we know what we can we know how to get the date that others are not. going on the way they tell the story isn't what can make a difference. the . venezuelan state television is video of an alleged us mercenary and president maduro says was involved in a plot to oust him. would've been involved it would have gone differently that u.s. secretary of state might bump a 0 insists washington had nothing to do with the mysterious incident. but from santa maria with the world news from al-jazeera after weeks of talks and

overshadowed by covert 19 iraq's parliament approves the new government led by me. but i got a medical call for courage and caution as germany prepares to reopen all shops and even restart top level football. on a drinking story out of venezuela where state television has broadcast video of a man it says is one of 2 u.s. mercenaries captured after an alleged plot against president nicolas maduro they and others were detained after what moore and his government described as a failed beach landing the u.s. government is denying any involvement the full story not interest. 2 former u.s. soldiers who are part of what dennis willis has was a plan to overthrow precedent. they were part of a group of around 60 people that say they were hoping to help venezuelans regain

freedom but the plan did not work out 8 of them were killed and at least 13 others detained when they tried to reach the venezuelan coast in a speedboat. on wednesday nicole at my little gave a press conference where he showed the video of interrogation of one of the former u.s. soldiers involved my responsibilities to sue in court there he explained his job was to train venezuelans and help them take control of the airport and get a gas mother once again blame donald trump colombia's president and opposition leader why the for the plot to oust him the 3 of them have denied involvement but it will matter who organized this mercenary and terrorist incursion if it wanted to fill venezuela with violence who did it who gave the order who financed it these are the answers we're getting every day he also showed a contract that was allegedly signed by why the un ga then go to the u.s. war veteran that owns silvercorp the security company hired for the failed military

operation matador said he would request his extradition from the united states and . the captured americans would be tried in venezuela u.s. secretary of state mike bumpier said he would do everything in his power to secure their release we're going to work on this it's a counsellor matter in the sense of anytime there are americans that are detained some place will work to get them back we are we will start the process of trying to figure a way if ever in fact these are americans that are there that we can figure a path forward it's not the 1st time venezuela accuses the u.s. of supporting plans to get muddled out of office it's been used as a smokescreen to cover the many problems venezuelans face today but the detention of 2 u.s. former soldiers in the country raised questions about who was behind a plot that most analysts say was doomed from the start that is how will i just. with us on skype now from washington d.c. eric farnsworth he is the vice president of the council of the americas nice to see

you eric. what's going on what's your take on all of this who's who's behind it all is the u.s. do you believe the u.s. when they say they have nothing to do with it i come all it's going to join you again it does seem to be very curious circumstance doesn't it sounds like a rogue operation from some people who are trying to be heroes maybe thought that they had some support and even financial support from the interim government of venezuela but after contacts were broken off at the end of last year they decided to go forward anyway and try to force the issue remove the stream of europe i do believe the united states when they say that they don't have any direct connection to this activity and the reason why i say that is because this was an ill advised amateurish afr and indeed if the united states were involved it would have presumably been done very very differently so do you know anything of this this

group so vocal. i don't personally know anything about them but from press reports which indicates it's a it's a group of mercenaries essentially who sell security services around the world ok does this doesn't they sold just play directly into the hands of a president maduro who can hold up to former apparently u.s. soldiers and say these guys were trying to enter our country yeah i mean it's a propaganda coup for him no doubt about it you know they had u.s. passports and they clearly had service and the u.s. military years ago and and they were caught doing things that they should have been doing in venezuela it is a clear propaganda victory for them and their regime and look it comes with a very opportune time for mr monroe who is under indictment by the united states who has a collapsing economy who has coronavirus worries and concerns of the price of oil is that lows that can't sustain the minister of the economy so it's

a really difficult period of time for him this is a political boost for him and so i think the timing of it is very curious as well and where does that leave his main rival the man who has declared himself the leader of venezuela and some countries have even accepted that. you know more than 50 countries almost 60 countries indeed have recognized and continue to recognize one word that was the interim president of venezuela including the united states it does hurt him that we consider it is not an effort that i think he would be proud of indeed he's just about any knowledge of it having said that there does seem to have been some contact between the interim government and the perpetrators of this act or worst couple days that were going on at least. you know toward the end of last year so there are do seem to be some contacts there i think people are going to have to explore that a little bit further but at the end of the day this could not help the interim

