when. the fuel shortage in venezuela threatens new tension with the us 5 iranian oil tankers are just days away from arriving in the latin american nation. i wrote about this and this is all to see of a life from doha also coming up. millions without power and shelters running out of room as a powerful psycho and smashes into bangladesh and east india. brazil records its

highest number of daily coronavirus cases and sanctions the use of an anti malaria drug despite warnings about the risks. and appetite for business how vendors of malaysia's ramadan bazaars are finding new opportunities despite long done restrictions. and you stand off could be brewing between the united states iran and venezuela over ships laden with fuel 5 iranian oil tankers could be just days away from arriving in venice weigh it up in a bid to ease fuel shortages there both countries are sanctioned by the u.s. and the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment venezuela says its military with a scope to tankers as soon as they enter its territory. ship tracking shows the 1st of the 5 tankers left the iranian port city of bonded out by us in march. i'm

melissa say there between 89 and 99 percent full judging by how they're sitting in the water the 1st time fortune is expected to arrive in venezuela and the next 4 or 5 days right as well as ambassador to the u.n. has warned that any attempts to stop the tankers will be illegal the threat of u.s. military force against 5 uranian tankers we fuel that are on route to venice when in violation i'm orders of the freedom of freedom of trade and navigation in case the threat is about the allies it would constitute an actual aggression has even union best and that instruments when an equal as a whole in these conflicts i shall be childish trust that the neighborhood blockade is an act of war or doing that national law particularly if not authorized by the u.n. security council john homan is following developments from mexico city. right now

they're sort of strung out across the atlantic the 1st one colleagues in venezuela that are sort of plotting their their routes across the ocean so the 1st one could arrive by saturday or sunday and then the one that's at the back of this sort of line of tankers could take a couple of weeks even to arrive now going back further where did this all start and it basically started because the u.s. has said to other countries listen if you're doing business with venezuela you can't do business with us it's basically called secondary sanctions and that means that other countries including companies from russia stopped or of dropped the amount of business that they do with venezuela now venezuela despite being the country with the biggest or reserves in the world has struggled to convert that into gas into gasoline and that's because of years of mismanagement so it's now casting around to see where it can get their gasoline from and since the u.s. has been cracking down on other countries that have wanted to do deals with it it's

got to iran which has been an ally of venezuela for quite some time now iran is also in a position that it's got sanctions against it from the united states or it hasn't really got a lot to lose neither country they're both sort of pariahs in the in the eyes of the united states so coming together to do this deal now what's been reported is that in april a lot of gold bars went out from venezuela towards iran and now we seem to be seeing what may be coming back the other way 3 gasoline to help out the country now since these countries are already under sanctions from the united states the question now is what can the u.s. actually do short of intervening physically in stopping these tankers from get them getting to venezuela and it finds worth as vice president of the council of the americas he says the u.s. may not want things to escalate. the u.s. navy could. quarantine venezuela could turn in the good intercept and turn the ship

back but i don't see that happening nobody in washington wants it war her or any sort of conflict with iran over venezuela in the current circumstances so although the u.s. commander in chief of the southern command has expressed concern over this and washington is clearly watching it closely i think that in the current circumstances of probably going to be the extent of the steps of the been taken against been as well it clearly have isolated the regime but you have now almost 60 countries worldwide recognizing the interim government of longwood oh and that i think is directly resulting from actions that the u.s. and others have taken having said that the nicolas maduro remains in power in europe flora's power he's the defacto president his regime remains in power so you could also say that despite the sanctions despite the maximum pressure campaign they have not yet led to a change in the power structure in venezuela and i think both of those statements

would be true so we'll have to see depending on if the venezuelan can economy continues to be strangled by the united states and others whether indeed that will lead to their regime falling or something else happening i think that's that's what a lot of people are looking to see might happen in the future. millions of people in bangladesh and eastern india have fled coastal areas a cyclon on poland boxer's the region it's the strongest storm in decades with winds of up to 170 kilometers an hour cycling's destroyed homes and downed power lines the leader of india's west bengal state says the situation is worse than the coronavirus demi. permanent john is live for us in kolkata but 1st let's go to time for challenger in the bangladeshi capital dhaka 10 very the people in bangladesh of course have been through situations similar to this before but this is a totally different scale what's going on there at the moment yes

very much so i mean bangladesh is very familiar with the early cycle on but this cycling has been one of the most intense since in a decade you know the last one was in 2007 cyclon cedar and we're still getting reports as the day breaks so far what i can tell you the local media is reporting that at least 7 people have died due to this cycle on now we cannot independently confirm that but the local media that are reporting there is there's been heavy damages facially in southwestern bangladesh and shown there been mangrove forests which got the direct heat and that actually protected many of the inland areas now we also know from oxfam that thousands of the houses been washed away due to a title such as rise of water people are definitely going to lose croplands fisheries that area is known for shrimp culture and other aquaculture so these people are going to lose their livelihood now we also know that the bangladesh

