with more from teheran we know is that this is what the revolutionary guard the eye or g.c. say is their 1st military satellite being launched into space they call it the newer one and his orbiting in the thermosphere at around 425 kilometers up that's about half the distance of the 1st satellite ever launched into space by soviet russia sputnik of course now we do know what that iran has for the 1st several years for the 1st decade of this century they've been developing the kind of rockets required to achieve orbital launch they achieved that in 2009 and since then they've launched a number of satellites. coronavirus developments now the u.s. senate's passed a nearly $500000000000.00 relief package providing aid for small businesses and hospitals struggling in the pandemic the bill now goes to the house of representatives for a vote donald trump also promising to help the u.s. oil sector as prices fall because of anxiety over the economic damage from the virus brant crude the international benchmark for oil is around $17.00 a barrel its lowest point in 2 decades but a stra

has called for iran to be held accountable after teheran successfully launched its 1st military satellite on wednesday iran's revolutionary guard says it will allow them to quote monitor the world from space. and the u.n. security council is meeting on thursday to discuss plans by israel to annex parts of the occupied west bank the u.s. sectors take my compost is that decision should be left to the israeli government. signed an executive order suspending immigration into the united states for 60 days he says it will safeguard american jobs during the pandemic the outbreak in resulting lockdowns of lead to a surge in unemployment nationwide the critics say the order will only affect a small number of people the strain in prime minister scott morrison says his country is winning the fight against corona virus and is on the path back to normal life just 11 newer cases reported on thursday and one death arson says the government's focus now is the economy we are on the road back. and that is demonstrated by the images that we've already taken and we're on the y. back to a covered saif economy

you talk about teheran and and one big difference was his declining help. do you believe if he had been healthy and if he had continued as he was at teheran, the decisions would have been different. >>> well, that's the most difficult question. historians are still debating that and it becomes a rather political debate. i cannot believe that fdr wouldn't have been tougher with him if he had been in good health. when you read the documents there are careful minutes taken during the conference. he is always deferring to the president. the president is running the conference. well, the fact is the president didn't run the conference. stalin and churchill did and battled over poland. and ultimately it would have made that much difference. particularly when they're unwilling to surrender territory. who knows. in some ways it was a relief to end the book where i did and leave those questions to another biographer of a subsequent president. how do you excuse fdr for not informing truman of the a. bomb or can you excuse him? >> i can't. as i say in the book it's ve

not until november 1943 at the big 3 meeting in teheran were they able to agree to a spring 1944 invasion. >> it also included talks of a post war nation. fears lead the russians to demand territorial adjustments in eastern europe to establish a larger post war buffer zone between germany and the ussr. they also agreed nothing less than an unconditional surrender from the axis powers. as dawn broke on june 6th, 1944, the largest amphibious invasion force in history masked in the waters of the english channel. the long awaited invasion of northwestern europe, a second front was underway. code named operation overload the massive invasion had taken years to organize. hundreds of thousands of men and millions of tons of weapons and equipment were transported to britain. it consisted of americans, britains and canadians. in the tense early hours of the assault fdr monitored reports from the front. that evening he delivered a statement to the american people. it took the form of a prayer which he read on national radio. >> almighty god, our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a m

the us has called for iran to be held accountable after teheran successfully launched its 1st military satellite iran's revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space washington has accused iran in the past of using its space program as a cover for missile development from teheran so the reports. on wednesday morning the world a will to news of a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. the newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives iran's military new strategic advantages or that. it is a necessity for such powerful defense forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of the world have no comprehensive defense plan if they don't have a place in space for today we can monitor the world from space and it means boosting strategic data for the i.r.g.c. it putting the satellite into orbi

has called for iran to be held accountable have to teheran successfully launched its 1st military satellite on wednesday the revolutionary guard says it will allow them to monitor the world from space and the u.n. security council's meeting on thursday to discuss plans by israel to an expanse of the occupied west bank the u.s. secretary of state says that should be left to be used very governance hated always got the news hour in 25 minutes time hours next. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the wound. so no matter where you call your hand. al-jazeera bringing you the news and current affairs that matter t.v. . al-jazeera. desperate for oppress the laws millions of people still refuge in europe sometimes their dreams sangria realized sometimes disenchantment twister let's draw it from. in the 1st of 2 films on these conflicting experiences people in power has been to the gym and switching their generosity and open office be making markets to great. santa. how nice. i like this shiny. now if last time i saw salting of the not cool months in this is yes. i know

