can i just i'm a few times recently directly that's coming on on you tube as you're saying i'm concerned about the front line oh that's a great question but keeping you up to date i mean you can come. back to the street oh no just 0. it was. and israel and state t.v. or video of an alleged u.s. mercenary here president the doro claims was behind a failed coup washington though denies any link. the ira shall carry this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at least 8 people were killed and hundreds taken to the hospital after a gas leak at a factory in southern india. cruise liner at the center of

a criminal investigation on the pandemic and all strictly a has sailed into the philippines. the war on drugs has failed a global busy team of experts calls time on policies it says are fueling organized crime. and its oil and state television has broadcast video of a man it says is a u.s. mercenary involved in a plot to overthrow president nicolas maduro there has described the failed beach landing as a modern version of the botched u.s. invasion of cuba 59 years ago this government denies any involvement for reports. 2 former u.s. soldiers were part of what venice willis has 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 tried. we reached the venezuelan coast in

a speedboat. on wednesday me call out 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 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 of the answers we are getting every day. he also showed a contract that was allegedly signed by y. though under them go to the us 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 when bale 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 i just. at least 8 people involving a child have been killed in a gas leak and southern india or than 200 people have been hospitalized people living in nearby villages are being evacuated but in a factory that produces plastics in the city of the shock of. an entrepreneur state

was but from new delhi. local government officials say that they received an emergency call from the industrial area in the southern city of them at around 3 30 in the morning saying that they with gas from the air they said that when they arrived on the scene that it was difficult to breathe that they couldn't stay in the area for more than a few minutes rescue workers talked to arriving at 4 o'clock in the morning now the national disaster relief agency has been called evacuating people within a 3 kilometer radius of the chemical plastics factory and they have said that the gas leak has stopped but police are also saying and anywhere between $200.00 to $500.00 have been taken to hospital that they're having difficulty breathing and that they also have been overtaken police also say that the gas leak came from 25000 ton tanks all of gas and that these tanks were

on attended while the factory was closed for 40 days because of india's lockdown that the unintended gas in the tank caused a chemical reaction that heat was produced and that is what was released now we do know that again evacuation teams are checking if everyone in the area is ok they concerned that this happened in the middle of the night when people would have been sleeping occurs liner the center of a criminal investigation into australia's coronavirus outbreak has reached the philippines princes has more than $200.00 filipino crew members on board it's not certain if the ship will be allowed to dock and manila bay a lion or a sling to $21.00 deaths in early 700 cases of covert 19 is investigating how 27 passengers were allowed to disembark and march despite showing signs of coronavirus and joins me live now from manila so the ship has not docked yet jamila as

understanding what do we know about what is happening with the ship. well what we know is that it will remain in an anchor manila be up until everyone has been tested we're getting reports that in the coming days basically the philippine coast guard will be leading the testing of all of the crews on board about $200.00 filipino crews there are also those coming from different countries at this point there are about 12 ships 12 crew cruise ships currently docked off my mil of be stranded out with stranded crew workers here and it remains to be seen exactly when they're going to leave and according to the philippine ghost coast guard more are expected to arrive or to dock in the coming days jamila of there are other cruise ships in the harbor what is happening with those.

well a lot of them remain under quarantine there are those who are stranded they will not be able to fly out up until basically they get the clearance but what's a critical here though is just how big the impact is on filipino overseas filipino overseas workers as you know the philippines supplies about a quarter of the total to labor workforce in the maritime industry more more than 100000. c. men workers are filipinos more than 20000 have already been repatriated or brought back here and hundreds of them remain stranded here in manila bay so now at this point they're looking at the immediate impact of getting as many of these workers as possible tested those who are cleared will be able to will be sent home those who are positive will be sent to a medical facility but again the critical part is what happens to those who are non filipinos those who are stranded here according to the philippine coast guard most

likely they will have to stay in the ship until further notice until things develop on the ground ok tamil ellenbogen live for us in manila thank you. so are the wrong people being targeted in the battle against the illegal drugs trade former presidents diplomats and crime experts are telling governments their policies are wrong and drug laws need to be reformed this is a place global commission on drug policy says criminalizing illegal drug users and petty offenders has led to overcrowded prisons and young people in poor communities are suffering disproportionately the commission says government should instead focus on combating the most dangerous and most profitable crime gangs drug traffickers are often linked to other crimes such as people trafficking money laundering and arms smuggling and also use online marketplaces and cryptocurrency for their transactions the commission says regulating the multi-billion dollar even legal drugs trade will make organized crimes less criminals that is less powerful

