save the world. sneeze into your own mind. a deadly morning in afghanistan a hospital in the capital comes under attack as an explosion targets a funeral in the east. this is al jazeera line from doha also coming up back on track the busiest rail network gets moving again as india begins easing its 7 week coronavirus lockdown. the u.s. president talks of a triumph in testing for corona virus but the number of deaths has now passed 80000

. africa as a whole is now 30 painted on the kindness of china about will beijing be so kind to write off the debt of african economies devastated by the fire. so then it's been a deadly few hours in afghanistan with 2 attacks one in the hospital and the other at a funeral the serious side boma is believed to have been behind that explosion among a crowd of mourners in the whole province that's in the east close to the border with pakistan at least 17 people have been killed 30 others reported to be injured . at a hospital in the capital kabul has also come under attack at least 4 civilians and 3 attackers have been killed let's hear braun has this report. and ellen

says and the military raced to the scene of an attack on some of the most vulnerable. guy. women storming a hospital compound in the afghan capital kabul where the idol denies ation doctors without borders runs a maternity clinic not. a man wearing military uniform looked like a wrestler into the clinic and opened fire and patients relatives of. other attack is reportedly threw grenades provoking panic inside and a gun battle with police. is the attackers were shooting at anyone in this hospital for no reason it's a government hospital and a lot of people bringing their women and children for treatment dozens of people were led to safety some taken to the hospitals for treatment. i brought my newborn grandchild for a vaccination and suddenly the explosion happened i don't remember anything after

that i was in the middle of the hospital but then i found myself outside and hit by a bullet in the the neighborhood in the west of the city is home to the shia community a frequent target of attacks by both the taliban and i select groups. the latest assault was 24 hours after i sell fighters said they detonated 4 bombs in the north of the city 4 people. al-jazeera. the world health organization is warning countries they'll need to make streaming vigilant as more coronavirus restrictions are lifted and one of the leading members of the u.s. task force says it could experience needless suffering and death if the u.s. opens too soon dr anthony felt she he would appear before a senate committee in just a few hours president trump meanwhile has said he wants the us open for business suit in india many trains are running again after a 7 week shutdown but there are fears of new infections of social distancing rules of flouted the country reported its biggest daily increase on monday and in russia

factories have restarted and masks are compulsory on public transport president vladimir putin ease restrictions on the day infections exceeded those in italy and the united kingdom it now has the world's highest number well for more on india's move to ease measures elizabeth cohen reports now from outside a train station in new delhi. we're at new delhi railway station where people have been lining up even hours before their trains departure to make sure that they get on one of the trains after 7 weeks since indian railways one of the largest railway networks in the world shut down all passenger trains 33 started on tuesday travelling between the capital new delhi and 15 major cities around the country tickets sold out in minutes tickets are only sold online people have been told to

come 90 minutes before departure to ensure there's enough time for thermal screening everyone must wear face masks at all times the trains are running at full capacity around $1800.00 passengers in each train and indian railways has said that it's up to the passengers to ensure social distancing and also up to the states to decide on the protocol upon arrival prime minister modi has said that the restarting of trains is an important step up to the economy but there is concern especially from some state leaders who said that this is how. well the united kingdom is really latest figures showing the highest death toll from coburg 19 in europe the latest numbers confirm that the u.k. is among the worst hit countries worldwide the prime minister bruce johnson was criticized on monday for what's being described as a mixed message over easing the country's. jonah hole has the latest now from london. well they're worse than previous counts of course because the death rate is

going inevitably further up but they are better than previous accounts in that the percentages are getting smaller the office for national statistics of course produces its numbers weekly for deaths in a particular week in this case up to the 1st of may coming as this country takes very tentative some say slightly confusing steps out of its lockdown with the hope that some workers in some sectors might be able to go back to work today the governor i think will take heart at these numbers they are relatively this is all of course relative they're still awful but relatively better than the week before the measure that they look at is the number of excess deaths as the most reliable measure of the overall impact of covert 1000 on society not just test positive cases but suspected cases and related cases of people who've not been able to get the treatment that they needed for other conditions and have passed away as a result and so on and the excess death toll up to the 1st of may according to

