to take control and his family off forced to flee no where to hide a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the earth the end of. celebrations in southern yemen as a separatist group declares self-will in defiance of the government's. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the battle also coming up as catholics head back to church in south korea we ask if life there could slowly be returning to normal. the mystery deepens about the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader after he was a no show at a key anniversary class. on call recent northern sweden where

a rare court victory for the indigenous saw me people against the swedish state has led to a series of revenge attacks on their way into. the end. the 5 year long fight for control of yemen has taken a new turn 7 separatist based in the port city of aden have declared a state of emergency and autonomous rule the southern transitional council blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of the a many's the government's foreign minister says the move will have serious and catastrophic consequences for an agreement signed in riyadh in november aimed at uniting the 2 sides at a let's take a closer look at the divisions in yemen on the whole fees began seizing major cities in $2157.00 separatist joint government forces and the saudi erotically. and

defiance them funded these southern fighters to help retake aden the internationally recognized government was rein soledad but yemen's president accused the governor of agent of being disloyal and fired him that resulted in mass protests and the formation of these 7 transitional council which eventually call for reestablishing an independent south fighting broke out between saudi backed government forces and the southern movement both parties however signed a power sharing agreement last november in riyadh yemen minister now says this agreement is being violated by the declaration of self-government only i spoke to him on the representative of the southern transitional council in new york and here's what he had to say about why this declaration is happening now. this is not . an event just sprung out of nowhere this is actually a pile up of mis management misgovernance in specially in south

yemen south yemen has been with the lists for going on 3 years or 4 years now. unfortunately things have deteriorated as far as the humanitarian wise the situation as far as basic services are not. minimal or basic services are not being delivered. little to no services at all this is not something that just happened but the recent events the recent that sparked. was the 1st of all call with 19 played a role in as far as a health risk that the government needs to take a better approach cautions there has to be a very strong governance over there that has to be. we have to be able to deliver or to even. withstand something of that. that big of

a tragedy and the recent flash floods also that happened in aid in that were not met with any type of aid any delivering of services the past few days there's been a complete shutdown the electricity water services and and sewage and these this is all a pile of fortunately it's been it's been on the backs of a war torn country let me ask you about the riyadh agreement where does this leave the riyadh agreement signed with the government and is yes you see not concerned that this will lead to even mo bloodshed in yemen at a time when really when the country doesn't need it well of course yes this is a concern the s.t.c. has been doing everything it can in their power to implement the green that we are . calling on all fronts for deescalation especially with this endemic outbreak worldwide and them in break we are definitely hearing to all the security generals

calls the the special envoys call them before i deescalation and all fighting drought yemen and general unfortunately the legitimate government has not been. applying or implementing the riyadh agreement and any form whatsoever the the s.t.c. has you know it has. facilitated. detainees exchanges it has allowed the prime minister to return tied down to deliver basic services it has done its part far as you know implementing the riyadh agreement and the other agreement is holding the legitimate government wants to pick. parts of it and implement the ones that are to its favor without actually delivering anything for the people of the people are fed up they're not going they're not going to you know sit around and even allow they're not going to allow the with the

legitimate government to continue this way or the s.t.c. or even the the coalition so that's why the f.c.c. is right now compelled to say to take action into their own hands while still calling for a cease fire calling for deescalation in all fronts we want things to go smoothly on things we want to be able to deliver aid services going to be able to battle this pandemic across the country we want to be able to contain the situation as as much as possible catholics in south korea are attending mass for the 1st time since frustrations were introduced in the early stages of the current virus pandemic services are being held with strikes precautions as rob mcbride explains from seoul . it's almost 2 months since churches like the catholic church decided it was simply too risky to hold masses and services instead preferring to hold services on line and it's only now this sunday that the catholic church has decided it is safe

for people to come back to churches but only under the most stringent of precautions we're at the main cathedral here in seoul it's able to take a congregation of up to a 1000 people but the congregation for each mass is around about a quarter of that only $260.00 people are being allowed in for each service and the older to get into the cathedral you have to turn up early you have to take a number when all of your details are taken who you are where you could be contacted in case there is a case of infection they will know exactly who is in each congregation it's all part of the contact tracing that the south koreans seem to be so expert at then you have to line up a 2nd time to get into the cathedral with the usual precautions being taken of a hand sanitizer being used making sure everyone wears a mask that there are separate distances between them in the pews and then even precautions in place when people take communion so that there is reducing the risk of infection but people we've been speaking to believe despite all of these

