and the our pricing. on al-jazeera saves you money i really really not getting anywhere near it. the e.u. pushes some member states to reopen their borders to kick start this summer's tourist season but not everyone is convinced. hello i'm barbara starr you're watching on dizzier live from london also coming up china locks down a 2nd city after a cluster of new cases and begins a campaign to test everyone in rwanda president from former campaign manager is released from prison to serve the rest of his sentence at home because of the coronavirus and in afghanistan the death toll rises to 56 from the attacks on

a maternity hospital and funeral which stretched into one rival of the deal with the taliban. the thank you for joining us the european union is urging member states to start reopening their borders to help revive the continent's summer tourist season and battered economy france austria and switzerland say that they'll start relaxing their coronavirus closures as early as this weekend germany and some other e.u. states will open their borders by june the 50 s. others though are not convinced spain which has the world's 5th highest death toll plans to keep its borders shop until at least july thousands of people in england meanwhile have gone back to work for the 1st time in 7 weeks but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland say it's too early to relax restrictions and

china has placed a 2nd city under lockdown this week after a cluster of more than 20 cases were discovered in jean well the european union's a summer holiday season is worth $160000000000.00 with tourism providing 15000000 jobs and the e.u. says the industry is at risk of collapse unless urgent measures are taken that the reports from paris. a glimpse of war going on a holiday in some parts of europe will look like this summer barriers separating sun loungers on the greek island of santorini not the beach experience that 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 foul choose 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 struck 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 the 2 countries paris is one of the world's most visited cities they look down has been eased but more humans 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. through. a reward here to be. abroad and friends 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 $6000000.00 tourism jobs in need you could be lost unless the industry is revived the european commission says the challenge is to encourage the sectors recovery but prevent a resurgence of corona virus cases or risk is spreading even further across the bloke who talks about how just 0 hours some britons have returned to their

workplace for the 1st time in 7 weeks with figures are showing the u.k.'s economy shrank by 2 percent in the 1st 3 months of this year the government is keen to get people back to work but the move has been rejected by leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland who say it's too early to relax the measures john howard reports. much has been made of britain going back to work and not much came of it it's only really england that he did boris johnson's call for those who can't do their jobs from home to return the devolved ministrations of scotland wales and northern ireland feel it's too soon too risky and on london's still quiet streets some workers agreed. so you don't know what that effects are it is. so for people to be going to work i don't think is the right time. very very

unsafe. construction sites and factories are some of the places that saw more work taking place many had been allowed to operate throughout the lock down among the big challenges they and other businesses will face is social distancing and transport. the government urged people to walk drive or cycle if possible. and if they have to use public transport to wear face coverings and stand back to back but it may be a while yet before tubes and trains experience a real rush hour you can still social distance on the tube on the victoria line is getting a bit more difficult so you have to switch between carriages if you will see. god is a consultant advising companies how to prepare for the return of busy times at least 60 percent of the space of the officers cannot be used to social distancing so that

means that a maximum of 40 percent can be brought back so we expect the numbers to be to be low even below 40 percent which means that in total in the u.k. more than $8000000.00 people. will have to work from home when social distancing measures are in place with damage mounting the need to restart the economy becomes more urgent every day official figures now point to a 2 percent drop in. g.d.p. in the 1st quarter would be painful enough in normal times but the bank of england is pointing to much worse to come a possible staggering further 25 percent drop in g.d.p. in this 2nd quarter of 2020. that's the biggest economic decline in 300 years with no guarantee of a swift recovery so while you can now some day the play golf visit a garden center and in some cases return to work what you can't easily do is relax and look forward to normal life after covert 19 because the effects will be felt

