saying you'll be in to go build united states of you but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on the whole just 0. a big cut noir production comes into force but will it be enough to shore up the world's markets. everyone i'm santa maria this is the world news from al-jazeera. that came out of china and it could have been stopped. president ramps up his criticism of china's handling of the pandemic but offers no evidence to support his claims. libya's u.n.

recognized government as its attacked board $25.00 after its forces after rejecting its call for a cease fire. and jerusalem's al aqsa mosque compound islam's 3rd holiest sites is closed during ramadan because of lockdown restrictions. well an agreement among the world's top oil producers to cut their output comes into effect today friday following a collapse in global prices spurred on by a slump in demand because of the pandemic but it seems the deal may have only happened because president donald trump reportedly pressured saudi arabia implying the u.s. may withdraw its military support for riyadh if it didn't some advantage of it has this report. oil and water do not mix but politics and oil bond very well there is no official transcript of the conversation between the u.s. president and the saudi crown prince which resulted in saudi arabia. latest oil

production cut reports suggest president all trump told muhammad been sold on that u.s. forces stationed in the kingdom could be withdrawn if saudi arabia did not stop flooding the market with cheap crude within days riyadh announced production cuts and ended its oil price war with russia. 20 members including quit in norway have already announced cuts and output but questions still remain over compliance the us president has taken credit for the nearly 10000000 barrel cut by oil producers which comes into effect on friday i think i got them to cut. well they say 10 they say 10000000 but i think it's very steamy and. i even heard. saudi arabia and russia's failure to agree on price stabilisation lead to a $31.00 day price war which has resulted in a massive oversupply of crude that combined with the coronavirus shutdown of the world's major economies provided

a perfect storm for the 1st time in history traders were paying to get rid of world stocks after storage ran out and u.s. crude futures dipped to a record minus $40.00 a barrel the international energy agency estimates global storage capacity could be fall by mid june. with a powerful lobby and nearly a 1000000 u.s. hydrocarbon sector jobs at stake it's now an issue of national security for the united states we're also exploring potentially having the ability to store another several $100000000.00 barrels so we're looking at lots of different options were in touch with lots of people around the world and the president is determined that we protect the national security interest and the job with flights grounded no one driving and factories closed analysts estimate the demand is in excess of $30000000.00 barrels even though some restrictions are slowly being lifted the energy market is gloomy and positive predictions international oil prices estimated

to average around $35.00 a barrel while the u.s. price is expected below $20.00 a drop of 60 percent compared to last year major firms such as royal dutch shell out of readjusting shell cut its dividend for the 1st time since world war 2. western europe's biggest oil and natural gas producer wants to ease tax rules for oil firms to prevent a drop in investment there is the short term benefit for oil consumers the european central bank says inflation has declined due to the shop foreign oil prices but slowing growth globally job losses and declining industry coupled with falling oil production doesn't bode well for the global economy solomin job there. so here's how this is all happened over the past few months major oil producers met in vienna in early march to work out how to keep prices stable they couldn't reach an agreement opec had recommended taking 1500000 barrels a day off the market if rush on a big number agreed to cut production as well russia refused so picks top producers

saudi arabia retaliated by announcing a production increase instead the price will last nearly a month and prices dropped below $20.00 a barrel also in riyadh eventually resolve their differences and said ok we'll gradually cut production by $10000000.00 barrels a day american producers may have been hurt the most by the price war prices for u.s. crude collapsed on april 28th you might remember this they briefly went negative for the 1st time not saudi arabia and kuwait so this slashed output ahead of today's may 1st production deadline what to pick in an earlier lead analyst on energy at the economist intelligence unit he breaks down for us what these cuts will look like and how producers are going to feel the impact. we're talking about an output count of non-point 7000000 barrels a day which is about 10 percent of global oil demand and that will be from my in june but this agreement last until april 2022 in the cuts will be type of

