me i'm assuming the enemy. you. this is al jazeera. hello i'm lauren taylor this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up . protestors out again in the u.s. demanding an end to the state lockdowns is quite a death toll of more than 37000. as the number of coronavirus deaths in spain reaches 20000 its prime minister says he wants to extend the lockdown there by

another 15 days. the u.k. government under fire for suggesting health workers reuse protective gowns as supplies run low. and the number who died in africa passes a sound including the nigerian president's chief of staff. the number of deaths and infections from corona virus continues to rise in many countries but so is the pressure on many governments to ease or lift their knockdowns spain has joined italy and the u.s. in seeing more than 20000 people killed by the virus officials say the peak has passed as deaths in the u.k. pass 15000 a government minister has admitted that surprise a vital masts and aprons are running short after warnings from hospitals meanwhile at the end stage of carolina has added evidence to the mantra that testing is the

way out of the pandemic it's claiming success with just 3 deaths and despite more than $37000.00 deaths now reported in the u.s. some governors appear to be bowing to pressure from the president and his supporters that rolling out plans to start lifting measures in their states. that's not going to happen in the worst hit state new york where governor andrew cuomo warned he won't be reopening anything immediately that's despite the day number of new deaths dropping below 550 for the 1st time in more than 2 weeks we're not at a point where we're going to be reopening anything immediately but we are planning and in the planning phase yes different numbers would suggest a different strategy balanced by your point people in mobile and not only people mobile you could create

a you know unintended consequences of governor cuomo has been in a war of words with the u.s. president over how to respond to the crisis i mean all the governor of washington state is accusing president trump of quote from menton domestic rebellion jay inslee says trump is spreading lies in signaling his support for people to protest against knock down rules texas is one of several states which has seen hundreds of demonstrators call for an end to the lockdown president trump himself used twitter to urge his supporters to quote liberate 3 states under god joins us live from miami and use growing pressure it seems to in some areas to lift the lockdowns. you know we really are at a critical juncture here clearly the government and president trump wants this country to reopen its economy the largest economy in the world but president trump himself says this us to be a science based approach and that the governors get to make all these decisions and

yet he starts tweeting out in support of these people out in the streets in various states those protests now soon to spread to all sorts of state capitals across the country many of them organized by characters who are well known conspiracy theorists far right talk show hosts who in one case alex jones who was sued by the parents of the school in connecticut where those children were shot to death saying it was all actors so these are the kinds of characters you've got putting on these protests they seem to be getting a green light from the president when he says liberate minnesota liberate michigan and liberate virginia by the way your gun rights are also in danger so the point where president trump is saying look this is clear i am hands off this is all about the governor as he seems to be whether he knows it or not encouraging these people to get out in the street of course there's a great deal of pressure to get the economy restarted 22000000 people have signed up for unemployment benefits in places like texas where the oil prices dropped dramatically there is real pressure there to get these economies and these people

working again but if you listen to the scientists and if you look at the shortage of testing it's not potentially a wise move at this point to reopen the economy and and potentially cause the virus to spread even more than it has already but it certainly seems to be something the president wants and certainly something a minority of mostly conservative people also want to see they basically think the cure is worse than the disease and what about the situation broadly in the u.s. what kind of state you are in a in in terms of getting a handle on. well it really depends in which state you're looking at some states like wyoming and montana which have very sparsely populated large states they're going into phase one already the schools are remaining closed across the country but if you look at a place like new york you heard andrew cuomo there the governor of new york say look we're not out of the woods yet there's nowhere near the same thing in

california one of the largest economies in and of itself in the entire world but then you've got these other more conservative governors like the governor of texas saying let's let's get the economy open again you got run to scientists here in florida who's reopened the beaches of jacksonville up in northern florida and people just flooding on to the beaches but it's clear at this point in time the decisions these governors are making are becoming politicized and that's not necessarily a good thing for people's health but they are pushing to reopen the economy in these more conservative states while those hardest hit are taking a very slow approach because remember out of the guidelines of this phased approach the states have to see a 14 day decline in cases and if you look at somewhere like florida where it's not even peaked yet where over 700 deaths here about 25000 cases many of those inside of care homes so we are clearly not out of the woods here in the sunshine state but the governor of the state is reopening parts of the beaches just to get the economy going again so it is a critical juncture it's a delicate balance but ultimately these decisions could mean life or death and

