A quick and simple one dollar testing kit to help it remain the country with the highest recovery rate in africa. Or while President Trump continues to focus on the u. S. Economy the toll the coronavirus is taking on americans worsens more than a 1000000 people in are confirmed to have been infected there more than any other country that total has doubled in a little over 2 weeks with more than 57000 people dying need to sit in the u. K. Show the number of deaths to the middle of april were 50 percent higher than 1st thought once those who died outside hospital were included it pushed the total above 24000 germany has been held up as a model of how to control the disease but as it tries to return to normal life its reported a slight increase in the infection rate and france is setting out how it will begin to open up a he masks mandatory on public transport but only allowing freedoms if new infections a kept to a minimum when i stop by there live to our White House Correspondent kimberly help get the committee those confirmed infections passing a 1000000 put that figure into context for us. Yeah i think its always important when youre talking about infections in the United States remember the population in the United States is very large thats not under play a 1000000 infections that certainly number that nobody wants but when youre talking about a population of upwards of 330000000 in the United States and starts to give it a little bit of context now some are celebrating the fact that the infections are only 1000000 given the fact it was predicted to be even higher but of course theres been street social distancing in the United States for some time and so there is this conversation now even as this number begins to climb about really opening the states and that is something that the u. S. President talked about as he met with floridas governor Rhonda Sanchez in the oval office earlier again another state that is very populated that many predicted would have very high infection rates in fact did not but still this reopening thats taking place around the United States is one that is taking place very gradually the Florida Governor saying that this would be based on data metrics that this would not be something that could happen quickly and that might have a lot to do with the fact that georgia nother state that is controlled by republican governor very rapidly and got significant criticism from the u. S. President so its safe to assume there was a bit of an attempt to kind of get the president s blessing in this Oval Office Meeting that took place even as the president has also outlined a blueprint for reopening the states and the testing that needs to take place putting very much the responsibility on the states something that has been controversy all the provider of sort of last resort being the federal government so this is something that is sort of uncharted territory that is now being explored by governors all around the United States including the Florida Governor who was just meeting in the oval office and committee were expecting president tom to sign an executive order to help prevent food shortages. Yeah were specter to see the president again in the coming hour from the east room of the white house and what were expecting is that the president s going to talk about the Paycheck Protection Program but the other which is a program that is the socially to help keep Small Businesses open as keep people on their payroll that might otherwise lose their jobs having said that there is another big headline that we expect may be discussed in this appearance by the president and that is this executive order that is being talked about in the works we understand where the president is expected to utilize the defense production act to essentially get the meat supply in this country back on track there have been a number of outbreaks at packing plants all around the United States and this is starting to cause some shortages what weve seen in some cases is that there has been a culling of the herds animals have had to be euthanized so this is now something that is the catch the attention of the white house realizing this is becoming a critical issue so were watching very carefully to see whether the president will talk more about that whether he will talk about the Paycheck Protection Program which we expect and also we should talk about very quickly the economy another thing its going to get questions on because were hearing today from the white house that there have been officials talking about the need for another stimulus in addition to that 1200. 00 that each american gotten a check there may be a need for more because the economic pain its starting to be understood in the United States is going to be realized for quite some Time Committee how could thank you very much indeed now in europe both france and spain have outlined how they plan to ease restrictions if they can keep a handle on new infections meanwhile the u. K. Appears to be a long way off lifting the knock down as people paid tribute to front line workers killed by the virus so youre going to have a report. A moment to remember them by the key workers all those who worked in Frontline Services and died in the service of others the Prime MinisterBoris Johnson recovered from covert 19 also paid his respects forward. But that has not dampened criticism of the governments failure to provide Health Care Workers with adequate personal protective equipment and the death rates in england and wales reaching a new high way above previous government daily figures which count just deaths in hospitals the office for National Statistics said on tuesday that 22351 people died in england