0. 0. 0 this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes libya's main airport under attack forces loyal to warlord who for half the unleashed a barrage of rockets. russia's president leads ve day celebrations is covered 19 cases the past 10000 for a 7th day. saudi arabia's plans for a mega city are under pressure and drawing reports of threats bloodshed and force

of fiction class. fans around the world as the king of rock'n'roll little richard aged $87.00. the return of the ultimate fighting championship it's a bomb has one of its fighters tests positive for corona virus but the comeback event in florida still goes ahead behind closed doors. we begin in libya where forces loyal to will order a leaf i have to have fired at least 80 rockets into tripoli's only functioning airport a libyan airways plane on the tarmac was hit it was due to take families back to europe but nobody was on board but 2 civilians died from shelling near the airport after forces had targeted residential areas in the capital close to the turkish and

10 again embassies of more on the story let's bring in my whole head who is in tripoli for us so my mood what's the latest. well kim authorities in airport say the one of the. planes one airliner that was set to. transfer european nationals and also to bring libyans stuck in this pain nobody was on board that plane when it was hit by the rocket but it was a located for that flight meanwhile infrastructure civil buildings inside the compound were hits including and under construction building for the united nations and also. a jet fuel tank according to the. marketing good company that's part of the state owned oil corporation it boasted

that one of its jet fuel tanks water was also hit and set on fire and the firefighters were striving to put out the fire in a matey get airport many other facilities inside the compound were hit or damaged by the explosion as you know came that nearly 80 rockets were launched and we have to the forces. on the vicinity of m 80 get airports to civilians were killed a man and a woman in bed that's a neighborhood close to the city center and there was a state of panic among the civilians there and the security forces. in a made to get airport to say that they had to block the way the coastal way that links the city center to get airport to prevent any more civilian casualties in case of any possible or further attack by have to us forces as you know that this

attack comes only 2 days after house as was attack on the vicinity of the turkish and italian embassies in the city center which killed it. 3 people 2 police officers and one civilian as you know that the attacks on civilian facilities as it is has become common recently by half those forces especially in the action to their defeat and there was to libya after the last several strategic towns and cities in the west of libya and also. the government force on. the measure the stronghold for half the forces near the tunisian border thank you for that we will have to leave it there that's my hood abdullah head there live for us in tripoli. all orderly for hafter has been trying to take control of the capital for more than a year now but his attempts have been repelled by the un recognized government

based in tripoli that by prime minister fires off far out besides the u.n. his administration has diplomatic support from qatar italy and other western nations turkey recently sent military reinforcements after hours power bases the government into work in eastern libya he's supported by saudi arabia the u.a.e. russia and egypt france denies providing military support. while in marjah by the is a senior fellow at the atlantic council his research focuses on libya we asked him why have the us forces are targeting civilian infrastructure. i think it's symptomatic of different things really by design launching an offensive on tripoli in an office of would have caused civilian casualties in the 1st place there's no absolutely no way that a military takeover would have been possible without some civilian casualties the problem at this stage is that the socialism 'd a-c. or any perception let's say of the legitimacy of the libyan our armed forces or of

khalifa haftar the potential military leader have completely dissipated from most of the residents in tripoli because they realize that if previously some of them believe that this is actually a cohesive disciplined army now a year on having seen the way this conflict has been fought and having witnessed how both sides of really behaved but particularly the libyan armed forces have a they really equate them with them and with the militias that are in the capital in fact the militias that are in the capital now and are defending let's say tripoli actually have more legitimacy in the eyes of most of tripoli as residents then the force of her leave her for. russia's president of a person has led scaled down celebrations to mark 75 years since the end of world war 2 in europe traditional commemorations were perspired due to the pandemic and for the 7th day in a row russia has registered 10000 new infections lopez ha they are reports.

instead of a military parade on moscow's red square russians marked 53 day in solitude covered 19 has changed everything the streets routinely used to display russia's military power are empty no tanks no music no marchers. president vladimir putin placed flowers at the true north lane near the kremlin walls and for the 1st time in recent years western delegates who were due to attend the event canceled. addressing the nation he called for unity. during the year we know and they firmly believe that we are going to believe and we stand together. a military air show replaced the ground parade with jets flying over 47 cities across russia. during the 2nd world war the then soviet union lost about 25000000 people more than any other country.

