p.l.o. find strength and support from their only lifeline oppressed palestinians living in the occupied territories chronicling the turbulent story of the struggle for a palestinian homeland p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. on the move again france and spain start lifting some of the toughest coronavirus restrictions in europe. i wrote about this and this is all to see a live from doha also coming up a missile mistake by iran's navy in 1000 sailors are killed as a warship it's a vessel from its own fleet. accused of a role in his wife's murder and the soto's prime minister is about to face her united move to throw him out of power. in saudi arabia slashes budgets and

increases taxes as it deals with the record low all prices and the coronavirus pandemic. some of the countries in europe was hardest hit by the coronavirus are opening up allowing millions to step out for work family visits and shopping trips france has been locked down for 8 weeks but people can now return to shops and hairdressers and take public transport after its lowest number of deaths in 7 weeks much of spain is opening outdoor cafes churches and mosques turkey is opening its shopping centers and schools are going to restart in the netherlands and russia russian president said vitamin e of protein has announced that economic restrictions are being east from tuesday even as another surge makes it the country with the 4th largest. of cases india is

restarting part of its train system despite a jump in infections the rail network has relied on by tens of millions of people every day it's been shut down since late march and in china shanghai is disneyland has reopened cinemas museums and other recreational venues or follow over the next few weeks natasha butler not has the latest developments in france and she says people are slowly returning to the streets there also any people out and about they are now allowed to leave their home without a permit and you can see that people are certainly enjoying a little bit of free to many of the shops are open although a good percentage of them as well now the french government has decided to live some of its knock down restrictions because it says that the number of corona virus cases and infections has dropped significantly over the past few weeks and that is allowing france to perhaps try and open up and what the government wants to do of

course is get people back to work is get the economy going again and try and instill some sort of normality so we have shops opening some businesses being allowed to resume public transport services are also being increased we spoke to people who are taking the metro this morning here in paris everyone now has to wear a mask if they're on public transport and most people said that they thought that was of course a great idea but they did say it was incredibly difficult to socially distance from other commuters because of course in these times they're also just so many people taking public transport but the governor has said that people should remain vigilant they should try only to take transport if really needed for work but they should try to stay at home try to keep working from home if it's all possible because of course the current virus crisis continues it is not over matter how bad it was in madrid heard after nearly 2 months of a lockdown spaniards can meet their families and friends. we are at

a men's clothing shop in the middle of madrid one of the busiest areas commercial areas that is just getting ready to reopen to the public next week so we've got everything ready we've got the honey ties or we have the gloves we have them last year that the owner does this infecting all the garments in order to reopen to the costumers today in spain over 50 percent of the regions have moved on to phase $21.00 is a part of the deescalation plan of using these lockdown measures after $57.00 days of a strict low down so people will be able to go to terraces and at a capacity of 50 percent will be able to go to hotels still to a 50 percent of the capacity mosques and churches and will also be able to meet their friends and families as one of the most important things of biggest singing measures the world health organization says lockdowns have been successful in slowing the virus but have had

a detrimental effect on many people's lives it's cautioned that as countries restart their economies they must be prepared to reintroduce restrictions of necessary to protect lives and livelihoods and a slow steady lifting of lockdowns is key to board stimulating economies while also keeping a vigilant eye on the virus so that control measures can be quickly implemented if an upswing in cases is identified the u.k. government has released a report detailing how it plans to lead the country out of the pandemic changes this week include removing limits on outdoor exercise and encouraging certain sectors to go back to work prime minister boris johnson says the recovery will be long and it's too early for drastic changes. step one in moving towards a coded alert level 38 shift in emphasis that we can begin this

week. anyone who cannot work from home should be actively encouraged to go to work in sectors that are allowed to be open should indeed be open but subject subject to social distancing these include food production construction manufacturing the just 6 distribution scientific research and to support this and to explain this again we're publishing guidance for businesses on how to make these workplaces safe coded secure scotland's 1st minister nicola sturgeon as warning that things will have to move at a different pace there. if we take if it off the brake too soon the real danger is that we will end up in this lockdown for longer and worst of all we will lose many more people along the way none of his want that so please be patient and please try not to get distracted by messages from other parts of the u.k. all governments across the u.k.

