enough it was in the list campaign of colonization that exploded religion in the name of the cross the crusades an arab perspective the final episode liberation on a jersey. china hits back at the us of a threats to reimpose trade tariffs washington is seeking to punish beijing after accusing it of failing to stop the pandemic. hello i'm adrian for the get this is al jazeera live from joe also coming up britain's prime minister gets a grilling from a new opposition leader as he defends his government's handling of the corona virus outbreak. the u.k. was slow its not down slow in testing the slow and tracing and slow in supply

protective equipment. returning home thousands of microbrew because of india who lost their job student locked out take trains back to their villages. israel announces a plan for thousands of illegal use settlement homes in the occupied west bank or a live update. but we begin with the growing tension between the u.s. and china over the corona virus outbreak beijing says the tariffs should not be used as a weapon after president donald trump threatened to impose the china's also criticize the u.s. secretary of state who said that the pathogen originated in a wool hand lab but in the city of who wants the epicenter of the outbreak more restrictions have been eased 58000 c.d.'s students are going back to school classes and smaller timings staggered and talking kept to a bit of

a. in south korea children will have to wait until next week before they can go to class new inspections that have consistently declined more businesses are beginning to reopen let's start our coverage with al-jazeera as katrina you who has more an exchange of words between the u.s. and china from beijing well the u.s. and china have been engaging in this war of words for months now and the foreign ministry spokesperson what union are only added to that further today at the press briefing she 1st said that any idea of raising or using tariffs as a weapon was a braun and she said that only all parties will basically lose out from the increase of trade tariffs of this of course is a responding to president trump's threats of raising tariffs on china and because of this outbreak she then used a very strong language to level her own accusations at the trump administration namely she said that they were misleading the international community intentionally

she also said that the trump administration was blaming china as a political strategy simply to get donald trump reelected all part of a larger anti china smear campaign to divert attention away from the trump administration's mishandling of the crisis back home and she also referred to these accusations as you mentioned that covered 1000 originated in a chinese lab specifically in the war on institute of role in g. saying that these are groundless and she demanded that the u.s. produce the evidence that they say that they have and she also said that the beijing was quote unquote fed up with washington's tricks live out of washington and our white house correspondent kimberly. china's u.n. ambassador in geneva kim but he says that his country's priorities are to fight the pandemic and counter the absurd and ridiculous politicize ation of it as far as the trump of ministrations criticism is concerned is it all about domestic politics.

that's a big factor in all of this but i mean to to suggest that this just started we have to remember that donald trump has been pointing the finger and blaming china since 2016 he did that on the campaign trail he followed through with his effort to renegotiate at least phase one of a trade deal with china but it came at a lot of pain the escalating tensions that have only heightened as a result of now this finger pointing by the not only the u.s. president but also the u.s. secretary of state cues in china of being sort of careless in a lab and will han and as a result that now the world is dealing with this global pandemic so it's become a bit of a rallying cry for a president that is trying to win reelection many people here in the united states are sort of likening this to his build the wall chantant 2016 with the mexico

and the united states and illegal immigration now it's a lame china because there's no question the u.s. president is trying to blame someone for the fact that this economy in the united states has now been a blitter it and so he continues to day out there the prospects of new tariffs which many in the united states say would be devastating for a president that is trying to rebound his economy in advance of the u.s. election so there's no question that the tensions between these 2 nations these 2 world superpowers has escalated as a result of us president that we should remind our viewers is trying to win reelection as we're speaking right now u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe says that china could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world from the coronavirus he says that countries are starting to understand the risks of doing business with the chinese communist party and that there is no true win win with a communist regime. yesterday the president was saying that it was time to wind

