side people who look down on them as own skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus i receive messages on the out saying that we are you know so i was a nurse back or what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. they did a deal but was it legal israel's supreme court is about to hear a case to cancel the deal for a new coalition government. plane watching al-jazeera live from doha with me fully back people also ahead heading back to work thousands of palestinians have been kept out of israel because of the coronavirus resumed their jobs. and human rights school called for an investigation after

a prison riot in venezuela that killed more than 40 people and the u.n. warns of a 2nd kind of pandemic as countries fight coronavirus said on world press freedom day insists journalists are key to battling its. thank you for joining us israel's new coalition government is yet to be sawn in but it's already facing a major legal challenge in the coming hour judges at the supreme court will begin to hear a case that argues it is illegal 8 separate petitions have been launched against a power sharing deal between the likud party of benjamin netanyahu and the blue and white party of benny gantz and arrangement was reached between the former rivals following 3 inconclusive elections in a year but later this month netanyahu is due to face corruption charges at speak to harry fossett was at the supreme court in west jerusalem for so hari they've

already been protests over this unity government what exactly is a court considering today. broadly it falls into 2 categories one of them is the ability of benjamin netanyahu to serve as prime minister to form a new government as prime minister while under indictment the corruption case in 3 separate corruption cases. is due to start later this month the 2nd category is as you're saying the legality of this deal it shows just how much mistrust there is on both sides on netanyahu side and on benny gantz a side that they have cut had to come up with an extremely complicated deal that really challenges some of the precepts of the israeli constitution both of them essentially being sworn in as co-equal prime ministers at the same time netanyahu that going 1st for 18 months gets going 2nd netanyahu wanting to guarantee that he maintains that statement even after e.

is due to relinquish the actual number one job in 1000 month's time so he can continue to fight his corruption trial from that kind of position of power while gantz wants to ensure that that transfer of power will go ahead and so to do that they've had to institute changes to the basic law of israel which is going through the israeli knesset the parliament in a single unified bill over the last few days and into the rest of this week and today is the day that the judges will consider the legality of benjamin netanyahu being able to form a new government while under indictment and there are 8 separate petitions to the high court from the israeli opposition from various n.g.o.s and activists groups and these are being considered over the next 2 days by the court and in a rare move in a new opening up of transparency it's being live streamed as well so israelis will

be able to watch the proceedings as they take place so so what are the possible outcomes and in what happens harry if the court rules against the formation of a coalition government. well if they rule against it any of the the things that i mentioned just a minute minutes ago the likud party of benjamin netanyahu says that suit the deal is off and we go to for the elections that will happen anyway as of thursday if for whatever reason this coalition deal is not ratified in the government sworn in because that is the end of the 21 day extension period after which the before the elections will happen in any case now the poll numbers suggest that there is a good deal of support for this government finally to be formed after this more than a year long. political crisis that israel has been grinding its way through inclusive elections there is a pretty widely held impatience for some kind of government to be formed and there

were a poll the poll numbers that suggest that you know would do a good deal better if there were to be a fool for election as well as that the attorney general has ruled in favor of the legality of this government being formed so there are all sorts of pressures on the courts to ratify what is going on but nobody knows exactly how they will decide. all right carrie thank you very much for that as we look at these live pictures from inside the supreme court in west jerusalem these really supreme court today hearing titian's against the coalition government which was agreed between prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival turned hot and now benny gantz we'll bring you the latest on this story throughout the day here on al-jazeera. now thousands of palestinian neighbors are returning to work in israel for the 1st time since crossings were closed in march because of the coronavirus and that make it follows an agreement between israel and the palestinian authority last month some

employers were accused of dumping honesty and workers at checkpoints after they shelled called $900.00 symptoms rights groups accuse israel of failing to and show workers safety al-jazeera is need a brain is in bethlehem and says despite the health risks the workers are an important source of income for the palestinian authority. thousands of palestinian workers are returning to their work in israel after a agreement has been made to allow them to go there and stay there for a couple of weeks this has been a daily commute for many workers but after the outbreak of coverage 19 an agreement has been made for them to stay in israel a similar agreement was made a couple of weeks ago but some of those workers said that they couldn't find suitable accommodation so they came back according to this agreement around 40000 palestinian workers are expected to cross into israel on sunday and monday they are workers in the agriculture industry and construction sectors they are important for

