and. there was still the these wounds. the confession from an alleged u.s. mercenary as venezuela's president nicolas maduro points to a failed plot to alstom. hello i'm daryn jordan this is obviously are live from doha also coming up india's iraq as the choice of prime minister takes charge after months of wrangling and a severe financial crisis worsened by covert 19. the u.s.

president keeps picking a fight with china of a coronavirus further strained relations. and feeding the people how organized crime gangs in mexico are helping battle the pandemic. venezuelan state t.v. 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 the dura around his government described as a failed beach landing the u.s. government denies being involved dreams about reports. 2 former u.s. soldiers were part of what venus williams says was a plan to overthrow precedent. it was 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 are. 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 got us mother will once again blame donald trump colombia's president and opposition leader why though for the plot to oust him the 3 of them have denied involvement. who organized this mercenary and terrorist incursion fed 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 jordan 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 for 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 i just. well eric franz were vice president of the council of the americas he says the circumstances of the alleged plot a curious. it sounds like a rogue operation from some people who are trying to be heroes and 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 a removal of mr murder oh i do believe the united states when they say that they don't have any direct connection to this this activity and the reason why i say that is because this was a ill advised amateurish africa and indeed if the united states were involved it would have presumably been done very very differently they had u.s. passports than 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 the majority look it comes at a very opportune time for mr maduro who is under indictment by the united states who has a collapsing economy who has coronavirus worries and concerns the price of oil is that lows that can sustain the comedy 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 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 the city of which. and 200 people have been injured most of them have been rushed to hospitals. iraq's new prime minister has taken office solved the parliament approved a partial cabinet demi takes the reins at a time of severe economic challenges but what about coronavirus on top of the existing financial problems so manifold and reports now from baghdad. after almost 6 months of political wrangling iraq finally has a new government on thursday former intelligence chief to me the 3rd person to be nominated for prime minister this year secured parliament's seal of approval 15 ministers from his 22 member cabinet were also passed. while. we're going

through a critical phase in our history iraq is facing so many challenges in our security economy health care and even socially but it is not bigger than our determination to stand up to these challenges to earn the vote of confidence in me had to appease major political parties by letting them pick ministers in his cabinet an informal get deeply entrenched power sharing system known as portion meant. he had 10 percent of freedom to choose his cabinet and 90 percent were determined by the parties and blocs. names of ministers were swapped until right before the vote amid last minute backroom negotiations some parties which didn't secure ministries including the state of law alliance and ayad alawi is national coalition boycotted the vote. this is a strange approach and it's a dangerous precedent in the iraqi political scene the candidates of his cabinet

that's 12 ministers represented to the shia parties and they gave their point of view but it was not shared with the rest of the political parties it's as if the sheer power was of the guardians of the political process. replaced the who resigned in the vendor amid widespread anti-government demonstrations protesters had demanded an overhaul of the political system that would allow them to elect the head of state directly and do away with the apportionment system seen as a conduit for corruption and political patronage but the protests have largely died down over the past months and with them the pressure for systemic change the few demonstrators who remain in tahrir square rejected me. any government that is formed inside parliament without the opinions of protesters will be rejected but them instead bring those to account who are killing kidnapping and arresting us on a daily basis comes to power as iraq faces an unprecedented fiscal crisis

a resurgence of eisel the coronavirus pandemic and us iran tensions on its soil government has put forth and the government program but it remains to be seen whether he'll have the power to exit cubit the government formation process has shown that he remains beholden to the same political powers that iraq is blamed for the current crisis to many his appointment signals the preservation of the status quo but in the 1st step on the road towards change that they have demanded some one a faulty al-jazeera but that. 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 and tames it came from a chinese law 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 corona virus 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 in 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 and could have 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 is this 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. 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 and contrary to expectations china's exports rose by 3.5 percent in april compared to the previous year many were forecasting a downward trend of the pandemic battered demond globally let's get more on this now from katrina you should join us live from beijing katrina so china's export trade figures are up just like months of lock down what more do we know. that's right so we've just gotten the figures in the last few hours and overall trade for china is down by 0.7 percent year on year and that's no surprise considering the extent of this pandemic but what is a surprise as you mentioned daryn is that exports in april are up they're actually up by 8.2 percent year on years of that 8.2 percent increase compared to last year

