well as film rewind continues with hoss of darkness we were following orders we sing young people to fight these wars put them in the most complex situations you can imagine and have them make life and death decisions rewind on al-jazeera. under fire the british government denies allegations that it missed a series of opportunities to lessen the impact of the current virus outbreak but. out of amnesty this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up fun on the beaches declared an essential activity in a u.s. state all moves to ease coronavirus confinement branded dangerous. mali and spurs

in the 2nd round of parliamentary elections faced with the threat of armed groups and the coronavirus pandemic. and music with a serious message how the wilds musical stars are helping health care workers. lose we need to destroy. the world. now britain's handling of the corona virus outbreak has come under scrutiny an investigation by the conservative leaning sunday times newspaper alleges that boris johnson's government wasted precious time in the fight against the outbreak coursing unnamed government advisors the article says that instead of replenishing national stockpiles of protective equipment over a quarter of

a 1000000 items were rather sent to china in february it goes on to describe how an often made by protective gear supplies in february was only excepted in april and it claims that prime minister barak johnson didn't attend 5 initial emergency meetings on the unfolding crisis and ignored warnings from top scientists well our correspondent paul brennan joins us live now from westminster hall this is a fairly detailed and damning report of downing street's initial handling of this pandemic what does the government had to say. yeah it is pretty extreme the critical and the but the bottom line is that the biggest criticism of all of the government is its apparent complacency in the face of what was growing evidence that this pandemic was going to cost thousands of lives not just across the world but very much here in the u.k. under the government's watch some of the allegations included that the pandemic training had been neglected that stocks of personal protective equipment had been

allowed to dwindle that the preparedness simply just wasn't there now the reaction from downing street has been to issue a statement and they've said that the government has been working night and day to battle a virus and it went at specific measures at specific times to have the best outcome in relation to the prime minister's presence it said the prime minister has been at the helm of the response providing leadership during this hugely challenging period and in the morning sunday morning television political programs that we have here in the u.k. it's been the cabinet office minister michael gove who's been leading the government's defense of its actions. the idea that the prime minister skipped meetings that were the. response to the growing of us i think is protests and the truth is that the other meetings across government so much richard by the health secretary so much are chaired by other ministers but the prime minister took all the major decisions and i think anyone who considered him to the point is just

a little while ago new piquancy to see some throwing heart and soul into fighting this virus. but the quotes in the sunday times article albeit from unnamed sources are they pretty damning one of them says that boris didn't share any meetings he liked his country breaks he didn't work weekends it was like working for an old fashioned chief executive in a local authority from 20 years ago when the other one that struck out for me from the goal was to say that basically the pandemic was known to be the biggest priority from a health care situation but when it came we all just slowly watched. us oh i see we've also gotten some fairly significant estimates today of the thousands of deaths of elderly and disabled in care homes who haven't been counted as part of the official title how is all that being addressed. it's being addressed slowly but again people are critical of the time it's taking 2 to

address it the problem that we have here in the u.k. is that the only people are being tested for corona virus or at least until the middle of this past week those people are being admitted to hospitals with suspected coronavirus and n.h.s. staff as well of course and that means that the larger vulnerable population of elderly people who live in care homes and residential nursing homes been dying in increasing numbers in recent months and weeks have not so far been included in those official statistics and there is great concern that the statistics that have been put out a century mislead the public as to the true scale of this corona virus outbreak we heard yesterday from england which had statistics to say some 7 and a half 1000 additional deaths over and above the norm. that they estimated were taking place in the last 3 weeks. that wasn't necessarily all down to coronavirus but you see that's a massive spike in unexplained deaths and now new statistics today it's an estimate from a survey made by the national care forum which represents nonprofit making care homes

