now i'll just. have to. this is al jazeera. alone given al this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes the u.s. takes another swipe at china and says beijing could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world. a british prime minister gets a grilling from the new opposition leader as he defends his handling of the corona virus outbreak. u.k. was slow down slow on testing slow in tracing and slowing the supply of protective

equipment. the polarized parliament in spain plans for a 4th extension to the lockdown a big challenge. and more restrictions eased in south korea with no new local inspections for a 3rd straight day. how much now have all the sporting including. the german bund league ever sees the green light to resume later this month having been suspended since march. the u.s. has taken and now this wife and child as tensions escalate over the coronavirus pandemic just the past hour u.s. secretary of state mark pompei are blamed china for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people around the world and he again accused beijing of covering up the outbreak of covert 19 and ing there was no true woodwind with the communist

regime china saw then that it had an emerging public health crisis on its hands the new china could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide china could have spread the world descent into global economic malaise their choice but instead. instead china covered up the outbreak and harm its national health commission ordered virus samples destroyed on january 3rd china disappeared brave chinese citizens who raised alarms it deployed its propaganda organs to denounce those who politely called for simple transparency prinz us to today 120 days on china is still refusing to share the information we need to keep people safe but beijing had earlier head back at the u.s. saying tariffs should not be used as a weapon of the president donald trump threaten to impose them china has also criticised the u.s.

claims that the pathogen originated and it. me wrong the chinese city of who wants the epicenter of the outbreak more restrictions have been eased 58000 senior students have gone back to school classes a small timings a staggered and talking is kept to a minimum as things so return to normal let's cross 1st go to the white house where we can speak to correspondent kimberly how kit this year's kimberly so we heard there from secretary of state really doubling down on those accusations has he provided any evidence. no and that's one of the real challenges because mike pompei of the u.s. secretary of state echoing the words of the u.s. president back on april 30th when he said definitively that this began that allowed it would haunt china but the problem with making this kind of an accusation is it needs evidence as the evidence so far according to the u.s. president has come in the form of classified intelligence which means essentially

what this boils down to now is a propaganda war between the world's 2 superpowers the united states and china and now the statements are very strong coming from the u.s. secretary of state but not only is he pointing the finger at china but this is ministration continues to point the finger against the world health organization as well accusing it of being complicit in covering up or not calling or demanding an investigation something that the united states says is desperately needed in order to find out definitively where this virus originated if it is natural in origin the secretary of state says that then an investigation would clear that up but the problem the united states says right now is that china still is refusing to provide transparency and of course the consensus among the scientific community being that it jumped likely from. what market let's talk about

testimony we're expected to hear next week on capitol hill this could be very interesting couldn't given this whistleblower that's come forward. yeah this is another developing story here in the united states the fact that there is a very high profile vaccine scientist dr rick bright who says that he received enormous political pressure from the current virus taskforce in order to try and fast track the drug hydroxy chloroquine and of course this is one that the us president himself touted as significantly in the early days he says there was a rush from the human health and human services secretary alex a czar to push for getting access to these drugs in places like india and pakistan from labs or manufacturers that had not been approved by the food and drug administration so he pushed back on this and he says that cost him his job now he's planning to testify on capitol hill next week in the house of representatives he

says he wants his job restored but he's not the only one testifying on capitol hill we also have a member of the court of ira's task force dr anthony found she who at times has also differed in opinion publicly from the u.s. president he will be testifying on capitol hill i in the senate and in the midst of all of this is we discussed the quote a virus taskforce it's important to point out just 24 hours after this is ministration said it was winding down that it could be winding down in a matter of weeks the u.s. president is now in a tweet saying that the task force will now continue because of its success it will continue indefinitely with a focus on safety and reopening up the economy in the united states again the goal of this u.s. president as he tries to win reelection is to get the economy back on track that is what he was riding his re-election chances on and of course that has been obliterated as a result of the corona virus pandemic in the united states i think that that is complete. let's head now from across one of katrina you who is in beijing and has

more on china's response to trump's threat of tyrants. well the u.s. and china have been engaging in this war of words for months now and the foreign ministry spokesperson what union only added to that further today at the press briefing she 1st said that any idea of raising 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 threat 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 the 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 activists in the united states have set in motion what's called the trump death clock they say the 40000 deaths counted so far were caused by donald trump's an action activists estimate 60 percent of us disk could have been prevented if restrictions had been imposed earlier. spain's parliament is debating whether to extend the lockdown for a 4th time prime minister petro searches wants the state of emergency to stay in place for another 2 weeks but opposition m.p.'s have signaled not willing to approve that sanchez doesn't hold

