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It will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better so they go to like saying. Also this hour a steroids with an lifesaving boost a drug being tested in britain thats being hailed as a breakthrough treatment folk over 1000 patients. About people stand with the sports the n. F. L. Agrees to scrap the 20 to 20 preseason games as another 50000000 play is based positive coronavirus. Thank you very much for joining us a vote is expected in the coming hours that will give israels government new power to impose coronavirus restrictions across the country the move comes as protests grow louder against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as handling of the pandemic thousands of demonstrators have been arrested after chaining themselves together and blocking people from entering part of ent in west jerusalem harry fossett. Reports. Benjamin netanyahu has weathered protests before socalled black flag activists have waged a years Long Campaign against what they call his anti democratic rule but in the last 2 weeks the protests have changed and grown as israelis buckling under a 2nd wave of coronavirus turn their anger on the government. Netanyahu has admitted to reopening the economy too quickly allowing gatherings of too many people others point to the governments failure to expand the system of testing and tracing as the 1st wave leaving it ill equipped to stop the 2nd author and journalist wrote and bergman has investigated that Decision Making he says the Health Ministry went against expert advice you need to know as soon as possible if that person is ill or not you need to test that person immediately after he is a good fight is suspicion so is the suspect so if if you do not been sharing of infection he goes on and on if you are not able to cut it the government itself said it needed a 48 hour turnaround from suspected case to test result even now its taking 6. 00 to 8. 00 days the concern now is that its simply too late in terms of testing to catch up with the sheer scale of this 2nd wave israels missed opportunity on testing and tracing is now being seen as part of a wider political failure to tackle the pandemic under pressure the Prime Minister has been announcing measures only to announce them from a 1750000000. 00 package of cash handouts 1st universal now means tested too in order to close restaurants postponed within hours to weekend closures of beaches and pools reversed within days the one constant is insistence on avoiding a 2nd full lockdown because. Ive requested each ministries plan for a safe exit from the current virus restrictions meaning that if we straighten the coven reach the goals that we see it for the determined number of cases per day that we can work with over time in the coronavirus routing. But the head spinning policy shifts have undermined belief in a Prime Minister also on trial in 3 separate Corruption Cases one survey this month put public trust in him just 29 percent in the problem that. There is really this that its not creating trust and trust is grue show. In order to move ahead because its a situation where theyre talking about trustees both thrust of the public and trust of experts just weeks ago squashed the 1st wave of 19 and neutralized his most serious political rival benny gantz inside an Emergency Coalition now hes fighting to beat down a resurgent virus and restore his diminishing political capital. Television. As we reported next now his response to the pandemic is just one of the reasons for the protests against him his much delayed corruption trial got underway earlier this year netanyahu is challenge with bribery fraud and breach of trust in 3 separate cases but despite those charges which netanyahu denies a High Court Ruling has cleared the way for him to remain in office and in april he entered a power sharing agreement with the blue and white parties benny gantz that followed 3 inconclusive elections and more than a year of political deadlock well lets speak to Michel Barack about this his a political analyst and also a former adviser to israeli president shimon peres and Prime Minister ariel sharon his via skype from west has them as always good to have you with us on aljazeera mr barak its not the 1st sign that weve seen protests against Benjamin Netanyahu was harry mentioned do you get a sense that is different this time around cant can he withstand the pressure. Yeah i think this is much different because you have people who are actually being arrested you didnt have that before every night people are coming out theyre being arrested there are those that are kneeling down and holding their hand and theyre taking Water Cannons and horses and theyre theyre really starting to feel the need is that you know has to go and its a combination of factors there are some people that are out there protesting the corruption there are other people that are out there being the lack of policy for the coronavirus some people are or for that because they have no food and they cant pay their rent or their mortgages so you have a lot of theres a lot of different issues that are coming to head and of course you didnt even mention the annexation you know Prime Minister of the us spend most of the month of june in the run up for july 1st which was you know it accepted that he was going to start some kind of an extension so the Prime Minister is involved in many other things including the karuna Huge Population group here feels that the hes doing something wrong and theyre all getting together. As you mentioned these latest protests i composed of 2 groups one calling funded resignation over the charges of bribery the fraud and the breach of trust and the other group is protesting the governments handling of the calling of i respond demi now we understand that these crazy government is expected to have a new policy imposed called the 1000 miss tractions why have they been so many policy shifts when it comes to the pandemic what has been driving his Decision Making process on the crisis. We dont know what was what striving his you know Decision Making is Public Opinion you know he he says were going to close the pools on the beaches and the people complain and they have. Said theyre going to. Close their restaurants some of the restaurants