day heroes and hard only acts of kindness the stories they capture reveal how the virus is forcing society to take a look in the mirror and exposing its inequalities coronavirus lockdown italy people in power on al-jazeera. 0. 00 on our intake of this is the al-jazeera news hour live from london coming up i'm going to machall calls for courage but also a caution as germany prepares to reopen all shops and restart top flight football plus. they had no idea how popular the force is present trying to backtrack on winding down his coronavirus task force saying it will move focus

to reopening the economy. the 1st schools reopened in ruhani the chinese city where the pandemic is thought to have begun. and venezuela's president blames donald trump on what he's called a failed cloche to oust him a state television broadcasts videos of an edge to american morning. germany's accelerating its exit from the coronavirus lockdown officials have now cleared the way for restaurants hotels and all shops to reopen in coming weeks and german football fans have been told bundestag of matches will resume next week behind closed doors chancellor angela merkel said the 1st phase of the outbreak had passed and she called for courage but also caution meanwhile students at $121.00 schools in blue houghton have resumed their studies 5 months after the 1st private

19 cases emerged in the chinese city. the message from the white house is that the u.s. is entering the reopening phase 2 despite the numbers of deaths and infections still rising steadily almost 72000 people have now died there but latin america has been warned it's yet to reach the peak of infections cases of climbing across the continent with brazil alone passing 8000 deaths we begin our coverage with this report that came in banning soon all shops and restaurants across europe's biggest country will be able to reopen with social distancing in place for many weeks the government's been trying to chart a course through the coronavirus pandemic one which would cause the fewest deaths and protect the economy compared to the u.k. italy spain and france germany has undoubtedly had a better result now ministers believe the virus is under control and so can ease the many restrictions. stay at the conduct of the day and. we will not rain

stall contacts the way they were before if everyone observes the distancing then hygiene rules then there is a good chance that it will remain this way otherwise we would have made these decisions i said we are following a bold path and we believe that with the present framework conditions we have a chance however i want to repeat that we are even more reliant on people cooperated. underlying this decision is the clear fear among the political elite about the damage coronavirus has already caused this economy and what it might go on to do which explains why they're so keen to relax restrictions wherever possible . but as they are relaxed so the responsibility for monitoring the progression of corona virus will devolve to the 16 states of germany anywhere with more than 50 people infected for every 100000 residents must reinstate lockdowns one part of

german life that will resume shortly is the football league ponders league officials have been told they can allow games to be played but with no friends in the stadiums and following stringent rules and testing regimes one sector where uncertainty remains is aviation the national flag carrier loved ones or has been badly hit by the grounding of so many flights and says it needs urgent government help to stay airborne search for your god not our list we have difficult times ahead of us that we will do everything q. map power to reach the goals we have set ourselves those goals for the survival of tensor and we start in the company. some cultural activities have already restarted as here at the barberini museum in potsdam the welcome to visitors who felt culturally stifled these past months reopening one museum is one thing restarting an entire economy quite another because all the while hundreds of new

infections are still occurring every day dominic kane al jazeera berlin. spain's parliament has extended the country's state of emergency for a 4th time from minister pedro sanchez managed to secure enough backing to extend it until the 24th of may and as the government to control people's movements as it gradually relaxes its locked down spain as one of the world's worst hit countries with more than 25000 deaths a number of deaths in the u.k. is now past 30000 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 lock down rules he helped to create are receiving secret visits to his home by a woman if you do a ologist was one of the leading voices in the scientific advisory group and had the virus himself. from his divorce johnson was asked about the number of deaths at

his 1st prime minister's questions since he recovered from the train a virus a new opposition leader kist ahmed 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 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. it 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 china holland london 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's going to give him potentially a much harder time than he's used to with lots and lots of difficult questions to be honest that will be asked that has already begun and on says that the prime minister the government frankly probably at this point in time just don't have circus 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 there 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 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 crisis develops and particularly in the octomom of it. in your opinion is facing the u.s. recession in its history and will not fully recover by the end of next year that's according to 1st official forecast for the post down economy the coronavirus containment measures in place since march wiped out a surge of the continent's internal life activity here it's expected to leave lasting scars on economic output and the labor market. all you member states are forecast to enjoy a severe recession this year economic activity. in greece italy spain croatia and to a lesser extent france are forecast to contract the most italy was 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 longer than in other member states the russian president vladimir putin has backed 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 72 and a half 1000 president trump appears to have backtracked on closing down the white

