where retreat from the world could actually save every generation has its moment this one is ours. japan slips into recession the world's 3rd largest economy is on course for its deepest slung since world war 2. comrade matheson this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up india extends its coronavirus lock down for a 4th time bringing more misery from migrant workers trying to head home. the brazilian president rallies his supporters there backing his call to lift

restrictions despite an increasing number of cases. and a deal in israel as prime minister benjamin netanyahu takes the lead in a unity government to end a long running from the tickle crisis. the world's 3rd largest economy has slipped into recession japan has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic its economy shrank for the 2nd consecutive quarter by just under one percent in the 1st 3 months of this year but i'm as he had announced a massive relief program last month to keep the economy on track japan has recorded more than 16000 cases of the virus and close to 750 deaths michael pan is the president of the shin gets a news agency he's joining us from tokyo as always thank you very much for joining us on the al-jazeera 8 it's not just the pandemic is it though that's been causing

these problems there was a lot leading up to this situation wasn't there. you know unfortunately we seem to have a few audio problems with michael there we will try and get him back later in the program but in the meantime let's carry on for the moment india has extended a nearly 2 month old lock down by another 2 weeks is it battles to control the rising number of infections india saw its highest daily spike on sunday with nearly $5000.00 cases taking the total to more than 95000 charlotte reports. behind each of these padlocks is a closed shop in this once thriving way spangle alley inside a half finished i don't see that make them haven't worked nearly 2 months they have now learned it will stay this way into. the situation and

lockdown is such that when it was spring lock and we had orders for our doors and the 100 got side with us we could have managed but it was all closed so while the situation is going on we have not worked it has been raining yes. india is extending its not down for another 2 weeks because cases keep rising sunday so the highest daily jump yes it's nearly 5000 fictions schools moves in other public places will stay closed but some moves are being relaxed recovered 19 is more contained mainly in the areas. a look down extinction is bad news for migrant workers who are losing the job in the times of the urban exodus is unprecedented you know without quality they started gathering here since late last night we have been persuading them to not gather here and also to take trains or

buses and a white on safe mode of france were patient we have sent some on buses but it is still very crowded here public transportation is completely overwhelmed physical distancing is not an option the indian government range from buses and trains this week but with a population of nearly 1400000000 this simply no room for everyone all i can go i don't know why god will i feel special my going to the vision for me but nothing happened my form will get done to me i think the doubts are making money off duty charging money and the money. gets the ticket. it means migrants of fools to hitchhike on trucks to dangerous option 24 laborers were killed this week in order pradesh when a truck crashed. simply with their children and them only for hundreds of kilometers that got out of i applied for transportation but my application was never approved i'm a daily wage labor how can i save enough to feed my family in such troubling times

we have no rations and my children are hungry we have to go home and with the nation wide lockdown no exchanges any relief and still some weeks off shall a bonus which is here. brazil's president was rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown is attacked the governor's events are just restrictions in an effort to stop the spread of the virus the president's push to reopen comes despite 15000 deaths in brazil more than all other latin american nations combined . reports. hundreds of supporters of president. once again poured into the capital brasilia on sunday. honking their car horns to call for an end of all isolation measures in the country. you know people think oscillation is not being done in the right way there is no previous experience in the world of closing everything down just to see what happens but. rallies have become

a weekly event in this city coronavirus cases are still increasing rapidly across the country but the president is keeping up his fight against distancing measures imposed by local authorities. also not agreed it is supporters in front of the presidential palace what was new is that for the 1st time he and his enterprise were wearing face masks but that didn't stop him from shaking hands and embracing a young supporter dressed in a military uniform and attacking what he calls the terror of total is only. calling for the reopening of the economy and urging people to get back to work. we will change brazil's destiny even with this crisis affecting the entire world thanks to ministers thanks to the wonderful people here we have. 50000 brazilians have died of 1000 so far though experts fear the figure is