again i thank you very much indeed. michael isikoff is the chief investigative correspondent on yahoo news he joins us live via skype from washington d.c. thanks for being with us just want to go back to the handling of the spy president trump me clearly it's an election year and some of what he's done is perhaps linked to electioneering but what do you make of that the tweets the liberate tweets against. that reference particularly the democratic governors just making the link more overt between the election and unless right i mean what we have here is clearly a cynical political strategy by the president he. has chosen to let begun owners make the decisions about when to start reopening when to lift the guidelines when to try to get take cautious steps back to normal

which does relieve him of any responsibility for blowback if the things go wrong he can say it was the governors who did this not me at the same time he is clearly trying to put pressure on those governors whipping up his base with these tweets liberate virginia liberate michigan liberate minnesota. designed to stir up his supporters to push for that reopening that clearly so many of them want and do you expect those protests to spread have popular is that that may have not alarmist threat they are spreading now what's unclear is there's this go beyond the core the hard core trump base i mean clearly there are lots of people who are going out there protesting in austin in austin texas the capital of that state in michigan but

whether that translates into sort of significant broad public support for reopening things before before the numbers start to gum come down is is far from clear and i should point out as your correspondent just did we are not out of the woods here yet. the number of the deaths are still significant they were up to 2500 yesterday that was up from 2100 the day before the number of new cases continues to increase so i think the white house was hoping we'd see a steady decline in those numbers by now and while there's been some drop off on the heights of last week there is not a steady decline. thank you very much indeed my case the cough and let's take you

straight now to hear from president trump. some of these trends in a few moments but the very positive trends for winning are when you close it out. while we mourn the tragic loss of life. and you can't afford it any stronger than we're mourning at the united states has produced dramatically better health outcomes than any other country with the possible exception of germany and i think we're as good or better. on a per capita basis remember that on a per capita basis our mortality rate is far lower than other nations of western europe. with the lone exception of possibly germany this includes the u.k. switzerland belgium the netherlands italy france spain for example has a mortality rate that is nearly 4 times that of the united states but you don't hear

that you hear we have more deaths but we're a much bigger country than it is countries by far so when the fake news gets out there and they start talking about the united states is no one but we're not number one china is number one just so you understand china is number one by a lot it's not even close they're way ahead of us in terms of death it's not even close you know it i know it and they know it but you don't want to report it why. you'll have to explain that some day i'll explain it since we released the guidelines to open up america again and this was 2 days ago a number of states led by both democrat and republican governors have announced concrete steps to begin a safe gradual and phased opening. texas and vermont will allow certain businesses to open on monday while still requiring appropriate social distancing precautions

and i can tell you the governor of texas greg abbott he knows what he's doing he's a great governor knows exactly what he's doing montana will begin lifting restrictions on friday ohio north dakota and idaho have advised non-essential businesses to prepare for a phased opening starting may 1st throughout this crisis my administration has taken unprecedented actions to rescue economic relief to our citizens as an example you don't hear any more about ventilators what happened to the ventilators and now they're giving you the other school testing testing but they don't want to use all of the capacity that we've created we have tremendous capacity dr blix will be explaining that they know that the governors know that. the democrat governors know that they're the ones who are complaining through the

paycheck protection program we've already processed nearly $350000000000.00 to $1600000.00 small businesses across the nation to keep american workers on the payroll so we're asking the democrats to get it done it should be bipartisan this should be 100 percent vote. and it's really been incredible the $350000000000.00 that's been approved is so popular and it's keeping businesses open it will be open hopefully forever our swift action is directly supporting $30000000.00 american jobs. amy wright from north carolina as an example said the program is a game changer for her and her family it's coffee shops and she has $120.00 employees many of whom have developmental and

intellectual disabilities and now they're all staying in the getting paid and she's got a. dream and it's going to take place very quickly when she opens again so amy good luck north carolina great place scott in julie altering. helped lead a church and own a restaurant in south dakota with about 15 employees there were already starting layoffs layoffs were moving along rapidly but now they've hired their employees back and they can keep their restaurant open and it will be moving quickly very quickly as opposed to not having anybody and probably not having. a place to. have all of these people employed she would have it out of business she

would have been gotten the paycheck protection program funding is now fully drained it's out it's gone $350000000000.00 to small businesses and in turn it goes to the employees of those small businesses lawmakers must stop blocking these funds and replenish the program without delay the democrats have to come on board i used to read that these were democrat programs not republican seems to have switched around a lot as. switched around a lot the republicans won it i think the democrats probably do too but they also one of the things that are unacceptable this is about. this is about. the plague and what it's done to us isn't about extraneous things that they've been trying to get for years that our country doesn't want them to. as we enter the next stage of our battle we are continuing our relentless effort to destroy the virus my