yet. we probably don't deserve a parade under the circumstances everyone is hiding scared of the virus whereas the veterans were going under bullets and minds. with social distancing traditions have turned to technology and set of families carrying a photograph of relative lost in the war like previous years portraits were uploaded online for a digital commemoration just what we need to price nick i don't mind the celebrations were canceled people will celebrate at home and can watch the parade from previous years. but the president was counting on the parade to mark the 75th anniversary with his approval ratings hitting a record low there is frustration over the handling of the pandemic as russia becomes a new hot spot for the virus at home a weak economy and a slump in oil prices are making things worse the longer the economy is not doing well i know

a number of and to crises measures have been taken and i hope it will help us to survive the situation year. abroad its involvement in the war in syria and libya has fuel tensions with adversaries the president was hoping the parade would help his political standing and the country's might now. but as a marks the end of the 2nd world war russia now faces a new invisible enemy. to the young al-jazeera. was a different scene in belarus where thousands of people gathered in a tightly packed crowd for ve day celebrations the country is not introduced any social distancing measures or travel restrictions long time president alexander lukashenko has dismissed fears of crowd a virus says psychosis at least 121 people in belarus have died of the virus and more than 21000 have been infected. insley varia thousands of people have cycled through the capital to protest against the

government's response to the pandemic they're accusing the prime minister of taking advantage of the crisis to increase police powers and curtail civil liberties also angered by local reports of government corruption in the purchase of medical supplies so vanier began easing its lockdown restrictions in late april. and in the u.k. the government is set to announce that all incoming travelers will have to isolate for 2 weeks the restriction is expected to take effect at the end of the month those found breaking the rules could face fines or deportation for more on this paul brennan joins us now live from london paul so everyone is anticipating this upcoming announcement but we've also been told not to expects too much. yes the prime minister boris johnson will give his latest updates as to what the the lockdown restrictions will look like going forward at 7 pm on sunday

that leaves this weekend period this bank holiday weekend in beautiful sunshine here in the u.k. for people to try and speculates and wonder what the what the difference might might mean for them looking over my shoulder here i'm in richmond on thames a very affluent part of southwest london and people are already to a certain extent taking matters into their own hands sunbathing sitting out on the grass century in defiance of the stay at home order that the government has put into place i have to say there have been police patrols out here and as long as you are not spreading out a picnic and planning to stay all afternoon the police here are taking a very lenient view and that is part of the problem that boris johnson has a very delicate delicate balancing act to come up with he doesn't want to release the pressure on the on the lock down too much too much because he fears a 2nd wave of infection but at the same time he needs to give some hope for people here in the u.k. who've been locked down for 6 weeks so far and so what's expected on sunday is

a very modest relaxation the thing that's come forward in the newspapers and from downing street sources today is this idea of a 2 week self isolation for people who arrive at ports in the u.k. having to give an address where they will stay for those 2 weeks after arriving in facing the prospect of spot checks by the police and potentially a $1200.00 fine if they fail to abide by that self-imposed isolation it's a difficult one and it's certainly all eyes will be on boris johnson on sunday through whether this comes to pass whether it is predicted and 2nd of all what else he might tack onto that as far as for the relaxation expectation there is for modest very very modest differences i think that that is paul brennan now live from london. italians are being warned to maintain social distancing measures even though restrictions have been partially lifted in rome people were seen gathering at popular drinking spots some even without masks most bars 7 were offering

takeaway options and in milan police patrolled areas which would usually be packed with tourists the city's mayor says the area will be shut down again if people don't respect the distancing rules authorities in madrid have turned many streets and to pedestrians only zones it's to ensure people maintain physical distance while outside and exercising the city remains under lockdown measures along with barcelona becoming so spain's 2 biggest cities during get to meet the criteria for easing restrictions. on other news the death of a prominent tribal leader in saudi arabia has thrown the spotlight on tensions over the kingdom's new mega city project. quite he was shot by security forces 3 weeks ago after refusing to give up his home to make way for the planned city financial concerns amounting about the project as well as some advantage of aid has more. this is the officials reported be handed over the body over. to his tribe his

