that was when you. but to go again be a fiend if you will too. hello there i'm mr and this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next 60 minutes libya's prime minister promises retaliation after forces loyal to warlord khalifa haftar attack at tripoli is only functioning air force. trying to reignite hong kong this democracy to the coronavirus rules of protesters gathered inside shopping center. $10000.00 dead and national mourning in brazil but

the president goes jet skiing. and why the new normal for lebanon is not good news for businesses already struggling to survive. and top level sport returns to north america for the 1st time in nearly 2 months and ultimate fighting championship event took place and a battle for your reader in jacksonville florida. now fighting is intensifying between libya's warring sides after forces loyal to world khalifa haftar attacked the capitals are in a functioning airport libya's u.n. recognized government launched a counter offensive to saturday's attack damaged planes and set fuel tanks that lice have to us forces also struck nearby residential areas killing at least 4

civilians the tripoli government says more than a dozen have died just in the last 2 days while our correspondent. joins us now live from tripoli what we're now seeing this promised retaliation from the government what's the strategy here. well the government's strategy is to reach the have to the forces locations from which the rockets came and attacked the residential areas along with them 80 gig airport yesterday that is in the more military camp that's insular hadian neighborhood in southern tripoli as you know. have to his forces are in full control of walk military camp that's a very strategic military camp it's very well equipped and it has it military very highly equipped with military. capabilities along with it's

a location and now the government forces have been shelling have those forces locations in and around. since early in the morning they say that the rockets fired on tripoli yesterday came came from military came from how us and also grad. grad rocket launchers and model rocket launchers their government we just spoke to our military commanders with the government in selected the neighborhood the just told us that they destroyed 2 of the rocket launchers of have their forces. near. a military camp meanwhile the government says that it will continue. to have those forces that the neighborhood after they discovered that there are some sleepers cells there from civilians cooperating or collaborating with have to his forces. as i was saying some of the latest attacks from have to us forces head residential

neighborhoods as well how is civilians they're coping with or less. will as you know that civilians or were displeased from mosul or had the neighborhood the wind have to those forces are. neighborhood that months ago when our civilians are. rockets and the government is calling on the international community to take action against their regional backers the countries backing the warlords. the civilians in the capital tripoli are kind of helpless they don't have much to do. just the government is helping with it some of those vulnerable but meanwhile the residents of the of the capital are still in shock many of them are suffering from p.t.s.d.

or post-traumatic stress disorder especially women. and children as you know that according to the government 34 civilians have been killed including women and children since the beginning of ramadan means only during the past 2 weeks white house tours forces indiscriminate shelling that's not what i'm going to head there for us in tripoli thank you. as an anti-government demonstration in iraq's capital intensifies the country's new prime minister made good on his decision to free people who were detained during previous protests it's one of these 1st decisions following his inauguration last week the judiciary ordered the courts to release the demonstrators. predecessor eduardo law he was forced from office by months of often violent anti-government demonstrations the protesters are calling for better living conditions and a complete overhaul of the political system while our correspondents are one of 14 as with the protesters she says they have no intention of giving up before they see

real change. the barricades on top of the republican race are once again teeming with hundreds of demonstrators and what is the largest gathering here since march when the curfew to stem the spread of coronavirus 1st impulse now this comes just days after my father proud of me was the point that iraq's new prime minister and it comes just the day after he announced several important decisions in an apparent effort to try to mend the rift between the protesters and the new government he announced the release of all of the protesters who have been detained and took over and perhaps even more importantly he and now that he would be in a general. at the head helm of the counterterrorism forces now. as a war hero and his the commitment that. you know is a matter of faith and of mismanagement and corruption is one of the triggers that led many people to take the street for what the problem is trying to do is to

address some of the root causes of the grievances of the demonstrators but look people here are saying that they won't march on and that they feel. they want better services demands of course cannot be addressed over night but most importantly their. complete overhaul of the political the fender think that simply changing the head of state is not enough they want the political parties they see as being responsible for many of the country's problems to also go away and until then they're determined to stay and to keep demonstrating well for one protest to another and riot police in hong kong have broken up demonstrations then launched in several major shopping malls the protest movement has resumed as coronavirus restrictions eased but demonstrators gathered in large groups ignoring social distancing requirements many were calling for independence from china protesters against protests against beijing's and phones and hong kong have now been taking

