Easing its locked on. And release after the riots prisoners in argentina are being let out as a coronavirus precaution. And installed the u. S. Womens soccer team has vowed to fight on in their battle for equal pay a judge has rejected the world cup winners claim that theyre being unfairly treated by their own federation. Welcome to the news of the malaysian government has detained more than 700. 00 migrants and refugees accusing them of illegally living in the country but comes at a sensitive time of growing public anger towards migrant foreigners who are accused of spreading the coronavirus Rights Groups have criticized the timing of the roundup at a time of movement and travel restrictions and saying detaining the workers together make them more vulnerable to catching the virus the government says its all part of a bigger effort to contain the corona virus florence li reports from kuala lumpur. Hundreds of migrants and refugees including children rounded up in a raid in kuala lumpur on friday theyre being held in detention facilities migrant rights group. Has criticised the rate of inhumane and counterproductive arguing it wont deter migrant and refugee communities from getting tested at a time when the world is still struggling to contain the pandemic. But the government is defending it as part of efforts to contain the coronavirus status there is still on documented migrants their status remains the same the laws of this country havent changed these people broke the law when they entered the country illegally. In recent weeks foreigners have been the target of hate speech with some malaysians blaming them for spreading the coronavirus hostility towards the rangar and undocumented migrants appear to have been set off by several events this suburb outside kuala lumpur home to a large population. Was placed under lockdown more than a week ago to curb transmission of cases there are social media posts telling the room theyre not wanted here there were at least 5 online petitions some of which have since been taken down urging the government to expel the refugees from malaysia malaysians have also directed their anger at the ethnic minority after Rights Groups criticised the government for turning away a boatload of refugees last month for north john been a month and her family these are worrying times they escaped from scituate state in myanmar in 2012 after into communal riots between buddhists and muslims killed 200 people and displaced more than 100000 others. Life here hasnt been easy malaysia does not formally recognize refugees they cant work legally or go to school she says shes heard rumors about the malaysian government wanting to send the right back religion out of it it made me think back to our journey here we were at sea then human traffickers picked us up and they kept my husband for months because we couldnt pay it was only after 8 months here when we were finally registered with the un as refugees that i felt safe what if we have to go through that again the coronavirus and malaysias curbstone movement has already put nor johns family in dire financial straits now the fear of being detained hangs over that florence li out 0 quality report. Indias hindu nationalist government is being accused of unfairly targeting minorities particularly muslims thats been leveled by the u. S. Commission on International Religious freedom so lets look at why another port criticized last years immigration act which offered citizenship to religious minorities from neighboring countries but specifically excluded muslims it led to months of protests the Commission Also highlighted a census in the state of a psalm which excluded nearly 2000000 people both muslim and hindu making them essentially stateless and in august the government revoked the autonomy of indian administered kashmir and imposed a curfew and restrictions and the commission is recommending targeted sanctions and travel bans for those down to be responsible for violating religious freedom dividend sorry is a senior journalist and political commentator joins me via skype from new delhi good to have you with us mr ansari on the program how much weight does this report have and what sort of influence will it have on the national government. Well i dont know if this report to a long will will have much of an influence but put together given the fact that there are now what he says emanating from protest emanating from within the country and and outside specially in the middle east. Has begun to take some kind of perfect we had the Prime Minister of india for the 1st time in the 6 years that hes been in power and the talk of. Him speak of reaching out to people and he said that doesnt discriminate based discriminate based on the basis of cost of religion do you have the head of the art assess saying dont target didnt die Community Just because of the 4 took you so it does appear to be having some effect this report do but in conjunction with the protests within the country as well to outside many of the details parts of the report feature obviously incidents that happened during the Modi Government from 2014 then the winning the election again in 2019 you know from the citizen amendment tacked cal slaughters and how that is protected to a certain extent through article 48 the anti conversion laws in certain parts of the countries where. Hindu rights are being protected so that christians and muslims dont convert hindus into their faith and of course the issue of kashmir last august the the tsunami basically has resonated globally so even if you take the United States out of the equation what effect have these incidents have had on communities such as for example the European Union or because they have a great interaction with india. But for now. The European