in times the listening post cuts through the noise you've been looking at another side of this story now from our information around the outbreak but. the listening post on al-jazeera 'd. a major cut in oil production comes a default but will it be enough to shore up the world's markets. but once again from doha everyone i'm kemal santa maria with the world news from al jazeera other headlines libya's u.n. recognized government says it's attacked the war khalifa haftar its forces after rejecting his ceasefire call. it came out of china and it could have been. president wrapped up his criticism of china's handling of the pandemic but offers

no evidence to support his claims. south africa eases some coronavirus restrictions as a tries to revive the faltering economy. so an agreement among the world's top oil producers to cut output comes into effect today friday following the collapse in global prices it was spurred 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 from riyadh if it didn't go from a summer binge of a. oil and water do not mix but politics in 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's latest oil production cut reports suggest president all trump told muhammad bin sole man 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u.s. forces stationed in the kingdom could be withdrawn if saudi arabia did not stop flooding the market with cheap crude within days riyadh announced production cuts and ended its oil price war with russia. in g. 20 members including in norway have already announced cuts in 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. maybe when you say. well they say 10 they say 10000000 but i think it's 15000000 barrels i even heard. saudi arabia and russia's failure to agree on price stabilisation lead to a $31.00 day a price war which has resulted in a massive oversupply of crude that combined with a 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 projections international oil price is 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 foreman or in prices but slowing growth globally job losses and declining industry coupled with falling oil production doesn't bode well for the global economy some of. their. so here's a closer look at how well this has gone down major oil producers met in vienna in early march not that long ago actually to work out how to keep prices stable but they failed to reach an agreement opec recommended taking one and a half 1000000 barrels a day off the market if russia agreed to cut its production as well but russia said

no so stop producing saudi arabia retaliated by announcing a production increase instead it was a price war it lasted nearly a month and prices dropped below $20.00 a barrel moscow and riyadh eventually resolve their differences and agreed to gradually cut production they said $10000000.00 barrels a day but american producers may have been hurt the most by this war prices for u.s. crude collapsed you might remember this april 20th they briefly went into negative territory for the 1st time not saudi arabia and kuwait say they've slashed their output ahead of today's may 1st production deadline. earlier i spoke to peter kynan who is the lead analyst on energy at the economist intelligence unit he breaks down for us now what these cuts will look like and how produces are going to feel the impacts. we're talking about an output count of non-point 7000000 barrels today 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 at tysons there is a chance that our pick could revisit things of course but at the moment what we are saying is some attempt to put some kind of floor on processes given the extent of demand contraction that with saying at the moment there won't be enough but 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 manage charles 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 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 affected 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. in other ways the u.s. president says he has seen evidence the coronavirus originated in the bar tree in the chinese city of work and it's failed to back it up with any details on the troubles us is the release of covenanting could have been a horrible mistake but added it's possible china chose to avoid something the virus from spreading beyond its borders as the latest on that with how to calais. 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 paper you seen anything at this point

that gives you a high degree of confidence that there would have instituted a raji was the origin of this virus yes yes i have that was the president of the united states indicating he 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 but that's there's 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 strain in the relationship between the $2.00 countries and the whole ready stretched bank accounts of consumers in the u.s. who ultimately pay the price for those tariffs pedicle hain al-jazeera let's say for monotonic and china political analysts are telling us about the mistrust 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 in g. so at this point you'd 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 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 bad 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 in things like this there's a tremendous amount of soft power at this point though that's change 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. libya's un recognized government says it's carried out airstrikes on a convoy of warlord khalifa haftar forces this happened south of the capital tripoli after the recently lost ground to forces fighting for the government national accord the g.n.a.s. it's known which rejected a cease fire called by half to for the month of ramadan and his government says it doesn't trust her accusing him of violating previous cease fires libya has been divided by warring factions since the overthrow of the longtime leader muammar gadhafi 9 years ago in the many groups they back one of 2 main rival forces the u.n. recognize government in tripoli which controls those blue areas. is in charge of

the capital as prime minister. while the warlord khalifa haftar commands the self declared libyan national army and controls all those areas in red after allied administration is based in the eastern city of broke forces loyal to him and trying to take control of tripoli for a year now. spoke to an assault committee little bit earlier founder and director of the sun think institute which is the 1st public policy think tank in libya he says cleaver have to recent losses are a big setback. this compound there is the means in terms of its significance the funnels that was on the heart there has been deploying and using. the turn of the moon around 60 kilometers from from tripoli has come in there significant amount of pressure from the generous forces in the throat since the entire operation and so i think in that sense the economy and the rest of the. band this is his foot was the most significant growth and 3 times on sort of money that these bridges and they're

also on the verge of major worse than ever it is a look at it is also the amount of losses both symbolic but also strategic doctrine to us the middle and there was no return back to the east in the 1st in the but the logic that is there to enjoy it is actions not i was that they need to so problem hopefully they should remember that he has just called for a period in the last 3 days against the elected. parliament 'd in eastern libya against a u.s. backed government in tripoli that is attempted in the last 5 years is full to count in libya since might is because they know that he's going to run. the injury and this isn't the 1st one that he's done what he's been doing most of you know. at least 10 people been injured during an attack on an ammunition warehouse east of homs and west in syria state media says a number of explosions were heard at a facility located in

