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a food crisis will get even worse in zimbabwe as it extends a nationwide lockdown. so in a significant spirit has opened up once again in yemen southern separatists have broken a peace deal with the internationally recognized government. yes there's been jubilation on the streets of aden where the southern transitional council has claimed control of the regional capital since yemen's unification in 1915 geographical tensions with the south arguing the union favorite the north so let's take a closer look at the divisions after the 2 things began seizing major cities in 2014 southern separatists joined government forces in the saudi and iraqi coalition to fight against them and the u.a.e. funded the southern fighters to help retake the port city of aden and the internationally recognized government. as reinstill but in 2017 amid anger against

the government the southern transitional council was set up and it called for a return to an independent south and last year battles broke out between saudi backed government forces and the u.a.e. supported saw 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. declaration of self governance it's enough to cut a superman who represents sea s.t.c. the southern transitional council in new york and he explains why the declaration is happening now. this is not a an event that 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 it. was the 1st of all code 19 played a role in as far as a health risk that the government needs to take that are a precaution zx 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 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 a war torn country and i've done about mood is a visiting professor at the national university of singapore with middle east institute and he says the collapse of the riyadh agreement was just inevitable. the south has never really wanted to be part of the north and as we know there was a war and i think if you or. the formation of the it's the see how the 17 basically confirms that he seems that he is the c. does not want to be part of the north they want to session and there is a board by b. and acted out of one of the in that sense and it's quite interesting to see that while the correlation came up to 5 in yemen who will unify the country that you know one is supporting as

a staging of you know all of the stuff so i did really need to get the green but then he had agreement that he was born dead anyway from day one each party walked away with different interpretation. and they had different objectives out of it and it was clear that it wasn't going to work. let's move on to corona virus now another sign of life starting to return to normal is happening in south korea catholics are attending mass for the 1st time since look the measures were introduced at the start of the pandemic from a 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 online 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 they cannot really have a congregation of up to $1000.00 but only a quarter of that number of being allowed in for 'd 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 of all this so that if there is a case of infection that every member of that congregation can be traced it's all part of this contact tracing that 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 as talking to say yes it is 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. i'm a bit concerned but it feels we're getting back to normal to such an extent dome all. that of course i feel grateful and moved at be back in church it made me realise that the took it for granted and atmos 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 most of those coming from outside the concern for the authorities now though is that a sense of complacency all fatigue sets in allowing a resurgence which nobody here wants to see. one of the country's worst affected by coronaviruses just let children start enjoying the great outdoors again for the 1st

time in more than a month but the move to spain 6300000 youngsters aged under 14 comes with conditions it's only for an hour and they must be accompanied by an adult and go no further than a kilometer spain has the 2nd most cases of coronavirus after the united states and europe 2nd highest death toll behind italy let's hear from author who has more from madrid. after 6 weeks of a strict lockdown to day are over 6000000 children under 14 will be able to go for a walk from 9 o'clock in the morning until 9 pm following the 111 criteria one kilometer one adult 2 up to 3. children of the same family and a one hour time so that's what we see today parks are still closed remain closed because they want to avoid people gathering there will have to keep the safety distance and they will have to stick to the to the guidelines of the spanish

government the spanish prime minister for the sun to finance yesterday that he of the number of people infected from coming up at 19 continues decreasing next week next week when we will have adults going out to exercise for at least one hour on the 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 phase of the lockdown will be the deescalation. to zimbabwe which has had to extend its nationwide lockdown because of a rise in corona virus cases but the restrictions well they've come at a cost raising concerns that a food crisis affecting half the population will get worse as this report given to 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 was dictions eased or scrapped in early may. mean more good for us is killing people. for their tweets and we are no doctor. so you're waiting for what we're waiting for the 2 weeks to get finished after treatment you'll 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 fall 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 is on lockdown it's not export ban but what it

