all of that the narrative from my career. is done like and it's my job to shed light on how and why. al-jazeera. hello i'm about to send in this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes no deaths for 10th straight day but doubts persist over china's reporting of coronavirus cases. easing restrictions in india early for some shops a month after a nationwide lockdown. suppressing a surge in cases in sri lanka the government really imposes and nationwide curfew.

and illustrating how to get the message across we need artists highlighting the dangers of covert 19 and one of the world's most crowded places. china is marking a significant milestone in its fight against covert 19 it's reported no new deaths for 10 straight days and while that might offer something college meant for other nations still in the grip of the pandemic that is persist over the accuracy of beijing's figures in the 1st reported cases of the virus what in china's was province in december and since then the chinese government has reported nearly $84000.00 cases after no new deaths in recent days efficient death toll still stands at a little over 4601 province says it has cleared all critically ill patients

but a study at the university of hong kong says the number of. infected in the 1st wave of the outbreak may have been 4 times higher than official figures and researches say the true number could be even higher than those estimates in hong kong sarah clarke reports there's growing skepticism about the data coming out of mainland china. well certainly it's a milestone as far as to the chinese government's concern with regards to no new deaths for the 10th day in a row the national health commission has just confirmed from its delhi press conference there are 12 new cases of 11 of those cases are actually imported cases so those are the chinese nationals returned to china from various areas and in particular the focus is now looking at the north of china and the province knows how long jiang this is a province that borders russia and these are the chinese nationals returning from russia and returning from china from russia as a result they're put in place and security checkpoints a number of cities in that particular area are also in lockdown and all those new

arrivals have been tested they've got mandatory coronavirus testing for those people returning to china the number of countries who have long been questioning the transparency of the figures because one of the modeling of the numbers that are coming out of china we had a university pipe it was published in the lancet journal that was earlier this week it was written by a hong kong university's school of public health and they questioned china's numbers they reported in their particular document that more than 232000 people may have been infected with a crowd of us in the 1st wave of the infections in china and that's 4 times more than what china said by the the national health commission back in back in 5050 this is they reported 55000 so it's a very big difference between those particular figures the latest numbers we've got coming out of china $83000.00 cases of crying a virus and that's also low when you compare them to the likes of europe and parts of europe and north america and now a number of countries are also questioning or looking for an investigation into the outbreak of the origin of this particular outbreak in china and we've got the likes of the united kingdom has even dropped china's numbers in the international compare

comparisons simply because they say they say they can't trust the figures being released by the national health commission out of china on a daily basis because thomas is an associate professor of political science and international relations at city university of hong kong and he specializes in health security in there he's joining us on skype from hong kong thank you very. much indeed for being with us in terms of interpret ing the figures that have been coming out of china how much of this do you think is done in china trying to control the narrative with regard to the virus and how much of it is simply down to the paucity of information that every country seems to have seen when the virus initially strikes. i think it's a bit of both to be honest i think the taking the 2nd part of the question 1st you have to remember that china was the 1st country to be hit so they got and they got overloaded. and that created major reporting problems for the chinese authorities to actually identify covert cases and to know what the true extent of the virus was

such china has always been playing catch up with this so to a certain extent the numbers that you just change in the numbers out of beijing was always going to be expected we're seeing something similar out of european countries as well. i think that the other point there is that there is an issue for china in trying to control the narrative but we're not seeing the hospitals being overwhelmed in any of the provinces apart from as your reporter said a moment ago up inhalant young where there's been a cluster of chinese returning from russia so in that respect we're not seeing the physical evidence that it's still an ongoing issue for china and yet we are hearing that there are these reports that are being produced which are suggesting that the figures are significantly higher why do you think then there is a disparity between what china has been reporting and what these these latest studies seem to suggest. the homecoming you study is

a very good one it's very robust i think that the key point to remember is that 85 percent of all covert cases present with mild flu symptoms and so you could well have had a massive wave of infections in the 1st period of the outbreak and you probably did because you had people moving around no social distancing no use of mosques and so on but if they were just presenting with cold symptoms at a time of winter in china then they simply would have got infected so they had the cold maybe being diagnosed with having the cold or pneumonia like symptoms and then gotten better 85 percent of cases now they could absolutely if i toted but they weren't in the severe and critical range so i think that the issue we're now seeing with perhaps we see it something similar with other countries spain france the u.k. in turkey. there's been good there's been a good report out of the u.s.

