Nation is helping us in our hour of need. A navy ship with a 1000 beds on board arrives in new york to help provide relief in the u. S. Epicenter. And having brought things pretty much to a standstill here on earth the virus is now at 10 a pending fire and inspects. The World Health Organization has expressed hope that corona virus infections in hard hit European Countries like italy and spain might be stabilizing but its late as it were quick to add that it doesnt mean tough measures to limit the spread of the disease and track it should be reduced we should start to see stabilization because the cases we see today really reflect exposures 2 weeks ago. And going down isnt just about a lock down and let go. To get down from the numbers not just a village requires a redoubling of Public Health efforts to push down not it went down by itself it will be pushed down well yes spain announced deaths in excess of 800 for the 3rd consecutive day another 6400 cases of the coronavirus that were confirmed the lowest increase in about a week italy also had just over 800 more deaths on monday and like spain its number of new cases has slowed down while in the u. S. A. P. Said to new york relief has arrived in the form of a Naval Hospital ship it has a 1000 beds on board weve got 2 correspondents this hour sunday gago whos in london with the latest on the coronavirus situation in the u. K. There she is but 1st lets go to Francesca Menotti whos standing by in rome francesca just bring us up to speed on the latest numbers coming out of there and also put them into context for us if you can. Yeah yeah we need all of the quick fire. 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Well in this particular briefing domenic did announce a 93000000. 00 package to try and bring back home those britons you were stranded abroad and who have been unable to make it back home those he said who have access to commercial airlines and who are able to do it and still manage to sort of organize it separately with those commercial airliners but those who are unable to do so will be able to have help from the government trying to get them back home where the government will be working with the government with other governments other foreign governments as well as incorporating the health of certain lines as well but also what you had here in this press conference with the chief scientific adviser patrick balance he still stated that the whole purpose of these measures put in place would be to break the rate of transmission and he seemed to indicate with confidence that the measures would appear to be working of course its going to take another 2. 00 to 3. 00 weeks to see if those current measures that have been put in place now are going to have a discernible effect but he said so far even though the u. K. Is pretty much on a trajectory as the same trajectory is frons it does seem to suggest so far that the numbers are not. Accelerating but seem to be climbing. Climbing gradually as well what theyre looking for is to sort of see a flattening of the rate so that transmission before they can sort of stabilize and eventually start to look at how they can release some of those measures put in place but the this is all still very much a theoretical process here because what needs to be understood is that this moment in time the u. K. Has not reached the peak or. Transmissions as well and also taking into consideration that before the pandemic crisis hit the u. K. Intensive care units were among the lowest in europe theyre full there has been a real move to try and show that intensive care unit something a stablished as quickly as possible and theyve done that with transforming set mix of patients centers in london and birmingham in manchester and now it will so in wales and in scotland as well to try and deal with the numbers that theyre anticipating and what theyre also needing of course are certain things such as the ventilators with which some patients unfortunately are going to have to use and be intubated so while all this is a mine as well is also the issue of how to get some of that equipment as well and of course 1st and foremost is also dealing with the personal protective equipment for the front lines start working in the n. H. S. But still so far while they are still working on that there seems to be an idea that they are trying to get a quick meant as quickly as possible to those working in the front line of the National Health service but so far that those measures still need to be maintained in place such as of morning using public transport avoiding going out as much as possible and also really provide preventing mixing with other people as well contact testing and testing is also another important issue as well while the u. K. Is wraps it up not to 10000 tests a day and its eventually going to go to 25000 tests a day it is still far behind some other countries as germany which is aiming to have 200000 tests a day by the end of next month but this is going to be absolutely crucial in order to maintain a 3 show stuff within the National Health system one of full who is at home already either or having to be in isolation because of coronavirus symptoms if they can get the testing done they could they can try and mitigate some of those horrific scenes that have already been seen in italy and in spain came thank you that song again that live from london. Now to spain where it says he said sore and 3rd straight day of deaths in excess of 800 but not aired on a dread reports on how the rate of infections may be slowing in the past few days weve seen how these figures as being have been decreasing a little bit and in the last 24 hours we had a 9. 39 percent of the decrease so these surveys are good news but on the other hand weve got again for the 3rd day consecutive more than 800. 00 fatalities from coronavirus in spain 812. 