down his coronavirus task force even though the deaths continue in the u.s. today saying something else. yeah not only was he saying wind it down but the vice president might pelts with saying there's a time line for this that we're looking to the end of mayor morial day for this to begin winding down but in just the last half hour or so there little last hour probably the u.s. president has been taking to twitter here's what he had to say and it's been a complete reversal of what he said 24 hours ago the president writes that the last 4 governors teleconference have been very says calls have been conclusively strong in other words he's touting the success of his task force then he goes on to say because of the success the task force will continue on indefinitely with its focus on safety and opening up our country again we may add or subtract people to it as

appropriate this is astonishing adrian because just 24 hours ago this ministration was touting its success saying look at we've accomplished so much which left many americans a ghast given the fact as you point out the infections are projected to rise 220-0008 day by june and so in that same time period they were suggesting of winding down the throat of virus task force now 24 late hours later the u.s. president is saying just the opposite once again this is a president that may have put out that trial balloon found it was not well received and as a result flipping the messaging yet again but there's no question what's driving this messaging is an eagerness to reopen the u.s. economy and to win reelection in november and white house correspondent kimberly how could live in washington and while we've been talking as you've heard secretary of state mike compare is addressing the media he said that countries are starting

to understand the risks on the same week of doing business with china he said we will keep listening to my composure anything more newsworthy to come out of that press briefing will bring us here in the i don't to see their stance commemorative through the south korea is lifting more restrictions it only reported 2 new cases on tuesday both were people arriving from abroad wrote mcbride reports now from inside souls museum of modern art. 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 is 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 now. 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. one of the most senior scientific advisor to the british government has resigned after breaching the coronavirus lockdown rules that he helped to create professor neil ferguson was one of the leading

voices on the scientific advisory group for all the 32000 people have died in the u.k. the country is now overtaken italy with the highest deaths in europe from minister boris johnson was asked about his 1st prime minister's question since recovering from covert 19 opposition leader secure star asked how the u.k. could have the 2nd highest death toll in the world. at this stage i don't think that international comparisons and the data is is yet that to draw the conclusions that we want what i can tell you is that at every stage as we took the decisions that we did we were governed by one overriding principle and and that was to save lives and to protect our really chest mr speaker the argument that international comparisons can't really be made when the government's been using slides like this for weeks to do international comparison just really doesn't hold

water i'm afraid that many people concluding that the answer my question is the u.k. will slow down slow on testing slow on tracing and slow on the supply of protective equipment al-jazeera how in london says that 1st exchange between the prime minister and opposition leader has already making headlines in the u k. one influential online news publication called it the most meaningful pm queues in a decade and the 1st of potentially many to come. boris johnson put on notice here that he is up against a brand new opponent who's going to give him potentially a much harder time than he's used to with lots and lots of difficult questions to be honest that will be asked that has already begun and answers that the prime minister of the government frankly probably at this point in time just don't have so kiss time or he is a prosecuting lawyer by profession he's used to asking the hard questions that was

absolutely on display today so the prime minister wanted to say that they were improvements in care home in the care home crisis in this country secure starmer said no not according to your own briefing on tuesday night that noted deaths in care homes are still going up week on week the prime minister wanted to talk up his new testing target of 200000 tests today by the end of this month secure starmer said well it targets only as good as the strategy that goes along with it testing tracing what happened to that strategy 2 months ago prime minister he didn't have an adequate answer it's the sort of thing this government is going to face now week on and as this tryst this develops and particularly in the octomom israel's defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more settle homes in the occupied west bank around 7000 that's been built in the air france settlement south of bethlehem the homes are illegal under international law does the us harry force the reports now from western recent. it would if it went through

be a major expansion of the go on block or in and around bethlehem south to the south of bethlehem reportedly about an extra 100 hectares of land being used for these 7000 housing units presumably it would be inside the back of what is being mapped at the moment between the united states and israel as to exactly where an annexation could take place does come on the same day as 2 interviews with the u.s. ambassador to israel david friedman have been trailed in the press they will be fully published on friday in which he essentially says that if israel according to netanyahu benjamin netanyahu the prime minister's promises does go ahead and try to annex some 30 percent of the west bank beginning in early july then the united states would recognize that however he also said that as part of that there would have to be a commitment from israel to negotiate a future palestinian state as well although in one of those interviews he said that

