al jazeera. and. this is al-jazeera. however on the clock this is a new life and coming up in the next 60 minutes millions seek shelter in eastern india and bangladesh just like on the storm's the coast. a u.n. envoy calls for israel to abandon its climax ation of 30 percent of the occupied west bank. risking young lives the troubled ministrations is accused of supporting hundreds of migrant children during the current of our. bodies buried in

a hurry at night sneak around us government accused of covering up the signs of its coronavirus outbreak. and the changing color of antartica how global warming is giving it a green. so in a powerful cycling has slammed ashore in eastern india and bangladesh cyclon on pan the barrel towards land as one of the strongest storms ever recorded in the region it has since been downgraded in india states of west bend goal in addition half a 1000000 people sought shelter at the reports of injuries in a 2 month old baby has died neighboring bangladesh is also reported its 1st death after a volunteer drowned when a boat filled with evacuees capsized the government's attempt to get millions of people to emergency shelters and 1200000 reinjuring. cox's bazaars overcrowded

camps they've been asked to stand doors until the site then passes united nations has called for them to be moved to the mainland elizabeth purana reports now from new delhi. sounding the alarm india's national disaster response force warn people in the state of west bengal ahead of cycling on making landfall the storm brought heavy rain and strong winds are proven 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. many people have come to the shelter since morning because the rivers banks have broken down here most of the houses aren't made of concrete and bricks people here live in basic structures as of mud. the densely populated low lying areas around the bay of bengal are used to cyclers bottom

urgency authorities say on pond will be harder to manage as they try to stop the spread to the cove on a virus. or to door disaster some law gets out. we're 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. is men and service for poor as you know. yes. i mean you know. it was 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 haunts until the cyclon posses and it's a bit purana al-jazeera. what our correspondent time to charger is in dhaka and outlines the damage so far there in bangladesh so far 2400000 people are sheltered on the coastal belt there's accommodation for 5000000 many of the shelters are basically makeshift schools are some of them are cycle and shelter but they're not big enough you know they're congested so the challenge of koran of virus spreading and the social distancing it something as a luxury it cannot be done because of the number of people there now as we speak the storm is crossing bangladesh the southwestern coastline we talked to many of our contacts there. still crossing into sean that bond buying at the salon just mangrove forests 'd and the coast about there's a heavy storm surge some places. because houses been actually have been washed away as we speak now we have reports of one rescue voluntary been drawn are earlier in

the evening we also have a report off a elderly man in. ireland who died because of a fallen tree and the other 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 the u.n. envoy for the middle east has told the security council that israel must abandon plans and say should have 30 percent point west bank under a deal with the united states the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin next in palestinian land as soon as july the palestinian president mahmoud abbas has called for countries to recognize the state of palestine and impose sanctions on israel let's go live to our diplomatic effort to james pace who's at the united nations tell us more about what the u.n. special envoy has had to say about this. well i can tell you that here at the u.n. many thought that prime minister netanyahu is threat to an export of the west bank

was an election ploy but now he's back in the job of prime minister he says he's actually got to do going to do it and that's got people worried the u.n. special coordinator for the middle east peace process nicholai mladin of laid out the un's long held position that it supports a 2 state solution that if israel was to carry out an annexation that would be a violation of international law but i think perhaps what was more surprising was his reaction to the palestinian president's comments that he was going to pull out of previous agreements and all cooperation with israel. if i may speak only very frankly i'm usually. whenever our individual assessments are listed in reaction to israeli threats mannix nation 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 it can invest that know why building institutions and

preparing for statehood were over a quarter of a century palestinian leadership is not threatening it is calling rose an action to preserve peace so james that what the view of the other member states about this. well one by one we heard the ambassadors of the security council saying please israel do not carry out an exception except for one and the fact that this wasn't mentioned and that sort of statement was not made by the u.s. and kelly kraft the u.s. ambassador i think is very telling she did not criticize the palestinians in her speech she left it a few moments later in washington d.c. to her boss the secretary of state might pompei o who said that the trunk plan was the way for the israelis to engage with it and he said that the palestinians who he criticized had not done so of course this leaves us with

