For weeks they were the center of the coronavirus pandemic but now European Countries a star saying starting to see a glimmer of hope daily death tolls and new infections are dropping and so many governments are taking some tentative steps to lift constraints on daily life for example germany reopening some small shops allowing limited School Classes the Central Government though is leaving it up to the leaders of each of the 16 states and germany as to how much they want to reopen and when they want to do it after a month long closure Nursery Schools are now open in norway despite the polls showing nearly a quarter of parents quarter of parents still have concerns and shutters are also lifting across poland denmark in the Czech Republic infections in europe are nearing 1000000 and close 2100000 people have died its. In the planning to collect blood from covert 9000 patients who for covered to help others still infected its hoped those transfusions could increase the speed of recovery and improve chances of survival Britains NationalHealth Service says it is working with the government seeking approval to move forwards so lets get the picture across europe this monday with paul brennan he is actually outside and n. H. S. Hospital in london want to bring us up to date with the u. K. Developments 1st. The 1st of all lets have a look at this idea its at a very early stage so far and it appears that there are more than wall new groups that are trying to get this off the ground the principle behind it is that blood is being asked for from recovered coronavirus patients theyre being asked to donate some blood because in that blood the researchers believe there will be antibodies to the corona virus that patients just recovered from the hope is that by transfusing that blood from a recovered patient into somebody who is. Bill suffering from corona virus but the antibodies might have an impact in either speeding up the recovery or potentially even helping to reduce the remove the infection the virus from that infected person altogether its being spearheaded by the n. H. S. Blood transfusion body which is not based here its based over in bristol but there are other groups that are doing it theres a group of hospitals including Kings College hospital in london. And they are apparently quite hopeful and it is being done elsewhere theres a kind of very rudimentary trial its been underway in the United States and theyve so far done 600 people transfused 600 people with this that the scientists and researchers involved in that say it is pretty rough and ready but at this stage where we have no other vaccine on the immediate horizon that willing to give it a shot interesting ok lets widen out across europe then paul i mentioned some of the countries there which are lifting their restrictions in a us feel a bit nervous saying it out loud because it is such a crucial moment when a country decides ok we going to take the foot off the gas just a little bit. Yes im going to say here in the u. K. There is 0 prospect thats what a quote from a government source has been reported this morning 0 prospect of it happening here in the u. K. Because as far as the government is concerned than when also were not fully at the peak yet they havent got it under control that said of course other countries more to the south of europe further along in that we are here in the u. K. Spain for example where children have been cooped up since the middle of last month since the middle of macho i mean they havent even been allowed to properly exercise better sanchez the spanish Prime Minister is saying that he hopes that spanish children will be allowed out now. At least its and he has also been looking at that the idea of slowly tentatively relaxing some of the restrictions austria has been reopening shops as well although supermarkets for example you have still where its compulsory to wear a face mask if you go to a supermarket and other social distancing restrictions are still in place and of course germany which weve been reporting this morning which is going to reopen select shops such as book shops go on which is bicycle shops for example there is an economic progress here as well you know the Global Economy is grinding to a halt as a result of this virus so governments are desperately trying to find some way of keeping the show on the road of making sure that there is an economy to come back to after this virus is eventually passed paul brennan is in london with the view across europe thank you paul. Russia reporting fewer new infections this monday as well president Vladimir Putin said the outbreak is quote under complete control despite 405 deaths and reports of a lack of hospital beds in some areas just over 4000 200. 00 cases were confirmed in the last 24 hours which is obviously a lot but that is compared to 6000. 00 in the previous period turkey reporting more coronavirus cases than any country outside the e. U. Or the United States and so a 2nd 48 hour weekend curfew has ended but shops schools and restaurants remain closed more than 86000 infections are confirmed with just over 2000 deaths. In istanbul and says an influx of travelers returning home many from europe is to blame for turkeys high infection rate. Since the beginning of the new year january 1st on till march 10th. The date when the 1st coronavirus case was reported in turkey and around 420000 turkish nationals living of road overseas have come to turkey these are most most of them are the troops in diaspora in the European Countries like germany france and other places also the pilgrims the pilgrims who have been to saudi arabia to perform their religious duty and after they came back and since until march 10th there was no koran a virus reported those people came directly and met with their families and in turkish culture course of reaction close connection is popular when you see someone that you havent seen for a while or when someone comes from a pilgrim or any other foreign country you kiss you hug or shake hands you have close contact and this is how it ended up and after the 1st case was reported that. The government imposed 14 days of current on it for anybody who came from i brought and they established a special places there to transform dormitories for the current time to make current and houses for instance and there are at these 320. 