we lose it instantly if we. continue it is just will be the opportunity for the girls to return between those. scientists a calling for strong climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without this the situation gets worse. after weeks of talks and overshadowed by covert 19 iraq's parliament approves the new government led by me. to maria with the world news from al-jazeera. that was the.

control. and its own state t.v. has video of an alleged us mercenary the president of iran says was involved in a failed plot to oust him. would have been involved it would have gone differently . the u.s. secretary of state might bump a 0 insists washington had nothing to do with the mysterious incident and the british prime minister gets a grilling from the new opposition leader as he defends his handling of the pandemic. so the rocket prime minister. has formally taken office after parliament approved a partial cabinet he takes the reins at a time of severe economic crisis brought on by coronavirus but really on top of a lot of the existing financial problems they previous government collapsed last year after mass protests that often turned violent. the vote in parliament was

delayed several times to make changes that appeased rival party it's so wonderful to in now with more so if you're having to appease a whole lot of parties just to get this through the gates what does that say about the amount of power this prime minister might actually have well it doesn't really borders well for the reforms that he has to push through the government and what we've seen during discover meant for mation process is the political parties directing the formation of the government especially side on the party of work that are souter is said to have wielded a vast amount of influence over the selection of ministers but of course also the other major parties including fatah which is led by had many until the last minute they were demanding more ministerial portfolios to put their support behind them is on the hunt one have we have a prime minister here who comes into office after months of political questions

with many challenges ahead of him including the fiscal and economic crisis including the coronavirus pandemic but also a resurgence of iceland some rule parts of iraq but on the other hand he is in a way beholden to the political establishment and to the same powers that to some extent have brought about these crises and that will certainly limit his ability to push for really aggressive reforms and to deliver on the change that he has promised that his government program how bad was the economic situation in iraq before coronavirus simona because we talk about an existing problem there. well even before the coronavirus the economy was not doing well when it comes especially to jobs for iraq's you have and this was one of the major grievances of the protesters this is why they took to the streets there is rampant you've unemployment and this is what prompted many young people including students to

demonstrate against the government or to do hand sweeping changes now that was the situation before the coronavirus been demick hit before the sharp decline in oil prices and since then. we have had a very severe fiscal crisis that has hit the government to the extent that it can't even earn enough of its or the exports to cover government salaries so it will be forced to adopt severe austerity measures cutting the benefits of government workers of course putting on hold any kind of investment projects or economic reforms to try to address the grievances of the demonstrators in the 1st place so the government is really in a very dire situation here it will have to negotiate with the i.m.f. and the world bank to try to get budget support it will have to try to lend internationally but also it will have to use its foreign reserves to borrow locally so these challenges are something that most of our calamy will have to address very

very urgency thank you some wonderful team with those updates from bank. 2 of the news and venezuelan so television's broadcast video of a man it says is one of 2 u.s. mercenaries captured after a failed plot against president nicolas maduro and the video the man states he was instructed to seize control of qatar conserve port before plane would be brought in to take my daughter to the u.s. they were detained after what model and his government described as a botched beach landing the u.s. government denies any involvement. we're going to work on this it's a constant matter in the sense of anytime there are americans that are detained some place will work to get them back we we will start the process of trying to figure a way if in fact these are americans that are there that we can figure a path for we want to get every american back if the matured regime decides to hold them will use every tool that we have available trying to get them back it's our responsibility to do so. is monitoring developments from point

a. mother would have continued to accuse not only president donald trump but also president iran from colombia and also opposition leader who while you go he said that the united state has some subcontracted a security company in order to carry out and try to oust him he also said that there was going to be an investigation ongoing in order to find out what actually happened that every day comes new information and that operations continue our own going in venezuela today and that today 4 other people involved in this attack were part of where detained venezuela in the past this is not the 1st time that we've seen a cross accusation between the united states and venezuela but this is the 1st time that 2 former u.s. soldiers are detained in venezuela in an operation so the certainly raises and lots of questions in the country who financed is who was behind it what actually happened what many people want to know is why 2 former u.s.