place for more than a year. david pollan was among the protesters. at the beginning they were trying but eventually they made their way into these stropping malls and gathered in groups and as you can see here behind me on the railings people just gather around them and start chanting slogans against the police again phone call governments and for more democracy and universal suffrage but as soon as right police come they all dispersed very quickly what's making it very difficult for police to discern who is a protester and who is just a regular shopper this is one of the main shopping malls in the city is the fact that everyone in hong kong is wearing a face mask due to the government advice to help fight the corona virus outbreak so protesters easily mingle in which shoppers and so while the other issue here also i must say is the fact that protesters are also being fined under the social

distancing measures that is quite a complicated situation for police can just pretty much throw perhaps a group like this more than 8 people a fine of $250.00 u.s. dollars each and these protesters are are it's the seeing young people that we saw last year in the big movement and many of them are young they are students and they cannot afford these fines for their somehow trying to get around this so this is hong kong trying to start its protest movement in the era of social distancing. while some protesters say that hong kong police are using social distancing you know as to crackdown on civil liberties. in the midst of the coronavirus the government has imposed restrictions on gathering and turned it into a crackdown on freedom of assembly not only for the human rights of citizens but also for other religious activities i think this is a gross violation of human rights while we can speak now to joseph chang he is a political scientist and also a pro-democracy campaign and he joins us now from hong kong joseph you've been

involved in these demonstrations for some time now can you tell me what's changed for you in the way that people are protesting. well in the past several months last q protests or kitties could not be all that nice because of the and deadly and there is so so distancing rules the process gatherings this sunday today. and indeed kate that a protestant has was soon organized large you have to get these in the coming months because of servo problem and dates to come right to fall for late into the tiananmen square in sudan to lie to 1st any verse real problems be durned to china on june 9th and june 16th any bursaries of the massive protest rallies last year and so on basically to prove them ocracy move one remains

angry and dissatisfied because to carry land in session has been adopting to strategy all no dialogue no concessions no negotiations. is if you will serious to meet the demands of the people more all for the government has been tightening. is crackdown on the pro-democracy movement of the new interpretation of basic of the basic law run it into central liaison office that is the agents of going to in hong kong a supervisory role over the territory as well as reinterpretation reinterpreting the ground rules of the legislative council soledad the bill a serviceman can can easily be brought there filibustering at 1st on the part of the opposition joseph i do want to ask you because i'm looking at these videos and

people in them are clearly a violating social distancing guidelines and as someone who is involved with this campaign you not concerned that trying to continue the movement with physical gatherings at the moment is actually putting people's health at risk. well from the protesters point of view they are saying the police has been deed line people's right to protest and to demonstrate. they would argue they have been informed of the. rules i mean they clearly have. we seen that they we see that they are clearly not actually following social distancing guidelines we're seeing larger groups groups larger than 8 people standing very close to each other people gathering in these shopping malls is there not a concern that they're trying to do anything like this could actually jeopardize the health of people. yes i agree but i think the protesters are

getting very impatient and they are ready to pay the price so to speak they understand that they may face arrest. are they may have to accept fines. sinus notices issued by the police of the lethal sayang is around 250 your star as the mood is certainly a confrontation oh. are well most of the protesters are ready to disperse at the command of the police there might be some very small scale and yet stupidest full confrontational gestures between the protesters and the police but the concern is what you have because there has been no of reconciliation at 1st mate on both sides and one expects more

confrontations more protests rarely used to come especially in the middle of the lead to save you from so he elections to be held this year of course and will continue to be watching that very same day joseph chang there a personal scientist and pro-democracy campaign speaking to us from hong kong thank you sir for joining us on out of there thank you now south korea's president says there's no reason to panic after a new corona virus outbreak in seoul linked to nightclubs j.n.r. praised his country's efforts to contain the pandemic but he also warned of a 2nd wave of infections later this year robert bribe reports from seoul. south korea's response to the corona virus has been widely held up as an example to other countries at one time it faced the 2nd worst outbreak in the world after china but quickly brought it under control by encouraging people and companies to voluntarily social distance while conducting mass testing and contact tracing president moon

use this national address to promise further advances. we will reinforce the epidemic prevention and quarantine systems become the undisputed number one epidemic response country leading the world but he had a warning that the world was now on the verge of a global crisis because of the pandemic. is fundamentally changing our daily lives and pushing the world economy into an unprecedented crisis such as an export driven economy south korea faces tough times a global recession means people will be buying less of what the country makes while restructuring of industrial production is likely to further hurt trade. it's a national forum a panel of experts came together to consider ways for the economy to recover the focus is using the country's high tech advantages like 5 g. networks and digital systems to grow so-called face to face industries.

