mystery after all the inquiries and with military brass now on trial for the people of this island paradise theories a glimmer of hope the truth might finally see the light of day. this is al jazeera. hello and welcome i'm peter double you're watching the news our live from our headquarters here in doha coming up in the next 60 minutes ending months of political uncertainty a new coalition government is due to be sworn in in israel. a power sharing deal to afghanistan ashraf ghani and a dollar a dollar sign an agreement to leave the country for. mass testing of millions

where the corona virus outbreak originated but new clusters are causing concerns in the northeast. good also this hour a country at breaking point brazil's health care system pushed the limit well as president downplays the pandemic. i'm johnny gosch rosco with sports as football returns to germany but not as we know it don't win scored 4 goals that close fans to celebrate with. ok we begin in israel where more than a year and a half of failed elections diplomatic dealmaking and political paralysis have come to an end with a new government expected to be sworn in shortly it's the result of an agreement between the longtime prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his political rival benny gantz each will take. leadership of the country for about 18 months 3

elections had failed to determine one clear winner between the 2 men at one point less than a percentage point separated the 2 parties guns had sworn never to work with netanyahu that was partly due to him being charged with corruption mr netanyahu we're talking about a case which starts in one week's time mr ganns now says he was forced to break that promise to deal with the coronavirus emergency. we decided to take national responsibility especially at this time israel needs a national government that represents broad sections of the country after more than 10 years the era of government by one half of the nation is over we are here to represent those who felt they had no voice in leading this country. live to west jerusalem and our correspondent harry forsett so harry crucially i guess can they work together can they govern instead of getting caught up in a fight with each other. well the details of

the deal that they have made suggest just how much mistrust there is between them as you say gantz had made pretty much his entire albeit short political career he was of course the former army chief about getting rid of netanyahu someone he said was not fit to lead the country he was very recently causing him a poison on israeli democracy and so given the fact that netanyahu is such a survivor and is so expert in pulling all the leavers of the israeli political system it's pretty clear that each man wanted to have as much safeguarding written into all of this as possible and so that's meant 2 things it has meant that they are both being sworn in at the same time as with prime ministerial status prime minister benjamin netanyahu alternate prime minister benny gantz as you say that will be the case for the 1st 18 months of the terms of the deal they will swap

netanyahu will preserve that prime ministerial status even while not being the fully functioning prime minister that seen as something as important to him as he tries to fight off 3 corruption cases the trial due to start on sunday it's also meant a real inflation of the size of government $36.00 ministries it will swell to that's unprecedented it is really history each one really having almost half the government to himself rather than a real sort of integrated traditional style government you might see in other parts of the world of course this is a coalition and these sorts of compromises are familiar to israelis but this precise way of doing it is totally unfamiliar they required a restructuring of voting through of major changes to israel's basic laws and so that level of of mistrust is evident in the very writing of the way that this deal has been made and that's something that the opposition leader yola pede gantz. his

former ally made very clear saying that it's these these men loathe each other and they don't trust each other and they say worse things about each other than i could ever say about them here on the floor of the knesset and mr netanyahu to as well harry reaffirming where he's coming from reaffirming his stance when it comes to an extension of certain areas in the occupied west bank and quote territories. that's right and that's one of the differences between gantz and netanyahu gantz doesn't want to see any unilateral an explosion in the occupied west bank he wants to see some kind of international consensus based on the trump plan that was announced in january under whose terms israel would be entitled as far as americans are concerned to some 30 percent of the occupied west bank the jordan valley and all of the illegal israeli settlements. the u.s. secretary of state might pompei i was here on wednesday for

a very short visit just a few hours and the signals coming from the united states since then have suggested that the u.s. wants to see a bit of a slowdown to netanyahu has ambitions on this under the terms of the coalition deal gantz does no longer have a veto on this and any time from july the 1st on words that could bring it to a vote in the israeli parliament the knesset he says in the knesset today that he intends fully to go through with it that the time is now for applying israeli law as he put it to the jewish communities in the occupied west bank and that it would mark a glorious chapter in the history of zionism there was some shouting of opposition to that remark specially from the palestinian israeli members of the knesset so let me i was still making it very publicly part of his platform to go ahead with this despite the fact that his co-equal or the prime minister doesn't want to do it and

there are signs that the u.s. doesn't want to press ahead too quickly either thanks very much. let's bring in the former israeli justice minister your c.b.l. in front joining us from tel aviv your feeling good to talk to you again we have one prime minister for 18 months and then it's all change we get another prime minister for 18 months after that can it work. apparently not i mean may very well sense right now if there is not present for something like these new changes a lot in the democratic world soul and the government is huge and. it's all it seems very very you optimistic to say good something you can will that day. i believe that it was a must for all syrians because i was there and on they did and that's the it is a result of the 3 consecutive in election campaigns and they had to do something

