During a virtual session of parliament. Waving the red flag of the poor in colombia are demanding help to get them through the Coronavirus Crisis. The special precautions this already isolated out to communities taking protect itself from the pandemic. And install one of the premier league main broadcast partners wants to block the saudi takeover of Newcastle United qatars been sports says the saudi government and the legal channels are still game rights and thats threatening the leagues financial future. Its 1500. 00 g. M. T. And we start in iran where its revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space after successfully launching its 1st military satellite into orbit. The u. S. Has accused iran in the past of using its Space Program as a cover for Missile Development and President Donald Trump without addressing the launch directly is threatening to destroy all the rain and gun boats which he says have been harassing us ships at sea. Ports. On wednesday morning the will to news of a secret operation carried out by the Islamic Revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central doesnt it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. The nur or light is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives irans military new strategic advantages or that. It is a necessity for such powerful Defense Forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of the world have no comprehensive defense plan if they dont have a place in space today we can monitor the world from space and it means boosting strategic data for the i. R. G. C. Putting the satellite into orbit gives us the technological advantages and is also a powerful asset in the intelligence war in iran has put satellites in space before but the success of the noor comes after several failures in recent years its expected to be used for intelligence gathering secure military Communications Navigation and reconnaissance whatever leaders need to support from the sky irans military assets on earth and the satellite isnt the days only technological development. The difference between the satellite in previous ones is that its propulsion the uses a combined solid and liquid fuel only a few superpowers have this capability only a few countries the rest are consumers of this technology. Its a proud moment for irans revolutionary guards. The group suffered a major setback to its reputation after the accidental shoot down in january of Ukraine InternationalAirlines Flight 752 all 176 people on board were killed since the beginning of the 21st century iran despite diplomatic and economic isolation has managed to develop the Technology Necessary to elbow its way into an elite club along with rivals like the United States and israel as well as allies like russia china india iran is one of only a dozen countries in the world with the homegrown Rocket Technology to launch its own satellites into space. To iran. Lets go to our White House Correspondent kimberly how lets start 1st of all kimberly with the u. S. President s threat to start shooting at a rainy and boats what is the u. S. Navy saying about that will they now escalate any difficult situations straight through the use of deadly force. Well were watching for that very carefully we know that there will be some podium briefings by both the state department and the department of defense in the next hour and we are monitoring that but here at the white houses things have been a little bit quiet in terms of information but that doesnt seem to be the case necessarily behind the scenes in fact we spotted the director of National IntelligenceRichard Grinnell he was walking in the driveway behind me went into the west wing we can only presume that there are some meetings going on where this is a topic of discussion but again none of this has been confirmed from the white house the only messaging weve had so far is from the u. S. President on twitter here is what he had to say i have instructed the United States navy to shoot down and destroy any and all iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea and this is something that has been escalating in terms of tensions in recent weeks the United States accusing iran of while they were while the u. S. Was conducting drill off of kuwait in the persian gulf they allege that irans fast boats came very close to the u. S. Navy ship that in fact at one point they pointed out a machine gun the u. S. Taking this very seriously and as a result now with the reports of this military satellite launch into orbit the u. S. President sending this very stern tweet kimberly as were talking right now just that the monk pumpin has been saying the u. S. Will hold iran accountable for the satellite launch the question is how. And that is a very big question because the u. S. President had believed that he had got sort of to a place of military deterrence you remember those ask elations months ago that ratcheting up following the drone killing of general saloon madi the u. S. Had felt that at that point things had settled down but there has been increasing ask lation not only the reports of the sort of the activity in the persian gulf but also the reports of u. S. Vulnerability something that was a major concern for the United States in terms of that Aircraft Carrier off of one that of course had been hit hard by coronavirus much of their crew experiencing an outbreak even a death as a result of the outbreak on that Aircraft Carrier so the question becomes whether iran has seen this is a potential ability to expose or rather and take advantage of a