for years to come jonah how al-jazeera london. a lockdown has been imposed on a 2nd city in northeast china after another 1000 cluster was the scuppered the new cases in julian are raising fears of a possible 2nd wave of infections something the authorities are downplaying the trainer you has more now 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 lunch city was looked 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 that the monitoring system would 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 to hans testing capacity reached $46000.00 people today last month the people who live there say they're not surprised a new cluster is been discovered so we know that a 2nd wave is coming anyway there's no way we can you know prevent. the new sanctions. on that 00. 0000 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 just want to treat al-jazeera they to. the u.s. says hackers based back druther by the chinese government are trying to steal the work of coronavirus researchers the f.b.i. and department of homeland security have warned institutions and companies developed covert 900 vaccines and treatments to be on alert for potential cyber attacks the trump administration blames china for being the source of the pandemic and exploiting its aftermath china dismisses the allegations as groundless groundless our white house correspondent kimberly helka joins us live so 1st of all

kimberly wall can you tell us about these hacking claims. yeah well the concern by the u.s. government and the warning being issued by the f.b.i. as well as a cyber agency inside the department of homeland security is that the more press attention that certain companies or organizations get for their research or their vaccine efforts with regard to krone virus and covert 19 the more vulnerable they become in other words there is this allegation from the u.s. government that china is hacking these companies trying to steal intellectual property data health data as well as other valuable information that could put many therapies even vaccine research so critical right now at risk so the advisement coming from the f.b.i. is that in fact there should be a patch put in place to try and protect vulnerable software also there should be a monitoring of unusual activity but to that end we should point out that further

exacerbating the tensions between the 2 countries china and the united states is another effort underway by the trumpet ministration and that is an extension by this administration of a national emergency executive order signed one year ago roughly may 2019 that in fact occurred a national emergency when it came to the chinese telecom giant while away once again the allegations from the united states that it is using this as an effort or a means of backdoor espionage or so there is a lot of finger pointing going on right now between the united states toward china as you pointed out at the start of the segment the united states blaming china or at least this u.s. president for not doing more to stop coronavirus from leaving china and in fact now spreading throughout the world in terms of this global pandemic the latest actions to try and sort of put in place some punitive action coming in the form of that executive order in the extension of that that has been in the works in the last few

hours here at the white house and kimberly other developments as well coming out of the u.s. when it comes to coronavirus because it's emerged in president trump's former campaign manager this poor man a ford has been released from prison because of fear is related to the corona virus what else do we know. yeah absolutely in fact there has been an effort and it was put into some of the court of virus legislation that's been passed in recent weeks out of the u.s. congress this concern that many of the sort of nonviolent offenders that are in prisons right now are particularly vulnerable because obviously you can't social distance the required 2 meters approximately in some of these tightly packed prisons so many have been lawyers have been appealing on behalf of their clients for their release this is including the former campaign chair for donald trump's presidential campaign paul man a ford who of course pled guilty to conspiracy charges he has served just 30

percent of his 7 year term now he is going to serve the remainder of that from home confinement we understand that his wife picked him up from a low level security prison in pennsylvania and again the sort of the sighting was by his lawyers that he was particularly vulnerable because advanced age he had some underlying health conditions there is a lot of leeway when it comes to the bureau of prisons whether or not they can grant this and in the case of the former campaign chair they granted it and he is now at home to me how can we believe that from the white house can really think you . still to come in this half hour with eating out of the menu for now some of the creative methods that were best friends are using to keep themselves afloat. and part of a chinese rocket becomes one of the biggest pieces of space junk free fall to earth .

however there was still a flood risk yesterday in the border areas binney of normally heavy rain now must it's gone away now though it's not bone driver this big system here is going to produce more significant rain in the alps for fades away the next systems work its way through both portugal and spain will come across the pyrenees again to southern france but more the mediterranean coast which is used to that sort of wet weather there is no useful and we're still a division in temperatures quite warm in the southeast this point not warm still in germany in the british isles but not as it was in the cold wind is so dying down a little bit there's the long division the rain running through most of it light snow with the except what's happening down here in northeastern spain and southwest of france i suspect flash floods from this the focus of madrid reflects what's

happening over most of spain temps not where they should be there in the middle t.j. you got least 2 days of rain thursday and friday before and some states it should be dry and a little warmer of course the consequence of that is that morocco gets it too sacred not to show breeze about that 80 the rain here on show you get some showers now jerry but ahead of it there's a very hot wind coming out of the desert so if a trip for the temps is a very high 40. but . when these young street kids were filmed in burundi little could they have imagined that 30 years later they'd be reunited on camera. an intimate portrayal spanning a lifetime probes the twists and turns of friendship survival and the quest for meaning. in another life