like that they couldn't that much better that this is now what was known today and yes there is obviously the main thing is who is seeing it is that moment is not a making a huge mistakes that again an expression of the west bank and even if it is very difficult for you either of them to initiate some you like the us it would be not so difficult for them for both of them to prevent the other side strongly doing something which is nearly it totally against their view so they are potentially pardon me for interrupting you mr beilin is there potentially a change in the atmosphere of the choreography coming down the line we were talking to her a force that there he was talking about might pompei or the u.s. secretary of state having been in the region in israel not so very long ago clearly

there's a good relationship between mr netanyahu and the trumpet ministration when it comes to benny gantz the trumpet ministration might say world who and how do we work with him. you know that we have to take him into account and they go should understand that if there is a serious if care of the government and the knesset to annex parts of the year on the west bank it is a cross 3 each of our agreements we appear at all from $95.00 and it will create. a kind of thing else working there in the arab who are. also dangerous to do and i think states it back to you they should understand that this is not in his or any consensus not the norm i mean most of the israelis are against an extension you need to n.c. that there isn't an exception is far off an agreement with the police yes which means being in the context of finance swaps and this is something very very

different from a letter or an extension or 30 per cent per cent of the soul of the of the risks then so i hope i'm not sure but i hope that the new government we all its forms. oh we seem to of had a technical issue there we were coming to end of our conversation anyway mr beilin we'll have to leave it there but thank you so much for talking to us. live television these things happen afghanistan's political uncertainty has come to an end with the president. and his rivals signing a power sharing agreement ashraf ghani and his main challenger abdullah abdullah have been locked into a stalemate over last year's disputed election mr della will now lead the council for peace talks and members of his team will form part of the cabinet let's take a closer look now at that deal well as of february the election commission declared ashraf ghani winner of the elections last year but his rival abdullah abdullah disputed it saying he had won the vote in the months that followed mr abdullah

announced the formation of a parallel government complicating u.s. efforts to reach a deal with the taliban later in the month of march the us secretary of state might pompei of travel to kabul to mediate as washington announced plans to cut $1000000000.00 in aid and now with the power sharing deal in place the next this year will be to decide who will hold the top positions in government let's meet her keamy he's the lead ghana stan research chatham house he joins us from cambridge me how will they do it how will they make it a success moving forward. i think very much this is a national unity government 2.0 the national unity government was the one that was formed at the end of the disputed presidential election of 2014 with the intermediate intermediate intermediation of the of the east state department at the time i think up just looked at the text like anybody else seeing this today it

seems very more comprehensive the key issue is that i was faced in the public domain now that there was always a debate previously about the last government and that the text you know everyone was saying it is of intent to play sure what it meant but to me it looks like dr abdullah actually has been able to leverage the circumstances against president of the need to pretty much come up with a deal way he can now present his backers some of whom are new about hers who are upset by the last experience of working with president money like gen dostum for example he was the former 1st was president in the last election went into doesn't 14 election with the president so it to me looks like dr abdullah has been able to push for the points that he had always argued for but had always complained that were never implemented because the president of the knee was not supporting and

also to me it looks like a 2.0 situation but it tends complicated right here it is there within that complexity where's the guarantee that they won't know do what they do 5 and a half 6 years ago which was then spend 5 years bickering with each other and there was a sense of gridlock at the center of government. i think is the circumstances we have now like anywhere in the world the covert 19 of honest on for example a know it has the potential to be unfortunately the epicenter in the region if it's not contained for instance secondly president trump and the trumpet ministration is an entirely different game of the us foreign policy compared to the obama administration that president johnson very clear it does not want to be the policemen of afghanistan as he said so i think the political elite do not want us on have come to regard zation that they have to work together in order to move forward even if that means that they're going to work together in circumstances

that don't like to work with each other but it has to be done for their own survival but also for making sure that some kind of move forward happens and also the taliban process of of reconciliation with them which at the moment is stuck after the agreement was signed in july and then to february between the u.s. and the taliban to which the afghan government was not a party so that has these are the 3 things and my view that our change compared to the 1014 political elite. is that potentially the biggest problem here and to ask you the question in a different way perhaps are both men abdullah abdullah dr abdullah and afghani are they precisely in the same place when it comes to not throwing open the doors to political office completely wide open to the taliban but hinting at the taliban look if you go with the peace process if you go with what you signed up to in doha

end of february getting of march political office will be coming your way at some point way way way down the line. i think just judging by the various kinds of approaches that we've seen from the 2 persons here i think dr abdullah has been seen and has been intrepid to be a person who can potentially do a far easier deal with the taliban and the taliban find easier to speak with them because he's a person who is seen as kind of in a coming to agreements all the time you know he's coming from the majority in background he's got to get this law me as the political party and they were the government of the taliban in the 1990 s. removed before they were moved back by the us support and bringing back the majority in so there's a history there that potentially allows for abdullah to be able to have an easier ride and communicating with the taliban now having said that the truth is also that president rouhani is seen as the person who is

