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but i know that the people in afghanistan, the government of afghanistan, the government of afghanistan welcome that nato maintain its mission in afghanistan. we are there to help to fight international terrorism. we are there to send a clear message to the taliban that they will not win on the battlefield and we continue to be there so yes, we have adjusted the way we do ourjob but yes, we continue to be in afghanistan, help to fight international terrorism. do you agree with the analyst christopher scott luber who works at the atla nta christopher scott luber who works at the atlanta council, an expert in nato affairs, who says that after this is all over, there needs to be some really serious thinking about how in his words pandemics can within weeks degrade military operations and fragment unity among the closest of allies? do you agree with him? some serious thinking needs to be done about that. i think that after any crisis or every crisis we need to draw some lessons and adaptand crisis we need to draw some lessons and adapt and change the way that we do operations and our missio

we a are working verery hard him afghanistan -- in afghanistan, iran and 30 other countries to provide more handwashing facilities, wire -- m more water and sanitation and more space for the refugees so they can have s some physicalal distance. maybe we will also be able to put up quarantine tents and the like but it is a race against the clock, we are overwhelmed, we are overstretched. >> let's look at business news. the german government and its funding start up with a rescue package with 2 billion euros. the finance ministers has many innovative young companies are already struggling -- says many innovative young companies are already struggling with liquidity. the german sportswear giant has retracted its decision to delay paying rent on retail stores forced to close because of coronavirus. the company had come under fire for taking advantage off government s support schcheme. the government said that the help was not intended for large, profitable companies. it was bound to happen, filing for bankruptcy protection, making it the first sizable u.s. oil fracking company to be pulled

afghanistan is merely phase one of the war on terror. they developed this language on the war on terror, not quite quite defining what that is, and they call afghanistan phase one. by december, by december of 2001, they have the seeded defeated al-qaeda or dislodged it. the question starts to arise. okay, what is face to? there is a period i did look at this for a few weeks and sort of november, december of 2001, when they are thinking of ways to attack al-qaeda in indonesia, some al-qaeda in yemen. they do not quite work as a national campaign against al-qaeda. these are small units in countries of lesser importance. meanwhile, there is iraq that is still out there. the first sign you get of the administration, thinking about going to war in iraq is pushing the state of the union address in the beginning of 2002 when he talks about the axis of evil. the axis of evil is iraq, iran, and north korea. >> seven seconds of a statement of georges bush of that interview during his book tour. >> they are asking, that i make a mistake in the liberation of iraq? the answer is no i did not make a mistake in my judgment. >> comment? >> yes he made a huge mistake.

margin in favor of remaining in afghanistan is the model argument, we created this circumstance that exist now in afghanistan. both the hope for a better kind of afghanistan and afghanistan where individuals have rights and limited ways for re- purposes. i also think that we are responsible for encouraging wave after wave of afghans to come into the security forces, to try and create that. the best culpability for the 45000 bed afghan national security forces because we helped persuade them that this could be a different kind of place. it grieves me to think that we will and afghanistan back over to the harsh realities of taliban control so on the margin, i am in favor of continuing a strategy that i do believe will eventually be successful and that we haven't prosecuted anywhere near the kind of creativity or attention that we ought to be prosecuting our strategy with. >> 's deeply frustrating after so much time, we have not seen better results. after so many afghans and americans giving their lives and so many nato allies. more than 1000, europe wasn't attacked, we were. they invoked article five and they went and stood with us at our side, shoulder to

afghanistan is merely phase one of the war on terror. they develop this language about the war on terror, knowing -- no one can quite define what that is, and they call afghanistanhase one. by december, they have defeated al qaeda, or they dislodged it from kabul. the questions start to arise. ok, what is phase two? there is a period, and i did look at this, for a few weeks in november, december 2001, when they are thinking, should we attack? there is an al qaeda unit in indonesia. there is some al qaeda in yemen. they don't quite work as a national campaign against al qaeda. these are small units in countries of lesser importance. but meanwhile, there is iraq that is still out there. and the first sign you get of the administration thinking about going to war in iraq is in bush's state of the union agree -- address of the beginning of 2002 where he talks about the axis of evil. the axis of evil is iraq, iran, north korea. brian: let me run seven seconds of a statement of george w. bush's of that interview. >> they are asking did i make a mistake in the liberation of iraq? the answer is no i didn't make a mistake in my judgment. brian: comment? james: yes, he ma