2 lower rights until further it tightens there is a chance of a pick could revisit things of course but at the moment what we are saying is some attempt is to put some kind of floor on processes given the extensive demand contraction that with saying at the moment there won't be enough at least it might stop things from getting a lot worse than what they are now so we'll just have to say how to montrose for the rest of the year because of course it's not just an issue of supply it's also an issue of consumption as well a lot of the pick export is a very highly dependent on oil revenue for the national income of course. processes that stick around $2025.00 in the long term is very bad for their budgets i given the level of dependence on energy exports subtle have to cut back on spending or go

further into debt. some pick produces will be more effective than others. but it's a bad situation given the level of dependence that many or all exporters have on those or the export revenues when prices collapsed as much as i have and i'm likely to start life for quite a while. well libya's u.n. recognize government says it has carried out air strikes on a convoy of warlord khalifa haftar us forces this is south of the capital tripoli after recently lost ground forces fighting for the government of national accord the g.s.a. which rejected a cease fire called by half for the month of ramadan libya's government says it doesn't trust hafter accusing him of violating previous cease fire. libya's been divided by warring factions since the overthrow of longtime leader moammar gadhafi 9 years ago many groups back one of 2 main rival forces you've got the un

recognized government in tripoli controlling the areas in blue. is in charge of the capital as prime minister while the warlord khalifa haftar commands the libyan national army controlling all those areas in red. allied administration is based in tobruk in the east forces loyal to him have been trying to take control of tripoli for a year now the. founder and director of the subject institute the 1st public policy think tank in libya he's on skype from london now so just to go back to the cease fire quickly the idea of a cease fire for ramadan rejected by the government of national accord. doesn't that what does that make them look bad that they weren't willing to take what looks like and offer from khalifa haftar. so there you have to this you would get to the official says fall on a. so it's an individual. thomas you use the actions to

pull weapons from the. jew he talks in moscow in the end james hopes. of those that are in his use the column since generally 20 of them there was an official call for him to use personally to continue the war in tripoli to import more weapons and more politicians than some and that is an insult to the. let's call them this is why it's so hard to watch the fences around this but i'm no stranger of a and rejected any humanitarian needs. based on the war was a was a jihad of the more holy month although. it had made the call for a cease fire was over in that sense the general has a reason that it doesn't believe well it was rolled which is also one of those on the defense of marriage and on the other 2 should have those forces back and given that in the minds of the. world i'm hochul and given the opportunity to bring his

forces back to continue there are tons of people so how much trouble do you think have turned his forces are in now for a year they've been trying to take over tripoli and now seeming to have these more ass cracks carried out on their on their forces. major monuments a loss for thought of in this comp then there is the means in terms of its significance the finals of more than one of them is deploying the music and the return of the earth to the horan around 60 kilometers from from tripoli has come up with a significant amount of pressure from the generous forces in that direction is the heart of the operation and so i think in that sense the economy and the rest of the . path of this is far clearer his forces of last significant growth of 3 to support them on sort of month of these bridges and they're also on the verge of losing major worse than ever it is in the world but it's also a matter of losses both symbolic but also strategic can't be underestimated and hot

there was no return back to the east in the 1st on news that is in the bottle but he doesn't strike me as the kind of former general warlord what if you want to call him the who would back down eventually and he's not going to just melt away again if his forces a push back that you have is reasoning in the political mood you look at because the the for them and most of the followers that almost all the they say look they want to push forward that could overtake the points of further escalation you know shouldn't underestimate the degree to which you know terry and suffering will result in if the if the if the cycle of conflict remains what the the logic that is the. actions now was that they need the sole problem called police after she remembered that he has just called her putin in the last few days against the electives. part 'd of the news that libya is going to. so you have a government in tripoli that is attempted in the last 12 years is full of parents

in libya since 96 the moment that he's going to. the jury and this isn't the 1st time he's done what he's been doing. but if they want to get rid of the. on a subcommittee joining us from london talking libya thank you. now the u.s. president says he has seen evidence the corona virus originated in a laboratory in the chinese city of who han but it's failed to back it up with any details on what trump says the release of covenanting could have been a horrible mistake but added it's possible china chose to avoid stopping the virus and spreading beyond its borders has more. a conspiracy theory has been floating on the fringes of conservative media for weeks and now it's made its way to the white house you seen anything at this point that gives you a high degree of confidence that they would have instituted a raji was the origin of these fires yes yes i have that was the president of the

