New Saudi Forces Intercept a missile over the top of the riyadh explosions are heard in Northern Areas of the city and 2 civilians are slightly injured. Welcome to the program the number of deaths is rising by the day billions are in confinement and the world is slipping into recession there are now more than 30000 deaths linked to the coronavirus in the u. S. More than 124000 people have now tested positive and around 2100 have died the centers for Disease Control has warned residents of new York New Jersey and connecticut against nonessential travel for 14 days well half of the total number of people who have died across the world come from just 2 countries in europe italy and spain the spanish army has now been asked to transport bodies because undertakers just cant cope and in india the fear of death due to start. Not the virus has led to a mass exodus of poor workers bus and train stations are crammed with people forced to return to their villages after a 3 week lockdown left them without work more on that later in the program but 1st the situation in the u. S. From rob reynolds. A day of president ial mixed signals attending the sailing of a Navy Hospital ship bound for manhattan President Donald Trump said he might impose a quarantine a new york and neighboring states that i am now considering will make a decision very quickly very shortly a quarantine because its such a hot area of new York New Jersey and connecticut will be announcing that one way or the other fairly soon trump said he had discussed the idea with new York Governor Andrew Cuomo cuomo said he didnt know what trump was talking about computers but of course if you have any indication thats possibility from the new york or no its going to happen has this conversation i dont even know what that means later on saturday trump put out a tweet backing away from the quarantine plan and saying i have asked the centers for Disease Control to issue a strong travel advisory to be administered by the governors in consultation with the federal government a quarantine will not be necessary. Who are in gene or not new york is in during dark times nurses protested outside a bronx hospital saying they havent got enough protective equipment were incredibly frustrated and we know that the federal government cant give us these resources corona virus has killed more than 500 people in new york and infected tens of thousands all across the country more states are ordering people to stay home including in rhode island i am issuing a stay at home order for all people in rhode island the order will be in place from right now until april 13th and in kansas inza still has not received word what we need from the federal government this is used in texas and its part of the new face of america deserted streets parking lots and public spaces part of a country under siege. Rob joins us by skype now from Los Angeles Rob beyond new york state whats the situation now in other states across the country. Good to talk to you the situation is not good side of new york in fact all cross the country received rising levels of death and rising numbers of concerned cases this was in fact the deadliest day in u. S. In the u. S. During the pen demick so far with nearly 250 deaths recorded there are outbreaks in places like detroit and here in california where the governor and the mayor of los angeles say that los angeles will be where new york is now in a matter of perhaps 2 or 3 weeks chicago is being affected philadelphia is being affected new orleans is being very badly affected the number of confirmed cases there doubled over the past couple of days one of the lawmakers from the state of louisiana where you are lets is the largest city said that the beds would that hospitals will run out of ventilators respiratory equipment by thursday of next week and so in general this is spreading very rapidly all across the country as you heard in the report more and more states are declaring stay at all or are telling their people to just stay indoors all of the parks here in los angeles have been closed the beaches the parking lots of the beaches of been closed people are being told not to go out very far from home so it is a country shutting down and doing so rapidly with an unknown view towards whats going to happen next there and i to rob reynolds that live for us from Los Angeles Rob thank you for the update well as you mentioned on the hoffa board thats globally come from 2 European Countries that spain and its an e as never the case in the such numbers is reaching a peak put by and has this report. Such is the scale of this crisis there is a risk that the numbers start to lose meaning and the deaths become minister to sticks to be noted but scarcely mourned but in italy there was no escaping scenes like these on saturday in St Joseph Church in syria the coffins containing 45. 00 coronavirus victims laid out in rows to be blessed this group just half of the 90 parishioners these priests have attended in recent days is there they took. The authorities no longer knew it but the coffins the saddest thing is that these bodies left so naked so alone they were people who died where no one could see or hear them without the possibility to talk to their loved ones so that anyone who could comfort them spain now has more than 5000 dead from the virus with more expected emergency military units is undertaking an extraordinary task to disinfect care homes and hospitals train stations and city center streets. Meanwhile spanish medics struggle to avoid being overwhelmed by sheer numbers of patients falling ill combined with their own fatigue and shortages of staff and equipment. As the numbers dying and infected rise relentlessly across europe restrictions and stay at home orders