Transcripts For ALJAZ NEWSHOUR 20240713

Police turn to heavy handed measures. And russias president scales up the response to the outbreak people are ordered to stay at home and a constitutional referendum is delayed. Concerns that the u. S. Could become the next major front in the coronavirus pandemic a growing with more news on the number of cases the governor of new york said they had been a leap of 5000 cases in just the past day with the state alone now recording more than 30000 in total the virus has claimed more lives there than in any other part of the country elsewhere spain now has the worlds 2nd highest number of deaths after 700. 00 in the past 24 hours to a total today 3 and a half 1000 thats half the total of italy there was a glimmer of hope there as the hard hit nobody region reported its smallest number of new deaths in 6 days. When in russia president putin has ordered the military to run drills testing troop readiness to deal with an outbreak is one of a number of emergency measures is implemented in the past couple of days despite the country only officially reporting its 1st 2 deaths in the past hour as well as go to gabriel is under now is in new york how bad is it de gabriel its bad quite frankly and new york is very much now the epicenter of the United States when it comes to this koran a virus pandemic if not the entire western hemisphere quite frankly because there are the numbers here far surpass anywhere else lets get to those just in the last 24 hours the number of confirmed chronic coronavirus cases in new york has jumped by 5000 the number statewide now is 30811 just in the state of new york far surpassing any other state in the United States more than half of all of the cases in the u. S. Are coming from new york in the u. S. Theres about 55000. 00 cases total and here in new york theres an urgent call by the governor for ventilators for sick patients and hospitals the state urgently needs 30000. 00 according to the governor he also said that the state is quickly spending a lot of money billions of dollars and hes asking for federal help to help pay for this battle to combat coronavirus here in new york response to this virus has probably already cost us 1000000000. 00 it will probably cost a several 1000000000. 00 when were done new york city only gets 1300000000. 00 from this package. That is a drop in the bucket as to need i spoke to our house delegation congressional delegation this morning i said to them just doesnt do. And carol given all that what will the days and weeks ahead look like for the people in new york well pretty bleak quite frankly according to the governor i mean hes talking about money there but a lot of what he talked about was all this comes down to is one thing and thats saving lives heres another number the governor is saying that they need 140000 hospital beds in the coming weeks to deal with the flood of sick people that are going to be coming in to the hospitals here just in new york a surge of people he says that peak will probably be in about 2 weeks from now right now they only have 50000 hospital beds available so theyre short about 90000 so were talking numbers of hospital beds but each one of those hospital beds is a person that sick and needs to get taken care of you have hospital beds but they wont do any good if you dont have doctors and nurses hes called out for a recently retired doctors and nurses to come out of retirement to help he said several 1000 of already said they would do that and he also said of course needs ventilators on the streets of new york they are it is quiet you dont see much going on the entire state and city completely pretty much in lockdown all nonessential businesses have been ordered closed that was on monday 100 percent closed for all nonessential businesses so if you have a nonessential business in new york you have to have all your employees working from home pretty much thats exactly what it is normally you have millions of people every day flooding in to new york city for work on top of the 9000000 people that live here thats just not the case anymore the city is essentially empty gabriel is under thank you very much indeed. Doctors in spain say theyre struggling to cope with the rising number of current virus infections many are overworked and under protected the country facing a severe shortage of medical supplies food brennan reports of the situation across europe. Thats a very mature hospital in madrid coronavirus patients now occupy almost every available space. There are beds for 80 patients at this unit as many as 280 people at a time of being treated here and that means chairs trolleys and even floors will have to do is putting unsustainable pressure on spains medical staff 14 percent of whom have themselves become infected. Yes you are afraid for yourself and you are afraid of bringing the virus home because of your family to hear the most the most we are emotionally overwhelmed because we are spending more time at work and working doubly hard because the patients are scattered throughout the hospital. Spain has now joined its early and surpassing chinas death toll from corona virus and the upward curve of the infection shows no sign of slowing even low sensitivity toward the italian Prime Minister is hopeful that stringent restrictions are helping to flatten the upward trajectory of the death toll but in the face of stubborn pockets of noncompliance anyone called leaving the home without good reason now faces an increased financial penalty as much as 3200 dollars. Care homes for the elderly have become the latest battlefront in the war with the virus all of spains 5500 homes are in quarantine some residents are left to die in their own beds in france at a single care home near vote 21 elderly residents became fatalities but he too with. Some people at 1st we thought it was just a simple flu in looked like everything with the thing before but after just 3 days of confinement we realized it wasnt at all the same as usual govinda usually in 3 days we can find and the number of cases decreases reputably that was not the case here it was the opposite after a week it was