on al-jazeera. understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world sentimental value take it we'll bring you the news and current affairs that matter to you. celebrations in yemen a separatist declare independence in the south. but i mean this is al jazeera live from doha with more developments on the coronavirus plan them concluding they've been locked down for more than a month now and children can go out to play again in the country for the 2nd most cases of the 5. mass gatherings in south korea as people are going back to church

for the 1st time in weeks. and the show must go on the ramadan payment ataman for iraqis in law. so significant splits has opened up once again in yemen southern separatists have broken a peace deal with the internationally recognized government. yes there were scenes of jubilation on the streets of aden where the southern transitional council has claimed control of the regional capital since yemen's unification in 1900 there has been geographical tension with the south arguing the union favored the north so let's take a closer look at the divisions here well after that he's began seizing major cities in 2014 southern separatists join the government forces in the saudi iraqi coalition to fight against them and the u.a.e. funded the southern fighters to help retake the port city of aden the

internationally recognized. it was written store bought in 2017 amid anger against the government the southern transitional council was set up and it cool for a return to an independent south and last year battles broke out between saudi backed government forces and the u.a.e. supported so the movement both parties signed a power sharing agreement last november in riyadh and yemen's foreign minister says this pact is now being violated by the s.t.c. decoration of self governance they say now from al qaida superman who represents the s.t.c. the southern transitional council in new york and he explains why that declaration is happening now this is not a an event just sprung out of nowhere this is actually a pileup. 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 it. was the 1st of all call with 19 played a role in as far as in 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 aden that were not met

with any type of 8 any delivering of services the past few days there's been a complete shutdown of electricity water services and and sewage and these this is all a pileup fortunately it's been it's been on the backs of war torn country where that's the view of the southern transitional council it's been known to boot who's a visiting professor at the middle east institute at the national university of singapore and he joins us from that now welcome to the programs by booth what's your sense of this how do you read it the transitional council so they do not want things to escalate but this effectively ends the riyadh agreement isn't it. it certainly. signals the end of that together agreement and i think it is. but there are some sort of it's a by now but the result has never really wanted to be part of the north and as we know there was a war and i think if you've lost and we've always been on it's the sea now that

17 basically confirms that it seems that. the sea does not allow him to be a part of the law they want succession and there is a bald headed by be united out of out of the in that sense and it's quite interesting to see that while a correlation came. to bahrain yemen tool unify the country that you know 100 supporting staging are you know a lot of the stuff so i didn't really need to be out there grieving that agreement actually was born and it anyway involved it one each but he walked away with a different variation. and they had different objectives out of it and it was clearly wasn't going to want any. more generally more generally what about the unity to this latest move behind this latest move the s.t.c. position is being rejected by the armada and abby and governments who in the past

of for the saudis how much unity is there. well this is one of them because he's are going to who will be cleaning 2nd us out you know i mean it's not necessarily going to be the whole lot of stuff given that we look at a lot of different actions within yemen and yemen could split not into a body but a lot different. regional areas and i think this is like a premature little station that have gotten. the public support in other areas of the i'm going to specially in mud out and other places so basically we're never playing with fire at the law and i think that it's you know a bunch of come back to haunt them. and what you believe they've got a war as well with these and they're not working together and it seems that it's a split even within the object of that the coalition has absolute i just want to just jump in i scrape was running out of time but the internationally recognized

government says it will this will lead to catastrophic consequences what's your sense are things going to escalate well i think the. illegitimate government that doesn't anymore it's a blot on the ground anyway and it's are things a board who have been it's all our own supporters and that is the coalition in tickler the united arab emirates no we're going to support the other guy littered with government and it seems that we now have different factions and different groups fighting for independence and i think it's going to lead to a that's the part of a good situation. and yemen that is not really need that really at this time when you know there are threatened by the clock at 19 and hopes all because of all of the cracks that that is going there it is that healing of the bed a very large magnitude that we're going to get us out of the and in yemen. i do

appreciate your perspective this but thanks very much indeed that i've been a puppet of his team professor at the middle east institute. thank you ok now there now one of the country's worst affected by coronavirus is just 'd that children start enjoying the great outdoors again for the 1st time in more than a month but the move to spain 6300000 youngsters age under 14 comes with conditions so only for an hour they must be accompanied by and i don't think can go no further than one kilometer as spain has the 2nd most cases of coronavirus after the united states and europe's 2nd highest death toll behind italy. joining is from madrid is a month or so. only for an hour it's close to home they can't go any further than a kilometer but it is a beginning and a welcome reprieve on much. yes of course after 6 weeks of a strict lockdown to day around over 6000000 children under 14 will be able to go

