To passes the house of spain even as the president continues his war of words with the World Health Organization. And hungry and hopeless the pandemic is impacting food supply for hundreds of millions of people who depend on aim. Well we begin in yemen where a unilateral cease fire started 2 hours ago at midday local time the saudi u. A. E. Coalition fighting with the rebels say is the truth the truce will last for 2 weeks now its a fast time theres been a nationwide cease fire during 5 years of war the Saudi State News Agency reported the Coalition Wants to prevent an outbreak of coronavirus in yemen but the spokesman told us there they wont stop fighting unless the coalition lifts its siege on the country. Blog we are not going to observe a cease fire we will continue to fight so long as saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates are still using a siege on yemen the announcement by them is a continuation of war it is not a total ceasefire so long as the siege is not lifted all right through their Missile Systems or maritime. Air defenses including the drone who continue to target their military installations and industrial sites is nothing but a continuation of the coalition is just manipulating words either a total cease and he still sees an end to the siege continue. Well lets remind you how we got the 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 days and both sides agreed to pull their forces out of that area that ceasefire held until may of last year but then fighting resume and when the withdrawal from the data never actually materialized the Saudi Air Campaign continued and who the 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 people have been killed in yemen since the conflict began and its also led to a humanitarian crisis thats pushed millions to the brink of famine. In the yemeni capital sanaa for us mohamed it seems a potential glimmer of hope today whats the feeling there about what kind of a difference this might make on the ground if any at all. As you mentioned the and more than one occasion that the saudi arabia has declared unilateral cease fires also or the whole these from their side has called for. Also in the previous time the called in more than one occasion that they will hold a unilateral ceasefire and also but on the ground the 1st confrontations and also the continuation of the war that has been that has leveled most of the countrys infrastructure to the ground also the continuation of this war has impacted greatly the millions of yemenis. According to the Union Nations statistics nearly 3000000 yemenis have been forced to leave their homes and also they have been forced into into displacement and also into hunger so the many hope this. Unilateral ceasefire will hold this place where they are hold these according to the spokesman he made he made it clear that the they will continue their fights against saudi arabia and its. Quality tional ordered. The receive all of the saudi arabia and its allies made their demands which are the top priority for them that the. The total cessation of military operations on the ground and also the total left of the sea despite the current. Demand for the lifting decision many yemenis hope that the receiver there would continue because of that has prevented the spread of the coronavirus now human according to the w. H. O. Still free from this Global Pandemic but hopefully that many yemenis will with the chronic diseases continue to die because they couldnt we couldnt travel outside yemen for treatment. There on the ground for us in santa thank you. Thank you appreciate it. Well now moving to developments in iraq where intelligence chief moose stuff is the latest to be asked to form a government now earlier Prime Minister designate. Withdrew his candidacy he had until april 15th to form a cabinet but there was mounting opposition from some parties to his candidacy well lets now go to Simona Fulton who is live for us in the capital baghdad simona do we know whats prompted this. Well in his resignation speech the former Prime Minister designate of 9 hours said that he failed to mobilize sufficient Political Support in his words quote iraq is going through a catastrophe unquote and that Situation Requires widespread political consensus for the next government now. The situation on ravelled rather quickly until a few days ago and then i was late for the previous candidate was rather confident that he could form a new government and get it through parliament but then we saw several parties withdraw their support which led him to withdraw his candidacy today now the reasons why because if he was unable to form a new government during their various potential factors for that one of them is that president barham saleh nominated another sort of the independently without the input of the Political Parties which is some just quite a constitutionally gray area its unclear whether he was actually allowed to do that or whether he should have waited for the political blocks to put forward a nominee another reason is that many Political Parties especially those who are close to iran said that those fears are very close to the u. S. And that they would not accept him now what is interesting is that the new nominee. The me he is also seen as being very close to the United States and yet he appears to have galvanized sufficient Political Support for now we saw quite a lot during his appointment which is that Many Political leaders from the major parties were gathered there in the president ial palace to witness his nomination which suggests that he has widespread Political Support but it remains to be seen what happened to the next 30 days as we have seen throughout the past months is that things can change very quickly and it will all depend to what extent was part of me can really appease the different political powers in the forthcoming negotiations and things can change very quickly and simone i watched all these months of demonstrations that began all the way back in october so where does all of this now leave the protest movement itself. Well the protest movement has gradually dissipated over the past few months for various reasons most recently because there has been a curfew in place for over 3 weeks now to try to stem the spread of the coronavirus here in the country and as a result of that were only seeing a few dozen protesters who have dug in their heels here in baghdad for example in the square which has been the epicenter of the protest movement but even before the coronavirus pandemic weve seen a gradual decline in numbers the movement has really struggled to come up with leadership they have really struggled to force the government to listen to their demands the demands which centered really around achieving far reaching political change achieving and over a complete overhaul of the political system and that is unfortunately not what has really come to pass what we have seen is that all of the candidates who have been put forward as Prime Ministers have been part of the political establishment and that includes the current nominee most to me he is currently the chief of intelligence and hes very much part of the Political Class the Political Class that those demonstrators have rejected for months so as the protest movement appears to dwindle the prospects for far reaching change appears to be growing ever more fenn simona fault and there for us watching all those