probably much higher with many cases because of insufficient testing and no where is the situation worse in the region. on sunday residents of this neighborhood in took it into their own hands to disinfects the streets of the city with the highest rate of infection in the country. we talk about initiative because we lost we have a lot of victims and on neighborhood and that was the tendency if we did not. and now there are growing. fast river into isolated indigenous reserves. members have already been confirmed dead but without testing our access to adequate medical care nobody knows how many lives will be lost. the death toll in the us is approaching 90000 but with the number of new cases on the decline more than 2 thirds of states are beginning to reopen but as health

experts worried about a new wave of infections i think jocasta has more. crowded new jersey beaches are one sign that coated 19 infections and deaths are on a downward trend in parts of the u.s. comfortable being up here but i am surprised there are so many people but the progress in overcoming the pandemic is not uniform across the country with experts warning against rushed reopening there are some states that are still having increasing daily numbers of cases some states that are flat some states that are going to new york the virus epicenter has seen new cases hover around 2000 a day down from its one day high of 11000 a month ago i'm going to show you how fast any see it is to take a test governor andrew cuomo showcase new york's expanded testing capacity getting a no swab on live television to encourage new yorkers to be unafraid of the procedure that's it nothing else does the president have confidence in the

meanwhile one of president donald trump's top economic advisers criticized the centers for disease control and prevention peter navarro blamed the c.d.c. for distributing flawed test kits in the early weeks of the pandemic not only did they keep the testing within the bureaucracy they had a bad test and that did set us back president reached back further to cast blame more than anything this pandemic is responding to former president barack obama's thinly veiled criticism saturday of trump's handling of the pandemic but he was an exasperated president that's all i can say roughly is that trump has vowed to reopen the economy with or without a vaccine while some americans continue to protest local movement restrictions public health officials have been unanimous reopening too soon is a game that gambles with people's lives castro al-jazeera silver spring maryland. but it was branch of america's military the space force has launched its 1st

mission in the united launch alliance atlas 5 rocket which the unmanned spacecraft blasted off from cape canaveral in florida after being delayed for a day by bad weather officials haven't revealed the purpose of the mission nor are they saying how long it's going to remain in orbit the solar powered vessel has flown several times before but this is its 1st mission with the space force which was established in december malaysia's parliament has convened for the 1st time since the resignation of its prime minister mahathir mohamad was replaced by his deputy milky deniece scene it was appointed by the king in march that happened after musketeer failed to form a new unity government bonds louis is in the malaysian capital kuala lumpur with more on how the session unfolded. the government had limits at the meeting today to just the king's speech now and so for opposition politicians there will be no

chance to debate a motion of no confidence that been put forward by the man the prime minister replacing mahathir mohamad has put forward a motion of no confidence against the prime minister opposition politicians say this is an illegitimate government that doesn't have the people's mandate and they want to test his support in parliament that is not going to happen on monday that also be no opportunity to discuss the economic measures that the government has put in place to cushion the economic fallout caused by the corona virus pandemic now opposition politicians have said that they will respect the agenda even though analysts have said they could show how unhappy they are that this meeting has been limited by staging a walkout on the king in his address has called for unity in the government but the political drama in malaysia is set to continue the opposition politicians issued a statement on sunday to say they will continue opposing this administration and they want to try and regain power now the government has said it's limiting the setting to just one day because of the corona virus pandemic because the country is

still trying to contain the spread of the virus but malaysia has begun to ease restrictions put in place since 2 weeks ago. scuffles a broken out in hong kong's parliament between pro-democracy and probing politicians there are erupted over the failure to elect a new chair for a key committee it's meant to scrutinise bills and it's been with those leaders since late last year the backlog of bills includes one that would criminalize abuse of china's national anthems. still ahead on al-jazeera we're going to tell you why burundi will have elections even though health experts say it's not a good idea. sigh of relief for u.s. economy as carmakers send employees back to work but will anyone be buying.

