How can Health Workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic be better protected doctors and nurses around the world are risking their lives to treat the growing number of patients can the enormous mental and physical strain on them be reduced this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im homages to him the war against the coronavirus pandemic is being fought in hospitals around the world doctors and nurses are on the front line but the long hours and huge workload are taking their toll hospitals are not only running out of ventilators for patients they cant supply staff with protective gear such as masks and surgical gowns thousands of Health Workers are falling ill the number who have died is growing in spain medical staff account for 15 percent of reported cases and Health Workers in britain in the u. S. Say they cant get tested for the disease because there arent enough screening kits. Some medical staff have even been attacked in india police had to rescue doctors from cro
Im still go welcome to the program more than 100000 people are now confirmed to have died from corona virus infections these figures reported by Johns Hopkins university in the last half hour the number of infectious infections stands at more than 1600000 this is christians around the world head into one of the most important weekends in the calendar easter religious and other gatherings battened because of the pandemic and its only home to the vatican city has been locked down for weeks so even the pope has to celebrate. Familiar images to catholics around the world the pope presiding over the way of the cross ceremony at easter except these images were from last year. This year the coliseum is deserted the way of the cross ceremony another victim of the coronavirus. Pope francis led good friday ceremonies without the public. The scale of the operate continues to cast a dark shadow on italian life these firefighters in sicily are farewelling a colleague who died from the virus and fun
Al jazeera. How can Health Workers fighting the coronavirus pandemic be better protected doctors and nurses around the world are risking their lives to treat the growing number of patients can the enormous mental and physical strain on them be reduced this is inside story. Hello and welcome to the program im homage to him the war against the coronavirus pandemic is being fought in hospitals around the world doctors and nurses are on the front line but the long hours and huge workload are taking their toll hospitals are not only running out of ventilators for patients they cant supply staff with protective gear such as masks and surgical gowns thousands of Health Workers are falling ill the number who have died is growing in spain medical staff account for 15 percent of reported cases and Health Workers in britain in the u. S. Say they cant get tested for the disease because there arent enough screening kits. Some medical staff have even been attacked in india police had to rescue docto
Of a rare eclipse from the middle east to asia people have been marvelling at the ring of fire. Hello and welcome to world news today. Voting has now ended for the leadership of israels governing likud party which, for 20 years, Benjamin Netanyahu has led with an iron grip. Mr netanyahu and his rival made last minute appeals to likud members for their support. More than 100,000 Party Members were eligible to vote on whether the veteran Prime Minister should lead them into the next election. Barbara plett usher reports from jerusalem. The man who would be king. Gideon saar has issued the most serious challenge to the party in a decade. Translation i feel a great awakening on the ground. People understand that a change has to come today. With the help of god, together we will make that change today. He wants Party Members to vote for change because he says the Prime Minister failed to form a government after two general elections and has no chance of doing so in a third. There is a growi
Rematch with Anthony Joshua reclaimed his heavyweight title belts with the points win over ruiz and saudi arabia. Just a little after 11 pm in hong kong where protest leaders say 100000 people have marched through the city in a show of anger and frustration they are demanding from their leaders greater democratic freedoms and human rights this march the culmination of 6 months of widespread protests now police did approve sundays event but they warned they wouldnt tolerate a repeat of recent violent demonstrations in fact just before the march began Police Despite the handgun and some ammunition they said were recovered during a raid they said those weapons would have been used to create chaos during the march lets go to adrian brown in hong kong for us as we say adrian getting into the later hour was a lot of people have gone home but goodness me a lot were out on the streets today as well. What we got today was a flavor a reminder of what this protest movement was like when it began