into the realm of footballing legend rush to free. the algerian national liberation front. with his feet. and the f.l.n. . on al jazeera. back to school students in china's coronavirus at the center rouhani returned to their classes. i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera life and also coming up a top health official sacked by the trump administration files a complaint saying his early warnings about corona virus were ignored. activists in the philippines raise their voices after its leading broadcaster is forced off air . and a syrian family that lost everything returns to what's left of their home to celebrate

ramadan. more than 58000 high school students in china's coronavirus epicenter rojas are back in class for the 1st time since the outbreak began after being closed for 4 months where the 120 schools have now resumed the middle school students they are still staying at home who by province where it is located has gradually ease its lockdown since april no new cases have been reported for nearly a month to live now to betray you she joins us live in beijing katrina sure the world is going to be watching as the you know places start to reopen what effect this may have on the spread of the disease house is going to play out. well the way it's playing out here in china is that this is being hailed as a triumph as a milestone for will one city which of course was the epicenter of the virus here

in china the people living in ruhani experience the most severe lockdown measures because of the current virus outbreak so also a lot of relief coming from families there as you mentioned 58000 students are for the 1st time in weeks stepping back into their classrooms they're going to schools more than 120 schools opening doors across the city but it's not classes as they remember as their classes are being split into smaller groups to maintain some sort of social distance between the students they're expected to wear masks at all times and also there will have their temperatures regularly checked at the same time the schools are emptier than usual because it's only senior school students who are attending class again they've been prioritised because they're preparing for the very important university entrance exams which will be taking place in july now these students are joining the other students and their age around the country who

have been returning to school more or less in the last few weeks and it's one of these important indicators here in china that things are going back to normal another announcement we heard today on wednesday was that shanghai disneyland will return to opening hours next week from monday also the national people's congress china's most important political event of the calendar will be held at the end of may after being perspiring for about 2 months and this follows weeks of dwindling coronavirus cases here in china we've had single digits of new cases more sleep in port it cases in the last few weeks and a province has not seen a new case in the last 31 days but still china is not completely out of the woods and the government is maintaining some precautions and certainly we have the senior school students back at school but we are yet to see a timetable for younger high school students and primary school students here in

china all right katrina you live in beijing katrina thank you very much. yes president's handling on the coronavirus crisis is under greater scrutiny after accusations he sought quick fixes by rushing unproven drugs to patients and as the death toll passes 70000 in the us donald trump says he's considering winding down a virus taskforce set up to respond to the pandemic i can as the latest from washington no facemask for the president while visiting an aerospace company repurposed to produce masks this in defiance of his administration's guidelines that masks should be worn in public at all times the president confirmed reports that he was considering shutting down the coronavirus task force that has been responsible for the federal response to the pandemic as far as the task force my pension the task force and done a great job but we're now looking at a little bit of a different form and their former safety and opening and we'll. have

a different group probably set up for the more you saying mission accomplished no no no no the mission accomplished is when it's over while the president was on his travels this document was handed over to the office of the special counsel an $89.00 page whistle blower report alleging the trumpet ministration ignored early warnings about the coronavirus the authors dr rick bright the former director of the biomedical advanced research and development authority the country's controlling body put vaccine production he alleges he was unfairly removed from his job following complaints about the administration's lack of urgency in reacting to the pandemic he also specifically mentions resisting pressure from senior officials to fast track the use of the drug hydroxy korak when and chloroquine itself in treatment for the virus with the drug was heavily and repeatedly touted by the president himself as a task force briefings i think it's going to be very exciting i think it could be.

