piolo history of a revolution on al-jazeera. really understand the differences in the cultures across the world so no matter what we use in calendar that matter to you. the launch that's blasted iran's 1st military satellite into space or washington says to her on must be held accountable. for what you are just their ally from london i'm telling you now brigades are also ahead of us secretary of state says the annexation of the occupied west bank is a decision for the new israeli government to make. in the us and europe of forty's face a major challenge how to ease lock down restrictions without triggering

a 2nd wave of infections and we must fight climate change like the coronavirus that message from the un on the 50th anniversary of earth day. hello the us has condemned iran successful launch of its 1st military satellite into orbit iran's revolutionary guard says the country is now able to monitor the world from space but washington has accused ron in the past of using its space program as a cover for missile development same bus ravi reports. on wednesday morning the 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 and 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 the technological advantage of it and it's also a powerful asset in the intelligence war. iran has put satellites in space before but the success of the newer 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 the satellite and previous ones is that it's

propulsion the uses a combined solid and liquid fuel only a few superpowers have this capability and 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 nesa. serry 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 home grown rocket technology to launch its own satellites into space. jazeera to run well the u.s.

secretary of state my pump ai has reacted to the launch calling for iran to held accountable a designated terrorist organization or launched a missile today and leave to the point 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 well the u.s. secretary of state has also commented on israeli plans to annex the occupied west bank my pump aoe says the move this is a decision for the new government in israel to make but the palestinian authority says it will strongly defend any annexation attempts by israel. did that would be young man of the year we told all concerned at the national

parties including the u.s. administration and the israeli government that we want to stand with cross hands israel announced the taxation of any parts of our lands and will consider all agreements and understanding between us and those 2 countries totally not our correspondent gary fossett is following the story from west jerusalem he says the annexation of large parts of the west bank was a key issue in negotiations between benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz while forming the unity government. there is this new israeli government as of monday evening the unity emergency government as they're calling it in which benny gantz the former leader of the opposition joined benjamin netanyahu allowing him to stay in office he said because of the current emergency with coronavirus a but as part of the negotiations which led up to that announcement he gave way on a what had been a key issue being the annexation of large parts of the occupied west bank it had

been understood that he was seeking a veto trying to ensure that other voices were brought into the picture before any move was made an exception in clearing israel's neighbors in the region and also european nations but that is not there in the deal that was announced indeed it says from july the 1st benjamin netanyahu can bring up both the cabinet and to the israeli parliament the knesset and so that combined with the fact that there is this signal from the united states from this very senior u.s. government figure in my palm peo does suggest that things are moving in that direction there is supposed to be still this mapping plan the a joint team of u.s. and israeli officials delineating exactly which parts under the plan that was announced in january could be annexed by israel but it seems pretty clear that as far as my compos concerned the ultimate decision will be up to israel and let's put those comments to our white house correspondent kelly halkett so how are we to

interpret mike pompei as comments on the annexation is ultimately up to israel. well there's been no official reaction from the white house just from the top administration as you point out from the u.s. secretary of state but certainly this is interesting in the context of that middle east plan that was released the long awaited plan back in january by this white house of course very lopsided in terms of consultation given the fact that palestinian leaders were to anyway consulted but at that time the borders were very clear they took into account some of those settlements that were in the west bank but there was still a very clear distinction with the west bank remaining in palestinian control so we have to remember this is an administration that has from the get go from day one it has shown its preference and favor towards israel moving its u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem but certainly there have been mixed messages in

the lead up to the israeli elections about where it stood on this issue of whether or not israel could anik says has been discussed today the u.s. ambassador to israel in fact saying that this is something that could move ahead right away but jared christians are saying no we need to wait till after these elections it needs to be a joint israeli decision clearly some decision has been made since then providing more clarity obviously with the announcement coming from the u.s. secretary of state essentially greenlighting this annexation in the west bank by israel and can really on the coronavirus pandemic the u.s. presidents are set to sign an executive order on temporarily limiting immigration into the u.s. later today. yes absolutely we try to get some clarity on that from kellyanne conway the advisor to the president when i was speaking to her earlier she said the lawyers are fine tuning this and he hopes to have it signed today but what i can tell you is that there's some confusion about this because it's not immigration

