the malaysian navy recently prevented a boat carrying around $200.00 range of refugees from landing from there around the world some of those are accusing their opponents of trying to topple that fight with financial stability. play an important role protecting it would be. on the offensive afghanistan's president orders his military to again target the taliban after attacks on a maternity hospital and a funeral. but on mccloud visit 0 live from doha also coming up travel restrictions are back in place in a northern chinese province amid fears over a new wave of corona virus infections. back to business england starts its return

to work after 7 weeks. there is a real risk that you will trigger an alfred you may not be able to control the earth scientists leading the coronavirus response warns against 50 restrictions too soon despite president trump's push to restart the economy. so that a deal hope to pave the way for peace in afghanistan is under threat after 45 people were killed in 2 attacks on tuesday the president has ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban and other armed groups the taliban denies carrying out the attacks and it's your prime as this report. in the eastern province of manga survivors of a suspected suicide bombing. a funeral struggled to contain

a grief. and anger. was when i think there was a problem although i know. my brother is male 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 phone was off after a few minutes of searching i found my brother among the dead. this attack on mourners. and another at a maternity hospital in the capital kabul later afghanistan's president going on the offensive all but fall apart 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 water tax and fruits from the taliban and other terrorist groups are ordering afghan security forces to switch from an active defense might to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemies of the taliban denies involvement in tuesday's

attacks its fighters have largely refrained from targeting city since february when leaders signed a deal with the united states for the withdrawal of american troops and to pave the way for talks with government leaders in kabul the taliban now accusing the government of creating obstacles to peace today programme marks a milestone towards this integration of this agreement and less trusting of measures are taken immediately by all sides and by the taliban. under the agreement the taliban was to prevent afghanistan from being used as a launching pad for attacks by other groups such as i saw and its affiliates well as any state both suffered some. states they need haitians and the americans and. danes a quarter of the attacks against. the nazi question on usenet we started correspond problems i still says its fighters were. behind 4 bomb blasts in kabul on monday

which wounded 4 people the result was the u.n. has expressed shock and revulsion at tuesday's maternity hospital attack which killed you born babies mothers and nurses. u.s. secretary of state is urging the afghan government and the taliban to cooperate to bring the perpetrators to justice and al-jazeera the government of a city in northeast china is warning of a new a major new occur in a virus outbreak 7 new cases have been reported in g. lynn and the vice mayor says there is a huge risk it could spread further more than a dozen cases have also been seen in nearby schumann's city of the new clusters a fueling fears of a 2nd wave of outbreaks in china between e.u. has more on the situation in judea. it went into lockdown this morning on 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 shalon where 14 cases have been identified so that's a total of $21.00 cases in that area since the end of may 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 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 they're 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 was already postponed from march when it was

originally supposed to be held and that's due to take place in beijing next week thousands of people across england have headed back to work for the 1st time in more than 7 weeks part of a plan to relax restrictions 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 the leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland of all reject the changes saying it is too early to ease restrictions should a hole is in london and says the reopening of workplaces hasn't brought the sudden rush that some expected. so there certainly more people on the buses and there are actually people coming slowly in and out of victoria station here on their way to work as part of a very phase slow and gradual phased return to normality these of course the 1st steps of 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 safe to provide for social distancing frequent cleaning of the workplace staggered work times and so on but clearly and i can't 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 the u.k. is extending its fellows scheme by 4 months until the end of october more than 7000000 workers are part of the job retention program under which the government covers 80 percent of their wages joining the pandemic but 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. the scheme will continue for all sectors and regions of the u.k. but with greater flexibility to support the transition back to rock employers currently using the scheme will be able to bring employees back part time. and we will ask employers to start sharing with the government the cost of paying people salaries the u.s. secretary of state is in israel for talks on plans to annex a 3rd of the occupied west bank by paris meeting the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and benny gantz of the former rivals will be partners in a unity government stooge be sworn in on thursday palestinians have rejected the u.s. president's middle east peace plan which backs the annexations kerry force it reports now from west jerusalem. as benjamin netanyahu prepares for

a 5th term as israel's prime minister is promising to carry out one of the most controversial acts of his decades in politics the annexation of illegal israeli settlements as well as large parts of the jordan valley totaling nearly a 3rd of the occupied west bank last month he reminded american evangelical christians that president donald trump had pledged to endorse it a couple of months from now i'm confident that that close will be honored that we will be able to celebrate another historic moment in the history of zionism. netanyahu has made pledges before often during election campaigns without following through some analysts suspect concerns over regional stability might make him hold off once again but since the election an accession talk is strengthened not diminished netanyahu has built the policy into his coalition deal with his former rival benny gantz and above all there's been preemptive support from a trumpet ministration. the us israeli an exception mapping team is due to have

finished its work by the end of june the american ambassador to israel has said the u.s. is ready to recognize israeli sovereignty within weeks if with annexation comes a commitment to negotiate with the palestinians to end now and then not give america to. the palestinian president mahmoud abbas says annexation would see him dissolve all agreements with the u.s. and israel something that could collapse the palestinian authority and leave israel with direct responsibility for the palestinian people it's a warning he's made before and not delivered on but officials say this time is different we know it is difficult we know it is always a matter of survival but we think that. accepting such as it is a defacto is not a choice you cannot live with such an exception netanyahu is prospective prime minister benny gantz plans to argue for delay from within government but he gave up any veto on annexation as part of the deal that would see him take the top job in

