A comeback. And taiwan accuses the World Health Organization of not sharing coronavirus information due to chinese pressure. Hello welcome to the program the United States has suffered the worlds worst single day of the corona virus pandemic with close to 1200 deaths on thursday the total number of fatalities has surpassed 6000 the number of reported infections worldwide is now more than a 1000000 wartime powers are being used in the us to get urgently needed equipment to hospitals President Trump has invoked the defense production act ordering private companies to make masks ventilators and other medical equipment our White House CorrespondentKimberly Houk at has more on the range of new measures announced by President Trump. As the number of corner virus cases in the United States continues to rise so does historic unemployment as a result the u. S. President announcing 350000000000 in Small Business loans to help Small Businesses retain employees who are staying at home right now as a result 1 of social distancing the u. S. President also saying americans can expect guidance soon and whether or not they should be wearing face masks when they leave their homes now there is in the midst of all this still strict social distancing guidelines and stay at home orders in a majority of u. S. States that is something that is in place to try and help stop the spread but it is not just the United States that to struggle in with the increasing number of coronavirus cases iran of course is also being hit hard ask the u. S. President whether he thought this might be a time to ease tough economic sanctions on iran in order to help the people fight the virus. The. People of iran give you the presidency he will continue to stand with the people of iran given the fact theyre so hard hit with chronic fire theyre very hard hit so theyre here in a lot of ways they are there. With their economy with their military and with obviously the virus they very hard it would you consider easing sanctions to allow medical supplies to get in there even if this is the thing we know that sanctions hit the people not the government will have anything as to if they want to read word love to me and would love to settle the whole thing but i doubt theyll be its a realistically how does a person in tehran pick up the hard copy i think they love america i think the iranians love america i think theyd love to be free i think theyd love to have just some of the things that we have you know i remember many years ago friends of mine were always in a room they were doing real estate deals in a room they were building beautiful buildings. Well over an apartment house as it was they were very successful and then one day there came to an end and really dont want the people of aurora they remember that it was a long time ago but not so long ago they remember it and ill tell you they love america they love what we stand for. And were not looking for shit were not looking for government to take over government changing no this countrys been through that many times that doesnt work people do encourage other countries to poor me has certain you know what i write. What i do this you know i put it out very publicly with respect to iran and said if they need help with respect to the virus wed love to sit with the greatest medical professionals in the world would let their cities are you encouraging perhaps 2 to lend their support because there are many countries that he only courage of his kids and. Theyve been a very hostile country they made a deal that president obama should have never made it was a short term deal giving a 150000000000. 00 giving them 1800000000. 00 in cash green filters to europe and more responsibility. Is even if you. Have a moral responsibility to help them if they ask if they if they needed help i would certainly consider different dont you think she says they need help well thats up to the United Nations im talking about us and what happens is if they want to help because they have a very big case of virus a very very big case it one of the worst on earth if you believe what youre reading and i happen to believe what i see and what i know and if they wanted help we give them help even as President Trump pushes back on the suggestion of easing sanctions the calls to do just that are growing in the United States the latest coming from former Vice President joe biden who insists that now is the time to ease sanctions in order to make sure that the people of iran get the medical supplies they need. Spain has recorded more than 900 new covert 900 deaths for the 2nd day in a row Health Authorities say 932 people died in the past 24 hours slightly less than the number on thursday when spain announced its largest single death toll Martin Herrera joins me now from madrid good to have you with us back on the program lot of the latest figures dont really seem to say much more about how hopeful the spanish can be in terms of getting to their peak and it sort of all evening off. Yes we keep getting the message. Things are as the the curve is established seem that will shortly a slow down but still todays figures dont reflect that we have 900 new fatalities from corona virus in the past 24 hours with the death toll 210135 the number of infections have increased in 7400 these are the new cases after total of one 3rd 10787800 they use. This a passes eatons figures in the number of infections so these figures im good at all this by was seeing a slowdown in the number of infections since last week 2 days when spain this space still remains as the 2nd country in recoveries straight after china and just before