with exclusive interviews and in-depth reports for obvious reasons of the world battled them from pandemic we'll bring you the latest developments from around the globe al-jazeera has ground to bring moodily documentaries and live news. it was the jews wounds to. the confession from an alleged u.s. mercenary as venezuela's president points to a failed plot to alstom. follow him down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up iraq's 3rd choice for prime minister takes charge after months of wrangling and a severe financial crisis worse like over 19. the u.s. president keeps picking a fight with china over coronavirus further straining relations. playing

a critical role we need some additional workers with the job to do during chile's coronavirus crisis. venezuelan state t.v. has broadcast video of the 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 madeira and his government described as a failed beach landing the u.s. government denies being involved to raise about reports. 2 former u.s. soldiers were part of what venezuela says was a plan to overthrow president. 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 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 suit the court there he explained his job was to train venezuelans and help them take control. all of the airport and got us mother will once again blame donald trump colombia's president and opposition leader one why though for the plot to oust him the 3 of them have denied involvement. who organized this mercenary and terrorist incursion that 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 y. though under them 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 that the captured americans would be tried in venezuela u.s.

secretary of state mike one player 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 of every 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 they said well as. well poor dobson is a journalist based in venezuela he says there's plenty of evidence that opposition leader one was involved. well there this latest event let's presume that his signature on the contract is genuine as it seems to be this latest event really goes up to summarize the shambles of his attempt to bring about regime change in

venezuela which began pretty much from day one very quickly after his health proclamation interim president which is a row which doesn't even exist in venezuela the competition we saw his it botched attempt to bring in so-called humanitarian aid on the colombian border which it also seems was where he was a co-op was involved in running the security of we then tore apart attempt of a military coup to tahrir in april 30th last year and a theory is of other events which really none of which have worked his support base he once had here in venezuela is now down to almost 0 his allies in the venezuelan right wing parties have always left him or exiled outside of venezuela so it's very difficult to see how he's going to recover from yet another botched attempts yemeni government soldiers on the island of so-called bracing for attacks off the saudi forces supporting them against separatists withdrew from checkpoints your way back

separatists known as the southern transitional council launched an offensive on the islands biggest city of how debo last week fighting temporarily ended after saudi forces took control of checkpoints and mediated a cease fire separatist of since brought further reinforcements into psychiatrist shelling south of libya's capital tripoli has killed at least 6 people and injured 19 in the attack targeted a coastal road in the town of touch europe as well as other districts in the capital shellings been linked to find as loyal to the warlord the for half toff. iraqi prime minister most awful condemning it has formally taken office solved a parliament approved a partial cabinet takes the reins of time of severe economic crisis brought about by the coronavirus on top of the country'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 its moving ahead with a 120 day sanctions waiver allowing iraq to continue buying iranian electricity so

manifold them is in baghdad and says keeping the lights on is one of many challenges what we've seen during this government formation process is the political parties directing the formation of the government especially saeed 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 many until the last minute they were demanding more ministerial portfolios to put their support behind cover me so in 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 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. now the white house has described the u.s. relationship with china as disappointing and frustrating as a rift deepens over the regions of corona virus president trump maintains it came from a chinese lab but beijing says there's no evidence of that mike hanna has more now from washington d.c. . the secretary of state has given some 90 interviews or briefings in the past month alone and a central theme in all of them has been the accusation that china is intentionally covering up the origins of the coronavirus and the timeline of the spread of infection the most important piece here is that the american people remain at risk the american people remain at risk because we do not know to your point we don't have certainty about whether it began in the lab or whether begin someplace else

the country's foremost carolla just is adamant the virus did not begin another barratry dr anthony fauci has stated repeatedly that all scientific evidence points to the microbe originating in a mammal like a bat and jumping between species. but president like a secretary of state continues to push back on the science and references the pandemic as an attack 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 happened could've been stopped at the source could have been stopped in china it should have been stopped right at the source. and it wasn't ok and the criticism of china is echoed by the press secretary indicating this is an administration wide strategy right now it's a relationship of disappointment and frustration because the president has said how

frustrated he is that some of the decisions of china put american lives at risk the question is why you see such a concerted push against china at this time president trams and china rhetoric began to ramp up a week ago following a meeting with his campaign manager brad pasko the possibility is that the president's being persuaded that china bashing is an effective election strategy that would delight his political base it was just a few weeks ago that president trump was describing the chinese leader as his very good friend now for whatever reason it's a relationship that is very much at risk mike hanna al-jazeera washington new zealand's given a taste of what life will be like if it further eases coronavirus restrictions on monday domestic travel professional sports schools recreation centers and hospitality outlets could be reopened but businesses would still have to practice