are trying to do the right thing and all of us have a responsibility to take the steps we think or rate the rate so please if you live in scotland abate by the law that applies here and full scottish government guidelines ok let's get more on this from paul brennan who's joining us live from london boris johnson's been talking to politicians in westminster just behind her you are there paul. was he any clearer about what this plan was given the fact that on sunday when you and i were talking about this there was at the time a certain amount of confusion about what the intention was. i mean there are still some areas of vagueness but the document that was published by the government this afternoon monday afternoon has helped to flesh out the government's strategy it's 50 pages long and covers a wide range of areas there's some sweeteners there there's 'd a lifting of the restriction on how far you can drive for example the government say you can drive as far as you like to go and get some exercise and you don't have

to only exercise for one hour a day anymore you can exercise you know for the whole day if you wish but that said we had the clips from boris johnson and from nicholas sturgeon the scottish 1st minister there are still differences of political opinion and scientific opinion as far as the strategy in england goes and that's what boris johnson was concentrating on this document does lay out some really interesting things 1st of all the public members of the public are to be encouraged to wear face coverings when they go on public transport if they have to when they're in enclosed public spaces where social distancing can't be maintained he also spoke in the news clip that we just played about. level 3 and that refers to a new body joint bio security center which is being set up soon look at the evidence look at the data and establish where the infection is and what stage the infection is how virulent the infection is on a regional even local basis and if they see local spikes of infectiousness they

will take local action in order to combat it but there are questions for example about how soon people can return to work it's not just employees who want to can just turn up it needs employer does to actually open up their workplaces again and a lot of that depends on guidelines which won't be published until later this week at the earliest bowl of course this is all happening while the figures in the u.k. are still high and the government has still been facing criticism for its initial reaction to the spread of the virus on the supply of personal protection equipment and so on so the plan that has been unveiled doesn't really address many of those concerns if i'm right. in many ways the government has put its hands up to what it doesn't know i mean one of the sentences that jumped out at me from the for the report was we cannot predict with absolute certainty what the impact of lifting these restrictions will be so it's not just a step change in relation to actually laying out a strategy moving forward it's also an acceptance that this virus in many ways is

a new challenge that we haven't seen before and the responses to it are going to have to be flexible and not necessarily set in stone so i think there was a there was a step change that the leader of the opposition new labor leader secure starmer said that what the get what the country needed now was clarity and leadership but he did acknowledge the difficulties that there are in setting out a step a way forward in all of this so there is goodwill i think on all sides despite political and as a scientific differences paul thanks very much indeed. british airways owner i agee says it's burning cash and you quarantine orders from international arrivals will make matters worse the airlines chief executive when he walsh is warning the company will have to review plans to resume flight operations in july but it carries has already revealed it'll need to cut 12000 jobs i agee's

chief estimates it will take at least 3 years for the airline to recover from the economic fallout 100000 free flight tickets to be given away by qatar airways to health care workers among the world chief executive officer. told al jazeera is being done to recognize the hard work in the fight against covert 19 health care workers can register online to receive their free tickets qatar airways is also hoping to resume flights to 18 countries by the end of june we have decided to launch an initiative at that at a ways. to celebrate the international notice to date and that this. is going to give away 800000 of its own ticket to frontline as get professionals to say thank you for their heroic work looking up to people doing the current job it endemic so it's an airline we intend to continue delivering on this mission and

by acknowledging they could have been efforts of help get heroes and heroines and on there was would this ticket give up meet the big it will be distributed. on a what the one do every single country in the one. including our neighbors so that is that it will be no country that will be left out and the tickets will be and ok to according to the size and population of the country we are already flying to more than 30 the seditions now so it will be a thought an 80 this a nation gradually it could be 50 it could be fought the it could be $55.00 we don't know but we can go up to a maximum of 80 this initiative by the act of doing the job is unarmed today of every single airline in the world so we are not unique you know we have to make sure that we are wide in this very difficult period and as

a as a c.e.o. it is my job to make sure that i protect the interests and integrity of the airline and as we are going to reduce nearly 25 percent of fleet we have that many extra stuff so don't even not go through those to that extent but we will. make of laying off people and taking salary cuts we will try to minimize the pain you know letting our dedicated commit to. stuff leaving the company. china's reported the most significant increase in infections ins april with 17 new cases but more businesses are returning among them shanghais disney world lead disneyland was welcomed by crowds for the 1st time in 3 months joining you. in the u.s.