they say that more than 4000 residents of these care homes have died in the past 2 weeks they collected data from 7 and a half percent of the care homes and extrapolated it out and got the figure of 4000 and it matters because if we don't know how many people have the virus how can we combat it program and therefore us on the ground unless that's thank you very much . well ali was paid to sanya penalities the channel asked on a bestselling author he's written a biography of the british prime minister barak and she says that johnson is too focused on celebrating breck set at a time when he should have been preparing to fight the outbreak. i used to be his deputy many years ago and we were both journalists and he went in brussels for the daily telegraph was an officer too i got to know him very well i still then i written about him over many many years now that he simply doesn't have to qualities to be. take early and it's time like this is

a global pandemic and the sunday times report today which seems extremely well researched well written and and accurate portrays that with devastating and hugely alarming impacts the fact is i think it is possible that person some will now go down as one of the worst prime ministers that we've ever had and we've had him in charge all allegedly in charge during this power and. the sunday times describes it as a spider's web of failure even that i think maybe in and arrested that people are losing their lives have lost their lives lost their livelihoods people are grieving because thousands of extra people are grieving because of the failings of this government run by paris johnson it is a grotesque having to use that word it's a grotesque failing at the heart of government the problem with our prime minister is that his kind of mindset is why should i do this why shouldn't i just do what i want and of course to look down on all those measures you have to take to deal with

a pandemic totally against that kind of outlook they also go against brick that i mean don't try on flip about you know breakfasting from the e.u. at the same time as this global pandemic was on its way to hit us it was as if they were celebrating this at a time and they really shouldn't have been doing sentient being concentrating on on this instead. well the question of just when to coronavirus up down restrictions is dividing the epicenter of the pandemic us president donald trump keeps pushing a positive message he says there are signs that covered 1000 has passed its peak but experts warn that moving too fast could be disastrous and you got to go as in florida with that story. after weeks of stay at home hundreds flocked to the reopened beaches in jacksonville florida the medical of this controversial move as essential activity even as the state hit more than 27000 coronavirus cases it's

what authorities call a pathway back to normal life. but in other parts of the u.s. the scenes a very different across the country a small but growing protest movement is calling for restrictions to be eased from utah to wisconsin in both republican and democratic led states people are taking to the streets urging a return to normal life we are still a free country at least for now and people have to make a decision and that's their personal decision if they don't want to be 6 feet apart or 7 peter peter parker i can't i can't dictate to that to them despite declaring that individual governors are in charge president donald trump seemed to encourage the protests in a series of tweets on friday all 3 states have democratic governor has his tacit support is seen as deeply political in a time of crisis and you know it is there are a lot of protests out there and i just think that some of the governors have gotten

carried away you know you have a lot of people that don't have to be told to do what they're doing they've been really. doing everything we've asked them in new york the epicenter of the pandemic measures to ease restrictions still far off the state's governor says this is no time to play politics how does the situation get worse. it get worse quickly if you politicize all that emotion we can not go there that's where i work so hard when anyone raises any political agenda to me i work so hard to distance myself from it. some states are beginning to ease restrictions many are still battling the coronavirus and testing is in short supply the desire to get back to some kind of normal is clear the careful approach to doing so vital thank you very much a nation divided it was perhaps inevitable the politics would play a part no matter what challenges lie ahead throughout this crisis the mantra has

been we're in it together but any sense of unity now seems to be falling apart conservatives believe the cure is worse than the disease others and used to be a more science based approach the fact remains many states a yet to peek in their coronavirus cases the decisions governors make now will be crucial but that hasn't stopped some trying to score political points gallacher al-jazeera miami florida well donald trump is also accused of stoking islamophobia after raising questions about social distancing in mosques during the holy month of ramadan our white house correspondent candy how this has. there are increasing questions about a retreat by u.s. president trump on saturday accusations he may be stoking islamophobia in the united states the reach we reads let's see if authorities enforce the social distancing orders for mosques during ramadan like they did churches during easter i

asked the president about this retreat here's what he had to say i didn't put him back to live amongst the following so i think i just had a call with mom so i just had a call with ministers rabbis we had a tremendous call with the faith leaders no i don't think that at all i am somebody that believes in faith and it matters not what your faith is but our politicians seem to treat different faiths very differently and they seem to think and i don't know what happened with their country but. the christian faith is treated much differently than it was and i think it's treated very unfairly now when it comes to enforcing social distancing the department of justice did take on the case of at least one church in mississippi where worshipers attended in their automobiles with the car windows rolled up the department of justice said that these worshippers

