this is a moment for pretty much the opposite where retreat from the world you can actually see that every generation has its moment this one is ours ringback. venezuela's president blames donald trump for what he's called a failed plot to oust him a state television broadcasts videos of an alleged american mercenary. this is al jazeera live from london also coming up. i'm going to mco agrees to reopen all shops and restart top flight football in a deal with germany's 16 states to relax the lockdown last. jetta could have prevented the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people like us again hits out at

china as its death toll passes 71000. and why organized crime gangs across central and latin america playing their part in battling 90. elo venezuela's state television has brought us video of what it says is one of 2 american mercenaries captured during a failed armed incursion on monday the man says he was instructed to seize control of caracas airport and bring in a plane to take president nicolas maduro to the u.s. and europe has accused u.s. president donald trump of trying to oust him from power but the american government has denied any involvement in the duras appeal to venezuelans to look out for any suspicious activities. to

look for a strange thing. to your neighborhood in the street so. as not to terrorise oppose joins us from what is are is it just more about what to do or had to say. while it was a press conference where the international media guys and the 1st thing that nicholas my daughter did was show the interrogation a video of look dead man he's one of the 2 americans that was detained in the country when he was trying to reach the venezuelan coast of the caribbean sea in a speedboat very he said that he believed that he was working towards the freedom of the venezuelan people and he also explain a bit of what the plans that they had he said that our main priority was to take over the airport in caracas in order to be able to detain and extract mother would also safely because i'm a little later on spoke he once again blamed donald trump but also even the

president of colombia for participating in this event he said that donald trump has trucks up contracted a u.s. company a u.s. security company a silver corp in order to carry out this event because my daughter said that he proved that he had proof that there was a contract that was signed by more than rudolph who is the president of silvercorp and why the opposition leader won why though in order for these people to create unrest in venezuela because that mother would have said that he was going to request a full investigation and denounce the united states and colombia in the hague and here is what will happen to. well this is the big question because as i just said before my daughter was very consistent during this press conference saying that's why you go was behind this plan and not only the united states and go along what he said is that the prosecutors office was

going to defined one way the future he also said that the prosecutor was going to define what happened today you do that to us former soldiers that were detained in venezuela he said that he was going to request the extradition from the united states all of your the good will who was involved in this whole incident the opposition denies their involvement in this whole situation they say that they did not know that this was going to be happening in the country and let's not forget what is happening in venezuela right now there's an enormous humanitarian crisis with people struggling for food for medicine and among many other things this definitely gives the venezuelan government it a way as a scream to talk about something else and to destruct the population about what's going on that's what opposition to the door is basically saying that this whole incident is being used by the government to destruct the population for the enormous to terrorists and of the economy in the country and the suffering that venezuelans face today. thank you very much indeed.

germany's making moves to emerge further from its pandemic knock down chancellor angela merkel said the 1st phase of the great a virus has passed as she announced a range of new steps to ease restrictions they cleared allowing people from 2 different households to meet well wolf shops and museums will reopen and the top football league will restart this month social distancing measures along with the wearing of mosques will remain in place on public transport john mccain has more from valid. 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 bavaria 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 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. spain's parliament has extended the country's state of emergency for a 4th time and there's a pleasure sanchez managed to secure enough backing to extend it until the 24th of may get out of the government to control because movements as it gradually relax as it's locked down spain is one of the world's worst hit countries with more than $25000.00 deaths. european union is facing the worst recession in its history and will not fully recover by the end of next year that's according to the 1st official you forecast for the post knock down economy the coronavirus containment measures in place since march wiped out a 3rd of the continent's economic activity it's expected to leave lasting scars on economic output and the labor market overall you member states are forecast to

enjoy a severe recession this year economy got d.v.d. . in greece italy spain croatia and to a lesser extent france are forecast to contract the most italy were struck 1st and most forcefully the economy is expected to contract by about 9.5 percent with containment measures now starting to be removed gradually the economy is projected to start recovering from the 2nd half of 2020 nevertheless italy's recovery is forecast to take learned or then in other member states. the number of deaths in the u.k. is not past 30000 it comes a day after britain registered the highest death toll in europe meanwhile one of the most senior scientific advisors to the u.k. government has resigned professor neil ferguson breached the coronavirus knock down

