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highest number of infections globally. voting takes place for brandy's the president despite a number of obstacles clipping the pandemic. and sports n.f.l. owners back a rule change designed to increase diversity and the league teams will now have to interview at least 2 minority candidates for had position. so then a powerful cycling has slammed ashore in eastern india and bangladesh. barreled towards land as one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the region well there has since been downgraded in india states of west bengal and hof a 1000000 people have sought shelter there have been reports of injuries in a 2 month old baby has died neighboring bangladesh has also reported its 1st death after a volunteer drowned when

a boat filled with evacuees capsized the government is attempting to get millions of people to emergency shelters 1200000 refugees in cox's bazaars overcrowded camps they've been asked to stand doors until the cycling passes the united nations has called for them to be moved to the mainland let's hear now from elizabeth cohen i'm here reports from new delhi. sounding the alarm india's national disaster response forsworn people in the state of west bank all ahead of cycling on making landfall the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds are proving trees. more than half a 1000000 people have been evacuated to emergency shelters in west bengal and another 150000 to the state of disarray bond with their issues of actuating around 2000000 people and that. many people have come to the shelter since morning because the rivers banks have broken down here most of the houses made of concrete and

bricks people here live in basic structure of mud. the densely populated low lying areas around the bay of bengal are used to cyclers bottom urgency authorities they will be harder to manage as they try to stop the spread of the coven of virus. polluted or disaster some law gets out. we are dealing with 2 disasters for the 1st time the 1st disaster is ongoing covered $1000.00 which you all know about and during this outbreak another disaster is now in front of us which is in the form of a cycle on. emergency shelters only being jews did half capacity. that. and so this for poor was you know. i mean. specific names for one day.

while east india and bangor they show in the storm's path heavy rain and flooding farm pond killed 2 people in sri lanka those living in coastal areas have been warned against leaving their homes until the cyclon passes elizabeth al-jazeera new delhi. we're going to get the very latest time to charter is standing by for us in the bangladeshi capital but 1st let's speak to premier rather on who's who joins us live from scott from kolkata in this west bengal state and pretty much already seen a lot of damage there what is the latest. wasn't it desist that has been facing cuts in certain parts of the city and this is not just the city districts as well because also the cycle on and right now is in the eye of the storm and the intensity is sticky and the neighboring districts we've all of these are called also debts having to be recorded and console it sector to get on the bill dead run

be. a big dumb go and died before a whole lot of the hollow so that's the 2nd death enough. to state that they need it for the guy she said one of the things that are in that or it and up by some that have the t. that have been a gift for the boards is then inside while the ones of the board are left are also getting. this summit that like then they can see that the people that bought. which has dismissed all over the last year was a slug or most of the other concern there was no easy answer. is i want to get on the list and fork up and that has rather cycle made landfall and that the cycle going that well and what the islands which is involved that the i now offer for the offer to psychoanalyse and. it will be proceeding towards western it not to go before that will be as rent or the chief minister had anticipated that there would

be devastation that that would be taking place in the fossil the students just like it set up or thank you for it and for whom in the states it could get year in. and . making. the national or our disaster they need not need management as an estate these are sixteenths are on unsolved and it's impossible the city i'm under state to assess a situation and also apart from bad policy you know. that route to die and there's no fisherman. he said though that i. believe that there are decent people in there also and also that is the are some actual missing bloodwork like not with the press didn't ask the case of one of the songs which is the feed off of polish when you know why it is 5 or are we can see how dangerous things are already we will come back to is things progress that remove the timing thanks very much let's move on to

dr and by the best we can speak to tons of it child drea in time a really this is a double strike isn't it 1st up we have coronavirus and all the impacts of balance and social distancing and so forth but now people having to take shelter at playschool has because of this cycling it's a picture. very much so a multiple challenge for the government i mean this is a very densely populated country people you know 165000000 plus people living in that is a half the population of us are living in one state maybe the size of iowa that can give you very much an idea now there is no choice you have to put this people in the shelter in the coastal area so far 2400000 people are sheltered on the coastal belt there's accommodation for 5000000 many of the shelters are basically makeshift schools some of them are cyclon shelter but they're not big enough you know they're congested so the challenge of virus spreading and the social distancing is

something as a luxury it cannot be done because of the number of people there now as we speak the storm is crossing bangladesh assault western coastline we've talked to many of our contacts there there's still crossing into schundler bun bun of the salon just mangrove forests 'd and the coastal about there's a heavy storm surge some places the. houses been actually had been washed away as we speak now we have reports of one rescue volunteer been drowned earlier in the evening we also have a report off a elderly man in. an island who died because of a fallen tree and now their 5 year old child who also died of a fallen tree in this state so a major storm brewing over we'll see what comes after a fact within the next several hours there any time as we said at the top of the program there's $1200000.00 range of refugees and coaxes bizarre. crowded camps there and they've been told to stay indoors but how practical is that what about the u.n.