it's known as the happiest place on earth now disneyland has broken crowds back through its gates in china for the 1st time in months the government here says the corona virus outbreak is now under control and the shanghai theme park is the 1st in the global chain to reopen since the beginning of the health crisis right now here in china and shanghai. conditions are such that we feel with the right measures in place our health and safety goes that we are able to open successfully here this is the numbers are kept at 24000 roughly 30 percent of the pox capacity temperature screenings and social distancing measures also in place that means no selfies with mickey and minnie mouse for now but fears of a 2nd wave of infections did nothing to deter crowds tickets sold out in minutes for our house and hello i feel happy i finally have a place to take my child. analysts say to sell out open day points depend up

consumer demand but don't expect the chinese economy to bounce back anytime soon i think the overall outlook is going to remain very uncertain and subdued as long as we do not have a treatment or a vaccine for the current virus still authorities here are hailing the reopening as a milestone in china's coronavirus recovery it comes as the aging walked in a serious war of words with washington over its handling of the outbreak many believe the true countries have entered a new cold war the trouble white house says it has evidence carved 19 live from a chinese lab. minister he says u.s. leaders are using what it calls dirty tricks to mislead the world about china. do they really have such little moral standards and conscience that they can nothing at all of their own political interests even when human lives at stake but

the tension seemed to fall off in the minds of enjoying day at disneyland in shanghai the theme park fantasy. from the reality of the pandemic and the political fallout left in its wake. still ahead on al-jazeera. were wiping down 3 times a day in a crowd and with their life in your hands every time we get in and out of the crowd canadian truck drivers tell us why the pandemic has made life on the road even more dangerous. helos will be up again in the korean peninsula or in japan in northern china as well as still cloud around you might find it hard card there for example it does rain a bit and it could be one or 2 showers and honshu and certainly in north korea there's

a trough line going to be a line of rain but temperature was 26 in tokyo 28 in beijing if you follow this lived the seasonal rains just catching the science of china including hong kong with your humid 30 or $28.00 degrees that sort of order which is about where it should be off the heat a few days ago there is cloud building elsewhere in china and if you get the forecast through we have got rain arriving there light rain on thursday heavy rain by friday so the seasonal rain is pulsing and it's coming back again for the end of the week widespread shastra malaysia indonesia but the concentrations further north and it was so this is a potential developing system tropical depression that might head into the middle of the philippines there's one here coming into southern buyback gold as well on the coast daily shasta exist in sumatra singapore kuala lumpur and up into southeast asia as well which is what you might expect for india and pakistan expect more shows in the north sea in developing this blue dots there but of course we're

still looking at rising heat have the monsoon. on account of the cost the world's poorest nations going to definitely. a mythology to fight the probe of arms pandemic but not from private investors asia's god did the street sheds jobs and the surreal life in tech scrapping for a share of indonesia's franking. counter the cost on al-jazeera. play an important role in checking it when. ringback

you're watching it is either a reminder of the top stories this hour france has ended its 8 week lockdown people are allowed to return to shops and work but cafes and restaurants remain closed in while spain has relaxed more of its restrictions churches mosques and outdoor bars are not allowed to open. the u.k. government's released a report detailing how it plans to lead the country out of the pandemic prime minister abbas johnson says the recovery will be long and it's too early for drastic changes. saudi arabia has announced major budget cuts and a steep increase in value added tax the moves aimed at shoring up state finances which have been battered by low oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic alexy o'brien reports. this is where a new way of living began the saudi crown prince's megaproject new york was touted