these numbers was $8012.00 that is down from 11 and a half 1000 the week before so that's going in the right direction of course albeit still steadily upwards for an overall excess death rate death toll of 50000 during this crisis now the official death toll that is for registered cases of covert 19 and suspected cases is also just topped $40000.00. so as i say the numbers still going dreadfully upwards but i suppose the trends improving as we mentioned earlier america's top infectious disease expert is warning that opening the economy too soon could lead to needless suffering and death dr anthony fauci is due to testify before the senate health committee in just a few hours time and president trump who threatened to fire felt she last month says the united states is on track to defeat coronavirus and fisher has more from washington. with 2 white house staff testing positive for corona virus with senior members of his task force self isolating the president hit on

a belief display in the rose garden of the white house we have met the moment and we have prevailed americans do whatever it takes to find solutions pioneer breakthroughs and harness the energies we need to achieve a total victory we will defeat this horrible enemy we will revive our economy and we will transition into great this. that's a phrase you're going to hear a lot because that's what's going to happen asked if he was declaring mission accomplished the president clarified he was talking about testing claiming the u.s. had no tested more people than any other country the white house has also told staff to wear masks while in and around the building a dramatic shift in policy senior figures attending the briefing did so the president did not in new york the governor insisted the state was through the wash to divide us a break saying it was on the other side of the mountain but with more than half of all american deaths season no rush to abandon the lot done measures some states are

opening even though they haven't met the c.d.c. guidelines which i don't even know how that happens federal government says here the c.d.c. guidelines which are basic health guidelines some states don't meet those guidelines and they're opening anyway in florida the city of nichols was forced to shut down its beaches just 2 weeks after declaring them open people aren't following social distancing guidelines i hate to say the base is closed down but i can see a very good reason for it as the president was speaking the number of dead in the u.s. passed the 80000 mark he says some democratic led states are moving quickly enough to open up alleging without evidence a prolonged economic shutdown is claiming even more lives i want our country open to i want it up and safely but i want it open don't forget people are dying the other out recent opinion polls suggest the majority of us citizens are concerned states will reopen too quickly and the 2nd break will fall on fisher al-jazeera

washington. singapore has also begun to ease restrictions some businesses including head dresses and pedestals all now open and next week small groups of students will be allowed to return to school the health ministry says restrictions are being lifted gradually in order to avoid a 2nd wave of infections this reported nearly 24000 cases tons louis has more enough. in kuala lumpur one singapore is taking tentative steps to reopen its economy home based businesses and barber shops have been allowed to reopen but dine in services and restaurants are still not allowed and most people will still have to continue working from home now it is true that singapore has reported a high number of corona virus cases the vast majority or around 85 percent of migrant workers living in dormitories the health minister says the number of new cases in the wider community has been in decline especially since strict measures

were put in place the 3rd in the 3rd week of april now the w.h.o. has listed 6 conditions for countries that are looking to ease restrictions and this includes the ability to detect tests trace and isolate and treat coronavirus patients and singapore says it intends to ramp up testing to conduct as many as $40000.00 tests a day and it's also building more facilities to isolate and treat coronavirus patients but of course as with many other countries around the world that's very much a sense that this is also driven by the economy the central bank has for cause that growth will shrink between one and 4 percent of this year they call them it's up predicting that job losses is going to be of historic proportions this year and the central bank has also for costs that singapore is expected to suffer its worst recession ever. herald 01 astray you see future plans are forced to seek new ways to get that catch on people's plates plus. it's been told one in

a 1000000 discovery a prominence in a faraway galaxy that resembles our own. hello remains relatively quiet weather wise in japan there's quite a lot of action from the point of view of the atmosphere to the north and we might get some rain wrecking through all carter from that point of view but the onshore breeze is just showers on the west coast of norway honk shuto case and shelter there for you go toward $29.00 we're up to 30 in beijing much of northern china is warm mostly sunny is cloudy increasing and the rain is also increasing it's just inland from hong kong it focuses a bit further north anyway going on through on the orange sent to suggest the particularly heavy downpours doesn't mean that hong kong's out of it altogether the