a situation where there are no real peace efforts under way most members of the security council privately say that the trump plan is inadequate and is not the solution to the problem and the u.n. themselves are now looking to a body that was largely in recent years forgotten remember the so-called core tech that's made up of the u.n. the european union russia and the u.s. well that is the format now that the u.s. believes is the only one left to try and solve this problem and revive diplomacy all right john thanks very much ed that's a picture from new york genspace reporting well an israeli court has ordered that the prime minister benjamin netanyahu should appear in person when his corruption trial begins on sunday now you know his lawyers applied for dispensation but the attorney general demanded that he be present the prime minister has been indicted for bribery for fraud for breach of trust for except in gifts from wealthy businessmen and for dispensing favors to get more positive press coverage netanyahu

himself denies any wrongdoing. hundreds of migrant children have been deported from the united states since coronavirus broke out under a pandemic border policy figures from the new york times revealed that between march and april more than $100.00 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 asylum process but the trouble administration has now done a u.-turn invoking a $944.00 law which allows the president to block migration to prevent a dangerous disease from spreading on tuesday donald trump announced that the policy will stay in place indefinitely and be reviewed every 30 days well it's in our family and friends who's the former deputy assistant attorney general in charge of immigration the u.s. department of justice and he believes the usual safeguards seem to have been just put to one side. for over 2 decades there's been a settlement agreement in

a court laws 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 all process and there was them a congressional statute that was passed in 2008 that reinforced that and now what the administration is doing is it's trying to say that the 1944 public health law that was pis that allowed the government the block entries of people during a public health emergency even even overcomes the 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 knew that it does and they're going to try now to remove any child that's in their custody that they can wear who saw in the united states i

think maybe at the beginning of the code crisis you could have easily made the argument look at snap good for children and adults to be sitting in customs and border protection holding facilities together when we don't know how sick and who isn't sick and that's all 'd certainly true as has thing starts to ramp up there's not really the same arguments of terms of well could you go least not test someone 'd to determine if they have coronavirus and if they don't have it then you can create a situation whereby they can and do the united states on the orderly process of the greek these proceedings and so i think that's where the courts are going to come out on some of these things is they're going to be much more practical. now the world health organization says 106000 new cases of corona virus have been reported globally over the last 24 hours and that is the most in a single day since you have great began w.h.o. says almost 2 thirds of those have come from just 4 countries meanwhile the u.s.

secretary of state by pompei well he's criticized what he believes is china's influence over the. chinese communist party also chose to pressure the world health organization director general into excluding taiwan from this week's world health assembly in geneva i understand that dr chatter is unusually close ties to beijing started long before this current pandemic and that's a deeply troubling well let's join our white house correspondent can be how could he live to washington d.c. the white house a company said. just maintaining stepping up the administration's attack on not only the w.h.o. but also in china. yeah absolutely echoing the comments of his boss president trump just a day earlier i think it's important to put into context that this is that it ministration that is under scrutiny for its own pandemic response and as a result has increasingly been ramping up the pressure pointing the finger not only at the world health organization but also at china and now the u.s.

presence for his part has accused the world health organization of being too china centric words to words and we heard there from the secretary of state as he spoke to reporters that he has challenge the leadership of the world health organization as well specifically its leader dr ted rose as you heard there saying that yes i'm usually close ties to beijing in other words this is ministration it is kind of saying that this may be clouding the body's judgment now one of the other big criticisms coming from the secretary of state is that it has in terms of china that it has not been transparent about the origins of this virus that it's destroyed live virus samples and that's made it particularly difficult to kind of narrow down exactly who patient 0 is so it's clear this administration now in the words of the secretary of state is escalating this fight and of course we should also remind our viewers that this administration is threatening to pull funding from the world health organization all together of course have been devastating given the fact the

united states is the biggest donor to that global body iran and all of the sectors that also we've been talking about the far you know the president and his department's inspector general. yeah and that was not a question he seemed very comfortable with when reporters began asking those questions here broccoli ended his press conference the secretary of state really bristling at the suggestion that this was some form of retaliation because he had recommended to be sensually that he was bristling at the suggestion that he had acted improperly in other words that this was something that in the words of the secretary of state that this should have been done some time ago but what's been going on here in the background at all of this is that democrats are gravely concerned about my compost recommendation to the president that this inspector