for all society is transforming to have less human to human contact our economic structure has to be digitalized fast and we will be focusing on ways to accelerate that. described this national drive as a career new deal. in production none face to face industries related to medical services education and retail distribution will be intensively faster cities and industrial complexes transportation networks and aging national infrastructure will be combined with artificial intelligence and digital technology to make them smart . how south korea performs could have wider implications just as much of the world has been watching how it handled the pandemic so we will be studying how it now recovers from it mcbride al-jazeera sold. plenty more ahead here on

this news hour including. a plan to get people back to work in the u.k. about it won't be the same as before. and trans pandemic response is slammed as the biggest assessable stakes in almost 19 year olds. for germany's plans to restart its top 2 football leagues suffers a setback will be here with that story. in just a few hours british prime minister johnson is due to give a briefing outlining plans to the u.k.'s lockdown he's also set to announce that incoming travelers must isolate for 2 weeks well for more on what's. thank you to come out of that speech let's speak to paul brennan who joins us now live from london called do we have a sense yes of what restrictions might be easing of paper actually supportive of this. will publicly mrs are telling everybody

to wait and to listen to what boris johnson has to say at 7 pm local time tonight although there have been briefings to various media sources and it seems that there's a raft of very very modest relaxations that are on the cards you mentioned a couple of them that one of them for example is the idea that perhaps people should not be restricted just one hour of exercise a day they could take more time outside exercising if they if they want to another thing that's been floated is the idea that there would be a coronavirus alert system set up under the auspices of a joint a new joint bio security center that would put a low earth level on a local and regional basis of between one and 5 helpfully color coded as well between green for one red for 5 so that you could see where hotspots of infection are set policy according to the need in that particular area the other thing though

that's while it's causing a lot of debate here is the expects practitioner that there will be a change to the message from the government for the past several weeks we've been under a message of stay ass home save lives protect the n.h.s. it seems that come 7 o'clock tonight the prime minister's new slogan it's essentially been tweeted about and publicised by ministers too so it's official now is going to stay alert and a lot of consternation about what exactly does that mean it's a lot more ambiguous a lot more open to interpretation and poll brand there for us live and thanks very much for. brazil's president is facing renewed criticism over his response to the pandemic now on the day that the number of deaths there past 10000 and i am also not was seen riding a jet ski on a lake in the capital brasilia his actions in defiance of advice on social distancing from his very own health ministry both sonora has dismissed growing

alarm over last america's worst outbreak as neurosis. one of the world's most respected medical channels has described as the biggest threat to his country but the president and his supporters are refusing to support stay at home measures saying the economy must come fast. reports. because brazil recorded more than 10900 deaths on saturday supporters of president of the center their game on the capital brasilia to defend their battered leader and amend their names down measures they rallied in front of the country's supreme court angry after it allowed an inquiry into the president for allegedly interfering in a police corruption case against. all this happening while a study by top brazilian universities says the country is still weeks away from reaching the peak of infections and predicting more than $60000.00 deaths by next

month the highest death toll anywhere besides the united states in escaping at the tauriel the british medical journal the lancet says ball so narrow who continues to dismiss the effects of the outbreak is the biggest threat to easing the crisis the governor of brazil's most populous states extended a lockdown in this region until the end of the month backpedaling on an earlier promise to start reopening the state on monday and implicitly attacking will soon. we're all going through the worst moments of this pain dimmick but it's not recognised not saying not understood by those who are blinded by hate or by personal ambition. medical officials in rio de janeiro in a lease for their major cities have warned that their hospital systems are on the verge of collapse among them and now it's in the heart of the amazon region where