a majority and his government has been accused of reacting too slowly. well martha arrow is live for us in madrid is that the prime minister likely to get the numbers he needs to keep this lockdown in place and also what's the the sort of health ministry advice or whether it should be lifted at all. yes prime minister but there are signs it has already secured o'gara and t. enough votes to extend this state of emergency lockdown for a 4th time this is state of emergency lockdown will end up in may 25 it has been struggling and this is because you've got all these these supposed because in the past 24 hours he's been having talks with several political parties to get the support and to make some concessions these concessions will be ruling with the regionals with the different regions the 17 autonomous regions in spain will also be reporting to the other opposition groups in the parliament every day every week

. and he would also. be calling for a national mourning from next week award so mark why have we seen opposition to this at all i mean is it a problem of how badly the economy has been affected. well in the 1st place. political groups have been blaming using the state of emergency as a brain framework of centralizing all the power. of mismanagement the whole crisis this is where the the the worst critics from coming from the opposition party is also not locking all of 4 to or not confronting or not informing the other political groups of any actions that are going to he was going to take yes of course some of the regions want to reactivate economy the situation that spain is going through is where these are matic brussels just

confirm the forecast office economy minister last week saying gross domestic product will contract at 9.4 percent. in 2021 of the principal sectors that has been heated is the reason this means that next week many many autonomous in spain will enter will move on to phase one of the deescalation opening bars and restaurants and hotels in less of the normal capacity some of them are not going to be able to do so i don't know when they will recover because until we don't open not only the frontiers will the national borders but also being able to move from one region to region we cannot rely on tourism or to own a spanish economy we have to remember that spain has 3500000 people and most of them are still living on the unemployment benefits so we cannot even rely on the tourism model thank you for that update. for us in madrid.

one of the most senior scientific advisors to the british government has resigned after breaching the coronavirus lockdown rules he helped to create professor neil ferguson was one of the leading voices on the scientific advisory group more than 38 that 2000 people have died in the u.k. overtaking italy is the highest number in europe. prime minister was asked about that number at his 1st prime minister's questions since he recovered from covert 19 opposition leader care 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 that was to save lives and to protect our h.s.

was to speak of the argument that international comparisons can 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. was slow it's locked down slow on testing slow on tracing and slow on the supply of protective equipment for the holidays following this in london he says the 1st exchange between the 2 leaders has already made 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 is going to give him potentially a much harder time than he's used to with lots and lots of difficult questions to be asked 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 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 while the 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 as this try sister vellum and particularly in the aftermath of it. so many is making moves to emerge from the pandemic lockdown chancellor angela merkel said the 1st phase of the coronavirus has passed and she announced a range of steps to ease restrictions they include allowing people from 2 different

households to meet while more shops and museums will be reopening social distancing measures along with the wearing of masks will remain in place on public transport the mccain joins us now live from berlin what else did the chancellor announce their. widescale relaxation of many of the restrictions that have been in place in this country now for the best part of 2 months a show of unity from anger merkel the german chancellor in the building behind me the chancellery with the prime minister of the very mark is a key ally of hers and the mayor of hamburg a social democrats widescale unity from them but there is clear disagreement from certain other leaders of german states big german states about the way forward on the one side angle or merkel is keen to stress that this is the end of the 1st wave that all the precautions the hygiene and precautions wearing masks preserving

social distance of very important on the other side important ministers from important states saying that the economy of germany is really suffering very badly indeed and that all sorts of different enterprises businesses shops restaurants must be able to reopen also we know now that the german football season is likely to recommit in the 2nd half of this month the decision has been passed as it were the responsibility for the decision has been passed by the government to the appropriate german football association so that is likely to restart and that has been welcomed by the prime minister of north rhine-westphalia armin lash it another key conservative politician in this country but clearly as i say behind. there is a degree of discord in important german government circles about what steps forward should be because they are all worried about the potential for a 2nd wave of infection thanks for that that is john mccain live for us from berlin

russian president vladimir putin has backed proposals to ease restrictions in moscow even as the number of cases nationwide rose 510004 the 4th day in a row the capital's mayor says some businesses can return to work in one week's time despite cases climbing rapidly and the world's 5th worst affected country russia currently has more than 165000 confirmed cases and more than 1500 deaths linked to the virus. plenty more ahead on the news our including israel approves the construction of thousands more settler homes in the occupied west bank we'll be live from ramallah with more on bass. why the biggest t.v. network in the philippines is being switched off reaction coming up. and the arsenal boss issues a coronavirus warning we'll hear from him later in the program scores.