house bars task force instead he says it will shift towards efforts to reopen and revive the country's economy the president has been criticized for turning his attention to the economy on a number of deaths and infections continues to grow meanwhile suggest it might pump a 0 as 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 in what activists in the united states has set in motion what they're calling the trunk death cloak and they say more than $44000.00 deaths counted so far were caused by president on trump's inaction they had to miss estimates 60 percent of u.s. deaths could have been prevented if restrictions had been imposed. white house correspondent can be held it joins us live a committee of the pump air has been doubling down on the trunk administration's criticism of china. yes he has and the u.s. president in the last hour or so was asked by reporters as he met with i was governor about that intelligence the administration continues to cite that they say conclusively points to the fact that the virus originated in a lab in wu han the president was asked whether or not he had a difference of opinion given his statement initially to that end on april 30th the

u.s. president saying no that's not the case instead continuing to point to china and blaming china for allowing this to escape and not adequately preparing the rest of the world at going to say minutes of the secretary of state and then he went much further asked about the future of that trade deal with china and whether or not he believes that phase one of that deal would hold the u.s. president saying that they are investigating now and they could have an answer in the next 2 weeks so when challenging pressed further about whether or not there would be additional tariffs against china as sort of a punitive action against china for the outbreak of coronavirus the u.s. president stop sidestepping that question saying that he will wait to see the outcome of this investigation into whether or not they have been abiding by the trade deal specifications and can be president trump has backtracked on his plans for the white house our quote of ours toss course. yeah this one it keep makes your

head spin because yesterday the u.s. president even as the number of deaths were rising in the united states projected to rise to in terms of infections 200000 a day by june the us president's talking about winding down the task force then abruptly with a tweet on wednesday morning the us president said the task force would continue indefinitely in fact they would be adding new members and it would in fact be something that would be focusing on reopening the country well the us president was asked about this why this abrupt about face 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 going to actually yesterday when i started talking about wanting to get calls from very respected people saying i think will be better to keep it going it's 10

cents a good job it's a respected task force. now the u.s. president also doubling down on his statements that this is really impacted the united states he calls this in terms of the infections but also the deaths the worst the pro harbor worse than the attacks on the world trade center and again pointing the finger at china saying this never should have happened and one of the biggest challenges now for the united states is not only controlling the spread but also the asymptomatic spread that continues to be a problem here in this country can we how can i thank you very much indeed. thousands of senior students have returned to school in the chinese city of han where the new coronavirus was 1st detected when 120 schools have resumed after 3 months of lockdown most students were scanned for temperatures and their desks were placed further apart many of them are preparing for their university entrance exams according to official figures more for half hours than people died from covered 19 in china where the number of cases exceeding 80000 officers 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 after when dealing coronavirus cases here in china according to official figures in who bay 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 they're off to a lot of quick coronavirus precautions to 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 which i'm sure news reader in history the university of essex she joins us now via skype from essex thanks very much indeed so expansion a little bit about the kind of the the slow return to schools in china. and in

particular that they've they've been out of school for much longer than other countries are starting to go back to school soon or what's the kind of thinking behind the very gradual return and in china. well obviously you know you can if the. chinese school. classrooms i think. through the process of the counts of food and other outbreak. and other brick. to serious you know christianity. in the seat of the chinese communist party. and so obviously you know can put these 3 terming to screw the princes it's very slow in fact in china. different provinces you know can have taking different approaches some provinces of them have no in

a kind of. the authorities have no plan. and how confident can we be in the figures that have come out from china i mean it just saw in this kind of a lot to central school is a fact that they know that there are more cases in fact and they're admitting to or not. doing perhaps they don't really know because some. problem with them china is some different sectors. where health resources and housing to beijing and delivery are managed by different sectors yet those ones and the national level they formulate the policies and they don't and so the difference in the local governments them so they are the ones responsible to connect the feet in those figures and not integrate it or study it carefully so.

