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Health Care Community in new york eats the ball to help front line workers in a crisis and im sorry how much now have all the support including you have the president dana white says hes close to securing a private island to make sure he can keep staging events during the current of us spent. We begin this news all in the u. K. Where Prime Minister johnson already one of the most high profile coronavirus patients yet is in intensive care and on that he was transferred to his symptoms got worse on monday night johnson was admitted to hospital on sunday and was moved as a precaution in case he needs a ventilator with a Prime Minister out of action foreign secretary dominic robb stepping in to lead the government. Rory talents is our correspondent and london at this hour so rory weve had quite a few leaders come out trying to calm the public since this announcement do actually know any more about our stance and condition. Or michael gove who is the cabinet secretary and incidentally it seems is now self isolating himself was speaking on british media this morning to update people on whats the latest is with Boris Johnsons health and he said that his condition hasnt deteriorated significantly since he was taken into intensive care last night that he had been given oxygen supports about 4 liters worth of oxygen. That he hadnt been put on a ventilator he hadnt been intubated in this far as michael gove knows he has and being diagnosed with pneumonia. I think clearly Boris Johnson then is obviously in a very serious situation but if its true that he had 4 liters of oxygen given the usual benchmark i think for. 1000 patients in intensive care is about 15 liters that would suggest that Boris Johnsons condition isnt quite as serious as other patients in intensive care moments. But this is going to be a big shock i think for obviously the country for the cabinets and the government and for Boris Johnsons friends and family its also going to be a big shock for Boris Johnson himself his friends have been speaking about how this is a man who is usually in Robust Health that he doesnt suffer illness particularly well he battles on through the hardest of colds and we saw that over the 10 days of his core and see with covered 19 symptoms that he was still trying as best he could to lead the governments and be the Prime Minister obviously that is now not really possible but this is going to be a significant blow to the Prime Minister himself and i can explain now in my reports how the whole situation unfolded. The news came after a day of scant information and repeated lines the Prime Ministers hospital stay was just a precaution so downing street Boris Johnson himself tweeted i went into hospital for some routine tests as im still experiencing coronavirus symptoms i mean good spirits and keeping in touch with my team as we Work Together to fight this virus and keep everyone safe but its the reality was his condition was worsening later on monday doctors moved him to the intensive care unit thats in thomass hospital in london during the course of this afternoon the Prime Ministers condition worsened and on the advice of the medical team whos moved in to a Critical Care unit so in light of those circumstances the Prime Minister asked me as 1st secretary to deputize for him when necessary in driving forward the governments plans to defeat coronavirus. Support for the Prime Minister has come from across the british political spectrum and beyond terribly sad news tweeted keer starmer the new leader of the u. K. s Opposition Labor Party my thoughts are with you and your family so the brakes it negotiator Michel Barnier and from frances president micron all my support to Boris Johnson his family and the british people in this difficult moment heres a view inside one of britains covert 19 wards bournemouth on the south coast of england doctors and nurses are fighting to save lives here every day. That. We still have to do. It in. Between getting out of the way then also having that say that this is going to test the u. K. s patient deaths rose by 439 on monday but many more deaths are happening outside hospitals in london specialist teams of police fire and Health Services have been set up to respond to these we are anticipating about 30 percent of the mortality in london will be involving deaths within the Community Government scientists a stay at home measures do seem to be working to limit hospital admissions but its still too soon to say how much we need a good long time series of data on on all of the stages of infection in order to be able to tell what the impact or the measures that came in on the 23rd of march are going to be with its too early to tell yet when we need we need people to carry on following those instructions so that we can work out 3 weeks later what actually happens in hospitals and its still not known when the peak of coronavirus will be in the u k. Rory we had gone abroad theyre saying that Boris Johnson asked him to dip his eyes when necessary what does that mean is he actually running the country full time or. Will the u. K. Is different from the us where there is a very clear cut chain of come on for if the commander in chief the president is out of action in the u. K. Its a bit more. So what were being told is that yes dominic robb the foreign secretary is deputising for Boris Johnson where necessary and i think that means that the as most of the Big Decisions when it comes to coronavirus and the countries response that have been taken. There is some administrative work in putting that into practice and that mainly is what dominic robb is going to be doing there is one decision though which is coming down the line and that is in about a weeks time where this 3 week review process on how long the country is going to be staying in lockdown staying in in self isolation that is going to be considered again and that is if this still incapacitated at that point is going to be something that the rob is going to have to consider thank you for that update the brewery chalons bringing us the latest from london. Well David Alexander