general be fired what they're concerned about is that essentially that this administration pressed for an emergency declaration that democrats call phony in order to push through a saudi arms deal and now when there are questions being asked of the inspector general he was abruptly fired so this the attempt by reporters to get clarification on that was really pushed back on by the secretary of state again ending his press conference but that's not sitting well with democrats in fact they are asking for paperwork on this fire and they want it by friday it's not clear if the secretary of state is going to comply there will see how about puns on the futon being complete thanks very much can help of the white house. show has once again maintained the hydroxy clear a quick news note to approving treatment for corona virus is teresa recommends the drug be limited to create clinical trials and his comments come days off there of course the us president don't trump said that he is taking the drug despite a lack of evidence over its effectiveness. at this stage. in north fork and

have been as yet found to be effective. in the treatment. 1000 are in the profile axis against the coming down with the disease and in fact the opposite in that warnings have been issued by many authorities regarding the potential side effects of the drug and many countries have limited its use to that of clinical trials. clinical trials are under the supervision of clinicians in a hospital setting. well be doubly sure a statement came hours after brazil approved the use of the controversial drug to treat coronavirus patients brazil has now overtaken the u.k. becoming the country with the 3rd highest coronavirus cases in the world there were 1179 deaths and over 17900. that was on tuesday. we're losing the battle against the virus that's the

reality 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 well let's have more on brazil and the approval of hard core. chloroquine i should say how soon. joins us live now from sao paulo doesn't tell us more about this this drug and what the brazilian president is trying to do. just like interim minister of health general eduardo puzzle or law has approved today they use of sticker queen as official treatment here in brazil for all patients of color and a virus even older stages even the stage very early stage of

virus here in brazil and this was what the president. announced yesterday the interim minister of health will do so starting from today all hospitals here in brazil can use. queen as a treatment for all patients president. who wants to take this treatment he can take it and he who don't want also he can refuse it at the same time this this point and this step taking this step was the main this agreement between president and x. ministers that they left. positions here in brazil because of this issue that they didn't agreed with the president to use treatment for all the stages they only accepted and approved this to be used for the serious stages only at the same time also present there was not a was asked about the new minister of health since he at the moment the moment

he didn't chosen. a new minister of health and a name he said that he thinks that general puzzle is doing good and he is with a very good team did he think that the general who is a general in the army and he is not from a health background maybe he will stay for a long time in the ministry of health and he will be with a very good team with a very good doctors or also at the same time also the interim minister of health it has chose more than 9 members from the army to be in his team leading them in history of health till this moment. in brazil as it is just heard more than 18000 victims because of corn or virus and more than 275000 confirmed cases

are sometimes very much in the. power in brazil. let's go to nicaragua now where opposition politicians well they're accusing president daniel ortega and the government of covering up coronavirus death by ordering burials to be done quickly and at night the health ministry reports 17 cope with 19 deaths doctors warn that the true total is much higher. as this report. this wasn't the way we see arrow wanted to bury his father where. the local authorities ordered a rushed late night burial which luis on his. very quickly there were orders of 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 they were even police that kept people away luis is convinced his father a pilot for

a nicaraguan airline died of covert 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 far 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 impeaching this

pandemic there's no crisis in nicaragua. the doctors say hospitals are overwhelmed by patients suffering from or spiritual illnesses and the pan american health organization said nicaragua's government has refused to allow its staff into any hospitals adding to concerns that it is downplaying the effects of the pandemic victoria gates and be out there. let's take this all we can speak to vice president for the council of the americas joins us live from washington d.c. via skype mr funds with welcome to the program you've been following closely what's happening in nicaragua no crisis in nicaragua says. what's your view well it's hard to know certainly the official statistics that the government is indicating seem to be well below what others would 'd estimate and in similar circumstances and we do have reports for example of sarah titian's

