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Sanctions and infections we look at the businesses struggling to survive in iraq. One other International News story state security agents been zimbabwe been accused of abducting and torturing female opposition leaders. With sports as football returns to germany but now as we know its been scored 4 goals that no fans to celebrate. Health officials in china are dealing with new clusters of the coronavirus in the Northeastern Province of jilin the government is sending medical teams and hundreds of staff to that area with one district there raising its covert 19 risk level from medium to high thats despite the countrys best efforts to end the outbreak its most ambitious goal is to test all of who hands 11000000 residents in just 2 weeks following a cluster of new cases the World Health Organization has advised countries to test as many people as is possible but most countries dont have that type of capacity with the virus largely under control across the country the rest of china is slowly reopening production is up lock downs have been eased and more schools and businesses are reopening. Well a small flights well theyre resuming on sunday and its Vaccine Development is moving forward with some drugs already in the 2nd phase of Clinical Trials chinese officials hope they could move on to why the testing by the month of july more than 0. 60 is said to have been set up and to test 100000. 00 People Per Day but some are concerned if they go they could be exposed to the virus the harding has Office Report the people in this province have been battling in the Novel Coronavirus longer than anyone else the virus started here in december last year and grew to Epic Proportions killing more than 4000 people in china alone after months of lockdown and move on the number of cases began to drop them this week there was a cluster of new infections a new Testing Campaign is underway to stop the spread the residents fear going to crowded Testing Centers could put them in danger. I think some measures should have been taken for example people should be separated when there are many of them is not very good to have too many people covered in one place some paper away moscow now safety has become a hot topic especially on social media among the 11000000 residents of on this latest has seen campaign is voluntary i think its fine everyone to keep it a distance off one half meters from each. Can pull it off says the epidemic people have had a great sense of responsibility to keep my distance from each other to reduce risks there are now nearly 5000000 cases of covert 1000 around the world more than 300000 have died what started in china may be returning for a 2nd wave leah harding aljazeera live now here in the news to sarah clarke my colleague in hong kong for us this hour so sara whats the latest from gillian. Well some of his done weve got from the National Health commission of china weve got 5 new cases reported on sunday 2 of those cases are imported and 3 are from the sub provinces the Jilin Province this is an area or province the border is russia and north korea its in the north east of china and the government there has reported that the total tally so far of about 144. 00 cases and the mayor in jail in cities hes now to describe this as a serious outbreak and as a result the government in the city and across the province have put in place a number of control measures and restrictions and some of that includes the city being put in past lockdown as schools have been closed across the province of also got some of the residential compounds have been locked down as well gatherings both indoor and outdoor have been banned and the transport systems were talking about the trains there is a long and short distance routes theyve been partially stopped for now the governor is also pushing for an increase to screening of those residents in this particular area medical teams as you mentioned before about 500 medical staff have arrived in julian city to try and test and ramp up the procedures look at the people who not only just infected but the residents in that province to try and stem and curb the spread of the crowd a Virus Outbreak and residents of also been advised not to leave the city but as we identify this particular class or the outbreak in the northeast of china we have got a lot of a huge part of china back to business as usual in the city of shanghai weve got some more classes in schools resuming this week weve had the higher grades regime class but now the lower grades are returning to class as well and weve got some Tourist Attractions theyve also been reopened were talking about the britain city in beijing as well as the disease resort in shanghai and as you mentioned earlier some of the flights returned to 60 percent of the pre outbreak level thats the mainland Domestic Travel routes so despite the outbreak you have got a large part of china returning to business as normal and when you look at the figures if you believe the official data being. Released by china we have got low numbers when you compare them to the likes of the United States and parts of europe this idea of testing 11000000 people sarah in such a short period of time i mean less than a week or 10 days give or take a couple of days i guess if they manage to do it that will become the Gold Standard i guess for how you test so many people so quickly because that means if youre testing 11000000 people in a week that means youre testing one person every few seconds literally were saying were hand certainly have a province its reported a small increases all mine outbreaks in the last couple of weeks as well as another province in the north which borders russia certainly its a huge task if the government wants to go ahead with mass testing of all residents in weve had of course this was the epicenter of the current Virus Outbreak that went into lockdown for at least 3 months and its certainly been leading the charge or has returned to business as normal when the lockdown was lifted back in i will but if the government can go ahead with this its an extraordinary fate of course sarah thanks very much thailand extending a ban on International Passenger flights until the end of june but its lifting some domestic restrictions shopping malls and Department Stores have reopened and its nightly curfew will now be one hour shorter and state of