is a professor of risk and disaster reduction at University College london he is also Vice President of the institute of Civil Protection and Emergency Management he joins us on skype from florence really good to have you on the program what sort of Emergency Management or Emergency Planning will be going on in the u. K. Now with parsed johnson in intensive care what kind of conversations will be being had at the upper echelons of government. Well am essentially Emergency Planning is something that we do initially to produce a permanent emergency plan but we carry on during jury in the emergency in order to attempt the plan to circumstances and to ensure that we have plans for specific circumstances has not arrived now most of that will be done by experts in Emergency Planning epidemiology the diseases sanded Everything Else that is relevant the politicians need to take the advice and way out they were tentative send make decisions about how to deploy resources on the basis of that and that is something that they will be doing. On the places of advice there obviously will take account of how things change day by day and that is a process that will be going on very intensively present what Boris Johnsons hospitalization and you know moving into i. C. U. Would that have been something that would have been planned out a contingency. But generally there is a means of delegating responsibility when it is necessary so i dont think that this at present is a particular problem for government so the Decision Making the Decision Making in any case is usually based upon a consensus of ideas about what is the best thing to do and also not they will tentative and their various impacts from an Emergency Management perspective do you think that the u. K. Government looked like it was prepared. That is rather difficult question but persis began in about 2005 with a row telephone conversation report followed by a set of National Reports including a u. K. One its notable that the u. K. Risk register 2017 for action because its updated periodic lee puts pandemics at the top of the list of 94 different civil contingencies that the u. K. Faces which means that it is the most likely and the most serious threat or coding to revaluation of the different threats and hazards that the country faces. A great deal of planning brain time mostly for about 2008 until 2013 or thought it was then somewhat course decided by counterterrorism and then planning for the supply chain disaster wrecks it. However we still have those plans but really the problem now is not even do we have a plan but is the plan capable of being up to date it is it connected to the resources that will make it reality and is it something that we can adapt to the special circumstances as they come along but one thing i would like to emphasize is that weve had the scenario in full for this pandemic now for more than 10 years in fact is something that i teach once a year not because im particularly brilliant but because the data the information have been how they have for a very very long time we knew what was going to happen you know i you asked a question there im hoping you cannot answer yourself you said we knew we had planned for this but planned for a pandemic can those plans be activated do you think it looks like a plan has been activated. Yes and no one of the troubles was one of the problems was that there really was never refunded city in the system i was in one of the London Hospitals a couple of years ago and a sage and said to me we are running at 106 percent of capacity but it was on a normal tuesday now what they have to deal with is massive Surge Capacity or may they can create it but they havent got it that takes time and i fear the trouble with the whole response to the pandemic is too much improvised sation but it is necessary and its will be standard pull if you havent produced and had ready the full capacity that the plans required and i think thats where we are im sure the Pandemic Response will be picked apart by Emergency Management analysts for many years to come thank you for your time David Alexander a professor of risk and disaster reduction. Japans Prime Minister shinzo has declared a state of emergency after a surge of infections in major cities its said to last one month more than 100 people have died in there have been more than 4 and a half 1000 confirmed cases labral mcbride has been following that story he joins us by skype from seoul in south korea so rob just tell us what does this state of emergency mean in practical terms. Well it gives the governors of the city the prefetch is where the state of emergency is going to be introduced a range of different powers its coming into force in the capital tokyo also in osaka japan 2nd city and 5 other prefectures it basically allows the governors in those places a number of governors including the governor of tokyo have been asking shinzo up a full these powers to try to force people to stay indoors that allows them to request people to stay at home unless they have exceptional reasons for going out but it has to be pointed out that this is still very much based on all and treat cooperation from people its unclear whether the governor has the authorities have any powers can penalize people if they do go out so even though these measures are only just been announced and just being introduced there are already questions about whether they are going to go far enough there are also other powers and the governors will have such as press stopping public gatherings closing schools and they can also do other things if things get really bad if they need to take that action they are allowed to requisition buildings and lands for emergency hospitals even medicine and food that they can requisition theres a feeling they japan that theyd say aids has appointed the kind of large outbreak that has taken place in its neighbors china and specifically south korea whether that is by luck or because already in Japanese Society there is already a certain amount of social distancing such as not shaking hands or wearing a mask if you have a cold so people dont catch it in the subway