and wales in the week ending april 17 and a growing number of deaths the elderly in care homes where doctors warn the pandemic has not yet peaked from tomorrow well be publishing not just the number of deaths in hospital but the number of deaths in care homes and in the community to this is something that wasnt previously possible with the guidance from british scientific advisors there is little appetite from the government to relax lock down measures yet but in france with a similar sized population to the u. K. And the 4th highest recorded death toll from covert 19 in the world preparations were announced to ease the restrictions on daily life. Never in the history of our country have we seen this situation not even during the war nor during the occupation nor cheering previous epidemics never never has the country be confined as it is today and evidently it cannot be so for long term. In spain a drop in the daily death and infection rates has also prompted the prospect of an ease in its lock down deaths from coronavirus fell once again on choose day now the government has set out a framework for regions to start phasing out one of europes toughest lockdowns. The most important thing is to protect Public Health and whatever they leave to save the lives of our citizens its a simple i stopped them from their own words we want to kick start spraying every territory and every city but amid the easing of these restrictions the shadow of corona virus still persists while there is no vaccine it will be up to the public to continue social distancing measures a far cry from the familiar in its place a new detached normality sunday agel al jazeera germany is seeing a rise in corona virus infections after some of its restrictions were in its current reporting about a 1000 new cases each day john mccain in berlin has more. The German Government finds itself in a quandary right now ever since the pandemic began ministers have stressed repeatedly that what informs their Decision Making is the Scientific Data the numbers that are provided to them by the robert cock institute which is the responsible body for the tabulation of testing and the compilation of statistics relate to the number of infections the number of deaths and so on and while the reproduction rate of the virus was in a downward trend it meant that the ministers could start to contemplate the easing of restrictions which is what they have done but now the our north reproduction rate of the virus has reached one again that means that each infected person can infect one other person that is the point at which alarm bells ring for the ministers for angloamerican in the chancellery behind me that is they want to try to reduce the economic damage to ease the restrictions on freedom of movement that they know by doing that and with the are not back in one there is the distinct possibility of a 2nd wave of infections. Russias president has extended his countrys knock down until may the 11th saying the coronavirus is not yet reached its peak measures would huge be lifted at the end of this month but the country saw a record rise in the number of new infections on tuesday with more than 6400 cases confirmed that a mere putin has given the government one week to come up with ways to support the economy during the pandemic is also asked for recommendations on how to ease the restrictions. British airways says it plans to cut up to 12000 jobs because of the coronavirus pandemic the company is already furloughed around half of its 45000 strong workforce. Its Parent Company i. A. G. Said the cuts will because passenger numbers will take several years to recover from the pandemic be a also reported 1st quarter operating losses of heart 580000000. 00 as the Airline Industry struggles. Lebanese troops are braced for more violence after one protested died in clashes with Security Forces of the countrys deteriorating economy violent demonstrations started in october and led to Prime Minister saad hariri is resignation in january a new government headed by his sunday was formed tossed with reversing the worst economic downturn in decades and this week protests intensified in beirut and the 2nd largest city tripoli triggered by a crash in the National Currency and if the surge in food prices so what the reports from tripoli. Hunger and hopelessness are driving lebanese to the streets the economy is close to collapsing protesters vent their anger at banks for preventing people from accessing their savings and the long serving political elite is being blamed for mismanagement and corruption in recent days the local currency has sharply devalued against the dollar there were casualties among protesters in soldiers during confrontations that began monday night in the us is that follows model went to the streets because there are no jobs children are asking the kurds for food and they dont have money to buy them any of the young man who was martyred was a father he had nothing to lose if your daughter asks for food what will he give are he had nothing to lose. Calls for a change in leadership. A protest Movement Began in october but the ruling elite has clung on to power. Apart from a few we have 128. 00 criminals and palmer thanks to all public funds and transferred billions of dollars outside lebanon even the Army Soldiers oppressed like this salary is now worth 300. 