the israeli economy and they're also important for the palestinian economy they generate around 2 and a half $1000000000.00 into the palestinians weak economy every year so it's been a tough decision for the palestinian authority to make on the one hand around 74 percent of infections have come from workers and those around them but at the same time they're crucial for the economy that has already taken a heads because of closures because of covered $900.00 on the way here we've passed through 2 palestinian checkpoints manned by palestinian security forces and they said that they're only allowing entry to those who have originated permits and they can prove that they can stay in israel for a month now work spec to get those workers to come back in 3 weeks or so in time for the islamic holiday over at the footer and this is going to be the real test

for palestinians they said their movement is going to be coordinated with the palestinian authority to ensure that they don't spread infections if and so it's going to be a challenge for the palestinian authority which has already managed to kind of control the outbreak of course as 90. in the united states nearly half of the states have partially reopened for business size the number of deaths processed 66000 more than 1100000 calls in 1000 infections have been reported nationwide but as rob reynolds reports as a glimmer of hope in the state of neil. military jets flew information over the marble monuments of washington d.c. and over a hospital in baltimore in a symbolic salute to doctors nurses hospital workers and others on the front lines fighting the pandemic despite the ceremony health workers in many parts of the country say shortages of personal protective equipment continue in

a hopeful sign for hard hit new york city the last covert 19 patients were discharged from a convention center that had been converted into an emergency hospital the javits center treated more than 1000 people with the disease. and the u.s. navy hospital ship comfort its services no longer needed sailed out to new york harbor despite the glimmerings of hope new york governor andrew cuomo said the virus continues to steal hundreds of lives in the state each and every day that number has remained a bit noxious lee and terrifyingly high and it's still not dropping at the rate we would like to see a drop. in california where governor gavin newsom has ordered all beaches closed protesters complained about not being able to swim sunbathe and

serve there in the minority a new poll shows 70 percent of california residents approve of new sims actions in controlling the pandemic while president trump headed off to camp david for the weekend the white house announced late friday that it would replace the guy. from an inspector general who wrote a critical report on the troubled ministrations response to the outbreak the report said the administration failed to coordinate distribution of desperately needed medical equipment while i think it's a beginning of the seeking to stifle criticism from nonpartizan experts fits a pattern of behavior over drug the data shows he has also refused to allow the government's chief infectious disease expert dr anthony fauci to testify before a committee of the democratic controlled house of representatives next week rob reynolds 0. the united nations human rights commissioner is calling for an

investigation into violence s. left more than 40 inmates dead in a venezuelan prison riot began over a demand for relatives to be allowed to deliver food and warning some of us may find some of the images interests of those reports disturbing the. prisoners from indiana penitentiary taken to a local hospital dozens of them were hurt after a shootout at the prison located in the city of one. around 450 kilometers away from us relatives were anxiously waiting outside the us i thought that at a most of it and we want to know what really happened to our relatives we've been waiting since noon and we still don't know anything human rights representatives have not turned up or anything like i want to know what happened and. pictures shown in local media showed dozens of inmates dead the government says they were trying to escape but human rights groups say they were protesting for food and want a full investigation into what happened. since venezuela imposed

a lockdown to prevent the spread of covert 1000 visiting rights have been suspended prisoners rely on their relatives for food and medicines. but it's not just in venezuela and rest has been on the rise in latin america on saturday in my now state capital of the state of amazon as prisoners kidnapped 7 guards. then set the prison on fire or 30 say they were trying to distract security forces to dig a tan and then escape the incident lasted for about 5 hours. but this operation was a success we had several hostages and all of them are alive there were no casualties on the police side in which there were people injured but nothing serious. violence is a regular occurrence in brazilian prisons as rival gangs fight for control. but the situation is different this time prisons a latin america are overcrowded and lacks any taishan

