the book peace to the ivory coast. hosted by eric cantona football rebels begins with a look at the life of to talk about the football who succeeded what politicians know. and the odd for you. now just. a milestone in south korea's fight against coronavirus one of the worst hit countries in asia reports no new local case since. hello everyone i'm come on santa maria here in doha with the world news from al-jazeera the libyan warlord how they found after announces a ceasefire during ramadan soon after launching another attack on tripoli also a coronavirus jobs one point $6000000000.00 people half the world's labor force could be out of work and the pandemic changing the way people in iran reserve are

observing the fasting month of ramadan. so coronavirus developments for you from around the world starting in south korea which was one of the worst hit countries in asia but there is good news for the 1st time in 2 months health officials there have reported no new infections no new domestic infections since the outbreak in february it means the total sits at. just over 10700 cases and 247 deaths according to johns hopkins university in britain though the number of deaths has jumped at more than 26000 now after the government started to include fatalities in places like care homes for the elderly what it means is that the u.k. now has the 2nd highest number of fatalities in europe after italy but some positive news about a possible treatment coming out of the u.s.

officials say they are seeing progress in trials of the antiviral drug via the mortality rate is reported to have dropped from 11 and a half percent to 8 and america's top advisor on the pandemic dr anthony fauci says the average recovery time has gone down from 15 days to 11 although with 31 percent improvement doesn't seem like a knock out 100 percent it is a very important proof of concept because what it is proven is that a drug can block this virus so let's look at the situation in south korea which you mention has robbed mcbride and so. it's just thinking and we talked about the peak in february which seems like so long ago it's actually you know a couple of months ago and such a different picture. that's right we've been expecting to reach this milestone for some time now and finally we have now reached it at this

point yes we've been expecting in the last week and a half or so we've been seeing numbers of around 10 new cases per day being reported sometimes down and to single digits and we know that most of these cases have been coming from abroad people arriving into south korea the latest figures show that there have been 4 new cases of but all of those cases have been from abroad so for the very 1st time we have no cases of local transmission so it is something of an achievement you have to say when you compare it to the height of the outbreak here the end of february south korea was reporting something like $900.00 plus cases every day so to get it down to this has been a real achievement of the government here though the authorities are still advising caution as they would especially at the moment we do have what is a very actually a very busy travel period we have several public holidays by coincidence all for being very close together so people are using this opportunity especially after being cooped up for so long and coinciding incidentally with beautiful spring

weather to take breaks for the 1st time for many many of them for many weeks these difficult obviously still to travel outside of south korea than people are going to domestic destinations resorts around the coast we know that planes are all busy so there's the domestic terminals and some of the hotels in the more popular resorts are completely full this thursday we are seeing but his birthday it's a very important national holiday here it's being celebrated temples across the country but an indication of just how things are changing in previous years the high point of this celebration would be a carnival a parade through the streets of seoul at night time with lanterns attracting thousands of people well that has been delayed for a month with much simpler ceremonies taking place instead so i'm hesitant to use the phrase life returning to normal rob but you have described you know movement busy places and let us not forget there was an election what 22 weeks ago as well.

that's right you do get a sense here that people are going out more and they are feeling as though they can go out with some confidence we've been around town on this public holiday obviously all the business districts are quiet but all of the parks seem to be full of people pedestrian areas and so on people are out at cafeterias it has to be said that while most people have been wearing masks for many weeks now quite a few masks are coming off the there doesn't seem to be as much social distancing but you got to remember that people here would have a certain degree of confidence in the system that is in place there is mass testing here you do get a real sense that the authorities here would know if there is a case an outbreak and would be dealing with that very quickly where as you wouldn't have that same degree of confidence in many other parts of the world right now so you do see a change still though at the temples for example are on this borders birthday you

have social distancing in place the buddhists as they will tell you they it is one of the tenets of buddhism that you do not cause harm to others and as you mentioned there's other big milestone that we've just marked here it is exactly 2 weeks since these national elections were held with all of these warnings that despite precautions we could see a spike a resurgence in infections well if there had been we would have known that by now but guess what 2 weeks on 0 new infections which is pretty good news isn't it just right mcbride with all the news from seoul thank you. and now fortunate the number of corona virus related deaths in the u.k. has jumped more than 26000 are because the government is now including numbers from care homes for the 1st time previously it was just hospitals and in germany lockdowns are raising fears about the state of its economy catherine stansell has the news from across europe. despite 5 weeks of lockdown the u.k.