hello we've got plenty of hot sunshine in the forecast across the middle east and that includes further north as well we're seeing a heat wave into the southeast of europe and those high temperatures spread into the levant as well getting up around the 38 degree mark in damascus and jerusalem that's 100 in foreign hot hottest still in baghdad and kuwait hot enough here in doha to around 38 celsius over the next couple of days more hot sunshine then as we go on through the coming days you very little else to speak of the hot sunshine stretches across it's in all the parts of africa showers there just around the ethiopian highlands the seasonal range that stretch all the way across into the gulf of guinea and they can be alive the side here as we go through the next day or so into calmer southern parts of nigeria still seeing some very heavy right the rains extending their way across northern areas of the democratic republic of congo you can see a little more in the way of showers pushing ever tools eastern parts of africa as

you go through the next day or so so it's not clear at the moment but as we go through the next day it's a respect in this area of showers to start filtering over towards that eastern side of tanzania eventually we will see the showers also push into the eastern side of kenya to the south of that is fine dry and sunny. i don't think in isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise leave the looking at another side of the story not from mark the information around the outbreak but the misinformation separating propaganda from fact look it's reality and you have to reject a lot exposing the optics triathlon if the rhetoric and shit but they cannot manipulate the listening post your insight guide to the media on al-jazeera.

you're watching i'll just get a reminder of our top stories this hour the world's 3rd largest economy is in recession as the coronavirus pandemic hits business and industry hard to pan's economy receded by almost one percent in the 1st quarter of the year. n.p.r. has extended the nationwide lockdown for that least another 2 weeks schools malls and other public places will remain closed and shut downs for thousands of migrant workers to head back to their home states often on foot. brazil's president said about it was rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown there this despite 15000 put on

a violence deaths more than all other latin american nations combined. ok let's go back to our top story in japan the world's 3rd largest economy slipping into recession michael pens the president of the gets a news agency he's joining us now from tokyo michael thanks very much for sticking with us we had a few audio problems alyea wrong but glad we've got you know i was asking you before the fact that depend demick is essentially just the latest in a long line of problems that japan's economy has been facing is not. yeah that's right you know japan would probably have been heading into a recession to time even if none of us ever heard the word covert 19 you know the biggest issue was already in october 1st of last year japan raised its consumption tax its national sales tax from 8 percent to 10 percent and this stimulated a very very deep. negative growth in the last quarter of last year

and so then with the added impact of the travel restrictions that were coming into force in the 1st quarter of this year this has definitely pushed japan into recession and probably in the current quarter april to june with all of the lock downs and all of that japan looks like it's in for a very very difficult. 9 month period economic decline one of the impacts of this also of course was the postponement of the olympics to what extent has that played a role in the situation that facing. that will of course have a significant economic impact on japan although it's most likely that that will come in later in the year because a lot of that economic stimulus that japan was expecting simply won't be there because those masses of people from around the world or and you know expected in

the shops and running around the city and in the hotels won't be coming in but on the other hand we don't even know next year whether or not the olympics will really be able to be held depending on the issue of. how the coven $1000.00 crisis goes in the future so that's also a pending issue michael we've talked a lot about the impact of what's become known as abby in the mix the economic policies of sin so obvious over the last couple of years or so to what extent do you think has this picked everything that he has been able to achieve and what does this mean for him politically in the future. right well i think ave nomics was probably played out long before this time anyway that program was launched in 2013 which is 7 or 8 years ago now and it was meant to stimulate the economy with a lot of spending in order to allow the government to do various kinds of

structural reforms while they spent the money but they didn't really do the structural reforms so they are big nomics program was probably pretty well dead anyway as for his political situation he's now in a very difficult situation for other reasons the economy but also he's perceived as having mishandled aspects of this crisis and his own administration is divided internally so our base definitely a much much weaker position now than he's ever been since his return to power in december 2012 michael as always good to get your thoughts thanks to again for sticking with us off earlier problems michael paine is president of the get so a news agency he's joining us via tokyo thank you. after more than a year and a half of inconclusive elections and political paralysis a new israeli government has been sworn in longtime prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his rival benny gantz have agreed to share power each will spend 18 months in charge of the faucet reports from west to receive them.