essentially would just have to be a commitment that it wouldn't necessarily have to be a response from the palestinian side let alone any real prospect of negotiations taking place some might read into that some reluctance just to give a complete green light of course you remember that in january when the trump deal the trump peace plan was unveiled friedman said that israel could start annexing almost as soon as it wanted to he was reined in by jared krishna president trumps son in law at that stage there are talks still going on between the united states and israel this mapping process still going on and in ramallah in the occupied west bank counters there is neither ever him says the approval of the homes is further proof that international law continues to be ignored. well see is have been arguing for years that israel is building these supplements which are considered illegal under international law and then creating facts on the ground that then are presented to palestinians a part of the reality on the ground in

a peace deal that they should accept this is a business announcement for their solidifies their argument that they would win saying here is that israel is ignoring international law and it's using its good relationship with the us right now mainly between the us president and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to do actions that would be to international law that are illegal and then asking palestinians to accept them so who are palestinians have been saying that they no longer view the u.s. as honest a mediator for peace and they've been asking for an international peace conference whereby different players in the region and in the world play a rule in ending the conflict a weather update next here on al-jazeera then atop a rebel commander killed by an indian forces we ask whether it will set off the tension plus a look at a native american community and why it has some of the worst corona virus infection

rates in the u.s. . had noticed some nice dry clear weather in the offing across much of japan we see the cloud in the shallows head to the east and i'll see you as but the tail end of the system that massive cloud roll some very heavy downpours into there a look at this into. this rain came down of racial space of time about 110 millimeters of rain it calls out flooding and is now the threat of landslides as well so to say the conditions are better but with all that. the ground is very very saturated now meanwhile across into central and northern as the china very heavy amounts of rain it's sunny but the temperatures down to the north and of course the cat will stay in the forecast it's not too bad on friday up into beijing but it's

really across eastern areas we see this rain really developing becoming very heavy pushing across the n.s.a. of course eventually on its way to the korean peninsula but all the while fun and try into japan everybody 24 to saka and a very warm august and hong kong with a high of 33 and you showers and thunderstorms across much of indonesia scattered showers across the philippines but the rain very heavy again across areas of sumatra and the mill a peninsula some very heavy downpours in the afternoon hours in borneo friday will see some heaviest rain and all the while more showers across into northern areas of india becoming heavy into bangladesh on friday.

this is al jazeera let's talk about a true much of the made news this hour china criticizes the u.s. for threatening to re-impose trade tariffs over the coronavirus pandemic beijing says the tariffs cannot be used as a weapon of president donald trump accused it of failing to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. meanwhile trump has dismissed the idea of ending the white house coronavirus task force today after suggesting that he'll disband the team shift the focus towards reopening the economy. britain's prime minister has defended his government's response to the coronavirus pandemic boris johnson was responding to questions during his 1st appearance parliament since recovering from over 90. or 100000 stranded workers in india being taken home on special trains the railway

ministry has laid on 80 trains and says that it will pick up the cost of the travel the government had earlier faced criticism for charging fees some workers a walking hundreds of kilometers to get home after losing their jobs to to the doctor but the government efforts repatriate workers is being resisted by business so those who say they fear they'll have no work because once the lockdown is lifted al-jazeera is elizabeth poor out of the report style from grey's and noida an opera dish. and. they build homes which they could never afford to live and work has restarted at this construction site and but many of them i could label as have decided to leave because they haven't been paid in months and. they waiting for special trains organized by the government to transport workers to their home states. the district magistrate came and took all of our names and dollars we get a message on our forms about the queen's we've been waiting but we haven't got anything. and we have no means to leave. there are around 700 laborers from all