reaches a grim milestone the death toll from corona virus is now the 2nd highest in europe behind italy the man standing in for prime minister boris johnson himself still recovering from coronavirus says this is down to the fact that deaths outside of hospitals were not being recorded in the daily figures until now we have recorded an additional $3811.00 deaths in total and i think it's just important to say that those additional deaths were spread over the period from the 2nd of march the 28th of april so that they don't represent a sudden surge in the number of deaths but secretary rob. and parliament for a prime minister's question time where most m.p.'s took part in virtually not in person opposition leader cure starmer wanted to know why there were still so many people dying of coronavirus in care homes and shortages of protective equipment for frontline health workers or monday the promise to set in his short speech that many

were looking at our apparent success in the united kingdom but just the 1st secretary agree with me so far from success these latest figures are truly dreadful so he also asked when the government would announce a strategy for lifting the current restrictions but rob simply said it was still too early but he will know because i know he's in the situation of the international evidence that germany has now have to think twice about easing up on the measures because of the risk of the 2nd spike germany's economy minister says he now expects economic growth to shrink this year by minus 6.3 percent meaning the country's deepest recession since the 2nd world war output is predicted to rebound by more than 5 percent next year. but that depends on the angle a merkel's government being able to gradually lift lockdown measures from wednesday germans have to wear a mask when entering shops which began to open last week nose and mouth coverings

are already compulsory on public transport but while this kind of travel is permitted international trips are very much off the agenda it's going to. the cabinet decided that global travel restrictions were non-essential on holiday travel will be up held until june 14th this is a decision that we have had to take because we are not at the point in our fight against the disease to be able to offer safe travels. meanwhile in spain one of europe's worst hit countries they've recorded a daily coronavirus death count below 400 for the 6th day in a row in the summer times there's reason to be hopeful catholics dancer al jazeera . now nearly half the world's work is may lose their livelihoods because of this pandemic united nations international labor organization the i was forecasting up to 1600000000 people in informal jobs could be out of work remember they don't have

welfare protection or access to health care and can't work from home in the 1st month of the outbreak such workers lost 60 percent of their income manufacturing food services retail these are some of the worst hit industries. markley find and report in this monitor is of the list of the 2b2b informal workers of the world about 1600000000 at suffered massive damage to their ability to earn a living and to support themselves and their families if they are not able to go out and work for a day and earn some income day by day because that's how it tends to work their family won't eat they won't eat and their family will not eat and there is no social protection. now processed have been held in several lebanese cities for a 3rd straight nights demonstrated still angry over the worsening economy in side

on in the south crowds turned a petrol bomb at a branch of the lebanese central bank its chief there has defended the bank's role during the recent collapse of the lebanese currency. on some other news the libyan war 200 after was announced a cease fire during the holy month of ramadan hours earlier his forces have launched a rocket attack on a medical facility they've been trying to take over the capital tripoli for a year now has more details. this is the aftermath of a grad missile hitting a house complex near tripoli on winston morning one person died and at least 5 were injured libya's un recognized government lay blame with warlords general after you'd always later after a spokesman announced a ceasefire for the muslim holy month of ramadan when headley slept well we hereby announce the sation of all military operations on our part in any breach of the session of military operations by terrorists militias who face an immediate in very severe response will be labeled

a terrorist militia is actually the un recognized government this week it accused tuft of a coup after he declared himself a leader by popular mandate and ended peace talks with them the un reacted sternly we stand against any unilateral measures that would pretty jeopardize. after control's eastern libya a year ago he launched an offensive for the west and with it libya's capital tripoli but his forces have been pushed back in recent weeks the worry is just general haftar is not going to. or wind up as a dictator or. where we have to. rise up and get into. place. it's an intractable conflict with both huffed and the tripoli government receiving support from multiple nations feel that feeds the conflict one of have to close

