A drive to test everyone in brooklyn and more people confirmed dead following the attacks on a Maternity Hospital and fuel in afghanistan. The European Union is urging Member States to start reopening their borders to help revive the continents summer tourist season and the battered economy the european Summer Holiday season is worth 160000000000. 00 with tourism providing 15000000 jobs in the e. U. Says the industry is at risk of collapse unless urgent measures are taken the reports from paris. A glimpse of war going on a holiday in some parts of europe will look like this summer barriers separating sun loungers on the greek island of santorini not the beach experience that most holiday makers a used to but one that complies with new social distancing rules we hope these barriers wont be the future for beaches we dont want this but if this is necessary and if People Safety depends on this sort of device then so be it we just want to work we want to get going in march borders in the European Union were shot and nearly all travel stopped because the coronavirus pandemic a huge blow to the Tourism Industry one of the blocks main economic sectors as some countries begin to ease their lock downs the European Commission has presented a rescue plan for the Tourism Industry its recommending foul choose instead of refunds for Council Travel sanitary measures for hospitality and transport services and the reopening of some borders of course this is not going to be a normal summer not for any of us. But when we all Work Together and we all do our part in the ways the commission is setting out today then we dont have to face a summer shock at home or a completely lost summer for the european tourists industry some countries say that they are already considering lifting some travel restrictions germany says that it wants to reopen its border with fraud switzerland and austria and britain and france say that they wont impose quarantine for now on people traveling between the 2 countries paris is one of the worlds most visited cities they look down has been eased but more humans Museums Hotels and restaurants remain closed the french government has advised people to holiday in france this year after 2 months a home some people cant wait to travel. Abroad and friends will be a valid i have a holiday home in spain and want to go but for now there are restrictions but i want to go we cant stop living more than 6000000. 00 tourism jobs in need you could be lost unless the industry is revived the European Commission says the challenge is to encourage the sectors recovery but prevent a resurgence of corona virus cases or risk is spreading even further across the bloke who talks about how just 0 powers the u. K. Economy shrank by 2 percent in the 1st 3 months of the year and there were fears it could get much much worse on wednesday some versions of return to their work place for the 1st time in 7 weeks but it wasnt a uniform move across the United Kingdom leaders in scotland wales and Northern Ireland say its still too early to relax the restrictions there john a whole reports. Much has been made of britain going back to work and not much came of it its only really england that he did Boris Johnsons call for those who cant do their jobs from home to return the devolved ministrations of scotland wales and Northern Ireland feel its too soon too risky and on londons still quiet streets some workers agreed. With so you dont know but there are. People to be going to work i dont think is the right time. For a very unsafe. Construction sites and factories are some of the places that saw more work taking place though many had been allowed to operate throughout the lock down among the big challenges they and other businesses will face is social distancing and transport. The government urged people to walk drive or cycle if possible. And if they have to use public transport to wear face coverings and stand back to back but it may be a while yet before tubes and trains experience a real rush hour you can still social distance on the tube the victoria line is getting a bit more difficult so you have to switch between carriages if you will. Is a consultant advising companies how to prepare for the return of busy times at least 60 percent of the spaces the work settings in offices cannot be used to social distancing so that means that a maximum of 40 percent can be brought back so we expect the numbers to be to be. Even below 40 percent which means that. More than 8000000 people still will have to work from home when social distancing measures are in place with damage mounting the need to restart the economy becomes more urgent every day official figures now point to 2 percent drop in. G. D. P. In the 1st quarter would be painful enough in normal times but the bank of england is pointing to much worse to come a possible staggering further 25 percent drop in g. D. P. In the 2nd quarter of 2020. Thats the biggest economic decline in 300 years with no guarantee of a swift recovery so while you can now sunbathed to play golf visit a Garden Center and in some cases return to work what you cant easily do is relax and look forward to normal life after covert 19 because the effects will be felt for years to come jonah how aljazeera london. Lets go to the us now where the president has responded to comments 5 doctor answered and found that the