precautions which are burdensome they are grateful to be finally allowed to back into their places of worship. and the world health organization has warned that there is no evidence that people who are a convert from coronavirus are immune to lean faction several countries including the u.k. are considering issuing issuing immunity passes to patients have recovered but the w.h.o. says that could be risky from london or a challenge has more. the u.k. is one of many countries that has been looking at the idea of immunity passports this will be a way for people or some people at least to go back to work if they could prove that they already have had covert 19 and therefore it's assumed that they have an immunity i would be able to get it again or pass it on but the w.h.o. the world health organization is not keen on this idea for this reason well we do certainly understand the intention of trying to see who can go safely back

who were who would be eventual risk free or infecting other people but unfortunately from the scientific point of view we simply don't know if a person who has been infected with. 90. 2. gets this immunity and if it gets the immunity how long this immunity is lasting now there are always problems with the immunity passport idea to start with for one thing it's very divisive if you have some people who are allowed to go back to work and some people aren't at a time when most governments are trying to unify their populations and say we're all in this together but this verdict from the w.h.o. that people don't necessarily have immunity anyway and also saying that the testing to prove this or not is a bit sketchy at the moment so the best well i think that kills the immunity

passport idea for the moment at least until a science can suggest otherwise. now a woman in ecuador who was told her sister has died of a suspected corona virus infection has found out she is alive and recovering in hospital 74 year old was admitted to intensive care last month in the city of health authorities later inform the family she had died and handed over what they thought were her ashes they've apologized for the makes up the city's health system has been overwhelmed by the number of deaths from cold it 90 now hundreds of people have protested against coronavirus called on measures at the polish german border many of them are commuters who live in poland and work in germany since the border close if you're not able to process poland has been on lockdown since mid march and has also imposed a mandatory 2 we quarantine for those who enter its territory they were also protests in the german cities of berlin in stuttgart against coronavirus

restrictions chanting slogans like i want my life back protesters demanded lockdown restrictions be eased calling them a violation of their fundamental rights police wearing riot gear and face masks detained more than 100 people saudi arabia is easing curfew rules for most parts of the kingdom but it's keeping a 24 hour long down in mecca as well as towns that were isolated after the start of the corona virus outbreak some commercial activity is also set to resume from wednesday the main mosques in mecca and medina will remain closed throughout the muslim holy month of ramadan saudi arabia has reported more than 16000 infections and 136 deaths. other news speculation is growing over the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks satellite images from a spy and monitoring group suggest kim jong un may have traveled to his beach resort the reuters news agency says china has sent

a team of doctors to treat him after ha procedure romas over kim's health have been swelling since he failed to appear at an event marking his late grandfather as president on april 15th jim walsh is a senior research associate in the security studies program at the massachusetts institute of technology he says the speculation is part of a familiar pattern we've played this game before with him and with previous leaders where we've said oh he's disappeared for 2 weeks he's disappeared pertwee wakes you know it does that mean he might die similarly with the supreme leader in iran there are been numerous rumors about imminent demise that never came true you know it's a pandemic right in north korea where does north korea live right next to the country where the coronavirus originated now north korea's you know it has many cases i find it hard to believe i'm not saying he would. have

contracted it obviously boris johnson did so you know do we have a smoking gun here that something is a raw you know because of the focus on covering 1000 which is totally appropriate and all the things that means we haven't been thinking about north korea but it north korea if the leader doris in a context in which there's a global pandemic it's under sanctions and entering a recession is joining economy declines that's a big deal and we might want to think about that before it happens rather than after it happens. still ahead on al-jazeera why doc says they could be any link between corona virus tends to out and stroke seen in young patients. don extension could make a food crisis even worse since zimbabwe. had