this week showing there is a discrepancy in dest data in those countries and none of those countries are intentionally try to bring up i think it's part of the nature of the virus that we're seeing this under reporting as well we heard yesterday. on friday that the w.h.o. is pulling together our global efforts to try to find a vaccine for covert 19 and to do it as quickly as possible one would imagine that given that china is said to be the source of this it's going to have valuable information but how trustworthy is that information going to be is that going to slow down the whole process. i think the vax the whole debate over the vaccine is perhaps. very immature very immature premature they were not looking at anywhere for a year or more before something really comes out i would suspect and that would be a fast estimate certainly chinese scientists initially shared the data the gion the

genome data on the virus and that allowed other countries such as astray if for example to very quickly sequence it and to get tests out there what we have to do now is see how fast these fires is mutating and whether we're going to start to see distinct strains emerging and that's an area where china trend play quite a critical role in assisting the international community on the technical side of things really good to get your thoughts on this nicholas thomas thanks very much indeed for joining us analogies there thank you vietnam as a nation neighboring china and it too is getting back to business shops cafes and restaurants are reopening as a country eases restrictions on movements vietnam has been praised for successfully containing the outbreak it's reported 300 cases with no deaths and no new cases for a week yet acted quickly by putting tens of thousands of people in quarantine using contact tracing and testing them given them to. vietnam strategy in the fight

against kobe had 19 was remote and it focused on early prevention before the pandemic vietnam quickly contained a virus and stopped it from spreading to other communities on top of that the government and the ministry of health employed measures including isolation and medical treatment. india's easing restrictions for its 1300000000 people in lockdown shops selling non-essential goods cannot open but only at 50 percent capacity areas considered infection hotspots such as larger stores and malls are going to stay shocked health officials have reported nearly 25000 cases and 775 deaths on friday they recorded the highest one the increase in infections it has with for on is joining us live now from new delhi so some shops are being allowed to open although we are seeing this jump in numbers what are you seeing.

well as you said rob's shops are reopening in places that are considered no one hotspot science and we are seeing people heading out the statement by the home ministry didn't come as something of a surprise it was very late on friday night when they announced that all shops independent shops in which in shopping malls all markets will be allowed to open around the country with specific conditions like everyone has to wear face masks and gloves the gloves pot is new and observe social distancing and are in the hot the what forces allowed to be present they also said that all shops even in markets in rural areas will be allowed to open but we're not seeing this everywhere in the country because again as you mentioned this doesn't apply to hotspots and so we're not seeing it or anywhere in delhi the national capital region and we're actually seeing more restrictions in some places like the southern state of tamil nadu we're

actually seeing they're going into 3 days of even strict restrictions india's most populous state of thing for they should have said that there is a ban on all public gatherings that they're extending that until the end of june so india being as large as it is the situation really depends on where you are in the country but certainly the latest easing of restrictions is a huge relief to the millions of people in india who all own small independent shops. it is with those who say this is just the latest easing of restrictions what else has been happening this week. so monday the 20th we saw all agriculture the entire agricultural sector was allowed to reopen and function and along with that all of the businesses which support it and also an easing of restrictions and banking and i t and construction in the public public works the social sector all would industry

specific conditions and there was a really big focus on agriculture because it employs more than 50 percent of india's workforce and in so with went to crops just harvested it's really important to make sure that food can get from the villages to the cities to avoid shortages all self employed people like how often does electricians plumbers i t.v. repair were allowed to go back to work as well again all of this only applies in non hotspot areas we heard from the health ministry on friday that the rise in the number of cases in india has been linea and not exponential and so the indian government like many others says they just trying to balance saving lives and livelihoods and that's why we are seeing the latest easing of restrictions here it is worth around him giving us the latest from india elizabeth thanks very much indeed a countrywide curfews being reimposed in sri lanka until monday at the earliest

because of another surge in cases there restrictions have been relaxed and what were considered low risk areas outside the capital colombo the government now says travelling between districts is prohibited unless a citizen is deemed a part of an essential service or for agricultural activities that are $420.00 cases in sri lanka and 7 people have died monella fernandez's joining us from the capital colombo minnow. just looking at the pictures behind you there it looks pretty quiet on the streets how is this playing out in sri lanka the moment very much so the scene you see behind me a deserted columbus suburb that of new gear go to all you can see in terms of activity is the police checkpoint the barricade just over in the background and it's barely kids and checkpoints like this that you see dotted around the country there are more than 55000 police personnel on the field conducting random checks