a technocrat you know he's coming up with these plans for the future of the country so that internal domestic view is that yes well i'm dollar is a person the taliban might be able to speak to president one is also a person who has the capacity to be technocratic president so i think for the taliban now it's really you know it can they can be really go forward now pushing barrow demands on this high council of national reconciliation i think it's called and which abdullah will lead and i'm dollars not going to have a he will not have a an executive role here. but sensibly he's becoming a figurehead for the peace process which can give the pitfalls by the way because if it does fail tomorrow then president money can turn around and say well it was a dollar that you know he was leading get us not my fault ok well mr hotel me i'm going to have to interrupt joe there and they move on to our next item to thank you so much for joining us here on the news are good to talk to you. plenty more still

to come for you here on al-jazeera including they're already too scared to get financial and medical help we'll tell you why latin america's biggest migrant community is now living in fear of racism and with restrictions being used around the world we'll look at challenges for people with compromised immune to tease. plus from the finish line to the frontline speak to a world champion now helping her country fight coronavirus joe has that story in the sports news in about 30 minutes. from. now turning our attention to brazil where curve at 19 has killed more than 15000 people reported infections have surpassed those in italy and spain but the president diables another has repeatedly downplayed the risks and pushed to reopen the economy and many people including health workers feel they're being left on their own to battle the pandemic priyanka gupta reports. it is.

a virus that makes prevail difficult for those who are infected. with little perspired put those claim to treat them this specialized hospital agree or does now a state is on the frontline of brazil's fight against the corner virus the country is the worst affected in latin america and the state has the 2nd highest number of deaths most hospitals are running out of beds and the intensive care units are good while what is today's big problem it's the law of supply and demand the number of doctors very low we're looking for more doctors to hire to run this hospital at 100 percent this disease isn't kidding around whoever thinks it's a joke is going to lose their life people have to take precautions. this neighborhood is one of the poorest in sao paulo and the fires has taken many

people's friends family members and neighbors the district. some of the highest numbers of deaths in the city. clergy were trick is lost his mother to the virus and his father is recovering in a field hospital he's spending his time distributing 3 meals put those who can't afford to eat let me say. i have a mission to fulfill and i'm sure my mother supporting me at this moment i'm sure she's looking at me wherever she is and saying go and play your part and listen that seems critical in a place where social distancing i'm going in water seem like a luxury here details we have all these advice about social isolation wash your hands stay at home but at a price of milk last the richest ones. brazil has some of the highest number of reported deaths on infections in the wild but experts say a lot of testing means there could be been many more. brazil's health minister. ha

stepped down after just weeks of the job the 2nd minister to go so the pandemic began preston jabil so now has a post-war towns and wants to reopen the economist soon though the disease that he's called a little slow is taking the lives and causing much hardship. on disease. patients in chile the biggest migrant community in latin america on the payson often lived in dire conditions many are afraid to seek government medical help for fear of being deported and the pandemic is fuelling racism and see in human reports not from santiago but mother they call them see there is large properties subdivided into small quarters where one or more families live cramped together often sharing a bathroom with up to a dozen other families they're the only option for many haitian migrants in chile like the johnson affair and you can see the kitchen doesn't work the bathroom too

but it's difficult for us to run to here and hi to my children each have their own room i would never bring them here. to be has to largest haitian migrant community outside of the united states and it's public knowledge that they're exploited by unscrupulous landlords and now with the corona virus pandemic they're being discriminated further. out a few weeks ago this sit there with $88.00 rooms became nationwide news health authorities move the haitian residents to a special quarantine area with better facilities but 1st the results of their parole of virus test were published on the municipality his web page violating a patient's right to confidentiality the news spread like wildfire even before the cameras arrived the neighbors began throwing rocks and hurling insults at the haitians because a few of them had been confirmed. carron coronavirus now they tell us that they

feel even more discriminated and vulnerable than ever. the fear of the virus has only increased to stigmatize ation of haitians since ralph gianbattista who works as a community translator but only a 5th of the community is very angry and upset if they'd been from europe from germany this would not have happened relf has always dressed impeccably because he says it helps to counter constant disrespect of blacks by chileans their reason for the very people say get out and blocky there is cruel discrimination here that we can't ignore. it's made worse because many haitian migrants don't speak spanish and don't know their rights and. with very precarious living conditions it's even more difficult for them to survive in a pandemic they charged rents which many can't afford the virus doesn't discriminate but we do. the governor of santiago's metropolitan region agrees that