as a $500000000000.00 city state that would transform the kingdom but it and other projects linked to mohammed bin solomon's vision 2030 plan could be at risk as part of efforts to rein in spending by about $26000000000.00 the kingdom's finance minister says the new measures are painful but necessary the economy in saudi arabia has been under a lot of stress that that's why. the government would draw $23000000000.00 from the reserves in march this is the largest withdrawal from the reserves ever in the history of the country the plans include tripling sales tax from 5 to 15 percent a tax introduced 2 years ago to reduce saudi arabia's reliance on oil income but it's not been enough to counter what the finance minister described as the 3 economic shocks from the coronavirus the decline in oil prices the shutdown of the local economy and extra spending on health care from the start of next month

a living allowance for government employees will be suspended though all the savings are unlikely to address the kingdom's huge budget deficit i think the failure of economists are going to be and no one can understand it without looking at our luck leadership. basically and mismanagement sources if we reacted to the. foreign policy that followed in the last 10 years it's going to be understood. that you know this kind of cuts will continue actually this is the starting point the kingdom has waged an expensive war in yemen for more than 5 years it's caused what the u.n. says is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and. even as it tells its own people the stares he measures are needed the government is trying to finance a $372000000.00 takeover of the english football club newcastle united like

many countries the coronavirus has betted saudi arabia's economy. this is the grand mosque in mecca during the muslim fasting month of ramadan there are usually $1500000.00 visitors now just a few dozen and then. we have many employees and a large from workers technicians and also translators they're all idle because there's no work. the vision 2030 plan had called for slowly moving away from depending on oil and diversifying the economy by this year the kingdom was supposed to improve living standards and increase tourism instead 2020 will likely be remembered for its economic hardship brian al jazeera. an accidental missile strike by the iranian navy on one of its own boats has killed 19 sailors it happened in the just region in the gulf of oman what iranian naval exercises were

taking place. and says the incident will damage iran's image. for the government is slowly been confirming a lot of details that have been leaking out since very early this morning late last night early this morning we know that 24 hours ago approximately 24 hours ago there were naval exercises involving 2 naval vessels the jumper on a naval frigate is missile capable that is what iranians here called a destroyer as part of their naval fleets and the car rock a smaller multi-purpose vehicle that is a corvette class. a patrol vehicle it is sometimes armed with. 'd with offensive capability to be used as a patrol vehicle but in this case it was working as a support vessel for these naval exercises that were happening in the gulf of oman just near the mouth of the opening towards the strait of hormuz the very important strategic waterway in this region and we know that there was it seems to have been

a friendly fire incident missile that they were testing as part of the exercises seems to have hit a rock and has resulted in the death of $1900.15 people were also injured in that incident senior military leaders have condoled with the families of those that perished in this incident and for mr jobs aris has also been speaking he released a statement and described it as a painful accident that we still don't know exactly how this happened and what happened and investigation continues to be under way this will no doubt hurt iran's very any cured public image around as everything especially in this region to project power and that is what they aim to do with things like military exercises such as this but this will certainly make it seem that iran is struggling in some ways to project that image of power at this time. and the certain prime minister told us the vollies facing being voted out of office after his coalition collapse is now officially a caretaker prime minister went to the vote of no confidence takes place the

bunny's been under pressure to resign after being accused of being involved with the murder of his ex-wife from a demolition has this update from johannesburg. just as recent history illicitly has been complicated this it continues to be the case in that the coalition government in lawsuit too has wanted tom to bonnie out of office for some time now he has said that he would retire 1st at the end of july and now he has said at the end of may and now in the latest political move to try to get the prime minister out they've said that they have dissolved the coalition that he leads and that's the old bus route to a convention party it's led by that party they've dissolved there for the stew's may have dissolved the coalition which means the prime minister essentially is no longer prime minister until a new one is appointed but the speaker of parliament has said that time to bond he

will remain as a caretaker prime minister until later this month in order for parliament really to get their ducks in a row to write to king to get his advice and the way forward on what happens next and also proposing a potential new coalition to run the suit too so for the time being time to buy me is just hanging on by a thread in terms of that of the office of prime minister until later this month when it's likely that parliament they might endorse the name of work it's about euro as his replacement. prime minister has announced a further easing of restrictions just sent out and says businesses domestic travel and other services are now allowed to resume the country was lot done for more than a month. i am announcing that kevin it agrees we are ready to move and to leave.

