote stability instead of exacerbating tension. so we hope this will contribute to the establishment of security and development in the region. the historic agreement will see both nations exchanging envoys. 7 years after severing relations. china's role revived a process that brought together officials from both countries in iraq and oman. during 20212022. i did on the agreement basically focus on the respecting the international law. the agreement also talk about the vienna teacher with regard to the diplomat and political and diplomatic facilities. so that is also important. it talks about respect of the sovereignty of the state, which is very important. if we take all of this in account and it says it's a new badge. so basically what we're saying, we're trying to stop all the escalation, go to discretion. now focus on the,

on the her unilateral relation that bring peace or security to the region here. and that means no innovation on the domestics of hers issues from iran and to saudi arabia, which is very important. while the deal itself could have major implications for regional security, it's also evidence of a wider shift. saudi arabia has long prioritized its alliance with the united states. this agreement highlights beijing's growing influence in the region. alexander buyers, al jazeera, still ahead on al jazeera. we're going to look at how children in syria have been affected psychologically following years of war and the recent earthquakes. ah frank assessments this tree surprised this with this hopeful moment where countries could come together and stop putting in place. the rules allow us to treat the

local commons with the attention it deserves informed opinions that we should have climate change as the center of the gen doubt and not be overshadowed by the board . as a task critical debate, chinese site should negotiate with ukrainian leadership. you may talk about housing, you can come inside story on al jazeera, brought forth the law will the law win with neither side, willing to negotiate is the ukraine war becoming a forever war? is america's global leadership, increasingly fragile? what will us politics look like? as we had to the presidential election of 2024, the quizzical look at us politics, the bottom line. the latest news as it breaks, don't trump, it's still that favorite here among the grass roots. and in many of the polls the be the republican presidential nominee with detailed coverage fire has swung a spotlight back on the struggle based on daily basis by everyone here from around

the world. fire that and go to the 1st to cause of this trade was so hot. it may have cremated the victims exactly where they were killed. ah ah, the watching audra 0 reminder of i told stories this hour. it's been 3 years since the world health organization declared the corona virus. i'll break a pandemic. nearly 7000000 people across the globe lost their lives to cobra. 19 since the 1st case was reported in the chinese city of han, california financial regulators have shut down silicon valley banks is the largest value of the us bank since 20 a. wait, a firm fail to raise fresh capital up to being affected by higher interest rates.

it's suspended, trading also shares plummeted. iran and saudi arabia have agreed to re establish diplomatic relations and re open embassies. comes after 7 years heightened tension compensation. china helped to bro, who the deal the united nations is warning about the psychological impact of february's. powerful earthquakes is southern turkey and northern syria. almost 4000000 children live in the affected areas of syria. and the u. n says they've lost any sense of safety. after enduring years of war, we spoke to some of the children in the opposition controlled northwest xena, horner reports. many of the victims have febreeze earthquakes that hit southern turkey and northern syria were children. those who survived still live the tragedy mohammed abdullah is from the syrian village of ain't charter. he lost his parents and other members of his family. he also lost his hand. this young boy's life has

turned upside down. and i've my lad, i'm all right now while i'm there again. oh, well my dad as well i she or the marble but a mom and then that's a record i only had obeyed also lost his parents. he's now living with his uncles, family, for the holy fly off the bottle, saw them wildly. well, i mean, we're all gone. well we, all the natural disaster has had an emotional toll on children in the opposition and cliff in northwest syria. some of them have still not healed from living through war. now they say they need to heal from a different kind of experience. for had says he can't forget his father's last words. i will have them believe jolla or guys telephone oh meet. nice. you don't get regarding meet,

gather john away. i'm sure it go who are just jewelry. i should mothers muscle to were funny. like our her look is applied dasia. muslim duck who both busy, sir william, the united nation says more than 3700000 children across syria have been affected by the quakes. and it says many will need psychological support. they've lost any sense of safety, while many others are displaced yet again. and there are those who find themselves alone. whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, one or 2. or hang on to that because mohammed lost many of his friends in the earthquakes center other l. shahita. hi nicholas had a programs of action for humanities. joining us now from gazande tip,