the game changer in maybe not in maybe not but i think it could be based on what i see it could be a game changer dr bright contends his opposition to this position led directly to suspected demotion as officials sought to placate the president now a lot of what dr great a whistleblower complaint is about her demonstrate the extent to which the government at the higher level is committed not to solving the problem but to keeping down trump happy today keeping him happy to morrow and that's not a way to address a very major problem like this it was only a week ago that the f.d.a. for me cautioned against the use of these drugs for the treatment of coronavirus despite the warnings that dr brite made back in january perhaps the most damning allegation in the report is that the administration ignored or pushed back against dr brights e-mails warning of the severity of the virus and insisting that the

national stockpile of masks and ventilators needed to be augmented and like other government officials who've been demoted or fired dr bright is demanding his job back and congress will now get involved dr brights lawyers confirm he's been invited to give evidence to a house committee on thursday next week mike hanna al-jazeera washington. any u.s. involvement in what then as well as president has described as a coup attempt because ventura says americans are among 13 people arrested as part of an alleged plot to kill an opposition leader one glider also denies any role on home has more. 2 americans come to the along with 11 others after a failed on the incursion into venezuela they tried to get him by sea but the plan floundered of the coast 8 were killed according to the venezuelan government minister lionel's this man said he did. jordan good throws the u.s.

sick special forces soldier turned security. he was aiming to topple nicolas maduro together with a few dozen ex members of venezuela's armed forces but something 100 hours a daring and fabulous raid was launched from the border of colombia deep into the heart of caracas our men are continuing to fight right now by drew himself claimed that his long time enemies were behind it yet yesterday sunday made venezuela face down an attempted maritime incursion from terrorists mercenaries that were trained in colombian territory and financing and support from the united states and the current colombian government on tuesday president trump dismissed that nothing to do with our government the venezuelan government also claimed that opposition leader white though recognized by more than 50 countries as venezuela's legitimate leader was in on the plot he also roundly denied that saying this was a ploy to distract from the country's many problems. there will be

chaos and they want to hide it they want to hide the lack of gasoline in the main cities and want to hide the struggle of hundreds of thousands of in of swale ans here they are the fisherman protesting again asking for the rights to make a living to buy gasoline to feed their families with dura is chaos the opposition say they fear this will be used to persecute them. and the madrid or administration is deploying $25000.00 security personnel to search for anyone else involved they said i'm probably going to be out of the opera he's under pressure himself not just internally but increasingly from u.s. officials who slapped a $50000000.00 bounty on his head on narco terrorism charges. however real the press the incursion was it does give his government something else to talk about john home and al-jazeera. human rights groups are criticizing the closure of a leading broadcast network in the philippines calling it a serious blow to press freedom a.b.s. c.p.m. was ordered shot after its attempt to redo its operating license stalled activists

light candles outside its office after the announcement despite the lockdown president rugova territory has repeatedly criticized the network opponents have accused him of targeting independent media jamil aland ogun is in manila and says this is not the 1st time the channel has gone off air. there is strong opposition online and also in other interviews where government officials specially those in congress have actually in a way apologized to the network for failing to pass and help renew its license early enough we've been listening to different interviews with lawmakers here and they basically said that they're going to try to find and vote within the next 10 days as required by this order in order to hopefully renew the license of a.b.s.e b.n. however in other platforms for example a.b.s. event is still able to air both in cable and online and even if the government perhaps denies that they have something to do with this for example the solicitor

general the government's top lawyer has submitted that with titian in the supreme court against a.b.s.e b.n. and just a little over a week ago also cautioned the national telecommunications commission of issuing a provisional authority that me allow the network to continue airing and basically a provisional authority for its franchise while the well congress that liberates so we can see very strong outreach here at this point re largely online by those who see the network as something that has been critical in providing information and lastly a most important part about this according to rights groups is that this is not the 1st time that a.b. a c.b.s. been shut down it was shut down in 1972 when president marcos declared martial law it remained close for 14 years until the marcos dictatorship was toppled in 1986 so this is basically people saying history may be repeating itself at this point. aaron report says more people were displaced by conflict in syria last year than

anywhere else in the world barely a 1000000 people fled a government offensive and december sent a cease fire in march tens of thousands have returned to their homes many found them destroyed or bored mainly reports. celebrating the holy month of ramadan in the. dark and his family finances from dusk until dawn now they are breaking that fast in what was once their home. a splash of color in a sea of crushed concrete. says he fled his home marry her the end of the year when the syrian army and the russians bombed this area. now my family and i here on top of the destruction we are reliving a very difficult and painful memory i pray that god doesn't lead anyone else experience this his mother says with