were simply exercising their right under the 1st amendment of the u.s. constitution now many in the united states watching very carefully to see if this same effort will be applied when it comes to those who may want to celebrate during ramadan which begins in the u.s. on thursday. now testing has overtaken iran as a country with the highest recorded number of covered 1000 cases in the middle east the latest figures push it up to the 8th highest in the wild just off to china coronavirus and techie has killed nearly 1900 people and more than 82000 and sections have been confirmed nearly 3800 of those cases diagnosed just in the past 24 hours a lockdown has now been extended to 15 days preventing travel between fathi of testes biggest cities well ali i spoke to met that chelate he's the managing editor of daily sabbats a pro-government english language newspaper in taki he says residents are complying

with the uptown measures and are happy with the government's handling of the crisis majority of the people regardless of what card or what party they come from even if they do have some sort of criticism they support the way that the way the government has handled the this issue in fact the trust for for the for the health minister for example has been like skyrocketing like no other ministers before how he has handle the information sharing the transparency with regards to that has been largely supported by the public and in fact the reason why. you know of course the numbers are rising in turkey but and this has a lot to do of course with our population with the numbers of testing and you know it has passed iran our neighbor but if you look at the testing numbers we have done turkey has done double that has in it in iran so far and to the measures prior to the 1st case in turkey are significant post 1st case and treat when it

comes to treatment for example the situation of the health care 'd system in turkey is not comparable to its neighbors. you know in the neighboring region. so yes there is of course there is there will be some criticism regardless of how the government is acting and there may be some role for a project to do but i think overall if you look at the big picture turkey has handled this kora virus in a successful way paula still ahead on al-jazeera. cause of one of the largest migrant camps in greece is destroyed by fire during unrest and the coronavirus safety measure.

hello there china continuing to see some very heavy amounts of rain through the central areas on a cool system of the system continuing to work its way on towards japan so as it is through monday the rain will eventually exit the korean peninsula and then the bulk of it really pushing across into central and northern areas of honshu and pushing up into later on the day won't she shows working their way into northern sections of the korean peninsula it should say mostly fun and draw on soldiers 15 degrees celsius but it's also being quite a bit cooler into beijing 17 degrees on monday there is that rain though across much of those central and southern areas of china and again some very heavy downpours so that could lead to some localized as that you see system to the north in china and this is really picking up the sand in the dust and we could see some very strong winds coming from that system and then across into india as they want to scattered showers and thunderstorms if a some pretty heavy downpours of course further to the northeast this is where the rains have been particularly heavy looking to need to be fairly heavy as well who sings cover thunderstorms in new delhi also some strong winds so kicking up again

a lot of the sand and dust and then through monday the rains very heavy again through areas of bangladesh up into the northeast and developing all the while along eastern coastal areas so disha up into west bengal and against michel's choose day into kara. an extrajudicial killing in a north african capital. i heard someone breaking into our house because the. love i heard people shouting i saw 4 masked men but now only their eyes and hair was showing. world his red eye witness accounts of the dramatic story of the assassination of major p.l.o. figure was here in a secret israeli operation assassination in tunis on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm just. a reminder of our top stories this hour a british government minister has described reports that prime minister bars johnson skipped critical coronavirus meetings early in the outbreak as protests the sunday times newspaper alleges that the british government was too slow to respond to the threat from the pandemic. the pressure is mounting on u.s. governess to ease grown a virus or opt out rolls protests encouraged by donald trump have been held in several states for the 3rd day in a row the president says some states will begin easing restrictions as early as monday. and turkey has replaced iran as the middle eastern country with the highest number of reported infections close to $3800.00 were diagnosed just in the last 24

