and in the u.s. election primaries presumptive democratic nominee joe biden strives to reach the official delicate threshold may on al jazeera. elect. think. this is al jazeera. hello i'm barbara sara this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london thank you for joining us coming up in the next 60 minutes outside for the 1st time in 6 weeks spanish children emerge from one of europe's strictest lock downs but only for an hour. the u.k. prime minister heads back to work on monday after recovering from the coronavirus as criticism ounce over his government's response to the crisis in control in aden

southern separatists declare self rule in yemen strategic port city the government calls it a coup. and why the coronavirus pandemic is threatening an already vulnerable food supply. across the world governments are facing the difficult decision of how to lift coronavirus lockdown restrictions while trying to avoid a surge in infections the so-called 2nd wave in the u.s. despite warnings from public health experts colorado mississippi minnesota montana and tennessee will reopen without testing and contact tracing the country's corona virus response coordinated deborah burke's said that social distancing measures will continue through the summer months in the u.k.

prime minister boris johnson has returned to downing street after recovering himself from the virus his government faces intense scrutiny over its handling of the pandemic and how it plans to ease restrictions the french government meanwhile will release its plan on tuesday and 6 weeks after spain imposed the strictest lockdown restrictions in europe children have been allowed out of the house for the 1st time now 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 it sounds physical activity and a lot of that that those activities outside is suspect in him somehow he is more i 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 talked with their friends and parks remain closed in most places but specialists of want 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. of 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 fully the government's hoping to ease restrictions further from next weekend's new study. 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 ticket i mean 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. and generally enjoying the chills. the city council made will be vented september as part of the planning to recover the tos of industry. right now there's a cautious optimism in spain as people take stock of when he leaves the crisis has already taken. but that situation spain italy meanwhile 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 and that's down sharply from saturday when 415 fatalities were recorded basically a suffered the 2nd highest number of deaths in the world from the virus at almost 27000 the u.k. government 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 continuously until at least may the 7th the foreign secretary dominic rob says it would be irresponsible to announce possible proposals which could mislead the public but he has admitted the government is considering a mandatory 2 week quarantine for anyone entering the u.k. meanwhile the prime minister boris johnson is due back at work on monday 2 weeks after being discharged from hospital joseph spent 3 nights in intensive care after contracting the coronavirus and has been recuperating at his country residence his

return to work comes as criticism of the government's handling of the crisis spreads its facing questions of a critical shortage of personal protective equipment for health care staff and the lack of testing showed the hole 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. is 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 got 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 there 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 the white house official coordinating the country's response to the coronavirus

outbreak says social distancing may be necessary right through the summer there burke says says the us needs a huge technology breakthrough to expand testing before the country should reopen but state governors remain divided castro reports. despite clear warnings the virus continues to spread some americans have just had enough it's been 5 weeks and most people here with thousands of calls cannot get through to unemployment they don't know what they're going to do protesters gathered in downtown las vegas begging to return to jobs that shuttered casinos and entertainment venues along the city's famed district police arrested several beach goers in california who showed up to take in the sun despite prohibitions are you concerned the message from the white house coronavirus response coordinator was the opposite we should still social distance we should still wear those mass to protect others as we work through this epidemic she warns social distancing should continue through the

summer even as a handful of states allow barbershops and other businesses to reopen. but the vast majority of the country remains closed the white house economic adviser says the next jobs report will likely show unemployment at 16 percent or higher this is the biggest negative shock that are contrary i think has ever seen we're going to be looking at the unemployment rate that approaches rates that we saw during the great depression the number of dead in the u.s. also continues to rise it's now more than $54000.00 with newspapers pain tribute to so many names and faces of the lost castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland. it's going to india where the prime minister has urged his citizens to obey the lockdown rules because the country is still at war with corona virus the site a month of restrictions that endemol these warning was issued

