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Wave of anger in lebanon protesters defy a pandemic lockdown to take aim at banks and the economy weakens further. Find out next why this country with a small Health Budget the biggest you weight of recovery in infected patients in africa. With sports including more downside of the Tokyo Olympics its been suspended japans top doctor says that it will still be difficult to host without a vaccine. Lets begin in the u. K. Thats where were starting to get a clearer picture of the scale of coronavirus related deaths in england and wales now the office for National Statistics or s has released the latest numbers which include those whove died outside of hospitals it says the actual death toll in the week leading up to april the 17th with much higher than government figures indicated its go live to joe and holly joins us from london so how wiring a picture do these numbers try of the situation there. Well i think its very worrying its very revealing and potentially quite shocking to the British Public could been receiving a daily death toll that reflects numbers of people dying in hospitals only without a clear picture of those people who have died of coded 90 in their own homes in the community and particularly in care homes in social care settings the office of National Statistics putting out their numbers on the Tuesday Morning now throughout this crisis of deaths across all of those sectors and across all causes of death as well and then comparing in narrowing down to those that have coded 19 on the death certificate they indicate that theyre running total out to april the 17th is an 11 day lag time in all of this the running total of deaths that have posted 19 on the death certificate was 2. 21 as of april the 17th if you compare that to the official number being put out by the government and the n. H. S. Of deaths in hospitals at the same time it was 13917 suggesting that the actual picture as of the 17th of april was 35 percent worse than the public were being made aware of and within north of that one sector particularly badly hit the care sector registered some 5 and a half 1000 deaths which is a pretty shocking figure if you consider the relative size of the population within care homes as opposed to the population at large 3. Another part of the care. Care homes are emerging as a sort of point a focal point for a lot of criticism why. Well because theyve been ravaged by this disease because they how those the most Vulnerable People in society the very people for whom all of the Wider Society all measures aimed at dealing with cope with 900. In theory meant to protect and it is going to be can home bosses themselves have been saying for ages now that they have been at the back of the queue for things like personal Protection Equipment provision have been widespread shortages across the health and care sector theyve been the last to receive and theyve been woefully ill equipped for this they say that they were making clear to the government as early as february the need for the care sector to be properly protected and for measures to be enhanced for the care sector that simply didnt happen a function perhaps of decade a decade of austerity measures that have hit the Health Sector generally hospitals of course but care homes even more so i spoke on skype to not grow up but from the National Carrier so ca shouldnt put that question quite why the care sector had been allowed to go so unprepared up to this point heres what she had to say what was in the Contingency Planning done around that the at the sec took that looks off to the people that we were told with the most funds all these are the most vulnerable members of society and thats why theyre in care. And there were no moves main tools the protection agenda and thats really important in our sector we we have to look at risk we have to meet take a risk we cant eliminate it but we have to try and mitigate it to the best of our ability and i think thats where and that this whole thing has fallen apart in many ways. In other words from the care home groups in this country is that the people within the care sector the peak of this epidemic is nowhere near being reached it is absolutely not the time they say dont even think about easing the lockdown restrictions in society while this level of deaths is taking place among these most Vulnerable People it all gives the lie somewhat to Boris Johnson who returned to work on monday saying the peak could be reached were passing through it we are turning the tide on covered 9. Thanks so much jonah how theyre. Burned the last few minutes there was a moment of silence in the u. K. To Honor Health Care workers who have died. Thank you. Rosa Health Workers are. Now holding their work moments ago holding a minute of silence to honor as i said those who for fallen victim to the coronavirus amongst the health care of front line as they called in this effort to combat coronavirus a lot of criticism a lot of anger in the u. K. About whether those Health Care Workers well properly equipped to deal with the challenge theyre trying to treat. And as i said one of the main criticisms the government has been facing is a lack of whats called p. P. A. Or personal protective equipment for Health Care Workers dr richard dodis medical director of fleet street clinic he joins us by skype from london good to have you with us so if i could get you 1st talk about what is the sentiment amongst some of those front line Health Care Workers right now. Been a lot of criticism going on for awhile about you know whether theyre getting the help they need and equipment they need are they now getting that equipment. Well yes i mean that there is indeed that has been a huge amounts of frustration and. Recrimination on so searching about