Mission one that became a story of survival against all odds. The u. S. Now has the highest number of coronavirus deaths in the world 20000 people its tally past italy on saturday across the country at least half a 1000000 people are infected more than half of the deaths are in 3 States New York new jersey and michigan the epicenter remains new york the surge of death there has overwhelmed Funeral Homes and the city is using a mass burial site but the state governor says for the 1st time theres been a drop in intensive care said Missions New York city has shut down Public Schools for the rest of the academic year. You can see that the numbers somewhat. Stabilizing but it is stabilizing at an horrific rate. 783 people 777799 these are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and paid new york is not only the hardest hit state its also bearing the financial brunt of the nation wide locked on christmas and only has this report its been called the crossroads of the world but these days no one is going anywhere just ask taxi driver nicolay hent hear people talking. About it he says his few customers are mostly hospital workers now that all but essential workers are expected to stay home new york the center of American Culture and commerce now has more coronavirus cases than any single country. Even the famously busy Grand Central station is eerily quiet during normal times 3 quarters of a 1000000 people would pass through here each day now as empty as public spaces are hospitals are full. Public hospitals in particular have been overwhelmed statistics show that while the elderly or those with preexisting conditions make up most faith tallies minority communities have been hit disproportionately hard. And doctors and nurses are under tremendous pressure a shortage of protective gear like masks and downs is only adding to the strain for nurses like sarah dowd who came out to demonstrate being kind of thrust into the situation without everything we need without the resources we need to do the best job possible and. That has a psychological affect the feeling of being helpless scenes of refrigerated trucks as makeshift morgues and Funeral Homes struggle to contain the enormous loss of life have been traumatic even for notoriously tough new yorkers the city and state officials have lashed out at the federal government for not doing more to coordinate the response on bidding on a machine that illinois is bidding on in california is bidding on in florida is big and we were bidding up each other while social distancing appears to be slowing the spread of coke at 19 nearly a month of school and business closures are taking a toll leaving thousands of Small Business owners struggling to survive like jeff george who owns a martial arts studio the biggest thing is continuing to be able to pay the rent and pay the utilities and pay the employees right we want to we want to be able to sustain them as much as we and. Thats important to me. Still new yorkers like eric kerry and his wife are finding ways to bring people together from their rooftop with music even if for now they cant get close inspired by scenes in italy and spain theyve been holding a nightly socially distanced party cannot wait to have a big party after this and invite the whole lot over to our lovely roof deck and be able to have everyone there and enjoy a song and a drink together but Officials Say that time is still weeks if not months away kristen salumi aljazeera new york. Well italy remains the european country hardest hit by the Global Pandemic but the pressure on hospitals and intensive care ward is easing the nation wide lockdown has been extended until the beginning of may. Theres a look at italys worst crisis since the 2nd world war. The coronavirus didnt start initially but the country quickly became the european face of the struggle against covert 1000. The disease started to spread in small towns in northern italy in february and by the time quarantine was imposed it was too late in long bloody one of the best Health Systems in the world was quickly overwhelmed and the army had to be called in to help with the bodies exhausted doctors were fighting a new disease which claimed not just lives but social contact as a matter of patients have been on the dot this is a. Very. Very. Psychological point of view it was very very demanding but this is will be. And the belief is that. Will be he says. And not the same. As the death rates in italy imposed a Strict Lockdown to curb contagion and life changed beyond recognition the world looked on aghast is it really became the 1st european country to close the schools nonessential shops and to tell people to stay home. Some of the most famous Tourist Attractions in the world emptied overnight and images of the pope praying alone in st Peters Square would have been unimaginable just a few minutes only was. Singing from balconies may boost morale but it does little to ease the Enormous Economic damage that such a strict and lengthy lockdown has inflicted speaking to aljazeera Prime Minister just epic all day called for solidarity. The European Union must show a swift and unified response to the replications of this pandemic we have to provide answers about politics finance and Economic Policy because its in our interest and the interest of other countries the starts in early concern and so it also spain and all countries the face economic and social problems e. U. Finance ministers have agreed a rescue package for Member States damaged by the coronavirus but it may still not be enough for a country that had financial problems even before the pandemic we still where there are the wave of the all recession and now these eating especially you know the small and medium size Italian Companies a. Manufacturer sector is still number 2 in europe a number 6 in the world so pretty robust but its made up over a network of Small Companies and they are going down fast there is cause for optimism infection rates suggest italy may have reached the peak of the crisis but italian still faces several more weeks of loss. The 700 children who came together from italy and europe in a photo choir will never forget this period of their lives their singing about hope in the face of adversity in the hope that soon italy and the world will win the battle against. At. The airfield little sarah. But its accounting is the chair of anesthesia and intensive care at milans who monitor us hospital he says Health Systems have been overwhelmed the 1st thing that we learn and we try to tell