i mean tuesday could only project that's what we defuse it was one of the sound of the civil settlement and the story of jerusalem through the eyes of its own people segregation occupation discrimination injustice this is apartheid in the 21st century jerusalem a rock and a hard place on al-jazeera. time for the borders to open again that's the plan from the e.u. to revive the economy but not all leaders are quite so keen. hello again i'm a stars you tell you this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up a chinese city orders more than 4000000 people to stay at home as officials say new infections are not the feared 2nd wave. i controversial mega dam project in

ethiopia hits a wall sudan says no to an agreement to fill the barriers with water. about conclude and. we hit the road with one of the contact tracing teams up in south africa flashed on the cover of infection despite the risk to his own health. now the european union is urging leaders to reopen borders closed because of the coronavirus pandemic now under that proposal regions which have contains the virus would open up while others would keep restrictions in place germany and switzerland are among the countries partially relaxing their controls as early as this weekend our correspondent is in paris she explains that not all countries are on board with this plan. well we just heard from the vice president of the european commission

you outlined the commission's rescue plan for the tourism industry now what she said was that many countries have to of course close the e.u. to close its borders in march at the beginning really of the current virus pandemic in the european union but the some countries should now look at reopening their borders lifting those restrictions now she said that it's not the european commission's a place to prescribe how and when countries do that but we know that some countries have already started looking at this discussing this germany for example announced today that it intends to open its border with france switzerland and austria britain and france have already discussed free travel between the 2 countries so without any quarantine measures or or restrictions the 1st person said that opening borders is one way of trying to get people moving again to try and travel again she also said that the commission has a formulated guidelines for hotels and restaurants some of already started to open

across the european union before others i haven't yet opened they'll be they'll be guidelines and some of the guidelines say that hotels to do things for example like have a special room where people who perhaps have grown the virus symptoms can be isolated they'll be social distancing measures put in place the same also for transport when i last spoke to he's a professor of european studies at stanford university he says it's not unusual that countries are divided about. if spain was hit so hard and they think that it's way too early to open the border it makes perfect sense for spain what if a small country like luxembourg is complaining that they feel cut off if germany doesn't open the borders and this situation is much better in terms of numbers than in spain that germany should respond and the minister of the interior gave in and will open soon up so we have cross border relationships with luxembourg much

sooner than with other countries that don't think that an army of tourists is sitting on their suitcases in conway to go to places that the reason peace all look just from what the situation in hospitals is i think people will be very careful and cross border transactions will be basically on professional travelling and not so much that people condit wait to go to an occasional use or or to lie on beaches and into the in spain but what the european union it's responsible for is to provide a framework of the mobility of quote services capital and labor and that includes services like tourism that people get an understanding of what is the channel of framework how we respond to this depends very much on the different use courses and each and every member state and that makes perfect sense given that we don't know where we are at this point of the make. well speaking of loosening restrictions and

thousands of people across england have headed back to work for the 1st time in more than 7 weeks it's part of a plan to relax restrictions which have been in place there since late knowledge people are now also allowed to spend as much time as they want outdoors as long as they follow social distancing rules but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland have rejected the changes saying it's too early to ease restrictions on john hall is in london where he says the reopening of workplaces hasn't quite brought the sudden rush that some had expected. well it's pretty much as you see it things have been extremely quiet here marginally busier of course than throughout the last 7 weeks of lockdown there certainly is an uptick of people out and about but this is not a rush back to work it's a very very slow starts to the lifting of lock down here and in very specific circumstances the government as you say in england the devolved administrations

elsewhere have been much more cautious but the government here. people who can't work from home but who can go to work places where social distancing is possible to do so so you're talking about sectors like construction and manufacturing and urging them not to use the public transport network if possible but rather to walk to work to cycle to work to use cars where they can above all to use their own common sense and certainly reports suggest that the trains and the tube network and the bus network are busier than they've been as a said in the last 7 weeks if not absolutely packed people urged to wear face coverings where they can to stand with their backs to one another if they are concerned about not being able to keep that 2 meter distance between them all as the u.k. relaxes its measures the leader of the opposition labor party has accused the government as downplaying the severity of the crisis and of not acting fast enough during m.p.'s questions to the prime minister abbas johnson was forced to respond