whats been going on and the whole issues surrounding the. I have a sense that some hospitals are getting what they need now. I think theres going to be plenty of time i mean retrospect is to make things a with the much easier doesnt say you can look back at the past the marginal things that could have been done to get it right and make it easier the fact is that in the u. K. We ended up with a situation where large numbers of people ended up needing most of the care at exactly the same time there was not adequate stockpile of all the complex elements that are needed to protect Health Care Workers in the front line they were shortages there were difficulties in distribution and as you previously said the cat was ok. Particularly particularly vulnerable especially as the number of cases in hospitals mounted so. P. P. Was diverted into the National Health system. And. Unable to save it so even at a time when. Prices were rising and it was difficult we rethought also having to donate our own supplies my practice to. Stress this is difficult it really requires a concerted effort to make sure that there is enough supply and that it is distributed correctly and people who need it how critical. The problem of shortage of people i mean could lives have been saved. Well sadly experience with past bars of this type that solves and. Shows that hospital transmission to Health Care Workers and between patients is a very important factor in. Causing more infection protective Health Care Workers work in very close direct contact with sick people that are vulnerable to infection their own rable being exposed to a high dose so that the amount of infection that you are exposed to is also very relevant most Health Care Workers think little of putting themselves at risk in order to save lives and in order to live a treatment but that doesnt mean that protection that safety should be taken for granted and they really do need thats whos of the traits protect themselves adequately and its complicated you need 5 protection you need. Face monster respirators with a high filtration ability you need protective gowns couples all of these items need to be the correct size you need a choice available. A lot of these items of single use so its very easy for hospitals to get through. Thousands of single intensive care you can get through thousands of items in a single working day almost certainly some of it thanks. Richard though thank you very much wolf. Well spains Prime Minister is expected to present a plan for restrictions to be further eased children were allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 5 weeks a couple of days ago despite the nationwide lockdown spaniards have been hit hard with 23000. 00 deaths and close to a quarter of a 1000000 infections joining us now from madrid this month or so martin where is the cabinet now heading on the issue of phase 2 of the lockdown. Well the cabinet is right now in the meeting and they will the will pass on the the proposal of deescalating plan we have to remember that spain after after these standing trend of the curve of the people of the number of people infected after consecutive weeks has entered the 2nd phase of the state of emergency lockdown we saw how these past week and children under 14 were allowed to go out for a walk already announce that next week and we will have adult being able to exercise for one hour or to go for a walk and today on the most important is the 5 Prime Minister better santa that will announce the. Plan giving our details but we already know so far is that he already has 17 spanish regions to be prepared to double the intensive care units capacity and be able to isolate isolate 1000 patients if needed after these he already is plain that the the deescalation plan will be gradual it will be as it was a slow gradual symmetric and what does he mean by automatic saying you will be the same for the 17 regions as a corner virus has impacted in different ways to all the regions in spain weve got kind of us with no cases no no people infected no deaths and weve got madrid being the epicenter of the of the pandemic so these will be coordinated from Central Government they will have the same rules but they have different speeds. Thanks so much more. Now roger is reporting a big daily rise in corona virus infection more than 6400. 00 new cases that raises the total to nearly 94000. 00 it almost 100. 00 deaths confirmed cases of almost double in 8 days. Plenty more still ahead on the news hour including growing how long towns are inspiring people to become more selfsufficient plus. A city known for its rich musical history refuses to be silenced by the coronavirus musicians have to find new space is. In sport Diego Maradona saves his team from relegation but not the way he planned. Now one protester has died after clashes with Security Forces in lebanon. Demonstrations in tripoli against the governments handling of the economy turned violent on monday night people defied the coronavirus lockdown frying petrol bombs and vandalizing banks its one of the most impoverished and neglected regions in the country is in the hole that is in tripoli joins us from northern lebanon now so how quiet are the streets. Well there is a cautious call. This is we are in the main square the place where protests really have been happening for the past 67 months you can see people gathering here they are holding the funeral. Was. The Lebanese Army late last night what began as protests turned into you can see about 300 banks are burned to. The protesters plays to an army theres a lot of anger this is the 2nd largest city it is also its its a. City and neglected city for so so many years where the poverty rate is so high as well as unemployment you talk to anybody here and ill tell you. Weve lost our jobs over the past