rory cellan—jones, thank you very much indeed.s concern about people ignoring the call to stay at home. in wales, some popularfootpaths have already been closed, to try to deter visitors. 0ur correspondent hywel griffith is in the vale of glamorgan for us. yes, normally, for many, this would be the start of the easter holidays, the start of the tourist season. usually that is when people want to get out and explore some of this glorious countryside. this year, thatis glorious countryside. this year, that is absolutely not the message — stay at home, stay safe to protect others. but there is some concern among key workers in the countryside. the farm behind me has a footpath going directly through it, the farmer is very worried, what happens if someone comes onto her land carrying the infection with them? what land carrying the infection with them ? what if land carrying the infection with them? what if some of the key workers get infected and they can't milk the cows? the food chain is under threat. 0ne farmers union in wales is c

let's bring in rory chan's now he joins us live from london so any word on how he's doing in intensive care and why he might come out. since i sent that report in late last night it does not seem that it's boris johnson's condition has deteriorated significantly any further michael gove the cabinet secretary has been speaking to the british media this morning on the dating us on on what's happened overnight he says that the prime minister has received oxygen support bots that he hasn't been put on a ventilator or or intubated and that as far as he knows or a strengths and has not had any new motion the diagnosis it's being reported in the british media the assumption got about 4 liters of oxygen. the usual threshold for covert 19 patients in i.c.u. intensive care units in the u.k. is about 50 liters so that puts him perhaps. certainly in the in the better health part of the intensive care spectrum for over 19 patients even though dissolves see a very serious situation that the prime minister is in it's a it's a big shock i think for his friends and family a big shock for the country an

rory chalons is in london for us rory let's just talk about this expansion of the testing towards key workers that really is quite significant isn't it. yeah this is the u.k. government's really trying to meet its targets the end of the month for $100000.00 tests being done every single day it's no way near that at the moment it says at the moment it has the capacity to do 51000 give or take but the actual number of tests being done not just capacity but she being done seems to be about 25 thousands of the at the moment so it's got some way to go. it's expanded the number of people who are eligible for tests as previously it was mostly n.h.s. star health care workers but also care workers to look after old people in retirement homes and that sort of that sort of thing now policemen careers supermarkets work teaches anyone who's considered an essential worker can come down to one of these drive in sites and get themselves swapped in their results sent off to a lab or they can apply for a home testing kits but this whole system has reached a very early fumble in the websites had basical

let me go back to rory. wouldn't you ? why for next year would be cheaper, wouldn't you? why are they putting the prices up? no, the travel companies are in a difficult situation at the moment of knowing what the prices will be. we don't know whether there will be as many companies around, which if there are not, there will be less competition, which may see an increase in prices. that really is why government action is needed now, on this issue, because if the travel sector doesn't get help from the government, we are likely to see a lot of bankruptcies. also, consumers, you know, lucie and elaine, those stories are completely typical of thousands we have heard at which of people who are being driven up the wall by travel companies who have completely mishandled communications by telling people things that are not true in law, as well and i'm not really listening to people in very, very difficult situations. that is why we are proposing a sort of carrot and stick solution from government, that it does exten

rory, many thanks.porting for duty. they'll be helping those most in need by delivering food and medicines or driving them to appointments. the 750,000 volunteers join countless others who are already doing what they can to support their communities. our correspondent fiona chat said the triple from hartlepool, where one woman has been keeping her local baby bank running. —— fiona trott sent this report from hartlepool. another busy day for emilie de bruijn. dozens of mums have called her and need her help. inside this container are things they can't find or struggle to afford. hundreds of nappies, toys, clothes, all donated to the baby bank that emily set up. it works like a food bank and, in this town, some parents can't manage without it. at the moment i have had to ask all my volunteers to stay home because of health reasons, or because they have young children, so there's just me, trying to make as many families across hartlepool as i can. hi, how's it going? busy. yeah, good. you know! first stop

outside the hospital actually live archons and is being treated 1st let's talk about these numbers rory 828 that's the death toll just in england so likely it's going to be a very bad day for the u.k. as a whole. yet if you add up the numbers that have been individually released by the english health authority by the welsh health authorities scottish northern and eccentric then the total it gets for the u.k. as a whole at the moment is $936.00 deaths now let's just put a massive have yet in there which is that these figures are likely to be undercounted but they're also likely to be slightly over what the u.k.'s department of health puts out later in the day is the aggregate number for the whole of the country just because of the way that all these numbers are counted up there's always a bit of variation and it always looks a little bit confusing. they are likely to be undercounted because we know that these are only the deaths that's taking place in hospitals and even so there are other hospital deaths are going to be pushed into the numbers eventually over time they're going to be man

