this is the news live from berlin under lockdown churches around the world celebrate a holy day with no congregation in front of francis calls for global solidarity and fighting the coronavirus pandemic and for ceasefire in all conflicts it's official square normally packed with tens of thousands of worshippers stands also on the program. british prime minister boris johnson leaves hospital hospital after spending 3 days in intensive care with coded 19 is office says he pointed to return to work maybe.

a matthew how would welcome the pope has broken with centuries of tradition and live streamed his easter sunday mass for the 1st time as the world's 1300000000 catholics celebrate the holiday under the coronavirus lockdown he spoke to a small audience in some papers basilica instead of the hundreds of thousands who normally gather in the square francis devoted his traditional. message to what he called this is easter of solitude and call for global solidarity was. in the light of the present circumstances may international sanctions be relaxed. since these make it difficult for countries on which they've been imposed to provide adequate support to this. he made and made all

nations be put in the position to meet the greatest needs of the moment. through the reduction and if not the forgive. the debt the balance sheets of the poorest nations well let's cross now to. religious affairs correspondent what issues did the pope touch on in his address. dress was remarkably remarkably broad i mean he dealt with anything from but it's where terrorism enough. weapons have commerce you know the gern of iris i mean essentially the over all. these we are actually faced with a good thing or equal demand of solidarity and care care for each other and things like embargo which you mention as well against iran and against cuba by the us are things that actually stand there regularly against the idea of solidarity of the

church mercy so he called essentially for a stop and it meant to return to you know an interest. to prevail in the curve for the other for each other. not in the church still has a lot of authority and is a big presence in the lives of catholics around the world how has it used to help stem the corona virus outbreak. i mean the church from the vatican 2 different parishes has be. you know has been essentially in line with the political demands for the amounts being made of or intending distancing etc so this recent why we see easter sunday we see churches sente at the very same time the fact is that the church has actually undergone a bit of a revolutionary cycle and are going at there rick in front of her eyes what we're seeing and what was said in this report of these these priests is going to go to something that is really remarkably interesting which is that the fact that people

cannot go to the church now effectively means that the church is using digital technology to go to the people. the very idea of the church bringing the community together in a time of great crisis particularly at a time in which people are losing their lives in complete isolation in hospitals or in their houses locked up the church if actually that the very core of the church mission which is this idea of bringing comfort is something that digital technology permits or through pointing out that in many many cases and this was by the pope during during the homily. priests are actually losing their lives by going directly next to somebody who's infected and giving the last rites and holding their hands and then becoming to themselves and dying so obviously the role of the church becomes much more important much more visible and i think that this is something that has to be underscored. many thanks

you're welcome. well it's not just the pipe for her in the corona virus has forced a dramatic ray think of face to celebrations but focus chins of all denominations so let's take a look at how they mocking the holy day. jesus we love you today this texas church holds more than 16000 worshippers this easter however it's only joel esteem and if you his team with the preacher won't let that get in his way or that they could that you're bigger than a virus and bigger than fear bigger than anything this fight to stop but they did it today lord it is a victory day. for a special times call for special measures even the choir at lakewood church is working from home today with most of the united states on lockdown esteem had to turn this year's easter service into a virtual one. so did these priests in the philippines despite the safety measures they managed to fill every last spot of their church not with actual people put

more than a 1000 pictures of families who hope this will help their prayers to be heard. staying home is the directive that is also being strictly observed in the heart of jerusalem's old city only a handful of priests attended mass at the church of the holy self occur the place where christians believe jesus was crucified and resurrected. the. in this south korean capital seoul which is not under lockdown worshippers could attend easter mass in person while maintaining a safe distance. for congregations across the globe the coronavirus epidemic has added a major challenge to easter celebrations here in the french city of leo only those living at the church site were able to attend the easter vigil.

her video but despite all the challenges this colombian priest believes the situation also has a positive side because of coronavirus aris you'll call out just recently began connecting online with parishioners at home. you'll get body scan although it seems difficult i think it's a renewal of the church not only for us priests but for the families themselves who have met again in this holy time. while this easter pews in many churches around the world will remain empty preachers like moses jaqueline and will continue to spread their messages one stream at a time. for his progress to johnson has been discharged from hospital after being treated for covenanting johnson was admitted awake ago and spent 3 days in intensive care is released from st thomas' hospital in london comes as the u.k.