family denies the official narrative that up with him was a terrorist who was killed after opening fire at security forces. and in videos uploaded on the internet he complained that he was being asked to leave his ancestral land a rare public defiance to a royal decree. i am from out of here i but with mohamed bin solomon wants to build his new projects so many villages have started the phases of displacing people in this area these are sort of houses evaded start forcing people to leave their houses of course the people here are all rejecting this and refusing displacement i'm not sure with the muslims a welcome to be here or not. the tribe in north west in the blue province is in the part of a mega project called the oem a $500000000000.00 city to be built from scratch on the picture rescue at sea and a rock said he was standing in its way. this is when he was

killed for refusing to comply in a shootout with security forces. the saudi crown prince is ambitious vision 2030 and the construction in the new york project had snags since its announcement in 2017 satellite images of pain by al-jazeera sure that in the last 3 years just a few royal palaces have been built the small airport for private planes is far from the grand junction promised in the marketing campaign 3 years ago activists say there is major corruption involved to a degree which transfers learned to mohamed bin sole man that is then bought by the saudi state for new york and the people of the land are evicted the confiscation of the land will not be stopped will take them and it will it take to be able to destroy their houses but there is no and i was no financial ability to build and was not able to convince international investors to put money in this region c n

n since the killing of 3 most of the international companies. decided not. to come inside today beyond and the best in any project so neither the jenkins was that it's not good because of the national interest it's the kingdom is likely to borrow $58000000000.00 to balance its budget and with record law and prices additional finances for ambitious projects are unlikely. progress and a failure to attract investment was before the coronavirus pandemic and the global economic slowdown if that doesn't change the prince's dream could remain just that osama bin job it does there. well staying in the region the emir of kuwait to his country faces a gratian unprecedented challenge because of the drop in global oil prices shakes. says he's calling on the government and polman to unite cut spending and develop

plans to reduce oil dependence kuwait has already announced cuts of more than $1000000.00 barrels per day in line with the of pick plus agreement to reduce oil production globally even before the pen to make the gulf state was struggling to balance its books in january projected its biggest ever budget deficit for the sea air of the $30000000000.00 according to its own oil ministry it would have needed oil to be $86.00 about balances on saturday crude was trading at around $30.00 a barrel well it's big now to cheer for colgan in providence rhode island he is a professor at brown university and author of the book petro aggression when oil pours this war thank you for your time what do you make of that statement from the coase he said that is pretty strong yeah it's a remarkable statement but i think it suggests in kuwait and throughout the persian gulf war among leaders about peak oil demand and whether bad day is coming soon or

may have already where the world oil demand starts to decline other sources of energy pick up well in the case of in the case of saudi i mean there are many more and better probably actually for everybody but there are many more factors at play here we're talking about coronavirus on the one hand if we're talking about saudi arabia i mean it's looking to extricate itself from from the war in yemen could that also be due to what's happening with the oil. yes saudi arabia and all of the gulf monarchies are facing real fiscal challenges saudi arabia in particular making that move to pull back from yemen was related i think to its fiscal constraints and its desire to versifying it's a cost to me away from oil but that has proven to be a very difficult task in the past from the 1970 s. on words petro states have been trying to diversify but it is proving to be

a very very difficult task qatar's our own foreign minister was actually talking about the blockade. to have a blockade u.s. or any intentions the conflict in iraq and yemen he said he called on they called the regional situation an explosive recipe and was cooperation around the region and reform in these countries i mean how likely is that advice to be taken well i think there are as you say there's real political tensions in the region so it would be difficult to do so but there are things that the countries can learn from each other even without formal talks if we look at say the mood that the united arab emirates and towards greater renewable energy and using that to replace oil and natural gas in their electricity generation that's something that other countries in the region could emulate how it's going to play along and do you think

for these countries in the gulf and you know the projections for the price of oil. well the one to watch right now is oman it's in the most immediate fiscal danger it has a fiscal breakeven point that's well above $80.00 a barrel and it's it's facing real difficulties and of course all of the countries are dependent on rebounding oil prices and as the united states in particular struggles to contain the coronavirus there's a lot of concern here about how cautious consumers are going to be no in seas airlines in particular rebounding any time soon because of the difficulties in public health given saudis reliance on the petro dollar and the situation right now what do you make of its vision for this huge neon project $500000000000.00 project i mean is this a vision or is this some are as well as i said there's been lots of different