for a walk we see people now walking in the street with children from 9 o'clock in the morning until 9 pm following the 111 criteria one kilometer one adult 2 up to 3 cates of a child children of the same family and a one to one kilowatt hour days one hour time so that's what we see today parks are still closed remain closed because they want to avoid people gathering they will have to keep the safety distance and they will have to stick to the guidelines of the spanish government so i imagine later this reach behind you will see we'll see lots of children under the age of 14 out and about but what about all the children and indeed what about all those. well the spanish prime minister for the sun to finance yesterday that he of the number of people infected from 19 continues decreasing next week next week when we will have an adult going out to exercise for at least one hour and one kilometer away from their

homes also he announced yesterday that after the 3rd extension of the state of emergency lockdown that they will go until may 9th we will enter a new face this new face of the locked out will be the collation we're facing a slow slow way to the new a new normality is the escalation will be gradual will be. will be gradual will be coordinated from central government. meaning that it will be different in depending on what regions or territories as a court of virus has impacted in different ways depending on the regions that we will all have the same rules but not the same speed and the new normality will also see businesses getting back to work and they will be desperate to get back with me . yes of course but still they don't have the

guidelines they're sticking their they're tracking they're monitoring the number of sections they're sticking to the world health organization guidelines so they're still pretty face there they're there with the experts out there do they will there will be monitoring what happens in these next 2 weeks and there would be that i would sing the opening of the shops open up the restaurants 2 reasons we have to remember that spain leaves among 2 reasons so. shops and so on they are malta leave it there for the moment to picture in madrid in spain malta reporting. well another sign of life starting to return to normal is happening in south korea catholics are attending mass for the 1st time since lockdown measures were introduced at the start of the pandemic bride has more from seoul on the precautions being taken. it's nearly 2 months since the catholic church and other churches here in south korea decided it was simply too risky to hold normal services instead they're holding masses on the line and it's only now all of these

weeks on that the catholic church has decided it is safe to reopen its churches but only under the strictest of precautions we're at the main cathedral in seoul can only have a congregation of up to $1000.00 but only a quarter of that number of being allowed in for each mass and you know order to do so you have to turn up here early go to this building where you get a number and your contact details your identity is recorded all this so that if there is a case of infection then every member of that congregation can be traced it's all part of this contact tracing but the south koreans are now so expert at then you have to line up a 2nd time outside the cathedral itself obviously keeping a distance from the people in front of you and behind you and as you go into the cathedral taking the usual precautions like hand sanitizer making sure you have a mask and then there are special precautions in place for example during the

taking of communion all intended to reduce the risk of infection being passed on to an absolute minimum people we have been talking to say yes it is a slightly troublesome to go through these measures which are in place at churches this sunday throughout south korea but they are nonetheless thankful that they can once more return to their churches. and i'm a bit concerned but it feels we're getting back to normal to such an extent normal . that of course i feel grateful and moved at be back in church it made me realise that big. took it for granted and thought it was wrong. this is being seen as a further sign of life returning to something like normal once more and indeed the figures seem to bear out the fact that the worst seems to be behind south korea with only a few new cases being detected every day and boast of those coming from outside the concern for the authorities now though is that

a sense of complacency or fatigue sets in allowing a resurgence which nobody here wants to see. still ahead here on al-jazeera the growing mystery about the health of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for weeks and concerns in zimbabwe that a lot on extension will worsen a food crisis already affecting the population. had a plenty of warm dry sunshine across much of central and northern europe it is eventually out across the south this is i was still going to say a fair few showers once you scout the thunderstorms but it's not so good i want to just point us to denmark in particular to the region of zealand because dealing with some really very dry conditions in fact just a few minute meters of rain in the last few weeks and this is what the ground looks like the farm has

a really having his lot of water to actually water the crops and there's no real rain in the forecast meanwhile to the north got a fair amount of cloud just pushing through into areas of norway on into sweden of course some fairly strong winds as well maybe since got a chance into more northern sections of the u.k. and then we have got more rain in the 4 calls into southern i was a france and once again down into all central and northern areas especially want to scouted shastri the central mediterranean they would just linger as we go through monday and again save a rash of showers really across areas across the southwest and again through the southern areas of france to the north a little bit. more in the way of rain across scandinavia so let's hope some of that finds its way further south into denmark and still a few showers into northern areas of africa once again is algeria tunisia well again see the bulk of the shows and maybe a few reappearing monday across into morocco.