are turning busy cities into ghost towns those who venture outside face being stopped at Police Checkpoints and risk heavy fines russia has begun what it calls a nonworking week with shops and bars ordered to close Tourist Attractions of 2 with dramatically reduced crowds in the center of moscow and in ireland new tighter restrictions came into force on saturday all public and private gatherings of any number of people outside a single household or living you are prohibited the virus might be in your household already so please dont spread it to somebody elses. Back at St Joseph Church and said the ceremony is finished and the military transport takes over no gleaming houses no flowers no weeping relatives just a solemn convoy and a final salute from a roadside policeman paul brennan aljazeera. When all the french Prime Minister has warned the next 2 weeks will be the hardest yet as his country struggles to slow the spread of the virus france reported more than 300 deaths linked to corona virus in the last 24 hours pushing the total past 2000 the government has not extended lockdown measures until mid april. In india the worlds biggest lockdown is having a huge impact on millions of workers often losing their jobs many of bus and train stations to return to their home states and thats raising fears the virus could spread false step elizabeth purana reports now from new delhi. Exodus that hasnt been feedin india in decades. Thousands of Migrant Workers are on the move most of them on foot and. Among them. Was walking 650 kilometers through the state of the british art of the clothing shop at which she worked as a tailor with closed. We are taking all of the precautions that the government told us to we wash our hands you sanitize it we have masks dont talk to people and keep a distance but what about the governments responsibility to us at least well have something to eat and drink and harm. There are 120000000 Migrant Workers in india many of whom a daily wage earners. After this is shot many like kid could no longer afford to pay rent shes traveling 300 kilometers with a young child being been severed. Weve been sitting here 3 days theres no food or water available here nothing no milk to give my child either. Human Rights Groups say indias lockdown has disproportionately affected migrant and daily wage workers you have that bridge is. Nearly a week after the Indian Government ordered all the bus and Train Services to stop. Stranding millions of Migrant Workers with their predations State Government started bosn workers from delhi on saturday. Shelters have been overrun with people whove lost their livelihoods chief minister admit that help hasnt reached everyone but hes urging people to stay in delhi. Please stay where you are whatever problem you have i promise you that you wont face any difficulties weve organized your food your accommodation were organizing not shelters and schools. Food hundreds of schools that might shelters will be used to feed 400000 people but that promise isnt enough for many who just want to be home and its not just delhi that people are leaving 300 Migrant Workers but found trying to cross the border between the states a felon got in my truck into container trucks and temperatures of nearly 40 degrees a lot down without any planning for indias millions of Migrant Workers and daily wage earners has led to a humanitarian emergency even before a Health Crisis elizabeth purana aljazeera new delhi for china has confirmed 45 new cases of the virus on the mainland with all but one involving travelers from overseas officials have also reported 5 new deaths all of which are and will happen with a virus was 1st detected the citys branch may coming back to life as authorities ease a lot donald sarah joins us live now from hong kong so whats the latest across china as a city of new hand as we saw that poppy reopens. Well you mentioned the 45. 00 new cases which the latest figures coming out of china and this is obviously the new battleground because 44. 00 of the 45. 00 cases were travelers returning to china from abroad so china has put in place some pretty heavy restrictions now on foreigners foreigners will be banned from entering even if you have a visa or some type of permanent resident status youll be denied those who are exempt a flight crew and diplomatic staff and humanitarian people working in humanitarian industry on assignment to china can actually apply for exemptions but otherwise its pretty tough new restrictions on any foreigners trying to access china and thats what chinas trying to stop is the next wave of infections from abroad and the chinese and Foreign Airlines have already had their flights basically limited to one per week and those flights do into china and they must be limited to 75 percent capacity and you mentioned as well that the were starting to reopen or partly reopen we had on saturday the traffic started to return the roads were reopened and we had at least 260 trains inbound trains that arrived in hand so people arriving into that city of course this is the epicenter of the crowd a Virus Outbreak they can arrive but they cant leave for an hour so its a partial lifting of this lockdown the airport will reopen i put ive and thats when the city will try and return to normal and people will be able to depart after being in isolation or in a city thats been sealed off since january and sara youre there in hong kong which is enforcing new laws to make people stay at home which come into effect on sunday what more can you tell us. Well on saturday hong kong reported the 2nd highest number of infections are so far 64 infections or cases that 22 of them or 3rd were students returning to hong kong from overseas and again this is the same battleground that china is fighting the 2nd wave of infection and as of sunday today Hong Kong Government put in place are some more heavy restrictions on social distancing basically saying theyve shut cinemas and all varies in time it centers least 2 weeks and also theyve said that any people gathering of more than 4 is a legal and will be tough penalties imposed if you do breach that as well as jail sentences and its encouraging the restaurants at 50 percent capacity the tables must be 1. 