have any right here rewind on al-jazeera. be the hero the world needs right. washington. yemeni separatist self rule in the south the internationally recognized government warns of a catastrophe. alarms all right and this is al jazeera life my headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 30 minutes a clean bill of health to woo her and china says all patients being treated in the original at the center of the coronavirus out of hospital. signs of recovery for spain it records its lowest daily death toll 5 weeks let's children out of play.

and fears the food crisis in zimbabwe will get even worse as the government extends a nationwide lockdown. welcome to the program a country that's enjoyed more than 5 years of war and a humanitarian crisis the u.n. has called the worst in the world now has a new challenge separatist in yemen have declared self rule in the south of the country it comes as a saudi u.a.e. coalition battles with the rebels in a separate conflict the internationally recognized government says the outcome will be catastrophic as alexie o'brien reports. separatist reinforcements arrive in aden hours after their political leaders the southern transitional council announced it's in control of the city and a major portion of animal think america is we are now in front of the yemeni central bank in aden after it was taken back by the southern forces that by the

southern transitional. insole like the other vital infrastructure in the city they hope this will be a real breakthrough that will be repeated in all the other liberated southern regions of 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 dial up. mis management misgovernance in actually in south yemen less 2 ideas he she 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 are going to 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. facade and safer to still 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 was this a protest movement goes back fabiani to the current conflict those in the south argue yemen's unification and $995.00 in the north and lead to fulfilling living standards there are thought to be at least $25.00 regional safer to scripts support

on the ground is also in question critics say control shouldn't be taken by. force actions within yemen and in yemen not in look at me but or out there and. you know and i think this is like a premature station that doesn't. support in other areas of the ambulance specially in. other places so basically we are playing with fire that will. come back on. the 7 transitional council says it continues to support the nationwide cease fire which has just been extended by a month a declaration of autonomy and a state of emergency adds to the uncertainty for yemenis people ready saturday years of hunger and war and except ryan al jazeera. while trying is claiming another milestone in its battle with krone virus it says all patients are now being discharged from hospitals in hand the original at the center of the pandemic health

officials also say they've now got 11 straight days with no new deaths in china were hung reported more than half of the country's total cases a nearly 85 percent of the national death toll so the residents are still being tested regularly despite a relaxation of lockdown rules going on goals are atlantans china is now looking to deploy medical resources to a border region there russia. this is the epicenter of the initial corona virus outbreak and of course engendering we saw this particular city sealed off was and generally 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 lockdown so in january february at the pick 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 the national health commission's reported 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's now looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region as it sees a surge in the number of cases spain has recorded its lows daily death toll in 5 weeks 298 people died in the past day as the number of new infections also dropped it's raising hopes that spain's strict lockdown restrictions are beginning to pay dividends meanwhile millions of children in spain are being allowed outside to play for the 1st time in 6 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 while the holo has more from madrid . 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 parents so that

minister yesterday he said that if this continues this slow down 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 don't point out to sect to exercise individually so we have another picture as well. the latest attack in the democratic republic of congo has killed at least $23.00 people rival ethnic communities have carried out decades of attacks in the golden oil rich province of it 3 since 2017 at least 700 people have been killed in the area. zimbabwe to extend its nationwide lockdown because the rise in corona virus cases but the restrictions of come at a cost raising concerns but the food crisis affecting half the population will get worse reports the world 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 we're waiting for what we're waiting for the 2 weeks to go after treatment we'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 year found 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 the whole system of exporting is no bridge also and some of the ships that debris concerning this aid are now subjected to quarantine of the station there so this is slowed down and the. additional 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.

zimbabwe is an official 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 fees was imposed panic buying shortages and even more frustration. al-jazeera. country director for zimbabwe he says the country has several problems which are making matters even more difficult ours is not only just about corporate 19 before corporate 19 itself there are reports that did indicate that it least 7700000 zimbabweans we would think your. $4300000.00 are in rural areas where action is. in fact if you look

at the food crisis 1000 remember last year or more for the communities in zimbabwe. and also this year some of the communities for example. impacted by by floods but the underlining issue here also is that the economy is not performing really a delicate balancing act that the government has to play between hell with ensuring that the economy continues to which the economy again he's about 80 percent or people employed and is about 90 percent fitting in the informal economy literally spending for the families from hand to mouth on a daily basis. well still ahead here on al-jazeera heading back to work boris johnson wins his battle against corona virus but now has to rejoin the fight against the pandemic and conspicuous by his absence mystery over the health

whereabouts of north korea's elusive leader those stories after the break. hello or at least 2 days of dry weather it seems for the prospect for virtually all of east asia you see the cloud for that cloud actually going to go offshore so far from leaving the prospect of a shower or 2 in honshu and maybe a bit of rain around shanghai just so the south it's a dry looking picture exception being 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 far the walls of child but it's certainly isn't the general rule it's a dry one moment and yet there's an increase in the breadth of the showers throughout southeast asia creasing there coming up towards bangkok myanmar 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 south of thailand in india and bangladesh is the time for some 30 big nasty showers particularly in baghdad but in the forecast is a dish against the orange tops more than itself in the showers as far north as new delhi as far south as carola copied interesting useful bit of rain early rain in the arabian french the temperatures are dropping this is by monday is a winter's ranter rather cooler relative shemale wind. for 30 years the red cross has provided a lifeline for afghanistan's physically disabled one i want to meet the remarkable people risking their lives to help the decided to an afghanistan on al jazeera.