former new zealand prime minister helen clark is commissioner of the global commission on drug policy she joins us via skype from auckland i appreciate your time so much so not only does the commission find that these particular drug laws as they are in most countries now are not effective you're saying in some ways they actually benefit the worst offenders offenders i mean the drug dealers. most defiantly the prohibitionist approach has really been a gift to organized crime because it's given a huge market is to make something like $650.00 plus $1000000000.00 market a year pick the drugs so the view of the global commission on drug policy is you could actually disrupt there by states taking normal response of all regulation of drugs and getting supply all criminal hands then you can focus on what's really important and that is organized crime itself with its general extortion money

laundering people and guns trafficking and so on that's what the law and more attention should be on not on more simple member of the community who is a person using drugs so when you say the law and order is is part of the problem that law and order has been tainted by politics because it's fairly clear that some states have taken the move to release some prisoners and the overcrowding prisons right now because. these are people that are not high level offenders that are not dangerous this is something they could have done a long time ago before this happened what role does politics play and more politicians and governors and mayors not taking moves like that. it's all politics really to say that we're going to be hard on crime and hard on criminals and yet in our jails globally it was a couple of 1000000 people sitting there for the simple position of drunks they're

not doing anyone else. overwhelmingly these people are nonviolent and it is interesting that in these circumstances of covert 19 with fears of going into the joels and indeed it isn't in the number of journals around the world then countries are taking steps to release these new home defenders so it really raises the issue of why were they ever there repeat at the global commission we see prohibition and the laws draft of the round there which free press people who use drugs as highly productive and also the offenders and the addicts waffen the not our are poor people they're often people of color as well so what additional detrimental effect is this having on communities. well really horrendous if you look at mexico for example which show went into a full blown war on drugs with the presidency that we began around 2006

or that has led to sharpen crossing the homicide rate many displaced people and missing people totally counterproductive so you is that you could exceed disrupt organized crime by taking the product the problem mike the state of responsible regulator of drugs and deal with people using drugs as having a range of health and social issues rather than as criminals that's the criminalize a sense that becomes the problem then that frees law and order attention to look at the real issues that all the mars crime is involved in that need attention and that as a society is the role of the store. again with guns people and so on. the report is lengthy so i apologize for asking doesn't this very narrow question but

if you had to pick one recommendation to get the attention of politicians and leaders and law enforcement that in the wrong way as you see it what would that be how do you incentivize them to change how they think about this. i think the best incentive is an economic one there were plenty of arguments based on human rights for not treating people he use drugs the way they're treated the among the criminal laws. but the reality is it's also costing a lot of money for no good purpose to pursue the people who use and persist drugs to lock them up to keep them in jails for a very very long time and then few people ever come out of jail or of a person. recruiting stations for organized crime so the way we're dealing with these issues at the moment is not productive it's expensive and rather damaging to people's health and well the. former prime minister of new

zealand helen clark thank you very much for your report endurance i thank you. so ahead on al-jazeera and health officials of the u.s. one a pandemic is pushing americans toward a mental health crisis. rockstar choice for prime minister takes charge after months of wrangling and a growing financial crisis in the. what was a few days rain in germany and poland it's rather stopped now the debris still clouded potent i think it will be eastern europe the seas the raves the next couple of days at least significant in ukraine parts of bureaus but further west i think not the sun's the more dominant feature here that there is but in portugal there's been some pretty high temps as recently as counted up i think and it will likely stay

dry but not as hot now the tensions are rising slowly rather than suddenly for the most part it's just take an example once again of paris the average is about 22 years who are about average but it's slowly warming until eventually see showers on saturday not many but a few. wind direction and when strength has been the thing throughout most of north africa the tension trip has come down to get the showers are coming up with the sun in some parts of africa for example in asia there is an incoming thunderstorm that was a wall of cloud you don't see that too often but they do happen of course until the land's been done by these incoming shows all of which there are not that many this still plenty of rain and potential rain to come in tanzania kenya and uganda you see a bit on the satellite picture you see rather more in the forecast charts just because on zebra the dark blue is heavy rain.