Union have not said much except the fact that there was a. A section of the European Union has certainly spoken up but it is in indias interest to ensure that these things are put to rest the right over here because the only way this country can progress and some of the humongous challenges that come trying to do is by being united a united india at peace with itself will be in a much greater position to tackle these challenges specially the ones emanating your count of over it and the huge impact the huge battering the de Indian Economy has received we can all only handle this if we do or if the peace with ourselves not b. C. Busy putting out bushfires but rather than concentrating on the Larger National task at hand will you say earlier that you know it does resonate and of course the pushing back is something that the Indian Government has has done certainly on this report it doesnt like to be criticized at any level but the authors of the reporter at pains to stress that while you might see the overall status they put india in the same category as china and north korea and they dont quite see it that they dont want to put india in the same category but again they dont want to let india off the hawk and therefore one wonders how india will deal with parts of the American Government such as the state department and this particular part of government as well when it comes to criticism of the way that it deals with minority groups it cant ignore new delhi cannot ignore this report. Well absolutely a much as wed like to n. V. Have for the record try to get back to support the report we have tried to debunk it but the fact is that in the of internet internalised what to support has to say and new delhi can only disregard what to united says states says at some cost to itself this is certainly something that india doesnt want to do and we are seeing the 1st signs of india having or at least those who matter having taken cognizance of this report and similar weisss emanating from across the world indias Prime Minister has spoken out on not been Strong Enough dones but he has indeed spoken out for the 1st time in 6 years to achieve the head of the arctic says has spoken out to be gippi m. N. Is by cutting muslim rigidly sellers and the b j p president is now under accord having issued their National Cause notice so we do hope that in the days ahead these of these words will also translate into action and we will see that the temperature is lowered and thinks improve for the better if they dont the only people who will suffer is india and that is something we can least afford to specially at this given time and it didnt sorry in new delhi thanks for joining us our lodges there thank you. Well still more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including iceland the attack in iraq 10 paramilitary fighters are killed in the most significant assault since the groups defeat and youll. Come. Back on duty in north korea so your t. V. Shows kim jong un after weeks of speculation about his health. And spain plans to launch a. Spain plans to launch a 17000000000. 00 reconstruction front to deal with the economic damage caused by the pandemic its one of the hardest hit countries in the world with the death toll last sunday 25000. 00 but the number of infections and deaths and now decreasing restrictions are slowly being eased in phases after 7 weeks of Strict Lockdown as alexia brown explains. Their 1st taste of freedom in 49. 00 days thats 1176 hours of lockdown spent mostly indoors. Runners cyclists rollerbladers taking to the footpaths across spain which for weeks had been off limits except for those out to buy food and medicine are they not going to i was rollerblading with open arms through the streets because they went to me cause there was a feeling of freedom. Going for a walk and playing sport have been bent to stop the corona virus spreading in spain which is one of the worst affected countries in europe theyve been more than 25000 deaths and 216000 cases but Authorities Say the outbreak here is finally past its peak that its very great to go out to run today and im thinking like me like you know if there again moment you know i get with everybody out like this im very happy about that and i think that people are quite respectful and. I think theyre very happy. Last weekend children under 14 were allowed out for an hour a day of supervised activity now adults and Senior Citizens can also go out and say protime in a bid to reduce overcrowding. Though it didnt work everywhere with thousands out along the house alone as prominent. As and i mean there for me personally its incredible that i can finally go out after so long it just seems a bit strange to me that there are these time ships because in the end there are so many people out at the same time in the same place beaches though remain closed and crowds exercised under the watchful eyes of police. Prime minister Pedro Sanchez tweeted that allowing outdoor exercise was a new step and measures to ease the confinement that called for people to be responsible because the virus is still here the World Health Organization says countries should lift their lock downs gradually and be ready to restore restrictions if infections rise there are tough days still ahead for spain the lock down has hammered its already faltering economy and unemployment is expected to soar. On this saturday though people enjoyed the Simple Pleasures of being outdoors on a sunny spring day. France extending its Health Emergency by 12 weeks until july the 24th it keeps in place quarantine measures for those arriving in the country but some long term measures will be easing just over a week including the reopening of primary schools francis recorded more than 24000 deaths but theres been