soldiers were involved in an operation of what many say was doomed from the very beginning because basically they did not have many resources spoke to paul dobson last on his journalist based in venezuela who says there is plenty of evidence that the opposition leader one who was involved with this. what if the late of the end preview signature on a contract is genuine and it seems to be this lady who bend really goes up the summary of the shambles of his attempt to bring about regime change in venezuela which began pretty much from day one very quickly after his proclamation an interim president would have a role or doesn't even exist in venezuela competition we thought he did it but the attempt to bring in so-called humanitarian aid on the colombian border which he also seemed. able to cope with involved in running the think europe you know we've been through reports contempt of a military coup to power in april last year and i think is the other end with

really none of which have worked his. support base he one time here in venezuela is now down to only. his allies in the senate when the right wing parties have all what met him or so outside of venezuela that very difficult to see how he's going to recover from yet another attempt we turn to the coronavirus pandemic now in the white house has described the u.s. china relationship as both disappointing and frustrating and the deepening rift over the origins of the virus president donald trump says the virus came from a chinese lab and he's going on to say the fallout from the pandemic is worse for the u.s. than the japanese attack on pearl harbor 941 and even 911 this is really the worst attack we've ever had this is worse than pearl harbor this is worse than the world trade center there's never been an attack like this. and it should have never

and could have been stopped at the source could have been stopped and showed up it should have been stopped right at the source and it wasn't. earlier beijing it hit back though at the lab claims saying there's no evidence for any of it china also says tower of should not be used as a weapon to trump once again threatened to impose them a moral of this with mike hanna joining us from washington d.c. now the worst attack on the u.s. ever that's very loaded terminology mind. it is indeed the use of that word attack the repeated use of that word attack very much showing the presidential mindset that in some way the u.s. is under check from china it's china rhetoric has been ramping up in the past few days we heard from the secretary of state my pump aoe early on in the day very very strongly criticizing china and continuing to maintain the possibility that the

virus originated in the chinese despite the u.s. as beating just antony felt she being absolutely adamant that that is not a possibility that the origin of the virus is some metal like a bat which managed to leap species and infect human beings but still the secretary of state continues with this position as does president trump and you hear that rhetoric ramping up the use of the word attack now many questioning why the sudden about on china remembers just a few weeks ago that the president of china was being described by president trump as his very good friend well there is some speculation that it has to do with president trump's meeting with his campaign manager a week ago brad pasko of the n.t. trying to rhetoric started ramping up after that and there's a real possibility that president trump has been persuaded that china bashing is a very effective strategy that would delight his political base if so the

relationship with china certainly now and the real threat meanwhile back at home mike $72000.00 deaths plus in the united states was is the status of the group the task force that is there to try to stop that and bring those numbers or slow those numbers. well that's been a bit confusing to some 24 hours ago president trump was saying that there's a possibility the task force would be disbanded however in the course of today he's turned that around and says no it will not be he says that there may be some added personnel added to focus on opening up the economy though he continues to maintain that human safety is still the most important factor but many exceedingly relieved at this turnaround because there had been intense speculation that president trumped by disbanding this task force was also doing away with information he was

getting from his medical experts now medical experts like anthony fire chief who i mentioned been very much the most trusted factors in this pandemic by u.s. citizens and there was concern that president trump was shutting them aside and that the most trusted people within that task force were being put on the sidelines even at a time when the infection rate in the u.s. continues to rise thank you mike hanna in washington d.c. in the news ahead on al jazeera demands for justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the u.s. state of georgia. back to school senior students in china's coronavirus epicenter are returning to class.

well i was it's raining heavily in some positive boundaries and the particular thinking ok how are this frontal system on its way through it is going away so you should have most japan a couple of dr days coming up not very warm but warming 20 you may be rising to more beijing is cooling down and this rain forming over a good part of central china becoming quite heavy for a time through han and to the northeast that churning back through shanghai believes hong kong halt 33 degrees with occasional thunderstorms possibly and humid weather but i think the 33 is the thing to stick or not is quite high for this time the year it's more typical throughout the tropics of course where you see daily big showers those monies they were now the concentration on the heavier ones it's maybe ranson away sees the eastern side of indonesia we see more in sumatra but it's really gathering in the water here and you expect to see it start to move up towards the south and by a bang goal of the next week or so leaving the land masses with

a scattering of shows but no more than that now we have seen some big thunderstorms recently in the northeast of india and bangladesh got a mass of rain coming up into sri lanka and maybe into carola but the immediate next 2 days there's a very well scattered showers. liberation . night. out just near well. into the diverse culture of some time. together.

