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 visions but 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. china could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide . the u.s. accuses china is covering up the coronavirus 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 who defends his handling of the corona virus outbreak. u.k. was slow. slow in testing slow and tracing and slow in supply of protective

equipment. the polarized parliament in spain turns for a 4th extension to the lockdown are being challenged. returning home thousands of migrant workers and india who lost their jobs just a lockdown take trains back to their villages. the u.s. is taking another swipe at china has tensions escalate of the coronavirus pandemic in 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 cars at 19 adding there was no true win win for 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 descend into global economic malaise that choice but instead instead china covered up the outbreak in han 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 that brings us to today $120.00 days on china is still refusing to share the information we need to keep people safe. by doing had earlier hit back at the u.s. saying tariffs should not be used as a weapon of the president donald trump threaten to impose that china has also criticized the u.s. claims that the passage and originated in the lab and who home let's cross to white house correspondent kelly help kimberly has secretary also state provided this

evidence that he's been talking about. no and neither has the u.s. president to as far back as a full 30th was also saying that he had conclusively seen the evidence that this was not a virus of natural origin but instead had originated in a lab and the convenient thing about that is that when it's classified intelligence it's never made public for u.s. national security so this is allowed not only the united states for china to wage what essential now is a propaganda war back and forth and it is important to know that in a u.s. election year the u.s. president does have a vested interest in finding someone to blame blame china has become almost the rallying cry for this president looking to point the fingers and hold someone accountable for the fact that the u.s. economy has been decimated as well as millions of americans are out of work but in terms of what the secretary of state might pump aoe had to say he not only blamed

china but he also blamed the world health organization arguing that it still has not demanded a full and thorough investigation in terms of how china responded in the early days of this crisis he says leading to an enormous loss of life and also economic collapse kimberly we could be expecting some interesting testimony to be heard on capitol hill next week regarding the way the trump administration is dealt with the coronavirus what more can you tell us about banks. yeah a couple of interesting pieces of testimony expected on capitol hill particularly the one next week in the house of representatives that's when a new whistleblower dr rick bright a prominent vaccine scientist in the united states who says he lost his job as a result of political pressure by the trumpet ministration will be testifying what he's alleged in his whistleblower complaint is that there was enormous pressure

from the health and human services secretary alex a czar as well as others to try and approve the drug dropsy chloroquine this is what the u.s. president pushed in the early days of the crowd a virus he went on to say that there was an effort by this administration to fast track drugs from pockets start as well as india that were from manufacturers that were not f.d.a. approved so that's the 1st testimony that we'll be watching for the others from dr anthony found she of the court of iris taskforce who himself has differed a number of times in terms of the opinions of what has happened with this virus most recently its origins. different publicly in contrast to u.s. president donald trump and for his part we should point out there's been another controversy in the last 24 hours with regard to the court of virus taskforce itself were dr anthony found she sets we had been told 24 hours ago that this was going to wrap up we were even given

a timeline from the vice president that it would wrap up sometime after memorial day which is the end of may but the u.s. president now tweeting that because of its success which many americans would argue that is going to continue indefinitely with a focus on safety and opening up our country again as well as finding back scenes and therapeutics again this is a president trying to put a positive spin as the countdown to election day november occurs and he's looking to win re-election in a very depressed u.s. economy as a result of this virus thank you for that. white house correspondent kelly hope that. well let's head now from contributors in beijing who has more on the exchange of words between the u.s. and china well the u.s. and china have been engaging in this war of words for months now and the foreign ministry spokesperson what union or 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 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. sprains palmer does

debating whether to extend the lockdown for a 4th time i missed a pleasure of sanchez once the state of emergency to stay for another 2 weeks the opposition m.p.'s of signal but not willing to approve that sanchez doesn't hold a majority and his government has been accused of reacting too slowly author and arrow is in madrid with the latest on the lockdown extension. prime minister has already secured o'gara ante enough votes to extend the state of emergency lockdown for a 4th time this is state of emergency lockdown will end up in may 25 he's been struggling and this is because he 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 every week. and he would also. be calling for a national mourning from next week or words to. political groups have been blaming other scientists of using the state of emergency as a brain framework of of centralizing all the power. of mismanagement the whole crisis this these were the the the worst critics from coming from the opposition parties also not liking of of of reporter or not confronting or not informing the other political groups of any actions that he was going to he was going to take. germany is making moves to emerge from the pandemic lock down chancellor angela merkel said the 1st phase of the corona virus has passed and she announced a range of steps to ease restrictions they include allowing people from 2 different households to meet one more shops and museums will be reopening social distancing

