frederick push each of the siege of sarajevo on al-jazeera. be the heroes the world needs. washed. voting to revive europe's economy and tourism industry leaders discuss opening the borders but not all countries are sold on the idea. come about this and this is all to c.n.n. live from doha also coming up a chinese city orders more than 4000000 people to stay home but officials say new infections are not the feared a 2nd wave. president donald trump's former campaign manager paul monophonic is

released from prison to home confinement due to coronavirus concerns. parts of a chinese rocket crashed to the earth and the most significant uncontrolled descent of space time in decades. the european union's urging leaders to reopen borders closed because of the coronavirus pandemic tourism makes up 10 percent of the blocks economy and the e.u. says the industry is now at risk of collapse unless urgent measures are taken that tasha buffet reports from paris. a glimpse of war going on a holiday in some parts of europe will look like this summer barrier separating sun loungers on the greek island of santorini not the beach experience the most holiday makers a used to but one that complies with new social distancing rules we hope these barriers won't be the future for beaches we don't want this but if this is

necessary and if people safety depends on this sort of device then so be it we just want to work we want to get going in march borders in the european union was shot and nearly all travel stopped because the coronavirus pandemic a huge blow to the tourism industry one of the blocks main economic sectors as some countries begin to ease their lock downs the european commission has presented a rescue plan for the tourism industry it's recommending vouchers instead of refunds for council travel sanitary measures for hospitality and transport services and the reopening of some borders of course this is not going to be a normal summer not for any of us. but when we all work together and we all do our part in the ways the commission is setting out today then we don't have to face a summer shock at home or a completely lost summer for the european tourists industry some countries say that

they are already considering lifting some travel restrictions germany says that it wants to reopen its border with fraud switzerland and austria and britain and france say that they won't impose quarantine for now on people traveling between their 2 countries paris is one of the world's most visited cities the lockdowns been eased but monuments museums hotels and restaurants remain closed the french government has advised people to holiday in france this year after 2 months at home some people can't wait to travel not worried about health risk and are really worried here to be able to travel abroad and outside france will be a valid i have a holiday home in spain and want to go but for now there are restrictions but i want to go we can't stop living more than 6000000 tourism jobs in need you could be lost unless the industry is revived the european commission says the challenge is

to encourage the sector's recovery but prevent a resurgence of coronavirus cases or risk is spreading even further across the bloke who talked about how just 0 paris a coronavirus lockdowns been imposed on a city in northeast china the 2nd this week new cases are raising fears of a possible new wave of infections katrina you 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 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 requires the rapid expansion of testing facilities testing capacity reached $46000.00 people today last month the people who live there say they're not surprised a new class has been discovered so we know that a 2nd wave is coming any way there's no way we can you know prevent. the new infections. and that's on that 00 you see what. series and we. knew 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 i just want to train you al jazeera thank you. and taliban says the afghan government has made a declaration of war by resuming military operations against the armed group that follows separate attacks on a funeral on maternity clinic on tuesday which killed at least 56 people the taliban denies being involved alexei o'brien reports that was. in the eastern province of manga survivors of a suspected suicide bombing at a funeral struggled to contain a grief. and anger. 7 then i think you are to

a problem although one of. my brother is maya 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 as a. maternity hospital in the capital kabul later afghanistan's president going on the offensive all but. despite our 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 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 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 state suffered some. states they need haitians and the americans and knowledge. of the attacks against. pressure on islamic state in chorus and province i still says its fighters were behind 4 bomb blasts in kabul on monday which wounded 4 people oh it was the un has expressed

a 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 alexia brian al jazeera. sudan is rejecting if you open plans to start filling the reservoir of the largest hard to electric in africa the sudanese are calling on both ethiopia and egypt to resume stalled talks to settle their dispute is gypped and sudan fear the newly completed on the river nile will reduce their supply of water are essential for agriculture over morgan has more from the sudanese capital khartoum. what sudan has rejected is not signing a complete agreement because that was not what was proposed by ethiopia if you appear proposed signing a partial agreement that would pave the way for rates 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 harlem 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 us 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 the dam 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 europea and if your people will agree to the proposal of the sudanese prime minister and if talks will get back on track before if you pay starts filling the dam by july. the u.s. claims hackers backed by the chinese government are trying to steal the work of corona virus researchers both the f.b.i. and the department of homeland security have want health care and pharmaceutical workers to be on alert for potential cyber attacks the u.s. has repeatedly said it has quote enormous evidence that covert 19 originated in a lab in china china dismisses the allegations as groundless. the u.s.

president's former campaign manager pomona ford's been released from prison to home confinement and serve the remainder of his sentence there because of concerns over coronavirus the 71 year old was sentenced to more than 7 years in prison on tax fraud charges and following special counsel robert miller as investigation into election interference white house correspondent kimberly hawk and has more from washington paul mann afford 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 quite a 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 man a 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. still ahead on al-jazeera coronaviruses on every continent but we'll have more on the other deadly virus sweeping through in america. a lot done in the u.s. how light is chefs to what up some new creative ideas to keep the restaurants of global.