kongo carrying there is a feeling that so far theyve avoided mastro prate but with these recent spikes in large numbers daily of new infections there is a feeling that unless they get ahead of this then it japan is in danger of having a real large outbreak that it will eventually be chasing thank you for that that is rob mcbride there find developments from song. For the 1st time since the pandemic began china has reported no new dish from covert 19 and in the past 24 hours only 32 cases have been confirmed all people who returned from overseas while what was once the epicenter will harm will soon begin lifting its lockdown entirely so it cant joins us now live from hong kong for more sara obviously this is really good news and im wondering what the pros this is for lifting these lockdowns of people going to be tracked how are they making sure theres not a 2nd wave. Were looking at the scenario when i put life the lockdown the full lockdown will be lifted across the city of woodhead of course this is a city of 11000000 people this is the epicenter of the crime the Virus Outbreak the lockdown has been partially lifted over the last week and a half or so where people have been allowed to return to will hand but they have been allowed to leave and the day that that lockdown was partially lifted we had 60000. 00 people into the city by train buses and cars but on april 8th the airport will reopen and the people will also be allowed to leave and theres a 1st time since january 23 that that lockdown will allow travel in and out of the city now as you mentioned this is the 1st day on tuesday that the chinese recorded no new coronavirus related to disturb if thats the case thats the 1st time Chinas Health commission has done this have no new deaths since i started releasing that publicly their daily figures as you mentioned as well the 32 new cases of the crown of ours in fiction reported on tuesday but of course this is all of those cases were imported cases are not local transmissions that china is a government controlled media hasnt reported this widely and the subject hasnt been trending on the social media platforms across china but china is maybe in particular the scene where news agency has released a shared the timeline of information that the government has reported and that dates back to about late december when it says there were hand center for Disease Control declared or detected the 1st cases of this pneumonia case of this money related illness of an unknown cause and we can confirm that china officially released a report of the 1st signs of corona virus back in december last year december 31st but as i mentioned on i put ice on wednesday will hand the people who have 11000000 people will be able to leave the city for the 1st time since january 23rd it is quite that our side thank you for that that sarah clarke from hong kong. But more ahead on the news all a clue to. Find out why protesters in ivory coast are angry about a facility under construction. And its the most deaths in a single day in france and things could get worse than. In sport german football champions banned music put social distancing into practice somewhat like license for. Iran is reporting 133 deaths on tuesday and a drop of new infections from the day before but a member of its Coronavirus Task force has been quoted as saying that the number of cases is more than 8 times higher than whats been reported iran is set to relax its long down measures from saturday and to bring in same bus ravi on scott from tehran saying if we had any reaction yet from the government. Well the reporting here is incredibly significant what were seeing is the state media news site interviewed mr home in syria hes an epidemiologist on president Hassan Rouhani is Anti Corona Task force speaking to the government he said that the actual number of infections is closer 2500000 far higher than official figures and he has said that the curve has not been flattened that the virus is continuing to spread and that normalizing control measures on Public Public movement too soon will inevitably make things worse however we heard from the Public Health Ministry Official the Health Minister himself this morning saying that the government is in lockstep that everyone is on the same page in terms of the current virus response in those days after on sunday president Hassan Rouhani said that normalization will begin as of april 11th things will begin to go back to normal in certain places and in certain provinces this week and the next week theyll continue to do the same however members of parliament at a session of Parliament Earlier today floated of bill to try to lock down cities to try to keep control measures in place that was voted down so there seems to be a political will to move forward to address the health of the countrys economy while trying to maintain some sort of control on the Public Health crises that were seeing but we have to go back to what mr. Epidemiologist said in this interview he said that if the virus continues unchecked if control measures are loosened on the public then there is a worst Case Scenario to look at 60 percent of the country could be infected there could be as many as 400000 people that end up dying of covert 19 in iraq thank you for that. Well other than the. Cofounder of center for applied research in partnership with the aryans or carper he is an iran policy consultant and joins us on skype from thus hold off thank you for your time so this is quite a big claim is it not from a member of irans own Coronavirus Taskforce that the number of cases is is much much higher than whats being reported what do you make of it i think we have the same situation weve seen other countries where you in fact have government officials or institutions that are advising the government on the Current Situation. Times. Or actually advising against some measures the government itself would like to adopt and i think the major concern in iran right now is that the situation which never was an actual lockdown could be lose and too early and particularly after the holidays that were nationwide in iran there is the risk of the