few months you can hear gunfire in the background people venting their anger showing their their anger of people here are suffering economically because. The lebanese local currency there has been a sharp devaluation in recent days it lost 60 percent of its value on the black market which means the majority of people here are getting their salaries in the lebanese town so theyve lost purchasing power you walk into any supermarket right now and place in over 50 percent you can imagine the anger and the frustration thats people become poorer and poorer. All right before the. Protests in lebanon began months before the coronavirus demonstrations over the failing economy started in october led to the Prime Ministers resignation in january a new government headed by Prime Minister was formed his cabinet was tossed with reversing the worst economic downturn in decades and this week protests intensified in the capital beirut and the 2nd largest city of tripoli following the devaluation of the pound. Well lisa her dean is a media scholar and an activist who joins us by skype from beirut in lebanon good to have you with us it sounds like people at this point may be becoming more d worried about the long down than coronavirus itself yes exactly what that what the people are worried about now is not only the lock down its a collapsing economy and the continuous failure of the legend government of sand the which actually did not got a vote of confidence got the minority vote in the parliament the parliament voted for it however due to the support of hezbollah to this governor that was formed they promised that they would come up with a comic and so you sharon will get some kind of support and economical help to them and then they fail not much has been done till today there is no plan on going out of this financial crisis and the people have no other choice but to go out to the streets again to demonstrate definitely theyre going to be theyre going to be kind of violent to the fact that people just lost over 60 percent of their income or the value with the devaluation of the lebanese town rather than that Many Companies are shutting down when they were growing up flyers people were locked down so companies arent paying salaries. With all of us theres this little that has been done by our government and their lenders are only one choice when you say theres little been done by the government and nothings been done by the government i guess supporters of the government or the government itself would say they are prioritizing restructuring debt on march the 7th they announced a default on euro bond debt payments they seem to be discussing these days whats called the heck out of 70 percent on the on on bondholders. Im wondering whether thats been communicated to people are for people to understand that restructuring debt in the way that theyre doing it is going to impose more not less economic and financial burden on people. Yes i remember that a coward that most folks that is internal that its the peoples money where the banks invested it in these bonds whether they are temporary bonds euro bonds ill that bonds so the fact that theyd be fully manned the banks did not get back their money until the banks are not paying the people more money so its actually contributing more to the collapse of the system the kind and when they dont come about a stock trading the they dont is of the country and the bonds they have to pay is does not have as holding the economy what we have is that we dont have any foreign currency in the country which depend over 80 per cent its not on the fly and imports so we are we dont produce almost anything we had we basically our main source of income was a the libyan east that ended they asked for 10 spraying money into lebanon and over tourism with the steel ration in lebanon with the security situation and with a fight with the International Community over supporting as well off hand in policies in the agent we lost that and no theres no more investment in that country so what the government is saying to do is going to have thoughts which is unconstitutional and it was clearly said that the parliament would vote against that so they cannot do just that but by themselves because you know we are and if so you mark it with a very complicated banking sector. However the government should have reached out for a bailout but what they didnt and or the time when the prime fault if we needed like 6000000000. 00 in december now were talking about maybe 15000000000 dollars and the congress will just go they off today all right thank you for your analysis on that and you know when the hi dana. U. S. President dollar trump has taken to the podium again off to calling off Pandemic Press briefings over the weekend has been criticized for suggesting people could be injected with disinfectant to kill the virus young veiled new plans to help ramp up testing as states began to restrictions on fish reports in washington d. C. After questioning the point of his daily coronavirus briefings because of critical Media Coverage after not holding a briefing over the weekend after initially canceling the one on monday the president appeared in the rose garden to update the country he revealed plans to help states to ramp up testing to reopen the country where releasing Additional Guidance on testing to inform the states as they develop their plans for a phased and very safe reopening a blueprint describes how the state should unlock their full capacity expand the number of testing platforms establish Monitoring Systems to detect local outbreaks and conduct Contact Tracing a number of states have announced plans to reopen although no one is expecting a return to what was once normal were taking steps to understand is going to be a new world but we have to be