102,000 families being affected. President trump warns of a painful few weeks ahead for americans, with the white house estimating at least 100,000 peopople could die. And growing cononcern that supplies of certain medications are already dangerously low. Another 490 nine people losing their lives. B back to the france 24 newsroom. The first in the global death toll continues to soar. Half of the deaths have taken place in italy and spain. 50 of the planets up population is under some form of lockdown. The diseases affecting more than 860,000 people worldwide. The secretarygeneral is sounding the alarm on what he says is the e worst crisis since world war ii. We are slowly moving in the right direction, but we need to if weup and d do much m more want to supporort the people. This is not a financial crisis. This is a human crisis. Annette after a decrease in the number of daily deaths that had raised hope that the epidemic was reaching a peak in spain, the country continues to record a Record Number of fatalities. 806 to four people dying in the last 24 hos. The total reaching more than 9000. The number of spaniards affected has reached more than 102,000. The trend inin infections tendno climb. Sarah morris has more. Another daily record, 864 deaths in the last one he four hours. More than 9000 and last 24 hours. More than 9000 spaniards have died so far. ,he numbers arare topping 100,00 the nunumbers are up 8. 2 . The healal authoritities say thy expect the figures to peak shortly. They are seeing a slowdown in the increasing rise of the number of cases. They say that as you lookk back 10 days ago you see rises of 25 we are now back to the regionf f 8 . Thats good news, but the Health Minister is saying that evenen checkiking the peak of the curve will not solve the proroblem. There will be considerable pressure on intensive care wards and we have seen a controversial document hasas been leaks this morning frfrom the catalan healh ministry. Where they arare saying to avoid pressure on intensive care wards it would like the dococtors to reserve resources, to not putut the over 80yearolds on ventilators. ,hats proving controversial and a sign of how those doctors and nurses across hospitals are struggling to cope. In america deaths could reach 240,000 according to the white house. Models indicating up to 100,000 people could die. President trump saying the country should expect a painful two weeks. Nearly 4000 americanans have di. Selena sykes reports. Central park transformed into an emergency y field hospital. As the death toll continues to rise in the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the united states, the race is on to bring in reinforcements to relieve Health Care Facilities pushed to capacity. Trumper donald backtracking on plans of having the country back to business by easter, warning americans of the long fight ahead. As the experts are predicting and a lot of us are predicting after studying it so hard, we are going to see some real light at the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful two weeks. To currentg projections, the pandemic could kill between 100000 and 200,000 people in the u. S. The death toll shot up by 850 on tuesday, the most in a single day so far. Fatalitieslf f of the were in new york state. Three quarters of the u. S. Is now living under lockdown, will hospitals like this one in orleans a fight toto stay aheadf the curve. Its a challenge. Scrambling inwe e e the evening. G. We have a very robust Patient Flow Center and its like whack a mole every night. Theres a different facicility overwhelmed. Nationwide confinement order, the response still varies from state to state. The white house has extendeded federal guidelines until the 30th of april. The iranianan death toll has as 130 eight new fatalities have been reported paired the number of infections has increased. France, the latest figures show 3. 5 thousand deaths, with record deaths in the last day. There continues to be real preparations. Hospitals are already warning that supplies ofof certain drugs are running dangerously low. Anditals in fence france killed with coronavirus patients and the consumption of some medications has skyrocketed. [speaking french] some doctors are worried they could run out of medications in one or two weeks. Paris is Public Hospital says there is an urgent pariss Public Hospital says there is an urgent need for supplies. [speaking french] many drugs used d in french hospspitals are imported from aa , some say france needs to start making its own medications. [speaking french] the french president has assured that supplies arare on e way. [speaking french] the Current Crisis has forced some hospitals to seek alternatives to their usual suppliers. Is a professorow of Public Health at the paradox our university. Thank you for your time. Our french authorities taking the right steps required to deal withth this pandemic . Defefinitely nowherere in the world was prepared, at least r what was h happening now. The time t to find w is responsible for what is notot today. But this afternoonon the prime minist andnd mister r of health will answer the question to parliament members. Is, are wesestion stepbystep, as much as we and south the chinese koreans, taking the appropriate measures in terms of confinement and all the other answers. As you just said, theres a shshortage not in the drugs s to , but the people in the intensive care units, because they need o other drugs and we dont have enough. They were prepared in france with pharmaceueutical factories but the active ingredients often came from asia. Vevery cheap drugs can no longer be produced in our country for economic reasons. This is somethining we must thik about,t, and prorobably have solutions to never be in that situation of shortage. We be testingt more people in france . The decision has not been made. One of the reasons was certainly that tests were not avavailable for everyone, for just the reason i mentioned. Ththe tests anand the kits are produced mainly overseas. We definitely are not enough. We decided to test people who , except inymptoms marseille where there is a propososition toto test everyy citizen in the city and treat those who have something. The more a test is available, the more eveveryone will be tesd thed this will be part of at t the end of the confinemt and containment policy. Hisway toto slow down generalized safety, localizing down n ist to slow generalizezed safety, lolocalizg people who are expected d suspected to be infected with the disease. And this i is the only strategyt the end of generalizedd coconfinement. It is something we should increase as early as we could have the tests. Thank you very much for your time. Is flying their flags at half mast to mourn the more than 12,400 people who died of covid19. The nation of 60 Million People has recorded nearly a third of all global fatalities. The day