to those accusations let's now speak to lawrence lee who is in london for us and learns quite a bit of action in parliament today what happens. there is a view that starting to crystallize in the harden in the outside world. the u.k. has really to be frank about it screwed things up in terms of its response to the pandemic and you've seen this particularly in the last fortnight or so in editorials and from politicians in a number of european countries australia new zealand as well places which have got on top of the virus much more successfully than the in the u.k. and the argument says that the u.k.'s response from the start was all wrong because they were talking about how to munity which are completely appropriate that they fail to learn the lessons from from italy and were too slow and that the lock down what as as it is now is chaotic and nobody understands it which is absolutely true because no one in this country understands what you're going to do and be in

countries reputations being judged on this in the diplomatic community it's being seen as a test of whether a country can cope with a crisis like this in the u.k. is seen increasingly is coming out of this very very badly so cut to the house of commons for prime minister's questions a deserted chamber not boris johnson's favor sort of place because the last place of the crowd and then your position leader who's extremely forensic in his approach says to boris johnson that it looks increasingly as if the u.k. is embarrassed about his reputation in the world here's how the exchange went last week i showed the prime minister his own slide showing that the u.k. now has the highest total in europe and 2nd highest in the world a version of this slide has been show that the number ted press conference every day since the 30th of march that's 7 weeks. yesterday the government stopped publishing its national comparison of the slightest bit of. wind.

minister. mr speaker. as as as he knows very well the u.k. has been going through an unprecedented once in a century epidemic and he seeks to make comparisons with other countries which arm advised which i'm advised are premature because the correct the correct and final way of making these comparisons will be when we have all the x. assess death totals for all the relevant countries we do not yet have that analysis because i'm not going to try to pretend to the house of the figures when they are a funny really confirmed anything other than stock and deeply deeply horrifying. which you have to say is a pretty and satisfactory sort of just to say we're not ready to decide yet whether

the response of being good enough for that of that. the opposition leader here starmer has demanded that the prime minister apologize because in the same session boris johnson insisted that the scientific advice had been copied could get into care homes for the elderly where one concert fired a large number of people who have died in this country in fact as everybody knows the scientific advice as early as february was that covered couldn't get into care homes and so boris johnson there again seems to be misunderstanding or forgetting what the government's own advice of the time was and there is a view science emerge in this country just as sure that even though boris johnson is seen as a charismatic sort of leader who can bring the country together kawiti is all about detail and science and facts and there is a viewer think here and abroad increasingly that boris johnson is being found out a bit because he's not the sort of person who likes this level of detail that cover demands and aren't sneer there for us in london thanks very much on. a

coronavirus a lockdown has been imposed on a city in northeast china is the 2nd this week new cases in jilin raising fears of a possible new wave of infections between e.u. reports from beijing. while the rest of china returns to something like normality a lockdown has been imposed on the city of g. lane for 25000000 people have been told to stay home and public transport is at a standstill neighboring should line city was locked down on monday more than 20 infections have been identified in dillon province since the beginning of the month but experts say it isn't a 2nd wave of disease whenever new cases emerge the monitoring system will detect and track the cases will curb the spread of the virus in no time in rwanda china is at the center of the outbreak the discovery of 6 new transmissions has spurred

plans to test the entire city of 11000000 people district authorities have been told they have 10 days to complete testing the details are still being discussed testing in some areas began this week. analysts say the plan could cost up to $254000000.00 and require is the rapid expansion of testing facilities hans testing capacity reached $46000.00 people today last month people who live there say that not surprised a new cost is been discovered so we need a 2nd wave is coming anyway there's no way we can you know prevent. the new infections. that's on that 00 yes you see what i mean it's no 00 and we should shift to a new name the chinese government has reported about 83000 cases nationally with more than 2600 deaths since the virus broke out in december with just