as weve got michael mena and the real cases are coming from exposure in peoples homes and not from pools not for us. From school theyre closing the schools are over in israel and theres no real policy theres no real person that you can say is responsible other than the Prime Minister and it seems that is are being created for political reasons and not her whole reason its interesting the problem yeah its interesting. Whenever hes you know the op. Its interesting that you say theres no one tape making decisions i read a recent article that portrayed as a man standing alone today i wonder who are these allies all who what is influencing his Decision Making process you mentioned all the the issues that he is facing you know the Corruption Case coronavirus the knicks sation of the west bank where did which didnt go through as he planned is there anyone today that still stand by him. Well he has his legal ministers and members of going to there are solidly behind him he has an agreement with many guns but no one is helping him make decisions he likes to do things on his own the problem here is theres so many failures now and theres a deadlock its still no budget for the state of israel because as you mentioned weve gone through 3 election cycles theres no budget for 2020. 42020. 00 theres no budget for this year and they have to have a budget for next year also but theyre haggling about the Prime Minister only once but thats the budget for the last 3 or 4 months of the year and not next year or so and blue eyed to say we want to pass our longest so nothing is really working here in addition the interesting point that you should realise is that because there is such opposition in the streets now calling elections is not an option for this and you know because he would just love to say you know 3 weeks ago he was very high in the polls and you know he was probably thinking lets go another election and i can have a right of Center Government and not this unity government pentagons which is not working but now because theres so much grassroots opposition to his policies and the way and we think hes stuck in that agreement with pentagons which means in november 2021 now its finished as Prime Minister of israel and thats a feeling that he doesnt want he feels like hes out of control and hes not managing not the Speaker Boehner situation certainly not as political future thank you so much for talking to us about this thank you for your insight Michel Barack joining us from maestro slim. Thank you in other world news the United States says it ordered the closure of the chinese consulate in Houston Texas in order to quote protect American Intellectual property there were reports of a fire at the building late on tuesday a China Foreign Ministry Spokesman denied media reports that staff were burning documents and accuses the u. S. Of violating international law. He surely enjoyed when he 1st the u. S. Abruptly demanded we close our consulate general this was unilaterally initiated by the u. S. Side the u. S. Withdrew this decision we will respond. In another dispute chinas Foreign Ministry has aged the u. S. To stop making sondra sakis ations of cyber crimes to chinese men have been charged in the u. S. For hacking hundreds of Companies Including firms developing coronavirus vaccines prosecutors say the pair acted on behalf of chinese intelligence as part of a long Espionage Campaign targeting Global Defense and Energy Industries the hackers are also accused of trade secret theft and wire fraud conspiracy allegations come a week after the u. S. U. K. And canada accused russia of trying to steal covert 1000 data and the us President Donald Trump has won the corona Virus Outbreak is likely to get worse before it gets better as the mox departure from the optimistic picture has projected so far even as cases continue to rise in many u. S. States mike hanna reports from washington. In the past president cost him self as americas cheerleader making rosy predictions about the course of the pandemic that were often at odds with the facts but this was a more subdued president than on previous occasions it will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better something i dont like saying about things but thats the way it is and a complete reversal on the use of mosques something that in the 1st few months of the pandemic the president often derided at one stage even expressing support for anti mosque protests in a number of states this to it seems a thing of the past i have no problem with the masks i view it this way anything that potentially can help and that certainly can potentially help is a good thing i have no problem i carry it i wear it you saw me wearing it a number of times and ill continue if there were some familiar claims that the u. S. Is leading the world in testing and that its mortality rate is lower than anywhere both assertions declared false by most Health Experts and little comment about a startling report from the centers for Disease Control it says the official figure of some 3600000. 00 cases of corona virus in the us is dramatically less than what it now is to mates could be as many as 38000000. 00 cases its not clear whether the president s new embrace of reality rests in a recognition not because such as these or whether hes seeking to reverse what are politically damaging polling figures about the publics view of the way hes handled the crisis mike hanna aljazeera washington. Zimbabwes president has announced a dusk till dawn curfew in an effort to contain the spread of covert 19. Says it will begin on wednesday and being forced by Security Forces critics say the measures the measure rather is aimed at stopping antigovernment protests planned for next week as in bob an investigative journalist and the leader of the opposition were both arrested in harare on monday on suspicion of contravening incitement to participate in public silence lets bring in our correspondent in harare how so new loft on measures being announced how is it going to affect people how and what are they saying. Well in a rider when people want to come into the city think they now have to go through a number of Checkpoints Police roadblocks manned by many police and they sometimes so just so whether youre walking or you riding a bicycle you call you on a bus