measures along with the wearing of masks will remain in place on public transport dominic came has the latest from berlin. 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 anglo-american all the german chancellor in the building behind me the chancellery with the prime minister of bavaria mark is a key ally of hers and the mayor of hamburg a social democrat 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 at 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 is being 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 arm in lash it another key conservative politician in this country but clearly as i say behind the scenes there is a degree of discord in important german government circles about what the steps forward should be because they are all worried about the potential for a 2nd wave of infection. as dominic mentioned chancellor merkel has given the green light for the german football league to resume in the 2nd half of may it will become the 1st major european league to return to competition the bundesliga was

halted on mt 8 because of the covert 19 hour break the team's resumed to training in early april the majority of sides still have 9 games to play all matches will be played behind closed doors one of the most senior scientific advisors to the british government has result to breaching the coronavirus lockdown rules that he helped to create professor neil ferguson was one of the leading voices on the scientific advisory group or 32000 people have died over taking italy is the highest number in europe i would assume johnson was asked about that number as his 1st prime minister's question since he recovered from covert 19 opposition leader care star asks 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 yet that to draw the 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 that was to save lives and to protect our natures but to speak of 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 u.k. will slow down slow on testing slow on tracing and slow on the supply of protective equipment for the hollers following this from london he says the 1st exchange trying to date is 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's 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 the government frankly probably at this point in time just don't have so kiss tama 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 doubt 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 securest ahmed 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 shy sister velour and particularly in the aftermath of it. still ahead here on al-jazeera and we report from south korea where

a consistent drop in sanctions means lockdown on being eased plus. pulling the plug on the leading broadcast network in the philippines is switching on the president's critics. draw a clear weather in the offing across much of japan out of the shadows head to the east and we'll see you as but the tehran that the system that massive crowds rule some. very heavy downpours into the rain look at this into. this rain came down of racial space of time about 110 millimeters of rain it calls out flooding and there's now the threat of landslides as well so as i say the conditions are better but with all that water the ground is very very saturated now meanwhile across into central and northern as the china very heavy amounts the rate is slightly but the

temperatures down to the north out of course that had will stay in the forecast it's not too bad on friday up into beijing but it's rated across these 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 fine and dry into japan 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 malay peninsula some very heavy downpours in the afternoon hours and boarding on friday will see some heavy rain and all the while more showers across into northern areas of india becoming heavy into bangladesh on friday. to really know someone you must walk a mile in the. solo in the footsteps of. the state to which they way in the

one. snowy germany. inspiring stories of people disappearing on their chosen. witness documentaries on. your theologies there are a reminder of our top stories this hour u.s. secretary of state mike quanto has doubled down on accusations against china saying the country could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths if it had been transparent about the rouhani outbreak earlier beijing hit back at the u.s.

threats to reimpose tariffs as punishment for the pandemic. spanish prime minister pedro sanchez looks set to secure enough parliamentary votes on wednesday to extend the state of emergency by 2 weeks the contrary which is one of the worst hit by the outbreak has already started to relax its lockdown. german chancellor angela merkel has announced a range of steps to ease restrictions looting allowing people from tradition households to meet while more shops and museums will be reopening. russia will also see some restrictions eased president virt of air pollution has backed proposals to let some people go back to work in the capital moscow the city's mayor says companies involved in industry and construction can reopen in one week's time that's despite the number of nationwide cases rising 510004 the 4th day in a row russia has confirmed more than 165000 cases and more than 1500 deaths. south korea is also among countries lifting restrictions 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 abs and drive through testing centers to trace and contain the virus were all introduced early on along with fines for breaking quarantine the number of infections had a peak on february 29th and the lesson 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 recorded robert bride has more from 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 that 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 around the limited the number of people here which is good because it's not so crowded and. 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. as some countries lift restrictions the head of the world health organization says they must also prepare for another pandemic in the future w.h.o. is calling for more investment in health care especially for the billions of people globally who don't have good access as we want to go on responding to this pandemic we must also want carder to prepare for the next one now is an opportunity to lay the foundations for those eland health systems around the world which has been ignored for a long. that includes systems that systems to prepare. prevent and respond to emerging partly genes if we learn anything from copied 19 it must be that investing in health now will save lives letter. 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 criticized for charging fares the coronavirus long down stranded migrant workers in cities nationwide where the government effort to repatriate workers is being resisted by business owners who fear they'll have no workers once the lockdown is lifted elizabeth purana reports from topper dish. they build homes which they could never afford to live and work has restarted at this construction site and author for this but many of them i could labor 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 to 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 sites. the only food many of them get is from a wealthy benefactor he'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 start that will gather all of 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. the 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 laborers have been stranded. cities or states which they're not