burials of people who are spirited away and buried in the dark of night of death certificates that may be altered or certainly given different reasons for. corona virus and so there does seem to be an effort underway by the government to minimize the reporting of the deaths and so if that's the case then we would estimate indeed that the infection rate the death rate is far higher than what's been reported and if that is the case what all of the capabilities within nicaragua of coping with large numbers of coronavirus cases. well that's a really important question i mean nicaragua is already even well before coronavirus one of the poorest countries in all of latin america and the poorest country other than honduras and bolivia so i mean this is a country that does not have a very well functioning health care system for the population in the 1st place the

last thing they need is a real crisis and or a pandemic so the bottom line is that the health care system in nicaragua is already under stress and now it's maxed out now it's really at the extent of its capabilities they do need or they seem to need to many national systems but that's more difficult to come by to the extent the government doesn't even admit there is a problem right and what about neighboring countries they may be must be looking askance of what's going on that's really true and in fact that's an important point because countries like coast to reconquer as other countries in central america are coping with their own crises and to a greater or lesser extent are making some progress particularly in coasta rica but there is a very valid fear in my view that to the extent nicaragua doesn't take this issue seriously that citizens of nicaragua perhaps migrants looking for work or people conducting their affairs just in the normal normal conduct of business transport workers that sort of thing could be carrying the virus elsewhere throughout central

america and not even know it very much undermining the efforts of other governments across the region so you know this has to be an effort that's region wide otherwise if you have an outlier like in nicaragua they undermine the very real efforts of everybody else to really difficult situation very funds with the vice president of the council of the americas do appreciate your perspective on this thanks a lot thank you thanks for having me. mexico has announced its highs daily number of new infections but it's getting ready to further ease its lockdown some areas of mexico city never closed the john home and now 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 but with the danger of infection all around ramon continues to sell his flowers almost if you look at the one of the look at it that we're living day to day we have nothing saved and if i stop working what will i eat when my

family 8. days to pull up is mexico's most populous district and the hardest hit by cove it despite that life and commerce hasn't stopped. 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 not going to last but make you nobody 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 capitol but districts like this one never really shutdown 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 many 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 slow when there are people that get on board that face most they 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 especially here in the state palapa john home and al jazeera. still ahead here in algeria too damn failures for thousands to flee the u.s. state of michigan residents are being warned that the worst is not over yet plus. putting up a regional front mozambique rules on its neighbors to help you come back you know on groups linked to ice.

how 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 this very little 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 at $43.00 it won't feel quite as not 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 or maybe soon west in yemen this occasional thunderstorms probably not big downpours 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 for the most part you get of affected by the weather in the mediterranean that's true in tunis at $24.00 degrees and on shore breeze there are

showers in the atlas mountains just about it with us still on shore breeze giving are about 25 or 26 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 we did a bit for friday it down to 20. 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 mammogram i use my leave to care for my mother as the coronavirus brings employment laws into focus fold lines examines the human cost of putting business before. 9 faces fallen behind people get sick

the impossible choice america paid leave crisis on al-jazeera the 1st hand glimpse of the challenges faced by journalists in the age of donald trump we are fighting the fake tears fake phoning fi enemy of the people through the eyes of a federal white house correspondent what do you base your legs on the shares are down the press is not after truck after truck we're not the enemy of the people we are the people the usa the current crop of grow whose true physic anywhere on. rule order.

how do you know what she does there are among the top stories this and one of the most powerful side claims in years has forced more than 3000000 people to seek shelter in eastern india and bangladesh the storm has weakened slightly but made landfall with winds beats back to 170 kilometers an hour. at the u.n. envoy for the middle east has told the security council that israel must abandon its planned on that station of 30 percent of the all white west bank under a deal with the us israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin an exam palestinian land as soon as july. and more than 900 my crew children have been deported from the u.s. to meet the current cars to make the trumpet ministration the 944 law which allows the government to block migration in order to prevent a dangerous disease from sea ready. to the united kingdom where the prime minister is promising to step up the country's covert $900.00 tracing capabilities responding to criticism over an alleged failure in testing for us johnson says

officials will be able to track 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 kier starmer over the past fortnight again facing forensic an emotional simply rendered questioning on perceived government failures during the. coded 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