a day after some of the world's toughest measures were eased slightly the spot a growing number of infections it's feared that india's large population poor sanitation and high internal migration will help spread the onus in modi's home state of gujarat officials on sunday have reversed the decision to open some retail stores. and more than a 1000000 people in australia have downloaded a controversial mobile phone tracing app the app was launched on sunday and is the sign to trace the spread of the corona virus the australian health minister says a 1000000 people registered with it in the 1st 4 and a half hours the software uses bluetooth technology to connect with other phones so that users can be traced and contacted if they contracted the virus some local beaches have reopened as infection numbers fell dramatically. well i know lisa wilder smith is a professor of emerging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and

tropical medicine she joins us over skype from loose there madam thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera we've seen just just how differently a lot of countries are approaching the so-called 2nd phase the initial lifting of the various lockdowns what do you think the dangers are considering that even in places like the united states was just technically obviously one country even there different states are going their own way what is the danger of not having a global approach to this a global approach it will be difficult because every country and even within the country places are at a different stage of the outbreak and needs and they need different lockdown measures so so i would not expect a centralized have an easing of the lockdown measures it will be done sequentially as countries come out of the you know have to have kept that down break it's

difficult to compare like for like with the various countries but so far who do you think is going in the right direction when it comes to the lifting of the lockdown so all in asian countries so far i have done better they reacted earlier there were better prepared they stepped up their testing much faster and they and they did much better case detection as well as contact tracing they also where more proactive in travel restrictions and quarantine measures. a lot of countries will obviously go their own way when it comes to lifting restrictions but one thing that has to have some kind of global cooperation is global travel travel between nations what do you make of the british idea that's been floated not confirmed but floated that anyone who flies or travels to the country needs to then be quarantined for 2 weeks you think that's the future so there's a lot of new ideas china's doing it singapore has been doing it for several weeks

so the idea is that you want to reduce the introduction importation of new cases that could trigger new outbreaks and the 14 days are the 14 days of the. long going to be asian time. so looking at the situation in a lot of the countries that we were highlighting what do you think the biggest risk is because obviously the virus doesn't really respect the borders so if one country is doing everything right but the country or state next door isn't what are the dangers all of the contagion spreading between countries even if some nations implement the 15 days isolation. and travel restrictions have really 2 purposes one it is to protect a country that has currently no cases or a very low number of cases and this as a protected country is currently overwhelmed it is how consistent dealing with the outbreak and they cannot also sort out the risk of it were taken off of new cases

so the trial mr actions where the right thing to do but travel restrictions we cannot continue and at one stage there will be an almost equilibrium between countries and then i do not see a rationale for further travel restrictions travel restrictions are not good for trade and travel but also in past some of the responses because we need an exchange of goods to develop our test but also of of diplomacy and also obviously of that of research and expertise. annalisa wilder smith professor of merging infectious diseases at the london school of hygiene and tropical medicine joining us from new 7 in switzerland thank you. but china says there are no remaining coronavirus patients in hospitals in the city of one where the disease is believed to have a originated that late last year china has reported no new deaths from covert 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 death toll comparison chart there have been more than 4500 corona virus related deaths in china that's according to china and more than 83000 people infected sarah clarke has more now from hong kong she says what accounts for 3 quarters of china's the toll 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 to lock down 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 pit of this particular virus outbreak we're 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 and there is a professor in the school of politics and international relations at the university of nottingham he says the figures coming out of china can't be trusted and that those trying to ascertain the real situation have been harassed by the authorities

. 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 that official narrative by default must be fought 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. this is the origin of the corona virus outbreak and this is of course some things that secretary says one thing is. perhaps ashamed

of sense all of 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 tried to document what really happened in. 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 lee were none they couldn't speak their mind and on his deathbed he said china should no longer have censorship and citizen journalists who try to report from the front lines like

to ensure sure needs of our they were immediately cart and and gagged. the world health organization appears to have reversed its position on whether a recovered coronavirus patient will develop immunity to the illness on saturday the un health agency said that there was no evidence someone would be protected from a 2nd 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 this is what they said we expect that most people who are infected with covert 19 will develop an antibody response that will provide some level of protection or we don't yet know is the level of protection or how long it's going to last we are working with scientists around the world to better understand the body's response to covert 19. turning to yemen now where the government is warning of