you know kind of knew already know. you know the. real finger on the hand. no call for a t. is he punted on their performance he wouldn't receive the straight health subsidy as well as we need to be to offer promotions so be they only want to show success they don't want to shoot fetus or problems so they. likely you most cases i mean this if you talk to people in china this is working is that they've done to be cool for years so casualty and saved. us on that i mean we've had the u.s. pushing again the line that it blames china for the scale of the outbreak and its lack of transparency and in the past china has pushed back against the criticism

from the u.s. but what kind of reaction do you expect you could expect this spat to continue to build. well i think you well it's not just you know i mean. us point to and trump is using the current a virus you know confirm as a way you well republican you know kind of have weights they swarmed with 1000 in china. as a patient 0 that had come to rest of the globe and therefore responsible for all the problems in the u.s. now. this is a tactic to divert attention from the trump administration's local mismanagement of the pandemic so on to you i suspect this will continue on to you you know kind of. damage it's under some kind of in

the u.s. from china's into you you know kind of then they will fight back as though china has switched diplomatic battle to come back the u.s. so they have. some what it's supposed to you know kind of a lurch to scientific evidence they have been showing that in fact the virus have come from the united states the military we shouldn't have rules the virus to hang in the 1st place. thank you very much for talking to us. coming up on this news hour from london far from new york and washington by native americans dying at one of the highest rates in the u.s. . and a black man is shot dead after being chased by 2 white men but no he's been arrested and the incident is in framing racial tensions in the u.s.

. deaths in latin america have now passed 15000 and health experts warn the region is several weeks behind europe with the peak yet to come brazil is the worst hit country with more than 8000 deaths and amazonas state particularly badly hit mexico has recorded the 2nd highest number of deaths in the region just over 2 and a half 1000 deaths in ecuador now at more than 1600 indigenous communities of fed to the amazon rain forest fear in their communities could be wiped out by the pandemic and despite being one of the 1st latin american countries to shut down peru has had more than $1500.00 deaths and cases have doubled in the last 10 days when the opossum is a former ambassador from trinidad and tobago to the u.s. and mexico as well as a former secretary of the organization of american states he joins us now from

washington via skype thanks very much indeed for being with us so at the moment the forecast is that that in america the pan american health organization is so there's a worrying increase in that latin america is behind europe and it was perhaps where year was 6 weeks ago where the worst hit areas you think what are you learning any of the lessons from countries that have been here before. indeed and thank you for having me yes indeed i think given the fact that we are indeed several weeks behind peak from other countries transatlantic i think many countries are she learned from that you just could use to sticks and some of the latin american countries some of the caribbean countries have been able to take those lessons learned and actually helped to flatten the gardens but we clearly seeing good or for example leading and i think a lot of the actions and reactions of practive measures by certain governments may have been a little it and coming most of them to react in mid march i mean i was in the tubes

numbers reflecting the response in terms of time for some of these countries it is very different approaches there in different countries it is it surprising that that america or that these areas haven't had a kind of a more unified approach in how to deal with it indeed we have not really seen a concerted a regional effort regional collaboration cooperation in terms of lessons learned and individual experiences i know for example the pan american health organization they have been doing some regional accord in asia and the level of testing and laboratory interventions like where the organization of american sees a whole so been engaged at a level of policy but really it's a it's an unfortunate level of almost nationalism and protectionism in terms of how individual countries approach and does this pandemic and i really hope that there is a level of coordination in the coming days if not weeks ensure that we learn from each other and mitigate the challenge ahead in love if that is potentially an upsurge to