a kitchen destroyed ready meals from outside and. the most important thing is that we relive our memories and eat in our. army how is situated in provence a few kilometers west of the strategic and 5 highway. healthy years by rebel forces it was the major target for the syrian government to capture during an offensive in december nearly a 1000000 people were displaced by the violence most fled north arriving at the turkish border where many live in makeshift camps a recent un report says in 2019 syria had the largest number of new displacements of any country almost 1900000 the situation for displaced people living at the buddha was dire. when a cease fire was agreed between russia and turkey in march tens of thousands of

people returned to their homes. some like family found them completely destroyed but many found it easier to live amongst the ruins rather than return to the camps. a manly al-jazeera. still ahead on al-jazeera opening up south korea for the racist restrictions find out what a return to near normality means for people. and anger in peru over the rising deaths related to corona virus. had a real east west display it's across europe at the moment of the cloud the rain heavy at times on tools wesson clear skies and the temperatures are on the rise quite a mix of conditions across into poland sunny skies eventually once the fog lifts

this is down into southern poland and way up there in some petersburg in russia we have got some glorious sunshine nichols have worked out about enjoying the cherry blossom now very unsettled picture across eastern areas temperatures a little bit lower just 11 celsius and also 15 in care of more rain of course is all the recent flooding pictures just a day ago and meanwhile as across the west we've got most of his guys that he calls into germany improving weather through much of france and the u.k. and as i say these temperatures all set to rise but very warm across much of spain time which has been very high across areas in the south because he touches on thursday continuing to rise steadily 22 in paris and up to 27 degrees in madrid generally fine across the med still that rain to clear away from areas in the east northern areas of africa are fine and dry what we've seen father to the south some very strong winds and look at this this is where we have these strong winds coming in from the desert and it just kicks up all the dust and this is the result of very dangerous conditions it will stay windy as a go through wednesday by thursday the winds calm a little uncertain cools off in tripoli at 27.

you're watching al-jazeera reminder the top stories we're following for you thousands of high school students have returned to their classes in china's will on city after months and lockdown the big province was the initial at the center of the outbreak run a wire which was 1st detected andy samberg. former top official has accused the white house of seeking quick fixes by recommending unproven drugs to treat one of virus patients or bright says he was fired for raising concerns about president trump's policy. rights groups condemn a decision to shut down a leading broadcast network and the philippines because of an expired license the channel frequently aired critical coverage of the government and was consistently attacked our president margaret go to territory who denies having anything to do with the shutdown. south korea is further easing coronavirus restrictions as the number of cases declines reported only 2 infections on tuesday its lowest daily increase since february both cases were imported and there were no local infections

for authority and secular day or businesses are reopening and social events are being allowed south koreans started returning to work last month and south korea's being praised for the way it contained the virus soon after the 1st infection was confirmed in january testing kits were quickly approved and patients isolated bubble tracking apps drive through testing and quarantine violation fines to test trace and contain the virus were all introduced early on the number of krona virus infections hit a peak on february 29th the infection curve flattened significantly after that a mid april new baksh and reduced to single digits allowing the parliament mentary election to be held to a $55.00 south koreans have died in more than 10000 cases recorded bright as more from inside the museum of modern art and sold. this is a further indication of restrictions here in south korea gradually being lifted as the country emerges into this strange new post virus world here at the museum of

modern art along with other museums galleries libraries across south korea they are all being allowed to open but only with very strict precautions being in place we have the usual temperature checks of everyone entering the numbers here are strictly controlled 1st of all you would have to have registered online to visit your museum of modern art and with no more than 100 people at any one time allowed inside it's basically all part of what's known here as every day life quarantine basically the new normal but it's one the south koreans we've been speaking to seem to accept as part of the recovery from this outbreak and they are certainly welcoming the fact that they can now get back into public venues pound the limited the number of people here which is good because it's not so crowded and that means not what it is people are still aware of the distancing measures also being allowed