a catastrophe after southern separatists the cleared self rule and said that they were in control of the port city of aden the southern transitional council is accusing the government of mismanagement and has announced the state of emergency or such a bar of reports the internationally recognized government in yemen is calling it a coup after the southern transitional council announced it was in control of the port city of 8. the council accuses the government of being unable to cope with the corona virus pandemic and failing to improve the lives of yemenis. so far there has been only one confirmed covert 19 infection in the southern region of how the amount this is actually a pileup of. mis management misgovernance in especially in south yemen well that's why the f.c.c. is right now compelled to say to take action into their own hands while still

calling for a cease fire calling for deescalation in all fronts we want things to go smoothly or things we want to be able to deliver aid services going to be able to battle this pandemic but the government warns the breakaway attempt could have catastrophic consequences describing it as a resumption of an armed insurgency. it's yet another complicating factor in yemen's 5 year civil war which has been marked by shifting sometimes shadowy allegiances. the southern separatists are backed by the united arab emirates and have been nominal allies of the saudi m.r. to call ition in their war against the whose these. was the government says the separatists action is a rejection of a power sharing deal brokered to end last year's unrest which saudi arabia hailed as a step towards a wider political solution to the war there are thought to be at least 25 regional

separatist groups support on the ground is also in question critics say control should be taken by force but actions within yemen and not in book 3 but for the. regions or earlier and i think this is like a premature decision that doesn't. support in other areas of yemen it's basically. in other places so basically we're playing with fire at the moment and not. going back to. the southern transitional council says it continues to support the unilateral cease fire declared by saudi arabia 2 and a half weeks ago it has been just extended by month but its declaration of autonomy and state of emergency adds to the uncertainty for yemenis who've already suffered years of hunger and war. dorsetshire pari al-jazeera. at least 23 people have been killed by an armed group in the democratic republic of congo the

offensive took place in the north eastern province of the 27 other people were injured in the attack the raid was launched by the political and religious group the co-operative of for the development of congo it already has a long history of ethnic violence with more than 700 people killed since late 2017 david auto is a counterterrorism expert at global risk international he says the attack highlights the number of problems facing president felix she is dealing with. you know he was the one that you know. so you have to 1st profit back into politics but the guy house you know continuously you know clout at the political agendas within the government and he's now seen as somebody who you know constantly needs you know what needs you know we have. clipped it to balance within the state i mean

convoys facing the corporate 19 like every other country but some of the supporters we're seeing you know got green in places where the government are already by and you know much you governments in congress are usually months andrian before to security the president as a cue to get into power there's been so many and reached there are so many areas where you know you need to look into an address you know but i don't think this is something which you can do. just within the years that he's been in power i think he needs to look at that and i'm sure that you have a president you security would be looking at all these angles and all these are coming from various angles as you said and you know he would be concerned that the promises he made needs to be fulfilled and you know you to do that. coming up on al jazeera this news hour trapped between 2 crises venezuelans stranded at the border seeing all comic turmoil and then employment isolation television making

sure iraqis can still get their favorite shows despite the coronavirus restrictions basques gloves and socially distanced prayer is church services resume in south korea after a 2 months long. and that we've had plenty of dry sunny i. 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 all at 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 has 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 the 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 it is also cool in a sunny london at just 12. went close at 19 so struck china and began to spread across asia. some in the west

criticized come to measures it's too hot or too weak. but the different experiences for asian nations concerned not shown the world to root out of this group. coronavirus lessons from asia or not just you know. the latest news as it breaks with no treatment or vaccine for coronavirus volunteers you see they'll continue to provide the service they can. to fight the disease with detailed coverage a little without any planning for india's millions of lives and lucas. and fearless journalism from around the world for many coming to the faith of the only chance they have to leave at least once a day. to

