just. be the hero the world needs right or. the it. turkey threatens action against libyan warlords highly for have to are after his forces bomb and or 10 civilian areas in tripoli. i'm fully back to go you're watching al-jazeera life my global headquarters in doha also ahead an awful attacks on civilians with nowhere to go on a c. international accuses syria and russia of committing war crimes in rebel held areas and easing of restrictions but no end to the lockdown yet confusion over the u.k.

prime minister has grown a virus strategy. and protesters try to break night hong kong's democracy battle despite call the 1980 s. . thank you very much for joining as we begin in libya and the battle for tripoli turkey says attacks on the country's only functioning airport and diplomatic missions in which civilians have been killed amount to war crimes and it's warning it will take action against forces loyal to warlord honey for have tar turkey supports libya's u.n. recognized government in tripoli which has now launched a counter offensive following saturday's attack by have tossed forces planes where damage and fuel tanks set alight after forces also struck me a by residential areas killing at least 5 civilians there is mahmood up to one hide

is in tripoli with more on turkey's reaction to is now threatening that if half the forces attacks continue targeting get its interests in libya then have to the individuals or elements will be the legitimate target before turkey this comes. of thursday's attacks targeted the embassy and to reproduce a descent of and killed 3 people in the vicinity of the turkish embassy in the city center now turkey also reiterated that it has it has been supporting its friendly and brothers in in libya and that it will continue according to the statement it will continue supporting the government of national called because it is diligent mut the government that's representing libya and is

because amazed by the international community as you know rob that the turkish intervention with the government of national accord has changed the battle process on the ground dramatically it has shifted the balance of power in favor of the government of national court especially after turkish drones were introduced to the battles and have been targeting have that as forces locations in many areas. and libya has been engulfed by conflicts for almost a decade now there was a brief hope for a reprieve when the u.n. secretary general called for a global ceasefire in late march in order to tackle the coronavirus pandemic but far from a secession of our cities fighting has increased since then on there is a turkey and italy said the area around their embassies in tripoli was shelled and on saturday have task forces launch an attack on might see the airport a facility targeted so often it has been forced to close and founder and director

of the sadeq institute the 1st public policy think tank in libya he says the situation is most likely to escalate. the way the options are called banana around 2 weeks ago they said absence things to the coast or bank gaza as the the city were . really bought a stronghold is in eastern libya and i think it was a clear demonstration of intent that they perhaps intend to launch an offensive against how far is stronger competent is to libya and at that what with the case that would be a serious escalation and that would also be the 1st on the head of out there as such a poor last 6 years the 1st long he's been on the back foot and this is really a major major move and it is a major statement the part of turkey the question is what's going right in the last 4 years of what it was so it's going to have to spark a civil war and maybe 50000 people saying we have a process that will together all of the different factions and to be able to

negotiate a settlement between algeria and morocco it was cool to set up that we will it in political community was brokered by the u.n. and they produced a unity government the shipment was supposed to be the government that's in tripoli and we were told by the u.n. that song by the u.n. cheaper than we are and there's only one solution only one planet and it is the u.n. but got the best record the week later said it often thought to reject that and has continued his advances in various facets but it was eastern libya southern libya and then since last year since last april in tripoli. syria and its russian are being accused of carrying out unlawful attacks on opposition held areas in northwestern syria amnesty international's latest report says some of the ground and air offensives between december and march amount to war crimes missy's documented 18 attacks on medical facilities and schools in live northwestern hama and western aleppo and highlights witness testimonies of russian airstrikes in january that killed 11 civilians in residential buildings close to

a hospital national also accuses syrian government forces of breaking international law the following month when cluster bombs hit a school in the killing 6 people including children and nearly a 1000000 people were displaced displaced by the syrian russian offensive between december and march creating the worst humanitarian crisis since the war started well let's speak to rally around again who is senior crisis advisor international and co-author of the report she is via skype from denver raw irag thank you very much for being with us on al-jazeera your report describes the recent military offensive on rebel held areas and its impact on civilians as unprecedented even by the standards of syria's 9 year conflict tell us more for us about how what you found when looking into this latest escalation and how you were able to gather this information and attribute responsibility. thank you for having me when

we were looking at documenting the attacks we spoke to witnesses remotely we corroborated their testimonies using satellite imagery open source material such as photos and videos and then as well we obtained logs of observations by flight spotters on the ground who monitor the airspace over northwest syria in addition to that we also obtained recordings intercepted recordings of aircraft communication between pilots and their ground control discussing specific attacks based on all of based on this method we were able to document 18 attacks 13 of those were airstrikes in in attributing responsibility we maintain that 2 of these airstrikes were by syrian government forces 7 by russian government forces and floor by either syrian or government syrian or russian government forces because for example the spotters observed both russian and syrian aircraft loitering in the