realistic that we cant wait 18 months to have a vaccine and just tread water people want to see forward progress in georgia and other states some restaurants are reopening some movie theaters are also back in business but all under serious restrictions were in our table so everything is seen as after her mission 1st for interaction. And then also making sure that we. Weve got a paper menus that are disposable verses or are placed out plastic ones that weve used to store for some places Like Washington d. C. Have renewed their own orders at least until the middle of next month and people seem to be complying across the country that are also reports of people ingesting disinfectant after the president asked last week if it was possible that could kill the virus is. Comments led to widespread condemnation and his decision to hold the briefings over the weekend asked about it on monday he brushed off the question now that other states are very healthy specifically said they seen a spike in people using disinfectant after your comments last week i know you said they were sort of i cant imagine why i cant imagine. Any responsibility you know i dont know i cant imagine i can imagine that the president now believes the u. S. Is on course to see your own 7030000 deaths from the virus figure up by 10000 on his previous prediction helen fisher aljazeera washington china is accusing the u. S. Of telling what it calls bad faced lies about the current virus pandemic beijing says washington only wants to shirk its responsibility after President Donald Trump renewed his attacks on the country trump says his administration is conducting serious investigations into what happened we are not happy with china we are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source it could have been stopped quickly and it would have spread all over the world and we think that should have happened so well let you know what the appropriate time but we are doing serious investigations. All right its time to catch up and somewhere than we thought it was heating up here but theyre facing water issues in europe its been required serious actually i mean weve had just dry conditions for the months of spring and so yes certain countries in particular so let me show you 1st of all on at the satellite now you can see a this massive cloud across Western Areas this is on its way towards the areas that are so in desperate need of some rain the really thing pushing in the last few hours actually into westerners a spain Western Areas of france are saying also southern areas of the u. K. But this is in central poland and there are many many scenes like this the dratted so severe that the polish met institute are actually saying this could be the worst drought in the century meanwhile across into germany again you have just got so much of this which is just dry on the farm is russia unable to plant anything the reservoir levels are really low and it is very serious situation of huge concerns as to what this will do to the crops but as i say the good news is there is some rain on the way so as we continue through tuesday this rain pushing in across much of western europe beginning to push across into areas of germany and also the same time its bringing down the temperatures theyve been very high as well so its been dry and its been hot so everythings drawing out the soil so this is where the warm air is where the warm colors are these how much is by the way burned in warsaw about 10 degrees above the average for this time of year but as we go through wednesday the rain pushes further east to get is to push across into areas of poland all the time squeezing that warm air out of the way says certainly by thursday the rain is more widespread temperatures the low and you can see also his army will some more rain pushing in across the west of europe so as i say were probably now in a bit of an unsettled spell but im sure that will be beneficial one hopes because theyve also got those crops which some places the lying around waiting for people to pick them because of coronavirus its all together its not perceive it is right now comes in and you cant do that but yeah absolutely thanks so much. All still ahead on al jazeera new zealand starts to raise its long drought after months of tough restrictions well hear from some of those getting back to work in sport be Australian Rugby League players who will regret going camping instead of social distancing. The time had come for the p. L. O. To seek a new and peaceful solution. Pursuing a path of diplomacy but what was to turn their agreed withdrawal from lebanon into one of the most horrific civilian massacres of modern times women children we couldnt but she says chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p. L. O. History of the revolution and aljazeera one of the really special things about working for others here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else working for it is you know its very challenging the ability of particularly because you have a lot of people that divide their own political issue we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended used to deliver indepth journalism we dont feel inferior to the audience across the globe. Welcome back youre watching aljazeera time to recap our headlines the u. K. Independently run office for National Statistics says the number of people who died after contracting covert 19 in england and wales is much higher than government figures indicate its recorded just over 21000 deaths for the period up to april 17th but unlike the government theo and this counts those outside hospitals. One protester has died after clashes with Security Forces in tripoli in lebanon people defied a lockdown to demonstrate against the governments handling of the economy on monday night. U. S. President