over india who've been living in 10 checks next to the construction site. the only food many of them get is from a wealthy benefactor who's spending around $200.00 of his own money every day to feed $3100.00 laborers in the area. 5 of my friends and i check every day how much food people need and we feed them we aren't sponsored by any political party or n.g.o.s it's my own resolve that i'm carrying out. some workers have decided to walk all of instead of depending on the kindness of strangers for food or the government to transport them started. the work has restarted but who will look after the children at home and we have to think of our children too and not just work who's feeding them here we worry about our children we won't be scared at home . plans to walk 600 kilometers with her friend and children to their home state of madhya pradesh since the lockdown began on the 25th of march an estimated 10000000

stranded states which then from work or income and a long way from holland. with all public transport had sold over half a 1000000 often hundreds of kilometers. after protests by migrant workers the government agreed to organize train services hard last week but government leaders are under pressure from industries as they have reopened with company managers fearing they won't have enough workers. the state of karnataka cancelled the trains just a few days after they began saying migrant workers needed to stay to do their part and reviving the economy the cancellation follows a meeting between the states leader and the real estate developers association of india i think it's an extraordinary act of ingratitude because we essentially believe that the migrant workers that have been abandoned in this case are the very individuals who will be own future prosperity. says that the economic and. back to

be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with migrants less willing to return to the cities and is a bit dizzy. indian media is reporting that the commander of a group fighting in indian administered kashmir has been killed b. as. leader of his formal jihad dean which wants the territory to be integrated with pakistan he was killed in the district of pool while 35 year old had taken over the his poor leadership from the commander who was killed in july 26th seen like who had been on the run for of 8 years on sunday at least 5 indian soldiers including top officers were killed in an ambush. not as a professor of international relations at the university of westminster he says that the killing will make the relationship between the indian government and people living in the region even worse. we have to understand that in the occupy session and be extended for lavishing the way to happen in palestine it's quite

intense the kashmir has been visiting india for many decades now and nothing in. this killing will do it at that but didn't promise lockdown with his conduct if the coroner was there also general long don't indict him for since august 1900 india because even bibi's your autonomy this is the state had that's what's likely to happen it will frustrate ssion more entangle more emphatically that fish ordinary question the population will have it's going to make the relationship between kashmir any missed much worse than what it is already when you look at india pakistan relations they have already been quite bad in recent months so that's the despite the pandemic both in india and pakistan like it or elected for a while it's what we find is welcome pieces in cross by the fighting for distraction from the sick problem not what happened fishnet is generally when indian soldiers are in fact thankful that might die it's like because you didn't suffer in this aircraft by the fire fighting not what's likely to happen of course is that india will be used all kinds of a means to distract attention from all problems in this case what they're using is

the use of a lockdown related to family make the squeeze the population for that because the main intention of that hindu national government is not only to completely off affect actually but also to evade any form of resistance that fission is have so where their relation with pakistan in food gets worked for and then frankly that situation because she was quite diet and it's as you might say in practice getting . the pandemic has hit particularly hard in the largest native american reservation in the u.s. more lives have been lost in the navajo nation than in the rest of new mexico and the state has one of the highest infection rates nationwide officer as rob ruggles explains why. in late march a navajo tribal member learned she had been exposed to corona virus and sought testing at an indian health service or i.h.s. hospital they earned me away and told me that i didn't have any.