airspace at the time of the attack right you mentioned intercepted recordings that you obtained what exactly could you hear in these recordings and what the pilot said to you overheard. we could hear in these recordings for example russian air force pilots discussing with their ground control specific air strikes and individual attacks we were able to hear is that pattern of code words that was 1st reported by the new york times repeated time and time again on several days over a long period of time discord words included things such as correction when a pilot locked a target on his screen so he seven's by the ground control when he was authorizing a specific attack and then for example the expression worked it when the pilot was confirming that he had carried out a specific strike we used those audio recordings or we matched at least one set of order recordings to one of the attacks we documented on 11 me on i'll share

hospital i come from bull and we attributed responsibility there to the russian air force and that attack of course had put that hospital out of commission so would you say the russians and the russian air force responsible for the mall's deaths mauls destruction in syrian rebel held areas during this latest offensive. now says that there do we maintain is that both syrian and russian government forces committed serious violations of international law that amount to were crimes and in addition to that this fits into the wider pattern committed by syrian government forces the widespread and systematic pattern of targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure in opposition held areas and therefore they also amount to crimes against humanity the attacks your report says have resulted in the displacement of close to 1000000 people what are some of the challenges that these

people are facing today these people have been displaced in the midst of a global pandemic nonetheless. indeed close to 1000000 people were forced to leave their homes between december and march 2020 and the joined an already exploding population of displaced people close to the border in turkey both in governorate and parts of aleppo governor these people are essentially trapped there's nowhere left for them to go they can't exactly cross into the border and claim asylum in turkey even after the cease fire many of them are afraid to go back to their home towns either because they have been taken by the government or are at risk of being retaken by the government and of course we and others have documented the pattern of syrian government forces of arbitrarily arresting people disappearing them and torturing them for any association with opposition held areas and there is

a huge pressure of course on the humanitarian response that has been only that has only gotten worse ju of course to concerns about covert 1000 and at a time like that timely and sustained aid is absolutely needed right where grayling on the u.n. security council i was going to ask you just that in fact you know this is not the 1st report that amnesty has issued highlighting violations and war crimes in syria and yet the international community the u.n. security council in particular remains largely paralyzed so we know what's your message and what can and should be done to ensure that international humanitarian law is up elde and that humanitarian assistance is provided to the civilians who desperately need. one of our immediate concerns of course is the exploding humanitarian crisis at the moment in northwest syria and that's why we are calling on the u.n. security council to ensure that come july when a crucial u.n. cross border aid mechanism is up for a vote that they ensure that this mechanism is renewed now is not the time for

any interruption in timely and sustained aid this aid mechanism has been repeatedly politicized over the past few years and the syrian government and its allies in the security council have been trying to put an end to that mechanism and we are calling on the security council to ensure that it remains intact in addition of course we have called repeatedly on the security council to ensure that there is a semblance of. any mechanism that ensures accountability for these attacks in northwest syria from amnesty international thank you very much for talking to us on al-jazeera. now on to the coronavirus crisis in the u.k. prime minister has laid out the 1st steps to easing measures or is johnson announce a new virus alert system and says people will be allowed to spend more time outdoors and go for drives with members of their household help some schools can

restart at the beginning of june 32000 people have died in the u.k. from coffee 1000 albright and reports. from the sites of people basking in sunny parks and strolling along the river thames this weekend offered just a snapshot of the wider reality that 7 weeks after they were introduced the u.k. stay at home restrictions have stopped being strictly observed or strictly enforced now there is a new public health slogan stay at home ditched in favor of the new mantra stay alert there's also a 5 level alert system that will govern how quickly the lock down can be eased the prime minister's priority is to find ways of getting people back to work the 1st step is a change of emphasis that we hope that people will act on this week we said that you should work from home if you can only go to work if you must we

now need to stress that anyone who can't work from home for instance those in construction or manufacturing should be actively encouraged to go to work many elements of the prime minister's national address had been widely previewed in recent days for example from weapons day the idea that people will be no longer restricted to just one hour of outdoor exercise per day and in fact people will be allowed to lounge in parks if they want to so long as they observe social distancing but only further freedoms will depend highly on the critical our number keeping the rate of infection below one throughout this period of the next 2 months we will be driven not by mere hope economic necessity. will be driven by the science the data and public health the stay alert message has attracted criticism for being too ambiguous and open to interpretation but the police will find it unenforceable and the public might find it confusing it doesn't really mean

anything there's no instruction in the same way as the last message. and i think you saw in the prime minister's speech just now how the government has had to come back from some of the things they were thinking of doing earlier in the week because they're just i'm sure about how to get this right and i've already seen today in united kingdom there is going to be a lot of uncertainty and there's a lack of clarity about what you tease the government what people to do they should really have just found different wording to try to navigate these next 2 or 3 weeks to make things even more confusing since coronavirus restrictions are id volved matter with scotland wales and northern ireland setting their own policies those 3 nations are firmly rejected the prime minister's new slogan clarity of message is paramount if we expect all of you to know exactly what it is we are asking of you and as leaders we have a duty to deliver that clarity to those we had accountable to not to confuse it to