be had in sit in territories. or to tell us of a bit about you where the connect the caribbean in particular and ours a coping with me one of the impacts is the effect on tourism. indeed many of our economies have been feeling the brunt of this for example since lucian's small island they have downgraded to. look at tourism arrival numbers predicting up to 80 percent decrease. heavily dependent or is mostly 11 percent of g.d.p. is actually to restore an. estimate or not of course the $600000000.00 u.s. dollars worth of lost revenue so the impact will be deep it will be hard it will be painful but i think there's an opportunity for lessons learned to make us more resilient coming out of this impasse and thank you very much indeed for taking time for senator. thank you and then as well as state television is broadcast video of what it says is one of 2 american messire is captured during a failed 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. a door has accused u.s. president donald trump of trying to oust him from power but the american government has denied any involvement in duras appeal to venezuelans to look out for any suspicious activities you know when your mom or call on all venezuelan 1000 ois to look for strange things that come to your town your neighborhood in the street 1000 i. suppose live now to isabel who joins us from what is iris tell us but bit more about what the door had to say. well nicola would have presented one of the 1st think you presented is the interrogation on video of one of the 2 us former soldiers that were detained last week and in that video that man he said that he thought that he was working towards freeing and

helping free the venezuelan people and also as you just mentioned that their main objective was to take over the airport. and 2 way to make it easier for them to extract an equal last minute it's not clear yet how good it was going to be taken to the airport or detained at all but that's what he said on that tape and later on the mother will continue to accuse donald trump of the united states but also from colombia and opposition leader wang wei though he also showed a paper that he says has the signature of evil and that he has proven that hired a mercenary it's not the 1st time that there's been this type of exchanges between the united states and venezuela in the past venezuela has accused the united states of plotting to overthrow. and in many cases it's been used as a smokescreen to cover many of the problems venezuelans are facing today but this time is different in a way to former u.s. soldiers were detained in the country there's lots of questions about how they got

there who hired them and how this whole process was contained in an operation that most analysts say most military analysts say was doomed from the very beginning because there were not enough men not enough not enough weapons in order to carry out this operation and what will happen to those who've been detained. well nicholas i would also said today that one where you go or will be subject to the prosecutor's office the prosecutors in venezuela had already accused him this week of hiring mercenaries and using money that was confiscated from venezuelan funds that have been confiscated by the united states one way though says that he played no part in this process that he knew of it asked did the venezuelan government he said that the venezuelan government had infiltrated this whole operation months ago when he said that who appears on television gloating about

having detained this to us former soldiers on the ground because he's trying to cover what is happening in venezuela which is the spread of covert 19 and ask you many tarion crisis with people with shortages of gasoline and food among other things with the 2 u.s. former soldiers says that they would be tried in venezuela earlier today we also heard a press conference from secretary of state might be aware he said he was going to do everything possible to get those 2 americans back to the book thank you very much. so much more still to come this hour after finding themselves stuck in cities with no work can barely any food india's migrant workers are finally able to get trains home it was and israel's defense minister praise the building of several 1000 more illegal settlement homes in the occupied west bank.

what was a few days of rain in germany and poland it's rather stopped now though is 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 the sun's the more dominant feature here that has been in portugal there's been some pretty hard times recently is 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 geoffrey's 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 many there's 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. from fossil fuels to modern day renewables as societies develop the energy demands increase requiring innovative solutions to meet such demands as a global power development of investment company nebraska power is uniquely positioned to deliver against eastern islands we provide business growth promote social economic benefits and provide innovative safe and environmentally sound energy solutions for future generations the breastpin pioneering future energy in

countries like a mine people have been killed because we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function for this was a deal with saudi arabia things were done differently saudis other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the past bombs deal's off you will rumsfeld was meeting saddam isn't that interesting there are a shadow on al-jazeera. one of the top stories here are jazeera german chancellor angela merkel has announced far reaching measures to loosen the country's lockdown top flight football matches

will return behind closed doors next week and hotels and restaurants in some areas where we are and. yes extras take my pompei as blamed china for being responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide that says the number of deaths in the us passes 72000. and venezuela's state television has broadcast video of what it says is one of 2 american mercenaries captured during a failed 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. . in 19 has struck the largest native american reservation in the us particularly hard more lives have been lost in the navajo nation than in the rest of new mexico and the state has one the highest infection rates nationwide reynolds 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. hospital they earn me away and told me that i didn't have any. that nightmare around me i started running. and the next day the body started there it was. excruciating like every bone in my body was hurting all the way down to. my. very very bad headaches farrah began a return to the i just hospital but they refused to admit her. for her 66 year old mother who was also ill they turned us away and so was that come back until it gets worse and you know not that quite you know like what is worse i mean what's worse than this it's going to get worse and that's the i h s is run by the federal government in washington it is notoriously underfunded

