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 and pan makes landfall in eastern india and bangladesh. american tale of this is our jazeera live from london also coming up the un's 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 coronavirus. late night burials

and funeral homes overwhelmed maker regulars government is accused of downplaying the scale of its corona virus outbreak. and one of the most powerful storms in decades has slammed into eastern india and bangladesh forcing more than 3000000 people to seek shelter at least 10 people have been killed in the indian state of west bengal a 2nd and pan barrels through the area the state's leader says the disaster is worse than the coronavirus pandemic in bangladesh at least 3 people have died and hundreds of ring of muslim refugees have been moved to higher ground elizabeth for a number of ports in new delhi are. sounding the alarm india's national disaster response force warn people of 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 the issues of actuating around 2000000 people such as the so many people have come to the shelters since morning because the rivers banks have broken down here most of the houses are made of concrete and bricks people here live. the 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 to the cove on a virus. or to draw disaster. 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.

and service for poor as you know. one day. while east india and bangladesh are in the storm's path heavy rain and flooding from killed 2 people in sri lanka those living in coastal areas have been warned against leaving their homes until the cyclon passes elizabeth pradhan al jazeera new delhi heavy rain has been battering the bed of the ashes cox's bazaar which is home to more than a 1000000 rangar refugees residents have been urgently working to keep the rain from flooding their homes at the world's largest refugee camp they've been living there since fleeing a military crackdown in myanmar in 2017 hundreds more hanger had been evacuated

from the flood prone island before the storm hit from a choudhry is in dhaka outlines the damage so far 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 some of them are cyclon shelter but they're not big enough you know they're congested so the challenge of her are not biased spreading and the social distancing it's something as a luxury cannot be done because of the number of people there now as we speak the storm is crossing bangladesh i thought western coastline we talked to many of our contacts there. still crossing into sean the bun bun of the largest mangrove forests 'd and the coast about there's a heavy storm sarge some places. houses been actually how it's been washed away as we speak now we have reports of one rescue volunteer been drawn our earlier in the evening we also have a report off an elderly man in. an island 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 the u.n. special middle east envoy has called on israel to abandon threats to annex parts of the occupied west bank by minister benjamin netanyahu has been given the blessing to press on the security council was told it could breach international law on diplomatic editor james bass has more. many observers have predicted that prime minister netanyahu threat to annex parts of the west bank was simply an election ploy or some in fact in office he now says he'll actually do it and that's got many of the united nations worried u.n. special coordinator nicholai mad not briefing the security council restated the un's long held position that annexation would be a serious breach of international law by israel derailing

a 2 state solution but his response to palestinian president mahmoud abbas his decision to withdraw from all previous agreements and stop cooperation with israel was perhaps more surprising if i missed it openly and very frankly. whatever it will assessments are just you know reactions of israeli threats that exist and 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 that invest it their lives in building institutions and preparing the state for over a quarter of a century in the virtual session on one point there was near agreement any i think sation of any parts of the west bank including of settlements all only would represent a violation of international law one by one the security council members urged

israel not to pursue a policy of onyx ation except for one year mission of such a statement by the us ambassador kelly craft was telling her she though left it to her boss in washington d.c. the secretary of state to criticize the palestinian president but i regret that he has decided to abrogate these agreements we laid out a very clear vision for how peace could be brought we asked simply for this we asked the israelis and the palestinians to agree that that would be the basis for negotiations between the israelis have accepted that the palestinians have continued to refuse to just simply sit down and enter into goshen based on president trumps a vision for peace there so where did peace efforts go now the so-called quartet has almost been forgotten for the last couple of years it consists of the european union the un russia and the united states the united nations believe it now has the

best chance of reviving diplomacy james plays al-jazeera at the united nations. and is ready court has ordered prime minister benjamin netanyahu to appear in person when his corruption trial begins on sunday that yahoo is indicted for bribery fraud and breach of trust for accepting gifts from wealthy businessmen and dispensing favors to get more positive press coverage he's israel's 1st sitting prime minister to go on trial and denies any wrongdoing. the world health organization says 106000 new cases of corona virus have been reported globally over the last 24 hours that sinatra's number in a single day since the outbreak began and almost 2 thirds of those have come from just 4 countries at his daily briefing the global body also advised against the use