seems done is that the infrastructure of the war system of exporting is no sister or bridge also and some of the ships that are pretty concerning this 8 are now subjected to quarantine of the station there so this is slowed down the. petition 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 bobbies unofficial unemployment rate is more than 80 percent most people live hand to mouth the government is 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. still ahead here in algeria the mystery over the health of north korea's leader of the he's a no show dick universe or celebration 2 weeks ago and he hasn't been seen since. the show must go on the drama and limited time and for iraqis. however still a big dry area in the middle of europe around which all the cloudy $63.00 areas of interest rate is one here this producing range the crane. low running across the no

wage and seed was scandinavia and is one of the coast of portugal although there is a tense development produced rain as the race of the ukraine this is for the answer spain into southern france might reach switzerland's not been much rain here this spring and the line then goes through bosnia and beyond but this is the dry bit in the middle that doesn't really change apart from maybe sparking occasional showers as the more she gets into the rising temperatures i mean france get the most right i think and french child to probably love that but you can see from the temperature background where the heat is concentrated and it's been like that it will spring there for we go something dries our hands and certainly a lack of rain and budapest typifies the temperature difference it should be about 16 it goes up to $24.00 and might spark a thumb's to what's on tuesday. now of course the still some effect in the northwest of africa from what's happening have a spade cooley here and occasional showers see lucky through our gerri to dizzy

this circulation i'm sorry his hot weather in libya heading towards egypt. to. talk to al jazeera we ask what you will force work when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to after the war saying you have been to go build you know the stage of you know what we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera if you want to help save the world. thanks sneeze and hero.

but again you're watching al jazeera remind of our top stories this hour and yemen's southern transitional council based in aden has declared a state of emergency and says it will establish self rule secessionist movement blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of young. 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 2nd most cases of coronavirus after the united states and europe his 2nd highest death toll behind italy. catholics in south korea are attending mass for the 1st time since the restrictions were imposed at the start of the coronavirus pandemic the government is easing social distancing measures as a daily number of new cases remains low. all right 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 suggested kimmitt junk 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 you failed to appear at an event marking his late grandfather's birthday on april 15th jim walsh is a senior research associate sinne 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 to 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 coronavirus originated now korea's 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 coverage 1000 which is totally appropriate and all the things that means we haven't been thinking about north korea but if north korea if a leader dog 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 200000 people have now died from corona virus in the world health organization is warning if you get the virus once you're not necessarily protected from getting it again and without that guarantee the agency is edging against issuing so-called immunity passports as concern that by handing them out the risk

of the virus spreading could increase roi chances more now from london. 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 wouldn't be able to get 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 in fact the other people but unfortunately from the scientific point of view we simply don't know if the person who has been infected with. 90. 2 prior.

gets 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 at the best well i think that kills the immunity passport idea for the moment at least until a science can suggest otherwise well the state of new york has begun antibody test for frontline health care workers for screening program will examine whether doctors and nurses working with infected patients have been contract with 1000 without showing any symptoms i did take astra as this. hamburger i'm an

anesthesiologist i'm not saying 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 coded 19 and that's and 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 by just fall 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 right that this is actually bringing in one of our ventilators dr hamburger is now a member of his hospital's coded rapid response team performing into basins on critically ill patients this is the procedure that is one of the scarier procedures in the krona virus 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. businesses

around mexico rallying to help make masks for front line workers one laser cutting firm is focused almost entirely on masks for doctors and nurses in mexico city and many hospitals are facing shortages of vital protective equipment as cases continue to rise mexico has about $14000.00 confirmed infections well hundreds of venezuelans are stranded after columbia shut its border to prevent the spread of covert 19 and many say they haven't eaten for days would have to sleep at the border crossing the u.n. says that more more than 4 and a half 1000000 people have fled venezuela since 2015 because of its collapsing economy almost half live in neighboring colombia but government imposed quarantine mean thousands are without work at least. i got 8 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 a group of about 200 venezuelans passed by fors but they left without an answer when ismailis foreign ministry has given no answers beef travel for 2 weeks walking riding on meals we did the impossible to get here to argentina now which is partially begun a relaxing national lockdown measures but restrictions from large cities have been extended by 2 weeks schools universities restaurants and most public offices will continue to be closed but people will be allowed to leave their homes or recreational wards in communities with less than half 1000000 people structures have been lifted entirely have been 185 deaths in argentina. a woman in ecuador who was told her sister had died of a suspected corona virus infection as found out she's alive and recovering in hospital 74 year old album marie was admitted to intensive care last month in the