across the board in fact it only applies to green card holders which begs the question if the it ministrations says this is about preserving american jobs the 10s of millions that have lost their jobs because of chronic virus why are they still allowing skilled workers farm workers to come in the visor kellyanne conway saying well the president's actually looking at a secondary order that may address that in the future in fact this would tighten immigration even more but for now he's comfortable with just this for the next 60 days but still this is something that they say will be reevaluated based on economic metrics so this is the clarity that we're getting from the white house but again not sitting well with so many in the united states that still feel when there are so many americans that have lost their jobs why this is this order didn't go further and then of course there is the democratic criticism that this is an opportunity for the u.s. president to advance his campaign agenda in an election year and he is taking

advantage of a crisis all right kimberly thank you very much well as u.s. states move ahead with plans to reopen their economies there are new warnings of a 2nd wave of corona virus infections in the winter the director of the country's centers for disease control and prevention says situation will be far more severe because it's likely it's coincide with the start of the flu season having 2 simultaneous hope breaks would be a massive burden on the health care system. and the visuals who develop in a body will have protective immunity the question is how long but this is going to be the critical question that we will answer between now and next year when it's very likely that we're going to have another. wrestling match with this virus as it comes back and we're going to have another battle with it you know up front aggressively next next winter the world health organization has warned that in some parts of the world the corona virus outbreak is only just beginning the agency's

chief says there are worrying trends in vulnerable countries most of the epitome excede in western europe appears to be stable or declining although numbers are low we see warning upward trend in obsolete central and south america and eastern europe most countryside is still in the early stages of their repeated weeks and that we are affected early in the fundamental got to know starting to see a resurgence in cases of virus cases are still on the rise across europe as countries grapple with measures to contain its spread spain is debating whether to extend its lockdown but other nations have taken small steps to ease restrictions here in the u.k. the government's facing criticism over its testing strategy as the official death toll crosses 18000 sunny gago has more on the situation across europe.

the house of commons normally rowdy for wednesday's prime minister's questions resumed its business with social distancing firmly in place without boris johnson at the helm in his place the foreign secretary since the start of the outbreak we delivered 1000000000 items of personal protective equipment and tens of millions have been distributed via the devolved administrations but the government has been under fire over its coronavirus kunda make strategy by the end of the month the health secretary had promised the u.k. would be conducting a 100000 tests a day it is currently carrying out 18000 a day with a capacity 440000 here stop fact seized on by the new opposition labor party leader of the pattern emerging here we were slow into law. slow untested slow and protective equipment are now slow to take up these offers from british i don't

accept his predecessor we can slide we're going to do it by the scientific advice the chief scientific advisor the chief medical officer at every step along this road the number of deaths in the u.k. continues to rise with more than 800000 recorded at hospitals around the country the health secretary has said that the country has reached the peak of the pandemic but no one is clinton plaiting lifting the lockdown soon in spain officials in madrid gathered to close a makeshift morgue set up by the rice rink in the capital the country has seen the 2nd highest number of deaths from covert 1000 in europe during the worst phase to date the military had been transferring bodies here on a daily basis. now the government is about to loosen the lockdown to allow children accompanied by parents to go out for the 1st time in weeks but this is not a rushed maneuver the restrictions will remain in place until the middle of may and if the epidemic worsens the government will impose them again but the worry of

a financial meltdown here is still prevalent with the prime minister better sanchez calling on the european council to get financial aid to countries like. the european council must boken the financial package approved by the euro group and demand the completion of the party work so that the instruments are implemented by june the 1st this is the key for europe and consequently for our country but i look at sweden's decision to stay open had been criticised by its neighboring countries pushing the economy over public health maybe 2000 people have died there from covert 19 but even without going into lock down its export dependent economy has been hit hard state relief measures are being put in place but even with that hate it will still see a financial slump like everywhere else affected by the pandemic sunit i ever. coming up on al-jazeera in just

a moment at least 14 people are killed in flash flooding in the yemeni city of aden and the government says it needs international help. and indian police crackdown on dozens of activists softer some of the console's worst riots in decades. hello there plenty more warm sunshine across central and northern areas of europe to the south the same time to cloud and also plenty of rain that is about to clear but to in the meantime as i say good clear sunny skies up latvia look at this beautiful balsam for the south across into germany some beautiful fields here full of great seed and that will continue as we go through thursday clear sunny skies nice and warm as well up to 20 celsius in london 22 across into palin still some rain across the central med it is working its way eventually all on towards greece