donald trump says the number of coronavirus tests will be doubled or some states begin easing restrictions trump also criticized china again for its handling of the outbreak which beijing is calling bare faced lies. Forces loyal to libyan warlord after have attacked residential neighborhoods in a town just east of tripoli overnight dozens of rockets on the town of. On monday. And it all peaceful talks with the u. N. Recognize government whose forces have been advancing on half the fighters for nearly 2 weeks who is in tripoli with the latest on this so where do we stand on the latest fighting and weve seen the government kind of being on the back foot lately what indications are we getting from his allies and what theyre prepared to do about that. Well. If we start with the developments on the ground the city of which is in the eastern side of the city of the city of the horn are the major stronghold for have to force in fact it has the Central Command the operation room that tough to the generals are running the battles in southern tripoli from that Central Command and the city of the horn or so the city of them has. Been with groups belonging to the government of National Accord and they have in fact they have been attacking have that as forces in the vicinity of the city of horn or so in the retaliation have to have been targeting get the city of them with the grad rockets causing a state of panic and fear among civilians and would getting good reports about civilian casualties in the city of them said due to the attacks by rockets launched by half the forces in the vicinity and inside the city of lahore now it seems that this situation might excessive abate especially the city of the owner is now besieged from civil directions by the Government Forces as you know that the Government Forces launch a fresh offensive. 10 days ago to recapture the city of horner and they indeed are besieging that city as you know that if he managed to take control of the city of that ornette it means that have to the forces lose almost the west of libya and they can in this case the supply line coming do have those forces from the city of the who now can be cut off by their Government Forces and concerning get their regional. Support to have to as you know so i mean that. Both the United Arab Emirates and egypt they have been investing a lot in the world Khalifa Haftar it seemed that egypt come out of retreat can marks. Retreat from supporting the war Khalifa Haftar its a matter of National Security for egypt have to for egypt is a kind of a buffer between the egyptian regime and the enemies in the west of libya and the United Arab Emirates is so keen not also to retreat because it does not want. To the west of the camp representing the revolutionaries to when the what what it calls the counter revolution the represented by the military regime i have to the forces or a mood of the archives from tripoli new zealand is relaxing some of it Strict Lockdown measures introduced 4 weeks ago people will be able to spend more time outside and some schools and businesses will reopen you zealand has reported 19 deaths more than 1100 confirmed cases of covert 90 when he reports more clint. After 5 weeks at the highest corona virus alert level new zealand does work to a partial easing of lockdown rules until now all nonessential businesses were ordered to close now some regulations have been relaxed allowing other businesses to open like restraints and cafes for pick up or delivery only ive been hanging out for this it was welcome relief for those wanting their caffeine fix from a professional communities come out and supported us which is fantastic a few hook ups with the website this morning but everyones been very relaxed so thats good to be open again there were also plenty of people wanting a break from the kitchen as long lines formed outside fast food outlets only a handful of new coronavirus cases are being reported in new zealand each day so the government believes the time is right to begin relaxing the rules but the message remains for most people stay at home there is no widespread under tick tick Community Transmission in new zealand we have won that battle but we must remain vigilant if were to keep it that way that includes safely returning more new zealanders to a neighboring more businesses to reopen not allowing some of the recreate to police weve missed and the past 4 weeks now its a balancing act for new zealand and countries in a similar position trying to avoid a resurgence of the virus while getting the economy moving again key to that is restarting stalled Infrastructure Projects and as the alert level was lowered construction workers were able to pick up the tools again under alert level 3 the government expects around 400000 people to return to work which will of course provide a big boost to the economy after 5 weeks of inactivity but there is a sense that even though new zealand has managed to control the virus so far economically the worst may be still to come thousands of jobs are linked to tourism and right now the border is closed the governments own modeling says the worst Case Scenario could see up to 26 percent unemployment restrictions may be easing but this country like so much of the world is a long way from being close to returning to normal wayne hay aljazeera or clint. Unicef warns south asia is on the cusp of a Health Crisis as children miss out on vital vaccinations during the pandemic unicef says almost a quarter of the Children Worlds children who havent been immunized or have been only partially vaccinated live in the region thats nearly 4 and a half 1000000 children mostly in afghanistan india and pakistan the total is expected to rise immunization programs have been suspended in several countries including afghanistan