True all of the country new yorks mayor criticizes the trumpet ministration over a lack of Virus Testing kits. And other hears the taliban releases 20 state prisoners hours after more of their faces a set free by the afghan go. More than 75000 people died in europe after being infected with the coronavirus its the worst affected continent but there are signs of hope its only has recorded its lowest number of new deaths in more than 3 weeks although more than 430 people died on sunday that was a drop of almost 200 from the day before in spain the number of new deaths has risen but thats off the 3 days of declining fatalities officials there say its evidence that lockdown measures are working when im dead in the u. K. Has continued to rise crossing 10600 from minister Boris Johnson has been released from hospital he says his 3 days in intensive care could have gone either way. In the last 7 days i have of course seen the pressure that the n. H. S. Is under ive seen the personal courage not just of the doctors the nurses but of everyone the cleaners the cooks the Health Care Workers of every description physios radiograph was pharmacists who kept coming to work kept putting themselves in harms way kept risking this deadly virus it is thanks to that courage that devotion that duty and that love that our n. H. S. Has been unbeatable we have 3 correspondents this are keeping track of developments for us in europe are in the masses and london is in but dread but 1st lets try and francesco jump attorney and melana francesco there are signs of hope in italy that at last the corner may have been turned. Yes its hard to imagine that 431 thats in one day can be a good news but actually its close since this is the lowest daily number of fatalities in the last 3 weeks the total toll is almost 20000. 00 around one 5th of the entire world latest italys data confirm a slight growth in positive cases 2 there are 4000. 00 more than yesterday for a total of 156000 since the outbreak but experts and scientists warn that these numbers done make much sense anymore here where the outbreak has gone to faster than the possibility of testing have or want needed the actually infected could be 10 times more than confirmed cases and stories of people with covered 1900 times died without been tested are hundreds specially here in the northern and hardness in regions so the most important and reliable data we have at the moment concerns of patients in intensive care units its an encouraging figure as theyve been decreasing for a week now hospitals are breathing again an italian see glimmer of hope even though the emergency is not over the government 2 days ago accented the lockdown until the 3rd of may when it will be almost 2 months long the president of the republic sentiment that iowa yesterday addressed the nation and invited everyone to stay home for easter too with these words we glimpse the concrete possibility of overcoming this emergency efforts we have been doing for a month our pain after what we can stop now francesco jabatan a reporting live from the man many thanks indeed francesco lets cross through matter had 0 in madrid for us to the number of dead in spain in the last 24 hours has risen but the infection rate has dropped significantly. Yes the investment before our sustaining has we just did 609000 new fatalities from call it 19 to 3 days lowering and has recorded all of all the 1000 new positives the lowest number of infections in the last 3 weeks so were seeing how these the slowdown trend is reflecting that all these look down measures taken by the government of the of reflected in the in the into trend so tomorrow thousands of spaniards are going back to work we have to remember that 2 weeks ago the government he post to a lot o. Measures due to the collapse of the Healthcare System such as trying to avoid these collapse they have bad non essential workers our economy meaning that only supermarkets will be does of those fantasies people related to to food delivery or public transport many months services were able to to be operational that was called the economy a better nation economy hibernation economy and tomorrow theyre going to start lifting this measures only people that cannot work remotely and people that have not been in touch with other people to have been infected or relatives have to stay at home of course and other people are will have to go to work by their own means adding case that take that public transport because this is one of the hot spots of the spread of the current of ours are going to be handing out masks they also the government has said has given the protocol of the guidelines of the companies in order to from corporate their workers tomorrow so they need to supply to the workers. Protecting it with meant id have to do montagne a social distance of 2 meters between each worker based leaved of the of the lockdown has caused a lot of controversy here between where im on and experience and other Political Parties saying its very early to leave this long down but the government is saying that they are there. Attending what the Walker Health organization has said and theyre being cautious that still we have to say thats a nice economys in a really dangerous situation of a critical situation we havent seen this big scenario seems since the seamless panacea were we have to remember that we lost 900000 jobs in just 2 weeks at yet a march and its been the biggest loss of jobs since the civil war as ive said to lower the sectors that have been more damage talk obstruction and manufacturing 2 of the sectors that tomorrow are going back to work so many criticism for the Spanish Government for lifting this that down so early not at 0 joining us live from madrid lets go to london then