well the chief villages tensions and health care system that isn't equipped to deal with a pandemic before the weeks will count of the peace and mass movement of people will accelerate the spread to the coronavirus from indian cities to its rule hot. you're. going forward the top u.s. infectious disease expert warns senators of serious consequences for americans and the economy if lockdowns lifted too quickly. hello i'm maryam namazie in london you're watching al-jazeera also coming up on the program more criticism of britain's government over care homes which now account for a quarter of all coronavirus deaths. states and cities in brazil move toward stricter

lockdowns against the will of president olsen r.-o. . and in all the news $34.00 dead in afghanistan including 2 new born babies and their mothers after attackers target a maternity hospital and a funeral. hello welcome to the program our top story a leading member of the u.s. coronavirus task forces one congress of serious consequences if states rush to ease restrictions despite u.s. death toll now standing at more than 82000 the focus has shifted to lifting the lockdown to get the economy going again but testifying to senators top infectious disease expert andy found she said opening up too soon could result in a new wave of outbreaks well elsewhere in russia an investigation is underway after a fire blamed on a faulty ventilator killed at least 4 coronavirus patients. and then in france some

younger peoples are now starting to go back to school despite resistance from many parents and teachers this on the day the country's death toll overtook spain's but in brazil poll suggest people are behind stricter lockdowns ordered by state governors in defiance of the country's own president parable so narrow his popularity is plummeting what mike hanna joins us live for more on that senate hearing today where the top infectious disease expert antony found she's a member of the present task force of course was updating senators on where the u.s. is with the pandemic and we heard mike i suppose really undermining president trump's claim that the country has beaten the virus but dr polje didn't mention the president by name but certainly his warning resonated very strongly within the senate going against much of what the president has been saying in recent days that not only doctors out to you but other witnesses who appeared

before the health committee as well colleagues of dr faulty now all of them absolutely adamant that the guidelines for opening up should be followed rigorously now among these guidelines for example is that for a period of 2 weeks there is a gradual reduction of the cases of infection before states can open up another number of states have opened up or have dropped some of them are to go to measures despite these guidelines and this stock typology in service is something that could have terrifying consequences they feel if that occurs it is a real risk that you will trigger an outbreak you may not be able to control which in fact after dark simply will set you back only leading to some suffering and death could be avoided it could even set you back a rule to try to get economic recovery because you could almost turn the clock back rather than going forward that is my budget concerns. will that assessment not what

president trump would have wanted to hear no indeed not president trump has in fact been encouraging states via twitter and from public podiums to open up as quickly as possible at a briefing in the course of today he once again repeated that mantra insisting at the same time that it must be done safely as he put it however the key issue here is the problem of testing not president trump remains adamant that the u.s. has set the standard globally for testing protocols however that is simply not the case and health experts have repeatedly warned that to open up society without effective testing protocols in place to measure the track of the virus could have the consequences that dr poultry was warning about in the senate. now like in

other developments president has been intervening with california allowing he's pushing california basically to let reopen his tesla plant. yes all this is just another example of the president saying that it's up to the governors to decide timelines and at the same time then basically undermining them by taking the sides off of this particular case somebody who wants to open up his auto manufacturing plant again this despite the recommendations and in fact the the the mandate of the local county in which the plant is based now in california the opening up procedures differ from county to county in this particular county under me the county no decision has yet been taken in terms of opening up however a lot mask and insisting that he is going ahead and indeed did open up his tesla plant who was the one cheering from the sidelines but president trump who in

a tweet insisted that the governor of california should alarm us to go ahead and essentially flout the local ordinances with regard to opening up that particular area all right thank you very much mike hanna with the latest there. but want to move to russia now because authorities there are investigating the safety of ventilators for corona virus patients after one of them reportedly burst into flames killing 4 people media said the blaze fried addison petersburg hospital after the machine short circuited another ventilator was blamed for a fire in the capital moscow on saturday russia has the 2nd highest number of current corona virus infections in the world and more than 232000 of that now includes the president's spokesman dmitri peskov his confirmed he is in hospital with the disease well at least 32000 people now confirmed to have died of covert 19 here in the u.k. in care homes account for a quarter of that the government has been criticized for early failings which left