that end i have asked the u.k. government not to deploy the state a layer at advertising campaign in scotland because the message in scotland at this stage is nort stay at home if you can the message is except for the essential reasons you know a boat stay at home through store from the outset it was realised that lifting the lockdown was always going to be far more difficult than imposing it in the 1st place the prime minister's heavily conditional sketch of a road map makes it abundantly clear just how complex it's going to be paul brennan al jazeera westminster. still ahead on al-jazeera the trump administration faces increasing criticism for its current of eyes response as a number dead in the glass reaches 80000 last fall to mama a new movement that's trying to help mothers make their mark on u.s. politics.

we got some quotes weather now pushing across northern parts of china when temperatures will respond quite nicely with the may sunshine coming through still a fair bit of wet weather there into japan of the moment with this weather system this cold front slowly making its way out into the open waters brighter skies gradually edging back in as we go through monday some want them play here see temperatures in tokyo at around 29 celsius we're getting up to similar value there embarrassing follow that line of cloud and rain all the way down through taiwan into the southeast of china some heavy burst of rain on the cards here over the next day or 2 and it will push through hong kong breaking the sultry conditions that we have seen a recently watch the skies eventually to push back a bit some heavy rain certainly on the cards for

a time looking at some very heavy rain pushing towards the philippines over the next day or so this little cloud just storms him a well developed into a tropical system and that will bring some very wet weather towards that eastern side of the philippines as we go through the next couple of days so that's monday's picture you push on into tuesday it's moving a little further northwards and westwards little part of the week sunday something to watch out for rash of showers as per usual across a good part of southeast asia we have seen recent flooding into indonesia hope a little drier over the next day altie. celebration tradition. al-jazeera. insights into the diverse culture sometimes. different couples. together. the wedding some money.

announces the. the warm. welcome back a recap of our top stories on al-jazeera turkey says attacks on libya's only functioning airport and get the magic missions which of kill civilians amount to war crimes and it's warning it won't take action against forces story up toward 5 talks if the attacks continue amnesty international status report accuses syria and its russian ally of carrying out what it calls unlawful attacks on opposition held areas in the north west of syria it says some of the ground in air offensives

between december and march amount to war crimes and the u.k. prime minister has laid out the 1st steps easing coronavirus knocked on measures boris johnson announced a new virus alert system and says people will be allowed to spend more time outdoors but critics have accused johnson of sending out mixed messages. now the to the us where nearly 80000 people have died from a covert 19 president donald trump continuous ascribe is administration's handling of the crisis as a success but as mike hanna reports the u.s. government is facing criticism for the lack of a response strategy in past decades the us was the global leader in pandemic response the bush administration largely said the world agenda in combating the h 5 n one flu virus if we wait for a pandemic to appear he warned it will be too late to put. 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 here's 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 us 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. 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 ness of the 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 out 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 one set the standard in pandemic response the nations and cities of the world continue to come to the devastating costs by kind of al-jazeera washington. other world news 9 police in hong kong have broken up protests in several major shopping centers saying a revival of anti-government demonstrations despite social distancing controls to get the pollen reports. it's the 1st weekend since hong kong strict social distancing rules were eased many shops and restaurants opened expecting

celebrations for mother's day instead there were scenes like this in several shopping malls across the city before there was protesters would appear in different parts of the mall than disperse a soon as there was word that police were on their way to visit some of them but this day is a tradition in the name so i find it really annoying ana and i have no idea why the police are so i guess the. protesters gathered spontaneously to chant slogans and sing and in line with the day's theme calling for independence for hong kong the chance for independence are likely to provoke beijing and the hong kong government and the protesters say had taken advantage of the corona virus outbreak to crack down on the city's democracy movement in the future in the midst of the coronavirus the government has imposed restrictions on gathering and turn it into a crackdown on freedom of assembly not only for the human rights of citizens but

also for religious activities i think this is a gross violation of human rights. hong kong has not had any new local infection of covert 19 for nearly 3 weeks on friday its government eased social distancing restrictions increasing the number of people allowed to gather from 4 to 8. months we have to spread in groups and flow as it moves the police go broke as we can only go guerrilla star anyone flouting the rules could be immediately find $250.00 a large sum for many of the young protesters this is one of hong kong's main tourist . and commercial areas it's hard to tell who is a protester or rather they are simply here to shop the boss police could identify protesters because they wore mosques to remain anonymous but now almost everyone in the city is wearing a face covering as advised by the government to help stop the spread of coronavirus . most of the crowds on sunday were part off or supported the

