A pass is that of spain as the president continues his war of words with World Health Organization. Millions of indians ordered to wear masks in public including those in the 2 biggest cities do you tell me in mumbai. And on time and i have all the sporting goods. And then how cross fit actually are staying active in isolation like competing online. We begin in yemen where a unilateral ceasefire is just started the saudi u. A. E. Coalition fighting Houthi Rebels says the truce will last for 2 weeks its the 1st time theres been a nationwide cease fire during the 5 years of war the saudis state news agency reported the Coalition Wants to. Venton our break of coronavirus in yemen the un has welcomed the ceasefire it says it hopes it will be extended to pave the way for direct talks of a push to end the fighting in yemen began in late 2018 when the 2 sides met for talks in sweden a truce was reached around the port city of her day there are both sides agreed to pull their forces out of the area with a cease fire held until may of last year fighting resume and when the withdrawal from 4 day that never materialized the Saudi Air Campaign continued and hooty forces began a series of drone strikes on targets in saudi arabia the biggest attack happened in september targeting Oil Processing plants in the east causing massive disruption to the kingdoms Oil Production more than 100000. 00 people have been killed in the m. And since the conflict began its also led to a humanitarian crisis thats pushed millions to the brink of famine. Now on to developments in iraq where intelligence chief or stuff carver me is the latest to be asked to form a government earlier Prime Minister designate ive known as sort of feet with drew is candidacy you have until april 15th to form a cabinet there was mounting opposition from some parties to his candidacy. Go straight now to simone afford to live for us in baghdad so did it just appeared to be too much of a Mission Impossible for us. Well indeed he faced mounting opposition from the spectrum of different Political Parties as he tried to form his cabinet now and none of the withdrawing his candidacy earlier today he was the 2nd Prime Minister designate to do so in just 6 weeks which just which just highlights how difficult it is at the moment in iraq to really find a candidate who can really foster agreement among all the different Political Parties and who can put an end to this political crisis that has been going on since december now which is when a caretaker Prime Minister either love them back the 1st resign since then weve had several proposals for the Prime Minister designate many constitutional deadlines have been missed and weve now had 3 people who were officially nominated to try to form the government and the latest of them is. The teligent steve who was appointed to do that today now for now it appears like he has the backing of the major Political Parties we saw that a lot of the leaders of these parties were in fact present when the president nominated him so it appears that the consensus has at least for now converged on most the for me but that still doesnt mean that hell actually get a vote in parliament because as weve observed throughout the past weeks and months in iraq things can change very quickly and what we will see in the coming days and weeks are negotiations between car the me the Prime Minister designate and Political Parties and how to form the government and whether or not he will actually pass in parliament it will depend on whether he can reach an agreement of those parties and give them what did they want in the new government how does all of this impact the protest movement. Well the protest movement has been gradually subsiding over the past months to 2 various reasons but most recently there has been a curfew in place for about 3 weeks now in iraq to stem the spread of the koran a virus and that has of course impact the protests of all these seen a few dozen protesters present into your square here in baghdad which has been the epicenter of the protest Movement Since his 1st began in october but it looks increasingly likely as though the demands of the protesters which centered around achieving comprehensive political change and really an overhaul of the political system that those demands may not be mad because all of the candidates that have been put forward as Prime Minister they are part of the political establishment and theyre not exactly the new faces that protesters have asked for to try to push forward far reaching reforms and to bring about systemic change in the country roy simona faulty in there thanks so much. United states has recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the krona virus for a 2nd day officials are warning the outbreak is yet to peak though the total number of fatalities is now almost 15000 surpassing spain to become the 2nd highest in the world after italy even as the toll mounts the u. S. President yet again is criticizing the World Health Organization mike hanna reports from washington d. C. A long line of ambulances queued outside a New York Hospital and Officials Say the peak of the pandemic has still not been reached its not expected to hit the city for several more days. Against the backdrop of the most deadly days since a virus hit the u. S. President continued his feud with the World Health Organization accusing it of initially minimizing the threat of the virus and responding sharply to that agencys director general who said that politicizing the virus could lead to more body bags please go on to politicize this virus it exploits the differences you have at the National Level if you want to be exploited and