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a state of emergency and says it will establish self rule secessionist movements blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of yemenis. spain $6300000.00 youngsters aged under 14 are being allowed out for the 1st time in more than a month but with several conditions spain has the 2nd most cases of coronavirus after the united states and europe's 2nd highest death toll and. catholics in south korea are attending a mass for the 1st time since restrictions were imposed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic governments of using social distancing measures as a number of new cases remains low. where there is growing uncertainty 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 that kim jong il may have traveled to his beach resort the reuters news agency says that china has sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure rumors about kim's health of increased since he failed to appear at an event marking his late grandfather's birthday on april the 15th well jim

walsh is a senior research associate at the security studies program at massachusetts institute of technology and he says the speculation is part of a familiar pattern. we played this game before with him and with previous leaders where we've said oh he's disappeared for 2 weeks he's disappeared 2 or put 3 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 corona virus originated now greece did not it has any 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 right no 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 if north korea if the leader da is in a context in which there's a global pandemic it's under sanctions and entering a recession is joining an economy declines that's a big deal and we might want to think about it before it happens rather than after it happens u.s. aircraft manufacturing john bearing has pulled out of a $4200000000.00 merger with the president jet make a boeing says and forever failed to meet key conditions of the deal for the brazilian firm accuses bearing affecting out because of financial difficulties there is praise industry is in crisis because of coronavirus for the pandemic boeing it grounded its 737 max planes after 2 crashes that killed almost 350 people . the number of people who have died from corona virus in the united kingdom has exceeded 20000 and it's now the 5th country to pass

a milestone the prime minister boris johnson has been recovering from from the virus will return to work on monday now he has more on the situation across europe vir i'll ring the. bell to tell long live the 25th of april long live freedom the words of a former resistance fighter jaring in world war 2 some type of an itsy stuck at home in the italian capital rome. the nation wide looked means on the 75th anniversary of liberation and the end of fascism the hanging fly eggs from their windows up and down the country instead of holding parades and the 196 year old former parties and who fought in the salinas forces that's heartening. right now depend more important an anti-fascist demonstrations between must also keep them alive especially at this time because a dismemberment we might destroy everything of the italian democratic state in the name open demick that is very dangerous and very uncertain. it's that uncertainty

that's behind belgium's approach as it plans to gradually lift restrictions despite having the highest coronavirus death rate per capita or europe from the 4th of may when the 1st shots reopened everyone aged 12 or over will have to wear a mask on public transport the governments promising to help it will run them over their lives not to touch it government any different entities are implementing a common strategy to guarantee that every citizen will be see for free at least one protective mask covering both him out and the nose bars and restaurants across belgium will start reopening in june but the government says it will bring back restrictions if the medical situation worsens it's not an easy question can release . everything from their heart don't think so because i think we may be. i have a huge problem here on the intensive care. he gets

or almost full. in britain where the number of people recorded as dying in the hospital from cop at 19 has gone past 20000 people are being urged to be patient and stick to the stay home guidelines the 5 tests we have laid out must be met before we can easies life saving restrictions we must be sure that we can continue to protect the n.h.s. that there is a sustained and consistent fall in the daily rates of death that the data shows the rate of infection decreases that the operational challenges on that and of course there is no risk of a 2nd peak of infections. in the french capital where restrictions are even tougher this neighborhood cinema is projecting films onto its walls for anyone living near enough a simple way of bringing people together until they're allowed to socialize once again the al-jazeera hundreds of people are protesting against coronavirus lockdown

measures at the polish and german border many of them are commuters who live in poland and work in germany since a border close they've been unable to cross opponent has been on lockdown since mid march and has also imposed a mandate to we quarantine for those who enter its territory. there were also protests in the german cities of palin in stuttgart against coronavirus restrictions chanting slogans like i want my life back which i says demanded lockdown restrictions to be eased a calling them a violation of the fundamental rights police wearing right guerin face mosque detain more than 100 people. a police officer in somalia has been arrested off the shooting dead a person while enforcing coronavirus restrictions the incident on friday spot 2 days of protests in the capital mogadishu target be 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. 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 apologize for the shooting that was shot 1st sara speight at the youth of mogadishu need to express their anger for the killing of a civilian i have the right to do so secondly i'm 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 lockdown more than 2 weeks ago as 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 al-jazeera. has dispatched more than 200 medical workers to south africa to help treat virus patients and south africa has more than 4000 cases and around 86 deaths from the outbreak cuba has at least 1300 cases of it so the government says the situation is under control. or hundreds of venezuelans have been stranded after columbia shut its border to prevent the spread of covert nighty many say they haven't eaten for days and will have to sleep on the border crossing the u.n. says more than 4 and a half 1000000 people a fled venezuela since 2015 because of its collapsing economy almost half of them live in neighboring colombia a government the government imposed quarantines have left thousands without work.