and pakistan where polio is common with unicef says its concerned vaccine stocks are running dangerously low since the pandemic started because of disruptions to manufacturing and distribution. And then is the chief of health for unicef bangladesh she says its important vaccination programs continue despite the virus containment lockdowns. Unicef is very concerned about the children and the potential that due to the covert 19 crisis the children will be more at risk for. Vaccine preventable diseases like like measles and in bangladesh leave actually need the support the government to actually make every year about 3800000 children against all the childhood vaccinations and last year he successfully actually made a 3200000 people are fearing the cofee 1000 disease so we are verkaik the government through to the direct to Health Workers to all the no harm basically to at one hand put that the Health Workers but also to will continue to protect children against these preventable diseases as such as measles this period earlier its very challenging but we do need to to look into the possibility so one way is to really have very localized situations of looked out which of course requires a full knowledge of around the epidemic and he or the of the cove in 1980 s. In progress in bangladesh but there are still districts and parts of this like that are not on the look down in there the stations can continue and to be the also have encouraged the static sessions in the Health Facilities to continue so if mothers and children can come out and they can be protected on the other hand also what he has advised is to limit the number of the people in the same area so observe some social distancing during the vaccination sessions as they are going on. Nigeria is set to ease lockdown restrictions in several cities including lagos and a boob job for may the 4th but all nonessential travel between states has been banned also Wearing Masks outdoors has been made compulsory in lagos the states governor says thats because the outbreak is still in its early stages and those who dont comply will be punished nearly 1300 infections have been confirmed in nigeria and 40 people have died. Trials have begun in senegal on the coronavirus testing kit it costs a dollar and gives results in 10 minutes they call us hoc reports the council back. Senegal is doing what most countries count testing everyone symptoms are not entering a Health Center for the Novel Coronavirus it has no shortage of testing kit thanks to this lab at the best researchers are developing a one dollar quick diagnose ticket originally made to test for dengue fever patients drop blood or saliva onto the devices and wait for a blood line to appear like a pregnancy test explains researcher i do sell tests there is no need for a highly equipped its a simple test that can be done anywhere the idea is to rip at least produce 2. 00 to 4000000. 00 kits not just for us but for african countries so that we can detect and isolate patients quickly the sick are administered a cheap anti malarial drug called chloroquine commonly found in Subsaharan Africa where malaria is endemic while the World Health Organization cautions the use of it to cardboard scientists says its an Affordable Treatment for poor african countries dealing with the outbreak. In these clearing. The virus from respiratory system proven in making people on the more contenders. No more sick. With only 50 ventilator machines for 16000000. 00 people senegalese engineer using a 3 d. Printing machine to produce more well imported ventilators costs 16000. 00 this one is just 60. 00. Sinegal is counting the cost and its paying off more than a month into the outbreak the small west african nation suffered only 2. 00 death with most patients treated healed senegal has the largest rate of recovery in patients infected with the current virus in africa the 3rd in the world ahead of countries like the United States and france and while it has a tiny Health Budget compared to those countries it has a wealth of experience in dealing with Infectious Diseases and outbreaks. Over 3000. 00 children died of pneumonia last year in senegal thousands more from malaria coronavirus is one of many deadly infections the country is dealing with Lessons Learned from the aids epidemic the recent a bold outbreak were key strategy in dealing with the pandemic untrusted. Already. Important cases coming in the country and retention of movement in confinement of people from 8 pm to 6 i think so since. These measures were taken when there were less than 100. 00 cases scientific modeling predicted tens of thousands of infections and hundreds of deaths but this has not happened Early Detection and african led Research Means senegal is so far beating the odds Nicholas Hawk aljazeera the car. Living on the long town is inspiring many people to try growing fruit and vegetables in their back gardens in the u. K. Demand for seeds is soaring Charlie Rangel or ports from southeast england the latest in our series of reports how the pandemic is impacting farming and food security. Watering her crops hilary pav it has repurposed her garden to grow vegetables to help eventually feed herself and her family during the Coronavirus Crisis shes one of millions of britons now sowing seeds to try and become more selfsufficient after realizing that Food Supply Chains a fragile weve started planting potatoes with vegetables because again the solids suffer the wind so so hopefully in about 6 weeks well start to be self selfsufficient i think and obviously theres going to be a problem with how projects is going to end up in the supermarkets because you know they cant get the Migrant Workers to come in those lockdowns so you know in the end theres going to end up being shortages i think you know in weeks to come so