5 minutes apart and this again is the government trying to limit the people going outside to try and stop the social that would stop the social interaction for at least 2 weeks that we have quite a big chain mean festival thats on saturday i for this is called the term sweeping gathering and this is where the people go to symmetries to visit their ancestors and this time this year the government is asking families in hong kong to postpone their plans or to serve a clog in Hong Kong Sara thank you for the update. Time for a short break here not just iraq when we come back soup kitchen has become a lifeline to argentinians on the lockdown for many its their only chance to eat once a day plus switching off shall be Global Pandemic is changing the way some of you in this years morning stay with us. At oh theres still plenty of rain in the full cost of northern sections of the United States saturday is the day for the severe thunderstorms and there could still be a few in the full cost into the south as we continue through the last apostle of the weekend you can see this line of rain showers here that is where we could see some will severe storms but really the bulk of the rain that will continue his journey through the upper midwest and pushing east in canada we could still see some snow in that as well out towards the west United States all the way from seattle right the way down to l. A. Its a case of scattered rain showers but really working their way through the interior may even just see a few snow flurries into the Northern Rockies and then as we go through monday its not a bad day across the northeast that system plays out of the picture 21. 00 celsius in d. C. With some good sunshine but youll notice this blue hey this mass once again developing pushing out to texas and again that could be since the storms developing as we go through the beginning of the week still the showers across the Pacific Northwest but a much nicer than l. A. With a high the of 23 celsius on the some pretty good sunny skies mostly common cause across much of the caribbean want to scottish showers again into Northern Areas of the Dominican Republic tama doesnt see bad generally clear skies right cuba also to the north into the bahamas so a nice day with a high of 25. On counting the cost as the Global Economy heads for recession the dollar creams be the enemy currency resilient the coronavirus india grapples with a Financial System riddled with bank thats indonesia cold in the middle of an all price. Counting the cost on ill just leave them. Understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world certainly to hamley take it well bring you the news and Current Affairs that matter to you. Welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here this hour the u. S. Centers for Disease Control has warned residents of new York New Jersey and connecticut against all nonessential travel for 14 days President Trump had earlier considered putting the region under quarantine. Meanwhile across europe the number of virus related deaths continues to climb more than 10000. 00 people have now died in italy last spain has reported its highest number of deaths in a single day pushing the total number to over 5000. Millions of workers in indias major cities are scrambling to find ways to return home amid a countrywide lockdown many have lost their jobs some are even walking hundreds of kilometers of the public transport was suspended thats raising fears the virus could spread faster. Now the pandemic threatens to wreck the worlds most cash strapped countries in argentina 2 years of recession have resulted in an Unemployment Rate of almost 10 percent and thats expected to rise significantly after some of latin americas strictest lockdown measures were imposed to reasonable reports from but as our us. The streets of argentinas capital when a site is are empty these days after the government imposed a look down in the country but soup kitchens like this one cannot afford to shut down. Constanza says the amount of people coming year has doubled in the past few days and the local guy called mia people used to come here and sit down they could take a shower and spend some time things have changed but the amount of people coming has doubled many cant work and cant survive with the lock down and others live on the streets. Here argentinas economy was already struggling with recession and the possibility of default on its sovereign debt before fighting the covies 19 became a priority for this countrys government life is difficult for many in argentina his days as a rise of unemployment from poverty and the impact that the lockdown cost vive a corner virus is having and the economy for many coming to this place is the only chance they have to eat at least once a day job or certainty that he will be out yes but its not just the poor that i belong affected the most are going on silas works as a taxi driver in the city he says hes worried with the impact 1000 could have in the country but hes unsure how he will survive if the lockdown continues hes 60 years old and this taxi is the only way he has of making a living. Or youre going to get your big moment situation is very very serious i have to pay a rent and i cannot make any money im not sure what is g