south korea is among the countries lifting more restrictions it only reported 2 new cases on tuesday both people arriving from a brought its containment of the virus has been widely praised let's look at some of the details soon after the 1st infection was confirmed in january testing kits were quickly approved in patients isolated tracking apps and drive through testing centers to trace and contain the virus will all introduced early on along with fines for breaking quarantine the number of infections hit a peak on february 29th and the curb last in significantly after that by mid april new cases were reduced to single digits allowing the parliamentary election to be held 255 south koreans have died and more than 10000 cases were recorded. from a bride has more now from the museum of modern art and soul. 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 found them limited the number of people here which is good because it's not so crowded and that means

not what it is what 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. indian media is reporting the killing of a commander of a pakistani linked group fighting in kashmir where as our crew reported they died during a gun battle with indian troops in that pool wommack district he led his full measure hardeen which wants the indian administered territory to be integrated with pakistan the 35 year old had been a ransom 80 is. professor of international relations at the university of westminster he says the killing will make the relationship between the indian government and people living in the disputed territory even worse. we have to understand that in the occupy session and the extent of polish and the way to

happen in palestine it's quite intense the kashmir have been visiting india for many decades now and nothing in what fuckwit this killing will do is that is what is a final flung down with his conduct if the coroner was also a general long don't indict him for since august 21 thing that india too clearly even bibi's your autonomy this is the state had what's likely to happen it will frustrate ssion and more entangled more anxiety that fish ordinary krishna population will have it's going to make the relationship between kashmir really 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 most concrete moving cross by the fighting for distraction from dong sick problems not what happened fishing that is genuine indian soldiers are in fact thankful that might die is a lie because you will 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 its own problems in this case what they are using is the use of a lockdown related to pandemic the squeezy population for that because the main intention of that hindu national government is not only to completely off the fact issue but also to evade any form of resistance that fishman's have so where their relation with pakistan in food will get worse for india frankly that situation because she was quite diet and it's as you might then practice getting. israel's defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more set to homes in the occupied west bank around $7000.00 to be built in the effluent settlements off of bethlehem the homes are illegal under international law for more on this we have need it for him standing by for us in ramallah 1st though let's go to harry forsett who's in west jerusalem so harry talk to us about the timing of all of this with the u.s. particularly signaling its readiness to recognize these illegal israeli settlements . well yes not just the settlements and the expansion of housing units

they're in but also potentially full blown annexation of nearly a 3rd of the occupied west bank firstly to talk about what the defense minister naftali bennett has announced today he is the outgoing defense minister by all indications is this unity government between benjamin netanyahu his former rival benny gantz continues to take shape so while the defense ministry is still under his responsibility and with these kind of decisions under his remit he's obviously decided to announce this it is something that would be welcomed by his his right wing base and it would according to reports mean more than an extra $100.00 hectares of land taken near the settlement and the 7000 housing units constructed now as you say the timing comes on the same day that we've had 2 things emerge firstly there been 2 previews of separate interviews that the us ambassador david friedman has done with local newspapers shed will to be

published on friday but a lot of the information coming out now on wednesday in which friedman says that the us does stand ready to recognise israeli annexation benjamin netanyahu said that he wants to carry on with that plan from july the 1st on words he did say that there would have to be a an expression of willingness to negotiate with the palestinians about forming a palestinian state as part of the taxation or at least they're after and there was no indication of that they had to be any real progress or even any response from the palestinians potentially that would in in itself be enough and we've also heard reports again in the news in the local media here in israel that the u.s. secretary of state might pompei i was planning to visit israel in the 1st half of next week no confirmation of that either from the u.s. . or from israel but there do seem to be a growing amount of evidence that the u.s.