calls to move into the main. well there even a main line actually they're 5 kilometer from the coastline of cox's bazar now there are some rowing a refuges who's been recently been rescued by from the boat and they have been kept in an offshore island called pasha in charge island which was actually designated for moving there owing a refugee is there but wasn't done because of international pressure now those particular refugees 100 plus are kept in a shelter that island is highly vulnerable as far as the cam goes it's still very vulnerable from heavy wind torrential rain and particularly mudslide because it's a slow be hilarious a lot of this hot summer in the hills any torrential rain could easily cause mudslides and flooding as well as heavy wind could blow away a lot of these hundreds because they're made out of bamboo and tarpaulin there's not like a mud brick house of cement towers so they're clearly in the danger of the storm although the main thrust of the storm may not hit cox bazaar but still still any

pretty frail wind or torrential rain could cause heavy damage on the. refugee camps or i turn to for the time being thanks very much indeed for that updated time a child reporting there from dhaka bangladesh. all right hundreds of migrant children have been deported from the united states since coronavirus broke out a pandemic border policy figures from the new york times reveal that between march and april more than 900 young migrants were deported some of those already had asylum appeals pending in the court system in the past unaccompanied children who showed up at the border would be provided with shelter and could go through an aside and process but the trumpet ministration has done a u.-turn invoking a $944.00 law which allows the president to block migration to prevent a dangerous disease from spreading well on tuesday donald trump announced that the policy will stay in place and definitely be reviewed every 30 days let's take this all we can speak to leon fresca who's the former deputy assistant attorney general

in charge of immigration at the u.s. department of justice joins us on skype from washington d.c. mr prescott welcome to the program. for decades safeguards have been in place to protect children in these situations haven't they but they do seem to have been swept aside. correct for over 2 decades there's been a settlement agreement in a court lots of that say that when a migrant under under or under a child came to the united states they would have to be accepted in the united states and allowed to go through a formal remove whole process and there was then a congressional statute that was passed in 2008 that reinforce that and now what the administration is doing is it's trying to say that the 1944 public health law that was passed that allowed the government the block entries of people during a public health emergency even even overcomes these later laws that dealt with unaccompanied children and so that's the that legal debate that's out there is

whether that's true and the administration has taken a very wide blanket view that it does and they're going to try now to remove any child that's in their custody that they can wear who outside the united states and would still sense what do you think is the invoking of this $944.00 no the grounds of president vowed to block foreigners entering the country to prevent the spread of a dangerous disease do you think that's meikle is a justifiable. i think the the the question is actually one of gradations and what i mean by that is i think maybe at the beginning of the cold that crisis you could have easily made the argument look at not good for children and adults to be sitting in customs and border protection holding facilities together when we don't know whose sake and who isn't sick am that's all certainly true but as testing starts to ramp up there's not really the same arguments of

terms of well could you to least not test someone to determine if they have coronavirus and if they don't have it then you can create a situation whereby they can and they're the united states on the orderly weisz of the grief of these proceedings and so i think that's where the courts are going to come out of these things is going to be much more practical i do think that at the beginning of the call that crisis the administration's argument was much better the question is as the crisis starts to linger in are we really is are the courts really going to allow 234 year by and it's rahm this sense all about what's going to be the course is going to be where we live timescale is the tipping point which you would you concur with those who would say that the president is just using this situation to push through these radical tough border policies. i think it's hard i don't think it says i think below there are certainly a little considerations here and there are certainly real concerns that the