death toll from corona virus tops 10001 of the highest in the world johnson's government has come under fire for a lack of personal protective equipment for frontline because in hospitals. well for more i'm joined by charlotte potts in london shallop am boris johnson and is now being discharged from hospital what more do we know. well the prime minister has left to the prime minister's country estate to continue his recovery there and it's certainly been a wake up call for boris johnson and for the country for the british people it showed that the virus doesn't discriminate that it doesn't stop at downing street and boris johnson well he was very let's say careless in the beginning of the crisis and did not immediately to act and now he has experienced what it means 10 by spending

a week at the hospital and you mentioned 33 days in intensive care now downing street saying his recovery might take a while we're even hearing that he would not be back in shots for several weeks. and the u.k. death toll meanwhile has now topped 10000 with the government facing pretty intense criticism over its handling of the cross as you say the feeling in the u.k. that some of those deaths were indeed preventable. yes for sure over the weekend we saw the highest daily death toll in europe over 900 deaths per day and that continues that number continues to rise doctors and nurses are saying they don't have enough protective gear to protect themselves and one in 3 such ns even saying that they can't operate because they don't have the proper gear at the same time doctors and nurses are dying nearly 20 n.h.s. staff so far have died and there is also a serious lack of testing only the very severe cases at the moment attest that at

the hospital so there is no tracking but surely happening and the unrecorded number of cases off coronavirus here in the u.k. is incredibly high and this all as the peak is about to be reached so really a crisis that could have been prepared for much. reporting from london thank you. now let's get caught up to date on the corona virus and the commissioner of the u.s. food and drug administration says his country is very close to the peak of its coronavirus case load he is hopeful but restrictions can be eased by the 1st of my inspiron the number of deaths rose in the past 24 hours by more than 100 to 619 but new infections declined during the same period south korea reported 32 additional cases in the past day continuing a downward trend in infections there and russia meanwhile has confirmed more than 2000 new cases its biggest daily increase since the outbreak began.

well throughout the day we are speaking to our correspondents around the world about easter in the time of the corona virus and right now let's go to lisa lewis in paris laser many people in france would normally be visiting family during the east awakened how are the people dealing with a lockdown when i feel like they probably should be on holiday well absolutely then lots of people who are staying at home and posting pictures of their children looking for eggs on the balcony some chocolate shots have been offering takeaway service is that people can still you know get their exclusive bunnies did bunny your chocolate egg for easter and also that some churches than priests celebrating mass in front of empty churches one priest even offered believe it's send him pictures so that he could print them out and stick them to the chairs so it looks a bit like he was celebrating mass in front of people really but the os still people who have been going out in the streets and police have been trying to crack

down on not yet how strict the police being with the lockdown in enforcing the law down. quite strict really the government before the easter holiday and these 2 we can set you really need to respect the lock down you need to stay at home they have deployed 160000 police officers across the country if you breach the rules of the lockdown you have to pay fines of 135 years which can go up until $3700.00 if you you know if you repeat the offense and police has been saying have been saying that they've given out hundreds of thousands of fines already and done millions of controls here in the country since the beginning of the lockdown and also the different aircraft carrier charles de gaulle has returned to port 10 days ahead of showed you a lot of virus cases were detected on board what more can you tell us

yes absolutely there were 50 cases detected on board an hour the aircraft carrier had been at sea for 3 weeks and so lots of people had developed syndromes now they for arrived into law in southern france on the coast and those who needed medical attention have been brought to military hospitals and the others are confined for 14 days they're not allowed to go home the government has been saying we will test everybody and we will also disinfect the aircraft carrier before people can go back to work or can go back to their families. lisa lewis in paris thanks so much time to take a look now at some news from other parts of the world. european commission president ursula from the lion has told germany's build newspaper that life will only return to normal once a coronavirus vaccine becomes widely available researches globally working on

a vaccine which is hoped to be ready by the end of the year prices. hundreds of firefighters are battling blazes in the exclusion zone around the for much unknowable nuclear plant in ukraine environmental experts fear the fires could stir up radioactive ash in the ground the plant exploded in 1900 $86.00 and the area is now uninhabited the. legendary british formula one driver stirling moss known affectionately as mr motor racing has died aged 90 after a long illness it was widely regarded as the greatest formula one pilot to win the world championship but did finish runner up 4 times a felix and fiercely competitive driver he won 16 growing praise before retiring at age 31 following a crash that left him in a coma but he continued to rise in the special legend events right into his eighty's. and with that

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