from with no work or income and a long way from holland. with all public transport cabs sold over half a 1000000 walked or often hundreds of kilometers. after protests by migrant workers the government agreed to organize train services home 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 use initially believe that the migrant workers that have been abandoned in this case are the very individuals who will build our own future prosperity for his sharma says that the economic impact of india's mark dam 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. iranian mosque so found a way to hold services during ramadan even though they closed people in tehran can go to drive in religious ceremonies after if that's the evening meal breaking the ramadan sassed organizers say between 400 and $500.00 cars come to the theme park where families can watch religious films and speeches. israel's defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more settler homes in the occupied west bank around $7000.00 us rebuilt in the effort settlements south of bethlehem the homes are illegal under international law are a force that has the reaction from western. 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 bear arms 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 us ambassador to israel david friedman have been trailed in the press they can 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 jarrad krishna president trump son in law at that stage there are are talks still going on between the united states and israel as mapping process still going on. in the philippines human rights groups and journalists say the government's decision to shut down the leading broadcast network is a grave assault on media freedom president rodrigo detest has frequently attacks the company's news coverage but denies having anything to do with the closure order to meet and it has more from manila. abia c.b.s. signed on for what may be the last time just before 8 o'clock on tuesday night. here's a review. forced

off air by a seize and desist order issued by the philippine government but journalists at the largest media network here remain defiant you know i. did all the requirements and we did that by late in the law a.b. a c.b.s. failed to get congress approval for its license renewal congress is blaming the national telecommunications agency which previously made the commitment to issue a provisional license activists say this is the greatest assault on press freedom under the current administration they also this quiet this is a clear case of political heris meant against a network that has become the pillar of philippine democracy president will be good to tary to has repeatedly threatened a.b.s.e b.n. in the past saying that the network didn't broadcast his political campaigns during the 2016 presidential election president that would be good to tear to spokesman

says the president hasn't had a say in the closure decision and he remains neutral rights groups say do territory often treats journalists with contempt the online news portal rappler and the national newspaper the philippine daily inquirer have been threatened with closure to. the network says the closure order threatens the livelihoods of at least 11000 workers management have been given 10 days to appeal the order and congress is promising to the bait the license renewal issue as soon as possible but i mean pop what are you monger hang out in we want to do more for our country and for the filipinos we could give up together we need to get through this crisis but it's not the 1st time the network has been forcibly shut down in 1972 former president ford and marcus ordered its closure when he placed the entire country under martial law

its owner was jailed and the network remained off air for 14 years until the people power revolution toppled the marcus dictatorship in 1986 6. critics say history may be repeating itself. duggan al-jazeera manila. this is all just there and these are the top stories u.s. secretary of state mike want to double down on accusations against china saying the country could have prevented hundreds of thousands of deaths if it had been transparent about the break earlier beijing hit back at u.s. threats to reimpose terrace as punishment for the pandemic. spain's parliament has voted to extend the country's state of emergency by 2 weeks that allows the government to control people's movements as it gradually relaxes a lock down some opposition m.p.'s refused to support the move it's one of the

worst hit countries german chancellor angela merkel has announced a range of steps to ease restrictions it includes allowing people from 2 different households to meet while more shops and museums will be reopening. one of the most senior scientific advisors 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 more than 30000 people of diverse overtaking actually is the highest number in europe. by going to bars johnson was asked about that number at his 1st prime minister's questions since he recovered from covert 19 at this stage i don't think that international comparisons and the data is yet to draw the 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 that was to save lives and to protect our nature. russian president vladimir putin has backed proposals to let some people go back to work in the capital moscow the city's mayor says companies involved in industry and construction can reopen in a week's time and that's despite the number of nationwide cases rising 510004 the 4th day in a row russia has confirmed more than 165000 cases and more than 1500 deaths. israel's defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more settler homes in the occupied west bank around $7000.00 are to be built in the ephrata settlements south of bethlehem the homes are illegal under international law but as the headlines don't go away though the news continues here on al-jazeera after witness.

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