vulnerability of course the United States very hard hit by coronavirus and grappling with that and whats become clear is in the midst of all of this even in the midst of a pandemic these military rivalries are continuing. Kimberly theres a question about immigration right now given the u. S. Presence there is this tweet so has that stopped. Well no in fact the u. S. President is set to sign this order he is very clear about it in fact he tweeted saying that he will be signing this order today but theres some confusion about the explanation as to why the u. S. President argues that this is because he wants to protect american jobs and theres no question tens of millions of americans have lost their jobs the lives for the food banks right now are historic but at the same time the president s only stopped or put a pos for 60 days on those who want to become permanent residents or citizens he says he doesnt want to overwhelm not just jobs but also the the medical resources as the United States fights this pandemic but what hasnt been stopped are some of the visas for farm workers or visas for some of the more highly skilled workers so it begs the question of the u. S. President s really trying to protect american jobs why did he do it across the board hauled it doesnt seem to be consistent and lends credibility is to the democratic criticism that in fact the u. S. President is trying to take advantage of delivering on a Campaign Promise in an Election Year theres no question as the u. S. President tweeted that he would be signing this immigration order today that in fact he also mentioned the fact that he has kept another Campaign Promise that is building along the southern border of the United States and mexico that wall that he promised to deliver so this is an Election Year where months away from an election the u. S. President sister this is about protecting american jobs American Public health but many are questioning those motivations more of thanks so much complete how could that and the u. S. Senate has approved nearly 500000000000. 00 in extra aid to help businesses and hospitals during the coronavirus pandemic the house of representatives is set to vote on thursday what would be the 4th such package since the crisis began for a total of about 3 trillion dollars. The u. K. Government has again come under fire for its response to the pandemic this time by the new leader of the opposition it happened during the 1st virtual session in parliament 700 year history labor leader care stammered thickly focused on shortages of personal protective equipment for Frontline Health workers and a number of testing being carried out lets hear some of what he had to say somethings going wrong and this a pattern emerging here we were slow in to look slow on testing slow and protective equipment are now slow to take up these offers from british. The Prime Minister said this is a National Effort and hes right about that so in that spirit can i ask the price of the 1st minister to commit to working with the opposition to identify and take up these offers from british manufacturers for protective equipment. Lets go now live to london where rory chalons joins us so we could see there the government coming under some heat both virtually as well as in real life in Parliament Today right rory. Is a former lawyer and hes a former chief of Public Prosecutions in the u. K. And he was bringing some of that kind of forensic style that forensic expertise to bear in Prime Ministers questions today pushing the governments pushing dominic robb the man whos standing in for Boris Johnson at the moment on various issues as you say the lack of public. Personal protective equipment for Health Care Workers being one of them the slow testing slow response to the testing being another he was saying that this is a matter of life and death asking rob to confirm how many Health Care Workers have died in the current us epidemic so far dominic rob admitted that 69 Health Workers have died but he didnt have the figure to hand for the number of care workers people who work in Retirement Homes etc to hand one of the key things that the star was drilling into was this claim that the government has at the moment that it is ramping up testing for n. H. S. Workers and other people around the country that. Its capacity is now 40000 and kissed and were saying hold on a 2nd it doesnt matter what the capacity is if youre only doing 18000 tests a day which is whats being done at the moment you can talk about capacity till it till the cows come home but what really matters is how many people are actually getting the tests that they need and yes we heard him accuse the government of being slow we can listen now. Dominic robs response to that. I dont accept his premise that we could slow were going to do it by the scientific advice the chief scientific advisor the chief medical officer at every step along the way if he thinks he knows better than they do with the benefit of hindsight then thats his decision but that is not the way we proceeded and its not the way we will in the future. So the government did have a bit of good news following that. Promise question times the Health Secretary said that the peak is is now 4 coronavirus in the u. K. And that things are start going to start getting easier you can argue this because actually some of the chief Scientists Say that for a couple of weeks now that were at the peak and. An oxford scientists were saying that actually the peak was somewhere in the beginning of april april the 8 to be specific but regardless of when the