A reward for his arrest. Israels Opposition Leader benny gantz is elected Parliament Speaker and calls for an emergency unity government. So the number of corona virus infections around the world is approaching half a 1000000 cases in italy and the United States are expected to surpass china where the pandemic started as a virus continues to ravage europe spain is struggling to cope another 650 people have died in the past 24 hours bringing the toll there to more than 4000 the European Commission head is calling for a unified response against the outbreak say its just too much for any one country to handle across the United States nearly 70000. 00 people have been infected the senate has approved a 2 trillion dollars package to support the economy as a number of unemployment and a number of unemployment claims as so. Was to record 3200000 and india has unveiled a 23000000000 dollar stimulus package to provide relief for low income families and insurance for medical workers a country of 1300000000 has been placed on the lockdown with 649 cases and 13 deaths reported on my area marta hereto is following the latest developments from madrid. Despite the grim figures reported by the Health Minister officials in spain more than 1500 more cases of corona virus infections and told increase by 600 people in just 24 hours but though these figures keep increasing there is a small window of hope as for the 1st time in spain the number of contagious and best and there is have the creased have to work a strip center here now a 10 percent of this the total of population that are infected by corona virus is not only the Health Care Workers but also Police Officers and senior garc that are the ones that are in the front line of the fight of corner virus which are controlling this love down nationwide in spain every people can find at home no one allowed to go to the street lest its completely necessary going to the pharmacy going to buy groceries going to Shop Supermarkets and thats all that we can do so all these people that are fighting in hospitals and in the streets trying to control the no one breaks the slow down all these people what are claiming or what have calling for. Immediate theyre there theyre very theyre demanding the immediate supplies of protecting gears of of the correct equipment the gloves mask googles in order to battle to develop their duties in the front line of these grown up virus without getting infected or even spreading the coronavirus well in italy the Prime Minister is warning the coronavirus will cause what he calls a hard severe recession in europe if you so if we come to address a policy tomorrow and 3rd europe would only be able to face the shock with exceptional measures with italy in lockdown for the last 2 weeks has promised around 27000000000. 00 worth of emergency measures italy has the highest number of virus deaths and more than 7500. The European Commission president has warned that the coronavirus is too big for any one country to handle alone as to when the man is calling for unity say saving lives has to remain the top priority spain and france are struggling to contain the virus the group has reported more than 600. 00 deaths in 24 hours. More than 3000000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week thats 5 times more than the previous record which was set back in 1902 and it is the latest sign of just what effect the coronavirus is having on the economy businesses all across the United States have been forced to close as cities impose lock downs to stem the spread of the outbreak lets get more now from kimberly how tos in washington d. C. And kimberly as weve been discussing these are pretty huge unemployment numbers that were looking at do we expect this to continue. We do expect this to continue yes theyre being described as economic carnage and you have to keep in mind this is just one weeks worth of jobless claims these are the people that manage to make it out of their house despite the fact that transportation isnt readily available anymore things are mostly shut down in order to file those claims so as more and more americans do make their way out of their homes at this time most dont feel safer in order to shelter in place those numbers are only going to get higher weve heard that the numbers could be in the 10s of millions of americans that lost their job over night that are facing the prospect of not being able to pay their rent their utilities even buy food so thats why you have an effort in the u. S. Congress passed in the senate but it still has to go to the house of representatives we expect that to take place on friday this major package an economic stimulus as its called meant to flood the economy with cash but also provide direct relief for ordinary americans at least those ones who are making 70000. 00 a year or less theyre going to get a check we understand is what this is passed into law for 1200. 00 a mediately children could get a 500. 