some of the most vulnerable at high risk and there are concerns care workers could bring the disease back into the wider community join whole explains now from london . the effect of covert 19 on care homes in britain has been devastating these are places where the elderly and frail should hope to live out their lives in comfort and safety for years that and yet at least a quarter of all coded 1000 deaths have taken place in the sector which lies outside britain's national health service and while there are signs the worst of the crisis may have passed experts warn against complacency we need to see really clear evidence that p.p. is getting to care homes we need to see comprehensive testing and that needs to be on a rolling programme and it needs to test both staff and also the residents of care homes we also need the n.h.s. to really upscale its support to care homes at the start of this pandemic they

withdrew and now they need to be really there shoulder to shoulder with the care sector care home staff many poorly paid and without medical training feel particularly let down it's been many decades now that social care has been receiving their respect and recognition for the amazing work. and i think this crisis can take he shares how much of it is on the front line where in family in fact with the n.h.s. and that session. with the n.h.s. as britain prepares to take the 1st tentative steps back to work the government is counting on a falling infection rate to ensure the lockdown is lifted further gradually sector by sector breathing new life into the economy but there is a weak link and that is social care in the community at large the trends are encouraging infection and fatality numbers are falling steadily but care homes are struggling to shake off what critics describers early policy failings by the

government. i don't know what the motivation was behind the decision but the decision was made it seems to me well that community spread was going to be allowed . to run. fairly on him and that care homes in the most vulnerable were not going to be protected covered 19 is one such natural event another is the annual flu season in the autumn the great fear in the sector is over dual assault yet to come against society's most vulnerable people the government has promised testing for all residents and staff by early june and training in infection control the wider concern is that new outbreaks in britain's care homes could push the infection rate up and plunge the country back into crisis john a whole al-jazeera london. well the u.k. is extending its furlough scheme by 4 months until the end of october more than

$7000000.00 workers are on the chopper attention program under which the government covers 80 percent of their wages during the pandemic it's costing $12000000000.00 a month and employers will soon be asked to share the burden until the end of july there will be no changes whatsoever. then from august to october the scheme will continue for all sectors and regions of the u.k. but with greater flexibility to support the transition back to work employers currently using the scheme will be able to bring furloughed employees back part time. and we will ask employers to start sharing with the government the cost of paying people salaries. oh in terms of the wider reaching across europe parents are making difficult decisions about whether to send their children back to school this week classes have cautiously resumed in switzerland france and parts of italy but many parents say they're worried about keeping their children safe and only one in

4 younger pupils actually went back to school in france aren't silly reports. the 1st day back to school in the swiss town after nearly a 2 month break and there are mixed emotions classes are in the hall full desks are regulation 2 metres apart but still you can't be sure the spots i think we've heard of anxiety everyone the pupils feel to. parents. the way it was in northern italy where the european outbreak really began there taking things even slower not even using a school facility but a public gym as a pilot scheme using a small group of 6 to 10 year olds to see if it's even possible to socially distant small children who are used to wanting to be close together the man turned on her for her we have to find a way that these children can play together and we can go to work we've now been home for 2 month their grandfather can't take care of them every day all day just

all small boy they need to be with other children they really need this. same story in france the return to work towards ever sort of normality you call this is leaving parents with hard choices in nice they were doing everything they could to reassure parents and. we've done everything to make sure the center tree of rules are respected we're going to spend a lot of time washing our hands and we have to be attentive to the clean ups conducted in scholes many people desperately want their kids to have some structure back in their lives and they're being asked to leave the house and work if they can these are hard choices with uncertain science but. i'm not that worried of explaining to my daughter one has to be done in any case i had to go back to work in childcare. 5 months without school would have been difficult that's what was scaring me inevitably there's a lot of pushback in the u.k.

