it is far from over. he turns the camera on himself when i salute take control and his family are forced to flee no where to hide a witness documentary on al-jazeera. yemeni separatist declares self rule in the south the internationally recognized government warns of a catastrophe. i'm not matheson this is obviously a live from doha also coming up clean bill of health china says all patients being treated in the original epicenter of the coronavirus out of hospital. and their step children are allowed out without supervision in the country with the 2nd highest number of cases. and fears

a food crisis will get worse in zimbabwe as it extends a nationwide lockdown. yemen is reeling from yet another setback to ambitions for peace and stability separatists have declared self rule in the south of the country it's crushed hopes of resurrecting a power sharing deal signed in november the internationally recognized government has condemned as catastrophic and dangerous the move all this as a saudi u.a.e. coalition battles with the rebels in a separate conflict o'brien has more. separatist reinforcements a ride in aden hours after their political leaders the southern transitional council announced it's in control of the city and a major port. lincoln that is we are now in front of the yemeni central bank in aden. after it was taken back by the sovereign forces that by the sovereign

transitional council like the other vital infrastructure in the city we hope this will be a real breakthrough that will be repeated in all the other liberated south and we. the council defying the internationally recognized government accusing it of being unable to cope with the coronavirus pandemic and failing to improve the lives of yemenis this is actually a pileup. mis management misgovernance in actually insult them and less to i.d.s. the sea is right now compelled to take action to their own ends while still calling for a cease fire calling for deescalation in all fronts we want things to go smoothly or things you want to be able to deliver aid services will be able to battle this. but the government warns the move could have catastrophic consequences describing it as a resumption of an armed insurgency. it's yet another complicating factor in yemen's

5 yes civil war which is being mocked by shifting sometimes shadowy allegiances. the southern safer to stay backed by the united arab emirates and have been nominal allies of the saudi immorality coalition and their war against the who think it was last year the saw the movement turned on the coalition backed government seizing aden and fighting that lasted for days. the government says the separatist action is a rejection of a power sharing deal brokered to end last years on wrist which saudi arabia hailed as a step towards a wider political solution to the war. as movement goes back fabio on to the current conflict those in the south yemen's unification and $998.00 favored the north and lead to fulfilling living standards there are thought to be at least $25.00 regional safer to scripts so. port on the ground is also in question critics

say control shouldn't be taken by force but actions within yemen and in yemen not in book 3 but the. regions or earlier and i think this is like a premature station that doesn't. support in other areas of the i'm going to speculate and other places so basically we are playing with fire at the moment i'm not going to. come back to. the 7 transitional council says it continues to support the nationwide cease fire which is just been extended by a month a declaration of autonomy and a state of emergency adds to the uncertainty for yemenis people really suffered years of hunger and war and exam ryan al jazeera. catherine shocked him as head of the yemen department a next century foundation it's a peace building a think tank in london she says the declaration of self rule is

a reflection of the political reality in yemen. this south yemen has ate for independence for decades now. and i think that it's actually becoming about just now only because. of the situation and the war in yemen since 2015 so they were able to realize their political ambition and so critical determination i think the main issue. may have at this moment has to do with the fact that in fact . had the government heidi is in reality hoss lost whatever legitimacy you may have had at some point and we need to remember that the legitimacy that he ever had was in fact that was given by the international community because there was an understanding that if if he wasn't actually supported by the international community then defacto sovereignty would fall onto

the hersey movement and so had he was propped up and kept in power even though it was only that to transition yemen into intern the other political era following i have a lesser less demise china is claiming another milestone in its battle with corona virus it says all patients have now been discharged from hospitals in rwanda the original epicenter of the pandemic health officials also say they've now gone 11 straight days with no new deaths in china $100.00 ported more than half of the country's total cases and nearly 85 percent of the national death toll city residents are still being tested regularly despite a relaxation of lockdown rules in hong kong several clark says china is now looking to deploy medical resources to a border region near russia. this is the epicenter of the initial corona virus outbreak and of course engendering we saw this particular city sealed off was in general 23 when live 11000000 people went into lockdown for about 3 or so months it