oh there's been some pretty strong winds across northern sections of the middle east you can see the area cloud this is where we have got some rain showers and to the south of there we've had some very very strong gusty winds so much so it has produced scenes like this in amman in jordan the skies the cools very orange with that dust and the sunshine just obliterated by all of that dust settles store really on sunday the wind should become a little bit lighter across much of jordan you can see these green arrows across southern areas of iraq and the front pushing right the way down across into cattle so again could have some blowing sand and dust and a very warm day on sunday 40 degrees celsius that's about 8 degrees above the average for this time of year it does cool off a little bit on monday the winds a stronger coming from the north so should begin to fail a little bit better and still want to show as and for calls in the fall south and west of yemen more than a few shells of course continue across areas of africa central regions in particular and to sunday is the day or congo again seeing those heaviest spells of

rain and really studying way back across seem to get on in cameroon and then really fairly wide scattered showers across much of tanzania pushing up into kenya somalia and also ethiopia on both days a few more showers back into the 4 calls to into south africa drying cape town cooler at $22.00. the oppression of an ethnic minority in me and mine goes back many to. the intention was to make sure the rule injures we're no longer entitled to either basic rights or citizenship runge in a new documentary al-jazeera explores the history and motives behind the systematic persecution of the ranger and myanma. exiled on al-jazeera.

the arab. a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera yemen is 7 transitional council based in aden has declared a state of emergency and says it will establish self rule lisa session his movement blames a saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of the many it's catholics in south korea are attending mass for the 1st time since restrictions were imposed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic the government's easing social distancing measures as a daily number of new cases remains low and speculation is growing over the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks satellite images suggest kim jong un may have travelled to his beach resort the

reuters news agency says china has sent a team of doctors to treat him. now the u.s. state of new york has begun on time body tests for frontline health workers a screening program will examine whether doctors and nurses working with infected call the 1000 patients have been contracting the virus without showing any symptoms casserole reports. i'm saving hamburger from an anesthesiologist and. this new york anesthesiologist recovered from cope at 19 a month ago now doctors i.v. hamburger is among an important group of frontline medical workers who hope they're immune from reinfection center here in new york that center donating on the list was the blood plasma he's donating is also being studied to treat patients so if you give these this plasma to someone who is acutely infected with corona virus the antibodies that are in the possible for me can hopefully start attacking the virus

health care workers are a significant portion of confirmed code 19 and that's since in the u.s. the federal government reports more than 9000 doctors and nurses are among those who tested positive and the number is likely an underestimate given occupation information was missing from 80 percent of those tracked cases they are folks that you know by i just thought they take time to rest they know that when they go into health care right so they don't run away from the fire they go to the restaurant that this is actually bringing in one of our ventilators dr hamburger is now a member of his hospital's covert rapid response team performing into beijing's on critically ill patients this is the procedure that is one of the scarier procedures in the krona virus ever because this is one of the virus can be aerosolized he's volunteered to spare coworkers who've not been infected but the w.h.o.

says reinfection cannot be ruled out through anti-body tests alone the question of potentially munity needs more study. meanwhile in maryland a parade of police cars have come to say thank you to hospital workers soon it will be back inside to waiting patients and a virus we still have a lot to learn about castro al-jazeera. silver spring maryland. now some doctors say young and otherwise healthy patients infected with the coronavirus a dying of blood clots or a stroke which is when the blood supply to the brain is interrupted or reduce can be fatal or destroy the cells responsible for movement speech and decision making as mole group of patients have appeared confused experienced seizures or felt tingling in their arms and legs doctors are looking into whether the rocket is caused by coated 19 or the body's attempts to fight it off

a medical team in new york has 35 stroke patients aged between 33 and 49 who were infected with the virus one died and 3 of them can no longer speak dr john e. is with the john hopkins center for health security says there is still a lot we don't know about the virus. there are individuals that may have no preexisting conditions that are not elderly that can get severe complications from this infection well these are rare occurrences they are important and it's really important to collect clinicians to be on the lookout for these types of symptoms and for individuals who may be recovering from coronavirus or having coronavirus infections that are young and think their they're doing well to be on the alert for these stroke like symptoms and get care immediately we're definitely seeing people coming to the hospital asking questions about rare symptoms that might or may not may or may not be related to the coronavirus i do think this is an this is the early part of the pandemic we still don't know completely about all the different presentations of this specific virus so it's going to take some time before we can

