played an important role in protecting human. face. on the offensive the afghan president ordered his soldiers to go after the taliban types on a hospital and a funeral. this is al jazeera life and also coming up a travel restrictions are back in place in a northern chinese province amid fears over a new wave of corona virus infection. back to business many britons return to work as u.k. eases some restrictions imposed over the pandemic. the u.s. secretary of state is about to begin talks with israel's prime minister on plans to

annex parts of the palestinian territories. so a deal hope to pave the way for peace in afghanistan could be in tatters after 34 people were killed in separate attacks on tuesday the president has ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban and other groups about the taliban denies any responsibility for the violence. has this report. outside the hospital in nanga how the grief is palpable and so is the anger over the seemingly endless violence and loss. and i think you are fathers of although i know. my brother is michael was standing next to me when i heard the bomb blast i saw several dead bodies on the ground and i was trying to call my brother but his fine was off after

a few minutes of searching i found my brother among the dead. it was this attack on crowds of mourners at a funeral by a suspected suicide bomber and another on a maternity hospital that pushed afghanistan's president to go on the offensive order. a new military operation against the taliban and other groups all but falling apart despite our repeated call 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 the 4th attacks and fruits from the taliban and other terrorist groups are ordering afghan security forces to switch from an active defense mode to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemy. the taliban denies involvement in the latest attacks it's largely refrained from targeting afghan city since february when the group signed a landmark withdrawal deal with the united states it was meant to pave the way for talks with the kabul government the taliban now says it's the government creating

obstacles to pace the flow. through the space agreement it shows again that the taliban cannot deliver on their promise and and so i would say that today programme marks a milestone towards this integration of this agreement unless trustee measures are taken immediately by all sides and specifically by the taliban under the agreement the taliban promised not to target forces from the u.s. coalition in return for their withdrawal from afghanistan however the deal didn't include afghan troops and the taliban stepped up attacks against them the taliban was also supposed to prevent afghan soil from being used for attacks by other armed groups like isis and its affiliates well as any state so is less of an issue there probably was 4 to 6 months ago or even read unless both suffered some battlefield.

they need patience and the americans and knowledge that. danes supportive of attacks against. the military pressure on islamic state and chorus and province that was part of the agreement with the united states. but the group has proven it can still launch attacks on soft targets i still says its fighters were behind 4 bomb blasts in kabul on monday which wounded 4 people was the un has expressed shock and revulsion at the attack on a maternity hospital which saw nurses mothers and newborn babies killed. u.s. secretary of state is urging the afghan government and the taliban to cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice and brian al jazeera 2 cities in china as northeastern province are warning of a major new outbreak 6 new cases have been reported in the provincial capital and the vice mayor says there's a huge risk it could spread further

a cluster of more than 20 infections have been discovered fueling fears of a 2nd wave of outbreaks in china let's go straightaway to katrina you who joins us live from beijing. city now facing a partial lockdown. that's right it went into lockdown this morning and wednesday morning public transport has been closed and gatherings have been banned and that was since 7 cases were identified in julian city this week and it follows another cluster being identified in the satellite city of sure lon where 14 cases who have been identified so that's a total of $21.00 cases in that area since the end of may now all of these cases have been traced back to a 45 year old woman but authorities say it's still a mystery as to how she caught kovan 1000 because she has no travel history and no contact with imported cases but there are there is some speculation that this cluster had been going growing unnoticed for some time they had been smaller than

70 days that officials said that there were no local transmissions and now they say that they're being extra cautious by imposing these lockdowns they are still also downplaying any fears of a 2nd wave of infections saying that the basically just trying to make sure this is contained but it is not a good look especially ahead of the national people's congress which is the biggest political event of the year which is already postponed from march when it was originally supposed to be held and that's due to take place in beijing next week or so it should focus on which of course was the original epicenter of the verses the huge program of testing beginning there. that's right so in. 6 people have been identified as having new cases these are all local transmissions and this is the biggest cluster that's been identified in the last few weeks and as a result the authorities say that they want to test the entire population of

