Following an attack on a Maternity Ward and funeral and afghanistan. The European Union is urging Member States to start reopening their borders to help revive the continents summer tourism season. The european Summer Holiday season is worth 160 billion with tourism providing 15 million jobs. The eu says the industry is at risk of collapse unless urgent measures are taken. Glimpse of what going on holiday in some parts of europe will look like this summer. Barriers separating fun loungers on the greek island of santorini. Not the holiday many are you sue but one that complies with new social distancing rules. Ifwe do not want this, but this is necessary and if People Safety depends on the sort of device, then so be it. We just want to work. We want to get going. Nearly all travel stop because of the coronavirus pandemic. The huge blow to the tourism s mainy, one of the bloc economic sectors. Sanitary measures for hospitality and transport services and the reopening of some borders are recommended. Of course it is not going to be a normal summer, not for any of us, but when we all Work Together and we all do our part in the way the commission is stepping out today, then we dont have to face a summer stuck at home or a completely lost summer for the european tourist industry. Some countries say they are already considering lifting some travel restrictions. Britain and france say they will not impose quarantine for now on people traveling between their countries. Paris is one of the worlds most visited cities. The lockdown has been eased, but monuments, museums, and Hotels Remain closed. After two months at home, some people cannot wait to travel. Quick some not so worried about the health risk. Im really waiting to be able to travel abroad. I have a holiday home in spain and want to go, but for now there are restrictions, but i want to go. We cant stop living. More than 6 million tourism jobs in the eu could be lost unless the industry is revived. The European Commission says the is to encourage effective recovery but prevent a surge of coronavirus cases or risk it spreading even further across the bloc. Barbara the u. K. Economy shrank by to percent in the first three months of the year, and there are fears it could get much, much worse. On wednesday, some britons returned to their workplace for the first time in seven weeks, but it was not a uniform move across the united kingdom. Leaders in scotland, wales, and Northern Ireland say it is still too early to relax restrictions there. Much has been made of britain going back to work. In the end, not much came of it. It is only really england that heated Boris Johnsons call for those who cannot do their jobs from home to return. Scotland, wales, and Northern Ireland feel it is still too risky. Some workers agreed. If theo not know infection rate is up or higher, to work, ile to go dont think it is the right time. Andonstruction sites factories are some of the places that saw more work taking place, though many had been allowed to operate throughout the lockdown. Among the challenges they and other businesses will face is social distancing and transport. The government urged people to walk, drive, or cycle if possible. To use publicve transport, to urge to wear face coverings and stand back to back, but it may be a while yet before troops and trains experience a real rush hour. Its social distance on the tube, but the victoria line, its altogether different. A consultant advising companies on how to return to busier times. Quickset means a maximum of 40 can be brought back. Andxpect numbers to be low potentially below 40 . For office workers, 8 Million People will have to work from home when social distancing measures are in place. With damage mounting, they need to restart the economy becomes more urgent every day. Official figures point to a to percent drop in gdp in the first quarter. That would be painful enough in normal times, but the bank of england is pointing too much a possibleme, staggering further 25 drop in gdp in this, the Second Quarter of 2020. Thats the biggest economic decline in 300 years with no guarantee of a swift recovery, so while you can now sunbathe, play golf, visit a Garden Center and in some cases return to work, what you cannot easily do is relax and look forward to normal life after covid19 because the effects will be felt for years to come. Barbara lets go to the u. S. Now where the president has. Esponded to covid enumeratingfauci the risks involved in opening reopening the economy too soon. Like donald trump says, he is actually surprised by the comments that Anthony Fauci made. What else did he say . He isis surprising that surprised, given that dr. Fauci has been making these comments for a period of time now. He was speaking before a Senate House Committee in the course of the past 24 hours, at which he warned against any premature opening up and saying that the economic consequences could be devastating as well as, of course, the consequences to individual health, but trumps her fire speaking at a meeting with governments during the course of the day says he was surprised. He says he does not agree with in fauci, particularly relation to schools. This is a new thing from President Trump. Dr. Fauci pointed out yesterday that children are now perhaps more at risk than was thought