i easily test treats and trace frank assessments wise it's only struggling to cope with the number coronavirus pushed failure to take really aggressive action we put them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there's one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines as india done enough to nip the spread of throat of ours in the inside story on al-jazeera. watching al-jazeera let's recap the top stories for you right now in israel and 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 gore says the man will face in israel and justice u.s. government denies any involvement in a gas leak at a chemical plant in southern india has killed at least 8 people hundreds of others have been taken to the hospital after struggling to bring. a cruise liner linked to 21 jets and about 700 kovan 1000 cases and australia has now arrived in the philippines more than 200 filipino crew members are on board on certain if the ship will be allowed to dock and manila bay. the u.s. says its relationship with china is disappointing and frustrating and that's a reference to a deepening rift over the origins of the krona virus president donald trump maintains the virus came from the lab and will haunt the beijing says there is no evidence of that i can ask more from washington d.c. . the secretary of state has given some 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 time line up 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 bar a tree and to be found she 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 is this such a concerted push against china at this time president anti 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. health experts are warning the pandemic could lead to a historic surge in mental health problems as a growing number of people turn to drugs and alcohol a federal u.s. emergency hotline reported a 1000 percent and grace and calls in april at a poll is found nearly half of americans say the crisis is affecting their mental health john hendren reports from chicago it 13 jennifer jimenez became the face on a 1000 fashion magazines my life literally went from growing up and went outside us argentina where there was dirt roads and donkeys were all over to becoming a supermodel overnight just like that then after ending years of cocaine and alcohol addiction she went from the youngest model to grace the cover of elle to the front of recovery today now she says she fears a pandemic of drug addiction within the coronavirus pandemic there isn't it and.

you know. it's i think it's so. i think that there are people coming. by the sounds during. her husband tim ryan is a former heroin addict turned interventionist so what people are doing. well all i know it's. a lot of. the couple is now fielding more than $100.00 calls a day on their own helpline. experts say addiction is a disease of isolation and quarantines and social distancing increase the risk of a relapse it seems clear people are self medicating whether out of fear were just boredom in the 3rd week of march when much of the u.s. went on lockdown the research from nielsen found alcohol sales rose 55 percent even

though most bars and restaurants had closed online sales rose is staggering 243 percent. for addicts suffering in isolation jennifer jimenez has a message. shine. shine so. you're so you're worth and you're. doing what you. it's a road these days millions of attics are walking alone john hendren chicago hundreds of protesters in argentina are demanding more food for soup kitchens they say the amount being delivered to the poor is not enough about 11000000 people apply for food assistance since a lockdown started in march argentina has registered more than 505000 pardon me infections in 273 deaths the bank of england says the case economy could trend by

14 percent before the mergers from the krona virus outbreak the bank's 1st forecast on the effect of the pandemic predicts unemployment will rise to 8 percent this year from 3.7 percent and 2019 with a recovery is expected to be faster then the that following the global financial crisis the bank has left interest rates on hold at 0 point one percent their opinion is facing its worst recession in its history and will not fully recover by the end of 2021 that's the bleak assessment from the use commissions for 1st forecasts for the post lock down economy as a 3rd of the box economic activity has stopped and warns a 2nd wave of infections could deepen the economic crisis. hold you member states are forecast to enjoy a severe recession this year they're going to meet got d.v.d. . in greece italy spain croatia and to a lesser extent friends are forecast to contract the most italy was struck 1st

and most forcefully the economy is expected to contract by about 9.5 percent with containment measures now starting to be removed gradually the economy is projected to start recovering from the 2nd half of 2020 nevertheless italy's recovery is forecast to take longer than other member states saying parliament has extended the country state of emergency for a 4th time having a surprise or sanchez has asked for another 2 weeks that is to allow the government to control people's movement as it relaxes a lockdown spain is one of the worst hit countries more than 25000 people have died from the operate china's exports unexpectedly rose in april for the 1st time this year encreasing by 3.5 percent and march its exports fell 6.6 percent from a year ago better than expected figures come after many factories resumed work when