a ticking time bomb for the spread of colvin 1000. what's going on is that prisoners are afraid because prisons are overcrowded conditions are bad in brazil for example there is no running water so how can you ask inmates to wash their hands restricting visitors is also a problem because it's a lifeline for inmates that depend on them to get food hygiene products. human rights groups say we do sing overcrowding is needed to reduce the spread of disease . but it poses a major challenge for countries where resources are already running short. that is how will. there's been an exchange of gunfire between soldiers on the border between north and south korea multiple shots were fired from north korea towards a guard poles inside the de-militarized zone according to officials in the south south korean troops fired back with 2 shots no injuries have been reported. still

ahead on al-jazeera we examine the call for asking jurors to get vouchers instead of refunds for fines canceled during the coronavirus. bass's silver lining to u.s. sanctions why iraq on believes they could help it weather economic fallout from the quantifiers crisis. but. we got some lovely fine and sunny weather pushing into southwestern parts of europe over the next couple of days a little further north still plenty of weather systems rolling through we are going to see further showers for central parts of france pushing into germany easing across potent and pushing towards the eastern side of doubt as we go on through the next couple days but the showers never really too far away from those central areas as that warmth into the south 29 celsius in regards to

a few showers there for france maybe want to see showers into northern england eastern parts of scotland as well well to those showers affecting norway and sweden the west whether we'll be further racing to see how the showers a lining up there 21 celsius in moscow on sunday still some heat about an 18 in bucharest the colder than it has been recently because we have got rather more clout in than those showers becoming rather lively possibly with some thunder and some hail as we go on into monday much of central europe will be fun to drive by this stage so the 2 celsius in madrid but western part started to see a little bit damp weather pushing in northern areas of portugal could see some rain as well now right in the forecast across northern africa here it's fine and dry lots of warm sunshine coming through we have got showers just around the holidays into the gulf of guinea across a good part of west africa to liberia. i easily test trades and trace frank assessments why is it it's always struggling to

cope with the number coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action we get them behind the curve informed opinion it's going to be much more challenging in a place like e.t.f. with there's one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines india done enough to nip the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on al-jazeera. the. day watching al-jazeera a reminder of the top stories this hour israel's new coalition government is facing a major legal challenge the supreme court is hearing arguments against the power

sharing deal between prime minister binyamin next now and opposition leader benny gantz. thousands of palestinian neighbors are returning to work in israel for the 1st time since crossings were closed in march because of the corner virus pandemic it follows an agreement between israel and the palestinian authority and the un's human rights commissioner is calling for an investigation into the deaths of more than 40 inmates in a venezuelan prison the government says they were trying to escape but human rights groups say the prisoners were demanding for. and the u.s. is reportedly considering retaliatory measures against china for its handling of the coronavirus and that make the move could worsen already strained relations between washington and beijing john hendren reports. president donald trump is reportedly looking for ways to retaliate against beijing for the deadly virus that emanated from china they could have stopped it but they didn't it's something that is going to have to be dealt with i have to say this is red white house managers

are said to be meeting to discuss options that according to the washington post include a lawsuit seeking damages or one of the president's preferred penalties new tariffs . on wall street stocks plunged over tariff fears. there's little doubt the virus began in china's woo-hoo on province and banks goes down early enough that this disease would spread its fair to all process work that this is not a time for asking for compensation or putting it it is economic system and one country this is time. to work together the global pandemic has turned a complex relationship between 2 world powers into a simple one outright rivalry the kras not passing iraq. right. now south. america.

should have been stopped at the source has been fuming about china saying china either knowingly spread the virus or failed to warn the world of a pandemic that has stalled the u.s. economy and dimmed his reelection prospects well there could done it the u.s. and china have had complicated interactions since the handshake in 1972 between president richard nixon inbound the dung that began a profitable but troubled relationship. the state of missouri isn't waiting for the federal government it's already suing china for economic losses and there are private suits including a class action suit by florida businesses that seeks reparations on behalf of foundations of people. china calls the suits political fars distributing a cartoon video that accuses the u.s. of failing to protect its people for months. he said it was dangerous. now in china and in the u.s. the prospect of new economic penalties leaves relations between the superpowers at