forecast here is a few showers or a bit of light rain east on friday the weekend looks fine but all all 3 days and it's no surprise it is here but 30 as a high temperature 27 as a look at suggests very sticky here. now as we wait the coming months soon rains the 1st sign might be this cluster of cloud here which is actually in the andaman and nicobar islands a circulation that's forming over mainland india and pakistan and bangladesh we've got an increasing number of showers in the northeast and in the northwest and up the coast of carolina but for most places the course is still dry and increasingly hot. but. they wanted 43000000000 pounds with a weapon that was 6000000000 pounds in commission. there's no end in more because there's always

a small. really really good measure. in essence we in the united states have privatized the old public function more shadow on al-jazeera. org. but again you're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour and dozens of people have died in 2 attacks in afghanistan 13 people including 2 newborn babies were killed when gunmen opened fire inside a hospital compound. and a funeral was targeted by suspected suicide bomber in one the whole province in the east is in the report his biggest daily increase in cases with more than 4000 new

infections the vast rail network is starting to reopen trains are making return journeys to 15 major cities from the capital new delhi that's after a 7 week shutdown. the u.k. has released its latest figures showing the highest death toll from covert 900 europe more than 38000 people have died prime minister boris johnson was criticized on monday for what's been described as a mixed message over easing the country's of lockdown. government ministers in lebanon a meeting to discuss how to stop the spread of coronavirus the health ministry has said a 48 hour complete shutdown may be the only option to prevent a 2nd wave of infections and talks are expected on wednesday after the government appealed to the international monetary fund for help the financial crisis and sharp fall in the value of the pound has provoked months of protests seen as the biggest threat to stability since the civil war. a concern is growing over

a potential 2nd wave of corona virus infections in germany health authorities say the disease has been spreading faster since a lockdown was ease just days ago not everybody supports the move to relax measures that have been protests in some parts of the country more than 7500 have died from the vice. it's in germany as much lower than its european neighbors the mccain is more from berlin and he says new rules will be implemented if the faction rate start to rise. on the face of it the numbers coming from germany regarding coronavirus well ministers might think they are positive because around 1600 people in the last 24 hour period recovered from the corona virus that is what the robert cock institution is saying the agency that governs that collects all the data more than 900 people a newly infected more than 100 people died from the corona virus in the last 24 hour period the on the number of the reproduction rate of the corona virus well in germany it's been oscillating fluctuating around one for several days now the

robert culp institute says it's now going to change the way it gathers the data so it can give a more exact figure of how the rate of reproduction is going at any given time this matters because although the government here and state governments have been saying social distancing need still to be applied there are increasing numbers of people who are protesting against the restrictions who believe that they don't need to be as draconian as they have been they need to be relaxed right now protests have been taking place over the course of the last few weekends in several german cities which explains why i'm going to machall at a cabinet colleagues are trying to stress to people that they must stay the course with these restrictions and that they will be eased when they can be. african leaders asking what china can do for them secret of ours pandemic threatens to destroy economies and wipe out about 20000000 jobs beijing is both a top trading partner and top lender on the continent i'm going to do reports from

the kenyan capital of nairobi. days after the government announced an easing of some looked on restrictions traffic on the streets of nairobi is slowly picking up . but many shops in the central business district remain closed. those will reopen say business is still bad all of a sudden the streets went quiet after the announcement of the lockdown. and so that is completely offer to a business for good measure it would be about 90 percent drop in sales. the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus all break is forcing hard choices not just here in nairobi but across africa many governments are struggling to find the money to fight the pandemic and show up their commies the world bank and the i.m.f. of us lenders to suspend payments for african countries struggling under the

covered $1000.00 outbreak petain these officials say they will deal with african debt on a case by case basis what happens next depends on china which is not only africa's top trading partner but also its lender according to the world bank chinese government and banks have learned from african governments and state owned enterprises more than 150000000000 dollars between 201-2018. most of this money has gone into the development of infrastructure projects such as the routes railway lines ports journalist in bahrain because they want to be able to continue to lend to africa after kuwait 19 to make money and influence but at the same time do want to be able to. to be unhappy africa is point in time more than $100.00 international non-governmental organizations have been forced calls for consideration of all debt