many migrants are living in inhumane conditions. but when we asked why authorities haven't stopped landlords from renting unsanitary and overcrowded living quarters he blamed the matters on which really. the truth is that authorities have constantly turned a blind eye to a sanitary and human rights dilemma that is punishing those who came here for a better life as never before you see in human al-jazeera sentimental. the race to produce a vaccine is a global priority and it will be discussed at a 2 day world health assembly beginning on monday as countries work around the clock the u.k. has pledged over 100000000 dollars towards increasing its capacity to develop and mass produce vaccines were a challenge is our correspondent following that story for us out of westminster there in central london so rory $100000000.00 offset against what $7000000000.00 people who might need the vaccine maybe it's not that summons of money that big

amounts of money but how's the race going in the u.k. . well boris johnson wants to put the u.k. right at the forefront of research and development into a vaccine for corona virus and this vaccines manufacturing and innovation center which is going to be based outside science compound in oxfordshire certainly if it's gets up and running as the government is touting its to be completed next summer well then it might well have the capacity to make enough vaccines for the entire u.k. population in as little as 6 months so it's a big talk and if you're successful then great but there are some serious kaviak as i said this is not due to be completed until next summer so that's the middle

2021 and also as boris johnson has acknowledged in an article that he has written for the british newspaper the mail on sunday in terms of vaccine developments there is still a long way to go there is no vaccine yet tempering expectations perhaps slightly. we have to prepare ourselves for the possibility that one might never actually come about but isn't really then another mixed message or a mixed signal that the british public have to digest because his health secretary . was kind of coming into line behind what's being said in the states which was well we might have something that looks like a vaccine come september october time and then i'll take a year to produce it bottle it and get it out there. well boris johnson's modus operandi is generally optimism keep talking things up saying everything's going to be 5 but it's a difficult line to trade. for any significant duration of time particularly when

you're in the midst of such a crunching crisis as this and the signs are if you're looking at an opinion poll that was released in the in the newspaper the observer on sunday that supports for the british government's irish handling of the coronavirus crisis seems to be fading at the moments since last weekend's support for the government has dropped by 9 percentage points and that now puts it into negative territory with more people thinking that the government is doing a bad job and thinking they're doing a good job it's not difficult to see why this might be the case 5 days ago the u.k. passed 40000 deaths making it the worst hit country in europe in terms of mortality there is the ongoing scandal over whether or not the government was quick enough to acknowledge the threat that care homes were under with a large number of deaths occurring amongst all people in retirement homes etc got

scandals over the sourcing and supply of personal protective equipment and testing and then there was this week the rather bauch. handling of the easing of restrictions with the government dropping its stay at home message or replacing it with whatever that means a lot of people left quite confused about exactly what they should be doing so yes that does seem to be fraying support for the government at the moment ok rory many thanks. well new clusters of infection have emerged in china's northeastern province of jilin 500 medical staff have been sent there to help with the fight against it after the epidemic risk level was raised from medium to high health officials and who have been have ramped up their amount of testing in the past 24 hours checking over 200000 residents for the virus its goal is to test all of the city's 11000000 residents in 2 weeks with almost a quarter of

a 1000000 being tested alone on saturday now with the virus largely under control across the country the rest of china is slowly reopening production is up and lock downs have been eased with more schools and businesses reopening as well as more flights resuming as of sunday and it's vaccine development there well that is moving forward with some drugs already in the 2nd phase of clinical trials chinese officials hope they can move on to a wider testing scenario by the month of july but as the harding explains some people who are worried that going for a test could expose them. the people in this province have been battling the novel coronavirus longer than anyone else the virus started here in december last year and grew to epic proportions killing more than 4000 people in china alone after months of lockdown and move on the number of cases began to drop them this week there was a cluster of new infections

a new testing campaign is underway to stop the spread the residents fear going to crowded testing centers could put them in danger but. i think some measures should have been taken for example who should be separated when there are many of them is not very good to have too many people gathered in one place some paper where the moscow not safety has become a hot topic especially on social media among the 11000000 residents of this latest campaign is voluntary i think it's fine everyone to keep it on distant offline hof meters from the. old office says the epidemic people have had a great sense of responsibility to keep our distance from each of us to reduce risks there are now nearly 5000000 cases of covert 1000 around the world more than 300000 have died what started in china may be returning for a 2nd wave leah harding al-jazeera sort of club is in hong kong.