18 months time the international consensus that's in the coalition agreement the united states might view is quite known and donald trump needs to allow an accession in order to build up his eventual call base ahead of a floundering election campaign so american politics and israeli politics are in place right now to facilitate an accession. european nations are reportedly considering sanctions there's also the prospect of jordan egypt and other arab states pressuring the white house not to approve but in the end this decision. with all its potential for far reaching consequences comes down to 2 men benjamin netanyahu and donald trump that al-jazeera west jerusalem. still ahead here on al-jazeera a mistake by the f.b.i. that could reveal a link between the 911 hijackers and the saudi embassy in washington. and we hit the road with one of the contact tracing to helps south africa flatten the friend

of ours. well we finally have a new tropical storm a city east of the philippines we've been watching it the last few days this is it it is called the long form and it's actually working its way closer to the west very slowly through thursday and pushing towards the central philippines now the winds at this point should be about 165 kilometers an hour gusting high than that it'll bring some very heavy amounts of rain to south reborn as some arch of the usual. quite heavy at times particularly in sumatra and then through friday this storm system expected to get a little bit stronger but point there is some interaction expected with the land it will bring some torrential downpours so the is the threat of a flash floods and even more widespread flooding across into australia mostly fine and dry plenty of cloud has been streaming across the southeast in the last year as bringing some rather dramatic pictures like this into melbourne so the happy want

to show us but really the rain we're likely to be through some portions of new south wales and just beginning to creep up the coast and portions of fall southeast of queensland meanwhile we have got more rain showers into the south island of new zealand but it's fine and dry out across the west 26 ounces in perth on thursday by friday a little bit cooler more of an onshore flow but it should stay dry and then it's a fairly cloudy picture really across much of the southeast finally a drying to cross and a high bar where the high have 17 celsius. beleaguered out of 5 paying the price for his political maneuvering in the middle east now desperate for american recognition good technique and absolutely denounce. this studies 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. you're watching al-jazeera remind of our top stories this hour and afghanistan's president has ordered the military to resume attacks against taliban and other groups but after dozens of people were killed in attacks on a maternity hospital and a funeral and choose the taliban has denied responsibility. the government of a city northeast of china in northeast china is a warning for a major new corona virus outbreak 7 new cases to be reported in. more than

a dozen new cases have also been recorded by. 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 is. now the top infectious disease experts in the united states says rushing to relax coronavirus restrictions could result in needless deaths and any found she's warning coincides with new research from the university of washington the predicts close 215-0000 fatalities by august that is 10000 more than previously forecast is mike hanna thank you sir it was a meeting of the senate health committee like none before 3 of the witnesses on the committee chairman were not present because they were self isolating yourself quarantining says to some degree one of them dr anthony came from a republican senator or is at the cosine of a cautious approach to the easing of restrictions on a 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 simply will. set you back only leading to some suffering and death could you 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 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 up as soon as possible the 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 an 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 'd 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 governor the restraint is now had its license suspended for a month but these 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 is information so sensitive the u.s. government has been trying to keep it secret apparently for months he was named in a us federal lawsuit filed by families of victims of the attacks on september the 11th 2001 they accuse the saudi government of complicity with declaration 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 says they believe they've uncovered a link between 911 hijackers and the saudi embassy in washington 15 of the 19911 hijackers were citizens of saudi arabia the saudi government to nine's in the connection. well michael isikoff is a chief investigative correspondent at yahoo news and he says the f.b.i. argues that the evidence is inconclusive. 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 ru's 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. warring sides in southern yemen and battling for control of a provincial capital the latest fight in zinjibar it's killed 10 who think fighters into personal from government forces backed by saudi arabia separatists in southern yemen declared self rule last month break you agreement with the internationally recognized government signed in new. rochelle in china a boycott of a u.n. security council meeting on the use of chemical weapons in syria it was a closed informal session but ambassadors from the 2 countries so it should have been public on diplomatic editor james pace's more now from new york. members of the un security council were attending a closed informal meeting conducted by video conference on a report by the o.p.c. w the international watchdog on chemical weapons that last month found for the 1st