government ok just funny from your position there in and washington in in your knowledge as you alluded to earlier of what the u.s. whether it was involved or not just where is u.s. policy with regards to venezuela at the moment i just think back over the last few months as we say that backs want to i don't know there was john bolton walking around with a with a note pad that said 5000 troops to colombia you know all these sorts of things what is the u.s. policy on venezuela at the moment. well the stated policy is to support the interim government of those one border as the interim president and to create conditions or help create conditions in benefit will that will lead to free and fair democratic elections now there are various things that the government and the us government has been doing to try to create those conditions and they are pursuing what they call a policy of maximum pressure and this maximum pressure takes the form of indictments against senior officials clearly sanctions against senior officials and of course

since the early not 2019 sanctions against the oil and energy sector as well and then also pressure on international allies like china russia and cuba to the extent there is any sort of contact with between the u.s. and cuba to try to reduce their support for the others well and james so it's really an effort of pressure to try to convince mr maduro essentially to allow free and fair elections but as of today that their effort does not seem to be leading to fruition perhaps in the near term ok eric fans are talking venezuela with us thank you for your time thanks for having me it's going to be with you on to other news and yemeni government soldiers on the island of support for our bracing for attacks after saudi forces supporting them against separatists withdraw from checkpoints u.a.e. backed separatists known as the southern transitional council launched an offensive on the island's biggest city of last week fighting came to

a temporary halt after saudi forces took control of checkpoints and mediated to ceasefire separatists of sense brought in further reinforcements to so-called. 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 the shellings been linked to fight as loyal to the warlord khalifa haftar. the iraqi prime minister. has formally taken office after parliament approved a partial cabinet he takes the reins at the time of severe economic crisis brought about by coronavirus on top of iraq's existing financial problems the previous government collapsed last year after mass protests that were often violent the u.s. says to help the new government succeed it is moving ahead with a 120 day sanctions waiver allowing iraq to continue buying iranian electricity more details from simona fulton in. keeping the lights on is just one of many

challenges what we've seen during this government formation process is the political parties directing the formation of the government especially sided on the party of work that outsider 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 how the body until the last minute they were demanding more ministerial portfolios to put their support behind carbon based on the one hand we have a prime minister here who comes into office after months of political crisis where many challenges ahead of him including the his clinic anomic 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 crisis and that will certainly limit his ability to

push through really aggressive reforms and to deliver on the change that he has promised that his government program. on to the latest coronavirus developments now in the white house has described the u.s. china relationship as both disappointing and frustrating as the rift deepens over the origins of the virus president donald trump says the virus came from a chinese lab but he's also now saying that the fallout from the pandemic is worse for the u.s. than both the japanese attack on pearl harbor 941 and 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 it's never been there like this. and it should never have and could have been stopped at the source could have been stopped in china it should have been separated the source and it wasn't earlier beijing it hit back at the

claims saying there was no evidence for that also saying that chinese or tariffs should not be used as a weapon on china after trump threatened to impose them let's talk to my canner about this our correspondent in washington d.c. hi mike if you're going to invoke things like pearl harbor and $911.00 those sacred moments in u.s. history you have to be careful about the language and he was saying this now is an attack like those. indeed portraying the virus as some kind of enemy that's clear attacking the united states as happened in those incidents those tragedies that he mentioned certainly this is part of an uptick in the rhetoric that president trump is using about china it was a rhetoric echoed by his secretary of state earlier today and for a number of weeks now basically saying that the virus originated in china saying without any evidence whatsoever that it originated in

a chinese lab now the nation's top for ologist antony felt she has completely denied this saying that all the science points to the fact that the virus in fact originated in a mammal like a bat and basically did a species jump and infected humans but president trump and his secretary of state really pushing back against the science and the interesting enough the take in president trance rhetoric is anti china rhetoric really began about a week ago before that he was referring to the chinese leaders might very good friend but a week ago he had a meeting with his campaign manager brit to scale and it's off to the set you got this uptick in rhetoric and some surmising that this is because he's been persuaded that the chinese bashing is a very good political strategy that will delight his political base but whatever the reason for this change in president trumps demeanor certainly this is going to have an immense impact on the relationship with china remembering still that the