peak was in the u. K. We still have least 2 and a half more weeks of lockdown to go and it might be extended even further and on that question of peak i mean how much confidence is left now in some of these declarations about whether its the peak or other things it seems like theres a big issue of public trust. You know i mean nothing if youve got the government saying. About capacity for testing and all of these requirements for public sort of protective equipment are going to be met and yet weeks later we still see that there are n. H. S. Workers who are saying they dont have the right gear but they havent been tested yet it definitely roads trust in what the government is saying and i think thats something that is sinking in at the moment in the u. K. That the. The public has been told these things for quite some time yes there is still a spirit of i suppose togetherness. And the government is very keen to sort of wrap that up that were all in this together but when you speak to doctors when you hear from front by medics and people work in care homes who tell you how bad things still are then that chips away at the edifice and the government is always saying that this is a science led response and its listening to the scientists but of course there are political decisions that have been made and there were some of them were made some time ago and thats what your star was doing in provinces questions today he was pushing the governments on those political to the decisions that were made some time ago and clearly many of those decisions that were made were mistaken and thats what he wants the government to be held accountable for rory chance theyre updating us from london Spains Parliament is set to vote on a government proposal to extend its nationwide lockdown until may the 9th the dread has already started easing some restrictions children for example who go out for walks in the next week and some factory in construction workers have returned to their jobs nearly 200000 people have contracted the virus in spain at least 21000 have died. Joins us now on skype from madrid so theres a lot of pilots going to approve this extension. Yes astonished parliament is holding a pen or a session today where premise that better saturday has announced the 3rd extension of this state of emergency lockdown and in may 9th they used these camps with some measures that essentially will build a lockdown like allowing children under 14 years old to go out with an adult for at least one hour a day and around one mile from the house so these lockdown here in spain with we had 6 weeks already children were banned from going out from home so this would use it would easily be the measures before these voting takes place a better santa had to listen many critics the critics the critics from the other Political Parties from the opposition parties blaming the terrible Man Management of the corn harvest crisis by the rabbit by the Spanish Government were not reporting at all what was taking place not consulting any measures and doing this a managing this this crisis in a new unilateral way so before this loading there takes place he will appeal would have to be all the Political Parties and they if they are their opinion they were also blaming them from for for for a what about and for of for are trying to to control our social media and by default the. Because not protected if it meant in bad conditions or false tests and so last week and so Prime Minister said that now we are working on a 2nd phase of our the escalation from 9 may not may 9th and that it will be slow and gradual and theyre working on that a scenario now and well see what happens next month. From madrid. Health officials in france are warning the virus threat remains high level thats in response to government plans to begin easing restrictions next month president emanuel micron says the long ban measures will be lifted in small stages from the 11th but there are concerns about how this will work with ash about the reports. Doctor about all day long is the head of the Merchant Services in a hospital in the small town of too long in northern france with limited resources staff adapted the hospital to treat coronavirus patients. Weve used plastic sheeting separate spaces to reduce the risk of infections more than 20000 people have died in france since the start of the Health Crisis the death toll rises each day but the number of patients in intensive care is slowly diminishing the french government says from a 11th it will loosen the Strict Lockdown but dr de long says it will be a while until this hospital is back to normal here more. Stress on the last months have been exhausting in my department to doctors and several nurses had coronavirus weve had no visibility on when the crisis will end or how long well have to work this because for us the confinement doesnt mean the end of the coronavirus emergency. The french government hasnt provided details of his de confinement plan those are expected at the end of april nevertheless some businesses are getting ready manages it this car factory have put in place protective measures for workers in Case Production is permitted to resume. Staff will have the temperature taken and if its too high they will not be allowed onto the site of diversity until the french government reveals its full day confinement strategy many people in france feel simply uncertain about their futures they dont know when theyre going to be able to go back to work when schools like this one will reopen or when it will be possible to once again walk in the stree