500 more coffins arrived by boat to deal with the surge and deaths nobody knows exactly how many died to cope with 19 because of insufficient the late testing for instance the state of. the 2nd most populated state in brazil we have only 3000 cases but then we have almost 100000 suspected cases that have been tested so far so the numbers are clearly much worse than we know the government has absolutely no idea of the true extent of the problem and it's not. health minister himself has admitted to pursue its way through the spend money and all ready bleak situation the promises to become even harsher as the weeks go by at least in the. america's top infectious disease expert dr anthony found she is and self quarantine after coming into contact with someone here has. now found she is

a senior member of the white house response team and will now go into what's been described as modified after making the rest of contact but 2 other officials on that task force will go into isolation for a full. on the number of corona virus cases globally has now passed 4000000 with the u.s. accounting for around a 3rd of that and now former president barack obama has described donald trump's handling of the pandemic as an absolute chaotic a disaster obama made the remarks in a private conference call with former members of his administration he says trump's team appears to have a mind set of what's in it for me and to heck with everybody else the u.s. has reporters about 1300000 infections nearly 8000 deaths well president trunk continues to describe his administration's handling of the crisis as a success but as mike hanna reports the u.s. response is facing criticism for the lack of any pandemic response strategy in past

decades the u.s. was the global leader in pandemic response the bush administration largely set the world agenda in combating the h 5 n one or bird flu virus if we wait for a pandemic to appear he warned it will be too late to prepare. president obama demanded daily briefings from the pandemic response team then ordered troops into the field to fight the 2014 a bowl epidemic the 1st of a deployment of the military in a medical crisis and his stablished a pandemic response unit within the national security council called the global security team said it would allow for and all of government response in the event of an outbreak or if a foreign epidemic got to u.s. soil so that we would have coordination across homeland security our national security the military health and human services c.d.c.

and all the various state health agencies laurie garrett advised the pandemic response team in both the obama and bush administrations the pen demick flu plan of 2005 and you know look at the size of this thing this was the 1st serious attempt to come up with a pandemic plan to the united states a plan that the obama administration built on and presented to a new president in 2016 and they they handed it over together with a demonstration of what would an outbreak look like to try and bring the trump team up to speed but. almost immediately the trump team started cutting everything and so by the time you hit the f y 2018 budget. most of

this whole construct was gone i think the global response team was formally disbanded in sweeping budget cuts imposed by president trump which also a mess of lee reduced funding of the centers for disease control actions that in the face of 19 had global as well as national consequences the whole world is failing right now and. that the nature of the failure the scale of it may vary from one country to another but boy this is you know this is the the biggest set of mistakes made at a global scale since 1929 and may very well end up being far worse than that as a microbe seizes opportunity in the wreckage of the global health team that once set the standard in pandemic response the nations and cities of the world continue to

come to the devastating costs. washington. well now it's time for the weather and staying in north america jenny is going to tell us winter has returned it has with a vengeance as honest as imogen is and actually is going to stay around for a little while as well so let me explain and show you what exactly has been going on and will continue of course so if the region is talking about the northeast of the u.s. but also eastern areas of canada we've got this poll of all techs in place the vortex is always at that arch of the winds the polar area of low pressure and these winds are coming down from the north pole and so it is bitterly cold and look at this 1st of all into southern ontario and this really does look like when to low clouds the snow lying on the ground which is a very low indeed you come down into the northeast of the u.s. into vermont it looks a little bit pressure but even so look at this 23 centimeters of snow came down that was all on saturday and then he had down into upper new york state and you've got the gulf is out on the golf course in a very aptly named place called chilly but it is certainly going to stay chilly

over the next few days and that snow even came down as far as that new york into some full part the last time central park had snowed this in may was back in 1977 i was going to stay very cold we're going to see quite a bit of moisture is well working its way across the great lakes this will likely turn again to a mix of sleet and snow this shows you the cold air in place and actually getting colder still on monday this gives you an idea how cold 13 the best it will be in new york on tuesday since sort of temperatures into d.c. and as i say these temperatures and this cold air is likely to link and of stars you're probably until about the end of the coming week thanks very much jenny while still ahead on al-jazeera worrying signs concerning the coronavirus children are now being effect as with 3 dying your. dream home or only a dream why nigerians are finding it hard to buy a house and sport a strain is leading rugby league competition is hoping to grab

a global audience as teams prepare for a return. actually. you know certain isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise lead to looking at another side of the story not the market the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact look it's reality you have to reject the law exposing the optics triathlon if the rhetoric and but they cannot manipulate fire the listening post your insight guide to the media on al-jazeera. when these young street kids were filmed in brindisi little could they have imagined that 30 years later they'd be reunited on camera. an intimate portrayal spanning a life time probes the twists and turns of friendship survival and the quest for