before, given the fact of some mutations being discovered among children in new york city from the coronavirus, but President Trump is now saying you cannot the state open and less schools are open. He is urging states not only to open up economically but to open schools as well, but dr. Fauci making clear this would be a dangerous move and indeed at this particular point in time, but once again, you have dr. Fauci basing his premises on science, donald trump basing his premises on what he would describe as gut feeling. Incidentally as well, President Trump blocked dr. Fauci from speaking to the House Committee but did allow him to go ahead and speak to the senate committee. Dr. Fauci came under attack from one of the republican senators who accused him basically of directing the government and not having the authority to do it. Dr. Fauci pushed back against the comments saying simply that he was there to observe the Health Protocols and to advise on the Health Protocols, but, clearly, there is a division beginning to occur or large in between the white house between certain republicans and the man who has been the face, the most trusted face of information about the coronavirus within the United States. Barbara the latest from washington, d. C. Thank you. Alockdown has been imposed on second city in northeast china after a number another covid19 cluster was discovered. The new cases are raising fears of a possible second wave of infections, something the authorities are downplaying. We have more now from beijing. While the rest of china returns to Something Like normality, a lockdown has been imposed on the city. 4. 5 Million People have been told to stay home and public transport is at a standstill. City was lockdown on monday. More than 20 sections have been identified since the beginning of the month, but experts say it is not a second wave of disease. System willoring detect and track the cases, and we will curb the spread of the virus in no time. In wuhan, chinas epicenter of the outbreak, the discoverer of six new transmissions has spurred plans to test the entire city of 11 Million People. District authorities have been told they have 10 days to complete testing, the details are still being discussed. Testing in some areas began this week. Analysts say the plan could cost up to to hundred 54 million and require rapid expansion of testing facilities. Wuhans Testing Capacity reached 46,000 People Per Day last month. People whoho lived there say thy are not surprprised. We know a a second wave wawas coming anyway. Theres no way we can, you know, infections. Ththe new theres no 00, and we are shifting into a new normal. The Chinese Government has reported about 83,000 cases nationally with more than 4600 deaths since the virus broke out in december. With a week to go until chinas National Peoples conference, the guest political gathering, the government here is on high alert. The communist party wants to project an image of strength and victory over the virus, and these two new clusters threaten that. Barbara still to come, heavy , locust plagues and the coronavirus leave pakistans farmers flailing. We look at the method some are using to keep themselves afloat. Hello. Its been very cold in the mornings in perth. Its very cold in the mornings and adelaide and melbourne. The whole or part of australia is underneath cold weather and as High Pressure builds, you get open skies for a long ride. It just gets colder and colder. Day, typical. New south wales running towards queens. There are mostly coastal showers. To 24 by, dropping night, and besides those to things, they are pretty much bone dry and very quiet at the moment. In latesite is true spring in china in particular, though in japan, you have still gotten dry weather. Are developing. They are very obvious. It is drifting slowly southward. This is between thursday and friday, and extending out through shanghai towards the Korean Peninsula where it does look particularly wet. When you get to hong kong, it is a possibility the hong kong forecast is mostly a human one until monday. 33 is hot for hong kong and humid. Barbara welcome back. Heres a reminder of the top stories on al jazeera. The European Union is urging Member States to start reopening their borders to help revive the continents summer tourist season and battered economy. France, austria, switzerland say they will start relaxing their Coronavirus Closures as early as this we can. Thousands of people in england have gone back to work for the first time in seven weeks, but leaders in scotland, wales, and Northern Ireland say it is too early to relax restrictions. U. S. President donald trump has expressed surprise at a warning from one of the countrys leading Infectious Disease experts. Anthony fauci says there are dangers in reopening the economy too soon. In other news, the fragile Peace Process and afghanistan appears to be unraveling after toussaints attacks on the Maternity Hospital and funeral which killed 56 people. The president immediately ordered the military to resume operations against the taliban and other armed groups, but the taliban denies responsibility for either attack, blaming both on isil and says it is ready to fight back. Survivors of the suspected suicide bombing at a funeral struggle to contain their grief and anger. My brother