of malaria drug hydroxy chloroquine for the corona virus because of its potential side effects at this stage. and have been as yet found to be effective. in the treatment of call with 19 are in the prophylaxis against coming down with the disease in fact the opposite. in the us warnings have been issued by many authorities were guarding the potential side effects of the drug and many countries have limited its use to that of clinical trials. well one of her as a decision by brazil's health ministry to recommend the use of the drugs to treat the virus new federal guidelines suggest doctors prescribe them for patients showing any symptoms president jury of osun are has hailed the drugs as a possible remedy despite a lack of conclusive evidence u.s. president donald trump revealed on monday he has been taking one of the drugs daily in a bid to prevent the virus brazil has the 3rd highest number of corona virus infections

in the world behind only the u.s. and russia recorded its highest daily death toll on tuesday with more than 1100 fatalities and as the number of confirmed infections in the u.s. surges past one and a half 1000000 it section of state has hit out at the world health the head of the world health organization by pumping criticized what he described as china's influence over the body i understand that dr trager of a new usually close ties to beijing started long before the current pandemic and that's a deeply troubling our white house correspondent joins us live committed to pompei offer any evidence to back up his claims. no the secretary of state did not offer any evidence seemed quite irritated with reporters as they pressed for clarification on a number of points and it's clear that what the secretary of state was set out to do is to echo the statements made by the u.s. president just a day earlier this is an administration that is under the spotlight in terms of its

own pandemic response but instead has pivoted to pointing the finger not only at china but also at the world health organization the u.s. president has accused the world health organization of being too china centric and that is something that the secretary of state acco he said that particularly the head of that global body dr ted rose is unusually close in terms of ties to beijing in other words that it is clouding his judgement this is ministrations accuse the world health organization of being too slow in declaring a global health emergency as the secretary of state also refuse sort of said that china has refused to share information with the world that essentially tracking down patient 0 has been very difficult because it is accused china of destroying live virus samples now in terms of the fight it clearly is ask

a lady and it's clear that this administration is choosing to point the finger not just of the world health organization but also china in fact the u.s. president using some very strong words in a tweet about 6 hours ago where he said that incompetence in china has led to mass worldwide killing when it comes to covert 19 now we're watching very carefully a couple of events this hour we have the press secretary kaley mcenaney she's holding a press briefing the u.s. president for his part about an hour later is meeting with the governors of arkansas as well as kansas so we'll watch very carefully to see what more he has to say but in terms of the world health organization have to remind our viewers the united states is the main contribute. we are number one in terms of the amount of funding going towards that budget the u.s. president is threatening to pull that funding if there isn't some stance of change the problem is the united states has not been clear in what change it is looking for can really help it thank you very much indeed hundreds of migrant children

who've been deported from the u.s. during the current arse outbreak using a nor allowed during a pandemic figures from the new york times revealed 900 young migrants were deported between march and april previously unaccompanied minors were provided with shelter and an opportunity to go through the asylum process but the trump administration invoked a 900 $94.00 law which allows migration to be blocked to stop the disease from spreading. still to come on al-jazeera bernie goes to the polls but even before the results are known the credibility of the process is questioned. them to mother and son met again after more than 30 years of knowledge. of. how after a very wet day in serbia this massive cloud is very cold out of the way this rather

than going north was going south was again has been pushed out of the way by quite a cold breeze running through eastern europe so book arrests there in the sunshine more or less at 16 degrees athens at $28.00 for this is still the warm area turkey and cyprus less so greece greece is going to endure rain later on thursday you can see but at least much of central and western europe to enjoy the sunshine mist temperatures most definitely on their way up and fortune this rain hangs around if anything in the house itself come thursday with that breeze still blowing it heads towards the bosphorus but mainly we talk about bug areas still and northern greece so london still warm $25.00 and see a slow dropping off a few showers by saturday istanbul with our cold breeze still sees thunderstorms doesn't quite achieve the temperature even in london. north africa well in foods a bit by the onshore breeze that it's warming up into is a 24 degrees with occasional showers that's all right isn't it and rebuts at 26

they both get a slightly warmer feel while the weekend was still got big shouting of lake victoria but not as many as there were along the coast of somalia it's a different story. for the refugees heading for a better life in australia descendent and sent to remote island indefinite detention in her condition get a conscience in order to understand how you can do this to smuggle dot for each and eyewitness accounts the main thing you're doing for pain for even asking them not to harm themselves not to kill them tongues witness chasing a sign and. on al-jazeera.

