at the end. al-jazeera. the. heavy rains in eastern india and bangladesh as the powerful cyclon edges closer millions are moved to higher ground for safety. cleo watching al-jazeera live from my headquarters in doha i'm fully back t. ball also ahead forces for libya's internationally recognized government to make more advances as the u.n. warns an influx of weapons and foreign involvement will make the conflict worse

a presidential election underway in burundi despite warnings about coronavirus and international observers shut out those. who will not accept the beijing authorities use of one country 2 systems to downgrade taiwan and taiwan's president rejects china's sovereignty claims after being sore need for a 2nd time beijing says reunification is inevitably. a powerful psycho and has started dumping rain on bangladesh and eastern india's coast in india porn is expected to make landfall within the next few hours with winds of up to 175 kilometers per hour hundreds of thousands of people are being moved to shelters but preparations are complicated as many districts said dealing with coronavirus outbreaks people have been asked to maintain social distancing while staying in neighboring bang. the dash is attempting to evacuate 2200000

people to safety the country is on its highest level of alert 1200000 ringgit refugees in cox's bizarre have been asked to stay inside until the cycle and passes and speak talk or aswan and in bangladesh tanveer chandra who is in dhaka force of course bangladesh is used to dealing with psycho and sound there but this one is an extremely powerful storm was being made to keep people out of harms way. well it is a major challenge especially during the cold 19 pandemic now we know that 1400000 people have been evacuated and put into shelter there's accommodation for at least 5000000 people there as the medical team and rescue operation team calls got a navy have been put on a large standby in the coastal areas even the prime minister is monitoring the situation this would be one of the biggest grown since 2007. so they're taking it

very seriously no we know. you know a scale of one to 1010 is the highest number of signal in just 5 kilometer from the coastline there on a refugee camp is there they have been told to stay inside that camp and signal level has been raised to 9 we know in 2017 that was a storm that we covered it hundreds of. blown off so they are there also in the clear. sight of danger from the storm as well as torrential rain and mudslides and rest of the country at least 600 fisherman still hasn't got back these are people who live in silt and island in the coastal areas at least some of the islands out in the coastal area 46000 people have not been evacuated that don't have shelter on the violin there are definitely in the clear line of danger and. possibly going to hit later in the evening in the southwestern and southeastern coast of

bangladesh and possibly even the show in the barn mangrove forest all right thank you for that for us in dhaka bangladesh now speak to our senior meteorologist rob we now and of course what we're concerned about rob has to stop so i'm saying we are here 7 days who we remember is the biggest ever recorded in the bay of bengal as you saw a clone of that was 2 days ago as it makes landfall in the next few hours probably midday g.m.t. will not be the size of the book. parable with what happened in november last year currently the extent of the cloud in the rain as a legacy of this big storm is huge and it covers one of buying that part of east india and it's raining currently on the coast of addition with winds gusting to about $100.00 already they had $250.00 millimeters of rain not just the start rain will be a problem but probably not the major one at landfall we think wind will be about 155 kilometers per hour this is the course landfall local time late afternoon and

that still makes the castree to harken equivalent so it's a huge storm considering where we are on the low lying land and here's the storm surge risk street to far you've metas now where the storm itself makes landfall roughly at the mouth of the holy river a bit to the east maybe and that's where the biggest and the 1st storm surge will be over the following 12 hours you cover the mangroves and send them to the eastern side of bangladesh in the magna river and there could be a surge up this river right up to near the junction that it causes a huge amount of land to be covered by the storm surge now that's where the storm surge will be the rain and the strongest winds will be further west and they keep going beyond today and tonight so you got rain to follow off the 1st and dangerous damaging storm surge later on today or rob thank you very much for that update let's check in with our correspondent in indiana right john who is in calcutta for us the storm is supposed to make landfall way you are in just

a few hours what's the situation like right now. well we're talking about west bengal as a state if you are in the us there is hiking lists all the psychs vats of what's going to happen we don't of the off the mouth of the cycle which is why the chief minister of the state of energy has rests the radius of interaction this will be the last no the national disaster relief teams and the state that is also relieved into action is also a 24 hour controller book and for them to talk about whether they are stranded and the chief minister said was the morning that they have a lot made on tuesday at which is the state secretary or the eagle got up a factor of that in the coastal areas that is heavy rainfall and the heavy rainfall had begun in the morning and in some areas like not to a full pardon us this or which is a distinctly was they will and the of it does not say about more than 100