is male was standing next to me when i heard the bomb blast. I saw several dead bodies on the ground. Then i was trying to call my brother but his phone was off. After a few minutes of searching, i found my brother among the dead. Mourners andk on another at a Maternity Hospital in the capital cobbled lead to afghanistans president going on maternityive hospital in the capital cob kabul. Attacks. Ave increased the taliban denies involvement in tuesdays attacks. Its fighters have largely refrained from targeting since february when leaders signed a deal with the United States for the withdrawal of american troops and to pave the way for talks with american leaders. The taliban now accusing the government of creating obstacles to peace. Milestonearks a toward the disintegration of this agreement unless drastic measures are taken immediately by all sides and specifically by the taliban. Under the agreement, the taliban was to prevent afghanistan from being used as a tax from other groups such as isil and its affiliates. Theres been indications, and the americans have acknowledged it, that taliban have been supporter of attacks against or putting military pressure on islamic state. Isil says its fighters were on mondayomb blasts which wounded four people. The United Nations has expressed shock and revulsion at tuesdays Maternity Hospital attack which killed newborn babies, mothers, and nurses. State mikeary of pompeo is urging the Afghan Government and taliban to cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice. The United Nations food and Agricultural Organization says pakistan has seen its lowest wheat yield in decades. And locustsin exacerbated problems caused by coronavirus. Farmers are anxious they will not meet the countrys requirement. It is harvest time here in and farmers are busy harvesting their wheat, but this year has seen more rain than usual. It should be noted that 10 of pakistans Wheat Production happens in rain fed areas such as this where the landholding is small and farmers depend on that wheat for their staples. Pakistan is the eighth largest producer of wheat in the world, producing anything between 20 to 25 million tons of wheat per annum. Only 10 is grown in rain fed areas such as this, and these farmers will now be depending on their wheat crop, and they have to do other jobs as well, and because the factories and other jobs are not available because of the pandemic, these people are now praying that they will have an adequate crop. Excessive rain has affected the crop, and there will not be enough for most farmers to last the year. Many Small Farmers will be forced to buy their wheat from the market. The food and Agriculture Organization is already warning that because of unpredictable weather, pakistan may see its lowest yield in five years, and that, of course, will mean poor would will mean more problems for the farmers who are dependent on this week. The food and Agriculture Organization is also warning that the local swarms are sweeping through the south because of the extra wet weather. They have been able to breed in large numbers, and pakistans future crops may be compromised because of that. The question now is will pakistan be able to meet its own requirements this year . To the returning coronavirus pandemic and the United Nations is forecasting a 3 Economic Contraction worldwide. 34 Million People are expected to fall below the extreme of 1. 9 a day. 56 of them in africa. Elliott harris is the United Nations assistant secretarygeneral for economic development, and he joins us now by skype from new york. Thank you so much for joining us. Give us an outline of what you think the longterm impact of the coronavirus will be an especially who you think will suffer most from it. Thank you very much for having me. The coronavirus is going to inflict a severe change in the way the economies of the world are structured. We find that there has been a that has been without precedent, and that is going to lead, and the absence of corrective measures, to a severe loss of income and employment. We already see the shutdowns and so many economies causing people to lose income, to lose jobs. Unemployment is likely to hit historic highs. An additional fact to consider is that the impact of this crisis is not equal over all countries overall groups. Some are suffering even more than others, and those who are whosalaried wage workers work in activities that require close proximity to people, for example servers and restaurants, they suffer much deeper losses and find it much harder to recuperate after the recovery has started than those who are salaried workers who have the ability to work from home. These are some of the issues we think will be particularly important going forward. Another change thats happening is because weve had so many of us working from home and finding ways of working around the economic restrictions in the shutdowns, we may very well find that the structure is changing and that more effort is made to automate some of the existing jobs, and we may find that puts further pressure unemployment going forward. Are you saying that will impact all skilled workers, for example, and that will in turn impact more countries some countries more than others . This may very well be the case, especially if countries that have a very