$200.00 and that is $11000000.00 people so far we are have any details as to how exactly they plan to do this they have said that they would like this done within a period of 10 days which means about $1000000.00 people would be tested per day but it seems that implementation if it does happen will be quite patchy some districts said that they've got until next tuesday to submit a plan for this some districts have gone ahead and started testing already from this morning people in would have received text messages saying that they need to go to the nearest clinics to schedule a test which will then come the results will then follow one week after that test so so far we nor that there hasn't been of funding planned for this analysts say that this if universal testing does happen and it could cost up to 200 $54000000.00 because it would involve also the building up of more infrastructure as of the end of april $100.00 city had about $260.00 different testing sides but the capacity was only 46000 per day so that will really need to really boost the number

of health workers there also the number of places that they can conduct this testing and this cluster i think they are particularly afraid because this was the 1st cluster that was identified in the last 35 days so authorities there i think they're under a lot of pressure not to under react as they did at the beginning of this pandemic so they rather go for force and try to test as many people as possible to prevent this cluster getting out of control again in one. that's a bit to enjoy in a true you'd be doing for explorer. to the united kingdom where thousands of people heading back to work for the 1st time in more than 7 weeks part of a plan to really relax restrictions which have been in place since late march people are now allowed to spend as much time as they want outdoor rules as long as they follow social distancing rules and those measures although those measures have been rejected by scotland wales and northern ireland whose leaders say it is too early to relax restrictions let's cross to join ali joins us live now from london

standing outside victoria station there in the heart of london general looking pretty quiet actually. yeah not much of a rush to work here nic more of a very slow trickle it feels sort of like a weekend day at christmas time albeit busier than the streets have been in the last 7 weeks there are certainly more people on the buses and there are actually people coming slowly in and out of victoria station on their way to work as part of a very phase slow and gradual phased return to normality these of course the 1st steps the government urging people who can't work at home but who can go to safe workplaces to do so we're talking about sectors like construction manufacturing people are being urged to exercise common sense to avoid public transport where possible to walk to cycle or use cars to get to work if they possibly can and employers have been given guidance about how to make their

workplaces coded safe to provide for social distancing frequent cleaning of the workplace staggered work times and so on but clearly and i can emphasize it enough it is a very slow start you can also go out and spend more time in the parks as of today exercise more regularly you can meet up with one other person from another household socially distance of course you can play a game of golf or a game of tennis you can go to a garden center you can even go house hunting but this is a long long way from the economy properly starting up again i was going to say a very slow start said clearly the economy is going to need a lot more than people just going back to work because it is it is taking the absolutely devastating hit like everywhere else in the world. the year with the 1st official figures are out indicating the direction of g.d.p. this year and the 1st quarter sees a drop of 2 percent now in ordinary times that would be a very painful contraction indeed it's pulled down largely by the stall in economic

activity from around the middle of march when the lockdown came in march alone saw a drop of 5.8 percent that that's the biggest single month fall in more than 20 years but all of that is as nothing compared to the bank of england's for cost of a total 25 percent g.d.p. drop in the 2nd quarter that we're in now which of course indicates that essentially britain is already in recession the bank of england forecasting an overall 2020 drop of 14 percent that is absolutely enormous this is designed to mitigate all of that damage the economy this slow phased return to normal life and out of lockdown it depends on the falling infection rate the government has warned that if the infection rate doesn't fall the lockdown will snap straight back into place that is going to hell in a quiet london journal thank you very much indeed. the u.s. secretary of state is in israel for talks on plans to annex

a 3rd of the occupied west bank might prompt meeting the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz the former rivals will be partners in a unity government due to be sworn in on thursday patterson interjected the u.s. president's middle east peace plan which backs the annexationists forces has more now from west jerusalem. exactly how will donald trump come down on this the coalition deal signed between gansa netanyahu specifies that onix ation can proceed with the coordination i approve all of the united states and on the proviso that it doesn't breach peace agreements with other neighboring countries and so there are 2 schools of thought one is that donald trump needs this to rally his evangelical christian base another achievement in their eyes in terms of u.s. israeli policy the other school of thought is that it would be damaging to another very important interest the alliance of countries that the united states has been