hours raising the total to more than 82000. let's take you just in other news now and polls have been to the 2nd round of that just today the lections and nalini correspondents less hawk as following all the developments from dhaka and neighboring cynical nic just how conscious that actually is it that this bias actually went ahead. well this vote is taking place during a global pandemic hundreds of people have been infected with the virus 13 have died and this morning 2 people came out to the polling station even less than in the 1st round where there was a restore it below 10 percent of the electorate came came out to vote in bamako the government says 80 percent came out to vote in the north in the center of the country numbers that the opposition is questioning because the north of the country in the center is where armed groups are being active of course this election is

taking place because it's part of a peace agreement signed in 2015 by the government and armed groups that there would be parliamentary elections that would lead to a change in the constitution that would allow more power to local officials for the moment the ruling party has at most of the seats from the 1st round of these elections now the problem in all of this is that many of the armed groups that are active now such as the islamic state in the greater zahar or. jamaat to islam will mostly mean an al qaeda affiliate were not present in 2015 and they're calling on people to boycott the vote even threatening people that are running for this election now we followed one full on the candidate in the center of mali take a look at this report. 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 a warning to those taking part in these elections. i am scared i had to hide to visit my own constituents and i am scared because there is nobody to keep us safe i am scared because if they have abducted our opposition leader for more than 21 days now they could even abducted president they can take anyone they want. the government's mediator was kidnapped while negotiating for the release of opposition leaders to my list you 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 the slum one was lean mean and the stomach stayed in the greater sorrow have been fighting each other for control of land and resources in mali's 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 in slaughterhouse into makeshift camps. i am not afraid this sunday for my country and i am also. used to find a solution in this conflict so we can go. dicko fears the vote will be rigged 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 would need the majority of the votes in the 2nd round of this election mali ins will have to break 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 fetal. now polling station in. the region of have been burnt this morning there's been an attack

outside of. an attack yesterday in the area of kos again. polling stations it seems there is no letting of the violence in mali meanwhile the united states that's funding one of the biggest funders of the u.n. stabilizing force which is the most costly u.n. peacekeeping mission of a 1000000000 dollars a year well they're threatening to revoke their funding it comes also at a time where the chaldean president just last week announced that it's pulling back all of its troops out of the sun health frustrated that not enough is being done to stem out these attacks and that they are the only one really on the front line you know confronting these armed groups in this region so really the situation is going from bad to worse and it seems that this election isn't bringing the expected peace or letting down the violence. that it's as expected back to you nicholas haq there

for us and dhaka following all the developments for us thank you nick. now fire has damaged one of the largest migrant camps in greece the blaze on p.r. silent just hours and hours after a protest that began after a 47 year old iraqi asylum seeker been cleared of having the coronavirus died in the overcrowded camps our correspondent john psaropoulos says in athens and he says there's been a lot of panic over the virus in the camps. it appears that this fear that what she did diallo may have been coronavirus is what triggered the rampage the riots that happened overnight it was brought under control in the early hours i've been to that camp many times the heart of it is a full aluminum molding factory and so it's basically a concrete floor steel girders there isn't much that's combustible thankfully it was the last area which contains all of the administrative offices that was. not

the i.c.u. units for the containers where people are living so the capacity of the camp we understand is unimpaired having said that because of the congestion the government is implementing a plan to be deeply after easter sunday today to bring $2380.00 people off the island and into apartments hotels that have been booked out for the purpose and also some spaces in camps on the mainland it's a 1st step towards decongest in those islands those islands reception centers making sure that the conditions do not remain so overcrowded that any instance of corona virus will spread quickly. well the number of confirmed cases in japan has doubled in just 10 days 568 new cases were reported on sunday raising the total that's more than 11000 and further rises are expected as more testing is done. well

it's a very different story in south korea where the daily tally of new infections has fallen to single digits for the 1st time in 2 months now just 8 new cases were confirmed and the government is being praised for its widespread testing program devika pollen is in hong kong for us and has more on the situation in asia. it's been a remarkable turnaround for south korea which at the beginning of this year became the epicenter of the coronavirus after china with increase new infections increasing up at about a 1000 a day south korea's managed to get that in control by still avoiding the extreme lock downs we've seen in other parts of the region what they've done instead is aggressive testing and they've managed to track and trace high risk people or people who are in quarantine from corner virus japan is exactly the opposite story of south korea at the height of the outbreak earlier this year they had managed to