some of the latest data we've got from the national health commission out of china we've got 5 new cases reported on sunday 2 of those cases are imported and 3 are from this province known as the jilin province this is an area or province the border is russia and north korea it's in the north east of china and the government there has reported that the total tally so far of about $144.00 cases now the mayor in julian city it's his now does describe this as a serious outbreak and as a result the government in the city and across the province have put in place a number of control measures and restrictions and some of that includes the city being put in past lockdown as schools have been closed across the province of also got some of the residential compounds have been locked down as well gatherings both indoor and outdoor have been banned and the transport systems we're talking about the trains there's a long and short distance routes they've been partially stopped for now the governor is also pushing for increased the screening of those residents in this particular area medical teams as you mentioned before about 500 medical staff have

arrived in julian city to try and test and ramp up the procedures look at the people who not only get infected but the residents in that province to try and stem and curb the spread of the krajina virus outbreak and resins have also been advised not to leave the city but as we identify this particular class or the outbreak in the northeast of china we have got a lot of a huge part of china back to business as usual in the city of shanghai we've got some more classes in schools resuming this week we've had the high grades a regime class but now the lower grades are returning to class as well and we've got some tourist attractions they've also been reopened we're talking about the forbidden city in beijing as well as the disneyland resort in shanghai and as you mentioned earlier some of the flights returned to 60 percent of the pre outbreak level that's the mainland domestic travel routes so despite the outbreak you have got a large part of china returning to business as normal and when you look at the figures

if you believe the official data being. least by china we have got low numbers when you compare them to the likes of the united states and parts of europe. you know you go a british weather forecaster cause we brits have a particular way of saying the word rain if we did feather and it didn't rain you're born in it we live with it we grew up with it we need it there peter we need it and i know as much as i have how the us as we said a lot of rain too much rain let me share i'm talking about and also calls the 1st tropical storm of the atlantic hurricane season it has been a busy few days across all these different oceans this is actually a tropical storm this is arthur but actually back across several central areas this is where already we've seen some very heavy amounts of rain but the latest is this is that this are when is the 65 kilometers an hour as it really is just a minimal strength tropical storm gusting of that moving at a fairly good pace up to the north northeast keeping off shore for the most part as well and actually the rain because it's offshore is not too bad unlike these other areas so this is in texas this was just

a little creek which because of all the recent rain is now raging torrent and look at this up into northern texas a water spout forms obviously over the lake so this is what i mean this is where the mass of the rain is but this is author this is going to work its way steadily as i say staying off the east coast it will of course brings in strong winds and gusty winds along the coastal areas and then some very heavy rain across much of the south and again up into the midwest and in fact here i was telling you that maybe 50 millimeters of rain will come from arthur but actually cross into ohio and michigan we could see as much as 100 or 120 millimeters now through monday this storm system actually could just brush the north carolina coast it won't make landfall the rain will be heavy out towards the west and then off to then peter this is expected to move out into the atlantic become extra tropical and sort of hopefully disappear but it's a few days away we'll keep an eye on it ok jenny many thanks talk to. still to come here on the news hour for you. it's a very young workforce with very little experience under strain warnings

a lack of funding for emergency workers in the u.s. could be costing the community. can man's best friend sniff out coronavirus we'll tell you about a new trial underway in the u.k. . and taking every precaution re step to return to the op to show you how m.m.a. is coming back after a pandemic bowls. and isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another side of this story are some of the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact it's reality has a lot exposing ticks triad for manipulating rhetoric and claims but they cannot manipulate the virus listening post your it's like going to the media on al-jazeera

. with no guaranteed paid sick leave millions of americans are forced to choose between work and health i don't use my leave to get my mammograms i use my leave to care for my mother as the coronavirus brings employment blows into focus fold lines examines the human cost of losing business before. united states has fallen behind people get sick the impossible choice america's paid leave crisis on al-jazeera. war. welcome back let's just recap your top stories here on the news hour israel's new coalition government led by the prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his former

rival benny gantz is due to be sworn in shortly the deal to govern together came after 3 general elections failed to determine one clear winner. afghanistan's political uncertainty has come to an end with the president and his rival signing a power sharing agreement ashraf ghani and his main challenger abdullah abdullah will share control of the government. the number of infections in brazil have surpassed those in italy and spain its death toll is now more than 15500 people hospitals are struggling with shortages of i.c.u. beds and doctors. while the pandemic is having a significant impact on world economies iran was in bad shape even before the break mainly because of years of u.s. sanctions some business is doing everything they can to keep the doors open zain basra isn't tehran. more than 83000000 people live in one of the most sanctioned countries in the world domestic brands dominate this big consumer market and how

well the tehran stock exchange has been doing in recent years challenges conventional thinking about iran's economy through check out of the cold you do not have overrule the government intends to support the growth of the stock market this is our production we will help this market continue to flourish i say again the government is determined to increase the sales of its shares this is produced positive expectations and will continue to do so. sanctions have forced domestic investment which has been good for many local businesses but the covert 9000 pandemic has meant lost revenues in april 1 of iran's biggest government run holding companies decided to sell 10 percent of its shares its portfolio is enormous assets include mobile operators shipping companies pharmaceuticals construction petro chemicals the list goes on a public offering is unprecedented and generating excitement about investing in stocks iranians who normally put their savings in real estate gold foreign currency