administration is trying to use whatever policy 'd they can to exclude whatever groups of foreign nationals from the united states they can at the same token if you did have a surge of people at the border that you did have the hold in facilities and that did overwhelm 'd your ability to process the ball there is no doubt that can create public health issues and so you have to you have to be very careful and figure out a not one size fits all approach on how you're going to actually do this so that you don't cut off everybody like we're doing now but that you don't actually create new sources of public health crisis and that's where it's going to require people to think outside the box and come up with these they were in right now in prescott just great to get your perspective on this and you're not a since we do appreciate that thanks very much indeed then frisket thank you so much thank you. now brazil has overtaken the united kingdom becoming the country with the 3rd highest corona virus cases in the world brazil's health ministry

confirmed a record 1179 deaths and over 17000 new 1000 infections on choose day a president job also says his cabinet will approve the drug hydroxide chloroquine to handle mild covert 19 cases. has publicly dismissed the threat of the virus saying downs could have a worse impact on the economy. we're losing the battle against the virus that's the reality of the virus at this moment is winning the war these days coming up the holidays i don't see them as holidays but i see them as battle days the most important days in the fight against the virus. to mexico which has announced its highest daily number of new infections but is getting ready to further ease its lockdown for some areas of mexico city never closed john heilemann reports. the digging fresh graves in the symmetry of it's to pull up a district in mexico city. outside the hearses

a queuing to get in with the danger of infection all around continues to sell its flowers. look at the one of the living day to day we have nothing saved and if i stop working what will i eat my family 8. to pull up the most populous district in the hardest hit by covert despite the life and commerce has it still. mit's can quarantines definitely been of the sulfur i-t. with people encouraged rather than fools to stay home and authorities often turning a blind eye towards those breaking the rules you're not going to last but make you have any doubts that he made a record we're not allowed to open until the start of june but the truth is we can't last out any more. the country's just had its highest daily number of cases. that hasn't stopped mexico city's government announcing plans to reopen the capital but districts like this one never really shut down in the 1st place just look at

the amount of people bank cars that are out on the street so i should mention that not every business here is open to any of those that can afford to close have done so but it's pretty clear that in the more working class areas of the city there are a lot of people out and about that it was those kept on driving his bus through the pandemic he says some of his passengers refuse to even acknowledge there's a virus at all i better get a slew and then people that get on board that face must think foolish they don't get it but unfortunately i make my living from them so i have to put up with it. top health officials say more and more mexicans are going out before the end of quarantine for the same health officials are adamant the cases will go down any day now those 2 statements don't seem to match up specially here in mr palapa john home and how does either. latin america will get back to brazil which is approved the use of a controversial drug for every 1000 patients for some suit joins us live from sao

paolo on tell us more about this this drug this is one that the u.s. president has been touting to. us now brazil is a distinct everyday new records. around the numbers and cases of the virus here but yesterday was the highest record oh it was just getting more than 1000 and there around 1200 victims of course in the virus and around 17000 confirmed cases here in brazil and even with those numbers specialists are saying that brazil did not reach the peak of the virus yet at the same time president bush not only did not chosen has not chosen and you minister of health here in brazil and who is leading their ministry of health now is the general eduardo pas were law and he chose more than 13 and members from the army to be

with him in his team in the ministry of health and at the same time also president said that he announced. a minister. approved today a new protocol to use hydro secure green as a treatment for all cases and all stages of virus patients here in brazil even the early stages and this was the main case and main cause of that is going to of the 2 x. ministers of how thier in brazil but now this will be applied officially by the ministry of health at the same moment also state and the government here in sao paulo is announcing that may its may have collapse and sister. and the health system here in sao paulo because of the high toll of deaths

and victims of virus in sao paulo and because of that it will take more and the new measures trying to control. the spread of it here in sao paulo are sometimes without. power in brazil. i move on to nicaragua now where opposition politicians are accusing president daniel ortega in the government of covering up coronavirus deaths by ordering burials to be done quickly and at night the health ministry reports 17 covert 19 deaths but doctors warn the true total is much higher. this wasn't the way we see arrow wanted to bury his father where. the local authorities ordered a rushed burial which on his. very quickly there were orders that the body must be buried and there was no turning back so the only thing i could do was try and stream it so that my friends on facebook could be there with

me at the time because they forbid people to be close to the grave there were even police that kept people away luis is convinced his father a pilot for a nick or argue an airline died of 19. funeral directors say his family's trauma is increasingly common they say they've been so busy in recent months they've run out of coffins. the funeral home owners all communicate with each other and we learn each other vehicles and things like that we've buried about $200.00 people a night so far without relatives without candles without anything. their experience contrasts with the government's official figures for corona virus deaths which show very few so. unlike other latin american countries president daniel hasn't implemented social distancing measures he says the spike in deaths this year from pneumonia has little to do with the coronavirus pandemic. we have

