♪ as global infection rates of the e coronavirus sword towd d e million, more than 500,000 cases are located in european countries, with more than 47,000 deaths across the globe. the number of coronavirus fatalities in spain passes 10,000 with 950 deaths in the last 24 hours, the highly -- highest daily total so far. the israeli prime minister is forced back into quarantine for the second t time after the heah minister tests positive for the

virus. back to the france 24 newsroom. number ofthe global infections from the coronavirus is heading toward one million. 938,000 people are infected, with more than 47,000 having died. over 500,000 of those cases are located in european countries. count theres also 194,000 plus people who have recovered. america topping the list of nations most in fact did -- infected, more than 215 thousand people infected and the death toll standing at 5000. in spain, the death toll has 10,000, withe than the nation having the highest rate of fatalities in europe after italy. therere were 950 deaths in the last day alone, the highest

daily total so far. are waning,owths say officials. our correspondent in madrid has more. >> spain has seen a series o of particularlyly grim death tolls over the last week or so to over 80800. today's comes in at 950 spaniards who have died in the last 24 hours. that brings the death toll to just over 10,000 in spain. that means there have been 110,000 confirmed cases of the virus across the country. curured,ople have been have been n released from hospil , but thisis is grim data this morning, particularly as it comes on top o of the news that were madetrtra people unemployed in the month of march directly as a result of the coronavirus.

companies have been told that they can only operate if they are essential economic activity. government this morning has reacted to the death toll and to the figures released for the coronavirus, saying there is evidence that now spain is entering a period of slowdown. that is difficult to sell to a population that know they will be in an extra period of lockdown, waking up on a daily basis to these record daily death figures. >> in the u.k., prime minister boris johnson says britain is set massively wrap up testing to combat the spread of covid-19. however, his government has been coming under fire for failing to keep his promise to increase the amount of testing being done. more than 15% of people in the u.k. think the government was too slow to order a lockdown to slow the spread of the virus

according to an opinion poll published thursday. want to say a special word about testing. it is so important. as i have said for weeks, this is thehe way through. this is how we unlock the coronavirus. this is how we will defeated in the end. >> another 100 patients will be transferred from paparis to elsesewhere in france as the day hospitals are reaching capacity as the pandemic continues. the number of daily deaths is rising, but authorities repeated will take time before the benefits of being under lockdown begin to show. the p pme ministeter is saying lifting those restrictionsns wil need to be done gradually by region, age group, or based on testing results. >> we are probably not heading universal, absolute end to the quarantine for everyone

at the same time. we are currently working on and trying to understand the different scenarios for how to end the quarantine. we needd remember that to discuss how best to end it. thehe jury remains out on protective benefits of facemasks. while the world health organization continues to stress they are of little value in protecting wearers in everyday life, some experts advise they can at least prevent the wearer from infecting others. adopting mandatory use for the general public, thus leaving the french governmnmentn a tight spot. peter o'brien reports. >> an act of kindness. volunteers at this hospice are sewingng facemasks to distribute to the most vulnerable.

the czech republic was the first country in europe to issue a national mandate requiring people to cover their nose and mouth outside the home. outside more countries asia, like austria and israel, followed suit. these policy conditions contradict the world health organization. >> there is no specific evidence to suggest to suggest the wearing of masks by the mass population has any benefit. there is some evidence to suggest the opposite. in the misuse of a mask or taking it off, all the other risks. >> one line of argument is buying masks reduces the stock available for health workers. some argue this thinking has helped the spread and put more of a burden on hospitals. in france, the official word remains the public do not need masks. the pressure to change this is on.

>> it is too early for ,efinitive research on covid-19 but the french and subdues a national research found surgical effective against spreading stars, another coronavirus. >> israeli prime ministeter big men yahoo! -- agyeman netanyahu has been required to go into -- benjamin n netanyahu has been required to going to quarantine for the second time in a row. who has had to go into quarantine now as a result of the health minister testing positive? as youu said, the prime minister has had to go back into quarantine. the head of the security services, the national security council, they havave had to go into quarantine.