germany so this could bring up a gleam of hope for us Health Minister authorities have said that now theyve gone they want to focus in the intensive care units because right now theyre overload overwhelmed there working at an 85 percent of their capacity and we know that they have medical eyestrain to grady they need to transport patients from one region to the other exactly the same as as france see it in a few the past few weeks a lot too across europe many capitals had suggested that various dates across the month of april could be the time to lift the lockdown at each respective country across europe said we have been talking about it seems that is now becoming a bigger debate a more so in spain. Yes stanage government is planning to this to extend the state of emergency tomorrow Prime Minister or santa would have his meeting with this experience carrier that had been tracking the Coronavirus Crisis since the beginning since the outbreak and they will analyze it they will debate whether to extend all those measures and to extend the manty an april 26th more days what we dont know is whether all these measures will be the top the ones that were taken 2 weeks ago with their own nonessential workers or or or economy working or it will be less once this is approved they will have that they will have to pass it to the Spanish Congress and this will have to be vote it so we will have to wait until tomorrow to see whats whats next watoto in madrid thank you now the United States is being accused of paying up to 3 times the price to retire a medical supplies bump for france to its own hospitals in america a Regional Health policy in france says several 1000000 headed for their intensive care units were sent by china to the u. S. Instead well canadian Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau says hes very concerned about reports of medical supplies meant to canada have been diverted to the u. S. On this issue and of course there are concerning we need to make sure that the equipment that is destined for canada gets to and stays in canada and ministers to follow up on these particular report we are working not just here at home but overseas as well to ensure that the equipment that canada has ordered makes its way to canada 1st cross over to from just tony who lives in milan italy and of course hearing this news about whats happened to both french and canadian supplies how desperate and concerned are italian authorities that the same may be happening to them how desperately do they need medical masks. We have a huge shortage of masks right now italy has been trying to buy medical supplies for weeks from other countries that especially at the beginning of the outbreak in italy were not so helpful were not so. Disposed to do to help with the dorothys like turkey for example the Prime Minister contact called the president. Made of march because 200000 masks bought by Italian Companies from turkey were stopped by the turkish government but this this call didnt have any any outcome so basically what is happening is that Italian Companies have are trying to convert their production to build these masks here. The there are some some problems too because these these masks these masks were not checked by Health Officials and so they cannot be solved at the moment even though there is a huge need in the population and in medical workers too because. Last yesterday the head of the Civil Protection was had to apologize because 600000 masks arrived gifted by by china were distributed to the medical workers but it was discovered that they were not. They were not they were not good day they were basically good for population but not for for medical workers and so there are big problems with with this massive were not surprised that whats happening see whats happening in in canada and france if we take masks to one side as part of much of the medical supplies that italy and other countries need how problematic is it for italy at the moment to try and get any sort of medical equipment or support where for example in europe on mainland europe the borders are locked down but would be a logistical nightmare not just for italy but for countries that border it. Yeah its very complicated not just for masks for all the ras for ventilators for goggles for. Protective suits. The good thing is that after the 1st weeks it seemed that something changed here in europe because. Since they did to mention of the European Commission president you use a lot on the line and. Immediately we have the impression that something is changing there the corporation is starting to to work again after a very. Hard beginning in the arm break so. The problem here is is big and its not just for the things that dont arrive from other countries italians know that something has been mistaken in italy too especially here a lot body in the management of the beginning of the r. Break when some hospitals were not closed even they should have been the people that were affected by the virus were not trained compact traced. That there were mistakes that will be analyzed in a 2nd moment at the moment were still trying to cope with the urgency the good news is there the hospitals seem to be a little bit less stressed the last weeks because new new ice use have been built and so there are new new units and new doctors coming from other countries too so deciduous im in hospitals slightly better than last weeks and this is the glimmer of hope for italy at the moment francisco go but only in milan thank you. But chinas government is warning people in the city of new home to stay indoors over fears of a resurgence in infections