Markets shoot up 9 percent as top politicians indicate they are nearing a deal on the jon stimulus package. So then the worlds biggest sporting event has been postponed for up to a year the japanese Prime Minister asked for the Tokyo Olympic games to be put off saying when it happens itll be proof of victory over the coronavirus like here brian has this report. Theres been weeks of speculation about whether the tokyo games would go ahead the corona virus pandemic thats caused chaos the world over made the event increasingly unlikely now japans Prime Minister says tokyo 2020 will be held in 2021 i feel the money as the host of the Tokyo Olympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the athletes for the athletes of the world for them to be able to compete in the best environment and also for the games to be one in which it is safe and worry free for spectators i asked if it would be possible to consider perspiring in the games for approximately one year this week in saying several countries signaled they wouldnt be sending teams to the event originally planned for july several input qualifiers had to be postponed as a result of the outbreak putting many athletes at a disadvantage and the increasing restrictions on Global Travel made even getting to the competition nearly impossible it was becoming increasingly difficult any way in which it could be you know this year. You know you think about it it operates on so many different levels. Dont think about. Just 2 levels around the world which one train for something that youre not sure about well its going to help a lot and theyre all in lockdown many are in lockdown scenarios japan had warned that putting off the games but its 1000000000. 00 budget at risk its chief Organizer Says he still hasnt worked out how much the delay will cost or who will pay. John. Im sorry about it and i regret it but in a way its also a sigh of relief Prime Minister and president had a call on short notice and it gave us a sense of direction so thats a relief but it doesnt solve everything this could be a good pretext for us to go forward and we can prepare for an even better olympic and Paralympic Games and what we plan for this year. 3 of the pick games have been cancelled before because of the world wars but its the 1st time in the games 124 yet modern history that a competition has been delayed during peace time japans Prime Minister says when the event does go on it will be proof that the world has overcome the virus while the International OlympicCommittee Says it will leave the flame burning until then as a symbol of commitment and hope brian aljazeera. Where the World Health Organization has warned that the pandemic is still in a nascent stage with infections expected to rise considerably it says about 85 percent of new cases all from the United States and europe spains or its highest daily increase in deaths with another 514 people dead and that brings the death toll to 2700 more than 40000 people there are infected 5000 of them Health Workers fighting to contain the pandemic europe was declared the epicenter of the pandemic 2 weeks ago but the w. H. O. Now warns well it could be replaced by the United States more than 530 deaths and 46000 cases have been reported there so far nearly half of them in new york state alone but in china restrictions are being lifted in here bay province where the outbreak began of course the one exception is the city of at the worst affected area and indian Prime Minister said that a nationwide lockdown will be enforced at midnight that covers 1300000000. 00 people india has reported more than 500. 00 confirmed cases and 10 deaths. Would it be a story are. Listen carefully the whole country from today to midnight the entire country it would be in a complete. Order to save india in order to save the citizens of india and to save myself save you and your family today at 12 midnight there would be a total ban of venturing out of your home every state every state to every district every village every locality is being put on lockdown or lets get more and not from new delhi is with paranoia since thursday evening is when he 1st addressed the nation and he asked everyone to observe this 14 hour voluntary curfew and since then that while entry curfew was extended in 75. 00 of the countrys districts that was 110th that happened on monday halfway through the day yesterday on monday that was extended by the end of the day 3 quarters of the country was under some kind of a lockdown and the Prime Minister came out this evening and unsurprisingly as more and more of the country is under some kind of locked lockdown whether its complete or pashtun he announced that in fact it is the entire country that its for 21. 00 days and that that is the only way that india can fight fight coronavirus saying that you know much more developed nations have have struggled against it and that these precautions have to be taken now if india has any chance of fighting it well spain has reported it shop as daily increase in coronavirus cases with infections rising among Health Workers as well we can speak to journalists meltzer who joins me now from with dread and give us an update 1st of all in the latest situation in spain. Well the spanish Cabinet Meeting has approved today 2 percent to parliament a 15 days extension of a state of emergency that will mean going to april 11th now they will pass this to parliament for approval because these are all exceptional measures for spanish constitution however the Prime Minister by those contests has already been giving the indication that he