i know in your mind the top stories here on al-jazeera at least 13 people are reported to have been killed after a powerful psycho in hit india and bangladesh 2nd on pan is one of the most powerful in the bay of bengal for years. the un's special middle east envoy has urged israel to abandon its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank security council was told it could deal a devastating blow to peace. brazil's health ministry has recommended why do use of the anti malaria drug are dropsy korak when for coronavirus patients the world health organization again said the drug has proved ineffective against cuba 90. friendly has held a crucial presidential election despite the coronavirus pandemic. is stepping down

after 15 years in power but there are concerns over transparency international observers were barred welcome web has. no sign of social distancing as people lined up to vote in the capital put in poor health experts have criticized the government's response to the coronavirus pandemic governments told people not to worry that the election should go ahead. with the results burundians should welcome and accept whoever the winner will be but rights groups say people aren't free to express critical views reports of political violence have been widespread since the last elections 5 years ago there taking place in the context of. crackdowns on civil society on the independent media we see reports of killings arrests even disappearances. in the last few weeks in the run up the election so we're very concerned about the context that are taking place in the. international observers were actively excluded after being

told they'd be quarantined for 14 days on arrival but the government says the process is free and fair to. the outgoing president. has ruled for 15 years he's accused of cracking down on critics ever since he ran for a controversial 3rd term 5 years ago opposition said it was against the constitution. ever reached and the ruling party's candidate he's chosen successor. running against him is veteran opposition politician. he says hundreds of his supporters have been arrested. the vice president castro. voting in bujumbura said there were no problems we are so happy to see. how deletion would be done today because we have peace in 4 countries

and. everybody go to war 3 without problems. social media services were blocked as people voted many journalists and activists have fled into exile the 2 strains the credibility of the process really in the now waiting for provisional results to be announced next week malcolm webb al jazeera. in south sudan at least 120 people have been killed since friday in wattles arches according cattle raids 100 people were injured during the attacks which took place in rural county in jungly state a staff member from doctors without borders was also killed over the weekend fighting between herding communities in the area as that the deaths of hundreds of people steve mcnair as 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. i think there has been some confusing communication around this in fact our activities have continued in jonglei state throughout this period

emissary from the hospital in the town of blank un that has continued to its activities tour this period and indeed the interruption to our activities in in the period when it was was very brief where the team took refuge 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 and some of them have been discharged although the majority remain it treats about the facility and so several other patients 4 were referred to the hospital and like you and we're up to now we have received over 50 patients inside that facility. most of whom continue to be treated inside inside the so it's. predominantly being treated for gunshot wounds and other physical troubles as you choose new promises being sworn in a day off to his predecessor quit over allegations he conspired to madame his

former wife because he met joe previously served as finance minister and will remain in office until shadow of elections in 2 years is thomas to man is tenuous brought to an abrupt end on tuesday 3 months off to police accused him and his current wife of conspiring to murder his former spouse 3 years ago accounting happened 2 days before he took office is ready resignation means he could now stand trial. international war crimes prosecutors have asked a court to transfer a randon genocide suspect to un custody after he was found hiding out in paris 84 year old free. appeared in a french court accused of financing armed groups in the $994.00 genocide he was arrested in a paris suburb on saturday after more than 25 years on the run he could be held in the hague ahead of any possible transfer to a tribunal in tanzania due to coronavirus travel restrictions 800000 mostly ethnic