nearly half a 1000000 people have signed a petition calling on paris to have a choice about whether they have to send children back potentially next month and so too in france the matter of nice couldn't agree more. from a purely for me it's important for families to have a choice all the families who want to their kids to go back to school i've wanted for them to do it in the best possible conditions. excited children totally understandable and just parents equally so in the new normal it seems everyone has to accept to some degree or another that risk is part of life. 0. 000 as brazil's death toll pastas 12000 local and state governments are pressing ahead with mandatory lock downs against the will of the president. knows repeatedly dismissed the coronavirus is a little fluids has job losses will be rude damaging is now to create that. doesn't gyms are essential businesses for health and hygiene and should be allowed to

reopen and support appears to be falling dramatically ass criticism of his handling of the pandemic continues to grow our latin america editor lucien newman has more on this he has been lashing out at governors that have been insisting on lockdowns and other measures to enforce social distancing because he says that that's rubbish that paranoia to quote him this means that he has of course as you mentioned his popularity has continued to plummet it went from about 49 percent to the latest polls showing something like 38 percent and there are other polls that in fact show that he's lost even more approval another poll says that at least 44 percent of brazilians believe he's doing a medium to a terrible job in handling the pandemic and the more people die probably the more that his popularity will continue to go down. still ahead on the program india is reopening parts of its vos train network despite his number of crime of virus

infection still rising. and tens of thousands of people free nigeria after a series of deadly attacks as new yes off as with its own refugee crisis. head of the civil showers and cloud across the southeast of australia pushing across into tasmania on the satellite this is last thing in the last year as that system calls worked his way across that the tasman sea taking the bulk of the rain with it is to want to be wednesday something falls into areas such as melbourne on again down into her about 10 which is a little based on the low side knows about day wednesday and sydney 22 celsius is the high but that will change as more rain on the way but this rain pushing on a tool is a southern island of new zealand it will push the rain that certainly by thursday on that front will just trail right the way back across the tasman sea so this

shows just creeping up the east coast of new south wales and all into the fall southeast of queen's on me while logical so west it is warm and dry and fairly nice in perth with a high of 26 degrees celsius but it's warmer that's across into much of japan want to into northern honshu it should stay dry and warm in tokyo with a high of 29 celsius case guys and warm air into beijing with 30 celsius and showers across southern areas of china feeling a little bit humid in hong kong with a high of 29 it'll stay feeling a bit sticky of the next few days and the rain on thursday once again developing through the central areas and eventually bringing the showers across into shanghai . the. beleaguered out of 5 paying the price for his political maneuvering in the middle east now desperate for american recognition. absolutely denounce.

this is good it is how did the 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. the . the and. i'm back a look at headlines a leading member of the u.s. coronavirus task force is calling on states not to rush to lift restrictions warning of serious consequences including needless death dr anthony found she told senators that ignoring the guidelines could trigger an outbreak that could result in even greater damage to the economy. russian authorities say they are

investigating the safety of ventilators for coronavirus patients after one reportedly burst into flames killing at least 4 people open media said the place right at the same petersburg hospital after the machine short circuit it. was brazil's death toll passes 12000 local and state governments are pressing ahead with mandatory lockdowns against the will of the president dire both scenarios repeatedly dismissed the coronavirus is a little flu but hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients suffering. on our story in afghanistan the president says that he is ordering the military to resume operations against the taliban this after attacks target targeting a maternity hospital in kabul and a funeral in one car province which killed at least 34 people. all but. part of the despite repeated and from the international community to taliban have not reduced violence and instead they have increased their attacks in order to provide

security for public places and to what attacks and threats from the taliban and other terrorist groups ordering afghan security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and start their operations against the enemy along all 2 new born babies and their mothers are among the victims of those attacks the taliban has denied carrying out the assault alexy o'brien has more. than the maternity hospitals are supposed to be a place of sanctuary for a new life but instead this was the same of what the f.b.i. and governments calling a war crime and an act against humanity. 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. gunman storming a hospital compound in the capital kabul with the aid organization doctors without borders runs

a maternity clinic new mothers and babies are among the victims. the attackers were shooting at anyone in this hospital for no reason it's a government hospital and a lot of people bring in their women and children for treatment. the attack is reportedly threw grenades provoking panic inside. and a gun battle with security forces. i think for a lot of over when the firing started we went to the safe room there were 9 of us inside for 4 hours the attacker came at the back of the door and fired but he couldn't into the room although colleagues were i'm hurt there but there were casualties amongst the patients inside the ward. while the firefight was underway dozens of people were laid to safety the injured transferred to other hospitals in . the neighborhood in the west of the city is home to the shia has are a community a frequent target of attacks by both the taliban and i sold into groups.

