pacific island nations have been struggling to prepare for more coronavirus cases while dealing with the effects of a powerful storm cycle in harold tore through several islands destroying homes in the 10s of thousands without power large numbers of people are being forced into evacuation centers at a time when governments are trying to keep people apart and many of the countries already have front child health care systems in the midst of the storm fiji's prime minister tried to reassure residents that evacuation centers wouldn't put them would risk of catching covered 19 all regions would stay indoors and this that it did very well for the. workers in central south sea. workers in centers are 7 and one that you enjoy. doing are so biased your pacific. goes under water in the 3rd before the weather is. not mixed with others. singapore has banned teachers using the video conferencing platform zoom to hold lessons remotely the government says it's in response to very serious incidents one of those according to local media involves strange men making lewd comments during a lesson with t

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pacific island nations have been struggling to prepare for more coronavirus cases while dealing with the effects of a powerful storm cycle and harold tore through a number of violence destroying homes and leaving tens of thousands without power thousands were then forced into evacuation centers at a time of course when governments are trying to keep people apart many of the countries already have fragile healthcare systems in the midst of the storm fiji's prime minister tried to reassure residents that the evacuation centers wouldn't put them at risk of catching covert 90. all regions would stay indoors unless that acted. well thought of the. workers and centers are safe. workers and samples are cemeteries and one that you enjoy. doing locked up less capacity. goes under quarantine you look for before the letters do not mix with others. well look at a bit of tech now 2 big companies say they're going to team up to develop some technology that will alert people when they're close to someone who is infected with corona virus the idea is to help governments roll out apps to run on peopl

when i was a student in a south pacific island. i had a question about the study of the genealogy of these diseases and i was curious. using the human genome from the deep past where there is evidence of stuff that killed a lot of people may be caused a bottleneck in the human population but is now totally harmless because all the survivors of reproduced down the generations and that is all that is left. looking back in time for old pandemics and to trace the disease that way. >> haven't seen much on that. one of the things that is very interesting to me is tracing in the human genome something they call endogenous retroviruses. hiv is a particular kind of are in a virus. they inserted themselves permanently into the human genome and we don't know exactly, in some cases they have functions or what used to be called junk dna but there are records in the human genome of past infections and they can be recognized as belonging to this virus family or that virus family so that is one thing that is there. in terms of the darwinian relati

pacific region, providing more than $32 million in funding to support the covid-19 response in the pacific island countries. we are working with the burmese government, united nations and others to prevent the spread of covid in burma. and we are working with our friends in australia, india, japan, the republic of korea and vietnam to share information and best practices as we move the global economy forward. the conversations include supply chains, keeping them running, getting economies back to full strength and thinking about how we restructure the supply chains to prevent something like this from ever happening again. one example of our work together is with india, we have moved export bands, including on pharmaceuticals used to treat covid-19 patients. a few days ago i spoke with david beasley, at the world food bank, who is the executive director there. he reminded me the american people into their generosity supply 42% of the world's food resources, which feed nearly one million people around the world. we continue to meet the world's food needs as the outbreak disrupts supply chains. one

announced some people on lower level charges will be released to reduce the risk of an outbreak and pacific island nations have been struggling to prepare for more coronavirus cases while dealing with the effects of a powerful storm cycle and how old tore through a number of islands destroying homes and leaving tens of thousands of people without power were forced into evacuation centers as well at a time when governments are of course trying to keep people apart and you're up to date with the headlines this hour on al-jazeera people in power is next. talked to al jazeera we asked what will force work when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you'll hear peons go build united states of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. greece is a proud reputation as the birthplace of democracy of government by the people for the people but the ethnic turkish minority of trace in the country's northeast who say they've suffered decades of discrimination from the state that's not have it seen tod

many shocks of the economies, people in these sectors, people in cambodia, the pacific islands dependn tourism for their livelihood, people in cambodia, vietnam which are deeply integrated into global value chains will suffer both. demand contracts, suppliers are disrupted. most vulnerable are the people in the informal sectors. >> another asian country with a huge number of informalay laborers is india. millions of migrant workers there are fleeing major cities, trekkingome to rural areas, after the government imposed a strict lockdown with just four hours notice. >> people at a religious gathering in delhi beid evacuated aning sent to isolation centers. doesn't to attend the tested positive for coronavirus, and some have died. the congregation from different countries was held before india's shotgun was order. at days after, a large number of people remainthe mosque. many are now showing symptoms of the disease. india is grappling with the spread of corona. but there is also anger about its treatment of its work. a group of people were sprayed with chemicals in what appears to have