meaning. in another life i witnessed documentary on al-jazeera. and again i'm. a reminder of our top stories this hour fighting is intensifying between libya's warring sides after forces loyal to walkway for have to attacks the capital's only functioning airport libya's u.n. recognized government has lost account for fence of. iraq's new prime minister has ordered the release of people who were detained in the country's protest movement

it comes as an anti-government demonstration in iraq's capital intensifies. and riot police in hong kong have broken up demonstrations launched there and several major shopping malls protests have resumed as coronavirus restrictions are eaves. well as we mentioned earlier in a few hours persons prime minister will unveil details about plans to ease the u.k.'s down and get people back to work but with changes on the how offices operate and the way that people commuters it won't be the same as before we've baccarat reports from london. they are. looking down starting with how we travel to work. before the pandemic $325000.00 passengers boarded london underground trains every 15 minutes if to meet a social distancing is applied only $50000.00 could board in that time one solution is to start a travel times putting an end to the idea of

a normal office hours you could infrastructure not. just optics. yes. act and actually having the guidance around this is really quite. cycling is enjoying or in a song is under lockdown companies are being advised to install bigger bike racks allowing commuters to avoid public transport and in the office itself workers are being told to sit either side by side or back to back desks sharing should be avoided and some firms are being advised to install plexiglas between workstations and discourage access to communal areas such as kitchens and when it comes to shared pens and staplers they're now off limits. understandably ages our precious 'd time many offices there is recycled moments such

a tree using also to get in and out. taps after out much i suspect coming through in my judgment it will still. meet. pharmacists in supermarkets already open with customers and shopkeepers separated by screens. when other retailers such as clothes shops reopen they're expected to introduce one way flow systems hundreds of construction sites have already opened with many companies setting their own rules and regulations the government is expected to reveal plans to help hotels receive guests again but for now bars and restaurants are expected to remain closed for many workers the advice remains unequivocal or those who can work from home should work from home when it comes to restoring the life we once

knew there appears to be no one size fits all solution needs barca al-jazeera london. now china has reported the 1st case of covenanting for more than a month in hand was a city where the virus was 1st detected back in december the national health commission says the new case was previously asked them to mastic the capital of a province was the fastest city in the wild to go into lockdown and so you've been returning to normal since restrictions were lifted last month. now the u.s. state of new york is investigating more than 70 cases of a possible corona virus relation syndrome that's affecting children symptoms and swollen blood vessels and heart problems 3 children now have died from that condition we were laboring under the impression that young people were not affected by covert 900 and that was actually good news right the bone the root populations

were older people people with cold morbidity but. the one of the few rays of good news was young people weren't affected we're not so sure that that is the fact anymore. toddler elementary school children are presenting symptoms similar to our saki disease or toxic shock like syndrome christensen has moved from new york. the governor said that these children did not go to the hospital presenting symptoms of coded 19 the symptoms that they showed when they visited their health care practitioners were fever and skin rashes and swollen glands in extreme cases what happens is. inflammation of the blood vessels and heart damage these are symptoms that are associated with cows saki disease as he said and toxic shock syndrome these are

really rare diseases so the fact that there's been 73 of them in new york state is considered very unusual and suspect and then when they went back and tested these children afterwards they found out that the majority of them had been exposed to the corona virus and had antibodies in their system so now they are looking at a possible link between the corona virus and these children and the outbreak of the phenomenon that they're suffering the centers for disease control has actually asked new york state now to develop a response criteria for this phenomenon basically what are the symptoms and how should it be treated there also partnering with other institutions here in new york to see if there's a possible genetic link between these cases that weakness perhaps triggered by the corona virus but really a lot of questions a lot of concern but no real answers right now certainly worrying situation for parents who thought that their kids at least were protected from from any serious

consequences with this virus well let's now speak to dr annie sparrow she's a critical care pediatrician at mount sinai hospital and she joins us now from geneva and dr spamming this is clearly a developing situation and until now there was some response in knowing that children were less likely to get very sick and now not any more so what do we know right now about just how dangerous this could be. well that's too low what we do know is that children who are affected by it could be 19 there are those who are quite critical parents so it would in a very very very small numbers if we presume for example in new york that with there being more than 300000 cases probably the same amount of giving kids but we haven't been testing done because they haven't been as we say quarter inside the building is now missing the 73 children so these are these are very worrying of course friends don't very small numbers so it doesn't mean that children are now