00 turkish citizens who lost their lives due to koran the virus in the overseas countries according to the Health Ministry and is still because of the holy month of ramadan many people are willing to come back to turkey and the government is doing their best to bring those people with special flights but of course they will be kept in current time for 14 days china has hit back after a strain your raised questions about its honesty in handling the pandemic top starting diplomat marie spain wants an International Investigation into the origins of the virus and how it spread. Chinas Foreign Ministry says it has grave concerns over those remarks chinese authorities in general under pressure over the way they dealt with the break but beijing insists it has been for beijing catrina you more reaction from the Chinese Government at the end of january there were some voices from one some doctors who tried to raise the alarm about the severity of this outbreak they were silenced and punished for doing so and for weeks the message from the Chinese Government was that this was under control that there was no evidence of human to human transmission and they were criticizing countries for closing the borders to chinese travelers and fast forward in 4 months and its a very different story china has has not admitted that it was at any fault but it has said over and over again that its been open and transparent despite the evidence to the contrary and certainly today the chinese Foreign Ministry was saying that had this message was attacking that the Australian Government saying that these remarks were grave and and disrespectful that china has always worked with International Agencies and was doing all it can to to be a leader in this global fight against the pandemic responding of course to maries paying the Australian Foreign ministers comments that questions about chinas parent transparency had reached a very high point calling for an inquiry where the Australian Government would be keeping its eyes open so the diplomatic ties between those 2 countries certainly tense. Only monday morning in the u. S. Right now and with the death toll there well beyond 40000 there is pressure but also pressure mounting to reopen the economy protesters in a number of states of heeded a call from president obama trying to demand a return to work but state governments from both major parties say it is far too soon i began to reports. As the u. S. Accounts for a 3rd of the worlds confirmed coronavirus cases and president dont trump held up swabs claiming no nation has tested more people he says more than 4000000 people have already been screened and thats now expanding to millions more is it. Does it remind you of something remind you of this threat. Once a swap once a qtip its actually different. Its very sophisticated actually but its a little bit like so this is the straw. And. The water a lot of them they have a lot of them some of them some of the states they were shipped to states and the states dont know where they are. At sundays briefing the white house showed favorable comments from democratic new York Governor Andrew Cuomo in what could be seen as an attempt to heal a growing political rift over trumps determination to get people back to work in new york where cases are falling but remain dangerously high Governor Cuomo says this is no time to slow precautions or reopen too quickly its no time to get cocky and its no time to get irene right we still have a lot long way to go and a lot of work to do and this virus has been ahead of us every step of the way we have been playing catch up from day one in this situation in other parts of the nation though small groups of protesters egged on by the president continue to call for an easing of restrictions the desire to kick start the economy is growing but problems persist republican governors who really have critical words for the president said this still facing major hurdles and i could probably double maybe even triple testing in a while burchill overnight if the f. D. A. Would prioritize. Companies that are putting a slightly different formula together for the extraction reagent kit and thats it if the f. D. A. Would do that we have a shortage worldwide shortage of some of the materials that go into that so we really need help money from the Payment Protection Program designed to keep businesses afloat has now run out even as more than 20000000 people are out of work its now 4 u. S. Lawmakers could meet as soon as wednesday to consider expanding the program but thats already running into political arguments despite the president s optimism that the u. S. Will be back and greater than ever the just tickle issues political infighting and a shortage of essential equipment persist at this point the daily briefings given by president dont trump a becomes. Somewhat repetitive and increasingly political hes blamed states governors for a shortage in