00 payment but heres the catch in all of this is that were already hearing this may not be enough to address the problems that the United States is facing as part of virus continues to spread around the United States in fact in the words of one of the top Democratic SenatorsChuck Schumer he said that he expects that the odds are high that congress is going to need to pass even more measures than what weve seen passed in the senate so far and you can really only unemployment numbers you will be hearing from the treasury searcher and he seems quite dismissive of worms. Yeah his exact words were that these numbers are not relevant tell that to the people sitting at home who dont even have the opportunity to go and look for another job and thats why theyre filing these claims thats why this current virus relieve package is expected to pay 100 percent of a persons former salary because in the old days they would be able to go out look for work and get 60 percent of their salary while we sleep right now everything shut down you cant go and look for another job so most americans are not reacting well to the words of the treasury secretary that it seems a little tone deaf given the fact that they really are in a difficult position still the u. S. President is also trying to put a kind of a positive picture on this dire Economic News not only does he continue to say that he believes that things could open back up again by the middle of april easter which Health Officials say seems to be pretty sort of rosy in terms of the picture because we still have reached the peak of proto virus yet but hes also talking about this whole of government response talking about how hes ordinated with the nations governors in fact hes already touting his press conference on twitter that hell be having a 5 pm where hes going to update us on how hes been working with the nations governors but we should point out he has this press conference every day its not particularly special but he certainly is trying to make it as such on twitter but again this is something that he does to update the nation on the latest developments in terms of coronavirus again where we see this real difference of opinion between the president s message and the public Health Officials in terms of optimism moving forward indeed or a Community Group of men can be how it could be in washington d. C. Now the u. S. Justice department has charged the venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and several senior officials with Drug Trafficking tony general william barr announced the indictments against and his top lieutenants are accused of running a socalled narco state and using the proceeds of the cocaine trade to make up for lost oil revenues that speak to a lot of america and its a. Study by for instance santiago what do you make of all this one of those. Its very hard to see what Practical Implications this is going to have at least in the short term calling president Nicolas Maduro a narco terrorist as is 7 is pretty heavy duty pretty hard stuff but short of a ordering the u. S. Marines or armed forces to go into venezuela to get him it will be very difficult to put him behind bars as the u. S. Administration says it wants to do its offering 15000000. 00 as a reward perhaps thats meant to entice someone within the armed forces of it israel which is helping to keep him in power to hand him in. On the streets of venezuela people say that its just going to be business as usual theyre more worried right now about getting food and water and also dealing with the coronavirus and speaking of the coronavirus the timing of the announcement is rather suspect however because it coincides with the decision by the United Nations to give emergency humanitarian funds to all of them a dura administrator should or government state im not sure how its being worded but ultimately it will be to president Nicolas Maduro to help the country deal with this and this handing me out in israel as we all know has very very very difficult. Has and it has rather very short supplies of anything to deal with the Health System there there or it was already collapsing even before this happened so that maybe is a way of saying to the world that president maduro is not the right person to give money to considering that he is a quote narco terrorist and any kind of response from the opposition on this. The opposition has been fairly quiet about this because its trying to come up with some kind of a united front about what to do with the coronavirus whether or not to accept. The you know how broad and they are and i understand from my sources of venezuela that they are negotiating right now some kind of a deal in which perhaps 3rd parties. Perhaps the the People Embassy the Vatican Embassy or a round table that would include members of the opposition and the government could all get together to decide how to distribute the money that the delivery will be coming very very soon to the country all right lisa thanks very much indeed lucy and human reporting there from santiago thank you again lets bring you some breaking news the latest numbers from italy the number of cases and the number of deaths from it and we get these around this time every day and i can tell you that the death toll from Kirkby CoronaVirus Outbreak in italy has risen by 662 to 8165 by 662 to 8165 and put that into context context yesterday and wednesday it was it rose by 693 the day before is 743 the day before that it 600 in one day before that 651 and on saturday it was 793 so right now its 662 so a small drop from yesterday in the total number of cases has risen in italy from 7439628053 extension 9 will be dissecting those figures. To go on. All right still ahead here own 00 a surprise admission in new zealand from the gunman accused of not smoking into law school. It has been a very mixed by the picture across the middle east for the last week or so the last couple of days its been about the rains impacting southern sections of the Arabian Peninsula the cloud is all pulling away that mean the rain is also pulling away however not we saw