some form of physical distancing new zealand has reported just 3 new cases of the virus in the past 4 days ultimately we will tell you is our safe and normal in order to into business as usual tracy modeling to tell us we are better off in the longer term to move down through the aleuts progressively set does mean getting every stage right that means both the decision to go there but also what we do when we get the we think of ourselves as half way down if arrest i think it's clear that no one wants to hike back up that take the descent is known to be even more dangerous and so we need to proceed with caution. now at least 3 people including a child of been killed in a gas leak in southern india the incident happened in a chemical plant in the city of vision down men under protest state nearly $200.00 people have been injured most of those have been rushed to hospitals time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back going back home thousands of

migrant workers in india who lost their jobs due to the lock down take trains back to their villages. and why organized crime gangs across central and latin america are playing a vital part in battling the pandemic morning stay with us. well the last tranche of storms has passed on its way out on the satellite picture into the eastern seaboard but let's not forget it because it's going to bring a bit more moisture from the gulf of mexico new produce and once again in the plains states and that will happen this is the 1st sign of it on thursday a joining of warmth and colder weather not extreme yet so these are big showers rather than thing any more dangerous than that that he just around the desert southwest if anything it will get hot for the next few days i think phoenix to 40

to 42 degrees and there are showers develop in the southern states so for friday it could be a particularly stormy into the day this starts further south than the last southern states a lot it takes up to the appalachians to the northeast corner once again cold air behind it she cargoes any for you if noticed. we've seen some pretty big showers recently in guatemala el salvador and in mexico for crosswise the still a few more have you want to come around central mexico as you can see and equally through billie's into the south once more or tamala el salvador honduras but they'll tend to diet i think during friday we saw what shasta come a few of them in jamaica his pioneer and cuba but becoming lighter on a daily basis the son will return. expelled from their base in jordan in lebanon and left in a political wilderness rebellion was rising in the ranks of the p.l.o.

but was this just another inevitable step on the road to victory this is a fact of the long march to our coverage that just for the conflict that would cost out of fat his leadership in life. chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian home. p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. were. welcome back a quick amount of our top stories here on al-jazeera venezuelan state t.v. has broadcast video of a man it says is one of the tunes u.s. mercenaries captured after an alleged plot against president nicolas maduro they

and others were detained after what mature and his government described as a failed beach landing. rocky prime minister dini has formally taken office after parliament approved a partial cabinet he takes the reins at a time of severe economic crisis. and the white house has described the u.s. relationship with china as disappointing and frustrating and deepening rift over the regions of the virus president trump maintains it came from a chinese line but beijing says there's no evidence of. europe's biggest economy germany is taking further steps out of lockdown and people will have more freedom to meet and extra shops and museums will reopen and top level football will return to the pitch dominic kane reports now from berlin. soon all shops and restaurants across europe 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 end of the day you know we will not against all contacts the way the web if everyone observes that this thing and 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 lockdowns one part of german life that will resume shortly is the football league does 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. we had never a list with difficult times ahead of us but we would do everything power to reach the goals we have set ourselves those goals for the survival of tents and we started the company in. some cultural activities have already restarted mass

here at the barberini museum in potsdam the welcome 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 cain al-jazeera berlin and russia is also easing some restrictions president vladimir putin has backed proposals to let some people go back to work in the capital moscow that's despite the number of infections across russia rising 510000 4 days in a row a senior scientific advisor to the british government has resigned after breaching the coronavirus lockdown rules he helped create new ferguson was a leading voice on the scientific advisory group it later emerged he was visited at his home by a woman once the lockdown came into place ordered 30000 people have died in the

u.k. making it the worst affected nation in europe. boris johnson faced a grilling about this during his 1st appearance of prime minister's questions since the conference from covered 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. will slow down slow on testing slow on tracing and slow on the supply of protective equipment our correspondent john

a whole has been following reaction. 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 answers that the prime minister of the government frankly probably at this point in time just don't have so kiss 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 they were improvements in care home in the care home crisis in this country secure starmer said no not 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 and as this tryst this develops and particularly in the are often market dozens of specially arranged trains in india taking more than 100000 stranded workers home the coronavirus lockdown left them far from home and many had nothing to eat and they would assume the business owners are criticizing the government's efforts worried they'll be no workers available when things start getting back to normal elizabeth purana reports from india's most populous state. they build homes which they could never afford to live and work has restarted at this construction site and 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 to get a message on our forums 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 site. 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 $3100.00 laborers in the area. 5 of my friends and i check every day how much food people need and we feed them we aren't sponsored by any political party or n.g.o.s it's my own resolve that i'm carrying out. some workers have decided to walk all of instead of depending on the kindness of strangers for food or the government to transport them 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. sense a lockdown began on the 25th of march an estimated 10000000 stranded states from work. and a long way from holland. with all public transport had 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 reopen with company managers fearing they won't have enough workers. the state of karnataka cancelled the trains just a few days after they began saying migrant workers needed to stay to do 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 in gratitude because we believe that the