afghanistan is merely phase one of the war on terror. so they developed this language about the war on terror. no one can quite define what that is. and they call afghanistan phase one. by december they'of 2001, they' defeated al qaeda or they've dislodged it from kabul, and the question starts to arise, okay, what's phase two? and there is a period, and i did look at this, for a few weeks in sort of november, december of 2001 when they're thinking should we attack -- there's an al qaeda unit in indonesia, there's some al qaeda in yemen. and they don't quite work as a national campaign against al qaeda. these are small units in countries of lesser importance. but meanwhile, there's iraq that's still out there. and the first sign you get of the administration thinking about going to war in iraq is in bush's state of the union address at the beginning of 2002 when he talks about the axis of evil, the axis of evil is iraq, iran and north korea. >> let me just run seven seconds of a statement of george w. bush at the interview during his book tour. >> they're asking did i make a mistake, for example, in the liberation of iraq. and the answer is no, i didn't ma

afghanistan is in wonder thoughts on them. afghanistan isina wonder thoughts on them. afghanistanns have done a deal with the tele— band that are going to draw back their troops and you and nato are supposed be drawing down your troop numbers as well to fully withdraw within 14 months, but we are very seen the peace deal is falling apart. there's been a fundamental disagreement over prisoner releases, both sides blaming the other in the american saying that they mightjust blaming the other in the american saying that they might just abandon the peace deal and polite unilaterally. which leaves you in nato and extraordinary difficult position. what are you going to do? it isa position. what are you going to do? it is a very difficult situation and it has been for a long time and that is also the reason why we have decided to reduce our military presence from 16,000 troops to 12,000 nato troops and we have also said that further reductions have been based on conditions and our presence will be reduced in afghanistan only if we see that the taliban delivers on their commitment and the

argument that is we've created the circumstances that exist now in afghanistan both with the hope for a better kind of afghanistan and in afghanistan where they have the rights for the agreed purposes. i also think that we are responsible for encouraging wave after wave to come into the security forces to try to create that. we bear culpability for the 45,000 dead afghan national security forces because we persuaded them that this could be a different kindhe of place. and it grieves me to think that we will hand afghanistan back over to the harsh reality of taliban control. continuing with will be successful and anywhere near the creativity we ought to be prosecuting the strategy with. >> it is frustrating that after so much time we have been seeing better results. it's more than we should remember. we invoked article number five they didn't go home to their husbands and wives. so, talk about the tangible value i think we need to remember that but it's frustrating we haven't seen more progress overen this time that e strategy i think that you begin with the objective to prevent another being launched in afghanistan and the burden o

afghanistan. the iraq and afghanistan itself may be responsible for the loss of $6 trillion from the us treasury.ited states and you are too in britain, in responding too in britain, in responding to this terrible crisis. melvin a goodman from the centre for international policy. thank you very much forjoining us here in bbc news. mexico seems to be faring better than its northern neighbour, the united states, when it comes to coronavirus cases. so far, only about 111,500 infections and 50 deaths have been reported there, compared to more than 230,000 in the us. but those numbers are on the rise, and there's been growing anger over the mexican government's handling of the crisis. the bbc‘s will grant has this report: a uniquely mexican way to tell people to wash their hands. amid accusations the message wasn't getting through, state police in quintana roo performed a mariachi song to remind the public to practise social distancing and self isolation. however, some say the response at the federal level has been less harmonious. the country's president andres manuel lopez 0brador has come in for wi

united states are supporting the mujahideen in afghanistan and gorbachev was giving a morale boost to jihadists by were drawing soviet troops from afghanistan china of course was backing pakistan and of course we all found out the official explanation from washington is azzam of bin laden was found and killed in pakistan what happened to a builder on the 24th of november one $1809.00 why was he killed who killed him so that day dollars arm was on his way to deliver the friday sermon in the. so called arab mosque in the shower and just as he was pulling. off the main street to park in front of the mosque a bomb went off under his car killing him and his 2 sons and it remains the biggest murder mystery in the history of islam is the pakistani authorities did an investigation but the findings were never published and there was no kind of clear candidate and the mystery remains unsolved to this day so i've called this incident to the john f. kennedy assassination of the islamist movement my prime suspect is the pakistani intelligence service i.s.i. . but i don't have solid evidence and i'm open to the possibility that it was someone else so we'

afghanistan. we are so consumed with the coronavirus for good reason, we forget about things like afghanistan. jane: right. we cannot forget about afghanistan,out this saying the bad guys are not waiting on coronavirus to launch attacks. a month ago or so, the administration announced a peace deal with the paladin, negotiated with them but not the government of afghanistan. that the deal is afghan government will let some of the prisoners go, and they will negotiate good faith with the government. problem, the government has two elected leaders at the moment, both claiming victory. so the government is not functioning. the same thing is going on in israel. i worry that there could be a taliban takeover of afghanistan. i worry more that the missile tests in north korea, the fact that the iranians are doing provocative actions against our vessels transiting the persian gulf, could lead to a miscalculation. betweenalk about iran, afghanistan and israel. i think they had gun boats buzzing u.s. navy vessels in the gulf. jane: it is not new behavior, but it just happened this week. fiveanian vessels buzzed of our ships, according to u.s. central

