Coffee 1000. 00 storm is now coming to all the sea theres of course. The u. N. Renews its call for a global ceasefire to help combat the virus. New york is in crisis helping new york. Another appeal from the governor of americas worst hit state is new york records more than 100000 coronavirus cases and nearly 3000 deaths. And almost right for picking but australian farmers fear their fruit will rot if they cant get enough workers. So then the financial damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic is now quote way worse than the 2008 Global Financial crisis the stark warning has come from the head of the International Monetary fund Christina Georgieva says the trillion dollar war chest will now be used to fight what shes calling a worldwide recession this is a crisis like no other. Never in the history of the i. M. F. We have witnessed the World Economy coming to a stand still we are now in recession it is way worse then the Global Financial crisis we have one trillion dollars war chest and we are determined to use as much as necessary in debt protecting the economy from this current of this crisis well lets hear now from our diplomatic editor james bays whos been following the latest developments from the United Nations youre hearing different parts of the International System all responding to the different problems that the virus is creating clearly the International Monetary fund is is allied with the u. N. The World Health Organization is the health part of the u. N. Well actually the head of the whole u. N. Antonio terrace the secretary general again saying what we need is a global cease far he made that call for the 1st time 10 days ago and he said there have been some promising signs but there is a huge distance between declarations and deeds between turns late teen words into peace on the ground and in the lives of people there are enormous difficulties to implementation as conflicts ephesus for years distrust these deep with many spoilers and many suspicions we know that any additional gains are fragile and easily reversible and in many of the most Critical Situations we have seen no letup in fighting and some conflicts ever even intensified. We need the robust diplomatic efforts to meet these challenges to silence the guns we must raise the voices for peace another part of the International System that has been somewhat paralyzed in recent weeks is the u. N. Security council very limited meetings behind closed doors Virtual Meetings theyve been having well theyre finally after some procedural problems they had actually no way to meet and to vote without meeting face to face theyve worked out a way of doing that involving there being some disagreements behind the scenes particularly involving the russians theyve worked out a way to have some sort of meetings Going Forward and we believe that in tonio terrace the u. N. Secretary general likely to brief the u. N. Security council on coded 19 next week but new yorks governor has made a desperate plea for more medical supplies with the number of coronavirus cases in americas worst affected state now exceeding 100000 new yorkers recorded 562 more deaths its highest daily death toll to date total fatalities across the state are approaching 3000 Governor Andrew Cuomo says hospitals are at capacity and they cant handle the influx of patients forget test the vaccine is thats a separate project thats not where people are going to die in the near term people are going to die in the near term because they walk into a hospital and theres no bed with a ventilator because theres either no bed or no staff or no people or no ventilator that is what is going to happen well that said joining a well is under whos in new york and gabe dyer desperate lack of equipment as cuomo. They really are and you know cuomo has been saying now for a couple weeks that this surge of sick people with corona virus would be hitting hospitals and it would reach a point where the Hospital System was overwhelmed he said for weeks now we are trying to prepare for this and that time is clearly now the number of people with coronavirus just in new york state over 100000 now and now the death toll increasing by the day with over 560 people just in the last 24 hours with that have died from coronavirus just here in new york state just to give you an idea of how the death toll is increasing on wednesday of this week the number of dead increased by about 390 on thursday it was about 430 and now youre seeing it at 560 so that so the trend line on the death toll 24 hours every 24 hours is increasing exponentially and that is a real troubling sign of all of this but the governor also saying that of course they need all sorts of medical equipment just even like and 95. 00 masks like this he say they simply have a shortage of these he said they used to be able to buy these for about 0. 70 theyre now going it according to the governor for about 7. 00 when they can even find them but even more importantly than that in some ways this respirators this was a front page of the New York Daily News one of the main tabloids it says running out of air new york is in desperate need of respirators to keep sick people breathing and according to the mayor of new york city the hospitals here in this city could run out of available ventilators by as early as monday so a. Crisis quite frankly in the Hospital System with no end in sight fischel is here saying that we are still about 4 weeks away from hitting the peak of when the most amount of people are dying and when the most amount of people are sick from coronavirus. Right you know who knows whats going to happen after the weekend what i thought was also interesting is that because of the shutdown streets a. Few a Car Accidents is less crime not so much trauma arriving at the hospitals but we all see almost totally coronavirus patients. Thats right you know just a week ago even the governor was saying we dont know what exactly to expect nobody knows exactly what to expect but what they were hoping to do was open up a lot of these field hospitals around new york in order to take non coronavirus patients in hospitals and bring them to the field hospitals to free up beds in i. C. U. Units regular hospitals problem is there arent a lot of people in new York Hospitals that are there for anything other than krone virus because there arent any people on the streets or people driving crime is down so youre not seeing the regular injuries that you would normally see in the city or state so for example the Javits