along with the 3 armed forces to enforce this lockdown this curfew which has been tightened throughout the weekend after we saw over 60 cases detected just yesterday and the government says that the measures will be very stringent over the next 2 days this after they had looked at easing curfew earlier on in the week around the country in districts except for 4 heidrick districts which included the capital colombo but given the numbers that have been detected over the last 48 hours the authorities have decided they can't take that risk and we're seeing this tightening out of the curfew the police spokesman told told me a short while ago that officials are in consultation there are decisions that need to be taken with regards to a way forward as well minolta as i mentioned earlier the numbers in sri lanka are comparatively low is that

a reflection of the level of testing or does that mean that the spread is being controlled. at best it's a come a combination of those things in terms of the numbers of that 420 what we do have to realize is that more than 100 people have recovered and been discharged from hospital so you're talking of just over 300 in terms of active patients as they call them that currently have the the virus now within that there is also a school of thought that says more aggressive testing must be conducted that the numbers that have been detected north necessarily the only people who are carrying the virus so particularly health professionals that are some of them who have basically called for more active testing not just of areas where people are found confirmed but more aggressive and more widespread testing i did speak to

a couple of senior health professionals that are involved in the health sector who decided who asked not to be named but basically we have 54 p.c.r. testing machines in this country but i'm hearing that not all of them have been pressed into service even in some of the primary testing institutions there are certain places that have 7 machines but there are only 4 machines that are being used because they just haven't got the samples to actually put the rest of the machines into operation so obviously you know different approaches different opinions lots of people putting their heads together the government as you know here in sri lanka has brought in the armed forces and the police the city intelligence service is very much involved in doing the contact tracing obviously this country 10 years since we finished our sort of bloody civil war but the intelligence of mechanism is functioning in terms of 2 full throttle right now and

we have been hearing how they have got involved in the contact tracing this has been sort of used to try and locate those that be. well infected have obviously spread the virus too but beyond that they're all cause for more widespread testing but thankfully for the moment in terms of the numbers of infected the fatalities we've seen so far things seem to be relatively low enough or not as in colombo when else thanks very much indeed but more ahead on the news hour including i'm just a mere common citizen who doesn't want to see my mother die. relatives appealed for more testing in nursing homes as concern mounts about vulnerable patients and left on their own. more asylum seekers in greece tested positive for the coronavirus. and in sports the stars of the ultimate fighting championship are

set for a return all the details coming up. all across europe countries that are at odds over lifting locked on summer sending children back to school and reopening small businesses but most industries include the hospitality sector remains shot with no end in sight lawrence lee reports. there is one corner of europe where you can see a reminder of what life used to be like a few short weeks ago in the spring sunshine people in the swedish capital stockholm were carrying on as if the pandemic had never and sweden has gone against the grain in not closing down restaurants or limiting people's movements much but with over 2000 dead as a worse outcome so full that scandinavian neighbors the government is starting to sound a bit worried about its own guidance you talked me out will in

a coma from so as the spring sun appears we seem to be seeing worrying reports about full outdoor terraces in restaurants people in crowded places and we have to take this seriously let me be extremely clear i don't want to see any crowded outdoor restaurant terraces in stockholm or anywhere else and everyone has to take this on his or her responsibility. germany has the opposite problem under the iconic brandenburg gate in berlin restaurants staged a protest by learning of hundreds of empty chairs because the authorities across the country have refused yet to countenance the reopening despite a far lower death rates than countries like sweden. and unlike sweden germany is continuing this testing opening drive through facilities to trace more and more people ministers insist life can't go back to anything like normal until the infection rates drop to the hundreds every day in terms of health care it makes perfect sense but the tension with the demands of business is growing restaurant

owners have run out of patience little wonder what. it's no exaggeration to say the sheer panic imagine your business which is doing very well is shut down from one day to the next it means we don't have less revenue it means we have no revenue but leases and costs continue to allow to be a consolation but in most countries going out to socialize remains a faraway dream like enjoying the cuisine of the french bistro that too is almost certainly many months away reinsulate be. nothing would be worse than conducting a rushed reopening of restaurants and bars which could then force us to close again i think it would be an immense disappointment not only for the restaurant owners but also for the french people. it's also worth remembering that many of the most vulnerable like the elderly of the spanish city of. couldn't afford to go out to eat even if the option was open to them here the spanish red cross is delivering

food instead of the sharp end of the virus keeping people alive remains the priority. lawrence the al-jazeera. but as retail sales have plummeted with their sharpest drop since records began in 1996 monthly sales for march fell by more than 5 percent but economists expect this month to be even worse forecasting a possible fall of up to 30 percent this spite that ratings agency standard and poor's has left britain's credit rating unchanged at double a praising its swift and coordinated response to the pandemic let's get more on this and rory challenge is joining us now from crawley in england ok let's deal with the retail sales 1st tory please this is a big drop for shops it wasn't entirely unexpected but it is big. it's huge as you say the the worst drop in sales since records began going back