a normal cycle in mourning the deaths. the important thing is that in beating this pandemic there is no crisis in nicaragua. the doctors say hospitals are overwhelmed by patients suffering from or spirit 3 illnesses and the pan american health organization said nicaragua's government has refused to allow its staff into any hospitals adding to concerns that ortigas downplaying the effects of the pandemic victoria gate and b. al-jazeera but plenty more still ahead on the news hour including 2 dam failure has forced thousands to flee the us state of michoacan and residents are being warned the worst is not over yet plus. the palestinian government takes a tough new stand over israeli plans to annex nearly a 3rd of the occupied west bank. but we got small coming up to a new deal for the coach in charge of the top ranked team in men's international football.

in south sudan at least 287 people people have been killed since friday in what have been described as cattle raids more than 100 others were injured in jonglei state a staff member from doctors without borders was also killed now david shearer is the u.n. special representative for south sudan and he says the violence has its roots in a political vacuum in parts of the country. the really sad thing about what's being what's happened is that up until the outbreak of code that there was quite a lot of reconciliation between the 2 sides we actually really had real hope that they might bring reconciliation and we might be in a woodsy basin area. and dropped that and i think. the political violence is as has come down and the 2 rivals president kiran the

vice president reacted shower now with one government together but the intercommunal fighting has continued on and there's a couple of reasons in this particular area why it's being frivolous 1st of all there was flooding in the area in august which killed thousands of in a castle in these societies are very much part of the in the around camp and that's the bible was presented on the fact that the 70 catholics died for real christian economic pressure on the on the on the society and the 2nd thing is possibly about reunification coming into the one government one aspect has not been result and that's been the. pointman off the often the site is a site of junk laden with despising things that complies has not yet had i governor of. the government is a very very important person and the site because they bring together many of the

tribes and they also have the authority to do to bring to reconcile and take action where those with a long compliant. by need to have these governance urgently if they don't we will see more of this violence across the across the country as a result of this was not to back him up power if you like as a result of the. impossible moment. they are an envoy for the middle east has told the security council that israel must abandon its planned annexation of 30 percent of the occupied west bank under a deal with the us israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin annex in palestinian land as soon as july a palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called for countries to recognize the state of palestine and to impose sanctions on israel well let's go to our diplomatic editor james bates is that the u.n. and james a strong words we've heard from the u.n. special envoy what did he say yet from nichelle i'm loud enough is the special

coordinator for the middle east peace process giving his reaction to the threat of annexation clearly this has been talked about for a long time many thought that prime minister netanyahu was going to use this as an election ploy but since he's been back in office he says no definitely i am going to annex parts of the west bank the un's position on that is very clear it strongly supports a 2 state solution mr miller's an offset it would be a clear breach of international law more interesting i think was his reaction to the announcement from president abbas that the palestinians will withdraw from all their agreements in cooperation with the israelis and the message from the u.n. is we understand that point. if i may speak only very frank you know. whatever our individual assessments you know reaction to this is really sort of an extension maybe it is certainly one thing it is a desperate cry for help it is

a call for immediate action it is a cry for help from a generation of leaders invest that know why building institutions and preparing for a state or over a quarter of a century. palestinian leadership is not threatening it is calling rosen actually to preserve peace so james the u.n. is supporting the palestinian position on this but what about the united states how they responded to. well we heard from about the kelly craft what i think was important is what we didn't hear from her because all the ambassadors of the security council now speaking for the chinese ambassador speaking as as i speak and all of them are saying israel please do not carry out an exception we did not hear that from the u.s. ambassador the dynamics in the security council for some time have been 14 to 114 members on one side of the issue and the u.s.