Center which is a huge Convention Center on the west side of new york city that just opened this week and it was supposed to be for people with not non krone virus patients well now are saying we dont have many of those so theyre now going to open that up according to the governors Convention Center 2500 beds exclusively for people with kofi 1000 so the strategy is changing almost by the hour by hour sometimes day by day the bottom line is theres a shortage of beds but its a shortage of people that are sick with coronavirus that need attention urgently its not so much an issue of other people because they just dont have an issue with that anymore because theres just no one out on the streets no one getting sick from other things no one injuring themselves so the focus is on one and one thing only and thats beating chronic virus and opening up hospital beds for people that need it now and in the coming days and weeks right ok thanks very much for the guerrillas on the new york. Well as unemployment in the United States grows to this alarming rate there have been major job losses in the Service Industry thats especially true in florida which relies heavily on tourism lets join only gallagher who joins us from miami tell us more and. You know i mean florida lives of 2 Main Industries one being i go culture the other being tourism and the latest job figures are simply shocking 700000 nationally that came off the back of over 6000000 in the last few days and 3000000 a few days before that so youve got almost 10000000 people now claiming Unemployment Benefits but as you said the Service Industry in these latest job that has faced a half a 1000000 job losses that is the lifeblood of this state its affecting almost everyone here but some are doing something about it lets just take a look at the scene here in miami. Under normal circumstances a st roche market in miamis Design District is packed with paying customers now staff are helping to feed those in need and prepare meals with donations from hotels delis and other businesses whose doors and now closed this is a concerted effort by the very industry forced to lay off staff unclear what the future holds workers in floridas mammoth Service Industry are among the hardest hit and efforts are underway to raise money to help them survive a pandemic thats left many without an income we knew that we needed to do something right away so we got all the bigger shops in miami involved and that was the only reason we were able to all the soft so fast we raced 70000 this week alone from small donors and. Without corporate sponsorship amazing the whole community is really. Everybody has been amazing florida thrives on tourism but from the keys to the beaches of miami an eerie quiet has descended on the state that sees over 100000000 visitors a year president Donald Trumps darrelle golf club is among those forced to lay off staff advocates for those that work in the service and Hospitality Business say this is a crisis unlike any other active times our workers barely get by and folks are working for you know 9101112 dollars an hour and they dont have a penny in savings no fault of their we have a lot of members who work 2 or 3 jobs these are incredibly hard working on i when you have wages that are in that level you are barely able to pay your rent. And raise some are trying to adapt to a rapidly changing economic reality hundreds of thousands of others a desperate to get financial help from a state benefit system im prepared for a crisis on this scale. Or does an employment claim system is overwhelmed with out of work workers saying websites have crashed and phone calls dont get answered the system designed by Republican Leaders has been criticized for reducing the amount of unemployment tax paid by businesses benefits to a meager with claimants only getting 275. 00 a week is sort of around 400000 people have managed to file a claim its not known how many have tried and failed the 2 trillion dollars aid package announced by the u. S. Government is designed to help those hit by the coronavirus pandemic this state like many is struggling to get cash into the hands of those that need it most. In response to criticisms over the overwhelmed benefits system in this state florida floridas governor right to center says he is hiring more staff giving people more ways to get benefits but the picture thats emerging in this state is that people that need help at this very critical time cant get through and cant get those benefits and we havent even peaked here in the state of florida remember the coronavirus is due to peak until perhaps next month an economic think tank that i was just reading a report from estimates that the official Unemployment Rate across the United States which is 4. 4 percent may actually be much higher than that and they also say that by the time the corner virus is done or even remotely defeated that unemployment may be more nearer to 14 percent with about 24000000 people in the United States being unemployed so these are desperate times not just in this state but across the entire country. Thanks very much for that update. Britains Health Secretary says there are at least 2000 Critical Care beds available for coronavirus patients and thats before new temporary hospitals open across the country almost 700 deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours that is an increase of almost 25 percent we cannot relax our discipline now. If we do people will die so i end with the advice that we all know this is vice is not a request it is an instruction stay at home protect lives and then you will be doing your part well its an hour from j. And a whole has more from london. Its the u. K. s biggest hospital with eventual capacity for 4000 covered 19 patients built inside a London Conference Center it took just 9 days to construct with the help of Army Engineers dramatically expanding the Critical Care bed count and other similar sites are underway Prince Charles cut the virtual ribbon from his scottish residence having recovered from a buyout of corona virus. Eak ridge this hospital is about. The results of an extraordinary collaboration and partnership between n. H. S. Manages the military and all those involved to create a sense on a scale that has never been seen before in the united. Someone who hasnt yet recovered is Boris Johnson due back at work today a week after announcing he got the virus johnson still has a temperature so there was another video message instead as a good looking Prime Minister