Financial fallout. In the Pandemic Forces the democratic republic of congo to shut down its capitals Main Commercial hub. In the union that represents more than 80000. 00 athletes says many sports are facing a financial catastrophe the world Close Association says League Seasons need to be finished in order to avoid huge losses. The global death toll for the coronavirus has now hit 70000 with 50000 of those reported in the year of comes as britains Prime MinisterAbbas Johnson spent sunday night in hospital with continuing symptoms 10 days after he tested positive for covert 98 a spokesman said it was a precautionary measure and that johnson is still leading the government hes having routine tests and is reported to be in good spirits on the. On the evening that Queen Elizabeth made a rare televised address to the nation she urged the british people to remain united and resolute to overcome the outbreak numbers released from spain show the daily death toll is continuing to fall 637 people died there in the last 24 hours thats down nearly 40 from the previous day japanese Prime Minister shinzo r. B. I. Has begun steps towards declaring a state of emergency as in fiction so across major cities we have 4 correspondents joining us this news hour malcolm webb will be live from nairobi to bring us more information on lockdown measures the governments broughton in the d. R. See complete help it is a washington d. C. With more on the fight against covert 19 across the u. S. Stomach cain is in berlin to tell us how germany is taking a leading role in helping other e. U. States thatll be our break but 1st lets go to rory chalons whos outside St Thomas Hospital in london thats where Prime MinisterBoris Johnson is under observation so rory do we know how hes doing do we have any more information. We have had. A briefing from one of his spokespeople in the last hour or so and weve also had some tweets room Boris Johnson himself his Spokesman Says he has had a comfortable night that he years as he said under observation asked about whether he was going to carry on leading the government he said yes thats exactly what hes doing that the Prime Minister continues to receive his box of work. Any decision that requires action from the Prime Minister that will happen. But the Prime Minister has handed over to dominic rob the foreign secretary the chairmanship of the daily 90 meetings now of course there are going to be questions about how much exactly Boris Johnson can be an effective head of the government when he should be doing what any rightful minded doctor would say he should be doing and getting rest getting rest and having all the medical tests that need to be done his work should be 2nd place to that but the downing street line is that hes carrying on with his is his day job essentially also there is a big question about what his real state of health is although downing street is playing this down saying that its just that he has persistent symptoms of coronavirus thats why hes going in for routine tests when asked whether Boris Johnson had pneumonia the spokesman didnt answer properly and basically said no he just has but i didnt say no says the has persistent symptoms of coronavirus wouldnt be wouldnt go into any more detail about whether one of the most serious parts of the corona virus infection pneumonia is something that the Prime Minister has to do and rory i believe were expecting a briefing in the coming hours from the u. K. Government in terms of numbers of chronic virus cases but what do you know in terms of when the apex is expected to hit. Well we dont know for sure and thats this what the scientists are looking at all the number crunchers the Data Processing all of these. Numbers that come in the daily death toll but more significantly when it comes to working out the trajectory of this epidemic in the u. K. Whats the number of new infections are every day and what they want to see is that number of new infections starting to plateau and over the last few days they have suggested that they are seeing signs that it is it is still going up near infections but its not going up by that much and that would suggest that the this thread of the virus is starting to slow you might get regional variations in london it does seem to be coming down but in other parts of the country perhaps its not so much yet and of course it will take a while for that to filter through to bringing the daily death toll down because the deaths that were seeing at the moment they are to do with infections that happened perhaps 10 days 2 weeks ago thank you for that update rory chalons there live from london. Germany has confirmed more than 100000 kroner virus cases but so far its managed to avoid fatalities on the scale of some of its european neighbors hospitals in several german regions are even treating coronavirus patients from italy and france the mccain joins us now live from berlin for more so dominic germanys helping others less fortunate during this pandemic tell us more. Yes solidarity is very much the key word here from the government that stretches as far to European Partners as as he was saying taking in patients from countries that are really struggling to deal with those with the severest symptoms of corona a man minister has seen in ministers are making a financial all too European Countries assistance that is saying that the european stability mechanism a mechanism thats been in place for much of the last decade should be applied so that countries such as spain and he said he can immediately drawn down funds to help them to fight corona to fight the problem