administration is taking steps to protect high risk communities by providing funding for $13000.00 community health centers sites and mobile medical say sions in order to equip them with the most advanced and robust testing capabilities these sites are incredible what they can do is incredible the job they do is incredible these centers provide care to 28000000 people living in medically underserved urban and rural regions including many african-american and hispanic communities we're taking care of them and it's so important because you've all been reading about the disproportionate numbers on african-american and you're reading a little bit less about hispanic but likewise hispanic communities the numbers

a disproportionate effect would doing big studies on it right now we don't like it not right nationwide we've now conducted over $4000000.00 tests and deborah will be talking about that it's double the number conducted by any other country on earth so that's more than 2 times actually the number conducted by any other country on earth you hear so much about testing what we've done is incredible in testing and i started with an obsolete broken system from a previous administration or administrations but i would really say administration for a different reason because testing has become so advanced over the last number of years. and we have the most advanced of all i spoke with other nations this morning the leaders and they all the talking about our great testing capability and some of them want to know what to do what how can they get involved because they need it

for their own countries in louisiana massachusetts rhode island new york and other hot spots we have also tested more people per capita by far than italy spain germany france and the united kingdom and all other major countries so think of that in new york for instance per capita testing is 6 percent higher than in singapore in fact there's a typo it's 67 percent higher the big difference and say there's a big difference between 6 percent and 6 i was looking to said 6 percent doesn't look too good it's 67 percent good job at a. higher than singapore 64 percent higher than south korea and 47 percent higher than australia so it's 67 percent higher than singapore which is a very advanced place in terms of what they're doing my administration has also

been speaking frequently with many of the governors to help them find an unlocked the vast unused testing capacity that exists in their states dr burk's discussed yesterday the commercial and academic laboratories in the states have tremendous unused capability which they can use the governor should use it tremendous and use capability there waiting for business from these governors that some of them complained i must tell you for the most part we're getting along great with them but some of them like to complain but i still go back because the hardest thing of all by far by a factor of 20. is the ventilators and now we're the king of ventilators we have ventilators we're going to be helping other countries very soon we're going to be helping mexico i spoke with the president of mexico he's great great guy. and i told him we're going to be helping him they desperately in mexico need ventilators and i told them we're going to be helping them very substantially were in

a position to do that we're building now thousands a week and they're coming in rapidly and they're very very high quality. but we're also helping president trump there outlining what he called the continuing the relentless battle to destroy the virus he mentioned that several states texas and vermont would allow certain businesses to reopen on monday with certain precautions on town i would begin to lift restrictions on friday and he claimed that the u.s. had produced a better health outcomes on a per capita basis for them all right and they said the mortality rate is lower than other nations in western europe perhaps the exception of germany over 10 to present time for a little later on. first though italy then the u.s. and now spain's death toll has passed $20000.00 reported another $565.00 deaths on saturday the death toll there continues to rise at a slower pace a test of also shown a no infection rate in your health workers in madrid celebrated as part of a makeshift hospital was closed after treating

a 1000 coronavirus patients on is that better sanchez says he asked parliament to extend the state of emergency until may the 9th and will relax the confinement for children before that. on the black. market we contemplate a horizon of a slow march towards the new normality it will be slow and we wanted to be progressive with maximum precautions markers and with a viable criterion altera to know exactly what the degree of the pandemic you want to know the evolution of the pandemic if it is controlled or not and consequently what steps we can take. in the u.k. more than 15000 people have now died in the government as admitted there's a shortage of crucial masks and gowns for health care staff and all workers are criticizing a suggestion they reuse the past on protective equipment when treating coronavirus patients paul brennan has more from ashford on the outskirts of london control to see about the amounts of stock of this personal protective equipment this p.p.a.

has been growing in recent weeks and essentially building to a crescendo in the past couple of days we had the health secretary matt hancock he's the government minister responsible for health reporting to a parliamentary committee on friday saying he wished he had a magic wand that he could wave through to generate more people even he just couldn't because the global marketplace was so so scarce at the moment but the pressure that's coming is because of anecdotal evidence from the front line that staff who are treating 1000 patients are having to do so compromising their own safety their old college of nursing the union for the nurses said that 51 percent of the staff that they had surveyed had been asked to reuse supposedly single use protective equipment the response of public health england which is the body which represents the government's the government's stance in this has been to say well we're going to reassess our guidelines and perhaps water down the guidelines maybe