a senior official says the navy is arranging hotel rooms on the pacific island for many of the 4000 plusrew. they are advising a skeleton team o uninfected sailors to keep the ship operational's. dozens on board the theater roosevelt have testedositive. the captain wrote the pentagon earlier this week, calling for are n help, saying we at war and sailors do not need to die, decisive action is needed. he said that the navy says it was dippointed that the letter was leaked and admitted that there may have been a communications breakdown with the casoier. we have heard a stay-at-home orders due to ta effect in florida tomorrow night. at 21 million residents othis southern u.s. state will only be allowed outside to obtain or providesstial services or nduct essential activities. florida has reported some 7000 coronavirus cases and at least 85 deaths. also today, the dow jones in -- and london ftse 100 has seen t biggest quartly drop since 1980 seven manufacturing activity in japan and germany has slowed dramatically. there are fears that this global downtu could be far more punishing andong-l

be it further resolved they affirm support for pacific islander studies, west asian studies and their continued inclusion in the esmc. >> supportive of multiple users. >> public comment. i. >> i want to thank you for this important resolution. i am excited to see this moving forward. >> in the district that came about due to a protest, it is in san francisco that was orchestrated by the "black panthers" disability rights advocates. butterfly coalition through many cities. this intersection. >> we would love to see this amended to be more inclusive but appreciate this moving forward. thank you. >> thank you. >> all right. we have two more actually. >> thank you. >> i want to commend the district for the resolution. >> i am really, really happy about this resolution. i really appreciate that it specifically articulates that there will be firm support for some areas of study that are controversial at the state level, and that the state has been considering leaving out arabs and asian-american and central american. i want to really appreciate and echo julia about our disability community

found the virus was mainly concentrated on the floors some medical staff picked up on their shoes pacific island nations have been struggling to prepare for more coronavirus cases while dealing with the effects of a powerful storm site from harold tore through a number of islands destroying homes and leaving tens of thousands without power thousands have been forced into evacuation centers at a time when governments are trying to keep people apart and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera off to talk to all of his era. as the sun goes down. even. for the. shock. to the street. with the devastating. for machine guns. rifles. to the teeth despite strict gun control. gang members smuggle weapons across the border from the united states. to trace to the u.s. . government. to stop weapons flow. of. because of the country's highest murder rate. one of them. but how. and dealing with those weapons once they're in the country. and the wife of a victim of gun crime to try to get some answers. this in law which was led by chapo guzman before his capture an extradition to the us rem

a pacific island nations have been struggling to prepare for more coronavirus cases while dealing with the effects of a powerful storm a category 4 and harold tore through a number of islands destroying homes and leaving tens of thousands without power thousands were forced into an evacuation centers at a time when governments are trying to keep people apart and many of the countries already have fragile healthcare systems well in the midst of the storm fiji's prime minister tried to reassure residents that evacuation centers would not put them at risk of catching covert 19. all regions should stay indoors and there's that acted. well thought of the. workers incentives are safe. because incentives are said the time and money that ritual. do not suck my skin my city. goes under what i didn't look for to put on the writers did not mix with others. well let's take this on i'm pleased to say we have patricia scotland who secretary general of the commonwealth of nations which includes most of the pacific island nations and joins us from london skype sector general appreciate having you here

stuck at sea after the outbreak on board their warship is causing a headache too for the tiny pacific island now expected to help isolate what are thousands of troops among the stories coming up when. is your media a reflection of reality. in a world transformed. what will make you feel safe. isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being so. direct. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or inmate in the shallows. in london julian assange standing trial on whether he will be extradited to the u.s. to face espionage charges the stakes could not be higher i saw inches live even life is on the line freedom of speech is also on trial though you wouldn't know that stream media. the pentagon is trying to source 100000 body bags right now the united states currently has the world's highest number of infections and white house officials say the virus could play more than 2 100000 lives in the country more than a 1000 died on wednesday alone the highest daily number so far the situation's getting so tough in new york that re

