lowest daily increase in new cases since the state of emergency was declared 6 weeks ago the spanish health ministry has recorded 268 new coronavirus deaths along with $518.00 new infections reported this to the u.k. where prime minister barak's johnson is leading his 1st weekly cabinet meeting since falling ill with coronavirus he and his top ministers are on to extra pressure off the new figures released on wednesday pushed the death toll there to more than $26000.00 which is now the 2nd highest in europe after italy for more what's expected at today's meeting need is in london to take us through this i mean the prime minister coming back off his corona virus infection has just had a baby as well and now it will get serious again the real hard work. that's all right if you look at he looks like things were pretty hard for boys johnson like you said after that close stint with coronavirus recovering of course and now he has become a parent again he was hoping that this would be the start possibly of paternity leave but the country needs its chief decision maker perhaps more than ever before all we'

this takes the total number of deaths to just over 16300, the spanish health ministry has announced.respondent, guy hedgecoe, says the mood is one of very cautious optimism. these are the best figures we have seenin these are the best figures we have seen in terms of daily deaths since march to 23rd. it is a drop even from yesterday of almost a hundred, compared to them. it is clearly encouraging and it would appear to continue this trend that we have been seeing over the last week or so, with the daily deaths have been dropping, but you have to bear in mind that we are set in the easter weekend at the moment and experts have warned that these figures have to be taken with a pinch of salt because local authorities might be under reporting the number of deaths they are seeing already the holiday period. you have to be cautious about them but, over the last few days, we have been seeing encouraging signs, both in numbers of daily deaths and the spread of the virus itself, which has been slowing as well. i think there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty as they have had such a terribl

in sfain, the spanish health ministry says that 517 people have died there in the past 24 hours, whichs 1less than the day before. the total number of people who have died from spain is 17.5 thousand. situiond yupe.es has more on thr >> it little and spain, the two countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic in europe, of more onfirmed cases than 150,000 in each country and in italy,0,0 deaths, more or less. in spain, 17,000 deaths. these are really high numbers. what is causing tin bngs of hope, though, is that the daily death toll is startinto go down. what that means is that the totals numbers are still increasing but that increases i less than it was a week or two ago. the daily deolh now we're talking about numbers nor at some pointha less 500 per day. just a week ago we were ove 900 deaths a dame. so although the situation is still very severe in beevept italy and spain, it is starting that's the home, anyway, and that's why goths in both countries are really trying to get the government going again. on the one hand you have this health energy. -- on the other, you have an ec

the spanish health ministry has recorded 268 new coronavirus the. yes and 518 new infections it's the lowest daily increase in pace and since spain declared a state of emergency 6 weeks ago on march the 14. u.k. prime minister barak johnson is expected to lead his 1st weekly cabinet meeting since forming ill with the coronavirus the government is under pressure after new figures pushed the number of deaths to more than 26000. but international watchdog is warning the united arab emirates is not doing nearly enough to crack down on money laundering and what it calls terrorist financing the paris based financial action task force says the u.a.e. could find itself on a watch list along with countries like syria and yemen unless it improves smith reports. dubai is slowly reopening some businesses that have been ordered shut to stop the spread of coronavirus but it's the failure to pull down the shutters on people suspected of money laundering and terrorist financing but cook cause another serious financial headache for the emirate and the 6 others which

lowest daily increase in new cases since a state of emergency was declared 6 weeks ago the spanish health ministry also recorded 268 new coronavirus deaths for the 1st time in 2 months there's been no new domestic cases recorded in south korea restrictions have eased and the buddhist community is being allowed to hold events marking borders for thing the lebanese government has approved a financial reform plan for its crisis hit economy the government's been under pressure to act after demonstrations were held in several lebanese cities for a 3rd straight night prime minister has in the arab says the goal is to launch negotiations with bondholders which will take up to 9 months. libyan warlord has announced a ceasefire for the muslim month of ramadan after his forces have recently lost ground to forces fighting for the un recognized government based in tripoli and the scene to nationalise released evidence of multiple violations of the u.n. arms in bargo in south sudan the organization found new weapons concealment of arms and continued use of child soldiers all violations of the peace deal it's b

