Unemployment skyrockets with more than 3000000 people filing for benefits as the economy takes a hit from the coronavirus. And the worlds worst humanitarian crisis the u. N. Calls for an immediate truce in yemen 5 years after a Saudi Led Coalition stopped to get. The European Commission president has warned that the coronavirus is too big for any one country to handle alone on delay and is calling for unity saying that saving lives has to remain the top priority spain and france are struggling to contain the virus and madrid has reported more than 600. 00 deaths in 24 hours almost a herero is in the spanish capital for us were seeing these numbers spike again and again in spain where are we now in terms of the curve of the spread. Well despite the green figures today in spain with more than 8500 new cases of people infected by corona virus and that theyre all being increased by more than 600 at least you can see a window of hope as for the 1st time during the whole state of alarm in spain the number of good digits and deaths has the creased Health Ministers over the report today seen these figures a stab lighting a little bit but other authorities from the Health Minister as well say they cannot predict how far we are from from beginning to send and last so we have been saying that the Health System is clearly under a huge amount of strain there how in medical stuff coping day to day. Well as the best the medical services a health care except. Personnel have been lacking and struggling without the proper equipment to find these battle because theyre in the front line such as Police Officers civil guards and the army they keep the keep demanding a supply of the dough for the correct equipment to protect themselves imagery that is because it has become the epicenter of the whole spanish outbreak of coronavirus hospitals are completely overwhelmed theyre doubling and tripling their capacity and we have seen how they have improvised at these new hospitals Field Hospital people hospitals what the army and we have seen how this Funeral Company imma do the municipal Funeral Company has closed because they cannot cope anymore with all the cops so weve also been seeing is very grim pictures from this ice rink thats now become a morgue and war more and more grim pictures coming out daily from spain how are people there and what their sentiment towards the government and how theyre handling the crisis. Well people are quite acceptable you have to bury mind were all confined at home we are but were living in our or in our own bubble all we always see from outside all we hear is through the media and through on the internet so we are all of us are quite isolated we are we are everyone is expecting buz daily press press or press or the Health Ministry is giving daily to see the viewers how things are developing there comparing with our other countries we dont have a big picture because we dont really go out to the streets we we see everything is close but we are completely isolated so we have to rely on what the government says we told yesterday the Prime Minister better scientific the parliament approving the so this extension of 15 days of the state of emergency we could see other Political Parties claiming that the government didnt take action what it should have parties to are blaming each other we dont know whose responsibility it is not time to ask for a sponsor but its to our government its time to act like theyre like theyre doing so we have to wait a few a few days at least to have the big picture of what really is going on its not a herero there for us in the spanish capital thanks very much martha well italys Prime Minister is warning the coronavirus will cause what he calls a hard severe recession in europe just have a concierge dressed parliament in rome and said that europe would only be able to face the shock with exceptional measures with italy now in lockdown for the last 2 weeks contains promised around 27000000000. 00 worth of emergency measures italy now has the highest number of virus deaths at more than 7500. 00 while the e. U. Chief has criticized european nations for what she is calling a lack of a coordinated response in the fight against the coronavirus and says the commission has created europes 1st stockpile of medical supplies it will serve as a bank of crucial equipment to help its 27 member bloc fight one of the worlds worst outbreaks. When europe really needed to be there for each other to have many initially looked out for themselves when europe really needed an all for one spirit too many nationally gave only phony response. And when europe really needed to prove that this is not only a fear whether union too many initially refused to share their umbrella but it was not long before some felt the consequences of their own uncooled the need to take action lawrenceville has more on that speech from one. Individual countries other Health Care Systems and you know i dont suppose occurred to any individual country to think about what they might have to do for anybody else in the in the event of the pandemic because its never happened before but clearly philosophically the point of the european project is that individual countries oppose without help each other and thats where on the land said it it completely fall on the pulse in the decisions that countries took in the last few weeks shes really talking about a period in march when cases in italy started to rise exponentially and countries started to close the borders because that meant that countries which will stop on stockpile things like mechanical ventilators and protect equipment the doctors and nurses started to hold them and inform the lens view what they should have been doing at that point was to actually give them to italy but they but they other were fused because they didnt do one of the cells or they said they couldnt get across the borders now the lens of the things were now improving and told everybody off in no Uncertain Terms in this speech but she employed effectively that these countries which suppose were supposed to be friends of italy and spain had in a sense betrayed them. Well a month long state of a magic has now come into effect in thailand the country has reported 111. 