trying to build up arab countries in this region and that this could set those plans so people will be watching the language and his meetings today to see if they can discern which way the u.s. is really looking to proceed behind the scenes what a palestinian teenager has been killed during an israeli military raid inside a refugee camp in the occupied west bank israeli soldiers were making arrests at the camp near the city of hebron when clashes broke out soldiers opened fire killing the 15 year old palestinian and wounding 4 others. still ahead here now deserve. is a real risk that you treat your brain you might be able to control yes don't want to from the scientists helping to lead the coronavirus response in the united states. that we look at one pakistani phone so facing the sweet harvest 5 you.

have there's a rather cloudy picture across much of europe is also waiting in from the west but also pushing down from the north this is where the cold air is in place and then we got this warm little area with sunny skies and some pretty good temperatures but to the north it has been cool but it is at least a clear and dry can see here in helsinki temperatures as we go through the week just hovering above 11 degrees celsius but it has been colder father to the south into lithuania this is why we have got this snow on the ground in fact temperatures here steadily rising into the low teens celsius with us no should really mount because cold in the overnight hours and there is some more rain working its way across the areas of the baltics you can see as well into southern areas of finland again a few more showers that are not quite as fun enjoy as it has been the rain is going to be quite heavy across the southeast of france pushing across into the alps as well and really lingering through southern areas of germany on into poland but the

next system is just beginning to push that very heavy rain across into portugal throughout thursday is going to work its way across spain and some pretty have to downpours here and also quite cool in madrid just 15 degrees celsius 8 degrees below average meanwhile in the southeast $32.00 in bucharest on the sunny skies and that will be about 8 degrees above the average meanwhile that system in the southwest europe that will bring the rain showers in the clouds into morocco and algeria. the. 3rd venezuela colombia border has become a stomping ground for trespasses. as desperate people transgress an illegal passage . to feed an emerging field trafficking markets. we follow that carry his journey unguarded through the line of fire. risking it all the fan israel in colombia. on al-jazeera.

or. hello again you're watching al-jazeera a reminder our top stories this hour and afghanistan's president has ordered the military to resume attacks against taliban and other groups but after 34 people were killed in 2 separate attacks on tuesday. in the city in china's northeast is warning of a major new outbreak 7 new cases have been reported device manager says there's a huge risk it could spread further there have been more than a dozen new cases by. the secular state is in israel's talks on plans to

annex a 3rd of the occupied west bank palestinians have rejected the u.s. president's middle east peace plan which backs the annexation. now the top infectious disease expert in the united states says rushing to relax coronavirus restrictions could result in a needless death. warning coincides with new research from the university of washington that predicts close 215-0000 fatalities by august and that is 10000 more than previously forecast mike hanna at this report. it was a meeting of the senate health committee like none before 3 of the witnesses and the committee chairman were not present because they were self isolating yourself quarantining says to some degree one of them dr anthony felt she came under attack from a republican senator or is at the cosine of a cautious approach to the easing of restrictions on to me as much as i respect you dr i don't think you're the end all i don't think you're the one person who gets to make a decision dr fox he responded by saying he was guided by science and undeterred by

the hostile questioning repeated his warning against states stopping mitigating measures to quickly 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 not only leading to some suffering and . yes it could be avoided it could even set you back on the road to trying to get economic recovery a position backed up by some of dr parties colleagues who also gave evidence to the committee the experts were unwilling to be drawn into a detailed discussion about testing protocols within the united states but dr fox she is on the record as insisting that they are not yet at a standard to affectively the virus this is a critical factor in reopening the society it's an opinion that's apparently largely ignored by president trump who's been encouraging states to open 'd up as soon as possible to sign an accurate reflection of the reality as is the

president's contention that the us is the global leader in testing protocols in the span of just a few short months we've developed a testing capacity unmatched and unrivaled anywhere in the world and it's not even close this is a core element of our plan to safely and gradually reopen america and we're opening and we're starting and there's enthusiasm like i haven't seen in a long time there certainly was an enthusiasm in this colorado restaurant that a lot of the state shut down order by opening this past sunday the owner tagging president trump in a tweet saying he was opposing what he called the overreach of the state gov the restraint is now had its license suspended for a month but the scenes other stuff off mike to those health experts cautioning against undue haste mike hanna al-jazeera washington. the f.b.i. has mistakenly revealed the identity of