emergency will stay in place until the end of the month and a chance for a cool is thailands deputy Prime Minister and the minister for Public Health he says the communities cooperation has helped reduce the number of infections significantly we cannot say that we are free of korra no iraq and we cannot say that there will be no 2nd we are but what we can say is. Thailand is well prepared to undertake in the situation circumstance what they would become because. Coronavirus travels with people so once we ease up the time we have to do is to make sure that everyone understands how to behave and how to live their lives were trying to bring them back to normalcy as soon as we can i think helen is no different than other places in the road we cannot say that we back to normal as. Pyro to the total 19th in the nation but we have to get acquainted with the new normal way of living for a temple if you ever come to thailand at this moment all people leaving home we have to mask on all people. To keep themselves at least and then have to meet the stand see so ready. Little by little all add up into momentum that people are giving very good cooperation and thats why the numbers of newly infected patients pass greatly reduced. In brazil current 19 has killed more than 15000 people reported infections have surpassed those in italy and spain as well but the president travels and out of has repeatedly done played the risks and pushed to reopen the economy and many people including Health Workers feel they are being left on their own to battle the pandemic is priyanka gupta. A virus that makes grieving difficult for those who are infected and also with little perspired but those close to treat them this Specialized Hospital agree or does now a state is on the frontline brazils fight against the corner virus the country is the worst affected in latin america and the state has the 2nd highest number of deaths most hospitals are running out of both their intensive care units like you more 3 what is todays big problem its the law of supply and demand the number of doctors is very low were looking for more doctors to hire to run this hospital at 100 percent this disease isnt kidding around whoever thinks its a joke is going to lose their life people have to take a portion of. What you are giving. This neighborhood is one of the poorest in sao paulo and the virus has taken many peoples Friends Family members and neighbors the district does along some of the highest numbers of deaths in the city. Clergy were trickiest lost his mother to the virus and his father is recovering in a Field Hospital hes spending his time distributing food meals to put those who cant afford to eat the money so. I have a mission to fulfill and im sure my mother is supporting me at this moment im sure shes looking at me wherever she is and saying go and play your part a mission that seems critical in a place where social distancing im granting water seem like a lot she will have to bear. We have all these advice about social isolation wash your hands stay at home but at a price another class the richest ones. Brazil has some of the highest number of reported thoughts and actions in the world but experts say a lot of testing means there could be many more. Brazils Health Minister has stepped down after just weeks in the job the 2nd minister to go so the pandemic began preston job also now has a postwar towns and wants to reopen the quantum assume though the disease that hes called a little slow is taking lives and causing much hardship. As. Well a pandemic is having a Significant Impact on economies of course around the world iran was in a bad shape anyway even before the outbreak mainly due to years of u. S. Sanctions business is doing everything they can to keep the doors open zain bus ravi reports from tehran. More than 83000000 people live in one of the most sanctioned countries in the world domestic brands dominate this big Consumer Market and how well the Tehran Stock Exchange has been doing in recent years challenges conventional thinking about irans economy how the quality or do not have work overrule the government intends to support the growth of the stock market this is our protein we will help this market continue to flourish i say again the government is determined to increase the sales of its shares this is produced positive expectations and will continue to do so. Sanctions have forced domestic investment which has been good for many local businesses but the covert 1000 pandemic has meant lost revenues. In april 1 of irans biggest government run Holding Companies decided to sell 10 percent of its shares its portfolio is enormous assets include mobile operators shipping companies Pharmaceuticals Construction Petro Chemicals the list goes on a Public Offering is unprecedented and generating excitement about investing in stocks iranians who normally put their savings in real estate gold foreign currency even cars are investing heavily in the Stock Exchange and the government is making it easier to do so. In the past people mostly deposited the savings in banks banks invested it now its become very simple theres a website the comprehensive Financial Information people register online and receive a trading code and they can buy she is 3 different brocas. But some iranians worry this is a cash grab during a downturn that this might be a bubble and new investors in a speculation driven market could lose their money. Meanwhile Small Business is a major part of irans commercial landscape have been circling the drain since the beginning of the outbreak. Public baths in downtown had dozens of customers every day before the pandemic oh. We havent had any business for a long time we kind enough to even pay the water bill if it continues like this we would have to hand back these places to eat or not while there is growing confidence around the stock market working class iranians remain the most financially vulnerable many People Living in this city have more immediate concerns like keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table in fact there are families that would indeed find it difficult to get by if it wasnt for the daily food rations they receive from local charities privatizing state owned assets means irans post coronavirus economy could see more control in public hands something that could lead to long term growth but for now the economy is doing what it has been doing