going to we're going to really all. of these cases in children keep believe it seems that what we are seeing is. a better mantle hymowitz out of this little surge city needs this segment of the station. and what it looks like is this presentation with very everybody with tommy paying particular and with fever which of course makes it had it even if it ends a manifestation of carbon so this is what i was doing was the learning about sins and then what we're seeing is that like how was that the disease. fix the lead basins in the hot and. these children need to be supported to get clear that iran is in and preferably in hiding or critical to hear. dr i say there have been other cases an affair u.s. states as well as something like 50 in europe in treating their case spain italy

and switzerland where you are how widespread could this be. well we think at this point that we had seen the last dance a month 6 weeks. came the same day of numbers across europe so tiny numbers but women when children are critically ill of course we know to. sorry i think this is also speaks the fact we don't know we're still being a hand in this disease right and when we don't know what they're to order a long term pattern of the clinical metaphysicians look like or dislike side that in children we're seeing this same characteristic of the virus it's highly defining characteristic it's information it's information the blood vessels are receiving this in children now and it inflames day presumably tommies which is what was in tom's no pain in diarrhea and vomiting but also the hot bed of steam and there was darkies which is another. rare at this point to accommodation and so we've seen many of the same to crossover symptoms so we think it is

a does that care is active this is a rare response to a common in fiction and it means that kids have much more common addicted than one think. given all of this doctor how could this or how should this potentially then change the government response to the pandemic and so many countries are now considering reopening schools for instance should this change things. that is a fairly i think it's some way it's reassuring in that the tiny number is so it helps us remember that most children are you know unscathed by this that is a good thing i think what we need to know now too is 1st of all if you had all the parents out there if he had a child who has a very important to me pain then let's all be aware that this is another man and it could be. let's also think now that we need to have this this collaborative effort all experts from all countries. that can help us understand disease because we get

we need to combine you know combine our tools combine our collective brains and all the experiences that we head over to there to figure out what's going on and how best to do it absent any doctor any spare or they're a critical care paid attrition at mount sinai hospital thank you for joining us on al-jazeera dr. well mexico's government says that it's at the peak of its pandemic and now has more than $33000.00 and factions but experts say the numbers could actually be much higher because of a lack of testing john home reports from new mexico says. the 2 weeks this mexican criminal room has been going day and night. workers told us that most of those here a covert victims. we are working to triple what we usually do we

just can't keep up before we committed to one and 3 body city now it's up to 15 or 20. the country's official coded death toll is it just over 3000 that's in a country of almost 130000000 people at the peak of its epidemic there are fears in reality it could be higher. of a criminal report there also at max capacity like this one in it's to palapa on the outskirts of mexico city that i have assisted enough imo sometimes our ovens are so saturated we have to cremate the following day we leave the bodies at the hospital because we have no room for them if given the list of the countries coronavirus saw sit in a prove that the real number of cases likely to be at least 8 times higher than the official figure. many other countries also admit that they take out but it could be bigger here because the testing rate is so low and that goes for faith 2 personas if i think we asians come articulating face 3 in

a serious condition which doesn't give us the chance to do the test it could be done after death at that rarely happens so we have people that die and have the scene at our in vegas there is such. but some local governments say that on top of those problems the death tolls they purported haven't been reflected in the federal count. when you see those they counted us as having 24 dead but we had 87 more than 3 times more than that as the leader there and you know up until last night we had 54 people who died of coal but 19 according to their medical certificates and in the daily roundups from the state and federal government they've only registered 60 in that. i mean while the fatalities continue at this local cemetery they told us they've been taken up to 4 times normal amount of bodies amid the worries for some of the transparency there is also cause for

optimism the capital's health system or those suffering from a lack of equipment and at times coordination is still more overwhelmed even though the government says that the epidemic in the country has reached its peak. the government's hoping that it can get through the peak period without a huge jump in the death toll whatever that really is john home and how does it or she might what can. strain is most populous states are set to ease restrictions reopening restaurants playgrounds and outdoor pools starting on friday rules on businesses and social gatherings will be relaxed in new south wales the decision follows a drop in the number of new infections and it's part of a plan to return any 1000000 people to walk by july. well lebanon is also slowly imagine from its down weeks of closures have cost further damage to an economy that was already in freefall after months of political and financial turmoil and as anaconda reports from beirut the hospitality sector is paying