00 new coronavirus cases bringing the total number that 2045. People of the age of 70 are being added to stay at home and public gatherings a band our correspondent scott pilot has more from bangkok right now its very little difference and what weve seen over the last say 10 days there have been restrictions and closures steadily over id say you know most of it came on sunday thats when all shops all businesses retailers had to close other than supermarkets and pharmacies and then when sent selling there in this the sensitive for daily life all those were closed schools have been closed for at least about 2 weeks so what were looking at right now with the state of emergency that just came into effect it really gives the government much more power than they had previously and again it goes until the end of april so that means that at any time when they want to impose a curfew they will they have not done so yet they can restrict travel within the country they havent done that yet there are being checkpoints set up but they havent restricted travel just yet and Something Else they announced just over the last 24 hours is that any foreigners trying to come into the country cannot come in unless theyre residents there for residents of the nation and also even thais coming back to thailand they have to prove that they have a clean bill of health and have been checked for the coronavirus well russia is now grounding all International Flights from friday midnight except for Russian Airlines flying fishes and time from other countries ford has already closed to foreign as last week and people over 65 are being told to stay at home 3 russians have now died with 840 reported cases so far. Well more than 3000000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week thats 5 times more than the previous record back in 1902 and its the latest sign of just what effect the coronavirus is having on the economy businesses all across the United States have been forced to close as cities impose lock downs to try to stem the spread of the outbreak well lets get more on this from Kennedy Health whos in washington d. C. For us kimberly these are some pretty huge unemployment numbers were looking at do we expect this to continue for the medium to long term here. Yes we do is the short answer in fact im surprised that the numbers are higher because these are just to give you a sense these are just the people who lost their jobs and filed claims that means those that lost their jobs and still havent made it into those unemployment offices to file those claims those numbers have yet to be reported so we expect that the numbers are going to go up even more in fact ive heard numbers as high as 46000000 americans have potentially face a job loss over night as a result of so much of this economy shutting down so theres no question that these numbers are high and expected to get even higher because weve been told for Public Health officials that in fact we have not yet reached the peak of those who are experiencing coronavirus are getting seriously ill from chronic virus in fact we know that this might become a seasonal illness according to some of the top Public Health officials so that means that in terms of the prospects for the economy it does not have a good forecast and despite the efforts by the administration to sort of paint a positive picture the numbers certainly are not showing that reality you know we should point out that the numbers on wall street for the moment seem to be in the green they seem to be excited about the passage of a relief bill that 2 trillion dollar relief bill to help americans deal with corona virus thats passed in the u. S. Senate hasnt passed in the house of representatives yet still to be signed by the president but for now those numbers seem to be encouraged but as we know all we can for weeks theyve been fluctuating can you say the administration is trying to paint a positive picture here weve been hearing from the treasury secretary today he seems quite dismissive of all the unemployment data. Yeah and this is what i can tell you just on the streets in the United States is a sense of tone deafness by the federal government that they really dont have an understanding of how scared people are in the streets because the comments coming out of the treasury secretary superman you should have been that really dont look at these numbers these unemployment jobless claims this 3300000 that thats really not relevant was the wording that he used that this is just part of a broader plan by the government to combat coronavirus in fact the u. S. President was tweeting something of a sort of similar tones shortly after that package was passed in the senate saying 96 to 0 in the u. S. Senate congratulations america i can tell you no one is feeling in a celebrate tory mood right now in fact just the opposite many are bracing themselves trying to figure out just how long this is going to go and starting to sink in is this realize ation that things may never return to where they were just a month ago and david can they help get there for us in washington d. C. Thank you candy. Still ahead on aljazeera. France begins evacuating coronavirus patients on high speed trains to relieve the region struggling to cope. And the gunman who carried out an attack on 2 mosques in new zealand changes his plea and admits to mattering 51. 