played important role protecting human. face. through. the. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera with me so hold robin a reminder of our top stories china says all coronavirus patients have now been discharged from hospitals in hand the 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 298 people died in the past day as

the number of infections also dropped italy has reported 265 deaths its lowest death toll for 6 weeks. and yemen's government is warning of a catastrophe up to separatists declared self rule in the southern city of aden the southern transitional council is accusing the saudi backed government of mismanagement and has announced a state of emergency. catherine the shutdown is head of the yemen department up next century foundation is a peace building think tank in london she says the declaration of self rule is a reflection of the political reality in the. this south yemen has ate for independence for decades now. and i think that it's actually coming about just now only because of the of the situation and the war in yemen since 2015 so they were able to realize their political ambition and so critical determination

and i think the main issue that may have at this moment has to do with the fact that in fact. had the government heidi is in reality hasa lost whatever legitimacy you may have had at some point and we need to remember that the only legit immunity that he ever had was in fact that 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 hosting movement and so how do you was propped up and kept in power even though it was only that 2 transition yemen into internet other political era following the letter less demised in the parent you turned the world health organization says patients who've already been infected by the corona virus will develop some form of protection earlier the u.s.

health agency said there was no evidence they'd be better off but threatened to damage plans for several countries to issue so-called immunity passports allowing the recovered to return to normal life but the w.h.o. said that its previous statement cause concern and tweeted to clarify we expect that most people who are infected with covert 19 will develop an antibody response that will provide some level of protection. or britain's prime minister is due back at work on monday in 2 weeks after being in intensive care for coronavirus boris 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 of the crippling lockdown are increasing jonah hill has more from london sums up the dilemma facing the prime minister. 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 lock down 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 . in other news police in brazil are accusing the son of president diable sonar of having a criminal scheme that spreads fake news the supreme court has been investigating false stories about judges justice minister sergey and maura resigned on friday because of what he calls political interference from the president and that followed balsara sacking the federal police chief boeing is expected to be hit with

an expensive lawsuit for the collapse of a deal to buy an aircraft manufacturer in brazil embryon accuses the americans of sabotaging the $4000000000.00 tire to avoid its commitments in seeking billions of dollars from the u.s. government as the airline industry around the world suffers from the global pandemic us secretary of state might pompei was praised qatar airways for repacked treating nearly 1000000 people worldwide including tens of thousands of americans qatar increased both flights and capacity to help stranded travelers to return home the carrier helped a number of countries to repatriate their citizens after most airlines canceled international flights the secretary of state said we've heard from numerous u.s. citizens abroad about the tremendous efforts extended by qatar airways staff to get them home cut a ways helped repatriate nearly 1000000 people worldwide including tens of thousands of americans this should be seen as

a point of national pride for all tyreese. to asia pacific now there is growing uncertainty about the health and whereabouts of north korea's leader who hasn't been seen in public for 2 weeks of training possibly belong to kim jong il or 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 of increased since he failed to appear at an event lock in his late grandfather's birthday on april 15th well jim walsh is a senior research associate at the security studies program at massachusetts institute of technology he says a 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 3 weeks 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 that country where the corona virus originated now greece you know 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 doris in the context in which there is 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 it before it happens rather than after it happens. in south korea catholics are attending mass for the 1st time since

social distancing measures were introduced at the start of the pandemic but bright as well 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 it can only have a congregation of up to a 1000 but only a quarter of that number are 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 at all 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 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 that almost. sort of i feel grateful and moved at be back in church it made me realise that the took it for granted and that. 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 saudi arabia is easing curfew rules on most parts of the kingdom but it's keeping a 24 hour lockdown in mecca as well as towns that are isolated after the start of the outbreak but some commercial activity is also set to resume on wednesday the main mosques in mecca and medina will remain closed throughout the muslim holy month of ramadan saudi arabia has reported more than 17000 infections and 139 deaths or watching t.v. is a popular pastime during the muslim holy month of ramadan and iraq is no exception

it has perhaps the only custom that has remained unaffected by the curfew imposed in response to the covert $900.00 pandemic and that has raised the stakes for those producing them so when a full team has the story in 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 with foreign 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 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 gyptian series. we manage 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 a 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 one family 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 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 and for all the up to date news on the global pandemic you can post on to our website at al jazeera dot com it's updated throughout the day. with means the whole robin a reminder of our top stories yemen's government is warning of a catastrophe after separatists declared self role in the southern city of aden the southern transitional council is accusing the saudi backed government of mismanagement and has announced a state of emergency china says all krone virus patients have now been discharged from hospitals in the original epicenter of the pandemic beijing is also reporting no new coronavirus deaths for 11 consecutive days in hong kong sarah clarke says

china is now looking to deploy medical resources to a border region near russia. on sunday the national health commission reported 11 cases in 5 of those have come from a particular region in the north of the country that's an area called helen jiang 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 there's typewriting restrictions in a number of those cities and we also have mandatory testing for all arrivals coming from russia into china certainly china's they're looking to deploy medical teams to this particular region spain has recorded its lowest daily death toll in 5 weeks 298 people died in the past 8 years the number of new infections also dropped italy has reported 260 virus deaths its lowest total for 6 weeks now in an apparent

u. 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 agencies there was no evidence they'd be any better off. u.s. secretary of state might pump his praise qatar airways for its repatriation efforts during the pandemic and helped nearly a 1000000 people across a number of countries to return home including tens of thousands of americans. the latest attack in the democratic republic of congo has killed at least $23.00 people rival ethnic communities of carried out decades of attacks in the gold an oil rich province of well since 2017 at least 700 people have been killed in the region those were the headlines about with more news in half an hour here on al-jazeera next it's one i want east to stay with us.

it's a classic trade guidelines for edge house a day 6 days a week to work here is financed and furious but it's not because all machines that they building it's bodies one place that it could be him at a time. this says he used the red cross is defeated same tour in afghanistan has been a lifeline for people with disabilities victims of a strike as accidents and congenital illness but no matter how many limbs they make the patients keep coming.