we're expecting a week later around april 18th or 19th for those decisions to then make their way to teheran province and the capital here and to iran but at the same time the government knows that there is risk here they've done the cost benefit analysis they know they need to move forward they know they need to protect the country's economy as much as they do the public health but they've also been telling people that they should continue to abide by medical requirements by health requirements with social distancing rules as much as possible large businesses large shopping malls football stadiums cinemas different venue for events those will largely remain closed anything that creates a mass gathering will be controlled but at the same time this is a country where the majority of the economy is run by small and medium businesses those businesses will be given the option of opening up again then backdrop our correspondent and karen thank you very much for that. well now moving over to the united states which has now recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the coronavirus for a 2nd day in a row

stop the flights and with regards to quarantining home the world health organization sent a team to teheran and the head of that team actually did an interview on international media and they said that what iran did was the right thing at the world health organization was opposed to a quarantine they said it's not doable and what happened what was done in china they said cannot be repeated in iran and should not be repeated so they actually told me it was not in his in their view iranians you how you think i said at a time that doesn't make you a friend it was a member of the you told me at the beginning of this interview that you now have shut down city you now can't go outside you are doing classes from why not do that months ago 6 weeks ago. maybe the situation evolved the world health organization guidelines evolve and change at that time the world health organization team which came to iran and went home and stayed in bomb with the iranians that was the decision that was made by the iranians to with the support of the world health organization so if you want to criticize anyone go crit

been reopens the united nations has expressed concern for the safety of prisoners samus ravi is in teheran where officials are worried by people returning to normal life. in the last 24 hours we've seen 158 new reported deaths from the corona virus this is the largest it's been in recent days we've also seen 22560 new cases so that is lower in terms of overall infection rate that we've been we've seen in recent days but the numbers are staying steady and this is happening at a time when the no rooms holiday period has ended and what we're seeing on the streets of to iran is that people are beginning to come out of their homes they are beginning to return to work there is more traffic on the roads people are opening shops and businesses despite the fact the government state or stay at home order or stay at home suggestion to its people remains in place the health ministry has said that this is a worrying sign that they understand that people need to go back to work that they need to continue to carry on with their lives to be able to make money to pay their rent to be able to purchase food

has called for iran to be held accountable after teheran successfully launched its military its 1st military satellites iran's revolutionary guard says that it's now able to monitor the world from space trumpet ministration has warned in the past that terror ron is using its space program as a cover for missile development from tehran of zeros in this robbery rules. on wednesday morning the will to news of a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. the newer or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives iran's military new strategic advantages or that. it is a necessity for such powerful defense forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of the world have no comprehensive defense plan if they don't have a place in space today we can monitor the world from space and it means boosting strategic data for the i.r.g.c. putting the sat

still too dangerous to open up any of the shops in those spaces but the traders we've spoken to in teheran as back alley bazaars they've told us that not only have they not made any money for months but it will take many more months to get back on their feet they say they too need to pay their rent and meet their expenses let alone try to turn a profit and that they hope that the government lifts the remaining control measures entirely in the coming weeks now president hassan rouhani has championed the idea of what he calls smart distancing things start going back to normal but people simultaneously maintain strict rules of hygiene but iran's deputy health minister who contracted cope with 19 himself in recent days he said that iran is the country's achilles heel a weak point when it comes to fighting this fire us and government figures do suggest that the infection and death rates are going down and everyone here also hopes that it stays that way but the government has now effectively shifted the onus put the onus on its people and after weeks of being indoors there is this isolation fati

and disinfect the city's streets to try to prevent the corona virus spreading the reports now from teheran on the efforts that have brought people together. it may not look like it but this quiet suburb is a kind of battlefield and these men and women are locked in combat with an invisible enemy so when the corona virus outbreak began months ago thousands of people like them across iran volunteered to help fight the spread of covert 19 every day since they spend 5 hours spraying down public spaces with industrial sanitizer to kill the coronavirus before it can kill anyone else this is just one of dozens of teens across the city. it's harder for g.g. is citizens as tehran to to do blood week and would soon or you do we have doctors we have engineers we bankers. call all agents good people every day there are more and more volunteers coming to us we would like to have proper equipment close to where we're trying to make as much. as possible the pandemic caught world governments off guard health care providers 1st responders even militaries all stretched thin civilian volunteers have helped t

of hero was given rare access to a hospital in teheran have a look inside. the grown a virus has mobilized all medical staff in the world here in iran too all medical staff have been mobilized we are here one of the most important iranian hospitals dedicated to treating people with the virus the medical teams and staff are available here 24 seventh's to monitor and diagnose all the new cases here is the place where new patients are received and given oxygen's via these ventilators they're then placed under strict supervision as doctors monitors their conditions the patients are also given necessary medicines according to the international medical protocol in order to help the patients recover iran is one of the worst affected countries in the world but hopes are still high that country can overcome the crisis as more than $17000.00 cases have recovered iran still needs a lot of ventilators and medicines to fight off the virus and that's why it's urging the international community to put pressure on the u.s. to allow it to use cash from european banks to impo