he analysts had been forecasting the falloff after the ban to make roost reduced demand for global for goods globally trying to us in beijing with more on how china's trade industry has moved on since being hit by the pandemic. there is some real recovery in chinese trade and this is really a surprise to many analysts they were predicting up to an 11 percent drop and some people are tribute ing this to the fact that perhaps during april there was an increase in exports of p.p.t. or protective medical gears such as mosques and respiration is also one other analysts are speculating that because there was a backlog that needed to be filled in terms of export orders or all customers were front loading orders ahead of what they expected to be a bad pandemic year and also the other thing is that happens this concern about dumond dropping maybe that's yet to hit china's exports maybe with still maybe the

worst is still yet to come that's also a possibility what we did see though was a full in imports they fell by 14.2 percent compared to march and that's a 10.2 percent drop your own year and that was worse than what analysts expected new zealanders further easing krone virus restrictions on monday domestic travel professional sport schools recreation centers and hospitality outlets could be reopen the businesses with still have to practice some form of physical distancing israel and has reported just 3 new cases of the virus in the past 4 days israel supreme court has ruled unanimously against intervening to stop a coalition deal between prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival benny gantz a court also declined to disqualify netanyahu on the basis of his corruption indictments that the judges described the agreement as legally problematic the coalition government will see netanyahu against take churns as prime minister that is due to

be sworn in next wednesday. iraq's new prime minister has taken office after parliament approved a partial cabinet. takes the reins at a time of severe economic challenges brought about by the coronavirus on top of existing financial problems sort of all to reports from baghdad after almost 6 months of political wrangling iraq finally has a new government on thursday former intelligence chief with the fall of kabul me the 3rd person to be nominated for prime minister this year secured parliament seal of approval 15 ministers from his 22 member cabinet are also past. the 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 they may 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 shia power was a guardians of the political process. replaced addle of the mahdi 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 an ambitious government program but it remains to be seen whether he'll have the power to exit q did the government. formation process has shown that he remains beholden to defame political powers that iraq has blame for

the current crises to many his appointment figure of the preservation of the status quo but in the 1st step on the road towards change that they have demanded some wonderful to al-jazeera but that planet roughly the same size and temperature as earth is exciting scientists and are investigating whether it could sustain life that kepler $1649.00 c. after the spacecraft which discovered it they find represents one of the best chances that a habitable alternative to earth the planet is 300 light years away which is relatively close in space terms and orbits a so-called red dwarf star. these are the headlines right now on al-jazeera in israel and 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 says

the men will face venezuelan justice u.s. government denies involvement gas leak at a chemical plant in southern india has killed at least 8 people at hundreds of others have been taken to the hospital after struggling to breathe was random has this update from new delhi. the gas leak came from $25000.00 ton tanks of gas and that tanks were left on attended while the factory with closed for 40 days because of india's lockdown that the unintended gas in the tank caused a chemical reaction that heat was produced and that is what was released now we do know that again evacuation teams are checking if everyone in the area is ok they concerned that this happened in the middle of the night when people would have been sleeping a cruise liner linked to 21 jets and about 701000 cases and australia has arrived

in the philippines more than 200 filipino crew members are on board it's not certain if the ship will be allowed to dock in manila bay hundreds of protesters in argentina are demanding more food for soup kitchens they say the amount being delivered to the poor is not enough about $11000000.00 people have applied for food assistance since the lockdown started in march argentina has registered more than $5000.00 infections and $273.00 tatts the bank of england says the u.k. is a cost to me by 14 percent before the murders from the chrono virus outbreak the bank's 1st forecast on the effect of the predicts unemployment will rise to 8 percent up from 3.7 percent in 2019 the bank has left interest rates on hold at 0 point one percent so the headlines keep it here and side story is that next. as italy went into lockdown people in power are asked to filmmakers to document the

effects on ordinary people from the immense suffering and loss the forgotten abandoned or exploited to sing a longs every day heroes and heartwarming acts of kindness the stories they capture reveal how the virus is forcing society to take a look in the mirror and exposing its inequalities coronavirus lockdown italy people in power on al-jazeera. why is the mortality rate for covert 90 lower in some conference singapore cattle stand out to the diminished deaths well that's exactly behind but this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program i'm peter davi has covered 19.