the impossible to sell their goods and isolated areas so. we follow that daring journeys as they overcome the extremes. risking it all afghanistan on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. hello i'm adrian for again this is the news live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes major output cuts announced by global oil producers come into effect as the price of crude remains at near historic lows. taking the deal but as you just alluded to it's just never happened but an unprecedented oil supplies in nigeria causes concern for an economy that relies heavily on oil revenues. the world's

largest coronavirus lockdown has extended for a further 2 weeks but india's government is easing some restrictions. to u.s. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden denies allegations of sexual assault by a former senate colleague. and in sports the english premier league is stepping up plans for a return to action the league is mad to discuss what needs to be done for games to take a call in june. it is just off the 1500 hours g.m.t. the dramatic drop in oil prices over the past few weeks has been one of the main economic fallout of the global pandemic and agreement decided among the world's top producers to cut output has now come into effect and it appears that the deal came to be only after president donald trump reportedly pressured saudi arabia

threatening to withdraw u.s. military support for riyadh now to syria sullivan java reports. 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cut reports suggest president all trump told muhammad bin sole man that u.s. forces stationed in the kingdom could be withdrawn if saudi arabia did not stop flooding the market with cheap crude within days riyadh announced production cuts and ended its oil price war with russia.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.

what they say can 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 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 us prices 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 some of. their. as you're

hearing the lower demand for oil has resulted in oversupply even so dozens of saudi tankers a still heading west towards the u.s. now some politicians there are trying to stop them according to the website's tanker truck has more than 50000000 barrels of saudi crude oil is on its way to american ports marine traffic shows at least 26 tankers southern africa are apparently bound for terminals in the gulf of mexico for delivery to refineries and storage sites in texas and louisiana one is already completed its delivery to a saudi aramco owned refinery in texas but with oil prices sinking to record lows and threatening oil u.s.o. produces some politicians in washington want the vessel's turned back as the as there's nowhere for them to store the oil and he is director of energy policy advisors in energy and mining and research he says it will be a while before we see the impact of the production cuts. normally in the oil market

dates is quite far delayed when we look at the actual april data you saw production increases coming through so thus on the back of the original breakdown of the opec deal the size of the cut pretty staggering from a when you look at them in relation to april so i think there are going to be some countries the are going to quite reach their target certainly at the beginning of the month but there is there is a real issue into that as well in terms of storage capacity filling up around the world and whether. countries and companies can actually produce and sell the oil i think the the data will start to be visible over the next couple of weeks there's area early indications there rusher is making the cuts you can see for on the

shipping loading data i used an oil tank trucking analytics firm oil x. and they're sharing the russian production in may has already started to fall. by thinking it's going to take a few weeks to see the evidence of the large declines coming through in cern's of last leaving countries like russia. other big exporting oil producers africa's largest oil producer nigeria relies heavily on revenue from the industry a huge surplus and global supply is causing concern i would address reports from the capital of georgia it's been a particularly difficult year for nigeria and all dependent economy is struggling low prices and cuts in production resulted in huge loss of revenue but more worrying for africa's biggest producer is the damage the current clucked will do. with fuel storage facilities the options for nigeria like many small and medium

sized produces is to give all or shut down some wells what were 52 days and on president a lot nobody has ever been taken to the beyond borders into storage within 2 weeks that's never happened what it means when countries come back to work. is so much supply that the demand cannot compensate for that revenue shortfall some all have already forced the nigerian government to consider an almost 40 percent cut in this is spending estimate $1000000000.00 identity for companies that you've had to shut down can i bring back the wealth if i can bring back do with what happens next for you a bit of pain of somebody that you could all but that's not a permanent that judging the current cost of producing a barrel of oil in nigeria is about the same as the market price something produces an expert say isn't sustainable for a long period nigeria's oil company then m.p.c.

says it's engaging its joint venture partners all companies to see how do a father cut production the country's current output is $1400000.00 barrels of oil a day and as producers desperately look to shop prices it's awful possible that nigeria will be forced to make products experts warn that the current instability in the oil market is said to father damage the economy nigeria imports a significant amount of consumer goods including refined petroleum product i believe from the 46 and my kids. and that's much. too. international. and that's what's much. more important and that's what. a lot of medium average nigerian. a bleak focused they could even get worse if the current market chart continues for a long time amid the trees. the u.s.