u.s. is dependent on china in many ways not the least getting medical equipment in this latest crisis mike you mentioned dr anthony. an expert who i think people in the united states of really looked to for guidance amid all the political chaos he's on the white house coronavirus task force what is the actual status of that task force because there was a month certainty of about. well there was indeed 24 hours a day president trump was saying that he was going to disband the task force and form another group that would focus on the economy a safe opening as he put it but then in the course of the day he's suddenly done a turn about said that he realized that people really appreciated the task force as he put it said he had calls from very influential people to keep the task force together so this narky is going to do although he says he will add some personnel

to earth particularly with economic expertise but there was something of a sigh of relief come all around the country because those people that you mentioned like anthony found she very much faces that the american citizens have grown to trust through this particular crisis the faces and voices in which they have some kind of confidence and which have been giving some kind of rational. information about what is going on in the midst of chaos or sometimes of what happens at those white house task force briefings so certainly a great sigh of relief the fear was that president trump in disbanding the task force was going to get rid of those sane medical voices around him who are the one set of people who've kept the american public informed mike hanna taking us through the ups and downs in washington on wednesday thank you mike in the news ahead rescued from sea now stranded on an island rights activists raise the alarm about

raising the refugees who fled mian long. hours to anyone in santiago chile when they went for the rubbish collectors langholm the most of the stench on john's and now one of the most dangerous. well i was just rained heavily in some passage about recently and particular thinking ok our this frontal system on its way through it is going away so you should have most japan a couple of dry 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 hot 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 see 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 southern by a bang go over the next week or so leaving the land masses with a scattering of showers but no more than that now we have seen some big sun storms 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. but . they say to me only know someone he must walk

a mile in their shoes. follow in their footsteps stay for today way in the water. al-jazeera shares these personal journeys. inspiring stories of people persevering on their chosen path. witness documentaries on al-jazeera. the top stories on al-jazeera this hour venezuelan state television has broadcast video of a man it says is one of 2 u.s. mercenaries captured after an alleged plot against president nicolas maduro they

and others were detained after what matilda described as a failed beach landing. iraqi prime minister muster for them is formally taken office after parliament approved a partial cabinet he takes the reins at a time of economic crisis brought on by coronavirus and the country's existing financial problems. 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 as well as other districts in tripoli shelling which is building to fighters loyal to the warlord how the fast are. still with libya and united nations report says about $1000.00 mercenaries from the wagner group in russia are operating in libya to support it also says half his forces of recruits up to 2000 fighters from syria to back their battle against libya's u.n. recognized government are diplomatic editor james bass has more from the u.n.

in new york. spoke 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

u.s. president donald trump has 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 the u.s. and iran your member came close to a major confrontation in january when trump authorized the killing of the iranian general so the money. israel supreme court has ruled unanimously against intervening to stop the coalition deal between prime minister netanyahu and his rival benny gantz the court also declined to disqualify netanyahu on the basis of his corruption indictments the judges did however describe the agreement as legally problematic coalition government which will see nothing in dance take turns as prime minister is due to be sworn in next wednesday. more boats carrying rank of refugees have arrived in bangladesh that coming from me and mom some have been transferred to

a small islands described by rights activists as the health as it. was a report. just 2 weeks after hundreds of. who'd been stranded at sea were rescued off the coast of southern bangladesh another boat this one carrying around 50 people was allowed ashore on saturday. seen in this video shown by a local news outlet are believed to have been on one of 2 fishing trawlers that have been adrift at sea for months this was after their families had to pay ransom money to traffickers on a bigger boat and that bigger boat is still potentially off the coast of cockers are and these traffickers are still holding potentially hundreds of people on this boat until they can pay ransom money to allow them to go to shore and i was a spokesman for bangladesh's coast guard denies there are currently any boats full of refugees in areas they patrol. according to government officials 29 of the new

arrivals were taken to bus on char a remote island in the bay of bengal where it had previously been planned to house up 210-0000 broking a refugee. human rights watch called it a dangerously flood prone island without adequate health care the government of bangladesh is claiming that they've been sent there for quarantine because they don't want to so-called contaminate the refugee camps and cox's bizarre but the reality is that the un aches you are and other agencies already have quarantine facility set up before it and they have already processed more than 400 people from a previous boat so this is an excuse by the bangladesh government to operationalize the island of basilan char which they want to do for quite some time in mid april bangladesh rescued 396 rohingya refugees from a vessel adrift for almost 2 months after failing to reach malaysia dozens on that boat died survivors spoke with the reuters news agency about the abuses and

