i'm joined by our correspondent in madrid. good to hahave you on ththe sho. what more do we know about the situation in spain's nunursing hohos tonight?t? reporter: well, the situation in nursing homes is d dramatically- it has been like this for several -- a week. it is true that those bodies that may have been found in the residences, these old residences of retired people, might have been people that cannot be moved because you really need special equipment, a and not everybodydn do t that job. sosotimes thatat is very alarmi, that it shouldn't be like that. it is true that the government now has already -- has already 640,000 rapid tests, and they are going to be delivered to the health workers and to the elderly, to those homes of retiredment homes -- retirememet homes, to o test all thesese patients that t are very vulnerable, t to identify those thatat are actually infectedd ad they can be properlyly isolatete the situauationt hospipitals, ty are overwhelmed with patients. it is true that now a field hospital in madrid with 5000-bed capacity has been p

staying with europe, the health ministry in madrid has revised the number of new cases which now stands at almost 94,500 with the death toll also 89.nting to a total of 810 this makes the new fatality r re a record for spain. i spoke to her madrid correspondent and this is what she had to say. >> there will be a cabinet meeting today, we are expecting the primee minister to look at extra measures to help lots of self-employed people who complained t that they were not eligiblele for any kinind of r f and they w were beingold to closose their businesses. there will be something announced for them, perhaps they won't have to pay all of their social security payments under the new measures today. also, measures for people who are renting. lots of people who are in very dire economic circumstances because of this, they can't leave their homes, they can't go about their jobs. we are seeing an increasing number of temporary layoffs for some businesses, particularly the smaller ones. thomas: the world's hardest and country remains italy, where the health minister has extended containment measu

so i am let off 10% but not making anything. >> most all the hotels in madrid have closed. the employees are on forced leave or have been let go. it is similar for the city's many restaurants. a few lucky ones like the pizzeria can just about survive on delivery orders. >> we are still making pizza, but it is massive change. normally there would be 10 staff members and now there are two. >> almost eveveryone in hotelsld daters and restaurants have been laid off or are working from home. a reporter went to meet the tourist board spokesman at his house for an interview on the roof. >> it is no surprise many small and medium-size businesses have had to close. we will have to wait and see if they can reopen or if they have p>> the industry is hoping for a quick recovery when it is all over. i reporter is now going to visit tour guide. she has been showing tourists around madrid for 30 years and shshe inks recovery is a long wy off. >> we had a 75% drop in customers in februaryry. in march 100% canceled. april and may will be similar. with hadad lots of cancellations than t too.

and seven three hundred forty desks alone at the basque region on the capital madrid main the hardest hit regions in the country. authorities in and used. down measures in order to get you positive trend going forwards and gates that ripples. the bells toll marking the end of a minute's silence as people in madrid take a moment to remember the victims of the corona virus. a few kilometers away what a del sole the army is setting up a field medical facility. in front ical hospital which is now over full capacity. anyone with with. have expanded into y. interventionist in finance my ability to serve all the other. schools spanish hospitals have been stretched to breaking point at leaeast eight out of seventeen spanish regions have already reached that. on the amount of beds in intensive care. and the situation isn't likely to improve just yet. okokay let t them then they're going to assist as many as they let me into his top m mel with him thohough a lebebanese hills overlaps with his alleged pepeon of the attack on and- we just as we do momostly s. masasi am. have you. yes i if you're

here is a correspondent from dust years a report from our madrid correspondent sarah morris. pedro sanchez said he would be extending the state of emergency when it expireres on march 29. that means effectively it would go through the easter period, until april 11. ofneeds the permission parliament because these are exceptional measures under the spanish c constitution. he has already gotten the backing of the major local parties. the people's arctic, thehe conservatives,s, said quite a while ago they would be in favor of extending that period. he apologized to the spaniards for what he said was certainly hardt measures, at -- measures. but he said it was necessary. the government sayss the casasef the coronavivirus could peak in the e next few days. that curve could be checked. but nevertheless, they are contininuing to rise and the pre minister warned there could be tough days ahead. >> the italian government has made a direct appeal to the defense secretaryrymike esperer, for u.s. mililitary aid. they have begun sending aid to the country. reporter: from russia with love.