that follows the imposition of a lockdown on 600000 chinese in neighboring one province Shaimaa Josie is in new hand and says there are growing concerns over socalled silent carriers of the virus. He didnt theres really no yoma and so while your mum and i have been moving here and there today and yesterday and i can say that the precautionary measures are very strict and we can see sanitizes are being used everywhere on the streets of the city even in some open areas there are people who are taking body temperatures and no one is allowed to come into this area without a certain symbol used by the locals here in this area and others as well every area has its own symbol of them allow you to come in and allow the authorities to follow your medical history at the same time i think the strict procedures are still here people can feel the fear the government is trying to ease the public fear because there are concerns over asymptomatic cases people who have the virus but none of the symptoms are shown so the procedures i think are very strict and it will continue for certain period of time to come in order to avoid any 2nd wave of covert 1000 and factions and will harm and china in general. Well still ahead here on aljazeera while much of the world stays at home europes homeless are facing increasing struggle to survive that story after the break here on aljazeera. Hello the good guys across much of northern asia clavicle still on its way to eastern areas of honshu but really its again the south of china where were seeing some very heavy amounts of rain is coming down in some very saturated ground and in fact on saturday its a little bit heavier closer towards northern sections of it and then as we head off into sunday it does become very heavy again and very widespread pushing on tools hong kong say feeling cooler and also fairly breezy but 21 is the high with at times some very heavy amounts of rain quite blustery across much of home she touches a little bit lower just 12 celsius in sendai with a chance of a few showers and sapporo cooler as well 8 degrees but the rain should say mostly to the east of there is a fairly quiet picture across india its a fairly whole picture it has to be said 39 in poor we may well see want to develop ng into sri lanka is a go through sunday but really apart from that is the dry hot picture 34 is the high up in new delhi a few more showers into Northern Areas of the middle east a bit of a break though into turkey of the stalls over the weekend temperatures really have come up through the eastern end of the med 25 in jerusalem 26 in damascus not assholes as it was in baghdad so feeling a little bit better and the rain on its way across the caspian sea so maybe a shower or 2 in tehran. All over to stay with my state. Weve got children are now in the process of reeducation or chinese assimilation forced labor and the use of high tech surveillance were being complicit in the human rights abuses that are occurring. Best occasion into chinas systematic repression of the we. Tell the world on aljazeera. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera means the whole run a reminder of our top stories the United States has suffered the worlds worst single day of the coronavirus pandemic with close to 1200 deaths on thursday the total number of dead has surpassed 6000 spain has recorded more than 900 new covert 900 deaths for the 2nd day in a row the 932 fatalities are less than a wrong thursday when spain announced its largest single day death toll. France and canada are voicing concern that medical supplies supposed to go to them are being redirected to the United States one French Health official says several 1000000 masks they altered and are being sent to the u. S. After it was willing to pay much more. Polands parliament is preparing for a controversial vote on whether to hold president ial elections in may entirely by postal ballot the ruling law and Justice Party says this reduces health risks for the opposition say the vote is undemocratic because corona virus restrictions will prevent them from campaigning lets get more on this from lawrence days covering events for us from london a lot as it seems as real debate about whether the election should go ahead at all. Yeah you see this this is really quite interesting theres a general debate going on now as to whether the pandemic poses a threat to democracy and whether some countries governments are using the pandemic as a cover effectively for a Democratic Power grab the been the heavy criticism come podia for example and hungry which we can talk about in the minute the situation as you say in poland is the supposed president ial election next friday people can go outside to vote public gatherings are banned so the opposition can go and campaign the ruling party the law and Justice Party is in complete control of the media and so theyre perfectly happy to have a postal vote because because of that i was going to get a word in. But crucially for the ruling party the bad news for them is that their Coalition Partner have said that they dont want to have the election either they think they should be postponed for 2 years a majority of poles dont want it either and so it is quite difficult because of the government tries to press ahead and then the government and then and the government collapses because they lose their Coalition Partner you have to have another election anyway and so it looks like they might not be able to do it but poland is obviously in a bad spot anyway its heavily criticized as are the European Union for issues to do with law and order and its just another example