on the other on things like the recognition of jerusalem as israel's capital the u.s. recognition of the golan heights as part of israel and clearly that dynamic i think is still the situation in the security council it's interesting the u.n. now saying that where this should go is back to something that really hasn't done something much for very long time and that's the so-called cortex that that is key players the e.u. the u.n. the u.s. and russia the u.n. is saying they need to get together now and sort things out because the trump plan to move things forward and something is urgently needed to try and restart peace efforts right james thanks very much for that the pitcher in new york james but he's still ahead here in our to the changing color of antarctica how global warming is giving the green a to. say it with flowers how one man's memorial to his mother is

growing on iranian. support we'll hear from the fall manager you can probably as the premier league steps up its preparations for a return to action. hello in the summer it's traditionally hot and humid in the gulf states but we're not quite in summer and it's already hot and he with his final wind around so temperatures in the high thirty's the low forty's from dubai up towards q 8 tends to suggest pretty unpleasant weather is much drier in baghdad it's a little hotter $43.00 it won't feel quite a sight to be honest i've got plenty of cloud on the western side of society encouraging showers to build in the mountains in the west well maybe 7 west in yemen this occasional thunderstorms probably not big dam post but you can't remember meccas up to 45 that's also going to be i think relatively humid so little

sticky that most north africa isn't like that it's dry heat is the best policy could have affected by the weather in the mediterranean that's true in tunis at 24 degrees and on shore breeze there are showers in the mountains just about it with us still on shore breeze giving are about $25.00 or $26.00 degrees for the sas from that to cause you got the showers that work up into the sahara this time the year all these european highlands we have had rain running through the eastern cape in the still some in the forecast least in cape all the sooty and temporarily port elizabeth is hot at 30 degrees but let's switch to raw and the wind will bit for friday it down to 20. more than 10 years after the global financial crisis you've taken home more than $480000000.00 your company is now bankrupt our economy is in

a state of crisis i have a very basic question is is there a 1000000 lost that is in the u.s. alone. is held responsible i will be fabulously wealthy and i will not take in price for thank the lord the men who still work 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 laws into focus fold lines examines the human cost of losing business before. the niceties fall in behind people get sick the impossible choice america's paid leave crisis on al-jazeera.

and look at your watch the odds are a reminder our top stories is one of the most powerful cyclons in years has forced more than 2000000 people to seek shelter in eastern india and bangladesh storm has weakened slightly but it made landfall with wind speeds about to 170 kilometers. more than $900.00 migrant children have been deported from the united states since the coronavirus pandemic a trump administration event to $944.00 north which allows the government to block migration in order to prevent dangerous disease from spreading. brazil has ever taken the u.k. becoming the country with the 3rd highest coronavirus cases in the world with over 272000 confirmed cases present jiah both scenarios says his cabinet will approve the drug hydrochloric when to handle

a mild case of 1000 cases. in the u.k. the prime minister is promising to step up the country's code 900 tracing capabilities responding to criticism over an alleged failure in testing a bird johnson says officials will be able to track a 10000 new cases a day by the end of the month jenna hall has more now from london. boris johnson the prime minister i think coming off better than he has done over the course of the last 2 bruising encounters with the labor leader keer starmer over the past fortnight again facing forensic an emotional simply rendered questioning on perceived government failures during the. covert 19 epidemic but seemingly better prepared able at least to push on from questions over the care home sector the crisis there that's been so appalling and which the government really can't offer satisfactory answers to quite why 40 percent of the officially registered death toll occurred among the elderly and most vulnerable but far as johnson able to

reach into his bag and pull out numbers on the vastly enhanced testing capacity this country now has saying that 125 care homestar a 1000 staff have now been tested and the death toll there is for all of the real crust of labor's attack though was on test trace and isolate mechanisms here starmer wanting to know when these measures would be in place so crucial to lifting the lock down safely without risking a 2nd wave and wanting to know quite why the government had given up all effort at test and trace as far back as mid march he said this is nearly 10 weeks in a critical period without effective tracing a huge hole in our defenses he said here's how boris johnson responded today i am confident that we will have a test and trace operation that will enable us if all the other conditions are satisfied if only it is entirely provisional that will enable us to make progress

and i can tell him also that by the 1st of june already we've created 24000 tractors and by the 1st of june we will have a 25000 they will be capable of tracking. of keep the contacts of 10000 new cases. oded. not exactly overflowing with conviction there but able i think to redeem this session with a real measurable policy pledge 25000 traces in place by june the 1st that's monday week able to deal with 10000 new cases in terms of looking at new outbreaks and controlling them in the future is the lock down lifts it's the sort of policy promise that will restore a measure of public confidence particularly since june the 1st is the date when the government hopes that primary schools will begin to go back amid skepticism in the education sector and a bunk parents and when these 2 leaders meet again in