continues to self isolate inside downing street i think and alas i still have one of the sins of the mind a symptom of i have a celeb a temperature and so in accordance with government advice i must continue myself isolation until that symptom itself goes the Prime Ministers call was amplified by the Health Minister who earlier warned the u. K. Peak may arrive sooner than expected perhaps within the next few weeks and work continues just about everywhere to prepare for it here in northwest london the grim business of setting up a temporary morgue beside a criminal or him you can just make out the twin peaks of 2 refrigerated structures above the fence over there london accounts for around a 3rd of the u. Case total numbers of infections and deaths and new research by scientists at Imperial College suggests the actual london numbers could be much higher than advertised researches say that huge gaps in Testing Capacity that the government is now trying to close plus high numbers of very mild or asymptomatic cases mean that one in 15 londoners or around 600000 people may have or have had the disease thats 60 times more than the number of registered cases in london extrapolate that across the country and the spread of corona virus appears far wider. Than anyone thought jonah hold aljazeera lumbered spain has recorded more than 900 new deaths for the 2nd day in a row Health Authorities say that 132 people died in the past 24 hours that slightly less than number on thursday to bring spains total to almost 11000. 00 martha or has the latest from madrid 900. 00 new fatalities seems pain in the last 24 hours. In the last. 24 hours the 2nd deadliest days since the coronavirus outbreak bringing the death toll up 211000 people infections have increased by 7400 new cases leaving it all gel or 117 positives of. Of 19 same surpasses eataly in the number of people infected that yesterday reduced to 1000 to 15 Positives HealthMinistry Officials say we are following the radical path as weve seen a slowing number of people being hospitalized with a corner virus but spain may have reached the peak and now we may be entering a slowdown face in some regions of spain the i. C. U. I. Q. s are running are reaching there at the capacity of the limit of the capacity of some of them are at 85 percent and transport ministry has enabled medicalize trains gives the need to transport patients from one region to the other just like the past few weeks ago. To germany now where the chancellor Angela Merkel has ended her self quarantine after testing negative for the virus even from isolation shes been held up as an example of how World Leaders should manage the Pandemic Health officials there say early widespread testing has helped to keep the death toll relatively low dominic cain explains how germany has managed to keep the death toll as low as it has. The key here is combining widescale targeted testing with an ample provision of intensive care unit bed space to treats the people who test positive and develop a severe reaction and go into a Critical Condition as it was when the outbreak started germany the estimates were that germany had around 28000 intensive care unit beds available since the outbreak began and really took hold across Europe Germany has been able to expand or commence those i. C. U. Spaces so there are now 40000 thats a 43 percent increase in bed spaces specifically in intensive care beds spaces and theyve also been able to increase the number of bed spaces for those who dont tap coronavirus which means therefore that the hospitals are able to isolate the patients in most most urgent need so those people dont and as it were exposed of those to the risk of contracting the virus which is what happened in hospitals in the countries that you mentioned earlier and thats why the germans believe that theyve been able as it were to keep not necessary to keep an id on the problem because clearly that is not the case when infections are spreading and more people are dying but theyve been able to keep the mortality rate very low a members of parliament component to do to vote on whether to hold next months president ial election by postal ballot only ruining the law and Justice Party says not going out to vote will reduce the risk of catching a virus the opposition though says that voting by post is undemocratic because coronavirus restrictions will prevent them from campaigning. Turkeys president has announced tougher measures to contain the spread of corona virus under the new rules masks must be worn in Public Places people under the age of 20 would also be subject to a partial curfew present type or 2 and also announced a ban on cars entering and leaving 31 cities for at least 15 days starting at midnight istanbuls mayor has been calling for 4 looked out of the city which has the highest infection rate in the country or some Health Experts warn that turkey could become another pandemic hotspot that has the 9th largest number of confirmed cases in the world with more than 20000 infections in the past day 69 patients have died taking the total to 425 more than 15 and a half 1000000 people live in this jumble of the citys mayor says that 2000000 of them are still going about their lives as normal well you know as if it goes is the deputy chairman of the Republican Peoples Party which is the Main Opposition Party in turkey and he supports calls for stricter containment measures particularly in istanbul. Close 220000 infected all over the country and the istanbul seems to be the epicenter is close to 1000 and may is probably 10000 today and the stumble may of course is like asking for a lockdown the reason for that is its growing very serious exponential rates are why. Does not take that kind of a decision is probably. Isnt because he does not plan to slow down the economy but the economy is already down there is recession and he simply does not want to stop the whole economy stumble is the center of turkish business and that he called me and thats also one of the reasons why he does that but to keep people at home only via hearing recommendations from the Governors Office that people should stay home and thats the only thing that we can hit that is no in forstmann of a lockdown unless this enforcement happen im afraid the numbers that way continue rising and well probably see a couple of weeks of peak and stumble is probably going to be one of the most infected cities all over the world and also in turkey. All right now take a giant google is rolling out data it says can show which