and a 3.5 percent increase compared to march and now this is also compare your huge think seeing that we did see a drop of exports in general for be a combined drop of about 17 percent and also drop of about 6.6 percent in march so there is some real recovery in chinese trade in this is really a surprise to many analysts they were predicting up to an 11 percent drop and some people are attributing this to the fact that perhaps during april there was an increase in exports of p.p. e.u. or protective medical gear such as masks and respirators also one other analysts are speculating that's because there was a backlog that needed to be filled in terms of export orders or or customers were front loading orders ahead of what they expected to be a bad pen demick year and also the other thing is that perhaps this concern about

demand dropping maybe that's yet to hit china's exports maybe we're still maybe the worst is still yet to come that's also a possibility what we did see though was of foreign imports they fell by 14.2 percent compared to march and that's a 10.2 percent drop year on year and that was worse than what analysts expected to trim it would know that president trump has been ratcheting up the war of words with china over the regions of the virus that a lot of chinese officials been saying that. china has been very much on the defensive when it comes to this war of words and they've been also ratcheting up their oron language they've called repeat a state media have called mike pompei a liar and china's foreign ministry have said that any accusations that the u.s. has the core of a 1000 originated in a chinese lab in the war hunt institute of role gee they say that these are

groundless and basically that these attacks are nothing more than a political the tribe administration's political campaign basically stalking anti chinese stent sentiment to try to boost donald trump's chances of being reelected in the november elections and the chinese ambassador to the u.s. also worth an editorial saying that you can make all these attacks that you want but that's not really going to help when it comes to ending this pandemic and if it's abetted that is directed actually focusing on dealing with the crisis back home rather than blaming china i want to continue that in the chinese capital thank you. all right time for a short break here al-jazeera when we come back demands for justice over the killing of an unarmed black man in the u.s. state of georgia. and i'm going to mother calls her courage and caution as germany prepares to reopen all shops and restart top level football stay with us.

hello there's other winds change on the way down to the gulf when you see a line like that is usually a frontal system the drugs if you thunderstorms are into place whether it does that i will not it will see a wind change behind it i mean slightly fresher well over 37 going down to 34 in doha the next couple of days most of the arabian peninsula and is just looking to dusty winds not much in the way of thunderstorms we've seen them recently and apart from occasional ones down the high ground in western yemen probably if and have to reach turkey's or in between is warming up jerusalem's up to 27 so that's about 5 degrees up and the breeze is dropping down so it's just sunshine is the main story same is true through most of north africa come down to the tropics and you've got the line of rain the seasonal rains that last 2 or 3 months have given flooding recently kenya they've given flooding in uganda like victoria's high as well the

next tranche of heavy stuff is on its way into the cost of tanzania and kenya this thing here the orange middle means that's particularly heavy so anyway it could again see some flash flooding further south you'd expect to see largely dry weather this time of year there are showers in the far north of angola but in south africa sitting pretty the most part for showers in the eastern cape and beyond with temperatures still holding up in cape town 25. as the world fights the coronato. endemic wouldn't learning more about this every day in the new year new join our global community. how. to fight on soaring fuel questions can i just as you think this is me directly what's coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the frontline phone i think or a question that keeping you up to date and we've seen countries retreat back and

beaten back to the stream on 00. welcome back a quick amount of the top stories on al-jazeera 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 to do rwanda's government described as a failed beach landing. iraqi prime minister mostafa has formally taken office off the parliament approved a partial cabinet and takes the reins a time of severe economic crisis. and the white house has described the u.s. relationship with china as disappointing and frustrating and

a deepening rift of the regions of the coronavirus president trump maintains the virus came from a chinese law but beijing says there's no evidence of that. shelling south of libya's capital tripoli has killed at least 6 people and injured 19 others the attack hit a coastal road in the town of tal jura as well as other districts in the capital the shelling has been linked to fighters loyal to the warlord believe the have to. a united nations report says about 1000 from russia's wagner group are operating in libya to support have to or it also says his forces have approved up to 2000 fighters from syria to back their battle against libya's u.n. recognized government our diplomatic editor james bays has more on the u.n. . has spoken to a number of security council members who've confirmed what's in the report we've known for a long time there are russian mercenaries operating in libya we didn't perhaps know the scale of the operations of the russian company the wagon the group it has about

