his compassion and kindness on how well with alzheimer's patients from the west. while this was by many travel hauffe way round the world to leave that in had kept . witness kissing mother goodbye on al-jazeera. this is al jazeera. this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes more than 60000 infections in 6 days russia becomes the world's new coronavirus hotspot.

remembering the fall and commemorations to mark the end of world war 2 in europe are muted this year because of a pandemic. libyan warlord plea for help those forces attacked tripoli with rockets landing close to the turkish and italian embassy. and accusations of slavery at sea indonesia demands answers from china after the deaths of fishermen working on chinese boats. or turns to south korea the elite starts today after being delayed for months by the korean virus pandemic and no fans will be allowed into the stadiums. first begin in russia which is rapidly becoming a new hot spot in that global fight against krone virus with more than 187000 cases russia now has the 5th highest number of infections in the

world it's recorded more than 1700 deaths and 1st 6 days in a row now new cases of gone up by more than 10000 the day. is warning the number of a. factions is far higher than even those official figures show about us as more. russian police and fire fighters patrolling the streets with instructions observe the corone teen take care of yourself and stay home as countries around the world start to open up much of russia is closing down case numbers have escalated to put it in the top 5 of the world with more than 177000 cases but most goes mia fears and maybe even worse that is the year for according to straining studies the entire number of infections in moscow ranges from 252300000 that's 3

times the official figure there could be a modest budget at the table and now we have to toughen the requirements for travelling through the city and for the cemetery protection of people starting may 12th they will be strict measures for using public transport and masks and gloves will be compulsory in public places. moskos 11000000 residents would be allowed to leave home for essential services only with restrictions extended until the end of may the only exceptions affect trees and construction sites of which many will become medical facilities prefabricated clinics are being built next to 13 most hospitals and other is a getting urgent extinctions moskos all russian exhibition seem to is also being transformed into a field hospital. when there is that here we will have patients of moderate severe itching we will not host seriously ill patients they will go to actual hospitals with more sophisticated and treats of care

a quick matter. russia had avoided the exponential growth seen in other countries in the last week of march it had 1000 total cases is italy in the u.s. so past 100000 president putin sent troops to help initially now. we needed at home . i think russia should be proud because many europe and the whole world was struck by the code 19 pandemic you came to lend a helping hand and not surprisingly russia has had similar problems and this is admirable it's 2 hands to the front line is russia's battle against coronavirus as well and truly arrived at dallas. since the initial cases were reported russia has downplayed its infection rates there wasn't until march the 2nd the 1st case of local transmission was confirmed in moscow but it would be nearly a month before the government began its lockdown a large number of infections were traced to russians returning from china that

prompted the suspension of inbound flights shortly after night clubs gyms and cinemas were shut down and the nationwide stay at home order was issued then it only took a month for infection rates to skyrocket with officials reporting 100000 cases more than china time well that brings us to today where russia is now in the dire situation of having the 5th highest number of infections in the world for the 6th day new cases of gone up by more than 10000 realist men is a senior associate at the institute for european russian and eurasian studies george washington university she joins us on skype from moscow good to have you with us so this is a case of the authorities being slow to act at the beginning to counter this pandemic. well i think they may have been slow. well this is true of almost any country all countries of the world or nearly all were

unprepared for this pandemic i would point out however that the number of deaths in russia is relatively low compared to the number of those infected and that the official authorities are telling russians that actually there right is a number of infections is the effect of the growing number of testing. so if it remains to be seen of course but in the other thing about the pressure that should be borne in mind is that half of those infections and over half of deaths are in moscow which is russia's largest city but also there wealthiest place in russia and a place where health care quality is the highest where doctors are the best hospitals are more equipment is more state of the art and protective gear is not a shortage to the extent that it might be elsewhere so moscow mary sounds

confidence number of grave cases is not growing anymore and passed but olds are not yet overwhelmed whether or not we should necessarily believe everything that authorities are saying is an open question but it should be remembered that we may be in for a worse crisis when the epidemic moves to the provinces full force. i wanted to ask you about the number of deaths that you pointed out there is it that russia has a really effective way of treating p. form that's why the death rate is relatively low given the number of new cases every day or is it a matter of perhaps not i.q. it revolting of the number of deaths. it may be a factor of inaccurate reporting not necessarily hiding though this too may be a factor but inadequate and inefficient and inaccurate reporting again it is