countries are complying with stay at home orders cope with 19 mobility reports or a summary of data gathered from smartphones many who has agreed to store their location history with google can have their data used in the study so far the information collected from 131 countries shows movement in categories such as Grocery Stores parks and workplaces for example in the United States immobility reports Show Movement to retail and recreational areas has decreased by 47 percent since the orders were issued google says the dates will not include information that can personally identify a person and will only be used to help public Health Officials states on we can speak to our balkan whos a Digital Rights activist working on social justice in the digital age he joins us on skype from cork welcome to the program 1st up this kind of technology this kind of move happens already Business People that google already follow us on on their location systems so they know where we are is just being used in a different way isnt it. Well yes this is googles Business Model tracking you its business as is googles Business Model so they track you and you use their applications you use their services they track you when youre browsing the web they track you from web sites of web sites across about 80 percent of the web they track you off the web when you use your credit card in a retail store because they buy data and they have data deals d with data brokers and other entities and the only thing thats unique about this is theyre using all of the data they already have for this purpose so theres nothing essentially wrong with that per se but there is everything wrong with the fact that tracking you and violating your privacy and manipulating your behavior is their Business Model thats how they make their billions thats why theyre a trillion Dollar Company right bots given the unique extraordinary devastating situation that were in isnt that helpful to give the powers that be whatever they need to try and beat this virus. I think thats a very dangerous. Approach to take announced there are certain things we have to do let physical distance think this is important you know we need to comply with that but if we give up all of our Civil Liberties because were afraid and its normal we are afraid this is not nobodys enjoying the situation that were at but once we give up certain Civil Liberties were not going to get those back right away in the u. K. For example they are creating an app. And theyre creating it in conjunction with palance here and balance here if youre not familiar with it was named after the old seeing stone used by the evil wizard in lord of the rings peter thiel founded it and peter thiel is one of trumps you know right hand people so we have to be very careful in the u. S. There is an app being created a cult next trace and its being created in partnership with inq tel which is a Venture Capital firm for the cia so you know we have to start asking if we see the same people whose Business Model it is whose Business Model it is to spy on you or if thats what they do for the government if theyre suddenly salivating and if theyre suddenly trying to expand their operations i think we have to ask them questions we have to kind of go stop wait you know because if we lose the Civil Liberties if these systems start creating getting created were going to have a hard time rolling builds back just one thing how will the lets assume that there is no argument about Civil Liberties i know thats a thats a big assumption to make but lets just do that for a moment how will this help the authorities deal with the current virus situation in terms of knowing where people are and where theyre moving. Well i mean look this sort of aggregate data is of course useful and i wish that we would look into more systems of aggregate data not anonymous or anonymize it up because that doesnt really exist but aggregate data like this is useful for policymakers but i was reading an article in the Independence Day and joe kind of taught us special repertory privacy he had a quote in there where he says dictatorships often starts in the face of threats so we need to really take that seriously were seeing this happen were seeing censorship laws being put into place in places like turkey you know which already had very strict rules people getting arrested because theyre speaking out about this were seeing it in thailand were seeing it in cambodia. You know were seeing it in the philippines i mean heck to terror to actually said that he wants start shooting people so we need to really be careful its especially in places that we need to be democracies that we dont throw the baby out with the bathwater our Civil Liberties are very important yes there are certain things we need to do to make sure that we flatten the curve but mass surveillance shouldnt be something that we allow to happen because of this arab welcome we do appreciate that thanks very much indeed who can then Digital Rights activists thank you. 30 more coronavirus coverage ahead here now there including. A bit of roses how the pandemic is heard in kenya flower industry. Hello that heat is back in place across much of the Arabian Peninsula winds have temperatures are coming up so to the north is where weve got most of the activity set in terms of the rain shower as well as he rolls out today across Western Areas of turkey and then you see that the bulk of showers working their way across into western and Northern Areas of iran so he could have a couple of wet days into turan as we go through saturday and sunday well see a few showers work their way across areas of afghanistan on into northern pakistan now sunday its a fairly quiet picture generally dairies that rain working its way east was away from toronto a better day generally and then as i say temperatures all on the rise 33 celsius in riyadh and weve got 30 celsius in doha now down into Southern Africa 1st of all madagascar one of the wash in the forecast there for the next 2 days and we certainly got more heavy rain into more Northern Areas of south africa so probably a down day certainly to johannesburg just 19 degrees celsius a fitting a little bit cooler and the rain showers quite widespread the heavier into Northern Areas of on going to and then by sunday its really the d. L. C. Where we see the heaviest amounts of rain some pretty torrential downpours at times but finally we have got a killer picture throughout much of south africa touches 20 celsius in johannesburg but actually a bit