that theyre facing and its many millions of euros were talking about here is something in the region of about 70000000000 almost immediately in these countries could draw down but they are in the film on loans not in the form of grants thats the sort of thing that these governments are really trying out for some sort of new Marshall Plan for European Countries in other words the sort of scheme that was bold stands by the victorious allies off the world wants you to help countries that are in terrible distress economically thats not what the germans are offering right now and that they have come a lot so that when they had previously been prepared to do and theres some suggestion here also is that the German Government is watching whats happening in austria in so far as corona is concerned because the government there its the best and puts it has said that soon in the next week youll so theyll start to relax some of the county and restrictions on movements and that sort of thing that have been in place and people here in germany are wondering whether they can look at whats happening in austria this very gradual paring down of the severe restrictions that maybe thats a way that gently might go forward so that people can start getting this is whats happening here john thank you for that update that doesnt hang live from than then. President donald trump has struck an optimistic tone at his daily Coronavirus Briefing saying an end to the break is in sight but with the number of deaths in the u. S. Approaching 10000. 00 Health Experts are warning the worst is yet to come out of jocasta reports conflicting messages from the president of the United States we see light at the end of the tunnel things are happening these are happening and the countrys Top Health Officials the next week is going to be our pearl harbor moment its going to be our 911 moment and its going to be the hardest moment for Many Americans in their entire life the u. S. Surgeon general warns many more people will die in the coming days the expected surge adding urgency to the cries of state governors asking the federal government for deliveries of life saving equipment so we governors republicans and democrats have been urging the president to do what he should which is if he wants to be a wartime president be a wartime president show some leadership mobilize Industrial BaseUnited States thats where the trump says ventilators from the federal stockpile are in route to several states and claims the u. S. Has conducted more coronavirus tests than any other country per capita though testing in the u. S. Is still far behind south korea and germany trump says the u. S. Has stockpiled 29000000. 00 doses of the antimalarial drug that is being used experimentally to treat kovac 19 the president says he has so much personal confidence in the treatment that it was his idea to have patients waiting for the right to sue if the drug ends up doing them harm thats why drugs the clerical and. Theres rhythm eisen. And again you have to go through the medical people get the approval. But. Ive seen things that i sort of like so what do i know im not a doctor so when reporters later tried asking the doctor anthony felt the governments top Infectious Disease expert trump stopped him from answering the weigh in on this issue of high drug seeker when what you think about this is one of the one of the limitations i maybe of his doctor 15 times. Meanwhile doctors and nurses across the country continue to plead for donations of more masks and gallons bracing for the apex of cases still to come castro aljazeera maryland can we help her joins us now live from washington d. C. Where the more carefully so having these mixed messages coming from donald trump to tell us whats the virus impact looking like across the country right now. Yeah the mixed messages arent really coming from donald trump but they are coming between his public Health Officials and the president the white hands of the president acting as the cheerleader well the public Health Officials are presenting what looks like a very dire picture moving forward this week and what were hearing in the midst of all this is the medical equipment is still not where it needs to be in the United States as we move into this very rough week and so this is been another opportunity for some of the president s critics particularly Chuck Schumer the top democrat in the u. S. Senate to kind of point out that this is a weakness in the overall white house strategy in terms of dispensing equipment and even utilizing the defense production act that in fact it might be better to have a military leader overseeing all of this and like a czar if you will this is something the white house has continually been pushing back on they continue to point to the fact that they do have a joint chiefs of staff planner now working with thema and that this is not necessary but the calls for that are growing ever louder and weve seen very public back and forth between the white house and capitol hill in the last few days now in the midst of all of this there is still also that sparring over the fact of miss of drugs and the fact that this death toll is expected to rise currently in the United States right now 3338000 cases were looking at 9600. 