a fortnight's time after the coming parliamentary recess while though either be able to look at the relative success of those measures or hear starmer will again be able to challenge boris johnson on another perceived government failure polls are set to close in bernie's presidential election which is going to head despite the risk of coronavirus voters are choosing a leader to replace kieren occurred who's stepping up enough to 15 years in power international observers were told they must quarantine for 14 days that effectively barred them from working raising doubts over how free and fair the poll is not the way it has been following the story from nairobi. both the ruling party and the main opposition party have told their supporters that they will when people have turned up to the polling stations where we see no sign of social distancing some of them really quite crowded it's been a similar story of political rallies held over the last few weeks for both the ruling party and the opposition where thousands of people have crowded together to

hear their leaders speak now this is come under some criticism from health experts and from rights activists who saying that we're in the ins right to health is being sacrificed by the government just for going ahead with this election and with inadequate protection for people officials from the world health organization including the national director had criticized the government for an adequate response to the pandemic they've been recently expelled from the country so a lot of people rights activists journalists and so on saying this is not fair on rooney and is bringing them out to vote and a lot of them say that the motive for this is that the government just wants to push this election through irrespective of people right to health but the government on the other hand says that it is on top of the pandemic and that people don't have anything to worry about a key figure in the rwandan genocide 26 years ago is appearing before a court in the french capital of really cynical bouguereau was arrested in paris

last week because being asked to send him to a u.n. court for prosecution biggers accused of financing hutu militias massacred as many as 800994. heavy flooding in the u.s. state of michigan has forced many 10000 people from their homes the governor issued an emergency declaration off the days of heavy rains caused to the best the national weather service says it's a life threatening situation and everybody to get to higher ground just as fast as they can. that's right. well the governor did issue that emergency order that's asking 10000 people north of detroit in michigan to get out of the way to go to higher ground. so that the town of midland where one of several dams that have been breached is could be 3

meters underwater by evening now the flood stage is about 7 meters in net area we're expecting and meters of water may already be there at this time so people are evacuating and it's made much more difficult by the 1000 situation people have been sheltering in their homes in emergency workers who had to go door to door to alert people that they need to get out of those homes but there aren't that many places to go if they go to a shelter they're still going to have to be socially distance to the governor said they need to do their best to do that while being evacuated but these are record flood breaking the record height of through the floods that happened back then 100 years ago and some of those quite. as many as nearly a 100 years in some of them rated satisfactory that's hard to serious problems the u.s. has a major infrastructure problem in from time to time. and that's one of the reasons

why. the president himself is due to be visiting that's going all day. president trump. has not said anything about the flooding so far but he did issue a tweet about michigan days before going there saying michigan sends absentee ballots to 7700000 people ahead of the primaries and general election that this was done illegally and without the authorization by a rogue secretary of state i would ask just hold up funding to michigan if they want to go down this fraud path well there's part of that is just absolutely wrong michigan did not send out absentee ballots $7700000.00 people what it said was application for absentee ballots this can issue with between the republican and democratic party republicans seem to believe that the more people who vote the more people the better reach out to the more democrats because that into the people

there is people who don't generally vote in the president trump has been crying voter fraud immediately doesn't like 1000000 ballots like this one but of course it will be 19 races you know in most. states are going to be long maybe even minutes ago he said he said about 7 nevertheless he's talking about denying funding to a state that is one of the hardest hit in this coronavirus pandemic and now hit again by floods you can expect governor gretchen whitmer who is a democrat to trump is tested within the past to ask for federal assistance during this flooding crisis so this could really hurt the state of michigan at a time when he needs that money most right is going to visit john thanks very much indeed john hendren reporting there from chicago. well many cities in the united states are into the 3rd month of lockdown with most businesses closed restaurants and their staff are among those trying to ride out the shutdown but it's fared many will not make it cable and is under reports now from philadelphia. welcome to

philly. as his traveling to resume video shows philadelphia is a food town no longer only known for its famed cheese steak sandwich philly is going through a restaurant renaissance it's become a top destination for foodies and home to some of america's most innovative and talented chefs but the shutdown brought on by coven 1000 has stopped everything and it will be particularly hard for independent restaurants to come back from the lockdown now in its 10th week city officials have yet to say when restaurants will be allowed to reopen some have just given up this week 3 restaurants said they would close for good and there could be a lot more to come and he's 30 to 40 percent of restaurants and still about me not being. that's why. i can't imagine walking down streets center city philadelphia. with 34 doors.