cooler with the flow in capetown. I didnt know that corruption has reached a level like never ever before in our country. Rank outsider. To president of the United States. The power was in the data we will honor the American People with the truth and nothing else discover the formula for winning the white house unfair game on Al Jazeera Aljazeera is here to report on the people often ignored but who must be heard how many other channels can you say will take the time and put extensive thought into reporting from under reported areas of course we cover major global offense but are possible lives and making sure that youre hearing the stories from people in places like palestine libya yemen the sahara legion and so many others who go to the you make the efforts we care to stay. Well again you want to remind of our top stories this hour and the head of the International Monetary fund says the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic is now quote way worse than the 2008 Global Financial crisis Christina Georgieva says a trillion dollar war chance will now be used to fight what shes calling a worldwide recession. The u. N. Says 70 countries have endorsed its call for a global ceasefire in response to the pandemic warring parties in libya in syria in yemen and 8 other conflict zones say theyre willing to lay down their weapons. Britains Health Secretary says there are at least 2000 Critical Care beds available for coronavirus patients almost 700 deaths were recorded there in the past 24 hours an increase of almost 25 percent. Lets return to our top story and the head of the i. M. F. Saying that were into a worldwide white recession now in the pandemic now is way worse than the 2008 Global Financial crisis and the situation that its causing we can speak to robert scott whos a Senior International communist at the Economic Policy institute joins us on skype from north dakota mike and mary land so welcome to the program sir 1st up the chief of the i. M. F. Calls it a world right well white recession now will it compare with anything that weve experienced in recent years do you think. I think that this crisis is going to exceed i think the worst. Economic collapse in living memory for most people it is going to rival the Great Depression and i think we are likely to lose upwards of as much as 30000000 jobs in the United States by the summer months thats about 20 percent of our labor force at this kind of far exceed the collapse that we experienced in the Great Recession a decade ago it is going to be its going to be much deeper than any of the previous economic collapses since the 2nd world war. Is an extraordinary time is now is that nothing that can be done in terms of stimulus weve seen certain amounts of stimulus a huge amount of thing thats going into the u. S. Economy i know a lot more is needed is that nothing that can be done to stop this. Well absolutely there are things that can be done i think we have to be careful about our choice of language at this point there is nothing in the u. S. To can be done to stop the collapse in the economy we can however provide relief and that is what it was. In part with the 2 trillion dollar bill that socalled care act that was passed by Congress Last week and signed into law by the president that will provide aid it will provide Unemployment Insurance aid to the states some help to hospitals desperately needed funding but it will not be enough to stimulate the economy to recover we really will not be able to do that until we put an end to the lockdown in the economy so we have to survive the lockdown 1st and then turn to the stimulus question and i think when there are a number of measures from going to be taken to rebuild the economy a death point and when we talk of a comparison with the Great Depression and its something that weve learned about in school baps many of us but what does it actually mean in practical terms we talk about you mentioned 7000000 jobs going in the United States but what would it mean on the streets what would it mean for the shelves that we shop in and our daily lives. Well to make the comparison explicit ive looked at numbers in the Great Depression theyve lost about 25 percent of all jobs and g. D. P. Collapsed by perhaps 25 to 30 percent as well over a period of 4 years you know had people in bread lines. Great homelessness and so forth people migrating cross the United States and other countries i dont expect that to be the case in this recession the reason is because we have learned that we do need provide relief on a mass scale it is effectively delivered that can help most people stay in their homes and have the resources they need to buy the food that they need to survive the crisis thats the big difference between today and the Great Recession we know enough to spend enough to keep people alive and when you talk about 4 or 5 year is in the process of the coming back how long that would it take but i think that the i. M. F. Is now predicting conservatively that we will be in recession and in 2020202020 extension 21 i think it will last for at least 2 years beyond that depends both on how quickly we come up with a with a vaccine and other treatments for the growth but iris as well as how quickly were able to marshal aid both domestically and in the u. S. And European Union but also internationally were going to have to require a historic effort on the part of the i. M. F. And the world bank and other International Institutions to help all of the other developing countries that are also going to be hit with the crisis and dont have the resources that we do in the developed countries have so many well run scott i wish we could talk unless troubling times and to appreciate your time into perspective thanks very much judy. Chinas government is warning people in the city it will happen to stay indoors amid concerns over a resurgence of infections this follows the imposition of a lockdown on 600000 residents in neighboring province overall china is slowly easing restrictions but countries around the region are doing the opposite fearful of new clusters of the disease emerging jessica washington has its report. This theater in new han has been empty for months after weeks of being locked down in their homes the stage is set for residents to cautiously try to go back to their normal lives these volunteers hope to return the theater to what it was before the outbreak began in december. There are many volunteers helping the city fight the virus by teammates and i feel happy to do