for years shrinking and working class communities feel the squeeze the most. When i was in was mentioning that iran has been struggling under years of u. S. Sanctions lets take a look at them now after pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal in 2018 washington imposed tough measures to curb tehrans nuclear and missile programs thats affected the economy from energy to banking oil exports plummeted unemployment rose and the country went into recession then the pandemic hit last month the president Hassan Rouhani called the sanctions unjust and cruel and former senior u. S. And e. U. Officials have jointly called for sanctions relief for iran lets talk now to act in tehran hes a researcher at the center for strategic studies on iraq but did any give us a sense here of what sectors of the economy are really paying a price here. Iran is fighting on 2 fronts one is fighting the unilateral u. S. Sanctions and the other is trying to cope with the coroner virus pandemic irans economy has been hit hard by u. S. Sanctions while it has been trying to. Slow down the spread of pandemic but irans oil sector and Banking Sector have been hard have been hit hard in recent years mainly due to u. S. Sanctions. So iran has taken this new policy of trying to are undermining the u. S. Policy of maximum pressure come pay. Research has shown that if sanctions or sanctions against a country that expects to continue conflict and challenges will not result to significant concessions so under such circumstances that country calculates that giving to pressure today will lead to more pressure tomorrow so therefore iran. Has decided that it has to resist against u. S. Sanctions at any cost ok how do you reenter just to interrupt you for a 2nd if i may so how do you read the recent comments from the iranian leadership where they basically seem to be saying to the International Community and the European Union their friends in the European Union going back to when the original g. C. P. O. A was signed by 6 countries including of course iran asking the International Community to ask the United States to lift the sanctions so the tiran leadership instead of coming out with defiance instead of coming out fighting came out with a plea came out with a request is that a measure of how bad the sanctions are at the moment. Iran has every legitimate right to call on the International Community including europe to pressure the United States to lift the inhuman sanctions at a time iran is fighting the spread of coraline us so. On the one side iran has the legitimate right to ask for the lifting of sanctions and if the u. S. Doesnt show any willingness to do so which it has not then reveals how cruel the United States is treating iran and it has no disregard for human life at the same time iran is not waiting for the u. S. To lift sanctions that has taken. Major efforts to control and spread and slow down the spread of the spread of coron of virus and generally speaking it has been around the response has been acceptable when you compare irans response to cordon of iris with with that of the United States and europe so iran has not been waiting for the lifting of sanctions while it has pushed for that because it is entirely inhuman and against all International Law to impose economic sanctions and use economy as and u. S. Even medicine as a as an instrument to achieve Foreign Policy goals ok iran must we must draw our conversation to a close there that any interior on thank you very much mark. Yeah plenty more ahead here on the news hour for you including. Its a very young workforce with very little experience and thats dangerous under strain warnings a lack of funding for emergency workers in the u. S. Could be costing the community. And with restrictions being eased around the world we look at challenges for people with compromised communities. Plus from the finish line to the front line speak to a World Champion no help in a country fight coronavirus thats coming up with joe in the sports news in about all starting minutes from. 3 female leaders of zimbabwes opposition who went missing earlier this week have been found outside the capital harare they disappeared during a demonstration led by the movement for Democratic Change the women say they were beaten and sexually assaulted after being taken into Police Custody Opposition Party leaders say forces working for the president were behind the abductions zimbabwes ministry of information says an investigation is now underway that speak now to the opposition politician Nelson Chamisa in harare he is the leader of the movement for Democratic Change mr cheney so welcome to the news hour here on aljazeera there are serious allegations circulating here tell us what you think happened to these women. Well i had the record. Of. Being arrested i rested after there was a demonstration. When they were. Demonstrating im going to. Lock down without the necessary support troop support. Groups. When this service was affected it was expected on various people. Who had. Been in the demonstration but what we then got was that there was an abduction of those people could not be accounted for particularly our youth leaders that 3 female youth leader there were only the next day by the roadside in the outskirts of writing but they make an allegation that there were sexual abuse. They were treated. And inhuman and degrading treatment they were also subject to excessive torture during the night that is the report we then. Put across and we have even made an appeal to the International Community in particular the United Nations to look into this matter because it is becoming become a trend. People are being subjected to these abductions ok mr meeson weve just received a press release from the relevant authorities in your country just let me read to you directly from that press release the 3 women were possible group of m. D. C. Youth workers who defied the lockdown laws in the country took part in an illegal demonstration in warren park in harare the police then sought to interview them on suspicion of committing crimes relating to the lockdown whats your reaction to that. Well or whether or not problems with any lawful embrace people being taken to court in a lot of money for which Serious Problems when the states d seeks to defend abductions and tell not display spent and disappearance of citizens particularly in the context of them then