that's where prime minister boris johnson is under observation so rory do we know how he's doing do we have any more information. we have had. a briefing from one of his spokespeople in the last hour or so and we've also had some tweets room boris johnson himself his spokesman says he has had a comfortable night that he years as he said under observation asked about whether he was going to carry on leading the government he said yes that's exactly what he's doing that the prime minister continues to receive his box of work. any decision that requires action from the prime minister that will happen. but the prime minister has handed over to dominic rob the foreign secretary the chairmanship of the daily 90 meetings now of course there are going to be questions about how much exactly boris johnson can be an effective head of the government when he should be doing what any rightful minded doctor would say he should be doing and getting rest getting rest and having all the medical tests that need to be done his work should be 2nd place to that but the downing street line is that he's ca

rory thanks very much indeed. well let's return to the u.s.where the president wants restrictions lifted in up to 30 states in 2 weeks' time on a drum says the number of new infections in the u.s. is slowing republican state lawmakers are pushing for a faster economic reopening mike hanna has more from washington d.c. . these daily news briefings are purportedly to keep the nation informed about the battle against the coronavirus but invariably the president strays off message and today he used the forums to rail against what he described as congregational obstruction in the confirmation of government officials and threatened to adjourn congress and then push through his nominations during the recess the senate should either fulfill its duty and vote on my nominees or richard formally adjourn so that i can make recess appointments. we have a tremendous number of people that have to come into government and now more so than ever before because of the virus and the problem it's a threat against congress that no president has made before perhaps

is a sentiment that's echoed around the country rory chalons al-jazeera london. dot com is the address there plenty of news and analysis all the stories we're covering al-jazeera dot com. so this is out there these are the top stories and an italian cat homes under investigation after nearly $200.00 residents were found to have died since the start of the outbreak the facility in milan is suspected of concealing numerous covert 980 since february or if it's a number of deaths from the virus called to care homes in europe is far higher than originally thought well health organization is warning that africa could become the next at the center of the corona virus outbreak so far there have been fewer than a 1000 deaths from cavan $1000.00 across the continent which is a much lower rate than in the united states and in europe the u.n. says it's likely the pandemic will kill at least 3 100000 people on the continent and pushed nearly 30000000 into poverty. businesses in iran's capital will begin reopening on saturday is the government shifts its focus toward saving th

of care and yes improving but still there rory. yeah that is the 2nd update that we've had today in which the prime minister's condition has been described as an improving the downing street spokesperson said the same thing. wrong but also added that he was clinically stable so i mean if we if we're looking for signs that things are heading in the right direction for the prime minister then i suppose we can take this as such a sign. as you say he's not out of line see you yes things are starting to look up of course. to leave that to he's back in his job i think there's still going to be a significant degree of worry. about his team amongst many people around the country among his friends and family as well but that things look like they're moving the right direction right and right what about the number of fatalities the number of cases the death toll now almost a 1000 in the past 24 hours yeah i mean the day by day things do seem to be getting worse and worse and worse in the u.k. in terms of the number of people who are dying at

some heat both virtually as well as in real life in parliament today right rory. is a former lawyer and he's a former chief of public prosecutions in the u.k. and he was bringing some of that kind of forensic style that forensic expertise to bear in prime minister's questions today pushing the government's pushing dominic robb the man who's standing in for boris johnson at the moment on various issues as you say the lack of public. personal protective equipment for health care workers being one of them the slow testing slow response to the testing being another he was saying that this is a matter of life and death asking rob to confirm how many health care workers have died in the current us epidemic so far dominic rob admitted that 69 health workers have died but he didn't have the figure to hand for the number of care workers people who work in retirement homes etc to hand one of the key things that the star was drilling into was this claim that the government has at the moment that it is ramping up testing for n.h.s. workers and other people around the country