would be he will be receiving the backing of may your Political Party regarding economic measures the company has also approved the terms of the 1st tranche of coronavirus gunky for big Business Loans of 20000000000 euros and were hearing big numbers of help because getting infected is that well the Health Care Workers infected with percent of 14 percent of people infected of coronavirus in space they are all demanding an immediate delivery of protective equipment such as gowns masks like the glasses that theyre running out all we have to remember that all these people are fighting in the front line of the koran on virus battles on the need to perform their work in many most basic conditions with no risk of getting infected or a strategy the current coronavirus the Health Minister today made a call to the rest of banished regions asking to supply all this equipment if possible as madrid has become the epicenter of the spanish outbreak with more than 12012000 of people infected out of the 40000 cases nationwide. Well even if its not been this much of her who joins us from madrid thanks very much indeed and let me just bring you some breaking news from italy were getting the latest number of confirmed cases of corona virus which apparently has risen from 69176 and risen to i should say since 1176 from 63927 that was on monday and the death toll from current the coronavirus outbreak arises 574326800 and 20 so its risen from 574326820 thats the situation in italy markets in the United States to up by 9 percent as congressional leaders indicate they are close to a deal on a trillion dollar stimulus package to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus that speak to our White House Correspondent can be how come shes live in washington d. C. And kimberly theyve been tussling so are they not close. According to nancy pelosi the House Speaker the very close she said that several hours ago she has not changed her projections hoping that this is something that will calm the markets that have been jittery over the last few weeks and to say the very least losing most of their gains since donald trump took the oval office in 2017 so this is something theyve been working very hard on that and there has been some criticism from republicans that the democrats have injected almost everything including the kitchen sink in terms of their wish list into this almost 2 trillion dollars legislative package and the on the other side there has been the argument from democrats that republicans have been writing blank checks to big business with little oversight and few limits and the ordinary american is getting hurt as a result the truth probably somewhere in the middle and this is something that the white house has been watching very carefully in fact donald trump is holding a virtual town hall in the rose garden of the white house as we speak and he is eager to get this legislation signed is something that hes been pushing as treasury secretary steve has been to shuttle diplomacy between the white house and capitol hill trying to get this done the president though very keen to get this done for another reason it will flood the economy so he says with cash and that hes very hopeful that he can have this happen because as cording to the president just now you can destroy a country this way closing it down referring to the americans that are being forced to stay home work from home we dont turn the country off in fact despite the fact that Public Health officials have his suggested that this could get worse before it gets better in terms of chronic virus infections because the president has also intimated he would like to see some of the healthier workers perhaps go back to work at the end of this 15 day period were in the middle of right now in terms of social distancing and keeping people at home so that the controversy over going to. When you watch this town hall to see what else the u. S. President has to say in the midst of all this one of their tidbit of news the Vice President saying that ventilators badly needed in the state of new york now the epicenter of virus that 2000 are being sent to that state today another 2000 tomorrow he could tell you that only addresses perhaps half the need according to the governor of that state so that is also another point of controversy here in the United States as it continues to battle this outbreak kimberly thanks very much wolf from washington d. C. Lets head to new york thats the worst region in the United States is under standing by right there and gave just a little bit more about the situation in new york and how people are faring. There now 25000 confirmed cases in new york state thats of more than 4000 and more since 24 hours ago the situation is getting worse not better according to the Governor Andrew Cuomo who recently gave a press conference just a few minutes ago and this is the headline he said that the rate of infection in new york is doubling every 3 days thats happening faster than he could have ever imagined he said let me show you where im standing right now this is the Javits Convention center of the westside of made town manhattan and why am i showing you this building is the biggest Convention Center in new york one of the biggest in the United States it is now being converted into a makeshift hospital because new york is anticipating a shortage of hospital beds by the governors saying they are going to need 140000 hospital beds now and they only have 50000 roughly available when are they going to need this the governor said that the apex of when this coronaviruses is going to hit but primarily the apex will point to all the people that have it now that become sick that apex is going to happen in between 14. 