curve going up again and this is a think the reason why there are warnings of the type that we have just heard from your response but this is a major difference i mean this is a daily ologists is saying that hof a 1000000 people could be affected by chrono virus the official toll is 60000 and that is a big discrepancy. Yes there are different are there have been different scenarios that have been presented by the University Institutions to the government and it is indeed unclear. Disposal of the inspections is unclear because you its difficult to really say how many people have been tested and how many cases that we are hearing about how been dying because of the virus and others may have been infected but nobody took notice of it and i think it is important to mention that the iranian Health Ministry only amounts of those people who have been running through a c. T. Scan of the patients or the dead bodies lungs only that is for them has been a clear case of corona so there might be more infections but its a bit unclear at this point and this is something that we are seeing in other countries as well so we shouldnt be surprised that iran is undergoing that to i guess my question is do you believe the official numbers because its one thing to say oh the number is only 60000 because of the way that we test or the amount of tests that weve been able to rollout thats one thing its quite another thing to say actually perhaps the official numbers are not being reported. Well this is really difficult to say on the one hand it made big perfect sense that the government tries to keep these numbers as low as possible in order to not allow the population or the world or anyone too stupid to see the real scope there are major differences in how you assess someone to be really be a coronal infected person we have to assume that the numbers are higher in iran because they are assumed to be higher literally everywhere but its its a difficult position for me to say to what extent this problem is bigger in iran than it is somewhere else we know that this government does not want to adopt a lockdown because it fears that of the economic consequences of it iran cannot afford to put a city like tehran on the current team because people have to be basically taking care of in their homes thats very difficult to actually implement so i think this is the reason why there might be very stark differences between official numbers and some that are coming from other institutions even though there are elements affiliated like the one that we just heard you mentioned the economy there that brings me to my next question what impact do you believe the u. S. Sanctions are having on the iranian governments ability to both combat the pen demick and also what impact is it having on its Decision Making process in terms of deciding to open up the economy. I think we have to take a couple of things into account here so lets 1st speak about that a cumulative effect of sanctions sanctions have been in place for decades so for decades iran has as its difficult has had its difficulties in importing. Different technical equipment medical products nets in its head trucks so its not just about the recent sanctions imposed by u. S. President trump but by the history of sanctions this has made life very difficult for the Iranian Health sector albeit there has been some National Production the 2nd point id also like to to make is that medical products as such might not be sanctioned by the u. S. Sanctions regime but the transfer of or the shipment of medical products is the insurance for certain for the shipment ascension to the bank a transaction that needs to take place is ancient because banks are sanctioned Insurance Companies and shipping lines are sanctions so this is the immediate effect it has on the Current Situation you run and there is no doubt that beyond the homie problems that iran has the sanctions regime is making things much more difficult actually necessary thank you for your time really good to get your analysis that tabata by iran policy consultant my pleasure protest is in ivory coasts commercial capital have torn down a corridor Virus Testing facility that was under construction angry residents in a district of abidjan said they were afraid it would spread the virus through their district Allies Police fired tear gas to break up the demonstration the city has been under lockdown since sake of emergency was declared on march the 20. Nicholas hark is monitoring developments from dakar in senegal and joins us now live what more do we know about these riots. Well these riots took place in a suburb called hugo its a popular neighborhood where theres lots of markets and it seems that the population there dont trust the governments that the Health Center in their neighborhood would protect them in fact they believe that that would in fact and and that would spread the virus even more and this comes at a time as the number of cases in ivory coast is spiraling theres over 300. 00 cases that we know of including. The representative in the defense minister and you could go how many yoko so but this crisis is revealing is the level of distrust there is between the population and their Health Service if it comes on the heels of a message on social media spread by the famous ivorian Football Player d. J. Who condemned these 2 french scientists that had suggested that a vaccine on coronavirus would be tested on africans and that had led to a lot of governments including the government in ivory coast to make a public announcement reassuring the population that there would be no testing made on the population here in Subsaharan Africa and in french speaking out against him because countries in europe the now the the west effected a lot of what we talk about when we talk about chronic virus as it may or spain or the u. K. But how well prepared. And also Central African countries however pat to cope with the pandemic. Well there are already countries that are coping with war she meant tarion crisis large displacement of people and have their Health System already overwhelmed and im thinking about the countries in the sahil