and at a hospital in the eastern province of named more chaotic scenes after a suspected suicide bomber targeted a crowd gathered nearby for a funeral. there were a lot of bodies lying on the ground some of them were dead and some of them were injured. the victims bundled into ambulances taxis and pickup trucks anything to get them to medical help quickly. some of the injured were treated on stretchers on the floor the hospital overwhelmed. and the surviving mourners left planning more funerals elixir brian al jazeera. well the united nations is saying violence in northwestern nigeria has forced around 23000 refugees to flee internet since last month a further 19000 nationals have been displaced inside their own country because of

fighting a series of attacks took place during april in nigeria deadliest claiming $47.00 lives refugees fleeing to being allowed in despite orders being close to cup the spread of the virus the numbers fleeing though of almost tripled since last year. i want to address as more on this story now from. particularly why there's been a surge in violence in recent months communities in the western idea have seen a sharp increase in the number of violent attacks carried out by armed men security forces called the bandits now some of these victims find it easier to cross into the general public for shelter or for refuge because it's easier for them to do that than to cross over to larger towns and cities in nigeria where they are more secure because of restrictions put in place by the nigerian government following the hour break of coverage 19 now this conflict has a long history where back in 2013 when things started getting out of and in some

forested for example local farmers formed their own vigilantes to protect their crops from animals belonging to the nomadic full annis who were accused of setting the animals onto their own farms destroying the crops now the vision i just eventually started taking the law into their own hands by raiding full on the settlements and then the full line is retaliated a tit for tat ensued for several years in 2018 the nigerian president sent in the armed forces to help deal or contain the situation when it became apparent that the police are not properly equipped to deal with the situation and eventually in 2019 some states in the region reached an agreement with the armed groups and that then peace ensued eventually an amnesty was granted to some of the repentant bandits in court as the security security forces a local forces called them and one of these attacks what this recent attacks signify is that that agreement which between government in the region and the

bandits has finally broken down and people are afraid that there will be more violence in the coming weeks and months. well in india the countries of australia network is slowly coming back to life after a 7 week shutdown that left millions of people stranded the government insists that it's necessary to revive the economy despite posting a record rise in corona virus infections just 2 days ago the prime minister is also promised a total of $266000000000.00 in financial measures to help get the nation back on track as a both brawn and reports now from new delhi. they waited in long lines of the scorching sun for hours before their trains departed from new delhi railway station thousands of people who managed to get tickets on one of the 15 trains leaving the capital on tuesday. student had the same problem as many others when the indian railways website crashed when tickets went on sale on monday evening which. i had to read a long time because. the tickets were supposed to be over. but they were. those

who were able to buy tickets for the lucky ones all 54000 tickets for 30 trains nationwide sold out. saying was one of those who missed out 15 month old baby yeah she was born with a heart condition to new delhi for medical treatment in late march just days before the law was announced all hospitals cancelled treatment the family was a victim from their lodging on saturday after running out of money they tried to buy train tickets to the home in patna more than a 1000 kilometers away but missed out. we have no intention of staying here we want to go home so that he can get. people nor certainly possible to get at least his medications can. the family walk 14 kilometers to the train station hoping to find a way home 30 train services will travel between here in the capital new delhi and

15 major cities around the country some daily some less frequent they will run at full capacity each carrying around $800.00 passengers. before boarding and must wear face masks at all times. indian vary in ways that it's up to passengers to maintain social distancing on board and the number of train services will be gradually increased. some state leaders have said the resumption of services is too many and too soon but promised in that in the morning he said they'll help. get the world's 5th biggest economy moving again so briefly exports of about that all the experts and scientists say that the krona virus is going to be part of our lives for a long time however we can't litter lives revolve around the coronavirus either we will wear masks follow physical distancing and we won't let her goals out of sight . for the millions stranded the trains counter vive soon enough elizabeth pran of al-jazeera new delhi. well all 11000000 people in the chinese city of hama going to

be tested for covert 19 over the next 10 days after several new cases were discovered their city was of course the epicenter of the initial outbreak in china and while the virus was 1st discovered in december 6 new cases were reported on sunday and monday the 1st since the city $76.00 day lockdown was lifted last month meanwhile singapore is planning to test some 323000 migrant workers living in cramped dormitories that have become the hotbed for the coronavirus countries tally of more than 24600 infections is one of the highest in asia the vast majority among migrants squeezed into unsanitary living courses the government says that they'll be tested to let them eventually return to work singapore started to ease its lockdown on choose day allowing headdresses and pedestals to reopen well senegal's president has now agreed to allow the bodies of citizens who died of coven 1000 abroad to be brought back into the country markey solve the repatriations in april