everyone who i is runninghe crisis from within the health department has had to go into ofrantine, as has the head the largest hospitital in jerusalelem. wewe have seen a range of peopl. benjamamin netanyahu has gone bk into quarantinee because his previous contact was his advisor on orthodox affairs. .he healthth minister is also that reflects what is going on , the population. we are seeing a greater representation of the ultra-orthodox getting the virus. largestd tel aviv's hospital sayaying the ultra-orthodox are 10% of the population but 50% of the infected. that is how a sign of h how the spreread is. >> w why are the rates higighern north -- ultra-orthodox unities? -- community is? >> parartly how they live.

they are crowded. they h have a communal lifestyl. it is also how the crisis has been managed. early on, i do not think the rabbis who run the orthodox -- the ultra-orthodox do not listen to the state in the same way the rabbis do not understand the significance. they do not understand -- shut down the schools. wasstatete's point of view selective enforcement. israel has had strict rules about social distancing frfrom notre france, bubut it was properly enforced in the ultra-orthodox areas.. the ultra-orthodox rabbis tolold people they could disobey. the police did not enforce it. that is where we are now. >> thank you. virologist from queens university in belfast, northern ireland. whatis pandemic spreads, are the latest developments in regards to what we know about this coronavirus?

in the last four months, we have been able to find out a lot about this virus, mainly how fast it can actually spread and how devastating that spread can be. maybe on a scientific side, we are learning more about the fact people might be spreading the virus but are not showing a lot of symptoms, how fast this virus can n spread and maybe identifyg treatments and vaccines. >> are you getting any sense about whether it is starting to mutate? >> viruses are mutating all the time. that is hohow we are able to trk the virus. these genetic differences in the coronavirus allows to find in the the virus is -- united states is related to viruses in europe. do these things actually impact anything in a person? are they making the virus more dangerous or t trans misissable?

-- transmissible? at the beginning of this epidemic, there was a lot of discussion about who was most at risk in terms of having a severe outcome. they included the elderly, people with pre-existing conditions and another interesting element is more and more men are likely to die than women. other significant factors starting to emerge as to who is the most vulnerable? >> thehere are people who are me at risk. while anybody can get infected, anybody can get sick anybody in any age class can die, your risk of dying come up getting really by your sex,enced your age, the underlying conditions. one of the interesting developments is in looking at why do seemingly healthy

people succumb to this ininfection? are ththere genetic reasons, environmental regioions -- reasons? this will be one of the interesting things to look at in the future. it will take many more cases and deaths and a lot of time to figure that out. >> i understand you are a virologist. i wanted to talk to you about the fact that we now have a sizable chunks of the world population living in a locked down. what signs will governors look for in order to start using restrictions? -- teasing rejections -- easing restrictions? fore do not have a vaccine the virus. these public health measures are all we have. we know from looking at other countries that lockdown combined isolation arend the only things we have to slow the spread. we are monitoring signs of these infections through testing and

monitoring symptoms. we have a sense of how outbreaks will progress in each country. ist we will be looking for reaching a peak and then a decrease in new cases or new symptoms, people who are getting sick. that migight be a small thresho. we will begin to think about how we can relieve and lockdown and for how long. >> t thank you. today is international fact checking day. with the world in the middle of a pandemic, the fight against fake news is more important than ever. fake news is often dangerous. with a global pandemic, it can be deadly. it is more important than everer to avoidid sharing. from a. we are seeing a lot it going around -- to avoid sharing false

informrmation. we are seeing a lot of it going around. around 100 organizations in 60 countries, together we publish more than 1500 articles debunking fake news about the virus. now they are available in a database open to the public. one example has been circulating since the fifirst ououtbreak in china, this one,e, that eating t soup may have been had the virus jumped to humans. if you enter "bat soup" in the database, you will see articles, including one. the chinese people eating bat soup were not in china but in the pacacific. our colleagueses in mexico, croatia, the philippines all came to the same c conclusion. public receivehe questionable information online, they can check it by doing their own search. we have seen posts saying hot water can kill the virus. if you type hot water into the

database, you find articles from taiwan, the u.s., lithuania, and sri l lanka that explained thehe is n no evividence hot water cae effective agagainst the diseaea. fake n news spreads fast in a crcrisis a and far. if people receive suspicious items and social media, before sharing or forwardrding, they should check the database. >> that is it for this edition. ♪ >> in the east of greenland, alone in the remote arctic, it

is 3:00 in the morning at the beginning of summer. the temperature is minus five degrees, and these teenagers are not sleeping. in the frozen white of the ninight, the meat on t the ville square to listen to american pop music. if they have wi-fi, they then videos on youtube and try to be them. and show off their skills and dancing. ♪ >> their parents are winding away the night in the atmosphere of the village bar. rock, beat of greenlander their steps are heavy with free-flowing alcohol.