they don't need to be so stringent so you can reuse stuff they said that some compromise was needed to optimize the supply of people in times of extreme shortages. the number of coronavirus deaths in africa has passed a 1000 including the nigerian president's top aide about here ari was mohamedou who haris chief of staff kerry who was in his seventy's had underlying health problems including diabetes meanwhile in the larger city of lagos authorities have been struggling to manage crowds amid the nationwide lockdown area has almost 500 confirmed cases of covered 19 and 17 deaths. in south africa has now recorded 52 coronavirus deaths the country is in the middle of a 21 day lockdown and residents are being told not to leave their homes but tension is growing as people who've lost their livelihoods struggle to feed their families one lee mckenna is editor in chief of the city press he joins us live from johannesburg via skype thanks so much indeed for being with us so initially south

africa was praised for getting a grip on the virus what is the the the general kind of feeling been about how this has been handled there. there think there is a feeling that the government is very much in charge of the situation you know before. the crevice hit the president of the figo as being safe for being weak for being not so tired of the country people are expecting a lot more of him but it was since this city has shown leadership and he has actually come to the idea and in the end the health minister and the government have actually have been very bold in the you know to transparent and they've been telling the south africans exactly what is happening that they have a. strong messages to people about exactly what is happening and what is coming and that they have their a bit of confidence in the government's handling of the situation problems have not

been as great as it should be people generally believe what the government has been saying is happening at certain times of the health response it seems to have been ways in the well hand of what about the economic side of things that have been protested then in some areas with residents were lacking food and so on. well there's another fear about where around. there are a few around the fence around has imposed very stringent economy measures and they've stepped down their much of the economy and they've managed to . what to do is that we're even economy that was going into recession and it would actually. technically recession and it actually happened in the past 2 years or so is that. there were snow there were no answers as to how we should respond to the economic crisis

and what then happened is that the governments then set down the economy and those that are end of the government think that stringent measures to shut down the economy at this particular point in time and we have the most an equal society in the world is a member of. poverty is very racially defined as have africa and the people who are going to suffer most from the lock downs are let people in the temps in the informal settlements and those are the people who are feeling the most and they're in the most that assistant to the south down and those are the people who. also are most vulnerable to work might happen as it is out of not complying with the effects of this have and how long is a surcharge in truck how likely is it that the restrictions will be lifted or eased after april 30th which i understand was there provisional date for the really

mission the. shutdown are supposed to end on the 16 then we'd have now been next to me to hear but everybody is saying that all the experts are saying that they know to now testing has actually been there and. we will probably have to move certain the have to the extent. that they're locked down and extending the lockdown the economy is going to suffer a lot more and having a lot of sectors 90 manufacturing and so on who are saying let's relax into the that's the let some of. the regulations that were there to open up big unavailable because what is likely to happen now is that we are going to have 6 to 10 percent contraction in the economy. in the economy and therefore we need to open the economy a little bit it sounds a bit tempers but they think in their country that is a good at that as

a 29 percent unemployment rate and will at this point is likely to lose a 1000000 jobs we are going to be. to be really hard. monley mckenna thank you very much leaves me the time to talk to us our history you know knocked down has come into force in sudan's capital khartoum for the next 3 weeks to come as the health ministry announced a sharp increase in people who've contract it covert 1930 new cases have been reported in the past day bringing the total number of those infected to 66 sudan has already imposed a nationwide curfew closed its airports and stopped all bus trips between cities and a 2nd weekend only lockdown is underway in turkey major landmarks were empty on saturday as istanbul and ankara came to a standstill 31 provinces are under 48 hour restrictions in the effort to stop the spread of ads to existing measures telling people younger than 20 and older than 65

to stay home the country's recorded nearly 1800 deaths and more than 78 and a half 1000 cases. so much more still to come this hour including the city's prime minister who's accused of murdering his estranged wife deploys the army saying it was to restore order. and a millionaire a barrister and a 7 politician are among those arrested as hong kong cracks down on the pro-democracy movement. and this is a very nice weather across all central areas of europe the house. really the bulk of the continent has enjoyed some very nice warm sunshine on his example of that this is actually in prague looking across over the very nice riven now there is

some rain around you can see it as we go through sunday does work its way across the center areas pushing eastwards across eventually into areas over romania but really is out across the southwest this is where we're seeing the bulk of the rain and very heavy at times particularly through eastern i was a spain and also the southern portion of france and guess what it is on its way towards the central med so a very unsettled picture some very heavy amounts of rain to the north of that it is fine and dry and a nazi bad 15 in london which is actually the average in paris should be about the same but it's not it's still saying very miles with a high of $23.00 degrees and also woman it's a little 16 celsius in and then northern africa very heavy amounts of rain as we go through sunday this is what his way out to mauritania pushing across into hours of algeria and then working its way further tools and all but also the shadows heavy at times into these areas of morocco now as we go through monday it does really clear up towards the north but it gets stuck with that system in the central med so again some heavy amounts of rain pushing on into tennessee and still those coastal