understaffed and under equipped we asked the i guess repeatedly over several weeks for an interview but got nowhere we don't have the best healthcare system on the national news should we have been hit hard by this virus that has snuck into our communities here on the navajo nation navajo lands are impoverished rural and arid basic infrastructure is shockingly bad you know you've got the c.d.c. saying well it's your hands with soap and water everybody but you know what 30 percent are now below 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 of funding to our nation's ness all the girl all the transfer of the country it just seems like the 1st citizens of this country have been ignored

once again on her 4th visit to the i.h.s. barely able to breathe begin a pleated desperate plea for help where already feeling. fear so when the worst going to be worse we're dead 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 he were turned away like that went home. and died in their own home. the 1st american. once again last in line for help rob reynolds al-jazeera. with $100000.00 workers in india who were left unemployed by the coronavirus outbreak are returning home on special trains the government organized the

transport after coming under immense pressure to help the workers many of whom were left stranded without food or money as the nation went into lockdown and is about poor numb reports from the rich in order in which a pradesh state. they build homes which they could never afford to live and work has restarted at this construction site and author for their but many of the migrant laborers 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 checks next to the construction sites. 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 start. the work has restarted but who will look after the children at home 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 cabs sold over half a 1000000 often hundreds of kilometers. after protests by migrant workers the

government agreed to organize train services hard last week but government leaders under pressure from industries as they have reopened with company managers fearing they won't have enough workers. the state of karnataka cancelled the trains just a few days after they began saying migrant workers needed to stay to do they parted 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 or the very individuals who will build our own future prosperity. for his sharma says that the economic impact of india's marked on will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with migrants less willing to return to the cities and is a big problem al-jazeera great annoyed a lot of put the. unemployment in south africa could hit 40 percent because of the current virus outbreak the government began easing restrictions on friday in

attempt to save the country's battered economy but many have already lost their jobs or can't yet return to work south africa's economy was already in a recession before private 19 struck well pandemic is forcing businesses to come up with creative ways to help the reopen we're also enforcing social distancing one restaurant in amsterdam is experimented with this solution small greenhouses for people to dine in if it up to 3 guests and are served by which the staff wearing masks at the netherlands restaurant association is warning many businesses will collapse even if restriction is eased soon restaurants will stay closed until at least may the 19th. workers in the u.k.'s national health service are being hailed a super heroes as they battle europe's worst drought a virus outbreak and now a new artwork by banksy is also paying tribute the painting by the secret of a street artist was unveiled at university hospital southampton on wednesday called

game changer it shows a boy playing with a nurse superhero toy with figures of batman and spiderman in a rubbish bin the painting will be displayed at the hospital until the u.k.'s lockdown has lifted and will then be auctioned to raise money for n.h.s. charities. sudanese authorities say at least 30 people have been killed in tribal clashes between arabs and non arabs it took place in the south darfur province where the local government has now imposed around the clock curfew deploying more troops to stabilize the situation tensions between the 2 sides state back to the darfur conflict in 2003. you know some nations report says around a 1000 mercenaries from russia's wagner group operating in libya to support the warlord holy for have set those i says have to us forces of recruited up to 2000

