but also from the french president mccraw who has criticized the cover up so it might be something like a gesture towards these critics to take some wind out of the sails of the critics to give a new figure. so this previously clearly under reported figure will not be used permanently against china but we cannot say really what the real extent is all the figures from china have to be treated with caution. bond and china correspondent is building out there to india now where 1300000000 people are halfway through a 6 week national lockdown the government insists that the restrictions are the key to breaking the chain of transmission boss the battle against the virus also has a dimension of religious prejudice to w. correspondent emissions as well as travel to the northern city of mirrors to find out why muslims there are being targeted for supposedly staging what some locals are calling corona jihad. 3 more weeks of lockdown businesses closed of restricted movement. but these men are fuming about something else abdul rashid a shopkeeper in the northern city of made it says islamophobia in

united states but also from several european leaders such as the french president among their own mccraw who have been using very bellicose language in dealing with the u.s. corona crisis time i think is observing that here in europe true there was a kind of nationalistic impulse when the crisis 1st started borders were closed several countries including germany blocked the export of essential medical goods to other countries this kind of thing was not according to my are something that promoted getting to grips with the crisis and he's now urging that these kind of impact this should be overcome in fact germany is at the moment treating several 100 patients a coronavirus patients from italy and from france and there is a long discussion and a very intense discussion going on about how the financial instruments should look like when they're trying to overcome the crisis in their true germany's role would have to be one of some other dirty. chancellor angela merkel has addressed the public several times on this topic and she's the one with the power to make decisions so why is president s

long time under trump so the whole notion of globalization is now being called into question i mean mccraw. being the latest example of someone who's calling the notion into question what does this mean politically for china especially for president xi jinping hold on power i mean he has been extending that power in fact so what happens now but i think domestically this is being portrayed as a success story that he's handled it well i mean we saw today that the figures would have been the death toll there has been increased shown to have been increased but i think that generally he's handling it he's perceived as handling it well domestically but if the economy continues to be weak if they kind. creation of jobs and if they have to incur more debt is going to put a lot of pressure on the economy so i think that it could it could cause problems down the road for xi jinping what does all this mean for the rest of the world do you think i mean how can the global economy recover when china is putting forward g.d.p. numbers like this well i think people are asking fundamental questions now but

but also from the french president mccraw who has criticized the cover up so it might be something like a gesture towards these critics to take some wind out of the sails of the critics to give a new figure. so this previously clearly under reported figure would not be used permanently against china but we cannot say really what the real extent is all the figures from china have to be treated with caution but here's billing there thank you. to brazil now where president jab also naro has fired his health minister of the country's response to the coronavirus also now who has come under fire for dismissing the disease as a little flu says that while life is priceless the economy needs to return to normality the country's so-called informal workers have seen their livelihoods destroyed by the pandemic. 31 year old ladies have been last used to work as in many carriers but today she's forced to live on handouts there's no work anymore. the mother of 7 and her husband live in a little house in the 2 on one of many poor neighborhoods in new york is on the arrow. and i have been without income

but also from the french president mccraw who has criticized the cover up so it might be something like a gesture towards these critics to take some wind out of the sails of the critics to give a new figure. so this previously clearly under reported figure would not be used permanently against china but we cannot say really what the real extent is all the figures from china have to be treated with caution. but yes but into some of the other stories making news around the world the u.n. secretary general antonio terraces urged creditors to grant that phrases for developing countries he told the virtual conference on africa hosted by the world bank and the international monetary fund but african maybe more than $200000000000.00 to respond to and to mitigate the coronavirus pandemic. boss is about to further about 3000 french workers from monday because of the collapse in at travel the aircraft maker will make use of a government scheme this allows employees to move 90 percent of their usual salary at the company's already announced plans to cut production by a 3rd. and us car maker ford i

long time under trump so the whole notion of globalization is now being called into question i mean mccraw. being the latest example of someone who's calling the notion into question what does this mean politically for china especially for president xi jinping hold on power i mean he has been extending that power in fact so what happens now but i think domestically this is being portrayed as a success story that he's handled it well i mean we saw today that the figures would have been the death toll there has been increased shown to have been increased but i think generally he's handling it he's perceived as handling it well domestically but if the economy continues to be weak if they can't. creation jobs and if they have to incur more dish it's going to put a lot of pressure on the economy so i think that it could it could cause problems down the road for xi jinping what does all this mean for the rest of the world do you think i mean how can the global economy recover when china is putting forward g.d.p. numbers like this well i think people are asking fundamental questions now but the e

morning another tough month ahead the by the looks of it another bleak assessment from president mccraw nya. yes that's right president mark on addressing the nation again the 4th time since this pandemic took hold in france and the announced citizens would have to face another 4 weeks of a lockdown over strict of measures that would be lifted he suggested quite strongly it would be made in may so may the 11th was the date that he kept indicating in his speech last night but that's not for everyone anyone with chronic illnesses or even the vulnerable he said will have to remain in self isolation for longer no end date was given for those category of people he also said that crosses borders with the normally e.u. countries would also remain closed for the foreseeable future the president said he knew it was a lot to arsk he said france was facing an invisible enemy. it doesn't commit the epidemic is still not under control we need to continue to make every effort to try and stem the spread of this virus because the more we do that the more we will be able to save lives this is why we mus

reported $574.00 further coronavirus linked deaths bringing the total to $14967.00 that was president mccraw addressing the country from the lease a palace the lockdown he said must continue until the 11th of may let's get some analysis from observers natasha butler who joins us live via skype from. in southern france france wasn't sufficiently ready for this crisis the president said but thanks to our efforts we are making progress in our battle against the coronavirus. yes the french president said we are making progress and the reason he says that is because over the last few days the number of people being admitted into intensive care into hospitals has a diminished reduced likely as has the number of deaths there manal micron has said look this is reason for hope but he said the crisis isn't over yet and that is why the french president has announced the france faces another 4 weeks of lockdowns another month of lockdown until may the 11th said. after that time he said perhaps we will look at opening up and perhaps loosening this lockdown he mentioned for example that some crushes might

from all over the world from every single continent you've got people light anglo merkel and emanuel mccraw the president of france and the chancellor of germany you've just heard the prime minister of italy i understand we're going to hear from the prime minister of spain i understand we're going to hear from the acting leader of the u.k. dominic robb the foreign secretary there during this event so by my count at least 4 members of the g 7 are going to speak at this but president trump and the u.s. his voice is completely absent now that is embarrassing potentially for the u.s. but it also makes fighting this difficult because they are trying to raise a huge amount of money they're talking about over 7000000000 euro as 7560000000 euros i think that works out of those over 8. $1000000000.00 that they need to raise for this fund the idea is to try and coordinate and push the search for a vaccine for tests and for treatments for covert 19 all those 3 different elements and to make sure that those are available around the world not just. to those that have the money and a prepared to pay for

members possibly not yet russia but we believe president putin is going to be speaking to president mccraw about that as i said it was a french draft and i spoke to the french ambassador to the united nations about it everybody know that there are different views on the pandemic i think we are doing really really good try to race now i really hope that reach out and be in a position to take action in it coming days in a secret to concede 15 men 1st to get there and make sure that we are greedy on this station of a student visa in it countries on the edge and other can see that and agree on other humanitarian truths to be able to fix it and in it you know all these countries. so a resolution potentially sami in a couple of days the french ambassador saying that another diplomat i spoke to said they thought that perhaps it wouldn't be until early next week but we could soon have a u.n. security council resolution asking for a cease fire for all the conflicts that are on the security council's agenda and that's the situation with jane space at the u.n. headquarters the virus appears to be spr