Hello the un secretary general has told leaders of the worlds 20 major industrialized countries that humanity is at war with a virus and we are not sweating and trying to get terrorists called for a Global Response at an emergency virtual g. 20 summit to plot a way out of the crisis where leaders vow to do whatever it takes to combat coronavirus he said the numbers of confirmed cases which have now passed half a 1000000 are only the tip of the iceberg and the real number is believed to be many times higher well the number of new deaths has surged in spain and they remain high in italy where its fear of deaths are now rising in the poorer south of the country as economists predict a deep global recession the u. S. Saw more than 3000000 people make new jobless claims last week its biggest jump ever made barker begins our coverage with this report on the situation across europe. This is how spain is hoping to win the war on the Coronavirus Police are among the 1st to be tested but its hazardous work for the medical staff a large number of those testing positive Health Workers. In madrid where an ice rinks been turned into a makeshift morgue hearses arrived on thursday the death toll has risen to more than 4000 overtaking china. And italy still europes worst affected country the dead have been temporarily stored in churches before being sent for combination by army truck in a deserted European Parliament chamber the Commission President urged europeans to show solidarity several you countries including germany and france have banned exports of protective gear to avoid shortfalls at home ursula von deland warns the practice undermined europes joint response to the crisis we all share this responsibility none of us can do it alone and certainly no member state can handle this crisis on their own and because in this crisis and in our union more generally it is only by helping each other that we can help ourselves in paris Health Workers are conducting drive through testing in the streets frances death toll rose by 28 percent on thursday tracing the spread of the virus is vital for controlling it president mccrone is one of several World Leaders joining g 20 talks remotely hoping for a global approach to the pandemic on the same Conference Call the russian president Vladimir Putin he believes russia can defeat the virus in less than 3 months with tough measures the country will suspend International Flights from friday a moscow will close all shops except pharmacies and Grocery Stores a day later. In the british Capital Works continuing to convert a massive exhibition hall into an Emergency Hospital the number of people in the u. K. Who have died from the pie was just jumped by more than 100 in a day for the 1st time. The british vacuum cleaner make a dyson has now joined a growing number of Technology Companies developing ventilators to help the countrys health care system. Too great. British woman stark account of having the virus has been shared online cara mannering is 26 weeks pregnant. And then. The british governments promise to ramp up testing by the end of the week with hospitals in london told to expect a continuous tsunami of patients scientists are warning many countries in europe that the worst is yet to come. Out 0 of frances president has told european leaders of the very survival of the european project is at stake as it deals with the virus french hospitals are struggling to cope with its rising number of corona virus infections there are more than 25000 cases there and more than 1600 people have died and its also about the reports from western france. High speed trains converted into mobile hospitals Health Workers in eastern france load coronavirus patients into t. G. V. Carriages stopped by doctors and nurses and equipped with respirators the regions critically ill patients are being evacuated to hospitals in western france to ease pressure on the alsatian regions overwhelmed Health Services on wednesday the french president arrived at a new military Field Hospital in the eastern city of new lose a facility usually seen in conflict zones but for a man or macro not out of place in peacetime he says the fight against the coronavirus is a war. When you engage in war you engage fully you mobilize together i see divisions and fractures in our country doubts people who want to divide the country when we should have only one obsession to unite to fight the virus. It took the french army 4 days to build a network of tens that can receive dozens of patients in intensive care. If its a store because its the 1st time weve built the sort of structure thats been created specifically for covert 19. Is close to the german border its plight is motivated its neighbors to help several hospitals in germany switzerland and luxembourg have offered to take in french coronavirus patients at a time when so many countries in the e. U. Have shut borders it is a display of european solidarity. On wednesday german Emergency Services collected critically ill french patients and flew them to a hospital in freiburg this instructor with pilot to be able to help a french colleagues our neighbors our friends and irrespective of our location this is about our duty as humans and our desire to help as europeans. At night for bells across for all those rang out to thank the nations Health Workers for macro its imperative that people unite behind him and support his actions in this moment of crisis hes convince them to stay for 2 weeks but hes now expected to ask them to stay indoors for even longer. Aljazeera western france while 100 people in