visions from venezuela to nigeria to libya to elsewhere over the years of oil rich states that want to move away from oil dependence and i see me in that light as well where those sort of but a desire to diversify away from the oil rich economy it's it's proven to be an incredibly difficult task and i. am just listing to the reports of corruption associated with that's that's should be a signal of real concern because that's something that we've seen elsewhere in other countries in history thank you time and your analysis that jeff called and a thanks have brown university and author of petro aggression when oil calls us for . egypt's president sisi has expanded his powers under a state of emergency is also granted the security agency's additional poles the

government says the new measures which include the ability to quarantine overseas arrivals are needed to combat the corona virus outbreak but they also include expanded powers to ban public and private meetings protests and celebrations critics say the pandemic is being used to justify further repressive reforms had more ahead on news out including. infections are up but the economy is opening up. pakistanis restrictions despite a record number of new cars at 900 cases. and we look at a vaccine trials that could see people intentionally infected with corona virus. and in sports formula one world champion lewis hamilton speaks about the prospect of racing without fans it's. a delicate balance between keeping people healthy and protecting the economy is

going head to head in pakistan lockdown measures are being eased just as the number of daily infections reaches new highs more than 1500 cases have been reported in the last 24 hours bringing the total to around $27000.00 close to $700.00 people have died has the latest from azzam about. buggiest on had been in a state over dog down for over a month when it aired hurting. the people who were relying on making an extra amount of money because of the month of ramadan however the government said that it was taking a difficult decision to open up the benefits of factory however schools and colleges are going large congregation. be allowed the important thing now is what kind of effect this will have on. their time when the infection rates are writing within the country there are already warnings by the medical fraternity there such

a move mayport extra pressure on pakistan them. made it official that there will not be a very good deal redish pandemic. the big worry is that if the situation gets worse in the next few days and the influx of coronavirus patients increases by tens of thousands then the whole health care system will collapse because we don't have many ventilators and we don't have the capacity to cope with a mounting crisis now the government is moving in a calculated man expecting the people to go observe the fop but we have been able to keep people regard ma oblivious to the danger and of the friend dead make and their death god has going to be a rare danger for by gets done. we understand that there is an increased threat of infection to people but we are also faced with an economic crisis lifting the lockdown will help us in a living for our family as people will be out to eat shopping and dov to eat the

government can go to look down again and we won't object to it with the idea that you know though the government has lifted the lockdown this will endanger more lives as no one here is following the standard operating procedures people here are also not taking it seriously. the move by the government to edith's stricture and big pressure of more trade. who've been demanding reopening their business but did it go through a move in danger. through an alarming rise in the number of. construction workers back on the job in parts of india as some areas relax restrictions building has resumed on a miniature line in the northern industrial city of can for workers are being screened as they enter the site and numbers are being limited to allow for physical distance and nationwide lockdown is still in place until later this month that region is considered to be low risk are allowed to start opening up early. humans

who these say saudi arabia has deported hundreds of somali refugees to their side of the border who they say the group of more than 800 now being quarantined in the area of husband of cold on aid agencies to help saying they don't have the capacity to look after them or the top has more from santa. the hold these run supreme council for humanity called the nation has called on the refuse commission to uphold its responsibility before the this big number of refugees that have been deported by the saudi arabia to the has been where the hold these have. set up. what he can say as salacious and center for them as the afraid that the could could be infected by the cold in 19 as the country couldn't tolerate another battle on another front as the yemenis here are the most vulnerable society especially

over the 5 years of war has really impacted the humanitarian and economic situation here in the county there is a big number of for refugees in yemen the are traveling through yemen to saudi arabia for from saudi arabia to europe and america as the believe that the traveling to the dreamland in the in this region which is saudi arabia. be go through difficulties and also many of them have been killed during this risky trip . and they 6 figures died in afghanistan after security forces opened fire on protesters several others were injured it happened in a court province among those killed and 30 journalists in 2 police offices nearly $100.00 people have gathered at the governor's office demanding 8 they want help to