even after 3 inconclusive elections and being charged in 3 corruption cases benjamin netanyahu has shown once again that he's going nowhere we thought we would with no else of great responsibility benny gantz and i decided to form a unity government and avoid a further really how far i have to look at the division and distrust remain evident in this unity deal now you know who in his former rival benny gantz have written into it all kinds of guards against betrayal sworn in similar taney asli as prime minister and alternate netanyahu to go 1st then gantz after 18 months an unprecedented 36 ministries shared equally. 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. but gans also

predicted bitter arguments to come one big difference their position on an exciting 30 percent of the occupied west bank under the terms of the trump peace plan dance is calling for a delay in consultation netanyahu is doubling down. on it it is time to apply israeli law and rise a glorious chapter in the history of zionism this state doesn't delay peace it brings it closer because peace must be based on the truth and the truth is that there are hundreds of thousands of settlers and you dare and sumeria under the coalition deal netanyahu can bring an extension for a vote anytime after july the 1st veto power of the terms of the deal say that annexation has to be carried out in coordination with the us and must not threaten any regional peace treaties and now the u.s. seems to be signaling that it wants to see a delay and jordan's king says annexation would cause massive conflict with israel

netanyahu and dance so the new government answers the call of the israeli people at a time of pandemic and economic crisis dances for opposition ally says it serves the interests of politicians not voters accord look at how this government was established 0 trust between the partners everything through lawyers and court debates overriding the basic laws people who don't believe a word the other says. it is at least for now a functioning government the 1st israel has had a nearly 18 months but its structure is unprecedented and faces severe tests of the impact of the coronavirus and accession and having a prime minister whose corruption trial is due to start next sunday are a force that west to saddam. political campaigns in britain they have ended the head of wednesday's general election the been marred by violence and hate speech with both sides blaming each other catherine sort reports. supporters of bullies main opposition candidates. on the streets of the capital which they

hope that he'll win wednesday's general election he has run for president twice before but lost he says his victory was stolen by a president. who is not standing this time campaigns have been marred by sporadic violence between supporters of the ruling c n b d f d d party. in congress for liberty party government officials say 3 people have died this injured and many arrested all of this is meant to intimidate the opposition so as to guarantee the victory of the ruling party but this is quite clear nonsense . at the other end of town thousands attend the ruling parties final campaign president that accompanies his preferred candidate every session to supporters are confident victory belongs to them that she is one of the most influential

politicians in buti and a close ally of the president he's a former rebel fighter who survived the ethnic cleansing of students of hutu ethnicity at the university of beirut in 1905 the president calls him a national hero. he was a fast. track to prepare for a vote after signing the peace deal that ended the civil war it was a brave move his job was also trying to grab it i mean police which he did successfully he also played a big role in establishing c.n.d. . as a formidable political party. is pushing ahead with the election despite the coronavirus pandemic the country has at least 2 dozen confirmed cases and recently expelled some want health organization workers. after their criticism the government's response has been adequate the present situation is under control now lisa bloom he is the only country where people are still gathering for public and religious holidays god knows what is happening in their world and that's when we are turning to for protection. you will be choosing

a president and peace paul representatives the poor that will have no international observers kind of promise to fix the struggling economy create jobs unify the country some of the $5000000.00 voters are survivors of a 12 ethnic based that started in 1903 and of violence in the 2015 election and they say all they want is a peaceful outcome cathy zoi al jazeera. egypt will be enforcing a stricter curfew for the muslim 1st to louis need starting next week shops beaches and parks will remain closed egypt has reported nearly 12000 coronavirus cases and more than 600 deaths the race to produce a vaccine will be discussed at a 2 day world health assembly beginning on monday the u.k. has pledged over $100000000.00 towards research or a challenge has more from london. the government badly botched the messaging over

the easing of its lockdown restrictions leaving many people confused and a poll suggests that most people now think that the u.k. government is doing a bad job so on sunday we are being told that the country is at the forefront of the push to research and develop a corona virus vaccine $100000000.00 worth of funding for a dedicated vaccine facility and also a new raft of funding as outlined by the business secretary out sharma i can also confirm that with government support oxford university has finalized a global licensing agreement with astra zeneca for the commercialization and manufacturing of the oxford vaccine this means that if the vaccine is successful astra zeneca will work to make $30000000.00 doses available by september for the u.k. as part of an agreement to do $100000000.00 doses in total. the u.k.