thank you very much indeed for being with us. many of these children are either very young or they have very little education. how difficult does it make them that make it for them to be able to express the feelings and describe the experiences they've gone through? yeah, so the children of syria, they have been already under a lot of pressure due to the 12 years of ongoing conflict. so even before the earthquake and we have a report of 30 to 40 percent of children, they were under under, under pressure to drop out of schools and joined to work purses. so even before the earthquake, it was, it was already too much for the children. 2 adults with the, with the conflict situation and with the earthquake, it increased increased the level of the pressure that was on the children. and where that was, that was way beyond their, their,

their capacity to digest what is happening around them. when you're trying to have it. so when you're trying to help children in that kind of situation, what kind of mechanisms can you use? what kind of help can you give them to be, to draw out that expression of emotion? yeah, so, so our, our teams, our teams have started to respond at the early hours of the earthquake where, where it was, it was, it was spotted out. there's a lot of needs alpha and responding and with, with, with the, with the, a recreational activities, m. p assess activities at 77 out of 10, a children i have reported psychological issues including certain problems and nightmares. and they were becoming very upset when something goes is memories of the event. so we are, we are, we are dealing with

a baby sensitive cases of children. and i, as i told you, day they were already, they had enough from the 12 years of the ongoing conflict. what do you think of the long term effects to these children of what they've been going through? so yeah, as i, as i told you, they have, they have been out of schools. they are doing the bread winner roll for that and for their households. and when i was in contact with the action for humanity and psychological 1st aid workers, they have, they have that they have explained a lot of cases that we are dealing with. one of the cases was a 15 years child that who is working in the bakery and then he had to go to his work at the day of the earthquake early for a m, he was going to the bakery to do his work. and 15 minutes later the earthquake happened,

and when he left back to his home and he found that it was destroyed. and he was just waiting for his family and to be a rescued from under the rebels. and sadly, after a couple of days and they were, they were, they were, they, they were at. and the childs have have faced a lot of distress, psychological distress, our, our dad and he was, he was an in the area of her, not an alley po and our, our team have spotted this case after 3 days where the child have walked over 30 kilometers by him on, by his own he was, he was not talking, he was not telling anyone anything. they was just wanting. and they have just spotted him sleeping in the streets. and when they tried to talk to him, he was unable to talk. so they offered some psychological a sessions or, and he started to recover

a slow day and now he is in one of the shelter for, for jennifer in black. very briefly. and how difficult is it to get children to trust you when they have been through. so much like this and they have lost so many adults around them. yeah. oh, so i'll tell you generally about the situation in syria. i syria suffering from being forgotten and underfunded throughout nearly 212 years of the work. there was no hospital capacity before the earthquake itself. it was just suffering there was no enough to with before the earthquake, it's with just poverty. it is much disappointing to see the international community have neglect the syrian crisis or this long. and it's required the massive disaster to bring back syria writes it, that the trends syrian affect the population needs ultimate recovery solution or

their suffering action for human to worse that syrian is not an encore gotten crisis. the people will continue to suffer due to the conflict and natural climate is, or if the international committee do not find the socio economic and political solution to this crisis. the earthquake want once again that it should be sooner than later . honey, how about we appreciate you being with us, honey. hope all from action for humanity. thank you very much. indeed. thank you. more customers are pushing through the doors of hong kong antique stores, store owners, say many people are searching for items ranging from cassette players to vintage toys and jewelry. to help them reconnect with the past. jessica washington reports from hong kong and he quietly way and shown one district is unassuming, store of as a window to hong kong past. and how important moments in history connect with the everyday lives of its people and me. i got boiler. this cup was distributed to kids