head of the most secure a fine across much of the middle east and the arabian peninsula the winds have been pretty strong they will still stay gusty for a day yes and they can see further to the north and east we have got quite a base class but that certainly hasn't been the case across the cemented about the training of these lovely clear skies across into beirut lebanon and so very nice to get out there and enjoy a spot of sunshine and warm sunshine will continue on thursday 25 degrees in berries a warm day in damascus and then across into iraq this is where once again we could house a fairly strong wind blowing up the dust and also the clouds back in the forecast really across the central western areas a saudi in effect that could of course just produce one of 2 showers maybe even a scott a thunderstorm but by friday temperatures still in the high saw the not too bad in doha with the high the a 31 degree celsius still a few showers to carry away from northern areas of afghanistan 20 is your high in

kabul a fairly quiet picture all across much of the central africa you can see here we have got the usual ray of showers but nothing particularly heavy and again a bit of a break from those heavy rains as persistent rain through coastal areas the towns there and up into kenya by friday the rain and little bit heavier particularly throughout the towns there on the show as a back into the south south africa. i easily test. and trace frank assessments why is it it's only struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind the herd informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like even there's one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines as india dumb enough to nip the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on al-jazeera. move

forward. you're watching out is it a reminder of our top stories this hour the european commission is pushing some member states to lower border restrictions in an effort to restart tourism under its proposal regions that have contained the virus would open up while others would keep restrictions in place. a coronavirus lockdown has been imposed on a city in the northeast china the 2nd this week new cases in g. leno raising fears of a possible new wave of infections. president donald trump's former campaign manager paul manifold has been released from prison to home confinement the 71 year old is

serving a 7 year sentence on tax for charges that followed special counsel robert miller's investigation into election into feelings. u.s. secretary of state michael peo has been visiting israel for talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu a unity government formed by netanyahu and coalition partner benny gantz is to be sworn in on thursday i mean fawcett has more from west to lose them. 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 that will reach with the president trump 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 the united states in this region and that could be a moment 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. a huge piece of

a chinese space walk it crashed into the atlantic ocean on monday becoming one of the biggest pieces of space junk to ever freefall to earth it was the core of a rocket that successfully launched a prototype spacecraft into orbit last week the $800.00 ton piece was 13 meters long and 5 meters wide and it landed off the coast of more tenure it's the heaviest object to fall uncontrollably to earth since 1901 when i saw that space station reentered the atmosphere over argentina. it's not unusual for rocket boosters and spacecraft to fall back to earth every major space power has done it at some point from smaller japanese and european craft to one of the most memorable russia's massive mir space station in 2001 now there have been efforts to create international regulations and coordinate among the various space agencies but it's largely left to individual nations to track and inform each other of their actions un treaties in place to sort out who's internationally liable if

a space object injures someone on earth most nations try to maneuver their space junk into an official spacecraft cemetery that's 4000 kilometers east of new zealand and one of the most remote parts of the pacific ocean john of the doll is an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics is joining us now on skype from some of all in massachusetts we really appreciate your time so thank you very much indeed if it's possible normally to be able to maneuver parts of space debris into this particular space cemetery or into a particular range away from the earth what happened in this case right well it turns out that you want to be able to do that you have to make that rocket engine restartable and it appears that the chinese for whatever reason to date the rocket launch didn't do that they just left it up there with no plan to bring it down and get control which is the sort of thing we get back in the seventy's but it's really not best practice today. does this give us some sort of insight into the way that

the chinese are thinking when it comes to their development of space. you know they have been getting better about a good space that is a mess. and they used to launch from central china and the lower stages of their rockets would fall on villages in china so this launch was actually going to be a new spaceport in hind and island that watches over the ocean so that's safer unfortunately the the the rocket stage once in orbit either they didn't have a plan to bring it down or whatever plan they had didn't work and they haven't really been forthcoming about it wasn't so difficult to get countries around the world really spacefaring countries around the world to come to some sort of communal agreement about dealing with space junk because one would imagine that the more that there is up there the more difficult and dangerous it becomes to launch a spacecraft into empty parts of space that's absolutely right so it's not just

a problem as you said of things falling down on us it's it's things hitting each other in orbit and they're all going in all different directions at 80000 miles an hour so we're really at the point now where we need stronger international controls on how this happens and you know it started off with space is big there's only a few satellites up there what's to worry and and the use of space has grown the regulations i think of not really kept up just because some of the pictures as you're talking and then if i understand this correctly they're basically nothing but because of all the known pieces of space debris that there is and there is a tremendous amount of that what happens with the legality of if a piece like this for example does come down and does hit an area within another country and that country decides to take legal action. right there is actually in this national treaty. be

a liability for damage caused by space object. however my understanding is that the critique is not a signatory to naturally so i i'm not a lawyer i'm not sure how that plays in here but in general this has come into play a soviet nuclear reactor fell out of the sky on canada back in 1978 and it was a lot of international negotiation on how much of the clean up was not used to pay so this thing does come up from from from time to time and i think it's as as space get busier and busier we're going to see more of that john of the dot we really appreciate your time thank you very much indeed for joining us on al-jazeera so to be here i thousands died from the corona virus in latin america another virus is on the increase to dengue fever is spread by mosquitoes in many countries on the continent health workers there are warning of a record number of cases this year victoria getting reports. from homes in ecuador