tight fiscal position are not in a position stimulusd with measures that could limit the depth of the impact of the crisis, and thats one of the big concerns that we have, that millions of developing countries already and somewhat constrained fiscal circumstances may not be able to mobilize enough resources without additional help from the International Community and may therefore find themselves exposed to a much deeper downturn than otherwise would happen. That this would happen unless corrective measures were put in place. What kind of corrective measures do you think would work . There are examples of this already in the fiscal stimulus packages many countries, including developing countries, have put in place. Are trying to preserve businesses to prevent them from going bankrupt, and they include. Ax relief we find in some cases that governments have taken over the payment of parts of wages to prevent companies from going under and at the same time to maintain some segment of the income levels of the affected workers. Many of the stimulus packages have also contained social protective measures, Unemployment Insurance or setting up Health Insurance so the affected workers can maintain some level of consumption, much less than they normally would have, but it does replace some of the income theyve lost. On the monetary side, weve seen many taking aggressive steps to prop up liquidity on domestic Financial Markets and some have gone so far as to put in place loan programs that can guarantee, if you will, the loans of businesses for the immediate period. Again, all of these measures are not quite enough to maintain Economic Activity at the previous level, and a lot will depend on how quickly the economies of the world can start to recover, can start to reopen after having been shut down, but we do think that these critical stimulus measures are really essential to preserve some of. He substance of the economies barbara the coronavirus has obviously been a global pandemic. Theres a lot of talk about dealing with the health side in a global way. How important is it, do you with the do the same economic recovery afterwards or now as well . A i think we have to have coordinated International Response to this, not only to support those countries that have less Resources Available to do Emergency Response measures, but also because by engaging collectively and propping up the economy and reigniting demand, we help all countries participate fully in the recovery. It would be unfortunate in the extreme if some of the wealthiest countries were to start their recovery and find then that the less developed countries are able to participate fully and it is because they have lost out so much of their substance of their economies to lack of resources to prop them up. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you. Thank you. New fourday lockdown has come into force in lebanon because of a resurgence in Coronavirus Infections in recent days. Described as a total lockdown, it started at 7 00 p. M. Local. Ime the crisishit country had been slowly starting to emerge from several weeks of restrictions that aggravated its economic crisis. Restaurants in many countries are struggling to survive this as nationwide lockdown steak eating out off the menu. To getorcing many owners creative so their customers can dine and at home. This is where mike ellis is at his best. This is the only career he knows. But after restaurants like this were ordered shut, he feared he would be shut out of the kitchen for good. Its heartbreaking. Mean, its my career. I have been in a kitchen since i was 12 years old. Im know what else to not an unintelligent or uneducated person, but i dont have another skill set that ive been working at for 30 to years that i can use to support three children that i have at home. He and the owner thought they could stay afloat preparing meals people could cook at home and also selling groceries. Now, many Grocery Stores have empty shelves. Part of the problem with the nations food supply is half of it is destined for restaurants and bars and because of the giant packaging, things like this that individual people just would not buy. So restaurants are getting creative, repackaging the goods they can still get through their supply chains. Owner dan simon says the idea came out of desperation because he laid off 1100 people. He also made the promise to provide all of them free food. In a situation when theres not a lot to celebrate, we have rehired almost to hundred it was too hundred 65. I think now its probably too hundred 85 people of the 1100 we laid off. Its not enough and we have a long way to go and its kind of scary and nerveracking, but theres definitely good news in there. Still, for this restaurant, take out and groceries is only providing about 10 of the money the business is used to making and time is running out. How long can you survive like this . As long as my savings narrator on thihis episode of eearth fococus, avocadodos he become one of the most Popular Foods on the planet and exploded into a multibilliondollar industry. The petorca province in chille is a hub of worldldwie avocado production, but the growth of the industry has created a crisis over water rights, raising questions about the moral dimensions of how our avocados are grown and consumed