for us in london is outside the convention center that's being turned into a hospital right there rory 1st of all the numbers now reaching alarming proportions in the u.k. . yeah over the last couple of days there has been a very steep curve upwards in the daily deaths also. the latest figures from the n.h.s. are that 563 people died inside britain's hospitals and that's important because there will be a number of people who have died outside of britain's hospitals in care homes or or their own homes etc perhaps by 20 percent more those figures will creep in over the next week or so but going back to yesterday the figure was 381 the day before that was 180 you can see how fast the death toll is increasing in the u.k. and the moments the the advice or the warnings that the government is giving out is that we're nowhere near the the peak of this yet so we've still got another couple of weeks if you look at the figures if you look at the stats that are being published the u.k. is plotting pretty much the same trajectory that italy. was doing about 2 weeks ago or so so the u.k. is seemingl

rory chalons is in london for us rory i understand you're one of the drive through testing stations in london just give us a brief overview of this move towards testing so many front line workers. yet with a view that you can see behind me at the moment well in the background it's twickenham rugby station the home of english rugby in normal times of course that building there would be hosting high level high profile rugby matches and pop concerts etc but of course none of that is going on at the moment so the car park here has been turned into one of the several mobile testing centers a century drive through senses people can come in their cars they'll pull in here they'll go around a queuing system and those tents in the background they will have. taken and in a few days they can receive a result for whether they have or haven't got covert 90 now. announcement from the government is that. the type of people who can now use these centers has just increased massively previously it was it was no says it was is now anyone who is considered to be an essential worker and that includes polic

for its national health service well let's speak now to worry chalons who's live for us in london rory certainly a very grim milestone today. yes yet again the u.k. has posted its worst day the death toll for the coronavirus an epidemic so far 563 deaths recorded over the last 24 hours compare that to 381 the day before and 180 the day before that we're saying though these are only the deaths that are being recorded inside the u.k. hospitals there will be more people who are dying perhaps 20 percent or 25 percent more outside of the hospitals in care homes or in their own homes and we won't know those figures for a few days as those filter into the statistics. the trajectory that the u.k. is following wouldn't when it comes to new cases except for is still closely tracking italy's just a week or so behind and that i think proves that there is going to be real need for this facility there i'm standing in front of here this field hospital that's being set up in a few days' time perhaps on friday it will have its 1st patients inside and it just nightingale there will be 4000 beds when thi

rory what about the numbers out of the u.k. when is the peak of the epidemic expected the pandemic is expected in the u.k. . well we're not there yet i think we know that for sure a couple of weeks ago we were being told by government scientists that the peak was probably 2 to 3 weeks away so we might well still have a week possibly even longer before we really do see the peak of covert 19 coronaviruses in the u.k. the daily death toll seems to be doubling every 2 to 3 days and if that trend continues then we'll be hitting a 1000 deaths a day sometime this week and perhaps 2000 deaths a day by next weekend. but the real metric to be looking at to work out whether the peak is is here or not is the new hospital admissions and new cases the signs are in the u.k. that those do seem to be plastering but with again warns quite regularly by the scientists don't drill down into any particular day for an idea of where this happened look so the long term trends of long term trends still still do seem to show that the the number of cases

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.navirus through video diaries. here, gp dr gail allsopp shares the details of her week with our health correspondent catherine burns. coronavirus has changed working life in so many ways for gp dr gail allsopp — even down to her footwear. she used to wear shoes like this for work. now, they're more like this. i used to meticulously get dressed, choose carefully what i wore, do my hair, put my make—up on — and now i don't. now i want as little of my hair exposed at all, so i scrape it back. there is still the school—run to do. gail says it's now one of the hardest parts of her day. the other children are safe at home with their parents who are working from home, and because of myjob i am unable to keep him as safe as i would like to. an empty waiting room, but she still got a full list of patients. this is my new way of working in general practice at the moment. video call, something we've never done before. she's tried, and failed, to get hold of medical scrubs — so she's improvised, b

and rory we have had not date in terms of numbers on the death toll from growing a virus in the u.k. what can you tell us there well yeah we have different numbers at the moment for around the different nations of the united kingdom so we have england's wales northern ireland scotland what we don't have an official tally for the whole of the united kingdom yet but it does look like it is going to be a very bad day perhaps the worst yet of the coronavirus epidemic so what we have from england is that there are 758 deaths reported in hospitals scotland 74 deaths 19 in wales and i think 3 new deaths in northern ireland so we'll wait for the official tally to come out for the whole of the u.k. from the department of health but it looks like at the moment 854 new hospital deaths in the united kingdom and of course that doesn't take into account the number of people who are dying out in care homes or in their own homes and those figures the whole tally for the for the country won't be known for some time yet but this looks like the situation is still getting worse in terms of daily deaths