21 days. Right now when tens of thousands of people are sick with coronavirus could be flooding into hospitals in new york city they simply say they do not have enough beds for them thats why theyre taking these measures to convert places like this into hospitals but this wont be nearly enough this will only hold 1000 asio say hospital beds are only as i said good as if you have 2 things people nurses and doctors to work with them and number 2 is kimberly was just mentioning ventilators for the patients to keep them breathing and alive new york is short on both of those the governor said hes put a call out urgently to any retired doctors and nurses to come out of retirement to help with the expected of corner virus patients that are going to need help and he also said ventilators he said we need 30000 ventilators in new york right now he said they are short by at least 22000 he needs and he needs emergency or again thanks very much for the good news on the new york still ahead here in algeria Remote Learning the new reality for teachers and students with the coronavirus shut down. 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Hello the next westerly depression wave is running through iran slowly speaking if you want to wind it thats a cold front ahead of it which gave hail the size of golf balls in a man a couple days ago on the tail and hes going to get some more pretty big downpours mostly of rain along the coast of yemen much of the Arabian Peninsula now is the cloudy bit breezy and dry the temperature in the house at 27 there is still rain to come in lebanon and Northern Syria and eastern turkey was known as cold as it was that doesnt mean its the end of it although it looks pretty good for thursday relatively speaking with showers throughout iran which could turn quite heavy the next storm systems or developing this time in the central med rugen the eastern med not sure his movement yesterday if it comes towards a levant well narrative so in the immediate future this is fine looking weather for the temperature in car run about middle twentys now the breeze coming off shore which means potential for sandstorm somewhere south in libya and then the onshore component is some pretty nasty weather in tunisia to stand to 10 degrees the high temperatures on shore near gale i suspect a lot of rain just on the coast and as bit of a northerly right into morocco has a few showers and there is matins or even at low levels but robot is now 80. Frank assessments the one good thing about these bush bars is that really well you know the politics of Climate Change informed opinions economy i think is actually whats keeping donald trump afloat right now critical debate sequel on those days dont even know what the noise all about this argument is astonishingly patronize an indepth analysis of the days headlines this is the beginning of the iraq of the new conscious and aware use of that struggle against an ethnic sectarian kotor inside story on aljazeera. Rule. Already. Does or a reminder of our top stories this hour and the worlds biggest sporting event has been postponed for up to one year to safeguard the health of athletes and everybody else involved in the coronavirus pandemic tokyo summer and the pics want you to begin in july. Indian Prime MinisterNarendra Modi has announced a nationwide lockdown will be in force at midnight 1300000000 people will be affected india has reported more than 500 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 10 deaths. Spains and seth toll has surged with another 514 People Killed more than 40000 people there are infected 5000 of them are Health Workers fighting to contain the pandemic and weve just heard that the death toll in italy has risen by another 743 britain is opening a new temporary hospital to help cope with the growing number of coronavirus patients is also seeking a quarter 1000000 volunteers to help with his National Health service and the vulnerable of 420000 people have now died in the country lets cross to a rory challenge he joins us by skype from lewis in the United Kingdom and rory favorites talk about here but 1st of all briefly if you would to tell us more about this is temporary hospital and the volunteers being called to arms if you like. Its going to have space for we understand 4000. 00 people to wards of 2000 each its going to be in science the xcel. Next bishan hole in east london in the docklands area of these londons so this is something that weve seen in other countries too particularly spain i think france has one as well if my memory serves me right. Where the big exhibitions senses these huge spaces are requisitions and turned into field hospitals the u. K. One. Is going to be operational we understand from next week and its going to be starved by the n. H. S. An interesting need the army as well so theres going to be a military component as well these things being cold field hospitals and it really does feel like this is a war this is the kind of thing you have happening in wartime where you have mass casualties thats whats the u. K. Is expecting. The Health Secretary is putting out a call is he said that a quarter of a 1000000 volunteers to come and sign up and help parents in the National Health service they have already hands they say nearly 12000 doctors nurses etc on serving the kool to come back to the n. H. S. People who went off to other careers or whats its private medicine or the other avenues are now coming back in