united states indicating he's seen something that says the coronavirus was made in a chinese lab he didn't say if it was from a us agency or from cable television where he gets a lot of his information after reports that this in ministration has been trying to get the intelligence community to find a connection to the lab the director of national intelligence issued this statement saying the intelligence community also concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the covert 1000 virus was not manmade or genetically modified and 2 weeks ago the u.s. military seemed to make the same conclusion on the on the lab piece of that that's does a lot of. rumor and speculation in a wide variety of media the blog sites etc should be no surprise to you that we've taken a keen interest in that and we've had a lot of intelligence take a hard look at that and i would just say at this point it's inconclusive although

the weight of evidence seems to indicate natural some republicans have been trying to point the blame and public anger at china some even saying they should simply refuse to pay china back for the u.s. bonds it holds the president though said he wouldn't go that far indicating more tariffs could be his response further straining the relationship between the $2.00 countries and the already stretched bank accounts of consumers in the u.s. who ultimately pay the price for those tariffs pedicle hain al-jazeera. china political analyst spoke to us a little earlier and says mistrust is really running high between washington and beijing. just remember that this is the. institute we're talking about was he joined lee run by french and chinese the french authorities have put out an absolute. statement saying that it never happened there was no accidents they were involved in this kind of are all and so at this point you have to believe that the

french that are in halt including with china and the w.h.o. if you want to believe this kind of narrative that donald trump is trying to put out your hat here is an american public and an increasingly. the chinese public are seeing each other as hostile i mean when you have all of these attacks against asians they're not even necessarily against chinese as anyone perceived as chinese there's a lot of you know that feeling i mean many chinese help hold and help the united states as a you know kind of. the ultimate in systems that there is a lot of opportunity and things like this there's a tremendous amount of soft power at this point though that's changing now you're hearing a lot of people who are saying they're moving back and these are just college professors and it's like that these these are titans of various industries who feel very uncomfortable in their families feel uncomfortable in the u.s.

so i don't know if this is the plan for decoupling i don't know that it's necessary you know benefit the united states. in the news they head south africa eases some covert 9000 restrictions as it tries to revive a faltering economy. there are fears that quote a pandemic could be spreading undetected across yemen those stories in about. how we've said good bye to april showers said that was saying hello to may showers that's a situation across a year of areas of class streaming in from the atlantic quite complex systems of low pressure rolling through and it is a case of sunshine and showers as we go on through the next couple of days still a little on the cool side but we are going to see the shower was blowing through quite quickly blustery showers then pushing all the way across 70 northern and

central part 16 celsius in london and in paris some wet weather for a time pushing through central parts of france and at least it's way over towards the good parts of central europe for the outs pushing it was the balkans and beyond we need the right here so that's good will see that right pushing through poland making its way into that western side of russia some warmth around 22 celsius and he have a 25 in bucharest notice temperatures starting to edge up it was that western side if you have the proper want is further south we're getting into the twenty's across southern parts madrid around 26 celsius and rising over the next few days we'll see some of the temperatures across northern africa lots of dry weather lots of sunshine rolling through here and it will stay that way as we go on through the next couple of days a few showers around the 8th european highlands and the showers started to push up nicely for much of western africa.

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a collapse in global oil prices driven by falling demand due to the pandemic president says he has seen proof the covert 19 virus originated in a chinese the part 3 in the city of work without offering any evidence he also adds it's possible beijing chose not to stop the disease from spreading beyond its borders. and libya's u.n. recognized government says it's carried out airstrikes against war tony behalf his forces south of tripoli also says it's rejected a ceasefire call by half for the month of ramadan saying it does not trust. south africa started easing some coronavirus restrictions after 5 weeks of lockdown some businesses are being allowed to reopen from friday and people can leave their homes to exercise the government says it will impose an overnight curfew and deploy more soldiers to ensure social distancing rules are followed for the 2nd friday of ramadan jerusalem's al aqsa mosque compound remains closed in the streets of the

old city are unusually quiet palestinians living in occupied east jerusalem having to adjust to a new way of observing the holy month while dealing with the economic uncertainty off the lock down or from harry forces holy month of islam's 3rd holiest site in the courtyards around the mosque in the dome of the rock or empty mass prayer band to help stop the spread of the coronavirus usually tens of thousands of worshippers many from new york the pied west bank who come here each day to pray the effects are being felt beyond this sacred site by the people who live and work in the alleyways of the old city. lockdown has already brought serious hardship but he says business is holding to nothing as customers save their money and there's no familia ramadan boost to make up for it. we wait for ramadan the whole year ramadan is different with its beautiful atmosphere there is a lot of work in ramadan but this year there is no work and there is no ramadan.

