she's back investigating the united states military road and in the u.s. election primaries presumptive democratic nominee joe biden strives to reach the official delicate threshold made on al jazeera. in control in a did this southern separatists the clare self ruling yemen strategic port city the government calls it a coup. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching our jazeera live from london also coming up outside for the 1st time in 6 weeks spanish children emerge from one of europe's strictest lockdowns but only for an hour the u.k. prime minister heads back to work on monday after recovering from the virus as

criticism mounts over his government's response to the crisis and why the coronavirus pandemic is threatening an already vulnerable since. the welcome to the program yemen's internationally recognized government has described the declaration of self rule by separatists in the country south as a coup the agent based southern transitional council declared a state of emergency saying it would govern the port city and other southern provinces the s.t.c. is supported by the united arab emirates the saudi backed the yemeni government warned of a dangerous and catastrophic consequences someone may have been is a senior lecturer in international studies at lancaster university in the u.k. he explains how different groups are trying to increase their influence in the country. i think it's an interesting if altogether and surprising set of

developments i mean those people who've been watching yemen for some time will have known that the s.t.c. have got these these broader us peroration to close a section they want to break away from the states and the established their own state but with regard to what actually is happening on the ground i think that the situation is far more complex in terms of both the opinions of yemenis in the south than the extent to which the s.t.c. of this of the transitional council can exert influence over these different groups but also with regards to the broader geo political dimensions of the conflict with regard to 'd to the the a morality support for the s.t.c. which pits it against. the back because of the how to government saudi arabia and that's it that's a pretty fractious rivalry there starting to brew that the yemen has been struggling for the past 9 years or so now yemen has really suffered from the

uprisings and the unrest that will brought about by the arab uprisings and it's really struggled in the in the 6 years since the war started and has really opened up a vacuum so it's essentially it's a vacuum within a vacuum right now because you have all these different competing groups not only the political groups but then also tribal groups religious organizations including their affiliates and all of these different actors are trying to vie for influence . there's been some relief for children in quarantine in spain they've been allowed to leave the house for the 1st time in 6 weeks as the country's lockdown begins to ease children under the age of 14 can now go outside for an hour a day and with the daily death toll for ling it's hoped that adults will soon be

allowed out to the reports. it's been 6 long weeks stuck inside for 6 year old marco and his parents in their apartment in central madrid and it's been hard for all of them kate of his 18 itself is a collectivity and the lack of that that those activities outside is suspect in him somehow he is more never said. this is the line it sometimes. since the lockdown even adults have been allowed to go out for essential reasons but children haven't so sunday was a big day for marco people. the new rules apply to children up to the age of 13 only. to go out with up to 3 children for one hour and no further than one kilometer from their home. they still have to observe distancing as this drone reminds people mean they can't be tough with their friends

and parks remain closed in most places but specialists of one of the effect of the lockdown on children's health and mental well being and this 9 year old is certainly missed just getting out when you were at. the streets i missed the streets and the park and feeling the air in my face and i never thought i would miss school but i really do spain has the world's 3rd highest official coronavirus death toll but with the number of daily deaths falling the government is hoping to ease restrictions further from next weekend's. i would like to announce that if the evolution of the pandemic continues in a positive direction as it is doing so starting from may 2nd is academy people will be allowed to go out to individual physical activity and walks with the people with whom they live however always in the conditions laid down by the health authorities and i. in the southern city of sybil the annual fair isn't happening

but that hasn't stopped them celebrating with people dancing traditionally. vocalise and generally enjoying the chills down the city council may be vented september as part of the plan to recover the tos of industry. right now there's a cautious optimism in spain as people take stock of how many leaves the crisis has already taken. and will be looking at what the implications are for the mental health implications for young lives in lockdown a little later in the program. first italy has recorded its lowest number of deaths from the corona virus in more than 6 weeks 260 people have died from the illness over the past 24 hours that's down sharply from saturday when 415 fatalities were recorded italy has suffered the 2nd highest number of deaths in the world from the virus at almost 27000. the u.k.