tutsis were killed in the massacre. the peace and security in southern africa is under threat that's the message from the region's leaders who are calling for unity to help fight an escalating conflict in northern mozambique attacks by a shadowy armed group in cabo delgado have killed more than 1100 people since 2017 security forces are hitting back killing at least 50 fighters in recent days are with us or ports. as fighting in the northern province of kabul d'agata intensifies mozambique's president is asking other leaders in southern africa for help. to the problem wolf was on beach forums and were removed. from everywhere really this is why for a good target. we believe we have to return to work to make sure that our units 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 car but i got a problem you 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 a soon to the islamic state 11 of their world models of operation mystics enlarge their territory and then take over much more space and much territory is still it definitely whatever impact on the in firstly the moment on the populations in tanzania and in mozambique then it with their great support for attention of a spillover effect in the rest of the of the region we have porous borders it's you know between zimbabwe in mozambique south african muslims i'm allowed in mozambique and these really no such security guarantees that this whole model of law 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 or 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 was a link especially with the military intervention is that obviously in the people will start asking is it really necessary to intervene was on the rise mozambique and able to do it by itself but said it has a history of assisting he said 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. the nicaraguan government is being accused of covering up the true number of coronavirus deaths burials are being carried out quickly and under cover of night even though only 17 fatalities have been officially recorded doctors say

hospitals have been overrun and funeral homes are now running out of coffins be reports. 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 boat pulled out of anything into 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 nicaraguan airline died of cope with 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 in beating this pandemic there is no crisis in nicaragua. but doctors say hospitals are overwhelmed by patients suffering from or spirit 3. oh mrs 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 to be al jazeera. venezuela's central bank has launched a lawsuit to try to force the bank of england to hand over more than a $1000000000.00 in gold for as nicolas maduro his government said it needs the money to support its coronavirus response the u.k. central bank has held off transferring 31 tons of gold for 2 years as britain doesn't recognise manure as venezuela's legitimate leader but the country claims the funds would be used to buy health care quick meant medicine and food. there is space giant rolls royce says it plans to cut at least 9000 jobs engine makers says a global slump in demand for aircraft as forced it to conduct a major reorganization of its business most of the cuts will be at plants in the u.k. the firm's chief executive acknowledged it was quote terrible news for employees but insisted action was needed to keep the business afloat in the long term. a

chinese man has seen his parents again 32 years after he was abducted as a toddler millions mother quit her job to find her son and on the way helping 29 other abducted children returned to their parents in the end a d.n.a. test out and her search for higher reports. it was the moment 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 was 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 really knighted 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 israel 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 will 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 abductions became common the 19 eighties and 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 hoped that new technology such as facial recognition means more children like mowing in will be able to meet their parents once again after so long so hide out. any time on a website they dress for that is. dot com. one of the top stories in algeria at least 13 people are reported to have been killed after a powerful sight can hit india and bangladesh 3000000 people have been moved to shelter as hundreds of homes was formed by a storm surge in coastal areas so i kind is one of the most powerful in the bay of bengal is with gusts of up to a 185 kilometers per hour coated deaths were reported in both india's west bengal

state and neighboring bangladesh. many of the shelters are basically makeshift schools are some of them are cyclon shelter but they're not big enough you know they're congested so the challenge of. spreading and the social distance or get something as a larger it cannot be done because of the number of people there now as we speak the storm is crossing bangladesh i thought western coastline we talked to many of our contacts there that is still causing into some of the largest mangrove forests on the coast about the storm surge some places the. houses been actually have been washed away as we speak so a major storm brewing over we'll see what comes after the un's special middle east envoy has urged israel to abandon its plans to annex parts of the occupied west bank you can i'm not enough said the plan would do what he called a devastating blow to the 2 state solution and any hope of peace and unity

re-installed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin annexation as soon as july with the backing of the u.s. president the u.n. security council was told it could jeopardise the bennetts of calm in the west bank . brazil's health ministry has recommended why do use of the anti malaria drug hydroxy cure acquited to treat coronavirus patients the country's right wing president shi'a bosso naro explained it was better to quote put up a fight with a virus than accept defeat but in a regular briefing the world health organization said the drug has not proved effective against current 19 in any trial the us president revealed on monday that he'd been taking it in a bid to ward off the virus. as a top stories do stay with us the stream is next looking into the disagreements over technology to track people with coronavirus stay with us if you can i finish.

rapidly ok welcome to the stream all of the squeak we are tombstones are running discussions that need slide like you have us and our ny community today having that here pracon like my laptop yet this is what you often ask is those story or is she think we should cover our escape down he is and you can see clovis run denali and claim he says that in marksman of government surveillance on citizens the same rhetoric in euphemism used the war on terror to justify and president opposed covering up the citizens is being developed around 19 to.