it. reminder now of the top stories on al-jazeera yemen's internationally recognized government has described the declaration of self rule by separatists in the country south as a coup the agent based at southern transitional council declared a 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 each day the news comes as spain as well as italy have recorded their lowest daily death tolls in at least a month. and china says all coronavirus patients have now been discharged from

hospitals in which was of course the original at the center of the pandemic beijing is also reporting no new crown of our respects for an 11th straight day. but the pandemic is not only a major public health concern but also says right 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 that 183000000 people in 55 countries are on the cusp of acute hunger and at high risk of of slipping into a food crisis and the u.n. says africa has the highest levels of undernourishment nearly 20 percent well nigel timmins is the humanitarian direct director of oxfam international he joins us now over skype from london thank you for joining us on al jazeera so which parts of the

world which specific countries do you think will find themselves most vulnerable in the coming weeks and months. good evening yes sadly it will be those who already had and the lying problems with having enough food for all of their people so those countries broadly fall into 2 groups particularly those affected by conflict so those like yemen like the central african republic south sudan but also those that have been experiencing climatic problems across southern africa. and say the central america drought belt afghanistan so where there were underlying problems already we see this getting worse and on top of that we're concerned about the short term impact on people who have very sort of hand to mouth livelihood system in which you basically we're doing that day and then you use that money at night to feed yourself and your family because the lockdown measures which in necessary to

prevent the spread of the disease are preventing people from going out and doing that kind of day labor work we really concern the cities and informal settlements in some of our big cities around the world we're also really struggle. the current up virus pandemic is obviously a global one it's affecting different countries in different ways how does that impact the countries that already find themselves in a weakened position and so on sort of thinking of if you know potential of financial problems in developed nations the issues of remittances being sent back that may no longer at come back humanitarian work that could see itself not being able to function the way it has what are the links. yeah exactly so the moment the key issue is what we call purchasing power is it simply have you got enough money to buy the food you need so as our saying day laborers are struggling but we're also seeing many people losing their jobs. you know we saw 30000 workers sent home

from the producers of flowers in kenya sands last year that europe's not lying the flowers anymore tourism industry has obviously taken a major hit globally and many people rely on on that as an industry remittances as you say people who live outside of africa outside of some of the more vulnerable countries but who send a lot of money home you know you might think of regions like somalia for example as those people lose their jobs because the economy is faltering in europe and north america and so on we're seeing remittances go down as well so it's really having a very sort of immediate economic impact but then as you say one of the concerns for us is in existing humanitarian situations is inhibiting our ability to respond because again because the lockdown procedures the social distancing procedures it's not so possible to just go about our normal day to day work you know we're supporting over 5000000 internally displaced people in the d.r.

see their refugee camps across the world on going conflict situations like yemen where just simply providing the existing services is getting harder national timmins humanitarian director for oxfam international thank you for sharing that he's with us thank you. thank you. venezuelans in colombia and ecuador are scrambling to return home after coronavirus lockdowns left them unemployed at least $300.00 venezuelan migrants are stranded at the border in kutai in colombia after the venezuelan government closed the humanitarian corridor some haven't eaten for days with elderly 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. 2 days ago my girl and i had been almost the whole time without food we haven't be imho it

doesn't matter if we sardines or tuna that doesn't matter to us as we venezuelans our warriors we want them to let us pass together sayed and give us the hope that we can return home 9 percent only a group of about 200 venezuelans passed by fors but they left without an answer and as well as foreign ministry has given on cers beef travel for 2 weeks walking riding on mules we did the impossible to get here. well meanwhile in ecuador stories are emerging over health care system that has been overwhelmed by coronavirus patients for more let's cross live to a latin america editor to see new men in santiago and some of those stories and see a really almost unbelievable that tell us more about the situation there. absolutely barbara in fact the mare. has been calling it something out of a horror film and is not under it's not an understatement for example it's just

