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of its army to enforce coronavirus lockdown measures. and the special precautions that this already isolated community is taking to protect itself from the pandemic . now the u.s. has called for iran to be held accountable after the iran successfully launched its 1st military satellite runs revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space washington has accused iran in the past of using its space program as a cover for missile development reports. on wednesday morning the world a will to news of a secret operation carried out by the islamic revolutionary guards from a launch site in iran central desert it successfully used a 2 stage rocket to put its 1st military satellite in space. the newer or light

is now 425 kilometers above us orbiting earth the head of the revolutionary guards says it gives iran's military new strategic advantages or that. it is a necessity for such powerful defense forces like the revolutionary guard to have access to advanced capabilities today the powerful armies of the world have no comprehensive defense plan if they don't have a place in space today we can monitor the world from space and it means boosting strategic data for the i.r.g.c. putting the satellite into orbit gives us a technological advantage and it's also a powerful asset in the intelligence war. iran has put satellites in space before but the success of the noor comes after several failures in recent years it's expected to be used for intelligence gathering secure military communications navigation and reconnaissance whatever leaders need to support from the sky iran's military assets on earth and the satellite isn't the days only technological

development. the difference between this satellite and previous ones is that it's propulsion the uses a combined solid and liquid fuel only a few superpowers have this capability only a few countries the rest are consumers of this technology. it's a proud moment for iran's revolutionary guards. the group suffered a major setback to its reputation after the accidental shoot down in january of ukraine international airlines flight 752 all 176 people on board were killed. since the beginning of the 21st century iran despite diplomatic and economic isolation has managed to develop the technology necessary to elbow its way into an elite club along with rivals like the united states and israel as well as allies like russia china india iran is one of only a dozen countries in the world with the homegrown rocket technology to launch its own satellites into space seen by the old 0 to run. has bring in our

white house correspondent kimberly how come for more on mike compiles comments as well as of course those tweets from the u.s. president from threats to to hit iranian boats to punish iran for launching a satellite sounds like we're heading for another major deterioration well there's no question that this is an escalation and the department of defense has also been briefing in the last hour the deputy secretary of defense david norquist telling reporters that the u.s. has the right to self-defense that iran needs to be careful of its interactions because if the united states sees a hostile act it has the right to respond including with lethal force the certainly would act of the statements by the u.s. president on twitter earlier where he vowed to shoot down and destroy an iranian gunboats if they herat harass u.s.

ships at sea as these statements have been echoed by a strong statement in the last hour coming from the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o a designated terrorist organization launched a missile today. and leave to the part of defense to talk about the details about that but when you talk about the un security council resolution 2231 i think every nation has an obligation to go to the united nations and evaluate whether this missile launch was consistent with that security council resolution i think it remotely is and i need i think iran needs to be held accountable for what they've done now the department of defense was not specific as the u.s. secretary of state said that it might be regarding how things could play out moving forward in fact all we know is that the department of defense says will do what is necessary in order to keep the american people safe but they are following up with

these words of caution to iran saying that the president's tweet should be taken seriously in there were so this is a warning to the adversary all right thanks so much kimberly how could that the u.s. secretary of state has also commented on israeli plans to annex the west bank might pompei i said move is a decision for the new israeli government to make we're glad that there's a now fully formed government in israel as for the attic session the west bank. there's relief will ultimately make those decisions as that's an israeli decision and we we will work closely with them to share with them our views of this in a private setting when they do it brahimi is standing by in ramallah but 1st let's go over to harry forces in west jerusalem getting any reaction to these statements from the u.s. secretary of state that where you are having. no official reaction yet i mean it is

being reported in the local media as breaking news and of course it is a signal from the u.s. administration that it does look favorably on benjamin netanyahu plans as they stand especially given what's taken place in the last couple of days the formation of a unity government between netanyahu and his former rival benny gantz an agreement part of which states that dance does not have a veto over any attempts pretty quickly to annex parts of the occupied west bank indeed the deal suggests that there will be a decision that that's put to the cabinet and or the israeli parliament the knesset from july the 1st onward so that's the kind of time sco we're looking at as for how pompei as comments play into all of this it doesn't necessarily mean anything huge has changed as far as united states is concerned of course this all stems from the trump peace plan which was unveiled earlier this year and after which netanyahu

talked very bullishly about an extension it is a signal of support but there is still this this mapping process going on where they're trying to delineate between u.s. and israeli officials exactly where israeli sovereignty will be applied that was seen as perhaps slowing down netanyahu has ambitions to some extent but not in any way designed to frustrate them in essence we always knew essentially from the imprimatur given by the trump plan that this was all in the works as long as netanyahu remained in power and now that he has this deal in which he has full or far at sea to go ahead if he so wishes to now that looks like it's going to happen that's the view from west jerusalem will have a force that is let's cross over now to ramallah in the occupied west bank and join the. and the that no doubt this will just underscore palestinian accusations that