here ive found so or cameroon where there is a separatist movement from the anglo foreign region and so there were serious were seeing the number of cases in section spiralling out of control again these are the numbers that we know of but Health Authorities fear that there are a lot more infected in those areas so that was a countries that are really struggling to deal with the outbreak these are countries that are overwhelmed already are ready with existing crisis and then there are other countries like rwanda or senegal here that have quickly adopted. You know a quick lockdown of the country shutting out borders and mass testing of their population in here in senegal senegal as the largest number of recovery in africa the 7th largest number of code in 1000 recoveries in the world further ahead than lots of developed countries so that shows that its at the heart of this crisis the way that governments are able to or the way that population are able to deal or trust their government are the ones that are the countries that are able to deal with this crisis the best came back to you thank you for that. The french Health Minister says the country has not yet seen the pain of its close at 19 outbreak found recorded its highest number of virus related deaths and a single day on monday taking the toll to nearly 9000 and tossed about like joins me now on skype live from on one end to tell a small. Yes well have to save the last few days some people in france and start to think that perhaps there was a light at the end of the tunnel because the number of coronavirus case is. Recorded here in france it actually dropped each day in the last 24 hours that trend has completely reversed and weve now seen in fact the highest toll in since this Health Crisis began with 833 deaths now out of those deaths more than 600 were people who died in hospital after being hospitalized in intensive care the others died in Nursing Homes and because these and the one of the reasons these numbers are particularly high because at the beginning of the crisis the french government did not count the number of deaths in Nursing Homes they didnt have the ability to record those numbers at that stage they are now including deaths in homes in the cases and deaths each day and that is why were seeing such a high i think it will be an opportunity for the french government to again say to the french population look this is why we are asking you to stay indoors and this is why you must stay indoors because it has to be said the School Holidays of begun here in france the weather has become better and warmer and some people have been tempted to perhaps linger outside a bit longer or even a travel around the country for a holiday the government says this is really not permitted you have to stay indoors because even though we might have days when these coronavirus cases drop were still right in the middle of nearing a peak and we will see cases continue to go up and in fact in paris we now have the mayor of paris has put in a very strict new measure in the french capital and that is that people cant go out and exercise or go for a run between 10 oclock in the morning french time and 7 oclock in the evening of that is to minimize peoples temptation if you like to be out and about in the middle of the day. 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Well time now for the weather here is jenny with the latest on Tropical Cyclone harold yeah this is a very powerful cycle and this will not can we start washing in federal the satellite because then you can see exactly where it is now this is it of course is way out here just off the east of australia it has been really pummeling the on in china from washing the last few days and this is the current state you can see now the islands begin to appear the system is moving away its also beginning to weaken however it is still a very powerful psycho now this was taken on assignment province this is on the islands to the north of the capital port via and if you see the damage the destruction and also some flooding but that is always seen so far meanwhile ahead of it in port here on the capital city they happen of course preparing for the arrival of the storm now it is continuing to move away but the winds are still very strong weve got winds sustained at about 200 kilometers an hour gusting a stronger than that the good news is it is actually moving a lot quicker than it was so its moving away to the east southeast just over 25 kilometers an hour so the reason that is good of course is because the quicker it moves the less time has to do the damage with these destructive winds and also to bring the heavy amounts of rain but this is the way its going to moving over the next few days you can see it pulling away it is on its way to fiji it will be having an impact already its not expected to make landfall in fiji but of course the winds will extend that far and the rain will also be torrential up of the day it really will have kid well out of the picture meanwhile back into Australia New Zealand we got a relatively quiet picture sudden across the that weve got some cloud across areas in the south rain across the coast up there in Western Australia and are all the more rain across the Northern Territory as we go through day kim thanks for that jenny. Still to come here on aljazeera. I am seeing people die every. Night we dont have to be at. New york city to speak out the stress. Well there day 5 against the pandemic. A u. Turn from the Indian Government after the us president calls for more exports of a drug being tested because at 19. And its core liverpool have made a drastic reverse decision it up my son and i transition. 