thrust of labor's attack though was on test trace and isolate mechanisms 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 wanted 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 them 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. the contacts of 10000 new cases. oh dad so boris johnson not exactly overflowing with conviction there but able i think to redeem this session with a real measurable policy pledge 25000 tracers in place by june the 1st that's monday week able to deal with $10000.00 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 whether either be able to look at the relative success of those measures or here starmer will again be able to challenge boris johnson on another perceived government failure in south sudan

at least 287 people have been killed since friday in what authorities are calling cattle raids more than 100 people were injured during the attacks which took place in order county in junglee states a staff member from doctors without borders was also killed over the weekend see mkhize the deputy head of mission in south sudan for doctors without borders he says the charity's facilities remain open in the region despite the continued violence. we have a primary health care center in the town sherry that. that was active at the time that fighting broke out our team left from the health care center and one of one of our colleagues who lives in metairie was killed during the incident over the weekend i think there has been some confusing communication around this in fact our activities have continued enjoying the state throughout this period m.s.f. runs a hospital in the town of lengthy and that has continued to take its activities through this period and indeed the interruption to our activities in the terri clinic was

was very brief while the team to refugees during the peak of fighting however they returned very shortly thereafter to restart activities and indeed have been treating patients inside that facility related to this most recent round of fighting we have received 16 patients some of them have been discharged although the majority remain it treated at the facility and and said several other patients were referred to 2 hospitals in length and where up to now we have received over 50 patients inside that facility. most of them continue to be treated inside inside the city predominantly being treated for gunshot wounds and other physical traumas polls have closed in burren these presidential in general election it's been mounted by reports of widespread political violence rights abuses in allegations that voting was neither free nor fast faces replacing pianta cruz these are the stepping down no 15 years ago the government allowed the election to go ahead

despite critics saying it's failed to prevent the spread of coronavirus. now regional leaders in southern africa are meeting to discuss an increasing rebel insurgency in mozambique since 2017 an armed group believed to have links to eisele it's carried out more than $350.00 attacks killing over 600 people in mozambique's northern region of coverdell garder metacity reports on regional front could finally provide security for 70. as fighting in the northern province of kabul intensifies mozambique's president is asking other leaders in southern africa for help to the problem wolf was on before will probably move. in this is one of the good targets. we believe that we took to work to make sure that. peaceful militias have been raiding villages and government buildings for the

past 3 years mozambique's government says fighters affiliated to eisele operating in parts of kabul probably know. that's led to speculation that some southern african leaders could send in troops to help wasn't because government to stop the fight is infiltrating neighboring countries and if indeed it is assumed the islamic state 11 of their. models of operation mystics enlarge their territory and then take over much more space and much territory it's to it definitely whatever impact on the 1st led the moment on populations in tanzania and in mozambique but there were great support for tension for spillover effect in the rest of the region we have porous borders it's you know between zimbabwe and mozambique south african muslims malawi and muslim big and these really no such security guarantees that this will not offload into the neighboring states. over the years some southern

african countries intervene militarily in the democratic republic of congo lisicki and mozambique the reasons given want to bring peace and stability to the region. regional leaders haven't confirmed or denied reports they're planning to send troops into mozambique. long term effects of any subject intervention in in mozambique especially with the military intervention is that obviously the people start asking is it really necessary to intervene was a wise mozambique and able to do it by itself but said it has a history of assisting he said of the military or the terms of liberation struggle solidarity human rights workers say whatever leaders decide that plaid must include the protection of civilians thousands of them have been forced from their homes by the fighting. al-jazeera. forces loyal to the libyan warlord who to have to pull back 2 kilometers from the front line around tripoli calling on the un recognized government to do the same to allow holiday rituals government forces continue their

offensive west of the capital recently into the town of a suburb and captured other towns as well as our base which was the western headquarters for have to us forces. lebanon's leaders are struggling to find answers to the unprecedented economic crisis the installed reforms are affecting its talks with the international monetary fund now lebanon's banking association has rejected the government's 5 year rescue plan instead of instead putting its own for its own proposal forces so has more now from. protesters have set fire to banks in months of anger over informal capital controls that prevent depositors from accessing their savings their devalued by the day but banks say they are not to blame they lent money to the state which hasn't been repaid bankers say they are fighting for survival as a government plan to rescue the economy is focused on restructuring the banking sector instead of restructuring the debt. bank up every

