Deserted as the curfew came into force more than 30 cities across the country are affected plus. The champion a mountain biker in france who is helping his community cheer and walked out and hes back on his bike to provide a personal Delivery Service and shopping for anyone who needs that. Im kyra trades and welcome to the show we began here in germany where the federal president has urged the german people to show solidarity during the coronavirus pandemic in a rare televised address a friend asked the germans to do their part by staying home over the long easter weekend his speech also looked beyond germany to the Global Response to the pandemic. And will we surge worldwide for a joint way out of the crisis will we fall back into isolation and unilateralism tile and lettuce pool all of our knowledge and all of our research so that we can find vaccines and treatments more quickly. And lives ensure within a Global Alliance that the poorest and most Vulnerable Countries also have access
A jump in deaths inside china and infections of brined the globe the world struggles to contain coronavirus. Also military deals and commitments towards a trade agreement sounds u. S. President donald trump wraps up his visit to india. And Global Support continues to be impacted by the coronavirus outbreak with rugby 6 nations and now under threat and remembering a basketball legend kobe bryants a widow vanessa please the tributes to at a Memorial Service in los angeles. Hosni mubarak the egyptian president stood from paris during the arab spring uprisings has died aged 91 he passed away in a car on hospital where he had recently undergone surgery current president of the fatah sisi is among those offering tributes to mubarak well al jazeera is jamal was in cairo when mubarak fell well speak to him shortly and well hear from him or another of our correspondents who covered egypt extensively but 1st laura burton manley looks back on the later gyptian with his life and legacy. Hosni muba
With growing speculation around the health of north koreas despotic leader. And when hes not programming robots in the future, hes helping feed doctors and nurses working on the front lines. This hour, my interview with Emmy Award Winning actor Jeffrey Wright. Good to have you with us. So, in some corn rs of the world hardest hit by covid19, authorities are peeling back restrictions and trying to bring aspects of life back to normal. This week, multiple u. S. States will begin easing the stayathome orders that have likely saved a lot of lives even though the National Death toll is still shooting up. Now, this headline from the Washington Post cutting right to the chase, ready or not, america is opening back up. In minnesota, some manufacturing businesses have been given the green light. Elective surgeries will resume in iowa. And in georgia, restaurants will be allowed to open their doors in the coming hours. Now, while the governor of colorado is still urging residents to stay at home
Well, the United States with far and away the most confirmed coronavirus cases in the world is now approaching 41,000 deaths. And that is according to Johns Hopkins university which confirms nearly 760,000 cases nationwide. And you can see which states are the most affected. More than 2. 4 million cases are reported worldwide. On sunday, President Donald Trump said the u. S. Is rapidly expandi expandi expanding its testing which experts say is key to reopening the economy. On cnn the mayor of new york warned against acting too soon. I fear that the president in sort of his endless desire, sort of ra, ra, lets restart, is ignoring the facts, ignoring the science, and hes going to lead us into something that will boomerang back on us harshly. Hes only got one chance to get this right. And governors say they need more tests before they can safely reopen. The white house says they have plenty. Natasha chan looks at the state of the nation right now. Reporter its been 50 days since the firs
The proximate history of how we got here. The sort of two arcsof the story that led to this point. One of them i think starts in august 2013 in the suburbs of damascus when there was a massive, massive chemical weapons attack on two syrian civilian neighborhoods. That was an attack by the syrian government. They used chemical weapons. They used what was later determined to be sarin gas. That attack in august 2013 killed more than 1,400 civilians including hundreds of children. And the global response, the u. S. Response, naturally, was absolute horror. Outrage. A clamber for a response of sufficient magnitude to match and dissuade and punish an attack that horrific by the syrian dictator Bashar Al Assad. Again, over 1,400 People Killed in that gas attack in 2013. Now, in terms of the american response to that attack four years ago, the decisionmaking process in our government was very much colored by the fact that the Previous Year in 2012, president obama had described the widespread