for the love of his homeland. football rebels delves into the realm of footballing legend rashid lived through free. fall of the algerian national liberation front with his feet. and the f.l.n. team on al-jazeera. an experimental antiviral drug is authorized as an emergency treatment for covert 19 patients in the united states. during peace adobe you're watching al-jazeera live from our headquarters here and also coming up north korea's leader makes his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks after rumors he was seriously ill. canadians deserve more

than thoughts prayers. the canadian prime minister just in food bans 1500 types of assault weapons in response to the country's worst mass shooting. also ahead filling up fast with more on the way to report on the crude storage crisis from a place known as the world's oil crossroads. an experimental antiviral drug has been approved for emergency use in freezing coronavirus patients in the united states 1500000 vials of the drug disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday the regulator gave its approval after a government sponsored study showed the medication shortened patients recovery time by about 30 percent and slightly improved mortality rates the boss of sciences the

company that makes room disappear says they are now increasing production. and we're also fully committed to continuing to expand the supply of this medicine and we started investing in this back in january as soon as we became aware of the krona virus this is a long time to manufacture it used to be 12 months it's now 6 months our scientists have brought that down and so as we get into the 2nd half of this year we're able to have many more supplies available to patients and we're fully committed to working and to present with you your ministration to make sure that patients and you can get this important new medicine stay with us story mike hanna has more from washington. it has been given an emergency use flagged by the f.d.a. which means that it can be used under very tightly controlled conditions which will be part of the ongoing survey into the a take a c. of the drug now within the u.s. the f.d.a. some urgency rissa lucian was given on the basis of a single trial in which patients were shown to recover 4 days quicker from the

corona virus than those who were given a placebo within the trial but it was a very narrow trial involving just a little more than a 1000 people the emergency approval by the f.d.a. means that wider studies will be able to be made on the drug that 1st of all there's got to be at some stage be a peer review which is an essential part of full f.d.a. approval so it's a long way away i must mention to you as well that the answer to magazine reported on a similar study on. being conducted in china which did not produce as favorable results and did show that patients recovered a little bit faster but not to the extent to which the us trial showed also one must say that as ever with this administration there are some conflicts of interest involved a very senior official in the us health department is a former lobbyist for gilliard science the company that produces this particular

drug and also one must ironically that the trumpet ministration was suing science only in the vendor last year for price gouging on another off the drugs that it produced so certainly there are a lot of issues here both pertaining to the if we can see of the drug and also a possible conflict of interest involved with the mass production of the drug at this particular point well the world health organization meanwhile has been speaking about the origins of the corona virus the w.h.o. chief was asked about speculation from the likes of president donald trump that it was created in a chinese lab. we have listened again and again numerous scientists who've looked at the sequences looked at this wireless and we are assured this wireless is natural in origin and what is important is that we establish what that natural host for this virus is. and that and the primary purpose of doing

that is to ensure that we understand the virus more we understand the animal human . interface and we understand how the. species barrier was breached and the purpose of understanding that is that we can put in place the necessary prevention and public health measures to prevent that happening again anywhere more on the virus later for now another developing story for you north korean state media says kim jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly show the leader opening a fertilizer factory rumors have been swirling about his health and even as possible death it's also been speculated that china sent a team of doctors to treat him after a heart procedure had gone wrong rob mcbride joins us live now from the south korean capital so rob good morning so he's alive and well what do we make of the pictures. that's right apparently so this report was

released by state run news agency k c.n.a. reporting the conjunct. company by his sister kim jung john attended the opening of the ribbon cutting ceremony at a fertilizer plant apparently according to the news agency there was rapturous applause from the workers there this all happened on may 1st which is a fitting way of marking workers' workers' day in north korea we've no reason to suspect that this didn't happen but we only have the one news agency report to go on and also these 2 photographs showing the redbook ribbon cutting and also kim jong un in attendance it's a if it's true then it does settle all of the speculation that has been swirling for several weeks now about his condition is this all originated of course because he missed a very important celebration 2 weeks ago the day of sun this is the day when the

whole of north korea celebrates the birth date of kim il sung the founding father of north korea and kim jong un's grandfather he missed that and followed shortly after by all sorts of speculation that maybe he had some sort of procedure maybe it went wrong some news agencies and some news media even reporting that he was gravely ill gravely sick well it seems to disprove that fact that he is alive and well and back attending these very public events once all but given how closed in on itself north korea is and given how much control he exerts over the country is there a chance here rob we may never know the real timeline of what really happened to him. quite possibly i think when it comes to the activities of the leader of north korea it is of course one of the most secretive opaque countries in the world when it comes to the activities of the leader and more so the health of the leader then we really have very little information to to