government meanwhile is under growing pressure to reveal its exit strategy from the partial lockdown the country is in its 5th week of movement for st john's and that's due to continue until easter may the 7th foreign secretary dominic rob said it would be irresponsible to announce possible proposals which could mislead the public but he's admitted the government is considering a mandatory 2 week quarantine for anyone entering the u.k. . prime minister boris johnson is due back at work on monday 2 weeks after being discharged from hospital johnson spent 3 nights in intensive care after contracting the coronavirus and has been recuperating at his country residence he returns to work as criticism of the government's handling of the crisis spreads it's facing questions of a critical shortage of personal protective equipment for health care staff and a lack of testing for the hull is outside westminster with

a look at johnson's week ahead. well he returns here to westminster to downing street with a pretty full inbox there's no doubt about that he returns to the helm of a country. currently in its 2nd 3 week period of severe restrictive measures that has reached the peak of its epidemic but not yet seen a steep decline still posting perilously high numbers of new infections and fatalities there is still persistent shortages of personal protective equipment for frontline health care workers government target to hit 100000 tests a day by the end of this month looks a long long way away still and there are louder and louder calls on the prime minister on the government to give greater transparency about its plans for a timetable for an exit strategy because a lot of things that he's got to work out presumably the most important priority will be to try and figure out how to communicate to the british public quite what is going to happen next and in order to do that he's got to resolve that central

sort of predicament whether and to what extent on the one hand to follow the calls of business and those in his party to end a lot to save the economy and on the other hand whether and to what extent to heed the rather more cautious calls of the scientific and medical community who say now is not the time the numbers are still too high the public should not be given false hope they should instead be encouraged to double down on the lock down a lock down incidentally that has had pretty broad public support up to now but in terms of which polls released on sunday suggest that support may be waning. china says there are no remaining coronavirus patients in hospitals in the city of ruhani where the disease is believed to have originated late last year china has reported no new deaths from coburg 19 for the 11th straight day but questions still remain over the accuracy of the data on saturday the u.k. removed china from its official coronavirus best told comparison chart there have

been more than 4500 coronavirus related deaths in china and more than 83000 people infected sarah clarke has more from hong kong she says will have accounts for so many quarters of china's that's tall and half of all infections this is the epicenter of the initial corona virus outbreak and of course in general we saw this particular city sealed off was in general 23 when live 11000000 people when 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 we hand we have 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 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 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. the world health organization appears to have reversed its position on whether every covered coronavirus patient will develop immunity to the illness on saturday the u.n. health agency said there was no evidence that someone would be protected from a 2nd infection it warned governments against issuing so-called immunity passports to allow people back into the workforce but the w.h.o. now says it's common schools

a concern and clarified its position on twitter this is what they said we expect that most people who are infected with copd 19 will develop an antibody response that will provide some level of protection we don't yet know is the level of protection or how long it will last we are working with scientists around the world to better understand that the body's response to cope with 90. so look out here on al-jazeera trapped between 2 crises venezuelans stranded at the border between economic turmoil and unemployment. had there we've had plenty of dry sunny and warm weather across central europe over the last couple of weeks now that is not good news of course for everybody there is a bit of a change on the way. out across the south and also some rain on its way into

northern sections of scandinavia but this is what i mean about it not being good news this is in north central poland look at these dry dusty fails the lake levels also extremely low for this time of year there's been very little wind to snow and so far very little spring rain then into western germany this is just one size big concerns over to the states of the trees because the last 2 years very hot dry summer as again a lack of snow in the winter and so far very very dry conditions and april so this fire is just one that broke out concerns of course that that could happen more frequently now as i say things all set to change not really on monday still mostly case guys temperatures not quite as high as they have been and then look at this rain pushing in across into central western as a fossils are beginning to push in the southern sections of the u.k. this is because the high pressure which is situated call center is beginning to break down and move away so it's allowing all this rain to heads across into these

areas that have been so lacking in rainfall for the last several months time does also cool in a sunny london just 12. to mourn and most towns initial response had been inadequate but now it was time for the bible talk a little bit muslims now move from reacting to taking action. putting the western crusaders on the defensive with hindsight this is seen as a breakthrough as a revival of the jihad in the muslim near east the crusades an arab perspective the pursuit to revive on the jersey in. the. form.

of back is a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera yemen's internationally recognized government has the scribe that that clear ration of self rule by separatists in the country south as a coup the aid in the base the southern transitional council the clear the state of emergency saying it would govern the port city and other southern provinces spain has eased some coronavirus restrictions on children allowing them to leave the house for the 1st time in 6 weeks but just for one hour a day the news comes to spain as well as italy have recorded their lowest daily death tolls in that at least a month. china says all coronavirus patients have now been discharged from hospitals in the 100 which was the original epicenter of the pandemic beijing is also reporting no new coronavirus that's for an 11th straight day.