rector of the National Institute of allergy and Infectious Diseases concerning the risks involved in real reopening the call to suit i canna is in washington d. C. And the city joins us live like donald trump says hes actually surprised by those comments. Made what else did he say. Well it is surprising that hes surprised given that dr fouty has been making these comments for a period of time now he was speaking before a Senate House Committee in the course of the past 24 hours at which he warned against any predator opening up and saying that the economic consequences of that could be devastating as well as of course the consequences to the individual health but President Trump speaking at a meeting with governors in the course of the day says he was surprised he says he doesnt agree with dr fogey particularly in relation to schools now this is a new thing from President Trump dr fox she pointed out in his evidence yesterday that children are now perhaps more at risk than was thought before given the fact of some mutations being discovered among children in new york city from the coronavirus but President Trump is now saying that you cannot have a state open unless the schools are open hes now urging states not only to open up economically but to open up the schools as well dr vouching making very clear that this would be a very dangerous move indeed at this particular point in time but once again you have got to a doctor felt she basing his premises on science donald trump basing his premises on what he would describe as a gut feeling incidentally as well President Trump block doctor from speaking to the House Committee but did allow him to go ahead and speak to the Senate Committee dr fired she came under attack from one of the republican senators who said accused him basically of directing the government and not having the authority to do it dr back against these comments saying simply that he was there to observe the Health Protocols and to advise on the Health Protocols but clearly there is a division beginning to occur or too large in between the white house between certain republicans and the man whos been the face of the most trusted face of information about the coronavirus within the United States can now with the latest from washington d. C. Thank you. A lockdown has been imposed on a 2nd city in northeast china after another coded 1000 cluster was discovered the new cases in jail are raising fears of a possible 2nd wave of infections something the authorities are downplaying katrina you has more now from beijing while the rest of china returns to Something Like normality a lockdown has been imposed on the city of g. Lane for 25000000 people have been told to stay home and public transport is at a standstill neighboring should learn city was locked down on monday more than 20 infections have been identified in dillon province since the beginning of the month but experts say it isnt a 2nd wave of disease. With never new cases emerging in the Monetary System would detect and track the cases will curb the spread of the virus in no time in china is at the center of the outbreak the discovery of 6 new transmissions has spurred plans to test the entire city of 11000000 people district authorities have been told they have 10 days to complete testing the details are still being discussed testing in some areas began this week. Analysts say the plan could cost up to 254000000. 00 and requires the rapid expansion of Testing Facilities to hans Testing Capacity reached 46000. 00 people today last month the people who live there say theyre not surprised a new cost is been discovered so we know that a 2nd wave is coming anyway anderson no way we can you know prevent. The new infections. From that song at 00 yes you see what i mean its no 00 and if we are cheated shooting into a new name the Chinese Government has reported about 83000 cases nationally with more than 2600. 00 deaths since the virus broke out in december with just a week to go until Chinas National Peoples Congress the biggest political gathering of the year the government here is on high alert the communist party wants to project an image of strength and victory over the virus and these 2 new classes threaten to compromise just that katrina aljazeera they took. So to come in this half hour heavy rain low cost the plagues and the coronavirus leave pakistans wheat farmers battling to make a living. And the zing out of the menu for now we look at some of the creator aggressive that restaurants are using the keep themselves afloat. Hello its been very cold in the mornings in perth is a battery very cold in the mornings in adelaide in melbourne a city that the whole of this part of australia is and a nice weather cold weather and as the High Pressure builds and you get open skies for a long night it just gets colder and colder having used the word frost for im sure somebody will by day 1615 degrees thats typical the been shown on the coast of New South Wales and running it was queens and they are mostly coastal showers theyre there to annoy rather than too much for right person 27. 00 by day dropping to 24. 