a military camp civilians were then hit by falling shells it's not clear who was behind that instance. in the news ahead fears the global pandemic could be spreading undetected this is in yemen. and health workers across mexico demand medical supplies as the infections near their. hello welcome to look at the international focus without the usual spread of showers across southeast asia some of them alive inside that said to be the case in singapore 55 millimeters of rain here in 24 hours that's around a 3rd of the monthly average rainfall so quite big dollops of rain coming through here more of the same as we go on through the next few days the usual rash of showers there

a few of those showers in the heat of the day pushing into central and southern parts of the philippines some heavy downpours a possibility here and she can see some wet weather there just pushing across the peninsula northern parts of somalia also seeing some very wet weather at times in those blustery conditions that's set to continue as we go on through the coming days for the seasonal rains of course now some plus 3 conditions 2 into the southeast of australia lost a little area of low pressure that's been rattling through had good covering a slow actually going to size 30 centimeters over the australian alps in places actually this wet weather this wintry weather will slow to the little further east woods as we go on through saturday more blustery showers have tasmania southern parts of victoria still a chance of some showers there pushing into new south wales for time but it does brighten up nicely as we go what into sunday it will warm up as well certainly with a top temperature of 20 degrees.

in the middle stories of abuse in aged care forums in the west to shock the world. but there is no alternative one i want to speak to those sending elderly loved ones to thailand to live out there on how disease. if you want to help save the world. she's into your own. group. who. is at the top stories this hour on al-jazeera an agreement among the world's major

oil producers to cut output comes into effect on friday and follows a collapse in global oil prices driven by falling demand during the pandemic president trump says he has seen proof the covert 19 virus originated in a chinese the bar a tree in hong. yeah it's possible beijing chose not to stop the disease from spreading beyond its borders on both counts the ring failed to give any evidence to support the claims and libya's u.n. recognized government says it's carried out airstrikes against warlord khalifa haftar us forces south of tripoli it also says it's rejected a cease fire called by half for them at the from a done. because it doesn't 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 followed more from formula in johannesburg explaining the impact this easing of restrictions could have. so far the government

has said that one major change in a day today for south africans that people can leave their homes to exercise but just for 3 hours a day and that's between 6 and 9 am in the morning so that would mean that for those who are exercising everyone in who chooses to do so everyone's out in the street exercising at the same time other than that things remain very much similar to what south africans were going through under the level 5 of the lock down that was the heart lockdown and one of the strictest we've seen in africa that people really can only leave their homes for essential goods and services i think the main change might be for some industries in that they are allowed to open and only then a 3rd of the workforce would be allowed to resume their activities to allow for social distancing and we have seen a continuation of public transport public transport did operate in the 1st 5 weeks

of this lockdown and now people are being urged to use mosques when using public transport on a day to day little changes for south africans we still have the ban on of the sale of alcohol and cigarettes and i think as all africans approach winter i think one of the relief relief for them is that they're now able to buy goods that would help them through the next couple of months like heaters and winter clothing and blankets which they previously weren't allowed to do. but half of the indian workforce is employed in the agriculture sector but this lockdown stopped many of them from traveling to work and is leaving farmers struggling around reports from india's most populous state autocrat and the latest in our series on how the pandemics affecting farming and food security. a hive of activity during a nationwide lockdown farmers been there week to

a government procurement center in the state of. it's a small victory for british who struggled to harvest his crops the season without the help of seasonal workers. the father of 3 says his family helped him cut the crop and register to sell it to the government for everyone feels to a lot of problems. everything is shut so how and where are we supposed to do it we had no idea the children have some education so they were able to do it on their mobile phones the government to sending electronic coupons to farmers with a date and time to bring their projects to the centers button rule areas many don't have smartphones and internet connections to receive them and is locked down couldn't have come at a worse time for farmers they're at their busiest between april and june when went across like way to harvested and the fields are prepared for some across to be. without the technology needed to register has crossed public transport to take it

to a government center or private market the pain that parties worried about how he and his family will survive. we can't so the next crop as we need money from this harvest to buy seeds or fertilizers. many farmers have seen their fruit and vegetables go to waste despite farming being exempt from the lock down the restrictions on people's movement and transport has led to supply chains breaking down. india has large reserves of grains but economists say extra stocks of rice and wheat. it's also about pulses and fruits and vegetables and indian. quarter the malnutrition rates are very high so we need to ensure that that ideal for people splitsville both from the point of your food security as well as keeping the economy going it's very important that we support agriculture and go. the government says agriculture is functioning smoothly and there are no shortages