you have to stop when you last where you go and you think youre going to work the police or the soldiers that are from your boss to confirm you are employed with a Certain Company if they feel that your job is done anything youve been told to go back home and thats happening elsewhere around the country other measures include that all businesses must open it and enclose it in a view one must be home by the pm local time when the curfew feeling about to could if you some people say because of the coronavirus it is as essential as with people who dont get sick but i would say that they feel that the government trying to clamp down on the opposition is saying is the government trying to make sure that an Anti Government protest which is meant to happen under 31st of july doesnt take place and so whats happening with the investigative journalist and the Opposition Leader who are arrested on monday for inciting public funds. Well the 2 men are in the court right now theyre going to bail they are now waiting for that proceed to start the state does not want them to get bail because they did. They feel that if these 2 men are out whats going to stop them from going back on social media and trying to encourage people to participate in this demonstration on 31st of july against corruption and economy they also say theres no guarantee that these 2 men one also tried to leave the country so thats what theyre trying to call for right now in the Court Hearing that will be taking place sometime later today of course theyre also concerned that people are concerned that this group is to be the government trying to make sure this doesnt go ahead the government is saying that they dont believe that these 2 men actually jamie when they say they calling for a protest against corruption and economy they saying that these men are trying to incite violence and trying to undermine the authority of the state on monday and tuesday the police raided the homes of these 2 men they were looking for documents theyre looking for any kind of paperwork they were looking for any any social media tools looking for mobile phones even video cameras saying theyre looking for evidence to show these men try to incite violence and these 2 men deny the allegations or they say that they are trying to do a job of genesee that what hes been doing for the past 2 years is highlight issues of corruption in the country thank you for that live for us in harare. Theres lots more ahead on this hour including if your guest says heavy rain has begun selling its controversial blue nile dam as the government continues to negotiate with its neighbors egypt and so doctors. Researchers at mit looked at dozens of countries around the world that have grown up virus and concluded that the actual number of people infected might be much higher than whats reported i believe roles are good new york that story. And stars from sports and screen joined forces to launch a new womens Football Team in los angeles. County 2 dozen potential vaccines for corona virus are under various stages of human testing worldwide at least 2 are being conducted in brazil the country with the worlds 2nd worst outbreak one is a chinese made drug thats being tested are 9000 volunteers the other is being developed by Oxford University which has also begun testing in sao paulo testable reports. About the knees have branches was one of the 1st brazilians to receive the oxford vaccine against 19 shes a dentist in hospital and her exposure to the virus and the need to prevent the spread of the d. C. S. Is what made her want to become a volunteer for the clinical trials. Since receiving this vaccine i have had no adverse effects no symptoms or reactions i keep a clinical diary for the researchers and inform them of my temperature i continue working with the same level of exposure to the virus and working full time providing full assistance to discarded patient. Last month the oxford trials got underway in 3 faces and their brazilian government has signed a letter of intention to have access to around 100000000. 00 doses but its not the only vaccine that is being tested on monday the governor of so powerful an ounce 20000. 00 scene of active x. Genes from china had arrived in brazil sticky testing is now underway and is expected to last for 3 months yes or still a quarter a lot more this study is controlled by the institute of bhutan turned were not just participating it will become an open study since we have the 1st evidence on the efficacy of this vaccine amat will allow us to bring the vaccine to the brazilian people quick 3 we have the possibility to become the 1st country in the world to use this vaccine on a large scale so this is a historical moment. More than 2000000 people are infected with a virus in brazil and it has killed at least 80000 others was a test a good one day proof promising some consumer groups awarded to brazil could be left out and thats why there are calls to vote on a law on compulsory licensing only licenses and the leverage is kind of. Large scale access and pursue should adopt the licenses and especially the love you just the congress which is 62. 00. Changing which is i love you that says that each and every technology useful to do. Today and amec of course. Are subjected to. Compulsory license in other words issue means that no technology should be under the monopoly but many say its unlikely that government on the night i would support the law because he has downplayed the threat of cool with 19 brazil is a country of over 200000000 people a vaccine is crucial to help save lives. And to siedah. And police in bolivia have recovered the bodies of more than 400 people thought to have died from corona virus the bodies were picked up from strays severe colds and homes over the past 5 days more than 60000 people have tested positive for the virus since in the outbreak was identified in bolivia and more than 2000 have died the government is going to advise to delay president ial elections in september. And bolivias Health Ministry is opposing a controversial plan to allow the use of a bleach like substance to treat the virus the Senate Passed the measure last week people have been lining up to buy bottles of chlorine dioxide despite a warning from the Health Ministry that its not fit for human Consumption Health