afghanistan that i wrote. that's not only, that doesn't only reflect the fact that afghanistan is more complicated than theentire world . but it's also goes right to ththe point because if you're only, if you're going to undertake to write the history of the world from the big bang to right now, clearly you're going to leave some stuff out. so what do you leave that and what you believe in? why do you take something else and why do you leave something in ? there has to be some principle of inclusion and exclusion. i'm going to suggest that for me the principle is your including everything that tells the story and you're going to leave out stuff that gets in the way of the story. the question is where do you find the through line for a story of human history? i'll leave the big bag alone because i'm thinking of humanity. so around the time that i first started seriously thinking of writing this book as as one knows if she's here i went back to afghanistan in 2011 and when i grew up, afghanistan was like a synonym for the word remote and i said you either said remote or afghanistan, they have the same meeting meeting but coming towards kabul, i said i'm not heading towards remote now. i landed in kabul, there's the wreck of former soviet tanks and big indications of the american president. there's cars everywhere and it feels kind of like paris and new york. just a different flavor, maybe grunge or it's one of those world cities and so then i thought okay. maybe remote isn't in kabul, you've got to leave the city to find what used to be here. so we got in the car and we drove i think it was about eight or 10 hours and we got to the central highlands of afghanistan. we got to the place where those buddhists used to be that the taliban bombed out of existence . there was nothing what's there now is some buddhist shaped holes in the mountain but there is a down there. there's a somewhat substantial town so my friend said no, we're not stop

afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet the remarkable pay risking their lives to help the decided in war to an afghanistan on al jazeera . for 30 years the red cross has provided a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet the remarkable pay risking their lives to help the decided in the war to an afghanistan on al-jazeera. i don't loans that will allow the s.b.a. to make $300000000000.00 disaster loans all 1st small businesses more relief could be on the way another multibillion dollar stimulus bill passes the u.s. senate. hello i'm daryn jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. we must 1st take care of the american worker take care of the american worker. donald trump stands by his plans to keep immigrants out of the u.s. to 60 days he says to protect american jobs. just days away from a surge in the number of infections.

afghanistan that i wrote. that doesn't only reflect the fact that afghanistan is more complicated than the entire world-- [laughter] >> it goes right to the point. if you're going to undertake to write the history of the world from the big bang to right now, clearly you're going to leave some stuff out so now, what do you leave out? and what do you leave in? and why do you take something out and why do you leave something in? there has to be some principle of inclusion and exclusion. and i'm going to suggest that for me the principle is that you're including everything that tells the story and you're going to leave out stuff that gets in the way of seeing the story. so the question is, where do you find the through line for a story of human history? i'll leave the big bang alone for right now, right now i really am thinking of humanity. and so, around the time that i first started seriously thinking of writing this book, as she knows if she's here, i went back to afghanistan in 2011, when i grew up afghanistan was like a synonym for the world remote. if you said remote and afghan had the same meaning. and kabul, i'm not headed to remote now, that's not happening now. i landed in kabul, there's the wrecks of former soviet tanks and then big indications of american presence, there's buildings, cars everywhere and it feels kind of like paris and new york, different flavor, maybe grungier, one of those cities. and maybe remote isn't in kabul. you've got to leave the city to fine what used to be here. so with some people, we got in a car and we drove, i think it was about eight or 10 hours and we got to the central highlands of afghans, where the buddhas used to be that the taliban bombed out of existence and you know, there was nothing. what's there now is some buddha shaped holes in the mountain. there's a town there, a somewhat substantial town. so my friend said, no, we're not stopping here, there's a place further down the valley, it's called the valley o

for first 10 years in afghanistan that is what we tried to project. but afghanistan most places where terror groups set up shot, they are bottom up societies, tribal, clan culture is the epicenter. if we try to undo that and minimalize that. the taliban, al qaeda, they can drive right through that and exploit all day long. we have to understand these places where the bad guys set up shot we are to be there for a long time, and work with locals who live there to help fight them. pete: what is be there mean? on a base near by to execute the raids like in al-baghdadi,? living in the villages? training the forces? you look at your experience of our tours what works? >> we need to educate ourselves more. i say we need to be start about being stupid, we need to realize, no matter your intentions if you are in a certain place for a language enough -- long enough time you are an invader. they will stop liking you. i walked down on a white carpet with mud on. there was mud on the carpet, i looked down, i said, no wonder they hate us. >> these guys that can do amazing surgical