still rising. According to an internal e. U. Document seen by the reuters news. Agency Member States are struggling with limited stockpiles of medical and protective equipment and limited capacity to scale up or production the document warns the traditional supply chains can only provide 10 percent of whats needed European Union leaders meet in a video summit on thursday to consider that issue and more than one proposal for a special e. U. Crisis center to be established paul brennan aljazeera. For on the situation in spain im joined by Miguel Perez Queen yeah hes a neurosurgeon consultant at a hospital in barcelona he was quarantined on tuesday after a colleague tested positive for the virus and joins us over skype thank you very much indeed for your time so youre a consultant neurologist how did you end up explain to us how you ended up in the fight against the coronavirus well is that simple. Orders of the bet. Patients. Start kind of with interest such as this is the specialists are knowledge of. It or stuff im sure enough there is already. So we all have to help and what was that like i mean it is quite a different situation isnt because you arent aware protective equipment and so on. Well yes it is quite a list physically is comforting and overwhelming in a way says where you started and you had to wear the mask. Gown and the hat and all of those. Is the same to wear a mask for one and 2 hours are or where all night at a hospital in the hour well see how much weight you think youre hot youre sweating you need to think straight take a quick decisions eyes quite. A task in a way physically emotionally based. The woman is it is hard and when you talk about the civil system and being overwhelmed were you able to treat everybody or were having to just lay people and not treat them. Emergency rooms throughout the country was the. Basque country and barcelona and madrid are overwhelmed but asians are youve. Been mentioned before sitting structures on chairs what in gasping for room for treatment. Patients are a limited Mission Emergency room but they want the lobster school room until someone obsessed other other is this charcoal. Man stay for days in images room you know box where you do for a room upstairs and sometime this the box in the you know theres room kind of be occupied i should turn from the lot so. It is tough it is tough and thats only when you want to treat the ones you can treat then theres a those that require intensive treatment or maybe. Really help brewed with through a respirator there not enough in a hospital in and the of the officers are skilled enough. Where. Requires us to make tough choices and you literally have to decide which choose whole dies down who lives. And so that it must be a terrible way to have to work and tell me about the equipment that youre wearing so this is some reports that Spanish Health workers dont have enough protective gear is that it was that your experience. Yes we dont weve seen images of of healthcare workers in asia in japan and korea and china will dress up but he has an essence almost this is that old in other cases i will help this person down as this mass but this is a man to fire with the masks i was just supposed to last for 8 hours were told to use them for a week. Which was it is not up to him. We dont have those they disappear or they get stolen. So that the your you reuse agreements and we may be the only way to have the whole that. Dress like. You see in the you know in the movie in the u. C. Asia so we are really exposed and as you know has been mentioned for 40 percent of our iras cases in spain are heather fellow workers its not just doctors nurses people you know do who feel the hospital are very much force not of the World Health Organization has said today that countries need to find a system to take to find every suspected case a Community Level while whats your impression about how fast the testing is improving in spain or ill with it improving at all. My impression is that cases why the cases are told to stay home and lizzie down to the hospital will be tested. Cases in baby people in contact with cases unless they have symptoms they wont get tested i said if i spend that on is last sunday with colleague we slept on the same insane room or threw him out for a couple hours and he had a cut throat the next. The following day he developed a fever and let yesterday i got a call saying that he was positive and i am sure that isolated and me myself unless i do have to do so i wont get tested so i have to stay home for it if i dont get sometimes i will just rejoin one police you wear a mask and a state but i have been told that france in other hospitals here in barcelona the only larger hospitals. They even are fine you are go back to work right away where im asked to prevent. Your colleagues about that face so its very demanding then we are we feed and the prepare. Recently one of the largest hospital was in madrid the medical staff complain and address the letter to the Prime Minister saying they could work be so so with so little that we met and resources making up as korea with thank you very much indeed for taking the time to talk there and hope that they stay well and your remarks live. On the u. K. Is working trying trace its capacity for coronavirus patients ahead of the countrys expected peak in 2 to 3 weeks time the government has called for a quarter of a 1000000 volunteers to help the National Health service manage during the outbreak and a major Convention Center in the capital is being transformed into a temporary hospital try to haul has more from central london. With enormous gaps having been identified in the ability of the National Health Service Across the United Kingdom to cope with a crisis on the scale after a decade of austerity there is under way now a massive effort effort to scale capacity within the n. H. S. Part of it is happening over there the xcel london its a huge conference an event facility in which military planners and engineers a currently at work preparing an Emergency Hospital 500. 