new york state have died from corona virus in the past 24 hours alone Governor Andrew Cuomo says officials are scouting for additional locations to expand Hospital Capacity but warns the state isnt prepared to handle the rising number of cases almost any scenario that is realistic will overwhelm the capacity of the Current Health care system we have approved the technology that allows one ventilator to serve 2 patients what they call splitting which is where you add a 2nd set of tubes to a ventilator to do 2 patients its not ideal but we believe its workable. And even though the city is under lockdown new york is struggling with a lack of police stuff nearly 3000 staff called in sick on wednesday just under 200 officers and 39 civilian employees have confirmed coronavirus cases the number of people off work is nearly 3 times the daily average a new figure so 3300000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week thats 5 times more than the previous record set nearly 40 years ago its the latest sign of just what effect the coronavirus is having on the economy businesses across the u. S. Have been forced to close the citys imposed lockdowns to stem the spread of the outbreak and in the past few minutes President Donald Trump has said g 20 leaders discussed the importance of sharing information on covert 19 in the United States is working with their friends and partners around the world to stop the spread of the virus and coordinate our efforts we discuss how vitally important is for all of our nations to immediately share information and data and weve been doing that to a large extent but well do it even more so in to inform or i guess you could save for me each of us on the flight that weve got going one way or the other its a little bit different but were handling it a little bit in different ways. But there is great uniformity i think we had a it was a terrific meeting lets remember brunells on what more the u. S. President had to say rob is joining us from los angeles so what was the take away message from the president. Well he had a great deal more to say but i think the most important thing was that the president repeated many times his desire to get the country back to work in short order city thinks it can happen very quickly he says that the American People want to get back to work and they are clamoring to get back on to work and he sort of indicated that he is going to move ahead with this desire to speed up the timetable for getting people back to work this has been contradicted in the past by his experts notably the National Institutes of health dr and fogey who said it is the virus that sets the timetable not policymakers and many experts and of people epidemiologists have indicated that to go back in an early just a couple weeks from now and remove the sort of social distancing that has been imposed across the country will result in more infections with corona 19 and more deaths but the president repeated that this is the United States of america we must work and well do it in the proper way interestingly he did not mention this april 12th easter. Date that he had floated last week as the date for everybody to get back to work but clearly he still wants to do that he also talked at length about this stimulus package and recovery package that passed the senate 2200000000. 00 trillion 1. 00 to 2. 00 trillion dollars. And is now heading towards the house of representatives. And will probably pass that quite easily on friday. So president again putting the mystic spin on the cruel and 18 pandemic and saying that he thinks things will be moving quickly in terms of work vaccines treatments and that everything should be. Back to normal sooner than most people have been saying they think it will all right rob reynolds thank you for that update from l. A. Well the past few minutes south africa has gone into lockdown for 3 weeks as it suffers a dramatic increase in corona virus infections a 6 fold rise in cases has been seen in 8 days taking the confirmed number of infections to more than 900 and thats the highest in Africa Police on the military have been deployed to enforce the lock down which includes bans on dog walking and alcohol sales from a similar joining us from johannesburg so now that the lockdown is in plays how people reacted in the lead up to it. Well catherine as been some confusion as to exactly what the lockdown means and what the restrictions will be weve seen government ministers spend the last couple of days trying to explain to South Africans what the restrictions are and this is really important at this time that its just you know a couple of weeks ahead of easter usually you have large Church Congregations you know you also have people take time off work a travel outside the provinces where they live moving to rule areas not all of this has to change so africans have welcomed this lockdown they do understand that its necessary but i imagine that it will take a couple of days for many people to abide by the restrictions because there is a lot to get used to there are police and soldiers on the streets ogust are expected to support Police Activities but even as we headed to the slope down at midnight South African time there were a large number of cars on main highways like the in floor this is a highway that leads to neighboring mozambique the government has said that Transportation Services especially with regard to goods like food will continue but that not anyone else can be on the road no one but essential services of people who work in the medical field to distribute food so they continue to be some confusion police have said that they will arrest people who dont abide by these restrictions possible a 6 month jail time or perhaps a heavy fines so the coming days really will be a test for South Africans with regard to just how well they abide by these descriptions all right thank you for bringing us that update from johannesburg. 