and israel will convict to get. annexation may well be in the offing in a few weeks time thank you for that update there that is how aforesaid live from west. well let's get more was needed abraham who's in ramallah in the occupied west bank sunita what's the reaction been from the palestinian side. well the palestinians have long been saying that israel is creating facts on the ground building settlements in the occupied west bank which are considered illegal under international law and then what's new and what has been happening happening over the past few months with the u.s. mideast peace plan is that they're being presented realities on the ground as part of the crew deal and they say that they've been warning against this for years it since israel now is using the relationship the special relationship between the u.s. presidential trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to kind of get away

really with what they can get away with in terms of violating international law the palestinians have been saying that they no longer view the u.s. as an honest broker for the peace process and they want an international conference where different players take part in ending the conflict remember the u.s. secretary of state my point has said that a few weeks ago that the u.s. no longer views documents as illegal which was they are still considered illegal under international law and that's why palestinians are saying that they've been left alone dealing with this and not only on the official level but palestinians in the streets they've been saying that they've seen secondments growing eating up priests louis's and they have a whole infrastructure at around them but also the secular attacks have been on the rise as have been mentioned by

a lot of human rights organizations now the thing is that palestinian officials are trying to do now is the said trying to talk to arab states to try and see if they can leverage their relationship with the u.s. president so no trump as it is seen here as the only need proof that he's seen as the only person who could convince netanyahu to put her brakes on the issue of annex thing land which is also another violation of international law and i don't know it is all coming down really to crunch time as well thanks that made it for him there live from ramallah. qatar airways has confirmed it will come because of the impact the coronavirus is having on the airline industry the company however did not say how many jobs will be lost at the same time the state on a carrier says it's already rebuilding its network as it anticipates an easing in travel restrictions later this month. the pandemic is also forcing businesses to come up with creative ways to reopen and to operate while also enforcing social

distancing one restaurant in the netherlands is experimenting with this small glass houses for people to dine in if it up to 3 guests and can be set up outdoors they're the ones at restaurant association is warning many businesses will collapse even if restrictions are eased soon restaurants will stay closed until at least maybe 19th. still ahead on al jazeera thousands of unemployed migrant workers in india begin the long journey home. china and alice's ambitious space plans as it launches a test of a newly designed to rockets. and sport there was a bizarre stop to the south korean baseball season santa will be here in a moment to explain all of this.

hello that's a very well weather conditions across the arabian peninsula to the north has seen rather unsettled conditions a massive cloud as you can see and look at this cloud it clearing away from jordan now that brought a severe storm with it look at this is actually timeouts video so it shows a storm coming in very very rapidly it wasn't quite that quick but down on the ground this is waltz it actually looks like that we've got these very very strong winds re blowing that rain so actually quite dangerous visibility extremely poor but the good news is that that system has cleared well out of the picture so through thursday dry bright clear conditions we've got this line of cloud further to the south across arabian peninsula this may well again just bring one of 2 showers maybe a scout of the storm but the winds are going to changing direction so slightly by friday coming down from the north it should feel a little bit better that freshman cooler even so 34 on a very warm 40 celsius across into dubai now the rains very heavy cool seasonal rain throughout much of central africa but they've been particularly heavy and will still be heavy through because as tanzania up into kenya and also pushing up into

southern areas of somalia also very heavy out tools the west across into kabul and into nigeria or the although it is fine and dry throughout much of south africa and a warm day in cape town a 24. we know what's happening in our region we know how to get the plates that others and all i was done but only the fear of god by the party the only purpose i did the rest had that time and it will grab me and go live on the amazon to go live to work another story that may not be mainstream but the fires i still don't mourn are going to be. cut by. the way that you cal the story is what can make a difference. a

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terrorists as punishment for the pandemic. spanish prime minister pedro sanchez looks set to secure enough parliamentary votes on wednesday to extend a state of emergency he wants the measure for true more weeks as the country relaxes a lockdown imposed to control one of the world's worst coronavirus on breaks. and the british prime minister defended his government's response to the coronavirus pandemic johnson was responding to questions during his 1st appearance in parliament since recovering from covert 98. china isn't there humor coronavirus pandemic slow its ambitions in space a prototype space small job blasted off a new generation of rocket technology the unmanned vehicle is reportedly designed to carry up to 6 astronauts china has big plans for space travel despite the global recession on the horizon because of the pandemic. well china is building a space station that set to be completed by 2022 over the next 2 years 8 missions 4