rory live from london thanks very much. about half of the crew in a french aircraft carrier and its escort vessels have now tested positive for the virus that's just over a 1000 people the shell the goal was brought home early from a deployment after sailors started showing symptoms they've now docked into loam and the ships have been d. cannot been decontaminated 24 sailors are in hospital with more than 500 showing symptoms germany's health minister has declared the pandemic there is again manageable he says the success is the result of a months long lockdown in response to an early surge in cases germany has the 4th highest number of cases in europe behind spain italy and france the u.n. is projecting at least 300000 africans could die because of the pandemic its economic commission for africa says 2300000 others may need hospital treatment right in the virus is more complicated on the continent because there aren't enough hospital beds and breathing machines on top of that a 3rd of africans have no access to washing fac

live to london and our correspondent rory chalons so rory what were the main takeaway points from the discussion in the chamber there. well i think the big theme of today with the employees promise question time as has been testing there was obviously the testing of the new system that you just outlined there with . m.p.'s dialing in digitally the ones that were in the chamber were socially distanced the correct separation between each of them this was also a test for care starmer the new leader of the labor party the main opposition party in his 1st pm queues and testing was what he was pushing dominic rob the man standing in for the prime minister in the moments on he was saying look you are saying that you are doing or have the capacity to do 40000 tests a day or. health care workers etc but that's the wrong metric he was saying because you may have the capacity. for that but all you're doing at the moment is 18000 days so why is there this discrepancy you can talk as much as you want about capacity but if you're not actually reaching the required number of tests and there are all

rory talent's is our correspondent and london at this hour so rory we've had quite a few leaders come out trying to calm the public since this announcement do actually know any more about our stance and condition. or michael gove who is the cabinet secretary and incidentally it seems is now self isolating himself was speaking on british media this morning to update people on what's the latest is with boris johnson's health and he said that his condition hasn't deteriorated significantly since he was taken into intensive care last night that he had been given oxygen supports about 4 liters worth of oxygen. that he hadn't been put on a ventilator he hadn't been intubated in this far as michael gove knows he has and being diagnosed with pneumonia. i think clearly boris johnson then is obviously in a very serious situation but if it's true that he had 4 liters of oxygen given the usual benchmark i think for. 1000 patients in intensive care is about 15 liters that would suggest that boris johnson's condition isn't quite as serious as other patients in intensive care moments. but this is go

and rory let's just go back to the story about germany we're talking about germany saying this health minister is saying that the spread of the virus is not manageable they are just give us some of the context about why germany feels that it's got it to that stage . germany certainly when you look at all the statistics and the way countries have responded does seem to have done better than many others certainly here in the u.k. people have been looking to germany been asking themselves what has germany done right that is basically kept the death toll relatively low. it seems the testing has been a key part of that. w.h.o. the world health organization from the beginning of this outbreak has been saying if you have to test you have to trace and you have to isolate and germany has been doing a lot more testing than than many other countries in the u.k. i think that that feeds into perhaps why the german health minister thinks that things are looking more manageable and it also we're getting some pretty good information coming from the leadership itself we had angela merkel explaining qu

rory thanks very much indeed. schools and nurseries have reopened in denmark as it begins to relax its lockdown restrictions it's among the 1st in europe to try a gradual reopening in order to get the economy back on track but many parents say it's too soon and they've kept their children at home so when john reports from copenhagen. a long awaited review when a school principal welcomes back his students after a whole month i have really missed my school and i'm excited to meet my teachers and friends to see them again is a very very big pleasure but much has changed social distancing is still required and parents are no longer allowed to drop off their children inside the school worried about the kids and. i'm happy but i'm worried at the same time however excited the kids are to see their friends again. hugging is not allowed. instead they have to wash their hands. properly calibrated and sit in the classroom 2 metres apart which requires spreading the children to more rooms been out hiring. young students to c

start going down that dropped out is not going to be going anywhere thank you for that update there rory chalons live from london. or spain has just announced more than 750 people have died in the past 24 hours with new infections also on the rise the number of fatalities has been increasing again in recent days spain is one of the worst affected countries in the world with more than 146000 confirmed cases martha editor joins us now live from madrid so we've had we had 4 or so days of decline in numbers of had 2 days of increasing numbers what can we read into all of this well the numbers have jumped seems yesterday others to a few days of serving this a slowdown trained according to health minister figures in the best 24 hours spain has 3 just 610-1000 new positive some cop in 19 and 757 you fatalities. we heard from the health minister that all the regions i know you seen the same criteria to include it data so these figures are going to be going up and down until they all coordinate because the experts are saying that we might be talking about the 50 percent more coronavirus cases ins