the u.s. is no longer a balanced honest broker right. yes and indeed that's why it's i mean they've been asking the international community to intervene and know that the u.s. to be the sole media of the peace process we've heard them again and again calling for an international peace conference whereby different factors in play or it can a role in the peace process they've been saying that this administration has been fighting by israel and negating international law with her the crippling pompei would be for say that succulents are not illegal which are considered good on their international law of course which i think both israeli settlements in that occupied west bank including east jerusalem this administration enjoyed a very close relationship with israel namely between the u.s. president donald trump and the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu we've seen moving the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem considering jerusalem the capital the u.s.

has cut funds to the owner one which is the u.n. agency that deals with the fiji it's which was seen here as a way to kind of in the mineta and end the issue of refugees which seems to us also canceled or basically shut down the p.l.o. didn't present this of office in the field so all of this is seen as. known to palestinians they've been trying to convince the world truly see they let you in the crowd see how israel is using the fact that trump is in power to push for more . deals or push for more an extension on the ground reality on the ground we have to say family might not be different for palestinians they are already living under israeli occupation and many settlements enjoy having that they feel one way or another and that it's where the little one palestinians living in the occupied west bank live under military so all of that didn't seem out of their

reality on the ground but on an international level it changes the story and they want the world to react to it the u.s. and israel are doing. from the occupied west bank south africa's president has announced a 26000000000 dollar covert 19 rescue package more than 70000 soldiers nearly the entire standing army is being deployed to enforce the country's long term they'll join the nearly 2300 personnel already on the streets for me the mirror has more from list of burke a town in the northwest province according to what we've heard from the government so far is that there is increasing concern about just how the numbers regarding the number of infections in south africa is escalating and this is what the minister of defense said earlier on local radio the rate at which the infections has gone up

you realize that at some point we might need the kind of human resource deployed like we've never seen before and so this deployment of more than 73000 soldiers in addition to that initial 2000 would be the largest deployment by the south african national defense force in south africa's history i mean that even goes back to the 1st i'm a practical actions in 1904 the government here is concerned about just how bad the infections will get in south africa and estimates show that they're working on a model that indicates that so they're free because coronavirus crisis will perhaps hear it in august or september the government is saying that they need these soldiers to enforce the lockdown it needs these soldiers to prepare quarantine sites ensure people are abiding by the lockdown and essentially try and flatten that curve head of the coming months. still ahead on al-jazeera as many of us

stay home the environment's getting a bit of a break just in time for the 50th birthday tell me more coming up. we got a few blustery showers still rolling across japan at the moment but it will quiet down as we go through the next 1000 you see a little more cloud here is the area of low pressure seen the process of drifting out of the way she was to follow on behind across that western side of honshu pushing up into hokkaido sheltered by the mountains in tokyo around 17 degrees 30 celsius the cells are a little on the cold side many 19 in beijing on thursday warms up nicely and by friday basing his 26 celsius well as you try but a few showers still in place there into japan the wetter weather is further south

southern parts of china seeing some very heavy rainfall at the moment and that wet weather stretching its way into northern parts of the as well central and southern areas the v. and i'm also seeing some wet weather showers will creep a little further south which as we go through the next day or so some showers today coming into the philippines particular for southern parts of the philippines well sunshine and showers then the usual scattering of showers through much of southeast asia joining up with the showers that we have across the southern parts of the thing goes frankly could catch a shower would say over the next day or so some really heavy rain there to northeastern parts of india into bangladesh lively thundery downpours for many but hot and dry for the plains. they say to really know someone you must walk a mile in the. follow in their footsteps the state from which they way. in the world. al-jazeera shares these personal journeys.

inspiring stories of people persevering on their chosen path. with news documentaries on al-jazeera. routes. world. come back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines now the u.s. says iran will be held accountable after the country's elite military unit the revolutionary guard successfully launched iran's 1st military satellite into orbit and the u.s. secretary of state has said the annexation of the west bank is a decision for israel

a plan was put forward by israel's government ahead of elections earlier this year on peo said the u.s. will share its fuse on the matter with israel indeed as private. in south africa more than 70000 soldiers nearly the entire standing army are being deployed to enforce a lot down in place to prevent more coronavirus cases they'll join nearly 2300 personnel already on the streets. the u.k. government is again come under fire for its response to the pandemic this time by the new leader of the opposition it happened during the 1st virtual session in parliament 700 year history labor leader here starmer particularly focused on the shortages of personal protective equipment for frontline health workers and the number of testing being carried out here some of what he had to say. something's going wrong in this a pattern emerging here we were slow in to look slow on testing slower protective