a saudi official believed to be linked to the 911 attacks it's information apparently so sensitive the u.s. government has been trying to keep it secret for months it was named in a u.s. federal lawsuit filed by families of victims of the attacks on september the 11th 2001 they accuse the saudi government of complicity their courage she was filed by an f.b.i. official a senior u.s. government official says it was done in error a spokesman for the victims' families as they believe they've uncovered a link between $911.00 hijackers and the saudi embassy in washington 15 of the $9911.00 hijackers were citizens of saudi arabia the saudi government denies any connection well michael isikoff is chief investigative correspondent at yahoo news and he says the official f.b.i. accounts of saudi arabia's link to $911.00 differs from what was revealed in court . the saudis are critical ally of the us government despite all the strains and u.s. saudi relations over the years particularly the murder of jamal khashoggi the. the

washington post journalist and. revealing information that the f.b.i. argues is inconclusive i should point that out that in the same declaration the f.b.i. assistant director for counterterrorism argues that the evidence is not that strong that it was more a theory of the agents then an actual conclusion that the embassy official was involved that is the f.b.i. is official position it's different than what's going to be found in the documents and i think that if the f.b.i. concluded the justice department concluded that it was inconclusive information that it did not wasn't sufficient to build a criminal case against the saudi embassy official then better to keep it all under wraps then let the lawyers for the plaintiffs for the families of the victims have

it and try to pursue accountability in a civil court. that's been the fighting in southern yemen between saudi backed government forces and who theme militias to the government troops intent who the fight has died in the clashes the 2 sides are fine 1000 full control of the provincial capital zinjibar separatists in southern yemen declare itself for last month breaking an agreement with the internationally recognized government which was signed in november. the united nations is sounding the alarm after only growing violence in northwest nigeria caused a huge increase the number of people forced to flee to neighboring. the u.n.h.c.r. says $23000.00 refugees escape to safety in the chair in april the agency says those who have fled speak of extreme violence against civilians by armed groups this includes murders kidnappings for ransom and villages being looted more than $60000.00 have now sought sanctuary since the 1st influx began in april last year and within its lead to an additional $900000.00 citizens being displaced in their

own country i would address is more now from her on the origins of the unrest. 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 initial 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 outbreak of conflict 19 now this conflict has a long history where back in 2013 when things started getting out of and in some for a state for example local farmers formed their own vigilantes to protect their crops from animals belonging to the nomadic full id's who were accused of setting the animals onto their own farms destroying the crops now the bees are not 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 call 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. riot police in bolivia have fought with protesters who accuse the government to failing to support the most vulnerable during the covert $1000.00 crisis officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up

a demonstration which came a day after a national lockdown was extended the government says it's giving cash handouts to families in need but many people who've lost their jobs say they haven't received any help. as the number of coronavirus deaths amounts in latin america some governments have been criticized over their response to the crisis support for brazil's president has dropped off to hear touch containment measures imposed by local authorities and in chile the government has been accused of dragging its feet as infections saw a lot in america at its reports now from santiago. in the city of need that oil local authorities are restricting entry from neighboring rio de janeiro which has the 2nd highest called the $1000.00 infection rate in brazil some of the hottest it's necessary because the population is not respecting social distancing and not affects more people if the virus isn't stopped now who guarantees that it will be stopped later. it seems logical enough but not to president. who is

blocking it calls from governors to impose a lockdown. at. first he went on a jet ski escapade and the day brazil's death toll surpassed 10000 and called fears of coronavirus paranoia. now is the toll approaches 12000 he's issued a decree to allow barber shops beauty salons and gyms to reopen as essential services the prestigious british medical journal the lancet says bonds are not all may be the single biggest threat to brazil's fight against corona virus. in chile the government is also under fire accused of taking too long to impose widespread quarantines in the capital. infections have soared from 15 to more than 30000 in just 2 weeks nationwide the majority here in santiago the death toll is still relatively low but that's likely to change very quickly this is the entrance to the