transpired that is 74 year old woman who had supposedly been cremated her family had warned her would given her ashes it turned out that on friday she awoke from the 3 we call mom alive and getting better if not well her family doesn't know who the ashes that they now have belonged to and this is just one of the mistaken identities or one of the many cases of mistaken identities that we've been hearing about in the city of which is the epicenter of the pandemic in ecuador and many many people have complained that they've received bodies of people that were not the family members they've been mis identified and top of that now authorities have admitted that the number of infections nationwide is at least double what they had originally reported in the reason is that the backlog of tests has finally come have been processed and so instead of having something like 10000 cases there are at least 20 to up to 23000 which is a lot for

a country the size of ecuador yeah the number is always an indication best guess let's look at brazil now another country that's been very badly hit getting a lot of mixed messages from the government over there what's going on. well you know it really depends who you talk to if you asked the president also not on this he had been he had originally called a little bit more than a cold and now admits that there is a problem in brazil but he still wants the people to go back to work he says that starvation will be far worse than the pandemic while the governors who are no reply in a federal system like the brazilian system have a lot of power are insisting on lockdowns on social distancing measures and they're beginning to spread it's the country with the largest number of fatalities and also infections in latin america it's also the largest country in latin america but we're now hearing very very very worrisome stories coming out of my now which is

the gateway to the amazon in brazil and in that city which is a tropical city which has a high incidence of malaria and yellow fever anyway now they're being very very hard hit by this pandemic hospitals are overflowing now and people there are saying that it is a catastrophe the hospital simply cannot cope with the number of people and they can't bury them as quickly as they need to so we're hearing stories now about even some of the grave diggers becoming infected and dying as they try to process the number of people that are have been the victims of this virus and newman there giving us a picture of the situation of the pandemic in latin america thank you. go to bangor there were hundreds of garment workers in the capital dhaka have defied the lockdown rules and returned to work more than 4000000 people work in the bundle of this she industry and many haven't been paid for months the country expects to lose about $6000000000.00 worth of exports this financial year as the sector faces

cancellations from some of the world's largest brands and retailers workers have also been protesting in the dhaka streets to demand better wages. there are plans to reopen mosques in regions of iraq and the safe despite the country having the highest coronavirus test hole in the middle east mosques are expected to resume surface service in areas that have been consistently free of covert 19 regions throughout the country will be classified as a white yellow or red depending on the number of deaths and infections mosques within areas classified as white could be able to reopen there have been more than 5700 coronavirus related deaths in iran and almost 90500 infections. now watching t.v. is a popular pastime during the muslim holy month of ramadan it's one of the only customs relatively unaffected by lockdowns imposed to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and

that's raise the stakes for those television producers as a symbol of fault in reports now from baghdad. even as public life in baghdad has largely come to a halt the cameras for this t.v. show never stopped rolling. 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 lock down 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 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 iraq a 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 a ban 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 of 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 want done 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 with 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 by the coronavirus pandemic seem awful to al-jazeera but that. south korea has confirmed 10 new cases of the coronavirus of the past 24 hours marking the 9th straight day that has reported less than 20 new infections so all has begun lifting social restrictions with large churches reopening after the government relaxed limits on religious gatherings a secretive church was responsible for almost half of the country's infections south korea previously had asia's largest number of cases outside china pride has more now from the capital seoul were catholics have been attending mass for the 1st time since social restrictions were introduced. 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 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 it cannot really have a congregation of up to a 1000 but only a quarter of that number of being allowed in for each mass and in 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 the 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 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. and i am a bit concerned but it feels we are getting back to normal to such an extent. that i feel grateful and moved to be back in church it made me realize that b. took it for granted and that mr 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 or fatigue sets in allowing a resurgence which nobody here wants to see. well as we heard earlier spanish children have been allowed out doors for the 1st time in weeks after lock them restrictions were eased no one knows the long term impact of that type of confinement on child development but the u.n. has warned their lives have been totally up and that by the pandemic when india implemented its law that one child line 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 nearly 369000000 children rely on school meals for daily new tradition school can also serve as an important early warning mechanism if children are the victims of domestic abuse well earlier