a 1000 operatives it's believed in the country including about 40 snipers who are on the front lines trying to tilt the battles in favor of general haftar the 57 page report gives pictures of some of those operatives and pictures of some of their weapons it also reveals for the 1st time that general have to is getting support from fighters that have come in from syria we've known for a long time that turkey has been sending syrian fighters to support the governor 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 yemeni government soldiers on the island of sumatra 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 of last week fighting temporarily ended up the saudi forces took control of checkpoints and mediated a cease fire separatists have since brought further reinforcements into a psychiatrist. racial tensions are rising in the u.s. state of georgia after a young african-american man was shot dead the family of say he was out jogging when he was confronted by 2 white males who thought he was a burglar one of them. is on the gallagher. 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 as a moderate appears to try and avoid them a shot rings out in the struggle and choose between the unarmed man and a white male with a shotgun more shots ring out as a modish shot point blank. it

. means 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 here. 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 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 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 a 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 and

a gallica al-jazeera. strange parliament has extended the country's state of emergency for a 4th time prime minister better sanchez has asked for another 2 weeks allows the government to control people's movement as it graduate relaxes the lockdown spain is one of the worst hit countries and more than $25000.00 people have died from coronavirus europe's biggest economy germany is taking further steps out of lockdown people will have more freedom to meet and extra shops and museums will reopen toplevel football will return to the pitch when it came reports now from berlin. soon all shops and restaurants across europe as biggest economy 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 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 locked at 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 never a list with difficult times ahead of us that we would do everything in their power to reach the goals we have set ourselves those goals are 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 cane al-jazeera berlin. deaths in latin america have passed 15000 health experts warn it several weeks behind europe the peak still to come brazil is the worst hit country more than 8500 people have died mexico has a 2nd highest number of deaths in the region at just over 2700 deaths in ecuador at more than 1600 indigenous communities and 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 that doubled in the past 10 days. from mexico city john heilemann 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 going 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 own and a certain moments the 13. trolling strictly you there use and sort of interaction element and gangs that they are able to implement some initiatives on all the cities increase their it's all in there never is.

further south in brazil gangs in a couple of 5 villages in rio de janeiro which usually get their money through street crime and drug dealing now in public services says fernando browne corley so what they're doing right now is basically. trying to promote a lockdown of. who should be on the street and what time but also i think i get doctors i may get mad trying to keep this straight and yet to date basically trying to look like a state and says bring callie charging residents the so-called taxes that go with that. i mean again it's all old news to 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 new generation cartels. handing out food parcels the citizens think it's leader. and here reportedly

a cell of the single lower cutter with a packages for some reason with osama bin laden labels. 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 a couple of. where i have looked for since they. displace the netherlands and i'm somewhat already started stealing groceries and trucks. well. mexico's president has said it is better if they just don't kill it but. they shouldn't go around like rulers who think that just like you know they're forgiving. and that's just the thing in mexico the murder rate hasn't gone down and they only underlines that here and elsewhere in latin america these groups

have no problem with killing in and terrorizing communities and no amount of robin hood posturing is going to change that. what may change say on less 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. time for a quick check of the headlines on al-jazeera venezuelan state t.v. 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 madeira and his 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 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 for we want to get every american back if the majority regime decides to hold them will use every tool that we have available try to get them back it's our responsibility to do so 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 the city of shock a pattern in and repartition state nearly 200 people have been injured most have been taken to hospitals iraqi prime minister must has formally taken office to parliament approved a partial cabinet he takes the reins at a time of economic crisis the white house has described the u.s. relationship with china as disappointing and frustrating in a deepening rift over the originals of the coronavirus president trump maintains the virus came from the chinese law but beijing says there's no evidence of that spain's parliament is extended its state of emergency for

a 4th time prime minister better sanchez asked for another 2 weeks that allows the government to control people's movement as it gradually eases the lockdown shelling south of libya's capital tripoli has killed at least 6 people and injured 19 others the attack hit a coastal road in the town of jura as well as other districts in the capital the shellings being linked to find those loyal to the warlord and if i have to. yemeni government soldiers on the island of bracing for attacks after saudi forces supporting them against separatists withdrew from checkpoints the way backed separatists know once in a sense even the island's biggest city of debo last week fighting temporarily ended up the saudi forces took control of checkpoints and mediated a ceasefire. so those were the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream station thanks for watching by foot. award winning programming from international film michael everybody's got it here we are going to

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