if you want to have many more body bags then you do it. If you dont want many more body bags then you the frame from politicizing it is were losing more body bags i think we would have done. And he would have been much better serving the people that hes supposed to serve if they gave a correct analysis and everything was i said china centric everything was going to be fine no human to human keep the borders open he wanted me to keep the borders open i close the borders despite him and that was a hard decision to make it the time were all together made a decision against the World Health Organisation i cant believe hes talking about politics when you look at the relationship they have to china so china spends 42000000 we spend 450000000 and everything seems to be chinas way thats not right its not fair to us and honestly its not fair to the world President Trump continued to endorse the use of the anti malaria drug hydroxy korak when ignoring the warning by many specialists that unsourced medical advice could prove dangerous zinc they say is ink the shit is zinc so has to be recommended by doctors physicians but they say zinc i want to throw that out there because thats where they seem to be having the best. Result and while the president was volunteering anecdotal medical advice new york city continued its preparations for what is to come fall and setting up a peeled hospital in a Downtown Church hoping against paul predictions that it will not be needed mike hanna aljazeera washington. Lets take you back to our top story been following the announcement by the Saudi Led Coalition in yemen over 2 weeks ceasefire lets bring in our guest mundell highty hes a hoot hes spokesman joins us live from santa we can speak to him now through a translator thanks for joining us so the Saudi Led Coalition the said theyll observe a cease fire will whole thing forces observe the scenes fire to. Thank you. Very quickly and if. We demand it of war. Calling to be lit. By coalition so the. Longer the war. On the. Coalition is. All around. You in the lead now and not. Genuine. Ok let me interrupt here and we understand from the who will not observe a cease fire for the next 2 weeks even if the Saudi Led Coalition does. So and its clear. Course not ours sorry could you repeat that so just to clarify you will not observe a cease fire. I learned this in the lab and now intervent is. Declination by them. To get their breathing space for their. Water d. M. Or theyre using force again and so with all due respect they are saying though they will observe a cease fire if they dont attack your forces for 2 weeks will the host sees also practice restraint or not. Know what. They happen and. A the longer this is. B a longer. Time of course. Imposing we will not observe a cease fire ok so its clear from your answer there you dont consider there to be a ceasefire what has to happen from your perspective for there to be a ceasefire. Longer not as i said. Directly. B to the. Posting on the other there now its made them. Warm im not a total cease fire. Without the lifting of the siege you dont consider there to be a ceasefire what would you say to the Health Officials who are saying there must be some kind of cost to the fighting for the sake of stopping the corona pandemic from claiming to more many more lives in yemen so yes. We. Have all got ride our middle child. 6 our maritime and you know down the road. We will continue to sort of target the military. 3 and so i. Think but i cant you know its not all. Listen the man is the leading. Man. Sees some holes then at the end of the otherwise the war will continue all right. Thanks so much for talking to us corona virus not just to threaten yemen new figures released in spain show more than 680 people have died in the past 24 hours thats fewer than the previous day with the rise in new infections also slowing a total of more than 15000 people have died since the outbreak began more than 150000 been infected spain is extending its state of emergency until april 26th parliament is set to approve the move in the coming hours. Go now to monitor in madrid so all observe it all indications are this lockdown will be extended how are people taking that. Well today in the past 24 hours just to have minister just released the fear is saying that the number of fatalities from cop at 19 went down to 693 i mean were talking about very high figures spain still remains the 2nd country with the largest number of people infected from one of our or so though we are celebrating a little bit of this slowdown still very very worrying figures because the death toll still overpasses the 15000 very worrying figures also the infected people in spain has reach one 152000 people infected from call it 19 in the past 24 hours so these 2 figures are really worrying and people are not celebrating as ive mentioned before we have to be very cautious this is a very slow down trend were seeing despite the 2 perhaps this figure is increased but still waiting to the extent to spawn them and is voting this 2nd extension 15 days 2nd extension of the state of emergency with the support of the most of the Political Parties except the stream far right. Independents and cattle and party so we know what is it will be n. Top of the list and his state of emergency Prime Minister but those 100 already aware that this will be extended it has to be done 15 days and 15 days approved by the spanish cabinet and then passed on to the Congress Like today so well see this extension but we will see these measures these lockdown will be will be east is will be other terms and conditions. Nonessential workers will go out to work on monday night so who would see a