rules he helped to create by receiving a secret visits to his home while a woman even just was one of the leading voices on the scientific advisory group and had the virus himself. russian president vladimir putin is back proposals to ease restrictions in moscow even as the number of cases rose by 10000 for the 4th day in a row the capital's mess says some businesses can return to work in a week's time despite cases climbing rapidly in the world's 5th worst affected country russia currently has more than 165000 confirmed cases and more than 1500 deaths linked to the virus. as the number of deaths in the u.s. passes $71.00 and a half 1000 president trump appears to have backtracked on closing down the white house barra's task force instead he says will shift towards efforts to reopen and revive the country's economy it was untreated that it would focus more on vaccines the president still when criticized the turning his attention to the economy while

the number of deaths and infections continues to grow meanwhile suggest that my pump has again blamed china for the spread of the virus accusing it of covering up the initial outbreak. 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 that deployed its propaganda organs to denounce those who politely called for simple transparency that brings us to today 120 days on china is still refusing to share the information we need to keep people safe meanwhile activists in the united states to settle mission

what they're calling the trump desk clock and they say more than 44000 deaths counted so far were caused by president on trump's inaction the activists estimate 60 percent of u.s. deaths could have been prevented if restrictions had been imposed and there are white house correspondent joins us live now to make him pay or is doubling down only trump ministrations criticism of china and a. yeah as activists point to donald trump saying that he should have done more to prepare the united states the u.s. president is pointing the finger at china as this is now been acco to by the u.s. secretary of state saying that china was not transparent when the virus 1st broke out and still has not provided access so that there can be a thorough investigation to not only track down patient 0 as might come peo says but also in terms of the transparency needed in fact the term administration is

now also pointing the fingers and has been for some time but double down are not just blaming china but also the world health organization saying that it needs to demand an investigation but has so far failed to do so so the argument that's being made by the united states is that right now there is not the full transparency on the origins of this virus and also that this accounted for the united states and other countries not being able to adequately prepare as a result of this lack of transparency of the part of china now we should point out very quickly that in election year donald trump is looking for somebody to blame given the fact that he had a historically low unemployment rate a strong economy all of that has been destroyed as a result of coronavirus so the blame china has become kind of the new sort of rallying cry for a president trying to win reelection and can present i was speaking little earlier and was talking about his plans for the white house task force. yeah this is

astonishing because just 24 hours ago we were talking about how the us president had decided to wind down the court a virus taskforce even as infections were spiking up and the vice president had even issued a timeline saying it would be the end of may possibly even early june when this would wind up only to have the u.s. president early on wednesday morning tweets that in fact he was not winding it down but in fact it would continue indefinitely will the u.s. president as he met with nurses for national nurses day a proclamation he was signing was asked about this abrupt reversal here's what he had to say i thought we could want to down sooner but i had no idea how popular the task force is until i actually yesterday when i started talking about wanting to have a good calls for a very respected people saying i think would be better to keep it going it's done

such a good job it's a respected task force now one of the other comments the u.s. president made once a good reiterating as we expect that by june infections in the united states could be as high as 2 100008 day deaths as high as 3000 a day that the u.s. president continues to press for reopening of the u.s. economy in fact he's meeting with the iowa governor as we speak and we're expecting potentially some more comments from the president to be played back very shortly but he also pressed in the comments earlier that he believes that schools should also reopen but reiterated one of the big challenges faced in the united states is the continuing asymptomatic spread of covert 19 can we how can i thank you very much indeed. still ahead this half hour the 1st schools reopening will happen the chinese city where the pandemic is thought to have begun will and israel's defense minister claims the building of several 1000 more settlements homes in the only

white west bank. for. what was a few days rain in germany and poland it's rather stopped now though there is still cloud in poland i think it will be eastern europe the seas the raves the next couple of days at least significant in ukraine parts of bureaus but further west i think not the sun's the more dominant feature here that there is but in portugal there's been some pretty hard times recently has counted up i think and it'll likely stay dry but not as hot now the tensions are rising slowly rather than suddenly for the most part let's just take an example once again of paris the average is about 22 years who are about average but it's slowly warming until eventually see showers on saturday not many but a few. wind direction and when strength has been the thing throughout most of north

africa the tension trip has come down to get the showers are coming up with the sun in some parts of africa for example in asia there is an incoming thunderstorm that was a wall of cloud you don't see that too often but they do happen of course until the land's been done by these incoming shows all of which there are not that many this still plenty of rain and potential rain to come in tanzania kenya and uganda you see a bit on the satellite picture you see rather more in the forecast charts just because on zebra dark blue is heavy rain. choices and sacrifices made in the name of a mother's love to provide for her children a woman in thailand must deprive them of the love they crave and focus this compassion and kindness on her work with alzheimer's patients from the west. while this was spamming the travel halfway around the world to leave their own mother in