00 so the nights are still cold and the size those 2 things were pretty much bone dry and very quiet at the moment the opposite is true of course in late spring in china in particular although for japan you still got the dry weather the rains going offshore the next massive rains developing the spring rains the very obvious whereas orange in the middle of the heaviest stuff is drifting slowly south whose this is between thursday and friday and extending out through shanghai towards the Korean Peninsula where does look particularly when it will get to hong kong its a possibility but hong kong forecast is mostly he one till monday when you get isolated chance 33 is hot hong kong and humid. 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Back heres a reminder of the top stories on aljazeera the European Union is urging Member States to start reopening their borders to help revive the continents summer tourist season and battered economy in france austria and switzerland say theyll start relaxing their Coronavirus Closures as early as this weekend thousands of people in england have gone back to work for the 1st time in 7 weeks but leaders in scotland wales and Northern Ireland say its too early to relax restrictions and us President Donald Trump has expressed surprise at a warning from one of the countrys leading Infectious Disease experts and so he found she said there are dangers in reopening the economy too soon from the comments and acceptable. In other news the fragile Peace Process in afghanistan appears to be unraveling after tuesdays attacks on a Maternity Hospital and funeral which killed 56 people president ashraf ghani immediately ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban and other on the groups but the taliban denies responsibility for either attack blaming them both all i saw and says its ready to fight back alexey obrien reports. In the Eastern Province of manga survivors of a suspected suicide bombing at a funeral struggled to contain a grief. And anger. My brother is my i was standing next to me when i heard the bomb blast i saw several dead bodies on the ground and i was trying to call my brother but his phone was off after a few minutes of searching i found my brother among the dead. This attack. And another at a Maternity Hospital in the capital come. Later afghanistans president going on the offensive all but. Despite our repeated call and from the International Community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide security for Public Places and the 4th attacks and fruits from the taliban and other terrorist groups ordering Afghan Security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemy. The taliban denies involvement in tuesdays attacks its fighters have largely refrained from targeting city since february when leaders signed a deal with the United States for the withdrawal of american troops and to pave the way for talks with government leaders in kabul the taliban now accusing the government of creating obstacles to peace today programme marks a milestone towards this integration of this agreement and less trust measures are taken immediately by all sides and specifically by the taliban. Under the agreement the taliban was to prevent afghanistan from being used as a launching pad for attacks by other groups such as i saw and its affiliates well as any state both suffered some better. Than the americans and. The color of the attacks against. Pressure on Islamic State in chorus and problems i still says its fighters were behind for bomb blasts in kabul on monday which wounded 4 people though it was the un has expressed shock and revulsion at tuesdays Maternity Hospital attack which killed you born babies mothers and nurses. U. S. Secretary of state is urging the Afghan Government and the taliban to cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice and aljazeera. The un food and Agriculture Organization says pakistan could see its lowest in 5 years excessive rain and a locust plague have exacerbated shortages caused by corruption and the coronavirus pandemic like a stone is the worlds 8th largest wheat producer struggling far more per say they cant find alternative jobs because of restrictions aimed at curbing. Some of hi there has more now from chile village outside the capital islamabad he says farmers are anxious they wont meet the countrys requirements. It did however its time he gets done and the farmers that brady already. But. More rain than usual should be nor did. I get on the reduction Brendan Green farraday to. Hoarding it and the farmers depend on diet wheat for their day pretty good going to the age the largest producer no we didnt know were producing anything between 20 to 25000000 tonnes of wheat and them only 10 percent is grown in grain fed such as the and these farmers of course really nobody depending on their wheat crop and they have to do other jobs. And because the factory than other dogs are not available because of the pandemic these people are now praying that they will have an adequate crop what is so whole lot of people just. Picked at the crop and it will not be enough for most farmers to last the year many Small Farmers will now be forced by the wheat from the market and of food and Agriculture Organization it already warning that because of unpredictable budgets on may see it. In 5 years and died of course really mean more problems for the fall farmers who are dependent on dates so food and Agriculture Organization is also. Warning that the local along there now creeping through the south because of the extra red red there have been a break to breed in large numbers and budget on future krug may be compromised because of that trade there is a question now age really bug its gone be a bridge or meet its own requirements dacia returning to the coronavirus pandemic and the un is forecasting a 3 percent Economic Contraction worldwide 34000000. 