different time of lockdown and measures and taking place so we taught how to better standard also propose to do wrestle with the party a party deal for next week this didnt take place in spain since 977 during the transition of francos dictatorship to democracy you know whether to produce a national so if you cannot make a Recovery Program so maybe we see that taking place next week we still have to wait or i think someones about that other. The u. K. Prime minister baraks johnson remains in intensive care for a 4th day but his condition is said to be improving government ministers say hes now able to sit up and talk to doctors coronavirus death toll in the u. K. Continues to surge nearly a 1000 deaths reported on wednesday. The calendar joins us live from london so hes sitting out any word on when he might be going home. No not yet. 3 nights he spent in intensive care for nights in hospital i think its. Significant that the doctors. Politicians were saying late yesterday that he is now able to sit up and talk to his Clinical Team because by implication that suggests that for the previous few days he wasnt able to do this which i think gives you an idea as if being in intensive care wasnt enough how significant how. Bin laden. He is still there will still be there i think for a while to come unless things change significantly for the better. In his absence of course it is dominic robb the foreign secretary who is taking on most of the park Prime Ministers duties but the big question that people want answered at the moment is about whether or not the u. K. Persists in its lock down strictures the review period for that 3 weeks or so comes up next week and the government has indicated that perhaps things are going to continue with all these social distancing measures in place but its not able to make that commitment yet so i think most people assume that its its going to be that way the scientists who are of revising the government are saying that they need more data they need to see that flattening more before they can recommend that its time to lift the lockdown measures but there are fears that with nice weather predicted for this Easter Holiday weekends there will be more people out in the parts more people out on the Streets Police leaders around the country are actually asking for perhaps more measures weve put in place to try and persuade people that they should stay indoors or out roaring chans their sides and Thomas Hospital thanks for that. Italy has suffered a higher toll than any other country with more than 17000 deaths speaking to aljazeera Prime Minister decepticons they said it was not prepared for the extent of the outbreak. Were talking about a National Health system among the best in the world we provide treatment to all citizens and Foreign Residents and immigrants however the Health System is not qualified for this type of emergency we did not have enough beds to respond to this pandemic and wed a few weeks to adapt the situation nor was it possible to purchase ventilators at the required speed limit. Well i found cesco again but tony is in the land for us and so francesco the last few days weve heard some positive sounds about the numbers is the other number still declining at this point whats the overall picture looking like of new infections at least. Well just. From yesterday i had are in line with the past days there are fewer new ridges its 542 yesterday compared to the 604 of tuesday and the number of patients in intensive care units continues to degrees for the 5th day in iraq they went down by 9 percent in the last week so the emergency is not over yet but the pressure on hospitals is not as big as before there was a huge effort from the government. Or was saying however there was d a slight growth in total confirmed cases yesterday which are or was 140000 now the curve is almost flat in few days the authorities expect to see it going down the government is warning people to keep staying home these days even on sunday is there are on monday 2 very important family moment not just for the catalyst the catholics but for all the italians but while authorities huge to hold on and to respect the measures they are planning face to its the time for the nation to live with the virus and try to save the economy as possible this is one of the things that Prime Minister called those working on these days according to unofficial news it might be that the 2nd phase could be implemented in 2 steps some factories could go back to work from next week and the rest of the citizens depending on which region they belong could be allowed to leave their houses in shifts from the beginning of may using masks keeping the distance and also probably excepting some phone based counter tracing the committee of government scientific advisor suggests not to reopen schools students made. Go back to their classes only in september 1 month ago one month has gone since the beginning of of the lock down and lifted to march and sue lee is considered the highest risk at the moment all right thanks so much francesco. In france the School Outbreak or school right rather has begun in parts of the country the Easter Holidays coincide with warmer weather the french government is concerned people will attempt to go on holiday its warning citizens not to break the lock down and risk spreading the virus with ash about things violence. At a Railway Station in Paris French Police step up trolls under frances Strict Lockdown rules only essential travel is permitted the french authorities are concerned that the start of the school break and warmer weather could tempt some people to leave home to go on holiday but we put in place new measur