to open up the economy but to do it as safely as possible so let me sit out how we will do that on thursday this week. cafes restraints cinemas and other public spaces including playgrounds and gyms can reopen. truck drivers in canada have been working overtime to keep supplies flowing across the country but with many people stuck at home those in the freight industry facing their own unique challenges evident reports from. outside his shop in calgary chris standing prepares to pick up a load of dry past his routine has changed more in the past few months than journey his 25 years in the trucking industry and with the corona virus still spreading across canada chris wants to keep his family and his clients safe we set up a company policy to make sure that that we're wiping down 3 times a day in the truck and we're sterilizing her hand every time we get in and out of

the truck whether it's going into a client or just picking up a load in the pandemics early days says hauling goods was a bit like driving into a freak storm a little scary and a little exciting at the same time he feels safer now as most businesses have introduced protocols to reduce face to face contact even so today chris has to enter a warehouse to sign paperwork and with workers coming in going social distancing is a challenge but the biggest risk he says is when filling up everything in the beginning that a lot of the major spread or 3rd out on. the board that would talk to all of our guys to make sure even when they're using the keypad make sure they put their smaller gloves on so that they could still hit the numbers despite their vital role transporting essential goods truckers have faced harsh conditions since the start of the. pandemic truck drivers have struggled to find open businesses to buy food use the washroom. but their predicament has also led to random acts of kindness and

brought out bollen tears to truck stops like this one calgary sikh community is one of many groups helping truckers across canada they give out around 100 meals a day they're really appreciated like we have a form called for number set up and they used to call us ahead of time so then be show up at the truck stop even on the highway even at the beer house where they're delivering trucking companies and associations are now worried by a huge increase in so-called empty miles this happens when there's no cargo to haul back home after making a delivery the cost of an operation is basically. increasing while the revenue generating aspect of the truck is decreasing and you can't pass on the cost to the customers because there are clearly hurting tough times ahead for these unsung heroes who are trying to steer their country out of a pandemic david mercer al-jazeera calgary canada. and 11 year old skateboarder

from brazil has been putting his time off to good use going cody of brazil has become the 1st person to land a 1080 degree turn on a vertical ramp they pulled off the move on a ramp is found he had built in his grandmother's backyard in camp a lot go skateboarding zoo to make it something debut with next year's talking all games. this is our jazeera these are the top stories france has ended its 8 week lockdown with people allowed to return to shops of work but cafes and restaurants will remain closed meanwhile after its lowest number of deaths in 7 weeks spain has relaxed more of its restrictions churches mosques and outdoor bars are not allowed to open your governments or at least a report detailing how it plans to lead the country out of the pandemic changes

this week include removing limits on outdoor exercise and encouraging certain sectors to go back to work by mr bottoms johnson says that are covered it will be long and it's too early for drastic changes step one in moving towards coded there were 3 shift in emphasis that we can begin this week. anyone who can work from home should be to be encouraged to go to work in sectors that are allowed to be open should indeed be open but subject subject to social distancing these include food production construction manufacturing who just picks distribution scientific research and to support this and to explain this again we're publishing guidance for businesses on how to make these workplaces safe secure. british airways owner i.a.g. says it's burning cash in new quarantine orders for international arrivals will

make matters worse the airlines chief executive willie walsh is warning the company will have to review plans to resume flight operations in july but his airways has already revealed ill need to cut $12000.00 jobs saudi arabia has announced major budget cuts and threefold increase in the value added tax moves aimed at shoring up state finances which have been battered by low oil prices and the coronavirus pandemic. and accidental missile strike by the iranian navy on one of its own boats has killed 19 sailors it happened in the just a region in the gulf of oman who had a rainy and never likes assizes were taking place a support vessel was hit when it got too close to a target that a regular exercise is held in the region near the busy strait of hormuz those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after counting the cost to buy .

i know i'm a dream so they get this is counting the cost on al-jazeera a weekly look at the world of business economics this week as the g 20 offers a debt payment holidays of the world's poorest nations to fight the coronavirus pandemic is it time for private investors to do the same. southeast asia garment workers in the industry pay a heavy price due to the pandemic millions of jobs have been lost despite patchy government support.