a temporary we understand although i think to help out in this crisis they do you k. Obviously thinks that it is nowhere near the peak of this yet and that things are going to get a whole lot worse and thats why its trying as quickly as it can and to build this extra capacity to deal with what i expect will be huge numbers of sick ryan and rory we have the latest news from italy is virus numbers and deaths indeed and the news might just that hopes of an improvement that seem to be emerging of the last couple of days. Yeah its not good news is it is it nick they the latest death toll from italy 743. New deaths for the last 2 days so on monday and sunday. There had been lower figures posted for each of those days saturday was was he there was 800 dead new that announced and then on sunday it was 651 but on monday it was 602 so people had been hoping that perhaps italy had started to turn a corner and that the situation there was a biting slightly but this new figure 743 deaths i think sinks that hypothesis of course well have to see what happens over the following days as well the there is some optimism though that the infection rates in each of the might be slowing but thats scant consolation i think at the moment or or yes as you say well see how it fares the next couple of days thanks very much. Now 80 percent of the world School Age Children are out of class because of the corona virus thats according to the United Nations in the United States nearly every state has closed all or some of their schools some will not reopen until autumn christensen amy has more from new york where teachers are attempting to do their job online. Once youve looked into class you can figure out all of the work you need to do the subject so for teaching has never been quite like this for erin showmen or his 5th graders so a lot of people have been thinking like what do i do every day can we do this attendance at this new York Public School and morning meeting are now online my goal right now is to resume some sense of normality for students in my. Specially and parents ive ive had a lot of parents reaching out to me looking for some sort of schedule looking for some sort of routine that they could fall into thats no easy task in the city suddenly shut down amidst a coronavirus pandemic its 1100000 students ordered to stay home its teachers told to transition to Remote Learning to be fresh its up to the classroom there were many children like late and the layman have parents trying to work from home too its a lot harder than i thought it was going to be. I thought that when they started today that. It would make my life easier like i would be able to do my work set them up with their Remote Learning but that isnt exactly what happened is they dont theyre not computer experts now and the question isnt cast and of course not all families have the Necessary Technology city officials have lent out thousands of devices of course schools provide much more than just an education theyre also a source of free and childcare for families who work thats why some of them are staying open to provide free takeout meals for families that need them and childcare for the children of 1st responders transportation and sanitation workers who still have to go to work. Not every class can have online meetings many teachers are relying on apps like google classroom to share assignments administrators. Pleading for patience as they work out the best way to manage the new form of teaching teaching students and all of us a thing or 2 about learning on the fly were doing pretty good for day one christensen Amy Al Jazeera new york. To take you now where the demand for sanitizes Hygiene Products has caused prices to soul country is nearly 1600. 00 confirmed cases including 37. 00 deaths in the senate because hillary reports from istanbul mens cologne is also high in demand carrying a cologne thats important for both hospitality and hygiene in turkey its not popular because its. Lemon to kidnap senate saris or is for turks struggling to control the spread of coronet virus after the 1st diagnosed case was announced earlier this month panic buyers swamp supermarkets and pharmacies demand for the germ killer has leapt 5 fold the other feel that out as the Global Demand rose turkeys stocks begin to melt as well and to fix our prices we are doing our best to resist us we dont know how much longer we can continue to accuse the pentagon foreign suppliers for dick long which contains 80 percent ethanol the turkish government scrapped through corn meant to add ethanol to gasoline for 3 months in a bid to boost disinfectant production to help combat the spread of corinna virus all exports of this infected ethanol and medical fabrics now need government approval because of the high demand thats home cologne and sanitizer producers say ill call it like gold nowadays thats why they declined requests from abroad to meet the local market simmons and theyre urging people not to over buy in panic for a fair distribution. As well in school and other sanitation products were meant for face masses also wound prices have soared 70 percent there if their core republicans in this media countries that were exposed to the pandemic earlier than turkey faced domestic demand booms for sanitizers and didnt back didnt their experience told us to analyze our stocks considering turkeys population and the need for disinfecting the environment our domestic stock should be well magine under control preapproval exports is vital now turkey is present has told people to stay at home for at least 3 weeks to stop the spread of coronet virus and announce a 16000000000. 