allies is the united arab emirates sources told al jazeera that a senior abu dhabi delegation including the crown prince's brother flew into khartoum on choose day to discuss how sudan and the u.a.e. could further support general haftar sudanese officials deny the report there learn and then leave you if you had a part of the u.a.e. is playing a role bigger than its size by its constant interference in the affairs of a number of arab countries we need to consider that we in libya are in a state of war against the u.a.e. . the united arab emirates was also out on wednesday in human rights watch report for a drone strike on a biscuit factory near tripoli in november 8 civilians were killed in nearly 30 wounded this is not the 1st time that it appears the us is firing from drones in libya at targets with disregard for civilians last year general have to include ramadan the month of jihad this year it's the month of peace with their own not his

cease ation of a still if he's lost his ambitions to control libya fully remain shalah ballasts. and libya's state oil company says the blockades cost over $4000000000.00 in lost revenue or productions been shut down since january when locals and tribes in the east and south declared their closure and said the oil revenue was going to what i called militias in tripoli the fields under blockade account for more than 80 percent of libya's oil production. amnesty international's released evidence of multiple violations of a u.n. arms embargo this is in south sudan the organization sent investigators to 12 military camps in february and found new weapons concealment of arms and continued use of child soldiers 'd all violations of a peace deal that required disarmament president salva kiir the rebel leader in the shower formed a unity government in february after 7 years of war which killed hundreds of thousands of people germany has banned the iranian backed group hezbollah and made

it a terrorist organization police have been conducting early morning raids across the country and detained suspected members of the group germany's been facing pressure from the u.s. and israel to ban has a law we spoke to rami khouri about the senior public policy fellow an adjunct professor of journalism at the american university of beirut who says this raid shouldn't come as a surprise to has below. germany in all of europe kept an eye on hezbollah and its allies on this members and its friends and this is something routine they had been banned the military wing of hezbollah had always been banned but now they're looking at the social and cultural and political activities the interesting thing is that the news came with really no details so if you look at the news reports they say suspected or possible members or supporters and that's a hint that actually they haven't it's maybe send but we don't know so i think the

important thing is to ask the germans to put the evidence out there in public if you have people in charitable groups in mosques and schools who are actually helping a group that is those are made as a terrorist group the that's important for people to know but if this is a political pressure game that the americans and the israelis already are doing which is typical then that's a whole different ball game than that this is something that has been has dealt with for the last 15 years or so and it doesn't really impact them at all so the question is will what happened recently to bring this about and this is something the german government's going to have to explain. in the news the head is covered 19 looms over war ravaged syria president bashar al assad is accused of holding on to medical supplies. and there we have it that we're having to live jumping to a degree in the demand dropping warnings of a catastrophe for the dairy industry in the u.k. .

hello it's all changing the weather across europe after what's been a very warm and sunny april for much of central and northern europe we've got these massive weather fronts pushing for a lot of cloud lots of wet and windy weather pushing back in across central and northern areas of the continent then so we got cloud and rain is on the cool side as well 13 celsius in london 15 there for paris with that wet weather pushing all the way across into germany berlin about 18 degrees single figures there for still call it 7 degrees celsius basin places a shabby rain over towards the east as well wanted to show was there to turkey for much of southern europe there it is looking fine and again something of a change here and it looks good in spite and portugal for the most part one of 2

showers across northern parts of spybot temperatures in madrid there on the riser getting up to 20 celsius on thursday could touch 23 by the time we come to a friday for madrid war weather piling into the central part so central areas of france seeing some rather wet weather some snow over the high ground for a time that wet weather will continue to drive its way for the race was potent saying some of the cloud and right in the tad cool there into where vienna by the time we come to friday back into the map lots of warm sunshine for all this weekend . as the world fights the corona pandemic and we're learning more about this every day it's a new adventure and join our global community it's up to us on how we come together to fight i'm sorry your questions can i just ask you think this is me directly that's coming on on you tube as you were saying i'm concerned about the funny like oh nothing very quiet and not keeping you up to date amusing countries beating back

and beating back successfully the stream on 00. with our jazeera these are the headlines this hour positive news on the pandemic front in south korea for the 1st time in 2 months it has recorded no new domestic cases restrictions have been eased and people have been allowed to hold events marking put his birthday. germany is banned the iranian backed group hezbollah and designated a terrorist organization police are conducting early morning raids across the country and of detained suspected members of the group. in the libyan war to leave