00 people are expected to 4 below the extreme poverty line of d 1. 9 dollars a day 56 percent of them in africa Elliot Harris says the United Nations assistant secretary general for Economic Development and he joins us live now via skype from new york sir thank you so much for joining us here on 1st of all give us an outline of what you think the long term impact of the corona virus is going to be and also especially who you think will suffer most from it. Thank you very much for having me the coronavirus is going to intrigue to severe change in the way the economies of the world are structured we find that there has been a a loss of demand that has been without precedent and that is going to lead in the absence of corrective measures to a severe loss of income a limp point and as we mentioned earlier we already see the shutdown in so many economies causing people to lose income to lose jobs and unemployment is likely to hit historic highs Going Forward now an additional fact to consider here is that the impact of this crisis is not equal d over all d countries or all groups some are suffering even more than others are and those who are nonsale rate wage workers who work in activities that require close d proximity to people for example are servers and restaurants they will suffer much deeper losses and find it much harder to do for a few after the couple has started and those who are salaried workers who have the ability to work from home and so these are some of the issues that we think are going to be particularly important Going Forward another change that is happening is that because weve had so many of us working from home and finding ways of working around the economic restrictions in the shutdowns we may very well find that the structure of legal market is changing and that more effort is made to automate some of the existing jobs and we may find that that puts further pressure on employee Going Forward and so are you saying that that will impact low skilled workers for example in that in turn will impact some countries more than others so basically a lot of the social inequality that weve seen in the impact of the coronavirus within countries will also be felt between various countries especially the developed and developing world is very very well be the case especially if countries that have a very tight fiscal position are not in a position that through lack of resource. To d respond with fiscal stimulus measures that could limit depth of the impact of the crisis in this immediate term and that is one of the big concerns that we have that many of the developing countries already in somewhat constrained fiscal circumstances may not be able to mobilize you know free sources without additional help from the International Community and may therefore find themselves exposed to much deeper downturn otherwise what happens when you mentioned there the start of the interview the corrective measures that this was going to happen unless corrective measures were put in place what kind of corrective measures do you think would work. Well there are examples of this already in the fiscal stimulus packages that many countries around the world including in the developing countries have put in place some of the measures are aimed at trying to preserve businesses to prevent them from going bankrupt and they include for example tax reliefs or the ability to holidays from paying Social Security front of you sions or other sorts of taxes we find in some cases the governments of taken over the payment of part of the wages so as to prevent companies from going up and at the same time to maintain some so that segment of the income levels of the affected workers many of the stimulus packages are also taking social Protection MeasuresUnemployment Insurance or stepping up with Health Insurance agents so that the affected workers can maintain as i say some level of consumption much less than they normally would have but it does replace some of the income that has been lost and of course on the monetary side weve seen many Central Banks around the world taking aggressive steps to prop up a liquidity our domestic Financial Markets and some of them so far as to put in place loan programs that can guarantee if you will the loans are affected at the prices for the immediate period so that they can avoid them sinking the debt now again all of these measures are not quite enough to maintain Economic Activity the previous level and a lot will depend on how quickly the economies of the world can start to recover can start to reopen after having been shut down but we do think that these critical these critical stimulus measures are really essential to preserve some of the substance of the economy so that we have sort of a week when the economys going to come back up at the current a virus has obviously been a Global Pandemic theres a lot of talk about dealing with the health side in a global way in a concerted International Way how important is it the thing to do the same with the economic recovery afterwards or now as well. I think