out of 10. we are in the hospitality industry is what adds to. our community and we provide and represent hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue and city and it's not just restaurants philadelphia has a hot new spot for independent coffee shops as well but now most of them are completely closed with their chairs sitting on top of tables and yes bresso makers sitting idle not being used at hip city beds plant based restaurant cooks are busy in the kitchen preparing their popular salads beyond to be thurber's and organic tofu wraps but with the dining room closed trying to survive on take out in delivery orders only has been

a challenge 250 employees have been laid off and 2 locations have temporarily closed for those eateries it can survive hopes are high that they'll be able to return to the thriving bustling dining scenes of before gabe rosendo al-jazeera philadelphia to south korea now where hundreds of thousands of high school students are back in class for the 1st day was cut short for some 2 of the 32 new infections reported in the past 24 hours were at a school this fall all students and teachers must wear masks and follow social distancing rules in temperatures the checks have been sanitized before entering classrooms. well the chinese man has finally been reunited with his parents 32 years after he was abducted and it's all thanks to facial recognition technology santa herit has this report. the moment got to hug his parents. after 32 years of searching leaching could finally touch her son's face

clinging on to each other making up for lost years this time she told him she wasn't going to let him go. now you him was snatched in 1988 outside a hotel in shanxi province his father had stopped off to get some mortar he was only 2 years old from then on his mother quit her job and dedicated her life to finding her son as she searched she reunited 29 other children with their parents now was found after a series of tip offs to police his identity confirmed by d.n.a. and facial recognition technology now you and was sold to a childless couple in neighboring sichuan province they raised him as their own and changed his name he had no idea they were into israel parents until the police showed up. when the police came to see me i didn't believe them i was still in shock even after i did a d.n.a. test. it's not clear if action be taken against the couple who wrongly adopted him

there are no government statistics on the number of children who disappear every year in china but it is thought to be in the 10s of thousands of adoptions became common the 1980 s. the communist party's one child policy was introduced in a country traditionally favoring boys over girls in the last decade more than 6300 kidnapped chinese children have been reunited with their families thanks to d.n.a. testing in 2016 the government also set up a missing child alert system by social media or text it has successfully reunited many more families and its height that new technologies such as facial recognition means more children like mao you will be able to meet their parents once again after so long so hight at al-jazeera. greenery is not something you'd expect to find in antarctica the cold this continent in the world but scientists have found vast quantities of green algae living in melting

snow it covers almost 2 square kilometers and it's so dense it can be spotted from space scientists blame climate change for the northern peninsula of antarctica becoming among the fastest will be regions in the world certainly what we're seeing is that in the warmer parts of the insular. moving higher on the local classes and. i think it will really be a story of whether there's enough nutrients just 'd growth. either higher up further inland and i don't really see a good manager to have substantial amounts of nutrients transported in long to large growth and say. i'm there and talk to crush it or anything like that. but i think we will probably see more coverage on. still ahead here on al-jazeera in sport cricketers will be facing

a major sticking point when they return to action tell us more about that and she's here.

that what started as a personal gesture in memory of his mother has become a landmark in iran's capital memorial has taken on extra meaning during the cave in $1000.00 pandemic so miserably has a story in her own. home owner the bill is 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 now saw that he 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 and sadness at the sad day 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 as this is some of the judge that i was just passing by when i saw the chill it for mother sign i was curious and called 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 the street every year. the flowers are time to bloom around no ruse 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 beauty 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 louise directly to iranian hospitals as a way to bring some joy to the places that have recently seen only tragedy a small gesture or to be says to thank local heroes and a reminder perhaps that no matter how cold the winter there is always spring is in basra the old is here at the horizon. is quite a way to remember those who've lost ok let's move on the sport has for nick thank you so much and a fellow owners have backed

a rule change aimed at increasing diversity in the league teams will now have to interview at least 2 minority candidates for head coaching positions the 32 team league has been criticized for its poor track record in hiring minorities in key positions around 70 percent of n.f.l. players are african-american the league only has 4 non white head coaches minority candidates will also have to be interviewed for general manager roles liberally role was established in 2003 it required at least one minority candidate to be short listed by n.f.l. teams for head coach vacancies for the 29000 season 8 n.f.l. teams hired new head coaches but only one team the miami dolphins chose a nonwhite coach as of 2020 the n.f.l. has 3 african-american head coaches that's the same number there were 17 years ago when the rooney rule started. a proposal to reward teams with an improved draft position if they hired

