Secretary of state is in afghanistan seeking to salvage the deal between washington and the taliban. So then a stark warning from the head of the World Health Organization draws out a number saying that the coronavirus pandemic is accelerating but is hopeful the world can change its trajectory his comments came just minutes before the u. N. Secretary general and tony could terry has called for an immediate global seems far to protect vulnerable civilians in conflict zones from the pandemic hundreds more have died in the past 24 hours due to the virus europe is struggling to contain the outbreak you can see how the virus is accelerating but we have not prisoners to start sticks we are not. Helpless bystanders we can change the trajectory of this pandemic number to smarter because theyre not just numbers they are people whose lives and families have been turned upside down may well un secretarygeneral and turn you could terrorists hes calling for people in conflict zones to lay down their arms so the countries can focus on the fight against who had 19 or old faces a common enemy coffee at 19 the violence does not care about nationality or ethnicity faction of face it affects all relentlessly meanwhile Armed Conflict rages on around the world the most Vulnerable Women and children people with disabilities the marginalized and displaced by the highest price theyre also at the highest risk of suffering devastating losses from 19 lets not forget that in war ravaged countries Health Systems have collapsed else professionals already few in number and often been targeted refugees and other these placed by violent conflict are doubly vulnerable the fury of the vials illustrates the folly of war that is why today i am calling for an immediate global ceasefire in all corners of the world it is time to put Armed Conflict on lockdown and focus together on the to fight of our lives well as cross right away to our diplomatic editor james bays and james that 2 important voices making important calls lets start with until you could tear is that he was speaking where you are at the United Nations headquarters saying silence a gun stop the artillery bring in a cease fire to all conflicts around the world a good and worthy call but how realistic. Its going to be very difficult i think because clearly most of these conflicts have been calls for cease fires in the past and theyve gone unheeded but the u. N. Is deeply concerned about some of these countries that are suffering conflicts and how they would deal if the virus was to spread through them given what were seeing for example in italy given what were seeing in the city where the u. N. Is based here in new york where cases are going up rapidly and theyre really concerned that if a city like this which is the capital of the world Financial Markets is suffering greatly how is it going to be in some of these conflict zones and in some of the places where refugees are gathered the secretary general has also written to the g 20 thats the group of the richest countries saying that they need to provide more global coordination and more help for the developing world worth telling you that the g 20 later this week will be having a summit meeting a virtual online summit meeting of the leaders of those 20 countries and all the while the shows say its time for the world to pull together the virus is accelerating but we must attack you there yeah hes really concerned about the speed of infection and how it is speeding up around the world all countries the world effectively now affected by this it took 67 days to get 2100000 cases and just 4 days to get from 2000023000 extension 00 that i think shows you the global trajectory of this are james thanks very much in a database reporting there from the United Nations headquarters meanwhile President Donald Trump has posted a video online urging people to stay at home to curb the spread of the virus that the total number of cases in the u. S. Reaches 35000. Its called the invisible enemy and thats what it is its an invisible enemy but were doing tremendous work the truckers the doctors the nurses everybody theyre just doing tremendously and of course youve heard it a 1000 times wash your hands good hygiene all of that but social distancing keep away its going to have no place to go where the u. S. Senate is set to vote on a trillion dollar stimulus bill aimed at trying to help the economy during this crisis take a look now live pictures made from the senate floor all and theyll be voting soon just making preparations in the preamble before that happens the politicians have been divided on what the final package should look like democrats say republican proposals favored corporations rather than work has so lets speak to our White House Correspondent can we help it live for us in washington d. C. And kimberly tell us more about this votes and those divisions in the. Yes and they have been in full display in the last hour on the senate floor with democrat republican senators bickering between one another its obvious that the exhaustion of the stress is getting to everyone in washington and certainly there is of mounting concern with the nervous markets to try and get this through to flood the u. S. Economy with cash but again democrats blocked that in the wee hours of the morning and late last night because of the concerns of the package so far has done an awful lot to help the corporations but not so much when it comes to those on the front line and being hit hard by the coronavirus namely hospital