trials across into morocco. a policy imposed decade. ago pregnant woman part that she put selectively goods and when he boards changing demographics across asia with far reaching consequences you're creating a pool of socially disadvantaged young men so you have the system where people at every level will be get being given money money to agree destro zation our money to get other people to agree to sterilization how does their examines the politics of population control one of the really special things that working for others here is that even as a camera woman i get to have so much empathy and contribution to a story i feel we cover this region better than anyone else would be for which is you know very challenging the ability particularly because you have a lot of people that are deployed on political issues we are we the people we live to tell the real stories are just mended used to deliver in-depth journalism we

don't feel inferior to the audience across the globe. they are going around of the top stories here now jazeera protest as a back out on the streets of the u.s. targeting their governors and demanding an end to the coronavirus shutdowns in several states that's despite them 37000 deaths nationwide. spain's coronavirus death toll has passed 20000 but the number of deaths continues to rise at a slower pace on mr petter sanchez says he lost parliament to extend the state of emergency until midnight. and in the u.k.

medical workers are criticizing a government suggestion that they reuse personal protective equipment and fears of an imminent shortage more than 15000 people have not died from covert 19 in britain . at least 19 suspected coronavirus paris patients have died in a hospital in the brazilian state of missouri according to a video circulating on local media the bodies were kept in bags beside live patients some of them were removed on thursday or 8 were placed in a refrigerated container a lack of hospital beds intensive care units and medical gear have been a major cause of concern for brazilian authorities who so far confirmed 145 deaths has been a return to some normality in iran's capital traffic was heavy in tehran on saturday is the authorities allowed some businesses to reopen but health experts have warned the government could be risking a spike in infections as it changes its focus to saving the economy saying this

robbery in tehran has more. after nearly 2 months of being closed because of the corona virus businesses in the iranian capital are waking up from their hibernation for main street shops like this in open areas the city's prime real estate it is business as usual but for covered markets where there are bottlenecks where dense crowds can gather the government says it's still too dangerous to open up any of the shops in those spaces but the traders we've spoken to in teheran is back alley bazaars they've told us that not only have they not made any money for months but it will take many more months to get back on their feet they say they too need to pay their rent and meet their expenses let alone try to turn a profit and that they hope that the government lifts the remaining control measures entirely in the coming weeks now president hassan rouhani has championed the idea of what he calls smart distancing things start going back to normal but people simultaneously maintain strict rules of hygiene but iran's deputy health

minister who contracted cope with 19 himself in recent days he said that iran is the country's achilles heel a weak point when it comes to fighting this fire it's a new government figures do suggest that the infection and death rates are going down and everyone here also hopes that it stays that way but the government has now effectively shifted the onus put the onus on its people and after weeks of being indoors there is this isolation fatigue there is toward them so people here are ready to go back to work it's more crowded in downtown to run than it has been in weeks but there are also skeptical voices in the government that say the rush to reopen could backfire and that people in the country should be prepared for the possibility of a 2nd wave of the virus. california researchers say the results of an antibody study suggests the corona virus has spread far further through the state than previously thought stanford university warns there could be 50 to 85 times more

infections and the government's estimate was 3000 people in santa clara county were tested in the 1st large scale study of its kind scientists say further tests of healthy volunteers should be carried out to understand the spread better. out one point the indian state of carer had the most corona virus infections in the country but now it says it's contained the spread it's confirmed just 3 deaths a major success in a country of 1300000000 people next year prime. carolina has its picturesque back waters and pristine beaches but now there are no tourists in these houseboats instead they are being converted into isolation wards for coronavirus patients we have had extensive discussions with or on as associations all that. it needs.