and now to syrias met him the muslim merriam despite the number of coronavirus deaths rising above 10600 the countrys Health Minister says that the u. K. s Health System is not being overwhelmed. Well they have Spare Capacity so they have Critical Care beds they made a big that before this point in the crisis to add more and more intensive care beds theyve been building makeshift hospitals but people who work inside hospitals are unprecedented pressure right now this is the greatest challenge the n. H. S. Has faced in a century professor Stephen Powers the n. H. S. Medical director made that remark just yesterday and amidst all of this you have continued concern over the lack of personal protective equipment that these people met people who work in hospitals are constantly speaking out about this you had a stark warning from the British Medical Association saying supplies in some places mentioning specifically london and yorkshire in the north of england these supplies are running dangerously low just when you merges he is about to get worse so this continues to be an issue theyve even been reports of hospital workers purchasing their own protective gear online from china or on e Bay Hospitals trying to acquire gear themselves so there is a great deal of pressure at the government to say that its doing everything they can theyve purchased millions of bits of kit and then they even use the military to try and expedite those deliveries but it seems as though its just not getting to where it needs to be and then obviously because there is a great its a model Health Service in this equipment has probably been used at a faster rate than it otherwise would be so you do have a situation where gallons of goggles and face masks are running low and the Health Secretary was pressed on this issue today. Daily with delivering millions of items to the front line now i know that the Big Questions also about gallons in the last 2 days 121000 pounds have been delivered around the country and more are going out today and in the week to come up. So were working very hard to resolve all of these individual the just sickle challenges some are in Prime Minister is out of hospital but he will be going back to work any time soon. Now i think theres broad agreement that he needs to take some time out now to really try to recover from this infection but it is positive news for the for the country that he has been discharged now from hospital and of course youre running a clip of the message that he posted on social media there a very emotional heartfelt message interesting that he was mentioning the names of some of the nurses who were taken care of him and made a point of mentioning that background that some of those nurses were from originally outside of this country of course now in terms of how government is going to work dominant rob the foreign secretary will continue to deputize for the Prime Minister so that there have been some real debate about this earlier in the week when Boris Johnson was admitted to hospital we kind of scope an extent of dominic robbs authority and whether he would be able to make decisions on things like the lockdown which is something the government is obviously very much focused on right now because it has been 3 weeks of lockdown now and it has come at a massive economic financial and social cost and of course to get out of this situation while continuing to contain the virus to suppress the virus is a crucial decision and a dilemma awaiting the Prime Minister when he gets back to work out a serious mariner magazine reporting live from london many thanks indeed maam. As weve been hearing there is growing concern about the lack of equipment for Health Workers in the u. K. The Royal College of surgeons says the daily 2 thirds of its members report shortages of personal protective equipment all p. P. Aids one in 3 surgeons say they lack the equipment they need especially in scotland and the north west of england overall half of surgeons doubt the paid have access to a covert 19 test if they needed one and more than 70 percent say the government will be unable to end the lockdown until widespread testing is available Royal College of nurses has asked its members to stop treating patients as a last resort if theyre not adequately equipped. Health care workers have died after contracting the virus while treating patients talk to emma coom is an n. H. S. Pediatrician she told us that despite the governments assurances the protective equipment is being delivered she and her colleagues still dont have what they need. I think its been really damaging to n. H. S. Morale this week to hear ministers trying to shift the blame for the lack of supplies of p. P. A. To the n. H. S. And was still suggests the plane may lie with n. H. S. Staff misusing the p. P. A. And i think what they said in the briefing certainly will be no condolence to the families of the n. H. S. Staff members who have lost their lives after becoming on well with cope with 19 nobody in the n. H. S. You know who wants to come to work to use more protection than they need we just need to keep ourselves safe last we do our job and its the job of government to make sure that we have the equipment we need to do our job safely and im sorry if ministers feel that they have supplied adequate p. P. N. H. S. Staff but thats simply not the case of what we are experiencing on the ground and dont want to be seen as heroes were not monsters we dont want to die in the line of duty we just want to be protected so that we can do our joke has been and get into an f. In the n. H. S. To rearrange the way we work to rearrange our hospital wards to redeploy start and train them differently and everybody in the n. H. S. Has been so flexible to