kilometers away from the city of. over there we saw heavy there was since tuesday night as far as forgot that the city's concerned experiencing a very bad since the morning and that would be anything that we. need in standard. cycling is expected to make landfall around 5 pm you can stand the tide and go on above 90 m. you can stand it that is what we are getting to lol as far as the cycle. ok thank you very much for that update while we have lost the connection to thank you so much from a. with the situation there in west bengal as the psycho and head towards the area let's move on to other world news now in the un's acting envoy for libya has warned that an influx of foreign support is threatening to make the fighting even more intense civilian casualties have been growing over the past months us forces loyal to want ot for have talkin to need

a year long campaign to seize tripoli from the un recognized government a diplomatic editor james spates reports from the united nations after a surge in fighting in recent weeks the un's acting special representative stephanie williams gave this bleak assessment of the situation in libya to security council ambassadors i believe we have reached another turn point in the conflict conflict from what we are witnessing in terms of the massive influx of weaponry equipment and mercenaries to the 2 sides the only conclusion that we can draw is that this war will intensify and broaden in the devastating consequences for the libyan people as the foreign intervention increases the libyans themselves are getting lost in the men's their voices crowded out we must not let live vs

a went to. she said it was civilians paying the price $58.00 killed and $190.00 injured since the 1st of april an 89 percent rise in civilian casualties compared with the 1st 3 months of the year she said the vast majority were the result of attacks by general half his forces she said it was regrettable that at the end of april the general had rejected the international peace plan and claimed he alone had a mandate to rule the country libya's ambassador who's loyal to the government of national accord was scathing about half and one of his main international backers the united arab emirates we wish to inform you and from this council that we have damning evidence of direct it legal transfer of these specific weapons to libya by the united arab emirates and port of the workingmen have and is militias which of these evidence we are sharing with the panel of experts in previous security

council meetings over the years the united nations has been reluctant to criticize one side or the other simply saying that both must show restraint but the tone has now changed the criticism of general haftar was direct and much stronger amid reports that even some of his backers believe the impetuous commander has overplayed his hand james pays al-jazeera at the united nations. and forces loyal to libyan warlord highly for have to have pulled back from 2 kilometers from the front line around tripoli they say the gesture is to allow people to carry out a holiday rituals and a calling on the un recognized government to do the same this comes as government forces continue their major offensive west of tripoli they have taken a number of times from have tossed forces over the past few weeks. being the latest so earlier this week they captured the base which was the headquarters for have tossed forces in western libya. has more from tripoli. a number of

government fighters were killed the engine in the south of the capital tripoli as a pro how to fighter jet targeted the locations it needed a city one of how for his forces strongholds and so with of the capital tripoli a city about 120 kilometers south of the capital tripoli has been one of the have to as a strongholds especially after they lost the city the strategic city of in last june. was their safe haven and they have been located there since then now the government forces after the took control of a wittier strategic air bases in western libya the moved on have in the west in the mountain cities and towns including. cities fighting has been going on in and around the city between health as forces and forces loyal to the government

of national accord and now here in southern tripoli military sources with the government say that 3 pro-government fighters were killed by a lender my and that was set by have to his forces in a neighborhood recently. spokesman has been. alluding to some kind of repositioning already adding the forces which the government forces say that it's a kind of introduction to their withdrawal from southern tripoli this cannot be confirmed as of yet but we have been noticing some kind of defection among groups loyal to her have to in southern turkey especially those who are loyal to the forum are. those fighters who have been fighting along with helped us forces in southern tripoli it seems that half that as was forces have been recently losing