some of india's 1st confirmed cases of the virus were here in kerala as some of the millions who work overseas returned home at one point carol i had the most cases in india now that's changed which the sites leaders put down to intense efforts to break the chain of transmission distracted people's pets tested and also to. trace all the day for the last fortnight test. was traced. but. that tracing is happening and call centers like this using technology such as geotagging to monitor classed as of cases we had to call 410000 people or nearly 10000 people every day to know whether they're developing any symptoms or not. the communist run state says it's also been stopping the spread of the disease by ensuring workers who've lost their jobs still

have a roof over their heads nobody can also search for the workers. if you fight in the. ground. i'd go so you didn't read. or every word. restrictive measures have seen 1300000000 indians and lockdown causing a humanitarian crisis for the poor and daily wage earners many who've left their home villages and states to find work in the cities some such as these in the capital new delhi say they haven't eaten for a week before police help them be finding that they are used to working weddings and parties but now everything stopped back in kerala the annual monsoon rains a jew in a few weeks and the fevers that often come with them could make fighting the

coronavirus more complicated elixir brian al jazeera. pakistan has lifted restrictions on congregational prayers at mosques but put in place a series of safety measures earlier president of the pleaded with religious leaders to stop attending congressional prayer as congregational presence a story he held an online conference to discuss measures for ramadan which is only a week away and how to manage present mosques the country has seen 7600 confirmed cases and a 143 deaths linked to code 19. the holy fire ceremony marking easter in jerusalem has taken place in near empty streets due to the pandemic thousands of worshippers often lined up at the church of honeysuckle to where they believe jesus was crucified and resurrected this year only a handful of clergymen with their some wearing face masks. drug smugglers who set up a fake food company to flout coronavirus restrictions have been arrested in southern

spain 3 lithuanians were caught by the civil guard in malaga with 200 kilos of hash hidden inside tomato cans the fictitious company allowed them to travel during the national state of emergency and pass border restrictions on their journey to a few a new more than 700 marijuana plants were also seized by the authorities. soldiers in a suit to have returned to their barracks hours after the country's embattled prime minister ordered them to restore peace and order police chiefs say thomas to ban i was trying to intimidate them after they implicated him in the murder of his former wife from johannesburg coming to miller has more. capital maseru woke on saturday to soldiers on the streets in a televised address prime minister time to bonnie said they'd been deployed to

restore order he's declared a state of emergency on friday a court ruled against upon his plans to suspend parliament we was due to face a vote of no confidence this as lawsuit to me is the end of a national lockdown because of the coronavirus. but the police chief say the army was deployed to intimidate them have accused me of being involved in the 2017 murder of his 2nd wife. his current wife has already been charged with murder the deputy police commissioner plus a couple care to speak to us via mobile phone video he says he's gone into hiding.

but the government says the man was simply called in for questioning to bonnie says as he's sitting prime minister he can't be charged with murder he's taken the matter to the constitutional court which is yet to hear the case to bonny had previously tried to fire the police chief leading the murder investigation but the courts prevented it this is not the 1st time that the police and army have been pitted against each other as political tensions increase in $24000.00 confrontations between soldiers and the police left a one police officer dead and now as tensions ramp up the south african government is sending a special envoy to its neighbor to mediate in the latest crisis. the city has a long history of coups and military involvement in its often fragile politics well

to planning as promised to retire in july he continues to face opposition with in and outside of his own ruling pursuit to national convention the army has now withdrawn but tension and uncertainty remain in the tiny southern african kingdom for me to malaya al-jazeera the libyan warlord her liver have to pierce to be on the back foot as forces from the u.n. recognize government advance on a key stronghold at least 10 of his soldiers were killed and dozens captured as he pulled back to defend the city of tal horner what happened we'll have reports from tripoli. rocket launch it by forces loyal to warlord khalifa have to get injured civilians in several districts of libya's capital. the barrage of rockets was in the retaliation for the offensive by those backing a deal and the big names to government in tripoli to recapture hall now. the

city around 90 kilometers southeast of tripoli is have towards a major stronghold in the west of the country and the operations headquarters of the year long campaign to capture the capital. we've launched this attack to cut the supply line coming to their positions in southern tripoli we advance to 27 kilometers inside the administers of borders of htat who are and are now in control of the area of my work with the. government forces say they killed some pro have to the fighters and captured dozens of prisoners in saturday's advance on top of whom know. we had fallen from several axes we captured a number of their forces weapons and military vehicles the move was ordered by our operation room we will win the battle. the majority of have to his forces fighting

in the suburban of southern tripoli come from tata who now many of them abandoned their battle to seize tripoli to return home to defend their city the pullout has helped the government forces make gains in other front lines past us forces it lost many areas along the coast of western libya last week the battle for the horn or is seen as crucial because if it falls into the hands of the internationally recognized the government signals the dell and fall of have to his forces in the entire area. tripoli. on sunday the people of mali will go to the polls for a 2nd round of the country's election they'll have to brave the threat of armed groups linked to al qaida and. positioning their was kidnapped for the 1st round an