a week to go until china's national people's congress the biggest political gathering of the year the government here is on high alert the communist party wants to project an image of strength and victory over the virus and these 2 new classes threaten to compromise just. katrina here al-jazeera they to. now still ahead on al-jazeera the u.s. president's former campaign manager paul mana ford is readings from prison we'll tell you why he's out. and why it's been a business week here a timer and traders and more than syria during this kind. of. i know they're feeling pretty nice warm across much of japan also the korean peninsula the cloud as they work its way eastwards of the last ass still lingering

interac a lot of that's what it was if you want to go through thursday but look at this a good place guys a crimp in summer as well time which is very nice in the mid to high twenty's a solstice not so nice at all across central areas of china this is the area of rain to watch because. we go on into friday that will work its way off the east coast of china 27 shanghai a warm day but a very wet day and then work its way across the korean peninsula western as a japan it's a very heavy amounts of rain at times it will feel cooler in seoul not just 19 but another woman in tokyo with a high of 27 meanwhile across into indonesia 1st of all the philippines we're watching this little storm this is. and this guy says they should have winds at about 165 kilometers an hour gusting higher than that it will begin to bring some very heavy amounts of rain into eastern sections of the philippines and then says into friday it does look as if this will actually begin to interact with the land it could actually still gain a little bit more strength but it will produce and torrential downpours and so this could well lead to some localized flooding some flash floods of course which are

extremely dangerous further away from the borneo and sumatra the usual heavy shows and often in thunderstorms. i usually test treats and trace frank assessments why he's going to be struggling to cope with the number coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action behind her informed opinion it's going to be much more challenging in a place like e.t.s. with this kind of densely very relieved in depth analysis of the day it's global headlines india done enough to get the spread across in the inside story on al-jazeera.

hello again i'm the star let's remind you about top stories this hour the european commission is pushing some member states to lower border restrictions in an effort to restart tourism under the proposal regions which have contains the virus would open up others would keep restrictions in place. thousands of people across england have returned to work and people can now also spend as much time as they want outdoors as long as they follow social distancing rules but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland say it's too early to ease restrictions. on the government of a city in northeast china is warning of an major new corona virus outbreak 7 new cases have been reported in chillin and more than a dozen infections have also been recorded in nearby shalon city. now the us president's former campaign manager has been released from prison to

home confinement pull out a 4th will serve the remainder of his sentence there because of concerns over the coronavirus the 71 year old was sentenced to more than 7 years in prison on tax fraud charges and followed special counsel robert miller's investigation into election interference white house correspondent can the house that has more from washington. oh man a ford is much like many americans who are being released from prison right now due to coronavirus this is something that prison advocates have been trying very hard to get through and congress listened in terms of some of those corner virus packages that have been passed what this means and what this provides for is that those in prison who are of advanced age have preexisting health conditions or even concerns that in captivity they could not follow the social distancing guidelines of being approximately 2 metres apart that they can be released to finish the

remainder of their sentence at home confinement so under this legislation it was requested by a whole manner for the former campaign chair of donald trump's campaign that he spend the rest of his sentence at home confinement there is a lot of leeway for the bureau of prisons to grant this and we understand that that was the case so he is serving his 7 year sentence only it served about 30 percent of it now he gets to serve the rest of it at home. now u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe is in israel for talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu that meeting was expected to focus on sched concerns about to run the battle against the coronavirus and israel's incoming government the unity government formed by netanyahu and coalition partner benny gantz is you should be sworn in on testing how we force it has moved from western system. my compost 1st foreign trip since the start of the pandemic and the exceptions that required to be