away from actually pushing on its west now as a turkey is what it will reshoot as we go through friday i will say on friday is that some hours of rain pushing cross into western areas russia but also developing into northern as a spain portugal on the south and west of france but the touch is a say the radio on the high side above the average loss of warm colors here showing you where the warm is in place and say paris is a good example look at this by friday 26 degrees the average high for april is just 15 so very warm indeed now is that rain clears away out of the central west a med it does mean we will eventually see some clearing conditions across northern areas of africa. but mostly care across into tunis here but still a few more shots pushing into morocco's ahead to friday 21 celsius in russia. in the far reaches of the new siberian islands gold rush is in. yeah and from

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up to israel if it wants to annex parts of the occupied west bank comment drew condemnation from the palestinians who said they would not be handcuffed to israel . president trump says he will sign an order partially blocking immigration to the us later in a bid to ease unemployment it comes as the country's health protection agency warns it's set to face a 2nd wave of corona virus infections in the winter. a disaster has been declared in yemen southern port city of aden after it was hit by flash flooding at least 14 people including children were killed when heavy rain inundated streets and homes the united nations says dozens more have been injured yemen's prime minister is asking for foreign help and aid organizations are saying the country's infrastructure has all but collapsed after years of war. from the international committee of the red cross in yemen she says the floods are adding to the existing crisis in the country. of course the international humanitarian actors and

humanitarian actors in yemen or joining us are to sponsor the entire situation because the slug have added death and that should be it often ability but example it's an option for me just ask and i would remain part of the press and funding for these. not by providing fence and by surprising fooled by sinking pommies to get the. date that might be and to send. somebody in that position there's one gene that i think that i mean to do that and this goes in line with all the media measures taken by yemenis at the moment. to date and to this outbreak of support will not bite is that the country is most deadly for because the infrastructure have already been. so much john and by 5 years of war and now if there's any outbreak and also he's not in addition to say

that all shyness that the country is months before but definitely we are desponding we are also assessing the situation now and i'm going to i would respond as the international committee that across without me and the country the national society the yemeni. police in india are being accused of targeting muslims during investigations into violence earlier this year dozens of people have been arrested over the protests against the country's controversial new citizenship wall elizabeth purana reports from new delhi. according her sider to protect her identity she lives in northeast delhi and hasn't heard from her brother in 10 days she's afraid for both their safety side a says that on april 10th police came to their home and asked her brother to go to the police station to make a statement about being shot during the communal violence in delhi in february.

they called us at 9 at night and said we're not going to let him go because we've seen footage of him and he lied to us we asked them to show us proof but they didn't they said we'll show it in court but how can we go to court when it's shut they haven't let us see him or give him food side a dozen police have charged her brother since the lockdown began 4 weeks ago he's one of dozens of people arrested in connection with the attacks 53 people were killed in the worst violence of the delhi territory in decades it began when supporters of the government citizenship amendment at fort hood protesters complaining that all was anti muslim even though we've had reports of. even before the lockdown before the lockdown lawyers were still able to physically visit police stations they were able to make it to court to file applications needed to protect the rights of the arrestees those options are unfortunately available because of the distractions on court functioning. also arrested a prominent members of the citizenship law protest movement including made on high

that a research scholar at. the university among the charges against him rioting murder sedition and promotion hostility between religious groups. civil society organizations say police are trying to blame muslim leaders like hi there for february's while ns while ignore. members of the hindu majority voted to jump the party who openly called for attacks on protesters picking them up jostling them of violence looking for conspiracy and the act at a time when all of us are fighting the enemy this is. only for the students who have been arrested. the m.p. and hi this lawyer told al jazeera the charges against him and others a baseless delhi police didn't respond to al-jazeera requests for an interview but they tweeted saying delhi police has done its job sincerely and impartially and all the arrests made have been based on scientific and forensic evidence including

video footage sider and her parents and many other families are still waiting to hear what the evidence or charges against their loved ones are elizabeth piron of al-jazeera new delhi india's government says it plans to manufacture thousands of response that will monitor the locations on health of coronavirus patients country is ramping up surveillance as it begins to ease one of the world's strictest virus lockdowns the respond project aims to track quarantine patients and aid health workers india has more than 20000 confirmed cases and at least 645 deaths experts fear the country's could still be weeks away. by the end of this week muslims around the world will begin fasting during the holy month of ramadan it's usually a time for family gatherings and prayers but the pandemic is causing new challenges in saudi arabia prayers will go ahead at the holy cities of mecca and medina but