of what looks to the untrained eye like potential dodgy practices. With the pandemic as a cover for them in another way those of us looking from the outside in perhaps considering is there a worry that countries like poland and hungary are using the credit iris pandemic of them to sort of a way of controlling the situation and the public with sort of an iron fist a bill oblivious to sort of public rights and freedoms which is sort of king of the e. U. States who of course would keep away from all of that. I mean it is it is becoming a big deal now for the European Union some 18 i think 16 or 18 countries and house on a joint statement inside the European Union saying the democracy needs to be strengthened not weakened during the time of pandemic and they not exactly a victor or ban and the government in hungary which is now suspended parliament completely stopped all elections. That theres absolute outrage privately inside the halls of power in brussels at whats going on in budapest. This group of visegrad countries the visual bloc of the known of also been told they broke the law by the European Court of justice yesterday for refusing to take in refugees in the face heavy fines like the Czech Republic for example and he also take 50 refugees or refuse even to take that many so there are these ongoing issues to do with the responses of individual countries to the virus and obviously when when it all blows over when its finished in the world comes out there the side will see what what what democracy looks like in some of these places. Lawyers for the update thanks very much lawrence di there in london. Now aid workers across europe are warning Homeless People are risk of starvation because of lockdowns the virus has also led to the closure of hundreds of centers which many relied on for food and shelter. Has more from london. As europes cities empty the homeless are no longer invisible but they are a risk of being forgotten. Everybodys very scared everybody. Else everybody the. Challenge hes out. There on the streets for many reasons abuse addiction Mental Illness theyre already 20 times more likely to contract tuberculosis or other lung diseases and now theres the coronavirus. But its hunger that brings them here to a charity handing out food since the lot down help has been in short supply theres a lot less food because there are. Hotels that shot these people if you contribute to us normally they give us food surplus food these extreme situation these are very dangerous. Even before this pandemic struck the number of people sleeping rough has been going up in nearly every single country in europe now an estimated 700000 people are sleeping on the streets across the continent up 70 percent in the past decade. 300 rooms in London Hotels own by the Intercontinental Group have been booked for the next 2 months to help Homeless People self isolate but there are thousands more in need. In spain the army and red cross have set up temporary shelters with hundreds of beds and here in the french town of card the Film Festival venue has opened its doors to the destitute but these are only temporary solutions that aid workers fear could worsen the spread one thing we have to be really careful that we dont. Come up with solutions that actually made things. And. Grouping them is people together. In other settings. We now treat irish is going to create massive action. In the italian city of naples locals have been filling baskets with food and lowering them from their balconies those who can ask to put food in those who cant afford to eat are encouraged to help themselves. Tally and police have handed out fines to some Homeless People for breaking curfews despite many shelters cutting capacity or closing altogether. Across europe aid workers are urging all thora to use to show leniency how can you stay at home they are sick when you dont have one. Nieve marker aljazeera london. Now the Hong Kong Government has accused a public broadcaster of breaching the one china principle for mentioning taiwan during an interview with the World Health Organization when asked whether the w. H. O. Would reconsider taiwans membership assistant director general bruce all words appear not to hear the question and hung up beijing considers taiwan a breakaway province and has long objected to its participation in International Organizations as a sovereign state taiwan has accused the w. H. O. Of not sharing information or how its tackle the pandemic with the rest of the world due to pressure from china or Keith Richburg is director of the university of hong kongs journalism and Media Studies Center he says the interview exposes the w. H. O. Bias towards china. It just shows the kind of craziness of this position were in where we cannot recognize taiwan as a governing entity which it is because of chinas insistence that its not a country so it cant be a member of the w. H. O. So that the view h. O. Cannot coordinate or cannot even discussed i won and in fact pretends not to hear the question its perceived that the w. H. O. Is a bit of a laughingstock when they go to beijing and they praise china to the hilt people have been asking how much money china must be giving to the joe theyve been asking how much money china gives to ethiopia because the director general of the w. H. O. Is an ethiopian its been the w. H. O. Actually in some ways its not that when he gets off well they were they were basically praising chinas lockdown measures of you know millions of people locked in their apartments when people inside were saying those measures are actually quite harsh and quite draconian in some ways you know