hopefully well be alright others without gardens are using what space they have to germinate tomatoes q cumbers and herbes with very little knowledge you can get a bumper crop of vegetables out of a small of britains wartime generation were told to dig for victory and responded with enthusiasm hardening britains reliance on food imports by the early 1940 s. Now households with time on their hands are returning to the garden. The Royal Horticultural Society has seen a surge in visits to its website seeking advice on how to grow your own vegetables fruit and edible plants well seed money factor is a reporting a massive rise in sales in recent weeks in supermarkets most panic buying has eased but egg shelves are often still bare considered a staple of the pandemic pantry live poultry breeders across the u. K. Have seen their farms stripped of birds as families unable to find eggs in the shops turn to chicken keeping sussex Poultry Farmer liz and rio at sea has now decided to stop selling chickens anxious that some might regret their impulse buys when the lockdown is lifted and ive never had so many people kotex name like i said it takes me a good month to sow the stock that i get in and within a week i had sold all my some of my leftover february but my march so it was a huge panic i think for people to suddenly go oh my god i cant get my eggs the u. K. Currently imports 85 percent of its vegetables from the European Union but there are concerns lengthy quarantines could disrupt Food Supply Chains starting to the soil rather than the supermarket for Fresh Produce could ease that burden charly on the aljazeera hampshire. Well in the next report in all series for the actions of a tough road ahead for british Dairy Farmers as demand from restaurants and cafes evaporates thats on wednesday here now to syria. And still ahead on the news. Spalled some of the biggest stars in tennis have to settle for competing on computers. All right sports fans now there is some good news because the games go on right is just 1st to all now its just 3rd tour yeah but there is a bit of a problem with the olympics actually summer because japans top doctor says it will be difficult for take care to host the games next year without a corona virus vaccine the games have been put back next july because of the pandemic at a great cost to japan which had already spent around 13000000000. 00 on hosting but the country remains in a state of emergency and a one year delay may not be enough time according to the president of japans medical side. Now then as. I said i think it would be difficult to hold the olympics without a vaccine being developed im not saying that japan should or shouldnt host but i expect it would be difficult to do so i want to believe that the numbers of infections in tokyo is falling but theres just not enough testing being done so its difficult to assess our asia correspondent rob mcbride has more on this story and explains why this posting the olympics again may not be an option. When the japanese government last month finally made the decision to delay the summer olympics until next year it was considered the sensible thing to do and by delaying it a full year until summer 2021 that seemed to be a pretty safe bet but now as the coronaviruses continue to spread around the globe with World Leaders and medical experts warning that social distancing will have to stay in place well into this year and that in fact a vaccine wont be available until many months after that suddenly summer 21. 00 is looking a lot less safe at the moment japan is under a state of emergency and will remain as such until the end of the 1st week in may gradually the numbers of new infections are falling day by day but there are still questions over the kind of medical infrastructure japan has in place the lack of testing that it is doing and about just when exactly japan will be able to declare that it has finally has the coronavirus under control all of this uncertainty has led to your sheer im ali the president of japans 2020 Summer Olympics Organizing Committee to be quoted in one japanese sports newspaper saying that if the games cant be Held Next Year then they should be scrapped increasingly it is looking like for the tokyo games it is 2021 or bust now argentinas tipple season has been cancelled because of all of the disruption caused by coronavirus argentinas f. A. President also announced that teams wouldnt be relegated in the next he is and thats good news he diego marathoners him now see a team who were among the bottom 3 clubs back a genius clinched the Primera Division title on the final day of the campaign in much. European leagues have been given a may 25th deadline to submit plans to restart action the netherlands though has already scrapped a set of the busy season starts with other countries still trying to get going again did they act too soon lets bring in michael state them he writes for the dutch website football runyan Michael England italy and germany as dozens of train again will touch football bosses be regretting that decision i well i dont think they will be because this is almost like a warning i think to the rest of europe the netherlands. There were far too many problems involved with continuing the season there were far too many matches to play there were of course the health risks and finally there are player contracts issues as well i can see at for example who is going to be signing for chelsea so his contract runs out and you might end up with a decision problem where he might have to play for a new team before the season ends if thats continuing and what about the fans especially at leaders i. X. How have they been reacting. Well i aks of in denial to the right to the champion of the netherlands save decide to say theres no champion knows no medication