cope with coronavirus restrictions. still ahead on al-jazeera struggling to deal with the dead an emergency shipment of conference arrives in brazil's largest hit city. and blocking a u.n. vote for a global ceasefire and the u.n. takes issue with the inclusion of the world health organization. and n.b.a. players take their 1st tentative steps back into training job will have the latest coming up its course. hello this a mainly clear conditions across much of the arabian peninsula has seen some clouds coming up in the last few hours is actually coming out from sudan ethiopia and some rain in it but not a huge amount what we'll see possibly as the old isolated or maybe a thunderstorm with the winds a strong to the north so again more blowing dust across much of iraq these northern

central areas of sanity but it's a clear day sunday through the eastern end of the mediterranean some showers well up to the north clearing the way eastwards across the caspian sea and a bit of a repeat generally of a sunday so by monday time which is about $39.00 in riyadh $35.00 degrees in the hall the winds are still fairly brisk coming down from the north and the rain is a certainly much a feature still across the central areas of africa we've seen some very heavy rains across tanzania and kenya and it's really the coastal areas again as we go through sunday that will see the heaviest of these down poles and showers through eastern and central as a magic aska most to care across much of south africa in fact a warm day on sunday in capetown with a high of 27 degrees celsius but again back across the central regions around the gulf of guinea the rains very extensive at times of course very heavy as well pushing also across into the democratic republic of congo similar story on monday the rains again developing late in the day fine in trying to cape town.

in uncertain and isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise of the looking at another side of the story not from the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact look it's reality and you have to inject along exposing the optics triathlon if their rhetoric and claims but they cannot manipulate fire the listening post your insight guides of the media on al-jazeera. throughout history human kind has come together to prevail in our darkest moments this is a moment for pretty much the opposite side laying low saving humankind by really really not getting near each every generation has its moment where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after. this one is

ours. you're. watching al-jazeera for a mind of our top stories this hour maybe an orderly for half the us forces have attacks tripoli's only functioning airport with at least 80 rockets a libyan airways plane was hit but nobody was on board 2 civilians died near the of course. russia is marking the 75th anniversary of the end of the 2nd world war in europe and its public events have been disposed because of the pandemic cases have risen by more than $10000.00 to $7.00 straight days. pakistan has started lifting

lockdown measures despite the number of day the infections reaching a new high there are fears of the state of its economy slipping into every session . and scientists are considering deliberately infecting healthy volunteers with covert 19 as part of efforts to fast track a vaccine let's take a look at the process a vaccine is a type of medicine that trains the body's immune system it contains weakened or dead bacteria and viruses a vaccine is introduced into the body so that it can fight a disease it hasn't come into contact with before human trials usually happen in 3 phases and the 1st a small number of volunteers are given the vaccine to see if it's safe and in the 2nd hundreds of volunteers are tested to see if a vaccine is effective and has any side effects and the 3rd phase thousands of volunteers are vaccinated and studied in places where they are exposed to the virus along with people without the vaccination to wait for those volunteers to be

naturally exposed to the infection could take a very long time so these trials. heat up the process by taking a smaller number of vaccinated volunteers and deliberately exposing them in this case to covert 19 let's speak to dr dominic wilkinson in the united kingdom he is the director of medical ethics at the university of oxford hero center for practical ethics thank you for your time off the bat what do you think is it ethical to do human challenge trials with the coronavirus well the basic issue with any research is about. ensuring that those who take part in the research are not put it and you risk that they're aware of the risks that they're undertaking and that the research is scientifically justified that the key issue that posed by the pen demick is there's an urgent need to generate results so the normal pace of science which which precedes very cautiously

and slowly is far too slow waiting 5 years to develop a vaccine or longer is not it is not a practical option so a challenge study might enable us to accelerate the process challenged that have been used for quite some time with reality really minor illnesses like trying to develop vaccines against the flu in 0 or colds or even malaria or more serious infection where there are treatments that tricky element of 19 coronavirus is of course that there is no treatment so yes or no is it ethical or not yes it is if they don't know that. i don't need to be done very quickly if i have a sense i mean you talk about it being done carefully the doubly i try to say is these types of trials should be conducted within an ethical framework in which truly informed consent is given but how do you get that truly informed consent when