00 deaths those numbers climbing and of course we expect that this is in fact. Number that may not be even complete in terms of the picture given the fact there is lagging in testing and also the fact that many people in the United States are asymptomatic but are still spreading the virus so the u. S. President continues as you saw in that report to be a bit of a cheerleader in the last few moments he has been tweeting us a strong even in the midst of these very negative message and sort of the more realistic picture coming from his public Health Officials the president is continuing to say that things are going to get better when in fact we know that thats not the case for the next few days. Thank you for that thats complete health care live from washington d. C. The democratic republic of congos government has shut down the capitals of Main Commercial hub for 14 days. Is the epicenter of the nationwide outbreak many of the 12000000 people who live in the city will be impacted by the decision because they also work or do business in gombe the virus has infected 161 people and killed 18 nationwide lets get more now from market web joining us by skype from kenyas capital nairobi mall come talk about the d r c in a moment the 1st i want to ask you about kenya and the president has just appeared on television what more can you tell us about that what did he have to say. The president hears it and then some restrictions he trying to spread of coronavirus which from just a few hours from now mean well go there we know road transport already transport allowed here in nairobi also in all cities of mombasa and then khaleesi county these areas will be identified as the centers of the outbreak that was still waiting to find out more details on what exactly these restrictions will will mean and how people are going to be able to survive and eat and so one way to get more details but its meant to last for 14 days a complete block on all movements billows areas ok lets talk about the democratic republic of congo now the Government Shutdown the capitals Main Commercial hub tell us about that. Thats why police and soldiers shot down dawn may which is the Central Business district of inches on the banks of the river congo is where there are government buildings foreign embassies the headquarters of Large Companies and other commercial buildings but it actually makes a very small part of the city of kinshasa outside of the center city its just that largest city in africa about 12000000. 00 People Living in cramped conditions its low rise it goes on and on and on and its business as usual in most of the suburbs so closing down the government is certainly a very visible measure in the center of the city as cant see how this is going to stop the spread of the virus in all of those suburbs where millions of people are living in cramped conditions thank you for that update there malcolm webb live from kenyas capital nairobi. The pandemic is for schools around the world to close with students continuing the education on like many of them in some parts of africa are missing out because the resources just arent available catherine so i reports from an east in kenya where thousands of students and urban informal settlements and rural areas are struggling. Maybe we will skip this part this is the new normal in many schools in kenya we are not particular before the lesson starts and julius my sharia is settling into the idea that he might be remotely teaching his students for months my machine has honed some of the challenges we are experiencing. Is dealing with a few technology cliches and the fact that not all children might give 100 percent in vachel classes it will not take us through this light but he says a coronavirus has shifted the future of learning by jury to their mom no organising some groups that theyre doing their own discussions theyre doing discussions on zoom and getting teachers in ways that actually are unimaginable about 150 kilometers is stopped nairobi in which this parent homeschools he still has her. He uses a Television Learning Program started by a Government Institution but its not easy you know the program which is coming. Up with the laughter because sometimes the kids want to. Sometimes they. Want to go have tens of thousands of students across the country and now adopt into virtual studies on t. V. Radio or online but many have no electricity internet or devices to keep up state School Students are suffering the most in 2030 in the government promised free laptops to primary schools saying it would gradually expand the program to secondary schools but our project has been slow to implement coronavirus has disrupted every aspect of Life Education has been badly affected by the disease and with schools now closed indefinitely many children are likely to lag behind in their studies. Re told by the reason he entered secondary school but now shes back home and her days full of housework and chores she lives with her mother and siblings and today the only mill they have is from mentored partridge in school should have had 3 hot meals senior and. I did have a working radio t. V. I dont even have a computer to listen to those learning programs im afraid when i go back to school ill be behind the children who have to devise is the only time buffett gets to revise is just before sunset and only for a little while because once darkness sets in shes limit had with no electricity and money to buy solar land tents she uses flashlights her story echoed by many others across the country Katherine Sawyer aljazeera east and kenya. Leaders have been locked in a dispute over how to share the burden of the financial fallout from the outbreak one proposal is calling for the use of a Financial Mechanism called corona bonds but germany has been reluctant to be a part of it instead its coming up with a plan of its own lenders looking at guaranteeing all loans made by banks to Small Businesses thats on top of