00 beds available next week scaling up to 4000 in the weeks ahead and there are plans for similar sites elsewhere in the country apart from that theres been a call out for 250000 volunteers to help behind the scenes of the n. H. S. Do its work we believe 170000 or more people have answered that call and thousands of retired n. H. S. Staff are being brought out of retirement reregistered and ready to go back to the front lines if required now in that context some very good news emerged out of a parliamentary hearing during the course of the day an eminent scientist an expert on coronavirus and Neil Ferguson told m. P. s that he believes that the combination of this up scaling effort and new rigid stay at home and social distancing rules that have been applied mean that the n. H. S. He believes will overall cope albeit with some areas of severe stress when the peak of this disease arrives in 2 to 3 weeks time and theres news of a brand new home testing kit for corona virus to be rolled out according to Public Health england as soon as next week in its millions available not just to n. H. S. Frontline staff who so badly need to know whether theyve been infected are infected or not but also to members of the public self isolating at home its a 15 minute test a little prick of the finger you find out whether youve got the corona virus and therefore whether youve got an extremely good chance of not getting it again absolutely essential in the fight against this disease. And also in the eventual return of this society and others to normality. Well life is slowly returning to normal for 60000000 People Living in chinas hu bay province there during a Virus Outbreak 1st began there last year and residents have been under Strict Lockdown measures and our structures are easing and many are leaving the area for the 1st time in 2 months to 2 new reports from beijing. Back on the road cars are lining up to leave and the current virus locked down behind after 2 months of empty words and closed borders government travel restrictions on most of the province are being lifted but there are strict conditions before crossing the provincial border residents must show a green card certifying good health and submit employer Contact Details only those with jobs waiting for them elsewhere may leave china trains and buses have been organized for workers. Local public transport has reserved for passengers must have their temperature checked surely chin says shes happy to look down is over but is worried. We hope others dont discriminate against people who have already gone through a hard time we locked ourselves up for 2 months the government says there have been almost no local infections over the past week but many fear the end of the hoop a lockdown could spark a 2nd Virus Outbreak on social media who pay workers say theyve been fired from their jobs in other cities or are being evicted from their apartments. Those human beings from the perspective of size and epidemiology the lockdown is no longer needed and the people should be free i understand some are still worried as the previous situation was serious but now is still imposing strict policies which i think are too harsh the lockdown has eased here and restrictions on the old. Many government and commercial operations in the capital are back on track and the last thing the government wants to sting is a rise of new infections that could threaten a return to normal life beijings great wall has reopened to visitors and so has this citys. Restaurants are also once again welcoming customers but not everyone is free to come and go as they please in hard work as a disinfecting the train station ahead of its reopening the city where the coronavirus pandemic began is due to remain under lockdown for another 2 weeks aljazeera. India is under the biggest lockdown in history with 1300000000 people ordered to stay at home while most are observing the order homeless shelters filling up with people whove lost their livelihoods Elizabeth Cohen im reports from new delhi. It was always going to be hard keeping indias population of 1300000000 indoors those who ventured out on the 1st day of the National Lock down face the consequences. But police in mumbai were seen conducting roadside checks as it appears those found flouting the rules faced instant justice with battens and punishing push ups Prime Minister blair in their more he says india is at war. Today the war that the country has waged against coronavirus will need 21 days. But 3 weeks is a long time for people like this young Migrant Worker stranded afraid and unable to leave for his home state of bihar after the government cancelled all bus and train services. The police beat me im afraid theyre bringing me they arent even allowing us to sit anywhere. Others decided to walk home migrant labor sunday started walking. 800 kilometers after his employer shut down operations and Company Accommodation in the state of the pradesh many that are now gone but theyre not allowing us to stay there they told us to leave because the virus is a big threat to the book Migrant Workers join the growing number of homeless and ports. Tonight remembering the kotoko one sent to the new delhi told aljazeera this applies will only last another 2 days. Because. People here have been snatching the plates from our homes there are so many people now that were finding it difficult to function and are running out of food and russians. For the millions of poor and daily wage earners in india the threat of hunger looms larger than that of the virus i am not saying that the lock down is a necessary im not a Public Health expert and if we are doing all that is necessary im willing to believe in balance only if it is accompanied by mass relief measures to help people through this time and its not just going to be 21 days for them is going to be a long time before they get their jobs back so far only state governments have announced financial that hinata terran assistance for people affected indias finance minister says the Central Government is working on an economic plan Prime Minister modi has again been on t. V. To stress the importance of social distancing but thats not the priority for millions of people who are now jobless and