for the 1st time religious gatherings sporting events all those occasions that bring people together as long as they're still practicing the basic principles of social distancing then they're allowed to do so. the living conditions of low paid foreign workers in singapore is coming under scrutiny they are considered particularly vulnerable as many sleep and overcrowded torment tori's the country as nearly $20000.00 cases of covert 19 points lower courts. this is what home looks like for 200000 foreign workers who live in government licensed dormitories migrants account for 85 percent of all covert 19 tases here al-jazeera spoke on the phone to a migrant worker living in one of the dormitories. he asked not to be identified a few times like. he's tested negative but still worries about contracting the virus right now and.

i. want. an academic in new zealand who's done research on migrant workers and think a poll says the inability to maintain physical distance it can cause a worker's health to suffer. the way. to practice it is simply that structure of the. practice. is a great deal of anxiety in. its place thousands of healthy all recovered workers have been moved to floating hotels or military barracks to curb the spread of the coronavirus the singapore government which already has one of the highest testing rates in the world is planning to boost its capacity to 40000 tests a day the manpower minister has promised to improve the dormitories as soon as the

virus crisis eason's but a migrant workers' rights group says living conditions are a sign of a much bigger problem. even. among. housing conditions. either. the same. oh this problem with us he says workers often pain and lies to buy employees for being absent which could have detected some from seeking medical attention about 20 percent of singapore's population are foreign workers there and relatively low paying jobs such as construction and manufacturing the city state doesn't have a minimum wage activists say the government has not only needs to reexamine its

reliance on cheap imported labor but also the level of protection workers have florence louis 0 credible as long as an african countries have been particularly devastating for those who rely on the informal economy or that 80 percent of zimbabwe and earn their living from unregulated jobs markets have been shut and the use of public taxis suspended until the end of the month and wasn't mozambique small scale farmers account for almost all of the country's agriculture they have been forced to drop prices as working restrictions cut off labor and in south africa undocumented migrants have been excluded from receiving financial aid or food parcels as a political and social commentator and johannesburg explains some of the challenges people are facing. in the initial implementation of the lock downs a lot of people who fell through the cracks and they weren't able to get access

to any financial aid. weren't able to get access to food. so. a lot of people left in a situation where they couldn't work and they couldn't get any. and they were just facing a hopeless you know it's a bit better now but but the problem is some countries on afford to actually provide the sort of that's required at the moment and i think governments have had to sort of walk back on a few things and they have been trying to accommodate as many people as possible but it's still a very very difficult situation because not not even is in an ideal situation to get enough food who are to get enough financial aid were indeed just to get that aid because they are people who are in a position where it cannot work. and it looks as if they contacts and aid

and they just have to fend for themselves so that they are people who are actually in a situation where. they just quote in this no man's land where they have to make do with whatever they had whatever they have at the moment. lot american countries have reported more than 14000 deaths and 270000 chronic virus infections many are in brazil and peru but doctors are warning that the peak is still to comment other countries on the continent as well and. as the coronavirus pandemic continues to spread across latin america the country with the highest death toll is brazil they are the number of dead stands at more than 7000. in sao paolo authorities have begun blocking main avenues in an effort to reduce contagion. only an estimated half of the city's residents are obeying social isolation guidelines some say they have little choice imo it is going to

help a lot because the number of deaths are just getting higher and we need to do our best so this is all over soon i think this is very important to be isolated just leave home those who really need to leave i left because i have to work but i avoid leaving the most i can and. brazil isn't the only country bracing for the worst of the coded $900.00 pandemic. in peru's capital lima health care workers have held street demonstrations over a lack of resources and protective equipment. or. medical personnel also protested over the mismanagement of 20 bodies of coronavirus patients left unintended over the weekend in the hospital courtyard of the many were needed because the video has come out of the hospital with bodies 2 days ago it began to rain on all the bodies in the open air. fears over kobe 1000 contagion have sparked unrest across many latin american countries in honduras