disaster management council reported that the losses could be over $1000000000.00 by the end of the day we'll have more assessment on the report it is a southwestern part of bangladesh got the biggest aid right now there are about a 1000000 refugees in cox's bizarre in bangladesh do we know any more about what the situation is like there. well i spoke to a late 90 s actually last late night some of our contacts in the camp said they didn't get it directed fortunately it wasn't directly on the path of the cycle on how but there's been rain there and they're worried because if the torrential rain continues there's a danger of clearly flawed and mudslide which is the major danger and also there are hundreds of refugees who are under quarantine in that offshore island called posh i'm sure now the government said they have been moved to the shelter and are safe right now so as often not things looks ok but the rain continues then there is

the danger of flooding and landslides in the camp and there is also the cold meat virus we know that the reported about a week ago at least 6 people that's another danger that's prevailing in the camp right now ok let's get more on the situation from member rajamani in kolkata that was tom dear child you of course in dhaka thanks very much indeed. many of the buildings in kolkata are very fragile the next 24 hours for the country as a whole are going to be very very important on day. you know i can mentioned about the next 24 hours going to be very crucial for the building to go in and the song because the chief minister of energy has already said that it is going to take quite some time to assess the damages that are there inwards fingal and that is the start just so but even the district she says that south and north $25.00 kenaz districts are the worst affected and also we must remember that because of the

trees uprooted because of this is where wall collapses us to have taken place and electric poles have fallen it will be difficult to even reach some of these places especially the rich those which are in that in more and india areas off the state to assess the complete damage of damages in the state is going to take a right by distribution woke will begin one at least the primary assessment is being done which will be done and today the chief minister will have a meeting should be setting up with us wallace having a meeting with them to see what can be done to snowy get the city back to normal at least as normal as possible because the city is is grappling of under the $1000.00 vidas and the lockdown and now this that the state will have to deal with apart from that also that about 12 deaths that have been reported on the wednesday night the chief minister of close will have to see of walk that if all it's on toes day as far as a devastation is concerned as far as knife property is concerned and the the cycle

was over not 24 by the us on wednesday. was heavy rainfall even in districts which were not full cost of mike. could also all in all west bengal is facing a tough challenge especially in the off the mat where the women have to assess the damage is the kind of money that will be required to get the city back on its feet and in fact the opposition the next front one of the leaders came forward and said that it is to the state and the central government that should not. full blood and book as a team collectively to get the city get the state on its feet so we'll have to see what happens even though the state graph shows in the off the back also the cycle of damage on giving us an update there from kolkata from a thanks very much indeed. brazil's government is sanctioning the use of an anti malaria drug to treat corona virus despite

a lack of evidence that it works president jed will sort out of support for the drug has caused ructions within the health ministry where military personnel have not been appointed to keep posts brazil has the 3rd largest number of infections worldwide and its health system is struggling to cope latin america editor the cinnamon reports. brazil is now latin america's ground 0 with couvade 1000 infections spreading faster than anywhere else and president not all has responded by getting his new health minister to approve the use of hydroxy chloroquine controversial anti-malaria drug is untested pre-treating coronavirus and can have serious even fatal side effects. but president will so natto senses 93 year old mother has a box by her begging. i prescribe it to all my supporters and give those left wingers to buy into the he's referring to a soft drink popular among the poor are also not his last health minister resigned

because he refused to greenlight the use of hydroxy clora plane but his interim replacement a retired general who's not a doctor has had no problem following orders i go back to use just named 14 more members of the military to key health ministry positions brazilian epidemiology just dr julie valley badal since he's extremely concerned he's now in. the indiscriminate use of chloroquine is dangerous what is happening here is more political than scientific do you think that the president is militarizing the public health system though he said it's sad to say that the government is throwing science aside and that it is indeed militarizing one of the most important ministries in any country especially during a pandemic. with more than 800000 deaths and rising a group of opposition deputies have submit. impeachment against bill so nat'l accusing him of crimes against public health. or that the way he's managed the

pandemic is putting brazilian lives at risk promoting crowds in close contact that increases infections and deaths on tuesday more than 1100 people died in 24 hours and the president insists on using a drug that has no scientific evidence the president himself doesn't know the difference between a republic and an absolute monarchy. right now only boss financial supporters who are out on the streets demonstrating what should critics decide to come out of their self-imposed quarantine to call for the president ouster as brazilians have successfully done before also now those days in office could well be numbered you see in human al-jazeera still ahead on al-jazeera israel's urge to scrap its an extension plans the un's envoy to the middle east towards the project will threaten the 2 state solution regional peace. as the u.s. state of michigan deals with historic flooding and the coronavirus pandemic we'll tell you why president chavez threatened to withhold funding to the state.