a witness documentary on al-jazeera. the old. welcome back here's a reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the european union is urging member states to start reopening their borders to help revive the continent's summer tourist season and battered economy france austria and switzerland say they'll start relaxing their coronavirus closures as early as this weekend. thousands of people in england have gone back to work for the 1st time in 7 weeks but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland this say gets too early to relax restrictions and a lockdown has been imposed on

a 2nd city in northern china after another coded 1000 cluster was the scabbard authorities are downplaying fears of a possible 2nd wave of infections. while a new 4 day lockdown has come into force in lebanon because of a resurgence in corona virus infections in recent days described as a total lockdown it started at 7 pm local time but it excludes the health agriculture food and manufacturing industries the crisis hit country has been slowly have been slowly starting to emerge from several weeks of restrictions that aggravated its economic crisis. chile's health minister has announced that the capital santiago will be put under lockdown on friday after a surge in new infections their $8000000.00 people will no longer be allowed to go outside except for unavoidable errands or people over the age of 75 across the country have also been ordered to stay home 2660 new cases over the last day

taking the national tally to more than 34000. police in guinea have opened fire on protesters demanding an end to their coronavirus lockdown at least 6 people were killed in towns near the capital kalac saddle height it reports. liberty and freedom of movement is what protesters in several cities in guinea are demanding. angry its coronavirus knocked down measures restricting them from traveling in and out of the capital conakry and in living they blocked roads set fire to police vehicles at several checkpoints built to try and contain the spread of kobe bryant's love for the protesters no work means no. at all we've. learned with fed up with this lockdown the government has abandoned us that killed 5 of their friends but we will continue to protest until they open up the roads again the security forces responded to the

violence on tuesday by firing at the protesters at least 6 people were killed across 3 towns near the capital conakry. when the madness started to lift the protest when i arrived home i got a call telling me my brother's been shot went straight to the hospital but he was already. guinea's one of the worst hit countries by the virus in west africa the government says the emergency measures are necessary protest as though it queues police of mistreating them and demanding bribes to let them through the checkpoints they are not a party. we're tired of the government we're suffering it has no interest in its people in the chick points of causing too much traffic we're stuck calling. dealing with another disease is proving difficult following the ebola outbreak which killed soon a whole 1000 people a few years ago doctors fear the poor health system limited testing and

a lack of sanitation will cause coated 19 to spread fast to try. i don't stop that's happening the government continues to extend nationwide states of emergency human rights watch accuses the government of using it as an excuse to violently crackdown on opposition party members and protest is. the number of coronavirus cases has steadily increased since march despite that protesters say they'll consider need to speak out against the closures curfew and checkpoints. set aside its al-jazeera. restaurants and many countries are struggling to survive as nation wide lockdown staking out off the menu in the u.s. it's estimated 200000 restaurants will not open their doors again and that's forcing many owners to get creative so their customers can dine in particular in reports now from washington d.c. . 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 on educated person but i don't have another skill set that i've been working on for 32 years that i could use the support group that 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 point over crops while 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. 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 survival in. my favor.

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'll 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 pedicle hayne al-jazeera washington and well in new zealand has now ended most of its restrictions and there was no time to lose for one barber the moment the country lifted restrictions on hair and beauty salons conrad fitzgerald opened his doors at one minute past midnight on thursday morning and after 7 weeks at a lock down there were plenty of scruffy customers in need of