rise for 18 days of taking the total number of test to just over 16,300, according to the spanish health ministryd. i'm joined now by the journalist james badcock, who's based in madrid. you have been falling this day and day out, it is strange to say any number of deaths is good news, but this is a decline it is strange to set any number of deaths is good news, but this is a decline? it is a remarkably low figure of we consider that, just over a week ago, the number was 950 on the worst day for the death toll. i think there may be a bit of an easter impact in theirs, there may be some paperwork not working through the system as quickly as quickly as other days, but there is still no question that we have had four weeks out of a com plete we have had four weeks out of a complete lockdown, families at home, home on this quiet easter weekend, no—one going anywhere, and i think spain is taking a bit of a breather today. looks like the worst of what could just be the first wave is definitely over. we have had four weeks of family lockdown, two weeks where no—one has been allowed to go to work except

in spain, the spanish health ministry says 517 people have died in the past 2a hours, which is 100 lessovid—19 in spain is 17,500. some restrictions have started to be relaxed there too. damien mcguinness has more on the situation across europe. numbers here are still incredibly high because in italy and spain, which are the two countries worst hit by the coronavirus

lowest daily increase in new cases since a state of emergency was declared 6 weeks ago the spanish health ministry has recorded 268 new coronavirus deaths that along with 518 new infections have been reported britain's prime minister porus johnson says the u.k. has passed the peak of its outbreak and that he'll start to announce a plan to exit the lockdown next week johnson was holding the government's daily update for the 1st time since being admitted to hospital 3 weeks ago with covert 19 he says the 26711 people have died. but it could have been far worse. thanks to that massive collective effort to shield the n.h.s. that we avoided an uncontrollable catastrophic epidemic where the reasonable worst case scenario was 500000 deaths and so i can confirm today for the 1st time we are past the peak of this disease. we're past the peak and we're on the downward slope let's go live now to london to get some analysis from i was in serious need parker who's in downing street the prime minister announced 674 further deaths in the last 24 hours leave the town for the total now as we said $26711.00 but he'

this takes the total number of deaths to just over 16,300, the spanish health ministry has announced.id and speak with the bbc‘s guy hedgecoe. guy, what do you make of it these figures? cautious optimism that the turn may have been reached by spain? yes, i think there is cautious optimism here. as you said, these are the best figures we have seen in terms of daily deaths since march at the 23rd. a drop from even yesterday of almost 100, compared to yesterday. so clearly, that is encouraging and it would appear to continue this trend of the last week or so were daily deaths have been dropping. however, you have to bear in mind we are in the easter weekend at the moment and experts have warned these figures have to perhaps be taken with a pinch of salt because local authorities might be under the number of deaths they're sing over the holiday period. so we have to be cautious, but over the last few days, where been seeing encouraging signs, both in terms of the number of daily deaths and the spread of the virus itself, which has been slowing as well. what is the public mood, guy poor on

in spain, the spanish health ministry says 517 people have died in the past 2a hours, which is 100 lesse total number of people to have died from covid—19 in spain is 17,500. some restrictions have started to be relaxed there too. damien mcguinness has more on the situation across europe. numbers here are still incredibly high because in italy and spain, which are the two countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic here in europe, we have confirmed cases of more than 100,000 in each country. and in italy, 20,000 deaths more or less, and spain, we're talking about 17,000 this. we're talking about 17,000 deaths. these are really high numbers. what is causing the beginning of hope, though, is that the daily death toll is starting to go down. so what that means is that the total numbers are still increasing, but that increase is less than it was just a week or two ago. so when you look at the daily death toll, now we are talking about numbers at some point less than 500 per day. just a week ago, we were over 900 deaths a day. so although the situation is still very severe in both italy