emergency room of one of some towels oldest and largest public hospitals the beds in the critical care units are now almost full and that isn't even the worst problem it's the lack of nurses and other technicians that are needed to care for patients that need emergency care. the air force is airlifting recovering patients to other provinces to share the load short staffed and with 90 percent of beds taken the government has declared what it calls the battle for santiago will clearly worried president. is overseen the arrival of massive amounts of protective gear and more ventilators and it'll dimple that there see that these next weeks will be very challenging and would require the best of all of us. but many say the government should have done more already like these mourners who are waiting for a loved one to be brought out for burial a bill says he lost his nephew and his uncle in less than a week with no one in the water now we're all dying because of the incompetence and

greed of our leaders who refused to declare a total lockdown in santiago we were supposedly experts prepared for the worst but it's a bunch of lies more than half of santiago is now finally under quarantine but it may be too late to prevent the health system from collapsing even before chilling reaches the peak of the pandemic you see in human al-jazeera sent the hour to pakistan which is experiencing its lows week harvest in 5 years heavy rains hail and plagues of locus have all taken their toll on the country's main crop and that's on top of existing weak shortages caused by corruption and the code 90 not break his command. he did how rich time he gets done and the farmers that baby heartbreaking day week by day in more danger than usual right now it should be norgate then potential stocks bonds and wheat reduction happened in grain fair day to day where the land hoarding it small and the farmers depend on diet

wheat for their desperate budgets on a d.h. the largest producer of region the word producing anything between 20 to 25000000 tons of wheat and them only 10 percent is grown in rain fade a.d.i. such as these and these farmers of course right now be depending on their wheat crop and they have to do other jobs did read and because the factory they're not their dogs are nor developed by the because of the pandemic these people are now praying that they will have an adequate crop site is so hope lot of people just excessive rain has affected the crops and it will not be enough for most farmers to last the year many small farmers will now be forced to buy the wheat from the market and the food and agriculture organization had already warning that because of unpredictable red dawn may see it. in 5 years and died of course really mean more problems for the fall farmers for defendants on day 3 so food and

agriculture organization is also warning that the local swarms are now sweeping through the south because of the extra weight bred up there have been able to breed any large number and foghat on future crocs may be compromised because of bad trade there is a question now 8 went by just on be able to do media show on requirements dacia. so this is on 0 these are the top stories and 2 attacks in afghanistan may have destroyed hopes for the country's peace plan dozens of people were killed in separate times and choose to come to the president to restart operations against taliban and other groups. the u.s. secretary of state is in israel for talks on plans to annex a 3rd of the occupied west bank palestinians have rejected the u.s.

president's middle east peace plan which backs the annexation. gielen city in china's northeast is warning of a major new outbreak 7 new cases have been reported in the vice masses there's a huge risk it could spread further and there have been more than a dozen new cases in nearby she learned city the new clusters of fueling fears of a 2nd wave of outbreaks in china drew you as more from beijing all of these cases have been traced back to a 45 year old woman but authorities say it's still a mystery as to how she caught kovan 1000 because she has no travel history and no contact with imported cases but there are there isn't speculation that this cluster had been going growing unnoticed for some time that had been more than 70 days that officials said that they were no local transmissions and now they say that they're being extra cautious by imposing these lockdowns they are still also downplaying any fears of a 2nd wave of infections saying that they're basically just trying to make sure

this is contained in the u.k. thousands are heading back to work for the 1st time in more than 7 weeks it's part of a plan to relax lock down measures which have been in place since late march people are now allowed to spend as much time as they want outdoors as long as they follow social distancing rules leaders in scotland and wales and northern ireland have rejected the changes saying it is too early to ease restrictions riot police in bolivia have fought with protesters who accuse the government of failing to support the most vulnerable during the covert $900.00 crisis officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstration which came a day after a national law was extended to forget our website our desert dot com is the address all the news we're covering right there plus plenty of comment and alice's but i'll be back with more news in rather a half an hour after the string.

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