this because were helping our hometown efforts to contain the virus in will hire an easing although the government advice is still to minimize activities outside the home the subway system is back in action and from next week residents can leave the city and the local Authorities Say domestic flights will start again to everywhere except the Capital Beijing theres some skepticism about chinas numbers and the suppose a dramatic drop in cases but as the city slowly edges closer to some kind of normalcy others around asia are doing the opposite authorities in thailand hope a curfew will help curb the spread of the virus in addition to the curfew late night Public Transport Services will also be suspended in the capital bangkok. I would like to announce a nationwide curfew between 10 pm and 4 am starting from friday medical Personnel Bank workers those involved in necessary supplies and fuel and shift workers are exempt. Tai authorities have asked citizens abroad to delay their return to reduce the threat of importing the disease in singapore schools universities and all workplaces except essential services will close from next week the city state bolstad its efforts after new confirmed cases of local transmission 1st stay at home as much as possible 2nd avoid socializing with others beyond your own household gatherings should be confined to your household in australia the government says its on top of the situation the only numbers i have total faith in are the israeli numbers frankly because we have the highest testing right in the world the Health Minister says a strangely ins have risen to the challenge following social distancing measures that have completely transformed their lives just to washington out to 0 indians are being urged to switch off their lights on sunday night and hold candles or torches in the show solidarity the Prime MinisterNarendra Modi issued a video message aimed to boost morale during the 3 week lock down 56 indians have died with around 2300 reported infections 2 cases were recorded in less than 24 hours of mumbais densely populated there obviously thats the largest in asia. Where the pandemic has shown how many countries depend on seasonal farm workers and strain there is letting foreign labor laborers extend temporary visas while encouraging its own citizens to help fill gaps in the workforce but for some farmers time is running out as nicholas cage reports now from 7. Harvest is 2 weeks away on prep goth reese postmen farm its the busiest time of year with only a small window to pick the sweet fruit before its trucked to markets but with the spread of coronavirus disrupting the multibillion dollar industry he still doesnt know who will hire here to get the fruit off these trees and into the packing shed we still havent worked out our labor supply its changing actually every day bretts one of thousands of farmers now figuring out what his strategy is travel restrictions maine for their business and income when it comes to fruit and vegetables most farms employ seasonal Foreign Workers here on a short term visa the majority are backpackers but with foreigners now banned from entering a stray leah and movements restricted inside the country the question is who will replace them when the visas of those already here expire we rely so heavily on our work is now Seasonal Work. To be involved to get. The industry is looking at whether a strongly ins laid off in other sectors due to the crosses like hospitality could step in farmers say the logistics of that happening are complex they want the government to ensure the thousands of foreigners already here can outstay their visas to ensure food supply continues we need to keep them here in australia because this is not going to last forever and when its over we need to make sure that our farmers can continue to pick the crops at a time when people are being told to stay indoors the other issue is making sure the movement of thousands of workers doesnt lead to a cluster of Coronavirus Infections this is a relatively small property of a 5 wakes to 100. 00 tonnes of persimmons will be picked by about 16 paypal but in the coming months tens of thousands of workers will be needed right across the strayer and farmers need certainty about where theyll come from so. As we. Reconsider. Plans breaking through whether they plan as much as theyre going to whether. This isnt because of uncertainty around labor supply not before coronavirus Brett Guthrie battled the threat of bushfire and drought like others hes hoping Government Intervention will help bear fruit that the industry until the crisis is only a nickel a gauge aljazeera sydney well lets take this on we can speak to Stephen Cargill whos the head of logistics at the World Food Programme joins us on skype from rome stephen got a welcome to the program its an important story this isnt it and its on going problem across the world of harvesting crops to what degree do you think crops and harvest harvest will be affected as time goes on thats a very difficult question to answer and longer doing it very closely as we speak i mean for the 8787000000 people that we feed every year we havent seen a spike yet i mean International Food prices which obviously is quite a relief for us but we want to make sure that continues so that for us the importance of ensuring that those commodities remain on the market is critical for us yeah absolutely so what pressures are you concerned about that may implicate those harvests and the continual supply of food and so forth. We firmly believe that this is not food but we dont believe that this will impact certainly the foods that were dealing in which is in many cases dried cereals but there will be impacted in a major way by the outbreak so we need to make sure that countries appreciate that there is a requirement to keep a proving and thats really where we want to focus on we need to make sure that the ports they open borders stay open and theres a free flow of commodities around the world and that is a problem isnt it because the shipping industry is already talking about issues that theyre having in terms of port some ports not being open and the issues of coron team for crew members and so forth so the supply chain is already being affected there from container ships trying to deliver but not be able to thats absolutely correct so were seeing that in certain cases and we really like and reaching out to governments to make sure that the interventions that they take a right and they should be together with the shipping