fighters from syria to help their battle against the un recognized government in tripoli and to promote it to james bays has more from the un. 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 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 to. israel's supreme court has cleared prime minister benjamin netanyahu to form a coalition government with his former rival benny gantz despite his indictment on corruption charges the court made the announcement shortly after netanyahu and dance said the new government would be sworn in on may 13th the agreement is set to put an end to israel's longest political crisis which saw 3 inconclusive elections in a year. israel's defense minister has approved the construction of thousands more settlement homes in the occupied west bank around 7000 people in the effort settlement south of bethlehem the homes are illegal under international law any force that has bases from west to slim. it would if it went through be a major expansion of the sea on block a 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 bad ones of what is being mapped at the moment between the united states and israel as to exactly where an annexation could take place does come on the same day as 2 interviews with the u.s. ambassador to israel david friedman have been trailed in the press they could be fully published on friday in which he essentially says that if israel according to netanyahu benjamin netanyahu the prime minister's promises does go ahead and try to annex some 30 percent of the west bank beginning in early july then the united states would recognize that however he also said that as part of that there would have to be a commitment from israel to negotiate a future palestinian state as well although in one of those interviews he said that essentially would just have to be a commitment that it wouldn't necessarily have to be a response from the palestinian side let alone any real prospect of negotiations

taking place some might read into that some reluctance just to give a complete green light of course you remember that in january when the trump deal the trump peace plan was unveiled friedman said that israel could start annexing almost as soon as it wanted to he was reined in by jared krishna president trumps son in law at that stage there are talks still going on between the united states and israel this mapping process still going on and as there is a need for him as in ramallah in the occupied west bank she says the approval for him this is further proof that international is being ignored. paul say as have been arguing for years that israel is building these documents which are considered illegal under international law and then it's creating facts on the ground that then are presented to palestinians as part of reality on the ground in a peace deal that they should accept this is a this new announcement her the solidifies their argument that when playing for

years that israel is ignoring international law and it's using its good relationship with the u.s. right now mainly between the u.s. president told trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to do actions according to international law that are illegal and then asking palestinians to accept them so for posting is a been saying that they no longer view the u.s. as an honest mediator for peace and they've been asked for an international peace conference whereby different players in the region and in the world today a role in ending the conflict. so had this news out west a 1000000 people displaced now thousands of it lives returning residents a sobering ramadan in the ruins lost. sight of the philippines largest t.v. network switches off in what activists say is a presidential assault on press freedom. and who wants to boldly go inside the u.s.

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logan a u.n. report says more people were displaced by conflict in syria last year than anywhere else in the world a 1000000 people fled a government offensive in libya in december since a ceasefire in march tens of thousands of return to their homes but many found them destroyed or badly reports. the celebrating the

holy month of ramadan in the. dark are busy out and his family finances from dusk to dawn now they're breaking that fast in what was once their home. a splash of color in a sea of crushed concrete. says he fled his home marry her the end of the year when the syrian army and the russians bombed this area well i know a little is now my family and i hear on top of the destruction we are reliving a very difficult and painful memory i pray that god doesn't lead anyone else experience this his mother says with a kitchen destroyed they poor ready meals from outside my home in north korea the most important thing is that we relive our memories and eat in our home. army how is situated in italy province

a few kilometers west of the strategic m 5 highway. healthy years by rebel forces it was the major target of the syrian government to capture during an offensive in december nearly a 1000000 people were displaced by the violence most fled north arriving in the turkish border where many live in makeshift camps. a recent u.n. report says in 2019 syria had the marches number of new displacements of any country almost 1900000 the situation for displaced people living in the buddha was dire. when a ceasefire was agreed between russia and turkey in march tens of thousands of people returned to their homes. some like abu ziad stanley found them completely destroyed but many found it easier to live amongst the ruins rather than return to the camps lure both the manly al-jazeera human rights groups and journalists

say the philippine government order to shut down the country's biggest t.v. network is a grave assault on media freedom president cricketer tatars frequently attacked the war cost as news coverage but denies having any need to do with a closure to maryland again as more from manila and gun similarly cup emilia a.b.s. c.b.s. signed on for what may be the last time just before 8 o'clock on tuesday night. the a.b.s. review. forced off air by a cs and desist order issued by the philippine government but journalists at the largest media network here remain defiant you know out of. all the requirements and we did that by late and the law e.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 grave assault on press freedom under the current administration they also describe this as a clear case of political harris meant against a network that has become the pillar of philippine democracy. president of very good authority has repeatedly threatened a.b.s.e b.n. in the past saying that the network didn't broadcast its political campaigns during the 2016 presidential election president it 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 has promised to debate the license renewal issue as soon as possible but ami pop with our human hang out in we want to do more for our country and for the filipinos we can't 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 ferdinand 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 markets dictatorship in 1986 6. critics say history may be repeating itself. duggan al-jazeera manila racial tensions are rising in the u.s.