president says that he's seen evidence that the corona virus originated in a lab or a tree in the chinese city of who han but fail to give any further detail donald trump said the release of covert 19 could have been a horrible mistake but as political hate explains the president didn't say from where he got the information. 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 this virus yes yes i have that was the president of the united states indicating he's seen something that says the corona virus 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 the cid 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 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 refused 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. james warren is the executive editor of news god and former managing editor in charge of the washington bureau of the chicago tribune he says that while the live claim might be possible trump is using it for his own political purposes well i think of almost washington post to have the best story obscene so far on on everything that we know and don't know about the buyers and the bottom line is that the origins remain murky now as they were months ago. and it remains technically possible that it came from the lamp but the consensus is it probably didn't at the same time when clearly as fair minded scientists and experts in the

field raise at least the possibility of a leak or in some way it having come out of that lap but politically at this point it certainly suits the president's self interest to suggest that this was all the fault of the chinese and to that extent one cannot underscore enough the role of one particular key white house aide a former journalist in china for the wall street journal matthew poppins there. who ended up in the u.s. military after a very good career in journalism who left china he believed distrustful of the regime and was the one who really convince many folks in the white house including the president that the virus was not only spreading beyond the borders of china a few months ago but that there was a clear clear misinformation campaign from the regime in beijing and the white house had to be very mindful of. this is the news hour still to come on the program

as we've been hearing the world is awash with crude oil that it doesn't at the moment need now producers are running out of places to store it plus officer as investigative units is obtained evidence of a huge backlog of medical equipment in china will tell you more. about its course handshakes are out but the ball is back in court for some professional tennis players far will have to ask of the rest of the sport a little later. south korea and india have decided to stop using chinese made rapid covert 19 test kits after they were found to be faulty scientists in south korea say that when retested hundreds of recovered patients returned positive results the 2nd time they blame what they say are shortcomings of the test itself rather than reinfection india bought half a 1000000 kids from china it also discovered in accuracies china has defended its

products thought to patrick titus division chief of pathology sciences at central medicine he says the scientists are still trying to develop better testing methods because the virus is so new. we have to distinguish all the different types of tests out there and how they perform any one of the problems right now is we're mixing all of these different tests that and and grouping them all together and then you know casting blame on all tests when that isn't true there are tests that look for antibodies in the blood and there are tests that look for the virus of the genetic material of the fires so those are 2 very different types of tests and they give very different sat answers because this has been a new virus and we don't understand everything about it we've been very cautious about interpreting these results and you know one of the possibilities was that people were becoming reinfected or that they were really lapsing. after not fully

recovering from the infection and finally there was that possibility that is the false positive oratory cast all of those things were looked at and i think now they've concluded that the viruses that they detected in the east that a few 100 people in south korea were not viable so these viruses are not. they're dead birol particles they're picked up by the task and these people will not be able to transmit the infection to other people it is extending what's been the world's biggest by 2 for the weeks but restrictions in some areas will be eased beginning monday let's go straight to new delhi is elizabeth for autumn and tell us more so what are you guidelines this. hi adrian so in the last nearly 6 weeks of the lockdown in india the government has divided the country into green orange and red zones depending on the number of

cases and the stage of transmission and it's announced that while the national lockdown will continue for another 2 weeks that they will be a considerable easing of restrictions mostly in green and orange zones so what are they well as of may the 4th all goods are allowed to be transported they will be buses in green zones but with 50 percent seizing capacity taxis are allowed in green and orange zones but with only one passenger things like all construction and industrial activity is allowed even in red zones in rural areas now over the last 10 days we have seen easing of restrictions in a number of sectors most notably agriculture india's biggest employer and all the businesses which supported and all stand alone shops even those selling non essential items have been open for about the last week so what are the restrictions that remain in place while there is still no air on rail travel hospitality

restaurants hotels remain shot into state movements no movement between states and things like cinema halls you know malls sports complex is the main shot and they will be no political social or cultural gatherings but the government has announced plans to transport millions of migrant workers from that'll come is good news to a lot of people. a lot of people that is because there are millions of people in india who are migrant workers who work in different states to where they're from and a few days ago the government announced that it will allow them to be transported back home and buses announced today that it will actually use trains to do so because there are so many of them the 1st such train travel between the states and jock and on friday morning and we're expecting many more everyone will be tested before getting on trains that only carry the right numbers to ensure social

