mary keeping us posted there from want to marry him thank you very much ok let's pivot now to martha herrera who is in madrid spain has reported another 809 deaths and 24 hour some are the 1st question is where do things stand with the state of emergency in spain. well a spanish prime minister better santa at the dress to nation to announce an excess of 15 days' extension of the state of emergency lockdown until they pulled 20 states he also reported to this won't be the deadline of the state of emergency that love down and it will be extended but they will study in which the terms will conditions these this 2nd extension would take place if it will be progress saved or who they will keep this stuff the measures he has a where the spaniards that we are facing 2 very tough tough weeks and he needs comprehension from from our side and he's also asking political parties from the opposition opposition political parties to work hand by hand he has also made a call to the european union force. to deal with the debt due to it huge economic impact this growing of a virus outbreak is causing to a spa

world into recession and she's calling on advanced economies to help developing ones let's go to martha herrera she's in madrid for us so martha let's start with the the number of cases where the number of deaths has gone down for new infections is going up is the situation getting better or not. what i mean nearly 125000 people infected from corona virus in spain with more than 7000 new positives in the past 24 hours that death toll is reaching about nearly 11000 people with $800.00 new deaths in the last 24 hours that this is the best figure since last week so these vision feet years indicate that there's a change in the trend as the health minister reported yesterday that we might be seeing this phase of have some records that were loose asian and also indicated that we might be reaching the peak of the curve the maximum of number of people infected from coronavirus in in spain this by the speaker health minister also slanted to recommend that widespread use of maps of maps against chrono virus prime minister better sanchez tell them. that meeting this morning with all the experts these desc

that it's recorded more than 800 deaths taking the total toll above 9000 well it's now speak to martha herrera who joins me live from madrid 5 days in a row with a health system that's already stretched well beyond its limit but what's the government saying now. well there's a press conference taking place there right now who will see their impressions or what they say watch us today spain has exceeded 100000 cases of coronavirus infections and 1000 deaths surpassing the 800 fatalities as you said as the few 1000000000 in a row reduced to its worst mark since the outbreak of the argument in spain but the only good news are that the number of infection to the crease and they may be reflecting that doesn't measures taken by that by the spanish government with a lockdown by the government as of the lockdown that the word of truth until april 11 so let's see what they say about this regarding. document leak from the hope the care system in the. they were giving. indications of there were directions to the health care workers at the lumia to how what practical to use when they receive patients in c

by corona virus with without him seem to ok with the latest there from spain at madrid marta herrera martha thank you very much iran is reporting another 151 deaths but also a decrease in new infections for the 5th day in a row or another positive development some iranians are being loud to go back to work next week same as robbie has more from tehran. we've heard from health officials over the last few days and weeks that things can go back to normal too soon but the president when he made this announcement president rouhani began by saying that all branches of government are onboard with the plan that they have moving forward so making it clear that the government is according to him speaking in one voice despite the warnings of normalizing too quickly from health experts saying that that could bring on a 2nd wave here president hassan rouhani did say that in terms of the details of what is considered low risk and high risk those announcements will be made over state t.v. in the coming hours but we can surmise that what they consider low risk is anything that doesn't compel too large of a

half 1000000 spaniards are unemployed the most in 3 years marta herrera joins me now live from madrid kentucky what's on the program martha depressing news on the jobs front in addition to the ongoing virus outbreak there seems to be no good news for spain right now. yes i'm here in spain sans coronavirus our break 100000 jobs have been lost within the 1st 2 weeks since the march 12th 2 years of job creation have been lost and there are now there are now 4500000 of unemployed for 1000000 unemployed these are the worst to go scenes to that and to the rich and the regions more affected in spain are on them feel. sorry for that apologies are not not at all martyrs ok we understand that your you know you have your reporting from your home and of course we have other bills on the program even if we can't see them please carry on yes we are confined to get those so this is what happened sorry for so the regions that have been more of the most affected in spain and then 3 are by lymph under under those worst worst affected or devastated are construction hotels and restaurants of course and it only war what europe's financial and

that have lost their jobs in spain the worst rate since 2002 marceau herrera there for us in the spanish capital thank you very much martha. well let's now get more on just how residents in spain are handling the outbreak we can speak to maga vacuous who is a professor of constitutional law at boston university but she joins us now from a city under one of the most restrictive lockdowns in spain thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us today i know the lockdown in your city has been described as a lockdown within a lockdown and you've been living inside it for 3 weeks now by my account can you describe for us what life is like there at the moment. yes we are a lockdown inside a lockdown saw the situation here is. strange because we cannot get out from our city little city hall either and it's not only that we cannot go to get out from our house but since before the lockdown that was passed all over spain. we were already locked down here in houla but at the beginning we could go out for a for a walk keeping the source feel distant we could call for a walk in the countryside because this is a small induced tear