in spain, the spanish health ministry says 517 people have died in the past 2a hours, which is 100 lesshan the day before. the total number of people to have died from covid—i9 in spain is 17,500. some restrictions have started to be relaxed there too. damien mcguinness has more on the situation across europe. numbers here are still incredibly high because in italy and spain, which are the two countries worst hit by the coronavirus pandemic here in europe, we have confirmed cases of more than 100,000 in each country. and in italy, 20,000 deaths more or less, and spain, we're talking about 17,000 deaths. these are really high numbers. what is causing the beginning of hope, though, is that the daily death toll is starting to go down. so what that means is that the total numbers are still increasing, but that increase is less than it was just a week or two ago. so when you look at the daily death toll, now we are talking about numbers at some point less than 500 per day. just a week ago, we were over 900 deaths a day. so although the situation is still very severe in both italy and spain,

the spanish health ministry said the number of deaths rose from just over 12,400 on sunday to just overs a first step to easing a lockdown in the nation which has the second highest death toll from the global pandemic after italy. the number of newly confirmed coronavirus cases in south korea has decreased to below 50, its lowest daily number since the outbreak peaked in february. south korea has been widely praised for its approach to tracing and testing for cases of covid—i9 but is warning against complacency. laura bicker in seoul has more. eight weeks on and here we are. we now have 47 newly confirmed cases within the last 2a hours, 16 of whom are overseas arrivals, in fact, within the last two weeks, over half of all the cases that have been confirmed here in south korea are people returning home from the likes of europe, the us and canada. however, the vice health minister today has issued a warning. they are extremely worried about complacency. life here is slowly getting back to normal. you must remember, there has been no lockdown here in south korea. they advised people to wor

the spanish health ministry says that 637 deaths have been recorded over the past 2a hours, the lowestclude people without symptoms. it‘s seen as a first step to easing a lockdown in the country which has had the second highest number of deaths after italy. spain‘s health ministry said the fall in the lastest figures was very encouraging. austria has announced it will ease some of its lockdown measures from next week. on the 14th of april if austrians keep to the restrictions over the easter week. according to offical figures, austria has now managed to flatten the curve in its fight against coronavirus. the headlines on bbc news... the prime minister borisjohnson says he is in good spirits after spending the night in hospital, ten days after being diagnosed with coronavirus. scotland‘s chief medical officer catherine calderwood resigns after making two trips to her second home during the lockdown. concerns that the sunny weather is making people linger longer outside than absolutely necessary when going to exercise. a national helpline for victims of domestic violence has seen 25% inc

lowest daily increase in new cases since a state of emergency was declared 6 weeks ago the spanish health ministry has recorded 268 new coronavirus deaths that along with 518 new infections have been reported. the u.k.'s prime minister boris johnson says the country has passed the peak of its outbreak and that he'll start to announce a plan to exit the lockdown next week johnson was holding the government's daily update for the 1st time since he was admitted to hospital 3 weeks ago with cove of 19 he says the 267-0911 people have died but that it could have been far worse. thanks to that massive collective effort to shield the n.h.s. that we avoided an uncontrollable catastrophic epidemic where the reasonable worst case scenario was 500000 deaths and so i can confirm today but for the 1st time we are past the peak of this disease we're past the peak and we're on the downward slope. let's go live now to london i was there as neve baka is in downing street pay what i asked of the prime minister say. well the prime minister gave her the country a glimmer of hope a tremendous amount of optimism a clea

this takes the total number of deaths to just over 16,300, the spanish health ministry has announced.he mood is one of very cautious optimism. these are the best figures we have seen in terms of daily deaths since march 23rd. it is a drop from yesterday, almost by 100, compared to yesterday. clearly that is encouraging, and it would appear to continue this trend that we have been seeing over the last week or so, where the daily deaths have been dropping. however, you have to bear in mind that we are in the easter weekend at the moment, and experts have warned that these figures have to be taken with a pinch of salt because local authorities might be under reporting the number of deaths we are seeing over the holiday period. you have to be very cautious about them, but over the last few days we have been seeing encouraging signs, both in terms of the number of daily deaths and the spread of the virus itself, which has been slowing. there is a tremendous amount of uncertainty, they have had a terrible time of it over the last month or so, but in terms of the health care crisis, there ar