the top stories this hour on al-jazeera iraqi prime minister moustapha the may has formally taken office after parliament approved a partial cabinet it takes the reins at a time of severe economic crisis brought on by coronavirus on top of iraq's existing financial problems venezuelan state television broadcast video of what it says is one of 2 american mercenaries captured during a failed coersion a man claims he was instructed to seize control of caracas airport and to take president nicolas maduro to the u.s. . and the white house has described the u.s. relationship with china as disappointing and frustrating

a deepening rift over the origins of coronavirus president donald trump maintains it came from a chinese lab beijing says there is no evidence for that. shelling south of libya's capital tripoli has killed at least 6 people and injured 19 others the attack targeted a coastal road in the town of tajoura as well as other districts in the capital and shelling has been linked to fighters loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar. and a un report says about a 1000 mercenaries from russia's wagon group are operating in libya to support after it also says half to his forces of recruited up to 2000 fighters from syria to back their battle against libya's u.n. recognized governments. we are very concerned and the intervention in. foreign citizens in libya is something the secretary general is spoken out about publicly it is something of concern it is of no help to the people of libya

who are who aren't diary need of political reconciliation so peace can return to their country a diplomatic editor james basis following this on new york. 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 half 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 have to in his fight u.s. president john trampas vetoed legislation that would have limited his ability to take military action against iran the proposal passed both houses of congress trump said it was an insulting strategy by the democrats to win the upcoming presidential election in november the u.s. and iran came close to a major confrontation in january after trump authorized the killing of the iranian general hossam so that many. tensions are rising in the u.s. state of georgia after a young african-american man was shot dead the family. he was out jogging when he was confronted by 2 white men who thought he was a burglar one of them later shot him a full story from. this mobile phone footage captures the last moments of

a 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 modest peers to try and avoid them 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 modish shot point blank. to . execute. it not be amazed 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 break who they suspected was responsible for a series of break ins the elder mcmichael alleges armada are breed 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. for a minute because this is what he needs right now all these justice he's not here to be the voice that we are his voice georgia's governor brian campus responded by saying he wants a thorough independent investigation the state's attorney general expressed deep concern but the man'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 it 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 the transcript of the emergency call made by one of the 2 men they were asked if . it was committing a crime is a black man running down a road was the answer to gallacher al-jazeera. to india where dozens of specially arranged trains are taking more than 100000 stranded workers home the coronavirus lockdown left them far from home and many have little or no access to food or shelter business owners are criticizing the government's efforts they're worried there will be no workers available when things start getting back to normal elizabeth purana reports now from india's most populous states the protests. they build homes which they could

never afford to live and work has restarted at this construction site and author but their but many of them i could label as have decided to leave because they haven't been paid in months. they waiting for special trains organized by the government to transport workers to their home states. the district magistrate came and took all of our names and dollars we get a message on our forms about the queen's we've been waiting but we haven't got anything and we have no means to leave. there are around 700 laborers from all over india who've been living in 10 shacks next to the construction 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 started. 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 stranded. from work. and a long way from holland. with all public transport cancelled over half a 1000000 walked off and hundreds of kilometers. after protests by migrant workers the government agreed to organize train services hard last week but government leaders are under pressure from industries as they reopen with company managers feeling they won't have enough workers. the state of karnataka cancelled the trains

just a few days after they began saying migrant workers needed to stay to do their part and reviving the economy the cancellation follows a meeting between the state's leader and the real estate developers association of india i think it's an extraordinary act in gratitude because. believe that the migrant workers that have been abandoned in this case are the very individuals who will build our own future prosperity. has sharma says that the economic impact of india's markdown will be felt for a long time because of its humanitarian failure with my parents less willing to return to the cities and is a big problem al jazeera greater noida. one of the most senior scientific advisors to the british government has resigned after breaching the coronavirus lockdown rules he helped create for ferguson. neil ferguson years of leading voice on the scientific advisory group later emerged

