libya's prime minister promises retaliation to forces loyal to world plea for have to attack tripoli is only functioning airport. hello again i'm a stasi a tailor and this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. trying to rig night hong kong's democracy battle amid the coronavirus rules of protesters gathered inside shop incentives. warnings of

a 2nd wave of the corona virus in south korea but the president says he wants the country to be the undisputed number one in the global fight. $10000.00 dead and national mourning in brazil but the president goes jet skiing. now fighting is intensifying between libya's warring sides the forces loyal to world gleeful have to attach the capital's only functioning air force libya's u.n. recognized government endorsed a counterattack offensive saturday's attack damaged planes and set fuel tanks allies 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 well our correspondent without the white head joins us now live from tripoli michael we are now seeing this promised retaliation from the government what is their strategy here.

will this strategy for the government is to leave. a little more military camp neighborhood in southern tripoli. as you know salon had been has turned into a battlefield and many civilians fled their homes because of the fighting. military camp under have those forces control now is now a battlefield and the government forces in the vicinity of the camp they are shilling for those forces with heavy weapons and they are also the are receiving heavy weapons heavy artillery from have forces in the detail now military camp is very strategic because it is very well equipped and it has concrete buildings and above inside have those forces are taken shelter in very strong concrete buildings inside the also have advanced weapons from russia and the

camp is iran according to the government is run by russian military experts from the wagner's group the camp is also very important and very significant for half the forces 1st of all they have been sending get rockets from that camp to the capital tripoli as you know that yesterday 4 civilians were killed by rockets launched and we have the forces from that military camp also from that military camp have the forces have been made to get airport dozens of times over the past months it is also the closest for house those forces to move towards the city center to it as the state facilities in the city centers so it's very strategic and very important for have those forces but yet to the government forces are now exchanging heavy fire with have sort of forces in and around the military camp and it's no small wonder as we've been saying have turns latest attacks these ones

out there they hit residential neighborhoods how are civilians there coping especially as the fighting now seems to be escalating. well the situation of the civilians. is so vulnerable as you know that many residents here are helpless they can they can just they can just. when we speak to is dense here they say that the helpless the only rely on the government's health care system and calling on the international community to put pressure on have to his forces to free him from targeting. areas and as you know that 34 civilians including women and children have been killed by have to. have the house to the forces indiscriminate shelling since the beginning of ramadan that means only during the past 2 weeks but what have those forces continuing.

with have what have those forces. stopping get shelling of those initial areas it seems that the situation of civilians will remain so vulnerable. there on the ground for us in tripoli thank you very much mark. well as an anti-government demonstration in iraq's capital intensifies the country's new prime minister has made good on his decision to free people who were detained during the previous protests it's one of the stuff that is 1st decisions following his inauguration last week the judiciary has ordered the courts to release the demonstrators are getting these predecessor 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 on a fault in is in baghdad so mona this prisoner releases

a concession essentially to these protesters how have they been reacting. well the protesters were back out in force today and there were about hundreds i would say in the low hundreds that were present in tahrir square demonstrating despite this government only being 3 days old and despite the me having made these major concessions in his speech last night the major one of them perhaps being as you mentioned the release of people who have been arrested since the beginning of protests in october we understand from the lawyers union which has been active in representing some of these protesters that the courts have indeed issued orders to release some of them and the releases have begun that currently around $98.00 there must traitors are officially reported as being in the tension in government facilities but what is important to mention is that there are many people who are. not accounted for who are categorized as being missing who are believed to being

held in unofficial prisons or by various armed groups so while the human rights commission has praised. me steps they also called on the government to make sure that those who are missing are as well released and in fact we just spoke to the family of one of these people who remain missing and unaccounted for his name is ali just said he is a lawyer who was defending protestors went missing in october and his family confirmed to us just an hour ago that they still don't have any news about his whereabouts while these steps are generally positively regarded there is still a lot of other certainty about what will happen to those people who are missing but also protesters in tahrir square say that it's equally important that security forces don't use excessive force as they have been doing until now we're just down there in tahrir square today and we heard the use of stun grenades the use of water cannons but we also heard reports from protesters that injuries are still being