the country has seen the most coronavirus deaths in the world after italy this ice rink in madrid has been transformed into a morgue. still spanish authorities say the dropping infection rate show signsns that the country's o outbreak is stabilizing. motioion that the cattle china difficult on the middle of the intersection that. young because of mark's. a but i wanted this is the quarter i think we thing. i thinink into the only. i see the video below the s. and p. he says will go off the parts into. nearly 15% of thosese in. in spain are hell care were. this for of an- and- is. on the- to do more to protect them. memberers of the family it t also c come with a metal it t has been done in frot of sophia. this is a scandall okay yes hello he got thee closing as hehe was not found ay people over the you n need to be lot of. sometimes i'll ask yes. now that if you got. this week's main order for her and two you're were of med supply from. spanish a are the outbreak to reach a n next week and have extended the country's locked down ininto april twelft. british prime minister boris johnso

we have overer 1500 deataths in madrid. so it madririd was s a country,t would be fifth in terms of death ratete in the entitire world ben iran a and francnce. so this d day 12 of the lockdown. everybody seemems to be folollog itit with very few exceptions. hospitals s are beginning to b e overerrun with cases off coronavivirus. icu units are at capacity. we have a scararcity of evereryd of m material yoyou could ssssiy imagine. so this s is a repeat of f at happenened both inin china and n italy.. catatalonia, the region of cataloniisis a also hard-hit. it is now witith thee highest nw infectioion rate in the country. workers, atlth-care least, have been infected, which has taken out over 5000 people from giving care. they do not have the protective gear as i was hearing sean and kelley speak, the e same thing s happening here. they are having to either gear or simply make their own with whatever is lying arou a at home. is anan honestiament ininto parliliament that will be be onlineg, soo i it will vote. they will be deba

emergency units are disinfecting as soon as possible out here in madrid. staff has been overwhelmed with desperate consequences. >> i know the majority are fulfilling their duties. listen. this has to be said. the army has seen elderly people completely abandoned, even dead in their beds. this -- >> this ice rink has been commissioned. so infectious even in death at the staff are wearing full protective suits. the latest clinic repurposed has opened in rome. every patient requires truly intensive care, in terms of staffing and equipment. there is simply not enough to go around. >> a growing number of italian towns have recorded video messages ordering the public to stop flouting the lockdown rules. one threatens to throw in a flamethrower to break up a planned graduation party. the shortage in critical care capacity is being partly addressed with a brand-new temporary hospital created in one week at a huge exhibition center in london. awards,ll comprise two 2000 people. with the help of the military and clinicians, we will make sure that we had the capacit

a large exhibition complex in madrid has been converted into a makeshift hospital. france operated a specially adapted train to evacuate patients from the northeastern region of alsace to hospitals in another region. the united states has reported 13,987 new cases for a total of 68,440. its death toll increased by 257 to 994. at a news conference, new york governor andrew cuomo pledged to work aggressively to increase the state's hospital capacity. >>> the number of people filing claims for unemployment benefits in the united states last week jumped to a record of more than 3 million due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic. the department of labor says the advanced figure for seasonally adjusted initial claims was 3.28 million for the week ending march 21st. that's over ten times the revised number logged in the previous week. the labor department says the economic impact of the coronavirus has caused the surge. states continue to cite service industries broadly, particularly accommodation and food services, the department said in a statement. additional indu

we will go to madrid for an update. in san francisco takes the most severe measures in the united states in response to covid-19, telling its 7 million residents to shelter inn place. we will go inside the bay area same quinton state prison where two prison blacks are under partial quarantine. we will speak with incarcerated journalist juauan moreno haines. >>>> we are well awarere of whas happening outside the walls abstain quinton, so now when wee house,is coronavirus and worldwide, there is a natural anxiety that exists over here about what is going to happen to us when the public brings this illness to us. amy: with 2.3 million people locked in u.s. prisons and jails, the u.s. has the largest proportional prison population in the world. then to seattle to meet a 17-year-old boy behind a website trackingng corononavirus cases t is now a vital global resource. out w were sarsme or something like that, thehere wasn't juju a website you could gogo to easily on n a phone juse these stats updatated every minute. i think i