companies in order to make sure that those crews can change because they need to change not only ship crews better air aircraft crews which we need to charge around the world with them urgency items as well so all of that needs to be thought out in it in a conclusive and comprehensive manner because that is critical for everything to keep moving and in terms of your projects and the kind of campaigns that no working on how dependent all the less developed countries are population to less developed countries on what you do in the supplies that you have. Apps completed and i mean we are feeding those 87000000 who are the most Vulnerable People in the world theyre already very susceptible to Climate Change to come through at your many other aspects as well a lot on top of this good 19 on the restrictions that are going into place we need to make sure that those people off so i can reach you know make sure that a understand the importance of that continued support in order to make sure that those people are not distressed any further in what they are already in an extremely extremely difficult youre right we just featured a fruit farm in australia of a similar situation certainly is Northern Hemisphere comes into spring and early summer with harvest of voltage to sell fruits and it just goes on as the summer continues but what about the staples those big harvests of wheat and rice and so forth you know we we havent seen i mean were hoping that because theyre highly mechanized crops in general that it will not be affected in such a way and of course we do feel those are rest of those freshly armors but we do need to make sure that those borders stay open so we have cases at the moment between down and supporting south which is of course very who gets it make sure that order stays open because we buy consider amounts of food as you down he supports out and its not only about supporting its also supporting those farmers that ensued that required those those farms those monies in order to support their business and there are there are no thats also not that we need to take into consideration. Simcoe grades get a perspective on this very important stories as a steam co who have from the world food program. Very much. Well tens of thousands of low paid workers that kenyan flower farms have already lost their jobs because of a lack of demand many of them a sole income earners and now dont know how they will feed their families mark where prices for. The coronavirus hasnt yet reached Great Community near the town of my bash in kenya as far as she knows but its Economic Impact has she earned about 100. 00 a month you know job at a nearby flower farm in till she was fired last week even if that dont get me what is going to do. What is going to affect hank yeah because if only. It would dramatically im going to. Kenya is africas leading producer of flowers most to export it to europe these white roses are being harvested because theyre ready theyll be thrown away not many european lovers are buying each other a bunch of these at the moment many European Countries on Lockdown People cant even go on dates here in kenya that means people are losing jobs this whole production line is normally full of people sorting flowers for export the industry says more than 30000 casual workers have already been sent home and tens of thousands more workers stand to lose their jobs in the weeks ahead. Industry representatives spoke to journalists from a safe distance none of the prominent workers have been laid off as we speak. For another 3 or 4 weeks dieties the next step. As a Seasonal Work of grace says she was among the 1st to go is now wondering how she will feed her children. Thousands in our community who are in the same position. There arent many jobs here at the best of times Health Experts say the virus could spread rapidly in these kinds of crowded settlements maybe it already is. But the lockdown and the economic decline could be even more crippling. The pharma say theyll keep growing flowers as long as they can they want to be ready to resume exports if and when the market recovers. In the meantime the flowers are late to waste tens of thousands of livelihoods with them malcolm webb aljazeera kenya and whats being called a bidding war countries and even cities are competing for supplies of personal protective equipment including masks globes and gowns for Health Care Workers and the coronavirus pandemic has led to a worldwide shortage and sarah hart now reports that theres not enough protective gear to go around countries are scrambling to get hold of supplies especially face masks and just soon as possible but some governments are being accused of using unscrupulous tactics and paying inflated prices to get their share. And then is accusing the u. S. Of carrying out a modern piracy at bangkoks airport and diverting a shipment of mass distance in germany for itself then these are marked that must marked off to the whole world is buying them right now its worth gold at the moment its sometimes very very difficult to plan things in advance and that sometimes deliveries that were thought to be secured suddenly dont arrive as planned. The heads of 3 regions in some of the wests hit coronavirus areas in france have accused the United States of affectively hijacking millions of mosques and Shanghai Airport they were made in china and destined for france then its alleged the us paid 3. 00 to 4. 00 times the going rate to obtain the us denies the allegations but its need is great. As the more than a 1000000 people diagnosed with the virus globally the u. S. Has the highest number of infections and like many other countries is struggling to find enough protective equipment donald trump is under pressure new york an epicenter of the virus will run short of ventilators in a few days. Despite u. S. Strange relations with russia and china President Donald Trump says theyll take whatever he can get. It was a very nice offer from president putin i spoke to him the other night as a job and they had access to medical equipment things and ill take it ill take it i think its very very swift action from china we also help other countries a lack of mosques and ventilates is meant to us states are in a price bidding war against each other to replenish dwindling supplies the federal Emergency Management agency or fema says a black market has emerged some equipment made in u. S. Factories being sold to brood brokers come in there bidding and bidding on always different people driving the price up