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to issue so-called immunity passports due to concerns they could increase the spread more now from rory chalons and london. the u.k. is one of many countries that has been looking at the idea of immunity passports this would be a way for people or some people at least to go back to work if they could prove that they already have had covert 19 and therefore it's assumed that they have an immunity i would be able to get it again or pass it on parts of the w.h.o. the world health organization is not keen on this idea for this reason well we do certainly understand the intention of trying to see who can go safely back who were who be of france truly risk free or other people but unfortunately from the scientific point of view we simply don't know for a person who has been infected with. 90. 2. gets this immunity and if it gets the immunity how long this immunity is lasting now there are always problems with the immunity passport idea to start with for one thing it's very divisive if you have some people who are allowed to go back to work and some people aren't at a time when most government

chalons is standing by for us rory antibody testing was a key pillar of the u.k. government's response to this what is the w.h.o. been saying today. well the w.h.o. has basically issued a warning that countries like the u.k. other european countries countries around the world shouldn't rely so much on this idea that once you are exposed to covert 19 that you are there for a mean from catching it a 2nd time as you just outlined day in your introduction they said that that the exposure doesn't mean the evidence isn't there to say that you're not going to get it a 2nd time imagine you know the common cold the common cold is a type of coronavirus and yet you can get a cold again and again and again. they also pointed to the relative inaccuracy at the moment hall of antibody testing the antibody tests that exist mostly at the moment can either give false positives they could basically say that you have had corona virus when you haven't all they can give false negatives they can say you haven't had coronavirus what you had and so taken together these 2 things not necess

challenge joining us here on the news from london so rory christmas time that must have come as a bit of a shock to the system for a lot of people getting that news. yeah well certainly the the the lockdown measures are being implemented in 3 weeks chunks and every 3 weeks they're going to be reviewed and we have just had one of those reviews extending it for another 3 weeks. the the the assumption is i think among people that normal life is not going to resume for quite some time to come whether or not people are thinking out in sounds of christmas. it's a big for the population but the scientific advice is always trying to give. response and lead people i guess towards the right thing to do i'm standing at the moment outside victoria station it's one of london's main transport hubs of places like this that you see people walking around wearing these face perhaps more lightweight ones as well government scientists meeting today to try and reach a decision on whether or not to make the wearing of these sorts of things mandatory in public and the expectation is that they're probably go

. >> reporter: rory southworth might be dressed like he's climbing a mountain, but base camp isn't ond leading home athlete is leading a team of folks on a virtual hike to the elevation of the everest base camp. breaking the challenge into chunks. on day one -- >> 246 times i've been up and down the stairs -- >> reporter: it's one way rory and his team are staying active while staying safe from covid-19. >> we're in a situation we don't have too much control of, and i really want people to stay active, stay fit mentally, stay healthy. >> reporter: climbing everest in your house? a great way to kill time in quarantine. but it's not the only way. some of us taking the opportunity to launch some sugary-sweet passion projects. >> i'm michael koenig, many of you know me as the host of the "coronavirus cereal review show." >> reporter: a delicious way to pass the time. pastor jeremy tuck setting up his own hibachi station in the dining room since his family couldn't go out to their favorite restaurant. this guy's romantic dinner with his cat? some challenging their cats and dogs with a home

been met to dominic rob there will be no lifting of the lockdown well of course this is all driven rory by the science and dominic rudd was very insistent during that press conference we watched it here live also that it was the science that was driving the government decisions and i think people have faith in the science sometimes they lose faith in their politicians. well yeah this is the tension that is at the heart of how these governments and the u.k. being one of them responds to this outbreak how much of it is scientific how much of it is politics the u.k. government from the very beginning has said we act all the advice of the scientists and every time you see a government minister coming out and giving a press conference which is daily they are always flanked on either side by a couple of scientists now those can be chris witty who is the chief medical officer they could be patrick vallance who is the chief scientific officer or any of their deputies but basically the governor's message is the scientists are telling us what to do or what they think we should do and we are actin