not just to russia which has this problem was the only thing i can say of course i only have the numbers that are reported officially. my point is that if the number of their debts were 10 times higher this would be absolutely impossible to hide overwhelm or exempt refrigerators are not their reality today rusher has a very internet exchange between people not just in moscow but everywhere in i think we're well we would learn about that so while the number of deaths may be higher and this may be the effect of misdiagnosing whether intentional or just imperfect maybe some of the deaths are a diagnosis not this girl in a virus but otherwise still my point is the russian in russia the number of

deaths is relatively low compared to the united states to italy to spain for instance or i'm in the thank you so much for your analysis on pleasure. as the world battles a new kind of war europe is marking the end of one of the most brutal it's been 75 years since the conclusion of world war 2 on the continent while most nations are in lockdown a number of leaders including france's emmanuel mark owen germany's angela merkel are attending close ceremonies paul brown joins me live from london where victory in europe day is being marked with 2 minutes of silence so paul is 3 quarters of a century since world war 2 a big milestone but celebrations no doubt going to be much smaller this year.

it's a strange sort of the spirit here in central london we're here on the senate the national memorial to the war dead in the center of london just around the corner from parliament and from downing street where the prime minister has his official residence and there was a decent crowd of hospital workers ambulance staff some civilians as well coming to pay their respects and mark the 2 minute silence which happened just a few minutes ago at 10 am g.m.t. that said the intention for ve day was for a much larger celebration and in fact to the normal bank holiday which would have taken place the 1st weekend of may was postponed to this weekend with the intention of national parties all of those now having to be scaled back as a result of the coronavirus crisis it's impossible to overstate the importance of the day to the british psyche frankly the sense of victory also the enjoying memories of churchill his oratory his famous v. for victory hand signal and the enjoying memory of those lingers in sporting

parlance and political parlance as well you know when britain plays germany even today there are parallels drawn with the 2nd world war but the reality is that in this book the 75 year anniversary we are fighting a new battle and. people here are acutely aware of the need for social distancing and that is the reason why for example we have the red arrows still flying over there are some street parties which will go ahead with people staying in their own front gardens that said the plans for big celebrations have been scaled significantly back. right thanks so much paul brown there from london in the u.k. a government minister says the public should not expect big changes to the current virus long now prime minister abbas johnson is set to announce what restrictions will be eased on sunday barnsley is in the seaside town of wits the ball it relies on tourism at this time of year as the weather is getting better there is some

concern about people not observing social distancing rules lauren so what are people telling you most about. well it's it is quite difficult for me to be honest with you and a day like today is something of a test of national will power in britain it's a public holiday it's v.-day the weather is gorgeous and left their own devices frankly what people want to do is to go and sit outside the pub no you can't do that because the pubs are all shuts well then what about going to the seaside that's not allowed either actually you not allowed to go and sit on the beach but there have been a lot of instances over the last few weeks around the country where people have been flouting that rule and pushing the health of local communities very much at risk and in places like which to pull which as you say traditionally relies on tourism the behavior of tourists has become a source of genuine anger for

a town which relies heavily on tourists with civil tells a story of totally changed priorities it's deserted many businesses are suffering but they're adapting. well says change his food and drink store to pick up and delivery only and is proud of how the community has responded what's been super positive is the. vast amounts of it have been coming on to the high street sensibly in sensible numbers but to support the small businesses sara has a business cleaning the houses of wealthy londoners who have 2nd homes here that's has evaporated but she's managing with others as long as people keep their distance it would be a case of not if i'm walking downstairs then they go into another room or maybe up there is us while i've been with doing my customers off been able to go to you know we've all been in different rooms and then it's a case of musical rooms so to thing you know but the control over the crisis is under threats with the summer here and the government promising easing of the