being torched at being subjected to in human traits men and of course being sexually harassed and that it was as is the case is statements from the state clearly show the half hearted and then willingness on the part of they were 32 to get to the bottom than the marked up to face to get the matter and to bring to book those who have been involved in this issue ok on the issue of the investigation do you have full confidence in how that investigation will be conducted and whether it will be transparent enough or not or this is why we have say that we need a truly independent inquiry and an investigation into the issues is very difficult to press their confidence in some of the individuals or on grounds of the state because they are the ones that are being argued so they are conflicted they do not seem to have capacity and political will to do with this issue so the only issue we have putting on the table hes appealing to the International Community in particular the United Nations to do what they have done in other countries like in the room where they had an independent inquiry to also get to the bottom of the matter and to make sure that those were to protect the. Human Rights Violations that brought. Mr jimmy said we must leave it there thank you so much for joining us from harare. Ok lets turning our attention now to a live story a developing story for you we are the inside of the knesset in that west Jerusalem Benjamin Netanyahu telling us about his new Coalition Government is being sworn in ending months of Political Uncertainty we will stay with these pictures and talk to our correspondent harry forsett joining us live from west jerusalem so harry it feels like its been an awful long time in getting to this stage. Yes its been more than 500. 00 days of caretaker administrations led by netanyahu but without the full power and authority of a properly elected government through 3 inconclusive elections during a period in which netanyahu has gone from someone whos being investigated in 3 Corruption Cases to someone whos been indicted in 3 Corruption Cases not able to score a decisive victory in any of those elections and yet here he is this long term survivor and political strategist whos managed to prevail once again he is here in the knesset the Israeli Parliament announcing the conclusion of this deal between him and his former rival benny gantz whose entire political message was about ousting a man such as netanyahu from a position of power in israel and instead we have whats there of calling an Emergency National unity government netanyahu talking about the inflated nature of this government theres been a lot of criticism about the fact there are so many ministries being created in such a pretty unseemly squabble among various members of his own the could party for positions of prominence within it its been seen as a way of both men being able to try to have their own people in power and almost too hard is coming together rather than a fully integrated government has been a lot of criticism about the cost of it he said it would be hugely cheaper than a 4th election talked about Standing Shoulder to shoulder against the coronavirus and theres been some protests in the chamber as well members of the many palestinians ready joint lists shouting against netanyahu when he talks about being a government for non jews as well as jews that harking back to some of the. Criticism hes made of the arab sector during the election campaigns and also what he taught. About the prospect of an exaggeration of large parts of the occupied west bank saying that it would be a glorious chapter in the history of zionism and championing that as something that he had brought about people shouted out that nothing glorious about it and saying it was a party 8 in the making so we will know in the coming hour or so the actual make up for the genome of the new government if you will harry but from a legal point of view hes still in the middle of all these legal questions and presumably he will have to plot a course through that process but is he legally safe for the time being. For the time being yes the Israeli High Court considered that question ahead of the formation of the government which was due to take place on thursday but that was pushed back because of the squabbling of ministries that the High Court Ruled that at that time it saw no legal hindrance to having someone form a government who was under indictment as far as the israeli law is concerned the there isnt an interpretation of least that he would be safe at least in terms of his job until convicted and until all avenues of appeal have been exhausted but it is something that has been petitioned already and of course there could be political pressure that mounts depending on the course of the of the investigate of the trial as it goes for that trial is due to start next sunday and throughout this route the build up to this moment netanyahu has been desperate it seems to stay in power fighting that trial from the Prime Ministers office has been seen as a hugely important thing he has some considerable sway over legal appointments and the Justice System in general and he also under this deal with benny gantz it isnt a case that he is Prime Minister for the 1st 18 months and then dance takes over there each sworn in as of today as Prime Minister and alternate Prime Minister so they will swap those roles and the terms of the agreement so even after if he does relinquish the premiership in 18 months he still has the sort of official legal status of Prime Minister so this is something thats obviously been important to him in his legal team to preserve ok thanks very much. He weather his journey and we have the 1st site close of the season in the bay of bengal we do and its a very powerful on this one piece let me show you said when the satellite because this is it its a massive cycle and as you can see here and of course its been strengthening very rapidly ever the last year as how look at these numbers because this shows you how the winds of increased over the last year as in right now go sustained winds of 120 kilometers an hour now the movement you can see has shown us nothing thats because it is virtually stationary at the moment that will change of course so this is what were looking up by monday and you can see just what a large storm this is it really just fail pretty much all the bay of bengal so lets put the actual for call strike and you can say again not moving very quickly have the next few days it is just going to continue to work its way slowly northwards still though the winds will continue to strengthen and this will continue to happen over the next 2. 