00. Hello there on his way into japan over the next few days were seeing a stream of clouds here on his figure this summer it. Was seen plenty of heavy rain into southern and Central China and in fact friday is going to be a day where we really see some to take hillary have examples particularly to the south into. Providence at 27 celsius the high in hong kong that will come with the charles with a look at this line of rain showers and as a say very heavy encompassing all of japan right there way up into her it does begin to push today so should be a drive day so sapporo a dry day if you just 5 celsius and they will see their shadows continuing to work their way eastwards but we will see some heavy rain particular cross into tokyo with a high of 19 and also a soccer meanwhile as i say it is a better picture into china and we will see a dr later in the day in hong kong friday and saturday weve got the usual rains across into borneo a little bit lighter in some arch of the next 2 days and with a prince who wanted to scout it shows us a few those further to the north as well sooner or. Later in the day but really the very heavy rain that you pradesh in india and also you see here into pakistan friday by saturday it dies away this also shows on the whole 24. Join the global conversation half the bubble will be. Could expand their prisons maybe have a different view this is a dialogue with women in cambodia are in fact selling theyre here we dont know how much theyre getting paid for it its hard to track its hard to treat everyone has a voice tell us what you think and youll come to say she could be of more right here in this case we need to step away from gaming people are not necessarily game perfect this is a journey of progression not perfection on aljazeera. Hello again im just. A reminder about top stories this hour spain has reported 655. 00 coronavirus deaths just in the past 24 hours the total number of fatalities has surpassed 4000. 00 thats now the worlds 2nd highest number off to italy. Prime minister is warning the coronavirus will cause what he calls a hog severe recession in europe she said trust parliament in rome and said that europe would only be able to face the shock of exceptional measures. And the e. U. Chief has criticised european nations for the lack of a coordinated response to the pandemic 7 delay and says the commission has now created a stockpile of medical supplies to help all nations fight the virus. Well specially equipped trains are now being used in northeast france to move coronavirus patients to better equipped hospitals in the citys seriously ill patients were among 20 on board in strasburg. Is the worst hit region in france with more than 500 deaths dozens in the past 24 hours 1300 french people have died nationwide with 25000 confirmed cases well as weve been saying the coronavirus emergency has been highlighting a lack of european cooperation but in an encouraging display of solidarity hospitals in germany have opened their wards to patients from eastern fronts critically ill patients have been airlifted from the french city of woodhouse where hospitals are overwhelmed natasha has more. Taking the necessary precautions the french president arrived at a Field Hospital in the also asian city over lose it was built to ease pressure on east and frances Health System struggling to cope with the countrys highest number of coronavirus cases the facility usually seen in conflict zones but fremantle will mark rohr of place in peacetime he says the fight against the coronavirus is a war. When you engage in war you engage fully you mobilize together i see divisions and fractures in our country doubts people who want to divide the country when we should have only one obsession to unite to fight the virus. It took the french army 4 days to build a network of tens that can receive dozens of patients in intensive care. Its a store because its the 1st time weve built the sort of structure thats been created specifically for covert. Is close to the german border its plight is motivated its neighbors to help several hospitals in germany switzerland and luxembourg have also to take in french coronavirus patients at a time when so many countries in the e. U. Have shut borders it is a display of European Solidarity on wednesday german Emergency Services collected critically ill french patients and flew them to a hospital in freiburg. Were proud to be able to help our french colleagues our neighbors our friends and irrespective of our location this is about our duty as humans and our desire to help as europeans. Bells across france rang out to thank the Nations Health workers for macro its imperative that people you know it behind him and support his actions in this moment of crisis hes convince them to stay for 2 weeks but hes now expected to ask them to stay indoors even longer. Aljazeera western france. Well in a city reeling after the decision to postpone the 20 twentieths and pick some games tokyo is now the epicenter of infections in japan the capital recorded the biggest one day increase on wednesday with at least 40 people testing positive. Reports. Japans famed Cherry Blossom is in full bloom and tokyos residents are making the most of the spring spectacle while they still can. Coming just after japan took the painful decision to postpone the 2020 summer olympics everyone here has been given a reminder of why their government took that step a sharp increase in the number of coroner virus cases in the japanese capital has led tokyos governor to urge everyone to stay indoors this coming weekend. We must 1st take measures to prevent the spread of the corona virus or we cannot move forward that hasnt changed. So far life in japan has been relatively untroubled by the Global Pandemic with businesses and restaurants remaining open. But gradually a realisation is setting in that life