00 and was the you have to bear in mind that from all that total cases of people infected nationwide are 14 percent of our Health Care Workers nurses and doctors that are battling in the frontline of coronavirus here in spain especially madrid that became the epicenter of the outbreak of the pandemic or to go started to being or started to be overwhelmed or were overloaded with people and they had to build these Field Hospitals in this Exhibition Center imagery that they had to medicalize hotels but what wed seen weve seen since then to date i think in the past 24 hours do build a tent outside the main hospital birth here emerge read as a provisional side to good there the all the people infected because they cannot cope anymore so with heard that in the Field Hospital in the Exhibition Center the picture is really dramatic completely overcrowded. Healthcare workers dont have the proper equipment protective protecting of quitman and they are threatening government had to do not not showing up tomorrow if they dont product provide immediately on the other side the government has given as a has reported that during these weekend they have distributed at least 2600000 of masks 10000000 units of other material satyrs google was. And they have distributed the these nationwide to all the regions new yorks Health System is getting a lifeline by the sea u. S. That Navy Medical Ship arrived in new york city to help relieve hospitals were to filling up with corrado virus patients the 1000 bed ship will treat people with non virus related ailments. I think there have been times in recent days where a lot of new yorkers have felt alone lot of new yorkers have felt. A sense of not being sure whats coming next not being sure of help would come well i want to say to all new yorkers we have evidence here you are not alone we are not alone our nation is helping us in our hour of need. A designer has more now from new york city. The last time that this particular floating hospital is called the comfort the u. S. Navy came here to new york was 3 days after 911 to help people that were injured then this ship is massive it is about 894 feet or about 275 meters it has 12 operating rooms over 1000. 00 hospital beds inside and it will have about the 11021200 nurses and doctors and staff on it that will be helping here in the coming weeks and perhaps even months in new york city what they are going to use it for is taking patients that do not have coronavirus out of some of the new york City Hospitals bringing them here to this hospital least some of them to clear out bed space for coronavirus patients that are needing urgent care in new york city so just to give you an idea though of how much this is needed and how much still needs to be done according to the new york governor they need about 150000 hospital beds in the coming weeks right now they have about 50000 so theyre short about 100000 hospital beds this ship that you see as big it is it is is only going to have about a 1000 so theres still short tens of thousands of hospital beds that are needed in this city in the coming weeks to meet what is going to be the peak of the most amount of people coming that are infected that are going to need urgent care. 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How i went to places ive got some dry weather garage he making his way back in across the middle east has seen some very heavy rain recently spinning out to keep pushing across iraq iran iran still seeing some of that wessel weather thats now pushing across towards afghanistan that will roll over into northern pakistan in the form of western disturbances we go on through the next couple of days and eventually more the piles of india will see some of that behind not see battle as you try to still see a few showers as we go through wednesday want to show the showers sliding across northern parts of iraq and back into iran with a much if iran is generally try not see bad here and hot temperatures around 28 celsius wins now in the process of easing back so some pleasant sunshine as we go on through the days ahead than sunshine to across a good possible Northern Africa and again the winds in the process of easing off somewhat here the showers will continue into somalia because see some showers here always a possibility of some flooding as a result of that ethiopia also seeing a little line of showers they push down towards the rift valley and so the gulf of guinea thats where we see some lively showers recently liberia could see some rather heavy rain along with gada further south while the showers also making the way into a good part of the democratic republic of congo. Overthrown and exiled very point and again saying if you are all wrong. You an intimate film about the struggle of the elected leader of madagascar to return to his country and reinstate his presidency you know is that the true is true and we do not think he is the only known with nutrition against the return of the president on aljazeera. What the you. Know one thing ill just there are a matter of our top stories this hour another 812 coronavirus deaths have been reported initially aside and its from the day before but the country posted its lowest daily increase in new infections and early march confirmed case numbers have now passed 100000. U. K. Says its working with airlines to bring back home its citizens where commercial flights no longer operate the deal includes Companies LikeBritish Airways virgin and easy jet. A Navy Hospital ship has arrived in new york city to help relief hospitals which are filling up with coronavirus patients it has 1000 beds on board to treat people with normal virus related ailments hungarys pollards thats dominated by the governing party has approved sweeping new powers for Prime Minister viktor orban he says its to fight the coronavirus pandemic but critics say it is another step towards autocracy practicum to reports yet again luden those because a shaped charge a lot the tongue reese Prime Minister viktor orban says will help fight a pandemic but those who oppose him say it will create the European Unions 1st dictatorship. Hungary has been under a state of emergency since early march because of the coronavirus that has been extended with no time limits by a parliament dominated by the governing todays party or about now his sweeping powers after being