a non white coach didn't get the go ahead earlier spoke to robert let's how a black sports online he said the idea had received a lot of backlash. when doing something like that i think it's offensive to both sides of this equation i don't think if you have to tell a n.f.l. team where you have to make an incentive of an n.f.l. team to actually just interview minority candidates by offering the better draft position and stuff like that is very insulting and it really stands a lot of what you think of the hierarchy 'd and what you think about some of the owners of the n.f.l. team and on the flip side you know if i'm not a minority you know i don't want to feel like i didn't get a job because a team wanted a better giraffe position so they hired so wide that they didn't really want but they wanted the draft of this year more than they wanted you know the best qualified person for the job so i thought it was a terrible idea because i thought it was offensive to both parties i thought of the

fans of the minority that a business the to the white males or females who are applying for those jobs as well until the actual ownership from the top down gives more opportunities to minority candidates put them an entry level position so where they can wait work their way up to front office positions i really do not see much of a change it seems more like a p.r. move than anything it's actually going to make a substantial difference in the hiring of minorities in the n.f.l. pittsburgh steelers quarterback ben roethlisberger has been criticized by pennsylvania state governor for breaching coronavirus guidelines office berger was filmed getting his beer tremont a barber shop at a time when salons in the area aren't meant to be ok when you go to something like a barber shop and you're not protected and if you're who you are the chances of that virus actually wreaking havoc on your life increases. robert o.

martinez has extended his contract as belgium's national manager the spaniard is now set to stay with the team until after the 2022 world cup belgium are number one in the global rankings and reach the semifinals at the last world cup so i do feel it wasn't a time to break that relationship so is this time to look forward to a very intense international media we've got the nation's leak then the qualification campaign already or they will cope and that will be able to look forward to the us so it wasn't the time and i do feel that our relationship needs to go further liverpool manager you're going club says it's the right time for english premier league clubs to be back training players are now able to train in small groups with a view to restarting the season behind closed doors in mid june and all the physical numbers of the games in germany were incredibly high so 17800 kilometer running so without anybody's father who do that you have to run just because you

want it because you do it for your mate group teammates and that's exactly what you have to do as well we play for this club we play for each other 100 percent run and fight for each other. and cricketers will be facing up to a big sticking points when they return to action the game's governing body is set to ban the use of saliva when shining the match far medical experts say there is an elevated risk of transmitting coronavirus through saliva. right you know some people used to lick him if he knew before they'd grab the wall there you know people are used to showing the ball is going to be you know sort of a state learning curve and you know hopefully we've got time to practice some of it is going to be mistakes. ok and that is all your support for now that paradise very much they will see a little bit later don't get a website's dot com is the address all the news that we're covering are right there

and plenty of comment and analysis too but that's it for this news hour we're back in just a couple minutes either. eyes only test treats and trace frank assessments why it's only struggling to cope with the number 4 on the virus failure to take really aggressive action really get them behind you for informed opinion it's going to be much more challenging in a place like haiti where there's one ventilator 3000000 people in depth analysis of the day's global headlines india done enough to nip the spread of coronavirus in

the inside story on al-jazeera. the promise of peace in the middle east not. enough but a new dilemma after the death of the man at the center of the palestinian struggle now more than 40 years after to stablish mint how far has the p.l.o. come to achieving its hopes and dreams concluding the turbulent story of the struggle for palestinian home p.l.o. history of a revolution on al-jazeera. this underwater treasure is a risk of disappearing jews a coral bleaching caused by rising temperatures but we. train the eric eric. there is an industry based on steps we will lose instantly if we have another bleaching event of the movement if this continues they

just will not be the opportunity for the currents to recover in between those major . scientists a calling for strong climate policy from the government to reduce emissions without the situation gets worse. millions of people are displaced after cycling open makes a landfall inundating india's eastern coast and bangladesh. and i'm a clock this is our life from our world headquarters in doha also coming up a u.n. envoy calls for israel to abandon its planned annexation of 30 percent of the occupied west bank. bodies buried in a hurry at night nicaragua's government accused of covering up the signs of a.