and guess what you know where its going that domestic sources here are being export. Across the border canada is investigating reports that one of its orders was diverted to the us ive heard reports on this issue and of course there are concerning we need to make sure that the equipment that is destined for canada gets to and stays in canada and ive asked ministers to follow up on these particular reports we are working not just here at home but overseas as well to ensure that the equipment that canada has ordered makes its way to canada. We start slow some governments have been accused of using a number of tactics including stockpiling medical supplies blocking exports of protective equipment and seizing shipments transiting through their territories to other countries france warned companies they cant just supply and supplies from turkey because a visit to the strictures on medical supplies. Fighting cave in 19 is a race against time and with a global shortage of fact 33 g. s protective gear some are resorting to making their own notes instead of waiting. Aljazeera. In Football English Premier League clubs will consult their players about taking a 30 percent pay cut this comes after the u. K. Health minister. Will start to play their part in the fight against coronavirus 4 teams as Tottenham Hotspur newcastle norwich and bournemouth have been criticised for continuing to pay their players in full while asking the u. K. Taxpayer for money for the wages of nonplaying staff the e. P. L. Will donate 25000000. 00 to Prisons National health service. And other news stories in pakistan have arrested 4 men just a day after they were acquitted for the abduction and murder of american journalist daniel pearl the government says it will appeal against a decision by pakistan Supremes Court to overturn their convictions the wall street journal reporter was killed in 2002 on investigating a pakistani rebel group. Donald trump is to meet us Oil Executives later on friday whose businesses have taken the hammering in recent weeks all prices have slumps because of a dispute between saudi arabia and russia and the Global Economic shutdown caused by coronavirus over prices initially rose by as much as 50 percent on thursday when the us president said that riyadh and moscow were close to a deal to cut production. Of Oil Terminals in Eastern Libya is causing the government to lose 50000000. 00 a day in revenue has meant Government Employees havent been paid for months and inflation is rising. Reports from the capital tripoli food prices are on the rise in tripoli before the start of ramadan residents are rushing to markets feeling some committees might try an hour during the holy month of fasting. Is checking what he can afford to buy in this but short sharp like many other libyans he has not received his salary for the past 3 months that is only were following stereotype measures in our houses by downsizing the amount of commodities we need to consume the government has not intervened to stop shop owners from increasing prices the value of the libyan d. N. R. Is falling and banks are running short of hard to currencies because of the halt in oil exports despite the dramatic fall in oil prices globally oil revenues remain the backbone of libyas economy. Almost 30 percent of libyas 6000000 people rely on his state salaries but the closure of oil industry lation is because of continuing the fighting between rival groups and many fear a worsening financial crisis for the past 3 months forces loyal to warlords plea for have to have been blocking the Oil Terminals in the east of the country production has dropped from 1200000. 00 to less than 100000 Barrels Per Day this state oil 3rd is to mates it has lost around 3 and half 1000000000. 00 in revenue. Meanwhile have there is a one year battle to capture the capital that goes on that has taken a toll on people and infrastructure consequences might remain for years to come when a cut here in the masada a lot of factories have been affected by the war in tripoli because many of them a located near the fighting areas also many investment projects that were signed with Foreign Companies have no being frozen this war is not only affecting the economy in tripoli but across the whole country. And many other libyans are worried if the blockade on the Oil Facilities continues the Economic Crises will get even worse there wondering when and how their situation will improve. Tripoli finally news that the american singer songwriter bill withers has died you know. When you see. Yes the 3 time grammy award winner wrote major hits including lovely day as well as lean on me and no sunshine there on Rolling Stones list of the 500. 00 greatest songs of all time the 81 year old stop making music back in the mid 1980 s. And he died from heart complications in los angeles is survived by his wife and 2 children. Thats it for the news i will be right here from london shortly but for me the clock its part of. The u. N. Fact finders accused of but i mean military genocide this is a political as you say. Do you believe the new mode is a fascist or a kid dont have. Both the recognize the both sides have legitimate grievances against the other law to make this is the founding climate back then and that is why the. Take. Up. On aljazeera. Trouble began at the end of the countrys civil war when most people started returning home from refugee camps. More horror struck and killed during a demonstration in 2017. Right here in the middle of the street as a sign of resistance to the Mining Companies and government are set in your. Nations use and displacement between the communities the Mining Companies and the government has now escalated to west africas Regional Court the community has taken its case before west africas Regional Court because they say the people have little for use in the justice system. In 2011 aljazeera gains rare access to the pyongyang film academy and some of north koreas brightest young stars. What did it take to serve a National Propaganda machine. A compelling portrait of the privileged life of the countrys elites rewinds north korea cinema of trains on aljazeera. New yorks governor voters stronger action to get the state supply of ventilators where they need to be work. Around how to hit scene and this is al jazeera live from london also coming up the i. M. F. Warns that the coronavirus will have a bigger impact on the World Economy and the 2008 financial crisis. Along that Exhibition Center opens its doors as the countrys latest school of a