Workers Health care providers even households the concern being that there are these corporate bailouts with almost no limits and no oversight so there is ongoing sort of back and forth negotiation with the treasury secretary steve menu shouldn fronting this for the white house up on capitol hill they are still trying to work this out but it has been a difficult challenge one of the sticking points also over the issue of the Airline Industry and how to handle that of course it has been hard hit by corona virus as well as the number of cases of corona virus in the United States continues to climb now at 38000 cases confirmed and counting you know tell us more about the current states is the situation across the states and the kind of restriction to their employers. Yeah there are a lot of restrictions in fact about one 3rd of the United States is now facing some sort of order to stay whole as the states hardest hit california Washington State and new york especially hard hit now the new epicenter here in the United States where almost half of the cases of chronic virus confirmed have been in that one state so there still are shortages of mass that personal protective equipment still appeals for those commercial sectors that may have them to give them to the hospital workers and in the midst of all of this kind of a usual tweet coming from the president this morning that now were into the sort of 15 day period one week in where he has discussed that it would be a time to perhaps at the end of this next week reevaluate if would be a good idea for some of the more healthy workers in the United States to go back to work and that tweet is really raising eyebrows because its coming on the same day that the Surgeon General here in the United States has said things are going to get worse before they get better so were expecting to hear from the president later today roughly 2330 g. M. T. The crowd of virus task force will be briefing imagine that will be one of the top questions what exactly the president means and what his priorities are if its more about keeping the markets happy or making sure that people remain healthy your Company Thanks very much indeed because well bring you all the details of that meeting when it happens about germany has announced a trillion dollar support package to try to help its economy the new plan will bolster the nearly 500000000000. 00 already set aside for these Small Companies im selfemployed hit by close as well to receive up to 16000. 00. Well hundreds more people have died in spain and thousands more have been infected as your struggles to contain the outbreak more than 460 people have died in the last 24 hours in spain pushing that death toll to just over 2200 the state of emergency has been extended foreigners are being banned from entering the country meanwhile u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson hes currently holding an emergency meeting with top officials hes expected to make a statement in the coming hours get more on this we can join chalons across ponds he joins us by skype from lewis in the u. K. And rory what about this meeting this cobra meeting this emergency meeting being held by the government whats happening there. So the expectation is this what theyre considering is whether theyre going to toughen up the u. K. s lockdown at the moment its all the advice re please stay inside please do social distancing please only travel if you have to but the u. K. Has not gone as far as other European Countries where this has been mandated there has been a lot of concern in the governments and there were pictures that were in the news over the weekend of people out in the parts people. Chatting mingling with each other it was beautiful spring sunshine and clearly the government feels like its message is not getting through and people are not doing what it is are asking them to do and there are growing coals in the k. So make this much more tough make this more strict and to actually force the british people back inside force them off the streets and out of the parks etc said that is what everyone is expecting that to come out of this cobra meeting maybe it will be a proper lockdown maybe it will be a gradual tightening so saying that all nonessential shops are going to be shut as well as the the princes there are all have already been closed museums. Restaurants bars cafes that sort of thing so we will wait and see what Boris Johnson announces when he comes out of this cobra meeting but does think well see some sort of cycling right and weve highlighted very much sure why the u. K. Is so concerned with the ongoing situation and italy and certainly now in spain. Yeah exactly the message from the governments is look at whats going in those 2 countries were only 2 or 3 weeks behind them so unless you want to end up like spain and like it silly then then Pay Attention to that but the figures coming out of those countries not good we are i think just to get back to get new daily death figures for italy and we would have to see whether they are still coming down yesterday on sunday the figures that came from its a late were not quite as bad as the figures for saturday saturdays figures were about nearly 800 it was a little bit less than that on sunday so if its a leak imposed a figure that is lower still that would suggest that things are at least moving in the right direction that spain though as you said in your introduction theyre pushing beyond 2000 deaths people are being moved into these new field hospitals