a half dozen ants to cease fire for the muslim holy month of ramadan afters forces of recently lost ground to forces fighting for the u.n. recognize government based interim. now how the u.n. secretary general is again appealing for an immediate cease fire in syria after what he described as the horrific bombing of a market in the north on wednesday u.n. officials warned that with covered 1000 looming there is an urgent need to end violence and to ensure the delivery of critical medical supplies to syrians more from our diplomatic editor james bates. hours before the u.n. security council held a virtual session on syria a fuel tanker rigged with explosives was detonated in the northern city of a 3 the death toll stands at well over 40 evoke the world's attention is on the pandemic and the overall level of violence in syria has reduced in recent months this a grim reminder that the country's war is now in its 10th year the u.n.

special envoy repeated his call for an immediate cease fire we cannot afford hostilities which would surely surely lead to another search in displaced rylander build communities something that no bitterness in only 2 months ago. we cannot afford this scenario before the pandemic the prize could only be higher now the un c military in coordinator mark local says it's been impossible to get all of the much needed medical supplies to northeast syria across the front lines from damascus mr president gaps in medical supplies in middle east syria are widening at a time when we should be urgently scaling up to prepare for coping 90 days gaps should be narrowing in an interview one leading human rights campaigner told me it looks as though the assad government is putting deliberate obstacles in the way of

the delivery of medical supplies our concern is that the reason why the mask is blocking aid to unit of the syria is the same reason why they've been waging a war and the last few years which is to put pressure on their population to capitulate and to really submit to be off or to have damascus and so we are concerned that the regime is weapon mazing that pandemic to bring the people of northeast syria to its knees so the accusation is clear the syrian government which with its allies in the past has bombed hospitals and has used starvation as a way to defeat rebel lair is now using coded 19 as a weapon of war clearly it would be possible for the syrian government to refute this easily all they'd have to do is allow the free flow of medical aid to all parts of the country james pays out jazeera at the united nations the pandemics change the way muslims around the world are observing this fasting month of ramadan

for example iran the food service industry has been hit hard many restaurants of closed and others have reduced their opening times and same bus drivers there to that from tehran. for many iranians there is no better way to break their fast than with one of the country's most traditional meals. slow cooked stews of meat lentils and vegetables they're high in protein packed with flavor and affordable but this year sales are down because of covert 19 was not about to shatter. the usually more customers and. it has had a big impact to close for 2 months but reopened recently with health protocols people still affright waiting to see how the release customer. restaurants are closed most of the day in keeping with islamic tradition business hours in other sectors also reduced can be a time of lost for food service workers and day laborers so traders homemade food

on the streets to supplement their income. before the. restaurants were already struggling months of political and economic unrest meant fewer customers. many small businesses have gone under many more are on the verge of doing so but to give us a call on you because of the coronavirus i can't say exactly but we've lost about 50 percent of their income we've been facing problems for months this husband and wife operation have to fire their employees to stay afloat now they cook the food operate the till and deliver the few orders they get all by themselves some days they only get 2 orders making just $5.00 they say reduced ramadan hours only make things worse. the government has ordered mosques shrines and places of mass worship

to remain closed religious rituals in the time of coronavirus promise to be a more solitary affair but ramadan is also a time to be with friends and family breaking the fast at the end of the day with loved ones around the table of food helping those that are less fortunate these traditions are as much a part of the islamic month of fasting as anything else. iranians we met said gatherings the dinner tables are likely to be smaller this year means we have a funny we haven't been inviting guests over since the outbreak of the virus we haven't gone anywhere either a know if he's at all tired of this in a cave but if it did the difference this year is that we should stay away from people we had many get the ramadan for if time but now no one comes and this year iranians say they'll be praying especially for one thing an end to the coronavirus pandemic zain bus ravi old 0 to $1.00. we're getting some signs that this pandemic

is impacting germany's economy the number of unemployed in europe strongest economy rose by 308000 in april taking the total number of jobless up to 2600000 this is data out from the federal employment agency germany's g.d.p. is also forecast to shrink more than 6 percent this year the government expects the most painful recession since world war 2 to bottom out in the next 3 months economic activity it says could pick up again after that if a 2nd wave of infections can be avoided. fresh foods that would usually go to restaurants and cafes are being thrown away because of the global lock downs with farmers feeling the financial loss the u.k.'s national farmers union predicted a catastrophe in the dairy and beef industries as a man who would now reports. no dairy farmer ever wants to have to do this thousands of liters of milk poured away because it wasn't collected by the buyer or paid for robin that says a farmer makes award winning cheese and 2 thirds of the milk his cows produce goes