equipment and now slow to take up these offers from british. the prime minister said this is a national effort and he's right about that so in that spirit can i ask the price of the 1st minister to commit to working with the opposition to identify and take up these offers from british manufacturers for protective equipment or a challenge is in london he says the new leader of the opposition has made an impressive debut in parliament. former lawyer and former chief of public prosecutions in the u.k. and he was bringing some of that kind of forensic style that forensic expertise to bear in prime minister's questions today pushing the government's pushing dominic rock the man who's standing in for forest johnson at the moment on various issues the lack of public. personal protective equipment for health care workers being one of them the slow testing slow response to the testing being another he was saying

that this is a matter of life and death asking. to confirm how many health care workers have died in the coronas epidemic so far down the graph admitted that 69 health workers have died but he didn't have the figure to hand for the number of care workers people who work in retirement homes etc to hand one of the key things that. was drilling into. this claim that the government has at the moment that it is ramping up testing for n.h.s. workers and other people around the country that. its capacity is now worth 40000 were saying hold on a 2nd it doesn't matter what the capacity is if you're only doing 18000 tests a day which is what's being done at the moment you can talk about capacity tell the till the cows come home but what really matters is how many people are actually getting the tests that they need. spain's parliament is set to vote on

a government for those all to extend its nationwide lockdown until may the 9th madrid has already started easing some restrictions children can go for walks from next week and some factory in construction workers return to their jobs nearly 208000 people have contracted the virus in spain and at least 21000 have died. elsewhere in europe germany has announced it will start court trials of a coronavirus vaccine $200.00 healthy volunteers will be tested it comes as the number of new infections in germany is going up for a 2nd day earlier this week locked down restrictions were relaxed slightly the global pandemic is driving nigeria's rich and powerful to local hospitals they've been avoiding for years doctors are reporting a sharp increase in the number of government officials and business leaders seeking treatment amid reese has more from the capital abuja. goes the aged male

is a cancer survivor who regularly travels abroad for treatment and next appointment is in india in may but because of the global pandemic she fears she will have to miss it and she says the local hospitals here in nigeria don't offer any hope if you find out. right now you can go to the us. because. that's. all and you can if you decide early it will not be considered i mean. so whether you know. we don't you or anything well it wasn't really. in the hands of. our concern is echoed by many in the country there's a lot of confusion i mean so many any kinds of me. and you know it's all in this well there's not

a lot of it. is i'm not i'm not thousands of nigerians regularly seek medical attention in other countries every year because of the poor state of the public health care system here and i'm with everyone on the travel restrictions imposed by countries around the world has now forced many including the rich and the powerful to stay home and rely on the same health system they neglected for decades where as you heard claims are just. using right. now you. know. this was. the increase in the number of people using local hospitals is adding stress to a system that's already in a bad state. many hope the pandemic will force public officials to focus on improving nigeria's health care system. and estimated $1000000000.00 is spent by nigerians on overseas medical treatment every year government officials in 2017

nigeria's president spent about 20 weeks in hospitals in the united kingdom although government promised to address the problems in the health system here nothing much has improved. some nigerians say they will avoid local hospitals for now not because they have alternatives but because they fear doing soul will put them at a greater risk for covered 90 how many degrees al-jazeera. the world health organization is warning that in some parts of the world outbreaks are only just beginning w.h.o. chief said there are worrying trends in countries which are more vulnerable most of the year peter mix in western europe appears to be stable or declining although numbers are low we see warning upward trend in africa central and south america and eastern europe most countries are still in the early stages

of their epidemics and that we are affected early in the pandemic are now starting to see a resurgence in cases about warning comes as u.s. officials have expressed concern of a 2nd wave of covert $900.00 factions in the winter months ahead of the centers for disease control says it'll be far more dire because it's likely to coincide with the start of the flu season having to simultaneously outbreaks would be a huge burden on the u.s. health care system. the vos to take talent free of none of votes in northern canada is one of the few places in the world pretty much untouched by covert 19 it has isolation on its side and its lack of access to health care makes it vulnerable to any outbreak than a lack of lions. nunavut his home to just under 40000 people scattered across an arctic landscape the size of western europe most are indigenous in

a week and they live in preparing his conditions few jobs expensive housing and by the standards of a rich country like canada minimal health services in the remote hamlet of igloolik north of hudson's bay there's only a 4 bed health center to serve 2000 people we have. system that is already asked beyond cost really you know and that it can really earn much more and so when something like this comes late you're really. even in the territories largest town of cali wheat there are just 7 ventilators in the most basic of hospitals proper intensive care can only be accessed after a 3 hour flight south to the canadian capital ottawa the people of new interviewed are also far more likely than other canadians to have preexisting medical conditions that are aggravated by coded 19 so higher levels of diabetes chronic lung disease. chronic obstructive lung disease you know given crowd