might be about to change amadeo when you are stuck at home its stressful so i wasnt sure if i should be here but i wanted to come. My wife wasnt happy about me visiting tokyo but its outdoors and if i keep my distance from other people i think its ok. The olympics are meant to be the high point of Prime Minister shinzo obvious premiership and their postponement is devastating for the japanese economy Prime Minister abbott has faced criticism at home and abroad for his handling of the coronavirus outbreak japan has conducted only a fraction of testing carried out by neighboring china and south korea meaning the country could be facing a much bigger hidden problem however serious this outbreak gets abbotts hopes of japan becoming a major tourism destination with 40000000 visitors desir seem to be dashed hes really been focusing on boosting japans Inbound Tourism hes also been very keen on encouraging the hospitality business. Appeal t. V. But if we reach our clientele the nation and the olympics were supposed to be an opportunity to showcase japan for the International Community so without doubt something he said kind of the strategies actually losing direction for now the mood remains largely festive but as this surge in new cases continues japan knows that optimism might disappear as quickly as its blossom. And says the euro tokyo well moving on to other wild news now in the Israeli Parliament is meeting at this hour to pick a new spica a day after yearly edelstein stepped down in protest edelstein is a member of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu his party he defied a Supreme Court order to convene parliament to vote on his successor well our correspondent joins us now live from west jerusalem ari clearly a lot of political strategizing going on here to talk us through it all. Yes even by the standards of israeli politics especially over the last year or so this is pretty exceptional stuff really byzantine maneuvering going on right now benny gantz leads the israeli opposition the the Largest Party in the opposition the alliance blue and white he has been given the mandate by the president because he got the most recommendations from the parliament the knesset after the elections to be Prime Minister there are efforts going on to try to see if a unity government between blue and white and netanyahu could take power especially at this time of emergency in dealing with the coronavirus that is what netanyahu wants and he wants to go 1st in any rotational deal as Prime Minister with benny gantz however at the same time there has been this constitutional crisis this week with the as you say the previous speaker refusing to hold a vote to allow the opposition to replace him to allow them with their nominated speaker cohen to put through legislation which could hamper netanyahu in his attempts both to stay in office and the need to regain office if there were a future election and so netanyahu is party who could have been saying if you put this man in the speakers chair we will abandon all hopes of a unity government it seems that benny gantz has decided to take that threat seriously whether it was meant seriously or not give up the prospect of having a really strong hand by being able to threaten netanyahu with this kind of legislation and instead install himself hes got the votes with his own party his own part of the blue and White Alliance and now netanyahu is right wing back is to become speaker its clear signal from him that he wants to ally with netanyahu presumably allowing netanyahu growth to go 1st in any unity government its very likely to splinter his blue and White Alliance the many palestinian israeli jointness has already said that they would vote against that the dance is obviously trying to deal with netanyahu in a way which he hadnt. Signaled he was willing to even as recently as yesterday and so this is very likely both to splinter the opposition and crucially for netanyahu who faces 3 Corruption Cases a trial starting due to start at least in may this gives him a huge advantage it seems in staying in belfast street the Prime Ministers residence in west jerusalem staying in power and fighting his Corruption Cases in due course as well as what he says he wants to do which is fight off the coronavirus epidemic hairy force that their western islam bringing us all the latest thanks very much harry now the gunman accused of shooting dozens of muslim worshipers at to mosques in new zealand has reversed his plea to guilty brenton terence now admits 51. 00 murder charges as well as 40 attempted murders and terrorism the 29 year old australian has up to now denied responsibility for the attacks in Christ Church a year ago hell be sentenced as the late in days charlotte ballasts has more from ork and. Britains parents lawyer apparently signal to the Court Earlier this week that his client was interested in changing the plays on 92 counts they filed the paperwork yesterday and then the hearing was how this morning just enjoys it and that press conference at a personally she felt a huge sigh of relief hearing that banks and parent would be changing his place on all those counts 51. 