even cars are investing heavily in the stock exchange and the government is making it easier to do so. in the past people mostly deposited the savings in banks banks invested it now it's become very simple there's a website the comprehensive financial information people register online and receive a trading code and they can buy she is 3 different broca's. but some iranians worry this is a cash grab during a downturn that this might be a bubble and new investors in a speculation driven market could lose their money. meanwhile small business is a major part of iran's commercial landscape have been circling the drain since the beginning of the outbreak. public bath and downtown had dozens of customers every day before the pandemic oh. we haven't had any business for a long time we kind enough to even pay the water bill if it continues like this we

would have to hand back these places to eat or not while there is growing confidence around the stock market working class iranians remain the most financially vulnerable many people living in this city have more immediate concerns like keeping a roof over their heads and food on the table in fact there are families that would indeed find it difficult to get by if it wasn't for the daily food rations they receive from local charities privatizing state owned assets means iran's post coronavirus economy could see more control in public hands something that could lead to long term growth but for now the economy is doing what it has been doing for years shrinking and working class communities feel the squeeze the most. wearing face masks is now compulsory in cattle for people going doors anyone caught without face protection will have to pay nearly $55000.00 u.s. dollars or face up to 3 years in jail the new measures come into effect as the country struggles to stop the spread of the virus is now recorded more than 30000

and factions but the mortality rate is very low with just 15 deaths. as the u.s. congress debates financial aid to states new york the epicenter of the outbreak is facing a $61000000000.00 budget deficit and there are warnings it's affecting essential services al-jazeera as kristen salumi has more. emergency medical services station 18 the bronx at the peak of the code 19 pandemic one of the busiest call centers in new york city. ambulance crew saw their daily call volume more than double and the number of cardiac arrest skyrocket along with their stress levels anthony recalls responding to 13 cardiac arrests over the course of a 16 hour double shift you're going into the fray doing all your protocols and everything you can to be the people you think you should be able to get him back to you and not. wait this person was just talking to me like why are they dying

says the strain has taken a toll on him and his colleagues most of whom have much less than his 17 years of experience the average age of a new york e.m.t. just 25 it's a very young workforce with very little experience. and that's dangerous its friends lives the union argues that low pay and high stress have led to high turnover and a less experienced workforce the people of the city a literally dying because of the lack of experience and the retention problem that . anti's are a part of the new york city fire department but they don't receive similar pay or benefits to other 1st responders in fact they make tens of thousands of dollars a year less than firefighters police officers and sanitation workers with similar levels of experience while the mayor has heralded the work of e m t's and called for federal assistance to help front line workers $200000000000.00 nationally to establish hazard pay for essential

workers and their survivors the city does not formally recognize the m t's as a uniformed emergency service they've been working without a contract for more than a year we go into dangerous situations all day long shooting stabbings what have you and. now we're going into situations where we still respond to all those calls and everybody is a potential covert patient so it's it's fighting a war against an invisible bullet he worries that strain has and will continue to cost lives and the department as well as the community it serves kristen salumi al jazeera new york. former u.s. president barack obama has criticized donald trump's handling of the pandemic speaking at a virtual ceremony for thousands of high school graduates he said they have to quote seize the initiative where leaders have fumbled more than anything this pandemic is folly finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the

folks in charge know what they're doing a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge that the world's going to get better it's going to be up to you all throughout the couvade 19 pandemic older adults and people with underlying medical conditions have been especially at risk that includes those whose immune system has been compromised which means it's harder for the body to fight infections or other illnesses and people are more prone to get sick if they have this condition and that usually includes people receiving cancer treatment long term dialysis because of kidney failure or those who need bone marrow organ transplants as countries lift restrictions the u.s. centers for disease control is advising those with that condition to continue with strict social distancing guidelines. cindy's seaways a manziel is a medical doctor who deals mostly with hiv aids patients she says it's important that people continue to follow their regular treatments and don't panic. we do know

that people whose immune systems are compromised and i to higher risk of contracting curve at 19 and also most of you symptoms if they cut curve at 19 h.i.b. is different in the sense that if you are infected and you start taking antiretroviral treatment and taking it properly and the virus and to control and we don't expect you to be at that risk and i say this because i live in a country that the highest number of people living with aids i.v. and we have over 4000000 people on treatment so we expect people on treatment whose viral loads and detectable not to be not to be too consumed and what we don't want is for people that are living with a tent to be in and having a septic suppressed viral loads to panic and you can imagine if everyone that was given that started panicking and to creep in the health system so you know a lot of my messaging right now during 1000 with regards to its heavy is to stress