authorities including the u. S. Food and Drug Administration say the bleaching agent is dangerous and people whove taken it experienced serious side effects is that the most of the group this is a product that has not been approved by the ministry we have published a resolution opposed to the substances approval and said it is not appropriate for human consumption and that it can have grave consequences for human beings and for the body we have even seen cases of chlorine dioxide poisoning. And scientists in the u. K. Are conducting the worlds biggest randomized drug trial to see which existing medications might counter covert 19 its shown that a cheap off the shelf steroids can work in many cases saving the lives of one 3rd of critically ill patients in a 2nd of our series inside scottish clinics john a whole meese a medical staff at hairmyres hospital in East Kilbride have been on the front line of the british isles. This is the intensive care unit. This is a 10 bed intensity and where we had all our covert patients with envy at the height of the pandemic the place would be in fill of medical staff not the staff as your therapist the covert 1000 pandemic in the u. K. May have subsided for now but its accelerating in many parts of the world so the search for treatments alongside a vaccine remains as urgent as ever and the drug trial has revealed the steroid dexamethasone to be effective in reducing deaths by up to a 3rd a lot of patients and he commented intensive care unit they have a hyper immune response so theyre going system goes into overdrive because if the hyper immune spawns actually causes a lot of the illness the damage to the lungs so dex a mess one hopes it is going to dampen all day 56 year old eddie hughes believes dexter methods saved his life a body was dysfunctional actions machines were recently flown faster sent to keep me alive on the way from fly with. Little to nothing else is what if not into bruce lets try it after he had to ditch me. And started to steal dont started to get at least. For the 1st time it was the end of started to be talk of wean him off the team 3 times and that was just we just couldnt even believe that any was given decks of methadone here at hairmyres hospital in scotland one of a large number taking part in the u. K. Wide randomised drug trial being run by scientists at Oxford University the aim to test a number of widely available off the shelf drugs with the hope of finding one or a combination that might work to ease some of the worst symptoms of covert 98 hughes return from the brink of death contributed to data that has seen dexamethasone approved as a breakthrough treatment for some of the worst cases of covered 19 States Methicillin has been. I agree that. Result and no means that patients in pain the common if theyre being treated or an oxygen can be scraped up and weve been able to be before the recovery trial has also been successful in ruling out the malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine once hailed as a game changer by president only trump but found instead to be useless in treating covert 19 as the world waits for a safe and effective vaccine that may yet be a long way off recovery continues to look for treatments that will help us live with the virus possibly for years to come join a whole al jazeera scotland almost discuss this further now with simon clark is an associate professor in solar microbiology at the university of reading he joins us from reading now on the news hour thank you very much for being with us japan is another country thats approved dexa methods own to treat covered 1000 patients tell us how it works and how this drug is able to mitigate the risk of death. Well you know most of it cases people have a very its cited overexuberant immune response and we see this with a lot of my preview of the season fictious diseases where the fact that that mixes often these dumb by a persons immune system robbed of them by the expecting bug so what they actually meant as a beast proceeded to do is to come oh about a new reaction now and what we see is about in about one 3rd all the sick east patients recovery with a bit of the wise dies who saves about one 3rd of the people otherwise die but thats in the sickest patients and they require an adequate ventilation you also sit in a space where people dont require propped up full ventilation that still require some positive oxygen treatments there is a smaller effect on that as well right where you see it x. Is with the people who are just how you feeling it will deal with this like about about bouts of flu thats because their immune system hasnt become rick sighted this regulated its not safe rig seabrooke in fact they were me that of the system to help them clear away the effect that in the normal manner so that bring it down great problem those people who do not go to hospital dont meet that semesters i should toss for it and render if there is not a drug thats being used for treatment how have the good the treatments changed an evolved since the pandemic began. Where it is a mere accident slightly different way by getting the virus its life cycle and what that does is shortens the time to recovery for the people who are going to recovery it doesnt have an effect on people who fought for it caveat 90 this fatal is no surprise im aware yet no effect on death rate what weve seen all throughout this is doctors reaching for the medicine cabinet making educated guesses on drugs that already exists where theres a beer is a developed as an antiviral drug activates the virus lifecycle directly reflects a method acts against the hosts even system so these are educated guesses and as far as im aware there are a lot more trials going all expect but in time some of those increase success yeah i was going to ask ya effective do you think this says this is you know the idea behind that the recovery trial being that using it to use drugs that are known to have helped without the conditions that could also help with profit 19 do you think this is where a breakthrough could come from but quite possibly i do think thats enough as a. Result is a breakthrough and i expect to see more fortunate we havent got anything yet which cures all patients i think thats unlikely what we might see is a selection of drugs shown to out of the