00 to 3. 00 days but of course it will continue through tuesday me further to the north and at that point it doesnt she come much closer to the coast it begins really to the east of Andhra Pradesh and then as you can see by choose they begin to really push these rains across into odisha up into west bengal but also those rains are a big reach pushing across into mammoth as well these the flooding rains very strong damaging winds so much so by the time we get to choose or go sustained winds 195 kilometers an hour gusting to about 230. 00 so were looking at very rough dangerous seas and overseas storm surge as well pushing this water on shore so peter this really is a storm were going to monitor very closely in the next few days its heading up towards bangladesh ultimately this time yesterday i mean ever so much talking about a typhoon in the states called off or this ones called. Who is it that names them and how do they decide on the name well weve just had west pacific theres the one i think had one phone which was the. New that she got today the 1st named storm system in the atlantic thats on. So the whole world is actually open to different regions but the w. M. O. The World Meteorological organize. And that she control all these lists of names the names came about because it makes it easier to identify them particularly if youve got more than one storm in one body of water so the atlantic is controlled by the National Hurricane center theyve got lists of names that get retakes it in the west pacific again a lot of countries put their names together its a list that get rotated year after year and actually in this region north indian ocean the bay of bengal around that is 13 countries that put the names in and they just started a new list of 169. 00 names so these names go on and on for years and unless of course peter unless a storm is so destructive and so deadly is retired and never used again do they have a name a storm off to someone but i guess you could argue that mostly named after somebody maybe not people we know that also meant to be easy for now that theyre not always that is different. Many thanks interesting stuff well talk to you later. Still to come here on the news for you the rites of passage for American Teams looks very different in the era of coronavirus. And taking every precaution reception return to the will show you how mixed martial arts is coming back after a pandemic. And frank assessments of the struggling to cope with a number of their own failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind you for informed opinion its going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where theres one answer later 3000000 people in depth analysis of the days global headlines india doesnt up to the spread of the one of ours in the inside story on aljazeera that america is a region of the wonder of joy of tragedy and violence but it doesnt matter where you are you have to be able to relate to the human condition. Ive been covering all of latin america for most of my career but no country is alike and its my job headlight on how and why. Welcome back welcome if youre just joining us youre watching live from our headquarters here and there are these are your top stories more than 500 medical personnel have been sent to chinas Jilin Province as it deals with a new coronavirus cluster of the same time chinas Mass Testing Program in new hand is now under way local Health Authority says more than 113000 tests were carried out on friday the number of infections in brazil has now surpassed those in italy and spain more than 15 and a half 1000 people have died so far hospitals are struggling with shortages of i. C. U. Beds and doctors. Zimbabwes government and other news promising an investigation into the alleged abduction of 3 opposition activists the women say they were beaten and sexually assaulted by state security the police deny any involvement. Ok well go back to the coronavirus shortly for you in the meantime we will wrap up another top story libyas internationally recognized government says its launched airstrikes on a key base controlled by the warlord after meanwhile on saturday shelling by forces loyal to after killed at least 7 people in the south of tripoli the attack targeted a University Dormitory used by internationally displaced people in our knowledge district and im dillons was also hit by shrapnel as medics were treating the injured man went up to what had joins us live from tripoli just take us through what happened here. Human suffering is still excessive beating again as you just mentioned 7 innocent civilians including 15 year old a child were killed last night in shelters used to. Accommodate internally displaced people 17 other civilians or wandered by random rockets launched should by forces loyal to the warlord flee for have to and eyewitnesses there tell us that. Almost to many parts of the building was set on fire and one when emblems was hit by shrapnel also in. About 150 kilometers southwest of the capital tripoli the Government Forces say that air their air force destroyed 2 russian made. Defense system units that were provided to have to forces by the United Arab Emirates meanwhile. The government says that its air force destroyed a number of military vehicles and killed a number of poor have the fighters and destroyed an armas bunker or armors deport inside a wood airbase in southern tripoli the military confrontation axes remain there realty of lee karma concurred toward the past few days but it does not mean that it might stay like this for long as you know that the fighting could. Neil at any moment meanwhile we have been Hearing International condemned nation to the attack on through plebiscite have to his forces and recently from the United Nations from the unit is excuse me from the United States ambassador to libya Richard Norland and also. Sick attorney general of the nato all that. Stated that the dealing with a legitimate government in libya which is the sort of larger government the government of National Accord and meanwhile the Defense Ministry here in tripoli the tripoli be used Defense Ministry has stated that