bank and then they deposit. and return for your deposit in the banking sector are practical reasonable people are willing to negotiate to extend the maturity date. some see the government's plan as a ploy to change the country's free market system but the government accuses the banks of financial engineering that brought them high profits each side is blaming the other for driving lebanon into financial turmoil. there are significant differences in the estimated losses presented by the government the banks and economic bodies a committee has been formed to look into this so the burden can be fairly shared. there is a lack of consensus about who should bear the losses which is weakening lebanon's position as it seeks an international bailout foreign donors have told the 11 on

the only way it can get financial assistance is through the eye of the i.m.f. insists on reforms which successive governments repeatedly promised to implement in the past prime minister has says his government is committed but it is yet to take a 1st step organizations that work for political reform and good governance say the political class the power behind the government hasn't shown a willingness to reform this political class eggs or sizes its power 1st and foremost by controlling the judges if you free the judges and there are some fabulous one of the country and you will allow them to apply the rule of law that the trust of the citizens and its government will be way different so this is for instance one of the structural reform that we are asking for for a very long time and that is not moving along other say lebanon is collapsing as foreign currency reserves needed to import food fuel and medicine are drying up

their beirut. heavy flooding in the u.s. state of michigan has forced nearly 10000 people from their homes the government issued an emergency declaration after days of heavy rains caused to burst the national weather service says it's a life threatening situation and has urged everybody to get to higher ground just frosts they can let's go straightaway to. john hendren who's in chicago john met what's the latest people. once again 1000 people have been evacuated the worst of the flooding hit nicklin michigan that his were 2 dams broke both of them are nearly a century old one of them was rated i'm satisfactory just years ago and what's happened is that these waters have risen the flood stage is generally about 7 meters deep now reached i'm sorry he said and.

they've reached 7 meters beyond that it's flood time they've reached. over those dams and they have collapsed bridge after bridge after bridge and driven people have been sheltering in place at home due to the coronavirus out into this street some of them with masks some without people have been rescued by boat and this flooding is having over the need when asked if it's occurred to the west and given right to be east in ohio michigan really took the worst of it is having after days and days to flooding and of course with this going on during the global endemic it's really a delaware me to the state of michigan the governor there is already said she's going to fire federal aid and that this be take a very long time cover from because according to experts there this is a once every 500 year kind of flood all right well the president he's tweeted about michigan but not about the floods well.

that's right the president hasn't said anything about the flooding but he has been upset because the secretary of state there had sent out applications for ballots he claims the ballots were sent out to 7700000 people in this state of michigan the republicans are. especially the president has been highly critical of mail in voting it's they who argued that this leads to voter fraud and democrats argue that actually that is not the case there's very little evidence of that but they believe seems to be the broader use and down mail in ballots who were democrats are likely to vote that suggest with the president seems to believe he's angry about it and he's he was talking about in his tweet denying funding to this state of michigan governor gretchen whitmer has already said she's going to need federal aid for this year are ready suffering being a pandemic hotspot and in a news conference just

a short while ago she said let's take the politics out of this we're not going to be the flood is the enemy and the pandemic is the enemy and we're going to need federal are don't labor thanks very much john hendren the reporting from chicago. no authorities on the mediterranean island of malta are being accused of violating international law footage should be released showing maltese armed forces actively prevents your vessel with 101 people on board coming into port or has more. 101 people in distress. caught at the mercy of the maltese or sora tees on april the 11th the vessel they were on had come from the libyan port of zlitan and had been drifting in malta search and rescue zone. alarm phoned the ngo that locked the case said several people had been left to die at sea under the watch of the maltese armed forces using dangerous maneuvers they attempted to force

the migrants back to libya and eventually made them land in italy giving them fuel and an engine for the journey according to those on board there has been a surge in my current arriving in malta this year and the government says its reception centers are full prime minister robert abella vowed he would prevent war from landing unless the e.u. completes a deal to share the burden when the pandemic hit europe mulcher employed private boats to intercept microfossils coming from libya before they could reach the island the people who are trying to escape from libya are not changing their plans because of a coronavirus and of course the solution has to be found at a european level but in the meanwhile. refused to rescue people in distress. while italy amol to continue to be the main landing zones for refugees and migrants coming from libya both countries complain that not

enough is being done to help them deal with the ongoing crisis and in the middle of a pandemic and a deteriorating security situation in libya many vulnerable people there are seeing their struggles become tougher than ever with little or no possibilities of a way out on a diagonal al-jazeera. still ahead here on al-jazeera say it with flowers how one man's memorial to his mother is growing when iran.