to parks in paraguayan to streets in argentina sanitation workers battle to get the outbreak of dengue fever under control more than 3000000 cases were reported last year in latin america and all time high scientists warn the numbers could be even higher. there's a possibility of supporting the historical record of 2009 that's when police via experience the worst epidemic of any disease in his history we had 80000 cases nationwide 61000 were registered in santa cruz. the eighty's egypt imo skeeter carries the day poor sanitation and climate change with a heavy rains and long periods of droughts alone making the outbreak was. doctors across the continent say hospitals are struggling to keep up with the number of new

patients and the cave 19 is further reducing the resources available to treat dengue fever and other diseases we're almost here in as the moment. is the star right now so all of the attention is on covert but there are still problems with the malaria and charge us and provincial areas there's a problem of hospital capacity. dengue fever is not normally fatal and can be treated with painkillers some suffer as experience symptoms such as fatigue weight loss and depression patients with severe cases are advised to go to hospital that many people have been staying away because of the fear of catching cave in 19 or you know the 1st thing i thought was i want to stay home before i expose myself i'm not going to hospital my friends recommended i go but no way i prefer to treat my symptoms at home and only go to hospital if it's serious with 4 strains of dengue in circulation doctors say people may catch it more than once and that the 2nd case

is more likely to be severe victoria gate and be al-jazeera. restaurants are struggling to survive in many countries because virus lockdowns means eating out is off the menu in the united states it's estimated 200000 won't open their doors again and restaurant owners are being forced to get creative to meet the changed eating habits of customers particle hain has more from the u.s. capitol. this is where mike ellis is at his best this is the only career he's known. but after restaurants like this were ordered shot he feared he would be shut out of the kitchen for good it's heartbreaking i mean. it's my career i've i've been in the kitchens i was 12 years old like i don't know what else to do i don't i don't really i mean i'm not an unintelligent or an educated person but i don't have another skill set that i've been working at. for 32 years

that i could use the support through the 2 or 3 children. but he an owner rachel turner so thought they could stay afloat preparing meals people could cook at home and also selling groceries. right now farmers are plowing over crops well many grocery stores have empty shelves part of the problem with the nation's food supply is that half of it is destined for restaurants and bars and it comes in this giant packaging things like this that individual people just wouldn't buy. so restaurants are getting creative repackaging the goods they can still get through their supply chains d.c. based founding farmers showed us how they're doing it. owner dan simon says the idea came out of desperation because he laid off a leaven 100 people he also made the promise to provide all of them free food you know in a situation where there's not a lot to celebrate we've rehired almost 200 and it was 265 i think that was

probably 285 people 1100 that we laid off so it's not enough and we have a long way to go and it's kind of scary and nerve racking but there's definitely some good news in there more. still for traverso as restaurant takeout in groceries is only providing about 10 percent of the money the business is used to making and time is running out so how much time and. i think. are probably. maybe another month there for a lucky. ellis believes that is going to be a problem this is going to go on for 2 more months at least. so as a good the longer it goes on. hopefully people will get tired of cooking at home all the time and they all ask us for help. help for an industry that provides jobs for millions with some predictions saying as many as 200000 restaurants will not

survive. al-jazeera washington. and provide much more on our web site the address for that is w w w dot al-jazeera dot com. this is all it is even these are the top stories the european commission is pushing some member states to lower border restrictions in an effort to restart tourism under its proposal regions which contain the virus would open up france austria and switzerland have already said they'll start relaxing controls as early as this weekend as in paris and she explains that not all countries are on board with the 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 don't

fuel the spread by 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 then the european commission is saying that you know you can't really have a one size fits all plan. thousands of people across england have returned to work people cannot spend time outdoors as long as the follow social distancing rules baiters in scotland wales and northern ireland say it's too early to ease restrictions. the government of a city in northeast china is warning of a major new corona virus outbreak 7 cases have been reported in g leaned more than a dozen infections have also been recorded in nearby sure one city resident donald trump's former campaign manager paul manifold has been released from prison the

rest of his sentence in the home confinement because of coronavirus concerns a 71 year old was sentenced to more than 7 years in prison on tax fraud charges. u.s. secretary of state my pump a 0 has been visiting israel for talks with prime minister benjamin netanyahu a unity government formed by netanyahu and coalition partner benny gantz is to be sworn in on thursday huge peace and peace of a chinese space rocket crashed into the atlantic ocean on monday becoming one of the biggest pieces of space junk to ever freefall to earth it was the core of a rocket that successfully launched a prototype spacecraft into orbit last week the 20 ton piece was 30 meters long and 5 meters wide landed off the coast of modern tainio and those are the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after inside story goodbye.

we'll have a talks between the afghan government and the taliban following further atop the resume's offensive operations against what the president calls the enemies the taliban calls this a declaration of war this is inside story. hello welcome to the program and it's from the cradle to the grave it seems no one is safe from afghanistan and list.