suspects so that way hopefully doctors could write down the death rate from 90 thank you so much as simon cock for talking to us about the 7 oclock is an associate professor in Santa Michael but microbiology at the university of reading thank you for your time. And our series on surviving coronavirus continues on thursday join me jonah hill for the completing part in our coven 19 series looking at the lingering effects on the long road back to full health. On the World Weather with rob and rob the middle east is feeling some effects of the monsoon we do some persistent and some variable the persistent one as you may know if youve been there is in salalah where you get 3 months of drizzle and overcast rather pleasant weather but for most its a variable wind in the wind direction tells quite a lot sometimes it comes from a dusty part of the world and when thats the case dubai had a yesterday you gets other dust storm or sounds to have not sure where this came from it may have come from southern pakistan theyve come from iran may have come from the Empty Quarter of saudi arabia that certain the wind is coming in from the southeast at the most this dust is on its way. With regard to there was another matter but the forecast certainly shows that wind and the orange bloom is were expect to see dust so if you saw her itself in the wind direction is telling because it also brings their office to see so humidity is high at this time of the their harvest season humid weather theres even a thunderstorm in the forecast which is a rare event an unprecedented event not seen it a lot before cross it but its just a very slight possibility that monsoon probably the different matter altogether of course and you know the effects of that theres been widespread flooding in the northeast of india and in bangladesh these are just recent pictures from the broader picture has burst its banks this is the worst flooding for many many years but over the next 3 days weve got at least half a meter or more of rain to come the sudden bangladesh nepal and some parts of northeast india. Rob thank you very much for that still ahead on aljazeera. 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There watching the news hour on aljazeera with me for the back to pull out a reminder of the top stories a vote is expected in the coming hours that will give israels government power to impose coronavirus restrictions across the country the move comes as more than 30 people were arrested following violent protests in western muslim calling on israels Prime Minister to step down for. The night his sage says its ordered the closure of the chinese consulate in Houston Texas in order to court protect American Intellectual property by trying to Foreign Ministry spokesman denied media reports that staff had begun burning documents and accuses the u. S. Of violating international law. And zimbabwe will introduce a dusk till dawn curfew from weinstein an effort to contain the spread of covert 19 critics say the measure is aimed at stopping on Thai Government protests planned for next week. The ethiopian says its reach its yearly failing target for the grand renaissance dhamma after weeks of heavy rain that the government Virtual Meetings with its downstream neighbors promising to continue talks to find a solution to the dispute over the megaproject. Reports on the conflict on the complex regional politics surrounding the. Its taken 10 years to build and cost close to 5000000000. 00 ethiopias flagship Infrastructure Project is a great source of national pride. But a grand ethiopian renaissance dam on the blue nile has caused tension with downstream countries sudan and egypt from the start the government says the hydroelectric dam is vital for the development of this immense landlocked country which is a population of around 108000000 the country plans to export electricity across the region and says the dam will stop seasonal flooding in neighboring sudan. But egypt says there are a number of outstanding legal issues that need resolving and filling the reservoir too quickly could reduce its water supply and may pose an existential threat egypt does have legitimate concerns i mean that egypt relies on the nile for 0. 90 of its fresh water needs and the largest share of the river runs through each 3 direction territory and what we have has had in egypt is a situation where they have a significant gap between the amounts of water they produce and the amount of water they can shoot. And with a rapidly growing population of over 100000000. To this problem only getting worse ethiopia also has strong claims because its the source of the blue nile the largest of the river gnarls tributaries if you appeal was never included in a colonial era agreement between egypt and sudan the gives the lions share of water to egypt there are many finally balance calculations including internal political ones that reply you know if you dont really need the other big you have id be outmanned havent come into power in 2018 he wants to secure his position and you know be reelected in future elections in europe yeah in egypt you have president sisi with you know an economy that has had been struggling but also he needs to ensure that he has the continued backing of the military establishment country which of course has an Important Role in the. Economy. In late june ethiopia rejected a u. N. Security Council Meeting requested by egypt saying the council should not be involved at all ethiopias un on bassett are said to dispute should be sold at a regional Level African Union talks hosted by Science Africa failed to forge agreement earlier that months in february the us and the world bank mediated what it hoped would be a road map on how to proceed with final technical and legal issues which concerned egypt in particular but he g. O. P. Did not sign of the final document ethiopia always said that it would have preferred agreement before it begins to fill the reservoir but if that wasnt possible it would go ahead anyway just potential huge security implications for the entire region ethiopia accuses egypt of repeatedly dragging its feet over the issue of filling the reservoir something it says egypt knew would be inevitable one day charles trafford. 