as well and i have found out to agree they were level on points with 2nd place are set up mar however theyve still been given the direct Champions League Group Stage Tickets that next season will provide. Every vendor saw their chief executive said that the decision was understandable that of course is appointed but i dont there are tons of be too disappointed given that they were actually in a lock form at the time they lost 3 of our 6 games in the way so i dont think theyll be to agree that its out to end too early on the other hand there are other clubs who were more straight with a decision cumber and a halfs or a 2 clubs that were the top of the dutch 2nd division theyve been denied the right emotion despite the fact that they were many points clear of the top of their division and they would see close to the bottom of the eredivisie who are quite far out of reach of the bottom so they are too close to a definition to be taking legal action against what the Dutch Football Association have agreed are all right michael state them for dutch website football at anya thank you very much for speaking to us i get now for Australian Rugby League players have been fined for breaching social distancing rules by going camping australia internationals the trail mitchell and josh i dont carre were fined 30000. 00 each for their get together at mitchells farm in New South Wales 2 others were given 6000. 00 fines photos and video of their trip was posted on social media before being taken down the incident has caused embarrassment to n. R. L. Bosses as the league plans to restart at the end of may despite concerns over coronavirus. The l. A. Lakers say theyve returned a 4600000. 00 government loan meant to help out Small Business is sharing the crisis the lake has qualified for the loan which is meant to help pay employees and rent but the team says it returned it when it found out that the Government Program was running out of money. Meanwhile the n. B. A. Has pushed back the reopening of Team Training facilities until at least made a move supported by one of the philadelphia 76 ers owners i think 1st of all everyone is in the world is anxious for sports to come back shoes begin to in a way save for our players and our players family and friends and also for fans and soon as we can do that we want that to happen until it is more people stay in shape and so i think a lot of the players that want to work out what access the practice facility i will link necessarily players who want to stay in the best possible shape that you want to see as in any sports star now so the worlds biggest tennis stars are raising money for lower ranked player is unable to earn a living by playing a tournament online well not too rafael nadal is among those playing in the virtual madrid open the spaniard beat Denis Shapovalov in his opening match andy murray is also in the competition. All right that is a sport for now sammy thanks so much. Or from the annual mardi gras celebration to its normally bustling bourbon street the art and music of new orleans of always brought people together now after weeks of isolation the Music Community is using its creativity to find an audience and keep the citys soul alive hardly joe castro has more. New orleans is famous for its jazz funerals. Sendoff for the dead with mourners dancing in the streets. So at a time when so many are being buried the citys silence only amplifies the pain until he listen closer. To god. Theres this this was this that you feel even know everybodys heart starts to. New orleans musicians margie perec is still making music for her online fans todays venue is her neighbors living room the only live clapping from the funder outside. Its so soothing for the soul because we get. To make music with people and. Still i gave it a great names she called it not touching yet touching. They live in a place called musicians village an enclave that emerged from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to give displaced musicians new homes. Were fairly were going to help each other and happens and were going to fight through this together. Covered 19 came at a bad time its Music Festival season in south louisiana many local artists have been booked to perform at one of the largest the new orleans jazz festival now canceled gone too are the 300 1000000. 00 the festival normally generates for the economy. But. All of my income and of my revenue stream is gone now the last all were. You know all of our local gigs. Are stable future. To the west of new orleans in the heart of cajun country festival internationality louisiana is also canceled. Miles meikle says after 10 years as an attendee he had finally been invited to perform its going to be ok i know its going to be ok it was just kind of like kind of heard what john was or. Even 80 year old al johnson a legendary musician and a mardi gras icon the. Has downsized to his porch ready. But in a city that normally loses with music these notes still find their appreciation. All we have noted is. These louisiana music. And say when the epidemic finally passes the 1st thing theyll do is play to a Live Audience that needs healing i do joe castro al jazeera. That brings us to the end of this news hour i have no fear the very fun come out south korea will be back here on the road with another full. From fossil fuels to modern day renewable as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring Innovative Solutions to meet such to moms as a Global Power Development of Investment Company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against easter we provide Business Growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and fire mentally sound Energy Solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy. And. 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