distancing and they will be disinfected often the plight of migrant workers in india has been one of the biggest failures the tragedies of the lockdown we saw hundreds of thousands of them over half a 1000000 walking hundreds of kilometers to get back to where they were from when all public transport was cancelled tens of them died making the journey we've seen protests around the country so this will come as a relief but it will be a mammoth task for the government again given the numbers of them in the country. elizabeth who are on i'm reporting live from new delhi liz many thanks indeed. south africa has begun to ease certain restrictions after 5 weeks of lockdown to tackle the pandemic some businesses are being allowed to reopen from friday and people can leave their homes to exercise the government says that it will impose an overnight curfew and deploy more soldiers to ensure that social distancing rules

are followed al-jazeera from a to miller is in johannesburg with more on how the 1st day of the new relaxed restrictions is going. this is the main highway between johannesburg. and police have set up one of the largest roadblocks in this area there are also soldiers here to ensure that people aren't hearing to the lock down restrictions not the south africa has eased the regulations slightly in that some businesses are able to open and a 3rd of the workforce are able to go to work but for millions of south africans these are the kind of regulations that they're facing police are making sure they're here to regulations and they're also on the lookout for cigarettes and alcohol because in south africa the sale and transportation of those items is still bad and. police will likely see thousands of vehicles come through this roadblock

during the course of the day they are about $7000.00 soldiers that have been deployed across the country but the government has also said it's made provision for up to 70000 soldiers to monitor the streets in south africa while restrictions are being eased even just slightly the government has deployed more soldiers and police to ensure that people aren't hearing to the lockdown regulations and even those of africa's no move to a level full one level lower than previously we're actually seeing more officials and more security officials monitoring the lockdown as you know may 1st is recognized as labor day honoring the struggles and gains made by workers around the world but this year there's little celebrate as millions of people find themselves suddenly unemployed the usual march is upon banned in many countries that are in

lockdown in athens where workers defied a curfew to rally for better conditions the greek government had asked unions to hold off on demonstrations until next week. in france people stayed at home but still made some noise as well as banging pots and pans they sang revolutionary songs on the balconies are very different seem to last year's may day when rallies in paris turned violent. a rocket attack by forces loyal to the libyan warlord. killed at least 2 civilians in tripoli earlier the un recognized government that carried out airstrikes on a half ton military convoy south of the capital the government of national accord has rejected a cease fire called by the warlords for the month of ramadan well libya has been divided by warring factions since the overthrow of longtime leader moammar gadhafi 9 years ago but many groups back one of 2 main rival forces the un recognized

government and tripoli controls the area in blue here and fire as she's in charge of the capital as prime minister while the warlord colley faster commands the self declared libyan national army and controls the areas in red. allied administration is based in the eastern city of to brooke forces loyal to him of been trying to take control of tripoli for a year and al jazeera is now hold up the well head in tripoli says that khalifa haftar has suffered major losses in recent days. on the front lines the government forces have been carrying out air strikes targeting get a convoy of military vehicles and including the. trucks loaded with fuel they were on their way to have to as forces they were targeted by the government air force in central libya they were on their way to have to his forces and the city of the hohner and in southern tripoli the government military sources also say that they targeted. individuals have to prove how to individuals

and military vehicles in other words the aid bays about 150 kilometers to the indus in southern west of the capital tripoli the government of national called on the other hand it says that it is rejecting get any. truce announcement or proposal by have to his forces a less it's been good anted and sponsored by the international community to say that given the fact that have terrorists cannot be trusted and he rejected many ceasefire proposals in the past in syria at least 10 civilians have been injured after explosions at an ammunitions depo east of homs in a statement released on state media the syrian army said the blasts were caused by human error but the u.k. based syrian observatory for human rights says that israeli strikes are to blame some civilians were hit by falling shells israel has previously targeted military

storage facilities crowds have gathered in central beirut as anger grows over lebanon's financial crisis the calls for mass demonstrations came despite a rescue plan announced by the prime minister on thursday protests turned violent on 3 successive nights this week putting leaders under renewed pressure al-jazeera say the holder is in beirut where people say the government's economic plan has done little to address their demands. people are angry their economic situation is only worsening living conditions are worsening you talk to people here and there is really fear and about the future a lot of uncertainty pointing to the labor minister on the occasion of the labor day she denounced that 30 percent of registered companies have been shut down and that 20 percent of those companies have reduced the salaries of employees by half and i can give you other government figures in the social affairs minister is saying that 70 to 75 percent of the population of some 5000000 people need help

