Coronavirus. Religious freedom in india on a downward spiral modis government is accused of targeting the muslim minority. And released after the riots concerned the violent prisoners in argentina i think let out as a coronavirus precaution. Welcome to the news of spain plans to launch a 17 a 1000000000. 00 Reconstruction Fund to deal with the economic damage caused by the pandemic its one of the hardest hit countries in the world with the death toll now passing 25000 but the number of infections and deaths are now decreasing and restrictions are slowly being eased in phases after 7 weeks of Strict Lockdown as alexey obrien reports. 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. I was role of writing with open arms through the streets because they wanted to me cause there was a feeling of freedom. Going for a walk and playing sports have been banned 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 lockdowns gradually 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. Now the United Kingdoms coronavirus death toll is set to surpass italy as the worst in europe the figure was announced at the Daily BriefingPrime MinisterBoris Johnson who returned to work 6 days ago after recovering from the virus was not there britains pm has been under fire for not reacting quickly enough to the pandemic and providing enough personal protective equipment lets cross over to the park our correspondent in london whos monitoring events for us and the u. K. Government has as we said held its daily News Conference on saturday no pm in attendance and yet another significant daily death toll to tell the British Public about. The news came from the communities and housing minister the Prime Minister was in here he of course and he recently became a father the situation in the country continues to be critical the death toll edging up in the past 24 hours news of 620. 00 or more deaths bringing the total death toll to 28131. 00 thats only several 100 behind italy the worst affected country in europe and despite the fact that the u. K. Was several weeks behind the infection spreading widely here in the u. K. 2 weeks several weeks. So the u. K. Could have used some people say to prepare in a much more organized way the feeling now is that the government put a foot wrong its reached its targets of carrying out 100000. 00 tests a day. However some doxes cost some aspersion as to whether or not those figures are actually accurate accusing the government of inflating the figures given that some tests were simply posted through peoples letterboxes and the number doesnt entirely account for tests that were actually carried out the government however is now saying that its working quickly to connect the dots to be able to carry out things like tracking and tracing as well as testing to be able to identify people that are infected in may therefore run the risk of infecting other people that hoping to buy meat may have recruited 18000 officials 3000 of them being Health Workers to conduct this tracking and tracing that may also have a digital component so the government talk about talking about there being an app of a liberal to help with this effort but some of course are already saying that things are moving far too rapidly that this is the kind of thing that the nation should have implemented several weeks. When there are some deep deep concerns that numbers are escalating much faster than the government actually thinks and of course need your insides and thomass hospital which is one of many globally that is focusing on trials of blood plasma as a potential cure all or source of the cure for current virus just talk us through what we expect to happen. Yeah this is St Thomas Hospital obviously playing a pivotal role in britains battle against it 19 it is of course where the Prime Minister was treated when he tested positive for the virus and ended up being in the intensive care unit here but its where a significant trial into the use of blood plasma from people who recovered from the virus it is currently under way is one of several hospitals across the United Kingdom that are conducting these trials the science is quite simple if you of how the virus are recovered you will have developed some antibodies presence in the blood plasma that can be injected into people still suffering from the virus to stimulate their immune system they are currently 6000 people that have signed up for this scheme in the United Kingdom it is slow progress because obviously you need to identify people that have suffered from the fires and recovered the process takes around 45 minutes to donate blood which is then put into a machine to separate the plasma the britain of Britains NationalHealth Service is saying that by mid may open to have around 10000 possible useful samples a week that they can use to treat people similar trials are underway in other parts of the world 1500 hospitals in the u. S. We know are conducting trials similar story in different hospitals across europe hopefully the data will be in soon to see exactly how effective this treatment is need barca in london thanks very much. Lets stay in europe because france is extending its Health Emergency by another 12 weeks until july the 24th it keeps in place corentin measures for those arriving in the country but some locked down measures will be eased in just over a week including the reopening of primary schools france has recorded more than 24000. And theres been another spike of 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 a situation now where the malaysian government has detained more than 700 migrants and refugees accusing them of illegally living in the country it comes at a sensitive time with growing public anger towards migrant foreigners who are accused of spreading the coronavirus Rights Groups have criticized the timing of the round up at a time of movement and travel restrictions and say detaining the workers together makes them more vulnerable to catching the virus the government says all part of a bigger effort to contain it slower and slowly has more 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 the noggin eater has criticised the raid as 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 state the slick 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 nor john been much and her family these are worrying times they escaped from scituate in brookline 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 has not formally recognised refugees they cant work legally or go to school she says shes heard rumors about the malaysian government wanting to send the route back religion. 