actually figure out what is completely consistent with corona virus and what is less likely and i think this really underscores the need for testing because there's going to have to be a low threshold for testing individuals even those with stroke like symptoms which you would ordinarily think might just be from the ordinary causes of strokes that could be from grow to viruses makes it really difficult for clinicians trying to take care of these patients and understand who is at risk and who is not countries even developed countries in the world what the denominator of infection is how many people are infected what the spread of this virus has been and i think that will take some time but there are what we call ciro surveys occurring where people are looking at an a body levels in communities and we're already seeing that those levels are much higher than what people thought probably under-estimating diagnosis by $10.00 to $20.00 fold so we will find out that this virus really spread very widely and it's not something that should be surprising because this is a respiratory virus that can spread efficiently from human to human it can get anywhere very quickly and can have a very wide a wide impact. a u.s. president on trump s kept his daily coronavirus briefing for the 1st time in weeks

in a suite he said the briefings were not worth the time and efforts was widely criticized after thursday's news conference to say disinfectants could be in jest said as a treatment vocal that 19 he later backtracked on the remarks saying he was being sarcastic. to zimbabwe now which has extended its nationwide lockdown because of a rise in corona virus cases but the restrictions have come at a cost raising concerns that a food crisis affecting half the population will get worse. at the moment with the most of the struggling to put food on the table these women are grateful for any kind of assistance years of drought rising inflation and now coronavirus have seen food prices soar several families are now eating lists many say they know not much will change until a lockdown restrictions are eased or scrapped it early may.

mean more killing people. for that. we are not. so you know waiting for what we're waiting for the troops to get after training to see what is going to happen next the world food program says half of the population needs food aid a poverty assessment done by the government and aid agencies last year nearly 80 percent of families in urban areas are hungry the. local 1000000 companies try to cope with what's available the pandemic has made it difficult to buy more grain from abroad. some of this country's only looked at. export ban but what did seem to danny is that the infrastructure the wall system of exporting is now. also and some of the ships that are. concerning the sate and also objected to the

station there so this is. the position of one. families in rural areas are also struggling the rains have been erratic many haven't managed to grow much food now the global health crisis is making more families here vulnerable priority is given to the sick and the elderly and even here people are being courage to practice social distancing but masks and gloves and hand sanitizers are in short supply and that's the case all over the country. the unofficial unemployment rate is more than 80 percent most people live hand to mouth the government says vulnerable households will receive cash transfers over the next 3 months that's less than $10.00 per person every month businesses have been told by the state not to increase the prices of basic commodities but in previous years whenever an official price freeze was imposed it led to panic buying

shortages and even more frustration. al-jazeera zimbabwe. police officer in somalia has been arrested after shooting dead a person while enforcing coronavirus restrictions incident on friday 2 days of protests in the capital mogadishu and he has a story. hundreds of protesters shouted no police no curfew as they marched through the capital mogadishu on saturday. they say the shooting of a civilian by a police officer and forcing a curfew on friday night is another example of violence and abuse by the security forces which they say happens too often but. this demonstration will continue until the government senior officials listen to the outcry of the population who want the government to reverse the curfew decisions that is imposed on the residents during this holy month. the shooting happened near the headquarters of the somali national

intelligence and security agency somalia's police chief fired the commissioner in charge of the area on saturday and the mare of mogadishu apologized for the shooting. first i respect that the youth of mogadishu need to express their anger for the killing of a civilian i have the right to do so secondly i am very sorry for it and i share the same sorry you are feeling. somalia has poor health care facilities and a limited capacity to trace and test those infected with the coronavirus the government introduced a look down more than 2 weeks ago with the number of people infected with hiv 19 increased. but there has to be trust between the public and the police for it to work effectively and that it's in short supply victoria gay to be there. british prime minister boris johnson is due to return to work on monday after 2 weeks after he was discharged from the hospital where he was treated for corona virus it comes as a government denies they have been mixed messages over the lockdown in argentina