was only when the numbers started to drop that they lift that particular lock down so in january february at the peak of this particular virus outbreak in we had we had the likes of thousands of cases being reported on a daily basis of course we had accounts for half the national total of coronavirus cases in china and 3 quarters of china's deaths but instead of we had the medical efforts are now being deployed elsewhere we've got the cases on sunday a national health commission's report of 11 cases and 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called heilongjiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and this type quarantine restrictions in a number of those cities and we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china is now looking to deploy medical teams to

this particular region as it sees a surge in the number of cases. there is a professor in the school of politics and international relations at the university of nottingham he says the chinese communist party is doing everything it can to shield itself from any blame for what's happening. the chinese communist party holds. a quote unquote monopoly of truth and that means. the communist party basically by default whatever they say must be true and whatever is reported that kind of counters the official narrative by default must be false and saw based on this understanding i think it's quite clear that we must not trust the carpet 19 statistics coming out of mainland china we need to be quite careful when we draw like comparisons to other countries it's all good to hold for example the british and u.s. government to account for their let's say a belated response and i think that criticism is being articulated day by day but

when it comes to mainland china. it this is the origin of the corona virus outbreak and this is of course something that secretary sitting is. perhaps ashamed ops and so the highest it has been going into all the drives to kind of deflect criticism of this fact and they're now increasing reports that. conspired is actually orchestrating a global this information campaign courageous chinese citizens are attempting to kind of break through censorship but unfortunately just yesterday we learned that. some volunteers in china would try to document what really happened in la and that they've been harassed by the authorities and so let's bear in mind health professionals who just wanted to share information with other professionals like dr levy when young they they couldn't speak their mind and on his deathbed he said

china should no longer have censorship and citizen journalists would try to report from the front lines like to ensure sure neither of us they were immediately caught and and gagged. in upon you turn the world health organization says patients who've already been infected by the corona virus will develop some form of protection earlier the u.n. health agency said there was no evidence that be any better off that threatened to damage plans by several countries to issue so-called immunity passports allowing the recovered to return to normal life the w.h.o. said its previous statement caused concern and tweeted to clarify we expect that most people who are infected with covered 90 will develop an antibody response that will provide some level of protection spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll in 5 weeks 288 people died in the past day as the number of new infections

also dropped it's raising hopes that spain's strict lockdown restrictions out beginning to pay dividends meanwhile millions of children in spain are being allowed outside to play for the 1st time in $6.00 weeks as the lockdown is further eased but it's only for an hour they must be accompanied by an adult and stay within a kilometer of home public parks remain closed motörhead one has more from the dreaded. this is a big relief after $43.00 days of strict lockdown children under 14 are able to go out for a walk only for one hour one kilometer away from their home and back and with one adult each adult can take at least 3 up to 3 kids of the same family so what we've seen today the big picture in spain have been all these parents with the kids with their bicycles with the scooters we've seen plenty of police patrolling drones warning all the parents and the kids to keep to keep the save safe safety

distancing and. plenty of kids and all the parks are closed in spain on the playgrounds of course so the access is impossible so these kids have to to exercise or to walk with their own by their own means and with the pens so that minister yesterday he said that if this continues this slowdown trend continues according to 2 ministers sources in the past 34 hours we were just at the lowest death toll. in a month 288 new fatalities in the past 24 hours and 1700 new infections if this trend continues next week and we can see now to sect to exercise individually so we might have one of the pictures well the coronavirus lockdown has provoked a protest on the border between germany and poland by people complaining because it across many of polish commuters who work in germany poland has been a long time since mid march a mandatory to recall and to for anyone who enters has also been imposed and