state of georgia after a young african-american man was shot dead by 2 white men while out jogging a graphic video has emerged which appears to show 25 year old. being gunned down in the street and he got a report. this mobile phone footage captures the last moments of a modern life as he was jogging through a georgia neighborhood in february as he approaches a truck the 25 year old is confronted by 2 armed men who reportedly believed he was a burglar is a model piers to try and avoid than a shot rings out in the struggle and choose between the unarmed man and a white male with a shot gun shots ring out as a modest shot point blank. in it stick. i. mean to execute. being missed the men have been identified as gregory mcmichael a former police detective and his son travis according to

a police report the men armed themselves and chased a model bery who they suspected was responsible for a series of break ins the elder mcmichael alleges ahmad are buried then attacked his son who acted in self defense neither man has been arrested or charged. since the video emerged protesters have taken to the streets where the young man was killed the lack of charges and handling of the case has enraged civil rights activists across the country we decided to do something positive here. for a minute because this is what he needs right now is justice he's not here to be the voice that we are here for georgia's governor brian campus responded by saying he wants a thorough independent investigation the state's attorney general expressed deep concern but the men's claims that they were acting under a state citizen's arrest law is being questioned the death of a model our brain echoes the case of 17 year old trayvon martin who was shot and

killed here in florida 8 years ago he was pursued by self-appointed neighborhood watch captain george zimmerman who use this state's stand your ground law as a defense he was eventually found innocent in a case that still haunts the african-american community. the trayvon martin shooting was one of many in recent years that sparked a nationwide protest movement marred arborist case will eventually go before a grand jury but that may not happen for weeks with current restrictions in place in a transcript of the emergency call made by one of the 2 men they were asked if ahmad was committing a crime he's a black man running down a road was the answer to gallacher al-jazeera. ponens coalition government is proposing this sunday's presidential election the ruling norn justice party wanted to hold the vote by purse or ballot because of the pandemic and some m.p.'s refused to back that proposal and the opposition accused the government of putting its

political interests 1st a new day date is yet to be announced. new u.s. space for says it's received an avalanche of applicants after posting a video appeal for recruits. pursuing his plan. is in on this plan new wing of the military establishment a president trump is tasked with protecting the u.s. in earth's orbit the pay for personnel comes 24 hours after netflix released a trailer for a comedy series based on a new force. what's in a name for the new born child of the entrepreneur in our mosque and singer grimes something unexpected they haven't revealed how to pronounce the name which is a combination of number and let says they say x. stands for the unknown variable while a 12 refers to the favorite plane of space x. boss and the canadian singer whose real name is claire. so they want the child to grow up in a gender neutral environment although musk says it's

a boy. that's of me for a moment. there's a wave of sentiment around the world if you actually want accountability from the people who are running their countries and i think often people's voices are not heard because they're just not part of the mainstream news narrative. obviously we cover big stories and we report on the big events that are going on but we also can tell the stories of people who generally don't have a voice and then one of the child but that's never be afraid to put your hand up not a question and i think that's what i observe really does the oscar question the people

who should be accountable and also get people to give their view of what's going on . as a celebration of tradition life. al-jazeera was a case where insights into the diverse culture of somalia. violence 2 different couples . embarking on their life together the wedding some money. an antecedent. culturally i believe that the muslims had a far greater effect on europe than europe on the middle east. the crusaders fought for all because they failed to recognize the moment but there was another part it was in the list campaign of colonization that exploded religion in the name of the cross the crusades an arab perspective the final episode liberation on

a. play an important role in checking it with. i'm going to makeover calls for courage but also caution as germany profess to reopen all shops and restart top flight football. on our intended this is our jazeera live from london also coming up. i have no idea how popular the task force is president trunk backtracks are winding down his current a virus taskforce saying it will move focus to reopening the.