afghanistan. we had in questions but why we were in afghanistan over these last 18-1/2 years, but the military and civilian leadership kept telling us we were making progress. we didn't see the progress necessarily but that was the perception that we were supposed to believe. it wasn't until december, just a couple of months ago, when the "washington post" revealed what is called the afghanistan papers, did we understand that we had been dereceived during the afghanistan war? that is to say, every single military leader and civilian leader believed that we were not making progress but not in one instance did anyone tell us we were not making progress. over those four wars, since 1950, to today, february 24th, 2020, the united states has lost 100,000 u.s. soldiers in those wars. where the -- undertaken in those four countries, and nobody really disagrees about this, but nobody really knows the exact number for sure the range of people killed is from about 3 million to 6 million people. but all of those maces, korea, vietnam, those are communist regimes, one is a nuclear weapons possessor at this opinion, and afghanistan, iraq, or more dangerous now than when the united states military invaded. we could say that the politicians are to blame and some people will say that. but in fact, in those four wars, congress met 37 different times in january, in its sessions, and provided u

afghanistan. but they are taking place. he has got a plan. it's got three elements. complete american troop withdrawal. cease-fire at warring parties in afghanistan coupled with negotiations between them about a future government. and security guarantees, in the case of afghanistan the security guarantee would be the taliban will not allow any terrorist to use afghanistan as a base for terrorist attacks on the united states. as someone who wrote a book about richard nixon's exit from vietnam, i have to tell you that all three elements were involved in nixon's exit strategy from vietnam and nixnixon's strategys designed to make it look like he had succeeded in getting peace with honor in vietnam but, in fact, all he was getting was what he called a decent interval, which was a period of a year or two between the day that the last american troops left and north vietnam finally took over south vietnam. so when nixon talked about withdrawing all the troops from vietnam, he timed it to his re-election campaign and made sure the troops stayed in just long enough to keep south vietnam from collapsing before election day which would have revealed the failure of his strategy but that almost all of them came home before election day so he could tell the public i am withdr

least a few steps, but there is a huge worry about in nightmare scenario in afghanistan as we deal with a peace process , afghanistanoming of the coronavirus. that sounds challenging. isabel, what is your story of the week other than the virus? the story of the week, i think, happened yesterday in hong kong with the arrest of a number of veteran civil liberties people, including the lawyer, martin lee, who actually helped to grant to the basic law at the time of the handover, and apple media's apple daily media tycoon. 17 very senior peaceful civil protesters or civil rights campaigners who have been arrested, this is a major escalation in hong kong, which followsjust a few days from the new leader, the new chinese representative in hong kong advocating a return of the security legislation, which kicked off the whole protests in hong kong over the last 12 months. so undercover of our inattention, china really has moved to dismantle the basic law and take out from the sea ina numberof basic law and take out from the sea in a number of people who are exempt fired, i guess, in a number of people who are exempt fired, i

afghanistan, iraq, kosovo, there are number of measures being taken so if there coming into afghanistan there is a 14 day quarantine. if there coming out of afghanistan there is a 14 day quarantine so they will not. back to where they will go. we are doing that at the military level. i also want to say we see the importance of the defense spending that has happened at nato in the last few years because we have so many assets that are helping in this humanitarian and health care crisis. vessel,the u.s. navy the comfort, which is now relieving a lot of what is going to happen in new york. we see it all over our european alliance as well. of whative us a sense that is. we know italy has been particularly hard-hit. what can nato do to help a country like italy or spain? we are anison: information gathering and coordinating effort so that italy is asking for supplies, certain supplies. turkey today deliver those supplies to italy as well as to spain. the united states is giving a spainamount to italy and and several of our other allies through our supreme allied commander at nato. we do have the capability to transport. , peoplethat in america do not have

the health systems in new york and london are what about in afghanistan and yemen which are barely functioning at the best of times? afghanistans 12 to 20 ventilators for the whole country. in yemen 80% of the population relies on assistance of some kind. that is higher than anywhere else. 10 yemenis already live a step away from famine. there is a crisis between the aid agencies and the who's the ieauthor-- the houthi authoritie there is only one nfirmed case of covid-19 in yemen, but if narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... language specialists teaching sp raymond james. the freeman foundation. by judy and peter blum kovler foundation; pursuing solutions for america's neglected needs. and by contributions to this pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. narrator: yo♪ reching pbs. mr. rogers: ♪ it's a beautiful girl: we are the curious.♪ ♪ woman 1: wow! man 1: the adventurous. n 2: oh! daniel tiger: grrr! woman 2: those venturing out for the first time. all: blast off! [rocket explosion] man 3: and those who have never lost our sense of wonder. man 4: whoa! man 5: are you seeing this?