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Go to aljazeera reminder of our top stories this hour british Prime Minister virus johnson is in intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms wasnt he was moved as a precaution in case a ventilator was needed foreign secretary to. The government. Japans Prime Minister shinzo alba has declared a state of emergency after a surge of infections in major cities its set to last one month. And in positive news for the 1st time china has reported no new deaths from profit 19 in the past 24 hours i mean 32 new cases have been confirmed all from people who returned from overseas. The number of corona virus linked deaths in the u. S. Has now surpassed 10000. New york say the race of people being treated in hospital has been dropping despite that the Health System remains of a well a scamper all of us under reports. If. The stress is evident to working on the front line of the corona Virus Outbreak in america on monday nurses outside a hospital in new york protesting the lack of face masks and other personal protective equipment available to them new yorks Health Care System is cracking under heavy strain dystopia apocalyptic ive seen people die every day. Eating rice and we dont have the space that we need we dont have the staff down there refrigerated trucks outside of my hospital. New yorks governor announced nearly 600 new deaths in the past 24 hours but said this socalled curve a new cases and hospitalizations seems to maybe be lessening with still no vaccine new York Hospitals have reverted to using an anti malaria drug. As part of a treatment and Prevention Program for 4000 coronavirus patients despite there being no widespread Scientific Evidence it helps battle the virus i think its still too early to tell. I think. We were still looking at the data but right now were going to try just about anything to say patients other forms of help arriving military doctors treat coronavirus patients new york citys Largest Convention center expand transformed into a 2500 bed militarize hospital originally the javits Convention Center here behind me was supposed to be open only for non coronavirus patients but is a crisis deepened in new York City Health officials said they needed more help and now this Convention Center is open exclusively only to help those that are infected with coppa 19. But a curve might be flattening there is no sign this will be over anytime soon on monday the governor extended this state wide shut down until at least in debate gabriels andro how does either your. India is to partially lifted a ban on exports of an anti malaria drug thats being tested as a possible treatment for covered 9000. 00 patients thats off to the u. S. President said india could face consequences unless it starts releasing its supply of hydroxy chloroquine donald trump has praised the drug as a game changer that scientists of want theres not enough evidence that it can be used to treat coronavirus theres a front to miss in new delhi and has more on the Indian Governments decision. They reached this decision after the 1st banning you know adding hydroxy quinn to its list of bad exports on march 25th and then reconfirming that bad on on april the 4th just a few days ago we had the government the ministry of external affairs say just a few hours ago that after assessing and confirming the vale ability of a number of pharmaceuticals for the indian market that they have decided to. Release exports that they are going to continue supplying hydroxy clark when they said to neighboring countries which rely on india for supply and also to some countries that have been badly affected by coronavirus no mention of the United States in their statement of course this follows that phone call from President Trump to Prime Minister mori on sunday asking him to make an exception for the United States and that and saying that india might face retaliatory measures if it doesnt do so india is the worlds one of the worlds biggest suppliers of not just generic generic drugs but it has some of the biggest supplies of the finnish hydroxy talk when the anti malaria drug malaria is a big problem in india and Indias Health care workers have also been a lot of them asymptomatic treating coronavirus patients except her i have been advised to have been advised to use it dozens of doctors in pakistan have been arrested while protesting against the lack of Safety Equipment police in the city of quarter detained at least 50 medical staff the demonstrators say many of them are being infected while treating patients because of severe shortages in personal protective equipment pakistan recorded its largest single day spike in covert 19 cases on monday putting its total net 4000. The u. S. Supreme court has blocked an attempt to delay voting in tuesdays president ial primary in the state of wisconsin and it raises the question as to whether its safe to go to the polls during the pentameter more than a 1000000 people requested absentee ballots but only half of them had arrived a day before the vote chad hedrick with this report. Wisconsin is doing what no Health Authority is advising and what critics call undemocratic is the coronavirus pin demick has 3 in 4 americans are in some kind of lock down the dairy state home to milk bearing counts cheese and now an out of control viral outbreak is Going Forward with its tuesday election some mayors say wisconsin is asking people to choose between their health and their right to vote the legitimacy of elections or are pretty sacred saying in a democracy and im worried that after the fact. Being 2020 people will say yeah you know what there are a lot of people that wanted to vote and didnt feel like they could safely do it and so they chose not to and this is not an accurate reflection of the will the people. It is to put it mildly a bold move 15 other states who postponed their primaries or moved to vote entirely by mail more than 100 wisconsin cities and towns lacked the poll workers to open a single voting booth so the governor is called in the Army National guard to do their jobs. For president ial candidates this is a primary so most democratic voters will choose between joe biden in burning sanders for local officials its a general election and democrats say the Republican Controlled Legislature opted to go forward for a cynical reason they believe that fear of the virus will drive down turnout in urban democratic areas but less so in rural areas dominated by republicans our can even Bernie Sanders who won here in 2016 but is behind in recent polls calling for a delay you dont