incurred due to the use of birdshot these small kinds of bullets that i've been deployed against demonstrators so there has not been a big shift in terms of how security forces appear to be responding to these demonstrators so manifold there for us in the iraqi capital baghdad thank you very much sooner. all right police in hong kong have broken up renewed protests there against the influence of mainland china. without syud rallies canceled protesters ended up gathering in several major shopping malls similar protests have been taking place for more than a year but they were put on hold during the chrono virus outbreak some protesters are accusing authorities of abusing the measures to restrict their freedoms. in the midst of the coronavirus the government has imposed restrictions on gathering and tuned in to 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 our correspondent david pollan was that and has more on whether there is protest as net social distancing guidelines. 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 against 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's just a regular shopper this is one of the main shopping malls in the city 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 where 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 same 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 but they're somehow trying to get around the so this is hong kong trying to start its protest movement in the era of social distancing now south korea's president says there's no reason to panic after a new coronavirus outbreak and so linked to nightclubs and praised his country's efforts to contain the pandemic but he also warned of a 2nd wave as infections later this year from the bride reports from the capital. 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 views 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 so as an export driven economy south korea faces tough times a global recession means people will be buying less of what the country mags 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 happen less human to human contact our economic structure has to be digitalized and we will be focusing on ways to accelerate that . described this national drive as a career a 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 changing national infrastructure will be combined with artificial intelligence and digit. technology to make them smart. how south korea performs could have wider implications just as much of the world has

been watching how we've handled the pandemic so we be studying how it now recovers from it mcbride al-jazeera so. china has reported the fast case of covert 1000 for more than a month and that's a city where the virus was 1st detected back in december a national health commission says the new case was previously asymptomatic the capital of a province was the 1st city in the wild to go into lockdown and it's been slowly returning to normal since restrictions were lifted last month on the other hand malaysia has extended restrictions aimed at reducing the spread of the virus by a month schools places of worship and state borders were meant to open on tuesday but it's now been pushed back until the 9th of june the prime minister says the measures have been extended in ponte to stop the launch amount of travel that usually comes with the end of ramadan now further south in singapore has put a robot dog on patrol in a park as part of efforts to encourage social distancing or you see and for those

to ground instead to. thank you. this is spot who broadcasts a recording of lock down rules as it walks at 3 kilometer stretch of pocket and throughout her to a trial period its built in cameras will calculate how many people are in the park and cable authorities informed if there's a risk of overcrowding officials say the robot will not collect the personal days of the people that interacts with. still ahead on al-jazeera worrying science consigning the coronavirus children being affected with 3 dying in new york. fell to maximum capacity crematorium officials in mexico overwhelmed by the surge of crown of fire stands.

some nice warm sunshine eventually across areas of japan the system that brought the recent rain is continuing to clear away to the northeast maybe a few washouts into guide on monday but at these temperatures that will see 29 possibly in tokyo about $28.00 in a saka kiss guys across the korean peninsula and also into northern china so $28.00 in beijing but all the while the rain will still linger into southern areas of china pushing across into northern vietnam course it will be cold before the really quite so humid oversea with that raining cat around the twenty's in hanoi and hong kong on to say with some rain and of course and thunderstorms and the funnel solmes becoming quite heavy later in the day on monday across central and southern areas of borneo still in the fall call stream much of sumatra the mill a peninsula as well and we watching this all the while possible development here from the system but sitting in the east the philippines but continuing to produce some heavy downpours at times particularly through central and southern areas and by chief say about system impacting southern china and also spread rain across into

laos and fady widespread across areas of a thailand and then a to india to the south particularly sri lanka more rain in the forecast here on monday again it will work its way along these coastal areas of carola and late in the day very widespread into west buying gold on into addition all the while it is host 38 in new delhi. isolating time. the listening post cuts through the noise lead to looking at another side of the story not the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact it's reality because. exposing the. unifil is the rhetoric and blame but they cannot manipulate the fires listening post your recent going to the media which is the era.

of the. the a. how again on the. top stories this hour fighting is intensifying between libya's warring sides after forces loyal to world khalifa haftar at the top to the capitals only functioning at libya's un recognized government has launched an accountant offensive. 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 the capital intensifies. and riot police and hong kong have broken up demonstrations that launched in several major shopping protests against the influence of mainland china have resumed coronavirus restrictions on its to. fall

in just a few hours british prime minister barak johnson is due to give a briefing outlining plans to ease the u.k.'s own he's also set to announce that incoming travelers must isolate for 2 weeks our correspondent paul brennan has more on those measures that are likely to come out about speech. 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 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 lower 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 particular area the other thing though that

while it's causing a lot of debate here is the expects protection 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 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 publicized by ministers to say it's official now is going to stay alert and lot of consternation about what exactly does that mean it's a lot more ambiguous a lot more open to interpretation. america's top infectious diseases expert dr anthony found she is in self quarantine after coming into contact with someone who has. found she's a senior member of the white house response team and will go into what's been described as not a fire quarantine after making the low risk contact the 2 other officials on that task force will go into isolation for a full 2 weeks now the u.s.