made to israel's strict quarantine regulations raise a pretty obvious question why now and why the urgency well he and benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister in comments before a 3 hour session of talks they alluded to a number of topics for discussion iran the coronavirus pandemic itself but there's a lot of attention of course on one of the most controversial policy platforms of benjamin netanyahu as he prepares to join his former rival benny gantz in a unity government going to be sworn in on thursday that policy being annexation of large parts of the occupied west bank the key question is exactly what will the u.s. position on that be because in the coalition agreement it is clear that it is required to have u.s. backing before that can go ahead and there have been mixed messages coming from the u.s. administration on that front so far both men talked about it neither gave very much away now we're about to form

a national unity government tomorrow. i think that this is an opportunity to promote peace and security based on the understandings in the region with the president dropped in my last visit in washington in january will get a chance to talk about the vision for peace without some months on from the day that you came to washington when president trump announced that vision for peace when you were there there remains work yet to do and we need to make progress on that i'm looking forward to it after those talks with netanyahu then met israel's soon to be alternate prime minister benny gantz who has an entirely different position on annexation from that of netanyahu he wants to see a delay he wants to see international consultations he is concerned about the security implications of unilateral annexation and indeed on the implications to israel's relationships with other countries in the world the palestinians they are warning that they will dissolve all agreements with the u.s. in. israel including security cooperation with israel should there be an

announcement on annexation the key decider really in all this could be donald trump himself there are 2 schools of thought one that he wants to annex to give something to his very powerful u.s. evangelical christian lobby ahead of the november elections the other case is that it could disrupt the relationship united states in this region and that could be a move a motivator for the u.s. to decide to try and slow israel down a lot to see what happens in the next few weeks. sudan has rejects as an ethiopian proposal to fill the reservoir of a controversial mega dam on the nile river it's called on ethiopia and egypt to resume stalled u.s. backed talks africa's largest hydroelectric dam has peers of the 3 countries against each other ethiopia wants to start filling the reservoir by july that egypt fears the $4600000000.00 dam will reduce its water supply if it's still too quickly to morgan is in the sudanese capital khartoum she says sudan once egypt and

ethiopia to resume talks before the reservoir is put to use. what sudan has rejected is not signing a complete agreement because that was not what was proposed by if you appear if you peer proposed signing a partial agreement that would say pave the way for rights to start filling the dam and said that they could negotiate the rest of the feeling as they go on that something sudan says is not going to be possible because to start filling the dam there should be a cooperation agreement between the 3 countries as well as other legal agreements several rounds of talks between the 3 parties have been held here in her term last year all of them resulted in deadlocks which was why the talks were moved to the united states in late december early january now the 3 sides met along with the u.s. counterparts there in the u.s. in washington and they have agreed on a schedule to fill the dam but they were not were able to work out many details such as how to operate during drought season and they said that they were not able to identify or determine how to identify what the drought season would be to each

and every country and sudan is concerned that. if it's built and if the thoughts being filled it will have an impact on the amount of water it receives via the blue nile egypt is also concerned that the amount of fresh water sources would reduce greatly especially with climate change and with more than 90 percent of its population relying on the nile but if you're saying that the dam would help elevate the the social status of many of its citizens so it will continue to work on the dam and will start filling it by july so right now what the prime minister of sudan of the lambda is proposing is a virtual negotiations between the 3 sides because of the pandemic. virus pandemic and that's something the 3 sides are yet to respond to so we're going to have to wait and see if egypt if you appear and if your people will agree to the proposal of the sudanese prime minister and if talks will get back on track before if your peace starts filling the dam by july. now many verses in the u.s. state of nebraska largely avoided polling booths for its presidential primary

election instead they shattered a state record for mail and ballots with nearly 400000 votes sent via the post republican president donald trump and democratic challenger joe biden both secured easy victories the last in person election took place in wisconsin and early april and resulted in several people testing positive for covert 99 colombia is boosting its military presence along its amazon borders to help protect against imported coronavirus cases the government closed land borders back in march and it's been gradually relaxing lockdown measures over the past 2 weeks but health authorities remain concerned over outbreaks in neighboring countries brazil in particular which has the highest number of cases in the region. south africa has managed to stem the tide of coronavirus infections and a key part of that response has been contact tracing a strategy that's drawn heavily on its experience of battling a hiv aids al-jazeera joined one contact trace