dont know where their next meal is coming from and theres a problem al jazeera new delhi. Irans government has banned Domestic Travel and all gatherings in parks during the persian new year as it struggles to contain the coronavirus tougher restrictions were announced after another rise in infections 2000 more cases and 143 more deaths were confirmed on wednesday government Officials Say many iranians have ignored advice to say stay home during the new year period which began on friday they warned the country could now see a 2nd wave of cases. Malaysia has extended its knocked down by another 2 weeks due to a surgeon infections 1172 new cases have been recorded raising the total to more than 7800 the highest in Southeast Asia 17 people have died from minister married in yes jean says the shutdown will now last until april 14th. Around 60000 Migrant Workers have left thailand following the introduction of strict virus containment measures the government has imposed a one month state of emergency closing businesses and fought. See a mass exodus of workers who are mainly from neighboring laos in march and cambodia all nonresident foreigners have been banned from entering thailand the country has 934 confirmed coronavirus cases. Or several countries in Southeast Asia have been barely touched by the coronavirus the same cant be said for their economies in particular their reliance on the government sector after clothes shops in many western nations were forced to shot last year close exports from bangladesh hit up to 3100000000. 00 a month already this year factories there say theyve seen 138000000. 00 worth of orders canceled or postponed in neighboring min mar 20 factories closed mostly because the supply of rule materials from china dried up this means up to 10000 people are now out of work with thousands more that go in cambodia where the industry is the countrys largest. Tool seen ariana sami is the head of labor rights at the business and Human Rights Resource Center she joins us live on skype from london thanks for being with us so we know about the kind of the the shops closing in kind of western countries in effect or workers there but tell us about the knock on effect for the people who kind of create the clothes or the not not sold. The knock on effect has been extraordinary and really what this pandemic has shown is the incredible power of the fashion brands that were familiar with in the high street to be able to shape the working conditions of 40000000 government weapons around the world whats ended up happening is these brands have shot their high Street Stores and rightly put forward a plan to have to protect their workers in stores but what thats meant for government work is is almost immediately theyre facing destitution you already mentioned that seen an incredible loss of all it is happening but basically the structure of the Garment Industry has been created in a way that allows brands to evade their responsibility for workers in the supply chain they dont directly own the factories and therefore they say they dont directly employ the government workers these workers are incredibly vulnerable in ordinary times they dont and a wage that is enough to cover that basic living most of them have to have to work overtime in order to be able to see themselves and their families and so now if theyre coming to work and finding that the factories have closed with no understanding when theyll open again and absolutely no safety net theyre left with with basically nothing they have no food that particularly vulnerable that the community that a Migrant Workers which is a huge proportion of garment workers around the world there are the International Market workers so for example people from thailand working in cambodia or people from bolivia who are now acting in brazil or a Huge Population of them are in 10 Migrant Workers so for example in india people who have migrated from the north of the country down to the south of the country and because of how quickly things in the vault in these countries they faced a lockdown at a time where there was still still trapped in these cities and then now im able to go back home to their families and theyre having to rely on food rations just such a change of the mention the fashion brands and is there any pressure on them internationally to try to do the right thing. For that for the workers in the supply chain. There certainly have been calls made from crossers unions and working groups to hold these brands accountable to these workers the demands are saying you need to take responsibility for these workers you need to work with suppliers to pay them so that what is it that already done many of these suppliers have have issued cancellation notices saying were not only going to going to suspend or it is well also not going to pay for codes that have already been made so the 1st demand is just for these brands to pay for what it is that have been and that has been produced and the 2nd demand is to these big fashion brands to work closely with this applies to be able to ensure that theyre provided kohan actually but at the moment that has been almost no response from brands to step up with that with a real plan for what it is that theyre going to do take responsibility to listen Arianna Simon thank you very much dave deafer expecting a lot of thank you. Coming up around here in this news. So we need to boost the response capacity in those areas thats why we have asked and we mobilized only when agencies that have prospered present movement. The u. N. Chief tells us is there any organization is mobilizing to support the fight against the current a virus pandemic. And mexicos poorest workers face a tough choice during the outbreak stay home or earn a living. 