that he was visited as a home by a woman once the lockdown came into place or than 30000 people have died in the u.k. making it the worst affected in europe. prime minister johnson's 1st a grilling about this during his 1st appearance at prime minister's questions since he recovered from 19. at this stage i don't think that international comparisons and the data is is yet that to draw the conclusions that we want what i can tell you is that at every stage as we took the decisions that we did we were governed by one overriding principle and aim and that was to save lives and to protect our n.h.s. mr speaker the argument that international comparisons can't really be made when the government's been using slides like this for weeks to do international comparison just really doesn't hold water i'm afraid that many people concluding that the answer my question is the u.k. was slow down slow on testing slow on tracing and slow on the supply of protective

equipment. more for health following this. 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 in 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 aftermath of it. the world health organization is pushing governments to consider believe it or not the next pandemic as they rethink investment in health care the w.h.o. chief says it's essential we learn more from mistakes made during this current outbreak as we work on responding to this pandemic we must also work harder to prepare for the next one now is an opportunity to lay the foundations for a zealand health systems around the world which has been ignored for too long. that

includes systems that systems to prepare prevent and respond to emerging. if we learn anything from corbett 19 it must be that investing in held now will save lives. but thousands of senior students are returned to school in the chinese city of ohio where the virus was 1st detected more than 120 schools have reopened after 3 months of lockdown 57000 students now preparing for their university entrance exams. china not letting the coronavirus pandemic slow its ambitions in space a prototype space module blasted off on board a new type of rocket unmanned for now but it said to be able to carry up to 6 astronauts. here are some of china's plans building a space station for example that are set to be completed by 2022 over the next 8

years sorry over the next 2 years 8 missions 4 of them crude will complete work on that project before that is a mission to mars china wants to launch an unmanned probe there later this year and in about a decade's time china hopes to send a manned mission to the moon the last time anyone did that was the u.s. back in 1972. this is a real worry for the americans that's not just me saying it the head of nasa said it at a briefing this morning when he was talking to analysts international analysts he said that he was concerned that the impression was building within the american establishment that china was beating the united states his argument is no they've been doing extraordinary things they've flown beyond pluto and they've been landing on mars now for many many years and they are already involved in the space station

project but there's no question that china is nipping at america's heels and they're picking prime topics prime areas of research where they think they can become predominant they've also got some hidden agendas on this mission one of the most interesting being that in fact the main experiment will be tomorrow when they will fire this capsule sorrow's into space and then send it back to earth at the sort of speed you would expect for a moon landing return mission so they're signaling to everybody very delicately that this human mission to the moon is a priority. past the hour on al jazeera these are the headlines the iraqi prime minister on the

stuff to me is formally taken office off to parliament approved a partial cabinet to take the reins at a time of severe economic crisis brought on by coronavirus but also on top of a lot of existing financial problems simona 14 with more from baghdad. that's the hard problem you managed to get through 15 out of 22 ministers in cabinet and he still has to resubmit 5 who were ejected and 2 others that were not voted on i think if we look at how the government formation process went on it was in fact a very revealing because it really it showed that the political powers wielded a lot of power over his government and there were last minute negotiations to replace ministers to appease the different political parties so that raises the question to what extent he will actually have the power to implement some of the reforms that he put forth and his government program of headlines venezuelan state television is broadcast video of what it says is one of 2 u.s.

mercenaries captured during a failed armed incursion and then claims he was instructed to seize control of caracas airport and to take president nicolas maduro to the u.s. the white house has described the u.s. relationship with china as disappointing and frustrating and a deepening rift over the origins of coronavirus president trump maintains it came from a chinese lab but beijing says there's no evidence of that trump was also vetoed legislation that would have limited his ability to take military action against iran it was a proposal that passed both houses of congress but trump said it was an insulting strategy by the democrats and shelling south of libya's capital tripoli has killed at least 6 people and injured 19 others the attack targeted a coastal road in the town of toyoda as well as other districts in the capital the shelling has been linked to 5 his loyal to the warlord holly for have. you up to date but the headlines on al-jazeera the latest edition of inside story is next.

why is the mortality rate. lower in some countries singapore in kaesong stand up to the many deaths well. let's exactly behind that this is insight story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter. 19 started to hit the world many of us

were concerned about whether we would become infected some said it's as bad as the flu others predict the news about health systems.