and back inn two thousand four to have a sperm several commuter trains in madrid leaving hundreds of people dead sara morris has this really nasty to put up. on the news. it's a lattice was six years old when her family was struck by itselflf. will be trapped package exploded in her mother's h hands leaving her disabled. enough yeah it destroyed my family broken up i was assigned child depressed. without any will to live. city later when her mother died she's managed to treated depression thanks to the association for victims of terrorism av. four thousand five hundred people like her get help from the association psychologist sonali is. number greeted him we organize workshops are crucial for victims they can be about helping them work or helping the famamily hadn't done a whole family yeah yeah.h. over the lat five years these workshops transformed bed sheetets life. out of their homes these days i have energy i want to do things according to all. those impacted on. this is now contact with spainin's teams. registered ten begins. thth is supporort system made. by cool between the s

these madrid residents maybe shut in, but they are aware of what is happening in hospitals across the country. as spain struggles to stop the spread of the coronavirus, despite tight restrictions on movements, the local media is reporting a growing number of unregistered deaths in care homes. people like this woman's 87-year-old father, who she was not able to visit for a fortnight before he died. father's death certificate, they put possible coronavirus. that is why we have not been able to look after the body. we cannot do anything to bury him, and we still do not know if we will be able to do it tomorrow. correspondent: in italy, where more people have now died of covid-19 than in china, the total number of cases is growing faster again. in some places, police are carrying out coronavirus tests themselves. into southern germany, they have been enforcing the country's first curfew. the governor of bavaria says this could be extended statewide if people do not follow official advice. nationally, the number of confirmed cases jumped by almost a third in one day, going past 11,000. now

in madrid where an ice rink has been turned into a makeshift morgue, more hearses arrived. the death toll is more than 4000, overtaking china. in italy, still europe's worst affected country, the dead have been temporarily stored in churches before being sent for cremation. european commission president urged solidarity. several e.u. countries including germany and france have banned export of protective gear to avoid shortfalls at home. ursula von der leyen says this undermines europe's joint response. >> we'll share this responsibility. none of us can do it alone and no member state can handle this crisis on their own. because of this crisis and in our union more generally, it is only by helping each other that we can help ourselves. reporter: in paris, health workers are conducting drive-through testing in the streets. 28%ce's death toll rose by thursday. tracing the spread is vital for controlling it. president macron is one of several leaders joining g20 talks remotely hoping for a global approach to the pandemic. the russian president vladimir putin as well. he believ

organization and russia stresses that this is a best case scenario now all non-essential public places madrid said have been closed to moscow residents since saturday the streets of the russian capital have been almost empty now it's easy to train was out on the streets to see some traditional moscow hot spots. it's the we can't dance it's this country's turn the people have been calling the measures that have been announced quarantine all kinds of places from restaurants to jams are shut down the weather is beautiful it's a fantastic weekend and usually all the people would be out. that's why i want to check out a few locations and see what's gone on and get these places take quarantine commitment to the score. so i start my tour around moscow's most popular spas with remember the scorpion song full of the most down to gorky park that's right. gorky park here it is officially it is shut down but there are a couple of beautiful promenades right outside it and i can tell you ali see 2 people here so i give it not of 10 for edsel location quarantine commitments score . moscow there's a whole ne

the government is converting a conference center in the capital madrid into a makeshift hospital with more than 5,000 beds to meet the surging demand. >>> german chancellor angela merkel went into self-quarantine after the doctor who vaccinated her against pneumonia on friday tested positive. a government spokesperson says merkel will carry out her duties from home. >>> it's been two months since china put coronavirus-stricken wuhan under lockdown and health authorities say the spread of the illness is slowing. they reported no new cases in wuhan's hubei province for the fifth h day in a row.. still the government is not expected t to lift restrictionsn the residents any time soon. thousands s of patients are bei treateted at rapidly constructe hospitals. during the peak of the outbreak, thousands of new cases were confirmed every day. but local media reports sugggge the government is beginning to ease the strict measures. in areas where no new infections have been confirmed for more than 14 days, one e person per household is reportedly being permitted to leave their home to shop. we

the capital, madrid, has become a ghost town. prime minister pedro sanchez has declared a two-week state of emergency, a decision that will all of him to mobilize all resources to fight the outbreak, including the military. old restaurants, bars, and shots in the capital are being forced to close, with only supermarkets and pharmacies to remain open. >> we made the serious mistake of thinking that italy was far away, that this wasn't going to charge us. over the coming week we are going to see situations we would have never imagined, that we had only seen in films and on tv. reporter: in france, new stricter measures are being put in place in a bid to limit person-to-person contact. >> we are going to raise that limit to gatherings of 100 people. the idea, again, is to make sure we can slow down the progression, the spread of the virus. reporter: french schools will also be closed from monday. around europe, such drastic measures are the latest tools in the bloc's five to contain the coronavirus. phil: authorities in germany have