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Youre going to one of the top stories here which is there are growing concerns about the scale of the corona virus pandemic in the u. S. After the governor of new york state said 5000 cases have been diagnosed there alone in the past day. Spain is now overtaken china to recall the 2nd highest number of coronavirus deaths with nearly 3 and a half 1000 victims still just half the number and its a need for the death rate in the west to tear it appears to be slowing. In china travel restrictions are beginning to be lifted in who bay province where the outbreak. Its 1st recorded people can now leave the area for the 1st time in 2 months if they can prove theyre in good health. The pandemic has forced russias president to perspire in a referendum which was expected to extend his time in office but im a person who has urged russians to stay at home and promised economic assistance despite a lack of other warnings so far 2 people have died of the virus but doctors think all the deaths are being covered up steadfast in reports from moscow. Churchgoers kiss religious icons one after the other as if there is no cold with 19 pandemic. While the Russian Orthodox church has put some measures in place to improve hygiene these religious rituals continue to be performed because many here are convinced they wont get infected while in recent weeks the government maintained that russia has no serious corona outbreak recent figures are showing a different trend president putin held meetings with experts who told him there are far more than the 658 of facially reported cases in a nationwide address he told russians they can go to work next week and at the safest thing is to stay at home about issues. Im addressing all citizens of the country lets not rely on our russian habit to think that it wont happen to us this can happen to each one of us the thing which is now happening in many western countries both in europe under overseas might be our near future to. Put in did not mention that russian should add here to social distancing and so far churches and shops will remain open. Russia is praising itself for doing a better job at containing the virus compared to other countries the government says that everything is under control but people are increasingly getting worried because theres a lack of information and people this trust the official figures and the fact that hospitals like this one are quickly being built to cope with an influx of patients tells them a different story thousands of workers have been brought to this construction site outside moscow the large Infectious Diseases hospital should be up and running by mid april and aims to treat up to 500 patients other hospitals have been conferred to it into pneumonia hospitals a sign that the government might be planning to treat a coronavirus as pneumonia. In our hospital to congress of 40 beds for new warning a patients bill without employing the related medical personnel doctors of other specialties. With these patients but dont have enough expertise this could lead to a higher death rate. A local Organization Called Doctors Alliance accuses the government of trying to cover up the corona Virus Outbreak here after a 79 year old woman died after being tested for covert 19 the official reason given for her death was trumbo says the poorest of the girls were in a state to stick at the statistics collected from many cities show us that the number of new many cases have increased and that there are certain bands and orders for example doctors are not allowed to make paste mortem diagnoses of new mania i heard it from many doctors of course no one will speak out openly about it theyre all scared im not scared of me at this stage of my increasingly empty streets in moscow the largest european city show that concerns are growing the government has closed its borders for foreigners and ordered people older than 65 to stay home some are worried that if russia is faced with a large outbreak the country wont be able to cope hospitals have been closed and many doctors were laid off in recent years even large hospitals like this one would then be too little too late step fasten aljazeera moscow. Within a 1000000000 people and a government imposed lockdowns worldwide but the World Health Organization says thats not enough to stop transmission and urged countries to use the time wisely asking people to stay at home and shutting down Population Movement is buying time and reducing the pressure on whole systems but on their own this measures will not extinguish appeared it makes the point of this actions is to you know the more press size and targeted measures that are needed to stop transmission and saved lives. You know nations is appealing for 2000000000. 00 to support humanitarian efforts to fight the pandemic an exclusive interview with our diplomatic editor james bays section general antonio tara she says its in everyones interest to help the worlds poorest nations especially in areas of conflict he says millions of people could die if World Leaders dont take action now youve launched this global humanitarian appeal to tell us what is at stake here and how many lives could be lost if the world doesnt act to help the most Vulnerable Countries the refugee camps and the conflict zones well this is exactly an appeal for that it is a humanitarian appeal for those countries in conflict for those fragile states for refugee camps its always placement camps. That emetic humanitarian needs that need to go arent being met but on top of that now the surete of coffee at 19 and you need to do everything to prevent the disease to come to those areas to the extent possible and at the same time in those areas you have people sometimes in slums of big cities or in camps it is very difficult to have isolation there is no water in the household sometimes no soap else care facilities are extremely rugged mountain and so we need to boost to the response capacity in those areas thats why we have asked and we mobilized all u. N. Agencies that have trust with president movement large number of n. G. O. S we mobilized all to Work Together and with those funds with those 2000000000. 