the government has relax its tricks knocked on measures but has extended rest for large cities by 2 weeks schools universities and restaurants will remain closed but people will be allowed to leave their homes for recreational a walks the revised laws will fight to cities with fewer than half a 1000000 people. or less had to sweden our group of indigenous reindeer head as have become the target of revenge attacks it follows a landmark court ruling in january in which they won back exclusive hunting and fishing rights in the arctic region where they live whole research force from. near the norwegian forger. this is modern day reindeer herding. sweden's indigenous saw me people crossing frozen lakes on snowmobiles to feed the reindeer by hand a symptom of that disappearing pastures here in the arctic reindeer herding so important for the sauna culture in sweden we are struggling to you know skipping

reindeer to sort of iraq winter and it's very costly and puts a lot of strain some families and. the effects of climate change on the impact of mining and dams are part of a growing list of problems adding to that strain these are going to have been moved up into the mountains for the spring and summer where the spike all the dangers that face them they should at least be safe from a new on the to merged over the winter that new danger was a spate of killings of reindeer suspected to have been carried out by swedish neighbors in retaliation for a court case that the sami community won against the government and which gave them back the right to decide who hunts and fishes on their land. is one of those who has found his animals slaughtered in the words. i let my reindeer loose here and a man drove up and said you don't come here with your reindeer or will shoot them we've already shot 7 or right and if i meet you alone in the forest i'll shoot you

too it's been a tense winter most of the swedes are good people but we have this clique that has such hatred towards reindeer and reindeer hooters. tensions rose in january after sweden supremes court ruled in favor of the saw meat reindeer herding union of give us whose land stretches some 300 kilometers from here near the norwegian border it could set a precedent for 50 other such areas covering half of sweden and may also hinder plans for more wind and water power plants and mines which have already decimated reindeer pastures the government in stockholm has condemned what it described as racism threats and hate again. the saw me but hasn't commented on any strengthening of their rights so maybe. the supreme court stated that the international indigenous rights convention speech region is bombed by must be observed decisions affecting the saami we must see changes in legislation and see it applied not least

when it comes to maiming and forestry. back up north of the cases caused uncertainty both for swedish hunters you now need missions from the reindeer herd is union for saw me you don't have membership tempering enthusiasm for what is a rare victory for their people and while the coronavirus devastates the economy the creation of yet more industry on these lands could be a bigger priority than giving the salmi a real say in the destiny of the country. vice sweet and. tell again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera yemen 7 transitional council based in aden has declared a state of emergency and says it will establish self rule the secessionist movement blames the saudi man for failing to improve the lives of the yemenis to find full control of yemen is now and it's 6 am speculation is growing about the health and

whereabouts of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks satellite images released by a monitoring group suggest kim jong un may have traveled to his beach resort the reuters news agency says china has sent a team of doctors to treat him catholics in south korea are attending mass for the 1st time since rest were impose that the start of the coronavirus pandemic the government seizing social distancing measures as a daily number of new cases remains little rock mcbride has more from seoul. it's almost 2 months since churches like the catholic church decided it was simply too risky to hold masses and services instead preferring to hold services. i know it's only now this sunday that the catholic church has decided it is safe for people to come back to churches but only under the most stringent of precautions we're at the main cathedral here in seoul it's able to take a congregation of up to a 1000 people but the cobra haitian for each mass is around about

a quarter of that only $260.00 people are being allowed in for each service the while taufel going to zation says there's no evidence that people who've recovered from call that 19 develop immunity to the virus it's urging governments not a show so-called immunity passports because of concerns they could increase it spreads and u.s. president donald trump has kept his daily coronavirus briefing for the 1st time in weeks in a tweet he said the briefings were not worth the time and effort trump was widely criticized after fazes news conference was saying disinfectants could be ingested as a treatment vocal that 19 he later backtracked on the remarks claiming he was being sarcastic and those are the headlines on al-jazeera more news as always and out of sight out just people in power starts now. for 30 years the red cross has provided a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet through

remarkable people risking their lives to help the disabled in between afghanistan on al-jazeera. desperate for oppressive laws millions of people have some refuge in europe sometimes their dreams of sanctuary and welcome realized sometimes disenchantment has to let's eat dry food. in the 1st of 2 films on these conflicting experiences people in power has been to the german city where generosity and open hospice have been making the 2 creatures work.