at the helm for 10 years the law is basically extending the extraordinary measures and possibilities of extraordinary measures which is provided by the constitution for 15 days its going to be the parliament that provides free and its going to be the parliament who is going to revoke it anytime it will. So any criticism that it is something that is going against the european matter of the european way of using extraordinary measures you know to be not true did you lol allows or bans government to rule by decree without parliaments approval it sets prison terms of up to 5 years for those convicted of spreading false information about the outbreak and up to 80 is for those who blocked the governments efforts to contain it. Opposition leaders human rights activists as well as the council of europe have all spoken out against it we are not going about an abstract fear we are to be are speaking from experience that we have observed in the last 10 years how the hungary and government and the leadership of Big Government is undermining human rights and limiting the rule of law in hundreds of years bringing about experience when we raise our concerns that unfortunately the coby the emergency order covered president under even being you if theres a constitutional moment for the government to maintain prolong the necks of the powers. In countries around the World Governments have been imposing unprecedented restrictions deploying the army in some instances to enforce lock downs but its also raise concerns about power was left unchecked for too long if the pandemic continues Priyanka Gupta dizzier israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has put himself into self isolation one of his aides tested positive for the virus it was expected had been tested some time on monday the u. N. Security council has held a virtual briefing on the situation in syria a handful of confirmed coronavirus cases there have been announced but there is concern that that will change quickly a diplomatic editor james bass has more now from new york well the Security Council has been told in syria there are so far 10 cases and one death but more local who is the top humanitarian official of the u. N. Who was briefing the Security Council in this Virtual Meeting that took place says he believes that is the tip of the iceberg he says the u. N. Is deeply worried about the situation in syria after almost a decade of war he said that heart of the hospitals and clinics in the country on top are tive and that it is going to make the problem very very hard to deal with indeed he told the Security Council they were practical difficulties of implementing isolation and protective measures in areas of displacement with high population density and low levels of Sanitation Services the very grim situation already in syria i think also highlighted when he mentioned one statistic in the briefing which was in northwest syria where now 3 out of every 10 displaced children there are actually stunted in growth because of malnutrition the u. N. Very very worried with figures like that what will happen if covert 900 spreads in syria. Organizers of expo 2020 dubai back to proposals have a spot in the event for one year due to the coronavirus pandemic announcement came after a meeting between officials from the United Arab Emirates and Foreign Countries participating the event which runs for 6 months was scheduled to begin in october. Zimbabwe has begun implementing a 3 week lockdown to brenne the spread of covert 19 Security Forces have been deployed to enforce the restrictions there are concerns about the governments ability to fight the pandemic because of its struggling Health Sector are with us are reports from harare. Police in harare blocked major roads as the baba begins a 21 day nationwide lockdown if people cant prove why it is essential for them to travel to the city center they are told to go back home. Those measures and. Logical and Unlimited Movement something to do the job. To cover. The spread of the. Other countries have also put in place similar measures in varying degrees but zimbabweans living with hyper inflation and high unemployment worry that closing down markets and non essential businesses cash for millions already struggling. To use. Even 1. 00 to 2. 00 old words. On day one of the lock down harare streets were largely deserted Health Officials say they are ready to minimize the impact of the outbreak should they be more infections are now only transferred operators for the state are allowed to work and they are needed for people who are in Effect Services the government has also closed borders and banned large gatherings. Pharmacies fuel stations and supermarkets can stay open jaring the 3 week lockdown but daily water fuel and Food Shortages means queuing for hours looking for basic commodities at this in corona virus prevention methods such as social distancing is nearly impossible for many its a dilemma between hitting out to provide for their family or staying at home. Event and then go boating has been stolen from a museum in the netherlands thats closed because of the outbreak thieves pried open the glass doors of these thing alone Museum Amsterdam its believed the work called person garden at noon in spring is worth upwards of 7000000. 00 something a little different now some practical advice for those of you still leaving my house to go Grocery Shopping dr jeffrey van when the a physician from the United States has a video on you tube giving advice on shopping safety its already being watched by tens of millions of people around the world so im going to just dump this bread into this container to seal it off and not allow any sort of contamination of the bag more hardy plastic things that youre not worried about disinfecting more liberally you can actually spray the disinfectant grate on those items now these chips again i could dump them into a container but im just going to choose to spray them off thats ok or they go into the pantry. Now if you want to wipe off the areas that you think humans hands were touching a bit more liberally than the areas that you dont think human hands of touch thats all commonsense stuff. Well ive spoken a lot in recent weeks about how airlines and others in the transport industry are being affected by the crisis thats also causing delays for space travel halted work for example on americas next manned mission to the moon and you shall have more. With so many aspects of our lives shutting down you can be reassuring to see some things keep going 1st mission for the United States base force a Successful Mission on thursday launched from Cape Canaveral in florida with a 1400000000. 