more than half of the crew have not been tested on friday he began to disembark all in the tiny pacific island of guam where their ship docked but only $1500.00 have come ashore on remain isolated in tells their former pentagon michael maloof told us about the unique dangers posed when there's an ice break on a military vessel. it's very very difficult on a warship like that unlike a cruise a cruise ship which also was infected on an aircraft carrier a destroyer or submarine you don't have the luxury of individual compartments except maybe for the tap them because they do what they because they're on 247 duty they do what they call hot other words that someone who's on duty gives up his bed and someone else sleeps in it i mean is that closely complied and as a consequence the ability to spread the disease such as this particularly if you're in the open ocean is very very very high and people are going up and down the ladders holding the same areas constantly and to keep those areas germ free is it's going to be a much would be a monumental task. to another story we're closely following today t

soil is stuck at sea after an outbreak on board the warship is causing a headache for the tiny pacific island that's now expected to help isolate one of thousands of crude smuggle stories to come. join me every 1st day on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to get off of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see that. again the pentagon is trying to source 100000 body bags right now the united states currently has the world's highest number of infections and white house officials say the virus could play more than 2 100000 lives in the country more than a 1000 died on wednesday alone the highest daily number so far the situation's going so tough in new york that refrigerated trucks of being stationed there overwhelmed hospitals to try to cope with the rising amount of deaths as america's try to teach of its reports next. as the 2nd month of the corona virus outbreak begins the nation is bracing for the worst of it i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead this disturbing video showing several bodies being moved from a brooklyn hospital

but showing that african-americans disproportionately affected also some data with regards to pacific islanders. so given the numbers are starting to reflect the national trend, what is being done to address the disparities within those groups? additionally with regard to testing, i heard what you said about just working to expand testing across california but you want to dress scenarios just between bies. >> there are racial and ethnic disparities, but there are also geographic disparities that must be addressed as it relates to the needs of rural communities and as it relates to the needs across parts of the state, even within urban at underserved. and so the purpose of this task force is to define those areas. in fact, today they provided me a heat map with every one of these areas where what i would refer to is a testing desert in this state. and then strategies around that to s those ises. is it 30-minute coe, it60-mite how can eak this arin wednesday new announcements specifically targeted at our diverse communities from a socioeconomic and geographic lens on how 'r

the remote south pacific island of vanuatu is one ofjust a few places on earth still untouched by covidk. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. before we go, let's show you these remarkable images, which havejust been released, to mark the 30th anniversary of the hubble space telescope. the nickname for this apparently is the cosmic reef, because it looks so much like an undersea world. it is, in fact, a vast satellite galaxy more than 160,000 light years from earth — just off the milky way. what it shows is how new stars are formed. absolutely gorgeous. that's it for me. thanks so much for your company. bye— bye. hello. it was another beautiful sunny day across the uk — temperatures in the high teens, low 20s in a few spots, and as far as this weekend's concerned, more fine weather, very tempting weather, but a reminder, please observe the current rules. anyway, this is the satellite picture. you can see how the skies cleared across the uk today. a little bit more hazy out towards the west here, but on the whole, fine, settled weather, and the same will continue through the rest of the evening and

the only other countries that have claimed the cases-- no cases, are either pacific island countries or countries that have a very poor record when it comes to providing pper information. and so, i think we do have to question whether this information ireaccurate. >>ivasan: let's talk a little bit about the rumors from earlier is week, because that's all they are-- it's very hard to get any fact verified from north korea-- but how is kijong-un's health? >> it was such a frenzy of speculation this week, a, at this point, we still don't know. the state of the leader's health is something that is a closel guarded secret. and certaiy, if he is as ill as they say, that would be something that they would keep a closhold on. and i don'think that we will know for quite some time, if ever. you know, this brings me back to 2008 when kim jong-il, his father had suffered a stroke and was in a coma.oo itseveral weeks before the world found out that he was ill and in aat coma. and was simply because he didn't turn up at a major military d parade. , it's a country that has such a good hold on the f

of code 19 complications another 584 crew members from the same vessel which is docked off the pacific island of guam have tested positive for corona virus here's our teams kill up and. the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt's a u.s. navy vessel is once again making headlines around the world it appears that a sailor from the crew of that vessel has died from coronavirus now you'll recall that the ship made headlines at 1st when a memo was 'd sent out by the captain of the ship describing a dire situation on board take a listen we are not had war sailors do not need to die if we do not act now we're failing to properly take care of our most trusted asset our sailors keeping overthe $4000.00 young men and women on board the t.r. is an unnecessary risk and breaks faith with those sailors intrusted to our care now after that memo was sent out the captain of the ship was fired however his crew described him as a hero and applauded him take a listen to that. and now the case has become almost symbolic of widespread accusations and allegations of mismanagement of the coronavirus situation by the u.s. govern