2 South African cabinet ministers have been admitted to hospital after testing positive focal the 19 efficient number of infections in south africa ass past 373000 it accounts for 50 percent of cases in africa and ranks 5th in the world more than 5000 people have died. Scientists in indias capital say random testing indicates that more than one in 5 people in new delhi have been infected by corona virus more than 31000 new cases were confirmed across the country on tuesday indias top medical Research Bodies are urging states to increase Testing Capacity many local governments have water targeted knockdowns in high risk areas to snow new infections when i speak to dr ramadan at Lakshmi Narayana about this his director of the disease dynamics economics and policy joins us from new delhi thank you so much for being with us india seems to be breaking records every day when it comes to new infections why is there been such a surge in the number of calls in 1000 cases simply as a lot of people most of which is has been not exposed to the virus was able to early pieces back in march because of a shutdown then too much earlier in india relative peace deal than in many other countries that is shut down was when there will be a boat or wonder why they can bump pieces. All up the gum tree about 3 months of dying but thats also a bishop to stop the spread of the virus which now continues unabated across the yeah the authorities are urging you know increased Testing Capacity do you think the numbers that we have right now are not the real ones perhaps. Well the numbers of confirmed cases probably as a boat you know a lot of the true numbers of cases and indias reported cases nationally is about 1200000 and that too was a serious underestimate of the numbers of infections this underestimate is true in many countries but but its much higher in a country like india where testing is very low on the capital basis so india ranks on 130. 00 of the worlds right people testing but capita by some experts have said dr that that you know the indian authorities should perhaps now prioritize reducing mortality over a containing the spread of the virus is that something that you would agree with i do gooding the spread is going to be impossible at the start it never was in fact in some sense possible but given the size of the country. And given the state of the Health System but not only. That question and i think for a few months now many of us a bit know doing the testing to be focused on elderly populations who are vulnerable would probably to fees and this be the way in which what out of the refuse india is what out of me has been lower than what it will be protected but it is the games not over yet we still have many will cases to go through night and it is it is i know from his you know corona Virus Testing and also cat for all who need it we were talking earlier and the program about Treatment Options that are available right now i wonder whether those Treatment Options are available and provided equally for people in india. Well likely not big good access to his reproductions requires either money or perhaps some sort of access to someone in government and there have been reports of people whove been left out to go on from you know one hospital or the other looking for a bed at a managed to find one and had to pull it died without finding a hospital bed so and this is in the 3 cities where the Health Care Facilities are really the best across the country we have not yet seen reach you know smaller towns and cities that scale and thats where the concern is that the availability of all hospital beds and doctors would be far less and there who are the chances that people would get access would be. Dr Ramadan Lakshmi now ariane thank you so much for talking to us on officer a pleasure have a number of coronavirus cases continues to grow around the world more than 15000000 people have now been infected globally by u. S. Researchers say the true toll might be 12 times higher there is gable elizondo reports from iraq. The spread of corona virus around the world over 600000 lives lost to the pandemic but researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of technology often cited as the worlds best Research University examined 84. 00 countries and concluded the numbers are likely much higher we found that the estimate of the true actual number of comit 90 cases proximately 12 larger than the number of confirmed reported cases and we found that the number of people who have died of coke at 19 is approximately 50 percent higher than the number of reported deaths to reach their conclusions researchers used a variation of a standard model of epidemiology and over 4 months calibrated it with country level data on testing reported cases deaths and overall mortality and various other data points the model was able to estimate the percentage of the population of any given country already infected with covert 19 at the top of the list ecuador with 18 percent of its population already infected followed by other latin american countries peru chile and mexico then iran and qatar are the most infected per capita in the middle east followed by spain the u. S. The u. K. And the netherlands in early march the World Health Organization declared cofa 19 a Global Pandemic and mighty researchers concluded from their modeling that if all the countries in the world back then ramped up testing there would be 200000 fewer deaths today once you lose control this is. A very serious problem and its still relevant because although we cant go back and change what happened before were now facing exactly the same choices with the new outbreak waves that are taking place in many countries around the world while the study conducted by the researchers is highly complex and very technical their advice on how to help stop the spread of coronaviruses not they say it simply comes down to social distancing and wearing a mask gabriels on doe aljazeera new york saying in the us protesters in Portland Oregon are demanding that federal agents be banned from their city. For 55 nights blackflies matter supporters have been marching in oregon the protesters are picked up momentum after federal agents sent to stop the valleys force people into on mock fans and drove them away a group of women has been forming what they call a wall of moms to protects the demonstrates his. Present trump has