that night air around midnight i started to run feelers. and the next day the body started there it was. excruciating like every bone in my body was hurting all the way down to the. anger with very very bad headaches or a big a return to the i just hospital but they refused to admit her or her 66 year old mother who was also ill they turned us away until was come back until it gets worse a not that quite yet like what is worse i mean what's worse than this it's going to get worse and that's the i h s is run by the federal government in washington it is notoriously underfunded understaffed and under equipped we asked the i guess repeatedly over several weeks for an interview but got nowhere we don't have the best healthcare system on the

national news should we have been hit hard by this virus that has snuck into our communities here on the navajo nation navajo lands are impoverished rural and arid basic infrastructure is shockingly bad you know you got the c.d.c. saying well as your hands with soap and water every. well you know well 30 percent of our navajo people do not have running water he says native american communities aren't getting the emergency money they need for testing and equipment we're just getting just a little bit. to our nations and that's all that all the tribes throughout the country it just seems like. first citizens of this country been ignored once again on her 4th visit to the i.h.s. barely able to breathe begin a pleated desperate plea for help where already feeling. fear so

when the worst going to be worse yet she and her mother were finally taken to better equipped hospitals in arizona after weeks they have now recovered but many navajo have not i've known people personally meaning that were turned away like that went home. and died in their own home. the 1st americans once again last in line for help rob reynolds al-jazeera. cats are always has confirmed that it will come jobs because of the impact the coronavirus is having on the airline industry the company however didn't say how many jobs will be lost at the same time the state has kariya says that it's already rebuilding its network as a dentist pates an easing in travel restrictions later this month it intends to fly the $52.00 destinations worldwide castle railways has released

a statement about the redundancies saying that any job loss is regrettable and that it will be working closely with affected employees to offer full support during this difficult time it says the when circumstances improve it's the airline's intention to enable employees to rejoin when possible. in the philippines human rights groups and journalists say that the government's decision to shut down the leading broadcast network is a grave assault on media freedom president rodrigo the ses frequently attacked the a.b.s. c.b.s. news coverage but denies having anything to do with the order to close it managers have 10 days to appeal the government's decision allan duggan in manila says that it's not the 1st time the channel has gone off air. there is strong opposition online and also in other interviews where government officials especially 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 votes 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 the nih is 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 ery and basically a provisional authority for its franchise while the well congress the 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 and most important part about this according to rights group is that this is not the 1st time that a.b.s. c.b.s. been shut down it was shut down the 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. good to be with us however adrian for the going to hear how the headlines announces iraq china has criticized the u.s. threat to dream post trade tariffs of the coronavirus provoke beijing says the tariffs cannot be used as a weapon after president donald trump. uses of failing to tackle the coronavirus involved trump has dismissed the idea of ending the white house coronavirus task force that's just a day after suggesting that he disband the team and focus on reopening the economy

. one of the most senior scientific advisor to the british government has resigned after breaching the coronavirus locked out rules that he helped to create professor neil ferguson was one of the leading voices on the scientific advisory group more than 32000 people have now died in the u.k. the country's overtaken italy the highest number of deaths in europe from a disappearance johnson was asked about the number of his 1st prime minister's questions since recovering from co that 19 at this stage i do feel good international comparisons and the data is yet that he drew conclusions that we want what i can tell you is that every stage as we took the decisions that we did we were governed by one overriding principle and and that was to save lives and to protect our h.s. israel's defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more subtle

homes in the occupied west bank around 7000 to be built in the effort settlements south of bethlehem homes are illegal under international law well the $100000.00 stranded workers in india are being taken home on special trains the railway ministry is operating 80 trains and says that it will pick up the cost of travel the government said earlier faced criticism for charging fees. gas railways has become the latest airlines announced that it will cut jobs because of the impact of the pandemic is having on the industry but the company didn't say how many jobs will be lost the same time kerry says it anticipates an easing in travel restrictions later this month that intends to fly to $52.00 destinations. those are the headlines that is continuous here on al-jazeera after today's edition of the stream which is the next. talk to al-jazeera we ask what your force were when you saw that document for the 1st story we listen to

after the war saying you'll europeans go build united states or we will but we will not be with you we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. or at the end the knowledge of history in the current system or see any times in history into an os much non-plussed it in what is seen as an wouldn't want my deal in exactly the. sense many of us if we could not. the cone of virus in and. through and since he's running now in silence when i was on there isn't he's needs more. and it's going well. he's it was not.