it stealing the military cooperation between the government and turkey is based on legally standing as the government is the legitimate government was in to get libya is also dealing with illegitimate government representing turkey. Thank you the Syrian Government turned armed group. Of conduct of a Prisoner Exchange in aleppo. The government released 4 fighters from the group of the rebels freed a colonel and soldier from the syrian army who have been several prisoner swaps in aleppo over the past few months. A major Border Crossing between pakistan and afghanistan has reopened after 2 months allowing people from both countries to return the talk on crossings closed to prevent the spread of coronavirus many people have been waiting there for the past week travellers had their temper just checked as they crossed over on foot without her 171 but there were about 3 months ago when the talk on border was closed due to the coronaVirus Outbreak we were stranded in punjab pakistan we faced many problems there we couldnt work during this time i have been stranded in pakistan for more than 2 months i was in milan it took me 6 days to reach the Border Crossings due to bad traffic for more than a week many of grant citizens including women have been waiting at this border to enter our understand they are in a bad condition. Throughout the covered 1000 pandemic older adults and people with underlying medical conditions have been particularly at risk includes those whose immune system is compromised which means its harder for the body to fight off infections or other illnesses as well and people are more prone to get sick if they have this condition this usually includes people receiving Cancer Treatment long term dialysis for kidney failure or those who need bone marrow or Organ Transplants and as countries lift restrictions the u. S. Centers for Disease Control is advise in those with that condition to continue with strict social distancing guidelines joining us now is cindy b c one still in johannesburg she is a medical doctor who deals mostly with hiv aids patients dr ben still welcome to the news hour explain to me day to day hour to hour meeting people to meeting people what its like if your immune system is either compromised or nonexistent. Thank you so much for having me on the show im so we do know that people whose immune systems are compromised and minds are high risk of contracting curve at 19 and also have symptoms if they got a curve at 19 h. I. B. Is different in the sense that if you are unfit to be and you start taking antibiotics treatments and taking it properly and the virus and to control me we dont expect you to be at that he risk and i say this because i live in a country that the highest number of People Living with aids i. V. And we have over 4000000 people on treatment so we expect people on treatment whos viral and a typical not to be not to be too consumed and what you dont want is for people that are living with a tent b. To b. And having a septic suppressed viral loads to panic and you can imagine if everyone that is given the way to be thought of panicking and to creep in the Health System so you know a lot of my messaging right now to include the 1900 with the guts to a chevy is to streets thats if you are in treatment and you are taking treatment properly and you virus and tick civil. Worry if you are not in treatments or used to be on treatment and you stopped it i encourage you to start treatments and get your viral loads done as soon as possible just to be clear if somebody is immune system is compromised already because they are hiv positive how much of an immune system do they have when it comes to encountering something as capricious and as vicious as coronavirus. Well its difficult to say because you mean the current kind of 19 is a new disease so were learning as we go along at the moment we dont have next dates are regarding the you know the into action or the relationship between credit 19 but what we understand is that if you are compromised and you happen to have a type but youre in treatment then immune system is just as strong as everybody elses right if you are to be positive and not some treatments in obviously current to opportunistic infections and you can expect a response illness that could 1000 feet she quite severely so the message me is clear that if you want you to be positive and you know your status and not in treatment we want you to get on treatment as soon as possible and is there a crossfertilisation here and lessons to be learned when it comes to people who are hiv positive who know their immune system is compromised and maybe there are lessons to be handed over to other countries to other locations to other Health Services so you can tell people say who are not hiv positive but they have had chemotherapy for cancer so you can take those lessons and translate them to another location some place where the infection that will become covert 19 is really getting a foothold. Well you know what the least is that people can learn from south africa and the way that weve handled the pen to me its really about communication i think weve done a great job to make sure that people know what h. L. V. Is they know what needs to be done to make sure that the systems you know keeps get sorted acts by taking medication so its ok communication is important i think nottage helps people to to make the right decisions need to stay away from fear mongering because we do see a lot of that so when we need it as a news reports around which conditions make you more prone to cook at 19 in fiction its you need to eat to be to be a backup but to communicate to people dont dont dont incite fear in the understand that ok you may have cancer you mean system is compromised do the following to make sure to stay healthy so the basic precautions that everybody is taking so we know that social distancing is important we know that its important to we a face mask when you got to the public we know that its important to do hand washing and use hand sanitizers so theres a universal precautions that we know were clear everybody so the way we put the way we give out the message helps people make the right decisions about the help and thats really what im trying to do when i communicate but could 9000 each and dr been so great to talk to you thank you so much for joining us here on the news hour thank you so much. Now for many of the 