i spoke to dr eric sigmund who's a psychologist specializing in personal social and health education he told me parents shouldn't be too concerned about long term implications and that some children may end up benefiting from the restrictions i personally i'm not concerned about the long term for a number of reasons one is that the good thing about being a child is that they receive they accommodate things far more easily than we do especially change secondly misery loves company single children are not being singled out to be isolated it's a national and international phenomenon so they're not alone in this respect. so i'm not overly concerned aside from things like schooling and so on the emotional effects i don't think generally speaking are going to be long lasting you say children haven't been singled out of it of course if it's a child without siblings then the reality is they've had no interaction with other children for weeks and weeks children maybe resilience so maybe it hasn't babbage

them but how do you think it's changed a whole generation of children. i don't think it'll change them permanently but there may be some positive things 1st of all children don't have siblings but they realize that all the other children in their class or example are also having to stay at home so they don't feel as if they have been singled out for this kind of treatment they may be lonely or i agree with you but it's not as if you have been singled out for a treatment. a couple of things that i think we should stop and think about this is a generation who has had non stop distraction or entertainment if they want to and this is a generation that scientists across the world are concerned that in real terms there are a greater number of mental health issues than there were a generation ago and one of the things that i am concerned about as well as some other health professionals is that this generation hasn't had enough time for self reflection in other words they experience things every day in their normal lives in normally they need time to integrate and process everything that they experience

during the day it used to be called daydreaming it was thought of being a waste of time and now we realize that might what might be considered navel gazing or a waste of time daydreaming is actually emotional housekeeping it takes children time to make sense of their world and they haven't had that time and this may be one of the only opportunities in a generation for that to happen the pause for thought so we should also think about that and i know it's not pleasant at this point in time but our children are learning things one of the things they're learning that it's a tough lesson is that if you're bored you have to develop strategies to skate that quarter and a new generation is not learning those lessons very easily because we're offering them solutions every moment that they're born so these are some of the so-called upsides of the current lockdown we know about the downside the kids are fed up they're cooped up they can't exercise as much as they should they're not seeing greenery or daylight as much all of that of course we acknowledge but there is

a hidden side to this that we should take a look at and that's the fact that we can pause for thought and give them an experience with the lack of constant distraction that they may never have again. still to come on al-jazeera this news hour with mystery surrounding the whereabouts of kim jong il when we look at what the future of might hold from north korea. the time had come for the p.l.o. to seek a new and peaceful solution. pursuing a path of diplomacy but what was to turn their agreed withdrawal from lebanon into one of the most horrific civilian massacres of modern times women children accused we couldn't believe this chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p.l.o.

history of the revolution on al-jazeera. as the world battles the coronavirus and millions of infections staff had tested positive for the coronavirus with countries in lockdown and the threat of a major economic crisis to kill it unlock the global g.d.p. could be around 9 trillion dollars we'll bring you the latest developments from around the globe prosecutors say they're also seeing price gouging on vital medical supply coronavirus amgen special coverage on al-jazeera. the earth . rumors are continuing to circulate around the health of north korean leader kim

jong. un public for 2 weeks satellite images have revealed the train likely belonging to kim parked at a resort town in the country in the past day it's been reported that china has sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure the south korean government has confirmed that he is staying outside of the capital while late in foster carter is an honorary senior research fellow in so social and modern korea at leeds university he joins us now from exeter via skype sir thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera what do you make of the news coming out in a way not coming out of north korea. but i've got to put it that way because the news is coming out of everywhere except north korea we have been here before we've been here many times before and it's always a question of probably what's the most boring thing to have to say on television which is on the one hand on the other hand we do not know what the state of kim

jong un's health is it is unusual he's been optioned for a fortnight or so it's not by any means unprecedented he was away for more than a month and 2014 came back to limping with a cane and still nothing was actually said you could see something medical that happened. but the reason that we're concerned i think some some people some of my fellow north korea watchers sort of think this is all a media circus and i beg to differ i think we're right to think about this precisely because if it does turn out to be true if something else happened to be particularly serious then we have a very big on that because it's a question i'm on the case and that's their success so we do not know but i think we are right to be concerned and to discuss it and i suppose the lack of a clear succession line could create instability which is the last thing the world wants in north korea for the moment that there are some rumors about his sister perhaps. being put in some kind of high profile role of explain to us what they