a heavy price. lebanon is reopening after a 2 months lock down a major outbreak of the corona virus appears to have been averted but the pandemic devastated and already collapsing economy many businesses didn't survive the present being before some of our projects we had to take that i decisions if we need to go on we closed humber on may 1st it was my whole life maybe and for us we closed a wonderful place a wonderful projects that couldn't sustain financially at all anymore many restaurants will be reopening with the recent collapse of the local currency believe it's become more expensive to operate them but this sector was hit hard months before because of lebanon's worst financial crisis in decades nearly one outlets have closed since september. 150000 employees are employed in this sector. translates into 150000 families who live from the sector 25000 were

laid off between october and january we don't know the numbers now but i can tell you 120000 employees are sitting at home today. in another challenge restaurants that are back in business are obliged to operate a 30 percent capacity to protect against the coronavirus rising poverty and inflation also means fewer customers restaurant owners are asking for relief from taxes and loans to be reduced hotels are also asking for assistance but the state is close to bankruptcy the hospitality sector used to be a pillar of the economy contribution 10 percent of the g.d.p. it's also the biggest employer after the public sector. at least 800000 hotel employees have lost their jobs in recent months losses have been accumulating for years partly on being closed off due to the war in neighboring syria as well as political instability that has kept tourists away now the pandemic has brought the

sector to a halt. with closing simply because we lost the hope of. you know a better tomorrow. to continue. for 70 years the bristol hotel hosted international conferences and dignitaries never closing even during the 15 year civil war that ended in 1990 this landmark is now a symbol of what many describe as one of lebanon's darkest times. the route well malaysia has extended its restrictions by month schools places of worship and state borders were meant to open on tuesday but that's now been pushed back until the 9th of cheering the prime minister says the measures have been extended in part to stop the longer mount of travel that usually comes with the end of ramadan. ethiopia says it shot down a privately owned kenyan plane in somalia earlier this week in a statement to the african union it says its troops mistakenly believed the plane

was on a suicide mission and reacted to protect its camp and by delhi in the southwest 6 people were killed when the aircraft carrying medical supplies to somalia went down . top level sports fans to north america for the fastest time and many 2 months will be there with that story. as yugoslavia disintegrated war descended on its inhabitants. amidst the death and destruction one man created a peaceful microcosm for boys whose fathers faced each other in battle episode 3 of football rebels enters the world of footballing legend push each. who when from coaching boys football to teaching young men life frederick push each of the siege of sarajevo on al-jazeera. rewind continues to

care bring your people back to life i'm sorry with updates on the best of al-jazeera documentaries. i was told that and though like any other student rewind continues quick shake my neighborhood i was like screaming it is still closed we want to leave. would be to do something very big for the biggest. rewind on al-jazeera. the or earl or were all on. my jerry and hundreds of billions of dollars to bridges housing deficit that's the

finding of the wild bank only 25 percent of people there own their homes and many nigerians are now finding it harder to become homeowners as incomes for along with oil prices amid a dress reports from a bridge or. benjamin about a waited years for a mortgage loan to buy a house it be saving under a mandatory government mortgage scheme to help workers purchase low cost we with men to contribute which we started by a longer line stories keep in mind meeting from one end to the other 1000 no one qualcomm for in wonderfalls our contributor. there are millions of nigerians like him whose dream of owning a home like one of these is fading the delivery costs of a 2 bedroom flat in nigeria is quite. higher than if you because of and to buy them south africa even if you do not charge an

engineer. and interest rates. for buying a house. you cannot just make them a position of the cost the primary cost of the house. because of low returns and patronage of low income houses more and more investors are focusing on who else or which the rich and upper middle class is willing to spend more these $104.00 houses still under construction have already been boat even before they were completed. well what i do like his real estate company has sold more than 5000 homes in the past 10 years and that 1000 more on the way. he says the nigeria emerged from its worst recession 2 years ago the demand for premium housing has been on the rise the . not just so top quality premiums is highly needed we are paranoid and the integration of technology or division into