this remote south pacific island is one ofjust a few places on earth still untouched by covid—19.ugh crime is down in america at this time of crisis — gun sales are up, as americans worry abour personal safety. the bbc‘s jane o‘brien has more. first—time buyers lining up outside a store near san francisco. it‘s a scene replicated across the country as americans stock up on what some consider essential items. we want to feel safer. the mentality of some people, theyjust, they get crazy and desperate, and you never know what‘s going to happen. but as cities remain in lockdown, there‘s been a sharp decline in reported crimes. from chicago to la and in new york, the epicentre of the virus, serious crime has seen a double—digit drop. but 20% of new york‘s police force is also sick — an example of why americans who‘ve never owned a gun now feel they need one. you have a lot of police officers and first responders right now that are ill and are not out on the streets being able to help people protect themselves. so, you look at the violent crime going up, you look at first responders not

the virus was mainly concentrated on the floors some medical staff picked it up on their shoes pacific island nations have been struggling to prepare for more coronavirus cases while dealing with the effects of a powerful storm like phone harald's tore through a number of islands destroying homes and leaving tens of thousands without power thousands have been forced into evacuation centers at a time when governments are trying to keep people apart and those are the headlines the news continues here in all of his era off to talk to or to sierra compain. as the sun goes down. for. a. short.

captain crozier headed for the us naval base on the pacific island to guam, to offload the sick, andperiors calling for, in his words, "decisive action" to protect the rest of the crew. but he copied the e—mail to at least 20 other people. that is just not acceptable. he did not take care and what that did is it create a panic on — a little bit of a panic on the ship because the ship was not prepared, the chief petty officers were not prepared to answer questions from the crew, in terms of how bad the situation was. it misrepresented the facts of what was going on on the ship as well and, at the same time, the families here in the united states were panicked about the reality. the revelations about conditions on board prompted plenty of criticism of the pentagon and of the trump administration. supporters of captain crozier have taken to social media to applaud his concern for his crew, but it looks as though his naval career is over. meanwhile, his former ship remains docked in guam, meanwhile, his former ship remains docked at guam, with many of the crew in isolation. so far, says

you should know that we have joined forces with the hispanic caucus, the asian-pacific islander caucusnd the native american women's in congress and we are essentially working with a group of researchers that are going to do a short-term and long-term needs assessment process, because as you identify our community still hasn't recovered from 2008, so we need to address at the current crisis, but we also need data moving forward so we can figure out the best way to address our community. supportoes the cdc eviction moratoriums? rep. bass: all of the above. we can go on and on. we should address education, the fact that kids will be out of school for an entire year. placese is a number of where you can predict we will fall back because of the crisis. and where i live in los angeles county, 56,000 people in a night are homeless, so you can imagine what this problem -- how this will exacerbate that. laura: thank you. werelackstock, there questions from our audience about whether or not these disparities we are seeing are a reflection of the disproportionate prevalence of underlying health

we have been launching successful webinars focused on our african-american asian-pacific islander, and latino community and also by focus areas working with our faith-based communities, lgbtq communities, and working with education and doing some work around geography. organizing a community care event, as i mentioned earlier, where we are working with the police department, the faith-based groups and our local community stakeholders to make sure folks are aware of the new rules around face coverings and to make sure they have what they need to follow that order. we have been working with black-led media outlets and developing a communications strategy to e-mail, text, and post on social media, targeting our most vulnerable population. again, in partnership with communities that already have those relationships. people who are already posting on social media maybe their friends and their family would be more inclined to work with them and listen to them than they would be to sfpd. we have been able to build and develop our relationships. centering strategic partnership. we have develop

important point raised by the agriculture industry edges dependent on seasonal workers, many from the pacific islands and do the fruit and vegetable picking. from the industry, the seasonal workers are able to extend their visas up to 12 months so there is an exception, the strict travel restrictions in place in australia. it would have been very bad for farmers have the produce not been able to be picked but it would have been bad for australia's food supply as well. those people can extend their visas, but they will have to observe the 14 day isolation to move around. shery: let's get a quick check of the latest business flash headlines. oil slumped after opec and allies delayed emergency talks on the oil price thursday. saudi arabia and russia continue to trade barbs. a conference call is set for april 9. riyadh and moscow what the other one to accept blame for the situation. the kingdom set president putin -- said president putin is blaming it but it is devoid of truth. credit suisse has pulled out of the plant ipo blue dr. in hong kong. this was alongside cmb international. a share sale is expec