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Hellish hours big they were in New South Wales and queens in the more or less going off shore there will be a few more i suspect in the next day or so but theyre not particularly widespread so youre more likely not together not to get them sydneys temperatures at 24. 00 degrees so its come down a bit with the onshore breeze in fact has warmed up in adelaide and melbourne and had a drop from what didnt turn out to be an equal record volume person down to 29. 00 in the forecast on friday also stay low was still snowing show breeze brings a few showers into that part of Western Australia weve still got coastal showers in queens and track records in particular is not as west it maybe should be but heres whats all the same and in new zealand you see the rain is curling up through wellington still fairly cloudy picture with a southerly breeze so were feel that warm significant rain is coming out of china various koza plaza gestes active so the system will bring proper rains through south korea more especially through japan all of japan it gets quite heavy the blue center there it tails all strew hong kong more or less the forecast for hong kong will be occasionally a sundry one but much of china at least until later on saturday will see suns told this is specifically hong kongs forecast fairly humid and turning windy by sunday. In the midst of a coronavirus pandemic china is in lockdown. One o one east reports from inside the quarantine talk of the nation on aljazeera. In one lifetime we cannot see everything with our own. Testimony we would know very little. Documentaries that open your eyes on aljazeera all. The way. The. The again the top stories on aljazeera this hour the number of new deaths from coronavirus has surged in spain in the last 24 hours by 655 bringing the total there to over 4000 in italy 712 new deaths have been recorded taking its death toll past 8000 and south africa has gone into a 3 week walk down this hour the country has more than 100 confirmed infections the highest in africa new figures showing 3300000 americans applied for Unemployment Benefits last week the highest ever reported number as published by Johns HopkinsUniversity Shows the u. S. Now has more confirmed cases of corona virus than any other country in the world and were taking you to the white house where they call on that task force is giving their daily News Conference on the coronavirus pandemic and that is dr Deborah Burkes the White House Coronavirus response coordinator lets a silly quite important if you remember that was the report that said there would be 500000 deaths in the u. K. And 2200000 deaths in the United States theyve adjusted that number in the u. K. 220000 so half a 1000000 220000 were looking into this in great detail to understand that adjustment. Im going to Say Something thats a little bit complicated but im going to try to do it in a way that we can all understand it together in the model either you have to have a large group of people who are asymptomatic who have never presented for any test in order to have the kind of numbers that were predicted to get to 60000000 people infected or of 6000000 people infected you have to have a large group of asymptomatic because in no country to date have we seen an attack rate over one in a 1000 so either were only measuring the tip of the iceberg of the symptomatic cases and underneath that are a large group of people so were working very hard to get that Antibody Test because thats a good way to figure out who are all these people and are here and do they exist or we have the transmission completely raw so these are the things were looking at because the predictions of the models dont match the reality on the ground in either china south korea or italy. We are about 5 times the size of italy so if we were italy and you did all those divisions italy should have close 2400000 deaths theyre not close to achieving that so these are the kinds of things were trying to understand models our models were adapting now to the react theres enough data now of the real experience with the coronavirus on the ground to really make these predictions much more sound so when people Start Talking about 20 percent of a population getting infected its very scary. But we dont have data that matches that based on the experience and then finally this is to ation about ventilator we are reassured and meeting with our colleagues in new york that there are still i. C. U. Beds remaining and theres still a significant over a 1000 or 2000 ventilators that have not been utilized yet please for the reassurance of people around the world to wake up this morning and look at people talking about creating d. N. R. Situations do not resuscitate situations for patients there is no situation in the United States right now that warrants that kind of discussion you can be thinking about it in a hospital certainly many hospitals talk about this on a daily basis but the say that to the American People to make the implication that when they need a hospital bed its not going to be there or when they need that ventilator its not going to be there we dont have an evidence of that right now and its our job collec