offered his support to a woman accused of helping traffic underage coast to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein said he met Guillen Maxwell multiple times in the past and that he told twist her well shes currently in jail awaiting trial prosecutors a maid she helped ive seen recruit and eventually abuse girls as young as 14 in the 1990 s. The u. K. s Prince Andrew a friend of maxwells has been under pressure to call prates with the investigation i havent really been following it too much i just wish you well frankly ive met her numerous times over the years especially since i lived in palm beach and i guess they lived in palm beach but i wish her well whatever it is i dont know the situation with Prince Andrew just oh no not aware of it. Saudi arabias king solomon has held a Cabinet Meeting through a video call from a hospital in riyadh the 84 year old more knock was admitted on monday prompting concerns about his health and the future of the kingdom is reportedly in a stable condition while being treated for an information of the ball batter a prominent pakistani journalists who was abducted on tuesday has been freed. Jon was reportedly taken from outside a school in the capital islamabad is known for his criticism of the authorities including the countrys military its still not known who abducted him. The Award Winning filipino journalist maria teresa has pleaded not guilty in a Tax Evasion Case shes described as politically motivated as one of several charges brought against her and her online use sites inc shes already facing up to 6 years in prison after a manila court last month found her guilty of libel in a case against a wealthy businessman media watchdog say the charges are an attempt to silence Critical Coverage of philippines president for draco to. The half a century of aviation history has ended for australias National Carrier quantas its last boeing 747 has taken off from sydney into early retirement the decommissioning of the aircraft if that is a major blow for the Aviation Industry which has been devastated by the call of eyes spend that make me going to gauge her for some 6. Jumbo coming the arrival of the worlds 1st jumbo jet to 970 heralded a new dawn for a trouble receiving huge fanfare on its 1st commercial flight from new york to london half a century later the stuff bid farewell to the last quantum boeing 747. Before it flew out of a straw for the final time. To retards a bittersweet moment because of the same time theres your aircraft with their range their economics for decades the 747 was the flagship aircraft of quantas and the mainstay of other Main Commercial airlines it was synonymous with the long haul trips and exotic holidays remaining the Worlds Largest aircraft until 2007 when the a 380 was introduced it still flies the us president around on air force one the boeing 747 and up the world to many people making International Travel affordable at the time it could hold double the number of passengers than many commercial aircraft but now its nowhere near as fuel efficient. Twin engine aircraft that can fly further. Quantas had planned to retire at 74. 00 sevenths by the end of 2020 but code that 19 brought it in for would pretty fair ways has made the same decision while many u. S. Airlines have already faced them out we will have fewer. I think thats thats thats a given but they wont disappear completely and they wont disappear overnight since the pandemic began quantas has cut 6000 jobs in cancelled most International Flights until march next year with the Asia Pacific Region alone predicted by the International Transport association to post losses of up to 29000000000 dollars this Year Airlines are in survival mode there are some that will be governments. That would have collapsed privatized and that will just disappear for now the last 1. 00 to 747 will be stored in the Mojave Desert in california before being sold most likely full freight truths marking the end of a significant era in quanta says history you can gauge aljazeera safely. Still ahead in sports the shock of his life we hear from a teenage footballer who was struck by lightning thats coming up next to say that this. Was not his feet at 40 thank you so much fell fans will have to wait a bit longer to watch the teams of the league and the Players Union agreed to scrap the 2020 Preseason Team owners wanted to reduce the games from 4. 00 to 2. 00 but the Players Union all good events would put its members at risk of catching coronavirus when they travel between exhibition games it comes as the n. F. L. Announced another 95. 00 players tasted positive for covert 90. Last week washingtons n. F. L. Team announced it would drop the redskins name and begin the search for a new one now a Canadian Football League team is doing the same edmonson have traditionally used the name eskimos but on tuesday the club announced it was discontinuing that name the eskimo name was criticized and seen as insensitive and racist the Major League Baseball season will return on thursday at an exhibition game 2 days ago the San Francisco giants took in media in the National Anthem in support of black lives matter the new york yankees are Still Deciding what they will do head of their Season Opener at the World Series Champions the Washington Nationals since sports returned after a coronavirus suspension athletes have taken a knee and want black lives matter logos to protest inequality weve got a special platform being you know please and be able to speak our mind is speak whats going on in this world and. You know some people express it online some people express it with words some people you know neal do what they need to do but i think whatever message you know we try to get out here is i want to try to express unity england cricket fast bowler just roger has reported racial abuse he has received online through the england and Wales Cricket board also was dropped for the 2nd test against the west indies after leaving the team secure bubble it was a breach of coronavirus safety protocols in place but all sitting out that match he was bombarded with racial insults on his social media feeds. Female stars from sport and screen have joined forces to invest in a new womens Football Team in los angeles that should be ready to compete by 2022 among the owners