and less than 1% is native hawaiian or other pacific islander. 47% are now reporting as having underlying conditions. >> as it relates to matt platkin, and i know matt who's obviously not here, matt would want me to say that on a day that we announced 198 deaths and there are 1700 folks who have lost their lives, he appreciates everyone reaching out to him, but he's doing fine. matt, as i understand it, i don't want to get this as a personal situation for him, but as i understand it, he came in contact with a number of people who it turned out had tested positive. even though he didn't have symptoms, he felt it was the right thing to do. now, why does he get a free pass to do that? because literally every single executive order that i've written since i've been governor and certainly this period had had been written by peramo, matt, and their colleagues. we need this guy. i've been on the phone with him on four different calls this morning. he was never in this room with any knowledge that he may have. so the minute he took the test or suspected he had been around people, again he was not

in that same group, about 11% were white, 3% asian or pacific islander and 3% hispanic.o significant difference among the patients when it came to meeting ventilation or dying in the hospital. the researchers say that these hospitalization rates suggest a difference in how severe the pandemic is for different populations. >>> i'm amarah walker in atlanta. the university of georgia, alabama, texas tech university and the university of north carolina systems have announced plans to reopen their campuses for in-person teaching by this fall. now, the reopening is that the unc systems say they may look different with some opting to shorten the academic year or reducing class sizes. texas tech's president says he will be implementing a phased reopening and the university of georgia and the university of alabama say that they have created working groups or a task force to ensure a safe transition. >>> i'm omar jimenez in green bay, wisconsin where multiple meat packing facilities are seeing coronavirus outbreaks among employees. countrywide, more than 20 facilities have had to

data with regards to pacific islanders. and so given that the numbers starting to reflect the national trends, what specifically is being done to the disparities within those groups? dditionally, with regards to testing, i heard what you said testing ing to expand across california. can you address disparities etween different municipalities? for example, it's much easier to -- a fy to get a test to get test in los angeles than sacramento. the symptoms and pre-existing conditions are still being denied because they don't meet the criteria? working newsom: we are to aggressively work to address the disparities. it's one of the principles, core principles of the task force is to focus on disparities, disparities as they manifest in forms.nt let me be specific about what i mean. here are racial and ethnic disparities, socioeconomic eographics but also agree disparities as it relates to rural communities and as it relates to across parts of the even in urban centers which are historically underserved. so the purpose of this tas

to coronavirus for our communities of concern including latinx, black african-american, asian-pacific islander and lgbtqi communities. we will continue to listen to community partners, improve our response and continue to use data to guide decisions. we, i, am committed to the health and wellbeing of san franciscos and doing everything we can to support health and full recovery for all communities in our city during and after this pandemic. now i would like to provide a brief update on the outbreak at laguna honda hospital and the steps we are taking to protect the health of residents and staff. we have 17 confirmed cases of coronavirus at honda hospital, 13 of the confirmed cases are among staff and four are among residents. of the staff, ten have been in patient care positions and three have not. all four positive resident cases are in the south five neighborhood. testing of that neighborhood is currently complete. we have also completed testing for south residents, and i'm happy to say at this time we have not detected an additional case. overall, to date, 301 honda hospital staff have been

more than 100 hate incidents a day have been reported into the stop asian pacific islander hate online >> we are only sharing about the tip of the iceberg about what's happening just over this past weekend in san francisco there were a number of chinese restaurants vandalized. i read reports all over the country of these events continuing. >> reporter: the african-american community is experiencing discrimination for other reasons. covid-19 already affecting a large number of blacks due to inequities in health care. community leaders say it's also a lack of education on how to stay safe. >> we're getting it, but getting it very slowly. i'm talking to'm, saying why are you out here on the street? they are not getting that information. >> reporter: on a day when the trump administration is calling to lower migrant lower wages to assist farmers, latino leaders are high lighting the discrimination towards the people on the very front lines. >> in many cases they won't be included in relief. >> reporter: while the issues are different, across the board there is a common theme -- the need to