you aren't entering now you know we mentioned earlier that rory mcilroy is one nearly $4000000.00 in prize money just the season but how does that compare to a top player on the sunshine to a for example. you know the bit about you know the comparison for example to the order of merit that many let you don't even. point $1000000.00 rand which is that about 100000 u.s. dollars and infer that. there. are no you just broken in the world and you're playing a. championship that he thought he. should opening round even under. all the risk that sentiment was canceled and. as you'd like to can help with that mission you would have. $1300000.00 u.s. dollars if you worked at the. time what the leader of that. were being tried. all right michael sherman thank you so much for your time we'll leave it there thank you very much coronavirus may have stopped football but a club in russia have come up with a novel way to deliver their player of the month award to one of the stones. more so in a st petersburg the brazilian player malcolm is self isolating in his apartment and so he's a ward of the lit

rory cellan—jones, bbc news.ins me now. and we will talk about contact tracing injust a moment but i wa nted tracing injust a moment but i wanted to start in terms of basic testing and questions around there because the uk has been talking for weeks now if not months about ramping up testing. why are we stuck at this figure of around 23,000 do you think? well, one of the problems with the lack of capacity, the government got its act together weight private —— probably because weight private —— probably because we privatised and close some of our laboratories, and pretty because we did not have the new we needed and also the reagents. the government has been slowly ramping up testing but testing is a huge confused area and we need to understand what the government strategy is. who is a testing, why is it testing people, when are they testing, and what is the end point? it is a very confused picture at the moment but it does appear that the government has now prioritising health care and social ca re prioritising h

overall the chalons joins us now live from london outside the hospital where boston is being treated rory i believe a spokesman for ourselves and has given an update what's the latest on his condition. well the updates from downing street and other figures in the government's being pretty consistent over the last 24 hours at least going back to yesterday morning. the latest that we've heard from a downing street spokesperson doesn't really differ from the other updates we've been given over those hours he says that the prime minister is stable clinically stable was how he puts it the one new bit of information that we've been given a chance he is responding to treatments now we don't know at the moment what kind of treatments that the prime minister is receiving. than being put on oxygen we've been told that he hasn't been in chief. but it seems that. the promise the situation doesn't seem to be getting any worse there is no indication that he's going to be leaving intensive care particularly soon. and rory doesn't rob us of course and childs for the time being at least in terms of the pa

matters of national security are being decided by the cap on the principle of collective responsibility rory talk to us about this new report this modeling that's come out from the university of washington regarding the outbreak in the u.k. is that cause for concern. well i think it certainly is because these figures from the university of washington the institute for health metrics and evaluation of the school of medicine there are very alarming they are suggesting that the united kingdom could have 66000 deaths at the end of the 1st wave of this pandemic now that's far in excess of the numbers the the u.k. was using with its modeling when it brought in the social distancing measures it was anticipating the with social distancing it could limit deaths to about 20000 well 66000 deaths if that transpires would put the united kingdom is definitely the worst hits country in europe this same institution is suggesting that it's really that would be the 2nd but 2nd worst hit might have $20000.00 deaths it points to the fact that the u.k. was comparatively late in bringing in social distancing meas

to ramp up testing over the coming days but it's still lagging as you say quite a long way behind rory it's now been a week by my count since the u.k. went into lockdown and i see unemployment is on the up small businesses have been going under how are people there coping. it is tough and it's going to get much much tougher there is no doubt about that i was approached yesterday when i was doing my reporting on the streets of south london by a very upset man who was a self-employed taxi driver and he was saying his business has completely dried up he doesn't have access to the self-employed lifelines that the government has announced until june and you've been trying to speak to his mortgage provider to get one of these mortgage holidays that has been promised of people whose income has dried up and he couldn't get that yet so a lot of people out there in these sorts of situations very very worried about the next few weeks and accountancy network has said that one in 5 businesses small businesses could go under because they can't get access to the government lifeline cash supplies and

at double a praising its swift and coordinated response to the pandemic let's get more on this and rory challenge is joining us now from crawley in england ok let's deal with the retail sales 1st tory please this is a big drop for shops it wasn't entirely unexpected but it is big. it's huge as you say the the worst drop in sales since records began going back a good number of years the you can see the quite high street behind me it's a saturday morning in normal times this would be absolutely bustling crawley town of about 100000 people in the south of england has been identified in a study by the center for cities which is a think tank as perhaps the place in the u.k. which is at most risk of job losses is that if most reason is because it's right next door to britain's 2nd biggest airport gatwick and so one in 4 households here relies on someone with a job either at the airports or in the aviation sector and as we know aviation has basically been grounded but the site you see behind me is a common one it's not just crawley it's all over the u.k. and i get the impression i think that i