avoid any kind of major infection rates but now the pants infection rates are just surging and soaring and part of the reason for this is said to be the fact that they haven't been extensively testings people also japan's hospitals are said to be on the brink of collapse there's not enough i see units not at all said and beds more worryingly there's just not enough ventilators now that's what you need in the later stages of coronavirus also health workers are complaining that they don't have enough protective gear and the japanese government has said they will start providing all of this that extended the state of emergency across the country but the problem is because of japan's constitution they cannot and forth those measures so people aren't social distancing enough despised government warnings particularly due to the culture where people are still going to work and are not working from home. music talent and hope united millions for an online charity come said in the

fight against corona virus some of the biggest names in the music industry joined forces to on a health care web is around the wild the event has raised $15000000.00 so far to the un's code in $1000.00 miss pons fund the tory gave the report. my. he's performed for huge crowds in stadiums but on saturday night stevie wonder sang from his living room the fans watching that as superstars abuse it world were united in a common cause in a time of crisis. this time our leaders that were needed to strengthen the health care systems all round the world so the crises like this never happens again. but. the one world concert organized by lady gaga and the charity global citizen is the biggest

music event says the coronavirus shut down concerts and spurred a flurry of live streamed performances by quarantine musicians who have been humbled by the bravery and selflessness of doctors nurses and other key workers. to those in the food industry to rebury workers mail carriers and sanitation is working so that we can be safe in our homes we thank you for yourself mr. black america disproportionate belong to be's essential parts of the workforce and do not have the luxury of working. this concert is being compared inevitably to live a the 1985 benefit organized by bob geldof to raise money for starving ethiopians the question of how much concert such as these benefit the people they aim to help is always quickly debated but organizers say this concert is about entertainment and solidarity at a time when many people are living under lock downs what i'd like to do tonight if

i can and just give him a permission to farm. smog around on our models bring. down. the concert has raised tens of millions of dollars they fall for the un's qubit 90 response fund it's also focused attention on health care workers who in many people's eyes are the real stars victoria gay to be al jazeera. hello again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines a british government minister has described reports that prime minister barak's johnson skipped critical coronavirus meetings early in the outbreak as grotesque the sunday times newspaper alleges that the british government was too slow to

respond to the threat from the pandemic only to the plainest skipped meetings that were a. response to the growing of us i think it's because the truth is that the other meetings across government so much richard like the health secretary so much richard but all the ministers but the point minister to the major decisions i think anyone who. considered i think the point is just a little while ago new piquancy just threw in heart and soul into fully ching face only this one pressure is mounting on us governess to ease coronavirus lockdown rules protests encouraged by donald trump have been held in several states for a 3rd day in a row the president says some states will begin easing restrictions as a early as monday turkey has replaced iran as the middle eastern country with the highest number of reported infections close to $3800.00 were diagnosed just in the

last 24 hours raising the total to more than $82000.00. and the number of confirmed cases in japan has doubled in just 10 days 568 new cases were reported on sunday raising the total that to more than 11000 and further rises are expected as more testing is done the state of emergency in tokyo in 6 other than areas has now been expanded nationwide. polls open for the 2nd round of legislative elections and money the government went ahead with the vote despite the kidnapping of an opposition leader and threats from al-qaeda and fire has damaged one of the largest migrant camps in greece the blaze on he'll silence started out was off to a protest and that began after a 47 year old iraqi asylum seeker we've been cleared of having the coronavirus died in the overcrowded cab. well those are the headlines rob matheson will have more news here for you off the inside story.

why is the minimum military stepping up attacks on ethnic rebel groups the un says almost daily strikes on 2 states have killed dozens while calls for a ceasefire being ignored this is inside story. hello welcome to the program. there's been much attention on the military's company

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