45 percent of the people live below the poverty line and 22 percent live in extreme poverty so just shows you how dire the situation is the economy the financial crisis is the worst in decades the government presented a rescue plan but that plan involves a sinking hit to national assessments from the monetary fund people here say that this is not that the answer borrowing more money is not the answer all but the government really doesn't have much of a choice of years of bad management years of corruption that is being blamed for the situation in lebanon is in today but going to the i.m.f. is just the 1st step lebanon will have to meet a lot of conditions tough conditions in order to get the money that it urgently needs the prime minister saying that there's a better day and that's what he told the lebanese people but at the same time he said those days are going to be a difficult. time accredit presidential hopeful joe biden the spoken for the 1st

time about allegations of sexual assault involving a former employee a former vice president told us media that he didn't assault tara reid when she worked for him in 1903 during his time as a son of so let's go live to washington the white house correspondent kimberly help us who can tell us more kimberly what was his job i've been saying why is it taken him so long to say it. well there is mounting pressure within the vice president's own democratic party to speak out and to answer to these allegations and now we've seen joe biden doing just that the allegations stem back some 27 years to 1993 that's when joe biden was a senator on capitol hill and tara reid was an aide in his office now she alleges the then senator pinned her against the wall and sexually assaulted her this is corroborated by friends of terror raids but joe biden for his part today has firmly

denied these allegations no it is not true i'm saying oh look quickly it never never happened did never happen. do you remember her do you remember any any types of complaints that she might have made. i don't remember any time to complain she may have made it was 27 years ago and i don't remember nor does anyone else that i'm aware of and the fact is that i don't remember i don't remember any complaint ever having made is this going to impact his candidacy. well you know that is the open question now in terms of the position of joe biden he says you know if a complaint was filed in the u.s. congress will the national archives will have that so he is calling for that to be

uncovered if it exists he also says look i never asked for any sort of nondisclosure agreement from terror read which he also feels kind of bolsters his own story and overall he says that his position is that when it comes to these allegations that women have a right to be heard but he also said when it comes to these allegations they need to be scrutinized. from the very beginning you know i've said believe me women means taking the woman's claim seriously when she steps forward and then vetted look into it this is this that is true in this case as well women have a right to be heard and to read the pressured rigorously investigate claims they make and always a poll that principle but in the end in every case the truth is what matters in this case the truth is the claims are false. now we should point out when it comes to how this might impact the presumptive

democratic presidential nominee on the campaign trail because of course election day is in november many speculate that this may not have the enormous impact that it might have previously given the fact that there's been a new bar that has been set given the allegations against donald trump on the campaign trail and 2016 and of course now he's in the white house and he had more than 20 women allege that he in fact had behaved inappropriately and had violated them in some cases sexually so the u.s. president for his part has said that he believes that these could be false allegations against joe biden he says he knows of that well based on his own experience he also says that what came to us supreme court nomination for the supreme court justice brett kavanaugh that what happened there was a disgrace to this country but again we should point out that when it comes to prominent female democrats many are lining up supporting joe biden given the fact

that house speaker nancy pelosi says that biden is a person of integrity and she also believes that he she believes his denials are right kimberly many thanks indeed on white house correspondent kimberly how could reporting live from washington we're going to take you live now to geneva where the world health organization is giving its latest updates on the global response to the coronavirus pandemic this is the director general speaking let's listen in what he said it is and yesterday id quimby in the mode of duty committee to review the evolution of the pundit me and the advise me accordingly after 3 months the community consists of independent international experts to be presenting all regions and full range of live and expertise. i would like to tank the chair of the committee professor. who song and all