state of new york is investigating more than 70 cases of a possible corona virus related syndrome that's affecting children symptoms include swollen blood vessels and heart problems 3 children have already died from the condition. we were laboring under the impression that young people were not affected by covert 90 and that was actually good news right the vulnerable populations were older people people with co-morbidities but. the one of the few rays of good news was young people were unaffected we're not so sure that that is the fact anymore. toddler elementary school children are presenting symptoms similar to callous saki disease or toxic shock like syndrome while christensen email has more 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 when i spoke to talk to any sparrow she's in critical care pediatrician at mount sinai hospital and she says while similar cases have been reported out science in the united states doesn't mean there will be a rapid rise. we had seen him as just a month 6 weeks. the same said numbers across europe so tiny numbers but when children are critically ill or cause we know it it's sorry i think this is also speaks the fact we don't know was there been

a hand in this disease right and when we don't know what the to dick do you or the long term pattern of the clinical metaphysicians look like what this looks like at children we see in this same characteristic of the virus it's time we defining characteristic is information information the blood vessels that was seen this children know and it inflames their. tummies which is what was in tom's pain in diarrhea and vomiting but also their hearts that is similar there was darkens which is another rare response to a comment in fiction and so we've seen many of the same to kosova symptoms or if it is a dislike or was active this is a rare response to a common in fiction and it means that kids have much more common addicted than we think straightly is most populous state ascetic is restrictions regarding 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 that's also part of a plan to return any 1000000 people to work by july. we continue to take a cautious approach in new south wales but also one which has a focus on jobs in the economy because we can't continue to live like this for the next year or until there's a vaccine. well brazil's president is facing lynyrd criticism over his response to the pandemic on the day of the number of deaths past 10000 they also are overseen 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 paulson are or has dismissed a growing along a latin america's worst outbreak as neurosis one of the world's most respected medical journals has described paul sonora as the biggest threat to his country that the president and his supporters are continuing to refuse to support stay at

home measures saying the economy must come fast allison reports. because brazil recorded more than 10000 copies in 1000 deaths on saturday supporters of president of the center their game on the capital brasilia to defend their battered leader and demand an end to all lockdown 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

example 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 heights 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. since the 2nd most populated state in brazil we have only

3000 cases but then we have almost 100000 suspected cases that have gone 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 in. the health minister himself has admitted to lying through this. and already bleak situation the promises to become even harsher as the weeks go by. all mexico's government says it's at the peak of its pandemic as has more than 33000 infections but experts say the numbers could actually be much higher because of the lack of testing john holdren reports from mexico city. for 2 weeks this mexican criminal room has been going day in the 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. the city now it's up to 15 or 20. the country's official covered there is it just over $3000.00 that's in a country of almost $130000000.00 people at the peak of its epidemic there are fears in reality it could be higher. of a criminal for him to 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 the data gap but it could be bigger here because the testing rate is so low and that goes from faith to its own

us by this inquiry ations calm 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 seen terms of co bit at hour 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. and what you see was they counted us as having 24 dead but we had 87 more than 3 times more than that as the mere giving up until last night we had 54 people who died of coal between team 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 the normal amount of bodies and with 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. pull out and this is al jazeera and these are the headlines fighting is intensifying between libya's warring sides after forces noel's awad cliff i have to attack the capitals on a functioning airport libya's u.n. recognized government then launched a counter offensive after saturday's attack damaged planes and set field tanks alight 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. iraq's prime minister has ordered the release of people detained in the country's protest movement it's one of these fast decisions following his inauguration last week it comes as an anti-government demonstration in the capital intensifies. all right police in hong kong have broken up demonstrations launched there in several major shopping malls protests against the influence of mainland china have resumed as coronavirus restrictions have been eased devika pollen has more on whether there is protest as attempted to meet social distancing guidelines 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 falun gong governments and for more democracy and

universal suffrage but as soon as right police come they're all dispersed very quickly what's making it very difficult for police to discern who is a protester and who's just a regular shopper this is one of the main shopping malls in the city the fact that everyone in hong kong is wearing a face mask due to the government advice to help fight the corona virus outbreak while the number of coronavirus cases globally has now passed 4000000 cause a concern for many governments south korea's president says there's no reason to panic to a new outbreak in seoul links to nightclubs in praised his country's efforts to contain the pandemic but he also warned of a 2nd wave of infections later this year. well those are the headlines but rob matheson will have more news for you after the listening post stay with us. on country because the world's poorest nations get a debt repayment holiday to fight the coronavirus pandemic but not for private

investors asia's going to do the street sheds jobs and the sharia compliant fed tech scrapping for a share of indonesia's pranking. counting the cost on al-jazeera. to. lower much of just britain you're watching the listening post working from home this week we're breaking from our usual format for months now we've been doing nonstop coverage of the media side of the coronavirus pandemic from the misinformation being spread by government citizens and journalists alike to the war of narratives being waged by great powers but covert 19 has also brought out some of the best in the 4th estate people who are producing vita.