a good number of years the you can see the quite high street behind me it's a saturday morning in normal times this would be absolutely bustling crawley town of about 100000 people in the south of england has been identified in a study by the center for cities which is a think tank as perhaps the place in the u.k. which is at most risk of job losses is that if most reason is because it's right next door to britain's 2nd biggest airport gatwick and so one in 4 households here relies on someone with a job either at the airports or in the aviation sector and as we know aviation has basically been grounded but the site you see behind me is a common one it's not just crawley it's all over the u.k. and i get the impression i think that in the last couple of days the national conversation has changed here in the u.k.

it seems the. government figures minister cetera now trying to talk to businesses and encourage them. to start thinking about how they might reopen with social distancing measures still in place so you could go to a restaurant and rather than being set right next to the next table you have the proper distance between tables it would mean fewer heads covered of course you could get some businesses open. there i think the kind of dialogue that you hearing on the media radio stations etc at the moment coming from people like the former chancellor philip hammond is that don't expect this to be a quick in and out recession this is going to be deep and lasting but let's try at least to get the country back on track as i was mentioning before let's do the let's talk about this credit rating agency from standard and poor's saying that britain can keep its double a rating because it says it was praising the u.k.

swift and coordinated response to the pandemic that is going to come as a bit of a surprise to a lot of people in britain isn't it. i think there are many ways in which britain is being accused from within the country. no less. having reacted too slowly and i think that's particularly when it comes to the lockdown measures but also how much people the personal protective equipment there was on hand for. medics doctors nurses people fighting the virus. and also the testing that's being done but in terms of its economic response and how quickly. the chancellor of the exchequer came out and made very firm pledges its. people would not be thrown out of their rented accommodation that there would be business loans available for small

companies that you had this job protection scheme where you could for your employees and the government would basically be a backstop for 80 percent of people salaries up to about $3000.00 a month all of these things were quite reassuring to people that even though life had changed dramatically they wouldn't be suddenly thrown out of the bread line rory thanks very much the u.s. navy's top leadership is calling for the reinstatement of a psych captain of an aircraft carrier got down broad cross it was removed after emailing commanders requesting help in tackling an outbreak onboard the u.s.s. theodore roosevelt or than $800.00 sailors on the aircraft carrier have tested positive for cover $19.00 and $4.00 are in hospital a french court has backed a ruling restricting what an online retailer can deliver during the pandemic it

says amazon does limit deliveries to essentials including health items and food companies going to be fined if it breaches restrictions on as an employee as $10000.00 people across 6 warehouses in france. an iraqi man believed to be a member of i saw has gone on trial in germany accused of genocide and murdering an easy child the 27 year old is also accused of crimes against humanity war crimes and human trafficking his german wife is on trial in munich and is also accused of killing the 5 year old girl and $3016.00 un experts warn that the armed group was committing genocide against easy's in syria and iraq. this is late but it is important to say that legal history is being written today it's the 1st time in the world that the genocide of the u.s 80 people has been brought before a court i'm very grateful that this is a german court and it is also so to speak

a blueprint for future trials and that's why we're here today to remember the victims. do women a mother and have 5 child slaves he said to have you. punished them and kept them locked up and the most serious accusation in these proceedings he says only that he said to have tied the daughter to a window of punishment at 45 to 50 degree celsius outside in the blazing sun where the child is said to have died. more than 400 asylum seekers in southern greece have been placed under quarantine in a hotel area 3rd are infected with corona virus as john said reports from puerto helli there are growing concerns of more outbreaks and other refugee camps hugh truck sprays chemicals to disinfect around the galaxy hotel 148 asylum seekers and 2 staff members here have tested positive for corona virus

most show no symptoms which may be how the disease a scape the authorities attention until now but that may change we saw one man taken to hospital with breathing problems the outbreak has led to concerns of infection among people from the local community here in southern greece who supply all maintain the hotel and i mean i'm a guy you can relate this is check up on that we tested 177 people who came into contact with refugees like supermarket workers couriers bank workers and pharmacists and were tremendously relieved to find out today that all these samples are negative which means there's been no spread of the infection there have been 2 previous outbreaks in facilities housing aside. seekers but infection rates there reached one percent of the resident population or less before storage fees quarantines them here for the 1st time they have reached 31 percent it is exactly what authorities have sought to prevent and this is what they want to prevent