00 charges of murder charges of attempted murder and one charge of terrorism now not many people got to hear this raid about because new zealand is on a lockdown due to coronavirus so brentons harris has a name for it out to him he said emotionless wire video link and yes guilty to all of the night and very few people got the chance to hear it the 10 there are any 17 people allowed in the Christchurch High Court were this morning jews or these coronavirus lockdowns of the Muslim Community in christchurch being moms of both mosques were the as representatives to hear brentons had cited guilty and acknowledged the crimes in the attacks in christchurch last he a. 3rd nodded his head message all of the charges we move straight we do not have a trial and during as was expected we moved straight through to seem to think and people will have the opportunity to cite their pace unlike today where with very few people were allowed in the courtroom the judges say that was a great simple one that people will be allowed to give statements those people who have been affected by this personally witnesses movie allowed to give statements in court with seem to think but seem to think that the diagnostic issues and the lock down is right. Now yemens warring parties have welcomed u. N. Calls for an immediate truce as the conflicts there enters its 6th year they when secretary general has added an end to hostilities to focus on fighting the crown of virus pandemic there has been a recent escalation of violence in yemen which is already facing the wilds west humanitarian crisis reports. March 2015 and the who thiis push into central aden. And begin expanding their influence not only in southern yemen but over most of the country president ill double month so had he fled to saudi arabia where he called for a military intervention by arab nations or march 25th a sandy Led Coalition launched their military campaign to oust the who thiis. Operation the size of storm further expanded targeting military installations. Missile Defense Systems and im innocent people across the country. But it was yemeni civilians who bore the brunt of war the un and International Aid agencies accuse the Saudi Led Coalition of indiscriminately bombing Populated Areas in the last 5 years thousands of people have been killed and yemenis dont have enough to eat with warnings of famine in yemen is described as the worst humanitarian crisis in the world saudi arabia and the u. A. E. Said their goal was to defeat the healthy rebels and restore how these government but the scope of their involvement raised many concerns among yemenis the u. A. E. Supports militias in the south that operate secret prisons where detainees are tortured. The kingdoms hugely expensive military campaign has failed to ask the who these saudi officials a q. Iran of supporting the who are these the shia rebel group that rose to prominence in 2014 when it took over the capital sanaa with the help of former president ali abdullah saleh. Also known as unsubtle all the parties of government have repeatedly launched cross border attacks targeting the oil rich kingdom i was they have expanded their territory by taking control of well giove province near the saudi border and fightings intensifying the oil rich province of memory of forces supporting the exiled president with creating after suffering a series of setbacks. The un still hopes to convince the warring factions to implement the terms of the agreement signed in still cold 2 years ago. As a feuding signs failed to reconcile their differences the stalemate is likely to play more innocent lives. Hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines spain has reported 655 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours the total number of fatalities has surpassed 4000 the worlds 2nd highest number off to italy now italys Prime Minister is warning the corona virus will cause what he calls a hard severe recession in europe just as i can say addressed parliament in rome and said that europe would only be able to face the shock with exceptional measures the e. U. Chief has criticized european nations for the lack of a coordinated response to the pandemic as they have on the land says the commission has now created a stockpile of medical supplies to help all nations fight the virus when europe really needed to be there for each other. Too many initially looked out for themselves when europe really needed all for one spirit too many initially gave only for me response and when europe really needed to prove that this is not only a few and whether union too many initially refused to share their umbrella but it was not long before some felt the consequences of their own uncool you need to take action more than 3000000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week and just the latest sign of what effect the coronavirus is having on the economy businesses all across the u. S. Have been forced to close as cities impose lockdown specially equipped a high speed trains are now being used in eastern france to move critically ill coronavirus patients to better equipped hospitals and other cities frances west hit region of alsace has reported more than 500 deaths the Israeli Parliament is currently meeting to pick a new speaker a day after uni edelstein stepped down in protest edelstein is a close ally of Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu before quitting he refused to comply with a Supreme Court order to convene parliament in order to vote on his successor well those are the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera after the strain stay with us. How much is the coronavirus on the stock market i dont think to get the rights to the white house we need to point to some secure the democratic nomination i believe we can be down draw follow the developments in the u. S. Election campaign on al jazeera. Really important you stay home today with information both are important that you take regular breaks so dont go outside if its safe to do so go into your garden and do some gardening if its safe to do so or Something Else that you enjoy doing recognize that there are only one or 2 hours in a day that you will allow yourself to update with the news screaming on your phone outside of that you need to think about other things and the coronavirus it may feel like youre losing control with the Mental Health but you can take control by having a clear structure to your day and allowing worry over me at certain times