everyone really from the very 1st days of our experience here is really that this is not a normal flu at all we were seen to date up from china even before it hit italy but when we found ourselves in the middle of the epicenter you know or they became very clear that there was a danger of cases that require a spirit to resupport and up to 1020 percent in our cases actually was requiring invasive mechanical ventilation so that the number of patients the volume of patients a seek that come into our into secure unit was very high unfortunately so far we dont have a specific therapies against this virus would we do have is good Supportive Care so what we try to do in intensive care is exactly to do this to use what we learn from managing a new morning as ventilator pneumonias for many years now hes basically to try to keep our a patient require intensive care so that they can arrest you while we do the work of breathing for them so we call it some of the strategies protective Line Strategies because the ventilators that we use they dont cure the lung to just give very brief time to the lines to heal so our jobs really is the job to buy time for our patients so that their immune system can fight the virus Health Officials in the u. K. So the outbreak is yet to reach its peak there is the death toll creeps closer 210000 the numbers are expected to keep rising but as many in the massive reports from london there seems to be some hope. The numbers are still very high and theyre expected to increase further in the coming days and weeks actually this is in line with expectations as the emergency starts to reach its peak you can see the daily death toll reaching the 1000 level just there abouts here in the u. K. And in fact in the last few days the u. K. Already surpassed and spain for recording the highest number of daily deaths now interestingly were also hearing from the director of n. H. S. England Stephen Power and he was saying that there has also been a flattening in the number of confirmed cases and also in the number of hospitalizations and that is really important so and thats not just in london but also in other parts of the country but he did say that it will take some time for us to see the effect of that in the death toll think those because of this time lag with the virus it takes time for an infected person to start to show symptoms and then those again in time before they deteriorate to the point of needing to go to hospital and sadly if they might die and so because of that time live you are likely to see a continued increase in the death toll in the coming days and probably this week. Still ahead and al jazeera why Health Experts are concerned that africa will be the hardest hit by the coronavirus and damage. Hello rain is leaving china and others normally breeze pushing this cloud south but because its quite cold air its developing over the warm waters of the western pacific these china sea and its got a secure location in it and you see from the colors when you see orange thats pretty heavy rain so once again for the major islands of japan rain is on its why im with the rain low temp shes in a sucker we start of 11 degrees that rain lasted until tuesday then back up to 16 or wednesday as it clears away which is about the average there cause not a stain a sock is rolling up the whole way through home should eventually probably just touch a card as well so a miserable day in tokyo on monday as well because sometimes behind and its warming up in beijing and at 22 in hong kong probably feels a little chill side in the morning because humidity is low but its sunshine by day south of this a good scattering of big thunderstorms born here is the focus at the moment still in java students who are ways of increasing well see them in vietnam cambodia and thailand and laos which is right this time the its just the showing of the coming pulses and they go again this is one of the up pulses it looks fairly wet as for india there are a few shots in the coast care a lot but mainly temperatures and i rising steadily. From the ounces here in london for the past center t. V. Special guest in conversation as the resistance and i see joy in the midst of pain your books do that and from today its uninterrupted while all of us people of color and theyre just one color this way that is why. Should they be people of no color that is exactly Fatima Bhutto meets Marc Lamont Hill i very much thought i was going to get shot and look at a bad movie studio unscripted on aljazeera. Youre watching or does it i remind her of our top stories this hour more than 20000. 00 americans have died after contract in the corona virus the u. S. Has surpassed italys death toll leads the world with the highest number of fatalities. New york is the epicenter of the virus with more than 8600 deaths state governor says the situation is stabilizing theres been a drop in the number of admissions to intensive care for the 1st time since the outbreak. You can health Officials Say the corona Virus Outbreak hasnt yet reached its peak there despite the death toll nearing 10011 year old was among the fatalities announced on saturday the governments urging people to stick to locked up restrictions. The coronavirus pandemic isnt expected to peak and latin america for another 3 weeks but many in the region are already worried Public Health services are severely lacking and some countries are already in a recession the regions major cities have dense populations and many have no choice but to ignore lock down measures and go to work or latin america editor lets in human reports from santiago. Bodies speak composing on the streets or inside houses in ecuador is tropical city of. Cemeteries and funeral parlors cant cope with the demand and the government can only offer cardboard coffins to the latest victims. Its already a catastrophe long before infections from coleridge 19 reach their peak it hit and hit him with in the gulf where fighting and they wait for them to die before helping them and when their dad they hand them over to the family this is terrible since march 1st the pandemic has been spreading rapidly throughout latin america and brazil the country with the most deaths so far drug lords are imposing klein teens in slums thats because the president is still refusing to take strong measures at the expense of the economy in mexico the government and the people appear dangerously nonchalant about social distancing and testing even as coronavirus cases continue rising. By contrast in argentina chile peru colombia