happening in the more crowded camps only a jian islands home 235000 asylum seekers here people live in cramped huts and tents and there's limited access to running water and soap fears of a corona virus outbreak earlier this month caused a riot at the refugee camp on heroes which destroyed offices the international organization for migration which runs 30 refugee camps on the mainland including the galaxy hotel says information is vital to prevent panic. buying and community understands. we try to do community. knowing that we were taught to convey a message there are important to those leaders the same thing we need is to create a network of what's out so to try to keep them for because if they are not to harm

you know they don't understand and they make the sanctions that are leading to i mean again to cross the greek government has put the entire region under quarantine and it says it will stop using hotels to house migrants this year but the hilly relies on tourism for revenue and its leaders want to open up the business as soon as possible jumpstart opal us al-jazeera to hailey. ok it's time for the weather here is rob and i understand that jordan is seeing a sandstorm at the moment did see yesterday we won't be confined to jordan is a general system if you look at the satellite picture behind me see the most the clouds in turkey but this is all indicating gets another eastern med storm system which ends up going across towards india usually it opens up and throws a cold front side it's this thing here and it's ahead of it it gets warm and dusty behind it little colder and often an awful lot when it is when that thing went through jordan these were what looked like a pop apocalyptic skies for the 1st day of ramadan i think it looks probably worse

than it was not pleasant let's be honest it rather depends on the socio wind whether it's orange dust or sand are just a great picture and this thing throughout the next 2 or 3 days will expand and move south the winds ahead of it you can see that coming from the east sort of the western side which is dusty and behind quite a strong west to an old likely not necessarily so dusty means that he sees this as their house 39 is on the high side of normal and surprisingly the forecast takes it to 40 for sunday for it drops down to 30 knots the wind change blowing dust down to the north the shamo average temperature in dyer has been 32 for the records 4066 have happened before there's probably a little weather on it apart from that dust but that's the focus but thanks very much indeed. we want to remind of our top stories this hour china has gone 10 consecutive days without reporting any deaths from covered 19 their original source

of the global pandemic is no detecting mostly important cases and nearly no local transmission of the virus. india has begun easing its nationwide lockdown some of the small neighborhood stores relied upon by the country's 1300000000 people are being allowed to reopen a large malls are still closed. an island wide curfew has been reimposed in sri lanka until monday at the earliest because of another surge in cases restrictions have been relaxed and what were considered low risk areas outside the capital colombo. the u.s. president's abruptly ended his latest coronavirus briefing without taking questions a day earlier donald trump raised the possibility of injecting disinfectant into patients officials received hundreds of calls about the claims by new factories doctors and agencies who rushed out warnings against consuming disinfectants such

as bleach says it was being sarcastic nursing homes in the u.s. have seen death toll is increasing rapidly and this concern that the elderly will be at an even greater risk if there is a 2nd spike in infections relatives and advocacy groups say more testing is needed to control the outbreak in these facilities christine salumi reports from new york . they are the most at risk the elderly with underlying medical conditions making nursing homes a frightening place in the midst of a pandemic particularly for family members who aren't allowed to visit like sissy sanders i am just a mere common citizen who doesn't want to see my mother die after 2 months and more than 11000 deaths in nursing homes across the nation she's one of many advocates calling for more testing not just of nursing home residents but also staff. currently west virginia is the only state to mandate such testing one

industry group estimates 2 thirds of long term care facilities don't have access to enough test kits you know the health care workers at which the that work in both places walkable shirts that are kind of like the silent carriers of the virus and unbeknown to them unintentionally they could be spreading out in the state of new york which is seen the most fake tallit is a quarter have taken place in nursing homes and adult care facilities this one facility the largest in the state has seen 44 of its residents die from fires here staff members have their temperatures checked when they report to work but like many possibilities they are clearly tested for the virus the medical director worries his staff will be scapegoated it's heartbreaking that being said the numbers really do need to be put into context we were mandated to take over positive patients right from the hospital as soon as there stabilize do you think

it's a good idea to have those patients coming into her care facility or nursing home facility we were doing our job to help help the hospitals with the surges that they had just that the governor has not backed down from that mandate but has promised an investigation says he says that's not enough there are residents and staff are being infected on a daily basis and dying in these nursing homes and public health officials and elected officials are not understanding that they are in a race against the by arrests and not only way that they are going to win this race if they test test test a race with so much at stake for families against a virus that is yet to be contained christine salumi al jazeera new york. unwalled malaria day health officials are warning governments to move fast to prevent

a rise in deaths a report from the world health organization says the covert 1000 pandemic is causing severe disruptions to malaria meant since this is leading to a weekly increase in cases across parts of africa malaria is present in 41 countries the highest number of infections are shown here in red it occurs mostly in tropical climates for mosquitoes thrive and transmit the power site to people there were nearly 230000000 recorded cases in 2018 which resulted in about 400000 deaths and the w.h.o. says if no action is taken the number of deaths could double dr pedre alone so is director of the world health organizations global malaria program is joining us on skype from geneva we appreciate your time so thank you very much give us some indication from your perspective what kind of impact on the malaria program the covert 19 pandemic has had. it's diluted this to have.