lockdown and the rights of the water it's. because this is what things look like here at the end of march hundreds of londoners having a day out of the seaside risking which doubles health the town was furious people were were outraged by what we don't want is particularly londoners because of the high degree of infection that's in london and therefore the perceived greater risk we don't want lots of londoners or visitors coming down potentially bring in their additional hoyer risk to the area the new normal after lockdown depends on people accepting social distancing this weekend in which civil could prove informative the best case scenario of course is that people have learned something over the last 6 weeks about what constitutes appropriate behavior in the new normal the worst case scenario is in the coming days and weeks crowds begin to form again and that would surely mean that the lockdown rather than being eased might have to be extended the town's m.p. has some advice don't bother coming at all i really hope they don't come to us well

it's not a holiday it's not business as normal and we have to get that mindset into our heads in our own families and just stay where we are having spoken to a dozen local businesses not a single one was in favor of easing the lock down if it meant endangering health if a town reliant on people and suffering so much economic damage thinks this the government should surely be taking things slowly. well you see behind me the beach is deserted and that's in a very roundabout way actually a piece of good news for which to bill and so maybe based on that you can come to the conclusion some of that there are the people are change their behavior everyone as you said is what it's all boris johnson says on sunday nights about they the very cautious way that the u.k. will try to start coming out of the lock down but even apocryphal evidence just just conversations with people when when if the government says you can send your children back to school for example in june are people going to want to do that's

the still a lot of fear around and the reason why there's so much fear around is because the u.k. hasn't gone down the road of mass testing like other countries and so it is very difficult for the authorities to say with a degree of certainty what the real reinfection rate still is of the virus and so for the government having frightened people so successfully trying to save them now you can try to get back a bit to business as usual is very much about psychology as well as the science indeed thanks so much lawrence leigh there. hundreds of people have staged a protest in serbia's capital. the rally outside the presidency building in belgrade was held the day after a curfew imposed to curb the spread of crown of virus was lifted protesters accuse alexander voted show of curtailing democratic freedoms ahead of elections. france is expected to start lifting its lockdown on monday not everyone is happy

with that decision some are saying it's too soon others saying it's not fast enough for reports. charity food handouts in the paris suburb of clichy sous bois many people here last would during the look down and without money coming in they'd struggle to feed their families get along but actually this is really helpful because the cost of food these days is so high the french government is easing the lockdown after 2 months but for some people here the worst is far from over. the lifting of the log than would be difficult for some people because many haven't been able to pay their bills or rent during this time and some landlords maybe get them. the end of the log down also presents challenges for teachers many schools will remain shot and some principals worry that getting children to socially distance is nearly impossible schools that open will do so partially and with

strict safety measures crossing on to its heights be done less closely. each teacher will have to wear a mask and i have ordered some facial. despite the new regulations and risks a salima is looking forward to welcoming customers again in her fashion shop in paris masks will be compulsory and she'll have to steam clean any clothes but her clients trial now. i think business will be slow for a while many customers are still working from home others are scared to take public transport there are no tourists these days profits will be down by 50 percent this month the french government will ease its meltdown in phases so not all businesses and services will open on may the 11th in fact many of them will have to remain shot including balls cafes and restaurants in the pig dressed southwestern town of laos who call this restaurant owners have no idea when they'll be able to open and

in what conditions they worry the social distancing rules will dissuade people from eating out i think at the start people will be scared to come even and regulars to a social distancing is hard in a restaurant sometimes we have 20 people here for coffee and they come in to have contacts and be sociable it's clear they're trying to revive the battered economy and avoid a 2nd wave of infections won't be easy the government says it will continue to ease restrictions if all goes well but if corona virus infections rise a new lock down could be on the table natasha butler al-jazeera. france australia is to ease social distancing restrictions in a 3 step process step one will include reopening schools restaurants and shopping malls measures such as physical distancing strict personal hygiene and making sure people stay home went on well well remain in place the country has been in lockdown

since march prime minister scott morrison says the aim is to remove all curbs by july. it is our aspiration is agreed amongst premiers and chief ministers myself that in july we will have moved through these 3 steps across the country the price i would totally be up to the states and territories but i will be responsible for sitting their own timetable and communicating that to this is a sense and residents in their own states interior choose plenty more to head on the news hour including. elaborate chant to look around now a former ally of president trump is now only avoided prosecution. the n.b.a. m.v.p. feels terrible after a social media account sent out a new series of comments that's coming up with joe in the school.