paraguayan and most of Central America borders are closed and the army is on the streets to enforce partial or total quarantines to try to slow the curve of contagion improve for example men are allowed to leave the house to shop on alternate days and women on the other days to keep more people off the streets but where the notable it was i think its a good idea to be able to control the masses a little bit because of the type of contagion that were facing but its not enough we dont have. These places as they develop. Number one in terms of Health Systems and they and the system in systems. I mean i would say only 84 percent of the poorest or have access to ship protection there restore anything. Latin america faces another tremendous handicap a very high population density in its major cities coupled with widespread poverty that fans the spread of disease. But the region faces an even bigger problem maintaining a total quarantine for much longer and many of these cities will likely be impossible to enforce and for a very simple reason 58 percent of Latin Americans like means work in the Informal Sector and faced with the choice of staying at home to starve or defying a fortys they would rather come out here and take their chances with the buyers. In many countries hospitals are already running out of surgical masks and ventilators at least 14000000 people are already out of work and with the peak of the pandemic still some 3 weeks away latin america may well be facing unprecedented death and devastation. To see a new man aljazeera santiago. More than 30000000 people in brazil have signed up for emergency Financial Relief is locked on restrictions affect their economy and the government is trying to streamline the payment process after thousands lined up at tax offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups informal workers are entitled to claim 118. 00 a month Health Authorities have appealed to the public to stay at home after a large gatherings were reported in several big cities. Me and more will ring in the new year next week but celebrations will be muted because of the virus the seventys have been canceled and people are being urged to stay at home but as far as louis reports it hasnt stopped some workers trying to leave the cities and head to their hometowns. Days before the myanmar new year starts and this bus terminal is packed people are leaving yangon for their hometowns despite government advice to stay home to prevent the spread of the coronavirus here ali yes i am worried about the coronavirus thats why i have to take precautions like wearing a mask using hand sanitizers and washing hands everyones doing it myanmar has one of the lowest number of reported coronavirus cases in Southeast Asia about tough its cases im gone the biggest city and commercial capital while the government has banned public gatherings travel is allowed raising concerns about spreading the virus everywhere. They brought their tickets in advance these are the people that go home every year since the factories they work in a closed they dont have a place to stay in the gone the owner says only half his normal number of passes are on the road fewer people are traveling this year mostly Migrant Workers and no tourists the myanmar new year known as tin john is usually celebrated with much fanfare and merry making its also known as the water festival but theyll be no water fights public concerts or street parades this year nonessential businesses have been ordered to shut only one person from each household is allowed to go out for Medicine Health care of food. For many the restrictions are a financial burden so we need to be with you know its not good for business as we cant work if we cant work we have nothing to eat i get paid for each day of work others are slightly more optimistic. We have to follow the governments order during thing in festival the government made the order because the world is in serious trouble so they have to protect the country its for all of us. Like many countries around the world. Relying on everyone to stay home to break the chain of transmission. Africa felt the affects of the coronavirus later than other continents and many Health Experts are concerned it will be hit the hardest reports from kenyas capital. Eating grilled meat in pubs is part of daily life in kenyas capital nairobi. Selling it hes big business. Battle ground to a halt when the government ordered restaurant closed to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Grills on this strip of closed the workers have been laid off. Or is not well we must adhere to the measures but. Even take away we have neuer to turn to for help. To grow traders here among millions across africa who already lost their livelihood because of restrictions on movement and trade. Shoppers in kenya supermarkets have to keep distance and sanitize their hands but shops like this are the main of the middle class which in most african countries is tiny crowded market like this the more normal simply isnt space for people to keep distance here impossible to enforce it the people that trade in play. And people that buy their food here they dont come here in the daytime they go hungry in the evening and its the same story for millions of people in cities across the continent that. The government of the democratic republic of congo has locked down the central commercial district of its capital kinshasa. To most of the rest of the city of about 12000000 people are still out and about trying to trade if they dont go out to find work and means of livelihood so that becomes a significant cost to the containment measures the governor said its shooting all square and in the absence of social protection youre going to see people tell me what the. South africas army has been accused the right to pieces in trying to stop any our people when it in force to lock down the country is recorded more cases of the virus than anywhere else on the continent possibly because it carried out many more tests its locked down seems to have succeeded in slowing the rate of infections in much of the rest of the continent hospitals and Health Ministries have recorded relatively low but sharply rising numbers so far. With many living in cramped conditions like the slum in nairobi Health Experts think the worst is yet to come if these interventions i dont testing i dont isolation i dont hedge in practices that im staying at school but also taking care of the social needs of the population are not going to be thought out clearly