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included for this year malaria it's double enough from just over 300000 in excess of $700.00 just do. what needs to be done to be able to try to avoid that kind of scenario. we need to we need to. maintain our coverage of the nations we need a distribution of that control crucially need to. all the cities axis of. women to become time watches and treatment of malaria we need. the response of the least recently of how can we saw in the ninety's save environment in other words not putting a wrist the. safety nets the right to create the wrong time

but ensuring the. war. only if it's talk to patter along talking to us from the w.h.o. global malaria program in geneva we appreciate your time sir thank you very much indeed thank you. it's been 5 years since a powerful earthquake struck nepal killing thousands of people and displacing more than 800000 families it also significantly damaged cultural and historical monuments in the country more than 80 percent of reconstruction has been completed but work is still underway in small towns when the homage on june covered this story extensively for al-jazeera he's joining us now in the studio mohammed you got there just a couple of days i think after the initial strike you were caught up in enough to show just describe to us what that was like so we drove up one day about 3 or 4

days after we got there into the mountains surrounding katmandu i was with our camera person our producer nikita the and we were going to the gorkha district which was about 50 kilometers from the epicenter of that massive quake we wanted to showcase some of the villages there in our reporting whose you know the homes of the residents had been decimated and while we had stopped on the side of the road at one point there was i believe it was around 3 point aftershock and it was absolutely terrifying because it felt as though the road beneath us had completely turned to jelly it only lasted about 5 or 6 seconds but the team had much more of an understanding at that point of just how how horrifying this had been to all the people that we had been speaking with in the days prior to that when we had spoken to residents of katmandu about what their experience in the quake had been truly truly one of the most terrifying few seconds that i had ever experienced because i

believe the original strike itself was significantly higher than that was about $8.00 so if you're talking that was a point 3 with the devastation it caused this was just around 3 point and it was honestly the ground just shook in a way that i never thought that i would experience so you really have much more of an understanding of just how devastating an $8.00 magnitude earthquake would have been just days prior and tell me about how the. people were reacting when you finally managed to get to the villages you were going to well in the villages again you'd see 90 percent of these villages that have been completely wiped out and even when you were in the cities like kathmandu what we kept experiencing was you'd see these these cultural sites these these pieces of history that had just come crumbling down and that was really a shock to see but beyond that there was a bit of a resignation that we were encountering when it comes to a lot of the residents of katmandu because what would happen is they would find out that there had been bodies discovered under the rubble of another collapsed building so we would be driving around we would come across a site where all of

a sudden they had found bodies and you would talk to people and they would say things like if the government had been responding to this faster maybe these people would have been able to survive there had been some near miraculous rescues while we were there a few days after the quake they had found a man who was 27 and he was actually about to go to dubai and get a job there and work as a laborer they had found a teenager the next day that it survived and people that we were speaking with wanted to hear more stories of this nature but they felt that because there's been such a delay in the aid getting there in the rescue effort that a lot of people died that should not perished you mentioned the government was being criticized for not having responded quickly enough who was stepping in to help it was very interesting because we would come across a lot of youth groups that were essentially creating staging grounds in some of their college campuses and they were doing what they could getting whatever donations they could and then getting on their bikes and going to the hardest hit

areas where the government could not access and where the international aid groups who were on the ground there at that point that they couldn't access either because of the logistics so there was a a massive effort there was this resilience that we were seeing from the residents there especially the younger ones because they were so frustrated that the government wasn't doing enough that this was taking so long they wanted to make sure they got the sanitizer products out there that they got food that they got water to the people that. needed it most and we also came across a man and a woman who'd run a factory and they were using plastic that was usually used for signage for advertising signage to try to make a tents because there was enough tarpaulin in all of the country to make more tents that would last longer in the bad weather in places like katmandu and other cities so they were using this material usually used for signs to make temporary shelters because at that point even there were already millions of people that were displaced and they were living in the streets and these people were so afraid they were afraid to go back to the buildings even if the buildings that they had been in still standing they were afraid any other app shot that happened or if the rain got