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 curbs on movement has already put north johns family in dire financial straits now the fear of being detained hangs over that florence italy out 0. 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 lets look why now the report 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 on the Commission Also hes recommending targeted sanctions and travel bans for those found to be responsible for violating religious freedom Elizabeth Piron has more from the capital new delhi. Mohammad the names mother drops on to put on his bruises the 35 year old says he was attacked by a group of men when he was out something vegetables on his cot. After asking my name to said youre a muslim youve destroyed the country youve sprayed. And then started beating me with sticks there were 5 or 6 of them. Community leaders in the neighborhood of author they state told aljazeera that muslims have been harassed and attacked since a gathering of islamic preaches in delhi led to a rise in the number of coronavirus cases. Window was broken in the middle of the night he says hes been receiving phone calls from relatives telling him about rumors that his son attended the event and daddy. Being spread around that the coronavirus is being sprayed by the jamaat going to the Police Investigating the incidents there just some of the attacks on muslims around the country analysts say that while other groups have broken lockdown drills muslims are being targeted its. Islam is being said to be responsible for having walked he waited these people to go and in fact. That is the kind of narrative which has been very. Soon after 2000 people removed from the headquarters off to the group that organized the gathering in delhi in may to march many Media Outlets blamed it for the spread of the coronavirus 50 percent of all the cases across india in the last one week only and only because of the public ijaw march marcos so who are these People Television channels and social media showed fake videos of muslims breaking lockdown guidelines and social distancing norms hashtags such as corona jihad and corona terrorism began to trend on twitter here earlier this week a legislator from the governing body of the edge on the party told his constituents not to buy that. From muslim vendors. Muslim vegetable vendors are spitting on the vegetables putting them and then selling the vegetables so i told them that we cant do much about that but dont buy vegetables from them. Mohammed said he abandoned his car and ran away from his attackers. Have to do something to survive but i cant go back there whats the use they might beat me again the father for the familys only earning member the u. S. Commission on International Religious freedom has called india a country of particular concern since the hindu nationalist p j p was reelected last year india has rejected the report but the us body is just the latest to criticize the government for its treatment of muslims last week the organization of islamic cooperation asked india to take urgent action against the growing tide of islamophobia in the country Elisabeth Al Jazeera new delhi. As a journalist and political commentator he says increased International Criticism of india to settle its divisions is beginning to have an effect domestically. I dont know if this report will loan will will have much of an influence but put together given the fact that there are now weisss emanating weisss of prompt protest emanating from within the country and out and outside specially in the middle east it has begun to take some kind of effect we had the Prime Minister of india for the 1st time in the 6 years that hes been in power the talk of or speak of reaching out to people and he said that over it doesnt discriminate based discriminate based on the basis of cost or religion we are at the head of the art assess saying dont target an entire Community Just because of the 4 to fuel so it does appear to be having some effect in this report. But in conjunction with the protests within the country as also outside does in indias interest to ensure that these things are put to rest right away because the only way this country can progress and face up to some of the you mundus challenges that confront it 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 account of overweight and the huge impact the huge battering that the Indian Economy has received we can 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. Plenty more ahead here on the aljazeera news hour including beisel on the attack in iraq 10 paramilitary fighters are killed in the most significant assault since the groups demise. The. Band back on duty in north Korea State Television shows kim jong il after weeks of speculation about his health. Now theres been an emotive reaction to argentinas decision to release prisoners to stem the spread of the coronavirus in jails families of victims say inmates convicted of serious offenses and Violent Crimes are amongst those being let out and ongoing riots at a prison in venezuela have seen the number of People Killed rise to more than 40 lets cross over to our correspondent trees about whos in where desire is for us how much concern is that reason about the news of sort of prisoner releases in buenos aires and what safeguards are being put in place so these individuals dont commit crime whilst theyre out. Well its a major challenge not only for argentina but all of latin america what to do with the prisons for that are overcrowded with lack of sanitation is and many other problems with epidemic how to prevent the spread of disease in this prisons weve seen in the past week in argentina protests of people taking to their balconies with pots and pans protesting against a judges releasing prisoners sending them on house arrest a federal judge here in argentina issued a statement saying that those who are involved in nonViolent Crimes could serve their times under house arrest however what we have seen is that several prisons that been involved in kidnapping murder and rape were sent not totally back to their homes but back to their homes where some of their victims live this has generated lots of controversy here in argentina and outcry of by members of the opposition but also from the ruling party there are many many here or asking for the judges that sent prisoners to their homes to be investigated. The sound of full time pants against the release of prisoners in argentina. Its resonated in dozens of cities across the country. In the last weeks discontent in argentinas penitentiary system has been on the rice 1000 has prisoners on t