germany's in berlin and stood guard have demanded the easing of the lockdown chanting slogans such as i want my life back protesters complain that the restrictions at a violation of their fundamental rights while police detained more than 100 people . u.s. secretary of state might bump a 0 has prince qatar airways for its repatriation efforts june the pandemic the airline helps nearly a 1000000 people across a number of countries to return home including tens of thousands of americans the carrier increased capacity at a time when most airlines were canceling international flights the secretary of state said we have heard from numerous u.s. citizens abroad about the tremendous efforts extended by qatar to raise stuff to get them home qatar airways helped repatriate nearly 1000000 people worldwide including tens of thousands of americans this should be seen as a point of national pride for all. still ahead on al-jazeera conspicuous by

his absence mystery over the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader. and a test of faith in south korea people return to church for the 1st time in weeks. hello at least 2 days of dry weather since for the prospect for virtually all of east asia you see the clash for that clouds are actually going to go offshore so apart from leaving the prospect of a shower or 2 in honshu and maybe a bit of rain around shanghai just so the scientists it's a dry looking picture exception big taiwan hong kong's humidity will drop the temperature here will probably rise a bit 27 and beijing's up to 30 is a bit of rain in the fall on the walls of china but it certainly isn't the general rule it's a dry one moment and yet there's an increase in the brits of the showers throughout

southeast asia creasing there coming up towards bangkok myanmar's fairly wet and humid as town here this is all what the seasonal forecast would suggest and it's being realized in this seasonal forecast heaviest showers quite possibly in the far side of thailand in india and bangladesh is the time for some 30 big nasty showers particularly in baghdad but the focus is addition against the orange tops more vicious south from the showers as far north as new delhi as far south as carola could be an interesting useful bit of rain early rain in the arabian prince the temperature dropping this is by monday is a winter's rant or rather cooler relative shemale wind. isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another side of the story out some of the information around the outbreak but the

misinformation separating propaganda from fact look it's reality really has to reach the long exposing the optics try to manipulate the rhetoric and blame but they cannot manipulate the fire listening post your insight guide to the media on al-jazeera. you're. watching all just get out of mind of our top stories this hour yemen's government is warning of a catastrophe after separatists declared self rule in the southern city of 8 and a southern transitional council is accusing the saudi backed government of mismanagement and has announced

a state of emergency. china says all coronavirus patients have now been discharged from hospitals in their original epicenter of the pandemic beijing is also reporting no new coronavirus deaths for an 11th straight day. spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll in 5 weeks 288 people died in the past day as the number of new infections has also dropped. but its prime minister is jew back at work on monday at 2 weeks after being in intensive care for coronavirus on his johnson's facing criticism of his and the government's handling of the crisis including critical shortages of personal protective clothing for health care staff and the lack of testing and calls to ease the crippling lockdown on increasing jonah halls in london and sums up the dilemma facing boris johnson. he will return on monday to a country now in its 2nd 3 week period of intensive lockdown measures

a country in which the peak of the epidemic has been reached but in which new infections and deaths remain perilously high with the hospital death toll rising above 20000 on saturday is still persistent shortages of personal protection equipment for health and care workers on the frontline a government target of 100000 tests a day by the end of this month still looks a long long way off and louder and louder calls for a timetable an exit strategy some sort of transparency in the government's plans from the opposition who say the public must be kept informed about when this lockdown will end and how and also from the business community and senior members of boris johnson's own party who say it must end very very quickly i think i mean they say he's raring to go as i say there's no shortage of things for him to be getting on with but presumably the central and 1st focus will be on his key predicament which is to decide in the coming days whether to hear this call from business leaders and his own party and senior members of the treasury no less who

say you must end this lockdown in order to prevent a total collapse of the economy in this country verses a much more cautious line being taken by the health of scientific community who say look the time is not yet right the numbers are still simply too high the public should be given false hope instead they should be encouraged to double down and stick to the lockdown the lockdown which incidentally there was broad public support for all the way along until perhaps now where new polls are beginning to suggest worryingly i think for downing street that that support may be on the wane is going on certainty about the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks a train possibly belonging to king's on was spotted at a resort town in the country according to satellite images. the reuters news agency says china has sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure rumors about kim's health have increased since he failed to