the committee members of course the pandemic remains a public health emergency of international concern the committee has made several recommendations for deadly joe and for the countries to outline those 3 commendations i would now like to him by professor song to say a few words professor you have the floor. the international half regulations the emergency committee met yesterday here 3 months after the ration of of faith by the g o w h o 1st let me thank also the members of the e.c. rich met yesterday during the 6 hours to listen 1st to the analyzes of the situation by the emergency directors of the 6 regions of the show and by the

secretariat which as a global view of for their situation really have a huge amount of work has been has been done at w.h.o. at all levels and by member states to try to face this and it is. clearly also there are differences differences between regions in some regions the impact of the disease is very severe in some others it is less severe many things have been accomplished but the challenges are still present and challenges are huge after 3 months the e.c. members were 1st asked to state whether these terrible event is still a public health emergency of international concern and as you say dr ted rose the answer was quite simple it is clear the advice to the needy was clear yes 19 is still a public health emergency of international concern. 19 pandemic is

not finished. if the members were then asked to study. advices formulated in january should these recommendations be abandoned should they be modified should they be completed and 2 categories of the devices where issued by the committee which i would like very briefly not review but just to identified some of the most important ones more than 20 recommendations where i address to w.h.o. and i would like to focus on 4 of them increase their efforts through words for a giant states and vulnerable countries and to me to get a possible disruption of food supply in some countries interruption of travel of air travel in some cases. is a big handicap to cargo transport ation and this is why this is

a risk which needs to be addressed 2nd to develop strategy right and with partners or a safe return to normal operation of passenger travel this is a difficult issue because it's a question of confidence between member states it's a question of safe travel but it's also a very important aspect of the activities in many countries which are relying very much on air travel the 3rd one is to revise recommendations on appropriate travel measures and to analyze that effect on cove in 1000 fans mission with consideration this is a very important point the balance between benefit and unintended consequences then we addressed also a series of recommendations also more than 20 would be member states and i would like to focus very briefly on 3 of them. person to support w.h.o.

leadership we have only one w.h.o. and we are in the middle of a band and 2nd we work with w.h.o. and multi sexual partners who interrupt virus transmission using all the techniques and methods which can be used on sitting of course the unintended consequence is we can arise in some circumstances and finally i think it's very important to address the knowledge gaps with regard to research we know too little about the transmission of the virus we have at the moment nothing of prevention with vaccine and we have at the moment no license there are these should change thank you very much.

thank you very much professor sun for these remarks have a floor again to dr terrace thank you thank you professor. would like to make a few remarks about the committee's advise for joe we appreciate the confidence and trust expressed by the committee in your to continue to lead and coordinate the global response to the pandemic in collaboration with countries and partners we are committed to fulfilling that role and to accelerating our efforts that later we'll continue supporting all countries was technically just tickle support especially those that need it most. we accept the committee said vies that doubly joe works to identify the animal

source of the virus the international scientific and collaborative missions in collaboration with the world organization for animal health and the food and agriculture organization of the united nations we will continue supporting countries to sustain essential services including vaccination care for women during pregnancy and childbirth and care for non-communicable diseases including mental health conditions. well let's just say a taste of the latest world health organization media briefing on the coronavirus pandemic will stay listening to that here at al-jazeera and we'll bring you anything use were the that comes out of it let's take you live now to where the u.k. al-jazeera steve park is outside a testing center where in england the coronavirus death toll has risen by another

352 people in the last 24 hours nathan. yes that's right there is of course a backdrop of increasing numbers of deaths despite the fact that the prime minister boris johnson yesterday said that the country had reached the peak skirted under the peak he said but the country needed now to enter into phase 2 and that required more discipline of british people something that we've also seen echoed by the w.h.o. the global response committee there reporting back to the the president of the w.h.o. to confirm that there are still gaps there are still concerns in the 3 months after initially announced saying a global health emergency that health emergency still exists specifically they raise concerns about food transportation being interrupted to particularly vulnerable countries they also talked about hopes of