go on and when we get disappearances like this then we do tend to get all sorts of theories cropping up quite naturally relying upon all sorts of sources possibly defectors people who say they have contacts in north korea it is interesting that with all of the speculation that was mounting over the past couple of weeks people here in south korea work work work quite skeptical about all of this they of course monitor north korea very closely are always looking northwards in the intelligence agencies here were really downplaying a lot of all of this speculation saying that they had not really detected any other signs that you would normally get that there was something wrong at the very top of the hierarchy any unusual troop movements and so on so it has to be said that here in south korea where they process an awful lot of this secondhand reporting or rumor mongering that they were quite skeptical about these reports but it does highlight as well just about the how what kind of a rupture it would cause in this part of the world if you did lose somebody like

kim jong un because it would leave such. such a vacancy such a gap at the top because of the cult that surrounds him so it is a bit of a wake up call and just remind people once more of just the fragile nature of things in this part of the world rob thanks very much. canada is banning assault style weapons after the country's deadliest mass shooting 2 weeks ago 22 people were killed in nova scotia when a man dressed as a policeman went on a shooting rampage the ban comes into effect immediately but there will be a 2 year amnesty for people to dispose of weapons they already oh the government also plans to introduce a gun buyback program these weapons were designed for one purpose and one purpose only to kill the largest number of people in the shortest amount of time there is no use and no place for such weapons in canada

outsiders daniel lak is in toronto he explains now how canadians are reacting. in rural areas hunting in gun ownership is popular responsible and legal hunting and gun ownership but urban areas of the places where gun crime has happened and this is not going to be an unpopular move by the prime minister and his government they were elected for the 1st time in a landslide 2015 and last october in a strong minority both times promising to bring in stricter gun control so this is probably going to be welcomed across the board basically they're looking at $1500.00 different types of assault weapon popular a r 15 that you see so often affiliated with mass shootings in the united states that in all of its variants and there are hundreds of them are now completely illegal in canada as are all sorts of other automatic or semiautomatic weapons made by other manufacturers but what's not been made illegal here are handguns and that's where

critics or gun advocates are coming in and saying most gun crime in canada is committed with handguns that involves gangs or narcotic drugs and those are not being made illegal they remain just restricted so there is still a gun control debate to be had here but for now it's settled on the matter of assault weapons they are now completely illegal in canada. forces loyal to the libyan war lords has killed at least 2 civilians in tripoli earlier the u.n. recognized government carried out strikes on a military convoy of the capital is the. this airstrike was carried out by libya's un recognized government in tripoli it targeted a supply chain for the forces of warlord honey for half dot who has recently lost control of nearly 6 towns and cities in the west of the country. earlier this week have to abruptly called for

a ceasefire during the month of ramadan giving him time to reorganize his overstretched supply lines. the government in tripoli rejected that saying have has not abided by previous cease fires analysts say have to it is losing momentum he declared himself the leader of the country this week insisting he has popular mandate to govern libya but that was shortly after losing more ground in his military campaign to take control of the capital it will be. bad this is his forces that was significant ground 0 on saddam on those bridges and then also 'd in the. major was the. this was the amount of losses both boat battles and strategic. about libya has been divided by warring factions since the overthrow of longtime leader moammar gadhafi 9 years ago the situation on the ground is changing day by

day the un recognized government in tripoli controls this area in blue well have to out and his self declared libyan national army control the areas in red and his forces are based in the eastern city of tobruk. in a statement the un's mission to libya said it is very concerned by the targeting of civilians in civilian populated areas and the encrease and civilian casualties from the use of rockets and artillery. after a year of fighting the forces back recognized government in tripoli appear to have the upper hand in this ever changing battle for control of libya. al jazeera. still to come here on al-jazeera coronavirus disparity the u.k. data showing some ethnic groups are much more vulnerable to prove it 19. and u.s. democratic presidential hopeful joe biden speaks out to deny allegations of sexual assault.

hello we still got some very hot sunshine across northern parts of china for the time being that will change as we go through the next couple of days area cloud into central areas of china that's going to push out into the east china sea eventually we'll see some wetter weather just not doing its way towards south korea towards southern parts of japan but head of that saturday that's was dry and sunny we're getting up to around $28.00 celsius in tokyo that cloud on the right that will continue to ease further east with so it will cloud over it will turn increasingly wet some heavy downpours for the far south of japan and also into south korea as we go through sunday still some showers there into southern areas of china but for the far south you too bad hong kong around 31 celsius in the sunshine sunshine the showers meanwhile across

a good part of southeast asia some of the showers on the live beside the seasonal rains of course and the great surprises here and wet weather anywhere from the philippines through malaysia indonesia to pat wanted to showers that a possibility one of those ones are those showers just pushing up towards malaysia pushing up into good parts of thailand from time to time and i showers just not in the way a little further north woods and west was we will see some showers there into the eastern side of the by a bingo much of injuries dry and sunny but showers for the northeast. in countries like mine people have been killed too because we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function or this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the path of alms deals you know you will rumsfeld was meeting saddam isn't that interesting there are