foot traffic is down and thoughts of religious observance are competing with anxiety over job and finances and is even younger so i am 60 i have never seen anything like this my son has 6 kids he has rent to pay he's not working how are they going to wait and drink. as of this week the israeli government that controls jerusalem's occupied east has allowed more types of businesses to open but as well as unlocked doors recovery requires customers some restrictions begin to be lifted shopkeepers here talk about a gradual return of some economic activity but very gradual especially given how few people comparatively are on the streets of the old city and all of this thrown into relief by the fact that ramadan is usually one of the busiest times of the year last year this was the scene at damascus gate as thousands headed into the old city to pray at. this ramadan the walk or islamic trust in charge of the mosque is

telling the faithful to stay away. and we're in great pain right now this month a month usually we have tens of thousands of people coming to the mosque and it reaches hundreds of thousands but for the sake of people's health the works decided to spin the prius. and so the prayers are instead being brought to the people online and on television in the hope that it will feel all the better to be here for real with those tens of thousands of others for ramadan in 2021 harry for sit out his era occupied east jerusalem there are fears growing the coronavirus could be spreading through yemen which has seen years of conflict containment measures have been stepped up after the country recorded its 1st 2 deaths on weapons day this report from china. inside the walls of the hospital in aden patients are dying of a mysterious respect her illness yes the u.n.

says it's likely corona virus is spreading undetected in yemen doctors are on alert yet the patients results a negative at that in the. situation is very tragic during the last 2 days we've had 2 deaths and then 3 deaths as a result of infections in the wrist perjury tract the strange thing is that the current affairs tests are negative but the symptoms of the cases the gest is a similar disease or the corona virus is present it was not diagnosed correctly. human recorded its 1st case of corona virus on a protein there were no further cases reported into wednesday nearly 3 weeks later here at aden german international hospital with 5 cases were confirmed humans health minister says 2 of those people dies human in its health system have been ravaged by 5 years of civil who the u.n. has wound if coronavirus catches hold it will be catastrophic only half of humans

medical facilities a functional the population is acutely malnourished there is a cholera epidemic and more than 24000000 people need aid to survive and that. we expect the spread of more cases but we can mitigate the spread of people follow instructions was protective measures like wearing face masks social distancing staying at home and washing their hands regularly. after the new cases were revealed a brief curfew was in acted in aid in the city closed its mosques in moves and extended the shutdown of restaurants and markets a number of private hospitals and aid in stopped receiving patients. in the capital sana'a health workers have been disinfecting and fumigating the streets for more than a month this week they moved in to disinfect shops in the busy double salon. good place. after the suspected cases were discovered we hope that sterilization measures are intensified and people adhere to wearing masks and taking preventive

measures human already in the wounds and largest humanitarian crisis trying to keep our pain dimmick that may already be in the midst shallot ballasts 00. 1 of china's most famous landmarks is reopened after being shut for months because of the pandemic as beijing's forbidden city once home to china's emperors it's now allowing up to $5000.00 visitors a day who must maintain social distancing authorities in the capital of lucerne travel restrictions for a 5 day national holiday a funeral home in new york is being investigated after dozens of bodies were found in an refrigerated trucks the owner says he had no option but to store bodies on the ice in the rented trucks because he ran out of room the full story was gabriel is under. the lives lost already victims of new york's coronavirus crisis now part of a funeral home for dozens of bodies were found decomposing in trucks at this