of them crude will complete work on the project before that is a mission to mars china plans to launch an unmanned probe to the red planet later this year and in about a decade's time china hopes to launch a manned mission to the moon the u.s. is the only country to ever lead humans on the lunar surface and the last time that happened was a $972.00. well from all this they speak now to space journalist and commentator mayo and reuters in must say and follows thanks for coming on the program and it looks like china is really putting effort into take on the us here tell us how is china's space program measuring up against the u.s. and will it overtake it fairly soon well kim this is a real worry for the americans that's not just me saying it to the head of nasa i said it at a briefing this morning when he was talking to analysts international analysts

he said that he was concerned that the impression was building within the american establishment that china was beating the united states his argument is no they've been doing extraordinary things they've flown beyond pluto had they been landing on mars now for many many years they are already involved in the space station project but there's no question that china is nipping at america's heels and they're picking prime topics prime areas of research where they think they can become predominant so how is trying to using its space program for soft power why is this so important to china. it's important to trying because space has been the definitive soft power weapon if you like in the american arsenal since the 1960 s.

the whole moon landing program was as much a public relations project to persuade people that the american system was better of the communist system in the soviet union. america now it is facing this public relations problem that even its own congress men and women aren't really aware of just how successful the americans have been in recent years china is exploiting this very cleverly and they've also got some hidden agendas on this mission one of the most interesting being that in fact the main experiment will be tomorrow when they will fire this capsule sorrows in just space and then send it back to earth at the sort of speed you would expect for a moon landing return mission so they're signaling to everybody very

delicately that this human mission to the moon is a priority let's talk about this human ness into the moon and the last time it happened as i said was a 972 why is it being so long. well at the time when the americans did it there were a lot of people in the american space program i covered at the time and i spoke to them about just who feared to that if they went to the moon again there'd be an accident and all people would remember about the american moon landing was the dead astronauts on the moon they were stretching technology beyond really what was possible in the 1960 s. to date the technology is definitely more reliable and so now suddenly the americans are interested in returning to the moon and we have have this bizarre incident this week where a long musk the billionaire space pioneer tested his own moon rocket at

exactly the same time the same minutes when china was launching its rocket so this is now a new space race. really good to have you on the program c a great inside start in right there spiced analyst and commentator thank you. we're turning to libya now and soldiers fighting for the u.n. recognized government have retreated from an air base that we're trying to capture from renegade general. been used by hostiles pilots to launch strikes on the capital an air raid killed a family of 3 on tuesday night after being retaliating for the libyan army capturing several cities his forces controlled along the western coastline libya's been divided by warring factions since the overthrow of longtime they don't want to get their feet 9 years ago the air base controlled by half does forces remains in the red zone the blue zone is controlled by the army fighting for the government of

national accord controlled in tripoli after all its forces have been fighting to capture the capital for the past year. a correspondent mode of the wellhead says in tripoli he says the strategy is to keep forces besieged in the airbase. the government forces say they lost more than 25 fighters in yesterday's attack to recapture a base meanwhile they say that half that its forces also suffered a huge number of casualties due to the multiple airstrikes by the government air force now the government forces say that they are regrouping and they are maintaining their positions around a war to a base in this case how far his forces inside the bases are the government military sources say that they carried out about 24 airstrikes last night following get the

clashes on the ground between have those forces and the government forces they say that the targeted 2 missile launchers inside the bays along with other military vehicles and also. meanwhile have those forces continual. taking revenge on the capital tripoli in retaliation to their casualties they lost yesterday they targeted at his attention area called aloud but here it just a few kilometers away from the capital city center killing 3 civilians from one family the father the mother and their son. more boats carrying the refugees have arrived in bangladesh the refugees are from me in march and some have been transferred to a small island described by rights activists as a health hazard to has a story. just weeks after hundreds of

refugees who've been stranded at sea were rescued off the coast of southern bangladesh another boat this one carrying around 50 people was allowed ashore on saturday. seen in this video shown by a local news outlet are believed to have been on one of 2 fishing trawlers that have been a dream. at sea for months this was after their family has had to pay ransom money to traffickers on a bigger boat and that bigger boat is still potentially off the coast of cox's are and these traffickers are still holding potentially hundreds of people on the boat until they can pay ransom money to allow them to go to shore and i'm the only a spokesman for bangladesh's coast guard denies there are currently any boats collaborating or refugees in areas they patrol. according to government officials 29 of the new arrivals were taken to bus on char a remote island in the bay of bengal where it had previously been planned to house up to 100000 broking a refugee. human rights watch calls it