momentum especially after the servant said backs they have been suffering in the worst of the country. still ahead on the program living memory how one man in iran has turned the grief of losing his mother into a memorial that brings joy to the masses. hello what was hot weather in italy and greece and even turkey is today is an area of low pressure and i sense it over the adriatic the rain wrapped around these frontal system so the heat's been pushed out the way in fact as a heat wave warning in cyprus and where this comes up against this cold front we tend to get these 2 air masses coming together you and hard to the right in fact there's a flood warning out today for serbia as a result but there's the rain line stretching across remain here towards southern ukraine north of it we've got showers coming down that normally the balkans are

only about 30 degrees same as stockholm could be warm and it's certainly becoming we're in the western side of your the sun is blazing down in france for example this rain drifts study science into vogue area and last the sun to come out are afterwards belgrade's at 20 but paris is at 20 donald's maybe a shower too as a result it cools down by the start of the weekend. now south of all this rather the quiet weather threat most of those africa the breeze is telling even in that breeze to nice gets up to $26.00 degrees with no more than a passing cheryl trapeze about the site a bit warmer and you know not going to complain in reply to 25 for that breeze might generate a few showers in the atlas martin's at least on wednesday. one of the last remaining ancient forests in southeast asia is

a lifeline to hundreds of lumber jacks and drive as. we follow that treacherous journey as they walk through extreme conditions. together and transport this dangerous but precious cargo risking it all. on al-jazeera. morning. the air. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories a powerful cycling has started dumping rain on bangladesh and india's eastern coast in india psyco an unborn is expected to make landfall within the next few hours

with winds of up to 175 kilometers per hour may bring bangladesh is attempting to evacuate $2200000.00 people to safety the country's on its highest level of the marriage $1200000.00 running a refugees in cox's bazaar have been asked to stay inside until the cycle costs. and in libya forces loyal to warlords heidi for have to have pulled back to kilometers from the struck by an iran tripoli they're calling on the un recognized government to do the same government forces are conducting a major offensive and have captured a number of towns west of the camp. 1000 election is underway in balloon day despite the risk of coronavirus voters are choosing a new president as longtime leader. is stepping down after 15 years in power randi pace obstacles in the way of observers entering the country raising doubts over how free and fair the poor will be observers were told they must quarantine for 14 days effectively burying them from the mission let's speak to mockham webb who's

following the story for us from nairobi in kenya so there was political violence malcolm in the lead up to this election in burundi today and not the coronavirus pandemic how are we expecting this to go. and rights activists complain that the government hasn't really taken any serious measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus either today during the polling people are lining up at polling stations we have no sign of distancing and also during the campaigns when thousands of supporters have attended both the rallies of the ruling party and of the opposition so people are concerned that this is been an opportunity for the virus to spread widely but today. only reported about 40 cases of the virus again activists and health experts have been critical of an inadequate response testing and they say that the motive for this could be simply because the

government wants to get on with this election and push it through and downplay the virus the government denies it has it's on top of things and has really said that there is a great threat from the violence regarding the political violence that you mentioned ever since the outgoing president. came to power story came to power 15 years ago but since the last election 5 years ago he's been accused of all his people his government been accused of widespread political violence is a ruling party youth wing. activists describe it more like a militia it's been accused of widespread. rests violence political disappearances and killings government denies this but rights activists many rights activists of course aren't in the country many of them in exile along with journalists and they all say that this climate of fear means that there's very little space to have a meaningful election at all thank you for that markham way of life for us in

nairobi. taiwan's newly inaugurated president says she wants dialogue with china but rejects reunification after being sworn in for a 2nd term and final term sighing when said relations have reach a historic turning point with both having a duty to prevent antagonism and find ways to co-exist china's foreign ministry has condemned the us secretary of state for congratulating sigh saying my compare his message sense of wrong signal to what it called separatist forces in taiwan rob mcbride is in seoul he explained surprise in sighing wayne's popularity in recent months. it was just a year ago the president was in a very precarious position taking this more independent line keeping mainland china at arm's length and china responding by using all of its economic and diplomatic might to isolate the island republic with president xi jinping of china even

warning that. taiwan must be reintegrated at all costs but then towards the end of last year suddenly out of nowhere we had these street riots take place in hong kong which really scared many people in neighboring taiwan about what reintegration with the motherland under this so-called power sharing of one country 2 systems might look like if things went wrong so we saw a surge in popularity for president size you won this landslide of 57 percent in the january poll and indeed in her inaugural address she has once again rejected the policy of one country 2 systems but at the same time has said that taiwan is open to dialogue but also pointing out that she believes that across straight relations are now entering as she says historical turning point possibly indicating that she's prepared to take a more assertive line with beijing and she has the popularity to do that of course