that if you are in treatment and you are taking treatment properly and your virus and its example in you shouldn't need to worry if you are not in treatments or used to be on treatment and you stopped it encourages drug treatments and get your viral loads done as soon as possible. ok let's wrap up some other top stories for you 3 female leaders of the opposition in zimbabwe who went missing earlier this week have been found outside the capital harare they disappeared during a demonstration led by the movement for democratic change the women say they were beaten and sexually assaulted after being taken into police custody opposition party leaders say forces working for the president were behind the abductions there claim some bob ways ministry of information says an investigation is now under way nelson chamisa is the leader of the m.d.c. he says the united nations should investigate the abductions. well we had the records and reports of our youth leaders being arrested i

rested after time there was a demonstration in one of the high get. when they were. demonstrating again a lockdown without the necessary support on troop support on groups . when this arrest was affected it was expected on day right here that people. who had alleged to participate in the demonstrations but what we then got was that there was an abduction of those people could not be accounted for particularly our youth leaders that 3 female youth leaders there were only a pounds the next day dumped by the roadside in the outskirts of cairo but they make an allegation that there were sexual abuse. they were treated in a way and inhuman and degrading treatment they were also subjected to excessive

torture during the night and that is the report 3 then. put across and we have even seen meds and appealed to the international community in particular the united nations to look into this matter because it has become a patent this economic trends of people being subjected to these abductions 15 pro-democracy activist judges have here in court in hong kong on monday they were arrested last month on charges of unlawful assembly the case is drawing attention to the role of beijing's new top envoy in the territory as he tries to stop a resurgent protest movement adrian brown reports from hong kong. china's liaison office in hong kong is a potent symbol of chinese rule over this city it represents the interests of the ruling communist party. in january lou haining was appointed its top envoy analysts describe him as president xi jinping xin forcer hardliner.

i think is someone with the fist in the glow i think he is someone who is. sitting being trusts he's someone who is experienced in security matters and is someone who is here in the party the central committee member. against a soothing soundtrack blue recently outlined china's priorities including a call for a new security law. term you chose hong kong sole representative to china's parliament the national people's congress and he's met lou. the way he is very practical and reasonable person is also very gentle he has a responsibility to get hong kong back on the right track. since lou's appointment police have arrested 15 prominent pro-democracy figures and detained hundreds of other activists including a 13 year old student. the police tonight are using social distancing rules to

contain a resurgent protest movement china's top envoy in hong kong is worried about another disease what he calls the political virus warning that china will not sit back and allow what he calls this demented force to continue and that's led to accusations that china's government is simply exceeding its powers here and the policy is now much more confrontational much more willing to directly into feeing intervene in what was previously been the affairs of the hong kong government. it's been a fractious time in hong kong's parliament as well where quarrels are turning violent ahead of elections in september in which pro democracy politicians are expected to win more seats and that's not an outcome china's leaders want adrian brown al-jazeera hong kong. to syria where there is a growing rift among the president's inner circle

a cousin and business tycoon has refused to step down as head of the largest mobile operator in the country in a 16 minute video posted online ramiele kloof says the collapse of syria tel would be a catastrophic setback for the economy he says he's under pressure to earn profits from his empire or face arrest this is the 3rd such video kloofs posted in recent weeks. researches in the u.k. think sniffer dogs may be able to tell if people are infected with the coronavirus before they show any symptoms it could provide a fast noninvasive way to detect the disease charities teaming up with the university for a trial 6 dogs will be given samples of the smell of infected patients and they'll be taught to distinguish it from people who do not have the virus. still to come here on the new stuff for you action from a strange day of soccer germany's league restarts its met shoes after the coronavirus closed up.

eyes early test treats and trace frank assessments why is italy struggling to cope with the number of coronavirus pushed failure to take really aggressive action we get them behind her informed opinions it's going to be much more challenging in a place like he did with there's one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the dates global headlines india done enough to miss the spread of coronavirus in the inside story on al-jazeera. the latest news as it breaks the mind sits within a valley surrounded by bush land and most of its operations happen about 500 meters but the surface with detail coverage the malaysian navy has recently prevented a boat carrying around $200.00 range of refugees from landing from the around the world summit leaders are accusing their opponents of trying to topple that by

tampering with financial stability. times course mr peter thank you always start with an athlete who's gone from the finish line to the front line to help a country beat curren a virus and other illnesses yana pittman was a world champion 400 meter hurdler twice and represented australia 2 summer olympics she then switched to bob slater rice of the games in sochi in 2. 14 becoming the country's 1st female athlete to compete at both the summer and winter olympics now pittman is a newly qualified doctor he's been working in