and all gone by the colonial government parent during the coronation of queen elizabeth the 2nd in the fifty's to encourage them to drink more milk. mamma come since the queen passed away last year. i got many people want to buy these cups. now. mito opened the store nearly 20 years ago since then he seen his city change and the items in his store to i'll post, i normally do not need to introduce my products to the customers. they often see the beauty of these vintage products, which gives the sense of the old times in recent years, a series of political and social changes, including a crackdown on descent, have also changed hong kong thousands of emigrated since the end of 2019 tons hunting. i have some customers who are leaving hong kong, and they love to collect old furniture from government offices, but they weren't able to take these items to other countries. so they sold it to me . and in a rapidly changing environment, many young people are keen to learn more about the past. from cassette tape to old

on the lopes and colonial era cutlery. shop owners say this rising demand for vintage products, seen as symbols of the territories history. some customers told al jazeera, they're specifically looking for items from hong kong to take to their new countries. i just moved to 6 months ago. so right now i'm in canada. so to come back here and just like admire and appreciate some of the hong kong histories, very special. most people come to ricky lands, antique store, to look for toys made in the seventy's, when hong kong with the largest toy manufacturer in the world. the papers are in somehow to us. i. i played these toys when i was a kid. i feel emotionally connected to them. why do they also tell the story of old hong kong? there are also some customers who look for vintage products. they associate with their childhood memories to take with them before leaving hong kong for good. he says he still of his customers an opportunity to better understand the city's evolving identity. the chance to be in his style, jake had to carry those memories with them wherever they go. jessica washington out

as her uncle and his 3 people have been killed and 14 have been injured in a blast in afghanistan's northern bark province. the explosion took place and a she a cultural centre, which is supported by iran manager unless have been gathering there to celebrate national journalists day earlier on thursday, the provincial governor was killed in his suicide attack in his office the time cause god has launched multiple rescue operate sions to save around 1300 migrants packed on to several boats of the country's southern coastline. more than 3000 migrants have reached italy by boat since wednesday. that's more than doubled the number for the entire month of march last year. and rescue teams have saved nearly 50 migrants found stranded in a boat off the coast of spain's canary islands. the group included 3 pregnant women and 6 children. at least 6 people have died after heavy rains and flooding. a

northern peru cycling yahoo has left a trail of destruction. hundreds of families and homeless says the cyclop hit land earlier this week, through has issued landslide warnings in almost 600 districts. indonesia, morabe volcano has erupted, the volcano is located in yoga. carter region is being spared hot ash for up to 7 kilometers, but up who is one of the indonesia most active volcanoes. it was already on the country's 2nd highest alert level. and that's it from me rob matheson for now the news continues and i'll do 0 after inside story. good bye. ah ah. that brief burst of heat,

reco breaking heat into northern china been pushed back with a cold front coming out of the teary which means now stems back when they should be at least north of the axis. but look at this picture of the korean peninsula. got snow coming across the border, maybe even briefly trying to get into sol, but not degrees weren't succeed. then for the south, it's rain moving slowly into japan where again, temperatures have been high. now you've got a bit of wetness with increase avalanche risk, of course falling behind. no, we're looking temperatures. south of the yank. see the sun's come out again having given you a couple days adult and occasionally wet weather. we see reco breaking temperatures as far south as manga law. on this general western side of india and southern back studies, still seeing temperatures for 5 degrees above the average. though there are no significant warnings here. as for showers very few in india itself or bangladesh or indeed in a pole, but in pakistan we have got a significant line. this is another quote from it came through iran and afghanistan, not temperatures back,

is doing the same in northern pakistan. very few shouts to picard, i'd say temperatures really from sin provinces which are still about 5 or 6 degrees above average. there's no reason why they should change. i'm afraid, it's just sunshine. ah, al jazeera goes beneath the waves with a team of women, determined to save the dolphins with amazing and using a variety of scientific techniques to study their behavior, we can monitor them for their local photos and behavior. we're able to how they're adaptive and their new environment. women make science, dolphins sanctuary on al jazeera. she's in thing is formerly appointed for a 3rd, thomas, china's president, all powerful at home. he faces big challenges elsewhere up against the u. s. and

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