a trim and a shave but there were. now prospects for a peace deal in afghanistan appear to be fading after tuesday's attacks on a maternity hospital and the funeral which killed $56.00 people the president ashraf ghani immediately ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban and other on the groups but the taliban denies responsibility for the either attack blaming them both i saw and says it's ready to fight back and brian 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. then i think you are to a problem although i know. my brother is my i 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 farm was off after a few minutes of searching i found my brother among the dead. this attack on us. and another at a maternity hospital in the capital kabul led to afghanistan's president going on the offensive. 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 to water tax and fruits from the taliban and other terrorist groups ordering afghan security forces to switch from an active defense might to an offensive one and to start their operations against the enemies. 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 trust measures are taken immediately by all sides and specifically by the taliban. under the agreement the taliban was to prevent afghanistan from being used as a launching pad for attacks by other armed groups such as i saw and its affiliates was any state both suffered some better feel. they need patients than the americans the noise. of the attacks against or not a question on usenet we started corazon province eisel says its fighters were behind 4 bomb blasts in kabul on monday which wounded 4 people the the un has expressed shock and revulsion at hughes days 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 was staying with my pump a.o. the u.s. secretary of state has met prime minister benjamin netanyahu in israel to discuss a u.s. backed plan to an extent he percent of the occupied west bank that now can start an exciting land as of july and is eager to begin with president donald trump facing reelection in november from proposal for the middle east towards palestinians limited statehood police at home call have fired tear gas at protesters after hundreds gathered in shopping malls across the city it's the 2nd demonstration in 4 days with protesters flouting coronavirus restrictions they gather to mark chief executive carrie lamb on her birthday at least one person was arrested.

they vary from a chinese rocket launched last week re have fall in on to villages in ivory coast a large metal object is reported to have landed in one village the metallic items were also said to have fallen from the sky it was previously thought the entire rocket had learned that in the atlantic ocean on monday china's long march 5 b. of rocket was launched from wenchang space launch center in highland province that is on my dowel is an astronomer at the harvard smithsonian center for astrophysics he says stronger international controls are needed to prevent similar situations they have been getting better and that the good space citizens. and they used to launch from central china and the lower stages of their rockets would seoul and villages in china says its launch was actually going to be a new spaceport in hina an island that looks over the ocean so that's safer unfortunately there the rocket stage once in orbit either they didn't have

a plan to bring it down or 'd whatever plan they had didn't work so we're really at the point now where we need some stronger international controls on how this happens and more on that story and everything else that we have been covering do go and check out our website at www dot cold. now reminder of the top stories on al-jazeera the european union is urging member states to start reopening their borders to help revive the continent's a summer tourist season and battered economy france austria and switzerland say they'll start relaxing their coronavirus closures as early as this weekend spain though plans to keep its borders shut until at least july the summer holiday season is worth a $160000000000.00 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 way the commission is setting out today then we don't have to face a summer struck home or a completely lost summer for the european tourist industry. thousands of people in england have gone back to work for the 1st time in 7 weeks but leaders in scotland wales and northern ireland say it's too early to relax restrictions there. a lockdown has been imposed on a 2nd city in northeast china after another cove in 1000 cluster was discovered authorities are downplaying fears of a possible 2nd wave of infections lebanon meanwhile is resuming lockdown measures for 4 days because of a resurgence in corona virus infections described as a total lockdown it started at 7 pm local time but excludes the health agriculture

food and manufacturing industries policing guinea have opened fire on protesters demanding an end to the coronavirus lockdown at least 6 people were killed in towns near the capital from that protester safe release of been mistreating them and demanding bribes to let them through checkpoints any is one of the worst hit countries by the virus in west africa. and prospects for a peace deal in afghanistan appear to be fading after tuesday's attacks on a maternity hospital in funeral which killed $56.00 people president musharraf's conny immediately ordered the military to resume offensive operations against the taliban as well as other armed groups the taliban has blamed eisel for both attacks but says it's ready to fight. those are our top stories stay with us the stream is coming up next and i'll have more news for you in half an hour hope you'll join me then.

hi anthony ok what you listing in the home edition because i don't need to tell you the coronavirus pandemic study will have china but now china is just getting out for more of its lockdown mandates and it's fascinating see what locked out real life lessons we can learn as the rest of us are coming out of those stay at home mandates how does china going to lead the right ads akhil the station for today if you're in a you tube chat hello welcome nice to see if you have a question you have a comment you have stories to share and go ahead drop them in the you tube chat and help.