want people to have to risk a larger percentage to cast the vote with no delay many wisconsinites are left with a choice one is to vote by mail but there are drawbacks there will inevitably be some significant shareholders who are unable to participate in the election because they have difficulty getting the ballot or returning it on time because they have difficulty getting the signature of a witness on the ballot on the look which is required of most cards and or because they have difficulty getting an id that is required to request the absentee ballot in the 1st place otherwise voters can risk getting the virus by going in person or simply not vote at all john hendren aljazeera chicago. The us military is sending more than a 1000 of its doctors nurses and medical staff to new york to help other than hospitals the citys mayor is calling for a National Mobilization of medical personnel this christmas then he reports thousands of for tithed optus as well as medical students a voluntary to help. Instead of taking a break before his graduation medical student randi because cells is looking to get straight to work the soon to be urologist and other med students have heeded his universitys call for help and will be assisting doctors on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic well it goes their patient charts and help write notes and and call and help make appointments and just help ease the burden off of the doctors on the front lines helping people during scary times and helping them get better is why i chose to be a doctor not only has new yorks governor signed an executive order to let medical students graduate early hes enlisting the help of retirees as well God Bless America people have volunteered from out of state to come in to new york state. I thank them i think their patriotism i think their dedication and passion to their mission of Public Health but as covert cases continue to rise the city estimates 45000 more doctors and nurses will be needed in coming weeks we really have to state our our Health Workers and to be america on not a sprint and we have to respect them as best week and provide them with breaks where they can really get away in the streets of new york have been unusually quiet these days as all but essential workers have been asked to stay home but every evening at 7 all across the city new yorkers listen have been coming to their doors and windows and cheering for doctors nurses and all 1st responders. Everyone knows well streets here are relatively empty Emergency Rooms are full theyre working so hard ive never seen the e. R. And im familiar with a hospital as crowded as that was dr sonny moon a licensed Palliative Care specialist had left medicine but is now volunteering at the hospital where she used to work helping sick or in Team Patients communicate with loved ones a lot he. Has there on isolation so for me that was one of the other reasons i wanted to help because i felt like i make a difference in a horrible situation. That dedication and Community Spirit finally giving new yorkers something to cheer about christensen aljazeera new york and other news the strain is highest court has overturned a senior catholic cardinals conviction for child sex abuse from a vatican treasurer george pell was jailed last year for abusing 2 choir boys many of these victims say they are devastated at the decision to release them to click i reports from city. After one year behind Cardinal George pell leaves big tory is ball in prison on to touch security bought a free man this trial is highest Court Ordered his release after overturning his convictions for abusing 2 quiet boys in the late ninetys his lengthy criminal case has been one of the moist high profile in australias history and deeply divided the public polls support his side justice has finally been served but many Abuse Victims say they feel devastated by the room. And any herbs are. On. The high court agreed with lawyers saying the jury and victorias court of appeal should have entertained doubt as to his guilt the 7 justices were unanimous in their rulings saying not enough white was given to the evidence of alibi witnesses that they wouldnt have been enough time for george pell to sexually abuse the 2 boys in the short time frame the prosecution said it took place george pell released a statement saying i do not want my acquittal to add to the hurt and bitterness so many feel however much trial was not iraq on the Catholic Church has consistently maintained his innocence has released now clears the way for unpublished findings from his trial as Royal Commission into institutional child sex abuse to be made public pell gave evidence to the commission that his findings concerning peleg to dyers and that now this is a process is right schools his findings will be released. In the pale what remains a cardinal and his acquittal has vindicated the popes decision not to strip him of his clothes. Cottles but off to so Much Negative publicity many of questioning whether he can continue to hold that position or any other within the vatican the response of the Catholic Church to child sexual abuse as a rule does vary and neither study should best in a poorly you know at worst and its time really for the Catholic Church to not just use the trading words betray actually show its changed the High Court Ruling marks the end of a 5 year legal saga but the controversy is likely to continue for some time. Aljazeera. Still ahead here on aljazeera italian football is locked in a pay dispute prompted by the covert 900. 00 pandemic details and found in just a month. The war. Time now for sports here found out thank you very much a camel while the ultimate fighting championship are determined to not let the coronavirus stop them from putting on shows and on monday the promotions a president to field a bold plan to stage events on a private island why it says that hes days away from securing one speaking. Sports and he also revealed that the company will be making a comeback on april 18th having postponed a 3 event so far because of the Global Pandemic theyll be staging u. F. C. 214. 