hundreds took to the streets of the capital to go on sunday to prevent the bodies of coronavirus victims from being transported for burial protesters blocked roads fearing becoming infected by the bomb. these of the deceased. we don't want them to send people to be buried in the cemetery because those people infected and there are a lot of families here. one of the strictest approaches to containment has been from el salvador to some policies like the forced long term detention of people accused of violating stay at home orders every student alarm over human rights abuse for the most part in. you know we have been confined for 41 days in this containment center we only asked the government authorities to give us the results of the covert 1000 tests carried out in order to discharge us. according to the pan american health organization latin america is experiencing what europe did 6 weeks

ago meaning the region is only now entering the peak of the karuna by respond demick. al jazeera. the rebels in yemen have announced the 1st known coronavirus death in the capital sana an area they control who face health minister says the victim was a somali national found dead in a hotel and has increased fears for the war torn country of the u.n. says it is on equipped to prepare to fight the virus as a number of new cases of against a drop in some countries katara still recording hundreds of new infections every day or 60000 people have had contract in front of virus so far the 2nd highest number among gulf countries despite a relatively small population of just under 3000000 talk to al-jazeera public health minister dr hunt. she says most other countries haven't tested enough to know the full extent of their outbreaks. number of cases has gone up but that's

only natural and i believe that actually it's a result of our a very strong testing measures so as you've seen we are testing a lot and at that so we've been testing approximately 40000 per 1000000 so that's quite significant that's one of the highest rates of testing and and that reflects a true picture of what's happening in terms of infection rates so the rates are not high they're realistic but you will find that a lot of countries at the end of their pendennis realize that their curve actually looks like ours so if you see the number of cases and that it may be high but they're actually a mild cases so 93 percent of the cases are mild only one percent and up in i.c.u. and another 5 percent and up in the admitted in the hospital and that's actually quite a very quite a good debate to have in the country and that's because we are very active in

seeking the cases were very active in finding cases tracing then. quarantining them and therefore managing the case and situation much better. watch the entire interview with dr one on mohamed el quarry on talk to al jazeera that's at 1630 g.m.t. on thursday. the 1st coven 1000 patient in the u.s. state of oregon has been discharged from the hospital after a 2 month stay. he was greeted with applause a married man all of that from the hospital staff 46 will help her calderon is being transferred to a nursing facility he received more than 2 months of treatment and still needs to be on oxygen as he works to rebuild a string. pick up the headlines right now on al-jazeera thousands of high school students returned

to their classrooms in china sohan city after months in lockdown they province was the initial at the center of the outbreak where the corona virus was 1st detected in december the 20 you house more from beijing this isn't all the students many still state schools still remain closed in particular primary school a still close and also younger high school high school students are still not able to attend classes now these students that was seen going into class these are the oldest high school students and they've been prioritised because they have to prepare for the university entrance exams the as it's known here in china which is taking place in june the time for ministrations handling of the corona virus pandemic is coming under increased scrutiny a former top official has accused the white house of seeking quick fixes by recommending unproven drugs to patients or to rip wright says he was fired for raising concerns about trump's policies with

a few exceptions life and south korea is returning to normal as more businesses reopen and entertainment sports activities resume schools were start next week as the country reports a consistent decline in infections. but the rebels and yemen have announced the 1st known coronavirus death in the capital sana an area they control their base health minister says the victim was a somali national found dead at a hotel. human rights groups are criticizing the closure of leading broadcast network in the philippines calling it a serious blow to press freedom a b s c b m was ordered to shut after its attempt to renew its operating license stalled president reagan the territory has repeatedly criticized the network as the headline keep it here on al-jazeera another bowl isn't for you at the top of the hour in the meantime we're going to hand it over to the folks at the stream. talk to al-jazeera we want will force was when you saw that document for the 1st

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