the u.s. is removing its patriot anti-missile systems and other weapons from saudi arabia that's happening as it scales back our noms filled up that began when tensions with iran increased last year saudi oil installations are among some of the facilities being affected the u.s. sent weapons and fighter jets after saudi aramco plants were attacked last september dozens of u.s. military personnel will be reassigned when asked about the report donald trump said he wouldn't give specific answers well i don't want to talk about it but we're doing some things we're making a lot of moves in the middle east and elsewhere we're doing a lot of things all over the world militarily we've been taken advantage of all over the world our military and. in the sense that we're and this is nothing to do with saudi arabia this has to do with other countries frankly much more we have the

most powerful military in the world. after all ashraf is an assistant professor. of nottingham center for conflict security and terrorism he says the all price plunge may have influenced prompts the session because of the oil price one of the things that's happened is that anybody who wants to time whether it's us who it is or it's iranians and all refinery they're going to waste their time because it's not going to hurt and have the effect that he would have had many months ago i think also the point that saudi arabia has been with in a price war with russia and that is impacted american produces techs and i hope it uses very hard go into prices going into negative territory you know precedented case in in the u.s. and so there is a pressure on the regime the administration in washington to stop importing

saudi and other oil and concentrate on domestically produced oil and i think finally that the the army is under stress with the missiles that they need to deploy and they have deployed additional missiles early this year to iraq to protect their bases after the the iranians fired several missiles at one of their bases and then the other thing we mustn't forget is that the coronavirus has hit the u.s. very hard economically and so what the president can afford to do is cut back on the military but what he can do is cut back on military spending and having squadrons of aircraft fighter aircraft and that's part of this withdrawal as well 'd as the patriot system based in saudi's costing additional money. forces loyal to libyan warlord have again attacked the capital tripoli areas near the

turkish and italian embassies and the hotel in the city center was shelled after it's been trying to seize the capital for more than a year he warned turkey on thursday against supporting the u.n. recognize government 6 people were killed in showing tripoli on wednesday various countries support opposing sides in libya's conflict take a look about then the government of national accord is based in tripoli led by prime minister raj his administration is backed by the united nations with diplomatic support from italy and other western nations turkey recently sent 3 support the warlords power base is the government in top broke in eastern libya he's supported by saudi arabia the u.a.e. russia and egypt france denies it's providing military support. more now from mahmoud had so they had a hard motive shelling their. tripoli residents wake up to or in the car must sort

of friday morning. civilians are still in shock specially those who live very close to the targeted area as you know. the targeted area which is only about list then a kilometer away from where mr handing now is a kind of diplomatic district it has a civil court as of diplomatic missions and embassies including that the embassy the italian embassy of the house of representatives and all sorts of court house and a pop luke park as you know that the number of casualties including get 3 death is including the 2 police officers were tasked with protecting the embassy

and another civilian who was passing by this situation remains a very tense and the security apparatus or individuals in the area have called it dawned the area or the targeted area. as you know that this could be a number of casualties the number of that is has risen to a dozen civilians over the past couple of days including those of yesterday the situation remains a very tense as civilians here tell us that they are worried that how those forces might act tack again it is a tension areas given the fact that there are more than 300 civilians have been killed by have to his forces that indiscriminate shelling over the past years. the launch of this military campaign to seize tripoli on april 4th last year

but we meanwhile there is also a wave of condemned nation including get this statement by the italian embassy and also by libya's foreign ministry they called the attack a violation of the international any international humanitarian law but the government of national court here is calling on the international community to put pressure on have those forces. and the new residential areas all right thank you so much my hold up the live birth. all right let's get some weather and let's get some sunshine you want some you got to have some signs of girls and boys are you know is announcing the. lovely police guys there in libya as we can see in this gorgeous sunshine topping and tailing africa i'm afraid the bit in the middle is not quite so sunny you can see a fair bit of cloud showing up on our satellite picture here lots of showers there into central parts of africa and particularly around that eastern side of africa