another spike in new cases in russia 9600 have been reported in the past 24 hours thats the 4th record in as many days most of those new cases are in the capital moscow just over 1200 people have died since the outbreak began. And trials are to begin in the United Kingdom to see a blood plasma from recovered coronavirus patients can be used to treat others with covert 19 if parker has more from london. St Thomas Hospital behind me is playing a pivotal role in britains battle against corona virus is of course where Boris Johnson the Prime Minister was treated and now is one of several hospitals across the United Kingdom trialing whether or not the blood plasma of people who have had the corona virus recovered can be used to treat people with the virus the science is Pretty Simple if you have had the virus you develop immunity which means you build empty bodies those antibodies can be found in the liquid form of the blood the plasma which can then be injected into people with the virus to kick start their immune system thats theoretically or doctors are hoping to see very soon but it is to some extent slow progress clearly because they need to find people who have had the virus and of recovered and have built often are not antibodies for their plasma to be useful that period roughly takes around among say the doctors there are 1500. 00 hospitals in the United States that are carrying out similar trials and there are other similar schemes taking place in other parts of europe as well the hope here in the u. K. That by the end of may there will be able to have roughly around 10000 units of useful blood plasma a week ready to help cure those people who are suffering from the virus theyre hoping to see some positive results pretty soon an experimental antiviral drug has been approved for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients in the u. S. 1500000 vials of the drug severe will be distributed to hospitals from monday the regulator gave its approval after a government sponsored study showed the medication shortened patients Recovery Time by about 31 percent and slightly improved mortality rates chris smith is a consultant brawler just an editor of the naked scientists podcast he explains how the drug works. This is an antiviral drug it was developed during the a boehner period about 5 or 6 years ago and unfortunately for gilliatt who invented it it didnt work very well against a boa but what does look more promising is its action against this new coronavirus the way it works is that the drug molecule looks like one of the Building Blocks of the Genetic Information of the virus so when you take the drug it goes into the cells and gets activated in the cell and then when the virus is trying to grow in one of your cells it mistakes this drug molecule for one of the normal genetic letters that it would be inserting into its genome that its copying to make new baby viruses and when the drug molecule goes into the d. N. A. Or r. N. A. Of a growing virus it distorts it and disrupts it and stops it growing so as a result you end up with a virus with a broken genome and so its a bit like a computer with the operating system corrupted it wont boot up so the viruses you make are completely defunct and when given 2 cells in a dish which are infected with the virus it slows down the growth of the virus when given to patients with the virus it makes them recover a bit quicker and it also slightly improves the mortality rate when you give it to people who are severely unwell and by slightly i mean in people who were not given the drug the mortality rates about 11 percent and in people who werent given the drug it was about 8 percent north koreas leader kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in nearly 3 weeks state Media Broadcast images which appear to show kim opening a Fertilizer Factory speculation had been rife about the Leaders Health and whereabouts as one bride reports now from seoul. Hes in good spirits and seemingly in good health after disappearing from public view for nearly 3 weeks north Korean Leader kim jong un reemerged in style to open a fertilizer plant. The pictures on state run television said to be from an event on friday seemed to be north koreas answer to world the growing speculation about kims health. Online news sites and some news organizations have been quoting sources that said kim was gravely ill even brain dead after a surgical procedure gone wrong. It had led to concerns about a possible power vacuum and instability in the Nuclear Armed state and focused attention on kim sister kim go joan who attended this event as a possible successor to him. She came to the worlds attention as the point person in north koreas Charm Offensive during the 2018 Winter Olympics in pyongyang she continued to feature prominently as the smiling facilitator in the subsequent into korean dialogue and in the historic summit meetings with the United States. One. And. The only. In south korea intelligence officials had urged caution about the Health Rumors saying they havent detected any unusual activity the pointed to a serious crisis south Koreas Unification Ministry has condemned what its called groundless content saying the speculation has caused unnecessary confusion and senior political figures here who dont even suggested that kim might have died off facing strong criticism. Opening this large fertilizer plant and not wearing a mask while being cheered by large crowds may also be part of north koreas wider message to the world that its feeding its people that it doesnt have any cases of the coronavirus and the kim was very much alive and in charge of the bride aljazeera so. For migrants who have left other african countries for libya life is already a struggle before the current virus pan