3700000 Students Graduating High School in the u. S. Its not the celebration that they had been hoping for heres helen fisher. Its not hope it was supposed to be chewed have been a pothole with lots of friends and a celebration of 4 years of high school instead its graduation marked with a socially distant stance with a family in a driveway. That when we are able to reunite i see with my friends that its better sleep well away and were going to get out maybe. Maybe is graduation season in americas high schools big celebrations ceremonies and excitement the moment to move on to something new university or a career for the class of 2020 those moments and memories have been stolen away was nobody wants to go to school it sucks its boring but the end of your senior year you get to all of these incredible things youve been working towards and you get that. And now i dont get that. Clear rodgers moved to the u. S. 2 years ago from the u. K. Where they do things differently graduation ceremonies are not common but ive grown up watching that sort of thing movies now its like wow i actually get to experience. That that was quite upsetting jacqueline id always ready to leave high school shes been accepted to university to pursue a career in nursing and watching how her world has changed in just a matter of weeks watching hope people have relied on Health Professionals makes it even more determined that sweet her future lies i wish i could be helping everyone right now and its kind of sad that i cant but thats whats also motivating me to still be a nurse is in case this comes back not everyone leaving high school has the same sefton too and it is a real not corn effect colleges and universities across america say theyre expecting to lose 20 percent of the students who have already enrolled many simply wont be able to afford it anymore and its not just a one year thing one in 10 say theyre already making other plans what would you want and help students in the last year of High School Plan for the future a future no least with uncertainty my biggest fear is that kids that were on the edge in that i would have been able to do more for. Are still going to not make a decision on what their person or plans are and leave high school and. Not knowing what to do 170. 00 schools are doing what they can to celebrate graduation virtual ceremonies pushing events back several weeks it wont be the same but then neither is the world the students are about to enter alan fischer aljazeera arlington virginia. Still to come here on the news hour for you can mans best friend sniff coronavirus well tell you about a trial underway in the u. K. An action from a strange day of football as germanys legal restarts after the coronavirus closed up. A portrays of one of the worlds oldest cities seen through the eyes of those who know it best see their series of kissing interview. Aljazeera world goes on the road with palestinian taxi drivers living and working at the heart of one of the most hockey contested locations on a. Jerusalem is a palestinian cabbies on how jazeera. Aljazeera. Wherever you are. Researches in the u. K. Think sniffer dogs may be able to tell if people are infected with covert 19 before they show any symptoms that could provide a fast noninvasive way to detect the disease charities teaming up with the university for a trial 6 dogs will be given samples of the smell of infected patients and taught to distinguish it from people who do not have the virus in the study were him to determine whether people who have 1000 have this thing to do you were and then train dogs to detect it and were very grateful to the u. K. Government for supporting this very Exciting Research and it goes on to years of research that weve already done as a team to demonstrate that people who have a malaria infection have a distinctive body odor and weve shown that dogs can be trained to detect that with very High Accuracy so if this is successful and we show the same frequent 19 this could completely revolutionize the way that we are tackling this disease ok time for the sports news is just peter thank you the German Football League is back up and running after a 2 month coronavirus shutdown 6 matches were played on saturday with no fans in attendance which made for a strange atmosphere david stokes reports. Dobby day it dormant usually attracts more than 80000. 00 but not this time to get the season started again very much against shell like all been this league games were subject to Strict Health and safety rules including a ban on fans it made for an area miss fear but no surprise to see the 1st goal scorer shut down was 19 year old eling holland picking up where he left off 2 months ago now with a new social distance celebration. It was the 1st of 4 goals for dortmund as they thrashed their rivals by closing to within one point at the leaders by munich the players made sure they carried out their trademark post match salute to friends even if it was only in spirit normally say 2000. But we knew that we we had the support at home from the fans what everybody misses energy which is stadium has if its sold out of its a full grown this is what everybody misses worldwide around a 1000000000 people watched the 1st Major European League to restart amid the pandemic these dope and fans gathered at one of the club bars and were happy to have something to cheer about. If you are around with the right people it still works the mood is great in the sense that it was nice to see football back again we can celebrate and be out for a bit we are pleased. That you know because if you asked me 61 minutes ago i would have said im not sure but now we are winning 3 nil i think its awesome that you present good spirits may have been high but this was still nowhere near normal for a match day in a country that still has hundreds of positive coronavirus cases every day. For good reason normally the bar would be attacked but the feeling is different people are tense the usual feeling is missing this time. Authorities have been worried about friends gathering outside stadiums are much days but indorsement and elsewhere on saturday they followed the rules and stayed away the show to hear some of the Tacoma Washington who is a part of the pleas by the city police to stay watch the match home have worked with very pleased by this as it helps avoid infection. 