funeral home in brooklyn there maybe were as many as 50 bodies inside the police moved in and discovered it after residents complained about a foul smell emanating from the building by thursday morning caskets were arriving to take away corpses to unknown locations and family members with loved ones inside who are showing up in a desperate search for information ronald 60 year old brother francoise died of covert 19 he tells me his brother's corpse has been inside the funeral home for more than a week now. about it because they were. so it's not good not only exactly what they say because it's really so very very sad to me should covington said she thinks her mom's body is also inside so right here this but it's too much for me i'm sorry but i'm so cloudy right now because this hurt. words hurt people who live in the

neighborhood were shocked this is a residential neighborhood it's unbelievable unbelievable people. and that. you know. the funeral home said it's freezers failed so it had to bring in the rental trucks to store bodies and explanation that did not satisfied new york's mayor they have an obligation to the people they serve to treat them with dignity i have no idea in the world how any funeral home could let this happen for a city that is supposedly coming out of this crisis the nightmare that happened at this funeral home is a grim reminder of how far there is still to go and the incredible toll this is having on a city. brooklyn new york. the u.n. secretary general is criticizing what he calls a lack of global leadership during the pandemic and tony are going terraces nowhere

near enough is being done to help developing countries and also says his call for the world's militaries to delay their battles is mostly being ignored has more from a diplomatic editor james pace. speaking to reporters by video link the frustration of the u.n. secretary general was clear it's well over a month since he demanded a global cease fire but the fact the u.n. security council has been unable to pass a resolution was the result of what he called a dysfunctional relationship between the major powers and that makes it difficult for the security council to decide as it makes it difficult in many other areas for international cooperation to work secretary-general given the scale of the pandemic do you believe that global leadership has been adequate. it is obvious that there is a lack of leadership it is all is obvious the international community is divided in a moment where it would be more important than ever to be united there is indeed

a problem of leadership or if you want a disconnect between leadership and poll we see remarkable examples of leadership but they are usually not associated bollard and when we see power we sometimes do not see the necessary to the ship i hope this will be overcome sooner rather than later as a security council session this week a very public demonstration of the disagreements among the world's top countries as the un syria's special envoy spoke during the virtual event one of the ambassadors had not me to this microphone in ukraine my counsel. the french ambassador was on a separate phone call unaware everyone else could hear him ask. one technical thing you know at the franks my his words were very telling he talked to problems related to the w.h.o. . and then starts to talk about the americans before he's alerted to the fact he's

on mute it might refer. to going through security. in that moment the ambassador inadvertently revealed in public the problems the un security council has been facing in trying to come up with a resolution on covert 19 the french have been leading those negotiations for weeks diplomats say it's a torturous process the u.s. is objecting to any reference in the resolution to the world health organization after president trump pulled funding from the global health body meanwhile russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov has been pushing the idea of a meeting of the 5 permanent members of the security council russia china the u.s. u.k. and france at leader level it still though hasn't happened james. al-jazeera of the united nations.

the headlines this hour on al-jazeera an agreement among the world's major oil producers to cut outputs comes into effect on friday it follows the collapse in global oil prices driven by falling demand during the pandemic donald trump says he has seen proof the covert 19 virus originated in a chinese laboratory in the city of he adds it's possible beijing chose not to stop the disease from spreading beyond its borders one of 2 things happened it either didn't do it you know they couldn't do it from a competent point or they let it spread. you know i would say probably it was a control but you know there's another case of how come they stopped all the planes and all of the traffic from going into china but they didn't stop the planes in the traffic from coming into the united states and from coming into all over europe one of china's most famous landmarks has reopened its doors after being shut for months

because of a pandemic beijing's forbidden city once home to china's emperor is allowing up to 5000 visitors a day who must maintain social distancing south africa's started easing some restrictions after 5 weeks of coronavirus lockdown as it tries to revive its faltering economy the government says it will also impose an overnight curfew in other news libya's un recognized government says it's carried out airstrikes on warlord khalifa haftar us forces south of tripoli the government has rejected a cease fire called by half staff for the month of ramadan saying it doesn't trust him. and syrian state media is an ammunition storage facility east of homs in the country's western region has been attacked a number of explosions have been reported you are up to date with the world news from al-jazeera the stream is next. we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. so no matter where you

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