a return to air travel that were incredibly vital to certain economies particularly here in europe we've seen airlines see their. travel their business cut significantly ryanair a big company here operating out of western europe quoted in ireland saying that it had cut 3000 jobs there are huge huge questions still to be asked about how and when economies should open a war can be done to understand. that 19 continues to be transmitted or anybody thinks the time to seriously back of their lives in london. we'll return now to our top story the effect of the pandemic on the oil industry as we reported earlier itself a twin shocks in supply and demand too much crude has been produced and the global shutdown has meant that not enough of it is being used that's resulted in a crisis of where to store as old as i was or is john hendren reports now from

chicago. cushing oklahoma is a small town with a big job in the oil industry it is the oil pipeline crossroads of america and that made it the logical place to become the nation's oil storage hub right now we're just shutting in wells and doing whatever we can just reduce production work to the minimal mccree we can now one tank after another stands in a landscape lined with storage farms brimming with crude waiting for delivery but with oil at historically low prices the crude keeps flowing in is sellers wait for higher prices and cushing is filling up fast it's the world's largest storage. it has. 6 now you browse. storage however right now there and outs are. everyone scrambled aren't. as are saying use of ocean going tankers just

a little or no tankers with no destination full of oil waiting for better days and bigger prices nearby gas sells for under a dollar a gallon. it's hard to believe that the oil industry could face worse than when sellers had to pay buyers to take this stuff off their hands but that's what happened on april 20th when prices went below 0 but with prices going nowhere and storage filling up fast the worst could be yet to come. with a benchmark west texas intermediate oil below $20.00 a barrel now and with oil futures not selling for more than $40.00 until 2022 bankruptcies in shutdowns have already begun is oil storage rises production is shutting down refineries on average are operating in the u.s. below 70 percent some could soon refuse to fulfill their contracts to buy oil invoking a clause that makes it known in void in case of an act of god or myers. supply

. gluck theory it's it's a major imbalance. a dramatic imbalance with no sign of ending any time soon john hendren al-jazeera chicago. al jazeera is investigative unit has obtained exclusive video revealing a backlog of goods at china's biggest export hub that's causing a delay in the supply of medical equipment for health care workers around the world long queues of trucks loaded with cargo at shanghai airport waiting to unload customs and hundreds of boxes are piling up in warehouses china produces nearly half the world's supply of protective medical equipment notably to the u.s. and europe but concerns are growing the quality control rules and exporting cargo is hampering efforts to meet demands worldwide for p p one of china's most famous landmarks has reopened its doors to being shot for months due to the pandemic beijing's forbidden city once home to china's emperors is

a lying up to 5000 visits a day those visitors must maintain social distancing authorities in the capital of loosen travel restrictions for a 5 day national holiday. israel's largest bank has been fined nearly $900000000.00 after admitting that it helped u.s. taxpayers hide their assets abroad american prosecutors say the bank up while in concealed $7600000000.00 and thousands of secret swiss bank and israeli bank accounts the fine is the 2nd largest since 2000 the days in the wake of that she is financial crisis washington launched a crackdown on foreign banks assisting american citizens involved in tax evasion. the 2nd friday of ramadan jerusalem's and aqsa mosque compound remains closed and the streets of the old city are unusually quiet palestinians living in occupied east jerusalem having to adjust to a new way of of observing the holy month while dealing with the economic uncertainty of the lockdown which is here is harry force of reports. holy month

that islam is 3rd holiest site in the courtyards around the mosque in the dome of the rock a 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 of 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 he says business is holding to nothing as customers save their money and there's no familia ramadan 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 in thoughts of religious observance a competing with anxiety of a 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 it 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 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 as 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 work 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 forsett occupied east jerusalem. mexico city's hospitals reach capacity of health care workers have begun to protest over a shortage of supplies and qualified medical stuff they say the health system could soon be overwhelmed. reports now from the mexican capital. 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 fomented where 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 the high fissions the mask known as the n 95 these are in short supply all over the world but in mexico in particular many places have never even had this mass in the wind. as coronavirus contagion in mexico nears its predicted peak so does the expected capacity of the nation's health center to. this emergency room staff and can khun say donations have helped alleviate their demand for protective equipment but they fear the facility will soon be overwhelmed seeing by the government. 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 spaces have also been repurposed to accommodate for unexpected overflow 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. just ahead here all that is our in

sport top level football in portugal gets the green light. far as here with the rest of the baseballs.