00 a night without any fans from an undisclosed location so i lock this venue up for 2 months im just thank you for 2 months im setting up shop here were going to be pumping out flights every week wow i am also on my day or 2 away from securing a private island im an island and im secured were getting the infrastructure for that now so im going to start doing the International Flights to actual flyers because i wont be able to get National Fighters and them into the u. S. So im a private island im just offline a ball in the private island International Flights from there but we spoke to mixed martial arts attorney mr ryan mccann who explained why dana white is so keen to get the u. S. See it back in action as soon as possible. If were being honest i think number one theres a lot of money at play i think that is probably 1st and foremost for a couple reasons right 1st of all the for the 1st money component i guess i would be talking about is the money that the u. F. C. Still owes on their sale from a few years ago that was a 4000000000. 00 sale there are people that still need to recoup some of that money they can only keep their fights off of t. V. For so long so i think there is an element of that at play if and when they do get back on television especially if theyre looking at you getting back on t. V. Later this april for u. F. C. 249. 00 theyre going to be the only show d in town right like its not going to be baseball theres not going to be n. F. L. Theres not going to be n. B. A. Theres not going to be entering any International Sports it will be the u. F. C. So if they can get back. On television on pay per view it would be a huge coup for the u. F. C. And i guess the last thing would be at least from what were hearing from dana white in terms of why are they so i guess hell bent on making this fight card happen it is that old sort of i dont know if its an american credo but its certainly a credo of of american entertainment and spore is is the show must go on and i think that dana white and the u. F. C. Is kind of using that credo to motivate themselves to tell themselves that it needs to happen that we need to move on we need to have these these fight cards whether right or wrong theyre her whether theyre actually acknowledging you know Public Health and Safety Experts italian Football Players union has rejected the proposal by syria that they would do salaries by said if the season does not rescind it was agreed to on by 19 of the 20 clubs that would the event is not included because they already have a deal with that play as of this union dismissed it claiming that that the league at once all need to pay is to pay for the damage done by kalina 5. 00 its. European champions liverpool have reversed their decision to place a summit nonplaying staff on temporary leave their the 7th richest club in the world but originally followed to other premier league teams like tottenham and applying a to the u. K. s job protection scheme funded by taxpayers sparked a backlash from former players and fans and now liverpool have apologized saying they made an error of judgement. So the protocol is a damaged straight out you know from. The very end. Of our own specific. You know our own cliques links etc ive not been saying like this since that. Scenario you know the way that people look at they said the same as people so happy to shake them up in a. Race which shouldnt be right because we should be only celebrating as. The were going to lead to the 1st time if theres a game isnt you know people saying well but at any cost you know we this is something about all of our lives here tottenham strike a hero ming son is using the break in english football to complete his military service about common south korea spurs have given the 28 year old permission to travel on the current exemption from the mandatory 21 Month Service by helping south korea win the asian games in 2018 but he still has to complete a month champions by munich and other german clubs that have trained for the 1st time since the burns league i was suspended no fans that were allowed and there was social distancing train by in session on monday with this training in small groups to reduce the risk of infections. With Global Transport restrictions the World Antidoping Agency is finding it hard to carry out testing and one british m. P. And is worried some athletes will use the opportunity to cheat rice will go toe mobiles with it told the Times Newspaper it is such a they and the obvious advantage to those who see sport just as a way of winning at all costs and making money this is a gift its really out you can get huge gains in a 2 to 3 month period where you know you will not be tested the british open has been cancelled out to us a goal football says are doing everything they can to salvage their major championships the masters was supposed to be this week but thats now being a shifted to november after the ryder cup but before that the p. G. A. Championship will be in august followed by the us open in september. Thats it for me thank you thats ana thats it for me 1st news hour 7 sound on they don rather will be back in just about every. April on aljazeera. 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Will count its population and a once in a decade census with coronavirus concerns will it get the full picture april aljazeera eyes or lead test streets and trace frank assessments why its really struggling to cope with the number coronavirus posts failure to take really aggressive action if the behavior for informed opinions is going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where theres one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the days global headlines india doesnt up to near the spread of the one of ours in the inside story on aljazeera talk to aljazeera we want your full swirl when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to. After the war saying youll youll be able to go build United States of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on 00. British Prime Minister bars johnson remains in intensive care after his coronavirus symptoms worsen. 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