deprivations they endured the from the get reduction in the traffic is right woman and some of them got pregnant on the but 3 of the woman survived as are in this camp the militia members do a $500.00 in 10 in total on the boat including kids we ran out of food within 5 days after we sailed of rights groups are now urging the bangladeshi government to allow around $500.00 more rohingya currently stuck on the 2 trawlers in the bay of bengal to also come ashore those boats have been adrift since malaysia rejected their arrival because of coronavirus restrictions the bangladeshi foreign minister said last week that those refugees are malaysia's responsibility to look after my major. return to coronavirus news in europe's biggest economy germany is taking further steps to come out of lockdown people will have more freedom to meet and extra shops and museums will reopen as well as a resumption of top level football when it came with more from berlin. 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 corona virus 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 end of the day you know we will not against all contacts the way the web if everyone observes that this thing 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 up old 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 lockdown is one part of german life that will resume shortly is the football league. officials have been told they can allow games to be played but with no fans in the stadiums and following stringent rules and testing regimes one sector where uncertainty remains is aviation the national flag carrier lufthansa has been badly hit by the grounding of so many flights and says it needs urgent government help to stay search for your . if you had not

a list of we have difficult times ahead of us but we would do everything in our power to reach the goals we have set ourselves those goals for the survival of tensor and we started the company in. some cultural activities have already restarted as here at the barberini museum in potsdam a welcome move 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 and russia's also raising some restrictions president vladimir putin has backed proposal to let some people go back to work in moscow despite the number of infections across russia are rising by 10004 days in a row. now health workers have been receiving applause and encouragement for their

sacrifice in the line of jussi but there are other essential workers to think about whose efforts go largely unnoticed by latin america editor lucien neumann joined the sanitation workers on the job in china's capital santiago. they make their living by doing the dirty work at all said he'll fancy school and real better are a team from dawn to early morning they pick up the rubbish from homes to hospitals in this working class and taboo neighborhood. residents that are coming on back to my daniel has been doing this for 33 years. someone has to do it we don't have advanced education so we have to do this but i'm not sorry on the contrary it's a noble job. maybe so but it's hazardous. this is dangerous because of the dogs people leave sharp objects in the bags even syringes we pick all this up with their hands and geese and fictions there's no sugarcoating

this is one of the least hygenic and well smelly jobs that one can have and it's now become one of the most dangerous because these men have no idea if the rubbish that they're handling over and over again belongs to the people who are going ok that would go with 19. fransisco this is now afraid to go home however you want. because of the family they say this fire is get stuck to the bags and to the handles on the truck. chillies more than 16000 sanitation employees work with gloves that easily ripped to shreds the few disposable face masks the company gave these workers ran out long ago so they wear whatever they find you think that you are meant to look at they most of the security measures in this country are appalling for the sector is specially under these new conditions. but while the private companies aren't paying these men any extra ordinary people

are showing their appreciation. to. rubbish collectors have always been stigmatized and seen as the lowest on the totem pole but now with this people giving us credit where it's due it's good keeps their spirits up as the joke with obvious pride to take now considered part of the frontline against coronavirus you see in human al-jazeera sent out. half past the hour on al-jazeera and these are the headlines venezuelan state television broadcast video of a man it says is one of 2 u.s. mercenaries caption after an alleged plot against president nicolas maduro they and others were detained after what my daughter and his government described as a failed beach landing the u.s. government is denying 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 someplace will work to get them back we hope we will start the process of trying to figure a way if ever 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 in the headlines iraqi prime minister the meows formally taken office after parliament approved a partial cabinet and takes the reins at a time of severe economic crisis brought on by coronavirus and on top of iraq's existing financial problems. yemeni government soldiers on the island of sokoto bracing for attacks after saudi forces supporting them against separatists withdrew from checkpoints u.a.e. backed separatists known as the southern transitional council launched an offensive on the island's biggest city last week financing came to a temporary halt after saudi forces took control of the checkpoints and mediated

a ceasefire separate is that have since brought in more reinforcements 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 judah as well as other districts in the capital the shelling has been linked to fighters loyal to the ward after. the white house has described the u.s. relationship with china as disappointing and frustrating as the rift deepens over the origins of corona virus president trump maintains it came from a chinese lab that beijing says there's no evidence of that and trump has also vetoed legislation that would have limited his ability to take military action against iran the proposal by passed both houses of congress that trump said it was an insulting strategy by the democrats that's my lot for today daryn jordans with you in half an hour after football rebels for we understand the differences and similarities of cultures across the world. center magic.

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