and we have seen some flooding in uganda recently around a 100 people have been made homeless as a result of the floods here in the western side of uganda the heaviest rains are currently lying between somalia kenya running across uganda which has been worst affected pushing across into rwanda and we are going to see the showers hopefully easing for uganda as we go on through the next couple of days but you still see a fair crop of showers there just to the north of lake victoria further showers said just spilling their way to the eastern side of kenya will see the showers just pushing up across southern parts of somalia as we go on into sunday and those showers run all the way into the gulf of guinea but this is where the warm sunshine is the pleasant sunshine the large the clear skies we have got a few shows to come in see where mozambique is we go on through saturday it's a similar picture across northern parts of africa largely fine and dry here but one or 2 showers for a time across northern parts of algeria see wanted to these showers just beginning

to fade away as we go on through the course a saturday into sunday but fine dry and sunny for all as we go through the weekend sami bright and sunny i like that thanks. still ahead on al-jazeera we'll tell you why the livelihoods of colombia's cocoa farmers are on the line. back out on the track in germany is false raising makes its tentative return that's coming out with this. as italy went into lockdown people empower us 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

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welcome back you're watching al-jazeera time to recap our headlines russia is becoming the new global hot spot for covert 19 for a 6th straight day new cases of cholera by more than 10000 moscow's mayor is warning the figure could be 3 times that europe is marking 75 years since the end of world war 2 while most haitians are in lockdown a number of leaders including france is among in my craw attending close ceremonies the u.k. is expected to start easing its lockdown next week that slide towards interest town's visitors will spread the virus a government minister says the public should not expect big changes. in the news years government is calling on beijing to respond to accusations fishermen world worked to death on board chinese vessels at least 3 indonesian men allegedly died on ships between december and march some of their coworkers say they were physically abused and forced to work for days without rest jessica washington

reports from jakarta. underneath the sheet is the body of an indonesian fisherman it's time for a quick prayer and then an unceremonious there well. he's one of 3 indonesian crewmembers who died on the launching $69.00 and it's just a vessel's members of the crew say the men all have the same symptoms swelling chest pain and breathing difficulties they also say the boats captains refused to go to port to get them medical care. after more than a year working in the seas near the pacific nation of some oil the vessel arrived in south korea where the men had to go into quarantine as part of coronavirus measures.

the. leaders one of them died shortly after they arrived. the men were working for a chinese business the dolly and ocean fishing company they captured footage of their work which appears to show endangered species of fish being caught and shark finning a south korean legal team looking into the case believes the captain refused to stop the ship because of these illegal activities. you know. it's. humans. the men say they were forced to work for more than 18 hours at a stretch and often for 2 days with no rest they say they were under fed and often

physically abused by the chinese senior crew the indonesian government says it's speaking with authorities in beijing to investigate those claims. of the fishermen who worked for the same chinese company on different vessels have returned home to indonesia with similar grievances. people that it is like slavery but because of the contract were forced to follow the orders of the captain and the company al-jazeera has contacted the dalai and fishing company but it has yet to respond jessica washington al-jazeera jakarta. and. isn't indonesia researcher human rights watch joins us now on skype from jakarta good to have you with us so the allegations about what happened ranged from everything from these people being made to work days without rest being forced to drink salty sea water to even physical violence sometimes in the hands even of the captain what have you been able to document. there are 2 issues here

one is forced labor with extreme working hours abuses violations deducted salaries that is the 1st issue the 2nd is like what the p.t.o. shows it is about illegal fishing many of these long line press all are doing the same and because of the drilling. this is this fast so tend to go out further and further to the sea. making the course higher at the same time increasing the possible abuses against all of these my you can fisherman there are 2 national apiece there power over working in this kind of long line to sing in southeast asia one is indonesian and the 2nd is filipino so most of these people of these fisherman migrant preacherman are innovation and filipinos there is a core in this region for especially indonesian government and the philippines

government to address with policies to regulate the brokers the employment fees the. not so transparent working condition involving many of these workers and defacing press are either coming from china or taiwan now doesn't look like they'll be any one's going to be held accountable for happens . book government china and initiates should investigate and also there should be tut party into the media or n.g.o.s to investigate this particular case resulting in 4 deaths in one particular chinese fishing vessel but again it is not easy because you know they are out in the sea in the high seas and they kept them have all totally peace including in that particular case dumping burnell at sea