a virus tends to target people with underlying health conditions it's very concerning so none of it has effectively gone into its own version of social isolation no casual outside visits are allowed returning residents can only come home after they've koren 200 for 2 weeks travel between communities is only permitted for medical or other emergencies even a low number of covert 1000 cases would be catastrophic up here that's why there's a lot of local support for isolating the entirety. barratry it's not an easy position to be in so i'm very happy with what the leadership that we've seen on that the federal government that needs to step up assess wilner own urine and provide the basic human rights that everybody is there and the territory even before this pandemic in the near shutdown of the global economy none of it had lower life expectancies and higher rates of poverty than most of canada remote and

cut off at the best of times this is a land that's hoping that coated 19 leaves them alone with their existing problems even as it ravages the rest of the world daniel like hell just 0 a half a century ago the 1st earth day mobilized millions of americans to find for the protection of the planet and this year the battle has particular poignancy and the clock reports earth day a question of survival with c.b.s. news correspondent walter cronkite. good evening you think day in american history as i live today the grainy story of the day half a century ago fashionable 5th avenue was off limits to automobiles and april 22nd 1970 across the united states more than 20000000 americans took part in the original earth day that was one in 10 of the population of 170 in the united states

pollution have become a really serious problem simply breathing in the air in many of our major american cities it's like smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day rivers are catching on fire birds are going extinct and and there was a great upwelling of protest against that and it developed into a protest movement that continues to this day empowered by its early success and it led to an era in which we passed a clean water act in a new age species act of marine mammal protection act and toxic substances control act we banned leaded gasoline we banned lead in paint it was just a remarkable period of environmental accomplishment. 50 years on the threats posed by the climate crisis are even more pressing. for one thing it's evident modern day pollution has made thousands more vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic we know actually the climate change is one of the drivers of condom ics as well as being.

disruptions to it is he to produce enough food to protect our cities from fights and storms and drives. now on earth day there are calls to seize the opportunity to recalibrate after the pandemic has come. i think we're seeing a ramping up of focus within the financial world and i would say some really interesting and positive signals it really in in the last few weeks from governments saying that they are going to actually come out of this crisis you know way that leads to a green much green a much stronger economy. given the variety of threats we face much depends on how we come back from covert 19 because it's become very apparent the way humanity treats the wealthy as a way of reflecting how the world treats humanity they knew that back in 1970 mc luck al jazeera former un climate chief christiana forget as is

a co-founder of global optimism no been a station that lobbies and publishes work in favor of climate action she believes the coronavirus pandemic will have a long term impact on our behavior coronavirus and sun changed many realities and perhaps the one with that has been most ans for him is individual behavior i think most of us are now becoming more and more familiar with remote working technologies and we will realize that it's not always necessary to either commute to work or to travel internationally to meetings the coronavirus time demick will have i think a long lasting effect on human behavior and of course on corporate behavior because it's not just about what we individuals we're going to do we also need corporates who would on their side also be interested in having more remote working they save

on office space and they certainly save on travel expense when their employees and their partners are participating remotely so huge change i think for the travel industry. now let's take you through some of the headlines here now just now the u.s. says iran will be held accountable off of the country's elite military unit the military the revolutionary rather god successfully launched iran's 1st move to satellite into orbit the revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space washington has accused iran in the past of using its space program as a cover for missile development a designated terrorist organization or launched a missile today and leave to the part of defense to talk about the details about

that but when you talk about the u.n. security council resolution 2231 i think every nation has an obligation to go to the united nations and evaluate whether this missile launch was consistent with that security council resolution i think it remotely is and i need i think iran needs to be held accountable for what they've done. the u.s. secretary of state also spoke about the occupied west bank mike pompei said it's alex a sion is a decision for israel the plan was put forward by israel's government ahead of elections earlier this year pompei or says the u.s. will share its fuse on the matter with israeli leaders privately 1st in south africa more than 70000 soldiers nearly the entire standing army are being deployed to enforce a lockdown in place to prevent more coronavirus cases they'll join nearly 2300 personnel already on the streets the u.k.

parliament has held the 1st virtual session in its 700 year history just 50 m.p.'s were allowed inside the lower chamber and most of the questions came via video chat the government was criticised for its response to the pandemic particularly the lack of supplies of protective gear for doctors and nurses spain's parliament is set to vote on a government pozole to extend its nationwide lockdown until may the 9th madrid is already started easing some restrictions nearly 208000 people have now contracted the virus in spain at least 21000 have died elsewhere in europe germany has announced it will start clinical trials of a coronavirus vaccine $200.00 healthy volunteers will be tested it comes as the number of new infections in germany has gone up for a 2nd day as the headlines it witness now.

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