♪ thee are a world away from wild greenland of the posostcar. inhabitants,th its is the only town in a region the size of france. inuit century ago, the people living here were self-sufficient, relying on hunting and fishing. when danishished colonizers decided to settle the population and establish a town. roads, schools, dispensaries arrived at the same time as the consumer society. and with it, unemployment. now, the inunuit's rely not on nature but on handouts paid by the danish state. at the start of each month, the same people gather at the cash dispensers of this supermarket, where we meet again with

benjamin, the nighttime dancer. that is too much alcohol. tonight, -- >> drink is hidden behind these curtains to try to reduce consumption, which is creating havoc. unemployment, crises of identity, lowlinessss -- loneneliness. betweenjuring -- torn tradition and mododern life, its the young who are the most vulnerable. 21-year-old dreams of being a footballller but for the momet he wastes his time on the streets. job heoes not have a survives on his 150 euro a month alallowance. >> we need morore jobs here, but work andhem will not

will just drink. of the future shared by many young people. greenlanand wins the prize every year for hopelessness, with a suicide rate the highest in the world, eight times higher than france. he lost his bestst friend last year. > he was drunk and his -- sleptd said that with another boy. he went home and killed himself. nots thinking i can continue anymore. i think i am lost. . cried every day himim.d cry and talk to

>> under the snow is an area the size of a football pitchch. onon aveverage, , they bury one enenager he evevery mononth. >> i rememember which one is my best friend. i think this is one of them. >> now, some people are looking for ways to fight back. group has created a show which exposes things that most people would prefer to ignore. show that itng to is hard for everyone. people killing themselves, it is hard.

young people are -- have a lot of problems. anything, so i .ecided to help p young people they are telling t the story of their lilives and you see them crying, telling ththproblems they had. >> these scenes reveal the country's greatest taboo. people -- theen, biggest problem. nearly a third of young green lenders are second -- victims of sexual aggression, a tragedy

often called -- caused by alcoholism and the privacy of the family and home. it is one of the main causes of the epidemic of suicides. -- seeks tosees exercise their problems. >> we are always a bit shy. it liberates us. stronger. >> i heard what my brother had done. it left me alone. it was terrible. i was inconsolable. it is a good thing i found support here. age 16, she is the youngest sister of his best friend, the one who committed suicide last year. hery afternoon, she meets theater friends. they go to one of the rare venues in tasiilaq where young people can be safe from the cold

and their parents. when our parents drank, they said awful things to us. they did not want us anynymore. they were waiting for us to die, my brother and me. my brother felt completely abandoned. however often i go t to his gra, it still does not comfort me. it is terrible, but this way out and suicide. the theater seeks to offer a different perspective. today, they are meeting at the house.ounder's rejected during chihildhood because his feminine appearance, this 17-year-old now accepts his difference. in his bededroom, the americican stars who have inspired his dream to become an actor.

>> my motivation. those parents are the only ones supporting the theater project. they are proud young p people ae lifting the veil on a social taboo. they are veryon, courageous to go back over all these traumatic events. supporting each other is a good young. i am sure they can bring down the suicide rate. morepport which is all the crucial because psychologogists here, as in t the rest of greenland, arere rare. when a young person goes astray, he or she is taken in by this establishment come out where a dozen people are learning the job as they go along and attempt to help them.

>> we do have a psychologist who comes from the capital, but she stays only two or three days, so it is not long. these social workers try to reestablish the parents-child relationship, which is often broken down. >> parents have difficiculty wih their children when they -- children. when they are not dririnking, ty spoil them toooo much and over protect them. as soon as they started drinking, they forget about them completely. it is the last rehearsal before they gogo live on statagn front of their parents. it is a chancece to give a memee to them in t the form of a a coconfession. >> [ [speaking otherer language]

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a few minutes before curtain up, the audience is made mostly of young people and their teachers. today, our show is a bibi different.t. we have decided to share the

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