6 pound this league games were played across germany on saturday and it so far so good but theres still 75 to go if theyre to complete the season by the end of june it remains to be seen if other european leagues will follow suit david stokes 0 now to an athlete whos gone from finish line to front line to help a country beat coronavirus another illnesses yana pittman was a World Champion 400 meter hurdler twice and represented australia at 2 summer olympics she then switched to bob slight to race in the games in sochi in 2014 becoming her countrys 1st female athlete to compete in both the summer and Winter Olympics now pittman as you can see is a newly qualified doctor whos been working in a hospital in western sydney and he joins me now live on skype from there ya know what a time to start a new career in medicine in the middle of a pandemic tell us about your 1st few months as a doctor in sydney there on the frontline it sure was a big shock to sort of finish medical school and have this whole idea of what your life it was going to be to go straight into a well. In many respects i feel quite privileged because i dont think its something that many people will be out spirits and we learn very very fast so the skills the sort of picked up in those fees of medical schools got put to the test pretty quickly and it was definitely a challenge to you think your experience as a top athlete also maybe gave you a bit of an edge in starting your new career are there any transferable skills. Yeah great question actually so i think certainly dealing with pressure and expectations has been something that in sport you have to get very views to big crowds and and dealing with the unknown and in this pandemic situation and certainly in medicine as a whole d having that sort of ability to overcome stress and disaster and pick up where you think youre youve really hit there at the bottom end of a road its been it has been a success for me so i really hope that that continued sort of question from my sport carries into medicine and i feel like ive got a big career to go and achieve hopefully more so than i ever did in sport what pushed you to pursue a career in medicine from your excellent career in sport. Well actually i never wanted to be an athlete so it was one of those thing the sort of fall into i guess my entire personality was always going to get with something where you could really push yourself and set really difficult goals and overcome challenges and as a child i always wanted to be a doctor to be on the front line to be helping people and it doesnt matter whether you know what you look like or d what your your brain capacity is as long as you can help someone is a real benefit such as it was almost a destruction a very lovely one it was wonderful completely it was a real real you know on a run in the great engulfed my beautiful country but its certainly far more rewarding now that ive come out the other end and graduated as a doctor and with this is an impacts being pushed back because of coronavirus whats your advice to athletes on how to stay focused on their dreams of competing at the games when many of them remain in lockdown. Yeah look at its very hot and obviously as an athlete has competed at quite a few olympics now its its definitely something i get out quite often and i do like the idea sadly for the fans that its hard not to get to go to stadiums and watch your you know your your favorite athletes compete but for us its got to be about the competition and and long term we dont remember you know necessarily having a huge crowd around you to remember the success thats Going Forward so i think its definitely hard for those Young Athletes not knowing whether theyre even going to compete next in the olympics but it will be postponed indefinitely but ive got to hold on to the fact that they do only come every 4 and 5 used and that theyve got to make sure that they continue with their goals because 4 is over very very quickly and if they dont take this opportunity to after pay well for next years Olympic Games then they might lose a really amazing opportunity part of a World History making of it from a well champion hurdler and now to see ana pittman thank you very much for joining us. Now the head of the miss a s f one team says hes optimistic that they will be back racing in austria in early july toto wolff says his team has been busy preparing for life after current virus something with a race double header on the face and 12th of july which still needs to be confirmed by from when i want to fish oils and then of course its about planning the next races and hopefully getting the season started so im pretty optimistic that we can we can start in the last year because austria has been one of the best countries in keeping keeping the numbers of the virus numbers low and i think they will come up with a plan. Where we can we can raise. Well fans have been locked out of this. Event in nicaragua the 1st place 1st time has taken place since the current virus pandemic pfizers had their feet disinfected before entering the uk to get as positive health for questions from 120 people did attend the event as medics 500. 00 to security guards in the area irina Wearing Masks all right that is all useful for now it is back to peta. Thanks very much well see you later im sure the shell is here with 30 minutes of world news on the other side of the break also youre going to the news out of. A poll after public. One issued a ton. One i want to visit the puking school serving up good to be disadvantaged and downtrodden. On aljazeera these are who will drink and disjointed days especially for the young my life changed because i cant go will say we have to be careful to not get sick i dont sit University Study found the wall in 5 children im now afraid to leave their homes the sense of disorientation and confusion i think would be very understandable natural reaction to children and in the past few weeks secure Mental Health units have been forced to discharge large numbers of patients there are children suffering from psychosis who believe the virus is a conspiracy of those with eating disorders or histories of self harm were going to have a time bomb this is building up to a nation Mental Health epidemic the worlds attention is on controlling the virus for the recount list hidden victims even when the pandemic passes there will be many in desperate need of help. 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