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no complaints most in terms. of the most beneficial thing for me to do with race to see where there is snow or spread of infection where my at length are hidden fields and there are no symptoms. now russia's government has banned a brand a ventilator suspected of causing 2 hospital fires at least 5 patients were killed in a blaze in some pieces back on tuesday and that fire reportedly started when a ventilator a short circuited in an intensive care ward the very same brand of machine is also blamed for a fire which killed a hospital patient in moscow on saturday. tamarind is a popular drink across the middle east during the muslim holy month of ramadan but this year the coronavirus pandemic is making things even harder for families and all the area who depend on the freight for their income stratford explains. 6

ramadan is the busiest time of year on marinda licorice to sellers in. syria. the often jet black drinks made from tundra in pubs and licorice groups. are particularly popular during the muslim holy month because medicinal properties help digestion when people break their daily fast. tif and his family were forced to flee to a different part of it late last year because of fighting the father of 6 is teaching his sons how to prepare time or even juice. it's an important source of income for a family who's in june nearly a decade of war. will show that we buy bags of one kilo each in the early morning we empty contents into a bowl and then we sprinkle it lightly with water and add some carbon and. then we rub it with our hands until it becomes dark we then put it under the sun for 3

hours after that we filter it in a clean cloth adding water very slowly until the syrup comes out when we finish preparing the syrup we send it to the sellers and. boys tamborine from syrian merchants who purchase it from suppliers in gulf states syria's war has pushed prices in recent years and the rule product is particular expensive now because of the coated 19 pandemic. due to the current circumstances of the coronavirus it's difficult to import and the merchants who have monopolies are greedy it's much more expensive so we have to also put the prices up another reason is the poor rate of the syrian lira against the us dollar and the high. price of sugar this year's prices are very high. but the challenges the family faces on not diluting the stuff is enthusiasm to love the smell of our most of our already i'm 12 years old i walk with my father who has taught me

how to prepare the tamron for the last 4 years my younger siblings and myself are good at it and make some prophet. muhammad want to allow his sons to sell would use in town because he says the security situation is not good there's a risk of kidnapping but their work is paying off in markets like these but despite the high a price this year i'm reading licorice juice always popular as ever for many syrians ramadan just wouldn't be complete without it. strong food i'll just share. how again this is al jazeera and these are the headlines the european commission is pushing some member states to lower border restrictions in an effort to restart tourism under the proposal regions which have contains the virus would open up while others would keep restrictions in place and france austria and switzerland

have already said they will start relaxing controls as early as this weekend and house about such as in paris and she explains that not all countries on board that this plan. it is a fine balance of course for the european commission because they are trying to make sure that the current virus pandemic doesn't spread further that they do fuel the spread by alarm people to move around but they also need to revive the economy and the idea of different member states choosing to loosen restrictions in different ways it is a matter of controversy because of course the european union usually acts with consensus and unity so they're also member states and say we need we need solutions for have for everybody but the european commission is saying that you know you can't really have a one size fits all plan. and thousands of people across england have returned to work be able can also now spend as much time as they want outdoors as long as they follow social distancing rules but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland

say it's too early to ease restrictions while the government of a city in northeast china is warning of a major new corona virus outbreak 7 new cases have been reported in children more than a dozen infections have also been recorded in nearby shootaround city president on trump's former campaign manager paul mann a 4th has been released from prison to home confinement he'll serve the remainder of his sentence there because of coronavirus concerns the 71 year old who was sentenced to more than 7 years in prison on tax fraud charges had followed special counsel robert miller's investigation into election interference and u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o is in israel for talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu that meeting was expected to focus on shared concerns about iran the battle against the coronavirus and israel's incoming government well those are the headlines rob matheson will have more news here after the stream stay with us on our toes there. when

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