enable that to happen and to be fair to government that is you know one area where we have had the backing that we need to reorganize the system so that is positive news. In the news hour from our series still to come on the program well hear from African Students in china who say theyre being targeted because of the coronavirus. A very unusual Easter Sunday for christians around the world the service is a streamed online. Some breaking news now the Worlds LargestOil Producers have agreed to the biggest ever cause in Oil Production demand for oil has plummeted amid the Coronavirus Crisis and with the price per barrel in response opec russia and oil of the Oil Producing nations of made a deal to reduce production by around 10000000 barrels a day in may and june our economics editor joins us now live via skype from london i mean they have to do this its in their own selfinterest to do so the kind of shot themselves in the foot really up. Hagen youre absolutely right they didnt need to do something but the pressure really came from the United States which once is the cut in production and a cut in production between 10 to 15000000 barrels a day why because the shale industry in the United States hes under under threat there is there could be up to about 70 odd companies that could fail because oil prices have dropped to 20. 00 a barrel currently were at about 33. 00 a barrel but that still isnt good enough for the shell producers they need shell a shell they need prices at between 40. 00 to 50. 00 a barrel there are 10000000. 00 Jobs Associated with this shell industry in the United States and thats a huge constituency for President Trump present trying doesnt need any more job losses in the last 3 weeks alone weve seen 17000000 jobs lost because of the pandemic so there really needs to be a bottom to this now the unite the saudi arabia and russia could have sustained. Price war for another 23 years maybe you dont because they have huge wealth which they have stored away in their cap in the in they bought foreign currency reserves and so they could have sustained this but the pressure was coming from other opec members as well you got to think of places like nigeria nigeria had set up but it will 59. 00 a barrel and so they have just turned to the i. M. F. And the world bank can request the 7000000000 dollars to see them through these and then it so is getting really crucial for those other nations in a similar position as well our Business Editor a bit earlier reporting live from london many thanks indeed ibid. New york has reported a further 758 deaths linked to the corona virus thats new york city mayor bill de blasio announced plans for new Community Testing sites but he says its contingent on supplies from the federal government we pleaded for weeks and weeks for the federal government provide testing up front in the kind of quantity that could have helped us contain this crisis and change the whole course of that we never got that help we continue to plead for more testing still has not come any in anywhere near the numbers that we need but we will not stop were continuing the conversations with the white house with fema demanding the testing we are the epicenter of this crisis we must have the testing to help us move towards that next phase where we get out of widespread transmission across a virus and move to a low level transmission on to Something Better lets go live now to washington and here as mike hanna joins us both new yorks mayor and the states governor highly critical of the federal government today. Indeed yes well President Trump has stated repeatedly that the u. S. Is doing really well in testing saying that more than 2000000 tests are being conducted however you heard there from the mayor of new york saying that there is a massive shortage of testing kits and pleading to Central Government to make good their promise to supply a sufficient amount now the issues not only about the testing kits its also by about the diagnostic test that is diagnosing those who may have had the disease and looking at that now these figures are essential to produce a set of data within which the country as a whole and states individually can plot the path of the virus and its been made very clear by Health Experts that without a full rollout of an effective Testing Campaign both testing for the virus and testing the diagnostic side of that then there cannot be any clear decision on when to open up society and when to lift the lockdown either in the country as a whole or in individual parts of the country there is insufficient data at this particular time say the Health Experts to make any form of informed decision about lifting the closure mike i just got to get your thoughts on one of a video message that President Trump tweeted earlier during which he urged americans to stay at home to defeat what hes now describing as a plague take a look this used to will be much different than others because in many cases will be separated physically only from our churches we wont be sitting there next to each other which wed like to be and soon will be again but right now were keeping separation were getting rid of the player gets a plague on our country like nobodys ever seen is this a change in tact from the president like. Well it is from 2 weeks ago when he was saying that he hoped that the country is open again by Easter Sunday which is today april the 20 the president has been consistent in terms of saying he wants a lockdown to end this quickly as possible as do most people in the country and he has been insistent too that this has got to be weighed against economic concerns against the health and welfare of the nations people now there has been various reports that the white house is consideri