it has not stop these housebound madrid residents from protesting. in london it is quieter than usual, but nobody is being told to go home. some in the british capital say the incremental approach is right. >> i think the steps put in place are wise. panic.to avoid the if the government went to full lockdown it would be a lot worse for people's well-being. reporter: boris johnson faced demands to take a more proactive stance in parliament. >> why are we waiting so long for mass testing? why are social distancing measures merely suggestions? reporter: johnson did make one announcement. afterschool shut their gates friday afternoon, they will remain closed. the vast majority of people, until further notice. reporter: different stages in the outbreak and different responses, but the challenge for the medical world and societies in general is immeasurable. >> the saudi arabia government says it has reduced spending as a result of low oil prices during the coronavirus outbreak. crude oil prices have fallen because of concerns over the pandemic, coupled wi

enjoyment is having to be used as a makeshift mortuary so far spain is the 2nd hardest hit in europe madrid has been the epicenter of the spanish outbreak authorities have had to put in place the strictest measures in an attempt to stop the spread of the momo library the way it was common in of the early difficult days are common those are going to test the very limited capacity of resources. without doubt the balance as a society or the coronavirus has overwhelmed some of spain's medical facilities so quickly in fact that some of those that were most at risk from the virus were left behind in the panic dozens of elderly and sick people were found dead at home the situation made all the more harrowing when the army had to disinfect their resting place as the army during certain visits found older people completely abandoned sometimes even dead in their bad spanish health care services fighting against collapse this is a significant problem for healthcare system this collapse which is being talked about could happen in some places while germany seems to have the spread of covert 19 under som

madrid area and and have succumbed to it we are understanding i was talking to a friend of mine who actually lives in the south of spain earlier on he was saying that the police are well very very serious about the fines that they're handing out they are if you do not have a legitimate reason to be out on the street you're looking at a 500 euro fine he was saying one of his neighbors had been out shopping and he tried to go shopping in a different part of another town and had been caught out because he didn't have a permit for us 500 euro fine they're not messing about there and that's because so many people have succumbed to this virus in spain in fact we understand. an ice rink is actually currently being employed as a as a temporary morgue in spain as it stands at the moment and then in the united kingdom of course on monday evening we heard from boris johnson the british prime minister saying that he was placing the u.k. in lockdown they have around 65000 cases in the u.k. 335 deaths so far the big question in the u.k. is just how how people are going to adhere to this these are the toug

the 85-year-old man entered the country through madrid last month. in mainland china, where the coronavirus first emerged but has steadily declined in recent days, 16 new cases and 14 new deaths were reported sunday. there arare now more cononfirmed infections outside of mainland china than inside. china has offered to help countries, including iran,n, ir, and italy d deal with the outbreak. the youth climate strike known as "fridays for future" has moved to a digital strike. swedish 17 teen activist greta thunberg, who started the weekly strike, tweeted -- "school strike week 82. in a crisis we change our behavior and adapt to the new circumstances for the greater good of society." here in the united states, coronavirus cases have now topped 3600, though the true number of cases remains unknown more -- the actual number is expected to be far higher. president trump held a press conference sunday. trumka relax, we're doing great. it will all pass. "relax, we are doing great. it all will pass," trump said. minutes later, at the same press conference,

thousands of spanish students have rallied in central madrid against sex education plans by the right wing box party demonstrators chanted feminist slogans and carried banners denouncing the so-called parental and the boxes proposal parents would have to give permission for children to join school workshops perceived as ideological that would include classes on sex education gender and other issues like climate change so far only the region of murtha has introduced the plant has been condemned by the national government but local authorities are refusing to repeal the move we will not do it because it says the government does not believe in what we believe in namely the freedom of fathers and mothers homophobic family does not have the right to make their children homophobic as well parental authority cannot be confused with property. in the u.k. to education sparked a furious bank lash from september classes cover an issue will become compulsory that triggered protests among parents particularly from religious communities is an issue that we put. up for debate the issue of sex ed in