when it comes to afghanistan in particular, we heard joe biden in the debate say the afghanistan is a paraphrase as a broken country can never be put together, we take issue with statements like that. i think it is too easy to dismiss the whole country like that, whether it is iran or iraq, similar statements were made at the time and it ties in with them how boys kill each other, it's a little bit of a copout, it's a way of saying we cannot do anything, we will not try. that is not to say we are calling for invasions to fix that but it's not the solution either, it is too easy to dismiss as people who cannot get their actno together, we are facing tremendous odds and some of those include the u.s. backing for dictators in egypt, and other countries of the region, dictators who use preconceived ideas about the region and how it is a backwards place the saints either mean the modernizing man in a suit or the fundamentalistt crazies. that is not the binary choice that is available inhe the regin and we need to haveio more faith in the region. >> we are pastor do in terms of a time to ha

when it comes to afghanistan in particular, we heard joe biden in the debate say afghanistan -- all paraphrase in the book, country can never be put together, we take issue with statements like that. i think it's too easy to dismiss a whole country like that whether it's iran or iraq, similar statements were made at the time and it ties in with the statement of always killed each other, it's been like that forever, it's a little bit of a compound, it's a way of saying we cannot do anything we will not try. that is not to say that we are calling for you as intervention or invasion to fix us, that's not the solution either. but it's too easy to dismiss as people who cannot get their act together, we are seeing tremendous odds and some of those include u.s. backing for dictator. in egypt, and other countries of the region. dictators who us preconceived is of the region. they safety their means, the modernizing man looked in a suit or the fundamentalist crazies. that is a not the minor choice that is available in the region. i think we need to have more faith in the region. >> were pastor do in te

afghanistan without the hassle of paperwork august on sending a gesture of goodwill methods through afghanistan. be free to go across also interestingly the foreign office that pakistan will also be now opening guard border for movement of trade to go to. truck on both side of the border from the 10th of april their driver and of course will be mandated to wear put protection equipment they were left drivers on the border the pakistani drivers went up to the border from where the driver is ready to take all that had also been agreed because of the desperate situation in afghanistan. although pakistan has allowed the of one student on home the afghans on the other hand have not been allowed to plug a tiny. dug in afghanistan to come back to iran and also throw that border because of the pandemic there and the real now be hoping that some sort of trade resume but it turned out to be understood that pakistan and home to the largest number of one refugee then you read in the words these are divided families tens of thousands of people travel both sides of the border to be able to keep in touch with each other one is on also need support and keeping the logistical supply lines open. for detentions who would come order to go to of one it's done. iraq's intelligence chief called to me is the latest to be asked to form a government after prime minister designate. withdrew his candidacy earlier he had been till april 15th to form a cabinet but was mounting opposition from some parties to his candidacy simona faulty and has more from baghdad. well most of them it was put

afghanistan. they are taking place. he has a plan. it has three elements the complete american withdrawal. a cease-fire between the warring parties in afghanistan, negotiations about a future government, and security guarantees and that the taliban will not allow any terrorist to use afghanistan as a base for terrorist attacks in the u.s.. as someone who wrote a book about richard nixon's exit from knit non, it was basically designed to make it look like he had succeeded, getting peace with honor in vietnam, but the fact was while he was getting was an interval, a period of a year or two between the day that the last american troops left and the day vietnam took over south vietnam. when nixon talked about withdrawing all of the troops from vietnam, he timed it to his reelection campaign to make sure that the troops stayed and just long enough to keep south vietnam from collapsing before the election day. almost all of them came home before election day, so he could tell the public, i am withdrawing and that would be credible. he got a security guarantee from the enemy in nixon's case it was the vietnam's agreement to withdraw from -- you can hear nixon on the tape saying it doesn't matter if you're getting the guarantee. they will never withdraw. nixon said will get it anyway