a shadow on al-jazeera. world. welcome back you're watching al-jazeera i'm peter double your top stories an experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u.s. food and drug administration for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients 1500000 vials of rem disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday. north korean state media says kim jong il now has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly show the leader opening a fertilizer factory rumors have been swirling about his health and even his

possible death. assault style rifle to be immediately banned in canada that's in response to the country's worst mass shooting a little less than 2 weeks ago in the. fighting on the yemeni island of has stopped after an agreement was reached between government forces and u.s. backed separatists. troops pushed back to separate us from the island's provincial capital on friday under the agreement saudi forces will secure the city and both sides will remove checkpoints and military vehicles. statistics are emerging in the u.k. showing the curve at 19 death rate is higher among ethnic minorities the total number of u.k. deaths has risen beyond $27.00 and a half 1000 but other parts of europe continue to see more promising signs of recovery is not in bob. frankly is it going in the right direction in space health

workers celebrating the closure of a huge field hospital installed at the end of march in la driggs largest conference center but although covered 19 infections are holding these facilities will remain in place in case there's a new outbreak i mentioned i want and i want them all and i feel happy because we have won the 1st battle of this great virus let's hope it was the wall but if not we will return here with more strength than before to continue fighting spain's had one of the toughest lock downs but from this weekend people will be allowed to leave home for exercise on their own of course the crisis is having a huge financial effect to the government now says it expects the economy to shrink by 9.2 percent this year the only places in europe with higher official death tolls than spain or italy and here in britain following fierce criticism over the relatively low covered 19 testing levels the british government has been increasing its capacity it wants to put in place a network to test track and trace people with the virus as it looks to ease lock down restrictions and it's announced it's a past its target of 100000 tests

a day for the end of april testing is crucial to suppress the virus i know from personal experience to just how much people with symptoms want to know if they've got the disease i know that i did it helps remove the worry it helps keep people safe and it will help others to unlock the lock down. meanwhile worrying statistics of emerge suggesting coronavirus disparities a new study in england says the death rate among british black africans and british pakistanis is more than 2 and a half times that of the white population and people in the poorest parts of britain are dying from cobbett 19 a double the rate of people in the richest areas on friday the french president explained the traditional may day events including protests to work possible because of coronavirus restrictions but he said the spirit of workers solidarity was stronger than ever. it's thanks to the work is being celebrated today that our

nation is still standing it's thanks to the work and dedication of our health workers our security forces and our military that we're saving so many lives every day there were demonstrations elsewhere like this one outside the greek parliament in athens keeping their distance but determined to keep up the pressure on the government. today the country's working class despite protective measures to minimize the spread of the fire is here has a voice demands not to be burdened by the crisis which is excel or rating because of the pandemic. friday also marked the catholic church's feast of st joseph the worker pope francis used the morning mass in the vatican to say too many people globally are either denied a fair wage or treated like slaves in forced labor his audience just a few months from priests his message universal the barber al jazeera. al jazeera is investigative unit has obtained exclusive video revealing

a backlog of goods at china's biggest export hub this is causing a delay in the supply of medical equipment for the world's health care workers long queues of trucks loaded with cargo at shanghai airport are 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 well for now is executive producer at al-jazeera as investigative unit he explains now why the supplies are stuck china as you rightly said produces just about half of the world's protective medical equipment they exported very large quantities of it to europe back in march when the pandemic started to take grip unfortunately there were significant congress which had some standard or counterfeit goods which caused a huge amounts of critical focus to come on china very embarrassing for china as the world's manufacturer as a response to that they tightened up their export and quality rules now it appears

from having talked to various shipping agencies in in china those rules have been applied in a very rigid bureaucratic manner and in a slightly haphazard way which is resulted in this enormous gridlock of masks surgical gowns ventilators all of the material they're so desperately needed currently by frontline workers in the battle against coated 90. and it's on the record it's been widely reported. italy spain holland i think the u.k. also return significant batches of equipment which we seem to be not made of the materials they require for what's highly sensitive and difficult work which which requires good quality material is a barrier against a virus so it's possible of course batches go through that when it returns but that the key thing is china actually did react to this did tighten up the rules but the

consequences of not of causing house may be far greater issue. south africa has begun to ease certain covert 19 restrictions after 5 weeks of locked up. to reopen on friday and people are now allowed to leave their homes to exercise for me the miller is in johannesburg. this is the main highway between johannesburg. and police have set up one of the largest road blocks in the syria there are also soldiers here to ensure the people i'd hearing to the lock down restrictions now 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