to stem the spread of the virus but he lifted the restriction in a televised address on monday night along with all the measures markets and businesses are out to reopen as long as they shop for cleaning one day a week but schools will remain closed until next month countries confirm more than 1800 cases and at least 19 deaths meanwhile there's been a 2nd wave of corona virus infections in senegal's holy city of tuba because howard has more on this now from the capital to car. the doors of this mosque in this neighborhood of the car is closed but it's going to reopen later on today many others have already reopened their places of worship in the city of tuba worshippers are practicing social distancing and that's because the number of infections is skyrocketing from hundreds 2 weeks ago there are now thousands of people infected with the virus and so the easing of measures announced by president . has come under criticism by some part of the population especially the wealthy

living in urban areas but for the majority of the senate girlies living on just a few dollars a day traders and farmers they welcome the reopening of markets and businesses for the 1st time this year they've had to rely on government handouts to survive. we are not afraid of getting ill but we are afraid of transmitting the virus to other people but god decides who lives or dies and what will be will be other countries in the region are easing measures including in brick enough so in ivory coast people fear a food crisis and hunger more than the coronavirus itself in his state of the nation address president says the fight against the virus starts with adapting to life with the virus and so certain measures will stay in place including the wearing of travel between regions are forbidden and some students those that have to sit exams will go back to school but for most people they'll have to stay

indoors. now 113 year old spanish woman has become the oldest person in the world to recover from the corona virus maria broadcast was isolated in her room at a care home north of boston on a for several weeks while she battled the virus to other people in the home did sadly die the 1st time and maria who is a great grandmother is survived a pandemic that she also recovered from the spanish flu in 1918 she is one strong lady. but look at the headlines now a leading member of the u.s. coronavirus task force is calling on states not to rush to ease restrictions saying america's outbreak isn't yet on the control dr anthony felt she is one of serious consequences including needless death is among the experts who've been testifying to senators about the trumpet ministrations handling of the pandemic more than

$82000.00 people have died in the united states but found she says that ignoring guidelines could trigger an outbreak that will damage the economy even more but feel if that occurs it is a real risk you will trigger an outbreak you may not be able to control which in fact after dark certainly will set you back only leading to some suffering and death or we could even set you back a rule to try to get economic recovery she would always turn the clock back rather than going forward that is why did you concerns what russian authorities are investigating the safety of ventilators for coronavirus patients after one reportedly burst into flames killing at least 4 people local media said the blaze spread out assume petersburg hospital after the machine short circuited another ventilator it was blamed for a fire in the capital moscow at a hospital there on saturday. as brazil's death toll passes $12000.00 local and

state governments are pressing ahead with mandatory lockdowns against against the will of the president charles in hours repeatedly dismissed the coronavirus as a flu and says job losses will be more damaging is now to create that. doesn't jams are essential businesses that should reopen and the afghan army has been ordered to resume operations against the taliban after attacks targeting a hospital and a funeral 2 newborn babies in their mothers were among at least 14 people killed when gunmen attacked a maternity hospital in the capital kabul in a separate assault a suicide bomber killed at least 20 mourners in nangarhar province the taliban has denied carrying out the attacks the lows the headlines that set for myself the team here in london but coming up next the story of the palestinian struggle for a national home in the history of the revolution the p.l.o. stay with us. throughout history humankind has come together in our darkest moments this is

a moment to work pretty much the opposite to where retreat from the world could actually save every generation has its moment this one is ours. as we embrace new technologies rarely do we stop to ask what is the price of this progress what happened was people started getting sick but there was a small group of people that began to think that maybe this was related to the coming fiscal year in the job and investigation reveals how even the smallest devices have deadly environmental and health costs we think ok we'll send our you waste to china but we have to remember that air felician travels around the globe death by design on al-jazeera. in 1948 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o.

was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. the year. after years of bloody infighting the various palestinian factions began to resolve their differences. to mall to us events in the region were to prove both a solace and a setback for the palestinian cause. yet by 1987 the various factions of the p.l.o. had come closer together after the past 4.