sending that by this into the sea so this is a complicated issue but again an underlying issues one forced labor it should be regulated each of the money part and the 2nd is illegal fishing. this sounds like a very obvious and complicated issue of forced labor isn't something you just do in a vacuum in addition to the fishing company surely others are also legally responsible . for it is it is also very complicated don't forget that most of this fishing take place at the soc gen i want to see that south china sea you know how how complicated the legality of that particular region in southeast asia. will leave it there thanks so much. top u.s. and chinese negotiators have agreed to start the 1st phase of

a trade deal signed in january tension between the economic superpowers has been running high over the handling of the pandemic earlier this week donald trump said he'd end the agreement of china didn't stick to its terms of the u.s. trade representative says discussions have gone well and both sides are trying to ensure it works. the u.s. justice department has dropped the case against president dog transfers national security adviser former general michael flynn was fired in the early days of the trumpet ministration after admitting he lied to the f.b.i. about contacts with russia alan fischer reports from washington. during the trump presidential campaign general michael flynn often with the chance of look around are aimed at the republicans opponent hillary clinton. faced a very real prospect that would happen to him after he pled guilty of lying to the f.b.i. in recent weeks his new legal team insisted documents had been uncovered which

suggested misconduct by f.b.i. investigators know the justice department wants all charges dropped i didn't know that was happening at this moment i felt it was going to happen just by watching and seeing like everybody else he was an innocent man he is a great gentleman he was targeted by the obama administration and he was targeted in order to trying to take down a president and what they've done is a disgrace and i hope a big price is going to be paid a big price should be paid 24 days as national security adviser is the shortest ever read in the important government post he resigned when confronted with evidence he lied about his contacts with the russian ambassador to the us that made him vulnerable to blackmail he also lied about his law being for the turkish government. and the white house said he'd lied to the vice president his resignation was an issue of trust it added when an initially worked with the miller

inquiry into rushing collusion with the trump campaign to win a lighter sentence but last year he changed lawyers and took a more aggressive approach to court proceedings even though he'd already pled guilty the decision to drop the case has left many legal experts surprised it is appalling that somebody who actually pleaded guilty to 2 crimes is now walking away because the attorney general of the united states is deciding there isn't enough evidence to prosecute him i think that given the judge's. statements in this case all along judge emmet sullivan i think judge sullivan may have something to say about this sudden reversal donald trump has hinted he's open to bringing michael flynn back into the administration a federal judge now has the final decision but it seems the legal case may be coming to an end the political fallout of the justice department's decision is only

just beginning alan fischer al-jazeera washington a father and son in the u.s. state of georgia have been arrested and charged with the murder of an unarmed black man the family of a breeze says he was out jogging when he was confronted by the 2 white men who say they thought he was a burglar the charges being come out after a public outcry over a lack of action more than 2 months after the 25 year old was killed the other guy has more from miami. this is a story which essentially this 35 2nd mobile phone video changed everything so we have to back up a bit to get things into context armand or 'd bree was killed on february the 26 almost 2 and a half months ago when the case went to 3 different prosecutors 2 of whom recused themselves because one of these 2 men gregory mcmichael was a former police detective who worked into these offices and the 3rd prosecutor said

this has to go to a grand jury then that mobile phone video that we've all seen at this point was released to the governor of georgia said this was horrific joe biden the former vice president said it reminded him of a lynching and then you've got all sorts of protests going on in the state of georgia now our model bree was a regular runner a sportsman a former football player who was simply jogging through that local neighborhood but the father and son thought or believed he was a burglar so they both on themselves one with a shotgun the other one with a pistol and decided to go in hot pursuit after this 25 year old unarmed man who was wearing running clothes and you can see in the video at that armando bree tries to get around them tries to avoid them and then the shots are fired and he falls to the street and dies from 3 gunshot wounds allegedly fired by travis mcmichael the son of the former police detective and now across the political spectrum even up to