payments in 2020 but many banks are reluctant to risk their credit ratings and private bond holders are likely to do so but even if all debt payments was suspended this year they still trouble. head for african countries most collect relatively little tax on dividends have decreased because of the locked arms so once this crisis is over a lot of repayments will have to be made. because. both the demand and price for seafood around the world is plummeting as the pandemic disrupts supply chains in australia the industry is being forced to reassess how it gets its product to consumers gauge reports now from sydney the hawkesbury river is well known for its fresh oysters shared employment has been operating here for more than a decade but now it's in survival mode earlier this year she lost about half her

crop to floods and hot weather then current of ours heat closing restaurants and wholesale markets and she can't sell what's left and it's been a very difficult time for everyone and that's everyone in this area as well and i assume that oyster farmers are probably going through the same thing given that 90 percent of ours has probably assaulted restaurants directly like others sheridan is being forced to quickly adapt looking to sell online delivering directly to consumers but she's still navigating exactly how it will work. downstream lobster prices have plummeted when exports to china halted mark cranston was forced to shut down costing the business about $200000.00 he's now selling to local markets but it's hard to make a profit prawns and abalone have also lost value the a struggling seafood industry as a whole is predicted to fall in value by at least $400000000.00 this financial year

the lacing process and we've already pied is $10.00 less than what we're getting for our lobsters to try to run by it's. pretty much running at a loss there's lobsters would normally sell for about 50 u.s. dollars each now they're worth about half of the us and despite some international markets like china reopening the lower prices and high freight costs mean that for many it's just not profitable to export the. charter flights have been delivering some produce to international markets but the cross' is expected to radically reshape how seafood reaches consumers plights in the future i believe strongly this train. managed. to change where. we don't know for shared in beaumont navigating new markets is daunting but also promising she hopes that will lead to more opportunities in the future at the

moment she just wants these always choose to leave the hawkesbury river and make it on to customers plates nicola gage al-jazeera sydney. now human rights watch is accusing the israeli government of discrimination by enforcing land policies that have left palestinians living in densely populated areas that are important says a policy of boxing in palestinians extends beyond the occupied west bank and gaza to palestinian towns and villages inside israel since $948.00 israel has authorized the development of more than $900.00 jewish population centers and that compares to just a handful of townships and villages for palestinian israeli citizens israeli planners have designated large parts of palestinian towns as so-called green zones restricting at residential growth they've also approved the building of roads and other infrastructure around palestinian communities further preventing expansion or check here is the israel and palestine director at human rights watch and he says

the extent of state controlled lands makes it easy for the government to dictate who lives where. if we look at land policy within israel you realize that 93 percent of the land of is state lands that are directly controlled by that by the state nearly half of the seats of the body that administers that is run by the jewish national fund with a mission solely to develop housing for the jewish community meanwhile while palestinian citizens of israel make up 21 percent of the population the municipality is where most of them live in have only 3 percent about of the land in the entire country and so it's very clear that they're being boxed in israeli planning policies land confiscations over many years have reduced them to a series of dense population centers while jewish communities are allowed to thrive very similar to the policy that you see taking place within the occupied territory the government in fact has i think in recent years recognize that there's

a serious problem they've set aside some money to deal with that and the planning immiseration highlighted some initiatives that they're trying to take to deal with this issue the reality though is that none of that has yet translated into changing the reality of hemmed in palestinian villages to change the reality for palestinian villages and towns inside israel will require significant investment in those communities allocation of state land expanding the jurisdictions of these towns and villages will take a really radical departure from the kind of discriminatory policies that have been in place for decades. ok now it's being described as a one in a 1000000 discovery of. new zealand research a save the planet is one of only a handful of a detective that has an orbit in science that's close to our own it's a little bit larger than earth it was found using a technique called gravitational microlensing which means that sometimes barely perceptible objects distort the light of stars when they pass in front of them and

scientists look for this in order to discover planets that's what we did here let's let more about this we can speak to francisco diego who is a senior research fellow in the department of physics and astronomy at university college london he joins us on skype and as well about this in francisco how nice it is to be talking to something totally unrelated to our woes on earth absolutely agree with us what that refreshing thing to do exactly now when we talk about like planet tell us what do we actually mean by that. we're not like planning to some planet which is more or less the same size as the air it has to have a solid surface because a lot of these new plan is a classic on the gas giants which are easier to detect you know way similar to jupiter and saturn but the planet is solidly then it is exciting because then it comes closer to about there looks like that with possibility of having our not most fair liquid water on the surface etc etc and then we have