with no worshippers and in indonesia millions of people will not be able to travel to visit their families during this time but in pakistan the prime minister imran khan has chosen a different path announcing mosques will remain open during ramadan this year doctors are urging the government and clerics to reverse that decision saying it could lead to more infections and overwhelm the health system. do we forcefully tell people to not go to mosques and if they go will the police put wishes in jail this does not happen in an independent society in an independent society people use the independent minds and then decide what is basic for the country and forces not . argentina is set to default on its sovereign debt again after a restructuring plan was rejected a $500000000.00 payment was due on wednesday when the government said it won't be able to make the country's creditors refused to restructure it as argentina

grapples with another year of recession worsened by the coronavirus pandemic payments only a small chunk of the $83000000000.00 it owes it to foreign bondholders in terms tourism has more from the capital one of silence. we're hearing in great one side is where our own 10000000 people live we've come here with argentina's military there distributing food to those in need there's long lines of people that have come here to get some help from the government. this argentina's president has already started distributing food cash handouts halal hope for many companies that are currently struggling because of the lockdown that has been imposed in this country to fight the spread of coronavirus on this day argentina should have bade around $500000000.00 in foreign debt but argentina's president is saying that the country is not ready to do so because they have other priorities right now that the

country is not ready that they need to get this country's economy back on track in order to be able to start paying the interest it also around $80000000000.00 argentina is trying to restructure right now there's tense negotiations ongoing and if argentina doesn't pay in one month from now it will be on default once again the coronavirus pandemic affecting this country and in every sense it is a time when this country's economy is already struggling with recession poverty and rising unemployment on the rise from that's why the government it's saying that it needs to get its economy back on track once again for most up to speed the possibility of default if kerry it's a story that if they have heard it over and over again and it's a fit. that the coronavirus pandemic make even worse will fight climate change like corona virus that's the message from the un's world meteorological organization which says failure to tackle global warming will threaten humanity

ecosystems and economies for centuries to come so is it marks the 50th anniversary of earth day the w.m.o. has warned that the last 5 years were the hottest on records temperatures are $1.00 celsius warmer than the pre industrial era and levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are at record highs it may not be all bad carbon dioxide emissions are expected to fall by 6 percent this year as a result of mt skies in countrywide lockdowns and more people are taking the problem seriously a survey of 14 countries says 71 percent of people think the climate crisis is a serious as the coronavirus pandemic will half a century ago the 1st earth day mobilized millions of people to fight for the protection of the planets and this year the battle has particular importance as the clock reports. earth day a question of survival with c.b.s.

news correspondent walter cronkite. good evening to you think day in american history as i live a day 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 and 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 neutral 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 current 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 superior destruction. it is he to produce food to protect our cities from flights and storms and rice and. 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. now they are going to actually come out of this crisis you know way

that leads to a green much 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 world as a way of reflecting how the world treats humanity they knew that back in 1970 nic clarke al jazeera. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera iran has launched its 1st satellite into space the revolutionary guard says the device called noor meaning light is now circling the earth in a low orbit it's drawing criticism from the u.s. secretary of state my phone peo who said it breached a u.n. resolution on ballistic missiles 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 on my pump ai has also spoken about israel attics in parts of the occupied west bank saying it's up to the country's new government the common drew condemnation from the palestinians who said they would not be handcuffed to israel. president trump says he will sign an order partially blocking immigration to the united states later today he claims that would put unemployed americans 1st in line for new jobs as the number of people out of work there are sorts to more than 20000000 it comes as the country's health protection agency warns it's set to face a 2nd wave of infections in the winter. and individuals who develop antibodies it

will have protective immunity the question is how long but this is going to be the critical question that we will answer between now and next year when it's very likely that we're going to have another. wrestling match with this virus as it comes back and we're going to have another battle with it you know up front and aggressively next next winter the world health organization says the outbreaks and you're a hero to be stabilizing or declining in spain the parliament is set to approve a government proposal to extend the nationwide lockdown but in the u.k. the government's been forced to defend a proposal to test 100000 people a day by the middle of next week after just 18000 people were tested on tuesday. you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera will have more news coming your way that's right after the stream that's next thanks for watching by.

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