that are being created in madrid and barcelona theyve taken over a great big exhibition census and 10 those into hospitals that for the for the sake. We know that she is having test to see whether she does have coronavirus she was. Quarantining off that she being told that she coming into contact with a and infected doctor in germany there is some sort of good news they are saying there that the infection growth curve does appear to be flattening slightly that means that the that the increase in new cases is slowing down somewhat but its not coming down yet or iraq may be there for the time being thanks very much indeed and of course as well he says theyre expecting this update from italys daily death toll and well bring you that just seem to get it right thanks. Ok still ahead here on aljazeera we take a closer look at how the fallout from the Global Health crisis is affecting. The United States. And anguish among prisoners relatives in colombia after a rock prompted by fears of the pandemic kills more than 20 minutes. Hello there had some variance of the weather conditions across more northern sections of the middle east of the last few days that in fact weve also seen a line of thunderstorms working their way further towards a sad thing see this that sort of scattered area of cloud that was the front that went through so it was a turn of a moment to see these strong storms certainly on sunday a look at the size of this hail so not surprising it did do some damage has it is just one photo of a car windscreen that has been smashed on that if you will go through tuesday generally these coastal areas across the fast mostly across into yemen is in pieces a cloud the wind should begin to east how much is not too bad certainly into doha up to 27 degrees celsius and then you see to the north scattered showers across much of turkey and again more of that really further to the east working its way through much of afghanistan on into northern pakistan still some very stubborn child on wednesday along the same coastal areas elsewhere though not a bad day and the winds should really have lightened as we head into wednesday if you will scottish as into eastern sections of madagascar and im going to will see some very heavy rain as we go through choose a bit by far the bulk of the rains around once again the gulf of guinea and we will be seeing some developing rain showers into the south of south africa so cooling things off in capetown and a windy day with a high of 23. 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Senate is due to vote on a one trillion dollar Economic Relief package but theres division over what to include Financial Markets in the u. S. The trading lower again despite the promise of economic intervention from the federal reserve. More than 462 people have died in spain over the last 24 hours pushing its corona virus death toll to nearly 2200 the state of emergency has been extended in foreigners are banned from entering. Lets get you those latest figures to rory was talking about to just before the break from italy were expecting the latest figures from that country over the number of cases and indeed the death toll the death toll on saturday was around 800 on sunday it was 651 well i can tell you the latest news is that today at 602 so the death toll does appear to be dropping in italy and the total number of deaths of cases i should say the total number of confirmed cases of coronavirus coronavirus in italy rises 263000 nearly 64000 from 591381 sunday so those are the latest figures from italy. Now the u. S. Federal reserve is warning the pandemic will cause severe disruptions to the economy its planning what it calls aggressive measures aimed at helping small or medium sized businesses hit the hardest and you gotta look at the impact on American Service economy. From the beaches of florida to the bright lights of las vegas businesses and venues normally thriving with activity in paying customers a closing down almost no business is exempt from the effects of the coronavirus as people increasingly self isolate commercial air travel is being hit hard but its Small Businesses and their employees there are monk the most vulnerable not sure if youve heard yet but we are closing after today as customers stay away in increasing numbers the reality for those working for themselves and employing others is hitting hard i cried last night pretty stronger out by. Its ahead as millions of schools close their doors those that rely on the Education System for a paycheck of being laid off some economists are predicting unemployment rates as high as 20 percent im guessing somewhere between 475200 bus drivers all of a sudden not work and. Thats a lot of people across the u. S. Food banks a vital lifeline for those living in poverty the seeing a sharp decline in volunteers donations to a drying up and there has been actually less food as people been hoarding. That hasnt hit us as hard though as the volunteers Small Business owners are now in a dire situation many of clothes that dollars and dont know when theyll reopen others of late staff offer an undetermined amount of time i know now looking to the federal government to help and 8 short term interest free loans may help but now that long term the future looks bleak plans are now in place to help but only for the next few weeks i think theres broad general agreement that Small Businesses in this country will not be able to survive on this was extraordinary assistance and so the the idea behind the proposal