i got 2 days ago my girl and i had been almost the whole time without food we haven't bathed and heart it doesn't matter if we sardines or tuna that doesn't matter to us we venezuelans i want ears we want them to let us pass to the other side and give us the hope that we can return home i said only a group of about 200 venezuelans passed by for us but they left without an answer when a specialist for the ministry has given up on says we've traveled for 2 weeks walking riding on mules we did the impossible to get here and saudi arabia is easing curfew rules to most parts of the kingdom but it's keeping a 24 hour lockdown in mecca as well as towns that were isolated after the start of the 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 so. the arabia has reported more than 16000 infections and 136 deaths. right watching t.v. it's a popular pastime during the muslim holy month of ramadan and iraq is no exception

it is perhaps the only custom that's remained unaffected by the curfew imposed in response to the coded $900.00 pandemic and that has raised the stakes for those producing the programs made a fortune as a story from baghdad. even as public life in baghdad has largely come to a halt the cameras for this t.v. show never stopped rolling. actually. it was scheduled to air during the fasting month of ramadan a prime time for television across the arab world and so the director has found ways to overcome the covert 19 locked down. around 90 percent of iraqi productions that response to air during ramadan were cancelled so there were no options the audiences would be bored was foreign in arabic content that they were watching in the past we impose a sort of semi quarantine for the programming team we only film inside this house we don't mix with other people and we took preventative measures. the name of the

satirical comedy is. which translates as state of melons a local expression used to describe a chaotic situation it alludes to the lack of stability in post 2003 iraq the sketches tackle everyday issues such as corruption and the impact of conservative norms on society you know darling stop sending messages you call me sister but then you seem to me to just past midnight recorded in iraqi dialect it has gained popularity over long established turkish an egyptian series. we managed to use a language that appeals to all classes of iraqi society so the audience will see us as one of the family they'll say yes this old lady is like my mother or that character like my brother. t.v. series has always been an integral part of what i'm a ban but the crew hopes that this year their efforts will help lighten up evenings for people stuck at home the curtain has been lifted during the day but it remains

in place in the evening which is when people usually gather to break their fast that means that many cherished ramadan traditions cannot be observed this year. we join one thermally at their home as they prepare for the 1st if a meal to break their daily fast delightful aroma swath through the kitchen and there's no shortage of mouth weathering dishes spread on the table but she had mother of 3 and soon to. give birth to a 4th son misses her extended family you know you don't learn it's ramadan so normally we should be at my grandfather's house but we can't go. later in the evening the men in the family would usually head out of their friends and relatives until late at night. ramadan is known for coffee shops and playing games in public it's all about the gatherings and would usually go to a coffee shop to have shisha but this year i cannot do that as all the coffee shops are prohibited and closed. and so watching t.v.

is one of the few entertainment options left after their meal the family tunes in to lay it out but it's a rare occasion to smile and one of the few traditions that have not been appended by the coronavirus pandemic seem awful to al-jazeera but that. so this is out there these are the top stories and yemen's southern transitional council based in aden has declared a state of emergency and says it will establish self rule the secessionist movement blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of yemenis. spain's $6300000.00 youngsters $840.00 not being allowed out for the 1st time in more than a month but with several conditions spain has the 2nd most cases of coronavirus off the united states and europe 2nd highest death toll behind if you want to read or has more now from madrid. the spanish prime minister for the scientists announced

yesterday that number of people infected from 19 continues decreasing next week next week it will have. to exercise for one hour and one kilometer away from their homes also he announced yesterday after the 3rd extension of the state of emergency lockdown that he will go. enter a new face this new phase of the lockdown will be the deescalation. catholics in south korea are attending mass for the 1st time since restrictions were imposed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic the government is easing social distancing measures as the daily number of new cases remains. 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 that kim jong un may have traveled to his beach resort reuters news agency says that china has sent

a team of doctors to treat him. a u.s. aircraft manufacturing john boeing has pulled out of a $4200000000.00 merger with a brazilian jet banker boeing says failed to meet key conditions of the deal but the brazilian firm accuses boeing backing out because of financial difficulties the aerospace industry is in crisis because of the coronavirus before the pandemic boeing grounded its 737 max planes after 2 crashes killed almost 350 people. hundreds of people have protested against coronavirus lockdown measures at the polish german border many of the commuters who live in for them to work in germany as since the border close they been unable to cross poland has been on lockdown since mid march. all right yet state that lines here are not 0 we got more news coming up right after inside story. on counting the cost billions now to save trillions lost economic output the vaccine hunt senegal produced

a covert $1000.00 test for $1.00 plus u.s. oil on the line as crude sinks into negative territory. counting the costs on al-jazeera. coming together to fight a pandemic the world health organization has launched a global action plan to develop vaccines on drugs but covert 90 but the u.s. is not taking part so how do we make sure everyone has equal access to treat this is inside still. hello welcome to the program and burn it. it's being called a landmark collaboration the.