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afghanistan as part of an agreement between the armed group and the u.s. in total more than 300 detainees been let go the taliban has accused afghanistan's government of stalling the process last month afghan president bush of only had signed a decree to release 1500 taliban prisoners as a move to launch direct talks with the armed group to end the 18 year war a court in yemen run by hooty rebels has sentenced for journalists to death they were part of a group of 10 journalists who were accused of spying for the saudi u.a.e. coalition amnesty international says the men are being held on false charges it's calling for their immediate release in jerusalem worshipers are unable to gather for easter sunday and passover services or cultural sites have been closed regardless of their religious affiliation and the easter service has taken place behind closed doors at the church of the holy sepak or one of christianity's most sacred sites or a force it is live for us in occupied east jerusalem sir harry even for a place which is no stranger to trouble like jerusalem this is a particularly somber easter. that's right i mean and of course jerusalem is very much the focal point of easter around the world it is of course according to the christian tradition the place where christ was crucified died and was reborn on easter sunday so for this easter to be being played out in in quite such an odd ways is certainly very jarring we were at the church of those earlier on on sunday morning built on the site said to have been where christ died and the custodian of the key was their idea a role that his family has played for some 850 years he was there for the ceremonial opening of the the great doors to the church to allow in the mass in patriarch who is going to be carrying out that service and he said that really have been nothing like this since the 12th century when the church was closed during easter indeed for some 4 months because of a plague then the catholic patriarch he said that this was a time to reaffirm the message of life that easter brought with it even amidst all this death and amidst the people that were giving up their lives in the fight against the coronavirus and as you say the church service itself the easter sunday mass itself carried out behind closed doors without a congregation just by a handful of priests and streamed on their facebook page this is a hugely significant religious and spiritual day for christians also a very important economic day for locals what sort of impact is the shutdown having on lives there. that's right william tie easter week indeed and of course it coincides a series every year with the passover holiday the jewish festival of passover as world so there would be tens of thousands of people that would usually be here jews coming for passover and indeed tens of thousands of christian pilgrims coming to spend easter here that of course is just not happened and so the streets of the old city very much devoid of life if not entirely at least in comparison to how they would usually be schutz shops shut throughout the only ways of the old city and indeed the hotels that would usually be here open and full to the brim with christian pilgrims from around the world they just haven't had that business there i mean there is one hotel near here but just as a few dozen quarantine guests who are here coming back from abroad and have had to spend 14 days quarantine in total across the country and throughout the period of this lockdown it's estimated that that $1000000000.00 more than a $1000000000.00 is going to be lost in terms of tourism as a result of all of this all right thanks so much harry force that and many catholic churches in the philippines have celebrated mass via the internet in ma mass testing for corona virus has been carried out on people in the capital for the 1st time more than 4400 infections and 247 deaths been confirmed in manila general allen dogon says the philippines is had to rethink how to celebrate the christian holiday. churches of largely remain closed that's something that's really unimaginable for the philippines easter celebrations are usually one of the biggest upper christians here but you know starting last week palms sunday there have been smaller celebrations smaller parades by priests in different parts of the country but the you know the faithful catholics are not allowed to keep quiet and in largely the are just allowed to serve in the hierarchy of the catholic church year as basically instructed the catholics to stay at home and watch online masses but there have been exceptions it remains to be seen what will happen today but most likely what we'll be seeing basically are was the online masses and a few other concessions in the streets more than 30000000 people in brazil have signed up for emergency financial relief as long as down the street sins affect the economy the government is trying to streamline the payment process of the thousands lined up at tax offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups informal workers are entitled to claim $118.00 a month health authorities have appealed to the public to stay at home after large gatherings were halted in several big cities our latin america is alyssa newman reports on the impact across the region. body stickum posing on the streets or inside houses in ecuador is tropical severe blow. cemeteries in funeral parlors can't cope with the demand and the government can only offer a cardboard coffin the latest victims. it's already a catastrophe long before infections from cold 19 reach their peak. they don't hear him we're going to go wherever they wait for them to die before helping them and when their dad they hand them over to the family this is terrible. since march 1st the pandemic has been spreading rapidly throughout latin america and brazil the country with the most deaths so far drug lords are imposing quarantines in slums that's because the president is still refusing to take strong measures at the expense of the economy in mexico the government and the people appear dangerously nonchalant about social distancing and testing even as coronavirus cases continue rising by contrast in argentina chile peru colombia paraguayan and most of central america borders are closed and the army is on the streets to enforce partial or total quarantines to try to slow the curve of contagion improve for example men are allowed to leave the house to shop on alternate days and women on the other days to keep more people off the streets for the fight but where the notable about i think it's a good idea to be able to control the masses a little bit because of the type of contagion that we're facing. but it's not enough we don't. think this race is as they develop. number one in terms of health systems and in the system in systems. i mean i would say only 34 percent of the forest or access to ship protection there restore anything. latin america faces another tremendous handicap a very high population density in its major cities coupled with widespread poverty that fans the spread of disease. but the region faces an even bigger problem maintaining a problem quarantine for much longer and many of these cities will likely be impossible to enforce and for a very simple reason 58 percent of latin americans like these work in the informal sector and faced with the choice of staying at home to starve or defying a forty's they would rather come out here and take their. chances with the buyers. in many countries hospitals are already running out of surgical masks and ventilators at least 14000000 people are already out of work and with the peak of the tandy mia still some 3 weeks away that in america may well be facing unprecedented death and devastation. you see in human al-jazeera santiago. prisoners of varieties as a jail in southern bolivia saying conditions inside are ripe for the spread of the coronavirus inmates protested on the roof demanding masks and proper health care right police responded with tear gas the government has announced some inmates on minor charges will be released to reduce the threat of an outbreak in overcrowded prisons apple and google are teaming up to develop a way to alert people when they're too. well that's too close rather to someone who's infected they eventually hope to create apps that run on smartphones alexei o'brien reports. for many of us technology is a major part of staying in touch during lock down from online workouts to church services. and birthday parties. it's helping bring our communities together but take knology also has the potential to alert people when they've been close to anyone and fictive with the virus. google is teaming up with apple to develop apps to do just that it's a way collaboration between the american companies whose operating systems power 99 percent of the world's smartphones but some fear the technology could also lead to more unwanted scrutiny of our private lives and personal data google's business model is to track google's a surveillance capitalist google makes its billions by tracking every move you make on and off the web apple and google say pretty say transparency and consent at most importance in a safe it and they will openly publish information about their work for others to analyze governments worldwide are working out how technology can help us to identify sick people and stop the spread of the virus some countries including poland israel and singapore already use people's handsets to monitor their quarantine or send coronavirus alerts. south korea is joining hong kong and using electronic wristbands with some uses asked to send a photo of their home to prove their unself isolation that's aimed at getting the lockdowns and border restrictions lifted as soon as possible it's very new new technology it's very interesting but a lot of people worry about it in terms of the person's freedom we're going to take a look at that a very strong look at it we'll let you know pretty soon a crime in china where the outbreak. again last year mobile codes dictate where the people can leave the house and where they can go digital rights activists say such apps need to be designed so they can't be misused so to date often we're not china we never make you you know make you use this but what happens tomorrow when it's on every i.o.'s device and every adult device and we start using the lockdowns and we say to people you want to go back to work you can but here's the cab yacht you have to turn it on you have to opt into it you know but you get your choice you don't have to go to work but if you want to go to work you got a. scientist at mit take knology alone it won't be enough to eradicate the virus instead it will need people's commitment in real life brian al-jazeera. and let's have a look at some of the headlines here now just there are now more than 20000 americans have died after contracting the corona virus that means the u.s. now has the highest death toll in the world new york is the epicenter of the u.s. outbreak with more than 8600 deaths but the state government says the situation seems to be stabilizing because there have been fewer admissions to a tense of can you can see that the number is somewhat. stabilizing but it is stabilizing at and horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and paid. concern over a lack of medical equipment in the u.k. has prompted the government to respond how minister pretty protests will apologize to workers who felt they had been failings on deliveries of protective gear i'm sorry if people feel that they're happy failings i'll be very very clear about that but at the same time we are in an unfair in an unprecedented global health pandemic right now it is inevitable that the demand and the pressures on p.p. and the demand for p.p. are going to be exponential they're going to be incredibly high and of course we are trying to address that as a government and i think that is right that is our priority and easter sunday service is taking place behind closed doors at the church of the holy sepak in occupied east jerusalem it's one of christianity's most sacred sites and in other news a 3rd group of taliban prisoners has been released by afghanistan as part of an agreement between the armed group and the u.s. more than $300.00 detainees have been released the taliban has accused afghanistan's government of stalling the process last month afghan president us of danny signed a decree to release 1500 taliban prisoners and to help start direct talks to when the 18 year war it's inside story in our stay with us on al-jazeera on counting the cost from a health emergency to economic disaster the world be heading for another financial crisis hundreds workers lose their jobs at a faster pace in the great depression what can the governments do to help them and who is falling through the cracks. counting the cost and how does it. who will pay for the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic governments around the world pledged trillions of dollars to try and keep their economies afloat will a massive bailout to stop another global financial crisis this is inside story. hello welcome to the program i'm bernard smith most economists agre