well as we've just heard spanish children have been allowed out doors for the 1st time in weeks after restrictions were eased no one knows what the long term impact of lockdowns on child development will be but the un has warned that their lives have been totally up ended by the pandemic when india implemented its lockdown childline a 24 hour helpline for children reported a 50 percent increase in calls school closures are of particular concern more than 1570000000 students worldwide have been affected experts worry that online learning could this advantage those without access to the internet and schools that only provide lessons of course nearly 369000000 children rely on school meals for daily nutrition school can also serve as an important to early warning mechanism if children are the victims of domestic abuse well dr eric cygwin is a psychologist specializing in personal social and health education he joins us

live now by skype from london sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera so different lockdowns mean different situations in the from countries in spain that children have literally not been allowed to leave the house for the past 6 weeks and today sunday they did so for the 1st time what do you think the long term impact might be children especially younger younger than 10 the impacts of not being able to leave the house being cooped at home for so long i don't really. as a person. a professional concerned for me but really it's small period like you know since your good news or recently have children. through things and the fact that. all of us had. just you know as you know every difference it is not really true because

a surfer gave me we seem to have trouble with your old dio and and it's not quite clear enough dr sigmund forgive me we're going to have to leave it there i think my colleagues will try to establish a better connection and hopefully get back to you later dr eric sigmund thank you. venezuelans in colombia in ecuador are scrambling to return home after coronavirus lockdowns left them on employed at least $300.00 venezuelan migrants are stranded in the border in cook with time colombia after the venezuelan government closed the humanitarian corridor some haven't eaten for days without really people pregnant women and children having slept at the crossing about 5000000 venezuelan migrants have fled their homeland in recent years because of the worsening political and economic crisis leaving. 2 days ago my girl and i had been almost the whole time without food we haven't be i'm hot it doesn't matter if we sardines

or tuna that doesn't matter to as we've been a swathe and i want ears we want them to let us pass together sade and give us the hope that we can return home 9 percent on little hope a group of about 200 venezuelans passed by fors but they left us here without an onset are going to spin us for ministry has given up on says beef travel for 2 weeks walking riding on mules we did the impossible to get here when meanwhile in ecuador stories are emerging of a health care system that has been overwhelmed by coronavirus patients for more let's cross live to our latin america to the sea and human who joins us from santiago just how bad is the situation in ecuador. barbara terrible it's chaotic to say the very very least the government finally acknowledged that the number of cases in the country had actually was double what they had originally said at least 22000 people and not because they know this is in

the last 42 hours or not because suddenly there were that many but just because they're beginning to only now process the examinations the tests that can confirm the number of infected people there is no idea of just how many people are dead because precisely that people who have died some of them have been buried incriminated have not been tested either in speaking of cremation an extraordinary story that has just emerged which is good which also helps to underscore the chaos in especially the city of guayaquil which has been the epicenter of the pandemic in that country a woman a 74 year old woman who had allegedly been or supposedly been made to nearly 3 weeks ago her ashes handed over to her family in an urn turns out she is alive she awoke from a 3 week coma on friday her relatives were formed that you actually had not been killed that she had not died and that they had given her the wrong ashes this is not the 1st case of the stick an identity he live in many many cases of people

complaining that they've been given the wrong person the wrong bodies and this is going to continue because more and more people are dying there are also nurses talking about bodies piling up in the in the toilets in the bathrooms of hospitals because the morgue can simply cannot take them and so we are and this is going on stored merrily barbara at a time when the government says that the peak is subsiding and nobody really believes that in ecuador because precisely they have never been able to say really what has been the extent of the pandemic so far the confusion i guess really adding to the pain of the relatives there meanwhile let's look at brazil now that countries had a tumultuous few weeks politically as well they were getting mixed messages from the government about what's actually going on what are they saying. well if we're talking about coronavirus what we do know is that the president believes that people should go back to work and that things aren't as bad as everyone thinks