he is a spokesperson for the spanish health ministry.eeing is that the rate of increase in this pandemic is falling and this decrease is also reflected in the number of secondary infections. this isa number of secondary infections. this is a very good indicator in epidemiological terms for us and we will be monitoring carefully this decrease over the coming days. well, spanish officials are planning to widen testing to include those that are not showing any symptoms. spain's population has been under a strict lockdown for three weeks. the government would like the lockdown to be extended a further two weeks because they believe it would take another two weeks to ensure that the virus is brought under control. that proposal will be taken to parliament under control. that proposal will be ta ken to parliament later this under control. that proposal will be taken to parliament later this week, we believe the prime minister will approve that, getting approval from parliament. after the easter holidays, some of the toughest restrictions may b

the spanish health ministry says 637 deaths have been recorded in the past 24 hours, the lowest numbers coronavirus testing, to include people without symptoms. it's seen as a first step to easing a lockdown in the country, which has had the second highest number of deaths after italy. for the latest on the situation, here's guy hedgecoe, in madrid. 637 deaths over the last 24 hours. obviously, still a high number, but so much better than what we were seeing just a few days ago. in the middle of last week, there were 950 people at one point dying over the course of 24 hours. so, the fact that that figure has come down and it seems to be on a downward trend, is very encouraging. and as we saw there, the government believes that that's a direct result of the measures it's been taking. also, the government has been saying for some days that if you look closely at the number of new infections, those have been increasing at a much slower rate for quite some time now. so, it seems that in terms of the death rate and new infections, the figures are going in the right direction. the lockdown i

that is up from 8189 people yesterday, according to the spanish health ministry.oing on holiday is not a valid excuse for leaving your home. saudi arabia has asked muslims around the world to delay their plans to make the annual pilgrimage to holy sites. the year—round ‘umrah' pilgrimage has already been suspended to stop the spread of the coronavirus. a saudi government spokesman has called on muslims wanting to perfom the hajj to wait until the situation is clear. china's strict lockdown of wuhan — the city where the first covid—19 case was diagnosed — may have prevented more than 700,000 extra infections. that's the finding of research carried out in china, the uk and america, which suggests that the tight controls gave other chinese cities time to prepare and install their own restrictions on movement. the headlines on bbc news. ministers call on hospitals in england to use spare lab capacity to test more nhs staff who want clearance to return to work. president trump tells americans to expect a rough two weeks and to stick to social distancing as a matter of

up approximately 8000 cases according to the spanish health ministry. grim figure as the number of cases continues to rise in spain. japan has announced it will ban all travellers from the united states, china and most of europe, including the uk, starting tomorrow — as it ramps up efforts to try and stem the spread of the coronavirus. until last weekjapan appeared to be succeeding in keeping the spread of the virus under control. but now cases in the capital tokyo have begun to rise rapidly — leading to fears the world's most populous city may be about to get hit by a major outbreak. from tokyo rupert wingfield hayes reports. this was central tokyo just a few days ago. no social distancing, certainly no lockdown. in the same street today, something has started to change here. it began last weekend with the city's parks. so this behind me is the gate to yoyogi park in central tokyo, one of the city's biggest and most popular parks. normally on a saturday afternoon it would be, at this time of year, jammed with people holding sakura parties, that is cher