into the wholesale processing market raise the calf the calf comes the cow the cows produce the milk you're feeding those cows looking after those cows and then you've got this wonderful. amazing product this gorgeous milk that we make change cheese as well and there we have it we're having to literally dump it into a lagoon when it's there chilled down to less than 3 degrees ready to be sold and we're throwing it away at the vets family are among hundreds of u.k. farmers who've had their incomes slashed because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic some dairy wholesalers and processors have delayed payment or cut prices hospitality orders have fallen sharply and while some production lines can be stopped if there's a surplus house still need to be milked the likes of the big cafes restaurants or tells. you what the dairy produce the issues

surrounding the dairy industry and empty shelves at the beginning of this situation illustrate the complexities in the wide of food supply chain critics say it's wrapped up in so much red tape it's hard to suppliers to really direct their produce when needed supermarkets saw a big uplift in sales at the start of this crisis but about a 3rd of what we consume in the u.k. we do so outside the home and with restaurants and food outlets shots the market for producers has changed dramatically you. a supplier to high end restaurants 1st choice has tried to plug the gap the lockdown could have put it out of business but it was able to change the way it works in turn that's helped keep the producers it works with a plant you know we kind of think what we're going to do now and then we saw it decided to do home deliveries. sold off very slowly offering i think our 1st night we did 20 orders 2nd or 400 and then we did about 5 days in

a 10900 orders every day farmers leaders in the u.k. are warning of a potential catastrophe for dairy farming unless action is taken farmers a known for coping with the unpredictable finding solutions in the worst of seasons they're now hoping that they can just weather this storm too and he would al jazeera lincolnshire. has a nice story the british world war 2 veteran who raised more than 37000000 dollars for charity he's been given a promotion there is a director here from the chief of the general staff become very your appointment to become the only colonel of the army foundation college in having yeah honoree colonel now captain tom moore received the honors on the evolve his 100th birthday it was also given to military medals just hours earlier to 2nd world war era spitfire planes performed to fly passed over his house to mark his birthday and to recognize those fundraising efforts more raise the money for the national health

service by completing laps of his garden with help the help of a walking friend who really. know all of those. people to build a new world who could. totally taken aback by water. funny fans of indian cinema are mourning the loss of a 2nd big name in just 2 days the veteran actor she kapoor has died of cancer. 67 his death comes a day after that of fellow bollywood actor from cannes kapoor will be best remembered for his performance in the romantic film bobby came from a family of actors who have dominated bollywood for nearly 80. so these are the headlines on al-jazeera this hour positive news from south korea

where for the 1st time in 2 months it is recorded no new domestic cases of covert 19 restrictions have been eased and people are allowed to hold events to mark but his birthday bride has more from seoul people have been expecting this milestone for some time now for about the past week and a half we've been getting daily figures of new cases of around 10 or so sometimes down in single digits and again most of those cases as we know have been people coming in from abroad and in the latest numbers we have 4 new cases but those were all people coming into south korea's over the very 1st time no new cases of local transmission which when you compare it with the peak of the outbreak here 2 months ago the end of february we were seeing figures of 900 plus new cases being recorded every day so it is something of an achievement. only half of the world's workers are in danger of losing their livelihoods because of this pandemic though the un's

international labor organization is forecasting up to 1600000000 people working in the informal economy could be out of a job most of them have no welfare protection or any access to health care. there are new signs the pandemic is impacting germany's economy as well the number of unemployed in europe strongest economy rose 530-8008 the total number of jobless now 2600000 according to the federal employment agency germany's g.d.p. is forecast to shrink more than 6 percent this year and also in germany other news countries banned the iranian backed group hezbollah and designated a terrorist organization police have conducted early morning raids across the country and detained suspected members of the group germany's been under pressure from the u.s. and israel to ban has. there you go you're up to date with the headlines on al-jazeera the street is next. talk to al-jazeera we want your force were when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to

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