the real is that which is what is happening around the world so we don't want to be left behind so that's why i call groups see them but you need to be the 1st to bring get into nigeria needs 20000000 new homes to cater for families who need them the world bank estimates that will cost 4 $100000000000.00 u.s. dollars the investment potential of the sector are enormous but for now only a fraction of the amount required is being invested. in nigeria the power and control of the land is vested in government experts say unless land is affordable or nigerians will be condemned to living in slums or substandard hoops how many trees al-jazeera a job. well now it's time for sports and has far the sassier thank you so much after 2 months hiatus top level sport has returned to north america and ultimate fighting championship event has taken place in a fan free arena in jacksonville florida mixed martial arts leading competitions

justin gauging the score a surprise knock out with a tree over tony ferguson to win the interim lightweight title one of the 12 scheduled contests had to be cancelled after a fighter tested positive for corona virus on friday. i was so good. you know i truly just believed in my skills my coaches and man what a great time i just had was it's a great challenge and they are very happy right now you know i can't wait to go home see my family i know how much. happiness i just brought to so many people when they have to play john morgan was one of a select group of journalists allowed to attend the event in jacksonville he told us what it was like in the arena. the quality of the action was fantastic it was a fun fight card but i was even more than that you know was part of history you know and this was not to be for a lot of sports returned or in the middle of this pandemic just yet the whole experience around it was unique to say the least i mean all the steps that the

u.s.c. took to get there and then to watch everything unfold inside an empty arena it was pretty wild it was is definitely crazy it seems i've ever seen in my life social distancing was you know very strictly enforced throughout maps were worn by everybody inside the building other than the fighters and the referee and again there was no no live crowd present whatsoever so i mean that really just changed everything the fact that you didn't have those cheers you know made the fights feel different but at the fact that you could just hear every sound i mean the impact of the strikes you get you know you could hear the fighters talking to each other you can hear that the corners you can even hear the broadcast team units and the fighters were mentioning throughout the night that if you're with the broadcasters are saying and the analysis and they can actually hear it process it and you know use it it's feedback throughout the night and like in just being able to hear everything is in tbilisi did it made it it made it really really intense it was a unique atmosphere yes the president dana white told us afterwards that the trends from the paper a few bars was very very good and you know listen you know i don't think you want

to look at it just as a capitalistic endeavor but let's be honest they were the only life support they were the only thing that's happening and the people didn't you know looking for entertainment here you could tune in and get a night of fun and you could see that the outpouring of support on social media i think people were just happy to have a little bit of a sense of normalcy back in their lives even it was just for a few hours some n.b.a. teams have reopened their facilities but the real doesn't have confirmed crimes for its return just jets isolated training sessions have began there but there is no fixed date prefer to reinstate practice the league is discussing a variety of plans approving a one or 2 site base to stage all day. teams in the southern hemispheres top a rugby league competition are getting ready to play again as at our rallies aiming to restart on may the 28 cents wednesday teams have been organizing non-contact sessions the league is hoping to gain new viewers from around the world when games

do kick off we've been talking to australian sports writer scott bailing least i know experts who say this could be worth millions of community bills for the daemon as far as exposure goes in north america but the owner of always been very tame so i guess just some comment from some part of the influence it's all in you know millions of dollars and and it's actually hundreds of thousands or millions of wobble only game because obviously the game does stream there. it does go into a way that works and i would imagine there's every chance that more say they could look to the game up and writes the game up even if it's only for the ses and just to get some carbs all on it's a way we are saying say restrictions. need to destroy bit by bit and as the general public have these issues and with that if you always of the n.r.o. players are going to have much tought of restrictions on what they can do once and i think imposed on them by the owner also that's where it's going to become

a little bit tricky and fancy given that at some point someone is going to make a mistake he decides not to costly to the you know to the point where that someone sits on his days again. because that would have i would say measurable damage i'm the guy that was the guy just to run 2nd tier team demo dresden and put their entire squad into isolation after 2 players tested positive for corona virus the rest of the does league is still in training with games due to kick off again on saturday will be the 1st major european league to resume following the crown of either shut down. all team facilities every opened in spain for individual training sessions 5 named players in the top 2 divisions have tested positive for cope with 19 in the last week and they'll continue their training at home before being tested again. ok and that is all your support for the stand back to you far well that's it for me for this news hour but i'll be back and just

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libya's prime minister promises retaliation after forces loyal to world flee from have to attack tripoli is only functioning airport. hello again i'm a stars here today and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. trying to reignite hong kong's democracy battle amid the coronavirus rules protesters gather inside shopping sentance.