while the governor's in a federal system very similar to that of the united states are now in control and they are saying exactly the opposite the latest hot spot now is mine now so that is the capital of the amazon state it is also the gateway to brazil's amazon and the hospitals there are practically 100 percent full bodies there too are piling up that cannot bury them fast enough according to the mayor who is calling a quote a horror movie in my mouse and this is particularly concerning because many of the people who live there are along the amazon river our days and days away from the hospital so we really don't know how many people are dying at home and can't make it yet to the capital itself there again the number of 2 of infected people and the number of fatalities is cannot be determined with completely but we do know that now said this at this moment has the highest ratio of fatalities in all of brazil

and human they're giving us a picture of how the virus is hitting last american the scene for the moment thank you. well the pandemic is not only a major public health concern but also a select to global food security more than 820000000 people worldwide already don't have enough to eat with maternal and child under-nutrition contributing to 45 percent of deaths in children under the age of 5 a recent ngo report has found 183000000 people in 55 countries are on the cusp of acute hunger and the risk of slipping into a food crisis and the u.n. says africa has the highest level of undernourishment nearly 20 percent zimbabwe has extended its nationwide lockdown as the corona virus spreads but the measures come at a cost raising concerns that a food crisis affecting have to population. and. has our 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. eased or scrapped it early may. mean more killing people sure you tune in for their tweets and. we are no doctor. so we're waiting for what we're waiting for the troops to get after triaged 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 milling 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 to export ban but what did seem to be done is that the infrastructure of the whole system of exporting is no bridge also and some of the ships that are being concerning this aid are now subjected to quarantine of the station there so this is the. position of one. of the 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 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 elated panic buying shortages and even more frustration. al-jazeera zimbabwe watching t.v. is a popular pastime during the muslim month of ramadan it's one of the only customs relatively unaffected by lockdowns imposed to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and that's raised the stakes for those producing them a similar fault and found out from back that. 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 with. 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 tackle everyday issues such as corruption and the impact of conservative norms on society. 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 the 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 curfew 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 money at their home as they prepare for the 1st thought. 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 in 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 that 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 but a coronavirus pandemic seem awful to al-jazeera but that. turkey's coronavirus lockdown might be bad news for is the bulls more than $50000000.00 residents but not for its dolphins which have been spotted swimming near the city's shores is the ball streets and waterways have gone silent because of the lockdown which has

encouraged the mammals to swim closer to the shores some more seen in the narrow waterway the bosphorus which is usually very busy more than 2700 deaths in turkey have been linked to cope with 19 with nearly 107800 confirmed infections more on the web site al jazeera dot com. larry minder of the top stories on al jazeera yemen's internationally recognized government has the scribed the declaration of self rule by separatists in the south as a coup the aid and base that southern transitional council declared a state of emergency saying it would govern the port city and other southern provinces and we are now in front of the yemeni central bank in aden after it was taken back by the sovereign forces that by the southern 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 southern regions. spain has eased coronavirus restrictions on children allowing them to leave the house for the 1st time in 6 weeks but just for one hour a day the news comes a spade as well as italy have recorded their lowest daily death tolls in at least a month the u.k. government meanwhile is under growing pressure to reveal its exit strategy from the partial lockdown the country is in its 5th week of movement restrictions and that's due to continue until at least may the 7th prime minister boris johnson is due back at work on monday 2 weeks after being discharged from hospital johnson spent 3 nights in intensive care after contracting the coronavirus. china says all coronavirus patients have now been discharged from hospital which is the original epicenter of the pandemic beijing is also reporting no new coronavirus specs for an

11th straight day. the w.h.o. the world health organization appears to have reversed its position on whether someone could be protected from a 2nd corona virus infection it warned the governments against issuing so-called immunity passports to allow people back into the workforce but the w.h.o. now says its common schools concern and clarified its position on twitter at least 300 venezuelan migrants are stranded at the bordering colombia after the venezuelan government closed the humanitarian corridor about 5000000 venezuelan migrants have fled in recent years because of the worsening political and economic crisis those are the headlines there is next with the president of the u.n. general assembly i'll have more news for you in half an hour for you then.

all born the ability. june the 26945. as the 2nd world war was ending representatives of 50 countries signed the united nations charter in san francisco. the un officially came into existence in october of that year when the charter was ratified by china france former soviet union united kingdom united states as well as by majority of other signatories. almost 75 years later the un comprises 193 member states all represented in one of its 6 main organs the united nations general assembly. its 1st.