president trump this is being viewed as a very contentious case a lot of the prosecutors in this part of georgia are being criticized but they have now been arrested both father and son and charged with murder. human rights organizations in colombia have criticized the government for stepping up its efforts to eradicate cocoa plants during the pandemic it's the main ingredient for cocaine and it's grown in remote parts of the country by farmers who depend on the crop for their livelihood. ports from the capital bogota. well most colombians are locked at home a battle keeps raging in the country's remote countryside as military and civilian eradicator step up efforts to read colombia of coca plants the meaning greed and for cocaine. growers who depend even more on the crop to survive during the pandemic have confronted security forces in different parts of the country since

the start of the lockdown at least 3 growers have died in clashes with police in the north eastern region of qatar on the border with venezuela farmers have blocked one of the main roads in protest the representatives and an international coalition of human rights organizations are demanding a stop to the operations for health reasons. we already have the 1st cases of call that 19 and cut to these are people who come from the interior of the country and can be potential carriers in this remote area we are asking the president for an act of common sense. colombia's defense ministry sent a written response to our questions about the ongoing eradication saying that they will not and their operations and that they have implemented strict health controls and even quarantines for their soldiers and the civilians sent to the areas. but critics say the government is taking advantage of the lock down too and failing

substitution programs promoted by the previous government of one man will santos and the peace deal he signed with park rebels. the current government is under pressure by the united states to do more to reduce rising rates of coca cultivation and restart aerial fumigations which were suspended for health reasons. former government advisors say the current administration has given up on the substitution programs abandoning promises made to the farmers and forcing many to return to the crop. voluntary substitution created great expectations among the communities because they believe it was the opportunity to leave the troika and get into legal products today they feel discouraged and confused given that the government is again putting greater emphasis on force to read a cation. it's their return in full force of the old methods to fight what critics

call an unwinnable war that leaves the most vulnerable at risk while the drug keeps being produced at growing record rates alison there are. people in argentina have been protesting from their balconies against locked down measures. i they say the government restrictions are excessive and measure has been in force for the past 7 weeks argentina has more than 5900 cases and 282 virus related deaths. families in venezuela are searching for relatives they say have become political prisoners after a failed coup to overthrow president nicolas maduro as follows accusations opposition members negotiated a multi-million dollar deal with a florida security company to invade the country where as well in a forest reserve arrested more than

a dozen people stories about reports. and they never will and her sister margaret are desperate to find their brother at all before he was arrested for allegedly participating in the plot to oust president. they came here to the day and infamous detention center in caracas where political prisoners are said to be detained almost and their awareness well we found out about the detention of my brother like everybody else we spoke with him one week ago we don't know where he is and we've gone to several places prosecutor's office my family have been politically persecuted by the government and this is just one more proof of it. is the son of an old by the will a former minister of defense of chavis who is also in prison accused of inciting rebellion against the current administration. on may 3rd the venezuelan government announced it had detained a group of mercenaries who were trying to reach venezuela speedboats 8 people were

killed it was part of what is known as operation gideon organized by jordan to draw director of a security firm in the united states the venezuelan government insists that trump and ministration knew about the plan to move please explain to me how some planes would leave from the united states led in venezuela airports which these terrorists were going to clear take members of the venezuelan revolution and take them to the united states how would all vets have been without any knowledge from trump's administration. precedent says the u.s. security firm sign a contract with the opposition leader why the why though denies involvement in the plot but one of his political advisers does admit signing a contract with who draw to remove my leader from power and even paid him $50000.00 as retainer the advice or says that plan was canceled last year. why jordan will

draw 60 men private army went to venezuela regardless is now the subject of intense speculation one theory is that security firms such as i retracted by the bounty offered by the u.s. government 50000000 dollars for mother widow alone and more than $40000000.00 if high ranking officials are taken with him. must be many companies interested in ousting material because now that you put the private option on the table the bounties big now they say why they did not sign a contract his advisors signed it they say it was an exploration but it's a bit strange sounding a $42.00 page contract on how they're going to pay a private company $242000000.00 for ousting the dural now in hiding by the incident is a blow to the already weakened venice when an opposition and gives the government even more power to go after those who dare to dissent.