their lowest point in the 21st century john hendren al-jazeera chicago germany italy and spain have joined other e.u. states in supporting the suspension of air travel refunds during the pandemic they've called for and i'm so temporarily offer vouchers instead of refunds when trips accounts old and i'm so cross europe have been seeking state bailouts after lockdowns forced them to ground their fleets geoffrey thomas is editor in chief of airline ratings dot com he says a lot more needs to be done to help and. i think across the globe we've all got to make concessions this is all costing us money but at the same time you know whether we whether we're supporting our local leyline or a fiver daylon or a local restaurant with tyco ice. everybody needs help and the airlines are no different because the airlines a losing half of their revenue for 2020 and some of the buy

a lot sort of being required across the globe are absolutely massive the in the united states it's about $50000000000.00 for the usa alliance and they suspect sort of number is replicated in certain jurisdictions and others it is not so there's a lot of given type hiya and certainly we want to preserve as many of these airlines as we possibly can for that very highly competitive market we want post that 19th in certain jurisdictions it has been enough for instance in the middle east some of the countries they have stepped up significantly like qatar in other jurisdictions they haven't been a struggle you know for instance the the federal government there really has not stepped up to support its 2. and so coming out of post would like saying you're going to get some airlines that are very well look just other ones that are not so it will be a it will be a very unbalanced playing field. but 19

a lot more needs to be done because i view is the is the fabric of the economy of the world and we need a robust aligned system to help with this recovery the u.n. expert on freedom of expression says he's received ben-ami accounts of retaliation against janice trying to report on the coronavirus pandemic david kay says governments must stop intimidating the independent press and that's been echoed by the u.n. secretary general. on world press freedom day we call on governments and others to get into their generally skin do their jobs throughout the coverage 1000 pandemic and beyond as the pandemic spreads it has also given rise to a 2nd pandemic of misinformation from harmful health advice to wild conspiracy theories. the press provides the into that very fired scientific fact based news in the know it. but since the pandemic began many journalists are being subjected to

increase restrictions and punishments seem bree's for doing their jobs to terrorise says don measures shouldn't be abused as an excuse to crackdown on journalists while europe still has the most media freedom in the world reporters without borders says the middle east and north africa continue to be the most dangerous places for journalists to work $346.00 journalists are in prison worldwide china saudi arabia and egypt are the worst offenders al-jazeera journalist mahmud hussein has been detained without challenge in egypt's for more than a 100 and more than $1600.00 days they are concerns for his health during this pandemic al jazeera is director general mostafa has written to world leaders urging them to call for the immediate release saying and all other. india meanwhile has dropped 2 places in the world press freedom index reporters without borders says a communication blackout of indian administered kashmir played a heavy role very poor calls the area

a vast open prison yet india's government maintains it is nothing short of absolute media freedom and is worth run a report. for 4 years must for the what has been documenting life in indian administered kashmir the photojournalist says she joined the male dominated field so that she could give a voice to women and children in conflict zones but must says she was shocked when police used what rights groups court of oppressive law and accused her of posting content against the country to disturb law and order these allegations are baseless i don't know any political agenda i'm not any activist i don't i'm not any sort of like do is i don't know i'm not affiliated with any political party or do what i'm applauding are the reality of me. must write as one of several journalists the indian government has accused of carrying out what it calls anti national activities. reporters without borders has ranked india

142 out of 180 countries in its annual press freedom index. the mondrian body says the school was heavily affected by the situation and indeed administered kashmir with the government shutdown telecommunications for several months after provoking the region's special autonomous status that made it difficult for journalists to report on what was happening i don't. spent 9 months in jail after he reported on the increase in soldiers there he was never charged. this gap you are a terrorist i'm a patriot you are an anti national i'm a nationalist the gaps that our government and media have created how do we remove those gaps gaps yes i have. believe the government says it's open to criticism but that there are limits to free speech we have.