00 to make sure that we are able to. Ever strong push for prevention in those vulnerable areas and at the same time to bring the equipment to that is required the ventilator staffs suits are for the the stuff to allow for contact with people impacted mosques and then water and sanitation in key areas to put people to wash their hands soap medicines and all the other aspects that are essential for else care systems to be boasted and to have a minimum capacity to respond to the needs of these peoples now if these wont happen if we allow the disease to spread like wildfire in the developing world in general and in these parts in particular we left millions and millions of people infected we can have millions of people dying and. Even for those that sometimes up to agro east and sink why to support of the philippine countries when we have so many problems at home in our own rich countries i would remind them that if these spreads like wildfire in the sauce there will be a mess if there is missions that makes that mutation of the fighters even more easy and so that is a risk that the virus comes back to the philip world even after vaccines have been developed when the taliban seems thats all is over and then everything will start again so its in the enlightened selfinterest of the rich countries of this world to do everything to make sure that we have a collective response world wife and not only response in the developed world circle general were both in the same building right now but we are conducting this interview remotely for obvious reasons your living in new york its eerie right now its worrying yet this is one of the richest cities on earth with some of the most sophisticated medical care if theyre worrying about how they can cope here what chalks to some other places stand in this. All soon you attack the coffees 19 and if you attack covered 1000. 00 soon enough you will be much more able to respond effectively then when we are already in the epicenter of the plan then yes and the pandemic and so our main concern in addition to those areas most of them out of remote areas many of them have not yet been touched is still put an enormous pressure on prevention and on make sure that we control the beginning of a possible outbreak what we are witnessing now in many developed countries is that they started too late and now even relatively sophisticated l. Systems. And able to respond to the very dramatic impact of the disease we need to act and we need to act immediately to be able to avoid the worst youve called for a global ceasefire are in conflict zones but let me give you a couple of examples in recent weeks things have been going in the opposite direction in some of those conflicts let me ask you how worried you are about the increase in hostilities in yemen well i am even if one of the most important movements in yemen has declared that they would accept this ceasefire or that the appeal of ceasefire and we have other arms movements in other parts of the world saying that they would be ready to abide by it all especially proud of these and invoiced everyone in the world are pushing to make sure that these it believes those lazy in diplomat the action bringing together the parties to the conflict for the ceasefire to become a you know its easy we have he should have seen syria and yemen in libya in very in many other parts of the world and i hope that these appeal will be heard then that people will understand that there is only one was that is necessary today its a war against the fight you mention libya that there was already supposed to be a humanitarian poors in libya but one side has not been respecting it general half the in. Weeks seems to have intensified his campaign whats your message to him its necessary to stop and i believe that in the last few days there was a clear the cookies and i was the early days even if even before yesterday there was a very meaningful attack but this is the moment to stop all military action this is the moment to concentrate on fighting cause 1000 were already seeing covert 1000 cases in gulzar youve been there you know its one of the most crowded places on earth how are you supposed to self isolate if youre someone living in a place like gaza well it is extremely difficult but the same applies to the slums of big cities in different parts of the delap being well to refugee camps it is much more difficult and that is the reason why we massively need support for those areas and we massive need to increase the capacity to respond and they all services that are so weak in those areas need to be very quickly bills that and of course water and sanitation programs but grams of. All kinds of improvements that other humanitarian dimensions absolutely crucial to minimize the negative impact many cities around the world are on lockdown in those places the medical advice is very consistent do you believe that citizens and for that matter political leaders who ignore that advice of being irresponsible i think we need to have a quart of the in 80th action of all countries and i believe the g 20 will be an opportunity to do so all countries need to add a common strategy and thats that the g. Is not a strategy in my opinion of mediation is a step to jeffs suppression of the vials now for that you can combine different ways you can if you have a huge Testing Capacity and if you have a very strong tracing capability and quite entitling. All the people detected like singapore has done you need less restrictive. Measures relation to movement and the nation to contact but if the Testing Capacity is limited if the tracing capacity is limited then you really need to see here the limited movement of people you need to see if you limit the capacity of contact and not to recognize these is in my opinion putting the country is a risk of the disease spreading like wildfire and if the disease spread is like wildfire the consequences will be absolutely devastating f. Course we need to understand that people are concerned with the Economic Impact but that is why it is so important to have a massive mobilization of Financial Resources that is why it is so important to get n. T. There beyond maintaining liquidity in the Financial Systems that is a massive support to households to keep them afloat to businesses to keep them afloat and a country like the United States for instance as you just mentioned is this cussing a package of 2 trillion dollars which comes close to the 2 digit percentage of