of food but many reject that and with more than half of india's workforce employed in agriculture experts say it must do more to help farmers and secure the harvest for the next season elizabeth al-jazeera blanchett author of the. one of china's most famous landmarks has reopened after being shot for months because of the pandemic beijing's forbidden city once home to china's and prisons allowing up to 5000 visitors a day who must maintain social distancing authorities in the capital of loosening travel restrictions for a 5 day national holiday. of fears growing the coronavirus could be spreading through yemen which is seen of course years of conflict containment measures have been stepped up after the country recorded its 1st 2 deaths on wednesday charlotte dallas. 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 perch retract the strange thing is that the current affairs tests a 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 april team there were no further cases reported into wednesday nearly 3 weeks later here at aden german international hospital with 5 cases were confirmed in his health minister says 2 of those people dies human in its health system have been ravaged by 5 years of civil war the un 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. 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 in fumigating the streets for more than a month this week they moved in to disinfect shops in the busy double salon. 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

reading the wounds not just humanitarian crisis trying to keep ours a pandemic that may already be in the midst of dallas 00 for the 2nd friday of ramadan jerusalem's mosque compound remains closed on 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 of the lockdown as well. holy month of islam's 3rd holiest site and 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 glorified he says business is holding to nothing as customers save their money and

there's no familiar 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 really by the fact that ramadan is usually one of the busiest times of the 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 perry forsett occupied east jerusalem. u.s. states trying to combat the financial downturn a reopening parts of their economy now the white house guidelines on physical

distancing of expired florida alabama arizona these are among more than 30 states planning to relax the stay at home orders letting some businesses including restaurants reopen. in mexico that some of mexico city's hospitals are reaching capacity and health care workers have begun protesting never a shortage of supplies and qualified medical stuff they say the health system concerned be overwhelmed as manuel ruffler reports from mexico city. the medical staff of this hospital in the mexican capital are the latest health sector workers to protest a lack of personal protective equipment they say they're afraid of contracting coded 19 but he thought it meant that we're protesting because we are not a covert designated hospital yet where except in covert patients and so far 45 of my colleagues have been infected. protests like these with doctors and nurses demanding medical supplies have been taking place in mexico since early march in

some cases medical staff have had to find and purchase their own protective equipment i will check whether. the country has a lot of protective equipment like boots caps and goggles but no piece of equipment is asked important as a high fissions the mask known as the n 95 these are the short supply all over the world but in mexico in particular many places have never even had this mess in the end. as coronavirus contagion in mexico nears its predicted peak so does the expected capacity of the nation's health centers. this emergency room staff and can coon say donations have helped alleviate their demand for protective equipment but they fear the facility will soon be overwhelmed seeing by the girl woman. who would definitely reach a moment where we suppose capacity this clinic is now dedicated specifically to treat coronavirus the flow of patients is constant we will suppose capacity in

mexico city more than a dozen hospitals have announced they have already hit capacity the mexican government however says that 70 percent of hospital beds set aside for kobe 1000 cases remain unused. many public. pieces have also been repurposed to accommodate for an expected older flu patients at hospitals all across mexico medical personnel are warning over the possibility of a health system collapse adding that now more than ever is the time for people to stay in their homes and continue to abide by social distancing guidelines. mexico's president said in a recent address the country has prepared very well to meet the demand for medical equipment many of those on the front lines of the fight against the pandemic don't seem to agree. mexico city. half past the hour on al-jazeera these are the headlines and agreements among the

world's major oil producers to cut output comes into effect on friday that follows a collapse in global oil prices to even by falling demand during a pandemic to get the oil the other president i want trump is reported to have told saudi arabia to cut its oil production or lose u.s. military support as according to the reuters news agency trouble also says he's seen proof the covert 19 virus originated in a chinese the barratry in the city of war he adds it's possible beijing chose not to stop the disease from spreading beyond its borders one of 2 things happened either didn't do it you know they couldn't do it from a competent standpoint or they let it spread and. you know i would say probably it was it got out of control but you know there's another case that how come they stopped all the planes and all of the traffic from going into china but they didn't stop the planes and the traffic from coming into the united states and from coming

into all over europe of africa started easing some restrictions after 5 weeks of coronavirus lockdown as it tries to revive its faltering economy but the government says a little impose an overnight curfew. and in other news libya's u.n. recognized government says it's carried out an strike south of tripoli on a convoy of ward khalifa haftar its forces that's after the government of national accord rejected a cease fire called by half stuff for the month of ramadan that's as i didn't trust huffed are accusing him of violating previous. and at least 10 people have been injured in an attack on an ammunition warehouse east of homs in western syria state media says a number of explosions were heard at the facility located in a military camp the newshour is in around 25 minutes time. our next on al-jazeera one of one east. what impact will called it 19 and the drop in oil prices have on the race to the point. can donald trump survive these

historic setbacks until the job only have what it takes to beat. special coverage on al-jazeera. with its tropical climate natural beauty and traditional culture thailand has long been a popular tourist destination. but now there's another reason drawing people here a quiet revolution in caring for the elderly the care system for elderly people in europe it's not working anymore and it's going to be a problem. in the west horror stories of abuse and neglect in care homes not to mention rising costs are driving families to look for alternatives forcing many to make difficult decisions i got the wrong.