unknown group demanding millions of dollars for his release nicholas hoc reports wanting to bring change to mali is what brought 1st time parliamentary candidate how to politics fear is what is preventing him from campaigning in his constituency in the central region where al qaeda affiliates are telling people not to vote because brother is in the moment was abducted days before the 1st round awarding to those taking part in these elections. i am scared i had to hide to visit my own constituency. because there is nobody to see him scared because if they have abducted our opposition for more than 21 days now they could even abduct a president they can take anyone they want. the government's mediator was kidnapped while negotiating for the release of opposition leaders from my list and see who was abducted while campaigning in the country's north it's unclear which group is behind the kidnapping but they're demanding around some of $80000000.00 for several

weeks al qaeda affiliate to be someone was lean mean and these topics in the greater sahara have been fighting each other for control of landed resources in mali north and central region. is a full on the herder who's escape the violence joining hundreds of thousands of others displaced in the capital bamako they have turned this cattle market and slaughterhouse into makeshift camps. i am not afraid i will vote this sunday for my country and i am asking the newly elected m.p.'s to find a solution and an end to this conflict so we can go home. dicko fears the vote will be rigged in the 1st round he says no one dared to vote in his constituency but local officials say there was an 80 percent turnout with the ruling party winning the majority of the votes in the 2nd round of this election millions will have to brave the threat of armed groups and the corona virus outbreak while the stakes for the country are high taking part in the vote

has not just become risky and dangerous it can also be peter nicholas hawk al-jazeera. the philippines government has vowed to respond after 11 soldiers were killed by an armed group linked to i so they army says the soldiers were ambushed by around 40 fighters from the abu sayyaf group 14 soldiers were injured in the trash in the southern province attack which lasted an hour is the deadliest in more than a year after it has been blamed for kidnappings and beheadings in the south of the country. police in hong kong have arrested 15 pro-democracy activists and a mass anti government protests last year accused of being involved in unauthorized assembly it's the largest crackdown on the movement since demonstrations began in june this year the pollen reports from hawk hong kong the list of arrested reads like the who's who upon const democratic movement among them are present and former

legislative councillors prominent activist a man known as the father of democracy in hong kong. 81 year old martin lee is one of the architects of the basic law the city's mini constitution which essentially safeguard the territories autonomy he had stepped away from the political spotlight in recent years but was vocal about his support for the protests last year. i have no regrets for what i have done i feel proud to walk the path of democracy these outstanding young protesters. it's the 2nd time this year businessman and media tycoon jimmy lie has been arrested. they have been arrested on suspicion of organizing and taking part in a legal assembly the government has released a statement saying the arrests were made based on evidence and were in accordance to the law since that government is coming out remind them that you have since you

have to see that and. i rest and continue and you've been in that time of crisis during all of these i have to make. on meet is of the movement the arrests come up to a week of turmoil in the legislative council members tussled with the opposition democrats for control of the weekly meeting agenda in an unusual move china's representative office in hong kong waded in to denounce the pro-democracy group the beijing liaison office monitors developments in hong kong and reports back to the chinese government but for the 1st time it's stated it has the right to supervise local affairs and is exempt from acoss in the constitution which restricts interference from any department directly under beijing's control i that's provoking we need fears amongst democracy supporters already alarmed at china's tightening grip on hong kong since last june more than $7000.00 people have been

arrested for their involvement in the protests many are charged with biting which carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years. this year there has been a lot of the protests mostly due to the crew navarro's pandemic the government has banned all gatherings of more than 4 people to enforce social distancing but protesters and democracy activists say government leaders are making the most of the distracted public along with trying to wipe out the virus wiping out any dissent is the aim too big thing if you go pollen our desire of. $100000.00 refugees displaced by fighting in syria have returned to rebel held province and areas around aleppo moves come up to russia and turkey signed a cease fire last month and amounts to more than one in 10 of the total number of displaced people at the border between syria and turkey but houses and other essential facilities in the area have been destroyed by fighting and several cases

of corona virus have been reported $47.00 unaccompanied children evacuated from overcrowded refugee camps in greece arrived in germany spend 2 weeks in quarantine it's part of an initiative to relocate all of 5000 unaccompanied or separated minors from greece to other european union states oxenberg took in 12 children earlier this week human rights watch has called on greece to protect children in the camps from the coronavirus by releasing them all. so you had this news hour lockdown doesn't mean all fitness levels have to go down to want to cut how some people are staying healthy at home plus. just. that level stars phoning in their performances from home at all for a good course. medieval