the economy that ive been mentioning several times is needed to make sure that you can combine very thus the restrictions of movement we does the same time keeping the people the businesses afloat and allowing for when you are successful in suppressing the disease for the recovery a quick recovery of the economy you mention not secretarygeneral do it because you know what it is not your problem that if i can you mention the u. S. And you mention the g 20 president both sonora of brazil is saying theyre his there is hysteria President Trump is talking about opening up the u. S. Economy by easter when people are passing the message doctors stay at home of these sort of messages from political leaders on helpful i saying that it is very. Near death we need to be able to suppress the disease and obviously the time framework to suppress these is might be different from country to country according to the measures that are putting into place but without suppression of the disease we risk the spread like wildfire and we will have millions of cases and with millions of cases we can have millions of people dying and these is something that we absolutely need to avoid and so my message to all the others is concentrate your efforts are suppressing the disease and concentrate your efforts in rescuing the situation of people and businesses for your economy also to be able to survive and then to recover when the time comes my final question secretarygeneral obviously we are currently looking hour by hour day by day fighting this disease but can i ask you to look at when this is over do you think it will change the way the world works in terms of really Remote Working but also in terms of the Global Airlines should they continue the same level of operation or should some things change for the sake of the climate i sink that there will be enormous inevitable changes 1st of all there is is becoming largely a Digital World with a Digital Economy and i believe that there will be a huge boost in all aspects related to cyberspace sufficient intelligence to the all the virtual forms of transaction and all the virtual forms of contact and so the world it will inevitably change and i dont think we should fight Climate Change with a virus but i also believe that there will be an opportunity to really cover the economy with a much more sustainable and inclusive approach and that these will be an opportunity we should not miss of course emissions are not going down but if we go on in. The future repeating the same mistakes they will go up again and well be facing exactly the same the domestic situation of Climate Change so let us make sure that when we recover our economies we think profit of everything we learned with the crisis to make. Global developments that the g. Much more inclusive and much more sustainable and to make Climate Change the priority that has always been. Mexico so far corona virus cases in the hundreds of countries president has started to put tougher measures in place is coming under fire for focusing more on the economy as john holmes reports many of the countries where class are the most vulnerable to the virus and its financial impact. As the coronavirus cases rack up in mexico many ordinary people are facing an impossible dilemma. How are people going to stay at home during a quarantine if they dont have money for vendors who live day to day if we dont come to work what we eat. More than half of mexicos workforce is in the Informal Sector with little access to Social Security or the public Health Service many live hand to mouth. Theyve had to continue working many using public transport as the virus continues to spread havea morenos worried about catching it but even more about a possible down when all that is in is going to thank god were well to work that way we can get paid and cover our living costs if we dont work it will be sad if we dont die from the coronavirus we will die from hunger. But even as they turn up customers are getting thinner on the ground parts of mexico city look almost empty after the captains mayor ordered bars gyms and cinemas shut yeah and lastly the president Lopez Obrador has taken a different tack actually encouraging people to eternal some believe his mines on the pay so its lost almost a quarter of its. This month there are see if you can take your family to the restaurant ends to eateries because it strengthens our families and our economy. Many of codys attitude irresponsible last week hugging and kissing supporters even as other countries in latin america have been post strict social restriction measures and now he has called in the military to help and announce some economic measures promising loans for Small Businesses and that social programs wont stop but its a far cry from other developed countries influence huge wage guaranteeing fiscal stimulus packages its also less than some other latin american countries have done. To stop a merino a Public Policy expert says hes surprised that a government which has said that the full come 1st hasnt announced more measures for them who are in general but we have a lot also seen other actions for the economy as a whole and that theyre pointing to him even if theyre not or only were is there is. This going to send its floor or birds not to lay over or go into iraq the other countries are doing a stimulus package packages and so on so were lacking those 2 and those are the poor as well even if theyre not directed at them specifically. Over the long the crisis loss to mexicos most vulnerable the Economic Impact could be even longer lived john homan aljazeera mexico city. In other news i saw fighters in afghanistan say they attacked a sikh place of worship killing 25 worshippers the interior Ministry Says gunmen and suicide bombers stormed the religious complex in kabul early on wednesday morning a report. Another badly injured patient is rushed into the emergency room which a hospital in the capital kabul hes one of around 150 afghans hurt at a good. The place of worship for the sikhs mansingh saw wednesday mornings attack by isis fighters unfold. On the other hama and then 3rd the good do they start