00. Officials acknowledge inflation has increased by 50 percent and 45 percent of the nation of 6000000 people live below the poverty line but they havent presented any plan to restore trust in the economy and fight corruption. We are hungry the revolution is against corruption all official say there is corruption but what have they done we dont see any thief in prison instead they are shooting at the people then rival politicians who have been in power for decades deny allegations of corruption and are blaming each other for the states near bankruptcy government leaders are accusing their opponents of trying to topple by tampering with Financial Stability that fuels the anger of antigovernment protesters the leadership say those in power are trying to hold them accountable for years of corruption. The states finances are under immense pressure lebanon has a huge debt to pay and not enough foreign currency the government also doesnt have many friends abroad these scenes could be a warning of whats to come. Tripoli. Still to come this half hour new zealand is king from burgers and coffee as infections wane and their Strict Lockdown is slowly lifted. And something to celebrate in italy the final piece of a new bridge is weaved into place in genoa today is offering the prettiest as a collapse. Of. Hello a bit of good news for a change that is and theres plenty of clatter around all wanting it from the west under storms in the western med and this complication here this is the good news it tends to suggest rain wherever it is and that rain is spreading from france into austria to germany to poland the Czech Republic all places which have been suffering with lack of rain technical drug for the last month so this is good news of course is as a good news if you were to be outside in the sunshine but it kind of it all that sun shines in spain and portugal the rain as this example suggests in vienna last until the end of the week so we are going some way to make the ground wetter after the dusty start and theres a picture for thursday night raids but its pretty widespread across through denmark and towards southern sweden its really treading through north misty leaving the sudden parts of italy and almost really really chilly fine and sunny which is now the case in north africa we see the last few showers going through the atlas battens and through northern tunisia on wednesday then on thursday should be a dry and quite a warm picture nurses draw a warm or hot so at this hour of course and then you come down to meet the showers coming out with the sun theyre making Good Progress there got to sierra leone and i got to go further. Ramadan a time of spirituality reflection and gratitude raise the flags all the flags every color in our. Aljazeera world well how we are how we reveals the stories behind some of the arab world songs and chants for the holy month this song touched the hearts of all arabs for ramadan songs on aljazeera. And again among the top stories here now jazeera well than a 1000000 people are now confirmed to have been infected by corona virus in the u. S. More than any other country more than 57000 people have died from the disease that. And the city straight to the white house where President Trump is talking about the current mars i want to work. Thank you everyone for being at the white house a very special house a very special place no matter where you go in the world i love the white house and being here in the east room of the white house in particular where so many important functions of taken place over the years and today were really celebrating American Workers and Small Businesses and weve done a job for you and were going to make it so as we open up our country youre going to be in good shape as opposed to be in the losing your business or how do we get some people to work here especially since your employees were so good over the years and those are the ones you wanted so we made that possible for you were delighted to be joined this afternoon by representatives of several incredible Small Businesses from across our country also with us treasury secretary steven minucci steve thank you very much and s. B. A. Administrator youve been busy city by the way and little bit rent broke every record in the book and s. B. A. Administrator jovi did carotids i think you. Have you got to sleep you know less 2 weeks at all the next hour and you broke every single lending record numbers of loans amount of loans Small Business sexually a very big business when you think about it thank you very much of it great job as our nation battles against this terrible scorch we continue to pray for the victims as well as for those americans who are grieving their lost ones and their loved ones its never been anything like this we suffer with one heart but we will prevail were coming back and were coming back strong we built the greatest economy anywhere in the world 2 months ago and were going to build it again were going to build it fast its going to go very quickly and larry thank you for being here very much its you see whats going to happen i think you have the same feeling as i do its going to come back very fast now that our experts believe the worst days of the pandemic are behind us. Americans are looking forward to the safe and rapid reopening of our country throughout this ordeal millions of hardworking americans have been asked will to really make tremendous tremendous sacrifices sacrifices like nobody thought would even be possible nobody thought would ever be talking about Something Like this is a virus has inflicted an enormous and painful toll on our nations workers and Small Businesses thats why less month they ask congress to pass the Paycheck Protection Program giving Small Businesses emergency Economic Relief to keep workers on the payroll 4 weeks ago i was proud to sign it into law we did that at a great ceremony with many of the people here in the officials here and it was something and i can tell you im going to steve to say viewers but the kind of