we don't even know so many things about this virus and how it might affect the person. of course so and that's a challenge for quite a bit of early stage research that you don't know exactly what the effects might be in and sometimes that means that those who take part in research a subject to risks that nobody could have predicted. one of the inch one of the important things is of course that there are many people already being exposed to those exact same risks to take for example health care workers they are putting themselves at very high risk of getting the virus many of the most of my colleagues will get the virus at some point but of course we think that's justified for the sake of the benefit that they offer in the context of the vaccine studies if those people are informed if they know as much as we everybody knows about the virus and the risks of that contract and it would be ethical for them to consent to be to

being willingly exposed to the virus in the hope that that accelerates the vaccine development even if we don't know everything about the virus is that what you're saying what we do know right now is enough for somebody to give consent and for that to be ethical well that it's we know enough for example about the virus for it to be acceptable for our health care workers to be exposed to it. including potentially being exposed to large doses of it of course we try and reduce their risk and we can't wait to know everything about the virus before we we try and develop treatments or vaccines because that may simply be too long thank you for your time dr dominick well can send the director of medical ethics at the university of oxford center for practical thank you. very well. u.s.

politicians have written to nearly 60 countries asking them to support taiwan taking part in world health organization meetings taiwan has avoided imposing lockdowns and is seen as a success story and how to counter the coronavirus it's only reported 440 cases its leader saying when was one of the 1st awards w.h.o. about people contracting the virus in december but taiwan is not a member of the un and is excluded from the w.h.o. because of objections from china doing considers it a breakaway province and objects to taiwan joining international organizations taiwan says it is not part of china and the global fight against corona virus is weakened by it not being a member of the w.h.o. on saturday hong kong broadcaster r t h k and an interview with assistant director general bruce arnold when asked about letting taiwan join the organization he was reluctant to discuss the issue is what happened with the p x

o consider how once membership. well we were that was a. question ok i mean that let me let me repeat the question also. that right i think this is i'm i'm actually curious on talking about power one as well on how on skis. we decided to give dr another call to follow up and i just want to see if you can comment a bit on how one has done so far in terms of containing the virus what we've already talked about china. russ feingold's isn't a ship political risk analyst in taipei he says it's not clear what role the u.s. all the international community expect taiwan to hold in the w.h.o. . u.s.

politicians have been advocates for taiwan's participation in the world health assembly in the world health organisation for many years whether it's by passing resolutions were inserting into u.s. laws that the u.s. government should take action to achieve this goal issuing statements in support around this time of year prior to the annual world health assembly meeting what might be different this year is as your report alluded to is the virus situation and that taiwan has been recognized for its generally successful efforts at managing the outbreak here in taiwan but the difficulty is obviously china and there are some associated issues as well which is frankly what status with taiwan participate wouldn't be. a full member or an observer sometimes it's actually on clearer what it's what taiwan itself wants and also what it is

that the foreign governments including the united states or other countries japan australia are they seeking taiwan's participation only as an observer or a member as well. the number of covered 9000 deaths in brazil has reached a daily high well then 750 people died in just 24 m a zone a state has been hardest hit hundreds of confidence have been sent to the regional capital. and as more funerals are expected well in 10000 people have died from the virus in brazil it's going to talk correspondent. who's in bogota so is this the pink of the virus for brazil. but the response the answer there is came is that really really don't know yet definitely have a grim milestone for the country but the most. so far are saying they are expecting an actual increase in the number of it's an exponential increase in the

coming weeks there been then universities working together with oxford university in the u.k. studying the curve of infection in brazil and what they're saying is that they are now predicting that the curve of infection in brazil could be as bad or even worse than the one in the united states that has been the center of this health crisis is in the world now one of these studies predicts more than $60000.00 deaths in brazil by june 9th so very warry some they're also saying that at the end of all this crisis brazil could be the worst of all the countries affected by the number of deaths or the 2nd the u.s. a lot of the problems with these studies is that brazil hasn't been able to do much

testing. probably the worst country in all of latin america compared to the number of people compared to the populations that also tells us that the numbers that we're seeing now are probably. way lower than the reality of infections in the country well this is happening to president i hear both so that it keeps me my eyes in the effects of the coronavirus in the country on friday the british medical journal the lancet had a very harsh opinion piece against abrasive saying that essentially this is his responsibility in his fall to have this you to ration is so dramatic in this country there's a response from friday calling for a barbecue that he's expected to hold over the weekend at the presidential palace with 30 friends and even joked about inviting many more people even journalists that create the size and. thanks for that the other sound around here to