hello i think for now the storms are stopped in michigan they may be flooding on the grounds a result of burst dams but the rain has gone further east she's in georgia in the carolinas even virginia and the breeze is still fairly cold rally's managed to get up to about 20 degrees the rain significant just inland the next development of storms that we should probably watch is this one the tension 2 in dallas but they haven't come off the mountains further west it's a contrast and those storms develop in other oklahoma or kansas during friday then just slowly east was a line extending down to the south west texas south of that is still fairly active weather wise under storms in cuba maybe the cayman islands and jamaica and then

down towards honduras or nicaragua that's the time of year it is still quite a few frequent but light showers through both the leeward and windward islands and if you would spend you as well that's through both the next 2 days it takes up the start of the weekend and if you happen to think of going to the financial or with cancun at the top think again if you want nice warm sunshine at least in the immediate future more so in the developing argentinean see them on the satellite pictures of what is there is a be a significant drop in temperature marvelously beautiful skies.

the. the. they're watching all to see a reminder of our top stories this hour venezuela says its military will escort 5 iranian tankers bringing oil to ease years of shortages both countries are under u.s. sanctions and the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment. of millions of people in bangladesh and eastern india have fled coastal areas after the strongest cycle in decades makes landfall cycling

on point has battered the region destroying homes and downing power lines. brazil now has the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases in the world with more than 291 fives and the government sanctioning the use of an anti malaria drug to treat cope at 19 despite a lack of evidence that it works. the un 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 donald trump's blessing to press on but the security council was told it could breach international law diplomatic editor james bays 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 and it's 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 a green any i think see shanna of any parts of the west bank including

of settlements all only would represent a violation of international law one by one security council members urged israel not to pursue a policy of annexation except for one the emission of such a statement by the us ambassador kelly craft was telling 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 terms a vision for peace there so where the peace efforts go now the so-called core tat has almost been forgotten for the last couple of years it consists of the european

union the u.n. 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. international war crimes prosecutors have asked a court to transfer a real one genocide suspect to un custody after he was tracked down in paris 84 year old felicien couple appeared in a french quarter accused of financing armed groups for 2 part in the killings in 1904 it was arrested on saturday after more than 25 years on the run he could be held in the hague ahead of a possible transfer to a tribunals in tanzania due to coronavirus travel restrictions 800000 tutsis and moderate hutus allies were killed in that one genocide. mozambique is calling on its neighbors in southern africa for help to combat on groups attacked by ice

a link fighters in villages and government buildings have been on the rise for the past 3 years the problem has been the focus of a regional security meeting in zimbabwe as how to tussle reports. 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 beach forums and were removed. from everywhere really this is why for good targets. we believe that we together have to work hard 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 capital got a problem. 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

wild models of operation mystics unlike their territory and then to take over much more space and much territory is still it definitely would have any impact on the in firstly the moment on the populations in tanzania and in mozambique but 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 and mozambique south african muslims i'm allowed in mozambique and these really no such security guarantees that this will not rule 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 what to bring peace and stability to the region regional leaders haven't confirmed or denied reports they're planning to send troops into mozambique . the long term effects of any subject intervention in in was a link especially with the military intervention is that obviously in. people 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 what even 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 libyan warlord khalifa haftar have pulled back from all front lines near the capital tripoli they say it's to ease conditions for civilians preparing for the ied holiday and they've called on the government's forces to do the same but fighting has continued elsewhere troops from libya's u.n. recognize government pushing forward west of the capital and enter the town of alice saba. the failure of 2 doms is adding to a flood emergency in the u.s. state of michigan thousands of had to evacuate from their homes after days of heavy

rain and rising water as some are calling it a once in a 500 year event john hendren reports. across the midwest days of pounding rain water swelled to historic floods that swallowed entire towns. under. the worst of the water borne havoc swept over central michigan where surging waters overwhelmed to nearly century old dams submerging whole towns beneath the deluge and driving those quarantining from the pandemic out of their homes and into the streets we quickly got our to do. a couple changes of clothes and ourselves we had to do what we had to do is far as finding a place to stay otherwise we would be sleeping in our vehicles in oppression warning one of the breached dams the town of midlands 96 year old eatonville dam was raided and satisfactory in 2018 it's now the latest failure in