of the new team is 23 time grand slam champion Serena Williams and her 2 year old daughter a little peer are investors as well as williams husband Alexis Ohanian oscar winning actor Natalie Portman is also in the ownership reapers wallace full team former u. S. Team players the team name and home venue are yet to be decided in the English Premier League aston villa are out of the relegation zone after beating arsenal one no egyptian striker treys again scored the games only goal on tuesday this win sees a move outside of the drop zone but only on goal difference if they beat west ham in their final game they will guarantee their place in the league for the next Season Police are calling on local fans not to gather in large numbers when the team lifts the premier League Trophy on wednesday because of the threat of the corona virus pandemic officials are understandably keen to avoid a repeat of scenes like burrs from last month when liverpool clinched the title you can cop to see the trophy after their home game against chelsea. Slatternly below him of each scored both goals as ac milan moved up to 5th in the italian city on tuesday the swedish striker opened the scoring for milan against a sus wall all with the spirit go after the home team equalised ibrahim of which scored again to restore the advantage to one of the final school to milan who are just ahead of roma and the napoli in the race to qualify for the europa league. Golf European Tour begins the 1st of 6 tournaments in the u. K. On wednesday but its struggling due to the coronavirus pandemic without fans the 2 is cutting prize money and many of its top players already playing across the atlantic on the p. G. A. Tour go for puerto roopa del says the European Competition faces uncertain times. The u. S. P. G. A. Which is obviously the really big it financial powerhouse of the score does seem to be able to be weathering the storm as far as the finance is concerned for the European Tour its a very different set of situations and they are very worried Going Forward past the financial situation within the sport this tournament alone last year the prize fund was 3000000 euros this week i think its about 1200000 euros per play as you can see the money is now over in america and theyre just not sure where the European Tour is going to be able to go in terms of getting back to the kind of financial levels that they had before. And you can hear it from some of the players because they just dont know whats going to happen and you can see by the feel that theyve got here at the close house without lee westwood to offer his point of stardust to the occasion its not a particularly strong field any 3 players inside the top 100 so for the European Tour these are anxious times and clearly theyve got to hope they can get back to Something Like the previous normal as quickly as possible and this is just the 1st step a russian teenager is back playing football miss them 3 weeks off being struck by lightning but i needed to have a lucky escape from serious injury but he now faces a Bright Future in the game and i guess the rub School Reports this was the moment that could have ended 16 year old even separate off skis life. The last thing i remember i left home thats all and then i woke up in the hospital the goalkeeper was warming up with the youth team at f. C. Through the outside moscow when he was hit by lightning and knocked unconscious as his team rushed to help it became clear to them the player who is so often saved his team was the one who needed saving. The good morning to read history when theres a will turned around and saw iran lying on the ground we ran into him this happened there where the boys are training now when we run to him we saw him lying face down we turned him over his jersey was ripped on his chest not ripped more like an touts we began to try and resuscitate him even was taken to hospital where he was put in an induced coma to assess his injuries but 3 weeks later hes returned to the pitch the i need a reminder of the incident is a burn on his chest where hed been wearing a chain my lungs it was difficult to breathe but thats about it its Getting Better and better now things are back to normal. He now faces a Bright Future in the game on tuesday even signed a contract with the Club Senior Team which plays in russias 3rd division having survived the shock of his life hes hoping to keep out any strikes on goal johnny aljazeera. Good to see that hes doing well will leave a bit from the holes for things like the folly thank you so much peter i want to see you later thats it for this news hour on aljazeera ill be back with you at 1300 g. M. T. Up next its what madison might want to say to stay. Territorial social and ethnic divisions. France has seen some of the biggest recent protests over black lives matter. Ouches era world goes to some of its least privileged communities. Where treatment by the police is still a contentious issue. Paris a divided city on aljazeera. Coveted beyond wealth. Taken without hesitation. Bolton died for. Our defines our well we should not have to trade our culture for oil and gas we live here we make the rules people in power investigates exposes and quests and they use and abuse of power around the globe. On aljazeera. Another Early Morning another ceremony to bed Health Workers by well. 29000 to cuban doctors and nurses working in 59 countries around the world as confirmed cases of coronavirus increase so does demand for cuban medics medical services at the islands main export while western commentators assume cuba sends doctors mainly to expand influence experts on the on his Health System draw a different conclusion youre making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. Because there are other people that need me people that are sick and dying and not isnt right people shouldnt be dying when there are people who can help them. With. Violence in west jerusalem as thousands of protesters call in the israeli Prime Minister to resign over corruption charges and his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Are all about this and this is all just about live from doha also coming up a pessimistic President Donald Trumps dramatic change of message on mosques and corrupt liars. It will probably unfortunately get worse before it gets better