testing talked about the thousands of ventilators being made and weighed in urging certain states to be liberated the death toll here is now by far the highest in the world and for many this crisis is far from over and gallacher aljazeera miami florida. Coronavirus can coverage continues in a moment well look at why dont turn kurdistan retracted his criticism of low quality protected months. And some of the days news canadas worst mass shooting the gunman disguised as a policeman killed 16 people before being shot himself. Hello there are still plenty of rain across central and southern areas of china and in fact were seeing quite a difference in the temperatures theyve certainly cooled off to the north into beijing and were going to see to much is quite a bit lower across the Korean Peninsula but at least local some dry weather as we go through tuesday and really when zigzag these winds that very strong coming in from the northwest meanwhile again it will be feeling cold across much of the home she really throughout much of japan again the winds taking the top off these temperatures the rain is further to the north and then there is a band of very heavy rain still sitting across those southern areas of china but to the north you go theres strong winds still in the forecast on wednesday 16 at best in seoul in up beijing and 9 celsius in seoul the average this time here is about 16 degrees so it really will be feeling rather chilly it is not sure yet all across into india of course the heat still very intense through many areas particularly through the interior and i would say more the way of rain through west bengal pushing up again into bangladesh weve had several days now of very heavy rain we could well be seeing some localized flooding and then across the western coast as a carola again some more showers in the full calls because he wanted to showers across in to show lanka but really the bulk of india stays dry and again fairy woman are poor with a high of 43. 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The light is Global Developments and the coronavirus pandemic now in germany is reopening some shops and allowing limited School Classes was the number of new infections and deaths from the coronavirus falls tokyo reporting more cases than any country outside the European Union and the United States a 2nd 48 hour weekend curfew has ended but shops schools and restaurants are still closed and 86000 infections and over 2000 deaths and chinas hit back after australias foreign minister raised questions about its honesty in handling the pandemic very spain call for an end to International Investigation into the origins of the virus and how it has spread to. Prisoners across south africa are threatening to go on a Hunger Strike after some inmates contracted the virus theyre calling for the release of the infected people more than 90 inmates and jail staff have now tested positive for coverage 19 we are going to get an update on this one now from funny to miller in johannesburg. Kemal were outside the Johannesburg Correctional Services this particular prison in janice berg but across the country about 860000 prisoners across about 240 prisoners in this country some of them are saying that there are 30 to 100 Hunger Strike because there are unhappy with just how the government is dealing with handling the coronavirus pandemic in prisons many of them are overcrowded and people here say old people at the prisons are concerned about the lack of space the availability of medical. 6 attention when needed and because of that theyre asking that the government release as many prisoners as possible were going to speak to golden miles put who he is from the south africa Prisoners Organization human role here in south africa now golden what are the conditions in the prisons that youre concerned about well look to start toward South African prisons. Designed to only accommodate plus minus 120000 prison a sentence and sentence prisoners we have over 160000 at any given day and we as an organization have been calling since day one there today must have a system how theyre going to deal manage and supervise overcrowding and all of that has fallen on deaf ears and today the chickens are coming home to roast now we know that the about 99 people have been diagnosed with colon the 19 the majority of them are prisoners the rest 8 warders what is the concern about how the government is handling this world of concern to ease prison and quarantine automatically they have been in court and tame and it is a fact that the virus come from outside been brought by Correctional Officers who move in and outside without having the p. P. Ease without having my face mask in hand gloves and without having all the other things that are supposed to make sure that this virus is kept at the minimal level now what is your thinking behind the release of prisoners how would that alleviate the situation and who do you think would qualify for this release well we have been calling since 9096 that they must work on a system that the will make sure that overcrowding is not the issue by releasing 1st time nonviolent offenders. Releasing Political Prisoners who are still languishing in prison for the past 25 years in a new democracy and these Political Prisoners must be Political Prisoners regardless of their political affiliation and they must also implement the president ial. Remission which was going granted by the president late last year. And were going to leave it there for the moment thanks so much for your time now the government has said its trying to manage the situation as well as it possibly can by screening