bad that building would come tumbling down there is to order to his history mohamed terms of thank you very much indeed you hong kong bookseller previously detained by china has reopened his shop in taiwan but winky was held for 8 months and 2015 after working at a shop selling books critical of chinese leaders if led to taiwan a year ago when hong kong announced its controversial plan to allow extraditions to china which has since been scrapped. woman. taiwan says we know that taiwan is hong kong as last for if you know what i mean. i want to ask our hong kong friends our young friends to think long and hard if we continue to stay in a repressive place in our safety is in danger maybe we should leave the dangerous place and rebel from the outside for example by opening this book store i'm also rebelling and how you know we still had an al-jazeera.

top of the pops the war veteran who captured british hearts now has a number one hit. desperate for a better life millions of people have sought refuge in europe but. sometimes their dreams of sanctuary are realized but sometimes disenchantment and hostility drives them home. people and power goes to the north german city where a humane approach to integration is proving surprisingly effective assimilation made on al-jazeera. the whole d.n.a. of al-jazeera is to deliver news of people who are subject to the decisions made by the powerful but you cannot call them feel about will again will echo in the time

of the fall for the old anything when you see big groups of people walking through you are there only individuals be killed in the law but with back story this place has become a complete wreck so of course there is simply no way to put all these people you have to hear all of them and to treat them with something that in respect. in the on. the or. in the densely populated gaza strip a widespread outbreak of corona virus would be devastating so far there are 17 known cases but not everyone is taking the risk seriously so some local artists are painting mosques to encourage people to protect themselves if they were him reports

. these are to say danger is inching towards gaza and people need to take precautionary measures against covered $1000.00. so far officials here insist guards are safe from community transmission and they want to keep it that way they've shut down many aspects of life in one of the world's most crowded places. artists hope drawing on masks will encourage many to wear them in public and raise the level of alert officials haven't asked the population to cover their faces yet but a growing number of people are. like yes. we want to draw a colorful happy and joyous shape so people will wear masks to help them as in fiction we're giving them out free and some people are giving us their own masks to draw on. but the difficult financial situation and increasing costs of math and

paint my dad and during the shooting. of a. man we've saved some money and wanted to help those who are poor and out of work but we are facing a crisis now the prices of masks are increasing and they are running out of medicine. another challenge is trying to convince people to take the issue seriously by wearing masks border advocate accountable the sick and if it wasn't for this project i wouldn't have won the mosque in gaza we're not used to wearing masks there are people who are too shy or don't want to look on still some clearly do not feel unsafe more than a dozen covered 1000 infections have been reported in the gaza strip it's home to 2000000 people living in close proximity. it has been under an israeli and egyptian blockade for over a decade that has weakened its health system and palestinians fear they won't be able to cope with a disease that even britchka entries are struggling with. this means preventative

measures including physical distancing are even more important. the police say with the weather getting warmer some are heading to the seaside as it's one of the only places left to relax some say gaza's relatively low number of infections is because it's been cut off from the rest of the world for years but it also means that if the virus were to spread here it could have a devastating impact on its people. and deborah he al-jazeera. and it's time for the sport here's santa thank you very much of rob while the ultimate fighting championship is set to make its highly anticipated return next month after having their events put on hold because of the global pandemic on may the line said tony ferguson's intamin lightweight title bout against justin katie will headline the 1st of 3 shows inside 8 days you have see have been trying to set

up a private island to stage events to get around the u.s. is stay at home and order mason shows however will go down at a closed door venue in jacksonville follows florida recognizing sports as essential business allowing them to go ahead without fans. who are now. only underage and say what can we search we're going to we're going to show them what you want to show and what it cost me a really smart people who've been working on this i want to spend whatever it cost to make sure the. fighters the camps the commission the rubble you know up for auction people and everybody you see that's going to go down. so you can break it down and you can do this are you going to do that do you do this yes yes yes yes well it was both a ring magazine's ryan singel you who expects more sports in the u.s.