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you're either. all right sports fans i can barely contain my excitement is it true always out on the green well there is some action absolutely salmiya after months of delay because of the current virus pandemic that katy football season has finally begun in south korea defending champions taking on sue on blueing is right now it's being

played at the 2002 well cup stadium in the southwest city of john jude which is a venue with a capacity of more than 40000 there of course no fans allowed to any games because of social distancing restrictions the caylee season was originally supposed to kick off back in february. with a return of korean football is getting more global attention than usual because of the shutdown of so many other sports around the world earlier al jazeera spoke to tom thorough wolf the c.e.o. of coppa $91.00 of the media companies that hasbro cost rights to the katie. i think it's you know that generates a huge interest. in reading them and i think that you know the league itself is you know hardly technically very skilled like play very far off the 2nd fumbles and people are going to welcome the return of. the c. was you know a very high level think like there's a great ad for the caribbean game and really i heard a quote the other day that said you know given what's going on at the moment

football is not that important but of all of the not very important things is the most important and i kind of agree with that you know leading with this huge. international crisis and trying them it and. really i think you really think well so. how are korean football returns and see this sort of hope and this kind of a part of that their students or slices to the future i think is going to go on are a huge amount of things that a company like you are absolutely delighted to have the exciting right we have all the games but we also have kind of highlights as well so we're going to be pushing back out as possible getting fans interested in different leagues around the world and interested in different cultures around the world but it's been really

interesting just hearing how players and. you know the games or 31 talking about the importance of fans we wish that a couple nicely that the fans are the greatest constituents in the guy and not assume any weight. that is being recognized and everything you know should. be done. maintaining that connection with fans even if they're not interested. you know she didn't play. the industry of when we used to work hard connected very well i don't know that they're important. and then when they are really easy he's mistaken. i think that that will be a very very emotional return on both sides i score 90. you know stellar groups or or who are. this narrative at the moment very much or

using sake of iraq was all what we've always. gotten. tottenham strike us on here man has finished his 3 week basic military training in south korea son finished in the top 5 of his class of 157 people not surprisingly he had a perfect record in shooting he did 3 weeks instead of the man she 21 months because he helped south korea win a gold medal at the asian games where the premier league is still trying to work out every start date and so is he said he at least several squads have returned to training creating roma for the 1st time in 2 months players with temperature tested on the arrival corner flags and balls with disinfectant and they were only allowed to train individually but a season restart is still in doubt off to other clubs fiorentina some durian to reno announced 11 positive tests for corona virus among their playing and support staff. and b. a players could be back in training later as the legal hours teams to reopen their

practice facilities for voluntary and social distance workouts 3 teams the trailblazers nuggets and capillaries have confirmed open their gyms to play is what others say they'll do so next week but not all are in a rush to return the l.a. lakers and dallas mavericks say their inability to test asymptomatic players for the virus means they won't be opening any time soon but the league's m.v.p. janice antechamber who has had other things to worry about the milwaukee bucks star says he's disgusted after his twitter account was hacked more than a dozen tweets including racial slurs and attacks on other players were posted in the space of 5 minutes the hackers also claimed he'd contract to coronavirus and was joining the golden state warriors he says he feels terrible about the messages the n.f.l. could be the only major sport to get an uninterrupted full season going this season this year the league's announced it will kick off on september the 10th defending champions kansas city chiefs will host the houston texans in the opening game the

n.f.l. is planning on staging all 16 games the regular season with the super bowl played in tampa next february rafael nadal has warned tennis as well number one novak djokovic that he will have to get the coronavirus fact seen if he wants to continue playing at the highest level the spaniard told a newspaper he would be in favor of making it compulsory to get vaccinated to play only a.t.p. tour when tennis resumes currently there is no vaccine for the virus last month joke of it said he'd be opposed to getting the job but later said he'd keep an open mind. wholes racing has made a tentative return in germany 2 months off being banned because of the pandemic there were empty stands and head of a 12 races as the country eases its lockdown restrictions horses riders and support software under strict hygiene conditions with everyone having to wear a face mask the rices was streamed live to fans at home more meetings will be held in cologne and berlin in the next few days all right that's

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