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a chinese man has finally been reunited with his parents 32 years after he was abducted and it's all thanks to facial recognition technology so hot it 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 to 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 weren't his real parents until the police showed up and the 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 via social media or text it has successfully reunited

many more families and it's hyped that new technology such as facial recognition means more children like maui and will be able to meet their parents once again after so long so hight at al-jazeera so no greenery is not something you'd expect to find him and told to go which is the coldest continent in the world but scientists have found vast quantities a green algae living melting snow covers almost 2 square kilometers it's so dense that it can be seen from space and the scientists blame climate change for the northern peninsula becoming one of the fastest woman regions in the world certainly what we're saying is that in the warmer parts of the peninsula. moving higher on the local classes and. i think it will really be a story of whether there's enough nutrients just growth. either higher up further inland i mean. i don't really see

a good manager to have substantial amounts of nutrients transported and want to see a 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. well under shepherd is a professor of earth observation at the university of leeds and he says it's another indicator of rapidly melting ice it's getting warmer and warmer there for some time now we've seen the signal of that change in the ice so you might have heard stories about ice melting or icebergs breaking off and things but this is interesting because this is now showing is that it's warm enough to change the things that can live there as well it's definitely not a positive side of the story to think that antarctica will no longer be the cold frigid place that everyone expects it to be and will be somewhere different types of creatures want to recall an ice in the very distant past thought it was just

a forest actually that was many many millions of years ago and we don't expect it to be anything like that soon but if it all you can live there then worms the algae and if they get there then something will come and eat the worms course is a real problem for everyone around the planet because the ice that melts ends up in the sea and we feel that instantly wherever we are around the planet even though antarctica is a very long way away it's the city's sea level changes and changes around the whole planet and in fact it effects as most in the northern hemisphere if ice is lost down south and and then in one respect the fact that we see new life forms emerging in antarctica is just another signal that the place is getting too hot and too hot for the ice to withstand. so what started as a personal gesture to the memory of his mum has become a nun in iran's capital memorial has taken on extra meaning during the cave in 1900

so about ravi has a story in tehran. who monitor the billies 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

little by little i've seen families driving up to see the tulips from their cars as 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 the 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 coke at 19. each poster signals a grief stricken family in lost so many doctors nurses workers in the medical field so put songs so many posters and and their name and their picture at the to live side walk i can do something that is needed. for the medical workers who lost their lives for us the tulips last 3 to 4 weeks or the billy 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 lily's directly to iranian hospitals as a way to bring some joy to the places that have recently seen only tragedy a small gesture are to billy says to thank local heroes and a reminder perhaps that no matter how cold the winter there is always spring. is

here at the horizon. and without that's it for this new study but another lie from . the promise of peace in the middle east is 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. one of the last remaining ancient forests in southeast asia is a lifeline to hundreds of lumberjacks and drive as. we follow the treacherous journey as they walk through extreme conditions. together and transport this dangerous but precious cargo risking it all. on al-jazeera. the way disease outbreaks have impacted dense urban areas like during the flu pandemic in the early 1900 has played a role in how our cities look and run urban planners reacted to that flu and other outbreaks changing how cities were zoned and led to updated infrastructure like ventilation and improved sanitation but after what's been learned from pandemics and their influences on our skylines and way of life we also need to keep pace and

adapt it's easy to assume that cities are fertile ground for spreading viruses and diseases millions living working and commuting in such tight conditions but one expert says it's about much more than just density it's about how all this was put together and how it's run. concerns for the safety of millions of people as powerful psycho makes landfall in eastern india and bangladesh. this is live from london coming up the u.n. special envoy for the middle east says israel must abandon its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank. a warning from the world health organization as brazil recommends the use of malaria drugs to treat the.