migrant workers that have been abandoned in this case are the very individuals who will be our own future prosperity. because sharma says that the economic impact of india's markdown 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 greater noida. deaths in latin america have passed 15000 health experts warn it several weeks behind europe with the peak still to come brazil is the worst hit country with more than 8500 deaths in mexico has the 2nd highest number of deaths in the region at just over 2700 deaths in ecuador more than 1600 indigenous communities of fled to the amazon rain forest fearing they 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 deaths and cases have doubled in

the past 10 days. from mexico city out as it was john the home and reports on how latin america's criminal gangs are talking up their efforts to fight the virus. he's about to be punished for heading out during quarantine. but not by the police by the m s 13 gang you know salvador they've been taking action against violators of coronavirus curfews in their territory. and so the criminal groups across latin america the chief concern and list say isn't for the greater good but strategic goings. the fact that you are seen as. an avalanche a controlling authority is in your communities has some benefits in terms of its holdings in that and a certain moments the 13. trolling strictly you their

use and sort of interaction element and gangs that they are able to implement some initiatives on all the seas increase their it's all in their interest. further south in brazil gangs in a couple of favelas in rio de janeiro which usually get their money through street crime and drug dealing now in public services says fernando brown callie so what they're doing right now is basically. trying to promote a lockdown of. who should be on the street at what time but also i think private doctors i mean it meant trying to keep this straight and yesterday basically trying to look like a state and says brian cawley charging residents the so-called taxes that go with that. i mean again it's all old news to mexican criminals who've long played the good hearted outlaw with the coronavirus they've simply stepped up their published

take on him. just look at this slickly edited video of the whole. new generation cartel handing out food parcels the citizens think its leader. has an image and here reportedly a cell of this in a low a cutter with a packages for some reason with osama bin laden labels that even the daughter of imprisoned drug lord chappell has handed out 2 packages with his face on it but some of the groups on even putting up the money themselves. where i have to look for since a half or. 36. i know. displaced the netherlands and already started stealing in greece and tire tracks. as well. mexico's president has said it is better if they just don't kill it but then. they

shouldn't go around like rulers who think that just like you know they are forgiven . and that's just the thing in mexico the murder rate hasn't gone down and they only on the lines that here and elsewhere in latin america these groups have no problem with killing in and terrorizing communities and no amount of robin hood posturing is going to change that. may change say analysts is the amount of power criminal groups can accrue by strategic good beats and that should be a worry to any state john homan al-jazeera mexico city now hundreds of protesters in argentina are demanding more food for soup kitchens they say what's being delivered to the poor is not enough about 11000000 people have applied for food help since the lockdown started in march and tina has registered more than 5200 infections and 273 deaths. health workers have been applauded for their sacrifice in the line of duty during the pandemic yet there are those on the front

line who have little or no access to protective equipment and often get no recognition latin america editor to see a new human join sanitation workers during their shift in chinese capital santiago . they make their living by doing the dirty work at all said he'll fancy school and roberto 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 they're coming 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 decent fictions there's no sugarcoating

this is one of the least hygenic and well smelly jobs that one can have and if you 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 far 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 young men look at them and see what yeah 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. for that. 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 would keeps their spirits up as the joke with obvious pride that they are now considered part of the front line against coronavirus if you see in human al-jazeera santiago. time for a quick check of the headlines here on al-jazeera venezuelan state television has broadcast a 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 the government described as a failed 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

someplace 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 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 iraqi prime minister must offer all condemning as formally taken office soft a parliament approved a partial cabinet he takes the reins at a time of severe economic crisis brought about by the coronavirus on top of the country's existing financial problems they have a news agency is reporting at least 5 people including a child have been killed in a gas leak in southern india it happened at a factory that produces plastics and said you have wish i'd gotten out in under british state and a ton of people have been injured and mostly been rushed to hospitals. the white house has described the u.s. relationship with china as disappointing and a deepening rift of the originals of the virus president trump and james it came from the chinese law but beijing says there's no evidence that

a senior scientific advisor to the british government has resigned after breaching the coronavirus lockdowns he helped create new ferguson was a member of the scientific advisory group he was visited at home by a woman once the lockdown came into place more than 30000 people have died in the u.k. that's in latin america past 15000 and health experts warn it's several weeks behind europe with a peak so to come brazil is the worst hit country with more than 1500 deaths dozens of specially arranged trains in india taking more than 100000 stranded workers hope the coronavirus lockdown left them far from the many had nothing to eat and no way to sleep. so those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after p.l.o. history of a revolution a statement that's often but. i usually test treat and trace frank assessments why it's really struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus

failure to take really aggressive action behind you heard informed opinion it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there's one didn't really hear very relieved in-depth analysis of the day's global headlines india doesn't up to the spread of the one of ours in the inside story on al-jazeera. 148 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was probably. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since.