her care. witness kissing mother goodbye on al-jazeera. and one of the top stories here now jazeera venezuela's state television has broadcast video of what it says is one of 2 american mercenaries captured during a failed armed incursion on sunday and the man says he was instructed to seize control of caracas airport and bring in a plane to take president nicolas maduro one juror to the u.s. . the german chancellor angela merkel says her country will further ease its coronavirus knocked out among other measures top flight football matches will start

to be played from the 15th of may behind closed doors. and your suggest it might compare has again blamed china for the corona virus outbreak saying there was a cover up that says the number of deaths in his country passed 71 and a half 1000. thousands of senior students have returned to school in the chinese city of new one with a new coronavirus was 1st detected while the 120 schools have resumed after 3 months of lockdown last students were scanned for temperature and the desks were placed further apart many of them are preparing for their university entrance exams according to official figures with 4 and a half 1000 people died from cove and 19 in china with a number of cases exceeding 80000 after there's katrina you has more from beijing. this is being held i hailed as a milestone here in china the epicenter of the outbreak here the residents had to

experience the strictest measures in terms of lock down controls this year and more state of the deaths and cases of the current virus took place in city and now for the 1st time students are streaming into their classrooms after weeks of not being able to go to school and there is a lot of relief and excitement from the students being able to go back to classes only the oldest high school students will be attending class the seniors they've been part pirate us as they have to prepare for their university entrance exams that are taking place this coming july. and this is just one of the indicators of life going back to normal here in china we also heard the news in the last few hours that shanghai is disneyland will also be reopening after weeks of being closed albeit they will limit the numbers of customers who will be able to enter and also china's national people's congress the most important event of the political calendar here in china will take place later this month and it comes off

to dwindle in corona virus cases here in china according to official figures in a province the has not been a new coronavirus case in the past 31 days and nationwide there have been single digits in terms of new coronavirus cases daily and most of these are imported cases so the government does seem to have things under control there are still a lot of cool coronavirus precautions that are in place around the country everyone does need to wear a mask when going to work will be out and about and public. life in south korea is largely returning to normal as its number of new cases of the coronavirus drops to just 2 workers are returning to their offices while museums and libraries are reopening the authorities are also preparing to reopen schools when 250 people have died from the disease in south korea with a number of cases nearing 11100000 migrant workers in india who were

left on employed by the corona virus outbreak a returning home on special trains the government organized the transport after coming under intense pressure to help the workers india's extended lockdown a preventive thousands of migrant laborers from returning home leaving them stuck in cities where they couldn't afford to live with 1600 people have died of code 19 in india with 50000 infections. gangs across latin america using the pandemic to increase their political power they've been punishing those who ignore measures to tackle the spread and stealing food to give out to those less well off troubling reports mexico city. is about to be punished for heading out during quarantine. but not by the police by the m s 13 gang you know salvador they've been taking action against violators of coronavirus curfews in their territory. and so the criminal groups across latin america the chief concern and list say

isn't for the greater good but strategic goings. the fact that you are seen as. as benevolence a controlling authority as in your communities has some benefits in terms of holding that and a certain moments be 13. trolling secondly even their use and sort of interaction element and gangs that they are able to implement some initiatives on all the seas increase there it's all in their interest or is the government. further south in brazil gangs in a couple of 5 villas in rio de janeiro which usually get their money through street crime and drug dealing now babbling in public services says fernando brown callie so what they're doing right now is basically. trying to promote a lockdown of. who should be on the street and what time but also i think private

doctors i make it mad trying to keep this straight and yet are they basically trying to look like a state and says bring callie charging residents the so-called taxes that go with that. i mean again it's all old news to me it's going criminals who've long played the good hearted outlaw with the coronavirus they've simply stepped up. their publicist take. just a look at this slickly edited video of the new generation cartel handing out food parcels the citizens think it's leader that has an image and here reportedly a cell of the sin a low a cartel with a packages to some reason with osama bin laden labels that even the daughter of imprisoned drug lord chapel has handed out 2 packages with his face on it but some of the groups on even putting up the money themselves. where i have looked for since