appear at an event marking his late grandfather's birthday on if the 15th jim wallace is a senior research associate in the security studies program at massachusetts institute of technology 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 put 3 weeks you know it does that mean he might die similarly with the supreme leader in iran durbin 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 a do we have a smoking gun here something is

a right no because of the focus on cover 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. and south korea catholics are attending mass for the 1st time since social distancing measures were introduced at the start of the pandemic what mcbride has more from so. 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 can normally have a congregation of up to a 1000 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 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 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. 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 an atmosphere on. 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 or fatigue sets in allowing a resurgence which nobody here wants to see boeing is expected to be hit with an

expensive lawsuit for the collapse of a deal to buy an aircraft manufacturer in brazil and accuses the americans of sabotaging the $4000000000.00 tie up to avoid its commitments boeing sinking billions of dollars from the u.s. government is the airline industry is at a standstill more airlines have canceled orders for the boeing 737 max following 2 crashes killing all on board. zimbabwe has had to rick stand its nationwide lockdown because of a rise in corona virus cases but the restrictions have come at a cost raising concerns that the food crisis affecting half the population will get worse out of the ports the limit of 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. eased

or scrapped in 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 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's only look down it's not export ban but why did simmons done isn't the infrastructure the whole system of exporting is not bridge

also and some of the ships that debris concerning this aid and are subjected to quarantine the of this dish in there and 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 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 elated panic buying shortages and even more frustration. al-jazeera zimbabwe. watching t.v. is a popular pastime during the muslim holy month of ramadan and iraq is no exception but the cover 19 pandemic has raised the stakes for those producing the programs summer of 14 has 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 so 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 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 everyday issues such as corruption and the impact of conservative norms on society you know darling abouta how stop sending messages you call me sister but then you seem to me to just past midnight recorded in iraq a 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 ramadan 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 time early 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 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'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. this is not as if these are the top stories yemen's government is warning of a catastrophe after separatists are cleared self rule in the southern city of aids in the southern transitional council is accusing the so in choosing the saudi backed government of mismanagement and has announced a state of emergency. china says all coronavirus patients have now been discharged from hospitals in war han the original epicenter of the pandemic beijing is also

reporting no new coronavirus deaths for 11 consecutive days in hong kong set a clock says china is now looking to deploy medical resources to a border region near russia on sunday a national health commission's report of 11 cases and 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called heilongjiang province and this particular province borders russia it's about 4000 kilometer a border there and as a result this is now the new battleground because of the cases of the surge in infections in that particular region and we've got a number of cities that been put in lockdown we've got public transport it's been postponed or held for a period of time and that's tried pointing restrictions in a number of cities and we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china's now looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll in 5 weeks 288 people died in the past day is the number of new infections also dropped. in an

apartment you turn the world health organization says patients who've already been infected by the corona virus will develop some form of protection earlier the u.n. health agency said there was no evidence they'd be any better off that threatened to damage plans by several countries to issue so-called immunity possible it's allowing the recovered to return to normal life. u.s. secretary of state mike from pale has praised qatar airways for its repository ation efforts during the pandemic the airline held to nearly a 1000000 people across a number of countries to return home including tens of thousands of americans there is drawing on the certainty about the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks watch as news agency says china has sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the listening post good bye as coronavirus 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 still trump joined us for continuing coverage of the u.s. election 2020 on al-jazeera. you might think it's. easy to walk down the aisle erick trial. probably because there's my part and what happened. lauren richard just brought in you're watching the listening post here are some of the coronavirus stories the media angles that we're tracking from home this week india and the pandemic much of the coverage is defined by politics and driven by religion reporters must choose their words carefully europe.