weve seen scenes like this this is 8 in any yemen just look at the force of this water the power of this water at least 2 people have died in these floods and dozens of homes have been damaged but it is an improving picture there is a fair amount of chatter around quite a massive cloud across much of the north all the middle east pushing down in central areas of saudi will shout as well but theyre very well scattered through turkey through syria on into iraq nolan Western Areas of iran we have the very heavy rains but really working away northwards into northern sections of pakistan theyll continue to move northwards on saturday i will say a few more showers as you can see throughout for the most part is a cloudy picture very windy throughout much of a peninsula so not feeling quite as warm as out 27 in doha and then into Southern Africa weve got one or 2 more showers becoming a little bit more prevalent across northern sections of south africa madagascar widely unsubtle across northern and central areas also zambia and im going to this is going to see the heavy rains for the next 2 days and also some showers fairly widespread throughout much of mozambique. Frank assessments the one good thing about these bushfires usage really well going to the politics of Climate Change informed opinions economy i think is actually whats keeping damo truck afloat right now critical debate sequel of those do schoolchildren know what the law is all about this argument is astonishingly patronize a indepth analysis of the days headlines this is the beginning of a new iraq of a new conscious and aware youth about struggle against an ethnic sectarian kota inside story on aljazeera. Woohoo. Alligator watching nigeria remind of our top stories this hour and spain has reported 655. 00 coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours the total number of fatalities has gone past 4000. 00 that the world 2nd highest number after it in the. Newly released figures show more than 3000000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week is covert 900 battles the economy thats 5 times more than the previous record back in 1982. The Justice Department is charged venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro and several senior officials with crimes related to what they call narco terrorism and Drug Trafficking they are accused of running a socalled narco state and using the proceeds of the cocaine trade to make up for lost oil revenue. Now israels Opposition Leader benny gantz has been elected the new Parliament Speaker thats the day after usually it was time to step down after a showdown with a top court its hopes this will lead to a Political Alliance between him and caretaker Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu electron gleans more now from harry for so he joins us live from west jerusalem and hair is interesting isnt it because dans nominated himself so well you reckons behind this move. We has been pretty hard in the gleaning certainly hard in the predicting Benjamin Netanyahu has been Prime Minister throughout this incredible phase of israeli politics over the last year where hes been trying to cling on to power despite 3 now inconclusive elections the fact that hes facing a court trial in may on 3 separate Corruption Cases and now hes been given this huge advantage by the man whos been trying for so long to replace him saying that hes poison to israeli democracy that the country cannot be led by an indicted Prime Minister that has been the brand of benny gantz throughout his short political career and now hes decided to step aside from all of that he says its because he wants to save israeli democracy that hes acting as a statesman that its not time for splits because of the National Emergency over coronavirus but just yesterday he and his opposition were arguing with Benjamin Netanyahu as likud over the fact that the speaker had refused to step down had refused to allow for a vote to be replaced by an opposition speaker who could then. Engineer a situation in the parliament the knesset for legislation to go through which could have really put the pressure on merging netanyahu and his hold on power that has now been evaporated by benny gantz decision to split with his opposition colleagues in the blue and White Alliance take his own Party Israeli resilience out of that and with the support of netanyahu is right wing bloc be put in place as the interim speaker the head of a unity government deal the reports are that hes going to get the foreign minister position that Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly will stay in office for a promised 18 months and then dance himself will take over but there are many people who doubt whether that will happen given the fact that Benjamin Netanyahu has survived knows every trick in the book many people are criticizing grants for having caved they have voted thanks very much an entire force there in western. Now leaders of the worlds Major Economies at the g 20 been holding a Virtual Summit to discuss a coordinated response to the coronavirus pandemic and a diplomatic editor james bays explains what was discussed these were the summit conclusions released in the last hour they say theyre going to work to protect lives safeguard peoples jobs and incomes restore confidence in the markets minimize disruption to trade provide help to all countries in need of assistance and coordinate on Public Health and Financial Measures i read through this very quickly of only had it for a short period of tim