00 Communications Satellite on board and we have 5 other parts of the space industry though are dealing with astronomical headaches just like everybody else only christmas politics we understand that the International Space station may possibly be the safest place on earth over the next few months the next men to leave the planet have been under heavy quarantine in russia star city forced to say goodbye to their families several weeks ahead of schedule thats to ensure they dont bring coppa 19 to the International Space station next week its really interesting its not unlike any other time in our in our lives as a generation really right like to me this is goes into where were you when j. F. K. Was shot where were you when you landed on the moon and where were you when corona virus is happening and ill have my own interesting story to tell and in years to come for nearly a decade the u. S. Has relied on russia to fly its astronauts into low earth orbit but that will change in a few weeks if all goes according to plan go on to for grab sample container nasa and the private American AerospaceCompany Space x. Say the launch of a crude mission will go ahead in mid to late may regardless of the pandemic back on earth theres a lot riding on the Mission Giving the u. S. The capacity to send its own people into space once again. Timelines for other missions will certainly have to be pushed back 3 to one big mission. Nasa is newer. Ryan spacecraft is scheduled to take the next man and 1st woman to the lunar surface in 2024 nasa is also building the worlds most powerful rocket to get them there and then hopefully to mars but the plant producing the rocket is just outside of new orleans which has one of the highest rates of new corona virus infections in the world the agency shut nearby rocket production and Testing Facilities on march 19th than others across the country to protect its workforce when you work on a rocket a lot of people have to work very close to each other and that could have that could have really spread quickly and its even affecting spacecraft already millions of kilometers from earth the European Space agency has put 8 of them in whats known as hibernation mode because of reduced staffing and has suspended its launches indefinitely even with delays on the next generation of their spacecraft lesser astronauts are busy performing a different Public Service sharing advice on how to cope with isolation at home after they survive the isolation of space some of it is just connecting you know reaching out and doing a video call with family and friends or or working on a project you know when i was going to word it i do crossword puzzles with my boys over a video chat advice that we can all use right now no matter where we are in the universe and we should help al jazeera Security Forces around the while the trying to find ways to enforce a lockdown sense in colombia having some resorting to some unusual and maybe n. S. A. Carrying cuff and every thing driving through the city or costing a message urging people to stay at home. This is al jazeera and these the top stories another 812 coronavirus deaths have been reported in italy a slight increase from the day before the country posted its lowest daily increase in new infections since early march confirmed case numbers have now passed 100000 the u. K. Says its working with airlines to bring back home citizens where commercial flights are no longer available deal includes Companies LikeBritish Airways virgin and easy jet and Navy Hospital ship has arrived in new york city to help relieve hospitals with a filling up with coronavirus patients it has 1000 beds on board to treat people with normal virus for the moment. I think theres been times in recent days where large new yorkers have felt alone by the yorkers and felt. A sense of. Not being sure whats coming next not being sure as help would come when i want to say to all new yorkers we have evidence here you are not alone we are not alone. Our nation is helping us in our hour of need. Hungarys parliament has approved a bill that gives Prime Minister viktor orban is government of limited powers to deal with a pandemic theres no time set for these emergency measures to end organs critics accuse him of a power grab the government insists its necessary to protect people israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu has put himself into isolation one of his aides tested positive for the virus it was expected he would be tested sometime on monday organizers of expo 2020 dubai have backed a proposal to perspire in the event for one year due to the coronavirus pandemic the announcement came after a meeting between officials from the United Arab Emirates and Foreign Countries participating. Vincent van gogh biasing was stolen from a museum in the netherlands while it was closed because of the coronavirus lockdown took the painting of the night by prying open the gloss doors of the single and museum the abstinence its believe the painting is worth upwards of 7000000. 00. As the headlines the news continues here on aljazeera the inside story which is coming up next stay with us. Are all coronavirus cases being reported the pandemic is spreading rapidly but some countries still dont have the capacity to test people so is that hampering efforts to curb the disease this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program the number of people infected by covert 19 is more than 700000 globally the number who have died over 34000 those are the estimates from Johns Hopkins you know