a dangerously flood prone island without adequate health care the government of bangladesh is claiming that they've been sent there for quarantine because they don't want to so-called contaminate the refugee camps and cox is bizarre but the reality is that the u.n.h.c.r. and other agencies already have quarantine facility set up before it and they've already processed more than 400 people from a previous boat so this is an excuse by the bangladesh government to operationalize the island of basilan char which they want to do for quite sometime in mid april bangladesh rescued $396.00 rohingya refugees from a vessel adrift for almost 2 months after failing to reach malaysia dozens on that boat died survivors spoke with the reuters news agency about the abuses and deprivations they endured the from the get reduction in the traffic is right women and some of them got pregnant on the but 3 of the woman survivors are in this camp

the legend of the murder of $510.00 in total on the boat including kids we ran out of food within 5 days after we sailed off. rights groups are now urging the bangladeshi government to allow around $500.00 more rohingya currently stuck on the 2 trawlers in the bay of bengal to also come ashore those boats have been adrift since malaysia rejected their arrival because of coronavirus restrictions the bangladeshi foreign minister said last week that those refugees are malaysia's responsibility to look after my homage of june. more than 200 australian their new zealand citizens are on their way home after being stranded for weeks in the poll their talented flight from the capital come and do a sort to be the last chance to get out most found themselves stuck when the poll went into lockdown in march before has reported 1009 cases. in india dozens of specially arranged trains are taking home more than $100000.00 stranded workers the railway ministry says it will pay the cost of the tickets

after the government was criticised for charging fares coronavirus knock down stranded migrant workers in cities nationwide many struggled to find food after losing their jobs and accommodation others have walks hundreds of kilometers to get home but the government effort to get workers home is being resisted by some business owners who fear they'll have no workers once the lockdown is lifted for a number of ports from the time period british. they build homes which they could never afford to live and work has restarted at this construction site and author but there but many of them i could label as have decided to leave because they haven't been paid in months. 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 shacks 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 $1300.00 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 to start. 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

vaporous have been stranded in cities all states which they're not from with no work or income and a long way from holland. with all public transport canceled over half a 1000000 walked 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 reopen 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 of reviving the economy the cancellation follows a meeting between the state's leader and the real estate developers association of india i think it's an extraordinary act of ingratitude because we believe that the migrant workers that have been abandoned in this case of the very individual who will be future prosperity. for his sharma says that the economic impact of india's

mokdad will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with migrants less willing to return to the cities it is about brand of al-jazeera greater noida of the. then india's capital a 70 percent increase in the price of alcoholic drinks is not reducing some long queues the so-called corona tax in delhi is aimed at preventing large crowds outside alcohol shops police used battens to disperse hundreds of violating social distancing measures when the government eased 6 weeks of october on monday. somalia's president is promising a thorough investigation into a plane crash in kenya 6 people were killed when the aircraft carrying medical supplies to somalia went down on monday the somali aviation authority says it was a terrible accident and the plane was not shot down as some had suggested. still to come here on al-jazeera well look at why one native american community has some of the worst infection rights in the u.s.

. and in sport one of the major football leagues in the world is set to return to action details with sauna after the break.

i. covered 19 has struck 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 that state has one of the highest infection rates nationwide for bretton woods 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 nightmare around me i am started to run feelers. and the next day the body started they were. excruciating like every bone in my body was hurting all the way down to my. anger with very very bad headaches or a big a return to the i guess 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 and you know not that quite yet like what is worse i mean what's worse than this is going to get worse in the us 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 no where we don't have the best healthcare system on a national new 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 it's your hands with soap and water everybody but you know what 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 the girl all the transfer of the

country it just seems like the 1st citizens of this country been ignored once again on her 4th visit to the i.h.s. barely able to breathe begin a pleaded desperate plea for help were already feeling. here so when worst going to be worse. 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 i mean if you 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. what's time now for tests on a thank you very much came one of the german chancellor angela merkel has given the green light for the guns legally to resume in the 2nd half of may well become the