something else that a lot of people are wondering about that rory longoria is asking us on facebook, is can you still file? i assume he means the tax forms from last year, that those stimulus checks are supposed to be based on, whether you're eligible or not. so if you didn't file last year, can you still do it now? >> yeah, so the filing of tax returns, that's for individuals that are seeking to get the $1,200 or couples that are seeking to get up to $2,400 through the federal stimulus. you can still file. you may get a little behind in line in terms of those who have already filed and have all of their paperwork and their bank information in place already, but you can go to the irs' website and still file your tax returns and work with an accountant, of course, if need be. >> okay. angela, this question is coming from someone on instagram. they're asking, can you quit and still get unemployment? >> well, you know what, i just spoke to someone today about that very same question. so if you quit, meaning, you know, there is an opportunity for you to work, and for whatever reasons you

been criticized for the slow rollout of mass testing as the number of deaths across the country 20000 rory chalons has more from central london. here is that we hit thing about doll testing situation in the u.k. we have people care workers health workers essential workers who are calling out to be tested we have a government saying that it is trying to reach $100000.00 tests a day by the end of the month that it's capacity at the moment is about $50000.00 day that is doing say roughly about $25000.00 actual tests and yet you come to these places which have the drive through testing centers and there is hardly anybody here i mean something doesn't work out where this is really strange clearly the government has got itself into a hole with testing it's become a serious scandal in the u.k. and one of the things that the government has done in the last couple of days to try and get on top of it is to expand to the type of people who are eligible for tests places like this now previously it would be mostly that h s health care workers people also who work in retirement homes etc but now police.

the debut of the new opposition to the cure starmer who criticised the government's testing record rory chalons is in london. he was saying look you are saying that you are doing or have the capacity to do 40000 tests a day or. health care workers etc but that's the wrong metric he was saying because you may have the capacity for that but all you're doing at the moment it's 18000 so why is there this discrepancy you can talk as much as you want about capacity but if you're not actually reaching the required number of tests and there are all these people out there there are care workers there are doctors and nurses who are saying they're still not being tested that's what you should be aiming for upping the number of tests not the capacity for tests there is also this problem with quality tests because the government has admitted today that a story that was published yesterday by a newspaper here that some of the tests that are being given to us workers have proven not to be up to scratch and therefore the. people public health england has said that these care workers needed to be brough

is a sentiment that's echoed around the country rory chalons al-jazeera london. spending months at a time in isolation is not uncommon for astronauts and not millions of people to be looking to them for advice on their lack has more from turned. around control to me your time famous for performing david bowie's space oddity in space and for being perhaps the most social media savvy astronaut ever chris hadfield is reaching out to those of us grounded by social isolation. his 3 missions in earth orbit including command of the international space station in 2013 turned him to cope with months and months of separation from almost everyone else on the planet while for the 1st time maybe in living memory for most we find ourselves globally in a position here and isolation physical isolation. and that's that's not the way most people normally live but if you think about the life of an astronaut they live in a dangerous place that is extremely isolated and thrives and you know really do well succeed and love the life it's all about being prepared mentally hadfield says

updated the numbers as well and every challenge our correspondent in london was listening in as well so rory what all that you get from what abdominal was saying. well listening out for any new information on boris johnson's condition there was in. the information that was given out at about midday u.k. time. today it was pretty much identical to was dominic rob just now said that boris johnson is getting that the best possible that he is in a stable condition that he has had standards oxygen treatments he's had no ventilates and hasn't had any device itchy put into his lungs to help help him breathe he's in good spirits and they'll be updates if anything changes after that he gave a slightly more emotional response she said. it's not just out boss speaking for his colleagues there on the cabinets he's not just our colleague but he's also off friends. scribed him as a fighter and said that he was confident that he would pull through and addressing that that the british people he said this doesn't mean the government's is any less resolute in its nation to fights and he says defeats 19 he sai

opposition to identify and take up these offers from british manufacturers for protective equipment rory chalons is in london and says the new leader of the opposition has made an impressive debut in parliament. is a former lawyer and he's a former chief of public prosecutions in the u.k. and he was bringing some of that kind of forensic style that forensic expertise to bear in prime minister's questions today pushing the government's pushing dominic robb the man who's standing in for forest johnson at the moment on various issues the lack of public. personal protective equipment for health care workers being one of them this testing response to the testing being another he was saying that this is a matter of life and death asking. to confirm how many health care workers have died in the coronas epidemic so far down the graph admitted that 69 health workers have died but he didn't have the figure to hand for the number of care workers people who work in retirement homes etc to hand one of the key things that. was drilling into. this claim that the government has at the moment that it is