afghanistan, and i have seen business as a complete waste of american lives. [inaudible]. iraq and afghanistan, we know there will be a vacuum. isis and al qaeda, in the middle east. how do we get out of those words. and with this energy and resources at home. k.t. mcfarland: i think foreign affairs are like life for child rearing. you have priorities. to me the big priority now is china. and while isis is a problem and while all of these other things, they are problems. but you don't want to lose track of the real problem. i think he was really great and understanding, what is the real game here. if the soviet union and the united states this nuclear weapons. let's not get sidetracked with all of this other step that might prevent you from telling with a major issue of the time. when truck is allowed the energy industry in the united states and we had gone in three or four years, the energy importers over to exporters. within a short period of time, we can replace some of the world's major source of energy. so with we could get off of their energy, we didn't have to get sucked into their psychodrama's that they been fighting each other for thousands of years. techno- tribal warfare is pretty we don't log in the middle of that. in fact we can probably replace oil. so think that to me, is one of the important things, all of the other stuff you mentioned, it's important. if it distracts you which is dealing with asian china in the five g global technologies of the future, then you should have a very different approach pretty so yeah it was critical of not going into afghanistan we should have killed the people who came after us. we should not have stayed around to rebuild afghanistan and we sure shouldn't have stayed around to try to rebuild that country that does not want to be rebuilt. danielle: talk about the idea that the nation could've overnight looks like 20 years what is missing is the buildup of the civil society and the institutions. you can't just make a democracy created in a government and educational institution. it really has to come from countries and talked about in patients being the right thing but sustained into the wrong things. i'm interested in the united states. i appreciated that your candor, and from the presence tweeting for example printed up interested in your thoughts on the importance of institutions in this country is the backbone of democracy rated the administrative state which i know you're not a big fan of braided but then on the other hand perhaps where for example in the tax judges sort of needling a little bit of some w