coronavirus rises to 19,130 today, that is from 18,579 on wednesday, that is according to the spanish health ministrys, president trump has claimed the country has passed the peak of new coronavirus infections. at his daily briefing he said that states across the country were in a strong position to re—open the economy, and that he would announce guidelines for that in a news conference later today. the president has been at loggerheads with state governors about the timing of easing restrictions and reopening businesses. his upbeat assessment comes as the number of deaths is shown to have doubled within the last week. david willis reports. he has been itching to do this for weeks. now the businessman turned politician president is poised to announce the world‘s biggest economy will soon be back in business. thank you very much. the data suggests that nationwide, we have passed the peak of new cases. hopefully, that will continue and we will continue to make great progress. these encouraging developments have put us in a strong position to finalise guidelines for states on reopening the country. we w

we had a chance to catch up with one of the individuals from the spanish ministry of health and we askedut what this study would entail and whether they have concerned that the virus would return. >> at the moment, we have not eliminated the circulation of the virus. we are uncertain about the antibodies that the spanish population have. that's why we're done an epidemiology study nationwide. but, yeah, we think that in a few months, this virus can come back. >> so, of course, scientists here are as concerned as they are in other countries about this virus returning. that's why here in spain, they are ramping up their icu capacity hoping to have twice as many intensive care beds available in the future as they had at the beginning of this. >> yeah. and we will be watching spain as they begin to reopen there. will hem marks, thanks, my friend. tracking that curve, bill, as we are i think confidently now on the other side of it. >> yeah. yesterday was the best month we've had in a long time. yesterday, as far as the fatalities went, that was the lowest number we've had in april and yesterd

to might be no symptoms of an iris it was last last we were talking about the spanish army green lighted by the health ministry being deployed nature nationwide to 2 to take over tasks such as disinfecting care homes nursing homes and there were the ones that raise the voice of alarm when there were finally found dead bodies in this care homes of all these elderly people dead in their beds and completely alone abandoned the staff the staff and the nurses there have run away so that this problem is that very huge problem right now and they're asking why is this taking place or when they contagion themselves so they're talking about relatives visiting them this doesn't occur in concert nursing homes not being medicalized so passionately regional governments being being being blamed because of the situation of these crops so there's a there's a long story behind. well italy has reported its lowest daily death toll from corona virus in almost a week 727 people died in the past 24 hours taking the total to more than 13000 however the number of new infections did rise more sharply than the previous day to more than

spanish government prime minister put their sentence set the yes collation that would start from a 9th would be very secure and will be gradual and various no he also gave all the power to the health ministry to make any decisions regarding this. lockdown measures whether to to implement them or to revoke whatever the they decided to. south africa's president has announced a $26000000000.00 rescue package to deal with the economic impact of covert 19 so around of course are unveiled what he called an extraordinary budget in a special address to the nation about $2600000000.00 will go to the poor in the form of grants south africa's already under a 5 week lockdown it has more than $3400.00 infections and $58.00 deaths and then on top of that more than $70000.00 south african soldiers which is nearly the entire standing army of being deployed to enforce the lockdown they will join in the early $2300.00 personnel already on the streets from a dealer in johannesburg forest says the army's been criticized for its selective enforcement of locked down roads. it's areas like this which so far those 2000 troops you mentioned have been deployed and are monitoring movements here they're patrolling th

spanish government the prime minister better sentence set the yes collation that would start from a 9 would be very secure and would be gradual and various no he also gave all the power to the health ministry to make any decisions regarding this. down measures whether to to implement them or to develop whatever they sat into thanks very much. elsewhere in europe the number of new infections in germany has gone up for a 2nd day the number of new infections increasing more than 2200 cases were reported on weapons today bringing the total in europe's biggest economy to nearly 146000 another 281 germans have died from cope with 19 in the past 24 hours now earlier this week locked down restrictions were relaxed slightly some shops and businesses were allowed to reopen half a century ago the 1st earth day mobilized millions of americans to fight for the protection of the planet this year amid available pandemic the battle has particular importance his necke clock. earth day a question of survival with c.b.s. news correspondent walter cronkite. but if you think they in american history as i live today the grainy story of the day half a century ago was fashionable 5th avenue was off limits to auto