they will try to stage a closed doors offense. there is demand for live sports in america and t.v. networks truly have a captive audience now due to stay at home or around the country i think when professional sports were deemed essential businesses in florida that opened the door for sports leagues to look for ways to do business down there it gave t.v. networks the green light to proceed as well so i think that they'll be continuing to produce content at their performance center in orlando pave the way for other sports leagues to do something similar and this could provide some sports leagues with a blueprint for how to proceed in more lenient jurisdictions with a television production greenman sporting events that would not be financially viable without a paid gate would be left behind. there is some skepticism about whether of events which are close to the public can still maintain appropriate

social distancing among quote unquote essential personnel but i think that white being included in president trumps economy task force demonstrates that he has the president's ear so if things go well and it depends on how you determine going well this may be embolden other states with lower infection rates to try something similar. well after more than 2 months delay due to a pandemic at one of asia's premier football leagues it will finally get underway south korea's top division the caley get will kick off on may 8th behind closed doors east asian nation is one of the 1st countries to bring the corner of virus outbreak under control defending champion that is wrong for a world of hosts long bluing set in the opener league players recently returned to training and just this past week started playing at hacked this games well joining us now from seoul is that football writer john didn't turn other any concerns that

maybe it's too early for football to resume in south korea. what crees been working hard with must eistein interesting throughout the country which hasn't been a whole lot of restaurants bars to be not. so with these matters you know a week new cases of bitterness in the pages of week every day. and that was kind of the signal all we're seeing. apologies or to be taking this very seriously president. mission but. times no guarantees it needs a continue without hostages but on the field with lots of new rules raised trying but watching the referees no spitting no. way should not be allowed to always little. interviews will be done on the richmond side stadium so is optimism that now she which time should be

a good transport what about financially how important is it for the teams to restart well for the season to restart. what compared to many of the big european leagues many queen teams don't really rely on a new. league is teams like john but not the one that you mentioned owned by big business. unless they're subsidized by them but it's more important to sponsors and also for the country as a symbol that live is it's normal and if you can spot rates or what's called ok then fans can buy and that's ok too is a major step forward in my game back to know what it was and a lot of people around age agents bought the watching what happens in career with great interest to see can it go ahead without the major problems. turn how for far are we from thing more. getting back to accent well it's very mixed

picture i think china is that next big one that will is not far away clubs now are training in china and i think the chinese are very wary about starting to soon and they will definitely watching see what happens in macquarie and also in queen baseball that was the american spirit that well i will be taken a lead for matt but in chinese now we're very very close maybe and the mayo issue could be good and chances are it's japan who gets further behind and it really does kind of depend on reasons region and how different countries will start but i think the queenly starting its biggest asian league now to get underway and some tuning to to show that with you know with the right practices of google can go ahead and support world of football writer john doe's a live from seoul thank you very much for that and that's a spot for me we'll have more for you later on but for now i hand you back to our santa thanks very much indeed. dozens of people in australia and new zealand have

marked their national day of remembrance for soldiers lost in wars and peacekeeping missions. both countries under coronavirus lockdowns close services were held instead of the traditional and zach events families were encouraged to stand at the end of their driveways to ensure social distancing in the months after the end of world war one as soldiers sailors and nurses were returning home in the world succumbed to another enemy the spanish flu which wreaked havoc on our already grieving community and constrained our 1st post war and 2nd commemorations today's cavite 910 demick has likewise imposed its constraints and for good reason a wall all noble a pandemic is an enemy. new zealand's per minute story just into our door and stood

outside her official residence for a small ceremony today marks the $915.00 deliberately landing in northern turkey where thousands of australians and new zealand soldiers were killed the turkish memorial was also canceled. a 99 year old military veteran is hits number one on the u.k. singles chart for the charity song supporting the british health service. captain tom moore originally aimed to raise a $1000.00 for health workers by walking $100.00 laps of his garden instead he's raised nearly $37000000.00 and the name of the song you'll never walk alone. if you've got a lot more on our website of course for coming up next is going to be nick clark

with more on all these stories i'm rob matheson good bye. 67 words that spelled promise for one people. but disaster another. the pledge to be establishment of the jewish homeland at the expense of the palestinians. the story of the british declaration that changed the middle east for seeds of discord on al-jazeera.

on the deserted streets of they've become familiar figures couriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants they might go in with some mother of 4 says contagion is always on our mind none of them receive health insurance for their work in exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as a skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus and receive messages on the out saying that we are you know so i was a nurse back home what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. mourn the most towns initial response had been inadequate but now it was time for a revival a little so that muslims now moved from merely reacting to taking action putting the western crusaders on the defensive with hindsight this is seen as

a breakthrough as a revival of the jihad in the muslim near east the crusades an arab perspective episode to revive on the. no deaths for a 10th straight day but that persist over china's reporting of coronavirus cases. that i look like this is al jazeera life also coming up easing restrictions in india relief for some shops some months after a nationwide lockdown. suppressing a surge in sri lanka the government 3 imposes a nationwide curfew plus.