00 Economic Relief package that includes postponing that payment and reducing taxes in various sectors and turkey Central Banks cut the spent what Interest Rate to try and reduce the impact of the virus turkeys major Tourism Industry exports in consumers are all suffering as the value of the iraq continues to fall seen on console of aljazeera and stumble. The closure of many nonessential businesses in australia has led to an estimated 1000000 people losing their jobs over night government is scrambling to provide financial help the experts warn that many businesses will not recover from the crisis if like gauge reports now from sydney. This is now the new normal in australias biggest city locked up shops empty restaurants and streets businesses that are usually filled with paying customers are closed or near empty as more people. And cities go into lockdown the closure of many nonessential businesses in australia like pubs and cinemas led to an estimated 1000000. 00 people losing their jobs over the night and its small and medium sized businesses that a bearing the brunt of this economic crisis stephen spade runs sydneys oldest pub which is now closed hes just laid off 45. 00 workers and doesnt know how hell pay the bills without more Government Intervention going to still you know still i mean were still paying for palestine were going to take our for dreiser running weve had the high now of the scene stuff as well long queues of newly jobless people is snaking around city blocks all facing an uncertain future and in need of financial help in terms of finances the rug has been literally pulled out from underneath us for somebody like mate there is no. Possibility of any work coming forward until productions start up again while theres a lot of uncertainty around how long they help profitable loft the big question is whether through all businesses will be able to weather the storm until then especially with a global recession now i very real prospect. Governments across the world are targeting Small Businesses with hundreds of billions of dollars in loans tax breaks and regulatory relief but many are questioning whether the measures will be enough to soften the blow especially with experts predicting unemployment rates of well over 10 percent in developed nations where expecting this shock manifest itself in unemployment going well through 10 percent a typical. The level of a modern recession towards 20 percent very quickly that is mass unemployment the likes of which we havent seen since the great the person as the number of coronavirus cases grows so too with the shutdowns and social distancing measures right now many of those out of work are finding it hard to know what will happen next gauge aljazeera me. 64 ethiopian migrants have been found dead in a truck container who died from the 6 nations 14 others who were in the container did survive the migrants were discovered when the driver was stopped by police in mozambique local Health Workers believe they were being smuggled into south africa. So then this is our desert these are the top stories in the worlds biggest sporting event has been perspiring for up to one year to safeguard the health of athletes and everybody else involved amid the coronavirus pandemic the tokyo summer olympics were due to begin in july if i killed off. First of all once again i confirmed with i. O. C. President park that there will be no cancellation of Tokyo Olympics or paralympics furthermore as the host of the Tokyo Olympics taking into consideration the Current Situation for the athletes the athletes of the world for them to be able to compete in the best environment and also for the games to be one which is safe and worry free for spectators i asked if it would be possible to consider perspiring the games for approximately a year. Indian Prime Minister nuri modi has announced a nationwide lockdown will be in force at midnight 1300000000 people will be affected india has reported more than 500 confirmed cases of corona virus and deaths. Listen carefully the whole country from today to midnight the entire country it will be in a complete lockdown in order to save india in order to save the citizens of india and to save itself save you and your family today its 12 midnight there would be a total ban of finishing out of your home this every state every territory every district every village every locality is being put on lockdown spains death toll is surge with another 514. 00 People Killed that brings the total to 2700. 00 more than 40000. 00 people there are infected 5000. 00 Health Workers fighting to contain the pandemic and weve just heard that the death toll in italy has risen by another 743 breaking a 2 day downward trend almost 7000 people have died there u. S. President john trump says hes considering how the country kind of reopened for business as soon as possible despite a rapidly growing rate of infections meanwhile u. S. Politicians say they are close to agreeing a trillion dollar stimulus bill youre up to date with headlines here and i was there and got more news coming up right after inside story. As the coronavirus pandemic spreads worries the poor nations wont be able to cope Health Systems are weak in many of these countries and millions of people dont have access to clean water or sanitation so how can we avoid a catastrophe this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program and its corona virus infections have now been reported in nearly every country in the world and the number of people getting sick in your