cruise liner hit by the coronavirus off the coast of panama 4 people died on board the dutch owned zonda sue others tested positive passengers with no symptoms have been transferred to a sister ship authorities had lifted a ban to allow the vessels through the panama canal on their way to florida. russia's state controlled oil company rosneft will sell its assets in venezuela to a russian state company the oil giant says the move is due to ongoing u.s. sanctions the united states and press the company to halt venezuelan operations which help bolster the government of embattled president nicolas maduro. a tornado ripped through northeast arkansas on saturday injuring 6 people and causing major damage to a shopping mall and jonesboro municipal airport in the u.s. due to the coronavirus most stores in that mall were closed likely lessening the number of people at risk from the severe weather. all self isolation hasn't stopped the rotterdam philharmonic from performing what you might call a confinement concerto the musicians came together virtually from their homes with each playing their pa

zonda is a journalist who has been looking at the situation in zimbabwe this is how she sums up what is happening and her country. ending the drought just highlights very issues for the current administration and there is a lot of reacting and not an act that many for months started here on it there wasn't enough planning there wasn't enough disaster management there wasn't enough information for her round to all of it does it encourage more to prices and food prices that are affecting millions of audience today i'm just rounding up the sun i just in a sentence and i thought how does symbolically get out of the situation basic decided that. this country. you know and we lose the ability to do what this is the starting point the question will leitch oh i guess ok. what do we we're going to consult with us all right every time we speak about zimbabwe there's always a crisis to discuss we continue this conversation online at a.j. stream and al-jazeera dot com forward slash the strain thanks for watching everybody see you next time. from london broadcast center to special guests in conve

arriving on the border could prompt a repeat of the 2015 refugee crisis the need to have these a max zonda reports from cast in these on the greek side of the border where they have been clashes between refugees and border forces in recent days. exhausted and with nowhere to turn to these young pakistani men managed to slip into greece in bashir says the turkish military force them to the border he tells us they've been walking aimlessly for the last 10 hours. we're being moved from one side to the other the military is doing that we're stuck in the middle in the beginning there were 20 to 25 people that only us 3 made it the others were arrested they know that if they are caught by the greek police they too will be arrested. others didn't even get that far like these migrants who gathered behind the border fence in turkey in an attempt to cross greek security forces used tear gas against them and allegedly even deadly force. these images from the other side of the border were given to us by the turkish government injured migrants being carried around from the fence. says greg security for

passengers have died on board a cruise ship anchored off the coast of panama more than 130 people on the zonda are reporting flu like symptoms and to have tested positive for corona virus the vessel has been receiving medical supplies the operator of the ship holland america line plans to transfer healthy passengers to another one of the chips. a number of confirmed corona virus cases in latin america has risen rapidly to above 10000 but the full extent of the disease is believed to be far greater in a region where some countries are hesitating to take stronger measures such as the sea newman reports. inderal senior at brazil's largest favela volunteers distribute donations of soap and disinfectant to people in ri brazil has the highest number of cases and deaths attributed to coal that 95 people live in finland the descends his house and she's worried. the majority is simi is who work and get paid by the day so we hope we can get help. in the absence of stronger government measures in some slums local armed gangs are reportedly imposing lockdowns to slow the spread in group weeks for people w

and based on what we're seeing here at elmhurst hospital that breaking point might be now paperless zonda al-jazeera new york talk to final site is national director of primary care for chan med an organization that operates 59 sentence for seniors in 39 cities across the u.s. he joins us now via skype from tampa florida good to have you with us you and your organization were ahead of the curve so to speak as far as the coronavirus is concerned you started to take action pretty early on that we needed to we focus on elderly care our average patients in 7274 years old so back in december when we 1st started hearing about this chronic virus we created a task force an amazing task force led by an actress disease doctor and we started preparing at that time we take things like this very seriously i mean we take the flu for example we knew that this year's flu season was going to be busy and based on reports that we had from australia so where in the country average american adult we probably already to 43 percent vaccination rates with our patients that are seen at our at our centers are seen

ventilator and who will be given it instead for new york a need for medical supplies and soon gabriel zonda 000 new york to his ear has joined a list of countries that have ordered a national lockdown the missions will stop people leaving their homes and traveling between cities cafes and restaurants in all major cities will also be closed to see a record of its 1st death on thursday a curfew across jordan is starting on saturday morning people are being told not to leave their homes unless it's absolutely necessary all shops across the kingdom have been ordered to close the information minister says those who violate the curfew will be jailed. or religious leaders are having to walk a fine line between encouraging prayer among the faithful but not in places of worship churches mosques and temples are largely off limits as part of efforts to stop coronavirus spreading ahmed al has more. until a few weeks ago this was how it looked when pope francis gave his weekly audience in the vatican. but on wednesday he used a video link to address the roman catholic faith from about the pandemic. toda

citizens aboard the zonda some of them from the very area he's talking about the mayor of fort lauderdale where that ship is supposed to dock has said he's horrified of plans for it to dock they're saying unless they get plans in place for those people to be quarantined and treated they absolutely will not accept that so there's a lot of books passing going on but it seems like there's on dom's fate is unknown at this point the mayor of fort lauderdale ports saying perhaps they should continue up the eastern seaboard to a naval base but these people on board the ship have been on board since the beginning of the month they set off on board as ari's they went around chile they were stuck in panama for a while until the panamanian authorities allowed them to pass through the panama canal so they're about 3 days away from the state of florida and as yet their fate is unknown but it certainly seems like the authorities here will not welcome this vessel all the passengers on board with open arms incidentally there are around 200 people on board the ship just over a 1000 in total on that ship t