of mourning has marked a month in which italy has seen more deaths from a single disaster than at any other time since world war ii. Public spaces around the world have been shut down because of the pandemic. People have been making the as our Virtual Tours culture editor reports. Famous paintingngs in the worlds biggest museums in the living room. You can find these in the french capital. As a quick onlnline visit to the palace e of versailles jt outsidide of the city. [speakingng french] everyone was rating waiting for the spring to view. He exhibition on pompeii but you can get a sneak peek online. [speaking french] you might get lost deciding which museum to visit, because there are soany. You could go anywhere. The washington natial histotory museum has a tour. Russia, t to the state heritage museum. This vidideo is five hours long5 calories and 600 works of Art Galleries and 600 works s art. Digital technology truly comes into its own. Thats it for this edition, stay with us on france 24. This story begins in the south of bangladesh. Like every week, the prosecutor is about to carry out an arrest, an informer gave a tip about drug users. Taking a popular type of methamphetamine that has been having devastating impacts across asia. Good morning gentlemen. Take them m out of here. This is what they used to take it. When they come out, put your hands up. In bangladesh this is called mobile data mobile justice, and expedited trial onsite site for those caught in the act. Ive seen them taking drug so in i oftenff stop in the residential area. What are they writing on the that they found them taking the drugs. So that we can see them through the trial. You, you, you, youre going to jail for six months. For you, four. Sarah, i did not take any shackle them together. I did not take any. In a drug house . Lets go. It took less than one hour to put these men behind bars. One of the measures of the Prime Ministers war on drugs. Im just a beggar. Unlike users, suppliers do not always have the opportunity of prison time. Here is a dealer, and his job he risks more than jail. The police are trying to kikl us. Me, im rohingya. U usovernment is only giving rice and its impossible to live so we deal to eat. If the police catch us, they kill us. We dont have weapons. They say we have guns but its not true. Its because they kill us that they say that. Wewe only earn 60 a day, how could we purchase weapons . This year, policemen have killed 117 people, averaging two killings a week. All were accused of dealing drugs and none given the right to a trial. Offificially, thee dead die in crossfsfire, and its execucutio. Since the Prime Minister has declared a war on drugs, crossfire deaths have been constant and victims are buried daily in bangladesh. [speaking foreign language] this isis the entry point for yaba produced in myanmar. Authorities seized 53 million pills last year. Yaba. Going to stop i am too scared to be killed by the police. They do crossfires all the time, so im hiding. Learned thatg we two suspects were killed. Another death in crossfire, according to the police. We check to the killiling. Which direction . Towards the cemetery. Whats the name of the victim . You mean who got killed . We were shown the house of one of the victims. Old, his 27 years family just found out about his death. [speaking foreign language] [crying] his wife and he just came back to bangladesh after working in malaysia for years. Their daughter is three months old. Language]foreign [crying] in the village, the arrival of police woke up everyone at 3 00 a. M. The execution took place a little further away in the field. Nobody, no cartridges, evidence has disappeared. The other victim was shot here. The policeman shot t him 15 timemes. How manyullets t they had i i dont know, but i i heard about5 shots. Lelah who lived next to the crime scene heard the last words of the other victim. We heard the policeman asking where the drugs. And his answer was i donont kn. So they took him into the field. I heard him say please donnt kill me. Dont kill me. Then the shooting started. After we saw the killing after the killing was a policeman looking for the bullets. [chanting] days later, bangladesh is celebrating its independence day. Its when we meet the police shes police chief. Ththe death rate has dramaticaly spiked since he started. Do they have to make these explosion so loud. Thats how we do it,t, how di do what do i do . Prisonersere two locked up under his responsibility, how were they killed . The police chief is hesitant. What can he say to foreign journalists . [indiscernible] [indiscernible] [indiscernible] mentioning injured policeman is common when talking about crossfire. The Police Always pretend the dealers were armed. To find out more we visit his colleagues who were present that night. Here they are doing traffic stops looking for yaba. Good evening, this is a check, please get out. What do they have to tell us about the injured policeman that ththeir chief was talkining abo . Can we memeet the policeman . Whats his name . They are receiving treatment. 0 they have received treatment officer its two officers and we have forgotten the name of the third colleague. Policeman injured, two more than what their pololice chief said. The stories dont match. We had to the hospital to check on the injured policeman. We speak to a doctor who works with security forces. [indiscernible] do you have any Police Injured . Not this month. We got them but not often. Injuries . Pe of , butinly accidental cases with nontreated a gunshot. Nothing like that . No. There a are also no sigigns f injured policeman in the hospitals registry. Hospitals registry. A photo was taken at the time of the arrest, 24 hours before their death. We ask a forensic doctor to examine the bullet wounds. This is not consistent with crossfire. Crossfirere, people are usually caught or trapped because there are a lot of bullets flying and the tracks you see in the body are haphazard. They have injuries to the arms, the head. This is a centraral fire, a mams injujury. That meansns the centralortition of the body is hit. [crying] their,ent on the day of one mans wife was contacted by the police. I was with my husband when the Police Arrested him. I showed them my child and said he was 20 days old and i begged them not to do it crossfire and i asked for their mercy. They said it was not possible to keep him alive. I heard it well they said if i wanted to save his l life i woud have to pay a million dollars. They said come with us and we will see if we can give you mercrcy. Forceseteering by police is central in bangladesh. In a year and a half, almost 1000 bangladeshis have been summarily executed. [music playing] wes avilla end goal once i saw that i can pay my own rent was get a restaururant. Like, i didnt want a food truck. At that point, food trucks were dead. When i got my truck was during