are and how credible you think they are yes certainly the thing with north korea and again it's true that it has proved for a robust and resilient state it's the world's longest lasting originally communist regime hardly covering this now more of them on the cape but it's lasted longer than the soffit union ever did segregate people who thought it would collapse and i must say that used to include me have been wrong so far but update do if they have made it to kind of money they have made it so that it can't be just some committee taking over us maybe in some other country more normal country it's the royal blood line. and so who's got the blood he's got children we think kim jong. but he's only $36.00 at the church and the oldest is rumored to pretend that we do. but his sister kim you're drawing the right to mention the gains of sorting facts from rumah she is definitely more prominent in her own right lately as she's not just been sort of all the nice in her brother which has been the case for

a long time in march of 2 statements and write one being the last of the south for airbus on that one big brother flattering towards donald trump now. that so she's that i think she is the likeliest look at going to out the neighbors but that's old you know if if he doesn't suddenly come up tomorrow and say honestly what was all this fuss about he let a lot out either and how would that north korean culture view the prospect of a woman leader that could be difficult because again even though why back in the day in 96 when the regime was young late passed a very radical law about the rights of women but heritage just as of confucianism and patriarchy and so on has been very hard to overcome it's been a very male over that society very few women in high positions in that own right so i think it would be difficult for her she is very able and maybe if you have to project it you know sort of kind of quasar royal way you need some kind of

a figurehead as much as plausible but i think she could face difficulties is the right example is that i'm so sorry to foster carter we're going to have to leave it there koreans ellis that leeds university thank you so much for sharing your expertise with us thank you thank you the food allergies are on the rise globally with australia being the worst affected country scientists are trying to work out why allergies are more prevalent in the file of countries and urban areas so hot it reports. no an easy a making the most of playing outside but it isn't always fun and games for the twins who live in melbourne both have had allergies since they were babies noah had his 1st allergic reaction to an egg when he was just 8 months old he was 18 match and a short time later had swelling. distress vomiting. all kinds of things yeah that was pretty scary australia has the world's highest rate of food

allergies research as there are studying women in their babies during and after pregnancy what they found is a link between bacteria in a mother's digestive systems and reducing the chance of food allergies in the 1st year of life what we found was a very strong signal women who cared for carried a bacteria called predatory or coppery. by bees were at a substantially reduced risk of developing food allergy pervert teleco pre is a microbe that ferments fiber from food into fatty acids previous studies of baby mice that had a high fiber diet showed reduced allergic reactions. the latest research looked to see if that was the same for people food allergies are on the rise globally and for some people can be life threatening scientists are still trying to understand why early g.'s and will prevail and in developed countries and urban areas. but studies have shown a link with our modern lifestyle pollution and hygiene products which kill bacteria

all affect our immune systems our bodies contain trillions of bacterial cells many live in a digestive system the australian researches say they hope their latest findings could help develop a probiotic that stimulates a baby's developing the immune system and reduces the likelihood of later developing an allergy. it might not be a cure for no an easy but it may be one step closer to an allergy free life for millions of others so high it does either. you can find that much more about that and everything else that we have been covering on our website you can see of course the top story there the coronavirus pandemic the spanish a daily toll being the lowest in weeks and also children in spain after 6 weeks of being cooped up at home they had their 1st chance to go outside for a walk so lots more on all aspects of the pandemic on our web site al jazeera dot com that's it for the news hour do stay with us i'm back in just

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a different conclusion you're making a big sacrifice why are you willing to go. because there are other people that need people that are sick and dying and not isn't right people shouldn't be dying when there are people getting help from. outside for the 1st time in 6 weeks spanish children emerge from one of europe's strictest locked up. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching al-jazeera live from london also coming out despite growing calls to ease restrictions the u.s. warns social distancing could last for months why the current virus pandemic is threatening an already vulnerable food supply.