cross has provided a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet through remarkable people risking their lives to help the disabled in war torn afghanistan on al-jazeera throughout history humankind has come together to prevail in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the opposite. saving humankind by really really not getting new every generation has its moment where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after this war. european countries west affected by the coronavirus record their lowest daily death toll in over a month. and children are allowed out to play in spain for the 1st time in 6 weeks as restrictions on. how can i missed us here today on this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up less trump on t.v. screens the u.s. president appears to be charting a new political strategy of the us.

afghanistan. it was astonishing and one of the surest ways to get in a gunfight in afghanistan was to go out in the unit doing counter narcotics work. this was not ideological but practical because if you go try to burn a poppy field was to essentially impact a hillbilly economy with top cover. the american military realized this pretty quickly at the operational level down in the field commanders and they stopped doing it and they tolerated it although there still was officially an effort to reduce the amount of opium poppy production but at the most practical units knew better than to try. they do not want to lose a lot of people and there was a doctrinal contradiction in that counterinsurgency you are supposed to get along with a local publishing but if you're attacking the local populations wartime economy which is often opium based because opium, unlike tomatoes or melons, is an enduring product that you can hold onto until the road is open and it's not perishable and naturally in a war comment opium was being grown very heavily in areas that could grow opium because of climate and water acces

cross has provided a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet through remarkable people risking their lives to help the decided in war torn afghanistan on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. every. a history of guerrilla warfare a place on the global stage. name for an organization created for stateless population. before fighting for their land why did the pillow fight for independence from their arab neighbors. chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. seen as a burden countless babies are aborted in india simply for being girls. but amidst this resistance even from her own patients feel this midwife has adopted the cause of challenging deeply ingrained traditions and terminating this modern day to decide the daughter to a witness on al-jazeera. the hidden death toll from corona virus investigations are underway into care homes in the us canada and it's in the way it's believed thousands have died from the disease. so this is al jazeera live from doha. also coming up playing politics over the pandemic donald trump encourages protests against restorations in states led by

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afghanistan without that has sort of paperwork august on sending a gesture of goodwill methods through afghanistan. before you go across also interestingly the foreign office that pakistan really also be now opening guard border for movement of trade to go to. truck on both side of the border from the 10th of april their driver and of course will be mandated to wear put protection equipment they will have to change drivers on the border the pakistani drivers went up to the border from where the driver is ready to take all that had also been agreed because of the desperate situation in afghanistan. although if i get on to the lard the oven student done home the ovens on the other hand have not allowed to plug a tiny. dog and i've run it on to come back to iran and also throw that border because of the pandemic there and the other ones really now be hoping that some sort of trader do me but it turned out to be understood that pakistan at home to the largest number of one refugee day anywhere in the world did their whited family tens of thousands of people travel aboard side of the border to be able to keep in touch with. one if done all carnage by get on board and keeping the logistical supply lines open so white at heart if that jennifer ford come order to go to of an effect on statewide orders to stay at home and throughout the us are seen as pivotal in covering the spread of the virus but florida has now has more than 15000 cases has been criticized for not implementing those measures sooner and gallacher reports on the crucial decision governors face. bracing for impact in a