the the of the old. home. had a good time to support his far adrian thank you so much english premier league clubs have said they remain committed to finishing this season team officials have been meeting to discuss what needs to be done for games to return liverpool are 2 wins away from winning their 1st title in 30 years staging games at neutral the news

with no fans is one possibility june the 8th is the target date for resumption of further meeting has been scheduled for next friday and a statement the league said the priority is the health and safety of players coaches managers club staff supporters and the wider community the league and clubs are considering the 1st tentative moves forward and will only return to training and playing with government guidance under expert medical advice and after consultation with players and managers tottenham is just one premier league club have opened up its facilities to the case house service and manager josie marino is now helping to organize food deliveries to local families we've got all the and is it is fight against the c.v. 19 and i'm so proud about the club so what i do is nothing. in. in the club that is doing is doing so much but i feel happy to do it i feel happy to go to the 20 ground garden and to be with me the boys that are working

there and. they collect and to teach me how to participate a little. italian football clubs are in agreement that they want to complete their season if they can comply with government guidelines the teams have been meeting by video conference the statement follows comments by the italian sports minister who said it might be wise to write off those campaign clubs are meeting today to discuss their options yes a president says he will never sign off on ending this area season. topflight portuguese football is set to restart at the end of the month the country's prime minister has given the go ahead for games to kick off on may the 30th benfica are the reigning champions and 2nd in the table behind porto matches will be played behind closed doors a portuguese international mario should be playing his club football for lokomotiv moscow in russia the league is currently suspended and it's unclear if the season

will ever be finished i don't know what's going to happen. i don't know what's going to happen in football in general i don't know what's going to be possible what's not going to be possible so i'm excited for everyone also because i'm in loan to understand what's going to be the situation and what the clubs. will be able to do so i'm just waiting like everyone to decide my life bron james is keen to get back playing the basketball star took to social media to give his response to speculation that the n.b.a. season may be cancelled so some reports about exacts and agents why need to cancel season that's absolutely not true nobody i know saying anything like that as soon as it's safe we would like to finish our season i'm ready and our team is ready nobody should be canceling anything. well many grassroots sports coaches in the

united states fear the consequences of the pandemic are hitting disadvantaged young athletes harlem lacrosse is a sporting charity that helps at risk youth that inner city schools across the u.s. since a pandemic the outdoor program has been halted and replaced with online sessions many of the players involved don't have access to why fire safe open spaces at home and coaches are struggling to stay in contact with them and earlier we spoke to devon o'brien he's executive director of harlem lacrosse in new york he told us how their program is one of many to highlight social and economic inequality in the city. coated has highlighted and exacerbated a lot of the inequity that really is with us. and that existing inequity in our city has also catalyze the spread of the virus just very effectively minority and low income communities are being impacted disproportionately relative to white more

affluent communities in new york city. the deficits in resources the deficits and opportunities that already exist for kids or into certain just go to new york everything highlighted so you know it very personal level experience of trying to log in to a digital classroom on a cell phone in a shelter in the bronx body why 5 different then you should log into your digital classroom in a home office but alas i'm so a lot of the demick inequalities and gaps in resources that really been highlighted and there's a lot of barriers right now it's kids go home to their you know to the or you can firemen to engage in online learning there's a lot of barriers to their teaching and just to highlight another you know facet of the inequity here there's a lot of kids that have backyard they have reached age is the may have rebounders they're able to go out practice and you know keep playing the cross and if you're living in public housing in new york city it's just not of these so you know we're organizing work outs we're organizing chalk talk to actions we're trying to keep

engaging this order but it's much tougher in new york city is difficult if you have to that are the virus and or ok this is across these this is what a lot of our kids have been working for they were you know it's 6 grade they wanted to be a senior this spring they wanted to go to the city championships we've been to 3 out of the past 3 years so a lot of kids didn't work their whole middle or high school careers didn't for this time and they're not able to get after which is which is devastating. antanas is taking its 1st steps towards a return to action 8 professionals are taking part in an unofficial event in germany the tennis point exhibition series is for players based in the country firm's social distancing protocols are in place handshakes are out no fans are in attendance and players are only allowed to remove their face masks when they're on court. ok and that is all your sport for now adrian back to you for many thanks indeed that's where that is our grinds to all of course the news never stops i'll

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