1st major european league to return to competition in the it was halted on that march 8th because of the covert 19 outbreak but teams that return to training in early april in authority of sides have a 9 game still to play all matches will be paid behind closed doors well we spoke to full rights a chris williams who covers the bruins league extensively he says it's crucial for the finances of clubs to get play on the way as soon as possible. and there isn't you know football is exceptionally important in germany financially the bundesliga clubs could lose out in the region of 750000000 euros should these games not be played that is through corporate sponsorship deals and also payment of television rights from the 2 main broadcasters. so financially it could really impact some clothes should it not come back though you know there would be a lot of clips that would go to the wall financially about couldn't cope without

the television money corporate sponsorship deals and eventually kate receipt money as well there of course are all concerns about the resumption of football. opening not now shops are open non-essential shops are open schools are going back some schools have already come back on the majority school should go back towards the end of may well there still is concerns those concerns obviously because the plays are in close contact to each other social distance in still needs to be happening in training and there's also concerns about the players themselves those been 10 positive tests so far across the leap across the across the 2 divisions that the d.f.l. look after his legal one impetus leading to the d.f.l. themselves on the clips the medical side of the collapse of said that this is what the test is that for identifies key issues immediately and those players are then isolate it's a concern from quite a majority of the fine groups is that they came to be played behind closed doors but unfortunately if fans want to see that clubs again at some point these games

will have to take place because of the large finances involved in it the free to air television debate is something that has been taken very seriously in germany they would like it free to at both the state government and the federal government would like free to air so people can watch it well they don't want a situation where it's behind a paywall pay subscription and only certain people are able to if you've up and therefore there will be more chance of people congregating together in friends' houses or in the locations to watch the football. the turkish super league has announced that it will be making its return on june 12th matches will go ahead with us spectators there with the league officials hoping to complete the season by the end of july furthermore the country's football so ca sion confirmed that they are still planning to host the season's champions league final in istanbul. arsenal boss michael mikhail arteta says at that risk restarting football in

england should not be brushed expanded himself successfully recovered from the corner virus he was the 1st reported positive case in the english premier league while players recently started training again individually at a team training ground. a caution about resuming matches any time soon jane online chat with gunners legend the right. to know how this thing is going to get to a date it really is and everybody. knows. you know you will be very soon in the protocol. when we get olympics there. we cannot rush it you know we have a. place. to sleep. we have that so we just have to be ready when everybody said go out. and get. teams in brazil including international back in training despite

a growing numbers of koran a virus cases in the country and nearly 8000 deaths players arrived wearing their training kits and went straight to a tented to undertake covert 19 testing president gerald made no secret of his wish for the game to return sooner rather than later arguing that players are less likely to die from the virus because of their fitness no data has been finalized yet for the resumption of matches. australia's top women's football assam care says the covert 19 crisis has impacted the player's ability to potentially start a family with the lympics being to spawn to next year the matilda as a team will now have to play consecutive major tournaments every year until 2024 and curse says that that has consequences on and off the field she says next is

a lympics the asian cup the world cup the lympics again the next off year for the matildas is 5 years away now instead of one there is no room for injury nawal which is stressful there's no room for all time and there's no room for girls in our team getting pregnant now because that's a thing in women's football the baseball season has finally got underway in south korea but with a difference this was the ceremonial 1st pitch at one of the games and 9 year old fan handed out the ball while enclosed in a giant ball it was called a socially distant the 1st pitch all games will be played behind closed doors until the strip sions are lifted. and also his fall from atlanta back to camp for again thank you for that sam a that's it for me can vouch for this news hour but i'll be back in just

a moment with more of the excuse to stay with us. expelled from their base in jordan in lebanon and left in a political wilderness rebellion was rising in the ranks of the p.l.o. but was this just another inevitable step on the road to victory this is a fact of the long bond daughter kept up just for the conflict that would cost on assad his leadership in life. chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian home. p.l.o.

history of a revolution on al-jazeera. a city defined by military occupation there's never been an arab state he with the capital of jerusalem everyone is welcome but this depôt structure that maintains the can only project thus what we diffuse it was one of the sound of us all for a settlement with this and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation this could mean nation injustice this is in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera the way disease outbreaks have impacted dense urban areas like during the flu pandemic in the early 1900 has played a role in how our cities look and run urban planners reacted to that flu and other outbreaks changing how cities were zoned and led to updated infrastructure like ventilation and improved sanitation but after what's been learned from pandemics and their influences on our skylines and way of life we also need to keep pace and

adapt it's easy to assume that cities are fertile ground for spreading viruses and diseases millions living working at commuting in such tight envisions well one expert says it's about much more than just density it's about how all this was put together and how it's run. gena could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. the u.s. accuses china is covering up the karada virus not brag while it still had the chance to stop it from spreading. i'm committed al this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up the british prime minister gets a grilling from the new opposition leader yes he defends his handling of the crowd a virus outbreak. u.k. was slowed down.