a half for instance. and. i know. displays of neverland and i'm some have already started stealing. and tire tracks. as well. mexico's president has said it is better if they just don't kill it by the gun law they shouldn't go around like rulers who think that just like you know they are forgiven. and that's just the thing in mexico the murder rate hasn't gone down and it only on the lines that here and elsewhere in latin america these groups have no problem with killing in and terrorizing communities and no amount of robin hood posturing is going to change that. what may change say analysts is the amount of power criminal groups can accrue by strategic good beats and that should be a worry to any state john homan al-jazeera mexico city. libya's internationally

recognized government has tried to capture an airbase controlled by the eastern warlord highly for have to has been used to have to us forces to launch air strikes on the capital in recent weeks the tripoli government has captured several cities along the western coastline it's also rejected have to call for a cease fire during the holy month of ramadan and the fear is he do use it to regroup for a loss of territory. in our nation's report says around a 1000 messner is russia's wagner group are operating in libya to support have to it also says have to forces every troop it up to 2000 fighters from syria to help their battle against a u.n. recognized government in tripoli and diplomatic editor james bays has more from the u.n. . has spoken to a number of security council members who've confirmed what's in the report we've known for a long time there are russian mercenaries operating in libya we didn't perhaps know the scale of the operations of the russian company the wagon the group it has about a 1000 operatives it's believed in the country including about 40 snipers who are

on the front lines trying to tilt the battles in favor of general haftar the 57 page report gives pictures of some of those operatives and pictures of some of their weapons it also reveals for the 1st time that general have to is getting support from fighters that have come in from syria we've known for a long time that turkey has been sending syrian fighters to support the government a government of national accord but it seems that syrian fighters have been coming in on the other side to support general have to we believe as many as 2000 fighters who are on contracts of $800.00 a month for 3 months we believe to try and help general haftar in his fight israel's defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more settlement homes in new york about west bank around 7000 to be built in the effort settlement south of bethlehem the homes are illegal under international law are a force that has the latest from western. it would if it went through be

a major expansion of the sea 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 us 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 recognise 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 as mapping process still going on how does this need to everything is in ramallah in the occupied west bank she says the approval for the homes is further proof that international law is being ignored. policy is have been arguing for years that israel is building these settlements which are considered illegal under international law and then creating facts on the ground that then are presented to

palestinians that's part of the reality on the ground in a peace deal that they should accept this is a business announcement further solidifies their argument that they've been saying for years that israel is ignoring international law and its new losing its good relationship with the u.s. right now mainly between the u.s. 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 for palestinians have been saying that they no longer view the u.s. as almost 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. drivers in china was stopped from using a suspension braincell after it began buckling in high winds a surveillance video caught the lawmaking undulating movement of the right surface

it's been close for a pastor to what state media called unusual wind flow the bridge was opened in 9097 and connects the port city of quango to a manufacturing center nearby when you can catch up any time with all our credit virus coverage and the rest of the news on our website address that is ours or a dot com and you can watch us by clicking on the line michel. ramana top stories are 0 but israel has state television has book os video of what it says is one of 2 american mercenaries captured during a failed armed incursion on sunday the man says he was instructed to seize control of caracas airport and bring in a plane to take president nicolas maduro to the u.s. and who has accused u.s. president donald trump of trying to oust him from power but the american government has denied any involvement to or has appealed to venezuelans to look out for any

suspicious activities you know your mo or call on eva destroy one throws in our eyes to look for strange things that come to your turn to your neighborhood in the street when the noise germany is making moves to merge further from its pandemic knock down chancellor angela merkel said the 1st phase of the corona virus has passed as she announced a new range of steps to ease restrictions they include allowing people from 2 different households to meet all shops will open and top league football will restart next week behind closed doors spain's parliament has extended the country's state of emergency for a 4th time a minister pedro sanchez managed to secure enough backing to extend it until 24th of may it was the government to control people's movements as it gradually relaxes its lock down the number of deaths in the u.k. is now past 30000 it comes a day after britain registered the highest death toll in europe meanwhile one of

the most senior scientific advisors to the u.k. government has resigned professor neil ferguson breached the coronavirus knock down rules he helped to create are receiving secret visits to his home by a woman. as number of deaths in the u.s. approaches $72000.00 president trump appears to have backtracked on winding down the white house forest task force instead he says it will shift towards efforts to reopen the economy he also said it would focus more on vaccine as the president is still being criticized the turning his attention to the economy as well a number of deaths and infections continue to grow meanwhile suggests it might pompei or has again blamed china for the spread of the virus was that i'm so there stay with us next stop the stream discusses sweden's approach to the trade a virus that when one is off to that my family.

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