city of kill health authorities later inform the family she had died and handed over what they thought were ashes they've apologized to the mix up the city's health system has been overwhelmed by the number of deaths from the virus. a field hospital dedicated exclusively to cave in 1000 patients has been inaugurated in rio de janeiro it is the 1st of 9 such facilities scheduled to open next month across the state brazilian medical officials have warned they are struggling to cope with the high number of infections brazil is one of the worst affected countries in latin america u.s. aircraft manufacturing john boeing has pulled out of a 4200000000 dollar merger with the brazilian jet maker boeing says it embraer a failed to meet key conditions of the deal but the brazilian firm accuses boeing of backing out because of financial difficulties the aerospace industry is in crisis because of coronavirus and before the pandemic boeing grounded its 737 max

planes after 2 crashes killed almost 350 people. a police officer in somalia has been arrested off the shooting dead a person while in forcing coronavirus restrictions incident on friday spotted 2 days of protests in the capital mogadishu tore again be as 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 apologize for the shooting that was shot 1st 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 is 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 it to be out there. saudi arabia is easing curfew rules for most parts of the kingdom some commercial activity is set to resume from wednesday but it's keeping a 24 hour lockdown of the main mosques in mecca and medina throughout the muslim holy month of ramadan a saudi arabia has reported more than $16000.00 infections and $136.00 deaths.

but watching t.v. is 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 covert $1000.00 pound emic and that's raise the stakes for those producing the programs as many as the 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 saw the director has found ways to overcome the covert 19 lockdown that even. considered 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 imposed 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 a 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 everyday issues such as corruption and the impact of conservative norms on society you know darling abouta house 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 and the depiction 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 more than 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 $1000.00 money 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 watering dishes spread on the table but she had a mother of 3 and soon to give birth to a 4th son misses her extended family you know you don't learn it's rahm a dancer normally we should be at my grandfather's house but we can 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 toons into lyotard but it's a rare occasion to smile and one of the few traditions that have not been appended but a coronavirus pandemic seem awful to al-jazeera but that. all right this is out there these are the top stories yemen's southern transitional council based in aden has declared a state of emergency and says it will establish self rule secessionist movement blames the saudi backed government for failing to improve the lives of yemenis. spain's 6300000 youngsters aged under 40 being allowed out for the 1st time in more than a month but with several conditions spain has the 2nd most highest number of cases of coronavirus after the u.s.

and europe the 2nd highest death toll behind italy. has more now from madrid the spanish prime minister for the sun just announced yesterday that he of the number of people infected from cover to cover one team continues decreasing next week next week it will have. to exercise for at least one hour and one kilometer away from their hopes also he announced yesterday after the 3rd extension of the state of emergency lockdown that he will go until may 9th we will enter a new face this new phase of the lockout 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's easing social distancing measures that the daily number of new cases remains low 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 conjunction may have travelled to his beach resort reuters news agency says that china has sent a team of doctors to treat him the world health organization says that there is no evidence of people who've recovered from coburg 19 develop immunity to the virus and governments not to issue so-called immunity passports. businesses around mexico are rallying to help make masks for front line workers one laser cutting firm is focused almost entirely on mosques for doctors and nurses in mexico city and many hospitals are facing shortages of vital protective equipment as cases continue to rise in saudi arabia is easing curfew rules for 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. your state the headlines and we have more news here on out so right after talk to watch your wife. as corona virus continues to devastate the united states the race to the white house goes on joe biden has all but secured his place

is the democratic nominee but can he beat donald trump joining us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. the woman who. would see. june the 26945. as the 2nd mobile was ending representatives of 50 countries signed the united nations charter in san francisco. the u.n. officially came into existence in october of that year when the charter was ratified by china france the former soviet union the united kingdom the united states as well as by a majority of other signatories. almost 75 years later the un comprises 193 member states all represented in one of its 6 main old ins the united nations general assembly. its 1st.