a hospital in western sydney i spoke to her earlier how about how she's hitting the ground running in her new career it sure was a big shock to sort of finish medical school and have this whole idea of what your life in medicine was going to be to go straight into a well pandemic so in many respects i feel quite privileged because i don't think it's something that many who will be experienced and we learn very very fast so the skills we sort of picked up in those fees of medical schools got put to the test pretty quickly and it was definitely a challenge certainly dealing with pressure and and expectations as being something that in sport you had to get very views to big crowds and and dealing with the unknown and in this pandemic situation and certainly in medicine as a whole having that sort of ability to overcome stress and disaster and pick up where you think you're really hit or hit the bottom end of a road it's been a has been a success for me so i really hope that that continued sort of question from my sport carries into medicine and i feel like i've got a big career to go and achieve hopefully more so than i ever did in school well

actually i never wanted to be an athlete so it was one of those thing the sort of fall into i guess my personality was always going to be good towards something where you could really push yourself in and set really difficult goals and overcome challenges and as a child i always wanted to be a doctor sorry to be on the front line to be helping people and it doesn't matter whether you know what you look like or what you know your brain capacity as long as you can help someone is a real benefit so sport for me was almost a distraction a very lovely one it was wonderful competing for australia it was a real real honor to integrate and go through my beautiful country but it's certainly far more rewarding now that i've come out the other end and graduated as a doctor. the german football league is back up and running 6 matches were played on saturday with no fans in attendance david stokes reports. darby de adornment usually attracts more than $80000.00 but not this time to get the season started again very much against shell like all been this league games were subject to strict health and safety rules including a ban on fans it made for an area atmosphere but no surprise to see the 1st goal

scorer shut down by 19 year old eling holland picking up where he left off 2 months ago now with a new social distance celebration. it was the 1st of 4 goals for dortmund as they thrashed their rivals by closing to within one point at the leaders by munich the players made sure they carried out their trademark post match salute to friends even if it was only in spirit normally say 2000 but but we knew that we we had the support at home from the fans what everybody misses energy which is stadium has if it's sold out of it's a full grown this is what everybody misses worldwide around a 1000000000 people watched the 1st major european league to restart amid the pandemic these dope and fans gathered at one of the club bars and were happy to have something to cheer about. if you are around with the right people it still

works the mood is great in the sense of the numbers but it's nice to see football back again we can celebrate and be out for a bit we're pleased. to see you know because if you ask me 61 minutes ago i would have said i'm not sure but now we are winning 3 nil i think it's awesome your presence in good spirits may have been high but this was still nowhere near normal for a match day in a country that still has hundreds of positive coronavirus cases every day. for good reason normally the bar would be attacked but the feeling is different people are tense the usual feeling is missing this time. authorities had been worried about fans gathering outside stadiums on much days but indorsement and elsewhere on saturday they followed the rules and stayed away i should say here's another to go into who leaked probably the pleas by the city police to stay watch the match home could have worked with very pleased by this as it helps avoid infection. 6 ponderously games were played across germany on saturday and it's so far so good

but there's still 76 to go if they're to complete the season by the end of june it remains to be seen if other european leagues will follow suit david stokes al-jazeera new york's governor says motor racing and horse racing can resume in the states next month without fans andrew cuomo has listed several tracks including belmont park the track is still scheduled to run the 2nd jewel in racing's triple crown the belt in belmont stakes on june the 6th the 1st race in the series the kentucky derby had already been postponed to september fans were also locked out of this mixed martial arts event in the correct word the 1st take place since the korean a virus pandemic fighters had their feet disinfected before entering the up to gone as part of health precautions around $120.00 people did attend the event with medics firefighters security guards in the arena wearing masks alongside the fighters coaching staff and referees. all right that is all useful for now peter thank you so much 30 minutes of world news for you when we come back in

a couple minutes see that. apart after poverty. one dishes a town. one i want to visit the cooking school serving up good to vietnam disadvantaged and downtrodden. on al-jazeera on the deserted streets of they've become familiar figures couriers on bicycles delivering food or medicine to lock down colombians most of them here are venezuelan migrants my bomb is a mother of 4 says contagion is always on her mind none of them receive health insurance for their work and exposing themselves and very few seem to have it yet there may be a bright side people who look down on them as own skilled migrants now say they're essential to control the virus i receive messages on the out saying that we are you

knows i was a nurse back home what i am doing is not all that different from my passion helping others. when a military coup overthrew chile's marxist president one stadium's became prisms and the hunters sole objective was absolute control. publicly refused to accept dictatorship episode 4 of football rebels expose the life of carlos. the footballer whose personal story swayed of votes that altered the history of his country carlos caselli and the demise of i ended a on al-jazeera. al

jazeera. and. for. ending months of deadlock and deal making a new coalition government is to be sworn in in israel. hello again i'm peter w. watching al jazeera live from doha also coming up man's testing of millions where the corona virus outbreak began but new clusters are causing concerns in the northeast of china. accusations of abduction and torture zimbabwe's government is to investigate the alleged beating of female.