will be 1st to get access and we can also ensure that in addition to supporting people here in the u.k. we're able to make the vaccine available to developing countries at the lowest possible cost but here's where the government's messaging gets a bit confusing because the oxford university astra zeneca tie up has been talked about as being able to pump out 100000000 doses of vaccine by september when u.k. citizens being 1st in the queue but as far as we're aware no vaccine actually exists yet and writing in the mail on sunday the british prime minister boris johnson warned everyone that the path of getting to a vaccine was still a long one and he even said that we might never get to one being developed. workers at america's 3 largest car makers are going back to the assembly lines that return comes a sales plummet when automakers post massive losses as john hendren reports the industry faces a number of questions including how it will keep book

a safe. america's auto workers are back to a strange sterile new world employees at detroit's big 3 for general motors and feel chrysler return on monday to manufacturing plants where the new normal is one part assembly line one part hospital series 977 above this will turn red that'll turn red in coming workers temperatures are checked so you get to go through they work behind new barriers with new masks gloves plastic face shield in signs amount social distancing everywhere along with walking lanes in reminders to stay 6 feet apart. assembly lines are restarting for the 1st time since march when the global pandemic shut down detroit and auto plants across the u.s. except for a handful been made ventilators for the sickest virus patients who seem a little bit softer in the last year or so yes but we expect to see

a literal grimes all so that's exactly what happened yesterday literally stopped operating procedure or one potential worry a global supply chain that's been slowed by the corona virus mexico is still locked down but last week the government unveiled a plan that could see some auto parts makers open to supply detroit now that automakers are building again the question is in the worst market since the great depression does anyone want to buy the cars they're making across the u.s. unsold cars by the thousands sit idle delaying the introduction of new models and in these belt tightening times competing with cheaper used cars you have to buy decades to fly comparable so many weeks we got a great recession we had. absolute terms of your tsunamis hurricanes to get out supply. and demand and that requires dealers are offering once in

a lifetime incentives like 7 years of no interest loans with little progress so far whether you were laid off from low to return or option cars very big purchase from other people sometimes based artists that ain't socially comfortable and say it's not so hierarchy take a while until buyers return in force the production lines will reopen more slowly than they shut down and new cars will keep aging on american car lines john hendren al-jazeera chicago. this is all jazeera these are the top stories the world's 3rd largest economy is in recession as the coronavirus pandemic its business and industry hard japan's g.d.p. declined by almost one percent in the 1st quarter of the year prime minister shinzo abhi announced a massive relief program last month to keep the economy on track india has extended

a nationwide lockdown for another 2 weeks schools malls and other public places will remain closed the shutdown has forced thousands of migrant workers to head back to their home states often on foot brazil's president jacob oso not always rallying his supporters to back his call to end the lockdown there this despite 15000 coronavirus deaths more than all other latin american nations combined. voted with him although there's little we will change brazil's destiny even with this crisis affecting the entire world thanks to ministers thanks for the wonderful people here we are together present is ours. the president has had back in criticism from barack obama who said the government has fumbled its response to the pandemic he was the president that's all i can say roughly. speaking is arrived back at the white house from his weekend retreat at camp david

donald trump again said that a cure would be found by the end of the year contrary to what medical experts believe malaysia's parliament has convened for the 1st time since the resignation of its prime minister mahathir mohamad was replaced by his deputy while heeding the scene in march after he failed to form a unity government scuffles have broken out in hong kong's parliament between pro-democracy and pro beijing politicians there are erupted over the failure to elect a new chair for a key committee it's meant to scrutinise bills and it's been without a leader since late last year. a new unity government has been formed in israel after 3 deadlocked elections prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his former rival turned partner benny guns were both laid for 18 months those are the headlines coming up next on all dizzy it's the listening post good bye. what impact will called it 19 on the drop in the oil price problem the race to the point

. donald trump survive these historic sent banks and does joe probably have what it takes to beat. special coverage on al-jazeera. often selfish to sign off. on. president regular tend to. network opposition groups accuse him of talking and media. hello i'm richard burton you're watching the listening post working from home here are the coronavirus stories the media elements that we're looking at this week in the philippines the new territory government decides a pandemic is a good time to shut down the country's biggest news outlet donald trump is at it again i'm saying it anybody that knows the question like that and ask.