or challenge as our correspondent in london right now also rory what else do we know about boris johnson condition. well look the the message from the various people who spoke earlier about boris johnson's condition today. there has been no change essentially how we've got the same. pretty much since the early hours about that new dows of the morning and basically that is that he is getting the best possible care he is stable in the intensive care units of sometimes his hospital he has been given oxygen bots he hasn't had any kind of patient or a ventilator attention that means that his breathing is ok enough not to be put on mechanical breathing assistance that he hasn't been given a diagnosis of pneumonia and i think this basically puts him. at the spread of health conditions of people in i.c.u. was the better end of that spectrum obviously there are people in much much worse condition than him in intensive care units and property in the in the one behind me . to the bad facts of the matter is though that the prime minister he is pretty much out of action at the moment and so he has ha

is a sentiment that's echoed around the country rory chalons al-jazeera london. many canadians are coming together to help society's most vulnerable nonprofit groups and volunteers have mobilized over the past few weeks to get the goods and services to those who need them the most david most every for some conquering in less than god. it's a sign of the times in cities across canada empty restaurants closed temporarily to prevent the spread of the corona virus but while thousands have lost their jobs staff at this calgary restaurant are determined to bring some good out of the bad memories things important to us that you know that we're not throwing up through this can be used in especially in in this tough time that this food goes to people that need it. that's where lotus swan and her team come in her charitable group leftovers redirects food from businesses that have closed their doors today they're picking up 55 kilograms of prime rib beef it's just a fraction of the food they've redirected in the past week we have about 10 to 15 calls a day we have an army o

don't have to have anybody but your caddy next to you and without fans but a lot of the players here rory mcilroy a golfer actually said he wouldn't want to golf without the fans there he said on that back 9 he wants to have the fans roaring for him you know when he's coming down it gives them energy they were going to say he's a multimillionaire he doesn't need the money what about the other guys on tour they want to work that's sure exactly the superstars don't need it they're comfortable in their mansions they have their home gyms but the little guys do need these paychecks now let's get to the n.h.l. it's a similar plan but they also want to restart their season like the n.b.a. they have a potential centralized host site with 4 arenas so 4 different cities potentially toronto columbus calgary and edmonton but these of course are contingent with the government staying home orders in those cities because you can't have a gathering of more than let's say 10 people or 20 people so that would work in some of the cities but they want to try just in 4 arenas to have all the teams compete in

therefore, i went to this guy, rory coleman in cardiff, who took me on, looked to see what i was capablere for marie curie that we were after from that particular thing that you're talking about. and when you go off on these extraordinary challenges now, in the last few years, what does your wife, what does your daughter say to you? well, they are a wonderful couple, wonderful wife, wonderful daughter. do they ever suggest to you, you are mad? are they fed up with it? i better, for the first time, not answer that question. 0h, no...i think you have to. although you've got to remember, that back when i got born, i didn't have a father, i was brought up with just a mother. and my lovely wife is a fantastically good mum, so, you know, i wouldn't feel all that guilty. and you get to a certain age, you're going to die off anyway whether you do it out in the cold or run over by a taxi. a theme through our conversation has been motivation and tracing things back to your early life. it intrigued me that you said this just a few years ago in an interview with the financial times, you said, "if i

tracing to manage a 2nd wave is many weeks away yet joan whole al-jazeera lumbered or i let's bring in rory chalons now he joins us from number 10 downing street in london warry the prime minister's been trying to both run the country and get better is that going to have to change now. it's a difficult difficult task isn't it does seem difficult to see how the prime minister can both get the medical attention that he seems to be requiring at the moment and as do all the day to day managing of the country the prime minister is expected to do you can either get better and have all the tests that he needs or he can run the country but doing very together looks like a tricky thing to manage he has handed over chairing the daily coronavirus meeting at least been doing by video link for the duration of his coronavirus self isolation he's handed that over to dominic robb the foreign secretary dominic robb incidentally is that is the person that would take over from boris johnson if he were seriously incapacitated but downing street is saying that his hospital admission is more because his symptoms