a nationwide infrastructure crisis floodwaters blew electrical boxes. and collapsed bridges like dominoes bridge after bridge after bridge it's hard to believe that we're in the midst of 100 year crisis a global pandemic. and that we're also dealing with a flooding event that looks to be the worst and 500 years as michigan struggled to cope president trump threatened to cut funding for the state over the way it is preparing for the november election president trump opposes an expansion of mail in voting saying fewer republicans would be elected that way and the state of michigan is in applications for all of its 7700000 voters to vote by mail. but the threat to withhold funding at a time when michigan is a hot spot both for corona virus and flooding could hardly come at a worse time whitmer

a democrat urged the president not to inject politics into the crisis one another is not the enemy the enemy is a virus and in this case the enemy is also a plot of the water surged across michigan and the midwest in illinois a river swept over its banks and into the town of liz sound in ohio 1st responders rescued stranded residents in boat say after streets turned to streams back in michigan local officials say they fear the worst is yet to come as floodwaters continue to swell john hendren l.g. 0 chicago hundreds of migrant children have been deported from the u.s. using the law allowed to joining a pandemic figures from the new york times reveal more than 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 top administration invoked and $994.00 law which allows migration to be blocked in

order to stop a disease from spreading. ramadan is the holiest month and the muslim calendar in malaysia is also a time when small traders and hawkers make the most money but as their shops remain closed because of the pandemic many vendors have gone on line phones that reports from calling for. mohamed. is taking down the day's orders via social media to stand out from the crowd he and his business partner post videos of their protest sandwiches no locally as well every few days on a digital platform of abandoning files this year definitely less compared to the previous years with a lot of competition online it's quite hard to compete for the past 4 years and are if and his partner have had a stall in one of ramadan bazaars street markets selling mostly food for if the break in a fast these extremely popular in malaysia and ramadan is usually

a lucrative time for the food vendors but the government has banned them this year because of the pandemic in their place countless groups have been created across digital platforms for vendors to sell online. heidi who sells meat skewers. is a member of at least 10 groups but there's also some of the facebook groups have been really helpful to my business especially the one that's focused on. because of the location that we're in it's helped me a lot it's probably helped some of the others here too he can also count on walk in customers because his shop is in a food court and still allow to open doesn't have the same festive atmosphere but food courts like this one in a suburb of quality it's the closest thing to a run. almost everyone here whereas a month's hardly anyone gets they pick up their food and. it's not as lively but i'm grateful we can still buy food at the stores there aren't as many

choices but maybe that's a good think we don't end up wasting as much food. it's not as crowded as a ramadan bazaar we can observe physical distancing and that can help us break the chain of transmission. the pentameter has changed the ramadan habits of many muslims in malaysia this year but vendors are also hopeful it may have created new ones and opportunities for the future florence 3 al-jazeera kuala lumpur. this is our jazeera these are the top stories for venezuela says its military will escort 5 iranian tankers bringing oil to ease years of shortages both countries are under u.s. sanctions and the white house says it's considering a response to the shipment but as well as ambassador to the u.n. has warned that any attempts to stop the tankers will be illegal the threat of u.s. military force against by. just we fuel that our own route to win this one

in violation. of freedom of trade and. in case the threat is about to utilize it would constitute an actual aggression. and that the instruments went on as a whole in this context i shall be childish trust that the naval blockade is an actual rule of getting that national goal 5 if not authorized by the u.n. security council millions of people in bangladesh in eastern india have fled coastal areas after the strongest site flown in decades makes landfall at least 14 people have died in india 2nd on porn has battered the region the story of homes and downing power like. brazil now has the 3rd highest number of coronavirus cases in the world with more than 291000 the government is sanctioning the use of an anti

malaria drug to treat covered 19 despite a lack of evidence that it works. un special middle east envoy is called on israel to abandon threats to an expanse of the occupied west bank under a deal with the us israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu could begin an ex in palestinian land as soon as july but the security council has been told this could breach international law. international war crimes prosecutors have asked a court to transfer a rwandan genocide suspect to un custody after he was tracked down in paris 84 year old phyllis young couple appeared in a french court accused of financing on groups who took part in the killings in 1994 it was arrested on saturday after more than 25 years on the run and as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera after p.l.o. his story of a revolution by throughout history behind it has come together veiling in our darkest moment this is

a moment for pretty much the opposite side. saving humankind i really really not getting near every generation has its moment where individual sacrifice makes way for the good of those who come after. hours. 48 the state of israel was proclaimed. palestine was lost. 16 years later in 1964 the palestine liberation organization or the p.l.o. was founded. made up of different factions the p.l.o. has been at the heart of the struggle to regain palestine ever since. the.