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hip thing faded good golly miss molly and long tall sally known for flamboyant performances his career spanned 7 decades his influences influenced rather the likes of elton john and the beatles. of more on this let's speak to music journalist david sinclair who's in london for us david when we heard the news that little richard had died here in the newsroom just before we came on air we were talking about it one of the producers behind me when i was little richard and i thought how do you even how do you explain the little rich it how do you describe him well he was he was one of the architects of rock'n'roll basically in the fifty's he together with chuck berry jerry lee lewis and i guess obviously i was present was around the same time but he was a just an explosive presence who came out of nowhere when he came out macon georgia

in fact but he was he was a. he was one of those kind of performers who revolutionized popular music basically with along with those other guys what about his persona his performance his style if you call androgynous but i mean how was that unique kid trailblazing at the time. well he was a black guy playing in a very kind of theatrical fashion and he was playing a piano he was a pianist basically and a singer but he was standing up and he was he was hollering and yelling he actually came from a gospel background a religious background and his whole style of singing was developed as a sort of test testifying sort of style he was he was from that sort of background but he's his home manner was quite the opposite he was a very flamboyant and kind of sexual performer really before that was even

identified as something that you you could really legitimately do in popular music elvis had much the same problems you know you could only feel him from the waist down and little richard he kind of was this personification of a whole new style of performing that people found very some people found very threatening and up at a lot of people found very exciting and and attractive what has has impacted beno what was his impact on the artists who followed him. well i think stylistically you could say that he certainly him in florence the beatles who who actually supported him are they supposed and here in england and also in hamburg where they played and he would he would sit down afterwards or before the show with paul mccartney and show him how to do the beatles did a long tall sally a big you know there was one of the famous covers and so they were there and if you

listen to paul mccartney's style of singing it's very you can hear elements a little richard's. delivered delivery in it he also is a big influencer on someone like elton john obviously who you know any kind of piano man who came afterwards wouldn't start it with little richard you know that's that's where that whole style of hammering away on the piano very theatrical i mean you know you see on john jumping up on top of the piano that was lit as well as richard did he was the 1st guy to do that so he had a big influence down the years on on all the the rock'n'roll do you know the key and the key groups and the key keeper formas in the popular music world absolutely thank you for your time and your take music journalist david sinclair thank you and wearing masks is now compulsory on public transport in spain as the country moves to relax its lockdown there's a lack of protective equipment so volunteers are getting their sewing machines out to address the shortage ahead of how it has the story. spain is gradually reopening

following the lockdown which began mid march like many of the countries there's a shortage of protective equipment for health workers and support staff caring for coronavirus patients the scarce supplies have prompted volunteers in northwest spain to put needle to thread. common garcia is one of many described as a warrior with a sewing machine. i decided to help by doing something for the community common says something made her feel less helpless jaring the state of emergency or those she's returned to work she continues to dedicate time to producing 20 mosques a day each folded and measured to a specific size but i would have to understand much that he had just what. we used to kinds of material disposable cotton and t.n.t. non-war them fabric with cotton we fold the fabric so one side and 2 or 3 fold then

attach elastic on both ends this can be washed and reused t.n.t. fabric is much quicker as there are no folds and there disposable. more than $600.00 spaniards have joined the cause 90 percent of them women with tailoring experience working around the clock. mask. everything's going to be ok. the volunteers say they're following government health and safety guidelines. in organic and inorganic chemistry chemistry as well as a manufacturer has the materials fabrics are the needed by factories and. by dry cleaners and that. more than $80000.00 mosques have been delivered so far including to nursing homes supermarkets petrol stations and the local council in the region. helping with collections and logistics taxi drivers. this is all.