its in i was just sleeping lavish praise on china despite the fact that china was lying about its numbers and burying its numbers for couple of months before this thing went out of control but there is still question marks about chinas numbers of you know how many are really infected era how many are really died we have no idea but to hear them you a job chinas like this kind of model citizens and thats why people in hong kong and even though youre starting here in the u. S. The u. S. Congress people are starting to really question the u. A. E. Joes credibility in the end of this crisis when it comes to china and libya millions are battling both the threats of the virus on the ongoing effects of fighting a blockade of Oil Terminals an estimate libya has seen the government lose millions of dollars that day in revenue since january but this is meant Government Employees havent been paid for months and inflation is on the rise as mahmoud of the war had reports from the capital tripoli. Food prices are on the allies in tripoli before the start of ramadan residents are rushing to markets feeling some communities might try now if during the holy month of fasting. Is checking what he can afford to buy in this but short shop like many other libyans he has not received his salary for the past 3 months you know were going to get is only we are following a stare at the measures in our houses by downsizing the amount of commodities we need to consume the government has not intervened to stop shop owners from increasing prices the value of the libyan d. N. R. Is falling and banks are running short of hard to currencies because of the halt in oil exports despite the dramatic fall in oil prices globally oil revenues remain the backbone of libyas economy almost 30 percent of libyas 6000000. 00 people rely on his state salaries with the closure of oil minister lation is because of continuing the fighting between rival groups and many fear a worsening financial crisis for the past 3 months forces loyal to warlord plea for have to have been blocking the Oil Terminals in the east of the country production has dropped from 1200000. 00 to less than 100000 Barrels Per Day this state oil further is to mates it has lost around 3 and half 1000000000. 00 in revenue. Meanwhile have there is one year to battle to capture the capital that goes on that has taken a toll on people and infrastructure consequences might remain for years to come when i could hear them and i was on a a lot of factories have been affected by the war in tripoli because many of them a located near the fighting areas or so many investment projects that was signed with Foreign Companies and no being frozen this war is not only affecting economy in tripoli but across the whole country. And many other libyans are worried if their blockade on the Oil Facilities continues the Economic Crises will get even worse they are wondering when and how their situation will improve. Tripoli. Yourselves there of means the whole problem remind us of our top stories the United States has suffered the worlds worst single day of the krona virus pandemic with close to 1200. 00 deaths on thursday the total number of dead has surpassed 6000 were now conducting well over 100000 corona virus test per day over that 100000 test a day and these are accurate tests and theyre moving rapidly which is more than any other country in the world both in terms of the raw number and also on a per capita basis the most the f. D. A. Is also worth a rise to 1st coronavirus Antibody Test developed a cell execute a step that will help identify people who have recovered and to understand their immune response and their immune system spain has recorded more than 100 new covert 1000 deaths for the 2nd day in a row the 932 fatalities are less than the number on thursday when spain announced its largest single day death toll from some canada voicing concern that medical supplies supposed to go to them are being redirected to the United States one French Health official says several 1000000 masks they ordered and are being sent to the u. S. After it was willing to pay much more. Polands parliament is preparing for a controversial vote on whether to hold president ial elections in may entirely by postal ballot the rule of law and Justice Party says this reduces health risks but the opposition says the voting is undemocratic because coronavirus restrictions will prevent them from campaigning indians are being urged to switch off their lights on sunday night and hold candles or torches and a show of solidarity Prime MinisterNarendra Modi issued a video message aiming to boost morale during the 3 week lock down 56 indians have died with around 2300 reported infections the Hong Kong Government has accused a public broadcaster of breaching the one china principle for mentioning taiwan during an interview with the World Health Organization beijing considers taiwan a breakaway province and has long objected to its participation in International Organizations as a sovereign state. Those were the headlines more news in half an hour here on aljazeera but next its top 12 so stay with us. To see. Hello there im james pais at u. N. Headquarters in new york now this is a building i work in most days and i have to tell you eightys very early quat now normally theres about 10000 people coming to this compound every single week day now at the moment theres only about 300 people accessing this building every day they all the skeleton stoff most of them working trying to get the Video Conference and systems working to allow the rest of the u. N. To continue its vital functions those peace keep