theyre going to see a steep price and which we bring in a lot of dates so. As long as markets are busy like this one in nairobi it will help the virus spread and the markets mean hunger and social unrest african governments face difficult decisions in the weeks ahead millions of people will face the consequences. Marcum web out is there a Nairobi Kenya ok lets turn to other world news now pakistan and india have been locked in renewed military skirmishes over the disputed indian administered kashmir region for the last 2 days they accuse each other of starting the fighting pakistan says indian shelling killed 6 civilians near the line of control and the Indian Army Says it killed 5 pakistani backed fighters in a gun battle after losing 5 of its own soldiers both sides claim the entire region. Theres been intense shelling throughout the night my house is completely damaged and so are a few others nearby. Weve suffered huge losses here in our village many homes are destroyed by the shelling the world is fighting a coronavirus pandemic while we People Living on the border have to also face this pandemic of routine shelling over. At least 2 people have been killed and 4 others are missing after a dam collapsed in northern india it released a wave of toxic sludge several homes were engulfed and farmland has been swamped but dam contained ash more coal fired power station in much up to a dish of ok no in indonesia which is a ruptured 6 times since friday has sent plumes of ash into the skies wind blew the ash from an akaka tower to a neighboring villages but theres been no reports of damage in 2018 an eruption caused an underwater landslide and its in nami that killed more than 400 people its been 50 years since what nasa describes as a successful failure the launch of the apollo 13 Mission Never made it to the moon and an explosion aboard left 3 astronauts fighting for survival but the Lessons Learned have inspired a new generation of astronauts as mike hanna explains. A barely audible outer ring was an iconic phrase that became part of popular culture. With telecom. Saying again please can we have a problem. The launch was routine this was to be the 3rd moon landing and the Mission Commander james lovell was on his 4th trip into space. And it was just after my 35 hours of this pleasure that occur ok now its everybody keeps an explosion in an oxygen tank destroyed the outer panels of the command module and shorted many of the intricate electronics keeping the craft in orbit the idea of a moon landing was abandoned the success of the mission was not to be measured by survival the astronauts used to live in a model as a lifeboat dozens of scientists back at Mission Control worked out how to repair the systems keep the astronauts alive and get them back to find a way to make this video into the homefront vs. Using nothing but that. Is getting towards. Building because. The world was transfixed by the drama taking place in space. Your astronauts will come back 3 for a few days all division was forgotten as millions around the globe will be astronauts as safe return home. And 50 years later a new generation of astronauts inspired by Lessons Learned from the apollo 13 mission. Members of massas autumn is program which is designed to put a man and woman on the moon by 2024 followed by a mission to maz we learn more from our failures than we ever do from our successes. Up in space astronauts on the International Space station continue their work remembering the apollo 13 mission in a Video Conference and paying tribute to the scientists on a striving to keep them safe in the face of a pandemic has changed the way that Mission Control operations worked theyre actually doing hand over between shifts between 2 different rooms to minimize the contact but yet here they are persevering and through their ingenuity in their professionalism were theyre going to return a star earth safely just like their predecessors did 50 years ago i think apollo 13 was a very good example. Of always expecting. The unexpected. When i saw the persian streaming out and that blossoms by this time that it lest we sunk in the Pacific Ocean we would be successful. A 50 year old message that resonates in a world sheltering from pandemic. Mike hanna aljazeera washington. This is aljazeera these are the top stories more than 20000 people in the u. S. Have died after contracting corona virus in the country has surpassed italys death toll on saturday and now leads the world with the highest number of fatalities new york is the epicenter of the virus with more than 8600 deaths the state governor says the situation is stabilizing theres been a drop in the number of admissions to intensive care for the 1st time since the outbreak you can see that the numbers somewhat. Stabilizing but it is stabilizing and horrific rate. 783 people 777799. These are just incredible numbers depicting incredible loss and paid u. K. Health Officials Say the corona Virus Outbreak there hasnt yet reached its peak despite the death toll nearing 10011 year old was among the fatalities announced on saturday the government is urging people to stick to lock down restrictions. More than 30000000 people in brazil have signed up for emergency Financial Relief as lock down restrictions affect the economy the governments trying to streamline the payment process after thousands lined up at tax offices this week because of bureaucratic hold ups informal workers are entitled to claim 118. 00 a month. In other world news pakistan and india have been locked in renewed military skirmishes over the disputed indian administered kashmir region for the last 2 days pakistan says indian shelling has killed 6 civilians near the socalled line of control and the Indian Army Says it killed 5 pakistani backed fighters in a gun battle after losing 5 of its own soldiers at least 2 people have been killed and 4 others are missing after a dam collapsed in northern india it released a wave of toxic sludge several homes have been engulfed and farmland has been swamped the dam contained ash from a coal fired power station in pradesh those are the headlines coming up next on aljazeera its inside story goodbye. Who will pay for the financial fallout of the coronavirus pandemic governments around the world pledged trillions of dollars to try and keep their economies afloat will a massive bailout start another Global Financial crisis this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Most economists agree the coronavirus pandemic has pushed the world into recession try