that is the scenic why not we have 208 coordinated International Response to this not only to support those countries that have less Resources Available to do the Emergency Response measures but also because by engaging collectively in propping up the economies and then reigniting the money we help all countries if you participate fully in the recovery it will be unfortunate in the extreme if some of the wealthy countries were to start a recovery and find then that the less developed countries are unable to participate fully in it because they have lost out so much of the substance of their economies for lack of resources to. Eliot harris United Nations assistant secretary general for Economic Development sir thank you very much for your time thank you thank you. Now a new ford a lockdown has come into force in lebanon because of a resurgence in corona virus infections there in recent days the scribed as a total lockdown it started at 7 pm local time but it excludes the Health Agriculture food and Manufacturing Industries the crisis said country had been slowly starting to emerge from several weeks of restrictions that aggravated its economic crisis. Restaurants in many countries are struggling to survive as nation wide lockdown steak eating out off the menu in the u. S. Its estimated 200000 restaurants will not open their doors again thats forcing many owners to get creative so their customers can dine in at home that explain reports from washington d. C. This is where mike ellis is at his best this is the only career hes known. But after restaurants like this were ordered shot he feared he would be shut out of the kitchen for good its heartbreaking i mean. I its my career ive been in the kitchens and i was 12 years old like i dont know what else to do i dont i dont really i mean im not an unintelligent or an educated person but i dont have another skill set that ive been working at. For 32 years that i could use the support through that 23 children on their own. But he an owner Rachel Turner so thought they could stay afloat preparing meals people could cook at home and also selling groceries. Right now farmers are piling over crops well many Grocery Stores have empty shelves part of the problem with the nations food supply is that half of it is destined for restaurants and bars and it comes in this giant packaging things like this that individual people just wouldnt buy. So restaurants are getting creative repackaging the goods they can still get through their supply chains d. C. Based Founding Farmers showed us how theyre doing it here. Owner dan simon says the idea came out of desperation because he laid off levin 100 people he also made the promise to provide all of them free food you know in a situation where theres not a lot to celebrate weve rehired almost 200 and it was 265 i think that was probably 285 people of the 1100 that we laid off so its not enough and we have a long way to go and its kind of scary and nerve racking but there is definitely some good news in there for. Still for traverso as restaurant takeout in groceries is only providing about 10 percent of the money the business is used to making and time is running out so how much survival and. My favorite. Are probably. Maybe another month there for a lucky. Ellis believes that is going to be a problem this is going to go on for 2 more months at least. So as a good the longer it goes on hopefully people will get tired of cooking at home all the time and theyll ask us for help. Help for an industry that provides jobs for millions with some predictions saying as many as. 200000 restaurants will not survive particle aljazeera washington. The top stories now in aljazeera the European Union is urging Member States to start reopening their borders to help revive the continents summer tourist season and the battered economy france austria and switzerland say theyll start relaxing their Coronavirus Closures as early as this weekend the Summer Holiday season is worth 160000000000. 00 of course this is not going to be a normal summer not for any of us but when we all Work Together and we all do our part in the ways the commission is setting out today then we dont have to face a summer stark home or a completely lost summer for the european tourist industry the u. N. Is warning of a 3 percent global Economic Contraction while the u. K. Economy has already shrunk 2 percent this year thousands of people in england went back to work on wednesday for the 1st time in 7 weeks despite the return people were urged not to use public transport where possible but workers did not go back across all of the u. K. Leaders in scotland wales and Northern Ireland say its too early to really relax restrictions u. S. President donald trump has expressed surprise that a warning from one of the countrys leading Infectious Disease experts anthony found she said there are dangers in reopening the economy too quickly called the comments on acceptable. Lebanon is resuming lockdown measures for 4 days because of a resurgence in corona virus infections described as a total lockdown it started at 7 pm local time but excludes the Health Agriculture food and Manufacturing Industries that sit for lines is next and ill see you tomorrow thank you for watching but i. See rose here to report on the people often ignored but. 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