western society was a feudal society so detailed. the wind out of the bow and as soon as the pope ended his speech some people stood up and said god will see him in the entrance to the city was who refused they killed people in the streets in their houses and in. the crusades an arab perspective that the sold one shot. on the jersey or. award winning programming from international till may cause the bodies of its yeah we are going to wipe insect life if we carry on this one just the arrest sets the stage that is no longer here naivety is no longer an excuse giving voice to the voiceless so are we ready to go for a long pull ex-pats and discussion that culture still exists in your filthy batting that today open your eyes to an alternative view of the world today on mount as

iraq. oh. i know that with dreams and recreation centers closed during nationwide lock downs they were finding creative ways to keep mentally and physically fit as a hayward reports being stuck indoors is motivating people of all ages to stay healthy. shana i love staring ballet and gymnastics at 3 she's going to vanish but with parks closed in classes council because of coronavirus she's finding new ways to keep up. the coronavirus pandemic has led to

a big upset in online fitness classes but all ages from here and dance to a high intensity cardio workout and football it's all out that some people are even managing to run marathons in saeed's here in the u.k. all gyms and leisure centers of close that door was in some parks are off limits because of the risk of transmitting the virus restrictions mean people having by britain's government to exercise just once a day and only with members of your own household the many take you back to your present company not taking questions at the daily briefing on a credit virus why didn't he why did the press why didn't you people figure that out though why do we have to put up a chart it's the numbers and posits an impossible number to hit but why haven't you come up and said that. this is now cooperating united states to figure out what happened and what do you want from them now. they're doing an investigation that

they're doing an investigation so let's see what happens with their investigation but we're doing investigations also the go it was. you spoke we heard our personnel again it's not every country has a responsibility to tell us the world is going on you're talking only about how this could have been stopped in the past i know you don't want to telegraph what you would do you think you think that there should be sound consequences if india and china was responsible for all of this. well if they were knowingly responsible certainly if they did it was a mistake a mistake is a mistake but if there were knowingly responsible then there should be consequences you're talking about you know potentially lives like nobody's seen since 1017. and you know the other thing had we not done what we did in terms of closing because there is that concept of let's let it ride but at some point i'm going to

have to i don't want to embarrass countries that i like and leaders that i like but you have to see some of these numbers in in my opinion so we're talking about maybe 60000 or so that's a lot of people but that's one $100000.00 was the minimum with thought that we could get to and we will be lower than that number. anywhere from 102220000 people but i really believe it could have been billions of people had we not done what we did we made a lot of good decisions but one of those things got. good this was a job on how many houses where you're high on the only thing i want to look at the facts as they come and i want to look at the facts please you very much mr president. last week you played that your target of everything get the american people to understand why you are unwilling to use the off the powers of your presidency to make american companies manufactured p.t.d. and also the testing equipment that you believe would limit it with your

recommendation about who you want to call for i'm with the t.m.s. recommendations for the end what is time for me to do this what my name is doug christian who taught me and is me to. go ahead keep reading your question. the thing is how to. make companies build these testing put it so that you can do what you want we're doing we're doing we're doing it right now with ventilators we have general motors where general electric we have 11 different companies great companies building them for us all over the united states we're starting to make our own gallons as they call it we're making some incredible things and as far as the testing is concerned most of that now is done in the united states. it's we're doing it in the united states are different platforms and so i just don't think you were listening were complaining to what senator spice president which senator to work on well independent senator angus

king he's not an independent think is king is worse than any democrat go ahead but he said that he was he was livid actually as he said that because he's a he's a democrat ok i guess king is not an independent he uses that term for whatever reason it's a waste of time. oh motive tovey a serious you haven't seen him ok you haven't seen him no angus king is a democrat and that was totally staged i heard that and it was totally stage just like you read the question he read his question yeah please look at. him about what if you're free to please not the one the one you retreated from paul sperry let's see if authorities in forced the social distancing order from monster ramadan like they did churches during easter i'm wondering i would like to see that and you know i just spoke with leaders. and people that. love mosques they love

mosques and i'm all in favor of that but i would say that there could be a difference and we'll have to see what will happen because i've seen a great disparity in this country i've seen a great disparity i mean i've seen a very strong anti israel bent in congress with democrats that it was unthinkable 7 or 8 or 10 years ago and now they're into a whole different thing between omar and a o c i see a c. plus 3 them on you have i mean the things that they say about israel are so bad and i can't believe it now just i'm in so i would be interested to see that because they go after christian churches but they don't tend to go after mosques and i don't want to go after mosques but i do want to see what their what their bent is yes please in the back didn't put him back on a list that monson follow something i think it just had a call with the moms.