because since january poll we've had the coronavirus which had seen her handling of that basically seen a huge increase in popularity amongst people in taiwan. taiwan was excluded from the world health assembly held over the past 2 days with the taiwanese government as well as the us accusing the w.h.o. of baaing to chinese fresh air on tuesday the assembly of nations agreed to hold an investigation into how the world has responded to the corner virus pandemic as a number of infections approaches 5000000 w h o's 194 member states voted unanimously for an independent in possible and impartial inquiry including an examination of the w.h.o. role the move has been welcomed by the director general who said that the organization wanted accountability more than anyone on the un body has been under attack from the u.s. which has accused her of being too close to china president donald trump's threaten to cut all funding unless there is what he calls of stand to improvements within

the next 30 days mike hanna reports from washington. president trump arrives on capitol hill for a meeting with senate republicans continuing to felt his administration's own guidelines by not wearing a mask in public and lashing out at the speaker of the house democrat nancy pelosi these people are sick pelosi is a sick woman she got a lot of problems a lot of mental problems we're dealing with people that have to get their act together for the good of the country pelosi has sharply criticized president trump's threat to withhold funding from the w.h.o. describing it in a radio interview as stupid and dangerous earlier in the day the president indicated he had no intention of backing down from the present. war. he was resigned only through the letters a very detailed long letter but basically they have to clean up their act they have

to do a better job they have to be much more serious other countries including the united states so we're not going to be involved in 2 separate ways but critics wall not walking away from the w.h.o. as a global search is underway for a vaccine could have serious consequences for the united states should it not be the 1st to discover one this is not the time for the u.s. president or any leader to try to weaken the capacity for multilateral collaboration and action the debbie way j w h o provides vital international assistance in court a nation there's really no other entity or organization that can do what the w.h.o. can do with the world's worst death toll over 91000 the accusation that president trump is attempting to distract attention from his administration's own failure is not going away whatever the reason for the president's insistence on

blaming the w.h.o. one fact is indisputable the organization declared a pandemic on the 30th of january this at a time that president trump was describing the virus as like a flu that would soon miraculously disappear. mike hanna al jazeera washington for us oil prices have rallied over the past 3 weeks after turning negative for the 1st time in history the recoveries use of a drop in global opera 10 an easing of some coronavirus locked on restrictions but prices a self off from this year speak and limited by the call the 1000 operate john hendren has on report from chicago. in less than a month oil has gone from worthless to barely profitable in these days of coronavirus fueled economics it is enough for u.s. president donald trump to tweet or oil energy is back the worst oil market in

decades appears to be stabilizing somewhat for 2 reasons massive production cuts by saudi arabia other opec countries russia and the u.s. into a cautious increase in buying in china and the us is their economies begin to reopen it just above $30.00 a barrel prices are still half the $60.00 a barrel at the start of 2020 you know i listed. for ya arse and. then yes that's pretty slim margin you know east you have oil flowing again. but it's not like. us but for now it's enough to allow us shale oil producers to come near breaking even last month the benchmark u.s. crude west texas intermediate fell to negative territory as the coronavirus shut down travel that left some sellers paying buyers to take oil off their hands and

with many producers now just breaking even there will likely be more restructuring then for some bankruptcy's. but there is one major threat to prices a glut of stored oil april's historically low prices led to a massive oversupply with producers filling storage tanks in places like cushing oklahoma to near capacity waiting for higher prices hope is. just a whole lot and then released but yes. it's going to keep a lid on price looks worse. that capacity threatens to grow worse with tankers filled with 50000000 barrels of saudi arabian crude expected to arrive in the u.s. in june. with major oil producers slashing production it might not be anywhere near the end of the coronavirus price crisis but producers hope it could be the beginning of the end john hendren elders era chicago. a