hard many restaurants of closed and others have had to reduce their opening times looks about from teheran. for many iranians there is no better way to break their fast than with one of the country's most traditional meals are slow cooked stews of meat lentils and vegetables they're high in protein packed with flavor and affordable but this year sales are down because of covert $95.00 incident that the shuttle mission. there usually more customers a moment on and more profit coronaviruses had a big impact to close for 2 months but reopened recently with health protocols people are still afraid we're waiting to see how it will go but there are a list customers. restaurants are closed most of the day in keeping with islamic tradition business hours in other sectors also reduced ramadan can be a time of lost income for food service workers and day laborers so traders sell homemade food on the streets to supplement their income. before the corona virus outbreak restaurants were already struggling months of political and economic on rest meant fewer customers. many small businesses have gone un

program as a cover for missile development though iran denies that we've got same bus ravi with us in teheran to the talks are now actually saying that the moving pictures we saw still pictures but actually this launch happening tell us what will you know about it. well what we know is that iranians in the world this morning woke up to news of what was essentially a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guard corps from a location in iran central desert this morning the i.r.g.c. say that they have successfully used a 2 stage rocket to launch a military satellite into earth's orbit now we do know that above us at around 400 kilometers in thermosphere the nur of the name of the rocket translated from farsi into english it stands for light is now orbiting above us and giving iran's military enormous strategic advantage we've seen iran trying to develop a space program satellite program rocket program trying to develop its own launch vehicles to be able to launch satellites into space it has done so successfully in the past but this is the 1st time we've seen iran launch a spe

we report from inside a hospital in teheran as iran warns of a 2nd wave of covert 19 in sanctions. and in other headlines shades of promise houses from east africa or overcoming olds to a trans global attention for the world. we begin in the united states where the trumpet ministration is ramping up measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic president donald trump says the military is being deployed as many states complain that they are ill equipped to handle the outbreak more than 300000 people are known to be infected with the virus in the u.s. over 8000 have died trump has warned of a tough week ahead saying quote there will be a lot of death we're going to be adding a tremendous amount of military. to help supplement the state's thousands of soldiers souses thousands of medical workers professionals nurses doctors. and it'll be a large number it'll be will be telling them over the next very short period where they're going and they're going into war they're going into a battle in the u.k. the number of people dying continues to rise $708.00 in the last 24 hours it's the bigges

still too dangerous to open up any of the shops in those spaces but the traders we've spoken to in teheran is back alley bazaars they've told us that not only have they not made any money for months but it will take many more months to get back on their feet they say they too need to pay their rent and meet their expenses let alone try to turn a profit and that they hope that the government lifts the remaining control measures entirely in the coming weeks now president hassan rouhani has championed the idea of what he calls smart distancing things start going back to normal but people simultaneously maintain strict rules of hygiene but iran's deputy health minister who contracted cope with 19 himself in recent days he said that iran is the country's achilles heel a weak point when it comes to fighting this fire it's a new government figures do suggest that the infection and death rates are going down and everyone here also hopes that it stays that way but the government has now effectively shifted the onus put the onus on its people and after weeks of being indoors there is this isolation

the toy doctor of teheran we meet the man bringing broken toys doctor lawyer. and install germany's top football league says teams could be back in action in just over 2 weeks time those stories after the break. how it's warming up across the middle east now we're getting up to wards the 40 degree mark as we go on through this weekend largely clear skies loss of dry weather lots of sunshine further north weakens showers just spinning out of eastern turkey just around the coax is pushing across iraq into iran some of them on the shop soggy much see the odd shower there into georgia maybe it as a bash on the media but also as you can see it's largely dry course stiff wind blowing in across northern parts of saudi arabia into iraq for a time when those winds swing around some of a southerly direction as we go through sunday hence that rise in temperatures 39 celsius a possibility here on sunday could touch 41 in kuwait meanwhile across the other side of the red sea we got the usual scattering of showers there around the ethiopian highlands somalia still seeing som

also we meet the toy doctor of teheran bringing broken toys back to life. into the news the aim is to develop a coronavirus vaccine as soon as possible and i'm sure everyone gets it leaders from around the world are joining the w.h.o. in what's being called a landmark collaboration to pull together billions of dollars and ongoing research but the u.s. with the death toll now of over $50000.00 will at this stage not be part of it we begin our coverage with this report from diplomatic correspondent james bays. it's just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u.s. leadership in a global crisis and world leaders coming together with a response not the idea of this event to coordinate the search for a vaccine testing and treatments for covert 19 and to make sure all the widely available the world needs distorts and it needs them fast. but the experiences has stored those that even when tools are available they had been not been equally available to all we cannot allow that to happen and what feedback we may deem require is the most mass