developments from baghdad thank you senator. Well turning to developments in the corona virus pandemic now and the United States has recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the virus for a 2nd day as officials warn the outbreak is yet to peak where the total number of fatalities is now almost 15000 surpassing spain to now become the 2nd highest in the wild after italy now even as that toll mounts president on trial is yet again 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 the virus hit the u. S. President trump 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 dont 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 youd be framed from politicizing it it would lose him 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 and close the borders despite him and that was a hard decision to make at the time were all together made a decision against the World Health Organization 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 couric when ignoring the warning by many specialists that unsourced medical advice could prove dangerous zinc they say is ink the shit is zinc now and 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 all predictions that it will not be needed my kind of aljazeera washington. Well still ahead on al jazeera millions of indians ordered to wear masks in public in turning those in the 2 biggest cities new delhi and mumbai. Have it probably feels quite cold in tokyo the temperature about the average but you keep getting this Wind Community in the northwest as a circulation thats been bringing star recently now i was just talking about a few rain showers as you can see stabs in the seventys sapporo despite being 16 in tokyo throughout china has a big spread now of clouds and rain developing as far north almost 0 see as fast as eventually as hong kong but the concentration the heaviest stuff is certainly in Southern China tension beijings recovered to about 22. 00 in the sunshine and shanghais like to be around the 14 mark in re that finger rain stretching through south korea and towards honshu we have seen an increase in the number of showers in india particularly in the Northeast Corner not what the satellite would suggest so what the forecast suggests as well obviously for most places were looking at a slow increase in temperature of the stuff exaggerated still 39 not to occasional showers particular down in kerala but theyre not particularly extensive just yet once again for levant wind off the eastern med which suggests about these trailing fronts keep seeing druther cooler was further south in the Arabian Peninsula for example in doha rup to 40. Survival for haitis poorest depends on illegal charcoal production. But for park rangers sworn to protect the dominican forests it can have deadly consequences. Witness discovers the head in worlds where the stakes for the environment and those who make their living from it couldnt be higher. Death by a 1000 cuts on aljazeera. The arab. Hello again im the star and a reminder of our top stories this hour the saudi u. A. E. Coalition has begun a 2 week unilateral ceasefire in yemen to prevent a coronaVirus Outbreak but a spokesman has told al jazeera they will not stop fighting unless the coalition lifts its siege on the country. Iraqs Prime Minister designate has quit intelligence chief mustafa me as the latest to be asked to form a government. Until april 15th to form a new government although there was mounting opposition from some parties to his candidacy. The u. S. Has recorded nearly 2000 new deaths from the coronavirus for a 2nd day this comes as President Donald Trump and the head of the World Health Organization have entered into a war of words over the handling of the pandemic. Well more than 600. 00 people have died in spain just in the past 24 hours thats fewer than the previous day with the rise in new infections also slowing but now a total of more than 15000 people have died since the outbreak began there and more than 150000 have been infected spain is extending its state of emergency until april 26th with parliament set to approve that move in the coming hours and also herero has moved from the dredge. But were talking about very high figures spain still remains the 2nd country with the largest number of people infected from part of ira so though we are celebrating a little bit 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 152000 people infected from cope with 19 in the past 24 hours so these 2 figures are really worrying and people are not celebrating as as i mentioned before we have to be very cautious this is a very slow down trend were seeing despite the 2 pasties this figure is increased but still waiting to the extent of spoiling it 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 pro independent and Catalan Party so we know this it wont be b. N. Top of the list and his state of emergency. British Prime Minister baraks johnson remains in intensive care for a 4th day but his condition is said to be improving government ministers say he is now able to sit up and talk to his doctors the current virus death toll in the u. K. Continues to surge with nearly a 1000 deaths reported on wednesday. Well its really has suffered a higher toll than any other country in the wild with more than 17000 deaths speaking to aljazeera Prime Minister said it was simply not prepared for the extent of the outbreak the worst for him and we are 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 we to few weeks to adapt the situation nor was it possible to purchase ventilators at the required speed and then well the coronavirus poses a major threat to vulnerable populations around the wild but humanitarian agencies say that restrictions put in place to prevent the spread of the disease also making it increasingly difficult to deliver aid to those who need it the most. Reports. In syria the closure of schools because of the coronavirus pandemic is affecting for more than how children learn. Its also making it much harder for them to. We estimate that around 368000000 children around the world are at this moment not receiving meals because their schools are closed. The u. N. World food program and other humanitarian groups are doing what they can to continue distributing food for the syrian children and their families in many cases these are the poorest families that really depend on the fact that their children are going to school but getting much needed supplies to vulnerable populations is posing a challenge travel restrictions and border closures are making it much harder to deliver. Well workers on the ground in refugee camps like in northern kenya are introducing new physical distancing measures to protect people against the spread of covert 19. In coxs bazaar bangladesh where around 1000000 Rohingya Refugees live physical distancing is nearly impossible humanitarian agencies however say they are trying their best in the delivery of the humanitarian assistance itself so we have to be very very careful in ensuring that we dont become part of the problem but at the same time that we are responding to peoples needs and hopefully preventing as much impact as possible in places like the camps in bangladesh where they are the most Vulnerable People in the world its not just the threat from cope at 19 causing concerns humanitarian operations that are already happening before the cove in 1000 need to continue there are people who desperately need