man in tehran has been planting flowers for his dead mother mother every spring for a decade or saudis as a personal gesture has become a major attraction in iran's capital and the memorial saken on extra meaning during the current of them has a story from tara. homeowner the bill his mother loved flowers. growing up he remembers their house filled with them. every year since her passing he's planted tulips on a street to honor her memory my plan was to change the sadness of losing my mother and convert it to making other people happier so i know saberi suffered an accidental head injury and died suddenly planting flowers for her was her son's way of coping with the grief. what began as his

celebration of her life has become a major city attraction. a small flower patch 8 years ago now stretches for a city block. this year there were fewer visitors than previous years not many people came to visit because of the coronavirus quarantine and little by little i've seen families driving up to see the tulips from their cars this is some of the job that i was just passing by when i saw the tulip for mother's sign i was curious to go to house of the car to see they are very beautiful. or the billy splits his time between homes in the united states and iran a foundation he set up overseas his passion project beautifying public spaces is something he says is good for the whole community and he's in talks to duplicate the project in cities around the world tulips from others imports bulbs from the netherlands staff plant tens of thousands of flowers along this teheran street every year. the flowers are time to bloom around no rose the persian new year and

this has become a kind of unofficial annual event a way to mark the beginning of spring in fact this spot is so popular that it even has its own location marker on google maps. in these dark days of the coronavirus the foundation is also displaying posters in memory of the men and women from iran's health care sector who died fighting cope with 19. each poster signals a grief stricken family in lost so many doctors nurses workers in the medical field so some of the posters and and with their name and their picture at the to live side by i can do something very little. for the medical workers who lost their lives for us. the tulips last 3 to 4 weeks are the buli usually plants a 2nd round of lily flowers to make the most of the spring season. this year he

decided to do something a little different he delivered lulu's directly to iranian hospitals as a way to bring some joy to the places that have recently seen only tragedy a small gesture or debility says to thank local heroes and a reminder perhaps that no matter how cold the winter there is always spring. to run. again i'm fully back to bill with the headlines on al-jazeera a powerful cycling has started dumping rain on bangladesh and india's eastern coast and india psyco an important is expected to make landfall within the next few hours with winds of up to 175 kilometer its power hundreds of thousands of people are being moved to shelters but preparations are complicated as many districts are dealing with the coronavirus outbreak people have been asked to maintain social distancing while staying in the state of west bengal is at the heart of the cycle

and spat from kolkata premier i chime gives a sense of what they are already seeing. in the coastal areas there is rainfall and heavy rainfall have begun in the morning and in some areas like not too evil poconos this or which is a mistake was they will and it is no more than 100 kilometers away from the city oh well i was there we saw him he then was since tuesday night as far as all go because it is concerned you've been experiencing a falls in the morning and that would be anything but we or. 5 unions under those cycling of the expected to make landfall around 5 pm in standard time meanwhile neighboring bangladesh is attempting to evacuate $2200000.00 people to safety the country's on its highest level of alert 1200000 ringgit refugees in cox's bazaar have been asked to stay inside until the psycho passes the polls are

open in burundi despite the risk of coronavirus voters are choosing a new president as a long time native. stepping down after 15 years in power in taiwan the newly inaugurated president says she wants dialogue with china but rejects reunification after being so in in for a 2nd and final time sighing when said relations have reached a story turning point with both having a duty to prevent antagonism and find ways to co-exist. brazil and mexico have suffered their worst daily toll of coronavirus registering more than $1000.00 related deaths in the past 24 hours brazil is now overtaken brain to become the 3rd worst hit country after the us and russia more than 700000 people have died since the pandemic began well those are the headlines on al-jazeera coming up next year is the stream to stay with us. talk to al-jazeera. let me ask you how worried you

are about the increase in hostilities in yemen we listen this is the moment you stop all the 30 action this is the moment it all sounds right on fighting every night we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that matter on al-jazeera. hired them yet ok and you're watching this from the home edition now one of the stories that continues to be under reported. from china is the situation of an ethnic turkey group in mostly north western parts of china now the reason we are doing this story is because one of africa's one of our or like community suggested it is going to be the theme for all of these week or this week the stories that you hear the discussions that we have or as he suggested you see this is from iran and he says and he tweets was means of we get detainees at the.