the throwing hand grenades and firing with a good 4 to 7 gun i could hear the sound of bullets i was hiding out of the table i saw children getting killed with. Security forces sealed off the area gunfire was heard for several hours until the interior Ministry Says all the attackers were killed along with dozens of worshippers the ministry also says around 80 people taken hostage were freed. For them is up. More than 20 people were killed right is the security the government what is happening what kind of government do we have in europe the value of an animal likes are not going to stand there is no value to human life. Wednesdays attack was claimed by isis fighters who have targeted the Sikh Community before 2 years ago 14 worshipers with killed by a suicide bomb attack at a temple in jalalabad season overall mandate and when he date. And its a policy from the sunday state to accept the who actually terrorize and antagonize all minorities enough times that from their suspect. To. Take a check now to the white house send a coronavirus update from president trying to assess and it. Has to do with his america continues to gain ground in the war against the virus. I want to thank the American People for answering the call following our guidelines and making the sacrifices required to overcome this terrible threat more aggressively we commit to social distancing so important social distancing such an important phrase and we do it right now the more lives we can save and the sooner we can eventually get people back to work back to school and back to normal. And there are large sections of our country probably can go back much sooner than other sections and were obviously looking at that also people are asking is that an alternative i say absolutely it is an alternative i have now approved major disaster declarations for new york california washington iowa louisiana texas and florida that has great significance as you know and legal significance. Were in a constant. Grouping and i can say this we have a large group in the people that does nothing but communicate with the various officials including that weve been spending a lot of time with new york officials because that really is by far the hottest spot. Theyve got. A number of very tough weeks ahead of them the governors doing a very good job i spoke to the governor Governor Cuomo less night and this morning. And he mentioned that in his remarks that hes using the that we are using and i think he feels because he understands negotiation he thinks were using very appropriately the defense production act and we are for using it where needed its a great point of leverage its a great negotiating tool but ive really i will tell you this tremendous spirit from people and tremendous spirit with respect to. These companies and i dont have to use it very much at all they want to do it as you know General Motors is involved fords involved 3 ms involved others are involved and theyre all working very hard to produce product different all different products and we had. Very little product when we came we built it up and weve we give it away as fast as we can to the different states were also as you know building numerous hospitals and medical centers. Throughout certain areas in new york its at the Convention Center the javits Convention Center. Were doing 4 hospitals and were doing throughout the state for medical centers theyre somewhat different i want you to know that i am doing everything in my power to help the city pull through this challenge of working very hard in new york its really by far our biggest problem maybe it will be maybe it wont be but theres a lot of good capable people working on it with us and our teams are working very well with the state representatives. Are also doing some very. Large testings throughout the country i told you yesterday that in south korea this is not a knock in any way because theyre just spoke with president mood we had a very good conversation about numerous other things but. Theyve done a very good job in testing but we now are doing more testing than anybody but far we do more in 8 days than they do in 8 weeks and we go up on a daily basis exponentially. So its really good by the way while im on it id also spoke with Prime Minister abi of japan less died and i congratulated him on a wise choice i think its going to be a fantastic olympics 2021 i think its going to be a fantastic olympics it was the absolute right decision to delay it for a full year and now have a full beautiful olympics its going to be very important because its probably the 1st time maybe ever or certainly in a long time that it was on a high gear its always on an even year they tell me but hes going to have a fantastic success and now that ive even more time he didnt need any more time everything was perfectly ready what a job theyve done but japan i want to gradually japan the i. O. C. And Prime Minister robbie on a great decision i think its going to be a fantastic olympics i tell them ill be there ill be there. As we fight to protect american lives were also protecting american livelihoods the democrats and republicans in the senate are very close to passing an emergency relief bill for American Workers families and businesses this legislation dition to the 2 bills i signed this month that includes you know sick leave and we have all sorts of things in for the workers for families. But we have a tremendous paid sick leave provision for workers at no cost at all to the employers and thats a big thing no cost to the employers we want to get everybody back working. Together this 2. 00 trillion dollar legislative package is bigger than anything i believe ever passed in congress. Perhaps relatively speaking if you go back look during the f. D. R. New deal days there was something that if you time value it you could say it was bigger i dont know but this is certainly in terms of dollars by far and away the biggest ever ever and thats a tremendous thing because a lot of this money goes to jobs jobs jobs and families families families. The senate bill as you know includes 350000000000. 00 in Job Retention loans for Small Businesses