groups. spain has been one of the hardest hit countries with more than $25000.00 fatalities as the government begins a 4 phase plan to get back to what it calls a new normal by the end of the month exercise outdoors is allowed and some have returned to work but wearing masks is compulsory on public transport the government says it will distribute around 6000000 face coverings with help from the european union and china and these women are a sign of a solidarity with in spanish society they're determined to make things better one stitch at a time re the mohammed al jazeera. it's time now for sport has joe came thank you the much hyped return of the ultimate fighting championship instead a bomb with one of the undercard fighters testing positive for cronin virus brazilian middleweight jack or

a sousa on the right were supposed to fight american urea but the bout has now been removed from the cars such as your c 249 event is being held in jacksonville florida in a sealed off arena with no fans you have see say sousa and his 2 corner men tested positive but are not showing symptoms of covert $19.00 and $3.00 have left the host hotel and will be self isolating off premises you have see say there are no more positive tests so the other 11 bouts will go ahead the interim lightweight title bout between tony ferguson and justin tops the bill fighters were tested for the virus on arrival in florida and most have been isolated in their dreams for u.f.c. fighter dan hardy told us that the positive tests have taken some of the shine off the event. there was a lot of positivity coming into this week from all the fighters in camps law 'd excited to be back at work excited to be back competing and you know get back to a regular schedule of of the life force but you know that i think this is certainly

a reality check for everybody you know everyone at the hotel all of the production staff will be now be on high alert now you know any time when they were thinking about not washing their hands there will be now so it actually i think it reinforces all the safety protocols obviously it's not ideal but not not really surprising in the circumstances especially given the fact that we're you know we're bringing in pipes from around the world one thing we have to bear in mind is that you know of course everybody is susceptible to corona virus but the fitter and healthier individuals are far less susceptible to being taken down by. fortunately everybody in that hotel is in tip top condition they're all parasites and all well and healthy and well fed and and so i think you know they'll be minimum impact on everybody and obviously further precautions will be taken to make sure that that no further issues arise policy you know getting jack or out of the hotel and isolating them separately is why it's going to be you know what this will do is because that the u.s. are going to continue putting a schedule together this will now reinforce the safety protocols going forward so

perhaps even fighters get tested before they get on the plane to the venue might be the next stage the interest and amazed that there's no crowds there because obviously some of us like 20 in the crowd and that gives a bit of extra in the performance but i think all of these all these boxes were shot right formant and there you know that is a patient you know what's to be on the life the 1st live with that in a long time will be motivating for 4 and one champion as hamilton says that's a lot of pricing without fans leaves him cold a sport is set to resume behind closed doors in australia in july. probably worse than this and. there's not. much but there are still. nobody in the crowd and it doesn't seem very. well racing is racing i don't think any of us are not really 'd truly. excited really.

to basketball in the cleveland cavaliers have been getting ready for the n.b.a. restarts whenever that may be the cavs were one of a handful of teams who reopen their practice facilities on friday so the players could train again only 4 will be allowed inside at a time for the individual individual sessions the n.b.a. shut down in march and there's no word yet on when it will come back colombia's president says he'll be watching closely as professional football returns in germany and use that as a guide fay's own country domestic football in colombia has been suspended since mid march and so far teams won't be allowed back to training until at least june with germany's but as leader sets become europe's 1st major league to return in a week's time even decay says he'll be guided by its success to look at are going to. be important because the bundesliga is going to be important it will be the benchmark in italy they're making decisions but they've had 10 positive tests we

have to look for the best protocols the guidelines of prefer to be creative to find an approach with the best possible control so we can return behind closed doors to give our citizens the chance to enjoy football but we will only do this in accordance with our health guidelines columbia looking at germany while meanwhile in france taking legal action and calling on fans to sign a petition over the league season being scrapped they were relegated because they were 2nd from bottom one place stopped with tame games remaining. so this is a legal battle. i don't know exactly what organs you can. just use. but you know i say that's taking. a strong turner and people are following that and there's been so many to support that goes even married in the personalities actually thanks to both of them to join dots. that are the u.s.

women's football team is not giving up its fight for equality the world cup winners are appealing last week's court decision which threw out the equal pay case against the u.s. soccer federation a judge dismissed claims that they're underpaid compared to the men's team the women had been seeking $66000000.00 in damages the delayed tokyo olympics could be the greatest games ever according to one of the key officials involved john coates is i the seen the tokyo project for the international olympic committee he says they are fully focused on the new start date of july 2021. we are working through now getting the same venue use the same 43 venues we've got the same dates so the same shade chilling we're doing all of that and. you know we're proceeding on the basis of the will there is no plan b. of the ferry mcadams again all right that is all useful for now it is back to ken the best ever olympics i think we could all use that can we take that job do so

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