a possibility of another environment. that would be similar to the air through the host living organisms so there is a there is a possibility of life i guess we've got no idea at this point in time whether or not life exists there but how long would it take to find out. in this particular planet is very difficult we don't have a way of knowing the already told the planet because he was i mean the technique that has been used to that that these planets these are very clever technique based on the on the theories hold relativity by einstein about the light. rays being distorted by the presence of or pharmacy budgets so. the only thing we caught is that they there is light through the. increasing brightness of a background stars because of the center of the nation a lens but by the by they must have the planet when it comes in front of that background star and we have got next to the start with the planet this already

turned on let me see if we can explain this we are here that they are there start with a planet these here and there is about that on star over there very very far away so when i chance these. so-called solar system consume front of the background star it's going to distort the light from the background star is going to make it but i thought that because of the gravity of the combined orbit planet and the star but of course they brightness of the star willing pleased about it but what about ground start willing crease and then we see that spike that means that the they the gravity is working there but if there is some planet on that stock we'll see a little peek a little increase that comes before or after the main peak and that's the presence of the planet that's all we know we don't how are we have an instant picture of the planet we don't know what they already. know about the means of discovery rather than the discovery itself which is so exciting. it is some magic technique it has

found this technique has found about $100.00 planets more or less. fascinating but then we have to prove. these planets around these solar systems with other techniques in order to characterize the orbits and eventually apply spectroscopic techniques to find out what is the chemical composition of any states and the discovery of these kind of planets rare as they are at what point might they become useful to part from to the means of discoveries you've described. we are finding out how the universe works how life the universe of the weak cheese mean there are plenty of possibilities so far we know now about by extrapolation we can tell there are there are about billions and billions of planets in our own and not on. weight aleksey alone but all of them will be very very different have very different from

the air and the conditions on earth are very special what he's telling all is that despite of all the said not most amount of blood hits we may be still in a unique place in the universe because the development of intelligent life isa bed if he called i'm very improbable. event to happen in the universe i generally require so many conditions and we're finding out by studies to. count the amount of planets out there out there and the amount of plan is that not like the earth and we hope to find something that we see now in the screenwriting of blood in the house the house and then what there we will find that in the future about these going to be a long way to go still ok francisco as ever it's great to talk to you and to learn about this we appreciate that thanks very much dave except i should make it safe. all right let's have a recap of the headlines that have been 2 attacks in afghanistan one on

a funeral in the eastern province of 17 people died there and another on a hospital in kabul which killed 11 people including 2 children as india reporters because daily increase of corona virus infections with more than 4000 new cases the vast rail network is starting to reopen trying to make a return journeys to 15 major cities from the capital new delhi after several weeks shut down list but prone has more now from. they'll be at full capacity in fact at around $1800.00 passengers when the government started operating special trains only for migrant workers about 12 days ago they began them at 2 thirds capacity limited capacity to ensure social distancing no such thing happening but the 30 trains which will be going between new delhi and 15 major cities around the country from today again up to passion just to ensure social distancing to where there are mosques at all times singapore is begun to ease long term restrictions

some businesses including her dresses and pet stores are now open next week small groups of students will be allowed to return to school. america's top infectious disease expert is warning that opening the economy too soon could lead to needless suffering and. she is due to testify at a senate health committee in a few hours president on a truck maintains the u.s. is on track to defeat coronavirus government ministers in lebanon are meeting to discuss how to stop the spread of the health ministry has said a 48 hour complete shutdown may be the only option to prevent a 2nd wave of infections and talks are expected on wednesday after the government appealed to the international monetary fund for help i don't start with headlines here on news hours coming up in about half an hour that is right after inside story from.

no flights no travel no tours and tens of millions of jobs are at risk as the pandemic appends holiday plans so how will tour operators recover and how could you offer a coronavirus free vacation this is inside story. hello welcome to the program and it's the global tourism industry has all but ground to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic most international flights have stopped

and hotel bookings evaporated as countries closed the borders and imposed lock downs that's one.