somebody. the editor of one of india's few publications that is still critical of the government says press freedom us to be protected so a constitutional democracy. requires the checks and balances of institutions and the press and. the danger of failing to be a constitutional democracy maybe a democracy in the sense that the majority of the world's in some senses but it is not a constitutional democracy and. police are investigating the case against mussarat who says she wants stop working despite facing up to 7 years in jail if convicted reporters without borders says india slipped 2 places on us and because of constant press freedom violations including police violence against journalists it also cited what it called coordinated hate campaigns on social media against journalists

critical of the government's hindu nationalist ideology especially if there woman it is a problem al-jazeera new delhi. at 3rd province in yemen has recorded his 1st case of cold 19 taking the nationwide number of confirmed infections to 10 the governor of thais from and says he's closing the borders for 2 weeks but will continue to an off road and other essential goods store is also ordered mosques and marcus to close and bans launch gatherings. now the global fall in oil prices has left many governments reeling but iran's president says his country's economy's able to cope better than most because u.s. sanctions are forcing it to diversify the reports from tehran. on the day u.s. oil prices fell for than ever before iranian media seemed to relish the news many say the united states has used oil like a weapon against iran for years and its effectiveness was ending iran's president

said u.s. sanctions had helped his country become less susceptible to the tumbling market iran he said is no less reliant on oil how many. more how many only rich countries including us were hit by the situation some more some less so we will be hit list in other countries iran has spent years trying to move away from an oil based economy but still sells oil through back channels. if we want to say that iran's economy was not affected by the oil price drop i think that's wrong it has definitely been impacted but if other countries fell from the 10th floor then iran fell from the 2nd floor because iran has already fallen in the past due to sanctions. iran is trying to make up for lost oil revenue by manufacturing more goods it can sell abroad as well as building up other industries such as plastics mining and agriculture the government says non oil exports to china and neighboring countries have increased but oil and gas are still vital to its economy iran has

expanded refining capacity in recent years and unveiled a new oil field in the southwest of the country. it also has a large domestic market because of u.s. sanctions iran has been unable to freely so its oil the government has for years been trying to diversify the economy to get away from depending on oil as its main source of revenue but one of the things that leaders said they had to do was remove state subsidies on things like gas to ease the government's financial burden. in november last year the price of petrol at the pumps doubled in some cases tripled overnight it sparked the worst protests since the 1979 islamic revolution the death toll from the violence security crackdown that followed is still unclear when global oil prices fell earlier this month some on social media began asking for the savings to be passed on to them now that the oil price is equal to the price of dirt shouldn't the price of gasoline and other crude products go down to

said $1.00 gasoline in the us and europe is cheaper than iran joked another a common saying here is that prices go up never down and there's another financial pinch coming the latest government budget includes a plan to increase revenues by raising taxes the same bus or to her on. her again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera israel's new coalition government is facing a major legal challenge the supreme court is hearing arguments against a power sharing deal between prime minister benjamin netanyahu and opposition leader harry fossett has more from. one of them is the ability of benjamin netanyahu to serve as prime minister or at least to form a new government as prime minister while under indictment the corruption case

in 3 separate corruption cases is due to start later this month the 2nd category is as you're saying the legality of this deal it shows just how much mistrust there is on both sides on netanyahu side and on benny gantz a side that they have cut had to come up with an extremely complicated deal that really challenges some of the precepts of the israeli constitution thousands of palestinian neighbors are returning to work in israel for the 1st time since crossings were closed in march because of the coronavirus pandemic that follows an agreement between israel and the palestinian authority the un's human rights commissioner is calling for an investigation into the death of more than 40 inmates in a venezuelan prison the government says they were trying to escape but he men rights groups say the prisoners were demanding food nearly half of us states have partially reopened for business as a number of deaths bass's 68000 more than 1100000 calls 1000 infections have been

reported nationwide germany italy and spain have joined other e.u. states in supporting the suspension of legally required air travel refunds during the pandemic of call for airlines to temporarily offer vouchers instead of refunds when trips are cancelled and ions across europe have been seeking state bailouts. and there's been an exchange of gunfire between soldiers on the border between north and south korea multiple shots were fired from the north towards a god polls inside the de-militarized zone according to officials in the south south korean troops fired back with 2 shots no injuries have been reported those are the headlines on al-jazeera as always more news on our website at al-jazeera dot com the very latest on all of our top stories on their al-jazeera dot com i'll be back with you right after inside story 2 serious drew out history behind has come together in our darkest moments this is

a moment to work pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world you can actually see that every generation has its moment this war is ours. trucking the pandemic that and i for some governments want to use small focused tools to contain the spread of coronavirus critics are worried about the risk to prove a seat and security so how should we manage these consider this is inside still. hello welcome to the program i'm burnitz to try and stay ahead of coronavirus governments all over the world a look.