time that the syrian government had been responsible for using chemical weapons now that meeting was for all of the security council members and the syrian government were also invited but russia china and syria did not attend the meeting that's because the russian ambassador said it should have been held in public despite the open criticism of the release official the idea we were not the posts to the director general briefing the consul in the. only request was that the interaction is conducted in the open simply regrettably our western buttons and their allies insistence on holding this meeting behind closed doors. in a formal informal supremum the id despite their slogans the openness and transparency of the security guards such broach is unacceptable after the virtual

session some of the ambassadors that did attend it from the european union and the u.k. issued this joint statement we have full confidence in the objectivity impartially t. and independence of the organization's technical secretary act and its investigation and i did if occasion the o.p.c. w.'s investigation team will now continue their work but russia says that work is politically motivated. russia's government has banned the brand a ventilator suspected of causing 2 hospital fires at least 5 patients were killed in a blaze instant petersburg and choose day for reportedly started when a ventilator short circuited in an intensive care ward the same brand of machine is blamed for a fire which killed a hospital patient in moscow on saturday. south korean authorities are combing through people's personal data to identify anybody who visited nightclubs at the

center of a coronavirus cluster in seoul more than 100 new cases have been traced back to the capital's it's a one neighborhood which is known for its nightlife mobile phone data credit card statements and surveillance camera footage and being studied to identify potential infections more than $7000.00 people have already been traced and tested riot police in bolivia so forth with protesters who accuse the government of failing to support the most vulnerable during the covert $1000.00 crisis officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstration which came in today 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. what is the number of coronavirus deaths mount in latin america some governments are cribbing criticised over the response to the crisis support for brazil's president has dropped after he attacked the containment measures imposed by local authorities and in chile the government is being accused of dragging its

feet as infections saw a lot in america and 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 $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 as 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 it 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 at bell 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 a cent the our goal 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 sente our health authorities in croatia

have apologized after documents which resulted in a woman being buried under the wrong name the mix up happened after 2 elderly women with corona virus were admitted to a hospital and split earlier another mistake in the capital zagreb led to a virus free woman being treated in a cave at 19 ward south africa has managed to stem the tide of a corona virus infection and a key part of its response has been contact tracing and that's a strategy that's drawn heavily on its experience of battling hiv aids more than 28000 recruits have screened 7000000 people so far al-jazeera joined one contact trace said work in south africa's northwest province has his story in his and words . maybe. but it's a communicable disease police are dealing with underage response dealing with legal so clinicians i know that. will be dealing with outbreaks of this

magnitude. to get a place that. might be sensed incest comes 1st. so i'm here to 15 issues. been a bit more about. just to prevent their. spreading. that is what i was and what then was once you will have. contacts and you'll continue screening. and fortunately in my case all of the way i think meaning that you can have a nice limb tom. as a health check i'm not only. considering not only concentrating on the core of it once. i. get into the house i do the whole of.

the environment. from time. to time themselves need to. check whether these people are not crowded so what do you find like being in a small house and heard it and then sell product then it's not going to. happen then. i will be transported to agree to be translated. the signature to realize. my position on. he's fine no complaints no sometimes. he says for the most benefit for me to be stories to see where there is snow or spread of infection why am i had. him and there are no symptoms at johnny temple in thailand is joining in health message it's aimed at

encouraging everyone to wear masks to stop the spread of coronavirus thai government is slowly lifting the lockdown restrictions after reporting 56 deaths and more than 3000 cases. but more a web site of course dot com is the address all the news are covering right there al jazeera dot com. so this is out there these are the top stories and afghanistan's president has ordered the military to resume attacks against taliban and other armed groups that's after dozens of people were killed a night in attacks on a maternity hospital and a funeral on tuesday the taliban has tonight responsibility the sector state is in israel for talks on plans to annex a 3rd of the occupied west bank a palestinians have rejected the u.s. president's middle east peace plan which backs the annexations. the government of

a city northeast of a city northeast in northeast china is warning of a major new corona virus outbreak 7 new cases have been reported in more than a dozen new cases have also been recorded in nearby city continue has 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 smaller 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 thousands of people in england headed back to work for the 1st

time in more than 7 weeks as a lockdown it's relaxed people can now spend as much time as they want outdoors as long as they follow social distancing rules leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland have rejected the changes saying it's too early to ease restrictions leave a member of the u.s. coronavirus task force has told congress rushing to ease restrictions could result in needless death taught to under the froggies testimony contradicts president donald trump's repeated calls for a quick review of the economy. iraq police in bolivia have fought with protesters who accuse the government of failing to support the most formidable during the covert $1000.00 crisis officers fired tear gas and rubber bullets to break up the demonstration which came a day after a national what time was extended the government says it is giving cash handouts to families in need all right let's take the headlines here on al-jazeera got more news coming up and these are in fact right off the pier a little history of

a revolution by fire. what impact will call that 19 on the drop in the oil price have on the race to the white house can donald trump survive these historic setbacks and does joe biden have what it takes to beat a. special coverage 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.