pro-democracy protests last year which would often lead to violent confrontations between police and demonstrators the crew navarro's pandemic has subdued many activities including the anti-government protests but it seems to have done little to diminish the anger of the protesters who see the government taking advantage of the situation to further erode hong kong's freedoms and many here are calling this the start of protest season if you go paul and hong kong hundreds of indian nationals have returned home after the pandemic left them stranded abroad a navy ship returned this school from the mall days a spot on mastery factory ation effort by the government india closed its borders to international flights in march leaving hundreds of thousands of its citizens stranded in other countries they are currently around 60000 cases of 1000 in india and more than 2000 deaths and passenger trains in india will start running again

from tuesday but with the limited capacity trains were halted 6 weeks ago as part of the effort to contain the virus just 15 trains will depart from new delhi for return journeys to major cities on the 1st day of the service passengers will be screened before boarding and will have to wear face masks. to the u.s. now and george's attorney general is calling for a federal investigation into the handling of the killing of an old aubrey footage showing him being chased and shot down by 2 white men surface last week's walking outrage across the united states 2 suspects were arrested 2 months after the fatal shooting and saying in the u.s. a new group is working to put more mothers into american politics by removing some of the hurdles it's called vote mamma and it's making a concerted effort to increase the number of women on election ballots it comes with fewer than 6 months before the house and senate elections in november seats in

the house of representatives and senate are decided alan fischer reports from austin texas. before the world changed this was political campaigning in america. neighborhoods knocking on doors canvassing for votes now most of the work is being done on the floor and it's another obstacle to overcome if you're running for office particularly if you're a woman and a mother the reality is people look at you differently they're like i can't tell you how times i've been asked where your kids are evil is running for the u.s. congress in texas one of the growing number of mothers who want to change the face of u.s. politics i think moms are the ones who have really delivered powerful movements in our country and whether it's black lives matter moms demand demand action for gun safety legislation or mad you know mothers against drunk driving it's always been moms who've been pushing this rupert's to save people truly like save people's lives from gun violence police violence from truck drivers and so i think we would

have a completely different set of priorities for have a whole lot more months in congress and the senate and the presidency the texas democrat is being backed by a group called vote mama it's a political action committee for support and mentorship to democrats up and down the ballot it was set up by a mother who run for a congressional seat in new york she was the 1st to when federal election commission approval for campaign funds to be used to pay for child care it was game changing we have actually seen 38 federal candidates take advantage of the ruling since my 2010 ruling including that it's been men it's been women it's been republicans it's been democrats we've seen over 60 state candidates now use this it breaks down a major financial obstacle at a time when more working parents are thinking of running for office and it starts to normalize what it looks like to run as a mom with small children most states are considering changing their laws to bring them into line with the federal ruling country less than 5 percent of congress are

working mothers not even close to his liking america is a whole because i know the sacrifices it takes to. work and raise a family good mother wants to give more women in politics of voice we will not be pushed to the side but 1st it wants to give them a chance alan fischer al-jazeera austin texas. well again i'm fully back to go with the headlines on al-jazeera turkey says attacks on libya's only functioning airport and different magic missions which have killed civilians and mount a walk crimes and it's warning it will take action against forces loyal to warlord highly for have time if the attacks continue amnesty international's latest report accuses syria and its russian ally of carrying out what it calls unlawful attacks on opposition held areas in northwestern syria it says some of the ground then air offenses between december and march amount to war crimes. the u.k.

prime minister has laid out the 1st steps to easing coronavirus lockdown measures boris johnson an ounce and new virus alert system and says people will be allowed to spend more time outdoors but critics have accused johnson of sending out mixed messages every day we are increasing data we will be monitoring b. of a number of new infections and the progress we're making and if we as a nation begin to fulfill the conditions i listed out the limits few weeks and months we may be able to go further we've been through the initial peak but it's coming down the mountain that is often more dangerous we have a route and we have a plan and everyone in government has the all consuming pressure challenge to save lives restore livelihoods and gradually restore the freedoms that we need. the u.s.

government is facing growing criticism for the lack of a coronavirus pandemic response strategy a president continues to describe his administration's handling of the crisis as a success as death toll in the united states reaches 80000. now the news police in hong kong have broken up protests in several major shopping centers all gone missing a revival of anti-government demonstrations despite social distancing controls and the attorney general of the u.s. state of georgia is calling for a federal investigation into the handling of the killing of a model aubrey photos showing him being chased and shot down by 2 white men surfaced last week sparking outrage across the u.s. 2 suspects were arrested 2 months after the fatal shooting those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year it's inside story to stay with us.

stranded with no income no work upon them it pushes millions of migrant workers out of a job day and that families back home go hungry so who should look after the i will the crisis change the way wealthy countries use foreign labor this is inside story . hello welcome to the program on burnitz farm workers are often the backbone.