adhere 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 banned . police will likely see thousands of the opals 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 the people i'd hearing to the lock down regulations and even those of africa has now moved to a level $41.00 level lower than previously we're actually seeing more officials and more security officials monitoring the lockdown an agreement reached last month

among the world's top oil producers to cut has now come into effect the global oil benchmark brant crude hit a 21 year low last month and long term squeeze demand there was also a price war between saudi arabia and russia donald trump reportedly made veiled threats about withdrawing u.s. military forces from saudi arabia to pressure the kingdom into ending the price war and slashing output africa's largest oil producer nigeria is having to make some painful decisions as it adjusts to much lower prices and interest reports now from the capital. it's been a particularly difficult year for nigerians who are 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 clock will do with you storage facilities the options for nigeria like many small and medium

sized producers is to give all or shut down somewhere else. what were 52 days in on president of glaad nobody has ever been taken to the beyond but is into storage within 2 weeks that's never happened what it means when when countries come back to work i'll be 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 it doubles identity for companies that you've had to shut down can i bring back the wells if i can bring back do with what happens next for you a bit of pain of somebody that you could call but that's not a permanent judgment the kind of 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 products i believe from the audience and michael. and that's. true. internationally. and that's what's much. more important and that's. a little even an average nigerian a big forecast could even get worse if the kind of market charge continues for a long time. joe biden who's all but certain to take on

donald trump in this year's u.s. election has spoken publicly any allegation of sexual assault has been made by a woman who worked for the form of vice president when he was a senator his alan fischer. it still many to talk about the biden presidential campaign for weeks and it wasn't going away former senate aide tara reid claims she was sexually assaulted when she walked with then senator joe biden and allegations she only made public in the last few weeks an allegation biden could no longer ignore no it is not true i'm saying on a quickly it never never happened and it didn't they never happened i don't remember any type of complaint she may have made it was 27 years ago and i don't remember nor does anyone else that i'm aware of democrats have been pushed to address the allegation in the last few days speaker nancy pelosi who endorsed by this week insisted she has no doubts about the former vice president i have

a great comfort level with the situation as i see it with all the respect in the world for any woman who comes forward. republicans accuse democrats of double standard saying they were ignoring the allegation against their presidential hopeful while they piled on when supreme court justice brett kavanaugh was accused of sexual assault the for his eventual confirmation more than 20 women have accused president donald trump of sexual assault he was also caught on tape bragging of assaulting women he denies all the allegations and offered tepid support to joe biden at the white house on thursday you know. it could be false accusations i know all about false accusations have been falsely charged numerous times and there is such a thing one political analyst says republicans will use the one allegation against joe biden to continue to attack him one of the things that the trump people do in

their strategic movers is they don't try to claim to be superior they trying to create moral equivalence so they say you're just as bad as i am which makes you a hypocrite which makes you worse you know. you know it's very of that with. joe biden knew he could no longer ignore the allegation against him he's ahead in the polls particularly with women he'll be hoping by addressing it no it won't continue to be an issue in november election alan fischer al jazeera washington. ok let's get right up to speed with all the main developments so far an experimental antiviral drug has been authorized by the u.s. food and drug administration for emergency use in treating coronavirus patients 1500000 vials of rum disappear will be distributed to hospitals from monday.

and we're also fully committed to continue to expand the supply of this medicine and we started investing in this back in january as soon as we came in where the chrono virus this is a long time to manufacture it used to be 12 months it's now 6 months or scientists have brought that down and so as we get into the 2nd half of this year we're able to have many more supplies available to patients and we're fully committed to working with the president with you here ministration to make sure that patients and you can put important new medicines. north korean state media says kin jong un has made his 1st public appearance in almost 3 weeks these images reportedly show him opening a fertilizer factory rumors have been swirling about his health and even his possible death bride has more now from the south korean capital seoul no reason to suspect that this didn't happen but we only have one news agency report to go on and also these 2 photographs showing the redbook ribbon cutting and also kim jong

un in attendance it's a if it's true then it does settle all of the speculation that has been swirling for several weeks now about his condition this all originated of course because he missed a very important celebration 2 weeks ago the day of sun this is the day when the whole of north korea celebrates the birth date of kim il sung the founding father of north korea assault style rifles are being immediately banned in canada in response to the country's worst mass shooting a little less than 2 weeks ago. facing only a mini island of so-called has stopped off from agreement was reached between government forces and you eat backed separatists troops pushed back the separatists from the island's provincial capital on friday those are your headlines up next the inside story i'm back immediately after that with a quick summary of al-jazeera will use it will see you very soon.

we're resuming warfare those are the words of colombia's largest army who after a month long cease fire the national liberation army says the government is willing to talk so what does that mean for peace in colombia this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. we're talking colombia today the national liberation army better known as the e l

n says it's resuming its 5 decades long armed activity after declaring a ceasefire in.